04 May 2012
By Kathleen McDonough Editorial Staff As the clock strikes 10 p.m., a nervous college student taps his pen incessantly on the desk, puts his head in his hands, sighs deeply and looks up at the looming computer screen in front of him. The word document he’s staring at is blank, save the name and date [...]
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04 May 2012
By Samantha Rawson Editorial Staff Everybody does it. Every single day, people all over the world are doing it, dozens of times a day. It’s powerfully addictive, and nobody seems to realize it. It’s Facebook. In this day and age, almost everyone has a Facebook. Kids, adults, the elderly – some people even create Facebook [...]
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04 May 2012
By Kathleen McDonough Editorial Staff In the seventh grade, freshman psychology major Samantha Leedberg’s sister, four years older than she, pressured her into smoking. “She said, ‘Here, smoke this cigarette’ – and I haven’t stopped since.” Leedberg, who admits to smoking about a half pack a day, said, “When I’m stressed, I smoke more, or [...]
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04 May 2012
By Tara Kelly Asst. Arts & Features Editor FSU has created over a dozen events related to Green Politics this April, in honor of Earth Day. Last Wednesday, April 18, the Green Team hosted the second annual Green Festival. Not only did the forum host a range of tables run by on-campus organizations such as [...]
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04 May 2012
By Kerrin Murray News Editor President Timothy Flanagan held the final All University Meeting of the year to inform faculty, staff and students of the school’s “strategic plan overarching goals.” The last time the university developed a strategic plan was in 2008. Flanagan said that plan was improved upon in order to make the [...]
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04 May 2012
By Karin Radock News Editor SGA senators attended this year’s annual State House Day to advocate for the support and funding of Massachusetts public higher education on Monday, April 23. FSU’s Student Trustee Kendra Sampson explained that State House Day allows Massachusetts’ state universities to come together and provide state “senators and representatives with [...]
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04 May 2012
By Kerrin Murray News Editor Students, faculty and staff gathered in DPAC to recognize the achievements of the class of 2012 at this year’s Senior Investiture ceremony on Monday, April 23. Jesse Fennelly, ’04, communications director at the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, presented this year’s Investiture Address. He began his speech by offering his congratulations [...]
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04 May 2012
By Spencer Buell Editor-in-Chief A lecture from psychologist and author Howard Gardner on May 16 will mark the conclusion of President Timothy Flangan’s first-ever Distinguished Lecture Series. Flanagan said Gardner’s book “Five Minds for the Future” served as “a productive guiding principle” for the series, which featured talks from five thinkers, nominated to appear [...]
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04 May 2012
By Zack Comeau Editorial Staff Starting this fall, a new program will take the place of Arts and Humanities, called Arts and Ideas. According to Linda Vaden-Goad, the academic vice president, the series was renamed because she and the committee in charge of the program “wanted to give it a broader reach across all academic [...]
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04 May 2012
Jennifer Hand Staff Writer FSU administrators increased the percentage of full-time faculty members this year. Despite the rise in part-time faculty members working in universities around the nation, FSU is moving in the opposite direction. From academic year 2010-11 to 2011-12, the percentage of full-time faculty members at FSU has risen from 75.9 to 76.3 [...]
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