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The Student News Site of St. Joseph's University

The Hawk News

The Student News Site of St. Joseph's University

The Hawk News

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‘Where can I be the most safe?’

Allie Miller, Editor-in-Chief April 24, 2024
Navigating support for LGBTQ+ students abroad
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Inclusion doesn’t ‘stop at the bathroom’

Allie Miller April 17, 2024
Trans inclusion advocacy group works to increase all-gender bathrooms on campus
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‘Pioneers of fashion’

Allie Miller April 10, 2024
LGBTQIA+ members signify identity by clothing choices
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‘St. Joe’s saved my life’: Supportive community sparks alum’s writing career

Allie Miller February 14, 2024

When David Jackson Ambrose, M.A. ’15 graduated from St. Joe’s Writing Studies Program after already having a career in social work, he had no idea what lay ahead. He didn’t expect this future:...

Students in the SJU Summer Program in Greece in 2019 on the Acropolis of Athens.
PHOTO COURTESY OF SUSAN CLAMPET-LUNDQUIST, Ph.D.

Study abroad office down to staff of one

Allie Miller February 7, 2024

St. Joe’s Center for International Programs (CIP), which supports study abroad programs for students, and faculty and staff leaders, is down to just one staff member. Tom Kesaris, director of the...

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Chest binding helps student feel at home in their body

Allie Miller February 7, 2024

I have spent much of my life simultaneously loving and hating that my large chest is the first thing many people notice about me. After coming out as bisexual in 2021 and changing my pronouns from...

Student gets served food in Wilson Dining Hall Dec. 14, 2023. The number of students using Wilson Dining
Hall was down about 60% in the fall 2023 semester. PHOTO: THE HAWK

University announces contingent plans to vacate additional UCity buildings

Allie Miller January 31, 2024

St. Joe’s students were informed Jan. 17 of the university’s contingent plans to vacate Wilson Student Center and Joseph W. England Library on the University City campus at the end of the 2024-25...

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2023 marks 50-year anniversary of removal of homosexuality from disorders handbook

Allie Miller December 6, 2023

Fifty years ago this year, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) made a historic decision to remove homosexuality from the second edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders...

Allie Miller ’24 on 13th Street Oct. 20.
PHOTO COURTESY OF ALLIE MILLER ’24/THE HAWK

‘Deep-seated racism in the Gayborhood’

Allie Miller November 29, 2023
Neighborhood history ignores queer people of color
Peoplehood Parade celebrates diversity

Peoplehood Parade celebrates diversity

Allie Miller November 1, 2023

Spiral Q, a Philadelphia-based arts organization, hosted the 23rd annual Peoplehood Parade and Pageant Oct. 28. Activist groups and community members marched in solidarity with people experiencing oppression...

GRAPHIC: MINDY CHOI ’25 /THE HAWK

National Coming Out Day is for everyone

Allie Miller October 11, 2023
A student’s experience discovering their sexuality and gender identity
Front entrance of Rashford Hall.
PHOTO: PAUL HENSON ’25/THE HAWK

Roaches in Rashford repelled

Allie Miller September 20, 2023

Chris Sletvold ’26 didn’t plan to start his sophomore year as the “designated killer” of cockroaches in his Rashford Hall apartment. When Sletvold, an orientation leader, moved in early to...

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