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University drops mask mandate

Eddie Daou April 27, 2022

On April 21, three days after the indoor mask mandate in Philadelphia was reinstated, city officials confirmed they were ending the mandate after improving numbers for covid-19 hospitalizations and confirmed...

GRAPHIC: CASEY WOOD 23/THE HAWK

Pushing for the end of daylight saving

Eddie Daou April 5, 2022

​​Daylight saving time for 2022 began in Pennsylvania at 2:00 a.m. on March 13 and will end at 2:00 a.m. on Nov. 6. Why do we have daylight saving time? Daylight saving time first started with...

St. Joe’s commemorated Green Dot’s campus-wide launch with an event in Campion Student Center on March 4. PHOTO: KELLY SHANNON ’24/THE HAWK

St. Joe’s launches Green Dot program for students

Eddie Daou March 8, 2022

St. Joe’s launched its Green Dot program, a national bystander intervention program founded in 2006, for students on March 4. In the program, a “green dot” refers to a choice people have to use...

PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS 22

USS hosts town hall, discusses USciences merger

Eddie Daou February 22, 2022

St. Joe’s University Student Senate (USS) hosted a town hall meeting on Feb. 21 to discuss St. Joe’s pending merger with the University of Sciences, set to be finalized this summer. During the...

Caroline Ciuffreda and KJ Brown from Signature Consultants talk to Taylor Stokes ’22 and Christopher Maffuid ’23 at the fair.
PHOTO: KELLY SHANNON ’24/THE HAWK

St. Joe’s first reverse career fair

Eddie Daou February 16, 2022

St. Joe’s held its first Reverse Career Fair on Thursday, Feb. 10. The fair was planned by the Career Development Center. Kaleigh Cadogan ’24 helped plan through her position as the University Student...

The Barnes property is being renovated into the Frances M. Maguire Art Museum.
PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE HAWK

Renovations for new campus museum begin

Eddie Daou February 2, 2022

Renovations are underway for next year’s opening of the Frances M. Maguire Art Museum, which will be housed in the former home of the Barnes Foundation on Lapsley Lane. In 2018, the university...

Students walk through Mandeville Hall, one of the buildings where students are expected to wear KN95, KF94, or N95 masks. PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS 22/THE HAWK

Omicron variant prompts stricter mask requirement

Eddie Daou January 26, 2022

The spring semester began with new masking requirements, and free masks, as a new covid-19 variant, omicron, caused a surge in cases across the country. All members of the university community could...

Seboni is the only undergraduate international student of the 71 who study at St. Joe’s who cannot go home.
PHOTO: KELLY SHANNON ’24/THE HAWK

U.S. travel restrictions change student travel plans

Eddie Daou December 7, 2021

Boemo Seboni ’25 was planning to return home to Botswana for winter break this year. That was until the U.S. imposed travel restrictions for non-U.S. citizens from Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi,...

Bagley (left) and Moore (right) speak at the event on Nov. 9. PHOTO: KELLY SHANNON ’24/THE HAWK

“Reentry and Redemption:” ‘Walkies’ film series screening promotes post-prison rehabilitation

Eddie Daou November 16, 2021

Shuja Moore and Sydia Bagley spoke to the St. Joe’s community about trauma and post-prison rehabilitation following a screening of “Healed People, Heal People,” the third episode of “Walkies,”...

Post Hall is home to the department of psychology at St. Joe’s.
PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE HAWK

Psychology 4+1 program pause changes student plans

Eddie Daou November 10, 2021

Diana Martinez ’23 was in the midst of completing her application to the psychology department’s 4+1 degree program when the department announced that program applications were paused.  Martinez...

GRAPHIC: CASEY WOOD ’23/THE HAWK

SOURCES: THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, PENNSYLVANIA DEPTARMENT OF STATE

Pennsylvania’s 2021 Municipal Elections

Eddie Daou October 26, 2021

Pennsylvania’s Municipal Election will be on Nov. 2. Pennsylvania residents can vote on different positions for Pennsylvania’s government positions, as well as deciding on four ballot questions. Here...

Reid Hartman ’23 said that his everyday activities are affected by long-haul covid-19, with one side effect being chest tightness. PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE HAWK

“Long-haulers;” When covid doesn’t go away

Eddie Daou September 28, 2021

Kevin Villec ’23 contracted covid-19 in February, but he never seemed to fully recover. His biggest complaint was shortness of breath.  “One day I was walking around the city, just a couple blocks,...

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