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Vol. 103, Iss. 34 | Tuesday, February 11, 2014 | The Twice-Weekly Student Newspaper of The College of William and Mary

— Governor Terry McAuliffe’s advice to students at the College’s Charter Day ceremony

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Take chances — You’re going to get knocked down. Get right back up and get back in that arena.

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Newly inaugurated Governor Terry McAuliffe addressed gathered members of the College of William and Mary community at the College’s annual Charter Day ceremony Feb. 7. McAuliffe discussed his plans for Virginia and offered advice to students.

McAuliffe addresses crowd at Charter Day

Governor speaks about increasing access to education, hopes to make Virginia open to all

BY ABBY BOYLE Flat HaT News Editor

Alumni, students and other members of the College of William and Mary community gathered to observe the College’s 321st birthday during the annual Charter Day ceremony, held Friday afternoon at William and Mary Hall.

“We pause today to celebrate yet another birthday in the College’s long life,” College Chancellor Robert Gates ’65 said in his remarks during the ceremony. “I suspect if we had a cake with the requisite number of candles, that we would stand a good chance of burning down the [Sir Christopher] Wren Building yet again.”

Gates, who returned to the College for the weekend’s events, also joked about his neck brace, which he now wears after fracturing his first vertebrae New Years Day. “I decided that the Chancellor’s regalia needed further adornment, and so added an Elizabethan collar,” he said.

Following Gates’ remarks, Governor Terry McAuliffe received an honorary degree from the College and served as the ceremony’s speaker.

He emphasized his efforts to increase access to education and to make Virginia more open to all.

In his first appearance at a college campus since being sworn in as the state’s new governor, McAuliffe commended the College on the accomplishments of its alumni, as well as on its commitment to service. He mentioned that there are more College graduates in his cabinet than graduates of any other college or university in the United States.

McAuliffe thanked College President Taylor Reveley and Rector Todd Stottlemyer ’85 for their work on the William and Mary Promise, which he cited as an example of innovation and a commitment to providing access to education to all members of the state.

He also spoke about his first executive order as governor, which bans discrimination based on sexual orientation in the Virginia workforce.

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College President Taylor Reveley welcomed the crowd to the Charter Day ceremony last Friday afternoon.

“In order to attract the best and the brightest, it is important to keep Virginia open and welcoming to everyone,” McAuliffe said. “We want everyone

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College sees rise in number of applicants College’s Financial Aid 14,500 applicants projected for Class of 2018 in another record-breaking year

website ‘misleading’

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College fixes website to reflect policies

The College of William and Mary’s admissions committee is working its way through applications for the Class of 2018, with total applications projected at 14,500.

This figure breaks last year’s record by approximately 3.6 percent and marks the 10th year in a row for record-breaking applications.

“At a time when there will be fewer high school graduates in Virginia than there have been in any of the past five years, we’re especially pleased to see this growth,” Associate Provost for Enrollment and Dean of Admissions Henry Broaddus said in an email.

The rising number of applicants can be attributed at least in part to the College’s outreach, according to Broaddus. The admissions office implemented strategic methods to reach out to prospective students, such as the Ampersandbox website and mailing, more opportunities for on-campus interviews and continued email campaigns through the Constituent Relationship Manager.

“The increase in the pool reflects strong demand for [the College],” Broaddus said.

The number of applications does make the admission process more competitive for

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The College of William and Mary’s admissions office has seen a rise in applicants over the past ten years.

prospective students, and only around 10 percent of the applicants will be admitted.

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The College of William and Mary’s financial aid website was recently dubbed misleading by the ranking Democrat on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, D-Md. When applying for financial aid, the College Board CSS Profile requires a $25 fee to create a profile. The fee is not a charge that the College absorbs; it is received by the College Board in order to process financial aid forms.

Prior to the school’s website’s update, it made no reference to the fee associated with creating a CSS Profile and applying for aid through the College Board.

“Every student applying to the College is encouraged to apply for financial aid, and the first step is the completed Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Entering freshmen and transfer students will also need to complete the CSS Profile,” the College’s financial aid website said.

Since Cummings made this announcement, the College has changed its financial aid website in order to better reflect their policies.

“Nobody had really raised the issue previously,” Director of Financial Aid Ed Irish said. “The students generally wanted to be considered for financial aid, so they generally completed the form without thinking about it.”

The College Board’s CSS financial aid form allows

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I suspect if we had a cake with the requisite number of candles, that we would stand a good chance of burning down the [Sir Christopher] Wren Building yet again.

— College of William and Mary Chancellor Robert Gates ’65 on the College celebrating its 321st birthday

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Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, D-Va, reportedly purchased higher-end alcohol to serve at the Governor’s Mansion for “60 parties in 60 days.”

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Virginia governor plans to host “60 parties in 60 days”

Potential meth producers busted in Williamsburg

Gov. Terry McAuliffe, D-Va., has been exploring new ways to make friends across the aisle, The Washington Post reported. He recently purchased a large supply of high-end alcohol to replace the standard Bud Light typically served in the Governor’s Mansion. He made sure to purchase the alcohol with his own money in light of the recent gifts scandal of former Gov. Bob McDonnell, R-Va. McAuliffe declared that there will be “60 parties in 60 days,” referring to the nightly receptions he will hold in the mansion throughout the assembly session. McDonnell chose the preferred beverages of major GOP players.

Two men have been arrested after devising a plan to produce meth in Williamsburg and Upper York County, the WilliamsburgYorktown Daily reported. The men were arrested after an officer found “a bottle of drain opener, pieces of aluminum foil, an empty canister of camping fuel, an acid used to brighten and clean hard surfaces, a sliced-in-half plastic bottle with white residue, and more.” They worked together in upper York County to carry out the plan. One man made the meth while the other “smurfed,” or worked to obtain small, unnoticeable quantities of ephedrine, a key ingredient in meth production.

Local business man accused of felony A Williamsburg businessman is facing felony embezzlement. Demetrios Florakis, chairman of the city’s planning commission, is accused of using construction supplies for unrelated projects. He reportedly committed these offences between July 2012 and April 2013. Florakis was involved in recent efforts to develop a retail and condominium project on Richmond Road.

McAuliffe pursuing Medicaid expansion According to The Washington Post, McAuliffe used the media attention at his first bill-signing Wednesday to further his effort to enforce a Medicaid expansion. He expressed his willingness to work with anyone around the clock for the sake of the economy. Republicans are still skeptical of jumping “on the sinking ship of Obamacare.” They argue that early projections predicted that the state would lose money with the Medicare expansion.

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News in brief Election Law hosts syposium

College to honor Newton with tree

Scientist studies quarks

The William and Mary Election Law Program will be attending a symposium Feb. 21 at the National Constitution Center in Washington, D.C. This symposium will feature leading law scholars, practitioners and a few prominent politicians for discussion.

The program is called “Rethinking D.C. Representation in Congress” and will address issues of Congressional representation for citizens in the nation’s capitol. Multiple panel sessions featuring these experts will examine different aspects of this controversial issue, including amendments to guarantee the right to vote for all citizens, the constitutionality of certain proposals which have been authored and the political realities — or lack of representation — that currently exist for citizens.

The College will honor Sir Isaac Newton later this month with a special event commemorating the great physicist’s work.

On Feb. 22, there will be a ceremonial planting of a descendant of the original apple tree studied by Newton. It will provide the College with a physical link to one of history’s most celebrated minds. The planting will occur outside Small Hall, an appropriate locale because this is where the Department of Physics is located. Newton expert Mordecai Finegold and College President Taylor Reveley will speak. The College’s Department of Theater will put on a play by educator and children’s author David Sobel, who will also be in attendance.

This planting is the key event of the physic department’s Newtonfest.

Quarks are the building blocks of protons and neutrons, and physicists have long been trying to deduce their intrinsic properties and the implications of their existence. Recently, at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, scientists from the lab, the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia carried out an experiment studying this fickle matter. In order to study electron-quark scattering, they used the repetitive symmetry of mirrors to precisely measure the brief moments when the symmetry of matter is broken up by quarks’ scattering. The findings of this experiment, with its new precision and its implications for the field, were published in the international science journal Nature in order to reach a wide scientific audience.

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Board of visitors

BOV concludes before Charter Day Committee on Financial Affairs: 2014-15 budget estimate

By BAILEY KIRKPATRICK flat HAT ASSOC. NEWS EDITOR

The Board of Visitors Committee on Financial Affairs discussed the budget estimate for the 2014-16 biennium of the six-year plan for the College of William and Mary.

In November, the budget was sent to the House Appropriations Committee for assessment, and former Gov. Bob McDonnell, R-Va., introduced a possible budget before his term ended.

This budget estimate will provide a platform from which Gov. Terry McAuliffe, D-Va., and the General Assembly may make additional adjustments. The General Assembly also received the proposed budget for the 2014-16 biennium for the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.

During his term in office, McDonnell vowed to continue support for higher education, and budget changes were made without any tax increases. However, the College did not gain back all the money that it had lost in prior years.

“During the biennium, we recouped about one-third of the $17 million we lost and this does not count expenses,” Vice President for Finance Sam Jones said.

Budget amendments for the 201415 school year came to a grand total of direct allocations of $1,547,480. This money is divided among several sectors, with $328,184 allocated for enrollment growth, $787,878 for base operations and to increase degree incentives, $259,096 designated for the six-year plan for eLearning, $100,000 allocated for

undergraduate financial aid, and $72,322 designated for graduate financial aid.

These numbers do not change much in the 2015-16 school year except in regards to eLearning, where there is a proposed $89,110 increase in the budget for this project.

Employee benefits will be increasing by $970,000, which is a growth rate of 40 percent.

“They are only giving us about 30 percent of the 100 percent that we need in order to make these changes,” Vice Rector Robert Scott J.D. ’68 said. “It doesn’t really seem like we are benefitting from this.”

College President Taylor Reveley responded that the College has “been in the hole” for two years, due to the fiscal losses resulting from the still-re cover ing state of the economy.

During the Jones 2014-15 fiscal year, the budget the College expected to have was composed of about $10.1 million of additional revenue, including an estimated $1.2 million that the College would receive from the state. However, McDonnell proposed an award of just over $1.5 million from the state with revenue of $12.2 million. The budget would still have to support a possible 6 percent monetary base increase in addition to a 3 percent bonus for state employees.

“There is always all this talk about productivity and merit, but the state

gives bonuses to any creature still alive and breathing at a particular date, so long as said creature is not found to be doing blatantly unsatisfactory work,” Reveley said. “The state introduces the bonus gambit every now and then, but this is inherently bad public policy. If employees aren’t doing a good job, then take care of it, but you can’t continue to not pay state employees and then try to incentivize productivity with a binge of bonuses.”

Edward Flippen M.B.A. ’67, J.D. ’74, also raised the point during the meeting that many other colleges run million dollar margins. Jones said that because of the way the state operates, any money carried over to the new fiscal year has to be justified or it may be susceptible to taxes.

In the private sector, the school does have a sitting fund for auxiliary purposes, or enterprises that exist to service students, faculty and staff.

“I am not interested in the private side,” Flippen said. “I think we really ought to build up our rainy day fund. This makes no sense.”

Joseph Montgomery of the Optimal Service Group of Wells Fargo Advisors also reported that, despite some losses, endowment is at an all time high of $78.1 million as of Dec. 31. This is an almost 36 percent increase — or $45 million — in growth from the $27.7 million of endowment the College held in 2002.

“2013 was a good year for stocks, and 50 percent of your portfolio is in stocks,” Montgomery said. “It was overall a very good year, especially for investors.”

Committee on Buildings and Grounds: VIMS, Tyler Hall By claire gillespie flat HAT ASSOc. NEWS EDITOR

The Board of Visitors Committee on Administration, Buildings and Grounds discussed construction projects involving VIMS, Tyler Hall and the Integrated Science Center, as well as the College’s new dining plan, at its meeting last Friday.

Dean and Director of VIMS John Wells spoke about proposed new buildings and the new research vessel at VIMS, while Vice President for Administration Anna Martin described the status of planned construction on campus.

During the last budget allocations, former Governor Bob McDonnell, R-Va., made $8 million available for design and construction at VIMS. With this money, VIMS is developing a new research vessel.

The vessel will hold 11 to 14 people for up to 10 days at sea. It may also feature a diesel electric engine and dynamic positioning. “[Dynamic positioning] literally holds you exactly on a spot where you are on the water regardless of waves, winds and water current,” Wells said.

“It’s expensive, but it’s what all the vessels have.”

The committee also discussed if undergraduates and the other graduate students feel connected to the VIMS campus. Wells said that VIMS is establishing regular transportation

from the College of William and Mary to VIMS. Martin spoke about the College’s reasons for choosing Sodexo dining service after Aramark’s tenure.

“When you present your proposal to us, you’ve got to bring your ‘A’ game every time,” Martin said. “Aramark had an excellent proposal; Sodexo’s was better.”

Martin said she hopes Sodexo will negotiate with the vendors in Tribe Square so that students can spend their dining dollars at places like MOOYAH and Pita Pit. Martin also announced that Associate Vice President of Facilities Management Dave Shepard will retire this summer.

In terms of other projects, construction will begin on Tyler Hall this August after all remaining professors and administrators move out in July.

“We have a small contingent from psychology [in Tyler]. … Now you start a domino effect,” Martin said.

“Psychology is going to move to the basement of Old Dominion Residence Hall; the institutional assessment will move from that into some white houses that have been vacated by University Relations.”

The ISC-3’s working drawings are finished and the project is under code review. Martin said she expects to receive the project’s guaranteed maximum price soon and will bring a master plan to the Board of Visitors in September.

College clarifies site

Applicant pool size increases

Financial aid website dubbed misleading

That puts the expected Class of 2018 at 1,520 students, including the 20 students expected to enroll in the joint degree program with the University of St. Andrews.

Sydni Scrofani ’14 said she

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applicants to apply online for nonfederal financial aid from almost 400 colleges and scholarship programs. The fee associated with the application for the CSS Profile is standard for all College Board financial aid programs.

In a statement released Wednesday, the College’s Dean of Admission and Associate Provost for Enrollment Henry Broaddus said they would fix the website’s language.

“We are certainly sensitive to the cost involved with the submission of the CSS Profile, and we support need-based fee waivers for families where the additional cost would create an undo burden,” Broaddus said in the statement. “Furthermore, we would never deny federal aid to anyone submitting only a FAFSA, but it is in the best interest of any student with financial need to submit both.”

The College’s aid is financed from a combination of private donors, state money and student tuition. Private money derives from enterprises such as the College Board.

“The federal aid really isn’t adequate alone for a number of students,” Irish said. “The federal grant alone was really only 15 percent of our grant money, so we need to get the other 85 percent from other sources.”

According to Irish, about 35 percent of student applicants demonstrated financial need, and 50 to 60 percent of the current student body receives some sort of financial support.

“We certainly want to make sure the language on the website is as clear as possible and we are sensitive to the costs associated with the CSS profile,” Associate Vice President of Communications and University Relations Brian Whitson said. “We reviewed our financial aid website last week and made the appropriate changes.”

CUMMINGS’ FINDINGS Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the ranking Democrat

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and Government Reform, wrote to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan about 111 colleges across the country that he felt were not upfront about fees associated with the College Board’s CSS Profile, according to the Virginia Gazette.

Along with the College of William and Mary, two other Virginia institutions ― Washington and Lee University and University of Richmond ― were included on Cummings’ list.

The list also included Duke University, Stanford University, University of Notre Dame and every member of the Ivy League aside from Princeton University, as reported by The New York Times.

The findings positively highlighted the distinctions between the two applications and different sources of aid featured on the websites of the University of South Carolina and Bard College.

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freshman class this year will include 50 more students than the class we enrolled in 2013,” Broaddus said.

views the growing demand for the College as a very positive trend.

“I think it’s really cool that people value our school and are so eager to come spend four years of their lives here,” Scrofani said.

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and that is why I did what I promised I would do: Within minutes of being signed in as governor, I signed Executive Order number one.”

Along with McAuliffe, mathematics professor David Lutzer received an honorary degree from the College.

Reveley also recognized James Comey ’82, Gary LeClair ’77 and Joyce House Shields ’64, who received the College’s Alumni Medallion over the weekend. English professor Jacquelyn McLendon was presented with the Jefferson Award, while assistant professor of psychology Cheryl Dickter received the Thomas Jefferson Teaching Award.

The Drapers’ Company of London received the Lord Botetourt Award, which honors non-alumni members of the College community who are philanthropically active.

Students were also recognized at the ceremony: Laura Godwin ’14 was honored with the Monroe Prize for Civic Leadership, and Stephen Cameron ’14 received the Thomas Jefferson Prize in Natural Philosophy.

Ariel Cohen ’14 served as the student speaker at the ceremony, emphasizing the importance of the College’s community and the families she found over the course of her career.

“Life at William and Mary is about so much more than those stressful lectures or those completely out-of-the-blue pop quizzes,” Cohen said. “Life here is about the people.”

Both McAuliffe and Cohen mentioned bouncing back from failure in their speeches.

Cohen spoke about the College community’s support in times of difficulty, while McAuliffe encouraged students to take chances.

“Four years ago, I ran for governor, and I got crushed,” McAuliffe said. “It happens. But you know what, folks? I got out of bed the next day, I dusted myself off, and I went right back to work.

And that’s the reason I’m standing here as the 77th governor of the commonwealth of Virginia.

Take chances — you’re going to get knocked down. Get right back up and get back in that arena. ” Editor’s Note: Ariel Cohen ’14 serves as Chief Staff Writer for The Flat Hat.

― Flat Hat Managing Editor Meredith Ramey

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Christian Bale ‘13 M.P.P ‘15 recited part of the charter of the College during the Charter Day ceremony.

RANKINGS

College of William and Mary falls in rankings of Top Peace Corps Volunteer-Producing Colleges The College of William and Mary ranked 22nd in the Peace Corps’ latest list of the top volunteerproducing colleges and universities. The list, released this month, marks a significant fall from the College’s ninth place ranking on last year’s list.

For the past two years, the College has hovered in the top ten ranks of the Peace Corps’ list for medium-sized schools, placing ninth last year and

eighth in 2012. Since the Peace Corps’ founding in 1961, around 600 graduates from the College have joined the group.

In the medium-school category, Western Washington University topped the list with 65 graduates this year, followed by the University of Virginia with 44 volunteers.

— Flat Hat Editor-in-Chief Katherine Chiglinsky

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he College of William and Mary celebrated its 321st Charter Day last Friday with, among other things, a speech from newly inaugurated Gov. Terry McAuliffe, D-Va., who received an honorary degree. While lauding the College’s work and alumni (including those in his administration), he pressed the need for increased funding for pre-kindergarten education and for community colleges, endeavors that are worth supporting.

However, McAuliffe spent little time speaking about the need for more state financial support for public universities. This issue has not gone away since last Charter Day. The College has not recovered two-thirds of its losses during the recession, and the state’s contribution as a percentage of the College’s operating budget remains dismal. We hope McAuliffe recognizes the importance of affordable, quality public education while he works with the Virginia General Assembly on its final budget.

Before the end of his term, former Gov. Bob McDonnell proposed a budget that allocated more money than expected to the College — $1,542,480, rather than $1,200,000. McAuliffe and the General Assembly need to preserve or raise this amount.

Either way, it is a temporary solution to the long-term problem of Virginia’s declining contribution to public colleges. As the College provides predictability and stability to its in-state students through the William and Mary Promise, so should Virginia by providing funding to public colleges. Virginia needs affordable public colleges if it is to remain competitive and attractive.

Virginia can prosper only if all of its people — including its poorest — have access to college. The rising cost of higher education and staggering wealth inequality threaten opportunity for most Americans. Combined with an increasingly competitive global workforce and rapidly evolving technology, we will face challenges unknown to previous generations. These challenges must be met by a nation more widely educated than ever.

Americans have responded, with colleges receiving record numbers of applications, but students have borne a tremendous cost: Americans owe between $900 billion and $1 trillion in student loans. This debt means millions of graduates will have less freedom to take risks and to innovate — precisely what is necessary to maintain the edge the United States and the state of Virginia need.

McAuliffe concluded his speech with an anecdote: As a budding 15-year-old entrepreneur, he drove his uncle’s truck, without a license, down a highway to transport cement filler necessary for his business. We applaud his daring; his entrepreneurial spirit has taken him far — from head of McAuliffe Driveway Maintenance to chairman of the Democratic National Committee to governor of Virginia. He should remember the role his college education played in his success. Surely, he learned valuable skills, made important contacts, and built a reputation of credibility. This is even more vital 35 years after McAuliffe graduated.

State funding for the College and for all other public universities will always be subject to external factors such as economic performance, state revenue and the prevailing political winds.

What we ask is that McAuliffe accord the College the same respect during the Virginia General Assembly’s budget negotiations as he did at the 321st Charter Day.

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GUEST COLUMN

Correcting myths about bipolar disorder Myth Two: Bipolar disorder is a back-and-forth between happy and angry

Fact: Emotions manifest themselves differently in people.

For me, it is periods of lethargic resentfulness that are offset by periods of intense energy and the ability to accomplish things rapidly.

Dylan Frendt

Myth Three: People with bipolar disorder require medication and cannot steadily function

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Sometimes, it watches in eerie quiet. It’s an unavoidable Fact: Bipolar disorder can be treated holistically. While whisper. It waits for me in a dark place and creeps up on me this includes medicine, a powerful approach is a cognitive when I turn toward the light. It is a siren on a rock in a cold understanding of anger triggers, patterns of emotions and northern sea, beckoning me toward the frozen, paralyzing waves warning cues to preempt highs and lows. of inevitability.

Myth Four: There is no hope and no end Sometimes, it screams. It burns in a blaze of unquenchable Fact: Bipolar disorder is permanent. Every day presents a fire. It destroys everything in front of me. person with the possibility of a new battle or triumph, only to Still sometimes, it soars. As it soars, it is like a dazzling star. It is be offset by the horror that is unpredictable and sometimes a chorus of laughter multiplied by a chorus of laughter multiplied unavoidable sadness, detachment and defeat. This does not by infinity, and the sound can be heard across the world. It is good mean that we have to give up.

— too good — so good that goodness becomes an electric pulse.

Much like any mental illness, bipolar disorder needs to be Using words is my way of coping with my talked about. If you know people who bipolar disorder. Ever since I was a child, have bipolar disorder, or any other Experiencing any mental illness I recall feeling a burden that I could not mental illness, reach out to them. is a continual struggle. Give the explain. As I grew, the burden manifested Let them come to you. It is a part of itself in beautiful and terrible ways. It became them, and people are beautiful. person time to figure it out. the energy to smile and laugh and care in Be patient. Experiencing any the face of frustration, but it also became mental illness is a continual struggle unpredictable malice and detachment that frightened those I love. against one’s mind. It is hard to comprehend, even for me.

In this way, having bipolar disorder became my greatest strength Its definitions are fluid, and its parameters are constantly and my greatest weakness. It has taken me 22 years to say this, but expanding. Give the person time to figure it out.

I have forgiven myself.

For those of you who may have bipolar disorder, or any other People say that those who have bipolar disorder have the form of mental illness, I want you to know that I love you. I highest of highs and the lowest of lows. I cannot speak for respect you. You are in my heart. everyone, but this is true for me.

I believe that love is a cure and that there are people in many I was inspired by a Flat Hat column on depression written forms and places who can help. in December. The writer of that column is a beautiful person.

This is not your fault. What you go through every day requires Much like her, I seek to write about some myths that we can all strength and determination. I admire you. overcome.

You are never alone. When you are weak, you are strong.

When you cannot go on, you can rest. When the pain is too Myth One: Bipolar disorder is an excuse much: Forgive yourself, love yourself, and be forgiven and loved Fact: Bipolar disorder is real. It is hard to understand because by others. it takes on different forms. It is difficult to imagine somebody’s mood and personality dictated by forces beyond their control.

Email Dylan Frendt at drfrendt@email.wm.edu.

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Last week we ran a guest column titled, “Reaction to the leaked Sigma Chi email has been extreme and unnecessary,” which garnered a large reaction. Here are some reader responses from The Flat Hat’s website.

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The atmosphere on campus — and most of my friends’ campuses — is so hive-minded and radical-dominated that anyone who even suggests something as reasonable and productive as maybe softening rhetoric is pilloried by rage-blinded people who most definitely want to suppress any speech that runs counter to their orthodoxy.

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In a truly accepting and respectful college community, the response to this email embarrassment would be to express strong support/solidarity for/with the group of people targeted by it, instead of jumping to the defense of the guy who wrote it.

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As a woman and a survivor of sexual assault, I agree with everything you’re saying. While what was said in that email was atrocious, I accepted it for the joke that it was. I’m glad you were able to voice your opinion. It was well written and represented a group of people who see this email for what it is — a joke in poor taste.

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Freedom of speech does not mean you’re safe from social ostracizing, If I say that your behavior warrants you shunned, and that’s what happens; guess what? That’s not the government silencing you!

—John Commoner

Please educate yourself in regards to gender, sexuality, and women’s issues. I would suggest qualifying yourself to speak on the matter before basing an entire argument on your limited individual experiences with the situation.

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Five different kinds of love that should be celebrated on Valentine’s Day Andrea Aron-Schiavone FLAT HAT OPINIONS COLUMNIST

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “There are all kinds of love in this world, but never the same love twice.” Although Valentine’s Day is often branded as exclusively celebrating one kind of love, Feb. 14 can also be a gentle reminder to treasure the different kinds of love we all have and give in our lives. Here are just a few kinds that can be appreciated by everyone, regardless of relationship status:

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Friend soul mates

The term “soul mate” is often romantically tinged, but it is a role that can be filled by our cherished friends. As Thomas Moore said, a soul mate is “someone to whom we feel

profoundly connected, as though the communicating and communing that take place between us is not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace.” Whether you are blessed with a sibling who knows you better than you know yourself, a roommate who completely understands (and partakes in) your weirdness, or a childhood friend with whom you inexplicably feel connected, these kindred spirits can foster our most precious and enduring relationships.

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A group or cause that tugs on your heartstrings

Sharing your time and talents with a cause or group of people about which you are passionate is always welcomed. Spreading your kindness could be especially appreciated on Valentine’s Day when certain individuals may be feeling particularly lonely or forgotten. Wounded veterans, nursing home and women’s

shelter residents and children in a hospital could likely all have their days brightened by receiving some handmade valentines. Or, you could share some love with your favorite non-profit by volunteering or giving a small donation.

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Humanity

This sounds like a tall order, but we can show our love and acceptance for all people in countless small but meaningful ways every day. I personally want to be better at speaking up and saying, “Hey, that’s wrong,” when someone tries to make a joke that demeans someone’s ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality, socioeconomic status or mental state.

By realizing the power of our words and committing to more sensitive and respectful language, we can express love towards all kinds of people with whom we share the human experience.

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Your mentor or role model

We all know incredible individuals who make us want to be better people: an extraordinary upperclassman that has taken you under her wing, a relative who leads by his example, the president of your favorite on-campus organization who inspires you with her dedication. These people would certainly appreciate a handwritten note or a coffee date in which we tell them how much of an impact they have had on us.

is a lifelong and rewarding journey, and small steps in the right direction are still significant.

While these kinds of love can be celebrated year-round, Valentine’s Day reminds us to appreciate love in its many forms and the countless loved ones who have touched our hearts.

Email Andrea Aron-Schiavone at acaronschiavon@email.wm.edu.

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Yourself

As clichéd as it sounds, Valentine’s Day is an excellent reminder to treat yourself. Remind yourself of your strengths and talents. Forgive yourself for your so-called “shortcomings” that are probably things that people truly value in you. Strive to love yourself as your loved ones do. This is all easier said than done, but self-love

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Ray and his colleague Travis cook up breakfast at Grille Works in the Marketplace. Ray says that his mother has taught him about cooking and staying positive.

Meet Ray: single dad, singer at heart and smiling chef at Grille Works

BY JILLIAN BATES FLAT HAT ASSOC. VARIETY EDITOR

If you want a genuine smile on a rough day and food not made on an assembly line, turn to Grille Works at the Marketplace Cafe. Sometimes the only thing to make you feel better is a good burger and a “Hey, how are you doing?” from Ray. You know Ray. The guy who asks how you are and then keeps asking.

The guy who picks on you for forgetting about him and choosing the Sadler Center’s buffet style instead of Ray’s style. The guy who looks into your eyes and gives you a genuine smile every time he hands you your burger and says, “Have a nice day.” That laugh that makes you smile.

Raymond Scott has worked as a chef at the College of William and Mary’s Marketplace for three years. His main domain is Grille Works. He can make anything, according to the only reliable source — Ray. “Mr. Ray will hook you up,” he said with a smile.

“Tell me what you want for dinner one night, and I’ll go get it.”

In his free time, Ray’s favorite hobby is singing gospel music.

Ray’s face lit up as he told me he simply loves cooking and loves seeing smiles on the students’ faces. He tries to remember each student’s regular order so that when he sees the student walk toward Grille Works, he can get a head start preparing the order and hopefully minimize the student’s wait time.

Nick Rance ’16 always enjoys seeing Ray at the Grille. “[I love] his willingness to make a personal connection with students, ask about our days and classes, [and] learn our names and stuff like that,” Rance said.

Ray thoroughly enjoys his craft.

“I’m all about pride in my food when I cook it; I like it to look good and taste good”.

According to Ray, everything the cafeteria workers make at the College has a recipe. He explained that workers have some leeway to change the recipe here and there if it results in a better product than the original. Ray admits to taking advantage of this freedom from time to time and running with it. He said he uses the cooking skills he learned from his mother to give the food a bit more kick.

“A lot of the chefs here tell me they went to culinary school, and I say the best culinary school is your momma. She taught me everything I know,” he said.

Ray confessed that his interest in cooking is something he owes to his mom.

A single mom and an aunt raised Ray, along with his six siblings and two cousins.

“I would stand in the kitchen while she cooked things for the holidays, and eventually she started letting me help her cook,” he said. “That’s how I first fell in love with cooking, and I’ve been in love with it ever since.”

Eventually, Ray learned to make his best and favorite dish, homemade sweet potato pie. Due to the shameless pestering of one particular Flat Hat

reporter, he promised he would try to make sweet potato pie one day in Marketplace for the students.

Sweet potato pie lovers should be on the lookout now that Ray’s promise is in print. Unsurprisingly, when asked who was the most influential person in his life, he paused, smiled, and stated that it is his mom.

“That’s the one, my mom, the only one. She molded us [him and his siblings], she taught us right from wrong, to love others, respect other’s feelings, and always treat others how you wish to be treated,” he said.

According to Ray, his mom took the idea of respecting everyone in every way and applied it to cooking.

“She told me if you ever cook for someone else to always make sure the food you pass out to other people, you would eat yourself,” he said.

Ray’s mom not only knew the secret to putting her foot in her food, she also knew how to move her feet to a less domestic beat.

“As a child my mother loved dancing,” Ray said.

According to Ray, at 92 years old she still loves to take to the dance floor.

Now, Ray is a single father who has been raising an ambitious 17-year-old son on his own for 10 years.

He said his relationship with his son is just as strong as his relationship with his mother.

He takes pride in his son’s good grades and noted that he wants to work in the medical field. Of course, his son is considering applying to the College. Ray joked that this would require that his son partake in another four years of his cooking.

Ray also confided that when he was younger, he dreamed of becoming a professional gospel singer.

He gave up on this after he realized that his voice did not have the commercial appeal required to support such a career. That said, he noted it was a childhood dream. His inspirations ranged from James Brown to James Cleveland. Even now, Ray hasn’t completely given up on his dream.

“I like to see all people get along. I don’t care what race you are, where you come from, everybody [seeing] everybody get together, and gospel is a type of thing that brings people together,” he said.

He said if he could change anything in his life, he would change his voice and become a part-time gospel singer.

“I want [students] to have what I didn’t have, someone that can be there for them and always encourage them … to continue to fight on. You are going to get stronger. You are going to get better.

Nothing can stop your joy,” he said.

Ray admitted that he loves affecting young people’s lives.

“I try my best to make everybody happy. It is all I want in life, to see all these kids that I have influenced over the years of cooking breakfast for them, talking to them and getting to know them, that they get better and they are going to graduate and have a good life,” he said.

Ray says that he loves interacting with college students.

CHECK OUT RAY’S VIDEO INTERVIEW The Flat Hat interviews Grille Works Chef Raymond Scott. Watch the video on Flathatnews.com. Stay tuned for more interviews with campus superheroes this year.

TWAMPs “Work Hard, Play Hard” at Wiz Khalifa Big name rapper delivers with strong, lively performance, invites students to dance on stage with him

BY SKY SPRAYBERRY THE FLAT HAT

We all know the College of William and Mary student body works hard.

On Saturday night, they proved they could play hard in true Wiz Khalifa fashion.

The cheering and chatter before the concert began was audible upon entering the doors of William and Mary Hall. The floor of Kaplan Arena had changed from the ceremonial stage that hosted Chancellor Robert Gates ’65 and College President Taylor Reveley during Friday’s Charter Day Ceremony to the stage that the Grammy-nominated, big-name rapper would dominate. The audience was a mix between diehard Wiz fans and students just excited that the College

got such a big name to perform. The excitement in the Arena was palpable and increased as the stands filled up.

A little after 8 p.m., Chevy Woods — otherwise known as the opener very few members of the audience had actually heard of — made his entrance.

He tried to pump up the crowd with his music. Unfortunately for both him and the audience, the attempt fell flat, as barely anyone knew the songs. He rapped some songs and left without taking up too much time.

In the period of silence between Chevy Woods and Wiz Khalifa, the floor became a war zone. Concertgoers pushed each other trying to get to the front. Elbows came out in full force, as did ensuing passive aggressive comments. Some people got blatantly aggressive, screaming at each other

and shoving people — shout out to the girl who tried to fight me because I kept being pushed into her. The audience began to get impatient and demanded that the concert start up again with chants of “Wiz! Wiz!” which were met with nothing but silence from the stage.

After a few lifetimes, the lights on stage changed and Wiz’s band appeared. The rapper himself was met with thunderous cheers from the crowd. He echoed the energy of the horde, channeling the excitement into his performance. Wiz filled up the whole stage throughout his performance, dancing around and moving his head along with the music.

Soon after Wiz began, the floor turned into a mosh pit, students bumping into each other and dancing

as best as one can to rap music. Puffs of smoke — from a mysterious source — came up from different areas of the crowd throughout the concert. The audience enjoyed this brief escape from the stresses of school and got caught up in the music.

He sang a number of different songs, including his popular “Young, Wild and Free,” the only song to which a majority of the audience actually knew the lyrics. He also sang some mildly familiar songs like “No Sleep” and “Work Hard, Play Hard,” along with other songs that only the avid Wiz fans really knew. His performance included College students dancing on stage, Wiz stripping from the waist up — much to many audience members’ delight — and a certain plea that the women in the audience show off their

assets “for the boys.”

This Charter Day concert seemed like an overall success, with a seemingly higher attendance than Gavin DeGraw’s performance last year.

It certainly had more buzz on campus in the days leading up to the concert.

The audience ate up both Wiz’s music and onstage antics.

Unless they live under a rock, most people in our generation recognize Wiz Khalifa’s name. Expectations for the Charter Day concert had been high since the performer was announced at the Yule Log ceremony in December.

Wiz exceeded those expectations and set the bar high for next year’s Charter Day concert.

Here’s to hoping that the next performer, whoever that will be, will meet the standard set this year.

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Nadia’s story

The Flat Hat

When Angela Mason’s daughter was diagnosed with cancer, her colleagues sprung into action

BY TUCKER HIGGINS // FLAT HAT STAFF WRITER

ALL PHOTOS COURTESY / ANGELA MASON

Nadia was diagnosed last May with nasopharyngeal carcinoma, a type of rare cancer that affects the nose, ears and throat. She was diagnosed after spending several months suffering from what many doctors presumed to be typical allergic reactions.

It was only after Nadia’s lymph nodes swelled so badly she could hardly move her neck that doctors began to understand the seriousness of the situation. Nadia entered the hospital May 1 and was administered a series of tests, including a biopsy. On the afternoon of May 6, doctors told Mason what they had found. The cancer, which afflicts fewer than one in a million children in Nadia’s age range, was in its furthest stage by the time they caught it. Nadia would have to be pulled from school to undergo chemotherapy.

Jessica Raymond, who works with Mason, was in the office when Mason called from the hospital.

“She was screaming, and I couldn’t understand what she was saying until finally I heard the word ‘cancer,’” Raymond said.

From that phone call emerged what would later be called TEAM Nadia, a group comprised of five of Mason’s coworkers. TEAM Nadia was established to help Nadia through her recovery and raise funds for her treatments. One member of the group was a cancer survivor, and some members had children themselves.

TEAM Nadia stepped in to help Mason manage her work, host events in the Williamsburg area — including a triathlon that, with 50 volunteers, was larger than any of their sponsors had ever handled — and collect donations from organizations based around the country.

“I don’t think they even told me all that they were doing because they thought I would stress over it,” said Mason.

In addition to helping fund the treatment Nadia needed, TEAM Nadia also collected in-kind donations, like postage stamps, a shower chair and a new mattress. On Nadia’s 12th birthday, a local church videotaped a message so that Nadia could celebrate from her

ngela Mason spends most nights in her daughter’s room, listening carefully to the sound of the 12-year-old’s breathing. According to Mason, a member of the College of William and Mary Residence Life staff, her daughter Nadia is allergic to “almost everything.” Even so, every sniffle in the night has been a cause for concern.

hospital bed.

At the time of the diagnosis, Nadia was an introverted fifth grader. She was shy because, as her mom put it, “she thought she was a little crazy.” When she wasn’t in school, she would read what she could, and she loved to swim.

Starting that summer, however, a combination of chemotherapy, radiation and various drugs made it nearly impossible for Nadia to be physically active. During the course of treatment, Nadia lost her hair, her energy and her ability to eat solid food. Radiation aggravated her neck, so she kept a towel around it when she walked. For 35 days in the fall, she received two painful shots each day in order to retain her ability to taste.

Nadia and her mom never discussed Nadia’s conception of death or its possibility. Some nights, Nadia would say that she was ready for whatever treatment was necessary. On other nights, according to Mason, she just seemed tired and wanted the pain to be over.

“Some nights we would just cry

Nadia smiles and meets with a supporter. Once, the 12-year-old asked her mother why her friends in the hospital didn’t have a team like she did.

together,” Mason said.

Throughout the process, Nadia was aware of the help she was receiving.

Once, she asked her mother why her friends in the hospital didn’t have a team like she did.

“If she got a bunch of crayons or a bunch of coloring books, she would give them away and keep only one for herself,” Raymond said.

And on her birthday in July, while hooked up to an intravenous therapy machine, Nadia asked her mother what a foundation was.

“We’re going to turn the attic into a store,” Nadia said to her mom. “And when we know someone needs something, we are going to give it to them free.”

Nadia was planning for, as she put it, “the end.” However, late this fall, “the end” was postponed.

On the day before Halloween, Oct. 30, 2013, doctors confirmed that Nadia no longer had cancer. One more appointment had to be scheduled, to remove the chemotherapy port Nadia still had inserted above her clavicle. In her mother’s pink planner, Oct. 30 is

marked in all capital letters: “NADIA CANCER FREE.” Nadia is still dealing with the lasting effects of her condition and the treatments, and she may have to for the rest of her life. Her energy remains depleted and, after spending so long on a feeding tube, dietary complications continue.

But Nadia, who recently returned to school, said that acclimating to sixth grade is not as difficult as she thought it would be.

Although she used to ask questions such as, “What did I do to give myself cancer?” and “What will happen to all my stuff in the end?” Now, she asks her mom why the boys are acting differently than they did in fifth grade, whether her classmates will like her hair or make fun of it, what it will be like to have her own locker, and if she’ll have the energy to open it.

While Angela Mason continues to spend many nights by her daughter’s bedside, listening for any sign of disturbance, life for Nadia is beginning to return to normal.

Nadia’s hospital bed. Her form of cancer is rare, afflicting fewer than one in a million children.

CONFUSION CORNER

Don’t be the Grinch that stole Valentine’s Day Somehow, as we got older, Valentine’s Day lost its magic. Forget the stress and reclaim this lovely holiday.

Ariel Cohen

Confusion Corner columnist

Valentine’s Day. For some, the mere phrase brings dread and conjures images of sitting in bed and throwing chocolates at the TV screen — do people really do that?

For others, the Hallmark holiday produces feelings of romance and stress about buying that perfect gift — but, love is an everyday thing, not a one-day thing, so why all the planning?

This may be harsh, but chances are, you’re not

doing Valentine’s Day right.

If you are one of those people who hates Valentine’s Day and decide to be the sad-becausethey’re-dateless, “Grinch who stole Valentine’s Day” type of person, what you are doing is limiting.

Similarly, if you have a special person in your life, yes, go ahead and celebrate him or her — that’s wonderful! But, if you spend the day only celebrating that one love, you are equally limiting yourself.

There are so many people to love in this world.

Celebrate them all. Valentine’s Day is about love, and if you only love one person, that’s pretty sad.

Chances are you feel some sort of love, respect or admiration for many of your roommates, housemates, classmates, professors or friends.

Think about the fun of Valentine’s Day as a kid.

We spent weeks cutting hearts out of pink paper doilies and sticking Hershey’s hugs to punny little

note cards. The morning of Valentine’s Day, we woke up, maybe had heart-shaped pancakes for breakfast, put on red or pink clothes, arrived to class early, passed out our notes to our friends, then ate enough store-bought candy to produce a sugar-coma and maybe played a round or two of pin the tail on the donkey. Most importantly, we went home happy, smiling and bubbly.

But somehow, as we got older, bit-by-bit, Valentine’s Day lost its magic. Rather than being a pure celebration of those we love best, the holiday became a dating and relationships pressure cooker.

How many times have you had to define an ambiguous relationship around Valentine’s Day? That’s not really fair. How many times have you spent days agonizing over perfect plans for the day?

None of this is fun.

Who says we can’t still have those happy Valentine’s Day memories of yore? Who says that

Valentine’s Day is all about one person? That just doesn’t seem right when there are so many people in our lives worth loving and celebrating.

So, no matter if you’re in a relationship or if you’re single, I advise you to wake up early. Throw on a pink or red sweater. Grab a hot chocolate from the Daily Grind with an old friend. Run around campus, placing fun notes and Hershey’s kisses under all your friends’ doors. Listen to the “Pop Love Songs” playlist on iTunes radio. Smile a bit wider; hug people a bit more often.

Spend the day making sure everyone you love in your life knows how much you care. We don’t stop to do that enough.

So, here’s to the second best Hallmark holiday ever (besides Christmas). Happy Valentine’s Day. Ariel Cohen is a Confusion Corner columnist and will be accepting all hand-made and storebought Valentine’s cards.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Second half surge falters down stretch

Hofstra silences College with critical 16-5 run over final seven minutes of game

BY SAMANTHA COHEN FLAT HAT STAFF WRITER

Courtesy photo / TRIBE ATHLETICS

BY THE NUMBERS

The College’s defense, which holds the lowest scoring defense average in the CAA at 70.6, surrendered 66 points Sunday.

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Consecutive road games the Tribe has lost, dating back to Dec. 28

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Minutes played

by Boone Sunday; Kerstetter played 39 minutes.

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Turnovers committed by Boone, who also had 16 points.

William and Mary lost 56-66 to Hofstra in New York, despite a second half rally in which they outscored Hofstra 25-24 but failed to bridge the gap.

Although the Tribe (5-16, 2-7 CAA) led 7-1 at the start, Hofstra (10-11, 5-5 CAA) led 42-31 by halftime and totaled 14 offensive rebounds in comparison to the Tribe’s eight. Junior forward Jazmen Boone led the Tribe in points in the first half, scoring 14. Still, Boone alone could not offset Hofstra’s offensive prowess.

“I thought [during] the first half we were kind of flat, especially in the defensive side and on the defensive glass,” head coach Ed Swanson said to TribeAthletics. “The second half we challenged [the] team at half time, and they came up [and] they responded. We were scrappier, we hung a little bit better on the glass, we were moving better, our offense was moving because our defense was better and our rebounding was better.”

The game was knotted up at 16-16 before Hofstra rolled to a 5-0 run with guard Asia Jackson’s three-pointer punctuating the stretch. Hofstra shot 50 percent from the field during the first half, while the Tribe shot 41.4 percent from the field.

The beginning of the second half served as a turnaround for the Tribe, opening with an 8-4 stretch. Freshman point guard Marlena Tremba scored 11 points following halftime and junior guard Anna Kestler aided the team with four assists. Tremba, Boone and junior guard Kyla Kerstetter all scored double-digit points by the end of the game.

“Jazmen had a tremendous overall game,” Swanson said to TribeAthletics. “I thought she battled terrifically on the glass. …

She gave us great energy today. I thought Kyla [Kerstetter] played one of her better floor games and Marlena [Tremba] continues to do what she’s doing [which] is hitting shots.”

Buoyed by an 11-0 run midway through the second half, the Tribe surged back to take the lead with 8 minutes, 29 seconds left in the game. Sophomore guard Brooke Stewart hit a critical three-pointer to put her team on top 51-50.

Despite the energy boost, the Tribe was not able to reverse the deficit it accrued in the first half. Hofstra guard Annie Peyton came off the bench to lead the game with 19 points, part of her team’s 34 bench points, a large amount compared to the Tribe’s eight.

Rebounding has been a common problem for the Tribe this season, and Sunday’s game was no different. The Pride

outrebounded the Tribe by 20 boards, 51-31.

“We got knocked back on our heels early on the offensive glass,” Swanson said. “They had 28 offensive rebounds. You’re not gonna win too many games giving up 28 offensive rebounds. … But [I’m] real excited about the energy that we played with, the effort we played with, and that’s been consistent for the last two weeks, we’ve just got to keep building on that.”

Tremba scored 14 points on 4-11 shooting, her sixth straight double-digit scoring performance. She fell into foul trouble in the second half. Her four personal fouls limited her minutes during the final stretch of the game.

The Tribe’s record is now 2-7 in the Colonial Athletic Association, with the two wins placing them second to last in the division above UNC-Wilmington.

“We showed tremendous toughness today, but we need[ed] to breakthrough and get a big road win,” Swanson said.

“We’re gonna have off tomorrow and [be] back at it Tuesday and Wednesday. We gotta continue with that energy and effort on both sides of the floor.”

The Tribe will face Northeastern (9-14, 3-7 CAA) on the road at 7 p.m Thursday night. The matchup will be the first between the two teams this season.

TRACK AND FIELD

College men, women secure victories at CNU Frenia takes first place in shot put, weight throw, comes close to setting school records in both

BY ALEX COFFEY THE FLAT HAT William and Mary used a series of impressive performances to win the Division I bracket of Christopher Newport University’s Vince Brown Invitational Saturday, beating out Hampton, Virginia Commonwealth and Norfolk State in both the men’s and women’s sides.

The Tribe was particularly strong in its field events, as sophomore Taylor Frenia won both the shot put and weight throw competitions. Frenia came close to rewriting program history by achieving the thirdbest performance in both events. Sophomore Brian Waterfield finished behind Frenia in both the shot put and weight throw while moving up to fifth in program history with a throw of 16.64 meters in the shot put, his lifetime-best throw by almost 20 inches.

The event wins didn’t stop outside of the throwing circle, however. The College’s pole-vaulting corps performed well as all five athletes finishing in the top-seven positions. Redshirt-freshman Derek O’Connell led the way with a 4.90-meter jump, good for the sixth-best in program history.

On the track, seniors David Gunnerson and Troy Sevachko finished within the top five in the 800-meter race, despite both competing in the event

for the first time.

Enjoying a recent slew of event wins and records, director of track and field Stephen Walsh pointed to strong inner-squad competition.

“We have some great kids competing at a high level. Not only are there kids going for high records, but there are kids pushing them at a higher level,” Walsh said.

Next weekend, while senior Elaina Balouris, junior Emily Stites and sophomore Meghan McGovern will run in the Iowa State Classic Friday, the rest of the College team will compete at the prestigious Armory Track in New York City as part of the Lafayette/Rider Winter Games.

“You always have pressure going into competition, but we’ll be going into a fast track, not a flat track, so that will give us an extra advantage.

Going up to New York and competing in the historical Armory is a huge deal for some of these kids,” Walsh said. “They’ll be competing against some top teams in the Northeast. This will be our one big weekend to hit some throws far and pop some times.”

Looking ahead, Walsh hopes the Tribe’s indoor season will help improve its outdoor performance.

With a handful of athletes having already qualified for the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference

Championships and the Inter-Collegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America Championships, the goal remains to defend its outdoor Colonial Athletic Association title.

“Indoor is a building block, establishing what we can do outdoors,” Walsh said.

The College’s men return to action alongside the women in the Lafayette/Rider Winter Games Friday.

Courtesy photo / TRIBE ATHLETICS

Sophomore Taylor Frenia threw for a lifetime-best 18.00 meters in the weight throw, his second IC4A qualification mark.

GYMNASTICS

College women finish second in tri-meet, fall short of Rutgers Men top Springfield for second straight victory; Funiciello wins parallel bars, rings, breaking his own school record

BY MEREDITH RAMEY FLAT HAT MANAGING EDITOR William and Mary enjoyed a string of successful performances Sunday. The men’s team defeated Springfield College, while the women came in second at a tri-meet at George Washington.

The College set a new program record on parallel bars with a score of 71.05 Sunday in its 420.45-407.1 victory at Springfield.

Senior Landon Funiciello led the Tribe individually, winning parallel bars and rings.

Funiciello broke his own school record on parallel bars with a score of 15.15, but he fell shy of his school standard on rings, with a

score of 15.9. Sophomore Neal Courter won in floor, vault and high bar.

Courter, Funiciello and junior James Jindra swept the top three places in floor, and the College posted a season-high score of 71.2. The College’s season-high score in pommel horse — totaling 70.55 — maximized junior Jason Wang’s third-place finish and sophomore Keaton Ackerman’s and junior Peter Ten Eyck’s season highs.

The women’s team broke the program’s vault record with a score of 49.025 en route to its second-place finish at the George Washington tri-meet.

Finishing with the sixth-best score in College history, the Tribe scored season

highs on bars (48.625) and beam (48.525).

Individually, sophomore Brittany Stover broke the College’s vault record, winning with a score of 9.925. Stover’s performance, alongside two other Tribe career highs, propelled the College to a program-high score of 49.025.

Stover placed second in all-around, and her score of 39.075 placed her second-best in College history for all-around. Stover set the school standard last season at 39.150.

The women’s team competes in the Sweetheart Invitational at North Carolina State Saturday at 7 p.m., while the men’s team continues its season at 3 p.m. Sunday at Navy.

Courtesy photo / TRIBE ATHLETICS

Sophomore Brittany Stover set a new school-record in the vault with 9.925.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

College wins fourth straight on road

109-year mark falls as Britt, Thornton help Tribe to first win in Boston, 82-70 over Northeastern

BY CHRIS WEBER FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR Facing its third road game in seven days, William and Mary blitzed Northeastern in the first half en-route to a historic 82-70 win Saturday. The College’s eighth road win, top in the nation, marked the first win at Northeastern in the program’s 109year history.

An 8-0 Tribe run in the first two minutes set the tone as the Huskies (8-17, 5-6 CAA) failed to keep pace with the College’s (15-8, 7-3 CAA) offense.

“To say we came out flat, I think, is an understatement. We really didn’t come out with much energy at all, and sometimes that happens when you get too excited to play and too ready to play,” Northeastern head coach Bill Coen told Northeastern Athletics. “I thought William and Mary really came out of the box and executed. They’re a great execution team.”

Junior guard Marcus Thornton and senior center Tim Rusthoven benefitted from the Huskies’ lax defense in the early going, combining for 13 of the Tribe’s first 15 points as the College built a 15-4 lead six minutes into the contest.

Thornton finished with a game-high 25 points, his eighth straight game with the most points on the team, alongside a team-high five assists and career-high five steals. Rusthoven turned in a productive outing, recording 13 points on 6 of 9 shooting in 19 minutes.

With Thornton and head coach Tony Shaver’s offense seeming able to score at will, the Huskies also melted under the Tribe’s defensive effort.

Thornton and senior guard Julian Boatner alone accounted for nine steals.

“We kind of fueled the fire with 10 first-half turnovers,” Coen told Northeastern Athletics. “When you give [William and Mary] points in transition and allow them to run their stuff, and obviously they’re going to shoot a great percentage, they got very, very comfortable in a hurry.”

The College shot 60.7 percent from the field, including 62.5 percent from three-point range, in

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Senior guard Brandon Britt helped stave off a Northeastern run in Saturday’s 82-70 win, hitting all six of his free throws.

the first half to race to a 45-18 halftime advantage.

While limiting Northeastern to a 23.1 percent field goal percentage, including no made threepoint shots, the opening period marked the seventh half of the season in which the Tribe has shot at least 60 percent.

“I thought defensively we were terrific for the first

20 minutes. That’s where it all started. I would love to see this team … play a great 40 minutes. I look forward to the day where we play 40 great minutes,” head coach Tony Shaver told Tribe Athletics.

Having led by as many as 29 in the opening 20 minutes, the College didn’t ease up early in the second. Thornton found senior forward Kyle

Gaillard for the duo’s second alley-oop of the contest to extend the College’s lead to 33.

Despite the deficit, the Huskies turned in a strong second-half performance to cut the Tribe’s lead to as little as 10.

Cooling off from its first half, the College shot 47.4 percent from the field and hit only two of its nine three-point attempts.

Meanwhile, a rejuvenated Northeastern team shot 54.1 percent from the field and, having missed all 10 attempts in the first half, managed to sink six three-pointers in the second.

“We didn’t do a very good job in that stretch of walking the fine line of being patient with the clock yet staying aggressive,” Shaver told Tribe Athletics.

“We really passed up scoring opportunities and didn’t attack the double team as well as we should have.”

Converting 15 of 16 free throws over the final two minutes, however, sealed the Colleges third consecutive win and fourth straight on the road.

Freshman forward Omar Prewitt, who ended with 13 points, made each of his 10 free throws.

Senior guard Brandon Britt, continuing to perform well coming off the bench, hit all six of his free throws and ended with 12 points.

“Guys like Brandon Britt, Omar Prewitt, are [like] starters on our team. It helps our substitution patterns, our rotations when we bring them off the bench,” Shaver told Tribe Athletics. “I love the firepower of the kids coming off the bench. It is a deep team.”

With three road wins behind it, the Tribe takes a week off before returning to action against Colonial Athletic Association foe Towson, who sits a half game above the College in the conference standings.

“What a week. What a week for this team. We’ve been on the road for seven of the last nine days.

We’ve won three road games in this league since Sunday,” Shaver told Tribe Athletics. “It impresses me, it really impresses me.”

The two programs’ first meeting of the season will tip off at 4 p.m. Feb. 15 at Kaplan Arena. The programs split last season’s series, including a double overtime loss at home.

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Tribe handles No. 50 Penn State, falls to Wake Forest

Belaya, Nemchinov turn in up-and-down weekend as College moves to 3-7 on season, Loomans remains injured

BY JACK POWERS FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR William and Mary split its weekend home stand, defeating No. 50 Penn State 5-2 Saturday before falling to unranked Wake Forest 2-5 Sunday.

Senior Maria Belaya, the No. 65 ranked singles player in the National Collegiate Athletic Association, won both of her singles matches at the No. 1 spot over the weekend. Sophomore Leeza Nemchinov, the No. 89 ranked singles player in the NCAA, joined Belaya and won both her singles matches at the No. 2 position.

Saturday’s win came on the heels of four straight losses to nationally ranked opponents — Alabama, Mississippi, Virginia Tech and Texas Tech.

The No. 43 ranked Tribe (3-7, 1-0 CAA) took the opening doubles point against the Nittany Lions (3-4). Belaya and Nemchinov got the Tribe out to a good start, defeating Carmen Sandor and Taylor Shukow 6-2 for the duo’s third win of the season.

Sophomore Julia Casselbury and freshman Melanie Roy won at the No. 2 spot — their first combined win on the season — to earn the doubles point.

“It’s hard for us to get four singles wins, so getting the doubles point is very important for us,” head coach Tyler Thomson said.

After dropping the first set, Belaya stormed back to claim the second set and force a third set tiebreaker against Katia Bilk in singles play. She capped off the victory by capturing the tiebreaker 10-4, which upped her team’s lead to 2-0.

Nemchinov followed up Belaya’s win by defeating Sandor in two straight tiebreaks 7-6, 7-6. Freshman Nabila Farah secured the team win after beating Marie-Frederique Bedard 6-3, 6-1 in the fourth slot.

Casselbury punctuated the win by pulling out a two-set win against Shukow.

The Tribe’s momentum from Saturday was squandered early Sunday afternoon as the Demon Deacons (7-0) captured the doubles point. The No. 1 doubles point was lost when Belaya and Nemchinov slipped to a 6-4 loss to Xue Zhang and Kasey Gardiner.

Belaya Earlier, Casselbury and Melanie Roy lost quickly in their doubles match, falling 6-2. Thus, the Tribe had to win four out of the six singles matches in order to salvage the game,

a task that proved difficult against a very balanced Demon Deacons team.

“They have a lot of depth on their team,” Thomson said. “There’s not a whole [lot] of a difference between number one and number six on their team.”

Wake Forest’s No. 4, 5 and 6 singles players quickly foiled the College’s aspirations of a comeback as all but one match was decided in two sets. Even though the outcome of the match was already sealed, Belaya, Nemchinov and Farah played on to the final point. After trouncing her opponent 6-1 in the first set, Farah surrendered the second set 1-6, then narrowly lost 10-8 in the third set tiebreaker.

“I didn’t think we competed as well as we have in some other matches this year,” Thomson said.

“I think we looked tired at times on the court, but I think that’s something we need to get used to because we have a lot of weekends with two matches on the schedule.”

Although she fell 40-15 in the first game, Belaya surged back to break her opponent’s serve and went on to capture the first set. Her opponent, Andrea Retolaza, grabbed the second set as Belaya struggled to control her serve. Belaya refocused in the third set tiebreaker, seizing the win 10-4.

“It definitely wasn’t my best performance,” Belaya said. “I’ve been battling injury for most of the season, so I’m proud that I’ve been able to push through it and bring a point to my team despite the loss.”

Nemchinov competed against Kimmy Guerin at the No. 2 slot in a match where each set was decided by a tiebreaker. Guerin forced her way back from 4-6 down in the first set to ensure a tiebreaker, which she won.

Unfazed by the potentially demoralizing first set, Nemchinov claimed the second set to force the third set tiebreaker.

With each player’s teammates watching from the sides and the crowd holding its breath, Nemchinov and Guerin returned point after point. Nemchinov fell behind 6-7, but seized the moment taking the final four points and the win.

Sunday marked the third straight match in which Belaya and Nemchinov won the No. 1 and No. 2 singles matches.

The Tribe will have a short break this weekend before traveling south. The Tribe will take on its second Colonial Athletic Association opponent of the season, the College of Charleston, with a chance to improve to 2-0 in league play Feb. 22.

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The College’s No. 2 doubles tandem — sophomore Julia Casselbury and freshman Melanie Roy — receive coaching Sunday.