Coronavirus
Joshua Judges Ruth: Franciscan student cures COVID-19 by ignoring it entirely
Anonymous In a monumental turn of events, a student at Franciscan University of Steubenville has beaten the entire scientific community to finding a cure for the novel coronavirus. The student calls the treatment “DGT,” and claims it’s the key to ending the pandemic. “Don’t Get Tested,” or “DGT,” was first discovered two weeks ago […]
News Briefs
National US tops 6 million COVID-19 cases Amid a return to school for much of the country, confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States surpassed 6 million, with 183,000 deaths, on Aug. 31. By Sept. 6, these numbers had already increased to 6.26 million cases and 188,000 deaths. This coincides with new information […]
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 […]
University president meets with students at inaugural town hall meeting
Veronica Novotny Assistant Editor The Rev. Dave Pivonka, TOR, met with several dozen students to discuss all aspects of university life – ranging from spiritual life, mental health and COVID precautions – in a town hall meeting Wednesday, Sept. 2 at 8:30 p.m. Pivonka started the night by dispelling rumors that the health department has […]
Speak up
RACHEL MILLER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Well, lovely readers, this is not how we expected our semester to go. I am sad, frustrated, confused, angry, disappointed, uncertain. This is my last semester, and so much was left unfinished. I’m sure that even those of you who are not seniors feel this way too. Teachers and faculty as well, we are all sad beyond words at […]
A semester incomplete but not wasted
JEN HANTZ AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT Dear Frannies, we are all homebound now. Many of us are in self-quarantine and some of us are just waiting for this whole storm to blow over, whenever that will be. It is hard for people to leave Austria when the normal semester is over, much less when the semester is unexpectedly cut in half. […]
COVID-19 closes university campus for semester
RACHEL MILLER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Franciscan University of Steubenville’s campus closed for the rest of the spring 2020 semester, March 17. Both the university’s Steubenville, Ohio, and Gaming, Austria, campuses have been closed in light of the COVID-19 crisis. Students in Gaming had already learned that the scheduled 10-day trip to Italy had been cancelled […]
Famous last words
WILLIAM SPINNENWEBER FINE ARTS COLUMNIST At 4:30 p.m. on March 17, I was going about my usual business, which is not much during that time of day. My phone vibrated with the text message notifying me that classes went online for the remainder of the semester. I saw this decision coming, but my foresight did not make the reality […]
Rome-Assisi trip cancelled due to coronavirus, alternative plans made
JEN HANTZ AUSTRIA COLUMNIST “We’re not going to Rome!” was the cry heard from several students sitting in the back of the Audi-Max classroom in the Gaming Kartause on Feb. 26. From that point on, the message that the long-awaited Rome and Assisi 10-day trip had been cancelled spread fast, almost as fast as the virus that stopped it. For […]
News Briefs – National and International
ELISHA VALLADARES-CORMIER CATHOLIC VALUES COLUMNIST National Sanders becomes Dem. frontrunner after Nevada primary Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders emerged as the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination after a commanding performance in the Nevada primary Saturday. Sanders received 46 percent of Nevada’s county delegates, 26.4 percent more than the runner-up, former Vice President Joe Biden. Previously, Sanders had finished a […]