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Dorm room fumigated for bed bugs

Angela Bray ing to the student, he saw at EcoLab is a private nurse who could not diagnose ing it was just the sheets. As
Soleil Barros least two bed bugs himself. company not associ- the issue and recommended he was going to bed, he no-
Journal Staff Rod Waters, director of ated with the university. using lotion. He tested him- ticed a lady bug-sized insect
residence life & summer pro- The Suffolk freshman sus- self, figuring if the case was and killed it, blood oozing out.
Four Suffolk student dorm grams, addressed the resi- pected bed bugs back in Oc- bed bugs from the hotel room, Taking action, the student
rooms at the Holiday Inn on dents of rooms 309, 311, 313 tober, noticing random bites they would disappear on his again told the hotel’s manager
Blossom Street have been and 411 via email on Friday re- on his torso. He approached body while home for Thanks- that his room has bed bugs
sprayed to eradicate bed bugs the hotel staff when his father giving break, which they did. and security was called. “I
following complaints suggested bed bugs; main- “[He] had bite marks all took off my headboard and
from a student tenance confirmed they over his body since the first found two dead bed bugs
with multiple found nothing. When semester, and it was only a about the same size,” he said.
bites af- the “hives” didn’t matter of time until they actu- “I was very upset with the
ter the go away, the stu- ally found what was respon- hotel; they said they checked
discovery dent returned to the sible for the bites,” said the for bed bugs in the room over
of a bed bug in hotel staff, who sent student’s roommate. “I did break,” said Danny Allen.
the student’s room. EcoLab see some bed bugs behind “My room has been
The student re- my roommate’s headboard fumigated and they fu-
ported mul- tiple and it makes you feel like migated three surround-
bites over sev- e r a l gard- back up you’ve been sleeping in filth ing rooms,” said Allen.
months as he repeatedly com- ing im- t o for the past semester.” The Holiday Inn student
plained. According to the stu- mediate Upon return to the ho- residents of rooms of the
dent, he complained about r o o m t h e tel, the student’s itches were four rooms were temporary
the bites to hotel staff and changes and r o o m . back. Cold air? Dry skin? relocated to different rooms
a school nurse with no extermination. Maintenance once Two months later, stu- for a total of four days, yet
avail. One bed bug was “When again found nothing, dents were dismissed from not all rooms were treated.
confirmed found as a result E c o L a b came in and suggested he was al- the hotel for Winter break. Freshman Alexa DiMario
of a report filed the evening [Saturday], there was no in- lergic to the laundry deter- When the effected student dorms in a room right near
of January 20, three months festation found, only one gent from using hotel towels. was back at the hotel, he no- the others evacuated. “I was
after the student’s initial bed bug,” said Waters. “One According to the fresh- ticed hives on the back of his
complaint. However, accord- bed bug is one too many.” man, he approached a school neck, but brushed it off think- see BUG page 2

nside Suffolk alum to head UMass

ournal
the

Jenn Orr Trustees acted as the search

Journal Staff
News After a year filled with
speculation and endless pos-
"Players in presidential
sibilities, the search for presi-
search in place' pg. 3
dent of the University of Mas-
sachusetts came to a close,
Opinion as Suffolk alumnus Robert
"MBT- Aw man!" pg. 6 L. Caret was elected to lead
the five-campus system. Cur-
rently serving as president of
Arts & Towson University in Mary-
committee for the new presi-
dent, spending the latter half
of 2010 selecting the initial
candidates. Two weeks ago,
three finalists were presented
to the board, which had the
opportunity to formally meet
them each. With the assistance
of a hiring agency, the three
candidates turned into one
president-elect, Robert Caret.
From just the one meet-

Entertainment land, he will fill the shoes

"Let Entomo! take you
down" pg. 4
of former UMass President
Jack Wilson starting July 1.
“I’m a real believer in
the fundamentals,” Caret
ing he’d shown the amount
of charisma that a leader of
a system like UMass needs,”
said UMass Student Trustee
Michael Fox, a member of the

Sports said. “So what we want here

"Men's hockey plugs along
during tough stretch"
pg. 8
is a great education enter-
prise and a great economic
enterprise to make the state
a vibrant place to live.”
The UMass Board of
board. “He also displayed the
understanding that increas-
ing state support and aware-
ness is our biggest challenge.”
And Caret is prepared for
see UMASS page 3 Photo courtesy of Robert Caret
 PAGE 2
Players in presidential search in place
Jeff Fish
Journal Staff
Suffolk has taken the
next step in choosing its
new president, naming a
search committee which in-
cludes a student representa-
tive, junior Scott Zalatoris.
Zalatoris, an SGA sena-
tor, said having a student on
the committee was a priority.
“This is the biggest thing in
the last 40 years—the students
need to say how [the univer-
sity] is going to be shaped.”
SGA President Mitch
Vieira said he was asked
by the Dean’s offices from
the Sawyer Business School
(SBS) and the College of Arts
and Sciences (CAS) to sub-
mit a recommendation for
the student representative.
“I vetted probably 10
to 15 names,” said Vieira,
who ultimately decided on
Annual luncheon honors past, present and future
Soleil Barros
Journal Staff
The life and legacy of Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was
celebrated Thursday through
a luncheon in the main ball-
room of the Holiday Inn
Boston at Beacon Hill. The
annual event, hosted by the
Office of Diversity Services,
provided a cultured experi-
ence for both Suffolk students
and faculty to come together
and honor the inspiration of
King. To that end, the “Creat-
ing the Dream Award,” giv-
en annually at Suffolk, was
presented to senior Jessica
Ross as part of the occasion.
The featured keynote
speaker of the luncheon was
Dr. John L. Jackson, the Rich-
ard Perry University Profes-
sor of Communication and
Anthropology at the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania. As a
filmmaker, Jackson has pro-
duced a feature-length fiction
film, along with several doc-
umentaries and short films
screened at international
film festivals. Also an author,
Jackson has published three
books: “Harlemworld: Doing
Race and Class in Contempo-
rary Black America,” “Real
Black: Adventures in Racial
Sincerity,” and “Racial Para-
noia: the Unintended Conse-
quences of Political Correct-
Zalatoris and forwarded
the recommendation to the
deans and Andrew Meyer,
Board of Trustees Chairman
who formed the committee.
“The first thing I did was
research how various univer-
sities put together selection
committees,” said Meyer. “We
wanted to have a committee
made up of representative
from all three schools,” (CAS,
SBS, and Suffolk Law School).
Meyer named the com-
mittee to the Suffolk com-
munity in December, after
President Sargent’s sudden
retirement in October.
In addition to Zalato-
ris, the committee includes
a representative from each
school—Michael Behnam
from the SBS, Ilene Seidman,
an Assistant Dean from the
Law School, and Rachael V.
Cobb, new government de-
partment chair from the CAS.
ness.” Jackson is currently
working on another book and
two documentary films.
Suffolk’s co-ed gospel
choir, The Voices of Zion,
opened the luncheon with
the “Lift Every Voice and
Sing” anthem. Other speak-
ers included President Barry
Brown, who shared that at the
age of nineteen, he attended
a speech on March 12, 1965
where King presented for the
Democratic Society in Mont-
gomery, Alabama. “He was
very poised and articulate,”
The committee also has
six trustees—Leo J. Corco-
ran, Dennis M. Duggan, Wil-
liam T Hogan, III, Deborah
F. Marson, James T. Morris,
Tara Taylor. Acting President
Barry Brown, Damian Wilmot,
Director of the Law School
Alumni Association, and Mas-
sachusetts General Hospi-
tal President Peter L. Slavin
are also on the committee.
Meyer interviewed and
selected candidates based on
recommendations he received.
“There are certain skill
sets I would like to see [in a
new president],” said Duggan,
chairman of the committee. “A
superior academic reputation,
superior leadership qualities
and a proven ability to raise
funds—a person who would
be inclusive to the many
constituencies who make
up our Suffolk community.”
But finding the person
Brown said. “It felt like I met
him.” The mission of Brown’s
speech was to “let the world
know how important diver-
sity is to Suffolk University.”
Reverend Amy Fisher
also spoke during the lun-
cheon, providing inspiration-
al words of hope along with
quotes from King’s speech,
“Beyond Vietnam,” made on
April 14, 1967. “I really en-
joyed the Reverend the most
because she put so much effort
and emphasis into delivering
her speech,” said freshman
January 26, 2011
with those qualities is a long
way down the road, accord-
ing to committee members.
The committee hasn’t met
yet and when they do, their
first step will be to hire a
firm to scout candidates na-
tionwide. These candidates
will be sent to the committee
and the final decision will be
made by the Board of Trust-
ees, according to Duggan.
A committee member, who
spoke on condition of anonym-
ity, said it’s too soon to come
up with the qualities for a new
president since the committee
hasn’t had its first meeting.
“That would limit us,”
she said. “I really approach
this with a totally open mind.”
Zalatoris said Meyer en-
couraged him to keep the stu-
dent body posted on where the
committee is in the process,
but he can’t release any candi-
date names due to legal issues.
Photo courtesy of Soleil Barros
Morgan Brynes. “The words
that she shared were really in-
teresting and very inspiring.”
Scan to finish online
“My job as a student
representative is to report
back to the students,” and
taking their input to com-
mittee meetings, he said.
“I gave out my Suffolk
email. I encourage people; I
implore them to send me their
thoughts, their feelings. I plan
on encouraging people to bring
ideas to their senators to bring
to me. I’d like to meet with
clubs. I’d love to set up times
just to get a room and have
people come in if they want
to bring ideas,” said Zalatoris.
Committee members
said that more developments
will be made available as the
process movers along. The
first meeting is February 2.
Derek Anderson of Journal
Staff contributed to this report.
Bed
bugs
bite!
from BUG page 1
disgusted, I freaked out,”
she said. “I asked them to check
and spray my room, but they
said no. They only sprayed
the rooms that they definite-
ly thought had the bugs.”
“They didn’t check
my room and they
should have,” she said.
“I thought it was pretty
gross, I didn’t want to stay in
a hotel with bed bugs,” said
Jessica Proposki. “[He] knew
about the bed bugs last se-
mester, but the hotel said it
wasn’t bed bugs. Even though
they cleaned the rooms, we
still don’t know how well.”
Zoe Hartman, who lives
in a room on the same floor
as others inspected, was not
moved. “ I’m worried that
they are going to come to my
room. I have been trying to
keep my room really clean.
I’m worried that I will find
other bugs too,” she said.

PAGE 3
Caret new UMass president
from UMASS page 1
that challenge. After
graduating from Suffolk in
1969, he assumed that the
next step was a career as an
industrial chemist or teacher.
This plan changed after he
was encouraged to attend
graduate school and earned
a PhD in organic chemistry
from the University of New
Hampshire. From there, he
was on the faculty and in ad-
ministration at Towson for 21
years before leaving for Cali-
fornia in to serve as president
of San Jose State University.
In 2003, Caret returned
to Towson as president, and
under his direction the in-
stitution benefited greatly.
Through mentoring pro-
grams and admissions strat-
egies enacted by Caret,
Towson’s achievement gap
decreased, with the Wash-
ington Post citing it as one of
very few schools with “little
or no disparity in gradua-
tion rates between black and
Hispanic students and white
students.” Achievement is
expected to transcend the
January 26, 2011
graduation date and exist
throughout students’ lives.
“What I will definitely
do in Massachusetts is put
in place a system that if we
take a student in, we’ll put
a support structure around
them so that if we take them
in, they’ll graduate,” Car-
et said. “It doesn’t make
much sense to take some-
one in and flunk them out.”
Along with improving
graduation rates throughout
all UMass campuses, Caret
plans to work with local com-
munity colleges and students
in grades K-12 to ensure
that students are coming in
prepared and getting their
money’s worth. He knows
that varying issues will arise
on each of the five campuses,
and he is ready to take them
all on. The plan is to work
closely with Gov. Deval Pat-
rick and his staff to “maxi-
mize what we’re trying to do.”
“We’re in a world right
now, this country in particu-
lar, where higher education is
viewed as important, but the
budget is challenged,” noted
Caret. “It’s now becoming
less and less affordable, and
I’d like to keep it as affordable
as humanly possible. In the
world I’m living in, I need to
work in the political arena as
much as the academic arena
because with political support
comes fiscal support, and it’s
critical to our institutions.”
Caret knows the value of
a good education, and he at-
tributes some of his success
to the education he received
at Suffolk. It was during his
sophomore year of under-
grad when he became truly
interested in the intellectual
aspect of college, making
note of the solid foundation
Suffolk provided for the aca-
demic career he moved into.
He anticipates spending time
on Beacon Hill once again.
“Boston is such a unique
town, such a vibrant city,”
concluded Caret. “I’m a New
Englander at heart, and you
just feel like you’re com-
ing home again, especially
in Boston, which is the hub
of New England. It has all
the right things going for it.
I’m looking forward to it.”
January 26, 2011
news
BRIEFS
Renowned scientist and
Suffolk alum, to speak next
Tuesday at University
Ken Sherman, a Suffolk alumnus and global leader in re-
mediating ocean pollution will be at the University Feb. 1 to
deliver a lecture to students regarding pollution to our wa-
ters and marine life and the possible solutions and routes
we can take to help counter it. A recent Suffolk press re-
lease stated the solutions to the pollution have “been very
effective, in many regions, including such unlikely places
as the Gulf of Guinea abutting several countries in West Af-
rica and the Yellow Sea, abutting China and the Koreas”.
A display in the Donahue Building is featuring material
related to Sherman’s work with the Large Marine Ecosystem
program, a program that divides oceans in separate ecosys-
tems, focusing on specific remedies for each troubled region.
Sherman has also received prizes and recognition for
his work in the field. He even contributed to Al Gore’s No-
bel Prize which got him recognition from the Nobel com-
mittee. Sherman is looking forward to meeting and con-
necting with students on his visit to Suffolk next Tuesday.
 PAGE 4
History of Boston 'Grand'
Chelsea Szmania
Journal Staff
Award-winning author
and historian Stephen Puleo
has been published once
again. A City So Grand, based
on of the history of Boston,
focuses on the second half of
the Nineteenth century, a time
when the city was thriving.
Puleo, an adjunct profes-
sor at Suffolk University, has
already become an acclaimed
writer within the Boston area.
An Italian-American himself,
he has written The Boston Ital-
ians as well as Due to Enemy
Action and The Dark Tide.
A City So Grand is Puleo’s
fourth book, which focuses
on a part of Boston’s history
that isn’t widely talked about.
The novel ranges from the
year 1850 to 1900 when the
city was at its high point.
Let Entomo! take you down
Carchia
Gianna
Journal Staff
The rock-and-roll band
Entomo! comes to perform in
the town of Thebes at Straw-
berry Fields. The towns-
people fall
under their
spell and
flock to see
their fantas-
tical show,
featuring
the music of
the Beatles.
Rita Meter,
an enter-
tainment
journalist,
is eager to
gain ac-
cess to the
band and
the event
that could give her her big-
gest story yet. Lucy, a young,
impressionable high school
cheerleader, wants to hear
the music and has a secret
desire to be famous. But her
boyfriend Max, wary of the
psychedelic band, vows to
stop the show to save both
his girlfriend and his town.
This is the premise of what
January 26, 2011
Puleo talks about the 35-
year Back Bay project,
road Jubilee of 1851, was the created. Puleo is one of the
first to write about a
assortment of facts strung to-
gether like most historians are
which would become time in Boston that has known for doing. It is clear
a major undertaking rarely been discussed. that he does a tremendous
for Boston. The book “Incredible changes amount of research before he
discusses the Aboli- happen,” he said about starts writing. Puleo explains
tionist Movement, the the transformation how starting with thorough
anti-slavery movement of Boston since the background information is a
of the 1850s, as well American Revolution. big part of the writing pro-
as the creation of the A City So Grand is cess. Without it, his books
telephone, invented unique because of the would lack a certain element.
by Alexander Graham style in which Puleo With it’s dynamic histori-
Bell. The importance writes. An outstanding cal perspective and significant
of this time period is newspaper reporter topics, A City So Grand is sure
explained as a substan- and magazine review- to be an enjoyable read for
tial part of Boston’s his- er, he writes narra- fans of Boston, or anyone who
tory. “It’s when the city tive history in order to is curious about what made it
really transforms from make it more exciting the bustling city it is today.
a small town to a world for the reader. “I try
class city,” said Puleo. to use elements in my
The book is full writing that keep the
of surprising content; story moving,” he said.
however, readers will He uses real life char-
be most amazed to acters and a creative
learn that Boston’s rail- Photo courtesy of StephenPuleo.com writing style to make it
road system, the Great Rail- first American subway to be interesting instead of a bland
was originally a BFA Theatre Alexa Corriea, a BU graduate said Julia Earles, a BU acting fore the band started to play
Arts thesis project by students and current employee of the major. “I came to see if they “Strawberry Fields Forever”
at Boston University, but has University. Like many others made any changes. I’m excit- and Entomo! was in full swing.
now become a rock-and-roll in the crowd, she had seen ed to see it in a new place.” The musical fantasy wove
fantasy sensation. The show, the show when it first de- Maxine Eloi, another BU many popular songs into the
also called Entomo!, took over buted. A large number of au- acting major, called the show story, such as: “Oh! Darling”;
Harvard Square’s Oberon dience members were either very “visceral” and said, “Come Together”; “Yester-
students or “There were pillows and the day”; “I Want to Hold Your
graduates of walls were painted like those Hand”; “All You Need is
Boston Uni- sheets last year. They brought Love”; “A Day in the Life,”
versity, there back the look. It was more in- and numerous others. A clev-
to support timate before, but the show er network of story and song,
members of was made for a place like this.” Entomo! was exciting and in-
the cast that When Entomo! finally be- teresting. A charming feature
they knew, gan, the band filed onto the for those familiar with the
as well as to stage at the front while other music was Rita Meter tossing
be entranced members of the cast stood out cellophane flowers to the
once again along the balconies overhead. crowd as Lucy sang “Lucy
by the magic The lead singer, a fierce free in the Sky with Diamonds.”
of the per- spirited young blonde called Details like these that dis-
formance, Vishnu, wore her hair messy played the depth that the cre-
and to rock and a long fur trimmed coat ators of Entomo! achieved by
out to Bea- over her shirt and tie. The weaving song with their sto-
tles tunes. other three band members ryline. The cast and the band
Photo by Giana Carchia
“ T h e wore white shirts and straight worked effortlessly as one to
Club in Cambridge for one whole theater is involved,” black ties, paying homage to create this imaginative and
night only last Sunday. After said Brooke Morgan, a current the original style of the mop unique experience on stage,
getting their tickets ripped, student at BU, referring to the top boys, introduced in the and the vocal and instrumen-
attendees were greeted with first time she saw the perfor- 60s. Vishnu stepped to the tal ability as they belted out
“Welcome to Strawberry mance. The dance floor filled front of the stage and raised and jammed to the music of
Fields,” the first of many im- up with people eager to be ab- her hand above her face. In her the Beatles was remarkable.
mersive features of the show. sorbed in the musical produc- hand was a strawberry, which Entomo! turned the audi-
“The first day I heard it tion. There were white sheets she lowered slowly and took ence on, everyone tuned in,
was coming here, I reserved a hanging all over the club a bite of as the crowd watched and together all rocked out.
spot. It was too incredible an with black graffiti on them. noiselessly. She mulled over
opportunity to pass up,” said “It is absolutely amazing,” its taste for a few seconds be-
 PAGE 5 January 26, 2011

Seth Rogen goes green;

'The Rite' is oh-so-wrong
Julia Dawidowicz
Journal Staff
The Rite (2011, Contra-
film), which hits theaters this
Friday, is the latest “horror”
film from Swedish director
Mikael Håfström. I went into
this movie knowing only that
it starred Anthony Hopkins,
involved exorcism and the
Vatican, and was sup-
posedly inspired by
true events. A pretty
bone-chilling com-
bination. Dr. Han-
nibal Lecter meets
demonic possession
in a creepy ancient
religious setting—a
foolproof equation
for horror, right?
Alas, I was mistaken.
Along with the rest of
the audience, at the
screening of the film
I found myself laugh-
ing aloud more than
quivering with fear.
The chuckling began
prior to the open-
ing credits, when the
cliché disclaimer ap-
peared on the screen
session in class, the skeptical
Kovak challenges the teacher,
offering intelligent psychi-
atric explanations for every
case of so-called possession.
Kovak is sent to the quirky,
unorthodox Father Lucas
(Hopkins), who sets out to
make him a believer- for this
is the only way to save him
from the fate that awaits. The
Courtesy of Contrafilm Productions ited by its unresolved ployees , Kato (portrayed by on, I thought that the film
wears tights
man!” Saving his mentor turns
though; Cameron Diaz plays
out to be as easy as reciting a David Frederick
Lenore Case, the new secre-
prayer and embracing God Journal Staff
tary/pseudo love interest for
into his life for good. Kovak
Released over the winter the duo. Her acting is very
tosses aside all that modern
break, The Green Hornet (2011, stale and one might think she
psychiatry mumbo-jumbo,
disregards the fact that earlier Columbia-Tristar) stars Seth is only in the film because
in the film none of the other Rogen (Knocked Up, Pineapple she is a well known actress,
possessed victims were actu- Express) as Britt Reid, the son which disappoints me be-
ally cured for good, and lives of James Reid, publisher of cause there are many more
happily ever after as a priest. fictional newspaper The Daily talented actresses that could
At times, the film is Sentinel. Britt lives the stereo- have played the part. The film
mildly thought-provok- typical life is advertised
of a social- to be in 3D,
ing, raising questions
concerning the place of ite, having but like most
no motiva- of the films
religion in the modern
world. I also enjoyed the tion in life to come out
as he does lately, the 3D
pretty, scenic, long-shots
panning over Rome. Ad- nothing but does nothing
party. Af- but add four
mittedly, several loud
sudden sound effects ter James dollars to the
Reid passes ticket. The ac-
made me jump towards
the beginning, but this away, Britt tion sequenc-
b e c o m e s es are spot
was only until I realized
that the horror I antici- the new on, though
p u b l i s h e r I only wish
pated wasn’t going to
come, and then they just of The Dai- that there
ly Sentinel Courtesy of Columbia-Tristar could have
sounded cheesy and out
of place. Conceptually, and does not know how to been more Kato fight scenes.
the film seemed to have function in this new world The story structure was
an interesting new take that he has been thrust into. very solid, it did not disap-
After a chance encounter point, but overall it was just
on the idea of exorcism;
however, it was inhib- with one of his father’s em- an average movie. Moving

informing us that what we
were about to see was based
on true events, followed by
a quote from Pope John Paul
II about how the Devil is
still lurking among us today.
The story begins at the
mortuary, where Michael
Kovak (Colin O’Donoghue)
works begrudgingly along-
side his grimly religious fa-
ther, following the family
path that he has been con-
demned to. “In my family,
you can only be a mortician,
or a priest,” he laments to
his frat-type college buddy
at the beginning of the film.
Apparently fed up with ca-
davers, Kovak chooses to go
to seminary school to become
a priest in spite of his lack of
religious faith and his affinity
for brews and miniskirt-clad
bartenders. After writing an
email of resignation to the
Father Superior of his semi-
nary (one of many measures
taken to portray the techno-
logical savvy of the Catholic
Church today), he is coerced
by a priest who believes he
has great potential into going
to Rome for special program
which teaches the ancient
(here it comes) rite of exor-
cism. In spite of being shown
several grotesque slides de-
picting cases of demonic pos-
rest of the film is a barrage of loose ends, poor writing, and Japanese pop star Jay Chou, would be serious with come-
lackluster exorcism scenes: oddly blatant religious pro- not to be confused with John dic undertones but it turned
a pregnant Italian girl who paganda. Like so many films Cho), Britt realizes that they out to be the opposite. The
inexplicably starts speaking whose fear-instilling merit have been wasting their po- Green Hornet is based off of a
provocatively to Kovak in relies heavily upon the pre- tentials in life and that they radio show in 1936, which was
English, a possessed little boy sumption that the events de- need to give purpose to it. later turned into a television
who predicts the death of Ko- picted really took place, the Britt becomes the Green Hor- show for ABC in 1966 starring
vak’s father, and eventually, film lacked any true horror net and Kato helps fight crime Van Williams and Bruce Lee
the possession of the seem- or complexity, and ended by with him. They decide to pose as Britt Reid and Kato. With
ingly infallible Father Lucas teaching the audience that the as criminals to entrap the real myself being a fan of the 60s
himself. The behavior of the only way to escape the Devil criminals. While these events show I was excited when I
possessed is comical at best: is to embrace God as your are happening, a crime lord heard the the film was go-
lots of dramatic neck arching savior and to hope there is a named Chudnofsky (played ing to be made after being in
and computer-animated blue licensed exorcist near you. by Christoph Waltz) is trying “development hell” for a long
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 PAGE 6
St a f f Editoria l
As freethinking people
in the present day world, es-
pecially living in the U.S.,
sometimes it seems we take
the world too lightly. Occa-
sionally, it takes something
really intense and disastrous
to hit us hard where it hurts,
whether it’s in our backyard
or halfway across the planet,
to make us realize that life
isn’t all hunky-dory. Between
the shooting in Tucson and
the recent suicide bombing in
the Moscow airport, it is these
events that have shaped the
public’ thought in this coun-
try and pushed us towards
change. Between the gun law
modifications, the repeal of
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and
the potential repeal of the
healthcare bill, this just touch-
es on the numerous changes
being pushed through the
U.S. government. The world
is changing and moving, this
much is obvious. Whether
we’re moving forward or
backward, from the left or
right, the fact that we’re mov-
ing at all is what’s important.
 We at the Journal wish to
be a part of that movement,
and so should you. With a
new year comes a new set of
issues, and now more than
ever, the issues at hand have
a direct effect on us, especial-
ly students. We’re living in a
historical time marked by a
genuine desire for change, en-
veloped in a passion so strong
that it may or may not be a
good thing – time will tell. As
we continue into the newly
dubbed period of “civility,”
we should remember that ev-
erything happens – and has
happened – for a reason in the
world. We can be that reason,
or we can place blame on that
reason, but it doesn’t mat-
ter – it’s happened already.  in March 2010, and since then
MBT- Aw, man!
Ethan Long
Journal Staff
Last week, the MBTA an-
nounced a contest: “Be the
MBTA General Manager for
a Day.” According to Uni-
versalHub.com, the contest
rules are to “tell us in 150
words why you want to be
the MBTA GM for a day.”
Current MBTA General Man-
ager Richard Davey was ap-
pointed the position officially
all I’ve really seen him do was
yell at a fare eraser and shoot
a picture of a turkey inside
of one of the stations. The
contest winner will spend
the day with Davey, watch-
ing what he actually does.
Now, normally contests
like this seem like a fun idea,
but with the MBTA, it just
seems like the equivalent of
having to sit down and watch
the John Hughes movie,
“Baby’s Day Out.” Seriously,
in the movie you watch tons
of really horrible, seeming-
ly endless events occur, as
the baby runs around New
York City nearly avoiding
death throughout the film.
“Davey’s Day Out” is prob-
ably the same, especially after
the last two weeks of ridicu-
lous incidents throughout
the MBTA system. Let’s just
see what I’m talking about.
Okay, it all started Jan. 6,
when a Braintree-bound Red
Line train was stopped to
search for a snake that went
loose. No Sam Jackson jokes
here, this actually happened,
and shut down the entire line
temporarily. Almost a week
later, the MBTA website went
down. Two days later, the
Red Line shut down due to a
fire at Downtown Crossing,
while the Blue Line was ter-
minating at Maverick due to a
downed line at Wood Island.
Also, adding to that day was
a fire at the Chinatown station
on the Orange Line, shutting
that down. Since then, there
have been three more fires
on the Orange Line: at North
Station, Downtown Cross-
ing, and again at Chinatown.
On Jan. 18, an inbound
train at Kenmore arrived at
the station with smoke com-
ing from the roof of the ve-
January 26, 2011
hicle. Green Line E service to
Heath Street was shut down
due to a trolley crashing into a
car past Brigham Circle. Final-
ly, that night the Hynes stop
lost power, with the Green
Line bypassing the station.
Keep in mind that the
announcement for the con-
test was made in-between
all of these incidents.
Who would want to have
to watch Davey deal with
this pressure? I mean, hasn’t
the MBTA been doing this for
about 100 years now? You’d
think they’d have a plan to
stop trains from freezing up
from the cold, since we are in
the biggest city in New Eng-
land. Oh yeah, the old plan
was to have passenger-less
trains running all night in or-
der to keep them going. Guess
what? That didn’t work. Tues-
day morning, there was a
dead train at State, as well
as numerous commuter rail
delays, a frozen Red Line
train, and a frozen train com-
ing inbound from Riverside.
Continuing this mess is
John McCarthy, a 61-year-old
veteran of the MBTA, work-
ing there for 30 years. On Jan.
23, McCarthy crashed his bus
into a stopped car in Sommer-
ville. A bottle of Ruble Vodka
was found in his coat pocket.
I’ve given the MBTA some
slack lately, but then it pulled
the single most offensive
thing New England has ever
seen. A train died shortly af-
ter leaving Foxboro on Jan. 16,
carrying hundreds of passen-
gers coming from the Patriots-
Jets game. Wicked offensive.
So, here’s my reason why
I would like to be MBTA
General Manager for a day:
“I would like to be MBTA
General Manager for a day
because I really like taking
pictures of turkeys and giv-
ing the mass public hardly
any answers or solutions to
problems that should have
been solved earlier last cen-
tury. I would also like to add
that I’m a huge fan of trains,
especially ones trapped in
tunnels. I love feeling trapped
and confined in a dark place
while being screwed over…
Whoa, this is getting to sound
like a post on Craigslist.”
 PAGE 7
Men's basketball looking to find winning ways
Mike Giannattasio
Journal Staff
Coach Adam Nelson and
the men’s basketball team has
had a rough start to the second
half of the season, having lost
four of their first five games,
including last Saturday’s
home bout against GNAC
rival Albertus Magnus.
Despite Matt Pepdjo-
novic’s ten double double’s
this season and the stellar
play of sophomore Colin Hal-
pin, the Rams find themselves
5-10 at this current juncture
in the season. The team is
in need of a quick and sud-
den turn around if they want
to participate in postseason
play, which is the one of main
goals they set for themselves
at the beginning of the season.
Although this current
January stretch has been a
disappointing start to the
New Year, Suffolk has the
ability to bounce back and
improve their conference re-
cord. The rest of their games
happen to be against con-
ference opponents, so the
opening is there to climb
up the GNAC standings.
January 26, 2011
The team’s upcoming as dominant as Pepdjonovic Mount Ida Mustangs this ways this game was similar to
match with Emerson, sched- and others have been in the month, a game in which Suf- the Albertus Magnus game,
uled for Jan. 25, holds seri- paint, some opposing teams folk was able to post 77 points with Suffolk playing the role
ous weight. of Mount Ida. The Rams came
They will within five points of the Fal-
be playing cons lead, but were unable to
on Emer- overcome the 15-2 run Alber-
son’s court tus went on to start the game.
as well as Suffolk had two impres-
trying to sive runs during the Satur-
rebound day match-up, at one point
from their even cutting a 15-point deficit
two worst down to six to start the sec-
losses of ond half of play. The game
the January had almost a boxing feel to it,
campaign with Suffolk throwing their
against haymakers and turning the
Rivier Col- game in their favor. But no
lege and matter how many punches
the Falcons Coach Nelson and the
of Albertus Rams threw, the Falcons
Magnus. Photo courtesy of the Suffolk Athletics dept. would ultimately endure the
S u f - storm and come back with dev-
folk has
Matt Pepdjonovic (above) has played well all year, and currently leads astating blows of their own:
struggled the team in points (17.5) and rebounds (12.9). the most powerful being their
to hit the three consecutive possessions
three-point shot lately, with are going to be good enough despite Mount Ida Junior Isi- that resulted in three-point
their best percentage during to shut their interior game ah Benjamin leading the game plays during the second half.
the January match-ups being down. Emerson will likely in scoring with 25 points. The Rams will need to
36.4 percent at Norwich back try and neutralize the Rams’ Coach Nelson’s team was able play more consistent defense
on Jan. 13. The Rams are go- inside threats, thus plac- to overcome a late-game run when playing the Lions Jan.
ing to need to improve their ing an added importance by the Mustangs, who came 25, and throughout the rest
three-point percentage if they on their perimeter shooting. within four points of the Rams of their 2010-2011 season
want this season to turn in a The Rams did pull off an lead with just two minutes if they want to find them-
different direction, because impressive win against the to go in the contest. In many selves in the GNAC playoffs.
 PAGE 8 January 26, 2011

Men's hockey plugs along during tough stretch

CJ Haddad
Journal Staff
For the Suffolk men's
hockey team, this season
has not exactly played out
according to plan. How-
ever, with the second half
of the season coming up,
they hope to improve upon
that underwhelming record.
Coach Glionna, for one,
is putting a positive light on
part two of their campaign.
"The second half is when
we play the bulk of our
league schedule,” he said.
“To prepare for that [stretch
of games] we have played
some very strong non-con-
ference teams with the hopes
that it will make us more
successful in league play."
Since returning from
winter break on January
11, the Rams have dropped
four of their last five games.
In a hard fought 3-1 loss
to Babson, the Rams were in
it for the whole game, but tal-
lied only one goal, the second
of the year for Andrew Fly-
nn. Their next contest came
against an extremely tal-
ented Utica team. The differ-
ence between the two squads
showed. The Rams lost, 6-1,
with the only tally of the game
Team eyes strong second-half surge
coming from Andrew Monesi.
There was a bright spot
in the midst of this ugly loss.
Jeff Rose, the team’s captain,
saved a career-high 55 shots.
A strong Tufts team
squared off against the
Rams on Jan. 18. The Rams
pulled out a 4-3, overtime
victory against Tufts with a
game-winning goal by An-
drew Monesi in overtime.
The other goal scor-
ers were Charlie McGin-
nis, Jon Stauffer and Dan
Fayock. This was an ex- Photo courtesy of the Suffolk Athletics dept.
tremely uplifting win for the
Rams as they felt their hard
Andrew Monesi (above) is seventh on the team in points and helped the Rams
work had finally paid off.
edge Tufts in overtime on Jan. 18.
At this point, Coach
Glionna is very pleased Even a thrilling overtime chance of a playoff berth, now for the most important stretch
with their efforts during a win could not carry the magic would be the time to capital- of the season, the boys will
stretch of tough games. When over to the next contest against ize on it. Of the eight remain- be hard at work every day to
asked how he felt his team Western New England. The ing games on their schedule, try and scratch and claw their
played in recent weeks, he team dropped the bought, all are conference games. way back into contention.
sounded pleased with the 6-5, with goals being scored According to Coach When asked what he
overall tenor of the squad. by Stauffer, Chris Boyd, Da- Gliona, the upperclassmen was most excited about in
"I think we have played vid Seidel and Zach Barron. have the responsibility of the second half of the year,
well. The competition has In the next match against getting the team prepared Coach Glionna talked about
been fierce,” said the coach. Nichols College on January 22, and in the right mindset. the importance of games
“We lost our leading scorer, they found themselves in the "Our seniors have con- within the conference.
Max Barron, to an injury but loss column with a 4-1 final. tinued to provide great "I look forward to the
others have stepped up. Play- The solo goal scorer was Jon leadership,” he said. “Se- league games,” he explained.
ing traditional powers like Stauffer, who tallied his team- nior captains Jeff Rose, Paul “Top to bottom, the league is
Babson, Utica [No. 10 in the leading sixth goal of the year. Weisser and Tom Coulstring very deep. Every game will be
country] and Tufts has been a Jeff Rose also chipped in with have the boys prepared a challenge. If we can meet our
great experience. The win over an impressive 41-save total. to work hard every day." goal of going back to the play-
Tufts was our first since 1994." If the men want any While we are all waiting offs then it will be rewarding."

Women's basketball continues strong season

Mike Giannattasio
Journal Staff
The Suffolk University
women’s basketball had more
than a month off for win-
ter break before returning to
game action on January 11.
The season is now a lit-
tle more than half way over
for the Rams, who are 8-6
overall and 4-1 in the Great
Northeast Athletic Confer-
ence. The team has 11 regu-
lar season games left on their
schedule, and the members
of the team hope to end the
second half on a good note.
“This team sticks to-
gether,” said Head Coach Ed
Leyden. “We have battled
really hard teams and we've
given them everything they
can handle. Our strength
of schedule is rated second
in the GNAC, but our team
never gives in. We like to test
ourselves early and not be
concerned about our record.”
The club has had the same
goals all season, and as they al-
ways come to practice with the
intent and focus to get better.
“The only way a play-
er can help the team is for
her to get better,” said Ley-
den. “Our goal is to be play-
ing our best during at the
end of the season. We want
to have some fun and play
in big games in the end.”
Leyden mentioned that
the team has shown great
heart throughout the season.
He also gave a bit of a run-
down on what certain play-
ers mean to this year’s team.
“Our kids don't go easy on
each other,” added Leyden.
“Meghan Black has led by
example, and Mary Garon is
persistence personified and an
overachiever. Jackie Vienneau
is our on-court leader, and
Lindsey Rogers is the heart.
“Jen Ruys has given a real
presence in the post. Andrea
Suffredini has stepped in and
is developing into a solid col-
lege player. Dominique De-
Men's hockey
Jan. 26 at Becker, 8:20 p.m.
Jan. 30 at Johnson & Wales (RI),
3:05 p.m.
Men's baseketball
Jan. 27 at Johnson & Wales (RI), 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 29 vs. Rivier, 2:00 p.m.
Feb. 1 vs. Lasell, 7:30 p.m.
mar has come back strong and will to work hard at
from her injuries and is be- practice,” said Leyden. “It's
coming a strong two-way post inspiring to be with people
[player]. Jessica Bard is grow- who love what they do and
ing in confidence and con- show their passion for sport.”
tributing in big situations.” Suffolk hopes to pick
Leyden said he has up more wins against
enjoyed coaching the Mount Ida on Thursday
team all season long. and Rivier on Saturday.
“I love this team's heart
Women's basketball
Jan. 27 vs. Mount Ida, 7:00 p.m.
Jan. 29 at Rivier, 1:00 p.m.
Jan. 31 at Newbury, 7:00 p.m.