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The Student News Site of St. Edward's University

Hilltop Views
The Student News Site of St. Edward's University

Hilltop Views
“What sets international students apart is striving for success,” director of international admission and advancement David Bernay said. “I think it’s coming from a place of ‘there’s more risk involved for international students than non-international students.’ And so when you have that involved, there’s just more motivation. It’s a big risk. You’re taking a risk and there are a lot of things you’re doing for the first time, too. So that’s what makes it very difficult.”

SJN: St. Edward’s support for international students begins even before they apply

Gabrielle Caumon and Anna Pratts
April 24, 2025
Giorgia Meloni (left) next to President Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office. Meloni’s party ‘Fratelli d’Italia’ won the election with 26% of the votes, while its opponents lost with less than 19% of the votes.

An insight into what Italians really think of their prime minister

Giulia Bragalli, Reporter
April 23, 2025
During the Know Your Rights workshop, Karen Green of Catholic Charities of Central Texas presents a slide explaining different immigration statuses. The presentation breaks down the spectrum from undocumented persons (those with expired visas or who entered without permission) to visa holders (both immigrant and non-immigrant categories), legal permanent residents (including conditional status) and U.S. citizens.

Catholic Charities of Central Texas’ “Know Your Rights” Workshop Offers Immigration Insights Amid Policy Changes

Nicole Williams-Quezada, Intern
April 8, 2025
Students Lily Grant and Elon Parker have created an American Sign Language (ASL) club on campus to encourage fellow students to become more involved in the process of trying to get ASL to become a foreign language credit. Parker and Grant have expressed concerns in regards to the fact that St. Edward’s has a lot of students come into the school with ASL credits that are not able to be used towards language credits, but instead towards special topics credits.

American Sign Language club pushes for subject to be foreign language credit

Raveena Devjee, Staff Writer
April 7, 2025
SGA candidates for senate, vice president and president discuss their visions for campus improvement during the debate, discussing student organization funding, dining hall concerns and shared governance. Voting is open until April 2 at 8 p.m.

Student Government Association candidates debate on key issues ahead of election

Magnolia Westfall, Intern
April 2, 2025
Students watching the SGA funding requests during the meeting. Meetings are every Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the St. Andre Multipurpose room.

Weekly SGA senate brief: March 26, 2025

Magnolia Westfall, Intern
April 1, 2025
Doug Martin of the Cherokee culture group (left) gestures while speaking with Roy Johnson, campus sustainability coordinator and arborist, at the Cherokee corn celebration on March 8.

Cherokee corn celebration brings Indigenous culture to the campus garden, food forest

Nicole Williams-Quezada, Staff Writer
March 24, 2025
Molly McPherson shares insights into her PR job in crisis communication with St. Edward’s faculty and students. “You have to have thick skin. You have to have integrity. You have to have character.”

Fear, Fallout and Fixes: Molly McPherson breaks down crisis communication strategy

Michaela Fallon, Reporter
March 24, 2025
President Montserrat Fuentes gave her annual University Address at the Student Government Association meeting.

Weekly SGA senate brief: March 12, 2025

Magnolia Westfall, Intern
March 24, 2025
The Monarchs on the Hilltop website has a dedicated section listing all the resources currently available on campus for undocumented Hilltoppers.

‘La raza siempre ayuda a la raza’: St. Edward’s University responds to shifting immigration enforcement on campus

Gabrielle Caumon and Nicole Williams-Quezada
March 14, 2025
Macy Zander, Luke Metzger and Sean Winn were all a part of a panel held by the Kozmetsky Center here at St. Edward’s. The panel was meant to allow students to hear some solutions to the issue of single-use plastic, rather than just hearing about the problem.

Kozmetsky Center holds panel about the politics of plastic

Raveena Devjee, Staff Writer
March 14, 2025
With all of the wide-ranging orders from President Trump, Hilltop Views reporters Nicole Williams-Quezada and Raveena Devjee had a round table talk with Lisa Kirkpatrick, Erika Zamora and Gwen Schuler to gain more clarity and insight into what this means for the university and how these policies and actions may affect St. Edward’s students.

Q&A: St. Edward’s University admin speak on impact of changing Title IX, Immigration, DEI policies

Raveena Devjee and Nicole Williams-Quezada
March 10, 2025
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