Volume 93 • Issue 17
Skating into spring!
March 14, 2025
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(Left) Shawn Brooks and Lucas Kilppel skateboarding outside of Hemenway Labs March 11.
Latoyia Edwards selected as commencement speaker By Sophia Harris Editor-in-Chief By Dylan Pichnarcik News Editor Local news anchor Latoyia Edwards will deliver the keynote address at the 2025 undergraduate commencement ceremony May 24. Edwards is a broadcast journalist known for moderating political debates, anchoring live news events, conducting exclusive interviews, and hosting many charity events annually. In 2023, she was named one of Boston Magazine’s Most Influential Bostonians, according to the University’s press release.
“I am honored that Ms. Edwards has agreed to be Framingham State University’s 2025 commencement speaker. She has been a trusted and celebrated voice in New England for more than two decades, and her commitment to community engagement deeply echoes our mission to empower students to lead within our communities, empowered by their learning and growth,” said Framingham State University President Nancy Niemi. “I look forward to sharing the commencement stage with Ms. Edwards as we celebrate our students’ success!” Edwards said, “I’ve been thinking about this speech ever since I got the confirmation that I could do it and I can’t wait to talk to the students at
FSU. I think FSU students are uniquely perched and ready to do big things in the world. I love how they are talented and are so smart and down to earth, and I think those are perfect combinations for people to take over the next level of innovation and industry.” Edwards said she recently enjoyed visiting campus to hear Ndaba Mandela, the grandson of Nelson Mandela, speak on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. She said she and her family were “riveted by what FSU offers to students. Even just that event alone tells me everything about Framingham State, from the president’s speech welcoming the students, to the student ambassa-
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History professors discuss past and future of 14th Amendment By Sarah Daponde Asst. Arts & Features Editor The Center for Inclusive Excellence (CIE) hosted an event as part of their “Diversity Dialogues” series on March 12 to discuss birthright citizenship and the Trump administration’s recent executive order regarding the 14th Amendment. Joseph M. Adelman and Maria Bollettino, history professors at FSU, were invited by the CIE to lead the discussion of “Diversity Dialogues: Birthright Citizenship and the 14th Amendment.” “There is a long historical context for everything that is happening today … and having an awareness of that
helps you make sense of what is going down,” said Bollettino. She said birthright citizenship means someone is entitled to citizenship simply by being born within U.S. territory. “It’s just the fact of your birth. It’s not a specific identity you hold. It guarantees your rights of citizenship, but also your obligations of citizenship,” Bollettino added. Adelman then discussed the Trump administration’s recent executive order. “It feels like it was a million years ago, but it was actually 51 days ago,” said Adelman, in regard to when the executive order was issued. It was issued on his first day in office. The executive order interprets the
Adrien Gobin / THE GATEPOST 14th Amendment differently than it has WOMEN’S LACROSSE pg. 9 been interpreted in the past by histori- SENIORS pg. 10 ans and legal scholars, said Adelman. The order would revoke citizenship from someone whose mother was unlawfully present in the U.S. or was lawfully present under temporary authorization, and whose father was not a legal citizen at the time of the person’s birth, said Adelman. Bollettino added, “You’re talking about a group of people who are undocumented - you are talking about a very vulnerable population. And vulnerable populations tend to be the ones that are Oné Green / THE GATEPOST targeted and scapegoated.” LITTLE LOOPERS pg. 15 See 14TH AMENDMENT Page 16 SWEATPANTS pg. 17
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