Volume 90 • Issue 18
March 4, 2022
An appreciation of FSU’s employees
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(Left) FSU employees Antonio Menses, Sean Garron, and Richele Banks show the awards they received for their hard work at the Employee Appreciation Event March 3.
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COVID-19 mitigation changes start March 6
More changes to mask policies planned for after spring break By Donald Halsing Editor-in-Chief By Kathleen Moore Associate Editor President F. Javier Cevallos announced changes to the University’s COVID-19 mitigation measures in an email to the FSU community March 3. The email outlined revised testing requirements and mask mandates approved by the COVID Oversight Committee Feb. 28. Changes were proposed by the Mitigation and Testing Logistics Subcommittee Feb. 25. A link was provided to a “mitigation
regular basis. Random sample testing of commuter students will also end, according to the mitigation chart. During the week following spring break, all resident students, spring athletes, and their coaches will be tested. Commuter students are encouraged to test at this time as well, according to the mitigation chart. If positive test rates remain low during the two weeks following break, then mask mandates will be lifted for large indoor events and at the Early Childhood Centers April 2. Cevallos said the planned changes for after spring break will be
See MASK MANDATE page 4
How camping led Geology Professor Leslie Campbell to a career By Caroline Gordon Arts & Features Editor
On a cool, late summer afternoon, prior to starting elementary school, Geology Professor Leslie Campbell walked across a small cable bridge in The Gatepost Archives a Pennsylvania state forest while on a camping trip with her family. She gazed ICE HOCKEY pg. 9 curiosity at the water and pebbles beneath her. She wondered, “How could something like this come to be the way it is today?” MAZMANIAN GALLERY pg. 10-11 Campbell grew up in Youngstown, Ohio. Although she was not part of enBLACK LIVES MATTER BANNER pg. 12
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chart” of upcoming changes on the FSU website. Starting March 6, wearing a mask will be optional on campus except in classrooms, designated offices as posted, large indoor events, the Whittemore Library, Danforth Art Museum, McAuliffe Center, Early Childhood Centers, Health Center, COVID-19 testing site, and on transportation including the Ram Tram and busses to Athletics events, according to the mitigation chart. Also starting March 6, resident students and athletes who received the booster vaccine and are asymptomatic will no longer be tested on a
vironmental extracurriculars in middle school or high school, she regularly visited a metropark, a place she said furthered her passion for the outdoors. She attended Youngstown State University as a commuter student. Campbell said Youngstown State felt familiar because many of her highschool classmates attended. Initially, Campbell wanted to study engineering. “Not that I didn’t know geology was an option - I just didn’t know it was an option for me,” she said. Campbell said engineering would force her to be “stuck inside doing the same thing over and over again.”
She began taking geology classes for her minor and said she “made the switch pretty easily.” Campbell said, “Career counselors would say, ‘Everyone who studies engineering is guaranteed a job,’ and while I think it is important to find a field where you will be offered a position, I felt swayed. It took me a minute to say, I like engineering, but geology is my passion.” Campbell said the geology department at Youngstown State was a closeknit community. During her time as an
See LESLIE CAMPBELL page 13
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