Volume 93 • Issue 11
December 6, 2024
Dancing through the end of the semester
FSUgatepost.com
Adrien Gobin / THE GATEPOST (Left) Emma DePina, Ria Padayachee, Zophie Greenwald, Avery Slavin, and Kenzy El Sayed performing during Dance Team’s dress rehearsal Dec. 4.
Women’s ice hockey lacks storage space By Dylan Pichnarcik News Editor By Izabela Gage Editorial Staff The Framingham State women’s ice hockey team has been without storage facilities at Loring Arena for their inaugural season, athletic officials say. Athletic Director Thomas Kelley said the reason a storage room has not been provided is due to staffing shortages at Loring Arena. “There’s a couple moving parts in this conversation. One is that there’s all new management at Loring right now,” Kelley said.
Loring Arena, located on Fountain Street in Framingham, is the home ice for both the men’s and women’s ice hockey teams. The rink is managed by the City of Framingham’s department of Parks & Recreation. The men’s hockey team has its own storage room within Loring Arena. The women’s team, on the other hand, does not have any storage space at Loring Arena. Unlike the men’s hockey team, the women’s team must travel to the Maple Street facility every morning before practice, which must then be unlocked by the head coach, Robert Lavin. After the players pick up their equipment, they must then drive to Loring Arena and bring their equipment in-
side before getting ready to practice. The Maple Street facility is roughly an 8-minute walk off campus and a 5-minute drive from Loring Arena. Prior to the conclusion of the fall athletic season, players on the team were responsible for storing their equipment individually in their residence halls and vehicles, according to Lavin. Students who were unable to store their equipment in their vehicles had to carry their equipment from campus to their vehicles in the Union Lot, which is about a 15-minute walk from campus.
A behind-the-scenes look at Framingham State’s newest student-run publication
Under bright fluorescent lights in the Henry Whittemore Library’s lower mezzanine, the six classmates are all able to fit around one table. On Nov. 26, with only two weeks left in the semester, they are all hard at work. They lean over each other, looking at each other’s laptops, pointing out mistakes and aesthetic changes to make. None of them knew exactly what would be in store for them when they began the course 13 weeks ago.
Their professor stands beside them, orbiting the table. “Should we move this?” she asks, pointing to an element of their page layout, built in Microsoft Word, before another one of them calls her over to the other side. It’s 8:30 in the morning on a Tuesday, but everyone is wide awake. For most business students, building a theoretical business is enough for a final project. Without the trouble of actually creating one, they can still demonstrate all they’ve learned about the organizational, operational, and marketing requirements of a business.
REACCREDITATION pg. 5 TOYS FOR TOTS pg. 7
Opinions LIAM PAYNE pg. 10 TRUMP’S AMERICA pg. 11
Sports
See STORAGE SPACE Page 4
El nuevo periódico By Ryan O’Connell Associate Editor
News
But the students taking Business Communications in Spanish (SPAN 225) have spent the semester building - and learning to market - something more than theoretical - a 12-page issue of a Spanish-language newspaper they’ve all contributed to. Its name - “La FRAMilia.” Marlee Griffin, a senior liberal studies major with a concentration in communication arts and English and Spanish minor, said she wrote an article on a new exhibit at the Danforth Art Museum for the newspaper.
See LA FRAMILIA Page 18
Izabela Gage / THE GATEPOST MEN’S ICE HOCKEY pg. 15 ADRIEN GOBIN pg. 16
Arts & Features
Ryan O’Connell / THE GATEPOST ORCHESTRA pg. 17 NIEMI pg. 20
INSIDE: OP/ED 9 • SPORTS 13 • ARTS & FEATURES 17