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Students choose: classes or isolation

Mitchell Shields December 7, 2021

Anna Kalafatis ’22 returned to campus from Thanksgiving break ready to take on her last two weeks of classes. But then she tested positive for covid-19 the Tuesday after she got back. A LaFarge Residence...

My experience in isolation

My experience in isolation

Sehar Macan-Markar April 13, 2021

It’s worse than you’d think When I learned that I had been in close contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19, I was strangely calm. It had felt almost inevitable that eventually it would...

A bus taking students to isolation and quarantine waits outside Moore Hall.
PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE HAWK

Campus quarantine length remains the same despite CDC update

Natalie Nevins March 2, 2021

Despite updated recommendations by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regarding COVID-19 quarantine protocols, St. Joe's still mandates the previously recommended 14- and 10-day quarantine...

Students have been transported to Homewood Suites to quarantine
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How to transition into quarantine or isolation

Christine Disanti November 17, 2020

Who are you in contact with during isolation or quarantine?  Whether you are quarantining or isolating on or off campus, the first two people students will hear from are their contact tracer and their...

Teagan McCarthy ’22 put together activity kits in March. PHOTO: COURTESY OF MCCARTHY

Project Sunshine engages with isolated pediatric patients

Jackie Collins November 10, 2020

Jordan Olenginski ’21 started the St. Joe’s chapter of Project Sunshine in fall 2019 to help make the lives of hospitalized children “a little happier, a little brighter.”  Project Sunshine is...

Students’ Mental Health During COVID-19

Students’ Mental Health During COVID-19

Sehar Macan-Markar October 6, 2020

In 2020, the only thing that has been constant is change. Our world, lives and plans seem to be changing faster than we can keep up. We long for the past, while the present is being stolen from us and...

Editorial: Isolation and quarantine conditions must improve

Editorial: Isolation and quarantine conditions must improve

The Hawk Staff September 16, 2020

As part of their return to campus, St. Joe’s students were reassured that plans would be put into place for designated quarantine and isolation facilities when, inevitably, COVID-19 cases were detected...

Katerina Calvo ’24 looks out from her window in Moore Hall, where she isolated. PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE HAWK

Stories from quarantine and isolation

Jackie Collins September 15, 2020

Three days into the fall semester, Aidan Dowling ’23, slept on a wooden bench in front of Mandeville Hall for two hours. He was surrounded by several bags of supplies that he packed in preparation for...

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