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07/04/2024

On the first day she opened Kasi Pizza at the end of 2022, Makatleho (Anna) Maseko sold every one of the 80 pizzas she had prepared in her small kitchen.

Maseko operates Kasi Pizza from her garage-turned-pizza restaurant in the Black township of Mautse, which was created by the apartheid government under the Group Areas Act of 1950. It is the township’s only formal restaurant.

Kasi Pizza offers six kinds of pizza, including chicken, vegetable and mince, as well as burgers and fries and traditional African food like skopo (sheep’s head) and pap (maize meal). Diners sit outside under a steel awning to the right of the driveway.

Maseko has loved cooking since she was a child. She first entered the food industry washing dishes and waitressing, including at a restaurant across the highway in Rosendal. At Rosa Restaurant, a head chef noticed Maseko’s cooking and promoted her to a line chef.

“He told me, ‘You do not belong where you are,’” Maseko said. “‘Just follow your heart.’ Then I went to the kitchen and I never went back.”

Read the full story here: https://sjuhawknews.com/34455/showcase/township-pizza-spot-runs-on-hard-work-dreams/

📝 by Hannah Pajtis ’26/The Hawk and Lilli Dellheim M.A. ’25
📸 by Maximilian Murphy ’26

07/03/2024

After witnessing survivors of gender-based violence, substance abuse and child neglect struggle with a lack of adequate support from local and provincial government structures, Michèle Schiess found herself driven to create a place where women’s voices could be amplified.

Schiess, who previously worked in film and television production, launched Ma Tiger, a nongovernmental organization (NGO), on Women’s Day in August 2023. By then, Schiess, who has at least 20 years of experience in the NGO sector, had moved from Johannesburg to the rural Free State province to focus on regenerative farming, a form of agriculture that preserves soil based on ecological sustainability.

Ma Tiger aims to bring together women who have experienced trauma and help strengthen and inspire them to pursue systemic change.

“[The goal is] to put the power in people’s hands to make decisions about their future,” Schiess said. “So it’s about feeding the soul, finding what problems are around and then fundraising to realize those.”

Read the full story here: https://sjuhawknews.com/34457/showcase/listen-to-them-roar/

📝 by Kiley O’Brien ’25/The Hawk and Shekinah Davis ’24
📸 by Maximus Fisher ’25

07/03/2024

When his dog, Foster, was hit by a car, Josia Maseko thought he might lose his beloved pet.

Maseko, who lives in the Black township of Mashaeng in South Africa, took his injured pet to Cluny Animal Trust, a veterinary welfare organization in the nearby town of Fouriesburg, located in the eastern part of the Free State province. The veterinary team operated on Foster, who eventually recovered from his injuries.

“We didn’t have money at that time,” Maseko said. “So they helped us. Without them, I would have lost big boy.”

Like others in the township, Maseko, who has two other dogs, Pepsi and Lola, relies on Cluny to provide his dogs with vaccinations, checkups and dipping treatments for tick and flea protection.

The need is enormous. South Africa has the highest unemployment rate in the world, and over half of its citizens live at or below poverty levels. Pet owners, with love to give amid these hardships, rely on organizations like Cluny for help.

Read the full story here: https://sjuhawknews.com/34441/showcase/vets-provide-low-cost-care-to-township-pets/

📝 by Anna Kalafatis ’22, M.A. ’24/The Hawk and Zach Podolnick ’26/The Hawk
📸 by Zach Podolnick ’26/The Hawk

06/27/2024

In the shadow of a multi-story office building, eight men emerge from a small wooden cabin at 4 a.m. each Monday through Thursday. They don reflective jumpsuits and head to the streets to gather discarded plastics, aluminum cans, paper and glass.

At the end of their workday, they will return to their camp in Parktown, a suburb on the northern end of Johannesburg, having collected just over one ton of recycled materials from residential and industrial garbage bins placed outside homes and businesses. On Fridays, the men sort their haul.

In South Africa, these men, known as “reclaimers” or “waste pickers,” are responsible for 80%-90% of recycling management in Johannesburg and across the country. They are not employed by municipalities, which are widely criticized for not adequately funding or prioritizing waste management, including recycling operations.

Instead, the reclaimers have organized themselves, said Sifiso Gumbi, a former reclaimer who oversees recycler relations for the nonprofit Urban Surfer South Africa.

Located along the busy M1 highway, the reclaimer camp where the eight men sleep and sort their recyclables is the first of its kind in South Africa, according to Gumbi.

Read the full story here: https://sjuhawknews.com/34408/showcase/reclaiming-dignity/

📝 by Anna Kalafatis ’22, M.A. ’24/The Hawk
📸 by Zach Podolnick ’26/The Hawk

06/25/2024

When browsing the young adult section of Book Circle Capital, readers won’t come across J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” or Suzanne Collins’ “The Hunger Games.” Instead, they’ll find books like Loyiso Mkize’s “Kwezi,” a graphic novel about a South African teen superhero who saves a city resembling Johannesburg, and Refiloe Moahloli’s “You are Loved,” a picture book about an African family celebrating intergenerational love.

Sewela Langeni, owner of Book Circle Capital, located in Melville, a suburb in Johannesburg, is part of a push among independent bookstore owners to get South African literary works in South African bookstores.

Langeni said little attention is given to South African authors in major chain stores across the country, which sell largely Eurocentric and other international books. This lack of representation, Langeni said, is a result of the country’s history of racial marginalization, which attempted to repress South African voices.

“Our history with apartheid and colonialism, unfortunately, also determined the type of books that were being sold,” Langeni said. “It’s a pity that some chains are not following because there’s been a whole movement to decolonize content that people consume, even beyond South Africa.”

Read the full story here: https://sjuhawknews.com/34384/showcase/booksellers-strive-to-decolonize-literary-landscape/

📝 by Hannah Pajtis ’26/The Hawk
📸 by Zach Podolnick ’26/The Hawk

06/25/2024

On a chilly Sunday morning in early June, poet Rabbie Serumula stood under a lapa, a thatched roof pavilion, near the top of the Melville Koppies Nature Reserve, with an old American Western novel in hand.

“The Lonesome Gods,” one of Louis L’Amour’s many novels about the American frontier, belonged to Serumula’s father, who died in 2017. As he did with many of his books, Serumula’s father wrote a list in the back of the novel connected to passages he found worth noting: “Youth wonderful? P2,” “Reasoning P74” and “Passing knowledge P258,” among them.

“Everything is all there, like a bit of a constitution on how to live your life,” Serumula said. “The lessons that I have received are from crib notes that he had left there.”

For Serumula, who grew up in the township of Soweto, these annotations are life lessons — gifts from the single father who raised him and his younger sister.

The Melville Koppies seems like the last of a frontier itself. Located on the western edge of the city of Johannesburg, the Koppies is a Johannesburg City Heritage site. Dating back over three billion years, it is the last of Johannesburg’s ridges, the others destroyed after the discovery of gold in the late 19th century. The land consists of indigenous high grasses, flowers and hiking trails for visitors.

Tap the link in our bio to read the full story.

📝 by Kiley O’Brien ’25/The Hawk
📸 by The Hawk

06/24/2024

Twice a week, 19-year-old Oratile Makurube travels 45 minutes from her home in the township of Soweto to Randburg, a northern suburb of Johannesburg, to play soccer.

Like many suburbs in Johannesburg, Randburg’s playing fields and facilities are better than what is available in the townships, which were created for people of color during the apartheid era.

“We played a team from Soweto, and when they saw the facilities that we have here, a few of them approached me and asked me, ‘Coach, please, can we come and train with you?’” said Zane Abraham, head coach of the Ladies’ Pirates team and chairperson of the Pirates Football Club.

In South Africa, organized women’s soccer for African, Indian, and coloured or mixed race people emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a decade or more after white women began playing organized soccer. The apartheid era’s discriminatory laws toward anyone who was not white limited their access to opportunities, including sports.

As the apartheid regime began to be dismantled in the 1990s, women’s soccer grew. More women who were previously denied access to soccer joined organized teams.

But the disparity remains in terms of facilities and opportunities, especially for women.

Tap the link in our bio to read the full story.

📝 by Maximus Fisher ’25
📸 by Zach Podolnick ’26/The Hawk

05/23/2024

If you purchased an ad for your graduate, you can pick up a copy of The Hawk’s commencement magazine on St. Joe’s Hawk Hill campus. The magazine contains parent ads — it is not the commencement program.

Copies are available on the first floor of Mandeville Hall, inside both entrances to Campion Student Center and in Einstein’s Bagels in Merion Hall.

05/17/2024

If you bought an ad for your graduate, you can pick up your magazine outside Mandeville Hall. We will be handing out magazines before and after the ceremony until we run out.

Please note that these are not the commencement programs, the magazines contain ads for the graduates.

05/17/2024

The Hawk asked the Class of 2024 about their favorite professors. Here's a special thanks to the professors who made an impact on these students in their years at St. Joe's!

Design/Content: Emma Kelly '25, Hannah Ashcraft '25 and Tyler Goodwin '24

05/16/2024

The Hawk spoke to members of the Class of 2024 who have been roommates for four years. Thanks to all the roommate pairs for sharing their favorite parts about being roommates and why they’ve stuck together over the years.

Design/Content: Emma Kelly '25, Hannah Ashcraft '25, Tyler Goodwin '24 and Savannah Warner ’24

05/16/2024

The Hawk spoke to members of the Class of 2024 who have been roommates for four years. Thanks to all the roommate pairs for sharing their favorite parts about being roommates and why they’ve stuck together over the years.

Design/Content: Emma Kelly ‘25, Hannah Ashcraft ‘25, Tyler Goodwin ‘24 and Savannah Warner ’24

05/14/2024

The Hawk asked members of the Class of 2024 to submit their favorite photos with Barbelin Hall, the iconic building on St. Joe’s Hawk Hill campus. Completed in 1927, it was originally known as College Hall. In 1960, it was renamed for Felix J. Barbelin, S.J., the university’s first president. Thanks to Juliet Gentilucci, Julia Janis and Isabella Watrall for submitting photos.

Design/Content: Emma Kelly ‘25, Hannah Ashcraft ‘25 and Tyler Goodwin ‘24

05/07/2024

The university has named a new provost and senior vice president of academic affairs. Jean McGivney-Burelle, Ph.D., will officially begin in the role June 17.

President Cheryl A. McConnell, Ph.D., announced the appointment in a May 7 email to the university community.

McGivney-Burelle has been serving as dean of the College of Education at Idaho State University since July 2020, and was a professor within the mathematics program at the University of Hartford for 15 years prior.

McGivney-Burelle takes over from James Carter, Ph.D., who has been serving as interim provost since May 2023.

Carter will return to his role of dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Nathan Baird, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry, has been serving as interim dean during the 2023-24 year.

📸 Courtesy of Kevin Gfeller, assistant director of public relations in the Office of Marketing and Communications

05/07/2024

For the past 18 years of Natalie Nevins’ ’24 life, a soccer ball has always been at her feet.

From the moment Nevins could hold herself up on her two little legs, she was learning how to kick a ball in the smallest size pink Nike cleats Kicks N Sticks sold. As the daughter of a coach, she spent countless hours at the field watching and admiring her father’s high school soccer teams practice.

Yet, after playing 66 college games and starting 64 of those games during her time at St. Joe’s, Nevins somehow still finds herself wondering if she’s good enough.

With her infatuation with soccer came an insurmountable amount of pressure: pressure to get better every single day, to make her parents proud, to perform well for her teammates, to maintain straight A’s in school, to be the best version of herself at every game.

Tap the link in our bio to read the full column.

📝 by Natalie Nevins ’24/The Hawk
📸 Courtesy of Natalie Nevins ’24/The Hawk

05/06/2024

The women’s basketball Hawk mascot, Matthew Kirchgasser ’24, is retiring after two years of flapping. The Hawk sat down with Kirchgasser to ask about his time as the mascot.

Tap the link in our bio to read the full Q&A.

📝 by Zach Podolnick ’26 and Monica Sowinski ’26/The Hawk
📸 Courtesy of SJU Athletics

05/05/2024

It was simple. All La Salle’s baseball team had to do was win one game against St. Joe’s to secure a spot in the 2021 Atlantic 10 Conference tournament.

Just one win would put off the inevitable a little longer: the impending end of the Explorers’ baseball program.

But it wasn’t that easy. The Explorers entered the game May 22, 2021, after three straight losses to the Hawks. This was their final chance.

Tap the link in our bio to read the full story.

📝 by Mia Messina ’25/The Hawk
📸 by Leah Catlyn ’27/The Hawk

05/05/2024

REVIEW: “Challengers” is a romantic sports drama directed by Luca Guadagnino starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, with a screenplay by Justin Kuritzkes. “Challengers” follows Tashi, played by Zendaya, a former tennis professional-turned-coach, whose career ended after suffering a devastating loss. When her husband, Art, played by Faist, goes on a losing streak, she decides to sign him up for an amateur competition to help him bounce back. During the tournament, he faces off against his ex-best friend and Tashi’s ex-boyfriend, Patrick, played by O’Connor. Across the duration of the film, we learn about the toxic romantic history of the three characters while feeling the brunt of the competition between them on the court and during moments of intimacy. The movie is currently playing exclusively in theaters.

Tap the link in our bio to read the full review.

📝 by Kasheem Jefferson ’24/The Hawk
🎨 by Stephanie Savela ’25/The Hawk

05/05/2024

After being dormant since 2019, St. Joe’s record label, 1851 Records, is welcoming new artists from the St. Joe’s community with the goal of publishing an EP by the end of this semester.

1851 Records, an organization run by St. Joe’s students, began in 2008 originally distributing music community members recorded themselves. The organization worked with St. Joe’s artists and released their music through digital and physical mediums.

Since 2019, the group had been more focused on sponsoring events like open mic nights. Then Parker Hayden ’25 heard about 1851 Records from a friend.

Tap the link in our bio to read the full story.

📝 by Vincent Kornacki ’25/The Hawk
📸 by Madeline Williams ’26/The Hawk

05/04/2024

Anne Gutherman ’24 is the epitome of ambition.

A double major in studio art and English, Gutherman is a prolific storyteller through both her writing and artwork.

Gutherman’s series of illustrations, “Flies from a Long Way Off,” currently displayed in the Frances M. Maguire Art Museum’s senior art thesis exhibition is also the basis for one of Gutherman’s novels. She’s completed six of them in the last eight years. Gutherman’s seventh novel, her Honors Program thesis, is “Chalk Fairies,” a young adult murder mystery.

Tap the link in our bio to read the full story.

📝 by Juliet Menz ’24/The Hawk
📸 by Luke Sanelli ’26/The Hawk

05/03/2024

As a mixed race woman of Korean descent, Hannah Pajtis ’26 often felt like she had been viewed as different in her predominantly white hometown of York, Pennsylvania.

She rarely saw Korean culture, let alone Asian culture, represented or celebrated around her. And, despite being an advocate for Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) issues since high school, Pajtis hasn't felt as connected with her Korean heritage as she’d hoped.

Since moving to Philadelphia for college in 2022, she had wanted to confront these feelings and find more AAPI-focused spaces — and have. The 2024 Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival, hosted by the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia, seemed like a great opportunity to explore Japanese culture. To be clear, Japanese culture is very distinct from my ancestral Korean culture, but she wanted to explore it nonetheless.

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📝 by Hannah Pajtis ’26/The Hawk
📸 by Olivia Fisher ’26

05/03/2024

OPINION: As the self-proclaimed “world’s best employee” that Carter Karpinski ’24 is (he even made himself a mug that says that), he thought he would generously offer some tips so everyone else can attempt to compete with me. He thinks his title is pretty safe, but he’d still like to give others a chance to be the second-best employee.

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📝 by Carter Karpinski ’24/The Hawk
🎨 by Cara Halligan ’25/The Hawk

05/02/2024

OPINION: One of the most common places for Philadelphians to vacation is the Jersey Shore, where beachgoers can bask in the sun’s rays or cool off in the waves. In 2023, the Jersey Shore reportedly drew a crowd of 48 million visitors during the tourism season from June to August. The Jersey Shore typically generates over $40 billion and supports over 330,000 jobs each year, according to Terry Gallagher, a spokesperson for the NJ Division of Travel and Tourism. However, the Jersey Shore is eroding.

Tap the link in our bio to read the full column.

📝 by Nick Sanders ’24/The Hawk
🎨 by Cara Halligan ’25/The Hawk

05/02/2024

Students who want to transfer from Cabrini University to St. Joe’s this coming academic year will again be guaranteed admission and a tuition match as long as they are in “good standing” at Cabrini, according to the St. Joe’s website.

Cabrini announced June 23, 2023 that they would be closing in May 2024.

St. Joe’s welcomed 120 Cabrini transfer students in fall 2023 and is set to welcome additional students in fall 2024.

Five days after Cabrini’s announcement, St. Joe’s announced an agreement to match Cabrini’s tuition. The offer was extended to Cabrini students who transferred in spring 2024 or who will begin at St. Joe’s in fall 2024, said Kevin Gfeller ’20, assistant director of public relations for the Office of Marketing and Communications.

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📝 by Vincent Kornacki ’25/The Hawk
📸 by Madeline Williams ’26/The Hawk

05/02/2024

As the May 1 National College Decision Day approaches, delays and errors pertaining to the 2024-25 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) have forced students nationwide to evaluate their higher education plans without essential financial aid information.

While St. Joe’s official decision deadline for prospective students remains May 1, Liz Kennedy Walsh, senior vice president for enrollment management in the Office of Marketing and Communications, wrote in response to written questions from The Hawk, “We are committed to working with students beyond the May 1 deadline, as we know how challenging these delays have been for students and their families.”

St. Joe’s, like many institutions, has been attempting to assure prospective students while also dealing with delays that have prevented them from finalizing students’ financial aid offers. Experts warn these delays could cause significant enrollment declines.

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📝 by Luke Sanelli ’26/The Hawk
📸 by Stephanie Savela ’25/The Hawk

05/01/2024

Last chance to submit an ad for your graduate! Ads are due tonight at midnight.

Families of graduating students, make sure to submit messages and photos for your graduates to The Hawk Commencement Magazine by tomorrow at 5 p.m.!

Members of The Hawk staff will be handing out magazines at the May 16, May 17 and May 18 commencement ceremonies. There will also be copies available at The Hawk newspaper tent located inside Hagan Arena.

Click the link in our bio for more information and to submit your message.

05/01/2024

In the five years since St. Joe’s began offering gender-inclusive housing, interest has steadily increased. For some students, however, the option has often fallen short of their needs.

Louie Collins ’25, a trans man, opted for gender-inclusive housing before arriving on campus in fall 2021. But the initial selection process left him with so many unanswered questions.

“I didn’t know what building I was going to be put in. I didn’t know who my roommates were going to be,” Collins said. “And it was a whole thing to even tell them that I wanted to be in gender-inclusive housing.”

Gender-inclusive housing allows students of different gender expressions, gender identities or sexes assigned at birth to live together. All students who qualify for campus housing are eligible for gender-inclusive housing at St. Joe’s.

Gender-inclusive housing was first offered in fall 2019 and has been offered every semester since, Jessica Moran-Buckridge, Ed.D., associate dean of Residence Life, wrote in response to written questions from the Hawk. She said the Office of Residence Life worked with RAs, SJUPride and the Trans-Inclusion Working Group — which Moran-Buckridge was a part of at the time — to “complete benchmarking and research, and to make recommendations for the process that we use.”

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📝 by Allie Miller ’24/The Hawk
📸 by Allie Miller ’24/The Hawk
🎨 by Hannah Madeya ’24/The Hawk

05/01/2024

The Frances M. Maguire Art Museum partnered with the St. Joe’s Women’s Center to
host its first-ever Pink Party April 25. About 200 people attended the opening of the “Virgins, Goddesses and Barbie” exhibit on both floors of the museum.

The City Belles and the University Singers performed throughout the night. The main highlight of the event was a focus on St. Joe’s “Pink Pioneers,” women faculty members who excelled in their fields. Each Pink Pioneer gave a 100-second speech about being a woman in their field. Speakers included Laura M. Crispin, Ph.D., professor and chair of the economics department, and the first woman president of St. Joe’s, Cheryl A. McConnell, Ph.D.

McConnell spoke about how society tells women they’d be great leaders, “if only” women “leaned in,” “learned how to negotiate” or “smiled more.” McConnell’s answer to these suggestions were firm.

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📝 by Sophia Galante ’26
📸 by Leah Catlyn ’27/The Hawk

05/01/2024

St. Joe’s undergraduate summer classes are increasingly being offered online.

The Hawk compiled course listings from The Nest from 2016 through 2024 and found that in 2016, only about 39% of undergraduate courses were online courses, while in 2017, 2018 and 2019, the percentages were all above 40%.

In 2020, nearly all summer classes were held online due to covid-19, and undergraduate summer classes have remained majority online through 2021 (about 72%), 2022 (about 61%), 2023 (about 66%) and 2024 (about 71%).

Even with the increase in online offerings, there are no plans to be entirely virtual in the summer, wrote James Carter, Ph.D., interim provost, in response to written questions from The Hawk.

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📝 by Savannah Warner ’24, Ally Engelbert ’25 and Kiley O’Brien ’25/The Hawk
🎨 by Ally Engelbert ’25/The Hawk

04/30/2024

When Katie Carnaghi was hired as an athletic trainer at the University of Mary Washington (UMW) in 2022, she wanted to tackle an issue at the forefront for student-athletes: their mental health.

Having been a student-athlete who struggled with mental health herself, Carnaghi was adamant about giving athletes an opportunity to speak about their mental health. She modeled her idea on “Duke’s Let’s Talk,” a program in place at James Madison University, where Carnaghi completed her master’s degree in athletic training.

After working with Krista Rodgers, then a senior volleyball player and co-president of UMW’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), Carnaghi created “Eagles Let’s Talk.” The open-discussion, round-table program meets once a month for about 60 to 90 minutes and covers an array of topics surrounding mental health and student-athlete success.

Tap the link in our bio to read the full story.

📝 by Natalie Nevins ’24/The Hawk
📸 Courtesy of Katie Carnaghi

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