Volume 94 • Issue 23
April 24, 2026
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Made for the mile 6 moment
(Right) Xavier Smith high-fives a spectator at mile 6 of the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 20.
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Community Five student-athlete alums participate in Boston Marathon members By Sophia Oppedisano For five Framingham State cer team. He ranks seventh on discuss Editor-in-Chief student-athlete alumni, they the all-time career goalkeepcertainly don’t have to wonder. ing leaders’ list with a record of After graduation, stuJake Hartshorn, Casey McAu- 19-16-2. He averaged only 1.76 new GenEd dent-athletes often talk about liffe, Kaitlin Loughlin, Bel- goals per game. “NARP life” - the worry of be- la Kondi, and Sarah Burke all This was Hartshorn’s first model coming a Non-Athletic Regular ‘It’s the dream’
Person after leaving their sport, daily training, and grueling schedules behind. After they lose that regimen, they’re left to ponder: what’s next?
participated in this year’s Boston Marathon, and, for a few of them, this marathon was one of a few or the start of a running journey. Hartshorn, Class of ’23, was a goalkeeper for the men’s soc-
Boston Marathon, but his second marathon in just seven months. He ran his first, the Baystate Marathon in Lowell, in October. See BOSTON MARATHON Page 10
Waverly waves!
(Right) Samson Ramasamy celebrating at mile 6 on Monday, April 20.
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By Dylan Pichnarcik Associate Editor
Following the approval of the new General Education model (GenEd), faculty members involved in its creation and approval reflected on the process of reviewing the revised model. The University Curriculum Committee (UCC) unanimously approved the model, which will replace the current GenEd domain model, in effect since 2013. The new model is set to be adopted by the University in Fall 2027, UCC Chair Aline Davis, a biology professor, said. The new model, which was previously proposed by the General Education Advisory Board (GEAB), chaired by English Professor Patricia Lynne, was withdrawn because UCC “did not come to a consensus about what they wanted GenEd to look like. It did not match what the GEAB wanted or what the GEAB had approved,” Davis said. A memo containing suggested revisions was sent to GEAB as an outline for what UCC would like to see within the revision. Lynne said during last year’s UCC meetings, “There was too much controversy, and the way See GENED MODEL Page 4
INSIDE: OP/ED 5 • SPORTS 9 • ART & FEATURES 12
News GPI pg. 2 SGA pg. 3
Opinion BOSTON pg. 6 HIVE MIND pg. 6
Sports WOMEN’S LACROSSE pg. 9 SOFTBALL pg. 11
Arts & Features FASHION pg. 13 BOOK REPORT pg. 16