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Gunther playing in his cage. PHOTO COURTESY: JULIET MENZ ’24

Ode to Gunther: How my hamster got me through the pandemic

Juliet Menz April 5, 2023

I began my undergraduate career at Providence College in Rhode Island, six hours away from home, at the height of the covid-19 pandemic in 2020. Living by myself in a single dorm room, I found myself...

Editorial

The Hawk Staff October 26, 2022

Winter is coming, and with it comes an influx of infection that can deeply affect our cherished ones if we do not preemptively act. St. Joe’s recently had a vaccine clinic on both Hawk Hill and University...

GRAPHIC: GABRIELLA GUZZARDO '23

College interrupted: Pandemic edition

Grace Sammon September 8, 2022

I've only been a senior for a couple of weeks, but some-times when I walk around on campus, I feel like a freshman all over again. For me, the fall of freshman year was all about meeting new people and...

Students enjoy recess on a sunny winter day at Impala Crescent Primary school in Lenasia. PHOTO: ELISE WELSH '22

Pandemic exposes digital divide at elementary school

Katie Rosta August 19, 2022

Lenasia, South Africa — When schools shut down during the height of the pandemic in 2020, teachers at Impala Crescent Primary School, like many educators, had to quickly learn how to continue teaching...

Alain Bolingo, a trader at the Art & Craft Market in Rosebank, said he makes wares with tourists in mind, but tourists have been in short supply during the pandemic. PHOTO: DEVIN YINGLING '22/THE HAWK

Popular Joburg market vendors hope for recovery after pandemic lulls

Elise Welsh July 29, 2022

Johannesburg, South Africa – Each Sunday, on the rooftop deck of a parking garage in the Rosebank Mall, over 200 traders set up tables to sell goods. After being hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, these...

Jo Rushby, owner of Ike’s bookstore in Durban, has seen more young people among her customers since the start of the pandemic. PHOTO: THE HAWK

Used bookstores turn the page on pandemic challenges

Allie Miller July 20, 2022

Johannesburg, South Africa — At the entrance to Collector’s Treasury, a bookstore in the Braamfontein neighborhood of Johannesburg, customers are greeted with a book-lined cement staircase and that...

SOURCE: MUNICIPAL SECURITIES RULEMAKING BOARD GRAPHIC: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE HAWK

University feels pinch of pandemic-induced “budget adjustments”

Devin Yingling and Allison Kite November 16, 2021

University-wide “budget adjustments” have amounted to belt-tightening across the university, and the responsibility for implementing those adjustments is in the hands of deans, chairs and other divisional...

Starting over

Starting over

Maggie Brennen October 5, 2021

Sometimes I think about what my life would be like if the coronavirus pandemic never existed.  It is amazing to think that it has changed the course of everyone’s lives, no matter where they live or...

Reporting during a pandemic

The Hawk Staff May 5, 2021

COVID-19 is obviously at the center of everyone’s lives. It’s also at the center of the reporting process. I won’t soon forget holding a six-foot, socially-distant boom pole in one hand and a notebook...

Letter from the editor: how we managed the pandemic

Letter from the editor: how we managed the pandemic

Ryan Mulligan May 5, 2021

For the first time in what seems a lifetime, but is just over a year, we can see a glimmer of hope for better times ahead, even as we watch other countries experience the dire conditions we went through...

When did you realize the pandemic was going to change your life as you knew it?

When did you realize the pandemic was going to change your life as you knew it?

The Hawk Staff May 5, 2021

St. Joe’s contacted us, saying the pandemic’s getting out of hand. And then we all went virtual. -Walt Bryz-Gornia ’21 Undergraduate Student When I was stuck in my house and my mom was actually...

A timeline of a year in the coronavirus pandemic

The Hawk Staff May 5, 2021

December 2019 First case of COVID-19 is identified in Wuhan, China Jan. 21 Jan. 21 First case of COVID-19 in U.S. is identified in Washington state Jan. 23 Wuhan lockdown begins February 2020 Centers...

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