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Brian Yates, Ph.D., professor of history and director of the American Studies Program, teaches his First Year Seminar, Race and Sport in America, Feb. 24. PHOTO: HANNAH PAJTIS ’26/THE HAWK

First Year Seminars removed from new curriculum

Tayla Evans ’27, Special to the Hawk February 26, 2025

This semester marks the end of the First Year Seminar at St. Joe’s.  The 33 sections of classes with course number 150 being taught this semester, with topics including Sex, Drug & Rock n Roll...

GRAPHIC: CARA HALLIGAN ’25/THE HAWK

A guide for participating in class when you have nothing good to say

Carter Karpinski ’25, Columnist February 12, 2025

I can only imagine the trauma held by professors from semesters of teaching blank squares with names over Zoom. Now, after a few years of full participation being possible again, it can amount to huge...

Ad Hawk: The dynamic, diverse mission of St. Joe’s

Fr. Dan Joyce, S.J., Guest Columnist February 5, 2025

In preparing for St. Joe’s upcoming Mission Week, Feb. 14-23, I realized 10 of the 40 courses I’d needed to graduate from St. Joe’s were taught by Jesuit professors. Now, to be honest, this fact...

Students use outdoor spaces to study and attend online courses. PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS '22/THE HAWK

Students struggle with mixed modality course schedules

Throughout the first week of the fall semester, students scrambled from class to class, struggling to navigate a mix of face-to-face, hybrid, hyflex and online classes. Out of all undergraduate courses...

Students participate in fitness classes at O'Pake Recreation Center.  PHOTO MATT BARRETT ’21/THE HAWK

St. Joe’s students lead O’Pake fitness classes

Alysa Bainbridge January 22, 2019

“How you guys feelin’ today? Good?” yelled a woman in printed leggings and a thick cotton headband to keep the flyaways from her ponytail out of her face. The upbeat remix of a pop hit that had...

Fewer pick times for spring class registration

Alex Mark November 13, 2018

Recent registration cycle serves as “test case” More students were able to register simultaneously for spring 2019 classes this semester as a result of IT updates designed to keep the server from...

Graphic by Kaitlyn Patterson, '20.

Getting in shape for summer

Alyssa LaMont April 10, 2017

Fitness apps and techniques for warmer weather Working out allows you to release pent up aggression and stress, and let’s be honest, college students have a lot of energy built up. By implementing...

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