This semester, all com-muter students are required to pay a $25 parking fee per semester.

Senior Vice President of Administration, Finance and Technology Dale Hamel said the school “was facing some financial con-straints with the state ap-propriation reductions” and needed to come up with some new ways to bring in funds.

This fee, which is being implemented for the first time in Framingham State College history, will bring in approximately $45,000 annually. Hamel said the money will be used to assist in funding green projects on campus related to “the col-lege’s commitment to the Climate Action Plan.”

By 2012, the college will be required to meet new mandates in reducing its

greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption as part of Executive Order No. 484 issued by Gov. Deval Patrick.

The college’s Climate Action Plan “calls for cre-ating and effectively coor-dinating policies that will reduce the campus carbon footprint.” The plan, de-signed for Framingham State College and available on myFramingham, is com-posed of 15 major catego-ries. Each point includes an identification of the issue, a proposed solution and an-ticipated benefits.

Hamel said the reason the parking fee would go toward “green” initiatives is because commuters are the largest contributors to the school’s carbon footprint.

As of last semester, all of FSC’s sister colleges, excluding Salem State Col-lege, were charging com-muters a fee to park on

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Jared Cohen, the author of “Children of Jihad: A Young American’s Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East,” spoke at FSC on Oct. 8, regarding his book.

Cohen used a backdrop of contrast-ing photos he took during the time he spent in the Middle East to emphasize that the media paints a distorted picture of this part of the world. “This is what you know of the Middle East. This is what you see on TV, what you read in the papers, what the media propagates, and it’s a very alluring, captivating, flashy, albeit very small slice of the overall story of what’s going on there. For all the troubles in the Middle East, conflict, sectarian violence, conflicts between communities and between countries. … There’s a lot of opportu-nities and a lot of exciting trends in the region, but most importantly, the most

exciting window of opportunity is that 60 percent of the Muslim world is un-der the age of 30.”

While showing a picture of an Al Qaeda training camp on the projec-tor behind him, Cohen discussed how hard he worked to witness such scenes to photograph. “This was really difficult to find. I had to spend months and months and months find-ing this and building trust with people and sneaking into places.”

Cohen said he never thought about studying the youth of the Middle East while he was an un-dergraduate in college. He was actually interested in travelling to Africa as a cultural anthropologist, but some potentially life-saving advice from a statis-

tics professor changed his mind. “By the end of college, I was sneak-

ing into countries and crossing through land mine fields. … A professor of mine sat me down and asked me if I’d ever done probability and statistics, and

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GP: What is your educational background?

Enz: I attended the University of Puget Sound in Ta-coma, Washington for my undergraduate. After that, I attended the University of Oregon, where I received my masters and Ph.D. in economics.

GP: What are a few reasons why you decided to ma-jor in economics?

Enz: What really made the decision was taking my first economics class. I enjoyed the application of math, but the study of math got a bit boring. Economics deals with everything from the national economy, but also to dif-ferent topics such as crime rates, and I found it interest-ing. Plus, I had great, crazy teachers.

GP: What was your best experi-ence in college?

Enz: A general ex-perience I really en-joyed was being in a social situation with my peers and profes-sors and being able to talk about the issues of the day.

GP: Please give a brief summary of your resume.

Enz: Most recently, I taught at Western New England College in Springfield, Mass. I taught undergraduate and M.B.A. courses there for five years before com-ing to Framingham State College last year. Outside of my job with schools, I’ve gone on local talk shows and news shows such as Water Cooler. I also ran a horse-show for many years in Alaska.

GP: What courses do you teach?

Enz: Principles of Microeconomics and Macroeconom-ics. I also teach the first quantitative course for econom-ics majors. At Western New England College, I taught everything from Football in America (a course that ap-plies economic structures to the NFL) to Game Theory.

GP: What’s your favorite part of your job?

Enz: Surprisingly, it is always different, not only from semester to semester, but day to day. It is the interaction with students. It’s never the same from class to class. I really enjoy that aspect.

GP: Are you currently working on any projects?

Enz: I am working on a project right now with a former student of mine currently in graduate school. We are looking at different energy providers such as the coal in-dustry, petroleum industry and natural gas and the com-petition between them and formulation of public policy. What sparked my interest was finding out that our gov-ernment is using expensive resources such as coal and petroleum because these industries have people lobby-ing for them and they have money. Natural gas indus-tries do not have the money to lobby the government so

they aren’t used as much.

GP: What are your hobbies?

Enz: Most of my time right now is taken up by running. I ran the Boston marathon last April, and I’ve run seven other marathons in six states.

GP: What do you like best about Framingham State College?

Enz: I think it would go back to the opportunity to interact

with the students. I also think one of the things that make this job enjoyable is a friendly administrative en-vironment and friendly colleagues, not only in my de-partment, but across the campus.

GP: Do you have any advice for students?

Enz: So many students get caught up in the idea of go-ing to school to get a job. I would advise students to learn about something they never would have before. Take time to enjoy the academic opportunities as well as the social opportunities.

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campus. Salem State does, however, charge a fee to its evening and graduate students, as well as faculty and staff.

Mass College of Art currently charges the highest fee among Mass. public colleges at $200 a semester, while Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts is only $30 each semester.

Worcester State commuter students pay $60 a semester to park on campus, according to Hamel, but its students have access to a parking garage that is open 24 hours a day.

“Our fifty [dollars anually] is really at the low end of the range of what we were finding at the other colleges, so we coupled the fee increase with this desired fund for some clean, green energy projects on campus,” said Hamel.

The administration reached a decision to charge its stu-dents $25 per semester based on the findings of a survey of what its sister colleges were charging, to be able to stay “on the low end of that and the amount of revenue that it

would generate,” Hamel said.He said the school hopes to reach a point where it is

funding these Green Projects at about $100,000 a year.Additionally, he said, as the budget process develops

over this school year, the administration will determine whether to re-evaluate the commuter fee amount. “So it’s a good initial step, I guess. Whether we go beyond that [$25 per semester] will be determined as we develop the upcoming year’s budget.”

The revenue being brought in by commuter students will be used mainly for energy reduction. “A large initia-tive we have going on this year is simply the replacement of incandescent bulbs,” Hamel said.

The college will be studying the procedures necessary to convert the power plant from No. six fuel oil to natural gas and using the money to pay for studies related to the installation of solar projects in the athletic center and the college center.

These studies have assisted the school in applying for stimulus funding that will actually pay for these projects to be completed. The college will be notified of its accep-tance for this stimulus package in November.

Erin LeBlanc, a senior who commutes from Waltham, missed one of her classes because she was unable to lo-cate a spot in either Maynard or Maple lots. She said, “I feel like there are a lot more commuters this semester than usual, and with that, not enough parking. Hopefully some-thing will be done to fix it soon.”

This academic year, the shuttle hours were cut and ser-vice to the Maple One Lot was limited to 6 - 9:30 a.m. during the weekdays.

Jason Miller, a junior, said, “I noticed after the fee it’s a lot harder to park, and this is over a semester. We’re paying more money and we’re getting stuff taken away.”

Hamel said, “I think what we came down to is trying to come to a nice middle ground where we’re trying to address some of the is-sues in the Climate Action Plan and still provide service as nec-essary, maybe not to the point as desired in making a good middle ground decision.”

Zeina Sader, a sophomore, said, “Personally, I get a ride, but I mean, I think it’s too much for a parking spot.”

Dan Ceddia, senior said, “It [the parking fee] doesn’t bother me, monetarily speaking, but if it’s going towards relatively politi-

cal projects, then I have a problem. Especially if there’s a chance in the future that it’ll be bumped up to $50.” Ced-dia initially thought the fee was instituted because of state budget cuts, “but since that is really not the case, it does bother me a little bit.”

Hamel said, “We’re trying to weigh a lot of competing interests. Every decision that’s really made on a budget side is a trade-off, you know, trade-off between costs and services or those costs [and] what benefits you’re receiv-

ing from them.“And that’s the nice thing about being in an academic

environment is everybody can have their own opinions and deliberate where they feel what should have been weighed greater, I suppose,” Hamel said.

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“I feel like there are a lot more commuters this semester than usual, and with that, not enough parking. Hopefully, something will be done

to fix it soon.”

- Erin LeBlanc

At Tuesday’s meeting, SGA members al-located funds to SILD and debated overrid-ing their “90 percent rule” for the Nutrition Networking Club’s late funding request.

Angel Seto, a representative from SILD, asked SGA to cosponsor a “coffee give-away event” with her office. The event will take place in both Maynard and Maple Commuter lots, where students will be given free travel mugs and coffee. SGA members voted to al-locate the request of $313.70 to SILD.

Members from the Nutrition Networking Club also requested funding for events such as a “Where’s the Fruit?” display, an apple tree planting and a trip to a local homeless shelter.

The group’s original request was $5,050, but because they missed budget season, the greatest amount they could receive would be $405 - 90 percent of the club’s budget for FY 2009.

While SGA’s financial committee sug-gested allocating the full 90 percent, the e-board recommended they take a vote to go above the 90 percent rule and allocate $1,500, which would require a 2/3 vote from the senate to pass.

A number of SGA members expressed their views on overriding the 90 percent rule.

President Steve Whittemore said, “Keep in mind that we passed these stipulations for a reason. … We set a precedent in writing and we try to follow them, but if there’s an excep-tion that needs to be made, we can definitely do that.”

SGA Class and Club Treasurer Melissa Bairos said, “We work really hard to put [the rules of the SGA constitution] into place, and it’s really important that we follow them.”

Members of the Nutrition Networking Club e-board argued that the club is going to require much more funding than last year be-cause it will be holding more events.

Club President Sam Brackett said “We have increased the club attendance five-fold.

“We want to expand nutrition information outside of nutrition majors to the whole cam-pus,” Brackett added.

After hearing from the Nutrition Net-working representatives, SGA members vot-ed to allocate $405 in accordance with the 90 percent rule.

A motion was passed to table the funding request of the Wildlife Club until next week, when members of the club can be present.

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“I noticed after the fee it’s a lot harder to park, and this is over a semester.

We’re paying more money and we’re getting stuff taken away.”

- Jason Miller

Carpool parking in Church Street lot. Erin Reilly/The Gatepost

The new parking lot behind Larned Hall.Erin Reilly/The Gatepost

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Internet, Facebook connects Middle Eastern youthsI said that I’m not really much of a math person. … He said, ‘Why don’t we go through everything you’re plan-ning on for the next six months?’ and I think my chances of survival came out to about 13 percent,” joked Cohen.

Cohen became “obsessed” with the idea of visiting Iran and managed to obtain a visa to enter the country by claim-ing he was an archaeology student with a desire to study ancient Persian culture. After the Iranian secret police raided his hotel room and found an outdated list of gov-ernment officials he wanted to interview, they took Cohen in for questioning, released him and followed him around for the first few weeks of his stay in Iran.

Cohen was forced to change his focus of study from the elite group of religious leaders who run the country to those closest to him in age and similarity - the college and college-age kids. “I got really bummed-out and ba-sically just started wandering around universities looking for friends. I figured, ‘I’m going to be in this country for a while anyway, so I might as well meet a few people while I’m here.’”

Cohen was surprised that the young people of Iran and all over the Middle East welcomed him into their social circles and invited him to wild parties. “I had a complete-ly warped perception of what Iran would be like. I thought everybody was going to hate Americans, [and] I thought it was going to be a hostile place … but what I found was a group of young people who were expressing themselves through social and recreational indulgences, who were making their statements behind closed doors and finding a way to coexist with a regime that wasn’t giving them the op-portunities that they wanted in their country.”

Cohen also talked about how and why he had not been confronted with any hostility for being Jewish throughout his stay in the Middle East. He humor-ously added that while at Shabbat services there, he had been embarrassed because their Hebrew was bet-ter than his own. Cohen explained he would find oth-er ways to relate to the people he met in the Middle East before introducing his religious background.

“Every now and then, we would get into argu-ments about Israel or political differences [but] I would engage based on my youth identity with them before I entered into engaging as a particular religious identity.”

Cohen also discussed why he chose to focus his book on the youth of the Middle East and how they are using technology to fight oppression. “I’ve always thought it was fascinating that, despite the fact that the largest segment of the population in the Middle East is under 30, [it] seems to be the demographic that we know the least about.”

According to Cohen, the majority of young people in Iran and the rest of the Middle East have the potential to change what they don’t like about their countries through the technology that the older generation does not use or understand. As examples of this, Cohen discussed satellite television, which has exposed even the most rural areas of the Middle East to Western and Western-inspired televi-sion programs such as “The OC,” “Baywatch” and “Star Academy,” and the use of Bluetooth devices by Iranian youth to discreetly organize parties and social gatherings of all sorts.

“It’s important to remember the symbolic nature of technology in repressive societies. Technology is the new tool that’s allowing societies to express themselves and empower themselves in ways they never thought possible before,” said Cohen.

“Star Academy,” the most popular television show in the Middle East, is a headscarf-optional satellite television show featuring both men and women from all over the re-gion participating in an “American Idol” style competi-tion. According to Cohen, this particular show and other television shows like it allow for children in the Middle East to have positive role models, rather than finding a role model in a group like Hezbollah, Al Qaeda or Hamas.

Cohen reminded audience members of the significance of their technological and cellular devices, and compared his experience of watching Iranians use cellular devices to organize underground parties in 2004 to their use of these same devices this past summer to organize protests against the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

“The Iranians, going all the way back to when I was there, had perfected and mastered the use of [this technol-ogy], and they were ready to use it for something signifi-cant,” said Cohen. “The trends that I saw for social and recreational purposes, like organizing a party, became the go-to tool this past June in what was the largest protest in Iran against the revolution.”

Cohen also discussed how Facebook and the Internet have revolutionized the interactions between the youth of the Middle East and the rest of the world. He reminded students of their ability to connect with young people in the Middle East through Web services like Facebook and AOL Instant Messenger. “There’s very little engagement

going on between students like yourselves and students from the Middle East, but I can tell you that from talking to them, they’re dying to meet Americans. For too long, they’ve been shielded from the world outside of their own societies, and they finally have the tool to break down bor-ders.”

Cohen discussed the use of Facebook to organize the first petition by women in Saudi Arabian history protest-ing the law that prevents them from driving. At first, most women were nervous about putting their names on the petition, and instead used initials. After gathering around 6,000 initials, Cohen said the women ended up having enough signatures for their petition to be seen.

“In Saudi Arabia, you need three or four thousand sig-natures in order for the king to legally have to receive your petition. … When they asked the women [who had signed their initials] to reveal their real names, I think they had, like, almost 5,000, because women felt comfortable being protected by the anonymity [of the large number].”

Cohen shared a humorous story about a young girl in Saudi Arabia who decided to videotape herself driving a car as a statement against this law. However, in the video, the girl was traditionally covered in a veil and burkah, so her identity would not be discovered. “In Saudi Arabia,

women have to be completely covered except for a slit right where their eyes are. So she said, ‘You’re going to make me wear this thing? Good luck finding out who I am!’ and she posted it to YouTube.”

Cohen also discussed experiences he had during his travels in the Middle East which were not included in the book. One particular scene he discussed in detail was of a picture he took of two young women walking by a group of militant extremists with looks of disgust on their faces. “I’ll never forget this moment because I remember those girls’ expressions and then what they said, which was basi-cally the equivalent of two very educated girls looking at a bunch of high school drop-outs saying, ‘You guys are just really a complete waste of space.’”

Cohen elaborated on topics not mentioned in his book such as dating, sex and sexuality in the Middle East, which he found to be common topics among the youth there. “Where there’s repression, there’s cravings to talk about things,” Cohen said regarding the topic of sex in the Mid-dle East.

Cohen also discussed the dating scene in Iran, noting the appearance of girls at parties changing out of their tradi-tional chadors, or fully-covering garments, into nightclub wear and the use of paper and pencil to exchange phone numbers in bumper-to-bumper traffic in downtown Shiraz and Tehran. “In a lot of these countries, either by [social] norms or by law, members of the opposite sex can’t court each other and can’t date,” said Cohen.

He emphasized his message that a connection can and should be made between both the youth of America and the Middle East. “There’s certain commonalities among young people. The largest party in the world transcends all borders. I call it the youth party, or the ‘under 30’ crowd. … Just remember that the easiest way to engage with someone who comes from a different background than you is to relate to them based on your age. It’s the easiest way to break down differences and find commonalities.”

“Children of Jihad” was the common reading book required for all first-year students, and is being used in freshman seminar classes as well as other courses such as Expository Writing and Introduction to College Writing.

Ben Trapanick, the director of first year programs, was a part of the committee that chose “Children of Jihad” as this year’s common reading book. “We really enjoyed the book. …We felt like they could relate to it. It was a good read, and it was something we hadn’t covered yet regard-ing common reading.”

Trapanick noted that this was the first time a common reading book has been used for a live discussion during “Black and Gold Beginnings.” Instead of participating in online discussion boards through Blackboard, first-year

students were divided up into small discussion groups led by professors.

“This year at Black and Gold Beginnings, we had eight groups of about 25 to 30 kids in each group, so we had over 200 students participating, and we are looking to expand it next year,” said Trapanick. “That’s when they really got a glimpse of different perspectives on how the book is used and how you look at books in college [and] what the level of expectations are for classes in college, too, so it really helped out a lot.

“I think it’s also a great opportunity for [students] to see what life is like in the Middle East for people their age or maybe five or six years older,” Trapanick added.

“Children of Jihad” is also being used in other first-year courses across several different departments. According to Trapanick, professors from the English, history and poli-tics department have adopted the book into their curricu-lum.

Lisa Eck of the English department has included “Chil-dren of Jihad” in the curriculum of her Expository Writ-ing class this semester. “My writing class has a history of being taught as a ‘cluster’ course with Intro to Cultural Anthropology. As a world literature professor, I have al-ways been interested in trying to understand diverse world

cultures, so it’s an ongoing intellectual project for me to think about foreignness. … I also think it’s sort of that ‘Welcome to college, the world is big!’ moment to talk about cultural difference.”

Eck has incorporated “Children of Jihad” into her class by having her students research and investigate names, places, traditions and other important parts of Middle Eastern culture discussed in Cohen’s book with which they are unfamiliar. “What I’m using it for is a sort of mini-research model. There’s so many proper names [and] so much history to sort of model active reading that you can’t just skim things. You have to stop and say, ‘Do I understand the geography of the re-gion? Do I understand the history? Am I writing down these dates?’”

Many freshmen were required to attend this event for one of their courses. Freshman Alex Herbert had

to attend the discussion for his freshman writing course. “We had to go see him speak, and we had to write a

reflection on his overall message for class.” Freshman Arielle Montville, an Early Childhood Edu-

cation major, was asked to attend the discussion for her Freshman Foundations course. “My foundations class was all supposed to go if they wanted to, but I was the only one that showed up in my class.”

Montville’s Introduction to College Writing course is also studying “Children of Jihad.” “We are writing an es-say about Iraq, and on the first day of college, we had to write a summary about a section of the book,” Montville added.

Anthony Pires, Jr., an education major, was also re-quired to go to Cohen’s discussion. “I liked it a lot. He actually talked about his real life and his real experiences that he didn’t talk about in the book.”

Many other students attended the discussion voluntari-ly or for extra credit. Education major Brittany Lefebvre was not required to go to Cohen’s discussion, but attended it for extra credit toward one of her courses. “We haven’t talked about the book at all in any of my classes, but I read it and it was very interesting,” said Lefebvre. “The speech was good, [and] I like how he talked about his adventures, and that the Internet is their way of protesting.”

Some students disliked the book. According to Fresh-man Amanda Cain-Mailly, “It was just awful. [Cohen] kept switching from one place to another and it was annoying from a note-taker’s perspective. He only includes the posi-tives, the college-age students who are pro-American. It’s not like you can take the book and apply it to everywhere. … There are some people who don’t like Americans.”

However, Cain-Mailly added she did find some as-pects of the book appealing, and was really struck by the prevalence of satellites and other technology Cohen found among the nomadic tribes and rural communities of the Middle East.

Freshman Kristi Mandel enjoyed both the book and Co-hen’s discussion. “It was interesting to read and [it] puts a different perspective on the Middle East than the media does, and I thought that was really cool,” said Mandel. “I really thought it [the speech] was really well done. I liked that he had a few more pictures because they were interest-ing and they told a story.”

Mandel was among a group of students who had a chance to meet Cohen prior to his discussion. “He was really interested in us [students], and I thought that was really nice,” commented Mandel. “You could tell how he could write such a book, because he was so personable with the younger crowd. You could tell how he got to the youth in the book.”

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Jared Cohen speaks in the Dwight Performing Arts Center.Drake McCabe/The Gatepost

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300 words and letters to the editor to 200 words.E-mail submissions to Gatepost@framingham.edu.

It’s that time of year again.For the weather to change. The leaves turned into those nice colors of orange, red, and yellow, which are some of

my favorite colors. On days that are dark and damp, they help brighten up the outside. On cold days when I’m “brr”-ing, seeing the leaves makes me feel warm on the inside. Speaking of it getting colder, not only is it time to break out the jackets, the boots (UGGS for the ladies) and even the scarves, but time to wear hats and gloves, and pretty soon, multiple socks - on each foot!

It’s that time of year again.For midterms. Yes, we students are not necessarily looking forward to those, but that is a part of the collegiate life.

Those late nights along with some snacks, coffee/tea, and browsing the Internet in between (be careful, though!), studying for these tests (some of which are back-to-back, literally). This is also the time to really be serious about grades, knowing areas that we need to improve upon, whether to withdraw or not, etc.

It’s that time of year again.For sneezing, coughing, having a stuffy head. No one looks forward to this, but so many have already experienced

this and then some. As I’m typing this, I, too, have gotten the sniffles, the runny nose, the time when I sound like I’m holding my nose without trying. Oh yes, I’m almost out of my box of tissues.

It’s that time of year again.To do our favorite (and maybe not-so-favorite) activities, such raking the leaves, going apple-picking, watching the

Pats play, and looking forward to Thanksgiving break, to spend time with family to be thankful, to eat (and cook - yes - I want to do that, too), and to take a break from school for a little bit.

So … thinking about these things, I want to wish everyone a happy fall season. Enjoy the foliage. Study for the mid-terms and DON’T wait until the night, or even two nights, before (I learned the hard, hard way), take care of yourselves, stay healthy, enjoy doing your fall activities, and remember - there’s about a month left until Thanksgiving Break, and about a month after that until the end of the semester!

Monique Thomas Staff Writer

It’s that time of year again

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Wake up and smell the coffee, professors!A costly commuteGiven that there are 983 more commuter students

than there are commuter parking spots, we at The Gatepost were shocked to hear that commuters would be charged a “parking fee” of $25 per semester.

There are currently 1,890 undergraduate full-time degree-seeking commuter students at FSC, making up almost 50 percent of our total student population.

Commuters are generally on the outskirts of campus life in comparison to the resident student population at FSC. Commuting makes it more difficult to become involved with the campus community.

And what motive would they have to become involved when they are constantly being brushed under the proverbial rug?

Commuter students are lucky to find a parking spot at all, even if they arrive at campus the suggested 30-45 minutes early.

Trying to find a parking spot for 8:30 classes is like fighting for the last turkey on the day before Thanksgiving in the grocery store. Student drivers brawl for the rare, empty parking spots and occasionally give up and go back home, missing their classes for the day.

Given such an inconvenient situation, one would assume the school would be making efforts to increase the convenience of coming to campus for the substantial commuter population.

No such luck.Given that the shuttle only runs to and from the

Maple commuter lot in the early morning and late afternoon, the many commuters who can’t find a spot in Maynard or Adams are forced to trudge up State Street from the Maple commuter lot with all of their belongings.

And though this walk up State Street is a pleasant stroll from late spring to early fall, that street seems to get longer and longer as the weather gets colder and colder. Snowy, frozen commuters, some bandaged up and disheveled from the multiple spills they will inevitably suffer, will be lucky to make it to class 15 minutes late after trekking up the hill to the main campus.

Rather than rectifying these wrongs, the administration decided they should further inconvenience the commuter students by imposing a $25 per semester parking fee - a parking fee for a spot they aren’t even guaranteed.

The school’s three main commuter parking lots - Maynard, Adams, and Maple - altogether offer a mere 782 parking spots, plus an additional 125 spots at Bowditch Field, a parking lot not so conveniently located one-quarter mile away from the school’s residence lot on Union Ave.

We don’t have many - OK, any - math majors here at The Gatepost, but even we realize that these numbers just aren’t adding up for the almost 1,900 commuter students at FSC.

This $25 fee, according to Dr. Dale Hamel, senior vice president of administration, finance and technology, will bring in $45,000 annually, and the administration’s hope is to increase these fees to reach upwards of $100,000.

This money, according to Hamel, will go toward funding what is ambiguously described as various “green” projects on campus.

And though some other state colleges also impose a parking fee on commuter students, the revenue from the fee goes toward maintaining and improving the commuter parking areas. For example, Worcester State College has a student parking garage, and the commuter parking fee goes toward paying off and maintaining the garage and other parking grounds.

We at The Gatepost realize the importance of being an environmentally friendly campus, and support the college’s focus on “going green.” We don’t, however, agree that a $25 fee imposed on the least attended-to students at FSC is the answer.

Let’s face it - college is hard. We’re not in high school anymore, Toto. But just because we’re a step up on the education ladder doesn’t mean we should be pulling hair out of our heads trying to get everything done.

With all of your classes, homework for those classes, a job on the side and extracurricular activities, you’d like to have some version of a life at some point, right? Good luck with that if you have classes with certain professors at this institution.

Some professors are absolutely ignorant. They somehow come to the conclusion that the class you have with them is your one class that semester, which generally is not the case, but they seem to think it is. Where do they get this idea? They must see their students struggling to carry around a multitude of books and think, ‘I didn’t assign those books, but they must be for my class.’ I mean, get real! I’d really enjoy not having to turn in several different assignments on the same day for one class, thank you very much.

There are a few professors who are completely understanding with their students and can sympathize when they have bags the size of countries under their eyes in the morning. Now, I’m not saying students deserve special treatment or should get away with not doing what’s required, but in some situations, it’s a bit ridiculous to expect so much from students, no matter what year they’re in or what level class it is. Spreading out assignments wouldn’t be such a bad thing. The apocalypse won’t begin if you actually do something nice for your students every once and a while.

Bottom line: having high expectations for your students is one thing, but having nearly impossible expectations is another. Please start realizing that your students have a lot of other assignments - your class may not be top priority when others are actually beneficial to their majors.

Lindsay Chase Editorial Staff

Let’s reconnect It seems as though we’re all avoiding “face-to-face” conversations these days. When did we decide to disconnect

ourselves from everything real and “graspable” and depend on the safety of our cell phones and laptops to do all of our dirty work?

Everyone’s texting, IMing and Facebooking friends, families and love interests, with abbreviated words and virtual smiley faces. I wonder if we’ve all forgotten how to connect one-on-one with someone - if we’ve been so far removed from reality that a genuine conversation would seem almost awkward.

When you’re out at dinner, put your phone down. Better yet, throw it in your pocket. It doesn’t need to sit beside you, next to your entrée, acting as the third wheel. Eating a scrumptious meal with the person across from you is far more important. The text can wait.

If you’ve been chatting with someone on campus for a month and have yet to hang out in person, close the AIM window and grab a coffee with them in the caf. After all, that’s what you wanted to come out of it anyway, right?

If we continue to stumble with words in person, we’re doomed - during an interview, a public speech or even a date. We can’t depend on objects. We’ve gotta’ depend on ourselves. What’s with all the easy ways out?

Is it fair to say there’s no hope for our individual selves - that we have been led by our peers into a fast-forward world of technology and fear? Put the phone down and take the time to speak aloud to someone in clear terms, expressing yourself in the light of day, rather than the luminance of your cellular backlight.

Ariana Shuris Editorial Staff

ARTS FEATURESPage 6 October 16, 2009The Gatepost

By Chelsea WilczynskiStaff Writer

Many artists want to convey a mood in their work. In Sand T’s recent gallery show at

FSC’s Mazmanian Art Gallery, the view-ers are invited to create their own con-clusions to her work. She uses unique mediums, such as acrylic glass sheets, epoxy resin and graphite on clayboard in her show, “Semi-Simple.”

The mediums converge in outstanding pieces of artwork that are open to inter-pretation and discussion. Since there are no recognizable images, the viewers are free to let their minds wander and draw their own conclusions. Sand T wants the collection to be “straightforward.”

To better understand the mediums she works with, Sand T draws viewers in to touch one of her pieces. The work is black with the “drips” she often puts on her other works. Allowing the viewers the rare opportunity to touch a piece of art enables them to better understand the process and how the final pieces come to pass. As with any other craft, practice makes perfect.

The artist said, “The more I worked with epoxy resin, graphite and paint on clayboard or acrylic glass panels, the better I master the mediums.”

The first half of the collection and a large installation of pieces down the middle showcase Sand T’s mastery of her unique mediums. They are all lit in a manner she believes will work best with the composition to give the illusion of depth.

“Lighting plays a very important role in the presentation of my work, for it maximizes the viewing experience. When the viewer moves from one side

By Amanda LefebvreaSSiStant artS & featureS editor

“How wonderful it would be if my life so far was all a dream, and when I awaken, I’m someone else completely.” Megumi lies with her eyes

open in a shack on the beach with a total stranger who tried to rob her, but emotionally, she is lost. Introduc-ing this deeply moving, heavy-hearted, yet marvel-ously crafted story as one that deals with “self-anx-iety” and “carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders,” recently retired film studies professor Ar-thur Nolletti began this semester’s International Film Series with a Japanese masterpiece, titled “Tokyo So-nata,” directed by Kurosawa Kiyoshi.

Comparable to Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Sales-man,” “Tokyo Sonata” also depicts the pressures facing fathers to find success in the harsh business world. The pessimistic patriarch, Ryuhei, has just lost his job, but this failure is not only affecting him, but everyone else in his family. Kiyoshi has instilled a sense of fear in each member of the household - a fear of failure and of disappointment - they all need to conquer in order to improve their lives. The politi-cal backdrop of greed and the 21st century ideal of power in a capitalistic society also play a huge role in how the characters perceive their circumstances, and in how they eventually discover their self-worth.

At the beginning of the film, we see Ryuhei being let go from his administrative job. Even from his sol-itary walk home, the tired and disgusted look in his eyes and what little conversation passes between him and his wife, the audience can grasp the sense his family is not acting or communicating in the usual way of a typical loving unit.

This sense of alienation, and of hopelessness, becomes far too real with Kiyoshi’s next series of scenes of the family eating dinner, each person so quiet and contemplative. Once the father realizes he no longer has control over his job, he starts to doubt his power in the house, his self-worth, his success as a father and as a man. From this point, everything falls apart for Ryuhei and his family.

Megumi begins battling with her identity, and is upset with her husband for keeping his lay-off a se-cret, and his crumbling relationship with their two children is killing her emotionally. Her anguish is expressed in one particular scene in which Ryuhei returns home from a long day and she is on the bed, half-asleep. She calls to him to join her in bed, but she’s too late - he has shut the door on her. She calls out again, this time to nobody. “Someone please pull me up,” she whispers, as her hands, heavy from all the work she does every day as a stay-at-home mom, reach to the ceiling, lit by a small light overhead.

Kenji, the younger son, is also affected by his fa-ther’s downsizing. He uses his interest in piano les-sons to escape from the pressures of his rigorous aca-demic studies and from his father, who reminds him about upcoming tests and how important they are for getting a good career and becoming successful.

Takashi, the eldest son, is away at school and work throughout most of the beginning of the movie, but in the middle scenes, he signs up to join the army and leaves for America as an escape to find the secret to true happiness in the world.

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Nolletti spotlightsKiyoshi’s “Sonata”for Int’l Film Series

Simply Profound

Sand T’s new “Semi-Simple” exhibition at Mazmanian Gallery aptly utilizes basic elements

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“Zombieland” is the latest release of a zom-bie-comedy movie genre which has sum-moned fans of the cult-classic genre ever

since movies like “Return of the Living Dead” in the mid-1980s. Despite being inevitably com-pared to the last successful zom-com “Shaun of the Dead,” “Zombieland” is still able to pull it off with witty humor and cutting-edge cinematogra-phy. Although most zombie films share unmis-takably identical settings (a handful of humans surviving in a post-apocalyptic, zombie-filled world), “Zombieland” diverges from its pre-decessors with its transparent comical spin, as well as over-the-top, unadulterated violence. As “Shaun of the Dead” is seen as more a zombie satire, “Zombieland” should be viewed as a bona fide comedy about how to survive a world seeth-ing with the flesh-eating undead.

The film stars Jesse Eisenberg as Columbus, the nerdy protagonist and narrator of the story who looks and acts as if he’s a carbon copy of Michael Cera. These actors literally parallel one another, not only in appearance, but also with their onscreen awkwardness and overly intellec-tual character personalities (after the movie, I had to examine the final credits just to make sure Mi-

chael Cera was not part of the cast). Columbus explains to the audience how he now

lives in the United States of Zombieland, and how the spreading of a zombie infection quickly led to a world void of humanity. Apparently the zombie infection resembled something akin to mad cow disease, only in Zombieland it is aptly called “mad zombie disease.” Columbus also clarifies that the only reason he has survived this long in Zom-bieland is because of his stringent following of his survival list of rules, which appear as cleverly placed text throughout the film whenever any such rule is carried out.

It’s not long before Columbus meets the rough-ridin’ wrangler Tallahassee (played by Woody Harrelson) who is never short on new and unorth-odox methods of wasting the zombie bad guys. Harrelson does an outstanding job depicting his role of a confident cowboy with a lack of brains but a super-zombie vengeance. We soon learn that Tallahassee’s son has become zombie fodder, and with nothing left to live for except a peculiar quest for Twinkies, he travels the country slaying every zombie he encounters in the most radical fashion.

Together, the two search for food (namely Twinkies) and ammunition, only to be conned by a pair of sisters in a supermarket named Wichita and Little Rock (played by Emma Stone and Abi-

gail Breslin). Eventually, they team up with the sister duo and head to Beverley Hills, where they find Bill Murray’s mansion with him still inside. Not surprisingly, the segment with Bill Murray (he plays himself) proves to be the highlight of the movie, filled with silly one-liners and laugh-out-loud scenes. The love-struck Columbus shares a moment with the sultry Wichita, only for her to abandon him yet again.

Afterward, the team finds themselves at an amusement park in Los Angeles, because, to be quite honest, where else are you going to find zom-bie clowns than in an amusement park? The movie ends with a staggering zombie melee, Columbus and Wichita finally getting together and our heroes driving away into the sunset in a Hummer full of Twinkies.

This film contained lots of laughs and innova-tive cinematography, but lacked depth. Although the movie was under 90 minutes, it seemed to last much longer. For fans of the genre, howev-er, “Zombieland” is an instant cult classic. For everyone else, it simply gets the job done. In an age where monsters of folklore seem to be all the rage in cinema (how many more vampire movies are we going to see?), “Zombieland” puts its own comical spin on the concept, and proves effective.

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AMPUS ONVERSATIONS What precautions areyou taking for swine flu?C

“I drink lots of vitamin Cand stay away

from infectious people.”

- Amina Sarr, freshman

“I got both flu shots andI’ve been using Purell, not to mention

washing my hands constantly.”

- Ryan McKeon, freshman

“I’m trying to avoid sick people in my class, but everyone in the lecture

is coughing all the time!”

- Erin McLaughlin, freshman

“I kiss every girlwho has the flu.”

- Josh Graveline, sophomore

“I’m not doinganything. I’m just

going to let it come.”

- Katie Devoe, freshman

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By Chris KopackoStaff Writer

Photos courtesy of AllMoviePhoto.com

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with story ofmusic, family

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plicated. While further alienating himself from his family, Ryuhei forms a friend-ship with an old high school friend, whom he happens to run into. Both men found it easy to confide in each other, as they had a lot to bond over in their daily treks to find jobs.

Later in the film, Ryuhei settles for a job as a mall cleaner. However, his fear of failure continues to haunt him until the last segments of the film. Instead of surren-dering to his greedy conscience, he drops a bag full of cash that was left unclaimed in a bathroom stall in a public “lost and found” box. This act of selflessness repre-sents he has found his place.

In addition to addressing themes of 21st-century capitalism, the weight of the world on our shoulders and our universal desire to escape the world we know and start anew, the director grapples with more domestically demanding matters.

The notion of home is pivotal in this film. Kiyoshi repeats shots of the characters entering and exiting the home, almost a consistent re-evaluation of themselves. The jumping-off point for the mother, father and younger son all came at the same time. The climax of the film occurs when the three main figures have started to fear home so much they feel the need to escape, so they each venture off in their personal evasion from everything normal in their daily routines.

The younger son jumps onto a bus but is thrown in jail for getting caught, while the dad jumps in front of a truck and the mom nearly jumps off of a dock and into the ocean. When the mother drove to the shore with the man who attempts to rob her, not only did she understand his recent struggles which drove him to want to steal from her, but her own struggles with settling with what life had given her. She sees wave upon wave crashing onto the sand at night, and she cries, realizing that the world has a constant rhythm, and the possibility for a new life in almost impos-sible - yet, the possibility for a redefining herself is still possible.

The ending of this film, as Nolletti suggested, is one of the most sensational scenes, one with extraordinary use of light, an awakening. The director created an outstanding finale. It illustrates, as Nolletti said, “the ordinary is ever fragile and can be quickly and shockingly upended.” The camera is set on one side of the large room, a window is on the far wall, with its sheer curtain playful in the calm breeze. Kenji manages to single-handedly use his gift as a neophyte pianist to pull everyone who had gathered for his music school audition out of a universal chaos. Kenji’s audience stares, wide-eyed, in complete appreciation, as they embrace this escape, like a breath of fresh air through the hole in the wall.

to another of the artwork, they will see sequences of moving lights in my work.”

The first piece gave the illusion of quickly turning a head and the rush of things that run by. She uses horizontal line, the “drop” effect and a flashy lime-green background.

Pieces 2, 3 and 4 are hung on the wall adjacent to each other with a more muted green background and heavy vertical lines. Again, the “drops” or “drips” are present. The effect they give are almost parallel to rain streaking a window pane. It is very easy to get lost in what you are experiencing when you are viewing these pieces. Although in a conventional sense, line is stiff and rigid, the drops give a contrasting sense of fluidity and motion.

One of the most striking pieces in the show is the large installation in the center of the room of identically-sized, lined up panels. The first one starts with one vertical line, but as you progress through each panel, more appear, and by the end the final panel is covered with vertical line.

Progression is very effective in this work, due to its direct correla-tion with everyday reality, such as life, learning or mastering a craft of some kind. People tend to find comfort in progression, or growth, which is why this piece undoubtedly speaks to many.

One piece on the right wall uses starkly contrasing black and white colors. Though different in color, each piece displays the same movement of a thick graphite line through it which could be inter-preted in various ways. The possibilities seem endless for interpreta-tion of the work - a crucial aspect to what Sand T wants from her viewers.

“Since my work contains no recognizable figures or objects, they are open to the viewer’s own interpretation,” said Sand T. “In the past, many have related the work to rain drops, Braille or some mysterious coding. I see dancing lights, a starry night or a scientific investigation into some microscopic organism. I hope the viewers enjoy the simplicity in my work and let their imaginations run wild.”

“Semi-Simple” will be displayed in the Mazmanian Art Gallery until Oct. 30.

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SPORTSThe Gatepost

Drake McCabe/The Gatepost

Bears Squash Rams’ Comeback

On The SidelineMen’s Soccer Coach

Dean NicholsGP: What got you involved in soccer? Nichols: My three older siblings played soccer, and I picked it up as a young child from them.

GP: Did you play soccer growing up and in college?

Nichols: I played all the way through college at Fitchburg State.

GP: What is your favorite part of being head coach?

Nichols: The best part of coaching is seeing the players develop and become a team.

GP: How long have you been a coach here at FSC?

Nichols: This is my seventh season as the coach here at FSC.

GP: Have you coached at any other schools?

Nichols: My first year out of college, I was the assistant boy’s varsity coach at Framingham High School. I held that position for four years. I then took over as the boy’s varsity coach for four years at Wellesley High School.

GP: How well do you think the team has performed so far this year?

Nichols: The team has underperformed to this point, with a record of 5-7-1. I do, however, think we have turned things in the right direction over the past handful of games.

GP: What are your expectations for the team this year?

By Shaeleen PerreaultStaff Writer

Nichols: The expectations for this team are to win the MASCAC and be successful in the NCAA Tournament.

GP: What is your most memorable moment as a coach here?

Nichols: My most memorable moment is without question our journey to earn a birth in the NCAA Tournament a season ago.

GP: Do you have any pre-game rituals?

Nichols: No pre-game rituals.

GP: What are your plans for the program?

Nichols: The plans for the program are to improve every season and compete for a national championship. Dean Nichols is in his seventh

season as the coach of the FSC men’s soccer team.

Courtesy of Richard Orr

Despite coming into the contest with a potent rushing attack, the Rams were beaten at their own game by the Bridgewater State Bears this past Saturday 26-20, in a game that could have given the Rams sole possession atop the Bogan Division standings.

Framingham came into the game armed with a strong running game led by running back Dave Leach, who has received recognition this season as NEFC Tri-Offensive Player of the Week, and who has earned a Boston Globe Gold Helmet Award. However, the Bears had

their own rushing weapon in running back Justin Fuller, who at one point this season led the entire nation (NCAA Divisions I, II, III) in rushing yards per game. He showed why he has been such a force when he scored the game’s first points on a nine-yard touchdown run in the beginning of the second quarter.

The Rams, who have been plagued by turnover problems all season, had a disastrous start offensively, turning the ball over on two of their first three possessions - an interception in the first drive of the game followed by a fumble in the third drive. The fumble gave the Bears excellent field position, taking over at Framingham’s own 31, which led to the score.

After the ensuing Framingham possession yielded a punt, the Bears made quick work for their second touchdown of the day, as Fuller again found the endzone, this time breaking through the Rams’ defense for a 54-yard touchdown run that gave Bridgewater a 14-0 lead less than halfway through the second quarter.

The Ram offense finally gelled on the following drive. Now faced with a daunting deficit, Framingham went back to their running attack, as the trio of quarterback Patrick Franey, running back Josh Harris and Leach combined for all 60 yards of offense on the drive, capped by Leach’s 16-yard endzone scamper that brought the Rams back into the game - trailing by just one score, 14-6.

The momentum that Framingham gained at the end of the first half quickly turned into a stalemate, since neither team scored in the third quarter. They combined for three punts and a turnover on downs. Momentum shifted back in Bridgewater’s corner, as the final drive of the quarter led to another long rushing touchdown, this one for 47 yards by Steven Clark to put the Bears back ahead by double-digits, 20-13.

Despite spending most of the first three-and-a-half-quarters playing in second gear, the Rams, sensing time

slipping away, finally shifted into fifth gear with about nine minutes left to play. The Framingham air assault, which was silent up to this point, quickly racked up the yards. Franey threw for 50 yards on the drive, including a 29-yard strike to James McCarthy, which set the scene for Leach to push his way into the endzone two plays later on a five-yard run.

The Bears denied the Rams’ comeback attempt once again, though, when during Bridgewater’s following drive, they went to their book of tricks - this time using the arm of Fuller, as from the backfield he threw a 20-yard pass to wide receiver Jesse Teixeira, who rumbled into the endzone, to put the Rams away for good.

A 30-yard touchdown strike to McCarthy, who finished the day with eight catches and 112, yards would prove to be too little, too late as Bridgewater

Bear’s running back Justin Full-er accounted for three of the four

Bridgewater touchdowns in their victory.

would hold on for the victory.The win for the Bears gives them a 4-2

record overall, including a 2-1 record in the division, which puts them in a five-way tie atop the Bogan division, along with Framingham.

Franey, who finished the day with 157 yards passing and a touchdown, was dissatisfied with the team’s performance in Bridgewater. “It’s a tough loss to swallow because it is a game we let slip away. We battled both offensively and defensively, but unfortunately, they made a few more plays than we did. … The league is still up for grabs, so we are going to continue to get better as a team and battle until the end.”

The Rams take on Westfield State back home at Maple Field this Saturday in another matchup of divisional rivals.

James McCarthy makes one of his eight receptions against Bridgewater State.

By Josh PrimakSportS editor

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SPORTSThe Gatepost

Last Saturday, the FSC Rams took on the Eastern Connecticut State Warriors at home. The Rams have been a powerful force thus far in the season, holding an impressive overall record of 10-2. The Rams were confident as they took on the Warriors, coming off a 4-1 win over Western Connecticut a few days before.

The Rams dominated play immediately, controlling the field for most of the game. The Rams had the advantage in both shots on goal, in which they outshot the Warriors 20-5, as well as penalty corners. The Rams were able to convert three of their nine corners into goals.

The first goal of the game came in the 30th minute of the half, when Andrea DiTerlizzi received a pass from Jade Franzen on a penalty corner. The goal was DiTerlizzi’s first of the season. Hardly a minute later, during another corner, Kali Barrett scored on a hard pass from Kayleigh Force to give the Rams a 2-0 lead. The two goal lead wasn’t enough for the Rams, who added a third goal to their cushion three minutes later when Kristin Gentili scored her first goal of the season on an unassisted blast into the back of the net, ending the half with a 3-0 lead.

The second half continued in the same manner, as the Rams consistently dominated the field. In the 41st minute of play, Force scored an unassisted goal of her own, which was followed shortly after by Katie Barry’s unassisted blast in the 54th. Ten minutes later, Franzen found Barrett during another penalty corner for the six and final goal of the game, Barrett’s second

of the afternoon. In the 69th minute of the play, the

Warriors made a desperate attempt to get back in the game, when Ali Chapman scored the only Warrior goal of the day, shortly after her teammate Lyndsey Zavisza was given a yellow card. Their efforts were futile, however, and the game ended in a final score of 6-1.

Allesha Kenyon started the game in net for the Rams, and thanks to the excellent defense provided by her teammates, she needed to make only four saves on the day. Steph Bourgeois took over for the last 13 minutes of play, and didn’t have to make a single save.

On Monday, the Rams traveled to Maine, where they picked up yet another win, their third straight, against Husson University. It was Husson which scored first, when Lindsay Barnes scored on an unassisted goal in the 42nd minute.

FSC quickly answered back on a corner in the 50th minute of play when Kristen Sacco tied the score at one. It was Force who scored the game winner six minutes later on a pass from Katie Wotherspoon during a corner. During the 70 minutes of play, Kenyon had to make only one save.

On Tuesday, the Rams midfielder Kayleigh Force was chosen as the Little East Conference Offensive Player of the Week after her outstanding week of play, in which she recorded five points - three assists and one goal. Force has managed at least one point in the past six games.

The Rams will play at home on Friday, Oct. 16, taking on Westfield State at 4 pm.

Field hockey wins third straightBy Nenia CorcoranaSSiStant SportS editor

Kayleigh Force’s performance on the field this past week made her an obvious choice for the Little East Conference

Offensive Player of the Week.

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MAJOR/MINOR FAIR

Tuesday, October 27th

11:30 am - 1:30 pm(drop in any time)College Center Forum

Come and learn about the many majors and minors offered at Framingham State College. What should you major in and why? What’s a minor?

• Professors and advisors will be available to answer your questions.

• What are you going to do with a major in….Business? In Communication Arts? In History? Career Services and Employer Relations will share ideas

• Study abroad information will also be available

Ram Round-UpMen’s Soccer (5-7-1)10/14 Win 1-0 at UMass Boston

Volleyball (10-11)10/10 Win 3-0 vs. Anna Maria10/10 Win 3-0 vs. UMaine Ft. Kent10/13 Loss 3-0 at UMass Boston

Field Hockey (10-2)10/10 Win 6-1 vs. E. Connecticut St.10/12 Win 2-1 at Husson

Women’s Soccer (4-7)10/10 Loss 1-0 vs. Salem State

Football (4-2)10/10 Loss 26-20 at Bridgewater St.