households
Veritas Charity Debate teases households in raucous night
Photo by Mary-Grace Byers Francesco Pinque Staff Writer Sunday evening, the Veritas Society held their first Dumb Ox Charity Debate of the semester in Finnegan Fieldhouse, a tongue-in-cheek discussion of households. The motion was “This house believes that your household shouldn’t exist.” While the structure of the Charity Debate resembled other Dumb Ox Debates with […]
Fieldhouse roars as households compete for dodgeball glory
CECILIA ENGBERT STAFF WRITER The Prodigal Sons’ Return and Stella Mariae households were the champions at Franciscan University of Steubenville’s annual household dodgeball tournament in the Finnegan Fieldhouse Sunday at 7 p.m. The packed fieldhouse roared as over 45 men’s and women’s households gathered to compete. Booming music set the tone for the evening, blasting the spectators’ eardrums but keeping the mood alive. Many people […]
Joshua Judges Ruth: Students reflect on other campuses’ problems
AN OBSERVANT SOCIALITE The problem of hazing has struck again in the Midwest, with multiple colleges and high schools coming under the public eye after alleged violations of policy. At the center of many of these allegations are fraternities and sororities, organizations from which Franciscan University of Steubenville has thankfully drawn itself away since the formation of household life. […]
Talk on Jewish roots of Lord’s Day highlights joy, celebration
A. MONTES POLITICAL PAPIST COLUMNIST “If we lose touch with Judaism, we lose touch with the Incarnation,” said the Rev. Anthony Ariniello as he presented on the Jewish roots of Lord’s Day Monday Sept. 30. Over 50 attendees, including two nuns, assembled in the International Lounge in the J.C. William’s Center at nine in the evening to learn about the cultural […]
Letter to the editor: Proper discernment makes or breaks household
JACOB WATSON In Rachel Miller’s recent article, she accurately identified and decried the problems in how households are run. In doing so, she demonstrated the success of the Rev. Michael Scanlan’s vision in how households function today. Scanlan saw that abuse of alcohol, drugs and sex was merely a symptom of loneliness on campus. Students […]
Letter to the Editor
This article is written in response to the one recently published in this paper titled “Loneliness from within: An examination of Household Life today.” I do not believe the article accurately represented household life. I am a junior biology major and French minor here at Franciscan and have been involved with household life since my […]
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor: I wanted to respond to last Troubadour’s article regarding Household Life. While I fully agree with the author’s premise that there are “issues” in households, i.e. cliques, loneliness and gossip, I disagree with the conclusions drawn in the article, namely, that this is an epidemic in Household Life and that the formation of new households is a bad sign […]
Letter to the Editor
BRYAN CALLIGAN What is a community? Technically, it is nothing more than a group of people living in the same place. Certainly, it would be hard to deny that everyone here at Franciscan lives in a community. However, what is a sense of community? I would argue that it is the feeling of being welcomed, […]