On a warm Sunday in early September, Eva Hernandez ’25 and about 25 other Puerto Rican students met for lunch. They enjoyed the sunny day and shared chorizos, burgers and barbecue chicken. Later that...
Kiley O'Brien, Assistant Features Editor
• September 11, 2024
Sofia Fuentes ’26 found a large community of Puerto Rican students on campus like herself, but realized there was no campus association dedicated to their heritage. As a result, she took initiative herself...
After dropping a freestyle mixtape to Lil Uzi’s song, “20 Min” in 2016, Fernando Acosta’s ’22 music career took off.
“I dropped a Lil Uzi freestyle during my junior year of high school,...
St. Joe's students living in Puerto Rico face the aftermath of destructive earthquakes over winter break
As images of the Virgin Mary and other paintings fell off the walls of her grandmother’s house...
Natalia Velázquez López's adjustment to life at St. Joe's
Natalia Velázquez López ’21 is an English major with minors in Spanish and biology. While biology is her main interest, her Spanish minor...
Number of students increases
The number of undergraduate first-year students from Puerto Rico has increased almost three-fold since 2009, from 7 in the class of 2012 to 19 in the class of 2022, according...
For many students from Puerto Rico, the upcoming semester break will be their first trip back home since Hurricane Maria devastated the island in late September.
Claudia Fuentes ’18 is focused on...
The hurricanes' effect on St. Joe’s students
Rodrigo Corral ’18, lost contact with his family at 8 a.m. on Sept. 20 when the eye of Hurricane Maria closed in on San Juan, Puerto Rico.
“I lost...
