Volume 94 • Issue 12
December 12, 2025
FSUgatepost.com
Commanding the court Stella Bailey sets the standard for volleyball, breaking all-time assists record By Izabela Gage Sports Editor When Stella Bailey, a senior setter on the Framingham State volleyball team, stepped onto campus four years ago, her father told her, “You can break records, and you can win championships.” In her collegiate career at Framingham State, she fulfilled both of those goals when she became the program’s all-time assists leader, closing her career with 3,208, as well as four straight MASCAC All-Conference Second Team selections, and the 202324 MASCAC Championship title. She said, “It means that I achieved what I sought out to do my freshman year. That was my silent goal from day one.” Bailey said the achievement represented years of effort, discipline, and determination to improve. “For four years, you Adrien Gobin / THE GATEPOST wake up every single morning (Front) Dance Team President Zophie Greenwald dancing to “Somebody to Love” with members of the Dance and think, ‘What do I have to eat? What do I have to do? What Team at their “Battle of the Genres” showcase on Dec. 5. weights do I have to lift to make sure that I’m the best player possible?’ So I guess it means that community is the embodiment CAVE is an acronym for Cave hard work does actually pay off.” By Sarah Daponde of public good, which is the Automatic Virtual EnvironBut she added the milestone Editorial Staff heart of our educational mis- ment. didn’t feel real until the exact “The projection is on the moment it happened. “As much The Christa McAuliffe Cen- sion.” She said the McAuliffe Sim- walls and you immerse yourself as it was a goal, it wasn’t the ter finished installation of The goal. The goal was always to be McAuliffe Simulation Lab, ulation Lab will also allow with the people you are with,” the best teammate to my team funded by a federal grant of $1 students to explore different added Porro. The rooms can be opportunities and discover im- used to create space mission possible. The numbers come, million, on Oct. 22. and that’s awesome, but it never President Nancy Niemi said pacts of possible experiments simulations, educate people on became real until it actually hap- the McAuliffe Simulation Lab is without needing the resources new environments they have never been in before, and conpened.” another unique aspect of Fram- to carry them out. Irene Porro, director of The duct job training. Bailey said the losses over the ingham State’s campus, which “CAVE rooms are a different years were more impactful than will allow “people of all ages McAuliffe Center, said she hopes the wins. “The games that stood to experience more complete- the new installment “becomes way to do VR. … You are actuout were the games that we need ly what it might be like to do a space for creative minds to ally able to experience VR as to do better in.” something that is currently not come together and create some- a group of people in the same physical space,” said Porro. She added, “Every time we got possible - like travel to Mars, for thing new.” The McAuliffe Simulation The installation began over knocked out in the playoffs, I felt example.” that within my soul.” Niemi said,“The McAuliffe Lab consists of two new rooms the summer and continued She recalled how each loss Center is a truly important re- called Virtual Reality (VR) throughout the fall. Porro said drove her into the next day’s source for science learning that CAVEs. The grant funded the a software is being developed to workout with a list in her head of is available to everyone. FSU’s installation of projectors and properly complement the rooms what she could have done better. ability to offer McAuliffe’s pro- computers in these new rooms, and the spaces should be comgrams and services to the entire according to Porro. See BAILEY Page 11 See MCAULIFFE CENTER Page 5
McAuliffe Center installs new simulation lab
INSIDE: OP/ED 6 • SPORTS 9 • ART & FEATURES 12
News GPI pg. 2 RRC pg. 4
OP/ED TRUMP pg. 7 ASKING FOR HELP pg. 7
Sports MEN’S BASKETBALL pg. 9 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL pg. 10
Arts & Features Onyx Lovely / THE GATEPOST (Left) Emily Crossin and Aili Schiavoni holding their crafts at Art Club’s Winter Craft Fair on Dec. 9.
WINTER HOLIDAY pg. 12 CHALLENGER pg. 13