The Student News Site of St. John Fisher University

The Student News Site of St. John Fisher University

The Student News Site of St. John Fisher University

The Student News Site of St. John Fisher University

The Student News Site of St. John Fisher University

The Student News Site of St. John Fisher University

Less Than 100 Days to Teddi 39: Here’s What You Can Expect:

Less Than 100 Days to Teddi 39: Here’s What You Can Expect:

November 24, 2020

By Kelsey Braun ’22, Staff Writer On November 11, St. John Fisher College’s Teddi Dance for Love celebrated 100 days Until Teddi 39. The day was full of fun virtual challenges on social media for...

SJFC Moves to S-P-U Grading Policy in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic

SJFC Moves to S-P-U Grading Policy in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic

November 23, 2020

By Kelsey Braun ’22, Staff Writer On November 19, St. John Fisher College announced it will again implement a change to the grading policy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. With this policy students...

Dealing With Election Stress as a College Student

Dealing With Election Stress as a College Student

November 17, 2020

By Nandi Sommers ' 21, staff writer For the past several months, the big 2020 election has been a large topic of discussion and after months of campaigning and days of counting votes, on November 7,...

Freshmen, Seniors Impacted Differently by Campus Closure

Freshmen, Seniors Impacted Differently by Campus Closure

November 16, 2020

By Erin Dickinson ’24, Staff Writer Since the announcement that campus would be closed for the remainder of the fall semester, St. John Fisher College students have had to quickly adjust to a new reality....

SJFC Students Vocal on Social Media in Response to Schools Online Transition

SJFC Students Vocal on Social Media in Response to School’s Online Transition

November 13, 2020

By Kelsey Braun ’22, Staff Writer On October 20th, St. John Fisher College made an announcement that classes would begin to transition completely online for the remainder of the semester. An email sent...

Remote Learning Means Remote Teaching, SJFC Professors Reconstruct Courses to Online Only

Remote Learning Means Remote Teaching, SJFC Professors Reconstruct Courses to Online Only

November 11, 2020

By Madison Weber ’23, Staff Writer It goes without saying that the lives of students were affected by the rapid closure of on-campus classes, but St John Fisher’s professors also felt the effects...

Going Remote Affected the Vote: Students Voting Absentee Stressed While Waiting for Ballot

Going Remote Affected the Vote: Students Voting Absentee Stressed While Waiting for Ballot

November 11, 2020

By Madison Weber ’23, Staff Writer What happens when an absentee ballot is requested, but no one is there to fill it out? St. John Fisher’s Education student Makenna King ‘24, was influenced by...

Students rallied at St. John Fisher College in early September when news first broke about the death of Daniel Prude at the hands of the Rochester Police Department. (Photo by Editor-in-Chief Erin Reilly)

Students of Color Share Experiences on Fisher Campus, An Overwhelmingly Majority White School

November 9, 2020

By Erin Reilly ’20, Editor-in-Chief Amid the increasing national conversation around racial inequities and injustice, students of color on the St. John Fisher College campus shared their experiences...

Fisher Teams Up With Community Members to Hold Racial Equity Panel for Student Body

Fisher Teams Up With Community Members to Hold Racial Equity Panel for Student Body

November 8, 2020

By Nandi Sommers ' 21, staff writer In late October, St. John Fisher held a panel on racial restoration which was an event open to the whole campus community at Fisher.  The racial equity panel aimed...

Full-Time Students, Full-Time Jobs: Some Students Work on Both

Full-Time Students, Full-Time Jobs: Some Students Work on Both

November 7, 2020

By McKayla Kovach '21 Management Major Being a full-time student at college is a job within itself. Some students are able to supplement school with a part-time or full-time job while others may find...

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Students, Professors Navigate Education and Virtual Connections for Online Only Learning

November 5, 2020

By Allison Lyons '24 These past couple months have been unlike any other, especially for education, with the need to adapt to online learning methods, raising the question: is virtual learning necessarily...

Professor Josh Matula teaching his Sign Language I Course. (Photo by Bella McEnroe)

Sign Language Classes Gain Popularity

November 4, 2020

By Bella McEnroe, '24 Media and Communication major St. John Fisher College is one of the hundreds of colleges and universities in the United States offering American Sign Language classes and some on...

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