COVID-19
Evidence emerges that COVID vaccine harms menstrual cycles
By Samantha Apanasewicz Pop Trends Columnist In an article entitled “Pfizer Director Admits Covid Vaccine Affects Women’s Menstrual Cycles—After We Were Told It Was All In Our Heads,” published on Feb. 3, 2023, Gina Florio—a culture writer for the online women’s publication Evie Magazine—addressed one of the major allegations in regard to Pfizer’s COVID vaccine. […]
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 […]
Franciscan University to Cover 100% of Tuition Costs for Fall 2020 for New Students
In response to the unprecedented economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, Franciscan University of Steubenville will cover the remainder of tuition costs, after scholarships and grants have been applied, for the fall 2020 semester for all incoming full-time undergraduate students enrolled in its on-campus programs. The president and Board of Trustees unanimously approved Step in Faith, […]
Aim Women’s Center Receives Unexpected Donation From Franciscan Students
STEUBENVILLE, OHIO—There was a silver lining to the cancellation of the April Steubenville Hilltop Communities block party due to the coronavirus. Students at Franciscan University who sponsor the annual party for Steubenville residents in the LaBelle and Pleasant Heights neighborhoods near the Franciscan campus, instead donated the $5,000 they had raised for the event to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]