FUS vs. others

[p0lar_bear]

[quote name='Raphael' date='Dec 29 2005, 10:46 AM'] a nice basilica (or basilica-style church), and a properly performed liturgy, it would be 500% better than it is.
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Everyone knows that the chapel is ugly. I don't think anyone in admin pretends that it isn't, but a new one would easily cost in excess of 3 million. You come up the money, I'm sure they would be more than happy to build one. Last I knew, a new chapel is on the list of building projects, but there are a lot of things on that list.

[missionseeker]

Fransican doesn't have a great music program though does it?

And for Christmas, Christendom sent me a CD of the Schola - beautiful.

But Benedictine's Chamber Singers are singing at the Pope's Epiphany Mass (as well as other well known Italian places.)

[jgirl]

[quote name='Raphael' date='Dec 29 2005, 10:46 AM']Oh, I think it's a good idea...I just don't like that the administration seems partial to charismatic households.

I don't have anything personal against charismatics, but you know, not all people are or should be.  The school and many students seems to think otherwise.

"Are you going to the FOP?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"I don't really care for all the charismatic stuff."

"What?!"

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Maybe it was my experience, but I was never asked why I wasn't at a FOP when I didn't go (which was most of them). My household sister, Susanna, led the music for a few years, and my Troub editor in chief with whom I spent many Tuesday nights as we laid out the paper was on the intercessory team. Neither of them ever pressured me to go, and they certainly didn't question my motives. In fact, there are lots of people who didn't go to FOPS (at least back in the early '00s). We used to have movie nights or go to Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is much more fun than a FOP, although FOPS are cool from time to time.

I can also say that the Roses--my household--wasn't strictly charismatic. My sisters had all different kinds of spirituality preferences leaning from traddie home school to leader of FOP music ministry. We all peacefully co-existed, and I formed friendships with people who weren't necessarily my type. I learned to really transcend stereotypes at Steubenville. It was kind of like a really, really, really Catholic version of the Breakfast Club--at least for me.

As for the internet, it's gotten a little better. When I was there, they had dialup, and you had to pay for it. You also couldn't connect at speeds faster than 21k in the dorms which was irritating when most schools had high speed access for years.

As Scardella mentioned, you can't get cable in the dorm rooms. You can only get one channel--the local NBC--affiliate if you have an antenna on your tv. When the Olympics were on back in 2002, my roommate and I fashioned one out of a wire coat hanger, a Coke can and some scotch tape so we could watch the ice skating somewhere besides the lounges. That really wasn't important, but it was a fun experience.

Another pro is the location. Steubenville is a depressing city. Everything looks dirty, and there's a dinky mall. However, it is about 30 minutes away from the outer suburbs of Pittsburgh (the cool part with a great mall, Ikea, and pretty much any chain restaurant you can think of) and about 45 minutes to an hour outside of the city. Pittsburgh was one of the cooelst cities I ever experienced. You won't feel like you're in a college town in Steubenville, but Pittsburgh has everything that could possibly cater to a college student. It has the interesting independent coffeeshops, neighborhoods, really nice parks, and great museums. I went into the city at least once a week to explore it, and I was never disappointed. The school is also four hours south of Niagara Falls, and you can do that as a daytrip. Some of my household sisters and I went on random daytrips to buy candy in Canada on a few occasions.

Yet another pro is residence life. I can't tell you how great it is to live in a single sex dorm. The nice thing, though, was that it's nothing like most other schools. You don't have to sign in or out. You don't have curfew (I heard that some of the stricter Catholic schools do). There are open hours on Saturday and Sunday afternoons when members of the opposite sex can visit in your rooms with the door wide open (they actually have catches on the door so that they stay open). Some people think the limited open hours aren't enough, but they really are perfect. Also, alcohol is allowed in dorm rooms. It's nice when you're of age to have the privilege to enjoy it in your room while hanging out with friends. The usage of it by those under 21 increased dramatically from my first year when very few of the underclassmen partied with alcohol to my senior year in 2003 when it was very noticable that the fraternity was trying to get freshmen girls to go to their parties. That year, one of the students died while driving drunk. I'm not sure if that problem has been corrected. Since this is Christendom vs. Steubenville, I have a friend who said drinking's a growing problem there, too, and it started going downhill at the same time.

[jgirl]

[quote name='missionseeker' date='Dec 29 2005, 10:14 PM']Fransican doesn't have a great music program though does it?

And for Christmas, Christendom sent me a CD of the Schola - beautiful.

But Benedictine's Chamber Singers are singing at the Pope's Epiphany Mass (as well as other well known Italian places.)
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The minor consists of theory and harmony 1 & 2, sightsinging and ear training 1 & 2, an ensemble at least once, and then elective music classes which are, for the most part, music history and sacred music. Dr. Treacy knew her stuff, and her history classes were intense, but she's gone. My theory and harmony professor was an adjunct. He was an odd fellow--a Jehovah's Witness, in fact. He had no personality, but he knew music theory, so he wasn't bad. We had another adjunct who led us in a clarinet ensemble once. He was really talented and arranged music for our ensemble.

There is an orchestra, but it's really small. Most of the members are professors' kids. The quality is pretty good considering that little kids are playing original versions of Mozart's symphonies and the like.

[jiyoung]

I'm looking for choir actually--I've been in choir since 5th grade at latest and I can't imagine not singing. I'd love to sing for the Pope...hmmm... haha.

[jiyoung]

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