September 28, 2018

THE GATEPOST Framingham State’s independent student newspaper

Volume 87 • Issue 3

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September 28, 2018

Rams Resource Center opens on FSU campus

By Bailey Morrison Editor-in-Chief

Margaret Richardson / THE GATEPOST Students and administrators cut a ribbon signifying the opening of the Rams Resource Center on Sept. 24.

News SGA MEETING pg. 4 HEED AWARD pg. 5

Opinions WEEKLY COMIC pg. 8 DOOM ETERNAL pg. 8

Arts & Features MIDDAY PERFORMANCE pg. 10 WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN ALLY pg. 12

Sports FOOTBALL pg. 14 MENS SOCCER pg. 15

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MSCA files labor charge against the BHE: Union contract remains unfunded

By Jillian Poland Associate Editor The Massachusetts State College Association (MSCA) filed an unfair labor practice charge against the Board of Higher Education (BHE) on Sept. 14, according to a statement by MSCA President CJ O’Donnell.

The MSCA, a union comprised of faculty and librarians from the nine state universities, filed the charge on the grounds that the BHE has failed

to submit the funding request for the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with the governor within the allotted time frame.

The CBA is a document created through a process of negotiations between the MSCA and the BHE. The document outlines the conditions under which the union agrees to work, including pay, workload, and evaluation procedures. It is valid for three years, after which time a newly negotiated CBA is instated.

The MSCA and the BHE finally reached a tentative collective bargaining agreement in April, nine months after the end of the CBA. The bargaining was delayed in part because the BHE had not been given approval by the governor to provide a financial offer to the union until after the previous CBA expired.

Additional points of tension during bargaining included a perceived lack of appropriate pay increases, a proposed increase in the cap on part-

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Decontextualizing the body: Ellie Krakow’s “Mirrored Back”

By Tessa Jillson Staff Writer

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In an effort to combat student hunger on campus, a food pantry has opened at Framingham State. The Rams Resource Center (RRC) officially opened on Sept. 24.

The center is located on the first floor of West Hall with an exterior door near the Maynard Road parking lot.

RRC is now open to anyone in the FSU community who needs assistance. The pantry is stocked with non-perishable food and toiletries - including tampons/pads, shampoo and conditioner, and body wash.

During the grand opening, community members were invited to tour the pantry. President F. Javier Cevallos, along with RRC student volunteers and members of the administration, cut a ribbon to signify the opening of the center.

Cevallos said, “This was a long time coming.

I am so proud.”

Michelle Yestrepsky, coordinator of student support initiatives, has been working since 2015 as the “single point of contact” for students with food or housing insecurities. She

Influenced by the metal support structures that hold up ancient artifacts in museums, assistant professor of art Ellie Krakow began to construct armatures inspired by her own arms.

Krakow said she become obsessed with these museum armatures because they “have this super important job, which is to be very tender and very supportive, but also they’re supposed to be complete-

ly invisible. … It’s like they’re showcasing something that’s been taken out of context, like historical context and geographical context, and put in a new position, but they’re supposed to do it without being noticed.”

Krakow worked on the project for five years, taking photos of support structures such as parts of the body or objects like tree trunks, mimicking these photos in obscure or abstracted sculptures with the same dimensions, and then taking photos of her body performing the sculptures’ gestures. Kra-

kow calls her process “circular,” constructing “image-object pairings” to design a “call-and-response dialogue” where objects and images are grouped together to establish a relationship.

While working on the project, Krakow ended up taking a photograph that reminded her of a human back. She thought about how the back, in many ways, is more of a support than the arms since the back does the job of supporting you and the arms do the job of supporting things around you.

Krakow’s arm armature project

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Gatepost Interview

Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief Bailey Morrison

Mona Awad

English professor

Associate Editor Jillian Poland News Editor Nadira Wicaksana Asst. Arts & Features Editors Zach Colten Andrew Willoughby Entertainment Correspondents Brennan Atkins Noah Barnes Opinions Editor Lizzy Stocks Columnist Thom Duda Sports Editor Matt Ferris Asst. Sports Editor Liam Gambon Design Editor Cara McCarthy Photos Editor Corey McFeeley Staff Writers Jordan Bacci Mackenzie Berube Tessa Jillson Robert Johnson Patrick Peterson Kate Shane Cam Turner Lauren Paolini Julian Vazquez Caeley Whalen Staff Copy Editors Lauren Hapcook Noelle Mellouk Staff Photographers Ryan Feinblatt Allie Gath Donald Halsing Amanda Martin Jenna-Nicole Richard Margaret Richardson Oscairy Tavares Michael Upton Ashley Wall Staff Designer Kathleen Moore Staff Illustrator Shayna Yacyshyn Advisor Dr. Desmond McCarthy Assistant Advisor Elizabeth Banks Administrative Assistant Gwenyth Swain 100 State Street McCarthy Center Room 410 Framingham, MA 01701-9101 Phone: (508) 626-4605 Fax: (508) 626-4097 gatepost@framingham.edu

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By Jordan Bacci Staff Writer What is your professional and educational background?

I’m a novelist, so I wrote a novel in 2016 called, “13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl.” It came out with Penguin. Then I wrote my second novel.

It’s called “Bunny,” and it’s coming out in June of 2019. I was an English major in college. I have an undergraduate degree in English from York, and I have two master’s degrees - one MFA from Brown in fiction, and then a master’s in literature from University of Edinburgh. I have a Ph.D. in creative writing and literature from the University of Denver.

What inspired “13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl?”

I struggled with body image all my life, and I wanted to write a novel that really looks at that struggle from the inside and the outside, and sort of shows how we see ourselves, and looks at how body image sort of affects every aspect of our lives you know, relationships, shopping for clothes, the way that we see ourselves. I wanted to look at all of that.

Is there anything you’d want to say to anyone who also struggles with body image?

I think it’s important to remember that perspective plays a large role in how you see yourself. ... It’s hard. I wrote a book about it because I had a lot to say about how it felt. And I felt like there weren’t a lot of books that really explored how it feels, every day, to deal with being inside a body that you don’t like. To me, there weren’t enough books and stories out there that were exploring that terrain. So, I would say if you’re having struggles write. Tap into that, and understand that the way that you’re seeing yourself is being shaped by the world outside you, that it’s not necessarily the truth, that it’s relative.

What is your upcoming book about?

It’s a novel, and it combines fairy tale and horror - both of which I’m very interested in. It tells the story of this group of girls - they’re graduate students, they’re writers, and they

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sic impulse of humans, to tell stories.

I’ve always loved it because there is so much just in experiencing other people, and just in living daily life that I want to reflect on, and stories let me do that.

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get together and conjure men out of bunnies - magically, in these off-campus, ritualized workshops. It’s told from the perspective of an outsider girl, a student in the school who’s not part of that group, and then she gets sucked in. So, it’s very dark and it’s meant to be kind of comic. I had a lot of fun writing it. It is very different than “13 Ways,” but there’s some crossover. It’s got kind of an outsider perspective. It sort of looks at privilege, in a dark, fantasy sort of way.

Were you ever discouraged from being an author?

Oh yeah, many times. I almost quit my MFA halfway through, because I thought that I couldn’t do it. I didn’t know what I was doing. So, I did almost quit, and I went back to it just because I really love telling stories.

It’s what I’ve been doing since I was a kid, and I can’t imagine not. So, I just told myself this - I told myself it doesn’t matter if it gets published or not. It’s just important for you to write these stories down, no matter what happens.

What do you think is the importance of storytelling?

Stories are everything. Stories are what we do every day. We tell each other stories. We tell ourselves stories. We tell stories to explain ourselves to other people, or to explain ourselves to ourselves. We tell stories to defend ourselves. We tell stories to be understood. We tell stories to deal with grief, to deal with pain, to deal with emotional events in our lives that we can’t wrap our heads around.

We tell stories for fun. It’s such a ba-

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Do you have any books or stories that you particularly enjoy?

Yeah, I have a lot. I mean, I love fairy tales because they have magic, and magic is about possibility, and I think we all need a sense of possibility in our lives, and fairy tales give us that. I love them too because they narrate - in this very symbolic language - events that we all go through.

You know - falling in love, dealing with death, dealing with adversity.

They sort of narrate it for us in this symbolic language that I think speaks to all of us. So, I love fairy tales. I love Jean Rhys. She is a twentieth-century English author. She writes these first-person stories about being an outsider, being broke, and about getting her heart broken again and again in these wonderful cities like London or Paris. And I love her stories because they’re so immediate, like I can feel everything she’s feeling as she writes. The voice is so nuanced it’s really powerful to me, so I always revisit those books. Also, I love David Mitchell. He’s a contemporary British author. I feel like he’s the Daniel Day-Lewis of writers. He can get in anybody’s skin and make you believe that he’s that character. He’s so good at voice.

Do you have any advice for students here at FSU? I would say turn off your phone.

Turn off your laptop. Experience the world with your eyes, with your ears, and with your other senses, so that you know what you really feel about things, rather than having it told to you. So, trust your own eyes and your ears. ... I would also say read, because it is the one thing that gives you freedom. It gives you the most freedom to imagine, to visualize, the most freedom to engage all of your senses is to read. And it rewards attention, and it rewards discipline, and it’s a tonic for the soul.

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Graphic by Emily Robinson

Continued from pg. 1 time faculty and a push to give administrators tenure.

On June 20, the MSCA ratified the tentative agreement. Massachusetts Commissioner of Higher Education Carlos E. Santiago signed the agreement on July 16, according to a statement from O’Donnell.

Following the Commissioner’s signature, the BHE had until Aug. 15 to submit the funding request for the agreement to the governor’s Office of Employee Relations (OER).

In a statement on the MSCA website, O’Donnell said, “Since then, the MSCA has been asking if the funding request was submitted and for a copy of the submission. Tired of the non-responses and cryptic responses, the MSCA was compelled to file this charge.”

FSU psychology professor and MSCA Vice President Robert Donohue said the BHE told them the situation was “complicated.”

He added, “From the MSCA’s position, it’s not at all complicated. You either submitted it, consistent with the law, or you didn’t.

“It is now our understanding that they had not submitted it.

So, the BHE violated state statute by not submitting the tenta-

tive agreement to the Office of Employee Relations in the time limit specified by the law,” he said.

While the MSCA and the BHE, along with the state university Council of Presidents (COP), decide upon the parameters of the CBA, any so-called “cost items” must be approved by the Massachusetts governor, at which point the OER will recommend the state legislature fund the contract. The cost items include any salary increases.

Donohue said while faculty and librarians have yet to see any pay raises or back pay, the union and the BHE have been beholden to all the guidelines set forth in the CBA since the document was ratified by both parties.

“This is highly problematic,” he said. “We’re into 14 months of retroactive pay raises, meaning we haven’t received them yet.”

He added, “We represent a lot of people who are really on the margins economically. We have a lot of adjunct and parttime faculty who are really living paycheck to paycheck, and these folks are now into their fourteenth month of waiting for money that they should have.”

Vincent Pedone, executive director of the COP, said this new

delay is related to a miscommunication between the state administration and the BHE bargaining team.

Pedone said the BHE bargaining team was given the authority to offer no more than a 2 percent cost increase for each of its labor contracts, including those with the Association of Professional Administrators (APA) and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees.

The bargaining team interpreted this to mean a 2 percent salary increase, which it granted during negotiations with the MSCA and the APA. However, upon submitting the budgets to the Department of Higher Education, there was “pushback,” said Pedone.

Pedone said the administration was concerned that both contracts had exceeded the set financial parameters because the OER included cost items such as stipends and “financial benefits” for faculty as well as salary increases when calculating the 2 percent increase cap.

He added, “When we pushed back and said, ‘That’s not true.

We gave a 2 percent salary increase. All the other increases will be borne by the universities,’

the administration held firm and said, ‘No. The parameters clearly set a 2 percent increase.’”

Over the summer, the OER recommended the state legislature not fund the APA contract because it exceeded the parameters. In protest, members of the APA, the MSCA, and the Massachusetts Teachers Association rallied together to call and email Governor Charlie Baker and their state senators and representatives.

On Sept. 19, the APA contract was approved for funding.

In an email to union members, APA President Sherry Horeanopoulos recognized the union and the COP for helping maintain interest in funding the APA contract.

She wrote, “The DHE worked to retain the interpretation we ALL had for the ‘parameters’ and kept the message on track as the process moved forward.

The membership’s commitment to keep the pressure on was, of course, the overarching factor in getting the job done.”

Pedone said the bargaining team was able to recalculate the contract to prove the overall cost increase was within 2 percent.

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Graphic by Emily Robinson

This graphic displays data from a survey conducted in 2017 regarding food insecurity.

Continued from pg. 1 is responsible for determining the prevalence of food insecurity on campus.

According to the USDA, food insecurity is defined as disrupted eating patterns and a lack of regular access to nutritional food due to financial strain.

She said, “Opening the Rams Resource Center was incredibly important because the data shows that students cannot thrive if they are hungry. Their grades suffer, and they suffer outside of classes. We want to alleviate that if we can.”

Yestrepsky coordinates the operation of the RRC and she assisted in raising $8,849 for supplies to run the center, including cleaning products, fencing, and a computer to log information. Meg Nowak, dean of students, and Lorretta Holloway, vice president of enrollment and student development, allocated money from their budgets to the center. Additionally, money was raised through private donations and fundraising.

The RRC has a board of directors who work together to plan and execute the fundraising and collection of supplies. This board includes staff and administrators at Framingham State.

Yestrepsky said all the food was donated, except for $236 of groceries. Over the summer, through online donations, the center collected 1,115 pounds of food and supplies from faculty and staff, exceeding the goal of 500 pounds.

As of opening day, the center had

a total of 1,636 pounds of food.

On the first day the center was open, three community members visited and took supplies. On the second day of operation, Sept. 26, 18 people visited the center.

The center is currently open Mondays from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and Wednesdays from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

According to Yestrepsky, when patrons enter the RRC, they are required to swipe their FSU ID. She said this data is collected daily and kept entirely confidential.

Yestrepsky said the data is used to determine the best way to serve those using the pantry - based on the number of IDs swiped and how often the center is being utilized.

She said the data can help the board of directors decide if the hours or number of staff members working at the pantry are sufficient.

The data isn’t used to follow up with people who visit the pantry or to identify FSU community members in any way, Yestrepsky said.

She said for each visit to the pantry, visitors are allowed to take one tote bag full of dry goods as well as four personal items. The items are weighed and tracked to keep a record of the goods entering and exiting the facility.

Additionally, each visitor is given a survey to fill out and hand back to a volunteer. The survey is used to tailor the items available and hours of the center to benefit those who visit, she said.

Yestrepsky said the RRC cur-

rently has 18 volunteers, including students, faculty, and staff.

Volunteers were required to attend mandatory trainings before beginning work. These sessions focused on preparing volunteers with the information needed to remain professional and confidential when interacting with customers coming to the center.

Yestrepsky said the volunteers are prohibited from sharing any information about people who come to the center.

RRC student volunteer Bruna Barbalho, a junior, said she volunteered at the center because she wanted to explore volunteer opportunities on campus. “I have the privilege to live at home and have regular access to food.

Students might not have someone to go to, and it’s really important that they do.”

Yestrepsky designed a parttime job at the center for a student worker. Zaafira Kazi, the RRC student coordinator, is responsible for marketing the center to students and raising awareness.

Kazi, a sophomore, said she was in a situation last year in which she thought she might need food and housing assistance. She reached out to Yestrepsky and said she was “incredibly helpful.”

Kazi added, “I didn’t end up needing that support, but I think it’s really important to be able to seek help and have someone guide you through a tough time.”

In an effort to assess the levels of food insecurity among students, Yestrepsky conducted a

student survey in 2017.

Four-hundred-ninety-three students responded.

One-hundred-sixty students, or 32 percent, indicated they “often” or “sometimes” skipped a meal because they didn’t have enough money to buy food.

At the time of the survey, Yestrepsky said 75 survey respondents, or 15 percent, were “likely or very likely” to use a food pantry, and 138 were “unsure.”

Glenn Cochran, director of residence life and associate dean of students, and a member of the RRC board of directors, said, “The research Michelle did shows a need.

We have students who are trying their best here, and they shouldn’t be going hungry. We want to help them to be successful.”

A more informal survey of FSU students was conducted in April of 2018 by the Wisconsin Hope Lab (WHL). The survey of 177 FSU students found that 35 percent had “low or very low food security.”

WHL conducted a more comprehensive survey in the fall of 2017.

The survey was administered to 15 community colleges and eight state universities in Massachusetts to determine rates of food insecurity among college-aged students. Of the 129,489 students to whom the survey was sent, 8,333 responded.

Thirty-nine percent of respondents at state universities indicated they could not afford to eat balanced meals.

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SGA focuses on parliamentary procedure

By Thom Duda Editorial Staff SGA held a “mock funding request exercise,” led by SGA Parliamentarian Olivia Beverlie at its meeting Tuesday, Sept. 25.

The exercise was held in place of club constitution hearings for Medical Awareness Club and IGNITE, which were postponed until next week due to scheduling conflicts.

She emphasized the importance of ensuring the SATF, comprised of the $70 student activities fee all students pay upon enrollment, is allocated efficiently and responsibly.

Beverlie explained the importance of Robert’s Rules of Order, a system used to regulate discussion during public meetings.

“It’s consistent, it’s professional, and it ensures that all senate members get equal opportunities to share their opinions and they all get equal opportunity to participate,” Beverlie said.

After the explanation, Beverlie began the mock funding request.

SGA president Ben Carrington played the role of the president of the Harry Potter Club and requested $5,855 in funding for a big event in DPAC for his club’s debut.

Carrington’s mock proposal included quotes for food, the license to show “Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire,” and merchandising for the club, which included Harry Potter Nimbus broomsticks and T-shirts.

During the mock funding exercise, SGA members asked Carrington for information that would be typical of a normal funding request - such as if the club had already met with SILD administrators and where they had obtained quotes for items.

Throughout the event, Beverlie offered feedback to senate members, particularly regarding asking for line items.

“Don’t be afraid to bring up that concern,” Beverlie said.

“If you think that a club is asking for way too much money for something, you can ask them a question about, ‘Where did they get the quote from?’ But you can never ask, ‘Oh, why did you think it was OK to ask for this money?’ Don’t say it like that - that is not OK. They obviously put work into this.”

SGA voted not to approve the mock request, ending the exercise.

Carrington announced that Ralph Eddy, director of Dining Services, would be coming in two weeks to discuss developments within Dining Services and provide updates regarding the Dunkin’ Donuts construction.

Carrington said he plans to meet with Facilities regarding lighting concerns previously brought up in open forum, particularly in the Dining Hall annex in McCarthy.

Carrington added SGA’s Vegas-themed Homecoming event would take place Oct. 10 from 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the SGA office and would include karaoke.

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In the Vice President’s Report, Alex Backer said, “We want to be involved on this campus.”

He called upon SGA members to sign up for committees other than Finance Committee.

Secretary Erin Johnson joined the call for members to sign up in other committees. “We’re really trying to stress this year that we’re not a bank.”

SATF Treasurer Driana Lebron talked about Fincom’s meeting on Monday, where SGA allocated $228.99 to itself, as well as an allocation of $204.49 to Pride Alliance for its “Coming Out Day.” English professor Lisa Eck came in to give a brief presentation on the Arts & Ideas program.

“Our focus has really been to bring art forms we don’t consume

as much in popular culture,” said Eck, also the chair of the program.

After the meeting, Carrington expressed his hopes for SGA this coming year.

“My whole goal right now is the branding of the SGA. I want us to be out there, visible, and talking with students,” Carrington said. “I want to know what their concerns are … maybe look into doing more town hall-style open forums, so its not just during our meetings.

“We have so many different ideas and that’s what I want. SGA should be back in the hands of the students.”

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FSU receives award for commitment to diversity

By Nadira Wicaksana News Editor FSU was named one of 96 higher education institutions in the United States to receive the Higher Education and Excellence in Diversity (HEED) award, according to a Sept. 17 University press release.

The HEED award is granted by the magazine “Insight into Diversity,” which according to its website, is the oldest and largest diversity magazine in higher education today. The publication “strives to advance the national conversation about diversity and inclusion.”

This is the fourth time the University has received the award

since 2014, according to the magazine’s website. FSU has received this award more times than any other public university in Massachusetts.

To be considered for the award, representatives from universities must complete applications that ask questions about student, faculty, and staff demographics.

These include categories such as race, gender, disability or veteran status, as well as more encompassing questions about “strategies your institution [has] in place to ensure diversity planning and accountability,” according to the application sheet.

Millie González, interim chief officer of diversity and inclusion, submitted FSU’s 2018 applica-

“It’s so important to keep an open and ongoing dialogue about these issues.”

- Millie González, interim chief officer of diversity and inclusion

tion for the HEED Award. In the application, she cited on-campus programs and affinity groups that contribute to the University’s diversity efforts, such as Brother2Brother, M.I.S.S., and BSU. FSU’s application also mentioned the employee affinity groups and initiatives, such as the Faculty and Staff of Color, Faculty and Staff with Disabilities, and the Widening the Circle Faculty Institute, which is a program that offers workshops about diversity issues in the classroom.

An FSU ad in the Nov. 2015 edition of “Insight into Diversity” states, “At FSU, we encourage a supportive, diverse and collaborative environment in which we learn from each other through informed and open communication, institutional practices and community engagement.”

González said in the press release, “It’s so important to keep an open and ongoing dialogue about these issues. ... We can learn so much from one another simply by engaging in these challenging conversations.”

González added she believes

that while the HEED award is a significant recognition for the University, she would rather the University’s commitment to diversity within the FSU community take the spotlight.

“To me, it’s wonderful to be recognized with the HEED award, but more importantly, it sort of signals to the community that our efforts are ongoing and our commitment still remains the same,” González said. “Even without the recognition, we would still be doing it.”

President F. Javier Cevallos said, “I am extremely proud that the University has received this recognition, particularly after the incidents of racism that occurred last year. I’ve always maintained that we would emerge a stronger community and I absolutely believe we have.

“There is still more work to be done as we continue to strive for excellence in institutional diversity and inclusion but I’m proud of where we are today.”

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The survey found that 24 percent of respondents at the eight universities skipped meals because they didn’t have enough money to buy food.

Linda Vaden-Goad, provost and vice president of academic affairs, said, “We are all about student support here. We want to give the students what they like to have, what they need to have - and that is food. We never want a student to go to class hungry.”

Efforts to combat food insecurity are underway on campuses around the state. North Shore Community College (NSCC) President Patricia Gentile said providing students with food and housing is one of “the most pressing issues that needs to be addressed.”

Gentile said in recent years, there have been efforts on the Lynn and Danvers campuses to more widely promote the available services. NSCC offers meal vouchers for students and hosts a popup food pantry once a month on both campuses.

She said, “We don’t want there to be any stigma attached to using the food pantry, so we encourage faculty and staff to openly attend the pop-ups to show the students there is no shame in needing assistance.”

Gentile also said NSCC is in negotiations with Salem State to use the dorms on its campus to house homeless students.

She said while the need for housing and food is “greater” for students who attend community colleges, the state-wide effort to combat food and housing insecurity is important for every institution to address.

Katy Abel, associate commissioner for external affairs for the Department of Higher Education (DHE), manages the state-wide efforts to combat college student food insecurity in Massachusetts.

Abel oversees policy implementation at universities focused on assisting students in their food and housing needs.

Abel said the DHE is impressed by the number of college campuses around Massachusetts that have responded to student hunger with food pantries, but “we need to be doing more. Even the people who run these food pantries will tell you - this isn’t enough.”

She added in order to address the food and housing insecurity students are facing, the state must address the root cause of the problem - school and housing costs.

“As we look for ways to reduce the cost of college, we [will be] putting more money in the pockets of students, which means hopefully, they have more money for basic necessities like food and shelter.”

She said Framingham State is one of the state’s “leader campuses” in addressing food insecurity.

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Margaret Richardson / THE GATEPOST Student volunteers Bruna Barbalho and Rebecca Goodell pose with Zaafira Kazi, RRC student coordinator.

president, said the organization’s “main goal is to spread awareness to students and different clubs on campus. I think this is a great resource on campus that has already been getting use, but of course it is sad that this is a real challenge that we face. No student should have to struggle for basic needs such as food, water, and other resources.”

Holloway, vice president for enrollment and student development and co-chair of the RRC board of directors, said she was “not sure the food pantry would ever happen. We were looking for a space for such a long time - we even considered a tiny room in the library at one point.”

She added, “Michelle’s work here is inspiring. It truly brings tears to my eyes thinking about this. This shows all of her hard work paid off.”

Holloway added the next step to promoting the food pantry is to

normalize taking supplies from the center. “We want this to be something that people just do. There’s no shame here, and this is here for those students who need that help.”

At a Board of Trustees’ meeting on Sept. 26, Holloway said volunteers and board members of the RRC are normalizing the center by handing out bags with the RRC logo to everyone on campus. The hope is to make patrons comfortable carrying the bags around campus.

RRC student volunteer Rebecca Goodell, a sophomore and nutrition major, said she wanted to explore volunteer opportunities that were in her field of study. She said, “This is a great opportunity for students who can’t afford food to get help, and I wanted to lend a hand in any way I could.”

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Continued from pg. 3 He added, “What [the OER] did is they identified the cost increases, but they did not look at what the campuses were saving with some of the portions of the agreement with the APA. So, we were able to offset the costs that the administration said exceeded the parameters with a recalculation of that specific contract. And ultimately, the administration agreed that we did indeed abide by the financial parameters set by the governor.”

The bargaining team is now working to repeat this same process with the MSCA, said Pedone.

He hopes they can prove that the cost savings in the contract will offset the projected cost increases for an overall net increase of 2 percent.

If this approach does not work a second time and the administration determines the CBA exceeds the given financial parameters, the OER can recommend that the legislature not fund the contract.

According to Massachusetts General Law 150E, if that happens, the CBA will be returned to both parties for additional bargaining until the parameters are

met.

Katy Abel, associate commissioner for external affairs for the DHE, declined to comment on the MSCA’s labor charge against the BHE or the delay in funding because it regards an ongoing negotiation.

Donohue said the faculty hope the contract issue can be resolved so everyone can “focus on other higher ed challenges and not be worrying about demanding” to be heard and paid.

He said, “I’m not the spokesperson for the statewide MSCA, so I don’t want to say I’m speaking for the MSCA. But I would hope that [the labor charge] will spur the Board of Higher Education to submit the tentative agreement to the Office of Employee Relations and stimulate the BHE to adhere to the law in the future and, frankly, embarrass them.

Donohue said, “Why do they think they don’t have to follow Massachusetts state statutes?”

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More resources for Rams

This week, the Rams Resource Center (RRC) opened.

Do you know what that is? If not, you aren’t alone.

FSU opened its first food pantry in West Hall. It’s intended to aid the campus community, particularly students, but it seems many of those students didn’t get the message.

For this week’s “Campus Conversations,” we asked students what they knew about the RRC. We learned that many of them have no idea what the center is, where it is located, or who it is for. And yet the center is intended for them!

Administrators and staff members on this campus know by now that emails and Facebook posts are not enough to catch people’s attention. For many, emails from administrators either get ignored or sent directly into the trash folder.

Administrators, faculty, and staff should be making a point to promote the RRC to all students - in classes, at events, or even when speaking with them around campus.

You can never tell who needs to hear the message.

In fact, a survey conducted in 2017 found that over 30 percent of students at FSU faced food insecurity in the previous year. [Editor’s Note: To read more regarding this issue see the front page.]

The center is operated thanks to volunteers from the FSU community.

However, there is a shockingly low number of volunteers for the center - only 25 people completed the mandatory volunteer training, according to Michelle Yestrepsky, coordinator of student support initiatives. Of the 25, there are currently only 18 volunteers.

We at The Gatepost urge students who can find time in their schedules to volunteer. These volunteer positions are open to faculty, students, and staff. And if you don’t have the time, but you have the resources, donate!

The RRC is currently only open two days a week - Mondays from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and Wednesdays from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. That means there are only 6-and-a-half hours a week when the center is available.

One can only assume if there were more volunteers, the center could be open for more hours each week.

This would allow those students taking night classes, working multiple jobs, or those who are only on our campus two days a week greater opportunity to utilize this vital service.

Katy Abel, the associate commissioner for external affairs for the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education, said while food pantries on college campuses are important, those efforts alone are not enough.

We at The Gatepost agree. While the pantry is a great start, there greater efforts are needed to educate students about other resources available - such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), for which students who are living paycheck to paycheck may qualify.

We appreciate the effort and insight it took to get to this point. We believe the the Rams Resource Center should be a springboard for addressing food insecurity on college campuses, instead of a one-and-done patch for the problem.

And we’d be remiss not to address the deep root of this problem - the astronomical cost of public higher education in Massachusetts. This is, in part, the result of the state legislature divesting from public higher education over the years.

During this election season, remember your voice. Let the state legislature know that funding higher education investing in the future of the state - is important.

Let them know that it isn’t okay for your classmates to go hungry in order to afford an education.

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Into the wild, starry yonder

By Gordon Rupert Staff Writer

There has been a lot of talk about the newly proposed Space Force in the last few months.

Most of it is against the idea of the new military branch, with worries that come with militarizing space, and the conflict of NASA already running peaceful, scientific missions.

However, few talk about the reasons why this is a good idea, and how it will push us to really recognize space as the final frontier.

NASA has pushed for its whole existence toward the peaceful exploration of space for the sake of science.

According to the Office of Management and Budget, the annual budget of NASA in FY2017 was $19.5 billion, which is about 0.47 percent of the total US federal budget for the year.

This number has remained under 1 percent of the annual budget for the past 20 years, while the budget for defense spending continued to rise to $590 billion in FY2017, or about 15 percent of the annual

budget. In fact, $12.5 billion alone was dedicated to advance military science and research, or 0.31 percent of the annual budget.

Anyone can see the massive disparity here.

A Space Force would be able to take advantage of those hundreds of billions of dollars, as well as the already existing resources, relations, and people in the military, and point it all at learning about how to use space to our advantage.

Beyond the money involved, there is massive public support for the military in the United States. It exists everywhere.

People from all over the country know someone who was in the military - however, NASA, unfortunately along with other scientific endeavors, often has a sort of ivory tower elitism, alienating a large group of people, and causing them to question a supposedly “useless” organization.

Starting a Space Force will cause a rebirth of wonder when we look up. The average American will suddenly have a renewed and vested interest in what happens beyond Earth. Further, there won’t be a requirement to have a

college degree to be a part of something that wants to find what’s out there.

The option to work with the best, pushing people to Mars and beyond, will potentially become an option for millions of people. They will be trained in operations directly involved with maintaining and improving the capabilities of spacecrafts, much like the Air Force does already to specialized runways and planes.

This massive investment in space will open new commercial avenues for companies such as SpaceX, and give veterans the training and skills necessary to get involved with or even build these kinds of companies that want to push the boundaries of what we look at next.

The creation of the Space Force is just the newest option for what to do next, like getting our ass to Mars. It will not only be built on the traditions and history of NASA, but also on those of the Army and Air Force.

The Space Force will learn from, and take us to, the best of both worlds.

Campus Conversations What do you know about the Rams Resource Center?

By Lizzy Stocks and Donald Halsing

“I saw it on Instagram and it looks like a food pantry.”

-Mackenzie Whalen, senior

“I ignored the email I got about it. Most of the emails here are irrelevant.”

-Julia Donahue, senior

“I saw it on the dining hall Snapchat, but I don’t know where they’re donating to.”

-Destiny Phaire, junior

“I know absolutely nothing about it.”

-James McColley, freshman

“I don’t know anything about it.”

-Christian Dardompre III, sophomore

“Absolutely nothing.”

-Vincent Politano, freshman

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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“Doom Eternal” and its old friend controversy

By Cam Turner Staff Writer Since 1993, the video game series “Doom” has been no stranger to controversy. Its violent gameplay and Satanic imagery was just the thing to get media riled up and send conservative Christian parents into a panic.

For this upcoming iteration, however, there is controversy for a completely different reason.

Gameplay for “Doom Eternal,” id Software’s new game, was revealed at Quakecon 2018.

Three separate gameplay trailers were shown, each featuring some of its new mechanics and good old bloody action.

However, perhaps some of the more controversial bits of these gameplay demos came not from the violence or satanic imagery, but from messages that are played over some form of city-wide broadcast that would announce the following - “Remember, ‘demon’ can be an offensive term. Refer to them as ‘mortally challenged,’” and, “Earth is the melting pot of the universe.”

And so on.

These phrases seem to parody the environment of political correctness and therefore have been met with criticism for their politically charged nature.

In a GameRevolution article titled “‘Doom Eternal’ ‘mortally challenged’ joke is offensively boring,” Astrid Johnson wrote, “This parodying of new words to replace offensive terminology is a commonplace gag among right-wing circles, often a means of ridiculing the stereotypical ‘social justice warrior’ that, in the eyes of the right, have become too sensitive and overlyoffended by the minutiae of controversial comedy.”

I believe this set of phrases makes a whole

hell of a lot of sense given the context of this game’s story. See, “Doom,” while being mainly focused on its push-forward combat, speed, and strafing, does indeed have a story.

This terminology also makes sense if people understand the mythology behind Hell. In “Doom,” not only does the player battle hellspawn, but possessed humans as well. The player should gather from this that demons are a naturally corrupting presence, which also can be seen with the game’s main antagonist.

As the player goes through the game, they would notice holograms with messages playing throughout, seemingly giving the people who were employed at the facility an opportunity for promotion through various satanic rituals.

One paraphrased by id Software’s creative director Hugo Martin in an interview with YouTube channel “noclip,” where he said, “We need volunteers for the revenant program, we’re gonna turn people into demons!”

With these satanic themes and fictional employees succumbing to Hell’s influence,

this segues nicely to the phrases presented now. At this point, a majority of the fictional Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC) are fully accepting of the demonic invasion of Earth. So, much like some actual companies would do, the UAC would adopt this politically correct jargon to seemingly welcome the demon invasion.

Does this make sense? I believe so, but at the same time it’s understandable that those without context to the previous game, interviews, and lore on Hell could see this in a more damning light.

Personally, I don’t believe id Software is an alienating sort of company. That would ultimately sell fewer copies. I think this is a clever use of real-life situations to create a narrative featuring insane businesspeople who somehow retain enough cognition to form jargon that is ultimately favorable toward Hell in a game series that, may I remind the reader, doesn’t take itself that seriously.

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Who’s laughing now?

By Thom Duda Gatepost Columnist This week, during President Donald Trump’s speech to the United Nations, he claimed his administration had done more than any other in the nation’s history, illustrating the concept of the self-fulfilling prophecy to perfection.

The world laughed.

Dignitaries from all over the globe, our neighbors and peers upon the world stage laughed at the President. And you know what, I really can’t blame them at all.

President Trump spent his time on the stage defending our country’s economy, casually forgetting about the deficit being blasted into oblivion by the tax plan he signed not too long ago, as well his tough stance on China and his diplomatic successes with North Korea.

Let’s examine the China part for just a small second. At a recent conference, President Trump, per an article by the BBC, was quoted saying China respected his “very, very large brain,” though we are currently in a trade war with the country that effectively owns our debt.

Oh, and yesterday, it was reported that Trump blamed China for election meddling in the upcoming midterms, in addition to his usual jabs about trade manipulation.

Inaccurate, but to form at least.

Trump also spent his time at the pulpit pursuing the theme of American sovereignty and stating, without irony, “The United States will not tell you how to live or work or worship.

We only ask that you honor our sovereignty in return.”

This is rich considering the amount of times the United States has meddled in the affairs of other nations, particularly those with communist governments we didn’t like at the

time.

Let’s not forget the whole Contra thing, shall we? We did supply and train those guys, after all.

In addition, Trump decided to lambast Iran, stating its leaders “sow chaos, death and destruction … they do not respect their neighbors or borders or the sovereign rights of nations.”

Again, Trump is unaware of his past comments about our own neighbors Mexico and Canada, where he has insulted their leaders and citizenry with his implications that America is not getting “their best” - i.e. their rapists and drug addicts.

There’s also the fact that Iran was, in the case of the nuclear facilities, following all the rules and regulations set up by his predecessor and our contemporaries around the globe. It was not until the Trump administration that Iran had suddenly run afoul.

Of course, that doesn’t matter at this point in our president’s very, very large brain.

Following Trump’s tirade, Iranian president Hassan Rouhani said, “The United States’

understanding of international relations is authoritarian. In its estimation, might makes right. Its understanding of power, not of legal and legitimate authority, is reflected in bullying and imposition.”

I’ve got to say, he didn’t miss a beat, considering Trump’s national security advisor, John Bolton, was reported to have warned Iran’s leadership against “crossing” the U.S. Look, maybe having Iran being able to call you out on the world stage isn’t the best for your country’s image? Oh, and the fact our friends and allies are reportedly setting up a new payment system with Iran to specifically bypass U.S. sanctions definitely hurts the argument Iran isn’t playing by the rules.

The United States is forgetting our place in the global framework that we helped build after World War II. We have a president and several officials in our capital who are not only ignoring decency and the norms of governance, but also ignoring facts and spouting falsehoods.

This is pathetic and shameful.

We deserve every laugh and chuckle at our expense.

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ARTS & FEATURES "Not your stereotypical French music"

By Robert Johnson Jr. Staff Writer Manège â Trois is a French-American band whose work combines the liveliness of New Orleans swing and the vivid ambience of the Parisian world.

The band, composed of Susan Laurence (accordion), Mark Chenevert (clarinet), and Bertrand Laurence (guitar and vocals) performed a variety of songs comprised of French renditions of famous jazz numbers and pop chanson with blues-inspired flourish, on top of their brand of swing and waltz.

Before the group opened the 14song set, Bertrand gave a brief history lesson on an instrument that none of them play on stage: the musette - which is what most people would know as the “bagpipes” - to provide context for their first instrumental piece serving as an “example of the musette sound.”

This performance was followed

by two more instrumental pieces, both preluded with historical contexts of musical developments and styles, such as swing waltz - a style of music that made waves through France that made use of complex, three-four waltz timings.

“After World War I, music started to become more refined,” Bertrand told the audience before the trio showed the evolution in sophistication.

As the group wrapped up their opening set of songs, Bertrand began to talk to the audience about musical figures like Django Reinhardt and Èdith Piaf and how they were instrumental to the success of music and its development in France. Bertrand said Piaf had that “French gargling” singing style that became popular in the ’40s.

After the band performed another song, the first one featuring Bertrand’s vocal efforts, the trio played “La java des bombes atomiques” (“The Atomic Bomb Java”), an anti-war-era song disguised as

a speedy, danceable polka tune.

They took a break in the middle of the song, allowing Bertrand to not only collect himself after his blisteringly fast lyricism, but also to provide yet another history lesson, this time about France and its involvement with building atomic bombs. He also pointed out how there were two endings to the song, showcasing censorship laws in the government at the time.

“This is not the stereotypical French music you came here for,” Chenevert said after the trio finished playing their first non-waltz song, “Graine d’ananar” (“Seed of Ananar”), before immediately launching themselves into a cover of a Louis Armstrong song in French, complete with a clarinet solo by Chenevert.

During the last leg of the concert, the trio played a song from Bertrand’s childhood, Nino Ferrer’s 1971, “La Maison près de la fontaine” (“The House Near the Fountain”) in the style of how his

father sang it to him in his youth.

It gave everyone a chance to reflect on where they came from.

“I hope this reminds you of your childhood … and the smell of gasoline,” remarked Bertrand, before plucking his guitar.

The set went into an encore once Bertrand asked the audience if they wanted “one more,” performing “Vieille canaille” (“You Old Rascal”). He said it was “a song about revenge.”

Freshman Nicholas Miranda enjoyed the performance. He said he “didn’t expect it to be as good as it was.”

The next Midday Performance in the series is on Oct. 29 at 1:30 p.m. in the Heineman Ecumenical Center and will feature Joseph Van Hassel.

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“Do you want to start the game again?”

Brockhampton changes its pace with “iridescence”

By Andrew Willoughby Asst. Arts & Features Editor After the success of their “Saturation” trilogy and the departure of rapper and alleged predator Ameer Vann, “America’s favorite boy band,” Brockhampton, is trying to reinvent itself with “iridescence,” the first entry in a new trilogy, “The Best Years of our Lives.”

While Saturations I-III marked a brilliant introduction to the group, both the songs and the albums themselves began to feel formulaic - each record had three skits, ended with a lovesick ballad from singer bearface and most tracks were led by infectious hooks from founding member and mastermind, Kevin Abstract.

On “iridescence,” Abstract only takes the chorus on four of the album’s 15 tracks. Some even ditch the verse-chorus-verse formula altogether.

As soon as Abstract compared “iridescence” to Radiohead’s “Kid A,” one of the most creative, groundbreaking, and polarizing albums of all time, expectations were high for Brockhampton to deliver

something new.

So, did they? Yes and no.

The production on “iridescence” is by far the best the group has released. From the sampled engine revving on “BERLIN” to the orchestral climax of “SAN MARCOS,” producers Romil, Kiko, and Jabari break new ground on nearly every track.

The instrumental on each song evolves to fit the unique styles of each member, and sometimes, specifically on “HONEY,” a track will drastically change tone midway through.

The album was produced at Abbey Road Studios with some of the same equipment The Beatles used to record “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” As a result, “iridescence” features Brockhampton’s cleanest production yet.

“Saturation” served as an introduction to the band, giving each member a handful of times to truly shine on each album. Here, “iridescence” puts more emphasis on some of the members who didn’t get as much exposure in the “Saturation” era. JOBA and bearface prove themselves to be the most

versatile members of the band with their sweetly sung verses on “TONYA” and rapped verses on “J’OUVERT.” JOBA and bearface really are the stars of the show here. However, some members, surprisingly, seem a bit left out. Fan-favorite Matt Champion really doesn’t have a single standout verse. And Abstract, who usually takes center stage, only has one or two.

Dom McLennon shines as alRCA Records ways, delivering what is perhaps his best verse yet on “HONEY.” This album also stands as the band’s first release with featured artists. Jaden Smith’s inclusion on the opener, “NEW ORLEANS,” is more or less inconsequential.

On the other hand, alt R&B artist serpentwithfeet - who put out his “iridescence” shows fantastic debut, “soil,” this summer Brockhampton’s production is at - provides the chorus on “TONYA,” its peak but lacks the cohesion one of the most beautiful moments of previous efforts. on the album.

While it’s not the team effort the “Saturation” albums were, “iridescence” is the mark of an exciting new direction for Brockhampton that long-time fans and newcom- CONNECT WITH ANDREW WILLOUGHBY awilloughby@student.framingham.edu ers alike should be excited for.

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President F. Javier Cevallos admires one of the photos in Ellie Krakow's "Mirrored Back" exhibit.

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eventually grew into a new series embodying the same ideas around support structures and the body, but changing the form by generating visual constraints to decontextualize her artwork.

Krakow displayed her new series, “Mirrored Back,” at Framingham State’s Mazmanian Art Gallery on Sept. 25, setting up her artwork to further demonstrate her message.

Krakow placed the sculpture of a belly button behind the backdrop of her back to spotlight this idea that if the back is in the front then, the belly button is the “back of the back.” The backdrop of her back is at the forefront of the room, acting as a pun of the back, since the photograph of her back is actually there to stand in for the backdrop.

Assistant professor of music Christian Gentry said, “It's interesting how I went around clockwise … so I didn't go right to that backdrop. By the time I got back around, I got the pun. The thing that's weird about it is I didn't go to [the backdrop of the back] first. … I think it's because it seemed out of context” with the rest of her artwork, which was displayed on

the wall.

Krakow’s new series, “Mirrored Back” started over the summer as a way to manipulate, insert, and reimagine the body as a “decontextualized neutral site.”

Krakow isolates the context of her artwork by using the backdrop to act as a neutral zone. For instance, a backdrop is usually used as a green screen, causing the background to disappear, she said.

Krakow used the example of jewelry advertisements, stating, “There’s just a hand or maybe just a finger with a ring and some colored background. You’re not supposed to know where it is. It’s not supposed to matter to you.

It’s supposed to take the context away … The background has the job to make the object look fantastic. Like they’ll choose a color that looks nice with the model’s skin, but we’re not supposed to be aware of it.”

Her subject matter revolves around this idea of invisibility as a call to focus on the structures that are designed to be unnoticed and taken for granted, like the museum armatures.

Krakow said the backdrop of her back “is a move to ask you to no-

tice this thing that you have decided not to notice by choice. …

Our culture makes us decide that certain things are not to be seen and not to be thought about,” exhibiting images of bodies that are considered beautiful, marketable, or perfect.

Her intention, she wrote, was to take support structures that “allow things (that are fragmented, displaced, flawed, etc.) to seem whole, centered, and perfect.”

To demonstrate her point, the backdrop of Krakow’s back is a close-up depiction of her pores, stretch marks, and freckles - things that are normally photoshopped out of professional photographs.

Krakow said although the colors are usually pulled from the photos, she also uses colors such as beige, gray, and purple in her sculptures as a way to question the nonexistent neutrality of the skin in society and a way to generate a conversation about systematic oppression.

Her other pieces include backdrops with rectangular holes cut in the middle. These pieces are propped up by wooden and clay legs acting as support structures, while the hole in the backdrop acts

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as a window to her photographs.

Her sculptures are the same size as the hole in the backdrops and are responding to the photos but aren't direct copies. Instead, the sculptures are there to exhibit the imperfections of the body, illustrating the rigidity of the spine, the roughness of skin, and the twisting and the folding of clothing.

Krakow said the legs of the backdrop pieces and the wall sculptures are made of the same mixed materials, such as wood, wire mesh, and cardboard. They are then coated with two epoxy clays, Magic-Sculpt and Magic-Smooth.

Junior Brianna Medina said, “It’s super artistic. It’s not easy making ceramic molds, and they look very clean. … They’re all rectangular and it's hard to have a clean ceramic mold. Ceramics is really messy as a medium.”

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By Brennan Atkins and Noah Barnes Entertainment Correspondants “The Predator” is a sci-fi action-comedy film directed by Shane Black featuring Boyd Holbrook as Quinn McKenna, Jacob Tremblay as Rory McKenna, and Olivia Munn as Casey Bracket - thankfully, not Steven Wilder, best friend of the director and real life predator.

Two liters of Coke, three bags of doritos, the complete collection of “South Park,” and a “Predator” poster up on the wall - this is the inspiration for Black's new entry into the series, or so it seems.

We would love to talk about the story, if it were anything more than a chase, followed by a new predator, and another chase.

The CGI is mediocre at best.

The sets are polar opposites of the original - which were intriguing and ominous.

None of the actors looked like they wanted to be there.

The most apparent flaw with this movie is it doesn’t seem as if it knows what it wants to be. The film wants to be an homage, comedy, action and a slasher at points, and it ends up not hitting any of these marks.

When the Predator is on screen, it's an action movie. If it isn’t, it's a comedy. They switch up the mood of the movie in an instant. One scene, they will be fighting for their lives, the next, they make fun of a fellow soldier who has Tourette’s syndrome - yes, it’s as juvenile as it sounds.

It's hard to tell when a character speaks if it's going to be pertinent to

the story or if it’s a setup for a joke.

The jokes themselves also seem to fall flat consistently throughout the movie. It seems as if they correlate humor with how many swear words they can use in a sentence, and it’s sad to think this is probably why there is a character with Tourette’s in the first place.

It's very obvious (and confirmed) that the third act of this movie was reshot completely. The editing is so fast-paced, if you blink, you will miss something. Subplots that were introduced seemingly never conclude.

Whether you are a fan of the “Predator" series, Black's work, or action movies in general, you will be disappointed.

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Pledging allegiance What it means to be an ally to the LGBTQ+ community

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Marcia Purdy describes her journey from prejudiced to proactive.

By Zach Colten Asst. Arts & Features Editor Marcia Purdy is finally living her most authentic life.

For decades, the Iowa State University human sciences professor was subjected to a culturally bred prejudice that kept her from accepting the role of sexuality in her own life, which, in turn, caused her to ignore the struggles of those persecuted for their sexualities.

However, an experience in 1998, followed by her son coming out, taught her the meaning not only of acceptance, but also of the word “ally.”

In her talk, “How to be an Ally,” given in the Center for Inclusive Excellence on Tuesday, Sept. 26, Purdy presented a slideshow that began with the quote, “Strong people stand up for themselves, but the strongest people stand up for others.” The presentation focused on giving people the tools they need to act as better allies to the LGBTQ+ community.

“It is more than just saying it,” Purdy said. “You have to show it.”

Purdy combined her message with her life story. Growing up in a small town in Iowa of about 700, she noted, “there was no diversity in my life.” This affected her world view, limiting her perspective on what she considered acceptable or normal. However, she also said because of her siblings’ tendency to settle into their assigned gender norms, she was allowed to stray from the beaten path.

“I feel fortunate that I was just allowed to be me.” This involved playing outside - “a lot,” Purdy remarked, laughing. She even recalled driving the family tractor when she was 9.

Purdy traced much of her story along a historical tapestry of events, interwoven with moments of significance from her life. She remembered being in kindergarten when former president John F. Kennedy was assassinated. She spoke about her brother fighting in Vietnam, and huddling around the

TV with her parents every night at was dumbstruck and couldn’t find 10 p.m. to hear the names of the the right words, but her husband deceased read on the news - a prac- could - “Randy Purdy does not miss tice Purdy believes should be rein- a beat. He says, ‘Josh, I am so proud stated. of you. You are going to be who In her talk, Purdy also addressed you were always meant to be, and the 1980s AIDS epidemic. She said you will be one-hundred percent fear was spread like wildfire by the authentic.’ I looked up at him and media, which portrayed the unre- I said, ‘Who the f**k are you? And searched virus as “the gay disease.” those are my words!’”

This panic brought on lasting stigEver since witnessing her husmas and hatred toward gay people band’s inspiring moment of allethat have resonated through time giance with the gay community, and, unfortunately, still linger to- Purdy’s mindset has continued to day, she added. expand, and has evolved into a new Purdy recalled 1998, and learn- mission in life: teaching straight ing about Matthew Shepard, an people how they can be better alopenly gay Wyoming college stu- lies. dent who was kidnapped, brutally Purdy sums up her philosobeaten, and left for dead, until he phy: “People never remember the was discovered by another student, crowd. They remember the one Aaron Kreifels. She went to his person in that crowd who had the candlelight vigil and felt the agony courage to say, and do, what no one of those he had left behind, and her else would.” eyes began to open to her prejudice, she said.

Purdy said the most significant, life-changing event was when her CONNECT WITH ZACH COLTEN son came out. In the moment, she zcolten@student.framingham.edu

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SPORTS Volleyball earns wins over Anna Maria and Dean

Allie Gath / THE GATEPOST Brandey Rodriguez (11) goes up for a kill as Mackenzie Whalen sets it for her.

By Liam Gambon Asst. Sports Editor On Saturday, Sept. 22, the Framingham State Rams faced off against Anna Maria and Eastern Connecticut State at home. The Rams took the first game against Anna Maria in a straight sweep but fell to Eastern Connecticut State in five sets.

In the first game against Anna Maria, the Rams outscored the Amcats 25-13 in the first set, 25-17 in the second, and achieved a decisive 25-9 third set victory.

Grace Caughey and Brandee Thomas led the Rams on the attack with seven kills from Caughey and nine from Thomas. Caughey converted seven kills on 16 swings while adding three digs. Thomas added in her nine kills on 18 swings with three digs as well.

Mackenzie Whalen contributed a game-high two assists along with 10 service aces and two digs.

FRAMINGHAM STATE 3 ANNA MARIA 0 In the Rams’ next game against the Warriors, the first set went to Eastern Connecticut after a strong performance from both teams that ended in a 25-23 heart-pumper.

In the next set, the Rams fired back with a 25-19 win to tie the game at 1.

The third was much like the first set in that it ended 25-23, but this time, the Rams won the set to pull within one set of winning the game.

The Warriors forced a fifth set, winning the fourth 25-17, the largest point differential of the game.

In the fifth-and-final set, the Warriors took a 15-13 win. The final set was the third of five that ended in just a two-point differential.

Brandey Rodriguez paced the Rams with 16 kills on 37 swings along with eight serving aces, while Thomas added 12 kills herself.

Alyssa Cafarelli grabbed a team best 26 digs, while Deirdre Fay added 25 digs of her own along with 11 kills.

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In Framingham’s next game on Monday, Sept. 24, the Rams hosted Dean College.

The Rams swept Dean in three sets. The first set ended with a 25-

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10 victory, followed by a more dominant 25-9 win to go up 2-0. In the third set, the Rams put the game away with a 25-12 match-sealing victory.

Thomas recorded a match-best 11 kills on 20 attempts with a solid .500 attack percentage.

Rodriguez added in four kills of her own on 11 attempts to go along with seven service aces and three digs, while Fay chipped in five kills, six digs, three aces, and two assists. Alyssa Cafarelli pitched in seven digs, two kills, two aces, and two assists.

Whalen supported the team with a game-high 22 assists along with five digs, while Caughey contributed five kills, three aces, and eight defensive digs.

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The Rams continued their home stand, hosting Salem State on Wednesday, Sept. 26.

The result of the match was a 3-0 loss for the Rams. Although they were swept, the Rams lost by only two in the first set and four in the second and third sets.

In the first set of the match, neither team had a greater lead than two points until Salem State took a 24-21 lead towards the end.

In the second set, it seemed Salem State was going to blow out Framingham State, storming out to a 18-9 lead before the Rams battled back and made the set 22-20. Salem State won the set 25-21 despite Framingham’s comeback.

The Rams held the lead early in the third set before Salem State rallied as they went on an 11-0 run that eventually sealed the game.

Rodriguez led the Rams with a team-high 11 kills on 24 attempts along with four digs. Thomas pitched in eight kills with five digs, while Cafarelli led the team with 18 digs.

Whalen contributed 23 set assists and seven digs, while Caughey added in four kills, two aces, and 10 defensive digs.

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Ferr or Foul:

Tiger Woods victorious again

By Matt Ferris Sports Editor After a five-year drought, Tiger Woods is finally back on top of the golfing world.

On Sunday, Sept. 23, Tiger closed out the Tour Championship and won by two shots over fellow American Billy Horschel.

This was Woods’ first win since the 2013 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational.

Woods was close to winning several tournaments in 2018, but was never able to seal the deal. In 2018, Woods had seven top 10 finishes, including two in major tournaments.

But his win at the Tour Championship in Atlanta solidified his place back atop the golf world.

Woods’ re-emergence isn’t just a good thing for Woods himself, but it is also terrific news for the PGA as well as golf fans everywhere.

Without Woods playing well on the tour, the PGA struggles to get viewers to watch tournaments on TV, as well as to get fans to come to the events and watch live.

But it’s different story when Woods tops the leaderboards.

At the 2018 Tour Championship, ticket sales were up 170 percent from the previous year when Woods was not in the tournament. And not only are more people buying tickets, but the PGA is charging more money for the tickets, according to Vivid Seats.

And if the PGA was happy with the ticket sales increase, then they must have been ecstatic with the TV ratings.

Television ratings were up 206 percent on Sunday compared to last year - challenging the NFL for viewers on Sunday evening, according to NBC. With Woods playing so well of late, the PGA is reaping the benefits and profiting a lot.

Woods is closing in on the all-time wins list, and his win on Sunday now makes 80 career victories.

Sam Snead’s 82 career victories, which is good for number 1 all-time, has looked pretty safe for the last 5 years, when Woods struggled to even swing a golf club, but now Snead is in considerable danger of being passed.

Woods is playing some of the best golf of his career and at this rate, Snead’s record could be broken by early 2019.

Woods is also closing in on the most major tournament wins off all time on the PGA tour as well.

Jack Nicklaus has the most career major victories with 20. Woods is just behind him with 17 and with the way Tiger is playing, this feat seems incredibly doable.

Woods is only 42 years old, so playing on the tour for another 8-10 years is extremely likely if he can stay healthy.

Just four major wins in that time period is not outrageous, and in fact, it seems extremely likely if Woods can maintain the level of play he has displayed in 2018 But regardless of the all-time wins record or the all-time major record, Woods will go down as the greatest golfer in the history of the game, and it is exciting to see him back on top of the golf world.

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Football breezes past Mass Maritime Academy

By Patrick Peterson Staff Writer The Rams continued their dominance over conference rival Massachusetts Maritime Academy with a 28-13 victory at Clean Harbors Stadium on Saturday.

It was the 11th straight win over the Buccaneers with the last Framingham loss coming in 2007.

Rams’ quarterback Adam Wojenski was intercepted on the opening play of the game, but the Bucs gave the ball right back after a quick 3-and-out.

Wojenski bounced back on the ensuing possession with a 44-yard strike to wide receiver Napoleon Miller, which set up a 22-yard touchdown pass to running back Quron Wright immediately after.

The Bucs nearly tied the game when they recovered a fumbled punt in the end zone for a touchdown, but the Rams blocked the point after try to keep their lead at 7-6.

The game cooled down with seven straight punts from the end of the first through most of the second, but there would be more excitement before the end of the half.

Wojenski completed an impressive 57-yard pass to wide receiver Shaquille Joseph and then put the Rams back on the board with a 10-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Mike Calicchio that sent the team into halftime with a 14-6 lead.

On their first possession of the second half, the Rams orchestrated a 7-play, 85-yard drive which ended in a 6-yard touchdown reception by Miller.

Mass Maritime answered with a touchdown of their own on their next possession, bringing the score to 21-13, but Wojenski iced the game with a 13yard touchdown run in the final minutes.

The victory lifts Framingham State to 3-1 on the season.

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Women’s soccer drops MASCAC game to fall to 0-7

By Matt Ferris Sports Editor

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Bryce Nardizzi scored three goals in men’s soccer’s 3-1 victory over Pine Manor.

On Saturday, Sept. 22, Framingham State took on conference foe Bridgewater State in a MASCAC game.

In the 3rd minute of the match, the Rams jumped out to a 1-0 lead.

Erin Angelillo got her shot blocked but collected the rebound and fired it into the net to give the Rams a lead.

The Bears drew even in the 9th minute. Delaney Langton ripped a shot that a Rams’ defender blocked. The ball deflected off Emma Sanders’ knee and into the net to tie the game at 1.

Just under 2 minutes later, Bridgewater scored again to take the lead. Alana Vincent got in behind the Rams’ defense and fired a shot inside the left post to make it 2-1.

Vincent scored again in the 27th minute to put the Bears up 3-1. This time, she scored off a cross into the box from Amelia Clark. Vincent received the pass at the 18-yard box and beat the Rams’ goalie.

The Rams responded in the 41st minute to cut their deficit to one. Olivia Mihalek rifled a shot on net from around 30 yards out. The shot deflected

off the cross bar and into the net to make it 3-2.

In the 62nd minute, the Bears extended their lead back to two goals. Sanders scored her second goal of the game on a penalty kick to make it 4-2, the eventual final score.

In the loss, Framingham was outshot 23-14.

The Rams were led by Angelillo on offense. She had a team-high four shots. Sanders led the way for the Bears with seven shots.

Bears’ goalie Kellie Souza made three saves in Bridgewater’s victory.

Madison Brown played a majority of the game in net for the Rams before giving way to Jennifer Stevens. Brown made four saves while Stevens made one.

With the loss, Framingham drops to 0-7 on the season.

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Men’s soccer gets back-to-back wins to improve to 6-3-1

By Julian Vazquez Staff Writer

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Brandee Thomas had a game-high 11 kills in volleyball’s 3-0 sweep over Dean College.

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Adam Wojenski threw for 336 yards and three touchdowns in football’s 28-13 victory over Mass Maritime.

Going into Saturday’s home game at 4-31, Framingham State had intensity and fire in their eyes as they looked to bounce back against Bridgewater State after their 1-0 loss to Curry College.

The Rams have yet to lose a conference game this year. They are undefeated in conference matchups at 1-0-1, so they want to keep the momentum moving as October quickly approaches.

The Rams got going early when Akeem Bucknor scored an unassisted goal in the 13th minute to put the Rams up 1-0.

After the score by Bucknor, the rest of the game was a stalemate between the two teams as Bridgewater couldn’t find a response to Bucknor’s goal.

Both teams had many opportunities to score late in the game, but couldn’t capitalize. Goalies Corey Davidge of FSU and Nate Morgado of Bridgewater State were both near perfect on the day as they each made nine saves.

Bridgewater edged out FSU in corner kicks 9-7 but couldn’t gain the upper hand because of the tight defense on display by the Rams.

Fouls were a factor for both teams each committing 12.

Three Rams were issued yellow cards, as were two Bears.

Framingham State won the game by a score of 1-0, improving their record to 5-3-1.

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Following their 1-0 victory over Bridgewater State, Framingham State took on the Pine Manor Gators at home on Wednesday, Sept. 26th.

The Rams continued where they left off from the previous game. They opened with a goal from Bryce Nardizzi in the 29th minute of the first half.

Nathan Vance was credited with the assist.

The Rams led the game 1-0 until the 56th minute when Jose Gonzalez of Pine Manor tied the game. Jose Corrales was also credited with the assist.

With the game tied 1-1, Nardizzi took matters into his own hands and score an unassisted goal in the 65th minute, his second goal of the game.

He would then ice the game with his third goal in the 76th minute to get his hat trick.

The assist came from his brother, Jared Nardizzi.

The Rams won the game by a score of 3-1 and improved to 6-3-1 on the season.

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Grammy awardwinning timbalero Eugie Castrillo and his 11-piece salsa band performed for the FSU community in Crocker Grove on Sept. 21, 2018.

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