Author Archives: Ally Thibault

Students will see a tuition price hike just short of one grand

April 17, 2013 no comments

On Thursday Suffolk University President James McCarthy emailed students to announce tuition hikes for the 2013 – 2014 school year. Full time undergraduate tuition will be $31,592 next year, a ...

Commencement Speakers for 2013 unveiled

April 17, 2013 no comments

New England Patriots Chairman and CEO Robert Kraft, Reebok founder Paul Fireman, and political journalist Chris Matthews will be speaking to Suffolk students at this year’s commencement ceremonies. T...

Safety advocates discuss violence, race, and the media at Ford Hall Fo...

March 28, 2013 no comments

“Eighty-seven Americans who woke up this morning will die from guns today,” John Rosenthal, gun owner and founder of Stop Handgun Violence, said at the latest lecture from the Ford Hall Forum. Entitl...

Spoiled Sox fans: Stay away from Fenway this season

March 28, 2013 no comments

Since September 20, 2011, the Boston Red Sox ownership hasn’t be able to catch a break. To save you (and me, a lifelong Sox fan) from the pain, I won’t go through the laundry list of problems that ha...

ASB Trips Leave Impressions on Suffolk Students

March 28, 2013 no comments

Suffolk University students had the opportunity to serve in 12 different communities across the country over this spring break through the S.O.U.L.S. Center for Community Engagement’s Alternative Spr...

Suffolk Alternative Spring Break’s first trip to Puerto Rico

March 28, 2013 no comments

Suffolk University’s S.O.U.L.S. Center for Community Engagement sponsored its first Alternative Spring Break (ASB) trip outside the 50 states this year as students traveled to Puerto Rico to do servi...

Michael Zapruder fuses poetry with music, hits up Church

March 28, 2013 no comments

“People hear the word ‘poetry’ and they get scared that they’ll get trapped [at a reading],” said Michael Zapruder, a singer-songwriter who performed in Boston last week at an event sponsored by the ...

Suffolk names Gerard Coletta new Chief of Police

February 28, 2013 1 comment

Suffolk named Gerard A. “Chip” Coletta the new permanent Chief of the University Police on Monday. Current Interim Chief of Police James Ferrier has agreed to stay on the job through to the end of Ma...

NESAD students disappointed after meeting with President McCarthy

February 28, 2013 1 comment

President James McCarthy met with students at Suffolk’s New England School of Art and Design (NESAD) recently to discuss the art school’s state of affairs, but the meeting seemed to raise more concer...

Career advice given to SBS students during Google office tour

February 27, 2013 no comments

Ally Thibault  Asst. Managing Editor Joey Johnson  Journal Staff Office space designed to look like a beach, state-of-the-art napping beds, and Xbox gaming centers were just some of the whimsical sig...

Philosophy Department hosts gun control debate

February 13, 2013 2 comments

In the wake of the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn. and the increased national debate over firearm regulations, Suffolk University’s philosophy department decided to host a gun rights colloquium for s...

Special Elections Still Under Deliberation

February 7, 2013 1 comment

For the third time in only four years, Massachusetts voters will go to the ballot box this summer to choose a new U.S. Senator. The special senate election on June 25, after primary elections on Apri...