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FSU hopes to begin new dorm construction in the spring

Residence halls over capacity, new dorm to be built Framingham State administrators have been pushing the housing capacity limit in an effort to get more resident students on campus, creating non-traditional living quarters for some students.

The residence halls on campus are designed to hold 1,931 students. At the opening of the semester this fall, there were 1,940 resident students living on campus, according to Associate Dean of students and Director of Residence Life Glenn Cochran.

FSU began converting the study lounges in Corrinne Hall Towers into makeshift double rooms for students by blacking out the windows in order to exceed this capacity limit and allow more students to live on campus.

Cochran said there are currently eight lounges in Towers set up as doubles. There were supposed be nine, but due to a leak, the last one is now inaccessible for the year. Temporary space is also being offered in other dorm buildings. The goal of creating these rooms is to get students off of the wait list and into actual living quarters on campus, even

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Construction of a 1.66-acre parking lot on Salem End Road has begun.

Salem End Road parking lot to be completed in October

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Framingham State University has been awarded $2.15 million from the Massachusetts State College Building Authority to construct a new parking lot on Salem End Road.

The lot was formerly the site of the six-building Salem Court Apartments, as well as a Japanese restaurant - all of which were torn down.

There were two additional buildings, both of which have been retained by the University. Executive Vice President Dale Hamel said, “The fur-

thest one up Salem End Road … that is what’s known locally as the 1812 House. We are retaining that to create a college planning center.”

The Board of Higher Education awarded FSU $280,000 last year and $240,000 this year. The state budget also included $400,000 to pay for the cost of renovating the 1812 House.

Hamel said the college planning center is being created in partnership with Massachusetts Bay Community College. “It’s going to provide guidance to predominantly underserved audienc- Continued on page 3

Framingham State is awaiting approval for $44 million in financing in order to build a new dorm which will be located in the Maynard Street parking lot.

Executive Vice President Dale Hamel said the declaration of intent, which he said is “essentially the approval for financing the project,” was accepted at the Board of Trustees meeting on Sept. 30.

The new residence hall will provide 316 beds. When it opens, O’Connor Hall, which houses 241 students, will become an academic building. “It represents a four percent increase in capacity,” Hamel said. The capacity increase includes what will be lost from O’Connor.

Referring to the $44 million in financing the school is requesting, Hamel said, “That includes about $37 million in construction costs. That’s the one you often focus on.”

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FSU professors reflect on research from latest publications

By Sara Silvestro Arts & Features Editor

Framingham State University offered its fifth annual fall authors event that celebrated two of their own scholarly innovations.

Each year the fall author event reminds colleagues of the bond they have with scholars and writers across the world and throughout history, said Linda Vaden-Goad, vice president of academic affairs.

Kelly Kolodny, associate professor of education, spent ten years research-

ing and writing her novel “Normalites: The First Professionally Prepared Teachers in the United States.”

In an evolving country, three women left their families behind at the ages of 15-17 to partake in a powerful movement for the first state normal school in MA. It has been 175 years since the school opened.

Kolodny centered her novel around three young women, Lydia Stow, Mary Swift and Louisa Harris, who were pioneers in education.

After having traveled to 20 histori-

cal societies, reading diaries, poetry books and a number of other historical records, she researched and wrote her novel. Kolodny said she relished in the connection she had with these three determined students.

“In my research I feel like I came to know them,” Kolodny said with a smile.

The girls strayed from their families to better the learning experience for children despite the war being waged against them and the fierce scrutiny of 19th-century Americans.

In a union of 26 states in 1839,

walking this path was “anything but certain” for Stow, Swift and Harris, said Kolodny.

These noteworthy women are “what made” her book. Kolodny explained that reading and writing about these strong women “evoked a sense of mission and sense of duty that shaped their life path.”

This provided a platform to understanding the complexity of the 19thcentury educational movements.

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Gatepost Interview

By Mark Strom Asst. News Editor

Can you briefly describe your resume and educational background?

I took my undergraduate degree in engineering from WPI - that’s Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester. Then, I went to work and went to night school for an MBA at Anna Maria [College]. And then, about seven years after graduating from WPI, I was able to get my Massachusetts Professional Engineer’s License, and that was a major step in my career.

So I worked in private practice - I was a consulting engineer for about 10 years and then I had one of those life-changing moments where I decided that I didn’t want to travel the country and commute to Cambridge, and I took a job with the state college system as a regional engineer, and I’ve been working in higher education since then.

What’s the best part of your job at FSU? The best part of my job? Well, I love to work on a college campus. There’s a lot of activity and excitement and a broad range of people. And the best part of my job personally is that I get to interact with everyone on campus. This position seems to put you in that spot. I talk to students.

I talk to faculty. I talk to administrators. I talk to staff. I talk to the president and the vice presidents. And I usually do it all in one day. It keeps you sharp and I enjoy it.

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Jennifer Wang Kyle Torres Advisor

Dr. Desmond McCarthy Assistant Advisor

What are some of the challenges of your job?

The challenges? There are no challenges to my job. You know, it’s a big campus the biggest challenge, I guess, is that we want to provide the services so that the teaching and learning can continue without being interrupted. That’s what we strive for every day. But I have a fantastic staff of dedicated directors, and tradesmen, and custodians, and drivers, and grounds crew, and campus events, and shuttle drivers and power plant operators.

And every single one of them has that same goal, and they work hard at it.

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Do you have any hobbies?

Yes. I try to play golf. I ride a bicycle I’m an avid cyclist. And I like to fish for striped bass on surf-casting. Those are my three passions. And I read a lot. I’m a history buff.

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Associate Vice President of Facilities and Capital Planning Can you tell me about one of your biggest accomplishments?

I don’t measure myself by my accomplishments. I think looking back at your accomplishments doesn’t keep you motivated, so I don’t really measure myself by that at all. I feel I have a good day when I can finish the job at the end of the day, and look back and just be at peace with myself.

What would students be surprised to know about you?

That’s a good question. I’m pretty much an open book - I don’t have too many secrets. Probably that I’m a real history buff.

It kind of counteracts the engineering side of me. I actually got a minor in history.

And so I like to read about modern history primarily.

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Are you currently working on any projects?

(Laughs). Yeah, yeah. We have a lot going on. We’ve been very fortunate to have great funding. The senior administration has done a great job of securing funding for the university. So it’s my priority job.

And the capital planning component of my job is to spend that money. And that’s a lot of fun. We’re working on Hemenway Hall, as you know. We’re building a new parking lot on property we purchased on Salem End Road. We’re completely renovating the Athletic Fields on Maple Street. We are doing additional work at the power plant, which has been an ongoing project. We’re in the design phase for a new residence hall, which will start in this winter of 2015. We have initiated a building study for the library to look at in a comprehensive fashion - the future of the library. We’re going to undertake the transition of O’Connor Hall into an academic and office building. We’ve started the study again on the renovation of Crocker Hall. We have been having conversations with the art department about improvements and relocations of studio spaces for the art department. We have annual maintenance and deferred maintenance projects that we do every summer in the residence halls, so we’re planning

What was your favorite course in college and why?

My favorite course? … Well at WPI, they required us to complete two major projects before we graduated. So my favorite course was the project that took me to Jamaica for three weeks, where I took soil samples in the mountains of Jamaica, trying to understand why, when they had earthquakes, everything would slide down the mountains. And it was due to a phenomenon called liquefaction. And at that point in time, that was a fairly new item in soil mechanics that was being studied.

So being involved with that, and being in Jamaica for three weeks, living embedded in the mountain culture, left a pretty big impression on me.

What advice would you give to students?

That’s a loaded question. I don’t know. I suppose my advice to students would be my advice to anyone - it would be more or less the same: learn how to make your own decisions, set some goals and seek out and use all the resources that we have here on campus. There are brilliant people that work here on campus, and if you’ve got questions or problems or challenges that you have to overcome, there are people here that push you along, and pull you along, and help you out. But you have to learn how to make your own decisions and take responsibility for them.

Police Logs

Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014 16:44 - Hemenway Hall - Larceny. Report of a past larceny.

Report taken.

19:00 - FSU Police Station - Medical. One male with a minor cut to his hand. No medical attention needed.

Monday, Oct. 6, 2014 11:21 - McCarthy Center - Medical. Transported to MWMC.

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those right now for next summer. We’re actively pursuing additional land for additional parking. We understand parking is always an issue on campus, so we’re always keeping our eyes open for that.

Those are the major things we’re talking about. And then on the facilities side of the department, we just try to keep the place running and clean and safe, and that requires constant daily maintenance and response to maintenance requests that come in from the students and the staff.

So we’re always doing something on that - stuff always breaks. We’re 1.2 million square feet of buildings.

Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014 23:07 – FSU Police Station – Investigation. Stalking behavior reported. Report taken.

Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014 17:57 - Corinne Hall Towers - Psychiatric Emergency.

Voluntary transport to MWMC. 18:06 - FSU Police Station - Medical. One male with a wrist injury. Refused transport.

Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014 01:40 - Peirce Hall -w Medical. Transported to MWMC.

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es,” Hamel said. “But anybody will be able to use it for guidance on the cost of education, how to finance education, help with financial aid forms and other kind of college-planning initiatives.”

The second building being retained

was originally supposed to be torn down. “For the short-term, it was decided to keep it to house the ongoing Framingham Food Study,” Hamel said.

The cost to renovate these two buildings is included in the $2.15 million awarded to the school.

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Construction on Salem End Road will create a 246-space parking lot.

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spaces. With consutrction of the new residence hall in the Maynard lot set to take place in 2015, which will take away spaces, the Salem End lot will result in a net increase of 106 parking spaces.

“We went from 430 [spaces] in Maynard, and we’re going to have 290 left,” Hamel said, referring to the footprint of the new dorm. “We’re losing 140 and we’re taking on 246.”

Hamel admitted that for the shortterm, it is not be that much of an increase in parking spaces. “We’re going to have to take some of the parking for the construction,” he said.

Although the parking lot creates more spaces, some FSU students do not like the location.

Tremain Bell, a junior communication arts major, said he thinks the school should be more focused on constructing parking closer to campus. “Having parking further away from campus just makes it more stressful to get to class on time,” he said. “They need to make it more of a relief and not a challenge.”

Stephanie Callahan, a senior sociology major, said, “It’s way too far from campus. It will be an inconvenience to students.”

Colin Anderson, a senior sociology major, said he doesn’t mind the location of the new lot. “If it increases the parking spaces, then I don’t care how far from campus it is.”

Some students finds themselves get-

ting to campus early in order to find a spot in the morning. Julian Nanton, a junior business information systems major, commutes from Boston to Framingham. “I get to campus around 7:45 a.m. when I have class,” he said.

“They need to continue to improve this [the parking] and do it quickly.”

Zack Shay, a junior criminology major, believes the school should invest in a parking garage for students who have their cars on campus.

Other students are concerned the lot is too far from campus buildings. Jenna Silva, a junior economics major, said, “I don’t see why they would invest all this money in a new science building when the parking issue needs to get fixed.” She added, “It is impossible to find a spot most days and as a result, people illegally park, making it even more difficult.”

Christian Marques, a sophomore food science major, agreed with Silva, saying the school should be focusing on parking. “The school didn’t need a big, new extension to Hemenway.

What they need is a better solution to the parking.”

The completion of the lot is set for the end of October, and students will have access to it as well as Maynard before the construction for the new residence hall starts in March.

The demand for housing has increased over the years. Back in 2011, when North Hall first opened, 410 more beds were added to campus

parking lot currently exists. The lot will lose spaces, which will be replaced in the new lot currently being constructed on Salem End Road.

Brittany Wallace, junior sociology major said, “I only live 30 minutes away, but I have to leave my house at 6:30 in the morning just so that I can get a parking spot and make it to my 8:30 on time.”

According to Cochran, the new residence hall will create beds to replace those lost in O’Connor Hall when it’s transformed into an academic building.

“The new hall looks like it will be about 300 beds,” Cochran said.

“O’Connor has about 250 beds, and so we are going to gain somewhere around 50 beds. More than the beds, we will also gain more singles around campus and more connected, shared bathrooms instead of public floor bathrooms.”

With the current design, each dorm room will have a small entryway, two double or single rooms and one shared bathroom. There will be five residential floors.

Craig Boland, a senior psychology major and student admissions representative, said, “There will be more and more students being accepted, but there are also plans for a new residence hall to accommodate that.”

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if they are only temporary.

These lounges have the same furniture and amenities as other dorm rooms, including a cable drop and wifi.

Colin MacEacheron, a sophomore English major who is temporarily housed in one of these rooms, said it is “just slightly inconvenient at times.

“The lights are motion-sensored, so I had to cover it [the motion sensor] with a piece of paper and tape lying around my room,” he said.

“Otherwise, I would turn the lights off and crawl into bed, and any slight movement would cause the lights to turn back on.”

He also said the outlets do not work at times, and the wifi reception is really bad, but otherwise, it is “roomy and comfortable.

“I was on the housing wait list, so they assigned me to this room one day before move-in and told me that it is only temporary,” MacEacheron said.

Cochran said students living in temporary housing are given first choice when a standard room becomes available according to the date they were assigned to the makeshift room, but often students opt to stay because they become comfortable there.

“We do want to restore the lounges

back to Towers eventually,” he said.

Jamie Chaves, a senior visual communication arts major, lived in one of these rooms for the first four

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They moved me to Larned in early November and I actually preferred the lounge.

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senior visual communication arts major months of his freshman year.

“I actually thought it was better than the other rooms,” he said. “It was really big. They moved me to Larned in early November and I actually preferred the lounge.”

Senior business major Stephen Harrington said, “I had a friend in one of those rooms, and it was huge.

I wouldn’t have minded being placed in one myself.”

and the housing wait list was still up to about 80 students the summer beforehand.

As of Sept. 23 Cochran said the wait list was down to 17 people and he hoped to get as many of those students on campus as soon as possible.

The new residence hall, which has yet to be named, is still being planned but is set to be complete by fall 2016.

It will be located where the Maynard

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million. “The assumption was a $37 million construction budget with a $44 million budget in total,” he said.

The Vice President said that in addition to the construction costs, there are management fees for the building authority, contingency and what’s called FFE, which Hamel said stands for furniture, fixtures and equipment.

“It’s basically things beyond the construction.”

The FSU Board of Trustees voted on the $44 million request at the end of September. The Massachusetts State College Building Authority will vote in October, and the Board of Higher Education in November.

After approval by these boards, Hamel said he hopes for bonds to be issued in December. These bonds will be issued by The Massachusetts State College Building Authority. “The debt service is fully funded from our residence hall systems,” he said, referring to the room fees paid by students.

Hamel said the new dorm will be “nice” and will include a game room, student lounge and kitchenette.

The structure will be comparable to North Hall. “It has a similar portal to North,” Hamel said. “From the back of Maynard Road parking, you’ll enter a portal and come up near the Ecumenical Center.”

After the new dorm is completed, O’Connor Hall will be converted into academic space. “We have started to develop layouts for where the different offices will be,” Hamel said. The offices will include education, psychology, modern languages and sociology

departments.

There will also be some administrative spaces moved into O’Connor such as the offices for grants and contracts, first-year programs and institutional research, according to Hamel.

Michelle Rao, a sophomore business major, said she doesn’t like the location of the new residence hall, but is looking forward to seeing it completed. “The location is a little weird. It’s not really near any of the other dorms,” she said. “I think it will look nice once it’s done.”

Chris Power, a junior biology major, agreed with Rao. “It will look out of place being in the Maynard Road lot.”

Justin Moylan, a sophomore biology major, said, “I think it will add to the campus. It’s a good spot for the building. There’s a lot of space to build.”

Jessica Elms, a junior business major, said, “It will look nice to have some new buildings on campus. With North, the new science building and now this new dorm, it will make the campus look more appealing.”

Caitlyn Kelleher, a senior English major, said, “I hope the construction doesn’t interfere with getting around campus and being in class like [the construction at] Hemenway does.”

Danielle White, a junior business major, said, “The location doesn’t make sense at all. It’s in an awkward spot and the students living there won’t get a great view of the campus.”

Peter Holland, a sophomore biology major, agreed with White. “The new dorm is in a spot that’s not convenient to the school. And with the hill they’re going to have to walk up every day, it’s going to be more of a hassle than a so-

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The newest proposed residential hall will be built on the Maynard parking lot. lution.”

Construction is set to begin in the spring of 2015, and Hamel expects

the residence hall to be completed and opened by the start of the fall 2016 semester.

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Mid-October: Maple Street Athletic Fields • Cost remains around original $4.3 million estimate • Renovations such as new lighting, stands, restrooms and additional parking aren’t due until mid-October • About 75 percent done to date, about 5 weeks left

End of October: Salem End Road Parking Lot • The 1.66 acre lot will feature 246 spaces creating a net increase of 106 parking spaces • Going from 430 spaces in Maynard Road Lot to 290 spaces • Essentially, losing 140 spaces and taking on 246 • Salem End Road Parking Lot will be accessible, as well as Maynard Road Parking Lot, before the construction for the new residence hall begins in March 2015

• $2.15 million from the Massachusetts State College Building Authority • FSU received $280,000 last year and $240,000 this year from the Board of Higher Education • Renovation of the 1812 House: $400,000 from state budget • Framingham Food Study House: Included in $2.15 million awarded to FSU

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SGA allocates almost $2,000 to Dance Team

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By James M. Sheridan Jr. News Editor

The Student Government Association unanimously passed a motion to allocate $1,768.89 to the Dance Team this week for their event, “So You Think You Can Dance.”

The event is a dance competition that will be held on Tuesday, November 4, at 7:00 p.m. on campus. Winners of the event will receive an iPad mini, beats headphones or a Nikon camera.

In other news: - The SGA Finance committee allocated the History club $600 in order to rent a bus for a trip to Salem.

- Special events committee reminded returning senators their attendance at the SGA retreat is mandatory. The retreat will be held Oct. 17 - 19.

- A finalized schedule of “Week of Kindess,” scheduled for Nov. 10 - 14 will soon be available - The “You Rock!” rock was awarded to Daryn Starkey by Sarah Cowdell.

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• Currently awaiting approval to finance $44 million includes about $37 million in construction costs (Other approximately $7 million: management fees for the building authority, contingency, and FFE, furniture, fixtures, and equipment)

Fall Semester: Construction of new dorm building finished • When completed, the new dorm will accomodate 316 beds and will replace O’Connor Hall, which houses 241 students

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The Gatepost Editorial

FSU administration should be looking outward It has seemed impossible to walk through campus the past few years without seeing tarps flapping in the breeze, sparks flying from welding or yellow CAT vehicles scraping at dirt.

And with new projects about to begin, there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight for construction on campus.

FSU community members seem to have strong opinions for or against these campus-building projects, and the disruptive construction that is necessary for their completion.

Some students and faculty believe the noisy construction that wakes residents up early in the morning, makes it hard to hear in class and creates difficulties navigating campus is more harmful and disruptive to daily life than it is worth.

Some students are bothered that they have to deal with the construction but will not be able to enjoy the end results because they will graduate before the projects are finished.

Others are excited about the idea of more space for parking, more options for dorm living and more scientific and technological resources, among other initiatives.

So it seems, in theory, the ends justify the inconvenient means. But the question remains: what exactly are the ends?

A new dorm building will be built on Maynard lot, which will take up 140 of those parking spots. The new parking lot set to be built on the Salem End Road site will create 246 spots, increasing available parking on campus by 106 spaces, when taking into account the spots being lost with the building of the new dorm.

That new building will house 316 beds. But when these rooms become available, O’Connor Hall will become an academic building for offices. That means there’s only a net gain of 75 beds.

With the tens of millions of dollars spent on these oncampus projects, are these gains, when also considering the losses, worth it?

We at The Gatepost believe that if the school is trying to accommodate the growing number of students, 75 beds and 106 parking spots just won’t cut it.

But FSU’s location, with the surrounding area being so developed and residential, doesn’t allow for significant expansion in any particular direction. So this leaves administrators with two options: continue to renovate, recycle and repurpose existing structures, or begin to reach further out into the town of Framingham.

The first option, which is what the school has been doing, won’t be viable for much longer, and would only perpetuate the same set of issues already laid out. On the other hand, the second option allows for nearly limitless expansion, extending the overall span of our university beyond our current neat, compact little community. If this style of growth were to occur, Framingham may be turned into a full-fledged college town, reminiscent of countless others across the nation. This may even bring new vitality to the town itself.

It may seem at first glance as if students wouldn’t want to live, study and socialize away from the convenience of our 73-acre campus. Some may feel as if being away from the nucleus of campus would isolate them from their peers, or that growing outward would dissipate the tight-knit community that we so value.

However, expanding campus outward would not disconnect FSU from itself. Rather, it would make deeper and more meaningful connections with its hometown, while alleviating the financial and practical strain on our almostoverbuilt campus.

The Gatepost has been advocating for FSU’s expansion into the surrounding community for years, and with the current construction projects’ final results becoming increasingly underwhelming, especially considering the exorbitant costs, we need to be looking for more productive alternatives.

We know they’re there, so why aren’t we using them?

October 10, 2014

Op/Ed When I’m gone

The concept of time capsules both intrigues and frightens me, but recently, I’ve wondered what I would put in my own time capsule.

When I’m old and dying (hopefully not of some grotesque, deadly disease), I would like to bury a time capsule in my yard, preferably at my future home in a remote part of the world.

A few days ago, officials in Boston recently dug up a time capsule from 1901, hidden inside the golden lion’s head in the Old State House, which yielded an old red book, among other items in fragile condition, according to www. boston.com.

So, what would I put inside my own time capsule for people to find?

I wouldn’t put anything creepy inside, such as a lock of hair - that would be rude, and I wouldn’t want people to remember me by my hair (or do I? Because I have great hair).

I’d rather one of my favorite pieces of literature, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” along with a letter detailing some facts about me.

First and foremost, I’m a big fan of dogs. No matter how bad a day someone may be having, a dog can improve it tenfold.

Secondly, I like journalism, as it enables me to meet new people, learn new concepts and gain

new perspectives, as well as write to inform the general public of significant events. So, I can learn, while simultaneously teaching people.

I would include a request to air the television show “Breaking Bad” every single day, because it is the most amazing show I have ever seen.

Finally, on top of the book and letter, I would write a small note stating, “If you don’t know who I am, then maybe your best course would be to tread lightly.” This would be included purely to scare anyone looking at the contents of my capsule, and so that I could have one last laugh before dying.

I believe time capsules can tell others a lot about the kind of person one was during life, and may also be more informative than any memoir or autobiography one could ever write.

It’s important to at least consider burying a time capsule so that in the future, someone may find it, and may learn something about who you were.

Mark Wadland Opinions Editor

No time for Christmas

As you are no doubt aware - especially if you’re a student - that magical time of year is upon us. A time that many of us (at least myself) dread, while others anticipate.

No, I’m not talking about midterms, mainly because I don’t want to think about them. I’m talking about the holiday season - Christmas, Hannukah and Black Friday (also known as “Let’s go shopping and possibly suffer internal injuries while fighting someone over an Xbox” Day).

Naturally, you are wondering how the holiday season could possibly be relevant in early October. The answer is simple: I have absolutely no idea. You should ask the people who are airing Christmas commercials.

Yes, they’ve already started airing Christmas commercials. On Sept. 30, I saw one for Flex Seal (featuring a man who is eerily enthusiastic about what is essentially liquid duct tape). And on Oct. 8, when I was driving to campus for my morning class, I heard on the radio that someone has already released a Christmas catalog.

Of course, it was 7:40 a.m, and I was too busy cursing at traffic to register the name of the catalog. What I do remember is that one of the listed gifts is, and I quote, “A hand-enameled tiger head on a marble pedestal for $6,500.”

Is that ridiculous or what? Marble would total-

ly detract attention from the centerpiece! You’d be much better off with granite.

But that’s not the point. The point is, as a society, we need to take a good, long look at ourselves, and then get really insecure about our appearance and beg for compliments on Facebook.

Also, we should reconsider our overall patience.

It’s already too late for Thanksgiving - which was consumed by Christmas long ago. But there’s still hope for Halloween! Ask yourselves: are you ready for children to dress up as Bat-Santa and go from house to house demanding candy canes? Are parents ready to - in the true spirit of Christmas - confiscate the candy canes to check for razors?

I believe I speak for everyone when I say, no, we’re not. Mainly because Bat-Santa would be a serious breach of copyright.

So to all the various companies preparing for Christmas, I offer this advice: calm down! You still have other holidays to financially exploit.

Plus, we don’t have time to do any Christmas shopping - we’re too busy with midterms.

Mark Strom Editorial Staff

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Please send submissions under 300 words to gatepost@framingham.edu.

The Gatepost editors reserve the right accept or reject submissions, and to edit spelling and grammar as is deemed necessary.

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

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Service changed everything Fall is a time of new beginnings and new chances to get involved. Many students will attest that getting involved was the key to their success and happiness at Framingham State, and I concur. But, more specifically, getting involved in service opportunities was truly what made my time at Framingham State valuable, and what transformed me from one student among the masses into a passionate student leader with a strong commitment to doing good in the world.

Though I feel passionate about community service and believe firmly in its impact now, I had little involvement with service in high school. It wasn’t until I applied for my first Alternative Spring Break trip in 2012 that I learned what service is and why it matters. That year, we traveled to Joplin, Mo, a community still recovering from a tornado that destroyed hundreds of homes and the local high school just a year before. The path the tornado had taken was clear, on the same street, houses would stand, unaffected, while others left behind only empty plots of land with concrete steps leading to nowhere. These images were shocking, but what was even more surprising was the kindness we, complete strangers, received from the people of Joplin. An elderly couple anonymously paid for our dinner of 16 pizzas, strangers in Walmart thanked us for our service and a deserving homeowner cried tears of joy when her garden was finally restored. I went to Joplin expecting to rebuild a home and make an impact on the Joplin community, but I didn’t expect the profound impact the community would have on me. Upon arriving back in Framingham, I promptly changed my major to sociology and submitted my Trip Leader application for ASB 2013.

It was this one chance encounter, the thought that, “This could be fun,” that

led me to apply for ASB and that ultimately changed the course of my life; my major, my involvement, my career path, and my sense of purpose. ASB opened me up to a world of service and inspired me to participate in SILD’s Saturdays of Service, volunteer for the Special Olympics, help to found the Community Service Club, intern with Habitat for Humanity, and teach a service-learning course to high school students in Colorado. I never knew how significantly my life would change by simply stopping what I was doing, forgetting my own worries and reaching out to other people to help alleviate their suffering. I might have guessed that it would feel good to help others, but I certainly never guessed how much I would learn from these individuals about the world and the unmeasurable amount of kindness it holds. If I hadn’t taken that first step to try service, things would be different for me today.

My wish for you, reader, is that you take the first step. Whether you’re a new student, a graduating senior, a professor, a staff member or anything in between, I urge you to take a break from your busy schedule and make a difference.

Volunteer on a weekend, make a weekly commitment to a soup kitchen, tutor at-risk youth, help out at an animal shelter, fundraise for a 5k or give to a worthy cause. The options are endless and guaranteed to fit your interests. You may be forever changed, or you may not feel much different - regardless, you’ll have changed the world for the better. But you’ll never know until you try.

Tori Dost Class of 2015

Don’t play the blame game

Like most people, I was deeply disturbed to hear the news of the sexual assaults that occurred last weekend on campus. It is obviously scary to think that these things are happening so often and so close to home. However, I was just as disturbed when I logged onto social media and saw post after post by people placing blame on the girl who was victimized. It was infuriating scrolling through the feed of Yik Yak and seeing people try to justify what had happened.

Nobody asks to be raped. No matter how somebody is dressed or how much they have had to drink, if they have not given the consent for sex then it is not okay. Period.

A woman wearing tight clothing is not the same as a woman walking around with a sign on her shirt that says “please rape me.” That is absolutely absurd.

People have the right to dress however they like without being judged.

Similarly, women are not the only victims of sexual assault, so it is also frustrating to see men being categorized into this group of barbarians who need to be taught to control themselves. I picked up a couple of informational packets at some of the sexual assault prevention tables and program that occurred in the past week and all of them, in one way or another, signified that we need to be teaching men to stop raping women. Men can also be victims of sexual assault.

While the number of men who are victims of rape and sexual violence each

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year are significantly lower than those of women, it does not mean that those numbers are nonexistent. However, in my opinion, a man might be less likely to report an assault of any kind for fear of judgment due to social pressures and expectations. Therefore, perhaps the statistics stating that men are mostly the perpetrators and not the victims are faulty in a way.

According to the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network, “Sexual assault is one of the most under-reported crimes, with 60 percent still being left unreported.” Reporting sexual assault is not easy for anybody, and this is something that needs to be changed for all genders. Men are not the only perpetrators of sexual violence, and women are not the only victims.

This is simply not a gender issue, it is a people issue. Instead of trying to teach our men to control themselves, we should be teaching everybody that without consent, sexual acts are unacceptable - no matter what.

Kristen Pinto Editorial Staff

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Trashion Show

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First place in Fashion Club’s annual Trashion Show went to contestant number 12. The dress was made out of broken pieces of colored, metallic plastic. Fun fact: the designer and model are sisters.

Second place went to contestant number 22. The dress was made out of clear trash bags filled with leaves and spray painted gold.

Third place went to contestant number 13. The dress was made out of black coffee straws with gold trim.

The Viewer’s Choice Award went to contestant number three. She was awarded with a brand new Singer sewing box. Her dress was made out of magazines.

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FSU professors reflect on research from latest publications

October 10, 2014

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Kelly Kolodny (left), an education professor, reflects going on unexpected trips while searching for historical documents. Virginia Rutter (right), a sociology professor, animately describes the process of her article and her findings.

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took upon themselves in their educational experience.

“I needed to examine their experiences holistically in order to understand the essence of them,” said Kolodny. “Examining these women in an open manner allowed me to obtain a clear and more accurate picture regarding what it meant to be a Normalite woman.”

Kolodny, with a calming voice on stage, depicted an image to the audience of the culture-shocking adventures her research led her too.

Married with three children, Kolodny embarked on her expedition with her family in tow, to fully experience Stow’s “Inspiration Rock.”

Expecting to stand on a rock surrounded by a breathtaking scenic view, Kolodny found it now accompanied by a busy street, parked cars and a chain-link fence.

However, Kolodny could quickly see what Stow cherished and beloved while standing on the rock.

She saw the Charles River and the Dedham Village, which is roughly 20 miles from Lexington.

Stow, orphaned at the age of 11, was the first woman to serve as a school board member and on the school committee. Her life revolved around teaching and providing social and educational services to women. At one point, Stow worked with Frederick Douglas.

Kolodny described Stow to be quiet and reflective with a strong love for nature.

Like Kolodny, Swift was not only a teacher but a writer as well. Swift worked closely with the deaf and blind. In Kolodny’s eyes, she remained to be a true fighter. Swift, half a century before Hellen Keller, discovered Laura Bridgman, who was the first blind person to learn an early form of sign language. Swift wrote a book about Bridgman, which became widely recognized, said Kolodny.

Harris, a lifelong teacher with a sense of humor, remained single unlike Stow and Swift, said Kolodny. She often taught 60 children in a one-room schoolhouse in poor conditions. Harris embraced her creativity and ambitions to write, eventually writing poetry.

Regarding all three of them as admirable, Kolodny reminded the audience that as great as they were, they were still human.

“Human beings make mistakes.

We experience failures. We sometimes regret our actions and hope to do better and move forward,” she said.

Taking center stage with a comfortable presence, as if talking to old friends, Virginia Rutter, professor of sociology and blogger since 2008, presented “Love, Lust and Thinking in Public” at the fifth fall authors event at FSU Wednesday.

She waved a yellow magazine in the air, showing off her article, “Love and Lust” on the front page of Psychology Today. She said the magazine spiced up her article with “really silly, sexed-up pictures.”

“Lust is in our hearts and doing well,” she added with a contagious chuckle.

Her article discussing the way people hide sexual disappointments and keep a physical relationship alive, Rutter’s article developed while on sabbatical, during which she studied couples and their interactions with their partner.

Focusing on their sex lives, Rutter pinned three underlying themes that caused sexual frustrations and decline.

The first was the pressures on couples with children. She said, partners spend more time with their kids rather than each other. Rutter explained that it may have something to do with the way society is cultivating children.

Secondly, she pointed out retrograde imagination, in the sense of gender stereotypical roles. Sex and what people believe is normal, drags our imagination into the past, she said.

“We are living in a world where men and women are doing similar things, are occupying the same roles and occupying powerful and influential positions,” said Rutter.

“It may not be as much equality as we like, but perhaps more equality than we’d get when we think about how our sexual imaginations are organized.”

Lastly, ego pressure, which refers to expectations during sex as well as missing out on what else is out there, creates disappointment in relationships. Rutter compared phenomenal sex expectations to pizza, explaining that although it is universally loved, everyone in their lifetime has had at least one dissatisfying slice of pizza.

Rutter explained there is a gap between what pop culture portrays people doing sexually and what they actually do.

Ultimately, Rutter stated, “Respect protects love and love protects lust.”

Respect protecting love connects equality in a marriage to the microinteractions couples have with each other.

Partners who connect with the interactions they have with each other, share responsibility and pay attention to those experiences, are the ones who stay married, said Rutter.

For example, an everyday interaction may be asking how someone’s day is going. A person may have the option of divulging a positive answer, agreeing the day is nice or hint at a bid for attention.

Rutter explained what she meant by “love protects lust” saying, “In long term sexual relationships, our ability to focus attention when things are going well when we are under the condition of respect and equality is something that allows us to focus attention to stay sexually connected.”

Showing empathy in a moment, instead of coldness is what keeps sex alive for couples. It’s the coldness of a response, the detachment, that kills sex drive over time, said Rutter.

In Rutter’s closing statements, she rhetorically asked if we knew what normal sex is - what normal really is.

“We don’t know what normal is […] if there is such a thing. Is it a good thing to keep reaching for?”

Society conditions people think they will have a long blissful connection with someone, however there are “valleys and plateaus” in any relationship, said Rutter.

The magic is when a person opens their heart to let a moment sink in, said Rutter.

“Once in you are in the moment, there is a lot more possibility and distractions of protecting yourself drop away,” said Rutter.

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Author Michael Patrick MacDonald describes Boston busing 40 years later

By Brad Leuchte Arts & Features Editor

The South Boston “code of silence” is a practice that many people in the metro-Boston area and even around the country are familiar with, but there are few that have actually experienced it.

Even fewer have broken it.

On Tuesday afternoon in the Ecumenical Center, author Michael Patrick MacDonald spoke about his books “All Souls: A Family Story From Southie,” which deals with race and class as experienced in Boston and “Easter Rising: An Irish American Coming Up from Under,” which chronicles his teenage years and later reconciliation with his neighborhood.

He painstakingly described the plight and struggle of growing up in an oppressed neighborhood under siege by the notorious gangster James Joseph “Whitey” Bulger.

MacDonald said that one of the most important moments of his life was experiencing firsthand the violent riots on the streets of South Boston during the city’s busing desegregation. This nationally scrutinized campaign was one of the implementations of the Boston School District’s 1965 Racial Imbalance Act. Whether or not busing was effective or even justified is still a subject of much debate.

Unfortunately, according to MacDonald, the school district was focused on race, not neighborhood economics. He also claims that it may have halted progressive social justice movements started in the 1960s and 1970s. He described it as “stupid” and “insidious.”

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MacDonald reads excerpts from his book, “All Souls: A Family Story from Southie.”

MacDonald said busing was “an opportunity to distract” the people of South Boston from the atrocities that were happening in their neighborhood and were something to rally around. He chillingly described the influence on children as an “us against them mentality.”

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This racial tension caused South Boston to become a white fortress, stoked by the promises made by Whitey, whose brother, Billy Bulger, was President of the Massachusetts Senate at the time.

“All of our leaders at the time had to be knowing what was going on, especially Billy Bulger,” said MacDonald.

The violence and drug use only worsened as the years wore on, compiled with the extreme poverty rate. “[South Boston] held the highest concentration of white poverty in America,” MacDonald explained. “They were clinging to hopes that the ‘white thing’ would work out.”

One night, while preparing for a performance at a local pub, a stray bullet from outside their apartment hit MacDonald’s mother.

“The neighborhood looked darker,” he described in hindsight, “I saw very few people get out and many people die.”

Included in those deaths are four of his ten siblings, who he honored years later, along with all other victims of the drug use and violence in South Boston, with a candlelight vigil on All Souls Day. “It’s all about transforming that trauma into something useful,” said MacDonald.

The families of victims lined up out the door and around the building, “waiting to just say the names of their children,” MacDonald explained.

Despite the violence and squalor he experienced, he still considers Southie his home.

“It was not just about being able to get out,” he said, “but being able to come back home.”

Film Review: “Gone Girl”

By Jennifer Ostojski Staff Writer

There once was a handsome husband named Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) and his gorgeous, porcelainfaced wife Amy (Rosamund Pike). Of course, they had the house, the yard, the expensive car, and the comically-orange cat. Everything seemed so wonderful, besides that tiny issue of Amy disappearing on the day of their fifth anniversary. What to do, what to do? “He did it!” screamed the overthrown coffee table in the living room, the insane amount of blood wiped away in the kitchen, the lack of a body and the rather apathetic demeanor of the loving husband. Case closed, right? Well, not so fast.

If that were indeed the case, then this David Fincher-directed movie would be over in roughly 20 minutes. Thankfully, “Gone Girl,” based on the book by the same title, takes the audience on a crazy, sometimes quite creepy, ride through a troubled marriage. Within the first act it becomes clear that their white-picket-marriage facade has more than just small cracks. In the search for Amy, these cracks turn into canyons. I cannot reveal much more about the story. Just spilling any more of the plot line would be the equivalent of shouting “Bruce Willis’ character is dead” during the beginning of “The Sixth Sense.”

An eclectic supporting cast including Neil Patrick Harris (“How I Met Your Mother”) and Tyler Perry (“Diary of a Mad Black Woman”), round out the stellar performances by both Affleck and Pike.

The twists and turns in this seemingly straightforward plot do not leave time to enjoy a minute of boredom in this cinematic adventure. By moving back and forth between flashbacks and the present, Fincher manages to confuse the audience just enough without making a fool out of them. Un-

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less your relationship relies on chills, thrills and a lot of beige tones, this might not be the movie to take your significant other to for date night. For everyone else, there are no explosions, glorified gunfights or excessive gore. However, it will still keep you on the edge of your seat questioning everything you hear and see. No one and nothing can be trusted.

There has been quite the buzz about Affleck’s

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birthday suit scene. Not to spoil much, but it is less a scene, then a glance - so enjoy. Also, for those of you who read the book, don’t worry! Gillian Flynn, author of both the book and the screenplay, changed certain things in the story to surprise her die-hard fans. “Gone Girl” is in theaters right now so show our local hero and future Batman a little bit of box office love.

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October 10, 2014

Campus Conversations How is construction i m p a c t i n g yo u o n c a m p u s ?

By Cesareo Contreras & Brad Leuchte

“I wake up every moring to a backing up truck sound.”

“Just aggravating. Besides that it has no impact. ”

- Jace Williams, freshman

- Tim Rose, junior

“It’s been fine.”

“It made having an 8:30 in Hemenway a living hell.”

- Heather Welsh, sophomore

- Krystan Farrar, junior

“It made noises that I heard.”

- Chris Jackson, junior

“It reminds me why life is worth living at 6 am.”

Edited by Timothy E. Parker October 10, 2014 PLACE MAT By Peterson Lemon ACROSS 1 Piece of history?

6 Idaho exports, informally 11 Animation collectible 14 Boxing venue 15 Lofty nest 16 Historic time 17 Leader 19 Safety device 20 Penny 21 Climbing plant 23 Tapioca plant 27 Hot-dish supports 29 Projecting bay windows 30 Picnic staple 31 Kind of wave 32 Provide quarters for 33 Before, before 36 Caddie’s bagful 37 Brief letter-ending 38 14-Across seating 39 Hearty brew 40 Cries like a baby 41 Clean feathers with the tongue 42 North Polelike

- Victoria Sepavich, senior

44 Leisure pants 45 Radiate or shine 47 Three-syllable poetic foot 48 Aero-dynamic 49 Command to a dog 50 Amniotic ___ 51 Deleting letters, in a way 58 Met display 59 Pond scum, e.g.

60 Apres-ski drink 61 Nod’s indication 62 Indian yogurt dish 63 Dweeb DOWN 1 Brits’air arm 2 Miscalculate 3 Zodiac lion 4 Bed-and-breakfast, e.g.

5 Relative of a boo 6 Place to sweat it out 7 ___ up (confined) 8 Coffeepot for a crowd 9 Parcheesi cube 10 Submissive 11 Arrangement on the table 12 Put up, as a building 13 Plasterwork backers

Last issue’s solutions:

18 Cranks up the V-8 22 Victim of temptation 23 Word with “terra-” 24 Disney mermaid 25 Unintended consequences 26 Caspian and others 27 Guided trips 28 “Lady Sings the Blues” star 30 Was capable of 32 Mandel of TV 34 Exudes unpleasantly 35 ___ & Young (accounting firm) 37 Safecracker, in slang 38 Skeet launcher 40 Place to buy ice cream 41 Make believe, on stage 43 Have regrets 44 Click, as the fingers 45 English exam finale, sometimes 46 Danger signal 47 Bewildered 49 32-card bidding game 52 “Carte” or “mode” word 53 Film special effects technique 54 Cud chewer 55 Hotel freebie 56 Easter predecessor?

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Women’s soccer back on track with two big wins

By Lauren Campbell Sports Editor

Parent, DeSouza reach career milestone

It was a big week for the FSU Women’s Soccer team as they capped it off with two victories and two of their star players reaching the 100-point mark in their collegiate careers.

Senior forwards Isabela DeSouza and Marisa Parent each surpassed the milestone mark in the Rams’ game on Wednesday at Salve Regina, with Parent netting two goals and DeSouza with one.

With the two goals, Parent now sits at 102 points and DeSouza has 101.

Parent said she and DeSouza had no idea they reached the milestone after the game. “We are both very proud of the accomplishment,” she said. “The both of us work very hard at practice and just try to execute that in every game we play.” She added that because she and DeSouza have been playing together for four years, they work extremely well together.

DeSouza added, “I think this is not only a good achievement for us, but [for] our university soccer program.

I have to thank all my teammates for helping me reach this goal.”

The quest for 100 points started on Saturday when Framingham traveled to Salem State to battle it out with the Vikings in a MASCAC matchup.

It was DeSouza who put her team up first in the 18 minute with her teamleading 12 goal when she got a hold of a Vikings pass and found the back of the net.

Despite taking three late shots in the first half, the Rams took a one-goal lead into the break.

The second half was evenly matched between the conference opponents but it was freshman midfielder Kaelen Larocque who gave the Rams some insurance in the 71 minute. The freshman headed a corner kick from sophomore back Angela Pallotta past the Vikings goalie for the 2-0 lead.

With just 2:49 left to play, sophomore goalie Jess Anthony was given a red card and exited the game after

a takedown of a Salem player. Junior Sara Sullivan finished out the rest of the game, seeing her first action in net since suffering a concussion.

Sullivan was quickly put to the test on a Viking scoring attempt, but she rejected the home team from getting on the board, keeping the shutout alive.

Despite leaving the game early, Anthony made six saves while Sullivan made the final two to complete the 2-0 victory.

The win improved the Rams to a 2-1-conference record, putting them in third in the MASCAC standings behind Westfield and Worcester State, who have identical 3-0 records.

The Lady Rams looked to carry on with their winning ways on Wednesday when they traveled to the unfamiliar territory of Salve Regina to take on the 3-7 Seahawks in a nonconference stint.

Sullivan got the nod to start between the pipes for the Rams, appearing in her second-straight game since her injury.

It didn’t take long for Framingham to draw first blood as Sullivan punted the ball to Parent, who was ahead of the Seahawk defense and found the back of the net in the eighth minute.

It took Salve nearly 30 minutes to knot the game at one, but it was Parent who broke the tie just three minutes later, scoring her second goal of the game on as many shots.

Before the first half expired, Framingham was able to add an insurance goal from sophomore midfielder Claryssa Cunniff when Pallotta fed her a pass for the two-goal lead.

The Rams had their lead sliced to one in the 69 minute when Lauren Bulk beat Sullivan after taking a center pass from Ielish Barbati.

Something sparked the Seahawk offense as they tied the game at three with about 15 minutes left on the clock and the game looked as if it was heading to overtime for the fourth time in seven matches for the Rams.

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Senior forwards and co-captains Isabela DeSouza (2) and Marisa Parent each surpassed the 100 point mark in Saturday’s victory, With 2:57 remaining, DeSouza came through for the Rams after a pass from junior forward Brini Varetimos led to the game-winning goal, and DeSouza’s 101 career point.

Despite Salve’s two late shots on Sullivan in the final two minutes of the game, the Rams were able to capture their seventh win of the season.

“Those wins were huge for us,” said Parent. “We were on a two-game losing streak, so those wins helped us get back into a winning streak.”

Framingham bounced back after their two-game skid to win their next two matchups and look to continue that momentum on Maple Street Field when they play host to MCLA in a

MASCAC matinee on Saturday for a 1 p.m. kickoff.

DeSouza said, “We are pretty confident for the game. We have been working hard at practices and working on some things that we struggled with [in] the game before.”

Parent added, “We are preparing for the conference game the same way we prepare for every other game-by working hard and pushing and competing with each other at practice,” Parent said. “We have found a formation and a group of players that work well together. … I’m proud of the way we have adjusted to a lot of adversity.”

MARISA PARENT Points per year

ISABELA DESOUZA

2011: 20 (8 goals, 4 assists)

2011: 29 (13 goals, 3 assists)

2012: 17 (8 goals, 1 assist)

2012: 13 (5 goals, 3 assists)

2013: 41 (18 goals, 5 assists)*

2013: 31 (12 goals, 7 assists)

2014: 24(10 goals, 4 assists)

2014: 28 (13 goals, 2 assists)*

*Team high in goals

*Current team leader this season

Points per year

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Rams football continues to roll behind Silva

By Mike Ferris

Framingham has won three games in a row

Interim Asst. Sports Editor

For the second-straight game, quarterback Matt Silva threw for at least three touchdowns and ran for another, leading Framingham to their third-consecutive win and an unblemished conference record.

Following a 48-14 wallop of UMass.

Dartmouth, Framingham (4-1 overall, 3-0 conference) sits atop the MASCAC. For the second-straight game, the Rams have come out rather sluggish, but second half surges have powered them to victories. In their last two games, Framingham is outscoring opponents 68-7 in the second half.

UMass. Dartmouth looked to have Framingham on the ropes early on. Following a Silva rushing touchdown to take a 7-0 lead, the Corsairs’ Jason Ferri answered the bell with a 12-yard touchdown run of his own.

The two scores were the only of the first quarter and after 15 minutes, the heavily-favored Rams found themselves in a 7-7 deadlock.

Framingham continued to move the ball effectively in the second quarter, and on the longest play of the game, Silva found his number one target, Tevin Jones, for a 57-yard catch-and-run to the end zone. Jones made multiple defenders miss en route to scoring and recaptured the lead for the Rams, 14-7.

It looked as though that would be the halftime score until a late second quar-

yard score, the Rams’ seventh and final touchdown of the contest, with the game already well out of reach.

Silva went 23-31 with three touchdowns and throwing for a season-high 448 yards. After throwing eight interceptions in his first three games, Silva has thrown only two picks the last two weeks. The more the junior quarterback takes care of the football, the easier the wins are coming for the Rams.

Beckmann once again led the team in rushing with 87 yards on 11 attempts and the two touchdowns.

Six Framingham receivers caught at least two passes and seven had at least 20 receiving yards. Jones caught five for 120 yards and three touchdowns, Chris Dagg three for 96, Travis Hayes five for Jenny Wang/The Gatepost 89, Marcus Grant two for 50, Randall Senior safety Kevin Donahue (44) and freshman linebacker Svenn Jacobson Kelleher 3-39, O’Shane McCreath three have a combined total of four sacks and 49 tackles this season. for 32 and Stephen Beahn one for 26.

Despite the possession being split ter drive proved to be the equalizer for Framingham went into the locker down the middle between both teams, the Corsairs. After driving down to the room at the break tied 14-14.

Framingham 28, safety Kevin Donahue While the Corsairs were able to keep the Rams outgained the Corsairs, 615 to came up with a big play, sacking the it close up to that point, the floodgates 219 in total yards.

Framingham will be tested this weekUMass. Dartmouth quarterback, Cory opened at the start of the third quarter. end when they take on Westfield State, Burnham, on the fringe of field goal Framingham outscored UMass. Dart(3-1 overall, 2-0 conference) a game range. mouth 13-0 in the third and 21-0 in the On the ensuing 2 and 17, Burnham fourth. Hunter Beckmann ran for two which will decide first place in the threw one up for his go to receiver, Abio- touchdowns, while Jones caught two MASCAC. Kickoff is set for noon on Saturday at la Aborishade, to go and get. Aborishade more of his own in the half. came down with the pass and crossed The lone Framingham touchdown Bowditch Field. the goal line with 32 seconds remaining that didn’t include Beckmann or Jones, in the half. came when Robert Sivret ran for a 15-

Field Hockey reaches .500, win three in a row

By Andrew Mades STAFF WRITER

After their 4-1 win against Becker, the FSU Field Hockey team defeated Fitchburg State 2-1 on Saturday, and beat Bridgewater State, 3-2 on Wednesday to bring them to a .500 record.

The Rams started the first half strong, with junior Cady Kelly scoring 17 minutes in, her eighth goal this season.

She scored off a rebound from Amie Souza, a freshman, to put Framingham up 1-0.

They were unable to retain the lead for the half as Fitchburg’s Madeline Hoffman tied it with eight minutes left off a pass from Stephanie Stearns.

It remained tied at 1-1.

Putting the Rams up again 10 minutes in into the second half, Kelly scored against Fitchburg’s goalie Judith Valentin with more help from Souza to make the game 2-1.

One point that stands out in the game is the foul differential. Fitchburg was called for 74 fouls while Framingham only tallied 40. The teams will not be meeting again during the regular season.

The field hockey team is 4-2 on the road this season.

They travel to Westfield State on Saturday for an LEC game.

Their next game, against Bridgewater State, was overall much cleaner with more shots on goal. The Bears led to begin the game, but would be unable to keep the Rams from coming back for the win.

The Bears tallied the first goal of the game 10 minutes in when Junior Brittney Field snuck her shot past the Rams junior goaltender Rosemary Talbot. They held the lead at 1-0 for most of the first half until 31:58, when Amie Souza scored her third goal of the season to tie the game with only three minutes remaining in the first.

The next goal, 24 minutes into the second half, came

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in a turnaround after Talbot blocked a flurry of shots by Bridgewater. Kelly put the Rams up 2-1 with an assist by Souza.

Four minutes after Kelly’s goal, the Rams scored again when Souza extended the lead. That brought Souza’s total for the night to two goals and an assist.

Bridgewater proved why extending the lead is always a good thing, when they came back with a goal from Tori O’Dea that got past Talbot with a long shot from the right wing. That was the last goal for Bridgewater, however, as Talbot made four saves on the night.

Senior defender Emma Littlefield, said of the team that “[we’re] really connecting on our passing” and that highlights include “our giveand-goes and working together”.

The team travels again on Saturday to Westfield State to face the Owls in their seventh LEC matchup of the season.

The Lady Rams dropped all three matches at the 34 Annual Crabtree Classic on Oct. 4. They were defeated by Wheaton College, University of New England and Eastern Connecticut State University.

FSU opened play with a close game versus University of New England, losing the first two sets, 25-20 and 25-19. The Rams came back strong in the third set and won 25-20, forcing a fourth set where they fell 25-20.

Next up was Wheaton College who defeated the Rams 3-1. This proved to be another tight matchup. FSU lost the first set, 25-19 and won the second, 27-25. They fell 2521 and 25-23 in the third and fourth sets.

Their final match of the day was against host Eastern Connecticut State University, where they fell 3-1.

Last year, FSU walked away with the tournament title, defeating University of New England, UMass. Dartmouth and Eastern Connecticut State University.

The Rams broke a threegame losing streak with an easy win versus Mount Ida at home on Tuesday, Oct. 7, boosting their record to 14-7.

Offense was led by sophomore Julia Wan, who had seven kills, nine digs and three aces while sophomore Alycia Rackliffe tacked on nine kills.

The Rams received a strong defensive performance from senior captain Courtney Wilbur, who had 14 digs and junior Danielle Girard added 10.

On Thursday, Framingham played host to the 5-13 Suffolk Rams.

Head coach Richard Casali had something to celebrate when the Lady Rams defeated Suffolk, 3-0, marking Casali’s 200 career win. Rackliffe led the way with 15 kills and Wan was right behind her with 12.

The Rams get set for a nonconference tri-match on Saturday at Western Connecticut starting at 2 p.m.

Sports

OCT. 10, 2014

Men’s soccer ends losing streak

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DaSilva scores game-winner against Salem State

By Lauren Campbell Sports Editor

The men’s soccer team halted their losing skid on Saturday in a matinee bout when they hosted the struggling Salem State Vikings on Maple Street Field in a MASCAC showdown.

The Rams put one on the board just three minutes in after the Vikings committed a foul, setting up a direct kick for the visiting team. Junior midfielder Cory Cardeiro shot from 30 yards out into the

net before Salem could set up their defense to stop him.

Framingham took a one-goal lead into the break and the teams battled it out for over an hour without another goal until the Vikings capitalized on a penalty kick, tying the game at one.

With just over five minutes left on the clock, senior midfielder Bryan DaSilva broke the deadlock with his own 30-yard

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Sophomore goalie Jake Nichols only needed to make two saves in Framingham’s 2-1 victory over Salem State.

He has made 54 total saves in the season.

Cross Country finishes strong behind freshman Chamberlain

By Jennifer Johnson ASST. SPORTS EDITOR

Rounding Freshman Haley The Women’s out the comcross country team Chamberlain finished petition for finished fourth at the Rams were the Tri-State Infirst in a pool of 72 freshman Hanvitational on SatRogers, juurday Oct. 4 in runners at the Tri- nah nior Emma HaLincoln, Rhode Island.

State Invitational with zen, sophomore Mikaela RanaFreshman standa time of 20:02:97 han and sophoout Haley Chammore Jillian berlain won the Preman all finrace coming in at a ishing in the 24th minute. Juniors time of 20:02.97. She finished the Jenna Anan and Rachel Holland race just two seconds ahead of the second place finisher in a field of finished with times of 25:03.25 and 26:55.19.

72 runners.

For her impressive performance The next best time posted by an FSU runner was junior Hannah Chamberlain received the honor of Daly with a time of 21:48.06 com- Women’s MASCAC Rookie of the week as well as Women’s MASing in 22nd place.

Three runners finished within CAC Runner of the week for the the 22nd minute: freshman Emily week ending Oct. 5.

She was also named the ECAC Mulloy, sophomore Courtney TorNew England Co-Rookie of the res and freshmen Megan Peterson Week. respectively.

On Saturday, the Rams will run Junior Morgan Zabinski finagain at Westfield State when they ished in 40th place with a time of 23:44.91 and freshmen Valerie compete in the James Earley InviThibaud finished right behind her tational at 11 a.m. with a time of 23:52.52.

shot that sailed over the Vikings’ net minder to put the Rams up, 2-1.

Framingham improved to 4-5-1 with the win while Salem suffered their ninth loss of the season, falling to 1-9. The Vikings offense has struggled this season, only scoring six goals in 10 games.

In a game where the defense struggled, the Rams outshot their opponent, 17-13, while sophomore goalie Jake Nichols made two saves, allowing one goal improving his save percentage to .766.

Both Cardeiro and DaSilva each scored their third goal on the season.

Framingham continued their road trip on Wednesday when they traveled to Springfield to take on the Pride in a nonconference game.

Senior forward Maycon Malta tried to tally the game’s first goal but he was unsuccessful against the Pride goalie, Billy Schmid.

After freshman midfielder Suhairu Kato’s shot was blocked, Springfield’s Harrison Davis put the home team up after he was able to beat Nichols for his first career goal for the 1-0 lead.

The two teams went back and forth for the remainder of the half before the whistle blew, signaling half time.

Freshman forward Jamie Plowman tried to give the Rams the tying goal quickly after the start of the half, but

Schmid came through again, making his second save on the night.

The Pride added an insurance goal in the 54 minute and another three minutes later, to put Framingham in a 3-0 hole.

Cardeiro attempted to score the Rams’ first goal shortly after a Springfield goalie change, but the Pride’s defense came up strong and blocked Cardeiro’s shot, keeping the shutout alive.

With the 3-0 loss, the Rams slip to 4-6-1 overall and have yet to win two games in a row through their first 11 games.

The team has scored 15 goals, six of them coming from freshmen Jamie Plowman and Kato.

Kato said despite the loss, he still has confidence in his team. “I honestly feel like we have a good team. We have the chance to do something really big this year.”

Framingham is back in MASCAC action as they travel to take on MCLA on Saturday. Both teams have an identical 2-1 conference record, but MCLA is sitting at the top of the charts with a 6-5 overall record.

Bridgewater State and Mass. Maritime also have 2-1 MASCAC records.

Kickoff is slated for 1 p.m. as both teams will duel it out as the Rams look to bring their record back to .500.

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Works of art

Top left: Senior Sarah Libby was inspired by cracks and stains on everyday items in her latest white based painting.

Top center and right: The woodcut printmaking by senior Terrence Tavares will be shown along with other student art in the exhibit in the Maz Gal on Tuesday Oct. 14.

Bottom left: Senior Keith Faherty symbolizes isolation and frustration with normal portraiture in his “close up everyday” paintings.

Right and bottom center: Senior Ariana Gath’s painted tape tree is constructed with “crazy colors” not found in nature.

Bottom right: Combining her favorite aesthetics, senior Marissa Jordan works on an ocean-inspired clay bowl.

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