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Escort services are the main "touch points" between students and Public Safety officers on campus,
according to Grover. PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE HAWK

Students target Public Safety officers with racial slurs

Within the past month, two racial bias incidents directed at Public Safety officers have been reported. According to an email from University President Mark C. Reed, Ed.D., a small group of male students...

Community Conversations: Racism at St. Joe’s

Community Conversations: Racism at St. Joe’s

Introduction Since the start of the fall 2019 semester, there have been three reported racial bias incidents on campus. In response to these reports, the St. Joe’s administration hosted a University...

Responsibility is on the students

Responsibility is on the students

The Hawk Staff November 5, 2019

What we all must do to address a racist culture The St. Joe’s administration hosted a university sponsored forum on Nov. 4 from 2 to 4 p.m. The forum was held in response to the most recent racial bias...

How to use white privilege

How to use white privilege

Regina Schliep November 5, 2019

White St. Joe’s students have an obligation I’m from a small town on the Jersey Shore, I’m white and I went to high school with not a single black person in a population just short of 400 students. One...

Carla Rodriguez ’20 of LSA serves students at Taste of the World. PHOTOS: Mitchell Shields ’22

St. Joe’s celebrates diversity at Taste of the World amid racial incidents

Zach Dobinson November 5, 2019

Taste of the World, a biannual feast catered by student diversity organizations on campus, returned to St. Joe’s once again on Oct. 31. Gathering in The Perch, nine student cultural organizations brought...

Isis Gill-Reid ’20, vice president of BSU, marches across McShain Bridge along with around 170 others in a Silent March for Solidarity on Oct. 28. PHOTO: LUKE MALANGA ’20/THE HAWK

Student calls Public Safety officer the n-word

A first-year student called a female African-American Public Safety officer the n-word some time on the morning of Oct. 24. In the evening on the same day, University President Mark C. Reed, Ed.D., sent an...

Letter to the Editor: Racist culture must change

Letter to the Editor: Racist culture must change

Adam Mullin October 29, 2019

To the Editor: I am frustrated. Dismayed. Angry. Confused. I do not understand how students can continue to have so little regard for others’ dignity. I am sick and tired of routinely having to respond...

Letter to the Editor: Actions need to match words

Letter to the Editor: Actions need to match words

College Democrats October 29, 2019

To the Editor: At St. Joe’s, everyone talks about the “magis.” This community quite literally defines itself as “men and women with and for others,” yet every semester, students of color are...

N-word discovered on students' whiteboard

N-word discovered on students’ whiteboard

The N-word was discovered Oct. 5 on a whiteboard of a suite door in LaFarge Hall, prompting a report of a bias incident to The Office of Public Safety and Security. The residents of the suite had written the...

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