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Your School. Your Paper. Since 1936.

The Suffolk Journal

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The Suffolk Journal

Suffolk recognized Sexual Assault Awareness Month with a series of events. Suffolk also offers Rape and Aggression Defense (RAD) courses for women every semester.
(Photo by Sam Humphrey)

One month insufficient to address sexual assault awareness

Ally Johnson April 16, 2014

I have been actively trying to fight, educate and speak out about sexual assault for a while now. It is a difficult subject to read about, listen to or talk about, but it is a prevalent one. It is a cause...

Photo courtesy of SGAs Facebook.

A word from SGA: April 16, 2014

April 16, 2014

Hello Students!   The Student Government Association (SGA) would like to share some updates from this week! The SGA Awards were held on April 8, 2014 at the Ritz Carlton. The event was a...

Editor’s word: April 16, 2014

April 16, 2014

I don’t want to write the last staff editorial of the year about the Boston Marathon bombings last year. I don’t want to write or think about the destruction that two people brought to the city I and...

The National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Eating Disorders (ANAD.org) has resources to help anorexics adopt a healthy 
lifestyle, unlike MyProAna
(Photo by Flickr user ANAD)

Pro-Anorexia websites send dangerous message

Melissa Hanson April 9, 2014

Men and women struggling with anorexia need a support system. They need a group of friends or family, a therapist or doctor, who will help them accept their disease and move toward a healthy lifestyle....

Same-Sex couples can now apply for Medicare – It’s about time

Ellie Hawkins April 9, 2014

The Obama administration announced on Thursday, April 3 that same-sex married couples can qualify for Medicare hospital and physician benefits. This is the first time in history that same-sex couples are...

Stephen Colberts TV character, a spoof of 
conservative pundits, is known for lampooning many different groups of people. He has won awards, like a Peabody (pictured), and Colbert is known for pushing the envelope with his satire. 
(Photo by Flickr user Peabody Awards)

Colbert’s misunderstood joke proves a point

Matt Bacon April 9, 2014

A couple of weeks ago, late-night talk show satirist Stephen Colbert faced a massive social media firestorm for a tweet sent out by his show’s Twitter account, which is run by the network that hosts...

Colbert takes Asian joke too far

Ally Johnson April 9, 2014

Satire has always been a tricky art form to navigate. If done well and intelligently there can be a positive impact - one that sparks discussion. If done poorly and without hindsight, it can cause anger...

A promotional poster for An Inconvenient Truth, by former Vice President Al Gore, was widely praised as an informative film. Gore made climate change policy a focus of his 2000 presidential campaign.
(Photo by Flickr user eelke dekker)

No Climate, No Cry? When will we heed climate change danger

David Frederick April 9, 2014

Edward Abbey once said, “Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” Clearly, that is not the attitude that motivated Manifest Destiny, and the continued pillaging of our natural...

Editor’s word: It’s winter break, not Christmas break

April 9, 2014

The town of Norwood voted April 8 to change the phrase of “winter break” back to “Christmas break” in its public schools. Norwood’s school committee voted to change the phrase from Christmas...

Common Core does not solve America’s education problems

Ryan Dawson April 2, 2014

When you are in high school, everything but academics seems to matter the most. Sports, gossip, and drama are all things that take precedent in the mind of a young student. More often than not, students...

(Photo by Flickr user Robert Douglass)

Obama’s NSA bulk proposal leaves major issue in place

Sam Humphrey April 2, 2014

Last Monday, The New York Times reported that the Obama administration would soon announce a plan to end the National Security Agency (NSA)’s bulk collection of Americans’ telephone data. However,...

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Game over landlords: Marty Walsh fights corruption

Vassili Stroganov April 2, 2014

With Marty Walsh’s new amendment to initiate inspections in housing and rentals, there is still hope for financially fragile college students and other people with low income. No more will landlords...

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