The Student Newspaper of the University of Saint Joseph, Connecticut
Written by Kaylee Zukowski Initially, I wasn’t very enthusiastic about this event. I feared that it might just be a boring discussion of topics that don’t connect well with my life. I was pleasantly surprised to find that this lecture
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Written by Samuel Turgeon On April 17th, Dr. Chike Jeffers presented a lecture on race and philosophy in the Crystal Room at USJ. The lecture was attended by a fair amount of philosophy students and a number of USJ professors.
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Written By Norah Smith On April 18, 2023, I attended the second lecture in the two-part lecture series “Listening is Not Hearing” by Yale professors Linda Honan and Thomas Duffy. This lecture focused on improving the diagnostic skills of nursing
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Written by Crista Fiala Among the many festivities that USJ’s Earth Festival had to offer, USJ’s literary magazine Interpretations held its annual launch party on April 21, 2023. (To view the USJ Earth Day 2023 Photo Gallery, please click here). While enjoying
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Paint The Rock is a long-standing tradition that started in 1965 at USJ. Graduating seniors sign the rock with their name to celebrate graduating. Painting the rock gives students the ability to leave their mark on campus before they graduate
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Written by Meral Komina The Asian American community has faced numerous instances of discrimination and violence in such notable ways as the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the prejudiced attacks they experienced during the Vietnam War, and the stereotypes perpetuated
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Written by Crista Fiala On April 13, 2023, the American poet and naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield exemplified how art, like poetry, can allow us to reflect on our relationship with the environment. Fittingly, her poetry reading took place in USJ’s art
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USJ’s 2023 Earth Festival was held on Friday, April 21, 2023. See the photo gallery below for the special moments that our team captured! – Crista Fiala And be sure to click on the photographs to see them in their original
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Written by Crista Fiala On March 23, 2023, Dr. Jennifer Cote and I, Crista Fiala, co-presented “Campus Creation: USJ and the Legacy of Women’s College Construction, 1836-1936”. Throughout the last year or so since taking an advanced writing course, I
Read MoreWritten by Brooke Stevenson As someone who learns better visually and hands-on, I struggle to learn about a philosophy only through readings. This is why I appreciated Dr. Massimo Pigliucci’s talk on Stoicism. He started off with the basics: what
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Written by Samuel Turgeon USJ’s students are not to be messed with. On March 22nd, Gracie Farmington Valley hosted a Jiu-Jitsu seminar for USJ students on campus. Two Jiu-Jitsu practitioners named Joseph and James led the seminar, and about 20
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