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

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...

BOYCE: Looking for a New Game to Play? Try Yakuza 0

BOYCE: Looking for a New Game to Play? Try Yakuza 0

November 22, 2020

By Scott Boyce ’22, Staff Writer Looking for a new game to play over the break? Play Yakuza 0. Break is fast approaching and so are the finals, but once all is said and done what is there to do?...

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....

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BOYCE: What You Can do With Two Months of Winter Break

November 15, 2020

By Scott Boyce ’22, Staff Writer The fall semester is almost over and we’re going to have a LONG break until we come back to classes in February. What can you do during that break? There’s a variety...

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...

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Weber: Learning at Home …. Again

November 10, 2020

By Madison Weber ’23, Staff Writer Everyday, I set my alarm to ring two minutes before my first Zoom. After that Zoom, I’ll get ready for the day and by then it’s probably lunchtime. Everyday...

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Quarantine, Isolation, Staying at Home: How to Make Thanksgiving Break Less Lonely

November 10, 2020

By Scott Boyce ’22, Staff Writer Many of us are looking forward to Thanksgiving as it’s going to be an escape from 2020. However, there are those who are either stuck in their dorms or a hotel of...

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...

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