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The restaurant front of Jersey Kebab, located in Haddon Township, New Jersey, covered with supportive notes,
March 30. PHOTO: GRACE O’MEARA ’27/THE HAWK

Community celebrates Jersey Kebab reopening after immigration raid

Grace O’Meara ’27, News Reporter April 9, 2025

Hundreds of people lined up outside Jersey Kebab, a restaurant in Haddon Township, New Jersey, to celebrate the release of owner Emine Emanet after she and her husband, Celal Emanet, were arrested by Immigration...

GRAPHIC: STEPHANIE SAVELA ’25/THE HAWK

Hawk Hill counseling services moving to new residence hall

Vincent Kornacki ’25, Managing Editor April 9, 2025

St. Joe’s Counseling and Psychological Services is moving to Sister Thea Bowman Hall in the fall 2025 semester, bringing the CAPS space to a more centralized location on the Hawk Hill campus compared...

GRAPHIC: CARA HALLIGAN ’25/THE HAWK

Measles outbreak spreads to Philadelphia

Jacob Peifer ’25, Special to the Hawk April 9, 2025

The U.S. now has at least 600 measles cases reported in 21 states, including Pennsylvania, according to an April 4 update issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About 481 of these cases...

GRAPHIC: STEPHANIE SAVELA ’25/THE HAWK

University offers buyouts, voluntary separations ahead of reorganization

Ally Engelbert ’25, Editor-in-Chief April 2, 2025

St. Joe’s is offering voluntary tenure buyout and voluntary separation programs to full-time employees ahead of “more significant changes” for the university in the near future, according to a March...

GRAPHIC: STEPHANIE SAVELA '25/THE HAWK

Leaked meeting recording ‘violates a sense of trust’

Hannah Pajtis, Features Editor April 2, 2025

A video recording of a private Zoom meeting between University President Cheryl McConnell, Ph.D., and members of the university that was leaked to a reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer has raised questions...

Tinamarie Stolz, M.A. ’24, assistant director of Campus Ministry, opens the door to the drop-in space in the
Wolfington Center for Ministry, Faith and Service, March 31. PHOTO: ZACH PODOLNICK ’26/THE HAWK

CAPS partnership supports students’ mental and spiritual wellbeing

Vincent Kornacki ’25, Managing Editor April 2, 2025

Since the fall 2024 semester, St. Joe’s Counseling and Psychological Services has partnered with Campus Ministry to host drop-in counseling hours for students, with a focus on religious and spiritual...

St. Joe’s leaders reflect on experiences as women

Eshika Attri ’26 - food marketing major, member of Women’s Leadership Initiative  How do you think St. Joe’s has changed in terms of inclusivity and support for women since you’ve been...

COMPILED BY: Liv Bielawski ’27, Sophia Galante ’26 and Grace O’Meara ’27 / THE HAWK | 

 GRAPHIC: Stephanie Savela ’25/THE HAWK | 

 PHOTOS Courtesy of Lesley Carey, St. Joe’s Archivist | PHOTO OF CHERYL MCCONNELL: Madeline Williams ’26/THE HAWK

Tracing the history of women at St. Joe’s

St. Joe's Enrollment by Gender   Update: The women's history timeline graphic was updated March 28, 2025 to correct a graphical error that caused the text of the 1975 entry to be cut off.

Fulbright fellow Madde Guerke '21 at La Malinche in Mexico, where she served as a English teaching assistant for the 2022-2023 academic year. PHOTO COURTESY OF MADDE GUERKE '21

Future of federally funded study abroad remains uncertain amid freezes

Luke Sanelli ’26, News Editor March 26, 2025

Gabby O’Brien ’25 didn’t initially put the pieces together when she heard that the Trump administration had frozen funding to the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. But...

GRAPHIC: LUKE SANELLI ’26/THE HAWK

St. Joe’s remembers Burt Douglas

Luke Sanelli ’26, News Editor March 26, 2025

Dozens of students, faculty and Aramark employees joined together March 20 for a memorial ceremony in honor of Burt Douglas. Douglas, who died suddenly at age 55 on Feb. 25, was an Aramark employee...

Jeff Wasch, Ed.D. ’28, coordinator for the St. Joe’s-Gompers partnership, on the playground at Samuel Gompers School. PHOTO: LUKE SANELLI ’26/THE HAWK

Meet Jeff Wasch: St. Joe’s Gompers partnership coordinator

Luke Sanelli ’26, News Editor March 26, 2025

Jeff Wasch, Ed.D. ’28, navigates through the dimly-lit cinder block hallways of Samuel Gompers School. It’s 3:15 p.m. on a mid-December Friday, so as students clad in their red uniform polos eagerly...

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