Tahliah D’Ottavio, ’17Living in a home stay in the 8th ar-

rondissement in Paris, France “Paris is full of policemen mon-

itoring everyone’s moves. Once I ar-rived at my home stay [on Sunday night], which is by a tourist attraction and many government buildings, I was stopped by the police. They asked me several questions. Since I am a study abroad student, I could not prove my residence in the neighborhood with my passport. I was walked to the front door and was watched putting the door code and unlocking the main ground portal with a key. I knew then that Paris will no longer be the same.

There are candles with flowers in many areas for prayers for the losses of many. As I walked to a grocery store this afternoon, I learned that the restau-rant that I went with my boyfriend two weeks ago lost two of its waiters at the Bataclan shooting. One was our waiter, and I immediately recognized his face on a picture surrounded with dozens of bouquets and flowers.

This shooting affected the lives of many Parisians, and all my respect and prayers go to everyone affected by this tragedy. “

Andrew Nguyen, ’17Living in the Belleville neighbor-

hood of Paris, France

“My apartment is one metro stop away or a 10 minute walk from Le Petit Cambodge, one of the many devastat-ing attack sites. If not for my boyfriend visiting me that weekend, I could have been just heading out of my apartment in the 11th arrondissement to meet up with friends.

Life is precious and to be appreci-ated. I have seen how resilient the Pa-risians are, and I have seen them come together to mourn the victims, as well as show that they stand together—un-afraid.

This is what we should do in rec-ognizing our common humanity along with appreciating and understanding our individual differences. Let’s please just love and try our best to convey un-conditional love for our neighbor and especially our enemy. It is the most powerful thing in the universe.”

Vanessa Marques, ’17Living in the 14th arrondissement in Paris, France

“Watching Friday night unfold on the news was an absolute nightmare. My heart remains heavy for the victims and their friends and family.

We got an email from our program directors indicating that classes were on for this week because “life goes on.” At first, I thought, wow, a little harsh... what just happened is a big deal and I’m still really shaken up. Monday came, and they were right.

Parisians were going to work, buy-ing their baguettes, conversing at cafes. Although it was a day of mourning, it was a beautiful day full of calm, posi-tive vibes. I thank my professors and program directors for making me real-ize that we mustn’t let our fear stop us from living.

I have two months left in this beau-tiful city, and regardless of the bad happening, I plan to make the best of it while taking any safety precautions necessary.”

Sara Leonetti, ’17Studying in the 14th arrondissement in Paris, France

“I only ask that you all keep Par-is, as well as the other cities affected by these attacks, in your thoughts and prayers during this time. Paris has be-come my second home and I know that this beautiful city will overcome this terrible tragedy.

While things are still a little scary here, the media is making it seem a lot worse. Life has continued here in Paris as usual, and we will hopefully be back to normal very soon.

The resilience of the French peo-ple has been astounding. They have been an inspiration to me as I have witnessed their bravery and drawn on their strength during this time. All of your messages of love and support have also been very comforting and let me know that I am not alone.

During times like these, we must all come together as one human race. Today we are all Parisians.”

FROM PARIS, WITH LOVE

Hawks abroad respond to acts of terror with messages of hope

Department of Public Safety reports (Nov. 6 - Nov. 12 )Nov. 6

Public Safety was notified by a Saint Joseph’s University student of an unknown person removing her laptop computer from the Post Learning Commons. Philadelphia Police responded. The incident is currently under investigation.

Public Safety was notified by an area resident of students being loud in the 5200 block of Church Road. Public Safety Officers, along with the Philadelphia Police, were notified and responded. Commu-nity Standards was also notified.

Nov. 7Public Safety was notified regarding a disorderly Saint Joseph’s

student in the lobby of the Pennbrook Apartments. Public Safety Of-ficers responded and resolved the issue. Residence Life was notified and responded. Community Standards was notified.

Public Safety was notified by Philadelphia Police of an intoxi-cated student refusing to pay a cab fare at an off-campus location. Public Safety Officer responded and resolved the issue. Residence Life and Community Standards was notified.

Public Safety was notified regarding a suspicious male near the area of 54th and Wynnefield Avenue. Public Safety Officers, along with Philadelphia Police responded, but the individual had left the area.

Public Safety was notified by an area resident regarding students being loud in the 2400 block of N. 54th Street. Public Safety Officers, along with the Philadelphia Police were notified and responded-Community Standards was also notified.

Nov. 8Public Safety was notified by Residence Life of an odor of mar-

ijuana coming from a room in Lannon Hall. Public Safety Officers responded to the room with Residence Life. A search of the room revealed drugs, drug paraphernalia, and alcohol. Philadelphia Po-lice was notified and responded. Community Standards was also notified.

Public Safety was notified of an unknown person vandalizing a fifth floor bathroom in the LaFarge Residence Center. Public Safety

Officers responded. Residence Life and Community Standards were notified.

Public Safety was notified by an area resident of a loud party involving Saint Joseph’s students taking place on the 5600 block of Woodbine Avenue. Public Safety and Philadelphia Police were noti-fied and responded. Community Standards was also notified.

Nov. 10Public Safety was notified of a St. Joe’s student attempting to use

a fraudulent ID to purchase alcohol at Landmark Americana Restau-rant. Public Safety Officers responded and confiscated the ID. Com-munity Standards was also notified.

Nov. 11Public Safety was notified of a fire alarm being activated inside of

Lancaster Court Hasting Apartments. Public Safety Officers responded. Preliminary investigation revealed the alarm was activated by a student using the microwave oven. Facilities Management was notified.

Public Safety was notified by a St. Joe’s student of an unknown person removing his bicycle from a bike rack next to Hagan Arena. Public Safety Officers responded. There is no police report at this time. The incident is currently under investigation.

Public Safety was notified by a St. Joe’s student of an unknown person shattering his car window and removing personal items which was parked near Overbrook and Lancaster Avenue. Public Safety Officers and Philadelphia Police responded.

Nov. 12Public Safety was notified of a fire alarm being activated inside

of Villiger Hall. Public Safety Officers responded. Preliminary inves-tigation revealed the alarm was activated by a student using a vapor cigarette. Facilities Management was also notified.

Public Safety was notified by Residence Life of an odor of mar-ijuana coming from a room in Villiger Hall. Public Safety Officers responded to the room with Residence Life. A search of the room revealed no signs of drugs or drug paraphernalia. Community Stan-dards was also notified.

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Two zebras escaped the Univer-Soul Circus in Philadelphia on Nov. 15. Police chased the zebras for miles before they were caught and brought back to the Mann Center for the Per-forming Arts, where the show was taking place. (NBC)

A 6.5 magnitude earthquake hit the out-skirts of the Japanese island of Kyushu on Nov. 14. The earthquake resulted in a small tsuna-mi, as well. Nearby reactors were not affected by the quake, and no injuries were reported in the country that faces approximately 1,500 earthquakes per year. (The Weather Channel)

Despite the distress around the world due to the at-tacks in Paris, the democratic candidates for president debated for the second time in Iowa on Nov. 14. The de-bate between Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Mar-tin O’Malley was largely centered on the attacks in Paris and how the U.S. should respond. The next democratic debate will take place on Dec. 19 in New Hampshire. (CNN)

Two suicide bombers killed 43 and injured 239 in the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Nov. 12. This attack was the deadliest Beirut has seen in decades. Soon after the attack, ISIS took responsi-bility, and later attacked France. (CNN)

France hits back. As a reaction to the bombings and shootings in France, French President Francois Hollande and the French government released a se-ries of air strikes at targets in Raqqa, Syria, one of the ISIS headquarters. (BBC)

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KATRYNA PERERA ’16News Editor

REACTIONSSEXUAL MISCONDUCT POLICY:

The implementation of a new Sexual Misconduct Policy at Saint Joseph’s Uni-versity has raised concerns with some fac-ulty members.

As a responsible employee, all faculty members are now obligated to report any incidents of sexual misconduct that they are made aware of to Mary-Elaine Perry, Ph.D., the Saint Joseph’s Title IX coordi-nator.

Ann Green, Ph.D., professor of En-glish, said her main concern is the policy will affect the relationship between profes-sor and student, and alter how comfortable students feel coming to professors to talk about personal experiences.

“Now, since I’m a mandated reporter, my fear is that I would have to interrupt a conversation and say, ‘I’m a mandated reporter, do you want to keep telling me this?’ rather than be a support,” Green said.

Millicent Feske, Ph.D., associate pro-fessor of theology, expressed similar con-cerns.

“I would want to be there to listen to them because that’s the fundamental thing,” Feske said. If students are able to speak about their trauma, that is the first step to recovery.

Feske said that students should have full control over this process as, according to the law, they are considered adults.

“They’re adults; they should be able to decide,” Feske said. “This is a matter of

confidentiality.”Some professors fear that students will

shy away from talking to faculty if they feel that arena is no longer a safe space for them.

“My sense is that students will simply not report if they know that this is the pol-icy,” Feske said. “It’s certainly counterpro-ductive for the student, because if they’re at the point where they’ve come to a fac-ulty member to tell this… for me to have to say ‘don’t tell me, I can’t talk to you’ is turning curiae personalis on its head.”

“In some ways it takes the story out of the victim’s hands,” Green said.

Green also said she would be willing to participate in a training session if that meant she could be a certified confidential source.

Feske agreed saying she feels the uni-versity could train faculty on how to cor-rectly handle situations when a student comes to talk to them about an experience, while also maintaining confidentiality.

“I understand the intent of the law. The intent of the law is to make us more transparent and compliant with Clery and have better data on sexual assault on campuses,” said Green. “It’s a really good intent, but because someone who’s a victim of sexual assault has already been violated. I want to respect what they want to do as much as I can.”

In January of 2009 Ann Lee, a student of Saint Joseph’s University at the time, was drugged and raped by a fellow St. Joe’s student.

After the incident, she wasn’t really sure what had happened. She didn’t talk about it for months. By the time the end of the semester rolled around in May, she had developed Post Traumatic Stress Dis-order.

“I was seriously thinking about killing myself, it had gotten that bad,” Lee said.

One day Lee said she was sitting in her academic adviser’s office when her advis-er asked Lee if she was okay. Lee said she broke down in tears.

“And she didn’t say anything,” Lee said. “She just grabbed my hand and walked me right over to the rape crisis counselor…and that was exactly what I needed.”

With the new university Sexual Mis-conduct Policy, all faculty, staff, and ad-ministrators are now responsible employ-ees. This means that they are obligated to report any instances of sexual misconduct they are made aware of to Mary-Elaine Perry, the university’s Title IX Coordina-tor.

Some faculty members are upset over this change, because they feel it dismantles the realm of confidentiality and could af-fect the relationship between student and professor.

But Lee feels the opposite. She said that a person who is a sur-

vivor of sexual misconduct is extremely traumatized afterwards, and is often un-sure of what to do or how to think logi-cally about the situation. She herself had undergone similar feelings.

“I was so fucked up that I didn’t know what I needed,” said Lee, “you have to rec-ognize that this is an extremely traumat-ic experience and people aren’t thinking straight, and I needed somebody to just take my hand and talk to somebody.”

Lee said she agrees with the obligatory reporting aspect of the policy, because if she had been given the opportunity to de-cide not to talk about it, she never would have.

“If [the academic adviser] had been like, ‘Do you really want this; do you re-ally want to talk about this,’ then I would

be like ‘No I don’t want to talk about this, because you’re making it seem like I shouldn’t,’” Lee said.

Lee said she disagreed with the argu-ment that this policy change would get rid of confidentiality for survivors.

“Having everybody on the same page about this I think is huge,” Lee said. “It’s not black and white, you can’t say that it’s going to cause these really negative, horri-ble things.”

Most faculty members are not aware how to take care of someone who has been sexually assaulted. In this case, the survi-vor’s story stops at the professor who may not be fully equipped to help the student, Lee said.

“If I confided only in [my adviser] that could be extremely taxing on the pro-fessor—the professor is not equipped to handle that type of trauma,” Lee said.

“This is not a confidence issue,” she continued. “You need to know what steps to take because this is an extremely high level of trauma that this individual is go-ing through. Unless you’re a medical pro-fessional, you will not know how to deal with it in the right way.”

It was her professor that got her through her own experience with assault and provided her with the support she needed. Lee graduated from Saint Joe’s in 2013 and is now working as an executive at a software company in Boulder, CO. She lives with her boyfriend and dog, Sadie.

“The faculty at Saint Joe’s is so com-passionate…they really care,” she said, “[And] once I was able to get the support I needed, I finished school because I was able to get that support.”

Obligatory reporting does not mean that a report will turn into a criminal in-vestigation or charges. Instead, the infor-mation reported will be given to someone who is able to help the survivor in the best way possible, Lee said.

“I think this will do nothing but open people up to talking about what happened, knowing that they can literally just talk to anyone on campus,” Lee said. “They’re not reporting it to the police; they’re reporting it to someone who actually knows what they’re doing and who can give you the support the need.”

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PROFESSOR?WHAT DOES THE POLICY

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When he was 12, Michael Cora land-ed his first job as a paperboy delivering the Baltimore Evening Sun on his bicycle. He hasn’t stopped riding since.

For the past seven months Cora has been working at Saint Joseph’s University closely alongside John Gallagher, director of the office of public safety, and Kevin Robinson, vice president of administra-tive services, to shape the office of public safety’s bike force into one self-sustaining bicycle unit.

Cora, Public Safety’s first bike supervi-sor, said that his work includes “a change in philosophy and direction for the office of public safety.”

He has divided the campus into three regularly patrolled sectors, and now is working to equip each public safety bike with an AED kit. He is also establishing an Emergency Medical Responder training

class for each of his employees.“Mike had the ability to take our vision

and make it a reality…he has put us ahead of the curve [with bike patrol]” said Galla-gher. “He has been a true partner for us in public safety and I see big things that are going to happen with that bike unit.”

Cora’s former experience as a Mary-land Transit police officer has aided in his attempts to restructure the public safety bi-cycle force at St. Joe’s.

Prior to his retirement at age 51, Cora worked as a police officer, bicycle officer, detective, Sergeant, Lieutenant, and com-mander of the special operations unit in Baltimore. His favorite position, however, was working for the Regional Apprehen-sion Task Force and as a volunteer fireman at Manoa Fire Company in Havertown, Pa., from 1977 to 1987.

When asked what inspired him to be

a volunteer fireman, he said, “there’s so much that you can do in life, you just have to pursue it. You have to believe it.”

Cora recently decided to revisit his volunteer fireman career and is now na-tionally certified as a firefighter of several ranks and as a fire instructor.

And when he arrived on campus, he started taking classes in the graduate writ-ing program. He says he wants to better his writing skills and fulfill his dream of writ-ing his own “great American novel.”

“Mike has been a real confidant, he is a focused and directed individual, and he is very, very open minded,”said Gallgher.

Cora has also taught himself how to play the guitar in addition to brewing his very own beer. Cora has also taken pilot classes and is cleared to fly solo without a pilot assistant.

“Don’t ever let anybody tell you you’re

too old. If you’re interested in something; if there’s some passion, go after it,” said Cora. “Years ago I decided I wanted to fly, and so I did.”

Cora’s other interests include hunting, fishing, and, to no surprise, biking. A few years ago, he paddled the entire Allagash wilderness waterway and is currently plan-ning to bike roughly 400 miles across Ire-land and kayak the Chesapeake Bay with his wife.

“The implication is that I’m doing this before I die,” Cora said, “but I’m doing this to live.”

Former police officer and special forces commander on his past, dreams, and love for life

Up until this academic year, Saint Jo-seph’s University used coordinated exams to assess students in many introductory courses, such as ENG 101, SPA 101, and FIN 101 at the end of the semester. Al-though each of these courses had multiple sections, one exam would be scheduled at one time, for all the students enrolled in that particular course.

Starting this semester, however, the university has decided to rid coordinated exams for most of those courses. Only four courses, ENG 101, DSS 210, ACC 101, and FIN 200, will continue to offer coordinated exams, at each teacher’s discretion.

These courses will still offer coordinat-ed exams because of the large number of students enrolled.

“These courses are made up of 400 freshmen all taking the same exam, so it makes sense to keep them at the same time,” said Scott Spencer, registrar and director of student records and financial services.

According to Spencer, coordinated ex-ams were eliminated in upper level finance and marketing courses, language courses, and economics courses.

The university decided to eliminate coordinated exams because of the lack of available classroom space needed to ac-commodate all the coordinated exams, Spencer said. The university also hopes this change will reduce the amount of conflict in scheduling final exams.

Spencer believes that this change will positively affect both student and faculty final exam experiences. It will cause less disruption in scheduling and eliminate conflict, and teachers will be able to return students’ grades more efficiently, he said. Ultimately, the registrar’s office hopes that this change will lead to a smoother final exam period.

“Coordinated exams are inconvenient because it takes a while for everyone to get

seated and get their exams,” Monica Glynn, ’18, said. “I’d much rather have an exam with just my section of the course.”

But some faculty members have voiced discontent about change. The discontinua-tion of the coordinated exams affects final exam times, leading to scheduling inconve-niences for some professors.

Richard Haslam, Ph.D., associate pro-fessor of English, who has been at Saint Jo-seph’s for 15 years, said that he believes this change will inconvenience faculty, specifi-cally adjunct professors and professors who teach many sections of the same course.

“I would have been less inconve-nienced than the visiting professors,” said Haslam. “Some of them teach four different sections of the same course, which means they would have to come in for four differ-ent exam periods and make four different exams.”

“I think if it’s feasible to have coordi-nated exams, we should do them. It was possible for the last 15 years that I’ve been here, so it’s puzzling why it is no longer pos-sible. I see more benefits than not in having coordinated exams,” Haslam continued.

Robert Daniel, Ph.D., assistant pro-fessor of modern and classical languages, said that although he prefers coordinated exams, he sees the reasoning behind the decision.

Daniel was working as chair of the department of modern and classical lan-guages during deliberation on the change, so he had some say in the decision making process. He said he prefers coordinated ex-ams but ultimately decided that it was not as important as other issues.

“We really thought long and hard about this,” he said. “As chair, I had to choose my fights, and that was not something that I felt needed to be a high priority.”

An issue that arises from taking away coordinated exams, though, is the greater

potential for academic dishonesty, accord-ing to Spencer. If professors do not change exam questions for tests of the same class proctored at different times, students can easily ask others for help. Spencer said he has faith though that this change will not affect the rate of academic dishonesty.

“The fear that you guys will cheat is an unfounded fear. We believe that the stu-dents at St. Joe’s have more integrity and want to use their own knowledge to receive a good grade. We trust you guys,” he said.

Haslam believes academic dishonesty can be avoided if teachers create different exams for each section but said he feels this is another inconvenience to professors that could easily be avoided by reinstating coor-dinated exams.

“Quite frankly, somebody that is deter-mined to cheat can still do it during a coor-dinated exam,” said Daniel. “Coordinated exams take away only one possible path of dishonesty.”

Jarrett Hurms, ’18, believes that coor-dinated exams are a good way to prevent

cheating. “My econ final was supposed to be

coordinated last semester, but our teach-er changed her mind last minute,” Hurms said. “As soon as she decided this, people in the class were asking [other students] about the exam and what kinds of questions were on it. So, coordinated exams definitely eliminate a lot of academic dishonesty.”

Spencer said that the changes to the fi-nal exam process are not set in stone. The university is going to see how the elim-ination of coordinated exams plays out, he said and make further decisions from there, meaning this decision could possi-bly change back next semester, depending on how students and other members of the community react.

“I hope it doesn’t affect the students in a negative way,” said Spencer. “I’m open to trying new things and seeing how things work. I would love to get feedback from students and take their opinions into con-sideration.”

University eliminates most coordinated examsConcern for increased academic dishonesty with testing change

GINA KOKOSKY ’18Hawk Staff

Mike Cora: peddling Saint Joseph’s to safety

Photo by Matthew Haubenstein M.A. ’17

MAURA HOLCOMB ’17Special to the Hawk

Photo by Joey Toczylowski ’19

We will remember.

The Hawk staff chose to leave this page blank in memory of the lives lost during the devastating events

of this past weekend.

Beirut. Japan. Paris. Mexico. Baghdad.

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EDITOR IN CHIEFCat Coyle ’16MANAGING EDITORShannon Adams ’16COPY CHIEFAshley Cappetta ’17BUSINESS DIRECTORJulia Le ’19FACULTY ADVISERJenny Spinner

NEWS EDITORKatryna Perera ’16ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORAna Faguy ’19OPINIONS EDITORAngela Christaldi ’17LIFESTYLE EDITORKatie White ’17ASSISTANT LIFESTYLE EDITORKelly Wittman ’17SPORTS EDITORChristy Selagy ’16PHOTO EDITORMatthew J. Haubenstein M.A. ’17ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITORJoey Toczylowski ’19DIGITAL MEDIA MANAGERGianna Melendez ’16

One Day SJUThis Tuesday, Nov. 16 marked the annual Day of Giving at Saint Joseph’s University.

The event aims to raise money for our school, with some of the gifts going toward scholar-ships or campus organizations. The event’s goal this year was to raise 1,250 gifts in order to break last year’s record. Search the tag #OneDaySJU to check in on what happened during the event!

Annual Thanksgiving dinner dance

This coming Thursday, Nov. 19, Campus Ministry is hosting their annual Thanksgiv-ing dinner dance for local senior citizens. This year, 200 elderly locals will come to Hawk Hill for a night of food and dancing. This event is a great way to get involved with the community and make a difference in someone’s life, if just for a night.

Zebras in west phillyCity Avenue has seen a lot of interesting events this semester (i.e., Pope Francis),

but the strangest one yet occurred on this past Sunday, Nov. 15. In the midafternoon, word got out that zebras were on the loose and galloping down City Avenue. St. Joe’s stu-dents, West Philadelphia residents, and the city as a whole were all anxiously and excitedly watching social media and the news as the story developed. The zebras escaped from the UniverSoul Circus being held near the Mann Center, and enjoyed their freedom until they were eventually caught by the Philadelphia Police.

SExism in st. joe’s sportsThe women’s sports teams at St. Joe’s are treated as far inferior to the men’s. There’s

no getting around that, but it’s a fact that we shouldn’t accept. The women’s basketball team kicked off their season Friday night right before the men’s team, but the major-ity of people only cared about the men’s game against Drexel. The women’s teams are treated like nothing, in all sports, while the men are held aloft as heroes, even when their season doesn’t go well. This is absolutely unacceptable. They’re all athletes, and the women are putting in the same amount of work, so why aren’t they given equal recogni-tion and praise?

Parking passes for home games We’re all excited that basketball season has started on Hawk Hill, but the one thing

we’re not so hype about? The parking situation. The area of campus down by Hagan more or less gets completely shut down whenever there’s a men’s basketball game, and trying to even get into the Hawks’ Landing area is nearly impossible. Students who have parking passes for those lots are given a difficult time about getting into their designated spots, and are often hassled about whether or not they have a ticket to the game. It’s ridiculous.There has to be a better way to manage this.

animal cruelty in circuses While it was interesting to see a pair of zebras running amok, especially in West

Philly, there’s a reason why they were here, and a probable reason why they escaped. These zebras were a part of a circus act, and historically, circuses have not treated their animals well. A spokesperson for PETA stated, “UniverSoul needs to retire its animal acts immediately, and all kind families should refuse to buy a ticket to any circus that exploits animals.” The organization also called for the U.S. government to investigate the incident.

College campuses, as we were all taught at orientation, are dangerous places for sex-ual assault. Schools often mishandle cases of sexual violence, and as a result, survivors are left to fend for themselves. Saint Joseph’s University, however, has recently revised its sexual misconduct policy, and as a result, the rights of the survivors are becoming a priority.

With this policy change, the role of “re-sponsible employee” was instituted: Faculty and staff, with few exceptions, are now obli-gated to report anything said to them about a case of sexual assault. Upon reporting the instance to the university Title IX coordina-tor, a case will be opened and the survivor will be given the decision as to whether or not they want to participate in a university investigation.

While this change in policy may seem like a step in the right direction, especial-ly because so many reports have surfaced about universities mishandling cases of rape and sexual assault, some St. Joe’s faculty and staff feel as though their new status as re-sponsible employees may affect their rela-tionships with their students.

Especially on a campus as small as Saint Joseph’s, the relationships between faculty and students are particularly strong. The fact that faculty and staff must now report something confided during office hours is

causing hesitation for some in the Saint Jo-seph’s community.

Discussing sexual assault with any-one is extremely difficult and personal, but trusting a professor enough to disclose an incident of this type requires a strong bond. The faculty need to be able to support stu-dents, but do not want to betray their stu-dents’ trust by filing a Title IX report.

Survivors of sexual assault often feel that control has been taken out of their hands. Choosing how and who they dis-close their story to allows them to regain this control.

But the fact that a responsible employ-ee is required to report their story for them takes away some of this control that the sur-vivor has fought to retake.

While this new policy may seem off-putting to faculty and staff, some other students, the Hawk staff included, find the policy change to be the type of progression that we need here on Hawk Hill. In the midst of a whirlwind of inappropriate reac-tions to sexual assault on college campuses across the country, St. Joe’s is taking action to protect students.

Our mission as a university states that we are “men and women with and for oth-ers,” and the changes to the policy reflect this. The new policy prioritizes the wellbe-ing of the survivor, which is where the pri-

ority should always be. Everyone on campus should be aware

of this policy change. If someone discloses an experience to an employee—whether it’s a professor, an organization adviser, or an RA—that employee must report it as a Title IX violation.

If students disclosing information are not aware of this policy, they could be start-ing down a path that they did not ever want to journey down.

The university has taken a positive step forward in changing our sexual misconduct policy. But one step is not enough.

Though the university informed stu-dents of the changes in the beginning of the semester, it is unlikely that the notice was well-read by any of the recipients.

But we can’t afford to not know our own university’s policy on this important issue. All students must be aware of their options and resources. We must put information on this new policy in orientation presentations, in syllabi, and in presentations from resi-dence life.

No student should be left in the dark about what resources are available to them in the case they are ever in a situation of need.

Every survivor deserves to know that people are here to support them.

-The Hawk Staff

EditorialRevised sexual assault policy

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The Hawk welcomes letters to the editor (400-600 words). They can be emailed to hawk.editorial@gmail.com.

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I would like to preface this article by saying that I absolutely love Christmas.

I am the girl who intentionally wears tacky Christmas sweaters, has numerous pairs of Christmas earrings and different days-of-the-week Christmas socks. I love how there is this feeling of magic in the air that accompanies the Christmas season.

Even though I wish that I could always wear my Christmas knee socks and light-up red and green hair bow, I know that I can’t. It would take away from its special-ness. Every holiday has its respective sea-son, why should Christmas be any differ-ent? This season and this magic should not begin until after Thanksgiving, because any earlier is absolutely ridiculous.

Every year, the Christmas season seems to start earlier and earlier. Right after

Halloween, stores begin selling Christmas decorations and reminding customers of exactly how many shopping days remain until the holiday.

On Nov. 1, Starbucks reintroduced their seasonal cups, and is now serving Christmas-inspired drinks, such as the popular Peppermint Mocha or the Gin-gerbread latte. If you head over to Subur-ban Square in Ardmore, you will see that Christmas decorations have already been put up around the shopping center. This, to me, is absolute craziness.

This year in particular, I have heard more people voicing their outrage to the presence of Christmas decorations so early into the season, and I agree with them.

It is ridiculous that I walked into Tar-get a few days after Halloween and was

confronted with dancing Santas, and sales on ornaments and garland. I am not at all ready to listen to “All I Want for Christmas is You,” or the tearjerker “The Christmas Shoes.” I do not want to taste anything that contains peppermint or be confronted with the smell of evergreen trees.

I am not mentally prepared to think about Christmas. My mother, who is an ab-solute saint, texted my sister and I on Nov. 2 and told us that she would like us to send her a Christmas list by the end of the week. When I read the text, I was a bit shocked. I am not yet ready to think about the idea of Christmas shopping. The only thing that is on my mind at the moment is whether or not I will survive all of the work I have to do before Thanksgiving break.

Go ahead and call me a Grinch, but,

I don’t think it is right for us to start the Christmas festivities so far in advance. I do not think that we should be blasting Christ-mas music or breaking out our Christmas countdowns just yet.

We need to preserve the sanctity of the holiday season, and the way to do that is by restricting it to a specific period of time.

When we have the decorations out and the advertisements shown to us in ear-ly November, we are sick of Christmas by the time the season truly begins. As soon as Dec. 1 rolls around, I will be ready for all of the Christmas action. You will proba-bly be able to spot me since I’ll be the “that girl” wearing Christmas ribbons and jingle bell earrings. But for now, we need to let the season dawn on us in its natural course of time rather than trying to speed things up.

KATHERINE GRYGO ’16Hawk Staff

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for the actual holiday season

In late August of 2013, I was packing up my life to move away from home for the first time. At 18, I wasn’t quite sure how to live on my own, but I was sure I would fig-ure it out somehow. After all, I didn’t really have a choice.

Like every other anxious incoming freshman, I read as many “how-to” guides online as I could find. I read about what to pack, what to expect, what you should avoid in the dining hall, what to wear when you go out… the lists were endless. The one thing that seemed constant, though, was the tip that stated not to bring a scale with you to school. While every article warned against the “freshman 15,” they also said that bringing a scale would not help matters at all, it would just make you more stressed.

The idea of gaining weight absolutely terrified me for a multitude of reasons. I’m only 5’2” (if the doctor is being optimis-tic), so any amount of weight that I gained, however minimal, would show immediate-ly. Also, I’m a dancer. When you’re trained in ballet for 16 years, it’s drilled into your head that ballerinas have to look a certain way. And when you stop growing once you hit 5”, you’ll do anything you can to keep from gaining weight to have a shot at of be-ing center stage.

I can recall days when all I would eat was an apple. Other days, my stress would be drowned in a pint of Ben and Jerry’s, which followed a Hawk Wrap and fries from DB.

Take it from me, neither of those are good options.

There were nights when I would stay up planning on what I would eat the next few days, to make sure that I wouldn’t eat “too much”—which definitely was not enough at all. Some days I would be shak-ing from not eating enough, and other days I would feel sick to my stomach from eating too much. I wouldn’t wear shorts because I didn’t want anyone to “have to” see my legs. I didn’t want to wear a two-piece bathing suit on the beach because I thought I was too heavy.

There were so many things I didn’t want to do, because I was afraid of being judged, though the only person judging me was myself.

This continued up through last semes-ter. I’m almost finished the first semester of my junior year, and I’m finally starting to be normal. It’s been a process, that’s for sure. And there are still some days that I don’t feel like eating anything, or that whatever I do, I won’t look good. However, these days are getting further between than they used to be, thank goodness.

I’ll be upfront. Depression and anxiety do play a role in this: I’ve since been diag-nosed with major depressive disorder and

generalized anxiety. I was never diagnosed with an eating disorder, and I may not have had one, but I’ve come to realize that the mental illnesses I do have ultimately played a part. I’ve been seeing both a psychiatrist for medication and a psychologist on cam-pus for talk therapy, and I’ve come to rec-ognize that what I was doing before wasn’t healthy. I think that, deep down, I always knew that, but being further removed from the situation made me realize the extent of what I was doing.

I know that not everyone is able to go to therapy, or not everyone needs to. But, regardless of whether or not mental illness is a factor, everyone deserves to love them-selves.

We live in a society that is so obsessed with body image. People value them-selves—and one another—solely based on what they look like.

People starve themselves, exercise un-til they pass out, or do any number of other dangerous things to “fix” their bodies to make them look like society thinks they’re supposed to.

I don’t want to sound preachy, but I truly believe that everyone is wonderful in his or her own way. We are taught from a young age that there is a specific way that we should look, and anything outside of that “norm” is wrong.

According to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Dis-orders, “86 percent of college-aged women

report the onset of an eating disorder by age 20.” The likelihood that one of your friends, a suite-mate, or a classmate has or had an eating disorder is extremely high. Hell, it could even be you. These odds are far too high, and to me, that is terrifying.

I’m not trying to sound as though I’m saying that an eating disorder, or a men-tal illness that simulates the symptoms, is something that you can just talk yourself out of. It’s taken me years to be comfort-able with my body. I’ve come to realize that I look a certain way, and no amount of wishing is going to make me taller, and no amount of starving myself is going to make me feel better about myself.

I’ve come to accept—and on some days even, love—the way that I look. I can final-ly embrace the way I look in shorts, and I’m not afraid of wearing a bikini at the beach. I can wear short skirts when I want, and I know that I rock them. Red lipstick? No problem.

Don’t let anyone else’s expectations govern what you want to look like. If you’re happy the way you are, then don’t pay any-one else any mind. You’re incredible the way you are. Don’t let the airbrushed—and fake—images on television and online get to you. It isn’t that easy; trust me, I know. But once you realize that you are perfect the way you are, things get a little easier every day.

Never going back againLearning to love myself in a world that tells everyone not to

ANGELA CHRISTALDI ’17Opinions Editor

11 | Hawk Hill Happenings The Hawk Nov. 18, 2015

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1. Barbelin Hall lights up red and blue in remembrance of those lost in Paris, France on Nov. 13. (Joey Toczylowski ’19) 2. General Manager of Aramark, Tom Rizzo, addresses the student senate regarding dining options on Nov. 16. (Joey Toczylowski ’19)3. Morgan Bookmoldt, ’18, and her puppy, Charlie, entertain St. Joe’s students on Nov. 16. (Matthew J. Haubenstein. M.A. ‘17)4. Susan Haas, Ph.D, adjunct professor of ommunication studies, enjoys a beautiful after-noon on Hawk Hill grading papers for her civic media class on Nov. 16. (Matthew J. Hauben-stein. M.A. ’17)5. (Left to right) Jill Rudolph, ’19, Mike Parks, ’19, and Alexanne Marousis, ’19, walk to class on Nov. 16. (Matthew J. Haubenstein. M.A. ’17)6) Cameron Kenworthy, ’18, escapes the noise of the library to study for an upcoming test on Nov. 16. (Matthew J. Haubenstein. M.A. ’17)7. One of the many crosses in front of the Chapel of St. Joseph representing the victims of those murdered in El Salvador on Nov 16, 1989 on Nov. 16. (Matthew J. Haubenstein. M.A. ’17)

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The real truth about real numbers“I’m a medical doctor.” Anyone familiar with FBI Special

Agent Dana Scully, M.D., half of the main duo on the 1990s hit television show “The X-Files,” also knows that Scully utters this phrase perhaps once an episode through-out the show’s nine seasons.

As a result of this frequent utter-ance, viewers are not likely to forget that the kick-ass FBI agent is also trained as a doctor and scientist. However, far from becoming an annoyance, this repeated reminder created what has come to be known as “The Scully Effect,” an influx of young women entering the science, tech-nology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Did I mention that Scully’s undergraduate degree was in physics?

Throughout the semester, as I’ve dis-cussed my love of mathematics and com-puter science, I’ve referred to myself as a mathematician. The fact is, that in today’s world, I am not simply a mathematician, I am a female mathematician, and for some reason, that makes all the difference.

While I’ve stayed away from the issue of gender this semester in favor of attack-ing the larger stereotypes surrounding my favorite subject—I get it. You think math

is boring, you hate it, it’s hard—there is still a huge gender divide in the STEM fields, and it needs to be addressed.

Unfortunately, there is still a huge population that sees women in the sci-ences as inferior to their male counter-parts. We are seen as less rational, less logical, less capable…solely because of our gender.

If you don’t believe me, search “Tim Hunt” on Google: examples of sexist be-havior and remarks toward female scien-tists are indicative of a deeply ingrained societal belief that often manifests itself much more subtly.

Several years ago, a study was con-ducted in which a single resume for a sci-entific research assistant was marked with both a female and male name, then given to a group of professional scientists for evaluation. Both the female and male sci-entists consistently rated the copy marked with the male name higher than the one representing a female candidate.

I often wonder if I would have cho-sen the same path if I had been aware of the difficulties for women in my chosen fields. I like to think I would have, but there’s no way to say for sure. This bias

does not just affect women who have al-ready made the brave decision to enter fields in which they are discriminated against both consciously and uncon-sciously. It also discourages women from pursuing these fields in the first place.

It is often argued that girls just nat-urally aren’t as interested in fields like computer science or chemistry, but I do not believe that this stereotype is a natu-ral phenomenon. Girls simply lack strong images of themselves in these fields. Men are frequently portrayed in the media as scientists, engineers, doctors and the like. Boys then, have no trouble seeing them-selves in these roles. Girls… not so much.

Even when women are portrayed in these roles, these depictions often aren’t encouraging. It is difficult to forget the cringe-worthy “I Can Be a Computer Engineer” book released by Mattel a few years ago.

The book portrayed Barbie as frank-ly incompetent, and reliant on her male classmates to so much as turn on her computer. This is not exactly an inspiring picture.

It is for this reason that Dana Scully and her contemporaries, who, fortunate-

ly, are slowly becoming more common, are so important.

With every eye roll at her male part-ner’s crazy alien conspiracy theories, Scully shows young women they can be the rational one. Every time Scully makes an incision without waiting for the male coroner to show up, she teaches women they have an ability to be competent sci-entists.

With every utterance of “I’m a medi-cal doctor,” Scully lets girls picture them-selves uttering the same.

In January, after 14 years, “The X-Files” is being rebooted, and I, for one, couldn’t be more excited. Despite my aversion to blood, I can’t wait to see Scul-ly back in charge performing autopsies on humans and aliens alike, and charging into hospital rooms to examine suspects and witnesses.

Hopefully this new season will have people scrambling to add the original series to the top of their Netflix queues, allowing Scully to inspire a whole new generation of women.

SARAH COONEY ’17Hawk Staff

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The University of Missouri has been at the center of controversy for the past few months as a result of the protests going on on their campus.

Journalists have been covering the in-cidents, despite the fact that protestors, for some reason, have been trying to get rid of any media presence. While the media is giving attention to their cause, the students have banned them from their campus quad.

Students have been protesting the lack of action taken by the administration in re-sponse to racist threats made against stu-dents of color and students of non-Chris-tian religions.

Among the threats made were swasti-kas painted on dorm walls and regular use of racial slurs such as the n-word.

The KKK was also rumored to be on campus, and someone posted a threat on the anonymous social network YikYak, say-ing that they would “stand [their] ground tomorrow and shoot every black person [they] see.” This post was only one of a few threats that were found on the site, all of which either implied or outright stated that there would be violence against students of color.

The incidents began in September, when Payton Head, a black student who is the president of the Missouri Students Association, acknowledged on social me-dia that a racial slur was directed at him.

The university administration made no re-sponse to this issue, aside from a post on-line written by the chancellor.

Frustrations only began to grow as in-cidents became more frequent. Through-out October, more student groups were targeted with racial slurs. The university’s chancellor announced that mandatory di-versity training would be implemented for faculty, staff, and students.

On Oct. 20, the group of students that has become known as Concerned Student 1950 issued a list of demands to the admin-istration, among them that Wolfe would issue an apology to the student body and then resign, and that the university would increase its diversity, with the “percentage of black faculty and staff [increasing] cam-pus-wide to 10 percent” by the 2017-2018 academic year.

In early November, the Mizzou foot-ball team joined with Concerned Student 1950. The two groups, along with some faculty and staff members, continued pro-testing, and on Nov. 9, university president Tim Wolfe resigned from his position.

While these issues are the cause of the still-increasing media attention on the university, one of the biggest controversies has been the protestors’ interactions with the media that are on campus covering the story.

Obviously, the student protestors who caused the resignation of a university pres-ident is a massive story. The fact that the

protests were caused by racism against stu-dents of color—which has always been a problem but has increasingly become more of a news topic over the past year—has brought even more attention to the cam-pus.

Journalists have been on the UM cam-pus trying to cover the incidents, but re-cently, a video showed communications professor Melissa Click screaming into the camera of UM journalism student Tim Tai—who was on a freelance assignment from ESPN—that the media isn’t welcome. The majority of the protestors echoed this sentiment, saying that their quad was a “safe space” in which reporters were not allowed. However, the campus quad is considered to be public property, and according to the First Amendment, journalists have free-dom of the press, and therefore, the right to cover the protests and document history.

The video of Click went viral, and has prompted conversations about whether or not the protesters were overreacting about the media coverage they were receiving.

The situation has only become more confusing: After the tragic terrorist attacks in Paris on Nov. 13, the Mizzou protestors began tweeting about their frustration that the media was giving more attention to the aftermath of the situation in France than to their campus protests.

The protestors’ treatment of the me-dia has been confusing to people, and the way the media is acting in the wake of the

attacks in Paris has only made people turn against them more than they already were.

I’ll be honest. As a journalist, I am confused by the Concerned Student 1950 group. They say that they don’t want me-dia attention because it’s a “safe space,” but as soon as a tragedy occurs, they get upset about the fact that their story is pushed from the front page.

I don’t understand. I’m certainly not trying to downplay the racial problems that are occurring on the Missouri campus; ob-viously, no one should have to be afraid of facing hatred on their campus. But, the way that the protest group is going about things seems a bit counterintuitive.

They claim that they don’t want media coverage but then grow angry when that coverage is taken away.

They call the quad a “safe space,” but in fact, it is a space for everyone—including journalists.

The job of a journalist is to give a voice to the people who are voiceless—for exam-ple, the students of color at the University of Missouri.

Forcing these people out is not going to help your cause.

Acting with malice toward the people whose job it is to try to help you isn’t going to further your agenda at all.

To Concerned Student 1950: we, as journalists and fellow students, want to help tell your story. But we can’t do that without access.

ANGELA CHRISTALDI ’17Opinions Editor

At a school without a football team to unite students, basketball has become the heart and soul of the winter months here on Hawk Hill.

On Friday, Nov. 13, the Saint Joseph’s University men’s basketball team opened the 2015-2016 basketball season at Hagan Arena with an exciting game against Drexel University.

There are so many reasons why basket-ball season is the best time of the year on Hawk Hill. Here are the top 10:

10. The Hawk Tee: Every year, the St. Joe’s bookstore sells a new t-shirt, known as “The Hawk Tee.” This is the current season’s shirt, and each year the profits from “The Hawk Tee” are given directly to a charity. Last year the beneficiary was the Kinney Center for Autism. Tees can be purchased at Hagan Arena on game nights and at the school bookstore for $20.

9. THWND: “The Hawk Will Never Die!” This chant is iconic both on cam-pus and in the realm of college basketball. During the last 10 seconds of the second half, when the Hawks are up, the chant be-gins. It echoes through Hagan and terror-izes opponents. This slogan is plastered all over apparel and has evolved into its own social media hashtag.

8. Weeknight games: What better way

is there to procrastinate on your home-work than to stand in the student section and cheer on the Hawks? This year, week-night games will be on Tuesdays during fall semester, and Wednesdays during spring semester as conference match-ups. Week-night games always provide entertainment, whether you’re watching from your TV or from the stands.

7. Pierfrancesco Oliva: Oliva, a 6’8” freshman from Italy, is one to watch. He opened his career as a Hawk with an elec-trifying performance of 16 points, which included two three-point shots. Oliva start-ed the game, and played for 25 of the to-tal 40 minutes. Oliva will be a regular for the Hawks and be a major factor in games throughout the season.

6. Phil Martelli: Martelli just signed a multi-year contract extension. The well-known Saint Joseph’s coach has been re-cruiting and bringing major talent to Hawk Hill for more than two decades. Martelli coached dream teams of Hawks that made NCAA tournament runs, including the undefeated 2003-04 Hawks with Delonte West and current NBA start Jameer Nelson and the 2013-14 Hawks, with current NBA Knicks breakout star Langston Galloway. With Martelli leading the Hawks, St. Joe’s basketball will never disappoint.

5. DeAndre’ Bembry: Bembry can be spotted anywhere on campus with his iconic ’fro. Entering his third season, Bem-

bry, a junior communication studies major, has been recognized as one of the nation’s top players and is a top prospect for NBA scouts. Bembry finished last season with All-American numbers, playing with an otherwise-struggling team. After an eight-month offseason and some fresh faces, Bembry has all the tools around him to re-peat his numbers from last year and lead the Hawks to the A-10 and NCAA tourna-ments.

4. The student section: If you haven’t experienced a home game in the St. Joe’s student section, you are missing out on one of the most entertaining and energiz-ing experiences on Hawk Hill. The student section is never quiet, except for when one of the Hawks is shooting a free throw. The 54th Airborne, aka the leaders of the stu-dent section, lead cheers, beat the drum, taunt opponents, and provide travel oppor-tunities for away games. Hawk basketball wouldn’t be complete without our student section.

3. The Big 5: Basketball is intricate-ly woven into the history of Philadelphia. Games between the Big 5 schools—Saint Joseph’s, Villanova University, La Salle Uni-versity, Temple University, and the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania—have historically been the best inner-city rivalries in college basketball. This season remarks the 60th anniversary of the Big 5. Traditionally, Big 5 games were played at the Palestra (UPenn’s

home stadium), and drew crowds from all over the city. With talent soaring through the Big 5 this year, these match-ups will not disappoint.

2. The Holy War: The Holy War be-tween St. Joe’s and Villanova is easily the highlight of the Hawks basketball sea-son. This year, Saint Joseph’s will host the Wildcats and attempt to regain basketball supremacy. With the Wildcats ranked no. 11 in the Associated Press poll and nine in a USA Today poll, an upset by the Hawks would shock college basketball and reas-sert the Hawks as a basketball powerhouse. Plus, no one likes VillaNOfun anyway, right?

1. The Hawk: As a Philadelphia mas-cot, the Hawk has some major competition between the Philly Phanatic and Swoop, the Eagles’ mascot. The Hawk has been recognized by Bleacher Report as the best college basketball mascot. The Hawk flaps its wings for the entirety of each game, re-gardless of if it ends on time or goes into quadruple overtime. As long as the Hawks are on the court, the Hawk will continue to flap. Our mascot is the embodiment of everyone’s favorite chant: The Hawk Will Never Die!

College basketball is back, and it’s the most wonderful time of the year here on Hawk Hill.

ELIZABETH BLOOM ’16Hawk Staff

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Horoscopes

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AriesWith Mercury in your eighth house, you will be unstop-pable this week, Aries. A few obstacles may stand in your way—like surprise assignments and some “interesting” dining hall food—but nothing can bring you down this week! Make sure to take advantage of your good luck while it lasts.

Taurus Keep an eye out for extra change in the sofa cushion this week, Taurus, for as Jupiter moves into your second house, you will find yourself with major moolah! Prepare to strike rich (by college student standards) and enjoy your newfound money.

GeminiMy, oh my, Gemini! With Mars is in your second house, you will find yourself in quite the jam. My advice would be to stop and smell the roses every once in a while. Or just watch Netflix and spend several hours on Tumblr because, let’s face it, no one goes outside anymore.

Cancer Though you’re naturally crabby, a change in your stars this week will have you skipping through meadows and snug-gling kittens while listening to T-Swift. As Neptune moves into your twelfth hours, you’ll be practically boiling over with good vibes. Try to embrace the extra cheer in your

life!

LeoWith Venus moving into your seventh house this week, now is the time to approach that new romantic interest. Fight your natural instincts to pounce and you just may end up with a new “mane” squeeze.

VirgoWhile Virgos tend to be know-it-alls, you will be feeling more confused than ever this week. With Mars in your alignment with your third moon, now is your chance to do some self-reflection. If you are patient, the answers you are looking for will come to you.

LibraWhile you’re normally ahead of the game, as Saturn movies into your fourth house, you will start to feel the pressure weighing down on you. Try scaling back on your commitments this week to avoid feeling over-whelmed.

Scorpio Is that the harsh sting of the cool autumn winds? No, it’s just Scorpio’s sarcastic sense of humor. The sun is moving into your rising house this week, so you will be in prime April Ludgate form. Feel free to avoid all social interaction and just make witty comments about people from afar.

SagittariusNaturally blunt and uncomplicated, you are known for shooting straight from the hip. However, as the moon moves into your third house this week, you will find yourself feeling flustered. Remember to keep your calm, Sagittarius, and you will soon regain your composure.

CapricornAdventure awaits you this week, Capricorn! With Mars moving toward your ninth house, you will be overcome with a sense of wanderlust. Keep your mind open and you will find yourself on a much-awaited journey.

AquariusBetween work, class, and what’s left of your social life, you may feel like you’re up a creek without a paddle. And with Mercury in its sixth house, you will soon be feeling under the weather. Stay patient, Aquarius, and your luck will begin to look up next week.

PiscesIt’s o-fish-al: all of your hard work has paid off! While you feel like you’ve been floundering in the past, with Neptune in your tenth house, you will find personal and profes-sional fulfillment. Celebrate by gloating and rubbing your newfound success in the face of your enemies.

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12 | Lifestyle The Hawk Nov. 18, 2015

Sole Searching The final miles

KELLY WITTMAN ’17 Assistant Lifestyle Editor

Lace-up: this is not a drill.With only a week left until the Philly

half-marathon, it was time to complete the test run. Though not the real deal, it would measure approximately how long the race would take me to complete and whether or not I would need paramedics waiting for me at the finish line.

It was a requirement, as well as part of training, to complete ten miles a week be-fore running the full thirteen on Sunday and from there, tapering the rest of the week with variations of six, three, two, and four miles. The problem is, I’ve been taper-ing the whole semester.

So when my devoted “run-or-dies” planned our ten mile run, I prepared my-self for failure.

The three of us met up by the train station and mapped-out our route as the chilly wind bit at our bare arms. Huddled in a circle, my team was in dire need of a motivational pep-talk. Dark circles framed our eyes, our shoulders hunched with ex-haustion, and our faces told the story of a rough week.

Breaking free from the warmth of the huddle, the littlest of the runners began

pepping. Though small enough to fit into a fanny-pack, she grew five inches taller as she motivated the team with her strength.

“This is it guys. All of our training has come down to this and we can only do our best. We are not running for time, we are not running to change our bodies, we are all running for more personal reasons than that. And most importantly, we are run-ning together. We start together, we finish together.”

I chewed on her words for a few min-utes after that and let it fuel my body with the drive to make it to the end. Running single file along City Avenue, I thought of the events leading up to this moment and reflected on how far I had come.

I went from couch to 5k swiftly, pushed myself to six miles, got injured, started back at square one, and now I was running with two people I knew would be by my side beyond the white line. We started on Saint Joseph’s University territory and now we were running where the champions ran. Destination: The Philadelphia Art Muse-um.

Three miles in, I felt great. Minimal pain in my Achilles, Fleetwood Mac singing in

my ears, and a view of the sun setting on the Schuylkill. It wouldn’t be long before it was dark and I still had seven more miles to go. Keeping a steady pace, I was chasing the sun.

Somewhere along Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, however, I lost my sanity. My bones, muscles, and organs were begging me to stop. It no longer felt like my mind and body were connected as I ran on auto-pilot with whining joints. Our team was separated by a few yards and I was trying to remember the pep-talk. I tried to keep it close to me, but it fell through the hole in my pocket and was lost along the river.

They don’t tell you in Runner’s World the emotional toll running has on your body. They don’t tell you how it shovels into your mind’s buried memories until you have to open the time capsule and see what’s inside; how it plucks at your heartstrings until they snap like old guitar chords; how it peels the layers of skin making up your armor until you are naked and defenseless.

My mind had decided to open the time capsule full of family memories and I sud-denly missed the comfort of my mom’s

arms. I missed my dog that passed away two years ago. I missed home. I was now naked and defenseless—and crying.

I don’t know when I started, but once I did, I couldn’t stop. My dry-fit shirt was not tear resistant and I drenched its collar in my tears. I could only imagine what I looked like to the hundreds of cars passing me along the highway. When my vision no longer appeared as though I was looking through a rain soaked windowpane, I saw the stairs of the Art Museum. Swallowing the last spoonful of salty tears, I ran up the stairs with every fiber of my being.

I wish I could tell you I made it to the top and pumped my fits in the air like Rocky, but I tripped on the final step and fell on my knees. It didn’t matter, because my team eventually met me at the top and joined me on the ground.

Looking out at the city, bright and busy, I felt at peace. There was some sweat, a lot of tears, and a little blood from the broken toenail on the sixth mile, but I did it and I realized—I was home.

Breaking the comfortable silence, the littlest one said, “How about we call an Uber back?”

Overcome stress eatingControl the urge to use food as comfort

MADELINE KUNTZ ’17Hawk Staff

Amongst the various challenges of being a college student—living away from home, studying, and staying involved outside of the classroom—obligations and stressors can pile up quickly. Unfortunately, many students will turn to comfort food in an attempt to control their stress and maintain focus. While stress eating can feel like a good choice in the moment, it is usually something that will cause negative physical and emotional results, leaving you feeling even more stressed or overwhelmed. So how can you control stress eating when times are tough? These tips and tricks may help you kick your stress eating habits.

1. Stock up on veggiesWhen you’re looking for comfort food,

it’s easy to turn to high-calorie, convenient snacks. However, if you are craving some-thing savory, cooking up some veggies in-stead of reaching for the bag of chips can save you calories and keep you fuller for a longer amount of time. Veggies are able to curb cravings because they have more fi-ber and more nutrients than high-fat junk foods.

Katherine Robb, a sophomore in the business school and student athlete at Saint Joseph’s University, sticks to her healthy eating habits by constantly switching up her vegetables and keeping them interest-ing.

“I love to make all sorts of veggies and in different ways. I really like butternut squash because I can roast it with cinna-mon and syrup so it’s sweet. Cauliflower is also very nice for dipping and roasting. I often add cheese to it when I roast it. Sweet potatoes are also delicious cooked in any way! I love to have them from the micro-

wave, but also roast them as well. Lastly, I make sure to keep squash and carrots on hand at all times because they’re both great with hummus.”2. Don’t snack mindlessly

It’s a common habit for students tosnack mindlessly while studying. But in-stead of snacking while studying, occupy your mouth in any of the following ways:•Chewing gum•Drink tea or water•Suck on hard candy•Enjoy a low-calorie Popsicle3. Practice breathing

Breathing deeply and mindfully hasbeen scientifically proven to help with stress and clear the mind. Before studying, or in the middle of a study session, breath-ing deeply or breathing mindfully for just three minutes can help you to refocus and shake off feelings of stress. There is a free app for smartphone users called “3 Minute Mindfulness” that can help you learn how to practice breathing effectively and guide

you to make the most out of the exercise.4. Prioritize exercise

While many students feel that they aretoo busy to exercise, putting aside just one hour a day for exercise can make you more productive, focused, and healthy. Both aer-obic and anaerobic exercise will clear your mind and release endorphins, making you feel happier, energized, and less stressed on a daily basis.

Margot Merrill, a junior in the busi-ness school and a student-athlete at Saint Joseph’s, manages her time and maintains healthy eating habits on a weekly basis by exercising both every morning and some-times even a second or third time during the day.

“I feel that exercising causes a chain re-action and is one key step in the right direc-tion of a healthy lifestyle. If you start your day by exercising, you’ll then feel com-pelled to eat healthier throughout the day. Sometimes people forget that food should be used to fuel our bodies and not just to

be indulged. If you fuel your body with the proper food, your body will be sure to re-pay you with solid energy.”5. Make time for sleep

Lack of sleep is directly linked to in-creased levels of stress and weight gain from overeating. Getting as much sleep as possible, ideally eight hours a night, will improve your focus and reduce your stress. When students are tired, they are also more likely to turn to sugary foods or general snacking to help them stay awake. Limiting TV and Internet surfing during the week will enable you to make sure that you have enough time to study and get a sufficient amount of sleep.

With final exams around the corner and long hours of studying on the horizon, changing your lifestyle habits today can prevent stress eating from taking over your happiness of tomorrow. Following these tips can transform your daily routine and help you finish the semester the healthy way.

Photo Courtesy of Matt Haubenstein M.A. ’17

Lifestyle | 13The Hawk

Nov. 18, 2015

Looking for a nostalgia-filled pseudo horror movie this fall season? If so, the new “Goosebumps” film starring Jack Black as R.L. Stine may just tickle your fancy. With-out giving away any “twists,” as Stine would say, here are five things you can expect from the revived childhood classic.

Monsters: Big, small, hairy, wet, cute, depraved, hideous, dumb and sometimes hilarious. Anyone who has read “Goose-bumps” as a kid will be pleasantly surprised by the myriad of creatures shoved on screen over the nearly two-hour viewing period.

Stine’s creations will roar, growl, yell, screech and giggle their way back into your heart. By the movie’s end, all of the crowd favorites will have made at least minor appearances, although the cringe-wor-thy clicking and chattering of the garden

gnomes should garner even more screen-time.

Small town tropes: Madison, Del. is de-picted as the small town of all small towns. Let’s see if you find this scenario familiar: a teenage boy is forced from a big city to a small town with his single mother after the untimely death of his perfect, baseball throwing father. His mother is, of course, an assistant principal at his high school where he has to deal with the “new kid” paradigm.

The new kid reluctantly befriends the king of the nerds, and falls in love with the girl next door. After a shared life alter-ing event (R.L. Stine’s monsters coming to life and terrorizing the town), everyone is handed a lover and plays nice in the end. This predictability permits one to focus on other issues that are often overlooked.

Book burning: While the “Goose-bumps” series may be a far cry from “The Great Gatsby” or “Fahrenheit 451,” the li-terati may have their heart strings tugged while watching a diabolical ventriloquist’s dummy set flame to all of Stine’s beautiful black manuscripts—bring some Kleenex.

Patriarchy: “Goosebumps” doesn’t do women any favors. The film sets up an all too familiar dichotomy between two sis-ters, Lorraine and Gale. Gale upholds clas-sic American beauty standards as the “thin blonde, girl” and is depicted as successful and desirable. She is an assistant principal at her son’s school and must persistently defend herself from the courtship of the excessively heteronormative Pepe Le Pew stand in, Coach Carr. Lorraine, on the oth-er hand, clearly weighs more than her sis-

ter and has a career in bedazzling teenage clothing. Dangerously close to receiving a restraining order from the last guy she dated, Lorraine could have a Ph.D. in unre-quited love. She is consumed by the phys-ical need for a man, and is an inside joke amongst her family members. These ele-ments distract from the initial reason one might watch “Goosebumps;” see point 1.

The twist: While the “Rampage” like destruction of Madison, Del. by monsters formerly known as ink is entertaining, there is something more sinister lurking beneath the surface of “Goosebumps.” The main twist comes from the psychological relationship between R.L. Stine and his cre-ations, and when considering one creation in particular, it is troubling to say the least.

Ghosts, goblins, and ‘Goosebumps’R.L. Stine’s cult classic book series brought to life on the big screen

Thanksgiving is right around the cor-ner—and we are completely in a lag, anx-iously awaiting our finals. Sometimes all we really need is to go home and recharge; however, have you thought about what you could be missing in beautiful Philly? Here are just ten of the coolest things our city has to offer:

1. Franklin Square will make you wish for an everlasting autumn season. This place makes for the perfect Christmas card picture. But there’s no time to wait—the leaves don’t stay this beautiful for much longer! Grab a PSL from the nearest Star-bucks and snag that Insta-worthy picture.

2. If you thought that the summer fun on the Ben Franklin Parkway left with “Made in America,” think again: the streets of Philly come back to host the Thanks-giving Day Parade on Nov. 26! If you can’t make it to the parade, watch the live broad-cast on 6ABC.

3. Halloween is officially over—we can all take a breather from seeing the numer-ous “frat boys” and scary black cats roam-ing the streets—but did you miss out on go-ing to the Eastern State Penitentiary? Don’t worry, because it’s open for daytime tours, too, and you still have a chance to take a visit even after the Halloween season ends.

4. If you’re a cliché Philadelphia resident, you’ve probably taken a picture in front of the infamous LOVE statue (It’s okay. I have too). Well, now it’s AMOR in Spanish and Latin to honor the Pope. Go check it out before the statue is taken down on Jan. 29.

5. There’s nothing sweeter than crisp, fall air. Take your special someone on a date all over Philly in a horse drawn carriage. It might be a little chilly, too: perfect oppor-tunity to lend a girl your favorite sweatshirt and never get it back.

6. Let’s face it, Hawks. Sometimes Cam-pion just isn’t the champion. Escape the long pasta line and get a true taste of Phil-adelphia. The infamous debate over Pat’s or Geno’s Philly cheesesteaks is waiting for you—and its just a short Uber trip away.

7. Two of my favorite words: free and Christmas. From Thanksgiving until the last Sunday in December, Center City will host the annual Christmas Village, boast-ing food, shopping, entertainment, and holiday cheer. If you’ve already started lis-tening to Christmas music like I have, you won’t want to miss this wonderful event.

8. Get in, loser, we’re going shopping. Nov. 28 is Small Business Saturday, which means the small shops of Manayunk will be having huge sales and promotions all day!

9. Looking for something risky to do on a Friday night? Does ice skating count? I hope so, because the Dilworth Park Roth-man Ice Rink is reopening! Only $5 admis-sion… a cheap date for us struggling col-lege kids.

10. This November is welcoming a new way to view our beauteous city: One Lib-erty Observation Deck. Yes, that’s right. This month we will be able to go up 57 floors and see the Philly skyline for the first time—such a beautiful sight.

‘Fall’ in love with your cityTen places in Philadelphia to check out this autumn

JOSEPH THOMAS M.A. ’16 Hawk Staff

CORINNE SINESI ’19Special to The Hawk

Photos courtesy of Creative Commons

Upon entering the front door of Sep-tember Farm Cheese in Honey Brook, Pa., visitors are enveloped by warmth and sur-rounded by various displays of delectable foods. It’s hard to choose where to begin, as each corner of the shop boasts its own smorgasbord of treats.

The store itself came into existence sim-ply because of the enjoyment one Menno-nite man, Dave Rotelle, discovered while making a wheel of cheese for the first time in 2007. After almost nine years of dedica-tion, this country store has become a hub for all foods homemade, local, or just plain delicious.

On a wall toward the back of the store stands large windows peering into the cheese production rooms, behind which Mennonite women, dressed in patterned dresses and white bonnets, carefully sort and package the different cheeses of Sep-tember Farm. Their hands move quickly, lining up the cheeses, sealing them tight into their wrappers, and placing a Sep-tember Farm sticker firmly on top of each block.

The employees behind the glass seem to

sense the gawking gazes that follow their movements, but they are not easily dis-tracted. They work methodically, effortless-ly staying on task.

Both the jack and cheddar cheeses are made with milk from the owner’s dairy farm, which is transported to the store by tractor each day at 4 a.m. and 4 p.m.

In addition to the classic jack and ched-dar cheeses, September Farm sells an array of different, and sometimes unusual, chees-es made with milk from other local Amish farms. At one station, customers can sam-ple dozens of different blocks, from Chives and Dill Jack to Apple Cinnamon Cheddar. The cheeses are pressed neatly into refrig-erated rows, fresh and ready to purchase.

While the cheeses are what draw cus-tomers in, September Farms sells others food of all kinds. The walls of the shop are lined with chips, crackers, and biscuits. Be-side them sit jars of hummus, peanut but-ter, cheesecake spreads, and vegetable dips. In front of each spread sits an open jar so shoppers can sample every flavor.

By the window, next to a row of hon-ey jars, sits a sign that says, “Serve the Lord”—a reminder for customers of the owners’ dedication to their faith.

From the back right corner of the store,

a sweeter aroma draws shoppers inside. At the bakery, a large chalkboard lists all of the items baked fresh in the kitchen: cheese tarts, cookies and pies, hand rolled soft pretzels, whoopee pies, coffee cake, funny cake (a Pennsylvania Dutch specialty), and pineapple upside down cake.

A Mennonite woman lines cookie sheets with dough, ready to be baked and wrapped. She greets the customers with a soft, “Hello, how are you?” as she places chocolate candies atop the round pieces of dough.

“What’s your favorite treat to make?” a customer asked her.

“Cheese tarts,” she smiled. “If nothing else, you must try the cheese tarts.”

She points to the counter across the room, where behind a glass partition sit dozens of small pastries—salted caramel, black raspberry, key lime, apple—each labeled and decorated like a piece of art. Some cheese tarts are drizzled with choco-late; others are embellished with a dollop of frosting or a sprinkle of cinnamon.

Across from the dessert display sits Sep-tember Farm’s sandwich shop, where cus-tomers can enjoy a sit down meal by the fireplace. And if they still have room after-wards, two adolescent girls stand behind

an ice cream bar ready to pile scoops into a waffle cone, or blend flavors into a rich, creamy milkshake.

It’s hard to leave September Farms Cheese empty handed, and few do. Wheth-er it’s fresh vegetables, homemade cheese, cheese tarts, or a warm soft pretzels, the store has something to meet each individ-ual’s cravings.

“We get a little bit of everything,” Martin said of their customer base. “People from the West, tourists from the Intercourse area, local Amish families, they all support us. We even get customers from abroad, Australia and Italy, who promise they’ll come back every year.”

September Farm Cheese, located about an hour outside of Philadelphia, makes a great fall destination for a sampling of local produce, cheeses, snacks, and treats.

Their specialty cheeses can also be found at farms, markets, and dairies through-out Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, Washington D.C., and Maryland. Septem-ber Farm cheese can be found at several stores and markets throughout Montgom-ery County, so keep your eyes open for their homemade and delectable products on your next grocery outing.

14| Lifestyle The Hawk Nov. 18, 2015

September Farm CheeseThe traditional country store is a hub of local flavor

JOSEPH THOMAS M.A. ’16Hawk Staff

Levi Stoltzfus and his wife Lydia are in the business of hosting, on occasion, a feast that could quell the hunger of a small army.

In fact, the Old Order Amish couple serves banquets annually to a group of sol-diers whose photos are framed on a table by their doorway. Beneath a gray sky in late September, a group of 19 students from Saint Joseph’s University shuffled into the Stoltzfus’ basement, removing their shoes as they entered. The shoe removal message was delivered reluctantly, by Levi Stoltzfus, on order from his wife who was preparing lunch in the kitchen.

The bottom floor of the Stoltzfus’ farm-house where the feast would be eaten was simple and clean. The basement floor plan was open with a kitchen to the left of the entrance. There, Lydia Stoltzfus toiled,si-lently in the background.

Despite the lack of electricity, accord-ing to Old Order Amish custom, there was no want for natural light: everything was a flat, bright white. Two long tables stretched across the middle of the room. One had a plain white tablecloth and place settings where the students would eat.

There were two modern bathrooms in the corner opposite the kitchen for the Stoltzfus’ “English” visitors. The Stolzfuses themselves used an outhouse, similar to most other Old Order Amish.

As Old Order Amish, the Stoltzfuses don’t advertise their dining services, so customers primarily find out about them through word of mouth. They do, howev-er, have business cards with their address, and the number to their phone kept in the outhouse.

2600 Valley View Road, in Morgantown, Pa. is about an hours drive from Saint Jo-seph’s, and the drive is well worth it for such a meal at $15 per person. The cards all have a picture of a little barn with a wind-mill, similar enough to evoke the feeling of their own domicile.

Outside in a field of grass where several horses and two ponies grazed, there was a

windmill over a modest well, the Stoltzfus’ only source of water. It was built, like ev-erything else on the farm, by the Stoltzfus-es themselves. The horses are bred for sale, and while they don’t make a ton of money, Levi Stoltzfus says it’s enough.

After the Saint Joseph’s students had washed their hands and taken their seats at the long table, Levi Stoltzfus sprung into action, dedicating his entire being to the art of hosting. He brought plate after plate from the kitchen to the table, instructing that they be passed around.

The never-ending assortment of food started with homemade Amish bread with pineapple jam and butter. Whilst the stu-dents enjoyed the bread and jam, many more dishes were ferried from one end of the table to the other. Baked chicken, mac-aroni, mashed potatoes, sausage and car-rots were scarfed down, by some, in ridic-ulous excess.

Stoltzfus was bouncing back and forth from one side of the table to the other, pleasantly vigorous for 71. His 44 grand-children—and one great grandchild born the day before—likely contribute to his youthfulness.

He kept things simple in his black pants, black shoes, and white suspenders. A dark gray, collared, short-sleeve shirt revealed thick forearms not unfamiliar to labor. He walked strong, as if uphill, but seemed to exert no energy. His crisp, long gray beard complemented his prescription transition-al lenses. Through those glasses he peered down at the table offering more and more food, mostly to the short supply of male students. He also warned the women not to make “bad decisions,” which certainly im-plied more than overeating.

By the time dessert came around, two shoo-fly and apple pies along with home-made ice cream, some students had already been satiated enough for the coming win-ter. They were victims to a smorgasbord of delicious eats coupled with assertive hos-pitality. Still, the students drove on, as did Stoltzfus.

The pies and ice cream meandered on through the table from both sides, with

Levi watching like a hawk, making sure that no one was left unfed.

As students’ willpower faded, the pies were mostly scraps. There was, however, a significant portion of ice cream that Levi was not willing to waste. He slid the bowl in front of one of the two male students and stared down. The student took a deep breath and glanced at the bowl, then up at Stoltzfus.

Stoltzfus’ eyes never moved; he didn’t

even blink. It was a western showdown. Stoltzfus said it wasn’t enough to save or anything, that someone might as well eat it. He was staring at that someone.

With a heavy stomach and light peer pressure, the student corrected the leftover ice cream problem. Stoltzfus took the bowl into the kitchen with a smirk that could be seen from the corner of his mouth as he walked away. Another satisfied customer.

Levi the HospitableA look into the life of the Old Order Amish

Photo courtesy of Jenny Spinner

ALYSSA EVANS ’16Hawk Staff

Sports | 15The HawkNov. 18, 2015

Starting strong

High expectationsRICHARD BELL ’18Special to The Hawk

With rackets in hand and a strong pre-season under their belt, the Saint Joseph’s University men’s tennis team is ready for their upcoming season and this year is expected to be one of their best.

During the preseason, the team prac-ticed daily from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., as well as participating in weekly lifting and yoga sessions. According to Junior Kyle Chalm-ers, the team is playing better than they have in the past.

“As it looks right now, we have the most talented team that we have had in the three years that I have been here,” Chalmers said. “We have won multiple flights and tournaments and are currently in the A-10 [Atlantic 10] conference. We are right on the edge of being one of the better teams in the league.”

With a good team comes very tight competition, and, according to Chalmers, being competitive is the key to success in tennis. Chalmers also said success in ten-nis necessitates having a positive attitude and learning from mistakes on the court.

According to sophomore Nick Ring-le, the team does have tough competition and hard work ahead of them this year.

“Davidson is a new team that has just entered into the A-10 conference and a team that is very tough,” Ringle said. “They proved themselves on the court last year and proved that they deserved to be in this conference. Some other historically tough teams included George Washington and VCU [Virginia Commonwealth Uni-versity]. VCU is a big school and has the ability to select a large team with many good players to put out on the court to compete.”

Ringle also noted that the team as a whole is working to be more analytical and what strategies the team uses to be successful on the court.

Head Coach Ian Crookenden also spoke about the teams projected success and where he hopes to take the team this season.

“When we played at Navy two weeks ago, there were 15 individual flights. We won five of those flights,” Crookenden said. “As far as performance goes, it is important for us to have good doubles matches. The doubles teams have been better this season so far because there is more chemistry with the players.”

In addition to the daily two-and-a-half-hour practices, Crookenden added yoga to the training schedule on Monday nights to help the team with endurance. He believes that for players to be success-ful on the tennis court, they must have the ability to control their emotions, and have good conditioning at all times during the season.

Team bonding is also an important part of the team’s experience. Senior Cap-tain Andres Urrea fondly recalled several ways in which the team bonds with each other.

“The most memorable moment we have had has been the time we went on spring break to Virginia and North Car-olina,” Urrea said. “Even though this was the first time we didn’t have an actual break, we had visited Orlando and Puerto Rico in the past, the team really bonded as a group. Our ride back was an 11 hour bus ride on a Sunday before classes resumed on Monday.”

The team will play their first tourna-ment of the spring on Saturday, Jan. 23.

Men’s tennis team prepares for upcoming season

Men’s basketball begins season 2-0

The Saint Joseph’s University men’s basketball team opened the season on Fri-day, Nov. 13 with a City Six game against Drexel University, which ended in a win for St. Joe’s.

The Hawks began the game hot and took an early 18-4 lead. By halftime, the Hawks led the Dragons 44-34. Despite hav-ing a nine-point lead with a minute and fifteen seconds remaining in the game, St. Joe’s escaped by just a point and started off the season right with an 82-81 victory.

Four missed free throws, three turn-overs in the final minute, and a half of play were partially to blame for allowing Drexel to compete in the end. Prior to those four

missed free throws, the Hawks were shoot-ing 80 percent from the line, a dramatic improvement from last season. The Hawks were also able to score over 80 points, something the team did just once last year.

Head Coach Phil Martelli said in an in-terview Thursday, Nov. 12 that he’d like the team to “score 75 points a game.”

Junior DeAndre Bembry led the way with 23 points. Seniors Aaron Brown and Isaiah Miles, and freshman Pierfrancesco Oliva also scored in double digits. Miles finished with 13 points and 10 rebounds, his second career double-double game.

Though the Hawks won by a score of 73-62, it was a sloppy first half between

the Hawks and the Niagara University Purple Eagles on Sunday, Nov. 15. Niaga-ra’s offense depended on the three point shot, from which they scored 18 of their 28 points first half points. More than half of Niagara’s field goal attempts in the opening half were from beyond the arc.

The Hawks, on the other hand, spread their shots around and converted at a high-er clip. In the opener against Drexel, St. Joe’s was able to rebound over 42 percent of their missed shots. With just three offen-sive boards, two from Oliva and one a team rebound, the Hawks were rebounding less than 17 percent of their missed shots.

DeAndre Bembry was next to invisible in the first half. He got off just one shot, a three off the back iron, and missed his only free throw attempt. He finished the half scoreless.

It didn’t take long for the switch to flip after the break, though. Bembry im-mediately took over the game scoring on four straight possessions for the Hawks, all within less than a minute and a half of one another, the beginning of a 25-3 run by the Hawks.

With 5 minutes to go, the Hawks held a 22-point lead. After struggling to close the game against Drexel, the final few minutes of play would be interesting for the Hawks. Niagara gave St. Joe’s a scare with a 12-0 run, but finally, Oliva drove to his left and laid the ball in to end the run. On the three ensuing possessions, baskets from sopho-more Shavar Newkirk, Miles, and Bembry put an end to any hope Niagara had at com-pleting their attempt at a comeback.

The difference between the ways St. Joe’s played in the first half and in the sec-ond half was night and day.

“The start is inexcusable and the play-ers we challenged that that would not be repeated in the second half,” Martelli said. “[In the second half,] Fresh [freshman La-marr Kimble] got us ‘tempo-ed.’ We weren’t ‘tempo-ed.’ We were playing to the lack of noise, but that’s our fault. We have to earn the noise. The other night we had it because it was opening night.”

Kimble added to Martelli’s comments saying, “Great teams that win champion-ships, they win when nobody’s there, so that’s what we had to do.”

Martelli went on to praise Oliva’s game. Between him and Bembry, the two com-bined for 24 points, 14 rebounds, and 12 assists. Miles and Brown led the way for the Hawks with 14 points each.

Bembry entered the game with 986 career points, only fourteen points away from becoming the school’s fifty-second thousand-point scorer and twenty-second by his third year. While just two points shy of the mark and a minute left in the game, Bembry was removed.

For his performance, Bembry was named Philadlephia Big 5 Co-Player of the Week on Monday, Nov. 16.

Saint Joseph’s advances to a 2-0 record and will take on Buffalo on Wednesday, Nov. 18 at 7:00 p.m. in Hagan Arena before heading to the Monaghan Arena in Uncas-ville, Conn. for a match against the Univer-sity of Florida on Saturday, Nov. 21.

Photo courtesy of Atlantic 10

Freshman Pierfrancesco Oliva blocks a shot in a game against Drexel on Nov. 13(Photo by Joey Toczylowski, ’19)

NICK MANDARANO ’18Hawk Staff

Nov. 18, 2015 The Hawk 16 | Sports

By now, everyone in the Saint Jo-seph’s University community knows that the women’s basketball team lost their season opener, 78-65. But a loss to open the season isn’t necessarily rea-son to fret.

In fact, this is the fourth time in the past five seasons that the team has started off with a loss. The 2013-14 sea-son was the only time the season start-ed with a win. The 2014-15 season was the only season in which the team fin-ished under .500, though they finished first in the Big 5 (3-1).

On Friday, Nov. 13, the Hawks played the Rutgers University Scar-let Knights, losing by 13 points. The Hawks opened last season at Rutgers, losing 76-52. Rutgers has been a his-torically difficult opponent for the Hawks, with the Scarlet Knights lead-ing the all-time series 30-15.

Though the 78-65 final score from Friday night’s game may not suggest it, the game was a close contest. The Scar-let Knights led for most of the game, but the Hawks’ fought hard, and even-tually took the lead in the third quarter (yes, the women’s games are split into quarters now instead of halves), cour-

tesy of a 12-2 run. The Scarlet Knights reclaimed the lead, though, on a 12-0 run. Despite their best efforts, the Hawks couldn’t overcome the deficit.

After the game, Head Coach Cin-dy Griffin said in a press conference that multiple empty possessions on the Hawks end were part of what allowed the Scarlet Knights to get the better of the team.

“We had about seven empty pos-sessions that we didn’t score or we turned the ball over,” Griffin said. “It led to opportunities for them on the other end, and they took advantage of that, and they scored. It was tough for us to come back after that run.”

Though quarters were a bit difficult for some players to get used to at first, the team now feels more comfortable. Griffin said she likes the setup because it allows the team more possibilities to run sideline plays.

Senior Ciara “C.C.” Andrews and junior Amanda Fioravanti both ad-mitted they didn’t initially like playing in quarters during scrimmages, but quickly warmed up to the idea during the game.

“Today in the game… it worked

out for me,” Andrews said during a press conference. “I think we have more rest, actually, now, between the quarters.”

Despite the Hawks’ loss, there are positives from the game. St. Joe’s out-scored Rutgers in the second and third quarters, 24-19 and 17-15, respective-ly. Andrews led the Hawks with 14 points in the game. Fioravanti, in her St. Joe’s debut, was close behind with 13 points; Fioravanti also led the team in rebounds with 10.

“There were a lot of positives,” Fioravanti said during a press con-ference. “We had some great offense, some great defense. We’ll just keep working on the things we need to work on.”

Griffin also saw positives in the game, and believes the team will over-come where they fell short in the open-er.

“We’re in a good place. I think to-day was a good showing,” Griffin said. “We’re not satisfied, but there are a lot of good things we need to pull from this.”

The Hawks are back in action on Sat-urday, Nov. 21 at 2 p.m. when they play Seton Hall University at Hagan Arena.

Improvement from year-to-year is one of the most important aspects of any sport.

It’s no surprise, then, that the Saint Jo-seph’s University men’s and women’s cross country teams were thrilled by their re-sults at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional Championships on Friday, Nov. 13. The men’s team finished in seventh place with 226 points, which was four places and 52 points higher than last season’s finish, ac-cording to a press release from SJU Ath-letic Communications. The women’s team finished in eleventh place with 345 points, ten places and 275 points high than the previous season, according to SJU Athletic Communications.

The men’s team was led by sophomore David Dorsey and junior Jimmy Daniels, who finished thirty-third and thirty-fifth overall, respectively. Dorsey completed the 10k race in 31:42.4 and Daniels finished close behind, with a time of 31:44.4.

“There’s just a lot of faith that’s involved in this sport,” Daniels said. “Trusting your-self is the biggest thing, and that’s what I do. By the end of the race, I had one of the best [races] of my life.”

Both Daniels and Dorsey recorded their collegiate-best 10k times with their top-35 finishes, according to SJU Athletic Communications.

The team was coming off a first-place win at the Atlantic 10 Championships, which provided them with both momen-tum and fierce determination.

“We already had a great season when we won the A-10, but we wanted to prove that we deserve the title,” Dorsey said.

Daniels agreed, and added that their A-10 Championship also gave the team confidence for the future, even though they will lose a few of their top performers next season.

Men’s Head Coach Mike Glavin was particularly impressed with the way his team carried over the success from the A-10s, something which hasn’t always been the case. Glavin said that in past years, the team would do well at the A-10 Champion-ships, but the momentum would backfire, and runners would feel too tired to com-pete in the next meet.

“It really depends on how the group re-sponds to it,” Glavin said. “This particular

group isn’t a one-trick pony. They weren’t looking to just win the Atlantic 10 [Cham-pionship]… It wasn’t as much momentum as an indication of what happened at the A-10s was accurate, it was right.”

A successful showing also came from the women’s team, who had a favorable race. For the entire season, the team had not been ranked in the Mid-Atlantic Re-gion’s Top-15 poll. With their eleventh place finish, the Hawks beat out five schools that had been ranked in the Top 15.

“It was awesome just to know [we beat out top ranked schools],” senior Lauren Hehir said. “There were some schools we kind of had our eyes on. We knew we could beat them, but in the poll, St. Joe’s was un-der the radar… It was just a matter of go-ing out and doing what we had to do in the race.”

Hehir finished sixty-eighth overall with a time of 22:39, a course time best for her.

Freshman Lindsey Oremus was the first place runner for the Hawks, coming in forty-fourth overall, with a 6k time of 22:06.9. It marked the sixth time this sea-son that she led the team, according to SJU

Athletic Communications.Women’s Head Coach Melody O’Reil-

ly, who is in her first season coaching the Hawks, was pleased with Oremus’ finish, as well as the overall impact she’s had on the team in her rookie season.

“Lindsey has just sort of gotten into all of these races and she does what she does,” O’Reilly said. “She’s been a huge inspira-tion to our team… It was a very impressive finish at forty-forth. For a freshman, it’s an impressive finish.”

Oremus was focused primarily on feel-ing relaxed, which she said helped her per-formance.

“The entire time, I just kept saying to myself, ‘just run comfortable. Just run comfortable,’” Oremus said. “I just kept repeating that in my mind, which I think helped me calm down more in the end. The end result, it was the best race I personally feel like I’ve ever ran.”

The men’s team will close out their season at the IC4A Championships on Sat-urday, Nov. 21, and the women’s team will compete in the ECAC Championships the same day.

CHRISTY SELAGY ’16Sports Editor

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