letter from the editor
Staying sane through growing pains
MAGGIE PAWSEY ASSISTANT EDITOR I wrote a journal entry at the beginning of my senior year of high school about how I did not want to grow up. Reading over it as I prepared to write this letter, my last editorial before I graduate college, I chuckled to myself. It seems like not much has changed. […]
Letter from the Editor: Killing complacency
RACHEL MILLER ASSISTANT EDITOR “I’m dead.” Modern slang is quite interesting when you think about it. This phrase is one I’ve heard a lot recently, which is probably very fitting as the semester wraps up. I have a response for this colloquialism (though I don’t usually say it out loud). Good. Brother Zachary Burns, TOR, […]
Letter from the editor: Letting go of a season
ALLEGRA THATCHER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Welcome to April: the time of the semester when the weather is finally warm enough to enjoy and everyone is far too busy running around to enjoy it. The seasons have shifted from winter to spring. When they shift from spring to summer, some pretty drastic changes will take place — the […]
Letter from the Editor: Stop signs are not suggestions
RACHEL MILLER ASSISTANT EDITOR The most hazardous part of my morning comes shortly after I leave my dorm. Groggy-eyed, I make my way across the piazza. When I near the crosswalk, I cautiously edge closer to the road, my head swiveling back and forth as I check for cars flying up out of nowhere. Sometimes […]
Letter from the Editor: Why I don’t wear leggings to class
ALLEGRA THATCHER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Please shelf all expectations of this being a modesty plea. Just because leggings are in the title gives no requirement that I preach a sermon on modesty, and I have no intention of doing so. I don’t wear leggings to class because I believe in a code of conduct which some might […]
Letter from the Editor: The crosses we bear
RACHEL MILLER ASSISTANT EDITOR Have you ever thought about Simon of Cyrene? I wonder about him sometimes, how he felt as he helped Jesus carry the cross to Golgotha. How strange, really. Think about it. We know there were crowds gathered watching all that transpired, friends and foes alike, but when the soldiers decided to […]
Letter from the Editor: Trusting God in letting go
RACHEL MILLER ASSISTANT EDITOR “From the fear of what love demands, deliver me Jesus.” Have you ever prayed the Litany of Trust? I just discovered this prayer maybe a month ago, and it is so moving. Every time I pray it, some lines just really jump out at me and mean so much in my […]
Letter from the editor: Joy and freedom in the routine
ALLEGRA THATCHER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF If I asked you where you’d like to be right now, I doubt you would answer “in class,” “in the library studying” or even “on campus.” If you’re anything like me, especially after fall break, all you want is to be somewhere else, doing something besides school. You’ve tasted freedom from school […]
Letter from the editor: A crisis of integrity
ALLEGRA THATCHER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The Franciscan University community is experiencing a crisis of integrity. There are two definitions of integrity, and I’m referring to both: morality, as well as being whole and undivided. We as a community have been hit with the same shattering blow to our unity that the Church as a whole has experienced […]
Letter from the Editor: Forgetting and failure
ALLEGRA THATCHER ASSISTANT EDITOR Probably everyone’s biggest concern during the studying for and taking of finals is remembering. Remembering formulas, dates, quotes, concepts and so forth is the primary concern, and students will stay up all night trying to pack a semester’s worth of information into their heads. I think, during this time, that we […]