October 19, 2018

THE GATEPOST Framingham State’s independent student newspaper

Volume 87 • Issue 6

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October 19, 2018

Campus Dunkin’ Donuts cost over $400,000

By Nadira Wicaksana News Editor The total costs of renovations for the new campus Dunkin’ Donuts amounted to $427,922.04, according to data from the Massachusetts State College Building Authority (MSCBA).

This figure is comprised of construction costs as well as architecture and engineer fees - $391,047.04 and $36,875, respectively, according to Amanda Forde, director of capital renewal at the MSCBA. The implementation of the University-wide point-of-sale system amounted to $19,117.06, which was included in construction costs.

The new Dunkin’ Donuts cafe opened in the McCarthy Center on Oct. 9. following a soft launch on Friday, Oct. 6. The coffee and donuts shop replaced the Starbucks cafe and its adjoining seating space and furniture, making room for a full-service cafe and queue area.

The move to change Starbucks to Dunkin’

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See DUNKIN’ page 3 FSU Cheerleaders perform their routine for the homecoming football game at the pep rally.

Administrators and faculty discuss possible changes to block schedule at All-University Meeting

By Lauren Hapcook Staff Writer

By Nadira Wicaksana News Editor Mark Powers, University registrar and executive director of student records and registration services, discussed a new block scheduling format with admin-

istrators and faculty members during the All-University Meeting on Oct. 15.

Powers said he started thinking of ways to change the current block scheduling system around 2015. This was in response to concerns from commuter students who were required to take multiple labs and stay on campus for extended periods of time.

The current system made a

five-day school week for students unavoidable, leaving no room for off-campus jobs or field trips, according to both Powers and FSU President F. Javier Cevallos.

Cevallos said, “We’re fairly unique as an institution. We have blocks instead of the typical Monday-Wednesday-Friday, Tuesday-Thursday schedule that most institutions have. And I understand the reasons why we have

that, and I think it is a historical thing.”

According to Powers, the course-credit system was first launched in 1972. The corresponding block schedule was formulated as a result of faculty initiatives in 1986 to “answer issues.”

At FSU, all courses meet four hours per week for a fifteen-week

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Kate Caffrey puts the potato blight in a modern light

By Zach Colten Arts & Features Editor

Ashley Wall / THE GATEPOST

Arts & Features

When students enrolled in Communication Arts Professor Kate Caffrey’s Theater Production course, they had no idea what they were in for.

Her students are currently working on staging a production of “Mother’s Bliss, Mother’s Woe,”

an original play by Caffrey herself.

The students in the Theater Production course are not the only ones working on the show, however. Members of the Framingham community were allowed to audition as well, but students in the class were obliged to either be in the cast or take on an equally crucial role in the backstage crew.

Some were even designated posi-

tions on multiple committees, often jumping between roles in cast and crew.

The class sessions are when most of the behind-the-scenes work of the production is done.

Maria Hornbaker, a senior and the PR crew chief for the play, said the chiefs of sound, lights, set, props, and others meet during their 4:30

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Sports

See “MOTHER’S BLISS” page 12

THE RETURN OF PUZZLES pg. 12

A SWIFT INCREASE pg. 8

GATEPOST INTERVIEW pg. 2

WOMEN’S SOCCER pg. 17

ROBBIE’S COMIC CORNER pg. 14

COUNTERPOINT COLUMBUS pg. 8

SGA MEETING pg. 4

FOOTBALL pg. 19

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Editorial Board

Gatepost Interview

Bill Raynor Men’s Basketball Coach

Editor-in-Chief Bailey Morrison Associate Editor Jillian Poland News Editor Nadira Wicaksana Arts & Features Editors Zach Colten Andrew Willoughby Asst. Arts & Features Editor Tessa Jillson Interim Asst. Arts & Features Editor Robert Johnson 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 Asst. Photos Editors Donald Halsing Ashley Wall Staff Writers Jordan Bacci Mackenzie Berube Lauren Hapcook Jon Lee Patrick Peterson Kate Shane Cam Turner Lauren Paolini Julian Vazquez Caeley Whalen Staff Copy Editors Adé Lasodé Evan Lee Noelle Mellouk Staff Photographers Ryan Feinblatt Allie Gath Amanda Martin Jenna-Nicole Richard Margaret Richardson Oscairy Tavares Michael Upton 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

By Bailey Morrison Editor-in-Chief What is your educational and professional background?

I am a graduate of Dartmouth College and I have a master’s degree from Antioch in education. I have been in education my entire professional life. I started teaching and coaching in high school and moved on to coach at Harvard University. Then I went to Brown University before being at MassBay for the last 13 years. I was the athletic director and the head basketball coach for 12 years. For the last year, I served as the special assistant to the president and chief diversity officer.

What are you looking forward to in coaching the men’s basketball team at FSU? I’m excited to be at Framingham State. MassBay has a Wellesley campus and a Framingham campus and over the past three or four years, the two colleges have done a number of collaborations with various programs, and so I’ve always looked at this as a jewel, as an opportunity. So, I was happy that it was open and happy that they selected me, and I look forward to hopefully being able to be successful here. I love everything about coaching. I think coaching is one of the great professions in the world. You get an opportunity to interact with young people. You get to interact with them for years. You get to watch them mature and grow.

You watch young men become men. I love the sense of competition that’s involved, the various life lessons that hopefully you can impart to your team that hopefully they can transfer to any discipline they decide to pursue.

What is the most challenging aspect of coaching?

Every year, you are challenged by the diversity of your group. The key to coaching - and I tell coaches this - is finding the key that motivates each of your players. Each of them is different.

They come from different backgrounds, so they have different motivations. You have to take care in identifying what is important to them. How do you motivate them? How do you help them reach their goals?

You were inducted into the Brown University Hall of Fame and the New England Basketball Hall of Fame.

What did those honors mean to you?

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difficult to handle their responsibilities academically, as well as their responsibilities to their family or life. The statistics show that especially young men of color are decreasing in attendance of institutions of higher learning, and so, we thought that hopefully this would be a step in addressing that issue.

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And the Catholic Memorial Hall of Fame - let’s not forget about them!

That’s where I started. But really, when somebody recognizes you for your career and what you accomplish, it’s always a very humbling experience to think that others thought something that you did was worthy of being recognized in that way. Most of us do this for the love of the game. You’re not doing this to receive any type of award or anything. When somebody bestows that upon you, it’s a very humbling experience and I know well enough that you don’t achieve anything on your own. It’s really a combination of having great teammates and great coaches - and some ability, I guess.

You are certified in gender violence prevention and education.

How do you think that translates to your job here and why is that training important?

Coaches are educators, and it’s not just about teaching your athletes about the intricacies of the sport - it’s about teaching them the intricacies of life.

Gender violence has been a major issue in our country and around the world, and so hopefully being able to impart some of that knowledge and sensitivity and awareness is going to make my student athletes better people. On a similar note, I started a young men of color program 10 years ago, and last year, we started a young women of color program to help facilitate those students through the educational process and help them realize their educational goals and aspirations. That has been a very important program for me to be involved in. We give our students academic support, social support, moral support. We work with them and really for most of the students, it’s not their intellectual capacity to do the work - it’s figuring out how to handle life and the things that life throws at them, whether it’s a death or some type of tragic accident that many of them find very

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What benefits are there to participating in collegiate-level athletics as a student?

It’s lifelong lessons - you learn about working with others. You learn about sacrifice. You learn about leadership.

You learn about competition. Not many teams go undefeated, so you learn about how to lose and how to bounce back. In life, we all end up being rejected or losing more times than just in college - whether it’s the girl we wanted said no, or that job we wanted went to someone else. If you can’t learn about that, about losing, then you’re going to have a long, unpleasant existence.

What is something about you that would surprise your athletes?

I’ve written two books of poetry. One book is just about sports called “Poetry in Motion: the meaning of sports in everyday life.” … Which are really just life lessons - learning how to be a good teammate. … Learning how to sacrifice and give up a part of yourself for the greater good of others. Those are all addressed in my writing. … The other book is called “Reflections,” and that one is more of a personal book - poems about my daughter and my views on life and different things I’ve experienced. Oh, and I play the flute!

What advice would you give to students?

Persevere. Keep putting one foot in front of the other. Do not be deterred.

Pursue your goals. Take advantage of this time in your life because it is a unique set of years that before you think you’ll be out of school and life happens and life changes. It’s a little bit different than having the opportunity you have today. So, enjoy your moment. … I would like for the Framingham State student body as well as the faculty and staff to come out and support the men’s basketball team this year. I think they will enjoy watching our brand of ball and we will be a much better team if we’ve got people in the seats.

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Dunkin’

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Students wait in line at Dunkin’ Donuts to get some early morning fare.

Continued from pg. 1 Donuts was part of the major Dining Commons renovations, a million-dollar construction project that occurred over the summer before the fall 2018 semester, according to Ralph Eddy, general manager of Dining Services.

According to Dale Hamel, executive vice president, the renovation project was managed by the MSCBA and funded by Sodexo, the University’s food service provider. The costs will be “amortized” over the next five years according to the terms of the contract with Sodexo.

Hamel added this will not affect the cost of meal plans.

“The DD investment by the food service provider [Sodexo] is addressed through income from operations,” Hamel said.

Eddy declined to comment on the possible revenue to be made from the Dunkin’ Donuts for “confidentiality reasons.” During the first week of business, Eddy said the location was averaging 650 transactions per day.

Eddy said the price tag of the renovation “was inclusive of all construction related costs, equipment, menu boards, signage, and point-of-sales systems. Essentially, everything but the donuts.”

Despite an “aggressive” schedule, Dining Services previously and “optimistically” anticipated opening Dunkin’ Donuts before the fall 2018 semester on Sept. 1, said Eddy.

He added, “As with any project of this scope, complexity, and timeline, there are unforeseen conditions that often arise.”

Eddy said because of the setback of the Dining Commons’

renovations, more resources that had previously been allocated to Dunkin’ were shifted to focus on the completion of the Dining Commons, in order to be ready for the weekend of Black and Gold Beginnings on Sept. 1.

Eddy added, “Dunkin’ Donuts was placed under consideration based on surveys, focus groups and market research conducted starting in 2015.”

These initial surveys from 2015 with approximately 500 respondents indicated Dunkin’ Donuts

being the McCarthy Center. In fact, there were only four responses that indicated a Dunkin’ should not be located on campus.”

The first step in construction over the summer was to relocate Starbucks-brand offerings to the McCarthy Center Snack Bar, added Eddy.

“Based on feasibility, logistical considerations, and cost, it was determined that the overall best option was to relocate Starbucks cold brew and hot coffee varieties,” he said.

“This amount was inclusive of all construction related costs, equipment, menu boards, signage, and point-ofsales systems. Essentially, everything but the donuts.”

- Ralph Eddy, general manager of Dining Services

was the top brand of choice. It was not until 2017 that Dining Services conducted a follow-up survey to confirm student interest.

A survey sent through email conducted by Dining Services during late November to early December 2017 asked students what they thought of a Dunkin’ Donuts coming to campus, and where the best location for the cafe would be.

Eddy said, “In total, we received 1,007 responses - 65 percent residents and 35 percent commuters - with the top preferred location

Eddy added there is discussion to extend Dunkin’ Donuts hours into the weekends, depending on sales and student interest. Currently, the location is open from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Mondays to Thursdays and closes at 5:00 p.m. on Fridays.

FSU’s Dunkin’ Donuts accepts cash, credit, RamCash, and Dining Dollars, but does not currently accept gift cards or DD Perks, the Dunkin’ Donuts mobile rewards and payment system.

However, Eddy said Dining Ser-

vices is currently working with the corporation to “implement a solution” that will allow the on-campus location to accept gift cards.

Eddy added the mobile ordering system is “incompatible with our point-of-sale system, which was selected for its existing use on campus and to ensure that we could accept Dining Dollars and RamCash.”

Junior Gigi Abellard said, “I don’t like that they don’t have DD Perks. I hope they will in the future.”

Sophomore Kyla Mucciarone said, “I’m excited. It’s cheaper than Starbucks, so I like it.”

Junior Jenni Fonesca said, “I love it. My favorite drink is the pumpkin spice iced coffee.”

Other students were upset about the replacement of the Starbucks and the Cyber Café, which was removed to make room for a comparatively larger Dunkin’ Donuts. There is currently no seating and study space on the third floor of the McCarthy Center except for the area next to the Mazmanian Gallery and the Student Lounge.

Sophomore Lino Hernandez said, “I miss Starbucks. I think Red Barn should close down and Starbucks should replace it, so you get the best of both worlds.”

She added, “I think there should be more seating, but it is pretty big.”

Senior Cordelia Stark said, “I’m bummed about the seating.

I was OK with the Starbucks, so if they wanted to up the menu and add sandwiches, I wouldn’t have minded.”

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All-University

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Mark Powers, University registrar, answers the questions asked by Robert Donohue, psychology professor.

Continued from pg. 1 semester, and each course is worth one credit. Powers clarified the “hour” in this context is actually a time span of fifty minutes, per federal regulation, making total perweek, per-class time 200 minutes.

Current class blocks for the day division are either 50 or 110 minutes long or consist of 3-4 hour labs.

The new schedule would adhere to a MWF/TR system. On Mondays and Wednesdays, classes would be either 70, 150, or 200 minutes. TR classes would be either 100, 150, or 200 minutes. Friday classes would be either 70 or 300 minutes.

According to the proposed changes to the block scheduling system introduced in a mockup made by Powers, classes will start at 8:00 a.m. instead of 8:30 a.m. In adherence with the new start time, all other classes would start on the hour instead of the half-hour.

The proposed new system operates on the assumption that during all 120-minute classes, instructors give 10-minute breaks.

However, multiple faculty members said they often do not give those breaks.

The faculty members also voiced concerns regarding student tardiness if the classes were to start at 8:00 a.m., especially because the University has more commuter than resident students.

They noted factors contributing to student tardiness such as morning traffic and parking issues, which also pose problems for faculty

members themselves.

Halcyon Mancuso, English professor, said she thought the change would be “a major time cut,” to which Powers said, “It’s really not.”

Mancuso said, “It’s taking time away from me teaching my students.”

Brian Bishop, art professor, said he “barely has enough time as it is” and said he believed that by going this route, the administration would be cutting “40 more minutes of content time.

“That time is not insignificant,” Bishop said.

Robert Donohue, psychology professor and MSCA vice president, said, “You and I both know ... given the demand and minimum student enrollment in sections, we are going to be offering fewer sections of the courses our students need to graduate and the idea that we will have these new blocks - are we are able to find volunteer faculty to teach after 4:30? Seems to be a non-starter.”

Faculty, per their contract with the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, are not required to teach classes after 4:30 p.m., and cannot be made to do so as part of their regular duties. However, faculty can volunteer to teach these classes.

It is often visiting lecturers who are part-time faculty who take up classes that start after 4:30 p.m.

“Otherwise, they do not have a job,” Donohue said.

He added, “This is a violation to the bargaining agreement,” Dono-

hue added. “I think there is a real problem here.”

Nicole Rossi, psychology professor, asked if the move to this new system will follow in the footsteps of universities with variable credit systems. “Students that take labs are in labs that take longer than in other institutions,” she said.

Aline Davis, biology department chair, said, “We were told the whole implementation was intended for the fall of 2019. Given the fact that you need to do a student survey, faculty survey, take all the feedback from the President’s Council, this meeting, SGA, and the chairs, I am wondering if you have time.

Given the fact that it hasn’t been submitted to governance, it is not likely.”

Linda Vaden-Goad, provost and vice president for academic affairs, confirmed that it was not likely changes to the schedule would be rolled out in 2019. Powers agreed a more likely start date would be the fall 2020 semester.

Richard Allen, history professor, said to Powers, “We need to have a detailed statement from you about the specific problems that exist with the current block system and how you propose that what you lay before us here seeks to solve those problems. I see a typical threehour course schedule and you are trying to cram four-hour courses into it.

“We’re never going to have a perfect system, so what is it about the current system that it is so bad or problematic that it requires us to come back and perhaps try to

reinvent the wheel?” Allen added.

Also at the meeting, Mark Nicholas, executive director for institutional assessment, gave a debriefing on the revisions to Framingham State’s accreditation agency.

The agency, formerly known as the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC), is now the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE).

Nicholas said, “When we think about accreditation, it is a lot of work. Even I say so. Therefore, it’s important to put accreditation into context. It still provides to the American public higher education system a mechanism of accountability.

“It makes it possible for our students to get financial aid, which is integral to the running of any institution of higher ed,” Nicholas added.

According to Nicholas, NECHE “serves as a buffer” between the institution and direct government intervention in higher education.

He added the application for accreditation is a “self-reflective process.

“It helps us to celebrate our achievements and focus our energy and resources on improvement,” Nicholas said.

The office of institutional assessment is currently writing its fifth-year interim report, according to Nicholas. It will consist of 250 pages and is due in January 2019 to NECHE.

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All-University Continued from pg. 4 There are already eight standards for accreditation set by NEASC, with a ninth standard introduced upon the body’s transition to NECHE. It is called the educational effectiveness standard, also known as the “nowhere to hide” standard.

“What they did is take the assessment for student learning out from all the other standards and made it into a new standard all by itself,” Nicholas said. “All the other institutions accredited by NECHE will need to respond very specifically to educational effectiveness.”

Nicholas added, “Therefore, transparency and public disclosure are key.”

Cevallos closed the meeting by saying, “We are really a student-centered institution.”

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Part of a proposed master schedule that would change class start times and lengths.

Courtesy of Mark Powers

SGA approves funds for Equestrian and English clubs

By Jon Lee Staff Writer

and I think that’s just ridiculous. I would have lived at home.”

Later in the meeting, SGA allocated $660 to the Equestrian Club to attend an upcoming “equine fair.” Club President Matthew Banks said, “We can do a lot of horse-riding demonstrations and horse-care demonstrations.”

Funds will be used for transportation to the event, as well as food and snacks.

SGA also allocated $2,052.20 to the English Club for their “Harry Potter Trivia Night.” There will be a master of ceremonies organizing the event and free pizza and T-shirts.

Senator Adam Scanlon motioned to approve a lesser sum of $917.20 “due to the removal of $1,035 for T-shirts.”

Parliamentarian Olivia Beverlie Dec. 1, which SGA plans to give to said, “I don’t think it’s the right the winner of a raffle in the second move to not allocate them any or third week of November, said money for T-shirts. … I would un- Flood.

During SGA’s Oct. 16 meeting, derstand it if this was a club that alBeverlie said SGA must always student senators approved fundways asks for T-shirts, but they are strive to maintain a professional ing requests for the Equestrian and a club we rarely see here at senate.” attitude and work ethic, particularEnglish clubs and welcomed a new The motion failed without sup- ly when hearing club proposals. senator. port from other senators and SGA “Have your stuff ready. … No During Open Forum, Senator allocated the original figure of side conversations. … Just keep Jake Maradian asked if anything $2,052.20. that in mind because clubs do see could be done to extend the gym’s In his weekly President’s Reit and even if you’re not talking operating hours. “It should not port, Carrington drew attention to bad about them, that’s maybe what close at six o’ clock.” the recent scam in which students they think. Other senators see it.

President Ben Carrington said received fraudulent emails about It’s just not professional and it can he would be meeting with Thomas employment opportunities from wait until after senate,” said BeverKelley, director of athletics, during hacked student accounts. He en- lie. the week to discuss the gym’s couraged students who “have been Matt O’Sullivan, social events hours, as well as issues with gym in contact with them” to talk to coordinator, reminded all student ventilation and equipment.

IT and students who “cashed the representatives to RSVP for the upSenator Danielle Shaw said West check, or gave any personal infor- coming SGA retreat.

Hall had no heat and her room was mation, such as your social security Noelle Mellouk recited the SGA “30 degrees. We’ve all gotten sick, number” to talk to Campus Police. oath and was sworn in for her first With the midterm election com- meeting as a student representaing up this November, several sen- tive. ators exhorted everyone in the SGA Advisor David Smailes room to register to vote, especially said, “I know it felt kind of clunky those from out of state. tonight, with parliamentary proBeverlie said, “Make sure you cedure, but really, learning parliaregister for an absentee ballot, peo- mentary procedure is a great thing. ple! It’s wicked easy. All you have to You’re going to use it a lot in your do is go to your town’s website and life - I guarantee it. Every organithe form should be right there.” zation you’re going to be involved Class and Club Treasurer Allie with professionally is going to use Flood said SGA will hold a Hal- parliamentary procedures.” loween fundraiser on Oct. 26 from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

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Where’s the outrage?

On Oct. 2, The New York Times released a report detailing President Donald Trump’s alleged involvement in a widespread tax evasion scam involving the massive fortune of his parents, Fred and Anne Trump.

According to the report, Donald and his siblings “set up a sham corporation to disguise millions of dollars in gifts from their parents, records and interviews show.

Records indicate that Mr. Trump helped his father take improper tax deductions worth millions more.”

Furthermore, it appears Fred Trump loaned his son today’s equivalent of $140 million - much of which was never repaid. So much for a “small” loan of $1 million for “self-made” Donald Trump, huh?

In the wake of the story, which included extensive documentation to back up the claims made in the article, there seems to be little interest from the American public. The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance is investigating, but there have been no plaintive cries for the President to release his records.

The President of the United States has been reasonably implicated in a tax evasion scheme amounting to millions and millions of dollars.

Where is our collective outrage?

This should be on every news channel. There should be discussions in our bodies of legislation, even just in everyday water cooler talk. There should be think-pieces and public demonstrations.

For the Trumpsters, mad at corporations and politicians for lying to hard-working Americans - why aren’t you upset that his “small” loan of one million dollars was nothing of the sort?

Why aren’t you upset that he robbed the country he now represents of millions of dollars in tax revenue?

Our president has been cagey since the election about releasing his tax returns and financial records, and this alleged fraud is perhaps the smoking gun he was trying so desperately to conceal.

However, this is seemingly just another bump in the road of Trump scandals that haven’t rocked The White House.

In the past, politicians have been made to answer for much lesser controversies than this, even at the coaxing of Trump himself.

He bullied former President Barack Obama into releasing his birth certificate during the “birther” movement. He egged Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren into releasing personal documents detailing her ancestry. So why can’t Trump himself release his tax returns detailing his financial records if they’re as legal as he claims?

It isn’t an unreasonable request. The majority of major-party presidential candidates going back 40 years have released their tax returns to some extent.

But, all of this doesn’t matter to Trump’s fanbase or the Republican party for that matter - because regardless of what our president does, there is rarely ever a line drawn in the sand. The political environment of the day has led people to staunchly align themselves with one side or the other - the right or the left, Democrats or Republicans - and rarely do we see dissent among the ranks.

It’s become party over country, party over law, party over ethics, party over everything - a dangerous precedent to set when our world does not exist in shades of red or blue.

Why is it not country - or even just neighbor - over party. There seems to be an overwhelming sense that our fellow citizens are none of our concern and that our energy is better spent rallying behind a political candidate, regardless of the scandal or illegal behavior piling up behind them.

We’ve become blinded and desensitized to repeated scandal unless that scandal can be used to tear down the other party.

Regardless of our political affiliations, we should hold the Oval Office to a higher standard. The president should not be someone who blatantly disregards the law and disrespects the American public.

The news of Trump’s alleged tax evasion may not surprise or bother many, but as American citizens we should be holding our politicians to a higher standard and demand from them the transparency and honesty.

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Why so proud, boys?

By Thom Duda Staff Writer This past Friday, according to an article by the New York Times published on Oct. 15, a brawl broke out outside of The Metropolitan Republican Club after an event hosting Gavin McInnes and his group of “Proud Boys.”

Now, this group is classified on the Southern Poverty Law Center [SPLC] as a hate group known for spreading “antipolitical correctness,” and “anti-white guilt” slogans.

They are self-described as “western chauvinists,” while denying ties to anything altright.

That sounds a bit suspect, but all right.

Boys wouldn’t lie in face of allegations, right?

According to the same New York Times article, the NYPD is being criticized regarding its handling of the situation, which had three of the counter protestors, believed to be affiliated with ANTIFA, swiftly arrested following the theft of a backpack from

a Proud Boy. None of the boys engaging in the beat down of the three protestors were arrested on the spot, though the NYPD later announced its intentions to arrest nine of the Proud Boys.

Of course, the group’s founder bragged about how none of his supporters were involved with the violence that was videotaped, despite the members being part of a literal brawl on the streets of Manhattan.

Even though the article describes the dispersal of the 20 or so boys upon arrival of the police, I have to wonder why the one who made a claim about the stolen backpack wasn’t arrested on the spot for their involvement in the brawl.

Why was this event allowed when this group has an actual history of violence, and is classified as a hate group?

Now, I have to say that the article cites surveillance footage that shows the protestors throwing a plastic

bottle at the boys out of frame.

So, they started, but it doesn’t mean the Proud Boys are innocent when they started smashing faces in.

This harkens to a bigger problem I’ve been noticing, which is the elevation of these far-right groups to platforms where they can spout nonsense and call for violence.

While I can understand the free-speech angle to some degree, the idea of letting a group like this one onto a stage when they have been known to get violent is beyond infuriating.

Why do we still allow hate groups to propagate like roaches?

It couldn’t possibly be to stoke this idiotic notion of victimhood in young white men, right?

There’s nothing to be “proud” about when you’re involved in a hate group that espouses the virtues of something like chauvinism.

Campus Conversations What are you doing to combat climate change?

By Donald Halsing and Ryan Feinblatt

“I don’t even know how to prevent it.”

-Esandro Rodrigues, freshman

“Cut down on water and plant trees.”

-Cory Burkhardt, sophomore

“Taking buses instead of driving.”

-Jordan Dickinson, freshman

“I turn off the lights when I leave.”

-Alexandria Shields, freshman

“I don’t think climate change is real to be honest.”

-Andy Zhang, junior

“Turning the water off when I’m brushing my teeth.”

-David Smith, freshman

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Yes on Question 1 If you ask a nurse the hardest thing about their job, they will probably tell you that it’s the paperwork, the late-night shifts, the unreasonable patients, or the general stress the medical field causes them.

When I was growing up, these were the main concerns my mom would always talk about when she came home from a long day at the hospital.

My mom has been a registered nurse for over 15 years. My brother and aunt are also registered nurses. All three of them have been on the front lines and have been subjected to unsafe working conditions for their entire careers, such as working long hours without a break and getting yelled at by both patients, families, and their supervisors. They have witnessed patients’ symptoms escalate, sometimes leading to death, simply because they could not give their patients the attention they needed.

My mom would always tell me how she would have a ton of patients at once with no help or support staff. She was essentially always on her own. As patients piled up, it was hard to keep track of who she needed to see next.

Question 1 would limit the number of patients who can be assigned to a nurse at one time.

In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, there are no set laws for how many patients can be assigned to a nurse at one time. Still, despite hospitals in Massachusetts being among the best in the country, people have seen a decline in the overall quality of patient care that has led to higher rates of re-admittance and more occurrences of life-threatening risks, according to safepatientlimits.org - a pro-question 1 organization.

When a nurse has a lot of different patients to care for, the needs of one patient can often be overlooked and ignored.

The Patient Safety Act would improve both patient and nurse safety in the state by putting a maximum limit on how many patients can be assigned to a nurse at once.

These nurses go through years of schooling and training. They work anywhere from 8 to 16 hour

shifts with hardly any breaks having many people’s lives in their hands at once can be overwhelming, even for the most well-trained medical professionals.

This bill protects nurses and provides them with safer working conditions by making it easier to take breaks and focus on one patient at a time, giving them the full, undivided attention they need.

Studies also show that without this bill, patients are getting sicker. According to the safe patient limits website, 8 out of 10 nurses have reported patients in hospitals today are sicker than they were 10 years ago. Thirty-six percent of registered nurses also reported that patient deaths can be directly attributed to nurses having too many patients to care for at once.

This represents an increase from 2017, when only 29 percent of registered nurses believed this.

Many people who are opposed say it will be a disaster if this bill gets passed because it will cost the hospitals millions of dollars and it will limit how many patients can be in the emergency room at once.

However, Massachusetts is not the first state to try and pass a law with patient limits for nurses.

More than 10 years ago, California implemented a maximum patient limit in their hospitals and the results have been “universally positive,” according to safepatientlimits.org, both in terms of patient care and expenditures.

The people who want you to vote no on question 1 are the same people who force nurses to work in these unsafe conditions.

Eighty-six percent of nurses want you to vote yes on question 1, according to safepatientlimits.org.

If an overwhelming number of nurses, those who do the actual work, are going to vote yes - to me, the answer is clear.

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A YES VOTE would legalize “Question 1” and put a limit on how many patients can be assigned to a single nurse at one time.

A NO VOTE would prevent “Question 1” from becoming law and mean hospitals in Massachusetts would not be required to mandate patient limits.

No on Question 1 Question 1 holds overly rigid limits on nurse numbers, which will result in a decrease of patients admitted. It will drive up hospital prices, and fails to take into account the demands of smaller, often rural, hospitals.

The rigid limits on nurses placed in the bill, regardless of departmental separations, doesn’t account for the fact that patient numbers and needs may change dependent upon specific situations.

This is going to directly affect the number of people who are seen in a span of time simply due to the fact they cannot be legally helped by a nurse at their patient limit.

In fact, Boston Medical Center estimated that if question 1 is passed, up to 62 medical-surgery beds would have to be closed, and the hospital would have to decrease the number of patients helped at emergency rooms by over 100 each day.

An obvious answer to this would be to simply hire more nurses. The unaccounted-for problem that this would create is the massive financial cost, which would most likely be pushed onto the average person through increasing already high costs.

Beyond that, in a study conducted on behalf of the Massachusetts Nurses Association, Massachusetts’ largest nursing organization, placed the number of new nurses needed to be hired between 539 and 1,617.

According to a study by the Massachusetts Health Commission, updated Oct. 15, the estimated costs of passing question 1 will “conservatively” be $949 million. Additionally, new nurse hires would have to in-

crease by approximately 3,101 to accommodate the change.

While it may be easily argued that large hospitals will be able to support this additional financial cost, there is no thought put towards rural hospitals or those servicing low-income areas, where such a strain might remove one of the few avenues for local treatment.

There is only one other state that has laws regarding safe patient limits - California. The key difference here is that California conducted a gradual change over five years, while the Massachusetts bill would go into effect on Jan. 1, 2019.

Furthermore, while nurse staffing did increase in California, there is little evidence as to the impact this has made overall in California, as few studies have been conducted and they sometimes conflict with one another, according to Boston Magazine.

Regardless of the results of California’s implementation of the law, the study by the Massachusetts Health Commission found that Massachusetts already performs better on five out of the six “nursing-sensitive quality measures” that had been included in the report.

These reasons will directly affect the average person in many of the negative ways stated, and give a massive industry another reason to remove smaller competitors, all while providing an ethical and legal argument to improve their bottom line.

Gordon Rupert Staff Writer

[Editor’s Note: In the three weeks preceding the election, The Gatepost will be running a “Clash of the Opinions” detailing the arguments regarding the proposed questions.]

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Counterpoint Columbus

By Evan Lee Staff Writer On Oct. 8, we celebrated Columbus Day in honor of the man who discovered America, proved Earth is round, and ushered in a new era for the New World.

And by that, I mean we sat around watching TV on our day off.

It’s a bit hard to celebrate old Christopher Columbus these days.

Two out of the three things he’s most famous for are lies, and the truth is more controversial than both.

He wasn’t the first to discover America, some believe Leif Eriksson was here 500 years before him and the ancestors of Native Americans arrived well over 10,000 years prior.

He wasn’t the first to demonstrate the world as spherical. His voyage around the globe, and not off its edge, was already proven by Greek mathematicians centuries ago.

That’s two strikes against Columbus - three and he’s out. But the last pitch scores a hit, as he undeniably takes first in opening up the New World.

Eriksson may have come before him, but by 1492, when Columbus sailed the ocean blue, the Viking

expedition was all but forgotten.

On the contrary, Columbus’s accidental landing here marked the dawn of colonization and the Columbian Exchange, which forever altered our planet. The transfer of plants, animals, and technology between the Old World and new was crucial to the formation of societies that exist today.

Unfortunately, not every exchange was as pleasant as turkeys for horses. Try maize for disease.

Great plagues ravaged the Americas in Columbus’s wake. By the end of the 17th century, 90 percent of all indigenous people had succumbed to Old-World illness, according to my high school history teacher.

Still, this was an unavoidable epidemic. The spread of foreign bacteria would have simply been delayed if not for Columbus - humanity’s determination to explore assures it.

His deliberate mistreatment of the tribes he encountered is a different story.

Countless native people were enslaved by Columbus in his quest for gold, and those who refused to mine it had their hands chopped off. Any retaliation would be met with swift destruction of the tribe.

And that’s only a few of the

atrocities he and his crew were said to have committed.

These human rights violations have prompted some cities to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day to remember all those who suffered under the wrath of the conquistadors, rather than honor one of their worst.

But was Columbus really one of their worst? His exploits, while atrocious, are a bit pale in comparison to those of Hernán Cortés - destroyer of the entire Aztec Empire.

The truth is, he did initiate an era that produced our modern societies, and it was done at the expense of those already living here.

The contention lies within which part of these truths we expose, and which we leave out.

For the longest time, only the

heroic aspects of Columbus’s expedition were displayed. Today, the cruelty is shown too. But in our efforts to expose the other side, we risk falling down the same narrative pit that kept it hidden in the first place.

Columbus, once presented as a courageous visionary, is now presented as nothing more than a murderous moron.

I’m not saying we should start praising Columbus again, I certainly won’t, but we need to understand both sides of his story lest we allow history to be re-written.

This is the lure of black-andwhite symbolism, to frame someone as simply good or evil and fit them into a narrative that supports a certain view. But in reality, the color of truth is gray.

A Swift increase in voter registration

By Lizzy Stocks Opinions Editor After years of deafening silence, Taylor Swift took to Instagram on Oct. 7 to acknowledge her reluctance to enagage in politics in a sincere political statement.

Swift said she wrote her post due to the upcoming midterm elections on Nov. 6: “In the past I’ve been reluctant to publicly voice my political opinions, but due to several events in my life and in the world in the past two years, I feel very differently about that now.”

She went on to write, “I cannot vote for someone who will not be willing to fight for dignity for ALL Americans, no matter their skin color, gender or who they love.”

She then detailed why she will not vote for Marsha Blackburn, the Republican candidate running for Senator in Tennessee.

Swift may have expressed her disapproval of Blackburn’s values as they do not align with her own, but she genuinely encouraged fans to vote for candidates who “most closely represent” their beliefs, rather than urging fans to vote in her favor.

Included at the end of the post was a link to Vote.org, a non-prof-

it organization seeking to increase voter turnout by providing access to online voter registrations and offering services for registered voters to check their registration status, find their polling location, and even receive election reminders.

Kamari Guthrie, the director of communications for Vote.org said, “We are up to 65,000 registrations in a single 24-hour period since T. Swift’s post.”

Just days after Swift’s political debut, the organization had registered 364,000 new voters.

The nonprofit credited Swift for the “momentous amount of traffic” to their site, and announced in an email that because of her, they had beaten their goal to register half a million new voters, and had reached one million new voter registrations for 2018 by Oct. 15.

Many believe Swift’s political statement and encouragement of fans to vote in elections is long overdue, but I believe it’s never too late for one to acknowledge their shortcomings and take advantage of their privilege and right to vote.

Her statement comes during an integral time in our nation, as midterm elections are swiftly approaching, and the results will heavily impact the next two years

of Donald Trump’s presidency.

Not only do I applaud Swift for finally recognizing her privilege, I admire her choice to use her platform as a world-renowned popstar to advocate for human rights.

The complaint from many is that artists should keep out of politics and stick to what they know best - entertainment - as if prominent TV personalities have never been elected into the Oval Office before.

Artists, actors, and athletes alike are going to have political opinions

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whether fans like it or not.

Though I’m impressed by the massive increase in voter registrations, it should take the detriment of the nation to inspire the youth of America to vote, not an Instagram post by a contemporary popstar.

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FSU students showcased their talents, which included song, dance, and bottle-flipping, at Mx. FSU on Oct. 12. Sophomore Mathew Kapfer was crowned Mx. FSU 2018.

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Influence, process, and fragmentation

By Tessa Jillson Asst. Arts & Features Editor Assistant Professor of Art Ellie Krakow and Visiting Associate Professor of Education Pam Bretschneider, discussed their most influential projects and the processes performed and adapted throughout their work in Framingham State’s biannual Authors and Artists event on Oct. 16 in the Heineman Ecumenical Center.

Linda Vaden-Goad, provost and vice president for academic affairs, said the series “showcases the work of our faculty and the way they do” their jobs to open up the process of scholarly work and initiate a conversation about their methods.

Krakow, who has a bachelor’s in studio art from Prescott College and a master’s in combined media from Hunter College, studied sculptures at a variety of museums as a student.

While at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Krakow said she repeatedly found herself in the Greek, Roman, and Ancient Egyptian sections documenting ancient armatures, or the support structures that hold up ancient artifacts.

She said, “I would hardly ever call it research. I think of it much more as an obsession. And I think that maybe for people who are in a more traditional academic field, it might be more obvious to call it research because there are books involved, but for me, it's what I find myself looking at. What I find myself looking at over and over and over again.”

Krakow examined the armatures' relations to the sculptures, how the sculptures had been displaced from their original context and repositioned, the form of the armatures, and the colors used, to somehow make the armatures completely disappear into the sculptures.

“I realized that there was a lot that I could learn from these armatures,” she said.

Krakow began experimenting with the idea of fragmented bodies in her own work after researching the way armatures give “new life” to fragmented sculptures.

Her body of work, “Arm Armatures,” influenced by these support systems, includes ceramic sculptures and photographs of her arms in awkward positions, mimicking each other to establish a sculpture/ photo relationship and provoke a discussion about invisible struc-

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tures, beauty, and fragmented stories.

Krakow said she was also influenced by Brady stands, a metal headrests used in mid-19th century portrait photography which clamped the head into position.

She also looked at social media, contextualizing fragmented stories placed on different platforms and how others who perceive these stories try to piece them together.

Although there is no one-to-one relationship between the research she is doing and the product she is producing, Krakow said research and process have taught her a lot about her interests and why she has them.

For example, while setting up her exhibition for a show, Krakow said it took her three straight days to move around her sculptures and figure out where they would go in the room to create a call and response among different objects.

“When I move things around in my studio, it’s one of the most important parts of the practice for me. It's the process of seeing and re-seeing and creating the art of it and creating stories,” she said.

During an exhibition, people began commenting on the L-shaped piece of metal that Krakow lined up with an elbow sculpture and how it looked like an IV in the arm.

“It grossed them out and they had this visceral response to it like they had just gone to the hospital,” she said. “I think one of the reasons why I'm interested in these broken sculptures is that I have a chronic health condition and so I have

lived my whole adult life navigating - having a body that's assessing parts or that’s treated in parts.”

Bretschneider presented her book, “The Esther M. Wilkins Story, as Told by her Friends: An Authorized Biography,” and discussed her writing process as one established in fragmented parts rather than chronological order.

Esther M. Wilkins, a woman born in 1916, known as the grandmother or the matriarch of dental hygiene, broke boundaries and reached beyond her limits to accomplish a lifetime of achievements in the field of dentistry and health sciences. Bretschneider said Wilkins was a “trailblazer.” Not only was she one of the top 25 women of dentistry in the country, but she was also the first woman to become a member of the invitation-only academy of dental science Class of ’79.

Bretschneider met Wilkins in 2001 while she was the director of institutional research at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Science. She said she was asked to assist Wilkins while using the new database for Wilkins’s 10th edition of her bestselling book, “Clinical Practice of the Dental Hygienist.”

Their friendship blossomed from there as they attended dental conventions, visited the theatre, and went to Red Sox games together.

In 2008, Bretschneider approached Wilkins with the idea of writing a biography while driving back from a convention. Bretschneider said, “She found a used envelope in the car, turned it over,

and began writing a plan for what evolved into this incredible journey.”

The plan included a list of hundreds of Wilkins friends’ names whose stories she insisted Bretschneider include in the biography.

For the next 10 years, she interviewed all of Wilkins' 150-plus friends asking about the influence Wilkins had on their life and about their adventures with her. Bretschneider said she spent about 12 hours a day for three months choosing quotes submitted by Wilkins’ friends.

Bretschneider said she also used a multitude of resources besides interviews, incorporating document reviews, artifacts, photographs, personal stories, dental mysteries, and autobiographies into the book.

She said, “The 10-year journey was one of self-reflection and enlightenment, presenting the life of the woman who was well known in her professional community, who had a lifetime of achievements. … I certainly didn’t sit down and write a biography. It was an evolution of facts, feelings, and reflections not presented in chronological order.

“The book came out of her mouth. You just didn't know and you had to figure out where it fit.

The process was more a jigsaw puzzle, with words of wisdom of which there were many,” Bretschneider said.

Bretschneider said she has an extra room of Wilkins’ things, everything from her degrees, to awards, to her graduation gowns. “There may be another book in there,” she commented.

At the end of the presentations, professor of art Tim McDonald asked Bretschneider if she could foresee an installation of Wilkins’ work. Bretschneider said she contacted the National Museum of Dentistry in Baltimore and they merely offered to keep some of Wilkins' things in their archives.

Krakow told Bretschneider not to give up and to keep reaching out to museums since Wilkins is well known in her profession. If she keeps her options open, she could definitely find “a home in the right museum,” Krakow said.

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classes. In addition, cast and crew members may be called for rehearsals at 6:30 on the DPAC stage, depending on the people needed for specific scenes and transitions.

Caffrey said the original inspiration for the play was her great-grandmother, a woman who escaped the potato blight in Ireland as a little girl and came to America. She settled in Connecticut and eventually raised six children before ultimately committing suicide.

Caffrey wrote the play with a couple of distinct themes in mind.

First - the immigrant experience.

Writing the majority of the work during the 2016 presidential election, Caffrey’s mind was brimming with discussions of xenophobia and bigoted statements toward immigrants, and her play is consequently laced with these undertones.

Second, Caffrey wanted to discuss mental illness, and more specifically, what it meant to be a mother struggling with mental illness in the context of the mid- tolate-1800s.

Finally, the play focuses on women’s issues. Caffrey says that all the characters in the play are supposed to be strong, but the two protag-

onists are sisters fighting against the antagonistic priest figure, who represents oppressive patriarchal dominance.

In anticipation of their mid-November opening, everyone involved in the show is shifting into high gear. Although the cast members sound excited, some are still worried about getting off-book in time. An added struggle in this regard is the challenge of acting in a full Irish dialect.

Senior Marielle Sciore, who plays the nun Peg Horan, said although she enjoys working on “Mother’s Bliss, Mother’s Woe” because it has never been staged and she gets to experiment with the role, the dialect is challenging for her. “I end up sounding like Shrek,” she joked.

She has also been challenged by the difference in personality between her and her character. Sciore explained that while she is more “led by the heart,” Peg is much more rational and disciplined.

Senior Stephen Donnelly plays a teenager named Jamie, who is forced to grow up quickly as a result of his mother dying, but remains a child at heart. Donnelly’s biggest struggle thus far has been the time commitment, as he was required to take on a dual role on

by Erik Agard & Neville Fogarty, edited by David Steinberg ACROSS 1. Brand with a pawprint in its logo 5. Off-road rides, for short 9. Dino with surprisingly small arms 13 . Improvised jazz style 14 . Links hazards 16 . Rosemary, for one 17 . Dragon’s den 18 . Japanese organizing guru whose last name sounds like a place you might organize 20 . Org. in rights fights 21 . Attractive older gentleman 22 . Potential flower girl 24 . 20-Across co-founder Keller 25 . Knee tear site, briefly 26 . Hypothetical nonluminous stuff in space 28 . Rigatoni alternative 29 . Rapper in “The Cider House Rules” 30 . Former namesake of the Mariinsky Ballet 31 . Swamp snappers 34 . Unit of current 35 . The Joker, to Batman

Students in professor Caffrey's class rehearse a scene from "Mother's Bliss, Mother's Woe."

the sound production team. However, he loved doing the stage combat workshop with another communication arts professor, Sarah Cole.

The students in this theater production class are not only learning what it takes to be great performers or crew members, but, they are learning what it takes to collaborate and create a unified product.

Sciore said the work is “hands-on.

It’s a great way to work on team-

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work. Especially for kids that don’t usually do theater, it can be a great way to break out of your shell and perform something, and you can see that it’s not that easy!”

“Mother’s Bliss, Mother’s Woe” premieres Nov. 15 in DPAC at 7 p.m., with additional performances on the 16th and 17th.

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Woke up, America

By Robert Johnson Jr. Interim Asst. Arts & Features Editor Ron Jones, an Emmy-award-winning stage actor and founder of Dialogues On Diversity, a social justice-based theater company, gave a lecture on Oct. 17 in the Forum as part of his cross-country tour of “MLK and the Strength of Shared Dreams.”

“MLK and the Strength of Shared Dreams” is a presentation combining the use of music, acting, and history to tell the story of African Americans in the time of Martin Luther King Jr.’s rise in leadership during the Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1968.

“This is the story of two men.

One you know, the other you don’t,” said Jones as he introduced the presentation to the audience.

Jones made use of his award-winning acting skills, after a quick costume change, to portray the role of a man named “William,” an “everyman” as he described him, to tell the story of how the Civil Rights Movement progressed in America.

The first acting-oriented segment, “Woke,” featured William holding a “baby” wrapped in a white

cloth as a clip of former President Lyndon B. Johnson giving a speech played behind them on a projector.

After Johnson’s speech concluded, William delivered a speech of his own to the baby in his arms.

“That man just guaranteed you the most important thing a person can have … a voice.”

Jones talked to the audience about the concept and history of being “woke,” taking acknowledging of the term’s contemporary use.

“MLK actually used that term to great effect!”

To further emphasize the connections between this term's past and present usages, Jones told the history of Rip Van Winkle, a story that’s no longer taught in schools across America due to its racist themes involving African Americans, showcasing how being “woke” can change society, even in small ways.

Jones referenced a quote from King to reinforce his message, saying, “There is nothing more tragic than to sleep through a revolution.”

The second segment of the presentation, “American Woke - William’s Story Part II,” is an expanded version of the concepts found

in “Woke,” with William, suitcase in hand, portraying a more working-class version of himself.

This segment also contained a monologue by William, talking about how vital the Civil Rights Movement was, not only to African Americans, but to other underrepresented individuals and white people - the “good white people,” if you will - with William making note of how "so many folks need us to not fail.”

Music also played a major role in establishing the time period on top of the realism of William’s struggle. Jones played two popular songs from the late ’60s, “Dance To The Music” and “Everyday People” by Sly & the Family Stone, released in 1968 and 1969, respectively. These two songs historically, provided comfort to people from underrepresented backgrounds at the end of the Civil Rights Movement.

A primary focus of Jones’ presentation was his explanation of King’s work during the Poor People’s Campaign, explaining how that campaign, one that involved the work of many people from different backgrounds, in itself, was “American Woke.”

“Sadly, [MLK] was taken before he could see the results,” Jones said.

The Poor People’s Campaign “never got the traction that it needed.”

Jones made comparisons of how King’s work can translate into the contemporary sphere, with one of the big topics being police brutality and how the police system can be “fixed.” Jones said, “Police training is abysmal! … I want impeccable cops, good cops … but they’ll only get the training they need if they had money for higher quality lessons.”

In the outro for the presentation, a clip of William played on the projector, showing him talk about his memories of the Civil Rights Movement, 40 years later.

Referring to people-led movements, William advised the audience, “You can’t do it alone. You got to bring everybody.”

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Failure to move forward Basement’s “Beside Myself”

By Robert Johnson Jr. Interim Asst. Arts & Features Editor

Archie Comics

I have been holding onto this idea for almost a year now, but it is finally time for me to gush about one of my favorite comics, “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.” By the time you read this, the live-action adaptation on Netflix will be a week away from airing on Oct. 26.

As part of Archie Comics’ “Archie Horror” line, “Chilling Adventures” is a darker take on a tried-and-true classic in the Archie Comics catalogue - that “classic,” of course, being “Sabrina the Teenage Witch,” and the creative pair of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (writer of The CW’s “Riverdale”) and Robert Hack (artist, the “Doctor Who Classics” series) explicitly emphasize the “Witch” bit of the title.

The story of “Chilling Adventures” deals with Sabrina Spellman’s escapades in the 1960s, the same decade when “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” made her first appearance in “Archie’s Madhouse #22.” One look at Hack’s art, be it the character designs or the vintage décor, will make you feel like you are in the ’60s alongside the characters within the pages.

However, I know you are not here for me to describe the décor of Sabrina’s house or her clothes - these are her “Chilling Adventures,” after all.

Once the story picks up, which it does at a comfortable pace, your blood will, eventually, start to curdle - there are sacrificial pacts, necromantic acts, departed relatives returning to Earth from Hell, a demonic baptism with Satan appearing as a goat, mythical incantations in Latin, and so on. Nothing is spared from Aguirre-Sacasa and Hack’s immaculate detail on every page.

Beyond that, Sabrina’s aunts, Hilda and Zelda, are more menacing than you remember - this is not your mother's, big sister's, or older relative’s “Sabrina the Teenage Witch,” for there is no Melissa Joan Hart here and Salem, Sabrina’s familiar, is ever-so scathing with his sarcasm, especially with his much larger role in “Chilling Adventures.”

Of course, romance plays a huge role in Sabrina’s story - it’s the bread and butter of every Archie Comic series - and, as such, something from which the reader cannot escape. Sabrina’s jock boyfriend, Harvey Kinkle, plays a major role in many of the storylines, much as he did in the original series that inspired this darker take. Anything Sabrina deals with, he wants to stand alongside her in the process, which, in certain situations, gives the reader a chance to sympathize with him.

He’s the “normal guy” to Sabrina’s “supernatural force.”

The story also makes a point of bringing back popular characters from Archie Comics’ illustrious past. In the first issue, Aguirre-Sacasa and Hack introduce - or reintroduce, if you’re a serious Archie historian - the readers to Madam Satan, a character originally seen in Pep Comics #16 from June of 1941, under the “human” guise of Iola.

She quickly becomes a nuisance to Sabrina and the others, and, as such, creates one of the most exciting conflicts in the early series. However, mentioning anything else beyond this is grounds for spoiling the experience - and I believe this story is meant to be witnessed with your eyes. It’s that good.

Unfortunately, the only thing that mars the experience is that “Chilling Adventures” goes on extremely long hiatuses, thanks to Aguirre-Sacasa’s role in producing and writing “Riverdale,” which is a massively popular series as of late.

However, if this does not dissuade you from looking into it, you can buy the first volume consisting of the first six issues at your local comic book store or on Amazon. If you’re still in it for the long haul after issue #6, you do have to buy #7 and #8 separately, for they are not compiled in graphic novels yet.

No matter how you read it, you’re in for a fun time.

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By Andrew Willoughby Arts & Features Editor The late 2000s and early 2010s saw a renaissance of alternative and punk rock bands. Some prominent acts spearheading this movement were Balance and Composure, Title Fight, La Dispute, and Basement.

These bands defined the genre for the early part of the current decade.

However, as the times and music trends evolved, so did these groups - all of them drastically changing their sounds and adapting to the ever-changing musical climate.

All of them except Basement.

After 2016’s mediocre “Promise Everything,” I had expected “Beside Myself,” the band’s fourth studio album, to exhibit some sort of meaningful sonic shift. Instead, the album retreads many of the same steps Basement took on their seminal “Colourmeinkindness.”

In short, “Beside Myself” is a watered-down mishmash of what used to make the band special. And, unfortunately, their sound no longer works in 2018.

Basement’s music has always been heavily inspired by Nirvana and with the exception of the acoustic “Changing Lanes,” that’s what we get here. Any opportunity to innovate or take chances has been ignored as the band nostalgically looks back to 2012 - a year many music lovers wish they could forget.

With the opening line of the album, vocalist Andrew Fisher asks, “Can I go back to where I started?”

Which is ironic given that Basement seems to be stuck in the same place they started.

While none of the members of Basement have ever been virtuosos of their respective instruments, they managed to make standout grunge rock tunes backed by truly standout lyrics by Fisher. Tracks such as “Covet” and “Bad Apple,” solidified Basement as one of the most lyrically competent of their contemporaries.

On the other hand, “Beside Myself” delivers some of the most laughable lyrics I’ve heard in 2018.

On the opening verse of “Keepsake,” Fisher sings, backed by bright guitars, “Who are you to tell me I’m just a boy? / What gives you the right to make all of the rules,” a line that’s a bit too Holden Caulfield to be coming from a man in his late-20s/early-30s.

The song’s chorus picks up, “Can you put me in your pocket? / Let me be your lucky charm / I’m right here waiting / So come and use me.” The

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corniness of these lyrics and Fisher’s tone singing them legitimately made me laugh out loud on my first listen.

“Changing Lanes,” the sole acoustic track on the album, features a trudging chord progression and Fisher just barely staying on key as he sings, “I struggle to find the right words to say / And as we’re changing lanes / At an alarming rate / I close my eyes and drive as I pray.” It’s a somber song that is hindered by everything but its lyrics. The skeletal guitar and piano make the track feel like an unfinished demo that would greatly benefit from being fleshed out.

At around 40 minutes, “Beside Myself” is by no means an overly long album, but listening to weak and predictable, yet somehow unmemorable vocal harmonies one after the other, it’s hard not to want to turn the record off halfway through.

The exceedingly sentimental and nostalgic lyrics don’t help either.

After multiple listens, there’s really nothing at all that stands out on this record. From the amateurish album art to the lackluster lyrics and just passable instrumentation, every single aspect of this project is a downgrade from when Basement first formed nearly a decade ago.

Grade: D I'm beside myself with disappointment.

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Quake Champions: The black goat of the arena FPS

By Cameron Turner Staff Writer In 1996, following the success of Doom and its sequel, id Software released “Quake,” a shooter which also received sequels of varying quality. To many in the gaming community, this series was considered one of the benchmarks of the multiplayer first-person-shooter genre - enjoyable and fluid gameplay, plenty of maps, and mod-ability to boot.

In 2017, id Software brought “Quake” back into the spotlight with “Quake Champions.” With this release came changes to the formula that its predecessors followed. At the time, Blizzard’s “Overwatch” saw success from its release in 2016. Much like that game, “Quake Champions” attempted to implement gameplay elements such as character-based abilities, while having varying health and armor values, along with some different movement styles. Others retained standard “Quake 3: Arena” movement while including the new abilities.

This wasn’t implemented well.

To give some idea of what I

mean, let me first explain how standard gameplay works. There are pickups around each map in every “Quake” game: health, armor, and weapons. Health and armor help to increase what’s called the player’s “stack,” or the total health of the player, while each weapon is situational and helps maintain position and control on a map.

So what does this have to do with the abilities presented in “Quake Champions?” It’s simple - a good number of these abilities have the potential to do high amounts of damage and even possibly outright kill an opponent.

This would be fine if they were difficult to hit, but that is not the case. In fact, it’s a joke among people in the arena-FPS community that the ability button is called the “delete button.”

That is not a good thing.

This is made more egregious with the new implementation of the relatively popular duel mode.

In it, you and one other player fight for 10 to 15 minutes, and the player with the highest number of frags (kills) is the winner. Unlike the previous version of duel that only had one long round,

this version consists of a series of five-minute rounds in which people have three lives with different champions. So after three deaths, the round is over. After each round, stacks are reset and everyone is back to three lives, or the person with the best of five rounds wins.

So, rather than having the ability to die and whittle down the player who has map control, now it turns into a very slow-paced drag where the out-of-control player has to play perfectly to even have a chance.

Some more frustrating things that come along with this game are rather sloppy netcode, a very frustrating loot box system, and a rather shocking lack of maps and a map editor with currently only 11 in its map pool as I write this.

In comparison, “Quake 3: Arena,” released in 1999, had 30 maps AND a map editor that allowed players to create even more.

I don’t think this is a very good Quake game. I’d honestly recommend “Quake: Live” over this and see what happens when The GD Studio’s “Diabotical” comes out.

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Netflix’s attempt at a harrowing mystery leaves audience in the dark

By Bailey Morrison Editor-in-Chief [Trigger warning: this review discusses sexual assault and violence.]

With the new feature that automatically plays trailers on the Netflix homepage, the platform is able to hype up its new releases without the user even clicking on the title. One of those films that played a trailer backed by ominous music was the Netflix original, “Hold the Dark,” released on Sept. 22.

I’m a cautiously optimistic horror film lover - nothing too gory and bloody, but I appreciate a good mystery. “Hold the Dark” seemed to encapsulate what I enjoy in horror and suspense films, so I fell into the Netflix trailer trap.

And, oh boy, do I regret it.

Set in the backdrop of the Alaskan wilderness, the main character, Russell Core, played by Jeffrey Wright, is summoned to a small town by the written pleas of Medora Slone, played by Riley Keough.

Her son Bailey, played by Beckham Crawford, has gone missing, presumably taken by wolves living in the outskirts of the town, as three other children have gone missing

in that fashion. She begs Core to find her son and kill the wolves.

At first, it seems the film is attempting to create an anti-hero with the character Vernon Slone, played by Alexander Skarsgård, but that setup is quickly destroyed. His character’s storyline begins during his deployment in the Iraq War and the audience is subjected to the violence of war as well as a graphic assault on a young woman, which subsequently has no bearing on the plot.

And that’s where the coherent plot ends. None of the above in fact are spoilers because all of those details are revealed in the trailer released by Netflix, which was the first mistake.

Director Jeremy Saulnier attempts to morph the film into an interwoven story with a cult and ritualistic killings. The film fails dramatically in its attempts to ground itself in the symbolism of wolves as they pertain to tribal ceremony - providing a cringe-worthy and offensive portrayal of one of the only indigenous characters in the film.

As I sat through the two hours and five minutes of the film, I waited for the plot to finally connect

and it just … didn’t.

Perhaps the only redeeming quality of the film was the child Bailey, as he embodied the creepy stereotypes of the pale, sallow child. However, he has approximately four lines throughout the entire film.

The film as a whole failed to deliver any of the qualities I look for in the medium - developed characters, a coherent plot, compelling story line, and a satisfying ending. The film simply creates all these questions it fails to answer, and not in an entertaining way.

If you’re watching the film and holding out for a satisfying moment, you won’t get it.

Netflix

Grade: F“Hold the Dark?”

More like stop the film, please.

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Men’s Soccer wins two straight to improve to 9-5-2

By Matt Ferris Sports Editor On Saturday, Oct. 13, Framingham hosted Mass Maritime in a MASCAC game as part of Homecoming Weekend.

The Rams opened up the scoring in the 14th minute of the game. Ken Stahovish received a pass from Isaac De Souza and fired it into the net to make it 1-0.

Framingham extended the lead in the 28th minute. Bryce Nardizzi dribbled around a defender and ripped a low strike past the Buccaneers’ goalie to make it 2-0.

Adam Bubencik cut into the Rams’ lead in the 30th minute. He corralled a deflection and sent it into the back of the net to make it 2-1.

Just a minute later, the Rams answered back to push their lead to two goals. De Souza fired a shot from deep that sailed past the goalie and into the net to make it 3-1 heading into halftime.

Early in the second half, in the 48th minute, the Buccaneers got one back. This time, it was Shane MacNeil taking a pass from Justin Burns and heading it into the net to make it 3-2.

In the 58th minute, the Rams responded with another goal to make it 4-2. Nardizzi netted his second goal of the game off an assist from De Souza.

The Rams added an insurance goal in the 77th minute to push the lead to 5-2, the eventual final score.

Akeem Bucknor out-hustled the Buccaneers’ goalie to a loose ball and put it into a wide open goal to cap off the Rams’ win.

In the win, Corey Davidge played in net and made four saves.

Nardizzi and De Souza led the Rams’ offense, as Nardizzi scored two goals and De Souza had one goal and two assists.

With the win, the Rams advance to 8-5-2 on the year and 3-0-2 in the conference.

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The Rams hosted Emerson College on Tuesday, Oct. 16, in a nonconference match, as they looked to win back-to-back games for the second time this season.

The first half was a defensive battle from both sides, as neither offense was able to put the ball in the net, sending the game into the break at 0-0.

Emerson had the best chance to score in the first half, but a diving save from Rams’ goalie John Davidge kept the game knotted at 0.

Early in the second half, the Rams had a good chance to break the tie, but this time, Emerson goalie David Kemp came up with a diving save on a De Souza shot to keep it 0-0.

The Rams finally broke through in the 53rd minute to capture a 1-0 lead. Stahovish headed a long pass from Mitchell Thackaberry past the Emerson goalie for his fourth goal of the season.

With just over 10 minutes left to play, in the 79th minute, the Rams extended their lead to 2-0. Austin Botelho sent a pass to De Souza, who fired a shot past Kemp for his ninth goal of the season.

Neither team was able to convert in the final 10 minutes of play, making the final score 2-0.

Despite the victory, the Rams were outshot by Emerson 17-13.

Davidge made six saves in net for the Rams and De Souza led the team with three shots.

With the win, the Rams improve to 9-5-2 on the season.

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Is “one-and-done” a thing of the past?

By Matt Ferris Sports Editor On Thursday, Oct. 18, the NBA announced that its G League will soon be offering an alternative league to college basketball.

This is huge news for up-and-coming NBA prospects as well as the NCAA. In recent years, many elite prospects coming out of high school have been lured to big NCAA programs by money.

Many programs have been illegally offering big-time players money to attend their schools, and while a lot of programs have been caught, a good number of them haven’t and skate by unpunished.

But this could all soon come to an end as the NBA is providing a “one-and-done” alternative allowing players to legally earn money for themselves and their families.

Starting in the summer of 2019, the G League will offer a select few highly-rated high school prospects contracts in the G League.

The contracts will pay high school graduates, who are at least 18 years old, $125,000 for one year.

The players then can compete against good competition - some players who have already seen NBA action - and build up their stock for the upcoming draft.

Playing in the G League, the NBA’s developmental league, could be a huge advantage for elite NBA prospects.

Playing against grown men, who are stronger and more skilled than college athletes, might prepare these 18-year-olds much better than the NCAA, not to mention their getting paid to play.

It will allow these young kids to get into NBA-level weight rooms, play games at NBA speed, and most importantly, be around players who have experience playing in the NBA. This could also serve as a test run for the NBA to see if recent high school graduates can compete at a high level against real NBA talent.

If the dry run succeeds, you could see the NBA change its draft rules and allow players to jump straight from high school to the pros in the near future.

The G League is going to start offering players $125,000 to play, but NCAA programs have been known to offer players significantly more value than this.

Just in recent memory, it was reported that the number one overall pick in the 2018 NBA Draft, Deandre Ayton, received $100,000 to commit to the University of Arizona. But on top of this, he was also given a full scholarship to attend the school, making the value of his deal well over $125,000, even though illegal.

Competing with the NCAA’s education benefits could prove to be the biggest threat for the G League’s future venture.

But if the G League and the NBA pull this off, and get the right people to represent the new league, and show that playing in the G League won’t hurt draft stock, we could see an end of an era in the NCAA. Sure, the NCAA won’t fold for good, and will still have good competition and make millions and millions of dollars every year, but we might never see the top high-school recruits play in the NCAA again.

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Women’s Soccer breezes to win over conference foe Mass Maritime

By Matt Ferris Sports Editor On Friday, Oct. 12, Framingham traveled to Mass Maritime for a conference game, as they looked to extend their winning streak to four games.

The Rams opened the scoring in the 12th minute of the game, when Elizabeth Paolucci netted her first goal of the season off a feed from Casey Good.

Just three minutes later, the Rams added another goal to their lead to make it 2-0. Framingham sent a cross into the box that deflected off a Mass Maritime defender and into the net for an own goal.

Framingham added one more goal to the lead before halftime.

Kaleigh Pallotta fired a shot into the net off an assist from Good to make it 3-0.

Just six minutes into the second half, the Rams scored their fourth unanswered goal to make it 4-0. Olivia Mihalek ripped a shot past the Mass Maritime goalie for her third goal of the season.

Less than a minute later, Mass Maritime cut into their deficit.

Madison Taylor dribbled around two Rams’ defenders and fired a shot past Rams’ goalie Madison Brown to make it 4-1.

Mass Maritime had several other good chances to score, but Brown shut down every opportunity to seal the 4-1 victory for the Rams.

Framingham outshot Mass Maritime 23-9 in the win.

Brown made seven saves in net, and Good had a game-high two assists for the Rams.

With the win, the Rams extend their winning streak to four games and improve to 4-8 on the season and 3-2 in the MASCAC.

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Riding a four-game winning streak, the Rams traveled to UMass Boston to take on the Beacons on Tuesday, Oct. 16.

In the 10th minute, the Rams scored the first goal of the game.

Hannah Kane sent a corner kick into the box and Good headed the ball into the net to put the Rams up 1-0.

In the 34th minute, the Beacons knotted the game at 1. Allie Crawford sent a pass to Jaclyn O’Grady, who chipped a shot over the Rams’ goalie to make it 1-1.

The Beacons struck again in the 36th minute to take the lead.

Crawford headed the ball into the net off a Beacons’ corner kick to make it 2-1.

Neither team was able to score again before halftime, sending the game into the break with the Beacons up 2-1.

In the 54th minute, the Beacons extended their lead to 3-1.

O’Grady ripped a shot past the Rams’ goalie for her second goal of the game.

Framingham responded in the 68th minute to cut the deficit back to one. Camryn O’Leary received a pass from Paolucci and ripped a shot from around 20 yards out that just snuck in under the crossbar to make it 3-2.

In the 74th minute, Lindsay Bouscaren put the game away for the Beacons with an insurance goal to make it 4-2, the eventual final score.

Despite losing the game, the Rams outshot the Beacons 21-17.

Brown played in net for the Rams and made four saves.

The loss snaps the Rams’ four-game winning streak and drops

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Volleyball sweeps past Mass Maritime

By Liam Gambon Asst. Sports Editor

Cafarelli led the game in digs with 13. Deirdre Fay came away with four kills and eight digs. Whalen finished the match with a game-high 19 assists.

The Framingham State Rams traveled on Saturday, Oct. 13, to face off against Worcester State and Clark University.

The Rams suffered a loss in both games to go 0-2 on the day.

In the first game, the Rams went up against Worcester State.

Framingham was defeated by double-digit points in two of the three sets, losing 25-12 in the first set, 25-10 in the second set, and 25-22 in the third.

Brandee Thomas led the Rams in kills with seven. Brandey Rodriguez followed her with five.

Mackenzie Whalen put together 17 set assists to go along with 10 defensive digs. Alyssa Cafarelli contributed 11 digs of her own.

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In the next game, against Clark University, the Rams were swept in three sets once again.

In the first set, the Rams were outscored 25-15, then 25-16 in the second, and 25-19 in the final set.

The Rams were again led in kills in this match by Thomas, who had 10 kills. Jamiyae Mattress had seven kills of her own.

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On Wednesday, Oct. 17, the Rams hosted Mass Maritime and swept the Buccaneers in three-straight sets.

Framingham dominated in this matchup with two double-digit set victories. The Rams won each set 25-10, 25-13, and 25-18.

Thomas led the way with 16 kills on the game, while Fay contributed seven kills and four digs. Grace Caughey and Rodriguez put together six kills each.

Whalen added 19 set assists and 11 defensive digs, while Cafarelli added six digs.

The Rams move to 15-11 on the season.

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Field Hockey suffers two tough losses

By Liam Gambon Asst. Sports Editor The Framingham State Rams took a 4-2 loss on Monday, Oct. 15, against New England College in an away match.

The Pilgrims got on the board first near the 14th minute with a goal from Brittany Tierney. Almost 13 minutes later, Tierney contributed again as she assisted on the Pilgrims’ second goal of the game that came off the stick of Sofia Castriotta.

The Rams notched a goal near the 40th minute with a score from Bailey Donelly, assisted by Julia Tetreault to make the game 2-1.

The Pilgrims pulled away from the Rams in the 52nd minute with another goal from Tierney.

In the 57th minute, Tetreault scored again to make the game a one-point event.

In the 66th minute, Taylor Daileanes sealed the win for the Pilgrims with a goal off an assist from Castriotta.

The Rams’ Haley Duggan took the loss in the cage as she allowed two goals on four shots before being replaced by Grace Pushor.

NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE 4 FRAMINGHAM STATE 2 Framingham’s next game came against Lasell and ended in a 6-0 blowout loss for the Rams.

Within the first 25 minutes, the Lasers scored five goals to take an enormous early lead. Their sixth and final goal came in the 41st minute.

The Rams were heavily outshot 30-1 on the game. The Rams did not record a shot until the second half.

Duggan took another loss in net as she allowed five goals on 20 shots before being replaced by Pushor.

With the loss, the Rams drop to 2-11 on the season.

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Football drops heartbreaker in Homecoming Game

By Patrick Peterson Staff Writer The Rams fell 29-28 to the visiting Plymouth State Panthers on Homecoming Weekend, ending their three-game winning streak.

It was the closest contest of the season and the team’s first loss since Sept. 8 at Cortland State.

The game got off to a good start, as the Rams scored on the opening possession with an 18yard pass from quarterback Adam Wojenski to running back Quron Wright.

The Panthers answered quickly on the ensuing possession with a 12-play, 69-yard drive that tied the game at 7 in the first quarter.

The Rams’ defense was stout for the remainder of the first half, forcing four straight punts and allowing just one field goal on the final Panthers’ possession.

The offense, however, was not so productive.

They fumbled the ball on their last possession and were held scoreless, heading into the half down 10-7.

Coming out of the half, Plymouth State received the ball and drove down to the Framingham 29-yard line, where a fourth-down pass break up by Rams’ defensive back Rashaun Rivers gave the offense a chance to score first.

The Rams were able to capitalize, going 71 yards in 14 plays and taking a 14-10 lead with a two-yard touchdown run by fullback Rufus Rushins.

Neither team scored again until the electric fourth quarter, which featured 33 points, three

lead changes, and scores on offense, defense, and special teams.

To open the fourth, the Panthers converted their second field goal of the game to cut the Framingham lead to 1.

The Rams answered with an end-around run taken 17 yards for a touchdown by wide receiver Napoleon Miller.

The Panthers were then able to tie the game at 20 with an 80-yard touchdown pass on the opening play of the next drive.

Plymouth State finally took the lead back when a costly Framingham fumble on a kick return resulted in a safety.

The Panthers did not keep the lead for long, as Rams’ linebacker Jack Sullivan was able to intercept a pass on the ensuing possession and return it 65 yards for a touchdown. The Rams then completed a 2-point conversion, putting them ahead 28-22.

In the end, Sullivan’s heroics did not prove to be enough. The Panthers were able to score again in the final two minutes, handing the Rams their first MASCAC loss of the season and dropping them to a record of 4-2.

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