Día de los Muertos at SVC: How the Mexican holiday creates campus-wide unity
By Erin Brody, Arts and Culture Editor For the past six years, Saint Vincent College’s Modern and Classical Languages Department has...
Student Life
News and features involving the campus at large
- Nov 17
SVC’s B.E.S.T. Transitional Program Helps Students Build Independence and Community
By Jacob Rzempoluch, Sports Editor Saint Vincent College is home to several programs committed to helping students reach their full...
- Nov 17
Student-run theater group introduces production of iconic movie
By Suki Rowden, Staff Writer After 20 successful years on campus, The Company, Saint Vincent College’s student-run musical theater club,...
- Nov 4
The ASL club hosted a Halloween party and discussed their future
By Elizabeth Van Pilsum, Staff Writer On Oct. 20, the American Sign Language (ASL) club at Saint Vincent College hosted a Halloween party...
- Nov 4
From Ukraine to Pennsylvania: Get to Know a Little Bit About Marta Trembetska and Anastasiia Umrysh
By Devin Bonine, Part-Time Staff Writer A long awaited childhood dream finally came through for two close friends from Ukraine who wanted...
- Oct 24
Oktoberfest: German tradition arrives on our campus
By Suki Rowden, Staff Writer Saint Vincent College enjoyed the German tradition of Oktoberfest on Oct.12 in a historic celebration. The...
- Oct 23
Students Having Trouble with Wi-Fi
By John Syms, Part-Time Staff Writer Students across Saint Vincent College are having problems with logging in to campus Wi-Fi. Two main...
- Oct 23
Need a night out on campus? Plan to see The Players’ performance of Little Women
By Erin Brody, Arts and Culture Editor Theater has always been a favorite pastime for Saint Vincent students, and the campus will receive...
- Oct 23
Let’s Talk About Food: Saint Vincent’s dining services create new promotional initiatives
By Elizabeth Van Pilsum, Staff Writer One of the most discussed aspects of Saint Vincent College is the food; if you are ever struggling...
- Oct 9
¡Salud!: Saint Vincent College Celebrates Biggest Hispanic Heritage Month Yet
By Erin Brody, Arts and Culture Editor On Sept. 15, countries like Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and El Salvador celebrate...
- Oct 9
Saint Vincent Intramurals: A Community Built Around Sports
By Devin Bonine, Staff Writer Under the leadership of Women’s Lacrosse coach Jym Walters, Zackary VonStein, a senior business data...
- Oct 9
Ready, Set, Dodgeball! Two teams battle to a final win
By John Syms, Part-Time Writer Students across Saint Vincent College are having a blast with the Activities Programming Board (APB)...
- Oct 9
New Athletic and Recreation Center Gets Groundbreaking Ceremony
By Jacob Rzempoluch, Sports Editor Walking along Bearcat Alley on September 9, one might have noticed twelve shovels with green and gold...
- Oct 9
Home Comes Early with a Win
By Sean Callahan, News Editor Hundreds of alumni bearcats flocked back to Saint Vincent College this year for a Homecoming weekend of...
- Apr 20
Visiting Writers Series returns to Saint Vincent
By Delaney Fox, Staff Writer The Visiting Writers Series made its return to Saint Vincent College on Apr. 6 in the Verostko Center for...
- Apr 20
Class of 2022 art majors display work in Verostko Center
By Erin Brody, Staff Writer The Verostko Center for the Arts recently greeted the SVC community and visitors with a blue sign displaying...
- Apr 11
“SVC: The Voice has come home again”
The energy in the Performing Arts Center was palpable the night of Mar. 30. A steady flow of students entered the PAC, excited and a...
- Apr 6
Sports Friendship Day back for its 36th year
By Erin Brody, Arts & Culture Editor After a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19, the beloved Saint Vincent tradition of Sports Friendship...
- Mar 29
A gut-wrenching time at Saint Vincent: Increase in illness after spring break
By Delaney Fox, Staff Writer With the return from spring break and the implementation of the new optional masking policy, many students...
- Mar 24
A chaotic upgrade: The switch to new WiFi
By Elizabeth Van-Pilsum, Staff Writer Spring break is often a time to reset and refresh for the coming semester. However, students...
- Mar 17
First Annual Women’s Week at Saint Vincent: Celebrating Women’s History
Saint Vincent College has had a tradition of celebrating International Women’s Day with events such as making a bouquet. This year,...
- Mar 8
Super Bowl Sunday party brings together friends
By Sean Callahan, Staff Writer Beginning at 6:00 p.m. on Feb. 13—a half hour before kickoff—APB hosted a campus wide Super Bowl party in...
- Mar 8
Can’t help falling in love with All Shook Up
By Delaney Fox, Staff Writer The Saint Vincent College Players returned to the stage this semester with a production of All Shook Up, a...
- Feb 9
Rachelle’s 15650 opens to satisfied crowds
By Jacob Rzempoluch, Part-Time Staff Writer A former bakery built in the 19th century and a team of Saint Vincent students: two key...
- Feb 2
Students initiate ASL Club: Raising awareness for the deaf/hard of hearing community
By Erin Brody, Arts and Culture Editor Saint Vincent College offers a variety of clubs for a variety of student interests – ranging from...
- Feb 2
APB plans spring semester fun: Throwback Week to be next event
By David Collins, Staff Writer Saint Vincent’s Activities Programming Board (APB) has begun the spring semester with a variety of events...
- Jan 27
The show must go on: SVC music program has no treble in adjusting to COVID protocols
By Erin Brody As winter break wrapped up, many students, faculty and staff wondered whether Saint Vincent College would return for the...
- Jan 27
Winter weather whams campus: Students describe aftermath of storm
By Sean Callahan, News Editor Snow showers and frigid winds did not waste any time greeting Saint Vincent College this semester. Winter...
- Jan 27
A Catholic congressman’s call: Pro-life in a pro-choice party
By Delaney Fox, Staff Writer From Jan. 15 to Jan. 21, various offices, organizations and clubs at Saint Vincent College planned events to...
- Nov 10, 2021
Spirit Week at Saint Vincent
By Delaney Fox After a year of cancellations and delays due to the coronavirus pandemic, many in-person campus events and activities are...
- May 12, 2020
The state of the student exodus
By Christian Loeffler If you’re an SVC student, there’s a decent chance you still need to clean out your dorm room. Most students left...
- May 5, 2020
Analysis: When will life go back to normal?
By Jonathan Meilaender Depending on where you live, you may still be facing very severe movement restrictions. Maybe, on the other hand,...
- May 4, 2020
The virus’s effect on SVC finances
By Jonathan Meilaender Students aren’t the only ones suffering the financial impact of the pandemic. Colleges are, too, in part because...
- May 4, 2020
SVC History: the 1918 influenza pandemic
By Luke Mich This is not the first time that the campus has been closed over health concerns for its students, staff, professors, and the...
- May 4, 2020
What does the unemployment rate mean for graduating seniors?
By Samantha Hilyer How are people, especially graduating seniors, supposed to look for employment when so many are losing their jobs...
- May 4, 2020
President explains commencement rescheduling
By Christian Loeffler On Saturday, April 4, students received an email from Fr. Paul Taylor stating that Commencement would be postponed...
- May 4, 2020
Summer cancellations
By Irina Rusanova With the rapid spread of COVID-19 there has also been an increase in cautionary activity at Saint Vincent. Multiple...
- May 3, 2020
Student participation in honor societies
By Irina Rusanova As of now, it may be difficult to observe honor society events. But before a COVID-19 induced quarantine, some...
- Apr 18, 2020
Most work study positions “postponed”
By Samantha Hilyer Saint Vincent College has a “robust work study program,” which employs over 750 student employees every year,...
- Apr 2, 2020
Life on a quarantined campus
You are probably reading this at home. But not everyone is home; due to travel restrictions and distance, a number of students still...
- Apr 2, 2020
New challenges and comforts: students discuss remote learning
By Christian Loeffler If you're a student, chances are things are pretty abnormal for you right now. According to the National Center for...
- Mar 26, 2020
Professors learn online classes
By Christian Loeffler From the sciences to the arts, professors from various disciplines are still in the transition phase from physical...
- Mar 20, 2020
Commuters cite campus complications
By Christian Loeffler We all know that they are among us. They sit with us in class. They study in the library. They congregate on the...
- Mar 11, 2020
College comments on Coronavirus
The following was sent as an email from Dr. John Smetanka, vice president of Academic Affairs and Academic Dean, to the SVC community on...
- Mar 11, 2020
Wimmer water heater breaks
By Samantha Hilyer Only three weeks after reports had been made from Gerard Hall that the water temperature of showers and sinks was not...
- Mar 11, 2020
College takes action against Coronavirus
By Jonathan Meilaender When students left for spring break, Coronavirus was a novel disease in China – a danger in Italy, maybe. When...
- Feb 26, 2020
Books and beans: the library’s barista
By John Rogan If you’ve spent any time in the library since its recent renovation, you may have noticed that the building is ever so...
- Feb 26, 2020
Caf construction upcoming
By Jonathan Meilaender The “Forward, Always Forward” comprehensive fundraising campaign that produced a new library will next make its...
- Feb 12, 2020
Broken boiler chills Gerry showers
By Samantha Hilyer It was a chilling Sunday evening to say the least for sophomore March Smith. “I thought I was just going through my...
- Feb 12, 2020
Library at long last
By Christian Loeffler After over a year of renovation and expansion, the Latimer Library has begun to open itself to students once more,...