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“When you mention innovative programsand communications and public policy,
Suffolk has to be on the list. That’s what my goal is.”
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Associate Professor of Political Philosophy and Director of the Ethics and Public Policy Graduate Program Nir Eisikovits detailed the terrifying yet interesting origins of the dangerous extremist collective ISIS on Thursday during, “Understanding ISIS: Inside the Terrorist State” as part of the Sawyer Library Speaker Series.
Beginning the conference, Eisikovits told the audience that he finds ISIS disturbing.
“So many parts of ISIS are shocking,” Eisikovits said. “How quickly they have grown, and the intentional calculated attacks are terrifying to know.”
The professor provided background information on ISIS, starting with its emergence in Iraq. The beginning of ISIS can be traced back to after Saddam Hussein’s fall from power in 2003. Led by Abu Bakr al-Baghadadi in Syria, ISIS has over 100,000 members, 20,000 of which are from other countries, including France and Russia. Despite their vitriolic actions, Eisikovits said, the leaders are able to recruit a large amount of followers due to their magnetic speeches.
“The leaders are very charismatic and show no signs of any mental illness,” Eisikovits said.
Suffolk University President Margaret McKenna is acting fast. In the wake of administrative turnover, building developments, and adjustments to streamline the university, McKenna’s student-centered mindset and decisions are coming into view.
In an interview with the Journal, McKenna spoke broadly of her vision for the university and recent decisions ranging from the reasons for the partial moratorium of new construction to the hunt for a new auditorium to replace the C. Walsh Theatre.
Initially an attorney who started her career in civil rights, McKenna’s resume speaks for itself as a proven educational leader and advocate of change. Former long-term president of Lesley University and more recently a visiting professor at Brandeis University and the acting director of the university’s Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy, McKenna vows she understands the importance of being an accessible figure on campus and believes president-student exchange is mutually beneficial.
“Any new presidency has its challenges, and you want to learn as much as you can about everything, and I’ve been doing that and getting out and talking to students, faculty, department chairs, and alumni,” said McKenna.
“You have to invite students to come in and be part of community, and you need to support them,” she continued.
However, Suffolk’s current transitional, unstable state, both financially and academically, does pose a significant risk as McKenna
undertakes an institution in the process of building up its reputation and its financial standing. Ending recent years with budget surpluses offset by big debt payments, a small endowment and declining enrolment, the school’s university’s fourth president in five years’ initial work has been basic damage control and ensuring the university doesn’t lose any more key assets.
Confident in her ability to tackle these initial hurdles and subsequently build on Suffolk’s history, it’s clear
McKenna’s work to redefine and ultimately capitalize on the university’s niche is the crux of the at-will president’s five-year commitment.
“I walked in here when there were a lot of things going on. We had just sold the Archer and Donahue buildings, so one of the first things I did was extend the lease until May, and that was on my second day,” said McKenna.
Student space has clearly been a hot topic for students, administration, faculty, and McKenna alike since the sale
of Archer and Donahue last spring. While the Suffolk community as a whole seems uneasy about Suffolk’s future, for McKenna, the challenge is more an opportunity.
“I was not happy with the original layout as they were when I came in, so I’m still working with people on how to improve the amount and quality of student space in particular,” said McKenna.
Some of that work, she
Nearly six months in, president discusses upcoming plans
McKenna aims for notoriety and student success
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News Briefs
"Pinktober” hurts more than it helps Law students free inmates
As the country celebrates October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Professor Susan Sered of the
sociology department voiced her concern over what is called “Pinktober.” The signature pink ribbon that
is branded everywhere during the month is more profiteering than awareness-raising, Sered said. “The
pink ribbon extravaganza, a month-long consumer fest that turns women’s suffering into cold hard cash makes the absence of a national commitment to identifying and eliminating the environmental causes of breast cancer seem that much worse,” she wrote. Sered condemns
glorifying the symbol of Breast Cancer Awareness, calling it an exploitation of women and a failure to actually
research the disease.
Using the Suffolk University Law School as its home since May, the New England Innocence Project has given law
students an opportunity to free innocent convicted prisoners. The project provides pro bono legal action to investigate and
acquit inmates who have been wrongly accused. Among those involved are students Nicole Fialle and Heather LaCount.
They worked to release an inmate of 14 years accused of rape after working with Professor Stephanie Hartung, who serves on the project’s board. Alumna Jessica Lee helped release an inmate on bail after reviewing the original murder case he was convicted for. Hartung’s hope is to give law students a
way to gain real-life legal experience.
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shared, begins with expanding space both in 73 Tremont’s library and the Sawyer Business School. While rumors have circulated on how Ridgeway will fall on the campus map, McKenna said she is in the process of figuring out how to utilize that space by potentially putting in a fitness center and taking out the bookstore.
“I want to be able to provide students all the resources possible so they can have that engagement in the community,” said McKenna. “Students who engage stay.”
Ultimately practicality is the most important point, and the university’s continuation of tough decisions moving forward may often be at odds with the former’s interest.
While placing this level of emphasis on improving student life is one of McKenna’s critical goals, she ultimately faces the need to be practical and to deal with tough decisions moving forward that may potentially be at odds with former interests.
In the interview, however, McKenna clung to her view that focusing on students is key.
“If you base your decisions on what is the best for students,
you will never go wrong. No matter what the decision, from curriculum to resources to buildings. If you listen to them, everything else falls into place,” she said.
One of these pressing decisions still lies in the future for Suffolk’s performing arts community. While McKenna has personally seen the positive impact of performing arts engagement in her two sons, both deeply involved in college arts, the reality is there has yet to be word of any significant development nearly six months since she was appointed. The university is slated to lose the C. Walsh Theatre, which McKenna calls “the heart of the university,” at the end of this academic year.
“We haven’t totally solved the problem yet, but we’re working on it and we will. There’s no question we will solve this problem. We will find ways using all of our resources to ensure our student groups will have places to build,” insisted McKenna.
McKenna has largely publicized in numerous interviews her mission to showcase Suffolk’s what she sees as Suffolk’s strengths.
“When you mention innovative programs and communications and public policy, Suffolk has to be on the list. That’s what my goal is. My
goal is we are known for 4 or 5 things we do better than our neighbors,” said McKenna.
Though McKenna promised in an interview with the Boston Globe in May to not close any schools at Suffolk, her current emphasis on building a university that gears both to applicants and students may put certain majors in jeopardy.
“We’re in a town with a lot of colleges and universities. So, if we have a program that isn’t as good as or better than our neighbors, should we be doing it? We need to look at quality and demand not just for classes but across the board,” said McKenna in an interview with the Journal.
In October, SBS voted a new Business Economics major into existence for BSBA as the first major that will cut across schools in this manner and could possibly be a reflection of McKenna’s way to work around integrating schools in lieu of major slashing.
“You can’t be all things to all people, otherwise you end up as nothing,” she said.
Hoping to keep the university tight-knit and embody what it actually means to have a student-focused institution, McKenna does appear to have significant insight on balancing access to explore intellectual curiosity with career-based majors.
“I think that it’s very important to be a place that provides business balance. We have a really solid liberal arts education and professional classes. The best way to prepare yourself for life is to prepare for a life of learning, and you do that with a strong
liberal arts education. You need to have philosophy, sociology, English, and history to give you the kind of base to be a lifelong learner,” said McKenna.
“We may prepare you for your first job and first career, but it’s the strong liberal arts that will prepare you for the
McKenna plans to offset the heavy reliance on student tuition by fundraising
and tapping into alumni.
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Suffolk professor Nir Eisikovits delves into the minds behind ISIS
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“ISIS wants to be feared. They want to be feared with massive punishment.”
Colin Barry/Journal Contributor
Professor Nir Eisikovits is considering writing a book on the inner workings of ISIS after teaching
a class on the radical group.
Eisikovits also affirmed that politics do not play any part in ISIS’s formation.
“This is not a political issue,” the professor said. “You can look back in history and see groups like this forming with no political affiliations.”
The group is made up of militant Sunni Muslims and former soldiers from Heussein’s reign. ISIS believes the Apocalypse for the whole human race should happen much sooner than what has been thought, which Eisikovits described as central to their political ideology.
“ISIS is one of the few Apocalyptic [radical] sects in the world,” Eisikovits said. “It is quite unusual.”
Abridging ISIS’s motives, Eisikovits noted, “ISIS wants to be feared. They want to be feared with massive punishment.” The group interprets a 7th-century Islamic scripture, although Eisikovits described the religious aspect of ISIS as a “perversion” of Islam,” as ISIS construes Islamic faith as fanaticism. The discussion described the ways ISIS has come to power through various attacks on Shiite Muslims and any non-Muslims. The group kills anyone they consider an enemy.
The professor detailed how the radical group has been able to sustain a consistent monetary revenue by selling
oil, as they control the majority of oil distribution from the Middle East.
“They make over $1.5 million a day from oil sales,” he said. “Taxes on the greater population also provide revenue.” Other methods, he said, include kidnappings, ransom, and stealing ancient artifacts and selling them.
ISIS also instills slavery upon the greater population. Through their own newspaper, Dabiq, ISIS claims that slavery, including sexual slavery, is required.
The slavery stipulation is highlighted in the Management of Savagery strategy, a system of instructions in which all of the followers of ISIS are commanded to commit slavery, cause anarchy, and make sure everyone can side with them. According to the strategy, no one is to remain neutral. It is published, in shocking detail, within Dabiq. Eisikovits said the extremists receive their weapons through various battles with their enemies and from the black market. He noted that the revenue from the oil sales helps them purchase the weapons.
With the knowledge he has obtained from teaching a class on ISIS, Eisikovits said he had no difficulty putting together the discussion. “The whole thing took me about a day,” he said. “I am actually considering writing a book about the subject,” he added with a smile.
Upcoming Sawyer Speaker Series
Latest Polling on the 2016 Presidential Race
Speaker: David Paleologos, director of Suffolk University Political Research Center
According to the Sawyer Library website, David Paleologos will be discussing his most recent polling on the presidential election with USA TODAY and the Boston Globe.
Before beginning his career in academia, Paleologos was one of the Bay State’s most sought-after pollsters and field operatives. A graduate of Tufts University, Paleologos is a member of the American Association of Public Opinion Researchers and the Northeast Political Consultants Association.
Monday, November 16, 12 p.m.Poetry Center, Sawyer Library 3rd Floor
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Global Gateway Madrid:New program offers freshmen worldly experience
Alexa GagoszInternational Editor
For some, the thought of studying abroad elicits excitement about going on a new journey. Yet, the cost of receiving an education overseas also presents students financial burdens, language barriers and other stresses as well.
For the Center for International Programs and Services and Study Abroad advisors, this year’s application process is an exciting time to introduce their new pilot program, Global Gateway Madrid.
The program was created for first-year students to get a taste of studying abroad while at Suffolk’s campus in Spain during their spring break and hopefully return to Boston and showcase what they learned.
“This unique opportunity will be an enriching academic experience, in which you will learn about the politics, business, and culture of this vibrant country,” according to Suffolk University.
Hillary Sabbagh, an international student and study abroad advisor in the center is excited to be a part of launching this new program.
“It’s a good opportunity for students who are unsure of
studying abroad because it will give them a taste of what to expect,” she said.
While in Spain, the students will be hosted by Suffolk’s Madrid campus and its faculty, where they will have access to resources to go in and ask any questions about the campus and culture. They will also be able to explore world-famous museums, medieval towns, and an array of company visits in the city.
Although the program’s complete content is not finalized yet, some of the activities may
include business visits to Banco Santander, the Real Madrid Soccer Stadium, a historic walking tour of downtown Madrid while exploring Plaza Mayor and Royal Palace, and taking day trips to places like Segovia, Toledo, or Salamanca.
“It’s an interactive program where students get an overview of the history, culture, art, economy, and politics of Spain,” said Sabbagh.
The program has been long-anticipated by Director Kathleen Sparaco, who wanted to give first-years an opportunity to
travel abroad. “It’s something that my
director has thought about for a while because we wanted to give this opportunity to freshmen of a global experience,” said Sabbagh.
For the cost of $450, students will be provided three meals a day, the round-trip flight, and housing in a hotel centralized in Madrid.
“We are hoping to give the students an opportunity, especially for those who wouldn’t necessarily have this opportunity.”
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“It’s something we hope to give all Suffolk freshmen at some point. And we didn’t want cost to be a factor so we were lucky that we got it to be subsidized,” she said.
Although the application process will be highly selective, the center encourages freshmen from all three schools to apply by its Friday, Oct. 23 deadline.
“We are looking for a mix of students, including those who are well travelled and those who have not left the country yet,” said Sabbagh.
Sabbagh explained that the application is mainly essay questions on the students background, information on traveling, their biggest accomplishments, and the opportunities they look forward to taking advantage of at Suffolk.
“We are asking students to put thought and effort into their application,” said Sabbagh.
Students who apply will hear if they have been accepted before Thanksgiving break during mid-November. The first group meeting will be during December and then pre-departure meetings start in January. Only 25 to 30 students will be selected.
Applications can be found at suffolk.edu/globalgateway and all questions and inquiries should be sent to [email protected].
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The $450 trip will include all expenses from meal round-trip airfare and housing in a hotel centralized in Madrid.
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Saturday, October 173:53 p.m.148 Cambridge StreetLarceny. Arrest.
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How does technology affect our lives? Tuesday’s Ford Hall Forum, “The Remote-Controlled Society,” explored this question, discussing copyright laws and how technology is taking control of almost every aspect of life.
Speakers inquired into how the advancement of technology poses many societal questions.
“We are surrounded by little computers that fit in our pockets and control our entire life,” said Leonid Reyzin, a computer science professor from Boston University. “Should they be trusted with that kind of responsibility? And more importantly, can we trust the companies that fabricate those devices?”
The panelists delved into how the copyright laws affect technological advances, information-sharing, and their effectiveness in the future.
Cory Doctorow, a science fiction writer and co-editor
of “Boing Boing,” a tech blog, mentioned the “original copyright sin” society committed during the first years of the Internet: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The act criminalized the theft of someone else’s copyrighted materials and production and distribution of technology that may be used in the process of stealing.
The DMCA also increased the penalties for copyright infringement. Though Doctorow is one of the supporters of free sharing of all digital media, he said that as an artist, he supports the DMCA in a selfish way.
Rebecca Curtin, assistant professor of law at Suffolk, introduced a legal perspective, discussing how the DMCA is ineffective due to its stiffness and how it gets in the way of healthy competition between companies. She referenced the Volkswagen scandal, in which the company’s cars had devices that fooled the diesel emission regulation test.
Curtin said that the laws provide some comfort to the customer but no protection whatsoever against this sort of
concern. Manufacturers build digital locks on their devices’ breaches, making it impossible to find their vulnerabilities. Breaking those locks, or trying to, would be infringing the DMCA.
Associate Professor of Information Systems at Suffolk, Benjamin K. Ngugi, said that artificial intelligence is a sure thing in our future and asked who would own the copyrights to that. If our own copyright law is not working now, he said, it will likely not work in the future.
“Whose interest is digital rights management solving? And who will save us from them?” he asked.
Doctorow explained that copyright laws are no longer exclusive to entertainment. He mentioned one can risk getting arrested simply for writing Harry Potter fan-fiction.
Doctorow left the audience with one final, overarching question.
“How do we create laws and regulations that satisfy the complexity needed for industrial copyright, but also are simple and flexible enough so that a child may understand
Technology experts on copyright and a computer-controlled society
Danielle Silva Journal Contributor
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L to R: Benjamin K. Ngugi, Cory Doctorow, Rebecca Curtin, and Leonid Reyzin.
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International Student Struggles:Balancing student visas and unemployment
Alexa GagoszInternational Editor
For some international students, they have to become experts at adapting to different places.
Marketing major Sam Scanlon is originally from Brisbane, Australia where he lived until he was five years old. After that, he jumped from England, Las Vegas, and then finally moved to Nassau, Providence, which is the capital of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. Scanlon told the Journal in an interview of his immediate perception of Boston and Suffolk.
“The general vibe of the people is very different. Even with so many people here, it seems like everyone knows everyone. If I bump into someone on the street, I probably have mutual friends with them on Facebook,” said Scanlon.
Nassau may hold the largest population in the Bahamas and have city life, but Scanlon was surprised by the difference of pace between Boston and home.
“It’s interesting. It runs a lot slower there,” said Scanlon. “The Bahamas, in general, is just a more relaxed atmosphere. But at the same time, it makes it hard to do business, get something done, or even figure out whether or not they have something at the grocery store.”
Scanlon explained that the general prices of goods in the Bahamas are comparable to those in Boston. Although, the goods are less reliable because of the relaxed atmosphere.
“They might have something one week and it’s gone the next,” said Scanlon. “In Boston,
for the most part, things are usually on time. You never wonder if they’re going to have milk that isn’t expired at the store like in Nassau.”
He shared he is happy he ended up in Boston, specifically at Suffolk, even though he originally applied to several other schools in the Greater Boston area.
“I really like it,” he explained. “The location, being downtown isn’t a complaint, so living in dorms my first two years was definitely a plus. And I met a lot of great friends.”
Over the summer, Scanlon had worked for his father’s business, which are a few of the Anytime Fitness’s in the Orlando area. But in Boston, it’s difficult to find work because of the student visa he has.
“What the student visa says is you can’t work, but you can work on campus,” he said. “But
the problem is that most of the campus jobs, from what I’ve seen, are federal work-study, of which I cannot have since it is a form of Federal Financial Aid, which non-U.S. citizens cannot have.”
“It’s not easy to get a job as an international student. It’s very complicated,” he said.
As Scanlon begins his sophomore year at Suffolk, he is beginning to think about internships, something that could also be very difficult to get, even though he knows he needs one before he graduates per his major.
“The only real disadvantage I have as an international student trying to get an internship is I can’t go out to a company and just apply to be an intern. Unless it’s an unpaid internship, I would have to do it through the school where I can get class credit instead.”
“I cannot even get a social security number and everything I fill out nowadays makes you provide one,” he said.
It may be difficult to get a job in the U.S. for international students to pay for tuition as Scanlon tried to find gaps in the system.
“I was actually going to start investing, but for that I would need a social security number, but I can’t get that, so I would need a tax ID number,” said Scanlon. “But they make it so difficult for me to get one. I have to provide proof of where I live, I have to go to the Social Security office and have them provide me with a letter saying how I cannot get a social, it’s just a whole long process to get this number. It would just be nice if it was simpler.”
To make it worse, Scanlon would have to provide proof of identification in very specific ways for the tax ID number.
“The options given are a housing lease and a driver’s licence. Well, I don’t drive and I don’t own a house,” he said. “But I need to somehow sit down and figure it out because I would have to get a tax ID number to get an internship.”
Scanlon shared how Suffolk charges students more than they need to. When there are some holidays, such as Thanksgiving break, the dorms will make students leave the on-campus housing facilities and find somewhere to go, or otherwise they have to pay a fee to stay there.
“The dorms are ridiculous. It’s $60 a night for a dorm that you already paid for to stay there during holidays. Luckily, I have a sister that lives in Boston that I can just stay with, which is what I did for Thanksgiving break last year, but some aren’t so lucky on that.”
Some international students
agree that students should pay a fixed rate for longer breaks, but not for the smaller ones that some of the students at the school don’t even celebrate.
“I understand doing it for Christmas and summer because those are long breaks. But for Thanksgiving, it seems a bit ridiculous to me because it’s four days and only American students celebrate it. Students have to pay $240 for four days on top of what you already pay for that dorm.”
Scanlon and his family are use to paying for his private school fees. Scanlon explained that the public schools in the Bahamas aren’t as nice as the ones in the U.S., and in some cases, they can be unsafe. After his family moved there and after much discussion, they decided that they would pay for the tuition at St. Andrews School, which was the International School of the Bahamas. There, the tuition ranged by year, anywheres from $13,000 to almost $15,000, according to the school’s website.
Since he is an international student, he could potentially get a private loan in the United States, but his parents found it best to pay with the school’s payment plan, which goes by a monthly basis as Scanlon explained that his father was able to save enough to put all of his children through college so far. Although, what also helps him is his $10,000 merit scholarship.
“My student visa lasts until 2018, which is the year I’ll be graduating,” said Scanlon. “My ultimate goal is to live and work in the United States. I hope to get an internship and hopefully get offered a position after I graduate. Otherwise, I can get a post-graduate degree, where I would just have to apply for another student visa.”
Courtesy of Sam Scanlon
“I cannot even get a social security number and everything I fill out
nowadays makes you provide one.”
Sophomore marketing major Brenna Gomez
is currently studying abroad at the Madrid
campus, where she also was given the
opportunity to travel to
London (left).Courtesy of Brenna Gomez
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STAFF SOUNDS
Symphony synchronizes Boston Ballet
Elizabeth Hadley Journal Contributor
Principal dancer, ballet master rave over upcoming performance
Bradley Schlagheck (far left), Lasha Khozashvili, and Paulo Arrais have been rehersing every day since August for The First Movement, a piece consisting of all
men in the “Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler: A Ballet by John Neumeier.”
Every day since August, the Boston Ballet has been rehearsing for a major upcoming production. “The Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler,” a ballet by John Neumeier, will premier at the Boston Opera House from Oct. 22 through Nov. 1.
The principal ballet dancer, Petra Conti, and the ballet master, Anthony Randazzo, both agree this is one show people do not want to miss and will be very different from previous shows.
Months of intense training has prepared dancers for this unprecedented performance.
“The day begins with an hour and a half warm-up class. Then three hours of rehearsals, an hour for lunch, and then three more hours of rehearsals. They are very physical, and very demanding,” Conti said.
Conti, the principal female dancer originally from Milan, Italy, has been dancing since she was 11 years old.
Named “San Francisco Ballet’s premier danseur noble” by the San Francisco Chronicle, Randazzo joined the artistic staff at Boston Ballet in 2002.
The music is the principle role in the ballet, and Conti feels “this is a masterpiece
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for me to dance in, because of the huge symphony that accompanies the dancers,” she said.
A large symphony and choir will be the highlight of the performance.
“It will produce a profound impact onto the audience, as it is the principle role in the ballet,” Randazzo said.
The ballet consists of six
movements, with the first movement featuring all male dancers.
“It is a half of an hour of just men. The first movement is very challenging to perform, but the audience will see and feel the power on stage,” Conti said.
While there is an obvious plot the audience can follow in other ballets like “Swan Lake”
or “The Nutcracker,” this will be unlike the typical ballet performance, according to Randazzo.
“This ballet is not like anything else you’ve ever seen. It’s unique, special, and beautiful,” he said.
In The Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler, there is no intermission for the hour and 45 minute show, and will demand more from the audience.
Conti explained that this ballet demonstrates dualism, contrast, and development.
“Where there is light, there is dark. The music grows up, it never ends,” he said.
Conti points out what is so special about this performance is that it will be a different experience for the audience. The ballet will develop for everyone in its own unique way.
“Each person who watches the ballet will take away something different, a different message, a different emotion,” Conti said.
Given its style, music, and performance, this ballet will be entertaining for everyone if they are willing to open themselves up to the work, according to Randazzo.
“This is the type of work that does not come around often. This is the kind of work that you do not want to miss, even if you do not know anything about ballet,” he said.
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Twenty One PilotsRide
-Heather R.
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PAGE 14 The Suffolk JournalPAGE 8 October 21, 2015
Let's Groove, BostonAndrew Navaroli
Journal Staff
C. Walsh Theatre prepsfor final Fall Fest
Ryan Dawson Journal Staff
GrooveBoston’s Cohesion Tour hit Suffolk for the first time in January and will return this month at the Royale Nightclub on Oct. 29.
From GrooveBoston’s Facebook
Thanks to Suffolk’s Program Council, GrooveBoston is returning for a second year with a twist. The event will be held at the Royale on Thursday, Oct. 29 from 7-10pm. This year’s dance, “Halloween Bash,” will be an event to remember with GrooveBoston’s brand new ETHOS themed tour.
“ETHOS is the spirit that connects, inspires, and defines our generation, and the 2015-16 ETHOS Tour is about celebrating that spirit by creating a concert experience unlike anything you’ve seen before - one that’s uniquely authentic, engaging, and powerful,” according to the company’s website.
GrooveBoston launched in 2004, and travels to college campuses around the country each year with world-class DJs and an insane production.
Head of PC’s traditions committee, junior Joe Nordlie said the event aims to be a clubbing event like no other, with students decked out in costumes for some holiday fun.
“GrooveBoston is a group that’s main goal is to make people happy. That’s even their motto. They founded their company to do just that, and they do that through music and dancing,” Nordlie said.
Nordlie expressed his
Maryam Canty (dance)
On My Way (from Violet)
Serina Gousby (spoken word)
Goodbye Old Girl (from Damn Yankees)
Jacob Tobey (guitar/voice)
Bright Side of Life (from Spamalot)
See You Again (Wiz Kalifa)
Darian Kuswanto (guitar)
2015 Fall Fest Lineup
For the first time in 41 years, Suffolk’s annual Fall Fest will be hosting its last performance at C. Walsh Theatre. With the sale of the Donahue building, the location of next year’s Fall Fest is still unknown.
Fall Fest will premiere this Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m. Free tickets are available in Donahue 409.
This show will be a unique opportunity to say goodbye to the venue that has been a part of Suffolk since the early 1920s.
With a different theme each year, the focus of this year’s performance will be “Saying Goodbye to C. Walsh,” since it has become a second home for the Suffolk community.
Senior and emcee Amy Kerr, who has been involved with Fall Fest since her freshman year, explained that it is an atmosphere for life-long friendships and important memories. She believes these friendships will last her a lifetime.
“Fall Fest is one of the first things you can audition for [at Suffolk]. It is an awesome opportunity to bond with cast mates. The friends I made freshman year ended up becoming my best friends,” she said.
The final fest will feature alumni, faculty, and students alike. The performances will range from musical numbers to
Christina Twombly (tae kwon do)
For Good (from Wicked)
Noah Hay (bagpipes)
Bon Voyage (from Anything Goes)
JoJo Nathan & Vanessa Vega (ukulele/voice)
Dance Medley
Jo’lise Grant (song)
Good Riddance (Green Day)
*Numbers in bold performed by Fall Fest Company members:Allison Blackburn, Sam Deans, Victoria Larocque ,Julianna Fielding, Peter Firek, Laurel Gozzo, Gabrielle Kosta, Jenna Locke, Olivia Lowe, Morgan Pritchard, Sara Remus, Sydney Stuberg, Christina Twombly
excitement to bring this event back to Suffolk.
“We had over 400 people attend the event and many people told us they’d love to do an event like this again sometime. We faced a lot of obstacles with tickets sales due to the snowpocalypse last winter, but we managed to do OK,” Nordlie said.
This year will provide a whole new experience for students, however.
“Even though they came last year, the music will be different; colors, feelings, moods, atmosphere, even the
effects will all be different,” he said.
GrooveBoston’s brand new ETHOS themed tour makes this possible.
Nordlie expressed enthusiasm for GrooveBoston’s adaptability as well.
“GrooveBoston prides themselves on being different every time they come to a college campus. Each year they tailor the show to a specific school’s needs and the theme presented to them,” he said.
GrooveBoston is also teaming up with the Music Forward Foundation and
donating a portion of this year’s proceeds to help support musical education.
“The founders took the passion that they had for DJing and music and turned into something they bring to college campuses across the country.” said Nordlie.
There will be a costume competition for anyone willing to be creative, either solo or with friends.
“The costume contest that will be happening is also going to be great. People may even win a really awesome prize.”
Free tickets for students
were hidden in the Ridgeway Gym, Donahue Lounge’s shuffleboard, and under a bench in 20 Somerset’s Roemer Plaza on Oct. 20. Students received messages from PC’s on-campus texting system that gave out hints directing students where to look.
General tickets will be on sale for $5 in Donahue 430 starting on Oct. 20, as well as in residence halls on Oct. 28.
Students can sign up to receive regular updates by texting “PC” to 71441.
The opening number titled “Welcome to C. Walsh” will be a rendition from Hairspray.
STAFF EDITORIAL
The Suffolk JournalOPINION
October 21, 2015PAGE 9
By Wyatt Costello
Hillary leads in Democratic debateMaggie Randall
Journal Contributer
She rehearsed this phrase over and over, leading up to the moment she could say it with a level head in front of a live audience.
“We need a democrat in the White House in January 2017,” said Hillary Clinton, former New York senator and secretary of state, during the first democratic debate hosted by CNN on Tuesday, Oct. 13.
It was Clinton’s conviction, preparedness, and sheer experience that caused her to seemingly win the debate. The debate brought Clinton back into America’s trust following her role in the Benghazi investigations.
The debate had an elevated level of formality and intellect compared to the two preceding Republican debates on Aug. 6 and Sept. 16, likely attributed to the dynamic journalistic skill of moderator Anderson Cooper.
Cooper was persistent and asked questions that challenged candidates, whereas Fox’s Republican debate moderators asked candidates softball questions, and CNN’s moderators for the Republican debate focused solely on pitting candidates against one another.
Alternatively, Cooper stirred conversation between candidates, particularly Clinton and Vermont Senator Bernie
Sanders. On gun control, Sanders and Clinton stand in opposition. When Cooper asked if Sanders is “tough enough on gun control,” Clinton said, “No, not at all.”
Later on in the debate, when the subject changed to income inequality and the declining middle class, Sanders accused Clinton of supporting Wall Street, saying, “Congress doesn’t regulate Wall Street, Wall Street regulates Congress.”
Clinton still managed to set herself ahead by separating herself from other candidates while tying herself with the Obama Administration. When asked what Clinton would do about climate change, she said
she would “follow what Obama did, but further.”
Moreover, when asked to name one way she will not be a third term of the Obama administration, Clinton said, “Being the first woman president would be quite a change.”
Still, the candidates supported one another overall. Sanders expressed his distaste in the media coverage of the 2016 presidential race thus far, saying, “Enough about the emails, let’s talk about the real issues facing America,” referencing Clinton’s recent email issue, thereby supporting her.
Similarly, Maryland
Governor Martin O’Malley supported Sanders and Clinton in their plans to raise the federal minimum wage.
O’Malley summed up the difference between the democratic debate and the Republican debates in his closing remarks.
“You didn’t hear anyone speak ill of anyone,” he said.
Democratic candidates hold more realistic views than the Republican candidates, who display drastic differences in ideologies and political views. Either way, Democratic candidates managed to remain civil.
Governor of Rhode Island Lincoln Chafee and Senator of
Virginia Jim Webb also stood on the stage for the Democratic debate, but they did little more than stand. Chafee boasted “30 years of public service in all levels of government” and “no scandals.” However, his experience is no comparison to that of Clinton, who served as secretary of state during President Obama’s first term.
Webb faced issues to the likes of Ted Cruz and Rand Paul during the debate. When asked a question, he began by saying, “I’ve been waiting for ten minutes [to speak].”
Later, he focused more on putting down other candidates than promoting his own policies. He said in response to Sanders’s plea for a political revolution, “I don’t think the revolution is going to come.”
Chafee and Webb reaffirmed their trailing in the polls, just as much as Clinton confirmed her leading in the polls.
Some argue that Sanders beat Clinton, but her views were more thorough and focused. Clinton stayed energized and animated throughout the two-and-a-half-hour long debate. Sanders, though, became spirited only when issues sparked his particular interest.
Clinton articulated her passion in her closing remarks.
“[We need] to make sure we get back to the idea that if you work hard and do your part, you can make it. America’s best days are still ahead,” she said.
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On Friday and Saturday, Suffolk will welcome students and families to explore the Suffolk campus and give back to the school during Family Weekend.
From bidding in silent auctions to learning about graduate programs, the schedule offers families and friends many opportunities to get engage with students, faculty and administration.
While the weekend is mostly geared toward lighthearted fun, it is also an ideal opportunity for President Margaret McKenna.
In a recent interview with the Journal, McKenna emphasized her desire to be integrated with students as much as possible to learn,
particular attention to parents’ hopes and concerns, and take note of what’s on their minds. They are heavily invested in their child’s education, and no doubt want a closer relationship with the community they are visiting. Traditionally, parents foot the tuition bill and students take on paying back debts after graduation, so if McKenna can capitalize on both parties she is one step closer to decreasing stress on tuition revenue and increasing benefactor and alumni donations, a goal she has previously shared.
By the same token, students with attending parents should make the most of the two days and show them what Suffolk has to offer.
support and ultimately help them succeed. Her personal involvement this weekend amongst students and efforts to immerse herself into the community cannot be stressed enough as she approaches the six-month mark of her reign.
However, this weekend is also a rare chance for her to personally introduce herself to an important group of Suffolk’s stakeholders, students’ parents.
McKenna should pay
The Suffolk JournalA WORDFROM SGA
PAGE 10 October 21, 2015
Academics, take the benchClevis Murray
Journal Contributor
College sports are known to attract thousands of spectators to the stands, millions of fans behind the screen and billions of dollars in the bank.
One of these profitable facets resides in college football. The task recruiters and coaches alike face consist of the best ways to assemble a winning team with star players to succeed in games, and for some, ultimately mold them into prospective NFL talents.
Some succeed with this formula and others do not. The biggest problem to date behind the business of one of the most popular sports in America is the toll practice and game time takes on the education of student-athletes.
The term “student-athlete” is a joke in some instances in division one football. Players are responsible for the future of their coaches, and the respect they’ll get around the conference. However, it seems their academics take a back seat on game day.
Yes, most student-athletes on a college team receive scholarships, are given a rare opportunity, play a sport and receive a great education for free. The problem with athletic scholarships in the football
realm is that most students on a full-ride are too busy in the gym, recovering from practice, memorizing playbooks, traveling and sometimes dealing with the media to actually focus on any school work at all.
For example, if LSU running back Leonard Fournette told his head coach Les Miles he had to prioritize mid-terms over a championship game, how do you think fans and the media would react?
Reports allegedly say Fournette is expected to leave college as soon as he’s NFL eligible, after three years and plans forgoes his senior campaign. Fournette “would be the first guy picked in the (NFL) draft if you just say, ‘Who is the best player?’” NFL Media Senior Analyst Gil Brandt told The New York Times. “He’s ready to play.”
Ohio State quarterback Cardale Jones shared on Twitter, “Why should we have to go to classes if we came here to play FOOTBALL, we ain’t come to play SCHOOL, classes are POINTLESS.”
He has since apologized for his tweet, as expected from any division one player who voices their controversial opinion. Jones’ statement does make you wonder how many of these athletes would prefer a one-and-done rule like the NBA, or just come straight out of high school like the MLB and skip
Hello Suffolk Students,
Last week in the Student Government Association, Dean Stoll swore both the executive board members and the class senators into oath. When open forum was held, students were able to communicate directly with Dean Stoll about questions and concerns that they have about Suffolk University.
If any students are interested in getting involved with the SGA, there are positions that are currently open. Currently available are two senator-at-large positions and one position each for the classes of 2016, 2017, and 2018.
Last week, the Student Government Association launched the Commuter Student Task Force. This committee has members both within and without the Student Government Association.
The Commuter Student Task Force will focus on how commuter students are served on campus, acquire information about services on campus that are being under-utilized or under supported, as well as identifying services that do not currently exist on campus but that would benefit the commuting population.
This committee will address extremely pertinent issues due to the fact that a large percentage of Suffolk University students commute. In addition, there will be a focus on determining when the best times to program events for commuter students are, and what type of events they would like to see. Also coming up for the SGA is family weekend, where both the SGA and Program Council will be co-hosting a Family Fun Fair at Sargent Hall on October 24, 2015.
There there will be life-sized versions of your favorite family games. The Student Government Association plans to continue to make changes that benefit the entire Suffolk University community.
Have a great week,
-The Student Government Association
receiving a higher degree.Yes, there are college
football athletes who take their academics seriously, but the system’s structure appears to have too many flaws. When you hear school names such as Louisiana State University, Auburn University, Florida State University and Michigan State University, it’s fair to say most people initially identify them by their reputations as members in the athletic industry and not by their academic success in the classroom.
There’s a reason why there’s a difference between athletic and academic scholarships. Both are meant for gifted young men and women. In the case of an athletic scholarship to a division one school, players who are the recipient of such an opportunity are held to on-field expectations rather than in-classroom production. While
there’s an institutional GPA athletes have to maintain, it presents an ethical dilemma for students and professors alike if, for say, the star quarterback received a D on a test but had the championship game that Saturday.
Football is a full-time job. Such a commitment to the sport led Northwestern’s football team to request a union because they felt the time they were putting into the game was the equivalent of an actual job. The team failed in establishing the union but brought up a good point. Players are meant to select courses around practice time and meet certain obligations. Are these young men at these powerhouse schools being mislead by the idea that an athletic scholarship is actually geared toward enhancing their education?
Patricia Negrón Journal Staff
There has been a significant uprising and buzz surrounding the LGBT community, most recently as a result of the same-sex marriage ruling in the U.S. As people become allies and advocates for the community, there unfortunately still remains populations in opposition.
Last week, Puerto Rican Secretary of Education Rafael Román made a major announcement. Students can now use dresswear from either gender’s mandatory school uniform traditionally assigned to the opposite sex without being penalized by the school.
Most of the people I know understand the difference between gender identity, which is “one’s sense of oneself as male, female or transgender,” and sexual orientation which is “the sex of those to whom one is sexually and romantically attracted,” both according to the American Psychological
Association.“Disciplinary measures will
not be imposed on students who don’t use the established uniform for economic reasons, health reasons, emergency situations or for other reasons like sexual orientation and gender identity, which could result discriminatory and unreasonable.”
While media correspondents and social advocates certainly jumped at the opportunity to report on this change made by Román, many people in Puerto Rico are actively against it.
According to El Nuevo Día, Román explained the decision’s main focus was to economically protect parents from constant uniform changes but was also accompanied by the need to bring awareness to LGBT rights.
The decision to make uniforms interchangeable for both sexes brings about the concept of gender perspective where the school should incorporate an education focused on bridging the inequality gap between genders. This is a progressive move because in the past, other Secretaries of Education have
tried to address the issue but have been silenced.
Many parents are outraged at the decision, calling it irresponsible and even saying the school is supposed to reinforce the traditional values taught at home. Most Puerto Rican families belong to some Christian denomination and are expecting schools to follow Christian values. Because of these beliefs, most of the people are more reluctant than Román to introduce such a progressive decision on uniforms in schools.
This reluctance is fueled by the prominent religious leaders who either need to change their discourse completely or simply stop meddling in affairs of the state. Additionally, there are plenty of religious people in different levels of society who aren’t trying to limit LGBT rights. The only problem is that they are not often heard as much as the opposition.
What many people don’t understand, including these religious people, is that schools are not going to force parents to buy skirts for their sons or pants for their daughters. Hopefully these schools will
now try to focus on gender equality and the rights for the LGBT community.
A few people are claiming that such a drastic change can increase bullying, but this is not a good enough reason to delay this necessary change. If gender perspective is given the importance it should receive, and school administrators are paying attention to the interactions between students like they should, this can be avoided.
Since gender is now being seen as a spectrum in many places instead of just an “either girls or boys” option, schools should adapt their policies to fit the needs of their students. The school uniform decision is trying to address these needs.
Puerto Rico is trying to be progressive but it seems to me that it is more of a work in progress like it is in any other country fighting for LGBT rights. Even though gender perspective should have already been implemented in schools, I am happy the process has begun.
Change is necessary, but the key to achieving it is education.
Introducing gender neutral uniforms
By Flickr user Thomas Hawk
PAGE 11 The Suffolk Journal October 21, 2015
UFC Fight Night 77 promises interesting matchupsSammy Hurwitz
Acting Sports Editor
Team standings
Men’s Soccer:
T-1. Johnson & Wales (RI) | 6-1
T-1. Norwich | 6-1
3. Mount Ida | 5-1-1
4. Saint Joseph’s (Maine) | 5-2
5. Emmanuel | 4-3
Women’s Volleyball:
1. Johnson & Wales (RI) | 7-0
2. Rivier | 6-0
T-3. Saint Joseph’s (Maine) | 6-2
T-3. Simmons | 6-2
5. Emmanuel | 4-2
Women’s Soccer:
1. Lasell | 8-0-1
2. Johnson & Wales (RI) | 7-1-1
T-3. Emmanuel | 7-2
T-3. Simmons | 7-2
5. Saint Joseph’s (Maine) | 5-4
Note: all standings are conference records.
Fake punt backfires on Indianapolis Colts
“Uh oh, now we’ve got on a 4th down and 3 we got Griff Whalen ready to take the snap,” Al Michaels announced as New England Patriots and Indianapolis Colts fans alike watched the Colts run their failed punt fake. During their botched trick play on 4th and 3 with 1:14 left in the third quarder the Colts changed formations in an attempt to draw a flag against the Patriots. Colts punter Pat McAfee broke the play down best on the Bob and Tom radio show. “The point of the play is a deception play,” said McAfee. “We are sprinting to the sideline in hopes to make the other team think we are subbing our offense back onto the field. So, when they think the offense is coming back on the field, your hope is that they think their defense has to come back on the field.” The play ended up being one of the biggest failures as Griff Whalen was never supposed to play the center position. The end result was Colts quarterback Colt Anderson getting demolished by Patriots players Brandon Bolden and Jonathan Bostic.
Terry Rozier has so far shown that he can play the point guard position and can do so with great efficiency. On the offensive side of the ball, he has filled in the stat sheet pretty well with an assist-to-turnover ratio of 3.7/1 along with 13 PPG on 54.2 percent shooting from the field and 75 percent from behind the arc with the only knock against his game his 63.6 FT percentage. Rozier has also shown that he can play on the defensive side as well, with 2.3 DRPG and a team leading 2.0 SPG with the only downside being that he has 1.7 TO per game. His quickness and speed along with precision timing will help him on both sides of the court, allowing him to get the basket easier, make better passes, and accumulate more steals. Rozier’s stats are very impressive given that he is only a rookie and he is doing all of this only playing 20 MPG. Even though it is only the preseason, so far Rozier is showing Coach Brad Stevens why he deserves a bigger role in the Celtics rotation when the regular season commences.
Rozier may have bigger wrole in regular season
Sports Briefs
This is what it’s all about, right? Great fight cards without the pain of throwing down 50-plus bones to watch the best Mixed Martial Arts fighters in the world collide. And that’s what we’ll get come Saturday at UFC Fight Night 77 in Sáo Paulo. Beautiful and free on Fox Sports 1.
It’s a six-fight main card, which is nice if it’s not too watered down -- and this one isn’t. To get you ready for the imminent battles, here are my previews and predictions for the latter half of the main card.
Glover Teixeira and Patrick “Durkin” Cummins, ranked fourth and ninth respectively, will be taking on the light heavyweight competition, with Teixeira as the fan favorite. However, my money’s on Cummins in a second round TKO.
This isn’t too much of a hot take, but again, matchups make fights, and rarely will I pick against a wrestler as decorated as Cummins (8-2).
Teixeira (23-4) is one of the most underappreciated fighters in the UFC, and before his consecutive losses to Jon Jones and Phil Davis, he was quietly
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riding a 20-fight win streak. Coming off of his victory over Ovince St. Preux (5), the 35-year-old is still dangerous. He features some of the heaviest hands in the division with 13 knockouts to go along with his seven submission victories.
But Patrick Cummins — who was signed by the UFC after only four professional fights — is undoubtedly one of the most promising light heavyweights on the UFC roster despite his late entrance into the sport.
After his debut loss to the
current champ, Daniel Cormier, Cummins rattled off wins in four of his next five bouts, with two TKOs. He’s an Olympic- caliber wrestler whose hands are improving steadily.
The 34-year-old’s top game is devastating, and considering Teixeira’s loss to Davis, another wrestler, it is hard to take him over the upstart Cummins -- that is, assuming he does not try to stand and trade shots with the Brazilian, a la Ryan Bader circa 2013.
This is the most dangerous opponent Cummins has faced
since Cormier, but he will be up to the task in devastating fashion.
As for Vitor “The Phenom” Belfort (24-11) versus Dan Henderson (31-13), it’s impossible to not be excited for a fight featuring one of them, so a fight with both is already a classic. My prediction is Belfort in a third round TKO.
This will be the third time these two combatants have met, with Henderson winning the first fight in 2006 and Belfort winning the rematch in 2013. Now, in 2015, with both men sporting a combined age of 83, the rubber match is on.
When we last saw Belfort, he was drained of energy, with Chris Weidman raining down punches from mount at UFC 187.
That fight, unsurprisingly, was short-lived, with Belfort coming out on the short end. There has been lots of speculation about Belfort, who -- since the testosterone replacement therapy ban -- has looked significantly skinnier.
It’s hard to say if this was a miscalculation in the weight cut and adrenaline dump or another outside factor that contributed to Belfort’s poor performance against the champ. Of course, there’s also the belief that the champ is
just that good, but it is hard to say. Regardless, Belfort lost his last fight and did not look impressive for more than a few seconds.
Dan Henderson looked like he was playing a video game set on easy in his last fight, demolishing Tim Boetsch in just 28 seconds. It was arguably his most impressive knockout to date, up there with his UFC 100 starching of Michael Bisping.
Considering Belfort is coming off of a bad loss and Henderson is coming off of a great win, the logical choice would be to take Henderson. Belfort doesn’t have TRT anymore, he lost badly to Chris Weidman, and he’s not nearly as dangerous as he was even two years ago.
However, Henderson is an astounding 45 years old and has not been in a fight for over 70 seconds since his drubbing at the hands of Daniel Cormier in May 2014. He’s lost five of his last seven fights, and aside from his quick win in June, he looks to be feeling the damage that 44 professional fights does to a man.
UFC Fight Night 77’s early prelims will start at 6:30 p.m. on UFC Fight Pass.
The prelims will start at 8 p.m. and the main card at 10 p.m., both on Fox Sports 1.
The Suffolk JournalSPORTS
October 21, 2015PAGE 12
Whole team to blame for early season woesAndrew Hanides
Journal Contributor
After a frustrating start for the Bruins, it’s hard to pin the blame on just one player.
For a sport so heavily reliant on team chemistry, the entire roster will need to step up in order for this group to succeed.
If they continue on the same track, it is likely they will miss the playoffs again.
There are several key components the Bruins will need to fix in order to return to a dominant force in the NHL, the first being their woeful defense.
On opening night, their first defensive pairing consisted of offensive defenseman Torey Krug, 24, and career third liner Adam McQuaid, 29.
The Bruins were forced to call upon rookie defensemen Colin Miller and former San Jose Sharks castoff Matt Irwin to fill in for injured Zdeno Chara and Dennis Seidenberg.
Their inexperience showed throughout the first three
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games. Each shift left fans biting their nails, with the trust factor at an all-time low. In order to be successful this year, the Bruins need to rebuild their defense.
Another area for concern is Boston’s veteran goal tender, Tuukka Rask. His 4.72 goals against average and .846 save percentage is reason for concern.
He has not looked like the former Vezina winner we saw in 2014. His play is pivotal to the success of the entire team, as it has been for the past three seasons.
Despite the negatives on defense, there have been positives in the first three games.
The return of Boston’s veteran center David Krejci has been key in helping the offense. The assistant captain was battling injuries last season and did not have as a big of an impact as he has in the past.
Through the first two weeks of the young season, it is evident that Krejci is healthy and back to his old self, as he has netted four goals and five assists in the first five games for a total of nine points, tied
with Henrik Zetterberg for the NHL lead through Sunday.
Another positive that can be taken away from the early games is the offensive play of Torey Krug.
Standing at 5-foot-9, the former Michigan State Spartan has impressed Bruins fans with his continuous success. His presence on the first line of the Bruins power play has led to many goals.
During last Monday’s game against the Tampa Bay Lightning, Krug was involved in three power play goals, dishing assists in each.
On Saturday night against the Arizona Coyotes, Krug dished out another two assists, giving him an impressive six assists in the first five games of the season, the second highest total among defensemen.
In order for the Bruins to get back to their winning ways, they need their young talents to step up and take a leadership role on the team. With a healthy defense and Rask back to his old ways, the Bruins could be a force to be reckoned with.
Don’t be shocked to see Boston make a run at the 2016 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
“Their inexperience showed throughout the first three games. Each shift left fans
biting their nails, with the trust factor at an all-time low. In order to be successful this
year, the Bruins need to rebuild their defense.”
Pats didn't live up to the hype on SundayRyan Dawson
Journal Staff
Leading up to Sunday night’s marquee game, the media hype surrounding the Patriots versus Colts face-off was at an all-time high.
While the Patriots did come away with a win, it wasn’t the monumental, record-shattering, scorched-Earth kind of game Pats fans thought it would be. And maybe that isn’t such a bad thing.
Indianapolis started the game with a stout defense and careful offensive schemes. Andrew Luck has been a shadow of his former self for most of the year.
Leading up to the game, Luck had thrown more interceptions than touchdowns -- seven and five, respectively. With a nagging shoulder injury, many were expecting Luck to be a turnover machine.
To his credit, he played a solid first half. A highly unusual Julian Edelman miscue gave the Colts an opportunity to snag an easy touchdown.
Heading into the second half, the Colts were uncharacteristically beating the
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Indianapolis Colts’ quarterback Colt Anderson (center) prepares to make a play against the New England Patriot’s in Sunday’s game.
high-powered Patriots. To most New England fans, it may have seemed as though the sky was falling.
Luckily for the Patriots and fans of horrible play calling the Colts attempted to execute one of the worst fake punts ever.
On fourth and three at the end of the third quarter, the Colts attempted the single worst fake punt in human
history. The Colts lined up under center and suddenly shifted most of their line and offensive players to the right side of the field.
With wide receiver Griff Whalen acting as a center and safety Colt Anderson as quarterback, the Colts snapped the ball and were immediately run over by the Pats.
The play left New England
with great field position that resulted in a touchdown by Legarrette Blount. The Colts didn’t go down easy, though.
They tried up until the very end, even scoring a garbage-time touchdown by Whalen.
The Colts appeared mentally defeated when Jamie Collins channeled his inner Kam Chancellor to hurdle the line and cleanly blocked a field goal.
The Colts were swinging as they went down and attempted an onside kick to bring the game into overtime. Given all the snafus on special teams, the likelihood that the Colts could convert the onside kick were slim to none.
Rob Gronkowski recovered the kick and almost brought the recovery in for a touchdown, but stepped out of bounds at the last minute.
Even though the Pats didn’t break every game record known to man, they still pummeled the Colts in the end, largely because of the Colt’s poor play calling.
After the game, the media interviewed players in an attempt to coax some kind of “revenge tour” from the Patriots to no avail.
I think fans should be cautious of assuming the Pats are going to roll over every team like we did the Jaguars. The season is long, injuries happen, and things change.
New Englanders would be remiss if they blindly believed we are invincible.
The best way to approach the season is in true “Bill Belichickian” fashion.
After the game, Chandler Jones said with a smile and a wink, “We are on to New York.”
