At Framingham State’s homecoming event on Sept. 26, Framingham Police were al-legedly shown a false one-day liquor license for the alumni tent where brunch and alcoholic beverages were served.

On Oct. 21, The MetroWest Daily News reported that when police working a detail at the Maple Street athletic field asked for the license, Ralph Eddy, director of dining services for Sodexo, “produced fake docu-mentation that made it appear as though the beer tent had been approved by the town.”

FSC President Timothy Fla-nagan said he was informed of this discrepancy on Sept. 29, and the following day requested “that Sodexo management place Mr. Eddy on leave pending the resolution of the matter with the town of Framingham.”

Although no one at Sodexo’s regional office would comment on the situation, Director of Public Relations for Sodexo’s corporate office, Monica Zim-

mer, released this statement on behalf of the company:

“Sodexo has a strong busi-ness code of ethics, which en-sures that our practices adhere to liquor licensing laws. In this incident, Sodexo’s business code of ethics was not upheld. Sodexo apologizes for this mis-step and we are taking steps to prevent such an incident from happening again.”

Flanagan said there will not be any legal repercussions for the school because it was solely Sodexo’s responsibility to ob-tain the proper one-day liquor license from the town.

“Sodexo employees are not in any way, shape or form em-ployees of the commonwealth of Massachusetts or Framing-ham State,” said Flanagan.

He said the responsibility for applying for a one-day liquor license was transferred to So-dexo after school officials chose to give up FSC’s annual liquor license.

“Until about a year-and-a-half to two years ago,” Flanagan

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dressed the FSC community on Wednesday at the All Col-lege Update Meeting to dis-cuss FSC’s initiatives and its financial status following re-cent budget cuts.

President Timothy Flana-gan gave an overview of state budget reductions.

“While there are signs of economic recovery abroad in the country, we’re still declin-ing ... particularly as measured by things like tax revenue in the commonwealth of Massa-chusetts,” said Flanagan.

However, Flanagan noted that federal stimulus funds are still available to backfill the

October 9C cuts.“Governor [Deval] Patrick

deserves some of the credit for the fact that the stimulus mon-ey is being used to preserve funding levels for higher edu-cation. We’re certainly grate-ful,” he said.

“We have been helped con-siderably by the accession of federal stimulus money, last fiscal year, and this fiscal year ... to help ride out this period in relatively good shape.”

Dr. Dale Hamel, vice presi-dent of administration, finance and technology, discussed the effect of the 9C cuts on FSC.

The operating budget for fiscal year 2010 started at $19.1 million - $4.1 million lower than the peak funding

amount available for the pre-vious fiscal year, according to Hamel.

Patrick’s statewide spend-ing cap resulted in a $1.6 mil-lion 9C reduction in funding for FSC. This 9C reduction will be offset by $1.4 million.

According to Hamel, no federal stimulus funds will be available after 2010 “for the backfill reductions going for-ward,” he said.

For FY 2011, current plan-ning assumptions show a $7.1 million reduction from peak 2009 funding.

Hamel said, “When we talk about a funding cliff, we can now see that cliff is approach-ing, and that it has gotten rath-

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GP: What is your educational background?

Horn: I have a Ph.D. in English from the University of Connecticut and a bachelor of science in chemical engi-neering from MIT.

GP: Why did you decide to study both English and chemical engi-neering?

Horn: Well, in those years, you didn’t change as an undergraduate, and I always liked both the humani-ties and sciences. People who knew me at MIT weren’t surprised that I switched.

GP: Please give a brief summary of your resume.

Horn: I started out doing Ameri-can Literature, and now, my re-sponsibilities are world literature and creative writ-ing. I’ve written about the Bible as literature, and I’ve written about Isra-el’s major novelist … A.B. Yehoshua and I wrote the only book in Eng-lish about him - it’s called “Facing the Fires.” … This month I’ll have my first book of poems published - that’s called “Our Daily Words.” It won the Old Seventy Creek Press of 2009 Poetry Prize. … I had my first poem published in 1970.

GP: What was your best experience in college?

Horn: I loved graduate school. … I didn’t major in Eng-lish as an undergraduate and I just loved to read. It was a great environment - to be surrounded by people who really shared those interests - and I had some wonderful teachers. … I think the high point was that I studied with the poet Charles Olson who died in 1970. I was in the last class that he taught.

GP: What courses do you teach?

Horn: Russian Literature, the early western literature … I teach Bible as Literature, Comparative Mythology. I teach Expos [Writing] and Development of the Drama … Creative Writing and Prose Writing.

GP: What is your favorite part of your job?

Horn: Being in class with the students. It’s nice to be around when people learn things and when people make connections.

GP: Are you currently working on any projects?

Horn: I’m revising my play for publication, and I’m giving a paper in Israel on A.B. Yehoshua Dec. 28 at a conference. I’m working on sort of a popular essay about

Norman Mailer and Toni Morrison - seems to be an unlikely pairing, but it really isn’t.

GP: Do you have any advice for students?

Horn: It used to be that when we gathered with the incoming English majors, my ad-vice is to show up. … Whether your paper is done in time for class … or whether it isn’t done in time. … The second thing is if something is starting to go wrong, see some-one you trust right away. … Go see a teacher who you trust, or an advi-sor who you trust - anyone. It’s re-lated to showing up. Don’t wait un-

til things get com-pletely out of hand.

Study things that you don’t know anything about. Take music. Take a drawing course. Take a calculus course.

GP: What are your hobbies?

Horn: [My family and I] walk, we travel - most of our travel has been to Israel because we have a daughter and … as of this year, two grandkids. It’s hard to call reading a hobby since it’s so much a part of the profession, but I love to read.

GP: What do you like best about FSC?

Horn: The fact that it is small and I know students who are freshmen and I see them as seniors. … I think it’s small enough that you run into the students who you’ve had all the time and probably the most important advis-ing happens when you run into someone crossing cam-pus and they say, “I want to ask you something”and that’s possible because it’s a small place.

Police LogsSaturday, October 31, 2009

15:28 Referral (Residence Life) - Larned Hall. Rp reports leaking ceiling in dorm room.

Monday, November 2, 200916:43 Threats - O’Connor Hall. Report of threats.

Tuesday, November 3, 200913:41 MVA - Maynard Road Parking Lot. MV hit and run on campus.21:33 Arrest - Linsley Hall. Prisoner transported.21:39 Medical - Athletic Center. Ambulance transport to MWMC.

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said, “the college had a liquor license because … we used to operate [McCarthy’s] pub.”

Flanagan added that up until a year-and-a-half ago, the Office of Student Affairs was in charge of the annual li-quor license, but it was then transferred over to Sodexo. However, in light of the recent police investigation of the beer tent, the licensing responsibility will now be trans-ferred back to the college, namely to the Coordinator of College Events, Kevin Fitzgerald.

FSC now has a new policy regarding the serving and sale of alcoholic beverages at the school, effective Oct. 26.

According to the policy, any group planning an event on campus at which alcohol will be available must fill out a reservation request form at least four weeks in advance

of the event. The coordinator of college events will obtain alcohol training certification this month, and must file an application for a one-day liquor license with the town of Framingham two weeks prior to the event where alcohol will be served.

The policy also states it is the responsibility of the co-ordinator of college events to “ensure that all requirements noted on the application for special one-day liquor licens-es are met,” as well as to provide a copy to FSC campus police and post the original license at the site of the event.

Eddy is an alumnus of FSC and a member of the Board of Directors for the FSC Alumni Association.

Vice President of College Advancement Chris Hendry reiterated Flanagan’s statement that although Eddy has a number of roles within the FSC community, he is not an employee of the college.

“The [alumni] board basically supports homecoming as one of their signature events for the year,” said Hendry. “In this particular instance, Ralph was not acting as an

[alumni] board member. He’s acting on behalf of Sodexo - his employer.”

Some FSC students wonder why alcohol is served on the dry cam-pus for alumni events.

FSC senior Jenna Steward said, “It seems kind of contradictory.”

Hendry said, “We don’t tie it [alcohol] nec-essarily to athletics, as it is a specific homecom-ing event, so to have al-cohol available to alum-ni, all of whom would be of age, is a nice touch to have.”

Another FSC senior, Taryne Armata, said, “Students who are per-fectly of age can’t drink on campus, so allowing it to be served for alumni just discredits the whole

pretense.”FSC alumna Sarah Douillette, ’09 attended the home-

coming event at which she was served alcohol from the alumni tent.

“It felt weird,” said Douillette, who is used to the strict

drinking policy at FSC from her experience as an under-graduate.

“If it’s a dry campus there shouldn’t be any alcohol served - ever - even if it’s under a tent,” she added.

Flanagan said, “To some extent, we are responsible reputationally because it was our event,” but added, “It’s not our violation. We [FSC] were not the entity obligated to get the permit.”

Hendry said to avoid any conflict of interest that might arise between Eddy’s role as an employee of Sodexo and a member of the Board of Directors for the alumni associa-

tion, “Any time there is catering involved in events that are alumni-related, Ralph is essentially not acting on behalf of the board.”

Eddy remained on unpaid administrative leave until this past Monday, Nov. 2.

Flanagan said he requested that Sodexo allow Eddy to return to FSC as director of dining services after “having resolved the matter with the town of Framingham.”

Some members of the FSC community are questioning Eddy’s return to the college.

Senior Jenifer Polson said, “Students can get in so much trouble for having alcohol on campus, but yet he [Eddy] can provide a fake document to police and get a slap on the wrist?”

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Eddy returns from administrative leave

The beer tent at FSC’s Homecoming festivities in September.

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“To some extent, we are responsible reputationally because it was our

event. ... It’s not our violation. We [FSC] were not the entity obligated to

get the permit.”

- President Timothy FlanaganMatthew Mikaelian/The Gatepost

FSC students, alumni and families watch the football game at homecoming.Kelsey Loverude/The Gatepost

“Students can get in so much trouble for having alcohol on campus,

but yet he [Eddy] can provide a fake document to police and

get a slap on the wrist?”

- Jenifer Polson

To All Clubs,

As you may know, the Christmas season is coming up and will be here before you know it. As a club, Christian Fellowship is tak-ing advantage of a great opportunity called Operation Christ-mas Child. It is a charity that sends boxes of goods to children of unfortunate circumstances overseas. If any of your club mem-bers are interested in donating toys or filling up an entire box for Operation Christmas Child, let us know. Because these boxes are going overseas, we need to have the donations by no later than our drop-off time of November 10th. If you have any questions please feel free to email the club at christianfellowship@hotmail.com or visit the link at Samaritanspurse.org/occ. We hope to hear from you soon.

Sincerely, Angela AmissahChristian Fellowship Secretaryaamissah@student.framingham.edu

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Martin: FSC will maintain faculty strength

er large.”According to Hamel, the college has reserve funds

which can be used in emergency financial situations when other funding is unavailable. Hamel said, “We have the capability to use them to grow out of a structural deficit, but just like the federal stimulus funds, they’re a one-time shot.”

In the event of necessary budgeting cuts at FSC, Fla-nagan said, “The college would need to reduce expen-ditures. ... You start look at areas where there is a lot of money, and where it’s discretionary.”

Flanagan added, “I continue to believe that if we stick together in this - we’re going to be just fine. ... We’re a very fine institution, our debt levels are very modest and most importantly, the reputation of our academic pro-gram continues to be our most important asset.”

Flanagan also discussed collaborating with other Mas-sachusetts state colleges to help reduce expenditures.

Dr. Richard Freeland, commissioner of the Massachu-setts Department of Higher Education, has put together a task force on the efficiency and collaboration of colleges and universities in Massachusetts, according to Flanagan. Student health insurance, as well as joint contracts, are examples of areas that can get better financial returns when considered collectively.

Hamel also addressed the capital planning projects on campus and how the budget cuts would affect construc-tion.

The most important project, the building of the new residence hall shouldn’t be put off due to the cuts, ac-cording to Hamel. “It is a very good time to borrow funds and to build. Between the favorable market conditions in terms of rate for our type of bond issuances ... and the likely use of Build America Bonds, the cost condition is very favorable for that project,” said Hamel.

The other major building project, currently in the re-search phase of develop-ment, includes the creation of new science facilities and the renovation of Hemenway Hall.

“We have just completed what Division of Capital As-set Management (DCAM) refers to as the ‘ST2 phase’ of the study, which identifies current conditions and pro-grammatic ‘needs,’” said Hamel.

“We are heading into ST3, which considers various al-ternatives to try to meet those [cost] needs within the bud-

get that has been identified for the project, then ultimately a preferred solution to that project,” said Hamel.

Hamel said, “With a reduction in overall annual spend-ing, projects that are proceeding as planned are really lim-ited to those that are already in construction. Other proj-ects, like ours, that are either in study or design, those are the ones that being pushed further off.”

Hamel views the possible project de-lays as an opportunity for FSC to ensure the school is benefitting as much as pos-sible from the renovations. “It’s hitting us on both the operating budget side, and the capital budget side, but with the capi-tal project ... I think [the delay] gives us time to do it right.”

Also discussing FSC’s finances, Vice President of College Advancement Chris Hendry reported that the college has raised more money than last year.

“It’s partly due to a new marketing program that we’ve rolled out this fall - that has been very successful. ... Our numbers are considerably ahead of where we want to be - so we’re happy.”

According to Hendry, the department is increasing fo-

cus on private foundation support and corporation support for on-campus activities, such as faculty development, scholarship support and programmatic support.

Hendry also introduced Jonathan Lee, the new associ-ate director of grant and sponsored programs. “Jonathan is very active, already, in the community in starting out grant opportunities, primarily from the private side, but

certainly from the public sector as well,” said Hendry. Lee helps faculty and staff identify funding sources

and assists with the planning, writing and editing of grant proposals, said Hendry.

He also announced Director of alumni relations Maria Quiray, is leading a redesigned FSC Alumni Magazine. Hendry said, “We hope that you will see a wonderful new approach to the magazine, coming out the end of this month. We’re really excited about the new edition.”

Hendry stated that the Department of College Ad-vancement has moved alumni reunion and alumni commencement to the same weekend, May 19 - 21.

“We’re really excited about that, and we hope that when alumni come back to campus, they will partici-pate in commencement activities as well,” said Hen-dry.

Vice President of Academic Affairs Dr. Robert Martin discussed how the Office of Academic Affairs is preparing for future budget cuts.

Martin said, “What I hope to do is show you it’s all connected, and that some of what’s happening in academic affairs has a relationship to the financial challenges.”

Martin indicated that Academic Affairs will be working on maintaining faculty strength for the up-coming years, rather than adding new positions.

“It’s a disappointment, in the sense that we had hoped to add new positions and to grow the faculty a couple positions each year - we’re clearly not doing that,” said Martin.

According to Martin, there are seven tenure-track faculty po-sitions open which will be filled by September. “We’ve au-t h o r i z e d s e a r c h e s into those areas. In some cases, not neces-

sarily where the vacancies occurred. We’ve done a little bit of shifting.”

Flanagan said, “At this point, there is nothing on the horizon which would suggest to us that reductions in staff

“There shouldn’t be a reason why a student takes a math course, an English course, a biology course or a chemistry

course at [a community college], and has a problem [transferring credits in].”

-Dr. Robert Martin

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SGA unanimously passed the constitution for a new FSC club, FSC for FHS, on Tuesday. The club’s focus is for Framingham State students to mentor and/or tutor students at Framingham High School.

Junior Chrissy Varkas, who represented FSC for FHS at the meeting, said, “FSC students [in the club] are go-ing to go to Framingham High School to help [students], mentor them and pretty much be of assistance in any way possible.”

SGA President Steve Whittemore lauded the new club and its efforts to improve the lives of others. “I absolutely think [the club is] going to be beneficial not only to the Framingham State community, but also very much for the Framingham High School community.”

Whittemore added, “I have no doubt the club will be

successful here at school,” and that SGA was eager to pass the constitution.

Student Trustee Julie Cormio discussed the importance of students attending all Veteran’s Day events being held throughout next week, including the reception for FSC’s membership in the Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges Consortium on Monday, Nov. 9.

Whittemore cancelled the SGA meeting to be held Tuesday, Nov. 17, due to the administrators’ forum to be held that night, which members of SGA will attend. They will participate in a roundtable discussion with members of the administration to address issues concerning the school.

“Twice a year, we have the administrators’ forum - once in spring, once in fall - and we invite all of the vice presidents [on campus] and some of the administra-tion,” Whittemore said. “Basically, everything’s fair game

to talk about. The discussion … gives us, the students, a night to ask questions concerning problems on campus and the direction this school is headed. I’m proud to have this night with faculty and administrators, where we come together to just talk.”

In other news, Whittemore applauded the Women’s Rugby Team for their trip to the playoffs. Also, Nicole Dygon was named SGA Executive Board Member of the Month and Yasmin Bilimoria was named SGA Senator of the Month for October.

“Yasmin is new to the senate this year, and I have to say she is definitely one of the most active members of the senate - someone who’s always willing to help out,” said Whittemore. He added, “Nicole [Dygon] is very de-serving of this award. She’s a great friend of mine outside SGA, and she’s simply great to have around at meetings every week. She works extremely hard.”

SGA approves new student mentorship clubBy Matt BusheryeditoriAl stAff

“What I hope to do is show you it’s all connected, and that some of what’s happening in academic affairs has a

relationship to the financial challenges.”

-Dr. Robert Martin

Vice President of Administration, Finance and Technology Dr. Dale Hamel

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would be necessary.”To combat the financial crisis, Martin said that Aca-

demic Affairs is trying to “look at our program array, and see where we can grow and develop new programs ... in a way, to grow our way out of these [financial] problems.”

Though the programs do not exist on paper, Martin emphasized that “we’re at the start of the road, where we’re just starting to have conversations about these par-ticular areas.”

Martin alluded to growth in graduate programs, as well as expanding FSC’s presence in Marlborough.

Dean of Academic Affairs Ellen Zimmerman has also started to work closely with the departments to attract a more diverse range of prospective faculty, and to “broad-en the pool of applicants,” said Martin. “Our mission in education is to expose students to different perspectives. That’s why diversity is so important to us.”

Martin briefly discussed ways of expanding how fac-ulty are recognized and honored. “I’m talking about dif-ferent ways in which we can recognize faculty members as well as staff achievements.”

Martin indicated that Academic Affairs has put more funding into CELTSS, the faculty Center for Excellence in Learning, Teaching, Scholarship and Service. The pro-gram was established in 2007 to promote professional development as well as internal funding opportunities. The number of applications for CELTSS funding has in-creased this year.

Martin also discussed program articulation in terms of Academic Affairs’ plan to alleviate the difficulties asso-ciated with transferring credits from community colleges into FSC.

“There shouldn’t be a reason why a student takes a math course, an English course, a biology course or a chemis-try course at one of those institutions, and has a problem [transferring credits in],” said Martin.

Each academic department at FSC is working with Zimmerman to “sit down” with their counterparts at the community colleges to discuss the correlation among classes at the different schools.

Martin said, “Out of those discussions, hopefully comes agreement and a common approach.”

The general education review process is taking place in the curriculum committee this year. “Because our students take 12 courses, just for economic reasons, [the review] is obviously important to the college,” said Martin.

The college curriculum Committee is responsible for reviewing all proposed courses for satisfaction of FSC’s

general education requirements.Vice President for Enrollment and Student Develop-

ment Susanne Conley also gave an update on how the H1N1 pandemic is affecting the campus.

“As of today, we have a little more than 100 students [with influenza-like symptoms]. About 75 of those are students who were seen at MetroWest Medical Center or Health Services,” said Conley.

FSC is following the CDC pandemic guidelines for col-leges and universities as listed on its Web site, CDC.gov. According to the Web site, “Decisions about strategies [at

schools] should balance the goal of reducing the number of people who become seriously ill or die from flu, with the goal of minimizing educational and social disruption.”

Conley also announced this fall’s enrollment numbers. A total of 3,312 full/part-time students are attending FSC during the fall 2009 semester, compared to 3,238 last year.

“We had very robust enrollment for fall 2009, which is never bad news in this type of [economic] climate,” said Conley.

Conley also discussed that in conjunction with FSC Information Technology, Academic Affairs had made the decision not to update the student degree audit software, DegreeWorks.

“We made that decision because the upgrade was im-plemented by UC Berklee, and it crashed their system. ... You can anticipate that probably by fall, we will have a version of DegreeWorks that can audit the minor.”

Conley announced that FSC has been named a Ser-vicemembers Opportunity College. According to its Web site, “SOC is a consortium of national higher education associations and over 1,800 colleges and universities who have pledged to support the higher education needs of the military service member.” A reception will be held on Veteran’s day - Monday, Nov. 9.

Conley also noted that the lighting of the Holiday Tree of Hope will take place on Dec. 1. “We wanted a tradi-tion, and every year, the event is getting bigger and big-ger,” she said.

Rita Colucci, director of human resources and affir-mative action, announced new training programs that will be available on campus. According to Colucci, the next program will occur in January, Talking the Talk: Ef-

fective Communication in The Workplace. Colucci said another program will be available in fall,

2010. “In this training, we’re hoping to train the entire campus on discrimination prevention, which will include sexual harassment prevention training.”

Vice President of College Advancement Chris HendryThe Gatepost Archives

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New faculty programs planned for fall, 2010

[Editor’s Note: In last week’s issue of The Gatepost, in the article “Haunted FSC,” Julie Reed was misquoted as saying “It almost looked like a reflection image.” She said, “It almost looked like a projection image.”]

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T h e G a t e p o s t Editorial

We at The Gatepost welcome Op/Ed submissions from all members of the FSC community.Please limit opinions to 300 words and letters to the editor to 200 words.E-mail submissions to

Gatepost@framingham.edu.

Many thanks to Amanda Lefebvre and Rakel Hjaltadottir for their thoughtful, informative pieces on “Tulpan” and “Wendy and Lucy,” respectively, in the October 30 issue of The Gatepost. I was very pleased to see these important films receive such covereage. Two points, however, should be mentioned. The coinage “neo neo realism,” which is used to describe current independent American films like “Wendy and Lucy,” was introduced by A.O. Scott in a New York Times essay this past March. Whether this coinage finds favor with critics and scholars remains to be seen. As for “Tulpan,” the following point needs to be clarified: it was never Asa’s dream to move to the city; that was his friend’s dream. Thus, in the concluding scene, Asa does not go off with his friend to “the promised land”; instead, he decides to remain on the hunger steppes to live the traditional life of a shepherd. In doing so, he has finally achieved his hard-earned adulthood.

Dr. Arthur Nolletti, Jr.Retired Professor, English and Film Studies

Letter to the Editor

Op/Ed submissions reflect the opinions of their authors only and do not necessarily reflect those of The Gatepost or its staff.

The media ignoring IraqThe FSC Speakeasy

Homecoming weekend has always been the primary traditional social opportunity for the FSC alumni and community to come together with current students, families and faculty to share their experiences about FSC.

The central event during this weekend has always been, of course, the traditional FSC football game.

Recently, the Homecoming game has been defined by another tradition - the selling of beer. It has become one of the few major public events each year that FSC offers alcohol on an otherwise completely dry campus.

This year, however, FSC didn’t have a liquor license.Allegedly, Ralph Eddy, director of dining services

for Sodexo, the college’s dining service provider, was responsible for obtaining a one-day liquor license in order to sell beer at the game. Which he failed to do.

Sodexo was illegally selling alcohol at an FSC-sponsored event - and not just any FSC-sponsored event, but the main social networking event the college holds each year.

Oops.Though Sodexo and Eddy were allegedly ultimately

responsible for the liquor license, college administrators should have been much more focused on the details of the event.

Selling alcohol on a dry campus is a big deal. We at The Gatepost would have expected FSC administrators to consider everything that went into the sale of alcohol at Homecoming weekend, even if it wasn’t technically their responsibility. We are disappointed that this oversight happened.

If the sale of alcohol cannot be properly managed, it shouldn’t happen at all. And why sell alcohol at Homecoming in the first place?

To serve alcohol at the college’s most publicized social event seems to belie the college’s efforts to promote a dry campus. It is hypocritical and directly contradicts the college’s strict no-alcohol policy.

Framingham State administrators should not be promoting and taking pride in an event where alcohol is sold when students aren’t even allowed to use alcohol bottles as vases in their rooms and are constantly subject to having their bags checked and rooms searched for alcohol paraphernalia.

Over-21 students aren’t even allowed a beer in the privacy of their own rooms - the slightest evidence of alcohol leads to immediate repercussions and the threat of suspension. Students fear showing any signs of having consumed alcohol in public, 21 or not, to the point of avoiding the campus altogether. How can administrators then suggest to students that a beer at a public college event is OK?

For a policy to be respected, it needs to be enforced all the time, not only when it is convenient for administrators. To allow alcohol in certain situations and not allow it in others is unfair.

Homecoming is a family weekend. It is irresponsible to invite students’ families, ranging from toddlers to grandmothers, to an event where alcohol is sold. Parents don’t want to see alcohol being sold at their kids’ college Homecoming weekend - it certainly isn’t comforting to parents who thought they were sending their kids off to a dry, serious academic institution.

FSC administrators need to reconsider the sale of alcohol at Homecoming.

Is it nice to be able to have a beer and watch a football game? Maybe.

But the sale of alcohol at Homecoming is not necessary. It’s hypocritical. It’s not worth the risk of another “speakeasy” incident.

Generally, when people find out that my father is currently serving an eighteen-month tour in Iraq, their immediate response is as follows:

“Well, at least he’s only in Iraq. It’s not dangerous there anymore.”

After I finish resisting the urge to cause the speaker physical harm, I find it necessary to explain to them that Iraq is still a war zone. War zones are never safe. In fact, it’s quite dangerous in Iraq, and it’s very insulting when someone feels the need to downplay the work that our brave soldiers are doing there.

However, I realize that it is not entirely the general public’s fault that they are so ignorant. The media is the truly guilty party. The media finds it much more valuable to air stories about publicity stunts involving boys pretending to be stuck in balloons and the breaking news regarding celebrity custody battles than the wars overseas these days.

As it happens, toward the beginning of October, three car bombs were detonated only yards away from the camp where my father and his men are stationed. Several people were killed, and many people were injured in the blasts. However, these explosions were not considered newsworthy. The television news gave the event no air time, and finding an article depicting the events was like trying to find Waldo. Even if someone did stumble across the write-up, it was hardly a paragraph long, providing absolutely no information whatsoever.

The American public has almost no idea what is really happening in Iraq. It is a classic example of the age-old saying, “Out of sight, Out of mind.” If the media doesn’t portray Iraq as being dangerous, well then that must mean that is a safe place to hang out nowadays. We might as well all go head there on vacation!

The public needs to be informed about what is happening overseas. They need to remember that we are still at war. There are still men and women fighting to defend our country. The media needs to play its part in informing the general public about the great sacrifices that our soldiers are making for us. We cannot just put the war out of mind.

Nenia Corcoran Editorial Staff

Beer at HomecomingThis year, had I been able to partake in the Homecoming

festivities, I would have had the privilege to put a beer in my 21-year-old body - cool (too bad I missed it!).

This school puts so much emphasis on being a “dry” campus, but as soon as alumni are scheduled to make an appearance, we set up a giant beer tent faster than you can blink.

When these large contributors come, the alcohol follows, apparently. But is this merely for celebratory purposes, or to suck up? Shouldn’t we still want to make a good impression on them, since they are the ones generously giving to the place that shaped their lives? This is not to say that having alcohol permitted on campus would give off a bad impression, but the administration certainly should be more focused on this matter rather than policing us on how we’re not allowed to fill up our cups for a little fun.

Amanda Lefebvre Editorial Staff

FSC needs to support a track team, make track a part of the athletic program and include money for the team in next year’s budget.

Track is a part of the Olympics, common in most i n t e r - c o l l e g i a t e sports and should be part of FSC as well. Today, we have a

cross-country team, yet no track team. This is a mystifying phenomenon considering that more students participate in numerous events at a track meet, versus a cross-country event, which is distance only.

FSC needs a track team because it ought to be a part of the student experience. Adding a track team to FSC would enable students to create lifetime friends, stay fit and keep on track with their studies. It is scientifically proven that student athletes achieve higher grades than their peers who are not athletes. Track teaches students self-discipline. Running structured, purposeful workouts is the epitome of a training method not only for track athletes, but for all other athletes who play in a college sport that involves endurance.

Track is a relatively inexpensive sport to support. The expensive part - the track - FSC already has at Maple and Bowditch fields. The costliest part of it would just be a coach and event fees, yet both are not a huge expense. Including an FSC track team in the athletic budget will be well worth the low cost.

By bringing awareness to the fact that there is no track team at FSC, as there was years ago, we can make a change. There needs to be an effective action to incorporate track as an element of the athletic program. Let’s get started with an FSC track team, develop the team over the next several years, compete locally in New England and other areas and support it financially. FSC is worthy of a track team. The most imperative reason is that it is one more reason to be a proud student at FSC!

Michelle Korn Class of 2012

Track at FSC

ARTS & FEATURESPage 6 November 6, 2009The Gatepost

Former MLB playerVISITS FSC TO

Share life experiences

It was the top of the ninth inning and Phillies’ pitcher Eric Milton stood just three outs away from a no-hitter and baseball immortality. The leadoff batter was jammed on a pitch that was making its way into shallow centerfield, where outfielder Doug Glanville

was patrolling that night. Glanville got a bad read on the ball, and by the time he had recov-ered, the ball had fallen just out of reach of his outstretched glove - breaking up the no-hitter.

The gaffe caused Glanville, who was playing in his ninth major league season, to con-sider life after baseball. “It was the first moment that I thought, ‘I don’t know if I want to do this anymore. Maybe it’s time for something else.’”

Glanville addressed his journey from amateur to professional baseball, and life afterward on Monday, Nov. 2 in the Dwight Performing Arts Center.

Glanville, the son of a Howard University professor from Trinidad and a schoolteacher grew up in Teaneck, N.J. He played baseball for the University of Pennsylvania and while majoring in systems engineering was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the first round of the 1991 draft - one spot ahead of Manny Ramirez.

After making it to the big leagues with the Cubs, he was traded to Philadelphia, where he had his best years, including a 1999 season which saw him hit .325 while ranking second in

By Josh PrimakEditorial Staff

- Continued on page 8FSC is the most recent stop on Glanville’s speaking tour.

Photo courtesy of DougGlanville.com

The Danforth Museum is celebrating its “New Eng-land Photography Biennial 2009” in downtown Framingham.

The Lawrence and Rosenberg rooms at the museum are displaying images from various artists, but the works that caught my eye were those of Lisa Kessler, Alexia Mellor, Suzanne Revy and Linda Szabo White. The pieces from these photographers ranged from classy models in dirty, construction site settings to grannies decked in pink play-ing an intense game of basketball. This is perhaps why the exhibit is so engaging for the average viewer - the subject matter varies so immensely that if one photo doesn’t catch your eye, the next most certainly will.

In the Lawrence gallery on the first wall of photos, an image by Lisa Kessler is a standout. Entitled “Hot Pink Grannies,” the image caught my eye immediately, prob-ably because of the sharp pink tones jumping out from the photo. The picture is an inkjet print and was photo-graphed in 2007. In the photo, five elderly women are decked out in white shirts, black shorts, white sneakers topped off with hot pink headbands and knee-socks play-ing an energetic game of basketball.

This picture emphasizes what Kessler believes the col-or pink stands for - an energetic color that “has a myriad of connotations...[but] is burdened by dogma.” In fact, Kessler created an entire collection of images craftily in-cluding the use of pink called “Living Pink” to display all of the connotations, negative and positive, that this ec-centric color has. The positioning of these elderly women in mid-action stances, along with the energetic pink tones, creates the idea that these “grannies” are the exception to the stereotypical rule. They are not your typical grand-mother - that is, what many deem to be slow paced, frag-ile, and locked in their homes baking or knitting.

Rather, they are energetic, playing an exhilarating game of basketball outdoors, and the hot pink tones only emphasize this. The vantage point from behind the bas-ketball hoop and a little to the left allows the viewers to see the game as if they were part of an audience cheering on their own grandmothers. The natural lighting from the sun adds energy to the image and represents the warmth and friendliness of these “hot pink grannies.”

The contrast between the hot pink of the ladies’ socks and the green pavement of the basketball court, along with the depth of field, with one granny positioned in the far back near the beginning of the 3-point line, and one

close to the camera, to the left of the basketball hoop, work hand in hand to create a visually appealing image.

“Extending the Friendly Skies (site),” an inkjet print image by Alexia Mellor from 2009, mixes the messy cha-os of a construction site with the cleanliness and drama of a Hollywood glamour shot. In the photo, a female dressed in fashionable red dress, with a polka-dotted scarf, black gloves, open black sweater and red hat stands before the hard hat zone of a construction site complete with work-ers in bright orange and yellow cautionary colors, excava-tors, backhoes and plenty of dirt.

The female model is in quite the dramatic pose, with her gloved left hand placed over her mouth, staring off into the distance, rather than the camera. Her facial ex-pression is a mixture of drama and contemplation. Per-haps she is appalled at the odd location she has been posi-tioned for a photograph, or maybe she’s in a state of deep concentration despite all the noise in the background. Regardless, this photo caught my eye because it mixes two completely different worlds in one photo. On the one hand, there is the organized mess of a construction site, which is generally known for being dirty and dangerous. At the forefront, however, is this clean-cut, glossy, Hol-

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By Jason MeloStaff WritEr

Capturing That New England Feel...

Photo courtesy of DanforthMuseum.org

This past summer, NASA provided funding for eight education students’ internships at the Christa McAuliffe Center at Framingham State

College. Mary Liscombe, director of the McAuliffe Center, said

the main purpose of this internship was “to tie the McAu-liffe Center more closely to the college. … We felt [it] would be beneficial to the students who are aspiring to be teachers, so we decided to create an internship.”

The curriculum of the internship was designed to “give them experience working with students to get them to see things that they wouldn’t see in the regular classroom,” said Liscombe.

The positions gave the students an opportunity to have internships which included a practicum that would “better prepare them to go out into the world of teaching,” she added.

The students were paid, and part of the Center’s goal “was to provide them with summer employment. … Serv-ing as a waiter or waitress is a nice job, but it doesn’t really move them forward in their goals of being a teacher,” said Liscombe.

She noted that the money did not come from Framing-ham State. She “chased down lots of money that funded their [the interns’] stipends,” which came from MIT and NASA’s Space Grant Consortium Funding, which provides funding for undergraduate and graduate students nation-wide.

Nancy Goguen, assistant director of the Christa McAu-liffe Center, said, “All together there was about 300 hours of professional development for eight of our students here on the campus.”

The duration of the internship program was 10 weeks at 30 hours per week, simulating the experience of a full-time job.

Liscombe and Goguen invited Robin Robinson and An-drea Pickles from The Distance Education Support Center to talk to the interns about “what the 21st century student looks like” and how to address him or her.

Robinson and Pickles presented an overview about “various resources that are available that might have taken them [the interns] years to discover. … So we’re trying to teach them how to be established a little bit more quickly when they go out to teach,” said Liscombe.

Emma Fortin, a junior studying elementary education, said the application included a question asking applicants how they would teach 21st century kids. “At the end of the internship, we answered the same question and saw how different our answers were. [We saw] how much we

learned and we learned what that question really meant.”While there are a total of 46 Challenger Learning Cen-

ters in the country, the Christa McAuliffe Center is the only center offering a trial run for the internship program.

If the summer, 2010 pilot proves successful, the intern-ship will be offered nationally at all of the Challenger Cen-

ters. “If the grant comes through that we’re putting together,

it will not only be expanding to year two here but we will also be bringing in three new representatives from three other Challenger Learning Centers who will be going through [the] year-one program,” Liscombe said.

The first four weeks of the year-one curriculum will be the only portion of the program that will go national because “we have resources here that you just can’t repli-cate,” said Liscombe.

She added that much time has already been spent shar-ing feedback about what needs to be improved, what should be added into the curriculum and what should be left out.

The McAuliffe Center is preparing to accept 12 new students this upcoming summer. The eight students from the previous summer will move on to the year-two pro-

gram, while the new interns will begin year one.This year, the focus will be to get the interns “out into

- not just the community - but to industries and to get out into other educational facilities,” Liscombe said, including facilities such as the Museum of Science and corporations such as Raytheon.

The interns will also be studying at the Center for Astro-physics at Harvard University, working with the Center’s creators and will be “actually holding Galileo’s books in their own little hands!” Liscombe said.

The students will be going to MIT to work in the robot-ics lab that is housed at the university. “Year two will ex-pand outwards from what they do here … to take them out closer and closer to the real world,” said Liscombe.

Throughout the 10 weeks, the interns worked closely with teachers from surrounding communities, who shared their knowledge of using technology in the classrooms and learning how to fill time if there were gaps between les-sons.

Fortin said, “Well, we had to show up every day at 8:30 in the morning! … We learned how to ask better questions and not be scared to [ask questions].”

Meredith Palmer, also a junior, who is studying to be-come a high school math teacher, said, “At first, I was like, ‘Spend my summer at school? Absolutely not!’ … In the end, I was really glad that he [my department chair] did [sign me up for the internship] because it was really cool.”

Palmer said, “The last three weeks, there were middle school kids here, so we really took the role of being the teacher. It was a big responsibility - keeping them under control.”

The interns created their own lesson plans for the mid-dle school students, where they were able to choose what they wanted to teach and in what style they wanted to do so.

Fortin said, “We had to learn how to do everything so that we could teach it to the kids.”

The interns worked with the middle school students to create adaptive devices for people with physical handicaps. “They [the interns] acted as true leaders and teachers,” said Liscombe.

She added, “That’s a program that we, at the McAuliffe Center, have been running with teachers for the last three years and this is the first time we attempted it with under-graduate, pre-service teachers. … They were amazing.”

The objective was to design their own devices, testing and running them as well as researching other products on the market that are similar to ones they made.

Palmer said, “We all became really good friends. We all worked together so nicely and it was interesting for me

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AMPUS CONVERSATIONS How do you feel about beerbeing sold at homecoming?C

“I think you can have just as much fun without alcohol, so I’m against it.”

- Erika Swift, sophomore

“It shouldn’t be this ‘hush-hush’thing people don’t talk about. Ithink it’s acceptable to have.”

- Katie Mulrey, senior

““If you’re 21, you can drink, so Iguess that it should be allowed.”

- Mauricio Silva, freshman

“I don’t think it’s right.It’s open to kids and family -it’s a family event. It’s just

an inappropriate atmospherefor kids.”

- Shari Porter, sophomore

“If it wasn’t allowed,people would drink

before they get there,so then they would be drinking and driving.”

- Bryana Bertulli, junior

By: Matthew Bushery and Michelle Korn

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By Pam BarberioaSSiStant artS & fEaturES Editor

FSC students intern at McAulliffe Center

The McAuliffe Center is the only center being used as a trial run for the internship program.

Tom Higgins/ The Gatepost

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Application Deadline Approachingfor Interest-Free Student Loan

Information and application forms for Ellen Hyde Loans are available at the office of the Independent

Association of Framingham State Alumni, at the Alumni House located at 42 Adams Road, the FSC Financial Aid Of-

fice and online at www.alumnihouse.org.Undergraduate students, who have completed the equiva-lent of one year’s study, maintained a minimum QPA of 2.75

and demonstrated financial need, areeligible to apply.

These educational loans are made without interest and are repaid at a minimum rate of $50.00 per month on comple-tion or termination of studies at Framingham State College. This fund has helped to finance an eduation for many over the years and current students are invited to take advan-

tage of this opportunity as well.

The deadline for applications for Spring 2010 loansis November 16. Please call 508.872.9770 or email

Office@AlumniHouse.org with any questions.

the National League in hits.Glanville’s success did not continue because of injuries and a reduced playing

role which led to his retirement from the game during spring training in 2005.While many professional athletes are so consumed by their sport that they are

often left unfulfilled with their lives after retirement - this has not been the case for Glanville.

An Ivy League graduate, Glanville has made the transition from ballplayer to ci-vilian life, first dabbling in the world of education as a teacher of systems engineer-ing in South Africa for a semester, then moving on to his current venture as founder of GK Alliance LLC, a residential company out of Chicago.

While it was admittedly hard for Glanville to leave the game which he played for so many years, he credited his strong support system and positive outlook on life with helping his transition to the real world. “We can’t choose our destiny, nor should we be arrogant enough to think that we always know where our lesson wll lead us. You have to embrace the fact that maybe things have not been revealed yet. A hard thing might eventually lead you to another door.”

Glanville is an op-ed contributor to the New York Times. He is scheduled to re-lease a book in spring, 2010 about his days in the major leagues.

Glanville discusses life during,

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lywood aspect of the image, as evident in the woman’s pose, glossy eyed distant gazing and elaborately clothed. Perhaps Mellor wanted to make the statement that female models, or even women in general, can handle the messi-ness and danger of a construction site just like any man. Or perhaps she wanted to make the opposite statement, as the woman’s facial expression could create the sense that she’s not quite ready for what’s ahead, depending on the viewer’s interpretation of her facial expression. Regard-less, Mellor’s photo is a standout piece in Danforth’s 2009 collection.

On display in the Rosenberg gallery is “Small Won-ders Stretched,” a 2008 photograph by Suzanne Revy. The black and white image exhibits the small wonders in the eyes of a child. Listed as being a selenium toned gelatin silver print, the picture shows a young, shirtless boy stretching the hind legs of a frog in the air, covering his face from view. The photo is taken straight on from the boy’s level, meaning that Revy probably knelt down to roughly his height range in order to take the photograph. This was an important move on her part as it captured

the true essence of being a child when taken from that vantage point. Children are in their own little world, quite literally, being much shorter than adults, and therefore see even the blandest things in a much different light. Wheth-er it is a toy frog or an actual living frog is unclear, but the image is a standout piece in Danforth’s Rosenberg gallery.

“Ride Together,” a 2008 digital photo by Linda Szabo White, portrays a young child with an older male on a creepy boat ride at what looks like the local carnival. In the background are various game booths and a few scat-tered visitors as the scene is mostly empty. The dark set-ting of the night enhances the photo in the sense that it assists in creating the opposite of your stereotypical car-nival. Rather than fun, bright and whimsical, the carni-val scene depicted here creates an almost depressing and gloomy mood. There is a gleam of light, most likely from a street lamp or some other carnival booth, directly to the right of the subjects. This light helps settle the eyes where they should be - on the adult and child passing by in a richly painted boat made to look like an angry and almost demonic tiger, which drowns out all the busyness and noise of the various tents and booths in the background.

On her official Web page, www.lindaszabowhite.net, White states she was interested in “the collision of shapes, colors and temperature of light” in this image as well as her other carnival photos. The mixture of the bulb lights in the left background and the square ones next to it, each giving off a faintly different color of light, along with the multiple layers of the windy log flume attraction are just some of the elements that make this picture so visually appealing. The deeper meaning of this image beyond a captured moment at the carnival is not explicit, but even so, it remains eerie and almost gothic, an excellent piece that does its job in creating an atmosphere within the photo.

The Danforth Museum is an excellent way to spend an afternoon for those who enjoy great works of art and photography. The various images engage the viewer and each of the photographers do a great job at capturing their unique visions and exhibiting them. The “New England Photography Biennial of 2009” will be on display on the first floor of the museum in the Lawrence and Rosenberg galleries from Sept. 13 through Nov. 8. Tickets are $8 for students and seniors and $10 for adults.

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Danforth Museum celebrates “New England Photography Biennial 2009”

to work with someone who’s interested in English where I want to teach math. I think it really represents how, later on in high school, I’m going to have to work with other teachers.”

Fortin said the internship helped her to understand how much each field of study complements the next. She said she was nervous about the math and science aspects of the program. “Now I love it! I never thought I would ever say I like math and science.”

She added that she is excited about re-turning to her internship next summer. “It turned out better than I think most people expected.” All eight of the interns are re-turning for the second year.

The McAuliffe Center has been operat-ing for 15 years and is visited by as many as 10,000 middle school students a year.

According to the Center’s Web site, “The Challenger Learning Center’s hands-on, minds-on middle school program uses space flight simulation to demonstrate the importance of essential 21st century work skills - including teamwork, problem solv-ing, decision making and communication.”

The students are assigned different jobs, from captain to communication to ground control. They have to perform crucial tasks such as dealing with robotics, building probes and collecting moon rocks while

“in space.”The McAuliffe Center just added a new

green screen the middle school students will use while conducting their simulated

missions. It will be used to suggest that the students “on board the flight craft” are

on the moon and the students working in ground control will receive the video.

Evan Pagliuca, the flight director at the McAuliffe Center, said, “I like playing

around with all the new technology we get and figuring out ways” to get the interns

involved with it.The McAuliffe Center recently received

notification that a grant it had applied will provide them funding to send a couple of its staff members to take classes about cli-matology and climate change.

These skills will allow the Center to create new workshops for teachers.

FSC’s planetarium, which is located in the rear of Hemenway Hall, is also utilized as part of the learning experience for the middle school students.

Goguen said, “About 95 percent of all the students that come to Challenger to do our Challenger mission also go to the plan-etarium.

“We are in the process now of devel-oping a new planetarium program,” she added.

Liscombe said, “The planetarium is a big project for us because it is it so multi-media based.” The current show at the planetarium is “The Tilt,” which explains the reason for the season changes.

“We create teachers here at Framing-ham State. I’m hoping that with this addi-tional contact that they have with students and other teachers, that we’re creating teacher leaders,” said Liscombe.

Fortin said, “I can’t even measure how much I’ve learned just from the 10 weeks being here.”

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Up to 10,000 middle school students visit the McAullife Center per year.Tom Higgins/ The Gatepost

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SPORTSThe Gatepost

By Josh PrimakSportS Editor

Photos courtesy of dougglanville.com

On The SidelineFormer Major League Baseball Player

Doug Glanville

Doug Glanville visited FSC on Mon. Nov. 2. For coverage of his visit, turn to page 6.

GP: How did you get involved in baseball?

Glanville: Well, I have to credit my brother. I have a big brother who is seven years older than I am and he dragged me out there as soon as I could walk and said, “you know what? This is something you can do,” and he mapped out my career basically.

GP: Did you play any other sports growing up?

Glanville: Growing up, I played basketball, and a little floor hockey, and some other things, but I kind of stopped somewhere during high school and it became baseball exclusively.

GP: Why did you stick with baseball?

Glanville: I loved it. I loved the fact that it was sort of this cerebral, slower-paced, thinking man’s game, but at the same time, there is this one-on-one part, but there’s also a team part. It’s kind of a hyper sport, but there was a lot of things I liked about it.

GP: Did you have a favorite athlete growing up?

Glanville: Well, I was a big Phillies fan, so I liked Gary Maddox and Mike Schmidt. John Elway from the Broncos was one of my favorites, so there were a few.

GP: What is your most memorable moment as a professional?

Glanville: There were a few, certainly getting the game-winning hit in game three of the 2003 NLCS was exciting. But I remember just making it, just getting to the big leagues was certainly an amazing thing. Also, getting my 200th hit of the season, which at the time was the first time since Pete Rose had done it about twenty years earlier for the Phillies, and on top of that, it was against the team that had traded me, so that was pretty sweet.

GP: Did you have any pre-game rituals or superstitions?

Glanville: I wasn’t a huge superstition guy, but I always used soft toss for my practice swings. One year, though, when I was with Des Moines in AAA, there was a book called The Magic Eye where you’d stare at it and stare at it - I used to do that. I remember for about two months, I used to look at that a lot and I had a twenty-plus game hitting streak. Then I of course ran out of hits, so I stopped using it.

GP: What do you miss most about playing baseball?

Glanville: I think a lot of the camaraderie, and the diversity, and the people and the experience that I really enjoyed. I guess I miss the competition a little bit, but I would certainly put the people, and the way you interact with everyone, at the top of the list.

GP: Where did the idea for this speaking tour come from?

Glanville: I think from working with The New York Times. Someone from the Lavin Agency, which is a speakers’ bureau here in Boston, contacted me and began kicking this idea around and I said, “you know, this is interesting,” because I certainly love academics and my parents were both in academics in different parts of their lives, and I figured “hey, maybe I can do something.’” Maybe I could talk about a consistent message and present certain issues that I’m writing about, so it seemed like a good fit.

GP: Did you find it hard to balance baseball with other aspects of your life?

Glanville: I think it was very hard. It’s a tough game to balance because there are so many games. I started my family relatively late, so my career was basically over by then. Really, just balancing everyday life is difficult because it’s a very aggressively jealous and demanding type of schedule.

GP: Do you stay involved in the game at all?

Glanville: Well, from the other side of the fence - sort of an academic approach which I love. I do some work with Comcast in Chicago and XM radio once a week, which is just sort of covering various aspects of what’s happening that week. I try to balance between the day-to-day pulse of what’s happening during the season, and also the global perspective angle, also.

GP: What are your thoughts on steroids in baseball?

Glanville: I think everyone should be eligible for the hall of fame. Personally, if I was a voter, I wouldn’t vote for players that were on steroids. But the problem is that I also think the information is somewhat tainted, because some of the information that has been leaked is confidential, privileged info. Things like the leaking of the 104 names this year is supposedly confidential, and I have a problem with having that information, when we really shouldn’t. For me to base my vote on information that is tainted in a way is kind of tough. But philosophically, I would never vote for a steroids user, if I were in that position.

Doug Glanville played nine seasons in the major leagues for the Phillies, Cubs and Rangers.

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The Rams hung up their cleats for the season on Wednesday, after a devastating loss against Westfield State. The Rams were seeded third in the tournament, and faced the second-seeded Owls in the semifinal game.

It was Westfield that scored first, when the Owls managed to break through the Rams’ defenders and find the net just 18 minutes into the match. However, Framingham was not ready to give up just yet.

Jason Silva proved he deserved his current title of MASCAC player of the year, scoring both of Framingham’s goals, giving Silva a total of nine goals this season.

In the 67th minute, the Owls managed to tie the score at two on a hard shot that squeezed by Greg Halle. With the season on the line for both teams, the nail-biting play continued until with just three minutes left in regulation, Westfield’s Josh Silvia sent a 35-yard rocket over the head of Halle and into the back of the net.

With this heartbreaking goal, Westfield ended the Rams’ tournament dreams. The Rams finished out the season with a record of 8-9-2.

On a lighter note, however, the Rams had five players named to the MASCAC All Conference team,

including Silva, who was named Player of the Year.

The All-Conference first team roster featured Silva, Scott Faria and Joel Kayima. The second team roster recognized goalie Greg Halle and freshman Will Menter.

Silva, who received the Rookie of the Year award in 2007, netted 23 points this season. Faria is making his third All-Conference appearance after leading the team with 24 points in the regular season.

Kayima is being recognized by the conference for the first time. Halle is returning to second team for a second season, after averaging only 1.36 goals against and completing four shutouts. “It’s bittersweet right now.” Halle said, “I won’t fully appreciate it until I’m away from the game of soccer for a while.”

Menter is receiving league-wide recognition during his first season playing at Framingham State. “It was a good award to receive to start out my soccer career,” Menter said. “I am really happy and honored to have been recognized for my playing.”

With only two graduating seniors, the Rams will be returning a strong roster and hopes are high for next season.

Men’s soccer eliminated from MASCAC tournament By Nenia CorcoranASSiStAnt SportS Editor

Right: Five Rams’ players were named to the MASCAC All-Conference team.

Leach sets FSC rushing record in win

By Jeff MandeauASSiStAnt SportS Editor

Football Captain Dave Leach continued his stellar season with another record-setting game in a victory against Massachusetts Maritime Buccaneers. The win gives FSC a winning overall record and keeps their tournament hopes alive.

After a disappointing loss on the road to Maine Maritime, the Rams came into last Saturday’s game determined not to fall to a losing record, something they have not had since early September. Fortunately, the game was in Framingham, and the Rams statistically play better on their home turf.

Before the Rams even had the ball they had to play catch up, as the Buccaneers’ offense came out strong, driving downfield and scoring a touchdown on their first possession of the game, although they would fail on the extra point attempt.

Despite the fast start, Mass Maritime’s offense was shut down until the fourth quarter by the Rams’ defense, allowing the offense to get some points on the board. The scoring would start in the second quarter when Leach anchored a 68-yard drive, running for 48 yards and setting up a Brandon Holbrook five-yard touchdown score. After Phil Cosmos banged the extra point through the uprights, the Rams had a slim one-point lead.

The Rams wouldn’t wait long to extend their lead. On the next Mass Maritime possession, the defense forced a three and out, making Maritime punt. Captain

Anthony Kewley was set to return the punt and came through with a game-changing return that took him 82 yards into the end zone, and at halftime the score was 14-6 in favor of Framingham.

The Rams would score once more in the third quarter on a 34-yard run by Leach, the game-winning score - and all but solidifying a crucial division victory. The Buccaneers made a valiant comeback effort, scoring a late touchdown in the fourth quarter, making it a one-score game. However, the Rams’ defense remained strong, and as time was running out, Mass Maritime failed to convert a long fourth down attempt - turning it over on downs. The Rams would win the game by the final score of 20-13.

Leach needed 122 yards to gain the coveted title of all-time leading rusher in Framingham State history and finished the game with 171 yards. Leach currently has 2,260 rushing yards. The previous record was 2,211 and was held by alumnus Tom Reusch, whose career with the Rams lasted through the mid 1980s.

The Rams will try to end the regular season on a high note with a home game against MASCAC opponent U.S. Coast Guard Academy. The Rams currently have a 3-3 record against MASCAC opponents, making tomorrow’s game all the more important with a chance to finish the season with a winning record - something the football program hasn’t done in a very long time. The final game of the ‘09 season will be held on Maple Field at noon.

Best of luck to FSC’s Women’s Rugby

Football Club in the Division

Semi-Finals !!