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An evening of comedy
College dominates Towson
Comedian Jasper Redd entertains student audience in Lodge 1 Friday
Vol. 102, Iss. 11 | Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Tribe offense overwhelms Tigers, notches five goals, keeps Towson scoreless
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Newport NewsWilliamsburg Airport begins facelift with $10.2 million
by casey lewis the flat hat
The Newport News-Williamsburg International Airport received a $10.2 million grant from the Federal Aviation Administration with the hope of attracting larger airlines and increasing air traffic. The FAA project is expected to take a year and a half and $11.3 million to complete. The new additions aim to improve fueling stations and taxiways in need of repair. The Department of Transportation also awarded a $950,000 grant to the Peninsula Airport Commission. The Commission is responsible for the economic development of the airport. The DOT money is intended to regain airport service from the Newport News Airport to both the Boston Logan International Airport and the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. Currently, US Airways, Frontier Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and Allegiant Travel Company use the airport. AirTran Airways discontinued its services to the airport in March, resulting in a drop in flights and leaving many out-of-state students looking for travel alternatives. People Express Airlines hopes to pick up the empty spot left by AirTran in 2013.
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The addition of new flights and the improvements intended for the airport are expected to have a very positive impact on the College of William and Mary student body. “I’m going to take the flight to JFK now instead of the train, because the plane ticket is cheaper and more convenient,” Maggie Corry ’16 said. The location of the Newport News Airport, also known as Patrick Henry Field, is closer than that of Richmond International Airport,
which makes the airport more appealing to College students. “[It’s a] smaller airport, but well-run for its size,” Abhi Goyal ’13, who has used the airport three times, said. “It is very efficient.” The Student Assembly has been running a shuttle service for the past few years from campus to Norfolk International Airport, the Richmond Airport and Patrick Henry Field. The student activity fee pays for the service, and Bill Horatio, head of parking services, is in charge of scheduling and driving. There has been four times the amount of interest in shuttles than in previous years, according to Secretary of Student Life Dallen McNerney ’14. “We have a huge number of students that are interested in going,” Dallen McNerney ’14 said. “I think a lot of people are starting to realize that this is a really cool service to use.”
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Phi Mu alters rush process Alumni form organization Sorority foregoes formal rush for unofficial recruitment
Arts students gain networking opportunities
by Aine Caine the flat hat
bY katherine Chiglinsky Flat hat news editor
The College of William and Mary’s chapter of Phi Mu has withdrawn from the formal Panhellenic rush process in favor of organizing an alternative recruitment program. While the move may seem unprecedented among Panhellenic organizations at the College, Director of Student Leadership Development Anne Arseneau described the switch as a proactive recruitment strategy. “When Phi Mu began to explore the idea of withdrawing from formal recruitment, they acknowledged that it was a calculated risk,” Arseneau said. “However, this chapter knows how to do continuous open recruitment at a high level, so why would they participate in an expensive, timeconsuming process that isn’t yielding results for them?” Phi Mu waived the formal rush process and instead conducted a less intensive open continuous recruitment. According to Hilary Adams ’14, membership director of the sorority, Phi Mu’s National Headquarters suggested that the chapter opt out of formal recruitment. “Phi Mu National Headquarters actually put forth the idea of using this informal style of recruitment for Gamma Alpha chapter after W&M’s formal recruitment last fall,” Adams said in an email. “They acknowledged that we perform better using this alternative method, so in order to improve our odds of success, they strongly recommended that we take this route, which, of course, we did.” The Gamma Alpha chapter of Phi Mu at the College is the only chapter of the organization that has opted out of formal recruitment. Adams explained that the switch is an attempt to appeal to a different niche of potential recruits. “At the end of last year, we decided that we needed to revamp our recruitment process,” Adams said. “Now we use dynamic recruitment tactics to get to know women. It’s a much more low-key, open-house style of recruitment.” Phi Mu President Katrina Pickering ’13 expressed excitement over what she perceives to be a more personal method of drawing in new recruits. “I feel that we get to know potential new members better though an informal setting rather than the formal recruitment process,” Pickering said. “It is the relaxed,
A chance conversation between a television executive and a Tony Award winning producer in New York City eventually led to the historical triangle and the College of William and Mary, the school they both had called home for four years. As two alumni working in the same industry and in the same city, Jimmy Finn ’00 and Jennifer Isaacson ’06 recognized a lack of connection among College alumni in the arts and entertainment industry. Consequently, in spring 2011, Finn led the charge to put together the College’s Arts and Entertainment Alumni Council. The group received the green light Friday and was officially approved as one of the first official industry-based alumni organizations. Finn noticed that the College had limited opportunities for alumni in the arts and entertainment industries to connect, but networking among alumni with a strong base in the industry would benefit all involved. “We just needed to light the spark that brought them all together,” Finn said. The council serves as a constituent group of the William and Mary Alumni Association and is governed by a 30-member Board of Directors that includes alumni such as Patton Oswalt ’91 and Bill Lawrence ’90. Members come from all different types of professions, including lighting designers, producers, novelists and even a comedy club owner. Finding alumni based in the arts and entertainment industry proved challenging. “We reached out to the theater department,” Isaacson said. “We scoured the Alumni Association directory and spread it just through word of mouth, too. There wasn’t really one centralized list that included everyone. We had to do a little digging.” The group hopes to connect alumni, current students and faculty in order to provide students with career and academic advice.
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The Gamma Alpha chapter of Phi Mu opted out of formal recruitment.
non-structured conversations that show potential new members what Phi Mu is about on a day-to-day basis.” Arseneau praised the Gamma Alpha chapter of Phi Mu for its value-based atmosphere and expressed her belief in the arbitrariness of the Panhellenic system’s standards. “They are a strong organization with a great sisterhood. On average, they’ve not always been at the sorority-designated level of ninety members,” Arseneau said. “However, I’m hesitant to use the formal recruitment benchmark as the only measure of a sorority’s success.” Adams agreed that informal recruitment is a promising opportunity for Phi Mu. “This is by no means a permanent change,” Adams said. “Informal recruitment is just what’s working for See greek page 3
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In the beginning, Finn reached out to the heads of the theater, speech and dance departments, hoping to gain insight into the needs of students at the College. He also collaborated with the Sherman and Gloria H. Cohen Career Center and the Alumni Association to emphasize the need for students to gain career advice about the competitive industry. “Alumni events that also offer professional benefits like networking are the future,” Executive Vice President of the Alumni Association Karen Cottrell ’66, M.Ed. ’69, Ed.D. ’84 said in a press release. “We can better engage alumni in the life of the College if our programs have the added benefit of advancing their careers.” Finn also noted that the council hopes to begin a career program similar to the Mason School of Business’s “Dog Street to Wall Street.” The council would connect students Finn with an alumnus in the arts and entertainment industry who students would shadow in New York. Many of the group’s ideas are still in the works, but the date for its inaugural Arts and Entertainment Conference held at the College has been set for Nov. 8 and 9. The theme, “Arts and Entertainment in a Digital Age,” will include speakers from motion picture, television, theater, advertising and news industries who will discuss the future of entertainment. Alumni will return to speak at the event, including Reebok’s Head of Global Media David Abramo ’96, screenwriter for “Thor” and “X-Men: First Class” Ashley Edward Miller ’94, and Vice President of Creative Advertising for Nickelodeon Pete Johnson ’91. The event is free for students with a See alumni page 3
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