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President Taylor Reveley joins four drag performers at the first LGBTIQ Pride Festival held in the Crim Dell Meadow on Friday afternoon. Reveley claimed that the campus is making progress, as evident by the first openly-gay rector, Jeffrey Trammel.

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Campus holds first LGBTIQ Pride Festival to conclude I Am W&M week by vanessa remmers Flat hat managing editor

The sight of College of William and Mary President Taylor Reveley standing in front of four drag queens ushered in the LGBTIQ Pride Fest Friday.

The first of its kind in College history, the festival mustered a sense of awareness, tolerance and predominately pride, from the roughly 300 people who gathered in the Crim Dell Meadow for music, performances and tabling.

Reveley struck a wary yet optimistic tone, disappointing some attendees as he reminded the crowd that progress does not always come as fast as they wish.

“I think you all are fully aware that we are living in an era of remarkable and constant change,” Reveley said. “I really grew up in the 1950s … and that was the last gasp of an era where if you were a white, heterosexual male in the United States, you really had the world by the tail. You were a privileged class. The difference between the United States of

the early 21st century and the one I grew up in is almost unimaginable.”

As evidence of such change, Reveley pointed out that the College recently appointed its first openly gay rector, Jeffrey Trammell, which was met with applause and cheers from the crowd.

“So even though the progress is always much slower than we want … I’m telling you, we have made an incomparable amount of progress in my lifetime, and I don’t think it is going to stop. I think it is almost irreversible,” Reveley said.

While some did not agree that white, heterosexual privilege has quite died out, others wished that Reveley had acknowledged what needs to be done in the fight for LBTIQ equality.

“I appreciate President Reveley being there — I think it says something good about the College — but at the same time, there are a lot of things that need to be done. His speech didn’t address a lot of the things we have been working on,” Undersecretary of LGBTQ affairs for the SA Kim Green ’13 said. “I wish it would

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have addressed the language in the antidiscrimination policy.”

The President’s words then gave way to drag performances and other live music at the event.

While the festival was a first for the College, it is already commonplace at other colleges like James Madison University, and some view the festival as a long-awaited addition to the College’s events.

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Bill to change annual campus safety reports Tax raises spur debate Proposal would require domestic violence, dating violence statistics BY katherine chiglinsky flat hat news editor

The Annual Campus Security Report submitted by the College of William and Mary may soon be expanded to include statistics regarding dating violence, domestic violence and stalking.

A bill to reauthorize and expand the Violence Against Women Act was sent to the U.S. Senate floor for consideration Feb. 2. Sponsored by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the bill focuses mainly on federal programs for victims of rape or sexual abuse. One provision, however, would require an expansion of the Clery Act, targeting the reporting at institutions of higher education.

“In general, anything done to address violence on college campuses is a good thing,” Vice President for Student Affairs Ginger Ambler ’88 Ph.D. ’06 said in an email. “In terms of direct impact, the act would require colleges and universities to add other information to our annual Clery reports — for example, statistics on dating violence, stalking and domestic violence would be included.”

The Clery Act, enacted in 1990, mandated that institutions of higher education that participate in federal financial aid

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programs must disclose statistics on campus crime, including sexual assault.

With the new provisions to the Act, colleges and universities would have to add dating violence, domestic violence and stalking statistics to their annual report. Colleges and universities only have to include crimes that have been reported to police.

Critics of the new provisions expressed concerns that the additional requirements might bog down administration, especially since the Clery Act has been revised five times since 1990.

Yet William and Mary Chief of Police Donald Challis said the College would have no problem accommodating those provisions in the bill.

“We already have the mechanisms in place to capture the required Clery information,” Challis said in an email. “It will not be difficult to add the new categories. We support any activities that will make this a safer campus.”

Proponents of the provision feel that the statistics will bring the domestic and dating violence issues to the forefront.

“I would encourage them to have this medium for reporting,” Nicholas Gupta ’15 said. “Awareness is important to addressing those issues.”

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to or actual violence between two people in a relationship within the context of dating, while domestic violence tends to refer to violence or the threat of violence between committed partners.

According to Senior Assistant Dean of Students and Director of Health Education Donna Haygood-Jackson, education serves as one of the best methods of combating dating violence, domestic violence and stalking on campus.

“Sometimes, students don’t really know how to define what’s going on for them, or they might feel embarrassed to tell someone what’s going on,” Haygood-Jackson said. “I think it’s about education — making sure we all understand what it is — and then it’s finding ways for people to come forward; and letting them know that it’ll be confidential and that it will be validated and taken seriously.”

With the possible new provisions, datingviolence and domestic-violence statistics would most likely increase. However, Haygood-Jackson warned that people should carefully consider the circumstances surrounding the statistics.

“What they might not understand is that we’re trying to provide a safe environment for

Budget changes were the subject of debate at a city council meeting April 12. The budget adoption is currently scheduled for May 10, but proposed changes including an increase on cigarette taxes were brought to the fore of the discussion.

Members of the community spoke for and against the proposed cigarette tax during a budget public hearing. City Council member Doug Pons acknowledged the potential danger a tax increase could have on local businesses.

“As a non-smoker, it is easy for me to say tax cigarettes but the unintended consequence is that business may leave the city,” Pons said. “When cigarette tax goes up, visits to stores go down and so does spending on other things.”

Mayor Clyde Haulman stressed that the tax increase needed to be further scrutinized before making a final decision next month.

“Those are taxes that we need to think about very critically before moving forward,” Haulman said.

While the Council will not decide on a finalized budget until May 10, a number of measures passed including an amendment to the tour guide license requirements that would allow students 16 and older to work as tour guides in Colonial Williamsburg if certain requirements are met.

“We are just providing flexibility so that more well qualified tour guide candidates can have access to these jobs,” Vice Mayor Paul Freiling ’83 said.

The Council agreed to the reauthorization of the fiveyear agreement between James City County and the City of

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House Speaker Bill Howell, R-Stafford, said, “I guess I’m not speaking in little enough words for you to understand,” to Anna Scholl, the executive director of the newly-formed women’s rights group ProgressVA after she asked him to clarify a question Thursday. Scholl responded with, “I’m a smart girl, actually. I went to the University of Virginia. I benefited from public education in Virginia. I think words with multiple syllables will be just fine for me.” The comment gained national attention as another example of both the Virginia General Assembly and the national Republican Party’s “war on women.”

According to the Williamsburg Yorktown Daily, Williamsburg Police arrested a man for abducting a family member and assaulting two police officers last week. Police were called to his house during an alcohol-fueled domestic dispute. After the police were called at 11 a.m., the man revealed he had a knife in his possession, leading to a stand-off that lasted for several hours. The man is currently being held at Virginia Peninsula Jail without bond.

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Stop that message. Shut the fuck up, Lady Gaga. We were born naked, and you probably don’t even remember that happening.

— LGBTIQ Pride Fest organizer Laura Andrews ’12

BEYOND THE ‘BURG

Virginia tech marks five year anniversary According to the Washington Post, Virginia Tech students will attend classes for the first time on the anniversary of the Virginia Tech shooting of 2007. Yesterday marked the five year anniversary of the shooting, a tragedy that took the lives of 27 students and five faculty members as well as the shooter himself. While students will be attending class, faculty members are given free reign in their decisions of how to mark the anniversary.

Starting in 2013, the federal government will phase out paper checks for all benefit programs, requiring people to receive their payments electronically, either through direct deposit or a debit card, according to the Washington Post. The switch will lead to both safer and more efficient payments; in 2010 alone, 540,000 federal checks were stolen. Social Security projects $1 billion in savings over the next decade. “It’s just that natural progression of moving to how people are used to receiving their funds,” Walt Henderson, director of the Treasury Department’s electronic funds transfer division, said to the Associated Press.

According to the Associated Press, James Cameron’s “Titanic” surpassed $2 billion in lifetime ticket sales. The 3-D re-release took in roughly $190.8 million worldwide this weekend, adding to the $1.84 billion it earned for its 1997 original release. “Avatar,” another James Cameron film released in 2009, is the only other movie to top $2 billion, which earned $2.8 billion worldwide.

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Virginia Tech remembered the 2007 campus shooting that took the lives of 32 students and faculty at the school for the fifth time yesterday.

Boston University fraternity charged with hazing The national board of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity shut down its Boston University Chapter this past week after over a dozen members were charged with hazing. Police found five college males in the fraternity basement stripped naked and tied at the wrists. The men, who were covered in flour, honey, hot sauce and mustard among other condiments, did not seek medical treatment. The men associated with the incident have been charged with hazing, failure to report hazing, assault and battery.

Gonzaga alumni protest commencement speaker Even though South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu is slated to deliver the Gonzaga University’s commencement address next month, an adamant group of alumni is strongly opposing his visit. Alumni complain that Tutu supports abortion rights, contraception and the ordination of gay clergy, all of which contradict the values of a Catholic institution. Patrick Kirby, a Gonzaga alumni has launched an online petition to lobby for a different commencement

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speaker. According to USA News First, the petition reads, “Gonzaga has chosen prestige over principles and popularity over morality.” So far, the petition has received over 700 signatures. Regardless, the university plans to give Tutu an honorary doctorate of law. This is the same honor bestowed upon President Barak Obama in 2009.

The honors received similar backlash form the Catholic community due to Obama’s non-Catholic views.

Chapel Hill restructures sexual misconduct policy The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Faculty Council recently approved a proposal that will remove cases of sexual misconduct, harassment, intimidation and discrimination from the jurisdiction of the studentled honor system. The University will modify its sexual misconduct policy to shift the burden of proof for sexual assault from cases “beyond a reasonable doubt,” to “a more likely than not” policy, which means there must be more substantial evidence to charge a student for a crime of sexual misconduct. The new policy will go into effect August 1.

Apr. 14 to Apr. 15 Apr. 14 — An individual was arrested for 1 Saturday, being drunk in public and resisting arrest at the 700 block of Scotland St.

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Apr. 14 — An individual reported the larceny of 3 Saturday, 98 rings at the 500 block of Prince Geroge St. Apr. 15 — An individual reported grand larceny of 4 Sunday, an electronic device at the 1400 block of Richmond Rd.

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News in brief Student Commencement Speaker Daniele Greene ’12 will represent the College of William and Mary graduating class at commencement next month. Greene recalls that when she first came to the College, she was determined to dislike it, and already had transfer papers filled out.

Yet, after a few weeks here Greene fell in love with the College and never looked back.

She hopes to communicate this deep sense of belonging and community in her speech.

During her time at the College, Greene served as co-president of the College’s NAACP, chair of the Multicultural Ambassadors Council and a development ambassador.

After graduation, she will complete a Master of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University while simultaneously teaching in Richmond City public Schools.

Forum on America’s Global Role Williamsburg will hold the first forum on America’s Global Role, which is designed to teach future political and civic leaders to think clearly, holistically and creatively about America’s role in international affairs and diplomacy April 20 to 22.

The student-run conference aims to hone skills not normally taught in the classroom.

Confirmed speakers include former Central Intelligence Agency officers and ambassadors, as well as College professors and a representative from the Wendy and Emery Reves Center for International Studies.

A variety of events and talks will take place, including the opening event: What’s Distinctive About America’s Role in the World? to be held in the Chesapeake A room in the Sadler Center.

Nutritional Education Assistant professor of kinesiology and health Scott Ickes has been researching parental influences on child nutrition in conjunction with the Williamsburg Community Health Foundation and the Williamsburg James City County Public School System.

His research examines techniques for those parents educating children about nutrition to exlore their effectiveness and shines a light on how parenting influences the effectiveness of these programs.

Ickes cites Williamsburg as an ideal location for his research, as the Center for Disease Control recently identified the Williamsburg Community Health Foundation as a model program in the improvement of children’s nutrition and physical activity.

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Neighborhood Council builds town-gown relations

Students and community members gather to discuss off-campus housing, public transportation

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The city of Williamsburg and the College of William and Mary have history together — sometimes the relationship has been tumultuous, while other times, the conversation between the two has grown.

For a group of College students and community members, the conversation continued at the monthly Neighborhood Council meeting early Saturday morning.

Student Assembly Undersecretary of Public Affairs Danielle Waltrip ’14 led the program, focusing on the issues of town-gown relations, economic development, off-campus housing and public transportation.

“I think we’ve made great strides in progressing town-gown relations,” Waltrip said. “The Neighborhood Relations Committee has really helped to build that bridge.”

With off-campus housing, many community members and students expressed concerns about remote landlords and unfair pricing practices.

Currently, no department on campus deals specifically with off-campus housing. With a lack of information for students, many felt that students were being charged high prices for low-quality housing and that students did not realize what resources were available to them.

“When I was conducting my own

housing search, I noticed a lot of pricegouging for low-quality housing,” Waltrip said. “But the city will enforce code for the students.”

Community members also expressed that one of their greatest connections with students is through housing. Flora Adams, a resident of Williamsburg, emphasized that town-gown relations were getting better but could always grow.

“I don’t think that students think that residents hate them anymore,” Adams said. “In the past, relations had been poisonous. I definitely feel that there’s more respect now. I’d just like students to come to talk to us more. We can help them with landlord problems.”

As relations have improved, many feel that a better understanding of housing in Williamsburg would benefit both sides.

Some suggested the creation of a website forum for off-campus housing; others felt that pamphlets and guides to housing would help.

“I think that lack of access to information is what hurts students most,” Stacey LaRiviere ’14 said.

Waltrip also explained that volunteer service has helped to better relations between the College and the community.

“A bulk of the progress has been with volunteering,” Waltrip said. “There’s been a more recent emphasis on local engagement with [the Office of Community Engagement and Scholarship’s] new focus on service in Williamsburg. Students are not just citizens of the College — they’re

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Tera Morris ’12 speaks with a community member at the monthly Neighborhood Council meeting on Saturday in the Dodge Room of PBK.

citizens of Williamsburg.”

With the growth of the College, the need for more off-campus housing and more College-friendly businesses has also increased.

“Focusing on new developments that are possibly mixed-use developments like Tribe Square help to solve housing,” Waltrip said.

The meeting also focused on transportation in the community. Waltrip explained how the new trolley system has improved public transportation around the College but emphasized the importance of promoting greater use of the bike routes in the area. She stressed the benefits of the eco-friendly

transportation for both community members who live around the area and students who live off campus.

Students and community members discussed these topics during the meeting, hoping to learn the perspectives of the other side.

For some community members, their connection with students was subtler than the issues surrounding off-campus housing. Don Hess, a resident of Port Anne, described how the sidewalks near his house are being worn out due to the high traffic of student runners who often jog through Port Anne.

“We love to have them wear out the sidewalks,” Hess said. “My advice to

students in getting to learn the community is that they ought to run the community.”

Williamsburg City Council candidate Ginger Crapse ’88 also spoke at the meeting about her campaign, citing the importance of the Williamsburg community as the College grows in size.

“We need to work more closely with the William and Mary community to help with off-campus housing,” Crapse said.

The council will not hold a monthly meeting in May due to the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Williamsburg. The next meeting will be held in June with a presentation by Dan Clayton about infrastructure issues in the city.

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for students to come forward,” Haygood-Jackson said. “We want them to know it’s safe. On the flip side, by making your campus safe, you’re going to have more students coming forward.

So people need to understand when they look at college campuses and the data that maybe they’re providing a safe environment.”

Dating violence affects college students and teenagers significantly. Women between the ages 16 and 24 experience the highest per capita rates of intimate violence at almost 18 incidents per 1,000 women, while men between the ages 16 and 24 experience a per capita rate of intimate violence at almost 3 incidents per 1,000 men, according to a Bureau of Justice Special Report on intimatepartner violence.

“That age group has a very high percentage of male and female students that experience dating violence,” Haygood-Jackson said. “It’s a problem within that age group wherever you go.”

The Senate is expected to debate the bill sometime within the coming month, but other provisions included in the Violence Against Women Act, such as addressing violence among same-sex couples and undocumented immigrants, have the

potential to stall the bill.

For the College, however, the provisions would solely affect the annual crime reports and potentially raise awareness about intimate-partner violence on campus.

“Our campus will be charged with making sure that all of our students understand what all those areas are and not to minimize what they are,” Haygood-Jackson said.

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Williamsburg, which allows Williamsburg city residents to go to James City County Schools.

The agreement experienced a few minor changes before consensus to renew the contract for the next five years was reached.

“The city gets a benefit because our children are in a school system that provides a much wider range of curriculum options and opportunities and the county gets a benefit because they have another 10 percent of children in the system,” Haulman said.

The Council passed a proposed resolution committing the City to participation in a study focusing on the consolidation of regional sanitary sewer assets. The Hampton Roads Sanitation District will conduct the study at their expense.

Even though there will a cost to the city in terms of time cost with the city staff, the council thought the study would be worth that cost.

An annual asphalt overlay schedule was passed and will be conducted over the coming year.

In addition, an office space in the transportation center changed from open space to an office for taxi companies.

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“Today in the Crim Dell Meadow we have drag and makeup and body painting and glitter — this is for fun but also for us all to come together in numbers to queer the space and celebrate gender as performance and as a fluid expression. While things may ‘get better’ for some and society might slowly [become] more accepting … together, lets all promise that we aren’t going to wait. We are fighting,” Laura Andrews ’12, the main organizer of the event, said. “In every conversation, with every outfit, with every raised hand in class and moment of confidence — we are working together in the belief of the radical, redemptive, and transformative power of love to change the world.”

Andrews went on to paint a much different picture than Reveley of progress and equality for the LGBTIQ community.

“We are in this fight here, together, today. When I was hiring drag queens, we talked about the risks of being out and genderqueer during the daytime, sober, in small numbers, in Virginia,” Andrews said.

“The fear of violence, the stares, the comments — all the ways we are policed and told exactly who we are and who we should be and who we should love and what we should look like. We were not born this way. Stop that message. Shut the fuck up Lady Gaga.

We were born naked, and you probably don’t even remember that happening.”

For one drag queen, the fight was very real even within the College walls.

“I used to go here thirty years ago, and we would all go to Tuesday nights at the Green Leafe,” Eunita Biscuit said. “And I was told that there are no gays in Williamsburg. Well, I’ve lived here for 30 years, and my partner lives in Williamsburg. There are a lot of us.”

Past and present marginalization necessitated the Pride Fest to be as visible as possible.

“A lot of people were very enthusiastic about the idea when it first emerged. They wanted something very visible,” Assistant Director for the College’s Center for Student Diversity Margaret Cook said. “It was very significant that Reveley came out. He was very enthusiastic when he was asked. There was a time when students didn’t want to acknowledge members of the LGBTQ community — I think President Reveley said it best when he said that the most important thing is to have integrity.”

Green’s initial idea to have an LGBTIQ walk for the annual multicultural event that the SA Department of Diversity Initiatives usually hosts was replaced by the Pride Fest early on in the spring semester.

“Throughout the semester, I didn’t feel passionate about a walk,” Green said. “That wouldn’t get the point across, that wouldn’t create enough representation [for] the LGBTIQ community. Some people didn’t think we would be able to pull it off.”

Yet Green noted there was a very enthusiastic response from the community once the Pride Fest was announced. An assortment of campus organizations acted as co-sponsors of the event, including the women’s studies department, the SA; I Am W&M week, Ludwell Hall Council, Jamestown Hall Council, William and Mary Residence Hall Association, Voices for Planned Parenthood and the Center for Student Diversity.

“I think it is a great idea,” Kevin Kosanovich, a doctoral candidate who was tabling for the Mason School of Business Stephens Project, which documents the lives of LGBTIQ alumni, said. “They are an important part of the community that needs to be recognized.”

Many also took advantage of the opportunity for free HIV testing, sponsored by the Eastern Virginia AIDS network, which took place alongside to the event.

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Why objective teacher ratings are impossible I despised economics. I took two introductory economics courses and hated each moment in those classes, which usually resulted in my being present only right before exams. Although I’m sure my economics professors were good at their jobs, I had no interest in economics. I was just trying to decide on a major.

Flat Hat Staff Columnist It is not happenstance that I don’t think a professor who teaches a subject I don’t like is the best teacher. That doesn’t The week of registration is always an interesting time of the mean he or she isn’t a good one. It’s because of this that I semester at the College of William and Mary. Students plan out don’t buy into these lists of great professors, or anything their unrealistic — and sometimes downright naïve — perfect similar from companies like The Princeton Review. Yes, I’m class schedules, looking primarily at a few key details: They proud when the College is ranked “best” at something. I like talk to friends about each course, they look at the time it meets showing off my Tribe swagger to the masses. It just makes and they consult Ratemyprofessor.com. For many students, getting the “best” of something more meaningful when the Rate My Professor’s frowning blue face is an automatic deal- rankings aren’t based on arbitrary criteria.

What makes a great school depends on the facts. The breaker, which means that a student must look for another class to replace the one the Internet has declared horrible. It College consistently produces Fulbright Scholars, who go should be noted, however, that the blue face sometimes means abroad either to teach English or to complete independent nothing. I’ve had plenty of professors who have less than stellar research. Many students graduate and go on to the top ratings on that website, but who turned out to be phenomenal. graduate programs in the country, and other students This past week, it was announced that The Princeton Review is begin working at the top business schools in the country.

Our professors are experts in their releasing a book on the 300 best college fields. From government to religious professors in the country — entitled, The Princeton Review can be studies, the faculty at the College well, “The Princeton Review’s Best 300 completes research on par with schools Professors.” The Princeton Review can helpful, but here its rating be helpful, but here its rating system is system is really just arbitrary. with larger endowments and more financial support. really just arbitrary.

I don’t care that The Princeton Review Students can be horribly judgmental. has deemed 10 of our professors the “best.” We have more A professor can do one thing to a student — maybe call him than ten great professors. Each student has been affected or her out for not reading — and that student could very by a professor here at the College, and for that student, well begin to dislike the professor. This one incident could that particular professor is the best. Maybe they didn’t earn the professor a dreaded blue face of doom on Rate My make the cut, but honestly, I don’t think students really Professor. The same thing goes for this list of the supposed care. Prospective students might be enticed to come to the “best professors.”

I’m proud that the College was represented on the list; I truly College now that we have so-called “best” professors. In due time, however, they’ll understand that just because am. However, I believe the professors I’ve had could trump someone else decides what the best is, that doesn’t make it them. As individuals, we have our own likes and dislikes. This the best. The students decide that themselves. individuality is what makes the College what it is. We’re all unique in our learning styles and in our interests. For instance, Email Alex Cooper at wacooper@email.wm.edu.

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What do you think about the Williamsburg City Council raising cigarette taxes?

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Well, it is a little harder to ‘get it right’ when you are starting from scratch and it is you who are the one working on it in real time, when lives are on the line.

“I’m OK with that, probably because I don’t smoke.”

“I guess it would be good for public health initiatives.”

Megan Bentley ’13

“It’s good [because of] the health repercussions of smoking.”

Paige Weaver ’14

Nick Peters ’12

“If taxes need to be raised, it’s probably good to do it on something that’s most likely bad for society.”

Doug Tableman ’13

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By Rachel Pulley, Flat Hat Cartoonist

bill to reauthorize and expand upon the Violence Against Women Act is currently making its way through the United States Congress and promises to increase awareness about dating violence, stalking and domestic violence. The act would require all institutes of higher education to report these incidents in addition to cases of sexual assault and rape. While some critics may argue that this bill will simply increase paperwork for institutions, the additions will help to make college campuses safer places.

The College of William and Mary has much to be proud of in its treatment of this type of incident. The College already has documentation of these cases that can be added to reports, and the campus hosts a plethora of student organizations dedicated to informing students about how to protect themselves and what to do if they are victims of one of these incidents. At the College, this bill must serve as a reminder that even the City of Williamsburg is not immune to these issues and that our age range has the highest number of incidents of intimate violence.

The College already does a phenomenal job of promoting awareness of intimate violence. Orientation provides students information about who to contact if they feel threatened. The area that appears weakest in this education is the most obvious question: What exactly are students supposed to report?

At the College, students are willing to chalk a lot of strange behaviors up to general awkwardness, but the fact remains that if students feel violated, they need to make a report. In the same way, all students need to be educated about what to do if a friend approaches them with an incident. The College should create another website model, along the same lines as the suicide counseling model, so that students feel prepared to talk about these issues. Students need to understand how to address these issues and should know never to discourage a peer from reporting such incidents.

As the College has just hosted its first successful LGBTIQ week, education concerning these issues must acknowledge that these incidents are not only directed toward heterosexual females. The topic must be destigmatized so that everyone, regardless of gender or sexual orientation, will feel comfortable reporting incidents of abuse and violence.

The reauthorization and expansion of this bill also works to change the image of who can be a victim of intimate abuse by including same-sex couples and undocumented immigrants.

While these controversial issues threaten to prevent the bill from passing in Congress, it is important to rise above petty politics in order to see the bigger picture of safety it will provide.

The Violence Against Women Act needs to pass and serve as a reminder that no matter how far we’ve come in improving safety, there is still a long way to go. Students must realize that no school, even one seemingly located in a retirement community, is ever completely safe. The College has the responsibility to attempt continuously to improve the safety of its students.

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

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Innocent until proven guilty: Proposed policy infringes on privacy rights Carter Lockwood Flat Hat Staff Columnist

The Dean of Students’s proposed changes to the Student Handbook for the upcoming academic year includes one doozy: a requirement that students disclose any arrest by law enforcement to the College of William and Mary within 72 hours. The College can argue that it needs to know about student arrests in order to keep the campus safe, but the proposal nonetheless means that the administration is making another intrusion into the private lives of students.

The College cites a University of Virginia policy that requires students to take the same action and also requires them to affirm each year

that they haven’t been arrested. The policy received media attention after it was revealed that George Huguely, the lacrosse player convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend, had been arrested two years earlier for public drunkenness and resisting arrest without notifying the administration.

The school argued that having that information could have indicated Huguely’s potential safety risks prior to the murder.

The problem with this logic is that administrators tend to get the idea that they’re stopping a potential maniac every time they catch someone being arrested. A sizable portion of students have been drunk in public before. Statistically, it’s likely you’re friends with someone who’s been arrested. Unless you want to start getting rid of hundreds and hundreds of College students, the idea that these students need to be suspended or expelled for safety reasons doesn’t

fly. The language in the proposal is also ambiguous regarding how far it reaches — theoretically, it could cover anything you do outside of Virginia or outside of the country.

The language in the College’s proposal also has the same problem that U.Va’s policy has: It makes no effort to distinguish between those who have been arrested, those who have been charged and those who have been convicted. That flies in the face of the idea that students are innocent until proven guilty. The College ought to be politely reminded that in its own Honor Code violation proceedings, a student can’t be discriminated against without due process. It has no business requiring you to report crimes of which you were not found guilty, in the same way it has no business inquiring into any outside disciplinary actions that aren’t public record, such as juvenile arrests.

The big worry is that we don’t know

what the administration plans to do with this information. Given that part of the rationale for the policy is that the administration wants to “evaluate a student’s arrest to determine if he/she poses a safety risk to self or others or if the student’s cumulative record warrants further action,” it’s not unreasonable to suggest that they

are looking to target certain people.

The College has a right to promote safety, but it should not be trying to circumvent student privacy rights and the presumption of innocence just so it can snoop around in students’s private lives.

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

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n 1970, frustrated college students nationwide — inspired in part by Vietnam War protests — decried the degradation of the environment.

These protests resulted in Earth Day, which later became Earth Week in Philadelphia after a committee decided that devoting one day to environmental issues was insufficient.

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Today, the Earth Week tradition continues at college campuses across the nation. Students, faculty and staff at the College of William and Mary are collaborating to host a wide array of events during Earth Week 2012 from April 14 to April 21. At the College, this year’s celebration at the College will focus on the wide range of approaches to sustainability, both in academics and practice.

One such event, the Environmental Raft Debate, will touch on how several different disciplines at the College address sustainability.

“The premise of the debate is which discipline will contribute the most to sustainability and to helping to save the earth,” Earth Week committee member Zander Pellegrino ’15 said. “The goal is to point out the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability. We’ve found that a lot of faculty here are finding that they can work sustainability into their [curricula].”

Earth Week events will emphasize that you don’t have to be a geology

major or an environmental science and policy minor to be actively involved in environmental action.

“I think one of the overarching goals or themes was to bring to light how many departments and how many disciplines touch on sustainability,” Environmental Filmmaker-inResidence Jes Therkelsen said. “In planning the events, we’ve tried to include as many different departments and professors.”

Jocelyn Jamison ’14, a resident of the EcoHouse — an environmentally focused Special Interest Housing option — is an English and German double major, with a strong commitment to sustainability issues.

“As a language major, you gain [the] ability [to] speak to others in different countries about what you can do — as two different countries — working toward a similar goal,” Jamison said. “Majoring in English also helps in the spread of awareness through communication.”

Beyond academics, Earth Week

will also focus on the importance of responsible citizenship at the College.

Students can tour the solar panel structures at Small Hall or lend a hand to hazardous and electronic waste cleanup.

“William and Mary is a great place to make students aware of global citizenship,” Therkelson said. “For this generation that’s at school now — the more that they become aware of [environmental issues], the better prepared they are to deal with them. It’s about cultivating responsible citizenship, whether you [will] do this as a living, or just incorporate it into your lifestyle …

The College is known for its commitment to service and internationalism — and environmentalism fits into that very well.”

Events such as the screening of Disney’s EARTH at Matoaka Amphitheatre and the Earth Day Extravaganza on the Crim Dell Meadow simply seek to encourage a greater appreciation for the environment. For Saturday’s Extravaganza, the Earth Week Committee has partnered with

Home Brew to provide free food and performances from 12 – 4 p.m. Tables will be set up for the environmental organizations active on-campus, and College President Taylor Reveley’s annual reading of The Lorax will take place at 12:30 p.m.

In addition to hosting its own events, Earth Week will also highlight ongoing efforts at the College.

“We’re also reaching out to a lot of groups already doing these things so that we can start talking to each other about sustainability,” Pellegrino said.

The Student Environmental Action Coalition, for example, has an active gardens group with projects by the Mason School of Business and the Commons cafeteria. This project is being included in Earth Week.

Such efforts continue year round.

For example, residents of the EcoHouse dedicate themselves to striving for sustainable living habits.

“Everyone here is like-minded, in that we want to be more sustainable,”

Gabriella DeCuir ’14 said. “There’s an EcoHouse garden outside [Landrum] that a few people once a week will tend.

One person on the hall monitors energy use. My favorite part is that, although in Virginia only plastics numbers 1 and 2 can be recycled, we have a collection container in the kitchen where numbers 3-7 can be gathered and sent off, so we’re able to go beyond what students can normally do.”

Organizations such as the Nature Conservancy see Earth Week as an opportunity to engage younger generations on college campuses in conservation efforts.

“The main point of my job is to engage a younger audience with nature conservancy,” Community Engagement Specialist Kathryn Arion said. “I think volunteering and giving back is key — or even just getting out there in nature [and going] for a hike over the weekend.”

For a full schedule of the week’s, see the Sustainability at William & Mary’s Earth Week 2012 event on Facebook.

Working to combat disease at home and abroad UAID fights infectious diseases at international, national and local level

BY SOPHIE MASON FLAT HAT ASSOC. VARIETY EDITOR

“Soccer is like a universal language,” wrote author of The Invisible Cure Helen Epstein about Grassroot Soccer, an organization that hosts soccer tournaments for youth in Africa and educates them about HIV and AIDS. It was with this vision of Grassroots Soccer in mind that Jackie BlakeHedges ’13 chose Grassroot Soccer as the benefit of the United Against Infectious Diseases club’s 3-versus-3 soccer tournament planned for Sunday, April 15 on Frat Field.

“I know someone who has interned with Grassroots Soccer, so I explored the website, brought it up in a meeting in the fall, and everyone got onboard,” Blake-Hedges said.

Even though UAID cancelled the tournament due to an insufficient number of participants, members like Casey Basham ‘14 remain hopeful for UAID, as it was the organization’s first official semester on campus. BlakeHedges agreed.

“In the fall we mostly fundraised, trying to get our foot in the door, but we’re mainly trying to benefit other

organizations,” Blake-Hedges said.

UAID is an organization committed to raising money for infectious disease testing, awareness and counseling primarily in rural villages in developing countries. Although the national branch of UAID concentrates its work abroad, President of UAID at the College of William and Mary Fatima Elamin ’12 stressed the importance of understanding the chapter’s involvement in local issues as well.

“We have a tri-level type of breakdown. We have international work that we do, organized by a national board, and then we have a Williamsburg focus and then a campus focus. We’re trying to keep it close to home,” Elamin said.

Elamin stressed that this kind of multilevel involvement is the key difference between UAID and other service or outreach oriented groups at the College.

“We have a lot [of members] that go abroad and that’s helpful, but that’s somewhere else,” Elamin said.

Basham highlighted that this community’s consciousness allows people to realize the reality of infectious diseases in their own lives.

“A lot of what we do is awareness because people seem to have this idea that infectious diseases are only in poor countries — other countries — but we’re trying to show that infectious diseases affect everyone and that they do occur in the [United States],, in Virginia, in our communities,” Basham said.

Elamin discussed the difficulty in talking about certain infectious diseases over others because many of the diseases rarely exist in the United States.

“For the Unite for Humanity week, we had a [tuberculosis] layout, and it was something like 547 people die in the United States in one year compared to a much smaller country in Africa with something like 10,000,” Elamin said.

On the other hand, UAID foresees students responding more to the infectious diseases they have a higher risk of encountering over the course of their lives.

“For example, STDs and STIs are so much easier to bring to campus because it’s something that a lot of people keep in the back of their minds, but with TB or meningitis, no one really hears about them unless you’re getting vaccinated or [hearing] how they affect populations outside of the [United

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States],” Elamin said.

The national board of UAID organizes trips every summer for members who have the desire to visit these countries with populations overrunwith infectious diseases but whose people lack an overall understanding of how to eliminate the diseases from their communities. One individual in UAID at the College, Aly Kozacek ’14, will leave for Panama with UAID national in a month.

“In Panama, I’ll be doing HIV testing.

We’ll be doing an awareness campaign, and kind of just going door to door in real Panama,” Kozacek said.

Another UAID sponsored trip involves traveling to Africa to work with smart phones and figure out different ways to bring technology to the clinics.

“That’s what I think is pretty cool about UAID,” Kozacek said. “We don’t just work in one country, doing one

project. We really do work universally.”

UAID’s goals for next year include a possible lecture series or film screenings about diseases such as HIV, AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

Kozacek also discussed a day of free HIV testing for the community.

“We’re hoping for more campus and community involvement in the future, so we’re planning a community day in Williamsburg where we’re going to provide free HIV testing, free childcare, free food, and all kinds of awareness there,” Kozacek said.

Basham stressed the excitement for the future of UAID in the community as students prepare to go abroad, and as they go throughout their lives.

“We just want to teach people to be aware of all the diseases that are out there and how to keep themselves safe wherever they travel or wherever they go,” Basham said.

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FREEmarket comes to campus Student Environmental Action Coalition creates exchange market

BY ABBY BOYLE FLAT HAT VARIETY EDITOR

There is a closet in the Campus Center that is home to clothes, shoes, cups, books and food. This space is not a lost and found, normal storage closet or even just for one student’s belongings — the area is the new Campus FREEmarket, which opened at the College of William and Mary on March 31.

The FREEmarket was created by the Recycling Committee of the Student Environmental Action Coalition, and is located in the SEAC office. It’s a place for students to deposit items they aren’t using and to pick up any used goods they might need. The entire process is free.

“We were throwing around ideas last year for a free-cycle on campus, and we thought it would be great to have a permanent room,” Recycling Committee member Laura August ’12 said.

Committee member Rosemary McDermott ’15 explained that the group was motivated to continue the project after reading about a working example of a free market on another college campus.

“We were inspired by Oberlin [University]’s ‘free room,’” she said.

“They had a blog post that we were interested in.”

However, the idea of creating a similar space at the College didn’t become a reality until this semester.

“At the beginning of the semester, we were really serious about getting the ball

rolling on this project again, so we made a presentation to the SEAC and they were really receptive to it,” August said.

The committee received funding from the Student Assembly and used the money to purchase bins, cleaning supplies, shelving, coat racks and hangers. They then converted a large closet in the SEAC office into the official market space.

In terms of collecting the items, the committee placed donation bins around campus for start-up goods, receiving generally positive results that continued after the market’s official opening in March.

“We had a really great outpouring during the beginning, after the grand opening,” August said. “We’ve had a modest trickle of people and donations.”

The committee also has a permanent bin where they collect items outside the SEAC office.

“We have a collection bin that sits outside the door continually,” McDermott said. “People seem to use that, because it’s always there.”

In addition to the collection bin and closet space, the market has a corkboard with two sections: “free” and “barter.” In the free section, students can post descriptions about items too big to store in the room, like fridges or couches, that they are willing to give away for free. The barter half of the board is where students can post descriptions of items that they would like to exchange with someone else for

another good of equal value.

Committee member Scott Laws ’13 explained that the purpose of the room is to allow students to reuse items that are common on a college campus.

“You can donate anything you would have in a dorm room, which is something the Goodwill lacks,” he said.

He added that most students at the College either own or are in need of similar items.

“A quarter of the campus leaves every year and a new quarter comes in,” he said. “They all need the same things.”

The committee’s ultimate goal is for students to think of the FREEmarket first when they need to get rid of unused items, and to think of it as a resource for finding goods without having to venture off campus or even pay for them at all.

“You in no way have to donate,” Laws said. “The principle is that if you’ll use it, take it.”

McDermott said she has already seen examples of students having success finding items they need at the market that they could have spent money on elsewhere.

“People were doing tie-dye for Relay for Life, and they came in here to get white T-shirts,” she said. “And that’s cool because they would have gone out and bought T-shirts, but they didn’t have to.

We’re really just saving them money.”

The group has been advertising the FREEmarket on Facebook (Facebook. com/thecampusfreemarket), Twitter

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The Campus FREEmarket opened March 31 in the Campus Center. The market consists of goods including clothing, shoes and generally any items that can be found in a dorm room.

and through signs around campus.

Laws said they hope to build on their success as one class graduates this spring and a new one enters the College in the fall.

“At the end of the semester, we’re going to start a stockpile of items for the incoming freshmen, and just make that a tradition,” he said.

Committee member Eric Dale ’14 added that the group also wants to advertise the FREEmarket as much as

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“It would be nice to get something in Orientation materials to let freshmen know of our existence,” he said.

August said that, overall, she hopes the FREEmarket’s presence at the College will make students think about how they can find the items they need without having to make a purchase at all.

“Ideally, loftily, we would like to change the way people think about consumerism,” she said.

Spring has sprung in Williamsburg. The birds are chirping, the weather is getting warmer, and the pollen is freaking everywhere. Seriously, everywhere. I’m showering twice a day to get the flower sperm off my face and out of my eyes and hair (okay, gross). Showering once a day is bad enough, but twice is downright depressing when I’m doing the fancy dance I do to get in the shower without catching a glimpse of myself in the mirror. I hate being naked. I’ve always hated being naked. I had to be the only toddler on the whole planet that would rather be in tights and a frilly dress than running around in a diaper — and as much as I’d like to attribute that fact to my early sense of fashion, I can’t. And it hasn’t gotten better since I’ve gotten older. When I’m naked, I feel vulnerable, like the mere act of taking my clothes off exponentially increases the likelihood that I’ll encounter rapists, intruders and creepy crawlies.

Vulnerability isn’t even the worst of it. At least those fears are laid aside when I’m joined by another naked person. Truth be told, I’m way more comfortable in clothes because they smooth me out and hide all the fat and flab I can’t help but notice when I’m naked. It’s a horrible thing I do to myself, and I’m not the only one. I would never let someone say the things about my body that I say to myself when I look in the mirror. It doesn’t just plague me in the moments I’m getting ready, either.

Sometimes that negative voice seems the loudest when I’m naked with someone else. Is there anything less sexy than thinking about whether your jeans are giving you a muffin top when you’re straddling someone on the couch?

The negative things we say about our bodies, to ourselves and to others are the biggest disservice we do to ourselves. It doesn’t seem like that big of a deal when you’re having a venting session with your friends, but it can make you feel totally worthless when you’re repeating those things to yourself when you look in the mirror or wondering if the person you’re with is thinking those same things. No matter how great the sex is, if I start thinking about my

lower stomach flab or my thunder thighs, I talk myself out of an orgasm faster than you can say “love handles.”

In my own experience, I have never looked at the naked person’s body sitting, standing or lying in front of me and thought, “I wish I could change my partner’s [insert physical attribute here].” Once I’m lucky enough to get someone naked, I’m way too busy thinking about how great it is that they’re naked. It’s like my brain is yelling, and I really can’t focus on anything else. I also have never had anyone say to me, “You know, your ass is too fat,” or, “Your boobs are too big; more than a handful is just too much.” Despite the notable lack of criticism from others, our internal criticism still pervades our experiences if we let it.

With bikini season quickly approaching, I’m not going to resolve to hit the gym or deny myself things I want to eat. I’m going to try a different approach: I want to look at myself every day in the mirror and think of one thing I like about it or one thing my body does for me. We as a society spend too much time hating the very thing that makes life livable. No one deserves the kind of abuse we so willingly dish out to ourselves.

So I hope you try it, too. Get naked. Enjoy being naked. Get comfortable in your skin and everything that comes with it. It’s worth silencing that pesky voice constantly putting you down.

It’s equally worth enjoying sex without the doubt — it’s just way too hard to have an orgasm if all you’re thinking about is sucking it in.

Krystyna Holland is a Behind Closed Doors Columnist and she hopes you learn to love your love handles.

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WOMEN’S TENNIS

College bests Terriers on Senior Day, 5-2

Tribe ends season with impressive win over BU, conference tournament up next

BY MICK SLOAN THE FLAT HAT Even a warm, blustery wind could not daunt William and Mary as it closed out its regular season Saturday against Boston University. The Tribe (6-15, 2-2 CAA) recorded a 5-2 victory over the Terriers by claiming three doubles matches and four singles matches to give their seniors a triumphant final outing at Millie West Tennis Facility.

With the win, the College gained some momentum just in time for the upcoming conference tournament and received a confidence boost after a challenging season.

“This team really believes in each other,” freshman Maria Belaya said.

The College entered the match reeling from a 6-1 loss to Virginia Commonwealth earlier in the week.

Nevertheless, the Tribe jumped out to a quick start with victories by the doubles tandems, sophomores Hope Johnson and Jeltje Loomans and Belaya and junior Anik Cepeda.

The two pairs sent the team roaring out of the gate, as Johnson and Loomans defeated their BU counterparts, 8-0, while Belaya and Cepeda defeated the Terriers’ Monika Mical and Sami Leib, 8-3, in the No. 2 spot.

With a 1-0 lead in hand, the College headed to singles play. The Tribe endured a loss in its No. 1 slot when Maria Belaya fell in straight sets to the challenging Vivien Laszloffy. Belaya captured an early 2-1 lead before dropping five straight games to lose the first set. The nationally ranked sophomore struggled with her control early in the match, firing her laser forehand out of bounds on multiple points in the first set. Belaya overcame her initial frustration and challenged Laszloffy on nearly every second set point, as the two players exchanged powerful backhands and soaring volleys through the windy air.

“I was trying to play my game, play aggressive. … In the second I tried to stay more patient and hit higher with her, try to play her game,” Belaya said.

Belaya also noted that Laszloffy pushed her out of her comfort zone and challenged her to adjust her playing style.

A highlight of the day belonged to senior Katie Kargl, who earned a dominant 6-1, 6-4 win over Amelia Martinez. Kargl rebounded from an early doubles defeat to help lead the College to victory.

“It was surreal and bittersweet, but I just had to make sure I was focused on my match,” Kargl said.

The Tribe picked up three additional singles victories when Cepeda cruised to a 6-2, 6-2 win over Lieb and junior Nina Vulavic rebounded from a dropped first set to pick up a 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, victory over BU’s Jesse Linero.

In addition, Loomans added to her dominant doubles win by posting a stellar second set in a 7-6, 6-1 victory over Mical.

The Tribe grabbed a 5-1 lead late in the day to seal the win before BU’s Petra Santini earned a win over Johnson, 6-4, 4-6, 10-6. The 6-2 win came at a critical point for the Tribe, which will carry its newfound momentum into the upcoming CAA tournament.

“We’re just going to go in fighting,” Kargl said.

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Junior Anik Cepeda won both her singles and doubles match in the College’s victory over BU.

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complemented Moody on the other side and played well, totaling three receptions for 43 yards. Sophomore wideout Sean Ballard also performed well, leading all receivers with three receptions for 47 yards.

Another offensive storyline was that of the Tribe backfield, which was without star tailback Jonathan Grimes ’12 for the first time in four years. Laycock employed a mix of three backs. Junior halfback Meltoya Jones rushed for 27 yards on five carries and a six-yard touchdown scamper, while sophomore Keith McBride showed his speed, running for 20 yards on four carries. Freshman tailback Mikal Abdul-Saboor got a number of carries as well.

While the offense continued to work out the kinks, the defense turned in a memorable performance, totaling six interceptions and three sacks. Junior defensive back Ryan Smith, who had not seen any game action in his Tribe career, made the biggest impact on the day by

recording two interceptions.

In addition to Smith, several other young defensive players made an impact Saturday.

Sophomore Ivan Tagoe, who played well last season in a limited role before getting injured against Old Dominion, recorded an interception. Sophomore linebacker Jake Wasco and freshman Andre Houston-Carson both picked off the Tribe quarterbacks after seeing sparse action last season.

While many new additions played well defensively, the usual suspects didn’t disappoint either. Senior defensive end Quincey September played exceptionally well Saturday, earning a sack, two tackles for loss, a forced fumble and a blocked field goal.

Senior linebacker Jabrel Mines, a third-team All-CAA selection last season, also recorded an interception. Senior cornerback B.W. Webb also turned in an expectedly dominant performance, consistently locking down Tribe receivers.

“The guys, even the younger guys coming

up, getting interceptions — I love it. They’re doing great [in the secondary],” Webb said.

Caprio, who has spent all Spring practicing against the Tribe’s defense, said he thought it could be one of the best defensive units in the conference come September.

“You saw how athletic their [defensive] backs are. They’re coming up and making plays and even the linebackers are so athletic,” Caprio said. “It’s definitely one of the best defenses I think we’ll see. It’s good to go against a defense like that and get experience like that.”

At the conclusion of the game, the squad announced its two captains for the 2012 season.

Mines and senior safety Brian Thompson, a second team All-CAA selection last year, were named captains by virtue of a team vote.

“They’re good players; they’re good leaders,” Laycock said.

While a great deal of hard work remains, the College will resume its preparations for next season in August ahead of its 2012 season opener Sept. 1 at Maryland.

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Koehler took the loss after an eight-inning complete game in which he allowed just one earned on six hits and a walk.

Neither team committed an error as Marshall was even more magnificent, going all nine and conceding just one hit, two walks and two hit batsmen while striking out six.

The College came out for Sunday’s matinee looking to stave off a sweep. Once again, every inning would matter.

Georgia State struck first in the bottom of the second, plating one against senior starting pitcher Cole Shain before scoring one in the third as well. The Tribe responded, breaking its scoreless streak with three in the fourth to take the lead. On cue, the Panthers took the lead with two runs in the bottom of the inning and got out to a 5-3 lead with another run in the fifth.

It wasn’t until the eighth that the College would tie things up with an RBI single from senior designated hitter Sean Aiken and a base knock from Forsten.

Finally in the ninth, the Tribe took the lead. Sophomore third baseman Ryan Lindemuth singled and came around to score on an double from senior left fielder Tadd Bower.

After pitching scoreless seventh and eighth innings, junior reliever John Farrell shut the door in the ninth to pick up his first win of the year.

Monarchs top College in finale Tribe wins MEN’S TENNIS from page 8

4-6, 6-3, 6-3. After falling behind in the first set, Guthrie rallied to take the second and third sets for his fourth consecutive victory and his sixth win in seven outings.

In court No. 6, Banks recorded the Tribe’s final victory of the day. Banks narrowly lost the first set, 6-7, as Old Dominion’s Alfredo Rodriguez grabbed the

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tiebreaker point. In the second set, however, Banks didn’t need a tiebreaker after he won 6-3.

In the decisive third set, both Banks and Rodriguez labored en route to a 10-5 decision in favor of the College.

While Banks and Guthrie fought to victory in tiebreakers, the Tribe’s No. 1 and No. 2 players watched from the sidelines, their matches already finished. Junior Adrian Vodislav entered the No.

1 court looking to get a quality win under his belt prior to the CAA championships. Instead, Vodislav managed just two game victories, as the Monarch’s Krzysztof Muzalewski quickly won 6-1, 6-1.

Similarly, Andersson failed to record the victory. After getting blanked in the first set, Andersson continued to struggle in the second, eventually losing to Carlos Lopez Villa, 6-0, 6-2.

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“It feels really good, especially for the seniors, to get some momentum back on this field,” Noon said.

Along with two assists, Noon scored four second-half goals to help put the game out of reach.

Sophomore Taelor Salmon, the team’s leading scorer for the season, also contributed two second half goals.

Although the Tribe offense played exceedingly well, the squad was guided to victory largely from the back where the defense gave the Patriots precious few opportunities and caused 20 turnovers. Freshman goalie Lucy Ferguson registered six saves, while conceding only eight goals in the game and just two in the second half.

“Our defense did a great job,” Ireland said. “They really stepped up in the second half, and I think Lucy Ferguson came up with some huge saves today which really fired up our defense.”

Sunday’s win tied the College with George Mason for last in the Colonial League with just two games left, making qualification to the CAA tournament very unlikely.

But Coach Ireland sounded tepidly optimistic about her squad’s chances after the rousing victory.

“I think we still have a shot, but we need to pull off two wins this next weekend and then see how things shake out,” she said.

The Tribe travels to Drexel for another important match on Friday in Philadelphia.

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to form and aggressively grabbing ground balls if a pass went awry.

“We wanted to make sure we got the ball, moved it around and gave our defense a rest,” senior Maggie Anderson said. “We’ll get their defense tired then we can score easier.”

The Tribe’s impressive offensive surge in the second half was largely built off the play of two players — Anderson and freshman Kaleigh Noon.

“We just have chemistry,” Anderson said. “When she gets the ball behind and she hears me call her name, she knows I’m cutting for her.”

This chemistry was memorably demonstrated 10 minutes into the second half. Noon, from behind the net, tossed the ball to Anderson as she leaped and thrust her stick up into the air before zinging it towards the net, scoring a miraculous goal that rocketed most of the spectators out of their seats.

William and Mary’s hot play in the friendly confines of Plumeri Park didn’t carry over on the road as the Tribe dropped two of three games to CAA-foe Georgia State in a nail-biting series down in Atlanta. After just barely being edged by the Panthers, 7-6 Friday, the College was shut out Saturday and fell in another close one, 1-0. Finally, the team salvaged some part of the series, pulling out a 6-5 win Sunday.

With the two losses, the College (24-15, 9-9 CAA) slides to sixth in the conference standings, a game and a half ahead of the Panthers (1621, 7-8 CAA) for the final playoff berth with 12 playoff games remaining in the regular season.

The series kicked off with senior pitcher Matt Davenport on the hill for the Tribe, struggling early. Georgia State tagged the righty sidearmer for two quick runs on three hits in the first, giving the Panthers an early 2-0 advantage.

Eventually, the Tribe responded with three runs in the top of the fourth. First it was senior catcher Chris Forsten with an RBI single, then junior second baseman Kevin Nutter ripped an RBI base hit to center. Finally, junior center fielder Ryan Brown slapped a single down the line to score Forsten and put the College up, 3-2.

But the Tribe wasn’t done there as the offense continued humming, plating a run in the fifth and sixth innings on a passed ball and an RBI single from freshman first baseman Michael Katz to give the Tribe a 5-2 lead.

The bottom of the sixth would see that advantage quickly disappear, though. The Panthers, with help from two throwing errors, would score five on three hits to reclaim a 7-5 lead. The College battled back and loaded the bases in the seventh, but could muster only one run on an RBI walk from Brown, leaving three on base and Georgia State with a 7-6 lead.

The scoring ended after that as Davenport took the loss, leaving after seven innings, four earned, nine hits and two walks.

Baseball purists could rejoice in game two, as it featured dominant pitching.

Junior starter Brett Koehler faced off with Georgia State’s Ben Marshall.

The game was scoreless until the bottom of the fifth, when the Panthers finally broke through with a run on three hits. That one run would be all they needed, and all they’d get, as neither hurler would falter again.

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‘Hallelujah’ COURTESY PHOTO / TRIBE ATHLETICS

Graduate attacker Maggie Anderson celebrates after one of her two goals during the College’s 18-8 win over George Mason Sunday. Anderson took five shots and logged three assists as well.

Mackrides leads with four goals as College routs George Mason, 18-8

BY JACK POWERS THE FLAT HAT Big wins usually result in long, exclamatory post-game speeches. But after William and Mary’s dominating 18-8 victory over George Mason in front of a raucous Senior Day crowd — a win that snapped a nine game losing streak — there was only one thing to say.

“Hallelujah,” head coach Brooke Ireland said.

The energy that every member of the team gained from the Senior Day pre-game festivities was apparent from the first face-off onward. The College soared to a quick 6-2 advantage after the first 10 minutes of regulation.

Most of these goals were scored from a set play where a scheming player would stand behind the net patiently, undisturbed by opposing defenders and then whip a pass into the center of the net where a Tribe attacker would be lurking, ready to pounce.

Junior Krystin Mackrides benefited from several of these plays en route to a four-goal day, including three in the first half.

“At the beginning of the season, we worked the crease a lot,” Ireland said. “That was our signature shot.

But I think we also capitalized on that today because we recognized that the defense was shifting and we did a good job.”

The Tribe played well in the first half, but the outcome of the game was still in doubt going into halftime with a 9-5 lead. This was especially true given the team’s recent history of grabbing early leads before surrendering them later on.

However, the Tribe hardly looked like a team that hadn’t won a game since Feb. 29 during the second half. The Tribe’s swift cutting and precision passing crafted goal opportunity after goal opportunity, leaving the Patriot players stupefied as they watched the game slip out of their control. The Tribe attackers played intelligently and persistently, waiting for the right shot

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Monarchs edge College Tribe falls 4-3 in regular season finale

BY CHRIS WEBER FLAT HAT ASSOC. SPORTS EDITOR With the CAA championships looming large, William and Mary saw the season finale at Old Dominion as an opportunity to build up much needed confidence. Rather than find any momentum though, the Tribe only found more questions.

The Tribe (10-15) dropped the doubles point and the No. 1, No. 2, and No. 4 individual matches on the way to a 4-3 defeat at the hands of Old Dominion (12-9).

In doubles play, each duo fell to the Monarchs.

Senior Jacob Braig and junior Anton Andersson lead the way for the Tribe at the No. 1 position, but ultimately dropped the match, 8-5. The No. 2 pair of sophomore Ben Guthrie and senior Ilja Orre and No. 3 tandem of sophomore John Banks and graduate student Robert Pietrucha didn’t find any better luck, falling 8-5 and 8-2, respectively. Old Dominion took the lead, 1-0, heading into singles play.

After the loss in doubles play, Pietrucha rode his two-match win streak into his No. 5 spot matchup against Old Dominion’s Can Cetinel. Pietrucha’s hot hand would continue, as he dropped Cetinel in straight sets, 6-4, 6-4.

Pietrucha’s victory ties him for the team lead with 21 singles victories on the season.

Guthrie continued Pietrucha’s success, dropping the Monarch’s Albert Ochagavia, 4-6, See MEN’S TENNIS page 7

Defense rules the day in spring game Graham and Caprio battle for quarterback job, Thompson and Mines named captains

BY MIKE BARNES FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR After enduring a disappointing 5-6 2011 campaign, William and Mary fans began singing the same, repeated refrain: There’s always next year.

The Zable Stadium scoreboard was lit up again after being dim for months, and players scrimmaged at full speed in the annual Green and Gold game Saturday. One thing was clear: Next year is here.

The game featured a physical, highly competitive contest. The offense showed signs of recovery after a tumultuous 2011, while the defense turned in a dominant performance.

“Defensively, the linebackers and the secondary probably have as good overall speed as we’ve had in quite a while,” head coach Jimmye Laycock said.

Predictably, the most notable storyline heading into Saturday’s game was the quarterback competition. Junior Michael Graham — the defacto starter for most of last year until he went down with a leg injury — and junior Brent Caprio, the hero of the Tribe’s thrilling, last second 25-23 victory over Richmond last season — were the two starting quarterbacks.

“I thought Caprio did probably a little better job today than Mike,” Laycock said. “Now, [Caprio] was running against the second defense a lot of the time. … They both did things alright; they did some things really well then they made some mistakes. We can’t turn it over; we can’t force throws.”

Graham was featured against the first team defense for the majority of the time and struggled, overthrowing several of his receivers. As the game wore on, he got into more of a rhythm, eventually hitting sophomore tight end Bo Revell for a four-yard touchdown score. Graham finished the day at 3 of 14 for just 13 yards.

Caprio had an uneven showing, as the junior

completed nine passes for 103 yards and showed capable scrambling ability, but tossed three picks later in the contest. Caprio had a number of good throws, including a near-touchdown pass to senior wideout Ryan Moody.

“We put them in situations that we wanted to put them in, we threw it like we wanted to throw it, we put them into where the quarterbacks had to make decisions,” Laycock said. “Some of them made some good ones and some of them made some bad ones.

If you’re going to make them, make them now, don’t make them in the fall.”

Caprio said the competition between quarterbacks was a friendly one.

“We’re still friends, we want the best for each other.

We’re going out there and we’re playing hard and we’re competing with each other, but we’re doing it the right way. We’re not looking for that other guy to fail,” Caprio said.

Moody appeared a bit rusty, but fully healed from the ACL injury that kept him out for much of 2011. Sophomore wide receiver Tre McBride See FOOTBALL page 7

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Junior quarterback Brent Caprio prepares for the snap in the shotgun. He and junior quarterback Michael Graham started.