The Flat Hat April 11, 2017

Vol. 107, Iss. 10 | Tuesday, April 11, 2017

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College of William and Mary President Taylor Reveley announced Friday, April 7, that he would retire after a decade in office June 30, 2018 at a ceremony in the Great Hall of the Christopher Wren Building.

An end to Reveley’s decade Reveley announces plans to retire June 30, 2018 SARAH SMITH // FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR April 7, 2017, College of William and Mary President Taylor Reveley announced that he would retire after a decade of serving as the College’s president. At an event attended by members of the Board of Visitors and the College’s Vice Presidents, he set his retirement date for June 30, 2018.

According to Reveley, this decision was made based on one factor — his age. Next June, he will be 75 and a half.

“I want to enjoy a few years of retirement,” Reveley said. “It’s time. There is still a lot I’d like to do here, but I don’t want to quit when I’m 80.”

Summarizing Reveley’s accomplishments as president, Rector Todd Stottlemyer ’85 said that Reveley’s initiative, For the Bold, the College’s billiondollar fundraising campaign, is one of the most notable.

“Every aspect of the university has advanced under Taylor’s leadership,” Stottlemyer said in a press statement. “Today our finances are stronger thanks to the William & Mary Promise, our curriculum more versatile, our facilities ready to carry us into the 21st century and our community increasingly diverse and united in a shared pride in William & Mary.

From behind-the-scenes organizational changes to major public initiatives, Taylor has proven to be an outstanding leader, the ideal person for this chapter of

William & Mary’s history.”

This fundraising capability is what Student Assembly Vice President Hannah McKiernan ’17 said would be most missed when Reveley retires.

“I think something we’re really going to miss about President Reveley is his immense leadership and his presence on campus. He has a really great presence and personality,” McKiernan said. “What William and Mary as an institution is going to miss the most is his ability to reach out to people he doesn’t know and get them to give to what they’re passionate about.

He is amazing at fundraising. He is passionate about helping students and student scholarships, and I think we’re going to miss that a lot.”

In the Sir Christopher Wren Building’s Great Hall, Stottlemyer noted Reveley’s accomplishments, which beyond fundraising, include expansions to the campus such as the Integrated Science Center, One Tribe Place, Richmond Hall and the College’s School of Education.

Stottlemyer also mentioned two personality flaws — Reveley’s penchant for not drinking enough water and his love for his own alma mater, Princeton University.

However, Reveley said that he will now be a member of the Tribe forever.

When Reveley stepped into the Brafferton as the College’s president in February 2008, he was leaving a decade-long career as the dean at the Marshall-Wythe

School of Law at the College. He was named interim president when the College’s 26th president, Gene Nichol, resigned after his decision to move the altar cross from the Wren Chapel, which angered some donors and state legislators. In the months between February and September, when he was formally named the 27th president, he said that it was his ability to build connections that helped restore faith in the College.

“I built connections with alumni and students,” Reveley said. “The William and Mary community came back quickly; there was a real resilience in the community. It was also, in a way, getting us out of the media. It was a very difficult time.”

Now, Reveley said it is “extraordinarily wonderful” that students and alumni have chosen him as the subject of memes and other attention.

“It is extraordinarily wonderful for me,” Reveley said. “There are quite exceptional people here who are also quite nice, which is not always the case with very able people. I think that trait is also shared with students at the law school.”

After nearly 10 years in office, Reveley said that he has accomplished more than he expected to coming in,

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Levine, Yackow launch 325th session of SA following inauguration Starting Tuesday, April 11, newly elected senators will take office, begin to pass legislation SARAH SMITH FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR

April 10, Elijah Levine ’18 and his vice president, former Sen. Annelise Yackow ’18, were officially sworn in to the 325th session of the College of William and Mary’s Student Assembly. Speakers at the event included former SA President Eboni Brown ’17 and College President Taylor Reveley, as well as Levine himself.

Students who were elected or re-elected to SA as senators or class presidents were also invited to attend, and were sworn in at the end of the ceremony. A representative from the College’s Elections Commission will perform a smaller inauguration ceremony Tuesday, April 11 before the weekly senate meeting for those who were not in attendance.

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Monday’s ceremony marked the end of Brown and former SA Vice President Hannah McKiernan ’17’s year in office.

Over the last year, the two worked with their cabinet to expand off-campus housing resources, promote awareness of sexual assault and mental health resources and allocate funding for the Rae Sremmurd concert Sunday, April 9.

Reveley, who opened the ceremony, said that it took a lot to be a good leader, and that he was appreciative of Brown and McKiernan’s leadership. He also said that he was confident Levine would be a great leader over the next year.

Brown said that her year in office was unexpected, as was her ability to attend the College, after coming from the small town of Hopewell, Va. This is a theme Brown has carried with her since her own inauguration

ceremony last April.

“It was always a blessing to be able to serve the community and it has meant so much to me,” Brown said. “I never did this for the title and I never did it for a resume boost.

I know that I did the work for all of you. I should have never had this opportunity. …

Knowing I had the opportunity to serve you all, it made this all the more worthwhile.”

For Levine and Yackow, the 325th session officially starts April 11. This means that newly inaugurated senators will begin drafting legislation during this week’s senate meeting. Senators who are representing the class of 2017 will remain serving in the senate until the end of the spring semester, representing the class of 2021. In the fall, once they are on campus, the class of 2021 will vote to elect four senators and a class president.

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Upon being sworn in, Levine said that Brown was largely responsible for introducing Yackow to him. He also thanked her for being an inspiration to him.

“To you, Eboni, since literally day one that I walked on this campus, and especially so in these last few weeks, you have guided and inspired me,” Levine said. “Bringing Annelise and me together enriched my life in more ways than you could ever know.”

Levine also dedicated time in his speech to thanking Yackow for trusting him and choosing to campaign with him, even though he did not have any prior experience in SA. He also thanked Sen. Noah Ferris ’20, his campaign manager. Although Ferris was re-elected by the class of 2020, he plans to resign at the start of this new session. Levine said that he believed Ferris would leave a great footprint on the College.

Wednesday, April 5, members of multiple Greek life organizations gathered to grapple with a complex question surrounding race and racism — the use of the “n-word.”

The event, hosted by the organization Greeks for Respect, Inclusion, and Diversity, sought to increase students’ understanding of the historical and social context of the n-word, what its usage implies and how these discussions fit into the Greek community. The event attracted individuals from a range of Greek organizations, races, ethnicities and identities, although more attendees were sorority members than fraternity members.

Alex Winkowski ’17, a cofounder of GRID and member of the fraternity Sigma Phi Epsilon, said that this event was coordinated to discuss the history of the n-word and the consequences of its use.

“I think a lot of people have a weird feeling about, ‘Can I use this word, can I not use this word’ — I think there’s a lot of discussion over the past couple of years especially in terms of who can say it, who can’t say it,” Winkowski said. “And I think the whole reason why we wanted to have this kind of conversation was to come out and say … nobody’s saying that you can’t use a word, but what we’re trying to talk about and understand is that there are consequences for the words that you use, and in this case, this word has a very ingrained history in America and its use in slavery, and we’re trying to kind of heighten awareness about that, and you need to take the historical and social context of the word when you’re using it.”

The event came in the wake of recent discussions by students surrounding the posting of a public Spotify playlist that had the n-word in its title, created by a white student in a Panhellenic sorority on campus. However, Winkowski said that this conversation was one that needed to be had regardless of specific instances that brought it to light.

“While there are events on campus that do spark conversation about it, I think we really are trying to not be so reactionary in the way that we’re doing our peer education.

We’re trying to be more proactive,” Winkowski said.

“While certain campus events might bring certain issues to light, I think that this has been an issue for a while, and I think there’s a lot of people in the room who can speak to events that we heard today — at parties, people hear the word

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THE BUZZ This created a need to be more responsive, more quickly, when it comes to mental illness,

sexual harassment, race relations, sustainability and disability. That’s not going to change.

— College President Taylor Reveley when speaking about social media

Now it’s easier than ever to stay upto-date on all on-campus news.

Shannon Caietti ’17 talks government studies, on-campus involvement.

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To her friends, Shannon Caietti ’17 is “ShanBot”: part injury-prone human, part robot. Caietti, who at the moment makes her way around campus aided by a pair of crutches, laughed to herself as she described her latest malady.

“I literally tripped on a brick,” Caietti said.

“So I’ve got the most William and Mary injury in the world.”

When Caietti left the sunshine and sand of her hometown of San Diego for the loose brick paths of Williamsburg to study at the College of William and Mary, it was a passion for government that guided her.

Caietti credits her parents — especially her mother, a juvenile delinquency judge in San Diego — with sparking her interest in studying law.

“She’s just an amazing woman and I look up to her in so many ways,” Caietti said.

While still in high school, Caietti had the chance to see the legal process up close by shadowing judges and working in the Sex Crimes and Human Trafficking Division of the San Diego District Attorney office.

“I want to help people,” Caietti said.

Caietti said that while she once aspired to someday run for office, after realizing how much time elected officials spend in fundraising efforts, she redirected her career aspirations towards where she could do the most meaningful work.

“After finding that out I was like, ‘I can’t do that’,” Caietti said. “The system needs to change before I would want to dive into it. But maybe I do need to dive into it to change it, but that’s a whole other thing. But taking classes in college I’ve realized I really think I want to do criminal defense work and do public defending. That would be the dream, and that’s what attracts me to government.”

Caietti said she has enjoyed taking classes across departments at the College, where she is also minoring in psychology, and said some of her favorite classes have been in the Judaic studies department. However, Caietti said that it is with the government department, and with one professor in particular, that she has grown the most.

“My most meaningful academic experience easily has to be with Jackson Sasser in the government department,” Caietti said.

Caietti is now in her third class with professor Sasser at the College — she took his Civil Rights and Civil Liberties class, then American Legal Process and is currently in his Death is Different senior seminar. According to Caietti, Sasser acts as a pseudo-parent to her.

“That’s not only special to have when my family’s pretty far away, but also to have in a faculty member,” Caietti said. “Someone who sees maybe more in you than you do in yourself.

That’s been a huge really personally rewarding but also academically rewarding experience.”

But it is her involvements outside the classroom — particularly as a tour guide, as an Orientation Aide and as a member of the Undergraduate Honor Council — that Caietti credits with having brought her the most personal growth and fulfillment.

“They have to do with not only creating community for students but also upholding community values,” Caietti said.

Coming from a high school where she said cheating was pretty much the norm, Caietti said she found the community values embodied by the College’s honor code to be especially meaningful.

“We have a really unique and wonderful system and it’s great that we have students who run it,” Caietti said. “I’ve been on it for three years and I’ve seen the different tone in leadership my first term, my second term and then the third

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term when I was on our exec board. I’ve really tried to make an effort this past term to really enforce kind of a rehabilitative approach and educational approach to sanctioning when we do get cases of students who choose to violate the Honor Code.”

Bound by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, members of the Honor Council are not allowed to discuss cases openly, but Caietti said she has found her work with the council to be especially rewarding for that same reason.

“I get to make a difference but I don’t necessarily get the chance to talk about it,” Caietti said.

Yet, Caietti said that cases involving peers can be emotionally draining, especially when they involve suspensions or expulsions.

“I know I’ve left those cases before and questioned, ‘Why am I the one making the decision?’” Caietti said. “Who am I to be making this decision? I’ve made mistakes in my life too.’ But then you have to remind yourself of the value of a peer-to-peer system and that you were elected to do a job, but it doesn’t make it any easier. That’s why we try to create a family within the council and I’ve met some of my closest friends through the organization.”

Caietti’s work as an admissions tour guide and as an Orientation Aide have also shaped her college experience through the communities she has helped build in those roles. This past year, Caietti served as Orientation Area Director for Brown Hall and Monroe Hall. She first became an OA her sophomore year, and said she found that experience to be formative, especially given the opportunity to be a role model and leader for new female students.

“Feminism has been a huge part of my life and I think where I found I can best serve a role is by trying to break down and educate fellow women that it is usually women that are perpetuating sexism as well, in terms of ‘Women are hardest on their fellow women,’” Caietti said. “And so being in a role in which I could welcome a hall of wonderful girls and women to William and Mary, and be able to empower them to make William and Mary their own community, and show them that I’m here to celebrate them and not criticize them or be petty and all of that jazz was really awesome. I loved being in that role.”

As a tour guide, Caietti has had her fair share of memorable interactions. For instance, Caietti recalls having to deal with an especially zealous dad trying a little bit too hard to be cool by grilling her on campus nightlife, and one time she said she accidentally spit sweat on someone while giving a tour during the sweltering Williamsburg summer.

Her freshman year, encouraged in part by

her own OAs, Caietti also joined a social sorority, Kappa Delta. However, she said that being a part of Greek life has not been an exclusively positive experience.

“I got involved in Greek life because I went to an all-girls school and so what I really enjoyed was the fact that I think people have a lot of preconceived notions about what an all-girls school entails and they think everyone’s catty and b—chy when it’s the exact opposite,” Caietti said.

When she first joined Kappa Delta, she said she liked that its focus was on empowering women — she missed having a supportive community of women from her time at an allgirls school.

“That’s something that’s been pretty integral to my whole upbringing and experience from my mom to my high school to everything in between,” Caietti said.

However, she said that she has at times felt that the Greek community can be problematic in that it does not do enough to prevent issues like sexual assault and perpetuates sexist traditions like homecoming courting. While Caietti contemplated deactivating, she decided to stay in Kappa Delta because of the close community she had fostered there, but at the same time tried to stimulate conversations within the Greek community about these issues as much as possible.

“What I have tried to do is, again, educate other women about what they’re doing to other women, within the Greek system, within my own chapter, with individual interactions and kind of leading by example, in a way, of how I treat other people, not only in Greek life but with women in general and also having conversations with fraternity men,” Caietti said.

Once Caietti makes her cap-and-gown walk across campus to collect her diploma in May — hopefully without the crutches — she hopes to take a couple years off before eventually pursuing a career in public service.

“I don’t want to lose sight of what I want to do, and once I start making money it’s going to be easy to want to get comfortable,” Caietti said. “But I really do want to go to law school and be a public defender.”

To get away from the intensity of campus, Caietti said she likes to go to what she describes as one of her favorite spots in Williamsburg.

Just past Henry Street there is a bench where, on a nice day, she likes to lie by the sheep, look up at the sky and think.

“I’ve had my worst moments and my best moments at William and Mary,” Caietti said.

“And I really appreciate that, because it has made me who I am today.”

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Shannon Caietti ’17 is a tour guide, an orientation aide, a member of Kappa Delta and a government major.

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Nationwide sports scandals reveal problems for athletes Professor discusses recent sports scandal novel, athletics employees talk challenges for athletes NOAH PETERSEN FLAT HAT ASSOC. NEWS EDITOR

While fans of the University of North Carolina’s men’s basketball team celebrated redemption after winning the championship this year, College of William and Mary Professor Jamel Donnor remembered something else: scandal.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is currently investigating UNC for allegations of academic fraud in its major sports programs.

Donnor co-edited the book “Scandals in College Sports: Legal, Ethical, and Policy Case Studies,” with Professor Sean Harper from the University of Southern California. The book was released this February. It highlights 21 different college sports scandals, analyzing the relationship between higher education and athletics.

Donnor said that he originally discussed the project with his co-editor while working on a master’s degree at Ohio State University around the time of the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal at Pennsylvania State University.

Part of Donnor’s inspiration for the book came from his personal experience working at different universities. While at the University of WisconsinMadison, he worked as an academic mentor to the football and men’s basketball teams.

“I kind of saw up close and personal the ways in which athletes — particularly AfricanAmerican athletes — were steered towards certain majors, were academically tracked, and how

their experience in a day-to-day type sense was completely different to their white counterparts,” Donnor said.

Later, as a professor at the California State University at Fullerton, he had more than one interaction with sports faculty regarding athlete academic performance.

“If a student was on the margins, you know, I could expect to have a coach waiting outside my office to have a conversation about that particular student,” Donnor said. “It wasn’t necessarily a conversation of, you know, look the other way, but, you know, it was [a], you know, this won’t happen again, we’ll deal with it type of situation.”

Donnor thinks that the nation-wide culture of collegiate athletics creates conflicts with student athletes and their academic lives, especially when racial stereotypes are involved.

“Black athletes in particular have a more distinct existence on campus than say your ‘traditional students,’” Donnor said. “White students and white faculty members might just view them as resources for more deserving students or they’re only just here to fill a sports quota — only here to play sports — or they’re only here because of affirmative action, which in most instances is not the case.”

Possibly the biggest scandal of all, in Donnor’s eyes, is that student athletes often do not enjoy the full benefits of their college careers because they feel pressured into certain majors, and they have

to sacrifice time to practice.

“It’s a year-round sport, it’s no longer a seasonal sport, and they’re constantly being evaluated,” Donnor said. “Students and their families get the message early on that it’s really more about athletics than it is about academics.

Senior Assistant Athletics Director for Public Affairs Pete Clawson believes that if the ethics of college sports is a nation-wide issue, the College is an exception to the rule.

“I’ve been here 22 years and I can’t say that I’ve handled anything that I would call a scandal,” Clawson said. “We have a slogan that we do athletics the right way. A lot of people probably hear that as lip service, but it’s something that I truly believe.”

Clawson said that he thinks that the College’s positive athletic record is not just a product of its size, but also a product of its culture.

“I don’t know that we have any sort of magic formula, but I just think it’s that there’s a culture of compliance, and anything that’s going to stick out is going to really stick out here because we’re so used to people doing things the right way,” Clawson said.

The College’s most notable sports scandal occurred in 1951, when multiple sports faculty members resigned after accusations that the football program manipulated students’ academic records.

In more recent history, the College has not experienced a sports scandal similar to this.

Zach Burdick ’20 is a wide receiver for the varsity football team and plans to apply to the business

school to earn a degree in accounting.

He said that athletics require him to keep a rigid schedule, but that he has developed stronger selfdiscipline through the experience.

“You don’t really get as much of a social life,” Burdick said. “Your schedule is pretty tight, and you just have to go from one thing to another, and in order to keep up with academics you can’t slack off.”

Even as an athlete, academics are Burdick’s top priority.

“As far as football, I came here to play, but I also came here to receive a great education, and I know that that is the most important thing because you can’t play football if you’re not eligible,” Burdick said. “Your academics honestly have to come first, and all of us on the team understand that.”

During his time at the College, Burdick said he has not experienced any bias from professors or heard his teammates discuss issues with faculty.

Burdick remembers that the athletic department helped him understand the time constraints of collegiate athletics before he committed to the College. He thinks that his entire team realizes the costs and benefits of their athletic lives.

“They kind of give you an idea of what your schedule is going to be like and how things will work around with time,” Burdick said. “We don’t expect to have everything, you know. We know it comes with sacrifices, so that’s the price you pay.”

Conference discusses Middle East, youth impact for building peace Reves Center hosted conference, remembered founding director, talked politics

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The Reves Center for International Studies hosted a conference April 7 focusing on past, current and future issues in the Middle East. The conference was hosted in memory of James A. Bill, the founding director of the Reves Center.

The College of William and Mary Provost Michael Halleran remembered Bill as a renowned scholar on Iran and the Middle East and as a highly acclaimed professor.

“The considerable success of our Reves Center can be traced to the vision, energy and accomplishments of its founder,” Halleran said. “A distinguished scholar of the Middle East, particularly on Iran, he was also a marvelous teacher, described by one of his students as the best ever … For more than a decade Bill molded the Reves Center into one of the country’s leading undergraduate international studies programs.”

The conference brought together scholars and friends of Bill who had worked with or been inspired by his work on Iran.

Speakers discussed the history of Iranian politics and conflict, but also provided analysis for the future of the area and its relationship with the United States.

A recurring idea discussed throughout the conference was that youth in both the Middle East and the United States may play a key role in reshaping a relationship between a western hegemon and conflict-ridden states.

Executive Washington Editor and Chief Commentator for The Wall Street Journal Gerald Seib, who was the keynote speaker at the conference, said youth in both areas may be crucial for building a more peaceful relationship.

“The best hope for a new start is in fact generational changes,” Seib said. “Those different realties can only be seen when both countries are run by a new generation of leaders. Younger tech-

savvy Americans and Iranians who can’t understand why two great and learned societies fell so far out of favor with each other and don’t see religion as a barrier but as simply another fact of life.”

Georgetown University Islamic history professor Tamara Sonn began the conference by presenting a history of Iran and its cultural and political changes. One of the changes she noted in the 1990s was the youth bulge.

“The 1990s — the era of relative tranquility in Iran and also one of significant change in Iran’s demographics — the youth bulge and all of that,” Sonn said. “The young people had no memory of life under the tyranny of the Shah and they were increasingly connected electronically to their local peers and they chafed under the rigid social restrictions of the elder clergy. They wanted a more open and globally integrated Iran and found their hero in Mohammad Khatami.”

Sonn said the youth in Iran were not only fighting restrictions based on religion, social class and gender, but they were also changing the political climate of the region by electing Khatami, who gave rise to the Tehran Spring and the Iranian Reformist Movement.

Harrison University international affairs professor Mehdi Noorbaksh said that younger generations are also advocating for free trade and more open, global economies.

“One of the debates between the reformers and younger generations and the curatic authoritarian side of the government is exactly this point,” Noorbaksh said. “We want to open the country to the outside world, we want to expose ourselves to the world culture.”

While many of the speakers discussed the positive role they expect current youth to play in the future, Director of the Pakistan Center at the Middle East Institute Marvin Weinbaum

said he thinks the youth are overestimated.

“You know, I’d like to believe as you do that youth are the great hope here,” Weinbaum said. “I am somewhat skeptical.

First of all, I think what’s very clear is young people’s ability to compartmentalize. They can leave portions of their lives in a fashion which would be no different than young people here and yet hold views which are politically and even socially very different than what you would have thought.”

Weinbaum said that previous generations had the same expectations of change placed upon them and they were unable to provide the peaceful globalization process people had hoped.

He said the process of globalizing not only economies, but also education, has led to backwards progression and movements like the Arab Spring.

He said that the Arab Spring was expected to increase political participation and foster democracy in the Middle East and parts of Africa; however, it was unsuccessful due to revolutions in Egypt and civil wars in Syria and Libya and led to a power struggle that spanned a large portion of the Middle East.

Nevertheless, Seib said that older generations are constrained by doubts about their ability to produce a global economy.

He said that younger generations provide a fresh set of eyes from which to view global events and are not held back by past altercations.

“That’s the problem,” Seib said. “The opportunity is fresh eyes and I think particularly in this relationship between Tehran and Washington, fresh eyes have to be better than tired, old eyes, right? It just seems there are possibilities that entrenched older people in this relationship can’t really seem to see or realize.”

College President Taylor Reveley announces retirement, speaks about accomplishments Revely describes future plans for College, previous accomplishments, emphasizes he will not be a lame duck in his last year as President.

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in, in that he has truly helped the College make strides in becoming excellent in all ways. While he cites his ability to communicate well with donors and students as part of his success, he said that he is most proud of his work that brought the College into modern times.

“I do genuinely feel like I’ve helped this magnificent and iconic institution do what it needs to do to move forward,” Reveley said. “There’s also more pride among students now than when I started. I think there has always been a love and respect for William and Mary, but sometimes that love and respect has been quiet. This job would be hard to do if you didn’t think it mattered.”

For Reveley, one of the challenges that accompanied this journey of modernizing the College came from social media. He said that students’ use of the internet and social media has called him and other administrators to be more immediately responsive.

“Social media brings to campus an immediacy and a force,” Reveley said. “When things happen elsewhere, it feels almost as if they had happened on campus. This created a need to be more responsive, more quickly, when it comes to mental illness, sexual harassment, race relations, sustainability and disability. That’s not going to change.”

Reveley said that he believes he has learned how to balance this well.

While he has 14 months left until his retirement begins, Reveley said that there is still much that he hopes to accomplish. Mainly, he said he wishes to continue pushing current initiatives forward to ensure that the transition of the 28th president is

“seamless.”

While he has joked about running for public office, Reveley said that most likely won’t be on his agenda. However, he said that after he spends a couple of weeks taking time to read newspapers and books, he’d like to sort through his papers and potentially continue studying war powers — his academic interest.

Another task that Reveley said he’d like to work on during his retirement is figuring out how to archive his personal and academic papers.

He said he is considering sorting through them and donating all of them to the Earl Gregg Swem Library’s Special Collections department. Other campus leaders and former presidents have done this. Reveley said he is also considering donating these papers to a Virginia historical archive.

“I loved being president most days, but I think I’ll also love being retired, and I’ll figure out what it is that I would like to do,” Reveley said.

For Reveley, he said one of the more negative things about searching as president is that he has not truly had time to relax. He said that when he goes on his annual two-week-long beach vacation, he begins to get stressed at the end of the second week because he was worried about the work he was missing and checking his emails.

He said that once he is retired, he will be able to actually relax and enjoy these two weeks at the beach with his wife.

Looking forward, the Board of Visitors plan to announce appointments to a presidential search committee next week to select the 28th president of the College.

Once the BOV appoints people to this committee, Stottlemyer will announce it. Then, the College will launch a search website with a feedback form to

find potential candidates and will host open forums for students, faculty and staff. The purpose of these forums is to find out what campus community members would want from the College’s next president.

In the summer of 2017, the search committee will begin to host meetings with the campus and other leadership officials to gather input.

They will then select a search firm and develop a leadership profile. Next, ending the summer, the committee will conduct interviews with the College’s constituents about possible candidates.

Starting in the fall of 2017, Reveley’s last academic year in office, the search committee will identify potential candidates and conduct initial screenings of these candidates. Once the candidates have been screened, the search

committee will interview them and recommend finalists to be considered again by the BOV. In the winter of 2018, finishing Reveley’s last year in office, the BOV will consider the search committee’s recommended finalists and then select the College’s 28th president. Once the next president has been selected, the BOV will work to introduce them to the campus community and alumni. Next, once Reveley has his last day of work June 30, 2018, the BOV and the search committee will develop a leadership transition plan for July 2018, to help the new president.

Reveley also said that he plans on making the transition as easy as possible for the next president, and will focus much of his work in the next 14 months on furthering initiatives and making progress.

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College President Taylor Reveley announced his plans to retire as president in June 2018, gives speech about accomplishments.

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PIPS presentations strive to encourage change Students, professors discuss, present research for undergraduate think tank NOAH PETERSEN FLAT HAT ASSOC. NEWS EDITOR

Friday, April 4, six students, three professors and a full audience gathered in Washington Hall to discuss American foreign policy issues.

The students presented their research and policy recommendations with the Project on International Peace and Security, an undergraduate think tank focused on engaging students in real-world experience in the field of international relations.

Each of the six research fellows is paired with another student intern and a U.S. military fellow to draft a policy white paper over two semesters. Next, the students will present their research April 12 at both the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Carnegie Endowment in Washington, D.C. Government professors Dennis Smith and Amy

Oakes founded the program in 2008. Following their presentations, the students answered questions from government professor Maurits van der Veen and then the general audience.

Max Sterling ’18 is an international relations major and a member of the Reserve Officer Training Corps. His research focuses on what he calls the “cyber collective,” a virtual organizational structure that terrorist groups can use to coordinate their operations.

He has worked with PIPS for four semesters and is the only member of this year’s team who has served in all three student positions. He said that he values the “sense of purpose” the program gives him, and he plans to eventually publish his paper.

Layla Abi-Falah ’17 is also majoring in international relations and presented on how post-war societies can reintegrate rape survivors during reconstruction.

She said she chose her topic in part because sexual assault is a relevant issue on college campuses, and she believes that PIPS will prepare her for a professional career.

Haley Larson ’18 is a government major and Arabic minor. She proposed in her project that U.S. nongovernmental organizations could help encourage democratic change in Morocco through a youthtargeted cartoon series focused on civic education.

Even though the discussions would become intense, Larson said she thinks that the experience helped her to adopt a more professional mindset.

“Nothing is personal,” Larson said. “You have to consider everything, and the more people criticize your project, the stronger you will be when it comes time to present, and you’ll be better prepared to answer those questions.”

Smith said he also struggled to find the balance

between criticism and encouragement, but he thinks that being candid is a compliment.

“It’s not out of malice,” Smith said. “It’s really an act of friendship. We treat you like a colleague. Colleagues help each other out. It’s better for me to tell you the truth so you can improve than for me to sugar coat it so you can achieve your goal.”

He said that he will remember the students this year for their companionship and productive collaboration.

“This group, almost from the very beginning, just kind of came together and were really rooting for each other and pushing each other to exceed their abilities, and it was fantastic to watch,” Smith said.

Smith also said that he hopes students across campus will pursue their goals, despite age or graduating year.

STUDENT LIFE

App attempts to make reporting sexual assault easier Customized for College, international app guides students with reporting options EMILY MARTELL FLAT HAT COPY EDITOR

Reach Out Editions, a free and anonymous smartphone resource guide launched by Capptivation in July 2016, seeks to streamline the process for accessing information, finding medical care and exploring reporting options following sexual misconduct.

Built by a team comprised of four childhood friends and a programmer in Barbados, Reach Out Editions includes a customized website for each of the United States’ roughly 2,600 two and four-year colleges and universities.

None of the original four founders have degrees in computer science or fields relating to sexual misconduct.

With an eclectic set of undergraduate degrees in political science, economics,

pre-med, psychology and sports science, the four only became interested in sexual misconduct and Title IX regulations after graduation, following the notorious 2014 Rolling Stone article which claimed to describe a group sexual assault at the University of Virginia.

Driven by a desire to find something productive to do with their lives and a curiosity in the subject, initial discussions at the kitchen table of Jack Zandi, one of the four founders, paved way to a comprehensive process of researching campus sexual misconduct.

Upon scrubbing the websites of colleges and universities, Zandi said it proved difficult to find campus resources for sexual misconduct.

According to Zandi, this information problem is not specific to a subset of

colleges.

Zandi said that the app aims to decrease the burden of victims, friends of victims and family members of victims in getting help and reporting the sexual misconduct by providing a one-stop location for campus resources.

One feature of Reach Out Editions is anonymity. Zandi said that while in the planning stages of the app, one refrain he heard from colleges was the importance of safeguarding students from being tracked.

Brendan McDonald ’18, a member of 16(IX)3, a student advocacy group for upholding Title IX at the College of William and Mary, was not previously aware of Reach Out Editions but downloaded the app to test it out. Overall, he said the app was “pretty good.”

McDonald said that the red and green

icons which indicate whether each service is open or closed are particularly useful, although it took some time for him to figure out what the icons meant.

The College does currently have an app; however, the Sexual Violence Resources icon links directly to the College’s website, made accessible for smartphone browsers.

McDonald said that he preferred Reach Out Editions to the official app of the College for sexual misconduct information.

“I’d say use [Reach Out Editions],” McDonald said. “I don’t have the William and Mary app, because it just takes you to the website most of the time. This app definitely gives you more streamlined information.”

Health Outreach Peer Educators Vice President of Healthy Relationships and

Sexual Aggression Astraea Howard ’18 said Reach Out Editions was new to her, but voiced approval for the app upon reading up on it.

The app includes an online console which allows administrators of schools which have partnered with Capptivation to customize the app for their schools, from altering information to changing the way the buttons look on the screen.

129 colleges and universities are currently partnered with Capptivation.

The College is not one of them. However, the College’s information is still accessible through the app.

Moving forward, Zandi said Reach Out Editions is expanding internationally, on the collegiate level and within the United States to the approximately 27,000 high school and middle school districts.

GRID talks Greek life, n-word

Presentation aims to educate audience

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a lot. So I think while there are certain events that bring the issue to light, I think … this has been an issue for a while.”

The presentation, led by Nia Gibson ’17, a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority, and Meronne Teklu ’17, a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, was interspersed with multiple short YouTube videos presenting information about the topics of interest and sparking discussion among the attendees about the information they were learning.

After viewing each video, the audience broke off into smaller discussion groups, each led by a GRID member.

The presentation began with a broader focus on race and racism in general.

Gibson and Teklu first screened a video that targeted misconceptions about race and racism that touched on, among other topics, race as a social construct and institutional racism.

“This talk is definitely about one word, but it’s also about all of racism,” Gibson said. “You can’t have that conversation without discussing all of racism.”

The focus then honed more specifically on the usage of the n-word. The next video shown, called “The N-word Double Standard” primarily sought to explain the historical and social context surrounding the use of the n-word.

This video brought up the concept of the n-word being used by some black individuals as potentially a mode of “reclaiming” the word as an act of “defiance,” given the history of slavery and oppression of African-Americans that surround the word’s usage.

Some students used this concept as jumpingoff point for discussions surrounding how the implications of the word’s usage fluctuate depending on who is saying the word.

The discussion shifted into a conversation about the usage of the n-word in music, leading some students to question the ethics of listening to this music and singing along.

Students discussed potential ways to react to a party situation in which music that includes the n-word is being blared over the speakers and the crowd of people in attendance begins to sing along.

The conversation focused on the implications of singing along to this music, saying nothing while those around you continue to sing, or trying to somehow intervene.

Finally, the presenters called for students to consider the experience of black people hearing

the n-word directed at them.

Gibson and Teklu screened a video that compiled anecdotes of black individuals who had dealt with situations involving the n-word.

“Recognize that racism is not always overt,” Gibson said. “If it’s in songs, if it’s other things — it always has a legacy, and it can be latent … think about what it’s like to be the black person at the party where that’s happening.”

Sophia Brodnax ’20, a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority who attended the event, found that the structure of the presentation with the videos and discussion breakouts was helpful.

“I think everybody felt really safe to talk about their feelings and their opinions throughout the presentation,” Brodnax said. “I’m really glad I came just to hear other perspectives, I guess, and learn from the videos because I definitely learned a lot that I didn’t think about before.”

Although the focus of this particular event was race and the n-word, GRID, which was formed in spring 2016, does not solely target issues surrounding race and Greek life.

The organization also targets other issues such as concerns about gender and how gender non-binary and queer individuals fit into the spaces of Greek organizations.

Winkowski described why the GRID initiative was formed, citing the importance of inclusivity and diverse perspectives among what can be perceived as a largely homogenous group of people in Greek communities, among other motivations.

“We kind of realized that Greek life has very specific kind of needs when it comes to talking about issues of respect, inclusion and diversity, so we decided to start an organization where we could kind of start a dialogue and create a space where respect, inclusion and diversity is a standard to which to uphold all of ourselves and Greek life accountable,” Winkowski said.

Gibson and Teklu concluded their presentation by emphasizing that the n-word continues to be an issue on campus and that understanding the context of the word is an important aspect of interpreting its usage. They said that people are still using it as a way to insult others. They said that because people continue to use this word, it is important for GRID to facilitate conversations with members of Greek life about the consequences of using the word.

“These things still happen today on this campus,” Teklu said. “There are still people yelling this word out their cars down Richmond Road trying to insult other people … so I think it’s really important to bring back the context.”

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STAFF COLUMN

Learning from the Sadler Center’s design mistakes

Emily Chaumont

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Colonial Williamsburg must stay fee-free

Alfred Ouyang

FLAT HAT ASSOCIATE EDITOR

education resource.

It is not going to help the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in the long run either. When an enterprise is facing financial crises, it can either improve its competitiveness by promoting business and improving overall product quality, or it can exploit consumers.

There are multiple ways for the Foundation to resolve its financial problem, and it simply chose the most irrational and unsustainable one. This is a vicious cycle that will only further turn people away from their interests, not only in Colonial Williamsburg, but at historic relics in general. It is to the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s advantage to think seriously about why it is making fewer profits instead of taking something away from consumers.

In a more realistic sense, restricting pedestrian access to the streets would directly influence us, students of the College. There are many shops in Colonial Williamsburg that provide student discounts, and we tend to eat out in Colonial Williamsburg when we get tired of the dining hall food.

By fencing off the main street at Colonial Williamsburg, it would be extremely stressful for businesses there to sustain their original promotions. Thus, they would have no choice but to increase the prices or, worst of all, even shut down their businesses.

Silence implies tacit consent.

The College maintains a strong working relationship with Colonial Williamsburg. The school is responsible for speaking up for the whole college community and encouraging the Foundation to think about alternative solutions instead of fencing off the whole DoG street, which is to neither side’s advantage.

I hope that what waits for students and visitors in the future is the harmonious, coexistent and unrestricted situation between the College and Colonial Williamsburg, instead of the lifeless and solid fences which separate people from attaining knowledge and pursuing equality.

Email Alfred Ouyang at souyang@email.wm.edu.

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I can still recall my first visit to the College of William and Mary; I was walking around confusion corner near Merchants Square on a sunny day. I was suddenly attracted by the beautiful, seamless connection between the College and Colonial Williamsburg: you can enter one of the most beautiful, historic towns simply by crossing the street from campus. As a history student, I could not express how excited I was to know that I would be able to study in such a vibrant learning community where I could walk out of my room and have unlimited access to a living museum. The recent news about fencing off Colonial Williamsburg and charging an entrance fee has truly disheartened me.

This idea of fencing off Duke of Gloucester Street achieves nothing but promoting elitism. We as college students will still enjoy free access to Colonial Williamsburg even after the street is fenced off. Take a second and think about the whole idea: students in this elite college who can afford the extremely high tuition will have the privilege of free entrance, whereas people who worry about their daily necessities will be charged. The situation seems ironic to me. We are now committed to fight for social equality, and the common solution to this problem, as we all believe, is education. Nonetheless, everything is pointless if we start charging for just walking in this great

The idea of fencing off Duke of Gloucester Street achieves nothing but promoting elitism.

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Shame on the The Flat Hat for using an image that reinforces the stereotype of the “angry black woman” — get your act together and start understanding how damaging this is for those who are working tirelessly to make this campus a better place for minorities.

— Melon Demarco on “BLM organizers march for change”

It’s that time of year again. Birds are chirping, flowers are blooming, the campus waits in anticipation for the arrival of the Crim Dell ducklings and tour groups are on the prowl. In many of these tour groups are alumni bringing their children to tour their alma mater. Needless to say, campus has changed a lot since they attended the College of William and Mary, but one of the most striking differences for many alums is the lack of lodges as they cross the terrace listening to the tour guides trying to pretend like Sadler food isn’t that bad. There was quite the uproar in The Flat Hat’s comments section and on the late Overheard at William and Mary Facebook page.

However, the destruction of the lodges gives tour guides another talking point — the College will build a new “Integrative Wellness Center,” which will house the Counseling Center, Health Center, Health Promotions and part of Campus Recreation under one roof.

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Any time parallels are drawn between your dining hall and the opposing sides of the Force, you might have a problem.

There is much to be said about this idea, but other people have said and will say all of that much better than I could. Instead, I would like to make a plea to whoever will be in charge of the architecture and interior design after the IWC is built: please do a good job.

The interior design of all of our campus’s buildings can best be described as eclectic. It’s not that any one building is completely abhorrent, but there is absolutely no consistency.

Morton and Jones were clearly modeled after the high school everyone is trying to forget. Blair looks like “Alice in Wonderland” meets the Ministry of Magic. Tucker looks like someone made two very nice buildings and then stitched them together using a baffling amphitheater. The newly unveiled Tyler looks like a cross between an airport and a Hyatt Place. The poor Campus Center is a mashup of an inner city middle school and your aunt from out of town’s church basement that you visited that one time.

No one can agree on which door to Blow is the front. The forest is constantly trying to take Botetourt back. The business school seems like its mission is to make you feel woefully underdressed no matter how dressed up you are. What is even the point of Tazewell? And I won’t even begin to get into the indie horror movie set that is One Tribe Place.

Putting aside the lack of consistency between buildings on campus, there is still a lack of consistency within individual buildings. Take Sadler Center for example.

Any time parallels are drawn between your dining hall and the opposing sides of the Force, you might have a problem. The York and James rooms look like standard conference center rooms, aside from the promotional photos printed onto excessively blocky canvasses hanging on the walls. Chesapeake has kind of a ski lodge dance hall feel that hearkens back to the opening scenes of “High School Musical.”

Tidewater inexplicably combines the two aesthetics, seeming like a large conference center ballroom until you look up and see the exposed beams in the ceilings.

Even the buildings that have more of an aesthetically pleasing and consistent design within them have flaws of their own. For example, Tyler is gorgeous, but you probably noticed that people still have plenty of classes in Morton. That’s because Tyler has a very limited number of classrooms, but Morton’s high school-inspired design has an incredible number of them. The new ISC is beautiful and has plenty of classrooms, but can anyone actually find their classes in that building?

Since it’s clear that consistency between campus buildings is not a priority, for future construction and design, the College should find a way to balance aesthetics and functionality in a way that I’m not sure they’ve quite uncovered thus far.

If the architects and interior designers create a space that is aesthetically pleasing, easy to navigate and makes some semblance of sense, the IWC will be a great success and could be a bastion of hope for the College’s future construction projects. A major point of constructing the IWC is to bring the Counseling Center out of the shadows of Blow, but if the new building is just as hard to navigate, what’s the point?

Email Emily Chaumont at emchaumont@email.wm.edu.

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STAFF COLUMN

The disingenuous DFAS

Nicholas Phair FLAT HAT ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Every year, the College of William and Mary hosts its Day for Admitted Students. During this event, newly admitted freshmen are invited to visit campus for a day of celebration and exposition to current students, organizations, faculty and administration.

This past weekend, I spoke with a family friend who is deciding between enrolling at a few different schools.

He could hardly get over how well-organized and fun Day for Admitted Students was. Although he is still unsure where he will end up in the fall, the event certainly left a strong impression.

While I was unable to attend Day for Admitted Students prior to my freshman year, it has been one of my favorite school-sponsored events every year since.

I love seeing all of campus come together to put on a show so that prospective students can see what William

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Is it disingenuous to hide our school’s many flaws and put on a facade during an event that has the potential to make or break many prospective students’ decisions to enroll? and Mary is all about. However, I think this raises the following question — is Day for Admitted Students just a show? Might it set overly high expectations for incoming freshmen?

The obvious answer is yes. Day for Admitted Students is a glorified tour with events tacked on, and like any college tour, it is meant to highlight what is great and mask what is not so great about the school. Is it disingenuous to hide our school’s many flaws and put on a facade during an event that has the potential to make or break many prospective students’ decisions to enroll? I believe that it is.

Explicitly demonstrating our school’s weaknesses to prospective students during Day for Admitted Students is certainly out of the picture.

Day for Admitted Students is an event that the College invests a considerable amount of time, energy and resources into running well, with the expectation that it will be repaid by convincing students to enroll. It would be almost unthinkable for the administration to expend effort highlighting flaws.

Besides, I don’t imagine most people would even want that — people enjoy Day for Admitted Students because it is a celebration of everything that is great about the College.

An alternative I think most would prefer is the College simply becoming more receptive to demands widely held by the student body. As a public institution, the administration is beholden to the whims of the stateappointed Board of Visitors, and more often than not, the alumni community.

All too often, students feel as though their needs are suffocated in the name of political or financial expedience.

The College should constantly be gauging students’ feelings and should make efforts to fix problems even when it would not be politically or financially expedient.

Only then may it aspire to have no problems to mask on Day for Admitted Students (or perhaps that’s just overly wishful thinking).

I wholeheartedly enjoy Day for Admitted Students, but it has its issues.

As an event designed to advertise the College to prospective students, it is inherently disingenuous. As problems crop up and unrest toward the administration rises, the College owes it to its student body to address widely held grievances.

Email Nicholas Phair at nwphair@email.wm.edu.

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GUEST COLUMN

Keeping DFAS discord-free: A day for unrealistic fun

Kate Donati FLAT HAT GUEST COLUMNIST

Day for Admitted Students is an annual invasion of campus by would-be College of William and Mary students and their family members.

From the time they step on campus to the time they leave, these students are treated to cheers, high-fives, goodie swag bags and a rose-tinted view of what life here will be like. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

Yes, our campus is alive with differing opinions and protests over different issues, all with varying degrees of relevance to the world around us.

Yes, this discourse is a good and healthy expression of our differing opinions. And no, prospective students do not need to know these specifics of the realities of life on campus.

First of all, most of the students who come to Day for admitted students have not committed here, and there’s no purpose to airing our “dirty laundry” to students who are not ready to become a part of this campus.

Secondly, the students that do decide to join our community will be introduced to the reality of our campus in their due time.

That period of adjustment is necessary for these

freshmen, the majority of whom are dealing with enough change moving out on their own for the first time, meeting new people, and figuring out classes that to already be fully aware of the specific issues our community is passionate about would make their transition even more difficult.

Now, I’m not condoning any false advertising or blatant lying about what life is like here to prospective students.

When I hosted a student for Autumn Blast, I made sure my hallmates and I shared our fun stories with her, as well as let her know that everything is not always fun and games.

I tried not to disillusion her dreams of attending William and Mary (which she is next year), but I also didn’t want to mislead her and make her think being a part of this community is always easy.

It’s a really fine balance, and it is too easy to overemphasize either extreme.

Every college campus has discord, and prospective students should not be expecting a utopian society, but the specifics of the issues we face here at William and Mary are problems we students should face, rather than those who are not involved in our community, like non-committed prospective students.

DFAS is a fun, chaotic, unrealistic day.

Prospective students and their parents deserve this time to be excited about what life could be like here — from eating in the dining halls (and we all know the misrepresentations of Sodexo food when we have visitors) to playing on a sports team, or joining a club.

The naivete of prospective students and new freshmen will fade with time as they discover the issues specific to their new community and figure out their own opinions.

Email Kate Donati at kdonati@email.wm.edu.

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DFAS is a fun, chaotic, unrealistic day.

Prospective students and their parents deserve this time to be excited.

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Why is it so bad to stick to a tradition that does no harm to anyone? You can play Devil’s advocate and talk about all these other terrible “traditions” but this is no where near to those ... You do not have to participate in any courting events if it insults you so much that guys are trying to impress you.

— ccrane1996@gmail.com on “How to create a better homecoming: End outdated courting rituals”

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Located on Richmond Road, One Tribe Place first opened its doors as the Williamsburg Hopsitality House in 1972. The hotel was purchased by the College in 2013, renovated up to residential code, and reopened as a dorm for students.

Living the suite life: unpacking the history of One Tribe Place, from hotel to dorm RICK STEVENSON FLAT HAT ASSOC. VARIETY EDITOR

Those who grew up in Williamsburg might remember One Tribe Place as a hotel rather than a dorm. The Williamsburg Hospitality House opened in 1972, but it was purchased by the College of William and Mary in 2013 to be converted into extra living spaces for students. The former hotel is one of the most sought-after spots for students living on campus.

“The biggest thing it allowed us to offer students was a lot more single rooms, with the added benefit of every room having its own bathroom,” DuPont Hall and One Tribe Place Area Director Rich Schofield said. “And our students have done a good job of keeping them nice.”

The benefit of larger, more luxurious personal spaces resulted in part from the speed with which the College had to get the Hospitality House up to building code after the purchase.

“A hotel is a transient facility, and a dorm is more of a permanent residence, so the code treats them differently,” Director of Facilities Management Wayne Boy said. “We changed a lot.”

Increased fire safety and all new electrical wiring were necessary before students could move in, which proved a difficult task given the short amount of time allotted for the renovations.

“We weren’t informed about [the purchase] until just before the deal was signed,” Boy said.

With the College not taking control of the facilities until June 1, 2013, that left a short summer to get One Tribe Place up to code. Facilities Management took advantage of the building’s previous function whenever possible.

“We got everything. It wasn’t just the building,” Schofield said. “We got the furniture, the fixtures, everything.”

Despite the exciting opportunities that these resources offered the College, not everyone in the Williamsburg community was thrilled by the purchase. Former Mayor Clyde Haulman expressed a number of concerns at the time of the acquisition, including the significant increase in foot traffic along and across Richmond Road, an approximate $110,000 loss in city property tax revenue. On campus however, the addition was greeted with excitement.

“You couldn’t beat where it was located, the number of rooms it had and their capacity,” Office of Finance & Administration Vice Presidential Assistant Martha Terrell said.

While the Hospitality House’s facilities were a motivating factor in its purchase, its proximity was also appealing.

“We know that the Sadler Center is really the center of campus from a social perspective,” Boy said. “I think it works well. I really do.”

Despite all of the advantages offered by the acquisition, much of One Tribe Place’s potential stands untapped.

“It’s been there for a long time, and my family “It’s a hard building to get your arms around,” Boy said. “There’s a whole series of rooms [on the lower spent Christmases at the Hospitality House,” Terrell said. “In fact, my wedding reception was there.” levels] that you could turn into meeting rooms.”

While the large personal spaces and private Other facilities within One Tribe Place stand unused as well. Only part of the extensive garage bathrooms have already made One Tribe Place space is in service, the hotel’s former dining area incredibly popular among students, its potential remains dormant and the ballroom on the second seems to be still untapped.

The coming years will tell how the building can floor sits empty as well. These spaces fall short of the new code requirements and will therefore stay continue to develop as one of the College’s most desirable dorms. inactive until renovations are continued.

Readapting existing facilities can be even more difficult and cumbersome for the College than building new ones from the ground up. The process of updating One Tribe Place to the new code has been a slow one, and with the College’s prioritization process for renovation, it is likely the unused spaces in the building will remain inactive for some time.

However, the building still holds the potential enshrined in its former glory that Terrell so DEVON BORTZ / THE FLAT HAT Rooms of the former Hospitality House remain unused, such as a dining area and ballroom. clearly recalls.

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

Watching out for workplace harassers: staying safe and speaking out

Even in 2017, society can still do more to create a respectful work environment

Elizabeth Barto

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS COLUMNIST

Over the past few months, Fox News has appeared twice in the spotlight of workplace harassment news over the allegations presented against its former network chairman, Roger Ailes, and current Fox News Host Bill O’Reilly. At this point, stories about rich men leveraging their power in attempts to coerce those they work with are the real “tale as old as time” (move over Beast, Gaston can help you advance your career, Belle). Especially in light of the recent election of Donald Trump, whose lack of decorum in professional settings I’m sure I don’t even have to outline for you, it can be difficult to treat the rampant media coverage of workplace sexual harassment as anything more than a discouraging sea of white noise.

So, why should another story about some boss whose Achilles’ heel was their libido paired with a complete lack of conduct or courtesy matter to you? First, let me give you some numbers …

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission states on its “Women in the American Workforce” page that one in every four women will face workplace harassment in their lives. A 2015 Cosmopolitan survey claims that between the ages of 18-34 that ratio changes to one in three women. Which isn’t to say that men aren’t also at risk for workplace harassment. In 2013, 18% of the sexual harassment charges brought before the EEOC and state and local Fair Employment Practices Agencies were filed by men.

Many of you are probably already making plans to work this summer, whether at a job in the service industry, an internship, or maybe even your first entry-level job following graduation. Whether you’re in a seasonal position working the register at your local Panera, or pursuing that marketing internship that you hope will bolster your resume for your future career, you want this job. Even if the actual work sucks, there is a reason you are working over the summer and aren’t making plans to recline on a beach, sipping margaritas every day for three months. Harassers feel secure in their knowledge of your motivation to keep your job, and it emboldens them.

You may be familiar with the “Duluth Model,” also known as the “Power and Control Wheel,” which has been the dominant outline of the complex dynamics at play in domestic violence since 1981.

Power and control are the hub of the wheel, because they define the behaviors that rotate around them: coercion and threats, intimidation, emotional abuse, isolation, minimizing, denying and blaming, using children, economic abuse and male privilege.

Aside from the “using children” spoke, the Duluth Model can easily be applied to workplace sexual harassment. For example, an employer may use coercion and threats by threatening to withhold a good recommendation if you attempt to report them (which, by the way, is illegal). Coworkers may use isolation by spreading rumors to your other coworkers if you spurn their advances. You may experience economic abuse if you’re a waiter and notice that if you don’t reject a customer’s advances, you get good tips. Or if your boss pays you better than other employers and knows that they can get away with certain levels of harassment because you want to maintain your current salary.

Customers may use their male privilege if you’re in the service industry and feel entitled to make sexual comments because they believe that as paying customers, you are there for their pleasure.

All of that is pretty creepy, no? Pretty unsettling? I agree, which is why I’ve compiled this list of a few tips to remember when you encounter the misguided, manipulative blockheads of the modern workplace.

1. It is not your fault. It’s society’s fault for conditioning men to think that sexual behaviors won’t result in real consequences if they are valuable enough to a place of business.

2. Confront the harasser, if you feel comfortable doing so. The earlier, the better. Unfortunately, unless you identify that the harasser’s behavior is bothering you and ask them to stop, many people won’t realize that their actions have crossed the line from friendly to uncomfortable and inconsiderate.

3. If the person giving you trouble is not your boss, speak to your employer or Human Resources. Look into if your workplace has policies or a specific process to follow when reporting an instance of harassment. Do a little research into your rights as an employee before reporting.

4. If you feel that your workplace is not handling your case fairly, report the harassment to the EEOC. Sexual harassment at work is considered discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Do not let people walk over you for fear of losing your job. You have rights.

5. Value yourself and your work enough to leave if you feel unsafe or uncomfortable in your place of work. Don’t let anyone shoulder you out, because you absolutely do not deserve to be pushed to the side, but if you decide that it’s in your best interest to leave behind a toxic work environment, then don’t be ashamed to seek better pastures, grander horizons, oceans of opportunity, insert pastoral inspirational location here …

Long story short, this is 2017, not 1960. Each time a celebrity silences claims of sexual harassment, it proves that society still has work to do. What we can do in the meantime is be our own best advocates, and trust that the work we do deserves a safe and respectful work environment. Workplace harassment isn’t something that you are expected to just grin and bear. As the Notorious B.I.G. should have said, “interact respectfully with your coworkers, get money.”

Elizabeth Barto is a Behind Closed Doors columnist who is too busy smashing the patriarchy to get you doughnuts and coffee.

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A night of hip-hop and fashion

Rocket Magazine and SoHHL host Astral, the College’s inaugural fashion show

AKEMI TAMANHA FLAT HAT VARIETY EDITOR

If, for some reason, you attempted to study in Integrated Science Center 3 last Friday, you would have been met with an surprise. By 9:00 p.m.

April 7 the building was filled with music, colorful lighting and hundreds of students waiting for the start of ASTRAL, the inaugural fashion show of Rocket Magazine and Students of Hip-Hop Legacy.

The idea for the ASTRAL fashion show has two separate origin stories. Last year, Isabella Fox Arias ’18, who currently serves as Rocket’s deputy editor, and Rocket’s fashion director. Kyle Lopez ’17 discussed the idea of putting on a fashion show. There was little time left in the year to put a show together, so the pair tabled the idea and began discussing it over the summer with style editors Amy Zhang ’19 and Bronwyn Roseli ’19.

During the fall semester, Eze Ragazzi ’19, the president of SoHHL, had also gotten the idea to do a fashion show with Rocket, so he reached out to the magazine that fall. It turns out SoHHL was the missing piece to the puzzle Rocket had been looking for.

“We really wanted to have a musical element to the event,” Zhang said. “We didn’t want it to just be a normal, typical fashion show because they have dead-face models. It’s very serious. It’s a little bit boring honestly, and it’s really really fast-paced.

We wanted it to be a full blown event.”

The next step in the process was finding designers for the show. According to Zhang, Rocket drew some inspiration from VFILES fashion week, which showcases several small designers one after the other in one day.

Zhang said that although the College of William and Mary did not have a fashion and design program, they knew that Virginia Commonwealth University did and wanted to reach out to them first.

Arias and Ragazzi, who are both from Richmond, began getting in touch with designers. Raghazzi found Domo Ray, designer of the brand FFNR and Alex Tucker, designer of the brand Insert Name through his local hip-hop blog.

Matthew Gayot, one of the two designers of the lifestyle/skate clothing brand Solace, was also a good friend of Raghazzi’s. Patrick Bender was the second designer of Solace. Raghazzi added that he referenced a blog called VA Got Now that had information on fashion designers in Virginia.

Arias began reaching out to interested designers to further discuss the show.

“After getting in contact with the designers and figuring out who was interested, I set up Skype calls with all of them to talk in greater detail about the show,” Arias said in an email.

In total, four designers were showcased. The fourth designer was Lama Ali, a fashion design major at VCU. Both members of Rocket and SoHHL had heard of Ali from a viral Buzzfeed article about a hidden message she left for her professor in one of her art assignments.

Members of SoHHL worked on the show’s music. Ragazzi and Jeff Bunkin, the vice president of SoHHL, drew inspiration for the performance element of the show from watching Playboi Carti’s performance at New York Fashion Week. After watching his performance, they decided that they wanted the artists to perform while the models were walking.

Ragazzi, Bunkin and other members of SoHHL began pairing artists with designers.

“We had asked the designers if they had an

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COURTESY PHOTOS / ANDREW UHRIG FOR ROCKET MAGAZINE

The show’s organizers wanted to have the models walk down a staircase. They chose the ISC 3 for its modern look.

We really wanted to have a musical

element to the event. We didn’t want it to just be a normal, typical fashion

show...

-Amy Zhang ’19

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The 31 student models included students from all aspects of campus life in order to attract a larger group of people.

artist, that was specific, that they knew really represented their clothes,” Ragazzi said.

One of the names Tucker gave Ragazzi was Isaiah Jeremiah, an artist based out of Richmond, Va. Unfortunately, a rapper named Josh G, the artist originally meant to perform with FFNR, could not show up in time for the show. Luckily, Emmanuel Chiappini ’17, a member of SoHHL was able to perform in his place.

Chiappini wasn’t the only SoHHL member and student to perform that night. Huey Shy, known to most on campus as Julian Scoffield ’19, performed for the brand Solace, and Preston Neukirch ’18 performed with Lama Ali. One difficult component of hosting the fashion show was finding a venue. Zhang says they knew they wanted to incorporate a staircase. Originally they wanted to utilize the v-shaped staircase in Andrews Hall, but ran into occupancy issues.

They decided instead to use ISC 3 and felt that its modern look paired well with the hip-hop music and street style fashion.

Rocket and SoHHL also held model casting sessions. Lopez, who was in charge of casting the 31 models, wanted to pick people from all different aspects of campus life.

“We wanted a cross-section of every experience at William and Mary,” Lopez said. “People from all walks of campus: people in Greek life, people not in Greek life, people of different cultures, people who play sports because we thought that that would make for a much more interesting show and would attract a really large group of people.”

The show did attract a large audience, selling over 400 tickets. Everyone in charge of the fashion show agreed that they wanted to donate the proceeds. Lopez suggested that they donate to the scholarship fund of the Williamsburg Contemporary Arts Center. The fund provides scholarships for graduating seniors residing in Williamsburg and James City County and Bruton District of York County School Districts wishing to pursue art in college or at an arts school.

“We just thought with the national endowment for the arts being cut, and you know the arts are constantly being threatened, and for all of us Rocket is a really important creative outlet,” Lopez said. “It’s a really great way of relieving stress and creating something that’s beautiful and that’s cool. That experience is something that everyone should have. And, you know, giving back to high schoolers and giving them more opportunities, if we can do that in our own small way then that seems like a really good idea.”

Everyone involved in putting ASTRAL together said they were pleased with how the show turned out.

“It was a lot of hard work over a long period of time, but it felt so good to see a physical representation of our efforts that people seemed to enjoy,” Roseli said.

Ragazzi also added that he enjoyed seeing a small idea turn into something bigger.

“It’s cool that it was an idea and you get to see it through,” Ragazzi said.

Both members of Rocket and SoHHL plan on hosting another fashion show next year. They hope to expand the show to include more designers and artists.

Zhang hopes that, although the College does not have a fashion and design program, the show will be to include designers from the College.

“We do know that there are some people at this school that make their own clothes,” Zhang said. “It would be great to be able to incorporate William and Mary students.”

CONFUSION CORNER

A column written in the defense of the right to rave

People should be able to dance in public without worrying about who is watching

Ellie Moonan

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS COLUMNIST

At family weddings, I used to stay on the sidelines and watch people “twist and shout.” My father and my uncle, however, were always the ones to pull me away from the lonely corner and grasp my hands as we mouthed the lyrics to “Build Me Up Butter Cup.” As we danced, I would catch myself smiling without reason.

Since then, I have trained as a dancer, and it has greatly influenced my perspective on the art form. Music happens to be a very visual and physical experience for me. Dance, therefore, has always been a physical release of my reaction to music — that’s how I was trained to respond for years. And now that I have left the field of professional dance for about two years, it is strange not having that regular release.

Other than a couple of wonderful campus venues and organizations, there are very few distinguished places in college where it is socially acceptable to dance in public. Some include: dimly lit parties, crowded concerts and “clubs” (a questionable

place if you live in Williamsburg).

Due to Williamsburg’s lack of dance floors, I have found a new love for dancing in random spaces. It releases some sort of inhibition in me that is otherwise trapped. People are uncomfortable with dancing in public places because it isn’t the social norm. They either are afraid they would seem a bit weird or they aren’t as confident in how they dance. Because let’s face it — life isn’t “High School Musical 2” where you have specialized choreography as you run around empty golf courses — nor should it be. Dancing should be spontaneous and free; unless you are actually in a musical, in which case you should probably follow the person in front of you.

Dancing is incredibly healthy for you as well. A study featured in the New England Journal of Medicine analyzed the effect of cognitive and physical exercises and their relation to dementia in senior citizens. Dancing was the only physical exercise (out of 11 other choices) that was proved to be significantly effective in decreasing the risk of dementia. This is likely due to the fact that you are incorporating numerous parts of the brain when you dance, increasing brain plasticity and strengthening neuron connections.

But science aside, dancing is incredibly fun — especially when done spontaneously in the middle of Swemromas. It is an exhale of happiness for your brain, just allowing your body to do whatever.

Having others watch in confusion and fear is just part of the freedom and joy.

Though I am dedicating this article to the subject of dance, I am more so talking about a way of life: do anything that makes

you happy and confident. Personally, I express myself most when I dance — but that is of course not the only option. Virtually anything from wearing Halloween socks in April to laughing really loudly in public is fair game. The more willing we are to freely express ourselves in college, the more comfortable campus may be.

Spreading joy and wonder to stressed students makes us realize that there are simple and good things in life to look forward to. Just turn on your favorite song, walk in the middle of the crowd and go for it. It all starts with pulling people away from the corner and inspiring them to smile for no reason.

Ellie Moonan is a Confusion Corner Columnist who believes in tearing down walls, one electric slide at the time.

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TENNIS

Women dominant in Senior Day win

Men cruise past East Carolina in 6-1 victory, fall short to Middle Tennessee Tennis Facility. The Tribe lost the epic matchup 4-3 after a long, unrelenting battle at the No. 5 spot by double-header Niquet.

The College started down early in the matchup, losing the doubles point to the Blue Raiders. Talcott’s quick victory over Tom Moonen at the No. 1 spot, both sets 6-2, tied the match up 1-1. This was Talcott’s ninth win of 15 tries at the No. 1 spot, improving his overall season record to 13-9.

Middle Tennessee regained the lead with several consecutive victories. Miller fell to Blue Raider opponent Gian Issa 7-6, 6-4 at the No. 4 spot. Appleby fell in a marathon tiebreaker set 5-7, 6-4, 7-6 at the No. 3 spot to Middle Tennessee’s Miguel Negre. Cargill pulled off a win over Gonzalo Morell 6-2, 6-4 at the No. 2 spot. The Blue Raiders led the Tribe 3-2.

“I think we need to execute a little better,” Cargill said. “We had chances in basically all of the matches and we didn’t come through, but we have a few more matches to work on it.”

With a 6-3 win in both sets over opponent Nicolas Buitrago, de Boer brought the Tribe back in and tied COURTESY PHOTO / TRIBE ATHLETICS the match up 3-3.

Junior Olivia Thaler keyed the Tribe’s victory against Old Dominion on Senior Day, posting wins at the No. 6 singles spot and the No. 2 doubles card.

The match fell on the ongoing the College up 4-0, securing the win.

The Tribe kept the momentum rolling ALYSSA GRZESIAK No. 5 contest “Everybody fought hard and a lot of with three straight singles victories, FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR between Niquet clinching the guys are playing well,” Cargill said. “It’s a and Middle overall match win. good thing to see.”

The William and Mary men welcomed de Boer Tennessee’s Luis Junior Alec Miller defeated East Niquet finished East Carolina to the McCormackfirst, defeating East Carolina opponent Fredric Lehfeldt 7-6 Morillo. Niquet stole the first set 6-4, but Nagelsen Tennis Center Friday. The Tribe Carolina’s Kasey (3), 6-0 at the No. 4 spot, followed by Morillo came back and took the second (9-9) outmatched the Pirates (14-7) in a Countee 6-0, 6-3 Aidan Talcott at the No. 1 spot with a 6-4, set 6-2. Morillo took the back-and-forth landslide 6-1 victory. at the No. 5 spot. 6-5 defeat over Pirate Freddie McGeehan, tiebreaker set 7-5, claiming the victory for The College secured the doubles point Cargill followed who retired for injury. Appleby fell in a the Blue Raiders. as the duo of senior Addison Appleby and The men will finish off their in the No. 2 spot, heartbreaking three-set matchup 7-5, sophomore Tristan Bautil defeated East Appleby Carolina opponents 6-4 at the No. 1 spot conquering Pirate Vlad Anghel 6-2 in both 2-6, 10-3 against East Carolina foe Ronny regular season by hosting Virginia Commonwealth Wednesday at 3 p.m. while junior Christian Cargill and senior sets and completing his 11th victory at the Georgi.

Saturday, the Tribe welcomed Middle and Old Dominion April 16 at 1 p.m., both Damon Niquet claimed victory at the No. No. 2 spot with a 9-5 record. Junior Lars de Boer’s 7-5, 6-0 win at the No. 6 spot put Tennessee (11-12) to the Millie West at the Millie West Tennis Facility.

2 spot.

LACROSSE

Tribe falls in two straight College drops narrow contest to Towson, 14-11 BRENDAN DOYLE FLAT HAT ASSOC. SPORTS EDITOR

Looking to turn its season around, William and Mary started Colonial Athletic Association play this week.

Friday, the Tribe took on CAA foe No. 14 Towson on the road. Sunday, the College traveled to Harrisonburg to match up with No. 18 James Madison in another conference game. Against Towson (9-4, 2-1 CAA), the Tribe kept the game close until a Tigers run put it out of reach late. The Dukes (9-5, 3-0 CAA) opened fast in the second game of the week for the Tribe, making sure the outcome was never in doubt.

Towson came into the Friday game looking to get back on the right track after a loss to James Madison, and so was the Tribe (3-10, 0-2 CAA) after a tough result against Richmond. Early on, the two teams looked evenly matched. The Tribe trailed through the first 20 minutes of the game but never by more than two goals.

A tally by senior midfielder Lindsey Jenks cut the Towson lead to just one, 5-4, with 10 minutes, 58 seconds left in

the first half. That would be the closest the Tribe would get, as an 8-2 run by the Tigers spanning the end of the first half and beginning of the second gave Towson a comfortable lead that they would not relinquish. While the Tribe scored five of the last six goals, it was not enough, as it fell 14-11.

Towson edged the Tribe in shots, 33-25. The Tigers also took better care of possession, only committing 15 turnovers, while the Tribe turned it over 24 times. For the College, both Jenks and junior midfielder McKinley Wade had three goals, leading the way on offense.

Saturday, the Tribe took the field against James Madison, attempting to stop the bleeding after two straight losses. Unfortunately for the College, the Dukes came out firing. James Madison scored the first six goals of the game and eight of the first nine to jump out to an unsurmountable 8-1 lead, with the one Tribe goal coming from Jenks. The Tribe would score once more before halftime, on a shot by senior defender Abby Junior with 14 seconds left. It brought the halftime

score to 8-2, with the Dukes in the lead.

The Dukes did not dominate the second half like the first; James Madison scored three goals and gave up three to the Tribe from Jenks, sophomore midfielder Holly Hager and junior attacker Meaghan Brophy. The six-goal halftime deficit was too large for the Tribe, though, and the Dukes cruised to an easy 11-5 victory.

Jenks had two goals on the day, totaling 32 on the season and extending her team lead to 10 over the next highest player, Wade.

The Tribe as a whole had 21 shots — 14 in the second half — while the Dukes fired 28. 19 and 14, respectively, were on net for James Madison and the Tribe.

The College will return to Williamsburg this week to continue CAA play. Friday afternoon at 5 p.m., the Tribe will host Delaware at Martin Family Stadium. Sunday, the College will continue its homestand against the Drexel Dragons at 12 p.m.

SCOREBOARD Baseball (18-14, 4-5 CAA) Colonial Athletic Association Charleston (16-16, 7-2)..................0.500........W2 Elon (16-16, 6-3).............................0.500........W1 Northeastern (13-16, 6-2)..............0.448........W2 William and Mary (18-14, 4-5)......0.563..........L1 Delaware (16-14, 4-5).....................0.533........L2 James Madison (17-13, 3-6)..........0.567........L2 UNC-Wilmington (13-17, 2-4)......0.433........W1 Towson (12-16, 2-4).......................0.429..........L1 Hofstra (8-21, 2-4)..........................0.276........W1 Statistical Leaders Brandon Raquet.........15 RBI, .346 avg, .429 OBP Cullen Large.....................29 RBI, .326 avg, 3 HRs Nick Raquet..........1.98 ERA, 41.0 ip, .216 opp avg March 7: W, College 8, Elon 2 March 8: W, College 14, Elon 6 March 9: W, Elon 7, College 6 March 11: at Old Dominion, 6 p.m.

March 12: at Norfolk State, 5 p.m.

March 13: at East Tennessee State, 6:30 p.m.

Men’s Tennis (9-9) Mar. 18: W, College 6, Xavier 1 Mar 26: W, College 7, Howard 0 Apr. 7: W, College 6, East Carolina 1 Apr. 8: L, Middle Tennessee 4, College 3 Apr. 12: vs VCU, 3:30 p.m.

Apr. 16: vs Old Dominion, 1 p.m.

Men’s Gymnastics Apr. 8 at ECAC Championship

Finished No. 1 (field of 5) Apr. 21 at NCAA Team Finals Apr. 22 at NCAA Individual Finals

Track and Field

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The Tribe has lost three straight, falling to 3-10 overall and 0-2 in CAA play. Both the offense and defense must improve to win.

Saturday, the Tribe women defeated Old Dominion (10-8) at the Millie West Tennis Facility 5-2 on Senior Day. Senior Marie Faure contributed to the victory with a win in both doubles and singles play in her final appearance at home.

The College (10-10, 3-1 CAA) claimed the lead early on, Stepanova claiming the doubles point. Junior duo Ekaterina Stepanova and Olivia Thaler and the pair of Faure and sophomore Lauren Goodman defeated Monarch opponents 6-2 and 6-3, respectively.

“Today’s game was awesome,” Stepanova said. “We won, and it was a good team effort.”

Freshman Rosie Cheng fell at the No. 4 spot 6-1 in both sets to Nataliia Vlasova.

Stepanova came out on top at the No. 1 singles spot, defeating Monarch Ingrid Vojcinakova 7-5, 6-3. Faure conquered her final singles contest at home 7-6, 6-1 against Old Dominion’s Eliska Petrackova at the No. 2 spot. At this point, the Tribe led the Monarchs 3-1.

At the No. 3 spot, freshman Natalia Perry lost a three-set contest against Natalya Malenko 6-4, 3-6, 7-6. Goodman’s 7-6, 6-3 victory at the No. 5 spot secured the Tribe conquest over Old Dominion.

Thaler finished off the match with an unyielding three-set win over Marijana Novakovic 6-3, 4-6, 6-4.

“Our seniors played well and we won, so it was all around a good day,” head coach Tyler Thomson said. “We’ve still got a lot to improve on, but we’ve got a couple weeks left to practice and we’re going in the right direction.”

The women will close out the regular season on the road at VCU April 15.

Men: Apr. 8 at Mason Spring Invitational

Finished T-5th (field of 20) Apr. 14-15 at CNU Captains Classic Women: Apr. 8 at Mason Spring Invitational

Finished 8th (field of 22) Apr. 14-15 at CNU Captains Classic

Lacrosse (3-10, 0-2 CAA) Colonial Athletic Association James Madison (9-5, 3-0)............0.643........W3 Delaware (6-5, 1-0)........,.............0.545.........W1 Drexel (6-5, 1-0)...........................0.545.........W2 Towson (9-4, 2-1).........................0.692.........W2 Elon (8-5, 0-2)..............................0.615..........L3 Hofstra (6-5, 0-2).........................0.545..........L2 William and Mary (3-10, 2-4).....0.231..........L3 Statistical Leaders Lindsay Jenks..............................32 g, 9 ast, 2 gwg McKinley Wade...........................22 g, 6 ast, 49 sh Abby Junior..........4 g, 41 gb, 34 caused turnovers Alex Lista.............105 ga, 12.27 gaa, .429 save pct Mar. 25: L, Richmond 12, College 8 Apr. 7: L, Towson 14, College 11 Apr. 9: L, James Madison 11, College 5 Apr. 14: vs Delaware, 5 p.m.

Apr. 16: vs Drexel, 12 p.m.

No. 49 Women’s Tennis (10-10) Mar. 25: L, Brown 4, College 3 Mar. 26: W, College 4, Harvard 3 Mar. 30: W, College 6, Delaware 1 Apr. 1: L, Rice 6, College 1 Apr. 8: W, College 5, Old Dominion 2 Apr. 15: at VCU, 1 p.m.

Golf Men: Apr. 25-26 at Towson Invitational

Finished no. 5 (field of 22) Women: Apr. 4 at Oyster Shuck Match Play

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BASEBALL

GYMNASTICS

Tribe conquers ECAC yet again

College posts 404.7 score

EMILY CHAUMONT FLAT HAT MANAGING EDITOR

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Tribe scores five runs in bottom of the ninth in final game against Elon, including a three-run homerun and two outs by Hall, but is unable to overcome the Phoenix lead.

College picks up CAA wins

Hall helps Tribe rally in final game of series against Elon KEVIN RICHESON FLAT HAT STAFF WRITER William and Mary had another busy week on the diamond. Tuesday, the Tribe traveled to Richmond for an in-state matchup against Virginia Commonwealth. Despite struggling at the plate in the first few innings, the College’s offense came to life to secure a 5-1 win over the Rams. For its weekend series, the College looked to build on its victory over the Rams when it took on Elon in a three-game series at Plumeri Park. The Tribe won two of the three games to pick up its first series win in conference play.

“I think that we had an okay week, and hopefully that will give us some confidence going forward,” head coach Brian Murphy said about the team’s ability to bounce back after a tough series against Delaware the previous week.

Tuesday, the College (16-13) squared off against the Rams (16-13). Senior pitcher Chase Bailey started on the mound for the Tribe, while Jonathan Ebersole was slotted to start for the Rams.

Bailey gave up an early run in the bottom of the first inning, and the Rams took an early 1-0 advantage. Center fielder Logan Farrar ripped a one-out double to put himself in scoring position for the Rams. Rams left fielder Alex Gransback followed up Farrar’s base hit with an infield single, advancing Farrar to third base on the play.

Gransback was later caught attempting to steal second base. Farrar was able to scamper home for the first run of the game on the throw to second.

The College was unable to answer the Rams until the top of the fourth inning. The Tribe exploded for four runs in order to grab a 4-1 lead that it would not relinquish for the rest of the contest. After three straight singles to start the fourth inning, senior center fielder Charles Ameer stepped to the plate for the Tribe. Ameer blasted a three-RBI triple into left center field, clearing the bases and giving the Tribe its first lead of the day at 3-1. Two batters later, sophomore shortstop Kyle Wrighte collected an RBI with a double to left center field, scoring Ameer and extending the College’s lead to 4-1.

The Tribe ended up stranding three men on base at the end of the inning and went to the bottom of the fourth inning still leading by three.

The College tacked on one more run in the top of

the eighth inning and prevented the Rams from scoring any more runs, securing the 5-1 victory.

“In big spots, I was just trying to put the ball in play and hit it hard somewhere,” Ameer said on his approach that led to success at the plate in the game against the Rams.

The Tribe (18-14, 4-5 CAA) returned to action Friday evening for a Colonial Athletic Association showdown against Elon (15-16, 5-3 CAA), hoping to build upon the victory over Virginia Commonwealth. Senior pitcher Daniel Powers started the game on the mound for the Tribe while Phoenix pitcher Ryan Conroy toed the rubber.

The College jumped out to an early lead with a run in the first inning and five in the third inning.

In the first inning, Ameer continued his success at the plate by picking up an RBI with a bases-loaded single that plated freshman Brandon Raquet to put the Tribe on top 1-0.

The Tribe blew the game open with a huge third inning at the plate. Junior right fielder Ryan Hall started the inning by reaching base on an error and eventually scored on a double down the right field line by junior second baseman Cullen Large. After both Brandon Raquet and Large crossed the plate to stretch the lead to 4-0, freshman first baseman Matthew Trehub stepped to the plate with two men on base and two outs. He also ripped a double down the right field line, a two-RBI double which pushed the lead to 6-0.

“I was seeing the ball deep, letting my hands work a little bit, and do some damage,” Trehub said.

The Phoenix clawed back with two runs in the top of the fourth inning but were never able to get closer than that 6-2 deficit. The Tribe held Elon scoreless for the remainder of the game, adding two runs of its own in the bottom of the eighth inning on a two-RBI double by sophomore third baseman Zach Pearson. The Tribe shut down the Phoenix in the ninth inning for an 8-2 victory.

Saturday, game two of the weekend series commenced. The College jumped out to an early 3-0 advantage, with two runs in the first inning and one in the third. Despite the early lead, Elon bounced back to tie the game in the top of the fourth, aided by a two-RBI triple off the bat of designated hitter Will Nance. The Phoenix took their first lead in the top of the sixth inning, when they scored three more runs to put them ahead

6-3. Elon was helped by a defensive error on sophomore catcher Hunter Smith. Nonetheless, in the bottom of the sixth, the College evened the game once again with three runs of its own.

Brandon Raquet had an RBI triple in the inning to help the Tribe tie the game.

With the game tied 6-6 in the bottom of the sixth, the College had an offensive explosion in the form of an eight-run inning, taking an eight-point lead, 14-6. The Tribe scored all eight runs without a home run and had seven hits in the inning, including doubles by Wrighte and Brandon Raquet. Elon was unable to cut into the lead at all for the rest of the game, and the Tribe emerged victorious from the back-and-forth game.

Sunday, the Tribe wrapped up the weekend series with a 5-1 loss. The Phoenix struck first with one run in the top of the third inning. After a single and a wild pitch, designated hitter Garrett Stonehouse scored on an RBI single up the middle by shortstop Ryne Ogren. The College got out of the inning without giving up any more runs.

The Tribe rallied in the bottom of the fifth inning, evening the score at 1-1. Trehub led off the inning with a solo shot to right field that just cleared the fence. The Phoenix scored next in the seventh inning. Right fielder Kyle Jackson was able to scamper home on a safety squeeze by third baseman Cam Devanney. Nance added an insurance run for the Phoenix when he dashed home on a wild pitch by senior pitcher Nick Brown to extend the lead to 3-1. Elon added four more runs in the bottom of the eighth to make the score 7-1. The Tribe got back five runs in the bottom of the ninth, including a three-run home run with two outs by Hall, but still fell 7-6.

The College will look to start another winning streak when it goes on the road for five straight days this week. Tuesday and Wednesday, the Tribe will take on Old Dominion and Norfolk State. This will be the College’s second matchup against each team, having fallen to the Monarchs 11-6 and beaten Norfolk State 6-1 at home earlier this season. The Tribe will then travel to East Tennessee State for a three-game set from Thursday to Saturday.

“We have to keep getting better,” Murphy said.

“We have things we need to work on. It doesn’t matter whether we are playing at home or on the road; it’s a chance to get better.”

Friday, the William and Mary men posted their best team score of the season at the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championship. They took the title for the fifth time in school history with 404.7 points.

The Tribe was followed by Navy (402.55), Army (392.45), Springfield (392.2) and championship host Illinois-Chicago (384.55).

In addition to posting the highest team score in three events and having a gymnast on the podium in every event, the College was also honored with two other awards. Head coach Mike Powell was named ECAC Coach of the Year and senior Rob Meyer was named ECAC Senior Gymnast of the Year Meyer’s best individual placement at this meet was on parallel bars, where he tied for second with 14.15 points.

The Tribe’s best showing as a team was on pommel horse, where the team placed first with a season best of 66.8 points. Sophomore Jacopo Gliozzi took the individual title in that event, setting a school record with 15.1 points. Junior Griffin Antle placed fourth with a season high of 14.0 and Meyer tied for fifth place with 13.5 points.

The College also took the title on rings, scoring 67.35 points. Sophomore Peter Makey led the way for the Tribe’s individual scores with his career high of 13.8 points. Junior Jeremiah McReynolds tied for fourth with 13.6 points and Meyer’s 13.5-point score put him sixth.

The third event the Tribe won was vault at 70.2 points.

Senior Neal Courter posted a season-high first-place score of 14.35 points.

Senior Nick Van Dyke tied for second with 14.15 points. Junior Juan Palma scored 14.1 points and tied for fourth place.

Courter also led the way for the Tribe on floor, where he scored 14.0 points and placed second. Freshman Tomas Palma also showed up for the Tribe on floor, tying for third with 13.95 points.

On high bar, Courter once again had the strongest showing for the College with his 13.75 point, secondplace score. Senior Aria Sabbagh tied for fifth with a score of 13.5.

Following this win, the Tribe will head to the National Collegiate Athletic Association Championships in West Point April 21-22.

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Senior Rob Meyer tied for second with 14.15 points on parallel bars.

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College finishes second in Oyster Shuck Match Play

Tribe sweeps Citadel 5-0, Presbyterian 4.5-0.5, falling behind only to UNC-Asheville KATIE KOONTZ FLAT HAT VARIETY EDITOR The William and Mary women finished in second place this week after being defeated by UNC-Asheville 3-2 in the championship of the 2017 Oyster Shuck Match Play tournament in Mount Pleasant, S.C. The Tribe played well from the beginning, sweeping its first round

against the Citadel 5-0. Sophomore Elizabeth Choi defeated Renata Sucha 7-and-6, as did junior Katie Edelblut versus Andrea Hoos. Freshman Allison Olberding defeated Bailey Richardson 6-and-5, while senior Mia Zanghetti defeated Marina Grimal 4-and-3.

Sophomore Riley Corona had the closest match of the team’s first round, finishing 1-up to defeat Cameron Little.

The College’s momentum continued

into the second round, leading to a 4.50.5 finish against Presbyterian. Olberding defeated Ann Elizabeth Gore 5-and-4. In a succession of close matches, Edelblut, Zanghetti and Corona all finished 1-up against their opponents, Celia Manfour, Abby Driscoll and Rylie Marchman, respectively. Elizabeth Choi scored half a point for the team after her tied finish with Maiken Paulsen.

In the championship match, UNC-

Asheville had three winning rounds against the Tribe. These came from Rebecca Black, who defeated Edelblut 3-and-2, Janie Thomas, who finished 1-up against Zanghetti, and Linna Brooks, who also ended her match 1-up, against Corona. To secure two winning matches for the College, Choi defeated Adelyn Deery 2-and-1, while Olberding defeated Kellen Alsip by a wide margin of 9-and-8.

Olberding led the Tribe this week,

winning all three of her matches. This was the team’s only match play event on this season’s schedule. The women are now preparing for the 2017 Colonial Athletic Association Women’s Golf Championship, which will be played April 14-16 at Ford’s Colony Country Club in Williamsburg. The College looks to win its first CAA Championship, after coming in third in the 2016 tournament and with an overall best finish of second in 2014.