Justice Served Law Students Use DNA to Disprove Guilt
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Suffolk University Digital Collections @ Suffolk Suffolk Journal Suffolk University Student Newspapers 2005 Newspaper- Suffolk Journal Vol. 66, No. 3, 9/28/2005 Suffolk Journal Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.suffolk.edu/journal Recommended Citation Suffolk Journal, "Newspaper- Suffolk Journal Vol. 66, No. 3, 9/28/2005" (2005). Suffolk Journal. 427. https://dc.suffolk.edu/journal/427 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Suffolk University Student Newspapers at Digital Collections @ Suffolk. It has been accepted for inclusion in Suffolk Journal by an authorized administrator of Digital Collections @ Suffolk. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Volume 66, Number 3 www.suffolkjournal.net Wednesday, September 28, 2005 Justice served Law students use DNA to disprove guilt Alyssa Falconer law students, and community Journal Staff leaders," says Raphael. Raphael stated that part of the On September 22, Attorney problem of wrongful convictions Neil Raphael held a diseussion at could be attributed to "an Suffolk Law School titled admirable, yet fallible criminal "Exonerations through DNA:: justice system". Sometimes eye Freeing the Innocent from Death witnesses may identify the wrong Row" as part of the New England suspect, or thereare "prosecutorial Innocence Project. misconduct and unreliable evi According to NEIP, their mis dence". Other times, those sionis to "identify, investigate and accused may admit to committing exonerate wrongfully convicted a crime in order to "avoid more individuals who are currently stress". Raphael also pointed out incarcerated in New England.” that fellow inmates might make Joseph F. Savage, Jr., Stanley false claims against another Fisher, Daniel Givelber, and inmate with the hopes that their David Siegal founded the New own sentence will be reduced for England Innocence Project in helping the police. 2000 . The New England Innocence According to theofficial NEIP Project receives cases through website the New England family members of inmates and Innocence Project is coordinated even inmates themselves. They by Goodwin Procter LLP and co also get "case files from Cardozo sponsored by the Massachusetts [School of Law] or other regional Association of Criminal Defense projects." Next, a case review Lawyers. committee comprised of "attor However, a large number of neys, professors, and NEIP team people involved with NEIP consist [members]" reviews the case and of volunteers, who are "a groupof Men In short shorts, hard hats, and feathers! Read all about karaoke night’s crowd pleaser on page concerned lawyers, academics. see INNOCENCE, page 2 2. Get smarts; honors at SU Chris DeFillippi their credit requirements being in much of students for $500, when Journal Staff an honors course, study-abroad other students are getting over experience or for-credit internship. $15,000, you have to ask yourself Of the roughly 1,100 under "We continually look for ways 'is this equitable.'" Lerman works graduates that entered Suffolk as to improve the composition of the on the Griffin Oversight freshmen this semester, 18 will be entering class," Director of Committee and will be one of the attending Suffolkas members of a Admissions John Hamel said via administrators responsible for new honors program for the e-mail. "This includes looking for designing the new honors program College of Arts and Sciences new ways to demonstrate to aca for the SawyerSchool. (CAS). demically gifted students that we The CAS honors program will _ Students enrolled in the pro have programs in place that they admit non-entering students if they gram receive a full-scholarship,will find challenging while they maintain a 3.5 GPA or greaterand priority class registration and a are with us. These programs help if admitted students leave the pro guarantee of housing fortheir first to provide other prospective stu gram. two years at Suffolk. The Sawyer dents with visible evidence that we However, the honors program School of Management has are committed to an excellent is geared mostly towards freshmen watched the results,and a commit experience for our undergraduate and Lerman expressed concern tee is already planning to start its students." about rewarding students before own version of the program for The closest thing to an honors their college performance has been business students entering in the programSuffolk hasoffered inthe tested. fall of 2006. past has been the Archer Fellows "Having a high GPA in high "We had, for many years, some program for the College of Arts school doesn't translate into hav really highly qualified students and Sciences and the Griffin ing a high GPA in college," who had come to Suffolk and we Scholars program for the Sawyer Lermansaid. "Students have come felt that they were not always as School of Management. in conditionally [preemptive aca challenged as they could be when Bothprograms requirethat stu demic probation for applicants theygot here," said Director of the dents take at least 15 credits worth with low test scores and GPA's] Undergraduate Honors Program of of honors courses, and maintain at and graduated cum laude. And CAS Agnes Bain. "There was con least a 3.3 and a 3.0 overall GPA, between youand me, we've admit cern over not only getting those for Sawyer and CAS students ted students into our honors pro students but retaining those stu respectively. These programs offer grams that've had a great record dents." the students $500 a semester in and they weren't ready to go to In addition to full-scholarships scholarship, as opposed to a full- college." and housing, the program hopesto tuition scholarship. Despite concerns, Lerman saw attract and retain students by offer "It's fairness," said Assistant the new CAS honorsprogram as a Photo courtesy of Alex Kelly ing more challenging coursework, Dean ofUndergraduate Programs positive development, and is ready Students cast their vote for SGA Senators at the HUB. with about one out of every five of Myra Lerman. "If you're asking so see HONORS, page 2 The SuffolkJournal Wednesday, September 28, 2005 Meal plan: a sausage fest Will Arsenault Suffolk, previously dealt with an to sleep in, but don't have time for Journal Contributor outside vendor, and they set up a a late breakfast. Breakfast will contract that allowed students to nowbe served at the Sausage guy, For years David Littlefield has use their school debit accounts to starting at seven a.m. when they supplied Bostonians with some of pay for food. The vendor lost open. For those students who feel the tastiest sausages and hot dogs money by continuing with the the need for a change in Sodexho available. Beginning in 1992 as a contract rather than making aprof routine, the Sausage Guy offers small, movable cart in Fenway, the it and it was discontinued. multiple kinds of sausages and hot Sausage Guy has gained tremen However there's speculation that dogs perfect for any style. Not in dous popularity throughout the Littlefield is interested in pursuing the mood for sausage? No prob years, by supplying Red Sox fans a similar process. Fuller wasn't lem. with some of the best hot dogs and exactly sure "where it stands at The Sausage Guy specializesin grilled food money could buy. this point" but stated "they're various kinds of grilled foods that 1 C The Sausage Guy gained so much exploring it as an opportunity, include hamburgers, French fries, m to,*- ^ momentum that the business was David is interested in moving for stir fries and of course the award H'lPw j-r-' r-h' able to expand to a permanent ward with this." winning "chosen one" rated as , -1 -___ y t ? location, and also keep the lucra Barett Dziok, a student here at Boston's best hot dog. tive cart in Fenway. Suffolk majoring in 'management, An employee of the Sausage R This cozy restaurant, located has been working at the Sausage Guy stated that although they on Cambridge Street near the Guy for three weeks and loves his aren't currently hiring, new faces ' Photo courtesy of Kevin Du Donahue building, has become a job. "It's close to school and [it] are welcome. There's been a big common dining place for Suffolk pays pretty good," said Dziok. need for Sausage girls, he said. Sausage Guy on Cambridge Street discusses possible usage of and Emerson students aUke. There Another staff member of the Carla Earlson is one female Ram cards at eatery. is now the possibility that, in the restaurant estimates that 30% of employee at the Sausage Guy and future, Suffolk students may be the customers are in fact Suffolk she says she is enjoying her expe able to pay for their meals with students. rience. She has been working at RAM accounts. The Sausage Guy will have the Sausage Guy for two weeks,as Honors Program Tom Fuller, General Manager new features available, especially well as attends Quincy College for of Sodexho catering services at for those of you students who like nursing. HONORS from page 1 130 entering students who apphed for it, 50 were chosen, and 18 ulti to work on a similar program for mately attended. For CAS, the Sawyer. program will only have 80 honors "We certainly will follow in students attending at any given Say what: karaoke their successful footsteps," said time. Lerman. "We want to try it for a "It is important tonote that [the Students dance, singand show talent in cafe competition year, and just make sure we don't honors program] does not com fv. create an elite within the honors promise our commitment of program." access to education for the major Mike Walsh concert. A particular audience colorfulor skillful in their acts. Bain said it was reasonable to ity of students interested in contin Journal Contributor favorite was Jeremy Shepard's One of the night's most cre expect the honors students to fit in.