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Vol. 101, Iss. 41 | Tuesday, March 27, 2012

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It’s not easy being green College aims for sustainability projects in Dining Services

by ARIEL COHEN Flat hat assoc. news editor

With books such as the “Omnivore’s Dilemma”, “Food Rules” and “Supersize Me” topping the National Best Seller’s lists, knowing where your food comes from has become a pop-cultural phenomenon.

The College of William and Mary has not wanted to fall behind on this trend. During the 2010-2011 school year, the College took steps to increase sustainability within Dining Services by increasing local food procurement, creating a campus herb garden, initiating a re-usable take-out container program and increasing on-campus recycling and composting. Although corporate oversight has created some obstacles to these steps, College administrators remain hopeful for the future.

“It is important as members of our local, national and global communities to do our best as a school to take care of our environment. Our goal is to work with the school and with the Committee on Sustainability to create new traditions of ‘green’

For more on campus eating ...

Check out Opinions on page 4 for a column on expanding swipe options in local restaurants and the staff editorial about the College’s response to body issues.

Check out Variety on page 5 for a full story on the role of body issues at the College.

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Campus dining services has taken several steps to increase sustainability at the College including buying locally-grown food, cultivating an herb garden, establishing a re-usable take-out container program and increasing recycling on campus.

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“Boomerangs” head home after graduating Labs to charge fees More College seniors find themselves jobless, moving back to live with parents

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The Boomerang Generation

When Elliot Wegman ’12 dons a cap and gown in mid-May, many will say that the graduating senior stands at a figurative crossroad. But there is one road Wegman knows he will not be taking: The one back home to mom and dad.

“I will do whatever it takes not to live with my parents,” Wegman said. “I live enough of my life under a microscope and as somebody in their twenties, I don’t think that should be the case.”

He shrugs at the question of an ideal job, looking past the Campus Center walls to say that he has always wanted to travel abroad. As an English major also involved in theatrical productions on campus, Wegman says he plans to make his first trip ever to the Sherman and Gloria H. Cohen Career Center this week, which will mark the beginning of his job search.

Wegman is not alone in being jobless seven weeks before graduation. According to a Cohen Career Center survey of the class of 2011, 31.35 percent of the respondents reported going directly to graduate or professional school, leaving 68.7 percent of the respondents, presumably, were looking for work. Of that 68.7 percent, 65 percent reported finding work. The survey had a 53.3 percent response rate.

“I only know of one or two or three friends who

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path,” Bonney said. “I am interning this summer with Ernst and Young, and I haven’t really been that anxious about it.”

With the current job market, Director of the

Contributing more to the costs of science labs may come as a surprise to many College of William and Mary students, but will be added to the list of College expenses for some students next year.

The Faculty Assembly voted to endorse the proposal to charge students a lab fee in January as a revenue generator for the science departments. Fees will vary depending on the department and course and will be implemented in Fall 2012.

Science departments have been pushing for lab fees for many years now.

“We didn’t go into this lightly, it took a great deal of understanding and sensitivity,” Dr. David Armstrong, chair of the physics department, said.

The departments collaborated on the issue, hoping that a concerted effort would emphasize the need for the funding.

“We really came together for this, although not every department is doing the same thing,” kinesiology department head Michael Deschenes said.

Currently, labs such as general and organic chemistry place breakage charges on students, but most labs do not charge anything at all. Anatomy labs are the exception: They have always had fees in order to pay for expensive materials such as cadavers.

The kinesiology department as a whole will

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Based on a survey of 2434 year olds who currently live with their reported no difference in dynamics with parents parents or moved in with their parents temporarily in recent years.

have jobs, each of which are business majors, who are in cushy jobs,” Wegman said.

For Kate Bonney ’12, an accounting major with a summer internship at Ernst and Young, the job prospects also differ according to major.

“As an accounting major, you have more of a set

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Adjunct professors: A Balancing Act

When employing adjunct professors, the College of William and Mary walks a fine line between costs and quality. page 4 Sunny High 59, Low 41

Fees to increase sciences revenue

Inside SPORTS

Tribe falls to Penn State, 9-7

The loss completes the College’s brutal non-conference schedule with the team at an overall record of 2-8. Next up, the Tribe will take on CAA-rival Old Dominion. page 8

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THE BUZZ

All The News that’s unfit to print

As many students may have noticed in their weekend trek to the grocery store for milk and ramen noodles, Bloom has recently become a Food Lion. Both are owned by parent conglomerate Delhaize Group, which is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. In a written press release, Delhaize announced it was planning on retiring the Bloom brand name, in addition to closing 113 underperforming Food Lions, to strengthen and focus its presence in the United States.

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I don’t advertise that we are selling sustainable coffee, I just do it because it’s the right thing to do.

—The Daily Grind owner and manager Scott Owen

BEYOND THE ‘BURG

According to the Daily Press, former Vice President Dick Cheney had a heart transplant at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va., this Saturday. Cheney has suffered from poor heart health his entire life — the 71-year-old has had five heart attacks in his life, the first at the young age of 37. Former Mass.

Governor Mitt Romney wished Cheney a “fast and full recovery” on Twitter, and former Penn. Senator Rick Santorum released a written statement offering his prayers to Cheney and his family.

Thousands of atheists and skeptics gathered on the National Mall this Saturday for the first Reason Rally, according to the Washington Post. Organizers of the rally stated the purpose of the event was to unite the growing number of non-religious Americans. Oxford professor and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and “Mythbusters” co-host Adam Savage, among many others, spoke at the gathering.

Researchers at the University of Virginia recently conducted the first two stem cell transplants ever performed in Virginia according to the Daily Press. The program used non-embryonic stem cells from umbilical cord blood, taken from placentas discarded after pregnancy, in order to avoid the ethical issues involved with using stem cells from early-stage human fetuses.

The outcome of the operation is still not fully known, but the stem cells began producing new cells 14 days after the operation, as opposed to the 24 to 48 days that the process usually takes.

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Students demonstrations grew at Harvard University in response to the shooting of Trayvon Martin by neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman.

Darthmouth president for World Bank On Friday President Obama nominated Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to head the World Bank.

Kim’s immense global experience, international background and experience in global public health compelled Obama to nominate him to lead the world’s largest development agency.

Critics have voiced concerns about Kim’s inexperience in finance. According to the Washington Post, the leadership of the World Bank has reflected a certain American patriarchy in the past. Kim will be the first American nominee to face competition for the job, as Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been nominated by a group of African nations. A decision for the new president is expected before upcoming bank meetings in mid April.

Harvard students rally for Trayvon Martin Students at Harvard University took to Harvard Square this past Thursday to speak out against the handling of the shooting and killing of a 17-yeay-old Florida resident.

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The demonstration, beginning with only a few students, grew to more than 200 people. According to the Washington Post, the students chanted, “We are Trayvon Martin, I am Trayvon Martin.” Trayvon Martin was shot by Neighborhood Watch captain George Zimmerman on Feb. 26th in a supposed act of self-defense. Protestors aimed to demonstrate against both the recent shooting of Martin and against the broader problems of race relations and legal processes in America.

Possible construction suspension at UVA Plans to construct a dam near the University of Virginia may be suspended because of a lawsuit filed by the Charlottesville Open Government Alliance. The city had planned to construct a dam at the Ragged Mountain site near Fontaine Research Park in order to increase water supply to the city, and received approval from the Charlottesville City Council on Jan. 17th. The Alliance wishes to stop construction because the dam would sell public property rights to the city’s waterworks without the residents’ support.

Mar. 23 to Mar. 25 Mar. 23 — An individual was arrested for drug 1 Friday, possession and distribution at the intersection of Jamestown and S. Boundary St. Mar. 23 — Juvenile suspects were reported for 2 Friday, breaking and entering at the 1300 block of Richmond Rd.

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Campbell to make history relevant

Colonial Downs burning

March 16-17, students gathered at the College of William and Mary’s Mason School of Business for the first annual Social Entrepreneurship Conference.

Approximately 100 business leaders and 50 students spent a day and a half focused on how business and non-profit organzations can use their core strengths and values to help solve social problems.

Main issues discussed included food and water shortages and healthcare in impoverished countries. This semester, the College is offering its first ever Social Entrepreneurship course.

Because the College is one of the top 10 universities for sending graduates into the Peace Corps professors find the increased focus on social entrepreneurship fitting.

In a pitch to City Council this past week, Colonial Williamsburg President Colin Campbell presented a new plan for teaching citizenship to Williamsburg tourists. He plans to rebrand the entire historic area as a “Revolutionary City,” and to expand Duke of Gloucester street so it can reach new audiences.

Campbell’s three main goals are to advance the understanding of the country’s founding principles, to use the past to illuminate today’s trends and political choices and to tell the stories about people who sought liberty and prosperity.

In addition to these three main goals, Campbell hopes to explore the roles of media and technology in modern Colonial Williamsburg and expand both educational outreach efforts and interactive case studies.

This past Thursday, officials at Colonial Downs intentionally set a controlled fire at the facility’s Secretariat turf course.

According to the Virginia Gazette, the purpose of the burn was to drive nutrients into the soil of the track in an efficient way.

The alternative to the burn would be to cut the grasses on the track, a 10 day process.

This would also result in the loss of nutrients.

Burning the entire nine furlong track only took two hours and helped save hours of manual labor.

Before the fire, the track crew poured 12,000 gallons of water both inside and outside the course. This insured officials would not lose control of the fire.

The racetrack opens for its summer season on June 2nd with the Strawberry Hill Races.

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National charter revoked for Phi Kappa Tau After hazing, probation and suspension, College chapter loses national accreditation

by chris mckenna flat hat chief staff writer

In response to a string of reported hazing incidents, the Alpha Theta chapter of Phi Kappa Tau at the College of William and Mary quietly lost its charter due to a decision by the fraternity’s national organization handed down last month.

After the chapter was suspended from the College Feb. 7, Phi Kappa Tau then lost its national charter almost exactly a month shy of its Founder’s Day, March 17. This is the second time the College has suspended its local Phi Kappa Tau chapter. The fraternity’s charter was first revoked in 1981, a sentence that lasted for four years, after which the chapter was reinstated.

“Although we take pride in providing undergraduates the opportunity to learn through the hands-on experiences of self-governing and accountability, there are situations that sometimes arise where a critical mass negatively influences a chapter’s direction,” Phi Kappa Tau National President Greg Heilmeier said in a Feb. 17 press release. “We have

reached a point with our chapter at William & Mary where closing is in the best interest for all those involved.”

The national organization said it considered the chapter’s most recent incident as an indication of Phi Kappa Tau’s unwillingness to change its behavior, despite efforts from the College to encourage reform.

“With the time and energy that has been offered to these young men by the alumni advisors, as well as the professionals at William & Mary, it’s disappointing to see that we have come to this point,” Phi Kappa Tau CEO Steve Hartman said in a press release.

The national organization suspended the College’s chapter last fall, following an alleged assault resulting from a fraternity-organized scavenger hunt in which a student was told to steal the hat of a Colonial Williamsburg employee.

Prior to the incident, the chapter was already on probation with the College, stemming from charges of property damage at a Virginia Beach hotel during a fraternity formal.

“Based on the group having other

disciplinary actions in the last two years, it was our decision that we suspend the group’s charter, and our board acted swiftly to do that,” Phi Kappa Tau Director of Chapter Services Tim Hudson said.

The national fraternity worked with the chapter’s local alumni board and the Office of the Dean of Students — which delivered a letter to the chapter president suspending operations until at least 2015 in considering and issuing its decision.

“I think, clearly, it provides us with an opportunity to hold ourselves accountable and to support the mission of our fraternity,” Hudson said.

“Collectively, there were poor decisions made by a group, and not reflective of our organization as a fraternity.”

At the end of the designated threeyear period, Phi Kappa Tau plans to reapply for official recognition with new members.

“Our goal is to return to campus with a strong chapter that upholds the goals of our organization,” Hudson said. “We’re not excited about the way things ended, but we’re confident we have a strong organization to return in the future.”

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The Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity lost their national charter March 17 after accusations of hazing pledges.

According to the Inter-Fraternity Council, uninitiated Phi Kappa Tau pledges have the opportunity to join another fraternity, but initiated members are barred from doing so.

“There’s an opportunity for [initiated brothers] to be alumni members upon their graduation from the institution,

and that’s something we outlined for them … and there are things that are not acceptable for them to do, moving forward,” Hudson said.

When asked, the officials for the College’s Phi Kappa Tau chapter, Alpha Theta, declined to comment on the issue of the charter.

Boomerangs welcomed Local farms provide produce BOOMERANG from page 1

Career Center Mary Schilling was not surprised at the number of graduates continuing their education after the College.

“The master’s degree is the new bachelor’s degree,” Schilling said. “With the job market as it is, employers are looking for that extra dedication and desire to learn more in their chosen field.”

Even though his unemployment is normal, Wegman’s reluctance to live with mom and dad is an exception among fellow College of William and Mary seniors and young adults nationwide looking beyond college into a job market punctured by the recession. These recent batches of young adults now compose the Boomerang Generation, a label more are beginning to wear with pride.

The Pew Research Center noted a climb in the number of recent graduates going back home to live with mom and dad in a study released March 15. The boomerangs of 2010 harken back to numbers seconding the 1940s, when 27.7 percent of graduates moved back home; 2010 saw 21.6 percent of graduates boomeranging home.

According to the study in 2010, three in 10 young adults ages 25 to 34 have returned home.

“I’m not surprised at the recent spike,” Wegman said. “Something is keeping jobs less available, particularly the ones that old people are occupying without retiring. Maybe that has something to do with it.”

Schilling was equally unsurprised at the trend, attributing the change as an efficient and pragmatic reaction to the current state of the economy.

“There are fewer entry-level jobs, but we don’t want students to think that is an excuse,” Schilling said.

Vice President for Student Affairs Ginger Ambler ’88 Ph.D. ’96 agreed.

“The current economy has made it very challenging for both professionals and new job seekers and from that sense, I understand where those trends are coming from,” Ambler said.

While the stumbling economy has shaken the confidence of many, it has also significantly reduced the stigma of failure attached to those graduates returning to the nest.

“Perhaps there is a higher tolerance for the reality that the path may not be as straight, and perhaps this generation is responding to that,” Ambler said.

“Anecdotally, I’ve seen students taking on innovative options, whether it is traveling abroad or [enlisting in] Teach for America more so than in the past.”

While administrators were quick to stress that returning home was not a reflection of student character, senior students again named majors as the fault line determining those seniors who would return home and those who would put a negative connotation on doing so.

“Amongst my friends who are mostly humanities majors, there is certainly a greater acceptance for taking a year or two to get it all

figured out, whereas business majors kind of go into college with a mindset of having to learn how to sustain [themselves],” Wegman said.

This sentiment was also true for Bonney, whose personal job search did not cause as much anxiety for her as for her humanities counterparts.

“A lot of people are moving back home, just for the first year or so, so that they don’t have to pay rent,” Bonney said. “I’ve noticed that my friends who are Arts and Sciences majors are more anxious about graduating since they don’t have a set career path once they get out of school.”

Another stigma the boomerangs seem to slowly be erasing is that of the helicopter parents, known for their habits of hovering over their children. The majority of boomerangs in the Pew Research Center study reported no change in their relationship with their parents, while over half of boomerangs contributed money either through rent or household expenses.

Yet for Wegman and some of the students he knows, the concept of helicopter parents is a reality, personally hindering Wegman’s job search.

“I think most of my friends, particularly the guys, have an adversarial relationship with their parents,” Wegman said. “I’m not anxious until my parents start breathing down my neck.”

While Wegman has heard of parents sending their kid’s job offers, Bonney could only talk of the support of her parents.

“While I’m interning, I will be living with my parents, since my internship is close to where I live,” Bonney said. “[My] Parents were very supportive and liked the idea of me working at Ernst and Young.”

Ambler echoed Bonney in feeling that involved parents do not necessarily create an unhealthy relationship, pointing to technological development as a possible source for closer student-to-parent relationships.

“Technology makes parents and students more connected than they were in the past,” Ambler said. “Perhaps it makes it more comfortable to go home for a short period of time after graduation.”

Schilling and Wegman thought the financial contribution, coupled with the short expectation of living time, pointed to good aspects of the boomerang phenomenon.

“It is good reality therapy,” Schilling said. “I think it is good for students to understand that it’s OK to be pinching pennies right out of college.”

Seventy-five percent of boomerangs remained upbeat about their future financial situation, according to the Pew Research Center study.

“If there is evidence that they’re trying to live off the fat of the land, then it does not become a good situation,” Wegman said. “But I think that people who go to college are not like that.”

As Wegman begins his job search this week, he joins the 27.5 percent of the U.S. population who will soon flood the job market with new diplomas in hand.

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The Sherman and Gloria H. Cohen Career Center helps to find jobs for students through mock interviews and job fairs.

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practices, by implementing programs which work to reduce waste, increase healthy eating habits and minimize our overall negative impact on the surrounding environment,” Director of Dining Services Larry Smith said.

Through special events, such as Vegetarian Night at the Commons Dining Hall, Dining Services hopes to promote sustainable food. Although some students say that vegetarian and organic options are limited, there have been substantial increases in the availability of locally-grown produce since the inception of the Sustainability Programs.

Daily Grind owner and manager Scott Owen tries to ensure that all coffee and food he sells is sustainable by buying coffee from fair trade local buyers and food products from local farmers.

“I don’t advertise that we are selling sustainable coffee, I just do it because it’s the right thing to do.”

Owen said, “I would be more than willing to buy any of the things here sustainable if I could, but it’s impossible with the volume of consumption we are using. It’s a consumer’s world, though. If consumers change their habits, so will the industry.”

Numerous local farmers in the Williamsburg area currently provide the College with local, sustainable, and, oftentimes, organic produce.

Local Virginia farmers, for instance, supply all peanut products and sweet potatoes, and many herbs come from the campus’s two gardens.

A sustainable option that has been around longer than a year is the Daily Grind. The Daily Grind is the College’s only on-campus non-ARAMARK dining option for students. The coffee shop, located in

what was formerly known as Lodge 2, provides fair trade coffee and organic breakfast sandwiches.

The beginning of the 2009 academic year also saw Dining Services begin the Sustainability Interns program. Each intern follows a project relating to campus dining and sustainability, helping to relay the feelings of the student body to Dining Services.

Created as a part of their sustainability initiative, the College’s two student-run herb gardens, located by the Commons and by the Boehly Café, provide organic herbs to the dining halls and serve as an educational tool for sustainable farming.

“Because local food is more sustainably grown, it’s also more expensive. So we’ve been making slow changes and small steps,” sustainability intern Katie Gehron ’12 said. “The goal is to understand what you’re eating and make sure it’s not only healthy, but also has a positive the impact it’s having on the world.”

Because campus dining is run under the ARAMARK Corporation in affiliation with PepsiCo, administrators say a complete switch to organic foods is difficult.

In an effort to decrease waste production on campus, Dining Services works with Chip Hall of Natural Organic Process Enterprises to compost approximately 40 percent of all waste.

Since the creation of the partnership in September 2010, composting of organic materials on campus has increased from 10 to 16 tons per month.

“In the upcoming years we hope only to strengthen these relationships and create more in order to increase local procurement of healthy, sustainable food products,” Smith said.

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charge $28 per student for labs in the fall, which will provide the department with a modest stream of income to combat the rising costs of lab maintenance.

“It is increasingly difficult to keep equipment up to date or to pay for consumables and expendables,” Armstrong said.

“Charging lab fees allows us to build up so that we can make equipment replacements at the appropriate times for the new generation. The last thing we want is students doing 21st century science with 19th century materials.”

The chemistry department will charge $70 per lab.

“The purpose is that this will enable us to not be in the red at the end of the year,” chemistry Department Chair Christopher Abelt said.

Geology, which currently charges a $10 lab fee, will increase its fee to $15.

“In the geology department, the Introduction to Geology lab is really hands on, and costs to rent vehicles [for trips] have gone up. So our rationale was to cover those,” professor Chuck Bailey, chair of the department, said.

“We are just trying to do the same things we’ve always done.”

Some administrators likened the lab fee charge to any other college expense incurred by students.

“It is similar to buying the books for class, with students paying directly for materials,” Dean of Undergraduate Studies Kelly Joyce said.

Compared to other Virginia schools, the College has remained sparse with its lab fees.

The University of Virginia has similar policies, charging only for breakage, and various special labs like anatomy. In contrast, George Mason University enforces a policy like the one the College will soon adopt, with lab fees for 2011-2012 ranging from

$25-130. Meanwhile, Virginia Commonwealth University charges a flat rate of $65 for selected biology, chemistry and forensic science courses.

And, finally, there are schools like Virginia Tech, whose policy states that various course and lab fees may be assessed depending on the courses in which a student is enrolled and used to support extraordinary course-specific costs.

The primary focus, according to Joyce, remains the students and on providing quality education.

“The idea is to deliver the best lab experience possible,” Joyce said.

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Lab fees will increase in fall 2012 to generate revenue for sciences at the College.

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By Allison Hicks, Flat Hat Cartoonist

Faculty and finances: A balancing act On the other hand, this policy costs us a lot of great professors who aren’t comfortable with the idea that the College can make their careers as flexible as it wants.

The fact is, the College is in constant competition with other schools for the best professors. The risk associated with having so many adjuncts is that the fewer tenured faculty members Flat Hat Staff Columnist we have, the less committed our faculty as a whole will be. I’m sorry to burst the idealistic bubble, but it’s true. Even though they’re not in it for the money, professors like job security The College of William and Mary has been employing a greater and pensions just as much as the next person, and they number of adjunct professors as part of its faculty in recent years, according to Provost Michael Halleran. The percentage of tenured know the College isn’t their only prospective employer. If the administration does believe the College is a special place, then faculty is currently just under 50 percent and has been decreasing for a while. Like many other schools, the College kept costs low for it has to believe that there’s a difference between the professor who has been here for years and the one who just arrived. decades by turning to adjuncts, and the trend probably won’t be Professors who have been here longer are more likely to know changing anytime soon.

There is no question that students at good schools, including what works best for our students, and are more likely to have the College, expect their professors to have experience — no done the work most relevant to us.

The College continuously walks the fine line between student wants to be the guinea pig that a new professor uses to quality and affordability, and it has to perfect his teaching methods. The College consider that different kinds of students always wants to have professors who are The College continuously may be either helped or hurt by the way it leaders in their respective fields; that approaches its professors. Some students means making sure professors have not walks the fine line between may not like the idea that the College only experience, but also some degree quality and affordability. constantly puts its good name at risk when of job stability. Tenure-track professors it misses out on the chance to keep good engage in research that not only makes them more knowledgeable about their area of expertise but also professors for financial reasons. Others find it very difficult to improves the reputation of our school, which benefits everyone pay for school as it is and won’t be thrilled with the College who earns a degree from the College. However, adjuncts have doing anything to push tuition more and more out of their the advantage of being able to cover many more of the College’s price range. The College isn’t going to be able to manage its short-term needs, including specialized classes, unanticipated faculty without making somebody angry.

The College’s decision to make more of its professors workloads or new ideas departments want to try out. In addition, they bring much of the same knowledge as tenured professors, adjuncts has undoubtedly kept tuition as affordable as it often with more accessibility to students — something on which possibly could be, and the administration is going to make its decisions with that in mind. but it must be aware that the labor the College prides itself. market for professors is uncertain. Because we don’t exactly Once again, the big issue is money, and it’s no surprise that the compensate our professors lavishly, we’re at risk for having use of adjunct professors and college costs are closely interwined. our academic quality — the most important thing we have Adjunct professors are essentially cheap and disposable — they — whittled away by better opportunities elsewhere. Adjuncts make extraordinarily little money for their education level, and can be a great fit in many of situations, but we can’t let them their contracts are structured so the school can get rid of them become emblematic of the way we treat our faculty. fairly easily. Having a lot of adjuncts allows the College to keep costs low to students during difficult financial times (like now).

Email Carter Lockwood at crlockwood@email.wm.edu.

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he College of William and Mary is full of Type A students: They show up to every single 8 a.m. class fully awake; they stay in Earl Gregg Swem Library until 2 a.m. finishing their papers and they are active members in 15 different organizations. In high school, most students at the College were always at the top of all of their classes, and in college, they’re still fixated on being the best. As the recent focus on mental health at the College shows, students often push themselves too far in the desire to excel.

While mental health services may be on the minds of many members of the Tribe, more attention should be given to body image at the College.

When a student with an eating disorder goes to the Counseling Center, that student will likely be referred to an outside center for treatment. We understand the Counseling Center’s need to do this in order to treat as many students as possible. That said, we would like to see more follow through on the College’s part to ensure that these students do receive treatment. One idea that came out of the most recent Student Assembly election was for the College to provide transportation for students to these outside facilities. In doing so, the College could reach a maximum number of students and make certain that no student slips through the cracks.

Promoting a healthier student body image is not a task that falls to the Counseling Center alone. Campus dining services needs to make changes to their meal options that will encourage students to make healthy, well-balanced choices. Students at the College often feel that they will only get unhealthy and unbalanced options with their meal swipes. The result is that students reduce portion sizes and dramatically cut their calories. This obsession is further driven by the College’s serving portions. Women frequently receive smaller portions than men, driving the idea that gender alone determines what an individual’s portion size should be. Furthermore, the addition of calorie charts to the wall at the Commons dining hall in Sadler Center creates the belief that everyone should be counting calories at all times.

Even after being consumed by dieting, students are still compelled to go to the Recreation Center and work out, regardless of how far they walk in a day. Students need to acknowledge how much they already exercise during the day so they do not push themselves too far and cause injuries. This spring the “Every Step Counts” program worked to highlight the amount of walking students do by encouraging Tribe members to wear a pedometer everywhere, demonstrating that healthy living is more than going to the gym.

As the College examines the mental health services on campus, it must consider body image as a problem that plagues members of the student body. This movement encouraging students to be more balanced must come from all areas of the College. We are all driven to be the best, but the College needs to do more to promote what it means to be healthy on an individual level.

Editor’s Note: Katie Demeria recused herself from the staff editorial to remain unbiased in her reporting.

The staff editorial represents the opinion of The Flat Hat. The editorial board, which is elected by The Flat Hat’s section editors and executive staff, consists of Katherine Chiglinsky, Elizabeth DeBusk, Katie Demeria, Jill Found and Vanessa Remmers.

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Street Beat

Considering the rise of the Boomerang Generation, do you think it’s acceptable to move home after college?

“It is perfectly acceptable because of the economic times our youth are facing and the unemployment rates people have to deal with.”

Annie Kehrli ’14

“It makes more economical sense to get your feet back on the ground. But I don’t think you should be staying long and freeloading.”

Catherine Vining ’14

“Our generation is unusual in that we’re particularly dependent on our parents financially and emotionally.”

Mikaela Saccoccio ’12

“I definitely do. When I get out of here I’m not going to have much so regrouping after college seems smart.”

Scott Brewington ’14

“I doubt i’ll move home after college. That’s a matter of personal dignity. I see college as a jumping off point to see what I can do on my own.”

Thomas Baker ’13

“For a little bit, like less than a year, just to find a job. More ambitious people get jobs or find their own way.”

Jonathan Hsu ’15 ­— photos and interviews by Elliott Hay

Food for thought: Extending Flex and meal swipe options to restaurants Elaine Oestreich

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With so much emphasis placed on what should be improved or changed with regard to on-campus dining facilities, the concept of extending our dining options off-campus often gets lost in the shuffle. Having only three dining halls on a small campus makes sense, as do the other limited Flex Dollar options.

However, I think it would be helpful to both the College of William and Mary and the local community to work on extending Flex and meal swipe options to restaurants off campus.

Domino’s Pizza currently holds the advantage in number of student

customers, and is reaping the benefits — you can’t walk around campus without seeing a Domino’s delivery car. One of the reasons this is such a popular option for students is the convenience of using Flex points at the restaurant. The effectiveness of this option is apparent, and it’s a win for both Domino’s and students. Domino’s popularity reinforced itself recently when their Flex system actually went down, and I heard countless students lamenting that they were temporarily unable to order their pizza with Flex.

This business has shown that there is a high demand for off-campus options that accept students’s meal plans, for which they have already paid.

Many may point out that several local restaurants already accept William and Mary Express. However, I for one unfortunately do not have parents contributing to my Express account,

so paying with Express is the same as paying with cash for me. Many other students are in similar circumstances.

Since I have already paid for a full meal plan, I would much rather be able to utilize it in more locations rather than spending additional cash on outside food. When Pita Pit opened, I talked to the owners about whether Flex would eventually be an option there. They claimed they were working on making it possible, as they realize it could greatly boost their business. Hopefully other restaurants will see this potential for growth in sales and follow suit.

Additionally, while it may be complicated for restaurants to start accepting meal swipes, the idea is certainly one businesses should be looking into in addition to Flex usage.

This is especially pertinent given the looming mandatory meal plans for all on-campus students in the near future.

With such a consistently large group of students with meal plans, businesses could surely count on a good deal of revenue from them by offering meal swipe or Flex options.

Although there may be difficulties or additional costs related to a restaurant

obtaining the ability to accept Flex or meal swipes at its location, it seems well worth it to me. If it’s working for Domino’s, there must be other restaurants that could benefit as well.

Email Elaine Oestreich at ecoestreich@email.wm.edu.

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Societal pressures push students toward unhealthy body images

BY KATIE DEMERIA FLAT HAT EXECUTIVE EDITOR

For Casey Swann ’12, recovering from an eating disorder and attending the College of William and Mary is like swimming upstream.

When she attended a recovery clinic in Pennsylvania, she learned the proper ways to take care of herself, and almost all of them were counter-cultural. And for Swann, the College atmosphere only works to intensify those ideas.

“Typical William and Mary students are high achievers in every aspect of their lives, and I think it kind of feeds on itself,” she said. “It’s definitely something that’s very prevalent in the United States in general.”

This past summer, Swann studied in Rome, Italy, and she wrote a novel regarding her experience recovering from an eating disorder abroad. Now, she is further along the road of recovery, but seeing the habits of students around her makes the process that much more difficult.

Unhealthy mentalities range from poor eating behavior to excessive exercise trends, both of which are worsened by the mindset of perfectionism at the College.

“Students don’t understand what their body needs and how much their body needs, and there’s a standard of appearance on our campus that tends to promote that,” Swann said. “Even if people don’t say it out loud, they’re pressured to do certain things and look a certain way. The way people talk is such a big problem, too. ‘Oh man, I ate so much, so I need to go exercise.’ That’s exactly how I thought when I was bulimic — it’s unhealthy.

Portion control is important, but you also need to allow your body to have what it needs.”

Swann, though, is only one example of a student worried about health and body image issues on campus. Collegiate Awareness Regarding Eating Smart is a group whose goal is to promote a healthy atmosphere at the College.

“What we mainly focus on is reinforcing a positive body image,” CARES president Catie Duckett ’12 said. “Eating healthy, being comfortable in your own skin. Everyone looks different, and with media pressures on top of the pressures of being at a school like this, I think a lot of times that can be turned into an idea of the body only looking one way. We try to debunk the myths about like [having] to be skinny, to be healthy, and that sort of thing.”

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This week is “Love Your Body Week,” an annual event during which CARES hosts activities, shows movies and brings speakers to campus, all to help encourage students to take care of themselves.

“I think that Love Your Body Week is really important because it’s a reminder, first of all, for students to appreciate their bodies,” Kiah Hardcastle ’13 said. “It’s really easy to lose focus

of your own wellness.”

For Swann, issues she sees around campus usually stem from a desire to look and act in ways that coincide with societal norms. She believes this falls within the spectrum of striving for perfection.

“First of all, you can’t be perfect, and you can’t control everything in your life,” she said.

“Perfect shouldn’t be a model that we’re judging ourselves against. It should be doing what is best for ourselves.”

The collegiate atmosphere in general does not coincide with many of society’s messages regarding health. At a student panel on eating disorders that CARES hosted in late March, a speaker pointed out that caloric charts that the government issues are based on individuals who walk less than one mile a week.

“That made me stop and think: How much do I really walk?” Duckett said. “I probably walk over an hour every day. I think that speaks to the fact that college is a unique environment.”

Swann sees this same idea during her time on campus as well.

“The American Heart Association says that you need an average of around thirty minutes of moderate exercise a day,” she said. “We get that just by walking to and from class. The time walking from Wren to Morton or Swem, carrying a load of books, is moderate exercise. Yet still people feel the need to go to the gym, or go on runs all the time. There’s nothing wrong with that, but [the problem is] the compulsion to do it when your body doesn’t want to. A lot of students are very out of touch with their own bodies. And they don’t give themselves a break when they really need it, or they don’t recognize that their body needs a specific amount of food, including carbs and fats.”

CARES attempts to remind students of the importance of taking care of themselves and that doing so will allow them to succeed in other aspects of their life. The organization hosts a free breakfast close to finals in hopes that students will eat in the morning during a high-pressure time period.

For both Swann and those at CARES, a big problem is the prevalence of issues on campus, even though they do not receive very much official attention. According to them, students are high achievers in every aspect of their lives, but they often forget to take care of themselves and lose sight of their overall wellness.

“I think that you really just have to be comfortable in your own skin,” Hardcastle said.

“That’s the key above all things. A guest speaker from last semester, Kathleen MacDonald, said that it’s a given that you’re beautiful because you’re alive. And I think that kind of mindset is needed for being healthy and living a healthy life.

Everything else will fall into place.”

Paul Scott shares insights on the issue of child abuse Child Development Resources work to put an end to a vicious cycle

BY BAILEY KIRKPATRICK FLAT HAT ASSOC. VARIETY EDITOR

“There’s an old story about a community having a picnic,” Executive Director of Child Development Resources Paul Scott said last Tuesday. “They hear a child screaming — drowning in the river — so the whole town goes to save him.

Right when they are getting the child out, another child is thrown into the river upstream, and then more after that.

Then one person says, ‘We need to go upriver and find out who is throwing our children into the river.’”

This idea was central to the argument Scott presented to the audience that sat in Blow Memorial Hall to listen to his expertise in dealing with child sexual abuse. The talk, sponsored by the Office of Community Engagement and Scholarship, shed light on a matter not often addressed in society today.

“Sexual abuse is rarely discussed openly, but affects so many members of our community, including the children and adolescents our students volunteer with,” Associate Director of Community Engagement Melody Porter said.

“By becoming more educated about how it [affects] victims, survivors and offenders, we can work to reduce its prevalence and effects.”

Scott works on a daily basis with children who suffer from sexual abuse to help them express what happened to them, especially for court cases, and to help them cope with the long-

lasting emotional repercussions of this abuse. However, he has also worked on the other side — with children, adolescent and teen offenders — to help diagnose psychological problems and save society from the creation of many new victims.

“I was shocked to hear about the situations into which many of these children have been placed. The horrible, cyclical effect of these crimes really becomes clear when you hear about parents acting inappropriately or exposing their children to very sexually charged situations,” Americorps Volunteer in Service to America and Advisor to Campus Kitchens Chelsea Estancona ’11 said referring to a story about a grandmother who brought her grandson to a strip club.

A large part of the emotional damage incurred in many victims is due to the fact that he or she knew and felt safe around the offender. “Stranger danger,” for many years, was the phrase parents yelled to their children when they left for a friend’s house or were walking to the bus stop. Although it is a valid worry, more than 90 percent of the offenders caught are known to the victim or to the victim’s family.

Two-thirds of offenders are victims of sexual abuse themselves, and men severely molested as children who become offenders will statistically have three times the number of victims.

What’s more shocking is that 40 percent of pedophiles admit that their first

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Members of the Office of Student Engangement and Scholarship held a small discussion, led by visitor Paul Scott, about the dangerous and often unnoticed effects that sexual abuse can have on children.

offense was committed by the age of 15.

There are many fewer studies and much less statistical information on female offenders; however, that is not to say they do not exist.

“One of the main things I learned was about the spectrum of both offending behaviors and of intervention and counseling measures,” Estancona said.

“I was also unaware that many of the offenders are adolescents themselves, many of whom were recently victims.”

There’s a new strategy of diagnosis directed at children that asks them to

draw pictures of their feelings and the things that happened to them, instead of asking them to articulate these things into words. Art therapists then analyze the pictures and propose possible meanings in the work, which are later addressed with the child.

“Kids use metaphors,” Scott said.

“A picture is worth a thousand words but a metaphor is worth a thousand pictures. You can find so many metaphors in their drawings.”

Without enough money to increase the number of resources available to

those who need help the most, the conviction of pedophilic offenders remains unchanging, offenders consistently continue to be released on appeal, and at the same time the number of sexually abused children increases each day.

“The presentation made me realize more of the complexities of treating and healing when sexual abuse happens — how it affects the victims and survivors, the offenders and those who are in contact and relationships with all who are affected,” Porter said.

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Annual Potato Drop provides food for local families in need

BY BAILEY KIRKPATRICK FLAT HAT ASSOC. VARIETY EDITOR

Weighing in at over 40,000 pounds, this heavyweight champ is surely a player one wouldn’t want to contend with, but local organizations, groups and students at the College of William and Mary cannot be deterred by even the most daunting of challenges.

The 40,000-pound champ is actually an 18-wheeler filled to the brim with 50-pound bags of potatoes. The potatoes provided hundreds of pounds of food to local Virginia food kitchens and shelters and even some staff at the College Saturday at the William and Mary Campus Ministries and Society of St. Andrew’s twelfth annual Potato Drop.

“This has grown into a multistate — if not national — organization that provides millions of pounds of free food,” Campus Minister Max Blalock said. “These potatoes are coming from a potato farm that had leftovers. SoSA gleans the leftovers and brings them here to us.”

Promptly at 8 a.m. in front of Morton Hall, groups of volunteers were awaiting the arrival of the potato-filled truck.

Munching on doughnuts and drinking apple juice — refreshments provided

by the Campus Ministries — scores of people milled around, said their hellos, and checked in with the event planners.

“This year’s recipients will include the Foodbank of the Virginia Peninsula, the Central Food Bank of Virginia in Richmond, A Gift From Ben, the Grove Christian Outreach Center, Vibrant Life Ministries and many small churchoperated food programs,” Holley Walling, a retiree on the Board of the Wesley Foundation and the Potato Drop’s coordinator, said.

Representatives from these organizations arrived bright and early as well, waiting with trucks and trailers to be filled with the donated potatoes.

Each organization was allotted a specific number of bags beforehand in order to expedite the process of unloading and reloading, as well as to ensure that they had enough food to provide sustenance to all of the people for whom they would be cooking.

“My favorite part of the event was working together with so many campus and community organizations,” Heather Morris ’12 said. “It was a good opportunity to work together for a good cause and meet new people.”

Over 40 million Americans go hungry,

yet there is plenty of food available to them that simply is not being utilized.

Twenty-five percent of food grown in the United States is never made available to eat and is then viewed as excess or unmarketable, and so it is dumped into landfills. Of the marketable food that is sold in grocery stores, consumers throw away 96 billion pounds each year.

Given this large amount of waste, the goal of the Potato Drop at the College — and similar programs all over the country — is to find this excess food and bring it to people in need.

“Seeing the entire community from William and Mary and Williamsburg coming together to do such a good thing is so important. Hopefully we are raising awareness too,” Blalock said.

Loading and unloading a truck bursting with potatoes is no small feat and could take hours, but with a plethora of willing volunteers and the entire Warhill High School baseball team, the process only took around an hour and a half.

“I think the Potato Drop went really well, overall,” Morris said. “There was a bit of a snag with the [delivery] truck being late, but everyone pulled together and accomplished a lot.”

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Students join the William and Mary Campus Ministries and the Society of St. Andrew in the twelfth annual Potato Drop to alleviate hunger within the community by helping to unload and distribute bags of donated potatoes.

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

The importance of managing great sexpectations

Emphasizing the role of effective communication in intimate relationships

I’m laying next to my partner, spooning in bed on a Sunday morning while we’re engaging in flirtatious banter. We’ve been fooling around for 45 minutes, and he’s posed, ready to enter, when he says something I find insensitive and mildly offensive. In that moment, he wasn’t attractive, wasn’t fun, and wasn’t someone I wanted to sleep with.

It’s so hard to figure out what the right move is in that situation. On one hand, I feel a sense of obligation and a fear of inflicting the everdangerous blue balls. I gave him all the signals that I wanted to have sex, and now I feel like I have to follow through. On the other hand, I have no desire to be in such an intimate situation with someone I’m feeling so negative towards. I can go through with it, feeling emotionally distant

unintentionally do it again.

Fights and disagreements can get in the way of a positive sexual experience, but they certainly aren’t the only things that can. Over the summer, my boyfriend and I lived together across the country. Before we moved out, we always talked about how great it was that we were going to get to have sex. All. The. Time.

But then we had our own apartment, and I would make advances, and he would turn me down. A lot. I thought there was something wrong with me, or with our relationship. I thought to myself, “Aren’t men the ones who are supposed to want to have sex all the time?” I was wrong on a lot of levels.

There was nothing wrong with me, or with our relationship, and it was totally unfair for me to assume that because he was a man he wanted to have sex at all times under all circumstances.

The fact of the matter was that he had started a new job, and he was stressed out and overwhelmed and not feeling sexy. It was so important for us to have that conversation so I could know where he was coming from, emotionally and physically.

It is equally important that

conversations like that happen in such a way that no one feels guilty or obligated.

It is fair for you to be disappointed if a perceived sexcapade doesn’t go as you thought it would, but it’s important to remember that you have no right to

another person’s body, and it is always his or her choice about whether or not to share it with you.

Krystyna Holland is a Behind Closed Doors Columnist and is never afraid to say no, regardless of the situation.

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Krystyna Holland BEhind closed doors columnist

and pissed off, or I can grab him until his balls actually turn blue for being so insensitive. I decide to go for the happy medium. I roll out from underneath him. “Not so fast,” I say. “I can’t believe you just said that.”

When it comes to sex, no one owes anybody anything. I can have sex with the same person every single day for a week, a month, or a year, and if there’s one day I don’t want to, for any reason, we don’t have sex. No matter our history or our previous experience. It’s my right.

That being said, I’m not doing anyone any favors by rolling over and fuming by myself without even telling him what happened. Let’s be honest, no one ever intends to offend someone they’re about to get laid by; it’s just not a good strategy. You can choose to view the inevitable case of blue balls (uncomfortable, but not deathinducing; no one ever died from an erection) as punishment enough, but if the other person doesn’t know what they’re being punished for, you just look like a jerk. More than that, it doesn’t fix the original problem. The other person still doesn’t know that he or she has offended you and is thus more likely to

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Missed opportunities doom Tribe in Fairfax

George Mason takes two of three in weekend series; Tribe falls to 16-10

BY MIKE BARNES FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR

After sweeping James Madison for the first time in CAA play last week, William and Mary entered its weekend series against George Mason hoping to continue to keep pace in the conference.

The College split a Friday doubleheader — narrowly falling 5-4 in the matinee before taking a 6-3 victory in the nightcap — and lost the Sunday series finale, 8-2, in Fairfax, Va. After losing two out of three, the Tribe currently sits in fifth with a 5-4 conference record, 16-10 overall. The Patriots improved to 15-10 on the year and 4-5 in the CAA. The first game of the series got off to a promising start for the College, as the Tribe held a 4-0 advantage going into the bottom of the third inning. Junior second baseman Kevin Nutter, who led the Tribe offense by going 2-for-4, scored in the first inning on a George Mason error, while senior outfielder Stephen Arcure and senior catcher Chris Forsten both added runs in the second inning as well.

In the top of the third, senior left fielder Tadd Bower hit a double down the left field line that scored sophomore first baseman Ryan Lindemuth, giving the College a 4-0 advantage.

After two innings of scoreless work, senior pitcher Matt Davenport allowed the Patriots to get on the board in the

second inning. GMU’s Jake Leonardo scored after Mason second baseman Chris Cook grounded out. After a scoreless fourth, the Patriots continued to erase the Tribe’s lead, scoring a run in the bottom of the fifth inning. George Mason eventually tied it up in the sixth inning, scoring two runs and knotting the score at 4-4.

The College hung on until the eighth inning when GMU’s Blaise Fernandez’s single to right field allowed right fielder Dan Schafferman to score, giving the Patriots a one run advantage. The College had the bases loaded with one out in the top of the ninth, but could not capitalize on the opportunity, leaving the Patriots to escape with a 5-4 victory.

Later that night, the College extracted a bit of revenge after George Mason’s midday victory. The Tribe’s shot at redemption did not start well, as the Patriots managed to hold a 3-2 lead after three innings of play.

Facing a 3-2 hole in the top of the fifth inning, the Tribe’s bats suddenly awoke.

Nutter scored off a Bower sacrifice fly, and freshman first baseman Michael Katz scored junior center fielder Ryan Brown, giving the Tribe its first lead of the day at 4-3. An Arcure double later in the inning allowed Katz and Lindemuth to score, providing the College with a decisive 6-3 edge.

Arcure led the way for the College offensively, going 2-for-4 with a pair of

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The Tribe venutred up to Fairfax with hopes of replicating its earlier sweep of James Madison last week. Instead, the Patriots took two of three.

RBIs, while Nutter provided another good offensive showing, also going 2-for-4.

Senior lefty Cole Shain earned his second victory of the season after allowing just one earned run in six innings of play, while senior reliever Jay McCarthy and junior reliever John Farrell threw three shutout innings. Farrell was credited with the save.

With the series tied at one game apiece, all eyes shifted to the decisive third game.

The Patriots started off Sunday’s game with a pair of runs in the first inning. The

College then evened up the score in the third inning on the strength of a two run offensive inning. Lindemuth notched an RBI that scored Nutter, while Brown scored on a wild pitch from George Mason’s A.J. Johnson.

After a scoreless fourth, the Patriots took control in the fifth inning, exploding for six runs. George Mason batters rattled the Tribe pitchers for three hits in a lengthy sixth inning, which resulted in an 8-2 Patriot lead. The College had an opportunity to cut into the Mason lead

in the top of the eighth with the bases loaded, but the Tribe offense ultimately failed to take advantage.

Junior righthander Matt Wainman pitched 4.1 innings and took the loss for the Tribe, falling to 2-3 on the year. Farrell and freshman relievers J.T. Castner and Jason Inghram pitched the remainder of the contest for the College and allowed zero runs.

The College will get a break from its conference slate when it hosts Richmond Tuesday at Plumeri Park.

College loses late to Penn State

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Junior Nina Vulovich lost to Harvard’s Camille Jania at the No. 3 spot Saturday in a 6-1, 6-3 decision.

Harvard defeats Tribe, 5-2

them for goals. Penn State, meanwhile, recorded 33 shots but was far less efficient, scoring on 9 of its 33 attempts.

Individually, junior attacker Kyrstin Mackrides led the Tribe with three goals on five shots, while four other Tribe players recorded goals in the contest as well. “[Mackrides] definitely stepped up to the plate,” Ireland said. “She is one of the quickest, most dominant players on our team. She is quiet, but she gets the job done, and if we can have her on all the time, she is going to definitely be a much larger threat in the conference season.”

Penn State struck first, as Tatum Coffey scored an unassisted goal with less than a minute after play began. The College did not wait long to retaliate. Sophomore attacker Jenna Dougherty took the feed from freshman attacker Kaleigh Noon and slipped it past Penn State goalkeeper Dana Cahill to tie the contest at one goal apiece with 28 minutes left in the first period.

After Dougherty’s goal, the Tribe continued to out-maneuver the Nittany Lions, scoring two more goals over the next 10 minutes. Mackrides earned her first goal of the day at 25 minutes, 17 seconds into game play while senior midfielder Maggie

Anderson added another score off a Noon assist to make it 3-1 with 17:46 remaining.

Penn State recovered following the 3-0 Tribe run, adding two more goals in the final minutes of the first half. Mackrides connected on her second goal of the day to secure a 4-3 halftime lead for the Tribe.

The College would benefit from Mackrides’ hot hand one last time. Five minutes after play resumed, Mackrides scored her third unassisted goal of the day to put the Tribe up 5-3. Yet the College’s lead would quickly evaporate due to a pair of quick goals

by Penn State’s Molly Fernandez. Fernandez scored off Maggie McCormick’s assist at the 20:24 mark and then added another unassisted goal less than a minute later to even the score at five goals apiece.

From there, the Nittany Lions would go on a 4-2 run to end the game. Sophomore attacker Taelor Salmon gave the Tribe its final lead of the day at the 13:20 mark, which put the College up 7-6, but three straight Penn State goals put the game out of reach for the College.

Despite the disappointing result, the Tribe will seek to improve its fortunes when it begins its conference slate against Old Dominion Sunday.

“If we continue to play like we have against these top 10 teams, the conference schedule should be good competition for us,” Ireland said. “I feel very confident going into our conference season.”

College drops doubles point, claims two singles matches

BY JARED FORETEK FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR

In a showdown that would have made both John Harvard and Queen Mary proud, the two oldest colleges in the nation faced off in the sport of kings Saturday, as Harvard dealt William and Mary a 5-2 setback at the McCormack-Nagelsen Tennis Center.

The loss — the Tribe’s seventh in its last eight matches — dropped the College to 4-13 since the spring season started with the ITA Kickoff Weekend Jan. 27.

At the start, things looked good for the Tribe.

The match opened with the No. 39 doubles pair in the nation, sophomores Maria Belaya and Jeltje Loomans, knocking off the No. 33 duo in the nation, Harvard’s Kristin Norton and Hideko Tachibana, 8-3. Belaya and Loomans, who started off by taking the first four games of the match before holding off a late run from Norton and Tachibana, have now won 12 straight matches at the No. 1 position.

Despite the performance of Loomans and Belaya, however, the Crimson grabbed the doubles point. Shortly after the No. 1 matchup, Harvard ran away with the No. 3 competition, as Samantha Gridley and Camille Jania downed the Tribe’s pairing of juniors Anik Cepeda and Marlen Mesgarzadeh, 8-1. With the doubles point at stake in the No. 2 matchup, Crimson barely edged out the College as senior Katie Kargl and sophomore

Hope Johnson fell to Harvard’s Hannah Morrill and Kelly Whelanm 8-6.

“After winning the first match we were disappointed we didn’t get the doubles point,” head coach Meredith Geiger-Walton said. “We didn’t have every position on board.”

With the 1-0 lead secured, the Crimson maintained its momentum through the singles play, putting separation between itself and the College with two early singles wins.

Tachibana dropped Belaya in straight sets at the No. 1 spot, 6-3, 6-1 before Gridley easily dispatched of Johnson, 6-2, 6-1 in the No. 5 slot.

Loomans stopped the College bleeding at the No. 2 spot, easily taking care of business against Norton, scoring a 6-2, 6-3, victory. But that wouldn’t be enough to turn the tides, as Harvard locked things up when Janie defeated junior Nina Vulovich in the No. 3 slot, 6-1, 6-3.

Even with the overall result decided, the Tribe continued to fight. Cepeda took her No. 4 spot match with Natalie Blosser to three sets, ultimately falling to the Harvard counterpart 3-6, 6-3, 10-4.

Finally, the Tribe scored a moral victory in the final singles match of the day when senior Katie Kargl gutted out a win over Sylvia Li in the No. 6 matchup, 2-6, 7-5, 10-5.

“We call her Rocky for a reason,” Geiger-Walton said. “She just has such a great will to win. She can get into that Rocky mode and just start throwing punches.”

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The College led No. 9 Penn State for the majority of the contest, only to lose its lead late in the second half.

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six. Junior Zach Tennant finished first for the Tribe, in 9:29.90.

“We were told a pace to keep, so we just kept our pace and kept working together, and then afterwards we actually kept on going and

added some more on and used it as a workout to build on our fitness for next week,” Tennant said.

The weather hampered the ability of some athletes to start their spring season on a strong finish. By the time the Colonial Relays come to Zable, however, Walsh expects the entire team to be ready to participate.

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“We were told a pace to keep, so we just kept our pace and kept working together, and then afterwards we actually kept on going and added some more on and used it as a workout to build on our fitness for next week.”

— Junior Zach Tennant on the Tribe’s performance in the 3,000-meter race at the Tribe Invitational, in which Tennant finished first for the College.

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Northwestern placed 18 more shots on goal than the Tribe en route to a 19-7 win over the College. No. 1 Northwestern dismantled the Tribe, outshooting the visiting team 34-9.

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Tribe at Richmond 3 p.m. Tues., Richmond After dropping two of three to George Mason in an important conference-series over the weekend, the College will look to get back on track against the Spiders Tuesday in Richmond.

The Tribe enters the contest with a 16-10 record while the Spiders boast a 13-5 record.

Junior pitcher Brett Koehler will bring his unblemished 2-0 record against Richmond righty Andrew Blum, who enters the contest with a 3-0 record.

lacrosse Tribe vs. Old Dominion 1:30 p.m. Sun., Williamsburg After narrowly falling to No. 9 Penn State, the College will resume action Sunday at Martin Family Stadium when it opens its conference schedule against in-state foe Old Dominion. The Tribe has encountered one of the toughest non-conference schedules in the country and will look to improve its overall record against its conference foes, beginning with the Monarchs.

Tribe fans will be looking to see whether the College offense will continue to improve and resemble a more balanced offensive attack.

Men’s GYMNASTICS USA Gymnastics Collegiate Championships at Air Force Fri., Boulder, Colo.

Following a second place finish in a tri-meet against No. 14 Army and No. 10 Temple, No. 15 William and Mary will seek to cap its regular season off right when it travels to Boulder to compete in the USAG Championships Friday. yards on passing the web per game

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Sophomore attacker Taelor Salmon recorded one goal and one assist against the Nittany Lions. The Tribe led most of the way until midway through the second half, ultimatley succumbing to Penn State.

Tribe hangs tough but falls to No. 9 Penn State, Mackrides scores three goals

BY MIKE BARNES FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR

In a season filled with a treacherous non-conference schedule, William and Mary thought it was getting a break when it faced Richmond last Wednesday. The Spiders, with a losing record, were also one of the first unranked teams the College faced all year. Instead of getting a breather, the Spiders thoroughly defeated the Tribe, sending the squad back to Williamsburg with a disheartening loss.

Just four days later, the College found itself in State College, Pa. seeking to right the ship against yet another top-10 squad, No. 9 Penn State. The Tribe turned in a much better performance this time around, leading for most of the contest before falling 9-7 in a hard-fought

defensive matchup.

“To me, the Richmond game was a fluke,” head coach Brooke Ireland said. “I don’t know what happened that game. I wish I could erase it from my memory. We came out really strong against Penn State, thinking we could win. … Regardless of the score, I came out of there thinking, ‘we did this.’ The score didn’t make that much of a difference to me, it was really how they played together as a team.”

The loss, which drops the College to 2-8 on the season, marks the end of a brutally difficult nonconference schedule. The College went 0-6 against top 10 opponents and was outscored 96-42 over the course of those six contests.

Despite the eventual loss, the Tribe turned in one of its most encouraging performances of the season. The match

was closely contested, as neither team was ahead by more than two goals at any point. The College led the way for the majority of the contest before being usurped by Penn State midway through the second period.

The College played well defensively, limiting Penn State to nine goals — only the second time all season it has held an opponent to under 10 goals. Freshman goalkeeper Lucy Ferguson turned in one of her finest performances of the season, recording 11 saves while allowing just nine goals.

Offensively, the College did not register many shots but was very efficient with its scoring chances. The Tribe managed just 16 shots all game but converted seven of See LACROSSE page 7

TRACK AND FIELD

College notches two qualifications Hardin and McGrath both earn spots in NCAA regional meet after Tribe Invitational

BY CHRIS WEBER FLAT HAT ASSOC. SPORTS EDITOR

The stage was set: Zable Stadium was lit up for a rare nighttime running of the Tribe Invitational’s 10,000 meter race, the temperatures had dropped and the runners were ready. The objective was clear to William and Mary’s runners: They needed to finish in less than 30 minutes, 10 seconds.

With 32 seconds remaining before the 30 minute, 10 second deadline, sophomore Josh Hardin crossed the line with plenty of time to spare. Just 23.24 seconds later, junior Alex McGrath joined his teammate.

“The 10k was great,” director of track and field Stephen Walsh said. “Josh Hardin and Alex McGrath got two spectacular races. We set it up to try to run 29:30, 29:40, and that’s what they did. Those times last year got [runners] into the NCAAs, so that was the purpose of it.

That was the big marquee race of the weekend.”

Hardin and McGrath’s times came in under the IC4A competition-qualifying standard (30:10), and should secure the duo’s spot in the NCAA regional meet later this spring. Hardin’s run is the fastest recorded 10,000 meter run among all Division I NCAA teams so far this year.

“It was very impressive. He’s training really hard right now. He’s just coming off wining the IC4A championship, which not many people have done,” Walsh said of Hardin’s run.

While the 10,000 meter run took place Friday night, the majority of the Tribe Invitational took place on Saturday. William and Mary competed alongside local teams such as VCU, George Mason, Richmond, The University of the District of Columbia and unaffiliated athletes.

“It was a good meet,” Walsh said. “Its March, we’re just opening up, and a lot of this is just getting the kinks out and getting on the 400m track for the first time. We had some good performances, a lot of guys are working hard right now, the training is very high, we’re just trying to get things started.”

Junior Katie Buenaga led the way for the women in the 1500-meter race, finishing in 4:36.94. Junior Michelle

Britto came in third at 4:38.45, while senior Avery Mattingly finished fifth at 4:45.36 for the Tribe.

In the men’s 1500-meter race, sophomore David Gunnerson crossed the line at 3:58.17 for the win.

Freshman Ian MacFawn finished in 4:03.03 for fourth place. Other highlights included junior Ben Katz winning the long jump with a 6.96-meter jump while redshirted senior Natalie Baird won the discus throw with a 45.47 meter toss.

The men’s 100-meter dash provided some entertainment, as unaffiliated William and Mary alum

McAulay won the race in 11.06 seconds, followed closely by freshman Michael Monti and Katz, 11.52 and 11.54, respectively.

As rain began to pour, proceedings paused for roughly twenty minutes to let the heaviest rain pass. Coming out of the delay, officials decided to cancel the remaining events and only run the men’s 3000-meter race.

While two unaffiliated runners finished first and second, a pack of Tribe runners rounded out the top See TRACK page 7

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Despite the rain, junior Katie Buenaga (right) led the way for the Tribe women in the 1500-meter race, finishing with a time of 4:36.94.