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The Suffolk Journal

Your School. Your Paper. Since 1936.

The Suffolk Journal

Cutting cancer out of stores

Cutting cancer out of stores

December 4, 2014

Cancer-causing chemicals can be found in all sorts of places. But sometimes, they can be cut out of the picture. That's exactly what one group is trying to do, store by store, in Jamaica Plain. Suffolk...

Plan in works for Bostons homeless

Plan in works for Boston’s homeless

December 4, 2014

Homelessness is especially harsh as temperatures turn colder. Even more so after the shelter on which you were counting is quickly put off-limits. That's what's happening here in Boston right now but a...

Sam Humphrey/Journal Staff

SLI, Program Council host relaxing end-of-semester events

Sam Humphrey December 3, 2014

Under blue streamers hung from the ceiling, students from various clubs and organizations decorated tree ornaments and graham cracker houses, ate calzones, and relaxed at The Holiday Herd-Up, the Student...

Tradition continues with Nova Scotia tree

Tradition continues with Nova Scotia tree

Melissa Hanson December 3, 2014

Each year a giant tree is chopped down in Nova Scotia, strapped to a truck, carried down the highway and into Boston to be lit up on the Common. This is Boston’s official Christmas tree, a tradition...

Northeastern University uses computer model to track Ebola cases around the world

Northeastern University uses computer model to track Ebola cases around the world

November 21, 2014

Suffolk U News reporters Dior Serra and Ryan Chevalier are at Northeastern University in Boston where a professor and students are studying Ebola.

Vice President of Suffolk Environmental Club Asara Tenney (left) said she does not have a problem with money from the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation 
supporting speakers at the Beacon Hill Institute, but does have a problem with it influencing studies. Kalin Jordan is pictured on the right.
(Jonathan Acosta Abi Hassan/Journal Staff)

Environmental Club supports Koch Free Zone Campaign, asks for transparency

Heather Rutherford November 19, 2014

The Suffolk Environmental Club has voted unanimously to support alumna Kalin Jordan’s campaign to keep the university a “Koch Free Zone,” an effort to keep money from the conservative Koch brothers...

Robert Uttaro talks to Title IX Coordinator and Senior Associate Dean of Students Ann Coyne.

Alumnus speaks on sexual assault awareness

November 19, 2014

By Brigette Carreiro At the center of a semicircle of chairs on the ninth floor of 73 Tremont sat Suffolk alumnus and rape counselor Robert Uttaro, with legs crossed, gripping a coffee. As students...

(Courtesy of Kate Kelley)

Balancing act: being a student-parent

November 19, 2014

By Brigette Carreiro Attending college comes with all kinds of responsibilities. Balancing school work, part-time jobs, finding internships, and maintaining relationships is usually more than enough...

Hayden Voss with girlfriend and former housemate Nicole Franziel.
(Courtesy of Hayden Voss)

Former Ram on life after ‘Big Brother’

Thalia Yunen November 19, 2014

Most college students don’t know what it’s like to be on TV.  Hayden Voss, former Suffolk student and reality show star from Big Brother, does. In an  exclusive interview, Voss talked to the Journal...

(Courtesy of Ypay)

Why pay when you have Ypay?

Connie Lai November 19, 2014

Whether it’s eating out, taking advantage of the university’s dining services, or going grocery shopping for home-cooked meals, college students can sometimes spend big bucks to satisfy their appetites. Ypay...

Courtesy of Trapeze School New York

New York Trapeze School sends high flyers to Boston

November 5, 2014

  By Victoria Greenleaf If you have ever imagined soaring through the air at the greatest of ease, then imagine no further: Trapeze School New York recently relocated to the West End and...

(Courtesy of Paul McCormick)

Baker surpasses Coakley to become governor

Connie Lai and Thalia Yunen November 5, 2014

After a tight gubernatorial race, Charlie Baker emerged as Massachusetts' 72nd governor when Martha Coakley conceded Wednesday morning, according to The Associated Press. As of 1:50 a.m. Wednesday morning,...

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