The Gatepost

By Alexis Huston Editorial Staff  The Criminology Club invited Chris Herren, a former Celtics basketball player, to talk about his life story in the Athletic Center this past Tuesday. Many gathered on the bleachers to hear his story about his struggle defeating his addiction to drugs. Many students who currently play on athletic teams at [...]

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By Kate Corwin Staff Writer With the bass throbbing, people yelling and the lights dimming, my stomach does a funny little flip as I realize how close it is to show time and how far I’ve come in the past few months. I’ve been waiting and working for the spring fashion show for four months. [...]

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By Samantha Rawson Editorial Staff It’s that time of year again – papers are due, exams are coming up, and students are scrambling to get everything done and turned in on time. It’s finals. It goes without saying that finals cause an inordinate amount of stress in the lives of students everywhere. The mere thought [...]

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By Kärin Radock Editorial Staff   Inside a FSU SGA office filled with the excited chatter of newly elected student government officers, the rustling of papers and the bustle of Xerox machine, Kendra Sampson can be found sitting calmly at her desk. Within the midst of the final weeks of the semester, the 2011-2012 academic [...]

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By Alex Shuman Staff Writer For those wondering what all the commotion was outside of the McCarthy Center last Thursday, April 26, it was this year’s Playing for Change event, which featured live musical performances from students and gave support and recognition to a meaningful cause. With a wide variety of musicians, performances were never [...]

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By Joe Kourieh Arts & Features Editor Ambruce Carter is following his dream. The sophomore business major, who is also known as A.M. Carter in the music world, can often be seen striding about campus, headphones on, head nodding, realizing his goal day by day, thinking up content that could someday be featured in a [...]

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By Michael B. Murphy Staff Writer Fifteen years ago, while tucked away inside London’s Public Records Office, now known as the National Archives, FSU History Professor Richard Allen stumbled upon a discovery that would alter the course his life and career would take. Allen would describe this moment as “a good example of how you [...]

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By Talia Adry Asst. Arts & Features Editor On May 16, FSU will welcome Dr. Howard Gardner, eminent psychologist and Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Gardner is perhaps most widely known for his work in multiple intelligences, and will discuss one of his more recent publications, “Frames of [...]

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By Talia Adry Asst. Arts & Features Editor Professor Lisa Eck gestured to her slide of a woman laborer in India with haunting eyes. “What is she thinking here? What is the content of her gaze? For one, she’s probably caught me taking my zoom-lens photo, and she’s wondering, why aren’t I photographing the monument [...]

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By Vincent Hayes Staff Writer Well over a hundred people filed into DPAC for the Black Student Union’s second annual culture show to celebrate diversity not only on campus, but in the greater MetroWest area on Friday April 20. Performers brought a broad range of talent as diverse as the cultures they had come to [...]

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