Apprentices of St. Joseph take 2 of 3 household awards
Veronica Novotny Editor-in-Chief A newly revived household dedicated to St. Joseph won both Coordinator of the Year and the Steel Cross Awards during the last Household Life Mass of the year at 4:45 p.m. Friday in Finnegan Fieldhouse. Apprentices of St. Joseph (ASJ) started the academic year with three brothers on campus, one in Austria […]
University celebrates 75th anniversary with campaign
Veronica Novotny Editor-in-Chief Franciscan University of Steubenville is continuing the celebration of its 75th anniversary through 2022 with a capital campaign to raise $75 million, primarily for the construction of a new academic building. The campaign goals and allocations include $48 million for Christ the Teacher, the new academic and conference building slated to be […]
Student Government allocates $2,000 to Baron Blast
Veronica Novotny Editor-in-Chief At its meeting Wednesday, April 20, Franciscan University Student Government (FUSG) passed a bill giving $2,000 to an upcoming Baron Blast. Spring Bill 92 was amended to reallocate the funds from Spring Bill 35, which previously allocated $10,000 to Grad Week. According to senior Treasurer Molly Propson, Vice President of Student Life […]
Letter from the Editor: Injuries, inquiries and my penultimate print
Veronica Novotny Hello, dear readers! By the time I graduate next month, I will have been an editor — either assistant or chief — for the last 27 prints (seven times three is obviously perfection, if I do say so myself). Being a journalist has taken a lot of work, to be sure, but it […]
Incentivized, early retirement package leads to dozens of retirements over 2 years
Veronica Novotny Editor-in-Chief Due to an incentivized early retirement package, over a dozen faculty and staff will be retiring from Franciscan University of Steubenville in the next two years. “The program was made available to full-time, regular faculty, staff and administrators who, as of September 22, 2021, had eight years of service and had attained […]
News Briefs
Veronica Novotny Editor-in-Chief National Will Smith slaps Chris Rock during Oscars over joke about Smith’s wife Comedian Chris Rock took the stage Sunday night at the 94th Academy Awards Ceremony to present the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. But, after he made a joke at Jada Pinkett Smith’s expense, her husband, Will Smith, walked […]
Conservative club hosts first patriotic dance
Veronica Novotny Editor-in-Chief Dozens of students danced, tossed around giant beach balls and ate snacks at the Patriot’s Dance hosted by a new political club Saturday from 7-11 p.m. in Finnegan Fieldhouse. The entryway and inside of the fieldhouse were decorated with posters with quotes from Republican presidents and other political conservatives, and the inside […]
Learning humility from the Space Trilogy
Veronica Novotny Editor-in-Chief Well, dear readers, I have finally found the greatest perk and peak of reaching senior year: reading C.S. Lewis in my eighth and final honors seminar. This is the reason I slogged through the 1000-page red hardcover of Plato’s collected works, sped-read massive tomes like “City of God” and “Don Quixote,” cried […]
Long-time intramurals director retires after 34 years in Franciscan athletics
Photo provided by Kelly Herrmann Veronica Novotny Editor-in-Chief “Funny story, I actually had to lie to get a job working for intramurals,” said the woman who has run Franciscan intramurals for decades and coached women’s volleyball since 2003. After working in four positions over her 34 years in the athletics department, Kelly Herrmann has officially […]
Persecution should not persist in perpetuity
Veronica Novotny Editor-in-Chief Welcome to spring 2022! It’s all going so fast, isn’t it? In only a few weeks, so much has happened this semester. I got a text a couple weeks ago from my old boss, telling me she was in town to moderate an academic lecture the next day. Because I interned for […]