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Vol. 102, Iss. 28 | Tuesday, January 22, 2013

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Students left campus early on Monday morning to travel to Petersburg to help Pathways, a group aimed at revitalizing the town, for Martin Luther King Jr.’s Day of Service.

BY VERONIQUE BARBOUR FLAT HAT ASSOC. NEWS EDITOR

Driving through an area with boarded-up windows and run-down yards, students gazed at the remnants of a town pivotal in the Civil Rights Movement. As volunteers from the College of William and Mary arrived at Pathways, an organization focused on the redevelopment of Petersburg, they celebrated the history of the town while helping to revitalize its present.

Martin Luther King Jr. spent time in Petersburg in the 1950s and 60s, with locals drawing inspiration from his movement. Pathways has since formed a commemorative march to reflect on his actions and philosophies. Students worked with Pathways to not only volunteer in the community but also assist in this educational walk.

Katie Caudle ’14 coordinated the project as part of the Office of Community Engagement’s participation in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Day of Service.

“Martin Luther King Jr. started a movement for people to grasp the impact of what an individual can achieve,” Caudle said.

Some students worked at composting trees, others

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picked up trash, and some made soup for those who participated in the activities for the day.

“I felt like we attributed a lot to Pathways and what we did may seem small but it is about service, sharing, and being apart of something else,” student volunteer Coleen Herbert ’14 said.

After the students concluded their activities, they participated in the commemorative march.

This included walking to the historical First Baptist Church, Gillfield Baptist Church and Third Baptist Church where preachers from each church talked about how their churches played an influential role in the Civil Rights Movement.

“Martin Luther King Jr. was committed to small actions being connected to others. I feel that the educational part of the service really played into this. You can share knowledge and that is what this service today really pulled in,” Herbert said.

Another co-contributor to the service day was Kate Furgurson ’13.

“Those that volunteered today had a great

memory OCE gathers campus groups for projects on MLK’s Day of Service

With the start of the new year, the College of William and Mary introduced new majors and programs, including the interdisciplinary medieval and Renaissance Studies program and the creative writing minor, along with changes within film studies and literary and cultural studies.

This spring the medieval and Renaissance Studies program, also known as “Med-Ren,” introduced a new entry level course, “Intro to Medieval and Renaissance Studies” to the student body. According to the primary instructor for the course, professor Lu Ann Homza, the med-Ren Program was created in the late 1980s and has always been relatively small, but the program was reviewed by a team of liberal arts experts from Smith College to suggestions for improving student awareness.

“The main suggestion they gave us was to create a gateway course for the intro student, no matter what their year or their range of interest at the time,” Homza said.

The med-Ren Program was originally crafted to unify a variety of disciplines under the common heritage of early European culture.

Likewise, Intro to Medieval and Renaissance Studies is largely interdisciplinary.

“We have professor Catherine Levesque teaching Leonardo and Michelangelo,” Homza said. “And students listen to Gregorian Chant with professor Tom Payne from the music department.”

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SA SUSPENDS FREE STI TESTING Due to dwindling funds, the SA will not offer free STI testing or flu shots for the next two weeks. STI testing, flu shots and shuttles to the airports, programs previously subsidized by the SA, The change will run as the SA budget is finalized in the coming weeks. Check back with The Flat Hat for updates on this developing story.

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EVMS

WILLIAMSBURG

EVMS merger postponed

Council eliminates housing density cap

Pilot program started

BY ELLIE KAUFMAN FLAT HAT CHIEF STAFF WRITER

BY ELEANOR LAMB FLAT HAT ASSOC. NEWS EDITOR

In its 2013 Comprehensive Plan the Williamsburg City Council removed barriers to student housing options close to campus.

The council approved the plan on Jan. 10. The plan, recommended and altered by the Planning Commission, eliminates a density cap that previously restricted the number of residents in certain areas of the city.

Without the density cap, projects of the same size with the same architectural restrictions will be able to house more people in areas close to campus.

“The plan creates more opportunities to make the downtown and midtown areas more vibrant and interesting places to live,” Vice Mayor of the

People pining for the union of the College of William and Mary and the Eastern Virginia Medical School will have to wait a little longer.

A couple of months ago, the Due Diligence Committee, a group selected by President Taylor Reveley, met in a forum to discuss the possibility of a merger. That meeting ended on a note of doubt, as Provost Michael Halleran stated he did not think a merger was feasible at that point.

The committee mentioned a few reasons for its reluctance to perform a merger in a report written in December. The report called into question whether a medical program would See EVMS page 3

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Approves 2013 Comprehensive Plan, focuses effort on downtown redevelopment Williamsburg City Council Paul Freiling said. “I think in the long run it will help make Williamsburg a more interesting place to live.”

The plan eliminates the density cap in the downtown residential land use area, midtown planning area, urban residential land use area and urban commercial land use area. These sections include downtown around Market Square, Prince George Street, Armistead Street and Scotland Street, as well as the midtown areas including the Williamsburg Shopping Center and surrounding complexes.

“The city doesn’t have that many more lots that are undeveloped,” Planning Commission member Chris Connolly ’15 said. “Redevelopment will be the future of our community, so this plan gives developers the opportunity and the freedom to make changes.”

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Tribe Square had the space for two more units, but could not build because of the cap.

Tribe Square, for example, has a certain number of units due to the former density cap, but it has the physical space for two more units.

Without the cap, those extra units can now be built in future projects.

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“It’s just as tall, just as big, yet we wasted two perfectly good spots. This eliminates that problem,” Williamsburg City Council member Scott Foster ’10 See DENSITY page2

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According to the Virginia Gazette, the House of Delegates Bill 1366 which would have made it illegal to smoke in a car with children under 13, was defeated after a subcommittee of the House Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety was deadlocked at 3-3 on Thursday.

Under the bill, violations would have been a secondary offense, which means drivers can be cited only if pulled over for any other reason violators could have been fined $100. A similar bill, Senate Bill 975 sponsored by Senator Northam (D-District 6), would ban smoking in cars with children under 15 years of age. His bill will be heard in the General Assembly this week.

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Day-to-day foot traffic is great, but the baseline metabolism of any community is people spending time there.

—Williamsburg City Council member Scott Foster ’10 J.D. ’14

BEYOND THE ‘BURG

More than 100 college students from the College of William and Mary joined the nation in honoring Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. with a day of service. According to Williamsburg-Yorktown Daily, the Office of Community Engagement organized the day of service, broadening volunteer opportunities to Petersburg and Williamsburg thanks to a grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service. Students gave their time to volunteer at soup kitchens and several local nonprofits, including the Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity ReStore, Heritage Humane Society and Housing Partnerships.

Danny Glover critized for comments A conservative Texas A&M group, the Texas Aggie Conservatives, is accusing the university of a “leftist bias” due to remarks from actor Danny Glover at a school event.

According to the New York Daily News, the “Lethal Weapon” star claimed at a Martin Luther King, Jr. event that the Second Amendment was intended to protect against slave revolts and Native American violence. A university spokesman claimed that the school was not aware that Glover would comment on the issue, however, that has not stopped the Texas Aggie Conservatives from launching a petition against “radical leftist speakers” on campus.

Albemarle County is looking to industrial hemp as its next cash crop as part of the effort to jumpstart economies in the industrially ravaged Southern Virginia. According to the Richmond TimesDispatch, the county could soon join a long list of Virginia localities that have signed resolutions to differentiate industrial hemp from marijuana. However, the stance taken by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration is a roadblock as it sees no difference between industrial hemp and marijuana. Proponents claim that differing levels of tetrahydrocannabinol, the ingredient that gives a drug user a “high,” make the plants distinct. Supervisors will consider the resolution at their February meeting.

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Conservative students at Texas A&M are now criticizing actor Danny Glover for his recent controversial acceptance speech about the Second Amendment.

Crime strikes Boston University

Dartmouth College to stop accepting AP credit

Boston University students were robbed in three separate incidents in the campus vicinity between 11 p.m. Jan. 18 and 1:30 a.m. Jan. 19, according to boston.com. The first incident involved a male student who was assaulted by two men in an alley and had his phone stolen. The second incident involved a female student who gave up her bag at gunpoint to two male robbers. In the third incident a man and a woman attacked a female student and stole her phone and money from her purse. A university spokesman described the evening’s events as “an unusual circumstance.”

Faculty at Dartmouth College voted to end the policy of awarding college credit for AP test scores from incoming high school students. According to The Huffington Post, the Ivy League school faculty felt that the AP courses did not accurately reflect the difficulty of their equivalent college-level courses, pointing to an internal study that showed students with AP credit in psychology performed no better in the introductory course than those without the credit. Critics of the policy change have pointed to the rising costs of tuition at Dartmouth and the need for some students to cut costs through AP credit to allow them to graduate earlier.

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Wednesday, Jan. 16 — There was an incident of a someone being drunk in public on Richmond Rd.

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Wednesday, Jan. 16 — There was an incident of larceny from a building on Prince George Street.

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Amanda Hinckle ’15, who is currently enrolled in the class, talked about how the course appeals to her interests, even though she is not a med-Ren major.

“I’m a history and English major so I’m taking this course because it appeals to both departments,” Hinckle said. “What I find extremely interesting is that, while it’s taught mainly by professor Homza, she’s bringing in multiple professors from other departments, which is exciting to hear because it ensures that we’ll all get an all-encompassing view of Medieval and Renaissance history.”

Although the medieval and Renaissance Studies major and minor has been an option

for quite some time now, the introductory course serves as an appropriate sample.

Professor and Director of Literary and Cultural Studies and Film Studies Anne Marie Stock, talked about how the departments are revamping these majors in order to create a new option for students.

“Basically — we are streamlining the current interdisciplinary which has two tracks — Literary and Cultural Studies and Film Studies — into a single interdisciplinary program to be titled Film and Media Studies,” Stock said in an email. “The same faculty will participate.

In fact we’re enthusiastic about the prospect of inviting more collaboration with some new faculty and programs.”

According to Stock, this new program is

still being reshaped and is currently accepting input from students, faculty, and alumni to foster cohesiveness and to better serve the student body.

Additionally, current majors in both LCST and film studies will continue to have the option of completing the “old” requirements as outlined today or switching over to the new ones once the program is finalized.

This year also saw the introduction of the creative writing minor to the College.

The creative writing program now provides students a choice of intermediate-level courses in expository writing and creative writing in fiction and poetry and a series of required upper-level seminars and workshops in fiction.

Foster thinks new plan will open redevelopment DENSITY from page 1

J.D. ’14 said. “All of the same restrictions that made it look as it does are still there, but now it’s truly customized.”

While the plan was approved by the City Council last week, it now enters a six-to-seven month implementation period before it can become the new official Comprehensive Plan. The plan is only altered every five years and the Planning Commission

spent about 30 meetings this year altering the fine print.

“Over the next few months we will continue to work on the plan and continue to work with different projects and make sure the plan is implemented well within the city,” Connolly said.

Foster believes the new plan will open up potential for redevelopment in the downtown and midtown areas.

With the removal of the density cap, mixed use properties and

commercial areas have the potential to become living spaces for students, young professionals and other residents.

“The key to any successful downtown is that people have to live there,” Foster said. “Dayto-day foot traffic is great, but the baseline metabolism of any community is people spending time there.”

Measuring growth in the previous five years gives Foster hope that changes like the

elimination of the density cap in the latest comprehensive plan will cause rapid change in the community.

“In the past four years a lot has changed. It used to be the only place that students felt comfortable going to eat close to campus was the delis,” Foster said. “If you can look at the change that’s happened in the last five years, pick out some properties that need development and the same could happen there.”

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House Republicans retreat to Kingsmill resort House of Representatives visited Williamsburg for three days before returning to the capital by ariel cohen flat hat STAFF WRITER

Just days before the Presidential Inauguration, House Republicans packed up their briefcases to head down to the Colonial Capital for their annual retreat. From Jan. 16 to Jan. 18, the representatives relaxed at Kingsmill Resort in Williamsburg, six miles from the College of William and Mary campus.

“It’s traditional for both parties to have out-ofWashington gatherings before the next Congress,” government professor George Grayson said in an email. “A chance to renew/make friendships, meet newly elected members, and try to reach consensus on their legislative program.”

With a looming and expanding budget deficit, the House legislators had many issues to tackle, including fiscal cliff debates, minority outreach and party unity.

“I think it’s good for Republicans to talk about their platform, especially since there’s been many

philosophical differences in the party lately,” College Republicans’ President Chandler Crenshaw ’14 said. “I believe that [the] Republican Party can build its base by trying to get the message of limited government for everyone out there. We should try to connect with everyone and people from various backgrounds.”

Kingsmill offered legislators the opportunity to relax, play golf and tennis, or go boating on the James River while discussing possible political agendas. This fall, the resort hosted President Barack Obama as he prepared for a presidential debate during his election campaign.

“Hosting such high profile events isn’t a new phenomenon for Kingsmill,” Marketing Manager Claudia Rinaldi said. “In the past we’ve hosted Obama and the House Democratic Council.”

Special Capital security forces and Kingsmill police surveyed the area around Kingsmill before the legislators arrived and secured the resort throughout the remainder of the weekend.

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The College Republicans pose with Representative Eric Cantor, R-7, at Sweet Frog in the New Town shopping center this weekend.

“This particular weekend was extremely successful and went very smoothly,” Rinaldi said. “The Congressional committee had many guidelines and schedules; it all went off without a hitch.”

After three days of meetings in Williamsburg,

House Republicans returned to work in Washington D.C. in time to swear in their newest members.

“Like most parties, platforms adapt,” Crenshaw said. “I believe the Republican Party will adapt for the changing times.”

Day evokes MLK’s legacy

Reveley announces delay of EVMS merger

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harm the College’s reputation as an outstanding liberal arts school, although many other top-tier schools have medical programs.

“Would this lead to a loss of our niche as an elite liberal arts university and/or create a distraction of time and energy?” Halleran wrote in the report.

Last Wednesday, Reveley updated the student body on the status of connections between the College and EVMS. He stated that the committee determined that it was too early to make a formal connection but that the merger was still possible. “[The committee] ... recommended a twostep approach to continue this exploration. ... I agree with the committee’s approach,” Reveley said in his campus-wide memo.

This “two-step approach” will establish a

pilot program between the College and EVMS, allowing the two institutions to work together and explore how much each establishment has to offer the other.

Following this collaborative pilot run, the committee will reconvene and assess both the success of this program and the renewed possibility of the merger. “[This is] a continued effort to discover what relationship between the two institutions would best serve our mutual and common interests and those of the Commonwealth,” Halleran said in an email.

The committee’s decision was that the College and EVMS should work together in healthcare delivery science. Right now, the two schools are figuring out what resources are required for their joint work.

“We have both been exploring how we can best work together,” Vice President for Strategic

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opportunity to get involved about learning about the Civil Rights and to be apart of the current movement,” Furgurson said.

During the service at Third Baptist Church, community member Richard Stewart reflected on his experiences of prejudice growing up during the Civil Rights Movement. He talked about how, at the time, having an African American president or a holiday for an African American man seemed impossible.

“The reference on Martin Luther King Jr. and his struggle

which was 50 years ago and how we have a national holiday about him was amazing to realize,” Caudle said. “So much has changed because of how people influence the hearts and minds of others in their communities.”

However, the trip to Pathways was not the only volunteer trip that students took. Other groups on campus did volunteer work around Williamsburg.

“Programs like these are a hallmark for William and Mary because everyone has been so engaged in learning and growing outside of the classroom,” Caudle said.

Real individuality.

Unreal togetherness.

Initiatives and committee member Jim Golden said in an email. “As we work together, we will learn more about what organizational adjustments, if any, might make sense.”

This pilot program is a promising start for firmer ties between the College and EVMS, but those hoping for a concrete merger should not see it as a guarantee. News on a definite merger is far in the future as the pilot program will take a little while to gain steam.

“We’ll be pursuing this exploration over the next 12-18 months,” Halleran said in his email.

Although these exploratory efforts will take time, they are a crucial step in the possible melding of these two institutions. “[The pilot program] might loosely be compared to a period in which the two schools ‘date’ to help determine whether something more lasting has merit for each,” Reveley said in his statement.

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Flat Hat Staff Columnist In college, however, you have a fresh start. For the first time, virtually every decision you make is selfish — selfish in the sense that it is purely and simply for you. You can live Most students — especially seniors — are worrying about proactively as opposed to reactively. You make friends not finding a job after graduation. If you’re not stressing at all you because your parents have been setting up playdates since can drop the act, because no one believes you. If you already have a job lined up that’s great, but you should know that the rest birth, but because you share interests with them as (semi-) adults. I don’t mean to disregard the importance of that first of us secretly hate you for it. type of friendship, because it has its own unique value and As graduation — and with it, entry into the real world — can’t be replaced. But the people with whom you surround approaches, many of us are feeling daunted by the discouraging yourself can now begin to make up a mosaic, each one employment statistics. With the unemployment rate for recent highlighting a different part of you. college graduates high, some have suggested that working for a This column has now morphed into the nostalgic bachelor’s degree isn’t worth the time or money.

Maybe, some wonder, we need to step away from the ramblings of a second-semester senior. But to get back to the main point, I would hire someone with a convention of college education, which degree not just because of qualifications has become more of a traditional rite of passage than a practical investment.

For the first time, virtually ever they may have in terms of the work itself, but because there is a certain growth of However, a recent report from Pew decision you make is selfish — character that happens during these four Charitable Trusts gives cause to restore selfish in the sense that it is years. It comes from both the freedom our faith in earning that degree. The report purely and simply for you. and the inevitable struggles that college found that in the years following the 2007provides.

2009 recession, “among Americans age Through our living situations, clubs, traveling and classes, 21 to 24, the drop in employment and income was much steeper among people who lacked a college degree.” That’s not to say that we learn to compromise, pull our own load, follow through a college degree is an automatic ticket to a fancy job with a fat on plans, and deal with disappointment. We find out how we learn best, what type of people we work with well and which paycheck, but it definitely helps. things we value the most. It’s not easy to pinpoint exactly The notion that we might move away from the idea of a when these learning moments occur, but they do. college education as a necessary prerequisite for a successful Remember this if you ever find yourself questioning the career is an interesting one. Nevertheless, if I put myself in the payoff of your college investment: There’s no statistic for shoes of a hiring manager, I would value candidates’ college this development, no way to measure the progress that we experiences far more than the degrees on their resumes. make, but know that it’s there. If nothing else, there is value in Having graduated from college implies not only that you learning to live actively and becoming your own person. have a decent work ethic, but also that you’ve been exposed to four years’ worth of experiences that simply help round you out Email Emily Kelley at emkelley@email.wm.edu.

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ost College of William and Mary students who have been bumped during the housing lottery know the frustration of searching for an apartment in Williamsburg.

Infamously bad town-gown relation have plagued off-campus students for years. Regardless, as the College continues to expand, the need for more off-campus housing is also increasing.

Last semester, the city considered reducing the restrictions on the three-person rule, suggesting that some of the coolness between students and residents might be beginning to thaw.

This month, the City Council adopted the 2013 Comprehensive Plan, which removes the cap on residential density for downtown Williamsburg. This action means more potential development for the city that could provide more off-campus housing options to students. The same plan was rejected in 2006 due to resident opposition. This year when residents voiced their questions and concerns about the new plan, the opposition had decreased significantly. The City Council passed the plan unanimously. We applaud residents for becoming more open to change that will benefit both the College and the city.

Williamsburg needs to attract more young adults to increase revenue and to continue to grow. What some city residents seem to have forgotten in the past is that there are thousands of young adults who already live in the city as students at the College.

Instead of shunning students during their time at the College, the city should consider the student body a resource for revenue. By encouraging more students to stay, live and work in Williamsburg, the city can continue to grow and improve rather than age and decay.

The 2013 Comprehensive Plan will make more efficient use of land and will help to make the city more attractive. While many tourists may flock to Duke of Gloucester street, only a short walk away, the empty lot on Prince George Street is an eyesore.

Throughout the city, students live in slummy apartments and houses. The lack of choice in housing means that landlords have no reason to spruce up their properties. If students have more options from new apartments, then landlords might take the initiative to clean up some of the less attractive sections of the city.

We understand that we are talking about downtown Williamsburg, where many residents still do not want students living next door. We believe this an understandable concern.

Implementing the comprehensive plan, however, will encourage students to live in clusters of apartments in the city, which will mean fewer students living in houses in subdivisions around Williamsburg.

This year’s Comprehensive Plan has not passed without a few rumbling complaints from residents. These complaints will always exist in a college town. Nevertheless, the plan is a practical move that shows the city is doing something both progressive and prostudent.

The city and the College have more in common than either students or residents would like to admit. Both emphasize history and the past, but both need to be flexible to change and new growth in order to survive. We are proud to see that the city is taking steps toward new business and creativity.

The staff editorial represents the opinion of The Flat Hat. The editorial board, which is elected by The Flat Hat’s section editors and executive staff, consists of Katherine Chiglinsky, Elizabeth DeBusk, Katie Demeria, Jill Found and Ellen Wexler. The Flat Hat welcomes submissions to the Opinions section. Limit letters to 250 words and columns to 650 words. Letters, columns, graphics and cartoons reflect the view of the author only. Email submissions to fhopinions@gmail.com.

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How do you feel about the EVMS merger?

“I’m a little disappointed. My friend was recently accepted to EVMS and I’d really like to see her graduate from William and Mary again.”

Heather McCormic ‘13

“I think it’s cool that it adds a variety of academic subjects to the school.”

“I guess I don’t really have any feelings about it because it doesn’t affect me, but I think it’s a cool idea.”

Jin Woo ’13

Emon White ’14

“I support the president and I agree that a slow merger is a good decision since President Reveley says so.”

J.D. Mcaleer ’13

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After a semester of college, parents should expect their children to change Zachary Frank

Flat Hat Assoc. Opinions Editor

Maybe it’s a minor culture war.

A New York Times article recently discussed college students coming home for winter break and the clash of wills that can, and invariably does, ensue between parents and their recently returned child.

Although the article ends on a positive note — in that both parent and child come to recognize that while both parties have changed, they love each other no less than before — it was still vaguely troubling for me to see that such an article was necessary.

But maybe that’s just because I’ve never been a parent.

I have no idea what it’s like to see a

child grow up. My mother describes it as a combination of pride and wistfulness, but I’ve never been there myself. I imagine it must be hard to watch this person whom you’ve cared about and taken care of since day one learn to take care of himself. It must leave you somewhere between happy and sad, or in some odd combination of the two; I don’t know. In this regard, it makes sense that parents may wish for things at home to be exactly as they were before their child first went off to school, or to wish that their child hadn’t changed — although I imagine nobody currently attending college wishes to be just the same as they were in high school.

But this stagnation isn’t going to happen. More importantly, that’s okay.

The winter following a student’s first semester of college will never be a facsimile of the preceding summer. Being away from home and being free to make your own rules and choices changes you,

and the first time most people experience this sort of autonomy is in their first semester of college. The student changes, and this should be expected. I think that what I found so troubling about the Times article is that many of the parents featured in the article did not seem to expect their children to change.

Once again, my knowledge of parenting is infinitesimal, but much of parenting seems to concern dealing with change. From the oblivious selfcenteredness of childhood to the moody recalcitrance of middle school to the stable sense of self that, hopefully, comes with young adulthood, parents watch their children change all the time. Perhaps the effect college has on a student should be seen as just another change that parents must adjust to accept.

I trust that most parents can figure it out.

Email Zachary Frank at zsfrank@email. wm.edu.

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Ph.D. candidate brings Virginia hip-hop history exhibit to Special Collections

BY ZACH HARDY FLAT HAT ONLINE EDITOR

Virginia possesses a rich — but often overlooked — hip-hop history. The culture thrives all over the state, from Virginia Beach to Williamsburg and Northern Virginia. Several highly successful artists hail from Virginia, including Clipse, Missy Elliot, The Neptunes and Lex Luger. Other lesser known artists also hail from the state such as Skillz from Richmond or StreetzG4G from Williamsburg.

The College of William and Mary’s William and Mary HipHop Collection is a project undertaken by Ph.D. candidate Kevin Kosanovich for Earl Gregg Swem Library’s Special Collections Research Center. Kosanovich started the project this past

September with the assistance of Acting Director of Special Collections and University Archivist Amy Schindler and others affiliated with the Special Collections. Kosanovich wrote his dissertation on the Bronx River Houses, the Zulu nation and the emergence of hip-hop in the Bronx, which launched his interest in compiling Virginia’s hip-hop history.

“While writing my dissertation I found the [Cornell University Hip Hop Collection] which is dedicated to the culture in the ’60s and ’70s in the Bronx,” Kosanovich said. “Virginia has a rich history which is always overlooked except for the big names … and I thought we should take the Cornell model and do that here in Virginia.”

New York hip-hop is known for its heavy use of jazz samples and the slick Mafioso raps of Jay-Z, the Notorious B.I.G. California is known for its funk-based Gansta rap, and the south is known for its chopped and screwed style.

However, Virginia doesn’t have any single quality that readily identifies it.

“Just about everyone agrees that it doesn’t have a sound and it does have a sound,” Kosanovich said. “You know it if you hear it. [One reason] is because of how transient the population is — there’s the military economy, [and] high turnover in Northern Virginia.”

Cymandye “Lady C” Russell, a radio personality on Hot 91, a blogger for HipHopSince1987.com and a graphic designer, discussed the fact that Virginia hip-hop artists have a harder time making it big.

“There aren’t as many outlets in Virginia,” Russell said. “There’s no big label like Sony or Universal, so anyone that wants to make noise has to leave and come back, or expand and have meetings in New York or Atlanta to really get known.”

However, several seminal artists in modern hip-hop culture work and live in Virginia.

“In terms of radio, disc jockeys and producers, Virginia has been very instrumental in creating a national sound,” Kosanovich said.

One such artist is Teddy Reily, who developed the New Jack Swing style in Virginia during the late ’80s and early ’90s.

“It’s an R&B hip-hop sensibility, which is the template for contemporary R&B where you have to have a hip-hop hook in your songs,” Kosonovich said.

Timbaland, from Norfolk, and The Neptunes — Pharrell Williams from Virginia Beach and Chad Hugo from Portsmouth — are two of the most successful contemporary producers.

“These very important producers that we all know of … whether you

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know they are from Virginia or not … have really influenced the last 20 years of popular music,” Kosanovich said.

Hip-hop culture, however, isn’t just confined to music.

“In actuality hip-hop culture consists of four elements — Bboy, emcee, DJ and graffiti,” Alice Yeh ’12 of the College’s Bboy club said.

“Rap was born out of emceeing, and it quickly became the most marketable of all elements. That’s why it’s most associated with hip-hop. But all four elements are equally important and mutually dependent.”

Filmography and graphic design are other elements that have become part of the culture as well. StreetzG4G is a local Williamsburg artist who founded Go 4 Da Gusto Entertainment and Skreet Vision, a video production company.

“If you’re in hip-hop today you need a graphic artist, a CD maker, someone to shoot your videos,” StreetzG4G said. “I try to have all the ground covered — I call it having ammo.”

By creating and compiling the project, Kosanovich hopes to assert the cultural importance of hip-hop and its place in Virginia.

“Hip-hop in my opinion is the most important American cultural contribution since World War II and that’s where I’m coming from, “ Kosanovich said. “But I also want people to understand that … hiphop is … an amazing form of cultural creation that anyone can use and express themselves with easily and powerfully.”

Russell hopes the project will help give credit to the many artists working in Virginia.

“I want people to take away [from the project] true knowledge of Virginia hip-hop culture,” Russell said. “We have to shed light on the people that have put in hard work and really made a difference in the community. I want to get the history right.”

StreetzG4G expressed similar hopes for what the project can accomplish.

“People need to know where [hip-hop] started from. I can’t really see why someone who is into hip-hop and is from Virginia wouldn’t be interested in what the area has accomplished,” he said. “Plus, there are a lot of local artists out here, and they’re making a lot of noise on the underground level, so we need to make people aware of the talent we have in Virginia.”

Yeh felt the collection should help revise misunderstandings people may have about hip-hop culture.

“Personally, I think I want this collection to establish history in order to prevent misunderstandings. What many would say to be the fifth element of hip-hop is knowledge- spreading the meaning, culture and history of hip-hop,” Yeh said. “Hip-hop can exist anywhere- even here at the College.”

The collection will consist of a variety of documents, but will be the first hip-hop collection to consist primarily of interviews.

“One part of the collection is oral history, so the interviews and that’s important so people can hear the voices of the people, and the other part consists of other material like photos, print periodicals devoted to hip-hop culture in Virginia, and business papers,” Kosanovich said.

Kosanovich has documented dozens of different acts.

“We shared our experience of hip-hop here at William and Mary and our general perspective of the hip-hop presence in the Hampton area,” Yeh said. “Other than the interviews, we’ve contributed videos, flyers, posters, anything left from past events — basically everything we’ve been able to gather from the past to help document and record the history of Bboy Club.”

The collection is also collaborating with the Music Library to obtain audio materials to go along with the print documents.

The collection will reside in the Special Collections sections and can be accessed by anyone.

It will also have an online digital component.

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

Be positive about staying negative: make sure you’re STD-free

Keeping yourself protected is worth the extra anxiety of a yearly trip to the free clinic

Elaine Bevington

BEhind closed doors columnist

I want to talk about one of the least sexy, but most important, aspects of sex: STD testing. It was around this time three years ago that I walked into the free clinic in my hometown to get tested for the first time, so the subject is inextricably linked with the winter season in my mind.

It was during winter break during my freshman year, and I had a steady boyfriend for the first and only time in my life. Due to some questionable sexual experiences throughout high school, all of them involving alcohol, often so much that I couldn’t remember any vital details, he was justifiably

concerned about my sexual health — now linked with his own — and convinced me that I needed to be tested for STDs. I decided that the best option was getting tested when I went home for break. STDs carry one of the oldest stigmas in the book, and while I now think I’m enlightened enough to realize that getting tested is the responsible thing to do and people are wrong to judge you for doing so, at the time I was embarrassed for anyone to know that I was enough of a “slut” to need the test.

I was also broke, and there is a free clinic near my parents’ house. You can get tested at the Student Health Center, but it’s not free. Since my parents were the last people I wanted to tell, paying with their insurance was out of the question.

I went by myself, because my boyfriend was the only who knew I was having it done and he lived in another state. I wouldn’t recommend that part;

instead, take a friend when you go.

It will be a bonding experience, like making matching friendship bracelets or something. Plus, having someone with you while you wait for the results will help ease the anxiety.

Speaking of the waiting period — that sucks, too. If you have money, you can pay for a test and get the results in 1-2 days, generally. If you go to a free clinic, there will most likely be a longer waiting period — for me, it was two weeks. There’s really nothing worse than the anxiety of having to wait two weeks to find out if there’s something horrible going on with your genitals, but as a student at the College of William and Mary, I’d say it’s maybe comparable to the period spent awaiting final exam results.

Free clinics are crowded because they are free, and during the winter time they are full of people with all kinds of horrible coughs and sniffles that are not exactly what you want

to be hearing when you are already worried about diseases. However, the nurses were efficient and impersonal, which is exactly the attitude I want from someone who is collecting my urine in a cup, and when I was done they gave me a bag with free condoms and a helpful brochure on how to properly use one.

Two weeks later, I got a call telling me I was STD-free. A very merry Christmas, indeed.

So how often should you get tested?

I haven’t been able to find a definitive answer, but the general internet consensus says annually. My guess is that it’s like getting the oil changed in your car — do it every 3 months or 3,000 miles; that is to say, get it done regularly, mark it on your calendar so that you don’t forget, and if you drive a lot, you’ll probably need to do it more often. This means that my next trip home will probably include a visit to the clinic, since it has been three years since I was tested. Before you yell at me

to practice what I preach, I can explain for two of those years I was either in a monogamous sexual relationship or abstinent, so I’m mostly on schedule.

Think you don’t need to be tested at all? If you are sexually active, especially with more than one partner, you need to be tested. In case you’ve forgotten since high school sex ed, here’s why: 1) You can get an STD from oral sex. 2) You can get an STD even if you use protection. 3) Most people (especially women) don’t show symptoms when they have an STD. If it’s been more than a year since you’ve been tested, get yourself to a clinic, pee in that cup, give up that blood (necessary to test for HIV and syphilis), and clean your conscience! I promise it doesn’t make you a slutbucket. It makes you a responsible sexually active adult, and there’s nothing sexier than that.

Elaine Bevington is a Behind Closed Doors columnist and she’s still working out the details of her high school exploits.

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Students help talk show host bring $30,000 in presents to unsuspecting Hampton family

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BY EMILY NYE FLAT HAT ASSOC. VARIETY EDITOR

The College of William and Mary is home to students with diverse interests: It houses tomorrow’s teachers, politicians, doctors and lawyers, among others. Recently, however, some members of the Tribe traded in their books and laptops for a new title: elves. Ten students from the College joined forces with The Ellen DeGeneres Show to help distribute more than $30,000 in gifts to the Pierce family of Hampton, Va. Each holiday season, The Ellen DeGeneres Show puts on a program titled “12 Days of Giveaways,” where DeGeneres gives away 12 prizes to members of the studio audience throughout the month of December. At the end of the program, the show picks a family that they think is deserving of all of the gifts and surprises them with the 12 presents and a visit from members of the show’s cast and crew.

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Students from the College of WIlliam and Mary recently took part in a segment with the Ellen DeGeneres show. The students, who dressed up as elves, helped surprise the Pierce family of Hampton, Virginia as part of the show’s “12 Days of Giveaways” program. The segment was filmed Jan. 3 and aired on television Jan. 7.

This year’s chosen family, the Pierce family, includes Dominique Pierce, her husband Jonathan, and their four young children, all under the age of five.

“The family has gone through a lot of things,” Sidney Brooks ’15, who was involved as an elf, said. “Both the mom and dad are social workers; they have four kids. They had a hard time during the holidays and they were all sick as well.”

In need of some help, the show’s associate producer contacted the Office of University Relations at the College and asked if any students would be available to help deliver the gifts for the show. While many students had already left for the winter holidays, several remained and volunteered to help distribute the surprise gifts to the family. Students who were interested filled out an application with their name, major and class year, and submitted photos of themselves for consideration to the show. Of those

who applied, 10 students were chosen.

The segment was shot Jan. 3, and it aired Jan. 7.

“I was over the moon [when I found out],” Candace Garnes ’13, a participant in the surprise, said. “I’ve been watching Ellen probably for like eight or nine years now, so I was really excited.”

Upon learning of their selection, the students met up Jan. 3 at 5 p.m. at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Hampton to get started. After receiving Ellen sweatshirts and Santa hats to wear during the surprise, students met with the show’s on-air correspondent, Jeannie Klisiewicz, to begin shooting.

Students helped to load the gifts into a van and then piled in to wait outside the Pierces’ apartment while Klisiewicz knocked on their front door. DeGeneres then called the family while Klisiewicz and the students prepared to enter the apartment for the surprise. They spent over seven hours capturing scenes that showed the students packing up the

van with a multitude of gifts, waiting outside for their signal and surprising the family.

“We staked out for an hour or so in front of their apartment, off to the side,” Brooks said. “Then they did something where Ellen called them and talked to them while Jeannie was at the door in place ready to go in, and then from there we just piled in all the gifts — $30,000 worth.”

On DeGeneres’ cue, Klisiewicz knocked and entered, taking the family completely by surprise. The group of elves entered their apartment one by one as DeGeneres spoke with Dominique Pierce on the phone about what the Pierces were about to receive. The family gasped in awe and sat shocked as the students piled gifts — including a 42-inch television, gift cards ranging from $200 to $2,000, a range of electronics and a trip to Jamaica — at their feet.

“It was exciting seeing the family’s faces and how surprised they were,”

Emily Correal ’13, another participant, said. “It was definitely one of the most rewarding things I have ever done. Even though I wasn’t the one personally paying for the gifts, it still felt like we were helping out. Seeing the joy, especially on the little kids’ faces, was so great.”

Although the students did not get to meet DeGeneres, they still took away a great deal from the experience.

“I think it was a really great experience,” Brooks said. “Just to see something really special like that, and seeing people helping — that meant a lot for me to be a part of that and watch it happen and just to see that you can be rewarded for doing good things.”

Students also noted the importance of giving back to the community, which they experienced through their work with the show.

“Always remember to give back,” Garnes said. “Even if it is a way that is small, always just try to find some way to contribute and give back.”

WEEKEND REWIND

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Women’s track and field picks up at CNU

Men’s track and field takes two events

Tribe claims second place at NC State

Sophomore Elizabeth Crafford re-qualified for the ECAC Championship Sunday at the CNU Captain’s Invitational, winning the pole vault with a jump of 3.60 meters. Meanwhile.

Freshman Juliana Macucci (right) won the 1,000-meter with a time of 3:00:59.

The College won two events at the CNU Captain’s Invitational Sunday.

Freshman Greg Gallagher won the pole vault with a jump of 4.65 meters while classmate Ricky Cappetta (right) won the 100-meter in 2:33:68.

The Tribe finished in second at a tri-meet at North Carolina Sunday. UNC won the event with a score of 194.500, edging the Tribe, which finished at 192.925. George Washington brought up the rear with a score of 192.475. Senior Molly Walsh pictured.

MEN’S TENNIS

Tribe opens spring with pair of victories College downs Radford 4-1 early Sunday, Navy 5-2 in afternoon

BY MIKE BARNES FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR William and Mary opened its spring season with a resounding success, earning not one but two victories Sunday at McCormack-Nagelsen Tennis Center. The Tribe knocked off Radford 4-1

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Freshman Scott Huang clinched the Tribe’s win over Navy.

in the morning session, and overpowered Navy 5-2 in the nightcap.

The College opened the day with a strong start by capturing the doubles point. Junior John Banks and senior Anton Andersson claimed the first match of the day, downing their Radford counterparts — Randall Carter and Javier Waase — by a score of 8-2 in the No. 3 spot. Junior Ben Guthrie and senior Adrian Vodislav followed suit in the No. 2 spot, defeating Patrick O’Keefe and Joe Mills 8-4.

Singles play began with a shaky start, as Radford’s Nicholas Sayer defeated junior Ben Guthrie at the No. 1 position. Sayer took the first set 6-3 and was leading the second set 4-2 before Guthrie retired, tying the match at one point apiece. Banks then pulled ahead by downing Waase 6-1, 6-2.

Junior Ben Hoogland downed O’Keefe in the No. 4 position, 6-4, 6-2 to give the College a 3-1 advantage. With Radford leading the No. 2 and No. 3 matches, Andersson faced an important crossroads. The senior needed to defeat Carter in order to seal the College’s first victory of the season. Andersson came through in the clutch, clinching the match with a 6-0, 7-5 shellacking of Carter in the No. 5 position.

With a victory already under its belt, the Tribe headed into its afternoon match against Navy seeking a 2-0 start to the young season.

The College’s match against the Midshipmen started in a similar fashion to its match against Radford. The Tribe again claimed the doubles

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Junior Ben Hoogland went 2-0 Sunday, defeating Radford’s Patrick O’Keefe and Navy’s Peter McDonald in singles play.

point on the strength of its No. 2 and No. 3 teams.

Freshman Scott Huang and Banks downed Blake Daniel and Nicholas Gutsche with a commanding 8-4 performance. Andersson and sophomore Aaron Chaffee also defeated their Midshipmen counterparts, 8-3 to capture the doubles point and send the Tribe into singles play with a 1-0 advantage.

Banks came through again for the Tribe in singles play, downing Daniel in dominating fashion, 6-1, 6-2 to give the College a 2-0 advantage. Hoogland then joined the fray, defeating Navy’s Peter McDonald in a 6-2, 6-3 match.

Navy then made a brief comeback, reeling off two straight singles victories. Navy’s Calvin Mark eeked out a 7-5 first set victory over Chaffee, and then finished him off with a 6-1 second set in the No. 1 spot to claim Navy’s first points of the match. Austin Jones took down Andersson 7-6,

6-1 in the No. 3 spot to cut the Tribe advantage to 3-2 with two matches remaining.

Huang and Vodislav, in the No. 6 and No. 5 spots respectively, were both engaged in tough battles that would ultimately decide the match.

Huang claimed the first set over Burnett, 6-2, but Burnett fought back in the second, 6-4, to force a deciding third set.

Vodislav, meanwhile, captured his first set against Gutsche 7-5, but also fell 6-4 in the second set. With both crucial matches in the third set, the Tribe’s hopes of victory hung in the balance.

Huang finished first, as he successfully dispatched Burnett with a commanding 6-3 performance in the final set, allowing the Tribe to claim a 5-2 victory over Navy.

With its first dual-match victory of the season in the books, the Tribe hopes to continue its winning streak Feb. 1 when North Florida visits Williamsburg.

WOMEN’S TENNIS

College falls to No. 3 Duke

Blue Devils sweep Tribe in Durham spring season opener

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Coming off two wins to kick off the Spring season, William and Mary was no match for No. 3 Duke Saturday, falling 7-0 to the Blue Devils in North Carolina.

As the final would indicate, it was all Duke all day as the Blue Devils quickly clinched the doubles point in dominant fashion when the College’s pairing of juniors Maria Belaya and Jeltje Loomans fell at the No. 1 spot to Mary Clayton and Ester Goldfield 8-1 and Duke’s Marianne Jodoin and Annie Mulholland topped senior Anik Cepeda and freshman Leeza Nemchinov, 8-2.

With the doubles point decided, the No. 3 matchup between Duke’s pair of Hanna Mar and Monica Turewicz and the Tribe’s duo of juniors Hope Johnson and Sydney Smith with the College trailing 6-3.

When singles play got under way it was more of the same. The first match to go final was in the

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Junior Maria Belaya fell at the No. 1 spot to Duke’s Hanna Mar, 6-2, 6-1.

No. 4 spot, when Mulholland bested Cepeda 6-0, 6-2, giving Duke a 2-0 advantage overall.

Next, Turewicz dominated Smith in the No. 6 spot by the same score. When Belaya fell to Mar 6-2, 6-1 in the No. 1 slot, the overall match was clinched for

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the Blue Devils.

For good measure, though, Duke didn’t stop there. Jodoin defeated Johnson, 6-1, 6-2 in the No. 5 matchup before Clayton took down Loomans 6-3, 6-2 in the No. 2 spot to give Duke a 6-0 lead.

Nemchinov put up a fight against Goldfield in No. 3 contest, taking a 5-4 lead in the first set. But the Blue Devils ultimately sealed the shutout when Goldfield came out on top, 7-5, 6-4.

The loss followed a 6-1 win over Richmond and a victory over UMBC by the same score, leaving the College with a 2-1 record as it heads into a matchup with Mississippi at home Tuesday.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

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Tribe drops 11th straight

Sophomore guard Anna Kestler logged seven minutes in the Tribe’s 58-46 loss to Drexel. With the loss, the College drops to 0-5 in the Colonial Athletic Association and 2-14 on the season. It was the team’s 11th consecutive loss.

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BY MICK SLOAN FLAT HAT STAFF WRITER William and Mary fell to visiting Drexel by a 58-46 margin. The loss left the Tribe (2-14, 0-5 CAA) still searching for a spark, having dropped two consecutive double-digit losses to conference powers and 11 straightoverall.

The game started favorably for the Tribe, which raced to a 16-11 lead over the Dragons.

The early run was sparked by senior guard Janine Aldridge, who scored 10 points in the opening eight minutes on her way to a teamhigh 16 points.

“In the first half, I just feel like my momentum was going,” Aldridge said. “Overall I think I played a pretty decent game.”

The Dragons, currently on top of the Colonial Athletics Association standings, clawed their way back into the game using full court pressure to disrupt the Tribe’s offensive rhythm. The

College committed five turnovers in the final 10 minutes of the half as Drexel closed the gap and eventually claimed a 25-22 halftime lead.

Both teams struggled from the three-point line in the first half. The two teams had identical 16.7 percent efforts from long range, with the Tribe missing 10 of its 12 attempts. In contrast, the Tribe hit seven of 10 attempts from inside the arc, which kept the within striking distance for the entire first period.

The Tribe found the second half to be far more challenging. Drexel immediately seized control of the contest with a 16-4 run in the first 10 minutes of the half. Drexel grabbed 10 offensive rebounds in the contest, and their work on the offensive glass helped overpower the Tribe in a lopsided finish to the game.

The Tribe trailed by as much as 18 points with 3 minutes, 27 seconds remaining in the game, but it played Drexel to the final buzzer, ultimately closing the gap to the final 58-46 score. The Tribe committed 13 turnovers in the second half that led to 13 Drexel points, and its defense struggled against Drexel’s offense, which shot 46.2 percentage from the field in the second period.

Standout senior forward Emily Correal was

held to just nine points and seven rebounds.

Sophomore guard Kyla Kerstetter, the sole nonsenior in the starting five, submitted six points, five rebounds and two steals in an efficient performance, and sophomore forward Jazmen Boone added a much needed eight points off the bench.

So ended another disappointing effort from the Tribe, one where turnovers and inefficient shooting doomed it again. Drexel clearly asserted itself as the superior team in the second half, battering the Tribe with its defense and picking it apart on offense.

“I can’t really say a certain thing. I don’t know if we were tired … we just didn’t keep the same intensity, and I think that starts on defense,” Kerstetter said.

Head coach Debbie Taylor maintained a sense of optimism after the contest.

“We’re getting better every game, but with the maturity on our team, the mistakes we make are really unwarranted. This team is really resilient, they know they’re a good team, the switch just has to go on,” Taylor said.

The College will try again for its first conference win when it takes on Towson at home Thursday.

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Sophomore guard Kyla Kerstetter garnered six points and five boards.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Drexel deals College seventh consecutive loss

Tribe offense scores season-low 48 points; Rusthoven, Britt, Thornton combine for all but two

BY JARED FORETEK FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR Failing to connect on open layups, open jumpshots, and missing on second and third chance opportunities, William and Mary finished its home matchup with Drexel Saturday at an abysmal 32.7 percent from the field.

Press as it did, the team simply could not get shots to fall. And pressing as it

is, the team simply can’t win games right now.

The College’s losing streak sits at seven after it (7-10, 1-5 CAA) fell to Drexel (6-11, 2-3 CAA) 59-48 at Kaplan Arena. Junior forward Tim Rusthoven led the team with 19 points on 6 of 12 shooting and six rebounds, but the box score bore the story of the Tribe’s worst offensive game all year. “[The losing streak] is frustrating,” Rusthoven said. “But I think the reason it’s

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Junior center Tim Rusthoven scored 19 points and six rebounds in 32 minutes of action.

frustrating is we know we can be so good.

Everybody in that locker room believes we can play with anybody in the country so I think that’s where the frustration sets in.”

The College’s 48 points marks a new season-low (previously it was 50 in a loss at Vanderbilt), and aside from three players (Rusthoven, sophomore guard Marcus Thornton, who finished with 14, and junior guard Brandon Britt, who scored 13), the remaining six players who saw action for the Tribe combined for just two points, both on free throws from junior forward Kyle Gaillard.

“The better team won,” head coach Tony Shaver said. “The tougher team won.

I felt like they controlled most phases of the game.”

Once again, production from the bench was severely lacking. In a combined 48 minutes, the College’s substitutes attempted just four shots and missed them all.

On the other end, the College defended admirably, holding Drexel to just 42.9 percent shooting from the field. But too often the deliberate, methodical offensive sets Drexel employed would drain the clock and result in open looks, keeping the Tribe from threatening the Dragons’ lead late.

“We just weren’t executing like we

should’ve,” Thornton said. “Credit to Drexel, they played good defense … but we still didn’t run our offense like we would’ve liked to. And on the other end we just didn’t guard as well as we would’ve liked to.”

While spotting Drexel a quick four points to start, the College missed each of its first five shots over the opening three and a half minutes. Thornton gave the Tribe its first five points, first knocking down a three-pointer and then working off a nice screen from freshman center Sean Sheldon for a layup to make it 6-5 Drexel.

As a side note, Sheldon spelled Rusthoven in the paint for most of the game while junior Fred Heldring — previously Rusthoven’s backup — saw no action for performance reasons.

Things stayed close for most of the first half. Almost midway through the period the College tied it at 12 with a free throw from Britt. With 6:19 left in the half, another three from Thornton, who scored 11 of his 14 in the first, made it a 20-18 Drexel lead.

But then the Dragons began to create some separation, ultimately using a three pointer from Damion Lee near the end of the period to take a 32-24 advantage into halftime.

Lee, who edged out Thornton last

season for CAA Rookie of the Year, came off the bench because of injury and still scored 10 points. The two sophomores know each other from high school ball in Maryland and have maintained a friendship, according to Thornton.

Out of halftime the Dragons continued to grow their lead, pushing it into doublefigures — where it would stay until there was under a minute to go — at the 12:06 mark and stretching it to as high as 16 with 6:59 left.

A late flurry from the College cut the deficit to nine with 32 seconds left, but the Tribe was never able to threaten the outcome in earnest, shooting an abysmal 29.6 percent in the second half.

“I thought our shot selection wasn’t very good,” Shave said of the second half.

“They’re a great defensive team … but we hurt ourselves a little bit there with our shot selection.”

Shaver was bereft of explanations for the team’s losing streak after the game.

“If I knew, we’d correct it, we’d stop it,” he said. “One common theme is we’re not a balanced basketball team right now … first third of the year we were very balanced and three guys scored all but two points today.”

The College will travel to Boston to face Northeastern Wednesday.