“Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion.” — James Baldwin,...
During the summer, University President Cheryl A. McConnell, Ph.D., announced St. Joe’s commitment to the President’s Laudato Si’ Initiative on Sustainability and Stewardship. This initiative...
Happy National Recovery Month! During September, we honor the approximately 20.9 million Americans who have struggled with substance use and found recovery. We also celebrate programs that support...
I want to begin with some critical statistics. First, by approximately 2042, America will become a majority-minority nation, which is already the case for Americans under 16 since 2019. Second, in 2024,...
GRAPHIC: OFFICE OF MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS
COURTESY OF MARCI BERNEY
If you are reading this on your phone, let’s do an experiment. Take a minute to navigate over to your most used social media...
Israel, the ancestral home of the Jewish people, was founded as a modern state in 1948 as a haven for Jews fleeing persecution from Christian and Muslim lands. However, it is important to understand there...
On a bright and warm April afternoon in 1987, I was standing in the kitchen of our house in South Bend, Indiana when the wall phone rang. With a timbre that sounded like an army marching on gravel, the...
When someone mentions the health impact of smoking, most people immediately think of lung cancer or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). However, your heart and brain are also significantly...
On July 1, 2022, I closed the door on my Philadelphia row home and moved with my partner and our daughter into the Ford Transit campervan parked outside. After 18 months of designing and outfitting the...
The world has been watching a live-streamed genocide in Gaza for 130 days. Despite the media blackout Israel tried to impose, the world has been witnessing daily and hourly sheer destruction of lives...
On average, three women are killed by a current or former partner every day in the United States, and nearly two-thirds of those domestic violence homicides were committed with a firearm. The presence...
University Student Senate President
The class of 2024 entered St. Joe’s at an unprecedented time, meeting one another’s masked faces in residence hall lounges, interacting only for a moment in...
