Volume 93 • Issue 2
September 27, 2024
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A shared story of perseverance
Maddison Behringer / THE GATEPOST (Left) Rosa Guzman, Jeffery Coleman, Bruce Bucci, Leticia Rita Santos, Eli Onyeabor, Adrianna Puccio, and Gwendolyn Schutt on stage at the end of Guzman’s presentation on Sept. 24.
Equipment failure results in Saturday power outage Upper campus in the dark for over 12 hours By Dylan Pichnarcik News Editor A machine failure in Larned Hall caused a power outage to most of Framingham State University on Saturday, Sept. 21. Resident students were without power for up to 19 hours. Throughout the day, maintainers and Eversource Energy were on campus to assess the outage, according to Robert Totino, executive vice president of administration, information technology, finance and chief financial officer. Eversource and a contracted compa-
ny, ABB - ESSCO, will return to campus on Friday, Sept. 27 for planned power shutdowns in order to complete repairs. The shutdowns will impact most of campus, according to Dan Giard, director of facilities and capital planning. The Saturday outage impacted the upper campus, Totino said. Upper campus is considered to be all buildings on the eastern side of State Street. This includes Larned, Corinne Hall Towers, Peirce, and Horace Mann residence halls, as well as the academic and administration buildings. According to Totino, a switchgear failed in Larned Hall, which subse-
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quently impacted the switchgears in the other buildings and caused a power outage between 4 and 5 a.m. on Saturday. A switchgear is a piece of equipment that “actually turns it [the power] on and off for the whole building,” Giard said. According to Giard, each building on campus has a switchgear, however they all work in conjunction with one another. Giard said, “Sometimes if the switch tripped itself, it might just be that building that trips out, so it doesn’t affect the rest of the buildings.
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Sports
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Rosa Guzman builds connections among the Deaf community By Raena Hunter Doty Arts & Features Editor Rosa Guzman, a Puerto Rican Deaf social worker, spoke about her life experiences in a presentation Sept. 24 in the Dwight Performing Arts Center at an event put on by the Center for Inclusive Excellence, American Sign Language (ASL) Department, and the ASL club. Everyone who spoke during the presentation spoke exclusively in ASL. Interpreters were available over Zoom to make the presentation accessible in English. The event happened during Hispanic Heritage Month Sept. 15 through
Oct. 15 and Deaf Awareness Month in September. Bruce Bucci, professor of ASL, said he wanted the audience to learn some soft skills during Guzman’s presentation. “Soft skills are not related to content,” he said. “They’re more related to perseverance, resilience. “The skills and the traits that she’s going to talk about - I hope you will internalize them and bring them with you in your future,” Bucci added. Meriam Bouttisant, junior ASL major with a concentration in Deaf studies, explained the international sign language flag that had been put on display at the front of the room.
Izabela Gage / THE GATEPOST She said the flag, invented by a Deaf- CROSS COUNTRY pg. 9 blind person, was created to represent FIELD HOCKEY pg. 10 international sign languages that includes people who use Sign but aren’t Deaf or Hard of Hearing. Bouttisant said the light blue in the flag represents sign language, yellow represents hope, and dark blue represents Deafness. Guzman said she was invited to speak at FSU after she was approached by Bucci at her K12 alma mater and current workplace, the Willie Ross School for the Deaf. She said she loves educating about Meghan Spargo / THE GATEPOST Deaf culture and policy, so she agreed to present here for Deaf Awareness and BOOKS NOT BANS pg. 11 BILLIE EILISH pg. 14
Arts & Features
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