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Commemorating Dr. King’s Visit to st. Joe’s

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Bringing MLK to Hawk Hill

Importance of recognizing Kings speech CHARLEY REKSTIS ’20 News Editor Martin Luther King Jr., a civil rights activist, visited Saint Joseph’s University on Oct. 26, 1967 as part of a speaker series organized by the student government to speak to students, faculty and staff along with community members about racial and economic injustices and desegregation.

This year, St. Joe's is commemorating the 50th anniversary of King’s visit to campus to show the importance of the event as part of St. Joe’s history and as a memory that is not to be forgotten.

“Part of it really is the fact that it is an important time in history,” said Chris Dixon, the Archival Research Librarian. “The 1960s were a time with the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War. A lot of things were happening in this country and ways Dr. King in some ways was probably a representation of what was going on in the country.”

King led the Civil Rights Movement in the mid-50s and 60s as a powerful speaker focusing on non-violent ways. His work allowed African American voices to be heard in a time when they felt no one was listening.

James Mingle ’68 was the student government president at the time of King’s visit who organized the event along with Ralph Kates '68, lecture chairman, and Dennis Foreman '68, activities chairman.

“We ran an entire lecture program and we were trying to get notable leaders in different fields and so Martin Luther King was one of three or four folks,” Mingle said.

“He was a towering leader back then, highly affective and intellectual and succeeding against incredible odds and we wanted to hear him speak about civil rights and what was accomplished and what still needed to be done.”

The committee wanted King to speak as he was an important leader in the nation. They wanted the community to understand what he was advocating for and why he was doing it.

“To listen to a such an intellectual leader speak about such an important issue on civil rights at such a critical time it was very timely and we thought the community could learn a tremendous amount from him as to how they went about it and what needs to be done to continue the Civil Rights Movement at the time,” Mingle said.

Mingle was fortunate enough to meet King before he spoke and believes that King was humble and unassuming.

“Giving this 50 minute speech without notes, he had no notes whatsoever,” Mingle said. “Speaking so eloquently and powerfully about issues and about how far we’ve come and how long we still have to go. It was a marvelous speech. Not only what he said but he said it with such forced authority.”

In order to tell the story of when King came to campus, Dixon created an exhibit that explains why King came, what he said, and people’s reactions to his visit.

“It has taken some time to pull the ex-

hibit together and to kind of get it so it flows and it tells a bit of a story,” Dixon said. “I tried not to give much more narration than what’s actually in the news release and the articles because they can speak for themselves.”

Dixon wanted to create a timeline with the exhibit, starting with the press release announcing King was coming to campus and ending with an article from 1986 with King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”

“It was basically kind of saying here we have this important person coming to speak here who was rather controversial at the time and maybe going back and saying we now look at Dr. King 50 years later maybe a little bit differently than when we looked at him in that time frame,” Dixon said.

Mingle gives credit to the university for commemorating King's visit and recognizing its importance in the school’s history.

“You have to think back he comes in October at the end of ’67 and five months later Dr. King is assassinated in April of 1968,” Mingle said. “Obviously there is no way of knowing that this was going to happen but this is a speech that he gave and there weren’t many more that he gave after the St. Joe’s speech so to commemorate a great American leader who was struck down just a few months later is something that I credit the university on doing.”

Mingle thinks there is a lot for St. Joe’s to learn and understand from King’s powerful words, even today.

“To spotlight not only his coming to St. Joe’s but also underscoring what he said in his powerful speech and the current students to remember and commemorate such an important national leader and understand what Dr. King faced and what he and his team were able to accomplish,” Mingle said. “It’s an extraordinary history lesson.”

Martin Luther King Jr. and James Mingle talk before the speech (Photo by Nelson, Temple University Archives).

Lack of educators of color

Panel discusses the need for more teachers of color in classrooms CHARLEY REKSTIS ’20 News Editor

A panel titled "Suspending the Status Quo: The Need for Teachers of Color in America's Classrooms" was held at Saint Joseph’s University on Oct. 17, 2017 which discussed the lack of teachers of color in classrooms nationwide.

This panel was made up of four panelists, all African American, who experienced the difficulties of being an educator of color: Khary Golden, Randy Miller, Keziah Ridgeway and Robert E. Wright.

“We want to be able to have those challenging conversations and I am sure that some of you have had those challenging conversations,” said Shoshanna Edwards-Alexander, Ed.D, M.S.W., L.S.W., affiliate/adjunct faculty member. “Some of us have come in and we have had some thoughts about why this topic is interesting or what you may be able to take away from

this. More importantly one of the things that we want to make sure is that this conversation continues.”

Miller explained concerns about his own child and how he would be educated with a lack of African American teachers.

“One of the things that I don’t think everyone understands necessarily; when you’re a person of color there are thoughts that you have about how your child will be educated,” Miller said. “Is my child going to school where there are any teachers who look like him or children like him?

Does that matter, should that matter?

What should my child have in order to be successful that is not necessarily just about the academics.”

One of the panelists mentioned the only reason she was hired was because she knew someone that already taught at the school.

Panelists speak about the lack of teachers of color in schools nationwide (Photo by Luke Malanga '20)

“We have maybe 28 teachers in our department,” Ridgeway said. “Of that 28 we have maybe five people of color and of those five people of color we have two African American teachers and of those two African American teachers I was the only woman.”

Something that Golden stressed during the panel was the idea that it is “all a numbers game.”

“The reason why the teaching force is overwhelmingly white and female is because it is a very valiant position,” Golden said. “For the longest time generations have built their wealth on the education industry. This is what you call trickledown economics and it trickles all the way down to this one school in this department to that one black woman in Philadelphia.”

Martin Luther King Jr. spoke about the importance of education for everyone in his article in the Maroon Tiger titled “The Purpose of Education.” In this article he stressed the importance of becoming more efficient and achieving the goals of one’s life.

“Dr. King was an agent for change,” Edwards-Alexander said. “His messages still echo in our hearts and minds so many decades later, as we continue to fight for equality. As educators, we have to be advocates for all children. Promoting diversity within the classroom allows children to be exposed to an array of teaching techniques, lived experiences and shared racial and cultural identities. It is important for students, in particular students of color to see a reflection of themselves in front of the

classroom as a natural part of their academic journeys."

All the panelists agreed it is important for children to see someone who looks like them when they are growing up. It is not just about having teachers but it is about having someone who can relate to the students.

“There have been studies that came out where it shows that if a black student had a black teacher, just one, their chances of going to college skyrocketed,” Miller said.

“Having a teacher of color is beneficial, not just for students of color but for white students too. They learn, they see, they get different perspectives that they wouldn’t necessarily get because now they have a teacher of color in front of them.”

King wrote that education’s function is to teach individuals about the importance of character and how to think critically.

“We must remember that intelligence is not enough,” King wrote. “Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate. The broad education will, therefore, transmit to one not only the accumulated knowledge of the race but also the accumulated experience of social living.”

The teachers at this panel also believe education is very important in order for children to grow up and it is not just about the education but the experience behind the education as well.

“You have to teach from love,” Ridgeway said. “If you don’t teach from love, if

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This special issue of The Hawk highlights the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech given in the former Saint Joseph College’s Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse, as each section includes content dedicated to civil rights issues. Look for the “50 years later” logo on each page to designate these pieces.

Schedule of events for Martin Luther King Jr. 50th Anniversary Commemoration

Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017 Teach-In

8 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 2 p.m. at the Campion Student Center, President's Lounge

Community reading of King's 1967 Speech

11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Campion Student Center, Doyle Banquet Hall

Featured Panel: Where Do We Go From Here? Fulfilling King's Call to Action 4 to 6 p.m. at Campion Student Center, Doyle Banquet Hall

Film Screening and Discussion: Blaxploitalian 6 to 8 p.m. Campion Student Center, Forum Theater

"The Clear Voice of Justice" Exhibition

Francis A. Drexel Library (third floor), Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., Special Collections

Jan. 22 and 23, 2018 Photo exhibit and presentation

Jan. 25, 2018 SJU Prays: Interfaith Prayer Service Martin Luther King Jr. and Cecil Moore at a press conference. (Photo by: Nelson, Temple University Archives).

Spring Semester 2018

General view of the Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse with King speaking. (Photo by: Nelson, Temple University Archives).

Closing Celebration "Our Destinies Are Tied together"

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Department of Public Safety reports (Oct. 13 - Oct. 19) Oct. 13

Oct. 15

Public Safety was notified by the desk attendant at the Sourin Residence Center regarding a disorderly student refusing a bag check.

Public Safety officers arrived and resolved the situation. Residence Life and Community Standards were notified.

ALCOHOL RELATED INCIDENTS

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Public Safety was notified of a fire alarm activation inside of Merion Gardens. Public Safety officers responded. Preliminary investigation revealed the alarm was activated by an unknown means.

Facilities Management was notified.

Oct. 14

On campus

Oct. 17

Public Safety was notified by Residence Life of a confiscation of numerous empty beer cans from inside a suite in the LaFarge Student Residence. Public Safety Officers responded and confiscated the cans, which were then disposed. Residence Life and Community Standards were notified.

Public Safety was notified by an area resident of a loud party involving St. Joe’s students taking place in the 100 block of Wendover Street, Manayunk, PA. Philadelphia Police 5th District and Community Standards were notified.

Off campus

DRUG RELATED INCIDENTS

Public Safety was notified by a St. Joe’s student of being approached by two male suspects in the 5900 block of City Avenue and having his cell phone taken. Public Safety Officers and Philadelphia Police were notified and responded. The student was not injured.

The incident is under investigation by the Philadelphia Police.

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On campus

Oct. 18 Public Safety was notified by an area resident of a loud party involving St. Joe’s students taking place in the 2300 block of N. 54th Street. Public Safety Officers along with Philadelphia Police responded. Community Standards was notified.

Off campus

Call Public Safety:

610-660-1111

Helping suicide prevention SJU iCare Gatekeeper Training starts SAMI NIGRO '20 Special to The Hawk

SJU iCare Gatekeeper Training, a new program developed by mental health professionals at Saint Joseph’s University, is geared towards preventing suicide, the second leading cause of death among college-aged students, according to national data.

This program aims to educate participants on how to recognize early warning signs of someone who might be emotionally distressed, explained Marci Berney, M.A., director of Student Outreach and Support.

“The people that we train through this, we refer to them as the bridge to connect someone to support,” Berney said. “Going through a program like this, it doesn’t mean that you are the one person who will help them in its entirety, but you’re the bridge to get them to professional support.”

The first iCare Gatekeeper Training session took place on Oct. 2 and was open to anyone in the St. Joe’s community. Christine Mecke, Ph.D., director of Student Disability Services, explained the setup of the session, noting how 13 people attended, including a mix of faculty and staff along with members of the Office of Public Safety and Security.

The 75-minute training sessions are divided into three sections. The first section focuses on the prevalence of mental health issues and how such issues are tied to suicide on college campuses.The second section focuses on myths about suicide.

“The number one myth is that often

times people feel like ‘I don’t want to talk with someone about it if they’re having these thoughts because then it might put that idea in their mind.’ But the truth is, that’s a myth,” Berney said.

Berney further explained that if one has a gut feeling someone might be displaying warning signs, there is a very good chance that talking to them about it will help to “al-

leviate the isolation they might be feeling,” which will then put one in a position to be able to help them get professional help.

In the third section of the training, instructors provide information on warning signs, including behaviors and phrases that can correlate with emotional distress. Berney believes the easier it is to recognize and respond to signals of suicidal thoughts, the

A CAPS pamphlet hangs outside the CAPS walk-in office in LaFarge Residence Center (Photo by Luke Malanga '20).

more likely it is to help the individual receive professional help before it’s too late.

Berney emphasized that one doesn’t have to be a professional to help someone in need. She said students are more likely to reach out to a peer than parents or staff, so it’s crucial to learn how to react. The program is geared towards educating and supporting the caretakers and loved ones of emotionally distressed individuals as opposed to the individuals themselves.

The main mental health service on campus is Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), which provides confidential counseling help to about 600 students per year, according Greg Nicholls, Ph.D., CAPS director.

Other on-campus services include The Office of Student Outreach and Support, the Wellness, Alcohol and Drug Education (WADE) program, the Student Success Center, the Office of Inclusion and Diversity, the office of Student Disability Services and the Student Health Center.

If you or someone you know may be at risk of suicide, call CAPS (610-660-1090), Student Outreach and Support (610-6601149) or the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255).

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From The Alliance to SJU Pride Twenty years of St. Joe’s LGBTQIA support NATALIE DRUM '20 Special to The Hawk The Alliance, a Saint Joseph’s University faculty and staff support group, and the student-run SJU Pride are commemorating October Pride History Month, with a series of activities aimed at generating awareness of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, queer, intersex, asexual and ally (LGBTQIA) issues.

“SJUnity is this month where we can just celebrate who we are within this school,” said Kerry Dowd ’19, co-leader of SJU Pride.

“Events highlight what we are trying to bring to the school. St. Joe’s Pride disappeared and over the past years is coming back slowly.”

Dowd is also one of the coordinators for Unity Month, which consists of educational events and activities throughout October, including The Unity Mass, Speak Out and upcoming Safe Zone Training, all focusing on the LGBTQIA community.

According to Jo Alyson Parker, Ph.D., professor of English, Speak Out is an event with an opportunity for personal experiences to be heard in a safe and supporting environment. As a member of The Alliance for 20 years, Parker participated in the first Safe Zone training at St. Joe’s, and said these earlier trainings primarily focused on education and creating a support system for LGBTQIA students.

“What I’ve seen now is students feel real support here,” said Parker. “Twenty years ago LGBTQIA students felt very unsupported.”

According to Elizabeth A. Linehan, R.S.M., Ph. D., professor of philosophy, another long time member of The Alliance, LGBTQIA awareness at St. Joe’s began in the 90s when an anonymous letter was published in The Hawk. The letter detailed the diffi-

culties of being gay at St. Joe’s, and caught the attention of faculty members, who soon formed a support group. According to Parker, it was not until 1992 that The Alliance was formally created.

“It took a long time for there to be a registered LGBTQIA student group,” said Linehan.

Finding an agreeable and appropriate name for such an important but sensitive human right took time. Linehan said the original name Rainbow Week was changed to Unity Week, after the administration claimed the term misrepresented the meaning of “rainbow.” Linehan also remembered not having a budget for the program.

“We had to get other sponsors, and so athletics helped pay for lunch at the first SpeakOut,” said Linehan. “They continue to pay for it every year as well as help bring in speakers.”

But, things have changed in the last two decades for LGBTQIA issues in the St. Joe’s community.

“Ideally I would want this campus, its faculty, its staff to make this a welcoming place for people of all gender identification,” said Parker. “We [St. Joe’s] do not always live up to that ideal.”

According to Dowd , SJU Pride aims to have a more central role in the St. Joe’s dynamic on campus. Linehan said the growth of Unity Month this year is largely due to the increasing leadership roles taken on by students.

Now conversation about LGBTQIA rights and representation is much more welcoming.

“The fact is that pride itself is a place where we can be ourselves,” said Dowd. “SJU Pride is a presence and we are going to keep being a presence.”

TYLER HARGRAVES '19 Contributing Writer

Barbelin was lit up in rainbow colors throughout the whole week in honor of Unity Week (Photo by Luke Malanga '20).

Working towards a postive climate

Campus Climate survey will commence in February STEPHANIE McCARTHY '18 Special to The Hawk Small groups of Saint Joseph’s University students, faculty and staff came together in early October to help develop questions for a campus climate survey that will be distributed February 2018.

The survey is part of a Campus Climate Study which will analyze the campus environment, particularly how students, faculty and staff feel about inclusion and diversity on campus.

tant provost for Inclusion and Diversity and chair of the study. “They should feel they can bring their best selves to everything they do on campus.”

Rachel Cox '19 is chair for inclusion and diversity on the University Student Senate and works closely with Nixon, specifically on this project.

“The Campus Climate Study is an exciting and incredibly important opportunity

Students meeting in the Office of Inclusion and Diversity (Photo by Luke Malanga '20)

“We are working towards a positive climate for living, learning and working, and determining how people feel they belong on campus,” said Monica Nixon, Ed.D., assis-

for students to provide faculty and administration with honest feedback on what it is actually like to go to St. Joe’s,” Cox said. “It helps bring out experiences that maybe are

not typically seen on campus and provide a space for the university to reflect and plan a course of action for things that it could improve on, what it’s doing well and what it still needs.”

Megan Lynott ’19 is a student representative on the Campus Climate Study team, which is comprised of undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty and staff.

Lynott explained the next step for the team is to construct survey questions based on the responses from the focus groups.

Lynott said she thinks the results of the survey will reveal how students perceive the lack of diversity on campus.

“I predict one significant issue that this study is going to show is the lack of racial and class diversity amongst the student and faculty populations at Saint Joseph’s,” Lynott said. “I think the issue is particularly important for the university to address because all students will benefit both academically and socially by increasing diversity in the student and faculty population.”

Nixon explained after the results from the February survey are collected, the team will pass on suggestions for addressing problem areas to The President’s Council, which is tasked with implementing any new policies and developing programs to aid areas that need improvement.

Another week has come and gone since Hurricane Harvey destroyed my home and set my life off course. To say that the storm is a distant memory would be too rooted in a sense of false truth. Feelings of shock and confusion seem to take over my mind whenever someone reminds me it’s almost the end of October. Even though it has been seven weeks since the storm impacted my community, there’s a feeling I’m actually only a few days removed from it.

I’ve begun to have moments of realization where floods of memories fill my mind. It’s as if a movie reel is running in my head as I relive watching water breach walls, driving through torrential floodwaters, even returning to see the devastating aftermath of the rains. I have a sense these thoughts will persist at least until my home has been fully repaired, and I can begin living there again.

The conversations with people who were also affected by the storm have begun to take on a more positive tone. Many of these people finally have a tangible sense of progress through the beginning of permanent repairs. They are thrilled to have drywall that isn’t covered in mold, and are able to see that their respective homes are in the process of becoming livable again.

Soon my family will hopefully be able to join them, as we will be having our new drywall installed sometime next week.

Luckily I was able to make it out to my home again this past week. The structure has been completely gutted, and bears no resemblance to the way it was before. My bathroom is now almost entirely empty as only the bathtub and toilet remain. Walking through the place almost feels like a foreign experience. No walls, no furniture, not even the cabinets remain now. I only hope I’m soon able to experience the sliver of joy that seems to come from having walls return to your home.

On a slightly negative note, I was still feeling quite sick this past week. I’ve yet to actually figure out what has been afflicting me, but I’m less than amused it’s still with me. At least the more major symptoms have lessened into a lingering cough, which is more of an annoyance than anything else.

However, I fear this illness will remain with me just like the impact of the hurricane. I hope that a recovery in my health coincides with the further recovery of my home.

Beyond the concerns about my home and my illness, I have further expanded my ever-growing list of projects to work on.

Most people seem to look at me as if I’ve gone crazy when I inform them that I have added yet another project to the seemingly endless scroll of current endeavors. What they don’t seem to understand is that this endless cycle of work is one of the few things keeping my sanity in check.

Dispatch from Lamar will be a weekly feature in The Hawk.

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Flu shots postponed

Background checks cause difficulty for flu shot vendors ERIN DUFFY '18 Special to The Hawk Saint Joseph’s University cancelled its flu shot clinic due to the fact that the individuals set to administer the shots may not have undergone the proper background checks.

The clinic, scheduled for Oct. 16 and 17, was going to be run by Rite Aid, which does not require background checks for its

employees.

“Saint Joseph’s requires that vendors coming to campus require background checks, and Rite Aid couldn’t guarantee their staff had background checks, so we weren’t allowed to agree to let them on campus,” said Laura Hurst, MSN, CRNP, director of the St. Joe’s Student Health Center.

St. Joe's Student Health Center (Photo by Luke Malanga '20).

The Student Health Center, located in Sourin Residence Center, is encouraging students who would like to get their flu shot immediately to get their flu shots off campus at the nearby Rite Aid, CVS, Target or any other pharmacy that distributes them. Flu shots are free with most insurances.

After their plans to utilize Rite Aid to administer flu shots fell through the Student Heath Center chose to get their own supply of flu shot that will come in two weeks.

College students have a higher susceptibility to viruses like the flu due to a lack of sleep and improper nutrition, according to Hurst. Additionally, they live in close quarters with others, which causes even more risk.

“They are sharing bathrooms and kitchens, which leaves them more open to spread the flu,” Hurst said.

Students who get a flu shot not only can keep themselves from getting sick, they can protect other students on campus as well, said Anthony DelConte, M.D., assistant professor of pharmaceutical and healthcare.

“The more people that are vaccinated, the less likely it is to wipe out a whole class

of students,” said DelConte.

If individuals cannot get a vaccine because of allergies or other neurological conditions, DelConte explained they are protected by other vaccinated people around them.

Each year, the Center for Disease Control determines which strains of flu will most likely break out and design shots specifically to eradicate those strands. The flu shot consists of different strains every year.

Some refuse to get flu shots because they think they will get the flu after being injected with a strain of the flu itself. Hurst explained that is a myth.

“It is a dead vaccine,” Hurst said. “The injection is a dead vaccine, so you don’t get the virus.”

Stephanie Crispell ’20 is one student who gets the flu shot every year.

“I’ve always gotten flu shots since I was young,” Crispell said. “Especially living in a dorm situation with a lot of people, everybody tends to spread germs quickly. There is a lot higher chance of getting sick. I definitely think it is important.”

Annual Halloween event cancelled Updated policy prohibits kids from trick or treating on campus MARISSA PURNELL '18 Special to The Hawk Boo Crew, Saint Joseph’s University’s annual trick-or-treating event for local elementary school students, will not take place this year due to regulations regarding minors on campus.

The Minors on Campus Policy, which was adopted in 2012 and most recently updated April 2017, prohibits “Authorized Adults” who interact with minors on campus from doing so without completing background checks that include the Pennsylvania Criminal Record Search, the FBI Fingerprinting Check and the Pennsylvania Child Abuse Clearance.

After consulting with St. Joe’s legal counsel, the staff in the Office of Mission Programs, which sponsors the popular event, decided to end it.

“There is really no way to ensure that every person interacting with the children that come to our campus have clearances or not,” said Beth Ford McNamee, assistant director of Campus Ministry.

The university has sponsored Boo Crew for more than 20 years. Children from neighborhoods surrounding campus were invited to knock on doors in firstyear residence halls and receive candy and other Halloween treats.

McNamee said the event was meant to offer children a safe space for trick-or-treating.

“People are more hesitant to send their kids out trick or treating wherever they live but particularly in neighborhoods where there’s higher incidents of

Graphic by Kaitlyn Patterson '20.

violence,” McNamee said. “The idea was that kids have a safe place to go trick or treating on our campus.”

Jai Williams ’18, remembers trick-ortreating on St. Joe’s campus when he was younger.

“It is something I will always remem-

ber,” Williams said. “When I was young I never imagined myself being a student here at St. Joe’s.”

As part of the event, trick-or-treating children were chaperoned by St. Joe’s students who were encouraged to talk to the children about college.

Alim Young '19 was shocked when he heard the university had cancelled the event, and said the chance for the kids, and their parents, to interact with college students was an important part of the event.

“They don’t get an opportunity to see a college campus every day,” Young said. “I feel like it’s an opportunity for their parents to see it too. You know, ‘this is what you can do.’ It yields great conversation afterward.”

McNamee said that this was the point of the program.

“It exposes the kids to what a college campus looks like if they never been on a college campus before,” McNamee said.

“A lot of the schools we work with heavily emphasize goals of attaining a college education. It expands the imagination of the kids, like, ‘here is where I can potentially be one day.’”

McNamee explained that St. Joe’s students can still volunteer to be apart of Halloween parties at local schools, including Samuel Gompers, Gesu School, Holy Name School in Camden, New Jersey and other elementary schools in West Philadelphia.

The university will be donating candy and decorations to school parties, but that’s not the most important part, according to McNamee.

“What they value most, they said, is students’ presence,” she said. “The elementary school kids love college kids.”

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We still have a long way to go

Our responsibility to continue MLK’s call-to-action Editor in Chief Vivian Milan ’18 Managing Editor Franki Rudnesky ’18 Copy Chief Emma Seely ’18 Faculty Adviser Shenid Bhayroo Contributing Adviser Jenny Spinner News Editor Charley Rekstis ’20 Opinions Editor Brittany Swift ’20 Assistant Opinions Editor Ann Marie Maloney ’18 Lifestyle Editor Rose Weldon ’19 Assistant Lifestyle Editor Emily Graham ’20 Sports Editor Nick Mandarano ’18 Assistant Sports Editor Alex Hargrave ’20 Assistant Copy Amber Denham ’18 Assistant Copy Becky Hartman ’18 Creative Director Kaitlyn Patterson ’20 Photo Editor Luke Malanga ’20 Social Media Manager Victoria Tralies ’18 Assistant Social Media Manager Anna Smollen ’19 Online Creative Director Kelly Smith ’19 Business Manager Michael Zito ’18

Martin Luther King Jr. visited Saint Joseph’s College 50 years ago on Oct. 26, 1967.

Despite opposition against his visit, King delivered a moving speech about social justice and the pervasive problem of racial inequality still present in the United States. Nearly 3,400 listened to his speech on our campus, and today we commemorate this visit with events on the anniversary and this special edition of The Hawk in an attempt to continue exploring the progress of social justice.

The St. Joe’s community will reflect on King’s visit by hosting a teach-in to discuss major themes of King, a reading of his speech, a panel discussion on King’s call to action, a film screening and an exhibition of King’s visit on the anniversary. It’s important for us to reflect on King’s contributions to the Civil Rights Movement and calls for social justice.

As a Jesuit institution, we should feel compelled towards compassion and reform, living up to our goal of being men and women with and for others.

In The Hawk’s commemoration of King’s visit, we compiled thoughts from students, faculty and Hawk staff to explore our views of inequality, justice, religion and advocacy in our daily lives.

We need to have these difficult conversations about race and inequality, as they still

divide people. As King said, it is not enough to declare everyone equal in the Constitution–that is still not “genuine equality.” We must make conscious efforts to fight gaps in poverty levels, education and wealth. It may be hard to live up to his legacy, but we need to try.

In King’s speech to our campus, he reminded us that, “we are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny” and that the destinies of each of us and each of our communities are “tied up with the destiny of America.” The interconnectedness inherent in our country’s social fabric makes progress difficult, but it also makes it that much more necessary. We will always have big, intimidating problems to address in America, but dealing with these problems requires confronting them together.

We’ve made progress since King visited us in 1967. As a country, we’ve put far greater emphasis on realizing the disadvantages faced by marginalized populations. Policy experts and elected officials are seriously trying to figure out how to solve and abate these disadvantages through legislative solutions, which King advocated for in his speech. More and more schools and college campuses are educating their students about racial, social and economic inequality, raising a generation

concerned and willing to work to confront these issues.

Looking toward the future, we hope that reflecting on King’s words in our community will shed light on how far we still have to go.

Just because we have more awareness of the problems facing minorities does not mean we have solved them.

One problem that King focused on in his address to our campus in 1967 is one we are still facing today. King told us that in 1967, most African-Americans were “perishing all along the island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.” Still today, 50 years later, the median net worth of a white household is about 13 times greater of the median black household, according to a 2014 Pew Research Center study.

There is hope for attaining justice, but there’s still work that needs to be done. While we should look at the progress we have made since King’s visit, the U.S. is still guilty of perpetuating de facto segregation, racial tensions and general income inequality. It is all of our responsibilities to fight against these injustices and demand reform, both from legislation and through changing attitudes.

As King told St. Joe’s 50 years ago, “We have come a long, long way, but we still have a long, long way to go.”

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Top right: A mural of Martin Luther King Jr. in Mantua, Pa. on the side of a building on the corner of 40th St. and Lancaster Ave., where King gave a speech to a crowd of 10,000 as part of his "Freedom Now" tour in 1965.

Bottom right: "Four American patriots who dedicated their lives to civil rights and a better America" reads a mural on West Girard Ave. Malcolm Shabazz lived in Philadelphia during part of his childhood and was an advocate for rights for Mexican construction workers relocated to the United States. Ella Baker worked alongside some of the most influental civil rights leaders of the 20th century, including King. Frederick Douglass became a national leader and writer of the Abolitionist movement after escaping from slavery.

(Photos by Luke Malanga '20).

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Oct. 25, 2017

Keep reaching for social justice St. Joe’s achievements since MLK’s speech OWEN GILMAN, Jr., Ph.D.

Professor of English

The community of Saint Joseph’s College, now called Saint Joseph’s University, had an opportunity to host Martin Luther King Jr. and to hear his wonderful voice in the Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse in the fall of 1967.

As always, his voice was inspiring, even as he spoke strongly in criticism of the war in Vietnam and forcefully lamented the ongoing lack of attention toward widespread poverty in America. He spoke. He was heard.

Even after his assassination, not too many months following the visit to St. Joe’s, he has continued to have a place in institutional memory—although the inaccurate transcription of his talk, and subsequent garbling of his words on the bronze plaque placed in the fieldhouse years later in his honor, suggest that the institution could have been more carefully attentive to his message.

Linked indelibly to King’s on-campus speech are St. Joe’s subsequent actions to bring his hopes for a more fair and more just America to reality. Here and elsewhere, progress has been slow, but by the 50th anniversary of that visit, forward movement is discernible. The faculty of St. Joe’s is significantly more diverse in race and gender than it was in 1967.

The current student body, likewise, reflects more of the diversity that is America than was true back then, although the

students who completed their studies under cover of the night both in 1967 and for a few subsequent decades were more diverse than their daytime peers. Mission statement by mission statement, generation after generation, St. Joe’s has reflected more and more of what King held dear. King would have a smile for all of these developments.

In terms of curriculum offerings and opportunities for learning, our progress would likely please King. Students now may take courses in the Africana studies program, which provides opportunities for a minor with courses distributed across several departments in the College of Arts and Sciences. Other fine opportunities for diversity education are the gender studies minor, the Asian studies major/minor, the autism behavioral studies major and the Latin American studies minor.

When I joined the English Department in 1979, I arrived from graduate school at the University of North Carolina, which had been integrated just a few years before my time there began. The English graduate faculty had one African American member, Blyden Jackson, Ph.D., and I took his course in African American literature. Jackson knew several members of the Harlem Renaissance; he was superbly well prepared to guide us in our exploration of literary texts far beyond the experience of his students—all white. He was glad to teach

us, but I think we all knew at some level how challenging it would be to teach this subject to us—that we would never be able to approach the texts with his perspective.

Accordingly, when I started teaching at St. Joe’s, I was hesitant to encroach on territory not mine by origin, and it was more than 15 years before I offered a course in African-American literature; that course had small enrollment, about a dozen students, but they were pleased with it, including several African-American students.

An alternative to offering courses specific to minority studies is to include a diversity of authors in as many courses as possible, and over the past 20 years, that has been my usual approach to addressing matters of equality and social justice, a pattern similarly employed by my colleagues in English and other departments. “Include significant differences”—that is the mantra.

Diversity is good. Even age is a diversity factor of some consequence, and in this area, my expertise is growing steadily. One of my all-time favorite course offerings— Cultural Diversity: American Voices—presents a rich tapestry of writers with a wide range of backgrounds and identities, all organized to feature the wonder of diversity.

So, would King present us an “A” for our achievements? I don’t think so, kind and generous though he was. We have moved mostly in the right direction, but

there are significant miles to go before we can sleep easily. In all ways, more diversity is necessary. King’s presence is still palpable, still with us, still pushing us to rise higher in our reach toward a justice that leaves no one out.

Push on, St. Joe’s, keep on pushing.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s words from 1967 continue to guide the Saint Joseph's community. (Photo by Glenn A. McCurdy).

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Oct. 25, 2017

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Chaos or the beloved community?

Choosing the faith that MLK advocated DANIEL JOYCE, S.J., '88 Executive Director of Mission Programs This week is a good time for the Saint Joseph’s University community to ask ourselves if we will collude with the powers of chaos or if we will instead draw upon the ancient gift of hope in the beloved community?

Martin Luther King Jr. was known for advocating for a theology that included activism for social reform (Photo Courtesy of Saint Joseph's University Archives).

When Martin Luther King Jr. arrived on Hawk Hill in October 1967, he had just published a new book “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?” This work was a bold self-assessment of the Civil Rights Movement and the struggle for racial desegregation. King was not afraid to ask hard questions of himself, his followers and the nation. In that book, he ultimately made the case for hope as the key ingredient necessary for things to change and human rights to advance. He was willing to put faith in the God-given virtue of hope.

King’s notion of hope was often tied with a vision for what he called “the beloved community,” grounded in the plethora of images, declarations and constituent values repeated by Jesus of Nazareth regarding the Kingdom of God. King spoke often about our life in real time as a beloved community striving by God’s grace to establish peace, justice and human rights.

The beloved community was the object of King’s activism and hope was the fuel for his methods of achieving this through nonviolent protest and resistance.

His address asked St. Joe’s students to consider our history truthfully so as to learn the reality of current challenges. The truth about the beginnings of our systems of injustice and practices of human

degradation is crucial if we are to create a just society. As members of a university community, we should not forget that the first documented slave in the U.S. was the property of the first president of Harvard, the first college. A man simply called “the Moor” waited on the first college students as a slave. The very foundation of all of the Ivy League universities in the U.S. was supported by profits from slaveholding.

The legacy of modern-day segregation, racism and systems of privilege based on skin color, gender and other arbitrary determinants has its roots in our institutions of higher education. Even today at St. Joe’s, each year we admit students to Phi Beta Kappa, an honor society founded in 1776 by slave owners to create an elite society among those who treated humans as property.

King is one of the most notable contributors to the fields of public theology and social ethics. For him, religion was based on a theology that required activism.

He eloquently made the case to St. Joe’s students that we cannot simply combat forms of physical violence, but we need to be even more alert to the subtle, but no less damaging, impact of spiritual and psychological violence. He was not willing to simply cope with such evils, but to hope in a covert and

complete resistance to such forces.

During his visit to St. Joe’s, King said to students, “We have come a long, long way, but we still have a long, long way to go.”

The past year has shown us that we have not come nearly as far as we thought. In fact, we may have even regressed back into a world where a covert white supremacy has now been encouraged to come forward under the guise of “white rights,” “economic nationalism” and patriotism distorted into “nativism.” If such voices prevail in our society, then we will have violence and chaos. But we can reject that chaos and choose to be part of the beloved community fueled by hope.

St. Joe’s today exists in Philadelphia, the poorest big city in the U.S., with some of the most segregated schools in the nation. Hawks pass by pockets of deep poverty and inadequate education every day.

In the midst of these despairing realities we need to listen again to King’s words: “We will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair the stone of hope.”

As an institution of higher learning, we must “transform the jangling discords of our cities into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood,” and sisterhood—with faith in and a choice for a beloved community.

Appreciating MLK's address to St. Joe's Where do we go from here?

RANDALL M. MILLER William Dirk Warren '50 Sesquicentennial Chair and Professor of History Civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Martin Luther King Jr. came to Saint Joseph’s College on Oct. 26, 1967, at the instigation and invitation of a student-led speakers committee, to call for continued non-violent direct action to achieve racial integration and equality. King gave many speeches to school audiences.

He believed that colleges were both incubators of ideas and seedbeds for social justice, and he made special efforts to recruit students, staff and faculty in the war against poverty and racism.

In 1967, too, King felt a special urgency in getting this message out, especially to young people, lest the energy for civil rights dissipate in internal arguments over means and ends and hope for a new day be lost.

In his speech at St. Joe’s, he insisted on making honest, realistic assessments of the problems threatening to undo the “gains” of civil rights activism and legislation and to defeat the promise of a people integrated by common values of conscience and the rule of law. Such was his message to those gathered in the Alumni Fieldhouse on that October day.

But any understanding of that speech and our obligations to it requires context to appreciate the historical circumstances that informed King’s speech and the implica-

tions of such for us today. When King came to St. Joe’s, he was at once much admired by many Americans for his crusades for civil rights, but also suspect by others for wanting to go too fast and too far in pressing for social justice and equality, or for going too slow and not far enough to secure rights and gain black independence.

The Civil Rights Movement was fracturing along ideological, generational and even personal lines. Arguments for black separatism and militancy clashed with King’s philosophy of integration and theology of non-violent resistance. “Race riots” in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Detroit, Newark and elsewhere revealed the frustrations and anger over a lack of jobs, poor housing, substandard schools, strained police-community relations and other persistent problems of racial discrimination.

The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 seemed incomplete, and for some even irrelevant, in the face of de facto segregation and denial of basic rights and respect. And for some, King seemed out of touch and out of step with the new facts of a world chanting “burn, baby, burn.”

At the same time, many white Americans who had supported civil rights legislation thought their work was done and it

was time to move on to other things. Then, too, King broke with many civil rights leaders and President Lyndon Johnson when he spoke against America’s war in Vietnam as immoral and unwise, noting among other concerns that it was a war against poor people of color and was a drain on public money that otherwise could be directed to schools, job-training, health care and other social needs. Civil rights leaders worried that such criticism would distract from civil rights concerns at home and cost support from many Americans.

In fact, for that reason, King was not wholly welcome at St. Joe’s in 1967. The administration initially had balked at inviting him, and after his speech some students criticized him in The Hawk for his supposed “communist” sympathies. King did not know what people at St. Joe’s thought about him, but he did know that he had to speak loudly about the need not to give up on integration and not to give in to despair.

All this was on King’s mind when he spoke at St. Joe’s.

In his speech, King did not retract or retreat from his convictions. And he did not equivocate. He insisted that “freedom now” meant being impatient and dissatisfied, even uncomfortable, with supposed gains when there was so much yet to do. It

meant listening to and learning from people of color and in poverty and not preaching to them about what was good for them.

It meant translating thought into action.

It meant asking, as he did in his book just published in 1967, “Where Do We Go From Here?”

That question yet echoes today.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech to St. Joe's in October 1967 called people to work toward more reforms (Photo by Glenn A. McCurdy).

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Quotes from "The Future of Integration" Saint Joseph's Alumni Memorial Field House Oct. 26, 1967

KING ON EDUCATION: “... most of our cities spend far more money on students who attend predominantly white schools and suburban schools than they do for those who attend predominantly Negro schools in central city.”

KING ON LAW: “In the struggle for freedom and justice, we are in the midst of that phase which calls for genuine equality.”

KING ON CRIME: “... there are places in our country, particularly in the Black Belt South, where the murder of the Negro or white civil rights worker is still a popular pastime.”

KING ON JUSTICE: “... in order to tell the truth, it is necessary to move on and say we still have a long, long way to go before the problem of racial injustice is solved in our country.”

KING ON FREEDOM: “Our goal is freedom. And I still have faith to believe that we're going to get to that goal. There are times I have moments of great frustration and almost despair.

But they're always temporary.”

KING ON PHILOSOPHY: “… when you begin to change the habits of people, pretty soon there will be attitudinal changes. And maybe, somewhere along the way, the heart will get changed in the process.”

KING ON FAITH: “With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair the stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our cities into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.”

KING ON POVERTY: “It's a nice thing to say to a man: “Lift yourself by your own bootstraps.” But it's a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.”

KING ON VIOLENCE: “...violence does not always have to be physical. There is another kind of violence that Negroes are suffering all over our country, and that is a kind of spiritual and psychological violence. Negroes are being murdered and lynched spiritually and psychologically every day in the ghettos of our nation.”

Acknowledgement: Quotes taken from the corrected transcript by Richard Haslam, Ph.D, associate professor of English.

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Oct. 25, 2017

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Creating Justice

Taking a critical look at marginalization in the Church ANN MARIE MALONEY '18

Assistant Opinions Editor

When I graduate in May, I hope to move on to a career marked by public service and advocacy, to a life dedicated to finding just solutions to our country’s most intimidating problems, with economic and social inequality chief among those problems. One of the most important lessons I will take with me into my career is the role that my faith can play in my work within the public sphere.

Our Jesuit theology at Saint Joseph's University teaches us that our faith compels us to be active citizens, seeking justice in all venues of life, especially government and public affairs. Understanding this obligation, I have learned to let my resolve in my faith drive my efforts, letting my faith act as my motivation in achieving justice for even the most marginalized.

As our school celebrates the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr. visiting our campus, I was reminded of King’s words in "Strength to Love," a 1963 collection of his sermons: “The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state...It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool.” Here, King expresses the same obligation of the Church to work in perfecting the state that Jesuit theology teaches.

However, King’s quote has left me wondering: what sort of guide, what sort of conscience are we, the Catholic Church, being for the state?

In focusing so much on how our faith obliges us to work for justice in the public sphere, I fear that we forget that there’s still a lot of work to be done in truly achieving

justice within the Church.

The Church, in both its history and teachings, has failed people of color, women and the LGBTQ community, among others. While the Church as a global institution is certainly not free from criticism, it is especially important for us in the United States to reckon with the Church’s history in America.

The Church’s relationship with people of color, especially black Americans, has been marred by the Church’s participation and consent in slavery and segregation.

We know now that in 1838, Jesuit priests at Georgetown University saved the school from bankruptcy by selling 272 enslaved people who had previously been owned by Georgetown. Private Catholic schools and Catholic parishes were often segregated, according to NPR. These, among countless other examples, demonstrate the wrongdoings for which the Church must continue to atone.

In more recent history, the Church’s appalling mishandling of priests sexually abusing young children counts as another failing, and an especially tragic one. In its willful attempts to cover up these incidents, the Church failed to live out its own faith.

However, even our Catholic faith is imperfect in achieving justice for the marginalized, especially as the faith has been interpreted and distorted by human Church leaders. As King referenced in his address to our campus, Christian and Catholic leaders both ignored and reinterpreted Christianity to permit or even justify slavery.

In his recent work "Building a Bridge,"

Father James Martin, S.J., has shown how Catholic teachings on sexuality continue to marginalize LGBTQ people, even LGBTQ Catholics in the Church. During a recent talk on our campus, Elizabeth Gandolfo, Ph.D., theologian, demonstrated how the Church’s teachings on sin and forgiveness place women in a particularly vulnerable state. In the association of sin with women and in that the sole authority to forgive sin lies with male priests who exercise power over their parishioners, Gandolfo argues, Church teaching both marginalizes women and subjects them to male authority in a

particularly unjust way.

No institution is immune from creating injustice and inequity. Our Jesuit theology teaches us to look outward and work for justice in the world we observe, but it’s equally as important for us as a Church to reckon with our own missteps, both in our history and our faith. I hope that during our reflections on King’s message to us 50 years ago, we also take the time to look inward and address the scars in our own institution and history as a Church.

Martin Luther King Jr. called people to think about racial injustices, including those perpetuated by the Church (Photo by Glenn A. McCurdy).

Fighting for the "Dream" through music America is still fighting racial injustice TAICHA MORIN '20

Special to The Hawk

Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington D.C. on Aug. 28, 1963. Among the many issues King addressed in his speech were segregation and racial discrimination in America.

Sadly, King did not live to see his dream come to fruition.

Since then, King’s struggle for civil rights has been taken up by many other activists, including artists and musicians.

Take Kendrick Lamar, whose music is raw, authentic and speaks to issues and systems within society that oppress people of color. Many of Lamar’s songs have a deep meaning that extends King’s fight for the dream. Lamar specifically extends King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, when King says, “We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.” In “Alright,” Lamar’s lyrics draw inspiration from King’s philosophy of struggle and non-violence, as well as state violence: “Alls my life I has to fight, nigga Alls my life I… Nigga, when our pride was low Lookin' at the world like, "Where do we go?"

Nigga, and we hate po-po Wanna kill us dead in the street fo sho Nigga, we gon' be alright Nigga, we gon' be alright

We gon' be alright” Throughout his “I Have a Dream” speech, King speaks about the disadvantages people of color encounter in the U.S. Lamar’s lyrics have the same effect as King's words because 54 years later, people of color in America still experience racism and discrimination, including police brutality.

This injustice is important given the timeliness and unjust killings of black men and women like Sandra Bland, Mike Brown, Natasha McKenna, Eric Garner, Kayla Moore, Trayvon Martin and more. The list of unjustifiable killings goes on and on in the name of “he looks dangerous,” “she was aggressive,” and “but he was a criminal.”

Despite the devastations, Lamar gives people a sense of hope when he said, “We gon' be alright.” King also inspired hope in his speeches, even though he spoke about the difficulties people of color encounter.

No matter the despair, it is their hope that will continue to fuel their fight for justice.

As King said: “This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.”

It is with such hope that artists like Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter, otherwise known as Queen B, is using her music to fight for King’s dream. She is talented, beau-

tiful and has a massive fanbase. Her music resonates with millions of people around the world. In her song “Freedom” featuring Kendrick Lamar, Queen B expresses a strong desire for freedom: “Freedom! Freedom! Where are you?

Cause I need freedom too!

I break chains all by myself Won't let my freedom rot in hell Hey! I'ma keep running Cause a winner don't quit on themselves” Beyoncé’s lyrics correlate with the desire of freedom and equality that King spoke passionately about in his speeches.

In the closing lines of his “I Have a Dream” speech, King proclaimed: “From every mountainside, let freedom ring. We will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men, and white men, Jews, and Gentiles, Protestants, and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, ‘Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!’"

Even 54 years after King’s now famous speech, people of color are not “free at last.”

They, like Queen B, are demanding their freedom, from physical chains and barriers, such as mass incarceration, to invisible chains and systemic issues that keep people stuck in cycles of poverty and violence.

In response to the lack of freedom, John

Legend and Common use their music as platforms to encourage people of color to speak and rise up to the injustices in society. In their song “Glory,” they sing: “Freedom is like religion to us Justice is juxtapositionin' us Justice for all just ain't specific enough One son died, his spirit is revisitin' us True and livin' livin' in us, resistance is us That's why Rosa sat on the bus That's why we walk through Ferguson with our hands up When it go down we woman and man up They say, ‘Stay down,’ and we stand up Shots, we on the ground, the camera panned up King pointed to the mountain top and we ran up” Legend and Common's lyrics resemble King’s theme of resiliency in his speeches.

They encourage people of color to continue to stand up against injustice, despite its difficulty. This fight for justice is not easy.

More than 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued by Abraham Lincoln, “the negro is still not free.” Black men and women in America still die and are imprisoned at higher rates than white people. This, in part gave rise to the Black Lives Matter, Say Her Name and other movements. America, it seems, still shows that “the negro” does not matter.

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Creepin’ it real

Halloween is the best holiday KAITLYN PATTERSON ’20

Creative Director

GILLIVER’S TRAVELS

ALEX GILL ’18

Hawk Staff

Harvey Weinstein has been accused in recent weeks of sexually assaulting dozens of women over the past three decades. As more and more renowned actresses continue to come forward with their stories, men around the country were shocked and horrified, while women were slightly less shocked at the blatant abuses one man could inflict on many women. We asked the Jones family for their opinions on the scandal.

James Jones, husband, father and local stockbroker, was shocked by the Weinstein allegations.

“I really couldn’t believe it. How could one man get away with that for years? It is completely shocking to me that a man in a position of power would ever abuse his status to take advantage of a woman,” Jones said, completely unaware of his wife of 23

snack on sweets until the next Halloween.

Dressing up is probably the most important part of Halloween, and quite frankly, the best part. Halloween provides an opportunity to embody your favorite hero, villain, prince, princess or anything you’ve ever wanted to be. Don a solo costume, one with your significant other or get a group of people together.

You can be as creative as you want, or do the bare minimum, and that in itself is a beautiful thing.

I went as a fairy for my first Halloween as a walking and talking toddler.

Although my parents were not the most creative with my costume, I was absolutely adorable. My costumes since then have been more creative, and I take it very seriously.

Needless to say, if you do not dress up, you are the Scrooge of Halloween.

Another important part of Halloween can be said in two words: candy corn. That triangle-shaped yellow, orange and white

candy is the sweetest, most carving, bobbing for apples and endless delectable candy one could amounts of autumnal crafts. It is a way for devour on Halloween. No other the community to come together and celecandy inspired by a vegetable has brate each other. ever tasted so good. Even its near relative, So, whether you’re Superman, Cinthose candy pumpkins, are not quite as derella, a gory zombie or a girl in leggings sweet. Pop two in your upper gum, and and cat ears, Halloween can be fun for boom, you’re a vampire. Put it on top of any everyone. Like any holiday, you get out food, and it’s instantly festive. The possibiliwhat you put into it, so enjoy ties are endless. it, embrace it and get some Additionally, like any other holiday, candy! decorations are a necessity. There is something so pleasant and comforting about hollowed-out, illuminated pumpkins smiling at me from every door step. Spider webs covering everything in sight, ghosts lurking in trees and gravestones sitting in the middle of suburbia: it only happens on Halloween.

Even if you’re not into the scary, creepy or gory aspect of Halloween, there is something for everyone: corn mazes, pumpGraphics by Kaitlyn Patterson '20. kin

Complicity and sexist behavior A satire on gender and sexual assault

years, Helen, putting her palm to her face in the doorway. “Thankfully this is probably a rare case,” Jones continued. “I can’t imagine such misogynistic behavior happens all that often in the workplace.”

Rubbing her temples in frustration, Helen, a lifelong secretary, added, “Somehow I am less surprised.”

We found one of the Jones’ family sons, Carl, 19, with his girlfriend, Matilda, in the living room.

“It is horrible that one man could do that, but it’s not like there’s anything I can really do about that. I really don’t see any way in which my words or actions could ever contribute to a culture that allows such a thing!” Carl claimed, looking up from his Kate Upton- themed computer background.

“Yep, totally absurd,” an exasperated Matilda responded. “Ridiculous to think that sexist jokes and the constant commodification of women’s bodies in media could have anything to do with that.”

The youngest Jones child, Earl, 14, said from his bedroom, “Yeah that is pretty bad.

I guess it’s just a product of the world he grew up in though, right? I mean, the culture has definitely changed a lot since then.”

As Earl returned to his video game featuring female characters of absurd and unnatural proportions, his sister Linda shook her head, mouthing to reporters “How does he not know?”

Well, one thing is for sure,” said our final interviewee, the eldest son, Ishmael, a recent college graduate returning home from his new hamster farming job.

“I am in no way complicit in anything having to do with this scandal. I sure am glad that my sexist tendencies only affect a handful of women close to me. Once you get up into the dozens, that is a little too far for…” His final comments could not be transcribed, as they were cut off by the collective sighs of every woman on the planet.

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There’s nothing quite like sitting around a bonfire, eating s’mores and exchanging ghost stories on a cool autumn evening in October. It’s timeless, innocent fun. This is what I love so much about Halloween. It’s not just about pumpkin spice lattes, or the newest scary movie (although "It" was fantastic, I must admit). Halloween is a time for everyone, young and old, to come together and embrace their inner child.

Even though Halloween is sometimes just seen as a night of frights and fears, there’s only one night a year where it’s acceptable to run around, knock on strangers’ doors and ask them for candy.

It’s about innocence, fun and community. I have so many great memories of dressing up with my childhood friends and intently watching the sky, waiting for the sun to set so that we could burst out the door to trick-or-treat. I loved nothing more than running around my neighborhood with an empty pillow sack and stocking up on candy so that I could

Graphic by Kaitlyn Patterson '20.

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From The Hawk archives Front pages from 1967

The Oct. 25, 1967 edition of “The Hawk,” a day before Martin Luther King’s arrival (Images courtesy of Saint Joseph's University Archives).

The Nov. 2, 1967 edition of “The Hawk,” summarizing King’s visit.

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The dream on stage and screen Notable portrayals of Martin Luther King Jr. ROSE WELDON '19 Lifestyle Editor While most students and faculty working and studying at Saint Joseph’s University are not old enough to remember or were born after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s visit to campus in 1967, it is still possible to see his inspiring story portrayed in various forms. Books and documentaries are one way to learn of his journey, but some creators were enthralled enough to produce films, plays and TV series based on his life. Here are some of the best portrayals of King on stage and screen.

“King” (1978) Starring: Paul Winfield as Martin Luther King, Jr., Cicely Tyson as Coretta Scott King, Ossie Davis as Martin Luther King, Sr. This three-part miniseries was the first time King’s story was told in any form of visual media. Premiering ten years after his death in 1968, the series acts as a biopic to discuss his life, specifically looking at his relationships with his wife and father.

Working to humanize a legend is never easy, but “King” manages to do it with grace. King’s son, Martin Luther King III, also appeared in the three episodes as a Southern Baptist pastor.

“The Mountaintop” (2011) Starring: Samuel L. Jackson as Martin Luther King, Jr., Angela Bassett as Camae Originally premiering in Los Angeles in 2009 before the 2011 Broadway production, this play written by Katori Hall is

now playing selma boycott all the way

a fictionalized account of the night before King’s assassination in 1968. Inside the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, King speaks with one of the housekeepers, Camae, about his years in the Civil Rights Movement and reflects on his speech “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” which was delivered the day before.

“Boycott” (2001) Starring: Jeffrey Wright as Martin Luther King, Jr., Terrence Howard as Ralph Abernathy, C.C.H. Pounder as Jo Ann Robinson.

This TV movie was created to mark the 35th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott as it also looks at the actions of Rosa Parks (Iris Little-Thomas), and the creation of the Montgomery Improvement Association and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Both

Graphic by Kaitlyn Patterson '20.

King (Jeffrey Wright, “Westworld”) and Rev. Ralph Abernathy (Terrence Howard, “Empire”) are prominently portrayed here. The film won a prestigious Peabody Award in 2002 for “refusing to allow history to slip into the past.”

“All the Way” (2016) Starring: Bryan Cranston as Lyndon Baines Johnson, Anthony Mackie as Martin Luther King, Jr., Melissa Leo as Lady Bird Johnson.

Based on a Broadway production by Robert Schenkkan which won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Play, the HBO original film “All the Way” is the story of the passing of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. While the movie tends to focus on then-President Johnson and his struggles in persuading his fellow party members to support the bill, King (Anthony Mackie, “Captain America:

Civil War”) is seen in a supporting role, urging Johnson onward. “All the Way” received critical acclaim upon its premiere, with Mackie receiving positive notices for his performance as King.

“Selma” (2014) Starring: David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King, Jr., Carmen Ejogo as Coretta Scott King, Tom Wilkinson as Lyndon Baines Johnson.

This 2014 major motion picture is perhaps the best known portrayal of King’s story, directed by Academy Award nominee Ava DuVernay (“13th,” the upcoming “A Wrinkle in Time”) and produced by Oprah Winfrey, who also stars in the film. The narrative follows King (British actor David Oyelowo) after accepting his Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, where he returns to the United States to plan the Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights.

Winfrey co-stars as Annie Lee Cooper, whose voting registration is turned down by an Alabama registrar, and Tim Roth appears as segregationist Alabama governor George Wallace. Nominated for two Academy Awards, “Selma” won the award for Best Original Song (“Glory,” written by John Legend and Common), but is often said to have wrongfully lost the Best Picture prize.

With its various storylines, uncompromising honesty and call to action, “Selma” is an undisputed modern classic.

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How music has tackled social justice throughout generations KAITLYN PATTERSON '20 Creative Director many years can some people exist/ before they’re allowed to be free,” pleading to Americans to speak up for human rights.

Another track from the album entitled “Oxford Town” addresses the riots that occurred in Oxford, Mississippi after the first African American student was admitted to the University of Mississippi.

In 1984, the Irish band, U2 released a song titled “Pride (In the Name of Love),” which is a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. With lyrics like “One man come in the name of love/ One man come and go/ One man come he to justify/ One man to overthrow,” King is honored as the social justice hero he is still seen as today. Although this song was released years after the Civil Rights Movement, it still made a huge impact on society. Even today, U2 continues to make social justice commentary in their music, most notably in “Ordinary Love,” a tribute to South African leader Nelson Mandela.

Despite the amount of progress the country has made over the years, social commentary is still prevalent in the music industry. In his 2013 album entitled “Yeezus,” rapper Kanye West makes references to modern American racism.

In the track “New Slaves,” he raps, “I

know that we the new slaves/ I see the blood on the leaves.” The line alludes to current racism in the United States and references singer Billie Holiday’s 1939 song “Strange Fruit,” which describes the lynching of African Americans.

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For as long as it’s been around, art has been a platform for social commentary. From depicting religion in medieval painting to racial issues in Broadway musicals, art has always reflected the history of humanity, showing both its values and its problems.

Artists have a unique position in society to address issues such as race, gender, violence, war and hate, as art is something that people can legitimately respond and relate to. Of course, everyone knows popular songs like “Imagine” by John Lennon and “One Love” by Bob Marley, and value them as anthems. However, there are endless amounts of songs and albums which tackle issues that have haunted America for generations. Social justice seems to be a part of pop culture now more than ever, and speaks not only to a small fan base, but to the whole world.

During the Civil Rights Movement, many musicians wrote songs that shed light on racial issues sweeping the nation.

Musician Bob Dylan is known for using his talent to protest war and violence and speak out in solidarity with the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. In “Blowin’ in the Wind” from his 1963 album “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan,” he laments “how

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towards African Americans and speak out in unison with the Black Lives Matter movement. On his 2015 album “To Pimp a Butterfly,” Lamar discusses the police protests that swept the nation at the time, and provided hope for communities

affected by the protests, proclaiming “we gon’ be alright.” In “The Blacker the Berry,” he speaks out against those who try to oppress African Americans in America.

J. Cole, who performed at Philadelphia’s Made in America festival, also talks about police brutality and racism. In his track “Be Free,” he says “Can you tell me why/ Everytime I step outside I see my ni**as die/I'm lettin' you know/That there ain't no gun they make that can kill my soul.”

It’s amazing how music can bring people together. There’s something magical about thousands of people singing the same words, words that resonate and mean something to each individual person, in unison. Artists we all know and love like Beyoncé, Chance the Rapper, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Lady Gaga, Madonna and many more have released music in recent years that address these social justice issues.

From war and violence to climate change, LGBTQ+ rights and feminism, music has shed light on many of the social justice issues that have been haunting Americans for generations. Pop culture appears to be at a point where it is calling Americans, and human beings of the world, to step up and make a change.

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Three of the best films at the Philadelphia Film Festival Over the weekend, I went to the Philadelphia Film Festival, and watched five features and an order of live-action shorts.

Here I’ll discuss three of the best features so far and why people should see them.

“The Villainess,” (“Ak-Nyeo”)

South Korea Directed by Jung Byung-gil Starring: Kim Ok-bin, Shin Ha-kyun,

Sung Joon Synopsis: Assassin-for-hire Sook-hee (Kim) is caught in the act and sent to a government facility to reform and train her for spy work. She gives birth while in the facility, and must keep herself and her newborn daughter safe as her current and past lives begin to clash.

I’ll start with this: “The Villainess” has one of the best opening scenes of any action film. Shot from a first person point of view, it sees Sook-hee eliminate dozens of bodyguards in a scene that looks like “Oldboy” crossed with “Kill Bill.” In technical terms, the movie is a marvel, seamlessly blending computer-generated images with practical stunts and action in a way that avoids over-stylization, which is the film’s best attribute. Every time there is a cut, stab, slice or shot, the audience feels it, and as such I felt a tangible connection to the characters, mostly Sook-hee and her daughter. While some of the action scenes tend to go on a bit too long, the spectacle and story are so mind-bending that one does not care. All

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Moviegoers line up for a screening at the Ritz East Theater (Photo by Rose Weldon '19).

things considered, “The Villainess” is an action thriller that I’d highly recommend and the most likely of this bunch to become a classic.

“Oh Lucy!”, Japan/United States Directed by Atsuko Hirayanagi Starring: Shinobu Terajima, Kaho

Minami, Shiori Kutsuna, Josh Hartnett Synopsis: Lonely office clerk Setsuko (Terajima) begins taking English lessons based on advice from her niece Mika (Kutsuna) and develops a crush on her teacher John (Hartnett), who gives her the American name “Lucy.” When Mika and John run off to Los Angeles together, Setsuko sets off with her sister (Minami), ostensibly to find her niece, but determined to find and reunite with John.

The keyword for “Oh Lucy!” is charming. I continually found myself captivated by Setsuko’s dry humor and jadedness. Additionally, it’s such a pleasure to see Josh Hartnett in a good role, as it is John and Setsuko’s chemistry that makes the film work. What could have been a retread of “Hello, My Name is Doris” instead becomes a piece full of humor, feelings and heartbreak. The emotional beats are the highlights, and all of them strike a chord. As such, those who tend to prefer grittier fare are advised to stay away. All that said, though, this is one I’ll be showing my mother when it eventually arrives on Netflix.

“Gilbert,” United States Directed by Neil Berkeley Starring: Gilbert Gottfried, Dara

Gottfried, Jim Gaffigan Synopsis: This documentary follows foul-mouthed comedian Gottfried (best known as the voice of Iago in “Aladdin”), providing a rare look into his personal life and reputation as “the comedian’s comedian.” Additionally, it explores some of the scandals of his career, such as his infamous “Aristocrats” joke in 2001 and 2011 tweets about the Japanese earthquakes that made him lose a position as the voice of the Aflac duck.

Rarely do I get to say this, but this documentary might be the funniest ever made. When there are established comedians like Gaffigan, Bill Burr, Penn Jillette and Whoopi Goldberg providing commentary for why Gottfried is the way he is, there’s no wonder why the humor always hits the mark. In an era where most fans of comedy assume that their favorite performers have a “dark side” or do it to “fill a need,” it’s encouraging to see someone like Gottfried tour around the country doing stand up and return home to a loving wife and two children in a New York apartment. I’ve never been a fan of Gottfried per se, but this made me want to check out more of his work. If you enjoy laughing and don’t object to language or feelings, then “Gilbert” is the documentary for you.

Check back next week for another Critic’s Notebook to commemorate the festival’s conclusion.

Don't try this at home

A beginner's guide to axe throwing BRENNA RITZERT '17 Special to The Hawk I clasped my left hand over my right and arched backward, letting the metal of the axe touch between my shoulder blades.

With knees bent, I took a step forward, launching the axe. In a solid thunk, my axe struck the second ring of the bullseye painted on the wood.

“Three points for Brenna, and Brenna takes the match – seven to one,” announced Alan Cho, my Axepert instructor.

Picture a warehouse in North Philly echoing with the sound of cheers, clinks and thunks. There I was standing in front of Urban Axes, excited to try axe throwing for myself as part of their walk-in hours because who doesn’t want to throw an axe?

Waiting in line at the warehouse entrance beside people holding cases of beer under their arms, I anticipated signing the safety waiver. To be honest, I didn’t read it, so I don’t know what I agreed to. What could go wrong with a bunch of axes and people with beer?

I was one of the many walk-ins that arrived hoping to snag a spot in one of the two throwing lanes reserved for walk-ins.

The other lanes were reserved for either league play or reserved group sessions.

I was there on a Sunday afternoon, one of their more popular times, and quickly was assigned to a group of other prospective axe throwers, who had apparently pregamed prior to arriving.

Our instructor for the hour, Alan Cho, was new to the axe throwing scene himself. Cho had first tried axe throwing in

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September and was smitten with the sport.

After joining league, he applied for a job and was hired in February 2017.

“I love it,” Cho said. “The crew is great and is a whole knit family. I work a regular 9 to 5 job and work here during the weekend. It’s great.”

Urban Axes is the only complex that offers axe throwing with both casual and league options in Pennsylvania, and was the first complex in the United States.

Urban Axe's league offering is for dedicated axe throwers of varying skill levels to compete and have a beer, as it is BYOB, or “bring your own beer.”

I showed up sober with no intention of drinking at all. I wanted to get the most out of this experience, but even buzzed, the others in my group were just as excited.

“It’s Sunday, you got nothing to worry about, you’re throwing axes at a bullseye,” said Sheri Levin, one of the people in my walk-in group. “You get to take the frustration out from the week prior on an object and not hurt anybody in the process. It’s therapeutic.”

Levin made it look so easy. With heightened confidence, I stepped beyond the yellow line and into the lane. I dislodged the axe from its wooden stump and assumed the position.

The brief minutes of instruction Cho had given us at the beginning of the session channeled through my head: blade to back, knees bent, hand over hand and release at eye level. I took a deep breath and stepped into my throw.

My axe crashed into the back wall above

the targets. I hung my head as I retrieved my axe and prepared to throw again.

I ended up losing my first match five to 12 against Michael Kleinman, another walk-in placed in our group.

“No, I’ve never been axe throwing,” Kleinman said when I asked him how long he’d been coming. “I guess I have a hidden talent for it.”

When it was my turn in a later match, I still felt defeated from my previous match and slumped on the wooden railing. Everyone in my group encouraged me to keep my head up. Cho explained it was simply the point in rotation that kept my axe from hitting the wood, rather than my form.

My group chanted my name as I clinked axes with my next opponent. I took a deep breath and stood further back as Cho instructed. The goal was to alter the rotation of my axe.

I focused on the bullseye and stepped into my throw. My arms swung behind me.

THUNK! My axe was lodged in the second ring of the bullseye, scoring me three points.

Everyone around me cheered.

With a smile plastered across my face, I walked up to retrieve my axe. I pulled with all my might, but the blade was stuck deep in the wood. My group cheered louder upon discovery of my exceptional throw.

It may have taken me awhile to get the feel of axe throwing, but once I finally got it, it felt amazing.

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A bloody good time

Oct. 25, 2017

SJU Theatre Company presents “Sweeney Todd” The SJU Theatre Company is in preparation for its upcoming fall production of the musical “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.”

The musical is a unique thriller about love and revenge that tells the story of a barber, Sweeney Todd.

“The storyline itself is different because it’s darker than other, more generic musicals,” said Jenn Tague ’20, who plays the lead female role of Mrs. Lovett.

While the show’s thriller aspects make it dark and intense, the cast members emphasized that those parts alone are not what makes the show stand out.

“There’s really no other show like this because as dark and as heart-wrenching as the story can be, it’s also intensely funny,” said Brendan McGill ’21, playing the musical’s namesake, Sweeney Todd.

Alex Velazquez ’20, who takes on the supporting role of rival barber Adolfo Pirelli, added that the show has a wide range of emotional plotlines and a strong set of characters.

“The show goes through a lot of emotions,” Velazquez said. “For me, I’m a comic relief, so I get to make people laugh.

Brendan gets to scare people and Jenn does a little bit of everything.”

Another important feature of “Sweeney Todd” is the Tony Award-winning music, composed by Stephen Sondheim.

“The music with the show is definitely very challenging,” said Morgan Hayes ’18, who plays the supporting role of Beggar Woman. “We’ve done, in my time being here, two other Sondheim shows. Of the three, I think this one has been the toughest. But once you get it, it’s so rewarding, and you have so much fun with it.”

The cast agreed that Sondheim’s scores and lyrics are complex, and they take time and effort to master. While the prominent roles have difficult numbers, the ensemble also has a significant amount of songs to learn.

“Especially since it’s [my] first show

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Jenn Tague ’20 and Brendan McGill ’21 turn their eyes to revenge in “Sweeney Todd” (Photo by Megan Hennessy ’18).

[at St. Joe’s], coming into a Sondheim show is really tough,” said Lexi Mignogna ’21, a member of the ensemble. “This is probably the most ensemble-heavy show I’ve ever been in. In essence, the ensemble almost narrates the show, too, like a Greek chorus.”

On top of the difficult music, the cast has also been facing a shorter production process. According to Velazquez, the process typically begins with auditions in the spring and cast announcements in the summer, giving the actors time to prepare before beginning on the first day of classes.

This year, the time frame was drastically different, as auditions were held at the beginning of the fall semester, leaving only five weeks until opening night.

“This is probably the most intense show that I’ve done and one of the shortest rehearsal times I’ve had,” McGill said.

“What I’ve found to be extremely helpful, that is something that I’ve not had the resource to do before, was to reach out to our stage manager, and she helped me practice outside of rehearsal time.”

With the shortened production period, the actors have had to dedicate extra time outside of rehearsals to master the challenging music. For McGill, that meant practicing lyrics one-on-one with other cast and crew members. Since they spend a good portion of their time together, it is important to rely on one another to ease the process.

“It’s the collaborative nature of the cast, and I think of the theatre company in general,” Velazquez said. “Every part of it, from working on the set to working on the show itself.”

For McGill and Tague, as underclassmen with leading roles there have been special challenges with this show they have not experienced in their prior theatre experience.

“It’s definitely a lot more work that you have to do by yourself,” Tague said. “It’s a much more professional setting than being in high school. I know our director and our music director try to treat it as much as it would be taught in the professional world.”

Tague emphasized the amount of personal time all the principal performers had

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to put in to be able to come to rehearsals with most of the work already completed.

“The biggest transition for me has been outside work and the specificity of our director, Renee Dobson,” McGill said. “Following everything to a tee, while it takes more effort, it certainly creates a better end product.”

McGill also noted the level of professionalism expected of the actors. This, on top of the difficulties of the show itself, has been a significant change for him as a freshman who has not had any previous experience with theatre at St. Joe's. However, he appreciates the opportunity to take on a main role in his first semester.

“It has been a bit of a journey, but I wouldn’t trade this experience for anything,” McGill said.

While McGill has had numerous leading positions in the past, this is Tague’s second main role in a musical, and her first with the SJU Company. Between “Sweeney Todd” and her ensemble performance in the spring production of “Tommy,” Tague has learned many skills in professionalism and time management.

“Our cast has done a really good job, the ensembles and principles alike, in creating characters that are relatable and that are really interesting to watch to see their development on stage,” Tague said.

The cast members urge students to see the show because of all the hard work they have given in such a short amount of time.

They expect it will be a unique experience for both the actors and the audience. Not only is “Sweeney Todd” a perfect choice for the Halloween season, but it has much to offer to all kinds of people.

“Even if you’re not a huge fan of musicals, this is definitely a good introduction musical and a good way to find a musical you actually enjoy because it is so different,” Velazquez said.

“Sweeney Todd" will be performed at the Forum Theater from Oct. 25 to 29.

A fan recalls meeting Freddy Krueger In October of my freshman year, I became aware of Robert Englund.

I was working on a blog for a communications class that involved looking at outlandish movies. One of them was “The Phantom of the Opera,” a 1989 low-budget horror flick with Englund as the Phantom. He had been hired due to his popularity as Freddy Krueger, a murderer who haunts and kills people in their dreams, in the “Nightmare on Elm Street” movies, but had never seen any of these films. The weekend before Halloween, I rectified that by watching the first six Freddy films. Even if the movie wasn’t great, Englund was always there, giving 100 percent and acting through heavy makeup.

In the summer of 2016, I found on Twitter that Englund would be a guest at MonsterMania, a horror convention in Cherry Hill, N.J. Having earned some cash from a summer job, I woke up at dawn and made the three-hour drive to New Jersey from Long Island.

As I drove down the New Jersey Turnpike, I noticed I was an hour early, and had a brilliant idea. Taking a slight detour, I drove to Center City and picked up some-

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thing from a shop in Old Town.

Once I arrived at MonsterMania, I paid for my ticket and was ushered into the holding room. When I arrived, it was 10:30 a.m.

By the time the 50 of us lined up to go to the signing room, it was 2:30 p.m. My heart started pounding as I clutched my copy of his autobiography, wondering if the thing I had picked up, now waiting in my backpack, would make it to the table.

I followed the line, and there he was.

Englund looked nothing like one would assume from his movies: a gray-haired, bespectacled gentleman who looked like a grandfather. Before I had time to think, it was my turn to go.

“Who’s next?” Englund shrieked in his Freddy voice, eliciting laughs from the line. He winked and gestured to the chair next to him, and I handed my phone off to a volunteer.

“Rose,” he read off the Post-It on my book. “Here, I’ll draw something for you.”

Englund pulled out a black Sharpie. As he doodled a caricature of himself, I stammered something about Andy Kaufman, barely able to look at him. “I used to live above Andy in the 70s,” he said. “Nice guy. Very quiet.”

Robert “Freddy Krueger” Englund, Rose Weldon ’19 and some Insomnia Cookies (Courtesy of Rose Weldon ’19).

Englund shut the front cover of the book, and I quickly unzipped my backpack, taking out a small box. “Incidentally,” I said, trying to sound nonchalant, “I brought you something.” I handed him the box, and he grinned. “‘Insomnia Cookies,’” Englund read the label.

The volunteer laughed out loud. “Now that’s clever.” Englund opened the box.

“Well, now I have to try them.” He pulled

out a chocolate-chip and took a bite. “Very nice. Can we get a picture with the box?” I was surprised, he’d only taken one picture with the person before me. “Are you sure?”

Englund laughed and held the Insomnia box toward the volunteer. “Of course.

Don’t you want to tell your friends you gave Freddy Krueger insomnia?”

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A timeline of Civil Rights Movements in sports Looking back at how sports were used as a medium for MLK's dream ALEX HARGRAVE '20 Assistant Sports Editor

When people hear the word “sports” the image that goes through their head is likely one of sweaty athletes running around trying to steal a ball from one another. While this image is part of it, it is far from all they are. Sports are symbolic because they represent people coming together in support of their favorite teams, and even though there is competition on the field, when the final whistle blows, they shake hands and show respect toward one another.

Sports have been a part of many great stories of heroism and human decency, including times when athletes have helped injured opponents off of the field, when a school wants to give a player who would not otherwise have the opportunity to participate in a game a time in the spotlight and so much more. On a larger scale, sports were a crucial part of the Civil Rights Movements throughout the 20th century.

Martin Luther King Jr. worked with black athletes to use athletics as a medium for bringing about change. Though King’s work was most prominent throughout the 1960s, barriers were broken even before his time.

Perhaps the most well-known case of sports affecting Civil Rights is that of Jackie Robinson, a Major League Baseball player for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Robinson entered the MLB as the first black player in 1947. This was followed by the integration of the National Basketball Association in 1950.

During the 1950-51 season, Chuck Cooper was the first black player to be drafted to an NBA team, the Boston Celtics.

After King gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963, the NCAA was racially integrated in college basketball, to the dismay of many. Mississippi State University decided to boycott the tournament, but ended up playing Loyola University, a racially-integrated team. This game marked the first integrated college basketball game, and Loyola went on to win the national title that year.

Basketball became a foreground for racial integration in sports, as Bill Russell became the first black NBA coach in 1966.

History was made again that same year when Texas Western University claimed the NCAA title over the University of Kentucky. Texas Western had all-black starters

while Kentucky kept an all-white team.

The Mexico City Olympics in 1968 were a famous instance of the Civil Rights Movement in sports. Black athletes planned to protest the Olympics but in the end decided to participate for their country. They still claimed the opportunity to make a statement with the black power salute. This was started by Tommie Smith and John Carlos, black athletes who won medals in a track and field event. During the national anthem, they raised their fists, which became known as the black power salute.

In 1975, the first black MLB manager, Frank Robinson, was hired. Arthur Ashe, who now has an award honoring courageous people presented in his name at the ESPYs annually, won at Wimbledon.

The award honors him and recipients who show courage through adversity and have contributions to society that “transcend sports.”

The last significant move toward integration in sports came in 1989 when Art Shell became the head coach of the Oakland Raiders and in turn, the first black head

coach in the modern days of the NFL. Society and sports have come a long way throughout the 20th and 21st centuries in terms of racial equality. While the nation has managed to become more accepting since the era of MLK, there is still more work to be done, both on the field and off.

Graphic by Kelly Smith '19.

Flying through the past Reminiscing on 1960s SJU Athletics ALEX KARPINSKI '20 Hawk Staff Martin Luther King Jr. visited what is today Saint Joseph’s University on Oct. 26, 50 years ago. His visit came towards the latter half of a century that saw St. Joe's athletics soar to new heights, and spiral into a scandal that cost an athlete the chance to play with Wilt Chamberlain in the NBA. Sports on campus during King’s visit were inconsistent, yet relatively successful. Some sports saw success, while others struggled. But this was not a reflection of the athletic prosperity at the university throughout the decade. Cliff Anderson ’67, Don DiJulia ’67 and Jim Lynam ’63 represent three of the most successful athletes to ever set foot on Hawk Hill.

In 1968, the St. Joe’s men’s soccer team finished the season with a 3-1-3 record.

This season was preceded by a very successful 7-3-0 campaign in 1967. Both seasons were highlighted by the phenomenal play of Jack Ruggero ’69, who was selected as an All-American in 1967 and 1968.

The Hawk’s baseball team experienced varying levels of success during the late 1960s.

In 1967 the Hawks finished the season at a mediocre 12-10 mark. The Hawks improved the following season, finishing at 15-7-1.

In a two year period during the late 60s and early 70s, the Hawks threw three of the six career no hitters in the history of the university. Carl Vogt-Lowell ’69 no hit Franklin and Marshall University on March 29, 1969. In April during the next season, Ed Linaugh ’70 and John Barth ’70 no hit

Glassboro State College. In the same month, Dave Landers ’71 threw a no hitter against Albright College.

The St. Joe’s men’s basketball team saw a constant stream of success following head coach Jack Ramsay’s departure following the 1965 season. Under new head coach Jack McKinney, the Hawks never finished a season under .500. Although St. Joe’s never advanced past the first round of the NCAA Division I Tournament under McKinney, the constant success of the program during his tenure was an athletic highlight of the decade.

McKinney later moved on and coached for multiple NBA teams. In 1981, McKinney won the NBA Coach of the Year Award after leading the Indiana Pacers to their first playoff appearance since the ABA-NBA merger.

In his three year career at St. Joe’s, Cliff Anderson averaged 20.6 points and 14.6 rebounds per game. Anderson is currently the sixth leading scorer in school history and his 1,228 rebounds are the most in school history. Anderson grabbed 32 boards against La Salle University on Feb. 26 1967. This total remains the second most rebounds in a single game by a St. Joe’s player.

DiJulia played baseball and basketball while at St. Joe’s. DiJulia’s performance on the court and field is vastly overshadowed by his time spent on Hawk Hill as vice president for Athletics/Athletic Director. DiJulia has spent 34 of his past 41 years here at St. Joe’s. His fingerprints can be found on all aspects of athletics on campus. From ex-

panding women’s athletics in the late 1970s, to overseeing the Hawks 2003-04 run to the NCAA Elite Eight, DiJulia has been a fixture at St. Joe’s for nearly half a century.

Lynam was a three year starting point guard on St. Joe’s most successful basketball team of all time. The Hawks reached the Final Four in 1961, and then won one of the greatest college basketball games of all time: A four overtime win in a consolation game against the University of Utah.

In addition, Lynam was the head coach of the men’s basketball team at St. Joe’s from 1978 to 1981. The Hawks advanced to the Elite Eight in the NCAA Tournament in 1981, upsetting the number one seed and winning three straight games by less than three points in the process.

Lynam’s confidence manifested into the rest of the team, and sparked one of the greatest upsets in NCAA Tournament history against DePaul University, which featured two future NBA All-Stars: Mark Aguirre and Terry Cummings.

After the 1981 season, Lynam began coaching in the NBA. As the head coach of the Philadelphia 76ers, Lynam led them to two conference semifinals, losing twice to a Chicago Bulls team led by the infamous Michael Jordan.

The 1960s was a decade that produced some of the greatest athletes and moments in the history of St. Joe’s. The decade changed the landscape of St. Joe’s athletics and the reverberations from the decade can still be felt to this day.

The 1961 Saint Joseph's University men's basketball team (Photo courtesy of SJU Athletics).

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The new salute

Drawing comparisons between today's kneeling and past salutes DREW RHOADES '20 Hawk Staff

Colin Kaepernick, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback, began a revolution when his knee hit the ground during the national anthem played before a game on Aug. 26, 2016.

Controversy over the gesture started immediately. A year and two months later, Kaepernick is still out of a job, but players in the National Football League (NFL) have continued to rally together and kneel.

This protest has become a symbol against racial oppression that takes place in the United States.

While some might find this action unprecedented, taking a look back at history tells a different story. In 1968, America was in a time of great distress.

In addition to the Vietnam War, Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated.

King had become the face of the Civil Rights Movement, which demanded equal rights for African-Americans. Losing King was similar to a candle being blown out, leaving only the engulfing darkness.

In October 1968, the Summer Olympics were held in Mexico City, Mexico. For the United States, Tommie Smith and John Carlos delivered on the track, with Smith winning the gold and Carlos bringing home the bronze in the 200-meter sprint. What ended up stealing the show, however, was what the duo did off the track. During the medal ceremony, the two athletes took off their shoes to represent the issue of poverty and raised their fists in support of black power when the national anthem played.

The repercussions were swift, as Smith and Carlos were immediately suspend-

ed from the U.S. team. In addition, they received death threats and were made to be “villains.” However, neither man regretted their actions.

The parallels that can be drawn from the 1968 Olympics and taking a knee today are plentiful. Both occurred at a time when racial tensions were high. Both were done on the national stage by athletes that people look up to. Those athletes face both praise and criticism for what they’re doing.

The one similarity that stands out in particular is what these actions stand for: civil justice, equality and peace. Today, these athletes show their awareness for what is happening in today’s and yesterday’s world, and remind the world of athletics that there are people who are still calling for a change.

Graphic by Kelly Smith '19.

Would King knight Kaepernick?

How MLK might perceive kneeling for national anthem NICK KARPINSKI '21 Hawk Staff

Martin Luther King Jr.’s ideas of peaceful protest have sparked a movement amongst National Football League players to create equality and change. Whether it’s the black power salute or kneeling during the national anthem, players want to be a part of it.

This campaign came to fruition when its leader, former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, stated, “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way.”

A modern Civil Rights Movement such as this one should naturally investigate what King’s perspective would have been on the matter of NFL protests. His words exhibited great meaning and power, but it is incredibly important for them to not be taken out of context. With regards to black power, King’s words can easily be picked apart, construed and flipped upside down.

“Yet it is not yet enough to condemn [black power] nor to be complacent because its appeal is narrow,” King said.

His words have a specific meaning that is not always clear to the reader at first glance. Brian James Yates, Ph.D., assistant professor of modern and pre-modern African history, further elaborates on the impact of King’s rhetorical legacy.

“Just because the appeal may be narrow, does not mean it shouldn’t be supported,” Yates said. “The concept is in place to respond to the actual problem; innocent black lives being taken away.”

Graphic by Kelly Smith '19.

This idea of highlighting injustices while also standing together in solidarity has given Philadelphia Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins the inspiration necessary to utilize his platform.

“My original plan was to have teammates white and black stand together raising their fists [during the National Anthem], so that it’s no longer a white or black issue and people can’t automatically write it off like it is dividing, because it’s not a black power salute,” Jenkins said in an interview with Sports Illustrated.

Based on King’s values, it seems as if he would have supported this method of peaceful protest as its intention is to show unity rather than rebellion.

“Dr. King’s pride in nonviolent direct action allows for one to see humanity out in the open,” Yates said. “The national anthem is a rare time that every player in the league can use their platform to show how far we need to go.”

While every player is encouraged to use their platform and show support, King would likely have deemed it necessary to strategically pick players to showcase leadership positions. Not everybody has the capability of being the modern day Muhammad Ali. Yates agrees with this planning technique and explains Dr. King’s point of view.

“A person like Rosa Parks was put into place by design throughout the Civil Rights Movement,” Yates said. “Her character could not be assassinated. Kaepernick is an ideal leader for the movement. He was adopted

and has had no trouble with the law. He is living by the culture.”

Establishing peaceful protest methods is a number one priority for activists, but being able to articulately retort opinions against the movement might be just as important. A strategic response to comments from individuals, such as Pittsburgh Steelers offensive tackle and former service member Alejandro Villanueva, are critical in keeping the movement’s legitimacy afloat.

“I agree that America is not perfect,” Villanueva told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

“I agree that there are a lot of issues with minorities in this country. And I agree that we should do something about it, but I don’t know if the most effective way to do it is to sit down when the national anthem is playing.”

Another question revolves around how a player can use King’s peaceful strategies to convince another person that the intentions behind kneeling are not aimed at disrespecting the flag. San Francisco 49ers strong safety Eric Reid seems to have a response to this criticism.

“We chose to kneel because it’s a respectful gesture," Reid wrote in an op-ed in the New York Times. "I remember thinking our posture was like a flag flown at half-mast to mark a tragedy.”

Strong positions, peaceful protest and words like Reid's firmly resonate with people, in King’s time and today. King’s message to take direct and nonviolent action has fueled a modern day Civil Rights Movement right within the NFL.

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Looking for a win

Men's soccer battles to enter A-10 tournament NICK MANDARANO '18 Sports Editor

After redshirt senior Luc Fatton kicked the ball right past a diving senior goalkeeper Greg O’Connell to put Virginia Commonwealth University up 1-0 against the Saint Joseph's University men’s soccer team, the course of the game changed.

“They’re a team that likes to possess,” senior Matt Crawford said. “After they went up 1-0, it kind of put us in a spot we didn’t really want to be in.”

The Hawks entered the game against VCU, who was 4-1-0 in Atlantic 10 play, in 10th place in the conference standings, making this a crucial game in regards to playoff hopes. The game resulted, however, in the Hawks’ third straight loss, moving them to 1-4-1 in conference games.

VCU struggled early in the game to get the ball consistently into their offensive half, but when they managed to do so, it typically resulted in strong scoring opportunities for the Rams.

The Hawks had a couple of near goals in the 15th and 18th minutes of the first half,

but the game remained scoreless at the break.

“I think the first half went pretty well,” Crawford said. “They’re a pretty good team, so I think we defended pretty hard and worked harder than we did in other games throughout the season.”

The Rams opened the scoring with Fatton’s goal in the fourth minute of the second half.

“I think to give up a goal that early in the first half kind of took a lot of pressure off them,” Crawford said. “The longer the game had gone 0-0, I think that would’ve benefitted us.”

With less than 12 minutes remaining, the Rams scored back-to-back goals to extend their lead to 3-0, where the score would stand until the final buzzer.

“We had a couple close opportunities, but as soon as they scored the second goal, it kind of took the wind out of our sails,” Head Coach Don D’Ambra said. “We played with a lot of energy. We played them really tight. It was a close game up until that

second goal. I think that was kind of it.”

The Hawks only managed to put two shots on goal – one by freshman Alvin Dahn and another by senior Isaac Agyapong.

“We had one really good chance in the first half off a corner and then one really good chance in the second half and a lot of times,” Crawford said. “If you’re getting one good chance you’ve got to put it away because against a good team like VCU, I don’t know how many chances you’re going to get.”

According to Crawford, the issue on offense stemmed from an inability to capitalize on possessions or get the ball to the middle of the field.

“I think we had some chances,” Crawford said. “The space was probably out wide more so than down the middle and I think when we got the ball out wide, we couldn’t really seem to get in a good cross.

The couple times we did, they just didn’t go our way."

With just two conference games remain-

ing and an 11th place 1-4-1 conference record, the Hawks are currently on the outside looking in at the A-10 tournament.

“We’re much better than what our record shows,” D’Ambra said.

St. Joe’s will return to action at home against George Washington University at 7 p.m. on Oct. 28.

Senior Kevin Lockhart takes the ball downfield (Photo by Kristen Babich '20).

Time to rally

Women's soccer plays last game before A-10 championships ALEX HARGRAVE '20 Assistant Sports Editor

Even though the Saint Joseph’s University women’s soccer team would have been seeded seventh in the A-10 championships no matter how they fared against conference opponent, St. Bonaventure University, they managed to fight their way to a deserved win on Oct. 22.

The Hawks took down the Bonnies 2-1 in 90 minutes, a relief as they had battled Fordham University in double overtime just a few days earlier, on Oct. 19. Head coach Jess Mannella recognized the effect that playing 108 minutes of soccer just days before had on the team.

“We went into double overtime on Thursday, so we were a bit tired and we could see it,” Mannella said. “St. Bonnies always seems to always be our last game of the season, and even though they were technically out [of playoffs], they had a lot to play for and worked really hard and played a good game.”

St. Joe’s was able to put immediate pressure on the Bonnies despite possible fatigue from their previous match. The first goal for the Hawks came in the 16th minute from freshman Morgan Bower when she had a breakaway, after a miscommunication between a Bonnie defender and goalkeeper allowed Bower to get behind them and finish.

The goal marked Bower’s seventh of the season, an impressive amount for a

first year athlete.

“It was pretty cool [to have an impact on the program], to get on the field was awesome for me and I was so happy with the playing time I got this year,” Bower said. “To contribute to the team in scoring made it so much better and made me feel like I was even more part of this team.”

Mannella recognizes the offensive advantage that Bower brings to the program.

“She has an incredible work rate and she has really fast pace, so she was able to make an impact right away because of those two things,” Mannella said. “She’s able to get be-

hind defenses because of those two things.”

The Hawks outshot the Bonnies 10-1 in the first half, with the period ending at 1-0, St. Joe’s.

St. Bonaventure fought back in the second half, resulting in a goal with 26 minutes left. Junior goalkeeper Grace Bendon faced St. Bonaventure’s Mariah Marrero one-onone, and Marrero was able to find the far post to tie the game at 1-1.

Determined to stay out of overtime, the Hawks fought until the end to secure a win. With eight minutes left, junior Hannah Racis was able to find the back of the

The St. Joe's women's soccer team celebrates a goal on senior day (Photo by Luke Malanga '20).

net to give the Hawks a 2-1 lead.

The St. Joe’s defense remained steadfast to earn the Hawks a 2-1 win at the end of the regular season. The team ended their season with an overall record of 10-5-3 and a conference record of 5-3-2, giving them the seventh seed in the playoffs. They will face second-seed Saint Louis University at their home field in Missouri on Oct. 28.

Mannella has confidence going into the upcoming playoff game despite not having the home-field advantage.

“We did lose to St. Louis 3-0 [this season], but it was a Sunday game after going into double overtime the game before and travelling,” Mannella said.

The team has had a successful season but has some work to do in order to reach their goal of winning the A-10 championships and making it to the NCAA tournament, which they were unable to do last year even though they were the A-10 regular season champions.

“A lot of this season, we’ve been working on maintaining high pressure at all times, so I think we’ll work to improve it,” Bower said. “Switching the field and going to end line are what we’ve also been working on, so I think it will be about getting possession and playing from the middle to the outsides.”

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Oct. 25, 2017

Sweeping New England

Field hockey wins two games in Massachusetts NICK KARPINSKI '21 Hawk Staff The Saint Joseph’s University field hockey team successfully took the Atlantic 10 Conference with a 5-2 comeback victory over the University of Massachusetts on Oct. 20.

Headed into this matchup, the Hawks jumped to 19th in the Penn Monto/National Field Hockey Coaches association Coaches Poll after spending the previous four weeks at the 21st spot.

The first half of play was an offensive struggle for St. Joe’s, which gave UMass the opportunity to rack up a two point cushion headed into half.

The Minutewomen's first goal came from Melanie Kreusch at the seven minute mark assisted by Sophie de Jonge. This same duo secured a second goal nine minutes later. Massachusetts maintained this lead until the half came to a close.

Hawks coach Lynn Farquhar made sure to highlight the initial strong performance from UMass and shed light on what the Hawks had to do to recover.

“Massachusetts is a strong program with a great senior class,” Farquhar said. “They were able to convert early. It was important to trust the process and play in the moment.

We reminded each other of the game plan

and tried to be a bit more aggressive.”

This halftime conversation paid off for St. Joe’s, because what followed was a second half shutout combined with five goals.

Junior Anna Willock and freshmen Emily Peters and Quinn Maguire contributed to the Hawk’s offensive domination.

Peters had two goals throughout the half. The first was self orchestrated and

came at the 44 minute mark. The goal put St. Joe’s on the board trailing 2-1. Peters’ second came late in the game to give the Hawks five points and deliver her fifth goal of the season.

Willocks also contributed two goals on the day. Her first tied the game up at two, all around the 50 minute mark. It was assisted by Maguire and provided Willocks

with her 12th goal of the season. Her second came minutes later, this time assisted by sophomore Pepa Serrano, and brought her tally up to 13 goals.

Maguire’s goal came at the 61 minute mark and gave the Hawks a two point lead. This notched her 13th goal of the season. Maguire was named the Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week on Oct. 23.

The Hawks took on Northeastern University just two days later, on Oct. 22.

St. Joe's beat Northeastern 4-3 behind two goals from Maguire, one from Willocks and the game-winner from Peters.

These games bring the Hawks to a record of 15-3 overall and 6-1 in the A-10.

“We want to play with character,"Farquhar said of her expectations for the remainder of the season. “It doesn’t matter whether we win or lose. It’s about the process. We’re excited for our senior game coming up next weekend.”

St. Joe’s comes back to Ellen Ryan Field for a matchup against Davidson University and senior day on Oct. 28. They are also preparing for the 2017 A-10 Semifinals in Amherst, Mass. on Nov. 3.

Sophomore Pepa Serrano looks for a pass in their game against Delaware on Oct. 14 (Photo by Luke Malanga '20).

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