Volume 93 • Issue 15
Stuck on State Street
February 21, 2025
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A bus slated to transport the women’s ice hockey team became stuck on State St. Feb. 18.
New GenEd proposal under review By Sophia Harris Editor-in-Chief The General Education Advisory Board, chaired by Professor Patricia Lynne, has proposed a new general education model to be implemented in the coming years. The new general education model is currently in the proposal stage and will be reviewed by University committees. If the proposal is approved this year, there will still be a year of implementation before the new model is put into place, Lynne said. She said this new model has three components that together create an
encompassing general education model. The first component of the model is the “Core” courses. The four courses under this domain would be the classes “that we believe everybody should take,” Lynne said. The classes under this domain are a RAMS first-year seminar course, a firstyear writing course, a math course, and possibly a world languages course. “That one is up for some debate at this particular point, but there’s some expectation that students would have at least some ability in a second language,” Lynne said. Changes from the previous GenEd model include that students will have a choice of a specific core math course
which will be dependent on major requirements. The math requirement must be completed within the first two years of matriculating at the University, according to the proposal. The writing requirement, which is Composition II, must be completed within the first year of matriculating at the University. For the world languages requirement, all students will be required to complete one semester of a world language. The proposed change includes a reconstituting of the learning objectives to take American Sign Language into account.
By Ryan O’Connell Associate Editor Susan Church, chief operating officer of Massachusetts’ Office for Refugees and Immigrants, spoke to Framingham State at the “FSU Know Your Rights Webinar” Feb. 19 and offered education on immigrant and refugee rights. The webinar, which is the first of two events held regarding “incoming changes to immigration policy at the federal level,” according to an email sent by the Dean of Students Office, included “an overview of legal resources for immigrants in the commonwealth, know your rights resources, and guidance for interaction with immigration
SOLAR PANELS pg. 3 ELEVATOR pg. 4
Opinions COLLECTOR’S pg. 6 FRIENDSHIPS pg. 7
Sports
See GENED Page 5
University addresses concerns about federal immigration law changes officers.” Church began by explaining that “immigration” is a group in the United States consisting of several federal agencies all under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The first of three agencies under DHS she mentioned was Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. Church said ICE is not just the people in blue jackets on TV - ICE has a number of other functions - such as acting as prosecutors in immigration court arguing in favor of or against deportation - and agencies beneath them - such as Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). HSI, she added, is responsible for I-9
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audits on employers, which make sure they have been following immigration rules, and also conduct deep-dive investigations. “There was an alleged Nazi that was living in Brooklyn, New York, there was a 15-to-20-year process to get that person deported because Germany originally wouldn’t accept him, and then they did about four or five years ago,” she said. Church then spoke on Customs and Border Protection, or CBP, who occupy booths at the northern and southern borders, as well as airports on entry to the United States. This group controls entry and exit to the country, she added.
Izabela Gage / THE GATEPOST MEN’S BASKETBALL pg. 8 MEN’S ICE HOCKEY pg. 10
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TASTE OF CULTURE pg. 13 See IMMIGRATION Page 11 OLDIES pg. 14
INSIDE: OP/ED 6 • SPORTS 8 • ARTS & FEATURES 11