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Election 2012

Race for White House runs past campus College political groups kick off campaign season by steven lovern // flat hat staff writer With only 53 days left until the Nov. 6 presidential election, the eyes of the nation are turning to Virginia to see if the new battleground state will change colors as it did in 2008.

President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney have become almost as common a sight as state congressional candidates in the state of Virginia. Romney announced his vicepresidential pick, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, on a fitting platform — the USS Wisconsin in Norfolk. Not 17 days later, Obama called on young voters from Charlottesville to go to the voting booths as they did four years earlier.

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Crime

Fake firearm causes alarm

administration

Money issues dominate campus forum President and Rector of the College emphasize College financial issues

Incident still under investigation

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Financial woes took center stage at the annual campus forum hosted by College of William and Mary President Taylor Reveley and the Board of Visitors Rector Jeffrey Trammell ’73 Tuesday.

Reveley and Trammell used the forum as an opportunity for community members to address questions and concerns with College leaders.

When asked by Barbette Spaeth of the Classics department how the College planned to raise revenue, Reveley explained his desire to open the College up to more out-of-state students. “[We] want to have more out-of-state students, or as I like to call them, ‘bags of gold with feet,’” Reveley said. “They really pull a lot of the weight around here.”

Both Reveley and Trammell also expressed a desire for greater philanthropy from alumni. Reveley urged the students in attendance to contribute to the College.

A student encountered a person brandishing a fake firearm at the Graduate Complex Wednesday night.

In an email to students Thursday afternoon, Vice President for Administration Anna Martin stated that the student heard sounds similar to a cap pistol and saw the suspect brandish what the witness thought to be a gun while near the Green Line bus stop at the Grad Complex.

“I have no idea why someone would do this,” William and Mary Police Chief Don Challis said. “I hope to find that out when we talk to the person.”

According to Challis, officers at the scene determined that the gun was a fake replica.

“Based on what we heard from the victim and the fact that we didn’t see any shell casings, we concluded that it was a gun replica,” Challis said.

The suspect was described as a white male in his 20s, tall and bald, and of muscular build. Police stated that he was wearing a See firearm page 6

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Tish Lyte, a Senior Assistant Dean of Admissions, addressed the issue of merit financial aid at the Campus Forum.

“Donate [money], even if all you have is $25,” Reveley said. “Vote for William and Mary with your $25.”

Inside opinions

The rise of online courses

With the use of technology, it is now possible to teach a class of over 100,000 students. For the College to stay competitive, we need to keep up. page 7

Inside SPORTS

When asked by a sophomore to explain See forum page 6

Kuhn’s unconventional approach Junior place kicker and punter Drake Kuhn isn’t your average student, athlete, or punter. page 8

THE PULSE

ALL THE NEWS THAT’S UNFIT TO PRINT

According to the Williamsburg-Yorktown Daily, Busch Gardens released details on its annual fall event, Howl-O-Scream, this past weekend. This year’s Howl-O-Scream will run every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from Sept. 14 to Oct. 28. A new plant-themed haunted maze called “Root of All Evil” will be added to the park’s usual lineup of interactive Halloween attractions. “Over the past several years we have increased the intensity level of Howl-O-Scream,” Busch Gardens’ spokesman Kevin Crossett said. “The event this year may be too intense for small children. Parental guidance is strongly suggested.”

Busch Gardens also announced plans for an as of yet unnamed international food festival next year.

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THE BUZZ

[We] want to have more out-of-state students, or as I like to call them, ‘bags of gold with feet.’ ... They really pull a lot of the weight around here.

—College President Taylor Reveley

BEYOND THE ‘BURG

Berkeley Middle School has launched a pilot program to see if segregating students into same-sex classes affects academic performance, according to the Virginia Gazette. Currently, 350 of the school’s students separate for their Civics and Science classes every other day. The program was launched after assistant principal Ed Van Dyke ran a same-sex summer school program where about 80 percent of teachers said students seemed more focused and driven. “With the hormones, distractions are natural at this age,” principal Karen Swann said. “We wanted to see if there would be an impact.”

A Newport News man was arrested last week for purchasing about $1,000 in gasoline from a Yorktown Wawa with stolen credit cards, according to the Williamsburg-Yorktown Daily. Police said the man was caught in his Ford F-150 truck purchasing $625 in gas and 22 gift cards encoded with stolen credit card numbers. He was arrested on the scene for public intoxication and was later charged with additional counts of stolen property.

According to The Washington Post, a Virginia woman found a painting by renowned impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir at a flea shop for a mere seven dollars. The painting is dated 1879 and is titled “Paysage Bords de Seine,” or “Landscape on the Banks of the Seine.”

It sat in her shed for two years until she took it to Alexandria-based auction house Potomack Company for appraisal. The auction house predicts the painting could sell for as much as $100,000. “This is definitely an extraordinary case, especially because of the woman’s colorful story,” Elizabeth Wainstein, Potomack’s owner, said. “Usually when people have things that we’re able to authenticate, they aren’t pieces by such recognized artists or [of] such historical value.”

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Former University of Alabama at Huntsville professor Amy Bishop is escorted by police during a court hearing at the Madison County Courthouse Sept. 11, 2012, where she pleaded guilty to the 2010 murders of three fellow faculty members during a tenure-related dispute.

College student shot and killed at party in Florida

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According to The Huffington Post, Brandon Benjamin, a student at Full Sail University in Florida, was shot at a party in the early hours of Monday morning. As police broke up the party, which occurred at a student housing complex known as The Gathering, a man shot a pump-action shotgun into the air out of a pickup truck. According to witnesses, Benjamin approached the shooter and yelled at him to stop; the shooter then turned the gun on Benjamin and opened fire. Police arrested 18-year-old Charles Dessus and charged him with first-degree murder. According to police, Dessus and Benjamin did not know each other.

Former professor pleads guilty in murder case Amy Bishop pleaded guilty to one count of capital murder involving two or more people and three counts of attempted murder in Huntsville, Alabama. The former biology professor at the University of Alabama opened fire Feb. 12, 2010 at a faculty meeting, killing three faculty members and wounding three others. The shooting was brought about after Bishop found she would not receive tenure from the school, which would have led to her dismissal from the school faculty. Bishop’s lawyers said she had planned to use an insanity defense during earlier pleas of not guilty. In 1986, Bishop was charged with killing her 18-yearold brother in Massachusetts, but the case was ruled an accident when Bishop claimed she was trying to unload her father’s gun, and was subsequently dismissed. The 2010 University of Alabama murders led to a renewed investigation into the earlier case.

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Professor breast-feeds during lecture American University professor Adrienne Pine has become a controversial character in the academic world. According to The Washington Post, Pine’s daughter could not attend her normal childcare due to illness, so instead Pine brought her along to her first lecture in a feminist anthropology course.

When the child began to fuss, Pine decided to breast-feed her daughter in front of her students. According to The Huffington post, reactions to the event are split; some students found it inappropriate, while others viewed it as natural. In online posts, Pine maintains that the event was not a publicity stunt.

Course Curriculum sparks negative alumni response Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio is a Catholic institution and offers a variety of courses in its curriculum.

One of these courses called Deviant Behavior, which covers the sociological theories of deviant behavior, is beginning to receive attention due to controversial teachings, specifically by equating homosexuality with deviant behavior such as rape, murder and prostitution. According to The Huffington Post, members of the Franciscan University Gay Alumni and Allies were alarmed when they read the course description online. They were met with the threat of a lawsuit when they tried to voice their concerns. The university claims it is following the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, which regards homosexual acts as “intrinsically disordered,” but advocates the treatment of homosexual persons with “respect, compassion and sensitivity.”

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Monday, September 3 — $180.00 in cash was stolen from the Student Recreation Center.

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Thursday, September 6 — A bicycle with an estimated value of $200.00 was stolen from 300 Richmond Rd.

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Friday, September 7 — Four bicycles were stolen from 100 Rolfe Rd. The values of the bicycles were estimated at $400.00, $90.00, $300.00 and $300.00.

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Saturday, September 8 — Two students were arrested for underage possession of alcohol near the Alumni House on Gooch Drive. Both were released on a summons.

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Sunday, September 9 — Damage was reported to a vehicle at 100 Wake Drive. The damage was estimated to be $200.00.

NEWS IN BRIEF Physics professor to appear in video Patricia Vahle, an assistant professor at the College of William and Mary, will appear in a video explaining the investigation of neutrinos.

Neutrinos are mysterious, flavor-shifting particles and are one of the most abundant particles in the universe. Vahle is working on the video entitled “NOvA: Exploring Neutrino Mysteries” with a group of other physicists.

Studying neutrinos is difficult because they change flavors, or oscillations, mid-flight.

The video aims to tell other physicists about a certain parameter known as theta onethree and will add information on the mass of neutrinos. The particles are so light that for a long time they were thought to be massless.

History professor reexamines slavery Associate professor of history Brett Rushforth’s new book, “Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France,” examines the 17th century idea among the French that Native Americans were unfit for slavery due to their untamable qualities.

According to Rushforth, this idea was used to validate African slaveholding in the new world.

In his book, Rushforth describes and compares slaveholding practices in the Caribbean and in New France along the St. Lawrence River Valley. The work includes personal accounts based on the enslaved natives’ experiences to piece together a comprehensive reexamination of slavery.

Author to visit education school According to the Virginia Gazette, David Baldacci, author of “Absolute Power”— now a Clint Eastwood film — and most recently, “The Innocent,” will visit the William and Mary School of Education Oct. 10. Tickets will be $60, and proceeds will go toward the Literacy for Life and the Wish You Well Foundation, the latter of which has been run by Baldacci’s family since its establishment in 2002. The event will include wine and hor d’ourves at the reception as well as a silent auction. Baldacci is a native Virginian, and all of his 24 novels have been bestsellers. “The Innocent” remains in the Top 100 on the bestseller lists after reaching No. 1 in April.

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Crime

Man falsely accused of rape released Trial involving rape of College student in 1978 takes new turn after DNA testing

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At 1:50 p.m. on Feb. 7, 1978, a female student at the College of William and Mary emerged from the Parkway Apartments on Merrimac Trail to an unfamiliar face.

“He was standing in the doorway when I opened the door. He just stood there,” the victim — identified only by her initials in court documents — told police later that afternoon. “I said, ‘Oh, you scared me.’ He said, ‘I meant to.’”

The assailant — described as a young black male wearing a blue beanie and suede coat — then pulled a small, silver revolver from his pocket, held it to the victim’s head, led her back into the apartment, and raped her.

“He told me to stay there and not move and to count to 100,” the victim told police moments after the incident occurred. “If I screamed or stopped counting, he would kill me.”

A week later, the victim identified her alleged attacker from a group of 19 mug shot photos. The next day, Feb. 15,1978, City of Williamsburg police officers arrested Bennett S. Barbour

at his home in Charles County on the count of first degree rape.

On April 28 of that year, the court sentenced Barbour to 10 years imprisonment for the crime.

However, recent DNA analysis — unavailable at the time — has eliminated Barbour as a contributor to the biological evidence found at the scene of the crime; he was innocent.

And on May 24, the Virginia Supreme Court granted a writ of actual innocence to the now divorced 56-year-old with bone cancer.

The Innocence Project Clinic at the University of Virginia Law School compared the evidence with criminal records and implicated previouslyconvicted sex offender James M.Glass.

Glass was tried earlier this year for failure to register as a violent sex offender on unrelated charges. His trial for the 1978 rape, originally scheduled for this summer, is slated to begin early this December.

Major Greg Riley of the Williamsburg Police Department, the lead on the reopened investigation, discussed some of the issues involved with following 30-year-old leads.

“When you get information on a case, the first thing you want to do is speak to victims, witnesses about the case. And that doesn’t change in this case; it just made locating this subject a bit more difficult,” he said. “Understandably, eyewitness testimony can be difficult.

It’s going to depend on the recall of the individual you’re talking to. When you rely on eyewitness testimony in any case, you try to corroborate that with other witnesses.”

This new genetic evidence appears to corroborate with existing forensics and the testimony of three witnesses who corroborated Barbour’s alibi at the time of the crime.

“In addition, the available forensic evidence did not implicate Barbour,” Assistant Attorney General II Alice T. Armstrong wrote in the state’s response to Barbour’s petition for innocence.

“For example, the hairs the police collected from the apartment were ‘not consistent’ with Barbour. Likewise, fingerprint analysis eliminated Barbour as the source of the latent fingerprints collected from the apartment.”

According to Department of Corrections records, Barbour spent

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Bennett Barbour, falsely accused of rape in 1978, received a writ of actual innocence in May 2012.

four years in prison on unrelated grand larceny and breaking-and-entering charges until his parole in 1982.

Barbour served 324 days in custody as a result of the rape conviction, from May 1986 until March 1987.

williamsburg

SA President addresses City Council members Curt Mills cites strained relationship between College students and law enforcement by meredith ramey flat hat assoc. news editor

The Williamsburg City Council heard from College of William and Mary President Curt Mills ’13 at their Thursday meeting.

Mills addressed a number of successes experienced both in the past few years and in the past few weeks. He thanked the council for their part in the introduction of new establishments to Williamsburg, specifically the recently added Tribe Square Apartments, Dog Street Pub and Brickhouse Tavern.

Mills also discussed voter registration on campus and in the city as a whole.

“The public affairs department … is the largest it has ever been,” Mills said. “The voter base is expanding. Just this semester alone, we have gotten over 400 students, in three weeks, registered to vote.”

Mills also raised concerns about the relationship between the student body and Williamsburg law enforcement.

“Student confidence and trust in Williamsburg

law enforcement is dangerously low at this point,” Mills said.

Mills encouraged the council to remember that social life is a universal part of college life. He also reminded the Council that when the new Greek housing complex is completed, it will hold fewer students and may cause many students to move off campus.

The Council also discussed changes proposed by Reed Nester for the Riverside Health Care Association that would alter parking and yard delineations in the construction area. The Council approved the ordinance for the special use permit.

“I think a lot of the feeling is to make sure we are not requiring more parking spaces than are actually needed,” Nester said.

The Council also discussed city manager reports, including the state taxation of localities to fund state projects. The Council called on the state government to put an end to this taxation.

The council also approved the purchase of a 1.75 acre property and four ordinances proposed at the meeting to adjust the city code.

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Vice Mayor Paul Freiling ‘83, Mayor Clyde Haulman, and council member Judith Knudson gather at a council debate last spring.

Candidate-specific groups spring up on campus Students start canvassing, holding phone banks and registering students to vote for the November election William and Mary College Republicans The College Republicans have been the conservative voice on campus As political campaigns move into high gear in the home stretch of the since 1976. Tyler Johnson ’13, the election, the political battlefield has organization’s chairman, was excited to spread to the College of William and see that this election has jumpstarted Mary. Traditional College political involvement and education in the organizations have joined forces political process, most specifically with newer organizations that have regarding different candidates and developed as a result of the election. ideologies.

Johnson noted that turnout for College Republicans are joined by the Young Americans for Romney and the club’s initial meeting was strong William and Mary Students for Romney despite common misconceptions while William and Mary for Obama about the group.

“Republicans are often wrongly joins the Young Democrats. dismissed as a collection of ‘rich, white guys,’” Johnson said in an email. “This could not be farther from the truth, especially here at William and Mary.

We have a great diversity within our membership, by gender, hometown, economic status, etc. The only aspect we are all similar in is the fact that we support the party of Lincoln and believe in the core principles of conservatism. I challenge anyone who harbors these misconceptions to come to one of our meetings or events so that they can see for themselves the extent of our membership.” graphic by patricia radich / THE FLAT HAT The College

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Republicans have gathered top conservative voices to rally Republican voters in the coming months. Republican Party of Virginia Chairman Pat Mullins has already addressed the group.

Congressman Rob Whitman (VA1), Virginia Senate Majority Leader Tommy Norment, and Virginia Attorney General and 2013 gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli are some of the future speakers.

simplifying the financial aid system, welcoming private sector participation . . . replacing burdensome regulations with innovation and competition.”

They stressed that it is easy for students to get involved in any of these organizations. College Republicans and members of each organization for Romney can be found tabling at public meetings, knocking on doors and phone banking.

Young Americans for Romney/ William and Mary Students for Romney Romney’s campaign message on campus is also being channeled by organizations specifically geared toward the 2012 election. Madelaine Spangler ’13, Chairwoman of the Young Americans for Romney, and David Branton ’13, Chairman of the William & Mary Students for Romney, hope to show what Romney and the Republicans intend to do for the everyday student.

Spangler and Branton noted that Obama’s higher education and economic policies contrasted with the Romney-Ryan economic plan for a stronger middle class.

“Unlike President Obama, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will put jobs first so those graduating from college can find a job and achieve the American dream,” Spangler and Branton said in an email. “Governor Romney has proposed a number of initiatives to strengthen our education system and lower tuition costs, including strengthening and

William and Mary Young Democrats Zach Woodward ’14, president of the Young Democrats, sees the election as a time for the nation to come together and decide which vision they want to follow.

Supporting the incumbent in the presidential election, the group works to canvass for politicians around campus in the fall, but Woodward stressed that the group’s and political affiliations are broad.

“Because of the media and stereotypes that surround campus activism, some people may think we’re an exclusively liberal club,” Woodward said in an email. “I’ll say with 100 percent confidence that no one ideology dominates our membership. We have liberals, moderates, conservatives, and people who don’t quite fit into any label.

Like our party, our club is a big tent; all are welcome.”

The group has sponsored a campus visit from Adam Cook this past week.

Cook is the Democratic candidate running against Rep. Rob Whitman in Virginia’s 1st District.

William and Mary for Obama Another blue organization which has sprouted on campus specifically for the campaign season is William and Mary for Obama, the College arm of Organizing for America.

Organizing for America Fellow Noah Kim ’13 emphasized the pertinence of Obama’s policies for college students.

“President Obama has consistently supported [students],” Kim said.

“President Obama doubled funding to Pell Grants and created the American Opportunity Tax Credit, worth as much as $10,000 over four years of school, making college more affordable to millions of Americans.”

Kim also contrasted Obama’s policies with Romney’s plans.

“Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan’s plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act, make deep cuts to Pell Grants and eliminate tax credits for recent college grads in debt, and Romney [is] telling students to ‘shop around’ for college or just ‘borrow money from your parents’ rather than working to make higher education more accessible and affordable,” Kim said.

Many members of the Young Democrats join Kim and members of William and Mary for Obama for doorto-door campaigning every Saturday.

William and Mary for Obama also hosts phone banks every Tuesday. Kim and fellow members can also be seen conducting voter registration drives every weekday during lunch and dinner hours outside of the dining halls and at 8 p.m. nightly outside of Swem.

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the stories behind the history

This historic town is not filled with colonists — it is filled with actors. While they teach visitors about a Revolutionary War-era history, they have histories of their own to share as well.

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As a child growing up in Chesterfield, Va., Bill Rose and his friends fought in World War II. From their PT boat, they battled the Nazis and the Japanese — at least until their mothers called them in to dinner. Suddenly the jungle gym was no longer a war boat, just swings and a slide. Rose played these games and dreamed of becoming a fighter pilot for the Navy — he loved World War II games, but he hated history.

“I wasn’t a good student — hated history, didn’t care a thing for it,” Rose said. “But that’s changed.”

Despite his apathy toward his education, Rose became the first in his family to graduate from high school. While working as a houseman at an inn, he met a woman at a Star Trek fan club who checked tickets in Colonial Williamsburg. She convinced him that it was an easy job and he decided to join her. The woman became his first wife, and Rose has been working in Colonial Williamsburg ever since.

Rose did not simply forsake his former goals and dive immediately into life as a historical interpreter. Soon after arriving in Williamsburg, Rose joined the Navy Reserves, as he had always planned to do as a child. After spending several months in Okinawa, Rose returned and began to juggle his weekends with the Reserves and his job as an orientation interpreter.

“I did that for three years,” Rose said. “I transferred over to Military Programs and did that for seven. Then I was a character interpreter for a couple of years before Revolutionary City was created, and I’ve been doing that ever since.”

In Military Programs, Rose had the opportunity to satisfy the child inside him who missed fighting Nazis in the backyard by studying military history. Later on in Revolutionary City — a two-day tour that brings guests through the years leading up to, during and following the Revolutionary War — Rose faced a challenge: The interpretation was scripted, and Rose did not count memorizing lines among his strengths.

“I have a mind like a steel trap, and unfortunately, it’s a mouse trap because I cannot memorize a line to save me,” Rose said. “These poor people get out there working with me and have no idea what’s coming out of my mouth. Hopefully, usually, I’ve got the idea.”

Deirdre Jones ’08, a coworker of Rose’s, acknowledged that Rose has a tendency to stray from the script.

“It keeps us in the moment, that’s for sure,” Jones said.

Ironically, it is history — the subject that Rose despised growing up — that saves Rose in these times of crisis.

“My default button is the history,” he said. “For example, for a brief time I portrayed Peyton Randolph and … I was standing on the steps of the Raleigh [Tavern] doing ‘Gale from the North,’ when we get word of the British attacking from Lexington. … My greatest fear is to stand there and just gape like a fish: ‘I don’t know what I’m supposed to say!’ So the default button hit, and I started — hopefully — dramatically interpreting until I could get my brain to click back onto the script. That’s an ongoing challenge for me.”

It is with this greater appreciation of history that Rose has raised his two children. His second wife, fellow actor-interpreter Lee Ann Rose, portrays Martha Washington. The stories of revolutionary America that Rose has surrounded himself with have had as strong an impact on his perspective as the events that he has actually lived through.

“It’s kind of made me what I am, as much as anything else in my past,” Rose said.

“The big surprise is I never saw it coming.”

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When many students at the College of William and Mary imagine their lives four years after graduation, they usually don’t picture themselves still walking down Duke of Gloucester Street every day, stopping to give directions to tourists or even still taking classes about all things colonial. However, these things are all aspects of the job Deirdre Jones ’08 has been doing since graduation.

Jones, an actor-interpreter who majored in theater, began working on a project in Colonial Williamsburg during her final year at the College.

“I was having a rough year with getting cast and getting older … and classes, all the fun college stuff,” she said. “My friend Louis, who was also a theater major, was like, ‘Do you have a headshot and resume?’ and he took it somewhere, apparently here. I got an email a few weeks later from Abigail Schumann, who wanted to invite me to a private audition for Freedom Bound, an electronic field trip. It was great, it was exciting, it was scary and it was something that I had never done before.”

A few months later, Jones received an offer for a more permanent job as an actorinterpreter in Colonial Williamsburg, which she accepted.

“It started out about theater and trying to find work, trying to find an acting job,” she said. “I didn’t expect to find an acting job so quickly, so it was very much a blessing to find a job as an actor.”

However, Jones explained that quickly jumping into colonial life was no easy task.

“I started out by coming here and sort of came and walked around, and I thought, ‘There’s no way I can do this,’” she said. “I was very much intimidated.”

Jones started work in June, which presented an added difficulty, since training sessions for actor-interpreters take place in the winter.

“It was very overwhelming,” she said. “I would go out with somebody else who had been there longer and listen to the interpretations and try to be a sponge.”

To get in character, Jones took advantage of being able to pick up knowledge and skills from those around her. For instance, to gain the necessary skills for her portrayal of a cook, she spent time at Colonial Foodways, learning how exactly food was prepared during the colonial era.

“I was able to go over to spend time with Foodways to get some hands-on cooking,” she explained. “I have butchered two pigs. And I mean, that’s not really something we do nowadays. You go to the supermarket and pick out the meat you want … but once you’ve butchered one animal, you can butcher anything.”

In addition to learning new skills, Jones said that one of the best parts of the job is being able to relate to the tourists through her character.

“There are some things that don’t change,” she explained. “There’s different life things, like life, death, birth, marriage, love, that are things our guests can relate to, that have been around and are going to be around. I have loved trying to create personal stories for these people.”

She added that working as a colonial actor-interpreter has also influenced the way she views her own life.

“The job affects me in a way that has really opened my eyes,” she said. “I’m humbled by the experience of portraying the people I portray here. There’s a lot of weight to it … it’s affected how I look at everything, even how I look at what’s going on today.”

Some of this weight comes from Jones’ portrayal of slaves in the colonial era. When she’s not working, Jones likes to take a break from Colonial Williamsburg and spend time with family and friends, just to get some space from the issues that sometimes accompany her job.

“When I do have time to myself, I try to get away if I can,” she said. “I don’t live in the historic area. I like to go and think about something else because there are still issues, and the ripples of American slavery are still being felt today. We’re still dealing with it, or in some cases, choosing not to deal with it. It’s good for me to decompress.”

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Fashion staples of the 18th century

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Cocked hat: there are several ways to wear this traditional three-pointed hat.

Queue: used to tie back men’s hair, which was customarily worn long.

Crevat: necktie, sometimes made of leather with a buckle Waistcoat: pronounced “wes-kit” Coat: distinguishable from a jacket by its length.

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Straw hat Cap: similar to a bonnet Kerchief Fitted jacket Stays: a corset with straps worn under jacket Apron Petticoat: this is sometimes paired with an under petticoat Shift: light gown worn under clothes

GLOSSARY COLONIAL TERMS GlossaryOF of colonial terms How do you fair? How do you do? This expression was often abbreviated and eventually became the modern day greeting, “Howdy.”

Necessary: Restroom. Also called the jake.

Dinner: Modern day lunch. This was the primary meal of the day, and often was the only hot meal. The other two meals were often leftovers from this meal. Modern day dinner was called supper.

Huzzah: May be derived from “Hussar,” the name of a 15th century Hungarian cavalry. One theory is that when the Hussars were victorious in battle they would shout their name, which later evolved into the cheer that we now associate with the colonial era.

Aye: Yes. Nay: No. God save the king: A patriotic expression typical of the period that often carried political connotations.

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Cuccinelli questions government boundaries Attorney General discusses federalism and the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act’s mandate bY katherine downs the Flat hat

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli painted a picture of a federal government overstepping its boundaries in regard to states’ rights in his speech Thursday afternoon at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law. “When we don’t have enough politicians in Washington who adhere to the constitution and rein in the exercises and power by the federal government, then state attorneys general acting on behalf of their states become the last line in the federalism defense against the federal government,” Cuccinelli said.

He emphasized the obligation of the attorney general’s office to defend the constitution of the United States as well as the constitution of Virginia.

“The main interest from an attorney general’s perspective is observing the rule of law and making sure the federal government stays within its boundaries,” Cuccinelli said.

During his speech, Cuccinelli focused on what he views as the unconstitutional nature of the Affordable Care Act and the legal backlash from many states against the government mandate requiring all

citizens to have health insurance.

“It is federalism in action … It hasn’t been exercised a whole lot in the last hundred years or so, though it has always been here and there, rarely on things as substantial as the federal health care bill,” Cuccinelli said. “That is the only instance I am aware of in American history where over half of the states were plaintiffs against the federal government to protect the U.S. Constitution,” Cuccinelli said.

Cuccinelli’s main concern is the future implications of the federal mandate due to its power to require that all Americans buy a product — health insurance — for the public good.

“It is concerning to me that four justices thought that a majority of the Congress and the Senate can order you to buy whatever they want you to buy,” Cuccinelli said. “They had an interest in the automobile industry as well and could have ordered us all to buy a car every three years, and the price would have been very similar.”

According to Cuccinelli, the health care bill originally required states to expand their Medicaid budgets to cover more people or the federal government would pull all of its funding for Medicaid.

In Virginia, half of the Medicaid budget

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Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli presented a talk about ““Balancing Power: Federalism, the State, and Individual Rights” at the Law School Thursday.

comes from the government.

“To many of our surprise, it was found unconstitutionally coercive of states by a vote of 7-2,” he said.

The crowd was made up of law students, professors, and undergraduates, including French exchange student Victor Granier ’15,

who agreed with Cuccinelli’s argument about the U.S. federalist system.

“I think his argument was pretty persuasive. I definitely understand that you cannot force people to take health care. That’s not what federal government aims at, forcing people to buy something,” Granier said.

Some students took issue with Cuccinelli’s approach to attacking the health care law through the legal system.

“I have my position on that, which is that the remedy is political; if you don’t like federal overreach, vote in senators who won’t do it, and he has his opinion,” Danny Muchoki J.D. ’13 said.

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Senators push to increase campus awareness of SA New SA bill to fund 4,000 koozies with revised medical amnesty policy displayed on back bY meredith ramey Flat hat assoc. news editor

New legislation before the Student Assembly at their Tuesday meeting focused on ways to better the image of student government, including paying for koozies stamped with the SA logo.

“We’ve been talking about how to better the image of the Student Assembly,” senator Colin Danly ’15 said. “Not that it is a bad image, but that it is pretty much nonexistent.”

The Senate introduced the Better Education Efforts of Responsibility Act, or BEER. “[The Policy Committee] completely revitalized the medical amnesty policy last year,” Secretary of Student Life and leader of the project Dallen McNerney ’14 said. “We figured why not do something that might be around in possible amnesty situations, so we went with drink koozies that say ‘Know your amnesty rights’ and have the amnesty policy on the back.”

The koozies will include the SA logo and approximately 4,000 koozies will be purchased and distributed to students for free. Senate Chair Kendall Lorenzen ’15 sent the bill to Outreach, Finance and Student Life Committees for further discussion.

The What Can the SA do for You Act, spearheaded by senator Colin Danly ‘15, will fund the creation of stickers reminding and informing students of the efforts of the SA and programs the SA has made possible.

“This bill basically gives money, which has yet

to be determined, to the Outreach Department and the Executive to buy a bunch of stickers with the SA logo and one big accomplishment like the Dalai Lama on it,” Danly said.

Lorenzen sent the bill to Outreach, Finance, and Student Life Committees for further discussion.

The New Organization Funding Act will look to establish a method for funding new organizations on campus that were not created in time to apply for funding. Lorenzen sent the bill to the Finance Committee for further discussion.

The Senate also confirmed Appeals Committee and Review Board nominees in their meeting Tuesday. Senators also discussed a number of new and returning initiatives to be considered throughout the coming semesters.

The senate unanimously approved the confirmation of Evan Maraist ’14 to the Student Assembly Review Board.

“I love the judicial branch,” Maraist said. “[It’s] objectively judging everyone on the same scale.”

The senate also unanimously confirmed eight new members of the Appeals Committee, including Chris Connolly ’15, Rachel Fybel ’14, Niall Garrahan ’14, Becky Keitelman ’15, Matt Paganussi ’14, Stephanie Plunett ’14, Alex Rodriguez ’13 and Natalia Stewart ’15. The Senate tabled the confirmation of TJ O’Sullivan and Sean Youn due to their absence at the meeting, “[The committee is] used when a student has a conduct violation and has to go to the honor council and be reviewed by their system,” Lorenzen

Leaders pleased at path Eastern Virginia Medical School still up in the air FORUM from page 1

the necessity of mandatory meal plans, the answer was framed in financial terms: Reveley and Trammell referred to the monetary need to make meal plans mandatory for on-campus students starting with the class of 2015.

Faculty and students also asked questions regarding the possible medical school merger.

When chemistry professor Lisa Landino asked if the medical school was a done deal, Reveley said there was no certainty about the merger as of yet.

“It is on the other side of the tunnel … [and] though we would naturally assume they would be so lucky to become our medical school, they have some decisions to make, too,” Reveley said.

Reveley noted that the process of merging with EVMS would likely take until 2015 to complete, if the merger even happens.

Both leaders are pleased with the path the College is on.

“We are here to discuss general ongoing projects, such as the medical school … [but] as far as I can tell, everything is going smashingly well, which is a fantastic way to start the year,” Reveley said.

Trammell echoed Reveley’s sentiments.

“We are moving in the direction we need to go, but we always look for ways to innovate,” Trammell said.

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Student Assembly VIce President Melanie Levine ’13 presides over the weekly Student Assembly meetings held in Morton Hall.

said. “If they are given a sanction, they don’t feel is appropriate, they can go to the appeals committee.”

Senators also discussed a number of pieces of old business, many of which are continued initiatives from the spring semester. These include The Economist and Wall Street Journal Act, the HPV Vaccine Subsidization Act, His Holiness at the College Act, SA Presidential Runoff Act, and

the Voter Registration Act. The Economist and Wall Street Journal Act works to provide copies of the publications to students for free. According to Senator Jimmy Zhang ’15, the SA Presidential Runoff Act, which would reconfigure voting for the SA Presidential election and was spurred by the spring’s contentious elections, will be reassessed due to finances and logistics.

Gun replica exposed at Law School Police say incident poses no significant threat FIREARM from page 1

gray shirt and khaki pants and drove away in a gray or silver Mini Cooper with Virginia tags.

The police believe that the suspect is not an immediate threat to the community.

“If we thought it was a significant threat, we would have notified the community last night,” Challis said.

The incident is still under investigation.

“We don’t know if the suspect is a student,”

Director of University Relations Brian Whitson said in an email. “A student who violates any state or federal law could also face the campus disciplinary action. If the person is not a student, it would be handled through the public courts system.”

William and Mary Police asked that any students with more information about the incident contact the department. According to Challis, this is the first reported incident of someone brandishing a fake firearm.

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Staff Editorial

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When classes span across continents someone to complete all the requirements for a college degree from half a world away. College students will also have the option to engage in courses that interest them but aren’t offered nearby — anyone can find the exact material they want to learn, as long as someone in the world is teaching it.

Flat Hat Staff Columnist The logistics of massively expanding class sizes will restrict some courses more than others. It’s much easier for software programs to grade thousands of math exams The higher education world was taken aback last year when than thousands of English essays. However, the expansion Sebastian Thrun, vice president of Google and professor at of online resources will facilitate the collaboration of more Stanford University, offered a robotics course to the largest class anyone’s ever heard of: 160,000 students. With the power people engaged in the same subject, which means there will be more people who can answer your questions and of the Internet and educational software, Thrun was able to help you study. give the same assignments and tests to people from dozens We’re not likely to be the most affected here at the of different countries, at no cost. Although a lot of them College of William and Mary, where in-state students can outperformed even the best Stanford students, no one outside get a good degree that doesn’t break the bank. The schools the actual classroom was receiving any credit. But that’s just that are most at risk are those that are expensive but not one of a number of possible outcomes that the Internet can very reputable. Niche opportunities will open up, but bring to bigger and more diverse audiences. Efforts to provide there’s no hope for maintaining the one-size-fits-all status course materials online, spearheaded by Harvard and MIT, are still in their earliest stages, but they’re already being talked quo. When a student can take classes from five different schools in a single semester, charging about as the future of global education. someone $50,000 a year isn’t going to Innovative schools looking to curb Anyone can find the exact cut it. the exploding costs of a college degree These changes aren’t likely to will find it redundant to pay professors material they want to radically alter the lives of any current to give the same lecture dozens of learn, as long as someone students. But we should be prepared times throughout their careers, to a few in the world is teaching it. for the future. I know we at the students at a time. We now live in a College are very fond of our traditions world where anyone can access a preand that we study basically the same way our predecessors recorded lecture, and anyone can have a conversation with did 300 years ago. However, the use of technology in the professor about the material without needing to be in the education, particularly its role in eliminating distance, isn’t same room. No more 8 a.m. lectures — class will be whenever a fad; it’s coming and it will force schools to change the way you want it to be, fitting the needs of students who demand they do business. Instead of reacting to inevitable change, more and more flexibility each year. the College should anticipate a number of possible ways This doesn’t mean that college as we know it is going online learning could affect the way it does business. If it the way of the dodo. It just means that colleges will shift doesn’t, it risks losing relevance in a competitive global structurally from physical places to the Internet, providing education market. easier access to professors. The digitization of more and more academic resources means that it’s easier than ever for Email Carter Lockwood at crlockwood@email.wm.edu.

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he College of William and Mary’s current financial strains dominated conversation at the campus forum Tuesday, Sept. 11. College President Taylor Reveley argued against the state-enforced cap on the number of outof-state students who are permitted to attend the College.

We understand Reveley’s concern that the commonwealth is failing to provide adequate funding to its schools and slowly draining state universities’ funds; however, we disagree with Reveley’s argument that in-state and out-of-state students should both pay fair market value. This plan of action comes very close to a path of privatization for the College — a path that, frankly, is unrealistic. Reveley’s comment that outof-state students are “bags of gold with feet” is appalling because it frames the College’s job as generating a profit rather than educating students, a sentiment that is out of touch with the beliefs of the campus. College leaders must help the College stay afloat by fighting for improved state funding and investigating innovative ways to make the school more efficient.

The Creative Adaptation Fund demonstrates the type of innovation we hope the College utilizes in the future. This fund aims to find ways to improve the school’s efficiency without damaging the quality of education it provides. It does this by channeling the creative ingenuity of the faculty at the College. We are particularly optimistic about the Creative Adaptation Fund because the College’s faculty members are in-tune with the educational needs of the students.

We are not criticizing Reveley’s attempts to fight for an increase in higher education funding from the state. We hope he continues to campaign for more state funding. Virginia’s public universities are some of the state’s greatest assets, and often students stay in Virginia after graduation to live and work. The state must be willing to support its public universities in order to continue reaping the benefits of educated students.

We disagree with Reveley’s approach in that we do not believe that moving toward privatization is the solution. We feel that we should focus on increased state support of the College and more efficient use of funding. These solutions to the College’s current budget shortfalls are aimed at focusing on the quality of education provided to the students who attend the College, not the amount of money these students can bring to it.

President Reveley’s position is to net funding for the school, and we support his efforts to improve the College’s depressed financial situation. Nonetheless, his emphasis on money over educating students in Tuesday’s forum was distasteful. Money is a necessity, but begging state legislatures to allow for a more privatized path for the College is not the solution. We hope that Reveley and other College leaders will look toward innovative solutions for funding in the future.

— Michael Townes, Class of 1993 on “One step too far: We ask that Laura Flippin resign from the Board of Visitors”

The alleged blood alcohol level is so ridiculously high it demonstrates the inaccuracy of the test. There is a reason they are not admissible in VA court.

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Four reasons why summer internships are still a worthwhile use of time Emily Kelley The Flat Hat

Most college students don’t find summer internships valuable in terms of real-world work experience, according to a recent poll by Northwestern Mutual.

Results showed that 68 percent of summer interns were not completing the daily work that they envision doing in their long-term careers.

Because internships are generally unpaid and sometimes involve mindless or even demeaning tasks, they tend to get a bad rap. I’ve often heard interning compared to fraternity pledging. Okay, I can see it: They yield no immediate reward, drag on for weeks, and often involve scrubbing. But there are more than enough benefits to internships to

make them worthwhile.

Here are the top four reasons that you should be glad you’ve scored one for next summer.

1. Resume boosting: Did you know that about half of recent college graduates are unemployed? Yikes.

Competition for jobs is fierce, so — regardless of the difficulty of tasks performed — there are few things more satisfying to college students these days than adding a legitimate bulletpoint to their resumes. Another benefit is that it will open doors for you. Whether it’s a reference or a connection for a job after graduation, it helps.

2. Learning curve: When, in the first week of my internship, my boss asked me to perform a task involving Google Analytics (which I’d never heard of) and Excel (which I hadn’t used since fifth grade computer science class), I momentarily contemplated faking my own death and escaping forever. But I resolved to somehow figure it out. Also,

all of the office windows were painted shut. I had to ask about a hundred questions, but I got the hang of it eventually. My boss, like all good bosses, recognized that the internship was as much for my benefit as for his. In fact, I have a feeling that he didn’t really need those data charts.

3. No salary to steal your enjoyment: When people are paid to do a task, they tend to reap less gratification from the activity itself because the money gives them all the satisfaction they need for performing it. With no monetary reward, we are forced — or rather able — to find enjoyment and gratification in the tasks themselves.

4. Built-in escape route: If, by the end of the summer, you’ve decided that this company is not for you, then remember to be grateful that the position is, by definition, temporary.

Instead of complaining about the boring office where you wasted three months, be happy that you’ve learned a

little more about which career path you don’t (and, by process of elimination, do) want to take. The bonus is that you don’t have to deal with the uncomfortable process of quitting.

So, there you go. Unpaid internships

have their downsides, but they’re worth it in the end. You can remind yourself of that fact the next time you’re fixing a paper jam in the office copy machine.

Email Emily Kelley at emkelley@email. wm.edu.

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FOOTBALL

You just have to focus on whatever’s coming next.

—Drake Kuhn

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Junior place kicker and punter Drake Kuhn attempting a field goal during the Tribe’s matchup with Maryland. A former soccer player at nearby Lafayette High School, Kuhn employs an unconventional punting style that’s turned him into a special teams threat.

For Drake Kuhn, a different approach is paying off and making him more than just a role player

BY JARED FORETEK FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR If junior punter and place kicker Drake Kuhn walked into your classroom and you didn’t already know who he was, you probably wouldn’t think he’s a football player. At first glance, he looks like an average 20-something, and for a long time, he didn’t actually play football. But if his size and stature are just average — he’s 5’10”, 185 pounds — his journey to William and Mary’s football team was anything but, and the way he plays is even less so.

Little about the way Kuhn punts is conventional. His approach to the kick isn’t straight on, and his balls don’t soar high over Zable Stadium.

Instead, Kuhn moves away from pressure laterally, and his kicks fly low, spinning awkwardly. More often than not, though, they leave the opponents backed up near their own endzone with few options offensively.

It’s called rugby-style punting, but for Kuhn, it originates from a different English game.

UP and IN

“It came about in high school. I played soccer growing up and I was a goalkeeper in high school, so it’s very similar to how I punt a soccer ball,” Kuhn said.

A soccer standout for most of his life, Kuhn never played organized (American) football until signing up as a place kicker his freshman year at Lafayette High School, just 15 minutes from Zable. He didn’t take over punting duties until his senior year at Lafayette, but two games into the 2012 season for a Tribe team with a top-notch defense and a struggling offense, he’s been more valuable pinning opposing offenses deep than scoring points.

In 2011, Kuhn pinned opponents inside their 20-yard line 13 times. In 2012, he’s done it six times already.

In the Tribe’s 17-14 loss to Lafayette College Saturday, the Leopards were forced to start from their own 5-, 7and 1-yard lines after Kuhn punts. “[Kuhn’s style] takes pressure off your protection to be able to move and kick the ball, that allows you to get people down field, and that helps us on downing the ball

inside their 10 yard line,” head coach Jimmye Laycock said. “And the way he kicks the ball makes it tough for the guys to set up a return, you’re not just getting the same 40 yard, four second hangtime deal.”

For the junior majoring in finance, transitioning from the soccer field to mentally preparing for a single highpressure kick that can make or break a drive — sometimes even a game — felt foreign at times.

“You go from being active and part of the game the entire game to having limited opportunities as a kicker,” Kuhn said. “And each time you’re on the field you have to make sure you’re not slipping up and not losing your focus. … It’s a shorter time that you’re on the field but your focus has to be just as good, if not better.”

Recovering from a bad kick, he said, was difficult at first, but he’s since learned to just move on.

“Now I’ve been playing long enough to the point where, you have an opportunity, you take it. You make your kick or you miss your kick, and you come off to the sideline as if you haven’t done anything,” he

said. “Whatever you’ve done, there’s nothing you can change, you just have to focus on whatever’s coming next.”

In two games this season, Kuhn is 2 of 3 in field goal attempts, his only miss coming from 48 yards out against Maryland.

Acclimating to his freshmen environment was easy compared to getting his bearings in a new sport.

“Being a local … it’s helped me out a lot transitioning from high school to college because there are people around, coming out to games who say, ‘we’ve watched you, we’ve been following you.’ And it’s given me a lot of confidence and relaxed me,” Kuhn said.

Initially, the high-school recruit for both soccer and football was skeptical about attending college so close to home, as most prospective students would be. But three years in, he wouldn’t change a thing.

“I made the right choice,” Kuhn said. “I don’t think there are any other places I would’ve liked as much as I like it here or that would set me up in the position that I’m in right now.”

FIELD HOCKEY

Cavaliers halt Tribe’s undefeated campaign with 2-0 loss College fights valiantly, but early U.Va. goal is too much to overcome for College

BY JARED FORETEK FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR William and Mary took an undefeated record and a physical, high-pressure style into its showdown with No. 6 Virginia Tuesday, but ultimately fell short and picked up its first loss of the season, 2-0, at home.

The College was in a one-goal hole for most of the game after allowing an early Cavaliers goal in just the second minute when U.Va.’s Phoebe Willis sent a cross in from left of goal and Rachel Sumfest slapped it into the back of the net. “[There was] definitely miscommunication,” senior defender Christine Johnson said.

“Everyone jumped to the ball, no one was staying back on their girl.”

Head coach Peel Hawthorne thought the Tribe was caught sleeping at the start. “[It] was just a lapse of judgment. I think we were still

warming up. … It was truly one of those uncharacteristic moments where [we] suddenly blanked out.”

Trailing by a goal, the Tribe turned up the intensity and controlled the rest of the half. With 17 minutes, 50 seconds left in the half, redshirt sophomore forward Leah Zamesnik controlled a pass into the shooting circle, dribbled past one defender into the middle of the circle and fired a shot just wide of the cage. Zamesnik had another good look at goal with 8:45 to go in the half, but her shot was deflected just over the bar.

“I just constantly felt like we were going to score,” Hawthorne said.

Then with 7:20 to go in the first, the College had another excellent scoring chance on one of its five penalty corners.

Freshman forward Pip Saunders sent the ball into the circle where junior midfielder Manganello Chaney laid it off for Johnson, who blasted it on the ground at goal

only to have the ball tipped away with a diving save from Virginia goalkeeper Rebecca Holden.

To close out the half, the Tribe came within inches of tying up the game with an advantage because of an U.Va. yellow card. Senior forward Ashley Kyle intercepted a Virginia pass and drove to the goal for a one-on-one with Holden.

Kyle drew Holden off her line and stepped left, making the diving goalie miss and leaving an empty net. But in that instant, a Virginia defender was able to close down the space and block Kyle’s shot.

The senior got the rebound and fired another just across the face of the goal, where Saunders got possession and took a shot of her own that flew wide of the nearpost and out of play.

“Unfortunately we weren’t able to finish,” Zamesnik said. “We were unlucky tonight. I think we hit the post twice and just had random balls ping off their sticks. It’s such an intense feeling when you’re

going and going and fighting so hard to get that one goal.”

Over the course of the first 35 minutes, the College took 14 shots on goal while Virginia took just four. The Tribe also established a physical style of play on both sides of the ball that Virginia didn’t seem to be expecting.

“They were really surprised about how physical it got,” Johnson said. “The refs let a lot of things go so that definitely added to it too, but we usually play very physical games so we’re used to it.”

The Tribe came back to take what would be its last shot of the game early in the second period. A penalty corner was served into the shooting circle where Johnson blasted it off the inside of the left post. Instead of bouncing into the cage, the ball rattled right across the mouth of the goal, where it was corralled by the Virginia defense.

The rest of the game saw little action from either side, with the

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Senior defender Maria Caro recorded one shot against the Cavaliers Tuesday.

Cavaliers taking a more defensive stance and the Tribe sending more and more players forward.

Finally, with just 2:24 remaining in the game, the College was caught with too few defenders back and Sumfest found the back of the cage for the final goal of the game.

The result may have been a

disappointment, but Hawthorne and her players weren’t upset by the performance.

“This was absolute validation that we’re prepared to play at a top level and honestly I felt that we played well enough and I feel like we deserved to win tonight,” Hawthorne said.

“Goals aside, obviously.”