The Flat Hat February 28, 2017

Vol. 107, Iss. 5 | Tuesday, February 28, 2017

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STUDENT HEALTH

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SARAH SMITH FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR

2015-2016 Academic Year 2016-2017 Academic Year GRAPHIC BY AMELIA LUCAS / THE FLAT HAT

All data is provided by the Student Health Center and shows an increase in diagnosed cases of sexually transmitted infections during the 2016-2017 year.

College gets a check up

Marking the end of the Class of 2017’s four years at the College of William and Mary, Walter Isaacson will give this May’s Commencement address and receive an honorary degree.

Chancellor of the College and former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates ’65 is also expected to attend Commencement to offer opening remarks. Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden and former College President Paul Verkuil ’61 will receive honorary degrees with Isaacson during the Commencement ceremony scheduled for May 13 at 10 a.m. in Kaplan Arena.

Isaacson currently serves as the president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, is the former chairman and CEO of CNN, former editor of Time See COMMENCEMENT page 4

Diagnosed cases of STIs increase, cross national averages SARAH SMITH // FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR During the fall 2016 semester, what the Student Health Center considers an “epidemic of unprotected sex” occurred on campus at the College of William and Mary, resulting in an increase in the number of diagnosed cases of chlamydia that exceeds the national average as reported by the Centers for Disease Control.

According to Director of the Student Health Center Virginia Wells, during the 2015-2016 academic year, the College identified 24 cases of chlamydia, and so far this academic year, has identified 35 cases of chlamydia.

“There has been no cluster of cases in any particular dorm or among any group of students,” Wells said in an email. “It involves all classes from freshmen to graduate students.

On campus and off campus residence halls. It is preventable. The plan is personal accountability.

There is no outbreak. Our goal in reporting the numbers to the students was to raise awareness to the consequences of unprotected sex… including herpes, syphilis and HIV.” After the Student Health Center noticed this fall’s increase in diagnosed cases of sexually

SHOTS FIRED ON CAMPUS Around 2 a.m. Feb. 26, Williamsburg Police Department and the College of William and Mary Police Department responded to alerts that a burst of gunshots was fired near Stadium Drive.

TribeAlert, the College’s notification system mandated by the Clery Act, sent the student body an email at 2:10 a.m., first notifying campus about the shooting.

“Shoots (sic) fired in Stadium Drive area, no injuries and no property damage,” the email said.

“Suspect in costody (sic).”

At 9:49 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 26, WMPD Chief of Police Deb Cheesebro said that WPD were able to detain five suspects involved in the incident.

According to College spokesperson Suzanne Seurattan, none of the suspects are currently in custody and no charges have been filed. None of the suspects are affiliated with the College.

Additionally, she wrote that all five suspects have been banned from all College owned property.

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transmitted infections, physicians decided to hang posters featuring these numbers in the Student Recreation Center, interfraternal Community Building and in some residence halls.

“By reporting the actual numbers to students we hope it will serve as an incentive to change behavior,” Wells said. “Our passive messaging encouraging condom use has not worked. This is real and hopefully powerful information that will change behavior and encourage personal responsibility. Knowledge is power.”

Beyond seeing an increase in diagnosed cases of chlamydia, Wells said that the Student Health Center has also reported increases in other sexually transmitted infections. They diagnosed eight cases of gonorrhea during the fall 2016 semester and seven total during the 2015-2016 academic year, four cases of syphilis this past semester compared to zero cases during the 2015-2016 academic year, five cases of HIV during fall 2016 compared to zero cases during the 2015-2016 academic year and seven cases of herpes during fall 2016, matching the

number diagnosed last academic year.

According to Assistant Director of the Office of Health and Wellness Eric Garrison M.Ed. ’94, this outbreak can be attributed to abstinenceonly sex education that doesn’t include curriculum on comprehensive safe sex.

Garrison said that this outbreak happened this year, not due to a lack of condoms, information or financial access at the College, but because of an increase in population at the College in combination with a lack of sex education.

“We just have to keep on keeping on,” Garrison said. “We knew this was going to hit us. We have to encourage people to know their status, don’t wait for Student Assembly to pay for testing. This has just been a build-up. Sex is always easier to do than to talk about. A lot of times people don’t want to talk about their history.”

To combat this, Garrison said that he breaks down the student body into smaller populations: See STI page 3

HOTEL SHAKEN BY GUNFIRE The Williamsburg Police Department responded to a shots-fired call at 2:15 p.m. Feb. 26. The incident occurred at a hotel in the 900 block of Capitol Landing Road.

Upon arriving at the scene of the crime, officers immediately detained the suspect in the shooting. They then spoke to a witness at the scene who identified the suspect as Brian Keith Lyons, a 33-year-old male.

Officers then spoke to the victim, who described himself as an acquaintance of Lyons. The victim said he met with and confronted Lyons about discharging his firearm, at which time Lyons proceeded to aim his firearm at the victim and fire again. The discharged round missed the victim and hit a car that was between the victim and Lyons. The victim was not injured during the incident.

Officers also learned that Lyons was staying at the hotel involved in the shooting and proceeded to conduct a protocol sweep for any other injured persons. No other individuals were found, but officers said they noticed various narcotics in Lyons’ room. Officers obtained a search warrant and seized the items upon returning to the hotel. According to Riley, cocaine, marijuana and other unidentified substances were recovered.

Lyons was subsequently transported to Riverside Doctor’s Hospital, where doctors performed a mental and medical evaluation on him.

According to Riley, Lyons was medically and mentally cleared at the hospital. He is currently charged with attempted murder, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, brandishing, possession of cocaine, possession of marijuana, possession of firearms while in possession of certain substances and reckless endangerment.

— Flat Hat Assoc. News Editor Henry Blackburn

ADMINISTRATION

College breaks ground, starts design for new construction projects Demolition on One Tribe Place, Millington Hall to be completed before fall 2017 SARAH SMITH FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR

Over the next two years, the College of William and Mary will break ground on construction projects and review architectural designs for projects to send before the Virginia General Assembly. Demolition, renovations and designs for new buildings will manifest across campus from One Tribe Place to the proposed Fine and Performing Arts Complex.

Integrated Wellness Center Construction on the Integrated Wellness Center is planned for April 2017, with an estimated completion date of April 1, 2018. According to Director of Facilities Planning, Design and Construction Wayne Boy, construction will begin after Commencement, which is scheduled for May 13.

This project’s goal is to create a “holistic health center” which houses the Student Health Center and Counseling Center under one roof.

As of now, the budget for this project is $17 million, and construction drawings are being reviewed by the College.

Landrum Hall Boy said that construction drawings for Landrum Hall are due in the next two or three weeks and a builder for the project has been selected. With a budget of $17 million, construction on the residence hall will start after Commencement and is set to be completed July 15, 2018.

During the 2017-2018 academic year, Landrum

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Hall will not be a housing option for students, as the planned renovation includes a “true gut” of the building, replacing the windows and roof, and redoing the gutters to prevent leaks in the top floors.

“One of my favorite parts of this project is that it will have a commons like Tyler [Hall] in the basement level,” Boy said. “It will be two floors and hollowed away like in Tyler.”

Other additions to the residence hall include air conditioning and glassed-in conference rooms for studying. At this time, the builder also estimates adding two beds through an updated floor plan.

One Tribe Place After demolition plans to One Tribe Place were halted due to news that this demolition will require shutting the power off for two weeks, Boy said that the College will begin work in the next few weeks, with a goal of completing the demolition before Commencement.

The 1984 wing of the building was not up to the College’s building code when the College purchased the property formerly known as the Hospitality House.

Water penetration damaged the 1984 wing and rooms under the hotel, such as the ballroom and restaurant.

This planned demolition will remove the 1984 wing with a budget of $4.447 million. Additionally, the College learned that the switchboard that much of One Tribe Place relies on is flooding, so over the summer months, the College plans on raising it upstairs away from moisture. This summer renovation will also include digging up the side alleyway, located in

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between The Green Leafe and the residence hall, to redo the storm water drainage system.

From March to May, Boy said that the demolition of the 1984 wing will be restricted from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and not during quiet hours.

Accessibility Infrastructure Following the Americans with Disabilities Act, the College will be completing a two-part construction project. The first part will add an elevator in Adair Hall, which will also involve re-locating the first floor bathroom. Boy said that he expects this project to be completed by the end of 2017.

The second part of the project will add “curbcut” sidewalks, which are sidewalks designed for individuals in wheelchairs, around the Sunken Garden and between the Earl Gregg Swem Library and William H. Small Hall.

At this time, $2.889 million has been allocated for these projects, and Boy said it is not clear if it will fully cover both parts.

Fine and Performing Arts Complex The first two phases of the Fine and Performing Arts Complex received funding from the Virginia General Assembly for $118 million. The third phase, which is included in the College’s Campus Master Plan, has not received funding yet.

According to Boy, design on the first two phases is underway. These renovations will create a new building in between Lemon and Hardy Halls and the Phi Beta

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The College of William and Mary is now often marketed as a university dedicated to its student-faculty research and engagements.

However, in the mid-1990s, more than half of freshmen students didn’t write a research paper during their first year. Within a few years, every first-year student was required to write a research paper.

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This developing commitment to research is important to Charles Center Director and government professor Joel Schwartz, who said that his academic background has helped him find the unique beauty of the College and motivated him to create new opportunities for students.

Once an undergraduate and a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley, and a faculty member at Oberlin College, Schwartz has experienced the life of both large state universities and small, private liberal arts colleges.

In his mind, each model carries its own advantages: he said that big state universities like U.C., Berkeley provide students with highly specialized faculty whereas small, private colleges like Oberlin give their students close connections with the professors. He said they each have their own flaws, however, as access to professors is limited in big state schools, and faculty in small colleges may not able to direct their students to the specific projects on which they work.

“I was always impressed that William and Mary is such a nice blend of the strengths of both places,” Schwartz said. “The balance of undergraduate teaching and research here at William and Mary is pretty unique among all the institutions in the United States.”

Schwartz said that he dedicated himself to bringing this connection between teaching and research one step closer by working at the Charles Center. According to him, it functions as a hub of academic support for both students and faculty on campus.

“We help students find their research projects when they come in and provide them with all necessary supports to success, like funding and academic advice,” Schwartz said.

“Meanwhile, the Charles Center also functions as the teaching center for the faculties as we hold programs under which faculties rethink their teaching methods and learning from each other.”

The Charles Center provides other

services to students — more than 400 student researchers will stay on campus with free housing this summer with funds provided by the Charles Center. Meanwhile, for students who are looking to apply for scholarships like the Rhodes and Marshall scholarships, the Charles Center helps them prepare their applications step by step.

“If you are taking a course in European Politics and run into your instructor 10 years from now, what will he or she expect you to remember?”

Professor Schwartz said. “Probably not the little bits of facts, knowledge, dates … there are some things more important like critical thinking, problem-solving, group work and the ability to listen to different sides of arguments. It is those things that serve you well no matter what you do, and it turns out all those qualities are prominent in the process of doing research.”

Unlike universities that only provide research opportunities to top students, Schwartz said that the College truly merges teaching and research into one body so that all students have access to research.

“Is there a course where students are not required to write a paper?” Schwartz said.

“There are not many of those at William and Mary, and it makes a huge difference … through the process of writing papers, students are actively engaging in the process of learning and criticizing as writing and thinking always go hand in hand.”

Schwartz doesn’t just offer help to students and faculty members on campus; his passion and involvement also extend into the Williamsburg community. He grew up in suburban San Francisco, where he worked as a baseball umpire for a local league. Since then, Schwartz has dedicated his free time to the sport.

“On one hand, I am providing help to both groups, but on the other hand, they are quite different,” Schwartz said. “On campus, I tend to work with some of the most capable students and outside of it, I help children who faces challenges in their life like kids in wheelchairs. I simply enjoyed doing both.”

10 years ago, Schwartz started a baseball

league called “Buddy Ball” that provides children with disabilities in Williamsburg opportunities to play sports. The league participates in two seasons per year and provides uniforms and baseball equipment to all of the players. It is made up of players ranging from five years old to young adulthood and meets weekly.

“Some children have physical and intellectual disabilities, and they don’t have the opportunities to participate in sports on their own,” Schwartz said. “I’d like to provide these opportunities to these kids, and I think it is a really valuable thing to spend some time with.”

Schwartz’s community involvements don’t take away from his on-campus achievements, however. In recent years, Schwartz has also helped the College establish some of its interdisciplinary programs like the gender, sexuality and women’s studies program and film and media studies. Schwartz said those programs are what make the College stand out.

“Those interdisciplinary programs [are] set outside the course structure,” Schwartz said. “There are a lot of faculties here who are interested in the role of one topic in different areas like politicism, history and sociology, and these programs have allowed us to bring all those together for the benefits of students in one-degree program[s].”

Schwartz now is working on an undergraduate research project, the Weingartner Initiative on Deliberative Democracy, with a group of students. He said that it is a collaborative effort that brings the teaching of political philosophy to a collaborative effort that applies the teaching of political philosophy to the real world.

“Political philosophers talked in abstract [about] what democracy is and how it should be, and the social scientists on the other end see what happens when we actually put people into groups,” Schwartz said. “The study of group dynamic is part of thinking of democracy, and this program provides students an exceptional opportunity to see how this whole process works.”

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Business school denies credits for student internships Students voice concerns about lack of credit for outside work, internship style classes NOAH PETERSEN FLAT HAT ASSOC. NEWS EDITOR

In a department that prioritizes experience outside of the classroom, some students are questioning the Mason School of Business’s policy towards internships, which does not allow for academic credit.

In previous years, the business department offered an online course over the summer that was meant to complement outside internships; however, last summer, the professor who taught it left the College of William and Mary for another institution.

Assistant Dean for Undergraduate and One Year Masters’ Programs at the business school Jennifer Dahnke does not think the departure or the department’s policy are significant issues.

“We have had in the past some kind of special topics courses that were offered occasionally that might have been seen as internship courses,” Dahnke said. “But really they were courses complementary to an internship experience, and I think there’s a distinct difference in there, in that our faculty will not award credit directly for an internship experience. It would have to be for a credit or project or academic study that might

be contextually relying on the internship, but not giving credit for the internship itself.”

Each of the College’s academic departments has its own policy towards internships, but according to Dahnke, the business school does not have full control.

“There’s a lot of kind of HR kind of rules and regulations that go around internships and crediting and having to follow federal mandates about how students are kind of working in different capacities,” Dahnke said.

Nathanael Paige ’18 is a current business school student and is majoring in marketing. He thinks that allowing academic credit for internships would encourage more students to engage in work outside of the classroom.

“It would incentivize a learning experience,” Paige said. “It would equate what I am doing in school to real-world applicable knowledge and it would result in me having to take less classes in the school year.”

Paige has not participated in any internships, but he plans to this summer.

He said that he understands why the business school does not require internships for any of its majors or minors.

“Some people don’t have the means to engage

in internships,” Paige said. “It costs money to get an internship: you have to travel for interviews, you have to have somewhere to stay if the internship is not close to your home. A lot of things could go wrong, and a lot of conflicts of interest could occur.”

Nicholas Yabar ’20 plans to apply to the business school next year.

Yabar said that he also believes that awarding academic credit for internships would benefit students.

“That would just promote internships, which is a huge part of people’s academic careers outside of school,” Yabar said.

“Internships [are] what gets you to jobs and other places, not where you went to school,” Yabar said. “It is the experience that you have outside and what you do with the education you receive that really matters.”

Dahnke, however, said she thinks that the value of internships extends beyond possible academic credit.

“What we’ve said is it’s not so much the transcript … it’s what goes on their resume, and so that is another place that outlines what you’ve done in college and your experience, rather than having to have a transcript designation,” Dahnke said.

According to Dahnke, this issue extends beyond

just the College. She said that internships have become a nationwide debate.

“I really think there is a larger debate going across the business schools right now about how do we handle internships,” Dahnke said.

Associate Provost and University Registrar Sara Marchello does not think internships are a key part of the College’s academic goals. “[Internships are] not a central part of the academic experience at William and Mary,” Marchello said. “For example, it’s not part of our new college curriculum. They’re not required, generally speaking. They could be used to support a student’s curriculum, rather than being central.

There are other colleges that put more emphasis on internships, especially on the career development side of things.”

Still, even without academic credit, Dahnke advises students to focus on using internships to market themselves.

“You don’t need the academic credit to be on there because it would have to be an additional project on top off what you’re already doing,” Dahnke said. “What you are really wanting to do is make sure you’re articulating things well on your resume, and you can go forward and share those experiences as you interview.”

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Swem photojournalism exhibit details lives of ‘Buffalo Soldiers’ APIA studies brings exhibit on Philippine-American War to Swem until May 15 MADELINE MONROE FLAT HAT ASSOC. NEWS EDITOR

Lining the walls of Earl Gregg Swem Library’s Botetourt Gallery is a collection of photo illustrations and news clippings from prominent African-American newspapers such as The Richmond Planet detailing the lives of the Buffalo Soldiers involved in the Philippine-American War. The exhibit is courtesy of efforts by the Asian and Pacific Islander American Studies Program of the College of William and Mary and other organizations.

To bring this collection to the College, APIA studies worked with Norfolk State University and organizations including the Filipino American National Historical Society — Hampton Roads chapter — and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. The exhibit, titled “Hidden Virginia History: The Connection between the Buffalo Soldiers and the Philippines,” will be displayed until May 15.

The exhibit focuses on African-American service members, or “Buffalo Soldiers,” who served during the conflict, such as Sgt. Sanford M. Thomas and Walter Howard Loving, the latter of whom calls the Philippines home.

Theatre and Asian and Pacific Islander American studies professor Francis Tanglao-Aguas discussed the motivation for and subject matter of the new exhibit. “[The exhibit] shows the intersections, convergences and collaborations of the experience of people of color under a system founded on racism,” Tanglao-Aguas said.

Other African-American individuals who documented the service members’ involvement, including the Planet’s publisher John Mitchell, Jr., were featured in the photo illustrations. Vice president of the FANHS-HR chapter and adjunct professor of U.S. history at Tidewater Community College Jeffrey Acosta, the lead historian of the exhibit, credited the work of John Mitchell, Jr. for

sharing the experiences of African-American service members.

“But if it had not been for John Mitchell, Jr., the publisher of the Planet who published letters written to his newspaper by black soldiers serving in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars, we may have never known what truly went on,” Acosta said in a press release.

David Fagen, one of nine African-American soldiers who defected to the Army of the First Philippine Republic, is featured in the exhibit.

According to information provided by a photo illustration of Fagen, the soldier faced disciplinary action and was frustrated with the United States’ racism toward both African-Americans and Filipinos.

Tanglao-Aguas noted that Fagen was a controversial but important figure.

“You need an individual to stop collective behavior, because otherwise you won’t feel free if you’re just moving with the rest of the cattle,” Tanglao-Aguas said. “I’m not saying what [Fagen] did was right, but what he did allows people to ask questions. Before moving with the critical mass, you go into reflection. What does it mean to be free?”

Pallavi Rudraraju ’17, an APIA studies major, visited the exhibit with fellow students from Tanglao-Aguas’s course, Sex and Race in Film and Plays, along with the class of APIA studies professor R. Benedito Ferrão, who is one of the newest professors given tenuretrack as an assistant professor in the program. Rudraraju said she believes that viewing the exhibit alongside her peers was critical to the overall experience.

“Being able to be there with these other people who are studying this sort of topic, it’s just really important,” Rudraraju said. “It’s really difficult to find scholarship on Asian and Asian-Americans and anything which highlights even military presence. It was just bringing to light a lot of things which were really integral and important for these students to know.”

To Rudraraju, the exhibit’s focus on the Buffalo Soldiers and their involvement with the Filipino revolutionaries of the PhilippineAmerican War successfully demonstrated the intertwinement of history between African and Asian-American groups.

“It’s highlighting … how these two groups are not as separate as people might think,” Rudraraju said. “Throughout history especially, black Americans have been so important in terms of Asian and Asian-American history, and that’s why I am absolutely thrilled about this exhibit.”

City Council member Benny Zhang ’16 noted that the exhibit was a testament to how important the role of APIA studies is in fostering awareness.

Zhang, who graduated from APIA studies and examined the significance of the College’s first Asian-American student, Art Matsu in his senior thesis, noted that there “is a comfort with the space created to challenge historical norms right now.” “[The exhibit] is a testament also to William and Mary’s environment where it enables folks, students, faculty members, staff, and researchers to kind of really challenge the notion of how we understand history today,” Zhang said. “I think understanding history in one way is quite dangerous but having a more holistic way of understanding of history I think only enables us to advance certain ideas forward.”

Rudraraju said that the exhibit also conveys the importance of being a good ally to black Americans as a good APIA activist, and is an important step toward the expansion of inclusivity within the program.

Tanglao-Aguas said he agrees with the potential that APIA studies and other programs have amassed.

“I think programs like APIA and Africana studies can possibly give us opportunities to make some changes for the better in society,” Tanglao-Aguas said. “And I do mean everybody. Not only people who look like the cultures in the titles of these programs.

Because we are all in the same space.”

Student Health Center reports cases of chlamydia, other STIs above CDC national average Garrison attributes fall 2016 rise in diagnosed cases to lack of comprehensive safe sex education, population increases on College’s campus STI from page 1

populations: those who are choosing to be abstinent, those who are using contraception consistently and correctly, those who are inconsistently using contraception and students who are not using contraception at all.

Once he has identified these populations, he said it is important for the College to continue to provide condoms and then to discuss safe sex with students who feel uncomfortable talking about sex. He said that he believes that students are consenting to sexual acts of which they don’t fully know the risks, including sex

without a condom or other protective barrier.

“The College has a very important role in all of this,” Garrison said. “We have to provide condoms out the wazoo, we can have all the condoms, but if students don’t sit down and talk about sex with us that doesn’t solve the problem.”

Additionally, Garrison said that the College works to comply with national guidelines for safe sex, including the CDC’s order that condoms should be available 24 hours a day, five days a week to students.

Vice President of Sexual Health for Health Outreach Peer Educators Amy Zhao ’19 said that, while she was not sure of the exact numbers for STI diagnoses during

the fall 2016 semester, she believed that looking at the increase in diagnosed cases might be misleading.

“Many people are on other forms of birth control rather than using condoms (especially as of the last election), and see the usage of a condom as a means of contraceptive, rather than a way to prevent themselves from getting STIs,” Zhao said in an email. “Another point was how many students don’t feel the need to use a condom because in the case that they get an STI, they can treat it or recognize the symptoms and simply take medicine to get rid of it, like a common cold.”

Zhao said that one of the problems with this way of thinking is that people, oftentimes men, are

asymptomatic with STIs and that there can be longterm consequences if an STI is left untreated, including infertility and nervous and immune system damage.

According to Zhao, HOPE’s response to this will be similar to that outlined by Garrison, because much of what the Sexual Health branch does is preventative work and programming. She said that HOPE will continue to have initiatives to increase access to free condoms.

“Students need to go to HOPE, their practitioners, the Counseling Center or their religious leaders to talk about this if they have questions,” Garrison said. “They need to know that there is no judgement.”

CEO of Aspen Institute, former editor-in-chief of Time magazine Walter Isaacson to give Commencement address at College on May 13 College will give honorary degrees to Isaacson, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, former College President Paul Verkuil ’61 for contributions to library sciences, higher education under Obama COMMENCEMENT from page 1

Magazine and is noted as a best-selling author.

The Aspen Institute is a nonpartisan educational and policy studies institute in Washington, D.C. Beyond his work there, he is known for writing “The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution,” “Steve Jobs,” “Einstein: His Life and Universe,” “Benjamin Franklin: An American Life,” “Kissinger: A Biography” and “The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made.”

“Walter Isaacson’s life is a triumph of the liberal arts,” College President Taylor

Reveley said in a press statement. “In his work as a journalist, scholar and leader of the Aspen Institute, Walter has ranged widely and creatively, tackling some of the world’s most thorny issues. He will speak splendidly at commencement.”

Isaacson attended Harvard College and Pembroke College of Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. While abroad, his career started at The Sunday Times of London, and he later went on to join Time in 1978 as a political correspondent.

Beyond his work in higher education, he has spent time working with philanthropic organizations, including in his current role as chair emeritus of

Teach for America. Additionally, in 2005 to 2007, he served as the vice-chair of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, which is the organization that oversaw rebuilding in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

In 2009, former U.S. President Barack Obama appointed Isaacson to serve as the chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors which runs Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and other international broadcasts in the United States.

In selecting him as the College’s Commencement speaker, it is also noted that Isaacson is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and serves on the boards of United Airlines, Tulane

University, the New Orleans City Planning Commission, Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Society of American Historians and the Carnegie Institution for Science.

His honorary degree from the College will be added to his collection of honorary degrees from Tufts University, Cooper Union, Franklin College in Switzerland, University of New Orleans, University of South Carolina, City University of New York, Pomona College, Lehigh University, Washington College and Duke University.

Hayden, one of the other individuals receiving an honorary degree, was sworn in as the 14th Librarian of Congress in 2016. She is the first woman and the first African-American to hold this position.

According to a College press release, she is noted for making the decision to keep the libraries open during protests that followed Freddie Gray’s death in police custody.

Verkuil, the last of the honorary degree recipients, served as the College’s 24th president from July 1985 until 1992.

During his Presidency, he launched a fundraising campaign credited for raising $153 million, creating the Wendy and Emery Reves Center for International Studies, founding the Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy and overseeing the completion of three new doctoral programs in American studies, computer science and applied science.

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Law symposium focuses on sex trafficking

Journal of Women and Law talk aims to end controversies on victim status

CARLEY SCHANCK FLAT HAT ASSOC. NEWS EDITOR

Jan. 24, law students, community members and undergraduate students gathered at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law to attend the Journal of Women and Law Symposium on combating human trafficking through law and policy.

The JOWL Symposium was broken up into morning and afternoon sessions and consisted of speakers and panels on a range of subtopics under the umbrella of human trafficking.

Examples included Rachel Marshall’s presentation, “A Critical Analysis of Laws Regarding Sex Work,” and Kate Price and Keith Bentele’s presentation, “Voting to End Vulnerability: Understanding the Recent Proliferation of State-Level Child Sex Trafficking Legislation.”

Speaker Katie Soltis, an immigration legal fellow for the immigration nonprofit organization Ayuda, said that human trafficking is divided into two categories: labor trafficking and sex trafficking.

She said that labor trafficking often gets overlooked, although it is more widespread than sex trafficking.

Soltis said that data on human trafficking is hard to collect because of the nature of the crime, but estimates say that 21 million people around the world are victims of forced labor, compared with 4.5 million who are victims of sexual exploitation.

Michelle Weinbaum J.D. ’17 planned the symposium and said that she wanted attendees to come away with a greater appreciation for the complexity and controversy surrounding the issue of human trafficking. She hoped to do this by discussing the issue’s nuances.

“Nobody is really saying that they don’t dislike child sex trafficking, so in that way it’s not controversial,” Weinbaum said. “Everybody is agreeing child sex trafficking is bad. But there is still a lot of controversy that surrounds how we define victims.”

Weinbaum said that different speakers each presented on one of the various aspects of that controversy.

“One of the speakers [is] going to talk about what happens when somebody turns 18 and the fact that in the eyes of the law you can go from one day being a victim to the very next day being a criminal and no longer entitled to services,” Weinbaum said. “What I want people to take away is that even on an issue that we all think

we agree on, there’s a lot of controversy and disagreement about how we want to solve that and even defining exactly what we want to solve when it comes to who’s a victim.”

Speaker Julianne Siegfriedt, a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, presented on this aspect of human trafficking.

“I’m a sociologist, and it really struck me, this idea of the way society treats those who sell sex very differently depending on whether they fall into this definition of sex trafficking versus sex work and prostitution,” Siegfriedt said. “It really came out how critical this idea of age was in showing that one day you are a sex trafficking victim and the next day … it’s completely your choice and you’re a sex worker.”

Siegfriedt said she was invited to speak at the JOWL Symposium because her research and dissertation are centered around the issue of human trafficking.

Siegfriedt said there are many different ways to become professionally involved in combating human trafficking.

“There are a lot of organizations out there that are doing nonprofit work that can be really helpful, and that’s one of the things that we talked about this morning, is the role of NGOs and task

forces that influence legislation, but also looking at the law critically and how it’s being applied and how it’s influencing individual lives is really important and there are many different ways to do that,” Siegfriedt said.

Although it was geared towards law students, the event was open to undergraduate students and the Williamsburg community, Weinbaum said.

Sam Biddle ’18 attended the symposium as part of his sociology class, Immigration and Border Studies.

“What was emphasized here was how the law and legislation can sometimes be a bit of a blunt tool, and what these panelists were trying to get at is how much precision is needed in terms of the human story and the human factor,” Biddle said.

Biddle also said he appreciated the complexity of this event, especially as it related to the human factor of sex trafficking.

“There are human lives at stake, each with individual stories and with legislation it tries … to apply a simple solution to everyone,” Biddle said, “But this panel was about individualizing people, and I think that all that I could see brought out was how challenging the entire situation around human trafficking, sex trafficking is.”

STUDENT ASSEMBLY

Senate focuses on campus response to sexual assault Student Assembly passes two bills, aims to fund speaker from End Rape on Campus HENRY BLACKBURN FLAT HAT ASSOC. NEWS EDITOR

During Tuesday’s Student Assembly meeting, senators discussed and passed a bill that follows their Feb. 7 resolution codifying the senate’s response to sexual assault on campus.

The Survivor Solidarity Act, sponsored by Sen. Brendan Boylan ’19, is the second piece of legislature presented in the past month that deals with the topic of sexual assault on campus.

Boylan introduced the Survivor Solidarity Resolution Jan. 31 to call attention to the issue of sexual assault on the College of William and Mary’s campus.

Boylan said that introducing a resolution and a bill helps to solidify SA’s dedication to stopping sexual violence.

After committee discussions, senators voted to revise the resolution and Tuesday’s bill. According to Boylan, a key focus of the Survivor Solidarity Act is to create a discussion-based roundtable where student groups can meet to discuss sexual assault on campus.

The roundtable would then report back to the senate so that SA could potentially provide additional resources. Edits to the bill made Feb. 21 allow a SA representative to take part in the roundtable.

Boylan said that the editing process helped to ensure that the senate found a balance between ensuring their involvement in a potential roundtable of student organizations and protecting the independence of such a roundtable.

“We wanted to make sure that every word was proper and right,” Boylan said. “Now we have a Student Assembly representative [attending the roundtable discussions] and that just ensures that Student Assembly can at least play a role, at least a nominal role, if not be a facilitator in those discussions.”

The bill allocates $7,500 from the SA reserves to cover a speaking

fee for the End Rape on Campus organization so students can be provided with “information on how to act effectively as supporters of survivors.”

The event would be held during the week of April 13.

Additionally, the bill requests that the College asks individuals seeking employment to disclose former misconduct investigations involving them and then terminate employees who incorrectly disclose such information.

The bill also states SA’s support of a new sex crime reporting system.

The resolution passed Feb. 7 also went through revisions and entire lines were re-written.

One line that senators disagreed on in the original version of the resolution read, “[This bill] [d]eclares that current Administration policies, especially poorly and inconsistently enforced no-contact orders, make the College complicit in these vicious crimes against our fellow classmates.”

The resolution aims to provide SA’s written support of victims of sexual assault, declare that SA will no longer associate with perpetrators of sexual assault while “lauding” the students who created the Haven, criticize the College’s Task Force on Sexual Assault as being “inadequate” in supporting victims and lastly, to support the College in permanently expelling perpetrators of sexual assault.

Many senators said that they believed it unnecessarily implicated the College in crimes of sexual assault when instead it should only be held accountable for not having a stronger stance against the crime.

The resolution was amended to read, “[This bill] [d]eclares that on account of current Administration policies, including poorly and inconsistently enforced no-contact orders, there is a demand for improvement of such policies to ensure the College is committed to alleviating the effects of these crimes against our

fellow classmates.”

Chairman of the Senate Danny O’Dea ’18 said that he felt some of the lines of the original resolution that called the College complicit in issues of sexual assault were too extreme.

“I don’t think we want to use this language, it’s implying quite a lot and saying the College specifically did these things,” O’Dea said.

“I’m not comfortable with this. They could definitely do better, but they’re not complicit.”

Class of 2017 President Emily Thomas ’17 spoke in support of the Survivor Solidarity Act but questioned whether it was possible to support the roundtable committee for future years without needing to write similar legislation.

“We are somehow saying that we want this to committee to carry on past the 324 [session of ] senate,” Thomas said. “The question is; how do we do that?”

Class of 2019 President Jonah Yesowitz ’19 suggested creating a second bill to accompany the Survivor Solidarity Act that, if passed, would automatically allow the bill to carry on for future sessions of SA. “This idea of a new bill would potentially allow this bill to renew every year and continue the roundtable,” Yesowitz said. “It would easily solve that problem.”

While no action was taken on a potential second bill, the Survivor Solidarity Act was passed by a vote of unanimous consent.

Boylan said that he thinks creating the roundtable opens the campus up to dialogue on the issue and that SA can have an integral role in the fight against sexual assault.

“There are specific problem areas in our community and we need to be able to recognize and act upon them, whether it’s with Greek life, athletics, the LGBTQ community, all the groups here,” Boylan said. “I believe that Student Assembly can play an instrumental role in alleviating those problems, in being able to support survivors as well as preventing sexual assault from happening in general.”

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Kappa Memorial Hall and renovate the existing space in PBK. The dance classes offered in Adair Hall will move to PBK, which will meet national accreditation standards for the College’s dance minor.

Music classes will move from Ewell Hall to the new building. Renovations to the existing space in PBK will add student theater spaces for extra performances, additional office space for professors and a larger box office.

The third phase will add a building between the Muscarelle Museum of Art and Morton Hall.

Alumni House According to Boy, construction on updates to the Alumni House would ideally start in May 2018 and be completed by July 31, 2019.

All funding for this project is coming from private donors, which Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration Sam Jones said is estimated to be somewhere between $13 million and $21 million. Jones said that currently, the Alumni House is not meeting the reported needs of alumni, so the renovations would create support spaces for them as well as a larger gathering space.

This gathering space, as it is currently designed, would add 400 seats around round tables or 900 seats in a theater-style space. Boy said that he would like to use this three-story renovation to emphasize the Bright House, which is one of the current parts of the Alumni House.

Muscarelle Museum of Art The College is beginning a feasibility study, which will examine what the College can afford in terms of renovations to the Muscarelle Museum of Art. Boy said that this renovation will renovate the existing building and create a new addition that will extend towards Morton Hall to add space for more exhibits.

“One other thing that we will be doing is adding an entrance worthy of a gallery of that magnitude,” Boy said.

Jones said that this renovation will also be funded entirely by private fundraising and that an architect has been selected for pre-planning.

“We really would like this to be a space that serves as a complement to the Performing Arts Center,” Jones said.

A budget for the feasibility study has not been determined, and that study will set the budget for the final renovations.

West Utility Plant Construction drawings are underway for the West Utility Plant, and construction is estimated to take place from July 2017 to January 2019. The pre-planning study will cost $1.3 million and the College will be asking the General Assembly for approximately $25 million to fund the rest of the project. This new utility plant will support Swem Library and the new Fine and Performing Arts Center and will face Adair.

Sediment Construction Construction will also take place on two best

management practice sites, one by the Student Health Center and one on the Wildflower Trail behind Swem Library. Best Management Practices are acceptable structures that can be implemented to protect water quality and promote soil conservation.

Some, like the air system in the Crim Dell, are physical structures that can be installed. These renovations will begin in May and run through the end of the 2017 calendar year.

These will include dredging the Crim Dell to replace the air system and paving a gravel path behind Washington Hall and Ewell Hall for a total of $3.391 million.

Days Inn Jones said that the William and Mary Real Estate Foundation is responsible for purchasing the Days Inn to be used as undergraduate housing, something that was announced in September 2016. Because the building was used as a hotel and was not designed for College use, the Real Estate Foundation must acquire a special use permit from the City of Williamsburg’s government.

When the Real Estate Foundation announced that they had purchased the Days Inn on Richmond Road, they planned to open it up for student housing as early as August 2017.

All of the City’s committees recommended “yes,” but with qualifications for whether or not the College should move ahead with using the building for student housing.

Early in March, the College will go before City

Council to ask if 180 students could be housed in the hotel. Earlier in February, the City’s Planning Commission recommended that it was only fit for up to 80 students.

“We will have to see what City Council says,” Jones said. “Is it financially feasible for 80 students?

No. We’d have to make significant renovations as is.”

Millington Hall Demolition of Millington Hall, initially halted because of remaining hazardous materials found in the building, such as asbestos, will be completed

by July 24, 2017.

Sadler Center A pre-planning study for the Sadler Center addition is underway. Jones said that potential builders will be speaking with administrators whose offices are currently located in Campus Center to determine what space is needed for the planned 76,000 square foot addition.

This addition would add new common space and office spaces for Student Affairs and Residence Life administrators currently located in Campus Center.

While he said he is not sure if the College would go ahead with demolishing Campus Center afterwards, Jones said it is still a possibility.

“When you do a master plan, sometimes you’re looking 10 or 15 years out,” Jones said. “We were able to move quickly through the Integrated Wellness Center and now we start pre-planning for this. It all is moving quickly.”

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GUEST COLUMN

Reveley cannot remain detached from politics

Aastha Uprety

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Honor code sign design: Questionable at best

Emily Chaumont

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The past few weeks, students at the College of William and Mary may have noticed new wall decorations in their classrooms. Signs bearing the Honor Pledge now hang in every classroom on campus, and while the Honor Pledge has a place in our academic buildings, these garish signs do not.

The signs were paid for with $7,500 allocated from the College’s Parents Fund, which is evidently used to fund a wide range of things, from a card reader at the Meridian Coffee House to student scholarships to these new, hideous signs.

Now whether these signs should have been funded at all is up for debate — the Honor Code is an important symbol (and marketing tactic) at the College, but it seems to me that $7,500 is an awful lot to spend on a symbolic gesture. The Honor Pledge is already included on most every syllabus students receive, and I’ve had to sign it alongside most of the exams and papers that I’ve turned in, so I’m not sure how effective of a reminder or deterrent having the wall sign really is.

But that’s beside the point.

I’ll let someone else debate the pros and cons of being constantly bombarded with a visual reminder of the Honor Code.

The truth is, those signs don’t belong in the College’s classrooms because they are just plain ugly.

First off, as is clearly delineated in its style guide, the College has four official colors: “William & Mary Green” (Pantone 343), “William & Mary Gold” (Pantone 465), “Spirit Gold” (Pantone 7409) and “William & Mary

Silver” (Pantone 427). I’m not sure what shade of green the Honor Pledge signs are but they are certainly not “William & Mary Green.”

The College’s official green is the dark, blueish, almost forest green that can be seen on signs and pamphlets across campus, as well all over the College’s website. The Honor Pledge signs, however, seem to be more of a yellowy green. Although the difference may not be immediately apparent, it is enough to make the eye uneasy.

The College prides itself so much on consistent messaging that the fact that these Honor Pledge signs appear to be just slightly the wrong shade of green seems like a glaring mistake.

Even more glaring than the odd choice of green is the inexplicable use of title case in the honor pledge.

For those unfamiliar with the term, title case refers to the sign designer’s incomprehensible choice to Capitalize The First Letter Of Every Single Word Of The Honor Pledge.

It is generally accepted that title case should only be used for telling your friend that they’re sporting A Good Look today and for actual titles of things — and I must point out, neither of those conditions are met with these signs.

Even if you choose to use title case, short words like “a,” “of ” and “the” are generally not capitalized unless they’re at the beginning of the title. For some reason unbeknownst to man nor beast, the designer of these signs chose to capitalize the first letter of literally every single word of the pledge.

The combination of this unfathomable capitalization choice with the uncomfortable italics and queasy green background makes these signs truly a challenge to look at.

I am in no way opposed to the College’s commitment to honor, but if $7,500 was going to be allocated to fund symbolic visual reminders of the Honor Code, they could at least have decided not to use title case.

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A few weeks ago, the presidents and chancellors of 48 different universities signed a letter condemning Trump’s “Muslim ban,” an executive order restricting immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries. In the letter, they cite the academic potential of students coming from the targeted nations alongside American values as reasons to reevaluate the ban and “rectify the damage done” by the order. Missing from the list of signatures is the College of William and Mary, as is any other college from Virginia.

The College prides itself on its traditions, which include avoiding politics at any cost. Students often have to pressure the administration to release statements on issues that directly impact them. One cause that some students are currently behind is to turn the College into a sanctuary campus, which would involve implementing policies to protect undocumented students and refusing to comply with federal regulations if necessary. The most that we have gotten from

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The College of William & Mary prides itself on its traditions, among which include avoiding politics at any cost. the administration so far, however, is brief and vague public statements. College President Taylor Reveley’s most recent email, “Our International Community,” recognized the humanity of international students but outlined no steps that the College is taking to protect them. The infamous “Let’s Get a Grip” email following the election took several days and multiple reports of harassment to be released. Of course, the College is a public institution that relies heavily on conservative donors. Publicly showing support for certain issues could easily lead to a loss of funds. Administrative decisions in the past, such as when former president Gene Nichols removed the Wren Cross, have caused controversy. It’s unfortunate that the administration taking a stance to protect its students could possibly lead to losing funds and further harm. But while there must be discretion, we can’t have excuses.

Many people will say that the College should not partake in partisan political discussions or choose sides in debate. The past year and a half have led to the normalization of Trump’s rhetoric and extreme political platform. One year ago, Republicans and Democrats alike were appalled by many of Trump’s stances. But now, after months of growing support, the same ideas are simply considered “politics,” making these issues off-limits. Just as you can’t hate someone for their political opinion, it is commonly accepted that educational institutions shouldn’t take sides on politics.

Normalizing Trump’s extreme views on immigration, undocumented immigrants and more has led to an environment where historically “neutral” institutions are excluded from the discussion. But resisting Trump’s administration cannot only be in the hands of the people — we need support from various places. This is beyond a normal presidency. *Editor’s Note: President Reveley signed the second version of the letter condemning the executive order prior to the publishing of this column.

Email Aastha Uprety at auprety@email.wm.edu.

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A new voice for women

Abigail Russo FLAT HAT GUEST COLUMNIST

When prospective students go on tours of the College of William and Mary, their tour guides tend to boast about our hundreds of student-run organizations. If there isn’t a club on campus that matches up with your interests, you can start one. After the outcome of the presidential election, Mari Nemec and I sought out a bipartisan feminist organization that we could be part of to stay engaged in politics and get involved in activism. We discovered that there used to be a branch of the National Organization for Women on campus that had since dissolved, so we decided to revive it. Now, three months later, William and Mary recognizes our branch of NOW as a new student-run organization on campus, and we have lots of plans.

Founded in 1966, the national organization focuses on women’s issues and promoting activism for the equal rights of women. This grassroots movement that has spread across the United States concentrates on six core intersectional issues: reproductive rights, ending violence against women, economic justice, LGBTQ rights, racial justice and constitutional equality. More than that, the organization looks at all issues as women’s issues because any given issue, whether it be the economy or the environment, is a woman’s issue.

As a campus branch, we are working to become a bipartisan activist group (though many issues we focus on tend to lean in a liberal direction) that has a broad focus on women’s issues. We plan to educate ourselves on specific legislation, not just on the national level, but on a local and state level, so that we can stay engaged and keep the campus community at large educated. We recognize that the first step to staying active and getting involved is to know what’s going on. We also aim to promote women’s involvement in government. The most direct way for women’s interests to be protected is to have women protecting them.

As the newest activist group coming to campus, we hope to partner with other groups, like the Young Democrats and VOX, on projects like calling and writing letters to our representatives.

On a final note, it matters that NOW dissolved but has since returned. It’s a sign that a new wave of feminism is on the rise as people realize the many inequalities women still face, as well as the need to take action. In a time when people appear to be turning away from politics in the news and in our larger communities because of their dissatisfaction, young people in our country aren’t finished. We’re staying engaged, we’re staying involved, and we’re ready to work to make our country reflect the values we believe in.

Email Abigail Russo at amrusso@email.wm.edu.

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Film Festival Celebrates One Decade

New directors bring changes to the tenth annual Global Film Festival LEONOR GRAVE AND KATHERINE WEBER THE FLAT HAT

Whether it was a lovesick Indian tiger-hunter, a struggling Pakistani poet or an African-American man befriending members of the Ku Klux Klan, the 10th W&M Global Film Festival featured a unique blend of films — based on both fact and fiction — which captured the audience’s attention during four days of film and performing arts-related events Feb. 23 to 26.

The 10th anniversary of the W&M Global Film Festival attracted a host of film professionals, professors, student volunteers and students to experience and participate in an event that carried on the Festival’s tradition of creative globalmindedness while incorporating new events, like workshops and non-film performances, and changes to the Festival’s planning and organization.

The W&M Global Film Festival kicked off its 10th anniversary festivities with a reception hosted by the Muscarelle Museum of Art Thursday Feb. 23, giving students, faculty and community members a chance to mingle with some of the Festival’s special guests the first film of the weekend, “The Tiger Hunter.”

“The Tiger Hunter,” which made its Virginia debut., was produced in the United States and India and tells the story of an Indian man who travels to the United States in the 1970s to become an engineer. The film was one of many international productions showcased in the Festival. Friday’s film offerings included the director’s cut of “El Pez Azul,” a Cuban-Mexican production, the Virginia premiere of “Forgive Don’t Forget,” a U.S.-Japan production, and “A Tale of Two Sisters,” a South Korean project.

The documentary film “Tower” premiered in Virginia Friday night, telling the story of the 1966 mass school shooting at the University of TexasAustin. The film employed animation spliced occasionally with archival footage to pictorialize the experience of people who were affected by or witnessed the massacre. The award-winning documentary was produced by Megan Gilbride ’00.

She discussed how the decision to use animation for the film was made by the director, Keith Maitland.

“He thought the animation technique would be a great way to bring this to life and to really place the audience in this moment, minute by minute as it was unfolding,” Gilbride said.

Saturday, the Kimball Theatre saw the Virginia premiere of “Mah e Mir,” a Pakistani film paralleling the lives of a modern-day Pakistani poet and the 18th century poet Mir Taqi Mir, as well as the British production “The Double.”

The Festival also held a 30th anniversary showcase of the founding and early cast members of the group Improvisational Theatre. The former members answered questions about the origins of the group and their post-graduate lives. Some members shared advice about pursuing a career in the acting world after graduation. Craig Cackowski ’91, who has appeared in shows like “Community,” “Drunk History,” “VEEP” and “How I Met Your Mother,” discussed how the realization that he was not going to be the best was “freeing” for him, and alluded to his now-illustrious classmate, comedian Patton Oswalt ’91.

“Patton Oswalt was in my freshman dorm, so I’m not even the funniest guy in my freshman dorm,” Cackowski said.

The documentary, “Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race, and America” was shown Saturday night. The filmmakers follow African-American musician Daryl Davis, as he meets and builds relationships with members of the Ku Klux Klan to persuade them to question their beliefs. After the film was screened, the film’s director, Matt Ornstein, and Daryl Davis himself participated in a questionand-answer session with the audience.

Lorraine Pettit ’17, who attended the film’s Virginia premiere at the Festival, described it as “incredibly powerful,” and spoke to the value of

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Austin Journey ’11 discusses “Forgive - Don’t Forget,” the documentary he wrote and edited at the Global Film Festival panel.

having a question-and-answer session immediately after the film.

“I feel like you still get a lot out of it from just watching it, but that time as the audience together to process the information is really, really powerful too,” Pettit said.

Sunday, the College of William and Mary Wind Ensemble accompanied three silent films: two films

by Charlie Chaplin and another by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline. The Festival’s closing day also included a screening of the French and Swiss animated film, “My Life as a Zucchini.”

In addition to the film screenings, there were also a variety of alumni-run workshops made available for students to participate in. Jamie Northrup ’04 held two workshops for students: one on how to film and act in a stunt fight scene, and the other on how to operate a Steadicam device. Sean Cusack ’11, who has worked on editing teams for shows like truTV’s “Impractical Jokers” and TV Land’s “The Jim Gaffigan Show”, held a workshop on editing.

Cackowski, who led a workshop on improv acting skills, commented on the experience.

“We had the current I.T. squad and alums from all eras — so that was so cool to see,” Cackowski said.

A couple of workshops concerned the making of films that were screened during the Festival, such as the documentaries “The Russian Woodpecker” and “Forgive - Don’t Forget.” Austin Journey ’11, the writer, editor and co-director, and Brad Bennett, the executive producer and co-director, discussed the logistics behind creating their film, “Forgive - Don’t Forget.”

They talked about the equipment they used, marketing techniques, funding and how they handled bumps in the road, such as suddenly running out of funds when they were halfway across the world filming in Japan. Bennett expressed his thoughts on the film and what it’s like to discuss its production with other people.

“It’s been a true labor of love the past five years or so we’ve been working on it, and it’s great to kind of share our experiences on it,” Bennett said.

This year’s Global Film Festival was produced by Stackhouse and Liz Sykes ’06. While the Festival has

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The festival attracted a host of film professionals, students and professors, and also incorporated new workshop and events.

maintained several key featured components over the years, some considerable changes were made for the Festival’s 10th year. For example, this year’s Festival showcased more performing arts outside of film.

“We had more theater, we brought in the actors and it’s just part of a larger goal that this can become something larger across disciplines,” Stackhouse said.

One of the biggest changes to the Festival in its 10th year was the decision to outsource a lot of the planning, which altered the level of student participation. Stackhouse and Sykes, who started a production company together in 2011, were brought on over the summer to oversee the Festival’s production.

“The focus was just getting the program established earlier and being more robust, and that involved us doing a lot of the legwork in advance,” Sykes said. “It was my understanding in past years that students had done that legwork and that responsibility fell to us this year.”

Stackhouse discussed the different ways in which students got involved in the 10th year of the Festival.

“We produced on a quicker timeline and we had a student advisory council of about 20 members who determined all the shorts programming, that worked in conjunction with the Canon international film contests … and we had volunteers that included both them and other students as well,” Stackhouse said. “We had over 100 students involved in the Festival.”

Megan Embrey ’17, a member of the Festival’s student advisory council, noted stark changes in the Festival’s planning.

“There’s much less student involvement this year,” Embrey said.

According to Embrey, volunteering with the Festival this year was a very different experience from being an intern last year.

“This year there are professional photographers and videographers, et cetera, essentially doing all the things that interns did in the past,” Embrey said.

As a film and media studies major, Embrey said she considered the Global Film Festival to be one of the few opportunities to be involved with a film festival as an undergraduate.

“On the one hand, it’s disappointing because I loved, and I know a lot of other students really loved, being as involved as we were [last year], but this year it’s definitely more organized,” Embrey said. “I just hope that in future years we can have that balance of being organized and also involving students on the same level as before.”

Journey recalled working at the Global Film Festival himself starting in 2009 when he was a sophomore at the College. He said he believes that the skills he practiced while helping with the Festival aided him after he graduated and began his career in the film industry.

“I edited videos for the Festival, I worked on the website for the Festival and I think those skills did translate to what I’m doing now,” Journey said. “I think that’s really important to have those practical, hands-on skills because otherwise I don’t think I would have gotten that same experience had I not been able to work on the Festivals that I did … I certainly think that it’s helped for where I am now.”

Journey spoke about how being exposed to the diversity of cultural topics showcased during the Global Film Festival over the years connected to his work on an international film and what it has been like to go from someone helping with the Festival to someone presenting at the Festival.

“I got that taste of the sort of global influence of film here, which I was real excited to work on this because it really had that global-mindedness,” Journey said. “I’ve been to every Festival since then so it’s nice to be here as somebody showcasing a film, because ever since graduation I’ve been working on this, but I’ve been able to come to the Festival throughout that. It’s kind of cool to be back here and show the film that way.”

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Freshman student starts new club to fill ice skating void on William and Mary’s campus LEONOR GRAVE CHIEF STAFF WRITER

community on campus, she was eager to be a part of something new after spending her freshman year away from the ice.

“When I first got to William and Mary, I looked for a skating club, but there wasn’t one, so I kind of It is 5:50 a.m. on Wednesday morning, and Andrew Uhrig ’20, Nazrin Garibova ’20 and Carlyn gave up — I figured no one else would be interested in it,” LeGrant said.

LeGrant ’19 are on their way to the Hampton Roads Ice Arena for the newly-formed ice skating club’s For Garibova, the club’s co-vice president, this early morning practice marks a welcome chance to first practice.

As soon as the three skaters change into their skates and hit the ice, they loop around the rink to gain speed, and it isn’t long before they begin jumping and spinning along with the music playing in the background. They share the rink with only two other people — an older woman and her trainer, practicing routines to songs like “Copacabana” and “The Girl from Ipanema.”

The ice skating club is a long time in the making for Uhrig, the current president of the club, who said that he had been planning its creation before he even went through freshman orientation in the fall.

“I kind of conceptualized it before I was coming here, because when I was looking at schools, I specifically was looking for skating clubs or nearby skating rinks,” Uhrig said.

Uhrig, who skated competitively until his junior year of high school, almost didn’t even apply to the College of William and Mary because of the lack of opportunities to pursue figure skating.

“I knew that this school had everything else I wanted; it just didn’t have a skating club,” Uhrig said.

“So coming in here I had that mentality that, ‘I’m going to do this, I’m going to try my hardest to get this up and running so that I can have an experience that I want.’”

It turns out that Uhrig wasn’t the only one on campus looking to return to the rink. Once he started getting the word out about an ice skating club, he discovered that he was just the tip of the iceberg.

LeGrant, the club’s co-secretary, said that despite the lack of a pre-established ice skating return to a sport she has loved for almost her entire life.

“I’d been skating since I was five,” Garibova said. “I think senior year [of high school] was my prime — and then after then I just had to stop and it was kind of sad.”

Uhrig said that he hopes having an ice skating club on campus will be a good thing for the community and that it will attract students who are passionate about ice skating and might not have applied to the College otherwise.

“I know personally a lot of my friends didn’t apply to this school because there wasn’t a skating club, and the nearest rink was 30 minutes away,” Uhrig said. “But as long as we’re able to facilitate a skating club, I feel like we’ll draw in more people.”

The ice skating club also hopes to host events at the Colonial Williamsburg Liberty Ice Pavilion, which would be open to ice skaters from all levels of experience and led by executive board members.

Additionally, Uhrig said that he hopes to continue to have weekly practices on the ice.

“I’m glad that this is starting because I think that even if it’s just once a week, just being out on the ice feels nice,” Garibova said.

On the drive back to campus from the Hampton Roads rink, Uhrig, LeGrant and Garibova spoke to what they love the most about being out on the ice. For them, ice skating is an unparalleled experience. “[I love] being able to feel the balance and the wind as you start picking up speed, or knowing that you landed a perfect jump,” LeGrant said. “You don’t even have to see it; you just know that it happened.”

Garibova agreed that it can often be the little moments — like a perfectly centered spin — that define the experience of skating.

“It’s sometimes the simplest moves, like when you’re gliding on the ice and you just feel how IRIS HYON / THE FLAT HAT Co-vice president, Nazrin Garibova ‘20, flies across the rink at the Hampton Roads Ice Arena for an early morning practice. smooth it is,” LeGrant said. “There’s literally nothing else like it.”

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I knew that this school had everything else I wanted; it just didn’t have a skating club.

— Andrew Uhrig ’20

CONFUSION CORNER

Minimalization: Big problems with tiny houses

Praising the sacrifices of tiny house dwellers reveals a different angle of materialism

Emily Gardner

CONFUSION CORNER COLUMNIST

Tiny houses are just pretentious trailer homes for hipsters who are too busy touring microbreweries and making their own recycled scrapbook paper to be burdened by full-time employment or a mortgage. There are many things my feeble female brain can’t wrap itself around, but the one thing that confuses me even more than how a couple with children can do some midnight butter churning in a tiny house with no walls is why our society has decided to allocate its precious resources to not one, but at least six different TV shows worshiping the cult of “tiny living.” How many different aspects of the tiny house experience can there be that two shows can’t adequately capture these reclaimed-teak disasters?

“Wait, how do you know so much about tiny homes?” If I were our commander in chief, I would accuse you of sedition and would dodge that question, but I am a strong woman who faces her inconsistencies. Truthfully, I also love tiny houses. There is a reason I know how many shows there are and on which channels one can procure this real estate smut (HGTV is the biggest channel for tiny, if you were wondering). I often fantasize about where I would put my tiny house, if I should use stairs or a ladder to get to the loft and if I want it to be mobile or for my cats to be able to put down roots. The dream of burning all of my worldly possessions and turning over a new leaf is alluring. However, I am afraid that the sweet melody of tiny houses and the revival of minimalism,

formally known as poverty, may just be a sweet siren’s call.

The fundamental principles of the minimalist movement are appealing because our culture of consumerism has undoubtedly spiraled out of control. Many of us can identify with the phenomena of filling a spiritual lacuna or evading boredom by amassing more things. I have found myself, more times than I care to admit, listlessly wandering through the mall in an unconscious pursuit of emotional numbing. The very idea that stuff can be soothing permeates throughout our society. The fact that “retail therapy” exists as a meme in our culture is evidence of this. Within my own upbringing, I can see the insidious traces of consumerism being indoctrinated into me from a young age.

Holidays were judged by the haul of candy and gifts I collected, not laughter and quality time, shopping at thrift stores was the idealized highlight of middle-class chic peer bonding and my mother would buy me underwear after every breakup. We numb ourselves with $10 H&M jeans and hide the guilt we feel for the exploited workers and polluted oceans under piles of clothing and by being constantly at work, which we have to do because we need money to buy even more jeans. It’s an unstable system — a differential equation with a positive parameter growing uncontrollably past the limits that our society can support.

Minimalism is a cry for sanity in an insane world. It rejects the traditional notions of success and questions the assumptions about what being a member of a capitalist society means. It is profound in that it exposes how this culture of mindless buying,

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Downsizing is wonderful, but there is a balance we should find.

doing and consumption is just an opioid of the masses that blinds us to both pain and truth.

This is the idea that has inspired the tiny house movement and, honestly, I am all for overthrowing the capitalist pigs. Get a smaller house. Don’t fill it with as much stuff. Give your possessions away like Frodo leaving the Shire. The tiny-house promise to cleanse you of your baggage so that you may find contentment, as well as some really cute vertical storage solutions, seems reasonable enough. However, it’s not the time to build a bonfire quite yet. I am always cautious of anything that purports to be a panacea, especially one that is only some kerosene and a book of matches away. You can never outrun (or burn) your problems. It is easy to fall into the trap of mystical thinking and convince yourself that this one simple fix will also provide you with an out for all of your other problems. Unfortunately, just because your house is small or you only have to choose between four different outfits doesn’t mean you won’t still be lonely, stressed or bored sometimes.

The inherent issue I take against tiny houses is that they champion extremism and suffering. It is great that people are cutting down, and I am trying to do so myself, but the absurd discomfort and inconvenience of a tiny house or its extreme minimalism is just a display of superiority and pretension that serves only to artificially inflate the ego. Good for you that you can live in only 30 square feet with two pairs of underwear and a vegetable peeler to your name — so does half of the world’s population. Ironically, idealizing this suffering and making artificial sacrifice seem sacred, of which a tiny house is the epitome, is just a new way to define ourselves through material possessions.

The tiny house movement and the extreme factions of minimalism, like most forms of extremism, seem as unbalanced and unhealthy as the culture minimalism tries to defy. Downsizing is wonderful, but there is a balance we should find. It should bother everyone that we admire the tiny housers for their “sacrifices,” sacrifices many people have to make without choice.

It seems to me that we are just gentrifying low-income housing.

Plus, if we are paring down, then we definitely don’t need six of the same TV show.

Emily Gardner is a Confusion Corner columnist who thinks that more is more.

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Seniors Lead

Tribe sitting in fourth BRENDAN DOYLE FLAT HAT ASSOC. SPORTS EDITOR

Senior Day in style COURTESY PHOTO / TRIBE ATHLETICS

The senior class of Daniel Dixon, Omar Prewitt and Michael Schlotman finished their careers as the winningest class in school history, amassing 76 victories in their four seasons.

Tribe heads to Charleston for CAA tournament as fourth seed ALYSSA GRZESIAK FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR The Tribe rushed the court at Kaplan Arena for the final time of the 2016-17 season Saturday in its final game prior to the Colonial Athletic Association tournament.

The College (16-13, 10-8 CAA) defeated Towson (19-12, 11-7 CAA) 83-79 on senior night.

The Tribe’s senior night starting lineup consisted of junior forward Greg Malinowski, freshman forward Nathan Knight and senior guards Daniel Dixon, Omar Prewitt and Michael Schlotman.

Though the Tigers scored the first points of the game on a jumper from Deshaun M o r m a n , the College q u i c k l y recovered, Prewitt tying the game up 2-2 with a layup by Prewitt off a pass from Dixon. From here, the Tribe didn’t look back, as Towson trailed for the remaining 38 minutes of the contest.

Malinowski shot a good threepointer off an assist by Schlotman, while Knight executed three crowd-rousing dunks in the first half.

“I was really hesitant to score [at the beginning of the year],

more looking to pass, looking for Daniel and Omar,” Knight said. “Now they’re giving me the confidence to get inside and score the points, and I was doing that today.”

The Tribe stormed out of the gate, pouring on points in waves.

The largest lead of the half was 19, Dixon which came at the seven-minute mark after two free throws from Malinowski.

The College was up 31-12 at the time. The Tigers began to creep back into the contest, settling into the game and executing well. However, a Knight layup off a Dixon assist with 14 seconds remaining ended the first half strong for the College, which led 42-33 at intermission. In a hotshooting first half, the College was shooting 52 percent overall.

Knight scored the first points of the second half with a layup off a Prewitt assist. The freshman had an all-around strong performance. In addition to five crowd-igniting dunks, Knight’s 20-point game broke his previous career high of 15.

“I don’t think [Knight] is a freshman anymore,” Dixon said.

“I don’t consider him a freshman

anymore, and I definitely don’t treat him like a freshman. I’m definitely hard on him, and he gives his all … I’m happy to see his growth.”

The College’s biggest lead of the game came with 11 minutes, 30 seconds remaining, when Towson was down 69-47, a 22-point deficit.

Despite the advantage, the Tribe struggled to finish and maintain the margin. The Tigers went on a 10-0 run, stopped only by a free throw from junior guard David Cohn and followed by a 6-0 Towson push. With less than five minutes left in the game, the College’s lead was down to just four.

Free throw shots by Dixon, Prewitt and Cohn saved the Tribe from being overtaken by Towson in the waning minutes. A Knight dunk off a Prewitt assist with just under three minutes left was the last basket for the College.

With 13 seconds left, the Tribe led 81-79 with Dixon on the foul line for two free throws. The senior once again came up clutch for the Tribe, burying both attempts to push it to a two-possession lead.

“Daniel was special today, he’s had a great year, an incredible year,” Shaver said. “Omar didn’t have a great day offensively, but he had … a beautiful pass to Daniel on a big play at the finish

right there … he found a way to help us win the ball game.”

Dixon led Tribe scoring with 32 points, followed by Knight with 20 and Malinowski with 10.

Schlotman contributed an assist, two steals and a good rebound in his six minutes on the court on senior day.

“It’s nice to see our seniors really make a mark today,” Head coach Tony Shaver said.

“First of all, I thought M i c h a e l Schlotman was so good at the beginning Schlotman of the ball game, it almost brings tears to your eyes.”

Dixon led the Tribe with five assists, closely trailed by Prewitt with four. Schlotman led with two of the College’s six steals.

The College finished the game shooting a strong 51 percent overall. Dixon led in foul shots, making 17 of his 18 attempts.

“I think we’re a confident bunch,” Dixon said. “I think we’ve proven that we can beat every single team, but any team could beat us as well.”

The Tribe will head to Charleston on Saturday to take on Elon at 2:30 p.m. in the first round of the CAA Tournament.

As the last few seconds ran off the clock on Senior Night at Kaplan Arena Friday, all four William and Mary seniors were on the floor.

Guards Latrice Hunter and Marlena Tremba and forwards Kasey Curtis and Alex Masaquel led the way in a back-and-forth, run-filled game, capturing a 58-52 victory over the North CarolinaWilmington Seahawks.

The win was hard-fought for the Tribe. Neither team shot the ball or executed well on offense, with the Tribe shooting 40.0 percent and the Seahawks shooting 38.6 percent. However, the Tribe hit well-timed shots and got stops when they needed them, leading for almost the entire second half.

“The second half, we really played lockdown defense,” head coach Ed Swanson said. “Our defense was really fantastic … our team really came out with energy and fought hard.”

The Tribe started the contest strong, scoring the first 13 points of the game. Masaquel and Hunter combined for 11 in the stretch, while the Seahawks turned the ball over four times in the stretch.

However, the Seahawks controlled the back end of the first quarter, cutting the lead to just 18-17 at the break.

UNCW continued dominating the pace of the game well into the second quarter, as a 32-7 run in the span of just over ten minutes of game time put the Seahawks up 12. The Tribe fired right back, as two threes and a bucket in the paint closed the gap considerably. The Tribe would enter halftime down just 34-33 to the Seahawks.

“We always say, we want the first run, the last run, and the longest run,” Swanson said.

The second half would start similarly, if not as drastically, to the first half, as the Tribe began the period with a 10-2 run. The Seahawks drew within one, but the Tribe held a 45-42 lead it would not relinquish at the end of the quarter thanks to a layup by sophomore guard Bianca Boggs.

The pace of the game slowed considerably in the fourth quarter for both teams. The Seahawks cut the Tribe lead to one on three separate occasions, but could never tie the game or take the lead. Clutch buckets by Masaquel and junior guard Jenna Green, the latter a three-pointer from the corner with the shot clock winding down to push the Tribe lead to four, ensured a Tribe victory.

Hunter, on her senior day, had one of the best games of her career, shooting 5 for 8 from three and scoring 17 points. Masaquel added 14, while Green contributed nine, seven of which were in the fourth quarter. On defense, the Tribe held UNCW’s leading scorer on the season, guard Madison Raque, to only seven.

The Tribe travelled to Harrisonburg on Sunday to beat James Madison 62-53 in the penultimate game of the regular season. They will then wrap up the campaign with a home make-up game on Tuesday against Drexel.

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Tribe sweeps Lafayette in home-opening series to move to 3-3 College earns first victories of season after being dominated by No. 2 Florida last weekend KEVIN RICHESON THE FLAT HAT William and Mary, looking to recover from a season-opening series sweep at the hands of No. 2 Florida, welcomed Lafayette to Plumeri Park Feb. 24-26 for a three-game series. The College (33) won all three games dominate the Leopards (1-6).

“We were just trying to get into the win column, learn how to win and experience that again,” Tribe head coach Brian Murphy said about the home-opening series.

Friday, the Tribe took on the Leopards in its home-opener at Plumeri Park. The College left with its first win of the season in a thrilling extra inning game, 5-4.

Lafayette struck first in the top of the first inning with a two-run home run by third baseman Dan Leckie, who finished the game two for five at the plate.

The College cut the Leopard lead in half on a single by junior second baseman Cullen Large and an error by Lafayette right fielder Luke Large Robinson.

Tribe right fielder Ryan Hall scored on the play.

The score remained 2-1 until the left field, bringing Socher home for the top of the sixth inning. Lafayette game-winning run.

“I was just looking to put a ball in designated hitter John Selsor doubled to left center, bringing home second play, hopefully catch a hole and get that baseman Steven Cohen to give the runner in from second,” Goldak said.

Tribe junior relief pitcher Robert Leopards a 3-1 advantage. After this, the Tribe went to its bullpen, taking White picked up the win, while senior pitcher Nick Lafayette relief pitcher Mark Anderson Brown out of the was saddled with the loss.

Saturday, the Tribe returned to game after six innings in which action, throttling the Leopards 16-1. he gave up three Sophomore lefty Bodie Sheehan got the start for the College, and David Giusti earned runs.

Hall hit a solo opened on the mound for the Leopards.

After a close game the previous shot in the bottom afternoon, the College jumped out to of the sixth to once Goldak again pull the Tribe an early lead and never looked back.

The Tribe scored within one run. at least one run The Leopards and the Tribe traded in each of the first runs in the seventh, and the score seven innings, remained 4-3 going into the bottom jumping out to a of the ninth inning, with the College 14-0 lead before needing to score to extend the game.

Lafayette was able After freshman left fielder Brandon to scratch across a Raquet got on base, Large doubled to run. right field, plating Raquet for the tying Hall The College opened the scoring run. However, the Tribe stranded Large COURTESY PHOTO / TRIBE ATHLETICS on base, and the game went to extra in the bottom of the first when Large dashed down the line on a wild pitch to innings.

After holding the Leopards scoreless put the Tribe up 1-0.

Hall homered for the second day in a in the top of the 10th, Tribe senior designated hitter Ryder Miconi singled row when he had a two-run blast in the and was pinch run for by sophomore bottom of the fourth inning to extend Owen Socher. Socher advanced to the lead to 9-0. Senior center fielder second on a balk. Then, freshman first Charles Ameer also went deep, with a baseman Michael Goldak singled to two-run homer to cap a five-run inning

to push the lead to 14-0.

Lafayette scored their only run of the game in the top of the sixth when first baseman Alex Woinski hit a sacrifice fly to score Leckie to trim the lead to 14-1.

After taking a 16-1 lead through seven, the Tribe played two scoreless innings to complete the Ameer victory.

Sunday, the Tribe closed out the weekend series against the Leopards at Plumeri Park with a 1 p.m. game as they tried to complete the series sweep.

Lafayette jumped out to an early lead in the top of the first, courtesy of two home runs. First, Leckie homered to left field to put the Leopards up 1-0, and then Robinson extended the lead to 4-0 later in the frame with a threerun bomb to right center field.

The scored remained 4-0 until the bottom of the fifth. The College loaded the bases with no outs. Sophomore shortstop Kyle Wrighte hit a dribbler to third, but the catcher was unable to hang onto the throw, allowing two unearned runs to score. Later in the inning, Large had an RBI single to cut the deficit to 4-3, before Hall doubled to left center, scoring two and giving the Tribe its first lead of the day, 5-4.

“I’m just trying to barrel balls up, can’t really control where they go. I’ve been fortunate that they’re going in the right spot right now,” Large said about his hot streak at the plate to start the season.

In the bottom of the seventh, the College pushed its lead to 6-4.

Sophomore catcher Matthew Keane led off the inning with a double to right and advanced to third on a Wrighte single.

Ameer grounded into a double play, but Keane scored on the play.

Lafayette fought back to cut the score to 6-5 in the top of the eighth.

Cohen drew a one out walk, followed by a Woinski double to right. Cohen scored on a Selsor ground out.

However, the Tribe held the Leopards scoreless in the ninth to pick up a 6-5 win and complete the sweep.

The Tribe will travel to Charlottesville to take on Virginia on Tuesday. The last time the two teams played was in the NCAA tournament Keane regional, when the Tribe eliminated the Cavaliers with a 5-4 win.

“This is our first set of midweek games … hopefully the pitching depth will come in handy in the middle of the week,” Murphy said.

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SWIMMING

Dominating and

defending COURTESY PHOTO / TRIBE ATHLETICS

The Tribe men’s and women’s swimming teams dominate the Colonial Athletic Association Championship this weekend, the men scoring 780.5 points and the women earning 749.5 points at the conclusion of the four-day championship.

Men and women defend CAA title

CHRIS TRAVIS FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR

The men’s and women’s teams again made history at the Colonial Athletic Association Championships, as the men won their third-straight title, while the women repeated for the first time in school history. On the men’s side, the Tribe took an early lead keyed by two relay wins and never looked back in dominating the field.

Wednesday, the College men delivered a statement win in the 200-yard medley relay, where junior Wyatt Grubb, senior Alex Montes de Oca, junior Evan Baker and freshman Colin Wright dropped a time of 1:27.94. The team held a slim lead through three legs, and Wright dove in and delivered a 19.11 freestyle split, the fastest in school history.

In the 800-yard freestyle relay, the team of senior Alex Henderson, sophomore Eric Grimes, junior Tommy Kealy and senior Joe Eiden took home gold with a time of 6:32.35, which was the fifth-fastest clocking in conference history. With his team in second entering the final leg, Eiden came up clutch with a 1:36.34 split, the fastest in the field, to secure the win.

Thursday night, the Tribe took first and third in the 500-yard freestyle behind sophomore Carter Kale and freshman Ian Bidwell, with times of 4:24.73 and 4:26.70, respectively. Kale’s winning time was the fifth-fastest in program history. Freshman Ben Skopic finished second in the 200-yard individual medley, improving upon his own freshman record to finish in 1:47.02.

In the 50-yard freestyle, the College blew apart the field, taking the top four spots, led by Wright’s victory in 19.96. This was the fastest time in school history only behind Wright’s own performance from the prelims, where he swam a 19.62-second race. Freshman Jack Doherty, Kealy and Eiden finished second through fourth, respectively. These same top four teamed up to coast to a school, conference and championship record, winning the 200-yard freestyle relay in 1:19.03.

Friday, the Tribe qualified two for the NCAA championships as freshman Chris Balbo (3:49.46) and Skopic (3:50.90) finished first and second, respectively, in the 400-yard individual medley, posting the second and third fastest times in College history. Baker finished third in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 48.51 to secure another medal for the Tribe.

Eiden, the hero of the 800-yard free relay, once again proved himself in the meet, dropping a 1:38.28 to repeat as champion in the 200-yard freestyle, posting the 12th-fastest time in school history. In the 100-yard breaststroke, senior Josh Zimmt also looked to repeat, but he fell just short with a second-place finish in 55.48.

Henderson finished third in the 100-yard backstroke with the fourth-fastest time in school history at 48.87. In the 400-yard medley relay, Henderson, Zimmt, Baker and Eiden took third in 3:15.67, largely due to a freestyle leg from Eiden that was 0.6 seconds faster than anyone else in the field at 43.1.

Kale crowned himself king of the distance, following up on his 500 free win with a dominating performance in the 1650-yard freestyle, taking gold in a school record and NCAA-qualifying time of 15:20.04. Balbo also qualified for the NCAA championships with a second-place finish in 15:26.59.

In the 200-yard backstroke, Henderson took the bronze in 1:46.80. In the 100-yard freestyle, the Tribe men swept once again, with Wright, Eiden and junior Kyle Neri going 1-2-3. Wright set a new school record at 43.77 and qualified for the NCAA championships. Zimmt and Skopic took silver and bronze, respectively, in the 200yard breaststroke. Kealy and senior Sean Higgins followed suit, taking second and third in the 200-yard butterfly.

Wright, Henderson, Neri and Eiden teamed to take home 400-yard freestyle relay gold in the final event of the meet, finishing in 2:57.55, the third-fastest time in school history. Eiden again came through in the clutch, diving into the water tied with Drexel and leaving with a relay win for the Tribe.

The men finished the meet with 953.5 points, over 200 more than Drexel, who finished second. Head coach Matt Crispino ’02 and his staff were honored as men’s coach of the year for the fourth-straight season.

The women did not start as strong as the men but came on late to win their second-straight CAA title.

Wednesday, the Tribe took third in the 200-yard medley relay with the third-fastest swim in school history, as the team of senior Sophie Rittenhouse, juniors Jess Crowley and Abby Mack and sophomore Annie Miller finished in 1:40.67. In the 800-yard freestyle relay, senior Selina Fuller, sophomore Maria Oceguera, sophomore Morgan Smith and senior Jamie Miller finished second in 7:18.61 behind a 1:48.37 final split from Miller.

Thursday, Oceguera and Smith went 2-3 in the 500-yard freestyle with times of 4:52.14 and 4:54.89, respectively. The former was the eighth-best clocking in program history. Jaimie and Annie Miller, sisters hailing from Houston, Texas, made their mark in a big way in the 50-yard freestyle. Jaimie repeated as conference champion, dropping a 22.35 to record the second-fastest time ever for the Tribe. Annie brought home the silver with a time of 22.93. Next, the Miller sisters teamed with freshman Emma Herold and sophomore Katie Sell to win the 200-yard freestyle relay in dominating fashion, finishing in 1:30.95, setting a new school record.

In the 100-yard butterfly, Mack won silver in 54.18, qualifying for the NCAA Championships en route to the fifth-fastest time for the Tribe ever. In the 200-yard freestyle, Jaimie Miller continued her impressive performance, closing strong in the latter half of the race to win in 1:48.87, the third-fastest clocking in school history. Rittenhouse again delivered a strong performance in the 100-yard backstroke, finishing third in 54.14 with the third-fastest time in program history. The team of Rittenhouse, Crowley, Mack and Jaimie Miller finished third in the 400-yard medley relay with a time of 3:41.22, yet again the third-best for the College.

Saturday, Smith and Oceguera again finished 2-3, this time switching the order as they swam 16:46.07 and 16:50.53, respectively. The former was the fourth-fastest time in school history. In the 200-yard backstroke, Rittenhouse set a new school record with a clocking of 1:56.16 to finish second. In the 100-yard freestyle, Jaimie Miller once again took gold, winning in 49.21 to become just the second in conference history to win the 50-, 100- and 200-yard freestyle events.

With the 200-yard breaststroke, the Tribe finally pulled ahead of James Madison and took the lead they would not relinquish. Sophomore Claire Williams took silver in 2:15.64 with a new school record, and senior Allie Christy finished third in 2:16.91.

Mack won the 200-yard butterfly in 2:00.82 as Oceguera finished third in 2:01.86. Senior Georgie Crompton, sophomore Katie Sell and the Miller sisters won the 400-yard freestyle relay with the second-best clocking in school history at 3:21.22.

Overall, the women turned a 70-point deficit into nearly a 50-point win Saturday in order to defend the CAA title. Jaimie Miller finished with five gold medals to win the Swimmer of the Meet award. She has 11 career CAA golds, the second-most in school history.

The Tribe will send swimmers who qualified to the NCAA Championships March 15 in Indianapolis, Ind.