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Gatepost survey finds majority of students are unhappy with choices for president

By Cesareo Contreras Arts & Features Editor Andrew Willoughby Interim Arts & Features Editor Paola Florencio Kate Shane Staff Writers

Two hundred fifty-seven students who are registered to vote, or 80 percent, are dissatisfied with their choices for president, according to an unscientific survey conducted by The Gatepost.

The survey was administered from Sept. 29 to Oct. 7.

Of the 400 students surveyed, 320 said they were registered to vote.

The survey found 187 registered students, or 58 percent, said they support Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton as the next U.S. president.

Thirty-six registered students, or 11 percent, indicated they support Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

Eleven registered students, or 3

percent, said they will support Green party candidate Jill Stein, and another 12 students, or 4 percent, said they will support Libertarian Gary Johnson.

Seventy-one registered respondents, or 22 percent, have not decided whom they are voting for.

Sociology professor Virginia Rutter said, “The overarching pattern is

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Students concerned about race relations, student debt and climate change

By Allison Wharton Editorial Staff

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Teach in focuses on climate change

By Julia Sarcinelli Associate Editor The Climate Change, System Change: Thriving in the Anthropocene teach in was held this week with 20 classes across eight departments taking part, according to Vandana Singh, physics and earth sciences chair.

“We want as many interdisciplinary departments as possible to take up climate change. It’s the ultimate interdisciplinary problem,” said Singh.

The teach in was organized by Singh and professors Larry McKen-

na and Kevin Surprise who are all interim co-directors of the Center for Climate Change Education.

According to Singh, the goals of the center are to teach about climate change, provide student internships, support the Green Team and work with the Milford school district and connect with local governments.

Singh said they plan on doing the teach in every semester, and “every semester, we hope to add more and more people and spread the word until it becomes something that is redundant because everyone is doing it.”

Nicholas Murphy Sarah Sousa Richard Tranfaglia Staff Writers

The goal for the teach in is to recognize that climate change is a serious problem and to encourage students “to be positive change-makers in the world and to enable them to have a sense of empowerment,” said Singh.

She added, “Climate change is a very depressing topic. It’s very natural to feel despair once you learn about the signs. However, part of being an adult is to face things that are difficult. We can’t do it alone.

It’s impossible to face this on an individual basis.”

In her class Physics, Nature, and

Students believe race relations, student indebtedness and climate change are the most important issues the nation must address, according to a Gatepost unscientific survey of 400 respondents.

The survey was conducted from Sept. 29 to Oct. 7.

The survey found that 298 students, or 75 percent, said the topic of race relations is an important issue facing the U.S. These findings mirror the result of a survey conducted by the Washington Post-ABC News in July. That poll asked participants to rate the importance of electing a candidate who puts race relations on the forefront of issues the country should address.

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See STUDENT CONCERNS page 6

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By Jillian Poland Staff Writer What is your academic and employment background?

I finished my doctoral degree from Kansas State University this summer, actually. So, I’m a very fresh graduate. I came from Bangladesh, so I have teaching experience from Bangladesh and I was a graduate teaching assistant at Kansas State University. But as a full-time faculty member in the U.S., this is my first job. My bachelor’s degree was in textile engineering, and then I did a master’s, basically an MBA, in advanced engineering management. … Other experience in terms of the industry - I worked in industry four years as a merchandiser back in Bangladesh. Then I did an internship in the U.S. probably summer 2014 in a local industry in Kansas.

What was your favorite undergraduate experience?

I recall a field trip in the industry.

That was the first time I saw how this intricate design can be developed, especially on fabric. That is something I can still remember.

And another is, on that day, that was the first time I was in the industry and I saw there is a very minute problem in the production process and I can understand that that problem can be eliminated by a very simple process. It does not mean that the people working on that industry are not efficient, they are experienced, but somehow they dealt with bigger problems, not this kind of small problem. So, once I noticed this problem, I gave the information to the production manager and he actually liked my solution. That was kind of my best memory.

What was it like transitioning from Bangladesh to the United States?

That’s a huge transition. One of the things that being an international student was that most of the time, I had to step out of my comfort zone, take all these other comfort zones and transfer them to my comfort zone. So, this is a big leap. Bangla-

desh is 8,500 miles from here. …

There is a cultural leap, a cultural difference. I had to learn culture first, definitely, and also the way of learning and the way of teaching is part of culture, as well. In the United States, I had to observe how they can learn and how they can teach. I mentioned I was a graduate teaching assistant over there, so I had teach and be a student. So, in a shell, it was really a big challenge for me. But you know, within one year, I figured out that I had to adapt some culture here - it’s a good way - so I learned something here. I observed people and I infused those things inside me and I follow those things. Also, in Bangladesh, we have more control with the students. Here, it’s kind of opposite. It has a little bit of leeway, so the student can feel their freedom. I like this, to be honest, compared to Bangladesh, to be honest, because then you can have your own way, a student can have their own words and they can choose what they like. That is something really important to be successful, especially in this discipline. Initially, these were challenges, but I adopted strategies, I observed others, so that I could face these challenges and I could overcome these problems by myself, and I believe I did good work on this thing.

Why did you go into fashion and textile design?

In order to answer this question, I need to talk about my country a little bit. Exporting apparel is one of the biggest foreign currency earning sectors in my country.

Out of 100 dollars, around 82 dollars, 82 percent, foreign currency is earned from this sector. That is an economic reason. Apart from this, this sector - I am talking about fashion and textile - 80 percent of the workers in my country, in the world, are women. So a country like mine - my country is a developing country - this sector gives women a voice, a strength, an opportunity to earn for their family. It is a kind of women empowerment. Before this, they had no job, but for this sector they have their own job. They earn money so that they can have their

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voice and their family. They can send their kids to school, because now they can afford that thing. It’s not that they can live a very high standard of living - not like this but still it helps them. Also, I like to observe people. That is one of my strengths. I like to see people and what they are doing from a little bit farther away, so one of the things I wonder is, “Why do people wear such different kinds of dress in a different event, in a different occasion, in a different day, and what intrigues them to wear certain dress? … What is the thinking process behind this thing?”

What advice would you give to FSU students?

This is my first semester. What I have found is that the students here, they are really smart. Especially, I’ve seen these students are really passionate to learn something. I love to let them know something new in the classroom, to offer them something new. I can see the spark in their eyes when they’re learning something new in the classroom. … All the students I can see, they have a merit.

If they deal with their smartness in the right way, if we show them as a teacher and as a University the right way, if we nurture them in the right way, I believe that there will be no competitor of them. They will be a competitor to each other.

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Teach in Continued from page 1 Society, Singh said she introduced the basic signs of climate change and her students then completed worksheets and used the Internet to conduct more research before presenting to the class.

Anthony Sheehan, a senior, said in class discussion, “I think people aren’t worried about it because they’re lazy and don’t want to educate themselves. If you look at the U.S., the U.K. and countries like that that have perfect access to Internet and they can educate themselves on it, there’s a lot of talk about climate change that should pique their interest and they should learn about it.”

Valerie Paradise, a junior, said she was concerned to learn about “the positive feedback loop going on, especially with the ice in the waters. The heating right now is melting the ice, which exposes more water. … It’s kind of frightening that’s the case because it kind of puts you in the place where it’s like, ‘How does that end?’ So that stood out to me.”

Justin Kohl, a senior, said, “It’s clearly been shown humans play a significant impact on climate change.”

In regards to the title for the teach in, Singh said, “Human beings for the first time are having an impact on the Earth’s systems that is of a geological scale, so the Anthropocene is basically the

we are going to try to think about how do we work through it.”

English professor Elaine Beilin participated in the teach in with her Shakespeare class.

She asked her students to read an ecocritic and write a paragraph in small groups about ways Shakespeare represented the environment through uses of metaphors and nature imagery.

She said ecocriticism is a big field in English studies and particularly for Shakespeare because many of his plays “are just loaded with metaphors and imagery related to the natural world or all the characters actually go to the natural world.”

In Shakespeare’s time, Beilin said people were constantly debating whether humans were the center of the universe or part of a larger system.

“The conversations that we’re still having, they were really important discussions that were happening in Shakespeare’s times,” she said.

Beilin said she has spoken with Singh before about how the humanities and the sciences should work together on big problems such as climate change.

“I think it’s partly been the conversations we’ve been having over time that this would be a great moment to get my students interested in this and involved in it,” she said.

Ryan Toomey, a senior, said in Beilin’s class, they looked at how Shakespeare used nature and the

“Climate change is a very depressing topic. It’s very natural to feel despair once you learn about the signs. However, part of being an adult is to face things that are difficult. We can’t do it alone.

It’s impossible to face this on an individual basis.”

- Vandana Singh, physics and earth science chair

world that humans have made and it’s a world that is crashing down because ecosystems are being destroyed.”

At the end of last semester’s Black Lives Matter teach in, Singh said the faculty had round table discussions where they decided “that we wanted to get into the nitty-gritty of climate change but in a way that is not all doom and gloom and despair. We are not going to deny the very difficult and terrifying aspects of climate change, but

environment as a literary device for his works such as “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “Henry V.” He said, “It is more than just the background setting. In his work, nature becomes a character in its own right.”

Toomey added the teach in was a chance for the humanities and sciences to work together. “With such a heavy focus on the STEM fields, we tend to forget that the lit and art majors also have a voice.”

History professor Stefan Papioannou said in an email that he

Julia Sarcinelli/THE GATEPOST Vandana Singh and her Physics, Nature and Society class discuss climate change during the teach in.

participated in the teach in for his Global Studies 101 sections.

He said he asked his students to research how the country they are tracking for the course is affected by and affects climate change, and showed a video clip of the Dakota Access Pipeline protest at Standing Rock for discussion.

Papioannou said he chose to participate in the teach in because he felt he could learn a lot about the subject along with his students.

“The idea of a ‘teach in’ originated historically as a way for people to teach and learn all together, rather than according to the traditional model that separates a teacher from the students. I think that’s very appropriate for an issue like this,” he said.

Audrey Kali, a communications arts professor, said in an email she addressed how effective communication is important to help publicize climate change.

“Written and spoken words, combined with well-designed graphics and images, are what is needed to reach out to all segments of our society. Someone can have a well-intentioned message supported by research and evidence, but if that message is not communicated artfully, appropriately and skillfully, its reception will fall short of the communicator’s expectations,” she said.

Sociology professor Lina Rincón gave her Migration in Global Era students articles to read about people affected by climate change. She then showed her students footage from Hurricane Katrina and asked them to list other natural disasters,

leading to a conversation about who is responsible.

She said they discussed the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and how it is funded to respond to crisis and emergencies, but no funding is provided for preventative measures.

“We used this discussion to be critical about how it’s good that we have these national and local solutions, but they fall short sometimes. They actually make other problems worse,” said Rincón.

She added students then tried to “tackle the idea of figuring out how to solve or how to be mindful or how to prevent environmental disasters as a result of climate change, but also how as a global solution rather than a national solution we could take care of climate-change refugees.”

The “bottom line” for Rincón was “creating citizenship. Regardless of whether you have to write a paper or be part of the discussion in your classroom, I think these interventions in our classrooms are so important because it’s reminding students and also faculty that we are instrumental in social change. It’s not just passing and getting your degree, but what happens after this.”

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Presidential survey Continued from page 1 that students are strongly opposed to Trump.”

President F. Javier Cevallos said, “Our students’ opinions are consistent with the national view,” in regards to students’ unhappiness with the candidates.

Christopher McCarthy-Latimer, chair of the political science department, said many voters have a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” mentality, and see voting in the presidential election as picking the “lesser of two evils.”

McCarthy-Latimer said he isn’t surprised many students are dissatisfied with their choices for president, as Clinton and Trump are carrying “a huge amount of baggage.”

He added, “I ask my classes all the time, ‘Why don’t you like Hillary Clinton?’ And they don’t trust her.

Students don’t trust her. Young people don’t trust her.”

The same is true for Trump, he said.

“They think he has a very bad temperament and wouldn’t be a good president. He is kind of scary in terms of nuclear weapons and maybe has a strong connection with Russia,” he said. “That’s why the negatives are almost equally high for both candidates.”

McCarthy-Latimer said many voters in this election cycle wonder, “Why did I register to vote if these are my choices and they’re both awful?”

Sociology professor Jonathan Martin said it “makes sense” voters don’t know a lot of information about the third-party candidates “since these candidates get much less money and media coverage.

“All of this suggests to me that

Many survey respondents called Clinton a “liar.”

Another anonymous survey respondent said they “can’t trust” her.

“I’m going to flip a coin - if its heads, I probably won’t vote and if its tails, I probably won’t vote. We’ll see,” said one respondent.

Junior Deron Hines said he doesn’t think either of the candidates is ideal and both are “messing with our heads.”

He added, “Trump, for one, doesn’t have any major policies, but with Hillary on the other side, she is the obvious choice, but there is a lot of stuff that she stands for that I don’t agree with, but I can’t vote for the racist.”

For many students, this will be the first election in which they will be able to vote.

Cevallos said, “I hope students will look past the campaign … and once the election is over, focus on the future.”

One survey respondent said, “For my first year being legal to vote, the candidates aren’t ideal. I’ll be voting for Trump because my political beliefs match up best with his. Also, Hillary is a compulsive liar.”

History professor Joseph Adelman said, “It’s actually quite heartening to me” that such a large percentage of students are registered to vote.

“One of the things as a historian of the United States, and as somebody whose research work is on the American Revolution, part of my job is helping to encourage students to think about the civic nature of their education and all the civic responsibilities that come with a college education,” he said.

Adelman added, “Part of what it means to be an American is to be engaged in society and make these

“We know through national polls that most young people are not satisfied with the two-party system and prefer to be independent. The numbers in the survey verify that assumption for FSU students.”

- Javier Cevallos, FSU president

our democracy isn’t functioning very well,” he added.

Students were vocal about their disdain for one or both of the two major candidates.

One survey respondent called Trump “the modern-day Hitler.”

Another referred to him as “the Antichrist.”

choices.”

One hundred ninety-four survey respondents, or 49 percent, are unaffiliated with any political party.

One hundred fifty-one survey respondents, or 38 percent, identify as Democrats and 35, or 9 percent, identify as Republicans.

Seven survey respondents, or 2

percent, identify as Libertarian and five, or 1 percent, identify as members of the Green party.

Three survey takers, or less than 1 percent, answered “other.”

Cevallos said, “We know through national polls that most young people are not satisfied with the two-party system and prefer to be

voting no.

“I don’t think that there is enough information about gambling, because we just got a casino in Massachusetts and they think that it’s going to make all this money and they don’t know the effects it will have on everything else,” she said.

She added, “A lot of people are op-

For whom will you vote for in the 2016 presidential election?

Johnson/Weld Trump/Pence

Not Sure

12 36 71

11 Stein/Baraka 3 N/A 187

Clinton/Kaine

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independent. The numbers in the survey verify that assumption for FSU students.”

Ballot question 1 Of the registered respondents, 171 students, or 53 percent, will vote yes on Massachusetts ballot question 1, and 140, 44 percent, will vote no.

According to ballotpedia.com, “A ‘yes’ vote [on question 1 will support the] proposal to grant the Massachusetts Gaming Commission the ability to issue an additional slots license.”

Since the license will be issued to a predetermined location, Cevallos said, “It should be up to the specific community to decide if they want a slot parlor or not.”

Psychology professor Michael Greenstein found the survey responses to ballot question 1 “somewhat disheartening,” since “slot machines are pretty much the most addictive form of gambling there is.

“They use immediate, variable reinforcement, which gets people hooked on the rush of winning, but makes it hard to realize when you’re losing,” he said. “This really fast tracks the path to pathological gambling, which is … the negative side effect of gambling that we want to avoid.”

Senior Maddie Alper plans on

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posed to it to begin with. And also, it supports horseracing and they treat the horses horribly and it is animal abuse. … It’s terrible.”

Sophomore Steven Furtney plans on voting no.

“I don’t want more traffic in Massachusetts,” he said. “Also, slot machines are the most useless and boring form of gambling.”

Sophomore Jarid Brogan plans on voting yes “because the gambling restrictions in Massachusetts are ridiculous and people should be allowed to open places to gamble.”

One hundred forty-four registered survey respondents, or 45 percent, will be voting no on question 2. One hundred sixty-three, 51 percent, will vote yes. The remaining 4 percent did not respond.

Ballot question 2 According to ballotpedia.com, “A ‘yes’ vote [on question 2 will support the] proposal to authorize up to 12 new charter schools or enrollment expansions in existing charter schools by the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education per year.”

Junior Seth Signa said, “Personally, I’m going with the option to not open more charter schools. I understand some people ... have gone to them and love them and all that, but why delegate the money they

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Presidential survey are asking for new ones instead of improvements on what’s there already? Plus, I don’t like the idea of them being privately run but wanting public funds and taking from public schools.”

Cevallos said charter schools are important to their respective communities. “The challenge is financing those schools without taking resources from the K-12 districts.”

He added, “The real answer is

How will you vote on Massachusetts ballot question 1?

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a yes vote supports this proposal to grant the Massachusetts Gaming Commission the ability to issue an additional slots license.

a no vote opposes this proposal, retaining the current law that allows three resort casinos and one slots parlor.

How will you vote on Massachusetts ballot question 2?

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a yes vote supports this proposal to authorize

up to 12 new charter schools or enrollment expansions in existing charter schools by the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education per year.

a no vote opposes this proposal to authorize

up to 12 new charter schools or enrollment expansions in existing charter schools, thereby maintaining the current charter school cap.

How will you vote on Massachusetts ballot question 3?

234 62

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a yes vote supports this proposal to

prohibit the sale of eggs, veal, or pork of a farm animal confined in spaces that prevent the animal from lying down, standing up, extending its limbs, or turning around.

a no vote opposes this proposal.

How will you vote on Massachusetts ballot question 4?

241 69

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a yes vote supports this proposal to legalize marijuana but regulate it in ways similar to alcoholic beverages.

a no vote opposes this proposal to legalize

recreational marijuana, keeping only medical marijuana legal.

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comprehensive school financing reform.”

Criminology professor Martel Pipkins said the number of registered survey respondents who are in favor of question 2 “was a bit startling” given FSU was the first normal school in the nation.

A normal school is an institution that trains teachers.

“Although the numbers were a bit close between those who plan to vote for and against [question 2], the number of yes votes suggests either a lack of information or too much misinformation on the reality of charter schools,” said Pipkins.

Pipkins suggested there is a misconception about charter schools.

“A common idea … is that they are more successful and better run than public schools. On a whole, this is not true,” Pipkins said.

Ballot question 3 Of the respondents registered to vote, 243, or 76 percent, will vote yes on question 3 and 62, or 19 percent, will vote no.

According to ballotpedia.com, “A ‘yes’ vote [on question 3 will support] the proposal to prohibit the sale of eggs, veal, or pork of a farm animal confined in spaces that prevent the animal from lying down, standing up, extending its limbs, or turning around.”

Junior Kathleen Schipelliti said she will be voting yes on question 3, as “the welfare of animals is important.

“It is immoral for us to keep animals in conditions where they are unable to turn around, or even lie down,” she said. “This is inhumane and provides a poor quality of life, and changing this will begin a reform in the way we raise farm animals.”

Junior Doug Murphy said voting yes is the “obvious” answer.

“This is simply putting ethics above convenient prices,” he said.

“If you could vote to end sweatshop labor despite the higher clothing prices that would result, would you not?”

Sophomore Mike Brule, who is voting no, said, “I read the article in the last Gatepost between Jill [Poland] and Tess [Jillson], and I agreed with how this will inflate the prices of food in Massachusetts like it did in California.”

Sociology professor Jim McQuaid said he “isn’t at all surprised” by the results.

“I think the moral equation, that the horrifying suffering that the animals will go through, outweighs slightly more expensive eggs or beef or pork,” he said.

Ballot question 4 Two hundred forty-one registered respondents, or 75 percent, will vote

yes on question 4, while 69, or 22 percent, will vote no.

According to ballotpedia.com, “A ‘yes’ vote [on question 4 supports the] proposal to legalize marijuana but regulate it in ways similar to alcoholic beverages.”

Freshman Jennie O’Leary will be voting no.

“I feel like there’s no way of guaranteeing an escape from it if you don’t want to be around it,” she said.

Sophomore Victoria Brown will also vote no on question 4 “because people already get weed even though it’s illegal. It doesn’t have to be legalized because people get it either way.”

Senior Megan Muse will be voting yes on question 4.

“In high school, they try to scare you into not smoking weed,” she said.

health. Students are wise to that.”

Voting After viewing the survey results, sophomore Nada Shaaban said she was surprised anyone would vote for Trump.

“Even if 398 people said they weren’t going to vote for Trump, [I think] it’s more mind blowing that two people would vote for Trump.”

Junior Samantha Chandler said students should “just go vote because democracy is a privilege.”

Sophomore Britney Cita is “not super thrilled with either of the candidates.”

However, she urged all registered students to vote. “It’s a waste not to vote. … Every vote counts. A lot of people think, ‘If i don’t vote, it’s not going to make a difference,’ but

Are you registered to vote?

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Are you satisfied with your choices for president this year?

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She said marijuana has helped her with “anxiety and depression, insomnia and even menstrual cramps. … Marijuana isn’t the boogeyman it’s helped millions of people.”

Junior Joy Rizzo will also be voting yes “because the tax revenue could be greatly beneficial.

“It would create a whole new field of jobs. It would regulate the substance which is important to parents, and it is really not damaging to one’s health, or at least [not] any more so than alcohol, cigarettes or prescriptions drugs,” she said.

According to Cevallos, the ballot is “not about [the legalization of] marijuana, but the whole issue of prison reform and social justice associated with it.”

McCarthy-Latimer said there is “still much unknown” about the impact marijuana has had on states that have legalized it.

Massachusetts needs to assess the potential effect legalized marijuana will have on the commonwealth, he said.

Rutter said, “These types of laws are really about social control and commerce. They are not about

it will.”

McCarthy-Latimer said it is paramount students go out and vote.

“The reason why people over 60 get a lot from Congress is because they have high percentages of people who vote,” he said. “So I say, ‘If you want to have more of an impact, as young people, 18-to-28-year-olds, you’ve got to get out and vote!’”

Cevallos said, “I am happy to see that the majority of our students take their civic duties seriously.”

Rutter said, “I want people to vote. I want people to be informed.

I want people to be engaged. I want people to be proactive.”

SGA Ezequiel De Leon said, “Being a black man, I think about the civil rights movement and how that means that I can vote today. … When you don’t vote, you let other people decide for you.”

[Editor’s Note: Nicholas Murphy, Sarah Sousa, Richard Tranfaglia and Allison Wharton contributed to this article.]

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Student concerns Continued from page 1

Race relations Seventy-five percent of the 1,003 anonymous survey participants in the ABC News poll said improving race relations is a very or extremely important issue.

During his weekly address on July 16, President Barack Obama said, “The issues we’re grappling with go back decades, even centuries. But if we can open our hearts to try and see ourselves in one another, if we can worry less about which side has been wronged and worry more about joining sides to do right … then I’m confident that together, we will lead our country to a better day.”

University President F. Javier Cevallos said in an email, “Race relations have been a national issue over the last year, and the campaign has brought to it a new level of scrutiny. My hope is that we will learn from it and move forward to create a culture where we respect each other and truly value the great diversity … of our country.”

Sociology Professor Virginia Rutter said, “I think that the generalizations that get made about college-aged people and millennials are very silly. What I find with my students or when I meet other young people, I find an enormous amount of diversity. … They understand the complex policies that people are presenting.”

Junior Karli McKie said she agrees with students who responded that race relations are an important issue to address. “I think that at this point in time, we should be kind of ahead of that. … It’s crazy to think that even in 2016, people don’t have the same privileges that they deserve as humans.”

Communication Arts Professor Audrey Kali agreed with the poll findings that race relations are a challenge facing the U.S. “There are still hate crimes going on today.

At Framingham, we do not have diversity. You still see the black kids only sitting with the black kids, and the white kids only sitting with the white kids, and that is not diversity.

We need to find the importance of true diversity.”

Daniel Stevens, a senior, said, “Racism is not as severe as in the past, but it still happens on a minor scale. It still shouldn’t happen anyway.”

Sean Huddleston, chief officer of diversity, inclusion and community engagement, said the fact that 75 percent of survey respondents believe racism is an important issue does not surprise him. It is “disappointing that in 2016, the divides caused by racism are in many ways still as prevalent today as they were during the height of the civil rights movement.”

Huddleston said he understands why students think racism is an important issue.

He attributes students’ concerns to the 2016 presidential election, issues between law enforcement and communities of color and racism on college campuses.

“Racism is still an unresolved issue in the United States despite the progress that has been made,” said Huddleston.

Students need to become “architects of the solution,” he added.

“Through personal commitment, vigilance, constructive activism and open dialogue, I believe our students can help shape a culture that simply does not tolerate racism or any other form of marginalization,” said Huddleston.

Freshman Drew Morrison said, “I don’t know why it’s not 400 students” in the survey who think racism is an important issue.

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Sophomore Dan Burdick said the U.S. is one of the countries with the most student debt. “I hope we find something to help us out. Other countries have figured out ways.”

According to usnews.com, the average national debt for a 2016 graduate is $37,172, a 6 percent increase from last year.

Junior Caleb Mason said, “I feel like a bachelor’s degree should not cost as much as it does. You need a minimum of a bachelor’s degree to even make a living wage in America. There should be more financial aid for undergraduate degrees so we can provide for our families and survive in this economy.”

Psychology professor and faculty union president Robert Donohue said Massachusetts institutions of public higher education are extremely expensive in relation to those outside of the Bay State.

“It is commonly believed that Massachusetts is very progressive

“Environmental issues aren’t something that are going to go away … so it’s good to see that we as a campus have this issue on our minds. It’s important that we continue to acknowledge and address environmental issues going forward.”

- Carl Hakansson, geography professor

Ferraro said, “Over the last thirty years, there’s been a sense that the best way to address racism is to pretend as if race doesn’t exist.

This happens in political discussions, in media and in school classrooms throughout the country and at all levels. While we’d like to get to Dr. King’s vision of a nation in which we are judged ‘not by the color of our skin but by the content of our character,’ pretending that race doesn’t exist actually moves us further from that goal.”

Senior Jay Ebersole said, “We experience racism every day,” even if it is not overt.

Kezia Miller, a freshman, said, “It depends on the person and their background. … Racism is important now because of the police brutality becoming a daily occurrence.”

Of the students surveyed, 282 or 71 percent rated the amount of student debt as important, regarding it as a challenge facing the U.S. Cevallos said student debt is a “national issue.” The average student debt at Framingham State is a “reasonable” $22,000, but is “still a significant amount of money.”

or liberal, but at the same time, the state is burdening our students in public higher education institutions to an extent that far exceeds other colleges in other states,” he said.

Donohue added students are constrained by their financial status after they graduate college.

“It’s bad for the economy. Think about how little discretionary income most college graduates have because so much of it goes to paying off student debt.”

College education is incredibly expensive in Massachusetts and, “it doesn’t have to be that way. It’s a political decision,” said Donohue.

Junior Thalia Jimenez said, “There shouldn’t be any [student debt]. Every student from lower-income families should have access to the same opportunities for higher education that students from higher-income families have.”

Junior Karli McKie said, “I have a fear of being in debt forever.”

Climate change Of the students surveyed, 268 or 67 percent said climate change

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is an important issue that poses a significant challenge to the U.S. Cevallos said, “Climate change is a reality that will affect our lives and the lives of generations to come.”

Senior Valerie Leger said, “The science of climate change is perfectly clear, so it’s crazy to me that a presidential candidate denies that it exists. If we don’t address climate change, we won’t have a planet to live on.”

According to the homepage of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), “Small changes in the average temperature of the planet can translate to large and potentially dangerous shifts in climate and weather.”

Junior Lacy Waskiewicz said, “It’s affecting our environment. There is waste polluting our oceans. It is really sad.”

Geography professor Carl Hakansson said, “Environmental issues aren’t something that are going to go away … so it’s good to see that we as a campus have this issue on our minds. It’s important that we continue to acknowledge and address environmental issues going forward.”

Senior Daniel Stevens said, “We should preserve the earth for the future generations to come. We shouldn’t be careless and destroy it right now.”

Daniel Ghirardi, a senior, said, “Not enough people are formally educated about climate change.

They believe what they see on social media.”

Freshman Lauren Paolini said, “I think climate change is an issue that needs to be covered more.”

Undocumented immigrants Of the students surveyed, 144 or 36 percent indicated undocumented immigrants are an important challenge facing the U.S. According to the United States Department of Homeland Security, “The number of illegal immigrants peaked around 12 million in 2007 and has gradually declined to closer to 11 million since.”

The Center for Migration Studies (CMS) reported that the number of undocumented immigrants has fallen under 11 million, which according to CMS hasn’t occurred since 2003.

Ferraro said the issue of undocumented immigrants is “framed in terms of crime and economics - that undocumented immigrants bring violence and take away jobs.

“As for economics, we’re coming out of the worst recession in nearly a century. Many Americans remain either un- or underemployed.” said Ferraro.

He added, “Many undocumented immigrants pay taxes, despite claims to the contrary. … It’s money

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that goes to state and federal governments that never gets recouped by the workers themselves.”

Ferraro said, “Among crime and immigration scholars, the general thinking is that undocumented immigrants would be less likely to engage in crime since the costs of migration to the U.S. for them are highest and the risk of deportation for them is greatest.”

Cevallos said, “The rhetoric around the issue during this election has been very divisive. We need to move past the slogans and think of the real lives of real people that are in this country working very hard, in many cases doing jobs that most Americans don’t want to do.”

Junior Jillian Williams said, “There’s a big debate in this election cycle about what to do. Both sides have very strong and very different opinions from each other.

People have to take a stance in order for something to be done about it.”

Senior Amy Rotger said, “It should be more accessible for immigrants to become citizens if they want to. For most immigrants, it’s not affordable. They’re given a stigma that they’re bad people.”

Extreme partisanship One of the issues students thought was the least important to the U.S. was extreme partisanship.

Eighty-four participants or 21 percent surveyed said they were unsure about the issue of extreme partisanship, while 108, 27 percent, said it was important.

Partisanship is prejudice in favor of a particular cause. Extreme partisanship is unwillingness to compromise politically.

According to an article in the New York Times, “For the first time since at least 1992, the majority of Democrats and Republicans say they view the opposing party ‘very unfavorably.’... At the same time, around half of the members of either party said their opponents stirred feelings of fear and anger in them.”

Cevallos said, “I would hope that extreme partisanship will decrease after the election, so I think having it as a lesser concern is perhaps a sign that we are ready to get past it.”

History professor Joseph Adelman said, “People ask questions about whether it is more or less partisan than previous eras in American history. … I think people have a sense that it’s a particularly stark contrast. It seems to me the students have a sense that it has an impact on how our politics work, how our government works.”

History professor Jon Huibregtse said, “Partisanship hurts the country, especially in regard to Obama’s Supreme Court nominee not passing.”

Junior Lucas Bimberg said, “I think the bias is blocking discussion. No one can come together.”

Terrorism

Regarding the threat of terrorism, 244 students surveyed or 61 percent responded it is an important issue to address.

Ferraro said students’ concern about the threat of terrorism is “certainly with good reason, given the ongoing conflicts in Syria, Afghanistan and elsewhere, and the attacks in Paris, Nice, Brussels and San Bernardino.”

He also noted many students were young when the attacks on the World Trade Center occurred in 2001. These students may not have “memories of a time when the war on terror was not a major political concern.”

Junior Zachariah Pierce said, “Students have to deal with the fact that domestic terrorism is more of a threat than any religious terrorist is going to be.”

Sophomore Jennifer Smith said, “I feel like it is an issue facing the United States and we should address it better than we are now, because I feel like the way people address it right now is only making it worse.”

The economy Two hundred thirty-one of the students surveyed or 58 percent said economic stagnation is an important issue facing the U.S. According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the national unemployment rate for September 2016 is 5 percent.

Furthermore, the BLS notes the unemployment rate has been decreasing since the peak of 10 percent in October 2009.

Senior Jaclyn McCann said, “You hear about budget cuts in schools, so schools are cutting teachers.

There becomes a lack of teaching

jobs, which also causes too many children per teacher in the classroom. It creates an unproductive downward spiral.”

Rutter noted number of survey respondents who said student debt was an important issue is higher than the number of those who said economic stagnation is significant.

This “is a good way to see how the issues connect personally.”

Rutter said, “The economy overall has been improving and our jobless rate in Massachusetts is low. But how clear is reliable information about the economy during a political season as emotional as this one has been?”

She added, “I think a lot of students understand that our economic prosperity hasn’t been shared equally among everyone, and with job searches and paying college debts looming, that uncertainty connects us to one another, but it definitely is personal, too.”

Junior Caroline Rauscher said, “I’m nervous to think that in a year, I’m going to be looking for a job. I don’t know what I’m going to do and who’s going to hire me. I have no money to fall back on if I don’t find a job. I just don’t know how I’m going to make ends meet.”

Sophomore Kylie Jusseaume said, “College students should be concerned with all of these issues.”

[Editor’s Note: Cesareo Contreras, Paola Florencio, Kate Shane and Andrew Willoughby contributed to this article.]

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All University meeting addresses budget deficits

By Jillian Poland Interim Asst. News Editor The University is still in a “pretty strong” financial position despite a projected budget deficit for the coming years, said Dale Hamel, executive vice president, at the All University meeting on Nov. 2.

The University projects a $400,000 deficit for the 2017 fiscal year and a $200,000 deficit for the 2018 fiscal year, according to Hamel. FSU is projected to break even for the 2019 and 2020 fiscal years, meaning the annual income will match the University’s expenses.

The deficit is the result of a decrease in student enrollment and state appropriations, said Hamel.

Lorretta Holloway, vice president for enrollment and student development, said student enrollment in colleges is down across Massachusetts and nearby states. There has been a 9-to-16 percent decline in

Massachusetts public high school graduates and a 15 percent decline in private high school graduates.

The number of high school graduates is expected to continue declining in the coming years.

This decline ultimately shrinks the pool of students entering college each year.

Holloway said, “When you think about the lowering in enrollment … it’s basically $10,000 out of the budget for every student that we don’t have. That’s $10,000 for each student that we could be working on Crocker, that we could be hiring more SI students, that we could be developing different programs.”

A shortfall of 70 new resident students has created a deficit in the Residence Hall Trust Fund, ranging between $530,000 and $670,000, according to Holloway. FSU would need approximately 40 to 45 additional new resident students next year to offset this impact.

The University is looking for

solutions to compensate for the impact of declining enrollment.

FSU administrators are looking into the feasibility of using on-campus housing for conferences or for year-round housing. Another tactic includes expanding international enrollment, said Holloway.

“We have been in talks with various constituencies about doing recruitment, particularly in China. …

Additionally, we are going to have a presence at the Bermuda College Fair,” said Holloway.

The University is also working to create more targeted recruiting plans with more user-friendly student resources, Holloway said.

For now, the financial deficit will be covered by reserve funds, according to Hamel.

“Institutions - as well as families - build reserves to be utilized for various purposes, including to address short-term shortfalls. So, while we are projecting a deficit for this fiscal year, we are prepared to

address it,” Hamel said in an email.

Despite the deficit, “the underlying financial condition of the University is very sound,” according to Hamel.

“There are periods where the University is under more fiscal constraint than at other times. We are currently in one of those periods. … As a result, we have instituted expenditure reductions and have scheduled use of a small portion of reserves for this fiscal year,” Hamel said.

FSU used a similar tactic in 2008 and 2009 to deal with the financial fall out of the recession, according to Hamel.

As a result of the current financial situation, the University has pushed back the planned start dates for projects at the Mayhew Facility, Athletic Field, Crocker Hall and the library, said Hamel.

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Representatives for presidential candidates speak at FSU

By Julia Sarcinelli Associate Editor Representatives for each of the four major presidential candidates attended the Presidential Surrogate Candidates’ Night hosted by SGA and the office of Student Involvement and Leadership Development on Wednesday, Nov. 2.

Each representative spoke for approximately 10 minutes about the candidate’s platform and students then had the chance to ask the panel questions.

Bryan Moss, a member of the Nashua River Green-Rainbow Chapter, represented Green Party Candidate Jill Stein.

Moss spoke about Stein’s plan for 100 percent renewable energy and her stance on increasing the minimum wage to $15, universal health care, abolition of student debt and demilitarizing the police.

He described Stein’s stance as “people and planet over profit” because she does not take contributions from corporations or lobbyists.

He said Stein went to the Dakota Pipeline protests, after which a warrant was issued for her arrest, and said she “is somebody that will stand up for people.”

Moss also said people believe there aren’t more than two choices for president - Clinton and Trump and encouraged students to “vote into your values.”

Michael Hout is an advance intern for Democratic candidate Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s campaign and is a national board member with College Democrats for America.

Hout said he considers Clinton to be “by far the best qualified,” citing her experience as First Lady of Arkansas, First Lady of the United States, two terms as a New York senator and Secretary of State.

He said practically speaking, there are only two candidates and referenced the 2000 presidential election “to see the impact a third-party candidate can have on the impact of the election.”

Hout described Clinton’s campaign platform on ending gun violence, building the economy and fixing the political system.

“It does boil down to two candidates who have a chance to win, but I will not discourage because a vote to me is critical and sacred in this country.”

- Marty Lamb, vice president of Make Massachusetts Great “She’s the least known, known person. Not many people know the true Hillary. The best example is to look at the fact that she has support from both sides of the aisle,” Hout said.

Marty Lamb is the vice chair of the Make Massachusetts Great PAC and a member of the Massachusetts GOP State Committee. He spoke as a supporter of Republican Candidate Donald Trump, but because of

his position in the PAC, he did not directly represent the campaign.

Lamb said as a grassroots activist who has run for office, he “finds the attraction of somebody not in the establishment.”

He said he supports Trump for multiple reasons, including Trump’s stances on building the military, cancelling the Iran deal, strengthening the borders, supporting school choice and the right to bear arms as a personal right.

“It does boil down to two candidates who have a chance to win, but I will not discourage because a vote to me is critical and sacred in this country. … If you can look through the smokescreen, think about the issues,” he said.

Bruce Skarin is a volunteer for Libertarian candidate Gov. Gary Johnson’s campaign, a district 3 director who directs the digital presence for the campaign in Massachusetts.

Sakrin said he supports Johnson because he is “not just because I thought he was the least-worst option, which is kind of the logic being used these days, but because I believe he is the best candidate I have ever seen in my lifetime.”

He said in this election, Hillary and Trump “are ready to burn the capital down. … The real moment of truth is whether we are going to be the spark that ignites that thing or whether we are going to be the rain.”

Johnson is on the ballot in all 50 states, and Sakrin said he is “a fantastically qualified executive” and his belief in individual freedom and a government with limits.

Several students asked the repre-

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sentatives individually and collectively questions.

Freshman Richard McKeen asked the representatives what their candidate’s stance is on incarceration and prison reform and police brutality.

Sakrin said Johnson supports an “across-the-border reform,” including helping people with drug addictions instead of arresting them.

He added Johnson supports of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Lamb said he didn’t know if Trump had specivfically addressed the issue, but that Trump has spoken about revitalizing inner cities to give youth better opportunities and supports school choice.

Hout said Clinton is “a staunch believer in the need for reform” and has spoken with various committees, representatives from the Black Lives Matter movement, the senate and other groups.

Moss said Stein is calling for “an end to the war on drugs” by legalizing marijuana and releasing nonviolent drug prisoners and removing the conviction from their record while providing support.

Adam Scanlon, SGA treasurer and sophomore, moderated the event with Junior Karl Bryan, student trustee.

Scanlon said, “By having a formal discussion like this, it allowed a more formal exchange of ideas as opposed to the media circus portrayed on TV during the debates. …

Vote for what you believe in. Your opinion is never a wasted thought.”

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SGA discusses crosswalk safety Ski and Snowboard club allocated over $25,000

By Kate Shane Staff Writer SGA continued an ongoing conversation about campus safety on Tuesday Nov. 1.

During open forum, Senator Molly Fennessey expressed concern about the lack of a crosswalk between the Salem End Parking Lot and Linsley Hall.

“It’s so dangerous to cross there,” she said.

President Ezequiel De Leon said this was a “valid concern.” He noted it would be a challenge to add a crosswalk here since the road curves and vehicles would not be able to see a pedestrian crossing.

He suggested adding lights and looking at more solutions to address this issue.

During the President’s Report, De Leon addressed dining concerns.

He said he spoke with Ralph Eddy, director of dining services, about dining hours and food allergies. A survey will be distributed to students to determine more convenient hours. According to Eddy, he does not know whether there is enough demand for additional weekend hours.

“Sodexo has started a new allergen label system,” said De Leon.

Stationary labels will be placed above the food items, especially those containing peanuts, soy and gluten, which will stay throughout all meal times.

He announced there will be a Dunkin’ Donuts on campus next year.

De Leon also spoke about the recent bias incident. “It is important that we take a stance on those events that don’t reflect FSU culture,” he said.

Senator Diamond Gonzalez said the Ram Tram times at night are inconvenient. She said a shift ending at 9 p.m. at Shopper’s World involves missing the tram.

Senator Fallon Soye said the Ram Tram can be called if a student gets out of work late.

Gonzalez said, “Even when you call dispatch, you still have to wait 20 to 30 minutes.”

De Leon said the Wi-Fi table, which allowed students to submit tickets to IT about issues with the Wi-Fi, was successful last week. IT will look into upgrading the capacity of Framingham State’s Wi-Fi system.

There will be a table on Nov. 15

• Social Events Coordinator Mikayla Quinlan said SGA’s Week of Kindness will take place Dec. 5-9.

• The Senator of the Month award was presented to Hailey Small.

• Secretary Dayna Marchant presented the U-ROCK award to Senator Cassandra Tedeschi.

from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. for students to submit general concerns, said De Leon.

Senator Katrina Ferguson said even after she reported rotting bananas in the stairwell of Towers, they still remained there. “I want to throw up every time I go down the stairs,” she said.

Class and Club Treasurer Maddie Alper advised her to report this to the maintenance workers.

De Leon encouraged students to donate to the clothing drive co-sponsored by SGA and Veterans’ club, which will takes place Nov. 1 to Dec. 1. Proceeds from the event will support Voices Against Violence.

He added Pride Alliance will be having its Queer Brown Playground event on Nov. 30 to promote diver-

sity.

A funding request made by Ski and Snowboard club for $25,134.50 was approved for eight separate planned trips. Students can purchase tickets to Nashoba Valley and Wachusett Mountain cost $5, March Madness is $10 and the outof-state trips are $20.

A $9,868 funding request made

by Black Student Union for several events was approved. Costs include a police detail at the group’s Dec. 10 and April 29 parties, a trips to the African-American Museum and Roller World. The money will make it possible to buy the rights to show two documentaries, “Dear White People” and “Birth of a Nation.”

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The Case for Clinton Many have expressed being dissatisfied with their choices in the presidential election.

Even here at FSU, 80 percent of registered students aren’t happy with the candidates. It’s not uncommon to spot a “We’re screwed 2016” bumper sticker during the morning commute on Route 9.

However, the idea that Hillary Clinton is anywhere near as incompetent, inappropriate and unstable as Trump is plain inaccurate.

In fact, Hillary Clinton may just be the most qualified candidate for president that America has seen.

During her decades-long service to America, Clinton has co-founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, worked with Republicans and Democrats to create the Children’s Health Insurance Program and negotiated a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.

She has served as the First Lady in Arkansas, a junior United States Senator representing New York, the First Lady of the United States and as the Secretary of State.

Meanwhile, her opponent, Donald Trump, has built casinos and hotels, hosted and co-produced the reality TV show The Apprentice and bankrupted his companies six times.

To put it simply, Clinton has the experience in politics that Trump will never possess, and has a fundamental understanding of how our government works.

While Trump and his supporters have bestowed Clinton with the nickname “Crooked Hillary” in response to the email scandal, their insult lacks evidence. The FBI has investigated the incident and found no proof that would suggest she intentionally mishandled information.

Trump, on the other hand, faces a civil lawsuit from an unknown woman who claims he raped her when she was 13 years old, and his companies have been repeatedly investigated for fraud, bribery and housing discrimination, according to The Washington Post.

Clinton’s dependability, even temper and steadfast resolve have been demonstrated time and time again, especially in stark comparison to Trump during the presidential debates.

Additionally, Clinton’s views align with the progress we as a nation have made so far, particularly when it comes to basic human rights.

A vote for Clinton is a vote for LGBT+ rights. Clinton plans to passing the Equality Act, which would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and other federal laws to protect queer individuals in public accommodations, public education, employment, housing, federal funding, jury service, legal protections and credit.

It’s a vote for women. Clinton will pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would close the wage gap between men and women. Additionally, she plans to defend Planned Parenthood and women’s reproductive rights.

It’s a vote for the 99 percent. As President, Clinton would eliminate the loopholes used by big corporations for tax breaks and implement a “fair share surcharge” on billionaires.

It’s a vote for affordable college education. Clinton plans to cut interest rates on student loans in half, as well as make community college tuition free.

It’s a vote for sustainable energy. As president, Clinton would initiate a $60 billion Clean Energy Challenge to cut carbon pollution, expand clean energy sources and make combating climate change a priority for America.

A vote for Clinton is the only sensible vote. If you value America’s progress and integrity, vote for Hillary Clinton as the next President of the United States.

OP/ED I don’t know if I’m with her It is clear to say this election has been filled with unnecessary drama. However, it is disheartening that one detail of this election has been overlooked. Hillary Clinton is the first woman to be nominated for a major party and could very well be the next president of the United States.

History like this should be considered a massive leap towards gender equality, but it feels as if it is a disappointing step back.

Multiple reasons and investigations have caused suspicion regarding Clinton’s qualifications. The three thousand emails, for instance, are obliterated into cyberspace, never to be heard from again and Clinton refusing to discuss it shows a lack of responsibility. She has spent the past eight years as Secretary of State and what has she done to prove herself? She just sat in the room watching as our servicemen and women hunted and killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011 - over five years ago.

She has spent the majority of her campaign humiliating her opponent, though he has done the same. Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, has been recently accused of sexually assaulting women. Hillary Clinton, while acknowledging the accusations, has misdirected the blame towards the accusers. This has not been the first time she has stood by her husband while he was unfaithful to her. She was by his side during the lawsuits and multiple scandals that have threatened the Clintons’ political empire.

According to The Washington Post, “Her responses have forced her to walk a fine line during the campaign on sexual assault issues, even as she builds strong political support among female voters.”

I question after all this time why Hillary Clinton stayed with her husband and if she has a right to speak about sexual assault.

While she promises the alleviation of student loans and a path to citizenship for all hopeful immigrants, I can’t shake the suspicion that those promises will remain empty for four, possibly eight years.

Clinton does support and encourage female rights, she may even be defined as a feminist, but I choose to see beyond gender and look at character.

I see Clinton as an untrustworthy human being and an unworthy representation of females.

Citizens that are voting for Clinton just based on her gender are also back-tracking the gender equality movement as well. A female should only be president if she is qualified, just like every other candidate.

Feminism is meant to work toward achieving equality of the sexes and this election is just creating more partisanship.

The battle for gender equality should be defined as creating an equal world for all and to conduct it out of spite is not the moral path.

Allison Wharton Editorial Staff

Campus Conversations Are you voting to legalize marijuana?

By: Allison Wharton and Nicholas Cunningham

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“I’m going to vote yes. I think it will benefit the economy.”

-Caeley Whalen, freshman

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“I’m saying no. It’s a gateway drug.”

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“Yes, just cause.” -Steve

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“No. Medical use is already legal.”

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“Yes because alcohol is legal but weed isn’t.”

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-Meghan Flynn, junior Rosbach,

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-Mark Giurguis, junior

-Cody Lucido, sophomore

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“I voted yes. It is a repetition of prohibition.”

-Ryan Keane, sophomore

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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A YES VOTE supports this proposal to legalize marijuana but regulate it in ways similar to alcoholic beverages.

A NO VOTE opposes this proposal to legalize recreational marijuana, keeping only medical marijuana legal.

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Yes on Question 4 Following in the footsteps of Colorado and Washington, Massachusetts has finally added the legalization of marijuana to the ballot.

While it’s understandable where reservations about legalization may come from, it is inevitable.

The most common assumption about marijuana is young adults use it to get high and eat a lot of food - that it’s harmful to America’s youth. While that is the stereotype, there are more uses than kicking back and chowing down on a bag of Cheetos. In order to educate people, the stigma surrounding marijuana needs to be removed.

Marijuana is particularly helpful in calming menstrual cramps.

It’s also a useful way of treating anxiety and depression without putting you on a cocktail of pills.

Marijuana has plenty of uses beyond the typical medical ones that are covered by a medical marijuana card - cannabis is helpful for people who suffer from eating disorders, sleep disorders, OCD and PTSD. Sure, there are the obvious medical uses. Marijuana aids in fighting cancer and multiple sclerosis, as well as regulating and preventing diabetes.

It’s also pretty exciting that it can help your pets lead healthier lives. Cannabis can be used as a healthy supplement, and when laced in treats, it can offer relief to pets who live with chronic pain.

Contrary to popular belief, it can actually protect your brain, according to Scientific American.

There are, of course, people who oppose legalization - particularly those whose main concern is kids getting a hold of marijuana.

Luckily, the law requires child-safe packaging and prohibits marketing aimed at minors.

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There’s also the worry that cannabis products, such as edibles and bowls, will be marketed publicly in dispensary storefronts - a false fact used to scare caring mothers and fathers into voting no. Since towns will have a voice in where their dispensaries may be located, there’s no need to worry about one being placed right next to your kid’s favorite toy store or candy shop.

It’s also important to know that the creation of dispensaries will create jobs in Massachusetts, and the sale of marijuana will bring in tax revenue.

Legalization will also get rid of the criminal charges attached to possessing marijuana - meaning people who are buying or selling it from a dispensary will no longer be held in the same regard as someone who has committed a murder.

Since there are many people who are wrongfully imprisoned or are turned away from jobs just because they were arrested for carrying a blunt, this is an important aspect of the law.

In addition, legalizing marijuana will lower crime rates - states that have already legalized weed have seen drops in violent crime, according to drugpolicy.org.

Marijuana is a safer alternative to alcohol, and since that is legal in Massachusetts, why shouldn’t cannabis be? Sure, it can be harmful when used improperly, but so can alcohol or prescription drugs. Anything can be harmful when abused.

It shouldn’t be a criminal offense to eat a pot brownie while hanging out with your friends on a Friday night.

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No on Question 4 There is significant political opposition to Question 4 from an assortment of politicians, legistlators, doctors, law enforcement and recovery groups.

Their primary complaint?

Legalizing marijuana would be dangerous for an increasing number of youths.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) states young people those who are 11 to 29 - are still the most likely group to use drugs, with teenagers being the most likely.

Under the new state law, marijuana would be legal for those 21 and older.

The same age young people are supposed to, theoretically, first try alcohol.

Supporters of legalization say that taking marijuana off the black market will keep it away from kids, but teenagers will still be getting their pot on the sly even if Question 4 passes.

In the short term, marijuana alters how people experience the five senses, mood and time, according to the NIDA. It also impairs body movement, thinking, problem solving and memory.

For teenagers using marijuana, the parts of the brain developing memory and learning functions are at risk in the long term.

According to NIDA, those who continuously smoked marijuana from the time they were teenagers “lost an average of eight IQ points between ages 13 and 38. The lost mental abilities did not fully return in those who quit marijuana as adults.”

And marijuana is a gateway drug this isn’t just hearsay from critics.

In a 2013 survey, NIDA found 70.3 percent of illicit drug users said they began with marijuana as their first drug. Pain relievers come in second at a whopping 12.5 percent.

As it turns out, blaming the opioid crisis on marijuana may be dubious but not completely irrelevant.

As far as the child-safety packaging goes - presumably, there are a percentage of children willing to eat everything from dirt to Silly Putty, but many seem averse to eating smelly leafy-stuff.

The tricky-childproof lid is moot in the case of delicious-looking pot brownies.

For older children most likely to actually try weed, a child safety lid is not a deterrent.

The number of young people who believe marijuana use is ‘risky’ is

decreasing, according to NIDA. “Just Say No” gets a little more complicated when society endorses the use of pot as a recreational drug.

According to a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center, about two thirds of the American population believe alcohol is more harmful to a person’s health and society than marijuana.

Just because something is less risky doesn’t mean the risks should be glossed over.

There is no mention of providing education on marijuana in the initiative petition for legalization.

Alcohol education has been around for a little while now. Most students - and subsequently adults - have a working understanding of what alcohol does in the short term and the long term.

Can the same be said of marijuana?

If the average person understands nicotine is the addictive ingredient in cigarettes but has to Google THC, that’s a problem.

Having an informative label on the package is not sufficient education for public health and safety. If marijuana is legalized, some of that new state money better be going to drug education, abuse prevention and new healthcare costs.

Because marijuana is not just a health risk for teens.

Let’s start by stating the obvious.

Smoking marijuana is still smoking.

Even if users do not smoke marijuana frequently, there is still a greater risk for lung cancer.

Additionally, in a nation where obesity is described as an “epidemic,” getting a case of the munchies on a regular basis while enjoying a high can cause more than just a flabby belly. Marijuana is known to increase users’ heart rates and the risk of a heart attack.

It is dangerous to be high and drive, but police say there is no equivalent of the breathalyzer for pot.

Supporters of legalization complain legislators have been avoiding the issue of marijuana, and they may be right.

But if such is the case, suck it up and go bang on the doors of those legislators, educators and administrators who need to be involved to do this right.

As is, the current legalization plan is still half-baked.

Jessica Duff Editorial Staff

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The future of the Republican Party Let’s be honest - we all want this election season to be over.

Presidential elections are always a highstakes affair, but the intense drama that has transpired on America’s political stage the last several months has left even the biggest political junkies tired and wanting off the crazy train.

Most Americans are eager to cast their votes on Tuesday, Nov. 8, and just close the book on this truly baffling chapter of recent American history.

No one is experiencing a greater sense of “Let’s just get this over with” than those in the Republican Party elite.

While I can certainly understand that sentiment, it is of profound importance that the leaders of the Republican Party perform some soul-searching and prevent what occurred to their party over the last year from ever happening again.

Because with Donald J. Trump’s path to victory constricting, the tenor of the Republican Party is now no longer guaranteed to be bleak, paranoid and hateful. There is now a chance for Republican leaders to make a crucial course correction in the direction the party is heading.

But for party leaders to construct a brighter future, they must first reflect on their recent dark past.

For the last year, the Republican leadership stood by idly while Trump, who has successfully tapped into the fear and bigotry of the Right’s radical fringe, grew in power. Republican leaders hoped they could tame Trump and, ultimately, win the White House.

They were wrong on the first account, and no credible political observer believes they’ll be correct in the other.

However, there were many in the GOP who were able to put aside their desire for a Republican living in the White House and admit to themselves and the nation that Trump is not fit to be the President of the United States.

There was Mitt Romney, the Republican Party’s 2012 nominee, who made his

unfavorable opinion of Trump clear during the primary. “I wanted my grandkids to see that I simply couldn’t ignore what Mr. Trump was saying and doing, which revealed a character and temperament unfit for the leader of the free world,” Romney told The Wall Street Journal on May 27, 2016.

Jeb Bush, who ran against Trump in the 2016 primary and is a former governor of Florida, said in a Facebook post on May 6 that while he would not vote for Clinton, he also could not vote for Trump. “He has not displayed a respect for the Constitution. And, he is not a consistent Conservative.”

Former First Lady Barbara Bush, Jeb Bush’s mother, was just as harsh toward Trump. On Feb. 4, she told CBS News that Trump’s treatment of women was “unbelievable” - in particular Trump’s comments about Fox News host Megyn Kelly. “I don’t know how women can vote for someone who said what he said,” she added.

On Oct. 20, at a 40th anniversary gala for the magazine Mother Jones, former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele said he would not vote for Trump and that the Republican nominee had “captured that racist underbelly, that frustration, that angry underbelly of American life and gave voice to that.”

Steele also directed his frustration at Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and current RNC chair Reince Priebus for not intervening over a year ago when Trump referred to Mexican immigrants as rapists.

GOP leaders must begin to confront and assuage the righteous anger many in the party have over Trump’s ascension.

Building a solid foundation for the future of the Republican Party starts with contrition. GOP leaders must begin the process of regaining the trust of the party’s more principled members.

They must offer a mea culpa to those Republicans - from politicians to everyday voters - who put their party’s principles first, even if it wasn’t the most politically expedient choice to make at the time.

And what to do about the party’s radical fringe?

With Trump’s repeated, unsubstantiated accusations that the election has been rigged to favor his rival, it would be naïve to believe his extremist supporters will humbly concede defeat.

It would serve the Republican Party leadership well, then, not only to take a Trump loss graciously, but to cease at once their pandering to those within their party who are xenophobic and racist - if not out of a sense of altruism, then at least for the sake of the party’s survival.

Because while Trump and many of his supporters have become obsessed with whiteidentity politics this campaign season, the fact remains America is becoming increasingly diverse. By 2020, more than half of America’s children are expected to be part of a minority race or ethnic group, according to a 2014 U.S. Census Bureau report. By 2060, the report projects, the minority population is expected to grow to 56 percent of the total U.S. population.

Quite simply, minorities will soon no longer be in the minority.

So if the Republican Party wishes to enjoy a successful future, it must no longer be a party of exclusion. The Republican Party will not survive if it does not begin to appeal to non-whitemale demographics - as well as members of the LGBTQ+ community, immigrants, Muslims and women.

There simply won’t be enough votes if they continue to go Trump’s route.

Republican leaders: think long and hard about the future of your party. Because as one of the only two major political parties in the United States, your future, and what you shape it to be, will have a tremendous influence on what our nation’s future will be.

Choose wisely.

Michael B. Murphy Gatepost Columnist

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ARTS & FEATURES There’s a new presidential candidate in town Jimmy Tingle performs at FSU

Erin Fitzmaurice/THE GATEPOST Jimmy Tingle mocks presidential candidates and promotes his comedic candidacy.

By Allison Wharton He added, “I’m not delusional, so day.

He compared Clinton’s and Interim Asst. Arts & Features Editor I won’t win [the presidential elecPolitical humorist Jimmy Tingle appealed to the Framingham community in a bid to win their votes for President of the United States.

Tingle poked fun at the two major party candidates during his performance, “Jimmy Tingle for President: Humor for Humanity” on Oct. 27 in DPAC. Lisa Eck, chairperson of the Arts & Ideas committee and English professor, welcomed the audience to the event, which is part of this year’s “Change the Conversation, Change the World” series.

Tingle “changes the conversation by changing” its form, said Eck. She said, “I think what I appreciate most about his comedy is it is humor with a social conscience. … it is a message to think outside the status quo.”

Rebecca Hawk, director of community education and English language program, introduced her friend Tingle, a Cambridge-born comedian who has been a guest on multiple talk shows, including “The Tonight Show” and “Late Night with Conan O’Brien.”

“He is regarded as one of the top social and political humorists in America,” said Hawk.

Tingle entered the auditorium and immediately shook audience members’ hands, saying, “I hope I have your support in November.”

He began the show by introducing his new party name - Humor for Humanity - joking, “Humor is easy - it’s the humanity that’s hard to follow.”

tion]. … I’m tired of the negativity.

There’s so much positivity we don’t hear about.”

Tingle urged the audience to get involved in the elections and to “put action where values lie.”

He then addressed his opponents, Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

He posed different scenarios based on the idea that his opponents were of the opposite gender.

“Humor is easy - it’s the humanity that’s hard to follow.”

-Jimmy Tingle, political humorist

To answer the question, “If Trump were a woman,” Tingle responded that Trump’s hair being criticized more than usual, his yelling would be attributed to hormones and his multiple marriages would earn him the title “gold digger.” This excercise had the audience laughing.

Tingle said, “If Hillary were a man,” when she would yell, it would be considered as an act of leadership and no one would judge her pantsuits because every male politician wears the same outfit every

Trump’s negative attributes, including Trump’s reputation with the Hispanic community. He said, “The only way [Trump] could get the Hispanic vote is by apologizing in Spanish.” This was followed by an impersonation of Trump that had the crowd applauding.

Tingle combated a number of Trump’s ideas, specifically his infamous plan to build a wall on the Mexican border. “A plane can go over a wall. … Trump needs a dome.”

He then moved toward his own “Tingle Agenda,” in order to win over the audience.

This agenda includs a tollbooths at all state borders instead of multiple tolls across the state. “Ten dollars to get into Massachusetts and twenty to leave,” said Tingle.

He complained that “every television drama has a murder.” His solution is to tax television shows every time someone dies.

He even made a promise to the University - “I’m gonna get [FSU] a pub.”

To save energy, Tingle suggests windmills on each traffic light and if there is no wind, “don’t stop.”

Other ideas includes a train of automobiles, in which all cars would be attached like a train, and generators attached to the exercise bikes at gyms.

Tingle addressed students, calling them “digital natives” and complained that as a Harvard graduate, he can’t turn on his TV. Complaints about technology included the color cartridge for printers - how the yellow is irrelevant, blue is called cyan and red is called

magenta. “Have you ever used that word before? … Are we in the Renaissance?” asked Tingle.

In terms of texting, he said, “I don’t hit the right buttons and my wife doesn’t, either. What was supposed to be a love text turned into a conversation about incarceration and drug addiction.”

Tingle concluded the performance by saying, “It is very intense out there. Support someone. … After the election, we are still on the same boat. … There is give and take.

You have to adapt.”

Freshman Cori Farrow said, “It is good to have someone talk about politics in a way no one will get mad.”

Molly Roach, a freshman, said, “It was nice to see someone from the community who is successful and funny.”

Freshman Megan Chestna said, “I normally don’t follow politics, but his performance engaged me.”

Hawk said, “We wanted to change the world. … People walked out with a smile on their faces. It’s incredible.”

Tingle accredited his appearance to Hawk. “We’ve been talking about it for five years. I perform all the time. When it is with a purpose, it is extra special. It is great when a college connects with their community.”

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Psychic medium visits FSU as part of SUAB’s “Halloweek”

By Kayllan Olicio Editorial Staff

before a reading. “I don’t even have to be here to talk to them,” she said.

Garber said the spirits speak to her in full sentences, and joked, “They even tell me to stop eating. … They want me to stay healthy.

Junior Hollie Brown was among the audience members who received a reading. She said, “I’ve seen three mediums before.

This was the first one I actually got involved and called on for. It seemed realistic and on point.”

Junior Steven Lamisere said he “felt that it was fantastic. … It was something cool. … Props to her. She does her job pretty well.”

Sophomore Nichole Hemenway said she “thought it was actually really cool. I’ve never been to a medium. I’ve only seen them on T.V. … I’ve always been a skeptic of all this stuff, so her getting all of the emotions from people was just a cool experience.”

Garber ended the reading by asking if anyone in the audience had a message to give from a spirit who might have come to them during the presentation.

Psychic medium Nancy Garber discussed her abilities as a medium and conducted readings in the McCarthy Center Forum on Oct. 27.

Garber started the event by explaining the difference between a medium and a psychic. She said psychic readings are physical-to-physical connections - the reader’s sprit and body connecting with another person’s sprit and body. She added, “Everyone is psychic … but not everyone is Amanda Martin/THE GATEPOST a medium.”

Garber stressed that mediums Garber illicited emotional responses from use their subconscious minds, the audience during her readings. ed,” she said. not their conscious ones. She ences such as these.

Garber was a middle school Garber said what she does is added her ability was “always there. All it needed was the right teacher before she started her not scary. “I always say this funny career as a medium. She has a thing - I bring forward your relatiming. … It’s a natural ability.”

Garber didn’t always know master’s in psychology, and she tives, so I can’t account for your she had the ability to communi- worked with psychiatric patients relatives if they were creepy. It’s cate with sprits. She said she fre- at Newton Wellesley hospital for not my fault.”

Junior Jessica Cowgill said she quently had precognitive dreams. seven years.

She discovered her ability “thought it was cool and [GarShe added many of her dreams were “creepy and scary … and while working there. She would ber’s] bubbly personality makes that’s how they grab you, because give readings to the nurses who it more comfortable for people.”

Garber brought a sheet of paif it was something good, you worked at the hospital once all per with her on which she had CONNECT WITH KAYLLAN OLICIO wouldn’t remember it as much.” their patients were asleep.

“They would get in line to get written notes. She added that she kolicio@student.framingham.edu She said spirits try to get a person’s attention through experi- a reading and that’s how it start- recieves messages from the dead

Tingle shares his path to becoming a comedian

By Cesareo Contreras Arts & Features Editor Upon reflection, 61-year-old award-winning political humorist Jimmy Tingle sees success as a string of unforeseen opportunities just waiting to be acted upon.

“No one knows what is going to happen in our own lives,” Tingle said.

“Life just unfolds and I think if you just keep on trying and just follow your passions and do what you really want to do, you can do it.”

As a precursor to his political comedy show in DPAC, Tingle shared his story with a small group of students and faculty in the Forum on Thursday, Oct. 27.

Graduating with a master’s degree from Harvard’s John F Kennedy School of Government, and with appearances on both “The Tonight Show” and “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” Tingle is no stranger to both the political and comedic stages.

Tingle said he “lucked out” and found a passion for comedy as a young man after he performed at an open mic night at a comedy club which had just opened up down the street from his house in Cambridge.

While he initially thought he wanted to go into teaching, Tingle decided to pursue political comedy.

It’s a transition that was sparked

by the lessons he learned while at college as he became more literate in the humanities, he said.

Additionally, he was inspired by a film that featured the comedian Lenny Bruce, “who used humor to question norms of society,” he said.

After Tingle graduated from UMass Darmouth, he began performing at open mics regularly and started street performing in Harvard Square.

“I would go up there with my hat, coat [and] harmonica,” Tingle said.

“I admit there is a fine line between street performing and simply being drunk in public, but I was up there doing my thing and it was a ball.”

On his way up the professional comedic ladder, however, Tingle said he became an alcoholic.

Tingle said alcohol made him a “different person.”

He reached a turning point after his friend Colin Quinn, a former Saturday Night Live cast member, told him alcohol was holding him back from comedic stardom.

Quinn pointed Jimmy to God, he said.

After going through detox, Tingle said he moved out to New York, avoided alcohol, started putting his faith in God and prayed on a regular basis.

Eventually, through this routine, Tingle said his addiction subsided and his comedy act improved.

Cesareo Contreras/THE GATEPOST Tingle encouraged audience members to follow their passions.

“I thought I was good when I was buzzed, but when I wasn’t buzzed I was much better and I went further and faster sober as a comedian then I ever did under the influence,” he said.

He hasn’t had a drink in over 25 years, he said.

Tingle added, “This is what I mean when I say nobody knows what is going to happen in life. I never thought I would become an alcoholic. I never thought I would start drinking and I never thought I’d become a comedi-

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an when I was in college.”

Tingle compared the world to a large white canvas just waiting to be drawn on by FSU students.

“There are challenges,” Tingle said. “You need a paint brush or a little crayon. You need something to draw with, but the point is we can do almost anything in this country or world, and that’s my honest opinion.”

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The forever puppy at heart

Photo courtesy of Patty Cooney

By Nick Murphy Staff Writer

Allie Gath/THE GATEPOST Foss urged students to use their privilege to start a dialogue on criminal justice reform.

By Allie Gath Editorial Staff Adam Foss, former assistant district attorney and co-founder of Prosecutor Integrity, spoke about prison reform and the broken criminal justice system on Wednesday in the Forum.

Speaking about the criminal justice and prison systems in America, Foss said, “We are sitting in the midst of the worst human rights crisis that we’ve seen in a long time … and it’s happening outside of these doors.”

Foss described the severity of the problem, and stated that today in America, there are more black men in prison than there were slaves in 1850.

This was only one of the statistics Foss used to explain how the American prison system is “broken,” especially compared to those of other countries.

Foss said people attribute this problem to a lack of leadership. He said people are waiting for the next Martin Luther King, Jr. or Rosa Parks to step up, and while we wait, people are going to jail.

Foss is tired of waiting.

The human and financial costs are too great to continue to wait, Foss said.

At 19 years old, Foss was caught possessing marijuana. He said if the police offi-

cer had not been his father, and if he had not grown up in a white family with that afforded privilege, he would have been forced down a different path.

Foss explained that privilege is nobody’s fault, and is a “weapon” that can be used to educate others on their own privilege. He begged the audience not to

“We are sitting in the midst of the worst human rights crisis we’ve seen in a long time.”

-Adam Foss, former ADA and co-founder of Prosecutor Integrity lay their “weapons” down.

Foss illustrated the other path by telling the story of Adonis, a client he had while in law school interning for a defense attorney.

Foss said Adonis was on track to play D1 football until he tore his ACL and became addicted to OxyContin.

One night, Adonis, high on opiates, killed a drug dealer in a robbery gone wrong. He was convicted of

murder at 19 years old and sentenced to life without parole.

Foss explained that society had so many opportunities to stop that murder from occurring.

He also expressed the fundamental problem with the willingness to lock people in cages for seventy years, and spending the taxpayers’ money to do so instead of spending that money elsewhere.

Foss said this was when he decided to become a prosecutor. He believes prosecutors are “the most powerful actors in the criminal justice system.”

While the prison system isn’t working, people are not “pissed off enough to change it” or are afraid of changing it.

Foss cited the Black Lives Matter movement, and said it was effective because it was a collective body saying, “We’ve had enough of this, and it needs to stop.”

In order for reform to happen in prisons and the criminal justice system, the same thing needs to happen, Foss said.

Foss closed by saying, “You’ve got 50 years to decide what kind of fingerprint you want to leave.”

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Introducing Sadie, sophomore Patty Cooney’s T.V.-watching, apple-eating, snuggle-loving Labradoodle.

Curly, cuddly and cute enough to get away with anything, Sadie has been stealing hearts since she was just a little pooch.

Cooney picked out her lively labradoodle pup from a breeder in Rhode Island during the summer of 2010.

Despite being six years old, Sadie is forever a puppy at heart. “She has the energy of a 2 year old, and she loves to play ball. She also loves to run around and play with her dog friends,” said Cooney.

According to Cooney, Sadie is a bundle of joy with a lot of curls. When the cuddly canine isn’t rocking enough hair to model the latest Pantene product, she’s “cut really short and soft.”

When she’s not up and about or running around with her dog friends, Sadie likes to kick back, relax and unwind while watching her favorite T.V. shows. “Sadie watches T.V. - especially football and ‘Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan,’” said Cooney.

For Sadie, nothing complements an episode of “Dog Whisperer” like a wholesome snack. “Sadie loves to eat apples. In fact, she eats the entire apple, including the core,” said Cooney.

She notes that while Sadie likes plain apples, she simply can’t resist one that has been generously smothered in peanut butter.

When her show ends and the afternoon apple has settled, it’s time for some snuggles. “She loves to snuggle with you, but eventually, she will end up literally pushing you away with her feet,” said Cooney. Other times, “She won’t move and you are trapped under her.”

According to Cooney, the selective snuggler sure isn’t shy. “Once, my grandmother was taking care of Sadie while my family and I were on vacation. My grandmother told us that one night, Sadie just jumped right into her bed and slept beside her for the rest of the night. For the rest of our vacation, my grandmother told us that Sadie slept with her every night,” said Cooney.

That’s Sadie - the T.V.-watching, apple-eating, snuggle-loving Labradoodle that’s forever a puppy at heart.

Editor’s note: “The Pawgress Report” is a bi-weekly column featuring FSU students and their dogs.

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“Before the Flood”

An appeal to consumers to halt climate change

By William Mills-Curran Staff Writer FSU’s environmental club, The Green Team, hosted a screening of National Geographic’s documentary “Before the Flood” on Monday, Oct. 31 in the McCarthy Center Forum.

Green Team President senior Paolo Bon Tempo welcomed about fifty students, faculty and guests to the film, which had a small release in theaters in New York and Los Angeles during the week of Oct. 21, before being released to select universities to be viewed by the public free of charge.

The film, directed by Fisher Stevens, follows Academy Award-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio as he fills the shoes of his new role as a United Nations representative on climate change.

DiCaprio co-produced the film and drew its title from a painting from Dutch Renaissance artist Heironymus Bosch’s triptych, “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” wherein humankind meets judgment for abusing God’s creation.

DiCaprio, who is both the lead and narrator of the film, begins the documentary with a series of visits to various industrial sites and com-

munities around the world severely affected by climate change.

DiCaprio interviewed UN Secretary-General Ban-Ki Moon at the UN, U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House and Pope Francis at the Vatican. Other world leaders, politicians and industrialists were

encouraged to participate in a formal discussion moderated by Bon Tempo. The upcoming election stirred several to remark upon the perceived lethargy of American politicians in creating effective policy to combat climate change.

“Everything is determined by

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DiCaprio’s new documentary is being shown for free at schools nationwide.

interviewed.

DiCaprio implores each of them to consider how best to use their influence to combat global climate change. Also shown were meetings with environmentalist and former Vice President Al Gore and entrepreneur Elon Musk of SolarCity and Tesla Motors.

After the film, the audience was

how we vote,” said sophomore Zach LeBlanc. “Unless we vote, the only thing [politicians] will hear is the dollar signs from the oil companies.”

Bon Tempo expressed a lack of faith in the current state of environmental politics, stating “both parties are taking money and denying the issue.”

Professor Vandana Singh, chair of physics and earth science and coordinator of FSU’s Environmental Forum, compared the protests of the civil rights era to modern environmental social movements.

“Climate change is a social justice issue,” said Singh. “It disproportionately affects those who have done the least to change it.”

She added “Social movements do, in fact, have a role to play.” She highlighted how each person can contribute.“It was not just people protesting in the streets. They later went to their homes, churches, workplaces and elected leaders.”

Sophomore Nicole Bray said, “I feel like the biggest issue is that people aren’t educated.”

Singh encouraged FSU students to ask for more of the same education Bray felt many were lacking.

“One thing you can do is ask your professors to talk about climate change,” said Singh.

Bon Tempo closed by saying, “I think it is a mistake for us to look at any one fix. There have to be all sorts of changes in all sorts of ways. … Culture change starts locally.”

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The Revolution of Standing Author discusses importance of global literacy Rock comes to FSU

By Tessa Jillson Staff Writer

“We have this incredible power called creativity.

I think sometimes we forget that.”

-Irene Porro, director of the McAuliffe Center

#NoDAPL protestors stand up against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Amanda Martin/THE GATEPOST dealing with a number of problems Pam Allyn is the founder of LitWorld, a literacy initiative themselves.

The state has recently built a that stretches to over 60 countries. road, and because of an increase of tourism, is considering widening By Cass Doherty “strengthen kids and communiit. Everything that comes off of the Arts & Features Editor ties through the power of their road ends up in the Chilkat River own stories.” which affects the salmon.

She said, “Everywhere I’ve Pam Allyn wrote her first story, A mine is also being built above “Thunder: a Horse” at six years been in the world … mothers, the village, which in turn also af- old. She said it was actually a fathers and grandparents want fects the salmon population. completely plagiarized version of their children to read.”

Marchioni said she was surprised “Black Beauty,” a novel that her Allyn added there are places to see them there even after all first grade teacher had been read- around the world where women their struggles, adding “they took ing to the class - but of course, at aren’t allowed to go to school. the time to travel across the coun- the time, she didn’t realize that.

Women put their babies in her try, probably farther than anybody “I loved the way the book start- arms and ask her to bring them else to get to Standing Rock, and ed. I wanted to write it just as it back with her to the United brought a canoe with them to show was. … I wanted to own it, I want- States. how important these resources are. ed it to be mine,” said Allyn. She Allyn traveled to Haiti after the Even if they’re not their direct re- went through and changed just first big earthquake in 2010 and sources, there’s still this attach- a few details - instead of Black asked the mothers, “What do you ment to the land.”

Beauty being black, Thunder was need most right now?” AccordSingh said, “It’s the largest gath- a “bay gelding, of some sort.” ing to Allyn, they asked her to let ering of Native Americans” in 100 Now, Allyn, who is a literacy their children go back to school. years.

To Allyn, that was the sign of a expert who founded LitWorld, Singh discussed how the ef- a global literacy initiative that good teacher. fects we are seeing with the plan- serves children across the world, She discussed the importance et changing, the weather becom- is the author of two novels - “Be of teaching, and how it’s “the ing abnormal, instances of super Core Ready” and “Every Child a seeing of what’s already there.” storms, tropical disease moving Super Reader.”

Allyn said seeing into the northward and sea levels rising are Allyn was the keynote speaker “heart of a child” will give a all due to this over-consumption of at Alpha Upsilon Alpha’s initia- teacher “so many wonderful fossil fuels. tion ceremony held in the Forum classes, and wonderful knowlPorro asked how we will change on Nov. 1. edge will flow through you.” as a civilization to come up with Allyn also talked about povAllyn spoke about her patersolutions to climate change. erty, and how it “steals literacy nal grandmother, who became She recalled when President a second-grade teacher at the from children.”

John F. Kennedy addressed the idea same time Allyn was going into She said it isn’t poverty that of going to the moon. second grade. Her grandmother causes illiteracy, but that it Pollo quoted Kennedy, saying would make her worksheets, send “steals it,” and that “every child “We choose to go to the moon them to her mother in the mail has the right to literacy.” andHdo things, not because and Allyn would complete them Every child should have equal S Oother UT but LIG Tare they easy, because they are and mail them back to her grand- access to books and well-trained H her, it’s a HUSTo hard.” teachers, said Allyn. mother to be graded. THE BOY “We need to be more creative,” “It was always just perfect. … human right.

N O T H Porro said. “We were able to go to L E TR and stars and A+++,” said “Literacy frees you. … It’s why GIR of Hearts A E the moon in a very short period Malala [Yousafazi] was shot on a Allyn. I H time because they were creative, Allyn said literacy is “human bus going to school. Because it’s because they put their mind to kind’s greatest innovation,” and dangerous to teach people how to it. We have this incredible power the way a child learns best is in read,” said Allyn. called creativity. I think sometimes a safe space. She said the innovawe forget that. Let’s find alterna- tions around literacy are going to CONNECT WITH CASS DOHERTY tive solutions. Let’s do this not be- change, but literacy is “the great- cdoherty1@student.framingham.edu cause it was easy, but because it’s est thing you can give to a child.” hard.”

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director of the McAuliffe Center, and Rebecca Hawk, United Nations indigenous people representative and director of community Education and English Language Programs, were also present.

Before the discussion, three videos were shown capturing the abuse protesters received from the Morton County police and the national guard, who were there on behalf of the pipeline company.

Men and women were chased by police dogs, kicked by officers, pepper sprayed and tased for stepping too close to construction sites, and were pushed out of their homes.

Hawk said, the federal government, who guarantees the right of JURINthe CONunder consolation G 2 tribe’s treaE H T ty, is not the one approving these processes. In fact, the state’s legislation is giving permission to the company. The issue of the environmental review is unjust, she said.

The federal government has its “hands up” because it does not want to cause legal issues under the treaty, and since the state says it has control over the land, it is legally able to go through with the construction process, said Hawk.

Marchioni said, within five seconds of watching the second video she saw someone she knew from the Chilkat Alaskan Village. She explained their village has been

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The construction of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) continues to spark protests from the Standing Rock Sioux. Now that the construction is almost three-quarters of the way done, tribes from all over the country and people in support of NoDAPL have gathered to aid Standing Rock Sioux in their fight.

This protest was brought to life at FSU on Nov. 2 in the McAuliffe Center, when Vandana Singh, chair of the physics department, led a talk about how the revolution of NoDAPL highlighted the issues over resources and fossil fuels.

Meredith Marchioni, environmental sociologist, Irene Porro,

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The great “de-wait,” curse lifted from Cubs shoulders after 108 years

By Mike Ferris Sports Editor After 108 years, the wait is over. The Chicago Cubs are World Series Champions.

The Cubs beat the Cleveland Indians in seven games on Wednesday night, but they made their fans hold on as long as they possibly could.

The game went 10 innings, was interrupted by a 17-minute rain delay and saw lights-out closer Aroldis Chapman blow a two-run lead.

But in the end, free-agent signing Ben Zobrist came through in the top of the tenth with an RBI single and the Cubs bullpen which hadn’t been trusted all night by manager Joe Maddon combined for a save in the bottom of the tenth.

The first thing that needs to be discussed is the managing. Maddon nearly over-managed his team right out of Game 7.

First things first, Kyle Hendricks was pitching incredible. The 26-year-old got through 4 2/3 innings, before allowing a walk to Carlos Santana.

The Indians only had four hits up to that point but Maddon felt that was enough and made a move to starter Jon Lester who was in the bullpen.

John Smoltz made a great comment when Maddon made the move, “never make a decision that makes the other team happy.”

Hendricks was dominate. Much like the Dodgers couldn’t figure him out in Game 6 of the NLCS, the Indians were struggling with his stuff in Game 7. Maddon it seems likes to be unconventional and sticking with Hendricks seemed to be the move.

Second, going to Lester was questionable in and of itself. Everyone knows Lester is likely to win the NL Cy Young this year and he’s a great pitcher, but to bring him in during the middle of an inning with runners on just made no sense.

Lester can’t hold runners on as was evidenced when a tailor-made double play ball was underhanded to first by him instead of thrown to second.

Lester ended up allowing two runs, one inherited and one of his own, and the Cubs watched their lead dwindle to 5-3.

If Maddon wanted to pull Hendricks, which I still can’t support, it seems the move was either to pull Hendricks in favor of a reliever who could hold runners on or wait until the start of the sixth to go to Lester.

The final move that was questionable was asking Chapman for four outs…again. Chapman saved Game 5 getting the team’s last eight outs, something he’d never done before. Two days later, in another questionable move, Maddon brought Chapman into Game 6 with his team up by five.

To say he was probably fatigued is an understatement. The man who generally has outings where one can count on one hand the number of pitches he throws under 100 M.P.H. only threw a handful of pitches over that mark in Game 7. To ask him for a three-out save in Game 7 would’ve been one thing, but to ask for four was just too much.

This was evidenced when Rajai Davis sent a tworun blast over the left-field wall to tie the game in the eighth against the Cuban flamethrower.

With that being said, the future is bright for the Cubs. Ten key players are all under 30, with a majority of them being under 25.

A team that just broke a 108-year World Series drought seems like a team that could be a lock to represent the National League in the World Series for years to come.

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- The United States fought in World War I, World War II and the Iraq War. - Famous Cubs announcer Harry Caray was born and passed away.

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Football downs Mass. Maritime, sets up monumental matchup with Bridgewater State

By Jose Carrasquillo Asst. Sports Editor Framingham continued its winning ways when taking on Mass. Maritime for its third straight win, with a final score of 21-3.

After the Bucs won the coin toss and decided to defer until the second half, Quron Wright returned the ball 20 yards to the Framingham 36-yard line.

Adam Wojenski began the drive with an 18yard completion to Michael Calicchio for a first down. Following the big gain, Jalen Green rushed on back-to-back plays for 13 yards collectively and another first down for Framingham. The Rams’ momentum came to an end after Wojenski completed a five-yard pass to Calicchio, but he fumbled at the end of the play giving the ball back to Mass. Maritime.

Following the turnover, the Buccaneers began their drive with a 52-yard rush from Kenny Pierce.

With the ball in the red zone, Pierce followed up the big gain with a pick up of three on the ground.

On the next play the Buccaneers were called for a 10-yard holding penalty. After the penalty Richie Phillips only gained four yards to force a third-andlong. Chris Haggerty completed a six-yard pass to Aidan Desroisers, but was short for the first down forcing a field goal attempt. Sean Kahler came out to try to give Mass. Maritime the lead, but missed wide right turning the ball over.

Framingham failed to get anything going again going three-and-out, ending the drive with a punt.

Mass. Maritime began their drive with a threeyard rush from Phillips. After a Phillips loss of two yards to force a third-and-long, C. Haggerty completed a 9-yard pass to Shane Haggerty convert for a new set of downs. Following an incompletion on first down from C. Haggerty, Phillips gained four on the next play forcing another third down. On third down, Pierce gained two yards but came up short forcing a fourth down.

Wojenski began the drive with a completion to Napoleon Miller for no gain. On second down Wojenski connected with Nasir Thomas for a gain of 11 yards and a first down. Green followed the play with a gain of six on the ground. Wojenski found Miller once again to move the chains. After a loss of one on the Wojenski completion, Green rushed for a gain of one giving the Rams a third-and-short to work with. On third down, Green was able to convert with a one-yard gain. Green gained another three yards on first down to keep the momentum going. After the completion, Wojenski failed

to connect with Miller for back-to-back plays to force a punt.

The Buccaneers struggles continued on their next drive after five plays gaining only 19 yards before punting.

Wojenski began the drive with a three-yard completion to Miller to end the first quarter. Following a Green loss of one-yard on the ground, Wojenski found Green for a gain of 14 and a first down. After an incompletion from Wojenski, Green gained another eight on the ground giving the Rams a third-and-short. Framingham converted after an offside penalty from the Buccaneers. Miller and Green rushed on back-to-back plays for a gain of three yards forcing a third-and-goal. Wojenski found Hines in the end zone for a touchdown giving Framingham a 7-0 lead.

Mass. Maritime tried to respond, but went three-and-out punting the ball away.

Framingham tried to keep the scoring momentum going, but their drive ended after gaining one first down going six plays for 25 yards The Buccaneers began their drive with back-toback rushes for 11 yards from Pierce. On the next play Pierce fumbled after gaining two yards. The fumble was recovered by the Rams’ Aaron Owens.

The first half ended after both sides failed to score on the last three possessions.

The second half began with a C. Haggerty incompletion. Pierce rushed on back-to-back plays for a combined 11 yards and a first down. C. Haggerty threw back-to-back incompletions to force a third-and-long. C. Haggerty found a S. Haggerty for 13 yards converting the third down, but was brought back 13 yards because of a personal foul penalty. The next three plays, Pierce rushed for a total of three yards ending the drive with a punt.

Framingham began its drive with three straight rushes for 20 yards, moving the chains twice. On second down, Wojenski’s pass was intercepted by Kenny Kern ending the drive for the Rams.

With great field position, C. Haggerty gained 21 yards on the scramble to move the ball into the red zone. After a Phillips loss of one on the ground, C. Haggerty connected with Stegman for eight yards forcing third down. On third down, C. Haggerty’s pass fell incomplete forcing a field goal attempt.

Sean Kahler’s attempt from 25 yards out was good to cut the lead to 7-3.

The Rams went back to the ground game, with four consecutive rushes from Trevon Offley for 31 yards. Wojenski connected with Calicchio for 13 yards and another first down in the Buccaneers

territory. After a three-yard loss from Wright on first down, Offley lost two more yards on the next play and fumbled the ball but recovered it himself.

On third-and-long, Wright rushed for a loss of two yards forcing a punt.

The next three drives combined for both sides would end in punts, leading to the fourth quarter.

The first drive for Framingham began with a rush for no gain from Offley but followed it with a 12-yard gain. After a loss of two, Offley gained seven yards on the next play forcing third-and-five.

Offley rushed for another six yards on third down for the first down. Following an Offley gain of four on the ground, he gained another 13 yards on the next play. Wright gained another eight yards bringing the ball into the red zone. On third down, Offley scored from eight yards out extending the lead to 14-3.

The Buccaneers drive began when Ty Ebdon’s pass on first down fell incomplete. Pierce rushed for nine yards forcing a third-and-one. Ebdon was able to scramble for eight yards and the first down.

Ebdon’s pass on first down fell incomplete, after the incompletion Pierce loss another yard on the rush. Ebdon was sacked on third down by Akeem Smith forcing a fourth down. With no choice Mass.

Maritime was sacked again for a loss of five by Cody Wlasuk.

After the turnover on downs, Miller rushed for nine yards and 17 yards on back-to-back plays.

Green scored from two yards out stretching the lead to 21-3.

Mass. Maritime began their drive with a sack losing six yards. After a Phillips gain of two on the ground, a penalty against Framingham was called for 15 yards and the first down. Ty Ebdon connected with Ryan Taft for 33 yards for another first down. Pierce was able to gain eight yards forcing a Framingham timeout. Pierce converted the second-and-short with a gain of three. After Ebdon completed his pass to Desrosiers for five yards, Ebdon was intercepted by Jaquan Harris for a touchback sealing the game.

Framingham ended the game by kneeling the ball and running the clock out. Offley led the way for the Rams with 104 yards and one touchdown on 17 attempts. A key factor in the win for Framingham was the four sacks for a total loss of 16 yards.

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RECEIVING FSU- MICHAEL CALICCHIO: 5 REC, 43 YDS MMA- RYAN TAFT: 1 REC, 33 YDS

Must-see matchups of the week WOMEN’S SOCCER MASCAC SEMIFINAL AT WORCESTER STATE FRIDAY, NOV. 4 7:00 P.M.

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Men’s soccer season comes crashing down with first-round loss to Fitchburg

By Liam Gambon Staff Writer The Framingham State Rams hosted MCLA at Maple Street Field on senior day at Framingham State.

Prior to the contest the Rams honored their seven seniors playing in their final regular season game: Michaela Hyland, Danielle Whall, Meghan Kenny, Olivia Buonopane, Tess Gorman, Angela Pallotta and Ashley Lees.

The Rams heavily outshot the visitors on the day registering 29 shots to the MCLA 5, including a 6-0 margin in the overtime period.

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goal of the match in overtime with a header from Freshman Erin Angelillo off a pass from Jill Smith to end the game 1-0 in the 96th minute.

Keyonzia Gagne- Lamoureux made two saves in net for the Rams while Megan Richardson turned away seven Rams shots for MCLA. The win moves the Rams to 7-10 with a 4-3 MASCAC record which secures them the No. 4 seed in the upcoming MASCAC Tournament next week.

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The Framingham State Rams played Salem State in the first round of the MASCAC Tournament Tuesday evening at Maple Street Field.

The Vikings got on the board first in the final minute of the first half when a Ram foul setup a free kick for Salem State from roughly 30 yards out. Victoria Clancy sent in a strike that was saved by Rams keeper Gagne-Lamoureux then Salem’s Kelly Blanchard headed in the loose ball to give the Vikings a 1-0 lead at the break.

The Vikings had a great chance to add to their lead in the 64th minute when a Vikings player beat the crashing Rams keeper but her shot hit the post and ended the threat.

The Rams finally broke through in the 80th minute when the Vikings goalie Amanda Backe made a great

save but the rebound was settled by Pallotta and swung over to Kaelen Larocque who sent it into the open frame to tie the game at one.

Just over three minutes later, Pallotta scored her first of the game when Kayla Almstrom sent a pass that Pallotta ripped past the diving goalie. Less than a minute later, Pallotta converted again on a play that closely resembled the previous one.

Gagne-Lamoureux made seven saves for the Rams while Backe turned away nine shots in net for the Vikings.

The Rams outshot the visiting Vikings 22-to-13 in the contest while Salem held a 3-2 edge in corner kicks.

The Rams advance to the MASCAC semi-final round on Friday, Nov 4 at top-seeded Worcester State.

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Women’s soccer advances to MASCAC semifinals

By Richard Tranfaglia Staff Writer Framingham State won a close game against MCLA 1-0.

It was a physical battle between the Rams and the Trailblazers that resulted in 27 fouls.

The referees handed out seven yellow cards and two red cards.

The Trailblazers had 12 shots on goal in the first half, but could not capitalize on any of them. They had shots hit the crossbar and both posts.

The game remained scoreless at the half.

In the second half, the defensive struggle continued until the 82nd minute when Johance Liverpool sent in a long pass to Gerardo Ramirez who beat the defense and lofted a shot over MCLA’s goalie to give FSU a 1-0 lead.

Rams goalie Josh Arno recorded nine saves in the win and got the shutout. MCLA goalie Kamron Anderson made four saves in the contest.

MCLA had a slight 22-19 advantage in shots and a 10-5 advantage in shots on goal but could not get one in the back of the net.

The Rams improve to 8-10 and get the three seed in the MASCAC tournament.

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Framingham State lost to Fitchburg State in the first round of the MASCAC Championship 1-0.

The Falcons scored the only goal of the game at the 6:42 mark when Matthew Krikorian sent a loft pass into the box, which got behind Arno and Ibrahima Male finished it off with a close-range goal.

Framingham State had a chance to tie the game about three minutes later when Simon Appiah shot the ball pass Fitchburg goalie Alex Al-Zaibak but it was cleared by a Falcons defender before crossing the line.

In the second half, Framingham State’s Ken Stahovish had two chances to score but his first shot sailed wide left and his second hit the crossbar.

The Rams final chance to tie the game came with 15 minutes left in the game when Mitchell Thackaberry shot the ball on goal, but just barely sailed over the net.

Framingham State had a 19-13 advantage in shots but trailed in shots on goal, 9-6.

Arno made eight saves in the loss and Al-Zaibak collected six saves.

The Rams are eliminated from the tournament and end the season at 8-11.

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Framingham clinches No. 1 seed in MASCAC Tournament, sets sights on NCAA Tournament again

By Jen Fortin Staff Writer Framingham secured a three-set win against Curry College last Thursday. The Rams beat the Colonels with scores of 25-17, 26-24 and 25-13.

Senior Alycia Rackliffe totaled 21 kills and five blocks. Sarah Leonard had 10 kills and led with 14 digs.

Mackenzie Whalen totaled 28 assists and three service aces. Deirdre Fay supplied two service aces and two blocks. Vicki Anderson had 13 digs.

For Curry, senior outside hitter Nicole Grambley led the team with eight kills and two service aces. Fellow senior Alyssa Keeney contributed 17 assists.

Middle blocker Nicole Rice had three blocks against FSU while three other Curry College players totaled two blocks each.

The first set began with a back-and-forth battle between the two teams, which quickly turned into an FSU lead. Three consecutive Rackliffe kills pull the Rams ahead 23-14.

The Rams were then held at 24 points while the Colonels scored two points from FSU errors. The set was won from an attack error on Curry.

Set two proved to be more evenly played between the two teams, alternating point gains. However the Rams managed to win the set from a kill by Leonard.

Framingham got an early lead in the third set, holding Curry at only 13 points. The 24th and 25th points were awarded from a Molly Meehan kill and a Grambley attack error.

The Rams proceed at a 19-10 record while Curry falls to 10-13.

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Framingham State played a total of ten sets against Worcester State and Rhode Island College on Saturday.

The first proved to be a win against the Lancers, losing the first set 25-13 and third set 25-15, while winning the second 25-19, fourth 25-10 and fifth 15-10.

Rackliffe led with 24 kills, and seven blocks.

Whalen supplied 39 of the 43 assists.

Fay totaled 25 digs while Rackliffe and Anderson each had 20. The Rams totaled eight service aces, with Wan, Anderson and Alexandra Fish securing two each.

Casie Thurber also had two solo blocks and five assisted.

For the Lancers, Emily Carens topped the team with 13 kills while also having 23 digs.

Alexandra Nolan totaled 35 assists and two service aces. Sarah Powers and Valerie Hoyle combined to complete seven blocks against the Rams.

The first set was a struggle for FSU, as Worcester got an early lead from Ram attack errors. Back-to-back kills from Rackliffe and Fay held WSU at 24 points but it was not long before a kill by Carens sealed the set for the

Erin Fitzmaurice/ THE GATEPOST The Framingham State University women’s volleyball team clinched the No. 1 seed in the MASCAC Tournament. The Rams will host Bridgewater State university in the MASCAC semifinals on Saturday at 11:00 a.m. Framingham is led by back-to-back MASCAC Player of the Year Alycia Rackliffe, who was awarded that honor, for the second time in as many years, last week.

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In the second set, Framingham secured the lead and kept it the entire set. The Rams kept Worcester at 19 while an error and Rackliffe kill enabled FSU to win the set.

Set three consisted of WSU getting the initial lead, solidified by Lancer kills. Worcester got the 25th point off of an FSU attack error.

The fourth set began with a back-and-forth battle between the two teams. Framingham got seven consecutive points after a kill from Fish gave FSU the ball back.

The Rams then got another six points from three Stephanie Chapin attack errors and a kill from both Thurber and Rackliffe.

Worcester was eventually held at only 10 points while Framingham scoffed the remaining four set points, sealed with a service ace from Anderson.

With a score of 2-2, the fifth and final set began with the Rams scoring three straight points. The teams were tied at 10 before Framingham got the last five points consecutively with three Rackliffe kills, a Carens attack error and a service ace from Fish.

From this conference win, the Rams top the MASCAC at 6-0.

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Fish completed 11 kills and three service aces. Lauren Salisbury set in the game with 29 assists and Anderson had 26 digs.

Three powerhouses for the Anchormen led in kills; Courtney Lambrese totaled 20, Jillian Ward had 18 and Sierra Smith contributed 13.

Jacqueline Jutras and Abigayle White scored three service aces each. Smith also blocked four plays against the Rams, while Ward and Jutras had two blocks each.

Despite the tied match between the two teams, the Rams struggled in the fifth set.

Scoring only six points, the game ended with a kill from Lambrese.

Framingham State ended the regular season with a record of 20-11 and 6-0 in the conference.

The Rams are set to play in the MASCAC Tournament Semifinal against Bridgewater State in a home game on Saturday, Nov. 5 at 11:00 a.m.

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The Rams finished their regular season with a loss against Rhode Island College. RIC won the first two sets 25-19 and 25-20 while the Rams tied it up, winning the next two 2519 and 26-24. The Anchormen won the fifth set 15-6.

Rackliffe totaled 22 kills, two service aces and two blocks. Thurber also totaled two blocks.

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Performances of the Week

1 Angela Pallotta (women’s soccer) scored two goals and assisted the team’s third in the Rams 3-1 win in the first round of the MASCAC Tournament

2 Alycia Rackliffe (Volleyball) tallied 24 kills and 20 digs in the Rams 3-2 win over WSU. She was also named MASCAC POY for the second straight year,

3 Trevon Offley (football) carried 17 times for 104 yards and a touchdown in the Rams 21-3 win over Mass. Maritime.

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