Rev. Barber’s Second Appearance Canceled Due to Illness
Derrell Bouknight, News Editor
December 5, 2018
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What was supposed to be Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II’s second address Thursday as part of his “It’s About Right and Wrong” lecture series has been called off due to Barber tending to an immediate family member he described as “very ill” in an email sent to the Torch on Wednesday, Dec. 5 ...
NAACP Hosts Discussion on Gun Violence and Terrorism
Kenneth Carter, Contributing Writer
December 5, 2018
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The NAACP at St. John’s University held an open discussion titled “Gun Violence and Domestic Terrorism,” on Thursday, Nov. 29. NAACP President Tamia Morris and Educational Chairwoman Sloane Walker ran the event. To start off the conversation, they presented information about two shootings that ...
Queens ROTC Students Rank Among the Top in the Nation
Alexis Gaskin, Staff Writer
December 5, 2018
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St. John’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program is one to watch this year, according to Lieutenant Colonel Eric Feteke. The Red Storm Battalion on the Queen’s campus has led over 700 officers to the United States Army. Currently, there are 72 cadets in the program and among them, six have...
Phi Sigma Sigma Hosts Final Blood Drive of Semester
Byron Campbell, Contributing Writer
December 5, 2018
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Phi Sigma Sigma collaborated with the New York Blood Center to host their last blood drive of 2018 on Monday. If you were wondering why the red mascot was on campus, New York Blood Center stationed their blood drive at Taffner Field House located by Gate 1. Center account manager and coordinato...
St. John’s Law Among Top Schools For Bar Exam Passage
Cara Yesko, Staff Writer
December 5, 2018
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St. John’s University’s School of Law has earned a new accolade. This November, the New York Law Journal released rankings which placed the law school fifth on a list which ranked the percent of first-time pass rates for the July 2018 bar exam for New York law schools statewide. With an 87 ...
SJU Reflects on Midterm Elections Results
Dayra Santana, Staff Writer
November 14, 2018
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Nov. 13 marked one week since the United States midterm election. At the one-week mark, St. John’s students gathered in the D’Angelo Center to discuss the outcome of the election and what will come next. Dr. Diane Heith, professor and chair of the Department of Government and Politics, conducted the post-e...
Midterm Elections Recap
Isabella Bruni, Managing Editor
November 14, 2018
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Just last week, New York residents had their chance to cast their votes for candidates running on the federal, state and local levels for positions in the New York State Senate, New York State Assembly, Congress and more. St. John’s is located within the 14th Senatorial District, 24th Assembly Distri...
Students React to WiFi Outage Over Weekend
Angelica Acevedo, Editor-In-Chief
November 14, 2018
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Resident students experienced a WiFi outage on the St. John’s University Queens campus during the weekend. According to Anne Rocco Pacione, St. John’s executive director of Infrastructure and interim chief information officer, the outage to the SJUMobile connection was “unexpected.” “The...
Students Attend Humanitarian Summit in D.C.
Jillian Ortiz, Assistant Copy Editor
November 14, 2018
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Student advocacy is no stranger to St. John’s University. In the spirit of the Vincentian mission, students are encouraged to take action whenever possible. They are encouraged to fulfill the mission outside of the campus gates; sometimes venturing as far as Washington, D.C. in order to do so. Thi...
President’s Dinner Raises $2.7 Million
Angelica Acevedo, Editor-In-Chief
November 7, 2018
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Nearly 1,000 members of the St. John’s University community raised more than $2.7 million in donations at the 21st Annual President’s Dinner at the New York Hilton Midtown on Nov. 4. According to the University’s website, 800 pre-registered guests gathered at the Hilton’s Grand Ballroom. ...
SJU Reflects on the Pittsburgh Shooting
Isabella Bruni, Managing Editor
November 7, 2018
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Members of the St. John’s community have spent the last week and a half speaking out against anti-Semitic violence following the shooting that killed 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue. “Anti-Semitism exists everywhere, in forms that I cannot recognize sometimes,” said junior Natalie Eshagh...
Nobel Prize Winner Speaks of Life Lessons to Students
Rakesh Singh, Staff Writer
November 7, 2018
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Dr. Martin Chalfie delivered the 2018 Dr. Jaya Haldar Memorial Seminar, “GFP: Lighting Up Life,” in the D’Angelo Center, encouraging those in attendance to “ignore the people who say ‘this cannot be done.’” “Many discoveries are purely accidental,” said Chalfie, who is also a prof...
