Volume 93 • Issue 13
Snow day shenanigans!
February 7, 2025
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Students enjoying FSU’s first snow day of the year Feb. 6.
Millie Gonzalez selected as the next library dean at NYIT By Dylan Pichnarcik News Editor Millie Gonzalez, dean of the Henry Whittemore Library, will depart FSU to serve as dean of the libraries for the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT). According to Gonzalez, she has worked at FSU for 18 years, serving in multiple positions within the Whittemore Library and as Chief Diversity Officer. She will depart FSU on Feb. 21. As dean of the libraries for the NYIT, she will oversee the five libraries on the NYIT’s Long Island and New York City campuses. “It’s a really exciting opportunity,” she said. “I’m also originally from New York City, so going back to New York
City to be closer to my family, that’s one of the reasons why it was a great opportunity because it’ll hit everything in terms of my personal [life] and also my career.” Gonzalez was selected to serve as interim Whittemore Library dean in 2020 and was appointed dean in 2022. Gonzalez said during her time as dean, she was “very much student-focused, so anything that affects students I take personally.” She added she worked to “make the library offerings really robust despite a constrained budget.” Gonzalez also highlighted the open education resource (OER) project that provides students open access to educational resources for free, including physical textbooks. Gonzalez said the
OER project has been a passion of hers for a long time. Prior to serving as the Whittemore Library dean, Gonzalez served as chairperson on the Committee of Diversity and Inclusion (CDI). Gonzalez said the responsibility of the committee was to foster diversity and inclusion across campus. She said the CDI hosted programming throughout the year, including “Latino Americans,” a five-part event series about the 500-year history of Latin America, “Muslims in America,” a panel that introduced the basic beliefs of Islam to attendees, “Night of Latin Dancing,” a dance demonstration and lesson and live music event hosted on campus, and “Latinos in Baseball, in
Evelyn Campbell has made a name for herself as Framingham State’s first pick when choosing a student leader. Even though FSU wasn’t her first choice. “I always say I didn’t choose FSU. FSU chose me because I wasn’t supposed to attend Framingham State to even begin with,” Campbell said. However, now in her senior year, Campbell is the Student Government Association president and a national honors student who has served on many University boards and received countless awards for her academic and
community achievements. She majors in communication, media, and performance and will graduate with minors in English, marketing, and strategic communications. This wasn’t expected, either. Originally, Campbell said when she was first accepted to FSU, “I thought I was just going to go to class and go home and that was going to be my story here.” Campbell graduated high school during the COVID-19 pandemic and did not know where or if she wanted to attend college. She ended up taking a gap year like many students because she would not be able to receive “the full college experience” while living at home with her mom and sister and taking online
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Evelyn Campbell’s path to success By Sophia Harris Editor-in-Chief
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courses. As a first-generation college student, Campbell said she wasn’t sure what awaited her in college, but knew she was ready for it after her gap year was over. “I grew up with a single mom, so college was always something that I wanted to do. I wanted to get a degree. I knew how hard my mom worked, and I wanted life to be better for myself and for my family,” she said. “My mom got pregnant at 19 and had me at 20, and it’s really weird because I look back and I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I’m like, older than when you had me,’ and I can’t even imagine how hard that was,” Campbell said.
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