Volume 93 • Issue 12
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January 31, 2025
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Women’s basketball celebrate a 88-46 win against Fitchburg State Jan. 29.
Campus administrators provide guidance on Trump’s immigration orders By Sophia Harris Editor-in-Chief President Donald Trump has signed a slew of executive orders related to the border, immigration, and citizenship since his inauguration on January 20. Incoming “border czar” Tom Homan has already authorized largescale raids targeting undocumented immigrants. Homan, who is a former acting head of ICE, stated immigration agents will first focus on the “worst first, public safety threats first, but no one is off the table. If they’re in the country illegally, they got a problem,” according to NPR. Ann McDonald, FSU’s chief of staff and general counsel, said many of the University policies that were in place
before the executive orders will still protect students now. For example, student records will remain protected under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). “That gives students a significant level of privacy for the data and records that the University holds,” she said. McDonald said only a few circumstances override FERPA policies. “If a student was in crisis and somebody needed to know an address, we’re able to give out those kinds of pieces of information.” Unless the University is issued a subpoena for a student’s private information, the University is not required to divulge any information if it is requested, she added.
In a statement by McDonald sent to faculty and staff, the recent rescinding of the protected areas policies that safeguarded people in places of worship, schools, and healthcare facilities opens the boundaries of campus that might otherwise have limited or restricted access to FSU community members while they are on campus. Recent guidance from the Commonwealth’s Office of the Attorney General details the difference between public and private campus access. Spaces such as the library and campus walkways are public, and people external to FSU have access to them.
News SGA pg. 3 BOT pg. 4
Opinions FRIENDS pg. 7 POLITICS pg. 8
Sports
See IMMIGRATION ORDERS Page 5
Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Ndaba Mandela, speaks at MLK Commemoration By Francisco Omar Fernandez Rodriguez Arts & Features Editor Ndaba Mandela shared his life experiences and dreams at the Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration in the Dwight Performing Arts Center Auditorium, Jan. 23. Mandela said he grew up in the apartheid regime in South Africa with his grandmother. In apartheid there was a system where a person’s race determined their social status, which went from top to bottom “white, Indian, colored, and Black,” he said. He didn’t know his grandfather until he had to visit him in jail, Mandela said. But instead of the prison cell he was ex-
pecting, Nelson was locked in a house, with a swimming pool. They were trying to break him, and to convince Nelson to denounce his movement in exchange for the house for him and his family, Ndaba Mandela said. “That was the day I had an idea of what I wanted to do when I grew up. Most kids want to be doctors and lawyers and astronauts. I told myself that day ‘When I grow up, I want to go to jail,’” Mandela said, followed by laughter from the audience. Nelson was eventually freed. “But let me tell you the people that were truly behind the freedom of Nelson Mandela,” he said. “It was actually young kids, young
students, same age as you, who put their bodies on the line, who went to … Washington, D.C. to get arrested, to say ‘We shall not move until Mandela is removed from prison.’ It was kids your age,” Mandela said. “It was the power of the purse, ladies and gentlemen, that got them to turn the tide against apartheid,” he said. Companies such as Coca-Cola and Kodak did business with South Africa, Mandela said. Students and other activists “made a statement and made a stand,” he said. Things started to change after that, he said. “The public purse is very important.”
See MLK COMMEMORATION Page 13
Izabela Gage / THE GATEPOST MEN’S BASKETBALL pg. 10 WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY pg. 12
Arts & Features
Courtesy of Jerome Burke MAZGAL pg. 14 ROUND TABLE pg. 18
INSIDE: OP/ED 6 • SPORTS 10 • ARTS & FEATURES 13