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Franciscan volleyball beats Altoona in 2014 title rematch
RACHAEL WHITMAN STAFF WRITER The Lady Barons volleyball team won in straight sets against Penn St.-Altoona on Sept. 29 in the two teams’ first meeting since last year’s championship game. Last year in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference championship, Penn St.-Altoona was winning 2-0 when the Lady Barons came back strong to win the last […]
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops speaker addresses church’s cultural diversity, importance of youth ministry
BY KATIE CADIGAN STAFF WRITER The assistant director of the Secretariat for Hispanic Affairs for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, D.C., spoke Oct. 24 on the unity of cultures, especially Hispanic and Latino, in the Catholic Church. Alejandro Aguilera-Titus, whose talk was held at 8:30 a.m. in the Gentile Gallery, described […]
Franciscan adjunct professor delivers first of 3 lectures on Fourth Lateran Council
BY JACOB FLORES STAFF WRITER The “Great Council of Christendom” occurred 800 years ago at the peak of the Middle Ages, and it remains a blind spot, said Dr. Andrew W. Jones on Oct. 20, regarding his findings and his hope to bring attention to this council. In his talk, “The Liturgical Cosmos,” delivered in […]
Franciscan’s Sexual Misconduct (Title IX) Training aims to decrease abuse, uphold human dignity
BY JOHN GALLAGHER STAFF WRITER As the Oct. 31 deadline for completing the mandatory Sexual Misconduct (Title IX) Training video course on Blackboard swiftly approaches, members of Franciscan University’s administration and staff provided comments on the purpose for this initiative. “We recognize that it’s an inconvenience,” said Brenan Pergi, vice president of Human Resources. “We […]
Student Government votes on relocating tabernacle, passes several bills for clubs
BY COURTNEY CAVANAUGH AND KASSY LOCHHEAD STAFF WRITERS Franciscan University’s Student Government met Oct. 21 and discussed eight bills, including the allocation of funds to Franciscan’s women’s ultimate Frisbee team and a bill regarding the moving of the tabernacle in Christ the King Chapel. Fall Senate Bill #32, which moved to advise the relocation of […]
Vocations fair draws crowd
This year’s Vocations Awareness Fair was held on October 9th in the Finnegan Fieldhouse. Students had the opportunity to meet and speak with alumni and other members of various religious organizations.
ROTC: earning a degree and training to serve
BY KAREN BISGES STAFF WRITER Life after high school is unknown; there are many other paths to take that do not involve college, yet one path combines the advantages of earning a degree, being relatively debt free and having a career after graduation. Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) is a way for people to make […]
Franciscan homecoming 2015 unites students, alumni and family in faith and fun
BY RACHAEL WHITMAN AND MARGARET BOYLAN STAFF WRITERS Despite the rainy weather, students, alumni and their families came together to celebrate in the spirit of St. Francis for the 2015 homecoming weekend at Franciscan University. The festivities started Friday, Oct. 2 and ended Sunday, Oct. 4, the feast day of St. Francis. As is the […]
Cardinal Burke addresses truths of marriage, family
LAUREN RAMSEYER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF “We live at a time where the fundamental truth of marriage is under a ferocious and indeed a…diabolical attack, which seeks to obscure and sully the sublime truth of the married state as God intended it from the creation,” said His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, standing before a crowd of nearly […]
9/11 flag memorial calls to mind lost souls, American values
MARIA SULZAN STAFF WRITER Over time, memory folds into history; history folds into age, and age folds into myth. In preparation for the memorial of Sept. 11, 2001, Franciscan University’s Young Americans for Freedom club gathered late Thursday night to plant a garden of 2989 flags in the St. John Paul II Library courtyard for […]