Ministry forms community between students and local families
By Bethany Doudna Staff Writer One can easily find a multitude of good reasons to volunteer for a charitable organization, from storing up treasure in heaven to bolstering one’s resume. Perhaps the most rewarding part of the Students Serving Moms ministry, however, is the long-lasting friendships that often result. “This relationship between the student helper […]
Against absurdly fussy visitation policies
By Bethany Doudna Staff Writer I acknowledge that a good Catholic campus, such as ours aspires to be, must obviously have a code of conduct relating to dorm visitation. However, there are quite a few particulars of Franciscan University’s visitation policies that I find unreasonable. St. Junipero Serra Hall, for example, holds Open House Hours […]
New club hosts seeding day
Bethany Doudna Staff Writer The new agrarian club at Franciscan University of Steubenville provided seeds and helped students plant them at its first public event Saturday afternoon in the Assisi Heights Community Center. The Catholic Agrarian Club, a new gardening club on campus, hosted 25 people at its Seeding Day. Club leaders supplied a variety […]
Criminal justice department hosts law enforcement agencies at information day
Photo by Nolan Arwy Bethany Doudna Staff Writer Students and prospective students of Franciscan University of Steubenville interacted with representatives from over 10 different law enforcement agencies at a criminal justice event in the St. Joseph Center Friday, Feb. 11. Charles Nemeth, director of the Center of Criminal Justice, Law & Ethics at Franciscan University, […]
Students get their groove on at household ’70s dance
Bethany Doudna Staff Writer Students stepped into groovy mode at the ’70s-themed dance hosted by Lions of Judah household in the courtyard outside Finnegan Fieldhouse Saturday from 8 p.m. to midnight. Attendees were encouraged to wear fun or funky outfits. In keeping with this, the household members wore a variety of groovy patterns, along with […]
Dance encourages students to go all out in wacky costumes
Photo by Luna Oppus Bethany Doudna Staff Writer Around 300 students in costume attended the annual Disciples of the Word Crazy Dance, hosted by the Disciples of the Word men’s household, Saturday from 9 p.m. to midnight in the Finnegan Fieldhouse courtyard. The dance was moved from the atrium of the J.C. Williams Center to […]
Chesterton Society hosts bonfire for feast days
Photo by Liam Pope Bethany Doudna Staff Writer The Chesterton Society hosted a bonfire in honor of the feast days of St. Patrick and St. Joseph Sunday evening. Starting at 9 p.m. immediately after the Veritas Society Dumb Ox debate, around a hundred students congregated on the lawn outside of Finnegan Fieldhouse around three fires […]
Wanted by missionary religious community: missionary volunteers
Bethany Doudna Staff Writer Catholic young men and women are wanted to zealously and joyfully live out their missionary calling this summer, according to the missionaries visiting Franciscan University of Steubenville this week. “Often when we think of ‘mission’ we limit ourselves,” said Sister Caritas, SOLT. “We think: I have loans, I need to get […]
Against: Vocations are not one-size-fits-all
Bethany Doudna Staff Writer As part of the modern feminist craze, the time-honored vocation of a stay-at-home mother tends to be looked down on by “progressive” people who seem to think that “traditional” equals “bad.” On the opposite end of the dichotomy, many Christians urge all wives and mothers to stay in the home. However, […]
Economics professor celebrates 50 years of teaching at Franciscan
Bethany Doudna Staff Writer When Joseph Zoric, associate professor of economics, first came to teach at Franciscan University of Steubenville 50 years ago, the building that is now called the St. Joseph Center was a roller skate rink. “Listen to that, there’s a wooden floor under the carpet here,” Zoric said, bouncing a golf ball […]