By Cassidy Lowman ’27, Student Correspondent<\/p>\n
The University of Scranton community has always known its university was among the best, but a new classification and publication confirmed this campus pride.<\/p>\n
The third Tuesday in September felt more like Christmas morning for those who gathered at Weiss Hall for an historic reveal. The grand lobby was brimming with Royals whose gleaming faces watched the activities and speeches from the lobby stairs and second-floor banister.<\/p>\n
Student government vice president, Connor Farrington \u201927, a business analytics and accounting double major from Washington, New Jersey, introduced Rev. Joseph G. Marina, S.J., University president. Father Marina was met with booming applause from the students, faculty, staff and community members present for the reveal.<\/p>\n
The anticipation behind the reveal was prompted by the University\u2019s new classification as a National University in U.S. News and World Report\u2019s annual rankings.\u202f<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd so now we get to play with the big fish: Harvard, Princeton, Duke, Georgetown, and all these famous global universities that we hold in such reverence and in such high esteem,\u201d Father Marina said. \u201cWe are now within that group.\u201d\u202f<\/p>\n