Balls have been an inauguration tradition since 1789, when the first inaugural ball was held in honor of George Washington. While they have evolved over the years, these typically formal, black-tie events...
WASHINGTON — Cynthia Farquhar was 16 years old when she attended her first protest in Washington, D.C., joining Martin Luther King Jr. at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Sixty-two...
St. Joe’s Black Student Union (BSU) hosted its third annual gala April 20 in Cardinal Foley Center. With a theme of Black Hollywood, the event drew approximately 80 attendees donned in their most glamorous...
The “antisemitic” label for Arabs is linguistically inaccurate, as the term “semitism” originates from Shem, the ancestor of both Arabs and Israelites through Prophet Abraham.
Challenging common...
A serial thief has allegedly stolen multiple backpacks across the Hawk Hill campus since the beginning of the semester.
There have been nine reported on-campus thefts since the semester officially...
Students from four Philadelphia universities gathered for the 2024 Philadelphia Four Schools Spring Festival Gala Feb. 11 to celebrate the Chinese New Year.
Organized annually by the Chinese Students...
Alannah Vazquez was appointed associate director of Student Leadership and Activities in November 2023. Vazquez has bachelor degrees in middle level education and American studies from La Salle University,...
Amber Abbas, Ph.D., associate professor of history and director of the Nealis Program in Asian Studies, was a panelist at the “Israel and Gaza: Starting Points for Understanding” panel held...
The international student population at St. Joe’s has been slowly increasing following a significant decline during the height of the covid-19 pandemic.
During the 2019-20 academic year, there were...
1) Start with an acknowledgement that this is a very complex situation, with a disputed history, and a situation at present where it is difficult to know the truth of what is happening in any detail.
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Over 150 children and their guardians gathered outside the Lovett Memorial Library in Mt. Airy Oct. 29 to write letters to Dwight Evans, U.S. representative of Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District,...
