March 3, 2023
Volume 91 • Issue 18
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Chillin’ at the beach
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A snowman built on Larned Beach during a snow day Feb. 28.
Framingham State to start enrolling students Sports management major By Sophia Harris News Editor Framingham State will offer a bachelor’s degree in sports management starting in fall 2023. The major will be housed in the College of Business. Framingham State already offers a concentration in sports management, but because of increased student demand, a push was made to create a designated major. Michael Harrison, marketing chair and faculty athletic representative, first proposed the program five years ago. He said, “The beauty of starting with the concentration is you see if there’s a
demand there.” arrison added there is definitely a growing demand not only from students but also from athletic coaches and the sports industry itself. He said, “It’s a growing industry. The sports market is just growing exponentially.” Harrison added students in the College of Business are “looking for a little bit more specialization. “So there’s a market from the student perspective and the business perspective for a specialization in the industry,” he said. Harrison said the process to develop the new major started with surveying athletic coaches because of their close
ties to student-athletes and recruitment, in order to get a better understanding of their perspective on the demand for the major. He said the results of the survey indicated some students did not come to Framingham State because there was not a sports management major offered. When the survey was taken, he said appro imately students over the past four years did not choose Framingham State because there was not a designated sports management major. “Overwhelmingly, the numbers were strong,” he said.
The History Department and the Center for Inclusive Excellence (CIE) facilitated a Historians of Color series event featuring a guest speaker Mary McNeil, March 2. McNeil, an instructor in the department of studies in race, colonialism, and diaspora at Tufts University shared some of her research on Black and Indigenous civil rights struggles in the 20th century, and how her family history is tied to it. She began by asking attendees to acknowledge they are on native land which belonged to the Nipmuc tribe,
and both is and has been a home for many Indigenous groups. She added the Nipmuc land has historically been a place of Indigenous convergence among many “north-eastern woodland nations, and this is a fact that no amount of dispossession or settler colonial violence can ever undo.” McNeil said attendees should trouble their assumptions about the “carefully manicured campus grounds that can seem so divorced from Indigenous space,” and that Indigenous nations still exist on the land commonly referred to as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She said Indigenous nations and their members are “still here, thriving,”
STUDENT FORUM pg. 3 RACE AND POLICE DISCUSSION pg. 4
Opinions THANK YOU PRESIDENT CARTER pg. 8 ‘BENCH’ COMICS pg. 9
Sports
See SPORTS MANAGEMENT page 6
Black and Red power and ‘The Responsibility to Remain’ By Ryan O’Connell Arts & Features Editor
News
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in the ongoing midst of settler colonial invasion. FLANNERY O’CONNOR pg. 12 McNeil then told two anecdotes from Massachusetts’ history about marginalized groups protesting a racist system. he first spoke about une , , when a group of Black mothers locked themselves inside of a welfare building in Boston, protesting undignified treatment and the lack of agency in their own lives by welfare agents. She added the mothers, led by Doris Bland, originally formed in to challenge housing discrimination and inadequate schooling for Black children. Maddison Behringer / THE GATEPOST See HISTORIANS OF COLOR page 15 MAZGAL EXHIBITION pg. 14
Arts & Features
INSIDE: OP/ED 8 • SPORTS 11 • ARTS & FEATURES 14