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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...

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...

GRAPHIC: CARA HALLIGAN ’25/THE HAWK

Measles outbreak spreads to Philadelphia

Jacob Peifer ’25, Special to the Hawk April 9, 2025

The U.S. now has at least 600 measles cases reported in 21 states, including Pennsylvania, according to an April 4 update issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About 481 of these cases...

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...

Jeff Wasch, Ed.D. ’28, coordinator for the St. Joe’s-Gompers partnership, on the playground at Samuel Gompers School. PHOTO: LUKE SANELLI ’26/THE HAWK

Meet Jeff Wasch: St. Joe’s Gompers partnership coordinator

Luke Sanelli ’26, News Editor March 26, 2025

Jeff Wasch, Ed.D. ’28, navigates through the dimly-lit cinder block hallways of Samuel Gompers School. It’s 3:15 p.m. on a mid-December Friday, so as students clad in their red uniform polos eagerly...

GRAPHIC: CARA HALLIGAN '25/THE HAWK

University maintains Jesuit mission in face of federal DEI decrees

Hannah Pajtis and Liv Bielawski ’27 March 19, 2025

St. Joe’s remains committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, despite a federal push to end DEI efforts at colleges and universities and punish those who persist in maintaining them. President...

Mary Brown, adjunct professor of Latin, teaches to her Beginning Latin II class, Feb. 19. PHOTO: MADELINE WILLIAMS ’26/THE HAWK

Finis: College Latin programs struggle to attract new students

Clare Yeatman ’26, Special to the Hawk March 19, 2025

Once considered the language of academia, Latin has diminished in higher education as more universities turn away from teaching the dead language. “When we say dead language, it sounds so negative,”...

Customers line up to purchase multiple cartons of eggs at another farm stand located in Clark Park. PHOTO: SOPHIA GALANTE ’26/THE HAWK

Eggs-treme prices: What’s behind the costly cartons?

Sophia Galante ’26, News Reporter March 19, 2025

Wholesale prices of eggs may have finally begun to drop after cracking open the wallets of business owners and consumers since mid-December last year when they began to rise rapidly in cost, according...

Students and faculty celebrate the new University City library location and reflect on memories from England
Library in Griffith Hall, March 13. PHOTO: TAYLA EVANS ’27/THE HAWK

Students and faculty say goodbye to England Library

Tayla Evans ’27, News Reporter March 19, 2025

Students, faculty and staff gathered in Griffith Library on the University City campus March 13  to remember and share stories about Joseph W. England Library.  St. Joe’s had originally announced...

Students play a volleyball game in the Athletic/Recreation Center, Feb. 7.
PHOTO: BEN VANELLI ’25/THE HAWK

UCity students react to continued building closures

Luke Sanelli ’26, News Editor February 26, 2025

Key buildings on the University City campus are likely to be vacated by the end of summer 2025, according to an email to the university community. The closures of McNeil Science and Technology Center...

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