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As a result, students from all majors are exposed to advertisements for jobs at Deloitte or Ernst & Inside Young, regardless of their career interests. “There are many small and “Our goal is to cost-effective changes attract companies that the Career Center to participate in oncan implement to help all campus recruiting,” students find jobs.” Associate Director of External Relations See staff editorial, page 5 for the Career Center David Lapinski M.Ed. ’07 said. “If a company is invested in See career page 3
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The Sherman and Gloria H. Cohen Career Center opened in 2010. With the corporate sponsors, the Career Center is able to host career fairs for students at the College of William and Mary.
Dire predictions about poor employment prospects are not new to liberal arts students, but they may be surprised by one of the solutions College of William and Mary career counselors propose: turning English or biology degrees into consulting careers with one of the College’s corporate sponsors. Companies have the opportunity to increase their visibility on campus in exchange for making annual financial contributions to the Sherman and Gloria H. Cohen Career Center Corporate Sponsors Program. Organizations that capitalize on these offers at the College and other universities tend to be well-endowed consulting and accounting firms looking for large numbers of potential entry-level hires.
Candidates address housing
The gloves came off as candidates for the Williamsburg City Council gathered Saturday to debate election-year issues of importance to College of William and Mary students with less than two weeks until election day. The event, hosted by the Student Assembly Public Affairs Department, gave students the chance to hear each candidate make their case and answer questions. The first part of the debate, moderated by SA Undersecretary of Public Affairs to Williamsburg Danielle Waltrip ’14, centered around two issues: offcampus housing and the local economy. On the housing situation, all the candidates seemed to agree that better communication between the community and the College was necessary. Mayor Clyde Haulman talked about the three models in which the College community could work with developers to secure housing for students. “The Fraternity Complex is a step in the right direction … but that’s not going to solve the problem today, and that’s not going to solve the problem in the long run,” Haulman said. Haulman cited three models. The first of these models was the College Real Estate Foundation model of Tribe Square, for which Haulman noted that more similar opportunities needed to be found. The second model is City Green, private apartments primarily occupied by students, and the third is the conversion of an older hotel on High Street. Council member Judith Knudson downplayed the housing issue, saying that four years ago the issue was front and center, but since the development of Tribe Square and City Green, much has been done to alleviate the campus housing shortages. Vice Mayor Paul Freiling ’83 disagreed, bringing up initiatives the city needs to continue to follow up on to give students greater off-campus housing options. “Some of the things we need to help address are substandard housing situations that some students are forced into because of their overwhelming need and desire to be close to campus and their limited options,” Freiling said. Candidate Ginger Crapse ’89, the only challenger in the election, continued on this line of thought by
Sponsors are consulting or accounting businesses.
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SA hosts City Council debate
General assembly
State senators hold public forum to discuss General Assembly issues New state budget increases amount of operating money for the College despite lengthy budget debates by Ellie kaufman flat hat Chief staff writer
Less than 24 hours after the Virginia General Assembly passed a budget resolution for the upcoming fiscal years of 2013 and 2014, three representatives from the state government addressed students in a campus public forum. State Senators Thomas Norment J.D. ’73, R-3, and John Miller, D-1, and Delegate Michael Watson, R-93, traveled to Williamsburg to update College students about recent events in Richmond. The Student Assembly Public Affairs branch invited the representatives to visit April 19. “I think it is really important for our legislators to know that we care about the issues and that we are a group of the electorate that is not uneducated and unaware of what is going on in Richmond,” SA Secretary of Public Affairs Keenan Kelley ’14 said. “It is great to hear from them and hear what they have to say and what they are going to do for the college.” Index
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The representatives addressed the latest updates in the budget that will affect the College of William and Mary within the next two years. The new budget includes approximately 1.2 million operating dollars for the school to help support a number of initiatives. “There are many of us in government fighting very hard to make sure that William and Mary is getting the money that they deserve, that access to the college is affordable and that we don’t change the personality of William and Mary,” Norment said. Norment, who teaches both at the Marshall–Wythe School of Law and the main campus, continues to advocate for policies that will maintain the character and caliber of the College. “There is a lot of pressure to take more students,” Norment said. “We have a greater emphasis on the liberal arts here, and other schools in Virginia have a higher concentration on science, technology, engineering and math.” As a member of the Senate Finance
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Committee, Norment fought for the College to get funding despite the fact that the College has a stronger focus on liberal arts than STEM subjects: science, math, engineering and technology. Watson, a freshman in the House of Delegates, passed three amendments included in the new budget to benefit the College physically. One provides funding for upgrades to the Brafferton, another provides funding for renovations to Tyler Hall and the third authorizes debt for the fraternity housing complex project. “As a freshman, I didn’t change or save the world, but I feel like I got some things done,” Watson said. Watson stressed the importance of connecting with College students in open discussions. “I need to know what is on the hearts and minds of the students that are here now, what can we do to make sure that the tuition you are paying here is valuable,” he said. Miller highlighted this point by explaining how students helped push
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an amendment to the recent bill that requires voters to carry a form of identification with them when voting at the polls. After receiving an email from students, Miller added an amendment to allow IDs from four-year institutions
of higher education in the state as a valid form of identification for voters. “You got involved, voiced a concern, and we acted on it,” Miller said. “Now it’s part of the law, so you guys do make a difference even with a simple email.”
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An extroverted culture
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State senator Thomas Norment J.D. ’73, R-3, spoke with students about General Assembly actions.
From social settings to the job market to academia, people in American society value extroversion over introversion. page 5
College falls to VCU on road
After winning the first of a three-game series Friday, the Tribe lost both games of a Saturday double-header with the Rams. page 9
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According to the Virginia Gazette, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a fiscally conservative lobbying group, ranked Virginia’s economy as the third best in the nation in its 2012 “Rich States, Poor States” report. Ranking criteria included individual and corporate income tax rates, the government’s debt as a share of tax revenue and the state’s minimum wage. The Vatican reprimanded the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, a group representing nearly all of America’s nuns, for falling out of line with church teachings and promoting “radical feminist themes,” according the Associated Press. Its criticism focused on the group’s statements that questioned church teachings on homosexuality and male-only priesthood, as well as for speaking little on other church issues such as abortion and euthanasia. Response to the crackdown has been largely negative, both in and out of the church.
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I asked, ‘what if I want to do something related to creative endeavors?’ And they said, ‘you have to look at that on your own.’
— Hanna McCarthy ‘12 describing her Career Center experience
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Universities seek license to operate unmanned aircraft The Federal Aviation Administration recently granted approval for more than 50 law enforcement, military and educational institutions to use unmanned aerial vehicles, according to the Wall Street Journal. The list of approved groups, obtained only through a Freedom of Information Act request, contains multiple universities including the Universities of Arizona, Michigan and others. The report and the FAA have not disclosed for what purpose the aircraft will be used, fueling speculation that they may be applied in a manner that infringes upon individual’s privacy rights. Republicans and Democrats in the House of Representatives have formally called on the FAA to answer questions about the program.
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell is requesting that governors across the nation improve state record-sharing systems with a national background check system for gun purchases. He sent out an open letter to all 49 governors on the fifth anniversary of the mass shootings at Virginia Tech. “I would encourage you to evaluate your state’s reporting of mental health and other critical information to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, and take any required action relating to that reporting to prevent tragedies such as the shooting at Virginia Tech from happening again,” McDonnell said in the letter. NASA turned over its retired space shuttle Discovery to the Smithsonian Institution this past week, according to the Washington Post. The spaceship will be put on display in the National Air and Space Museum’s hangar-museum near Dulles International Airport. No efforts will be made to restore the Discovery; it will be displayed with the discolorations and burn marks that resulted when it re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere. Museum guests will not be permitted to walk inside the Discovery or to see the flight deck.
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The Federal Aviation Administration will allow certain institutions to use unmanned aerial vehicles., spurring speculation on the use of such aircrafts.
Student murdered at Boston University A graduate student at the Boston University School of Management was shot and killed early Thursday, according to the university’s newspaper, The Daily Free Press. The Boston Police Department responded to a call and found the victim suffering from severe trauma. He was later pronounced dead at the scene. The police are still engaged in the investigation, and have yet to determine whether the incident was a targeted or random homicide. The collaborative investigation, involving both the Boston Police Department and Boston University Police, has yet to confirm a suspect in the investigation. The victim was identified Saturday as 24-year-old Kanagala Seshadri Rao. Pepper spray police chief retires The University of California Davis police chief has announced her resignation, according to the Sacramento Bee. Annette Spicuzza’s police department made national headlines earlier this year when one of her officers used pepper spray against a group of students protesting tuition increases and student debt burdens, among other issues.
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Chief Spicuzza and Lieutenant John Pike, the officer who dispensed the pepper spray, have been on paid administrative leave since the incident, pending the findings of an internal investigation. This inquiry has yet to conclude. Spicuzza has 27 years of experience in law enforcement, seven of which have been at UC Davis. House of Representatives confronts student debt A bill before the U.S. House of Representatives could prevent interest rates on student loans from spiking later this year, according to the New York Times. HR 3826 would continue to cap the interest rates for the federally subsidized Direct Stafford student loan at 3.4 percent. If this bill fails to pass, interest rates will likely rise to 6.8 percent on July 1 of this year, when a 2007 act that caps the interest rates is set to expire. The White House is championing the bill, and mobilizing Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and other resources to appeal to Congress publicly. Political pundits believe this is part of an ongoing attempt by President Barack Obama to mobilize support among young voters.
Apr. 18 to Apr. 23 Apr. 18 — An individual was arrested 1 Wednesday, for reporting a false police report, assaulting a police officer and being drunk in public at the 900 block of Capital Landing Rd.
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Apr. 21 — An individual reported the larceny of 2 Saturday, a firearm and damage to a vehicle at the 1330 block of
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Apr. 21 — An individual was arrested for the 3 Saturday, illegal posession of alcohol on Scotland St. Apr. 21 — A hit and run was reported at the 700 4 Saturday, block of Page St.
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News in brief Dean of the School of Education to retire Dean of the College of William and Mary School of Education Ginnie McLaughlin ’71 has announced she will be retiring from her position, effective June 2013. McLaughlin has served as dean since 1995, prior to which she held positions ranging from public school teacher to professor and assistant dean. McLaughlin intends to take a year-long leave of absence following her resignation before returning to the School of Education as a faculty member. “It has indeed been a privilege to serve,” McLaughlin said in a press release. College administrators have announced they will begin the search for a replacement dean at the beginning of the Fall 2012 academic term.
Faculty Lecture series begins Today, the College will launch its Faculty Lecture Series with a discussion of the effects of careful ecological management on human health. Professor of biology John Swaddle will deliver the lecture, entitled “Not Just for the Birds: How ecological land management could prevent us from getting sick,” in the Office of Undergraduate Admission at 7 p.m. This event is the first in a series of lectures intended by College administrators to expand on the College’s intellectual atmosphere while simultaneously granting faculty another platform by which to share research findings and reveal the fruits of their labors. Provost Michael R. Halleran has largely became the main advocate of the series.
General Assembly increases funding College President Taylor Reveley addressed the Virginia General Assembly earlier this week in a public statement. Reveley expressed gratitude that the General Assembly followed through on many delayed promises of funding for the College, especially in capital projects. He also thanked those who represented the College during the budget process. Reveley remarked that the College should now be able to proceed with multiple projects deemed necessary to the life and function of the College, in addition to increasing all of the College personnels’ pay by three percent. Reveley did remark that the budget had yet to pass successfully through Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell (R) who retains the critical executive veto.
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New SA leaders respond to student concerns
Mills and Levine hold forum in Lodge 1 to answer questions about SA relevance and reforms by Meredith ramey flat hat assoc. news editor
Upon taking office, one of the first steps of new Student Assembly President Curt Mills ’13 and Vice President Melanie Levine ’13 aimed to lower their positions closer to the ground. Mills and Levine held a question-and-answer session in Lodge 1 Thursday. The pair took questions from students, addressing issues ranging from the Charter Day concert to SA transparency. One of the first questions posed to the pair inquired about the immediate relevance of the SA to students. “The most important thing the SA does is control the Student Activities Fund,” Mills said. “Most people at [the College of William and Mary] are in two or more organizations, so people have a huge say in how their funding works and how the money is used.” Levine agreed, adding that the most important role of the SA is their representation of the student body. Students asked how the pair would build this voice, since it is impossible for them to know the needs and desires of every student group or individual student on campus. The pair cited the use of surveys and office hours as major ways to build their student representation, as well as choosing a
diverse cabinet. “The people we’re going to select for our cabinet represent a wider view of campus,” Mills said. “We’re going to have a lot of people helping us out.” Students also asked Mills and Levine about their views of the proposed Honor Council reforms. Mills spoke in favor of the bill recently passed by the outgoing 319th Senate, but said these decisions are ultimately under College President Taylor Reveley’s jurisdiction. “I’m pretty agnostic on the whole idea,” Mills said. The new leaders were then asked the inevitable question — how to curb the apathy of the College community with regard to the SA? “The [SA] needs to start doing things people will go to,” Mills said. “People in the SA need to be able to explain what they are doing. … Real, tangible initiatives, even if they’re small, go a long way to engaging the student community.” Students were also curious about the relationship between Alma Mater Productions and the SA. Currently, AMP receives the largest amount of the SA activities budget and is required to periodically report how the money is being spent during the semester. “[We’re] just sort of letting them do their thing,” Mills said. “I think we’d get a lot done if we work as a team.” The pair also mentioned who they would like to
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Mills and Levine held the session in an effort to increase Student Assembly transparency and respond to students’ queries.
see at the Charter Day concert. Levine spoke in favor of Ingrid Michelson, while Mills preferred Radiohead. Mills and Levine also polled the students present,
asking what the SA could do for them in the next year. Responses ranged from more guest speakers to Blowout tanks.
Career Center works to aid different majors in job search CAREER from page 1
nvested in [its] relationship on campus, [it will] be more of an invested partner in the College.” Of the Career Center’s nine corporate sponsors, eight are accounting and consulting firms: Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, Deloitte, Deloitte Consulting, Johnson Lambert and Keiter Stephens. The ninth, Capital One, is a bank holding company. According to Lapinski, corporate sponsorships pay off for accounting and consulting firms that use planned hiring models to fill a predictable number of openings for new employees each year. “Companies are often worried that their investment pays off when they come to campus,” Lapinski said. “They’re assessing a campus by its outcome to determine its yield. Are they hiring enough students to offset the cost of coming to campus?” Four levels of sponsorship are available through the Career Center. The highest, Titanium, costs $7,500 per academic year and provides benefits such as naming rights to the Career Center’s interview room and the chance to hold a recruiting event at a home football game. Ernst & Young is the only company sponsoring at this level. There are three lower levels of sponsorship: Gold sponsorship costs $5,000, Silver $3,500 and Bronze $1,500. All sponsors get access to the “industry targeted resume book,” receive priority placement at career fairs and have their company names displayed on the Career Center’s website and televisions. Lapinski said that relationships with corporate sponsors are forged through connections with alumni employees, who often return to campus to help recruit seniors. These alumni ties have benefitted English and 2-D studio art major Zara Stasi ’12, who has a job lined up with Deloitte’s federal consulting department. She applied for the position after an
alumna friend employed by the company recommended she attend an on-campus information session. “That started getting me interested in Deloitte, getting to meet real people who were doing the job I would be applying for,” Stasi said. Stasi was selected for an on-campus interview with the company, and after she was hired, alumni representatives took her and other new College hires out to dinner. Stasi considered a career in museum work, but her uncertainty about what masters program to pursue, concerns about finances and desire to be trained in multiple areas with a company that seemed to value its employees made a job with Deloitte appealing. “I really appreciated all the help the Career Center gave me, especially as a liberal arts major,” Stasi said. “Some people think the Career Center is only for business students. I hope that that just gets cleared up.” The message that students of all majors can find employment is a welcome one; but students with dreams of pursuing creative careers do not always feel the Career Center or its corporate sponsors meet their needs. Hannah McCarthy ’12, an English and film studies double major, described her search for a creative job at this year’s career fair as “disheartening.” “It was pretty much a resounding, ‘we are hiring people for the business end,’” she said. “I remember they pretty much explicitly told me we’re hiring sales reps, people who are going into business. I asked, ‘What if I want to do something related to creative endeavors?’ And they said, ‘You have to look at that on your own.’” Opportunities to meet with industry representatives on campus, like Stasi had with Deloitte, are often not available to students looking for creative jobs. “It’s difficult when you’re trying to do it by yourself and other people have the opportunity to speak to people face
to face about what they love,” McCarthy said. “It’s a very different experience than facelessly submitting an application about yourself to an online database. If it’s kept at a distance it becomes intangible and something you have to give up on because it’s so far removed.” Lapinski explained that many smaller organizations do not have the resources to send delegates to college career fairs. Even business majors may not be content with the opportunities the College’s corporate sponsors offer. Shariff Tanious ’08, who majored in operations and information systems through the Mason School of Business, worked for Deloitte and another consulting firm after graduation. Dissatisfied that his jobs did not engage the critical thinking skills he had learned at the College, Tanious left the consulting field to enter medical school. “It’s tough because the larger firms are the ones that have the biggest recruiting budgets and offer the best salaries,” Tanious said. “So you see the salaries and are thinking about your school loans and it’s very tempting to take those offers.” Lapinski said that corporate sponsorship money benefits even those students not interested in consulting jobs by enabling the Career Center to host programs about a wide range of job opportunities. “Funding from those types of programs is utilized to support programs for industries that don’t receive as much exposure,” Lapinski said. “Funding from a corporate sponsorship program helps support a health field symposium. We’re going to be doing an arts symposium.” In its efforts to diversify the employment opportunities it highlights, the Career Center recently hired a new assistant director, Don Snyder, to focus on science and technology careers. According to Lapinski, there has been a dramatic increase in the number
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The Cohen Career Center has worked recently to host career programs in a wider range of job paths.
of companies recruiting science majors on campus. The Career Center has hosted programs this semester about jobs in marine science, environmental science, research labs, science writing and forensic science. Artistic fields are also receiving more attention. As part of a trip co-sponsored by the department of theatre, speech and dance and the Career Center, a group of 14 students studying drama and dance at the College traveled to Washington, D.C. in March to meet with alumni working in the theatrical world. Lapinski noted that corporate sponsors’s heightened visibility on campus does not mean they are recruiting a disproportionate number of College graduates. “Our top employer year in and year out is Teach for America,” he said. “We have some employers do a lot of hiring, but we don’t know specifics because they can’t disclose them, like the CIA.” Despite the Career Center’s efforts to expand its programming, those emails about how to break into consulting have left McCarthy feeling frustrated.
“It’s a sense of feeling like you’re being pointed and nudged in a direction based on security and not what you’re passionate about,” she said. Lapinksi said counselors do their best to help students pursue paths that interest them. “We never try to direct a student toward a career, we just want to make them aware,” he said. “Come in and see us and we can talk about the wealth of other opportunities there are too.” Even if it’s not a perfect fit, a first job with a consulting firm may be a good way for students to catch a glimpse of the working world. “I think that the firms that recruit do offer a great opportunity in the sense that they’re going to hire a 22-year-old with little to no experience,” Tanious said. “It’s important for people to keep in mind that this may not be your career, and that’s OK. Take the experience for whatever it’s worth, take from it what you can and move on, and look at opportunities that are not as appealing on the face, but are more beneficial in the long run.”
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Williamsburg
Alumnus leads local service housing project
Abbitt Woodall calls student voluteers to assist in Williamsburg housing initiatives
by ken lin Flat hat assoc. news editor
College of William and Mary alumni have been recognized for their careers in public service and in the nonprofit sector across the country and around the world, but some don’t have to look far from campus to find an opportunity to contribute to the community. For Abbitt Woodall ’02, who currently serves as executive director of Housing Partnerships, Inc. based in Williamsburg and James City County, the call to serve came not long after he enrolled at the College, when he started volunteering at HPI. While majoring in business at the College, he ended up enjoying the work at HPI so much that he began working for them part-time and over the summer. “After I graduated it wasn’t the kind of career path I thought I would take. It was a slow job market, and the director
at the time suggested I look into the state department of housing,” Woodall said. “I worked for them for not too much longer than a year managing federal housing projects and community development type of work. At that time the director left; she suggested me to the board and I looked at coming back, and it’s been eight and a half years since I came back to run the organization.” HPI began its work in 1985 and is similar to larger housing organizations such as Habitat for Humanity, but with a local focus. With funding from government housing agencies and charitable organizations, HPI focuses on “vital housing repair services to very lowincome individuals, and families who are unable to help themselves due to sickness, disability, or lack of financial resources,” according to the organization’s website. “We typically run 10 to 12 projects at any one given time … [from] the low end
of repairing handrails on someone’s front steps, to completely demolishing and rebuilding a house. The vast majority are relatively small jobs that cost about $780 for emergency repairs,” Woodall said. “We also do community redevelopment types of projects [and] we manage federal blight and housing issues; those projects range from $50,000 to $100,000.” HP1 focuses on health and safety issues, such as roof leaks that can do structural damage or ventilation problems. Woodall regularly meets with social service agencies and housing officials to review cases and decide which ones require attention and how much funding should be appropriated. Woodall’s connection to the College has remained strong, and he has used this relationship to collaborate with the College’s Office of Community Engagement and Scholarship by involving student volunteers interested in serving the Williamsburg community.
“In more recent history, we have partnered with Housing Partnerships on the William and Mary House Build, where students, faculty, staff and alumni serve as volunteers to build a house on Barksdale Field and then have the house transported to the its permanent site in James City County,” OCES director Drew Stelljes said. “Currently, we’re working on a project called ‘Many Hands One Home’ in collaboration with Housing Partnerships and Habitat for Humanity. We will raise $85,000 collectively to build a home for elderly women in the city of Williamsburg in a community near the Williamsburg Regional Library.” According to Stelljes, College students contributed approximately 300,000 volunteer hours in the City of Williamsburg, James City County and York County last year. “Our time at William and Mary is not necessarily measured by what we learn,
but also by how much we’ve given back to the community,” Walex Khurmets ’13, who worked with Woodall in the past semester, said. “The William and Mary community is great at stuff, but the Williamsburg community has done a lot of stuff for us as well. If you want to make a permanent change in the Williamsburg community, do this project. You’ll make changes that will last years for these people.” Woodall also stressed the importance of student involvement in the community. “I know a lot of people say you’ll never make a living doing it,” Woodall said. “You won’t get rich, but by and large you can make a decent living, especially after those entry-level positions as you move up. … The ability to go into work every day and realize that you make a difference to other people’s lives is in many ways the best compensation you can have.”
Incumbents and challenger debate for City Council elections in May DEBATE from page 1
talking about how she’d seen first-hand some of the off-campus housing students had to deal with and how she’d been appalled by what she saw. “When I was talking to some students a couple weeks ago, they said, ‘Look, we live where we live because of what we have to do.’ A couple of them addressed the fact that they don’t want to live in run-down situations and places that are not up to par, and I agree with them,” Crapse said. On the issue of revitalizing the city’s economy, the candidates proposed a variety of possible remedies. Haulman argued that future growth in the local economy has to seize on the comparative advantages in the tourism and education sectors, as well as take advantage of the city’s geographic location to become a hub for larger businesses. “Williamsburg sits in a unique location
— we are between two large metropolitan areas, Hampton Roads and Richmond. Which way do we look? Well, one question is, ‘Why don’t we look both ways?’” Haulman said. Knudson cited the underdeveloped transportation system as one of the key elements holding back Williamsburg from becoming a more attractive location for businesses and residents. “As long as Richmond refuses to do anything about fixing the roads, it is fine to talk about getting a big company here, getting an insurance company c you can’t get here,” Knudson said. Crapse brought up the idea of expanding opportunities for sports camps and competitions in the city and at the College as a way of taking advantage of existing facilities to benefit business. “Sports are money. Mommy and Daddy will pay to have their children sent here,” Crapse said. Freiling lamented the limited scope
of businesses and city life available to residents and visitors, and pushed for further development in other areas of the economy to attract working-age professionals to the city. “We also need to look at a different type of downtown vibrancy … I think the residents want to do more than that because we can’t continue to be known in a broader national community as the largest collection of pancake houses on the East Coast,” Freiling said. “There’s got to be something more cool about this place and a reason that people want to come here and spend their money.” The question-and-answer session, moderated by SA Undersecretary of Public Affairs to Richmond Stacey LaRiviere ’14, gave attendees the opportunity to question the candidates directly. In response to a question posed by SA President Curt Mills ’13 to Crapse on what she had to offer against the three incumbents, Crapse touted her business
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From left, Crapse, Freiling, Haulman and Knudson discuss economic development at the debate.
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By Allison Hicks, Flat Hat Cartoonist
A world geared toward extroverts see excessive discrimination against introverts. We repeatedly receive the message that if we desire social acceptance, then we must remove the filter between mind and mouth, thrust ourselves into large group situations, and force every ounce of energy into social interactions. Likewise, we must convince potential employers that we are highly personable, and to The Flat Hat receive a good grade in a discussion-oriented class, we must calm our nerves and speak up — a lot. For some, this all comes naturally, but for many, including myself, it can be a struggle. Take a moment to think back to freshman orientation: Tribal The result is that introverts must conform to society’s screams pouring forth from every corner of campus, 4 a.m. nights standards. Our culture requires that introverts suppress their followed closely by 7 a.m. wake-ups, mixers that left you dizzy. Or, as I like to think of it, chaos draped in green and gold. And the key true personality, which ultimately leads to unhappiness. It can also lead to hardship. Recently, I submitted a summer to survival? Extroversion. job application, which to my surprise included a personality For five days, I donned a false persona as I tried to fit into the test. Not a personal statement or a place to write about past orientation culture, which seemed to celebrate social insanity. If experiences, but an hour-long personality test, which was you weren’t in the lounge till dawn, spilling out your life story to obviously designed to measure the extent of one’s extroversion. people you had met that morning, then something was seriously Now, that’s just not fair. As long as I’m not a raging wrong with you. So I grinned until my face hurt. I introduced myself to everyone misanthropist — which is only when I’m driving — whether I saw. By the end of the week, however, my body ached and my I’m naturally a “people person” should by no means affect my minimum-wage job. head whirred. I was downright exhausted. The harmful prejudice doesn’t stop I also realized that I hadn’t made any real Our culture requires that there; it extends beyond the social and friends, because the entire time, I had professional realms and into academia. been pretending to be someone I’m not. introverts supress their With an ever-increasing emphasis on But why? true personality. classroom discussion, introverts, who tend The answer is that American society to thrive with pen and paper, must shift praises extroversion. Meanwhile, introversion is stigmatized. As an article in The Chronicle of their talents to oral communication. This is especially apparent Higher Education put it, we misunderstand that to be extroverted in graduate school, where small seminars reign and students or introverted is to be “cool, popular, and successful or weird, must often teach for the first time. So what can we do to help? Well, we can’t change society’s isolated, and a failure.” As students coming to the College for the first time, we naturally wanted to establish ourselves as the former, negative views toward introverts overnight, nor can we and thereby avoid the negative connotations associated with being fix the issues involved with securing a job or a graduate degree, but we can start by individually ridding ourselves of labeled an introvert. preconceptions about introverts. They may decline going out What’s the difference anyway? Extroverts are social butterflies; in favor of a good book but that doesn’t make them any less that is, they’re talkative and prefer large groups of people. loveable. Let’s also not forget that prejudice goes both ways: I’ll Introverts, on the other hand, are more reserved, pay careful be the first to admit that I sometimes think extroverts’ brains attention to the “think before you speak” dogma, and tend to aren’t wired quite right. favor fewer, but more intimate, friendships. They also require Remember: The world needs both. alone time, or else they might combust. Our society is geared toward extroverts to the extent that we Email Samantha Farkas at sbfarkas@email.wm.edu.
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tudents at the College of William and Mary seem to be inundated constantly with emails from the Sherman and Gloria H. Cohen Career Center about finding a career in either marketing or consulting. While we are thankful that the Career Center is working so diligently to ensure that all students have job opportunities after graduation, it sometimes seems as if we’re left thirsty for more options. It is common knowledge that there are more career opportunities in a field such as marketing where large firms have specific hiring plans than in an area like museum work where funding for new employees is extremely inconsistent. Even then, however, there are still job openings in these smaller fields, and the Career Center needs to promote these options. We believe that the Career Center is trying to build better programming for all career areas; however, the Career Center needs to take a look at little ways it can make students more aware of all of the career opportunities available to them. The Career Center relies on sponsors to provide money for funding, and these sponsors generally include large, wealthy corporations. The Career Center has a duty to its sponsors because their funding keeps it functioning; however, there are many small and cost-effective changes that the Career Center can implement to help all students find jobs, whether they are majoring in marketing or classical studies. One simple improvement would be a more thorough list of job opportunities and internships on the Career Center’s website, including opportunities in all fields. It is embarrassing that students have to search for these opportunities on other universities’ websites considering that we have such a well-funded Career Center at the College. While students would still be responsible for investigating the positions and the employers for themselves, they would at least have a foot in the door in knowing that positions exist. After compiling a list of these opportunities, the Career Center should make sure to advertise them and keep the list updated so that it is useful to students. The only emails students receive from the Career Center seem to herald openings in only a couple of areas, and students quickly become disheartened and cease to read the emails altogether. Because the smaller fields are the ones where the job opportunities are less stable, students need to be especially aware of these positions in order to be able to apply. The Career Center has been trying to expand to be more useful to other majors by hosting events geared toward theater, publishing and science, and we applaud it for its efforts. Before emphasizing these large-scale active programs, the Career Center needs to take a step back and look at the little and affordable things it can do to help the most students. In order to be an effective resource for students at the College, the Career Center needs to try to benefit the most students in the most efficient ways. After all, students graduating from the College should not have to settle in order to have a career. 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. The Flat Hat welcomes submissions to the Opinions section. Limit letters to 250 words and columns to 650 words. Letters, columns, graphics and cartoons reflect the view of the author only. Email submissions to fhopinions@gmail.com.
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How effective is the Career Center in helping students find jobs?
“They won’t find you a job but they’ll at least help you get yourself there.”
“I haven’t gone for jobs but I’ve gone for panels. They’ve been really helpful for me as a premed.”
Jacob Dominy ’14
“It would be really nice if they had less financial and consulting internships and more careers for the rest of us.”
Aly Kozacek ’14
Casey Basham ’14
“I’m such a fan. They’re always available for resume review sessions.”
Maddie Kaplan ’14
“They’re more for seniors and juniors, but it’s nice to know I’ll be able to have those connections [eventually].” Jojo Villa ’15
“I did a resume workshop and it was helpful. It helped us write about our sport club experience in a way that applies to the job.” Hope Smith ’14 — photos and interviews by Ellen Wexler
Perspectives on Blowout: What to do, and why I want to remember it Andrea Aron-Schiavone Flat Hat Staff Columnist
Blowout, (n.): A 24-hour period during which students at the College of William and Mary celebrate the end of classes, traditionally by drinking themselves into oblivion. This is an academically rigorous school, and understandably, celebratory drinking is enticing because it allows you to forget. While intoxicated, you forget about the stressors of the week (heck, of the semester), about the jam-packed exam schedule, about the uncertainty of future jobs and summer plans. Yet, like Cinderella’s stint of
enchantment at the ball, this amnesia is temporary. The morning after, reality returns, often bringing with it a headache, nausea and an outbox full of texts that you don’t remember sending. Your carriage is once more pumpkin. The way I see it, we have limited time here to spend with fantastic friends in this one-of-a-kind place. Wouldn’t you rather remember it? The adage “memories last a lifetime” often does not hold true after a night of heavy drinking. After a blackout, you will most likely not remember the majority of what happened while under the influence. You may say and do things that, upon hearing them recounted to you when sober, make you cringe. Ultimately, in that state, you are not experiencing those moments as yourself. I propose a challenge: To celebrate the semester’s end, live in the moment
as yourself. Make April 27th another day to add to your bank of memories from your incredible four years here. Take the advice of the stickers inspired by altruistic alumnus Robert Wone: “Be Here Now.” People who go to this school have such colorful, energetic, enthusiastic personalities; I promise that you do not need a drop of alcohol to be more fun. Gather friends together, and conduct a personalized midnight tour around campus, remembering fond times spent together at each spot, then picnic on the Sunken Garden. Revisit a restaurant at which you have shared many wonderful meals and toast your achievements. Sit on the dock of Lake Matoka with a dear friend, enjoy the reflection of the moon in the water, and recount old stories, recent happenings and hopes for the future. Do something personally meaningful. Will any of these things allow you to
escape the stress in your life? Maybe not entirely, but they will afford you temporary distraction from a hectic pace, allowing you to relish in a sense of achievement, consciously creating more precious memories. In future times of stress, you can look back on that night
and relive another memory of comfort and bliss. Through the gift of memory, the pumpkin can forever be transformed into a carriage. For me, that beats a hangover any day. Email Andrea Aron-Schiavone at acaronschiavon@email.wm.edu.
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The journey from Spain to the ’Burg of a well-known artist’s little-known work BY SARAH CASPARI FLAT HAT VARIETY EDITOR
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Just outside of Paris, in a warehouse teeming with hundreds of diverse works of art, there lay an old, unidentified painting. Years of neglect had manifested themselves in the thick layer of dirt, grime and dust that clung to the canvas, out of which gazed a man with elongated features inclined toward a light. At the bottom, in wiry, Greek letters, read the name, “Domenikos Theotokopoulos.” When John Spike, art historian and distinguished scholar in residence of the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary, received a phone call from the owner of the painting, Camilla “Coco” Blaffer, he traveled to Paris to identify the work. Upon seeing the painting, Spike knew almost instinctively that it was the creation of the Spanish Renaissance painter Theotokopoulos, known worldwide as El Greco. “It takes a lot of experience to know what you’re looking at when it’s undergone the neglect of many years, exposed to changes in temperatures. The old varnish is discolored; dirt has attached itself to the uneven surface of the paint and varnish, flaking,” Spike said, recalling his first encounter with the painting. Twenty years after its original purchase, the painting, entitled “St. Francis at Prayer,” now hangs on an otherwise empty wall at the Muscarelle. On public display for the first time, it joins works from the museum’s permanent collection in the current exhibition, “Curators at Work II.” The painting is on loan from Blaffer and will remain on display with the exhibition until June 24. “It’s always, always amazing to see works of that caliber in person, not only for art historical and museum purposes, but also as someone who’s taking painting classes; it’s amazing to see,” Alix Bendicksen ’12 said. Bendicksen is a curatorial intern at the Muscarelle as well as a student in Spike’s Curating, Collecting and Connoisseurship seminar at the College. “As a whole class, we’ve been involved with sort of going about every step of getting it to the museum,” she said. “We’ve spent a lot of time looking at it, learning about attributions — that’s a big part of our class — so we’ve learned about what it takes, what sort of things to look at in an El Greco … what suggests strongly that this is an El Greco.” Although the signature was compromised during the painting’s most recent restoration, a trained eye can still identify the artist with confidence. “I know already when I see it that it’s an El Greco composition,” Spike said. It is estimated that “St. Francis at Prayer” was painted around the year 1576, during the period immediately following El Greco’s emigration to Spain from Italy. “This is from a relatively brief moment of about four years in his chronology,” Spike said. The painting has garnered widespread attention for the Muscarelle, including an editorial in the Richmond Times-Dispatch and an article in The New York Times.
“I normally get something like 250 hits a week on my Facebook page. Since posting this article the day it came out … I’ve received, over three days, 1,100 hits,” Spike said. “It’s an academic form of viral.” In order to accommodate the new painting, several adjustments had to be made at the Muscarelle. Specifically, the wall on which it hangs had to be repainted in order to better complement the work. “We think about everything in the exhibitions — the light, how much light, how far away the light is, the direction, how many lights you put on it, the color, what hangs next to each other — and this is one of the great aspects of the class,” Director Aaron De Groft ’88 said. “People are there in the laboratory really making real-world decisions as they’re standing in front of these objects.” De Groft expressed his view of the Muscarelle as a laboratory for students interested in art, emphasizing the role of real-world experience in education “It’s like you go to chemistry class, you go to lab. You go take French, you go to the listening lab. Same thing. You go study anthropology, art and art history, history — whatever — you come and see the realworld practical application in this laboratory. This is our starting point, so things like the El Greco are just simply additions to the menu,” De Groft said. De Groft describes the Muscarelle, which is second only to athletics in promoting town-gown relations, as an important asset for the College. “It’s like having a good football team. We have an immense amount of internal pride here about how we run our business, what our brand is — we want to be a gem for the College, not a brokendown fifth wheel.” For its 30th anniversary next year, the Muscarelle will be launching an exhibition expected to surpass anything the museum has displayed to date. “It is our 30th anniversary in 2013, and we will have the most important show in the history of the Muscarelle, but it’s also been called one of the most important shows of its type ever in America,” De Groft said. The plans for the show, currently being kept secret, will be revealed at the Board of Visitors meeting later this week. As a reflection of the Muscarelle’s recent success, College President Taylor Reveley has approved plans for the construction of a new arts complex to take place in the near future. “We’ve been working on it for the past few years, but to get it to a point where the president put it out there in an email to every major stakeholder, alumni, constituent, faculty, staff, graduate that you can have … it’s a game changer,” De Groft said. Reveley’s email addressed the need to expand the arts infrastructure at the College, saying, “We can now turn our full attention to arts facilities.” While the Muscarelle has been flourishing in recent years, the addition of the El Greco painting to the collection, albeit temporary, serves to solidify the museum’s success, according to De Groft. “A rising tide will float all the boats, and the El Greco, as far as we’re concerned, is just another sort of major success story,” he said. GRAPHIC BY PATRICIA RADICH / THE FLAT HAT
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BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
Sexual knowledge is power Health education outside the classroom
Krystyna Holland BEhind closed doors columnist
If the public school system did me any disservice, it was a lack of sexual health education. I started getting “family life education” — a program I didn’t fully appreciate the title of until just now — in fourth grade. We learned about the vagina and the penis, the fallopian tubes and the urethra. I learned what a menstrual cycle was. Everything about it was about as — or probably less — real to me than Harry Potter, which I read every night. It seemed much more likely that I was going to get an invitation to Hogwarts than that those pictures on the board were actually a part of my own body. I learned that babies were made by a sperm meeting an egg. I raised my hand. “How did the sperm get there?” I asked. The teacher couldn’t tell me. That topic wasn’t covered until middle school. In high school, sexual education was delivered by a stout, slightly overweight woman with huge hair. What I remember from those days is very limited. I do remember that she seemed to love shouting “Penis!” and “Vagina!” and watching us jump. She showed us dozens of pictures of what STIs look like, and we watched the trauma of live birth. I left that class thinking that if I had sex, chances were almost 100 percent that I would get pregnant; birth control just didn’t seem effective. You had to take the pill at the same time every. Single. Day. God help you if you took it at 9 a.m. one day and 9:30 the next; a baby was definitely in your future. Pulling out isn’t always effective, because pre-ejaculate is swimming with those pesky little sperm. And didn’t you know you can even get pregnant during dry-humping? No penetration necessary! Needless to say, I was terrified of getting pregnant. Note: It did not stop me from hooking up with my boyfriend at the time. It didn’t even really make me any safer when it came to sex. I had never seen a condom — they couldn’t be brought to the class — and had no idea how to put it on. I just did what I — and my teenage hormones — wanted and paid for it after in
fear and doubt. Because what if semen left his body and got on his boxers, which got on my underwear and into my nether regions? It seemed perfectly logical to me that the sperm could swim through all that material up to my eggs of gold where I would, without a doubt, get pregnant. Probably with twins and with a bad case of the clap, to boot. To this day, I have gone to many seminars, read many scientific papers, and objectively know that the chances that I am going to get pregnant are not in my favor. And yet, I still insist that my partner and I use condoms, every time, even though I’m on the pill. I have taken multiple unnecessary pregnancy tests because I stressed my period into being late. My sex education in school did not properly educate me on the strain of sex on the relationship or how to talk to your partner about hard topics like getting tested. I didn’t know that female condoms were an option or that lube can help with potential discomfort in both vaginal and anal sex. I had never heard of a dental dam, because oral sex didn’t exist in the program I was taught; I guess they didn’t want to give us any ideas. I think it’s so important — whether you are having sex or thinking about it — to educate yourself. It is your body. You get to decide how to use it, and you should know what the potential consequences are. There are resources both on campus and online. H.O.P.E. has a sexual health branch and resources in the Fishbowl. This is one of those (rare) instances where you can’t believe everything you read on the internet; Yahoo! answers might help you with your physics homework, but it can’t be trusted to tell you how likely it is that you or your partner could get pregnant. Plannedparenthood.org and beforeplay.org are both really excellent resources that have information about the statistical and health sides of things, but also present ideas for conversation starters about the relationship side, like the importance of using birth control and getting tested. Sex can come with some big responsibilities, but it does not have to be something that’s completely frightening or dangerous, if you are emotionally ready for it and sufficiently educated. I wish that I had learned that in school. Krystyna Holland is a Behind Closed Doors columnist and she has since learned how the sperm gets to the egg.
What’s cooler than breaking the “Thriller” dance world record? Breaking the record, or Carleton College’s record, for having the most people spooning at one time. Over 600 people joined together Friday afternoon to create one giant spoon train that snaked through the Sunken Garden after being called upon by members of the College community. Film crews were there to document the spectacle, music echoed throughout the gardens and spectators lined the outskirts of the train with camera phones at the ready. The event’s slogan, “Everyone’s got a little spoon in them,” drove the campaign to popularity and served as the inspiration for much of the excitement and participation. The event, planned weeks ago, had both a Facebook event and a website to advertise AND recruit participants. Although there were skeptics, many more than the required 530 people showed up ready to participate. Upon arrival, participants registered, received numbered cards, and then picked the next spot to lie down on the grass with groups of friends and sometimes even with strangers. The official Guinness guidelines state that the spooning must occur with proper form, with the arm of one participant underneath the head of the participant in front. Each participant must hold said spoon position for the entire five minute time period or they will be discounted. Once the nerve-wracking five minutes were officially over, Kaveh Sadeghian ’12 ran all the way around the train, high-fiving the participants before they moved to stand up. After the high-fives, each participant handed in his or her card for documentation and to be counted; once success was recognized, cheering could be heard all around campus. The College will receive official worldwide recognition by the Guinness World Records Corporations for setting the record.
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VCU edges College, takes two of three
Tribe takes 4-3 victory in extras Friday, but drops both in Saturday doubleheader BY JARED FORETEK FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR Another weekend, another hardfought, tooth and nail conference series for William and Mary. But Virginia Commonwealth had the edge as the College dropped two of three games to the Rams in Richmond. After topping VCU (22-18, 9-12 CAA) in 11 innings Friday by a score of 4-3, the Tribe (25-18, 10-11 CAA) lost both parts of a Saturday doubleheader, 7-4 and 7-5. The College looked as though it wouldn’t need any extra baseball to grab the victory Friday. Junior starting pitcher Brett Koehler turned in an impressive six-and-two-thirds innings, allowing just two runs on five hits and a walk, and the Tribe plated one in the seventh and two in the eighth to take a 3-2 lead. But the Rams extended the game in the bottom of the ninth, tying things up with an RBI single off the typically lights-out junior closer John Farrell. That would be all they’d get from the righty, however, who took the victory after four-and-a-third innings, one run, four hits, one walk and three strikeouts. Senior designated hitter Sean Aiken reached first on a throwing error by the third baseman in the 11th before freshman pitcher J.T. Castner pinch ran for him , advancing to second
on a bunt. Two batters later, junior center fielder Ryan Brown singled, scoring Castner and giving the College an advantage that Farrell would protect for the victory. The Rams’ bats awoke Saturday, however. The Tribe struck first, scoring a run in the third when junior second baseman Kevin Nutter’s ground out drove in junior second baseman Ryan Williams, who had led off the inning with a double to left. VCU wasted no time coming back, scoring three in the bottom of the inning off of senior starting pitcher Matt Davenport. Only two were earned after freshman right fielder Josh Smith committed an error that brought in a run. The Tribe answered with a run in the fifth when Aiken led off with a single and eventually scored on a throwing error by the left fielder, then took the lead with two more in the eighth. Brown and sophomore third baseman Ryan Lindemuth — who led the College going 2 for 3 with a run — were both hit by pitches before senior left fielder Tadd Bower’s double to right plated them both, giving the Tribe a 4-3 lead. But the bullpen wasn’t up to the task, as VCU broke out for four runs in the eighth off senior relief pitcher Jay McCarthy and then held on in the
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The No. 6 match suddenly took on much more significance. With three points, the Seahawks needed just one more singles win to claim the overall victory. Orre led the cause for the Tribe, facing off against UNCW’s Michael Reilly. After dropping the first set 6-2, Orre fared slightly better in the second set. Reilly, however, would prove to be too much to handle, as Orre dropped the deciding set, 6-3. With Orre’s loss, the Seahawks clinched the team victory. With the team decision already decided, No. 3, No. 4 and No. 5 all ended unfinished. At the No. 3 position, Pietrucha lost the first set 6-3 to Kosta Blank. In the second, Pietrucha again found himself in a deficit, down 4-1 prior to the calling of the match. Banks, playing at the No. 5 position, had dropped the first set 6-3 before clawing his way back into the match in the second set. Banks tied the set up at three apiece against Pereira, and ended the match tied. In the most interesting match, the No. 4 court went back and forth. Mol jumped to a 6-3 lead in the first set. The second set, however, saw Hoogland dominate play en route to a 6-1 set win. The match was called early in the tiebreaking third set, as Hoogland lead 1-0. UNC-W would continue its run to the final, where top-seeded Virginia Commonwealth defeated the Seahawks 4-0 for the CAA title.
ninth for the 7-4 win. The rubber game was even closer, and once again the Rams would pull it out near the end. The College jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the third when Nutter singled in Williams, who had doubled. But VCU tied it up in the fifth with the help of a throwing error by freshman first baseman Michael Katz. The Tribe bounced right back, though, scoring three in the top of the sixth. Williams led off with another double, this time down the left field foul line, then moved to third on a bunt by Aiken. Nutter once again got the RBI, bringing Williams home on a sac fly to right. Brown then reached first and second on a throwing error before Bower drove him in with an RBI single to right. Finally, after Bower advanced to second on a wild pitch, Lindemuth picked up his team-leading 34th RBI of the year, scoring Bower with a single up the middle to give the College a 4-1 advantage. The Rams climbed back into it with a run on two hits in the bottom half of the inning before both lineups fell silent for the next two innings. The ninth, however, would be the Tribe’s undoing. Leoni stuck with senior starter Cole Shain, sending him back out for the last three outs, and VCU hopped on him with two singles to start the inning. Farrell then came on in relief and looked like he’d be able to close the door, retiring the first two hitters he faced. But a double by the third tied the game, and Jordan Weymouth won it with a walk-off single. The College now stands on the
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Junior closer John Farrell gave up a two-out double and a walk-off single in the third game.
outside of the playoff picture looking in from seventh place, a half-game behind Georgia State with nine conference games to play in the regular season. The Rams are also closing the gap between themselves and the College, currently just one game
behind the Tribe. After a Saturday doubleheader with Norfolk State, the College will return to CAA action when it takes on Old Dominion in a three-game set the following weekend at home.
MEN’S GYMNASTICS
Tribe individuals compete in NCAAs Potemski finishes 17th in individual all-around finals
BY MIKE BARNES FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR
William and Mary has enjoyed a long line of successful, standout men’s gymnasts. Head coach Cliff Gauthier’s office in the basement of Kaplan Arena is littered with 39 years worth of awards, accolades and trophies. And after a successful outing at the season ending NCAA Championships in Norman, Okla., the Tribe added to its collection of awards, and more importantly, found its next break-out star. Sophomore Daniel Potemski led the way for the College, finishing 17th in individual all-around finals with an 82.55. Potemski was the only Tribe athlete to qualify for Friday’s individual finals. Potemski notched a 14.2 on the floor, a 13.55 on pommel horse, a 13.0 on rings, 13.7 on parallel bars and a 13.35 on the high bar. His best event of the day was vault, as he skillfully recorded a 14.75, nearly matching a career high. “Friday was probably the most exciting competition I have ever been involved in,” Potemski said. “There was so much energy, being on the floor with the top six teams that made it and all the individuals, it was really something.” While Potemski was the only Tribe athlete to advance to Friday’s individual finals, eight other College gymnasts qualified for Thursday’s first session, most of them underclassmen.
Freshman J.J. Jindra performed well in his first action on collegiate gymnastics’s biggest stage. Also competing in the all around, Jindra finished in 10th with an overall score of 78. Jindra notched a 13.45 on the floor, a 12.20 on the pommel horse, a 12.9 on the rings, a 13.85 on the vault and a 12.3 on the high bar. Jindra’s best score of the day came on the vault, where he recorded a 13.85. In addition to Jindra and Potemski’s performances in the all around, the College had a large contingent competing in the pommel horse and high bar events. Junior Kris Yeager and sophomore Sam Patterson both attempted the high bar. Yeager finished in 42nd with a 12.1 while Patterson finished in 43rd with a 10.3. On the pommel horse, freshman Peter Ten Eyck finished in 28th with a 13.4 while fellow freshman Jason Wang notched a 13.1 to land in a tie for 30th. The College also had individual competitors in floor, rings and parallel bars. Sophomore Landon Funiciello recorded a tie for 39th with a 13.25 on the floor. Senior Steve Deutsch concluded his career at the College with a 12.65 on rings, tying for 35th. Junior Futa Ikeda rounded out the day by registering a 12.15 on parallel bars. Potemski led the College Thursday, posting a sixth place finish in the all around to advance to Friday’s individual finals. “It was nice to know that I had improved enough to make the cut, it was a gratifying feeling,” Potemski
said. “Hopefully we can get the team a little healthier and have a little more depth and we will have a shot to make it as a team and not just individually.” With the 2011-12 campaign concluded, the Tribe will look to continue its success next season. With 11 of its 14 athletes returning, the College appears poised for success when they resume action in December. “We have a fairly young team,” Potemski said. “I think 21 of our 36 total routines were put up by freshmen and sophomore this year, so next year those routines will move up to being sophomores and juniors and our team won’t be quite so young next year.”
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Freshman J.J. Jindra finished 10th with a 78 overal score.
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6-4, to earn a victory in the No. 2 spot. The win was Loomans’ sixth in her final seven singles matches, capping off the junior’s shining season. The Tribe built on Loomans’ triumph when the No. 5 Cepeda grabbed a decisive win over ODU’s Juliana Pires, 6-1, 7-5. The win gave Cepeda an even 10 for the season and brought the College to the brink of victory with a 3-3 tie. The entire quarterfinal came down to a tiebreaker, when No. 3 junior Nina Vulavic lost her singles match to the Monarchs’s Melissa Esnal Olguin by a score of 6-4, 7-6. The match sealed the 4-3 upset for Old Dominion in front of their home crowd in Norfolk, VA. The loss dropped the Tribe to 6-16 on the season and eliminated it from the CAA tournament. Thus marked the end of a difficult season for the Tribe, one featuring injuries to multiple top players and a challenging out of conference schedule.
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Sophomore Jeltje Loomans lost in doubles play but won in singles.
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TENNIS
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Pair of early exits for Tribe
Left: Sophomore Ben Hoogland’s No. 4 spot match was suspended after UNC-Wilmington quickly clinched the overall match. Right: Sophomore Maria Belaya was defeated in both her doubles and singles match as the College fell to Old Dominion.
Men fall in first round to UNC-Wilmington
ODU tops women in opening round
BY CHRIS WEBER FLAT HAT ASSOC. SPORTS EDITOR
BY MICK SLOAN THE FLAT HAT
William and Mary entered its CAA quarterfinal match with aspirations of gaining an automatic qualification to the NCAA tournament by claiming the CAA crown. No. 42 UNC-Wilmington (16-5) put a quick end to the Tribe’s hopes by clinching the doubles point and amassing three quick wins in singles competition as the Tribe (10-16) fell, 4-0. UNC-W quickly set the tone in doubles play, as UNC-W’s Pedro Mol and Kaue Pereira downed the Tribe’s duo of sophomore John Banks and graduate student Robert Pietrucha 8-1 at the No. 3 spot. The College’s No. 1 doubles tandem fared no better as junior Anton Andersson and freshman Will Juggins fell behind early and eventually dropped the match 8-2 to the Seahawks’s Chris Cooprider and Kosta Blank. At the No. 2 doubles post, sophomore
Ben Guthrie and senior Ilja Orre took a commanding 6-3 lead in the first set. Yet with the No. 1 and No. 3 matches already clinched by the Seahawks doubles point victory, Guthrie and Orre did not finish. As singles matches got underway, the Tribe looked to end season-long struggles in the higher seeded courts. Guthrie opened up at the No. 2 position, hoping to defeat Cooprider. Guthrie did not finish as successfully as his doubles outing. Cooprider easily handled Guthrie, winning the first set 6-4 before dominating the second set, 6-1. Meanwhile, the Tribe’s No. 1 Andersson took on the Seahawks’ top player, nationally ranked No. 93 Raphael Aita. Unable to get any momentum, Andersson struggled in what would end in a 6-2, 6-2 defeat.
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As they say, home field advantage always helps in the postseason. The Tribe learned this the hard way, losing a 4-3 heartbreaker to fifth-seeded Old Dominion in Norfolk in the first round of the CAA tournament. The loss ends the College’s 2011-12 campaign. The Tribe struggled in doubles play, losing two of three matches to concede a point to the Monarchs at the beginning of the competition. The College’s doubles team of sophomore Hope Johnson and junior Jelje Loomans lost to ODU’s Diana Ivanova and Aleksandra Mitrovska, 8-3. Sophomore Maria Belaya and junior Anik Cepeda also lost an 8-6 contest to give ODU the doubles point. The Tribe initially rebounded from their deficit in singles play, as No. 6 senior Katie Kargl crushed Faith Atiso, 6-1, 6-1, to even
the match’s score at 1-1 and set the team on the right course. Kargl’s victory was her fourth singles win in her last five matches and the 15th of her successful final season. ODU quickly responded with two straight singles wins. The first came in the No. 1 slot, as Ivanova earned her second victory of the day by defeating Belaya, 6-4, 6-4. Belaya, a first team All-CAA honoree, fell to Ivanova in their second meeting of the season. The Tribe then fell behind 3-1 when the No. 4 Johnson lost in straight sets to Nika Khmolovska, 6-0, 6-4. Johnson’s defeat was her fourth straight to end the season, a challenging end to an otherwise strong sophomore campaign. However, just as things were falling apart for the Tribe, it earned a crucial singles win when Loomans defeated Mitrovska, 6-2, See w. tennis page 7
LACROSSE
Season ends on high note as Tribe downs Hofstra
Ferguson notches career-high 23 saves as College pulls out overtime thriller over Pride, 8-7 BY JACK POWERS FLAT HAT STAFF WRITER Critics could have doubted that William and Mary would rebound after suffering a heartbreaking defeat to Drexel that officially disqualified it from the CAA tournament Friday, but any such thoughts were quickly dispelled when William and Mary fought to an 8-7 overtime victory over Hofstra. “We weren’t thinking about the tournament. We just wanted to get a win for our seniors, who were playing their last game,” head coach Brooke Ireland said. The win was largely a culmination of the Tribe’s improving defense that allowed just six goals over the first 60 minutes of play. Freshman goalkeeper Lucy Ferguson fittingly capped off an impressive freshman campaign with a career-high 23 saves. Indeed, the game would have gotten out of hand early if not for Ferguson’s steady hand in goal. The Pride dominated possession in the first half, which culminated in 18 shots on goal to the Tribe’s six. However, because of Ferguson’s quick reflexes and mental awareness, only one lonesome Hofstra shot found the back of the net in the first half. “Our defense played amazingly,” Ireland said. “They really stepped up to the plate. I saw
some great communication out there from them. And Lucy Ferguson, with 23 saves — she had a tremendous game.” Junior midfielder Caitlin Murphy notched the Tribe’s first goal a mere minute into the game. Two minutes later, Hofstra equalized the score as attacker Claire Brady zinged one by Ferguson, a sight that would prove elusive over the course of the game. The feverish scoring pace set by the first two goals did not, in the end, reflect the nature of the low-scoring match. After letting in Brady’s score, Ferguson morphed into a virtual wall and did not allow a single goal for the rest of the half. The Tribe offense capitalized on the staunch play of their defensive counterparts, building a 3-1 lead going into halftime with goals from senior attacker Stephanie Steinweg and sophomore attacker Taelor Salmon. The Tribe came out tenaciously in the second half as junior midfielder Brett Hayes scored on a free position opportunity a minute into the half. Playing in the last game of their collegiate careers, senior attacker Maggie Anderson and senior midfielder Jenny Michael both notched goals to bring the Tribe lead to 6-2 with 15 minutes remaining. The lead seemed to be decisive with Ferguson jealously guarding the net, but Hofstra was not
ready to cave in. The Pride scored four straight goals to close out regulation and force overtime. Attacker Maryann Miller tallied a hat trick during the stretch which placed the momentum of the game firmly on the shoulders of her teammates. In a tense moment, Hofstra attacker Alex Mezzanotte flung the ball on net for a potential game-winner in the last few seconds of regulation, but Ferguson deftly corralled it away from its target, ushering in another Tribe overtime match. The Tribe attackers were reborn in the first minute of overtime as both junior attacker Krystin Mackrides and Caitlin Murphy rattled off successive goal strikes. But, fittingly, it was Ferguson who was the most dominant player on the field, surrendering just one goal in overtime, while saving two, to lead the Tribe to a rousing victory to end the season. A season that was once so full of unspoiled potential was largely lost during the Tribe’s ninegame losing streak that lasted all of March and half of April. However, there were several bright spots that the team can tout going into next year, many of which were on full display Sunday, including the remarkable progression of freshman goaltender Lucy Ferguson and the scintillating play of Mackrides and Salmon, who notched 32 and 31 goals respectively. “We have a lot of talent,” Ireland said. “A lot of
talent, and if you don’t look at the win-loss column, our team improved very much over this season. They adjusted very well to the coaching changes, and we’re excited to see what these players can do in the coming years.”
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Sophomore midfielder Hannah Clarke logged two ground balls.