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March 29, 2017
Suffolk student
killed after
tragic accident
Acting President Marisa
Kelly on Yao Cao: “The
loss of such a young
life is a tragedy beyond
words”
Patrick Holmes
Opinion Editor
THE GREAT
FLOOD
Suffolk University on-campus residents experience flooding in
10 West and 150 Tremont dormitories. Suffolk officials said there will
not be compensation to personal damages.
By Alexa Gagosz, Editor-in-Chief
Chris DeGusto, News Editor
Contributors: Kyle Crozier, Journal Contributor
Felicity Otterbein, Arts Editor
It is last Wednesday night and on-campus residents across
the university are attending to their daily activities, cooking
dinner and starting homework, but unbeknownst to them water
would soon be cascading from mainspace vents and pipes in
the ceiling. Textbooks, tablets, a laptop, clothes, food, personal
documentation papers and bedding were soaked and destroyed.
A discharge of steaming, black and musty hot water from heating
pipes bursted into the residency of multiple students. One in
particular, senior government major Sabrina Young, who has
lived in room 213 in 10 West since the beginning of the fall
semester, said they and their suitemates initially speculated that
the water may have been contaminated.
“I didn’t know if there might have been something toxic in the
water,” said Young to a Suffolk Journal reporter on Thursday.
University Assistant Dean of Students Elizabeth Ching-Bush
assured residents of 10 West and 150 Tremont dormitories in
an email sent on Thursday night that the water did not pose as a
health hazard, but an “inconvenience.”
Young’s bathroom and kitchen were flooded, and water
protruded down the hallway as far as some of the bedrooms
within the apartment. Young said an estimated $300 worth of
their own food was destroyed from the dark-colored water.
The fire department told Young and their suitemates to leave the
suite for their safety and each of them were offered to relocate to a
different room that had a vacant bed by the residence hall’s
See FLOOD page 4
A
2013
Audi
A8
collided with the ceiling of
a Massachusetts Turnpike
tunnel in Boston early
Sunday morning, which
killed a Suffolk Student.
Yao Cao, a 19-year-old
first-year Suffolk student
and the driver of the
vehicle, was pronounced
dead at the scene due
to the vehicle becoming
airborne and striking
the tunnel. He was an
international
student
from Changchun, China.
Cao, having only been
at the university since
January, was a finance
major within the Sawyer
Business School. Acting
President Marisa Kelly
sent out a statement
Sunday
morning
to
the Suffolk community
offering her sympathies
to those who knew him.
“As you join me in
mourning the tragic loss
of one of our students,
please know that my
thoughts are with all of
you in this very difficult
time,” said Kelly in the
statement. In correlation
with her sentiments, Kelly
held a moment of silence
on Tuesday afternoon
at the University Forum
on the expansion of the
strategic plan.
An
unidentified
woman
was
also
involved as a passenger
in the vehicle and was
immediately rushed to a
local hospital with nonlife threatening injuries,
but as of late Tuesday
night, there has been no
update on her condition.
Based on information
by the state police, they
believe the accident was
caused
by
“excessive
speed and impairment.”
“The loss of such a
young life is a tragedy
beyond
words,”
said
Kelly. Cao was a part
of
the
Freshman
See CAO page 3
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University forum weighs heavy on rankings, international recruitment
Alexa Gagosz
Editor-in-Chief
Chris DeGusto
News Editor
Few seats were left
vacant
when
Suffolk
administration
took
center stage in front
of concerned members
of
the
university’s
community
Tuesday
afternoon to address the
expansion of the strategic
plan. Acting President
Marisa Kelly began the
forum by outlining a
broad addition to the
university’s 2012 strategic
plan that will be extended
through 2019. This plan,
which Kelly said will be
tied to the university
budget, will include a
potential partnership with
international
student
recruitment firm INTO
University Partnerships.
Kelly, who tackled how
to respond to the national
decreasing
numbers
of
traditionally-aged
college students seeking
a higher education in
the Northeast, the high
cost of earning a college
degree, the challenges
of international student
enrollment
and
the
external threat of local
competition, said that
the plan will reinforce
“our historic mission but
builds upon it in ways
necessary to ensure our
future.”
Acting
Provost
Sebastian Royo introduced
INTO as a resource that
has 33 global offices as
Alexa Gagosz/ Editor-in-Chief
Acting Provost Sebastian Royo introduced the recruitment firm
INTO as a potential partner to increase international student
enrollment at the forum on Tuesday. The proposal will be sent to
be reviewed to NEASC by the end of the week. If approved, the
Board of Trustees will then review the proposal.
well as nine partnerships
across
the
United
States in predominantly
public universities such
as
Washington
State
University,
Colorado
State University and the
University of Alabama at
Birmingham.
The partnership, which
would be a commissionbased entity instead of
an outside contractor,
according to Kelly, is
scheduled to be sent to
New England Association
of Schools and Colleges
(NEASC) for review by
the end of the week. After
NEASC’s approval, the
Board of Trustees will then
review and potentially
approve it for it to be
possibly implemented at
the university by January
2018, according to Royo.
Royo said that with the
decrease in international
student
enrollment-from 1,509 in the 2015
academic year to 1,388
international students in
the 2016 academic year-and the possibility of the
new federal programs that
President Donald Trump
has looked to implement,
raise
questions
with
student visas.
“[International
students] are worried that
what they can do in the
U.S. will be affected by
the policies of the Trump
administration,”
said
Royo.
Royo argued INTO
would
“increase
our
competitiveness in [the]
international market” by
leveraging
enrollment
through INTO’s reach and
developing a stronger
global footprint. This
partnership,
Royo
said, would allow the
university to admit a
selective population of
international
students
who are aligned with
the brand and prestige
Suffolk represents.
Kelly,
who
spoke
extensively on ensuring
that Suffolk was ranked
both
regionally
and
nationally, said it was
time to conquer external
threats that both all
colleges in the country
are facing, but also those
threats specific to Suffolk.
Managing
Associate
Director
of
Student
Financial
Services
Jennifer Ricciardi spoke
on incorporating new
initiatives that would
promote diversity and
inclusion on campus,
focus
on
human
resources, amplify student
organizations and the
Athletics department as
well as increase housing
opportunities.
“It’s Suffolk’s goal to
make an agreement of an
externally funded housing
opportunity to most likely
be opened in 2019,” said
Ricciardi in an interview
with The Suffolk Journal
after the forum.
The
university
is
currently unsure of the
exact location or if the
new
housing
would
require students to take
public transportation just
yet, according to Senior
Vice President of Finance
and
Administration
Treasurer Laura Sander in
an interview on Tuesday.
The idea of the externally
funded housing would
“most
likely
be
a
developer owning the
property,” but Suffolk
would still have enough
control,
according
to
Ricciardi, where it would
be a partnership, but not
an outside contractor.
The price, however, has
not
been
determined
as there are several
conversation
occurring
on location still, but
Sander hopes that pricing
will be comparable to
on-campus housing in
Suffolk’s residence halls.
“What’s
important
is that the housing is
accessible to students
while
also
being
financially
affordable,”
said Ricciardi.
Kelly suggested in
an interview with The
Journal that the goal is
to generate housing for
undergraduate students
to take up residence for
two years and expressed
her
hopes
for
the
potential housing for
graduate students.
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Students dedicate Spring Break to service, social justice training
Haley Clegg
Photo Editor
For
many
college
students, spring break is a
time to unwind at home,
visit friends and family,
or enjoy an exciting
vacation. However, some
Suffolk students decided
to use their week off from
school to help those in
need.
Each year, Suffolk’s
Center for Community
Engagement
sends
students
to
different
locations all across the
country during winter
and spring breaks to work
as volunteers for different
organizations. This year,
some students spent their
vacations in Colorado,
Mississippi,
Arizona,
Georgia,
Pennsylvania
and Maryland.
Senior
Jessica
DiLorenzo traveled to
Bel Air, Md where she
worked with Habitat for
Humanity. This was her
third year with Suffolk’s
Alternative Spring Break
(ASB) program and led
this year’s trip.
“I have a passion for
service learning. It’s such
a great feeling to make
an impact on someone’s
life who will never be
able to repay you,” said
DiLorenzo in a recent
interview
with
The
Suffolk Journal.
Despite
the
trip
being cut short due to
a blizzard, her group
made the most of their
time and were able to
rehabilitate a house, as
well as work with the
company “ReStore” who
collects donated furniture
and hardware and sells
them to fund the housing
projects.
“Every year I am
shocked how well the
groups come together
and get to know one
another,” said DiLorenzo.
“There is also a learning
aspect where we teach
students social justice
curricular leading up to
the trip so that students
really understand why the
work we are doing is so
important.”
Junior Global Business
and
Marketing
major
Hannah Drain was a part
of the group that traveled
to Meridian, Mississippi.
Her group of 14 painted
walls,
hung
drywall
and worked on outdoor
cleaning in order to
restore a family’s home,
all while interacting with
them and learning about
the state of Miss.
“I learned so much
about southern culture
and hospitality. All of the
stereotypes that we had
we were able to resolve.
I learned more about why
things are the way they
are, as well as what the
misconceptions are,” said
Drain in a recent interview
with The Suffolk Journal.
Drain
said
she
appreciated
the
experience and urged
other
students
to
take advantage of this
experience. “It’s a great
opportunity
to
meet
new people while doing
something as powerful
as Habitat for Humanity,”
she said.
Senior Public Relations
major Cortney Holmes
traveled to Denver, Colo.
as a part of the ASB
program. This was her
fourth year, and has loved
it ever since her first trip
as a freshman.
“I think we have a duty
to give back and work
Courtesy of Cortney Holmes
“It’s such a great feeling to make an impact on
someone’s life who will never be able to repay you.”
with not only our own
community, but other
communities as well, said
Holmes. “I think it’s easy
for people to stay in what
is familiar to them and
only think about their
experiences in the world.”
While
community
service is the primary
goal of the Alternative
Spring Break program,
students
often
learn
valuable life lessons and
build friendships with
their fellow peers.
“It’s a great way to
leave your comfort zone
with a supportive group
of people that will become
your friends. It’s a way to
realize the privileges we
have as individuals and
do our best to impact
others,” said DiLorenzo.
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suffolk.edu.
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FSL student
remembered
by Suffolk
community
From CAO page 3
Second
Language
(FSL)
pathways
program,
according
to
the
university.
The
program
aims
to “provide students
with the opportunity
to
earn
academic
credit in a supportive
environment.”
Apart from State
Police, there were also
Boston
firefighters,
EMS
and
MassDot
officials on the scene
of the wreckage, which
ripped down many
cables and wires from
the tunnel.
Cao had resided
in Chestnut Hill in
Brookline during his
time at Suffolk. A
memorial service in
still in the process
being arranged.
Correction
Due to an error from
sources, a previous
version “University’s
united push for
diversity, the rocky
road to inclusivity,”
that was printed in
the 14th edition,
included that the
Board of Trustees
will also review the
proposal to find a
new Chief Diversity
Inclusion Officer.
This is incorrect as
only Acting President
Marisa Kelly and
upper administration
will be reviewing this
after the Task Force
proposes it.
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Suffolk students’ stock market schooling in blog
Chris DeGusto
News Editor
After
the
market
crashed in the waning
months of 2008, many
people both enveloped
within the industry and
those seeking to profit
off the trading of stocks,
have been skeptical of
the risks that come with
investing
their
hard
earned money. Last fall,
two Suffolk University
seniors
launched
an
online
financial
blog,
“Imperium
Investment
Analysis”
(Imperium)
to educate and inform
current
and
prospect
investors of the risks the
stock market presents,
and provide their own
advice so readers and
investors
alike
can
formulate
their
own
money-making formula.
“I’m a 22-year-old guy
that wants to teach people
from my experiences so
you don’t get scammed
out of your money like
I did,” said Trenton
Barnard.
Barnard, a senior who
has acted as a portfolio
manager for the Suffolk
University
Student
Investment Fund, came
to Suffolk from Utah,
founded Imperium last
October and the first blog
post was published the
following month. Barnard,
a philosophy major, told a
Suffolk Journal reporter
in a recent interview
that he initially made his
first sum of money in
stocks by investing in the
Twitter IPO, and would
often skip classes to trade.
The former analyst for a
Boston-based investment
firm, Barnard quit his
full-time employment in
the fall to devote his time
to Imperium.
Barnard
quickly
found a partner for his
Cam Chang/ Journal Contributor
Left: Yashpal Balgobin Right: Trenton Barnard
work,
senior
finance
major Yashpal Balgobin,
and
said
Balgobin’s
passion and dedication
to learning allowed no
hesitations when bringing
him on board. Barnard
said Balgobin was very
is
academically
and
practically
valuable
according to Barnard.
Currently,
Imperium
operates
as
a
free
subscription,
posting
weekly stock lists and
technical
tips.
This
product customers could
purchase. A complete
package of resources at
a one-time flat rate is the
goal for Imperium, which
Barnard would consist
of investment education
products, e-book and a
“I’m a 22-year-old guy that wants to teach
people from my experiences so you don’t get
scammed out of your money like I did.”
-Trenton Barnard
apt to educating himself,
by asking which tools he
could utilize to create an
influx of knowledge on
the subject.
“I look up to this guy.
He knows so much,” said
Balgobin of Barnard in a
recent interview with The
Journal.
At
Imperium,
the
goal is to create highquality
business
and
financial content that
readership is at no cost
and is something Barnard
intends to permanently
keep.
“If you focus on
delivering real, valuable
content to people over
money, the profits will
follow,” said Barnard.
Bannard
discussed
that
Imperium’s
gameplan
for
this
summer could potentially
fruitify
an
inclusive
tailored program. This
would allow investors
using this package to
uniquely view different
methods
based
upon
their personal interests
and strategies, while also
having the ability to view
the entirety of Imperium’s
content.
“We are giving you the
knowledge and education
[for people] to build their
own adventure,” said
Balgobin.
Balgobin’s
own
investing adventure did
not begin in the most
prosperous manner, as
he lost close to $1000
on penny stocks. Having
followed another trader’s
“get rich quick” system
and seeing the results not
forthcoming,
Balgobin
said he took a step back,
closed his portfolio, and
absorbed the knowledge
he would need to build his
own strategy of investing.
He said other traders
will sell you a platform
and only one way to trade
stocks, but Imperium is
detail oriented, and has
focused on being real
with people to show them
how to hone their craft.
“We want to make you
an independent investor,”
said Barnard.
Barnard said he hopes
to have co-sponsorships
with firms in the future,
but specified he wants
to keep the Imperium
website ad-free so that
readers can focus on the
content provided.
He said that people
do not have the leverage
with their money that
they would like, to be able
to exercise their finances
on vacations, or making
student loan payments.
Trust from customers is
a key factor for Balgobin,
who said people do not
have to spend thousands
of dollars [like other
programs
charge]
to
access and utilize this
investing
information.
He said it is essential to
that the two partners at
Imperium take time out
of their days to deliver
quality content to help
investors “unlock another
financial key.”
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suffolk.edu.
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Students misplaced, no timeline for repairs as of yet
From FLOOD page 1
Director
Jessica
Wheeler. Each of the
suitemates declined to
enter “a stranger’s dorm,”
according to Young.
Wheeler declined to
be interviewed for this
article on Tuesday night.
Also equally as shocked
were the residents of
room 408, who described
how a typically normal
scene of cooking dinner
ended with water being
sprayed down on them
from above.
“It sounded like an
earthquake,
like
the
ceiling was going to come
through,” said one of the
female residents.
For days, the main
door to Young’s suite
was propped open, but
the residents were not
officially allowed inside to
retrieve their belongings
unless they contacted
Suffolk University Police
Department
(SUPD),
according to Young.
“We
weren’t
told
the room would be left
open all day. There are
definitely personal items
that I know have been left
behind that I [now] can’t
locate,” said Young.
I n d u s t r i a l
dehumidifiers and fans
were placed around the
affected suites by ProCare Disaster Restoration
Services. One employee
of the company expressed
that their current job
was to clean and dry the
rooms
before
further
actions were taken, but
some residents were not
satisfied with this process.
Young’s concern lied
not in the heating pipes,
but in the carpets, fearing
that mold would have
already
spawned
and
spread in such a short
time.
“It’s honestly not good
enough for me,” said
Young. “They better be
ripping the carpets out
and replacing it [because
of] the likelihood of mold
already growing even
after one hour.”
However, it was not
only Suffolk students
affected by the pipes
bursting.
Just
below
some of the resident
halls is both the Back
Deck
restaurant
and
Boston Common Coffee
Company-- both of which
pay rent to the university.
Back Deck said that they
received minimal damage
and were able to open
the following night for
dinner. However, Boston
Common Coffee expects
to remain closed for an
additional week or two.
Co-owner of Boston
Common Coffee Tony
Massari said in a phone
interview with The Suffolk
Journal on Tuesday night
that three different pipes
bursted, which caused
damage to the shop’s
retail merchandise, coffee
and sitting areas.
“[Suffolk
University]
has been great,” said
Massari. “But now the
insurance has to handle
things.”
Massari explained that
he and his partner, Peter
Femino, have experienced
water damage at their
Canal Street location in
the past when the shop
was closed for four days.
Yet this time, the coowners will have to file
for both damages and loss
of business.
In total, 46 student
residents
across
150
Tremont and 10 West
have been affected by
water damage throughout
the month of March.
Gia Sarkis, a resident
of room 313 in 10 West
explained that she too felt
uncomfortable with the
idea of staying with new
people.
“The first night I
stayed in a hotel that
my mom paid for, I went
home for the weekend,
and now I am staying on
my friends couch at her
apartment because I feel
uncomfortable
staying
with a random person,”
said Sarkis in an interview
with The Journal on
Monday.
Sarkis said that she
was informed her finances
will not be reimbursed for
her hotel stay. Students
who have experienced
damage to their personal
belongings will not be
compensated for their
loss, as residents were
encouraged to purchase
renter’s insurance at their
orientations.
“The
student
understands
that
the
University is not liable
for loss or damage to
their personal property
whether by way of fire,
flood, accident, Act of
God, loss or interruption
of heat, electricity, air
conditioning,
burglary,
theft, vandalism, or for
whatever
reason
not
directly, proximately and
consequentially the result
of the sole and exclusive
negligence or misconduct
of the University,” reads
Kyle Crozier/ Journal Contributor
Residents invited Journal reporters inside their suites in 10 West on Thursday night.
“It sounded
like an
earthquake,
like the ceiling
was going to
come through.”
-A resident from
the 10 West
dormitories when
the pipes bursted
Alexa Gagosz/ Editor-in-Chief
Contractors hauled equipment in and out of the 10 West
dormitories throughout Thursday and Friday.
the
University
policy
on Liability for Student
Property.
A
university
spokesperson said that
Residence Life staff met
with the affected students
in order to assist with
room
relocation.
He
said
that
Ching-Bush
conducted small meetings
with each of the students
in order to discuss what
occurred.
Ching-Bush did not
respond
to
Journal
reporters for an interview
as of Tuesday night.
Director
of
Construction
Services
Andre Vega said in an
interview on Tuesday
afternoon that an outside
contractor went into the
dormitories and assessed
how long it would take
to repair the damages.
Insurance adjusters went
into the dormitories both
Monday and Tuesday
to assess the amount
of money it would cost
to repair the affected
areas of the buildings.
Vega said that he will
oversee the drying out
and construction phase
as he said the pipes were
already repaired.
Vega confirmed that
the pipes that had bursted
were heating pipes and
“warm water” had leaked
into the residents’ rooms.
Vega was not able to
give
an
approximate
temperature of the water.
Michal
Kanra,
a
sophomore
living
in
room 214 of 10 West,
awoke to the sound of his
roommate stepping off his
bed and onto the ground
where a pool of water had
developed in their room,
while they slept.
“I personally feel they
don’t know how to handle
the situation considering
they have done nothing to
compensate us and have
done nothing to fix the
problem,” said Sarkis. “So
if anything, I don’t feel
the response was rushed
at all, I just feel like they
don’t know what to do.”
Some of the students
suggested that the pipes
had burst due to their
heat not working for a
significant amount of
time- a complaint that
many residents of the
building have complained
about whether they have
been affected by water
damage or not.
“We
are
still
investigating the root
cause
and
depending
on what is determined
that will dictate how
we proceed in taking
preventative
steps,”
said
the
university
spokesperson. “This is
not something that has
happened previously. It
was not a case frozen
pipes bursting. We will
look at the results of the
investigation and then
determine the best plan
going forward.”
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Amy Koczera
Journal Staff
Over the past few
weeks, Secretary of State
Rex Tillerson has visited
South
Korea,
Japan
and China to discuss
North Korea’s nuclear
initiatives. According to
The New York Times,
Tillerson announced “all
options are on the table”
when it comes to dealing
with these measures. Just
two days after Tillerson’s
statement, North Korea
posted
a
propaganda
video
on
YouTube
depicting a United States
aircraft
carrier
and
warplane being destroyed
in a computer-generated
explosion.
The caption stated
North Korean missiles
will be “stabbed into the
throat of the carrier”
and the jet will “fall
from the sky.” This rapid
development of North
Korea’s nuclear arsenal
has both US citizens and
leaders alarmed. However,
U.S. leaders do not have
the
most
successful
reputation when it comes
to
confronting
other
nations about nuclear
development.
Tillerson announced
the US would take a “new
approach” to dealing with
North Korea’s nuclear
ambitions. Yet, Tillerson
never described what the
details of that plan would
involve. Past U.S. leaders
such as Barack Obama
and George W. Bush
made similar statements
related to dealing with
international
nuclear
affairs, describing how
each approach would be
new and different, yet
failing to follow through
with any kind of
unique,
groundbreaking plan.
“Someone
forgot
to tell him that a new
administration promising
a new approach it can’t
quite articulate is, in
fact, the old approach,”
said Jeffrey Lewis in
The Washington Post in
response to Tillerson’s
announcement.
The U.S. government
has a tremendous history
of saying there is a plan,
but
never
explicitly
explaining what that plan
is. It may seem frustrating
to U.S. citizens to feel as
if their government
is not doing enough. Due
to this, there will always
be the question of how
much the government
is
withholding
from
citizens.
In situations where
nuclear
weapons
are
developing at such a rapid
pace, many find it hard to
believe that North Korea
isn’t a threat. According
to The Korea Times, Kim
Jong-un is believed to
have spent more than
$97 million dollars to
fire a total of 31 ballistic
missiles.
It’s
hard to rationalize why
a country would spend
such a substantial amount
of money building their
nuclear arsenal if it’s just
an empty threat.
“They’re such a big
threat because they’re
so unpredictable,” said
Suffolk University history
professor Ron Suleski.
North Korea gives off
the impression that they
don’t want anything to do
with any other nations,
yet they post threatening
propaganda videos and
conduct sporadic nuclear
missile tests.
The U.S. is cautiously
approaching this issue
right now.
“In East Asia,
American
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South Korean
president
impeached,
protests may be
sensationalized
Jacob Geanous
World News Editor
The
presidential
scandal
that
has
continued to unfold in
South Korea has reached
a heightened level of
drama that may even
trump America’s televised
political circus.
Park Geune-hye, the
former South Korean
president,
became
the
country’s
first
democratically
elected
leader to be impeached
earlier this month after
a
corruption
scandal
came to light, and now
prosecutors are calling
for her arrest, reported
the New York Times.
Prosecutors
allege
that
Park
knowingly
allowed her confidant,
Choi Soon-Sil, to use her
political influence with
Diplomacy
is
more
important than it is
anywhere
else”
said
Suleski. China may know
more about North Korea
than China is willing to
admit. It is possible that
the U.S. also knows more
about North Korea than
the U.S. has divulged. For
America to avoid losing
China as an ally, U.S.
leaders are cautiously
acting as though they’re
making
change,
even
though hardly anything is
being done.
History has taught
us
that
erratic
and
unpredictable
behavior
is the essence of North
Korean
government.
Nuclear weapons can
have
catastrophic
consequences and cannot
be taken lightly. It is
the U.S. government’s
responsibility to do more
than just say they’re
making change and to take
action before something
ruinous happens.
the
president
to
solicit
contributions
from business leaders
to firms she controlled.
It has also been alleged
that the contributions to
Choi’s firm were used as
a bribe for Park’s help
to rally approval for a
controversial
Samsung
merger.
Park, the country’s
first female president,
had her political powers
suspended in December
after
a
legislative
impeachment
vote,
but remained in the
presidential Blue House
and avoided the public
eye while the country’s
Constitutional
Court
deliberated
on
her
impeachment, according
to multiple news sources.
Earlier this month,
eight justices on the
country’s Constitutional
Court
unanimously
decided to unseat her
during a ruling that was
broadcasted nationally.
The video of the
impeachment
ruling
immediately went viral
on social media and is
how many living in South
Korea learned of Park’s
fall from grace. This
included Tonny Barua,
a
Suffolk
Broadcast
Journalism major that is
studying abroad at Yonsei
University in Seoul.
The decision sparked
massive protests at the
country’s capital, which,
according to Barua, have
been sensationalized by
worldwide media outlets
after two Park supporters
were killed during a clash
with police in the initial
uproar.
“I have seen a bunch
of people living in South
Korea make fun of
American news [and] how
they are making a huge
deal about it and how
brutal it is,” said Barua.
She explained that the
protesters in South Korea
are much more peaceful
and organized than
those in the United
States. They even have a
schedule for protesting
that breaks the day into
segments for different
groups to protest.
“I walked by city
hall and people weren’t
looking intense,” said
Barua. “You don’t feel
like there is anything
going on.”
Barua said she has had
to calm her parents down
after they called her to
tell her not to leave her
campus because they fear
it’s dangerous.
“Everyone’s freaking
out in the U.S. for no
reason,” she said.
Barua said that she
has stayed at arm’s length
from the protests at
Seoul’s City Hall for fear
of being punished.
She explained that
if she was found taking
part in the protests, she
could be barred from the
private university or even
the country.
“Us exchange students
aren’t allowed to get
involved in that,” Barua
said. “If we are in the
place of protest we
might be kicked out of
the university were are
at or banned from the
country.”
Protests are slated
to continue until South
Korea will decide on
the next president in a
special election on May
9, multiple news sources
report.
Moon Jae-in, of the
opposition
Democratic
Unity
Party,
is
the
frontrunner in opinion
polls that were conducted
shortly
after
the
impeachment, signaling
a possible countrywide
swing to the left.
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Global Gateway’s trip more than a vacation
Alcazar de Segovia, overlooking the city of Segovia.
Morgan Hume
Journal staff
Suffolk
University’s
Global Gateway program
recently
facilitated
a
week-long
educational
trip to Madrid, Spain for
28 Suffolk freshman.
Admiring
famous
works of art in the Prado
Museum, stepping onto
the field at the Santiago
Bernabéu
Stadium,
watching a live flamenco
show and munching on
churros con chocolate
were just a few parts
of the Spanish culture
that the students were
exposed to during their
trip that explored another
country and culture.
“The idea was to
develop a program for
freshmen students that
would have a number
of goals,” said Acting
Provost Sebastian Royo
in an interview with The
Suffolk Journal on Friday.
“One of them is to expose
them to an international
experience. A lot of the
students, most of them
have not had experiences
in other countries.”
Students were exposed
to all types of Spanish
cuisine including squidink paella, croquetas and
tortilla espanola.
Freshman marketing
and global business major
Sophia Romeo appreciated
the opportunity to try the
country’s unique food.
“As a foodie myself, it
was a great opportunity
to try new food and
immerse
myself
in
Spanish
culture,”
she
said in an interview with
The Suffolk Journal on
Tuesday night.
Their trip also included
a tapas tour where they
had a truly authentic
experience.
“Through
touring
local spots we had the
opportunity
to
taste
traditional Spanish food,
especially
croquetas
which were the crowd
favorite,” said Romeo.
Although the trip was
packed with adventure,
visiting Spain was more
than a vacation. It was a
cultural experience that
showed them how people
in another country live.
“I was really happy
to go with this program
because I felt I saw so
much for only going for a
week,” freshman English
major Ali D’Arcangelo
said in an interview about
her experience. “I would
not have gotten as much
out of it if I didn’t go
with the Global Gateway
program because they
created a busy itinerary
for the entire week so we
would be able to see as
much as possible.”
Few
events
were
scheduled
during
evenings
so
students
could explore the city and
dive into the nightlife.
“I think it’s important
to
acknowledge
and
learn different lifestyles
than the one you are
accustomed to, not just
on a personal level,
but on a global scale.
Understanding
how
people different than you
operate can show you who
you are or how you want
to live your life as well as
learn to be accepting of
others,” freshman global
business and marketing
major Anne Muise said.
“Bridging gaps between
cultures is so important
now more than ever, too.”
Students also took day
trips to two Spanish cities,
Segovia and Toledo, to
see more of the country
outside
the
capital,
including the famous
Aqueduct of Segovia.
Students were also
able
to
build
close
relationships
with
Suffolk faculty members
and students currently
studying abroad. While
many students from the
group did not know each
other in the beginning, by
the end of their week they
had formed friendships
with one another.
“To be put in a group
of people that you do not
know and go to a foreign
culture that you’re not
familiar with can be
intimidating, but it ended
up being a completely
rewarding
experience
that I couldn’t have gotten
anywhere else,” freshman
international economics
major Jordan Albrizio said
after returning to Boston.
Royo hopes to expand
this program each year,
so that within the next
three to four years every
incoming
freshman
will
have
the
same
opportunity that these
students did.
“Ultimately our goal
and our dream is that
this becomes part of
the Suffolk experience,”
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Royo said. “That in their
freshman year, they could
have a unique experience
that no other college
offers.”
Royo
hopes
that
participation
in
the
program inspires other
students to visit and study
at Suffolk University’s
Madrid campus.
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Boston Ballet makes contemporary leaps and bounds
of the women’s skirts was
Felicity Otterbein effortlessly
beautiful.
Arts Editor There is a real sense of
The show was a
celebration and exposé
of the human body. What
seemed like a logical and
methodical
progression
of a more traditional
ballet to contemporary
pieces turned out to be
a pragmatic approach to
the artform.
The
first
of
the
three
performances
was the light-hearted
George
Balanchine’s
“Donizetti
Variations.”
Choreographed to the
ballet music from act
two of Donizetti’s 1843
opera, “Don Sebastian.”
The
performance
features
a
principal
couple, surrounded by
an ensemble of three
men and six women.
This piece is flirty and
funny and has some
sugary-sweet components
similar to that of “Swan
Lake” or “The Nutcracker”
performances. The color
scheme is blue and pink
cotton candy and the tulle
innocence and naiveness
in this performance, the
shy and demure facial
expressions goes hand in
hand with the tip-toeing
of the pointe shoes and
the impeccable 16 turns
from male lead, Junxiong
Zhao.
The
following
performance
is
Jirí
Kylían’s
“Wings
of
Wax.” This piece has a
much darker tone that
is initially set when the
curtain rose and reveals a
dead tree hanging upside
down from the ceiling.
Circling the tree was a
single spotlight which
cast eerie shadows along
the faces of the dancers
and the limbs of the tree.
It was in this piece that
the contemporary tone
for the night really started
to settle in. While the
precision of the dancers
movements are calculated
and confident, this piece
displays the musculature
and strength needed to
Felicity Otterbein / Arts Editor
Boston Ballet Company during “Cacti,” a performance an Opening Night of “Wings of Wax.”
execute a performance
such as this.
The
finale
and
ultimate
highlight
of
the night, is “Cacti.” As
a nod to postmodern
dance and criticism, this
dance is almost ironically
contemporary. The first
half of the performance
is a rhythmic experience
which
involves
16
company
members
on
individual
tiles,
mercilessly beating their
hands on the surface of
the tiles and themselves
to create this explosive
sound. Accompanied by a
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Stick a pin in it: preparing for “Orlando”
“Leslie
has
been
her costumes with.
have so much fun with
actually
been using that have
patterns the size of the
page, and so you have
to use the scale ruler to
things that you would
never be able to do now.”
With such a large
cast, Buretta knew that
she wouldn’t be able to
construct
full-fledged
costumes
for
each
member other than the
leads and other important
roles in the show. She
told The Journal that she
has devised a system that
focuses on the different
levels of the roles.
Buretta
explained
that the levels rely on a
scale of “realization.” For
instance, main characters
Orlando
and
Queen
Elizabeth and roles who
are heavily tied to Orlando
will have “fully realized”
costumes.
Whereas
some people who might
only interact with main
characters once or twice
will only feature a jacket
and a hat.
The
rest
of
the
costuming and accessories
are being bought or
rented.
According to Buretta,
many of her peers are
project.
However with a cast of
this magnitude, Buretta
has remained nothing but
upbeat about working
with her peers. She said
that the show has a lot of
new people, new freshmen
and sophomores that she
hasn’t had the chance to
work with before. The
costume designer has a
very personal relationship
with the actors because
they are with them all
of the time whether it
be constantly fitting and
refitting their costumes,
or ensuring that the
costumes work properly
and don’t malfunction
while on the moving
bodies of the actors.
Buretta did comment
on the young talent of
freshman theatre major
Mickey Rodgers and her
role as “Orlando.”
“The
part
is
so
interesting because you
have to be able to play
both roles. You have to
be able to play the man
convincingly
and
the
using
Felicity Otterbein
teaching me how to
“There’s
lots
of prints and colors and so particular show
Arts Editor build and construct these reference books that I’ve you can mix and match
graduate
level
In a whirlwind of
fabric,
sketches
and
beading, Maxine Buretta
has managed to harness
her innate ability to create
and focus it toward her
senior thesis, “Orlando.”
The theatre major has
spent her last four years
at Suffolk University in
the throes of the theatre
department,
amidst
casting, costuming and
creating. She is familiar
with the stages of the
Modern Theater, Sullivan
Studio and the once
great C. Walsh Theater
on Temple Street. The
culmination
of
her
learning experiences and
time spent is now being
put to the test in Suffolk’s,
“Orlando.”
With a new title of
costume designer, Buretta
explained the process
of creating the 35 to 40
costumes that would be
featured in “Orlando.”
Faced with the challenge
of tackling gender fluidity
and the task of creating a
scheme that would cover
300 years and multiple
cultures, Buretta was up
for the test.
Written by British
modernist author Virginia
Woolf, the show follows
17th century Orlando, the
protagonist, through a
series of gender and time
changes. While the show
itself covers more than
300 years of time, space
and
culture,
Orlando
only ages 36 years. Faced
with this immense task,
Buretta was excited to
take on the challenge.
“I’ve
been
doing
costumes in the theatre
department for all four
years that I’ve been in
school,” said Buretta in
a recent interview with
The Suffolk Journal. “We
don’t have a costume
program in our theatre
department, so it was
sort of something that
they were like, ‘we want
to have a culmination of
all of the work that you’ve
done thus far.’ They
proposed this to me as a
thesis project, and that’s
sort of how we stumbled
to where we are now.”
Buretta has absorbed
everything in her four
years in the theatre
department and has been
working on improving her
skills by learning from an
assigned mentor, Leslie
Held.
costumes and now I’m
putting all the pieces
together. I’m building
a portfolio, I’m doing
Digital rendering of a sketch drawn by
Maxine Buretta. An18th-century inspired
dress designed for protagonist Orlando.
a thesis project and
building tons of costumes
so it’s kind of fantastic
that all of these things are
kind of coming together
right now.”
Buretta
became
involved
with
the
department productions,
and ultimately costuming,
by helping out with
the Fall and Spring
Showcases
that
are
put on every semester.
Buretta worked her way
up the ladder by assisting
in all of the showcases
amidst other productions,
leading to the role of
assisting the designers
that the university would
bring in to do mainstage
shows. Now that she has
established a name and
place for herself within
the department, she gets
to design the shows,
complete with her own
assistants.
“It’s been interesting
with this show because
the point is more so
the gender, and really
focusing on that,” she
said.
“Some
of
the
silhouettes have a higher
neckline.
We’ve
been
cutting those down a
little bit to really amp up
[Orlando’s] femininity.”
When looking for a
specific design or pattern,
designers can consult
with
compilations
or
pattern
books.
What
Buretta struggled with
initially was the fact that
the patterns she was
looking for were far too
dated to possibly appear
in any modern book,
forcing her to begin with
a basic pattern to create
blow them up to the right
size,” Buretta said as she
explained how she has
been able to create many
of the costumes.
Buretta
said
that
most of the dresses she
designed for the 16th, 17th
and 18th centuries have
similar silhouettes that
correspond to respective
countries such as the
United States or France.
The dresses have big hip
skirts, which the base she
uses to begin a design for
a female costume. Once
she gains the approval of
the director of the show,
she proceeds to do what’s
referred to as a “muslin,”
or the base. Once that is
constructed, Buretta is
able to use that design to
begin to cut and use real
fabric to start making the
actual costume that will be
worn by an actor. Amidst
minor fittings in between
fabric
selections
and
the use of the “muslin”
is when the full outfit
begins to form. After
all of these stages take
place,
embellishments
like the trim and zippers
can be added. This final
stage is where Buretta
finds herself now. Unsure
of her official budget,
Buretta estimated that
she’s spent roughly $1500
so far.
“I think the flair and
your own personal taste
comes in the fabrics that
you use, and the trims
that you choose, the
silhouettes are what they
are, there’s not too much
flexibility there but the
people in the 18th and
19th century loved to
this
as a
thesis
woman convincingly, and
I think she has the sort of
naive-ness to her. She’s
so innocent and so sweet
that you’re like ‘she’s so
pure,’ when she’s a man,
but you can feel her
femininity and it really
shines
through
when
she’s a woman.”
Outside of the theatre
department,
Buretta
spends time with dance
company,
Urbanity
Dance, and has also been
working with Wheelock
Family Theatre in their
production of “Charlotte’s
Web.” While most of
her outside stagework is
freelance, Buretta said
that the freelance path is
where she is headed for
the time being. According
to Buretta, she is taking
any jobs that come her
way, but is mostly looking
for short-contract based
jobs because she wants to
learn as much as she can
as quickly as possible.
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features contemporary dance
Felicity Otterbein / Arts Editor
Members of Boston Ballet Company during “Donizetti’s Variations,”
the first set of the night at Boston Ballet’s “Wings of Wax.”
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string quartet, the
dancers
writhe
and
twist
around
their
small
squares,
in
a
choreographed chaos. The
title of the performance
doesn’t come into play
until the second half,
when all of the dancers
rush off stage and return,
each holding a succulent.
They then construct this
massive structure made
from their individual tiles
and proceed to duck and
hide behind it, save two
dancers. Seemingly in the
midst of a rehearsal of
their own accord, narrated
thoughts are announced
over the speaker for both
the man and the woman.
It was incredibly funny,
entertaining to watch
and listen to what was
construed
as
normal
thought processes that
occur in the minds of
skilled dancers. All the
while,
a
pretentious
voice is overheard on the
loudspeaker, lamenting
in a monologue regarding
“collaboration.”
The
narrator comments on
this concept, “a world
where we’re not dancers,
not musicians, but all
members of the human
orchestra.”
Although the night
contained
a
colorful
array of modern and
postmodern dance, the
evening could not have
displayed a smoother
transition from one piece
to another.
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OPINION
Discrimination:
Our political sensitivity
and intolerance of
criticism
Chaim Wigder
Journal Staff
A new popular debate
strategy that has surfaced
in the last few years,
particularly since the
most recent presidential
election: criticizing one’s
opponent as a “sensitive”
or “special” snowflake.
The insult was first
directed at the perceived
hypersensitivity
among
students
on
college
campuses, but has now
come to be thrown around
in response to virtually
anything the younger
generations might say
that disagrees with the
status quo, and is mostly
thrown from the far right
toward the left.
This isn’t just another
immature
derogatory
term. It also highlights a
real problem facing both
the right and the left: the
inability to distinguish the
criticism and exchange of
ideas from intolerance
and prejudice.
Demanding the same
rights as everyone else
does not make one
overly
sensitive,
and
“
Besides,
standing
up against
discrimination,
bullying,
and
intolerance
is
something
everyone
should
absolutely
be sensitive
about.
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restrictions on the use of weed?
calling everyone who
does a “snowflake” is a
cheap attack that carries
no
substance
other
than furthering societal
divides. At the same time,
closing oneself off from
opposing
viewpoints
-- offensive or not -is
indeed
dangerous.
Neither side should lose
sight of what’s important.
Our culture prides
itself on its tolerance of
individuality, yet some
use it as a means of
discrimination. As we
make progress with equal
rights, there will be more
and
more
minorities
who’ve faced intolerance
and will demand to have
their voice heard. This
doesn’t mean people are
getting more needlessly
sensitive;
it
means
people
are
becoming
more mindful of how
we should treat others.
Unique (“snowflake”) or
not, all people deserve to
be treated with respect.
We must also be
careful to acknowledge
that people should be
sensitive
about
the
right things. A free and
just
society
requires
two essential qualities.
Equal rights are surely
the first. The other is
the ability to freely
criticize and exchange
ideas. Unfortunately, the
latter is often seen as
incompatible with the
former and therefore gets
equated with intolerance.
A striking example of
this is indeed on college
campuses, where invited
speakers have increasingly
been met with protests,
human blockades - and at
times violent riots - due
to their beliefs, which,
in a shockingly high
number of cases, happen
to be misattributed or
otherwise distorted.
No doubt there are
ingenuine trolls who have
no place in an academic
environment, such as
Milo
Yiannopoulos.
Does he really have
anything philosophically
meaningful to add?
People
whose
primary
goal
is
to
offend rather than have
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Our culture
prides
itself on its
tolerance of
individuality,
yet some
use it as a
means of
discrimination.
genuine debate should
be
ignored,
although
even they should not be
met with violence. I am
talking about otherwise
respectable authors and
academics who, as part
of a civil conversation,
criticize and exchange
ideas without directly
attacking any group of
people.
When students shun
them
with
abusive
language
or
violence
because they don’t agree
with them instead of
entering the conversation
themselves, it is no
longer a conversation. If
we attack everyone we
disagree with, we become
the intolerance we believe
ourselves to be fighting
against.
On the other side,
there are those who
say they are merely
expressing their ideas
while actually spouting
hate or even just being
unnecessarily
hostile.
You are not required to
denounce your beliefs
if they happen to offend
people, but many in
the so-called “alt-right”
seem to simply enjoy
mocking people during
any discussion, and then
follow up by defending
their right that opinion.
While
we
should
not shut down debate
over
hurt
feelings,
things like the term
“sensitive
snowflake,”
which is designed for
the sole purpose of
hurting people’s feelings,
should be abandoned.
Besides,
standing
up
against
discrimination,
bullying, and intolerance
is something everyone
should
absolutely
be
sensitive about. Is that
really an insult?
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Another perspective: Who
are you calling a snowflake?
Katie Dugan
Asst. Opinion Editor
Millennials have a lot
of negative stereotypes
about
them.
We’re
entitled, lazy, we’re numb
to acts of violence and
we’re obsessed with social
media and technology.
But probably the oddest
stereotype about us is
that we are too sensitive
and get offended easily.
Truthfully,
we
do
tend to come off as a
delicate bunch. Everyone
seems to have an opinion
about everything, and
millennials are especially
vocal
about
them,
predominantly on our
social media accounts.
However
we
don’t
complain for the sake of
complaining. The world
right now is a disaster and
there’s plenty to complain
about.
We did not invent
awareness of social issues
and being offended about
things going on in the
world. However, we did
popularize social media.
We take to social media
to make our voices heard
and one of the most
prominent and successful
millennials in the world,
Mark Zuckerberg, has
said, “By giving people
the power to share, we’re
making the world more
transparent.”
When you disagree
with someone is it more
proactive to say, “no,
you’re wrong,” or “why
do you think that way?”
Different
perspectives
and personal experiences
are the foundations in
which this country prides
itself on, so why are we
scrutinized for expressing
discrepancies?
Last year, the term
“sensitive
snowflake,”
seemingly
popularized
by Republican political
commentator
Tomi
Lahren,
became
the
defining
insult
of
2016. The term began
circulating social media
as a way to demean young
people for being too easily
offended. Essentially, the
term is used in relation
to purported generational
differences.
More specifically, it is
directed toward people
who became adults in
the 2010s as being more
prone to take offense
and less resilient than
previous generations, or
as being too emotionally
vulnerable to cope with
views that go against
their own.
Baby
boomers
are
forgetting that they were
the ones who raised us socalled snowflakes. While
they may see whining and
hypersensitivity, we see it
as being more aware of
widespread ramifications
of sexism and racism -issues the generation of
Donald Trump supporters
appear to be ignoring.
Teenage
rebellion
used to be sneaking out
late at night and listening
to punk music. Today
it is wearing pink hats
and protesting. Donald
Trump’s presidency has
brought to light some
deep-rooted
societal
issues that had been
swept under the rug. LGBT
issues, sexual assault,
“
Calling
someone
a sensitive
snowflake is
an easy way
to diffuse the
attention toward a
challenged point
of view.
equal
pay,
affordable
healthcare, are all part of
the conversation toward
new legislation and laws
that would directly affect
us.
We owe this awareness
to the Internet. We have
access to millions of
different viewpoints at
once. Despite growing up
in a predominately white,
middle-class town with
a population of about
13,000, growing up with
access to Youtube videos,
blogs and tweets flooded
my narrow world with
opinions.
At the risk of being
ironic, the act of calling
someone a snowflake
for
disagreeing
with
you is insensitive in
itself. It’s another way
of dismissing someone’s
opinion as invalid, and
it almost seems like one
step closer to gaslighting.
Lahren
called
people
who
participated
in
the
Women’s
March
sensitive
snowflakes,
and that seems quite
contradictory,
for
an
estimated five million
people of all generations
came together to stand up
for their rights as human
beings that are going
to be threatened by the
current
administration
in Washington D.C. That
doesn’t seem to be a
hypersensitive
act
or
behavior to me at all.
Calling someone a
sensitive snowflake is
an easy way to diffuse
the attention toward a
challenged point of view.
To be fair, it is possible
for people to read too
much into messages and
spark
a
controversial
discussion when there
wasn’t one to begin with.
But millennials are not
the only generation guilty
of that; everyone does it
once in awhile. By telling
our entire generation that
we are being “sensitive
snowflakes” is the same
as telling us that our
opinions don’t matter.
Silent
opinions
have
rarely done anyone any
favors.
If you’ve done your
research and have your
facts
straight,
your
opinion is valuable, and
you should never feel
discredited
because
someone thinks you’re
being “too sensitive.”
Older generations may
say our trigger warnings
and safe spaces make us
spineless and incapable
of dealing with the harsh
realities of the real world.
This is such a narrowminded way of looking
at society and I do not
think that negatively of
the “real world” where
we can’t be progressive
or educate ourselves to
create a better and more
accepting
society
for
everyone.
Yes, the world is
a harsh place, and in
life you don’t always
receive what you want. I
genuinely do not believe
that millennials expect
the world to be served
to them on a silver
platter, but asking to be
understood and accepted
should not be criticized.
Millennials want the world
to be more empathetic
and compassionate.
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O
Editor’s Word
A stigma of detest and
abhorrence has rooted itself in
the core of the political sphere.
Everyone has failed to see
what’s right in front of them;
not only are a bulk of people
incorrect and misinformed
nowadays, but they are
aimlessly and inappropriately
disputing any opposing side for
the sole principle of winning
a debate--without firmly
and accurately standing up
for their so-called idealism.
The focus has shifted from a
fixated belief, to a selfish desire
for power and gain. Whether
a liberal, conservative,
independent or affiliate to
another ideal, there has been
a shroud covering any political
atmosphere.
As student journalists
who take pride in our
integrity, especially at
this stage in our career,
this notion is completely
disheartening. We cannot
conduct thorough research
and investigations without
accusations of shattering
ethics, or being labeled “fake
news.” The problem lies
not with journalists. While
there are inevitably media
organizations who get clicks
and page views as a result
of deliberately unscrupulous
“news,” the integral and
crucial facets of the media that
correctly executes their jobs
are under siege. The problem
isn’t us, it’s some politicians,
and those who thinks they are
a politician because others
have likened to their loud and
empty blanketed statements.
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Angela Merkel: How a woman defines a country
Kaitlin Hahn
Journal Contributor
Arguably
the
new
Leader
of
the
Free
World, the first female
chancellor of Germany
and the De Facto Leader
of the European Union,
Angela Merkel holds all
of these titles in her third
term. It seems that this
once soft-spoken leader
has persisted through
with strong leadership
to please both liberals
and
conservatives
in
becoming a champion of
human rights for all.
The Leader of the
Free World is usually
given to the President of
the United States, but to
many on social media,
the title now belongs
to the Chancellor of
Germany, according to
the Washington Post.
This title has been named
as she has decided to run
for a fourth term next
year. Merkel was former
President Barack Obama’s
last phone call while in
office, which is being
championed as a passing
of the baton.
“That’s a matter for
the
German
people,
but I value Angela’s
leadership,” said former
President Barack Obama
in a speech in Berlin. “If
I were German and I had
a vote, I might support
her.” Based on the current
political arena, it could be
argued that Merkel and
her strength as a leader
not only of Germany but
of Europe as acting leader
of the Free World, would
do very well in a fourth
term as the Chancellor of
Germany.
Confined behind the
iron curtain until age 35,
Merkel grew up in a rural
area north of Berlin. After
the fall of the Berlin wall,
she joined the Christian
Democratic Union (CDU),
eventually appointed as
Minister of Women and
Youth. Merkel was chosen
to lead the CDU over her
mentor Helmut Kohl in
2000. When she went on
to win Chancellor in 2005
as the first woman to do
so, it proved she is what
Germany wanted and
“
Based on the
current political
arena, it could
be argued that
Merkel and her
strength as a
leader not only
of Germany but
of Europe as
acting leader of
the Free World,
would do very
well in a fourth
term as the
Chancellor of
Germany.
needed for a leader.
“Even when she was
awkward and shy, you
could feel her energy,
you could feel her power,
from
the
beginning,”
Herlinde Koelbl, arguably
Germany’s most acclaimed
photographer, said about
recognizing
Merkel’s
strength in 1991 when
he started photographing
her among other up-andcoming politicians, told
Time Magazine in their
article about Merkel as
their Person of the Year
for 2015.
Merkel is known for
her slow but precise way
of coming to decisions.
This was shown during
the possible collapse of
the European economy as
a result of the bankruptcy
of Greece. Correlated
with the refugee crisis,
she was able to lead not
only Germany, but all of
Europe. This solidifies her
position as the de facto
leader of the European
Union (EU).
In
2009,
Greece
announced it lied about
its finances for years,
was immediately shut
out
from
borrowing
from any market.
In
response, Merkel, taking
lead of the EU, made
Germany
the
biggest
lender of rescue funds to
Greece. However, Merkel
imposed strict conditions,
including new reforms
on taxes, pensions, and
the labor market. While
this was a struggling
story for Greece, these
actions by Merkel helped
save the EU from falling
into complete economic
instability.
By the end of 2015,
Germany had taken in
close to 890,000 refugees
who were fleeing to
Europe in order to find
security
and
stability
from their nations. This
dramatic influx of people
caused a shock that shook
not only Germany but
the entire EU to its core.
At the head of this stood
Merkel, where she proved
her strength as a leader
when she challenged the
politics of her own party
in favor of the moral
reasoning by declaring
Germany be a welcoming
country, open to refugees.
Even though Merkel
received backlash from
her decision to open up
Germany, in retrospect,
she
apologized,
but
not for opening up the
borders. “If I was able to,
I would turn back time by
many, many years, so that
I could have prepared
the whole government
and the authorities for
the situation which hit
us out of the blue in the
late summer of 2015,”
said Merkel in a press
conference on Sept. 18
addressed her refugee
policies. This showed
Merkel is strong enough
as a leader to stand by
her choices, and deal with
the consequences, despite
criticism from others.
Despite her popularity
rates fluctuating due to
both the financial crisis
in Greece and the refugee
crisis, Merkel has been
able to keep a steady
positive presence in the
political arena through
her moral leadership and
overall powerful mindset,
proving her to be a strong
political leader.
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Pictured: Second-year men’s tennis captain Francesco Saia
Brooke Patterson
Asst. Sports Editor
After
missing
out
on
the
post-season
tournament in 2016, the
men’s tennis team looks to
make a return appearance
to the Great Northeast
Athletic
Conference
(GNAC) tournament this
time around, opening
their season Thursday
against the University
of Massachusetts Boston
at 6:30 p.m. The Rams
hope to go as far as the
championship, which has
not been done since their
2014 season.
The men’s tennis team
was selected third in the
GNAC North Division
preseason poll by the
league’s head coaches
and look to have a strong
season on the court.
“We are going to make
a full effort this year to
win the championship and
bring it back to what it
used to be,” said secondyear captain Francesco
Saia in an interview with
The Suffolk Journal on
Tuesday afternoon.
The team finished last
season with an overall
record of 3-9. The three
teams the Rams were
able to outscore were
Wheelock College, Rhode
Island College, and Curry
College and all three
appear on their schedule
this season.
“We had a lot of new
players last year and it was
a development season for
us,” said sophomore Rami
Esrawi in an interview
with The Journal on
Monday. “We are looking
to build off of that this
year and hopefully make
it to the championship.”
The initial scheduled
start date for the Rams
first match was March
23, but due to inclement
weather,
the
season
opener was postponed
to an unannounced date.
Although the matches
were anticipated to start
recently, the team has
been practicing for about
a month, focusing on
their game mechanics
as well as setting aside
15 to 30 minutes of
each practice to work on
mental conditioning.
“Tennis is really a
mental game,” said the
business
management
major, Esrawi. “I think it’s
a big part. If you miss a
couple shots, don’t worry
about it. You just have
to play your form, play
your style, and you’ll win
matches.”
Senior finance major,
Saia said he is sad that
it is his final season on
the team, and it will be
especially tough this year,
because he will compete
this season without the
coach who had stood by
him during his past three
years at Suffolk University,
Steve
Counihan.
The
Rams obtained an interim
head coach in place of
Counihan--Isaac Stahl.
Stahl did not respond
to communication with
The Journal regarding
this article as of late
Tuesday night.
“I think we can go far,”
said Esrawi. “We want to
win it for our head coach
[Counihan] this year.”
While
improving
everyday and hoping to
S
come out on top of their
conference, the Rams
have the expectation to
win the championship this
season. They also hope to
win their most difficult
matches against Johnson
& Wales University and
Norwich University.
“Basically we work
that it’s one match and
one practice at a time,”
said Saia. “If you got off
the court knowing that
you did better than the
last day then you did
your job, and you did it
correctly.”
With
noticeable
improvements from last
season, Esrawi said how
everybody on the team
gets better every single
day and is dedicated and
committed to the team.
“We want to improve
every single day, that
way when we have our
first match and especially
have our first conference
match, we really show
who we are,” said Saia.
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Bruins fundraise $101k to fight pediatric cancer
Skylar To
Sports Editor
With six games left in
the regular season, the
Boston Bruins are still
looking to secure their
spot in the playoffs, but
they will be doing so with
a lot less hockey hair-- the
flow.
On
late
Monday
afternoon, the Bruins
and 98.5 The Sport’s Hub
hosted its 10th Annual
Cuts for a Cause to raise
money to fight pediatric
cancer at the House of
Blues in Boston. The
Bruins partnered with
Super Cuts to grant fans
the opportunity to bid
and shave the heads of
their favorite players. The
players, winning bidders
and fans helped to raise
$101,000 by the end of
the night for more than
$700,000 raised within
the decade. The event’s
proceeds were donated
to the Boston Bruins
Foundation and Floating
Hospital for Children at
Tufts Medical Center.
On the behalf of the
organization,
Executive
Director of the Boston
Bruins
Foundation
Bob Sweeney said the
Bruins staff owe a “great
gratitude to all of the
players.”
“It’s hard to believe
it’s been 10 years,” said
Sweeney. “I honestly want
to thank everyone for all
of their time and effort.
It really shows their
dedication.”
Nine years ago, forward
Patrice Bergeron wanted
to participate in the first
year the event kicked off
and shave his hair for a
“good cause.” The event
was led by former Bruins
defenseman Aaron Ward
for two years and former
Bruins forward Shawn
Thornton
who
took
over for several years
before he was traded.
On taking over the event
and keeping the annual
tradition
running
for
the third year, Bergeron
said that “it is amazing
to participate and give
back.”
“It’s been a great
response from fans to get
involved,” said Bergeron.
“[The event] is easy for us
to do and it goes a long
way to raise awareness.”
Bergeron and 98.5 The
Sports Hub shared that
the event started in the
basement of the sports
radio station and evolved
to bigger venues like the
Boston Park Plaza Hotel
and the Westin Boston
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Nine-year-old Brodie who was diagnosed with lymphoma in
May 2016, shaved Boston Bruins forward Patrice Bergeron’s
head at the 10th Annual Cuts for a Cause.
Waterfront Hotel over
the years to the House
of Blues this year, which
is “the best venue” they
have had. In its first year,
the event raised $25,000.
Since 2014, the event
has raised more than
$100,000 every year.
Sweeney
thanked
Ward,
Thornton
and
Bergeron
for
their
participation in “such a
great cause.”
“Without the players,
this could not be possible,”
said Sweeney.
Bruins
defenseman
Torey Krug found himself
in a similar situation to
Bergeron in his rookie
year several years ago. In
his rookie year, Krug said
that he signed a contract
with the Bruins right
before the event. Besides
participating in the event
to become a part of the
team, Krug joked that
he wanted Thornton’s
protection on the ice.
On his experience and
participation every year,
forward David Krejci said
that he has seen “every
single side” of the event-from shaving the heads of
fans to donating money
to getting his own head
shaved.
Forward Riley Nash,
who was acquired by
the Bruins last summer,
said the event is “pretty
awesome” and “pretty
cool to see.”
Besides chopping off
hair for a good cause,
talks about the playoffs
also surfaced at the event.
Nash, who played for the
Carolina Hurricanes for
four years prior to being
traded to Boston, said
competing to make the
playoffs has “been an
adjustment for sure” as
he did not see a playoff
scenario in his time in
Carolina.
“Being in Boston and
seeing how passionate
fans are about hockey,
you want to [make the
playoffs],” said Nash.
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Rams welcome 70th season, continues program success
Brooke Patterson / Asst. Sports Editor
From left to right: Head Baseball Coach Anthony Del Prete, pitcher Mark Fusco, first baseman Kevin Belskie and pitcher Chuck Gibson.
Hannah Arroyo
Journal Staff
For
many
college
athletes,
their
involvement sports stops
right after graduation
day. This was not the case
for Suffolk University’s
current Head Baseball
Coach Anthony Del Prete.
Del Prete started out as
a student athlete for the
baseball team at Suffolk
where he pitched four
seasons with the Rams.
As a player, Del Prete
had
a
21-11
record
and in 2002, he helped
bring his team to the
National
Collegiate
Athletic
Association
tournament.
He
was
named the conference
Pitcher of the Year.
After graduating in
2004, Del Prete spent
three
years
playing
professionally
in
the
Frontier
League
for
the Evansville Otters.
Del Prete was named
assistant coach on the
Rams in 2004. In 2008, he
also served as the Sports
Information Director for
Suffolk where he oversaw
the athletic department
website and publicity.
“I enjoy watching the
players develop over the
course of their four-year
career and take great
pride in watching them
come in and then leave as
men,” said Del Prete in an
interview with The Suffolk
Journal on Friday. “It’s
a fun place to be given
the school’s location and
it’s an easy place to work
given the people who you
are surrounded by, both
students and professional
staff
members.”
This
2017
season,
the
Rams
celebrate
their 70th anniversary.
“I would say the
program has evolved with
the quality of student and
geographic expansion of
our roster,” said Del Prete.
“A lot has to do with how
Suffolk University has
grown as an institution
from being a regional
inner city school to be
a nationally recognized
school. This has helped
our recruiting efforts
and also added depth and
quality to our roster.”
Suffolk
attempted
to organize a baseball
program as early as
1937 where the team
held practices in the
Boston Common. Shortly
after,
the
program
was
discontinued
due to World War II.
A more official club
team was set in place
in the spring of 1947 by
former Athletic Director
Charles Law. He tried
to revamp sports at
Suffolk and put in place
basketball, hockey, golf
and
soccer
programs
too. Law himself coached
the baseball, golf and
basketball
teams.
“When he came to
Suffolk
[Law]
really
was the individual who
created
sports,”
said
former Suffolk Athletic
Director James Nelson
in an interview with
The Journal on Monday.
The program gained
much attention as over 70
students came to try out
for a chance to play. These
numbers would continue
to rise as the next year
nearly 92 students tried
out for the team. Law
was the first to coach
the team and organized
a twelve-game schedule
that included matches
against Tufts University
and
Clark
University.
As Suffolk had not
yet been given the Ram
as an official mascot,
they were referred to as
the “Royals” for their
royal blue school color.
Nelson
explained
how he had seen the
baseball program evolve
since
he
started
as
the
athletic
director.
“Now
that
we’re
members of the GNAC, all
of the baseball and softball
teams are doubleheaders
for conference games,”
said
Nelson.
“That
certainly
has
been
significant playing those
number
of
games.”
Jay Parker, current
head
coach
of
the
Women’s
Golf
team,
previously spent 19 years
as the assistant coach
of the baseball team.
Parker said in an
interview
with
The
Journal on Wednesday
that starting in 1999,
the team was often
referred to as the “Mutts”
when he was coaching.
“When fields were
available we would just
show up and practice,”
said
Parker.
“Since
[McConnell] has taken
over the programs have
increased and the facilities
have increased. Things in
the past few years have
just been outstanding”
With the addition of
East Boston Memorial
Park in 2015, Suffolk
finally
had
a
field
to
call
their
home.
In Suffolk Baseball
history,
the
program
has had only six head
coaches. These coaches
include
Law,
George
Doucet, Tom Walsh, Joe
Walsh, McConnell and
Del Prete, who heads into
his third season coaching
the team this year.
So far as a head coach
Del Prete has helped his
team achieve back-to-back
GNAC
Championships
in the past two seasons.
In the 2016 season
his team recorded an
overall record of 3313, which is the second
best in program history.
“Our players are not
afraid to be pushed and
challenge
themselves,”
said Del Prete, “I believe
the strength of what
we have been able to
accomplish is a direct
result of the maturity
of our players and their
ability to grow and
develop their character
throughout the course
of their four year career
from when they start
here as freshman to when
they finally earn their
degree after four years.”
McConnell leads the
baseball program with
an overall best of 38
victories in a season that
his team successfully won
in 2000. All the team’s
former
coaches
have
winning records, but so
far McConnell has taken
home the most victories
for a coach in the
program with 479 wins.
“The
consistency
in the coaching staff
reiterates to consistency
on the field as well,” said
Parker. “We’re all on the
same page all the time.”
Senior pitcher and
captain Chuck Gibson
said in an interview with
The Journal on Friday
that he sees continued
success from his team
each season. He said
that because of this a
lot of talented young
players
have
decided
to come to Suffolk.
“There has been a
culture here to expect
to win and to dedicate
ourselves to this game
and our teammates,” said
Gibson. “That culture is
passed down class by class
and is still going strong.
I feel like it is my duty
before I graduate [this
May] to instill that culture
in the underclassmen.”
Today, Suffolk leads
the GNAC Conference
with 975 overall wins,
208 GNAC wins, 68
GNAC playoff games and
48 GNAC playoff wins.
Senior
and
first
baseman Kevin Belskie
said in an interview with
The Journal on Friday
that the Suffolk baseball
program is trying to
become known nationally.
“The history of the
program is that hard work
breeds success. Previous
teams have paved the
way for us to be where
we are,” said Belskie.
“Weathering the ups and
downs of the season and
staying even-keel will put
us on top at the end of it.”
Junior and pitcher
Mark Fusco said in
an interview with The
Journal Thursday that
the upperclassmen on his
team have taught him that
it’s a privilege to wear
the Suffolk jersey. He
said that he sees nothing
but success for this
program in the future.
“With
[Del
Prete]
this team has endless
opportunities
for
success,”
said
Fusco.
“After being named head
coach two years ago you
could tell that Coach Del
Prete has been involved
with the game of baseball
his whole life and it is
something he loves to do.”
Connect with Hannah
by emailing harroyo@
suffolk.edu
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Suffolk student
killed after
tragic accident
Acting President Marisa
Kelly on Yao Cao: “The
loss of such a young
life is a tragedy beyond
words”
Patrick Holmes
Opinion Editor
THE GREAT
FLOOD
Suffolk University on-campus residents experience flooding in
10 West and 150 Tremont dormitories. Suffolk officials said there will
not be compensation to personal damages.
By Alexa Gagosz, Editor-in-Chief
Chris DeGusto, News Editor
Contributors: Kyle Crozier, Journal Contributor
Felicity Otterbein, Arts Editor
It is last Wednesday night and on-campus residents across
the university are attending to their daily activities, cooking
dinner and starting homework, but unbeknownst to them water
would soon be cascading from mainspace vents and pipes in
the ceiling. Textbooks, tablets, a laptop, clothes, food, personal
documentation papers and bedding were soaked and destroyed.
A discharge of steaming, black and musty hot water from heating
pipes bursted into the residency of multiple students. One in
particular, senior government major Sabrina Young, who has
lived in room 213 in 10 West since the beginning of the fall
semester, said they and their suitemates initially speculated that
the water may have been contaminated.
“I didn’t know if there might have been something toxic in the
water,” said Young to a Suffolk Journal reporter on Thursday.
University Assistant Dean of Students Elizabeth Ching-Bush
assured residents of 10 West and 150 Tremont dormitories in
an email sent on Thursday night that the water did not pose as a
health hazard, but an “inconvenience.”
Young’s bathroom and kitchen were flooded, and water
protruded down the hallway as far as some of the bedrooms
within the apartment. Young said an estimated $300 worth of
their own food was destroyed from the dark-colored water.
The fire department told Young and their suitemates to leave the
suite for their safety and each of them were offered to relocate to a
different room that had a vacant bed by the residence hall’s
See FLOOD page 4
A
2013
Audi
A8
collided with the ceiling of
a Massachusetts Turnpike
tunnel in Boston early
Sunday morning, which
killed a Suffolk Student.
Yao Cao, a 19-year-old
first-year Suffolk student
and the driver of the
vehicle, was pronounced
dead at the scene due
to the vehicle becoming
airborne and striking
the tunnel. He was an
international
student
from Changchun, China.
Cao, having only been
at the university since
January, was a finance
major within the Sawyer
Business School. Acting
President Marisa Kelly
sent out a statement
Sunday
morning
to
the Suffolk community
offering her sympathies
to those who knew him.
“As you join me in
mourning the tragic loss
of one of our students,
please know that my
thoughts are with all of
you in this very difficult
time,” said Kelly in the
statement. In correlation
with her sentiments, Kelly
held a moment of silence
on Tuesday afternoon
at the University Forum
on the expansion of the
strategic plan.
An
unidentified
woman
was
also
involved as a passenger
in the vehicle and was
immediately rushed to a
local hospital with nonlife threatening injuries,
but as of late Tuesday
night, there has been no
update on her condition.
Based on information
by the state police, they
believe the accident was
caused
by
“excessive
speed and impairment.”
“The loss of such a
young life is a tragedy
beyond
words,”
said
Kelly. Cao was a part
of
the
Freshman
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University forum weighs heavy on rankings, international recruitment
Alexa Gagosz
Editor-in-Chief
Chris DeGusto
News Editor
Few seats were left
vacant
when
Suffolk
administration
took
center stage in front
of concerned members
of
the
university’s
community
Tuesday
afternoon to address the
expansion of the strategic
plan. Acting President
Marisa Kelly began the
forum by outlining a
broad addition to the
university’s 2012 strategic
plan that will be extended
through 2019. This plan,
which Kelly said will be
tied to the university
budget, will include a
potential partnership with
international
student
recruitment firm INTO
University Partnerships.
Kelly, who tackled how
to respond to the national
decreasing
numbers
of
traditionally-aged
college students seeking
a higher education in
the Northeast, the high
cost of earning a college
degree, the challenges
of international student
enrollment
and
the
external threat of local
competition, said that
the plan will reinforce
“our historic mission but
builds upon it in ways
necessary to ensure our
future.”
Acting
Provost
Sebastian Royo introduced
INTO as a resource that
has 33 global offices as
Alexa Gagosz/ Editor-in-Chief
Acting Provost Sebastian Royo introduced the recruitment firm
INTO as a potential partner to increase international student
enrollment at the forum on Tuesday. The proposal will be sent to
be reviewed to NEASC by the end of the week. If approved, the
Board of Trustees will then review the proposal.
well as nine partnerships
across
the
United
States in predominantly
public universities such
as
Washington
State
University,
Colorado
State University and the
University of Alabama at
Birmingham.
The partnership, which
would be a commissionbased entity instead of
an outside contractor,
according to Kelly, is
scheduled to be sent to
New England Association
of Schools and Colleges
(NEASC) for review by
the end of the week. After
NEASC’s approval, the
Board of Trustees will then
review and potentially
approve it for it to be
possibly implemented at
the university by January
2018, according to Royo.
Royo said that with the
decrease in international
student
enrollment-from 1,509 in the 2015
academic year to 1,388
international students in
the 2016 academic year-and the possibility of the
new federal programs that
President Donald Trump
has looked to implement,
raise
questions
with
student visas.
“[International
students] are worried that
what they can do in the
U.S. will be affected by
the policies of the Trump
administration,”
said
Royo.
Royo argued INTO
would
“increase
our
competitiveness in [the]
international market” by
leveraging
enrollment
through INTO’s reach and
developing a stronger
global footprint. This
partnership,
Royo
said, would allow the
university to admit a
selective population of
international
students
who are aligned with
the brand and prestige
Suffolk represents.
Kelly,
who
spoke
extensively on ensuring
that Suffolk was ranked
both
regionally
and
nationally, said it was
time to conquer external
threats that both all
colleges in the country
are facing, but also those
threats specific to Suffolk.
Managing
Associate
Director
of
Student
Financial
Services
Jennifer Ricciardi spoke
on incorporating new
initiatives that would
promote diversity and
inclusion on campus,
focus
on
human
resources, amplify student
organizations and the
Athletics department as
well as increase housing
opportunities.
“It’s Suffolk’s goal to
make an agreement of an
externally funded housing
opportunity to most likely
be opened in 2019,” said
Ricciardi in an interview
with The Suffolk Journal
after the forum.
The
university
is
currently unsure of the
exact location or if the
new
housing
would
require students to take
public transportation just
yet, according to Senior
Vice President of Finance
and
Administration
Treasurer Laura Sander in
an interview on Tuesday.
The idea of the externally
funded housing would
“most
likely
be
a
developer owning the
property,” but Suffolk
would still have enough
control,
according
to
Ricciardi, where it would
be a partnership, but not
an outside contractor.
The price, however, has
not
been
determined
as there are several
conversation
occurring
on location still, but
Sander hopes that pricing
will be comparable to
on-campus housing in
Suffolk’s residence halls.
“What’s
important
is that the housing is
accessible to students
while
also
being
financially
affordable,”
said Ricciardi.
Kelly suggested in
an interview with The
Journal that the goal is
to generate housing for
undergraduate students
to take up residence for
two years and expressed
her
hopes
for
the
potential housing for
graduate students.
Connect with Alexa
by emailing agagosz@
suffolk.edu. Connect
with Chris by emailing
cdegusto@suffolk.edu.
Students dedicate Spring Break to service, social justice training
Haley Clegg
Photo Editor
For
many
college
students, spring break is a
time to unwind at home,
visit friends and family,
or enjoy an exciting
vacation. However, some
Suffolk students decided
to use their week off from
school to help those in
need.
Each year, Suffolk’s
Center for Community
Engagement
sends
students
to
different
locations all across the
country during winter
and spring breaks to work
as volunteers for different
organizations. This year,
some students spent their
vacations in Colorado,
Mississippi,
Arizona,
Georgia,
Pennsylvania
and Maryland.
Senior
Jessica
DiLorenzo traveled to
Bel Air, Md where she
worked with Habitat for
Humanity. This was her
third year with Suffolk’s
Alternative Spring Break
(ASB) program and led
this year’s trip.
“I have a passion for
service learning. It’s such
a great feeling to make
an impact on someone’s
life who will never be
able to repay you,” said
DiLorenzo in a recent
interview
with
The
Suffolk Journal.
Despite
the
trip
being cut short due to
a blizzard, her group
made the most of their
time and were able to
rehabilitate a house, as
well as work with the
company “ReStore” who
collects donated furniture
and hardware and sells
them to fund the housing
projects.
“Every year I am
shocked how well the
groups come together
and get to know one
another,” said DiLorenzo.
“There is also a learning
aspect where we teach
students social justice
curricular leading up to
the trip so that students
really understand why the
work we are doing is so
important.”
Junior Global Business
and
Marketing
major
Hannah Drain was a part
of the group that traveled
to Meridian, Mississippi.
Her group of 14 painted
walls,
hung
drywall
and worked on outdoor
cleaning in order to
restore a family’s home,
all while interacting with
them and learning about
the state of Miss.
“I learned so much
about southern culture
and hospitality. All of the
stereotypes that we had
we were able to resolve.
I learned more about why
things are the way they
are, as well as what the
misconceptions are,” said
Drain in a recent interview
with The Suffolk Journal.
Drain
said
she
appreciated
the
experience and urged
other
students
to
take advantage of this
experience. “It’s a great
opportunity
to
meet
new people while doing
something as powerful
as Habitat for Humanity,”
she said.
Senior Public Relations
major Cortney Holmes
traveled to Denver, Colo.
as a part of the ASB
program. This was her
fourth year, and has loved
it ever since her first trip
as a freshman.
“I think we have a duty
to give back and work
Courtesy of Cortney Holmes
“It’s such a great feeling to make an impact on
someone’s life who will never be able to repay you.”
with not only our own
community, but other
communities as well, said
Holmes. “I think it’s easy
for people to stay in what
is familiar to them and
only think about their
experiences in the world.”
While
community
service is the primary
goal of the Alternative
Spring Break program,
students
often
learn
valuable life lessons and
build friendships with
their fellow peers.
“It’s a great way to
leave your comfort zone
with a supportive group
of people that will become
your friends. It’s a way to
realize the privileges we
have as individuals and
do our best to impact
others,” said DiLorenzo.
Connect with Haley
by emailing hclegg@
suffolk.edu.
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FSL student
remembered
by Suffolk
community
From CAO page 3
Second
Language
(FSL)
pathways
program,
according
to
the
university.
The
program
aims
to “provide students
with the opportunity
to
earn
academic
credit in a supportive
environment.”
Apart from State
Police, there were also
Boston
firefighters,
EMS
and
MassDot
officials on the scene
of the wreckage, which
ripped down many
cables and wires from
the tunnel.
Cao had resided
in Chestnut Hill in
Brookline during his
time at Suffolk. A
memorial service in
still in the process
being arranged.
Correction
Due to an error from
sources, a previous
version “University’s
united push for
diversity, the rocky
road to inclusivity,”
that was printed in
the 14th edition,
included that the
Board of Trustees
will also review the
proposal to find a
new Chief Diversity
Inclusion Officer.
This is incorrect as
only Acting President
Marisa Kelly and
upper administration
will be reviewing this
after the Task Force
proposes it.
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Suffolk students’ stock market schooling in blog
Chris DeGusto
News Editor
After
the
market
crashed in the waning
months of 2008, many
people both enveloped
within the industry and
those seeking to profit
off the trading of stocks,
have been skeptical of
the risks that come with
investing
their
hard
earned money. Last fall,
two Suffolk University
seniors
launched
an
online
financial
blog,
“Imperium
Investment
Analysis”
(Imperium)
to educate and inform
current
and
prospect
investors of the risks the
stock market presents,
and provide their own
advice so readers and
investors
alike
can
formulate
their
own
money-making formula.
“I’m a 22-year-old guy
that wants to teach people
from my experiences so
you don’t get scammed
out of your money like
I did,” said Trenton
Barnard.
Barnard, a senior who
has acted as a portfolio
manager for the Suffolk
University
Student
Investment Fund, came
to Suffolk from Utah,
founded Imperium last
October and the first blog
post was published the
following month. Barnard,
a philosophy major, told a
Suffolk Journal reporter
in a recent interview
that he initially made his
first sum of money in
stocks by investing in the
Twitter IPO, and would
often skip classes to trade.
The former analyst for a
Boston-based investment
firm, Barnard quit his
full-time employment in
the fall to devote his time
to Imperium.
Barnard
quickly
found a partner for his
Cam Chang/ Journal Contributor
Left: Yashpal Balgobin Right: Trenton Barnard
work,
senior
finance
major Yashpal Balgobin,
and
said
Balgobin’s
passion and dedication
to learning allowed no
hesitations when bringing
him on board. Barnard
said Balgobin was very
is
academically
and
practically
valuable
according to Barnard.
Currently,
Imperium
operates
as
a
free
subscription,
posting
weekly stock lists and
technical
tips.
This
product customers could
purchase. A complete
package of resources at
a one-time flat rate is the
goal for Imperium, which
Barnard would consist
of investment education
products, e-book and a
“I’m a 22-year-old guy that wants to teach
people from my experiences so you don’t get
scammed out of your money like I did.”
-Trenton Barnard
apt to educating himself,
by asking which tools he
could utilize to create an
influx of knowledge on
the subject.
“I look up to this guy.
He knows so much,” said
Balgobin of Barnard in a
recent interview with The
Journal.
At
Imperium,
the
goal is to create highquality
business
and
financial content that
readership is at no cost
and is something Barnard
intends to permanently
keep.
“If you focus on
delivering real, valuable
content to people over
money, the profits will
follow,” said Barnard.
Bannard
discussed
that
Imperium’s
gameplan
for
this
summer could potentially
fruitify
an
inclusive
tailored program. This
would allow investors
using this package to
uniquely view different
methods
based
upon
their personal interests
and strategies, while also
having the ability to view
the entirety of Imperium’s
content.
“We are giving you the
knowledge and education
[for people] to build their
own adventure,” said
Balgobin.
Balgobin’s
own
investing adventure did
not begin in the most
prosperous manner, as
he lost close to $1000
on penny stocks. Having
followed another trader’s
“get rich quick” system
and seeing the results not
forthcoming,
Balgobin
said he took a step back,
closed his portfolio, and
absorbed the knowledge
he would need to build his
own strategy of investing.
He said other traders
will sell you a platform
and only one way to trade
stocks, but Imperium is
detail oriented, and has
focused on being real
with people to show them
how to hone their craft.
“We want to make you
an independent investor,”
said Barnard.
Barnard said he hopes
to have co-sponsorships
with firms in the future,
but specified he wants
to keep the Imperium
website ad-free so that
readers can focus on the
content provided.
He said that people
do not have the leverage
with their money that
they would like, to be able
to exercise their finances
on vacations, or making
student loan payments.
Trust from customers is
a key factor for Balgobin,
who said people do not
have to spend thousands
of dollars [like other
programs
charge]
to
access and utilize this
investing
information.
He said it is essential to
that the two partners at
Imperium take time out
of their days to deliver
quality content to help
investors “unlock another
financial key.”
Connect with Chris by
emailing cdegusto@
suffolk.edu.
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Director
Jessica
Wheeler. Each of the
suitemates declined to
enter “a stranger’s dorm,”
according to Young.
Wheeler declined to
be interviewed for this
article on Tuesday night.
Also equally as shocked
were the residents of
room 408, who described
how a typically normal
scene of cooking dinner
ended with water being
sprayed down on them
from above.
“It sounded like an
earthquake,
like
the
ceiling was going to come
through,” said one of the
female residents.
For days, the main
door to Young’s suite
was propped open, but
the residents were not
officially allowed inside to
retrieve their belongings
unless they contacted
Suffolk University Police
Department
(SUPD),
according to Young.
“We
weren’t
told
the room would be left
open all day. There are
definitely personal items
that I know have been left
behind that I [now] can’t
locate,” said Young.
I n d u s t r i a l
dehumidifiers and fans
were placed around the
affected suites by ProCare Disaster Restoration
Services. One employee
of the company expressed
that their current job
was to clean and dry the
rooms
before
further
actions were taken, but
some residents were not
satisfied with this process.
Young’s concern lied
not in the heating pipes,
but in the carpets, fearing
that mold would have
already
spawned
and
spread in such a short
time.
“It’s honestly not good
enough for me,” said
Young. “They better be
ripping the carpets out
and replacing it [because
of] the likelihood of mold
already growing even
after one hour.”
However, it was not
only Suffolk students
affected by the pipes
bursting.
Just
below
some of the resident
halls is both the Back
Deck
restaurant
and
Boston Common Coffee
Company-- both of which
pay rent to the university.
Back Deck said that they
received minimal damage
and were able to open
the following night for
dinner. However, Boston
Common Coffee expects
to remain closed for an
additional week or two.
Co-owner of Boston
Common Coffee Tony
Massari said in a phone
interview with The Suffolk
Journal on Tuesday night
that three different pipes
bursted, which caused
damage to the shop’s
retail merchandise, coffee
and sitting areas.
“[Suffolk
University]
has been great,” said
Massari. “But now the
insurance has to handle
things.”
Massari explained that
he and his partner, Peter
Femino, have experienced
water damage at their
Canal Street location in
the past when the shop
was closed for four days.
Yet this time, the coowners will have to file
for both damages and loss
of business.
In total, 46 student
residents
across
150
Tremont and 10 West
have been affected by
water damage throughout
the month of March.
Gia Sarkis, a resident
of room 313 in 10 West
explained that she too felt
uncomfortable with the
idea of staying with new
people.
“The first night I
stayed in a hotel that
my mom paid for, I went
home for the weekend,
and now I am staying on
my friends couch at her
apartment because I feel
uncomfortable
staying
with a random person,”
said Sarkis in an interview
with The Journal on
Monday.
Sarkis said that she
was informed her finances
will not be reimbursed for
her hotel stay. Students
who have experienced
damage to their personal
belongings will not be
compensated for their
loss, as residents were
encouraged to purchase
renter’s insurance at their
orientations.
“The
student
understands
that
the
University is not liable
for loss or damage to
their personal property
whether by way of fire,
flood, accident, Act of
God, loss or interruption
of heat, electricity, air
conditioning,
burglary,
theft, vandalism, or for
whatever
reason
not
directly, proximately and
consequentially the result
of the sole and exclusive
negligence or misconduct
of the University,” reads
Kyle Crozier/ Journal Contributor
Residents invited Journal reporters inside their suites in 10 West on Thursday night.
“It sounded
like an
earthquake,
like the ceiling
was going to
come through.”
-A resident from
the 10 West
dormitories when
the pipes bursted
Alexa Gagosz/ Editor-in-Chief
Contractors hauled equipment in and out of the 10 West
dormitories throughout Thursday and Friday.
the
University
policy
on Liability for Student
Property.
A
university
spokesperson said that
Residence Life staff met
with the affected students
in order to assist with
room
relocation.
He
said
that
Ching-Bush
conducted small meetings
with each of the students
in order to discuss what
occurred.
Ching-Bush did not
respond
to
Journal
reporters for an interview
as of Tuesday night.
Director
of
Construction
Services
Andre Vega said in an
interview on Tuesday
afternoon that an outside
contractor went into the
dormitories and assessed
how long it would take
to repair the damages.
Insurance adjusters went
into the dormitories both
Monday and Tuesday
to assess the amount
of money it would cost
to repair the affected
areas of the buildings.
Vega said that he will
oversee the drying out
and construction phase
as he said the pipes were
already repaired.
Vega confirmed that
the pipes that had bursted
were heating pipes and
“warm water” had leaked
into the residents’ rooms.
Vega was not able to
give
an
approximate
temperature of the water.
Michal
Kanra,
a
sophomore
living
in
room 214 of 10 West,
awoke to the sound of his
roommate stepping off his
bed and onto the ground
where a pool of water had
developed in their room,
while they slept.
“I personally feel they
don’t know how to handle
the situation considering
they have done nothing to
compensate us and have
done nothing to fix the
problem,” said Sarkis. “So
if anything, I don’t feel
the response was rushed
at all, I just feel like they
don’t know what to do.”
Some of the students
suggested that the pipes
had burst due to their
heat not working for a
significant amount of
time- a complaint that
many residents of the
building have complained
about whether they have
been affected by water
damage or not.
“We
are
still
investigating the root
cause
and
depending
on what is determined
that will dictate how
we proceed in taking
preventative
steps,”
said
the
university
spokesperson. “This is
not something that has
happened previously. It
was not a case frozen
pipes bursting. We will
look at the results of the
investigation and then
determine the best plan
going forward.”
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Global Commentary: The weight behind Kim Jong-Un’s nuclear threat
Amy Koczera
Journal Staff
Over the past few
weeks, Secretary of State
Rex Tillerson has visited
South
Korea,
Japan
and China to discuss
North Korea’s nuclear
initiatives. According to
The New York Times,
Tillerson announced “all
options are on the table”
when it comes to dealing
with these measures. Just
two days after Tillerson’s
statement, North Korea
posted
a
propaganda
video
on
YouTube
depicting a United States
aircraft
carrier
and
warplane being destroyed
in a computer-generated
explosion.
The caption stated
North Korean missiles
will be “stabbed into the
throat of the carrier”
and the jet will “fall
from the sky.” This rapid
development of North
Korea’s nuclear arsenal
has both US citizens and
leaders alarmed. However,
U.S. leaders do not have
the
most
successful
reputation when it comes
to
confronting
other
nations about nuclear
development.
Tillerson announced
the US would take a “new
approach” to dealing with
North Korea’s nuclear
ambitions. Yet, Tillerson
never described what the
details of that plan would
involve. Past U.S. leaders
such as Barack Obama
and George W. Bush
made similar statements
related to dealing with
international
nuclear
affairs, describing how
each approach would be
new and different, yet
failing to follow through
with any kind of
unique,
groundbreaking plan.
“Someone
forgot
to tell him that a new
administration promising
a new approach it can’t
quite articulate is, in
fact, the old approach,”
said Jeffrey Lewis in
The Washington Post in
response to Tillerson’s
announcement.
The U.S. government
has a tremendous history
of saying there is a plan,
but
never
explicitly
explaining what that plan
is. It may seem frustrating
to U.S. citizens to feel as
if their government
is not doing enough. Due
to this, there will always
be the question of how
much the government
is
withholding
from
citizens.
In situations where
nuclear
weapons
are
developing at such a rapid
pace, many find it hard to
believe that North Korea
isn’t a threat. According
to The Korea Times, Kim
Jong-un is believed to
have spent more than
$97 million dollars to
fire a total of 31 ballistic
missiles.
It’s
hard to rationalize why
a country would spend
such a substantial amount
of money building their
nuclear arsenal if it’s just
an empty threat.
“They’re such a big
threat because they’re
so unpredictable,” said
Suffolk University history
professor Ron Suleski.
North Korea gives off
the impression that they
don’t want anything to do
with any other nations,
yet they post threatening
propaganda videos and
conduct sporadic nuclear
missile tests.
The U.S. is cautiously
approaching this issue
right now.
“In East Asia,
American
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South Korean
president
impeached,
protests may be
sensationalized
Jacob Geanous
World News Editor
The
presidential
scandal
that
has
continued to unfold in
South Korea has reached
a heightened level of
drama that may even
trump America’s televised
political circus.
Park Geune-hye, the
former South Korean
president,
became
the
country’s
first
democratically
elected
leader to be impeached
earlier this month after
a
corruption
scandal
came to light, and now
prosecutors are calling
for her arrest, reported
the New York Times.
Prosecutors
allege
that
Park
knowingly
allowed her confidant,
Choi Soon-Sil, to use her
political influence with
Diplomacy
is
more
important than it is
anywhere
else”
said
Suleski. China may know
more about North Korea
than China is willing to
admit. It is possible that
the U.S. also knows more
about North Korea than
the U.S. has divulged. For
America to avoid losing
China as an ally, U.S.
leaders are cautiously
acting as though they’re
making
change,
even
though hardly anything is
being done.
History has taught
us
that
erratic
and
unpredictable
behavior
is the essence of North
Korean
government.
Nuclear weapons can
have
catastrophic
consequences and cannot
be taken lightly. It is
the U.S. government’s
responsibility to do more
than just say they’re
making change and to take
action before something
ruinous happens.
the
president
to
solicit
contributions
from business leaders
to firms she controlled.
It has also been alleged
that the contributions to
Choi’s firm were used as
a bribe for Park’s help
to rally approval for a
controversial
Samsung
merger.
Park, the country’s
first female president,
had her political powers
suspended in December
after
a
legislative
impeachment
vote,
but remained in the
presidential Blue House
and avoided the public
eye while the country’s
Constitutional
Court
deliberated
on
her
impeachment, according
to multiple news sources.
Earlier this month,
eight justices on the
country’s Constitutional
Court
unanimously
decided to unseat her
during a ruling that was
broadcasted nationally.
The video of the
impeachment
ruling
immediately went viral
on social media and is
how many living in South
Korea learned of Park’s
fall from grace. This
included Tonny Barua,
a
Suffolk
Broadcast
Journalism major that is
studying abroad at Yonsei
University in Seoul.
The decision sparked
massive protests at the
country’s capital, which,
according to Barua, have
been sensationalized by
worldwide media outlets
after two Park supporters
were killed during a clash
with police in the initial
uproar.
“I have seen a bunch
of people living in South
Korea make fun of
American news [and] how
they are making a huge
deal about it and how
brutal it is,” said Barua.
She explained that the
protesters in South Korea
are much more peaceful
and organized than
those in the United
States. They even have a
schedule for protesting
that breaks the day into
segments for different
groups to protest.
“I walked by city
hall and people weren’t
looking intense,” said
Barua. “You don’t feel
like there is anything
going on.”
Barua said she has had
to calm her parents down
after they called her to
tell her not to leave her
campus because they fear
it’s dangerous.
“Everyone’s freaking
out in the U.S. for no
reason,” she said.
Barua said that she
has stayed at arm’s length
from the protests at
Seoul’s City Hall for fear
of being punished.
She explained that
if she was found taking
part in the protests, she
could be barred from the
private university or even
the country.
“Us exchange students
aren’t allowed to get
involved in that,” Barua
said. “If we are in the
place of protest we
might be kicked out of
the university were are
at or banned from the
country.”
Protests are slated
to continue until South
Korea will decide on
the next president in a
special election on May
9, multiple news sources
report.
Moon Jae-in, of the
opposition
Democratic
Unity
Party,
is
the
frontrunner in opinion
polls that were conducted
shortly
after
the
impeachment, signaling
a possible countrywide
swing to the left.
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Global Gateway’s trip more than a vacation
Alcazar de Segovia, overlooking the city of Segovia.
Morgan Hume
Journal staff
Suffolk
University’s
Global Gateway program
recently
facilitated
a
week-long
educational
trip to Madrid, Spain for
28 Suffolk freshman.
Admiring
famous
works of art in the Prado
Museum, stepping onto
the field at the Santiago
Bernabéu
Stadium,
watching a live flamenco
show and munching on
churros con chocolate
were just a few parts
of the Spanish culture
that the students were
exposed to during their
trip that explored another
country and culture.
“The idea was to
develop a program for
freshmen students that
would have a number
of goals,” said Acting
Provost Sebastian Royo
in an interview with The
Suffolk Journal on Friday.
“One of them is to expose
them to an international
experience. A lot of the
students, most of them
have not had experiences
in other countries.”
Students were exposed
to all types of Spanish
cuisine including squidink paella, croquetas and
tortilla espanola.
Freshman marketing
and global business major
Sophia Romeo appreciated
the opportunity to try the
country’s unique food.
“As a foodie myself, it
was a great opportunity
to try new food and
immerse
myself
in
Spanish
culture,”
she
said in an interview with
The Suffolk Journal on
Tuesday night.
Their trip also included
a tapas tour where they
had a truly authentic
experience.
“Through
touring
local spots we had the
opportunity
to
taste
traditional Spanish food,
especially
croquetas
which were the crowd
favorite,” said Romeo.
Although the trip was
packed with adventure,
visiting Spain was more
than a vacation. It was a
cultural experience that
showed them how people
in another country live.
“I was really happy
to go with this program
because I felt I saw so
much for only going for a
week,” freshman English
major Ali D’Arcangelo
said in an interview about
her experience. “I would
not have gotten as much
out of it if I didn’t go
with the Global Gateway
program because they
created a busy itinerary
for the entire week so we
would be able to see as
much as possible.”
Few
events
were
scheduled
during
evenings
so
students
could explore the city and
dive into the nightlife.
“I think it’s important
to
acknowledge
and
learn different lifestyles
than the one you are
accustomed to, not just
on a personal level,
but on a global scale.
Understanding
how
people different than you
operate can show you who
you are or how you want
to live your life as well as
learn to be accepting of
others,” freshman global
business and marketing
major Anne Muise said.
“Bridging gaps between
cultures is so important
now more than ever, too.”
Students also took day
trips to two Spanish cities,
Segovia and Toledo, to
see more of the country
outside
the
capital,
including the famous
Aqueduct of Segovia.
Students were also
able
to
build
close
relationships
with
Suffolk faculty members
and students currently
studying abroad. While
many students from the
group did not know each
other in the beginning, by
the end of their week they
had formed friendships
with one another.
“To be put in a group
of people that you do not
know and go to a foreign
culture that you’re not
familiar with can be
intimidating, but it ended
up being a completely
rewarding
experience
that I couldn’t have gotten
anywhere else,” freshman
international economics
major Jordan Albrizio said
after returning to Boston.
Royo hopes to expand
this program each year,
so that within the next
three to four years every
incoming
freshman
will
have
the
same
opportunity that these
students did.
“Ultimately our goal
and our dream is that
this becomes part of
the Suffolk experience,”
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Royo said. “That in their
freshman year, they could
have a unique experience
that no other college
offers.”
Royo
hopes
that
participation
in
the
program inspires other
students to visit and study
at Suffolk University’s
Madrid campus.
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by emailing mhume@
suffolk.edu.
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Boston Ballet makes contemporary leaps and bounds
of the women’s skirts was
Felicity Otterbein effortlessly
beautiful.
Arts Editor There is a real sense of
The show was a
celebration and exposé
of the human body. What
seemed like a logical and
methodical
progression
of a more traditional
ballet to contemporary
pieces turned out to be
a pragmatic approach to
the artform.
The
first
of
the
three
performances
was the light-hearted
George
Balanchine’s
“Donizetti
Variations.”
Choreographed to the
ballet music from act
two of Donizetti’s 1843
opera, “Don Sebastian.”
The
performance
features
a
principal
couple, surrounded by
an ensemble of three
men and six women.
This piece is flirty and
funny and has some
sugary-sweet components
similar to that of “Swan
Lake” or “The Nutcracker”
performances. The color
scheme is blue and pink
cotton candy and the tulle
innocence and naiveness
in this performance, the
shy and demure facial
expressions goes hand in
hand with the tip-toeing
of the pointe shoes and
the impeccable 16 turns
from male lead, Junxiong
Zhao.
The
following
performance
is
Jirí
Kylían’s
“Wings
of
Wax.” This piece has a
much darker tone that
is initially set when the
curtain rose and reveals a
dead tree hanging upside
down from the ceiling.
Circling the tree was a
single spotlight which
cast eerie shadows along
the faces of the dancers
and the limbs of the tree.
It was in this piece that
the contemporary tone
for the night really started
to settle in. While the
precision of the dancers
movements are calculated
and confident, this piece
displays the musculature
and strength needed to
Felicity Otterbein / Arts Editor
Boston Ballet Company during “Cacti,” a performance an Opening Night of “Wings of Wax.”
execute a performance
such as this.
The
finale
and
ultimate
highlight
of
the night, is “Cacti.” As
a nod to postmodern
dance and criticism, this
dance is almost ironically
contemporary. The first
half of the performance
is a rhythmic experience
which
involves
16
company
members
on
individual
tiles,
mercilessly beating their
hands on the surface of
the tiles and themselves
to create this explosive
sound. Accompanied by a
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Stick a pin in it: preparing for “Orlando”
“Leslie
has
been
her costumes with.
have so much fun with
actually
been using that have
patterns the size of the
page, and so you have
to use the scale ruler to
things that you would
never be able to do now.”
With such a large
cast, Buretta knew that
she wouldn’t be able to
construct
full-fledged
costumes
for
each
member other than the
leads and other important
roles in the show. She
told The Journal that she
has devised a system that
focuses on the different
levels of the roles.
Buretta
explained
that the levels rely on a
scale of “realization.” For
instance, main characters
Orlando
and
Queen
Elizabeth and roles who
are heavily tied to Orlando
will have “fully realized”
costumes.
Whereas
some people who might
only interact with main
characters once or twice
will only feature a jacket
and a hat.
The
rest
of
the
costuming and accessories
are being bought or
rented.
According to Buretta,
many of her peers are
project.
However with a cast of
this magnitude, Buretta
has remained nothing but
upbeat about working
with her peers. She said
that the show has a lot of
new people, new freshmen
and sophomores that she
hasn’t had the chance to
work with before. The
costume designer has a
very personal relationship
with the actors because
they are with them all
of the time whether it
be constantly fitting and
refitting their costumes,
or ensuring that the
costumes work properly
and don’t malfunction
while on the moving
bodies of the actors.
Buretta did comment
on the young talent of
freshman theatre major
Mickey Rodgers and her
role as “Orlando.”
“The
part
is
so
interesting because you
have to be able to play
both roles. You have to
be able to play the man
convincingly
and
the
using
Felicity Otterbein
teaching me how to
“There’s
lots
of prints and colors and so particular show
Arts Editor build and construct these reference books that I’ve you can mix and match
graduate
level
In a whirlwind of
fabric,
sketches
and
beading, Maxine Buretta
has managed to harness
her innate ability to create
and focus it toward her
senior thesis, “Orlando.”
The theatre major has
spent her last four years
at Suffolk University in
the throes of the theatre
department,
amidst
casting, costuming and
creating. She is familiar
with the stages of the
Modern Theater, Sullivan
Studio and the once
great C. Walsh Theater
on Temple Street. The
culmination
of
her
learning experiences and
time spent is now being
put to the test in Suffolk’s,
“Orlando.”
With a new title of
costume designer, Buretta
explained the process
of creating the 35 to 40
costumes that would be
featured in “Orlando.”
Faced with the challenge
of tackling gender fluidity
and the task of creating a
scheme that would cover
300 years and multiple
cultures, Buretta was up
for the test.
Written by British
modernist author Virginia
Woolf, the show follows
17th century Orlando, the
protagonist, through a
series of gender and time
changes. While the show
itself covers more than
300 years of time, space
and
culture,
Orlando
only ages 36 years. Faced
with this immense task,
Buretta was excited to
take on the challenge.
“I’ve
been
doing
costumes in the theatre
department for all four
years that I’ve been in
school,” said Buretta in
a recent interview with
The Suffolk Journal. “We
don’t have a costume
program in our theatre
department, so it was
sort of something that
they were like, ‘we want
to have a culmination of
all of the work that you’ve
done thus far.’ They
proposed this to me as a
thesis project, and that’s
sort of how we stumbled
to where we are now.”
Buretta has absorbed
everything in her four
years in the theatre
department and has been
working on improving her
skills by learning from an
assigned mentor, Leslie
Held.
costumes and now I’m
putting all the pieces
together. I’m building
a portfolio, I’m doing
Digital rendering of a sketch drawn by
Maxine Buretta. An18th-century inspired
dress designed for protagonist Orlando.
a thesis project and
building tons of costumes
so it’s kind of fantastic
that all of these things are
kind of coming together
right now.”
Buretta
became
involved
with
the
department productions,
and ultimately costuming,
by helping out with
the Fall and Spring
Showcases
that
are
put on every semester.
Buretta worked her way
up the ladder by assisting
in all of the showcases
amidst other productions,
leading to the role of
assisting the designers
that the university would
bring in to do mainstage
shows. Now that she has
established a name and
place for herself within
the department, she gets
to design the shows,
complete with her own
assistants.
“It’s been interesting
with this show because
the point is more so
the gender, and really
focusing on that,” she
said.
“Some
of
the
silhouettes have a higher
neckline.
We’ve
been
cutting those down a
little bit to really amp up
[Orlando’s] femininity.”
When looking for a
specific design or pattern,
designers can consult
with
compilations
or
pattern
books.
What
Buretta struggled with
initially was the fact that
the patterns she was
looking for were far too
dated to possibly appear
in any modern book,
forcing her to begin with
a basic pattern to create
blow them up to the right
size,” Buretta said as she
explained how she has
been able to create many
of the costumes.
Buretta
said
that
most of the dresses she
designed for the 16th, 17th
and 18th centuries have
similar silhouettes that
correspond to respective
countries such as the
United States or France.
The dresses have big hip
skirts, which the base she
uses to begin a design for
a female costume. Once
she gains the approval of
the director of the show,
she proceeds to do what’s
referred to as a “muslin,”
or the base. Once that is
constructed, Buretta is
able to use that design to
begin to cut and use real
fabric to start making the
actual costume that will be
worn by an actor. Amidst
minor fittings in between
fabric
selections
and
the use of the “muslin”
is when the full outfit
begins to form. After
all of these stages take
place,
embellishments
like the trim and zippers
can be added. This final
stage is where Buretta
finds herself now. Unsure
of her official budget,
Buretta estimated that
she’s spent roughly $1500
so far.
“I think the flair and
your own personal taste
comes in the fabrics that
you use, and the trims
that you choose, the
silhouettes are what they
are, there’s not too much
flexibility there but the
people in the 18th and
19th century loved to
this
as a
thesis
woman convincingly, and
I think she has the sort of
naive-ness to her. She’s
so innocent and so sweet
that you’re like ‘she’s so
pure,’ when she’s a man,
but you can feel her
femininity and it really
shines
through
when
she’s a woman.”
Outside of the theatre
department,
Buretta
spends time with dance
company,
Urbanity
Dance, and has also been
working with Wheelock
Family Theatre in their
production of “Charlotte’s
Web.” While most of
her outside stagework is
freelance, Buretta said
that the freelance path is
where she is headed for
the time being. According
to Buretta, she is taking
any jobs that come her
way, but is mostly looking
for short-contract based
jobs because she wants to
learn as much as she can
as quickly as possible.
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features contemporary dance
Felicity Otterbein / Arts Editor
Members of Boston Ballet Company during “Donizetti’s Variations,”
the first set of the night at Boston Ballet’s “Wings of Wax.”
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string quartet, the
dancers
writhe
and
twist
around
their
small
squares,
in
a
choreographed chaos. The
title of the performance
doesn’t come into play
until the second half,
when all of the dancers
rush off stage and return,
each holding a succulent.
They then construct this
massive structure made
from their individual tiles
and proceed to duck and
hide behind it, save two
dancers. Seemingly in the
midst of a rehearsal of
their own accord, narrated
thoughts are announced
over the speaker for both
the man and the woman.
It was incredibly funny,
entertaining to watch
and listen to what was
construed
as
normal
thought processes that
occur in the minds of
skilled dancers. All the
while,
a
pretentious
voice is overheard on the
loudspeaker, lamenting
in a monologue regarding
“collaboration.”
The
narrator comments on
this concept, “a world
where we’re not dancers,
not musicians, but all
members of the human
orchestra.”
Although the night
contained
a
colorful
array of modern and
postmodern dance, the
evening could not have
displayed a smoother
transition from one piece
to another.
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OPINION
Discrimination:
Our political sensitivity
and intolerance of
criticism
Chaim Wigder
Journal Staff
A new popular debate
strategy that has surfaced
in the last few years,
particularly since the
most recent presidential
election: criticizing one’s
opponent as a “sensitive”
or “special” snowflake.
The insult was first
directed at the perceived
hypersensitivity
among
students
on
college
campuses, but has now
come to be thrown around
in response to virtually
anything the younger
generations might say
that disagrees with the
status quo, and is mostly
thrown from the far right
toward the left.
This isn’t just another
immature
derogatory
term. It also highlights a
real problem facing both
the right and the left: the
inability to distinguish the
criticism and exchange of
ideas from intolerance
and prejudice.
Demanding the same
rights as everyone else
does not make one
overly
sensitive,
and
“
Besides,
standing
up against
discrimination,
bullying,
and
intolerance
is
something
everyone
should
absolutely
be sensitive
about.
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Have you ever wondered about the
restrictions on the use of weed?
calling everyone who
does a “snowflake” is a
cheap attack that carries
no
substance
other
than furthering societal
divides. At the same time,
closing oneself off from
opposing
viewpoints
-- offensive or not -is
indeed
dangerous.
Neither side should lose
sight of what’s important.
Our culture prides
itself on its tolerance of
individuality, yet some
use it as a means of
discrimination. As we
make progress with equal
rights, there will be more
and
more
minorities
who’ve faced intolerance
and will demand to have
their voice heard. This
doesn’t mean people are
getting more needlessly
sensitive;
it
means
people
are
becoming
more mindful of how
we should treat others.
Unique (“snowflake”) or
not, all people deserve to
be treated with respect.
We must also be
careful to acknowledge
that people should be
sensitive
about
the
right things. A free and
just
society
requires
two essential qualities.
Equal rights are surely
the first. The other is
the ability to freely
criticize and exchange
ideas. Unfortunately, the
latter is often seen as
incompatible with the
former and therefore gets
equated with intolerance.
A striking example of
this is indeed on college
campuses, where invited
speakers have increasingly
been met with protests,
human blockades - and at
times violent riots - due
to their beliefs, which,
in a shockingly high
number of cases, happen
to be misattributed or
otherwise distorted.
No doubt there are
ingenuine trolls who have
no place in an academic
environment, such as
Milo
Yiannopoulos.
Does he really have
anything philosophically
meaningful to add?
People
whose
primary
goal
is
to
offend rather than have
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Our culture
prides
itself on its
tolerance of
individuality,
yet some
use it as a
means of
discrimination.
genuine debate should
be
ignored,
although
even they should not be
met with violence. I am
talking about otherwise
respectable authors and
academics who, as part
of a civil conversation,
criticize and exchange
ideas without directly
attacking any group of
people.
When students shun
them
with
abusive
language
or
violence
because they don’t agree
with them instead of
entering the conversation
themselves, it is no
longer a conversation. If
we attack everyone we
disagree with, we become
the intolerance we believe
ourselves to be fighting
against.
On the other side,
there are those who
say they are merely
expressing their ideas
while actually spouting
hate or even just being
unnecessarily
hostile.
You are not required to
denounce your beliefs
if they happen to offend
people, but many in
the so-called “alt-right”
seem to simply enjoy
mocking people during
any discussion, and then
follow up by defending
their right that opinion.
While
we
should
not shut down debate
over
hurt
feelings,
things like the term
“sensitive
snowflake,”
which is designed for
the sole purpose of
hurting people’s feelings,
should be abandoned.
Besides,
standing
up
against
discrimination,
bullying, and intolerance
is something everyone
should
absolutely
be
sensitive about. Is that
really an insult?
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Another perspective: Who
are you calling a snowflake?
Katie Dugan
Asst. Opinion Editor
Millennials have a lot
of negative stereotypes
about
them.
We’re
entitled, lazy, we’re numb
to acts of violence and
we’re obsessed with social
media and technology.
But probably the oddest
stereotype about us is
that we are too sensitive
and get offended easily.
Truthfully,
we
do
tend to come off as a
delicate bunch. Everyone
seems to have an opinion
about everything, and
millennials are especially
vocal
about
them,
predominantly on our
social media accounts.
However
we
don’t
complain for the sake of
complaining. The world
right now is a disaster and
there’s plenty to complain
about.
We did not invent
awareness of social issues
and being offended about
things going on in the
world. However, we did
popularize social media.
We take to social media
to make our voices heard
and one of the most
prominent and successful
millennials in the world,
Mark Zuckerberg, has
said, “By giving people
the power to share, we’re
making the world more
transparent.”
When you disagree
with someone is it more
proactive to say, “no,
you’re wrong,” or “why
do you think that way?”
Different
perspectives
and personal experiences
are the foundations in
which this country prides
itself on, so why are we
scrutinized for expressing
discrepancies?
Last year, the term
“sensitive
snowflake,”
seemingly
popularized
by Republican political
commentator
Tomi
Lahren,
became
the
defining
insult
of
2016. The term began
circulating social media
as a way to demean young
people for being too easily
offended. Essentially, the
term is used in relation
to purported generational
differences.
More specifically, it is
directed toward people
who became adults in
the 2010s as being more
prone to take offense
and less resilient than
previous generations, or
as being too emotionally
vulnerable to cope with
views that go against
their own.
Baby
boomers
are
forgetting that they were
the ones who raised us socalled snowflakes. While
they may see whining and
hypersensitivity, we see it
as being more aware of
widespread ramifications
of sexism and racism -issues the generation of
Donald Trump supporters
appear to be ignoring.
Teenage
rebellion
used to be sneaking out
late at night and listening
to punk music. Today
it is wearing pink hats
and protesting. Donald
Trump’s presidency has
brought to light some
deep-rooted
societal
issues that had been
swept under the rug. LGBT
issues, sexual assault,
“
Calling
someone
a sensitive
snowflake is
an easy way
to diffuse the
attention toward a
challenged point
of view.
equal
pay,
affordable
healthcare, are all part of
the conversation toward
new legislation and laws
that would directly affect
us.
We owe this awareness
to the Internet. We have
access to millions of
different viewpoints at
once. Despite growing up
in a predominately white,
middle-class town with
a population of about
13,000, growing up with
access to Youtube videos,
blogs and tweets flooded
my narrow world with
opinions.
At the risk of being
ironic, the act of calling
someone a snowflake
for
disagreeing
with
you is insensitive in
itself. It’s another way
of dismissing someone’s
opinion as invalid, and
it almost seems like one
step closer to gaslighting.
Lahren
called
people
who
participated
in
the
Women’s
March
sensitive
snowflakes,
and that seems quite
contradictory,
for
an
estimated five million
people of all generations
came together to stand up
for their rights as human
beings that are going
to be threatened by the
current
administration
in Washington D.C. That
doesn’t seem to be a
hypersensitive
act
or
behavior to me at all.
Calling someone a
sensitive snowflake is
an easy way to diffuse
the attention toward a
challenged point of view.
To be fair, it is possible
for people to read too
much into messages and
spark
a
controversial
discussion when there
wasn’t one to begin with.
But millennials are not
the only generation guilty
of that; everyone does it
once in awhile. By telling
our entire generation that
we are being “sensitive
snowflakes” is the same
as telling us that our
opinions don’t matter.
Silent
opinions
have
rarely done anyone any
favors.
If you’ve done your
research and have your
facts
straight,
your
opinion is valuable, and
you should never feel
discredited
because
someone thinks you’re
being “too sensitive.”
Older generations may
say our trigger warnings
and safe spaces make us
spineless and incapable
of dealing with the harsh
realities of the real world.
This is such a narrowminded way of looking
at society and I do not
think that negatively of
the “real world” where
we can’t be progressive
or educate ourselves to
create a better and more
accepting
society
for
everyone.
Yes, the world is
a harsh place, and in
life you don’t always
receive what you want. I
genuinely do not believe
that millennials expect
the world to be served
to them on a silver
platter, but asking to be
understood and accepted
should not be criticized.
Millennials want the world
to be more empathetic
and compassionate.
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O
Editor’s Word
A stigma of detest and
abhorrence has rooted itself in
the core of the political sphere.
Everyone has failed to see
what’s right in front of them;
not only are a bulk of people
incorrect and misinformed
nowadays, but they are
aimlessly and inappropriately
disputing any opposing side for
the sole principle of winning
a debate--without firmly
and accurately standing up
for their so-called idealism.
The focus has shifted from a
fixated belief, to a selfish desire
for power and gain. Whether
a liberal, conservative,
independent or affiliate to
another ideal, there has been
a shroud covering any political
atmosphere.
As student journalists
who take pride in our
integrity, especially at
this stage in our career,
this notion is completely
disheartening. We cannot
conduct thorough research
and investigations without
accusations of shattering
ethics, or being labeled “fake
news.” The problem lies
not with journalists. While
there are inevitably media
organizations who get clicks
and page views as a result
of deliberately unscrupulous
“news,” the integral and
crucial facets of the media that
correctly executes their jobs
are under siege. The problem
isn’t us, it’s some politicians,
and those who thinks they are
a politician because others
have likened to their loud and
empty blanketed statements.
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Angela Merkel: How a woman defines a country
Kaitlin Hahn
Journal Contributor
Arguably
the
new
Leader
of
the
Free
World, the first female
chancellor of Germany
and the De Facto Leader
of the European Union,
Angela Merkel holds all
of these titles in her third
term. It seems that this
once soft-spoken leader
has persisted through
with strong leadership
to please both liberals
and
conservatives
in
becoming a champion of
human rights for all.
The Leader of the
Free World is usually
given to the President of
the United States, but to
many on social media,
the title now belongs
to the Chancellor of
Germany, according to
the Washington Post.
This title has been named
as she has decided to run
for a fourth term next
year. Merkel was former
President Barack Obama’s
last phone call while in
office, which is being
championed as a passing
of the baton.
“That’s a matter for
the
German
people,
but I value Angela’s
leadership,” said former
President Barack Obama
in a speech in Berlin. “If
I were German and I had
a vote, I might support
her.” Based on the current
political arena, it could be
argued that Merkel and
her strength as a leader
not only of Germany but
of Europe as acting leader
of the Free World, would
do very well in a fourth
term as the Chancellor of
Germany.
Confined behind the
iron curtain until age 35,
Merkel grew up in a rural
area north of Berlin. After
the fall of the Berlin wall,
she joined the Christian
Democratic Union (CDU),
eventually appointed as
Minister of Women and
Youth. Merkel was chosen
to lead the CDU over her
mentor Helmut Kohl in
2000. When she went on
to win Chancellor in 2005
as the first woman to do
so, it proved she is what
Germany wanted and
“
Based on the
current political
arena, it could
be argued that
Merkel and her
strength as a
leader not only
of Germany but
of Europe as
acting leader of
the Free World,
would do very
well in a fourth
term as the
Chancellor of
Germany.
needed for a leader.
“Even when she was
awkward and shy, you
could feel her energy,
you could feel her power,
from
the
beginning,”
Herlinde Koelbl, arguably
Germany’s most acclaimed
photographer, said about
recognizing
Merkel’s
strength in 1991 when
he started photographing
her among other up-andcoming politicians, told
Time Magazine in their
article about Merkel as
their Person of the Year
for 2015.
Merkel is known for
her slow but precise way
of coming to decisions.
This was shown during
the possible collapse of
the European economy as
a result of the bankruptcy
of Greece. Correlated
with the refugee crisis,
she was able to lead not
only Germany, but all of
Europe. This solidifies her
position as the de facto
leader of the European
Union (EU).
In
2009,
Greece
announced it lied about
its finances for years,
was immediately shut
out
from
borrowing
from any market.
In
response, Merkel, taking
lead of the EU, made
Germany
the
biggest
lender of rescue funds to
Greece. However, Merkel
imposed strict conditions,
including new reforms
on taxes, pensions, and
the labor market. While
this was a struggling
story for Greece, these
actions by Merkel helped
save the EU from falling
into complete economic
instability.
By the end of 2015,
Germany had taken in
close to 890,000 refugees
who were fleeing to
Europe in order to find
security
and
stability
from their nations. This
dramatic influx of people
caused a shock that shook
not only Germany but
the entire EU to its core.
At the head of this stood
Merkel, where she proved
her strength as a leader
when she challenged the
politics of her own party
in favor of the moral
reasoning by declaring
Germany be a welcoming
country, open to refugees.
Even though Merkel
received backlash from
her decision to open up
Germany, in retrospect,
she
apologized,
but
not for opening up the
borders. “If I was able to,
I would turn back time by
many, many years, so that
I could have prepared
the whole government
and the authorities for
the situation which hit
us out of the blue in the
late summer of 2015,”
said Merkel in a press
conference on Sept. 18
addressed her refugee
policies. This showed
Merkel is strong enough
as a leader to stand by
her choices, and deal with
the consequences, despite
criticism from others.
Despite her popularity
rates fluctuating due to
both the financial crisis
in Greece and the refugee
crisis, Merkel has been
able to keep a steady
positive presence in the
political arena through
her moral leadership and
overall powerful mindset,
proving her to be a strong
political leader.
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Pictured: Second-year men’s tennis captain Francesco Saia
Brooke Patterson
Asst. Sports Editor
After
missing
out
on
the
post-season
tournament in 2016, the
men’s tennis team looks to
make a return appearance
to the Great Northeast
Athletic
Conference
(GNAC) tournament this
time around, opening
their season Thursday
against the University
of Massachusetts Boston
at 6:30 p.m. The Rams
hope to go as far as the
championship, which has
not been done since their
2014 season.
The men’s tennis team
was selected third in the
GNAC North Division
preseason poll by the
league’s head coaches
and look to have a strong
season on the court.
“We are going to make
a full effort this year to
win the championship and
bring it back to what it
used to be,” said secondyear captain Francesco
Saia in an interview with
The Suffolk Journal on
Tuesday afternoon.
The team finished last
season with an overall
record of 3-9. The three
teams the Rams were
able to outscore were
Wheelock College, Rhode
Island College, and Curry
College and all three
appear on their schedule
this season.
“We had a lot of new
players last year and it was
a development season for
us,” said sophomore Rami
Esrawi in an interview
with The Journal on
Monday. “We are looking
to build off of that this
year and hopefully make
it to the championship.”
The initial scheduled
start date for the Rams
first match was March
23, but due to inclement
weather,
the
season
opener was postponed
to an unannounced date.
Although the matches
were anticipated to start
recently, the team has
been practicing for about
a month, focusing on
their game mechanics
as well as setting aside
15 to 30 minutes of
each practice to work on
mental conditioning.
“Tennis is really a
mental game,” said the
business
management
major, Esrawi. “I think it’s
a big part. If you miss a
couple shots, don’t worry
about it. You just have
to play your form, play
your style, and you’ll win
matches.”
Senior finance major,
Saia said he is sad that
it is his final season on
the team, and it will be
especially tough this year,
because he will compete
this season without the
coach who had stood by
him during his past three
years at Suffolk University,
Steve
Counihan.
The
Rams obtained an interim
head coach in place of
Counihan--Isaac Stahl.
Stahl did not respond
to communication with
The Journal regarding
this article as of late
Tuesday night.
“I think we can go far,”
said Esrawi. “We want to
win it for our head coach
[Counihan] this year.”
While
improving
everyday and hoping to
S
come out on top of their
conference, the Rams
have the expectation to
win the championship this
season. They also hope to
win their most difficult
matches against Johnson
& Wales University and
Norwich University.
“Basically we work
that it’s one match and
one practice at a time,”
said Saia. “If you got off
the court knowing that
you did better than the
last day then you did
your job, and you did it
correctly.”
With
noticeable
improvements from last
season, Esrawi said how
everybody on the team
gets better every single
day and is dedicated and
committed to the team.
“We want to improve
every single day, that
way when we have our
first match and especially
have our first conference
match, we really show
who we are,” said Saia.
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Bruins fundraise $101k to fight pediatric cancer
Skylar To
Sports Editor
With six games left in
the regular season, the
Boston Bruins are still
looking to secure their
spot in the playoffs, but
they will be doing so with
a lot less hockey hair-- the
flow.
On
late
Monday
afternoon, the Bruins
and 98.5 The Sport’s Hub
hosted its 10th Annual
Cuts for a Cause to raise
money to fight pediatric
cancer at the House of
Blues in Boston. The
Bruins partnered with
Super Cuts to grant fans
the opportunity to bid
and shave the heads of
their favorite players. The
players, winning bidders
and fans helped to raise
$101,000 by the end of
the night for more than
$700,000 raised within
the decade. The event’s
proceeds were donated
to the Boston Bruins
Foundation and Floating
Hospital for Children at
Tufts Medical Center.
On the behalf of the
organization,
Executive
Director of the Boston
Bruins
Foundation
Bob Sweeney said the
Bruins staff owe a “great
gratitude to all of the
players.”
“It’s hard to believe
it’s been 10 years,” said
Sweeney. “I honestly want
to thank everyone for all
of their time and effort.
It really shows their
dedication.”
Nine years ago, forward
Patrice Bergeron wanted
to participate in the first
year the event kicked off
and shave his hair for a
“good cause.” The event
was led by former Bruins
defenseman Aaron Ward
for two years and former
Bruins forward Shawn
Thornton
who
took
over for several years
before he was traded.
On taking over the event
and keeping the annual
tradition
running
for
the third year, Bergeron
said that “it is amazing
to participate and give
back.”
“It’s been a great
response from fans to get
involved,” said Bergeron.
“[The event] is easy for us
to do and it goes a long
way to raise awareness.”
Bergeron and 98.5 The
Sports Hub shared that
the event started in the
basement of the sports
radio station and evolved
to bigger venues like the
Boston Park Plaza Hotel
and the Westin Boston
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Nine-year-old Brodie who was diagnosed with lymphoma in
May 2016, shaved Boston Bruins forward Patrice Bergeron’s
head at the 10th Annual Cuts for a Cause.
Waterfront Hotel over
the years to the House
of Blues this year, which
is “the best venue” they
have had. In its first year,
the event raised $25,000.
Since 2014, the event
has raised more than
$100,000 every year.
Sweeney
thanked
Ward,
Thornton
and
Bergeron
for
their
participation in “such a
great cause.”
“Without the players,
this could not be possible,”
said Sweeney.
Bruins
defenseman
Torey Krug found himself
in a similar situation to
Bergeron in his rookie
year several years ago. In
his rookie year, Krug said
that he signed a contract
with the Bruins right
before the event. Besides
participating in the event
to become a part of the
team, Krug joked that
he wanted Thornton’s
protection on the ice.
On his experience and
participation every year,
forward David Krejci said
that he has seen “every
single side” of the event-from shaving the heads of
fans to donating money
to getting his own head
shaved.
Forward Riley Nash,
who was acquired by
the Bruins last summer,
said the event is “pretty
awesome” and “pretty
cool to see.”
Besides chopping off
hair for a good cause,
talks about the playoffs
also surfaced at the event.
Nash, who played for the
Carolina Hurricanes for
four years prior to being
traded to Boston, said
competing to make the
playoffs has “been an
adjustment for sure” as
he did not see a playoff
scenario in his time in
Carolina.
“Being in Boston and
seeing how passionate
fans are about hockey,
you want to [make the
playoffs],” said Nash.
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Rams welcome 70th season, continues program success
Brooke Patterson / Asst. Sports Editor
From left to right: Head Baseball Coach Anthony Del Prete, pitcher Mark Fusco, first baseman Kevin Belskie and pitcher Chuck Gibson.
Hannah Arroyo
Journal Staff
For
many
college
athletes,
their
involvement sports stops
right after graduation
day. This was not the case
for Suffolk University’s
current Head Baseball
Coach Anthony Del Prete.
Del Prete started out as
a student athlete for the
baseball team at Suffolk
where he pitched four
seasons with the Rams.
As a player, Del Prete
had
a
21-11
record
and in 2002, he helped
bring his team to the
National
Collegiate
Athletic
Association
tournament.
He
was
named the conference
Pitcher of the Year.
After graduating in
2004, Del Prete spent
three
years
playing
professionally
in
the
Frontier
League
for
the Evansville Otters.
Del Prete was named
assistant coach on the
Rams in 2004. In 2008, he
also served as the Sports
Information Director for
Suffolk where he oversaw
the athletic department
website and publicity.
“I enjoy watching the
players develop over the
course of their four-year
career and take great
pride in watching them
come in and then leave as
men,” said Del Prete in an
interview with The Suffolk
Journal on Friday. “It’s
a fun place to be given
the school’s location and
it’s an easy place to work
given the people who you
are surrounded by, both
students and professional
staff
members.”
This
2017
season,
the
Rams
celebrate
their 70th anniversary.
“I would say the
program has evolved with
the quality of student and
geographic expansion of
our roster,” said Del Prete.
“A lot has to do with how
Suffolk University has
grown as an institution
from being a regional
inner city school to be
a nationally recognized
school. This has helped
our recruiting efforts
and also added depth and
quality to our roster.”
Suffolk
attempted
to organize a baseball
program as early as
1937 where the team
held practices in the
Boston Common. Shortly
after,
the
program
was
discontinued
due to World War II.
A more official club
team was set in place
in the spring of 1947 by
former Athletic Director
Charles Law. He tried
to revamp sports at
Suffolk and put in place
basketball, hockey, golf
and
soccer
programs
too. Law himself coached
the baseball, golf and
basketball
teams.
“When he came to
Suffolk
[Law]
really
was the individual who
created
sports,”
said
former Suffolk Athletic
Director James Nelson
in an interview with
The Journal on Monday.
The program gained
much attention as over 70
students came to try out
for a chance to play. These
numbers would continue
to rise as the next year
nearly 92 students tried
out for the team. Law
was the first to coach
the team and organized
a twelve-game schedule
that included matches
against Tufts University
and
Clark
University.
As Suffolk had not
yet been given the Ram
as an official mascot,
they were referred to as
the “Royals” for their
royal blue school color.
Nelson
explained
how he had seen the
baseball program evolve
since
he
started
as
the
athletic
director.
“Now
that
we’re
members of the GNAC, all
of the baseball and softball
teams are doubleheaders
for conference games,”
said
Nelson.
“That
certainly
has
been
significant playing those
number
of
games.”
Jay Parker, current
head
coach
of
the
Women’s
Golf
team,
previously spent 19 years
as the assistant coach
of the baseball team.
Parker said in an
interview
with
The
Journal on Wednesday
that starting in 1999,
the team was often
referred to as the “Mutts”
when he was coaching.
“When fields were
available we would just
show up and practice,”
said
Parker.
“Since
[McConnell] has taken
over the programs have
increased and the facilities
have increased. Things in
the past few years have
just been outstanding”
With the addition of
East Boston Memorial
Park in 2015, Suffolk
finally
had
a
field
to
call
their
home.
In Suffolk Baseball
history,
the
program
has had only six head
coaches. These coaches
include
Law,
George
Doucet, Tom Walsh, Joe
Walsh, McConnell and
Del Prete, who heads into
his third season coaching
the team this year.
So far as a head coach
Del Prete has helped his
team achieve back-to-back
GNAC
Championships
in the past two seasons.
In the 2016 season
his team recorded an
overall record of 3313, which is the second
best in program history.
“Our players are not
afraid to be pushed and
challenge
themselves,”
said Del Prete, “I believe
the strength of what
we have been able to
accomplish is a direct
result of the maturity
of our players and their
ability to grow and
develop their character
throughout the course
of their four year career
from when they start
here as freshman to when
they finally earn their
degree after four years.”
McConnell leads the
baseball program with
an overall best of 38
victories in a season that
his team successfully won
in 2000. All the team’s
former
coaches
have
winning records, but so
far McConnell has taken
home the most victories
for a coach in the
program with 479 wins.
“The
consistency
in the coaching staff
reiterates to consistency
on the field as well,” said
Parker. “We’re all on the
same page all the time.”
Senior pitcher and
captain Chuck Gibson
said in an interview with
The Journal on Friday
that he sees continued
success from his team
each season. He said
that because of this a
lot of talented young
players
have
decided
to come to Suffolk.
“There has been a
culture here to expect
to win and to dedicate
ourselves to this game
and our teammates,” said
Gibson. “That culture is
passed down class by class
and is still going strong.
I feel like it is my duty
before I graduate [this
May] to instill that culture
in the underclassmen.”
Today, Suffolk leads
the GNAC Conference
with 975 overall wins,
208 GNAC wins, 68
GNAC playoff games and
48 GNAC playoff wins.
Senior
and
first
baseman Kevin Belskie
said in an interview with
The Journal on Friday
that the Suffolk baseball
program is trying to
become known nationally.
“The history of the
program is that hard work
breeds success. Previous
teams have paved the
way for us to be where
we are,” said Belskie.
“Weathering the ups and
downs of the season and
staying even-keel will put
us on top at the end of it.”
Junior and pitcher
Mark Fusco said in
an interview with The
Journal Thursday that
the upperclassmen on his
team have taught him that
it’s a privilege to wear
the Suffolk jersey. He
said that he sees nothing
but success for this
program in the future.
“With
[Del
Prete]
this team has endless
opportunities
for
success,”
said
Fusco.
“After being named head
coach two years ago you
could tell that Coach Del
Prete has been involved
with the game of baseball
his whole life and it is
something he loves to do.”
Connect with Hannah
by emailing harroyo@
suffolk.edu