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November 1, 2019

‘Seeing yourself’ in STEM Week 2019 Embracing the diversity of students in STEM fields

By Leighah Beausoleil Asst. News Editor Over 100 events were held by the MetroWest STEM Education Network (MSEN) for the second annual Massachusetts STEM Week beginning Oct. 18.

MSEN is “one of nine Regional STEM Networks charged by the Massachusetts STEM Advisory Council to coordinate the implementation of Mass STEM Week 2019,” according to the MSEN website.

In an interview, Irene Porro, director at McAuliffe Center for integrated science learning, said FSU is the hub of MSEN and serves as a host for several of the events that take place during STEM Week.

“Because [MSEN] is based at FSU, without FSU, [MSEN] couldn’t do its work,” Porro said.

The events held during STEM Week focus on areas of celebration, awareness, exploration, and immersion.

One of the events held during this year’s STEM Week was the McAuliffe Center’s open house at which the University showcased its 3D replica statue of Neil Armstrong’s Apollo 11 spacesuit, donated by the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.

Other events held this year include shows at the McAuliffe Center’s planetarium, presentations at the Boston Museum of Science, and activities held at various elementary, middle, and high schools in the MetroWest area.

The theme for this year’s STEM Week was, “See Yourself in STEM,” according to the MSEN website.

“I was very pleased that this was the theme,” Porro said. “It is very important for two reasons.”

She said one reason is to encourage each person in STEM fields, regardless of “historical participation of both your cultural and racial group.

“Everyone belongs in STEM if they wish to be a part,” she said.

Porro said the second reason is the diversity of STEM disciplines themselves.

She said, “We often talk about how you cannot be a scientist or engineer if you’re not creative.

“We forget to remind people that,” she added.

Porro explained, “There are a lot of different skills that are involved in what we call STEM disciplines or STEM professions.”

People can embrace their creative sides within the STEM field through the diversity of jobs that require multiple skills sets, she said.

Events at FSU demonstrated the importance of this theme through the diversity of the students involved

See STEM WEEK page 4

Students attend the “Great Gatsby Escape Rooms” in Crocker Hall presented by SUAB Oct. 30.

The bewitching history of Framingham The escape to Salem End

By Thomas Maye Opinions Editor

In 1692, Sarah Towne Cloyce stormed out of the sermon in which her sister, Rebecca Towne Nurse, was accused of conspiring with the devil - inevitably putting herself at the mercy of Salem’s witchcraft hysteria.

Described as “a model of good Christian behavior” by historian Chadwick Hansen, Nurse made for an unlikely suspect - she was 70 years old, frail, hard of hearing, and, by most contemporary accounts, wellliked by her community.

Nurse was hung.

No one knows where the elderly woman was buried, according to “Salem’s Witches are Missing,” an article in the Huffington Post.

Local folklore alleges Nurse’s son buried her on their family farm, retrieving her body from a mass, unmarked grave, the article said - the truth, though, has been lost to the ages.

Life in Puritan New England was a foreign world fraught with death and danger. Suffering from famine, bloody battles, and a culture of repression, the population of Salem was gripped by a collective hysteria.

Many innocent people were killed due to the false belief in witchcraft and magic - a grim, sober reality easy to forget in the festive environment

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of modern Salem.

But plotting Cloyce’s escape from a similar fate - or Clayes, or Cloyes, or Bridges, depending on the records you read - you can still trace cautious footsteps across a violent, unforgiving world, from Salem to Framingham.

Where history ends and folklore begins, though, has always been difficult to determine - Puritan worldviews, and the ways history were told, were vastly different.

Scholars know most of the popular theories about the Witch Trials are inaccurate at best, FSU history professor Maria Bollettino, who teaches a course on the Salem Witch Trials, said in an interview. Though Bollettino specified she is not an expert in Salem studies, she said she was familiar with some of the scholarship concerning the topic in an interview.

For example, she said the popular claim the madness was all because of a hallucinogenic trip on ergot - a fungus that grows on rotted barley has been largely discredited.

“We look for scientific explanations, excuses” in the current age, she said. She criticized those approaches, calling them “very presentist explanations” that don’t take into account the different beliefs and worldviews held by the Puritans.

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Opinions

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Arts & Features

Donald Halsing / THE GATEPOST DEAF AWARENESS pg. 9 ARCADE ARCHIVES pg. 11

Sports MEN’S SOCCER pg. 13 CARLOS’ CALL pg. 14

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Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief Nadira Wicaksana Associate Editors Cara McCarthy Ashley Wall News Editor Donald Halsing Asst. News Editors Leighah Beausoleil Evan Lee Arts & Features Editors Brennan Atkins Robert Johnson Jr. Asst. Arts & Features Editor Jared Graf Entertainment Correspondent Noah Barnes Fashion Correspondent Caeley Whalen Opinions Editor Thomas Maye Sports Editor Liam Gambon Asst. Sports Editors Sara Senesac Carlos Silva Design Editor Kathleen Moore Interim Asst. Photos Editor Caroline Gordon Copy Editor Lauren Paolini Staff Writers Tahir Abbas Mackenzie Berube Patrick Brady Kaitlin Burch Kaitlyn Cullen Rylee Holmes Dia Kilgore Abigail Saggio Lizzy Stocks Dylan Thayer McKenzie Ward Staff Copy Editor Jordan Bacci Staff Photographers Hannah Coco Amanda Garny Amanda Martin Advisor Dr. Desmond McCarthy Asst. Advisor Elizabeth Banks Administrative Assistant Gwenyth Swain 100 State Street McCarthy Center Room 410 Framingham, MA 01701-9101 Phone: (508) 626-4605 Fax: (508) 626-4097 gatepost@framingham.edu

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Angela Salas

Provost and vice president of academic affairs

By Evan Lee Asst. News Editor

What is your academic and professional background?

I earned my bachelor’s degree in English, with honors, at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. I started my graduate work at Indiana University and then left. … I finished my masters’ at the University of Nebraska at Kearney and then got my doctorate at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. … I have found it interesting just to go where opportunity takes you. … But [Indiana University] was a foundational opportunity in my life and in my career. It’s actually where I met the poet Yusef Komunyakaa initially. … And then a number of years later, after he won the Pulitzer prize, I was starting my first post-doctoral job at Adrian College - which was having some financial difficulties. I had just been hired, and they were on a last-hired/first-fired situation, and I was trying desperately not to be one of the fired. So, I was just busy doing everything. … Someone had said, “Oh, we used to have this great writer series, but then we dropped it,” and I thought, “I’ll just pick that up.” And the first person I thought of, because I really liked his work, was Komunyakaa. … So, he said he was interested in doing that, and I had to do a bunch of prep work to convince my colleagues it was worth the investment. That led me to write an abstract … for the Modern Languages Association. … When I gave the paper at MLA, it was well-received. And so then, all of a sudden, all these other opportunities came to me. So, I was an invited speaker at the George Moses Horton Society Conference in North Carolina, and Komunyakaa was in the audience. … While I was there, because I guess I did an OK job, someone came to me and said, “We had an article for a volume we’re doing, but the Komunyakaa article is not very good, and I asked Yusef, ‘Who could do a good job really quickly?’ And he said you.” … Anyway, those opportunities just kept piling up on each other, and ultimately, I wrote the book [on Komunyakaa]. …

I left Adrian College after being promoted and tenured and took some time off - more time than I wanted. But I wanted to write that book, and with a 5/5 load and chairing the department and chairing honors and being the faculty senate president, there was no time. There was just no time. So, I took a leave of absence. And then, I decided that there was a certain level at which I committed myself to being a particular person, and they kind of expected that of me when I got back, and I didn’t want to be that way anymore. So, near the end of the leave of absence, I re-

Courtesy of Angela Salas signed. ... I taught at Clark College in Dubuque, Iowa. I started there in 2004.

I did English courses once again, literature and writing, but I also taught within the honors program. I was elected as the faculty senate president again.

But at the same time, an opportunity arose to begin an honors program [at Indiana University Southeast]. … I was fortunate enough to be invited to do that. So, I was 13 years at IU Southeast as the founding director of the honors program. … I built the honors program, I staffed the honors program, and I did the budgeting. … Then around 2013, one of my former colleagues applied for and was hired into basically my role [now at Framingham State]. It’s got a different title, but it’s the provost’s role. And we were talking, and he said, “There’s all this stuff to be done and I don’t know how I’m going to do it.” … And I was like, “Oh, well, I can help you with that. … So that’s how I became assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs [at IU Southeast]. Basically, I took off his plate things like accreditation … I convened the committees, I worked with people, I had colleagues who had tasks to do. I worked on program development. … I worked with enrollment management. … Then, our associate vice chancellor for academic affairs wanted to step back a little bit and refine some of her responsibilities, and then I took on a number of responsibilities as well. … And it’s all been really useful coming here [to FSU], because there’s not a thing that I did at Southeast that I’m either not watching with appreciation someone else do … or, I’m not in some way doing myself.

Can you describe your role as provost and vice president for Academic Affairs for FSU? My responsibilities are pretty much anything academic. So, the faculty and their ability to work and interact and

do their jobs with students is one of my primary concerns. … Our staff is incredibly important as well. They don’t often get mentioned, but think of places like CASA - they are an important part of our academic operations because they help our students meet their goals. …

And they’re also one of my responsibilities. So, at one level, one of my responsibilities is to do my best to make sure that everybody has the appropriate conditions to do their work. And that’s complicated because there are financial constraints and there’s figuring out - when you know you have a particular constraint - what do you do? And how does that fit within the whole ethos of the institution? … What is important and what do we value? What do we want to invest in the future when we have a finite pool of resources? So, my responsibilities, essentially, are those which might seem a little disconnected from students. But if the relationship between faculty is functional, and the faculty are able to do their work and feel supported by their deans and by their provost and vice president and so on - and not just feel supported, but actually, in meaningful ways, are supported - then that helps assure that the interactions between faculty and students are going to be positive.

From your academic and professional experiences, what advice can you give to students?

Everything is important, but not everything is absolutely life-changing. What I mean by that is you may have had several different paths that you explored to get to where you are now, and probably, there was a point at which you were feeling pressured because there’s this narrative where you go like a heat-seeking missile, you find your degree, you get your degree, you go out, and you do your thing. And that can make people feel as if the act of exploring, or feeling lost, or feeling uncertain ,is wrong. And this time, this moment right now, is being wasted. … I spoke to a student the other day, and she was almost apologetic. She was like, “Well, I studied this and I’ve studied that, and I’ve finally got my act together and now, I’m doing this.” And I wanted to stop and say, “Your act was always together.” So, that’s what I’d say - you commit to the moment and make the best of it. … Everything you do is important, but don’t feel as if this moment has to be the perfect moment, or your life is being wasted, because then you can’t enjoy your life.

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Police Logs Tuesday, October 29 13:30 Well Being Check Larned Hall Checks OK

Tuesday, October 29 16:38 Found Property FSU Police Dept.

Report Taken

Wednesday, October 30 16:09 Motor Vehicle Lockout Franklin St. Parking Lot Services Rendered

Thursday, October 31 02:00 Alarm (Fire/Smoke) North Hall False alarm, Box and system reset

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Remembering FSU alumnus Mike DeMilia, class of 2019

By Nadira Wicaksana Editor-in-Chief Michael R. “Mike” DeMilia, 26, of Framingham, passed away at home in his sleep last Friday, Oct. 25.

DeMilia was a recent alumnus of Framingham State, having graduated this past May with a bachelor’s degree in computer science. He had recently started work as a software developer, according to his obituary on the website of McCarthy, McKinney and Lawler Funeral Home.

Lorretta Holloway, vice president of enrollment and student development, sent an email Wednesday, Oct. 30 informing the FSU community of DeMilia’s passing.

She wrote, “It is always difficult losing a member of our community.

I’m certain that many of you knew Michael personally, and I know how hard it must be to hear this news.

“I know you all join me in keeping Michael’s family and friends in your thoughts.”

According to his obituary, DeMilia was a lifelong resident of Framingham. He attended Framingham Center Preschool, Hemenway Elementary School, Walsh Middle School, and Framingham High School, from which he graduated in 2011.

Before coming to FSU, DeMillia attended UMass Dartmouth and MassBay Community College.

DeMilia played for the Framingham youth baseball team “and was most often found on the mound,” according to his obituary. “In high school, he continued baseball his freshman

year, moved on to wrestling, and for a guy who couldn’t stand the water, he joined the swim team.”

According to the obituary Michael enjoyed playing basketball with friends and members of Temple Beth Am synagogue. He also enjoyed snowboarding and “a good video game.”

FSU alumnus Zach Colten ’19 said, “Mike DeMilia was in my life before I was born. Our families became friends through Hemenway Elementary.

“Growing up, it felt like Mike was a big brother to me. I would go to his house and play neighborhood games with him, his siblings, and all the kids on the street. ... As we got older, our families remained close. Vacations, New Year’s Eve parties, family celebrations - [we were] always together.

“Once, he even stood up to bullies for me, which was an inspiring day for me. I always looked up to Mike as an athlete, a gamer, and most importantly, a friend. He was quiet but strong, simple but sure, and he was the brother I never had.

“I will miss him sorely forever, but I know his memory will live on forever in my heart and in both of our families, as well as anyone who ever had the pleasure of getting to know him,” Colten said.

On a public Facebook post, his mother, Beverly J. DeMilia, wrote, “Michael was having a great year. He had graduated college, landed a good job, and had moved out with some of his high school friends.

“All I can say is: give your loved ones a hug and let them know they are loved. Rest in peace, my precious

“Hearing all of the memories and stories of my brother have provided some comfort during this time. I encourage and would love anyone who has anything to share, whether it be stories or photos, to do [so].

“Rest in the sweetest peace, my brother.”

-Molly R. DeMilia, sister

Weather

Sunday night Mostly clear, low near 30. SW winds around 5 mph.

Monday Sunny, high near 50.

SW winds around 5 mph.

Monday night Mostly clear, low near 35. S winds around 5 mph.

Tuesday 30% chance of showers in the afternoon.

Partly sunny, high near 60. S winds around 10 mph in the afternoon.

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Michael. I love you and miss you more than words can say.”

On another public Facebook post, his sister, Molly R. DeMilia, wrote, “Hearing all of the memories and stories of my brother have provided some comfort during this time. I encourage and would love anyone who has anything to share, whether it be stories or photos, to do [so]. Thank you all for the endless support during this time.

“Miguel, I miss you and love you more than you could ever know. My heart is so heavy. Rest in the sweetest peace, my brother.”

DeMilia is survived by his parents, Richard M. Jr. and Beverly J. (Davidson), of Framingham; his older sister, Megan C., and her husband, Ryan Ventimiglia; his twin sister, Melissa L., and her fiancé, Guy DePlacido, of Woburn; and his youngest sister, Molly R., of Woburn.

He is also survived by many aunts, uncles, cousins, and dear friends.

Visiting hours for family and friends are Friday, Nov. 1 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the McCarthy, McKinney & Lawler Funeral Home at 11 Lincoln St. in Framingham.

Additionally, DeMilia’s funeral Mass service will be held in St. George Church at 74 School St. in Saxonville on Saturday, Nov. 2 at 10 a.m., followed by a private interment.

In lieu of flowers and in memory of his late Uncle Bobby, donations can be made to the Greater New England Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in Waltham.

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Forecast provided by the National Weather Service www.weather.gov Tuesday night Wednesday night 40% chance of showPartly cloudy, low near ers. Mostly cloudy, 40. NW winds around low near 45. S winds 5 mph. around 5 mph.

Wednesday 30% chance of showers. Patchy fog. Partly sunny, high near 60. W winds around 5 mph, gusting to 20.

Thursday Mostly sunny, high near 50. NW winds around 5 mph.

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Continued from pg. 1 in their mentorship program, Porro said.

“We have about 60 high school students in the mentorship program from Marlborough, Framingham, and Milford, and the group was extremely diverse.”

Porro said the group represented both male and female students, students of color, as well as immigrants.

“I am an immigrant, and I was sitting at a table with two girls who were also immigrants. We were able to share not just our passion for STEM, but also the fact that we were able to translate things in multiple languages,” she said.

According to the MSEN website, the “See Yourself in STEM - High School-to-College-to-Career Mentorship program” is an initiative that “will provide interactive monthly mentoring experiences during the 2019-20 academic year with college students and industry STEM professionals.

“The mentorship program is designed to highlight the STEM skills needed to think, communicate, and contribute value in any work environment,” the website explained.

Porro said the STEM professionals involved in the week’s events were not only diverse in gender and race, but “were proposing jobs that are not the ones kids usually think about when they think about STEM. “For example, we had a person from the Department of Public Works here in Framingham,” Porro said.

“She is an engineer, but is working on how you control storm waters so that you don’t have flooding, and of course, that’s a STEM job, but it is not the typical job that people talk about.”

Caroline Gordon / THE GATEPOST Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito (right) and FSU President F. Javier Cevallos (left) attended a STEM careers Oct. 23.

Porro said the most important part of STEM Week is “both reminding ourselves that we are doing something important, but also that we can do more.”

Porro said she would like to think of STEM Week not only as a “current moment of celebration,” but also a

“start to new initiatives.”

She added she would like to see STEM Week as “a starting point of something that lasts in the future,” such as the mentorship program.

STEM Week is not only geared toward K-12, but University students as well, including those who are not

Nadira Wicaksana / THE GATEPOST Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito spoke to high schoolers from the MetroWest area about the importance of STEM careers Oct. 23.

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STEM majors, Porro said.

“That’s something we also need to work more on,” she added.

“I think STEM Week should also be a lot about making STEM accessible to all, so that all can be comfortable with [STEM],” she said.

Porro said she would like to see more professors getting involved in STEM Week.

“They could reach out to us at [MSEN] and we can tell them there are many schools that would be interested in having representatives from FSU, not just the faculty, but the students as well, to go into activities there,” she said.

“I think sometimes, it is difficult for faculty to get engaged in yet another initiative. You know there are so many things, but what the [MSEN] is really about is facilitating the coordination of these activities,” Porro said.

Porro also wants to encourage students to come to upcoming STEM events, including “Sustainable Space, Sustainable Earth: From Ideas to Action.”

This event will be held Friday, Dec. 6, 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., in the McCarthy Center Forum. It will highlight the ways people can “maximize the effectiveness of using space for addressing global challenges.”

Porro explained the speakers present will be from multiple disciplines, including law, history, policy, and ethics.

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Assignment policy changes for incoming freshmen Freshmen can now request first-year roommates

By Rylee Holmes Staff Writer Not all students walked into the dorms on move-in day to a stranger assigned as their roommate.

Not all freshmen were introduced to somebody new.

Incoming freshmen are now able to make roommate requests for their first year at FSU. A “snapshot” just before movein for the fall 2019 semester showed 1,810 students living on campus this year, 734 of whom are freshmen, according to Glenn Cochran, associate dean of students and director of residence life.

The housing capacity of FSU is 1,972, according to Cochran, meaning

approximately 91.78% of available spots are full this academic year.

The change to allow freshmen to make first-year roommate requests comes from now having the “technological capability of doing it,” said Cochran. “We thought if people continued to express an interest in it, we could make it happen.”

The deadline for first-year students to submit these requests was in June, and approximately 115 pairs made requests. “We were able to accommodate about 50 additional pairs later,” said Cochran, making a total of about 165 freshmen pairs who made roommate requests.

According to the Residence Life FAQ page, Framingham State does not offer a roommate-matching sur-

“We noticed anecdotally a lot of people finding people online.”

-Glenn Cochran, associate dean of students and director of Residence Life vey. “We noticed anecdotally a lot of people finding people online,” said Cochran.

Without a roommate-matching survey, some students opted not to choose a roommate because they didn’t know anybody else attending.

Freshman Halle Merkowitz said she did not choose a first-year roommate because she did not know anyone who was also attending Framingham State, and not choosing was the “easiest way to do it.”

It “was a chance to meet a new person,” she added.

Freshman Kassandra Orcutt also did not choose a roommate and has had a positive experience, although she said she recognizes the advantages of giving freshmen this option to choose.

“It definitely gives you security of knowing your roommate and skipping all those awkward steps of getting to know them,” said Orcutt.

Sophomore Jianni Henderson-Brown thinks this change in assignment is “good,” but said choosing a friend as a roommate may lead friends to “clash,” since they’ve never experienced their friendship in a living situation.

Cochran also pointed out selecting roommates doesn’t always work out.

“We’ve had conflicts with people that have met each other that wanted to be with each other … and I know I’ve seen that anecdotally for years,” he said.

Junior transfer David Kaine views the new change in freshman housing assignment policy as a “wasted feature” if you don’t know anyone else coming to the school.

Kaine spent his freshman year of college at Salem State and did not choose his first-year roommate there.

“I didn’t really care who my roommate was as long as they were friendly, which they were, so it worked out,” he said.

Junior Noelle Bouvier said given

the choice, she probably wouldn’t have chosen her first-year roommate, either. “Most of my friends from high school didn’t go here and I liked getting a random roommate,” she said.

Senior Brenna Fehan thinks giving incoming freshmen a choice of roommates is a “good idea” if there is somebody you know from your hometown attending FSU as well.

Sophomore commuter Emma Sullivan said had she lived on campus freshman year and had she been given the option to choose, she would not have picked a first-year roommate.

Sullivan said not choosing someone you know as a roommate is “a bigger risk,” but living with someone you don’t know “could be a bigger reward because you could have a friend you may have never met.”

Senior RA Andrew Knorr sees both the advantages and disadvantages of freshmen being given the option of choosing first-year roommates.

“I think it can really help them get more involved with the school because they end up knowing someone, so they’ll have people to go to different events with and they’ll feel more comfortable living somewhere other than home,” said Knorr.

Knorr added, however, that not knowing your roommate can also be beneficial. “When you know people, you feel more comfortable, so you stay in that same group … whereas if you don’t know people, you expand and find new friends and really get outside your comfort zone,” he said.

Whether being placed with a roommate or choosing your own, Cochran described roommate dynamics as being a “self-fulfilling prophecy sometimes. … Having a positive outlook on it and being realistic about it is the important thing.”

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PB & Pay

By Evan Lee Editorial Staff

A slim slather of PB&J that gets easily overwhelmed by the “Texas toast” surrounding it is about all you can expect from Sodexo’s cheapest sandwich on campus.

They don’t exactly make for a five-star meal.

But as something I could buy with whatever loose change I happened to have in my pockets, the PB&J was well worth it to give me the energy to confront my morning class especially when breakfast at home was a glass of tap water and a handful of Cheerios.

My diet isn’t the greatest.

So, I had made it a plan to get a PB&J a while ago.

After summiting State Street and stumbling my way into Sandella’s, I grabbed one off the shelf and headed to the register - pocket change in hand.

But while waiting in line, I noticed something peculiarly sinister about the wrapper.

The $1.79 price tag from last semester has nearly doubled to $3.59!

And I only had $2.75.

Now, I may not be an economist, but that’s only a few cents away from being a 100% markup in cost … over just one semester … for the same amount of PB&J. Supply and demand curves - prepare to be ignored.

But I digress. I wasn’t about to hike all the way back down to the car to pillage its ashtray for three more quarters and a dime. I just starved through class.

Which is something I’ve found myself doing more often this semester.

Because it seems like just about everything on the menu is more expensive now.

The Caesar salad topped with chicken on the same shelf at Sandella’s is pushing it at $7.99, while the little cup of diced watermelon sitting next to it goes well overboard at $2.79.

For a quarter more, I could buy half of a whole watermelon at the grocery store.

The double cheeseburger combo from the grille, once a classic commuter go-to, has lost its reverence at nearly $8 this semester - compared to around $6 last semester.

And for those without meal plans, entry into the Main Dining Hall now costs 50 cents more. This one isn’t as bad, but even last semester’s $9 base fee was enough to keep me out most of the time.

But undoubtedly, the PB&J got it the worst - especially when the heart of the sandwich already feels more like a condiment.

I understand that Sodexo needs to make a profit, and that there’s a convenience cost to many of the grab-and-go food items they provide. But $3.59 for one is just nuts.

The higher cost of food in general here has made it discouraging to eat on campus, particularly for commuters who don’t want to buy meal plans.

And that’s a problem when a large part of our day is spent on campus. Because unless we paper bag our meals from home like high-schoolers, we have to pay a premium for the privilege of not going hungry.

College students are not the wealthiest of people. We do everything we can to protect our savings - and at these prices, sometimes, that means skipping lunch.

A PB&J shouldn’t be something I stress over when my bank statement comes in.

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Feel free to email it to: gatepost@framingham.edu Letters should be approximately 500 words.

Anyone can submit.

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THE GATEPOST EDITORIAL

We stand with the Harvard Crimson Since last week, more than 650 people have signed an online petition condemning The Harvard Crimson for contacting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for comment in their coverage of the student-led immigration advocacy group Act on a Dream’s protest calling for the abolition of the government agency.

The petition states, “In this political climate, a request for comment is virtually the same as tipping them off, regardless of how they are contacted.”

Student representatives from Act on a Dream raised concerns that contacting ICE could shine a spotlight on the undocumented student population at Harvard, putting them at risk of being deported, according to the Crimson’s coverage of the controversy.

Because of the belief the Crimson “tipped them off,” Act on a Dream and Divest Harvard have demanded an apology from the Crimson.

We believe an apology is not necessary.

People are justified in criticizing the actions of the agency, and wanting it to be held accountable.

ICE has rightfully come under fire for multiple human rights abuses.

According to the American Civil Liberties Union, border patrol agent tactics have violated protections against unlawful search and seizures, due process, and discrimination of the Title X-protected classes of race, ethnicity, and nationality.

At the same time, disagreement is not a justification for censorship.

As reporters, whether we’re student journalists at small state universities such as ours, or well-connected Ivy League students at Harvard, we have an obligation to our readers to report every side of the story, no matter what our personal beliefs may be.

By requesting a statement from ICE, the Crimson was neither defending them nor agreeing with their perspectives - they were simply acknowledging them.

The ethics journalists swear to uphold are not just talk - they make up the foundation of our discipline.

Reporting that purposefully omits the voices people disagree with - regardless of how repugnant they may be - is not journalism. It’s propaganda.

The age of increased political correctness may have ushered in a commendable heightened awareness of social justice issues, but we need to be cautious about crossing the line between criticism and dogmatism.

This editorial is not about defending ICE - rather, it’s about defending against chipping away at the First Amendment, an essential pillar of American democracy and the lifeblood of every newspaper.

It’s a fight against a misguided - and ultimately, dangerous - trend of intellectual censorship.

Where the three branches of government may be corrupt, the fourth estate - the press - will always aim to keep checks on their actions. But we cannot do so without the perspectives of those with whom we may not agree.

That said, we are not saying confronting those we disagree with should mean risking the safety of our journalists - a potentially legitimate criticism of reporting on such contentious, complicated topics.

Ultimately, the safety we seek for vulnerable populations, such as undocumented immigrants and marginalized racial minorities, is contingent on obtaining as much information as possible, including directly from the perspective of bodies such as ICE. Not only is it our duty to seek the whole and complete truth, but we must also be conscientious and cognizant of the ways we reach out for comment and the nuance that may exist.

Fortunately, in Harvard’s case, presumably none of its reporters needed to concern themselves with the possibility that they might be deported if they made contact with ICE. As reporters, we have a duty to uphold the First Amendment. But likewise, publications also have a responsibility to their reporters to ensure their safety and protection.

Newspapers must be vigilant and use discretion. Even though we must put aside personal bias and use objectivity in our coverage, we must also be aware this discretion will not always necessarily be extended back to us.

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Advice from The Gatepost Bunch A special edition!

What is your biggest piece of advice for FSU students?

By The Gatepost Editorial Staff

“Eat well, sleep well, and never be afraid to ask for help. Don’t spread yoursef too thin - take time for yourself, too.”

-Kathleen Moore, Sophomore, Design Editor

“Be respectful and don’t get behind on studies. Most importantly, have fun.”

-Jared Graf, Junior, Asst. Arts & Features Editor

“Never forget who you are. Know your strengths, know your weaknesses, and most importantly, know yourself. ”

-Donald Halsing, Sophomore, News Editor

“Don’t be afraid to ask anyone for help - whether it be for class, a job, or your own sanity. The Counseling Center and CASA are here for a reason. Make good use of them so you have every opportunty to succeed.”

-Cara McCarthy, Junior, Associate Editor

“Take your time. Get involved with clubs on campus. Most importantly, have fun.”

-Brennan Atkins, Junior, Arts & Features Editor

“Read as much as you humanly can in between classes. It doesn’t matter what major you are - read as if your life depends on it. Do you want to get as much as possible out of college? Read.”

-Nadira Wicaksana, Senior, Editor-in-Chief

“Have faith in your ability to succeed.

You are capable of great achievments but you have to give yourself a chance, first. ” -Tom Maye, Senior, Opinions Editor

“Take time for self care. Your wellbeing is just as important as your academics.”

“If the denim jacket fits, wear it. You might just start something ...”

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-Evan Lee, Senior, Asst. News Editor

-Lauren Paolini, Senior, Copy

Op/Ed submissions reflect the opinions of their authors only and do not necessarily reflect those of The Gatepost or its staff.

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Feel free to email it to: gatepost@framingham.edu Anyone can submit a question.

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Let me wear my ‘girly’ fandom shirts, please

By Robert Johnston Jr. Editorial Staff

Everybody who knows me well knows that I’m a big fan of the “Sailor Moon” franchise.

It’s something that I don’t mention much, but when I hear someone talk about it in the open, my ears perk up and my heart skips a beat. It’s impossible to explain just how important Naoko Takeuchi’s work is to my life.

Before we went on summer break, the Japanese clothing retailer, UNIQLO, made an announcement that rocked my solar system - they were releasing a collaboration between Takeuchi and the retailer.

The designs they released for the announcement were unlike anything I’ve ever seen for merchandise relating to the series. They were vibrant, unique, and a much more accurate depiction of the series’ aesthetic than all the generic stuff you’d find in a GameStop.

Needless to say, I was beyond excited for the release at the end of August.

When I walked into the UNIQLO in the Natick Mall at the end of September, during a brief moment of free time, I got to browsing around in a frenzy, looking for the merch I’ve longed to put on my body.

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That excitement quickly turned into sadness when I looked at the display in the men’s section of the store and saw: nothing.

I looked to the opposite side of the store, the women’s section, and found the clothing I longed for.

The feeling of defeat began to set in.

It reminded me of the time when Hot Topic made a similar announcement in 2012, only to experience the same level of agitation when men’s clothes were not part of the line.

Now, I understand that “Sailor Moon” is a series that puts a great deal of emphasis on topics of female empowerment and the importance of sisterhood, and that’s all well and good, of course, but what UNIQLO doesn’t understand is people of all gender backgrounds adore the series, not just female-identifying individuals.

It has been this way since the late ’90s, ever since the first “Sailor Moon” fan pages were made on the internet, oftentimes with male-identifying staff members at the helm of those pages, in terms of gathering information straight from Japan.

Heck, you can even say that “Sailor Moon” snuck out of its intended demo-

graphic even earlier than that, thanks to the many video games released for the series in its initial run, especially the 1994-released “Sailor Moon S” fighting game for the Super Famicom - the Japanese Super Nintendo - which still has a competitive scene filled with male-identifying players to this day.

The point of this op/ed is not to shame the female-identifying fans of the series - absolutely not - but, rather, the clothing manufacturers who think women are the only kind of people who

like the series, even though it has not been that way for a little over 20 years.

Though other industries are “getting with the times” with how they market their products or franchises, “Sailor Moon” has, honestly, yet to do the same. That saddens me.

Until that day comes, though, I guess this means I have to look back at the clothing offerings in anger … and picture how I’d look in a crop top, should I become desperate enough.

Yeesh.

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Critical conversations that words cannot capture ASL club hosts deaf awareness panel

By Donald Halsing Editorial Staff

Not a word was spoken on the DPAC stage during the second annual Deaf Awareness Panel hosted by the American Sign Language (ASL) Club Oct. 22.

Six members of the local Deaf community were invited to explain challenges they face regularly, and communicated with the audience only by American Sign Language and a pair of interpreters.

ASL Club Secretary Emily Pacheco said this was the largest crowd yet.

She also said this is the first year for the ASL Club at the University.

The panelists were first asked, “What does it mean to be Deaf to you?”

Edgar Herrera, a business manager at the Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, said he was born in Guatemala, and didn’t go to school until the age of 9 because of his deafness.

Herrera said, “I couldn’t communicate, but I used common sense.” Lacking sign language, Herrera said he developed his “own system” to communicate.

He said he didn’t understand why his younger brother went to school before him - but that all changed when Herrera began studying at the Guatemala School for the Deaf.

At the school, Herrera said he learned how to sign and about the Deaf community.

Charley Thornton, a Deaf interpreter, said he hasn’t really “known any other way.” He said Deaf people have “their own culture and community.”

Patrick Costello, outreach manager at the Learning Center for the Deaf, said hearing people listen with their ears and talk with their mouths, while he uses his eyes and hands for the same purpose.

Costello said, “I have everything you have, but a different way to communicate.” He said this comparison puts the Deaf and hearing communities on a level playing field.

Bruce Bucci, an ASL professor in his first year at FSU, said he has learned to be patient with diversity.

Bucci asked the audience, “How many of you love to text?” A large portion of the audience raised their hands. Bucci added, “Deaf people helped with that!”

The panelists were asked, “What are some stigmas you face often or daily?”

Thornton said it is easier to communicate in other countries because he is used to gesturing. However, he had a difficult time finding a bathroom at a gas station in the U.S.

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The ASL panelists in DPAC Oct. 22.

Costello said miscommunication is common because the Deaf community is small, while the hearing community is “enormous.”

About 20 years ago, Costello said he wanted to become a teacher for Deaf students. He compared the education programs at several different colleges.

During that time, there were 120 Deaf studies graduate classes in the U.S., Costello said. Some required students to take one “special education” class, that covered all disabilities.

He said textbooks for the special education programs may have been 50 to 100 pages, and sometimes listed Deaf under “communication disabilities.”

“There’s no focus on the Deaf community, culture, ASL … nothing!” he said.

Costello said while he was a student at Gallaudet University, a university for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, in Washington, D.C., students protested in a campaign called “Deaf President Now” in 1988. Of three candidates for the new university president, two were deaf. The hearing candidate was selected as president, Costello said.

As a result, the students locked the campus gates with bicycle chains and “took over,” he said.

Students demanded for the chair of the board to resign because the chair said a Deaf president “couldn’t run the university well,” said Costello. Also, the students demanded the board be comprised of at least 51% Deaf members.

Bucci said there is a need for more qualified interpreters.

He added the Deaf community can-

not teach everyone to be aware of their challenges. But for Bucci, Deaf awareness is “365 days a year.”

The panelists were asked about their experiences with interpreters.

Herrera said he was supposed to speak at an FSU Latinx Heritage Month event, but there was no interpreter.

When Herrera brings his son to the doctor, his son is asked to interpret, he said. “I need a professional interpreter.”

Sabrina Rodrigues, a student at the Learning Center for the Deaf, said she grew up in a family where some of the members could hear and others could not. “I hate it when people use me as an interpreter,” she said.

Rodrigues said doctors use “video relay interpreting,” which is “brutal” in her opinion because it stops working frequently. “I would rather have my own interpreter.”

Thornton said Disney World has interpreters, but he had difficulty scheduling one for Sea World. Travelling “can be a great experience, or it can be just hell,” he said.

Thornton spoke from experience as an interpreter. He said he must fit himself into other people’s schedules.

“But what if there’s an emergency?

Somebody can’t put an emergency on hold” and wait for an interpreter, he said.

As a Deaf interpreter, Thornton said he works with a hearing interpreter to help translate. Since his first language is ASL, he can clarify for the Deaf when a message is unclear.

Thornton said it can be mentally exhausting to interpret and juggle multiple languages.

Bucci said there are problems with vocabulary. He asked, “What interpreters here know calculus?”

As a student, Bucci said it was easier to read textbooks than watch interpreters fingerspell every complicated term.

“It is three times the amount of work,” he said. “They’re making us look like dopes who can’t understand my jargon.”

He said the Learning Center for the Deaf is testing out new signs for specific terms. “Interpreters have to be involved with the Deaf community, not just show up, sign, and leave,” he said.

The panelists were asked, “If you could tell hearing people one thing about being an ally to the Deaf community, what would it be?”

Bucci said the hearing need to respect ASL and Deaf culture. “There are so many things that need to happen to make this work,” he said. “Be yourself - Don’t be a Deaf wannabe.”

Thornton said the Deaf and hearing communities need to build bridges and meet halfway between spoken language and ASL. Panel member Sandy Martins mother of ASL club president Kelsey Carvalho - displayed her homemade jewelry outside DPAC after the panel.

She set no prices for the jewelry she auctioned and asked only for donations.

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Bewitching history

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The Israel Towne House on Salem End Road.

Continued from page 1 “People really did believe in magic,” she said.

Bollettino set the stage as a scene of “spiritual warfare,” in which the forces of good and evil were pitted against each other. Further, belief in mysterious omens was common - Bollettino said signs in nature such as a “rainbow” or a “stillbirth” could have been interpreted at the time as signs from God. “It seems like such a foreign explanation for the world around us,” she added.

Bollettino said she was compelled by the theory that the witch hysteria was the manifestation of PTSD, after violent conflicts with the natives had occurred shortly before - though, it is impossible to determine a singular cause for the events.

Digging through court records from the trials, archived by the University of Virginia, the logic of the accusations made against Nurse are strikingly foreign. At the time, “spectral evidence” - ghostly omens and apparitions purported victims of witchcraft claimed to witness - was admissible in court.

“Rebekah Nurse, who now stands charged for witchcraft, came to our house and fell a-railing at him because our pigs got into her field,” Sarah Holten, a villager, said in her deposition against Nurse. “Within a short time after this, my poor Husband ... was taken with a strange fit in the entry, being struck blind and stricken down two or three times.” Holten

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said her husband died weeks later as he keeled over in agony, bewitched by the elderly Nurse.

Abigail Williams - one of the first accusers in the trial - claimed she saw the apparitions of Nurse and Cloyce make a covenant with the devil. Williams said they attempted, while “choking” her and “pulling violently,” to force her to sign “the Devil’s book” - a signature selling her soul to a coven of witches.

So Cloyce was thrown into a crowded prison, accused of a crime she did not commit, while two of her sisters - Nurse, along with Mary Towne Easty, 58 - were brutally executed. The Salem prison became so overwhelmed with accused witches that she was transferred twice, once to Boston and once to Ipswich, according to the Ipswich Historical Society.

The Ipswich prison was said to have been the site of one of America’s first prison-breaks - the escaped prisoner complained he would have died of frostbite if he were left there in the bitter winter of 1662, historical archivist Thomas Franklin Walters wrote.

Cloyce shared her prison sentence with a 4-year-old.

The child’s mother, a beggar and rumored adulterer, was one of the accused, according to Historical Ipswich, a website run by the town’s historian and Historical Commission.

According to the page, upon release, the child suffered from traumatic psychological damage that would haunt her for the rest of her life.

Somehow, though, Cloyce escaped from prison. Scholars don’t know how, or when, but with the help of her husband, Cloyce fled from Ipswich.

According to an article published

by WBUR, Rob St. Germain, a member of the Ashland Town Forest Committee, said an “underground network” of friends and family would have snuck her on existing pathways formed hundreds of years ago from a patchwork of Native American trails. Some theorize she fled on Old Connecticut Path, though this is disputed, according to the Ashland Historical Society.

The landscape in the late 17th century would be unfamiliar to most people nowadays, covered in choking swaths of forest. Nearly the entirety of Framingham and Ashland was incorporated into Governor Thomas Danforth’s vast plantation.

At the time, neither Framingham nor Ashland were settled.

Danforth was sharply critical of the “savagery” and “barbary” of the witch trials, of which he presided as a judge, which literary representations such as “The Crucible” largely overlook. He gave 800 acres to each of the accused who sought refuge on his plantation, according to the WBUR article - in essence, the Salem Witch Trials were an essential factor in the formation of Framingham.

However, as almost all the land was undeveloped, Cloyce and her family were allegedly forced to spend the bitter New England winter in a dark, narrow cave around what is now Ash-

land State Park.

Eventually, Cloyce, her husband, and family constructed a home for themselves on today’s Salem End Road. Several family members, descendants, and relatives built homes of their own - including the Israel Towne House on 67 Salem End Rd., across from the Salem End Lot. Junior Jasmine Lees and senior Stephanie Beaumont, who live in the Israel Towne house, said they continue to feel an unsettling presence to this day. They said they frequently hear mysterious bumps in the night, doors opening suddenly, and lights flickering at random.

Beaumont said former tenants claimed to have seen a ghostly apparition in colonial garb trailing the narrow halls.

Despite its many renovations, the bones of the house peek through.

Abandoned staircases lead to nowhere, sealed fireplaces dot the walls, and the creaky wooden floors rest on a noticeable tilt.

While home alone, Lees said she’s been startled by distant footfall on those same creaking floorboards.

When she went to investigate the sounds in the room, no one was there.

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‘Arcade Archives’ and the importance of Japanese arcade game preservation

One for me, one for you

By Robert Johnson Jr. Arts & Features Editor

By Lauren Paolini Copy Editor

State Street Style has discussed sustainable fashion in the past, and honestly, we could go on forever. There’s so much to divulge, but we simply cannot fit it all into one column. We encourage everyone to do some research on their own.

There is an array of environmentally-conscious brands out there, and one of the first I bought from was TOMS. At the beginning of high school, TOMS shoes were all the rage for summer footwear. The classic alpargatas, or canvas slip-ons, were a huge trend when the company first came on the scene.

Founded in 2006 by CEO Blake Mycoskie, TOMS thrives on the foundation of giving back.

It’s pretty simple - every time a pair of shoes are sold, the company donates a pair to a child in need. One for me, one for you.

The “one for one” concept has since expanded beyond just shoes.

I was very excited a few years back when I saw the cutest messenger bag for sale on toms.com. I was even more delighted when I discovered that my purchase of this bag ensured a safe birthing experience for a mother in need. Training for birth attendants and birthing kits have been donated to underprivileged moms and babies with every bag purchase.

The only thing cuter than my messenger bag? A happy, healthy baby.

While you peruse through the TOMS website and add to your cart, be sure to browse sunglasses.

Yes, you should do this because there’s an array of designs that make a statement all year round, but also because every eyewear purchase provides eye care for a person who may not receive it otherwise.

Sunglasses are a great gift for a friend, but prescription glasses and eye surgery are even better.

Toms.com goes into detail about their sight initiatives, and explains how this also creates opportunities for community eye care programs as well as jobs in these facilities.

TOMS sells everything from espadrilles to booties, but the merchandise doesn’t stop at apparel. The brand began a coffee roasting company in 2014.

Every purchase of TOMS Roasting Co. coffee helps supply clean water in six developing countries. According to toms.com, to date, 335,000 weeks of safe water has been given as a result of coffee purchases.

If you’re due for a new pair of kicks, I strongly recommend looking for some TOMS. They are stylish, comfortable, and will last you more than one season.

It’s also easier to justify a purchase when you’re helping another person. So I admit - I don’t feel guilty about my recent purchase. It was for the children.

When my new floral-embroidered boots come in, I’ll stand a little taller not only from the high heel, but from knowing that my money went beyond my pedicure and helped another human.

So, go ahead, buy the shoes. You’ll be helping others by shopping.

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Oct. 16 gave lovers of niche video games a heartbreaking announcement, one that nobody expected to hear so soon after just 14 years of operation.

The famed Japanese arcade, Anata no Warehouse - known by arcade fanatics as the “Kawasaki Warehouse” - is set to close Nov. 17.

Over those 14 years, gamers from around the world have made the pilgrimage to Kawasaki in search of the legendary, run-down stone building that houses many decades of Japanese gaming history. Those who have seen it can now be considered “fortunate” to have done so.

Anata no Warehouse is, unfortunately, the most prominent arcade closure, but this has been happening for many years.

Ever since the rise of console gaming, smaller Japanese arcades have slowly begun to close left and right, and American arcades have not fared better, despite the revival of arcade culture, thanks to chains like Dave & Buster’s and Round 1.

With all of these closures and a decline of interest in the arcade lifestyle, one can say that arcades will finally become “a thing of the past,” much as people predicted back in 2008.

However, one Japanese company in recent years has set out on a quest to make sure that doesn’t happen - Hamster Corp.

Hamster Corp., or “Hamster,” as they will be known hereafter, has been on a mission since 2014 to deliver the arcade experiences of the past to the gamers of the present. This “mission,” formally called “Arcade Archives,” brings the classic arcade nostalgia to modern consoles with weekly games put onto digital storefronts like the PlayStation Store.

Classic games such as Nichibutsu’s “Moon Cresta,” Jaleco’s “City Connection,” and UPL’s “Nova 2001” remind modern gamers that while these games might all be from the mid-80s, they have paved the way for the games of today, especially those in the indie market.

With Hamster’s releases, they are giving old games new life in the gaming landscape.

Sure, you can play all of those aforementioned games for free by using MAME - the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator - on any computer, but for a $7.99 purchase, one can buy what could be considered the “definitive” release of a game, while also supporting the preservation of arcade games.

With each purchase, you get the game in its original form, but with a few added goodies in the form of foreign-language ROM sets of the game, as well as new modes that challenge players to beat high scores from around the world - something intrinsic to the arcade experiences of yesteryear.

As I’m sure some of you know, the printed circuit boards (PCBs) of arcade games do not live forever - over time, these boards deteriorate, and once they do, a game could, potentially, be lost to time.

That’s the main reason why owners of those PCBs dump the contents of these boards as part of the MAME project - to preserve something culturally important before it becomes inaccessible to future generations.

“Arcade Archives” is important for two reasons - one, it’s an affordable way to bring accurate, completely emulated versions of arcade hits to the comfort of your home. Two, you get your own piece of gaming history on your console, at least until your digital storefront of choice closes, but that’s another topic for another column.

If you’re a fan of arcade culture, or just miss the “good old days” of arcade gaming before everything became a ticket redemption amusement park, I recommend that you throw $7.99 at an “Arcade Archives” release and play what could become your new favorite game.

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Yeezus 3:16 - The Gospel of Kanye

By Jared Graf Asst. Arts & Features Editor Following multiple delays, a religious rebirth, and weekly Sunday Service performances, Kanye West released “JESUS IS KING” - a departure from secular music and ninth addition to his critically acclaimed catalog.

The profanity free, 11-track album includes guest appearances from Clipse, Kenny G, and Ty Dolla $ign, as well as stellar production from Timbaland, Ronny J, Pi’erre Bourne, Benny Blanco, and Kanye himself.

Although the album is gospel-influenced, the music doesn’t entirely mesh with conventional gospel sounds. Kanye infused pristine production with a plethora of jumbled, repetitive thoughts, and just like that - a Christian-rap album was born.

Songs like “Every Hour” and “Selah” are the closest we get to seeing him channel traditional gospel music.

“Every Hour” serves as the opener for the album and features no vocals from Kanye. Instead, the track is supported by Sunday Service, his gospel-rap group formed in January of this year.

The high-pitched crooning of Kanye’s choir quickly gives way to a church organ, and we finally get to hear from our protagonist. “God is King, we the soldiers / Ultrabeam out the solar / When I get to Heaven’s gates / I ain’t gotta peak over,” Yeezy raps, on what seems to be a promising introduction. The song’s production intensifies as his choir comes in at the halfway mark, bellowing more “halle-

lujahs” than you could recite without passing out.

Three tracks in, Kanye delivers one of the album’s standout tracks - the sample-heavy “Follow God.” Over soulful, head-nodding production, Mr. West spits a mesmerizing flow that almost seems impossible to dislike.

“Life like, this is what your life like / Try to live your life right / People really know you / Push your button’s like typewrite,” Kanye aggressively spits.

“Closed on Sunday” finds a more mellow Kanye dropping unimpressive, Jesus-laced bars about Chickfil-A over Timbaland production. Lyrics such as: “I bow down to the King upon the throne / My life is His, I’m no longer my own,” may have resonated better if half the song wasn’t spent rapping about a fast-food chain.

Just when I thought the Jesus references couldn’t be any more abundant, Kanye somehow managed to namedrop Jesus an astonishing 16 times over the course of his 25-second long verse on “Water.”

Ditching a rhyme scheme, musical genius Kanye West mumbles, “Jesus, clean the music / Jesus, please use us / Jesus, please help / Jesus please heal.” Moments such as these are so perplexing, they make the album feel like a satire.

Yes, Yeezus is able to stay on topic - but eventually, his proclamations become forced and monotonous.

One of the only good things this album has to offer is the reunification of Clipse.

For the first time in six years, Pusha T and No Malice find themselves rap-

ping together on “Use This Gospel.”

The song, which is easily the pinnacle of the project, features angelic humming, accompanied by a ridiculously catchy melody and simplistic production. “How could He not be the greatest? / In my bed, under covers when under-covers had raided,” Pusha T menacingly raps before Kenny G closes the song with a minute-long saxophone solo.

I think Kanye is at a point in his career at which this album doesn’t really matter - it will neither help nor hurt him as an artist. As he preaches the word of God and searches for validation throughout 11 songs, he takes a creative risk only someone of his stature could.

Songs such as “On God” seem to portray Kanye in a good head space, as he bursts into a raw, unpolished ballad that is far from perfect. He’s been critical of his singing in the past, and often tried to smooth it over using Auto-Tune, but here he sounds comfortable.

Kanye isn’t saying anything earth-shattering, but when has he ever? He’s always been hyper-focused on the sonics of his music.

That seemed to be the case on “JESUS IS KING,” as the instrumentation saved the project and maybe even gave it some replay value. However, Kanye relies too heavily on others to create a sound when he should be the one innovating.

Aside from content, the album’s biggest fault is the mixing. A project set back months by multiple delays, stunts, and “finishing touches” should

41. Mobile homes, briefly 44. Issa of “Insecure” 45.

Taj Mahal city 46. *Cereal whose mascot is Chip the Wolf 51. ___ and outs 52.

Dolores Huerta, for one 53.

Stick-up person?

55.

Nancy of “Entertainment Tonight” 56.

Ecological diet sequence, or what you can form by linking the starred answers together?

58.

String instrument or first name 59.

Cuban leader between Fidel and Miguel 60.

Sources of 20s 61. ___-weensy 62. ___-bitty 63. “___ So Fine” (Chiffons hit)

ACROSS 1. Notetaker’s need 4. Visibility reducer 8. Ruffles feathers?

13. Fleece-bearing ship, in Greek myth 14. Show-saving device 15. Sean of “The Goonies” 16. *Reddish-purple dish often made with walnuts and goat cheese 18. E.R. employee 19. Master again 20. Third of a turkey, in bowling 21. Friend, in Haiti 22. *Colorful pizza vegetable 25. Silent performer 27. “Get it?”

28. Comic’s performance 29. Casio competitor 31. Hockey penalty 33. *Sub with sirloin, say 38. “Days of Our Lives” and the like 39. Quidditch mount

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DOWN 1. Early-born babies 2. Discount ticket restriction 3. Shower love (on) 4. “The Hate U Give” heroine 5. Author A.A. 6. Egg cells 7. Deity 8. “Inferno” writer 9. Seizes wrongfully 10. Zebra marking 11. Tasket’s partner 12. Mean smile 13. Filmmaker J.J. 17. Droop 20. Go on a shopping spree 23. Person who gets out of a puzzle room 24. Dusseldorf denials 26. ___ out a living 30. W. Hemisphere alliance 31. Newton with laws of motion 32. 43rd president’s monogram 34. South ___ (Seoul’s country) 35. Glass on the radio

not contain vocals that sound as if they were recorded on a flip phone.

With perfectionists such as Kanye and Mike Dean overseeing the mixing, I’m baffled at how God-awful it sounded.

Kanye requiring his production team to fast and abstain from premarital sex evidently kept them focused, as the production is the only enticing element of an album that otherwise lacks creativity and seems incomplete.

We don’t want the “old Kanye” back - we just want one of the most influential artists in music to stop sounding like a college student struggling to meet his essay’s word count - especially on a project that’s only 27 minutes long.

Grade: D+ With pristine production but soulless lyrics, Kanye fails to make an impact.

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Puzzle solutions are now 49. Regrettably 50. Benching muscle, forexclusively online. short 54. Persian pooh-bah 56. “Good” day: Abbr.

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Captain Stephanie Beaumont and teammates celebrate Senior Day

By Liam Gambon Sports Editor

The Framingham Women’s Soccer team had their Senior Day game against Salem State Oct. 26.

The Rams’ seniors included Stephanie Beaumont, Sam Beninati, Erin Angelillo, Annalyse Arnold, Caitlyn Our, and Kaleigh Pallotta.

Beaumont had the honor of being one of three captains on the team this season.

“I never would have thought that I’d be named captain of a college soccer team, but last year, when I was named captain, I was so excited,” Beaumont said. “I really enjoyed being a leader for my team and all of the younger girls. It’s definitely something I won’t forget.”

The game began with Salem State scoring in the third minute and again in the 35th.

Framingham responded in the 40th minute with a goal of their own off the foot of Jasmine Lees.

This stood for the Rams’ lone goal of the game, as Salem State potted four more to win 6-1.

Along with the other seniors, Beaumont played her last game at Maple Street Field on Senior Day. “Playing in my senior game was bittersweet. I am going to miss playing soccer every day with my best friends,” Beaumont said. “Having friends from home and my family come to support me in my last home game was really awesome. It made me play harder for sure.”

As the season comes to an end, the Rams sit at 2-12-1.

“Although the season didn’t turn out how we expected it, I wouldn’t have wanted to end my college soccer career with anyone else,” Beaumont said. “I love my team and am extremely proud of what we have accomplished together.”

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Stephanie Beaumont sets up to recieve the ball.

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Men’s Soccer ties Salem State in pivotal MASCAC matchup

By Dylan Thayer Staff Writer

On Oct. 26, the Framingham State Rams Men’s Soccer team traveled to Salem State to play a very important game in the MASCAC. Heading into the game, both teams were 5-0, and tied at the top of the conference.

It was a very evenly matched game, with both teams struggling to score throughout the entire contest.

The first major opportunity for a goal came five minutes into the first half on a shot by the Vikings’ Paa Sowe, but was quickly turned down on a great save by Corey Davidge. It appeared that Sowe had a solid chance running toward the goalie one on one, but ultimately, he was denied.

The Rams had an outstanding opportunity to score themselves, but it had been called back due to a handball on Odane Scale. Josh Ofosu would have gotten credit for the goal off the Bryant Nardizzi corner kick in the 35th minute.

At halftime, it was evident this matchup was a strong one, with neither team having the offensive advantage. The Vikings were only outshooting the Rams eight to seven, with three shots on goal to Framingham’s one.

Both teams were taking many shots on goal through the second half, but again, neither team was able to capitalize on them.

Gustavo Cassemiro took a great shot in the 72nd minute but was denied by goalie Matthew Hauntsman. Cassemiro took a team-high five shots, producing one-fourth of the Rams’ shots for the game.

After 90 minutes of scoreless play, the two conference foes headed to overtime at Alumni Field.

In overtime, neither team could get on the board, and ultimately, ended the game in a scoreless tie to remain at the top of the conference. Both teams were very evenly matched, finishing with the Rams taking 20 shots to the Vikings’ 19, and a 7-5 advantage in shots on goal for the Vikings.

Davidge was amazing in net for the Rams, making seven saves and lowering his GAA to 1.21- which is good enough for second place in the MASCAC. He is also tied for second place in save percentage at .803.

A tie was not an unsavory outcome for either team, and keeps both of them in first place in the MASCAC at 5-0-1.

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On Oct. 29, the Rams went to Eastern Connecticut State to take on a nationally ranked #23 Warriors team on their turf.

The game was won by the Warriors in the first half with all of their four goals coming before the 38-minute mark of the game.

The Rams also scored their only goal of the game in the 36th minute when Bryce Nardzzi was able to put one in the left post.

The Warriors scored in the 5th, 6th, 28th, and 37th minutes of the game with goals by Emmanuel Agyemang, Andres Mayuri, Will Toomey, and Max Parent.

Both teams were able to take 15 shots, but the Warriors had more shots on goal with a 9-3 difference.

With the loss, Framingham falls to .500 on the season at 8-8-2. The powerhouse Warriors team improved their record to 15-2.

The Salem State Vikings, who are tied in the MASCAC with the Rams, will be playing the 7-8-2 Fitchburg State Falcons in their final game of the regular season Nov. 2. If the Vikings manage to lose their next game, then the top spot in the MASCAC would be up for grabs.

The Rams are looking to clinch their second consecutive MASCAC regular season title in a matchup with the 3-13 MCLA Trailblazers in Framingham that same day.

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Carlos’ Call: NCAA agrees to pay student athletes - or do they?

By Carlos Silva Asst. Sports Editor After years of back-and-forth battles, the NCAA finally caved and will start compensating the student athletes who represent schools all over the country.

As amazing as that is, many people do not know the whole truth behind the NCAA’s newest rule.

The official announcement stated players would start getting paid for their name, image, and likeness.

Right off the bat, anyone who loves sports video games will be extremely excited because the idea of players getting paid for their likeness opens up the real possibility that the NCAA College Football video games could be making a long-awaited return.

The other additions are probably the most important. Because players would be paid for their names and images, this means that jersey sales, ticket sales, and TV ratings could result in a lot of compensation for these players.

Not everyone is very accepting of this new NCAA rule. A video of Tim Tebow, a former Florida Gators quarterback - and now ESPN College Football analyst – went viral. Tebow critized the idea of student athletes getting paid.

Tebow said he had one of the top-selling jerseys in the entire world. That includes both college and professional jerseys.

He said he never received a dime of the money, and he also insists he is happy about that. Tebow believes if schools start to pay their players, this could result in some backdoor deals that can lead to shady recruitment processes.

He then went on to talk about how money takes away from the sense of brotherhood inside the programs. His reasoning for this is that players would start treating college sports like a job.

Honestly, Tebow may not realize it because he was a for-sure first-round pick in the NFL draft years ago, but college sports is more than a job for a lot of people.

There are many athletes whose lives, and their families’ lives, are at stake every day hoping they go pro.

A perfect example is Sebastian Telfair. He was supposed to be someone everyone in the world should know. Telfair was a huge NBA prospect who never shined when given the opportunity on the pro stage.

One of the big reasons for this is that Telfair did not go to college where he could have developed his skills further and become pro-ready. At first sight, this may seem like his own fault, but a closer look shows why it’s not.

Telfair grew up and went to high school in Brooklyn, New York. His family was poor while his stardom was still rising. When he graduated, Telfair made the decision he would be attending Louisville for basketball. Louisville is a powerhouse university that would have been perfect for him.

Unfortunately, a fatal shooting occurred at the apartment complex where his family lived.

This led Telfair to back out of his college decision and go pro in order to help his family out.

He never reached his full NBA potential and is currently in trouble with the law due to several cases of handgun arrests.

If Telfair was offered the opportunity to be paid at Louisville, his whole career would be vastly different.

The NCAA has taken a step in the right direction, but there are many steps to take. As of now, female college athletes will most likely be looking at a large wage gap.

The reason for this is that NCAA only approved payment in relation to popularity. Unless you are a female athlete playing basketball at UConn, chances are you will be receiving a slim compensation.

Despite all of that, this is huge for all student athletes, and will be the start of a new wave that will change lives across the country.

Volleyball falls to Fighting Scots

By Sara Senesac Asst. Sports Editor FSU’s volleyball team hosted the Gordon College Fighting Scots for a non-conference match Oct. 30.

The first set was tight with neither team being able to hold an extensive lead throughout.

A kill by sophomore Brandee Thomas put the Rams up 22-20, but Gordon pushed back to tie the score at 23-23.

Gordon took the first set 25-23 after the Rams made two consecutive errors.

The second set was much of the same with both teams repeatedly taking the lead, then allowing their opponent to tie it up.

After being tied 19-19, the Rams were able to take the lead after a kill by senior Deidre Fay. An additional kill by Thomas allowed Framingham to hold their lead near the end, but the Fighting Scots came back to win the second set 25-22 and extended their lead to 2-0 for the match.

The Rams took the lead early in the third set and held onto it for much of the set.

Gordon came back to tie the score 22-22, but Framingham ultimately won the set 25-23.

Sophomore Alyssa Cafarelli said this was the first set the Rams have ever won against Gordon.

“Winning a set to Gordon was exciting, especially giving it all that we had,” she said.

The Fighting Scots took an early 5-0 lead in the fourth set, but allowed the Rams to tie it up 9-9.

After that, Gordon took off and won the final set 25-14, winning the match 3-1.

Despite the loss, Framingham still had impressive stats for the game.

Cafarelli led the team in digs with 18, closely followed by Fay with 15.

Thomas had 18 kills and a whopping 52 total attempts by the end of the match.

Junior Morgan Failla led with 37 set assists for the team and junior Brandey Rodriguez had three service aces for the match.

“It would have been nice to take the entire thing from them and win the match, but I am looking forward to playoffs next week,” Cafarelli said.

The Rams are now 16-11 on the season and 5-1 in the MASCAC. They will host the Worcester State Lancers for their last regular season match Nov. 2.

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Rams Football wins the clash of the unbeaten 39-14

By Carlos Silva Asst. Sports Editor

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Dwayne Hunter-Parker had two interceptions and six tackles in Framingham’s 39-14 win over Western Connecticut State.

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Devaun Ford rushes the ball for the Rams.

Framingham took on the Western Connecticut State Colonials at home Oct. 26.

The first quarter consisted of the two defenses mostly dominating, except for the Rams’ first drive when Adam Wojenski led the offense to a passing touchdown to Emmanuel Exilhomme after an 80-yard drive.

Just as the Colonials were set to score, Carls Alphonse caught his first interception of the season and returned it 55 yards. The interception put the Rams in great field positioning for the offense to take over.

Wojenski then connected with Exilhomme for yet another passing touchdown.

Exilhomme finished the game with three catches, 54 yards, and two touchdowns.

Western Connecticut responded quickly with David James throwing a deep ball to Chris Pacall for 47 yards. The Colonials had the ball at the Rams’ 10-yard line when James hit Will Daniels in the corner of the end zone to make the game 12-7 after a successful PAT. A short punt then gave the ball to the Rams at the Colonial 32-yard line. After a Wojesnski nine-yard rush and a pair of passes, Elijah Nichols scored off a five-yard receiving pass to make the score 18-7 right before half.

The Colonials had one more shot at scoring before halftime, but a sack by Joshua Smiley kept Western Connecticut out of the end zone.

The Rams’ first drive of the second half was capped off by Wojenski throwing a four-yard touchdown to William Jean to make the score 26-7 after a successful two-point conversion.

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Devaun Ford took away any hope Western Connecticut had right away when he returned the ensuing kickoff 88 yards for a touchdown to make the game out of reach.

The Rams’ defense came up big with three interceptions, two of which were caught by Dwayne Hunter-Parker who also had six tackles on the day.

The defensive line continued to show its dominance with six sacks, three of which came from Smiley. The other sacks are credited to Adeboye Oyarobi and Joshua “Uno” Onujiogu.

Wojenski went 15-25 with 176 passing yards and four touchdowns. He also rushed 16 times for 84 yards and a rushing touchdown.

Ford finished his day with 18 rushes for 73 yards and an 88-yard return touchdown.

Coach Thomas Kelley said, “I told the guys that we’re about to go down the gauntlet. Certainly, Mass. Maritime becomes more important now than West Conn. obviously, or Bridgewater.

“I think we have to run the table in order to win the MASCAC. That is definitely not an easy thing to do because we do not have an easy game left,” he added.

When asked about the defense, Kelley said, “We had a new defense coordinator come in and he established a lot of new things that have been working for us. He told the guys to just be patient and things will work out. We played two really tough teams out the gate, and that helped us figure out our mistakes.”

The Rams are now 5-0 in the MASCAC and 5-2 overall.

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Brandee Thomas had a team-best 18 kills in Framinghan’s match against Gordon College.

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Joshua Smiley had three sacks and a sack fumble in Framingham’s 39-14 win over Western Connecticut State.

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