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Your School. Your Paper. Since 1936.

The Suffolk Journal

Your School. Your Paper. Since 1936.

The Suffolk Journal

Breaking down stereotypes, one man at a time

Breaking down stereotypes, one man at a time

Katie Dugan February 22, 2017

We’ve all heard about self-defense classes for women and maybe you’ve taken one. You might carry around pepper spray, or a rape whistle, or your keys between your fingers when you walk alone at night....

Editor’s word: The Journal Staff stands against the Secretary of Education

February 15, 2017

Throughout the confirmation hearings, the then-nominee Betsy DeVos, who practically paid her way to the Secretary of Education position, displayed her utter lack of experience in public education. Both...

What locker room does Trump change in?

Nick Viveiros October 26, 2016

The now infamous 2005 video of Donald Trump and Billy Bush doesn’t surprise many but it’s exactly the kind of thing we’ve come to expect from Trump. In the video, released by The Washington Post...

Help a friend, use a signal

Haley Clegg October 19, 2016
This article could be triggering to those who do not believe in the use of trigger warnings.
Presenters Jean Joyce-Brady and Timothy Albers inform students on ways to be a positive bystander. (Craig Martin/Journal Staff)

Sexual Assault Awareness Month: Intervention workshop teaches prevention

Heather Rutherford April 15, 2015

Power in numbers can sometimes mean power in influence. But, when a room full of people assumes others will intervene in a sexual assault situation, no one guesses the victim could receive no help at all. This...

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...

Off-campus sexual assaults not allowed to be reported

Thalia Yunen October 15, 2014

Suffolk University released its 2014 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report on Sept. 30. Though the report released information on sexual assault instances on campus, the Clery Act does not allow certain...

(Jonathan Acosta Abi Hassan/Journal Staff)

SUPD works on app in hopes of increasing safety

Connie Lai and Melissa Hanson October 8, 2014

The Suffolk University Police Department published its annual security and fire safety report last week, revealing statistics on campus crime and data on how the university deals with incidences like sexual...

(By Flickr user Steve Rhodes)

Time to crack down on sexual assault

October 8, 2014

By Madeline Scovotti Over the last two weeks, cases of sexual assault have occurred at five colleges across Massachusetts. As a female student who unintentionally, but frequently, walks the streets...

Editor’s word: Growing attention on sexual assault

October 8, 2014

This is the second time this year an editorial is appearing in our paper on sexual assault. The chief of the Suffolk University Police Department said in an interview with The Suffolk Journal that he...

Actor and film producer Benicio Del Toro participated in the PSA campaign for Its On Us, released by U.S. government.
(Photo courtesy of U.S. Government PSA)

“It’s On Us” public awareness campaign to prevent campus sexual assault launched

Thalia Yunen September 24, 2014

The U.S. Government has announced a public-private campaign called “It’s on Us.” The campaign was created to engage college students, of all genders, to participate in preventing sexual assault and...

Editor’s word: Sexual assault surveys

September 17, 2014

Sexual assault is not only a widespread issue across the country and the world, but an issue that has become prevalent on college campuses, spurring lawsuits by students and investigations by the U.S....

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