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Christian Discipleship Is Their Tallest Trophy
BY JOSEPH PRONECHEN Georgetown’s Decorated K of C Council Models Faith-Based Service
March 4-10, 2007 Issue 
It’s hard enough to win a major award once. But,
as any defending champion will tell you, it’s doubly hard to repeat the
achievement — especially when there are more than 200 competitors on the field.
Georgetown
University Knights of Columbus Council 6375 has overcome the long odds.... READ MORE
Campus Watch
Higher ed in the headlines.
March 4-10, 2007 Issue
Ivy League Chastity
THE
DAILY PRINCETONIAN, Feb. 19 — Princeton’s Anscombe Society is
promoting chastity. The student-run society held an intercollegiate conference
in mid-February entitled, “Making Love Last: Finding Meaning in Sex and Relationships.”
“Anscombe members strategized with... READ MORE
Students Who Stay Together …
BY AMY SMITH Suddenly, a Boomlet In Newman Center Housing
February 25- March 03, 2007 Issue
For Ann
Marie Tschanz, a college dormitory is more than a place to sleep and study. The
senior nursing student has lived at Newman Hall, part of St. John’s Catholic
Newman Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, throughout her
college sojourn.
“Newman’s been a home to me;... READ MORE
Campus Watch
Higher ed in the headlines.
February 25- March 03, 2007 Issue
Upholding Women’s Dignity
CARDINAL NEWMAN
SOCIETY, Feb. 6 — Catholic
colleges are promoting alternatives to the staging of the morally objectionable
feminist play The Vagina
Monologues. The University of
Notre Dame hosted a two-day conference Feb. 23-24 on issues including sexual
assault,... READ MORE
Undercover and Over Obstacles — All for the Unborn
BY KATY CARL UCLA’s Spirited Pro-Life Group Shows the Way
February 18-24, 2007 Issue
At the
University of California-Los Angeles, they’re boldly going where no UCLA
student has gone before: seeking out brave new ways to protect and defend human
life in all stages of its development.
Live Action, the only pro-life
student group at the school, recently delivered a bolt from the... READ MORE
Campus Watch
Higher ed in the headlines.
February 18-24, 2007 Issue
Pro-Abort Protested
USA RELIGIOUS
NEWS, Feb. 5 — Pro-life
advocates have expressed dismay over a prominent abortion supporter’s Feb. 2
appearance at Loyola University Law School in New Orleans. National
Organization for Women President Kim Gandy spoke during a forum hosted by the
law school.... READ MORE
Campus Watch
Higher ed in the headlines.
February 11-17, 2007 Issue
Jesuit College Pro-Lifers
ASSOCIATION OF
JESUIT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES,
Jan. 29 — Nearly 400 students from 13 Jesuit colleges and universities
participated in this year’s March for Life in Washington. The Association of
Jesuit Colleges and Universities highlighted the students’... READ MORE
A River Runs Through It — and Beside It
BY Joseph Pronechen A New Chapel Takes Shape at Holy Apostles College & Seminary
February 4-10, 2007 Issue
What do an upcoming anniversary, the
election of Pope Benedict XVI and a seminarian who also happens to be a professional
artist have in common? They all came together to propel the construction of a
new chapel that’s going up at Holy Apostles College & Seminary in Cromwell,
Conn.
Basilian Father... READ MORE
He Puts Some Muscle Into Catholic Education
BY ANTHONY FLOTT A Conversation With the President of Belmont Abbey College
January 28- February 3, 2007 Issue
William
Thierfelder lived most of his
early adulthood on the sports stage. Twice in the early 1980s, he earned
All-America status as a high-jumper at the University of Maryland. In 1983,
thanks to his Irish ancestry, he qualified for and became Ireland’s national
champion in that event.... READ MORE
Campus Watch
Higher ed in the headlines.
January 28- February 3, 2007 Issue
Catholic Studies, Secular Style
THE GEORGIA BULLETIN, Jan. 11 — In a national first, Atlanta’s Emory
University has instituted a new Catholic-studies minor. According to the Bulletin,
the newspaper of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, Emory’s new program is the only
such minor in the country... READ MORE
An Exhibit Worth 1,000 Wordless Witnesses
BY Joseph Pronechen Steubenville’s New Exhibit Showcases St. Francis and His Spirituality
January 21-27, 2007 Issue
“Everybody
likes St. Francis,” says Rose DeFede with obvious enthusiasm in her voice. “The
whole world
likes him.”
That is just one of the reasons why
DeFede, the art curator and director of communications at Franciscan University
of Steubenville in Ohio, has no doubts the school’s new,... READ MORE
CAMPUS WATCH
Higher ed in the headlines.
January 21-27, 2007 Issue
Goodbye, Dr. Fox-Genovese
ATLANTA
JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION, Jan. 4 — Historian and prominent Catholic
convert Elizabeth Fox-Genovese died Jan. 2 in Atlanta. Emory University
recruited Fox-Genovese in 1986 to serve as founding director of its Institute
for Women’s Studies. But she resigned as... READ MORE
Campus Watch
Higher ed in the headlines.
January 14-20, 2007 Issue
Xavier Prez Honored
THE LOUISIANA
WEEKLY, Dec. 18 — Dr. Norman Francis, the president of Xavier University,
has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The medal is America’s
highest civil honor. Francis has served since 1968 as president of Xavier, the
only historically black Catholic... READ MORE
So Far, So Catholic
BY JOSEPH PRONECHEN John Paul the Great Catholic University: A Progress Report
January 14-20, 2007 Issue
With a name like John Paul the Great Catholic
University, it has to be
good.
And authentically Catholic.
Derry Connolly, the new school’s president and
co-founder, knew that when he began planning an institution of higher education
that would prepare business and media professionals to advance... READ MORE
Raising the Curtain On Catholic Mockery
BY ANTHONY FLOTT U of Minnesota to go ahead with ‘The Pope and The Witch’
January 7-13, 2007 Issue
The curtain has yet to rise on the University of Minnesota’s
production of “The Pope and the Witch,” but already the controversial play is
receiving grave reviews.
Set to debut on the Golden Gophers’ campus March 1
and running for seven days, “The Pope and the Witch” is defined by... READ MORE
Campus Watch
Higher ed in the headlines.
January 7-13, 2007 Issue
Harvard
Drops Religion
THE BOSTON
GLOBE, Dec. 13 — The task force designing a revised curriculum for Harvard
undergrads has dropped its plan to require all students to take a religion
class. In response to criticism from some Harvard professors after the initial
proposal was made in October, the... READ MORE
Campus Watch
Higher ed in the headlines.
December 24- January 6, 2006 Issue
Choiceless
CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, Dec. 6 — So much for “choice”
when it comes to debating abortion at one Canadian campus.
Student groups at Ottawa’s
Carleton University that are opposed to abortion rights will not be able
to receive money or recognition... READ MORE
How to Get a Great College Education — No Kidding
BY ANTHONY FLOTT An interview with John Zmirak, colorful editor of All American Colleges: Top Schools for Conservatives, Old Fashioned Liberals and People of Faith. By Anthony Flott.
December 17-23, 2006 Issue
John Zmirak is a funny man.
But it’s doubtful that his sharp wit and one-liners get many chuckles in the
hallowed halls of U.S.
academia.
Last year, the feisty New Yorker —
he’s co-author of The Bad Catholic’s
Guide to Good Living (Crossroad, 2005) — edited the Intercollegiate... READ MORE
Campus Watch
Higher ed in the headlines.
December 17-23, 2006 Issue
Educating Muslims
...
LOS ANGELES TIMES, Nov. 28 — Rome’s Catholic universities and schools are
helping to promote Muslim-Catholic dialogue, one student at a time.
The Los Angeles Times reported that students from Muslim countries are
currently studying at pontifical universities and other... READ MORE
Campus Watch
Higher ed in the headlines.
December 10-16, 2006 Issue
My Relative, The Saint
THE TIDINGS, Nov. 17 — Mount St. Mary’s
College freshman Jessica Cantu has a saintly example close at hand.
On Oct. 15, her
great-great-great-great uncle, Raphael Guizar Valencia, was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI in Rome. The new saint, a
former bishop of Veracruz,
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