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sports
soul leaves
lasting
impact
president kelly’s year in review
Kelly’s first act:
The work to get
Suffolk back
on track
Suffolk University’s
Mail Clerk Emily
Perlmutter
remembered by
coworkers, friends
By Chris DeGusto,
News Editor
It’s been almost a year since
Marisa Kelly was named the
acting president of Suffolk
University and in the eyes
of the top office, there is still
much work to do.
Alexa Gagosz
Editor-in-Chief
Haley Clegg
Photo Editor
Emily Perlmutter could
typically be found walking
into Suffolk University’s
mailroom
each
day
sporting her signature
Boston Red Sox baseball
hat and preaching about
the New England Patriots
to everyone she met.
“She followed sports
religiously,
she
knew
everything about them-specifically baseball,” said
Mail Services Manager
Anthony Voto. “She loved
baseball and went to a
bunch of games. She knew
everything that was going
on whether it was the Red
Sox season or the Patriots
season. That’s how up on
her Boston sports team
she was.”
Senior Sociology major
Suad Diriye remembers
Perlmutter’s passion for
the Patriots. “She would
always say ‘Go Pats’ or
‘Free Brady, free Brady.’”
Friends and coworkers
alike saw Perlmutter’s
ambition to continuously
make people laugh where
her comic relief from a
day of work in the Sawyer
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Chris DeGusto/ News Editor
Diversity Task Force’s final act
Nathan Espinal
Journal Staff
The Diversity Task
Force gave their final
presentation
to
the
Suffolk
community
this past Friday. The
presentation
outlined
the
recommendations
they have made in the
final report after a two
year-long joint effort of
surveying and evaluating
the university’s climate
that
they
will
be
submitting
to
Acting
President Marisa Kelly in
May. Once submitted, the
Task Force will disband,
having
accomplished
their goal, according to
Chairwoman of the Task
Force Micky Lee.
The Task Force has
come up with a number of
strategies, some of which
are still debated amongst
the members. However,
they are sure of making
students,
faculty
and
staff receive the proper
training in matters of
diversity and inclusion.
“These
are
solid
foundations for where
Suffolk currently stands.
It’s been a year and I
think we are starting to
open our eyes a little
more,” said Levi Smith, a
junior business major and
student member of the
Task Force. “One thing to
understand, we don’t have
a standing committee
that does things like this.
We grabbed some of the
best students and staff
[and faculty], put them in
a room and said we need
to talk about some issues
here at the university.”
The position they have
yet to reach a consensus
on
is
whether
the
university should create
a position that would
report to the president
and tentatively titled Vice
President of Inclusion,
Diversity
and
Equity.
Along with this position,
the Task Force hopes to
create a Division, or Office,
of Inclusion, Diversity
and Equity, which will
oversee the Commission
of Diversity Affairs (CDA).
The CDA was suspended
in
2015
by
former
President
Margaret
McKenna and the Task
Force has recommended
it be reinstated since the
bylaws are already in
place.
The Task Force noted
the concerns of the Suffolk
community regarding bias
incidents and proposed
the
university
create
an pilot program for an
Office of Ombuds starting
in the Fall semester of
2017. This office will be
independent from upper
administration and hire
part time staff from
within the university.
“What we found [is]
“We grabbed some of the
best students and staff
[and faculty], put them in
a room and said we need
to talk about some issues
here at the university.”
15 colleges that were
similar to Suffolk in many
ways,” said Director of
Events Jennifer Bonardi
and member of the
subcommittee on ombuds
for the Task Force. “The
office [in the other
universities]
resolves
conflicts,
it
explores
options
for
resolving
conflicts with informal
steps such as services
outside the appeal process
and other resources if
necessary.”
The Office may have
a possible connection to
International
Ombuds
Administration
(IOA)
and follow the same
principles that make the
IOA successful.
“If
the
upper
administration
decides
that we are in need of
an ombuds person based
on the climate poll and
the research we present,
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Kelly reflects on year as acting president, what’s to come
Chris DeGusto
News Editor
As this academic year
draws near to a close,
so does the first year
of Marisa Kelly’s stint
as
Acting
University
President. In a recent
interview with The Suffolk
Journal, Kelly reflected
upon her time thus far
in the high office-- what
has been accomplished as
well as still needs to be
worked on, the challenges
she has faced and what
her goals are going
forward at Suffolk.
“I’m excited about
everything
we’ve
accomplished
together
this year,” said Kelly.
“But I don’t want that
to suggest that I think
everything is perfect.
Every institution faces
challenges, big and small,
and we’re no different in
that every institutional
leader acting or otherwise
makes mistakes. I know
I have made mine and I
think in spite of all that,
we’ve made real progress
and I’m excited to be here
and to have been a part
of that.”
Major strides have
been taken this year at
Suffolk, Kelly explained.
Whether looking back
at
the
improvements
of
communication,
the extension of the
university’s strategic plan
or the achievements on
the national rankings
front by The Wall Street
Journal and U.S. News,
Kelly said that Suffolk has
been “rowing in the same
direction” together as a
community.
With inclusivity and
diversity a forefront in
Kelly’s
idealism,
one
aspect that will always be a
constant work in progress
is the continuation of
effective communication.
The
president’s
blog,
“Momentum,”
hoped
to have gained more
feedback
so
that
communicating with the
Suffolk community was
a two-way street. After
the Presidential election
of last year, Kelly spoke
of the importance of
conveying an accepting
and supportive message
to Suffolk was important
to foster a sense of
community.
One
personal
challenge
that
Kelly
highlighted
in
her
transition from Provost
to Acting President was
the acclimation of a new
role
which
provided
new responsibilities and
expectations. In the fall,
Kelly said she believed
she needed to be present
on campus, to focus on
internal communication
with
the
university
leadership since positions
were filled with people
that were not stationed at
that role the year prior.
“I was not new to the
institution, but certainly
new to this role. We were
in a lot of personnel shifts
[in the fall that] I think
required us to really focus
on being a team, and I
think we did that pretty
quickly,” said Kelly.
Kelly also explained
that she tried to not find
herself at times in the
transitionary phase doing
“two jobs at once” and
instead focusing on her
new role as opposed to
her former. And as the
spring semester came,
she was able to hone her
energy and efforts on
matters off-campus such
as outreach programs,
and external affairs.
Suffolk, who has long
NEWS BRIEF
Suffolk student awarded for
neuroscience research
Elena Molokotos, a first-year student in Suffolk’s
clinical psychology doctoral program was recently
awarded the Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Graduate Student Award. Her research primarily
focused on how twins illuminate genetic influences
on brain structure. Once Molokotos decided to
focus on this area of study, she began examining
the neuroimaging information and performing
the statistical analyses. Molokotos said the main
message within her award-winning research was
that the brain structures involved with executive
functions, such as organization and planning,
are potentially more influenced by genes than
other networks of brain. Molokotos was one of
10 graduate students from around the world
honored by the Cognitive Neuroscience Society at
their annual conference in San Francisco this past
March.
been a formidable law
school, now has been
recognized as a toptier institution. Often
however,
incoming
students are swayed away
from Beacon Hill by state
schools and other private
institutions in the area.
Kelly affirmed that the
factors that will attract
students to Suffolk as
opposed to a state school
are the same attractive
components that Suffolk
uses to compete with
other
universities
nationwide.
“It is that combination
of faculty and staff
engagement, experiential
learning
inside
the
classroom and outside of
it across all four years that
is distinctive,” said Kelly.
“There are places across
the country certainly that
do it well or even as well,
but nobody does it better,
and I would say that to
anybody at any time.”
At Suffolk, Kelly said
the focus is on outcomes;
the
value
of
the
experience provided for
students, that is reflective
of the university’s values.
With
the
luxury
of
Suffolk’s
geographical
location, students from all
socioeconomic levels are
able to intertwine their
academic schedule with
jobs, internships, club
activities and engagement
with industries of the city,
Kelly said.
“Boston
is
an
international city with
global corporations that
are shaping the future
of the world in a lot of
ways,” said Kelly. “I think
that our students have the
ability to directly engage
with those entities while
they are students, and
to take that experience
and move forward with
Chris DeGusto/ News Editor
“I don’t want that to suggest that I think everything is
perfect. Every institution faces challenges big and small,
and we’re no different in that every institutional leader,
acting or otherwise, makes mistakes.”
it after graduation. And
that is something that
we have always done it’s
been important to who
we are.”
Internationalizing
Suffolk
is
another
prominent priority of
Kelly. She described not
only the importance of
recruiting international
students, but providing
a
global
experience
for
all
of
Suffolk’s
students;
exemplified
by
internships,
study
abroad
programs,
or
the connectivity to the
international community.
Going
forward,
bridging the gap between
Suffolk and Boston Public
Schools through dual-
enrollment
programs
can create a launchpad
for students not only
at the university but
in
their
professional
and personal lives. This
summer, Kelly said she is
excited for the permanent
move of NESAD to the
Sawyer building, and the
continuation of progress
on goals outlined in the
strategic plan.
Over the course of the
next year, Kelly hopes
to implement significant
elements of the pending
recommendations
from
the diversity strategic
plan,
along
with
continued
support
of
Suffolk’s
faculty
and
staff from a professional
development perspective.
These facets, Kelly said,
are important conditions
vital to theuniversity.
“It’s a busy world and
there’s lots going on, but
I have felt this year like
there was a commitment
across all constituencies,
[alumni as well], a real
commitment across all
constituencies to work
together to move the
institution forward, and
to do what we’ve always
done, which is to put
the best interests of our
students first,” said Kelly.
Connect with Chris
by emailing
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Task Force hands recommendations
to improve university’s climate
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it would come down to
them hiring somebody
for the position,” said
Bonardi. “Ideally, they
would start in the fall
when the rest of us start
the academic year, which
is as complicated as it
gets.”
The
Task
Force
also recommended the
university create a new
initiative that will develop
a program for predoctoral,
or postdoctoral students,
to teach courses at
Suffolk related to their
“These are solid foundations for where Suffolk
currently stands. It’s been a year and I think we
are starting to open our eyes a little more.”
-Junior Levi Smith
research interests. The
advantages for such a
program, as stated by the
Task Force, is the creation
of a “pipeline” that will
expand research and set
the university apart from
its peers.
Establishing
better
methods for community
building and professional
development are concerns
raised
by
University
staff, according to the
Task Force. The Task
Force
recommended
the university provide
more workshops that
revolve around bias and
classroom
incidents,
while also continuing
the effort provided by
Suffolk’s Unity Events.
Editor’s Note: Nathan
Espinal is a Diversity Peer
Education in the Office of
Diversity Services.
Connect with Nathan
by emailing
nespinal@suffolk.edu.
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Tedx Talk discusses future economies
Chris DeGusto
News Editor
A limitless future calls
for endless possibilities,
that of which today’s
society cannot predict
with precise accuracy.
Humans dream of what is
to come, but are unable
to truly see exactly
what
will
transpire
for
our
technological
and economic sectors.
Through
space
exploration and artificial
intelligence, these dreamlike ideas can start to
become a reality. Speakers
conveyed this exact idea
at Suffolk’s TEDx&Talks
club
inaugural
TEDx
Suffolk University event
on Monday, “Economies
of the Future.”
“We
meet
in
a
university
noted
for
knowledge. We meet in a
state known for progress,”
said Justin Park, the cofounder & president at
Intergalactic
Education
LLC.
Park, who is also tied
to the Swiss Institute
of Technology, NASA,
Booz
Allen
Hamilton
and International Space
University,
presented
“Space World,” about
the benefits of continued
space
exploration.
A
paraphrased speech of
former
United
States
President
John
F.
Kennedy was one of
Park’s mediums for this
talk, as he said today’s
market can inspire the
next generation of space
travels.
Park said the Apollo
missions of the 1960s and
70s were ahead of their
time, and prompted the
belief that many young
people could travel to
space-- a belief he said
is
nonexistent
now.
This lack of belief is not
true, according to Park,
who highlighted areas
where
the
repetition
of space missions will
create markets. Insurance
companies, intergalactic
education
programs,
professional sports and
the use of lawyers are
some examples Park gave
to illustrate the number
of industries that can
be accessed by space
exploration.
“I believe a Renaissance
in manufacturing will
happen that is equivalent
to the original Industrial
Revolution,” said Park
during his talk.
A pre-recorded talk
from writer and blogger
Tim Urban addressed an
issue that many people
deal with, procrastination.
Urban described what
he said are two types
of procrastination; one
who is incited, and
subsequently pancis, by
deadlines in the short
term, and another, who
has no deadlines, that
put off life goals and
aspirations and become
“spectators at time in
their own lives.”
With only four weeks
of
preparation
time,
Suffolk’s
TEDx&Talks’
club president Abdulla
Khoory
said
in
an
interview with The Suffolk
Journal that securing a
venue for the talk was
his biggest challenge. He
explained that along with
finding the right location
and time, the time span
proved to be problematic
for
another
reason-finding speakers.
“It’s in making a
stake as to what’s going
to happen, [that] we
influence the future,”
Chris DeGusto/ News Editor
“We meet in a university noted for knowledge.
We meet in a state known for progress.”
said CEO & founder of
Learnivore Emily Burns.
Burns, who spoke about
artificial
intelligence
(A.I.), said the creation
and development of new
technologies is essential
because our lives depend
on it. The advancement
of technology to this
form could either create
species
immortality
or cause humans to
go extinct. With this
spectrum outlined by two
extremes, Burns said that
the human race could
either be overcome by A.I.
or benefit in many ways.
As many jobs and
household chores could
be replaced with the
hands of A.I. robotics,
humans would be left
to replace their natural
species characteristics in
other areas of life. With
some people concerned
that A.I. would outsource
many jobs and cut close
to humanity, Burns said
that humans would infact
be able to utilize this
time spent on work in
other areas such as with
friends and family. Burns
said she believes that A.I.
would “inspire the need
for human authenticity.”
Besides Burns and Park,
6 other speakers from toptier universities, financial
sector professionals and
investors presented their
own takes upon the
future economy.
“[The goal of this event]
was to build through
large events [to] provide
Suffolk
with
thought
provoking content that
we haven’t seen yet,” said
club creative consultant
Alex Bennett at the event
in an interview with The
Journal.
Pierce Giamportone/ Journal Contributor
Daniel Dippold speaking
at the Tedx Talk.
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Perlmutter touches hearts within university
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building, Sargent Hall or
on Temple Street would
fill hallways.
“She was definitely a
joker,” said Voto.
Senior sociology major
Danica Dang who worked
alongside Perlmutter said
she will always remember
her for her charisma and
lighthearted personality.
“She’d come into work
like ‘this happened today,
you would not believe
this’ and she was always
so animated, it would
just make the room more
exciting and fun to work
in.”
Being the first one in
the office each morning,
her coworkers said that
she was faithful in helping
her team.
“She was the type
of
person
that
was
never shy, she loved
greeting people, talking
to people, she had the
biggest smile you could
imagine,” said Assistant
Manager Johanny Mejia.
“Whenever
she’d
see
people walking outside
she’d just stop them
and talk to them about
life and how they were
doing.”
Perlmutter was the
daugher of Law Professor
Emeritus
Richard
Perlmutter. According to
a statement that was sent
to Suffolk’s employees,
Perlmutter was ill in her
final days.
“She was very close
with everyone in her
family,” said Voto. “She
was all about family
outside of work. When
it wasn’t work-- it was
family.”
Although
Voto
and
Perlmutter
were
coworkers, he considered
her a dear friend. Voto
recalled to a Journal
reporter that when he
received an award from
the university for being
employed for thirty years,
she was “one of the
people that was standing
behind me cheering.”
“She will be sorely
missed,”
said
Acting
President Marisa Kelly in
a statement.
After being employed
at the university for
a number of years,
Perlmutter left her mark
on nearly every person
she came in contact with.
Program Manager for
the Law School’s Clinical
Programs & Experiential
Learning
Joan
Luke
told a Journal reporter
on Tuesday night that
Perlmutter would bring
her and the Clinic’s mail
each day.
“We became good
friends over time,” said
Luke. “She cared about
everyone in the building.
She came by to visit us,
even when she was on
medical leave, she would
call us and keep us up-todate on how things were
going.”
P e r l m u t t e r ’ s
impression
that
she
left with those that she
effected at the university
will continue to last at
Suffolk.
“She left an imprint on
people, she definitely has
a legacy that she leaves
behind here,” said Voto.
Contributions
in
Perlmutter’s memory can
be sent to Melanoma
Foundation
of
New
England
or
Suffolk
University’s
Office
of
Advancement.
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Ford Hall Forum seeks truth on fake news
Kyle Crozier
Journal Staff
During
the
2016
presidential
campaign,
the term “fake news”
exploded in popularity.
At the start of the
election season, this term
was connected to stories
that some believed were
intended to discredit or
benefit one candidate
over the other, and had
grown to a point where it
would be difficult to find
a publication that has not
been accused of being
fake news.
Last Wednesday night,
three journalists spoke
at Suffolk University’s
Ford Hall Forum on their
continuing careers in
organizations that have
been labeled by some
as “fake news,” as well
as what role journalism
should
play
in
a
democratic society. These
journalists, Joe Mathieu
of WBZ NewsRadio, Matt
Viser of the Boston Globe
and Evan Engel, formally
a
Vocative
senior
producer, all have spent
time having been accused
of false reporting by the
public, or by the current
executive administration.
Matt Viser told his
story of having been the
subject of false reporting
after controversy arose
when he spoke on “The
Lead” with Jake Tapper.
While on the show, CNN
ran a headline under
Viser’s name that read,
“Alt-Right
Founder
Questions if Jews Are
People,” referencing an
inflammatory statement
by
known
whitesupremacist
Richard
Spencer.
A screenshot of this
CNN segment that showed
the
headline
directly
below an image of Viser
immediately went viral
on Twitter, and created a
false association between
Viser and the quote that
incited intense anger
focused directly at Viser
for what people believed
he had said.
“Everybody’s instinct
was sort of to quickly
react
to
what
they
thought that they were
seeing,” said Viser.
The
speakers
discussed how this had
been the perfect-storm
combination of a poorly
written headline, bad
reporting and an overly
quick viral response to
comment on it by the
general public.
In January, Engel found
himself facing nearly 10
years in prison after he
and five other journalists
who were charged with
felony
rioting
while
reporting
on
violent
protests outside of the
inauguration of Donald
Trump. The charges were
dropped after a week, but
for some, the accusation
had changed their image
of Engel.
Engel said that at the
Trump inauguration he,
“witnessed police abuse
that is not the most
alarming police abuse
you’ve ever heard about,
but is still the sort of
thing that as a journalist
you want to report. But
when I brought it back
to Vocative, they were
adamant that I not report
it and that I not speak
about it in front of any
forum,
including
this
one.”
After being asked to
not report on the event,
Engel decided to leave
the publication and began
to speak more about
his experience. He said
that to him it was more
of a joke, but the public
immediately
became
highly polarized on the
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subject, he noted that
“there are people who
reflexively justify any
action a police officer
takes, and so in their eyes
I was instantly at fault,
without question at fault.
But there are also people
that get mad at any
journalist for challenging
power, so there were
accusations of fake news.
Someone said I was an
Israeli spy.”
Engel said that the
public was quick to label
any speaking out he did
on the situation as fake
news if it disagreed with
the point of view of the
law enforcement.
Joe Mathieu said he
believed 2008 began a new
era of people who began
to use social media as a
primary source of news.
He said that, “the internet
was really for the first
time a mainstream news
dissemination tool for all
ages, now everybody was
reading online.”
Mathieu
explained
that it was at this point
the public began to
become more exposed
to the ultra right and
left groups that had
attempted to broadcast
messages for years, but
were just beginning to
gain an influential voice.
Viser instructed that if
people wanted to become
immune to the biases in
news, they should
“Be skeptical, Sean
Spicer said in one of his
first briefings about how,
‘We’re going to call you
guys out,’ to the media,”
said Viser. “I’m fine with
that, call us out, if people
think that we’re not being
fair or open. I think [you
should] read everything,
expose yourself.”
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by emailing
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ISA promotes international community on campus
Amy Koczera
Journal Staff
Suffolk’s International
Student
Association
(ISA) strives to promote
community
and
togetherness
among
both
international
and
domestic
Suffolk
students. They do this
through weekly meetings
and co-sponsoring events
with other cultural clubs
on campus. The university
itself
capitalizes
on
its great international
presence. According to the
Suffolk website, there are
nearly 1,700 international
students from at least 110
different countries.
ISA aims to bring all
international
students
together to create a
community
where
students can work and
collaborate
in
unity.
The
diversity
within
ISA provides numerous
unique
perspectives
and allows the group to
have deep, intellectual
and
thought-provoking
conversations
about
important global issues.
Most of the students
in ISA are involved in
other organizations on
campus, allowing them
to gain more perspectives
on American culture in
college. ISA is looking
to increase the number
lifestyle when they first
arrive. College itself is a
brand new experience.
International students,
while adapting to college
life, also have to figure out
how to navigate their way
through a new city and
country. ISA provides a
safe zone where students
can talk to others facing
the same struggles and
then provide support for
one another.
“We want to make
sure students are having
fun and enjoying the city
in a responsible way,” said
By Facebook user Suffolk University International Student Islam. Because they are
Association so far away from home,
“Don’t be afraid to get to know
international
students
often feel a new, great
someone from a different part of the
deal of freedom when
world, you can learn so much.”
they come to the U.S.
“When
we’re
all
together, we want to make
- ISA secretary Rhema Rondina
sure everyone is on track,”
of members in their According
to
Islam, said Islam. ISA provides
organization so they can international
students support and advice to any
learn more about different tend to develop their all international students
students’ domestic and expectations of college regardless of what they
international
lifestyles life prior to coming to the are going through.
ISA wants to have
and
experiences.
ISA U.S. based on what they
a
greater
presence
holds events, such as the see in movies.
Indian Diwali Festival of
Since Suffolk doesn’t on campus next year,
co-sponsoring
Lights, to bring people provide that “traditional” through
with
other
of all different cultures college
experience, events
together to appreciate according
to
Islam, international clubs such
celebrations from across sometimes international as the Venezuelan Student
the
Chinese
the globe.
students have trouble Union,
Association,
“We want to make transitioning.
Because Student
international students feel Suffolk
is
embedded the Caribbean Student
welcome,” said freshman into
Boston,
some Network, as well as all
Entrepreneurship major international
students other clubs who are
and
incoming
ISA experience
difficulty interested.
“The unique thing
Treasurer Junayed Islam. adapting to the new
about [ISA] is that we
want to collaborate with
students
from
other
cultures as much as
possible,” said sophomore
Business major and ISA
Vice President Charles
Tang. “We’d enjoy if other
international groups came
to us more to collaborate
for events.”
Most other cultural
clubs serve as somewhat
of a “home away from
home” for international
students by providing
them with events to
experience their own
culture. ISA seeks to
work with students from
all
different
cultural
backgrounds
to
give
people a well-rounded
cultural experience in a
social setting.
“We want to get
to know more about
everyone’s culture, not
just one in particular,”
said senior biochemistry
major and ISA President
Kubra Umit.
Suffolk’s international
presence allows students
to interact with other
students
from
all
different
backgrounds.
ISA allows students to
take advantage of going
to
school
alongside
international
students
by allowing them to get
to know each other on a
deeper level while getting
a taste of other cultures.
“We want to introduce
new cultural events to
others,” said Umit. The
more students that come
to ISA meetings, the
more cultures they get to
explore.
“This is a great club
for American students
to join to experience
different cultures,” said
Tang. The club’s executive
board alone consists of
members from China,
Turkey,
Bangladesh,
and the Philippines. ISA
emphasizes that students
that join the club don’t
have to be international.
“We’re living alongside
so many international
students,” said junior
advertising major and ISA
secretary Rhema Rondina,
“Don’t be afraid to get
to know someone from
a different part of the
world, you can learn so
much.”
For next year, ISA
hopes to hold at least
two events each month
to draw more members
in and promote their
club. “Everyone is always
welcome to come,” said
Umit who explained ISA
feels that being cultured
and well-educated about
different ethnicities will
allow Suffolk to become a
closer community.
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Activists struggling to aid undocumented immigrants under Trump
Elvira Mora
Journal Staff
Eighteen feet of steel
with a cement base
and slats secured six
feet under make up the
southern border between
the United States and
Mexico
which
passes
through in Brownsville,
Texas.
Texas
native
Rodrigo Juarez, 27, is
one of many activists
who
work
everyday
to aid undocumented
immigrants
as
they
navigate the way toward
citizenship.
Juarez is currently an
accredited representative
as he was approved by
the Board of Immigration
Appeals to represent the
undocumented before the
Immigration Courts.
“Both of my parents
are from Mexico. And
I’m actually the only one
in my family born in the
States,” said Juarez. He
attended
Texas
A&M
University and carried out
a year of service through
the AmeriCorps program
in Rio Grande Valley.
Shortly
after
actively working with
undocumented students,
Juarez decided to focus
on
immigration
and
attended Lewis and Clark
Law School in Portland,
OR.
He
became
a
co-founder
of
an
immigration
student
group and volunteering
program that sent student
volunteers down to work
at a family detention
center in Dilley, Texas.
Throughout the 2016
presidential
campaign
and within his first 100
days in office, President
Donald
Trump
has
accelerated efforts for the
wall to be constructed. As
an individual working for
a non-profit immigration
organization,
Juarez
experiences
first-hand
the hostile environment
working with Immigration
and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) agents.
“There had been a
change in the attitudes and
practices of Department
of Homeland Security
(DHS)/ICE. Like before, if
you had a favorable case,
ICE would work with
you. They would consider
letting your client go on
bond or on their own
recognizance or parole,”
said Juarez. He said that
the rules have become
much more rigid.
“They’ll fight you on
anything and everything.
They’ll oppose anything
in court even if the
proposed action legally
doesn’t make any sense.
They’ll refuse to issue
or even consider bond if
your client has any sort of
criminal history.”
ICE’s
aggression
toward
undocumented
individuals has rapidly
increased. According to
the U.S. Immigration and
Customs
Enforcement,
in 2016 ICE conducted
240,255
removals
compared to 235,413
removals in 2015.
“There are reports
of ICE agents raiding
courthouses
and
hospitals and picking up
people who are going
to interviews with the
United States Citizenship
and Immigration Services
(USCIS). They are not only
detaining people with
these raids and breaking
up families but they’re
having a massive chilling
effect on the entire
system,” said Juarez.
The
American
Bar
Association offers pro
bono programs such as
the South Texas Pro Bono
Asylum
Representation
Project (ProBAR), which
Juarez is currently a part
of.
Suffolk
University
Law School encourages
faculty
and
staff,
who are attorneys, to
cooperate with pro bono
programs that are spread
throughout the nation.
The law school also
has
an
immigration
clinic that offers weekly
seminars
to
prepare
students for immigrant
representation.
According
to
the
American
Bar
Association’s
directory,
the program regarding
Suffolk University Law
School stated “Through
its voluntary Pro Bono
Program,
Suffolk
University Law School
seeks to foster in every
member of the law school
community a moral and
professional obligation to
ensure access to justice for
all citizens. To obtain this
goal, Suffolk Law School
challenges all incoming
law students to complete
at least 50 hours of lawrelated volunteer work
before they graduate.”
Juarez
fears
u n d o c u m e n t e d
individuals
will
not
progress
their
immigration
status
because
of
the
overwhelming threat of
being detained.
He
hopes
u n d o c u m e n t e d
individuals
remain
hopeful and encourages
them to advance in the
United States despite the
current administration’s
actions.
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by emailing
emora@suffolk.edu.
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Commentary
French populism finds its face in Le Pen
Nick Viveiros
Journal Staff
Independent candidate
Emmanuel Macron and
former National Front
leader Marine Le Pen
will face off in a historic
presidential
election
in France after their
victories in Sunday’s first
round of voting.
“We have changed the
face of French political
life in one year,” Macron
told a jubilant crowd of
supporters in a victory
speech Sunday night.
Macron was propelled to
victory by supporters of
his political movement,
“En Marche!,” translating
to a single English word:
“forward”.
Macron, a left-leaning
centrist, won with 23.75
percent of the vote, while
Le Pen, a nationalist
often
compared
to
Donald
Trump,
came
in second with 21.53
percent, according to the
French Interior Ministry.
The winner of the final
round of voting on May
7 will succeed outgoing
President
François
Hollande of the Socialist
Party. Hollande declined
to run for reelection in
December, and recently
endorsed Macron.
The election marks
a historic break from
French political norms, as
socialists and the centerright have battled for the
past 70 years for control
of the nation. This is the
first election in which
neither faction fielded a
second round candidate
since
the
formation
of the Fifth French
Republic under a revised
constitution
in
1958,
according to multiple
news sources.
The Socialist Party and
Republicans have rallied
around Macron. JeanChristophe
Cambadélis,
first secretary of the
Socialist
Party,
told
Euronews that the party
will engage in a massive
get-out-the-vote effort on
behalf of Macron, noting
that “it is out of the
question that [the people]
let France lose its soul.”
Macron, 39, would
be
France’s
youngest
president if he wins,
and has never served in
any elected capacity. He
left investment banking
for a position in the
government of Socialist
President
François
Hollande before becoming
economic minister in
2014, a post he held until
resigning last April to run
for president. Macron’s
platform is described
as
true
centrism,
incorporating liberal and
conservative policy on an
issue-by-issue basis.
At
her
own
headquarters,
Le
Pen
celebrated her historic
victory as well. Long
considered an underdog
by commentators and
analyst,
she
sharply
rebuked
mainstream
political order in her own
speech.
“The
system
has
sought all means to stifle
the great political debate
that this election should
have been,” Le Pen said
following her victory,
reported the Financial
Times.
The right-wing brand
of politics Le Pen offers
ignores
traditional
conservative and liberal
dogma
in
favor
of
populism, a brand of
politics which focuses
on popular, immediate
concerns
insted
of
ideological
purity.
It
argues voters have been
cheated by the ‘political
elite.’
A centerpiece of Le
Pen’s campaign has been
the restoration of what
she calls an “independent
France.” According to
her campaign website,
Le Pen plans to “achieve
a
European
project
respectful
of
the
independence of France”
through a referendum
on
the
“European
experiment,”
offering
a real possibility of a
“Brexit” repeat should Le
Pen win the presidency.
“The EU world is
ultra-liberalism,
savage
globalisation, artificially
created across nations,”
Le Pen told BBC radio in
November. “I believe that
this world is dead.”
Le Pen’s France also
includes a “simplification”
of the French government,
leaving
behind
the
traditional system of a
layered
administrative
state in favor of a more
streamlined approach.
On social issues, Le Pen
and the National Front
offer a mixed bag. While
Le Pen has come out in
favor of unconditional
abortion access and gay
marriage, her campaign
website states she also
wishes to “restore real
equality and meritocracy
by rejecting the principle
of ‘affirmative action.’”
It is on the issue of
immigration,
however,
that Le Pen fully and
unapologetically adopts
the
far-right’s
canon.
According to BBC, the
2017 National Front’s
party platform promises
a “massive reduction in
legal immigration.”
“If you come to our
country, don’t expect that
you will be taken care of,”
Le Pen said of government
assistance for immigrants
in a December 2016
speech in Paris. “That’s
finished now, it’s the end
of playtime.”
The election overseas
has had an impact on
the Suffolk community,
where nearly a quarter
of students hail from
outside the United States.
W
“I heard a lot of people
here in the U.S. saying
that Trump is sexist,
homophobic and racist; in
France, the public opinion
is the same regarding
Le Pen,” said sophomore
communications
and
marketing major Celia
Del-Rey.
A native of France
currently studying abroad
at
the
International
University of Monaco,
Del-Rey
noted
the
polarization is as extreme
overseas as it is in the
United States.
The connections many
make between Le Pen and
President Donald Trump
are not lost on Del-Rey.
“I would say that [Le
Pen] and her policies are
associated with Trump by
both her supporters and
opponents. Those who [do
not support her] see her
the same as those who
did not support Trump.
Either she is adulated, or
she is hated,” said DelRey.
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Cabaret
Spotlight shines on Rampage show Choir’s Cabaret
Nick Viveiros / Journal Staff
Nick Viveiros
Journal Staff
The third floor of
Sawyer was alive with
the sounds of the silver
screen on Saturday night
as performers took to
the stage for the Suffolk
University show choir’s
annual Cabaret.
Members of Rampage,
performed
a
variety
of
musical
numbers
taken from Hollywood
blockbusters,
as
the
theme this year was
“Lights,
Camera,
Rampage.”
The
show
began
with a rendition of
OneRepublic’s “Love Runs
Out,” which featured all of
Rampage’s 16 members.
The performance was
a well-received opener
for what turned out to
be a stellar production.
The
choreography
for
Rampage’s
group
numbers was arranged by
sophomore dance captains
theatre
major
Kelsey
Whipple and fine arts
major Julianna Fielding,
and complemented the
musical
arrangements
quite nicely.
As one of the standout
independent acts of the
evening,
sophomore
Rebecca McAuliffe belted
out a soulful rendition
of Etta James’ 1962
hit “Something’s Gotta
Hold On Me.” As she
sang, junior broadcast
journalism major Felicity
Otterbein and sophomore
business major Charles
Tang
added
some
background vocals.
Saturday’s cabaret was
the last curtain call for
Rampage’s seniors; they
really stole the show, both
in group performances
and
individual
acts.
Rampage president and
senior public relations
major Victoria Laroque
and senior marketing
major Casey O'Leary took
on the roles of Simba and
Zazu for a duet of “I Just
Can’t Wait to be King”
from the 1994 animated
hit “The Lion King.”
Laroque returned in the
second act with McAuliffe
to perform “The Cup
Song” of “Pitch Perfect.”
“I started show choir
in high school,” Laroque
told The Suffolk Journal
during the post-show
reception.
Her passion
for the arts began long
before she became a Ram.
“I loved show choir in
high school, and knew I
wanted to continue with
it or something like it,
and Suffolk was the only
school near me that had
a show choir,” she said.
Laroque, a marketing
major from Lowell, Mass.,
said that as she researched
more about the school, it
“all fell into place.”
One of the most wellreceived acts of the night
featured junior marketing
major
Kevin
Landers
and
junior
theatre
major
Victoria
Isotti
as Ryan and Sharpay
Evans of “High School
Musical” performing a
rendition of “Bop to the
Top.” With an audience
comprised of those who
grew up listening to
and
appreciating
the
franchise, this particular
number was received with
rounds of applause and a
brief trip down memory
lane.
It was with the second
to last act - the senior
number - when it became
apparent that the seniors
realized what was already
known: this is it. The
cohort of four took to the
stage to perform “Come
So Far (Got So Far to Go)”
from “Hairspray.” While
the quartet was all smiles
as
they
maneuvered
around the stage singing
the classic show tune,
even the audience could
tell
that
there
was
something very different
about the final curtain
call. Based on the facial
expressions of the small
group, it was clear that
they realized that this
would be one of their last
performances with the
group.
As a whole, Rampage
delivered
what
is
quickly becoming their
standard
performance:
well-executed
without
the sort of phony “puttogetherness” of other
show choirs. There was
a certain charm that
the
group
displayed
that
doesn’t
really
exist
amongst
other
performance
groups.
And, with an increasingly
competent
group
of
underclassmen taking the
stage, Rampage is in good
hands for years to come.
Arts and Culture Editor
Felicity Otterbein is a
member of Rampage
Show Choir
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(Top) Junior Kevin Landers,
(Bottom) Charles Tang
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A
“Fractured Inferno” poses question for life
Portrayed
as
man’s very long
confused journey,
the
storyline
follows
Michael,
played
by
freshman theatre major
Liam Grimaldi who is
guided by a mysterious
ally
named
Gabriel,
played by sophomore
theatre major Michael
Greene. Those who are
invested in Christianity
and understand biblical
references will be able
to appreciate the subtle,
and at times not-so-subtle
jabs at what happens in
the afterlife.
Gabriel, in Abrahamic
religions, is an angel who
acts as God’s messenger.
In various biblical texts,
he is depicted as someone
who interprets dreams
and reveals information
to
those
seeking
guidance. In this instance,
Gabriel acts as Michael’s
guide through the nine
circles of hell: limbo, lust,
gluttony, greed, anger,
heresy, violence, fraud
and treachery. Gabriel
is known to stand in the
presence of God, and
therefore knows all about
his power and routinely
Felicity Otterbein one
Arts Editor and
It takes an incredible
amount of creativity and
imagination to be able to
create an original play.
It’s easy to succumb to
performing yet another
rendition of a Shakespeare
tragedy
or
explore
Henrik Ibsen’s realism.
On it’s own, writing and
directing in the theater is
a feat in and of itself, but
it is a completely separate
ordeal when you try to
make said play interesting
and
entertaining
to
audiences. Linnea Rose
and Suffolk University’s
own
senior
theatre
major Andrew Bourque,
managed to do both in
their recent production
of “Fractured Inferno.”
Brought to life within
the walls of the Sullivan
Theater, the hour-long
play was an intellectual
mashup that combined
both
the
storylines
from the literary classic,
“Dante’s Inferno,” and
warped tales from the
Brothers Grimm.
cites psalms and passages
from the bible during the
performance in order to
provide insight to the
activity occurring within
each circle.
The
performance
begins with a few rows of
people standing in what
appears to be organized
lines similar to that of a
military regiment. They
are all dressed in army
green and appear to
be staring off into the
distance. There is no
sound, no movement,
no kind of indication as
to what is happening
until a man, Michael,
appears to snap out of
this trance and voices his
confusion and questions
the whereabouts of his
son, effectively breaking
the silence.
This
circle
is
undoubtedly the first
circle of hell, limbo.
Argued across spiritual
belief
systems,
this
space has been referred
to
as
an
area
of
nothingness, purgatory,
the Department of Motor
Vehicles.
In
religious
belief systems, purgatory
is a space for those who
have not been assigned
to Heaven or hell. It
is here where Michael
and Gabriel first meet,
and Gabriel calmly tells
Michael that he must
start a journey across the
remaining circles in order
to locate his son.
The play itself toted
numerous
biblical
references and is suited
for those who keep up
with popular culture and
classic fairy tales. The
allusions to stories like
Cinderella and Hansel
and Gretel, paralleled
with psalms and readings
from the Book of Timothy
proved to be not only
educational
but
also
entertaining.
Gabriel cited Luke
12:15 during the scene
revolving around the circle
of hell identified as greed,
“Then he said to them,
‘Watch out! Be on your
guard against all kinds
of greed; life does not
consist in an abundance
of possessions.’” In this
particular scene, Princess
Cinderella has taken over
the kingdom and seems
to answer that lingering
question at the end of the
classic Disney movie, “but
what happens to Lady
Tremaine and the wicked
step-sisters?”
Shown
through body language
and insinuating dialogue,
it becomes clear that the
trio has been enslaved by
Cinderella out of spite
and pettiness.
When the pair stumble
upon this situation, they
are faced with one of
many depictions of greed.
In this case, greed is
personified by taking on
the image of what was
once a kind and sweet
figment of Walt Disney’s
imagination. It shows
the true power of the
emotion, and how greed
and selfishness can go
hand in hand.
For Cinderella, a girl
who had nothing and
then was immediately
given everything, it’s easy
to see how such power
went to her head. Perhaps
acting as a metaphor for
remaining humble and
kind no matter your social
status,
this
powerful
scene resonated within
the four walls of the black
box theater.
Across the nine circles
of hell, the audience
comes to learn more
about Michael and the
reason for this journey.
It comes to light that his
wife and son have lived
complete lives without
him due to his infidelity
within his marriage. After
cheating on his wife and
leaving his family due to
shame, the play acts as
his reflection on his life
and the decisions that led
him to this point.
Perhaps this play acts
as a reminder not to
cheat on your significant
other. Perhaps it acts
as a reminder to make
purposeful decisions that
will benefit all of those
in which that decision
will potentially affect.
The beauty of creating
original content is that
the interpretation is left
to the viewers, it’s openended and fresh and has
limitless
potential
to
become something that
will be analyzed and
deciphered for years to
come.
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Film critic discusses impact of politics on cinema
Kyle Crozier Alan J. Pakula and in nature, while the ‘80s in a pretty good mood, movies about this fear He showed a scene from
starring Warren Beatty, began to have a hero that during a period where that the Soviets would be the 1998 thriller starring
Journal Staff
American
television
and film has been thought
to mirror the political
climate of the time it was
originally produced. To
analyze this, and predict
how this may play out in
the future, Pulitzer Prize
winning critic for the The
New York Times, Wesley
Morris, spoke at Suffolk
University's
Modern
Theatre.
In
an
event
sponsored by the Suffolk
Cinema Series, Morris
acknowledged
the
controversy that exists
in politics, and posed
the
question,
“what
responsibility does the
culture have in terms of
responding to [politics]?”
He explained that
although he does not
have a simple answer to
this, he does think it is
always interesting to see
how artists will respond
to shifts in politics.
Morris
went
on
to show a clip from
the 1974 movie, “The
Parallax
View.”
This
movie,
directed
by
showcased an example
of a plot based around
presidential assassination
and suspicion. Morris
offered that these themes
were direct results of the
common general feeling
of the time after the
Kennedy
assassination,
with an array of political
suspicions
centered
around illegal activities by
the Nixon administration
during the Watergate
scandal.
Where
the
Nixon
a d m i n i s t r a t i o n
created distrust of the
government,
Morris
summarizes the main
character of the movie
as constantly threatened
and followed, creating a
total lack of privacy.
As this was a time of
heightened
suspicion
and when it seemed
threats loomed behind
every
corner,
Morris
explained that this movie
exemplified a widespread
feeling Americans were
experiencing.
Morris demonstrated
that during the ‘70s, the
antagonist
was
often
mysterious and unknown
fought against a singular
villain with clear motives.
As Morris explained, the
Rocky movies are often
considered to have been
a
direct
commentary
of the debate between
the white boxer vs.
the black boxer. But in
there weren't a lot of
popular movies that did
that.”
In a “Rocky IV” clip
presented
during
the
talk, Morris showed a
clear separation between
the training sequences
of the two boxers. The
able to enter the country
somehow and beat us
without our being ready
for it,” said Morris.
This
theme
of
separation between the
America and the Soviet
Union was presented in
other movies during this
Kyle Crozier / Journal Stacf
“Rocky IV” from 1985,
the conflict changes, and
we see a fight between
an American boxer and a
Russian boxer.
Compared to other
movies made in this time,
Morris said, “Rocky was
one out of all of those
movies that put everyone
American
who
uses
what Morris described
as, “God’s own workout
equipment,” things like
rocks and pieces of wood,
and the Russian, that uses
steroids and complicated
technological
exercise
machines.
“There are a lot of
time.
“You have basically
one man, versus an entire
state,” said Morris.
As
time
passed,
Morris said that the new
“boogeyman” in American
movies started to become
Arab people committing
some acts of terrorism.
Denzel Washington, “The
Siege,” where thousands
of Arab-Americans had
been placed in internment
camps in order to find
a suspect. He said that,
“Islam is part of how we
understand terrorism in
this movie.”
“The
Earth
was
destroyed [in film] more
times during Obama’s
presidency than in any
other
period,”
said
Morris. He associated this
with the end-of-the-world
style fears that developed
in some groups after
President Obama took
office, as well as fears
of global war and world
disaster as a result of
climate change.
Despite all of these
parallels between film and
current political climate
in the past, Morris said
he was not sure he would
see the same correlation
between
the
Trump
administration and film.
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Suffolk seniors offer their last sentiments before they
leave The Journal, solidifying their time at the university.
By Sam Humphrey,
Newsroom Manager
By Skylar To,
By Katie Dugan,
Sports Editor
Asst. Opinion Editor
I’ll be graduating from Suffolk University soon,
and as I think about the school I’m leaving, I
wonder how I’ll feel when I think about Suffolk
after I’m long gone.
The answer is not much. I’ve grown and come to
see the world differently than I did four years ago,
but most of those experiences didn’t come from my
education, in terms of college classes.
I chose Suffolk because it advertised itself as a
stable institution that would challenge me to learn
and grow as a person. But in my experience, the
opposite has been true.
I’ve had four presidents come and go during my
time here, and not one got a chance to be the face,
the leader of this school.
Along with the Board
of Trustees, many of
them promoted a plan
to “put Suffolk on the
map” and improve our
school. But if there is a
guiding vision or a plan
for the community to
line up for and support,
they’ve done a poor job
of communicating it to
us.
The campus I arrived
at is mostly gone or
significantly changed.
That’s not all bad,
but the places most
memorable to me, like
the Donahue building,
where I first joined
The Journal -- my only
experience at Suffolk
I truly enjoyed -- have
been erased from the
school’s story. What’s
left is an awkward
hodgepodge of spaces
spread across markedly
dissimilar buildings. Our campus is Boston, but it
is indistinguishable from the city, too.
Then there’s my education. I made Dean’s list in
the past, but I was recognized for two semesters in
which I felt as though my professors rewarded me
for such minimal effort.
In other semesters, I worked harder to do
well and earned grades I deserved, but I only got
recognized for the semesters I slacked off. I’ve
had perhaps four or five truly great, challenging,
and rewarding classes. But many of my courses,
particularly sophomore and junior year, weren’t
even average. They filled in my schedule, they met
my degree requirements, but they didn’t provide
me with much of anything to carry into my career.
My internships and various jobs have filled in the
areas Suffolk lacked in teaching.
While I hope other graduates had a better
experience, this is how I leave Suffolk -- an average
graduate with some skills and life experience to
help me, but no loyalty or love for the school I’ve
spent four years of my life attending.
When I was a senior in high school, I thought
college was going to be a magical, life-affirming
experience that would be absolutely perfect.
Now, four years later, I realize how naive I was.
The most valuable lesson that I have learned at
Suffolk University is that nothing in life will be
perfect. College is not all aesthetically pleasing
Instagram posts and partying. Life happens,
things go wrong and things will happen to you
that will completely knock you off your feet and
change how you think about everything. We
can’t always choose the cards we are dealt, but
we can learn how to play them.
When I think of my time at Suffolk, one of
my favorite quotes comes to mind that reads,
“bloom where you are planted.” My encounters
at Suffolk have taught me to make the most of a
bad situation. Suffolk is not without its faults, due
to the inconsistencies with the administration
and the constant changes that have many
students exasperated with the university, and
understandably so. Even with the aspects of how
this university is operated that are incredibly
frustrating-- I do not resent Suffolk.
I have made peace with my time at Suffolk.
I obtained what I needed out of my experiences
for my own personal growth and happiness. It
was not perfect and there are plenty of mistakes
I have made over the past four years that I wish
I could undo. Instead of being miserable and
accepting not ideal conditions that I could not
change, I decided to change my attitude.
I became more involved at this university. I
participated heavily in The Journey Leadership
Program, a Teaching Assistant for two years,
Alternative Spring Break and The Suffolk Journal.
Looking back, I have accomplished so much
more than I give myself credit for. I have dozens
of articles published in The Suffolk Journal over
four years, I was asked to join the editorial staff
as the Assistant Opinion Editor my senior year.
These priceless experiences will stay with me
for the rest of my life. If I had not been more
proactive about my college experience, I never
would have made so many connections with my
professors, classmates and coworkers, who have
turned out to be some of the most incredible
people.
Almost every single person I have met
at Suffolk has greeted me with nothing but
kindness and respect. Maybe it’s the turbulent
climate that has ultimately bonded everyone,
or maybe everyone here is simply genuine.
Regardless, I have been exceptionally fortunate
with the friend groups I fell into even with the
instability at the university.
Every piece of my Suffolk experience, while
at times seemed small and meaningless, has
prepared me for the next step. Overall, I am
happy with the person I am today and I owe
much of that to the positive experiences I’ve
had at Suffolk, including the highs and the lows.
Suffolk University surely was not a traditional
college experience for me, but it was the
experience I needed.
I was just another freshman four years ago with
a cliché dream of going to school in the city and
making it “big” someday as an aspiring journalist.
I was hoping to get the college experience at
Suffolk and started to think that I would leave here
as just another number two years in.
I got a late start, but fast-forward to the end of
my junior year and I could finally justify being at
Suffolk, because of The Suffolk Journal.
I woke up at 4 a.m. on a Thursday morning in
early November last year and acted on a strong
urge to start getting involved and writing for the
school newspaper.
I went to my first meeting that following week
and took my first pitch,
which of course, was
a game recap of the
Boston
Bruins
and
Colorado Avalanche.
Since then, even
though I never followed
sports
besides
the
Bruins
growing
up,
I rolled with sports.
Because of The Journal,
I learned to step out of
my comfort zone and
worked on building my
writing portfolio.
I realized that I could
actually envision myself
as a sports journalist.
My absolute favorite
part of writing for
sports is the community
aspect of it.
Whether it is going
to
games,
sporting
events or listening to
people boast about their
favorite team or their
love for the game, it is
so incredibly awesome
to see and hear the passion that unravels for the
love many people have for sports-- both Suffolk
and Boston especially.
Boston sticks together through the highs and
lows and being a part of the “best sports city in the
world” exemplifies that.
Even though I will no longer be eating pizza on
production nights or walk into the office and look
forward to seeing my best friends every day, it was
an absolute honor and pleasure to work with this
year’s Journal staff, especially to produce some of
our best work yet.
I will always be a storyteller and share the
stories of others through my writing. But, in the
few times like this, I get to share my story-- print
wise.
Even though it was for a little more than a
year, I will finally get to say that I lived the college
experience at Suffolk, because of The Journal.
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The
campus I
arrived at
is mostly
gone or
significantly
changed.
sbhumphrey@suffolk.edu
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Boston sticks
together
through the
highs and
lows and
being a part
of the ‘best
sports city
in the world’
exemplifies
that.
Signing off,
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Editor’s Word Urban crime is ontime to fact check him
Trump tweets inaccuracies and it’s
We all had no idea how
hard it would be to watch three
seniors leave at the end of the year
to embark on their own unique
journeys. To Sky, who instilled the
confidence within us to write for this
publication and become apart of an
everlasting bond at The Journal, we
thank you. To Katie, who’s creative
and bubbly personality emanated
the office, we will never forget
your joyful and infectious presence
around here. And to Sam, who
became not only a confidant and
father-figure mopping up all of our
lives, but a true friend, from the
bottom of our hearts, we’ll miss you
all.
We’ll miss all of the work you
put into this newspaper week in
and week out producing top notch
content, but that isn’t what we’ll
miss the most. What we’ll miss the
most is the laughs, the heart-tohearts, the good times and even the
bad. We’ll miss the times we spent
together growing, not as writers, but
as people. You’ve all become a part
of our lives, and although we will
forever be connected in life, it doesn’t
make it any easier knowing now
it’s time for you all to start a new
adventure.
Something special happened
this year, which is why saying
goodbye is so much harder. This isn’t
just saying goodbye to a friend or
a classmate, it’s saying goodbye to
family.
Patrick Holmes
Opinion Editor
57 percent
It should be mandatory
to fact check both what
President Donald Trump
says and his tweets.
It seems that many
Americans will believe
whatever
he
chooses
to say or write and by
doing so, have shielded
themselves from the facts.
During his campaign,
Trump sent out a tweet
stating that inner-city
crime is reaching record
levels. This tweet, which
is extremely inaccurate,
is based solely on opinion
with no statistics taken
into account. In fact,
violent crime has been
declining for more than
five years, according to
the Pew Research Center.
They even go as far as
to say that United States
citizens view of violent
crime doesn’t often align
with the data, saying that
citizens believe the rates
of crime are higher than
the reality.
It
is
unacceptable
that our now current
president is not paying
attention to simple facts
that a sophomore in
college can easily find
from reputable sources.
It is even shocking that
many people believe him
and do not try to search
for the factual data.
In 2015, the violent
crime
rate
increased
by 3.1 percent when
compared
to
2014
statistics, according to FBI
crime data. However, this
percentage is insignificant
compared to the thirteen
years before where the
crime rate consistently
declined.
There are statistics
that show the rise and
fall of crime rates and
it seems that Trump
has not taken a glance
at any real information
that could possibly help
him win over liberal
voters. It is said that the
violent
crime
decline
has been happening for
decades and that small
increases in few cities
have exaggerated the
rates, according to the
Washington Post.
From 1993-2015, the
of registered
voters
believed that
crime had
risen since
2008 even
though FBI
numbers
show that
it declined,
according
“
It seems
clear that
many
people
believe
that violent
crime in
urban areas
is increasing
but the
statistics say
otherwise.
to the Pew
Research
Center.
violent crime rate fell 50
percent, according to the
Pew Research Center.
So, what does one do
with this information?
It seems clear that
many
people
believe
that violent crime in
urban areas is increasing
but the statistics say
otherwise. There may
be a few spikes in cities
such as Chicago, but
that doesn’t contribute
to all city crime. There
are speculations to why
the crime rate has gone
up but there is not
enough information to
say for sure. And even
though Trump said he
would “bring in the
feds” in Chicago, the
feds are already working
with the police force
there, according to the
Washington Post.
Personally, it seems
clear
that
Trump’s
statements should be
taken with a grain of salt
and if Americans want
the
real
information,
they should take it
upon themselves to fact
check what our current
president says and tweets.
Law
enforcement
officials were at a loss
of how to explain the
different decreases and
increases
of
violent
crimes rates in major
cities in 2016, according
to the New York Times. It
appears that murders and
most other times of crime
are at an all time low
since their record high in
the 1990s.
If we are at record
lows, doesn’t it make
sense that the numbers
would go up? Especially
in
highly
populated
urban areas, it seems that
Criminologists
try not to
generalize
crime rates
when they
happen
during short
periods of
time so that
they can
gain more
accurate data,
according
to the
Washington
Post.
crime would be common.
But a small increase or
increases in few cities
does not mean that there
is an epidemic nor is it
related to one group of
people.
Overall, there is no
definitive
answer
to
what has caused spikes
in major cities across the
U.S. but it could be that
there are many different
areas that these urban
landscapes must do better
on such as the quality of
policing,
gang-violence
and socioeconomic status.
Not only with urban
crime, but other issues
concerning
Americans,
it should be clear to not
trust
everything
that
Trump states.
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Caps o f f t o S uf f olk
se ni o rs f i nal at bat
Hannah Arroyo
Asst. Sports Editor
With seven games left
in their season, senior
second baseman BJ Neil
said that his team’s focus
is to prove that his class
was the “most successful
in the history of Suffolk
Athletics.”
The past two seasons
Suffolk has been backto-back
conference
champions
with
wins
over St. Joseph’s College
and Johnson & Wales
University.
This season, the Suffolk
seniors look to take the
diamond for the last time,
they will work toward
a third Great Northeast
Athletic
Conference
(GNAC) Championship.
“My
favorite
part
about playing baseball
[has been] being able
to compete with my
teammates,” said Neil
in an interview with
The
Suffolk
Journal
on
Monday.
“The
relationship and bond
teammates have with
one another is unique
to sports and cannot be
created anywhere else.”
Neil said that his
time playing for Suffolk
was filled with many
memories of winning
championships
and
forming bonds with his
teammates that will “last
a lifetime.”
Even after he finishes
his collegiate career at
Suffolk as a studentathlete, Neil said that
he hopes for baseball to
remain a constant part of
his life.
Left-hand pitcher Tim
Conroy, who will also
graduate this year, hopes
for his team to end on a
positive note this season.
He said in an interview
with The Journal on
Monday that his favorite
part
about
playing
baseball is that there is
no time restraint on the
game.
“Being a pitcher and
having the ability to
dictate the pace of the
game at all times entitles
you with a sense of power
that you can't really find
in other sports,” said
Conroy.
Conroy said that one
of his most memorable
experiences with the team
was losing the conference
championship in Maine
against
St.
Joseph’s
College
his
freshman
year. He explained that
the loss helped his class
develop as players moving
forward.
“That alone I believe
is one of the reasons
why we have been so
successful
since.
It's
funny how the failures
sometimes stick out more
than the successes,” said
Conroy. “I guess that's
just how you know you're
a competitor.”
As he plays his last
games this season, Conroy
said that he will miss his
team and wishes them the
best of luck in the future.
“I've never been closer
with a group of guys my
whole life and going to
war with these guys over
the past four years helped
me develop some of the
most lasting relationships
that I can ask for,” said
Conroy.
Win or lose, Conroy
said that he has enjoyed
every high and low that
the team has faced.
He also hopes to help
bring home one last
championship for Suffolk
seniors.
“[Moving
forward]
we’re going to stick
together, simplify the
game and out compete
whoever the opponent
may be,” said Conroy.
Throughout
this
season, both Neil and
Conroy had contributed
to their team’s GNAC
chances. Neil has acquired
a batting average of .268,
scored 15 runs and stolen
three
bases.
Conroy
had recorded of 2-1, 16
strikeouts and has pitched
24.2 innings
The Rams currently
stand at the top of the
GNAC with a record of 111. In total, the team has
scored 245 runs, had a
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“In order to win the
championship this season,
we have to play together
as a team all moving in
the same direction,” said
Neil.
States.
For
instance,
in other countries the
surfaces of courts vary
compared to the U.S,
where tennis is played on
a hard-surfaced court.
“They taught me all
different types of styles
of tennis from the way
they were brought up
how to play tennis and
incorporated it into my
game, making me not
only a better player with
new various skills, but
also making the whole
team better with new
techniques
and
skills
that we were never fully
familiar with,” said Saia.
Although when Saia
was younger he did
not like to play tennis,
he eventually grew to
love it. His favorite part
about playing tennis at
Suffolk has been hanging
out with his team and
“sharing laughs and good
times together.”
Being
an
active
member on the team,
Saia has made a lot of
memories with his new
teammates each year. He
enjoyed experiencing the
diversity the tennis team
has brought him.
“My freshman year I
was the only American kid
on the team,” said Saia.
“So just learning from
other types of people
from different countries,
how they play tennis and
learning how to speak
Spanish was fun.”
Upon
graduation,
Saia looks for a future
in finance and hopes
to further his career in
New York City. Although
he will not be pursuing
tennis any further, he
will always play in order
to prevent himself from
becoming “washed up.”
“Tennis will always be
incorporated in my life no
matter what,” said Saia.
Saia wants his team
to be remembered as the
ones that kept striving
for better, no matter how
difficult things were. At
the end of the day, Saia
wants the outcome of
the season to be more
than the team could have
imagined.
“All of my experiences
I have learned from my
past three years, this
fourth one I just want to
put it out on the court
and let everybody know
what I have learned and
hopefully the team can
carry it on,” said Saia.
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Brooke Patterson
Asst. Sports Editor
As a solo four-year
tennis program senior,
second-year
captain
Francesco Saia had a
slight heartbreak heading
into this season knowing
it would be his final one
with the Rams.
Suffolk
University’s
tennis team currently
holds a losing record of
2-7, but look toward the
Great Northeast Athletic
Conference
(GNAC)
Semifinal game at Centre
Court against Johnson &
Wales University on April
29.
“You just have take a
deep breath and say this
is my final season, give
everything I have got and
do everything the best
I can,” said Saia in an
interview with The Suffolk
Journal on Monday.
Senior
co-captain
Jacob Duggan, a finance
major, is also in his last
season with the men’s
tennis
team.
Duggan
joined the men’s tennis
team his sophomore year,
after being convinced
by Saia, and has been a
player on the court for
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the Rams for the past
three years. Duggan has a
two match win streak this
season with an overall
personal record of 3-4.
“This being my last
season, I am sad that I
won't get to play tennis
for
Suffolk
anymore,
but am glad that I get
to spend my last season
with such a great group
of guys,” said Duggan in
an interview with The
Journal on Tuesday night.
“As a team, we've come a
long way this season, and
I'm really proud of how
much we have improved.”
Saia, a finance major
who has been playing
tennis since he was
seven years old, went
7-1 his sophomore year
in singles at the threefourth
position
and
currently holds an overall
personal record of 2-6.
Every year since Saia has
been a Ram, he has been
awarded by the GNAC for
second team doubles.
The
senior
duo
contributed to the Rams
9-0 sweep over Lesley
University on April 20
when they were teamed
up in a doubles match
against Lesley athletes,
Niko
Marcolini
and
Beowulf
Urban.
Saia
and Duggan defeated
Marcolini and Urban 8-0.
“I, 100 percent have
developed over the past
four years,” said Saia. “You
can’t just play your own
style anymore, you have
to learn how adapt to the
other players and open
the court to all different
types of players.”
Saia
had
the
opportunity at Suffolk to
try different playing styles
from European players to
Asian players and even
some South American
players, which differs
from tennis in the United
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Feldman paces back to Suffolk
Strides for track & field
Skylar To
Sports Editor
It
felt
like
the
“ultimate homecoming”
for Will Feldman when
he crossed the finish line
at this year’s 121st Boston
Marathon.
Even though his visit
to Boston was brief for his
seventh-career marathon,
Feldman will officially
return to a “special place”
he has always called
home to take on his
new position as Suffolk
University’s
first-ever
head coach of track &
field. Feldman was also
named head coach for
cross country. He will
officially begin both roles
on May 15.
“[Being named head
coach for track & field/
cross
country
feels
amazing to be honest,
it’s
a
dream
come
true,” said Feldman in
a phone interview with
The Suffolk Journal on
Thursday. “It’s hard to
believe that everything
is coming together and
[I can] start building this
program.”
Feldman, who was
announced as head coach
on April 14 by Director of
Athletics Cary McConnell,
said he found out about
the available coaching
position from a press
release
through
The
Boston Globe, which he
had to refresh the page
a few times
before it “finally hit in.”
Toward the end of
serving his second season
as the cross country and
track & field assistant
coach at the University
of North Carolina (UNC)
at Greensboro, Feldman
contacted McConnell and
expressed his interest
in the job. Whether
it
was
coaching
or
supporting track & field
as a supportive alumnus,
Feldman wanted make
sure that the program
would do well.
“When I saw the job
post, I was kind of in
shock,” said Feldman. “I
would never in a million
years dream that Suffolk
would have track & field.
I knew I had to reach out
and do what I could to be
a part of it.”
Feldman said he is
“excited and blown away”
by McConnell’s vision for
track & field and already
thinks the program is
heading in the right
direction. He traveled to
Boston for an interview
in January and said that
he hunched over with
“great excitement for the
first time in five years”
as he had a “really great
experience” visiting and
reconnecting with the
Suffolk community since
he graduated in 2010
with a Bachelor of Arts in
European History.
He was named most
valuable
player
and
served as team captain
for three out of the four
years as a student-athlete
for the men’s cross
country program. He
even began his coaching
career while he was still
an undergraduate student
at Suffolk in 2008 at
Suffolk’s Great Northeast
Athletic
Conference
(GNAC) rival, Emmanuel
College. Feldman said he
and his teammates always
talked about “how cool” it
would be if the athletics
department offered track
& field after cross country
practice.
“I knew how much
Since 2015-16, he has
been the assistant coach
of track & field at UNC at
Greensboro.
From
his
understanding
with
McConnell,
Feldman
expects to carry the same
position
from
North
Carolina to Suffolk, except
working with a smaller
budget and complying to
a stricter rules guideline
by the National Collegiate
Athletic
Association
participating in track &
field and he plans to build
a competitive program.
Feldman said he will
communicate to current
and interested students
for the four varsity
programs. He plans to
partner with Suffolk’s
Undergraduate Admission
to recruit members of the
incoming class of 2021,
as local as Boston Public
Schools and across the
nation like California.
“I would never in a million
years dream that Suffolk would
have track & field.”
-Will Feldman
[track & field] meant to
me and other students
cared a lot,” said Feldman.
“I felt like it needed to be
me.”
After he left Suffolk,
Feldman
stayed
in
the Boston area and
continued
serving
as
an assistant coach and
recruiting coordinator at
Emmanuel College before
he made the move to
work with the coaching
staff at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
for two years for their
cross country and track &
field programs.
In August 2013, he
moved to North Carolina
and joined the cross
country and track & field
coaching staff at Duke
University in Durham,
North Carolina for two
seasons.
toward
recruiting
methods at the DIII level.
For instance, Feldman is
able to recruit studentathletes year round to
UNC at Greensboro and
communicate to prospects
via email as early as
September of their junior
year and over the phone
heading into their senior
year by July whereas
at Suffolk, coaches can
start
communicating
with prospective studentathletes the summer after
their junior year.
However, the switch
from DI to DIII is minor
for Feldman and he said
he is really excited to
have the ability to recruit
as a first-time head coach
nationally.
Through
McConnell,
Feldman
has an “extensive list”
of students, who have
expressed interest in
“I’m
looking
for
students
who
can
definitely contribute to
the team,” said Feldman.
“I want to work hard to
explain to them what it
means to be a studentathlete.”
“I’m excited to really
get the word about Suffolk
in general and build
the program. “Suffolk’s
really committed to this
program.”
Even
though
the
athletics
department
anticipated for track &
field to begin for the 201617 academic year since its
addition to the varsity line
up last summer, track &
field will officially begin
this fall after men’s and
women’s cross country
concludes its season in
mid-November. Outdoor
track & field will start at
the end of next March
to beginning of April or
even May as Feldman
Courtesy of Suffolk Athletics
already
anticipates
a
GNAC Championship run.
Practice will start up in
the fall and the majority
of both indoor and
outdoor track & field will
practice together.
“My expectations [for
the programs] are high,”
said Feldman. “What I
think we’ll accomplish in
a few years is: laying the
foundation, establishing
[team]
culture
and
building
success
of
student-athletes.
We’re
going to be hard to beat
in the conference once we
get going.”
He thinks it may
appear to others that he
is leaving UNC, a Division
I (D1) institution for a
coaching position at a
Division III (DIII) school,
but he said his decision
was “a no brainer and you
can’t put a price tag to go
back to your home.”
“It’ll be bittersweet
to say goodbye to the
[UNC at Greensboro track
& field] team, but I’ve
always had the dream of
coaching track & field at
Suffolk,” said Feldman.
And he only had to wait
seven years for it, which
felt more like a decade for
Feldman.
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sports
soul leaves
lasting
impact
president kelly’s year in review
Kelly’s first act:
The work to get
Suffolk back
on track
Suffolk University’s
Mail Clerk Emily
Perlmutter
remembered by
coworkers, friends
By Chris DeGusto,
News Editor
It’s been almost a year since
Marisa Kelly was named the
acting president of Suffolk
University and in the eyes
of the top office, there is still
much work to do.
Alexa Gagosz
Editor-in-Chief
Haley Clegg
Photo Editor
Emily Perlmutter could
typically be found walking
into Suffolk University’s
mailroom
each
day
sporting her signature
Boston Red Sox baseball
hat and preaching about
the New England Patriots
to everyone she met.
“She followed sports
religiously,
she
knew
everything about them-specifically baseball,” said
Mail Services Manager
Anthony Voto. “She loved
baseball and went to a
bunch of games. She knew
everything that was going
on whether it was the Red
Sox season or the Patriots
season. That’s how up on
her Boston sports team
she was.”
Senior Sociology major
Suad Diriye remembers
Perlmutter’s passion for
the Patriots. “She would
always say ‘Go Pats’ or
‘Free Brady, free Brady.’”
Friends and coworkers
alike saw Perlmutter’s
ambition to continuously
make people laugh where
her comic relief from a
day of work in the Sawyer
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Diversity Task Force’s final act
Nathan Espinal
Journal Staff
The Diversity Task
Force gave their final
presentation
to
the
Suffolk
community
this past Friday. The
presentation
outlined
the
recommendations
they have made in the
final report after a two
year-long joint effort of
surveying and evaluating
the university’s climate
that
they
will
be
submitting
to
Acting
President Marisa Kelly in
May. Once submitted, the
Task Force will disband,
having
accomplished
their goal, according to
Chairwoman of the Task
Force Micky Lee.
The Task Force has
come up with a number of
strategies, some of which
are still debated amongst
the members. However,
they are sure of making
students,
faculty
and
staff receive the proper
training in matters of
diversity and inclusion.
“These
are
solid
foundations for where
Suffolk currently stands.
It’s been a year and I
think we are starting to
open our eyes a little
more,” said Levi Smith, a
junior business major and
student member of the
Task Force. “One thing to
understand, we don’t have
a standing committee
that does things like this.
We grabbed some of the
best students and staff
[and faculty], put them in
a room and said we need
to talk about some issues
here at the university.”
The position they have
yet to reach a consensus
on
is
whether
the
university should create
a position that would
report to the president
and tentatively titled Vice
President of Inclusion,
Diversity
and
Equity.
Along with this position,
the Task Force hopes to
create a Division, or Office,
of Inclusion, Diversity
and Equity, which will
oversee the Commission
of Diversity Affairs (CDA).
The CDA was suspended
in
2015
by
former
President
Margaret
McKenna and the Task
Force has recommended
it be reinstated since the
bylaws are already in
place.
The Task Force noted
the concerns of the Suffolk
community regarding bias
incidents and proposed
the
university
create
an pilot program for an
Office of Ombuds starting
in the Fall semester of
2017. This office will be
independent from upper
administration and hire
part time staff from
within the university.
“What we found [is]
“We grabbed some of the
best students and staff
[and faculty], put them in
a room and said we need
to talk about some issues
here at the university.”
15 colleges that were
similar to Suffolk in many
ways,” said Director of
Events Jennifer Bonardi
and member of the
subcommittee on ombuds
for the Task Force. “The
office [in the other
universities]
resolves
conflicts,
it
explores
options
for
resolving
conflicts with informal
steps such as services
outside the appeal process
and other resources if
necessary.”
The Office may have
a possible connection to
International
Ombuds
Administration
(IOA)
and follow the same
principles that make the
IOA successful.
“If
the
upper
administration
decides
that we are in need of
an ombuds person based
on the climate poll and
the research we present,
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Kelly reflects on year as acting president, what’s to come
Chris DeGusto
News Editor
As this academic year
draws near to a close,
so does the first year
of Marisa Kelly’s stint
as
Acting
University
President. In a recent
interview with The Suffolk
Journal, Kelly reflected
upon her time thus far
in the high office-- what
has been accomplished as
well as still needs to be
worked on, the challenges
she has faced and what
her goals are going
forward at Suffolk.
“I’m excited about
everything
we’ve
accomplished
together
this year,” said Kelly.
“But I don’t want that
to suggest that I think
everything is perfect.
Every institution faces
challenges, big and small,
and we’re no different in
that every institutional
leader acting or otherwise
makes mistakes. I know
I have made mine and I
think in spite of all that,
we’ve made real progress
and I’m excited to be here
and to have been a part
of that.”
Major strides have
been taken this year at
Suffolk, Kelly explained.
Whether looking back
at
the
improvements
of
communication,
the extension of the
university’s strategic plan
or the achievements on
the national rankings
front by The Wall Street
Journal and U.S. News,
Kelly said that Suffolk has
been “rowing in the same
direction” together as a
community.
With inclusivity and
diversity a forefront in
Kelly’s
idealism,
one
aspect that will always be a
constant work in progress
is the continuation of
effective communication.
The
president’s
blog,
“Momentum,”
hoped
to have gained more
feedback
so
that
communicating with the
Suffolk community was
a two-way street. After
the Presidential election
of last year, Kelly spoke
of the importance of
conveying an accepting
and supportive message
to Suffolk was important
to foster a sense of
community.
One
personal
challenge
that
Kelly
highlighted
in
her
transition from Provost
to Acting President was
the acclimation of a new
role
which
provided
new responsibilities and
expectations. In the fall,
Kelly said she believed
she needed to be present
on campus, to focus on
internal communication
with
the
university
leadership since positions
were filled with people
that were not stationed at
that role the year prior.
“I was not new to the
institution, but certainly
new to this role. We were
in a lot of personnel shifts
[in the fall that] I think
required us to really focus
on being a team, and I
think we did that pretty
quickly,” said Kelly.
Kelly also explained
that she tried to not find
herself at times in the
transitionary phase doing
“two jobs at once” and
instead focusing on her
new role as opposed to
her former. And as the
spring semester came,
she was able to hone her
energy and efforts on
matters off-campus such
as outreach programs,
and external affairs.
Suffolk, who has long
NEWS BRIEF
Suffolk student awarded for
neuroscience research
Elena Molokotos, a first-year student in Suffolk’s
clinical psychology doctoral program was recently
awarded the Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Graduate Student Award. Her research primarily
focused on how twins illuminate genetic influences
on brain structure. Once Molokotos decided to
focus on this area of study, she began examining
the neuroimaging information and performing
the statistical analyses. Molokotos said the main
message within her award-winning research was
that the brain structures involved with executive
functions, such as organization and planning,
are potentially more influenced by genes than
other networks of brain. Molokotos was one of
10 graduate students from around the world
honored by the Cognitive Neuroscience Society at
their annual conference in San Francisco this past
March.
been a formidable law
school, now has been
recognized as a toptier institution. Often
however,
incoming
students are swayed away
from Beacon Hill by state
schools and other private
institutions in the area.
Kelly affirmed that the
factors that will attract
students to Suffolk as
opposed to a state school
are the same attractive
components that Suffolk
uses to compete with
other
universities
nationwide.
“It is that combination
of faculty and staff
engagement, experiential
learning
inside
the
classroom and outside of
it across all four years that
is distinctive,” said Kelly.
“There are places across
the country certainly that
do it well or even as well,
but nobody does it better,
and I would say that to
anybody at any time.”
At Suffolk, Kelly said
the focus is on outcomes;
the
value
of
the
experience provided for
students, that is reflective
of the university’s values.
With
the
luxury
of
Suffolk’s
geographical
location, students from all
socioeconomic levels are
able to intertwine their
academic schedule with
jobs, internships, club
activities and engagement
with industries of the city,
Kelly said.
“Boston
is
an
international city with
global corporations that
are shaping the future
of the world in a lot of
ways,” said Kelly. “I think
that our students have the
ability to directly engage
with those entities while
they are students, and
to take that experience
and move forward with
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“I don’t want that to suggest that I think everything is
perfect. Every institution faces challenges big and small,
and we’re no different in that every institutional leader,
acting or otherwise, makes mistakes.”
it after graduation. And
that is something that
we have always done it’s
been important to who
we are.”
Internationalizing
Suffolk
is
another
prominent priority of
Kelly. She described not
only the importance of
recruiting international
students, but providing
a
global
experience
for
all
of
Suffolk’s
students;
exemplified
by
internships,
study
abroad
programs,
or
the connectivity to the
international community.
Going
forward,
bridging the gap between
Suffolk and Boston Public
Schools through dual-
enrollment
programs
can create a launchpad
for students not only
at the university but
in
their
professional
and personal lives. This
summer, Kelly said she is
excited for the permanent
move of NESAD to the
Sawyer building, and the
continuation of progress
on goals outlined in the
strategic plan.
Over the course of the
next year, Kelly hopes
to implement significant
elements of the pending
recommendations
from
the diversity strategic
plan,
along
with
continued
support
of
Suffolk’s
faculty
and
staff from a professional
development perspective.
These facets, Kelly said,
are important conditions
vital to theuniversity.
“It’s a busy world and
there’s lots going on, but
I have felt this year like
there was a commitment
across all constituencies,
[alumni as well], a real
commitment across all
constituencies to work
together to move the
institution forward, and
to do what we’ve always
done, which is to put
the best interests of our
students first,” said Kelly.
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Task Force hands recommendations
to improve university’s climate
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it would come down to
them hiring somebody
for the position,” said
Bonardi. “Ideally, they
would start in the fall
when the rest of us start
the academic year, which
is as complicated as it
gets.”
The
Task
Force
also recommended the
university create a new
initiative that will develop
a program for predoctoral,
or postdoctoral students,
to teach courses at
Suffolk related to their
“These are solid foundations for where Suffolk
currently stands. It’s been a year and I think we
are starting to open our eyes a little more.”
-Junior Levi Smith
research interests. The
advantages for such a
program, as stated by the
Task Force, is the creation
of a “pipeline” that will
expand research and set
the university apart from
its peers.
Establishing
better
methods for community
building and professional
development are concerns
raised
by
University
staff, according to the
Task Force. The Task
Force
recommended
the university provide
more workshops that
revolve around bias and
classroom
incidents,
while also continuing
the effort provided by
Suffolk’s Unity Events.
Editor’s Note: Nathan
Espinal is a Diversity Peer
Education in the Office of
Diversity Services.
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Tedx Talk discusses future economies
Chris DeGusto
News Editor
A limitless future calls
for endless possibilities,
that of which today’s
society cannot predict
with precise accuracy.
Humans dream of what is
to come, but are unable
to truly see exactly
what
will
transpire
for
our
technological
and economic sectors.
Through
space
exploration and artificial
intelligence, these dreamlike ideas can start to
become a reality. Speakers
conveyed this exact idea
at Suffolk’s TEDx&Talks
club
inaugural
TEDx
Suffolk University event
on Monday, “Economies
of the Future.”
“We
meet
in
a
university
noted
for
knowledge. We meet in a
state known for progress,”
said Justin Park, the cofounder & president at
Intergalactic
Education
LLC.
Park, who is also tied
to the Swiss Institute
of Technology, NASA,
Booz
Allen
Hamilton
and International Space
University,
presented
“Space World,” about
the benefits of continued
space
exploration.
A
paraphrased speech of
former
United
States
President
John
F.
Kennedy was one of
Park’s mediums for this
talk, as he said today’s
market can inspire the
next generation of space
travels.
Park said the Apollo
missions of the 1960s and
70s were ahead of their
time, and prompted the
belief that many young
people could travel to
space-- a belief he said
is
nonexistent
now.
This lack of belief is not
true, according to Park,
who highlighted areas
where
the
repetition
of space missions will
create markets. Insurance
companies, intergalactic
education
programs,
professional sports and
the use of lawyers are
some examples Park gave
to illustrate the number
of industries that can
be accessed by space
exploration.
“I believe a Renaissance
in manufacturing will
happen that is equivalent
to the original Industrial
Revolution,” said Park
during his talk.
A pre-recorded talk
from writer and blogger
Tim Urban addressed an
issue that many people
deal with, procrastination.
Urban described what
he said are two types
of procrastination; one
who is incited, and
subsequently pancis, by
deadlines in the short
term, and another, who
has no deadlines, that
put off life goals and
aspirations and become
“spectators at time in
their own lives.”
With only four weeks
of
preparation
time,
Suffolk’s
TEDx&Talks’
club president Abdulla
Khoory
said
in
an
interview with The Suffolk
Journal that securing a
venue for the talk was
his biggest challenge. He
explained that along with
finding the right location
and time, the time span
proved to be problematic
for
another
reason-finding speakers.
“It’s in making a
stake as to what’s going
to happen, [that] we
influence the future,”
Chris DeGusto/ News Editor
“We meet in a university noted for knowledge.
We meet in a state known for progress.”
said CEO & founder of
Learnivore Emily Burns.
Burns, who spoke about
artificial
intelligence
(A.I.), said the creation
and development of new
technologies is essential
because our lives depend
on it. The advancement
of technology to this
form could either create
species
immortality
or cause humans to
go extinct. With this
spectrum outlined by two
extremes, Burns said that
the human race could
either be overcome by A.I.
or benefit in many ways.
As many jobs and
household chores could
be replaced with the
hands of A.I. robotics,
humans would be left
to replace their natural
species characteristics in
other areas of life. With
some people concerned
that A.I. would outsource
many jobs and cut close
to humanity, Burns said
that humans would infact
be able to utilize this
time spent on work in
other areas such as with
friends and family. Burns
said she believes that A.I.
would “inspire the need
for human authenticity.”
Besides Burns and Park,
6 other speakers from toptier universities, financial
sector professionals and
investors presented their
own takes upon the
future economy.
“[The goal of this event]
was to build through
large events [to] provide
Suffolk
with
thought
provoking content that
we haven’t seen yet,” said
club creative consultant
Alex Bennett at the event
in an interview with The
Journal.
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Daniel Dippold speaking
at the Tedx Talk.
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building, Sargent Hall or
on Temple Street would
fill hallways.
“She was definitely a
joker,” said Voto.
Senior sociology major
Danica Dang who worked
alongside Perlmutter said
she will always remember
her for her charisma and
lighthearted personality.
“She’d come into work
like ‘this happened today,
you would not believe
this’ and she was always
so animated, it would
just make the room more
exciting and fun to work
in.”
Being the first one in
the office each morning,
her coworkers said that
she was faithful in helping
her team.
“She was the type
of
person
that
was
never shy, she loved
greeting people, talking
to people, she had the
biggest smile you could
imagine,” said Assistant
Manager Johanny Mejia.
“Whenever
she’d
see
people walking outside
she’d just stop them
and talk to them about
life and how they were
doing.”
Perlmutter was the
daugher of Law Professor
Emeritus
Richard
Perlmutter. According to
a statement that was sent
to Suffolk’s employees,
Perlmutter was ill in her
final days.
“She was very close
with everyone in her
family,” said Voto. “She
was all about family
outside of work. When
it wasn’t work-- it was
family.”
Although
Voto
and
Perlmutter
were
coworkers, he considered
her a dear friend. Voto
recalled to a Journal
reporter that when he
received an award from
the university for being
employed for thirty years,
she was “one of the
people that was standing
behind me cheering.”
“She will be sorely
missed,”
said
Acting
President Marisa Kelly in
a statement.
After being employed
at the university for
a number of years,
Perlmutter left her mark
on nearly every person
she came in contact with.
Program Manager for
the Law School’s Clinical
Programs & Experiential
Learning
Joan
Luke
told a Journal reporter
on Tuesday night that
Perlmutter would bring
her and the Clinic’s mail
each day.
“We became good
friends over time,” said
Luke. “She cared about
everyone in the building.
She came by to visit us,
even when she was on
medical leave, she would
call us and keep us up-todate on how things were
going.”
P e r l m u t t e r ’ s
impression
that
she
left with those that she
effected at the university
will continue to last at
Suffolk.
“She left an imprint on
people, she definitely has
a legacy that she leaves
behind here,” said Voto.
Contributions
in
Perlmutter’s memory can
be sent to Melanoma
Foundation
of
New
England
or
Suffolk
University’s
Office
of
Advancement.
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Ford Hall Forum seeks truth on fake news
Kyle Crozier
Journal Staff
During
the
2016
presidential
campaign,
the term “fake news”
exploded in popularity.
At the start of the
election season, this term
was connected to stories
that some believed were
intended to discredit or
benefit one candidate
over the other, and had
grown to a point where it
would be difficult to find
a publication that has not
been accused of being
fake news.
Last Wednesday night,
three journalists spoke
at Suffolk University’s
Ford Hall Forum on their
continuing careers in
organizations that have
been labeled by some
as “fake news,” as well
as what role journalism
should
play
in
a
democratic society. These
journalists, Joe Mathieu
of WBZ NewsRadio, Matt
Viser of the Boston Globe
and Evan Engel, formally
a
Vocative
senior
producer, all have spent
time having been accused
of false reporting by the
public, or by the current
executive administration.
Matt Viser told his
story of having been the
subject of false reporting
after controversy arose
when he spoke on “The
Lead” with Jake Tapper.
While on the show, CNN
ran a headline under
Viser’s name that read,
“Alt-Right
Founder
Questions if Jews Are
People,” referencing an
inflammatory statement
by
known
whitesupremacist
Richard
Spencer.
A screenshot of this
CNN segment that showed
the
headline
directly
below an image of Viser
immediately went viral
on Twitter, and created a
false association between
Viser and the quote that
incited intense anger
focused directly at Viser
for what people believed
he had said.
“Everybody’s instinct
was sort of to quickly
react
to
what
they
thought that they were
seeing,” said Viser.
The
speakers
discussed how this had
been the perfect-storm
combination of a poorly
written headline, bad
reporting and an overly
quick viral response to
comment on it by the
general public.
In January, Engel found
himself facing nearly 10
years in prison after he
and five other journalists
who were charged with
felony
rioting
while
reporting
on
violent
protests outside of the
inauguration of Donald
Trump. The charges were
dropped after a week, but
for some, the accusation
had changed their image
of Engel.
Engel said that at the
Trump inauguration he,
“witnessed police abuse
that is not the most
alarming police abuse
you’ve ever heard about,
but is still the sort of
thing that as a journalist
you want to report. But
when I brought it back
to Vocative, they were
adamant that I not report
it and that I not speak
about it in front of any
forum,
including
this
one.”
After being asked to
not report on the event,
Engel decided to leave
the publication and began
to speak more about
his experience. He said
that to him it was more
of a joke, but the public
immediately
became
highly polarized on the
Kyle Crozier/Journal Staff
subject, he noted that
“there are people who
reflexively justify any
action a police officer
takes, and so in their eyes
I was instantly at fault,
without question at fault.
But there are also people
that get mad at any
journalist for challenging
power, so there were
accusations of fake news.
Someone said I was an
Israeli spy.”
Engel said that the
public was quick to label
any speaking out he did
on the situation as fake
news if it disagreed with
the point of view of the
law enforcement.
Joe Mathieu said he
believed 2008 began a new
era of people who began
to use social media as a
primary source of news.
He said that, “the internet
was really for the first
time a mainstream news
dissemination tool for all
ages, now everybody was
reading online.”
Mathieu
explained
that it was at this point
the public began to
become more exposed
to the ultra right and
left groups that had
attempted to broadcast
messages for years, but
were just beginning to
gain an influential voice.
Viser instructed that if
people wanted to become
immune to the biases in
news, they should
“Be skeptical, Sean
Spicer said in one of his
first briefings about how,
‘We’re going to call you
guys out,’ to the media,”
said Viser. “I’m fine with
that, call us out, if people
think that we’re not being
fair or open. I think [you
should] read everything,
expose yourself.”
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ISA promotes international community on campus
Amy Koczera
Journal Staff
Suffolk’s International
Student
Association
(ISA) strives to promote
community
and
togetherness
among
both
international
and
domestic
Suffolk
students. They do this
through weekly meetings
and co-sponsoring events
with other cultural clubs
on campus. The university
itself
capitalizes
on
its great international
presence. According to the
Suffolk website, there are
nearly 1,700 international
students from at least 110
different countries.
ISA aims to bring all
international
students
together to create a
community
where
students can work and
collaborate
in
unity.
The
diversity
within
ISA provides numerous
unique
perspectives
and allows the group to
have deep, intellectual
and
thought-provoking
conversations
about
important global issues.
Most of the students
in ISA are involved in
other organizations on
campus, allowing them
to gain more perspectives
on American culture in
college. ISA is looking
to increase the number
lifestyle when they first
arrive. College itself is a
brand new experience.
International students,
while adapting to college
life, also have to figure out
how to navigate their way
through a new city and
country. ISA provides a
safe zone where students
can talk to others facing
the same struggles and
then provide support for
one another.
“We want to make
sure students are having
fun and enjoying the city
in a responsible way,” said
By Facebook user Suffolk University International Student Islam. Because they are
Association so far away from home,
“Don’t be afraid to get to know
international
students
often feel a new, great
someone from a different part of the
deal of freedom when
world, you can learn so much.”
they come to the U.S.
“When
we’re
all
together, we want to make
- ISA secretary Rhema Rondina
sure everyone is on track,”
of members in their According
to
Islam, said Islam. ISA provides
organization so they can international
students support and advice to any
learn more about different tend to develop their all international students
students’ domestic and expectations of college regardless of what they
international
lifestyles life prior to coming to the are going through.
ISA wants to have
and
experiences.
ISA U.S. based on what they
a
greater
presence
holds events, such as the see in movies.
Indian Diwali Festival of
Since Suffolk doesn’t on campus next year,
co-sponsoring
Lights, to bring people provide that “traditional” through
with
other
of all different cultures college
experience, events
together to appreciate according
to
Islam, international clubs such
celebrations from across sometimes international as the Venezuelan Student
the
Chinese
the globe.
students have trouble Union,
Association,
“We want to make transitioning.
Because Student
international students feel Suffolk
is
embedded the Caribbean Student
welcome,” said freshman into
Boston,
some Network, as well as all
Entrepreneurship major international
students other clubs who are
and
incoming
ISA experience
difficulty interested.
“The unique thing
Treasurer Junayed Islam. adapting to the new
about [ISA] is that we
want to collaborate with
students
from
other
cultures as much as
possible,” said sophomore
Business major and ISA
Vice President Charles
Tang. “We’d enjoy if other
international groups came
to us more to collaborate
for events.”
Most other cultural
clubs serve as somewhat
of a “home away from
home” for international
students by providing
them with events to
experience their own
culture. ISA seeks to
work with students from
all
different
cultural
backgrounds
to
give
people a well-rounded
cultural experience in a
social setting.
“We want to get
to know more about
everyone’s culture, not
just one in particular,”
said senior biochemistry
major and ISA President
Kubra Umit.
Suffolk’s international
presence allows students
to interact with other
students
from
all
different
backgrounds.
ISA allows students to
take advantage of going
to
school
alongside
international
students
by allowing them to get
to know each other on a
deeper level while getting
a taste of other cultures.
“We want to introduce
new cultural events to
others,” said Umit. The
more students that come
to ISA meetings, the
more cultures they get to
explore.
“This is a great club
for American students
to join to experience
different cultures,” said
Tang. The club’s executive
board alone consists of
members from China,
Turkey,
Bangladesh,
and the Philippines. ISA
emphasizes that students
that join the club don’t
have to be international.
“We’re living alongside
so many international
students,” said junior
advertising major and ISA
secretary Rhema Rondina,
“Don’t be afraid to get
to know someone from
a different part of the
world, you can learn so
much.”
For next year, ISA
hopes to hold at least
two events each month
to draw more members
in and promote their
club. “Everyone is always
welcome to come,” said
Umit who explained ISA
feels that being cultured
and well-educated about
different ethnicities will
allow Suffolk to become a
closer community.
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Activists struggling to aid undocumented immigrants under Trump
Elvira Mora
Journal Staff
Eighteen feet of steel
with a cement base
and slats secured six
feet under make up the
southern border between
the United States and
Mexico
which
passes
through in Brownsville,
Texas.
Texas
native
Rodrigo Juarez, 27, is
one of many activists
who
work
everyday
to aid undocumented
immigrants
as
they
navigate the way toward
citizenship.
Juarez is currently an
accredited representative
as he was approved by
the Board of Immigration
Appeals to represent the
undocumented before the
Immigration Courts.
“Both of my parents
are from Mexico. And
I’m actually the only one
in my family born in the
States,” said Juarez. He
attended
Texas
A&M
University and carried out
a year of service through
the AmeriCorps program
in Rio Grande Valley.
Shortly
after
actively working with
undocumented students,
Juarez decided to focus
on
immigration
and
attended Lewis and Clark
Law School in Portland,
OR.
He
became
a
co-founder
of
an
immigration
student
group and volunteering
program that sent student
volunteers down to work
at a family detention
center in Dilley, Texas.
Throughout the 2016
presidential
campaign
and within his first 100
days in office, President
Donald
Trump
has
accelerated efforts for the
wall to be constructed. As
an individual working for
a non-profit immigration
organization,
Juarez
experiences
first-hand
the hostile environment
working with Immigration
and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) agents.
“There had been a
change in the attitudes and
practices of Department
of Homeland Security
(DHS)/ICE. Like before, if
you had a favorable case,
ICE would work with
you. They would consider
letting your client go on
bond or on their own
recognizance or parole,”
said Juarez. He said that
the rules have become
much more rigid.
“They’ll fight you on
anything and everything.
They’ll oppose anything
in court even if the
proposed action legally
doesn’t make any sense.
They’ll refuse to issue
or even consider bond if
your client has any sort of
criminal history.”
ICE’s
aggression
toward
undocumented
individuals has rapidly
increased. According to
the U.S. Immigration and
Customs
Enforcement,
in 2016 ICE conducted
240,255
removals
compared to 235,413
removals in 2015.
“There are reports
of ICE agents raiding
courthouses
and
hospitals and picking up
people who are going
to interviews with the
United States Citizenship
and Immigration Services
(USCIS). They are not only
detaining people with
these raids and breaking
up families but they’re
having a massive chilling
effect on the entire
system,” said Juarez.
The
American
Bar
Association offers pro
bono programs such as
the South Texas Pro Bono
Asylum
Representation
Project (ProBAR), which
Juarez is currently a part
of.
Suffolk
University
Law School encourages
faculty
and
staff,
who are attorneys, to
cooperate with pro bono
programs that are spread
throughout the nation.
The law school also
has
an
immigration
clinic that offers weekly
seminars
to
prepare
students for immigrant
representation.
According
to
the
American
Bar
Association’s
directory,
the program regarding
Suffolk University Law
School stated “Through
its voluntary Pro Bono
Program,
Suffolk
University Law School
seeks to foster in every
member of the law school
community a moral and
professional obligation to
ensure access to justice for
all citizens. To obtain this
goal, Suffolk Law School
challenges all incoming
law students to complete
at least 50 hours of lawrelated volunteer work
before they graduate.”
Juarez
fears
u n d o c u m e n t e d
individuals
will
not
progress
their
immigration
status
because
of
the
overwhelming threat of
being detained.
He
hopes
u n d o c u m e n t e d
individuals
remain
hopeful and encourages
them to advance in the
United States despite the
current administration’s
actions.
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Commentary
French populism finds its face in Le Pen
Nick Viveiros
Journal Staff
Independent candidate
Emmanuel Macron and
former National Front
leader Marine Le Pen
will face off in a historic
presidential
election
in France after their
victories in Sunday’s first
round of voting.
“We have changed the
face of French political
life in one year,” Macron
told a jubilant crowd of
supporters in a victory
speech Sunday night.
Macron was propelled to
victory by supporters of
his political movement,
“En Marche!,” translating
to a single English word:
“forward”.
Macron, a left-leaning
centrist, won with 23.75
percent of the vote, while
Le Pen, a nationalist
often
compared
to
Donald
Trump,
came
in second with 21.53
percent, according to the
French Interior Ministry.
The winner of the final
round of voting on May
7 will succeed outgoing
President
François
Hollande of the Socialist
Party. Hollande declined
to run for reelection in
December, and recently
endorsed Macron.
The election marks
a historic break from
French political norms, as
socialists and the centerright have battled for the
past 70 years for control
of the nation. This is the
first election in which
neither faction fielded a
second round candidate
since
the
formation
of the Fifth French
Republic under a revised
constitution
in
1958,
according to multiple
news sources.
The Socialist Party and
Republicans have rallied
around Macron. JeanChristophe
Cambadélis,
first secretary of the
Socialist
Party,
told
Euronews that the party
will engage in a massive
get-out-the-vote effort on
behalf of Macron, noting
that “it is out of the
question that [the people]
let France lose its soul.”
Macron, 39, would
be
France’s
youngest
president if he wins,
and has never served in
any elected capacity. He
left investment banking
for a position in the
government of Socialist
President
François
Hollande before becoming
economic minister in
2014, a post he held until
resigning last April to run
for president. Macron’s
platform is described
as
true
centrism,
incorporating liberal and
conservative policy on an
issue-by-issue basis.
At
her
own
headquarters,
Le
Pen
celebrated her historic
victory as well. Long
considered an underdog
by commentators and
analyst,
she
sharply
rebuked
mainstream
political order in her own
speech.
“The
system
has
sought all means to stifle
the great political debate
that this election should
have been,” Le Pen said
following her victory,
reported the Financial
Times.
The right-wing brand
of politics Le Pen offers
ignores
traditional
conservative and liberal
dogma
in
favor
of
populism, a brand of
politics which focuses
on popular, immediate
concerns
insted
of
ideological
purity.
It
argues voters have been
cheated by the ‘political
elite.’
A centerpiece of Le
Pen’s campaign has been
the restoration of what
she calls an “independent
France.” According to
her campaign website,
Le Pen plans to “achieve
a
European
project
respectful
of
the
independence of France”
through a referendum
on
the
“European
experiment,”
offering
a real possibility of a
“Brexit” repeat should Le
Pen win the presidency.
“The EU world is
ultra-liberalism,
savage
globalisation, artificially
created across nations,”
Le Pen told BBC radio in
November. “I believe that
this world is dead.”
Le Pen’s France also
includes a “simplification”
of the French government,
leaving
behind
the
traditional system of a
layered
administrative
state in favor of a more
streamlined approach.
On social issues, Le Pen
and the National Front
offer a mixed bag. While
Le Pen has come out in
favor of unconditional
abortion access and gay
marriage, her campaign
website states she also
wishes to “restore real
equality and meritocracy
by rejecting the principle
of ‘affirmative action.’”
It is on the issue of
immigration,
however,
that Le Pen fully and
unapologetically adopts
the
far-right’s
canon.
According to BBC, the
2017 National Front’s
party platform promises
a “massive reduction in
legal immigration.”
“If you come to our
country, don’t expect that
you will be taken care of,”
Le Pen said of government
assistance for immigrants
in a December 2016
speech in Paris. “That’s
finished now, it’s the end
of playtime.”
The election overseas
has had an impact on
the Suffolk community,
where nearly a quarter
of students hail from
outside the United States.
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“I heard a lot of people
here in the U.S. saying
that Trump is sexist,
homophobic and racist; in
France, the public opinion
is the same regarding
Le Pen,” said sophomore
communications
and
marketing major Celia
Del-Rey.
A native of France
currently studying abroad
at
the
International
University of Monaco,
Del-Rey
noted
the
polarization is as extreme
overseas as it is in the
United States.
The connections many
make between Le Pen and
President Donald Trump
are not lost on Del-Rey.
“I would say that [Le
Pen] and her policies are
associated with Trump by
both her supporters and
opponents. Those who [do
not support her] see her
the same as those who
did not support Trump.
Either she is adulated, or
she is hated,” said DelRey.
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Cabaret
Spotlight shines on Rampage show Choir’s Cabaret
Nick Viveiros / Journal Staff
Nick Viveiros
Journal Staff
The third floor of
Sawyer was alive with
the sounds of the silver
screen on Saturday night
as performers took to
the stage for the Suffolk
University show choir’s
annual Cabaret.
Members of Rampage,
performed
a
variety
of
musical
numbers
taken from Hollywood
blockbusters,
as
the
theme this year was
“Lights,
Camera,
Rampage.”
The
show
began
with a rendition of
OneRepublic’s “Love Runs
Out,” which featured all of
Rampage’s 16 members.
The performance was
a well-received opener
for what turned out to
be a stellar production.
The
choreography
for
Rampage’s
group
numbers was arranged by
sophomore dance captains
theatre
major
Kelsey
Whipple and fine arts
major Julianna Fielding,
and complemented the
musical
arrangements
quite nicely.
As one of the standout
independent acts of the
evening,
sophomore
Rebecca McAuliffe belted
out a soulful rendition
of Etta James’ 1962
hit “Something’s Gotta
Hold On Me.” As she
sang, junior broadcast
journalism major Felicity
Otterbein and sophomore
business major Charles
Tang
added
some
background vocals.
Saturday’s cabaret was
the last curtain call for
Rampage’s seniors; they
really stole the show, both
in group performances
and
individual
acts.
Rampage president and
senior public relations
major Victoria Laroque
and senior marketing
major Casey O'Leary took
on the roles of Simba and
Zazu for a duet of “I Just
Can’t Wait to be King”
from the 1994 animated
hit “The Lion King.”
Laroque returned in the
second act with McAuliffe
to perform “The Cup
Song” of “Pitch Perfect.”
“I started show choir
in high school,” Laroque
told The Suffolk Journal
during the post-show
reception.
Her passion
for the arts began long
before she became a Ram.
“I loved show choir in
high school, and knew I
wanted to continue with
it or something like it,
and Suffolk was the only
school near me that had
a show choir,” she said.
Laroque, a marketing
major from Lowell, Mass.,
said that as she researched
more about the school, it
“all fell into place.”
One of the most wellreceived acts of the night
featured junior marketing
major
Kevin
Landers
and
junior
theatre
major
Victoria
Isotti
as Ryan and Sharpay
Evans of “High School
Musical” performing a
rendition of “Bop to the
Top.” With an audience
comprised of those who
grew up listening to
and
appreciating
the
franchise, this particular
number was received with
rounds of applause and a
brief trip down memory
lane.
It was with the second
to last act - the senior
number - when it became
apparent that the seniors
realized what was already
known: this is it. The
cohort of four took to the
stage to perform “Come
So Far (Got So Far to Go)”
from “Hairspray.” While
the quartet was all smiles
as
they
maneuvered
around the stage singing
the classic show tune,
even the audience could
tell
that
there
was
something very different
about the final curtain
call. Based on the facial
expressions of the small
group, it was clear that
they realized that this
would be one of their last
performances with the
group.
As a whole, Rampage
delivered
what
is
quickly becoming their
standard
performance:
well-executed
without
the sort of phony “puttogetherness” of other
show choirs. There was
a certain charm that
the
group
displayed
that
doesn’t
really
exist
amongst
other
performance
groups.
And, with an increasingly
competent
group
of
underclassmen taking the
stage, Rampage is in good
hands for years to come.
Arts and Culture Editor
Felicity Otterbein is a
member of Rampage
Show Choir
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(Bottom) Charles Tang
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“Fractured Inferno” poses question for life
Portrayed
as
man’s very long
confused journey,
the
storyline
follows
Michael,
played
by
freshman theatre major
Liam Grimaldi who is
guided by a mysterious
ally
named
Gabriel,
played by sophomore
theatre major Michael
Greene. Those who are
invested in Christianity
and understand biblical
references will be able
to appreciate the subtle,
and at times not-so-subtle
jabs at what happens in
the afterlife.
Gabriel, in Abrahamic
religions, is an angel who
acts as God’s messenger.
In various biblical texts,
he is depicted as someone
who interprets dreams
and reveals information
to
those
seeking
guidance. In this instance,
Gabriel acts as Michael’s
guide through the nine
circles of hell: limbo, lust,
gluttony, greed, anger,
heresy, violence, fraud
and treachery. Gabriel
is known to stand in the
presence of God, and
therefore knows all about
his power and routinely
Felicity Otterbein one
Arts Editor and
It takes an incredible
amount of creativity and
imagination to be able to
create an original play.
It’s easy to succumb to
performing yet another
rendition of a Shakespeare
tragedy
or
explore
Henrik Ibsen’s realism.
On it’s own, writing and
directing in the theater is
a feat in and of itself, but
it is a completely separate
ordeal when you try to
make said play interesting
and
entertaining
to
audiences. Linnea Rose
and Suffolk University’s
own
senior
theatre
major Andrew Bourque,
managed to do both in
their recent production
of “Fractured Inferno.”
Brought to life within
the walls of the Sullivan
Theater, the hour-long
play was an intellectual
mashup that combined
both
the
storylines
from the literary classic,
“Dante’s Inferno,” and
warped tales from the
Brothers Grimm.
cites psalms and passages
from the bible during the
performance in order to
provide insight to the
activity occurring within
each circle.
The
performance
begins with a few rows of
people standing in what
appears to be organized
lines similar to that of a
military regiment. They
are all dressed in army
green and appear to
be staring off into the
distance. There is no
sound, no movement,
no kind of indication as
to what is happening
until a man, Michael,
appears to snap out of
this trance and voices his
confusion and questions
the whereabouts of his
son, effectively breaking
the silence.
This
circle
is
undoubtedly the first
circle of hell, limbo.
Argued across spiritual
belief
systems,
this
space has been referred
to
as
an
area
of
nothingness, purgatory,
the Department of Motor
Vehicles.
In
religious
belief systems, purgatory
is a space for those who
have not been assigned
to Heaven or hell. It
is here where Michael
and Gabriel first meet,
and Gabriel calmly tells
Michael that he must
start a journey across the
remaining circles in order
to locate his son.
The play itself toted
numerous
biblical
references and is suited
for those who keep up
with popular culture and
classic fairy tales. The
allusions to stories like
Cinderella and Hansel
and Gretel, paralleled
with psalms and readings
from the Book of Timothy
proved to be not only
educational
but
also
entertaining.
Gabriel cited Luke
12:15 during the scene
revolving around the circle
of hell identified as greed,
“Then he said to them,
‘Watch out! Be on your
guard against all kinds
of greed; life does not
consist in an abundance
of possessions.’” In this
particular scene, Princess
Cinderella has taken over
the kingdom and seems
to answer that lingering
question at the end of the
classic Disney movie, “but
what happens to Lady
Tremaine and the wicked
step-sisters?”
Shown
through body language
and insinuating dialogue,
it becomes clear that the
trio has been enslaved by
Cinderella out of spite
and pettiness.
When the pair stumble
upon this situation, they
are faced with one of
many depictions of greed.
In this case, greed is
personified by taking on
the image of what was
once a kind and sweet
figment of Walt Disney’s
imagination. It shows
the true power of the
emotion, and how greed
and selfishness can go
hand in hand.
For Cinderella, a girl
who had nothing and
then was immediately
given everything, it’s easy
to see how such power
went to her head. Perhaps
acting as a metaphor for
remaining humble and
kind no matter your social
status,
this
powerful
scene resonated within
the four walls of the black
box theater.
Across the nine circles
of hell, the audience
comes to learn more
about Michael and the
reason for this journey.
It comes to light that his
wife and son have lived
complete lives without
him due to his infidelity
within his marriage. After
cheating on his wife and
leaving his family due to
shame, the play acts as
his reflection on his life
and the decisions that led
him to this point.
Perhaps this play acts
as a reminder not to
cheat on your significant
other. Perhaps it acts
as a reminder to make
purposeful decisions that
will benefit all of those
in which that decision
will potentially affect.
The beauty of creating
original content is that
the interpretation is left
to the viewers, it’s openended and fresh and has
limitless
potential
to
become something that
will be analyzed and
deciphered for years to
come.
Connect with Felicity
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Film critic discusses impact of politics on cinema
Kyle Crozier Alan J. Pakula and in nature, while the ‘80s in a pretty good mood, movies about this fear He showed a scene from
starring Warren Beatty, began to have a hero that during a period where that the Soviets would be the 1998 thriller starring
Journal Staff
American
television
and film has been thought
to mirror the political
climate of the time it was
originally produced. To
analyze this, and predict
how this may play out in
the future, Pulitzer Prize
winning critic for the The
New York Times, Wesley
Morris, spoke at Suffolk
University's
Modern
Theatre.
In
an
event
sponsored by the Suffolk
Cinema Series, Morris
acknowledged
the
controversy that exists
in politics, and posed
the
question,
“what
responsibility does the
culture have in terms of
responding to [politics]?”
He explained that
although he does not
have a simple answer to
this, he does think it is
always interesting to see
how artists will respond
to shifts in politics.
Morris
went
on
to show a clip from
the 1974 movie, “The
Parallax
View.”
This
movie,
directed
by
showcased an example
of a plot based around
presidential assassination
and suspicion. Morris
offered that these themes
were direct results of the
common general feeling
of the time after the
Kennedy
assassination,
with an array of political
suspicions
centered
around illegal activities by
the Nixon administration
during the Watergate
scandal.
Where
the
Nixon
a d m i n i s t r a t i o n
created distrust of the
government,
Morris
summarizes the main
character of the movie
as constantly threatened
and followed, creating a
total lack of privacy.
As this was a time of
heightened
suspicion
and when it seemed
threats loomed behind
every
corner,
Morris
explained that this movie
exemplified a widespread
feeling Americans were
experiencing.
Morris demonstrated
that during the ‘70s, the
antagonist
was
often
mysterious and unknown
fought against a singular
villain with clear motives.
As Morris explained, the
Rocky movies are often
considered to have been
a
direct
commentary
of the debate between
the white boxer vs.
the black boxer. But in
there weren't a lot of
popular movies that did
that.”
In a “Rocky IV” clip
presented
during
the
talk, Morris showed a
clear separation between
the training sequences
of the two boxers. The
able to enter the country
somehow and beat us
without our being ready
for it,” said Morris.
This
theme
of
separation between the
America and the Soviet
Union was presented in
other movies during this
Kyle Crozier / Journal Stacf
“Rocky IV” from 1985,
the conflict changes, and
we see a fight between
an American boxer and a
Russian boxer.
Compared to other
movies made in this time,
Morris said, “Rocky was
one out of all of those
movies that put everyone
American
who
uses
what Morris described
as, “God’s own workout
equipment,” things like
rocks and pieces of wood,
and the Russian, that uses
steroids and complicated
technological
exercise
machines.
“There are a lot of
time.
“You have basically
one man, versus an entire
state,” said Morris.
As
time
passed,
Morris said that the new
“boogeyman” in American
movies started to become
Arab people committing
some acts of terrorism.
Denzel Washington, “The
Siege,” where thousands
of Arab-Americans had
been placed in internment
camps in order to find
a suspect. He said that,
“Islam is part of how we
understand terrorism in
this movie.”
“The
Earth
was
destroyed [in film] more
times during Obama’s
presidency than in any
other
period,”
said
Morris. He associated this
with the end-of-the-world
style fears that developed
in some groups after
President Obama took
office, as well as fears
of global war and world
disaster as a result of
climate change.
Despite all of these
parallels between film and
current political climate
in the past, Morris said
he was not sure he would
see the same correlation
between
the
Trump
administration and film.
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by emailing
kcrozier@suffolk.edu
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Suffolk seniors offer their last sentiments before they
leave The Journal, solidifying their time at the university.
By Sam Humphrey,
Newsroom Manager
By Skylar To,
By Katie Dugan,
Sports Editor
Asst. Opinion Editor
I’ll be graduating from Suffolk University soon,
and as I think about the school I’m leaving, I
wonder how I’ll feel when I think about Suffolk
after I’m long gone.
The answer is not much. I’ve grown and come to
see the world differently than I did four years ago,
but most of those experiences didn’t come from my
education, in terms of college classes.
I chose Suffolk because it advertised itself as a
stable institution that would challenge me to learn
and grow as a person. But in my experience, the
opposite has been true.
I’ve had four presidents come and go during my
time here, and not one got a chance to be the face,
the leader of this school.
Along with the Board
of Trustees, many of
them promoted a plan
to “put Suffolk on the
map” and improve our
school. But if there is a
guiding vision or a plan
for the community to
line up for and support,
they’ve done a poor job
of communicating it to
us.
The campus I arrived
at is mostly gone or
significantly changed.
That’s not all bad,
but the places most
memorable to me, like
the Donahue building,
where I first joined
The Journal -- my only
experience at Suffolk
I truly enjoyed -- have
been erased from the
school’s story. What’s
left is an awkward
hodgepodge of spaces
spread across markedly
dissimilar buildings. Our campus is Boston, but it
is indistinguishable from the city, too.
Then there’s my education. I made Dean’s list in
the past, but I was recognized for two semesters in
which I felt as though my professors rewarded me
for such minimal effort.
In other semesters, I worked harder to do
well and earned grades I deserved, but I only got
recognized for the semesters I slacked off. I’ve
had perhaps four or five truly great, challenging,
and rewarding classes. But many of my courses,
particularly sophomore and junior year, weren’t
even average. They filled in my schedule, they met
my degree requirements, but they didn’t provide
me with much of anything to carry into my career.
My internships and various jobs have filled in the
areas Suffolk lacked in teaching.
While I hope other graduates had a better
experience, this is how I leave Suffolk -- an average
graduate with some skills and life experience to
help me, but no loyalty or love for the school I’ve
spent four years of my life attending.
When I was a senior in high school, I thought
college was going to be a magical, life-affirming
experience that would be absolutely perfect.
Now, four years later, I realize how naive I was.
The most valuable lesson that I have learned at
Suffolk University is that nothing in life will be
perfect. College is not all aesthetically pleasing
Instagram posts and partying. Life happens,
things go wrong and things will happen to you
that will completely knock you off your feet and
change how you think about everything. We
can’t always choose the cards we are dealt, but
we can learn how to play them.
When I think of my time at Suffolk, one of
my favorite quotes comes to mind that reads,
“bloom where you are planted.” My encounters
at Suffolk have taught me to make the most of a
bad situation. Suffolk is not without its faults, due
to the inconsistencies with the administration
and the constant changes that have many
students exasperated with the university, and
understandably so. Even with the aspects of how
this university is operated that are incredibly
frustrating-- I do not resent Suffolk.
I have made peace with my time at Suffolk.
I obtained what I needed out of my experiences
for my own personal growth and happiness. It
was not perfect and there are plenty of mistakes
I have made over the past four years that I wish
I could undo. Instead of being miserable and
accepting not ideal conditions that I could not
change, I decided to change my attitude.
I became more involved at this university. I
participated heavily in The Journey Leadership
Program, a Teaching Assistant for two years,
Alternative Spring Break and The Suffolk Journal.
Looking back, I have accomplished so much
more than I give myself credit for. I have dozens
of articles published in The Suffolk Journal over
four years, I was asked to join the editorial staff
as the Assistant Opinion Editor my senior year.
These priceless experiences will stay with me
for the rest of my life. If I had not been more
proactive about my college experience, I never
would have made so many connections with my
professors, classmates and coworkers, who have
turned out to be some of the most incredible
people.
Almost every single person I have met
at Suffolk has greeted me with nothing but
kindness and respect. Maybe it’s the turbulent
climate that has ultimately bonded everyone,
or maybe everyone here is simply genuine.
Regardless, I have been exceptionally fortunate
with the friend groups I fell into even with the
instability at the university.
Every piece of my Suffolk experience, while
at times seemed small and meaningless, has
prepared me for the next step. Overall, I am
happy with the person I am today and I owe
much of that to the positive experiences I’ve
had at Suffolk, including the highs and the lows.
Suffolk University surely was not a traditional
college experience for me, but it was the
experience I needed.
I was just another freshman four years ago with
a cliché dream of going to school in the city and
making it “big” someday as an aspiring journalist.
I was hoping to get the college experience at
Suffolk and started to think that I would leave here
as just another number two years in.
I got a late start, but fast-forward to the end of
my junior year and I could finally justify being at
Suffolk, because of The Suffolk Journal.
I woke up at 4 a.m. on a Thursday morning in
early November last year and acted on a strong
urge to start getting involved and writing for the
school newspaper.
I went to my first meeting that following week
and took my first pitch,
which of course, was
a game recap of the
Boston
Bruins
and
Colorado Avalanche.
Since then, even
though I never followed
sports
besides
the
Bruins
growing
up,
I rolled with sports.
Because of The Journal,
I learned to step out of
my comfort zone and
worked on building my
writing portfolio.
I realized that I could
actually envision myself
as a sports journalist.
My absolute favorite
part of writing for
sports is the community
aspect of it.
Whether it is going
to
games,
sporting
events or listening to
people boast about their
favorite team or their
love for the game, it is
so incredibly awesome
to see and hear the passion that unravels for the
love many people have for sports-- both Suffolk
and Boston especially.
Boston sticks together through the highs and
lows and being a part of the “best sports city in the
world” exemplifies that.
Even though I will no longer be eating pizza on
production nights or walk into the office and look
forward to seeing my best friends every day, it was
an absolute honor and pleasure to work with this
year’s Journal staff, especially to produce some of
our best work yet.
I will always be a storyteller and share the
stories of others through my writing. But, in the
few times like this, I get to share my story-- print
wise.
Even though it was for a little more than a
year, I will finally get to say that I lived the college
experience at Suffolk, because of The Journal.
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The
campus I
arrived at
is mostly
gone or
significantly
changed.
sbhumphrey@suffolk.edu
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Boston sticks
together
through the
highs and
lows and
being a part
of the ‘best
sports city
in the world’
exemplifies
that.
Signing off,
Skylar To
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the decline
Editor’s Word Urban crime is ontime to fact check him
Trump tweets inaccuracies and it’s
We all had no idea how
hard it would be to watch three
seniors leave at the end of the year
to embark on their own unique
journeys. To Sky, who instilled the
confidence within us to write for this
publication and become apart of an
everlasting bond at The Journal, we
thank you. To Katie, who’s creative
and bubbly personality emanated
the office, we will never forget
your joyful and infectious presence
around here. And to Sam, who
became not only a confidant and
father-figure mopping up all of our
lives, but a true friend, from the
bottom of our hearts, we’ll miss you
all.
We’ll miss all of the work you
put into this newspaper week in
and week out producing top notch
content, but that isn’t what we’ll
miss the most. What we’ll miss the
most is the laughs, the heart-tohearts, the good times and even the
bad. We’ll miss the times we spent
together growing, not as writers, but
as people. You’ve all become a part
of our lives, and although we will
forever be connected in life, it doesn’t
make it any easier knowing now
it’s time for you all to start a new
adventure.
Something special happened
this year, which is why saying
goodbye is so much harder. This isn’t
just saying goodbye to a friend or
a classmate, it’s saying goodbye to
family.
Patrick Holmes
Opinion Editor
57 percent
It should be mandatory
to fact check both what
President Donald Trump
says and his tweets.
It seems that many
Americans will believe
whatever
he
chooses
to say or write and by
doing so, have shielded
themselves from the facts.
During his campaign,
Trump sent out a tweet
stating that inner-city
crime is reaching record
levels. This tweet, which
is extremely inaccurate,
is based solely on opinion
with no statistics taken
into account. In fact,
violent crime has been
declining for more than
five years, according to
the Pew Research Center.
They even go as far as
to say that United States
citizens view of violent
crime doesn’t often align
with the data, saying that
citizens believe the rates
of crime are higher than
the reality.
It
is
unacceptable
that our now current
president is not paying
attention to simple facts
that a sophomore in
college can easily find
from reputable sources.
It is even shocking that
many people believe him
and do not try to search
for the factual data.
In 2015, the violent
crime
rate
increased
by 3.1 percent when
compared
to
2014
statistics, according to FBI
crime data. However, this
percentage is insignificant
compared to the thirteen
years before where the
crime rate consistently
declined.
There are statistics
that show the rise and
fall of crime rates and
it seems that Trump
has not taken a glance
at any real information
that could possibly help
him win over liberal
voters. It is said that the
violent
crime
decline
has been happening for
decades and that small
increases in few cities
have exaggerated the
rates, according to the
Washington Post.
From 1993-2015, the
of registered
voters
believed that
crime had
risen since
2008 even
though FBI
numbers
show that
it declined,
according
“
It seems
clear that
many
people
believe
that violent
crime in
urban areas
is increasing
but the
statistics say
otherwise.
to the Pew
Research
Center.
violent crime rate fell 50
percent, according to the
Pew Research Center.
So, what does one do
with this information?
It seems clear that
many
people
believe
that violent crime in
urban areas is increasing
but the statistics say
otherwise. There may
be a few spikes in cities
such as Chicago, but
that doesn’t contribute
to all city crime. There
are speculations to why
the crime rate has gone
up but there is not
enough information to
say for sure. And even
though Trump said he
would “bring in the
feds” in Chicago, the
feds are already working
with the police force
there, according to the
Washington Post.
Personally, it seems
clear
that
Trump’s
statements should be
taken with a grain of salt
and if Americans want
the
real
information,
they should take it
upon themselves to fact
check what our current
president says and tweets.
Law
enforcement
officials were at a loss
of how to explain the
different decreases and
increases
of
violent
crimes rates in major
cities in 2016, according
to the New York Times. It
appears that murders and
most other times of crime
are at an all time low
since their record high in
the 1990s.
If we are at record
lows, doesn’t it make
sense that the numbers
would go up? Especially
in
highly
populated
urban areas, it seems that
Criminologists
try not to
generalize
crime rates
when they
happen
during short
periods of
time so that
they can
gain more
accurate data,
according
to the
Washington
Post.
crime would be common.
But a small increase or
increases in few cities
does not mean that there
is an epidemic nor is it
related to one group of
people.
Overall, there is no
definitive
answer
to
what has caused spikes
in major cities across the
U.S. but it could be that
there are many different
areas that these urban
landscapes must do better
on such as the quality of
policing,
gang-violence
and socioeconomic status.
Not only with urban
crime, but other issues
concerning
Americans,
it should be clear to not
trust
everything
that
Trump states.
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Hannah Arroyo
Asst. Sports Editor
With seven games left
in their season, senior
second baseman BJ Neil
said that his team’s focus
is to prove that his class
was the “most successful
in the history of Suffolk
Athletics.”
The past two seasons
Suffolk has been backto-back
conference
champions
with
wins
over St. Joseph’s College
and Johnson & Wales
University.
This season, the Suffolk
seniors look to take the
diamond for the last time,
they will work toward
a third Great Northeast
Athletic
Conference
(GNAC) Championship.
“My
favorite
part
about playing baseball
[has been] being able
to compete with my
teammates,” said Neil
in an interview with
The
Suffolk
Journal
on
Monday.
“The
relationship and bond
teammates have with
one another is unique
to sports and cannot be
created anywhere else.”
Neil said that his
time playing for Suffolk
was filled with many
memories of winning
championships
and
forming bonds with his
teammates that will “last
a lifetime.”
Even after he finishes
his collegiate career at
Suffolk as a studentathlete, Neil said that
he hopes for baseball to
remain a constant part of
his life.
Left-hand pitcher Tim
Conroy, who will also
graduate this year, hopes
for his team to end on a
positive note this season.
He said in an interview
with The Journal on
Monday that his favorite
part
about
playing
baseball is that there is
no time restraint on the
game.
“Being a pitcher and
having the ability to
dictate the pace of the
game at all times entitles
you with a sense of power
that you can't really find
in other sports,” said
Conroy.
Conroy said that one
of his most memorable
experiences with the team
was losing the conference
championship in Maine
against
St.
Joseph’s
College
his
freshman
year. He explained that
the loss helped his class
develop as players moving
forward.
“That alone I believe
is one of the reasons
why we have been so
successful
since.
It's
funny how the failures
sometimes stick out more
than the successes,” said
Conroy. “I guess that's
just how you know you're
a competitor.”
As he plays his last
games this season, Conroy
said that he will miss his
team and wishes them the
best of luck in the future.
“I've never been closer
with a group of guys my
whole life and going to
war with these guys over
the past four years helped
me develop some of the
most lasting relationships
that I can ask for,” said
Conroy.
Win or lose, Conroy
said that he has enjoyed
every high and low that
the team has faced.
He also hopes to help
bring home one last
championship for Suffolk
seniors.
“[Moving
forward]
we’re going to stick
together, simplify the
game and out compete
whoever the opponent
may be,” said Conroy.
Throughout
this
season, both Neil and
Conroy had contributed
to their team’s GNAC
chances. Neil has acquired
a batting average of .268,
scored 15 runs and stolen
three
bases.
Conroy
had recorded of 2-1, 16
strikeouts and has pitched
24.2 innings
The Rams currently
stand at the top of the
GNAC with a record of 111. In total, the team has
scored 245 runs, had a
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“In order to win the
championship this season,
we have to play together
as a team all moving in
the same direction,” said
Neil.
States.
For
instance,
in other countries the
surfaces of courts vary
compared to the U.S,
where tennis is played on
a hard-surfaced court.
“They taught me all
different types of styles
of tennis from the way
they were brought up
how to play tennis and
incorporated it into my
game, making me not
only a better player with
new various skills, but
also making the whole
team better with new
techniques
and
skills
that we were never fully
familiar with,” said Saia.
Although when Saia
was younger he did
not like to play tennis,
he eventually grew to
love it. His favorite part
about playing tennis at
Suffolk has been hanging
out with his team and
“sharing laughs and good
times together.”
Being
an
active
member on the team,
Saia has made a lot of
memories with his new
teammates each year. He
enjoyed experiencing the
diversity the tennis team
has brought him.
“My freshman year I
was the only American kid
on the team,” said Saia.
“So just learning from
other types of people
from different countries,
how they play tennis and
learning how to speak
Spanish was fun.”
Upon
graduation,
Saia looks for a future
in finance and hopes
to further his career in
New York City. Although
he will not be pursuing
tennis any further, he
will always play in order
to prevent himself from
becoming “washed up.”
“Tennis will always be
incorporated in my life no
matter what,” said Saia.
Saia wants his team
to be remembered as the
ones that kept striving
for better, no matter how
difficult things were. At
the end of the day, Saia
wants the outcome of
the season to be more
than the team could have
imagined.
“All of my experiences
I have learned from my
past three years, this
fourth one I just want to
put it out on the court
and let everybody know
what I have learned and
hopefully the team can
carry it on,” said Saia.
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Brooke Patterson
Asst. Sports Editor
As a solo four-year
tennis program senior,
second-year
captain
Francesco Saia had a
slight heartbreak heading
into this season knowing
it would be his final one
with the Rams.
Suffolk
University’s
tennis team currently
holds a losing record of
2-7, but look toward the
Great Northeast Athletic
Conference
(GNAC)
Semifinal game at Centre
Court against Johnson &
Wales University on April
29.
“You just have take a
deep breath and say this
is my final season, give
everything I have got and
do everything the best
I can,” said Saia in an
interview with The Suffolk
Journal on Monday.
Senior
co-captain
Jacob Duggan, a finance
major, is also in his last
season with the men’s
tennis
team.
Duggan
joined the men’s tennis
team his sophomore year,
after being convinced
by Saia, and has been a
player on the court for
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three years. Duggan has a
two match win streak this
season with an overall
personal record of 3-4.
“This being my last
season, I am sad that I
won't get to play tennis
for
Suffolk
anymore,
but am glad that I get
to spend my last season
with such a great group
of guys,” said Duggan in
an interview with The
Journal on Tuesday night.
“As a team, we've come a
long way this season, and
I'm really proud of how
much we have improved.”
Saia, a finance major
who has been playing
tennis since he was
seven years old, went
7-1 his sophomore year
in singles at the threefourth
position
and
currently holds an overall
personal record of 2-6.
Every year since Saia has
been a Ram, he has been
awarded by the GNAC for
second team doubles.
The
senior
duo
contributed to the Rams
9-0 sweep over Lesley
University on April 20
when they were teamed
up in a doubles match
against Lesley athletes,
Niko
Marcolini
and
Beowulf
Urban.
Saia
and Duggan defeated
Marcolini and Urban 8-0.
“I, 100 percent have
developed over the past
four years,” said Saia. “You
can’t just play your own
style anymore, you have
to learn how adapt to the
other players and open
the court to all different
types of players.”
Saia
had
the
opportunity at Suffolk to
try different playing styles
from European players to
Asian players and even
some South American
players, which differs
from tennis in the United
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APRIL 26, 2017 | PAGE 12
Feldman paces back to Suffolk
Strides for track & field
Skylar To
Sports Editor
It
felt
like
the
“ultimate homecoming”
for Will Feldman when
he crossed the finish line
at this year’s 121st Boston
Marathon.
Even though his visit
to Boston was brief for his
seventh-career marathon,
Feldman will officially
return to a “special place”
he has always called
home to take on his
new position as Suffolk
University’s
first-ever
head coach of track &
field. Feldman was also
named head coach for
cross country. He will
officially begin both roles
on May 15.
“[Being named head
coach for track & field/
cross
country
feels
amazing to be honest,
it’s
a
dream
come
true,” said Feldman in
a phone interview with
The Suffolk Journal on
Thursday. “It’s hard to
believe that everything
is coming together and
[I can] start building this
program.”
Feldman, who was
announced as head coach
on April 14 by Director of
Athletics Cary McConnell,
said he found out about
the available coaching
position from a press
release
through
The
Boston Globe, which he
had to refresh the page
a few times
before it “finally hit in.”
Toward the end of
serving his second season
as the cross country and
track & field assistant
coach at the University
of North Carolina (UNC)
at Greensboro, Feldman
contacted McConnell and
expressed his interest
in the job. Whether
it
was
coaching
or
supporting track & field
as a supportive alumnus,
Feldman wanted make
sure that the program
would do well.
“When I saw the job
post, I was kind of in
shock,” said Feldman. “I
would never in a million
years dream that Suffolk
would have track & field.
I knew I had to reach out
and do what I could to be
a part of it.”
Feldman said he is
“excited and blown away”
by McConnell’s vision for
track & field and already
thinks the program is
heading in the right
direction. He traveled to
Boston for an interview
in January and said that
he hunched over with
“great excitement for the
first time in five years”
as he had a “really great
experience” visiting and
reconnecting with the
Suffolk community since
he graduated in 2010
with a Bachelor of Arts in
European History.
He was named most
valuable
player
and
served as team captain
for three out of the four
years as a student-athlete
for the men’s cross
country program. He
even began his coaching
career while he was still
an undergraduate student
at Suffolk in 2008 at
Suffolk’s Great Northeast
Athletic
Conference
(GNAC) rival, Emmanuel
College. Feldman said he
and his teammates always
talked about “how cool” it
would be if the athletics
department offered track
& field after cross country
practice.
“I knew how much
Since 2015-16, he has
been the assistant coach
of track & field at UNC at
Greensboro.
From
his
understanding
with
McConnell,
Feldman
expects to carry the same
position
from
North
Carolina to Suffolk, except
working with a smaller
budget and complying to
a stricter rules guideline
by the National Collegiate
Athletic
Association
participating in track &
field and he plans to build
a competitive program.
Feldman said he will
communicate to current
and interested students
for the four varsity
programs. He plans to
partner with Suffolk’s
Undergraduate Admission
to recruit members of the
incoming class of 2021,
as local as Boston Public
Schools and across the
nation like California.
“I would never in a million
years dream that Suffolk would
have track & field.”
-Will Feldman
[track & field] meant to
me and other students
cared a lot,” said Feldman.
“I felt like it needed to be
me.”
After he left Suffolk,
Feldman
stayed
in
the Boston area and
continued
serving
as
an assistant coach and
recruiting coordinator at
Emmanuel College before
he made the move to
work with the coaching
staff at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
for two years for their
cross country and track &
field programs.
In August 2013, he
moved to North Carolina
and joined the cross
country and track & field
coaching staff at Duke
University in Durham,
North Carolina for two
seasons.
toward
recruiting
methods at the DIII level.
For instance, Feldman is
able to recruit studentathletes year round to
UNC at Greensboro and
communicate to prospects
via email as early as
September of their junior
year and over the phone
heading into their senior
year by July whereas
at Suffolk, coaches can
start
communicating
with prospective studentathletes the summer after
their junior year.
However, the switch
from DI to DIII is minor
for Feldman and he said
he is really excited to
have the ability to recruit
as a first-time head coach
nationally.
Through
McConnell,
Feldman
has an “extensive list”
of students, who have
expressed interest in
“I’m
looking
for
students
who
can
definitely contribute to
the team,” said Feldman.
“I want to work hard to
explain to them what it
means to be a studentathlete.”
“I’m excited to really
get the word about Suffolk
in general and build
the program. “Suffolk’s
really committed to this
program.”
Even
though
the
athletics
department
anticipated for track &
field to begin for the 201617 academic year since its
addition to the varsity line
up last summer, track &
field will officially begin
this fall after men’s and
women’s cross country
concludes its season in
mid-November. Outdoor
track & field will start at
the end of next March
to beginning of April or
even May as Feldman
Courtesy of Suffolk Athletics
already
anticipates
a
GNAC Championship run.
Practice will start up in
the fall and the majority
of both indoor and
outdoor track & field will
practice together.
“My expectations [for
the programs] are high,”
said Feldman. “What I
think we’ll accomplish in
a few years is: laying the
foundation, establishing
[team]
culture
and
building
success
of
student-athletes.
We’re
going to be hard to beat
in the conference once we
get going.”
He thinks it may
appear to others that he
is leaving UNC, a Division
I (D1) institution for a
coaching position at a
Division III (DIII) school,
but he said his decision
was “a no brainer and you
can’t put a price tag to go
back to your home.”
“It’ll be bittersweet
to say goodbye to the
[UNC at Greensboro track
& field] team, but I’ve
always had the dream of
coaching track & field at
Suffolk,” said Feldman.
And he only had to wait
seven years for it, which
felt more like a decade for
Feldman.
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