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Cultivating preschool virtues: an open letter to the student body
I was, frankly, mostly amused a few weeks ago when I heard that there are a few fire pits hidden in the woods past the old golf course on campus. “Kids will be kids,” I thought, and though it seemed slightly dangerous to have open fires in the woods, I didn’t think much about it. […]
Some (more) good news
John Krasinki’s “Some Good News” YouTube series was an instant hit this past spring. At the time this article is being written, the former star of “The Office” has 2.59 million subscribers and over 78 million total views on his channel, which features just 13 videos. “Even indoors in the weird world of isolation, good […]
Franciscan’s COVID-19 response: Dean of students discusses guidelines, future for campus life
Francesco Pinque Staff Writer Social distancing, mask wearing and sanitizing: these three concepts, once innocuous and relatively unknown in the public sphere, have suddenly come to the forefront of Franciscan University of Steubenville’s attention in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. To say that the effects of the pandemic and the three aforementioned concepts have […]
President’s Perspective: Beauty
FR. DAVE PIVONKA, TOR I still look out my office window. It’s beautiful, but it’s just so … so wrong, weird, different, not sure the right word. The trees are all budding, the ends of each of the branches are deep red, and every day more of the trees come alive. The yellow daffodils are popping out all around campus. And there are those little […]
Signage project seeks to replace and add many signs around campus
BRADEN FELLINGER LIBERAL COLUMNIST If students and faculty have been observant, they may have noticed some changes to campus that happened over Christmas break. Physical Plant has been busy renovating and replacing signage around campus throughout this winter. Joseph McGurn, director of Physical Plant who is involved in all of the projects on campus, explained […]
Supreme Court set to rule on definition of marriage, challenges faithful to show the rationality of traditional view
BY RACHEL DEL GUIDICE CATHOLIC VALUES COLUMNIST A world-renowned speaker and author discussed the Supreme Court’s hearing on the definition of marriage in a talk titled “Marriage Equality and Marriage Reality” presented to a crowd of over 400 Franciscan University students Feb. 10. Ryan T. Anderson said the court’s decision will be released in April, […]