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Students unable to use preferred name on university documents Jordon Constantino ’22 has a piece of tape on his ID to cover up his legal name which the university says he can’t change. PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE HAWK

CARA SMITH ’20 News Editor Students who identify as transgender currently cannot change their legal names to their preferred names in Banner, the software system St. Joe’s uses as its student information system.

Banner connects legal names to class rosters, student IDs and other official documents.

Jordon Constantino ’22, who identifies as trans, said people don’t realize the impact that a name has on a person.

“I heard someone say your name is just a string of sounds that refers to you so it should be something that represents you,” Constantino said. “Personally being called my name is reaffirming.”

The Banner software system gathers its information from a student’s original application to St. Joe’s, which doesn’t include a place for a student’s preferred name. The information fields on Banner include the student’s legal name, sex, birthdate and other personal information.

“Knowing people have access to my vulnerability in using a name that doesn’t represent me is tough,” Constantino said.

A newly available upgrade for Banner will allow for the system to communicate a student’s preferred name to different modules instead of their legal name.

According to Deanna Flanagan, associate registrar, the upgrade for the new system will be implemented in January 2020. “[Students] will be able to, in The Nest, put what their preferred name is,” Flanagan said. “It was a complete system upgrade, so it wasn’t just this portion, and you’ll see this in the future even when you go into The Nest.”

Flanagan said there will be no new policies associated with the preferred name process implementation. Any student will be able to enter a preferred name.

Christopher Heasley, Ph.D., assistant professor of educational leadership and head of the university’s Transgender Inclusion Working Group, said he is happy about the Banner upgrade.

“We were excited to know that there is a version to opt for more flexibility and understanding,” Heasley said. “Of course I would have liked it, you know, six years ago, but we are excited that there is a solution coming.”

Although students will be able to input their preferred name into Banner, which will ensure their preferred name is included on class rosters, Flanagan said the Office of the Registrar is uncertain whether students will be able to change their name on their IDs. Flanagan said there are multiple departments involved in making a decision about an ID.

“It’s not for us to say,” Flanagan said.

“There were some other things with the ID because it’s your Hawk Card, there is money attached to it, you can use it in the bank for identification purposes, so there is more research that needs to go into the ID.” Heasley said students should never be denied their right to a preferred name when a solution is available.

“For me, the big one is someone will really feel comfortable presenting their authentic self,” Heasley said. “As an institution, we keep using dead names, then we have an issue where the students are feeling violated, perhaps uncomfortable.”

In the trans community, “dead names” refers to the legal name that no longer matches a person’s identity.

Constantino said having the wrong name on his ID affects his daily life on campus.

“I have a piece of tape over my first name on my ID,” Constantino said. “It leaves me vulnerable to a lot of things if someone were to ever see it and pay attention to it.”

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a nonprofit organization that defends the rights of U.S. citizens, holds the position that students have the right to be addressed by the name and pronouns that correspond with their gender identity, even if their name and gender are not legally changed. The ACLU also encourages

schools to use a student’s chosen name on as many places as possible, including student IDs. According to Campus Pride, a non-profit that supports the rights of LGBTQIA+ college students, about 255 colleges and universities enable students to use a chosen first name on campus records and documents.

Heasley said such policies would provide evidence that St. Joe’s is supportive of LGBT community members.

“I think that we need to make sure we have policies in place that support this,” Heasley said.

Rebecca Halfpenny ’20, who identifies as nonbinary, said some professors disregard their preferred pronouns in classes; others ask them what they prefer.

“I’ve had a couple professors do that and say if you don’t want to say it out loud just email me, which I think is wonderful,” Halfpenny said. “But I know that not everyone does that, so I think it should be normed.”

Maggie Nealon ’20, the president of SJUPride, said creating policies to support students who identify as trans at St. Joe’s is crucial to improve campus culture.

“I think homophobia and transphobia lurk on this campus, [and] we don’t want to acknowledge it,” Nealon said. “But it’s still there, and more present than we think it is.”

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Red-winged menace threatens $18.5 billion in agriculture ANNIE MEKO ’22 Special to the Hawk The spotted lanternfly, a red-winged insect native to southeast Asia, is wreaking havoc on trees and on agricultural production across eastern Pennsylvania.

According to Clint J. Springer, Ph.D.,associate professor of biology and St. Joe’s director of environmental science and sustainability studies, these insects have already started laying eggs ahead of the fall season.

“Now that it’s starting to lay eggs,” Springer said. “This is when the fight really starts.”

The fight includes an order of quarantine of 14 counties in southeastern Pennsylvania issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture in May 2018. The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and researchers at the Pennsylvania State University have teamed up to fight the spotted lanternfly invasion.

In an effort to prevent the spread of the insect, the order requires that anyone who leaves any quarantined counties must inspect their vehicle, or anything they are transporting out, for spotted lanternflies, eggs, larvae and honeydew.

According to the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, the spotted lanternfly—which is native to Vietnam, China and India—will lay about 30 to 50 eggs each in the fall. The larvae produce honeydew which has caused damage to grape, apple, hops and hardwood industries in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

St. Joe’s campus is in Philadelphia County and Montgomery County, both of which are quarantine areas. According to Springer, the insects lay eggs on the trunks of trees, allowing the larvae to feed on the plant tissue

as they grow and move through the stages of development into an adult insect.

“Their larva can do a lot of damage to the trees and is really more of a concern than the adults,” Springer said.

Rhea Cuevas ’22 said she is frustrated by the spotted lanternflies on campus and has seen the bugs at home in Ardmore.

“I hate spotted lanternflies [and] I think they are the worst things in the world,” Cuevas said. “It’s really hard to get rid of them.

They eat up everything they can.”

Julie M. Urban, Ph.D., associate research professor in the department of entomology at Penn State is part of a research team that is studying the impact of the spotted lanternfly in eastern Pennsylvania.

Urban said the biodiversity can be greatly affected by the spotted lanternfly since these insects are known to feed on more than 70 different species of trees and plants. Additionally, Urban said the spotted lanternflies are affecting the profits of vineyards in Pennsylvania.

“There’s a potential for it to be damaging to other plants, but it hasn’t been shown yet to be as damaging to other plants as it is to grapevines,” Urban said.

Shannon Powers, deputy communications director at the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture said in Berks County, where the insect was first discovered in late 2014, one vineyard lost 90% of its crops and 90% of its vines were destroyed in 2018.

“It’s a tremendous threat to our economy,” Powers said. “We believe it threatens 18.5 billion dollars worth of popular agricultural products like grapes, hardwoods [and] tree fruits like apples and peaches.”

Powers said the Department of Agriculture issued about a million permits to companies across the U.S. and Canada,

Spotted lanternfly sightings increase on campus. PHOTO: THE HAWK

and those companies have trained their employees to recognize the spotted lanternfly in any stage of its life and how to prevent them from spreading.

Urban said it is important to fight the invasive bugs in ways that are effective but not excessive, and she advised against spraying dish soap or other pesticides on their property inappropriately because it could affect other organisms.

“What the government agencies are using to treat, ‘Tree of Heaven,’ is systemic insecticide to get either injected or sprayed onto the tree, and the tree takes that into its tissue and then any lantern-

fly coming through and feeding on it then gets poisoned,” Urban said.

Both the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture and researchers at Penn State advise that the best thing to do is to kill spotted lanternflies on sight. Springer said eggs and larvae on the trunks of trees should also be destroyed.

“If you see any egg mats on trees, scrape them off and put them in alcohol, and that will kill the egg mats,” Springer said. “They look like a gray mat on the side of a tree. And killing them, that actually will have a really big impact on population numbers.”

Guest speaker encourages open conversations about racism CARLY CALHOUN ’21 Assistant News Editor Shawnee Daniels-Sykes, Ph.D., spoke to St. Joe’s faculty and students during the Day of Learning on Catholic Social Teaching and Racism on Sept. 26.

Daniels-Sykes, an associate professor of theology and ethics at Mount Mary University and the only black Catholic female health care ethicist in the U.S., researches issues of institutionalized race, class and gender oppression. Daniels-Sykes met with St. Joe’s faculty members at 11 a.m., spoke to two combined classes in McShain Residence Center and held a student meeting in the Center for Inclusion and Diversity.

Throughout the day, her biggest message was providing safe spaces for people to be able to voice their feelings and concerns about inclusivity.

“What I come to you with is an openness to explore,” Daniels-Sykes said. “To explore those things that have caused us hurt and harm, and to also look at the joys amidst those struggles, the hope. I tend to be an optimist, but I’m also a realist, and wanting to deal with those things that cause us pain, but not wallow in pity city, but to figure out, OK where do we go from here.”

The program was sponsored by the Faith-Justice Institute’s Joseph William and Madeline Eberle Klein Fund, which was created with the mission to educate people on the marginalization of those who have been excluded from the Catholic Church. Annie Bole, M.S.W., the lec-

tures and programming assistant at the Faith-Justice Institute, said the fund is always looking for programs to address racism on campus.

“This program was really designed as a response to the events that unfolded last year as a way to continue the conversations about racism and what it will take to move us towards becoming a more inclusive campus,” Bole said.

During the student meeting, Daniels-Sykes took questions and comments from students, with topics ranging from cultural appropriation to a lack of diversity among faculty. After the student meeting, Fatmata Sakho ’21 said that the lack of inclusion that she feels on St. Joe’s campus is not always obvious.

“There’s a barrier here at St. Joe’s that’s not really visible, but you can feel it,”

Daniels-Sykes talks to students about the importance of diversity. PHOTO: SHANNON PEPE ’20/THE HAWK

Sakho said. “I think what we need is a cultural understanding of each other.”

Beth Ford McNamee, assistant director of Campus Ministry, who attended the faculty session, said the most important thing she realized is the St. Joe’s community needs to create more spaces for students and faculty to speak about their experiences.

“Really listening and showing up to hear students stories who have experienced marginalization,” Ford McNamee said. “I think if more people showed up to those spaces to hear students stories, faculty and staff stories, we might be in a different place.”

Daniels-Sykes said creating a more inclusive and diverse campus starts with creating spaces and having conversations, but there is still much more to do.

“In that [span] of about 450 years,” Daniels-Sykes said. “We’ve had about 400 years of segregation and about 50 years of de facto segregation or integration. If you look at a ruler, out of 12 inches, we’ve probably bitten off about an inch of that ruler in terms of having these cross-cultural conversations—and we have a long way to go.”

Ny Walters ’22 said the open conversation made her realize St. Joe’s needs to be more serious about diversity and inclusion.

“There’s a lot of people who say they are with and for others,” Walters said, “But do you actually stand on what you’re saying? I feel like that’s the biggest problem.”

Kylie D’Ambra ’20 contributed to this article.

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SJU Dining adds meal exchange program LUKAS VAN SAINT ’21 Special to The Hawk At the start of the fall semester, SJU Dining Services implemented a meal exchange program that allows students who have a Campion Dining Hall meal plan to use their swipes at Campion Food Court, also known as DB. In the past, students could only use their swipes in the Campion Dining Hall.

If they wanted to eat at DB, they had to pay with cash or with HawkCash, money they load onto their student ID. Mark Giardini, general manager of SJU Dining Services, said the new option was designed “to add value and flexibility.”

“We’re always looking to evolve our dining program by adding value to the meal plans and making enhancements,” Giardini said. “So, based on the feedback that we received in surveys and dining committee meetings and other engagements with the student body, that’s really the reason that we decided to move forward with the meal exchange program.”

Under the new meal exchange program, with every meal plan purchased, diners are allowed to swap up to 15 Campion swipes for 15 swipes at Grille Works and York Street Deli. The DB swipe option allows diners to receive a sandwich, a side and a drink. The program does not work at HawkWrap or any other DB establishment, but Giardini said declining balance or DB, which is included with all meal plans, may still be used at any Campion Food Court location.

When asked if the new option saves SJU Dining money, Giardini reiterated that the meal exchange plan is about “flexibility.”

“The goal of meal exchange is to provide a full meal solution in exchange for a dining hall

A sign explains the choices for the meal exhange program. PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE HAWK

swipe,” Giardini said.

So far, Giardini said SJU Dining Services has not seen an increase in customers using Campion swipes at the two designated DB locations.

Many students interviewed by the Hawk said they didn’t know about the meal exchange plan but would likely use it.

Lauren Strain ’23 said she was unaware of the meal exchange program, but now that she knows about it, she is likely to utilize it.

“I’m not a huge fan of the food in Campion,” Strain said. “So I feel like I would definitely use it.”

Brett Komis ’20 also said he didn’t know about the meal exchange option when he

initially purchased a meal plan, but he has since used it and likes the option.

“It’s just a nice little addition to be able to go into DB after night class and not worry about having to spend my actual DB,” he said, referring to the declining balance on his plan.

Impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump What is impeachment?

Impeachment in the United States is the process by which the lower house of a legislature brings charges against a civil officer of government for crimes alleged to have been committed. If a federal official, like the president of the United States, commits a crime or abuses the powers of their office, the House of Representatives may bring charges against them for their actions. If the president is found guilty, the Senate will hold an impeachment trial against the official. The president can only be removed from office if the Senate also finds him guilty.

What did Nancy Pelosi include in her speech?

In a televised speech on Sept. 24, Pelosi

stated that due to a breach in his constitutional responsibilities, the House of Representatives would be moving forward with an attempt to impeach the president.

“I can say with authority the Trump administrations’ actions undermine both our national security and our intelligence,” Pelosi said. “No one is above the law.”

What did the president do to prompt this impeachment inquiry?

Pelosi said the House of Representatives is opening an impeachment inquiry into President Trump because of “a phone call by the president of the United States, calling upon a foreign power to intervene in his election.”

The Trump administration was also obstructing Michael Atkinson, the intelli-

gence community inspector general, from gaining access to the transcript of the President's phone call to Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine.

What are the next steps?

Susan Liebell, Ph.D., associate professor of political science at St. Joe’s, said that the next step is for the House of Representatives to declare a charge against the president. They began their investigations on Sept. 26, but it could last for weeks before the president is even charged.

“They’re going to do an investigation before they even come up with a charge to impeach the president,” Liebell said.

“So they’re basically starting this process of [asking] what did he do wrong? What’s wrong with this phone call? That’s what

they’ve got to figure out. And once they figure that out, they would then construct the charge.”

Pelosi would not have made this impeachment inquiry announcement on national television without the knowledge that President Trump will be impeached by the House of Representatives, Liebell said.

However, it is up to the senate to remove him from office.

“The senate is a completely different story,” Liebell said. “Nobody expects that it will provide the two thirds majority against the president that would be required for him to be removed from office.”

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Student Union Board rebrands as Hawk Hill Productions ALLISON KITE ’22 Special to The Hawk As of this fall, St. Joe’s Student Union Board (SUB) has a new name, Hawk Hill Productions, and a new look.

Hawk Hill Productions will still be funded by student activity fees and run by students who are named to the executive board. These students organize activities on and off campus for undergraduate students.

“We wanted to do something fresh because what we do is valuable,” said Ella Neumann ’21, co-president of Hawk Hill Productions.

The rebranding was put into motion

by Megan Azzalina, assistant director of Student Leadership and Activities, who serves as the group’s advisor.

Azzalina said when she came to the university in the fall of 2018, she began to evaluate the programs students were being offered.

After several assessments of programs, it was decided that SUB should be revamped to better “meet the needs of students.”

Neumann said one of the overall reasons for the rebranding was decreased attendance at SUB-sponsored events. So far, the rebranding has helped improve attendance.

Tickets for a Sept. 28 trip to Hershey Park, sponsored by Hawk Hill Productions, sold out within two hours of being available, according to Neumann.

“Is it just the new hype?” Neumann asked. “Will it fade out? But that’s pretty exciting because our events weren’t doing that in the two years I’ve been a part of Student Union Board.”

Changes to the organization include the new name, “fresh new” events and new merchandise, such as lanyards and stickers, Neumann said. The organization also has a new visual identity through a new logo, featuring the bell tower from Barbelin Hall, nicknamed ‘Barb.’

“We talked about what represents St. Joe’s, what’ll get the name ‘Hawk Hill Productions’ out and how it’ll incorporate what we do,” said marketing manager Sarah Walker ’22. “We were thinking things that associate with St. Joe’s, so we thought, ‘Barb,’ perfect.”

There have been changes and improvements within the executive board itself as well, which was reorganized in the spring of 2019.

Meghan Corona ’20, a member of the executive board since the spring semester of her first year, said she believes what hurt the success of SUB in the past was a lack of teamwork and sense of community. “[Before rebranding], we acknowledged that it wasn’t going the way we want it to,

Sarah Walker ’22, marketing manager for Hawk Hill Productions, at a spring 2019 event featuring David Dobrik. PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE HAWK

and once we did that, we realized what we needed to fix,” Corona said. “But I think the rebranding put all the issues of SUB to rest. There’s a lot of new people, a lot of new ideas, and a lot of us don’t know what SUB ended as, so it’s good to have new people ready to be part of the new page of HHP.” Walker said the change is also good for students who were at St. Joe’s under the old SUB. “By being Hawk Hill Productions, we’re not only getting the attention of freshmen coming in, who are really into it, but we’re also getting the attention of sophomores, juniors, seniors who didn’t necessarily click with SUB,” Walker said.

Members of Hawk Hill Productions

said they plan to keep the excitement going by organizing events that appeal to students.

“We’re sending out surveys to everyone who comes to an event, to try to make it more about what the students want, instead of just whoever’s on the board,” Neumann said.

At the beginning of the semester, Hawk Hill Productions organized Welcome Week and many other events for returning students, such as a trip to King of Prussia, Stand Up & Sliders with Bob’s Burgers, and Big Money Bingo, just to name a few. “[This organization] just allows students to have opportunities that you might not get elsewhere,” Neumann said.

“Like, Bob’s Burgers, John Roberts coming to campus, literally anyone could have walked up to him during the show. There’s

just so many opportunities.”

While Neumann said now that the “grunt-work” of the rebranding is done, Hawk Hill Productions plans to keep improving to capitalize on its initial success.

“Each day, each week, each semester, you’re always going to want to change and be flexible,” Neumann said. ”Like in every organization, you constantly want to adapt to what the needs are of your audience. We’re just really strategically trying to focus on keeping the energy alive.”

Upcoming events this semester include a paintball trip on Nov. 16 and a New York City trip to a Radio City Rockettes show on Nov. 23. Next semester’s schedule has yet to be released.

Department of Public Safety reports (Sept. 20 - Oct. 2) ALCOHOL RELATED INCIDENTS

Sept. 20 Public Safety was notified by a St. Joe’s student regarding being assaulted by a male suspect near the area of the Starbucks. Public Safety officers, along with Philadelphia Police responded, but were unable to locate the suspect. No injury to the student. Investigation continuing.

Public Safety was notified by an area resident regarding students being loud in the 5700 block of Woodcrest Avenue. Public Safety officers along with the Philadelphia Police notified and responded into the area.

Community Standards was notified.

Sept. 22 Public Safety confiscated a quantity of alcohol from a St. Joe’s student inside the lobby of Villiger Residence Center. Residence Life was notified. Community Standards was notified.

Public Safety confiscated a quantity of alcohol from a St. Joe’s student inside the lobby of the LaFarge Residence Center.

Residence Life was notified. Community Standards was notified.

Sept. 26 Public Safety was notified by a St. Joe’s student regarding an alleged assault of another St. Joe’s student by two male suspects in the 5700 block of Woodbine Avenue. Public Safety officers responded, but were unable to locate any suspects.

No serious injury to the student. Student did not wish to make a police report.

Investigation continuing.

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The right to control your name The importance of owning your identity

Editor in Chief Luke Malanga ’20 Managing Editor Emily Graham ’20 Copy Chief Kaila Mundell-Hill ’20 Faculty Adviser Shenid Bhayroo Contributing Adviser Jenny Spinner Senior Editor Charley Rekstis ’20 Digital Managing Editor Alex Hargrave ’20 Copy Editor Angelique Frazier ’20 Copy Editor Jackie Collins ’21 News Editor Cara Smith ’21 Assistant News Editor Carly Calhoun ’21 Opinions Editor Devin Yingling ’22 Assistant Opinions Editor Hadassah Colbert ’20 Features Editor Kaitlyn Patterson ’20 Assistant Features Editor Zach Dobinson ’22

Members of the St. Joe’s community do not have the option to update their preferred names on their student IDs due to the set up of the current system, nor are they able to change their preferred name on their class rosters, email addresses or anything else that publicly displays their name through school software.

According to the National Center for Transgender Equality, under Title IX legislation, “Title IX applies to all schools (including both K–12 schools and colleges) that get federal money, including nearly all public schools” and therefore you are protected and “have the right to be called by the name and pronouns that match your gender identity.”

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) further asserts, “You have the right to be addressed by the name and pronouns that correspond with your gender identity.

This is true even if your name and gender are not legally changed. Your school should use your chosen name and pronouns on everything possible—your student ID, class attendance rosters, yearbook, and more.

Your legal name should only appear on your official file.”

Yet, this is not the reality at St. Joe’s.

Students, faculty and staff who identify as transgender do not have the ability to change their prefered name unless their name is legally changed.

While there is an apparent update to the software (set to be ready in January) that will allow students and faculty to change their preferred names, this does not ensure accessibility to changing the names on ID cards.

A person’s name is a large part of their identity—it signifies to others who they are.

Therefore, when a person who identifies as transgender is referred to by their “dead name” (the name used to identify a person before they transitioned) or is misgendered by use of improper pronouns, that person is invalidated.

At St. Joe’s we value our Jesuit identity:

caring for the whole person. It’s imperative that “caring for the whole person” includes respecting a person’s name and thus true identity. We need to do this not only as a matter of respect to uphold the dignity of each individual here, but to validate an already marginalized group on campus by using their proper name.

There are many hurdles for someone transitioning, someone who has gone through the process of transitioning, or for those who identify as nonbinary. Yet those people continue to be put into situations at this institution where they must validate themselves to outsiders and publically justify their identity.

Imagine being referred to as someone who no longer matches your identity whenyour professor calls that name from the roster on the first day of class. Imagine swiping into Campion Dining Hall every single day with an ID card that belongs to someone who no longer exists.

By officially recognizing people’s preferred names at St. Joe’s, the institution helps to create an environment that accepts the full identity of a person and sets a precedent encouraging the use of proper pronouns in the classroom because people will no longer be associated with their dead names.

If that doesn’t resonate with you, think of it this way. A person who gets married or divorced makes the decision to change their last name to match their new identity in this next chapter of their life. Yet they can only change their name on any documents after completing loads of paperwork and dedicating the time to dedicate to do so.

The point is that the system in place here makes it extremely difficult even for cisgendered individuals to change their last name, and thus restricts students, faculty and staff in representing their true identities. So imagine the immense disrespect that this system creates towards members of the community who are not cis-privileged.

Our language and how we refer to people who have transitioned matter signifi-

cantly when it comes to creating an environment of inclusion and diversity. Using the correct gender inclusive language validates those who already have enough difficulties in life and makes sure that nobody is a victim of exclusion.

If students, faculty or staff members have a preferred name that is not the same as their birth name, then that person should have the resources they need to display their name and identity publicly as they would like.

Although the legal name change process is available, not everyone can afford to spend the time or money to go through such a process. At an institution where people are paying for an education or supporting the institution through their employment, they should have all of the support possible from that place to make them feel welcomed.

If we are going to boast this institution as one that works for inclusion and diversity, and as a place that cares for the whole person, then we should start by giving people the option to communicate their preferred name per their decision. In doing so, we are a step closer to caring for the whole person and including all of those who chose to be a part of this community.

—The Editorial Board This week’s Editorial Board is comprised of the Editor in Chief, Senior Editor, Managing Editor, Copy Chief, Digital Managing Editor, Photo Editor, News Editor, Assistant News Editor, Features Editor, Assistant Features Editor, Online Editor, Opinions Editor and Assistant Opinions Editor. This editorial reflects the views of the Board and not the entire Hawk staff.

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

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

STILL CAN'T BEAT RAINBOW ROAD If you don’t have a Wii in your dorm to play your favorite childhood video games, fear not because the long-awaited Mario Kart app has finally dropped. If you have no plans for this weekend, we suggest you get into a Mario Kart showdown with some friends and reminisce about the good old days of banana and shell throwing.

WAS PETUNIA THERE TOO? We caught wind that the old Saturday Night Live writer and now stand up comedian John Mulaney was performing at Villanova University this past weekend. How dare he give our Holy War rivals a visit and a laugh without even stopping by to say, “Oh, Hello!” Hawk Hill Productions: make it happen. We want Mulaney.

ANNIVERSARY OF A CLASSIC Oh! Darling, since last Thursday, Sept. 26, it’s been 50 years since the Beatles’ “Abbey Road” was released. That is Something to Come Together about and celebrate! If you haven’t gone through a Beatles music phase in a while, go take a listen to the classic album to lift your spirits as week six of the semester drags on.

DEATH OF KIK Rest in peace to our 12-year-old selves’ mode of communication, Kik Messenger. Thank you for letting us communicate via text on our old iPods when our parents wouldn’t let us get a cellphone yet. You will be dearly missed.

DRINKS ON GOOGLE Last Friday, Sept. 27, was Google’s 21st birthday. Happy belated birthday to our favorite browser! We owe you one for carrying us through multiple research papers and holding all of our documents in one nice Drive. Thanks for helping us keep it together in college.

You’re the best.

MASCOT GETS TAKEN DOWN A video of the Mississippi State University mascot, the bulldog, in the line of tackle in a recent game has been going around Twitter. Don’t worry, the dog is not hurt in the slightest (he hardly flinched, what a trooper). However, we still think #28 on the team should be banned for life. Just kidding, but tackle the players all you want, just don’t touch the dog!

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The double bind of Impeachment How we should approach uncharted political waters DEVIN YINGLING ’22 Opinions Editor Do you ever need a moment to take a step back from the world of politics and just take a breath? I’m a political science major, and I’m paying thousands of dollars a year to gain an education on the topic, yet I can hardly stomach what is happening on Capitol Hill.

What I’ve pieced together from rapid-fire news headlines and Twitter tirades so far is as follows: impeachment inquiry, whistleblower report, phone call transcript, Ukraine, Ukranian President Zelensky, and Hunter Biden.

This call for impeachment is not the first scandal of the Trump presidency, and to be quite honest, it certainly is just as revealing of Trump’s character and governance as past scandals. This time, the only difference is that the House Democrats finally decided that a formal impeachment inquiry would be a viable option in order to do what has been needed to be done for a long time: hold the executive branch accountable.

While I’m in support of the decision to actually hold Trump accountable and force him to own up to his actions, there is a caveat to impeachment that is only being addressed at surface level.

Due to the nature of this particular presidency and the current political climate, the process of impeachment is being viewed as an arbitrary political maneuver used to further divide the American public, rather than as a viable check on the power of the executive branch.

One Opinions columnist for The New York Times, Frank Bruni, asserts that “to be

engaged in politics is to be engaged in battle — and that shouldn’t and needn’t always be so,” but that’s what it seems to be boiling down to.

The president understands this reality: by encouraging the more liberal members of

too soft to take his commentary.

The process of impeachment is not just something meant to take down solely Trump. As The New York Times Editorial Board writes, “A president’s use of his power for his own political gain, at the expense

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Congress who oppose him to follow through with impeachment, he will have more colors on his palette to paint a picture of the opposition as corrupt, un-American, and conductors of some convoluted “witch hunt” against the president of the United States, nevertheless deepening the political battle.

This is the picture right wing supporters of Trump have bought for over two years now, and rather than seeing how impeachment would actually put the American people and American security first, they will only see how the the crazy leftists are out to get our commander in chief because they’re

of the public interest, is the quintessence of an impeachable offense. It was, in fact, one of the examples the Constitution’s framers deployed to explain what would constitute ‘high crimes and misdemeanors,’ the standard for impeachment.”

I understand that we live in a hyperpartisan state at this point in time. I understand that politics has become more of a game, used as a means to win an argument rather than as a means to improve the state of this country. And I understand that Trump has managed to become the face of division as well as the basis for many argu-

ments in this country.

But I also understand that political division existed before the age of “Trumpism.”

Although the precedent setting cases are quite different, I understand that impeachment proceedings have existed before 2019.

Therefore, I’m asking everyone to do what I’m trying to do and take a step back to look at this situation rationally.

I don’t care if you are Republican, a Democrat, an Independent, a member of the Green Party or a Libertarian. I don’t care.

There is valid and concrete evidence against the president that calls for impeachment proceedings, and instead of looking at this as a tactic by one party to attack another, take it for what it is and look at the facts.

On the flip side, if you are a Democrat and you think calling for impeachment can only hurt the Democratic candidates because it makes it look as though Trump is the only thing they care about, then you also need to reevaluate how you’re viewing this situation.

Because to be honest, a lot of people thought Donald Trump would lose in 2016, but here we are. Therefore, anything can come of the current situation—Why lock ourselves into our partisan view points and act as though this is merely a game with a predictable outcome?

We have someone in office who does not value this democracy for what it is, but values only his power (which he abuses) over the citizens of this country. Let us come together, and at least agree on that.

If we can agree on that much, and look at the impeachment process as something more than a political tactic, maybe we can walk away from this when it’s all said and done just a little closer to lessening the political chasm we live in.

Minding my black business

Being a black man in public spaces ERON SWAN ’20 Guest Columnist Being a black male and maneuvering through white spaces can be tricky.

The constant worry or pressure of coming off as too rough or scary is stressful and exhausting.

Imagine feeling a certain way on the inside, but being perceived as dangerous or untrustworthy by others who don’t know or understand you.

Growing up in a predominantly black neighborhood in the upper east side of New York created a type of security because everybody looked like me or was some sort of minority. When I would go to the bodega, the cashier was usually black, Hispanic, or Middle Eastern.

My classes were filled with kids who shared similar experiences with me. It was comforting to be in my own bubble of people who have the same skin as me because I felt valued and equal within my community, no matter the social class others were growing up in.

Transitioning to being the only black person in most situations, and having to deal with cultural differences, was an extreme culture shock.

There were little things I began to notice that I didn’t have to deal with at home. My peers would question why I talk a certain way or dress a certain way. I never had the duty of having to explain myself to others before.

When I walk into an upscale store, I usually get followed because the clerks assume I

replied “No because the hand is black.”

When I went to the jeweler, the jeweler would barely look at my acquired jewelry because he claimed he had seen it before. The necklace was just brought to the United States from Abu Dhabi by the stranger, so there was no way he could have seen it before.

Even walking down the street I notice people crossing to the other side of the sidewalk or constantly checking over their shoulders to see what I’m doing. When I sit on a

“Imagine feeling a certain way on the inside, but being perceived as dangerous or untrustworthy by others who don’t know or understand you.” am going to steal. When I go out to restaurants with other black people, our service is not always as attentive as it is for the white people around us.

This summer I wanted to know if a necklace and ring I was gifted by a stranger I had helped out was real gold or not. I asked some of my more affluent friends if they knew anyone who could identify whether the necklace was real or. I sent a picture of the necklace in my hand to my friends and one of their friends

crowded subway, people would rather get up and leave their seats to stand on the opposite side of the train instead of just sitting where they were in proximity to me.

It happens here on our campus too. If I don’t have my bookbag with me, other students will assume, because I am black, I do not go here.

Recently, as I was coming home from class one day, a white female student had her bag on the sidewalk and noticed me about to

walk by.

As I got closer to her, she quickly grabbed her bag and clung it as tightly as she could.

When I finally passed her, she placed her bag back in the same spot.

I then noticed another student, a white male, about to pass the same female. Out of curiosity I watched to see what she was going to do. Her bag remained on the ground as the white male student passed.

As tiny of an issue this might be, this is just one of the many microaggressions that creates the question “Why me?”

These stereotypes that have been built up against black men are long lasting effects from slavery and Jim Crow. The media also portrays black men as the “boogie man.” For example, the term ‘wilding’ was coined by Donald Trump in an ad he put out in the New York newspapers in regards to the Exonerated Five. This created even higher levels of racial profiling for young black males.

Being thrown into white spaces comes with its challenges. I don’t think white people understand how much this world is tailored to their liking. The stereotype that black men are ready to harm and defile the good white people of America is outright racist, tired and needs to be laid to rest.

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A seat at the table How black women are continuously left out of the conversation HADASSAH COLBERT ’20 Assistant Opinions Editor In his speech “Who taught you to hate yourself,” the late Malcolm X declares: “The most disrespected woman in America is the black woman.

The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America, is the black woman.”

This notion has been brought to the forefront of my mind recently in light of the Constitution Day celebration that happened on campus two weeks ago.

The Constitution Day celebration consisted of reenactments of speeches arguing for enfranchisement, by abolitionist Frederick Douglas, as well as arguments from abolitionists and suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony. The reenactments were performed by St. Joe’s own professors, Susan Liebell, Ph.D., associate professor of political science, and Brian J. Yates, Ph.D., associate professor of history.

While listening to the speeches I couldn’t help but think to myself, “Where are the black women?” If there is a black man advocating for the right for black men to vote and a white woman fighting for the right for white women to vote, why is no one paying attention to the overlap?

Or, as Kimberle Crenshaw describes it, the layer of intersectionality where black women are caught in the middle of both racial oppression and gender oppression.

Unfortunately this isn’t the first, nor do I expect it to be the last, time black women are left out of the conversation.

Of course there were black suffragists like Ida B. Wells, Mary Church Terrell and most famously Sojourner Truth who gave her prominent speech “Ain’t I A Woman?” in reference to black women’s right to vote. Truth was a friend and champion of Cady Stanton and Anthony. Yet, no black women were invited to attend the famed

of women and the type of work they do. It went over the heads of many black American women because, for the most part, black women had already been in the workforce.

We had no other option but to participate in the workforce due to racially based economic disenfranchisement.

Black women couldn’t afford to be a stay

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Seneca Falls convention.

During the second wave of feminism started in the ’60s, black women were ignored once again. Intersectional identities were ignored.

Betty Friedan released “The Feminine Mystique” in 1963 and radicalized hordes of suburban white housewives while angering a few others. In her book she calls for women to exit the home and join the workforce while in a way belittling domestic work.

Friedan’s definition of work was not just elitist, but it ignored several intersections

at home mom in the first place. Moreover, due to racially biased and gender based discrimination, black women were doing mostly domestic work: nannying the children and cleaning up after the white women reading the “Feminine Mystique.”

Black women, however, have had people like Angela Davis who wrote “Women, Race and Class” in 1981 and who advocated for black women well before ’81, alongside Gloria Steinem, a more inclusive and intersectional feminist. We also had the Combahee River Collective, Audre Lorde, bell

hooks and Shirley Chisolm who were holding it down for the black female community.

The overall lack of acknowledgment of black women by white feminists led to a rift, because being the same sex was and still is not enough to unify women. Black women, because they cannot identify with the white feminism that they are presented with, coined their own term, “womanism,” which is a social theory that focuses on the historical and everyday experiences of black women.

However, white feminists aren’t the only ones at fault. In legal terms, black women are also erased. It is basically impossible for black women to sue or file lawsuits if they feel they are being discriminated against because they are black women.

The federal courts lack a comprehension of intersectionality, meaning if a black woman wants to file a lawsuit she has to file it as race based or gender based. This means if a black woman was discriminated against specifically because she is a black woman, she cannot effectively file that way.

This is a disgusting oversight. The two identities of being black and being a woman affect and influence each other.

The two cannot be separated and should not have to be. Recognizing and addressing intersectionality is not an option, it is a necessity. When you fail to do this, you are ignoring several factors and neglecting overlapping identities. It is outright lazy to ignore these identities.

In light of this Constitution Day debate, I encourage everyone to pay attention to the intersections. Not only will it make you a better person, but it will help educate and open your eyes to something you might not have realized otherwise.

The necessity of gender inclusive language

Renewing the conversation after Sam Smith’s pronoun announcement REGINA SCHLIEP ’23 Guest Columnist Last week, English musician Sam Smith announced that they prefer the pronouns they/them, six months after coming out as nonbinary.

Smith’s announcement was followed by reactions that are often associated with the topic of gender nonconforming pronouns: confusion, criticism and debate regarding the grammatical correctness of the singular they/them.

Gendered pronouns are everywhere.

Their prevalence conditions us to rely on them as a social structure that is valued higher than that of self expression and identity. It is time to make an effort to normalize the usage of “they” when a person expresses that they prefer those pronouns and include preferred pronouns as a part of formal introductions.

It is disheartening to continually see ridiculing comments such as, “He will always be a he. His DNA says he’s a he,” or comments attempting a more humorous take, yet no less offensive: “What if I consider myself to be a helicopter,” as per one response to Smith’s announcement across Twitter and Instagram.

These comments come about far too often as a response to nonbinary and gender nonconforming discussions, invalidating those who want to live free from the gender labels our society has long endorsed.

Although Smith’s announcement came with backlash, there is still much to celebrate regarding the normalization of gender neutral and gender fluid pronouns in recent news.

Just this week Mattel, a toy manufacturer, announced its first gender-neutral doll, one that is strikingly different than the typical Barbie dolls or action figures that for a long time have been displayed in toy aisles and marketed as feminine or masculine.

Mattel’s gender-neutral dolls have androgynous features, with packaging that includes clothing pieces that aren’t tailored to a stereotypical gender mold. Children can have their dolls have short or long hair and dress them to their liking without having to worry about conforming their toys to a male or female stature; they can be self-expressive through their toys.

as Merriam-Webster now officially recognizes its singular plurality.

Our language evolves and changes over time, and beyond our general capability of adapting to it, using “they” is empathetic and respectful to those who recognize it as part of their identity.

Both of these newcomings are steps in the direction of normalizing the disassociation with a gender binary, both in language and presentation. However, the backlash Smith has faced encapsulates the stigma around nonbinary pronouns. In recent years, we have seen several instances where members of the LGBTQIA+ community’s identities have been

“Our language evolves and changes over time, and beyond our general capability of adapting to it, using “they” is empathetic and respectful to those who recognize it as part of their identity.”

On Sept. 18, 2019, Merriam-Webster announced the addition of an entry to the word “they” as “used to refer to a single person whose gender identity is nonbinary.” The addition to the denotation of the word legitimizes the usage of “they” as a gender nonbinary term, as there is often debate over the grammatical facet of the term.

Many will argue that “they” is grammatically incorrect, claiming it is a plural pronoun.

However, the singular “they” is not new to our language. Merriam-Webster points out its usage to as early as the 1300’s within the works of Shakespeare and Jane Austen. Its use as a singular pronoun is by no means ungrammatical,

compromised by laws and social attitudes.

In 2016, North Carolina passed the House Bill 2 law, forcing people to use the bathroom that corresponds with their birth sex, rather than the gender that they identify as. Trans actress, model and North Carolina native Hunter Schafer, commented on the bill’s dangers and implications in a piece written for i-D magazine. Schafer states, “Our society assigns an overwhelmingly high value to other people’s perceptions of us, rather than emphasizing the importance of our own sense of self.”

Schafer highlights how self expression and identity is limited by our society, and the denial of adopting gender-fluid, nonbinary

pronouns only enhances the inability for people to be themselves.

The language that is used around the discussion of pronouns displays the discomfort within society and overall our reliance on the social construct of a gender binary. Stigma around labels and refusal to back away from the gender binary not only invalidate individuals, but put them in a position where they are unable to live normal lives.

Cisgendered people are privileged in many aspects in comparison to those who are gender fluid, nonbinary, trans or gender nonconforming. It is imperative that we normalize specifying pronouns so that the voices of those who have to face invalidation for who they are are heard.

Efforts from brands such as Mattel and the validation from Merriam-Webster help to amplify these voices, but it is critical for all people to accept nonbinary pronouns, even if it takes some time to adjust.

Sam Smith acknowledges that it can be a somewhat difficult adjustment via their Instagram and Twitter, “I understand that there will be many mistakes and mis gendering but all I ask is you please please try. I hope you can see me like I see myself now.” Smith’s attitude and the way they handled the backlash is admirable, but they should not have to anticipate invalidation from people. We owe it to them to try.

Something to note, and further emphasize the validity of nonbinary pronouns, is the lack of any male or female pronouns throughout this piece, despite having referred to several people. The change may feel uncomfortable or strange, but it can be made.

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The double standard that exists in the court system

PATRICK ADAMS ’23 Guest Columnist It’s hard to watch the newly surfaced drama surrounding Justice Brett Kavanugh in light of Deborah Ramierz’s recent accusations.

The battle surrounding Kavanaugh is not an anomaly, this has all happened before.

What most people seem to forget when discussing the allegations against Kavanaugh is the equally bitter nomination of Justice Clarence Thomas.

To quote The New York Times, “Ms. Hill, who was then 35, first testified before the committee on Oct. 11, 1991. Speaking in a calm, even tone, she detailed her accusations of sexual harassment by Judge Thomas, who oversaw her work at the Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.”

There were heart wrenching testimonies, massive protests, an FBI investigation and multiple accusers.

Therefore, Kavanaugh was not the first contentious Supreme Court nomination that dealt with accusations of sexual assault. No matter the person looking for confirmation to the bench and no matter the accuser, the public will pick a side and stick with it.

That’s why in these cases, due process of law is so important. People will smear the

name of the accused or the accuser before all evidence is available.

With this in mind, let’s take a look at the facts of Kavanaugh’s case and assess why there is such a gray area.

One major problem with Christine Blasey Ford’s, Ph.D., allegations against Kavanaugh is the fact that the other person she claims was with her that night, Leland Keyser, has sworn under oath that nothing ever happened.

Keyser was close friends with Blasey Ford in high school and often drove Blasey Ford to parties since she was older than Blasey Ford, which is exactly why these allega-

So now to Ramirez’s allegations. Were there actually seven people who can corroborate her separate claims? No. As the Washington Examiner explains, “Of those seven, only one even claims to have heard that Kavanaugh was the person in the story at the time...And even he is only a third-hand source of information, not having actually been there himself, and having heard it from a source whose identity he does not disclose.”

Ramirez has the same problem Blasey Ford had with Keyser: all eye witnesses she names deny her allegations. She named David White, Dan Murphy, Kevin Genda, and

“No matter the person looking for confirmation to the bench or the accuser, the public will pick a side and stick with it. That’s why in these cases, due process of law is so important.” tions came as such a shock to Keyser. Blasey Ford had never once mentioned the allegations to her, much less said that Keyser was there when it happened.

Keyser even faced pressure from Blasey Ford’s legal team and friends to change her mind, but she still swore that nothing ever happened. This evidence comes from the same book by New York Times reporters Kate Kelly and Robin Pogrebin that is used to support Ramirez’s accusations.

David Todd all as witnessing the alleged incident. They all deny this: “We can say with confidence that if the incident Debbie alleges ever occurred, we would have seen or heard about it—and we did not. The behavior she describes would be completely out of character for Brett.”

So what have we learned here? This whole debate continuing over Justice Kavanaugh is the classic he said, she said. In fact, most of the evidence is simply rumor

and hearsay from third party sources. That is why there is so much gray area in this debate, and people tend to then pick a side before having all of the facts.

We all understand that we are innocent until proven guilty in the eyes of the U.S. court system. Kavanaugh probably understands that better than anyone.

But in the court of public opinion, it would seem that you will forever have your name smeared with the association of rape unless you can prove everyone false. Due process of law and the presumption of innocence seem to be unimportant when we make our daily judgments and accusations.

I think Justice Kavanaugh had every right to act how he did in his Senate hearing.

In fact, I’d be really bothered if he didn’t react in horror and be upset when accused of something as terrible as sexual assault. The whole ordeal was a national embarrassment.

Blasey Ford should not have needed to testify and the FBI should have investigated everything, because finding the whole truth would not have inflamed people so much and caused the political battle that enemies of Kavanaugh wanted.

There is a clear double standard here. It is the double standard of those who believe alleged victims blindly while not believing the accused. Times are changing in America, but I hope that we do not change the essential principle this country was founded on: innocent until proven guilty.

Political art is not created for profit

When did Banksy’s work become a Sotheby’s sale?

FAITH COWELL ’22 Columnist Banksy, the anonymous guerrilla artist, rose to fame when he began strolling into museums and putting his own work on display in the early 2000s.

The most famous of these self-installations was in the Louvre, where he hung a version of the Mona Lisa whose face was a smiley face sticker.

The painting, dubbed “Mona Lisa Smile,” sold for more than £56,000 at auction at Sotheby’s in 2006. The popularity of the artist’s street art began something called “The Banksy Effect.”

“Girl with Balloon” began as just a stencil mural, spray painted on Waterloo Bridge and then all over London. In early 2018, a print version of Banksy’s “Girl with Balloon” sold for a little over 1 million pounds before promptly shredding itself. None of these pieces remain and have all since been removed from their original locations and sold.

On Oct. 3, Banksy’s painting “Question Time,” now called “Devolved Parliament,” will be auctioned off at Sotheby’s in London for an estimated 1.5 million to 2 million pounds ($1.9 million to $2.5 million). The painting depicts the British Parliament occupied by chimps fiercely debating over something.

Many of Banksy’s works are critiques on social issues like climate change, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and human greed.

They frequently spark political controversy and convey anti-war, anti-consumerist and anti-authoritarian viewpoints.

Banksy himself doesn’t attend protests or rallies (not that anyone would know if he was there due to his anonymity). But he tags walls, paints murals and creates artworks that overtly detail his opinions and critiques of society. Banksy is an activist and he displays his activism through art.

Therefore, it is wrong to sell his pieces for millions of dollars to buyers who will never put them on display or put them on display in a gallery where the piece loses all environmental context.

Banksy pieces are supposed to make you

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think, to create conversation about uncomfortable topics and to offer up a clever metaphor for current events and difficult situations. They are guerilla pieces of art, put out in the public so the general population can see them. Selling these pieces to collectors for outrageous amounts of money almost ensures that the general public will never see them, and it completely defeats the purpose of making the art in the first place.

Traditional paintings are mobile, and retain their meaning when moved between galleries. Guerilla and street art lose some, if not all, of their meaning when they are removed and sold.

For example, Banksy’s “Season’s Greetings” was originally painted on a garage wall in a small industrial town in Wales. The mural depicts a small boy in coat and hat catching snow on his tongue, but the snow is actually ash from a burning dumpster around the corner. The painting was intended to be a commentary on the pollution caused by the town’s steelworks.

Clearly, the snow ash imagery of “Season’s Greetings” relied heavily on its location. Over the summer of 2019, the mural and the wall itself were removed from the garage and displayed indoors in a gallery (after being sold by the property owner for at least six figures). The mural was meant to make people in the town see and discuss the visible effects of the air pollution from the steelworks, and since it’s been removed from its intended context, it loses almost all meaning.

Banksy’s works are not simply art for art’s sake. The artworks are intended to make the viewer think, and it’s a disservice to Banksy for property owners to immediately sell and authorize the removal of his artworks.

It would be a different story if Banksy were selling them. But Banksy doesn’t even receive the money from these egregious sales.

In an email to The New York Times, Banksy’s publicist Joanna Brooks said, “The painting in question [“Question Time”] is being sold by the owner who is in no way associated with the artist Banksy.”

There have been rare occasions where a town votes to keep Banksy's work on the wall rather than have it be removed and essentially treated as meaningless graffiti. In Bristol, (believed to be the artist’s town of residence), and in Sutton, in southwest London, the townspeople have elected to preserve both the artwork and its meaning. Still, these are rare cases.

Until art appraisers and casual viewers begin to comprehend that the context of Banksy’s works are just as, if not more, important than the art itself, his pieces will continue to be sold for absurd amounts of money and hoarded by collectors.

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Pop-up shop attendance spikes with Target sponsorship JACKIE COLLINS ’21 Copy Editor Target is the newest sponsor of the Professional Clothing Pop-Up Shop that the Career Development Center (CDC) holds each semester.

Target provided the CDC with $500 this month, which covered 20 professional articles of clothing. The new items, which CDC employees purchased at Target, ranged from neutral-toned staples to stand-out color pieces for both women and men. Undergraduates were able to select up to three articles of clothing to own, free of charge.

“I think it’s added to the mix of items that we can offer students, and it’s nice for them to have new options along with gently used options,” said Danielle Fichter, recruiting, events and employer engagement specialist at the CDC. In the past, a limited range of sizes caused some students to become frustrated. The Target purchases helped fill in what was missing.

“Originally we had been receiving donations from faculty, staff and our employer partners,” Fichter said. “We saw the need to fill in the gaps of sizing so we can serve more students. We really wanted to try to get new clothes to add to the pop-up shop.”

Fichter said she can confidently confirm that the event has grown since the first pop-up shop in September 2017. Attendees this semester totaled 90 students, up from the 60 students who attended in the event in the fall of 2018.

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“We had over 50 students check in, and we went through 105 items of clothes, just on Friday,” Fichter said of the event, which was held on Sept. 13 and Sept. 16.

“Over the last couple years, it’s definitely caught on a lot more.”

Allison Mansfield ’20, career ambassador of the CDC, attended the pop-up shop for the first time last month. Looking through the lens of both a student and an employee, she said she was impressed by the diversity of clothing options.

“They had a bunch of different sizes, a

JUST WATER Christiana Zenner, Ph.D. Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019 7 p.m.

Cardinal John P. Foley Campus Center

In the encyclical, Laudato si [Praised Be], Pope Francis issued a call to action, framing climate change as a social justice issue. He focused in particular on access to fresh water, which he called a fundamental human right, and warned that the poor and marginalized groups are often overlooked, yet the first affected.

Christiana Zenner, Ph.D., associate professor of theology, science and ethics in the Department of Theology at Fordham University, lectures nationally and internationally on the intersection of fresh water ethics and ecological theory, religious ecologies, and developments in the earth sciences. She will speak about the ecological turn in Catholic Social Teaching and the interconnectedness of access to water and justice in global economies. She will also suggest what needs to be done to improve access to safe water throughout the world.

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bunch of different dresses, shirts, blazers, so anything kind of basic that you would need they had,” Mansfield said. “They restocked I know. I went to the second day and they had new stuff.”

The turnout at the recent event was so large that Fichter said she is unsure if the CDC is prepared to host another pop-up shop this academic year.

“We usually do two in the fall before the Career Fair and two in the spring before the Career Fair,” Fichter said. “But we went through so many clothes that I’m not sure

right now if we are going to be able to do it in the spring. That’s TBD, but hopefully.”

Still, even with the significant spike in attendance, Fichter said she wishes attendees would have been more evenly distributed among Haub School of Business students and those in the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Health Studies and Education.

“Last year, the demographic was 65 [percent] business students and 35 [percent] CAS,” Fichter said. “It was still around 65 and 35 [this year], with the 35 being CAS and health studies added together.”

This statistic lends itself to the overarching misconception that only business students need professional clothing.

Along with their Target sponsorship and partnership with St. Joe’s chapter of the American Marketing Association (AMA), Fichter said the CDC plans to team up with other organizations, such as alumni organizations, in the future so that they can help collect donations as well. That way, they can hopefully still hold their two-day event during the spring semester.

Tessa Darno ’21, vice president of programming and fundraising of the AMA, said college students “never really know” when they’re going to need to look professional.

“There’s different organizations that require professional clothing, whether it’s inductions or interviews for different clubs or jobs or the Career Fair, which is for every major,” Darno said. “I think it’s essential for college students to have professional clothing for any of those events.”

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Sophomore sticker business aims to make a statement on campus Inclusive sticker designs hopes to promote acceptance and diversity ZACH DOBINSON ’22 Assistant Features Editor Following last year’s racial incidents, two St. Joe’s students found a new and creative way to spread positivity on campus. Daniela Lugo ’22 and Maria Fernanda Medina ’22 started BUYE Stickers, an Instagram-based sticker company, in August 2019 with the goal of creating more positivity on campus at St. Joe’s.

When thinking about how to go about spreading positivity, the duo felt they had to come up with something original and customizable for different personalities. Medina said she felt stickers would be a way to accomplish this goal because everyone uses them differently.

“We wanted to do something that would bring awareness to campus and bring inclusion and diversity and acceptance,” Lugo said.

“It’s just reminding people about these things with everything that goes around at school.”

The company currently has four designs for sale at $4 a piece. Medina sketches the designs using Procreate, a digital sketch app.

To Medina, designing a sticker is much more personal and versatile than other branding. Medina said, putting stickers on things like laptops and water bottles is more unique and creative than getting a logo printed on something like a t-shirt or sweatpants.

BUYE Sticker’s most popular product is the “Floreciendo Juntas,” which translates to “Blooming Together” in English, and is currently sold out. The sticker depicts three fists with different skin tones and nail colors rising from colorful flowers. When designing the stickers, particularly this one, Lugo and Medina wanted certain symbols to be crystal clear.

“We wanted [to focus on] women,’’ Medina said. “It doesn’t matter where you come from as long as we support each other we can come up and do great things.”

Megan Filipski ’21 found out about BUYE Stickers after Lugo and Medina announced its creation at a chapter meeting for Delta Sigma Pi, a business fraternity at St. Joe’s.

Filipski said that her and other members of the fraternity loved the idea of a sticker business that promotes diversity and inclusion.

“I think it’s a great idea, especially using stickers, because for college students I know a lot of people who put them on water bottles or laptops,” Filipski said. “I feel like having that message spread around is definitely something St. Joe’s needs a little bit more of.”

Lugo and Medina met their first year at St. Joe’s after rooming together in McShain Residence Hall. Both are from Puerto Rico but didn’t formally meet and become friends until coming to St. Joe’s. The two had actually been

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tennis rivals in high school and never thought they would one day be roommates, let alone run a business together.

Their home of Puerto Rico has influenced one sticker in particular. Lugo said the “Tropicaleoooo” sticker is inspired directly by a memory from time spent in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the nation’s capital.

“If you go to Puerto Rico, go to Old San Juan,” Lugo said. “If you go there you’re gonna see ice cream trucks and they always sell passion fruit, mango, and coconut.” At the center of the sticker are the three fruits with “Tropicaleoooo” written behind them in bright neon green.

While the duo dips into their heritage when designing their stickers, they said they purposely choose not to solely rely on that for inspiration.

While Lugo and Medina associate with and are friends with other Puerto Rican students, they wanted their friend group to be more diverse.

“A lot of people were [asking] us, ‘Oh, you guys are Puerto Rican so do you usually hang out with [other Puerto Ricans]?’” Medina said.

“We’re like, ‘No we hang out with everyone.’

The designs from left to right: “Floreciendo Juntas,” “Charged Passion” “You Hella Worthy,” “Trocialeoooo.”

We also wanted to include that in our stickers.”

With more than half of the original inventory of stickers sold in just over a month and plans to eventually add more designs, Lugo and Medina show no signs of slowing down.

“Once we sell these ones we want to maybe partner with the fraternities and sororities if they want to and hear what they want to do for designs,” Lugo said.

While the mission of BUYE Stickers is to celebrate and promote diversity, Lugo

feels that shouldn’t mean commonalities don’t exist.

“Remember we’re all the same in the end,” Lugo said. “It’s all about keeping a positive mindset. If we can expand the business and provide St. Joe’s with more personalized things, we really want to have that interaction” For more information on the stickers and other designs, check out the business’s Instagram account @buyestickers.

Daniela Lugo ’22 put “Charged Passion” sticker on the back of her phone.

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Student volunteer fIrefIghter becomes her own hero Starr McKenna ’21, middle right, is one of few women in the Freehold Township Independent Fire Company No.16-1. PHOTOS COURTESY OF STARR McKENNA ’21

KAITLYN PATTERSON ’20 Features Editor If you were to ask around, most college students would never run into a burning building. For volunteer firefighter Starr McKenna ’21, it is almost a natural instinct.

McKenna began volunteering as a firefighter in her hometown of Freehold, New Jersey in the summer of 2018.

With her mother working in retail and her father working with computers, McKenna said she is not quite sure where her interest in first responding came from. She offered one possible explanation.

“When I was younger, I had the ridiculous idea that I wanted to be a superhero,” McKenna said. “I would see these awesome female lead roles in movies and it made a burning desire for me to be a hero, so I guess I found a way to do that.”

At St. Joe's McKenna is pursuing a double major in psychology and criminal justice, in hopes to someday go into federal law enforcement.

“That was always my career goal, and I found firefighting along the way just from being an adrenaline junkie,” McKenna said.

McKenna attended the fire academy during the summer of 2018 where she finished second in her class. At the academy, McKenna said she had to learn basic medical training, like CPR, fire safety, search and rescue and how to properly put on the gear in under two minutes. Known as the two-minute drill, this includes everything from the boots all the way up to the facemask.

“There’s different types of fire calls,” McKenna explained. They can range from an alarm going off in a Walmart, to car accidents, to a full blown blaze, or simply resetting an alarm for an elderly individual.

Dan Spicuzza, first assistant to the chief in the Freehold Township Independent Fire Company No.16-1, said McKenna is one of the best volunteers to work in the department.

“I’ve been in this company for 23 years,” Spicuzza said. “Starr has a lot of heart, dedication and drive to do a job that 90 % of the world would run away from.”

McKenna’s first call to a fire was in November 2018, the last day of Thanksgiving break.

“There was a huge storm, so the roads were flooding everywhere [and] we had already done at least six of seven water rescues that night,” McKenna said.

McKenna said the fire call was labeled “confirmed working,” which means there is visible evidence of fire. Storm conditions that night put other lives and surrounding homes at risk, so Dept. 16-1 did not hesitate to head to the scene.

Spicuzza said McKenna dealt with the situation very well when they arrived on the scene.

“For somebody who has never been in a fire before, unless it was training, [she] went in without a problem,” Spicuzza said.

As they got to the scene, McKenna said that the one story rancher was completely up in flames, with fire extending to the cars parked out front.

“We were working on putting this fire out while also trying to put out the car fires,” McKenna said. “And every natural element working against us.”

McKenna said although the training the fire academy provides is extremely thorough, it isn’t the same as the real thing.

“When you’re in the fire academy, you almost know what you’re getting yourself into,” McKenna said. “They can black your mask out and make you feel like you have no depth perception. But the thing is you’re not entering a real house, so there’s no items around you.”

This is the first thing McKenna noticed when she walked into the rancher on that stormy night in November.

McKenna said when she entered the house, she used her hand to guide herself along the wall since she had limited visibility due to the smoke from the fire. She lost grip on the wall and fell to the ground.

“I reach down and I can feel stuffed animals and chairs,” McKenna said.

Luckily the residents of the home were already taken out, but McKenna said the home was extremely damaged, causing her and her department to be evacuated from the scene.

“It was definitely one of the scariest things I’ve ever done in my life,” McKenna said.

From zero visibility when you enter a home, to hearing the sound of your own breathing, McKenna explained that it is important to know what you’re doing when en-

tering each situation.

“Looking back and making sure you’re doing what you were trained to do can keep you somewhat calm in those situations,” McKenna said.

McKenna said that this affected her both physically and mentally when she returned to campus the next day.

“I was literally sneezing out black soot for like a week,” McKenna said.

In addition, McKenna described the mental toll this experience had on her.

“There’s a switch that goes off when you’re on a call,” McKenna said. “I’ll hear a kitchen timer go off, and you’ll see a change in my general body language and facial expression.”

Halle Kopecki ’21, a friend and sorority sister of McKenna’s, said she admires McKenna’s work ethic.

“She’s one of those people who puts her all into everything she does,” Kopecki said. “She

[volunteers] because she wants to make a difference and help people.”

Brittany Romeo ’21, McKenna’s friend and roommate, said living with McKenna makes her feel safer.

“Having Starr in any situation makes you feel like you have an advantage,” Romeo said.

Spicuzza said McKenna’s work in the department is admirable.

“I wish that some of the men in my company had the heart and drive and the passion to be a volunteer like she does,” Spicuzza said. “I couldn’t be more proud to have her on the department” In addition to the rush of adrenaline, McKenna said that helping people is her favorite part of volunteering as a firefighter.

“There’s no feeling like when your tones drop and you get to ride on the engine,” McKenna said. “And you know you’re on your way to make somebody’s day a little less hard.”

McKenna plans to continue volunteering wherever she ends up after graduation.

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Horoscopes Aries

March 21 - April 19 Settling in to the second month of school, you can feel yourself itching for some excitement, Aries. Try to use this week to restore your passion for life and balance your schedule. Take the beginning of this month slow, because changes are on the horizon. Remember to take things as they come and try to go with the flow, you'll thank yourself for it.

Taurus

April 20 - May 20 Fall is in the air and you are thriving, Taurus. You may be starting a new project soon and as you begin planning, remember to schedule time for yourself.

Although your hard work is great, you forget to sit down and relax. Get yourself a pumpkin spice latte, light a candle and sit down with a good book. You’ll feel refreshed and will be able to put forth your best work with even more energy.

Gemini

May 21 - June 20 By this point in the semester, you’re set in your ways: your schedule is great, your friends are set, you’re content overall. Now might be the perfect time to start something new. Go to the restaurant you’ve been wanting to try, start the workout plan you’ve been putting off, or simply take a different route to class. Getting a new perspective can help keep things fresh, Gemini, so don’t hesitate to switch things up.

Cancer

June 21 - July 22 You’ve been slowly adjusting to the new semester, Cancer. You’re working hard, but you feel as if it isn’t paying off. You may feel

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Dog days of fall like you are not on the right path, but don’t let this get you down. Be confident in your abilities, realize your worth, and your hard work will be rewarded. Good things are just around the corner.

Leo

July 23 - Aug. 22 Your confidence and charm have carried you far, Leo, but don’t let this get in the way of letting people get to know you.

Take some time this week to reflect, get in tune with yourself, and let your guard down. You may be surprised with who might come into your life when you open yourself up.

Virgo

Aug. 23 - Sept 22 You settled into the semester quite easily, Virgo, but you have begun to feel overwhelmed as deadlines and exam dates approach. Plan ahead, take one thing at a time and have confidence that everything will work out. Take time out of each day to plan and organize your tasks, but remember to let your hair down and have a little fun too.

Libra

Sept. 23 - Oct. 22 You’re having a great semester so far, Libra, but you may be starting to experience some loneliness. While your close friends are getting busy with school or work, use this week to treat yourself.

Sometimes me time is the best time, so get some fresh air, grab a good book and get reacquainted with yourself.

Scorpio

mester in strides, Scorpio. Don’t be afraid to ask for help. You may be surprised how support from someone can help you to get new perspectives on how to face challenges that come your way.

Sagittarius

Nov. 22 - Dec. 1 You like to take risks, and now might be the time to dive into the deep end of the unknown, Sagittarius. Good things are coming your way, but you have to open yourself up enough to realize when opportunities arise.

Capricorn

Dec. 22 - Jan. 19 You’re usually very organized, Capricorn, but you may feel a bit unraveled this week. Realize that not everything goes according to plan, so be prepared to go with the flow. Stick to what you know, take a breath, and everything will be okay.

Aquarius

Jan. 20 - Feb. 18 You’re settling into this week quite well, Aquarius, but be on the lookout for a friend who may be going through a hard time.

You’re caring and quite intuitive, so if you sense something is off, don’t hesitate to offer your assistance.

Pisces

Feb. 19 - Mar. 20 You’ve been a bit overwhelmed lately, Pisces. You tend to procrastinate, which leads to work piling up. Take some time to sit down and plan things out so you can get everything done on time. You’ll feel relieved when your hard work pays off.

Oct. 23 - Nov. 21 Although your schedule may be tougher than in the past, you’re taking this se-

ZACH DOBINSON ’22 Assistant Features Editor Fall has officially arrived, but who would’ve thought so with the weather we’ve been having. The pumpkin spice lattes have returned, but where are the changing leaves, chilly breezes and pumpkin patch outings?

Perhaps it’s too early for those, but can there at least be a break from the summer heat?

Well, until it’s time to bust out the flannels and pumpkin flavored everything, here’s a few songs that will help transition from summer fun to fall studies.

Here’s a mix that is something fun, weird and smooth to get you ready for the sweater weather, which is hopefully right around the corner.

“Love Me” by The 1975 This song, much like the weather this past week, is straight up weird. Unlike the weather, however, weirdness works so well for this song. From the beginning synthesizer notes to the ’80s pop influence throughout the whole song, “Love Me” brings the sounds of the past to the present day.

“Brooklyn In The Summer” by Aloe Blacc Even though we go to school in Philadelphia, Aloe Blacc transports listeners to the streets of Brooklyn to finish out the last of the summer heat. With temperatures still reaching 90 degrees this week, Blacc’s smooth voice and refreshing rhythm cool everything down.

“Circles” by Post Malone Post Malone dips into alternative rock for this end of summer release. This song feels like a musical representation of summer transitioning into fall with its steady rhythm and echoey vocals. The semester continues as summer plans become memories.

“Summer” by The Carters This jazzy combination of Beyoncé’s passion and smooth vocals and Jay-Z’s storytelling rap capture the moods of summer.

With music mostly comprised of a bass guitar, snare drum, and airy background vocals, “Summer” cools everything down. Now if only the weather could follow suit.

Fall Crossword

“Kiwi” by Harry Styles Styles trades in his boy band pop background for a rock ‘n’ roll moment that brings the energy from start to finish. This powerhouse tune makes the listener forget that summer has ended and fall has begun. Styles’ in-your-face performance energizes the listener to go out and take on the day, whether it’s a 90 degree day or a 60 degree one.

“Wake Me Up When September Ends”

by Green Day While some may want to wake up when the summer heat is gone, this iconic Green Day tune will remind you to keep pushing through whatever you’re going through.

With only a couple of weeks left before fall break, remember how far you’ve come and how little you have left to go.

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2. People debate whether this holiday season begins on Nov. 1 or after Thanksgiving.

9. Don’t forget to turn your clocks back for the fall _____.

10. Fall is a great time to binge watch _____ movies.

11. Head to Starbucks this season and grab a toasty pumpkin spice _____.

12. Take a trip to the farm early to pick out the perfect ______ in time for Halloween.

13. The _____ turn beautiful shades of red, orange and brown this time of year.

Down

1. Some people have mixed opinion about this tricolored candy.

3. It’s frickin’ bats. I love ________.

4. With dropping temperatures, ______ weather is soon upon us.

5. Popular fall pie flavors include pumpkin, pecan and _____.

6. Don’t get too scared if you go to a _______ house.

7. You wear one of these when you go trick-or-treating.

8. Be careful not to get lost in the ____ maze.

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From Germany to Hawk Hill, goalie helps lead field hockey to prominence SAM BRITT ’20 Sports Editor Ever since senior goalkeeper Victoria Kammerinke stepped onto Ellen Ryan Field, she has been rewriting the St. Joe’s record book. The German born goalie currently holds the career record for both wins and shutouts while also setting the single season records.

And if it weren’t for a visit to Germany from Head Coach Lynn Farquhar on New Year’s Day during her senior year of high school, Kammerinke may have never stepped foot on Hawk Hill.

“Lynn was the only coach that came over,” Kammerinke said. “I thought it was very cool, very personal. I feel that reflects on St. Joe’s. Based off of that, I made the decision to come over and visit campus.”

After the meeting, Kammerinke took her official visit to St. Joe’s. Her two day trip was the first time Kammerinke had been to the U.S and it was all it took to convince her to move 3,819 miles from Kaarst, Germany to Philadelphia to join the program.

“It was my first impression and well, it was a good one,” Kammerinke said.

Since her freshman year, Kammerinke has played a key role in bringing St. Joe’s field hockey to national prominence. In the season before she arrived, St. Joe’s finished 9-9 and lost in the first round of the Atlantic 10 Tournament.

In 2018 St. Joe’s won the A-10 championship for the second year in a row and went 18-1. They were ranked #10 nationally and qualified for the NCAA Tournament for the second year in a row. Kammerinke won A-10 Defensive Player of the Year and was selected to the NFHCA All-American Second Team.

“She has always had those leadership qualities, but every year she has taken on a

Kammerinke was the second St. Joe’s field hockey player ever selected to an All-American team.

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bigger role,” Farquhar said. “Her positivity and her attitude to just get onto the next play, we rely on her for that now. She wasn’t quite there as a freshman but she did her role.”

Kammerinke said she focuses on those qualities on the field. Since freshman year she said the area where she most improved was in her ability to communicate and lead her teammates.

“I know in my role as a goalie and a captain I have to be an authority and be able to get my points across,” Kammerinke said. “Our backfield, which includes me, just needs to have a voice to direct our players.”

Her voice is what stands out to her teammate and fellow goalkeeper sophomore Kate Gogel.

“To be a really good goalkeeper you need a strong voice,” Gogel said. “She has a very strong voice. Coming from the back of the field, it is easy to have her voice translate up into our lines so that our whole field is really connected.”

Gogel described Kammerinke as somebody with a strong work ethic who takes

her academics very seriously. These aspects translate over to field hockey where Kammerinke uses her mind as much as her physical skill.

“The most important part though is the mental component,” Kammerinke said. “You have to understand the game. We watch a lot of tape so when I am on the field and a sce-

nario comes up I have to be able to recognize it.”

To Farquhar, despite the pure athleticism and mental fortitude that it takes to stand in front of and save a rock hard field hockey ball, it is Kammerinke’s love of the game that makes her special.

“She is out doing individual goalie workouts early in the morning,” Farquhar said. “It is her passion that is driving her.

She is in her zone and listening to her gut out there and that is what your best athletes do.”

St. Joe’s has begun this season 8-1 and is currently ranked #11 in the country.

Kammerinke said her goal for this season is to get out of the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Though they may face program’s from larger schools or from conferences with talented teams, Kammerinke relishes in the idea of St. Joe’s taking on those odds.

“Remember the Eagles when they won the Super Bowl,” Kammerinke said. “It is pretty similar to that. We know going into the games playing any Big 10 or ACC team we are the underdog. It is pretty cool to embrace that position.”

Kammerinke wears #64 in honor of her mother who was born in 1964.

Rookie makes impact right off the bench CHRISTOPHER KLINE ’23 Special to The Hawk After a year of biding his time on the sidelines, sophomore forward Bryce Wallace planned to show off his skills and leadership on the pitch this season. So far that plan has been in full effect.

Two games, a goal and an assist later, the sophomore took home the Soccer Six Rookie of the Week.

Wallace played 29 minutes off the bench against The College of William and Mary, and within four minutes of being on the field scored his first career goal. His work didn’t end there, he added an assist to his stats in the 79th minute of play.

“I wasn’t expecting anything big to happen, obviously I was only out there a couple of minutes,” Wallace said. “I was just trying to do what was right for the team and I just happened to be in the right spot at the right time.”

Head Coach Don D’Ambra said he believes the versatility in Wallace’s game is what helped him get to where he is now.

“He was actually a striker when we recruited him and then we made him an outside back," D’Ambra said. "Now he’s playing wing again. He’s been pushed in a couple different positions and his ability to make plays and score without intimidation definitely shows.”

Along with other new players on the

Wallace was Delaware Player of the Year in 2017. PHOTO: LUKE MALANGA ’20/THE HAWK

Wallace led his high school, Salesianum School, to four consecutive state titles.

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team, Wallace said he spent the previous season working on his game and learning valuable skills from upperclassmen leaders on the team rather than getting playing time.

Wallace said this was extremely beneficial.

“Sitting out last year let me adjust to the style and speed I was going to have to play, considering how much smaller I am compared to most guys out here,” Wallace said.

“It allowed me to be much more comfortable with the game and with my teammates” An overall theme that the whole team has gotten behind is how Wallace has grown as a leader and as a vocal player.

“He’s a leader on the field, even though he’s not a captain and he’s on the younger side,” D’Ambra said. “His personality is the key to his success. He’s never afraid to speak up when something needs to be said.”

Fellow sophomore teammate Garrett Lyons explained how valuable of a teammate Wallace has been.

“He always puts his team over himself and is always willing to help,” Lyons said.

“He constantly keeps you focused and makes sure we play with a high level. He’s just the ideal teammate you want to have.”

As the season presses forward, Wallace said he intends to keep up his style of play and build momentum for himself and his teammates. Wallace will always remember the feeling after his first goal and after winning his first piece of hardware.

“I didn’t really expect it,” Wallace said.

“There’s so many good rookies in the Philly Soccer Six that when it did come out, it was one of those feelings you’re never gonna forget.”

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Perrone makes mark in first career tournament win MATT DELEO ’20 Assistant Sports Editor Men’s tennis player junior Nathan Perrone won the 11th annual SJU Invitational tournament on Sept. 22 and as a result was named the St. Joe’s Athlete of the Week. He picked up right where he left off last spring, when he was an all-conference performer at the end of the season.

Perrone won the top flight with a victory over junior teammate Nickolas Frisk.

“It was going to be tough playing a teammate,” Perrone said. “No matter what you have to forget about who you are playing. At the end of the day I want to win."

Before coming to play at St. Joe’s, Perrone had only played independently on the international level. The SJU Invitational was actually Perrone’s first college tournament in his career.

He transferred to St. Joe’s in January 2019 from Rowan College at Burlington County. According to Perrone, it was the first time that he had to win multiple matches to win the whole tournament. He only played single or dual matches last spring.

Though Perrone said it was tough to play against a teammate, he was comfortable playing solo.

“I had never played for a team before,” Perrone said. “I actually like it a lot. It made me drive more to play better. Now it feels like I have been here for years.”

Perrone was ranked as high as 120th in the world in the International Tennis Federation junior circuit and reached third in the national rankings for boys 18s singles.

Senior teammate Scott Battagalia grew up near Perrone. The two played a lot of tournaments against one another from the

Perrone was named to the 2019 Atlantic 10 All-Conference first team in the spring. PHOTO: LUKE MALANGA ’20/THE HAWK

age of eight onward. To see Perrone win was nothing new to Battagalia.

“He has always been this hungry guy that wants to be the best,” Battagalia said.

“From last year, he came in and he pretty much took over the team as a leader.”

Battagalia said that Perrone’s determination has been the same since they were younger.

“He was a number one player and he just continued it,” Battaglia said. “His success was just a combination of everything

he has done so far. He puts in the hard work every single day at practice and it is such a great example for everyone else on the team to see.”

Senior teammate Luis Janko agreed that Perrone's energy is always positive during practice.

“He is a very good teammate and friend,” Janko said. “He always asks others if they need help with something, or tips for improvement. He is always there to help us on and off the court.”

Next up for Perrone is the ITA Regional Championships on Oct. 17. He hopes to secure his individual goal of an NCAA Championship berth.

“This summer I played against top spots from Notre Dame and others from South Carolina,” Perrone said. “I played some of the best schools and won a few of those matches. Going to ITAs you can secure a spot in the NCAA Championships in single bracket. That is my goal: to do the best possible that I can.”

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Basketball program joins forces with DSS department RILEY FRAIN ’21 Special to The Hawk The decisions and system sciences (DSS) department has teamed up with the St. Joe’s men’s basketball program to host a basketball analytics competition for students.

The winner will get the opportunity to work closely with Head Coach Billy Lange and his staff to provide analytical insight for the team.

“I want the student body to know that we want to be connected to them and that they provide us great value,” Lange said.

“They help us compete at a high level of Division I basketball both with their support in Hagan Arena but also with their brains and their talents, and this is an opportunity for them to do that.”

Sixty students have signed up in a total of 16 different teams for the first round of the competition on Oct. 8.

Kathleen Campbell Garwood, Ph.D., assistant professor of DSS, said the content of the presentations is up to students.

“For the first round it can be as basic as a table chart to do a comparison of the box scores from the season when you compare people that are in our conference versus not in our conference, when we’re home versus when we are away, the first half versus the second half, to start to break down where the strengths and weaknesses of the basketball team are,” Campbell Garwood said. “If we know what their strengths are, we can prepare for games better.”

In the spirit of college basketball, the competition will feature a “final four.” On Oct. 21, four groups will advance to the final round of presentations, to be held in the Mandeville Hall Teletorium. Open to members of the St. Joe’s community, the presentations will be judged by Lange, his staff and members of the DSS department.

For Lange the competition has two ben-

efits: it is a way to apply analytics to help the basketball program succeed, and it is a way to start building an analytics program on campus that is geared toward basketball and those who are passionate about it.

“One of the things [that the NBA taught me] was that there’s a lot of gifted people that can contribute to the success of a basketball team that are beyond just players and coaches,” Lange said. “There’s a lot of different fans of the game, smart people, so I’m hoping to gain some of that talent.

Looking to fill that need at St. Joe’s, Lange sought the advice of Campbell Garwood, in search of a way to get more students involved.

“I went to meet with the coach, and he talked about how much fun he had with all the different people at the Sixers that brought data and different ideas to the table,” Campbell Garwood said. “He was hoping to work with the BI [business intelligence and analytics] department to start generating that kind of relationship between the team and the school. I told him the best way to do that would be to have a competition.”

There is a cash prize of $500 and $200 set for first and second place winners. Although, for Campbell Garwood and Lange, the real prize of the event is getting the opportunity to meet and work with students who are passionate about both basketball and analytics at St. Joe’s.

“Men’s basketball at Saint Joseph’s is an important fabric to the threads of the institution,” Lange said. “It always has been, and so this is a chance for the students to be involved in areas where they are strong. It’s where their talents are. Their giftedness is there, and they get to use it to help this great program, so it’s a win-win.”

Campell Garwood also sees the competition as a win for the basketball team.

“The bigger goal is not even for the win-

ners,” Campbell Garwood said. “But for the coaching staff and the coaches to meet the people at St. Joes who are passionate about basketball, to find people who want to go hang out after a game and break down game tape and help collect data and start putting together a series of systems that would help to use both analytics and good basketball to make decisions for the team.”

That’s exactly why Aidan Sullivan ’23 wanted to join this competition. For Sullivan, the opportunity to further his knowledge in the field of analytics combined with his love of sports was one he could not pass up.

“I knew coming into St. Joe’s that I want-

ed to learn more about analytics because that’s a part of my major,” Sullivan said. “And then I’m a really big sports fan, so to have this opportunity to combine the two was really exciting, and to learn more about how analytics is used in specifically basketball.”

While sign-ups are closed, Campbell Garwood said those who feel they have missed out on a great opportunity will have another chance next year.

“I want them to come and watch and start being a part of it now, so next year when we do this it’s twice as big,” Campbell Garwood said. “That’s my dream.”

Campbell Garwood and Thomas Boyle, the St. Joe’s men’s basketball director of scouting and analytics.

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Dance team to host fall clinic for high schoolers SAM BRITT ’20 Sports Editor The St. Joe’s dance team will host their fall clinic on Oct. 5. The clinic is a chance for high school dancers from around the area to take part in a college level set of workouts and drills.

According to Coach Rachel Reese ’15, it is a time for up and coming dancers to get a chance to see what dancing at the college level entails.

“We want to show them what it takes to make a college dance team by walking them through our audition process,” Reese said. “We encourage all high school dancers who want that experience of practicing for an audition. It is a great opportunity for them to come.”

The team will go through an intense warm up and then take part in both a pom technique segment and a hip hop technique section.

“It’s not an audition,” Coach Brittany Ambrose Hillman ’09 said. “It is a clinic. It is an opportunity to learn and gives them an opportunity to start working hard if they want to make this team in the future.”

For senior captain Giovanna Boscarino, she remembers coming to Michael J. Hagan Arena ’85 her senior year of high school and taking part in the fall clinic.

“It was actually my deciding factor to come to St. Joe’s,” Boscarino said. “I got a

feel for how the team chemistry was built.

It was like the team I was coming from at home, so it was comforting to know there were other teams that have that relationship and chemistry.”

According to Reese, situations like Boscarino’s are fairly common occurrences from the fall clinic.

“That happens often, believe it or not,” Reese said. “I think for me as a coach that is the most rewarding aspect of it because

you see the growth of these dancers over such an instrumental period of time. To see them graduate at 22 with such growth and maturity hands down that is one of the best parts of being a coach.”

While the clinic benefits dancers who are looking to continue their careers into college, it also benefits the dance team as well. As evident by Boscarino, it is used as a recruiting tool and also works as a fundraising opportunity for the team.

The St. Joe's dance team placed fourth in the country in hip hop in last year's UDA National Championship.

PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE HAWK

Boscarino said she focuses on trying to create the same environment that drew her to join the dance team.

“For the girls at the clinic we definitely want them to feel like they are at home,” Boscarino said. “We don’t need to put on a show to show the relationship we have as a team. It radiates to everyone in the room we are with.”

Hillman said she hopes her team is able to both lead the clinic while representing what St. Joe’s dance is all about. “[We want to] help these girls fall in love with the university and our team,” Hillman said. “Really show what a wonderful group of athletes, people and women they are. Make a high schooler feel like they want to be a part of that team.”

The clinic ends with a basic question and answer portion where the high schoolers are free to ask the coaches and members of the dance team about anything regarding college.

“They can ask anything,” Reese said.

“About academics, college life, to the nitty and gritty of what it is like to be a college dancer.”

Boscarino has just one piece of advice for the high schoolers who are about to dance where she danced four years ago.

“Be the best version of yourself,” Boscarino said. “And just know that this version isn’t even the best version because you don’t know your max potential.”

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Oct. 2, 2019

Sports

The Hawk Newspaper

Avery Marz returns to Hawk Hill to tell student athletes’ stories

Marz served as a co-host on the "Jill on the Hill" podcast during the 2018-19 basketball season. PHOTOS: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE HAWK

RYAN MULLIGAN ’21 Assistant Sports Editor Not only was Avery Marz ’17 one of the newest members of the St. Joe’s athletic department, and a student athlete on Hawk Hill less than a year ago, but she also has experience with multimedia storytelling, having her own story told on a national level.

Marz, a former member of the women’s basketball team, was hired as a graduate assistant in the athletics department with a focus on digital content creation, specifically on the social media side. She plans on pursuing a master’s in psychology at St. Joe’s as well.

“I think having my story told and helping people out [through that] just showed me the importance of connecting people through storytelling and letting people use their voice on campus,” Marz said. “You realize that as great as sports are, there’s so much more that goes on around them as well.”

On the day Marz moved into St. Joe’s her first year, she had a stroke. Her journey through a grueling recovery process was documented by major sports media outlets like ESPN and the Associated Press. She is the recipient of the Pat Summitt Most Courageous Award from the U.S. Basketball Writers Association in 2018, as well as the first annual Jemele Hill Courage award. She said that that experience helped her decide where she wanted to take her career after basketball.

As the athletics department continues its turnover, social media and digital content will become instrumental in extending the brand of St. Joe’s, something that Marz said she is excited to begin working on.

“We’re trying to go through the ideation process of what we want to do," Marz said. "Where we want to take the department in general in terms of digital and doing things that we haven’t done before.

What I hope to do is take it to a different level and produce some content that other schools aren’t producing and show what makes Hawk Hill unique.”

Marz worked at Turner Sports in At-

lanta throughout the summer and said she admittedly didn’t think she’d end up back in West Philadelphia, but she couldn’t pass up an opportunity to return home.

“I really enjoyed Atlanta this summer,” Marz said. “I talked to Jill [Bodensteiner, J.D.] about it just recently and of course St. Joe’s holds a special place in my heart.

I spent five years here as a student athlete.

It’s different this time coming back being on the communications staff because a lot of my teammates are still here. I thought I would move on, but I’m really overjoyed honestly with the position.”

According to Rob Sullivan, senior associate athletic director of external affairs, who works closely with Marz, it’s not difficult to see why she has fit so well into her new role.

Sullivan said Marz is often able to “call upon her own student athlete experiences and incorporate that into St. Joe’s.”

“Her transition has been seamless,” Sul-

livan said. “That’s because of her ability to connect not only with student athletes, but her professional colleagues. That stems from her personal journey and high powered internships. As a department, we’ll really be able to learn and get better from her.”

Associate Director of Athletic Communication Jack Jumper agreed. He said her recent experience as a student athlete helps “add a unique dimension” to the athletic department.

“Avery is making a smooth transition into athletics communications and has shown an eagerness to learn,” Jumper said.

“Along with traditional athletics communications duties, we’re looking forward to having Avery help us create a larger social media presence across all our platforms this coming year.”

The work Marz is and will continue to do is something that she sees as a trend indicative of not only where athletics is going,

but the entire globe. She sees social media and sports as inherently intertwined.

“Social media is crucial in seeing how the world is feeling,” Marz said. “Social media is the plug for everything whether that’s good or bad. That’s just where the world is moving. If we don’t jump on board at this time, then we’re going to be kind of left in the dust because I think a lot of programs are doing that.”

Marz hopes to bridge the gap between St. Joe’s athletes and not only the rest of the campus, but the rest of the world.

“I get to tell stories that I think need to be told here on campus,” Marz said. “As someone who’s had their story told over and over again, which I’m very grateful for, I know other athletes may appreciate having their stories told as well. That’s really why I’m here on campus, to let people get to know the student athletes, who they are, not necessarily what they do.”

Marz has won numerous awards including the Chris DiJulia Inspirational Award and SJU Athletics Inspiration Award.