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05/05/2024
NEWS: Suffolk University Resident Assistants hold many responsibilities in Suffolk’s dorm halls: Above all, maintaining student safety. Some RAs are questioning whether the Board of Trustees had that in mind when deciding to arm the Suffolk Police Department.
“To be pretty honest, I was gobsmacked,” said Christian Mack, a junior and an RA in Miller Hall.
Suffolk President Marisa Kelly sent an email April 24 to faculty and staff announcing that the Board had approved a resolution in favor of arming on April 19.
“We do not want armed officers on our residential floors except in certain very specific and dangerous situations,” Kelly said in the email.
As the university begins to reimagine campus safety in the dorms, Mack is struggling to see why a firearm would be needed in a residence hall in any circumstance.
Click the link below to read the full article, written by News Editor Sarah Roberts. Photo by Managing Editor Jamie Taris.
Suffolk University Resident Assistants hold many responsibilities in Suffolk’s dorm halls: Above all, maintaining student safety. Some RAs are questioning whether the Board of Trustees had that in mind when deciding to arm the Suffolk Police Department. “To be pretty honest, I was gobsmacked,”...