October 3, 2025
Volume 94 • Issue 3
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Authors discuss creative nonfiction with CELTSS
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Framingham State preparing for $6.6 million Linsley Hall renovations
Hall was closed for the 2023-24 marked for education and academic year and housed stu- transportation projects, and dents who needed housing over it has grown so large that a supplemental bill was filed by Framingham State Univer- summer break in 2024. Renovating Linsley Hall is the legislature in the spring of sity is set to turn Linsley Hall By Francisco Omar Fernandez Rodriguez into below-market housing for possible because the Common- 2025. Arts & Features Editor He added, “We, as Framingfaculty, staff, and graduate stu- wealth of Massachusetts has dents, according to President had a buildup of funds in a pro- ham State, have been trying for The Center for Excellence in gram called ‘Fair Share Fund- a couple of years to get some Nancy Niemi. Learning, Teaching, ScholarWith $6.6 million in state ing,’ which was passed in 2022, funding for this initiative, and ship, and Service (CELTSS) hostfunding secured this past sum- according to Robert Totino, we’re very fortunate that this ed an event for the Scholarly and mer, the University aims to vice president of administra- has come to fruition.” Creative Showcase Series: “You Niemi said she was honored open the redesigned Linsley tion, finance, and technology. Can’t Make These Things Up,” According to the Massachu- by the state’s support for this Hall by spring 2027. over Zoom Sept. 25. setts Teachers Association, first-of-its-kind grant and what Linsley opened in 1971 and CELTSS Director Maria Aleswas renovated in 2002. Ac- “The Fair Share Amendment it means for FSU. “I’m really sandra Bollettino introduced the cording to an article published … creates a four percent tax on happy and proud that we can three speakers, Rachel Trousin The Gatepost on Oct. 27, the portion of a person’s annu- move forward in this. dale, Patricia Horvath, and Kelly 2023, “Linsley Hall to reopen al income above $1 million.” Matthews. Each of them are proTotino said the proceeds for summer of 2024,” Linsley See LINSLEY Page 6 fessors in the English Departcollected in that fund are earment, she said. “Together they will lead us in an exploration of the role of imagination in telling true stories,” Bollettino said. This skill is important not just for creative writers but many others, such as journalists, scientists, criminal investigators, and more, she said. Trousdale’s poetry has appeared in several magazines and her book of poems “Five Paragraph Essay on the Body-Mind Problem” won the Cardinal Poetry Prize, Bollettino said. Her most recent scholarly book is “Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry,” she added. Trousdale said while she is a poet and thus has “poetic license,” she also believes she shouldn’t overdo it. “If you’re talking about real world subjects, if you’re talking about real world information, it can actually undermine your Adrien Gobin / THE GATEPOST poem if you deviate too far from (Left) Kyle Philistin and Javaun Calhoun dancing with dining hall worker, Margarita, at the Hispanic Heritage Dinner Oct. 2. verifiable truth,” she said. She read three poems, “Optics Lab,” “Carboniferous,” and INSIDE: OP/ED 6 • SPORTS 9 • ARTS & FEATURES 12 “Units of Measure.” For “Optics Lab,” she explained what a sestina is. It’s a type of Sports Arts & Features News OP/ED poetic form with six stanzas in which each ends in a preset order COMMUTERS pg. 7 GILDED AGE pg. 12 WOMEN’S SOCCER pg. 9 GPI pg. 2 of six words. TYLENOL pg. 8 KIDDY KUBBY pg. 14 FOOTBALL pg. 11 SGA pg. 3 By Izabela Gage Editorial Staff
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