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GRAPHIC: STEPHANIE SAVELA ’25/THE HAWK

University receives grant to support parenting students

Sophia Galante ’26, News Reporter April 16, 2025

St. Joe’s has been awarded $150,000 as part of the Pennsylvania Department of Education’s Parent Pathways grant program, an initiative aimed at helping parenting students with education and childcare...

A poster at the Take Back the Night event featuring sticky notes from students with encouraging words to
describe survivors. PHOTO: GRACE O’MEARA ’27/THE HAWK

Students gather in solidarity with survivors of sexual violence

Grace O’Meara ’27, News Reporter April 16, 2025

St. Joe’s Rape Education and Prevention Program hosted its 21st annual Take Back the Night Vigil in Doyle Banquet Hall North April 9. About 60 students attended the event, where all were welcomed to...

Philly-based, “Golden Girls”-inspired drag queen B.E.A. (Beatrix Eglantine Aurthurson) works the crowd at the the annual drag show co-hosted by
SJUPride and Hawk Hill Productions.

‘We will never stop dancing’

Hannah Pajtis, Features Editor April 16, 2025

When entering The Perch the evening of April 11, students didn’t come across the typical ping pong tables and yellow-toned lights. Instead, they found themselves greeted by shimmering rainbow streamers,...

GRAPHIC: STEPHANIE SAVELA ’25/THE HAWK

Sports media platforms for women ‘create a community and a sense of belonging’

Mia Messina ’25, Sports Editor April 16, 2025

Lily Shimbashi grew up wanting to be the next Erin Andrews, currently a Fox Sports sideline reporter who has become one of the most popular women sportscasters in the U.S. After graduating from Brigham...

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, 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...

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