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The band plays on Athletics cuts then reinstitutes pep band performances at basketball games The St. Joe’s pep band plays outside Michael J. Hagan ’85 Arena on Dec. 7 before the men’s basketball game against Villanova University. PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE HAWK

SAM BRITT ’20 Sports Editor The St. Joe’s pep band will not have its schedule cut significantly this season, which would have eliminated many of their usual appearances at men’s and women’s basketball games.

A revised schedule sent to the band directors in late November, which The Hawk obtained, cut 16 games from the band’s schedule for the remainder of the season.

The games still to be played included both team’s senior nights and both team’s alumni day games. The games left on the schedule were all televised games. The games cut were not.

Tim Laushey, who is in his 26th season

as director, informed the band about the proposed changes.

“We didn’t have any input,” Laushey said.

In a Nov. 20 meeting with Athletics Director Jill Bodensteiner, J.D., several days before they received the revised performance schedule, Jim and Sue Lashey said Bodensteiner explained the athletic department couldn’t support the program in the way it had in the past. For the past two seasons, each band member has received a $40 stipend per game. Prior to that, they played without one.

The pep band wasn’t given a chance to play the potentially cut games for free, according to the directors and band members.

For Sue Laushey, who directs the band

with her husband, breaking the news to the students was tough.

“When we first told some of the students about the revised schedule, they were really upset,” Sue Laushey said. “They wanted to know why. We really don’t know exactly why they were revising it. I equated it to your parents telling you they were getting divorced and you are saying to them ‘What did we do? Was it us?’”

Senior Shannon Scimecca, pep band president, said she found the news about the schedule changes disappointing.

“Obviously this was really upsetting,” Scimecca said. “It was more for the look of the university and didn’t take into account how the students or the directors felt about

the decision.”

Senior Melissa Arnold, vice president for the band, said she was also upset by the news.

“It was really disappointing,” Arnold said. “It is something I have been involved in since my freshman year. I am very committed to the program. It was pretty disheartening.”

The athletic department declined to answer The Hawk’s questions about the reasoning behind the decision to cut games from the pep band’s schedule.

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Community Standards attempts to implement restorative justice In a religious bias incident reported to the Office of Community Standards, a St. Joe’s student was presented the option to use a “restorative justice approach” in the resolution of the incident. It is unclear whether the Office of Community Standards has actually implemented an official restorative justice program as an alternative to formal hearings when responding to bias incidents on campus.

When asked to respond to questions about the role of restorative justice in the Community Standards process, Bill Bordak, director of Community Standards,

responded that it would be best to “touch base again” in the spring 2020 semester.

“I am still engaged in research and, therefore, it is premature to engage in any conversations on implementation at this time,” Bordak wrote in an email to The Hawk.

Bordak is currently writing a dissertation on restorative justice.

As reported in the Dec 4. issue of The Hawk, a classmate of Sehar Macan-Markar ’22 made several offensive comments about Islam in a religious difference class.

During a Community Standards meeting Macan-Markar, chose the “restorative justice” option following Bordak’s suggestion.

She agreed to the option because it was described as a less formal process with less

severe punishments for the respondent, according to Macan-Markar.

According to Mary-Elaine Perry, Ed.D, Title IX coordinator, when a bias incident is reported, the Office of Public Safety and Security contacts the complainant. Then they meet with members of the Bias Activity Response Group, a four-member group that meets to assess bias incidents. The Bias Activity Response Group then passes the case to Community Standards, Perry said.

There is currently no mention of a restorative justice option for Community Standards within the Student Handbook. The only other resolution option in the handbook is an “Alternative Resolution.” “Alternative Resolutions are utilized to address

reports in the absence of formal charges for violations of policy, including through conflict resolution, facilitated dialogues, and/or mediation,” according to the handbook.

Although Perry said Community Standards is still organizing a restorative justice program, she said the current Alternative Resolution option includes a dialogue with the individuals involved in the incident.

“With more research, we will be working toward a restorative justice option, but we are not there yet,” Perry wrote in an email to The Hawk.

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FROM PAGE 1: COMMUNITY STANDARDS ATTEMPTS TO IMPLEMENT RESTORATIVE JUSTICE Macan-Markar said what was pitched to her was referred to as a “restorative justice” option, not an “alternative resolution.”

Tyler Keyworth, assistant director of Restorative Justice & Conflict Resolution at the University of Colorado Boulder, said restorative justice can be more challenging for respondents than regular punishment.

“Restorative justice gives people the opportunity to understand more about the harm and impact caused by their actions rather than just assuming,” Keyworth said.

“By placing punishments on folks, we assume they understand what they did was wrong, why it was wrong and how to avoid doing it again.”

Referring to the Dec. 4 Hawk story about Macan-Markar, Don Haldeman, J.D., adjunct professor of criminal justice and sociology, said he found the story to be “troublesome.”

“There were some things here that

weren’t right,” said Haldeman, who frequently facilitates restorative justice meetings. “That offender was not prepared to come into that space.”

Macan-Markar wasn’t prepared for the conversation, either.

“I understand they wanted to get my perspective, but I feel like a lot of it fell on me telling him this is what you did and it was wrong,” Macan-Markar said.

Haldeman said it is essential for facilitators of restorative justice programs to make sure both parties are prepared for whatever it is they are going to hear in a meeting.

“If it looks like it’s going to be problematic, you’re not going to do it. It stops,” Haldeman said. “And even when I start a face-toface dialogue, if it appears that the offender’s going off the trail, we’ll call a timeout.”

Keyworth said he cautions universities from implementing restorative justice too

early on a high level problem.

“It’s good to get all the kinks out of case management,” Keyworth said. “[Getting] that kind of stuff all ironed out with a straightforward process rather than starting with something that is relatively difficult.”

Haldeman also said in order to properly implement restorative justice in higher education, the university has to be “committed to it big time.”

“You have to put money towards it, you have to do the training, you have to have places to have conversation,” Haldeman said. “It’s not a piecemeal approach. It’s not a magic bullet. It takes hard work and commitment.

You have to be completely committed to restorative justice values and principles.”

Carly Calhoun ’21 and Emily Graham ’20 contributed to this story.

Free period products available in Student Health Center

Free pads and tampons have been availible in the Student Health Center's lobby since fall 2019. PHOTO: THE HAWK

CHARLEY REKSTIS ’20 Senior Editor University Student Senate (USS) is currently working on an initiative to provide free pads and tampons in bathrooms across campus.

Their goal is to have products available in all gender neutral bathrooms by spring 2020. Free liners and tampons have always been available in the Student Health Center bathroom and became available in the Health Center lobby in fall 2019.

Chris Gross ’20, health chair of USS, said USS is helping get the word out by creating flyers about the free products.

“We reached out to the Student Health Center about doing this and they already had a program that they had started except it was never actually published or put out there,” Gross said.

Eileen Bevilacqua, R.N., director of the Student Health Center and Kiersten White, assistant vice president of Student Life, were involved in the Health Center initiative to provide free tampons and liners in the health center bathroom.

“The Student Health Center has always supplied free tampons,” Bevilacqua said in an email to The Hawk. “They are available to students in the [Student Health Center]

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bathroom. [At] The beginning of the Fall 2019 semester the [Student Health Center] began offering free tampons and panty liners in the waiting room to any student in need.”

Asia Wittenberger ’22, another senator spearheading the USS initiative, said she got the idea to make menstrual products more accessible for students after attending the National Jesuit Student Leadership Conference in summer 2019. There she learned how students at St. Louis University created “Project Period.”

“If other colleges can do it, then we can do it too, we just have to care enough,” Wittenberger said.

Wittenberger believes making menstrual products accessible and free for those who need them is important because having a period is a natural bodily function.

“Accessibility across the board is so important,” Wittenberger said. “It doesn’t matter if it’s a locational issue or an economic issue. It’s just like toilet paper. We need it to sustain our bodies.”

This initiative for free period products comes at a time when discussions about periods are happening on a national level.

National Period Day, which was on Oct. 19, was created by PERIOD, a non-profit organization that advocates for menstrual equity,

product accessibility and affordability.

Wittenberger happened to be in need of menstrual products while watching a movie on campus one day.

“The CID bathroom is always stocked with pads and tampons so I went there,” Wittenberger said. “There’s such a stigma around periods. I believe that’s also the reason why products like this aren’t put in bathrooms because no one wants to address it.”

The next steps in the initiative are to determine the supply and demand of the products in the Health Center. The USS has to figure out how to fund the products and establish how to stock and restock the products.

“We want to see up until winter break, what the supply and demand in the Health Center is,” Gross said. “We don’t want to withdraw our entire supply and stretch out too quickly, but we do want to build this out across the campus.”

This is only the start of the initiative and it may take much longer until everything is steady, according to Wittenberger.

“This isn’t an overnight process,” Wittenberger said. “It’s going to take a lot of work. It might take a few years before anything is stable and in place for sure but we are going to keep pushing for it.”

CDO Search Continues ALEX HARGRAVE ’20 Digital Managing Editor Three finalists in the search for an associate provost of diversity, equity and inclusion visited campus from Dec. 2 to Dec. 6.

Each candidate met with members of the search advisory committee (SAC) and other campus leaders, and presented during a 45 minute open forum with the community throughout the week. The Hawk elected not to release the names of the candidates, as they are currently employed at other institutions.

Each presentation held in Forum Theater was attended by an average of approximately 70 people, including faculty, staff and students. Candidates spoke about their personal and professional backgrounds, as well as how they would approach diversity, equity and inclusion at St. Joe’s if they are hired.

Presentations covered a wide range of topics, including Title IX, bias incident response, marginalized student groups, faculty diversity training, undocumented student protection, St. Joe’s Jesuit identity and more.

Candidate presentations were also held in May of this year during the university’s prior search to fill the position that was then named “chief inclusion and diversity officer.” The search did not result in a hire.

The position has been vacant since former assistant provost for inclusion and diversity, Monica Nixon, Ed.D., left the university in July 2018. Waddell Ridley, MBA ’19, assistant vice president of government and community relations, currently serves as interim chief inclusion and diversity officer.

Following their presentations, candidates responded to questions from attendees, which was facilitated by SAC co-chairs Kim Allen-Stuck, Ph.D., assistant vice president of Student Success, and Janée Burkhalter, associate professor of marketing.

Allen-Stuck said open forums have been part of the interview process during the last three searches for a chief diversity officer and are common practice in higher education job searches.

“For the APDEI position there are so many members of the community who would like to be involved, so open forums are one way to accomplish this goal,” Allen-Stuck said in an email to The Hawk.

Those who attended candidate presentations were invited to complete an evaluation of each finalist, rating how well they think each candidate could fulfill the associate provost’s responsibilities outlined in the official position description on search firm Spelman Johnson’s website.

“The evaluations will be factored into the search committee’s review of the candidates, and the feedback from so many stakeholders will be very helpful,” Allen-Stuck said in an email to The Hawk.

The provost is expected to make an offer by mid-December, according to the Office of Inclusion and Diversity's website. Allen-Stuck said the anticipated start of the associate provost of diversity, equity and inclusion position will depend on the candidate’s availability.

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Relational service trip honors Jesuit martyrs in El Salvador GEORGE STEINHOFF ’21 Hawk Staff Three St. Joe’s students embarked on a five-day service trip to El Salvador last month in honor of the 30th anniversary of the assassination of six Jesuits and two women at the University of Central America (UCA) in San Salvador, El Salvador.

Maddelyn Guerke ’21, Michael Fontana ’20 and Odir Duenas ’20 were chosen by a panel of Campus Ministry staff to participate in the trip. Joining the students were three Jesuits from St. Joe’s, Bill Rickle, S.J., Peter Clark, S.J. and Brendan Lally, S.J., as well as Richard Gioioso, Ph.D., assistant professor of political science and director of the Latin America and Latinx studies program.

“Sincerity and dignity,” Duenas said.

“I’ve been reiterating this to everybody who has asked me about the trip.”

Duenas, whose family is from El Salvador, had family members involved in the civil war that resulted in the assassination of the six Jesuits and two women.

During the trip, Fontana said the St. Joe’s delegation learned more about the civil war that facilitated the assassination.

“It was a political power fight,” Fontana said. “The people were being suppressed, and they had had enough and were fighting for job rights, and working opportunities. The Jesuits were very highly supportive of the force movement.”

Rickle knew two of the Jesuit martyrs–Ignacio Martín-Baró and Ignacio Ellacuría Beascoechea–on a personal level. “[Ellacuría] was the principal target.

There’s no doubt about it,” Rickle said. “He had been actively engaged with getting the

Studemts and are making 'salt rugs' to honor the Jesuit Martyrs. PHOTOS: BILL RICKLE S.J.

two warring parties to sit down at the table and negotiate a peaceful settlement. The hypothesis is that the military did not want that, and that’s why they were killed.”

Although it has never been proven, then El Salvador president, Alfredo Cristiani, likely issued the military commands to assassinate the Jesuits, Rickle said.

At the recent commemoration, the St. Joe’s delegation joined other delegations from Jesuit universities across the U.S. and Central America to celebrate the lives of the martyrs.

“Thousands of people were celebrating mass, with hundreds of Jesuits on the podium saying mass in different languages,” Fontana said. “It was insane.”

While the student delegates from St. Joe’s

From left to right: Madde Guerke ’21, Nicolas Ramirez, Odir Duenas ’20 and Michael Fontana ’20 looking at the completed 'salt rugs.'

said the celebration was a great experience.

They also said they gained understanding from service they did while there about how the Jesuits approach justice and peace.

“I think what these martyrs really taught us is that if you truly want to help someone, you must live through them and live with them,” Duenas said. “These people, for one, totally immersed themselves into the conflict and difficulty that the people they wanted to help were going through, which was oppression, massive violence and genocide.”

Rickle said he witnessed this behavior even before the civil war.

“Virtually all of those men were university professors,” Rickle said. “But on the weekends they were out in the villages and in parishes holding mass, being with people and doing pastoral work.”

While in El Salvador, the group from St. Joe’s took a trip to interact with a community experiencing poverty on the side of a volcano. The group learned about two college students from the UCA El Salvador who visited the community twice a week, assisting single mothers there. Fontanta said the students’ interactions are the epitome of “relational service.”

“It was the body language to me that really signified that they lived and had a deep connection with these people who they really didn’t know at the beginning of the semester,” Fontana said. “They really leaned on each other. I thought that was really significant, the single mother [able] to lean on the student for camaraderie and support and whatever she needed at the time.”

Fontana, who had participated in immersion trips in the past, was taken aback by this form of service.

Department of Public Safety reports (Nov. 29 -Dec. 8) Dec. 5 Public Safety was notified by an area resident of a loud party involving St. Joe’s students taking place in the 5200 block of Church Lane. Public Safety and Philadelphia Police responded and dispersed the crowd. Community Standards was notified.

Dec. 8 Public Safety received a report online from the Bias Activity Response Group regarding a racial bias incident where a St. Joe’s "Spirit of Radio" member made a racially insensitive remark about African Americans. Public Safety forwarded the information immediately to Community Standards.

“I never had this ‘ah-ha’ moment that ‘this is solidarity’ until I was sitting there listening to their stories and watching them interact with their families,” Fontana said.

Relational service is not new to Duenas, who has been involved in this type of service since a young age.

Every Easter, while living in Southern California, Duenas said he and his family would drive to Tijuana on the Mexican border and hand out bagged lunches to people experiencing poverty.

“My mom would always say, ‘Don’t just give them the lunches, go up to them and talk to them. Ask them about their families, their life,” Duenas said. “Involve yourself in their journey.’”

Even before the El Salvador trip, Duenas said he has noticed short-comings in the way many Americans view service.

“Do we really care about those we are serving?” Duenas said. “Or do we just do it to put it on a resume or to get enough points to go to formal? Or do we do it just to take a picture with a brown kid like it’s a petting zoo?”

The UCA El Salvador students who helped guide the St. Joe’s delegation in El Salvador, according to Duenas, were a great example of caring about those they serve and a true representation of a Jesuit education.

“Their service and dedication to their community are not expressed through posters, announcements or any type of marketing, but is expressed through intensity and going the ‘extra mile’ for others,” Duenas said.

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Making the most of what we’ve created How to use social media in the next decade Editor in Chief Luke Malanga ’20 Managing Editor Emily Graham ’20 Copy Chief Kaila Mundell-Hill ’20 Faculty Adviser Shenid Bhayroo Contributing Adviser Jenny Spinner Senior Editor Charley Rekstis ’20 Digital Managing Editor Alex Hargrave ’20 Copy Editor Angelique Frazier ’20 Copy Editor Jackie Collins ’21 News Editor Cara Smith ’21

The end of the first semester gives us a time for reflection, both about the semester and the end of the year. However, this ending also gives us a time to reflect on the end of the decade as we are now moving into part two of the Roaring 20s.

A majority of the student body grew up in this decade. Many of us were 10 to 13 years old during the 2000s, but during the 2010s, we moved into our teens and twenties. With us grew the improvement of technology and the boom of social media.

After narrowing down what made this decade what it was, we have concluded that social media and increasing technological developments impacted most of what happens in society.

This generation has used social media as a mode for activism and mobilization.

Now that we have had 10 years to adapt to the change and over two billion people using social media, we need to rethink how we enter into this next decade and utilize what we’ve created to our advantage.

People are able to unite around a cause and spread awareness instantaneously. For example, issues like police violence against minorities, sexual assault and gun violence gained increasing recognition facilitated by the use of popular social media hashtags. #BLM, #MeToo, #MarchForOurLives and other movements utilized hashtags and social media to mobilize a following.

“Canceled culture” also came about in this decade. Specifically around issues like homophobia (think Chik-Fil-A funding anti-LGBTQIA+ organizations) and abuse (think famous singers losing a following after their survivors came forward). We started holding people accountable for unacceptable actions and decided whatever that person is doing now, they should not be let off the hook. This movement applies primarily in the realm of famous people, but canceled culture spreads from the top down.

Even here at St. Joe’s, we are starting to build a culture of accountability on campus. None of us should claim ignorance to racial bias, homophobia or sexism because we know it’s unacceptable to be a bystander to injustice; we are able to use social media to educate ourselves and others if it is not already apparent.

Let’s not forget, however, that while social media has allowed us to connect with others and spread news and intellectual property faster, it has also started a platform for growing debate, created a thin veil of personal privacy and facilitated negative mental health effects.

These platforms have allowed for election interference, the spread of fake news and hateful conspiracy theories. It has allowed for active shooters to livestream their actions onto a platform that reaches millions of people. It has allowed for terrorists,

both domestic and foreign, to publicize their threats and violence.

Social media has also created a landscape that enables hate and violence.

This should be another main focus to combat in the years to come. While use different platforms to create a culture of accountability, justice and visibility for marginalized groups, we need to address the hate that comes with social media as well.

As 2019 winds down and 2020 finally approaches, we encourage all of our readers to reflect on the role social media and technology have played in our individual lives.

We need to make it a priority in the years and decades to come to curate a culture that both combats hate and promotes activism, and make this the new norm.

—The Editorial Board

This week’s Editorial Board is comprised of the Digital Managing Editor, Copy Editors, Sports Editor, Assistant Features Editor, Assistant Social Media Editor, Online Editor, Assistant News Editor, Photo Editor, News Editor, Editor in Chief, Special Projects Editor, Managing Editor, Copy Chief and Opinions Editor. This editorial reflects the views of the Board and not the entire Hawk staff.

The Hawk welcomes Letters to the Editor, typically no more than 300 words. They can be emailed to hawk.editorial@gmail.com.

Assistant News Editor Carly Calhoun ’21 Opinions Editor Devin Yingling ’22 Assistant Opinions Editor Hadassah Colbert ’20 Features Editor Kaitlyn Patterson ’20 Assistant Features Editor Zach Dobinson ’22 Sports Editor Sam Britt ’20 Assistant Sports Editor Ryan Mulligan ’21 Assistant Sports Editor Matt DeLeo ’20

Letter to the Editor The St. Joe’s Campus Ministry staff is grateful for The Hawk Newspaper’s Dec. 4 editorial responding to religious bias. Campus Ministry desires to be an ally to students who face religious discrimination.

We want to support all students of diverse religious backgrounds and to promote interreligious dialogue. Indeed, the General Congregation (GC) 34 of the Society of Jesus describes the promotion of interreligious dialogue as a “special responsibility” and an “urgent task.” According to GC 34, this “culture of dialogue” should become “a

distinctive characteristic of the Society.”

The Vatican II document “Nostra Aetate” encourages Christians and Muslims to “work sincerely for mutual understanding and to preserve as well as to promote together for the benefit of all...social justice and moral welfare, as well as peace and freedom.”

In addition, we would like to echo the Faculty Senate’s Dec. 4 condemnation of all forms of racism and bigotry. In 2018, the U.S. Catholic Bishops published a pastoral letter “Open Wide Our Hearts: A Pastoral Letter Against Racism.” Our Jesuit, Cath-

olic tradition calls us to work to eradicate racism, bias, intolerance and bigotry in all forms. We are called to create communities of authentic relationship, justice, peace, solidarity and radical hospitality. We welcome a continuation of the campus conversation about how to put these words into action.

−Campus Ministry

Special Projects Editor Nick Karpinski ’21 Photo Editor Mitchell Shields ’22 Online Editor Alex Mark ’20 Social Media Manager Natalie Drum ’20 Assistant Social Media Manager Julia Koerwer ’23 Business Manager Angela DiMarco ’22 Assistant Business Manager Collin Messenger ’22 Distribution Manager Gavin O'Reilly ’20

Letter to the Editor The Dec. 4 issue of The Hawk reported on yet another incident of a member of the St. Joe’s community being verbally demeaned, this time apparently because of religious caricature and bigotry.

We wonder why the desire to humiliate people seems more and more widespread, not only on our campus, but in the world in general. Worse, with others in our community we’ve struggled with how to respond to recent mass killings around the world of Christians, Muslims, Jews and Sikhs even while they were at prayer.

While there is a vast gulf between verbal insults and murder, history shows that when a society becomes inured to hostility against identifiable groups, there is a slippery slope from negative speech, to social avoidance,

to civil and legal discrimination, to physical attacks, and, ultimately, to genocide.

The Dec. 4 editorial rightly noted that insulting the adherents of any religious tradition “contradicts the very mission” of St. Joe’s and saw a “need for religious tolerance at a Jesuit institution.” We agree with the minimal standard of tolerance, but believe that St. Joe’s Jesuit and Catholic identity (and the vision of the Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations that we direct) aspires to something more profound: building genuine friendships with those who differ from us in some way.

A rabbinic saying declares that human diversity reflects the greatness of the Creator. In a Quranic passage, God says that humanity was created in diverse “nations

and tribes so that you might come to know one another.” Pope Francis has explained that his ongoing dialogues with Rabbi Abraham Skorka, Ph.D., were “very important because my religious life became richer with his explanations, so much richer.”

This is what the St. Joe’s community is dedicated to. Much more than the mere toleration of our differences, we seek constantly to be mutually enriched by them. −Philip A. Cunningham, Ph.D., director, Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations −Adam Gregerman, Ph.D. Assistant director, Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations

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Listen to students of color ...and you might learn something HADASSAH COLBERT ’20 Assistant Opinions Editor Recently on two separate occasions, I had my boyfriend and best friend, who are both black, voice that they felt their white group members in class were not listening to them. Either they did not believe them when they pointed out the fallacies in their projects, or they simply were not listening to or considering their suggestions for the project.

These are not special or random occurrences. Racial bias is an insidious thing that creeps into most aspects of life and academia. Peer interactions are no exception.

Black students and other students of color face racial bias frequently.

According to Education Week, “As of 2008, 82.7% of Asian students and 78.4% of white students graduated high school on time, whereas the same was true for only 57.6% of Hispanic students, 57% of black students, and 53.9% of American Indian students.” There are also corresponding incongruencies for other measures of education, such as standardized test scores.

Some of this bias can be contributed to societal factors, thanks to how our country was built and who has subsequently been oppressed. However, the rest of the bias can be chalked up to what many studies have called “classroom bias.”

According to The Graide Network, the way in which a teacher believes in a student, their academic skills and potential become a “vital ingredient for student success.” This is due to the fact that teachers attitudes towards students are linked to how far the students believe they will go academically, their attitudes toward academics and their ideas of their academic achievement.

Teachers and professors do not inher-

tors. Thus, teachers are not the only ones who are capable of classroom bias. If teachers are perpetuating this bias, that creates a classroom culture that reinforces discriminatory attitudes.

The idea that white people are smarter or more intelligent than other races is an age old racist theory. The idea of eugenics was something popularized in the United Kingdom, specifically England, and not in Nazi

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it this bias when they become educators: clearly this is something that was planted in their heads before they became educa-

Germany, as many would lead you to believe.

During slavery and Jim Crow, eugenics and phrenology were used to explain why

certain ethnicites were superior or infierior to each other. Unfortunately, it is clear that these attitudes have lingered into current times and current classrooms.

I am tired of expressing my ideas and opinions during group projects and being ignored. I know I’m not the only person of color here at St. Joes who has the experience of suggesting something to my peers only to be ignored and have a white student say the same exact thing two minutes later.

It is frustrating because not only were you just ignored, but someone repeated the exact same thing you said and was praised for it. It is something that has made me feel small and unimportant in the past. And for more shy and introverted students of color this can be a greater deterrent for them when deciding whether they feel comfortable speaking up during group projects or even just speaking in class.

In one instance I was in a Black Women’s Writers course and I was framing my experience around a topic as a black woman when a white female student cut me off to express what I was saying. Not only is the irony strong, but this is a great example of how students of color can start to feel during group work: frustrated.

The lesson to be learned here is to pay attention to what biases you might hold that you are unaware of. The next time you question someone's intelligence or are quick to dismiss them, think to yourself, “Why do I feel this way?”

The loss of a father What it’s like to have a parent die in college PATRICK HOTCHKISS ’20 Guest Columnist

Around 11 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 6, my mom called me. The usual call goes something like: “Hey, Pat, are the Eagles playing today? How are you? Did you do well on that paper?” But this wasn’t the usual call.

“Pat, I just wanted to let you know that Dad passed away a few minutes ago,” she told me. She told me she would wait a few minutes to tell the hospice staff. She wanted to spend more time with him.

I had just driven home to Scranton, Pennsylvania to see him the day before, and he wasn’t well. He had been sick for a long time, so I knew this would happen soon.

Still, I wasn’t expecting the news. Maybe no one ever expects that kind of news.

My dad was 79 when he died. No, that’s not a typo. My dad was old. Grow-

ing up people would always say, “Aw, it’s so nice that you’re with your grandpa all the time.” I’d tell them that he was actually my dad and that he was just really old. His age never bothered me, though.

I knew he’d die before my friend’s dads, too, but that didn’t really bother me, either. At that time, his death was something in the future that I didn’t have to think about.

my friends.

I’m not complaining though. His kind demeanor never changed no matter how bleak his situation may have looked, and he never stopped loving my mom and I. In May, my dad had a stroke. He didn’t become paralyzed, but he already had dementia and the stroke worsened his mind greatly. That’s when the thought that he’d die before my friends’ dads became a reality.

“At first, school work was a good way to keep my mind off his death. This worked for maybe two or three weeks. Then things got harder.”

When I was 13, my dad’s health began to decline. When I was 16, he couldn’t take pictures with me for prom because he couldn’t get up the steps into my friend’s house. By the time I arrived at St. Joe’s, it became hard to ignore that he was different from the other dads. He couldn’t help me move into dorms. He couldn’t remember

In the two months since he died, I’ve found that studying for exams, writing papers, and doing my homework suddenly has become much harder to deal with.

At first, school work was a good way to keep my mind off his death. This worked for maybe two or three weeks. Then things got harder.

I’m around people all day at St. Joe’s.

Everyone is nice to me, and I’m nice to them. I don’t act any different than before, but things are different for me now. They just are. My father is dead.

I didn’t tell anybody at St. Joe’s about his death for those two or three weeks.

Who would want to hear that? I thought most college kids wouldn’t even know how to respond. It can feel lonely enough, and I didn’t want to feel lonelier.

Eventually I realized that not talking about it was making it worse. So I approached all of my professors. I said out loud, “My dad died.” They were all great, and their kindness and understanding really helped.

It’s still hard for me to tell people my own age. I know that I’m not the only person in college who’s lost a parent. I know that people will understand. But I still can’t bring myself to say it most of the time.

My dad died. Saying it makes it real.

And I’m not sure I’m ready for that, yet.

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What it’s like living with diabetes A narrative on dealing with the disease EDWARD BLACKBURN ’20 Guest Columnist Since I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2010, my life has always revolved around who I was as a diabetic rather than as a human. Diabetes is a chronic, life-altering disease that is classified by pancreatic inability.

There are actually three classifications of diabetes, which most people did not know: type 1, type 2 and gestational diabetes. Whenever asked about my condition, the questions I am usually hit with is either “Is yours the bad one?” or “Does that mean you have too much or too little sugar?”

It is alarming how little people know about this disease. Diabetes is about my pancreas not working inside of my body, therefore there are a lot of fluctuations in “how much sugar” I have in my body.

And technically yes, I suppose type 1 is the “bad one,” since I will live with it until I die and it poses multiple long-term, degenerative threats to my well-being if I

do not take care of my health.

These diseases should be looked at separately to get a grip on what they truly entail.

For type 2 diabetes, you either have a family history of the disease, or more likely, you acquire the disease from having an unhealthy lifestyle in terms of diet and exercise; it is easy to treat with the therapies available today. Gestational diabetes simply lasts the duration of a woman’s pregnancy.

I was a healthy and active child with

disease a lot through my early teenage years. It was hard to hear that I would need to change my lifestyle completely in order to keep my health in check.

As a younger person, my greatest muddle with the disease was time. It took away from normal activities. Participating in sports required vigilance because exercise lowers your blood sugar. Eating required extreme vigilance because carbohydrates increases your blood sugar.

“I want to dedicate my career to working with the company that is set on finding a more effective cure to the disease...” no family history of diabetes. Being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes was up to chance, as the only reason I was given for my diagnosis was that the sequence of my genome put me at risk to acquire diabetes, and it was going to require a great deal of my attention in life to keep it from really harming me.

Looking back at my diagnosis, it was hard to come to terms with the gravity of the situation, which led me to ignoremy

Being a normal kid was hard when having to take time during sports to check my blood sugar or having to wait before eating with my friends to give myself insulin first.

Advances in technology have made diabetes easier to control, however there are still many problems for diabetics.

As of now, being a young adult set to graduate this spring, my number one concern is affordability in the future. I do

have time until I am off my family’s insurance plan, but having a chronic disease is very expensive, and it will be a constant cost throughout my life.

Insulin is overpriced, but I have no choice in whether to fill my prescription because my body does not produce any and I’ll die without it. I’ve had to deal with the pressure of switching to alternative treatments because of insurance and formulary changes leading to unaffordable prices, and I do worry about affording care for myself on an entry level salary.

The one positive I’ve gained from living with diabetes is a drive. I am a pharmaceutical and healthcare marketing major, and I interned at a global diabetes company this past summer.

I want to dedicate my career to working with the company that is set on finding a more effective cure to the disease and better the quality of life for the millions of people living with this condition, because a true cure is a possibility within the next few decades.

Until then, catch me pricking my finger four times a day and playing on a device that resembles a pager whenever I need to eat.

The genius behind the release of Disney+ Bringing young adults back to their childhood KARLEIGH LOPEZ ’20 Columnist As a communications major, I have been taught to consider the implications of major corporations owning digital content and overseeing the means by which we consume it.

Therefore, I felt no particular pull to join the Disney+ phenomenon.

Disney+ felt like yet another powerful company abusing its power to repackage and sell us something we already had access to—it felt deceitful and very un-Disney.

I staunchly maintained this stance until I visited home for Thanksgiving break.

Of course, the first thing my twin 7-yearold brother and sister wanted to show me was their new Disney+ subscription. My parents did not think twice before subscribing to the service.

“It’s an essential when you have little kids,” my stepmother assured me.

With my two mini-mes on my lap, temptation eroded my will and I launched Disney+ on our living room TV. Mere seconds into clicking through the options, as if a divine power had intervened to alter my negative assumptions about the service, there it was: “A Bug’s Life.”

This 1998 film was a prized VHS tape in the Lopez household when I was younger. It had somehow escaped my memory entirely until this moment. Without even consulting the twins, I selected it from the

menu and said, “You guys will love this movie, I promise.”

Together on the couch, our 15 year age gap rendered unimportant as we sat enjoying the same movie. For them, the entertainment of watching a new movie was enough to keep them still. But for me, rewatching a movie which had been

their careful attention to detail, allowing them to capture, harness and recreate the magic of childhood innocence.

I have noticed this has become especially important to my generation: the cuspers. Caught somewhere in between Millennials and Generation Z but unable to wholly identify with either, those who

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a cornerstone of my own childhood, I understood how Disney has been able to evade the negative press of removing their content from all other streaming services.

Disney+ capitalizes on the unique power of nostalgia. Disney as a company has such an immense following due to

are born in the late 90s and early 2000s are effectively coined “the cuspers.” Our generation grew up at the same rate that technology rapidly advanced, making the gadgets we used as children now archaic.

My little siblings will never understand the plight of the early 2000s kid rewinding

a VHS tape.

Among the unique struggles of being a cusper, our generation is currently integrating into the job force and navigating college debt. Situating the release of the streaming service at the end of this decade, the power of nostalgia that Disney+ elicits is further heightened among the cuspers. It brings us back to the whimsy of our childhood that we often feel so far removed from.

It makes perfect sense that Disney+ is as popular with adults as it is with children. No one is too old for Mickey Mouse.

My generation’s kryptonite is nostalgia. We grew up surrounded by a rapidly changing social and cultural environment.

Whereas other generations may find themselves easily categorical, it is hard for us to be definitively ourselves.

Significant societal changes and technological advancements over the past decade contributed to older generations misunderstanding our age group, alienating us in our most vulnerable years: the transition out of adolescence.

By culminating decades of Disney classics unto a united platform, Disney+, whether it was intentional or not, created what my generation needed most: a reminder to never stop enjoying what made you happy as a kid.

Though I want to be critical of Disney for pulling their content from various platforms, for now I will play the “broke college kid” card while I still can and use my parents Disney+ account to get me through the stress of finals.

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‘Fun Home’ sparks conversations about identity ANNIE MEKO ’22 Hawk Staff The SJU Theatre Company presented the musical production of “Fun Home,” adapted from the 2006 graphic memoir of the same name by cartoonist Alison Bechdel. There were four performances from Dec. 6 through Dec. 8.

The graphic memoir “Fun Home” recounts Bechdel’s life and her experiences growing up in a funeral home in rural Pennsylvania. In this story, she discusses her sexuality, her relationship with her secretly gay father and coping with his eventual suicide.

Raegan Davies ’21 played the role of adult Bechdel and said that although “Fun Home” may not seem relatable on the surface, there is so much in the show that everyone can relate to.

“It is such a universal show,” Davies said. “There’s a parent-teenager relationship, everyone can relate to that. There are anxieties about finding friends in college [and] those feelings of your first love. It’s so important to be able to see yourself in others and this show really does that for people. That’s why it’s a really important story to tell.”

The musical is told from the point of view of adult Bechdel, who is onstage behind her desk for the entire performance drawing cartoons about episodes from her life. As adult Bechdel, Davies draws and writes captions.

A young Bechdel, played by Lauren Sass, appears on stage and recounts the dynamics her father, played by Paul McElwee brought to their household. Next, a college-age Bechdel, played by Lilly Mc-

Cann ’21, talks about discovering her sexuality in college. At different times, adult Bechdel enters the main scene and narrates and evaluates her changing relationship with her father.

McCann said she initially struggled to find ways to connect with the character of college-age Bechdel, because she is not a member of the LGBTQIA+ community. But she soon realized that she is more similar to her character than she thought.

“Coming into college, you know nothing about yourself and you’re just trying to find yourself,” McCann said. “I think that was a huge thing for me.”

Before the show on Dec. 7, The Alliance, a St. Joe’s faculty and staff organization dedicated to creating a safe campus environment on campus, held a dinner with students, faculty and staff to discuss and watch the production together.

Amy Lipton, Ph.D., co-chair of The Alliance, said it is important that the story of “Fun Home” is told on St. Joe’s campus because there are students who can relate to Bechdel’s story.

“I think some students come here with secrets and are discovering their sexuality, and that’s what the story is about,” Lipton said. “I think it’s a great opportunity for people to see. It’s like, if you can see it, you can be it.”

Lipton said theater has always been an important way to connect people to each other and to new ideas.

“Theater is a wonderful way for people to connect with themselves, with ideas that they have not been exposed to before, or feelings that they feel and that they don’t feel like they can express,” Lipton said. “It’s being expressed in a different way, in a much more accessible way.”

Davies was one of four St. Joe’s students in “Fun Home’s” cast. PHOTO: MELISSA KELLY

Dave Sucharski ’07, alum of the SJU Theatre Company, said he was touched by the fact that St. Joe’s was presenting such an inclusive story.

“This show embraces open sexuality regardless of homosexual or heterosexual relationship,” Sucharski said. “It [is] great to see the St. Joe’s community embrace that type of conversation.”

Director Renee Dobson said to her, “Fun Home” is one of the best musicals of the 21st century because it resonates so widely.

“Alison Bechdel’s true and personal story has resonated with so many who have experienced similar life circumstances, and succeeds in creating empathy in the audiences that have experienced it,” Dobson said.

Laura Pattillo, Ph.D. who directs the straight plays or non-musicals, for the SJU Theatre Company also said “Fun Home” is

important because of its wide reach and relevance to the students on the St. Joe’s campus.

“It brings to life a family that some might not think has much in common with their own families until they see it and are moved by it, and that is something really special that the art of live theatrercan do,” Pattillo said.

McCann said the most important part of the production for her was seeing the impact it had on everyone who came to see it.

“Realizing that you are putting on a show that is going to affect someone whether they’re going to admit it to you or not, somebody is going to walk out of that audience and think, ‘I needed to see that,’ and I think that’s a really great thing,” McCann said.

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Students decorate Wolfington for holiday season PAT TADDEI ’22 Hawk Staff On a cold Tuesday morning before Thanksgiving break, Kathy Toner, administrative assistant for Campus Ministry, was playing Mrs. Claus while directing an army of student elves to help get Wolfington Hall ready for the holiday season.

This year’s decorating marked the 25th anniversary of this campus tradition.

Toner has been there since the beginning, when Campus Ministry moved its offices into Wolfington Hall in 1994.

By the time they were finished, a 10 foot decorated tree occupied the main room, wreaths and garland adorned the fireplaces, and stockings hung on the fireplace in the community room.

Dave Hummel ’20, who frequents Wolfington Hall during the day, said he loves participating in this tradition.

“I thought that decorating was just one of the things I could do to help out, try to get into the holiday spirit,” Hummel said as he was decorating the tree.

Javon Lee ’20, who helped finish the garland over the fireplace, is a fan of the cookies and cocoa station set up in the community room.

“The way this brings people together is special,” Lee said, who has been helping to decorate Wolfington Hall since his first year at St. Joe’s.

“We can all gather together outside of stress or school and studying and all that,” Lee said.

Molly Weber ’22 was in charge of documenting the decorating process on Instagram.

“It was really fun,” Weber said. “I know I always am looking on the Instagram story so hopefully people saw it and saw it was fun and more people came by.”

Decorations in Wolfington Hall help to ring in the holiday season. PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE HAWK

As with many seniors decorating one last time, Hummel was just happy to be there.

“There’s just something about the holidays that really gets people together and makes everything feel more festive,” Hummel said.

One of Toner’s favorite traditions is not in Wolfington itself, but next door in the Chapel of St. Joe’s.

Located in the back of the chapel near the entrance, The Giving Tree was deco-

rated with ornaments bearing the names of organizations where students in weekly service programs helped out during the semester. St. Joe’s community members were encouraged to take an ornament and help spread the love throughout the holidays, Nancy Horowitz-Patton, administrative assistant for Campus Ministry, said.

“People are very generous throughout the year but particularly at Christmas, including our students,” Horowitz-Patton said.

Toner and Horowitz-Patton stood surveying the community room during the event. They were looking at the garland going up on the fireplace and making sure that the wreath was placed properly.

“There’s a lot of friendships, a lot of love, a lot of snacks, a lot of laughs and good music,” Horowitz-Patton said.

Popeye’s chicken sandwich: is it worth the hype?

EDDIE DAO ’22 Hawk Staff Dozens of people lined up outside Popeye’s in downtown Harrisburg, Pennsylvania an hour before it opened one morning in mid-August, including Dillon Snyder ’20.

Snyder, like the others, was there for a new chicken sandwich, which the fast food fried chicken chain had announced three days earlier via a tweet on Aug. 12. The tweet got over 5,000 retweets and 31,000 likes.

Snyder was able to get a sandwich right before the store sold out. As he was leaving, a man offered him $25 for the sandwich. When Synder declined, the man negotiated up to $30. Synder still declined.

“I thought about it, but I thought, if he’s offering me $30, then this sandwich must be good,” Snyder said. “I just wanted to be a part of the culture and what was going on.”

The sandwich comes in both regular and spicy versions, with a piece of crispy, buttermilk fried chicken on a sweet brioche bun and mayo slathered on both sides of the bun. An individual sandwich costs $3.99, and a combo meal with a sandwich, side and drink costs $7.

But is ti worth the hype?

Kayla Roberts ’20 thought it was “pretty good” when she ordered it through Uber Eats from the Popeye’s on City Avenue. But Roberts did not find the sandwich to be worth all the long lines.

“I don’t understand the crazy lines of people trying to get it all the time,” Roberts said.

Some of the sandwich’s pop phenomenon seems to stem from a Twitter spat that Popeye’s engaged in with Chick Fil-A, one of its biggest competitors in the chicken sandwich market, and Wendy’s, another competitor. Much has

Many people debate if the hype over the chicken sandwich is valid. PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE HAWK

been said about the sandwich by the Black Twitter community, which helped propel the sandwich to viral stardom as well.

Feng Shen, Ph.D., associate professor of marketing, said Popeye’s used social media effectively to build hype around the sandwich and draw attention to its brand.

“It’s like they’re using a word of mouth communication model in a new way,” Shen said. “The key is to get people’s attention and get them interested.”

By Aug. 27, the company announced the sandwich was completely sold out in stores,

but promised it would be back soon.

It took over two months, but on Nov. 3, the sandwich was back to coincide with National Sandwich Day, again to long lines of customers. Nov. 3 was also a Sunday, the day of the week Chick-Fil-A closes. The next day, at a Popeye’s in Oxon Hill, Maryland, a man was stabbed to death after an altercation in a line.

Obeid Shah, assistant manager of the City Avenue Popeye’s, said when the sandwich first launched, the store had roughly 1,800 orders per day just for chicken sandwiches. On many days this past month, the line of cars trying to

get into the Popeye’s parking lot has caused traffic on City Avenue.

Since the sandwich came back on Nov. 3, Shah said they “have had between 700 and 900 chicken sandwich orders per day.”

As for Snyder, he said if he knew the sandwich would be coming back months later, he would’ve taken the $30 for it. Still, he thought it was a good sandwich.

“It was worth the wait and the hype,” Snyder said.

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Students make the holidays greener with second annual Conscious Consumer Market KAITLYN PATTERSON ’20 Features Editor The North Lounge in Campion Student Center was a little bit greener as the second annual Conscious Consumer Market took place on Dec. 5. The market was hosted by the Fair Trade Club in hopes to promote more sustainable consumer habits, raise money for different organizations and showcase sustainable businesses.

The market included vendors that use sustainable practices, relate to the surrounding community or are fair trade.

“There are three main parts of fair trade,” Olivia O’Reilly ’20, member of the Fair Trade Club, said. “There’s sustainability and making sure everything is green for the environment, making sure there are livable wages and good working conditions, and making sure things go back to the community.”

Vendors included student businesses, community organizations and fair trade companies.

As shoppers explored each vendor, they drank hot cocoa from their own reusable mugs, which was encouraged by the Fair Trade Club as a way to limit the amount of waste the event produced. In addition, a variety of vegan baked treats were available for purchase with the profits going to different organizations like

Students met with professional and sustainable student businesses. PHOTO: KERRI GRECO ’22/THE HAWK

the Global Fund for Women and the National Alliance to End Homelessness.

O’Reilly said the time of year for this event to happen was important.

“As the holidays are approaching and everybody’s buying things, it’s really important that you are using your power of purchase for ethical means and for a

greater good,” O’Reilly said.

Madison Cassel ’20, president of the Fair Trade Club, explained that as students, we have an important role during this holiday season.

“We have to look at how we shop and consume and try to do our best to cut down on waste, and also pick brands that are ethi-

cal and conscious,” Cassel said. “The holidays are that time where you can overspend and overbuy, so if you’re going to buy, make sure you’re doing it with purpose in mind.”

Maurice Jones represented People Advancing Reintegration (PAR) Recycle Works at the market, selling t-shirts and hats as well as collecting technology waste. The nonprofit organization’s mission is to recycle electronics and help formerly incarcerated men and women transition into the workplace.

Jones explained that PAR-Recycle Works has a continued partnership with St. Joe’s through Weekly Service and Magis service program students.

“Having the students being involved with the community as a whole makes a difference,” Jones said. “People are coming from all over the world to come to St. Joe’s and Philadelphia and there’s a lot of help that those students can provide by working together and serving others.”

Cassel said having this type of event, especially during the holidays is important to have on campus.

“Events like this really go in hand with the St. Joe’s values,” Cassel said. “Care for things big and small, care for the whole person, and that’s kind of what these brands stand for.”

The 2010s track by track ZACH DOBINSON ’22 Assistant Features Editor The 2010s produced an era of music that played a role in the lives of many St. Joe’s students. The current student body grew up largely during this decade. Not only are our tastes in music reflections of us, but we are reflections of our music. Hip-hop and pop dominated the music world and many of the most popular songs and albums came from these genres.

The list below was compiled based on albums that have either impacted the music world, caused society to stop and talk about it or redefine what it means to belong to one genre. Check out some of the most iconic albums of the decade below: “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy”

by Kanye West (2010) “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” redefined what a rap album can look like. The orchestration behind this album dips into pop, hip-hop, R&B and alternative rock with West conducting it all the way through. The list of collaborators is seemingly endless, but a few include Jay-Z, Nicki Minaj, John Legend and Bon Iver. West’s artistic ability is evident as this album has yet to leave to The Billboard 200 chart.

“Born This Way” by Lady Gaga (2011) Gaga has gone from wearing her infamous meat dress in 2010 to winning Oscars and Grammys in 2019. “Born This Way” encompasses some of Gaga’s most iconic songs like “Marry the Night,” “The Edge of Glory” and the album’s titular song, “Born This Way.” Epitomizing what it means to love yourself, “Born This Way” is obviously and unapolegetically an LGBTQIA+ anthem that became an instant classic. Listeners were shown exactly who Lady Gaga was with her second studio release: brave, artistic and ambitious. “channel ORANGE” by Frank Ocean (2012) Frank Ocean changed the way people listen to R&B with the release of his debut studio album. If you close your eyes while listening to the album it sounds more like a movie than it does an album. Fresh off his time spent with

Odd Future, a rap group based in Los Angeles, Ocean released “channel ORANGE” which was met with high acclaims (three Grammy nominations and one win). This album didn’t go platinum, but it gave us instant classics like “Thinking Bout You” and haunting social commentary on “Bad Religion.”

“Bangerz” by Miley Cyrus (2013) With the release of this highly talked

“Hamilton” by Original Broadway Cast (2015) Very rarely does Broadway find itself in the mainstream of music, but Lin Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop opera did just that. Besides popularizing Broadway for the first time in a long time, “Hamilton” redefined what it meant to be a musical. By telling the story of a white founding father with a mixed race cast and hip-hop music, Miranda tells the story of

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about rebranding, Miley Cyrus made it very clear that her alter ego, Hannah Montana, was a thing of the past. “She was murdered,” Cyrus said while hosting Saturday Night Live soon after this album’s debut. Cyrus showed society she was destined to be more than a Disney star. Songs like “Wrecking Ball,” “We Can’t Stop” and “FU” span the emotional spectrum.

There are songs to cry to, party to and use as your own personal anthems, but not in the pop-country way we got used to Cyrus releasing beforehand.

“2014 Forest Hills Drive” by J. Cole (2014) J. Cole has always been an artist that let his music do the talking for him. A man of his music, Cole takes listeners into his youth as the album’s title is the address of his childhood home in North Carolina. Cole proves he’s more than just a rapper; he’s a storyteller, exploring the topics of race, relationships and wealth. While this album certainly had its more popular songs like “Wet Dreamz” and “No Role Modelz,” people remember this album as a whole rather than individual hit tracks.

America’s past with a modern twist. Oh, and not to mention the fact that “Hamilton” also won 11 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.

“Lemonade” by Beyoncé (2016) Lemonade was an in-depth look into Beyoncé’s marriage as well her identity as a black woman, which made her more relatable. Beyoncé has for a long time made her lifestyle and career appear flawless, b ut w ith t he a nnouncement that the future of her marriage was uncertain there was a crack in the facade.

With powerful anthems such as “Formation,” “Freedom” and Malcolm X’s voice-over in “Don’t Hurt Yourself,” Beyoncé takes pride in who she is, what she looks like and where she comes from and challenges listeners and black fans to do the same.

“ANTI” by Rihanna (2016) For those who may not know, Rihanna did in fact make music before running the world with her makeup and fashion companies. With “ANTI” being RiRi’s latest release, the album has certainly held its own for nearly four years. “ANTI” racked up six Grammy nominations at the 2017 awards, and last week

it became the first album by a black woman to spend 200 weeks on The Billboard 200 chart.

Dance hits like “Work,” anthems like “Needed Me” and “Woo” and ballads like “Close to You” round out a body of work, and Rihanna makes it look effortless. “reputation” by Taylor Swift (2017) “I’m sorry, the old Taylor can’t come to the phone right now. Why? Oh, cause she’s dead.”

Swift has always found ways of saying everything she needs to through her songs. On songs like “I Did Something Bad” and “Don’t Blame Me,” Swift makes one thing clear: “My reputation’s never been worse, so / You must like me for me.” Embracing the “Kimye” (Kim Kardashian and Kanye West) drama that threatened her social image in 2016, Swift gives listeners a new sound, something dark and layered, yet delicate.

“Invasion of Privacy” by Cardi B (2018) Besides currently being one of the most outspoken celebrities, Cardi takes pride in her work, her lifestyle and her past. The range offered on this debut album is something that usually takes artists multiple albums to compile, Cardi seamlessly blends island sounds (“I Like It”) and storytelling (“Get Up 10’ and “Be Careful”) with hints of R&B (“Ring” and “Thru Your Phone”) all in one album. “Invasion of Privacy” was nothing short of a smash hit as it won a Grammy award, had two number one hits (making Cardi the first female rapper to achieve this on the same album) and has been certified triple platinum.

“WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?” by Billie Eilish (2019) Few artists are all of the following: chart toppers, Coachella performers and Grammy nominees, especially soon after the release of their debut album. Fewer are 17 years old. Billie Eilish joins the likes of Lana Del Rey and Lorde in the sense that she pushes the boundaries of pop music. The alternative pop vibe of this album differentiated Eilish from other pop albums released this year. Eilish wasn’t afraid to embrace dark and weird themes for visuals and lyrics, and by doing so she has solidified her place in pop music.

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FROM PAGE 1: THE BAND PLAYS ON SAM BRITT ’20 Sports Editor When news of the schedule changes spread on social media, St. Joe’s students and alumni rallied behind the pep band, reaching out to athletics asking them to reconsider.

“I’m calling out to all of my followers but more specifically SJU alumni to either @ our athletic director or email her asking to keep the pep band and add them to more games,” Twitter account @thwnd_ harold said. “The energy they provide to the atmosphere cannot be matched without them! #THWND” Fans of St. Joe’s expressed their view that the pep band was an important part of the game day experience.

“I am VERY disappointed about this decision regarding the @SJUPepBand,” Twitter account @SJUhawk4ever said.

“They are integral to the overall fan experience and game time environment. I will be sharing my thoughts about this with those who have the ability to make the necessary and appropriate change."

Scimecca said seeing an outpouring of support on social media meant a lot.

"It was heartwarming for me and my directors because I didn’t realize people really cared about us so much,” Scimecca said. “I feel like people think we are a tradition that is standing for the university.

They wanted us to stay. They were reaching out to the athletics department. There was a big alumni presence that was reaching out and the students as well.”

Tim Laushey described his reaction to the social media support in one word: “shocked.”

“We are up there in the stands in our own little word,” Laushey said. “We aren’t

The pep band has been operating under Laushey for 27 years. PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE HAWK

in the lobby before and after the game.

We don’t have a lot of contact with a lot of people. It was shocking to see the support that we had. How can that not make you feel good?"

On Dec. 2, the Lausheys said they got a call from Senior Associate Athletics Director for External Affairs Rob Sullivan notifying them that the band was back on for a full schedule. They weren’t given an exact reason, but after the band was absent for the St. Joe’s men’s game against Saint Francis University (PA) and women’s games against American University and Drexel University, the Lausheys were told the “feel

and look wasn’t right.”

“As soon as I got the call that we were back on, it was incredible,” Arnold said. “I couldn’t believe how fast it happened. I was really overwhelmed with support from the student body and alumni."

The athletic department did not respond to questions about why the original schedule was reinstated, but in a statement to The Hawk, the athletic department offered its support to the band for the rest of the upcoming season.

“The SJU Pep Band plays a crucial role in the energy and excitement that are signatures of Hawk hoops, and will continue

to do so for all home games this season. We look forward to working with the pep band and Hawk fans to create the best gameday experience that we can moving forward,” according to the statement.

But while the band will play as originally planned for the rest of the 2019-2020 season, its future is still up in the air.

“They already called us back and said, ‘Just so you know, the current budget we have will not support the pep band for next year,’” Sue Laushey said. “We have already talked about what fundraisers we can do.

We are reaching out to alumni. We can see that different times are coming.”

A one-sided war JAMES MCCLOSKEY JR. ’20 Columnist The first battle of the “Holy War” took place on Jan. 15, 1921. The Hawks have fallen to the Villanova University Wildcats in 51 of the 76 meetings. Most recently, the Hawks have been stuck in an eight year losing streak in the famed Holy War battle, including this past weekends 78-66 loss to the Wildcats.

The last time the Hawks won the Holy War was on Dec. 17, 2011 in Michael J. Hagan ’85 Arena with a score of 74-58. The 2011 season was the freshman season for guard Langston Galloway, who currently plays in the NBA for the Detroit Pistons, and C.J. Aiken, who was ranked 98th on the Recruiting Services Consensus Index (RSCI) Top 100 list following his senior season at Plymouth Whitemarsh High School.

The Hawks’ inability to overcome the Wildcats for the past eight years does not have an easy answer. Frankly, there is no singular reason. Three disparities have remained over the past four seasons of the Holy War: speed, productivity and height.

In 2016, the Hawks fell to the Wildcats 88-57. The Hawks’ tallest player in this game was Jai Williams ’18 at 6 feet 9 inches. Comparatively, the Wildcats roster had three players standing at 6 feet 9 inches or taller. Similarly, the 2016-17 Villanova team was quick on both sides of the ball, which allowed the Wildcats to outscore the Hawks with ease.

The largest defeat for the Hawks in the history of the rivalry was 94-53 in 2017. For this game, the Hawks returned their entire

starting lineup and the majority of their bench as well as adding redshirt sophomore forward Taylor Funk and junior forward Anthony Longpre.

Yet, the Hawks could not overcome the strength and productivity of the Wildcats’ offense. The 2017-18 Villanova roster had six players who currently hold an NBA contract compared to one for the Hawks— Charlie Brown Jr. The Wildcats would also go on to win the National Championship that year.

Last season’s 70-58 loss was expected to be the best chance for the Hawks to defeat the Wildcats since 2011. Prior to the game, it was announced that the former Hawk Charlie Brown Jr. would not play do to a wrist injury. Although Brown was not in the game, the Hawks fought for the entire 40 minute game but came up short in the end.

With the recent history of the Holy War, Saturday’s 78-66 loss to the Wildcats may have been the best matchup in eight years.

The Hawks entered the game a 15 point underdog, but the game was expected to be an ugly defeat. Redshirt junior guard Ryan Daly did not let that happen.

The Hawks managed to remain in Saturday’s contest throughout the entirety of the game and even cut the deficit to just 3-points late in the second half. The difference in this game compared to the past three seasons was the heart and hustle each player should have on the court.

Freshman guards Chereef Knox and Cameron Brown, along with Daly, laid out on the hardwood multiple times struggling for the possession of loose balls. Daly could also be seen with a face of determination throughout the game regardless of

The Hawks have lost to Villanova by a margin of 12 points the last two years.

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how many times he was hit in the face or knocked to the ground.

The Hawks played with heart in Saturday’s contest, which cannot be said of the past three seasons.

In order to win, the Hawks need more than just heart though. The Hawks shot 0-11 from beyond the arc in the first half of the game then proceeded to shoot 5-13 from three-point range in the second half leaving them at shooting 20.8% from the threepoint line this game.

If the Hawks want the Holy War to continue to have relevance to fans, they must break the losing streak. While playing with heart is a way to get fans in the building, speed, productivity and height must be-

come a part of the game as well.

The Hawks managed to keep pace with Wildcats on Saturday by playing scrappy defense, but they were unable to convert many of their forced turnovers into points. Next season, the Hawks will add 6 foot 10 inch Anton Jansson to the roster which, in combination with Longpre and a healthy Funk.

This should allow for the Hawks to match up well against the Wildcats physically.

When the Hawks play an all-around game including speed, productivity and a presence in the lane, they will manage to overcome the power and accuracy of the Wildcats. Will this happen next season? Possibly. But by Jansson’s sophomore season, I anticipate a true revival of the Holy War.

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‘Raised in a basketball family’ SAM BRITT ’20 Sports Editor Coming into the 2019-20 women’s basketball season, there were added expectations placed on redshirt sophomore guard Katie Jekot. Jekot was the top returning scorer and was expected to take on the role as a leader of a young Hawk’s roster.

“I think coming in to this season there was a little bit of pressure,” Jekot said. “But after it was like alright, have fun. You know how to play you have been doing it for a year now. I have been here three years. I definitely felt I needed to take initiative out there during practices and during games to help out the younger girls."

So far, Jekot has been successful. She earned a Big 5 Player of the Week award while leading the team in scoring with 10.8 points per game.

“She worked hard in the offseason,” Head Coach Cindy Griffin said. “She is in the best shape she has been in. Last year she was coming off of an injury and learning how to play. Her experience has really helped her as far as how to approach this year and the expectations as the returning leading scorer knowing she was going to be the target of most people’s defenses."

While Katie Jekot may be the most recent Jekot to pick up Big 5 hardware, she isn’t the first. Her older sister Kelly Jekot played for Villanova University the past two seasons and is currently in the midst of transferring to Pennsylvania State University.

Katie Jekot will also soon be will be

joined in Philadelphia by her younger sister Julie Jekot as well, who is a junior in high school and is committed to La Salle University. Katie Jekot also thinks her youngest sister, Jill Jekot, will begin to be recruited once she starts high school basketball next year.

Katie Jekot has spent most of her upbringing alongside just Kelly Jekot. The two played Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) basketball growing up and excelled together in high school, Katie functioning as the facilitator while Kelly was the shooter. Katie Jekot would finish her career at Cumberland Valley High School with three consecutive state championships.

“We were raised as a basketball family,” Kelly Jekot said. “We were rough with each other. But overall I think we were helpful.

Even though she is younger than me, I’ve looked up to her in a lot of ways. Growing up we leaned on each other a lot. It was a lot of fun.”

When it came time for Katie Jekot to commit to college, she held an offer from Villanova and had an opportunity to reunite with Kelly Jekot. She decided against it and committed to St. Joe’s instead.

“I’ll let her do her own thing in college and I’ll do my own thing,” Katie Jekot said.

“We are still close enough though that it is like 10 minutes away and I can go over there and we can have lunch or grab dinner.

It was still a good fit for the both of us to go to different schools."

To Kelly, that decision spoke a lot to Katie’s personality.

“It shows a lot of maturity and how

competitive she is,” Kelly Jekot said. “Choosing St. Joe’s was the best decision she could have made. She’s been doing great there and has become a leader this year. I’m just super happy that worked out for her.”

While Katie Jekot has been relied upon this year as a scorer, it is her defense that stands out to Griffin.

“Katie is in her best element when she is guarding the best offensive player on the other team,” Griffin said. “She takes it personal, she takes it as a challenge and I think that is when she is at her best.

For Kelly Jekot, this style of play is nothing new.

“Defensively she always guarded the best player growing up,” Kelly Jekot said.

“That was her thing.”

Griffin said success on both sides of the floor is the ultimate sign of a good player.

Katie Jekot said she sees the two sides of the ball, offense and defense, being codependent.

“I just go out there and try to give it my all,” Katie Jekot said. “I take a lot of pride in defense. I feel that offense starts with defense. So when you get stops, it produces more for your offense.”

For Griffin, the most exciting part about Katie Jekot is that she has potential.

“She is still evolving as a player,” Griffin said. “She isn’t even halfway through her sophomore year. She is still young in a lot of ways. She is getting better everyday with communication and attention to detail.”

Jekot was a finalist for Miss Pennsylvania Basketball during her junior and senior years of high school.

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Roller hockey excels with new talent RILEY FRAIN ’21 Hawk Staff The St. Joe’s club roller hockey team has found success this season with the play of the five first-year members of the club.

This year, the team will be competing in the Philadelphia Collegiate Roller Hockey League (PCRHL), playing against teams from Villanova University, the University of Pennsylvania and Neumann University.

St. Joe’s posted a 14-1 win over Villanova in their second game of the season on Nov. 10. That early win helped give the team some momentum to start this year.

“That was a really good confidence booster for the boys,” said senior captain Ethan Roiter. “We’re doing pretty good this

year, and I’m excited to see how things go.”

The team’s overall record so far is 4-3.

For junior starting goalie John Kromchad, who is also the alternate captain and club president, the keys to the team’s current success, as well as potential future success, can be found in the hands of the younger players on the team.

“The newer guys, they’re giving us a little bit of a jolt with their talent, and they’re looking promising,” Kromchad said. “When freshmen come in and they’re talented, that’s a good start for the next four years.”

Kromchad said many of these new players have a high “hockey IQ” and play smart while out on the plastic tile rink.

“They know where everything’s going to be, when it’s going to happen, and who it’s going to happen to, and so they’re

Roiter is in his third year with the team and is the top returning scorer. PHOTOS COURTESY OF ETHAN ROITER

Junior center Douglas Brooks is from Westbrook, Maine.

able to complement the guys from previous years really well,” Kromchad said.

One of the new players is senior forward Pat Falco, playing on the team for the first time.

“For his first year, he’s putting up a good amount of points, so he’s stepping up,” Roiter said. “We really expect big things from him and put him in a starting role every game.”

Team treasurer and sophomore forward Kevin Finn highlighted the contributions of the new players as well.

“They have taken it to a whole other

level definitely, just having more depth on the bench and then just all these kids that played high school hockey coming in, that’s huge,” Finn said. “There’s definitely a little bit of a transition from ice hockey to roller hockey and once they get past that, it just clicks out there for us.”

On top of that, Finn said some of the team’s success this year is due to the tight bond among players.

“It’s definitely like a real kind of family feel to it,” Finn said. “We’re all brothers out there and just kind of have good chemistry.”

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Villanova University men’s basketball coach Jay Wright (left) and St. Joe’s men's basketball coach Billy Lange (right) command their teams from the sideline. PHOTOS: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE HAWK

Lange and Wright’s relationship goes beyond basketball RYAN MULLIGAN ’21 Assistant Sports Editor The exchanges between St. Joe’s men’s head basketball coach Billy Lange and Jay Wright, men’s head basketball coach of Villanova University, before and after the St. Joe’s vs. Villanova matchup were brief. It wasn’t the usual “good game” or “good luck with the rest of your season.” In fact, it had nothing to do with basketball.

“We tell each other before and after ‘love you, love you too’ that’s it,” Wright said.

Lange previously served two stints at Villanova as an assistant under Wright from 2001-04, and associate head coach from 2011-13. The impact Wright has had on Lange’s career was something he couldn’t put into words.

“It all comes down to this,” Lange said.

“The greatest thing you can do for someone is believe in them. Wright probably did more for me just to try to get through before I got my first shot. Hiring me as a Division III coach, helping me get my job at the [United States] Merchant Marine Academy, teaching me in the time we had back at Villanova, the empowerment he gave me in my associate head coaching role.”

The two had squared off twice before when Lange was a head coach at the United States Naval Academy. Lange said that the “Holy War” raises the stakes.

“What’s special about being a coach at Villanova and especially here at St. Joe’s is playing in the Holy War, coaching in the Holy War,” Lange said. “I love Wright, but it’s more about St. Joe’s playing Villanova than it is he and I, at least on my end.”

Wright now has two yearly Big 5 matchups against former assistants, Lange and Ashley Howard, current head coach at LaSalle University. Wright said he dreads these matchups.

“I really don’t enjoy [playing former assistants] at all,” Wright said. “I would never schedule our assistants. I love those guys, I want them to be successful. When you play against them, you don’t want them to be successful at your expense.”

Lange agreed that the dynamic of competing against such a close friend can be difficult, but he said he wouldn’t go as far as saying he hated it.

“We coached against each other twice before this, and it’s just not easy,” Lange said.

“You’re going to root for them when you’re not playing against them. I want them to be good because they raise our boat too. They make us want to be better all around as a basketball program. I don’t hate it because I think it sharpens us a little bit. I don’t hate it. I wish he wasn’t there, but I don’t hate it.”

Wright said he makes it a point throughout the year not to keep tabs on Lange and the Hawks until he begins preparation a week before. Now that the matchup has passed, he said a weight has been lifted off his shoulders.

“I don’t want to watch any opponent until we have to prepare for them so I haven’t

been watching them, but now I can,” Wright said. “It’s a killer when you’re trying not to watch them and your wife goes ‘Billy had a good win’. Now I can [care].”

Lange said it’s his hope that these good wins will come more and more often, and he uses the success Villanova has had as his aiming point.

“The thing I told the guys before the game, there will be a time when that crowd is like that every game, not because we’re playing Villanova but because St. Joe’s is playing,” Lange said. “Not because of the opponent, but because of the program.

And it has it, there’s great history here and

we’ll get there.”

Wright said he thinks Lange has the ability to do just that.

“I think he’s an outstanding coach, but I’m a little biased,” Wright said.

Wright got the best of Lange in their first Big 5 matchup, but as the Holy War continues, Lange’s feelings about his former colleague will remain steadfast.

“I love Jay Wright and that will never change,” Lange said. “I’m sure we both wanted to beat each other’s brains in tonight, but I love the guy.”

Fans taunt Villanova junior guard Collin Gillespie as he attempts to inbound the ball. PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE HAWK