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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 […]
Willkommen in Österreich: The new home away from home
JEN HANTZ AUSTRIA COLUMNIST Dear Homebound Frannies, you know how a picture can never capture the real thing? Leading up to this semester, I kept seeing pictures of the Kartause: the chapel, the stairs, the yard, the creek jump. It is always different than the actual thing and it is still different than what you would expect. […]
Austria Column: A new perspective
EDYTA WOLK AUSTRIA COLUMNIST Here in Gaming, everywhere we look is absolute craziness. 5 a.m. starts and 1 a.m. nights, missing trains and running to catch one-minute connections, waking up 10 minutes before class on Monday and realizing that you forgot to do your homework during your weekend in Paris… Honestly, it can get pretty […]
Students to develop taste for virtue, bread in new class abroad
MAGGIE PAWSEY ASSISTANT EDITOR Growing in virtue, as any Catholic knows, can be as filling as a good loaf of sourdough bread. That’s why Franciscan University of Steubenville professors Brandon Dahm and Matthew Breuninger are collaborating to create a one-of-a-kind class. In this new summer class, students will spend two weeks in Gaming, Austria, learning […]
Professor enlivens Austria campus with passion for human person
VERONICA NOVOTNY STAFF WRITER If you’ve been to Franciscan University of Steubenville’s study–abroad campus in Gaming, Austria, in the last decade, chances are high that you’ve met the famed professor of philosophy, theology, and all things Austria: Maria Wolter. For the last 12 years, Wolter, who holds her doctorate in philosophy and licentiate in sacred […]
Gaming Fest feeds Austrian nostalgia with food, music
MAGGIE KNOELL STAFF WRITER Gaming Fest, a special dinner held yearly in the Finnegan Fieldhouse, celebrated and featured Austrian food and culture Monday, Sept. 30, drawing a large crowd of reminiscers. Gaming Fest, named for Gaming, Austria, where Franciscan University of Steubenville’s Austrian campus is located, began as a Center for Leadership senior project years ago. Since then, the university […]
Austria Adventures: Love does more
ELOISA GUTIERREZ AUSTRIAN CORRESPONDENT It’s Parents’ Week here at the Kartause! Busloads of parents and siblings arrived a few days ago. Our Kartause community has gotten to share so much of what we love here in Austria as well as our talents in a talent show that included guitars, Irish reels from the Kartause kids […]
Student-organized bake sale will send eastern European students to Rome
JACOB WATSON LIBERAL COLUMNIST On Monday, Feb. 4, students hosted a bake sale in the upper J.C. Williams Center to help fund the Language & Catechetical Institute’s (LCI) pilgrimage to Rome. The bake sale, organized by senior Sarah Lawlor, raised funds and awareness for Franciscan University of Steubenville’s sister program, the LCI. The LCI is […]
Austria Adventures: Living in the sunshine
ELOISA GUITTEREZ AUSTRIAN COORESPONDENT Hello from America! Seriously, I’m writing this on a couch in Florida. My flight across the pond doesn’t leave until tomorrow afternoon, so there shall be no logging of overwhelming Austria moments just yet. In the meantime: a reflection. Descending into Florida provided me with an aha moment. As the plane […]