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John Lewis concludes MLK 50th Anniversary King's mentee tells young activists to speak up CHARLEY REKSTIS ’20 News Editor U.S. Rep John Lewis (D-GA) received a standing ovation from the 1,000 St. Joe’s students, faculty, staff and visitors when he walked into the Michael J. Hagan Arena to close out the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech at St. Joe’s.

The MLK 50th Anniversary Commemoration planning committee invited John Lewis to speak because of his involvement with King during the Civil Rights Movement 50 years ago.

"If it weren't for Martin Luther King Jr., I don't know what would have happened to me," Lewis said.

Randall Miller, Ph.D., professor of history, co-chair of the committee, said John Lewis was the first person they all thought of when deciding who to invite for the commemoration.

“The idea is that we should have a capstone day in some way, and that capstone should be somebody who knew King in the sense that they shared King’s values and had the conscience, the convictions, and the credibility that King had,” Miller said.

James Mingle ’68, the student president who invited King back in 1967, thought this was the perfect way to end the commemoration.

“His reflections of his relationship and his mentor Dr. King, were wonderful and then to tie into, as Martin Luther King said, back in October 1967, he said, ‘We’ve come a long way, but we have a long way to go,’” Mingle said.

Former mayor of Philadelphia Wilson Goode credits the fact that he was the city’s first African American mayor to the work of King and Lewis during the Civil Rights Movement.

“John Lewis is my hero,” Goode said. “If it were not for John Lewis and Martin Luther King Jr., I would not have been mayor of Philadelphia.”

Before he became a Georgia congressman in 1986, Lewis joined the civil rights struggle in 1965 after he wrote a letter to Martin Luther King Jr. about his application to Troy State College, now Troy State University.

“With John Lewis it’s a really nice way to have someone who was there with Dr. King as a young activist too,” said Monica Nixon, Ed.D., Assistant Provost for Inclusion and Diversity, co-chair of the committee. “He was a student while he was alongside King. When he first started thinking about civil rights and his own involvement with that, he was not unlike many of our students.”

Taicha Morin ’20 the student speaker at the event, addressed similar themes as Lewis, telling students that now is the time to change what they do not like.

“We live in a time where a lot of people are standing up against injustices,” Morin said. “It feels like the rebirth of MLK time but I don’t mean protest-wise. This is a revolutionary time to be alive as a young person given all the things that are happening in our country and the world and especially as a person of color.”

Lewis told the story of when he heard about King, Rosa Parks and other activists on the radio during the Civil Rights Movement who inspired him to get into “good trouble” and “necessary trouble.”

“Today all across America, young people, students, religious leaders, women are getting in trouble,” Lewis said. “My philoso-

phy is very simple, when you see something not right, not fair, not just, give a moral obligation to stand up, to say something, to say something and not be quiet.”

Tyler Jackson ’18 met Lewis after the speech and said that it was an honor to shake his hand and was a very humbling experience to learn about how to be a part of the change in the future.

“I think it was, to me, very effective, very powerful, very empowering especially as an underrepresented student on this campus,” Jackson said. “If Congressman Lewis can do what he did by making it possible for me to be here by taking the beatings and floggings, then I know that I can do the same and be that beacon light of hope for the next group of people that are going to come in after me.”

Lewis encouraged students and young activists like Morin and Jackson to stand up for their beliefs and to challenge injustice.

“I think students all over America, when you see something, you organize, you speak up, you speak out,” Lewis said. “But whatever you do, do it orderly, peaceful, and non-violent fashion.”

A group of 4th grade students from Friends' Central School also heard Lewis’s social justice message. Their teacher, Lauren Tedesco, brought the class on a field trip to hear Lewis speak.

“In the winter we do a civil rights study within the United States, so we have kind of tried to expand from Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks and learn about other people and other figures as wel. So when this name came up we had to get here,” Tedesco said. “It was really nice. It was open to the community and

schools and everything.”

When King spoke in 1967, the Field House filled with both members of the St. Joe’s community, and the community surrounding St. Joe’s. The committee wanted this to happen again with Lewis.

“The events here are not just to be insular, the idea was this is a way that we can understand past ourselves and our obligations, but also a way again of connecting with our community in the area, so there were some members of the community that were actually on the committee,” Miller said.

Dee Dukes ’03, an executive board member of the Wynnefield Residents Association, said Lewis’s speech was inspiring.

“We can make so many changes, and we have to do something,” Dukes said. “And we have to move forward with the legacy and the dreams of Dr. Martin Luther King.”

St. Joe’s president Mark C. Reed, Ed.D., said he was excited to have the community hear about Lewis’ stories and lessons.

“For our community to have the opportunity to hear from somebody who has lived through so much of American History, both the dark parts as well as some of the good parts, is really relevant,” Reed said.

Lewis closed out his speech by telling the story of when he heard King was assassinated in April 1968, and then about the death of Robert F. Kennedy, two months later.

“If these two men had lived, our nation and our world would be better,” Lewis said.

“All of us, each one of us, have an obligation, a mission and a mandate to pick up where Dr. King and Robert Kennedy left off. We can do it and we must do it.”

Left: Dr. Mark C. President (left) presents John Lewis the Saint Joseph's University's President's Medal for Excellence. Right: Lewis on stage during his speech (Photo by Luke Malanga ’20).

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Left: John Lewis addresses the crowd in Michael J. Hagan Arena. Right: Student Senate President Jason D'Antonio ’19 (left) speaks to James Mingle ’68 who was the student body president that invited Dr. King to campus in 1967.

Left: Taicha Morin ’20, who delivered a reflection before Lewis' speech, on stage during Lewis' speech. Right: John Lewis (left) with Dr. Mark C. Reed.

Left: John Lewis (left) shakes hands with Dr. Mark C. Reed. Right: Daniel Joyce S.J., sitting alongside Taicha Morin ’20 and Dr. Mark C. Reed, raises his hands in praise during John Lewis’ speech.

Left: Alim Young ’19 looks on during Lewis’ speech. Middle: Students in the audience during Lewis' speech. Right: Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney (left) next to former Philadelphia mayor Wilson Goode (Photos by Luke Malanga ’20 and Ana Faguy ’19).

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Public Safety was notified by a St. Joe's student in regards to person(s) unknown throwing eggs at her personal vehicle which was parked near the Pennbrook Apartments. No police report at this time.

Residence Life notified. Incident under investigation.

Public Safety was notified regarding an odor of marijuana coming from outside of Xavier Hall. Public Safety officers responded to the area. No signs of drugs or drug paraphernalia. Community Standards notified.

Public Safety was notified regarding a confiscation of alcohol from a St. Joe's student inside the Villiger Residence Center. Residence Life notified. Community Standards notified.

Public Safety was notified regarding a St. Joe's student being assaulted by person(s) unknown near his off campus apartment in the Manayunk area. The student sustained facial injuries. Philadelphia police are investigating the incident.

Public Safety was notified by an area resident regarding students being loud in the 5400 block of Woodcrest Avenue. Public Safety officers, along with the Philadelphia Police notified and responded into the area. Community Standards notified.

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Public Safety was notified by an area resident regarding students being loud in the 2200 block of N. 57th Street. Public Safety Officers, along with Philadelphia police, were notified and responded into the area. Community Standards notified.

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ELECTION 2018 Poll shows more young people planning to vote than ever ALEX MARK ’20 Assistant News Editor In a recent national poll by the Harvard Institute of Politics (IOP), more young voters reported that they will definitely be voting in this year’s elections than in the past two midterm years.

Among those surveyed, 51 percent of Democrats said they would definitely vote, while 36 percent of Republicans said the same.

These numbers illustrate a dramatic shift from the 2014 midterm elections, where young Republicans tended to be more enthusiastic about voting, according to The Harvard Crimson, Harvard University’s student newspaper.

The Crimson attributes this rise in young voters to President Trump’s falling approval ratings among millennials and Gen Xers. In addition, recent political movements such as #MeToo and student activism following the Parkland school shooting have allowed young Democrats to feel like they are able to speak up.

The Crimson also reported that, as of

51% Democrats

last semester, 25 percent of students surveyed during the fall semester approved of the Trump administration, while 72 percent disapproved.

Young people express high rates of distrust in other major institutions, according to The Crimson. Only 17 percent of people under 30 said that they trust Congress all or most of the time, while 43 percent say the same about the U.S. Supreme Court.

Social media trust rates have fallen as well. As a result of the Facebook data breach, around 25 percent say they distrust Facebook all or most of the time.

College and university administrations, however, have managed to maintain high rates of trust, with 61 percent of young people saying they trust them all or most of the time.

Nationally, 27 percent of millennials and 36 percent of Gen Xers approve of Trump’s job performance, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. In contrast, 44 percent of baby boomers and 46 percent of the silent generation approve.

Pew Research Center defines the “si-

36% Republicans

Young voters would definitely vote 36% Gen Xers

Approve of Trump’s 27% Millennials current job 44% Baby Boomers performance 46% Silent Generation

lent” generation as anyone born from 1925-1945, the baby boomers as anyone from 1946-1964, Generation X as anyone from 1965-1980, and millennials (“Generation Y”) as anyone born from 1981-1996.

All people born from 1997 on are known as “Generation Z.” People 60 and older dominate the electorate in every election for both midterm and presidential election years since 1992, and have tended to vote more heavily Republican.

On the other hand, young people as a demographic tend to lean more heavily Democratic, according to Pew statistics. If turnout among young voters, specifically millennials, is high this year, it is possible that the Republican party could suffer some serious losses in Congress.

The actual outcome of the election depends on who shows up to the polls, not who says they will. In the past, millennials and Gen Xers were notoriously bad at turning up to vote: people in these generations were commonly labeled as “low propensity” voters because their age group voted at a lower rate than any other

generational group, according to a report

by PolitiFact.

The political turning point? The 2016 presidential election.

A Pew survey from 2017 revealed that Gen Xers and millennials actually outvoted baby boomers and prior generations combined in 2016. Out of the two, however, Gen Xers cast more votes, making 2016 their current peak year.

Pew states that the difference between the generations is likely to narrow as time goes on because, as generations age, their voter turnout rates generally becomes more closely matched to that of the previous generation.

In Pennsylvania, the deadline for voter registration passed on April 16. Anyone who has recently turned 18 and has not yet registered to vote must wait until the next election cycle, the 2020 presidential elections, to vote.

An IOP poll focusing on the attitudes of young people toward the overall state of U.S. politics is due to be released later this week. The upcoming poll will help to further define the political landscape of this demographic.

17% people under 30 trust Congress all or most of the time 43% people under 30 trust the U.S. Supreme Court all or most of the time Gen Xers and millenial votes in 2016 election

Baby boomers and prior generation votes in 2016 Graphic by Kaitlyn Patterson ’20.

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What are we giving up?

Swapping privacy for convenience Editor in Chief Ana Faguy ’19 Managing Editor Nick Mandarano ’18 Copy Chief Rose Weldon ’19 Faculty Adviser Shenid Bhayroo Contributing Adviser Jenny Spinner Copy Editor Hayley Burns ’20 Copy Editor Kaila Mundell-Hill ’20 News Editor Charley Rekstis ’20 Assistant News Editor Alex Karpinski ’20 Assistant News Editor Alex Mark ’20 Editorial Page Editor Annie Clark ’19 Assistant Opinions Editor Dominique Joe ’19 Lifestyle Editor Amber Denham ’18 Assistant Lifestyle Editor Emily Graham ’20 Sports Editor Alex Hargrave ’20 Assistant Sports Editor Nick Karpinski ’21 Photo Editor Luke Malanga ’20 Assistant Photo Editor Matt Barrett ’21 Creative Director Kaitlyn Patterson ’20 Social Media Manager Kelly Smith ’19 Assistant Social Media Manager Erin Castellano ’20 Business Manager Jarrett Hurms ’18 Advertising Manager Richard Bell ’18 Distribution Manager Addie Guyer ’19

Last month, news broke that Cambridge Analytica, a third party data analytics firm based in London, had gained access to the data of approximately 87 million Facebook users via an application called “thisisyourdigitallife,” which users volunteered to access, but which unbeknownst to them was collecting and storing data about them and about their friends.

The type of information collected by the firm was reportedly limited to a user’s likes, networks, and location--information that could be used to develop a profile predicting who a user may be inclined to vote for, which could in turn be sold to political campaigns looking to create targeted ads for users likely to favor their candidate.

The data leak provoked immediate outrage, resulting in Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg being called to testify in front of the Senate Commerce and Judiciary committee on April 10, where he responded to many longstanding concerns about privacy on the site. The larger conversation about privacy on the social networking giant seems to have evolved from the early, parental-like concerns about “stranger danger” to questions of Facebook treating its users as a commodity.

In 2017, Facebook reportedly made $40 billion from ads alone, the majority of which were targeted ads. Part of the “terms and conditions” users agree to when they sign up for Facebook allows the platform to share user information with advertisers, which then curate ads based on information such as age, gender, location, and “likes.”

Facebook has an intimidatingly long terms and conditions agreement, which the majority of users do not bother to read.

Aside from agreeing to Facebook’s sharing of information with advertisers, users also agree to Facebook allowing academic institutions and private firms to access user data in the name of research when they sign the terms and conditions agreement.

The inaccessible legalese of Facebook’s

terms and conditions reflects the murkiness of what it is they actually do with our data outside of their purported mission of “bringing the world closer together.” Facebook, and similar platforms, operate in a loosely regulated sector that now controls an unclearly conceptualized “cloud” of billions of users’ personal data. Many users simply don’t understand what data of theirs Facebook can sell or give away, or what the potential long-term ramifications of that power could be.

Of course, it is probably not coincidental that Facebook’s terms and conditions are so difficult to understand; most people would probably not allow a tech corporation to sell their personal information to advertisers, with no monetary benefit to the them, if they understood what was happening.

Many college-aged students have been on Facebook for years; it’s become a staple of our social environments. At St. Joe’s, many student clubs and organizations utilize the Facebook events feature to promote their organization’s on-campus programming.

Without Facebook, it is unlikely we would know when many events were happening on campus. Facebook’s Messenger app makes it easier to keep in touch with group project partners and people from clubs.

However, even one privacy scandal after another may not be enough to get our generation to stop using Facebook completely. Knowing that people can access basic information about us (where we go to school, our birthdays, where we’re from), may be part of the “new normal” ushered in by the age of social media. And even if we were to stop using Facebook, our dependency on interconnectedness and the convenience of apps like Messenger would make us susceptible to the next social media website like Facebook.

Facebook was one of the first of many social media companies to convince us to post our basic personal information online in exchange for keeping in touch with a wide

range of people from all areas of our lives.

Most apps with a broad user base now include some aspect of social media sharing, whether they traffic in music streaming like Spotify, or in the exchange of money like Venmo. These services, unlike Facebook, are more utilitarian in their primary purpose. It’s difficult to find a college student now who doesn’t use Venmo to split rent payments or dinner checks with friends, in exchange for the record of those payments being visible on their Venmo profiles.

While Facebook may no longer be at the forefront of how we interact online, it has given us a new standard of online interaction that doesn’t seem to be going away.

As students transitioning into a world that is increasingly technology-based, we may not be able to give up social media, but we do need Facebook to start becoming more transparent in what data it stores on its users, and to whom that information is given. However, we also have a responsibility to know how the apps we use everyday store our information; doing our own research is important for being active participants in a world of continuous technological and social change.

Facebook has a feature that allows users to download all of the data the social networking site has stored on them; we recommend you utilize this feature. You may be surprised how much data Facebook has accumulated from your profile, no matter how little you use the platform.

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Opioid Issue Matt Haubenstein ’15 M.A. ’18 Editor Emeritus Cover Photo Caption: Jena Peters holds up a picture of her and her brother Zack Peters from when they were children on the beach. Zack died from an overdose in 2017.

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REP. JOHN LEWIS EDITION JOHN LEWIS’ SPEECH After commemorating the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s visit to campus, it was interesting to hear from someone who knew King personally. The congressman gave a powerful speech that reinforced King’s message of social justice.

VISITS FROM ALUMNI Lewis’ speech was important not only to the current St. Joe’s community, but to alumni as well. Many alumni were in attendance, including some who were present for King’s visit. It’s always empowering to see past and present students come together for such a notable event in St. Joe’s history.

TAICHA MORIN’S ’20 SPEECH Taicha Morin ’20 was the only student to speak at the event. Her eloquent words reached all generations, relating King’s and Lewis’ messages to our current world. We commend her for her eloquence and poise while delivering a fantastic speech.

POOR TIMING We understand the time constraints of Rep. Lewis’ own schedule, but the timing of the event wasn't particularly conducive to students’ schedules. Most major events on campus are held during free period, allowing for more flexibility in student’s schedules. This event was scheduled for 10 a.m. on a Monday, making it difficult for students to attend due to classes.

LOW ATTENDANCE Although tickets were sold out, many seats in Hagan Arena remained open. Whether this was due to the inclement weather or the inconvenient time, it was unfortunate that many were not able to attend this noteworthy event.

THE EVENT FELT TOO SHORT The opportunity to have someone as illustrious Rep. John Lewis on our campus is seming once in a lifetime. The fact that he came thirty minutes before speaking and left soon after he was done didn't leave us enough time to really get our questions answered and comments acknowledged. It was a great event, we just wished that he had stayed a little longer.

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The Job Hunt: Five tips from the field What you should know when looking for a job

ANTHONY PAPARO ’18 Guest Columnist One of the hardest things to do while still in college is to find a job or an internship. The Career Development Center here at St. Joe’s does a fantastic job of preparing students through its career fair prep, resumé reviews, various workshops and walk-in opportunities. However, I feel there are some things only the experience of the job hunt taught me, and so I will try to pass them along to you.

1. Glassdoor.com is your friend.

Glassdoor is basically the Yelp of looking for a job. You can type in a company and receive reviews of every aspect of that company that you’re looking for: company culture, the advantages and disadvantages of working there, and even what the job might pay you.

I strongly recommend looking at this before or immediately after applying to a position, it will save you the time of going to interview for a job that you actually have no business doing or no desire to do. It will also give you ideas for potential questions to ask an employer as you try to figure out which reviews are on the more honest side, and which reviews are from people who are discontent from their time at the company.

2. Look for more than “a job.”

It’s late April and if you’re reading this article, you might not have a job yet. As you begin to hit a more desperate phase, your standards for the job drop dramatically to the point where you just need a position and don’t care who it’s with or what you’re doing exactly.

This is a recipe for disaster. While you are in a bad situation, don’t screw yourself over further by taking a position that you are going to be miserable doing. Still take the time to really parse through different companies and positions and get a strong idea of what you are getting into.

job may not have met your initial standards, or maybe you realized things about yourself you didn’t even know and that's okay.

Take the time to learn what you liked about doing the job and what you didn’t like about the job, and then make sure to apply that to your future pursuits. Your opportunities are not set in stone, use them to learn about yourself and what you like and do not like to do.

4. Know yourself and what drives you.

What are you really looking for in a job?

Is it career advancement? Solid pay? A great company culture? Whatever it is, find what is most important to you and hold out for it.

Knowledge is truly power, and it will help give you the power to find a job that you'll actually want to get out of bed in the morning to go do.

3. It’s okay to not like your job.

Sometimes it will feel when you ask around to others about their experiences that everyone had a wonderful time at their job or internship over the summer.

For some people, that’s absolutely true, but very few people are going to share with you the horrors of the job or the days they really struggled. If you don’t like it, that’s okay. The

For me, I really wanted a job in Center City Philadelphia, and I turned down opportunities outside of Philadelphia that didn’t really work for me until I found something I was really excited for.

It is scary to say no and turn things down.

The Career Development Center constantly advises students to “step outside their comfort zone,” which does lead to great opportunities

sometimes, but your comfort zone is your comfort zone for a reason. If you know yourself, you’ll know what’s right for you.

5. Ask questions.

There are such things as stupid questions, but there are few bad questions to ask a potential employer. Come into any interview with a predetermined list of questions, but also be prepared to listen and question what you are being told. You are a commodity that a company is trying to scoop up and utilize to further their potential. They will put their company in the best possible light possible, just as you are trying to put your best foot forward.

Ask your interviewer about the challenges of the position that you would be facing in the first few months. Ask what they would change about the job. If something sounds suspect, have them explain it. Your suspicions will either be confirmed or put to rest. If something confuses you, don’t be content to walk out of an interview without knowing the answer. Interviewers like when you ask questions; it shows that you are inquisitive and really demonstrates interest by thinking hard about the position.

Knowledge is truly power, and it will help give you the power to find a job that will make you want to get out of bed in the morning.

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Kensington through a local lens Photographer’s thoughtful portrayal of the opioid epidemic ALEX HARGRAVE ’20 Sports Editor Philadelphia-based photographer Jeffrey Stockbridge spoke about his decade-long project documenting the opioid crisis in Kensington, North Philadelphia, during a guest lecture in the Cardinal Foley Center on April 11.

Stockbridge was invited by Kelly O’Malley ’20, Julia Gray ’19, Cailyn Charlesworth ’19 and Eliza Rocco ’20 as part of a project for their Civic Media course. The course explores how people engage with social issues through media, and Stockbridge stood out to Charlesworth and her group members as someone who did this effectively in his project photographing people who with substance use disorder.

“Our professor talked about Jeffrey [Stockbridge] in class, and we thought the opioid crisis would be a good subject to focus on along with how people engage in that issue through different forms of media,” Charlesworth said. “He [Stockbridge] is a photographer, he does audio, he makes video, so we invited him.”

Rocco said they were also impressed by Stockbridge’s ability to tell people’s stories in a respectful manner.

“Jeffery’s work really respects and honors each individual’s life experience,” Rocco said.

“He has been able to put [their life experiences] into a project that allows each individual to tell their own story through their portrait, written words and spoken words.”

Stockbridge said photos that accompany good writing in stories that report about the

Jeffrey Stockbridge's photo book "Kensington Blues" (Photo courtesy of Jeffrey Stockbridge).

opioid epidemic are often problematic, and that media outlets that choose more striking photos of people using or overdosing limit non-user’s ability to relate to the users.

“My goal is to humanize people rather than dehumanize them,” Stockbridge said.

“There are a number of elements in my work that involve a collaborative effort with subjects to tell a story.”

J. Michael Lyons, Ph.D., assistant professor of communication studies, teaches the Civic Media course and said he instills in students the idea that media-makers shape how

people view social problems.

“I think the way we see these people is the way we treat them,” Lyons said. “Image begets policy to a certain extent. It’s important to understand who these people are and that they’re humans and deserving of some love and understanding as well as help.”

Stockbridge portrays the humanity behind drug use, according to O’Malley.

“He sheds light on the opioid epidemic that gives these people a story and identity,” O’Malley said. “There are a lot of people who photograph the opioid epidemic by showing

actual heroin use, people shooting up, needles. Jeffrey Stockbridge gives more of an identity to it by showing the people who use rather than the actual using.”

Stockbridge works with a large format film camera to make his portraits, and he records audio and takes photos of written notes that people show him. His photography process often requires a time to set-up and get the camera ready for the portrait.

According to Stockbridge, the time between deciding to photograph the subject and taking the photo is often when people relax and share their stories.

The time he spends with the people he photographs is what Gray finds so powerful about his work.

“In his photography, you can just tell the photos he takes are so personal,” Gray said.

“He gives his subjects a chance to talk about themselves and get comfortable with him.”

Stockbridge said his appearance also plays a role in earning people’s trust.

“In Kensington, I don’t look that much different from some of the people I photograph,” Stockbridge said. “[And] I just like talking to strangers, I love getting to know people.”

Lyons considers work like Stockbridge’s to be a possible catalyst for policy change on societal issues like the opioid epidemic.

“Opioid addiction is this persistent social problem that we have not been able to figure out as a culture,” Lyons said. “The charge to the students is, how do people who make media provide a window into these social problems with the idea that we can then more easily solve them.”

University offers substance free housing New residence option for students in recovery

CHARLEY REKSTIS ’20 News Editor Students who are active in recovery have the option to live in substance-free housing on campus beginning in the fall of 2018.

Although many details are still in the works, students were told in a March 5 email from the Office of Residence Life the housing will be open to interested students of all class years who show interest. The housing may be located in the Morris Quad townhouse community, the email stated.

“It would give them a chance to be themselves and meet others they can relate to,” said Katie Bean, assistant director of Student Outreach and Support and WADE. “The hardest thing for anyone is feeling alone. If you feel like no one else is knowing what you’re going through then that’s the hardest thing. If you know that you are not alone and people can relate to you then that’s huge.”

Recovery housing is an opportunity for students who are in recovery to live in a space with others who are also in recovery, so they are able to support one another. Other colleges in Philadelphia, like Drexel University and Temple University, offer this type of housing as well.

The Haven at Drexel is partners with The Haven at College, a national organization that provides recovery communities and programs to college campuses.

“It came about when I met my business partner when we were in sober living,” said Holly Sherman, B.A., LL.B, J.D., Co-CEO of The Haven at College. “We met a lot of young people who were recovering. They had to take time off of school to get sober and then they would gain some ability and sobriety and then go back to college in attempt to finish their degrees, and they ended up relapsing and coming right back to treatment.”

The Haven at Drexel provides students with recovery housing with a capacity of 10 students, a 12-step program, peer mentoring and confidential peer support.

“Almost everyone that is in the house right now says they don’t think they would have made it without going to The Haven,” said Bob Ackley, program director for The Haven at Drexel. “The Haven has been powerful because it has allowed them to move forward academically, and in their recovery through the support of the other residents, me, the house managers and the other recovery support that we help put in place for them."

Of the St. Joe’s students in recovery who work with WADE, so far two students have

showed interest in recovery housing. Others have already signed a lease to live off-campus, and another is comfortable with the living situation she is in.

Although she has an off-campus lease, Sara Fuller ‘19 said other students in recovery would benefit from the option to live with students like them.

“A lot of colleges are moving towards having some type of sober living,” Fuller said.

“I think that’s huge. For a lot of kids, that gives them a safe place to go. I got clean in the dorms and it was hard, being the only one.

I felt like the only one. I don’t know if I was or not, but it’s definitely hard. It just kind of makes it more challenging.”

Bean hopes that even if the space is not full of students, the university will still be able to follow through with the housing.

“What would be the worst was if we had some students interested and not be able to do it just because we don’t have a full space,” Bean said.

The process for applying to this living space will be somewhat similar to any other living space at St. Joe’s but with an agreement for sobriety along with it.

“There would be additional components with that agreement that have to do with sobriety,” Bean said. “We say no alcohol in the

halls, but there is a different level of that, so the agreement would look different.”

There will also be a live-in house manager called a Recovery Community Assistant living with the students in recovery. A job description is currently up on the SJUcareers site for a graduate or older student to fill the position.

“The Recovery Community Assistant will be the live-in professional overseeing the day-to-day operations that support students living in the Recovery House,” the job description states. “The Recovery Community Assistant will serve as a role model and leader within the community and must have a deep understanding and appreciation for a recovery lifestyle.”

Understanding is one of the most important outcomes from recovery housing, according to Bean “I like to call it recovery IQ,” Bean said. “It will increase the recovery IQ of everyone who is not in recovery, and it will get them more comfortable and approachable. It will help the whole campus be more open which in turn helps the students, because now they are in a space where there are more allies.”

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Sister recalls loss of her brother MATT HAUBENSTEIN ’15, M.A. ’18 Editor Emeritus

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ena Peters lives in the hills of Roxborough, a neighborhood northwest of Center City that runs along the Schuylkill in Philadelphia. The 24-year-old, who enjoys hiking, kayaking and venturing off into the nearby woods with her dog Zoey, grew up in Roxborough with her brother Zachary Peters.

It’s hard for Jena Peters to describe the kind of kid Zack was growing up, or even what he was like as a teenager. Mostly she remembers him getting high from the time he turned 13. Two years younger than Zack, Peters never considered her big brother a bad kid, but she didn’t consider him a good one, either.

As a teenager, Zack’s first run-in with drugs came in the form of marijuana. As he grew older, Zack began to struggle in school, where he simply “fell into the wrong crowd,” Peters said. Eventually Zack dropped out of high school. That’s when, according to Peters, “shit went south real fast.” He began distancing himself from his sister. When the siblings did talk, Zack shared fun stories from his drug-fueled escapades, without mentioning the drugs.

Before his death from a heroin overdose in 2017 at the age of 25, Zack sought treatment for his substance abuse disorder. With aid from his sister and mother, Zack entered nine different recovery programs across the nation between the years 2012 and 2017.

Zack’s cross-country rehab road trip over the years became the butt of many jokes between Peters and their mother. “‘I should just become a drug user just so I can travel,’” Peters remembered joking.

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eters believes a lot of Zack’s problems stemmed from their rough upbringing, particularly alleged abuse at the hands of their father. Their mother Vicky Peters played an active role in her children's lives, Peters said. The siblings also relied on their mother’s father, whom they called “Dziadziu,” the Polish word for grandfather. Dziadziu died when Jena Peters was 8 and Zack 10. Who is to say, Peters wondered, what their lives would have been like if Dziadziu lived longer to see Zack and Peters grow up? Perhaps he could have been there to keep Zack from going down the road that would ultimately lead to his death.

As Zack shifted from marijuana to pills to cheaper heroin, he became secretive and aggressive, “more of a dick,” really, Peters recalled. One time, in the early stages of his drug use, Peters discovered her brother had begun smoking cigarettes. This was before Peters herself began smoking, so she was concerned for her brother. When Zack left the house one day, she grabbed his pack of cigarettes and glued them all together. Peters then placed the cigarettes back in the pack and waited to see Zack’s reaction when he returned home.

“He beat the fuck out of me,” Peters recalled.

In addition to his mood swings, Zack also began taking part in criminal activity in the neighborhood. At first, he committed small offenses, such as defacing public property with graffiti, but he eventually moved on to more serious crimes with harsher punishments. He was arrested, locked up, and

charged with possession of narcotics and drug paraphernalia on a few occasions. The cost of these crimes varied from fines to community service, and some jail time once he was a repeat offender. Zack also began stealing to fuel his substance abuse disorder. At first, he started small. He stole money from his girlfriend, as well as from his mother.

He also stole from Peters, pawning her high school class ring and her iPad. He stole several jerseys worth about $10,000 from his father’s sports memorabilia collection. Another time he teamed up with a buddy to rob his neighbors’ house when the neighbors were away for the weekend.

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hen Zack stole Peters’ jewelry and iPad, she demanded he return them.

She did not care how he did it or why. She just wanted her things back.

At first Zack said he had “no idea” what had happened to them. Then he blamed the theft on a friend. Then he confessed but said he would get the items back.

“It was a lie on top of lie on top of lie,” Peters said.

With every lie Zack told and every crime he committed, Peters found her brother was turning into someone she no longer recognized. One evening, while Peters was lying on the couch and her parents were asleep up-

From time to time, Zack would ask Peters for money, too, or for a ride somewhere, usually to his dealer's house. She always refused.

Peters knew if she gave into his begging, she would only be enabling his drug abuse.

Still, at times, there were glimmers of hope. When he was not getting high or landing in jail, Zack would reach out to his mother for help, realizing his substance abuse disorder was getting the best of him. His mother would agree to help and send him off to a recovery center or help him join a 12-step program. After treatment, Zack would come out clean and attempt to rebuild his life. But soon, he would be back on the streets, looking to score some dope.

Peters grew up in the same household as Zack and said she understands why he would want to numb his demons. The “shit from childhood” was the main source of Zack’s problems, she believes. Peters attempted on many occasions to persuade Zack to see these problems as she did and deal with them in a different way, but he couldn’t, or wouldn’t or just didn’t.

In the last year of Zack’s life, the siblings began to reconnect. Zack was once more in recovery and taking Suboxone, a drug used to help users fight their dependency on other narcotics. The two talked on the phone more frequently and met occasionally for lunch or dinner to catch up.

Peters attempted on many occasions to persuade Zack to see these problems as she did and deal with them in a different way, but he couldn’t, or wouldn’t or just didn’t. stairs, Zack came home high.

“He was all types of fucked up. I don’t even know what the hell he was on,” Peters remembered.

Zachary stood in the family room in a daze, Peters recalled. It was like a different person had taken control of him. Peters attempted to speak to Zack to see what was wrong with him, but, like a phone ringing off the hook, there was no response on the other end.

Another night, after being out late, Zack came home, went straight up the stairs to the second floor of the Peters’ home, and headed for their parents’ room. Without saying a word, he opened the door, walked up to the bed and placed a knife to his father’s neck.

This action threw the house into a panic, and Vicky Peters called the police. Burned into Peters’s memory is her brother screaming, “I will straight up fucking kill you,” while holding the knife to their father's neck. The police arrived shortly after and, as Peters put it, “302’d his ass on the spot.” A code 302 is issued when a person is a danger to themselves or to others and is in need of medical or psychiatric help.

Shortly after that incident, Zack moved out. Once he was out of the house, Zack’s drug use worsened—although it was hard for Peters and her mother to monitor just how bad the problem was. During these years Zack spent living at his girlfriend’s house, he occasionally stopped by his childhood home to bum some money off his mother, telling her that it was for food, for the bus to get to work, for a promising job interview or just a pack of cigarettes. Their mother, feeling guilty, coughed up a few dollars for him, Peters said.

In March of 2017, Zack had just gotten out of another recovery center. Once again, he was staying clean and healthy and trying to get his life back in order. Peters began to see a difference in her brother. All the treatments seemed to be working on Zack, who frequently mentioned he had a few promising job interviews the upcoming week, ones he was both excited and a bit nervous about.

Maybe the hard work he had put into his recovery was paying off, Peters hoped.

“He just seemed like he was in good spirits,” Peters said.

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n April 8, 2017, Peters called her brother while out walking Zoey. She called him twice with no answer, then called her mother to no avail either. As Peters continued into the woods with Zoey, her phone rang. It was Zack. Peters filled him in on a terrible argument she had just had with their father. Zack didn’t say much but told Peters to meet him outside the house. He said he would be over shortly.

When Peters arrived at the house, Zack was outside waiting for her. The two walked up the stairs to the porch, swung open the front door and went inside. As they entered, their father was coming up the basement stairs. Zack began screaming at his father, telling him to never speak to Peters nor acknowledge her presence ever again. As Zack continued to argue with their father, Peters went outside. Moments later, the shouting ended, and Zack exited the house. As Zack walked off the porch and down the steps, he looked at Peters and said, “He won't bother you again.” The siblings hugged, said their

goodbyes and parted ways.

Around 10 p.m. Peters had just settled in for the night and started to watch a movie on Netflix. Suddenly, her bedroom door swung open. It was her mother. Tears rolled down Vicky Peters’ face as she broke the news that Zack had overdosed. The two threw shoes on, and, in a matter of seconds, were in the car speeding to Zack’s girlfriend’s house.

When they arrived at the house, the police and paramedics were already there.

Walking up to the front door, Peters thought to herself, “They are going to bring my brother out in a fucking body bag.” Her mother informed an officer who they were, and the officer escorted them inside the house. They entered the kitchen and sat down at the table as the officer relayed what had happened.

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ack and his girlfriend had tucked in for the night to watch a movie, Peters remembered the officer told them. After making popcorn and grabbing a few extra blankets, Zack told his girlfriend he had to use the bathroom and would be right back.

He was in the bathroom for an unusually long time, so his girlfriend called up to him.

There was no response. She paused the movie and went upstairs to check on him. She knocked on the door. There was no response.

Fearing that something was wrong, his girlfriend opened the bathroom door and found him lying on his back, naked, in the bathroom. A needle was still in his arm. His girlfriend called Zack’s mother, then dialed 911.

Although the paramedics attempted to revive Zack with several doses of Narcan, Zack was pronounced dead at the scene. Cause of death: heroin overdose. Zachary Peters, boyfriend, son, brother, had become a statistic, one of 1,200 deaths from drug overdoses in Philadelphia in 2017, according to estimates from the Mayor’s Opioid Task Force.

At some point earlier on the day he died, Zack had sent a text to his dealer to negotiate the purchase of three bags of heroin, Peters later learned. There might have been a multitude of reasons why Zack felt the need to get high that night. The fight with his father might have sent him over the edge. Or maybe his depression had resurfaced. Perhaps the pull of his disorder had just been too strong.

Not knowing the answer is the hardest part for her, Peters said.

“We’ll never know if it was an accident or if it was on purpose,” she said. “I think that’s the part that kills me the most.”

When Zack was younger, he had a dog named Moose, an Akita Mix that he came home with one day. Zack probably stole him, Peters said, but what was clear was how much Zack loved that dog. As Moose grew older, his eyesight began to deteriorate, and he had trouble walking around the house. Eventually Moose died, devastating the Peters siblings.

Shortly after Moose’s death, the dog appeared to Peters in a dream. In the dream, Moose ran around an open field, jumping, barking, rolling around in the grass. The dog seemed happy and healthy, a sign to Peters that Moose was in a better place.

“In my head, that was his way of telling me he was okay,” Peters said. “What happened was supposed to happen. Now, I keep waiting for Zack to come to me in a dream.”

So far, that hasn’t happened. But when he does, Peters said, she will know her brother is in a better place and everything will be okay again.

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Photos of Jena and Zack Peters during their childhood (Photo by Matt Haubenstein ’15, M.A. ’18).

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What you should know about drug companies and the opioid crisis ALEX MARK ’20 Assistant News Editor ALEX KARPINSKI ’20 Assistant News Editor The number of Americans dependent on prescription opioids has skyrocketed in the past decade, in part due to the impact medical advertising and Big Pharma has on the population, according to a report by Drugwatch, a for-profit website whose vision is to “become the watchdog for the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.”

In 2015, 276,000 people were using pain reliever without a prescription, according to the National Institutes of Health, a medical research center based in the U.S. What is Big Pharma?

“Big Pharma” is the nickname given to the big pharmaceutical industry and its trade group, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA). The term carries a negative connotation, as it is generally used to describe the world’s major pharmaceutical companies and the critique that Big Pharma prioritizes profit over patient health.

Biggest drug companies making opioids Purdue Pharma, Janssen Pharmaceuticals (owned by Johnson and Johnson), Depomed, Insys Therapeutics, and Mylan are the biggest opioid manufacturers.

What have these companies been doing?

According to Drug Watch, drug companies are often heavily involved with testing their own products before they are approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

For example, a report by Drug Watch shows that, in a 2014 study by John Hopkins University, pharmaceutical companies funded 6,550 clinical trials, while the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded only 1,048. Furthermore, clinical trials are often designed and run by people who are already on the company’s payroll, according to Drugwatch.

In effect, a patient may not be fully aware of the negative side effects or potential addictive properties of a drug until it is too late.

How did we get into this situation?

According to an investigation by The Guardian, Purdue Pharma is a recurring name in the current public-health crisis. Purdue Pharma is owned by Arthur, Mortimer and Raymond Sackler brothers, who started the pharmaceutical company in 1892. Forbes Magazine estimates that the Sacklers are worth around $13 billion.

The Sacklers are attached to multiple philanthropy groups, most notably their own Sackler Family Foundation, which gives grants for global development.

Purdue Pharma, is the creator of OxyContin, generically known as oxycodone, and and prescription opioids, OxyContin, HysinglaER and Butrans. Purdue Pharma also produces

sleep aids, laxatives and dietary supplements.

According to the Guardian, Purdue began marketing directly to doctors, offering handsome benefits to those who would promote the drug to their patients.

The fentanyl factor From 2015 to 2017, Pennsylvania experienced an 83 percent increase in opioid-related deaths. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), this jump in the death rate can likely be attributed to the increase in the availability of illegally obtained fentanyl, used as a cheap means to dilute drugs such as cocaine or heroin.

According to the CDC, “Pharmaceutical fentanyl is a synthetic opioid pain reliever, approved for treating severe pain, typically advanced cancer pain. It is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine. It is prescribed in the form of transdermal patches or lozenges and can be diverted for misuse and abuse in the United States.”

While illicitly manufactured fentanyl (IMF) has been linked to the most recent fentanyl-related overdoses and deaths, pharmacetical fentanyl has a number of beneficial medical purposes, according to Donald Leitner, Ph.D., professor and chair of the psychology department.

“Used appropriately,” Leitner said, “it is a very effective painkiller, but you need a physician who knows what they are doing, and you need pharmaceutical grade preparation which has been very carefully made so that it doesn't

cause problems for the person taking it.”

While fentanyl can be beneficial, the ever increasing presence of illegal fentanyl has become the leading killer among all drugs in Pennsylvania, accounting for approximately 25 percent of drug related deaths in Pennsylvania, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

What makes fentanyl so potent?

There are two main factors to a drug that make it more or less physiologically active. The first has to do with how the chemical interacts with certain brain receptors. The second is the level of fat solubility of certain chemicals.

According to Leitner, fentanyl interacts with brain receptors similarly to many other opioids. The faster the drug is able to permeate the cell membrane, the more intense the effect of the drug.

“The interesting thing about fentanyl is that it is incredibly fat soluble,” Leitner said.

“There are a bunch of opioids, such as codeine, that in general seem to have more or less the same activity in the receptors in the brain where they do their thing. The opioids tend to differ in how quickly they get into the brain, and the more intense the effect, the more fat soluble in general the chemical is.”

As a result, the brain gets concentrated with fentanyl very quickly, Leitner said.

“That causes all sorts of problems, because it just shuts down systems in the brain much more efficiently than other chemicals which are not as fat soluble,” Leitner said.

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Congress’ tech illiteracy raises larger issues Transparency and clarity need to be demanded CARTER TODD ’19 Columnist In the past week, Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of the United States Congress regarding the ongoing Cambridge Analytica data breach investigation. During his time in our nation’s Capitol, Zuckerberg faced hours of questioning which covered Cambridge Analytica, the ethics of Facebook and the company's level of transparency, as well as its trustworthiness.

After the questioning concluded, many went to social media to criticize members of Congress for the lack of understanding of how Facebook and many social media sites operate and interact with one another.

However, the technological illiteracy of these senators should say less about how intelligent they are and much more about the level of difficulty involved in understanding Facebook’s Privacy Policy as well as their general operations.

Yes, when taken out of context and chopped up through strategic video editing, it is very possible to make the members of Congress seem totally dumbfounded and unintelligible. Upon reviewing the original tape, however, it is clear that the members of Congress have sound arguments and valid concerns regarding Face-

book moving forward.

USA Today made note of how the internet came down on the members of Congress for their lack of understanding of Facebook with an article titled “Is Twitter Facebook? Senators Grill Mark Zuckerberg, Internet Roasts Senators.” From the looks of it, one would assume that a sen-

would serve to balance and regulate their activity, especially considering Facebook’s purchase of Instagram.

Similarly, a video was recently published by “The Verge” in conjunction with an article titled “11 weird and awkward moments from two days of Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional hearing.” The pur-

Facebook’s level of transparency is something that anyone would be rightfully concerned about. ator had asked Zuckerberg the question, “is Facebook Twitter?”, when in reality that did not happen.

It was a part of a crucial exchange during the testimony. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) asked Zuckerberg about who Facebook’s largest competitor is.

Zuckerberg, unable to give a clear answer, was subsequently asked if Facebook could be considered a monopoly. “It certainly doesn’t feel like that to me,” Zuckerberg responded. It seems that Graham raises a question that may perhaps need some more attention.

Facebook has had great success in differentiating themselves from other social media platforms and in doing so they have actually brought themselves to a point where there are no other competitors or alternatives in the private sector who

pose of this video is to make the members of Congress seem unprepared, incoherent and just plain laughable at several points during the hearing.

What the video and article fail to do is give legitimate, proper context to the statements made as a whole by the senators on the committee.

Evidently, those responsible for this article and video being posted do not understand how many legal proceedings carry out. The seemingly irrelevant and silly remarks made by senators in this video are actually one of two proper aspects of questioning in such matters. The senators are either preparing to use a metaphor through use of an analogy, or they are actually asking questions they quite well know the answer to in order to further prove a much larger point which pertains

heavily to the case at hand.

Ironically, perhaps the one person who seemed the least knowledgeable about Facebook’s operations in general was the CEO himself.

Upon reviewing the testimony, it is evident that Zuckerberg’s go-to phrase of the hearing was: “Let me get back to you on that.” On numerous occasions over the two days, Zuckerberg promised that he or his team would follow up with Senators to help them better understand the answers to their questions or give them details that Zuckerberg did not have available at the time.

Popular videos and trends on the Internet can be extremely influential in shaping public opinion, and this is a prime example. The unfair criticism of the members of Congress would simply not exist had it not been for a select few sources shaping this false narrative. Facebook’s level of transparency is something that anyone would be rightfully concerned about.

For a group of people with an average age of 62 years, our senators have a pretty good grip on where their constituents, are being left in the dark.

In trying to understand Facebook, their business model, their methods and strategies for collecting and sharing user’s data and their plans for the future, it is truly a case where there is no dumb question and absolute clarity and transparency ought to be demanded.

The Bailey Davis discrimination lawsuit How Saints’ guidelines create gendered double standards BRITTANY SWIFT ’20 Columnist Bailey Davis, a former cheerleader for the New Orleans Saints, was fired amidst controversy over an Instagram post and rumors of a breach in rules concerning an interaction between Davis and a Saints football player at a party. While this may seem like a fairly uneventful controversy, Davis’s subsequent complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is raising concerns about contradicting gender standards in the NFL that could set a larger precedent.

The Saints forbid any interaction between its cheerleaders and players, which is not harmful in itself. However, a clear double standard emerges when you consult the Saints’ cheerleading handbook against the rules for its players—the cheerleaders bear the responsibility to avoid interaction.

A football player may message a cheerleader online or like a cheerleader’s Instagram post, but it is then the cheerleader’s responsibility to block the player to avoid consequences in her own career.

Even if the football player creates pseud-

onyms and attempts to find the cheerleaders online, the cheerleader must actively work to block all of these.

Cheerleaders and football players cannot dine in the same restaurant simultaneously as well. So, whoever arrives first gets to stay and finish their meal, right?

Actually, the cheerleader must always leave

and football players: "We have these rules in place to protect you from ‘the predators’’.

This reasoning is victim-blaming, and it perpetuates a rape culture that our generation is working so hard to erase.

No one should have to follow a separate set of rules to convince others not to stalk, harass, or prey on you. Yes, these

No one should have to follow a separate set of rules to convince others not to stalk, harass, or prey on you. the restaurant, even if he arrives midway through her meal.

Almost worse than these burdens cheerleaders must face to avoid interactions, cheerleaders also cannot advertise themselves or their career. She cannot wear Saints gear or identify as a Saintsation outside of games, which restricts these women from advertising their credentials and the possibility of gaining even a remotely equivalent reputation that football players can build up on their social media pages.

Why are these unfair rules in place in the first place? In an essay detailing her story, Davis describes the Saints’ reasoning for different standards for cheerleaders

rules could hurt anyone working for the Saints or another team with similar handbook discrepancies, but we also need to acknowledge that the majority of NFL cheerleaders are female and the majority of NFL football players are male. On the Saints’ team, currently every cheerleader is a woman.

Therefore, we need to realize that these rules are not simply outdated. No one conveniently forgot they existed as they withered away into a past of restrictive standards for women. The Saints still actively enforce these discriminatory practices that make women bear the burden of avoiding potential “predators.”

We, the American public, also scrutinize public companies like the NFL. If they don’t make the changes necessary for a safer work environment, what other smaller companies might escape our watchful eye? Who else is victimized or silenced in the workplace, forced to follow the “rules” that’s supposed to protect them?

Instead of restricting potential victims, we need to raise more awareness about the culture we create. If we are fighting for equality and for safe spaces, then we cannot ignore these instances of discrimination and unfair gender expectations.

We as a country, as a people united by common ideals for equality, as a generation—have made progress in the past year tearing down unfair expectations surrounding sexual harassment. Some celebrities and politicians—no longer protected merely by their wealth, reputation, or fame—have finally faced consequences for harassing women. The Me Too movement empowers women to share their own stories and support others fighting for justice and equality.

Are we going to let cases of unfair discriminatory practices slide in places like the NFL, only to realize it will once again spiral out of control and ruin all the progress we have made thus far curtailing rape culture?

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Safety negated in public spaces Black life under a dangerous precedent

DOMINIQUE JOE ’19 Assistant Opinions Editor I can’t really begin to describe the thoughts that move through my mind constantly about safety in public spaces.

There is always an ever present thought in the back of my mind about what my physicality means in different places. These spaces are usually predominantly white spaces, like classrooms on campus or workplaces.

And even when I’m thinking about how my blackness communicates my physicality, I never think of myself as a threat.

In public spaces like Starbucks especially, I don’t really think of how my blackness reflects my physicality to others. A video that I saw recently really made me stop and think.

There was a video that I stumbled upon recently while scrolling through Instagram's explore page that I really can’t seem to get off my mind. The video was of two black men in a Center City Starbucks being accosted by the police and escorted out of the public establishment, where they were simply waiting for a friend.

In the video, the two men are simply sitting at a table in a Starbucks, waiting to be joined by their friend. They are then approached by police officers, who, after having a discussion with the black men, arrest them and escort them from the premises while other patrons of the Starbucks express their disagreement with the police

officers’ decision. The video is very cut and dry: there was no violence, but it still holds an important significance.

There can be something said for the cops’ ludicrous decision to arrest the men after being called by the Starbucks manager, even more so about the clear racist identification of black men as threats, but more than those things this situation reaffirms that public spaces are never really safe for black people.

ing how, due to racist power structures of our country, someone can very easily take a black person’s life.

It seems that the physical insecurity and instability of a black person’s ownership of their body that Coates talks about permeates into spatial security, or more accurately the negation of that spatial security.

But we all kind of know this. As I said before, we’ve seen moments like this, extreme ones, but ones that showed concretely

I think at this point, people are starting to understand why black people are perceived as threats, but no one really ruminates on this systemic and racist perception.

I think at this point, people are starting to understand why black people are perceived as threats, but no one really ruminates on this systemic and racist perception. Unless you are black and living a black existence, you may have the luxury to not ever think about others’ perceptions of black peoples’ physicality.

I’d even assert that black people are not always thinking of this. They can be lulled into the false safety of walking into a Starbucks to purchase a latte and a scone like anyone else.

What this video reaffirms for me is that black people, when in public spaces, lose all bodily safety. We see this in extreme cases like Philando Castile and Trayvon Martin, but we also see it here. Ta-Nehisi Coates talks about this physical insecurity in his book Between the World and Me, explain-

this idea of spatial insecurity for black people.

This begs the question though, what should black people do about this precedent of spatial insecurity?

I personally don’t believe it is a “black” issue as much as it is a societal issue. Black people don’t have to stop going to Starbucks or to other public spaces with white people to be spatially secure. It is on those with these mindsets, that see black people as threats, to re-contextualize their understanding of black physicality.

It is a complex issue with a complex answer that can’t be offered by black people because black people are the subject of this racist and engrained perceptual hate. And that’s not a cop out, it is just the truth.

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Markelle Fultz’s rise against media pressure JOSEPH PANICHELLI ’20 Columnist The Philadelphia 76ers have become one of most exciting and fascinating stories in all of professional sports. They have received both criticism and praise for their notorious “tanking” strategy, intentionally losing games in order to receive high draft picks and ultimately top talents, which led to their departure from mid-level mediocrity to having possibly the most potential in the league.

This process has landed us our dominant center Joel Embiid in 2014, our generational seven-foot point guard Ben Simmons in 2016, and our most recent star; the unanimous number one pick of last year's draft, Markelle Fultz from the University of Washington.

Though these players have undeniable talent, there have been some issues in their development. Embiid struggles to stay healthy and hardly plays in back to back games. Simmons sat his first year of NBA play to due injury, and many criticize his inability to shoot from outside the paint.

Fultz has what we refer to in sports as the “yips,” which basically means he forgot how to play basketball, and he can’t find his shot that lead him to being the obvious choice for first pick in the draft.

This might sound insane. This might be ridiculous to you. How could the best player in college basketball freeze under the spotlight?

How could he not be productive in what he has shined in his entire life? You may have to put yourself in his shoes to know that answer.

Fultz is 19 years old. That is a whole year younger than I am. He’s a kid. He’s subject to all of the pressures and unfavorable mental and physical transitions we face as young adults, he just happens to be expected to be a face of an entire professional sports franchise. Sounds a little more terrifying than being expected to

change it. Imagine not even being able to go the gym to get some shots up without someone taking a video that would leak to ESPN. I think sometimes, as journalist or media people whose jobs require creating stories and drama, sports writers can get carried away with how they treat athletes.

Fultz was exposed and terrorized by a multitude of beat writers,national journalists and broadcasters. The constant pressure

He’s subject to all of the pressures and unfavorable mental and physical transitions we face as young adults, he just happens to be expected to be a face of an entire professional sports franchise. turn in an assignment on time, right?

When the Sixers decided to keep Fultz on the bench, despite having no serious injuries or health concerns, the media wanted answers. What’s going on in Philadelphia with Markelle Fultz? Why is he not expected to play in tonight’s game?

Now imagine an entire new level of pressure. Cameras at every practice, national television criticising a kid, calling him a bust before he even stepped on the court. The franchise even hired a doctor of sorts to help him overcome the mental aspects- and to completely change his shot. He had a shot that got him to the absolute highest level of basketball, and then was expected to just completely

had made his on-court issues even worse.

Despite all this, Markelle Fultz has found his role on this electric young Sixers team. He’s recently found his rhythm and has been a productive member to this late season push which resulted in sixteen straight wins to finish out the regular season.

Last week, in the last game of the season against the Milwaukee Bucks, Fultz became the youngest player in NBA history to record a triple-double. Not only was this an historic moment for him and for the franchise, but served as an ultimate boost of confidence for the young man struggling to prove his worth to both the league and himself.

Teachers strike fire ANN MARIE MALONEY ’18 Columnist The wave of (liberal) activism that kicked off with the first Women’s March in 2017, in reaction to Donald Trump’s inauguration, rolls on. Last month, West Virginia’s 20,000 public school teachers, as well as other supporting staff, held a nine-day statewide strike that resulted in a five percent pay increase for the teachers and other school employees.

Back during the Obama administration, the conservative activist Tea Party movement swelled up in protest of the government bailouts of companies in the auto, banking, and insurance industries after the economic crisis of 2008. The activism of that movement helped elect about 39 Republicans to the House of Representative and five Republicans to the Senate in the 2010 midterms, according to the New York Times.

Although only about half of Tea Party-backed candidates were successful in 2010, the movement’s impact on national politics was both immediate, in the widespread opposition of the Affordable Care Act, and long-lasting, as Tea Party-backed candidates still have massive influence in Congress, especially through the House Freedom Caucus.

Now in 2018, Democrats have a similar chance to transform activism into electoral success, and the activism since the inauguration in 2017 has been made up of any even wider coalition of groups and interests. This broader base, however, might not translate as easily to success at the ballot box.

Consider some of the issues represented in the recent swells of activism: women’s rights, immigrant rights, health care, gun control, and most recently, labor issues are among just the movements that have gained national attention.

That’s a diverse set of issues, propelled by an even more diverse set of people and activists. How Democrats might capture this this momentum in November is perhaps the deciding factor as to what will happen in the midterms. The diversity of interests may prove hard to unite.

Yet the activism propelled by teachers might spell an opportunity for Democrats to finally recapture labor, once the paramount Democratic issue and key Democratic base.

Teacher and labor activism stand out among the many because they get at the heart of an issue that can get lost in when debates are led by elites in government and the media: American wages are stagnant, and have barely recovered from the economic crisis.

But when debates are led by average Americans across geographic, racial, and partisan divides, wages and economic security get centered in conversations on all kinds of issues: from labor, to women’s equality, to poverty, to criminal justice, to problems in our schools and beyond.

To win in November, Democrats don’t have to lead so much as they have to follow: follow uprising swells of activism led by ordinary Americans and listen to what these activists are demanding. Start taking substantive steps in office and center economic issues in policy priorities to show labor activists that they have advocates to support on the ballot in November.

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StrEAT festivities

Manayunk holds annual food truck festival FRANKI RUDNESKY ’18 Editor Emeritus Despite unseasonably cold and rainy weather, Main Street Manayunk was packed on the afternoon of April 15, when patrons flocked downtown for the Manayunk StrEAT Food Festival.

The festival, which takes place twice a year, welcomed more than 50 local food trucks and gourmet vendors for visitors to enjoy.

I braved the inclement weather to attend my first StrEAT Festival, and took my roommate along for the ride. Neither of us had been to the festival before, but both had an idea of what yummy foods to expect thanks to Instagram posts from previous StrEAT fests.

Walking down the closed-off Main Street, we were surrounded by colorful trucks with clever names, like the meatball truck called Mama’s Balls, the Oink and Moo BBQ

truck or the bubblegum-pink banana whip truck called the Chilly Banana.

People of all ages, donning rain coats and parkas, walked past holding corn cobs and pulled pork sandwiches, gourmet grilled cheese and “Spurritos,” spring roll burritos.

We got food envy immediately, and couldn’t wait to try as many things as possible.

After walking from one end of Main Street to the other, admiring many cute dogs and listening to the live music, it was time for my roommate and I to make the decision of what we should please our taste buds with first.

One truck serving mini crab cake sliders caught our eye, and after dousing them in sriracha, we each dug into the bite-sized goodness. They tasted like summer days at the beach, wrapped up in a perfectly soft potato bread roll.

After that, I couldn’t help but be drawn back to the Mama’s Balls truck, both for the humorous name and the promise of home-

Food trucks lined up along Main Street in Manayunk.

Patrons line up at The Chilly Banana truck (Photos by Franki Rudnesky ’18).

cooked Italian meatballs.

The truck offered multiple options, but I went with the original Mama’s Meatballs and received one perfect meatball with sauce and cheese placed inside a miniature roll of bread. One bite took me to my Mommom’s house for Sunday dinner.

My roommate passed on the meatballs, because she was in the mood for a good authentic taco.

We walked toward one of the many taco vendors and she ordered a chicken taco with all the fixings. She was not disappointed, and said it was one of the best, most flavorful tacos she’s had in a long time.

After browsing some more and receiving some free giveaways, the freezing rain began to pound, cutting short our day at the festival. We couldn’t leave until we had some

dessert, though.

We saw a long line had formed at the green Olde World Cannoli truck, and long lines usually mean good food, so we headed over to where the sweet scent of cannolis lured us in. The truck boasted unique cannoli fillings like Red Raspberry Chocolate Moscato and Pineapple Cheesecake.

There was also a hometown connection, since the truck came from my small town in New Jersey.

We waited approximately 10 minutes and ordered the traditional cannolis with chocolate chip filling and ate them on the car ride home. It was a sweet ending to a delicious day.

Despite the poor weather, overall the StrEAT festival was a can’t-miss event.

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A colorful celebration

The Asian Student Association and Hawks of India hosted their annual Holi event on April 14. Holi, also known as the festival of colors, is a traditional Indian celebration that marks the beginning of spring through the use of brightly colored powder.

Holi attendees throw colorful powder into the air on Villiger lawn (Photos by Luke Malanga ’20).

Participants enjoy the cloud of colors while celebrating Holi.

Hawks of India, an Adult Student Life organization, co-hosted the event.

Sculpting a passion

A look at the St. Joe’s ceramics room BRENDAN KILEY ’19 Hawk Staff Bridget Gilmore ’18 had a bit of gray clay on her cheeks. Anywhere else on campus, that might look strange, but not in Boland Hall’s ceramics room.

On a Wednesday night in early April, Van Morrison’s “Astral Weeks” played over the quiet hum of the pottery wheel. Meandering and hypnotic, the album ended a little past midnight, but Gilmore kept on spinning her clay into a cereal bowl.

“I have been able to process a lot of things throughout senior year here,” Gilmore said. “I credit pottery for that. It goes beyond the craft itself.”

The ceramics room, on the first floor of Boland Hall on Lapsley Lane, is a place where students of all majors can be found creating ceramics 24/7.

In the early 2000s, an increased demand for ceramics classes led to the program outgrowing its facilities, according to Ron Klein, professor of art and chair of the art department back then.

“Enrollment was going wild,” Klein said.

In fact, Klein said, the fumes were so bad from the kilns, which then were inside Boland, that it was detrimental to people’s health. St. Joe’s had to construct a kiln shed, which now sits directly next to the building.

The room to grow helped St. Joe’s ce-

ramics curriculum flourish, said Jill Allen, adjunct professor of art, who teaches ceramics and pottery this semester.

Allen also noted the demand to be in ceramics and pottery classes comes from all majors.

“It has to do with working with your hands and being able to work intuitively and let go of the analysis part of your brain,” Allen said.

This is what first attracted Joe Grevera ’18 to ceramics in fall of 2016. Then exclusively a food marketing major, Grevera had grown frustrated with his senior business policy course and other classes. But he was captivated by ceramics.

“Ceramics are not manipulated,” Grevera said. “With this, I am creating to be enjoyed.”

Now in his fifth year at St. Joe’s, Grevera has thrown himself into a double major in art,

adding it late in his college process.

“He really caught on fire,” Klein said.

“He found the passion later on.”

Grevera’s works now can be seen on display on the second floor of the Merion Hall atrium.

A leadership, ethics and organizational sustainability major, Gilmore has found a hobby in ceramics, and a fruitful one at that.

“It has given me every gift I have given to anybody,” Gilmore said with a laugh. “If it doesn’t turn out well, it goes to my mom.

She gets a lot of funky pieces.”

Gilmore said she enjoys taking risks with pieces, even if they don’t end up as she intended them to look.

“A lot of times with art, it's hard to take the leap and try something” Grevera said.

“At St. Joe’s you have the facilities and the faculty to do it.”

Bridget Gilmore ’18 works on making a cereal bowl in the ceramics room (Photo by Brendan Kiley ’19).

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A drugstore for the community Dake's serves the area for over 90 years

ALEXA POLLICE ’21 Hawk Staff A bell jingled as the door opened to a small store on 54th Street near the corner of City Avenue. Behind the counter, a tall, friendly pharmacist warmly greeted his “patients,” as he calls them. The cozy space is filled with a lottery machine, shelves of snacks and four aisles of drugstore odds and ends.

Bryan Clemonts has been working at Dake’s for about a year. That makes him a newbie to an establishment that has been a fixture in the St. Joe’s community since about 1928.

“It is more of a community here rather than when you work at a corporate place,” Clemonts said. “Here you can have the time to get acquainted with your patients and get to know them better, try to take care of their needs more on an individual level.”

That individualized attention is what the owners and employees at Dake’s hope sets them apart from their competition up the street, chain stores like CVS and Rite Aid. Due to Dake's close proximity to St. Joe’s, it’s not unusual to find students stopping by the drugstore. Sophia Galvan ’18 has been going to Dake’s since her first year at St. Joe’s.

"My experience at Dake's has been awesome,” Galvin said. “I like it because the people who work there know me by name.

When I walk in to pick up my prescription, they almost always have it ready and waiting for me. I keep going there because they are reliable and they know who I am, so I'm not just another face.”

In its early days, Dake’s not only functioned as the neighborhood drugstore but also included a soda fountain, candy counter and lunch counter.

Bryan Clemonts, head technician at Dake's (Photo by Alexa Pollice ’21).

The store frequently took out ads in the Hawk in the 40s, 50s and 60s. Dake’s was also often the setting for stories in spoof editions of The Hawk. A Dec. 19, 1969 edition features then Director of Admissions James W. Moore, S.J., announcing the admission of the first woman to the school, only to have the male students react by running down to Dake’s to buy the latest issue of “Playboy.”

In all its years, though, no person named Dake has ever owned the drug store.

The name comes from the original owner, David Klebanoff, who took a few letters from his first and last name and combined them, according to Steve Theodorou, the store’s current co-owner and manager.

Klebanoff originally toyed with “Dakl” but did not like the way it sounded, so he went with “Dake.”

Dake’s takes up less space off of City Avenue than it used to, but Theodorou and co-owner Larry Halper, who purchased the store in the 70s, pride themselves on main-

taining its original goal: serving the community. They make deliveries to elderly customers who can’t come to the pharmacy.

They also serve St. Joe’s students who are sent to Dake’s by the Student Health Center to fill their prescriptions. The drug store fills prescriptions for student athletes and members of the Jesuit community as well.

“We’ve always had a good reputation with St. Joe’s,” Theodorou said, although he added some students still don’t know the drug store is there.

One way Dake’s counters that is by being present at St. Joe’s Orientation, to help “get everybody acquainted with what is in the neighborhood,” Clemonts said.

Kenneth Kury, Ph.D., assistant professor of management, said while small businesses value the personal service and community connection, cheaper prices at their bigger competitors pose a challenge.

“Do people put enough value on that personal service to overweigh the price dif-

ferential?” Kury asked.

Theodorou, who has managed Dake’s since around 2012, said while some prices at Dake’s may be higher, others are competitive. Plus, co-pays for medication covered by insurance are the same no matter where you get the prescription filled.

“Some of the stuff, like over-the-counter stuff, will be cheaper than some of the chains,” Theodorou said. “It will be odd items. It is hit or miss. All in all we do well with over-the-counter stuff and cash prices for prescriptions. Our cash prices for meds are usually significantly less expensive due to the way the chains calculate their prices.”

Kury said “mom and pop shops” like Dake’s can and do establish themselves as leaders in a community. They also form a large part of employment in the United States.

“It could be four employees or it could be five hundred employees, but that group, which are largely family businesses and all the ones not on the stock exchanges, account for over 80 percent of the jobs in the United States,” Kury said.

Galvan said it’s the fact that Dake’s is not a chain that entices her to shop there.

“I like supporting a local, family-owned business,” she said.

Lucy Higgins ’20 worked at Dake’s her freshman and part of her sophomore year.

She walked in one day as a customer and inquired about any job openings. Hired as a cashier and stocker, she interacted with the regular customers and familiarized herself with their faces.

“I had never had an experience at Dake’s that didn’t feel personal,” Higgins said.

“Every experience I had there felt like I was part of the surrounding community. I felt really welcome in the space.”

Living a double life Student juggles career as a lead guitarist JUSTIN LEON ’19 Special to The Hawk Chris Dombrowski ’19 is something of a modern-day superhero. By day, he is an entertainment marketing major. By night, he is the lead guitarist for the New Jersey-based band Sentinels.

But sometimes the days and nights blend together, and Dombrowski is left juggling the responsibilities that come from being a fulltime student and a full-time musician.

“It’s about managing your priorities,” Dombrowski said.

He added that while his education is his top priority, following his passion is important as well.

“Sometimes I will have homework that’s due, but I’m stuck at the studio all the way in Jersey,” Dombrowski said. “Any overlapping work becomes stressful, so I end up doing homework while recording, and I try my best to not let anything affect the quality of the work being done.”

Established in 2013, when Dombrowski was a student at Saint Peter’s Preparatory High School in Jersey City, New Jersey, the Sentinels are part of a genre Dombrowski described as “progressive metal.” The five band members include bassist Danny Cruz, drum-

mer Dave Rucki, guitarist Thomas Cardon, vocalist Joe Benducci, and Dombrowski.

Dombrowski’s mother, Mary Dombrowski, said she is impressed with what her son has had to juggle in college as he pursues his passion.

"His ability to balance both has gotten him where he is now, and we’re very proud of his accomplishments,” Mary Dombrowski said.

This year is a turning point for Sentinels, with a lot of growth and headway in the industry. That means more challenges for Dombrowski, the youngest member of the band and the only full-time student.

“We’ve been in and out of the studio for a little over a month, and I’ve been going almost every day. It’s been rough,” Dombrowski said. “The producers and studio need me, so with school in mind, I have to find the time to commute.”

Located in Belleville, New Jersey, the band’s studio is called Graphic Nature and is an upgrade from their previous recording location, a friend’s basement. At Graphic Nature, the band has been working on a yetto-be-titled, extended play record (EP).

“No promises, but the EP should be ready for release around the fall of this year,” Dombrowski said.

While working on the EP, the band can

spend up to half a day nearly every day recording and tracking in the studio.

“There have been times where I had to miss multiple studio sessions because of an important exam or assignment, forcing me to play catch-up with the producers,” Dombrowski said.

But Dombrowski’s fellow band members acknowledged his hard work.

“To be in a full-time band and being a full-time student can be something very difficult and hard to manage, but it can be accomplished. Chris easily shows that with the drive and motivation to pursue your dreams, you can make anything happen,”

said Cruz, who graduated in 2017 from Saint Peter’s University in Jersey City.

Sentinels’ past music releases includes their 2016 album, “World Divide,” as well as their single “Neurosis,” released last October and available on almost every music streaming platform.

While their untitled EP is still in the works, Sentinels continue to perform and entertain. They will play a 10-day tour starting on April 17 with renowned guitarist Jason Richardson. That tour includes the annual, weekend-long New England Metal and Hardcore Festival on April 21 in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Chris Dombrowski '19 recording and practicing at his desk (Photo by Justin Leon ’19).

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Baseball’s Biggest Fan

The athletic passions of John Lord BRIANNA GENELLO ’19 Hawk Staff On Nov. 2, 2016, John Lord ’71, Ph.D., professor of sports marketing, turned off the TV and went to bed, disgusted with the baseball game he had been watching. In the 8th inning, his team had blown their three-run lead, and he just couldn’t watch anymore.

At around 12:50 a.m., Lord was awakened by his wife Joan Lord, telling him to turn the TV back on. Lord kept the TV on for the next three hours. His beloved Chicago Cubs had pulled it off after all, winning their first World Series since 1908.

While their number-one fan slept, the Cubs had beaten the Cleveland Indians 8-7 in a 10th-inning, Game 7 clincher.

“I started to get text messages from everyone I met throughout the years congratulating me for the Cubs win,” Lord said.

Lord grew up in suburban Chicago and has been a baseball fan, and a die-hard Cubs fan, for as long as he can remember.

“I’m a baseball guy,” Lord said. “I read about baseball. I play baseball. I coach baseball. I fan about baseball. I teach baseball.”

Lord started playing baseball as a child and continued his career at the collegiate level, playing his freshman year on St. Joe’s baseball team. He still plays infield and pitcher as part of the senior John DiBenedictis Baseball League.

Lord coached his now grown sons Sean Lord and Ryan Lord from tee-ball to American Legion Baseball, an amateur league for 13 to 19-year-olds. These days, Lord helps his son Sean

Lord coach his grandsons Braxton and James.

“Baseball is an intergenerational thing,” Lord said. “It’s really cool that my son and I can rent an indoor baseball facility and take the grandsons. It’s three generations of Lords, throwing and hitting. It’s nice that a 7-year old will listen to his grandfather who is six years older and do what he says. He knows that I know what I’m talking about, so that’s really cool.”

It made sense for Lord to share his passion with his St. Joe’s family, too. In 2011, he first taught a course he created called The Business of Baseball.

In 2015, Lord retired from being a fulltime professor at the university. He stayed on as a part-time instructor, though, teaching another course he created Baseball and American Culture for the first time in 2016.

Next year Lord will return to the marketing department as a full-time professor.

“I’m hoping to bring back The Business of Baseball course,” Lord said. “It’s a neat course and a popular course. It’s baseball.

What could be bad?”

Kellie Barnes ’18 is currently enrolled in Baseball and American Culture. She said Lord’s passion for the sport is what make the course so enjoyable.

“Dr. Lord is great,” Barnes said. “He is so knowledgeable about baseball and is so passionate about it. He often brings stories into class about growing up and living through the history of baseball.”

Sabrina Schielein ’18 is also enrolled in the course.

“Dr. Lord is wonderful,” Schielein said.

John Lord, Ph.D., showing off his batting stance (Photo by Brianna Genello ’19).

“You can tell how passionate he is for the subject, and it really transfers through to his class.”

Lord’s popular baseball courses have also created new outlets for him within the professional baseball community. Through the two courses, Lord had the opportunity to meet the former owner of the Philadelphia Phillies, Bill Giles.

“He came out to campus twice to speak and that started a relationship between him and me,” Lord said. “I like spending time with him.”

Lord even helped Giles write his memoir. “Bill Giles and Baseball” was published

by Temple University Press in 2014.

“He sent me some chapters and that

started this process,” Lord said. “I wrote the economics chapter and helped him with some stuff. We had the opportunity to just talk about some things, and it was just a fascinating experience.”

While Lord said he is not overly optimistic his Cubs will do well this year, he will always have that day in 2016 when his team came through for him.

After the Cubs won the World Series, Lord immediately booked a plane ticket to Chicago to attend the parade held for the team.

“It was incredible,” Lord said. “It was just a day of joy and celebration. It was just the best.”

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Lane scores her 100th goal enroute to victory Women's lacrosse wins third consecutive conference match

RYAN MULLIGAN ’21 Hawk Staff The St. Joe’s women’s lacrosse team capped off a victorious weekend on April 15 as they followed up a 20-6 win over St. Bonaventure University on April 13 with a 15-4 victory over Duquesne University on a frigid day on Hawk Hill. The day also saw junior midfielder Rebecca Lane score her 100th career goal.

“I think honestly this week was really good for us,” Lane said. “We got a lot of flow and momentum back. We’ve been playing

very aggressively, very intensely, and I think it’s only going to continue progressing from here.”

The Hawks struck first with a goal from junior midfielder Hayley Sabol before Duquesne answered just a few minutes later to knot the game at one. St. Joe’s then went on a tear, scoring six straight goals before the end of the first half to take the lead 7-1.

Three of those goals came off of Lane’s stick, who had a first half hat trick with her second goal getting her to the milestone.

“People were saying it to me a lot, but it didn’t really register,” Lane said about approaching her 100th goal. “When I shot that

Junior Rebecca Lane, senior Aly Gormley and senior Kate Payne celebrate Lane's hundredth goal (Photos by Luke Malanga ’20).

goal, I didn’t know that was the one, but all the attackers were coming up and congratulating me. It was pretty exciting.”

Lane reaches the milestone as a junior, scoring her 100 goals in only 45 games. She is one of only three Hawks to accomplish this before the beginning of her senior season and is one of eight to become part of the 100 goal club at St. Joe’s.

The Hawks went on to outscore the Dukes 8-3 in the second half behind stellar performances from junior midfielder Sinead Brierly and junior attackFrancesca Donato.

Donato also scored a hat trick while Brierly added a game high four goals.

“The thing I’m most proud about today is that it was a full team effort,” head coach Alex Kahoe said. “Wins like this help with team energy, they help get momentum.

We’re feeling pretty good, we’re in the middle of A-10’s and we’re hoping a win like this can propel us forward.”

The team has three more regular season games left before the conference tournament begins May 3. They are currently in fourth place in the Atlantic 10, with the top six teams making it to the conference tournament.

“We have to focus on not letting up,” Lane said. “We’ve worked so hard this week to get our momentum back and being able to maintain that and be consistent. It’s important to not take steps back but keep moving forward.”

For Lane, she is not only focused on continual improvement in the next few weeks, but also in the record books.

Junior Midfielder Rebecca Lane winds up to shoot.

“For the freshman and sophomores on the team now, I want them to break all the records people before us have set and it would be great to see people in the future set their own records,” Lane said.

Kahoe glowed with pride as she spoke about Lane and what her achievements mean for the program.

“I’m so excited for her,” Kahoe said.

“There’s been so much hard work that she’s put in and I think it is a testament to that as well as to her teammates and how well they worked together to help her reach that 100.”

Lane and the Hawks will return to action in a conference matchup against George Washington University in Washington, D.C. on April 20 at 3 p.m.

Still finding their game

The Hawks finish 1-2 in their series against Davidson University SAM BRITT ’20 Hawk Staff The St. Joe’s Baseball team struggled against their Atlantic 10 rival Davidson University last weekend, winning just one game in the three game series. Due to weather, St. Joe’s condensed the weekend into a single game on April 13 and a double header on April 14.

St. Joe’s got off to a rough start on Friday as they struggled to subdue a Davidson offense that erupted for 18 runs. Freshman outfielder Alex Mardiney and junior utility player Eric Jones drove the Wildcats with a couple of big days at the plate. Davidson was able to ride a 10 run fourth inning to an 18-6 win.

“Friday was a tough start,” head coach Fritz Hamburg said. “We got to situations to finish hitters but unfortunately didn’t. We have to make better pitches. It was a hitters day with the wind blowing out and I think out pitches were too elevated. They did what they should have done with them.”

The Hawks were able to gain some momentum back on Saturday with a 6-3 win.

Led by junior Tim Brennan’s eight strong innings pitched the Hawks were able to quell Davidson’s offensive force. Freshman first baseman Cole Stetzer and senior shortstop Matt Maul carried the offensive load, com-

Freshman pitcher Matt Kennedy releases a pitch from the mound (Photo by Luke Malanga ’20).

bining for 4 hits, 3 runs, and an RBI. “We all know that when Tim is on the mound it is a great chance to win,” Hamburg said. “It was great that he did what he did and stepped up. Especially after Friday to have him pitch like that was a big deal.”

Brennan credited his strong outing to his approach following St. Joe’s loss on Friday.

“Those are the teams you want to play, the top teams in your conference,” Brennan said. “Part of it was looking forward to that challenge and wanting to beat them while knowing what they are capable of. They

showed they hit the fastball really well so I got in front of their hitters so they couldn’t sit on the fastball.”

The second half of the doubleheader did not go as smoothly for St. Joe’s. It was a back and forth affair through the first couple innings, but Davidson ended up pulling away.

“This game was anybody’s ballgame,” Hamburg said. “I thought it was a solid game but they just executed a bit more than we did. We fought and battled but they won the game.”

Mardiney continued his hot weekend

with another impressive offensive showing, helping Davidson pull off the victory.

“He wasn’t the guy coming into the weekend we had a focus on,” Hamburg said.

“But we missed pitches with him out over the plate. He was aggressive and when we made mistakes he took advantage.

St. Joe’s is now in a dogfight to make the A-10 tournament. To get in, they have to win their upcoming A-10 series against University of Rhode Island and Fordham University.

“We know what we have to do,” Hamburg said. “The top seven teams go to the tournament and we are in eight right now.

Really all we have control over now is playing as well as we can and continuing to improve in the areas of the game we know we have to be better at.”

Brennan is confident that if St. Joe’s can get into the A10 tournament they can make some noise.

“When we play a complete game we have been able to beat some very good teams,” Brennan said. “We just need to find ourselves in the tournament because once we get in if we get hot we can do some damage.”

St. Joe’s takes on the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware on April 18, before playing a pivotal series starting April 20 against the University of Rhode Island Rams up in Kingston, Rhode Island.

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Struggling to score

Softball swept in series against Dayton ALEX HARGRAVE ’20 Sports Editor Burdened by injuries, the St. Joe’s softball team had a tough time getting things going in their series against Dayton University on April 14-15. The Hawks were unable to score a run in all three games, losing 3-0, 1-0 and 6-0.

The trio of losses brings their record to 14-22 overall and 2-7 in Atlantic 10 conference play. According to head coach Erin Brooks, the team’s injuries are a big factor in their play.

“This is the time in the season where injuries will come into play, but it seems like we’re getting hit pretty hard,” Brooks said.

Dayton’s and St. Joe’s doubleheader on April 14 saw two close contests with junior Ashley Ventura on the mound for the Hawks. Dayton took a 2-0 lead in the top of the first and wouldn’t score again until the top of the seventh. The Hawks had three hits, two coming from sophomore Caela Abadie and one from freshman Taylor Marinelli.

Ventura allowed just one run in the second game of the day, but it was enough for the Flyers to hand the Hawks another loss.

Dayton’s Lisa Tassi scored in the top of the fourth to secure the win. St. Joe’s picked up three hits again from Marinelli, sophomore Molly Kapala and freshman Kirstin Cox. The matchup on April 15 was much

different than the previous games in the series, with the temperature cut in half from the day before. Bitter cold and strong winds brought hardships for both teams, according to freshman pitcher Chelsea Evans.

“It was more of a mental game,” Evans said. “It was very cold and it got to our head a bit. We overcame as much as we could.”

Evans held Dayton off from scoring in the first inning, but they would score three runs in the bottom of the top of the second to jump out to a 3-0 lead. The Flyers’ Kyle Davidson doubled down the third baseline to secure two runs, followed by another run off of a fielding error.

Dayton’s Ellie Ziegler had a solo homerun in the top of the third to push the lead to 4-0. Ventura replaced Evans in the circle in the fourth inning and held off the Flyers until the seventh when they scored two insurance runs to go up 6-0. The Hawks were unable to retaliate, and they ended the game with a 6-0 loss and the series at 0-3.

Again, the Hawks had three hits in the final game from Marinelli, junior Stacey Mayer and senior Lauren Reilly.

The St. Joe’s offense was unable to get anything going, but it was not without effort.

“We were hitting the ball well; we were just hitting it right to them,” Evans said. “We had some good hits.”

With injuries marking the season with uncertainty, it is important for St. Joe’s to improve their morale. In the last game of the

Junior Ashley Ventura pitches against Dayton on April 14 (Photo by Luke Malanga ’20).

series, the Dayton bench was cheering the entire time while the Hawks bench was quiet.

“We have quite a few impact players out, but it’s also just the morale,” Brooks said. “Not just productivity, just overall we’re feeling it right at the moment.”

The Hawks will look to get a few wins under their belt in the final stretch of their season, especially in A-10 play. Their next series will be at Rhode Island University, who currently sits at 3-7 in conference and 9-25 overall, on April 21.

Brooks has confidence that if St. Joe’s can convert hits into runs, they will have a better chance of performing in the last leg of their season.

“We played the tougher part of our conference in the beginning and we came close a lot of times; we were out-hitting teams, just not scoring runs,” Brooks said. “Figuring that out along with the lineup and who’s going to produce with runners on base [will improve help us improve].”

Senior spotlight

Lauren Reilly looks to lead softball to success DREW RHOADES ’20 Hawk Staff Despite the struggles the women’s softball team has faced this season, there are plenty of silver linings to be found. Senior utility player Lauren Reilly happens to be one of them.

Reilly has played in 36 games this season, starting all of them. She has totaled 11

Reilly throws the ball to the infield.

runs batted in, good for fourth most on the team. She has also had 24 hits this season, as well as one home run, tied for fourth best for the Hawks. Reilly has had three hits in a game twice this season.

The Southbury, Connecticut native comes with many years of experience under her belt.

“I was nine, started with baseball, ended up with softball,” Reilly said in regards to how her career began.

Reilly said she decided to come to Hawk Hill four years ago based on the location.

She is also a humanities major.

This season has been a tough one for the Hawks; the team has an overall record of 1422 and an Atlantic 10 record of 2-7.

“We’re playing, we’re here, we’re still fighting,” Reilly said. “I’m just trying to maintain hope that we’ll turn it around.”

In her fourth season as a Hawk, Reilly is familiar with fighting through rough patches.

In the 2016-17 season, St. Joe’s ended with an overall record of 25-28, just shy of .500.

“I’ve been through hell and back with this program, so I know what it’s like to have my back against the wall,” Reilly said.

Reilly is looked at as a leader on and off the diamond. Assistant coach Sarah Yoos is impressed day in and day out with Reilly’s character, even in her first season coaching the squad.

“She’s [Reilly] the first one out to the field, she’s the first one to set things up,” Yoos said. “She really takes it seriously. She still

Reilly rounds the bases (Photos courtesy of Sideline Photos, LLC).

does equipment like she’s a freshman.”

Reilly has always been in the mix, but this is her first season as a consistent starter.

In her junior season, she started in 20 of 42 appearances, while her sophomore season saw just two starts out of 32 appearances.

During her freshman year, she played in 12 games and started seven of them, getting time on the field early in her career. According to Yoos, her drive and work ethic helped her get her game to where it is now.

“She’s been through everything here,

and she’s finally getting her chance to shine,” Yoos said. “She’s everything we could hope for in a senior.”

In the final stretch of her career, Reilly looks to leave a legacy and impact on the Hawks’ softball program. Reilly and the team look to turn their season around in their next games against Big 5 rival La Salle University at home on April 25.

“She’s definitely worked as hard as she can to make her legacy live here,” Yoos said.

Sports

April 18, 2018

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Six aces

Women’s tennis team boasts young roster NICK KARPINSKI ’21 Assistant Sports Editor With six of their 10 players being freshmen, the St. Joe’s women’s tennis team is filled with young talent trying to make their mark on the squad.

Freshmen Madison Chontos, Valeria Gonzalez, Madeline Hill, Amanda Nava, Lourdes Sprinckmoller and Iswarya Vel all make up the majority of the team.

According to Vel, the first year unit has to build and grow close because of the fact that they are such a large part of the team.

Transitioning from high school to college tennis has been a unique experience for all of the players. Chontos said the team aspect has been the biggest difference.

“You play as a team in high school, but it still feels more individual,” Chontos said. “We spend a lot of time together in college. Expectations are higher. We fight for each other.”

Nava said the biggest transition was the team dynamic, because she was homeschooled in high school.

“The hardest part was transitioning as a team,” Nava said. “Being homeschooled, I

did everything individually.”

While tennis is an individual sport, the freshmen all agree that playing as a team is something that they need to work on.

“Playing as a whole is a big part of what we need to work on,” Hill said. “The atmosphere in college is different.”

In a more individual sense, Gonzalez said she needs to work on certain aspects of her game in order to continue to progress as a player.

“I need to work on my patterns,” Gonzalez said. “I need to play out the point smarter and win faster.”

Even though there are only three upperclassmen on the team, Sprinckmoller said all of them have provided a great example.

“They set the tone for the team,” Sprinckmoller said. “We look up to them.

They’re very good role models.”

Vel said that senior captain Maureen Devlin has especially been a great influence on and off the court.

“As our captain, Maureen has been a great person to follow,” Vel said. “She’s been open to us as freshmen, telling us what to do and where to go.”

Many young players are still trying to

establish their playing style. Nava said she looks up to certain players while also maintaining her own style.

“I have my own style but my role models are Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal,” Nava said. “Right now my game is being shaped. I’m starting to figure it out and how to dominate.”

This group of freshmen are incredibly competitive amongst each other. Chontos said it makes them want to improve.

“The level of competition has pushed everyone,” Chontos said. “We all try to make eachother better. We want to be better than the other person but at the same time, you want to see your teammate succeed.”

As the season comes to a close, Hill said that their hard work has not been showcased in the form of their record.

“Our team record doesn’t necessarily reflect what we’ve done this season,” Hill said. “We competed a lot harder than we thought we were going to. A lot of our matches came down to points that we could have won.”

The Hawks now look to the Atlantic 10 Championship, which will begin on April 24 Orlando, Fla.

From left to right: freshmen Madeline Hill, Valeria Gonzalez, Amanda Nava, Lourdes Sprinckmoller, Madison Chontos, Iswarya Vel (Photos courtesy of SJU Athletics).

Ups and downs

Men’s and women’s track teams take on two meets DOMENIC MANZI ’18 Hawk Staff The men’s and women’s track and field teams competed at Temple University for the Temple Owls Invitational on April 13 and the Rider Invitational at their new Michael P. Brady Track and Field Facility on April 14.

Friday’s action for the men was led by qualifying runs in the 800 m by senior Steve Thompson, junior Dylan Eddinger and senior Dan Ferraiolo, placing third, fifth , and sixth respectively. Freshman Stephen McClellan (1:54.19 PR) finished eighth out of a field of 22.

In his first 5000 m race of the season, senior David Dorsey finished seventh out of 14 runners with a time of 15:20.63.

While winning is always the goal, head coach Mike Glavin believes getting better as the season progresses is first and foremost.

“Improving is a major concern for these guys,” Glavin said. “They are all on different levels, and I know some of them simply weren’t up to par with what they are capable of.”

For the women, junior Lucy Harmon led the seven St. Joe’s runners in the 1500 m with a time of 4:40.35, which was good for eighth overall. Junior Lindsey Oremus set a season-best with 4:46.01 and finished 13th out of 25.

On April 14, both teams shined with

qualifying times in their respective 4x100s, with the women also taking wins the 100 m and 200 m races.

Freshman Sebastian Eaton, sophomore David Bryant and seniors David Henderson and Kenny Evely led the way in the 4x100 with 41.92, which was just .38 seconds shy of the school record. Henderson, along with sophomore Trae Robinson, also qualified in the 400 m with third and fourth place finishes.

Junior Nathaniela Bourdeau anchored in the women’s qualifying 4x100 team and took first in the 100 m and 200 m. Bourdeau has now won the 100 m for the third time and the 200 m twice at the Rider Invitational. Before running the 200 m, however, Bourdeau started to feel hesitant as the heat was starting to get to her. All she needed was a little push from her coaches, and it paid off.

“Sometimes I get in my head like that, and they [head coach Melody O’Reilly and assistant coach Teddy Meyers] were like ‘You’re running it,’” Bourdeau said. “For me, I feel I do a good job of holding myself together, but other times, I do feel I need someone to tell me no, this is what you’re going to do, and that’s exactly what they did for me.”

In the 800 m and 1500 m, it is noticeable that the team fell short of their competition.

While the times look concerning, O’Reilly is not too bothered with the results.

“It was the first hot day of the year, and it only continued to get worse by the after-

noon,” O’Reilly said. “The heat gets to the athletes, so there really is no concern if there was a slight drop in performance.”

There is still a long way to go until the end of the season, and the team still has plenty of time left to improve.

“We’re basically right where we ended last year,” Bourdeau said. “I think we’re a much stronger team, so I’m really excited to move forward.”

Both the men’s and women’s squads will return to action at the Larry Ellis Invitational in Princeton, N.J. on April 20.

Sophomore Emily Bracken races at the Colonial Relays (Photo by Rose O'Brien ’18).

Rowing teams find success in Philly NICK KARPINSKI ’21 Assistant Sports Editor The St. Joe’s men’s and women’s rowing teams had a successful showing on April 14 while competing in their respective events.

The men's Varsity 8 ended Drexel University's eight-year winning streak after finishing first in their feature event at the annual Kerr Cup on the Schuylkill River.

The women’s Varsity 8 captured second final in the same regatta by defeating Canisius University. Their Third Varsity 8 finished in second place behind Drexel, in what was a tight battle.

Heading into the men’s event, senior rower Claudio Recchilungo said winning the Murphy Cup two weeks prior gave them a lot of confidence.

“The confidence level was high,” Recchilungo said. “We had a good head on our shoulders. As a team, we believed that if we put our best race down that we can come out on top.”

Recchilungo said that while the eighty degree conditions were nice, the headwind made things difficult.

“We had to row against the headwind, which acted as a wall,” Recchilungo said.

“We had to try to take advantage of the conditions. Everyone has to go through the same weather. Our mentality is that if we can row better in this weather then usually you can win the race.”

Recchilungo said their rhythm in the boat helped them to perform as well as they did.

“Getting that same swing and momentum with everyone coinciding in the same motion is a big thing on our team across all boats,” Recchilungo said. “Developing a good rhythm and send allows us to work in unison.”

Recchilungo said their end goal is to make it to the Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championship.

“We want to win out the rest of the season with the ultimate goal of reaching IRA,” Recchilungo said.

The women also had a lot of confidence headed into the weekend after the team’s Third Varsity 8 was named Atlantic 10 Boat of the Week at the George Washington Invitational.

“There was definitely more confidence this week,” senior rower Maria Biancaniello said. “Winning boat of the week was a big deal for us and it helped us going into this week.”

Biancaniello said the warm conditions helped them a lot with their performance.

“We’re used to racing in all kinds of conditions. It’s something we love to do," Biancaniello said.

Biancaniello said she has an overall positive assessment of the team’s performance. She also said the team has improvements to make.

“We need to build as a team,” Biancaniello said. “We need to be unified and continue to build chemistry.”

Both the men’s and women’s teams return to action on April 21. The men will compete in the Bergen Cup and the women will compete in the Kelly Cup, both held in Philadelphia.