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THE AWARD-WINNING STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY • BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS VOLUME 70, NUMBER 21 WWW.SUFFOLKJOURNAL.NET April 7, 2010 Sargent Hall cafe closed to undergrads Law School deans clarify restrictions Derek Anderson School Guests and Law Stu- Journal Staff dents, Monday through Thurs- day from 11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. The Suffolk Law School and 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. and Friday announced at the end of last from 11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.” month that their dining hall, Many students have viewed along with its current restric- this as a “ban” of undergrad- tions on undergraduate stu- uates from the dining hall. dents, will no longer accept “It’s really not a ban. Ram Cards and meal plans. The That’s really an inappro- Ram Card ruling came into ef- priate word,” said Deliso. fect on March 22. Being paired Dean of Students Laura with the hour restrictions set Ferrari reinforced Deliso’s back in January, undergradu- statement, saying that the re- ate students have been pushed strictions have “been in place out of the dining facilities. since the beginning of the se- “We have a fairly stressed mester” and that they were situation here. We had to sorry that these rules were make this adjustment,” said made. “We tried hard to not Associate Dean John Deliso. do this,” said Ferrari, “but we The law school dining hall reached a breaking point.” had the restriction put up at Deliso said that there were Photo courtesy of Derek Anderson the beginning of this semester “1,700 law students plus facul- due to the dining hall’s small ty” at the law school, while the A sign outside the Law School dining hall explains the restrictions on undergraduates. space and limited seating. The dining hall only has approxi- graduate students, but Deliso [at the law school],” said Deliso. “We never intended to restrict sign outside the dining hall mately 125 to 150 seats. Out of and Ferrari think it has worried Both Deliso and Ferrari said those students,” said Ferrari. reads “Because of limited ca- all 1,700 students, Deliso said work study students. “When that if an undergraduate with a The large amount of un- pacity, the dining facilities at only three used a RamCard. The [the restrictions] changed here, work study in the law school dergrads eating in the din Sargent Hall are available only limitations on the Ram Card I think it confused the under- wanted to use the dining halls, to Law School Personnel, Law is what began to drive under- graduate work study students they could eat there anytime. see LAW SCHOOL page 4 the nside SGA Leadership Awards reformatted, ournal disagreements rage among committee News Jeff Fish The nomination process the only one with the pass- Chair of the Student Judicial "Students commit themselves Journal Staff has also changed, leaving each word to the spreadsheet, is Review Board (SJRB), Nick to service over Spring Break" club to vote on the top five up for two awards—Unsung DiZoglio, decided not to take pg. 2 The format of this year’s SGA nominees in each area on a bal- Hero and Senior of the Year. up the case because there was Leadership Award ceremony lot, instead of previous years “The biggest issue that I no proof of any wrongdoing. will be a departure from previ- where club leaders that got have with the awards is mak- “Whatever people were Opinion ous years and with those chang- together to discuss and then ing sure that the integrity re- saying, I just didn’t see any hard "FCC ruling strikes against es there has been dissent among vote on every nominee, a te- mains,” said junior SGA sena- evidence,” said SGA President free speech" pg. 6 the ranks of the newly formed dious process that took hours, tor Christina Scopa, who Brian LeFort, 2010. “It’s one Leadership Awards Committee. according to Pangiatakos. resigned from the committee. thing to accuse people of some- Arts & “We’re making a lot of An awards committee was “I feel that the integrity [of the thing. It’s another to show me.” changes this year,” said SGA formed for the first time to help awards] has been lost and that “I don’t know [what hap- Entertainment secretary, Christina Pangi- Pangiatakos with the new pro- we have veered away from pened to the Google docu- "Suffolk: 24 atakos, 2010. “[The Leader- cess, but after a Google docu- the true purpose of the leader- ment], which is very frustrat- frames-per-second" pg. 11 ship Awards ceremony] has ment with a spreadsheet of ship awards, which is to rec- ing to me,” said Pangiatakos, been the same for the past the nominees went missing for ognize those students who are who had backed up the docu- 26 years. We’re changing the three days, three members of the truly deserving of the awards ment before it was lost, and Sports presentation to be more like committee became suspicious they were nominated for.” was able to prove that when "A leader throughout his Suf- an award show,” instead of a that the spreadsheet was tam- Although a complaint the document was found, folk career" pg. 16 ceremony where presenters pered with, so they resigned. was filed against Pangiata- read strictly from the script. Pangiatakos, who was kos, SGA Vice President and see AWARDS page 4 PAGE 2 April 7, 2010 Students commit themselves news to service over Spring Break Shoshana Akins dents got to help first hand in on the trails and would ask us Journal Staff rebuilding these people’s lives who we were and what we were and got a different perspective doing,” said Alvarado. “All we Most students’ grand- on how the current state of the were doing was pulling weeds est spring break achievement economy has effected others. and they were so thankful and BRIEFS during their seven precious “This trip was very suc- appreciative of what we were days free from college life is cessful,” said Brito. “We usu- doing. I didn’t realize how much developing a tan that will car- ally do trips with Habitat work goes into these parks POLICE BLOTTER ry them through the trudges for Humanity and the stu- and how important they are.” of finals week. For a small dents always really enjoy it.” The fourth trip to Detroit, group of Suffolk students, In Meridian, Miss., stu- Mich. was of a whole other they hoped to achieve some- dents also worked with Habitat breed and initiative. Instead of thing that they will carry with for Humanity building houses volunteering their labor, stu- Tuesday, March 30 them for the rest of their lives. but in a very different environ- dents traveled to the mid-west And no, its not finally learning ment, far from the epicenter of to help out LGBT out-reach 5:52 p.m. how to craft a mean mojito… Hurricane Katrina. Since 2005, organizations to develop com- 10 West St. These students participated the area has been overrun by munity aid for this commonly Water leaks on floors six and eight. Report in S.O.U.L.S annual Alternative victims looking to be far from abused demographic. Helping Spring Break, getting the oppor- the coast, causing a strain on the secure LGBT-friendly doctors filed. tunity to travel across the coun- town’s resources and amount and compiling a victims ser- try and volunteer for a group of free space. According to Paul vices database, the students Wednesday, March 31 in need, all expenses paid. This Weisser, Suffolk junior and at- got to see into a whole other year was the greatest num- tendee of the Mississippi Alter- world they had never experi- 5:00 p.m. ber of locations offered by the native Spring Break trip, whole enced, and not necessarily one 150 Tremont St. community service office with families have been living out of they were comfortable with. trips going to Colorado, Missis- trailers and in hotels with only “Detroit is the poorest Water leak at 150 Tremont Street. Report filed. sippi, California and Michigan. the belongings they fled their city I have ever seen,” said se- “We have been doing this homes with. While building the nior and group leader of the 10:18 p.m. for over ten years but it has homes for these families, the Michigan trip, Nick McKenna. 10 Somerset St. really taken off recently,” said group got to meet and interact “It’s life or death there. When Student infraction at 10 Somerset St. Report Community Service Scholar with the people they were help- the car first pulled through filed. and Suffolk senior, Allison ing, putting real purpose and the town, everyone went si- Brito. “It’s for students who are meaning into their accomplish- lent. It was like culture shock.” interested in doing something ments, according to Weisser. But the students found in- Thursday, April 1 greater with their spring break “People were getting out spiration in the organizations than just partying for a week.” of the Gulf area with virtually they worked with and the peo- After applying, be- nothing,” said Weisser. “It was ple they were helping, seeing 5:10 p.m. ing interviewed, and go- really eye-opening. I have re- the positives in each strong- Donahue Building ing to weekly meetings, stu- alized how thankful I should hold they developed and be- Report of threats made against a guest of a stu- dents get the opportunity to be that I go to college, live in coming inspired to help more.” dent.