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Student files police report after being approached by stranger

By Julia Sarcinelli Associate Editor

Amanda Martin/THE GATEPOST Boston’s Savageheads perform at the McCarthy Center forum on Nov. 18 for the #NoDAPL Concert.

An FSU student was approached by a man in a car on Wednesday around 12:30 p.m., according to a Framingham State University Police Department (FSUPD) public announcement on Facebook.

The man pulled up next to the student at approximately 12:30 p.m. at the Athletic Field parking lot. According to the post, the man was described as a “middle-aged Hispanic male” who drove a brown GMC Suburban type SUV. The student said the man asked “repeatedly” if they wanted a ride to campus, but the student re-

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Danforth Art Museum to move to FSU

By Julia Sarcinelli Associate Editor The Board of Trustees approved a letter of intent to bring the Danforth Art Museum to FSU. The vote took place at the trustees meeting Wednesday, Nov. 30.

The letter will allow FSU to continue with its application to establish the Danforth Art School at FSU through the continuing education program and the Danforth Art Museum at FSU, according to President F. Javier Ceval-

los.

“We are ready to move forward with bringing the Danforth in with us, and I think it would be a great asset and a great opportunity for us to add to our cultural programs. … There are so many things that we aren’t even aware of that we can do by having the museum be a part of us, and I think it’s a really exciting thing,” said Cevallos.

According to the letter of intent, both the museum and art school will be located in the Jonathan Maynard Building on the

Framingham Centre Common, and art classes will start to be offered by next fall.

Trustee Chair Richard Logan said the Danforth Art Museum vacated its building in downtown Framingham “because the building’s boiler basically went kaput,” and this past July the museum reached out to FSU. “I think this would be good for the community, Danforth and the University. We have a very strong art department here,” he said.

Adding it will be a great opportunity for the art students at the

University.

Trustee Vice Chair Kevin Foley said, “If there’s anything that arises, both organizations can pull back, so I think that increases the latitude of going through with the letter of intent.”

During her report at the trustees meeting, Linda Vaden-Goad, provost and vice president of academic affairs, said a new logo and motto, “FSU Belong,” have been chosen as a part of the Reimagining the First Year project.

She said, “We expect this to

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New internship program serves underrepresented students

By Cesareo Contreras Arts & Features Editor FSU’s new Pathways Internship Program will offer paid internship opportunities for students who don’t qualify for the CHOICE Internship Program, according to Sean Huddleston, chief diversity and inclusion officer.

While the CHOICE Internship Program requires students be res-

idents of Massachusetts and have a minimum GPA of 2.75, Huddleston said, the Pathways Internship Program is open to FSU students who maintain GPAs starting at 2.2. It will officially start next spring.

Students are paid an hourly rate of $11 and work 10 hours a week for the duration of the 15-week semester, according to Huddleston.

The program was created in collaboration with both the Division

of Inclusive Excellence and Career Services.

Huddleston said the program will help train “underserved” and “underrepresented” students through a required four-hour professional competence training course.

As a result of being educationally underserved prior to college, many students find it difficult to meet the academic requirements of internship programs such as

CHOICE, he said.

“We have many students who come to Framingham State with a variety of backgrounds,” Huddleston said. “We have people who will come from backgrounds in which they were underserved by their high school or grade school education.”

The Pathways Internship Pro-

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Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief Alexandra Gomes Associate Editors Brittany Cormier Julia Sarcinelli News Editors Jessica Duff Bailey Morrison Asst. News Editors Kayllan Olicio Jillian Poland Arts & Features Editors Cesareo Contreras Cass Doherty Andrew Willoughby Asst. Arts & Features Editors Allison Wharton Interim Asst.

Arts & Features Editor Tessa Jillson Sports Editors Matt Ferris Mike Ferris Asst. Sports Editors Jose Carrasquillo Amelia Foley Opinions Editor Phil McMullin Gatepost Columnist Michael B. Murphy Photos Editors Allie Gath Amanda Martin Darian O’Donnell Asst. Photos Editors Erin Fitzmaurice Design Editor Shayna Yacyshyn Asst. Design Editor Emily Robinson Copy Editor William Mills-Curran Staff Writers Jen Fortin Liam Gambon Paola Florencio Nick Murphy Jillian Poland Kate Shane Sarah Sousa Richard Tranfaglia Staff Photographer Nick Cunningham Joe Rydzefski Athena Venetsanakos Advisor Dr. Desmond McCarthy Assistant Advisor Elizabeth Banks Administrative Assistant Debra Fowler Clare 100 State Street McCarthy Center Room 410 Framingham, MA 01701-9101 Phone: (508) 626-4605 Fax: (508) 626-4097

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Assistant professor of management and entrepreneurship Dr. Erastus Ndinguri

By Kayllan Ollicio Assistant News Editor What is your academic and employment history?

I did my bachelor’s in economics.

So, my background is in economics and management. My research is much more focused in entrepreneurship. I like to talk more about things like … entrepreneurship and things that are related to human character development, and that is what I like researching on. Even though my degree is in the human resource management area I find my research is much more primarily in entrepreneur startups and small business management.

Did you always know you wanted to work in the business field?

I come from a kind of an entrepreneurship family, but I did not think I was going to do that. I was much more in the banking industry. After a while, I wanted to expand my education. Then I found myself in the management area. It was one of those things that organically come in as you go in your career and grow.

What was your favorite undergraduate experience?

The trips that we did. ... I liked being in clubs. I was in the economics club. I was in the math club. …

Most of the time, we would go for trips using these clubs.

What was it like to be the assistant director of the Entrepreneur Innovation Center?

I stepped down last semester … It was a great experience and also a challenging experience because we were a startup and we were in charge of other startups. So, it was a double whammy. You have to grow and make it work - then make the people who are using the center grow and also work in their business because if they lose it,

they stop paying for the center. It was great! There were some challenges. We had lots of successes and some happy days. … We went past the startup stage - I think it’s in the growth phase. So, I think it will be great to see what Mark Har-

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die will do as the new director and move it to the next level.

What would students be surprised to know about you?

I love ping pong. I would challenge any of my students to a game. I always loved it. I don’t talk about it a lot, but when I get near a table, I get excited. So, it’s one of those things people don’t know about me.

What class do you think all students should take?

I think they should take one business course, one art course and a science course. Those three facets are a good combination because in the sciences, you get the technical aspect of science. In the humanities, the arts area, you get the creativity out. I think in the business area, wherever you go, even if you

are in the science and in the arts, at the end of the day, it’s a business that will hire you so you have to understand the facets of business concepts. So, I think those three areas are a must.

Is there any advice you would give to students?

They have to be kind of self-driven - that’s the first thing. So, they have to take charge, not waiting to be told, not waiting for people to tell them what to do. Then, they have to before they leave the University, do an internship. ... You are competing with so many schools in the country. So, you have to differentiate yourself, and without something different, you look normal. You look like anybody else. … Those are the things I’ve seen teaching. I’m thinking, “I get you guys finishing your fourth year, your senior year, and you’re telling me to be your reference,” and I look at your resume and the only thing that is in your resume are things like working. I’m not saying a waiter and server is bad, but those are the things that are there, but you have to sacrifice one semester and do an internship … that contributes to your career. Otherwise you cannot differentiate yourself. There’s so many graduates out there. So, the practical part is key. Also, be a go getter. When you are told something, listen and think through it and internalize what you’ve been told and just apply it. Because most students will hear what you’re saying and say “What should I do next?” Try things. Failure isn’t a bad thing. You will fail, wake up, fail again. That’s just a part of life and I’m usually excited about a student that comes in and says, “I tried this I failed. I tried this.” That excites me because it tells me you’re trying, which is a big thing in itself.

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Police Logs Friday, November 25

Sunday, November 27

Alarm (Burglar/Building) Facilities Department 15:56 Summary: Checks OK

Motor Vehicle Stop State Street 19:10 Summary: Verbal Warning Issue

Wednesday, November 30 Suspicious Activity Athletic Field Lot 13:45 Summary: Advised

Sunday, November 27

Monday, November 28 Disturbance McCarthy Center 12:17 Summary: Advised and Removed

Thursday, December 1 Follow Up Investigation Athletic Field 10:31 Summary: Report taken

Alarm (Trouble) West 12:25 Summary: Trouble alarm

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Board of Trustees Continued from page 1 make some kind of difference, and we’ll be looking at the … things we’re doing to help the students feel like they really should be here at this public institution getting a great education.”

Averil Capers, director of marketing, said FSU has been implementing different marketing initiatives, including advertising on Facebook, Instagram, Pandora, LinkedIn and radio stations.

There is also advertising on a Natick Mall directory display and on MWRTA buses.

She said the administration is also doing pre-roll advertising by showing an FSU ad before selected videos, such as those on YouTube. For October, Capers said the advertisement was shown 300,000 times, and 50 percent of the people who watched the video watched it all the way through.

“It’s a little over a minute video, so I thought that was very encouraging. It says something about who we’re talking to and perhaps about the video,” said Capers.

Capers added the FSU website

are projected to decrease by over 40 percent and Hispanic students are projected to increase by over 70 percent, or about 4,200 students.

Additionally, the African-American student population will stay primarily the same, Asian and Pacific-Islander students will increase slightly and Native-American and Native-Alaskan students will remain around the same.

The Tecnolutions Slate CRM, or customer relationship management software, will be implemented for fall 2017 and will allow “the admissions office to form relationships with students earlier in the process,” in order to compete with the “stiff competition” in Massachusetts, according to Spencer.

Sean Huddleston, chief officer of diversity, inclusion and community engagement, said without counting non-U.S. resident or other, Framingham State is the most diverse among the sister institutions, and out of the other institutions, Salem State has the highest level of diversity.

Institutions do not report or

“We really ask that faculty be available to their students at all times, so it’s very hard for them to do the work they need to do in order to be current in their classes and bring their students forward.”

- Linda Vaden-Goad, provost and vice president for academic affairs has also been redesigned and will be live in December. Instead of rotating photos on the homepage, there will be a single image with a student and their FSU story, which will be changed every few weeks.

There will also be a launch of Campus Bird in a few months, which is an interactive map for smart phones and websites that will be a way for prospective students to have a virtual tour of campus.

Trustee Brian Herr said, “I feel very strongly that if we sell it, they will come.”

Jeremy Spencer, dean of enrollment management, reported that from 2007-08 to 2027-28 the percentage of white, non-Hispanic students in Massachusetts will decrease the most.

“Why that is so is because some of our underrepresented groups - primarily the Hispanic population - are increasing at the greatest rate,” said Spencer, adding white non-Hispanic students

count non-U.S. resident or other due to federal reporting and state-wide reporting purposes,

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Marc Cote, dean of the arts and humanities department, presented English professor Lisa Eck’s plans for her fall 2017 sabbatical at the Board of Trustees’ meeting. according to Huddleston, but internally institutions can keep track of that number.

“What was interesting to me is when you look at race plus gender, anecdotally people would assume that females would be a higher percentage, but … our minority male population is actually higher than our minority female population. If you add in other or non-U.S. resident it’s even higher,” said Huddleston.

He added FSU currently has a 12 percent Hispanic or Latino population and is almost halfway to FSU being designated a Hispanic serving institution.

“It is very likely we will hit that in the next five, possibly ten years,” said Huddleston.

He said, “I think it’s very consistent with what Jeremy [Spencer] indicated, which is we are looking at population shifts across the state and we’re looking at where our students are coming from.”

Trustee Fernando Quezada asked whether there is an option for students to select if they are Brazilian, and Huddleston said typically, most Brazilians identify as white or the box they would check isn’t listed. He added they are looking into allowing that option.

Dale Hamel, executive vice president, presented the Financial Committee’s review.

He said during the last finan-

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Biology professor Stephen Dinkelacker spoke about his student, Ryan Hanscom, who was selected by President F. Javier Cevallos as part of the Student Spotlight at the trustees’ meeting.

Continued from page 3 cial planning process, they anticipated a rapid enrollment growth and a “strong or relatively strong” state appropriation growth, but “we don’t see that as the situation going into the current strategic planning process.”

Hamel added, “While our current situation is very strong … the current budget has a deficit projected and growing out of that deficit in the next couple of years. Looking even further out … we don’t see state appropriations at the same level they had been in the past, nor enrollment at those same levels.”

He said aggregated debt has “increased significantly” as a strategy of the board, but “has been more than made up for, if you will, through net investment and capital largely through funding coming from the Commonwealth.”

State appropriations over the past ten years average 3.7 percent, and Hamel said “on average, most states would take that.”

Additionally, student revenues have increased around 7 percent annually, expenditures have increased annually 7.4 percent and the debt burden ratio is below the University’s target of 5 percent and will stay within that cap for the next three anticipated borrowings, according to Hamel.

He said student support has shown the largest growth through investment in the First-Year program and “operations and maintenance has been very small.”

As for the University’s primary reserves, Hamel said, “We’re basically living within our means,” but “compared to our other sister colleges - which again we try to benchmark - again, we are in good financial standing here, as well.”

Claire Ramsbottom, chair of the Alumni Board for the past three years, said the Alumni Board, which now has two additional members, is supporting efforts to develop additional affinity groups for alumni of color, entrepreneurs, football and alumni employees for this year.

They also plan to increase funding for emergency grant funds for students and the alumni scholarship fund, according to Ramsbottom.

In other news, the deans of arts and humanities, STEM, education and social/behavioral sciences presented about professors who have been or will be on sabbaticals.

Vaden-Goad said, “We really ask that faculty be available to their students at all times, so it’s very hard for them to do the work they need to do in order to be current in their classes and bring their students forward.”

She added this year, 16 applications have been approved three in the arts and humanities, two in education, nine in social and behavioral sciences and two in STEM. Marc Cote, dean of arts and humanities, said English Professor Lisa Eck will be on sabbatical for the fall 2017 semester to read and

research on her topic of Indian meeting, presented senior biolpostsecularism. He said Eck is a ogy student Ryan Hanscom, who “vibrant member” of the English has conducted research on snapdepartment and has led trips to ping turtles at a facility in North India with students over the win- Carolina.

Hanscom, who is also a supter session in previous years.

Susan Dargan, dean of social/ plemental instructor, said he was behavioral sciences, said edu- able to track the turtles and parcation professor Mary Grassetti ticipate in education outreach.

In other news, Student Trustee took a sabbatical in fall of 2015.

She co-authored, edited and pub- Karl Bryan spoke about the Hope lished a textbook with education in Action Rally held after the election and the formation of the professor Silvy Brookby.

“She really needed that con- Hope in Action club as a way for densed time to get it done,” said students “to come together and Dargan, adding Grassetti also move forward.”

Cevallos said he is “proud” of taught a third-grade math class and chaired the New England Ed- the way students responded to ucational Research Organization the election and of the Hope in annual conference, “which is sort Action’s formation.

Trustee Anthony Hubbard was of like planning a wedding.”

Margaret Carroll, dean of also recognized as a new board STEM, said biology professor member.

Hubbard said, “It’s an honor to Walter Lambert studies invertebrate animals and invasive or- be here and get acquainted with ganisms, and his sabbatical at the University.” the University of New Hampshire allowed him to conduct his re- CONNECT WITH JULIA SARCINELLI jsarcinelli@student.framingham.edu search and field work.

Carroll added biology professor Stephen Dinkelacker is currently on sabbatical.

Dinkelacker, who attended the

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Small freshman class results in dorm vacancies

By Kayllan Olicio News Editor Framingham State University is not at full residential capacity for the first time in 15 years. There are 69 vacancies in the dorms, said Dale Hamel, executive vice president in an interview on Nov. 15.

According to Glenn Cochran, director of residence life, the freshman class came in smaller than projected this fall which along with the opening of West Hall, resulted in the “unusual circumstance where we have some vacancies.”

In past years, students would still be on the waiting list or living in temporary housing around this time of year, Cochran said.

Hamel said, “If you have a small freshman class, it has the biggest impact on the dorms.”

The smaller freshman class will have a lasting effect, according to Cochran. “When the numbers come up short one year, it’s not just an issue that year. This smaller class will cascade forward.”

According to Hamel, the vacancy rate has impacted the University’s revenue. “In theory, there is a little over half a million dollars additional revenue that could be generated if we were full.”

Hamel said the University was already projecting a deficit for the upcoming year due to the building of West Hall. The deficit was also impacted by the University’s decision to not increasing the rent “all

in the first year to kind of accommodate that additional debt. … We try to do a 3-percent increase or so in rent year-to-year.”

The cost of living on campus increased $300 from last year, said Hamel.

FSU is the second lowest university in cost compared to its sister colleges Bridgewater, Fitchburg,

out the other half of their room at a discounted rate. It’s about [ an additional] $900 a semester,” said Cochran.

Takida Wiggins, a freshman, said “It’s better to have at least a bigger room for not as much.”

Freshmen Verenisse Vellz-Mota said, “It’s good that they are offering it for people to have the oppor-

“We are looking at a community service, community engagement type of a floor. Even if nothing had changed in the occupancy front, we were looking to do something to add to the experience of resident students,.”

- Glenn Cochran, director of residence life Salem Westfield and Worcester state universities. Fitchburg State University is the least expensive.

“Fitchburg hasn’t really built a large new dorm, so that’s why they are significantly below everybody.

We are the second lowest in the system - a little below the average,” Hamel said.

As a response to the vacancies the University is offering “doubles as singles, allowing a person to buy

mainly suites, which are more attractive to the upperclassmen than freshman,” he said.

The University plans to create learning community floors that encompass different themes, according to Cochran.

“We are looking at community service, community engagement type of a floor. Even if nothing had changed in the occupancy front, we were looking to do something to add to the experience of resident students,” Cochran said.

The themes are of interest to many students Cochran said. “One of the ideas we talked about was … combining some ways to use your skills that also provides some service to the community and engages you with members of the local community, and so it’s a service-learning type of an approach.”

He added, “We are working to carefully coordinate it.”

The University is not expecting to fill the vacancies next semester, he said.

Cochran said, “I think we will probably be in a similar position, if I had to guess. That we will be close to full, but not full, probably. We still might be able to have a little bit of wiggle room to accommodate requests and situations that come up.”

tunity to have that larger room.”

Cochran said the vacancies are located throughout campus.

Long term, University administrators hope to see level of enrollment rise to fill the residence halls not just with freshman but upperclassmen, said Hamel.

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SGA funds Fashion Club drag show

By Jessica Duff News Editor The Student Government Association held its weekly meeting in the Alumni Room on Nov. 29 and approved Fashion Club’s request for $1,649.99 for its yearly drag show.

The funds will bring five performers to campus on Feb. 7. The drag show event is open to all members of the FSU campus.

During open forum, Senator Katrina Ferguson asked when the Veterans Club and SGA’s clothing drive will end.

Ezequiel De Leon, SGA president, said the clothing drive is ongoing until Dec. 1. “There is a clothing drive bin in the SGA office and as well as right next to the transportation desk in McCarthy,” he added.

Another issue raised during open forum by Senator Molly Fennessey was that there is a dirt path between a main path and the entrance to the library. She sug-

Alexandra Gomes/THE GATEPOST The Veterans club and SGA held a clothing drive that ended on Dec. 1.

gested it should be made an actual, paved path. “Everyone is just making it a path anyway,” she added.

SGA also approved The Gatepost’s request of $6,109.12 for a trip to

New York City for the 2017 College Media Association Spring Media Conference.

The spring break conference will educate newspaper staff members

about how to better run a college newspaper, write and take photographs, said Alexandra Gomes, Editor-in-Chief of The Gatepost.

The Equestrian Club gave a presentation on their trip to the Equine Affaire conference.

Senator Hailey Small announced Special Olympics would have a table in McCarthy on Nov. 30.

Fennessey also announced she will be attending a town hall meeting and starting a petition to create a crosswalk from the Salem End parking lot to campus.

Additionally, SGA approved the minutes from its last meeting, and Senator Allie Card passed the U-ROCK award to Sarah Horwitz, SGA SATF treasurer.

[Editor’s Note: Alexandra Gomes is Editor-in-Chief fo The Gatepost.]

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New internship program Continued from page 1 gram aims to remove the barrier that prevents those students from getting internships, Huddleston added.

Additionally, Huddleston said the Pathways Internship Program gives out-of-state residents the opportunity to participate in paid internships.

“They are very important contributors to both our campus and our communities and will be great contributors to our country and to the world,” he said. “They shouldn’t be prevented from having an internship.”

FSU received a $30,000 donation from the Jacobs Foundation, which provided funding for 15 paid internships, Huddleston said.

The foundation will provide funding for up to five more internship spots if the 15 get filled, Huddleston said.

It will also provide funding for students who don’t have access to their own transportation, he said.

As of Wednesday, Nov. 30, only three of the 15 spots are available next spring, according to Executive Administrative Assistant Roxana Marrero.

Senior Letycia Pereira, a chemistry major and Pathways intern, said, “In my field, experience is super needed, and in my current internship, I realized I wanted to try something different. But, because I worked two jobs since freshman year, my GPA didn’t make it above 3.0 to qualify for CHOICE. ... [the Pathways Internship Program] is giving everyone a chance to be successful, or even just gain something they might never have had the chance to.”

Junior Ross Greiner said the Pathways Internship Program “addresses a need of a large number of people on campus.”

They added, “If you need an internship for your major and you are simply being denied because of your place of residence, then that in and of itself is a huge issue that is being taken care of with this new internship program.”

Huddleston said, The Career

Services Office has been working with its “strong database of [prospective] employers” to help secure students’ internships for the Pathways Program.

Internship Coordinator Jill Gardosik said while CHOICE is restricted to offering internships with local branches of government and nonprofit and community-based organizations. The Pathways Internship Program, which is privately funded, has no restrictions.

Therefore, private companies can participate.

Gardosik said although Career Services is still establishing intern-

They also may be in a major that is ‘harder’ than most other majors. ...

Pathways is going to provide those students with an internship or opportunity they may not have had.”

Last month, Career Services hosted a Pathways kick-off event, which served as the official unveiling of the new program, Huddleston said.

Gardosik said four business panelists from the MetroWest area keynoted the event and discussed the value of internships.

“The employers who attended the event were here to give an overview on their thoughts of why

The Pathways Internship Program “is giving everyone a chance to be successful, or even just gain something they might never have had the chance to.”

- Letycia Pereira, senior

ships with employers throughout the area, former CHOICE employers are also looking forward to working with Pathways interns.

“They’ve had such wonderful successful experiences with Framingham State students being interns at their businesses that several of them are very open to the idea of participating in Pathways,” said Gardosik.

Huddleston said, “The Pathways internship, and any internship, should really be something that is supplemental to their learning that they get out of their classes.”

Senior Teofilio Barbalho said, “There are some students who don’t have the best GPA, and it’s not because they don’t try. They may be working a 50-hour work week, which affects their grade.

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cess with Framingham State students. We are huge supporters and we feel that the programs there really do prepare the students for the real world, and we are excited to participate.”

Senior and CIE Intern Kendra Hinkins said, “There are so many majors that require us to have internships, and a lot of them are unpaid. What Pathways does is create a space for people to get paid. ...

Also, it’s very broad. There are people in business who are in it - people in sociology and people in psychology. It’s a very broad program and there is no other program like that.”

Junior Edgar Kalinda, a biology major, said he decided to sign up for the Pathways Internship Program after hearing about it at a Brother to Brother meeting.

“I’m currently working in the health industry and would like to get any possible internship,” he said. “Many students like myself are looking for opportunities to grow and have a great understanding of the field we plan on working in.”

Senior Erica Barbosa, a business major, said she signed up because The Pathways Internship Program allows more internship opportunities for students.

“I’m doing an internship and I don’t qualify for CHOICE, so I thought Pathways would be an easier way to join,” she said.

Huddleston added that although Career Services will work with students to pair them up with potential internship employers, the office is pushing for students to seek out the businesses themselves.

“By and large, we want the student to take the required steps to ensure the internship and we will, between our office and Career Services, make sure to provide the support and preparation that is needed for our students to be successful,” he said.

internships are important for students,” she said.

Huddleston said, “We wanted to talk about the Pathways Program not just to prospective students, but to the employers themselves, so that everybody’s expectations would be fully understood in that meeting.”

Managing director of ComCreative, Jennifer Ashkinos, who served on the panel, said she believes the Pathways Program is “a great opportunity for kids.

“Sometimes, it’s really hard to balance school, work and other obligations and meet the criteria, but I think this opens up the door to a lot of people who are worthy and deserve the opportunity, but may CONNECT WITH CESAREO CONTRERAS not have reached the bar.” ccontreras@student.framingham.edu She added, “We’ve had great suc-

Student approached Continued from page 1 fused to get in. The student did not recognize man, who “drove off slowly.”

The Facebook posting advised the campus community to contact FSUPD at 508-626-4911 if the vehicle in question is seen on campus. No crime was committed but “the University Police would like to speak with the operator.”

When contacted, FSUPD declined to comment and said they will go through the normal channels of updating the campus about the investigation.

FSPD Officer Maguire said patrols will be monitoring that area, adding there is no direct threat to the campus community.

Senior Charity Hicks said, “What is the next step to keep this from happening? How are

they going to follow up on further it could happen, but - wow. I don’t attempts?” even have the words to describe Sophomore Pamela Santos how I feel about that. Uncomfortthought the situation was “kind able? I want to know what’s being of freaky, because that’s in the done right now to prevent it from daylight. I feel like we should happening. … Can I even feel safe have been told.” on campus if that’s going to hapSophomore Mackenzie Lynos pen?” said, “That’s kind of scary. You don’t really hear about that stuff CONNECT WITH JULIA SARCINELLI jsarcinelli@student.framingham.edu happening around here.”

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FSU gives back

By Paola Florencio Staff Writer FSU currently offers several ways for students to get involved with charitable organizations and give back to the community.

From Relay for Life to Alternative Spring Break (ASB), FSU students are raising money for causes such as cancer research and disaster recovery projects.

According to the American Cancer Society, Relay For Life is a life-changing experience that gives everyone a chance to celebrate the lives of people who have battled cancer. In 2017, FSU will host its second Relay for Life.

Will Reddy, program coordinator, said, “We did [Relay for Life] for the first time last year.

I expected to raise about $5,000 … that was our goal. We raised over $20,000 our first year. I was a little bit surprised in the best way. We are going to keep pushing it this year. It’s going to be bigger and better.”

Co-founder of the FSU Relay For Life and senior Kaylee Brazell said, “Relay For Life is a day where you celebrate all who have been affected by cancer and remember those we have lost to cancer.”

She added, “It is a team-based event. The walk is supposed to simulate how hard your body is working when fighting cancer.”

She said she wanted to bring

“Hurricane Katrina may have happened 11 years ago, but the damage to the area is nowhere near fixed.”

- Kirsten Hoey, ASB Team Leader and junior

Relay for Life to FSU because “it is a great way to bring our community together and overall is an incredible cause.”

After the American Cancer Society and SILD approved the event, Brazell and several others formed a committee.

“The Relay was a big hit at Framingham State. We raised more than $22,000 and had many people attend,” said Brazell. ”This year, we are striving for $28,000 and hope to have a lot of people attend.”

ASB is a student-run trip in which participants volunteer for a community in need, according to Reddy. ASB selected its team and chose New Orleans for their destination this spring.

Junior and ASB Team Leader Bridget Green said although she had experience in community service in high school, participating in last year’s ASB trip was like nothing she had done before.

She said, “The time I was able to put into helping others made me want to get more involved with service when I returned home. I am very happy that I am able to return as a trip leader for this year’s trip. It is a great privilege to help other students get more involved with service.

I am hopeful that this trip will be a great opportunity for all those involved and allow us to make even a small difference in a new place.”

ASB Team Leader and junior Kristen Hoey said she was “lucky” to be chosen for last year’s trip, during which ASB members worked with the Boys and Girls Clubs of Pittsburgh.

“Throughout the week we had the privilege of interacting with the children, as well as helping clean and organize their clubs.

It’s so important to realize that the only way to fix the problems of the world is to help be the solution,” said Hoey.

In regards to this year’s trip, Hoey said ASB is working with the United Saints Recovery Project in New Orleans to help with flood relief.

“Hurricane Katrina may have happened 11 years ago, but the damage to the area is nowhere near fixed. Recent floods have also added to the already existing damage. We are so excited to take a little piece of our fRAMily to NOLA and spread a little love to the people of New Orleans,” she said.

One of the selected students for this year’s trip, Raysam Donkoh-Halm, junior, said, “I went about my life under the assumption that the damage of

the hurricane had been dealt with since I was not hearing about it on the news as frequently.”

He said he wishes to “learn beyond what was covered within the news.”

to serve within their community and for staff to collect information to share with students.

Another community service program offered at FSU is a trip to Guatemala, during which students help distribute sup-

“Relay For Life is a day where you celebrate all who have been affected by cancer and remember those we have lost to cancer.”

- Kaylee Brazell, senior and FSU Relay for life co-founder.

Another selected student for this trip, Crismely Baez, senior, said, “As a person who considers herself disadvantaged in more ways than one, I feel that I forget about the good things that I have make me privileged in other ways.”

She added, “By going to New Orleans and giving people a chance to have a luxury they do not have, I am reminding myself of the many different living situations some of us are forced to live in.”

Baez, who wants to be a teacher, said she hopes the trip will “broaden my mind, and make me a more experienced and understanding person for my future students.”

She said, “This trip would be successful if I make a positive impact on someone’s life.”

Reddy said, “As part of my job here in SILD, I am in charge of creating and monitoring community service opportunities for the campus.

“I spent the last three months collecting information from community partners who are looking for volunteers that helped us come up with this giant database that we are going to be able to share with students,” Reddy added.

SILD’s newest project is the community service Listserv, a way for students to find out how

plies, build houses or volunteer at hospitals and schools.

Service activities include clothing, shoe and food distribution, home construction, classroom aid and care for malnourished infants and toddlers.

FSU psychology professor Pamela Ludemann has taken four groups of students to the country to perform community service.

Throughout the year, she collects clothes and packages them in a way that makes them easy to hand out to the people who need them.

Ludemann said, “I am trying to decide if I want to take one more group to Guatemala in May. I wasn’t planning to, but it’s become such a regular event for me, that now I am feeling badly about not going. I am hoping to recruit someone to take over.”

Senior Cassandra Teneus said, “My experience in Guatemala is one I’ll never forget. I couldn’t help but to shed tears every time I saw the little children with dry dirt encrusted on their little toes and fingernails.”

She added one of her most memorable experiences was the sight of an 8-month-old boy sleeping in a crate with a blanket.

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Charity Continued from page 7 “While I would often complain about my queen-size mattress in America being ‘too uncomfortable’ or ‘too hard,’” said Teneus, “I felt selfish. Although these children were living in such horrid conditions, their smiles were as bright as the burning sun.”

She said, “For the first time in my life, I witnessed young mothers desperately trying to sell homemade goods, accessories and handmade knitted clothes just so they can afford food, water and milk for their small children.

“They do not make excuses for their living conditions or their lives. They work hard to support their families,” said Teneus.

The children helped carry the materials and were eager to help with the construction. Teneus said the children “would run and greet us, as we worked to build a home for them.

“They played with [my braids]

“For the first time in my life, I witnessed young mothers desperately trying to sell homemade goods, accessories and handmade knitted clothes just so they can afford food, water and milk for their small children.”

- Cassandra Teneus, senior

and tried to style them. I even got the opportunity, with permission of their mothers, to braid the little girls’ hair in the villages. They made me smile.

They made me happy,” she said.

“I miss the people and children of Guatemala every day and I pray more people can visit them and help them through their struggle,” said Teneus.

Junior Tanya Tovar said she decided to participate in the Guatemala trip to “change lives,” but “realized that my

life was changed by the people sacrifices or the obstacles my there.” parents faced, who knows where Tovar’s parents emigrated to I would be?

America from Guatemala be“It was truly an honor to cause they were “searching for learn more about Guatemala, a better life.” my parents’ country, and have She said, “Life in Guatemala the ability to give back to the was very difficult for both of my poor community. To me, this parents. My father wasn’t able trip served as a blessing in disto finish school and dropped guise and I would recommend it out in the third grade and, al- to anyone,” Tovar added. though my mother finished high school, college was just CONNECT WITH PAOLA FLORENCIO pflorencio@student.framingham.edu not a realistic dream for her.”

She said, “If it wasn’t for the

Giving Tree Program returns to FSU

By Paola Florencio Staff Writer As the holiday season approaches, members of Framingham State community are working on a number of charitable initiatives.

Departments across campus are partnering with local organizations to gather resources needed for fundraising.

The Office of Student Involvement and Leadership Development (SILD) and the United Way of Tri-County are hosting their third annual FSU Giving Tree program, according to Will Reddy, program coordinator.

This program sponsors families who are unable to provide gifts for their children. Participants will receive lists from local families, and will help provide three gifts for each child to be delivered in early December.

Last year, the FSU community came together and successfully donated 141 gifts to 47 children in need. This year’s goal is to collect at least 150 gifts to give to 50 children in need, said Reddy.

According to a flyer shared by Dining Service Director Ralph Eddy the FSU Coat Share returned on Nov. 14 in the Athletic Center. FSU members can donate gently used or new coats. The program will run

through the end of the semester.

Eddy said Dining Services is hosting the Stop Hunger Food and Fundraising drive, which consists of accepting donations of nonperishable food items. Those donations will go to A Place to Turn and Pearl Street Cupboard Café.

In addition, Dining Services is also selling Stop Hunger Hearts at each retail location at Framingham State University.

Dining Services and Alumni Relations Office of Development partnered to co-host games held on campus on Nov. 17. The winning teams received a turkey, which was then donated to Pearl Street Café in their names, said Eddy.

According to the FSU Dining Services Facebook page, 28 turkeys were donated.

Eddy said, “It’s more of an interactive piece to get people to be more aware about hunger in our community.”

This year, students are able to donate using Dining Dollars or RamCash.

Eddy said, “As part of the food and fundraising drive, we also have a partner organization that we are working with called YouGiveGoods.”

Those who want to donate can visit YouGiveGoods’ website and purchase canned goods or nonper-

ishable food that will be shipped to either Pearl Street or A Place to Turn, said Eddy.

Hunger and homelessness “is such an issue not only in the greater Framingham area, but right on this campus as well. There are students working as hard as they can to go to school so they can improve and better themselves in their careers, and at the same time, they are having issues perhaps with food insecurities or house insecurities. In this day and age, that is something that shouldn’t happen.

“In a country like America where we have the resources that we do it’s incredibly sad and incredibly disturbing that there are that many people at risk.” said Eddy.

Junior Jessica Pietersen participated in last year’s FSU Giving Tree.

“I had to buy a little girl a present. She wanted a winter jacket, and I went and got her a little jacket. It felt really good,” she said.

Pietersen said she couldn’t put into words the way buying the jacket made her feel. After buying the jacket, she could not help but feel excited. She said, “This is the cutest jacket and I was like, ‘This little girl is going to love it.’

“I think it is a great idea that they ask for something specific instead of a random toy. It’s some-

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thing that they want and need,” she added.

She encourages everyone to participate. “I think that they should advertise it more to get more people to do it.”

She added, “It’s selfless, there’s no instant gratification and we need more of it.”

Junior and SILD Intern Erin Dempsey said, “This year, SILD broke our record for the last two years for the Annual Giving Tree.

We had an unprecedented number of people who wanted to donate and sponsor children.”

She said the participants’ “generosity is going to make the holiday season great for a record number of children this year.”

“Giving is very important. We all are fortunate enough in different ways. So understanding how you can give back to your community is another part of student involvement,” she said.

Dempsey added, “With everything else that is going on right now, like finals and politics, there has to be a way to bring positivity and I thin that giving to the less fortunate is a great way to do that.”

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Alumni Association forms affinity groups

By Bailey Morrison News Editor FSU’s Alumni Association held its second meeting of the semester on Nov. 17 to discuss campus initiatives and programs.

The meeting addressed possible candidates for the commencement speaker, expansion of academic programs and the emergency grant fund network.

Jeff Ritter, the president of the Alumni Association, said the group is looking to include more of the “key deans” in the meetings so department heads can share program ideas and advancements.

Susan Dargan, dean of social and behavioral sciences and interim dean of education, addressed both colleges at the meeting.

She addressed some of the features of the college of education. “It was founded in September of 2015. It’s got one academic department although we would like to have more. … We would like to have the department of early childhood, department of elementary ed., going forward,” Dargan added.

In the college of education, there are three academic programs - three coordinate majors and one minor. Each student in the college must have a major in another department, said Dargan.

She added there are approximately 60 student teachers placed in local schools during their final year at FSU. The college currently has eight full-

time faculty members and two full-time staff members. Dargan said the division is looking for another tenured-track faculty member and another full-time staff member.

The college is currently conducting a search for an education dean and will be bringing candidates to the campus soon, said Dargan.

Rita Colucci, chief of staff and general counsel, is steering the Strategic Plan Committee with geography professor Judy Otto.

The Strategic Planning Committee is currently in the “discovery phase” and has hosted an open forum discussing the fiscal realities of the University, Colucci said.

She said the committee plans to hold more forums at which they will discuss academic programs, student concerns and diversity at the University.

“This semester is about gathering information and getting to know ourselves. … Next semester, it will really be boots on the ground and talking to people within our departments and what we want to see on campus,” said Colucci.

The committee plans to have the Strategic Plan completed by the end of the summer to bring it in front of the Board of Trustees, she said.

Ritter announced the executive committee of the Alumni Association voted to endorse raising the amount of money each board member donates to the University.

Susanne Conley, a member of the Alumni Association’s Fundraising Network, said the committee recommended a minimum annual “defined commitment” in the amount of $100 from board members who have graduated in the last five years and $250 for all other board members.

This amendment was approved unanimously by the board. It will go in effect July 1, 2017.

Ritter addressed the second goal for the 2016-17 academic year is the “successful launch” of four affinity group events - Alumni of Color, Entrepreneurship, Alumni Employees and Football.

These groups aim to fundraise for each affinity group, he said.

Eric Gustafson, executive director of development and alumni relations, said the Alumni of Color event was held during Homecoming weekend and approximately 50 people attended.

Each affinity group has Alumni Association board members involved and plans to have events throughout the year.

Gustafson addressed the Emergency Grant Fund Network, a program that provides funding to students who cannot afford to stay at the University. “It’s for students who have maxed out financial aid and it’s clear there’s no money left. … If we don’t help them, they can’t come back. … There’s a difference between need and crisis.”

The network has given out two grants

this semester, Gustafson said.

He addressed one case in which a student’s parent was unable to help pay her tuition, and loans weren’t covering her bill.

The committee had then reviewed the student’s casefile and granted her $200 which allowed her to enroll in classes for the spring semester.

Robin Welch, a member of the committee, said the committee must be “very judicious” about where the money goes and stressed students must provide “extreme clarity” about why they need the money - otherwise, the application will be rejected.

This grant is completely funded by alumni donations and the alumni have raised approximately $6,000 for the fund.

Pam Edrehi, a representative for the Commencement Speaker Committee, updated the board about possible candidates.

Edrehi said the committee members all “come to the table with ideas.”

She suggested first lady Michelle Obama, fashion designer Tim Gunn and Dr. Jay Bradner, a cancer research specialist.

She said students on the committee suggested actress Amy Poehler as a possible commencement speaker as well.

The Alumni Association also welcomed two new members: Elinor Goodwin and Terri Kanieff.

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Dine and Dash As a nation of fast food restaurants, the U.S. values productivity and work over making time to eat a proper meal. This is true even here at Framingham State.

Between classes, work and clubs, students today have a lot more on their plates. For many, making it to the Dining Commons in time for breakfast, lunch and dinner is nearly impossible.

We at The Gatepost believe there are many solutions FSU could implement to ensure all students have access to three full and healthy meals every day.

Our first recommendation is to implement a to-go system. If students were able to drop by the Dining Commons and spend 10-15 minutes selecting food to take with them in a to-go box, they would be able to eat a full meal without being late to class or work.

Currently, the Dining Commons does not allow students to take food with them outside of the cafeteria. Some might argue that students would take more food than needed to store in their rooms.

To which we at The Gatepost say, so what? God forbid students have food in their rooms to eat when they get hungry studying at 2 a.m.

It’s a well-known fact that the Dining Commons almost always has an excess of food - so much so that in 2014, Dining Services started donating the leftover food.

According to an October 2015 article in The Gatepost, FSU dining services donated 3,831.3 pounds of food that year.

By allowing students to use to-go boxes, food that normally would go to waste could instead become extra meals for students.

Additionally, in the past, students have been able to use their swipes in the place of money or Ramcash at Sandellas, Toasted and the Rams Den Grille, all of which have longer hours than the Dining Commons.

If FSU brought that program back, many students would be able to grab lunch after their 2:30 p.m. class lets out and the dining commons are closed.

Sure, students can use the Dining Dollars attached to the dining plan for food. However, this is essentially a pre-paid debit card. The more Dining Dollars you want, the fewer meal swipes you get.

By allowing students to use meal swipes in places other than the Dining Commons, they would be able to save money every meal while also keeping the number of swipes they need.

The Dining Commons does have a policy for students who cannot make it to the cafeteria’s open hours due to their schedules. What is currently offered is called Meal Exceptions, which is available to students who have more than 15 hours a week of class, an internship or work that conflicts with the hours of operation, according to the Dining Service’s website.

However, conflicts that include club events or meetings, intramural and varsity athletics or “other non-academic commitments” are not covered by this policy.

In a time when students’ extracurricular activities are vital to expanding their resumes and even just enjoying their time at college, students shouldn’t have to choose between participating in an activity and eating three full meals a day.

It is vital for students to have access to full meals so they can make the best out of their busy days.

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Campus Conversations Who should be the commencement speaker?

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“Ryan Fatman. He lives in Massachusetts and I’ve met him a couple of times.”

-Alex Tsiounis, freshman “John Cena because he is a stand-up guy and a role model.”

-Josh Clarke, sophomore “Steven Tyler because he’s from Aerosmith.”

-Quinton Lang, sophomore “Kenney Chesney - he’s done stuff like that.”

-Savannah Mattei, sophomore “Mark Whalbery - good vibrations.”

-Andrew Maldonado, junior “Matt Damon because he’s cool.”

-Josh Mandaglio, freshman

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The importance of the fourth estate Journalists have one vital mission - to inform and educate the public.

But what happens when the general public grows suspicious of the press?

According to a Gallup poll, American citizens’ trust in the media has fallen to an all time low, with Republicans remaining the most distrustful of news.

And while Gallup concluded the poll results were a direct consequence of the 2016 presidential election, which was one of the most divisive in history, there is one politician who has been leading the war against journalism President-elect Donald Trump.

After Trump publicly declaring his hatred for journalists during a rally last December, calling out several reporters and media outlets for allegedly slanting the news and vowing to “open up” federal libel laws in order to make suing journalists easier, many journalists were wary for the future of free press if he were elected.

And so far, those fears have not been assuaged.

Just this week, Trump took to Twitter again to berate a CNN reporter and the network for their coverage of voter fraud.

Whether Trump was right about the reporter is irrelevant. Tweets such as “@jeffzeleny Pathetic - you have no sufficient evidence that Donald Trump did not suffer from voter

fraud, shame! Bad reporter,” and “@jeffzeleny just another generic CNN part time wannabe journalist !” should never be found on the president-elect’s Twitter feed.

Besides harassing reporters on social media, Trump has made a conscious effort to shut out the press. He was the first president-elect to fly to Washington to meet the current president sans a group of reporters Normally, the president-elect travels with a group of reporters constantly in the months following the election, a tradition that keeps the general public up-to-date on their new president’s actions.

If Trump’s failure to comply with precedent wasn’t bad enough, he has already berated top TV executives and news outlets during an offthe-record meeting meant to discuss coverage of the Trump administration.

According to an NPR article, while Trump said he would like a “cordial and productive” relationship with the press, he continued to single out reporters and news outlets, and declare them “the worst.”

Additionally, after a dispute about the terms and conditions concerning a meeting with The New York Times, Trump canceled the meeting and took to Twitter to proclaim “the failing” Times “inaccurately” covers him with a “nasty tone.” The meeting was later rescheduled.

Now that this man is going to be president,

it is only rational to believe that the animosity American people feel toward media and journalism will continue to grow.

So, what can journalists do?

Our job.

It is now more important than ever for journalists to cover real stories fairly and accurately, despite whom they might piss off.

The only way to prove to American citizens that we are here for them, that we are on their side, that we are doing this all for them, is to continue writing the honest and accurate stories some may not want to hear.

The only way to combat a demagogue is to educate his followers.

And the only way to appeal to his followers is to report fairly.

All the big media outlets which tend to sway toward either side, all the fake news outlets that have wormed their way onto our Facebook feeds and all the users who perpetuate the fake news by sharing instead of fact-checking - it is time to stop reporting based on your own agenda.

Now, more than ever, the public needs access to real news. Let’s give it to them.

Alexandra Gomes Editor-in-Chief

Not in Kansas anymore I came to FSU to become a writer. I’ve always had some perception or vision of myself as one of those eccentric literary types. To this day, as my senior year unfolds, I am still proud of the group of creative and thoughtful people who have surrounded me. I embraced the labels ‘weird’ and ‘different’ and always wanted to stand out, part of that English-major persona, I guess.

There is only one factor complicating my self-perception - no one has ever tried to label me as ‘different’ or ‘weird’. Sure, my friends do, but it’s friendly. I always anticipated a moment at a club or talking to a cute girl when I’d be approached or interrupted by some snapback in Timberlands spitting Red Bull in my face and hurling sexual diminutives like “pussy” or “faggot” in an attempt to publicly humiliate me.

I never knew it, but for the past four years, as I formed this perception of myself as the ‘different but special’ one, I simultaneously developed a totally irrational perception of other people as ‘enemies.’ To preserve my lofty, mysterious, creative genius from the perturbance of plebeian socialite custom, I

shut the world out. I grew depressed, depraved, caustic and manipulative. I avoided friends’ phone calls and eye contact in general. I involved myself with nothing, no one, no clubs, no campus events, no professors, nobody who might have known more about the world than I. My ‘difference’ wasn’t making that much of difference to me or anyone.

Because of this prolonged confusion (of confusion with knowledge), I now have lots of thoughts in my head I wish I could say better, words in people’s ears I wish I could withdraw, friendships I wish could have lasted longer.

What’s more, I know in my heart that I hinged happiness and success on some stupid bet that society was structured like some John Hughes movie: jocks and bullies vs. nerds and dweebs.

It took a while, but I have finally realized that I have been the one sucking on Member-berries, failing to see the future, not the truck drivers blasting Toto out of their F-150’s and sporting stars and bars bumper stickers over their Massachusetts license plates.

I thought, to put it more simply, that I was Will Hunting, but I was becoming the Michael Bolton guy. If I’ve learned anything

as an English major at FSU, it’s that everyone subscribes to some sense of permanence. And although I may never get the 50-somethingyear-olds I work with to agree that The Band is better than Lynyrd Skynyrd, I’ll never stop trying. And even then, we can all agree that: “Some people live their dreams Some people close their eyes Some people’s destiny Passes by There are no guarantees There are no alibis That’s how our love must be Don’t ask why” ¬Toto, “I’ll Be Over You,” Fahrenheit, 1986

Colin MacEacheron Senior

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ARTS & FEATURES Painting a non-conventional portrait

Left: “Indeed” won first prize at the Fountain Street Studio’s art show.

By Julia Sarcinelli Associate Editor Before arriving at Framingham State, senior Sergio Lopez had never touched a paintbrush. As a freshman, he took figure painting and that’s where his passion started.

He took a figure painting class, and it was then that something clicked for him. “I started to do my figure painting and I just don’t know what happened, it was just like, ‘This is what I want to do,’ because when I painted it I felt like I had a passion for it.”

This year, Lopez, now a studio art major with a painting concentration, won first prize at the Fountain Street Studios art show for his painting “Indeed,” receiving a $50 gift card to the Post Road Art Center in Marlborough.

“Indeed” is a close up portrait focusing from the bottom of the nose to just above the eyes. The use of blues, purples and pinks of the painting makes the skin stand out against the deep purple background, while the details in the eyes bring a deep emotion to the piece.

“I wanted to paint the portrait in a not so conventional way, so I thought of maybe cropping into certain parts of the face, sort of making the paint abstract, like creating abstract forms with the paint, and using non local color like blues and purples and pinks and yellows and mixing them together and creating this abstract

surface. But at the same time, there are realistic elements in the painting,” he said.

Lopez said he starts one painting and then moves on to the next, so within a few weeks he has four or five paintings ongoing at the same time.

“If one is not working, I’ll move to the next one, and they kind of feed off of each other. If you start

“There are moments of relaxed reflection, but when I’m painting and I’m on the canvas, it’s very intense and very concentrated.”

-Sergio Lopez, senior them all at the same time, you’ll say, ‘Well, I see this cohesive aspect happening,’ so that’s how they all connect.”

He said he is “a very fast painter. If I slow down for even just a bit I start to get fussy, and fussiness is not bad, but I find that when I work very fast and don’t think about it, I feel like there is more naturalism in my work and in my figures than if I were to re-

Photos courtesy of Sergio Lopez Right: Senior Sergio Lopez’s current work-in-progress incorporates abstract and realistic concepts.

ally perfect it because the paint just becomes stagnant.”

Lopez said he always paints at a “very high intensity level. You can ask anyone in here - it’s always an intense moment. There are moments of relaxed reflection, but when I’m painting and I’m on the canvas, it’s very intense and very concentrated.”

Lopez remembers loving art since he was 5 years old, using pencils or markers. “I used to draw and draw and draw. There’s a certain age where kids stop drawing and they don’t practice their skills, but I kept going.”

Most of Lopez’s paintings are portraits, and his main influences are artists Andrew Salgado, Jenny Saville and Lucian Freud.

“They paint portraits, but they change it up in the way they move the paint, and the paint gives a sort of emotion. It gives a sort of mood to a piece that otherwise, I feel like conventional portraiture doesn’t convey,” he said.

Lopez likes to use abstract and realistic elements in his work while also using non-local colors and a lot of paint. He said, “My palette knife is my best friend because it allows you to just glob paint on there.”

For most of his work - including the two pieces from the Fountain Street Studio art show - Lopez himself is the subject of the painting. He said, “I am my best model because it’s most convenient for me to just take pictures of myself. … These are all of me,

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but I want to drift away and start painting pictures of other people.

It kind of gets old just painting the same face.”

Lopez also wants to expand to do the entire figure, since they “can have the same amount of emotion as portraits.” Currently, he focuses more on the facial features or zooming in on one aspect, such as the eyes or lips.

His senior thesis will be shown in the Mazmanian Gallery in May and it will be a series of portraits.

“I’m still thinking of ways to spice it up,” he said.

After he graduates, Lopez plans to continue with painting.

“I want to get into a gallery. I want to get a job in it. I might go to the New York Academy of Art. It’s something I’ve been thinking about. It’s a one-week undergrad program during the summer. …

They deal mainly with figurative and portraits, so I think it would be good for me.”

For anyone interested in painting, Lopez suggests “you should always keep going. ... You’re never going to do anything if you don’t work at it. You’re never going to achieve anything great if you don’t keep working on it that’s something that I’ve been realizing as I keep working and I keep pushing myself to experiment with different things. Just let it happen.”

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Rock against DAPL

Amanda Martin/THE GATEPOST Contingent and Savageheads were two of the punk bands featured at “Rock for NoDAPL.”

By William Mills-Curran Editorial Staff Farm Aid fought to keep the American small farmer solvent in the ’80s, “We Shall Overcome” was an anthem for African Americans of the Civil Rights-era, and Bruce Springsteen played on top of the Berlin Wall.

Senior and president of the Green Team Paolo Bon Tempo used the draw of live music to organize a punk show to raise money for the Standing Rock Sioux of the Dakotas, who are protesting to prevent the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline through their reservation.

About 100 people were in attendance to see Bombers, Contingent, Savageheads and Dame play

“For punks, this might not be totally connected, but this is the only thing we know how to do.”

-Paolo Bon Tempo, senior and Green Team president

at the McCarthy Center Forum on the evening of Nov. 18, a turnout that was “better than expected,”

said Bon Tempo.

He said $1,021 was raised, and several people paid more than the suggested donation of $5.

Punk music has long been a venue for political commentary at all levels, from The Clash’s iconic 1979 record “London Calling,” which was critical of the state of the British economy, to food drives at Cambridge’s punk venue The Hardcore Stadium today.

The Standing Rock Sioux tribe has been fighting against the construction of the DAPL, which they feel presents an unacceptably high risk of contaminating their water supplies. They made their appeals under the principles of environmentalism and anti-colonialism.

“For punks, this might not be totally connected, but this is the only thing we know how to do,” said Bon Tempo, who has organized other events for environmental causes.

Bon Tempo described the show as “a stereotypical punk time.”

The majority of the crowd were not FSU students, with some traveling from as far as Boston to see their favorite bands play, while others simply wanted to give money to a cause they supported.

Bon Tempo said he was “extremely grateful that they came out.”

On the intersection of human rights and environmentalism, Bon Tempo said, “It applies to everybody. As humans, we all suffer from climate change - some more than others.”

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to the Forum, and bands started playing more than an hour after the posted time.

Bombers opened and warmed up the crowd with choppy, fast songs typical of the Boston hardcore punk sound. Soon after, Contingent followed, and the crowd had grown large enough to incite a mosh pit.

Kevin Annand, vocalist for Contingent, agreed to play the show to support “fans in Framingham. … We’ve got some local Framingham punks.” He expressed dismay at the standoff in North Dakota, stating “history has given me a reason to be pessimistic. …

It’s not the first time [European Americans] have stepped on indigenous people’s land.”

Boston’s Savageheads played their distorted, cathartic punk next. Drummer Mike Conn said he was sympathetic to the land rights of the tribe, saying they “have the rights to it and deserve it.”

Dame, an all-female band that also hails from Boston, played last. Drummer Diana Damewood said she “respects and admires commitment to environmental causes.” She also was concerned about the rights of the self-titled Indigenous Water Protectors.

She said, “Once again, colonialism. It’s not over.”

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A playground for all

Pride Alliance hosts fun for people of color and LGBTQ+

By Allison Wharton Asst. Arts & Features Editor Music plays in the background as a group of students play games, color, make bracelets and destress as the end of the semester approaches.

Queer Brown Playground, hosted by Pride Alliance and the Center for Inclusive Excellence, was an event meant “to celebrate people specifically from the LGBTQ+ spectrum that are also people of color,” said senior Priscilla Portugal-Moreno.

The event was held on Wednesday, Nov. 30 in North Hall Commons.

“We can build a community that way,” added Portugal-Moreno.

At the playground, students had the opportunity to play games such as Uno, Apples to Apples and Jenga. There were also coloring pages that featured Beyoncé, and students could make friendship bracelets.

Sodexo provided a hot chocolate station, pizza and wings.

Junior Zachariah Pierce said the event “is a great way to unwind during a stressful time.”

Senior Cindy Nelson said, “Crafting, food and music - what better way to bring people together?”

Freshman Robert Johnson said, “It’s an opportunity to bring these diverse communities together.”

Event coordinator and senior Danielle Butler said she got the idea for the playground after attending a picnic for people not only of color but also part of the LGBTQ+ community.

“I thought we needed a space for multiple minorities to be together - especially after the recent election. Hopefully, we can do more of these types of events in the future,” she said.

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Alliance Rylan O’Day agreed, “I feel like it is important for minority groups to get together as one.”

Junior Monét Johnson said, “It is important to have the space where people of color and LGTBQ+ belong.”

Junior Jace Williams said, “I’m excited to see more LGBTQ+ events that are based on having fun instead of focusing on the sadness that exists in the community.”

Director of Equal Opportunity, Title IX and ADA Compliance Kim Dexter said the event gives an “opportunity to explore the intersections of identity. It gives people a space to recognize and celebrate that.”

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“It’s an opportunity to bring these diverse communities together.”

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A “Diamond in the Rough” M.I.S.S. offers sisterhood to women of color

Tessa Jillson/THE GATEPOST From left to right: M.I.S.S. eBoard memembers Renae Austrie, Priscilla Portugal-Moreno, Luisanna Castillo, Kenetra Hinkins, Amari Veale and Danielle Butler.

By Tessa Jillson Interim Asst. Arts & Features Editor After finishing another meal alone, FSU freshman Katelyn Moniz walked back to her room feeling completely isolated.

On her way out of McCarthy, she came across Junior Luisanna Castillo who was promoting a campus club called M.I.S.S. Moniz immediately was welcomed into the “sisterhood” with a sign of her pen and a promise to attend.

“I felt like it would be a good experience for me, as I did not feel like I had friends,” said Moniz.

Senior and eBoard member Priscilla Portugal-Moreno said when she began her freshman year at FSU, she saw a divide among minority groups, particularly women. She recalled a time when she would walk into the Dining Commons and feel as though people would act a certain way based on her looks and with whom she hung out.

Portugal-Moreno said, “A lot of the cliques are based off of who you know or who others think you know. So, creating a group like M.I.S.S. creates a safe space where you can actually get to know a person, and not judge them by what you see or what you’ve heard. Because a lot of the time that’s what divides us.”

M.I.S.S. stands for Motivation.

Intersectionality. Solidarity. Sisterhood. M.I.S.S. is a club in which students can break away from the culture of selective association and be themselves. President of M.I.S.S., Amari Veale, a junior, said the point is to “get people to

understand and appreciate everyone’s beauty.”

M.I.S.S. is not just a group exclusively for women of color - it’s a different type of group in which people are encouraged to celebrate each other and themselves.

Women of color are specifically celebrated since they are always forgotten, Veale said.

“We didn’t find a group where women of color were represented

club is like a sisterhood since it is a space where students leave all negativity at the door, lift each other up and are united.

“It’s for the extroverts and introverts. Every different type of person is catered to - many branches, one tree,” said Veale.

M.I.S.S. also promotes career and self-growth by giving club members what they need, such as mentorships from different

“It’s one of those things where you kind of find a diamond in the rough because someone else couldn’t really shine it up.”

-Kenetra Hinkins, senior and M.I.S.S. eBoard member on campus,” Veale said. “Initially the club is a voice for women of color and for allies who want to educate themselves on women of color, their culture and impressions.”

M.I.S.S. also teaches club members about self-confidence, said Veale. They have Sisterhood Development Mondays, which are dedicated to getting to know fellow members on a deeper level.

For those in the club who aren’t necessarily heard all the time, it helps them open up and build off of other people’s energy. The

women in power and networking skills.

Senior eBoard member Danielle Butler said, “The girls really host the events. Half of our meetings this semester have been member-led discussions.”

Veale said, “The girls run the collaborations. They’re doing what they want with it and we’re just the voice for them on a higher level.”

Since M.I.S.S. is a brand-new club, it won’t become official until next semester, Veale said. Until then, members have planned

future gatherings such as One Love trainings, which teaches them how to stop abusive relationships, movie nights featuring actors of color in lead roles, homework nights and events such as Queer Brown Playground.

The club has come a long way since it started, said Veale. Club founders started working last semester and into the summer to make the club official. Someone started M.I.S.S. beforehand, but it really got nowhere until eBoard members Veale, Portugal-Moreno, Butler, Castillo, senior Kenetra Hinkins and junior Renae Austrie took over, according to club members.

They all clicked with a common goal in mind - to make the club successful and accommodate all members’ needs.

“It’s one of those things where you kind of find a diamond in the rough because someone else couldn’t really shine it up,” said Hinkins.

Veale said, “Someone else started it, but we made the words mean something. We made this into something people want to be a part of.”

Members said they feel M.I.S.S. is a club where they can be themselves. They have people to laugh and cry with, but most importantly they have others to fall back on.

Portugal-Moreno said, “This is my safe space. This is where I can be me.”

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Éamonn Ó Ciardha wonders if Brexit will bring back hard borders

By Jessica Duff Editorial Staff Visiting lecturer Dr. Éamonn Ó Ciardha can recall the year 1973.

He was 5 years old when the British and Irish national line was a hard border, and the British army started “blowing up the roads.”

He remembers his father coming home from filling the streets back in.

“They did this as farmers. You have a little road, like the one between here and Stop & Shop.

You blow that up, you have to go around through Natick,” Ó Ciardha said.

In the present day, there are no checkpoints or skirmishes between the IRA and the British.

“When I was a kid, it was a physical presence. Now you wouldn’t know it’s there,” he added.

In light of the United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union, Ó Ciardha said he worries about more than the “fragile” economies in the U.K. The Nov. 29 “Brexit: England (and Wales) Pull Up the Drawbridge” talk was given as a follow-up to his lecture on The Troubles, an ethno-nationalist conflict that lasted in Northern Ireland between the 1960s and 1990s.

The move to exit the EU means a loss of neutral meeting grounds for countries with a long history

of antagonism.

“Europe provided the example to Ireland of how you could get rid of borders, of how you could put aside your national differences in improving the life of people on both sides of the Irish border,” said Ó Ciardha.

The vote to leave the EU was secured through political “lies,” such as €350 million of EU taxes would go directly to the National Health Service after Brexit, he

us?” scene in the movie.

“They gave us the minimum wage and clean water,” he said.

Brexit was also devised without consideration for arrangements such as the U.N. or the Good Friday, or Belfast Agreement, an accord between the British and Irish factions on how Northern Ireland should be governed, said Ó Ciardha. Ó Ciardha also emphasized the importance of the EU’s Human

“The idea of a hard border is a nightmare for everyone.”

-Éamonn Ó Ciardha, visiting lecturer

said.

“They didn’t think it through,” said Ó Ciardha.

During his lecture, Ó Ciardha used YouTube clips and quoted “Monty Python’s Life of Brian.”

He compared EU critics blaming the system’s bureaucracy to the “What have the Romans done for

Rights Court, “particularly during The Troubles, when many Irish nationalists believed that ‘British justice’ was an oxymoron.”

He said, “European soft power is very important, too.”

Approximately 30 people attended the hour-long lecture on the history of European conflict

behind the formation of the EU and the UK’s recent decision to leave “what is arguably the third largest economy in the world.” Ó Ciardha took student questions for an additional half hour.

“The idea of a hard border is a nightmare for everyone,” said Ó Ciardha. “The British government has slashed funding to their own great universities, which they enjoy talking so much about. …

They also derive enormous revenue from international students.

The message from Brexit is, ‘Stay at home. We don’t want you.’”

Scotland may walk away from the U.K. and attempt to rejoin the EU as an independent nation, and the majority of Northern Ireland voted to remain, he added. There could be a soft Brexit, or a hard Brexit.

“If you came here for answers, then you leave sorely disappointed, because I don’t know. And I take some consolation from that because the British government doesn’t know. Europe doesn’t know,” said Ó Ciardha. “The British are behaving like a guy who has left an exclusive golf club but still wants all the perks of membership.”

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“Making it work” Alumni discuss Project Runway experiences

By Cesareo Contreras Arts & Features Editor With a schedule packed with challenges and tight deadlines, Project Runway contestants and FSU alumni Nathalia JMag and Cornelius Ortiz were constantly forced to think on their feet.

Even with the stress that came with imminent deadlines, Ortiz and JMag thrived under the pressure.

“I think some of our best work came not only from 10 hours of work but two hours,” Ortiz said.

“I’ve done some really amazing stuff in two hours without thinking about it. Just saying, ‘Hey, I have to get this done.’”

Ortiz and JMag returned to FSU to discuss their Project Runway experiences during an off-the-cuff Q&A session on Monday, Nov. 21

in the Heineman Ecumenical Center.

With questions ranging from, “What was your favorite piece to design?” to “What was the application process like?” students and faculty asked the duo a series of questions regarding the behindthe-scene aspects of the show.

Ortiz and Jmag said competing in Project Runway was a constant hustle that consisted of back and forth of one-day challenges and critique days.

“We had no breaks,” JMag said.

Often working 16 hour days, JMag and Ortiz would arrive at the studio around 7 or 8 a.m. and stay there until the late hours of the night.

“It’s all about you and your skills,” she said. She didn’t apply until this year because it wasn’t until now that “I felt comfortable

making a whole outfit in under 10 hours.”

Among Ortiz’s favorite submissions is a design he created while completing the competition’s blacklight challenge, a design that took him just around two hours to create, he said.

JMag and Ortiz attributed much of their success to the lessons they learned while attending FSU. JMag, who graduated this past spring, said FSU provided her with “all the tools that she needed” to hone her design-making skills.

Ortiz, who graduated in 2015, said he was an active member of the student body and his time at FSU was an “amazing experience” that supplemented the design work he did outside of the classroom.

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prove the point, “If you could work for it, you can achieve it.

Her success didn’t happen overnight. “I feel like I was putting in a lot of work for the past four years,” she said.

Both JMag and Ortiz said the competition helped them grow as individuals, as well as designers.

“It was a hectic experience, and it was worth it,” Ortiz said. “Creating something in 10 hours, I didn’t think I’d ever be able to do that, but then we got to five hours and then two hours, and you want this so bad that you’ll kinda pull out all types of tricks that you never thought you could do in one hour.”

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Fantastic Beasts doesn’t disappoint

Editor’s Note: The following is a group review of the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. This contains potential spoilers.

By Cesareo Contreras Arts & Features Editor

By Andrew Willoughby Arts & Features Editor

By Bailey Morrison Editorial Staff

What did you think of the plot?

Cesareo: I’m gonna be honest, at first I didn’t understand what was going on. It took a while for the movie to get going.

Andrew: The intro with the newspaper headlines has been done to death.

Cesareo: I also didn’t understand what was going on at that point.

Was I supposed to care about those people in the headlines?

Andrew: Well that’s the thing they bring up these people and then don’t mention them again until the very end.

Anyway, going in, I knew nothing. I watched the first trailer, that’s it. I thought it was going to be about Newt Scamander running around New York being like, “Ooh I gotta write my book,” but it wasn’t that.

There were two intertwined plots, which is not something I was expecting to see, but I think they pulled it off.

Cesareo: Yeah, it sort of started out as a fetch quest and then turned into something else when the Obscurus became part of the film.

Bailey: It definitely was a mix between light heartedness and the bigger picture. The plot took a while to fully develop itself, but in the end the duality of the plot made it flow well and kept the audience’s attention.

Do you think the plot’s dichotomy was handled well?

Andrew: I don’t know. There were two parts - the first is all, “Let’s have fun catching these monsters” and then there’s a horrific murder.

They somewhat clash, but that may be something that Rowling was going for while writing the script.

Bailey: The one thing I’ll say is that I felt the transition between the “Oh, fun, we’re catching the Demiguise,” and the Erumpent trying to mate with Jacob to the full development of the Obscurial was a little rushed.

Cesareo: I don’t think they did an awful job with the transition because throughout the movie we have that creepy family which was involved with the New Salem Philanthropic Society. Throughout the first half of the movie, I had the question in the back of my mind, “What do these people mean in the bigger picture?”

What did you think about the length of the movie?

Did you find the 2 hour and 13 minute runtime to be too long?

Bailey: I thought it was good, since even the longest Harry Potter movie is that length. I think if they

had tried to speed it up they would have missed things and not set it up in a good way. But here, with the extensive CGI and character development, I think it was better for people who didn’t have any experience with the Harry Potter movies.

Andrew: Yeah, and it’s not an adaptation. There’s nothing for it to live up to, so the worst it could be was just a mediocre movie, but I felt like it wasn’t mediocre at all.

My expectations weren’t really high because when spin-offs and things like this happen, I’m always reluctant and fear they are going to mess something up.

Do you feel Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them stands on its own, apart from the Harry Potter films?

Cesareo: I think it does. It doesn’t really rely too much on the fact that it is a Harry Potter film. I think the biggest reference was when Colin Farrell’s character is interrogating Newt and mentioned how Dumbledore was the only professor who was opposed to expelling him from Hogwarts.

Andrew: There were one or two name drops. They weren’t shoving Harry Potter in your face.

Bailey: Yeah, there were minor things - Easter eggs for those who read the books and watched the other movies, like how they mentioned the Lestrange family or the name drop of Dumbledore.

Cesareo: I would say even someone who hasn’t seen the original Harry Potter movies or knows nothing about Harry Potter could still

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have a very good time watching this film.

Did you think the CGI in the film was convincing?

Cesareo: I knew the creatures were CGI but I still felt for those little beasts, like the Niffler for example.

Bailey: Oh the Niffler! He was so cute! He was a lot sassier than I thought he was going to be.

Andrew: There were a few times when they got close up to the Niffler and it looked pretty cartoony and it didn’t really fit with the rest of it, but for the most part, they weren’t close up to the creatures and that worked the best.

Final Thoughts?

Cesareo: It was a good movie. You can definitely enjoy it even if you’re not a Harry Potter fan. In fact, I think anyone could have a great time watching this movie.

Rating: 8/10 Bailey: I was hesitant to see it only because I didn’t know how much of a hand J.K. Rowling had in the movie. But it did a really good job sticking to the world and not trying to create things that shouldn’t have been there. Rating: 8.5/10 Andrew: It definitely didn’t go in the direction I was expecting it to, but I’m glad I was wrong. Rating: 8/10 CONNECT WITH ANDREW WILLOUGHBY awilloughby@student.framingham.edu CONNECT WITH CESAREO CONTRERAS ccontreras@student.framingham.edu CONNECT WITH BAILEY MORRISON bmorrison1@student.framingham.edu

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Associating between good and evil Book Review

By Allison Wharton Asst. Arts & Features Editor Tragedies are never planned.

The victims of tragedies can never prepare for either the loss of a loved one or the loss of a part of their identity.

There are also people who are the causes of these tragedies.

In “An Association of Small Bombs,” author Karan Mahajan tells the gripping story of the effect of the detonation of a small bomb in 1996 on a grieving couple, a young boy and the man who placed the bomb.

The novel follows these people in the years after the explosion and how such a small act of violence can change the way someone sees the world, as well as themselves.

Mansoor is a young Muslim boy who went on a trip to the bazaar with his two friends, when suddenly, a small handmade bomb exploded inches away. The bomb instantly killed his two friends and in a state of shock, Mansoor ran from the scene and walked himself to the nearest clinic.

The explosion resulted in nerve damage in the 12-year-old’s hands and a lifetime of regret. Mansoor struggles throughout the entire

novel with why he lived and his friends didn’t.

Those two friends, Tushar and Nakul, were brothers and the only children of Vikas and Deepa Khurana. The Khuranas fluctuate be-

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tween two mental states - one in happiness and the other in depression.

Mahajan explores the human response to tragedy. Vikas fell into a spiraling depression which strained his marriage. He coped

with his grief by helping other families who had been affected by small bombings.

The book is a remarkable example of a positive grieving process.

Turning a negative into a positive is a skill not many have. Vikas is a flawed character and when he uses his experience to help others, his story becomes full circle. It really does prove that everything happens for a reason.

Then there is the man who caused it all, Shookie, who was part of a radical group that set off bombs to protest India’s political leadership.

It is clear that while Shookie no longer feels any guilt over the lives he has taken. However, readers learn his good friend took the blame for the 1996 bombing.

The novel also introduces a man who wants to join a terrorist group.

Ayub, who once prided himself on religious healing, turned to Shookie for help to bomb a market. The lack of response from his peaceful protests had forced him to join a terrorist group.

Mahajan teaches that if a person doesn’t experience devastation first hand, then they will never understand the pain of losing something important. Ayub’s

justification for setting off a bomb is to show that pain cannot be taught, but shown.

I personally enjoy expanding my global perspective via non-fiction literature. The medium sheds a light on individual stories. It is important during these massive tragedies that we do not look at the collective but the individual.

What I believe makes a good book is the level of plot and character immersion and I fully believe Mahajan accomplishes this.

The novel questions a person’s morality - what people do to make a statement. Has society blocked out simple protests? Will it only answer to violence?

The healing process is a journey, which the book ponders. Even though tragedies occur every day, life still goes on.

The characters in the novel are all forced to realize that they should not associate their present actions with a tragic past, and that it can only lead to more pain.

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The Circle of the Drum comes to FSU

By Tessa Jillson Interim Asst. Arts & Features Editor Community is the centerpiece of Native-American culture, and for Claudia Fox Treeand her family it is important their history is celebrated and understood by local towns and schools.

On Nov. 22 in the McCarthy Forum, Fox Tree, her daughter, sophomore Indigo Fox Tree-McGrath and her three friends, Jennifer Wolfrum, Sarah Wolfrum and Erin L. McCormack, broke tradition to bring the community of FSU together in song and dance, educating students about daily Native-American practices.

Song and dance brought Native American tribes together after they became political prisoners and were sent to reservations or concentration camps, said Fox Tree.

Nations that did not speak each other’s languages, and didn’t know each other’s cultures found comfort and commonality “sitting in a circle around a drum and teaching each other songs.”

Traditionally, women aren’t as prevalent in these dances, and the drum isn’t used by non-Natives.

Fox Tree said, “Having females at the drum is not always welcome at pow-wows, but I have a family drum, so [mine] is open.

“Having some kind of gift is very traditional in the Native-American community, and community is what it’s all about,” Fox Tree said while handing out gifts of rattles made out of plastic eggs containing dried corn, beans and rice.

She explained the traditional rattles were mostly made of clay or dried river weeds.

Fox Tree said, “In modern times, we’ll use our traditional ways blended with modern things, like the plastic egg rattles with the traditional insides.”

Since there are barely any places to learn about Native American history and culture, Fox Tree and her friends started drumming in schools, she said.

Fox Tree’s “family” drum, also known as a pow-wow drum, is made of cottonwood that’s been hollowed out with buffalo hide on both sides.

“We think of the drum as something that’s living and breathing because the hide will expand and shrink, and we need to take care of it,” said Fox Tree.

The drum is placed in the middle of a circle of chairs. Non-sacred general pow-wow songs and Arawak (Fox Tree’s native tribe) songs were played to celebrate water, the eagle, the survival of birds and healing.

Pow-wows feature all kinds of

Tessa Jillson/THE GATEPOST Fox Tree led students in a circle of prayer while standing around the drum.

dancing, she said. Fox Tree-McThe event ended with a social Grath wore two contemporary dance, which usually comes at the dresses - a regalia traditional dress end of a pow-wow. People lined up while performing the “Fancy Dance” with their partners and participated and a dress containing 365 metal in a story-inspired two-step dance. cones during “The Healing Song.” The story says that two hunters set The cones on the dress intended out to get food and come across two to represent the sound of water, as big rabbits. The two hunters wait they rattled healing energy. and watch as the two rabbits stood Community is recognized on their hind legs and dance. The through circles, Fox Tree said. Na- lesson to be learned in this story, tive Americans would drum in cir- Fox Tree said, is a lot can get done cles, dance in circles and sit in cir- when working with a partner. cles. Native Americans are atuned “Animals have a lot to teach us,” to the natural world. Therefore, Fox Tree said, “And here, they teach they are always connected to the us about community.” land and your people.

Each FSU student was given time to experience their own community circle through prayer, music and CONNECT WITH TESSA JILLSON tjillson@student.framingham.edu dancing.

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DECEMBER 2, 2016

SPORTS Rams win New England Bowl thanks to goal-line stand by defense

FSURAMS The Framingham State Rams pose for a picture on Nov. 19 after they celebrate a 37-34 win over Salve Regina in the New England Bowl. The Rams finish the season with a record of 8-3.

By Matt Ferris Sports Editor Framingham State went on the road to take on the Salve Regina Seahawks in the 2016 New England Bowl.

After receiving the opening kickoff, the Rams came out of the gates hot. On the first play from scrimmage, Quron Wright took a handoff and carried it 79 yards for a touchdown. After a successful extra point, Framingham went up 7-0.

After forcing a stop on the Seahawks’ first possession, the Rams got the ball back on offense. Napoleon Miller ran it on the first play of the drive for a gain of six yards. On the third play of the drive, Adam Wojenski connected with Michael Calicchio for a 75yard touchdown through the air.

Shawn St. Marie converted the extra point to make it 14-0.

On its next drive, Salve Regina marched down the field for a touchdown of its own. Sam Pascale and James Dawson both picked up big chunks of yards for the Seahawks before Pascale finished off the drive with a 26-yard run for a touchdown. After the extra point, the Seahawks cut the deficit to 14-7.

Framingham came out and scored for a third time on its third drive of the game. Wright and Miller combined for six rushes and 41 yards to put the Rams

into field-goal range. On fourth down, St. Marie connected on a 38-yard field goal to put the Rams up 17-7.

After back-to-back punts from the Seahawks, the Rams added to the lead. This time it was Trevon Offley, who ran it in from six yards out to give Framingham a 23-7 lead after a missed extra point. The drive consisted of five runs and four passes for 62 yards.

The Seahawks moved the ball down the field on their next possession but the drive ended with an interception with just three seconds left in the half. Defensive back Rashawn Rivers made the interception for the Rams, picking the ball off at the Framingham three-yard line and sending the game to halftime at 23-7.

The Seahawks received the second half kickoff, and came out with seven straight run plays.

Pascale and Dawson combined for six rushes and 40 yards before Brandan Basil finished off the drive with a four-yard touchdown to cut into the Rams lead. After a failed two point conversion, the Rams held a 23-13 lead.

Later in the third quarter, the Rams added to the lead. Offley led Framingham down the field with five carries for 26 yards.

Wojenski then connected with Miller for a 21-yard score. After a successful extra point the Rams lead grew to 30-13 On the very next drive, the

Seahawks answered back with a touchdown of their own. After big chunks on the ground from Pascale and Dawson, Basil completed a 44-yard touchdown pass to Chris Caron to narrow the deficit to 30-20.

Framingham came right back with a touchdown of its own on the next possession. The Rams went 71 yards in 13 plays to grow the lead to 37-20. Wojenski ran twice on the drive for 38 yards and a touchdown.

The Seahawks got the ball and marched down the field in 58 seconds for a touchdown of their own. The four play, 52-yard drive was capped off by a 25-yard touchdown from Dawson to make it 37-27.

On the next drive, Framingham looked to put the game out of reach. On the second play of the drive, John Salute got through the offensive line for a strip sack. He recovered the fumble and brought it into the end zone for a touchdown. After the extra point, the lead was just three for the Rams.

After forcing a Framingham punt with five minutes remaining, the Seahawks got possession on their own 43-yard line. Pascale and Dawson again took turns gaining big chunks of yards until reaching the seven-yard line for a first-and-goal. Pascale gained two yards on first down. On second, Pascale rushed for three

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more yards. It was Pascale again on third, rushing for a yard to set up a fourth-and-goal from the one-yard line.

The Seahawks elected to go for it on fourth down and go for the win. They handed the ball off to Pascale one more time. The Framingham defense held strong and made the tackle before Pascale crossed the goal line to secure the victory.

Framingham ran out the clock and won the 2016 New England Bowl by a score of 37-34.

In the win, Wojenski threw for 224 yards and had three total touchdowns. Wright led the Rams in rushing with 12 attempts for 121 yards. Offley had 13 attempts for 49 yards.

Calicchio caught three passes for 123 yards and a touchdown while Miller reeled in six catches for 61 yards and a touchdown.

Aaron Owens, Svenn Jacobson and Thomas Burns all had eight tackles apiece to lead the Rams on defense.

Framingham closes out its season with a win to improve to 8-3 for the year.

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Men’s basketball snaps three-game skid with 67-63 win over Wheaton

By Jose Carrasquillo Asst. Sports Editor Framingham lost to Maine Maritime in a nonconference matchup on Nov. 18. Framingham began the game going 0-of-4 and committing two turnovers before making its first shot at the 16:40 mark, approximately.

Benjamin Roache made a 3-pointer three minutes within checking in.

His 3-pointer would start a 7-0 run for Framingham which would stretch the lead to 12-2. Sam Melkin of Maine Maritime ended the run with a jump shot to cut the lead to 12-4.

Framingham stretched its lead to as large as 17 after back-to-back threes from Steve Vayda and Wesley Ogbevoen. Coming out of the timeout, the Mariners missed backto-back jumpers before making one following a Framingham missed 3-pointer. Patrick Gould ended the

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first half for the Rams with a layup following the 3-pointer and a made free throw from the Mariners.

The second half began with a backand-forth battle, with each side trading baskets and the Mariners cutting the lead to 10.

Both sides continued trading baskets until Maine Maritime scored 12 unanswered points. Framingham regained the lead with five quick points off two made free throws and a 3-pointer from Patrick Gould. Framingham missed its next four shots while the Mariners scored six unanswered regaining the lead. Coming out of the timeout, the Rams missed three 3-pointers in the final seconds, losing the game by a score of 57-53.

Framingham was led by Tyri Hampton with nine points and two rebounds. Patrick Gould contributed eight points on 2-for-6 shooting from the field.

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TOP PERFORMERS TYRI HAMPTON - 9 PTS, 2 REBS, WESLEY OGBEVEON - 7 PTS, 8 REBS, PATRICK GOULD - 8 POINTS, 3 REBS

Framingham’s losing streak continued to three after losing to Regis at home on Nov. 22.

Regis came out hot with a 15-4 run, with Shaun Wingfield making two 3-pointers. Framingham responded with seven quick points, a three from Roache and layups from Ogbevoen and Payton.

Both sides kept trading baskets with Ogbevoen scoring five points cutting the lead to 21-20. Regis stretched its lead once again outscoring the Rams 9-2 in a two-minute spurt. Timothy Mangano scored a jump shot and a 3-pointer cutting the lead to five. Framingham closed the half with a made free throw from Ogbevoen cutting the lead to 34-28.

Framingham began the second half trading shots with Regis trying to make a comeback, but Regis stretched its lead to as much as 10.

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The Rams cut the lead after five points from Gould and Valbrun to cut the lead to eight with 11 minutes remaining. Both sides traded baskets until Framingham scored eight unanswered cutting the lead to four. Isiah Wilson scored backto-back baskets stretching the lead back to eight but Ogbevoen scored a basket and the foul reducing the lead to four.

Unfortunately for Framingham that’s as close as it would get as Regis closed the game out on a 11-5 run.

Jordan Seldon led the way for Regis with 17 points and seven rebounds while Wingfield chipped in 10 off the bench.

Payton scored 13 points on 5-of10 shooting and Ogbevoen also contributed 15 points and four steals.

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TOP PERFORMERS WESLEY OGBEVEON - 15 PTS, 4 STLS, MANNY PAYTON - 13 PTS, 4 REBS, TIM MANGANO - 12 PTS, 4 REBS

Framingham’s losing streak continued when it took on Manhattanville on Nov. 19 with a score of 6964.

Manhattanville came out hot early starting the game on a 9-2 run. After a Vayda made jumper, the Valiants responded with six quick points extending the lead to 11. The lead grew to as much as 14 with nine minutes remaining in the half.

The Rams cold spell continued throughout the first half with the lead growing to 18 with two minutes remaining. Charles Valbrun ended the first half for Framingham with a layup off an offensive rebound. The Valiants gained a big lead due to their great bench play, getting 22 points out of their unit.

Framingham and Manhattanville continued trading baskets in the beginning of the second half.

The Rams tried clawing their way

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back, but the Valiants kept their foot on the gas pedal, outscoring the Rams 19-17 in the first 10 minutes to keep the lead at 22.

The Rams began their comeback with 13 unanswered points to cut the lead to nine. Framingham made three 3-pointers in that stretch, two from Hampton and one from Manny Payton. Framingham kept trying to cut into the lead. After a made free throw from Payton, the Rams was unable to close the game out missing their last three shots.

Manhattanville was led by Willie Britton off the bench with 26 points, six rebounds and a steal.

Payton led the way for Framingham with 17 points, three rebounds and three assists. Hampton also contributed 15 points off the bench for Framingham.

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TOP PERFORMERS MANNY PAYTON - 17 PTS, 3 ASTS, 3 REBS, TYRI HAMPTON - 15 PTS, 2 REBS, WESLEY OGBEVEON - 9 PTS, 9 REBS

Framingham ended its losing streak at three with a 67-63 win over Wheaton College.

The Rams were locked in an offensive shootout with the Lyons.

Patrick Gould came out hot with three straight 3-pointers to give them an 11-9 lead early. Both teams continued trading baskets with the lead not growing any more than seven for either side. Framingham closed the first half out with a layup and a free throw from Tony Alexandre.

Framingham continued trading baskets with the Lyons. After a Payton made three, Regis responded with a free throw from Ryan Fogarty, Duaka Ekwensi scored an andone. With the and-one the Pride cut the lead to 40-37. Regis kept fighting back with three ties between the teams and eventually gained the lead at 51-49 with a Riley Tetrealut

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layup. Framingham kept fighting back with seven straight points to regain the lead at 58-54.

After a Patrick Gould made 3-pointer, Fogarty scored on backto-back layups to tie the game at 61. Framingham closed the game out with a Mangano layup and jump shot. After a Forgarty layup and a Framingham turnover, the Lyons were unable to tie the game. Payton closed the game with two free throws.

Patrick Gould led the way for Framingham with 17 points on 5-of5 shooting from behind the arc with two rebounds and one assist. Alexandre chipped in 14 points and seven rebounds, Payton also contributed 13 points with four rebounds, three assists and three steals.

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DECEMBER 2, 2016

Rams losing streak continues to six, offensive struggles continue

By Richard Tranfaglia Staff Writer Framingham State lost its home opener to Plymouth State by a score of 10-1 on Nov. 17.

Special teams were a huge part of this game. Eight goals were scored for Plymouth State either on a power play or short-handed.

The first power play for the Panthers came at the 6:29 mark when Anthony DePetres got called for goaltender interference. On the man advantage, Michael Economos put Plymouth State on the board making it 1-0.

Just one minute later, Plymouth State went to the power play again when Jake Sartorelli got penalized for tripping. Making the most of the power play the Panthers scored again off a rocket shot from Chris Zuccaro.

The Rams looked to gain the momentum when they got a power play of their own around the 15-minute mark. Instead, it turned into a short-handed goal for the Panthers. Ryan Stevens gathered the puck off a missed shot from Economos and sent it home.

Just before the end of the period, Plymouth State added another tally to its total. Tim Larocque scored on a wrist shot.

Framingham started the second period on the man advantage but was not able to capitalize on the opportunity. Right before the power play ended, Stevens got the puck in the neutral zone and shot it past Rams goalie Adam Calabrese to make it a five-goal lead.

At the 6:00 mark, the Panthers’ Matt Volonnino scored off the feed from Stevens extending the lead again.

In the third period, the onslaught continued for the Panthers. The power play proved to be dangerous again when Ludvig Steenberg scored on a wrist shot, assisted by Dan Dupell and Erik Strom.

The Rams finally got on the board with a power play goal of their own. Tyler Colacchio scored with Vaughn Guetens and Matt Bauchman assisting on the goal making it a 7-1 game.

Plymouth State scored three goals in the last four minutes of the game. Two of them were short-handed goals scored by Stevens and Kyle Orgel. The last goal of the game, their fourth power play goal, came off the stick of Tommy Dowell.

The Panthers outshot the Rams 39-17. Stevens ended with a hat trick for Plymouth and Colacchio had one goal and a team-leading three shots in the loss. Calabrese made 21 saves for the Rams and Thierry Messervier recorded 10 saves for the Panthers.

The Rams drop to 1-4 on the season and 0-3 in the MASCAC.

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Darian O’Donnell/ THE GATEPOST Framingham State captain Vaughn Guetens turns the puck up ice and looks to attack in the team’s loss to Plymouth State.

Framingham State’s woes continued with a loss to Westfield State, 6-0, on Nov. 19.

The Owls got off to a great start scoring five goals in the first period. The scoring began after a penalty on the Rams’ Jake McKinnon for boarding gave Westfield a power play. Daniel Backstrom scored the goal with Carl Greco and Nik Passero assisting on the play.

Just two minutes later, the Owls scored backto-back goals from Francois-Xavier Girard and Jackson Leef to make it a 3-0 game.

After the third score, Raymond Feeley replaced Calabrese at goalie for Framingham.

Girard scored his second goal of the game at the 12:39 mark with Lenny Caglianone and Leef assisting on the play.

Just two minutes later, Jeremy Young got in

on the scoring for the Owls making it a five-goal game.

The second period was a back-and-forth game with neither team being able to score.

Westfield added an insurance goal in the third period when Passero redirected a shot from Donovan Gardiner into the net.

The Owls outshot the Rams 49-23. Feeley recorded 43 saves for the Rams and Kameron Limburg stopped all 23 shots he faced for Westfield.

The Rams drop to 1-5 on the season.

Framingham State dropped its sixth straight game Nov. 22 against New England College by a score of 8-2.

The Pilgrims struck first at the 6:32 mark when Adam Zollner scored on a wrist shot with Carlos Fornaris and Bryce Nielsen assisting on the play.

Fornaris extended the lead around the 12-minute mark getting the pass from Zollner.

Just two minutes later, Joe Osaka made it a three-goal game getting the puck past Feeley on the short side.

In the second period, NEC went on the power play after Brian Raimo got called for hooking. Andreas Zollner capitalized on the opportunity with a break-away goal for the Pilgrims, making it a fourgoal game.

Only a minute later, Mike Whitehair scored on a snapshot with Chris Santello and Bryan McFarlane assisting on the play.

In the 13th minute of play, Pilgrims’ Ivan Zhuravlev got a five-minute penalty for contact to the head and a 10-minute misconduct on top of that.

With Framingham on the power play, Gregory Stoya capitalized to put FSU on the board.

The momentum swung a little bit in favor of the

Rams when McFarlane got called for cross-checking and sent FSU on another power play. Vaughn Guetens gathered the loose puck in front of the net and put it home to make it a 5-2 game.

The Pilgrims killed Framingham State’s momentum when Keenan Haase and Fornaris scored back-to-back goals in 30 seconds just before the end of the period.

In the final period the Pilgrims added one last goal by Scott Cornfield.

NEC had seven different players score in the win and 14 players with at least one point.

The Pilgrims outshot the Rams 46-15. Feeley made 23 saves for FSU and NEC’s Christoffer Sjoo recorded 13 saves The Rams are now 1-6 on the season.

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Women’s basketball continues to obliterate opponents, start season 5-0

By Liam Gambon Staff Writer The Framingham State Rams traveled to Norton, MA to compete in the college tip-off tournament against Newbury College.

The Rams led after the first quarter 25-17 before running away with it by having a 26-7 run in the second quarter, extending their lead to 5124. From there the Rams would never look back as they would go on to never lose the lead and ultimately win the game 94-45.

The bench for the Rams came up huge again as they scored more points than the entire Newbury team, finishing with 49 points to Newbury’s 45.

Quinn O’Connell led the bench with 14 points in just 14 minutes as she shot 6-for-10 from the field and 2-for-3 from beyond the arc. Mary Kate O’Day led all bench players in minutes with 29 and followed just behind O’Connell in bench points with 10 as she shot 5-for-8 from the field and came away with a team lead in blocks with two.

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Freshman Emily Velozo led the bench in assists with five and steals with three.

Mallory DeFeo led the bench in rebounds with six and shot 50 percent from the field with eight points.

The starters shot very proficient from the field shooting a combined 18-for-31 (58 percent). Center Alycia Rackliffe shot a lights out 100 percent from the field hitting all six of her attempts and finishing with 12 points.

Guard Raegan Mulherin led the starters and combined with O’Connell for the game-high in points with 14, as she shot a proficient 5-for-9 from the field and a solid 4-of-6 from 3-point land.

Rackliffe also led the team in rebounds with eight. Lauren Donahue led the starters with five assists to tie Velozo for the game lead in assists.

The Rams lit the floor up by shooting an extremely proficient 56.7 percent from the field to Newbury’s 31.6 percent. They also made their presence felt beyond the 3-point line by shooting a total 40 percent to Newbury’s 14.3 percent.

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TOP PERFORMERS QUINN O’CONNELL - 14 PTS, 3 ASTS, RAEGAN MULHERIN - 14 PTS, 4 ASTS, 3 STLS, ALYCIA RACKLIFFE - 12 PTS, 8 REBS The 3-0 Rams hosted Lasell College in Framingham.

Framingham saw its star on the bench O’Connell dump in a gamehigh 23 points in just 22 minutes while shooting 8-for-12 from the field and 6-for-9 from 3-point range.

She also led the game with five steals. O’Day scored a solid 11 points while shooting 4-for-7 from the field.

Tiphani Harris came off the bench and came down with a game lead in rebounds with seven.

The Rams dominated the score chart with a score of 79-32 behind

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their 45.3 percent shooting to Lasell’s 21.6 percent.

The Rams also shot 37.5 percent from 3-point territory to Lasell’s 16.7. Framingham led in points off turnovers with 33 points coming from that department to Lasell’s nine Framingham’s largest factor for victories this season has been its bench which was evident again in this game as the Rams bench outscored Lasell’s bench 51-10.

The 51 points scored by the bench accounted for 64.6 percent of Framingham’s total points.

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TOP PERFORMERS QUINN O’CONNELL - 23 PTS, 5 STLS, 4 REBS, 4 ASTS, MARY KATE O’DAY - 11 PTS, 3 REBS, LAUREN DONAHUE - 7 PTS, 4 ASTS, 4 STLS

The 2-0 Framingham State Rams took on Wheaton in a road matchup.

This game was as close of a game as Framingham has had during the early works of this new season as they pulled away with an 87-63 victory.

The Rams led in every quarter, just like they have done in every quarter this season so far, but nearly did not have the most points scored in the third quarter as they outscored Wheaton 21-20.

The starters for Framingham showed up big in this game as they made 30-of-50 shots (60 percent).

Rackliffe led the game with 19 points as she shot an almost perfect 9-for-10 from the field and also came down with six boards and rejected Wheaton players at the rim a game leading five times.

Mulherin came away with 17 points while shooting 6-for-15 from the field and 4-for-11 from

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beyond the arc.

She also finished with a productive nine assists.

Monta Connolly poured in 16 points while shooting 8-for-14 from the field and collected a game-leading eight rebounds and led the game in steals with seven.

Donahue finished with a double-double by scoring 13 points while shooting a perfect 5-for-5 from the field and 3-for-3 from behind the 3-point line and dished out a game leading 10 assists.

O’Connell performed well off the bench again by scoring 10 points, shooting 4-for-10 from the field.

The shooting percentage was a major factor for the Rams win once again as they shot 53.6 percent to Wheaton’s 37.5 percent.

The Rams also shot 45.8 percent from beyond the arc to Wheaton’s 33.3 percent.

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FRAMINGHAM STATE WHEATON TOP PERFORMERS MONTA CONNOLLY - 16 PTS, 8 REBS, 7 STLS, LAUREN DONAHUE - 13 PTS, 10 ASTS, ALYCIA RACKLIFFE - 19 PTS The 4-0 Framingham State Rams hit the court against Mount Ida at home Tuesday, Nov. 29.

The Rams continued their typical approach to the game by getting the lead early with a 24-8 run in the first quarter.

Framingham would go on to win the game 84-44 behind Rackliffe and Mulherin’s game leading 16 points as Rackliffe shot 8-for11 and Mulherin shot 6-for-14 with a 3-pointer.

Rackliffe did more than score as she came away with a double-double as she complemented her scoring with 13 boards on the night.

She also locked down the defensive area coming away with four blocks and four steals. Monta Connolly and Donahue contributed with eight points each with Connolly shooting 4-for-8 and Donahue shooting 3-for-5 and a perfect 2-for-2 from beyond the 3-point line. Sarah Palace contributed on the boards with eight rebounds.

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O’Day led the bench in scoring with O’Donnell absent by scoring 13 points while shooting 5-for9 and 1-for-2 from long range.

O’Day also tied Rackliffe and Mulherin for the game-high in steals with four.

The Rams finished with a field goal percentage of 44.7 percent to Mount Ida’s 24.1 percent.

They shot 29.4 percent from 3-point range to Mount Ida’s 27.3 percent.

The Rams were the aggressors in this game as they led in points in the paint 50-18 and outrebounded Mount Ida 51-44 while pouring in 17 second-chance points to Ida’s eight.

The Rams open the season undefeated at 5-0 and will look to remain perfect against Suffolk University on Saturday, Dec. 3.

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