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The Hawk News

The Student News Site of St. Joseph's University

The Hawk News

The Student News Site of St. Joseph's University

The Hawk News

Fernando Acosta ’22 releases music on SoundCloud.  PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE HAWK

Student gains attention after releasing music online

Nenagh Sheehan November 10, 2020

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,...

Students gather in the Chapel of Saint Joseph on Jan. 19 for a Spanish Mass where they said prayers for those affected by the recent earthquakes in Puerto Rico. PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE HAWK

Puerto Rico earthquakes impact students

Carly Calhoun January 21, 2020

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 ’21 in Bellarmine Hall, where she takes classes in the modern and classical languages department. PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS 22/THE HAWK

A piece of home

Emily Graham March 19, 2019

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...

Natalia Velazquez ’21 poses in her hometown in Ponce, Puerto Rico (Photos courtesy of Velazquez).

Puerto Ricans find home at St. Joe’s

Gavin O'Reilly October 30, 2018

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...

Returning to Puerto Rico

Marissa Purnell December 5, 2017

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...

Unidos por Puerto Rico

Unidos por Puerto Rico

Vivian Milan October 5, 2017

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...

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