Flood Damages Dorm, Ruin Costs $150000

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Suffolk University • Boston, Massachusetts Volume 62, Number 6 www.suffolkjournal.net Wednesday, January 22, 2003 Flood damages dorm, ruin costs $150,000 Gillian Reagan find a waist-high pool of brown, Journal Staif dirty water in the basement and “It was like a rapid. sub-basement of thedorm. “It was Director of Residence Life and It was crazy.” a mess. (There was) a pretty good Summer Programs Maureen layer of dirt and mud on the rec. Owen Wark stepped out of the Maureen Owen Wark room floor,” shesaid. Park Street MBTA station at 12:07 Director of Residence Life The computer lab, laundry p.m. on New Year’s Eve to find and Summer Programs room. Residence Life thousands of gallons of water bar Management Information Systems reling down Tremont Street. “It office were all flooded. Due to a was like a rapid. It was crazy,” she loss of electricity, phone lines and said. on Boston Common as gallons of a fire alarm system, the Boston Minutes earlier, a 16-inch water spewed through the grates Fire Department evacuated the water pipe burst at the comer of and into an NSTAR electric trans building. Owen Wark, her husband Park and Tremont Streets. Torrents former vault in the residence hall and Suffolk University policeoffi of water mmbled into the MBTA basement. She was unable to wade cers were the only staff members Park Street station and into city through two feet of water to cross in the building. No one was hurt. drains, one of which was right in the street. Once the water sub One week and $150,000 worth of Mike Ross - Journal Staff front of the 150 TremontSt. dorm. sided, Owen Wark was finally able (Left to right) Liz Kazdan, Amanda Duiski and Coilette Ricard did Owen Wark powerlessly stood to enter the building at 1:30 p.m. to see Flood, page 3 their iaundry in the 150 TremontSt. residence hall yesterday. SGA may boycott next trustee mtg. Matt Wilder to be changed,” Powers said. Journal Staff Freshman Class Representative Allan Motenko suggested getting Student Governmenta student representative on the Association President Sean board of trustees. “I think we Powers called an emergency SGA should go all the way to get a stu conference to discuss possibly dent (representative) on the board boycotting the upcoming boardof of trustees,” Motenko said. trustees student affairs committee SGA Treasurer Kim Duca said meeting. The conference, sched she has observed these meetings uled for Thursday afternoon, will more than once. “I’ve been attend likely be held under executiveses ing these for three years and they sion, which gives SGA the power are alwaysthe same,” Duca said. to hold themeeting behind closed Sophomore Class President, Mike Ross -Journal Staff doors. Langdon Walper suggested that The emergency meeting was the discussion be postponed and Associate Superior Court Justice Juiian T. Houston (left) and the first biack Suffolk County sheriff, called after SGA Vice President moved to a closed-door session, Andrea Cabrai, spoke at the opening ceremony for “The Long Road to Justice ” exhibit. Dave Rodrigues expressed con where the position of SGA as a cern that student leaders were not whole could be determined. given the respect they deserveat a Walper cited concerns of the dis Cultural court history on display Student Affairs Committee meet cussion being printed in the ing last semester. “I felt talked Suffolk Journal. “We look basical GillianReagan tinue to help minorities or whether down to,” Rodrigues said to the ly like retards, sitting there as they Journal Staff they represent reverse discrimina general assembly meeting yester make fun of us, likelittle monkeys “It is intended for you, it tion. “We travel this long road day. Rodrigues suggested the they can play around with all day,” “The Long Road to Justice” is is intendedfor all of us to constantly under construction.” board “sit-ouf ’ of a similar meet Walper said. It is unclear if Walper paved with sacrifice and straggle. leam more about what it The road laid in “The Long ing on Feb. 4. Rodrigues said was referring to the committee in It claimed lives and changed was like to be a black Road to Justice” exhibit winds SGA representatives told board of question, or a similar one regard minds. Photographs, courtrecords person in a Massachusetts through the colonial period and trustee members things they had ing academic matters, also made and artifacts from the past 300 court room.” through to the present day. worked on this past semester, up of trustee members. “Treat us years highlight the efforts in “The Assembled by the Justice George there was no discussion, questions like students and members or the Long Road toJustice: The Afiican Julian T. Houston Lewis Ruffin Society, the exhibit or reactions. Suffolk community, not puppets,” American Experience in the Associate Superior Court focuses on how the Massachusetts The Student Affairs Committee Matenko said. Massachusetts Courts” exhibit at Justice and Project Curator courts handled the issue of slaves listens to executive Suffolk club President David J. Sargent Suffolk Law School’s Adams and slavery; how black Americans members every semester. Suffolk seemed speechless over the phone Gallery in David J. Sargent Hall. have straggled to gain equal University President David J. yesterdayafternoon. “I’ m at a loss At the opening ceremony held opportunities through the courts Sargentsaid it helps the board get for understanding,” Sargent said. Jan. 16, Associate Superior Court Cabral, a 1986 graduate of Suffolk and how black Americans’ partici a sense of studentlife. “The students haven’t brought Justice and Project Curator Julian Law School, was the keynote pation in the court systemas attor After yesterdays meeting, SGA anything to our attention that T. Houston said the exhibit high speaker at the openingevent. neys, judges, litigants and jurors Secretary Becky Harlow said she required a diseussion, that wasn’t lights the “overlooked” and “I wondered why is the road has evolvedover the centuries. apologized to the board because held,” he said. Responding to alle “ignored” contributions black still so long ... where is the on- The exhibit highlights segrega she was leaving themeeting early gations that smdents were disre Americans have made to the ramp where we are permanently tion cases, two of which are con for a Suffolk team tennis match spected at meetings, Sargent said, Massachusetts courts. on the main road,” Cabral said. sidered by many to be cases that she had scheduled. According to “I am not aware that any student “It is intended for you, it is She cited examples of racial issues stopped racial segreation in the Harlow, trustee member Bob has been spoken down to and I intended for all of us, to leam currently facing America, such as Boston School system. Croce commented that he wished can’t imagine anyone’s perception more about what it was like to be a the Supreme Court case in which In 1972 a group of black par he were playing tennis as well. of that.” Sargent said he would black person in a Massachusetts judges will have to decide whether ents from Dorchester filed a class- “I don’t think we should stop address the issue at the upcoming court room,” Houstonsaid. affirmative action programs in the meeting with the board of trustees. trustee’s meeting if he feels it nec Suffolk County Sheriff Andrea nation’s universities should con see Exhibit, page 2 The way we meet with them needs essary. The Suffolk Journal Wednesday, January 22, 2003 oo Artis-Jackson resigns Adam D. Krauss tions of a demandingoffice. ” career at Suffolk, the university Journal Staff “She considers this a blessing,” became distinctly more welcom Briefs said Steven Jean, president of the ing to students and employees Dr. Sharon Artis-Jackson Black Student Union. He from diverse backgrounds.” resigned from her position as expressed confusion over Suffolk He noted the grovrth of the assistant to the president and direc letting someone like Artis-Jackson African American, Hispanic, ‘Othello’ a finalist In theater festival tor of the Multicultural Affairs “go so easily. I think they could Asian and Native American popu The Suffolk Theatre department’s performance of William office in early December, effec have pushed something to keep lation and said “gay, lesbian, Shakespeare's "Othello,” directed by Richard McElvain, was nomi tively ending a Suffolk career that her to stay.” bisexual and transgender members nated as a finalist in the Kennedy Center American College Theater played a critical role in diversify “We certainly knew Sharon of Suffolk gained visibility and Festival production competition, the most prestigious college theater ing the student body and commu was looking to leave Suffolk,” said support.” competition in New England. nity. Wilma Arguiozoni, associate “Sharon is an innovator,” Jean The passionate love story of “Othello,” which was performed in Artis-Jackson said she didn’t director of the Multicultural said. “She increased the comfort the Suffolk’s studio theater at the end of November, was chosen to have time for an interview.

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