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Students victorious in Sodexo Dueling Dishes

Leighah Beausoleil / THE GATEPOST (Left) Student Dueling Dishes competitors Brandi Scott and Malik Martin and competition judges Lorretta Holloway, vice president of enrollment and student development, David LaFleur, executive chef of Dining Services, and Mirari Elcoro, psychology professor.

By Leighah Beausoleil Editor-in-Chief Two students and two faculty went head to head in Sodexo’s students vs. faculty Dueling Dishes competition, leaving students victorious for the second year in a row March 31.

The student team “Fashionista” was comprised of fashion and design retailing majors Mailk Martin and Brandi Scott.

Martin won in the last Dueling Dishes competition held last year which had a focus on vegan dishes.

The faculty/staff team was comprised of Nutrition Professor Megan Mayer and Biology Professor Cara Pina.

The competition was judged by Da-

vid LaFleur, executive chef of Dining Services, who also MC’d the event, Lorretta Holloway, vice president of enrollment and student development, and Mirari Elcoro, psychology professor.

According to LaFleur, the judges made their decision based on three factors - taste, presentation, and use of the two required secret ingredients.

The two ingredients were baby arugula and avocado.

The competition began at 5:00 p.m., in which the teams had 15 minutes to plan, followed by an hour for cooking.

Winners along with three friends of their choice were awarded with a private dinner with LaFleur. Second

place won vegetable slices.

“There’s a lot of popularity with cooking shows,” LaFleur said. “People are getting really creative cooking at SGA pg. 4 home. We thought we’d just kind of bring the fun to Framingham State ACADEMIC DISHONESTY pg. 6 University and just do a fun competition with students and faculty.”

LaFleur added he hopes the event’s popularity continues to grow and more people get involved.

Another competition is set to be held by the end of April.

“It’s just really fun to see the creativity and see the end result and see the whole process from start to finish,” he said.

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FSU to hold first in-person Commencement since 2019

By Abigail Petrucci Staff Writer FSU will be holding the first in-person Commencement in two years at the DCU Center in Worcester May 22.

President F. Javier Cevallos said in an email March 3, “The celebration, which will include both undergraduate and graduate students, will begin at 9:30 a.m.

“It has been a long two years of dealing with COVID and I have been amazed by your resilience during that time,” he added. “The pandemic is not over, but the downward trend of cases, combined with high rates of immunity from vaccinations and prior infection, allow us this opportunity to put on this celebration in a safe manner.”

According to Cevallos, some of the factors that went into making the decision to hold an in-person Commencement included vaccination trends and the decrease in positive COVID-19 tests.

“We’re all hoping that the pandemic is coming to an end somehow, and that the virus is becoming less and less lethal,” he said. “It seems to me that we’re moving in the right direction and it’s time to go back to some semblance of normalcy.”

According to Cevallos’ executive assistant, Katie Hebert, Commencement will be a mask-optional event. “Anyone wishing to wear a mask during the ceremony is encouraged to do so, but they will not be required,” she said.

Cevallos said there are plans to have a hand sanitizer dispenser available

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so “students can clean their hands as they go to get their diploma and shake hands.”

Hebert added the University reserves the right to change graduation protocols if public health conditions worsen closer to Commencement.

Graduates will not be limited on the number of guests that can attend, Hebert said. The DCU Center can hold approximately 10,000 guests, and with an estimated number of 800 students walking in the Commencement, Hebert LACROSSE pg. 12 said they expect to fill the auditorium.

This year’s Commencement speaker will be White House reporter and MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire.

Lemire, from Lowell, Massachusetts,

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Editorial Board

Gatepost Interview

Editor-in-Chief Leighah Beausoleil

Kathleen Barnard

Associate Editors Donald Halsing Kathleen Moore

Henry Whittemore Library Student Engagement Coordinator

News Editors Steven Bonini Haley Hadge Ashlyn Kelly

By Haley Hadge News Editor

Asst. News Editor Sophia Harris

What is your professional and educational background?

I got an English degree from the University of Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee. Since then, I have been working on books, reading, and literacy. That’s pretty much what I’ve done. My first job out of college was with an independent bookstore. I worked at a public library, I made audiobooks for 10 years for the blind and print-challenged, and I also worked in publishing.

Opinions Editor McKenzie Ward Sports Editors Danielle Achin Tyler Wahl Arts & Features Editors Caroline Gordon Emily Rosenberg Asst. Arts & Features Editor Ryan O’Connell Design Editors Maddison Behringer Emma Lyons Copy Editor Patrick Brady Staff Writers James Barraford Jackson Clyde Dan Fuentes Dallas Gagnon Mark Haskell Stefano Hernandez Branden LaCroix Abby Petrucci Lydia Staber

What led you to your work as student engagement coordinator?

It was a bit circuitous. I only moved to Massachusetts last year. I briefly worked in publishing when I first moved here, and I happened to see this posting for student engagement coordinator, and it felt like it was really in line with what my previous work has been, which has been mostly with books and literacy and learning. Like I said, I was in public libraries. It felt like a great way to bring some of my public library experience into an academic environment. I’ve always loved college campuses - I grew up around them. So, it is a very comfortable place for me, and I was really happy to see this opportunity to bring some of my

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What does your job here at FSU entail?

It is mostly student engagement. So, the first thing is to make the library as open and inviting for our students as possible. So, listening to what students need [and] asking how we can make it a better place for them. We also like to have events. We’ve been doing National Library Week this week. We’ve had a lot of really cool things going on. So just trying to make the library a really engaging, fun place for students to come.

That’s my goal here.

experience into this environment.

Do you have any personal hobbies outside of your work?

I’m always reading. I have a book everywhere I go - it is my favorite thing to do. I like to cross-stitch, and I like to go and explore New England. This is a new place for me. I hadn’t lived here until last year. Something my husband and I have enjoyed doing is driving all around the region and seeing the historical sites, the old houses, things like that - things that I had never seen before in the other places I’ve lived. That’s really one of my favorite things to do right now.

What advice do you have for students?

Be curious. I think one of the greatest things about college is getting to learn

so much in a variety of different areas.

And for me, that was really meaningful when I was in school - getting to take classes in areas that I wouldn’t normally take classes in, or that I might not normally be interested in. I feel like that curiosity has stayed with me and led me to many different career options that I didn’t even know were out there, and many different life experiences that I wouldn’t have had any chance of having without being curious and asking what is out there. I think that would be my biggest piece of advice - be curious and enjoy your time. It’s a short time, but you can get a lot out of it, and you can pack a lot into that time.

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(Left) Cara Pina, biology professor, and Megan Mayer, nutrition professor, preparing their dish.

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Student competitor Brandi Scott collecting herbs.

Faculty competitor Megan Mayor collecting arugula.

The faculty team’s dueling dish.

(Left) Competition judges Lorretta Holloway, vice president of enrollroment and student development, a id e eur e ecuti e chef of ining Ser ices and Mirari Elcoro psychology professor udging the dishes at the Dueling Dishes competition March 31.

The winning student team’s dueling dish.

Dueling Dishes Continued from page 1 of seared and spiced chicken with an avocado sauce, a salad with vegetables and arugula, as well as buttered rice.

Martin said, “I think it’s just a fun experience getting to use different items to paint a picture, right? I’m a fashion major and I think fashion majors have an advantage because the same way that you put colors and fabrics and notions and threads together is the same way you com-

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pare food and spices and make just a grand experience.”

Scott credited Martin with being the creative mastermind behind their dish. “I was just listening to him.

Whatever he told me I was like, ‘OK,’ and I would just do it, but I didn’t really do any hard work or any sweating really. I was just flipping the chicken.”

The faculty’s dish was made up of pesto marinated shrimp that included the arugula, a salsa with avocado,

pine berries, pineapple, and micro- food for other people and sharing.” greens, as well as rice pudding.

After the points among the judgMayer said, “I had a great time. es were tallied, the result was a tie, It’s very fun to collaborate with my but based on individual scoring, two colleagues. To see what the students judges had voted for the students, came up with and have a nice little crowning them the winners once audience cheering us on. I definitely again. would do it again.”

Pina said, “It was wonderful. It’s super fun. I really like cooking. It was super fun to cook. It’s fun to have an CONNECT WITH LEIGHAH BEAUSOLEIL audience. I’m glad that I can make lbeausoleil@student.framingham.edu food for other people. I like making

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SGA shares concerns about inclusivity policies

By Sophia Harris Asst. News Editor SGA discussed inclusivity issues and changes to their constitution as well as SGA election nominations at their meeting April 6.

Anthony Sims, a sophomore English major, raised concerns about not having straws available in the dining hall during the open forum.

Sims said it prevents his father, who is “physically disabled,” from coming to FSU and eating with him.

“That would be one of the many reasons why he would not want to come to this school. He wants to come to visit me more, but he doesn’t want to at the same time because, specifically, he can’t get a bite to eat here,” Sims said.

He added it would be a “quality of life improvement” for all students.

Emma Sullivan, vice president, said, “It is an accessibility issue and we pride ourselves on being an accessible campus. We’ll definitely send that note to Aretha Phillips,” director of Dining Services.

Outreach and Events Coordinator Emily Rosenberg said a prospective student approached her at Rams Rising this past weekend, and asked to be directed to a bathroom with a changing table for her child.

She said she was not aware if FSU had any changing tables in their bathrooms.

She added Dean of Students Meg Nowak Borrego and Executive Vice President Dale Hamel were also not able to direct the mother to a bathroom with a changing table.

Rosenberg said, “They had to change in a locker room and that was obviously unsafe and uncomfortable for the mother and child.”

She said it was “very concerning” that she could not offer a bathroom with a changing station.

Senator Raffi Elkhoury said because of the lack of gender-inclusive bathrooms on campus, a possible solution to both problems would be to create a “family restroom” with a changing table and a gender-neutral label in order to “kill two birds with one stone.”

President McKenzie Ward asked to “start a conversation” about the allocation of unallocated SGA funds to the library for menstrual products in bathrooms.

She said during her conversation with University staff, concerns were raised about the accessibility of free menstrual products on campus.

Ward said, “The Health Center and the Rams Resource Center are only open during certain hours of the week, making them not accessible” for students who need menstrual products.

She said the library would be an ideal place to carry menstrual products because it is open seven days a week and is available to both commuter and

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residential students.

Ward said Millie González, dean of the Henry Whittemore Library, is advocating for free menstrual products to be supplied in both male and female bathrooms.

She said González is currently looking into non-profits to supply menstrual hygiene products for the library.

Ward said when she is aware of the cost of menstrual hygiene products needed in the library, she will ask for an allocation from SGA on a semester basis.

SGA passed a motion to allocate $6,000 for the Student Veterans and Military Services for new carpeting.

During New Business, Sullivan said there have been changes to the SGA constitution and bylaws.

These changes included an amendment to article VI specifying that students must be full- or part-time undergraduate students in order to serve as trustees.

Ward said they changed the requirement to attend the Statewide Student Advisory Council from mandatory to “highly encouraged.”

She said SGA added an amendment that student trustees would serve on the Framingham State Board of Trustees and will attend its meetings in accordance with the responsibilities described in Massachusetts General Laws.

Ward added student trustees will then report to SGA within two weeks

on what was discussed at the Board of Trustees meetings.

She said SGA has also changed a subsection that states the student trustee takes office after elections and remains in office until July 1 of the following year.

If the predecessor student trustee graduates or leaves before July 1, the succeeding trustee will assume responsibility on the date of their leave, according to Ward.

She added student trustees must complete eight hours of state-required training in order to serve on the Board of Trustees.

Dara Barros, diversity and inclusion officer, motioned to make the changes to the constitution in article VI section VI. The motion passed unopposed.

Sullivan said nominations for the SGA election are open now until April 14 on RamLink.

The “U-Rock” was awarded to Rosenberg by Senator Mark Haskell for her hard work and dedication in the past week.

Haskell said her hard work deserves “commemoration.”

[Editor’s Note: McKenzie Ward is Opinions Editor for The Gatepost.

Emily Rosenberg is an Arts & Features Editor for The Gatepost. Mark Haskell is a staff writer for The Gatepost.]

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Commencement Continued from page 1 is a former reporter for the New York Daily News and a White House reporter for the Associated Press. He is now the White House Bureau Chief for Politico and the host of “Way Too Early” on MSNBC. He is a graduate of Columbia University, and the nephew of FSU’s co-coordinator of the Master of Health Administration Program, Stephen Lemire.

According to Cevallos, a committee chaired by Interim Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Ellen Zimmerman chose the speaker.

“It’s a student-driven process,” he said. “The students suggest names, and we try from the administrators’ side to get the names that they suggest.

“We’re very fortunate to have Jonathan Lemire,” he added.

Senior Samantha Collette, president of the Class of 2022, will also be speaking backstage at Commencement.

“I will not be speaking on stage

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during Commencement due to the merge of the graduate and undergraduate ceremonies, but I will get to speak backstage while we anticipate walking,” she said. “I am sad that I cannot speak on stage this year, but I feel fortunate to be our class hype-person and get all of us excited to graduate in our final moments all together as a class.”

Collette said she is “absolutely thrilled” to attend Commencement in person this year.

“I can’t wait to see my friends dressed in their cap and gowns and be recognized for all of the hard work we’ve done over the last few years,” she said. “When we went into quarantine our sophomore year and it kept being extended, I think a lot of us thought the rest of our college experience would be ruined, so to come out of this strong and be able to attend the most important event of our undergraduate experience in person is very rewarding.

“It means a lot to me that Commencement is in-person after two

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years. I feel very fortunate to have this opportunity that was not granted to previous classes. It is certainly not something that will be taken for granted,” she added.

Many other seniors said they were excited they will be able to attend Commencement in person.

Allison Balcolm, an ASL major, said, “It is extremely important to have an in-person Commencement. I’m glad that our school has learned from the past two years and has made a reasonable choice for our class.”

Carly Eiten, a fashion design and retailing major, said, “I am so excited and grateful that Commencement is in person this year! Being at the DCU Center with my fellow classmates will remind me of my accomplishments over these past four years that got me to graduation.”

Ana Carla Soria Heidemann, a food and nutrition major, said, “It has brought me hope and energy to finish off the semester knowing that there

will be an event to celebrate - a day to have joy and gather with loved ones.”

Cate Bromery, a fashion design and retailing major, said, “I personally am very happy about having in-person Commencement. Graduation is a huge milestone for so many of us, and I think the fact that we can all be there and celebrate together is really special and gives us back the sense of community that we have been missing for so long due to COVID-19.”

Nate Rogers, a communication, media and performance major, said, “I am happy to get to see my friends all together in person one last time.”

Cevallos said, “It’s such an important day for your academic life. I think this is a great opportunity to bring the families and students back together.

“We’re all enthusiastically waiting for it,” he added.

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Reported academic dishonesty cases down 88% since 2016

By Leighah Beausoleil Editor-in-Chief

Since Academic Year 2016-17 (AY1617) reported cases of academic dishonesty have decreased by approximately

difficult for students to cheat or plagiarize because the software is able to monitor the students more closely.

She said, “The important thing here is frequency,” and she encourages professors to report instances of academic dishonesty to allow the policy to iden-

multiple infractions, according to the proposal.

Dargan said multiple infractions are “very uncommon.”

She added when they do happen, instances of second infractions tend to be close to a student’s first infraction.

ases of academic dishonesty as reported to the academic deans o er the past fi e academic years.

88%, according to data provided by Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences Susan Dargan.

There were 59 reported cases of academic dishonesty in AY16-17, according to the data. In AY20-21, there were seven cases.

The largest year-to-year decline was between AY18-19 and AY19-20, with an approximate 60% decrease in reported cases, according to the data.

Of the 162 reported cases for academic years since AY16-17, 152 were first-time infractions and the remaining 10 were second-time infractions, according to the data.

The type of infraction was identifiable for 160 of the reported cases. Of those cases, approximately 73.1% were instances of plagiarism, approximately 25.6% were instances of cheating on an exam, and the remaining 1.3% were cases in which a student gave work to another student, according to the data.

Dargan said she found the decline in cases to be “interesting.

“I’m not sure what’s going on,” she said. “It may be that the faculty are less likely to record it, particularly during a pandemic. And maybe there’s less going on during a pandemic.”

Dargan added changes in learning due to the pandemic led to the use of online formats that may make it more

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tify repeat offenders because if a student commits three infractions, “they can be dismissed from the University.”

According to the current academic honesty policy, faculty are “expected” to report cases of academic dishonesty, but it is not required.

The policy does require faculty to reference the University policy in their syllabi. owever, it would be “difficult” to identify when an infraction goes unreported by a professor, according to Dargan.

She added the policy was updated in AY18-19.

According to the policy proposal, the Dean of Students Office would no longer oversee cases of academic dishonesty - instead, the academic deans would.

Other changes included making the policy more clear and outlining the student appeal process in more detail.

Dargan said, “It was unclear to me, and I think to a lot of other people on the Academic Standing Committee, what percentage of these were investigated, and what percent were found to be problematic. And my feeling is that a lot of these cases were just reported cases.”

The new policy would also require academic deans to oversee instances of

Dargan said academic honesty is a “complicated topic,” adding, “Part of me is always wondering, ‘Why give assignments that can be easily plagiarized?’ And when I was an instructor, I started to question that,” she said.

She said, “I try to make my assign-

ments as idiosyncratic as possible, and more based on experiences and engagement than testing - that doesn’t fit every discipline.”

Dargan emphasized the importance of communication about not only the policy, but helping students under-

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stand why this is relevant and will be relevant later on in their professional lives.

Ellen Zimmerman, interim provost

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Leighah Beausoleil / THE GATEPOST The breakdown of type of academic dishonesty infraction from 160 cases.

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Academic dishonesty Continued from page 6 and vice president of Academic Affairs, said, “I think our policy is a good policy.

“I think it’s really important for students to understand the value of doing their own work,” Zimmerman said.

She reflected on her time as a faculty member and her experiences with cases of academic dishonesty, adding she believes the number of cases has grown over the past 10 to 15 years due to increased access to the internet and resources that make those behaviors easier.

Zimmerman added in some cases, the work involved in plagiarizing can be almost as much work or more than completing the actual assignment itself.

Shelli Waetzig, chair of the Academic Policies Committee, said she was

said. “They get a chance to speak their piece at the Appeal Committee.”

Waetzig added, “This gives them their opportunity to at least state their case and sort of be heard at a nonpartisan committee level.”

As of March 22, Waetzig said the committee saw four appeal cases last year and two so far this year.

Marc Cote, dean of Arts and Humanities, said the hard part of the policy is ensuring everyone involved understands the “ins and outs” of the process.

“I think the steps are in place to create a fair process, where the student has the opportunity to talk with the instructor prior to it being lodged as a complaint,” Cote said. “And then the student has the opportunity to appeal and there are several steps - some in

other people’s work and so on - that’s a universal policy anywhere you’re going to be working,” Smailes added.

He said he was “not too surprised” the number of cases weren’t as high as previous years because of remote learning.

Smailes said he believes the current academic honesty policy is “flexible” enough to allow faculty to implement it fairly, but also “rigorous” enough to set a clear standard of academic honesty for students.

“I think that the area that is maybe most unclear to students is the definition of plagiarism,” he said. “As much as I think policies try to define plagiarism as clearly as they can, there’s always a little bit of a gray area around some of those definitions.”

Given this, Smailes said, faculty can

career to ensure students have the opportunity to ask questions.

He said violations of the policy could be the result of students not having a full understanding of what is expected of them.

“We know that there are cultural differences around the world,” he added. “There’s enough studies on that to suggest that the violation of the code - any code for that matter - is culturally bounded. So, I think it’s complicated and much as we might like to apply it in a very literal way, I think that there’s a nuance that it can get steamrolled.”

Some students said they were surprised to see the decline of cases in the data.

Ben Hurney, a freshman studio art major, said he is not familiar with FSU’s academic honesty policy, but looking

“I think that the area that is maybe most unclear to students is the definition of plagiarism. As much as I think policies try to define plagiarism as clearly as they can, there’s always a little bit of a gray area around some of those definitions.”

-David Smailes, Interim Chair of the Political Science Department “surprised” by the decline in cases as shown through the data.

“I think the nature of remote learning definitely increases the potential for academic dishonesty,” she said.

“And that is just the nature of remote learning - people will have access to a lot more devices when they’re taking online exams.”

When it comes to instructors reporting or not reporting cases of academic dishonesty, Waetzig said she can see both sides.

“There’s a lot of paperwork that goes along with, you know, submitting those things,” she added.

However, she said reporting cases is important in discouraging those behaviors and being able to catch offenders who have multiple infractions.

“I think the policy is working,” she added. “I think it’s fine. I think if people follow the policy, it does what it needs to do, right? It goes up the ladder the way it’s supposed to go.

“The problem is, it’s a chain of events that needs to happen. And there are various people that have to move those things forward,” Waetzig said.

She added she does not believe this problem lies within the policy itself.

Waetzig is also a non-voting member of the Appeals Committee, which is a subcommittee of the Academic Policies Committee.

“We have recently revamped that policy in a way to make it so that students get their representation,” she

place to ensure privacy, some in place to ensure timely delivery of decisions.”

Cote said he understands instructors’ decisions to not report cases of academic dishonesty.

“I’m sort of comfortable with that,” he said. “We give great leeway to faculty in their syllabi and their academic pedagogy, and some faculty may feel that things are best dealt with in the classroom situation and they may decide that the best route is to work oneon-one with students and I respect that difference of opinion.”

Cote said he would be interested in having a discussion with students about the policy and creating the opportunity for students to make their own “code of conduct” that they would sign and demonstrate their awareness and commitment to academic honesty.

“That way, it does build greater awareness of the policy itself, but also makes students involved in the decision-making process,” he said.

David Smailes, interim chair of the Political Science Department, said policies such as the academic honesty policy are truly aimed at educating students and creating “teachable moments.”

He said the policies aren’t meant to be a “criminal code,” but to demonstrate to students how they should act as scholars and educate them on standards they are going to be held to even beyond college.

“The idea of attributing, properly,

“turn those into teachable moments to be able to help students understand where the limits are as far as plagiarism goes.”

Vincent Ferraro, chair of the Sociology and Criminology Department, said he neither expected nor was surprised by the decline in cases of academic dishonesty.

Ferraro said given changes to coursework and assignments, he understands why there could be fewer violations of the policy.

“Potentially, there were some changes to the types of assignments that students were doing in a remote-synchronous environment rather than a face-to-face environment,” he said.

“You’ve also got the fact that we transitioned to a new system - Canvas as an LMS versus Blackboard,” he said, adding he would be interested to see next year’s data to see if the Learning Management System had an effect.

Ferraro said he does not believe students are aware of or understand the academic honesty policy.

“I don’t want to give the impression that it’s just students not doing their homework,” he said. “I don’t think that’s the case. I’m actually not sure how many faculty are broadly and fully aware of the policy, either.”

Ferarro said it could be helpful for students to learn about the policy as a part of their first-year experience, but that the policy should also be revisited “often” throughout their academic

at the data, he would have expected it to have the opposite outcome. urney said remote learning “definitely increased the amount of talking about work and tests.

“Just being able to take a test online definitely increases that. A lot of my teachers in high school would watch your screen while you take a test. It was harder, but it definitely did increase,” he added.

Sabrina Beach, a senior psychology major, said she is “kind of” familiar with the policy, adding she knows there is “no tolerance for plagiarism.”

Beach said, “I think it’s good that they have it in place, but it makes me anxious because I recheck my work all the time to make sure I don’t accidentally plagiarize.”

Zach Ade, a freshman in the pre-engineering program, said he isn’t familiar with FSU’s policy, but he is aware of what policies typically are in place in schools.

Ade said when it comes to academic dishonesty, he doesn’t “feel too strongly one way or the other.

“I think plagiarism is still pretty bad, though, because you’re just taking someone else’s work as your own,” he added. “But like cheating - like using a cheat sheet or something - I don’t really care that much if other people do it.”

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Career Services holds first in-person Job & Internship Fair since 2019

By Caroline Gordon Editorial Staff Career Services and Employer Relations hosted the Spring 2022 Job & Internship Fair in person for students to network with 30 employers in the McCarthy Center Forum March 31.

It’s the first time the fair has been in person since before the pandemic.

According to Wendy Davis, office manager of Career Services and Employer Relations, approximately 185 students registered for the event and many others attended.

Jill Gardosik, internship coordinator for Career Services and Employer Relations, said the fair is beneficial for students because employers can “put a face to a name” when reviewing a student’s application.

Senior Kammarie Pelland, a marketing major, said the fair is helpful to her career search as she can make connections with employers in person, allowing her to “break the barrier of being nervous while speaking to a potential boss.”

Sophomore Camille Carvalho, a sociology major, said given the rise in technological communication due to COVID-19, the fair is critical for students as they can practice their interview skills and how to dress professionally.

Senior Phil Meola, a computer science major, said, “I think this career fair has many, many employers with

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great insight - there’s a lot of creative people around. It’s a great event. I hope we can find some good internships and opportunities.”

Senior Aaron Moyer, a computer science major, explained he attended the fair to “get his foot out in the field of internships” in order to expand his technical skills in the computer science field.

Moyer noted his interest in MediTech, an information technology company, as well as their booth.

Sophomore Kaleb Kinskey, also a computer science major, who is seeking a summer internship, said he gave his resumé to employers from MathWorks and is thankful for the opportunity to connect with the computer software company.

He added, “This event is important for students because it teaches us communication skills and helps us find a job after college.”

Junior Marquis DosSantos, a business management major who is also seeking a summer internship, said, “For a college student, this is a great environment to be in - you learn so much about internships, part-time positions and full-time positions.”

He added it is important for students to form professional relationships while still in college, so after graduation, they have job opportunities.

Senior Geanny Infante, a fashion design and retailing major who spent her time at the fair networking with The TJX Companies, said it is important to

“be aware” of every employer in attendance because students don’t typically have the opportunity to network with 30 companies at once.

“There could be something you like, but don’t know about until you actually attend the career fair,” she said.

Infante added, “I think it is so important the school is hosting this event because students need to seek out their options.”

Senior Jake Garman, a double major in accounting and financial planning, said, “The career fair is a place where you can talk to people and get out of your comfort zone. FSU is doing a good job of bringing in quality companies that are willing to work with kids.”

Senior Paige Capone, a sociology major, who is part of the Suitable Solutions Program, said the fair allowed her to build on the skills she already developed as a Suitable Solutions student, such as critiquing her resumé and practicing interview skills.

Capone said she is searching for an internship and a job. She networked with the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF), Key Program, the MetroWest YMCA, and Coca-Cola.

She said, “This event is so important for students to not only get yourself out there and build on your networking skills, but to also feel out the job market. As a graduating senior, it is important to see what the prospects are.”

Although the majority of the attendees were students, Spanish and

Portuguese Professor Joanne Britland attended the fair to create partnerships with local organizations to promote internships for Spanish-language students.

Britland said she is the faculty fellow for the Mancuso Humanities Workforce Preparation Center.

“My project is trying to create a pipeline between students to facilitate real-world, hands-on experience using Spanish and the value of being a Spanish major and a humanities major,” she said.

Amari Veale, residential coordinator at The New England Center for Children, a private special education residential school in Southborough, said she was grateful to attend the fair as she was able to offer students information on working with children who have autism.

“I am so excited to be here and speak with students,” she said.

Stephanie DaSilva, human resources specialist at Realizing Children’s Strengths (RCS), a learning center for children with autism, said, “This is one of the best fairs I have been to since the pandemic started. The students at Framingham State are always excellent to talk to and well prepared.”

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Rams Rising at last On April 2, Framingham State hosted the first of its in-person Rams Rising events, which had been held remotely for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

It was a near-perfect day for the community to come together and celebrate Ram Pride.

Brick pathways guided visitors to each of the buildings making up our historic campus - its charm only enhanced by the blooming pansies and new spring grass.

Visitors from all over came to FSU to explore the many programs and opportunities it has to offer.

For many of us who have attended FSU during the pandemic, Saturday was the best gift any of us could have asked for: hope.

For the first time in two years, campus life seemed almost normal as students, faculty, staff, and administrators all joined together to promote what we love most about FSU. Stepping into each building, prospective students got a taste of what FSU is truly about - our community.

This Rams Rising was not just a celebration prospective students needed: it’s what our community needed. We finally got to experience what has been missing from campus the past two years.

Starting March 6, COVID-19 safety guidelines began lifting on campus. Now, people are able to be maskless in most places, excluding classrooms, some offices, and large indoor gatherings.

FSU’s COVID-19 positive test rate has remained below 1%, providing us with reassurance about these decisions.

Given these changes, Rams Rising felt almost like a “Coming Out of COVID-19” party, providing all of us with a glimpse of normalcy.

The hard work and dedication of everyone involved in this event cannot go unnoticed.

We at The Gatepost want to thank everyone who came out Saturday and made this celebration possible.

Thank you to the Dean of Students Office, SILD, and all the other offices that played a role in organizing the “State Street 101” Resource Fair.

Student organizations hosted fun and exciting tables with branded merchandise and interesting activities - who wouldn’t want to join an organization that has Play-Doh©?

Students and professors from an array of majors shared great presentations about their FSU experiences and the classes their departments have to offer. Our excitement of all we learn together was reflected in the faces of prospective students as they anticipated what their future educational journeys will entail.

Student workers, including tour guides, worked hard to provide assistance to visitors traversing our campus.

Facilities did an amazing job with the landscaping of the campus, allowing it to blossom after months of cold and severe weather.

Dining Services went all out in preparing for the flood of visitors who not only desired to fill their minds with information, but also their stomachs with warm, delicious food.

New Student and Family Programs did a fantastic job hosting informational sessions for both prospective students and their parents.

We can’t forget all the planning that went into this day. Thank you to the staff of the Admissions Office, who prepared such an elaborate and informative event that so perfectly demonstrated the community we have here at FSU. We are so stoked to do it all again this upcoming Saturday.

This event has marked a new beginning for all of us at Framingham State.

Despite the remnants of COVID-19, we can cherish the hope we’ve gained through this community experience.

Thank you, FSU. This is what we’re here for.

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Work will never be the same

By Mark Haskall Staff Writer There is hardly anyone who made it through the COVID-19 pandemic with their work life unscathed.

As this pandemic is an ongoing global crisis, it is imperative that corporate America reassess the relationship that it has with workers to provide a sustainable, rewarding, and life-enhancing work environment.

This ongoing crisis has forced people to transition from regular 9-to-5 employment experiences to jobs that are accessible only virtually. Yet this transition, while not immediate, has offered the opportunity for hybrid work, which means days working remotely or in-person at the office.

This forced transition has led to the utter collapse of the home/ work partition, especially for parents who juggle childcare and homeschooling with intense work demands.

This imposed alteration has led to many people realizing that they do not wish to return to an in-person workplace and would rather stay remote. This is because they evaluated their previous lives using a pandemic lens.

Workers, including those deemed essential, should have manageable conditions rather than cruel and merciless ones.

Due to the incalculable harm of this global crisis, it is time for a reevaluation of corporate America and the relationship it has with its employees.

A topic for work-life reevaluation that needs to be considered is the possibility of a four-day work week. This topic has been discussed considerably as this pandemic brought unprecedented changes to how we do business.

According to the BBC, the four-day work week is acknowledged as a solution for stress and burnout in the workplace.

“Governments and businesses had the opportunity to experiment with this idea and the precursory conclusions propose that there are potential benefits including better work-life balance and improved wellbeing - at no cost to employee productivity,” the BBC reported.

An important concern that corporate America needs to address is job departures, as there have been many since the global health crisis began.

This pandemic has created an exodus of essential workers because a lot of folks are leaving their positions for a variety of reasons.

According to the Pew Research Center, a few of the reasons why people left their jobs in 2021 include “low pay, a lack of opportunities for advancement, and feeling disrespected at work.

“The survey also finds that those who quit and are now employed elsewhere are more likely than not to say their current job has better pay, more opportunities for advancement, and more work-life balance and flexibility,” according to the Pew Research Center.

Other possible reasons for workplace departures include cash incentives, such as better pay and/or benefits. Folks also had to leave the labor market to take care of themselves, children, or elderly persons during this ongoing global health crisis.

According to CNN, Older workers were forced to retire of their own prerogative or, unfortunately, age discrimination forced them out of the labor market. As reported by CNN, the rate by which workers were quitting in 2021 increased in the health care and social assistance industries as well as the hospitality and tourism industries alongside the labor force.

According to the University of Michigan, the younger facets of the labor force, those composed of college-educated workers, have access to safety nets that provide greater financial freedom to consider other options. For those who have financial constraints from employment instability, a crisis may lead many unemployed people to scramble to secure whatever work they can find.

Things have changed and we need to change with them.

This pandemic has given us a chance to reevaluate our workplaces and make decisions that will curate a healthy environment for workers - now and for the near future.

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The relevance of the 21st century library

By Patrick Brady Editorial Staff Libraries are still as relevant in the 21st century as they have been throughout history.

Sounds like a bold claim, doesn’t it?

Many people would argue that the purpose of being a librarian is to preserve archival, print, and electronic material - and that is true. But there’s more to the role than that.

The role of libraries is to preserve cultural heritage and increase mass digitization. Furthermore, librarians are much like journalists - they are community-based and provide reliable sources of information.

According to “Our Vocation is Information,” an article published on the American Libraries website, a Pew Research Center study conducted in 2017 determined that public libraries help people find “trustworthy, reliable information.” Surprisingly, 78% of Americans agreed with the statement.

In comparison, 33% had a positive view of the news media.

But what truly makes libraries so special?

First, they are a quiet place to study and do work. There are no other public spaces that regulate noise as effectively as libraries.

Libraries offer separate quiet rooms to patrons who request them in advance. These rooms are often limited to one or two people, but can some-

times hold as many as 12 patrons.

Second, whether it be a public, government, or university library, they all share one crucial characteristic - they are community-focused.

Not only do staff members enthusiastically assist patrons with all their reference needs and questions, but they also plan community-based events.

Librarians are always involved in brainstorming potential activities to increase patron engagement. These

events range from virtual presentations to creative hands-on projects.

According to “What Even is a Librarian,” an article published on Ohioan.com, most librarians have individual projects, are involved with committees, and create content. These programs can encompass lectures, storytelling, concerts, classes, trivia, after-school activities, and author presentations.

And finally, libraries provide accessibility to countless desktop comput-

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ers and free databases.

Those who do not have a computer are able to use those at the library to access the internet free of charge. This is a major benefit for people who cannot afford to pay Wi-Fi bills.

Additionally, people can borrow or access materials either in-person or by logging onto public library databases.

For instance, through the Minuteman Public Library site, patrons can reserve books, DVDs, and audiobooks.

Because we live in an era in which truth is challenged, it is important to have free access to accurate information and librarians who can help the public find reliable and trustworthy facts.

Journalists and librarians both help the public pursue the truth by presenting information and research.

Along with journalists, librarians expose fake news and inform the general public about inaccurate information.

By offering quiet and community spaces, conducting community-centered events, and providing access to free online databases and Wi-Fi, along with their traditional role as a repository for print materials and a resource for accurate information, I believe libraries will continue to thrive in the future.

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What is your favorite weird food combination?

By Maddison Behringer and Emma Lyons, Editorial Staff

“I like to dunk pretzels in tuna fish.”

“Probably pickles and grape jelly toast.”

-Emily Patterson, freshman

“Pizza on ice cream. Pretty weird but it’s pretty good.”

“Ramen noodles and ketchup.”

-Nerwys Aybar, sophomore

-Alec Eisenhood, sophomore

“Horseradish aioli with potato chips. It’s literally so good.”

-Stephanie Boersma, junior

-Ainsley Cacciapouti, freshman

“Cheese and jelly.”

-Sabrina Beach, senior

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Rams Lacrosse falls to MIT 17-10

By Tyler Wahl Sports Editor The FSU Rams faced off against the MIT Beavers on home field Wednesday night, April .

This was the lacrosse team’s first game back on home field under the lights, and they gave their audience a worthy show in the first uarter.

Rams’ junior attacker Madison Skiff struck first just two minutes into the first uarter with a blazing hot shot to the back of the MIT net.

Skiff was a nuisance for the Beavers. She put eight shots on goal throughout the match, converting two of them into points for FSU. The team’s momentum looked promising until a -0 run was rattled off by MIT to make the score -1 with seven minutes left in the uarter. owever, FSU was able to chip away at the lead when sophomore attacker annah Guerin rifled one in to close the gap to two.

The Beavers persisted, converting two more goals before the uarter was over. Freshman attacker eah Green was able to sneak one in with 30 seconds left to make the score -3 at the end of the first.

The second uarter featured less action than the first, but it ultimately helped the Rams build toward a comeback. Guerin was able to put two more on the board in the second, and the Rams defense held strong for the majority of the uarter.

FSU’s strong defense was dismantled with just six minutes left in the uarter when MIT broke the seal on the net once again.

MIT put two more in the back of the Rams net in the final minute to close the first half with an imposing 9-5 lead.

The Rams hoped to bounce back, but they were halted by two goals from MIT to open the third uarter.

Both sides fought hard the rest of the uarter to secure the lead going into the fourth, but FSU prevailed first with Skiff’s second goal of the night.

Guerin uickly followed up on the momentum, putting in her fourth goal of the match off an assist from sophomore midfielder Regan Fein.

MIT slid one more by the Rams defense with a minute left in the third uarter, bringing the score to 12- going into the fourth.

With a five-goal lead to overcome, the Rams would have to play perfect defense and near-perfect offense in order to come back.

While FSU’s offense continued to provide goals, the defense unfortunately gave up too many points for the Rams to have a chance at a miracle rebound in this game.

Green and Guerin both put up one more goal each before the buzzer sounded, totaling seven points between the two of them on the night.

Senior attacker Tara Palermo also chipped in with a goal of her own in the fourth uarter, but it wasn’t enough to bring the game back into contention.

Although MIT secured the victory 1 -10, the Rams still look to learn and capitalize on their mis-

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takes in upcoming conference matchups.

Junior attacker Madison Skiff had two goals on the night and discussed the importance of their upcoming matches after the game.

She said, “For us to continue to succeed in conference play, we need to come out with high energy and excitement and keep that through the whole game. Moving the ball fast up the field will help us win these games and keep the intensity up.”

Sophomore midfielder Regan Fein also contributed what she thinks should be a focus in the upcoming games, adding, “On the defensive end, it has been all about communication and pressure, not giving an inch no matter where we are on the field, shutting them down at every angle.”

The Rams lacrosse team currently sits at a record, and they look to improve that moving forward into the latter half of the season.

Skiff added, “In order to improve our record, we have to do what we can do best - passing, catching, shooting, and playing the amazing defense we know how to play as a team.”

While the team couldn’t pull out a win vs. MIT, Skiff still focused on some of the positives and how to apply them in the future.

She said, “We executed our energy well. In some games we have had, it’s hard to keep our head up and push through the hard things - but we kept the energy high and didn’t give up until the last whistle was blown.”

The Rams look to fight back to a positive record starting with MC A Saturday afternoon, April 9.

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‘The golden era of college radio’ WDJM alumni share memories from the station

By Emily Rosenberg Arts & Features Editor There’s a beat-up door plastered with scratched-up, risqué bumper stickers that open into a darkened room.

The room is cluttered with a thousand records, a turntable, a punk rock band poster with a sweaty, mustached musician, a hanging pink flamingo with sunglasses and a mohawk, and a huge paint splatter logo in a slanted retro font that reads “WDJM 91.3 FM.” It’s 1982, and Steve Peck is entering one of the first radio stations of his 20-year career as a DJ. The WDJM radio station on the 5th floor of the McCarthy Center, is where Lori DiMaiolo, Chris Pearson, Chris Petherick, and Beth Lennon shared their enduring passion for music, and made life-long friends.

As a child, Peck always knew he wanted to pursue radio because music was a huge part of his life. He woke up every morning and listened to the radio, and was even hired at a local station where he would record his own work off hours.

When touring Framingham State and visiting the WDJM station, Peck said although the station was not high end, he felt like he was “home.”

Peck said, “I was like ‘OK, search over.’ This is where we’re going.”

Peck was the program director at WDJM from 1982 to 1986, and his

Courtesy of Whittemore Library Archives WDJM in 1985 holding up their “Chuck the Flamingo” bumper stickers in front of their sticker-covered door.

“Mail Call” began as a little tradition called “smash and trash,” where he and General Manager Rob Timm opened a Jermaine Jackson record they’d received in the mail, and after listening to it and realizing it was terrible, destroyed it there on-air in the studio and threw the pieces in the garbage.

Suddenly, letters were trickling into the station from fans of the show.

DJs hanging out in the WDJM station in 1986. job was to organize shows such as MetroWest Alternative and Boston Rock. The station reported to College Media Journal, which monitored what they played and sent them records.

But their life at the station wasn’t always as simple as playing U2 or Depeche Mode.

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Listeners wrote weekly - they created characters, asked for advice, and participated in contests sponsored by the WDJM crew.

Peck said one contest was a beauty pageant, “Miss WDJM,” which was won by a mannequin.

“The amount of mail that we got each week - it was just incredible to know the number of people who were listening,” Peck said.

Similarly, “Plagiarism Court” was a show in which Peck played a riff from a song and tried to guess another song it was stolen from.

Always wanting to be a DJ, but never having the time between being Arts Editor for The Gatepost and having a job, Chris Petherick joined the radio station her senior year in 1984. She returned to the college to host programs with her final show in 1993.

One of her shows was called “Attitude Adjustment,” during which the DJs commented on celebrity and campus brawls.

Petherick also recalled twins who came from outside Framingham State College (as the University was known at the time) who performed a Polka show every Sunday and drew a large following.

She said there were DJs from Boston who guest starred on their shows, along with bands from surrounding cities who would come on to be interviewed.

“When musicians were walking up State Street, they drew a lot of attention because … when I was there, Framingham State was really a jock [school] and the rest of the campus thought we were all freaks and weirdos, which was fine with us. But when somebody came up from Boston with spiked-up hair and earrings dripping down his neck, he really stuck out on campus,” Petherick said.

However, the shows weren’t always jubilant. Lori DiMaiolo, a member of WDJM 1982-1986, was a DJ when The Challenger exploded and said she

ran to her room, dumped her books, and fled to the station to be with her friends to report the news as it came in. She knew they would be hearing updates on the teletype machine which sent the station reports on weather and news.

“People were gathered around crying and basically in shock. As soon as we received news, we would broadcast it. Knowing that Christa McAuliffe was on board was especially difficult for us. This was my senior year and she was supposed to be our commencement speaker.”

They also faced backlash from other students.

Chris Pearson, who was a member of WDJM 1984-1989, said although he thought he left high school behind, he still remembered jocks calling the music they played “weird” and “freakish.”

Laughing, he said the staff at the McCarthy Center refused to play WDJM, even though they had a contract with the club to play it during the day.

In protest, Pearson pledged to strip down nude for his show if the staff at the student center did not play their station. He gathered support from other DJs, but the college center staff wouldn’t budge.

“I chickened out and only got down to my underwear,” he said.

But the DJs didn’t need support from the school when they had each other and, of course, Chuck the flamingo - the mascot they printed on all of their bumper stickers and T-shirts some of which are still hanging in the back of alumni’s closets.

Peck said the flamingo was perfect

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WDJM Continued from page 13 because it expressed WDJM’s eccentricity. “We were the anti-Rams.”

Chuck was a neon pink flamingo with a flaming blue Mohawk, blue sunglasses, and a cigarette hanging from its mouth, which DJ Tim Heaney drew directly from the lawn flamingo that hung in their production studio.

“You know, the sense of camaraderie that we had was incredible. It was a place where a lot of people who didn’t necessarily fit in elsewhere felt like they belonged,” Peck said.

Although Beth Lennon, who attended FSC from 1984-1986, left Framingham State after two years and now lives in Pennsylvania, said all of her memories of the college are of WDJM and she still goes to concerts with her fellow alumni.

“I found my people. We can talk this language, this language of music,

took a lot of work to convince Student Government Association to provide the funds for the power boost.

“We did many hours of research.

We had to present our studies and proposals to the College administration. I remember sitting at my typewriter - pre-computer - and typing out the proposal that we eventually presented. It was a nerve-wracking experience, to say the least,” DiMaiolo said.

She added, “When the day came to start at 100 watts, Rob Timm flipped the switch! The rest is history!”

Lennon and Pearson said switching from 10 to 100 watts made the difference in being able to reach the MetroWest community, which ultimately led to more people joining the club and their widespread success.

Lennon still has yellowed Gatepost newspapers reporting WDJM being

Courtesy of Whittemore Library Archives A 1983 group photo of WDJM for the “The Dial,” FSC’s yearbook during the time. but it wasn’t just us in the station. It was also the listeners,” Lennon said.

“And so … when you meet the people who you share interests with who aren’t just, ‘Hey, we live on the same floor’ or ‘We’re in the same class.’

Those are the people you go through your life hoping to find … I really feel like I know the people at ’DJM got me.”

She added, “I went from being a shy, behind-the-scenes [woman] to all of a sudden having a radio show. I literally and metaphorically found my voice.”

She had to communicate with people she didn’t know and get the word out about the music she was playing.

She said she got feedback that music she played was “interesting,” and that “gave me courage to then become more of who I was and who I am.”

In 1984, WDJM purchased a new transmitter, which boosted its power from 10 to 100 watts. This allowed the station to be heard not only on the small college campus of Framingham State, but across the MetroWest region.

DiMaiolo said it was a new FCC requirement for all stations, and it

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named the #1 College Radio Station in New England by Boston’s Rock n Roll Magazine “The Beat” in an article “The Best of 1984.”

Pearson said his role as music director was to “shape” the kind of music DJs played during their shows.

He said college radio was an “important vehicle” for Alt-rock bands such as Tears for Fears and Nirvana to break into the mainstream. WDJM, as well as other college radios, wanted to be a place for people to hear music they couldn’t hear on stations such as Kiss 108.

Pearson remembers during one of his first WDJM meetings as music director, he defaced a Madonna record with glue and told the staff they could no longer play “Like a Virgin” because at that point, people were joining the organization to “put it on their résumé,” and were giving airtime to commercial music.

“To me, college radio was like a community and I don’t mean just WDJM, but college radio in general,” he said.

“It was a broadcast medium on the radio. It was a way for people to kind of unite around this common love of what you call quirky or underground

Courtesy of Whittemore Library Archives The “Suburban Puddlecats” after they won the Ram Olympics during the 1986 Sandbox. music. And I think that’s why it had such momentum in the ’80s.”

The impact of college radio showed when Lennon was out at dinner recently. Someone who was in a band in the ’80s found it impressive that she was on college radio.

Similarly, Peck said one time he was out at a club listening to commercial radio when a Depeche Mode song started playing and he got into a “massive argument” with a friend.

“What are they doing playing that song? We made that song. We broke that record,” Peck said. “It really shows what we did.”

But for Pearson, his love for music went far beyond breaking records with WDJM. While working at one of the first Newbury Comics stores, he also went on tour around Massachusetts with his band, Green Magnet School.

Pearson said they signed a record deal with Genius Records - the same

Pearson said he gravitated toward WDJM because he was the “Weirdo punk rock kid” in his high school.

“I used to get beat up by jocks in my high school for having green hair,” he said. “Now, I see kids walking down the street with green or purple hair and think, man - this is the best.”

Turning his Zoom camera during an interview to show his record collection, which looked more like his own record store, Pearson said, “Music for me has always been a lifelong passion.”

He added, “I had a very dark period in my life in the ’90s and I will say that music saved me honestly - without hyperbole. Music saved my life. And that sounds like a really overblown heavy statement, but it’s 100% true.”

Pearson’s band was one of many that played at the Sandbox end-ofthe-year celebration. WDJM and other student organizations invited local

Courtesy of Whittemore Library Archives WDJM at their reporting station during Sandbox 1986. company that signed Nirvana - but after releasing a few records, they broke up.

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Aram Han Sifuentes explains how to use art to talk back to power

By Emma Lyons Editorial Staff Arts & Ideas welcomed Aram Han Sifuentes to speak via Zoom following a protest-banner-making event in Hemenway Hall April 5.

Sifuentes is a Korean-American artist from Chicago. She is a fiber artist, activist, and professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Sifuentes began her talk by explaining her goals as an artist - “to disrupt, unsettle, and rupture dominant narratives. To assert, demand, and center those who are commonly othered - particularly for immigrants of color.”

She noted that often artists of color are told that their art is not enough to help make social changes and, as a result, many artists of color begin to believe it and stop creating.

She challenged this statement saying, “Our stories are often not told, actively forgotten and/or suppressed, perverted, distorted and oversimplified by dominant culture. And through art, we could tell our own stories and truths on our own terms.”

Sifuentes then recounted her story as an artist.

As she spoke, she showed photos of her parents’ hands, explaining how they worked with their hands to make a living in the United States.

Sifuentes helped her parents with their work growing up. “We would all

contribute by ripping seams, ripping out bad zippers, sewing on buttons, and mending rips and holes of other people’s clothes,” she said.

She added those moments were when sewing was linked to her identity and became political for her.

As she moved into the second portion of her presentation, she showed examples of 19-century sewing samplers and explained how they inspired her to begin the U.S. Citizenship Test Sampler project.

It began with a sewing sampler she made when studying for the U.S. citizenship test, where she embroidered all of the test’s questions and answers. The finished piece is 8 and a half inches wide and 22 feet long.

She sold it for $680 - the same price as the U.S. citizenship test when she took it in 2016. With the amount of time and effort she put into the project, Sifuentes earned $2 per hour of work.

After completing her own citizenship test sampler, she expanded the project to other non-U.S. citizens.

They would embroider one question and its answer on the sampler, and it was put on sale for the price of their citizenship test.

“Currently, there’s more than 130 completed samplers, and they’re exhibited together to display the collective value of this community of non-citizens,” she said.

She then spoke about her inability to vote for 24 years before she became

a U.S. citizen.

She displayed an infographic about who is unable to vote and noted how difficult it was to find the answer of who can’t vote.

Sifuentes then presented photos from her “Official Unofficial Voting Station: Voting for Those who Legally Can’t.”

This project was formed by Sifuentes in connection with the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and set up 25 unofficial voting booths across the United States and Mexico.

“They all took different forms, some more performative,” she said.

“This was not meant to be a scientific demographic undertaking, but a series of interconnected gestures meant to empower disenfranchised people.”

In 2020, Sifuentes created “Voting Kits for the Disenfranchised,” which included ballots and a ballot box, along with stickers, wristbands, flyers, and a vinyl record of the playlist played at past unofficial voting events.

Sifuentes then spoke about her art as a form of protest.

She said that since she works with non-citizens, many do not have the safe space to “Talk Back to Power,” “but art can create this space under the guise of creativity.”

She used this motivation to start the Protest Banner Lending Library.

Sifuentes hosts protest-banner-making workshops, where participants are taught how to use fabric

Emma Lyons / THE GATEPOST (Left) Ingrid Barbosa and Tyler Risteen making a protest banner April 5. to make banners in protest of current events.

“Many of us were making banners because we were moved by the moment. We needed to do something. We needed to speak up. We wanted them to go out there, but we couldn’t take them out there ourselves,” she said.

So, many people donated their banners to the Lending Library so that those who were able to attend protests could use them, and their messages would still be sent out into the world.

Sifuentes’ Protest Banner Lending Library is an ongoing project and has several locations across the U.S. The student-made banners from the Tuesday morning workshop will be displayed around campus.

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WDJM Continued from page 14 weekend’s worth of activities.

DiMaiolo’s favorite memory of participating in Sandbox was when the WDJM “suburban puddle cats” beat sports teams and other clubs on campus and won $500 in the Ram Olympics, part of Sandbox weekend.

For the Olympics, organizations on campus put together teams to compete in physical activities. Events consisted of “silly things” such as shopping cart relays, filling up a cup with water using only a tablespoon, and scavenger hunts.

Peck has a different memorable moment from Sandbox. He still has a recording from a moment during Sandbox ’86 when a storm broke out while an administrator was being interviewed, leaving one of the DJs in the pouring rain. The DJ shouted over the air “What the f***” - the first time he could recall a DJ swearing over the air.

Peck said due to the professionalism of the station, the number of people who actually went on to have careers in the music or radio industry is “incredible.” For example, Rob Timm was a general manager of the station in the ’80s and is still a leading DJ at WRNR, a station in Maryland, and Pearson currently works as a producer

The Chuck the Flamingo bumper sticker that WDJM distributed. at WGBH. Peck himself worked in radio for 20 years for studios such as WXLO and WSRS in Worcester and in Providence for WSCE. “Thinking of 50 years of WDJM, I truly believe that that radio station was so instrumental in not only my success, but the success of a whole group of people who would not have been where they are today, if not for it,” Peck said.

Lennon acknowledged that the instant gratification of technology allows people to get music anywhere, any time, whereas when she was an undergraduate, WDJM was a way to gain access to music without going down “narrow paths.

“I hope even with that, there’s still a place where a ragtag bunch of cool misfits can meet and still make friends for the rest of their lives because that’s what happened to me,”

Courtesy of Tim Heaney she said.

Pearson said, “The ’80s, pre-internet - that was really the golden era of college radio.”

[Editor’s Note: Emily Rosenberg’s father was in WDJM during the time the people in the article were members.]

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Capstone projects begin showing in the Mazmanian Gallery

By Ryan O’Connell Asst. Arts & features Editor

Several graphic arts and illustration students displayed their capstone projects in the Mazmanian Gallery April 5.

The exhibition included the collective works of six senior students, and had individual pieces ranging from mock-brand designs to contemporary illustrations.

Lorena Farias constructed her capstone for her graphic design senior portfolio - which included a social media campaign for a fictitious women’s blazer brand, a fashion forecast of a swimwear line, and real packing designs created for a wig-making business in Massachusetts.

Farias said her goal was to make sure the capstone represented her interests well, and added how the project embodied aspects of her major and minor - and hopefully aspects of her future.

“I’m a fashion merchandising major and a graphic design minor, so when I was producing work for the show, I really wanted to be able to capture both of those … because I see myself designing in the fashion industry,” she said.

Farias described all the work on display in her section of the gallery, clarifying it is a collection of branding and identity work on various subjects.

She said two were fashion brands and one a beauty brand, and that there were other small pieces included in the collection.

She spoke more about the brands in her designs next, and said “Lazer” was a blazer brand which she created the full branding and identity for, alongside a social media campaign for the company.

She also mentioned “Carioca Swim,” a fashion forecasting project she did for the spring summer 2023 season, which was inspired by her Brazilian heritage.

“When I did that, I was inspired by my Brazilian culture, so the entire brand is centralized on Rio de Janeiro, which is a very warm place known for its beaches. … Carioca is actually the name that you would call a local in Rio de Janeiro,” she said.

Farias said the capstone was “like the final remark” that she was able to achieve working with both design and fashion. She also thought it highlighted the importance of being knowledgeable in multiple fields.

“I think it emphasizes the importance of having multiple skills. I always encourage people to find a minor that is going to not only support them in their major, but is also going to add onto those skills,” she said.

Lucille Couet, another artist in the exhibition, had a collection consisting mostly of illustrations she completed in her junior and senior years.

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She said that most of her inspiration came spontaneously, referencing an illustration advertising a fictional mass grave of lobsters in Maine, and how she liked the absurdity of it. “I did that on the train - and I thought it’d be really funny to make a tourism poster about a bizarre sideshow attraction. … And I was just like, ‘Hmm, what does Maine have a comic ton of?’”

Couet said she had no overall theme, and she just drew things she liked, remarking that it “usually turns out very colorful.

“If you make things that you like, other people will like them too. Find your audience,” she said.

Couet also briefly explained some of the other pieces which stemmed from assignments, such as one where she had to draw the letter R 100 times in various styles, and a collection of redecorated Minute Maid cans.

Erica Doiron included ceramics and contemporary illustration in her capstone, and shared the stories behind “Memory Vessels” and “Women as Zodiacs.”

“Memory Vessels” was made up of pottery and photographs representing important aspects of her life. She said she planned to expand the collection, creating more pieces based on valuable memories.

Doiron explained a boxing glove, which was a sport she said helped her at a difficult time, and a photograph of the ocean, which was one of her happiest memories from before the pandemic.

She added she would like to expand the collection to memories of other people, and “it would be fun to have a whole gallery exhibition of that alone.”

Doiron said the piece came out with a prompt relating to memory, and she couldn’t pick just one. She added family and mental health was really important to her, and helped her settle on the project.

“I like to be able to build, but I also like to tell a story with what I can do.

I feel like I have a much better handle on a 3D object,” she said.

Doiron said her “Women as Zodiacs” series was a way for her to get more practice drawing people, while also representing femininity and diversity, two aspects she said she was “really big on.”

She explained her creative process as being “all over the place,” and said it also largely depends on the medium she is working in. She added she also travels between projects a lot, and it isn’t irregular for her to “come back to it” after working with something else for a while.

“I start by brainstorming. I will throw words on paper and they might make no sense at all. I go back to it, I circle things that make sense, and then I go into sketching from there,” she said.

Maddison Behringer / THE GATEPOST A section of Sage Ray’s capstone project on display April 5.

Paris DeMello’s project was a redesign of a magazine, presented as several two-page slides which, when folded, could act as a physical booklet. The project was created in her senior portfolio class, and was inspired by her opinion that magazines can sometimes be overbearing.

“I really like magazines and I think sometimes they’re a bit much, so I thought, how do you make it still really cool, but kind of a little more simplified so people would maybe want to read it more,” she said.

DeMello said her favorite part of creating the magazine redesign was being able to work with material that was recent, and referenced a photo spread she did for the show “Euphoria” on one of the pages.

She also said she enjoyed thinking “outside of the box” in its design. She wondered if anyone would look at the magazine and choose to rip pages out for use as posters, and designed for situations like it.

DeMello talked about some of the art done outside of her portfolio class, and said she recently worked on her biggest painting yet over her winter break. She said the canvas was approximately 5 feet high, and it was another piece she was proud of.

“I put a bunch of things from magazines in it. … It kind of looks like a huge collage, basically. That was just super fun for me, and it was one of my favorite things I did,” she said.

Sage Ray said her collection was put together in her senior portfolio class, but most of the individual works were made in an independent study. Ray said she was able to create whatever she wanted, but focused on monsters, and made several illustrations on the subject.

Ray said the themes of her collection were inspired by her wanting to create her own interpretations of classic monsters, and her favorite an-

imals - frogs.

“For the monsters, I thought it would just be cool to do my own take on classic characters that most people enjoy. For the frogs - frogs are my favorite animals, so I just started drawing them and it kind of turned into a series,” she said.

Ray’s corner of the show also included two physical sketchbooks the audience could flip through, which she said helped to show a lot of her ideas originate through traditional art. She added she wanted to be able to show that skill, since most of her other included work was digital.

One sketchbook was labeled by Ray as “the monster-a-day sketchbook,” which she said she used in her independent study to create a monster every day and a short blurb about them.

She said her other sketchbook was “just [her] everyday sketchbook,” that was used for studio art classes.

Ray said the process of putting the collection together was a lot of fun for her. She said she “thrifted” every frame on display in the show, and she liked repurposing them as well as seeing it all on display.

“Seeing them come together as one was kind of cool too, because I never really see my work up on a wall. Individually, I think it’s just fun to make stuff. It’s what I enjoy doing - a hobby,” she said.

Ray said her favorite piece in the show was a watercolor of a frog lying in bed with a woman, and said it was done for an assignment based on a book involving the frog. She added it is her only physical piece from her in the show aside from the sketchbooks.

The first of three capstone shows will be visible in the Mazmanian Gallery until April 11.

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Senior Paris DeMello posing with her capstone project in the Mazmanian Gallery April 5.

Senior Lorena Farais Soriano standing with her capstone project in the Mazmanian Gallery April 5.

Senior Lucy Couet’s artwork on display in the Mazmanian Gallery April 5.

Senior Lucy Couet standing next to her capstone project in the Mazmanian Gallery April 5.

Freshman Alyssa Bowler looking at artwork by Sage Ray in the Mazmanian Gallery April 5.

(Left) Seniors Sage Ray and Erica Doiron looking at artwork by Daniele de Pontes in the Mazmanian Gallery April 5.

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‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ - More than the title implies

By Sean Cabot Multimedia Critic Daniel Kwan and Dan Scheinert’s “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” is every turn of phrase meant to indicate weirdness that you’ve ever heard. It’s almost beyond any attempt at description, which makes my job here particularly hard.

I fielded several other candidates to review instead of it, including “Morbius,” which I knew was probably terrible, and “Sonic the Hedgehog 2” which, like the first movie, is surprisingly good.

However, the challenge of describing a movie this odd is too invigorating to pass up, so here I am.

The film follows Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh), a laundromat owner being pulled among organizing a community Chinese New Years’ Party, a visit from her father (James Hong), and an impending audit.

If that wasn’t enough, her daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu) is growing distant from her after having come out as lesbian, and her husband Waymond (Ke Huy Quan) is trying to work up the guts to ask her for a divorce.

It’s all quite a lot on its own, but about 20 minutes into the film, Waymond is suddenly possessed by an alternate version of himself who tells Evelyn that she’s the only hope of saving the entire multiverse. To accomplish this, he outfits her with a device that allows her to access the memories and skills of various alternate versions of herself.

The Daniels have, in effect, made an arthouse version of a currently emerging blockbuster trend - multiverse movies, just as the trend is getting into full swing with the upcoming “Doctor Strange” sequel and the “Flash” movie that will likely suck.

That’s definitely a weird pitch, and it’s somehow even stranger than what I’ve described so far. But perhaps the most surprising thing about the story is that despite this sudden escalation in stakes, the problems Evelyn faces in the first 20 minutes are still very much the emotional core of it all.

Backing this up are some truly superb performances from the main cast. Yeoh – a legend in her own right,

is right at home with the material, and Quan, most famous for his role as Short Round in “Temple of Doom,” is so good that you’d never know he’d been on an acting sabbatical for 20 years.

The entire cast also plays multiple versions of their characters in accordance with the multiverse premise, and they all pull it off effortlessly.

And to top it off, they absolutely kill all of the immaculately shot fight scenes.

But spectacle is one thing – how good is the story? Does it have the emotional depth required to fully realize this concept?

The short answer is yes – the shifts between gonzo sci-fi action blockbuster and low-key emotional drama are jarring at first, but coalesce into a steady rhythm seamlessly by the end. For a movie about various alternate universes and jumping between them, the plot is actually pretty easy to follow.

Thematically speaking, the film asks what it means to be cognizant of an infinite number of realities wherein the concepts of meaning and consequences seem to fade away entirely. Evelyn, who might very well be the worst version of herself among all of them, must reckon with the idea that all of her life choices may have been the wrong choices.

And the ultimate message ends up being that the best we can do is try to practice kindness and not just look at what could have been for ourselves, but for others. While it’s far from the most complex message, it lands well all the same.

Granted the film might be too weird for a lot of people, and its jokes don’t always land, but in the big picture none of it amounts to substantial flaws.

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” is definitely not for everyone, but I would be lying if I said I didn’t think everyone should see it.

Grade: Aan eye-opening experience

By Jack McLaughlin Multimedia Critic “CODA” is a terrific film that’s currently receiving lots of attention after its multiple wins at this year’s Oscars ceremony, including best picture.

The movie centers around Ruby (Emilia Jones), a teenager whose family is deaf except for her. She acts as the interpreter for the family, which is an important part of their family’s fishing business.

When Ruby gets the opportunity to pursue music, it becomes a conflict between her and her family, who begin to heavily rely on her to interpret after they start a new business for buying and selling fish.

ASL is used for a lot of the scenes where characters are talking, which makes sense within the story. The emotion behind each character as they’re signing to each other makes it much more powerful when there isn’t audible dialogue and you have to rely on the subtitles and body language.

The actor where I want to focus the most attention is Troy Kotsur, who plays Ruby’s dad.

Kotsur, a deaf actor, can convey so much emotion using only his facial expressions and sign language. After seeing the movie, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that this performance won him the Oscar for best actor.

There’s a sequence toward the end where he is talking to Ruby after her school performance.

In a heartwarming moment, he realizes his daughter is a talented singer by feeling the vibrations in her cheek.

This scene is an incredible call back to the beginning of the story when he felt the vibrations of rap music.

When Ruby isn’t around her family, she practices for her audition for Berklee College of Music with her choir teacher played by Eugenio Derbez.

Derbez’s character is determined, someone who just wants Ruby to succeed like he has, but makes her work for it.

The audition sequence in Ruby’s choir class does an excellent job introducing the viewer to his quirkiness.

Derbez’s character provides a valuable

source of comedic relief while maintaining a stern presence when he’s teaching.

The scenes that take place in his house while he gives lessons to Ruby let their unique relationship blossom and are overall amazing additions.

A story tackling a serious topic like deafness traditionally will steer away from light-hearted moments, but “CODA” surprises by being one of the funniest movies that came out this past year.

From the first scene of the movie, Ruby and her brother make fun of each other with vulgar names entirely in sign language, which made it clear that this wasn’t going to be as despairing as you might expect.

The moments of lightheartedness fortunately don’t detract from the story. They make the viewer consider who is correct during scenes of conflict.

I thought each perspective had valid points, and they were handled in a way where neither side seems like the right or wrong answer. Viewers are left to interpret each side as the movie doesn’t force you to think one side is better and I love when a movie is able to be complex in that way Viewers grow to love Ruby’s family throughout the scenes of fun and fighting.

The ending brings the family’s plot lines together in a beautiful climax and will become one of the most emotional sequences you’ll watch this year.

No plotlines are left unfinished. Everything gets time to breathe, and it helps make the viewer empathetic for each of the characters.

For a relatively short runtime of under two hours, “CODA” takes you on a beautiful journey that will make you wish it never ends. You’ll want to stay in this story longer because of how attached you become with the world and characters set up.

Grade: A An astonishing and important piece of filmmaking.

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Maddison Behringer / THE GATEPOST Senior Melissa Palabiyik performing during “The Wolves” dress rehearsal April 6.

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Emma Lyons / THE GATEPOST “The Wolves” director, junior Tadiwa Chitongo, giving the cast notes on performances April 6.

Maddison Behringer / THE GATEPOST (Left) Seniors Ashlyn Kelly, Sabrina Grammatic, junior Kelsey Milinazzo, and senior Eli Paré performing in “The Wolves” dress rehearsal April 6.

Emma Lyons / THE GATEPOST (Left) Senior Sabrina Grammatic, junior Kelsey Milinazzo, and senior Eli Paré performing in “The Wolves” dress rehearsal April 6.

Emma Lyons / THE GATEPOST (Left) Junior Elizabeth Walker and seniors Ashlyn Kelly and Sabrina Grammatic performing in “The Wolves” dress rehearsal April 6.

Maddison Behringer / THE GATEPOST Junior Charity Rose Mariño performing in “The Wolves” dress rehearsal April 6.

Emma Lyons / THE GATEPOST (Left) Junior Kelsey Milinazzo, senior Eli Paré and graduate student Nicole Viera performing in “The Wolves” dress rehearsal April 6.

Maddison Behringer / THE GATEPOST (Front) Graduate student Nicole Viera and (back) sophomore Olivia Copeland performing in “The Wolves” dress rehearsal April 6.

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