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Sean Maluchluw ’27 sings and plays guitar for attendees. PHOTO: MADELINE WILLIAMS ’26/THE HAWK

Students celebrate the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival

Tess Coary October 4, 2023

Students came together Sept. 29 to celebrate the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, participating in an evening filled with traditional activities, such as mooncake tasting, lantern building and student performances. This...

Asian Student Association (ASA) invites students to a night of board games and ramen noodles. GRAPHIC COURTESY OF ASA

Students gather for games, ramen

Kaylee Lynch April 15, 2023

The Asian Student Association (ASA) and the Tabletop Club joined forces to host a game night filled with board games, cards and ramen on March 24 on the Hawk Hill campus. Kenneth Chang ‘26, member...

Students paint mini lanterns as part of the Lunar New Year festivities.

USciences and St. Joe’s ASAs collaborate amid merge

Allie Miller May 4, 2022

In preparation for the June 1 merger between St. Joe’s and the University of the Sciences, leaders of the Asian Student Association (ASA) at St. Joe’s have been talking to their counterparts at the...

The Nafi Food Express food truck served Chicken Biryani,
Chicken Tikka Masala, Chana Masala and Samosa, which are all Indian foods.


PHOTOS: KEELY GALLAGHER ’25/THE HAWK

Taste of the World brings cultures together on campus

Brigid Bonner and Allison Kite November 10, 2021

Gabriela Lorenzo ’23 and Victoria Martinez ’23 were looking for a chance to embrace their own culinary culture and learn about others’ on campus. They found that chance at the Nov. 3 the Taste...

GRAPHIC: CASEY WOOD 23/THE HAWK

Increase in anti-Asian hate crimes impacts community

Cara Smith March 16, 2021

Christine Nasife ’22 fears for her mother’s safety.  Nasife’s mother was born and raised in China and later immigrated to the U.S. Now, with the increase in anti-Asian hate crimes across the country...

Nafi Food Express served Indian  at Taste of the World. PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE HAWK

Students celebrate food and culture at annual Taste of the World

Elaina Wall October 20, 2020

Students lined up on chalk marks, six feet apart, in front of four food trucks stationed in the various parking lots at the Wolfington Welcome Center, as they waited to taste Vietnamese, Indian, Mexican...

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...

Students in attendance got to enjoy fresh, handmade sushi. PHOTO: Daniel Remishevsky ’23

St. Joe’s comes together for a DIY sushi event

Casey Wood October 29, 2019

The Asian Student Association (ASA) and the Japanese Culture Club held their annual Sushi Night on Oct. 28 in Doyle Banquet Hall South. The event consisted of students not only making and eating sushi,...

Black Awareness Society photographed in the 1971 Greatonian yearbook. Mike Bantom is pictured in the second row,third from the left. PHOTO COURTESY OF SJU ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

Affinity groups essential to college experience

Alex Hargrave April 17, 2019

Black students attending St. Joe’s in the early 1970s created a student group called the Black Awareness Society (BAS), partly as a response to the growing civil rights movement. Mike Bantom ’73 was...

Members of the Asian Student Association at the Rocky steps (Photo courtesy of Megan Hartwell ’18).

Striving for diversity

Emily Graham February 13, 2018

The Asian Student Association celebrates culture. The Asian Student Association (ASA) is a Student Inclusion and Diversity organization which strives to celebrate Asian culture and educate students through...

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