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THE GATEPOST
Framingham State's award-winning independent student newspaper since 1932
Editorial Board
Apr 12, 2017
The Gatepost Editorial: Advice to next year’s SGA
The Gatepost Editorial Board The position of SGA president is, inarguably, one of the most essential roles on campus. An SGA president...
Logan Hennessey
Mar 30, 2017
How Katrina Still Haunts New Orleans
New Orleans had always been somewhere I wanted to visit. When Alternative Spring Break announced the group would be traveling there to...
Editorial Board
Mar 30, 2017
The Gatepost Editorial: Feminism needs intersectionality
The Gatepost Editorial Board This week, FSU hosted many great women – from Senator Elizabeth Warren to Massachusetts Attorney General...
Emily Robinson
Mar 30, 2017
Policies that breed fear
By Emily Robinson We’ve been a dry campus for years, and the concept isn’t a bad one. Being a dry campus limits the amount of drinking –...
Editorial Board
Mar 23, 2017
The Gatepost: Shaping FSU since 1932
The Gatepost Editorial Board In the very first Gatepost Editorial, published in 1932, the founding editors questioned whether a permanent...
Phil McMullin
Mar 23, 2017
Journalism culture must change
By Phil McMullin The president is at war with journalists. If they disagree with his often false depiction of reality, he deems them...
Jesse Sannicandro
Mar 3, 2017
Ugly to the bone
By Jesse Sannicandro Since President Trump has been elected, I’ve been hearing people insult his appearance. Constantly. The insult I...
Editorial Board
Mar 3, 2017
The Gatepost Editorial: FSU must expand gender-inclusive options
The Gatepost Editorial Board Last week, President Donald Trump revoked federal guidelines that gave transgender students the right to use...
Thom Duda
Mar 3, 2017
Utter hypocrisy
By Thom Duda On social media feeds from The Hill, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan was cited as blaming the Democrats for the very recent...
Thom Duda
Feb 24, 2017
“Critic in Chief?” McCain’s words fall flat
By Thom Duda While scrounging around Twitter, I came across a post by The New York Times that cited John McCain as becoming the “Critic...
Phil McMullin
Feb 24, 2017
“Day without immigrants” a success
By Phil McMullin When Donald Trump was elected president, it became clear he would be a catalyst for a new era of liberal activism. The...
Editorial Board
Feb 24, 2017
The Gatepost Editorial: We stand with immigrants
The Gatepost Editorial Board Last week, immigrants across the country stayed home from work, closed their businesses and kept their...
Tessa Jillson
Feb 9, 2017
Living with people who support the Muslim ban
By Tessa Jillson My parents never understood other religions. To them, it was only Catholics or Protestants who had the right to express...
Editorial Board
Feb 9, 2017
The Gatepost Editorial: Students need debt education
The Gatepost Editorial Board So far, the new Trump administration has said very little about one of the biggest threats to our economy –...
Emily Robinson
Feb 6, 2017
Coming home to realize a new kind of privilege
By Emily Robinson Check your American privilege. Pretty intimidating, right? Almost offensive, even. No one wants to be told they are...
Jesse Sannicandro
Feb 2, 2017
Social Media, Social Justice, and Social Obligation
By Jesse Sannicandro Remember when social media became a social obligation? We’ve reached a period in time when it has become weird to...
Editorial Board
Feb 2, 2017
The Gatepost Editorial: Defend DACA
The Gatepost Editorial Board During the campaign, President Donald Trump ran on the promise of 7xing America’s broken immigration system....
Cesareo Contreras
Jan 27, 2017
Seeing through Trump’s distorted reality
By Cesareo Contreras Perhaps never in our nation’s history has the press been more under attack by the government it is entrusted to hold...
Phil McMullin
Jan 27, 2017
It’s wrong to punch Nazis
By Phil McMullin Richard Spencer is a leader of the alt-right. He is a white-supremacist. He is a disturbed man preaching a dangerous and...
Editorial Board
Jan 27, 2017
The Gatepost Editorial: March on!
The Gatepost Editorial Board This past weekend, history was made. An estimated 5 million women marched around the world to tell the U.S....
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