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The Suffolk Journal

Suffolk's Student Government Association during a meeting.

Students reflect on Suffolk club funding decrease

Corey DeCristofaro, Journal Contributor October 14, 2025

With the middle of the fall semester now approaching, many clubs have begun to make plans for the rest of the year with their budgets. However, many clubs are grappling with reduced budgets with some appealing...

The Massachusetts State House.

This week around the Commonwealth

Jack Gosselin, Journal Contributor October 14, 2025

Commonwealth Politics This Week: Massachusetts has a state budget of nearly $61 billion, but the Commonwealth’s towns and cities can not always keep up when placed under budgetary strain. Amid...

A Saffron survivor: From Myanmar to Massachusetts

Cavan Brady, Journal Contributor October 14, 2025

In a small coastal town in Southeastern Massachusetts, there is a grocery store selling fresh, hand-rolled sushi for $5.99. The man rolling that sushi has lived an extraordinary life, full of international...

Seniors Ayan Mohamed, Camille LeVasseur-Hartgrove, Christina Lydon and Noor Janjua.

Divas who make a difference: Suffolk’s Notorious club hosts its first event

Franklin Nguyen, Journal Contributor October 14, 2025

In her rhinestone heels, pink suit, red lipstick and passion for Constitutional law, Christina Lydon is Suffolk’s very own Elle Woods.  When she started Notorious, Lydon wasn’t just founding another...

This week in SGA: student government responds to The Suffolk Journal's 'letter from the editor'

This week in SGA: student government responds to The Suffolk Journal’s ‘letter from the editor’

Nyla Perez, Journal Contributor October 14, 2025

During SGA’s weekly meeting, SGA President Charlie Reyna-Demes responded to a recent Suffolk Journal article, “Letter from the editor: Student leaders need to focus on their financials” by The Journal’s...

Professor Kimberly Ring Allen giving her lecture in the Smith Commons.

Professor Kimberly Ring Allen delivers powerful, personal ‘last’ lecture

Nyla Perez, Journal Contributor October 14, 2025

Suffolk’s Center for First-Generation and Educational Equity and Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion hosted their second “Last Lecture” Oct. 7, featuring professor Kimberly Ring Allen. Speaking...

PAC's logo, courtesy of Keira Haughey.

Suffolk’s PAC sustains art on campus in lieu of budget cuts

Maeve Fitzgerald, Journal Contributor October 14, 2025

Suffolk University’s student body has extended its dedication to art within higher education with the creation of Performance and Arts Council, or PAC, a club dedicated to embracing arts visibility on...

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Emergency preparedness comes to Suffolk with new CERT program

Molly Sullivan, Journal Contributor October 14, 2025

An inaugural class of Suffolk students, faculty and staff will begin Community Emergency Response Team training Oct. 21, in an effort to build essential skills in disaster preparedness and earn a nationally-recognized...

Members of the Venture Literary Magazine gather outside Mass. State House to protest banned books.

Suffolk’s Venture Literary Magazine hosts banned books protest at the State House

Eva Hanegraaff, Journal Contributor October 14, 2025

As of 2021, there were upwards of 23,000 banned books, according to PEN America. Suffolk University’s Venture Literary Magazine decided to take a stand, putting on a protest last Friday at the Massachusetts...

Executive Director Tara Brown and former staff Alexis Buffer pose for photo in front of Boston Dance Studios. (courtesy of Tara Brown)

Boston Dance Studios, Suffolk performing arts students face an unknown future as the university cuts back on spending

Julia Capraro, Managing Editor October 7, 2025

For a small business founder like Tara Brown, the last thing you want to think about is shutting your doors to five years of community. But after her nonprofit dance studio, Boston Dance Studios, lost...

The Ridgeway Athletic Center which houses the SUPD main office.

SUPD releases annual campus safety report

Jack Gosselin, Journal Contributor October 7, 2025

Content warning: The following discusses topics including sexual assault and violence. The Suffolk University Police Department released its annual report on crime and fire events Sept. 29, as required...

VUB members pose for an program photo. (courtesy of Eva Hanegraaff)

Massachusetts’ only pre-college program for veterans closed after federally funding was cancelled, students reflect on future

Eva Hanegraaff and Ella Yanoti October 7, 2025

Sept. 30 marked the end of Suffolk’s Veterans Upward Bound program, a pre-college program intended to assist veterans as they pursue higher education. It was one of three TRIO programs offered by the...

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