Dakar campus to close its doors
After 12 years of offering the American college experience to students in West Africa, Suffolk’s campus in Dakar, Senegal will close its doors. In an email sent to staff members, Acting President and...
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Suffolk moves in the loop with social-mediacs
Suffolk joined the social media revolution on Friday when the Sawyer Business School’s Marketing Department presented Bridging the Gap, a one-day conference dubbed “a mash-up of academic frameworks a...
Empowerment group encourages conversation and bonding
Suffolk University’s Office of Diversity Services and the Counseling Center have teamed up to create an empowerment group for women of color. “Finding Our Voices,” a semi-structured group, seeks to p...
S.O.U.L.S. takes on gun control
S.O.U.L.S. presented its monthly “Food for Thought” discussion on the politics of gun control last Wednesday, headed by Professor Brad Bannon of the Government Department. This timely topic, in the w...
Shizzlr knows what’s up
Shizzlr is an up-and-coming social network intended to change the way students socialize around college campuses. Created by Nick Jaensch and Keith Bessete, two MBA graduate students from the Univers...
Colombia’s ‘Parapolitics’
Former Colombian senator, Mario Uribe Escobar, has been found guilty of having connections with the Colombian right-wing paramilitary death squad, United-Self Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC). Escoba...
Staff Editorial Feb. 23, 2011
It’s official: people who work are now horrible and greedy — at least if they work a union job. This is what the Republican Party is [and for a while has been] saying, but in the past wee...
US vetoes U.N. resolution
Not surprisingly, last Friday the United States vetoed the United Nations Security Council resolution that “reaffirms that the Israeli settlements established in the Palestinian Territory occupied si...
What is the answer to gun control?
Most people take one side or another on a particular issue or political ideology, and out of fear of being labeled confused, refuse to divert from the line. Holding fast lends credibility. However, t...
Nobody wins: An education budget tragedy
Recently, President Obama decided to cut $89 billion over the next 10 years in order to preserve the Pell Grant program. Alright, that’s not cool, coming from the guy who said we need to be the natio...
Yes Oui Si space brings artists together
Boston can now marvel at its latest contribution to the art community. Tucked away on the corner of Vancouver Street, neighboring the Museum of Fine Arts and MassART, Yes Oui Si is a space that offer...
Lehane visits Suffolk; inspires
Dennis Lehane sat comfortably in front of a packed house at the Modern Theatre last Thursday, discussing his inspirations and dissecting his long, successful career as a novelist. An enthusiastic cro...