Austria Adventures: What I learned while not talking
MICHELLE FORTUNATO AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT This past weekend, I had the opportunity to go on a silent retreat. When I first saw the signs advertising the retreat back in October, my thoughts were something along the lines of, “I can’t think of anything less exciting. Why would I want to … be silent?” And then people […]
Austria Adventures: Italy and assorted updates
MICHELLE FORTUNATO AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT I am writing this from a train to Rome. Specifically, I am writing this from the middle couchette in a sleeper cabin. A husband and wife have the beds above me; three others (in the beds next to me and below me) bounced at Florence at 6:30 this morning. Roland is […]
Austria Adventures: On being a missionary
MICHELLE FORTUNATO AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT We have hit the halfway point of our semester in Gaming, and we have just arrived back from our 10-day break. I had the incredible opportunity to travel to Lourdes, France for mission with 12 other Franciscan students. Lourdes was beautiful and powerful, and I have no words. It’s something I […]
Austria Adventures: Little joys
MICHELLE FORTUNATO AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT Update: Austria is still good. Here are some highlights from the past week. I took a train for the first time. At 9:00 a.m., the man sitting across from us pulled out a beer and a giant sausage. He used a pocketknife to cut the sausage, and it was fabulous. I […]
Austria Adventures: Jesus, Grapes, and Other Good Things
MICHELLE FORTUNATO AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT Austria continues to exceed expectations. God gives so abundantly in his infinite goodness. There are the things that I looked forward to before I arrived, like the mountains and the gelato. And then there are the things that I never could have anticipated, like the surprising joy that is found in […]
Austria Adventures: All by His grace
MICHELLE FORTUNATO AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT Well, we have arrived. The Fall 2017 Austria kids. Prepare for an onslaught of steel cross pictures and creek-jumping stories. At this point, we have been to Melk, Durnstein, Salzburg and Vienna. By the time this is published, we will have had our first free weekend. It is all a delight. […]
Parkhurst makes updates to Antonian Hall menu, layout
MICHELLE FORTUNATO BUSINESS MANAGER Franciscan University students returned from Spring Break to a few exciting new updates to the Antonian Hall. Honest Eats, the allergen-friendly area, has expanded and is now located at the center of upstairs level of Antonian Hall. Additionally, omelets and waffles are now available at a station all through both breakfast […]
Counseling center meets high needs
MICHELLE FORTUNATO BUSINESS MANAGER Halfway into the fall semester, there are already more students seeking counseling than there were throughout all of the fall 2015 semester. Joe Loizzo, LISW, director of the Wellness Center at Franciscan University, said that this year’s numbers are unprecedented. Historically, each year there has been about a 10 percent increase […]
Easter Bag Project brings fun to local needy children
MICHELLE FORTUNATO STAFF WRITER Franciscan University’s Chapel Ministries is bringing a whole lot of hippity-hoppity-happiness to kids in need this Easter. The Easter Bag Project, which is being spearheaded by Chapel Ministries director Robert Palladino and coordinator Pam Salatino, gives back to the surrounding Steubenville community by donating bags filled with toys, books and treats […]
Nancy Ronevich of Career Services: Its ‘a dream come true’ to work at Franciscan
MICHELLE FORTUNATO STAFF WRITER Students may recognize Nancy Ronevich’s name from the emails captioned, “Open this if you’re cool” and “Would you just open this already?” Ronevich, Franciscan University’s director of Career Services, has been working at the university for 13 and a half years, and said it’s a dream come true. “When I decided […]