THE GATEPOST VOLUME 85 • ISSUE 7
FSUGATEPOST.COM
OCTOBER 28, 2016
FSU student contracts the mumps By Alexandra Gomes Editor-in-Chief An FSU student has been diagnosed with mumps, according to Ilene Hofrenning, director of the health center. Hofrenning said the student had been placed in an isolation room on Friday, where he remained for five days. The student was released from quarantine on Tuesday evening. According to Dean of Students Melinda Stoops, the isolation room was located in Towers Hall. Residence Life staff delivered meals to the student prepared by dining services, and the health center kept in contact with him. Hofrenning said anyone with the mumps is contagious from
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Amanda Martin/THE GATEPOST Kaelen Larocque and Angela Pallotta battle a Lasell Laser for the ball on Wednesday, Oct. 26.
Hate crime investigation underway at FSU By Bailey Morrison News Editor Graffiti was discovered on the third floor of May Hall depicting a swastika along with the words “white pride” and “America 4 whites,” on Oct. 20. FSUPD is investigating this graffiti as a hate crime. Sgt. Martin Laughlin of FSUPD responded to a call from someone in May Hall. FSUPD was dispatched at 2:48 p.m. to the third floor men’s bathroom in May Hall to investigate the incident. FSUPD called the facilities department to remove the graffiti and Huddleston sent out a community notice regarding the incident that day. The Bias Incident Education and Response Team (BERT) and FSUPD will “work in conjunction” to investigate the vandalism in May Hall, Laughlin said. FSUPD is looking at this vandalism “seriously” and will not write it off as “some kid messing around,” said Laughlin. There are no cameras in the area, but given the time the incident occurred, Laughlin said he
Wi-Fi routers to be replaced in November By Julia Sarcinelli Associate Editor
Bailey Morrison/THE GATEPOST Grafitti was found on the third floor of May Hall in the men’s bathroom.
“doesn’t know” if cameras would have been helpful to catch the perpetrator. The investigation into the incident is still active, said Laughlin. According to Sean Huddleston, chief officer of diversity, inclusion and community engagement (DICE), this incident was not re-
ported to the BERT but they plan to discuss the hate crime during their November meeting. Huddleston was informed by FSUPD and Human Resources of the incident on Thursday afternoon. Because this event was not reported to the BERT, it is being
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A $30,000 project to upgrade the two routers for FSU from 1 GB to 10 GB will begin next month, according to Mike Zinkas, director of systems and networking. Zinkas said the routers are for the adminstrative buildings and the residence halls. “If you think about it like a piece of pie, if you have x number of people trying to get a piece of the pie, well, if there’s more people you’re going to have a smaller piece of the pie. What we need is to get a bigger pie,” said Zinkas. Dale Hamel, executive vice president, said within the past three years, $614,000 has been spent from University funds and residence hall rental fees to update Wi-Fi and bandwidth. According to Zinkas, three years ago, the University hired Radiant Networks do an assessment of the campus. Radiant Networks then made recommendations about
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