November 22, 2019

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Volume 88 • Issue 11

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November 22, 2019

Board of Trustees passes motion to support $20 million proposal to renovate library Members discuss retention, enrollment, and changes on campus

Cara McCarthy / THE GATEPOST Lorretta Holloway, vice president for enrollment and student development, shared enrollment trends with the Board during their Nov. 20 meeting.

News

Kathleen Moore / THE GATEPOST GENERAL EDUCATION FORUM pg. 4 DISTINGUISHED FACULTY AWARDS pg. 6

Opinions GYM EQUIPMENT pg. 10 MENTAL ILLNESS pg. 12

Arts & Features

By Brennan Atkins Arts & Features Editor

By Jared Graf Asst. Arts & Features Editor Framingham State’s Board of Trustees passed a motion Nov. 20 to endorse the finance committee’s “submission of an application” for $20 million in renovations for the Whittemore Library.

Trustee Michael Grilli, chair of the Board’s finance committee, advocated for the proposal, asking, “What would a university be without a library?”

Grilli described “code deficiencies” within the building and a need for renovations - including sprinkler system updates and better handicap

TRANSGRESSING BOUNDARIES pg. 13 “SURVIVAL” REVIEW pg. 15

Sports FOOTBALL pg. 16 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL pg. 18

“It doesn’t sound like a lot of money, but it actually represents quite a bit of our participation,” said Gustafson.

Student Trustee Olivia Beverlie’s report updated the Board on changes that have resulted due to SGA’s recent administrators’ forum and campus safety walk.

One of the concerns brought up during the administrators’ forum by commuter students was the need for a designated space where they can spend time between classes.

Beverlie said, “As a result, one thing is that the CIE [Center of Inclusive Excellence] is starting to be reinvented in how it’s looked at … in terms of trying to provide commuters more space.”

See BOARD OF TRUSTEES page 8

The MVPs of FSU fall sports

By Sara Senesac Interim Sports Editor

Caroline Gordon / THE GATEPOST

accessibility - as well as expansions and upgrades.

At the request of the finance committee, Grilli asked the Board to “take action” by approving the submission of the application. The Board of Trustees held a motion to approve the submission, which passed without debate.

The proposal for $20 million to renovate the library would be in addition to the nearly $200 million spent in the last 5 to 6 years for capital projects on campus, according to Grilli.

Eric Gustafson, vice president of development and alumni relations, spoke about recent fundraising efforts, crediting the student “phonea-thon” team with reaching out to alumni and raising over $20,000 this fall for 328 gifts and pledges. The average gift size was just under $100.

During their fall season, the FSU Rams brought home two MASCAC Championships, saw four teams qualify for the playoffs, had 15 players acknowledged in their respective conferences, and currently, has one team still chasing an NCAA Division III title.

The varsity fall sports include football, men’s soccer, women’s soccer, volleyball, and field hockey. Each team had at least one player acknowledged by the MASCAC or Little Eastern Conference (LEC) for their game-

time performance, making them the MVPs of the fall season.

Football ended their regular season 8-2 overall and undefeated in the MASCAC, allowing them to secure the conference championship.

They are currently on an eightgame win streak, and will travel to Delaware for the first round of the NCAA Division III playoffs against Wesley College Nov. 23.

There were several players acknowledged for their performances throughout the season, but two players in particular were awarded MASCAC weekly honors multiple times.

Senior quarterback Adam Wojens-

ki was named the MASCAC Football Offensive Player of the Week three times this season.

“This season has had tons of ups and downs, which makes it one of my favorites in my four years here at Framingham,” Wojenski said. “We returned with only two starters from last year’s offense - me and Andrew Fennelly - and had a huge freshman class, many of whom had to start right away.”

Wojenski averaged approximately 245 passing yards per game this season. Of the 10 games he played, he ended with 2,455 total passing yards and 429 rushing yards.

See PLAYERS OF THE YEAR page 17

INSIDE: OP/ED 9 • ARTS & FEATURES 13 • SPORTS 16

NEWS

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Editorial Board

Gatepost Interview

Editor-in-Chief Nadira Wicaksana

Tracy Baker

Associate Editors Cara McCarthy Ashley Wall

Student Transportation Center bus driver

News Editor Donald Halsing

By Thomas Maye Editorial Staff

Asst. News Editors Leighah Beausoleil Evan Lee

What was your professional background prior to working at FSU?

Arts & Features Editors Brennan Atkins Robert Johnson Jr. Asst. Arts & Features Editor Jared Graf

I drove a school bus for 20-plus years - this wasn’t much different!

How did you get involved at FSU specifically?

Opinions Editor Thomas Maye

I was looking for a full-time [job], where I didn’t have to take summers off, and this job came up on my computer.

In May 2013, I actually applied for the job, came in for an interview, and didn’t get the job, but I think it was November of ’13 when the manager - who wasn’t Kim at the time - called me and said it was open again and she wanted me to come in and apply. I started working here on January 3 of 2014.

Sports Editor Liam Gambon

How has Framingham changed since then, as far as you’ve noticed?

Interim Sports Editor Sara Senesac

Most of my ‘noticing’ has to do with driving. I know that they’ve acquired Danforth, so [the route] takes us out over there [now]. They didn’t have the Franklin Route when I started.

Entertainment Correspondent Noah Barnes Fashion Correspondent Caeley Whalen

Asst. Sports Editor Carlos Silva Design Editor Kathleen Moore Asst. Photos Editor Caroline Gordon Copy Editor Lauren Paolini Staff Writers Mackenzie Berube Patrick Brady Kaitlin Burch Soren Colstrup Kaitlyn Cullen Rylee Holmes Dia Kilgore Abigail Petrucci Abigail Saggio Lizzy Stocks Dylan Thayer McKenzie Ward Staff Copy Editor Jordan Bacci Staff Photographers Hannah Coco Amanda Garny 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 @TheGatepost | FSUgatepost.com

What would you say this job means to you?

I love the job. I meet lots of different, interesting people, and ... the thing about me is that I had no self-confidence, but this job has taught me I can do more, and I’ve almost flourished in the job. … I love the people - I absolutely love the people. I drive over an hour to get here - if it wasn’t for the people, I would’ve found a new job a long time ago.

What’s something students should know about the Student Transportation Center?

When I started, it was a lot smaller. It was four parking lots, two shuttles - and you either had one or two - you never had three [shuttles] going around. We didn’t have Danforth - we never had to go there. We didn’t go to the commuter rail five times a day - we went a couple times a night, and that was attached to the RamTram. … I know that STC has gotten a lot of bad publicity. First off - no matter what we do, we’re never going to satisfy everyone and make everybody happy. It’s an impossible task.

But, I know that as a whole, we’re trying to improve. … My hours just changed to try and suit a bigger demand. So, in-

Thomas Maye / THE GATEPOST stead of coming 7:15 to 4, I come 6 to 2:45 so I can help with that. There are still times during the day where there’s one driver, and that’s because one’s going to Danforth and one’s going to the commuter rail, [which] leaves you with only one driver [serving the lots]. So, I do know this year that we are trying, and we’re putting more things in place to make the service more efficient and to suit the growing demands that the passengers have. … The thing is that we don’t have more resources. ... The resources we had that just served the parking lots are the same resources we have now serving the parking lots, Danforth, and commuter rail. We know that there’s problems and we’re trying to address each. We just found out there was a problem with a particular couple of hours on Monday nights, so we added a second driver because there was only one. We take each problem and try to address it as much as we can, with what we have ... I don’t think it’s necessarily that the students don’t have patience.

I think that they don’t know, so I think maybe letting them know what’s going on [helps].

What would you say some of your favorite songs are?

My go-to genre is country, but I love

the Irish, and the Italian, and the Disney [music] - I don’t have a favorite! I keep it very shuffled so I don’t get bored, and I pick on the passengers [to choose songs].

Do you have any advice for finding the best parking spots on campus?

Personally, I have found, driving the two Maple Lots, that the Commuter Lot is right down the hill and is so convenient, so it fills up fast, but the Athletic Lot hardly ever fills. So I, personally, would never fight with the commuters.

I’d go to the Athletic Lot. Do you have any advice for FSU students?

Work hard - you’re paying for your education. ... Life is never going to be easy, ever. I understand a lot of things in the world have changed, but ... you just have to let things go the way they are.

Work hard with whatever goal [you’re] working toward.

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Police Logs Monday, November 18 16:38 Voluntary Psych Evaluation FSU Police Dept.

Report Taken

Monday, November 18 23:27 Medical Larned Hall Transported to MWMC via ambulance

Wednesday, November 20 13:24 Elevator Call No Answer Larned Hall Checks OK

Thursday, November 21 10:22 Well Being Check Larned Hall Checks OK

NEWS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019 | 3

Hospitality and tourism program growing

By Soren Colstrup Staff Writer In 1957, Edith Smith Warren, wife of Henry Ellis Warren, donated 40 acres of their family farm in Ashland to Northeastern University.

FSU purchased the property from Northeastern University for $8 million dollars in April 2016.

One of the main reasons for FSU’s purchase of the property was to eventually use the center to grow a hospitality major at the University.

Three years after the purchase of the Warren Conference Center, FSU will now begin its first full school year with a Hospitality and Tourism program.

Prior to being owned by FSU, the property was initially named The Warren Center for Physical Education and Recreation. It hosted an overnight summer camp for handicapped and underprivileged children, as well as the children of Northeastern University staff.

The same property, now named the Warren Conference Center, is located at 529 Chestnut St., roughly five miles from campus. It hosts a wide range of events including weddings, bar mitzvahs, and corporate meetings.

FSU President F. Javier Cevallos said, “When the idea of purchasing the Warren Center came up, I thought it would be ideal to have a hospitality program to use the Warren Center in terms of internships.”

However, the program has yet to use the Warren Conference Center.

A management company called Flik Hospitality currently runs the center, and members of Flik’s management team are often invited to campus as guest speakers for the hospitality and tourism courses offered at FSU. Flik also provides incentives to help promote institutional use of the facility in the short term.

FSU Executive Vice President Dale Hamel said Flik “will be providing a 25% incentive, and then we will be taking a portion of the net income and subsidize it further to another 25% to encourage institutional use.

“This will essentially direct activity that has been going to other facilities, in the past, to our own facilities,” Hamel added.

The hospitality program will have to gain more students in order to begin operating the center for various events.

John Umit Palabiyik, hospitality and tourism management program

Weather

FSU purchased the Warren Conference Center in 2016 from Northeastern University. coordinator at FSU, explained, “The program’s vision right now is to take one more year to continue growing the major before we begin using the Warren Center.

“The long-term vision is ideally to turn the center into a student-run hotel,” he added.

In the fall 2018 semester, FSU began offering introductory courses in hospitality and tourism to generate interest in the program before its

rate hotels. For example, Boston University has a cooperation with Marriott,” said Palibiyik.

What separates the Warren Center from other alternatives is its “hightouch” approach to the hospitality industry. This approach offers a more personable relationship between guests and faculty.

The other option is the “hightech” approach used in corporate companies, he added.

“The long-term vision is ideally to turn the center into a student-run hotel.”

-John Umit Palabiyik, hospitality and tourism management program coordinator approval in December 2018 by the Board of Higher Education.

Since the program’s approval, Palabiyik has seen the number of students in his Introduction to Hospitality and Tourism class grow from 12 students, in the first semester, to 29 students in the spring semester of 2019, he said.

The hospitality and tourism program has now grown to 14 students less than a year after the program’s official approval.

“A majority of schools with a hospitality program have a small facility like a cafeteria to run, or they will often have a partnership with corpo-

Certain services like wake-up calls can differ drastically depending upon the approach hotels take.

“For example, the high-touch approach would be a personal call, and the high-tech approach would be an automated call without any human interaction,” said Palabiyik.

One challenge FSU has is providing transportation to the Warren Center. “There are a lot of opportunities for the Warren Center. It is my vision that many of the activities we host on campus could be moved to there. The one problem that persists is transportation,” said Palibiyik.

Since the Warren Center is not

Courtesy of the Warren Conference Center

located on campus, it remains relatively unknown to a fair number of students.

Senior Brenden Williams said, “I didn’t even know our school owned a hotel. I can’t imagine that’s a very common thing for a school to have.”

Sophomore Jake Garman said, “I think it’s pretty interesting our school has that property. It would make a great place for teams and clubs to do team-building events.”

Although many students are unaware FSU owns a hotel, it appears that much of the student body finds this fact interesting.

Sophomore Zach Bettmeng said, “I just transferred to FSU, so I’m not completely aware of all the places our school has for its students, but I’m surprised our school bought a hotel to use as part of a program on campus. It’s a neat brag.”

Junior Andrew Tiernan said, “I have never been to the Warren Center, but I’ve driven by it and always wondered why there were FSU signs in the parking lot. I bet it’d be a great place to watch the sunset and look at the stars.”

Junior Miranda Barboza said, “I know the school has a hotel for the new hospitality major that they added last year. I think it’s a cool asset for the students to get some real-world experience there. I also assume the school makes a profit off of it over time with guests staying there.”

CONNECT WITH SOREN COLSTRUP scolstrup@student.framingham.edu

Sunday night 40% chance of mixed precipitation. Mostly cloudy, low near 30. W winds around 5 mph.

Monday night Partly cloudy, low near 30. Light W winds.

Forecast provided by the National Weather Service www.weather.gov Wednesday night Tuesday night 30% chance of rain Partly cloudy, low near showers. Mostly 35. Calm winds. cloudy, low near 30. SW winds around 5 mph.

Monday Mostly sunny, high near 45. W winds around 5 mph.

Tuesday Mostly sunny, high near 50. SW winds around 5 mph.

Wednesday 30% chance of rain showers. Partly sunny, high near 50. SW winds around 5 mph.

Thursday Mostly sunny, high near 45. W winds around 10 mph, gusting to 25.

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NEWS

UCC holds general education review

By Rylee Holmes Staff Writer The University Curriculum Committee (UCC) held a public meeting Nov. 15 to review the current general education model.

The meeting was structured as an informational forum with the sole purpose of receiving feedback from community members.

Jesse Marcum, chair of the UCC and chemistry and food science professor, opened the meeting with a brief overview of the history of the general education model. The current domain model came into effect beginning the 2013-14 academic year.

Faculty attending the meeting advocated for a stand-alone diversity course as a requirement in the general education model, as it is absent from the current domain model requirements.

The previous general education model required students take a standalone diversity course, as well as a stand-alone non-western studies course.

English professor Patricia Lynne was one of the first faculty members to address this issue. “We have seen incidences on campus that show us there is a real need for a genuine diversity requirement.”

Chair of the English department Desmond McCarthy also expressed concern about the lack of a standalone diversity requirement in general education.

“We took two of our most valuable goals from the last model that said something about our values as an institution … and we smushed them in with a bunch of other things and then we made diversity a kind of overlay for everything.

“If you put something everywhere, it really resides nowhere,” he added.

English professor Bartholomew Brinkman said he also believes there should be a required general education course on diversity.

He said, “Just thinking about diversity just wasn’t cutting it - there needs to be a course.”

Sociology professor Lina Rincón suggested that a general education diversity requirement should be “not only led by one particular department,” but rather “an actual class that different faculty of different departments can teach, that can be interdisciplinary.

I think it should be an integral part of the education of our students

here,” she added.

A specific aspect of the current model, which was critiqued by community members, was Domain III-C: Global Competency, Ethical Reasoning, and/or Human Diversity.

Chair of the geography department Judith Otto said, “The goal [of domain] III-C has become a hodgepodge without a lot of external consistency to it. … It combines global competency, ethical reasoning, and/or human diversity in ways I think are difficult to conceptualize for a curriculum and especially for students to relate to.”

In addition to a required diversity class, multiple faculty members suggested that a United States Constitution course also be reinstated in the domain model.

The previous general education model required “all students must take one course that includes study of both U.S. and Massachusetts constitutions,” according to previous University catalogs.

Otto, one of the faculty members to suggest this requirement said, “I support we instate a Constitution requirement in light of what’s been going on in this country - I think it’s critical.”

Speaking about the lack of understanding students have for general education, history professor Joseph Adelman said he’s found it hard to explain the total mission of general education to students in a way other than wanting students to take a variety of classes.

“I want gen ed to have some mission. … Having clarity of mission … is something that I think would benefit me as a faculty member … it would benefit the [students’ understanding],” said Adelman.

Otto also said she believes there needs to be a way to communicate the ways in which a general education is relevant to undergraduate students at Framingham State.

She said, “I think the record is fairly clear that this is not something students take away from their experience here.”

McCarthy said, “I think we actually need a radical revision of what we currently have. If students don’t understand what general education is about or what the purpose is of a course they’re taking … then this is not succeeding.”

McCarthy also pointed out the current model is not only challenging to students, but to faculty as well.

“With the old model, the average

Kathleen Moore / THE GATEPOST

History professor Stefan Papaioannou talked about the general education model. faculty member understood it. It was clearer. It was more straightforward,” he said.

Some faculty members offered suggestions on entirely new general education structure.

History professor Stefan Papaioannou said he believes the current general education model does not allow students to think through the various methodologies of the different academic disciplines at FSU. “They kind of create these vaguely defined skill sets and goals that are just grab bags that every department tried to fit into in their own way.”

Based on this belief, he recommended to the UCC that they move away from a “system in which we define these kinds of abstract [learning objectives]” and move toward a “disciplined-based general education system.

“I would suggest we move to a system in which students are asked to explore, when they’re in college, different ways of thinking,” said Papaioannou.

Art and music professor Erika Schneider said, “We’re not sharing this mission anymore. We need to work together.”

She explained the current general education model creates divides between departments in which they are competing for general education courses.

Schneider added she believed that a general education model based on

the different fields would support this idea of sharing the general education mission.

University emphasis on the importance of general education was also discussed.

Papaioannou said, “I think that the message can be made clearer.”

He added, “Whatever our gen ed model becomes … in order to allow faculty to help students see the value of it, the university as a whole has to emphasize the value of general education. … I think there needs to be much better across-the-institution overt support for it where in advising, it’s not a matter of, ‘So, have you gotten your general education requirements out of the way?’”

During the meeting, Lynn Parker, english professor and chair of subcommittee D, clarified the meeting was only to receive feedback from the community members, rather than to allow an open conversation between community members and the UCC. Subcommittee D is charged with reviewing the general education model this year.

The current general education model that came into effect in 2013 has four major components: common core requirements, domain I, domain II, and domain III. The common core requirement includes expository writing and college-level math.

Domain I contains three subdomains: creative arts, humanities, and a language course.

Domain II contains two subdomains: analysis, modeling, and problem solving; and natural sciences.

Domain III contains three subdomains: perspectives of the past; perspectives on the contemporary world; and global competency, ethical reasoning, and/or human diversity.

[Editor’s note: Desmond McCarthy is an advisor of The Gatepost.]

Kathleen Moore / THE GATEPOST

The University Curriculum Committee (UCC) held a public meeting Nov. 15 to review the current general education model.

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NEWS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019 | 5

FSU takes further steps to help the environment

By Leighah Beausoleil Asst. News Editor FSU was named among the most environmentally friendly colleges for the 8th time by the Princeton Review’s Guide to Green Colleges, according to an FSU press release.

The guide surveys nearly 700 schools, and 413 were placed on the list, according to the Princeton Review press release.

In the press release, Rob Franek, the publication’s editor-in-chief, said, “These schools are standouts for their exemplary commitments to sustainability.”

FSU’s “Climate Action Plan,” created in 2010, is updated yearly, said the FSU press release.

FSU currently utilizes the 10th edition of the plan.

According to the plan, the University calls for “new investment; consolidation of environmental campus concerns; changes in lifestyle; coordination of policies, purchasing and curricula; and for the University to improve the use of its existing resources.”

Carl Hakansson, primary author of the Climate Action Plan and University sustainability coordinator, said, “I just hope that we can keep our eye on the ball going forward.

“It’s even more important now

than when it started given the times that we live in,” Hakansson added.

“A lot of our focus, at least in the Climate Action Plan in the last few years, has been through adjusting the various curricula to include environmental issues and environmental conversations in regard to climate change and other things,” he said.

The curriculum is important “because it reaches a whole different range of students that may not be part of that conversation if it were not diversified in the different programs,” he added.

Hakansson said, besides budgeting, one of the biggest challenges the University faces is how to “decrease

“We are very proud of the efforts we have done over the years to reduce our carbon footprint and be better stewards of our environment.”

-F. Javier Cevallos, FSU president “When people think of this, most of the time, they think in terms of science courses,” Hakansson said.

He explained FSU is now able to have classes in economics, geography, English, and communications arts in which the curriculum allows students to engage in conversation pertaining to climate change and the environment.

our carbon footprint from transportation,” given a large portion of students are commuters.

“I would like to have a campus-wide discussion about that,” he added.

The FSU press release explained some of the steps the University has taken “to reduce energy consumption.

“Eliminating lunch trays in the din-

ing hall to conserve water; installing water-saving dishwashers; altering class schedules to reduce the number of days commuter students have to drive to campus; and installing a University vegetable garden,” said the press release.

The press release also described the University’s latest construction projects that received Leadership in Environmental Engineering and Design gold or silver certification, “including North and West residence halls and the Hemenway Laboratories science addition.”

According to the press release, “A solid majority (64%) of the 11,900 teens and parents that the company polled for its 2019 ‘College Hopes & Worries Survey’ said that having information about a college’s commitment to the environment would affect their decision to apply to or attend the school.”

In an email, President F. Javier Cevallos said, “We are very proud of the efforts we have done over the years to reduce our carbon footprint and be better stewards of our environment.”

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SGA tables Art Club funding request

By Kaitlyn Birch Staff Writer SGA heard two funding requests at their Nov. 19 meeting.

Vice President of Latinos Unidos ‘N Acción (LUNA) Sebastian Merida requested funding for club T-shirts.

He said the shirts were not event-specific, but they would be given out at LUNA’s Bachata Night.

Merida said the reason for acquiring the shirts was so LUNA would become more well-known. He said they were looking forward to new members and, “having shirts is a good way to promote us and get us out there.”

LUNA received $550 for their T-shirts.

The next funding request came from the Art Club.

SATF Treasurer Driana LeBron explained they were requesting funds for their Armory Show NYC trip, which they have sponsored in the past.

She said they were “really passionate” about the trip.

Art Club President Nicholas Carlson said for the Armory Show trip, they wanted to have 48 students and two travel staff. He said the plan was to stay at a Hilton Inn for two nights.

He said students in the past said they felt “rushed doing the trip in one night,” so two nights would give them the “full New York experience.”

Carlson said the tickets were approximately $50 per student, but the price was not official just yet. He said the Art Club did have a second option, which was 24 students and two travel staff. However, this was not the ideal option.

Reducing the number of attendees

would drop costs from a grand total of $15,671 to $8,768. He also added the club has a contract with a bus company which makes the total transportation cost $4,561 regardless of how many students attend the trip.

Student Trustee Olivia Beverlie asked if Carlson could get a “breakdown” of how much the total cost would be for one night with 24 students so they would have more options. Carlson said they’d be willing to present more options, but pushed for the 48 students for two nights because, the Armory Show “is a really big deal and the more [students], the merrier.”

25 students for one night comes to $6700.

He added the two travel staff were not yet confirmed but would likely be professors Ellie Krakow and Yumi Park.

Shaw said by limiting the trip to just 24 students, “the fee per student clearly goes up a lot when we do this, so I just don’t think this is the best way to benefit” a smaller number of people.

Beverlie said she was uncomfortable with funding the trip right now because even though Carlson was able to present more options, the issue was not “time sensitive,” so she presented

“Last night, it took me 40 minutes to get back from Union [parking lot].”

-McKenzie Ward, SGA Senator President Matty Bennett said the total cost for student tickets would go up if only 24 students were attending the trip.

Shaw added that this would raise the student ticket cost to $88 per ticket.

Carlson stated that the Art Club has $1,417 in their account currently and they have a fundraising event going on Dec. 9 with a goal to raise $391.

Carlson stated that the cost for

the idea of tabling the issue until the next meeting.

Vice President Abigail Salvucci said SGA would “not be making any decisions on money tonight” and would table the request until there were more options available.

Carlson said the request was time sensitive because the hotels could sell out and buying the tickets in advance could keep the price down. He said it was “a little bit less than $200 a night

for doubles” as of right now.

The request was ultimately tabled.

In other business, Beverlie appointed McKenzie Ward as Open Education Resource (OER) Ambassador. She said Ward is “very passionate about it, and I’m looking forward to working with [her].”

During Salvucci’s vice president’s report, she said two new clubs are organizing - Hospitality and Tourism Club and Green Initiative Club.

During Secretary Lexi Kays’ report, she said she got an email from Emily Barry, a senior health and wellness student, requesting more water bottle filling stations on campus, such as the ones in McCarthy and Dwight that were previously funded by SGA. LeBron announced the current unallocated budget, after LUNA’s funding request, was $92,316.22.

During open forum, Ward expressed frustration with the RamTram’s service. She said, “Last night, it took me 40 minutes to get back from Union.”

Ward added that one tram passed her heading to the commuter rail, but said none were going to the parking lots when “supposedly, they’re on 15-minute schedules.” STC staff will attend the Senate meeting Dec. 10.

Senator Krista Jameson gave the “U-Rock” award to Senator Samuel Houle. The physical rock was finally found.

[Editor’s note: McKenzie Ward is a member of The Gatepost.]

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NEWS

CELTSS hosts annual Distinguished Faculty Awards event Recipients speak about strengthening the community

By Evan Lee Asst. News Editor The Center for Excellence in Learning, Teaching, Scholarship and Service (CELTSS) honored four distinguished members of the faculty Nov. 19 in the McCarthy Center Forum.

Each received a Distinguished Faculty Award for Excellence for their contributions to the Framingham State community.

Catherine Dignam, professor and chair of the chemistry and food science department, received the Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Suzanne Neubauer, retired professor of food and nutrition and director of the Coordinated Program in Dietetics, received the Award for Excellence in Advising/Mentoring.

Erika Schneider, professor of art history, received the Award for Excellence in Scholarship & Creative Activity.

Robert Donohue, professor of psychology and president of the Framingham chapter of the Massachusetts State College Association (MSCA), received the Award for Excellence in Professional Service.

Director of CELTSS Jon Huibregtse introduced each recipient and welcomed them to the podium to speak to their fellow faculty members on this year’s theme - “strengthening the community.”

Dignam began her speech by emphasizing the “symbiotic relationship” of strength she has with the community, explaining all her contributions were only possible due to the support she has received from the community as well as CELTSS. Having come to FSU primarily as a researcher, Dignam said she ran into “roadblocks” early on in her research program, which caused her to “shift gears” and focus more on teaching.

“I took all of my energy, and I threw it into teaching,” she said.

She described an upper-level course she developed “from the ground up,” which gave students more choices over what they were able to study and how they could demonstrate what they’ve learned.

Dignam showed a picture of a group of her students and their display at the 2018 Science on State Street event.

She explained they opted to present the topics they had chosen to learn in her class to the community, rather than hold a typical final presentation in that class.

She said the experience made her realize that the norms she was educated under, to which she had forced herself to conform throughout her career, did not represent the best way to teach.

“I can’t keep forcing students to conform to those norms, and I can’t continue to evaluate them by those norms,” she explained.

“That realization has also transformed my desire to listen to students and to try to change the University so that it’s a more hospitable place for them,” she said.

She added that FSU should be a place “in which [students] can thrive based on their terms, not mine or some old antiquated terms that I’m just familiar with because I had to ad-

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here to them.”

Last year, Dignam successfully submitted a grant application to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which resulted in a $1,000,000 award to the University. FSU intends to use the funds to redevelop its STEM pathways to help students from underrepresented backgrounds succeed.

Neubauer spoke next, beginning her speech by saying she has mentored over 700 registered dietitians in her time.

“If you looked at the number of registered dietitians in the state of Massachusetts, that’s roughly 30% of them,” she added.

“So that’s either very cool, or very scary,” she joked.

A registered dietitian (RD) herself, she spoke about mentors who were influential in her own career path.

Neubauer said she met one of her mentors, Susan Nicholson, during her dietetic internship at a hospital in Houston, Texas. She explained that Nicholson “took me under her wing.

“I was from the North. That was in the South. It was very different. … I was homesick and she was just really great,” said Neubauer.

Another mentor she spoke about was Jeanette Earnest, whom Neubauer said she met while working as a clinical dietitian at the V.A. in Birmingham, Alabama.

She described how Earnest, then “Miss Wyatt,” would always spend her breaks in the cafeteria sitting with people from departments that were not her own.

“What I learned from her is … you interact with people from all different departments and you need to get to know them,” Neubauer said.

She explained she brought this wisdom with her to the community of Framingham State.

Neubauer then spoke about her work in the University’s Coordinated Program in Dietetics, which she became the director of during the early 1980s.

This program combines both the coursework and internships necessary to take the national Registration Examination for Dieticians. Passing this exam is required to receive an RD credential.

Neubauer emphasized that FSU graduates of the program have “a great pass rate.

She explained, “According to the program for registered dietitian exams … our first-time pass rate is 95%.”

In concluding her speech, Neubauer remarked, “I think that if you want to be a good mentor, you just need to look back to who made a difference for you, and it was probably somebody who listened.”

Schneider then walked up to the podium to speak about her research of artwork and the projects she has published.

She began by recognizing the support she received from FSU as well as CELTSS, which allowed her to acquire travel and research grants that helped further her projects.

“What I hope to show in some of these pieces that I’ve worked on, the publications I’ve had, is … how the community has actually helped me,” she said.

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“I couldn’t do this without my colleagues and their discussions, and I really appreciate that so much,” she added.

She said her first published project at FSU, “Talisman for the Symbolist Movement: Puvis de Chavannes’ ‘Hope,’” was based on a graduate paper she had already written.

Through a connection from her faculty advisor, she said she was able to submit the project to a conference in Oxford, England, which then led to its publication.

While Schneider said she mostly focuses on 19th century American art, she described an “inspiring” conversation she had with her colleague, Tim McDonald, about contemporary street artist Shepard Fairey.

The conversation influenced her to research Fairey’s work and eventually publish her project, “The Politics of Tagging: Shepard Fairey’s Obama.”

During the course of what she described as the longest project she has worked on at FSU - “The Representation of the Struggling Artist in America, 1800–1865” - Schneider said she had the opportunity to give several conference papers, funded by CELTSS, which led her to gain important connections.

One connection eventually became her sponsor for a Fulbright fellowship, which she said allowed her to teach American art in the Netherlands and continue her research there.

Schneider said the experience of researching, going to conferences, and eventually receiving publications “gives me a sense of satisfaction and invigorates my teaching.”

She added, “This is something I bring back to the community and the classroom as well.”

Donohue spoke last and discussed the ways in which faculty service can be used as a means to strengthen the community, and that it should not be ignored for scholarship.

He began with a remark that many faculty members of his generation were trained to think of scholarship, or research, as “if not the first priority, perhaps the only priority.”

He explained, “Being trained by research psychologists, I was told, ‘You’re going to have to invest some

time in your teaching and advising and it’ll take away from your scholarship. But for God’s sake, don’t do any service. That is a dead end.”

Donohue disagrees with this notion, saying instead he has found most of the service roles he’s had at Framingham State to be “personally fulfilling.”

Furthermore, “At a school the size of Framingham State, an individual faculty member, or a few working together, can have a great deal of impact on the community,” he said.

Donohue explained it was through his and professor of biology Brandi Van Roo’s efforts that the daycare center on campus reopened in 2008 as the FSU Early Childhood Center.

“Dr. Van Roo and I were upset that the childcare center on campus closed. We organized, we advocated, and we were successful in getting the daycare back,” he added.

Donohue, who announced his time as a leader of the Framingham chapter of the MSCA is coming to an end, said he plans to focus his advocacy on challenges the FSU community faces.

“I believe the two biggest issues facing Framingham State are the continued shifting of the financial burden of higher education onto our students and their families, and the racism and other forms of marginalization that members of our community experience,” he said.

In presenting the first issue, he explained, “we need to serve the FSU community, present and future, by mobilizing political pressure on our elected officials to make public higher education publicly, not privately funded.”

Regarding the second issue, he explained, “Framingham State’s racial and equity environment is our students’ learning environment - and fear and alienation are not conducive to learning.

“Faculty engaging in improving the racial and equity climate at Framingham State provide a great service to Framingham State - and that service needs to be recognized as mission critical to the University,” he added.

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FSU is on track to becoming an Hispanic-Serving Institution

By Lizzy Stocks Staff Writer The University has been classified as an emerging Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) according to University data that indicates Hispanic students currently make up 16% of the FSU population.

As defined by the U.S. Department of Education, an HSI is “an eligible institution” that “has an enrollment of undergraduate full-time equivalent students that is at least 25% Hispanic students at the end of the award year immediately preceding the date of application.”

Currently, there is no federal definition for “emerging HSI,” but Excelencia in Education, a group that works to “accelerate Latino student success in higher education,” identifies institutions with “an undergraduate fulltime equivalent Hispanic enrollment of 15-24 percent” as emerging HSIs. Hispanics make up 18.1% of the U.S. population, but as of 2017, only 17.2% of Hispanic adults had at least a bachelor’s degree, according to the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities.

Millie Gonzalez, former interim vice president of diversity, inclusion, and community engagement, said last year, she met with several members of the President’s Council to “discuss and share information on how to receive the HSI designation.”

She said she also partnered with Excelencia in Education “to learn about successful programs to enroll and support Latino students.”

Gonzalez added, “In addition, a group of faculty and staff members participated in a year-long Racial Equity and Justice Institute (REJI) organized by the Leading for Change Consortium. The purpose of the institute was ‘identifying student and employee diversity best practices through uniform and transparent use of data, institutional benchmarks, and reflective practices.’”

She said, “The preliminary research gathered from Excelencia in Education and the REJI group reinforced the need to develop a comprehensive approach that would increase the number of Latino students and also to

have them persist and thrive at FSU.” Constanza Cabello, vice president of diversity, inclusion, and community engagement at FSU, is currently leading an HSI taskforce, as the University achieved emerging HSI status for the first time last year.

Cabello said, “We have some time to plan to hit 25%, but if we’re keeping up with demographic trends, we’ll be there before we know it.”

Between the fall 2009 and the fall 2018 semesters, the population of Hispanic students increased from 4% to 16%.

Of the taskforce, she said, “Our goal is to outline our institutional positioning and opportunities as it relates to Framingham State becoming a Hispanic-Serving Institution. Really, what we’re looking at is preparing our institution not only to enroll, but to also retain and graduate Hispanic

“I don’t want to simply be an Hispanic-enrolling institution. I want to be Hispanic-serving - there is a real difference between that.”

-Connie Cabello, vice president of diversity, inclusion, and community engagement students.”

She added, “I don’t want to simply be an Hispanic-enrolling institution. I want to be Hispanic-serving - there is a real difference between that.”

Cabello said the taskforce is a cross-divisional committee made up of administrators from the offices of Student Affairs, Academic Affairs, and Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement. She said she is hoping to add students to the group as well.

She said the taskforce will be divided into different groups focusing on student life, academic experience, and enrollment, adding, “All those things come into play when you think

CLUB MEETING TIMES

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about our identity as an institution.”

Cabello said once the University reaches HSI status, the institution will be eligible for grant funding, but it is not guaranteed.

Under Title V of the Higher Education Act, these grants would “assist HSIs to expand educational opportunities for, and improve the attainment of, Hispanic students. These grants also enable HSIs to expand and enhance their academic offerings, program quality, and institutional stability.”

Cabello said, “For me, we’re doing this because it’s the right thing to do, and it’s about the identity of our institution. Hopefully, if we get coins that would be great, too.”

She said reaching HSI status will be “a symbol of commitment to serving our community.”

FSU President F. Javier Cevallos

said he has been promoting the idea of an HSI taskforce since he came to FSU during a demographic shift with “a growing number of Latinx students.”

Cevallos said the University’s initiatives to reach HSI status began in 2014 through the MetroWest College Planning Collaborative (CPC), founded by FSU and Mass Bay Community College.

He said the CPC was not created with the idea the University would become an HSI, but was formed “to reach out to underserved populations in Framingham, Milford, Marlborough, and Waltham.”

He added, “We’re targeting all students who are underrepresented …

But considering the demographic shift, a number of those students are going to be Latinx.”

Cevallos said the University is focusing on retention, and in recent years, hired a director of student retention and graduation success, who works with software such as Starfish to help students manage campus more easily, which boosts retention rates.

Juan Fernando Ruelas Garcia, a sophomore, said he views the University’s emerging HSI status as a good thing. He said it “means that we are filling a niche in the local Hispanic community.”

Garcia said “a generous scholarship would be a good idea” as an initiative to enroll, retain, and graduate Hispanic students.

He said, “For all the kids who are making it in, there are a bunch who can’t afford to come, or have to work many hours to make ends meet. It is always sad when a capable student of any race can’t continue their education due to financial problems.”

He added, “From the time I’ve spent on campus, it looks like there is already a lot of good going on for Hispanics. I’ve noticed a number of classes focused on Latino culture, Latino faculty members, and Latino students holding important positions.”

Johan Perez, a junior, said attending an emerging HSI “makes me feel proud inside for my culture. I never really had a strong Hispanic community around me in my schooling - just outside of it, like family and church.”

He added, “The school is already doing a pretty good job in having events related to Hispanic heritage, so really, I’d just like to see them further that even more.”

Cevallos said, “I agree with [Cabello] 100%. We are not doing this because of the money. We are doing this - because we want to be Hispanic-serving, because we need to serve all of our students.”

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Continued from pg. 1 Specifically, the space outside of the CIE, which is located in O’Connor Hall, will be remodeled with new furniture for commuters.

In regards to the campus safety walk, Beverlie said changes have been made to ensure students feel less vulnerable.

A bush that obstructed the view of a blue light was trimmed, and SGA received quotes for the possible installation of more blue lights in the future, she said.

A speed radar was also placed at the bottom of Maynard Road in response to students having difficulties crossing the street from West Hall to Adams Road due to the lack of a crosswalk, she added.

Beverlie also told the Board she received approval from University Police to hold a guided discussion, slated for next semester, between officers and students.

The Q-and-A-style talk intends to “bridge the gap that’s there,” she said.

The guided discussion will consist of taking questions from students and then breaking off into smaller groups, with a police officer assigned to each, in an attempt to make it “a lot more personal.”

Regarding the administrators’ forum, Beverlie said SGA has “created an open line of communication with Dining Services, because students had identified some issues with food quality that have been pretty consistent.”

She credited SGA President Matty Bennett for working closely with Aretha Phillips, general manager of Sodexo at Framingham State, to “figure out what they can do better.”

Beverlie added SGA invited the Student Transportation Center (STC) to attend their Dec. 10 meeting in order to comment on student feedback about the RamTram.

She also said STC has been paying attention to students’ suggestions.

Recently, an online complaint form has been added to the FSUgo app for students to voice their concerns.

Physical forms are also available at the STC desk in the McCarthy Center lobby.

Trustee Nancy Budwig spoke on behalf of the academic affairs committee and relayed three items discussed in an earlier meeting that day.

The sabbatical requests of the faculty for academic year 2020-21 was first on Budwig’s agenda. “We had the chance to look over … what the various faculty are doing to discuss [the sabbatical requests], as well as the financial issues associated with that.”

“I think everybody on the Board knows sabbaticals are just a really critical aspect of faculty life,” she added.

When trying to determine what Academic Affairs can work on in the future, Trustee Hope Lozano Bielat said, “Something that came up was this division between teaching students and taking care of students.”

Bielat asked for support to address

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Trustee Brian Herr spoke to the Board. the issue of mental health as a Board.

Finally, Budwig spoke about two kinds of support for new students interested in the STEM programs.

One method of support provides students with the academic foundational skills needed to succeed - specifically in math and science - while the other provides a sense of belonging and promotes student-to-faculty engagement.

Budwig said these methods have been known to help retain students in the STEM programs, and she described current retention rates as “off the charts.” She said she hopes to replicate the success of the STEM

three years [later] a class of 800.

“The MetroWest Daily News says, ‘Oh my goodness, Framingham State dropped 16% in enrollment!’” Holloway said, She added, “What I think is important for people to note is that, yes, we do have a drop in enrollment - you can compare this year’s fall numbers to last fall’s numbers - but we’re really looking at it longitudinally.

“Not to say that we’re saying, ‘Oh, well that’s the reason we can walk away,’ but I think it’s looking at the news article, which gives you sort of an incorrect picture,” Holloway added.

“I am grateful for coming to FSU, because they have provided me with so much in so little time.”

-Valeria N. Arauz, senior international business major programs in other areas of academics.

“The students who are being retained at a higher rate are those who come in with particularly low SAT scores and some other kind of risk factors - and yet they’re being retained higher. That’s just like a Hollywood story,” Budwig said.

This fall semester, FSU enrolled 776 freshman students and 380 transfers, resulting in a total enrollment of 3,857 undergraduate students - down 2.03% from 2018, according to the Department of Higher Education’s headcount enrollment data.

Lorretta Holloway, vice president for enrollment and student development, blames the drop on years that saw an increase in enrollment.

She said the enrollment number for 2009 was 3,847, while the fall of 2019 is 3,857. “Over the long term, we had this big bump where we had an entering class of 900 one year, and then

Ann McDonald, chief of staff and general counsel as well as secretary to the Board of Trustees, acknowledged the recent passage of House bill 4099, formerly known as bill 4075.

Bill 4099 is “An Act to support improved financial stability in higher education,” which includes a mandate for public institutions to provide an annual financial report, as well as requiring all members on a Board of Trustees to participate in a comprehensive training program.

Beth Casavant, one of two Trustees who has already attended the training program, said, “It didn’t feel like training. I mean, it was informative … but it’s hard to train for something like that, because each university is so different.”

During his president’s report, F. Javier Cevallos announced, “For the eighth year in a row, we have been recognized by The Princeton Review

as being a green campus.”

He said it’s a recognition that “speaks highly about the efforts this institution has [undertaken]” to promote environmentally friendly practices.

One of the reasons the University was recognized was because of environmentally conscious projects such as the addition of solar panels on campus, he explained.

In his president’s report, he also referenced accomplishments such as the McAuliffe Center’s acquisition of a replica of Neil Armstrong’s space suit and the renaming of North Hall to Mary Miles Bibb Hall, commemorating the first African American graduate.

At the end of his report, Cevallos gave the floor to economics professor and co-director of MERC Luis Rosero, who then introduced the Board’s Student-in-the-Spotlight senior Valeria N. Arauz, an international business major.

Arauz said she is originally from Bolivia, but is a longtime resident of Framingham. She transferred from Fitchburg State to Framingham State because of her interest in its international business major.

She said she chose to pursue that major because she knew the importance of business. “Since the sixth grade in Bolivia, I was taught that business is everywhere, so I followed that ideology and chose international business,” Arauz said.

She credited a MERC internship with providing her many opportunities, such as being able to work closely with staff and study abroad in Rome.

“I am grateful for coming to FSU, because they have provided me with so much in so little time.”

[Editor’s note: Asst. News Editor Evan Lee contributed to this article.]

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Letter to the Editor:

The gym equipment needs repairs

By Caroline Gordon Editorial Staff The quality and safety of the equipment in the Framingham State University Athletic Center is substandard.

The equipment is outdated and unsafe.

For example, based on my observations, the strength equipment that allows one to lift heavy weights should be bolted down - none of the machines in the gym are.

The heaviness of the weight being lifted could cause the machine to move or fall over, potentially causing injury to the person using it, according to Club Industry, a gym equipment manufacturer.

Framingham State University needs to address this issue, as many students and teams utilize the equipment every day.

You could argue the equipment works fine, and the expense isn’t justified.

However, some FSU students disagree.

Connie Bodemer, a junior ASL major, said she avoids the leg press because of the noise it makes when in use. “The leg press machine makes a weird noise, so I don’t trust it,” said Bodemer.

Kim Thorpe, a junior, agreed. “The leg press machine sounds like it could break at any moment. The hip abductor has snapped and is not usable. I have also noticed broken dumbbells,” she said.

We need to reduce the risk of injuries.

The highest amount of weight a person can utilize on most strength training machines is generally around 360 pounds - someone could get crushed by that amount.

The leg press machine could cave in, a machine not bolted could tip over and fall on a person, and somebody could easily cut themselves on a fragment of a dumbbell.

Buying new equipment and bolting it down may be expensive, but it would be worth it to keep students safe. A new piece of equipment costs between $10,000 and $50,000, according to sports equiptment seller primofitnessusa.com, but many equipment companies offer package deals to offset the cost.

For example, the Athletic Department and concerned FSU students could partner with the FSU bookstore to hold FSU merchandise sales around campus to

raise money. It’s a lot of money, but I believe it can be done.

A second solution to the problem would be for the athletic department and students to hold information sessions on the dangers of improper gym equipment. The athletic department and concerned students can then go to an FSU Board of Trustees meeting and bring the issue up eith President Cevallos and the board.

The equipment in the gym needs to be fixed sooner rather than later.

Sincerely, Caroline Gordon, Assistant Photos Editor

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Not all labor is physical Journalists Renee Montagne and Alix Spiegel co-hosted a 2016 episode of NPR’s “Invisibilia,” a program about human behavior and how quirks we consider to be universal could, instead, stem from cultural differences.

Spiegel said, “In America, smiles are like air. They’re all around us.

You get them with your morning coffee. You get them with your lunch, which was really quite mystifying to Yuri Chekalin,” their Russian guest.

Chekalin said, “In Russia, yeah, we don’t smile at strangers.”

He said the “American service smile” was imported to Russia in 1990 with the advent of the first McDonald’s coming to Moscow in January of that year.

So, that smile you get at the fast food drive-thru window, the table at the nice sit-down restaurant, or the counter at the coffee shop?

That’s a part of your order, too.

We might expect the average service-sector employee’s cheerful camaraderie and kindness to be a normal, everyday inclusion that takes little to no effort, but in reality - it’s emotional labor.

While emotional labor encompasses many different fields, as students at a state university, many of us are familiar with having to work minimum wage part-time jobs in the service industry in particular.

It’s the only way for most of us to be able to pay for tuition and fees, which rise every semester. We’re saddled with more student loans to offset the paltry federal and state grant monies were awarded.

Our livelihoods literally depend on whether we smile at people we barely know, whether we make innocent small talk with the frustratingly silent older regular who just wants to get his coffee and go, or whether we politely fake a laugh at the very unfunny customer who asks, “If there’s no price tag, that means it’s free, right?”

We work under supervisors who don’t really care about their underlings and really only want them to produce good results they can show off to their higher-ups at any cost.

At retail stores where employees work for a commission, management doesn’t care about how we are feeling. All they care is that we sell an extra pair of shoes or socks.

Over time, these forced emotional fronts and the excruciatingly tiresome faux politeness we must display to the tune of 12 dollars an hour at minimum slowly wear down our mental fortitudes and affect our lives outside of work as well.

For example, it is well known that servers at restaurants make less than minimum wage and are expected to make up the rest in tips that are gained from being as criminally sweet as possible - even when customers are hurling insults and snapping their fingers.

Most of these jobs are already physically demanding, requiring us to be on our feet for hours at a time, making sitting down and just taking a break look lazy.

Expecting people in the service industry to be happy and cheery all the time, even after they’ve just worked agonizingly long eight-, nine-, or even 14-hour double shifts, is absolutely evil and upholds an unsustainable culture.

This emotional labor aspect of the minimum wage job can be even worse than its physical counterpart, and can lead to physical maladies.

A study published by the U.S. National Library of Medicine states, “Emotional labor has been linked to various job-related negative behaviors and adverse health outcomes, such as job dissatisfaction, loss of memory, depersonalization, job stress, hypertension, heart disease, emotional exhaustion, and burnout, and has even been shown to exacerbate cancer.”

We are crushed underneath the weight of the repercussions from simple, minor mistakes, bound to happen at some point due to the mere fact of us being imperfect humans and not emotionless robots.

Though the cuts and scrapes and aches from working hard shifts eventually fade, the mental burden from the emotional training we as a culture expect service employees to master with next to no pay is psychologically draining and damaging.

But if this is a phenomenon unique to the United States and its culture, we can also work to dismantle the societal expectation that people in the service industry are expected to go above and beyond and provide exemplary back-breaking service just because it’s a societal convention.

We can change our attitudes not only toward people who work service jobs, but also the industry as a whole.

Is it so important that we don’t get a flashy smile, so long as the employee at the register is cordial and wishes us a nice afternoon? Is it going to ruin the rest of our day if we think the tone with which the server spoke to us was just the tiniest bit exhausted?

We are all looking for meaningful human connections in this world, but we need to be genuine. Let’s hope this generation prioritizes empathy for other people over how they’re treated in an everyday business transaction.

So, when you are shopping next Friday and get a less-than-excited server or sales associate, think about how long they have been working and just how drained they really are instead of taking out your frustration on them.

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Mental illness has no timeline

By Cara McCarthy Associate Editor [Warning: This article discusses sensitive topics such as self-harm and mental illness.]

I was in the sixth grade when I noticed my brain was not wired the same as everyone else’s.

Coincidentally, this was the same year I set myself on a path of consistently self-destructive behavior.

I would tell my mom my stomach hurt so I wouldn’t have to go to school.

I forced myself to wear longsleeved shirts in 90-degree weather to hide the cuts on my arms, and if anyone ever questioned me, I would say, “Oh, it was just my cat” - sorry Moxie.

And a constant thought hung over my head - “What if I just ended it all?”

I could never explain why I had these feelings. But a couple of weeks, or sometimes days later, those feelings would be gone, replaced with a sense of euphoria and excitement for days to come - for no explicable reason whatsoever.

I had the feeling since I was 15 that I might be bipolar. But no doctor was willing to diagnose me because of my age, hindering me from getting the help I needed.

Therapists, guidance counselors, and my parents told me I would grow out of it. They were convinced my feelings were just because I had recently hit puberty and my hormones were “all out of whack.”

But I always knew it was something more.

Still, I had accepted the notion that if I just held my head high, I would outgrow it - as the professionals said.

I started hiding my emotions. I told my counselors I was fine so they would stop calling me down in the middle of class. I made plans with my friends and put on a happy face. And if anyone asked, my cat had stopped scratching me - but she still came back almost every night.

After my second hospitalization when I was 16, the doctors put me on Lamictal, a mood stabilizer used to treat those with Bipolar Disorder.

But, even after putting me on a medication to treat the disorder I would later be diagnosed with, the doctors would not formally diagnose me. Instead, they diagnosed me with a generalized mood disorder and severe depression, refusing to call it what it really was.

While I understand to a point why

doctors are so hesitant to diagnose such a disorder in teens, doing so can hold them back from getting the help they need.

It’s not just about taking the medication, either - it is about the tool kit you build for yourself and carry with you the rest of your life. And, without the proper diagnosis, that tool kit is full of the wrong stuff.

It wasn’t until this fall that I was formally diagnosed with Bipolar II Disorder.

Because I didn’t get my official diagnosis until I was 21, I was not able to receive the treatment I had needed since I was 15 - causing my tool kit to be practically empty.

According to Medical News Today (MNT), Bipolar Disorder is especially hard to diagnose in teens because of puberty and their bodies adapting to their changing hormones. On the other hand, they also say bipolar is a condition which “disrupts a person’s daily life.”

I don’t know about you, but for me, constantly feeling like the world is caving in because of what some doctors said was a temporary inconvenience was more than a mere disruption in my daily life.

Bipolar symptoms can show

themselves at any age, but according to MNT, they most commonly appear in a person’s late teens to early adult years. Because of this, it is recommended that a person be under observation for an extensive period of time.

Many doctors will order blood tests as well to rule out any physical abnormalities that can cause hormone imbalances, according to MNT. My question is: why were my doctors so quick to deem my diagnosis as everything under the sun except for Bipolar Disorder? Why didn’t they conduct the extensive observations despite the fact I showed every symptom in the book?

According to the DSM-5, Bipolar Disorder affects 2.5% of the population.

But my doctors were so quick to say I was not part of that percentage because I was a 15-year-old kid with mood swings.

They should have done better by me.

They should do better by teens.

Campus Conversations What is your favorite part of Thanksgiving?

By Evan Lee and Kathleen Moore

“Eating.”

“Seeing my family. ”

-Chris Calix, Sophomore

-Mathew Remillard, Freshman

“Seeing my friends and family. It’s good to see your family when you don’t see them a lot.”

“I love cooking with my mom.”

“Eating.”

-Nicole Viera, Sophomore

-Star Clarke, Freshman

-Oscar Medez, Freshman

“Family.”

-Isaac Nascimento, Sophomore

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ARTS & FEATURES How one FSU professor is transgressing the boundaries of academia Shedding light on transgender victims of intimate partner violence

By Nadira Wicaksana Editor-in-Chief When Xavier Guadalupe-Diaz was an undergraduate student of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University, he was told by many of his professors he would have trouble researching his area of expertise, getting the same response: “No - don’t do it.”

Today, he is the most highly cited scholar in the field of intimate partner violence (IPV) in romantic and sexual relationships involving transgender people.

In the cozy setting of the McCarthy Center Forum on Nov. 18, Guadalupe-Diaz was interviewed by his department peer, Elizabeth Whalley, about his new book, “Transgressed: Intimate Partner Violence in Transgender Lives.”

Whalley, a fellow sociology and criminology professor, focuses on gender-based institutional sexual violence from a feminist approach as one of her areas of expertise.

She and Guadalupe-Diaz worked together on the topic of “Queering #MeToo,” researching how LGBTQ+ identity can impact experiences of sexual assault and abuse.

Guadalupe-Diaz was also a speaker at the first International Symposium Comparative Perspectives on #MeToo at the University of Kentucky, giving a talk, “Queering #MeToo: Working Toward Queer and Trans Inclusion.”

The book, published by NYU Press last month, follows Guadalupe-Diaz’s previous work, a collaboration with Northeastern Illinois University’s gender studies professor Adam M. Messinger, “Transgender Intimate Partner Violence: A Comprehensive Introduction.”

On the back of the book, the summary reads, “Transgender people face some of the highest rates of violence in the United States and around the world, particularly within romantic relationships. ... Guadalupe-Diaz offers a ground-breaking examination of intimate partner violence in the lives of transgender people.”

These two works are considered to be “cutting-edge research on transgender lives” and in the field of transgender IPV, according to Ellen Zimmerman, sociology department chair, who introduced Guadalupe-Diaz.

She talked about how the Stonewall riots launched the modern-day fight for LGBTQ+ rights and equality, but the movement did not stop there.

“From the moment transgender people came on center stage beginning in 1969 with this radical movement, they continued to deal with being treated as outsiders - even within the most radical centers of gay libera-

Xavier Guadalupe-Diaz (right) and Beth Whalley (right) in the Forum Nov. 18. tion,” said Zimmerman.

She added, “There is something about exposing the violence within these relationships that makes it feel risky, edgy, when, in fact, trans people already suffer so much marginalization in the outside world. He’s [Guadalupe-Diaz] saying, now, we’re looking within the private world, and what are the ways in which the outside world ... maps onto trans lives.”

Guadalupe-Diaz said his inspiration for the book - which includes much of the data from his dissertation - came during his undergraduate years, when he began to question his identity and find his own experiences to be resonant with those of the queer and trans communities.

“I’m sure you’ll be shocked to know I was a really eager undergrad,” he said to the audience’s amusement.

Guadalupe-Diaz told the audience he identifies as a queer brown person, having gone through many identity changes throughout his time at college, which he says is typical of many people in the LGBTQ+ community.

Compounding his marginalized sexual identity with his immigrant background, growing up and going to school in the rural south, he views his journey to the person he is today as one that is as difficult and nuanced as the highly rigid structure of gender that he continuously called upon the audience to question.

Although he doesn’t use “trans” as a descriptor for himself, he said he feels a strong sense of community with transgender people, whose identities range from binary genders to genders that exist outside the binary of male and female, also known as non-binary.

“I’m using trans as sort of an umbrella term,” he told the audience.

Guadalupe-Diaz said part of the reason his main research focus is not as highly explored and developed as the field researching domestic sexual violence and abuse against women, for example, is that oftentimes, transgender identities are overlooked or marginalized by academia.

When he was an undergraduate student, Guadalupe-Diaz took a course on violence against women.

“But it had this very heteronormative, cisnormative angle to it,” he said.

“So, I decided to do my final project on lesbian intimate partner violence, and I started to really complicate the ways I thought about violence - coercion, assault - in terms of gender and sexuality.”

Guadalupe-Diaz said around that time, he began to think about the ways that the structures of gender and sexuality directly impact the field of criminology, since “gender is a driving force” in how these aforementioned structures are discussed.

“Gender is a performance,” he said, talking about how much of society’s preconceived notions of gender, sex, and sexual orientation are more fluid and complicated than most people think.

Guadalupe-Diaz talked about many of the subjects in his book, in which he included many personal narratives of transgender people who reached out to him through the internet and mutual connections - including a Black transgender man named Tom and an immigrant Latina transgender woman named Anna.

He said these specific stories led him to think in greater depth about the inextricable relationship between race and gender, speaking of the concept of intersectionality, coined

by Black feminist theorist Kimberlé

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According to Guadalupe-Diaz, issues that plague the vulnerable community of transgender people of color, especially, include for-survival sex work due to financial insecurity, as well as medical malpractice.

The chapter in which Anna’s story is told, “‘No Man Is Going to See You as a Woman’: Transgender Accounts of Violence and Abuse,” has sections about Anna’s struggle with feeling wrong inside her body and the transphobic violence she encountered by presenting the way she wanted.

During this chapter, Guadalupe-Diaz also talks about the two different forms that discrimination against transgender people could take: blatant, outright transphobia, and a more insidious form of prejudice he terms genderism. In his book, he defines the latter term as attacks that reinforce “the gender dichotomy by policing ‘appropriate’ expressions of gender.”

SGA President and senior Matty Bennet asked Guadalupe-Diaz what he thought could be done to better serve transgender students at FSU. Guadalupe-Diaz said, “There’s lots of things we can do to make more spaces at FSU ... more trans-affirming,” including increasing the number of gender-neutral bathrooms across campus and normalizing discussions about transgender and non-binary identities in classes.

At the end of the interview, Guadalupe-Diaz and Whalley recited the names of 20 transgender people, most of them Black transgender women, who have been lost to transphobic violence in 2019 alone.

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Shane Dawson and Jeffree Star Cara’s Cosmetics “shook” the internet

By Cara McCarthy Associate Editor

The launch makeup fans - including myself - have been waiting almost an entire year for what has finally happened.

Jeffree Star and Shane Dawson recorded the biggest launch in Jeffree Star Cosmetics (JSC) history on Nov. 1, according to Star.

And while the company is still waiting on the final results, the launch may have been the largest in makeup history.

The internet was flipped upside down when Dawson and Star decided they wanted not only to collaborate for the makeup collection, but to film an entire series for Dawson’s YouTube channel, which dug deep into the creative process that producing makeup entails.

Dawson, who is no stranger to the internet, having started his YouTube career in 2010, said he had no experience with makeup whatsoever.

Because of this, many beauty gurus

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thought this collection would be a flop.

Boy, did they prove them wrong!

The collection, which ranges from the “Conspiracy” eyeshadow palette to pig-shaped mirrors, sold out in under 30 minutes - that is after you ignore the fact… that they literally broke the internet.

As someone who anticipated launch day since I first heard about the collab, you can imagine I was on my laptop at 12:59 p.m., ready to refresh the page the second the clock struck one - only to see the JSC site had completely crashed.

The retail platform JSC uses for the company - Shopify - was not properly prepared for the amount of traffic the launch would bring in that day and crashed before the collection went live.

Still, after fighting with my computer, pulling the store up on my phone, and waiting for nearly an hour, I finally got the two eyeshadow palettes, “Conspiracy” and “Mini Controversy.”

The palettes - whose shade names feature many of the catch phrases Dawson has coined over the years are two of the most creative and intricate works of art I have ever seen.

The “Conspiracy” palette utilizes JSC’s coveted trunk design, and takes it to a whole other level of creativity.

Instead of the flat-top design of the “Blood Sugar” trunk - another JSC palette - Dawson chose to amplify their conspiracy theme and make the top a pyramid-trunk hybrid.

While the design of the packaging is incredible, the amazing part about this palette is the wearability.

The 18-shade palette uses JSC’s buttery, vegan formula, and has a mix of matte, metallic and foil eyeshadow shades.

Star has been praised - and sometimes criticized - in the past for the outlandish color stories used in his palettes, but Dawson wanted to create something for everyone.

The top row, which consists of shades such as “My Pills,” “Tanacon,” “Diet Root Beer,” and “Just A Theory,”

were created for those who want an everyday, neutral eye look.

But for those who may want a creative look, they made more colorful shades, such as a neon yellow, “Food Videos,” a mint-green, “What’s The Tea?” and even an alienish shimmery-green shade, “Illuminatea.”

However, as amazing as this palette is, it does have its fair share of backlash.

From using shades such as “Tanacon” and “Pig-ment,” I have noticed some of the matte shades experience a little bit of fallout. To avoid this, it may be in your best interest to use a fluffy, synthetic brush and very lightly tap into the shade.

As anyone who has used JSC eyeshadows in the past knows - a little really does go a long way.

This palette is truly made for everyone, from those just starting out in makeup, to the most experienced makeup artists.

And that’s the tea.

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Dave Corleone proves he’s ‘The Godfather’ of New York

By Jared Graf Asst. Arts & Features Editor One failed NBA career, 14 mixtapes, and a Nas co-sign later, Dave East is finally ready to kick the door down with his debut studio album, “Survival.”

The 20-track offering reminds us why the Harlem native is so widely respected by his peers and fans alike.

He sounds hungry and confident - like an aspiring artist with nothing to lose, itching to ink a deal and make a name for himself.

But truth is, Dave East made a name for himself long before “Survival,” and it’s apparent this isn’t his first rodeo.

The raw, unfiltered style rap connoisseurs have come to know and love East for is on full display for the album’s introduction, “They Wanna Kill You.” Equipped with a Mobb Deep sample, production from Swizz Beatz, and record scratches from boom-bap’s forefather DJ Premier, East springs into a lyrical tirade - criticizing his haters over the course of one long verse. “You probably thought the label was gon’ shelf me / You prayed that this paper never helped me,” he spits unapologetically on the album’s opening lines.

East doesn’t live a mundane life, and he’s sure to remind us of this. On “Penthouse,” he makes most contemplate how lucrative their 9-5 is as he brags about lobster dinners, chauffeurs, Louis Vuitton, and yup, you guessed it - penthouse views.

J. Black provides a ridiculously

catchy hook for the record, which originally appeared in a 2016 commercial for Nipsey Hussle’s clothing line. Production was handled by the duo Mike N Keys, who confirmed the late rapper never recorded a verse for the song, although his ad-libs can be heard toward the end of the track.

The album’s pinnacle comes with the cinematic, Nas-assisted “Godfather 4,” a song that finds the New York wordsmiths rapping via plane.

East rhymes like he teleported to the “Stillmatic” era, while Nas’ lyrics seem to roll off his tongue, as he effortlessly weaves words together over a soulful instrumental, courtesy of DJ Green Lantern.

On production that sounds as if it should come complete with a Cuban cigar and glass of scotch, Nas drops more quotables than most rappers do on an entire album. “Like a tree falling in the middle of the forest / Nobody heard your s**t drop, it’s really garbage,” the legendary Queens MC spits, before signing off: “We’ll be cruising at 40,000 feet / Your in-flight movie is Godfather 4, starring me and Dave East.”

“What You Mad At” is a cut that maximizes East’s strengths. Reminiscing on his hard upbringing and struggle to reach success, East questions his haters: “We all got the same 24 hours, what you mad at?” Near the halfway mark, the beat switches to a gritty, up-tempo production that answers the question posed in the first half of the

song.

Tracks like “Need a Sign,” “Daddy Knows,” and “Mama I Made It” are laced with the introspective storytelling East is known for.

For those in search of something to rattle their speakers, East ditches his laid-back, narrative style to talk tough on songs such as “Seventeen,” “Everyday,” and “Devil Eyes.”

The theme of survival is perhaps best articulated on “Devil Eyes,” a track that showcases East, E-40, and Mozzy rapping about death in the hood over harrowing, West Coast production.

“Before you shoot him, look him in his eyes / Introduce him to God, they ain’t got s**t to do with mine,” East says in a jagged, raspy tone. One thing apparent throughout the project is his blatant disregard for human life.

Although East tries to cater to a more diverse audience than usual, the album surprisingly isn’t drowned out by attempts at radio singles. Tracks like “On Sight” are clearly tailored for the mainstream, but East sounds comfortable and organic over AraabMUZIK’s production.

With bars so tightly woven and structurally sound, there’s not much room for filler on the album. East’s unique flows, accompanied by his lyrical brutality, are what cause him to flourish in a time where many rappers struggle to stay relevant.

The only disappointing aspect about “Survival” was its first-week sales. Although the project featured

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56. Funny Fey 57. “Grand Theft ___” (video game series) 58. Romeo, to Juliet 62. “SVU” actor 63. One of ten on a ten-speed 64. Fleecy Peruvian animal 65. Big Apple business letters 66. Right, on un mapa 67. Parcel out

ACROSS 1. Pepsodent alternative 6. Comic book cover?

10. Wrap party attendees 14. Word before “stare” or “Star” 15. Space 16. Kuwaiti leader 17. Shopping ___ 18. Bronte who wrote “Agnes Grey” 19. Grandmother’s nickname 20. He wore #99 for the Edmonton Oilers 23. Full-bodied brew 26. ___ the line 27. Evaluate 28. He wore #6 for the Boston Celtics 32. More hurtful, as a rumor 33. Skateboarder’s knee cover 34. Sinks in the middle 38. Slim Oreos 39. Word before “Go!” 40. ___-O-Fish 41. Proofing mark 42. Revolutionary Guevara

DOWN 1. DVD look-alikes 2. Title for Rashida Tlaib: Abbr.

3. Lobe location 4. Goulash, for one 5. Play structures near Hyde Park?

6. Origami birds 7. Steak sauce brand 8. Ping-___ 9. Green gem 10. Half-dollar’s 50 11. Astonish 12. Vanity features 13. School lunch holders 21. “What is ___ problem?”

22. Night sch. subject 23. Shares a border with 24. Like a feather 25. Kemper of “The Office” 29. Dryer buildup 30. Fast-paced Sandra Bullock film 31. Nosh on 34. Croon 35. What the stars are said to do in a perfect situation

high-profile guests such as Nas and Lil Baby, it failed to spawn a radio single and debuted at number 11 on the Billboard charts, selling 24,000 copies in its first week.

For an independent artist, these numbers wouldn’t be anything to laugh at, but considering East is backed by two major labels (Def Jam and Mass Appeal, respectively) he should have sold at least 40,000 in first-week sales.

The project is a melting pot of insightful, consistent, and cohesive content - making for a refreshing listen.

It’s upsetting so many people skipped over a release that will undoubtedly play such a defining role in East’s career for years to come.

Grade: A Dave East is in his own lane, and shows no signs of slowing down.

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Rams’ Football to face Wesley in the Opening Round of the 2019 NCAA Tournament

By Carlos Silva Asst. Sports Editor

The Rams closed the regular season with a 47-6 win over the Worcester State Lancers in a MASCAC game at Coughlin Field Nov. 16.

Framingham opened the game with a rushing touchdown by Jacob Maher in the first few minutes to take a 7-0 lead.

From there, the Rams quickly stopped a lackluster Worcester State drive and forced the Lancers to punt.

The Rams scored right away after a successful six-play drive was capped off by a 25-yard passing touchdown to Maher to increase the lead to 14-0.

After another punt by the Lancers, the Rams took advantage by scoring another passing touchdown to Maher, marking his third of the game.

The Rams added yet another touchdown in the first quarter via a 38yard pass to Elijah Nichols.

The Rams never looked back as backup quarterback Nick Gordon stepped in for Adam Wojenski to give the starter rest for the upcoming NCAA tournament game.

The game finished with a score of 47-6 as the Rams’ regular season concluded.

Wojenski finished with 217 yards passing and completed 16 of his 19 passes for four touchdowns.

Devaun Ford led the way with 191 yards rushing and one touchdown.

Maher caught seven balls for 107 yards and had three total touchdowns.

Framingham finished the 2019 regular season with an 8-2 overall record and an unbeaten 8-0 MASCAC record.

The Rams led the MASCAC in points, points per game, touchdowns, rushing yards, rushing yards per game, fewest yards allowed per game, interceptions, and fewest rushing yards allowed per game.

Now, all the attention is on the NCAA tournament.

The Rams will be making their second straight and fifth overall appearance in the NCAA Tournament.

Framingham and Wesley College of Dover, Delaware previously had matched up in the tournament back in 2015 with Wesley winning 4222.

The Rams will seek to record the first win for a MASCAC team in NCAA tournament history.

The game will take place on the Wesley home turf Saturday, Nov. 23.

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Ice Hockey continues early slump dropping to 0-4

By Sara Senesac Interim Sports Editor The Ram’s Ice Hockey team traveled to Plymouth State to take on the Panthers for a nonconference game Nov. 14.

Plymouth started their momentum early, scoring their first goal just three minutes into the first period.

The Rams responded in the 11th minute when senior Brenden Williams made a slap shot to tie the score 1-1.

Williams said, “Scoring felt pretty good. It seems I always find the back of the net when playing Plymouth.”

A little over two minutes later, the Panthers received their first power play of the game. PSU’s Leo Stolpe sent his first shot into Rams goalie Greg Harney’s chest, but then capitalized off the rebound to put the Panthers up by one.

Shortly before the end of the first period, the Panthers’ JR Barone scored off a pass from Victor Bergstrom to extend their lead by two.

The Rams came into the second period with a new energy. Freshman Jake Conrad made an impressive goal that slid past multiple defenders and the Panthers goalie before finally settling in the left corner of the net.

In the 15th minute, the Rams were awarded a power play of their own. A two-on-one breakaway allowed junior Ryan Paul to bury one and tie the score for Framingham shortly before the third period.

About 15 minutes into the third period, Plymouth was given another power play, where they added another goal and took the lead for good.

“There was a bad call that didn’t go our way, which led to Plymouth scoring on the power play,” said Williams.

In a last-minute attempt to tie the score, the Rams pulled Harney from net, but were ultimately unable to capitalize with the extra man. The Panthers’ Brett Blackman scored on the empty net to secure Plymouth’s 5-3 victory over Framingham.

Despite the loss, Williams said, “The Plymouth game is the best our team has played in a while.”

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The Rams hosted the Worcester State Lancers for a MASCAC match Nov. 16.

Worcester’s first goal came seven minutes into the first period when Brian Smith scored off a pass from Deier Strange.

The Rams were awarded an opportunity to tie the game with a power play at the end of the first period. Paul made a strong effort, but his shot just barely went over the crossbar.

The Lancers were given a power play of their own less than three minutes into the second period. Evan Schieber capitalized on the opportunity and scored to make it 2-0.

Six minutes later, the Lancers - once again on the power play – set up Nick Penucci to score another Worcester goal, leaving the Rams down by three going into the third.

The Lancers managed to score twice in the final period, including another power-play goal.

Though they shut out the Rams 5-0 at home, Worcester only outshot the Rams 35-30. The results of the last two games leave Framingham at 0-4 on the season and 0-3 in the MASCAC. “The Worcester game was frustrating,” Williams said. “We were unable to finish our chances, and Worcester did.”

They travel to Salem State to take on the Vikings in another MASCAC game Nov. 23.

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Players of the fall Continued from page 1 “Personally, I think this has been my best year performance wise at Framingham, and I’ve had a great time being part of our championship run,” he said.

His impressive work as a quarterback alongside the accomplishments of his teammates secured them the MASCAC championship and their qualifying spot in the NCAA playoffs.

Wojenski said, “We lost our first two games and didn’t know how the season was going to go, but we came together and won eight straight conference games. We are looking forward to our first round matchup in the NCAA tournament.”

Alongside Wojenski, freshman running back Devaun Ford had an impressive first season with the Rams.

By the end of the season, Ford totalled 1003 rushing yards, averaging about 100.3 yards per game.

He started all ten games, and scored nine touchdowns by the end of his rookie season.

Ford said, “I want to thank the coaches for trusting me as a freshman to come in and play a big role in the offense - along with my o-line they make it all happen for me.”

Due to his remarkable stats, Ford was named the MASCAC Football Rookie of the Week five times this fall during the regular season.

“Making the playoffs is a huge accomplishment, but we are not satisfied. We are looking to make history,” Ford said. “It’s been a great season, we’re a family and it shows on the field. We play for each other, and we are ready to make some noise in the tournament.”

Alongside football, the Rams’ men’s soccer team also clutched the MASCAC Championship this season for the first time since 2011.

They went 11-9-2 overall, and 6-0-1 in the MASCAC. Their 1-0 victory over Salem State allowed them to claim the conference title.

The Rams lost in the first round of NCAA playoffs, but had an impressive season nonetheless. Overall, the team had five players named to the All-MASCAC first team.

Junior Bryce Nardizzi was named the MASCAC Men’s Soccer Offensive Player of the Year for the second year in a row.

Nardizzi said, “Being voted offensive player of the year for the second straight season is more of a credit to the team and the way we play.”

By the end of the season, Nardizzi scored nine goals, three of which were game winners, and topped the conference leaderboard with 25 points.

“Scoring goals and getting assists is always nice to help the team. If I had to pick my favorite game winner, it would be vs. Bridgewater in [our] 2-1 win. The goal was assisted by Leo Sena, who made a huge impact for us in a very tough game,” he added.

Nardizzi also talked about how winning the MASCAC Championship for Framingham is something he always wanted.

“Winning the MASCAC Championship was a dream come true for me,” he said. “I grew up in Framingham, and have been watching the team since I was a little kid. When I decided to play at Framingham, I always had winning a championship in mind.”

He added, “Overall, it was an amazing season, going undefeated in the MASCAC regular season and winning the championship. Lifting

with a total of 304, and 904 total attempts. During the regular season, she averaged 12.2 kills per match.

Thomas said, “Leading the conference in kills was awesome, but obviously without the hard work from everyone on the team, this wouldn’t have been possible.”

The MASCAC also voted Thomas the 2019 Volleyball Player of the Year for her second season with the Rams. Last year, she was voted 2018

“I’m honored to be named MASCAC player of the year, and I was surprised when I received this award, but our team played really well all season.”

- Brandee Thomas, sophomore and MASCAC Player of the Year the trophy on our field with our fans is something we will never forget.”

Men’s soccer also found success in a rookie of their own this season, freshman Gustavo Cassemiro.

Cassemiro ended his rookie season at third in the MASCAC for points, and matched Nardizzi’s nine goals.

“Coming into the season, I already knew how much my team wanted to win the MASCAC this year because of the unfortunate loss in the finals of the previous year,” Cassemiro said. “[I wanted] to make sure I was always on top of my game and focused … I worked really hard to improve upon a lot of my skills and I focused on challenging myself to become a better player,” he added.

Cassemiro was named MASCAC Rookie of the Week four times this season, as well as Men’s Soccer co-player once.

“I am honored to have been Rookie of the Week four times this season, and [co] player of the week once, but I could not have done it without the help of my teammates,” Cassemiro said. “I’m really happy and blessed to be a part of this team, and I am excited to see what else we’ll accomplish together.”

Much like football and men’s soccer, volleyball also successfully made it through their first round of MASCAC playoffs.

The Rams’ volleyball team went 18-12 on the season and 6-1 in the MASCAC. They knocked out Bridgewater State in the MASCAC tournament semi-final game, but fell to Westfield State in the championship round.

Volleyball had three players voted to the All-MASCAC teams, including sophomores Brandee Thomas and Alyssa Cafarelli.

Thomas led the MASCAC in kills

Rookie of the Year.

“I’m honored to be named MASCAC player of the year, and I was surprised when I received this award, but our team played really well all season,” Thomas said. “Honestly all of my success as a hitter came from the defensive ability of my teammates. Without them there wouldn’t be an opportunity for me to score.”

Alongside Thomas, Cafarelli was also voted to the All-MASCAC first team. By the end of the season, she was second in the league for digs with 504.

Cafarelli said, “I was extremely happy with my ranking in the MASCAC for digs. It would not have been possible without my amazing coaches continuing to make me a better each day, along with the encouragement from my teammates.”

She also ended the season with an impressive 67 assists and 49 service aces, securing her spot on the first team.

“I was extremely pleased with my performance this season,” she said.

“Making first team for the MASCAC is a great honor.”

Both Thomas and Cafarelli are only sophomores, and they are looking forward to what the next season brings.

Thomas said, “Our hard work all season showed in the end result, although we definitely wish we were able to capture the title rather than the runner up, but this just motivates us more for next year!”

Cafarelli said, “Although we ended in a tough loss...this season has been one of my favorite volleyball seasons ever. We have a special relationship...I am thankful this sport has given me a second family away from home. I am super excited to work in the off season and hopefully win it all next year.”

Women’s soccer also qualified for the MASCAC playoffs this season.

They had a rocky season, ending 2-14-1 overall and 2-5 in the conference.

Despite their record, their two conference wins allowed them to qualify for playoffs, and many of their players set career records for goals.

Juniors Jasmine Lees and Casey Good led the team in goals this season, and had impressive performances throughout.

Lees, who had the most goals this season with five, said, “I’m really proud of myself for how well I did this season. I worked hard over the summer, and I could see the results during the season, which motivates me to do better next season.”

Good followed closely behind Lees with four goals and 35 shots on net this season. She even defended so well, that she lost a tooth against Bridgewater.

Good said, “It was fun to score more goals this season than I have in previous seasons.”

Both Good and Lees were elected to be captains of the women’s soccer team for their senior year.

“I thought I improved to become an overall better soccer player this season. I can’t wait to see what we will do next season,” Good said.

Lees said, “It was an honor to be picked as one of the captains [for next season], I’m hoping we can all bond as a team, which will make us stronger and make my last season the best one.”

Field hockey, much like soccer, had a rough season. They ended the year 5-13 overall and 3-9 in the LEC. Despite their record, they still had athletes who put up impressive stats this season.

Freshman Mallory Weir had a memorable first season as a Ram. Weir had nine goals, two assists, and 40 shots on net. She was also named LEC Rookie of the Week twice.

Sophomore Jordyn O’Boyle also had a good season. She totaled four goals and 13 shots on net.

O’Boyle said, “Every goal was an amazing feeling, and I loved the celebrations and hugs from my teammates. But none of them would have happened if it wasn’t for the hard effort and teamwork everyone put in to get the ball down the field.”

Though the season may not have gone the way they wanted it to, the team is optimistic moving forward.

“As far as the season goes, we all improved so much this season as a whole, learning to work and gel with one another,” O’Boyle said. “Our team is young and still continuing to grow, and I really think we proved something this season and left our mark on the LEC.”

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Carlos’ Call: The injury heard around the sports world

By Carlos Silva Asst, Sports Editor The Alabama quarterback and projected no.1 pick in the upcoming NFL Draft was carted off the field with a hip injury against Mississippi State Nov. 16.

Alabama was up 35-7 at the time of the injury.

Tagovailoa’s last image in an Alabama uniform may be this: his face bleeding, his body curled up on the cart that carried him off the field after an injury left him in excruciating pain.

That was the exact scene during the game as the star quarterback went down with an injury.

A towel over his head muffled the screams from a dislocated hip, which is keeping him out of any physical action for at least three months.

Tagovailoa’s career started with one of the most remarkable college football moments in history.

Two years ago, he came off the bench at halftime in his freshman year during the national championship game and led Alabama to a thrilling comeback win over Georgia with an audacious walk-off touchdown pass.

According to Alabama team doctor, Lyle Cain, “Tua underwent successful surgery on his right hip Monday morning in Houston. The procedure went as planned, and he is resting comfortably. Tua’s prognosis is excellent, and we expect him to make a full recovery.”

Tagovailoa suffered a dislocated hip with a posterior wall fracture. It is an injury most commonly associated with high-speed motor vehicle accidents.

Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban said, “I feel bad. I’m hurting, aight [SIC].

So, I call him on Saturday night to cheer him up, and he cheers me up. I called him Sunday night to cheer him up, and he cheers me up.

“The first thing he says to me last night when I tell him, ‘Good luck with your surgery tomorrow’, was, ‘I just can’t wait to get back and see the game on Saturday.’”

After the game ended, Saban called the injury a “freak injury,” but long before the coach had started the press conference, the hot takes were flying all over the place.

“Tua should not have been in!” “Saban ruined his career!” “Fire Saban!”

Everyone had something to say.

Was Tua fully recovered from his previous ankle injury? No. But let’s not forget that he played - and played well - in a loss the week prior to the hip injury.

Did the Crimson Tide need him playing on the field in order to beat Mississippi State, or even tomorrow versus Western Carolina?

No. But players and coaches don’t think that way.

In this case, backup quarterback Mac Jones was warming up. Saban told ESPN at halftime, “That was going to be his last series,” but the Tide wanted Tagovailoa to get some work in the hurry-up, two-minute offense situation.

Does Saban probably blame himself for the injury? The answer is he most likely does, but that does not mean it’s true.

It’s football. The injury could have occurred at any time.

Tua’s hip injury not only ended his season with Alabama, but could also completely ruin his 2020 NFL Draft plans.

“Tank for Tua” has been the narrative around the NFL. This all changed after the injury.

The injury could have such a great impact that the 21-year-old may rethink his decision to enter the 2020 Draft.

Tony Pauline, NFL draft analyst for ProFootballNetwork.com, said, “He’s gotta go back to school. The Bo Jackson, the Neil Lomax, the Marvin Jones-type injury where the ball is out of the socket - that’s a significantly damaging injury where he probably shouldn’t even enter the draft.”

Due to the severity of the injury, and what we’ve seen from players with this type of injury before, puts the Tua Tagovailoa football future rather hazy.

Rams finish second in the Brandeis Tip-Off Tournament

By Liam Gambon Sports Editor The Women’s Basketball team competed in the Brandeis Tip-Off Tournament Nov. 15 and 16.

The Rams first faced off against the Eastern Nazarene Lions to start their tournament.

Both teams came out and scored 16 points in the first quarter, with Mary Kate O’Day suppling the Rams with 11 of their 16.

The second quarter was very different, as Framingham dropped 18 points to the Lions’ five. The Rams shot 38.9 percent from the field, while Eastern Nazarene shot 15.4 percent.

The third quarter was played mostly by the Framingham bench, and the Lions barely outscored the Rams in the frame 11-8.

Eastern Nazarene continued to push back in the final quarter, outscoring Framingham 19-17.

But the Rams were able to hold the lead, winning 59-51.

O’Day finished with a team-high 19 points and a game-high 12 rebounds to record her first double-double of the season.

Flannery O’Connor came off the bench and scored 11 for the Rams, crashing the boards for seven rebounds and gathering a block and two steals.

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The Rams played their second game against Brandeis, which was the championship game for the tournament. The Rams claimed the lead just once.

After the Rams owned a 7-3 lead, Brandeis came back and took the lead, which they held for the entire game.

Thanks to outscoring the Rams in three of the four quarters, Brandeis won the championship game 72-54.

The Framingham bench scored 36 points for the game, accounting for more than half of the Rams’ points.

O’Connor scored a team-high 13 points off the bench to go along with seven rebounds and three blocks, while O’Day racked up 12 points and six rebounds.

After scoring in double digits and finishing in the top two in team scoring each game this season, O’Connor was honored with the Rookie of the Week award.

“It’s an amazing feeling,” O’Connor said. “I was very nervous getting into the games, and still am, but I just have to keep pushing myself and continue to work at getting better.”

O’Connor is averaging 13.7 points per game, eight rebounds, a steal, and a MASCAC-high 2.3 blocks in her first collegiate career season.

“It’s been amazing. At first it was definitely a big change. College basketball is a lot faster-paced so that is one thing that I have to get used to.

But being on the team with these amazing girls is honestly life-changing,” O’Connor said. “I have found such amazing friends on the team and would do anything for any of them. They have definitely helped me in the transition to college and have made me feel so welcome. I can’t wait for what’s in store for the rest of the season.”

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Men’s Basketball’s slow start to the 2019-20 season continues

By Dylan Thayer Staff Writer

The Framingham State Rams Men’s Basketball team traveled to Bristol Rhode Island to compete in the Roger Williams University/Courtyard by Marriott tournament over the past weekend.

The Rams took on the Bowdoin College Polar Bears in their first game of the tournament Nov. 15.

The Polar Bears controlled the game right out of the gate. Within the first 10 seconds of the game, Bowdoin forced a turnover that Zavier Rucker converted into a three-point play.

The Polar Bears continued to score, going on a crucial 13-0 run halfway through the first half.

After a Trevor Manyak layup right before the 10-minute mark in the first half, the Rams went 0-8 from the field and committed several costly turnovers. They did not score a bucket for about seven minutes beginning at the 10-minute mark.

The second half looked much better for the Rams. After being outscored 40-20 in the first half, the Rams were able to put up 50 points in the second.

Dominique Jenkins-Maxwell came off the bench in the second half and was an offensive force for the Rams, shooting 5-6 from the field along with 2-3 from three.

Tyri Hampton had nine of his own points to add to his team-high 18 for the contest. Cameron McCloud-Thomas scored seven points along with three rebounds and three assists to finish with a 11-5-4 line.

The team dropped the first game of their weekend tournament at Roger Williams 79-70.

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The Rams also played the Elms College Blazers in their second and final outing of the tournament Nov. 16.

After a quick 5-0 run one minute into the game, McCloud-Thomas hit three shots in a row to give the Rams their first lead.

The Rams were down 10-8 before the Blazers went on a dominating run, during which they outscored the Rams 26-8 to take a commanding 36-16 lead. Jaijuan Macklin was a strong force throughout the run, leading the charge with eight points, three rebounds, and an assist.

Hampton and McCloud-Thomas both finished the first half in double figures dropping 11 and 10, while Macklin and D.J. Edelen did the exact same with 11 and 10 of their own.

The Rams were behind 47-32 at the end of the first half.

The second half of the game resulted in almost the exact same deficit for the Rams, who finished outscored 49-42.

Justin Feliciano dropped in 12 points to go along with four steals in his strong second half. He finished with 14 points, four steals, two rebounds, and an assist.

Kewan Smoot led the Blazers with 16 on a strong 5-6 from the field. Edelen also finished with 15 points and three boards.

Tajahn Joyner, McCloud-Thomas, and Hampton led the Rams with 12 points each. Hampton posted a double-double with 12 points and 11 boards for the contest. McCloud-Thomas also added two blocks and finished shooting 5-7 from the field.

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Following the tournament at Roger Williams, the Rams traveled to Wheaton College to take on the Lyons Nov. 20.

After an early 6-5 lead following buckets by McCloud-Thomas, Jenkins-Maxwell, and Hampton, the Lyons went on a 14-0 run.

Alex Carlisle and Mike Perry combined to score all 14, with Carlisle going 3-3 from the floor with eight points, two rebounds, an assist, and a steal.

Jared Gordon-Anderson scored a three ending the scoreless run. Following that play, another 8-0 Lyons run put the Rams down 27-9.

The Rams outscored the Lyons from the midway point of the first half to the end 22-15. The first half ended at 42-31 in the Lyons’ favor.

Jenkins-Maxwell finished the first half with seven points and two boards, while McCloud-Thomas had five points and four rebounds.

Carlisle and Perry led the Lyons offense with 10 points each. Carlisle also added five rebounds, two assists, and a steal, while Perry had two rebounds and a steal of his own.

After an early 9-4 Rams run in the opening minutes of the second half, the Lyons went on a 13-8 run.

The Lyons never lost the lead after taking it four minutes into the game, and cruised to an 88-70 victory.

Carlisle finished the game for the Lyons with 18 points, seven rebounds, four steals, and three assists. Following a very strong second half, Robey Lowey supplied a team-high 19 points and six rebounds.

Jenkins-Maxwell finished with 13 points and five rebounds, and McCloud-Thomas added eight points, eight boards, and three blocks. Colin Myers shot 4-8 for the contest, finishing with 11 points and two rebounds off the bench.

The Rams look to end their woeful start to the season Nov. 22 in the second annual Paula Titus Memorial Tournament in Boston.

They will play the undefeated UMass Boston Beacons.

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Ryan Paul had one goal and five shots on net in Framingham’s game against Plymouth State.

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Flannery O’Connor had 13 points, seven rebounds, and three blocks in Framingham’s game against Brandeis.

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