The important thing to note about the past few days since Suffolk Law professor Michael Avery’s comments criticized U.S. troops and the Suffolk GOP care package drive is that this came from a citizen of the United States expressing his First Amendment right of freedom of speech. Between Avery’s comments and the subsequent demands of [...]
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October 26th, 2011 
Journal Staff Oh Halloween, how we at the Journal love thee. It is the one holiday where we can all revert back to being little kids, dress in ridiculous costumes and not have to deal with questions about being crazy. We all have our own great little memories of Halloween shenanigans from our childhoods. Whether you were [...]
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September 22nd, 2011 Journal Staff The recent protest in New York entitled “Occupy Wall Street” entered its fourth day on Tuesday gathering a crowd of about 150 people. The protest is being promoted by a Vancouver based magazine called Adbusters, which has described itself as “a not-for-profit, reader-supported, 120,000-circulation magazine concerned about the erosion of our physical and cultural environments [...]
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June 6th, 2011 Journal Staff Hello all incoming freshmen! We at the Journal know this is an exciting time for you as you embark on a new chapter of your lives. You’re leaving your high school realm where you were constantly supervised by teachers and locked in by a rigid schedule and entering a world of independence and adulthood. You’ll [...]
Staff Editiorial April 20, 2011
April 21st, 2011 Journal Staff The spring semester is coming to an end, and here at The Journal, we’re feeling bittersweet. Don’t get us wrong, we’re extremely excited that the school year is almost over and new things are yet to come, but we’re also a bit saddened by the changes the end of a school year bring. I’ve served [...]
Staff Editiorial April 13, 2011
April 15th, 2011 Journal Staff Suffolk is a Boston school through and through and we at the Journal are proud of that. Our campus is in the heart of Downtown Boston and yes, we love that dirty water—just not for drinking. Unfortunately that’s the only option we have if we don’t want to pay money for something that’s supposed to [...]
Staff Editorial March. 6, 2011
April 7th, 2011 Journal Staff An April 2 New York Times article titled, ” An Iowa Stop in a Broad Effort to Revitalize the Religious Right” noted a recent religious romp in Iowa among Evangelical pastors, hosted by the one and only Mike Huckabee. Pastors/ministers and their spouses were invited to an all expenses-paid two-day trip for a Pastor’s Briefing [...]
Staff Editorial March. 3, 2011
March 9th, 2011 Journal Staff In one of the greatest moments of Internet history, we received word that Charlie Sheen has created his very own Twitter account. At the Journal, with our intensive researching skills, we proudly attest to its existence and entertainment. Among all of the recent Charlie Sheen-fiasco news, this Twitter feed hopefully will become the cream of [...]
Staff Editorial Feb. 23, 2011
February 23rd, 2011 Journal Staff 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 weeks the GOP decided to take action against those damned workers who just want to take, take, take [...]
Staff Editorial Feb. 16, 2011
February 16th, 2011 Journal Staff We received a letter from Gordon King , Sr. Director of Facilities Planning and Management, last week and he had wonderful things to say to us that we’d love to share with you. To the editor, Your front page headline on the wild winter weather (Snow bombards Suffolk, Feb. 9, 2011) was spot on. This [...]
Staff Editorial Feb. 09, 2011
February 9th, 2011 Journal Staff “Good thing you like to write, because you aren’t going to make any money in this profession” is what we’ve been told time and time again as aspiring journalists in the digital age. Parents, peers, and even professors have cast doubt on the potential for success in a career in journalism, and to be honest, [...]
Staff Editorial Nov. 17, 2010
November 18th, 2010 Journal Staff Recently, we at the Journal have caught wind of Glenn Beck’s new rant/rave/ridiculous attack. What’s been on Beck’s chopping block most recently? Nothing too big, except him condemning George Soros as an aid to the Nazis and claiming he’s attempting to run a secret government to control the country’s economy. The accusations have been beyond [...]
