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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...

Smith emceeing the Association for Women in Sports Media banquet featuring three commissioners.

‘There were glass ceilings everywhere’

Mia Messina ’25, Sports Editor April 9, 2025

Before she was the first woman journalist to cover a Major League Baseball beat, Claire Smith was a Penn State college student unsure of what she wanted to do.  During the nearly three years she was...

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...

Jayla Stephens ’28, Delaney Shur ’27 and Meghan Clark ’27 star as Annie Cannon, Henrietta Leavitt and Williamina Fleming in the department of music, theatre & film and the SJU Theatre Company’s production
of “Silent Sky.” PHOTO: ZACH PODOLNICK ’26/THE HAWK

‘Silent Sky’ takes center stage

Kiley O’Brien ’25, Assistant Features Editor April 9, 2025

The department of music, theatre & film and the SJU Theatre Company will be performing their production of “Silent Sky” April 10-April 13. “Silent Sky” is a play written by Lauren Gunderson...

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...

Shannon Tonetta ’26 presents her research on artist Pieter Bruegel’s portrayal of peasants in art at the fourth
annual Philadelphia-area Undergraduate Art History Research Symposium.
PHOTO: ZACH PODOLNICK ’26/THE HAWK

Students present art history research at annual symposium

Kiley O’Brien ’25, Assistant Features Editor April 2, 2025

Students gathered to present their research at the fourth annual Philadelphia-area Undergraduate Art History Research Symposium, hosted at the Frances M. Maguire Art Museum on March 29.  Martha Easton,...

Disabled Student Union co-founders Lilly Cancellieri ’27 and Megan Eastman ’25 speak at the club’s first
meeting, March 28. PHOTO: MADELINE WILLIAMS ’26/THE HAWK

Disabled Students Union promotes accessibility, advocacy and allyship

Zach Podolnick ’26, Sports Reporter April 2, 2025

When Megan Eastman ’25 came to the Hawk Hill campus for the first time as a first-year, the hilly campus and lack of ways to circumvent stair-laden buildings raised the question: How can St. Joe’s...

Women’s lacrosse started their season 1-6 before going on a four-game winning streak to start Atlantic-10 Conference play.
PHOTO COURTSEY OF SJU ATHELTICS

Women’s lacrosse players ‘flip the switch’ on season’s rocky start

Tess Margis ’26, Features Reporter April 2, 2025

After starting the season 1-6, St. Joe’s women’s lacrosse pieced together a four-game win streak to start Atlantic 10 Conference play before falling to University of Massachusetts 14-11 March 26. A...

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...

The Guangdong Tigers placed first in International Society’s talent show, March 21. PHOTO COURTESY OF MASSAMBA DORSEY ’26

Talent show a ‘last hurrah’ for UCity students

Tess Margis ’26, Features Reporter March 26, 2025

International Society hosted its last talent show on the University City campus in the Athletic/Recreation Center March 21. The annual event featured 11 different acts, with performances from dance...

‘We’re made from our history’

Mia Messina ’25, Sports Editor March 26, 2025

Kathy Garvin ’75 recalled a sign on a St. Joe’s campus bathroom with the letters “WO” taped in front of the word “men.” Garvin, who enrolled at St. Joe’s in 1971, one year after the university...

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