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Your School. Your Paper. Since 1936.

The Suffolk Journal

Your School. Your Paper. Since 1936.

The Suffolk Journal

Campaign signs displayed near Sawyer. Bostonians elected a new City Council Nov. 7.

See results of the Boston municipal election

Maren Halpin, Asst. News Editor November 8, 2023

Boston’s City Council will see a number of new faces after the Nov. 7 municipal election. Voters voiced their choice for the four at-large positions, with Ruthzee Louijeune, Erin Murphy, Julia Mejia...

Suffolk Votes encourages voter participation in critical election year

Suffolk Votes encourages voter participation in critical election year

Leo Woods, Journal Contributor October 27, 2020

For many Suffolk University students, the upcoming Nov. 3 presidential election will be the first major election they will participate in. 2020 is a critical election year, as voters could re-elect...

Diversity dominates: Historic record of women elected in Boston

Diversity dominates: Historic record of women elected in Boston

Maggie Randall November 15, 2017
Despite low voter turnout during last week’s municipal election, women, especially of color, won.
By Facebook user Donald J. Trump

Campain commentary: Institutional changes after the 2016 election

Maggie Randall November 11, 2016

Donald Trump earned the 270 necessary electoral votes on Tuesday to win the presidential election. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost the election, although she still won the popular vote by over...

Dr. Rachael Cobb, Chair of the Government department | Courtesy of Suffolk University

Food for thought series: Suffolk’s role in encouraging a politically active community

Maggie Randall September 29, 2016

As students filed into the Nancy C. Stoll function room in the Sawyer Academic building last Thursday, they were promptly asked “Are you registered to vote?” The event was part of a “Food for...

By Alexa Gagosz

Eyes on America: Campaigns cause discourse within Suffolk’s international community

Jacob Geanous September 29, 2016

The fanfare surrounding the 2016 election has stirred up a media frenzy that has magnified the United States’ partisan personality. American citizens have vocalized their election opinions vehemently,...

By the United States Presidential Election, 2016 Facebook page

Required registration relies on eligible participants

Katie Dugan September 21, 2016

Millennials are now as large of a political force as baby boomers, according to an analysis of U.S. census data from the Pew Research Center. Both generations consist of approximately 31 percent of the...

Photo courtesy of SGAs Facebook.

SGA top officers selected for next academic year

March 4, 2015

The executive board and other Student Government Association officials were selected Wednesday night following an online election. Elections followed a forum last week for the executive board candidates,...

Editor’s word: Where are the SGA e-board candidates?

March 4, 2015

For a school with countless alumni in high-ranking positions and working in the fields they chose and studied during their collegiate years, Suffolk appears to have far too few students devoted and interested...

(Sam Humphrey/Opinion Editor)

Panelists, audience members, place their bets

Thalia Yunen October 29, 2014

Massachusetts legislators signed a law in 2011 permitting three new casinos and a slots parlor to be built across three different regions in the state. On Nov. 4, residents of Massachusetts will have...

(By Flickr user Ministerio das Relacoes Exteriores)

Dilma Rousseff re-elected as Brazilian President

October 29, 2014

By Sylvain Gaulier According to Liberation News, Rousseff immediately thought of the future challenges ahead of her presidency in her victory speech. She addressed to her supporters: “Instead...

On the Israeli Election

Josef Nothmann January 23, 2013

Roughly 67 percent of Israel’s 5.5 million eligible voters went to the polls on Tuesday to elect members of the 19th Knesset from the lists of more than 30 parties. In the weeks leading up to the vote,...

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