Young people are not the leaders of tomorrow, they are the leaders of today
March 27, 2018
Filed under Opinion, Uncategorized
The March for Our Lives took place across the world this past weekend. Overall, more than 200,000 people gathered to protest for stricter gun control policies. Sibling marches also sprang up in areas ranging from New York City to Los Angeles. However, it was not the groundbreaking number of people in ...
Letter to the Editor: SUPD, faculty should be armed
March 9, 2018
Filed under Letter to the Editor
"The existing policy, if you want to call it that, is to require students and faculty to wait patiently as a rampaging killer decides which class or which assembly to attack."
“I am not your baby”
Sara Maloney, Journal Contributor
March 7, 2018
Making my harasser’s weaponry a device for activism
Letter to the Editor: Response to staff ed from Suffolk’s Title IX Director
March 7, 2018
Filed under Letter to the Editor
To the Editor: I felt it was important to comment on the recent Editor’s Word [Feb. 28, 2018] column that appeared on the Journal’s opinion page, which mentioned rumors of inappropriate relationships between staff and students, and students’ feeling they cannot speak out. Sexual harassment and abus...
Letter to the Editor: A preventable shooting tragedy
March 6, 2018
Filed under Letter to the Editor
The Parkland, FL shooter had a history of violent behavior. Police were called to his house many times, but they did not arrest him because the school board had an agreement with the police not to arrest any students.. The FBI received a viable tip indicating he wanted to shoot up a school, but the lead...
Editor’s Word: Have courage, break the culture
February 28, 2018
Filed under Opinion, Staff Editorial
It has come to the attention of our team of student journalists that our University has a serious problem. Throughout the years, few staff members have been rumored to have engaged in inappropriate relationships with students, while others have been caught in the act. These staff members, namely men...
An Idaho State Senator loses temper over contraceptives
February 28, 2018
Filed under Opinion
Most people try to avoid conversations about sex, due to feeling uncomfortable or squirmish. It is easier to awkwardly giggle and quickly change the subject. However, for a politician, being able to discuss issues such as birth control and sex education in a professional and respectful manner is par...
Compromise: It is time to find a solution from both parties
February 28, 2018
Filed under Opinion
The post-Columbine generation of Parkland High has challenged the normalization of mass shootings in American culture following the latest tragedy that has taken 17 lives. Beyond the mobilization of students pushing for change, the tragedy presents President Donald Trump a unique opportunity to do what fo...
President versus Presidential
February 27, 2018
Filed under Opinion
In the past, the image of a person running for president was about authority, experience and respect. But in recent years, it seems people have started viewing the presidential candidate as an image of money and power rather than someone capable to run a country. Someone with presidential aspirations s...
Editor’s Word: To have to now utilize a single channel is not only a hindrance, it’s an insult
February 21, 2018
Filed under Staff Editorial
We are the media and we’re not just here to get a story. We’re here to tell people's stories. Nowadays, the media has been painted as bloodsucking leeches out to get a paycheck only to use and abuse and move onto the next warm body. We’re here to say — that’s not the case. As aspiring futur...
Signed, a concerned Suffolk student
February 21, 2018
Filed under Opinion
I still have faith in my university, even after more than a year of standing by and watching the daily struggle of who will obtain top position at Suffolk. Holding onto this faith has shown to be a struggle, one that leaves me concerned with each passing day, week and semester. I would be lying if ...
No more excuses, America.
February 21, 2018
Filed under Opinion
A curtain of depression in the United States has not lifted since the first mass shooting in 1966, cutting between the line of progression and digression. We are stagnant. We are complacent to the deaths of innocent lives that thought, “It won’t happen to me.” Seventeen souls were lost in Park...
