Rainbow Alliance Responds to “Hate Crime”

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Suffolk University • Boston, Massachusetts ' Volume 62, Number 7 www.suffolkjournal.net Wednesday, January 29, 2003 Rainbow Alliance responds to “hate crime” Gillian Reagan because he thought it was insult a chain. take the power from it.” Journal Staff ing. “It’s very ignorant in a college Rainbow Alliance President Hamm said he filed a police setting where tolerance is sup Jeff Taylor said the group acted report with Suffolk Police Officer Freshman Jack Hamm stepped posed to be preached at the highest % immediatelyafter seeing students’ Maureen Brown yesterday morn out of the men’s locker room level,” Hamm said. “It’s rather dis i responses during a committee ing. Though the report was still Monday morning and stopped in gusting ... I’m here for an educa meeting yesterday. “We want to unprocessed. Police Chief John his tracks after seeing a swastika tion, not to see hate crimes.” AGENDA say that hate is not tolerated by any Pagliarulo said the department will I'unkj' activities planned! symbol drawn on a poster. Hamm Hamm brought the poster to the of the students at Suffolk conduct a full investigation. But he Social events! A looked closer and saw a Rainbow Rainbow Alliance office on the Dinner after! A University since we are a socially said imless a student comes for Alliance poster vandalized with fourth floor of the Donahuebuild diversegroup, ” he said. ward that saw the vandal, it’s diffi the words “kill homos” and the ing. Hamm said he brought the When: 1/21/03 Hamm handed the poster to cult to collect evidence to find a- symbol that was adopted by poster to the group to “get it out Time: 4:00pm r Lyndsay Agans, graduate fellow suspect. “Thoseare cowardly peo German fiihrer Adolf Hitler to rep there so people can do something Where: Donahue 535 for the Women’s Program ple and they’re tough to catch,” resent the Nazi movement. about it.” SE THEflE OR B£ QUEER? Initiative. She attended the Pagliarulo said. “Anybody The flyer was posted on a bul Rainbow Alliance will be spon Rainbow Alliance meeting held could’ve walked by.” letin board on the Ridgeway sec soring a rally and forum against Thursday and helped organize the Dean of Students Nancy C. ond floor to advertise a Rainbow hate crimes on Feb. 4. They will rally. Stoll said the public has “easy Alliance meeting held last week. also have tables in the Donahue This is a copy of the vandaiized Agans saidit was “hate materi access to our space, which makes The Rainbow Alliance’s mission is and Sawyer lobbies on Jan. 30 and poster found Monday. al” and it was important for the it all themore challengingto actu to create an atmosphere aware of Feb. 4 with hate crime information group to respond to the incident. ally control.” Stoll said she was gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans and a “unity chain.” The “unity write messages of support on the “When we respond to it, we give “saddened” to hear of the vandal- sexual issueson campus. chain” will be made out of tom up strips of paper and they will be sta credence to it,” she said. “But it’s see Poster, page 3 Hamm tore the poster down copies of the poster. Students can pled then linkedtogether to create important to make it oiu own and Radio manager resigns Gillian Reagan Maggie Teal and Program down and smoothed out their per ^ Journal Staff Manager Damien Ricci would sonal problems. have to be removed from the “I’m not the kind of person to Suffolk Free Radio’s general board. She spoke with the station’s get rid of people just because I manager resigned on Jan. 20 after advisor. Associate Director of don’t like them,” Colametasaid. working for three years at the sta Student Activities Dan McHugh. Nguyen said the station was tion. Michele Colameta, the sta Colameta said she told McHugh unorganized during Colameta’s tion’s general managersince April “if theydon ’t go, I go.” management. “Things weren’t 2002, said she decided to leave When McHugh and board consistent,” he said. because she felt that the executive members didn’t support her deci According to McHugh, board board and her advisor were against sion, Colameta decided to leave members weren’t being “held her views on how to run the sta the station. accountable” for their duties. tion. “I wanted to work through it,” Teal and Nguyen declined to “I wasn’t going fightto a battle Colameta said. “But it’s my last comment further on the conflicts that I clearly y/asn’t going to win three semesters and it’s not worth between Colameta and other exec against an advisor and an eight- it.” utive board members. member e-board that was con According to McHugh, Nguyen said he regrets that stantly against me,” Colameta Colameta and other executive Colameta felt the need to leave the said. board members “couldn’t get past station. “It didn’t have to come to Colameta said radio board their personal conflicts.” that,”he said. members were not fulfilling their Teal and Business Manager McHugh said the media selec responsibilities and they had con John Nguyen said they both tion committee will have to meet flicting views about how to run the agreed that it was personal prob to decide how to replace station. When Colameta returned lems that probably caused Colameta. The selection commit Mike Ross - Journal Staff from winter break, she decided Colameta to leave the station, but tee, comprised of the director of student activities, student organi- Disc Jockey Linda Rey piays iatin beats during her Monday night that she had to remove the “bad felt that problems could’ve been resolved if the board members sat radio show. Suffolk Radio DJs should not be affected by general seeds.” She said Program Director see Radio, page 3 manager’s resignation, according to executive board members. SGA to investigate student, administration relations any meetings,” said Freshman Class between studentsand administration. trustees. Matt Wilder Representative Allan Motenko. Motenko SGA Program Advisor and Director of According to a description of the com Journal Staff said the meetings are“a chance to have diaStudent Activities Aurelio Valente said an mittee obtainedby The Suffolk Journal, the logue”with the trustees. issue of this magnitude should never be committee is being formed “to address the A temporary committee to focus on stu SGA Vice President Dave Rodrigues, brought up for the first time at a public lack of communication and examine the dent and administration relations was who originally brought the issue tothe gen meeting such as the weekly SGA meeting. relationsbetween students and the adminis formed in a Student Government eral assembly last week, agreed that perhaps “You are asked to make decisions without tration. Charged with developing recom Association emergency meeting held Jan. a boycott was not in anyone’s best interest. information,” Valente said. Furthermore mendations to improve those relations.” The 23. This decision was made on the heels of “We are here representing 3,000 students,” Valente was skeptical of the way SGA was committee will render its findings to the speculations that SGA was planningto boy Rodrigues said. trying to resolve the situation. “I don’t think general board by Feb. 4. cott the upcoming board of trustee student Rodrigues was adamant that something this particular meeting (board of trusteestu SGA President Sean Powers said there affairs committee meetings because some needs to be done. “There is a problem,” he dent affairs committee meeting) is a way to are no plans to boycott any meetings against students felt that they weren’t properly rep said, “It would be iiresponsible of us sitting get change,” Valente said. the board of trustees. “No directive was resented during trustee meetings. Thegroup here doing nothing knowing thereis a prob SGA voted unanimously, with five mem given (by the general board) otherwise, so decided that boycotting meetings was not lem,” Rodriguescontinued. bers abstaining, to create a temporary “ad- we will respond to the invitation,” he said. the way to dealwith the situation. SGA Secretary Becky Harlow agreed hoc” committeeto examine therelationship Powers saidhe hopes to meet with Dean of “I don’t think this board should boycottthat there was a lack of communicationbetween the student body and the board of Students Nancy C. Stoll to open a dialogue. The Suffolk Journal Wednesday, January 29, 2003 CO Frozen pipes pester Fenton Adam D. Krauss uncommon during frosty times said. Journal Staff that have been sweeping through “We had a little heat wave the northeast.“It has nothing to do going,” Delaney said. “We could Briefs In the wake of damages to the with the structural integrity of the shut down without worrying about 150 Tremont St. dorms, which building,”he said. freeze-ups.” cost Suffolk thousands of dollars Delaney said he thought Water drippedinto a new exam in damages, other locations on Suffolk’s buildings are in good room in Health Services because Students can claim money from lawsuits campus have been damaged due to shape and “in any mechanical sys of the leak.

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