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Thriving alumnus switches gearsBrigitte Carreiro News Editor

VOLUME 76, NUMBER 4

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International

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Sanders rallies devoted Democrats

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See RALLY page 2

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Sandersgreeted manyvolunteers and

advocates at theBoston Convention

and ExhibitionCenter.

From leading man tohumble volunteer, Jacob Athyalis preparing to take a breakfrom his hectic acting scheduleto dedicate himself into service work with the Peace Corps.

Athyal ‘14 has beenprofessionally performingaround Boston since hissophomore year. After landinga role in Company One’s, “The

Elaborate Entrance of ChadDeity,” Athyal has booked showafter show.

“Company One really neededan athletic Indian for a role,and I love my people to death,but we’re not exactly famous when it comes to athletics,” Athyal said. “I didn’t deserve it;I was spoon-fed.”

As he essentially washanded a role in what he said was an extremely successfulshow, Athyal said it put him ina position to continue workinghard and fast.

“We’re just in a weird placeright now in Boston theaterin which we’re getting reallyliberal where people want

to hire people of color, but

simultaneously not liberalenough to give women roles,”he said. As a result, Athyal hasbeen steamrolling the city’stheater scene.

“As of right now, I happento fill this niche that I’m luckyenough to be around for,” hesaid.

Athyal’s love for theater,however, will soon be put onhold for a two-and-a-half yearservice in the Peace Corps.Though decisions are stillup in the air, Athyal said theorganization is nodding toward work in Sudan.

“There’s somethingbeautiful about Africa,” he said,mentioning that his mother’sUgandan roots have alwayssparked a yearning in him to visit.

The idea to join the PeaceCorps came to Athyal froma need to branch out of hiscomfort zone.

“Any time you think you’recomfortable in a time andspace, do something thatcompletely pulls the rug fromunder you,” he urged.

Acting, Athyal said,

triggered a continuous drive in

The room was electrified.

White and blue signs were waving around in the air.20,000 people were yearningfor a political revolution and20,000 voices were all shoutingone name: Bernie Sanders.

Sanders began in a raspy voice, “My request of youtonight is not to just help me win the Massachusetts primary,but the day after, we win theWhite House,” he said. Theroom in the Boston Convention

and Exhibition Center erupted.The 74-year-old senator

from Vermont doesn’t lookthe part of a rockstar, but hispopularity has soared since the

summer. The packed house wasthe latest example of that.

In the third quarter,Sanders raised $26 million,closely following democraticfrontrunner Hillary Clinton, who raised $28 million. Theaverage donation Sandersreceives is $30, and 99 percentof his donations are under $100,


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Graduate takes jump from acting to serving

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Thousands gather in support for Sanders

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From RALLY page 1

Sanders supporters fockedto hear his speech regadingclimate change, gun control,

and tax reform.

Since graduating, Athyalhas been involved in many

productions around the city,including “Shockheaded Peter.”

“Any time you think you’recomfortable in a time and space …

do something that completely pulls

the rug from under you.”

-- Jake Athyal

his life that he quickly realizedhe needed to slow.

“There’s something that’sreally scary when you stop andrealize you’re in this whirlpoolthat can’t actually stop,” hesaid.

“I’m at an age right now thatI know theater’s what I want todo for the rest of my life, butI’m aware that I have the restof my life to do it.”

This pause, Athyal said, willnot only be beneficial to hislife, but also to his career.

“A lot of times, you can’treally be an honest person on

stage if you don’t know yourown self completely and truly. You can either sit and askquestions, or you can go outand try to put yourself in ascenario where you’re forced toanswer questions,” he said.

In tune with this philosophy, Athyal said he is not sure ifgoing back to acting is whathe wants to do after his term with the Peace Corps. He saidthe idea of “throwing the cardsin the air and letting them land where they will” is front andforemost in his mind right now.

As he prepares to make somechanges, Athyal said he thinkshis willingness to communicate

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is something he can bring from

theater to his service.“If I have anything, it’s an

enthusiasm to communicate;that’s pretty much what actingis, and I don’t know whatprofession that’s not usefulfor,” he said.

Athyal emphasized thatalthough he knows he lovestheater, he wants to use thisopportunity to step back andanalyze where he wants to go with his life.

“You can kind of think about where you want to go in life,but one day you’re sitting down

in your 40s and you have your‘aha’ moment of, ‘This wasn’t where I was supposed to go,’”

he said.

Athyal, full of humility, saidhe is in no place to give advice,but stressed that kindnessand hard work are the mostimportant things he learnedfrom Suffolk.

“Theater is inherently asocial aspect; it’s supposed tobe collaboration. You don’t want to collaborate withsomeone who’s a pain in thebutt,” he said.

The biggest issue he hasseen has been those who aremore concerned with famethan work.

“They don’t want to be reallygood at their craft, they want tobe on Ellen ,” said Athyal.

Courtesy of Jake Athyal

a fact Sanders proudly mentionsin most of his speeches.

More than 200 volunteers,assembled by Andrew Virden,a Bernie Sanders regionalcampaign manager, were onhand to help control the crowdand enlist support.

Virden had four rules: Don’trun, don’t yell, don’t talk tothe press, and don’t talk aboutany other candidates besidesSanders.

“I don’t even know if thereare other candidates besidesSanders,” Virden joked.

Volunteers were dividedinto teams prior to the rally,including the donation team, which consisted of handingout donation envelopes at the

event and inviting supportersto contribute. Volunteers ranthe phrase, “Would you like todonate to the campaign?” dry.

Other teams involved crowdcontrol, a sign-in group thatrecorded attendees’ names andcontact information, a mediateam, merchandise team, Americans with Disabilities Act,and a pep team, which kept thecrowd going with chants forthe entire three-hour rally.

Virden explained that

candidates make the mistakeof attacking those running intheir party. And that “whenBernie gets the nomination,those other supporters can joinus.”

Volunteers included studentsand Bostonians, all withdifferent reasons for joining therally that day. College students, young families, elderly couples,and individuals representing

seemingly every race came outto advocate.

A sophomore at EmersonCollege who identified herselfas Liz said, “I can’t even vote!”and explained that she is an

international student fromSingapore. Still, she was drawnto support Sanders’ progressiveagenda.

Another volunteer, Paul, who works for a law firm inBoston, explained that hedecided to get involved whenhe realized he was “frustrated with politics and want[ed] to dosomething about it.”

Sanders expounded onseveral topics in a speech lastingover an hour. He discussed theneed for healthcare reform, voicing his support of Obama’s

Affordable Care Act. Sandersmentioned the need foreducation reform in accordance with prison reform, saying America needs to “invest in jobs and education, not in jailsand incarceration.”

After being introduced byBill McKibben, a leading expertin environmental issues and,particularly, global warming,Sanders later addressed theenvironment.

“The debate is over. Climate

change is real, it is caused byhuman activity, and it is alreadycausing devastating problemsin our country and all over the world,” Sanders said.

Sanders advocated for a tax

reform which would supportthe middle class, and spokeon how unemployment affects women, young people, andpeople of color differently.He also spoke on the need forgun control, a topic he largelyavoids.

As the speech came to a close,Sanders left the room with thesense of a political revolution inhow he opposed super politicalaction committees favored bymany Republicans, whom headmitted to “disagree with on virtually everything.”

It was not just in the way he vocalized support ofprogressive economic andsocial reforms, nor by hischallenges towards banks thatare “too big to fail,” but inhis actions, like having voterregistration forms availableand pleading everyone to vote.“When nobody votes,Republicans win. And whenlarge numbers of people comeout, we win,” he said.


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Latina feminist talks diversity

October 7 , 2015

Patricia Negrón Journal Staff

Police BlotterFriday, October 29:44 p.m.10 West Street

Liquor law violation. Judicial internal.

Friday, October 22:12 a.m.150 Tremont StreetLiquor law violation. Judicial internal.

Thursday, October 13:55 p.m.148 Cambridge StreetTrespassing. Closed.

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Dr. Rivera-Velázquez,a Puerto Rican,

advocates for theHispanic queer movement.

Dr. Celiany Rivera- Velázquez captured students onTuesday with her discussion,“Adventures of a PuertoRican Feminist DocumentingCaribbean Queer Movements,”addressing issues surroundingthe often-skewed identities ofthose of Hispanic background.

This conference, in honor ofHispanic Heritage Month, is thefirst in a series by the Office ofDiversity Services called, “OurIntersections: Representationand Identity.”

Rivera-Velázquez’s workfocuses on queer femaleperformers from the DominicanRepublic, Cuba, and PuertoRico. These islands werechosen as her focus because ofthe connections between them,as they are the three Caribbeanislands that were originallycolonized by Spain.

The event began with adiscussion about the differences

between the terms Spanish,Hispanic and Latino/a. Spanishrefers exclusively to peoplefrom Spain, Hispanic refers topeople from Spanish-speakingcountries, which includes Spainbut doesn’t include Brazil, andLatino/a, which is more of ageographical term, refers toeveryone but Spain.

“If we talk about HispanicHeritage Month, it is a month tocelebrate the contributions, art,culture in Spanish language,but specially in connection toSpain, so it includes Spain,”Rivera-Velázquez said.

“In the Americas, there’sbeen this kind of idealizationof what Spain brings, and a lotof people are into conservingSpanish culture, and someother people might be like,‘That’s racist, why do we haveto celebrate the colonizer?’”she continued.

Rivera-Velázquez discussedher relationship with heridentity as a Latina as well asher experiences after migratingfrom Puerto Rico when she was22 years old.

“In the year 2006, more

than half of all Puerto Ricansand nearly one out of nineCubans and Dominicans residedoutside their nations of origin,”she said.

She said that for a lot ofPuerto Ricans, traveling to andfrom the island frequently is very common, something thatis facilitated with United Statescitizenship. In turn, peoplefrom other countries need to gothrough the visa to citizenshipprocess, and this makes it more

complicated to travel back,especially for Cubans.

“Miami has this kind ofconflicted relationship withthe island, because there’sa love for the island but adislike of the government,” shesaid, referring to the Cubans who migrated to Miami inthe ‘1950s and ‘1960s duringthe transition from Batista’scapitalist government to Fidel’ssocialist government.

Rivera-Velázquez also talkedabout the term “caribglocal,”coined by author RosamondKing last year in her book“Island Bodies.” It is usedto describe people from theCaribbean that do not live intheir countries, but speak thelanguage and know enoughabout the culture to qualify aslocal. She used herself as anexample.

“I haven’t lived in PuertoRico since 2001, so 14 years,but when I go there I canquickly see how my brother andmy mother and my father havea completely different reality,completely different fashiontrends, completely differentideas than I do,” she said.

“But when I go there, I can

still speak the language. I stillsound Puerto Rican, I can stillgo and order ‘café con leche ybacalaíto frito,’” she continued,switching to Spanish to furtherelaborate her point by saying,“coffee with milk, and a friedbacalaíto,” a typical PuertoRican dish.

She also elaborated on theLGBTQ activism on the threeislands to help the attendeesunderstand the context ofthe work done by the queer

performers she observed duringher research.

Her research began in Cubafollowing hip-hop group KrudasCubensi. Krudas Cubensiappeared on the Cuban hip-hopscene in 1999, talking aboutfemale issues like menstruationin a male-dominated field.Rivera-Velázquez played one ofthe group’s music videos, “MiCuerpo es Mío.”

Rivera-Velázquez, whospent time with queer feministperformers in each country,presented work from otherperformers she followed,including “El Juidero” byDominican performer RitaIndiana, and “Jayá” by PuertoRican punk rock band MachaColón y los OKAPI.

One of the most importantmoments of the event centeredaround a discussion aboutSpanish as a “gendered”language, meaning that every word in the language hasa gendered article becausealmost all nouns have a specificgender.

In Spanish, the feminineplural pronoun is “ellas,” butthe masculine plural pronoun“ellos” is also the plural pronoun

that includes females and males.Some people have resorted to writing it as “ellxs” or “ell@s”to reduce the gendered qualityof the language, but this has nocorrect pronunciation.

Students were pleased withthe discussions generated inthe conference and so wasRivera-Velázquez.

“It was a really receptiveaudience,” she said after theconference. “Everyone wasnodding and pumped.”

News Brief

Results of this fall’s Student Government Association

election are in. After an extended voting deadline

and a close race between the freshman class, senators

have been chosen to represent various facets of the

university, according to SGA officials. Senators forthe class of 2019 include Vincent Mastantuno, Logan

Trupiano, Josh Cronin, Kally Morse, Jacob Palmer,

Sara Solomon, P. Sabrina Iarrobino, Morgan Robb,

and Moises Caraballo. Senators for the class of 2017

are Christopher De Resende, Alyssa Hendricks, and

Jennifer Zargo. One senator was voted in for the class

of 2016: Felicia Kalil. Finally, senators-at-large for

residence life, the College of Arts and Sciences, and

the Sawyer Business School are Alex Marcus, Sabrina

Ali, and Faiz Rahman-Sabean, respectively. With new

senators across the board, SGA will continue working

hard for the university and its students.

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Promising recruitments across the boardBrigitte Carreiro News Editor

Greek life rushes toward growth

New sorority seeks members with purposeMary Sellaro

Journal Contributor

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Leadership Consultant Jessica Moore is working to

spread the word aboutASA on campus.

Recruitment is underway forTheta Phi Alpha and Sigma AlphaEpsilon with events spanninga two-week period aimed atenticing Suffolk students to join the organizations.

Junior Jennifer Philemondis TPA’s recruitment chair this year and is already makingheadway gaining members.One event, she said, had 75

students in attendance hopingto become a sister.

Considering a three-eventrequirement of potential newmembers to be considered forinitiation into the sorority,Philemond says the dedicationof the girls is exciting.

“We always have girlsevery semester who are superinterested. They’ll come toalmost every night,” she said.

A big part of recruitment,according to Philemond, is thecore values of TPA that they lookfor in new members: justice,honor, wisdom, truth, loyalty,and faith. Philemond said thaton top of that, leadership is animportant aspect of becoming apart of the sorority.

“We want leaders because we do need to be looking forpeople who will be the futureleaders of the chapter,” she

said.Recruitment is a time to

get to know new members, butalso for new members to get toknow the sorority.

“Our first week wediscuss sisterhood,leadership opportunities, andphilanthropy, and this week we’ll discuss finances, and we’llbe talking more about whatthe experience actually is as asister,” said Philemond.

This year, recruitmentevents are luau-themed, andthe young women of TPA havetaken the theme and run with it,creating shirts and decorationsto add fun to the process.

More than anything,recruitment is a way for sisters,new and old, to connect.

“My favorite thing aboutrecruitment is that it’s a goodtime to bond ... It’s a good timeto get closer,” said Philemond.

Sigma Alpha Epsilonis also well into meetingnew members. Sophomorerecruitment chair JD Ramonsaid he is most excited aboutthe growth that the fraternityis experiencing and is glad tobe facilitating it.

“It’s been really cool to seeso many people come out andbe interested, because Greeklife is starting to grow and getbigger,” he said. “I’m reallyglad that it’s been taken reallyseriously now. It’s becoming abig thing to be a part of.”

SAE plans seven eventsthat prospective members

can attend to get to know thebrothers. Ramon emphasizedthat these events are gearedtoward creating relationshipsthat can be carried throughoutthe rest of the year.

Ramon said he is particularlyproud of the successful wingnight event that attracted ahuge crowd.

“There were so many peopleand so much food, and everybrother came up to me afterand said that this was the best wing night we’ve ever had. It’s just crazy to see how two yearsago there might have been 15guys, and now there’s 50.”

Recognition, Ramon said, ishis favorite part about beingrecruitment chair.

“I like being known as

the guy who is pretty muchdeveloping the chapter,” hesaid. “It starts at recruitment; if you don’t bring in guys, there’sno chapter to have. I like theimportance of my role.”

Ramon encourages menat Suffolk to get involved andcheck out recruitment forthemselves.

“A lot of people have judgments on what thefraternity is based off of thingsthat they’ve heard, but the onlyreal way to know what it’s likeis if you come out and be a partof it,” he said.

Theta Phi Alpha will extendbids on Wednesday, whileSigma Alpha Epsilon’s votingevent will take place onThursday.

The university’s institutionaldevelopments include one thatis on a much smaller scale thanpast changes: an organizationthat will leave an everlastingimpression on the universityand its female students.

Alpha Sigma Alpha is thenewest sorority to join SuffolkUniversity’s Greek life. Pridingthemselves on developingpoised young women, ASA values creating friendships that will last a lifetime.

Since its founding in 1901,

ASA’s mission has been tohelp women achieve a balance within their physical, social,spiritual, and intellectualdevelopment. With over 90chapters across the country,hundreds of women havereached their goals due to theguidance of ASA.

ASA states on their website,“By fostering close friendshipsbetween members, AlphaSigma Alpha develops womenof poise and purpose who

strive to continue improvingthe world around them. We

inspire women to lead, toserve and most of all to make adifference.”

Jessica Moore, the sorority’sleadership consultant, hasbeen working hard at Suffolkrecruiting and planning eventsto help get the recently-addedcharter properly colonized.

Moore, a college graduatefrom Boise State Universityand fellow sister, feels thatit is extremely beneficial to join a sorority during yourundergraduate career.

“Joining a sorority reallyprovides you with a great

opportunity to build yourself asa person, whatever that mightlook like for you. We prideourselves on our intellectualaim as well as buildingleadership and relationships,”said Moore.

Other benefits, aside fromcreating friendships anddeveloping into an authentic young woman, are the manynetworking opportunities within a sorority. ASA has anendless amount of resources to

help students during and aftercollege. Whether a student is

struggling in biology or lookingfor a job upon graduation, ASAcan help students in all aspectsof their lives.

ASA accepts young womenfrom all walks of life. To join,one must have a minimumGPA of 2.5, which is set due toSuffolk University’s standards,and must show certainleadership qualities.

Currently, Moore is in thesecond week of the recruitmentprocess. With over 60 potentialnew members so far, ASA isexcited to announce its newestsisters on Thursday.

Moore has planned funevents for members to attendthroughout the academic yearonce becoming a member of ASA. These events will actas bonding experiences forstudents to create friendshipsand make new memories.

Moore explained, “We wantto create an amazing collegeexperience for young women.”

Although it may seem likeGreek life is all fun and games, ASA stresses the importance of

creating a deep connection withits community. Members are

required to complete 25 hoursof community service a year. Along with community service,members work on fundraisingfor different charities like theSpecial Olympics.

Joining a sorority can

definitely entail a lot of hard work and time, but the reward

to Moore is endless.“After your first year in asorority you will learn about yourself, values, and what youreally care about, and willdevelop into a woman of poiseand purpose,” she said.


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INTERNATIONAL April 16, 2014

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Saus serves savory Belgian cuisine in the Hub

Jack Wheeler Journal Staff

Saus is a small, but livelyfood joint conveniently locatedbetween the North End and

Faneuil Hall to enjoy a taste ofBelgium right in the heart ofBoston.

Founded by Renee Eliah,Tanya Kropinicki and Chin Kuo,three university graduates,this restaurant concentrateson serving their customersdelicious Belgian-style streetfood at cheap prices. Saus ismost well-known for its Belgian waffles and frites, which come with fifteen unique dippingsauces like the “VampireSlayer,” “Bacon Parm,” “GreenMonster,” and more.

As I ate, I spoke briefly

with one of the cooks bustlingbehind the counter, Dan Eder,a recent graduate from Suffolk.

Eder mentioned that allthe food at Saus was fresh andmade right from scratch; and Ididn’t doubt it. If you want to, you are able to witness yourorder being made if you sitright at the counter. Nothing ishidden.

“We try to have a goodtime behind the counter,” Edersaid casually with a smile, and

described Saus as “laid-back,fun and loud.”

My friend and I grabbed abite to eat at Saus during oursmall excursion out. We werelucky enough to arrive prettyearly to grab seats in thelimited space After a while, aflood of people from nowherepoured in, hungry and ready toorder.

The eatery is smallrectangular and wood-accented.The small, rectangular eatery

was wood-accented with boothsand bright blue stools to match.Beside it was another booth ata lower level that stretcheddown to the counter and wasaccompanied with smaller wooden tables and chairs,the lighting was moderatelydim. Music, a miscellaneouscollection of modern songs,played constantly in thebackground.

The walls were covered bycolorful comic strips from “The

Adventures of Tintin,” which isa Belgian comic that had begunin the early 1900s and wentuntil the latter part of the 20thcentury.

We shared an order oflarge, golden crispy frites withtwo sauces, cheddar duveland truffle ketchup, servedon a silver tray, and a BelgianWaffle sundae -- a fluffy waffledolloped with a single scoop of vanilla ice cream, drizzled allover with salted caramel sauce.

Customers who dined were pleasantly engaged inconversation while they ate,even the workers seemed likethey were having fun becausethey constantly cracked light-hearted jokes in betweentaking orders and preparingthe food. The ambience of Saus was anything but formal. It hada playful and a relaxed vibe toit that as Eder commented, aplace to have “a good time withfriends.”

Kate Mai Journal Contributor

International student struggles:

Putting roots down far away from home

With more than 50 collegesand universities and a totalpopulation of more than600,000, deciding on whereto live can be a daunting taskin the greater Boston area. Asan international student, thisdecision becomes even harder.

“I didn’t know what to

expect,” Adam Pritchard, juniorentrepreneurship major, said.

“The only information I hadabout American dorms wasfrom movies, like AmericanPie,”

Pritchard is fromHertfordshire, which is a countyoutside of London. While hisfather knew the dynamics ofBoston well, his mother wasless familiar.

“They were never worriedabout the danger,” Pritchardsaid. “They were just going tomiss me.”

Unlike some, Pritchard wasalready familiar with dormlife when he was a freshmen.Before enrolling in Suffolk, heattended a boarding school in

the UK learning about dormlifestyle. However, thereare some differences about American counterparts that hedoes not like.

“I feel like I’m treated likea child,” Pritchard said. “Thereare so many restrictions.”

To Pritchard, the idea ofa Resident Assistant at theuniversity level is ridiculous.Pritchard explains that in thereal world, if you are having anissue with a neighbor, you can’t just go complain to someone.

You have to confront theneighbor and work it out.

“It doesn’t promote goodpeer-to-peer communication.Everyone just runs to the RA when they have a problem,”Pritchard said.

Then, of course, there isthe difference in drinking age.“Welcome week in England islike a giant school-sanctionedparty. Here, we eat ice creamand go bowling,” Pritchard said.

Feeling a similar way, CarlosCruz, majoring in physics, had

no clue what to expect fromthe residence halls in America.Coming from Guayaquil,Ecuador, Cruz says they don’thave dorms in his country.In fact, all of his friends fromhome live with their parents while attending a university.

Cruz stayed in Suffolk’sresidence halls for two years.First in 150 Tremont, and thenin 10 West for his second year.In response to his parentsfeelings toward Boston, Cruzsaid, “my parents are happy I’m

here, they say it is a city for young people.”

Similar to Pritchard, Cruzthought there to be an excessof restrictions. “I wasn’t really worried about anything,”he said, “because I am fromEcuador.”

Cruz explained thatGuayaquil is a much moredangerous location thanBoston. While Suffolk warnedof the potential dangers ofthe city, Cruz and his family were not concerned. He wassurprised, then, when enteringa building he had to swipe hiscard to open the door, as wellas pass the security guardsquick inspection.

“I get it, though,” Cruz said,

“there are definitely risks inliving here.”

Cruz now lives in his ownapartment in Allston. He likesthe peace and freedom of livingalone; however, does not likespending an hour on the Tto get into Boston. “I alwaysthink about skipping it,” hesays in regards to his Monday-Thursday 8 a.m. class.

In a different situation,Pritchard, is a mere 10 minuteT ride to Downtown Crossing.He lives with two roommates in

the South End and is minutesfrom the Mass Ave T stop.However, living on the edge ofthe Back Bay, Pritchard is in themiddle of two very differenteconomic classes.

Finding the perfect placeto live is nearly impossible.Especially in a city as largeand diverse as this one. As astudent, location is one of themost important factors in ourdecision. Where you choose tolive and the pros and cons ofthe environment you are in willinfluence many aspects of yourlife. In regards to his location,Pritchard says,

“It’s not too bad,” he paused,“as long as you’re going theright direction.”

Courtesy of Adam Pritchard

Adam Pritchard chose to live in the South End.

Kate Mai/Journal Contributor Kate Mai/Journal Contributor


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The Suffolk JournalPAGE 6 October 7, 2015

ISIS: Professional kidnappers of the worldKatherine Yearwood

Journal Staff

In June, a video came outdisplaying Ahmed, a 14-yearold Syrian boy being torturedby IS, according to BBC. Aftertwo men tricked him intoplanting a bomb near an ISmeeting place, Ahmed wastaken hostage immediately.Blindfolded, Ahmed washung by his arms, lashed andelectrocuted for 48 hours as ameans of interrogation. They would have killed him, but hisexecutioner allowed him toescape, according to BBC.

The terrorist organization,led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,has committed acts that some Americans would consideratrocities.

When IS captures people,their fates tend to be gruesome. Victims are exposed to manydifferent forms of violence,including being thrown off ofbuildings, burned, drowned, orbeheaded, explained Eisikovits.He went on to say that IS willalso cut off the hands of itscaptives when they commitsmaller offensives and willmake their punishments showyand intimidating.

Last year, IS generatedtwenty five million dollars fromransom payments, according toBBC.

Former Suffolk ProfessorMudafer Al-Ziyadi who isoriginally from Iraq and taughtIslamic philosophy believesthat IS is being funded from theUnited Arab Emirates.

Profiting off kidnappingsis not a central concern from

IS because they already havebillions of dollars comingin from the UAE and fromthe Saudis, shared ProfessorMudafer Al-Ziyadi

Professor Nir Eisikovits isin the Philosophy departmentand Director of the graduateprogram in Ethics and PublicPolicy. He received his Bachelorof Laws from the College ofManagement School of Law

in Israel and explains the twopurposes of kidnappings thatare performed by IS.

“There’s two populationsthat we hear about a lot beingkidnapped, one is the Yazidi women and children and the Yazidi Zara, and that’s a non-Muslim religious sect, saidProfessor Eisikovits.

“Many of its members areliving in Iraq and there are

actual IS members kidnapingthem and the purpose is thatthey are being kidnapped intosexual slavery essentially the women and girls,” he said.

Nazand Begikhani, anadvisor to the KurdistanRegional Government ongender issues, told CNN morethan 2,500 Yazidi women weretaken by 2014. Narin ShiekhShamo, a Yazidi activist in

Iraqi Kurdistan has gleanedthe names of more than 4,601 women who were missing in2014, according to CNN News.

“These women don’t haveactual standing of persons forthem, so it’s allowed to dothat,” said Eisikovits.

“My understanding ofISIS theology, is that they aretrying to reinstate what’s calledSharia law, what would have

been the law code in existenceimmediately after the death ofthe Prophet Mohammed, nottaking into account culture andprogress in history over time asmany other Muslim groups do,”said Reverend Amy Fisher fromthe Interfaith Center.

Other victims to ISISkidnappings are young boysand men. Eisikovits explainedthe amount of children being

abducted and forced intobeing child soldiers for IShas increased. In some partsof Africa children are beingabducted by the affiliates of ISas well.

“Child soldiers are sotraumatized that for a shorttime at least, they can serve asa disciplined fighting force andobviously in the long term itcreates extreme psychological

damage so one hope by thekidnapping machine is to createenlistment and create recruits,”said Eisikovits.

“IS has strategic idea that ithas to create zones of savageryall across the Middle East; in which there would be so muchfear and so much violence. Partof which, is it helps create thatpeople would sort of flock to itas the holy agency that couldprovide order, so that’s part of what’s behind how they punishas well,” said Eisikovits.

“They consider themselvesto be holy warriors,” saidEisikovits.“IS represents aperversion of what Jihadmeans,” he continued.

Al-Ziyadi explained these

acts, killings, slaughtering, andbloodlust, are based on well-known verses from the Quranthat were cut out of the booksentirety. These verses are theones stating that the best wayto fight your enemy is to createfear in the heart of your enemy.

He continued, “I can tell youthat the verses that denounce violence that denounce theattacking of people who are notattacking you are overwhelmingthan these cut off verses.

“A lot of non-Muslims do notunderstand the basic concepts

of Islam, but tend to only seecertain groups that come tothe focus of the media withoutlooking at the whole picture, which can in fact produce what is now being calledIslamophobia,” says ReverendFisher.

Eisikovits will give a talk onthe rise of Isis on Oct.15 at 1p.m. in the Poetry Center of theMildred Sawyer Library.

Patrick Holmes Assis. Opinion Editor

Opinion: Consent should be mandatory

Consent. It should beassumed as one of the basicrights of a human being butmore often than not, consent isglanced over and forgotten. Or worse, ignored.

“For me consent means thatI can say yes or no to somethingI have understood,” said byElise in a video article by Estelle

Doyle and Kat Macaulay, takenfrom BBC. Elise was a victimof a doctor who did not askfor consent before doing a papsmear in France.

I cannot speak for womenand I cannot put words intotheir mouths, but if a doctortouched me in a way that I was not okay with, I wouldfeel violated. Consent issomething that needs to betaken seriously, has to be askedfor, and responded to with a

direct yes. Whether it be sexualconsent or any other type ofconsent including a doctortouching your body.

Elise and her husbanddecided to do some researchon how medical studentslearned and Karim, Elise’shusband, tweeted “How do you get consent from a pelvicexamination from a patient who is under anesthesia?”This tweet later went viral andstarted a nationwide debate.

The law on consent in France,

presented in the video article,clearly states “No medical actor treatment can be given without the free and informedconsent of the patient and theconsent can be withdrawn atany moment.” Now, does thatspark any confusion? It seems very clear and concise to me.

As someone who activelyfights for my rights, I cansympathize with Elise and themany others who have hadtheir rights violated. Consent is

a larger deal than most peoplemay believe, even though itseems to be such a simpleprospect. However, it seemsto be universally ignored still.This article from the BBC is aprime example that the U.S.isn’t the only country that ishaving to teach consent.

Ann Charlotte Husson, a woman interviewed in the BBC video article, started a blogafter hearing about the consentissues in the medicine field inFrance. “I started collecting

testimonies from people who experienced that lack ofconsent’” said Husson, whocollected these stories to showthat the lack of consent was a“systematic problem”.

These issues in France mostlyfocus around gynecologists who have not asked for consentbefore performing unwantedintrusion upon the patient . For“research purposes” it is not a valid excuse to violate the rightof the patient.

Consent should be mandatoryin all cases and always be a

determining factor of what thedoctor does to the patient.

We are supposed to be able totrust our doctors, not fear them for

what they might do to us.

“Medical officials told usthat in most cases consentis sought,” expressed by the video article. This is not a very professional response andsomething needs to changebecause consent should bemandatory in all cases andalways be a determining factorof what the doctor does to the

patient. We are supposed to beable to trust our doctors, notfear them for what they mightdo to us.

Consent is something thatneeds to be administered in allcases. Consent is what makespeople feel safe. If one does notfeel safe, is a doctor doing their job in the correctly?

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The Suffolk JournalARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

October 7, 2015PAGE 7

Vermeer exhibit looks closer at social classesBrigitte Carreiro

News Editor

Alcohol, aging, amorous walks of shamePatrick Holmes

Opinion Editor

Three. Two. One. That’sall it took to hope for changein the next year for Jess. Thecountdown for the new year wasthe end of her long-standingrelationship with ex-boyfriend,Ben. Her life now began to hitrock bottom on the hour whereeveryone believed their livescould only go up from there.

“The Morning AfterMemoirs,” by Kate Michaels isa novel constructed throughalcoholism, hook ups and women in their late 20’s tryingto be younger again. It just theright dose of entertainmentneeded to release a laugh aftermaybe every 25 pages.

The read consists of a failedrelationship, an almost 30-year-old woman pining after everyguy who gives her the slightestattention, and a hystericallysexual and teenage oriented

lifestyle.“I was determined to get my

life back on track,” said Jess,twenty pages into book. Almostevery ten pages was her, eitheralone or with friends, tryingto put some alcohol into hersystem. While people cope in

many different ways, she choseher poison, alcohol.

Throughout the book, Jess works through life issuesalmost as if she is havinga midlife crisis, despite herrelatively young age. A realityfor Jess is that she is boy crazy,

shown through her obsessivecrushes over her co-workerturned-boss Mark, “Hot WaiterNumber Two,” Paul, friend of afriend Stuart, and a plethora ofother acquaintances.

Jess behaves as if she isback in her teenage years,although she is legally allowedto consume as much alcoholas she wants, wherever she wants. Despite the many sexualencounters, stupid mistakesand bad decisions, the maincharacter’s progression through

the book allows her to grow.While she is trying to gether life back together, manypeople can empathize and carethat Jess is at least trying, nomatter how many mistakes shemakes. With the realizationthat she needs to make changesin her life, she does, little bylittle.

She is a winy, conceited,almost thirty years old in the

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MFA Director Matthew Teitelbaum and Ronni Baerpresent “Class Distinctions” to the public.w

For the first time at theMuseum of Fine Arts, twopieces by painter Johannes Vermeer were on display in anexhibition aimed at celebratingDutch painters and exploringsocietal distinctions.

“It was an era marked bypolitical change and war, andby great disparity in wealth,”presented an introduction tothe gallery. “This exhibition –the first of its kind – explores

masterpieces from this momentin Dutch history through thelens of social class.”

“Class Distinctions:Dutch Painting in the Age ofRembrandt and Vermeer” wasa product of five and a half years worth of work by SeniorCurator of European Paintingsat the MFA Ronni Baer.

“Her husband said, ‘Stopcalling me Vermeer,’” jokedMatthew Teitelbaum, directorof the MFA.

The exhibit came togetherto include 75 pieces by Dutch

artists, including the famousRembrandt, all lendingthemselves to a representationof Dutch 17th-century society.

The two Vermeer paintings,“A Lady Writing” and “The Astronomer,” were displayedin the grand first room of theexhibit, a room dedicated to theupper class of Dutch culture.Large, ornate frames and adark gray hue to the walls casta regal glow, an element that

Baer called a way to “evokegrandeur.”

Though significantly smallerthan most works in the gallery,the Vermeer pieces added animportant aspect to the themeof the exhibition: the leisure ofthe Dutch elite.

“This wall is devoted to theleisure, the pastimes of theelite,” said Baer.

“A Lady Writing” presents a young woman, dressed ornatelyin a satin dress, writing a letter.Pearls and elegant furnishingssurround her, even though, asBaer explained, her actions areproof enough that she is high-class.

“The fact that she has timeand knowledge [as a woman] todo that is why she is here,” saidBaer.

Along similar lines, “The Astronomer” is a tribute to the workings of 17th century Dutchscientists, and reflects the easein which high-class individuals were able to take up extravaganthobbies, astronomy being “anintellectual passion that onlyelite were allowed to do,” asBaer called it.

Vermeer’s paintings, Baersaid, will most likely create a

buzz about the exhibit, drawingin people who may not comein to see an exhibit on Dutchsociety on their own.

“People are Vermeer-crazyin America,” she exclaimed with a laugh.

It was obvious howpassionate Baer was about her work, as she circled each roommethodically, telling storiesabout the people and placesrepresented in nearly every

painting.The exhibition was born

from a grand idea andmeticulous work by Baer. Aftera colleague presented Baer withan idea about class distinction,she said, Baer jumped right onboard, adding her own touch to

the plan.“I loved the idea because I was looking to do a masterpiecesof Dutch show, but you have tohave a gimmick,” she said. “Wehad to be very deliberate in ournegotiations.”

Baer added that to see heridea come to life after so long was exciting.

“It worked in print, but itactually worked as a show,” shesaid.

Following the first roomin the exhibit centered onhigh-class, subsequent roomsrepresented the middle andlower castes of the Netherlands, with the final room portraying where and how these classes would mix.

Marking the end of theexhibit were two largepaintings, representations ofall classes mingling. A pieceby Johannes Lingelbach caughtBaer’s fancy, as she said shesees it depicting “Amsterdamas the center of the world.”The painting created a fittingconclusion to the gallery, aproduct of her love for Dutchart.


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Damon's performance, special effects unearthlyColin Barry

Journal Contributor

From the endless crimsondeserts, weather that can gofrom brutally hot to sub-zero,to its thin atmosphere thatmakes the planet uninhabitable,the idea of colonizing on Marsseems farfetched.

Ridley Scott’s newest film,The Martian, stars Matt Damonfighting for his life on the redplanet while desperately tryingto get home. What soundssimple, turns into smart,absorbing scifi backed up bya relatively witty script andintense plot.

Based on the book of thesame name by Andy Weir, TheMartian becomes an emotionalroller coaster not only for thecharacters, but for the audienceas well. The stakes are raisedthe highest they can possiblygo in the film, and the climax will have every audiencemember’s hearts pounding,fearing Watley may not make itand that all of efforts to savehim were useless.

What makes The Martianso engaging is the way it ispresented to the audience. Thefilm, being hard sci fi, does not

dumb itself down is presentedas a humorous lecture.

It never gets boring. Thefinal scenes are some of themost intense set pieces this

year, consistently raising thestakes and making the audiencenever look away.

What sounds like a boringstep-by-step type of plot, turnsinto an enjoyable segmentthat displays Watney’s never-say-die attitude, as well ashis intelligence. How Watleycommunicated with NASAusing an old Mars rover, anearly twenty-year old satellite, will create a sense of awe fromthe audience.

The Martian displays a veryserious situation, but it isn’tafraid to make a few jokes aboutit. The film’s screenwriter,Drew Goddard, injects a good

amount of quips that are nevertoo forced. Known for writingthe cult horror comedy TheCabin in the Woods, subtlehumor with several characters

work well within the film. Thedialogue and banter betweenWatley and his crewmembersare highlights of this well- written screenplay.

Almost always having apunchline to describe hissituations with a quick smirkor deadpan delivery, Damonpulls off the starring role ofMark Watley. The physicaland mental changes Watleyfaces on his year and half longstay on Mars shows Damon’sdedication to the character.Without giving too much away,Watley has to remove shrapnelfrom his abdomen, and Damonmakes the scene cringe-worthy

but fascinating in an almostmorbid way.

Ultimately, Damon givesWatley a very likable presence,and someone who the audience

would want to see succeed andare upset if he fails. PerhapsMatt Damon can finally grabthat elusive best actor award.

Damon does not completelytake over the film, as part of thesupporting cast keeps the filmstrong. Jessica Chastain puts onanother terrific performance asCommander Lewis, a strong-female leader.

Chiwetel Ejiofor and JeffDaniels also turn in greatperformances, portraying menat their wit’s end just trying tofigure out the best solution fora dire situation. Actors DonaldGlover and Mackenzie Davis, while not main supporting

characters, will give theaudience a few chuckles attheir eccentric behavior.

The Martian’scinematography is done in a

series of portraits for the mostpart, showing off the landscapeof the planet and alwayskeeps the action focused. It isstimulating to see a movie notresort to “shaky cam” tacticsduring the action scenes. TheCGI is top-notch too, givingoff the looks of the machinesunique looks. The suits that theastronauts wear on Mars have a very cool design.

Damon’s performance andthe spectacular special effects will draw viewers in, but thestory will keep audiences inlockdown, never making themfeel fatigued by science. Whileit is a shame to see a few

talented actors and actresses wasted, the rest of the filmis such a marvelous sciencefiction experience that it willkeep audiences entertained.

Matt Damon spoke with NASA

Astronaut Drew Feustel at a Q&A

in August about human exploration

of Mars in 2030.Courtesy of The Martian’s Facebook

Comic-con actors find niche in online seriesPatricia Negrón

Journal Staff

Alan Tudyk’s new web series“Con Man,” which features

sci-fi actors who have reachedComic-Con stardom, wasreleased last Wednesday on Vimeo on Demand. The luckyfans who found out about theseries release in time were ableto enjoy the first three episodesof the series for free from10 p.m. to 11 p.m. throughEntertainment Weekly’s website.

Tudyk got the idea for “ConMan” after acting in “Firefly,” aspace cowboy series set in the

future. Due to its success, themovie “Serenity” was made in2005 to continue the plot. “ConMan” was released on the tenthanniversary of “Serenity’s”debut in the United States.

Tudyk portrays an actor

named Wray Nerely, and fellow“Firefly” actor Nathan Fillionportrays character Jack Moore.Though Nerely is loved by fans,he is clearly frustrated betweenhis friendship with Moore andthe inequality within it.

“Con Man” started off with Nerely being publiclyrecognized, and was asked forhis autograph while he wassitting on the toilet in a publicrestroom. Soon after, Nerelyfinds himself in the bar talking

to his agent about an audition when he is surprised by actorSean Astin, most notably knownfor Samwise from “Lord of theRings.”

As they talk, two fansapproach them for a picture,

but the difference betweentheir attitudes is notable:Nerely thinks it’s weird forfans to refer to them astheir characters, while Astinreplies that, “There’s nothing wrong with being a hobbit,”recommending that Nerely takeadvantage of the benefits.

The episodes are relativelyshort, the first one lasting just under 11 minutes. It wasnot until the end of the thirdepisode that I felt familiar

with the series. Because pilotepisodes are inevitably spentsetting the stage for the restof a series, I think it couldhave worked better if the threeepisodes were released as one33 minute episode.

I was hooked from thebeginning, and could havebinge watched it that samenight. However, the rental onlyincludes the fourth episode fornow, as the rest of the episodes will be released throughoutOctober.

Fans seemed to be aspleased with the series asI was on Twitter. User @EdgarAlanPickle tweeted “Youguys are amazing! Lovelypeople & utterly hilarious.

Can’t wait to see what happensnext on @ConManSeries.” User@holycats68 expressed similarthoughts on the show tweeting,“Love Nathan & Alan, but Feliciasteals the show! Love it!”

The series can now be rented

for $14.99 for the duration ofthree months, and was fundedby 46,992 fans through anIndiegogo campaign. It raisedover three million dollars bythe time the campaign closedon April 23.

The show’s cast is wittyand hilarious, including MindySterling, Seth Green and GinaTorres. However, I must admitthat I am looking forward to anappearance from Joss Whedon, writer and director of “Firefly.”

From MEMOIR page 7

Mornings after illustrates comical lessons on life

beginning, who cheats onher longtime boyfriend on New Year’s Eve. With each chapterand life event, it seems that she

gets closer and closer to rockbottom, as each decision shemakes leads her to being evenmore single, semi-jobless andliving back with her parents.

Family values are not Jess’sspecialty, as she insists that herbrother is annoying, her sisteris awkward, and her dad is the

epitome of the word, “weird.”Her mother is the only one whois closest to her, and yet shestill categorizes her into thefamily she never wanted.

“I felt like I wanted to getmy phone out and take a selfieof this momentous occasion where I actually had my shit

together,” said Jess. Despite allthe alcohol she has consumed,she is aware of the changesbeing made and the progressbeing taken. She has gone

from a lonely, frazzled messto slightly okay and semi-successful Jessica.

“The Morning After

Memoirs” is an example ofa present day woman andher daily escapades, howeverstereotypical and alcohol basedthe plot may seem. Through

countless sexual partners andlove interests, Jess finds herselfface to face with a decision. Sheturns 30, survives Christmas

with her family, and has anunexpected New Years Eve. You’ll be quite surprised withthe ending, and most likely bea bit jealous.


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STAFF EDITORIAL

The Suffolk JournalOPINION


Somerset doesn't suit students' needsBrigitte Carreiro

News Editor

By Wyatt Costello

The eagerly-awaited20 Somerset building waspromised to include a fullcafeteria equipped to bettermeet the dining needs ofstudents. However, it failed.Where the cafe succeeds in variety, it lacks in coordinationand convenience, two featuresthat are vital to a bustling

university.20 Somerset had students

with high hopes and few worries about losing theDonahue cafeteria. With theDonahue café out of service-its doors closed at the busiesttime of the day and nowonly used for organizationevents- students default to 20Somerset. However, this cafédoesn’t to replace Donahue’smore appropriate dining set-up.

The cafeteria in Donahueoffered food choices muchbetter suited to the betweenclass rush that studentsexperience. The activity inSomerset is no different,but instead of maintainingconsistency, this café veersfrom the same accessibility thatDonahue provided.

In Donahue, students’choices included a salad bar,plenty of ready-made sushi,and grab-and-go selections like

their rice bowls and chickentenders, options that suitedbusy students during their10-minute breaks betweenclasses, club meetings, or work.

Somerset’s quick pickslike pasta, breadsticks, andpizza, on the other hand, aremuch less appealing. The realbreadwinners of this café arethe Asian-style and sandwichstations. But the lines for thesechoices routinely snake throughthe length of the room. This isin no way ideal for studentslooking to get in and out in atimely fashion before runningto the seventh floor for their

class. Additionally, the salad

bar option seems to belost along with Donahue. Vegetarian and gluten-freeoptions run ridiculously slim,a fact nearly devastating on acollege campus. Are studentsexpected to journey down to 73Tremont’s cafeteria and wait inthe long lines for a salad? Theabsence of something as basicas a salad bar is evidence of apoorly thoughtout dining hall.

Another example of subparplanning is the layout of thecafeteria itself. Cashiers arelocated on the far end of the

room, hidden in a corner.For a building swarming with students trying to movequickly, is this the best place toput the checkout area?

As someone whoinadvertently left the café in ahurry without paying for hersandwich, I’d say no.

The space itself seemsunnecessarily large; where openspace dominates the cafeteriaside of the ground floor, I’drather see more seating on theother.

The best thing I can sayabout the 20 Somerset café isthe food they are putting out

is at a higher standard thanDonahue’s was; the options areoverall more glamorous. I am,after all, a big fan of Somerset’ssmoothie bar. But for the lackof convenience surroundingthe dining hall, I can’t saythat glamour is worth it.Though seemingly pettyissues, these concerns add upto an overall unnatural andinconvenient replacementfor the much-loved Donahuecafé. Somerset’s dining halllies somewhere betweenan awkward residence hallcafeteria and convenient pitstop for busy students.

Craig Martin/Journal Staff

“The space itself

seems unnecessarily

large; where open

space dominates the

cafeteria side of the

ground floor, I’d rather

see more seating on

the other. ”

Limited space in 20 Somerset Café inhibits student gatherings.

During the daytime,students are used to walkinginto Suffolk’s buildings andseeing a campus policeofficer or security guardkeeping watch from thelobby. But what happens when the students leave forthe day, and the city getsdark?

Suffolk’s police keep watch over the dormitoriesevery minute of the day,making sure the students who live there are secure. Academic buildings, onthe other hand, are onlymonitored “continuously”according to Suffolk’s website. All entrances aremonitored 24/7, accordingto the website, but it doesn’tsay if a security guard isalways on watch.

As long time late night wanderers of Suffolk’s Donahuebuilding, Journal staff membershave noticed the police boothoverlooking the building’slobby is only sporadicallystaffed in the early hours of themorning. Inside, a handful ofstudents work on the fifth floorand a few custodians fan outacross the building, cleaning in

silence -- and isolation.What is Suffolk’s policy

on monitoring academicbuildings, and why are therespans of time at night whensecurity guards are notpresent? Even with securityprotocols like locking doorsand monitoring Suffolk’sproperties on closed circuit video, nothing replacesthe comfort of knowing aprofessional security guardis watching over each ofSuffolk’s academic buildings-- and their late-nightoccupants -- at all times.

If Suffolk’s residentstudents can go to sleepknowing their buildings aremonitored throughout thenight, then students and staff working late into the nightdeserve that same security.


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The Suffolk Journal

A WORD

FROM SGA

PAGE 10 October 7, 2015

Why I refuse to celebrate Columbus Day

Patricia Negrón Journal Staff

Hello Suffolk Students,

This week, the StudentGovernment Associationannounced the launch of the“Commuter Student TaskForce.”

This ad-hoc committee within SGA will be tasked withfocusing on how commuterstudents are served on

campus. Among their manyresponsibilities, the task force will be tasked with acquiringinformation about services oncampus that are being under-utilized or under supported,as well as identifying servicesthat don’t currently exist oncampus but that would benefitthe commuting population.

Additionally, the task force will focus on determining when the best times toprogram events for commuterstudents are, and what type ofevents they would like to see.

This information willthen be passed on to theadministration and ourcampus partners to helpimprove the life of everycommuter at SuffolkUniversity.

Finally, this task force will work to ensure thatthe services on campus aredesigned to fit the needs ofboth students who live offcampus, and who commutefrom home.

This is an importantdistinction as there is nodenying that both groupsface varying degrees of issuesbased on their living situation.

The task force will be

composed on StudentGovernment AssociationSenators, Commuter Ambassadors from the OffCampus Housing Office, andother student leaders fromacross campus. Interestedleaders should email [email protected] to inquire about

information.

The first meeting of thistask force will be Tuesday, Oct.13 at 1 p.m. in Somerset 315.This will be an opportunity toformally join the task forceand learn more about themission.

Have a great week,

- The Student Government Association

How boundaries can make roommates closer Amy Gagnon

Journal Contributor

The United States willcelebrate Columbus Day onMonday, October 12. However,Columbus Day should not becelebrated because historyshould not be forgotten orlooked at through forgivingeyes. What the Europeans didto the Native peoples of the Americas is simply barbaric, yet we continue to celebrate thoseactions.

How should we evencelebrate a day like ColumbusDay? Should we just unite, takeover a town, kill and enslave

everyone who lives there, eattheir food and move into theirhomes? Or should we just bargeinto a company, kill the ownersand make the employees workfor free?

That plan sounds absurdbecause it is, plain and simple.We shouldn’t be celebratingthe colonizer, especially when we’re not making the slightestefforts to honor all of the victims of colonization.

In Puerto Rico, my homecountry, the discovery ofthe island is celebrated onNovember 19, though wealso celebrate ColumbusDay because we have all the American holidays as well. Asa Puerto Rican, I strongly feelthat this holiday should not becelebrated.

It does not make sense thatthere is a day for Columbusin my country and otherHispanic-American countries,considering everything that was done to our ancestors byColumbus and the leaders thatfollowed him.

If I do celebrate the long weekend, I will try to learn

more about the other two-thirds of my heritage as aPuerto Rican, celebrating themin an attempt to decolonize

my mind from all I learned. Ialready started relearning mycountry’s history, realizing thatmy hometown’s name, Cupey,is a word we inherited from theTaínos.

Also, I will celebrate theaspects of Taíno and Africancultures that are part of myculture. Our ancestors survivedcolonization because they worked hard to ingrain theircultures into what was formingPuerto Rico. To preservetheir own religions, they usedCatholic saints’ names to referto their own gods so that theSpaniards wouldn’t notice it.. Ifthere’s one thing I won’t do iscelebrate Columbus’ discoverybecause it is tainted with blood

and suffering.I do not plan on celebrating

the fact that, more than500 years ago, ChristopherColumbus arrived in the Americas and started callingeveryone living there “Indians,”a word that is still misused,because he thought he hadarrived in India. He did notdiscover the Americas, because you cannot discover a placethat was already inhabited.

I refuse to celebrate the factthat the native peoples of the Americas were enslaved, raped,colonized and killed, according

to the Centre for Research onGlobalization. Also, I refuse tocelebrate the fact that Taínos,the native people in Cuba,Jamaica, Haiti, the DominicanRepublic and Puerto Rico, were exploited and died fromlabor and sicknesses that theSpaniards brought.

Since Taínos had not beenexposed to sickness fromEurope, their bodies wereunable to fight those sicknessesoff, and “epidemics soonbecame a common consequenceof contact,” according to the

American Association for the Advancement of Science. Another fact that I refuse

to ignore is that Africans were

then enslaved and brought tothe island, suffering from thesame horrible conditions as theTaínos.

However, the ones who weren’t slaughtered wereabused, exploited, and wereprohibited from practicingtheir own religions, insteadbeing turned to Catholicism,

according to Welcome to PuertoRico. They were slaves forcedto assimilate to the colonizingculture, all in the name of the

King and Queen of Spain andthe Catholic Pope.

It’s clear Columbus wasa pivotal person in history.However, everything thathappened after he arrived inthe Americas is, inevitably, adirect result of his arrival. Theexploitation and killing of somany people can be traced back

to his arrival, and celebratingthis is an insult to all thepeople that were affected by his“discovery.”

Whether it is living in oneof Suffolk’s residence hallsor an off-campus apartment,living with roommates issomething most college

students will have to deal withand every roommate situationis different. In my case, I live with three other girls in oneroom. I had to learn how to behappy and comfortable in myliving arrangement, and I hadto learn fast.

As a freshman, it can bedifficult trying to get used toliving with other people.

Depending on whether you can accommodate eachother’s needs and habits will

determine the outcome of yourtime together.

The first thing myroommates and I did aftermoving in was set boundaries.I believe this is a vital step inliving with roommates.

Whether they are strangersor not, it is important to set

such restrictions and lay themout to your roommates because without them, there is a bigquestion in what is available to you and what isn’t. The easiest way to avoid that confusion isto set the rules straight fromthe beginning.

Something I learned is thatone of my roommates likes toshower at 3 a.m. while anotherprefers to shower at 7 a.m. And, while I l ike the temperature inour room to fall below freezing,

another one of my roommatelikes it piping hot. Makingthese observations allowedthe four of us to fill out ourroommate agreement formsand describe what is okay andnot okay, a requirement fromSuffolk’s Residence Life andHousing department.

I feel that residence life atany college is essential for afreshman, because without it,I don’t believe you are gainingthe full college experience.. Although it can be scary atfirst living with people you’venever met before, it can be abeneficial experience.

Fortunately, my roommatesand I discussed these questionsand reached a consensus on what works best for us, allowingus to agree on overhead lights

off after midnight and figuringout a guest policy that worksfor all of us.

Many of these questions canbe discussed, which is whatended up happening in ourgroup. Although the task wastedious and did take up muchmore time than it had to, I

understand the importance ofit.

I would think all roommatesin Suffolk’s dorms go throughthese questions about eachother’s preferences, and justgetting your needs out in theopen is the easiest thing to do.

It lessens the chances ofan argument happening, andif one does come up, you canbring up what all roommatesagreed on, and this will helpdiffuse the dispute.

Sam Humphrey/Journal Staff

“How should we even celebrate a

day like Columbus Day? Should we

just unite, take over a town, kill and

enslave everyone who lives there,eat their food and move into their

homes?”


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Celtics' young team could keep them out of postseason

Ryan Dawson Journal Staff

PAGE 11 The Suffolk Journal October 7, 2015

Navigating the pitfalls of fantasy football

This year may be the year you were finally asked to bein a fantasy football league.Maybe you tried a daily fantasyleague and thought it would beeasy.

Traversing the treacherous waters of a 14-week season isnothing short of a Herculeanstress test. Setting your lineup,making trades, and scouting

defenses are just a few of thetasks you have to do to take your team to the playoffs --unless you have Tom Brady.

Here is a quick rundownof the do’s and don’ts during your first year playing fantasyfootball:

Don’t ever, under anycircumstance, jump on thehype train.

The hype train is all thenoise made by the media duringone week in which they tout asingle player as being a game-changer, for example, BrandinCooks.

Early in the preseason, Cooksput up ridiculous numbersand shredded secondarys. Theclimax of the hype train came when Randy Moss, future firstballot hall of famer, told themedia the, “sky was the limitfor Cooks.” In reality, Cooks hasbeen disappointing by puttingup 21.5 total points this season,opposed to the 36.42 he wasoriginally projected to.

Do, however, watch the waiver wire like your life

injury updates and adjustedteam rosters.

Growing a competitivefantasy team takes time. But

hopefully with some savvymoves, decent trades, and justa little bit of luck your teamcould make it to the top.

The Celtics are expected tostart the 2015-16 season withonly minor adjustments to theirroster. This will only change,however, if Executive Directorof Basketball Operations,Danny Ainge, makes a hugetrade.

The team acquired big-men Amir Johnson and David Lee, who played for the TorontoRaptors and Golden StateWarriors, respectively.

With that said, the team will continue to draft rookiesin its attempt to build a youthful team with an entire

roster younger than 30 withthe exception of Lee, who is32. However, Lee’s health andproductivity on the court thisseason is questionable due tohis recent health problems.

The roster being what itis without a budding star --unless point guard MarcusSmart has a stellar sophomoreseason -- will give the team a

extraordinaire, Serge Ibaka. After the Thunder, there’s

the Indiana Pacers who will welcome back Paul George fora full season. They’ll utilize hissidekick in Monta Ellis, who’s

just a flat-out scorer.Those are four teams the

Celtics will somehow haveto beat in the playoff chase.But with the league beingdominated by superstars, it will be hard for the youthfulteam to experience a playoffatmosphere again.

Of all the playoff teams last year, Boston was the only one without a player in its startinglineup to make at least one All-Star game.

All odds are against theCeltics this year, with moredoubters than supporters. It’ll

be up to them and head coachBrad Stevens to shock theNBA fan base and make theplayoffs in a more competitivelandscape.

The team is accustomedto grinding to gain respectand what they want. It’ll beinteresting to see how the teamplays and if they can actuallyimprove off of last season.

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season similar to the one it hadin 2014-2015.

The only difference is it’ll bemuch harder for them to makethe playoffs this year with a young team, thanks to changes

in the NBA’s playoff format. Incase you haven’t heard, division winners aren’t guaranteed atop four seeding anymore.

The more competitiveformat will make it much moredifficult for the Celtics to makethe playoffs in 2016. If I daresay it, the Los Angeles Lakers,New York Knicks and MiamiHeat have a better chance ofmaking the postseason due toadequate roster upgrades.

Their perennial All-Starplayers Kobe Bryant, Carmelo Anthony and Chris Bosh alsoreturned after missing most of

last season due to either seasonending injuries or life changinghealth problems.

Just when you thought theCeltics’ playoff chances couldn’tget any worse, they do.

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depends on it. The waiver wireconsists of all of the players who have been dropped fromteams, or were never pickedup by a team in your league.Sifting through the waiver wireis an art.

Each league has differentrules for adds and drops. But,if you are lucky you can geta game-changing player. Askanyone who picked up TravisBenjamin during week three.Benjamin was originally placedfourth or fifth in the widereceiver depth chart, but after

an electric week one and weektwo, he has slowly moved up toa viable option to start every week.

Do study your match-ups. Analyzing match-ups for the week is excruciating. With somany games out of market-- not shown in New England-- it takes some digging todetermine who will win their weekly match-ups.

There is no clear answeron how to effectively predictfuture outcomes, but thereare ways to make educatedguesses. Rivalries, conference

games, and injury-ridden teamsusually act as good indicators.

Another good approach is touse an online fantasy website’sanalytics to judge offenses anddefenses. They aren’t alwaysright, but they help.

Finally, stalk your players.Not literally but figuratively.Following your players onlinethrough social media can helpto predict their performancefor the week. You never know when your star runningback

will be declared unable to playdue to an unknown injury.Good rule of thumb is to wakeup early on Sunday to check


12/12

Starters forTeam Green:

- Isaiah Thomas

- Jae Crowder

- Jonas Jerebko

- Amir Johnson

- Kelly Olynyk

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Team standings

Men’s Soccer:

1. Mount Ida | 3-0-1

T-2. Johnson & Wales (R.I.) | 3-1

T-2. Norwich | 3-1

T-2. Norwich | 3-1

5. Johnson & Wales (R.I.) | 2-1

Women’s Volleyball:

1. St. Joseph's (Maine) | 5-0

T-2. Rivier | 2-0

T-2. Johnson & Wales (R.I.) | 2-0

T-2. Emmanuel | 2-0

5. Anna Maria | 2-1

Women’s Soccer:

1. Lasell | 4-0-1

T-2. Emmanuel | 4-1

T-2. Simmons | 4-1

4. Johnson & Wales (R.I.) | 3-1-1

5. Saint Joseph’s (Maine) | 3-2

Note: all standings are overall records

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On Tuesday Sept. 29, theCeltics held an open practicefor its season ticket holders.The event consisted of athree “quarters,” eight-minutescrimmage between two teams,“Team Green” and “TeamWhite.”

Both teams were chosen byhead coach Brad Stevens, whichgives us an implication of at

least two potential startinglineups that we may see duringthe season.

Looking at both teams, itlooks like Coach Stevens wastrying out two different stylesof play.

Team Green is more of a‘spread the floor,’ offensiveteam with all of these playershaving some sort of three pointshooting ability.

Kelly Olynyk knockeddown two threes during thescrimmage, and Jonas Jerebkodemonstrated his three-pointabilities on multiple occasions

last season. This opens up thecourt for point guard IsaiahThomas to attack the basket

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which creates better looks forthe rest of the team.

As for the defensive end,Thomas is a little undersized,so his defense isn’t alwaysthe most reliable. However,that is made up for with JaeCrowder’s lockdown perimeterdefense and Amir Johnson’srim protection.

Team White looks a lotlike a traditional NBA line up. A definitive point guard in

Marcus Smart, a clear shootingguard in Avery Bradley, an all-around small forward in EvanTurner, a rebounding machinepower forward in David Lee,and a center who is adept ataltering shots in the lane inTyler Zeller.

On the offensive side, bothMarcus Smart and Evan Turnerhave the passing abilities totake control of the ball handlingresponsibilities.

When it comes to scoring, Avery Bradley can shoot fromalmost anywhere outside of thepost and David Lee can score

from anywhere within ten feetof the basket.

The defensive end is alsocovered with both Marcus Smartand Avery Bradley’s defensiveprowess on the perimeter andDavid Lee’s abilities to stopalmost anything in post.

Players that came off thebench included veterans, so tospeak, F Jared Sullinger (White),G James Young (Green), andF Perry Jones (White) androokies G Terry Rozier (Green),

Starters forTeam White:

- Marcus Smart

- Avery Bradley

- Evan Turner

- David Lee

- Tyler Zeller

F Jordan Mickey (Green), and GRJ Hunter (White).

While the new additionssuch as Perry Jones and Roziermade an impact on the gamefor their respective teams, the veterans of the team such asSullinger and James Youngfailed to impress. Rozier cameoff the bench, scored a fewthrees and showed off his speedin transition.

Perry Jones also hit a few

threes when he came off thebench fighting for a roster spotand trying to carve out minutesin the rotation.

As for Jared Sullinger, hecame off the bench looking alittle sluggish despite the dropin his weight during the offseason. He also had four foulscalled against him, which isnever a good sign.

The time that James Younghas put into his development wasn’t really shown either ashe missed a few of his 3s butmanaged to drive to the basketa few times and score at the

rim.Both teams looked like

examples of Brad Stevens’ability to analyze players anduse them together to producelineups that mesh togetherperfectly. This also createsBrad Stevens biggest challengethis season because the Celticsseem to have an abundance ofplayers at each position, and allthose players seem to fit intoone line up or another thatworks well together.

and draw fouls that will gethim to the free throw line. Italso helps that Isaiah Thomasand Kelly Olynyk are knownto be an exceptional passers

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