Written by Freddy Fernandez, Class of ’24 Social Media has had a significant impact on our daily lives from gathering information to communicating in an instant. However, it has also been designed to keep its users engaged leading us to spend more time on our phones. Platforms like Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube have all…
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Food for Thought: How Our Plates Affect the Planet
In a world where plenty of food is produced only to be wasted, it’s time to confront the alarming reality: Our current food production systems are not sustainable. Agriculture is the largest source of methane emissions caused by human activity – contributing to around 20-30% of all human-made greenhouse gas emissions. To break that down,…
In Desperate Need of Blood Donors
By Suzzanne Bigelow, Class of 2025 What will you be giving this holiday? Alexis Adolf was born with Von Willebrand’s Disease, a bleeding disorder that results in low levels of clotting protein in the blood, causing abnormal bleeding. Initially, Alexis was advised to refrain from physical activity, including a child’s rite of passage of…
COVID-19: From the Eyes of An Undergraduate Student
Writer: Kiara Suero Joseph Mamaril, full time undergraduate student. Over the past year, the COVID-19 outbreak has gripped the nation by leaving many people struggling financially, mentally and emotionally. Undergraduate students are no strangers to these struggles. Many have had to adjust their lives to handle six classes, jobs and dealing with their own personal…
Beth Adubato, Taking Back Her Night
By: Reina Reyes,2019 Beth Adubato has many things to add to her profile — college graduate, journalist, mother, professor. But she never anticipated that she would have to add sexual assault victim and survivor to that list. Adubato is a professor at St. Peter’s University teaching criminal justice courses such as Gender, Crime, and…
Art Gallery at Saint Peter’s Now Open to the Public
By Zahria Perkins, Class of 2018 The space is occupied with about twenty people but yet, the sound of a pen dropping can be heard as clear as day. The sunshine coming through a floor to ceiling glass window is casting a slight glare on the photographs gracefully draped on the walls. Everyone is moving…
Campus Kitchen
By Armond Marke, ’16 and Samantha Storms, ’17 Campus Kitchen at Saint Peter’s University in Jersey City has a purpose to repurpose. One in 7 Americans are considered to be food insecure, not knowing where there next meal will come from and Erich Sekel, the associate director of Campus Ministry for community service, supervises a student-led…
A Moment of Clarity
Chelsey Forbes, Class of 2017 The city of Forty Fort, Penn. is quiet. Soundless, if you will. With deep American Revolution roots, it’s population of approximately 4,500 enjoy The Beer Deli, a popular, greasy lunch spot where the average age of their customer is 55, and The Strange and Unusual, an oddities parlor that carries…
Saint Peter’s Hosts First Professional Clothing Drive
Students attended the university’s first ever professional clothing drive where they met with stylists, tailors, and UPS in preparation of the spring career fair.
A Long Chapter Ends for a New One to Begin
All of your life, sports have made your world go around. From the moment you can remember, you’ve been in the gym or on the field playing and practicing the game. It was your first love, the one thing you truly gave your one hundred percent effort, and has shaped you into the…
The Dirt on Jersey City 