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Suffolk University Digital Collections @ Suffolk Suffolk Journal Suffolk University Student Newspapers 2004 Newspaper- Suffolk Journal Vol. 64, No. 13, 1/21/2004 Suffolk Journal Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.suffolk.edu/journal Recommended Citation Suffolk Journal, "Newspaper- Suffolk Journal Vol. 64, No. 13, 1/21/2004" (2004). Suffolk Journal. 391. https://dc.suffolk.edu/journal/391 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]. Suffolk University • Boston, Massachusetts \/olume 64, Number 13 www.suffolkjournal.net Wednesday, January 21, 2004 Treasurer resigns Ridgeway awash after flood SGA Rep. Wlotenko likely successor Journal Staff Adam D. Krauss Journal Staff It was a damp start to Suffolk’s new year. Fractured Allan M otenko, representative pipes in the Ridgeway building for the class of 2006, has been sent water mshing through preparing a speech that he hopes areas of campus, drenching will convince his peers to elect parts of the school’s gym and him as the next treasurer of the bookstore. Student Government Association. Between Jan. 1 and 2, a Motenko is the only person “pipe let go” in the ceiling of running for the position - a result the fitness center on the second of last month’s resignation of Sean floorof theRidgeway building, Duggan, whoheld the position for according to Goach Jim Nelson, less than one year. athletics director. It caused Behind the scenes different Gillian Reagan - Journal Staff flooding in the hallways and versions of why Duggan.resigned Allan Motenko “cascaded ” into the bookstore are beginningto surface. resentative for the class of 2005, before continuing down into “The way it was handled was said under his reign as treasurer all the gym where it “cupped sev not, ‘Oh, Sean wanted to leave.’ It of the finance committee’s meet eral sections of the floor,” was more of pushing me to leave,” ings were open to students, except Nelson said. Duggan said earlier this week, for two that dealt specifically with As a result, a floor refinish reflecting on how he and certain issues affecting only SGA mem ing company sanded out the members of the SGA executive bers. damaged parts of the floor. board had conflictive views President Dave Rodrigues Nelson said at the end of the regarding the student body. “I seemed somewhat surprised when basketball season or after final think there were points where my told of Duggan’s comments. exams the entire gym floor will role was questioned. My role as “Any use of student activity fees be replaced. The fitness cen treasurer wasn’t respected. It was through the SGA is public knowl ter’s mbber flooring needs to be clear they didn’t want me on the edge,” he said. He said he com “washed and sanitized,” Nelson executive board any more.” pletely agreed that students should said. Duggans aid a k eyr eason f or have access to information that At this point. Nelson said, his resignation centered on the deals with the disbursement of the cost of repairs has not been limited amount of information their money. “It’s theirs as much determined. SGA provides to the student body. as ours,” he said. Eric Cressman, manager at “I was in favor of..having all “If one person comes up to me the libr^, said “truckloads” of finances discussed because it’s and says I want to see the budget, books, more than 500, were everybody’s money,” he said. “I I’ll show you the budget,” said damaged and left stains-on parts felt (students) deserved to know. Rodrigues, who is in his first year of the stores’ carpet and areas of Gillian Reagan -Journal Staff The executive board was not in as president. the ceiling drooping with satu Students perused the Suffolk bookstore’s aisles on Jan. 20. favor of everything beingpublic. ” But that assurance went ration. More than 500 books were damaged during the flood. Duggan, who remains the rep- see Treasurer, page 3 Mice scurry into new dorm Activist week ahead Diana Rossi buildingdoes not come as a shock, of you than you are of them,” the Jenn O’Callaghan have more training sessions in the Journal Staff in dealing with a dormitory those memorandum informedstudents. Journal Staff future. lines of commonality become a lit The fact that Residence Life is There will be a roundtable dis The residents of the new 10 tle less definite. clearly in the process of taking Students for Peace and Justice cussion entitled “Iraq: One Year Somerset St. residence hall have On more than one occasion, steps to eradicate the mice issue, are preparing for a litany of events Later” on Feb. 2, co-sponsoredby been hearing the pitter-patter of lit mice were spotted in the dorm like placing sticky pads around the that will be part of the first the Islamic Cultural Society. tle feet. cafeteria, according to residents. building to catch the mice, is com Progressive Week to ever be Reverend Amy Fisher, student No, not those little feet. Think Although the mice were found and forting to some, but to others it is launched at Suffolk, currently activities advisor for the Islamic smaller. removed, rodents of any kind in a seen as a process that shouldhave scheduled from Febraary 2-6. Cultural Society, said that the Mice have moved into the place where foodis consumed can been enacted much earlier. The week focuses on issues society is looking forward to the building. During early November never be too sanitary, some stu Mat Rodriguez was told that like race relations and global event to engage students in more 2003, complaints were made by dents may suspect. even though there had been other, oppression. There will be an dialogue about Iraq. multiple students who either had On Jan. 18, the Residence Life complaints, “nothing could really event and movie each day of the OnFeb. 6 there will be a vegan mice in their rooms or had seen department at 10 Somerset St. sent be done only because pesticides week. On Feb. 3 there will be an lunch in Donahue 403. Savannah them around the building. a memorandum to each of the would kill them and if they got in anti-racism training session that Swentik of SPJ said that the lunch Mat Rodriguez, a resident on rooms explaining the situation. In to the walls, they would begin to will include a discussion about would provide an opportunity to the 18th floor, noticed hehad a lit the memorandum from Assistant stink.” Since the residents would how racism can be overcome. raise awareness and “see how peo tle visitor. Director of Residence Life and probably not enjoylivii)g amongst The anti-oppression session will ple eat with no meat.” He was less than thrilled. “I Summer Programs Sharmon the stench of decaying mice in the be held on Feb. 4. It will focus on “Bowling for Columbine” and was rather disgusted,” he said. “I Wemer, students were informed walls, exterminating became a gender issues, particularlysexism. “Roger and Me,” both highly pop know this is a new building and that Residence Life is “aware of debatable subject. Rob L aurent, the g roup's 1 ead ular and influential films by not every place can be perfect, but the problem and are doing our best With Residence Life doing organizer, said that a major goal of Michael Moore, are among the I do have certain expectations for a to get rid of them.” everything theycan to try and rec the events is to “open the conver documentaries that have been dorm, especially when the com The memorandum also offers tify the mice situation at 10 sation” about these issues and chosen for ProgressiveWeek. plaint had been made by many suggestions as to how students Somerset St., residents may be bring them to a “personal level.” Another major event during others and yet it took them two may h elp p revent them ice p rob- able to sleep a little better without While the training sessions will ProgressiveWeek will be a forum months to take some serious lem. the paranoia that they might not be provide a basic introduction to on Feb. 5 entitled “US Foreign action.” “The mice we have seen are the only ones enjoying the haven discussing race and oppression,Policy: Who is the Real Enemy?” As much as mice in a Boston very tiny, and they are more scared of their rooms. 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