seniors
Commencement exercises moved to August
RACHEL MILLER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Franciscan University of Steubenville’s commencement ceremonies will now be held mid-August, the university announced yesterday. The university announced April 7 that it will have a baccalaureate Mass and graduation Aug. 14-15. Commencement exercises were originally scheduled for May 8-9, but whether they would still happen as planned was uncertain when campus was closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now commencement will […]
Franciscan votes to separate 2016 commencement exercises into 2 ceremonies
LAUREN RAMSEYER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF With increasing class sizes, Franciscan University has decided to separate graduation into two ceremonies, one for the sciences and one for arts, in order to remain in Finnegan Fieldhouse for the 2016 commencement exercises. The Academic Affairs Department surveyed the graduating students earlier this year to determine which option would be most […]
Record number of seniors in dorms
BY NICHOLAS DIGREGORY STAFF WRITER Jacob Smith’s first interaction with a Franciscan University of Steubenville upperclassman came several months before he started his freshman year. Mark Daniel, a junior at the time, was spending Spring Break with a friend of Smith’s, and it was one of those evenings that Smith and Daniel met for the […]