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Vol. 102, Iss. 7 | Tuesday, September 18, 2012
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Stapler cause of confusion Police investigation deems event a misunderstanding bY katherine chiglinsky Flat hat news editor
actual harassment.” In 2008 and 2009, the College was marked a redlight school for its vague definition of harassment. One of the policies revised was the Bias Incident Reporting System, which had previously allowed for anonymous reporting and defined bias loosely enough that students could report classmates or professors for very small incidents or comments. A group of alumni who called themselves “Free America’s Alma Mater” posted an advertisement in The Flat Hat in 2009 and set up a website to encourage students and alumni to campaign for
A student posting flyers outside the Graduate Complex was the cause of alarm last Wednesday night. College of William and Mary police have now confirmed that the subject of the report, who was described in the report as brandishing a firearm, was actually a student flyering with a stapler. Vice President of Administration Anna Martin sent out a campus-wide email Friday explaining the recent news. “It is now clear no firearm or replica gun was involved and the police are confident no crime was committed,” Martin said in the email. “The person in question was holding a handheld black stapler Challis — and from a distance it looked and sounded like a cap pistol.” College administrators felt that the campuswide email was necessary due to the amount of police activity around the Graduate Complex Wednesday night. “Because of the announcement we were able to talk with the person involved and quickly determine a crime was not committed,” Director of University Relations Brian Whitson said in an email. Chief of Police Don Challis noted that the police were working on a lead from another source when the suspect contacted the police station himself. “We had a student call us,” Challis said.
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Administrators at the College points free speech activities for groups to specific locations on campus, like the Crim Dell Amphitheater. Other locations must be arranged for at the scheduling office.
FIRE names the College as one of the top seven colleges for free speech by CLAIRE GILLESPIE THE flat hat
Newest rankings by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education places the College of William and Mary as one of the seven best colleges for free speech. FIRE looks at a college’s written policies and categorizes schools as red, green or yellow light according to how well their policies protect free speech. The College is one of 17 schools, out of the 400 schools that FIRE ranked, given a green-light ranking this year. “It is something that we can really be proud of,”
Emily Wade ‘15, secretary of student rights in the Student Assembly, said. Samantha Harris, the director of speech code research at FIRE, noted that many colleges limit spontaneous political demonstrations and have overly-extensive internet and harassment policies. A public institution like the College cannot prohibit speech that is constitutionally protected, including statements that others may find insulting, like expressing a political or religious belief. “William and Mary’s policies do protect free speech as they stand,” Harris said. “The first amendment protects a lot of speech that does hurt people’s feelings but does not rise to the level of
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Paraguayan leader Former provost Gillian Cell passes away at age 75 Faculty and staff members reflect on the College’s first female provost talks political policy Discusses glass ceiling in Paraguay by matt esporrin the flat hat
Former Paraguayan Minister of Planning Julia Maciel gave a presentation to students and faculty on Friday on policy reform efforts within her country as well as her experience as a female in a historically-male government. Brad Parks, co-executive director of AidData at the Institute for Theory and Practice of International Relations at the College of William and Mary, contacted Maciel for research information. The former Minister of Planning came to the conclusion that it would be beneficial to speak about the political progress of her country to an audience at the College. Paraguay’s government was a dictatorship for over half a century, and democratic government has only been in place since the middle of the last decade. Although she acknowledged the difficulties of forming a new governing system, Maciel gave a simple and clear plan for supporting a fledgling government. “Leadership fuels reform,” Maciel said. “A successful leader must have a vision and strategies to achieve this vision.” Earlier this year, former Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo was ousted by the government. Although many have seen this as a sign of weakness in the young government, Maciel emphasized that this action was legal and widely supported. “The absolute majority of government, across five political parties, elected to remove Lugo,” Maciel said. “It is completely fair and legal.” See paraguay page 3
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Before the era of College of William and Mary president Taylor Reveley, before former president Gene Nichol and before in-state tuition was above $7,000, there was former provost Gillian Cell. In the 1990s, during Cell’s ten-year term as provost, the College’s mascot was still the Indian, the CAA was still the Yankee Conference, and Margaret Thatcher was the College’s Chancellor. Cell, the College’s third provost, died Sept. 7 at the age of 75 due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, at her home in Chapel Hill, N.C. “She was a person with integrity, extraordinarily strong academic values, and she was an interesting combination of the old-fashioned and the innovative,” former College President Tim Sullivan ’66 said. “She managed to protect the traditional heart of the academic enterprise while taking the College to places I think it never could have imagined it could go. Those were some of the things that made her special.” Cell received her doctoral degree in history from the University of Liverpool. After moving to North Carolina in 1965 to teach at the University of North Carolina, she went on to become the first female chair of the history department and later the first female dean of Arts and Sciences there. In 1993, Cell
Former provest Gillian Cell, the first female provost, chats with professor Clyde Haulman.
travelled to Williamsburg to become the first female provost at the College. “If she took a job on, she went on to complete it,” former assistant to the provost Shirley Aceto said. “She never gave up on any assignment she had. She was just tenacious.
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The reason behind the rankings
There isn’t any particular aspect of the College that truly stands out — so why do we always score so high on college rankings? page 4
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That was her personality. She did it strong and had a beautiful way of doing that.” During Cell’s tenure, she led the effort for the College’s first strategic plan and See cell page 3
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LGBTQ and academia
Social justice advocate emphasizes message of equality and acceptance of LGBTQ community in speech at the College. page 8