JACOB WATSON AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT I am here, and I am not sure what I expected. I spent about six hours on a plane next to a Spanish “tipo” (who I can only describe as smelling like a “botellón“), everyone in…
JACOB WATSON AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT “Perfection is the enemy of progress.” As I have been preparing for Austria, this has gone through my head and guided me. This preparation for Austria will be my main focus, because — at the time…
ELISHA VALLADARES-CORMIER SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER During its business meeting on Monday, Franciscan University Student Government narrowly passed the allocation of $11,650 for the purchase of a climbing wall despite significant objection. One of the most heavily debated bills of the…
MICHELLE FORTUNATO AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT We have hit the halfway point of our semester in Gaming, and we have just arrived back from our 10-day break. I had the incredible opportunity to travel to Lourdes, France for mission with 12 other…
MICHELLE FORTUNATO AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT Update: Austria is still good. Here are some highlights from the past week. I took a train for the first time. At 9:00 a.m., the man sitting across from us pulled out a beer and a…
TONIANNE ZOTTOLI STAFF WRITER On Oct. 5, Franciscan hosted its annual Gaming Fest, which featured Austrian food, drinks, music and culture as experienced by students in the Austrian Study Abroad Program. The Finnegan Fieldhouse was transformed into a larger Austrian…
RACHEL MILLER CATHOLIC VALUES COLUMNIST “I auditioned to become the Baltimore Oriole Bird, but God had other plans,” said one of the four finalists for this mascot position. “Obviously it wasn’t God’s fulfillment for me. It just didn’t fly.” Sports…
MICHELLE FORTUNATO AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT Austria continues to exceed expectations. God gives so abundantly in his infinite goodness. There are the things that I looked forward to before I arrived, like the mountains and the gelato. And then there are the…
MICHELLE FORTUNATO AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT Well, we have arrived. The Fall 2017 Austria kids. Prepare for an onslaught of steel cross pictures and creek-jumping stories. At this point, we have been to Melk, Durnstein, Salzburg and Vienna. By the time this…
DANIEL KIM AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT I begin to write by first expressing my heartfelt grief for the terrorist attacks in Paris and offering of prayer for France and its people. These past 10 days, I was on a pilgrimage to Rome…