Saint Peter's University is a

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university in

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. The university offers over 60 undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 2,600

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and 800 graduate students. Its

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is the

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and its sports teams play in the

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, of which it is a founding member. The university is located on a campus just south of

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, and is 2 miles (3 km) west of

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. Evening and weekend classes are offered in

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. In September 1918, the college was closed, along with several other Jesuit colleges and high schools, because of declining enrollment in the face of

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. Although the war ended only two months after its closing, and despite clamoring from alumni, it took until 1930 to re-open the college. The college was temporarily located on Newark Avenue, before moving in 1936 to its current location on Hudson (now

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) Boulevard, between Montgomery Street and Glenwood Avenue. Unlike other institutions in New Jersey, the school was racially segregated for many years. It was integrated in 1936, when the college admitted its first black student. The college granted an honorary

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degree to

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, in 1965. The college became co-educational in 1966, though women had been admitted to the school's evening program in 1930 and a group of 35 women had been admitted due to low enrollment during World War II.

The college has made an effort to reach out into the New Jersey suburbs, with a satellite campus in St. Michael's Villa at

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opened in 2003. In 1975, the college constructed the Yanitelli Recreational Life Center, a sports complex. Beginning with the 1983 acquisition of its first residence hall, the college has converted four apartment buildings to dormitory use, and constructed two new dormitories.

2000 to present

In 2000, Gannon Hall, the science building, completed an $8.2 million renovation. In 2004, the long-awaited pedestrian bridge over Kennedy Boulevard linked the East Campus and the West Campus. In 2006, the college began a $50 million capital campaign. Further expansion of the east side of the campus included the new Mac Mahon Student Center, completed in 2013. It houses offices for many of Saint Peter's administrative branches, as well as numerous student led organizations such as the Student Government Association. On December 24, 2006, college president James N. Loughran was found dead in his home. On May 10, 2007, the board of trustees appointed Eugene J. Cornacchia the 22nd President of Saint Peter's College. Cornacchia is the first layperson to serve as president of the 135-year-old Catholic, Jesuit institution. In 2008, Saint Peter's was awarded a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to create the Center for Microplasma Science and Technology. This grant allowed the college to expand upon its 20 years of studying

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as part of its research on water purifiers in conjunction with

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. Saint Peter's graduates U.S. Senator

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and U.S. Representative

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helped secure the $2 million grant. On the day after his narrow defeat in the 2008 New Hampshire Presidential primary election, Democratic presidential candidate

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held a rally at the college's

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. In March 2011, it was announced that the college would take over Saint Aeden's Church at

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from the

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In March 2012, the college was granted the university designation by the New Jersey State Secretary for Higher Education and would thus change its name. On August 14, 2012, Saint Peter's announced the official change on its website, becoming Saint Peter's University. In 2013, the new Mac Mahon Student Center was completed. In 2014, the university opened a center for undocumented students, providing them a safe space and mentoring, a resource library, legal support, and advice for them and their families about deportation defense and immigration issues.

Athletics

Competing in the

(MAAC), the college fields 16 athletic teams. All of the sports teams are now known as the Peacocks. Until recently, the women's teams were known as the Peahens; Saint Peter's is the only

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institution with this

. The

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, and

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teams play at Joseph J. Jaroschak Field, in

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. All other teams play at the Victor R. Yanitelli, S.J. Recreational Life Center, located on campus. The school also uses the

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for some events. On June 14, 2007, it was announced that the football team would be disbanded.

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has long been the most popular sport at the college. Under head coach Don Kennedy, the men's team gained national attention by defeating heavily favored and nationally ranked

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in the 1968 NIT quarterfinals, en route to a fourth-place finish. Saint Peter's has won the MAAC men's basketball championship and the accompanying automatic bid to the NCAA tournament four times (1991, 1995, 2011, and 2022). They have appeared in the

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(NIT) 12 times (1957, 1958, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1975, 1976, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1987, and 1989). The women's basketball team has won seven MAAC championships and automatic bids to the NCAA tournament (1982, 1992, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2000, and 2002); it also won the MAAC championship in 1983 and 1984, years when the MAAC champion did not receive an automatic NCAA tournament berth. In 2017, Saint Peter's won the

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(CIT) championship by defeating

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in the tournament final. It was Saint Peter's first national title in school history. In 2022, the men's basketball team earned national recognition after receiving a No. 15 seed in the NCAA tournament and

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the No. 2 seed

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; it was only the tenth occurrence of a No. 15 seed defeating a No. 2 seed in NCAA Tournament history. They then defeated the No. 7 seed

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, becoming just the third No. 15 seed to reach the Sweet 16. After this they upset the No. 3 seed

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to become the first No. 15 seed to reach the Elite 8. In 2004 and 2005, Keydren "Kee-Kee" Clark led the nation in points scored per game, becoming just the eighth player to repeat as NCAA Division I scoring champion. On March 4, 2006, Clark became only the seventh NCAA player to score more than 3,000 points in his career; on the next day, he passed

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to become the sixth-leading scorer of all time. At the time of his final game on March 6, 2006, Clark held the NCAA all-time record for 3-point shots, with 435. A second fourth-year student and a forward on the basketball team, George Jefferson, died on June 21, 2005, due to a previously undiagnosed heart condition. In 2011, Saint Peter's won the MAAC tournament to make the Peacocks' first March Madness appearance since 1995. The Peacocks were the MAAC Men's Golf Champions in 2014, 2015, and 2017. The Peacocks were the MAAC Men's Soccer Champions in 2003 and 2010. The team were finalists in 2006 and 2007. The women's

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team won its first championship title in 2009. Peacock front02 - melbourne zoo

Peacock mascot

Saint Peter's University is the only

institution whose

is the

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. This choice was made for several reasons. Primarily, the land on which Saint Peter's now stands was once owned by a man named

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, whose last name means "peacock" in

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. His extensive holdings included most of

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and were part of the

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settlement. In pagan mythology, the peacock is considered to be a symbol of rebirth, much like the

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. For Saint Peter's, it is a reference to the closing and reopening of the college in the early 20th century. At one point in the 1960s, live peacocks roamed the campus. Many institutions within the college derive their name from the peacock: * The school newspaper had been titled the ''Pauw Wow'' until April 2021, when it was renamed as the ''St. Peter's Tribune''; Pauw's name was removed because of his involvement in "cruelty and oppression against Indigenous and African peoples". * The literary magazine is titled the ''Pavan''. * The school's yearbook is titled the ''Peacock Pie''. * The drama society calls itself ''Argus Eyes'', in reference to Argus "Panoptes", who, according to

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, had his 100 eyes preserved by

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in the tail of the peacock. * One of the major dining facilities is named the Pavonia Room. * The O'Toole Library café is named Pavo Perk.

Notable alumni

Notable alumni include: * In the fields of arts and entertainment, Saint Peter's graduates include:

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, 1968

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and the 1977

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recipient;

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, 1979

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for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical recipient; Mary Ann McGuigan, 1997

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finalist; and Angela Shapiro-Mathes, President of

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and

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. * In the field of business, Saint Peter's graduates include: Lawrence R. Codey, President & COO of Public Service Electric & Gas; Thomas P. Mac Mahon, President & CEO,

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; William J. Marino, President & CEO,

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; James Meister, President & CEO of

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; and Anthony P. Terracciano, Chairman of Sallie Mae. * In the field of government, Saint Peter's graduates include:

, United States Senator from New Jersey;

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, a

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Secretary of Transportation,

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, anti-communist activist and chief counsel to the United States Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security from 1951 to 1953;

Thomas F. X. Smith Thomas Francis Xavier Smith (July 5, 1928 – May 31, 1996) was a reformist politician and author. He served as mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey, from 1977 to 1981. Career Smith was affectionately known as "The Mouth That Roared" due to his outsp ...

, 38th Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey;

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to President

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; and United States Representatives

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, Charles F. X. O'Brien, and

. * In the field of law, Saint Peter's graduates include:

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and Peter G. Sheridan, Judges for the

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; Reginald Staton '56, Judge of the New Jersey Superior Court and Saint Peter's first and only

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;

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, Senior Circuit Judge of the

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; Joseph R. Quinn, Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court. * In the field of sports, Saint Peter's graduates include:

Keydren Clark Keydren "Kee-Kee" Clark (born October 8, 1984) is an American former professional basketball player. At a height of 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) tall, he played at the point guard position. He also holds Bulgarian citizenship. College career Clark wa ...

, Two-time

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scoring champion and seventh all-time leading scorer in NCAA history;

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, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame basketball coach at St. Anthony High School in Jersey City, New Jersey;

Richard Rinaldi Richard P. Rinaldi (born August 3, 1949) is an American former professional basketball player who played for the Baltimore Bullets. Born in Poughkeepsie, New York, Rinaldi attended F.D. Roosevelt High School in Hyde Park, New York and was a gua ...

, NBA player for the Baltimore Bullets and New York Nets, who, as a senior, averaged 28.6 ppg for the Peacocks; and MLB relief pitchers Frank Brooks and Víctor Santos. * Other notable Saint Peter's graduates include:

George J. Borjas George Jesus Borjas ( born Jorge Jesús Borjas, October 15, 1950) is a Cuban-American economist and the Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He has been described as "America’s leading immigr ...

, the Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School;

Nicholas J. Cifarelli Nicholas John Cifarelli, Doctor of Medicine, M.D. (August 22, 1928 - December 25, 2005) was an Italian-American physician. He is known for starting the first Bioethics Advisory Committee in the United States. Early life Dr. Cifarelli was born ...

, physician known for starting the first Bioethics Advisory Committee in the United States; John Henning, award-winning TV and radio news reporter in Boston, Massachusetts; and Joseph McGinn, pioneer of minimally invasive cardiac bypass surgery and medical director of The Heart Institute of New York, and historian

, co-author with wife Ariel Durant of ''

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,
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