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FACULTY

COLLs to cost $1.1 million Administrators discuss costs

BY ARIEL COHEN FLAT HAT CHIEF STAFF WRITER

The College of William and Mary’s new general education requirements curriculum will end up coming to a total price tag of $1.1 million in the first four years, and an extra $700,000 annually after that.

At the moment the College, a public institution, receives just 12.4 percent of its operating budget from the state. The remaining funds are dependent on private donations and fundraising.

“I think that the combination of the William and Mary Promise and increased philanthropic efforts will allow us to [adopt the new curriculum],” Provost Michael Halleran said. “If the price tag were $10 million, I would have said ‘Whoa, See COLL page 3

SA ELECTIONS SCHEDULED Student Assembly elections are scheduled for March 20. In order to run for a position, students must attend one of four information sessions.

After attending a session, declaration of candidacy is due Feb. 28 and campaigning will begin March 11 at 12:01 a.m.

The information sessions are Sunday, Feb. 23 at 7 p.m. in Washington 301; Monday, Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. in the Sadler Center York Room; Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 7 p.m. in the Sadler Center York Room; and Wednesday, Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. in Washington 301.

Questions about elections can be directed to the SA elections commission at wmelections@gmail. com.

Check back with The Flat Hat for more coverage of 2014’s SA elections.

— Flat Hat Managing Editor Meredith Ramey

Part-time adjuncts to be credited for class preparation time

Higher education leaders, officials discuss amount adjuncts work

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Full -time adjunct professor of English Laura Friedman spent nearly three hours Sunday answering emails as students prepared to turn in their papers Monday. In addition to rereading the material for her classes and planning lessons, she noted that she often spends more than an hour preparing for classes.

Quantifying the amount of work that part-time adjunct professors perform both in and out of the classroom has become a topic of discussion among higher education leaders and public officials.

The Obama administration ruled in early February that colleges and universities should account for preparation time when determining how many hours part-time adjunct professors should work during an average week to see whether the professors are eligible for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. Based on recommendations by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal

Revenue Service, the administration ruled that part-time adjuncts should be credited with 1.25 hours of preparation time for each hour spent in the classroom, in addition to credit for office hours and required meetings.

The Affordable Care Act requires that employees who work 30 hours or more per week receive health insurance and allows full-time employees to apply for the Commonwealth’s health benefits plan.

In response to the act, former Gov. Bob McDonnell, R-Va., proposed an amendment to the Commonwealth’s Manpower Control Act, requiring that any part-time state employees work 29 hours per week on average.

The College of William and Mary, as a public entity in Virginia, must limit the work of part-time employees to fewer than 29 hours per week on average. Questions arose about how to calculate time for part-time adjunct faculty members, who typically teach two courses at the College.

“Although I really applaud the recognition that it takes time to prepare for class and assignments … I don’t think it reflects the amount of work

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adjuncts do,” President of the Faculty Assembly Suzanne Raitt said.

The calculation included time for office hours and required meetings, but Raitt noted that the definition of office hours is more flexible nowadays, especially with email communication between students and professors.

“We spend time with students that isn’t strictly part of an office hour, but what we owe to them as educators and advisors,” Raitt said.

Many faculty groups pushed for a higher ratio, suggesting at times that adjuncts should be credited for two hours of preparation time for every one hour in class, while college administration groups pushed for a smaller ratio, according to Inside Higher Ed. Friedman noted that setting a general calculation guideline remains complicated, as different courses require varying workloads.

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VIRGINIA

Number of single rooms on campus increases Deeds’ mental health Students discuss reasons for choosing singles or for opting to have a roommate

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One may be the loneliest number, but when it comes to choosing housing in college, some students prefer to live without a roommate in single rooms.

A recent article in The Atlantic titled “The End of the College Roommate?” said that at many colleges and universities, offering an increased number of single rooms has become something of a trend, although singles are still the exception on most campuses.

At the College of William and Mary, Director of Residence Life Deb Boykin said there were 380 available single rooms for the 2013-14 academic year. Before the acquisition of the Hospitality House, 339 singles were available on campus.

Next year, 474 singles will be open, marking an increase of 94 rooms from this year.

However, Boykin said she does not necessarily see a tendency toward an overwhelming number of students requesting to live by themselves.

“What may be a trend on other campuses might not be a trend on our campus,” Boykin said. “Anytime we’ve built new housing … like when Jamestown opened in 2006, we did focus groups to see what our students wanted, and they wanted a mix of doubles and singles because many of our students still like the experience of sharing a room with someone.”

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With a limited number of singles on campus, students will almost inevitably live with a roommate at some point in their years at the College. Boykin said she finds many students have an affinity for the experience of sharing a room.

“I think there’s a friendship and companionship that you have in a double room

Two months after the loss of his son and previous College of William and Mary student Austin “Gus” Deeds, Virginia Senator Creigh Deeds, D-Va., introduced new legislation to the Senate that addresses mental health services in the commonwealth.

The upper chamber unanimously approved the proposal Feb. 10. With the new mental health bill, authorities are able to detain a mentally ill individual for up to 24 hours in emergency custody until a psychiatric bed can be found, extending the previous limit by 18 hours.

In November, Deeds was stabbed multiple times by his son, Gus, who then shot himself. Gus had been released from emergency custody hours earlier after the local Community Services Board was unable to find an available psychiatric bed in the area within the allotted time period of six hours.

The College’s Government Department Chair John McGlennon pointed out that there is some controversy over Deeds the number of hours, with some law enforcement officials wanting a shorter period of time than Deeds’ proposed 24 hours.

“I think that the concerns of the law enforcement folks are basically that they don’t particularly want to be responsible

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The College of William and Mary’s acquisition of the Hospitality House last year allowed for more singles.

The increase in the number of single rooms next year is due to additional rooms becoming available in One Tribe Place, as well as some rooms in the basement of the Bryan Complex being converted from doubles into singles, Boykin said.

In freshman halls, Boykin estimates that there are about 17 available singles on campus, located in the Green and Gold Village, Jefferson Hall and Yates Hall.

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I think the broader issue is that Virginia has underserved those with mental health issues for too long.

— Government Department Chair John McGlennon on new legislation that addresses mental health services in Virginia

AROUND THE ‘BURG

LAST WEEK’s “The FLAT HAT INSIDER” In the most recent edition of “The Flat Hat Insider,” WMTV’s Mary Kate Winebrenner and Tanner Russo discuss the new InterFraternity Council resolution, College President Taylor Reveley’s raise and the College’s plans with Colonial Williamsburg for a free online course about Revolution-era Virginia.

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Some Williamsburg locals came together at the County courthouse Friday to celebrate the federal judge voting down Virginia’s gay marriage ban.

Bill passed to allow hunting on private property According to the Williamsburg-Yorktown Daily, the General Assembly is working to approve bills allowing for the “hunting of animals and wild birds on private property and state waters on Sundays.” The Senate passed one of the bills with a 29-10 vote, and the House of Delegates voted 71-27 to approve its version. In order to hunt on the property, the property owner must give permission to the hunter. Currently, hunting on private property is permitted everyday with the exception of Sunday. Groups such as the Virginia Horse Council and the Virginia Farm Bureau disapprove of the bills.

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The Virginia House budget plan does not include funds for a Medicaid expansion, The Washington Post reported. It does, however, give hospitals in the state an extra $81 million.

The House Appropriations Committee has also allotted $47 million to mental health services and $6 million to free health clinics. Republicans in the House are still opposed to the Medicaid expansion which would add 400,000 more Virginians to the federal-state health plan because they do not trust the federal government to cover the $2 billion a year it would cost to maintain the expanded program.

Locals celebrate the fall of Virginia’s gay marriage ban Williamsburg activists gathered to celebrate the ruling against Virginia’s gay marriage ban, the Virginia Gazette reported. About 25 activists gathered at the Williamsburg-James City County courthouse Friday afternoon for the celebration. Those who went to receive a marriage license were unable to do so because the federal judge who ruled against the ban left it in place for its expected appeal. Someone left a heart-shaped box of chocolates in the clerk’s office in order to promote a “good relationship.”

Civil suit against man accused of giving McDonnell gifts delayed According to The Washington Post, attorneys for former Va. Gov. Bob McDonnell have said that prosecutors pursuing the corruption case against McDonnell have strategically moved to delay the civil lawsuit involving the man accused of giving the gifts to the former governor’s family. The case against Jonnie R. Williams Sr., the businessman in charge of Star Scientific, could have been used by McDonnell’s defense attorneys to raise doubts about Williams’ testimony and to help maintain McDonnell’s innocence. If Williams’s credibility were undermined in the case, the prosecution’s star witness would take a serious blow.

CORRECTIONS In the Feb.14 issue of The Flat Hat, the article on President Reveley’s raise incorrectly stated that Reveley completed his 14th year at the College this August. In August, Reveley completed his 15th year at the College.

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News in brief Piano instructor to tour China Anna Kijanowska, a native of Poland, has spent much of her adult life traveling and playing classical piano. Currently a piano instructor at the College of William and Mary, she was invited to tour in China from March 1 through 17 with the Hubei Symphony Orchestra at the Quintai Concert Hall in Wuhan. In addition to performing at numerous concert halls with the orchestra, Kijanowska will also play a few solo pieces at different halls and offer master classes at different universities and conservatories throughout the country.

While the instructor has previously visited China to perform, this trip will take her to a completely different area of the country that she has not yet explored. Two of Kijanowska’s former students arranged her performances in China.

VIMS grad receives fellowship Samantha Bickel Ph.D. ’13 has been selected as one of the recipients of the Knauss Marine Policy Fellowships. Bickel has been placed in the National Sea Grant Federal Fellows program, a one-year fellowship during which she will be working as an Environmental Science and Policy Specialist for the Department of Energy. Bickel will focus on offshore wind and marine hydrokinetic technologies, and she will research, present and communicate the mission of the program.

While attending the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Bickel focused on bacteria and zooplankton to explore the ways in which environmental conditions and changes can impact the number and community of bacteria that live on and within zooplankton because they play an important role in cycling of pollutants in the water.

Law school grad receives federal grant Anna Killius J.D. ’13 was one of three people to receive the 2014 Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship after her graduation. The Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship program selects students to serve and assist government offices whose policy affects marine life or coastal, oceanic and Great Lakes resources.

Killius will be working for U.S. Representative Carol Shea-Porter, D-N.H. of the Natural Resources Committee, on issues related to public land, environmental regulations, fisheries, wildlife and oceans. Killius studied both history and applied mathematics, and was one of the first students at the MarshallWythe School of Law to participate in the Virginia Coastal Policy Clinic. She hopes to use the experience to research current policy issues and garner a background for future legislation development.

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School talks rape culture at teach-in “Think Outside ‘The Box’” event addresses issues related to Sigma Chi email, possible solutions

By Eleanor Lamb flat hat assoc. News editor

Students and faculty gathered to address rape culture and its impact on the College of William and Mary’s climate during a teach-in held Saturday.

The teach-in took place following the circulation of an email written by a member of the Zeta Upsilon Chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity.

Teach-ins are events in which community members come together to share knowledge about certain subjects.

The College last held a teach-in when former College President Gene Nichol resigned in 2008.

The Sigma Chi email teach-in, titled “Think Outside ‘The Box,’” addressed an array of issues including rape

culture, bystander intervention, the International Violence Against Women Act, empowering middle school girls and anti-LGBTQ violence. The event incorporated various talks held in the Sadler Center, Tucker Theatre and Blow Memorial Hall.

The concept for the teach-in came from an email associate professor of English and gender, sexuality and women’s studies Jennifer Putzi wrote a little over a week ago to a group of fellow professors, pushing for further discussion on the Putzi issues the Sigma Chi email had raised.

From there, a mass email was sent

out, urging different faculty members to come together around this cause.

Sarah Schuster ’15 helped Putzi contact various campus organizations.

“This email affects all of us,” Schuster said. “It’s very hard to rally people around something that’s invisible to them. [The email] made it very visible. This is a great moment to say this is representative of something big.”

Saturday’s cold and rainy weather did not deter participants from sharing their voices. Some sessions held approximately 80 people, and about 40 people attended all 10 discussions.

College President Taylor Reveley, Provost Michael Halleran and Vice President for Student Affairs Ginger Ambler ’88 M.Ed. ’06 were in attendance, alongside faculty members from a range of departments.

Members of Sigma Chi and the InterFraternity Council also attended.

“I think it [was] a huge success,” associate professor of history and gender, sexuality and women’s studies Leisa Meyer said. “The point is to really attack rape culture and to find a way that this community can be Meyer inclusive and safe for everyone.”

Other organizations were also represented at the teach-in. Representatives from Amnesty International, Health Outreach Peer Educators, the Center for Student Diversity and a local middle school all led talks. They spoke on a variety

of topics, sharing strategies for eradicating rape culture and hate speech. Others stressed how crucial it is to keep forums like these going.

“Students here have so much to offer. That’s what needs to inspire the community,” Williamsburg-James City County middle school teacher Avory Harman-Link said.

Director of the gender, sexuality and women’s studies program Gul Ozyegin said events like this create forums that allow an exchange of viewpoints.

“What’s happening is the complete dehumanization of women, reducing her to ‘the box,’” Ozyegin said. “[In] these forums, [we] had the voices of different perspectives. [We] see how the problem is very complicated. The word gets out.”

First phase of COLL to cost $850,000

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time out here.’ It is a significant investment but not a wild investment. Yes, we are not a rich institution, but we need to invest in what we do well, Halleran which is liberal arts education.”

The transition to the new COLL curriculum will begin in 2017. The administration expects the curriculum to be fully implemented by the beginning of the 2019-20 school year.

“There is a lot of faculty enthusiasm and curiosity surrounding this,” COLL

Curriculum Faculty Fellow and history professor Nick Popper said. “From my perspective, this is really a responsive curriculum.”

According to Halleran, the developmental costs to get the curriculum up and running are temporary. This phase will cost roughly $850,000.

To fund the initial investment, the College is looking to private donors as well as foundations. According to Vice President of Financial Affairs Sam Jones, the College is applying for grants from various private foundations. “[Foundations] provide seed money for institutions to come up with creative ways to provide for the curriculum or create creative ways

to teach … online or offline,” Jones said. “They will support certain things in terms of higher education. So we are applying for these grants and are hopeful that they will help the faculty in the coming years.”

After the initial investment leading up to 2017, the College will have to pay for the transition from the GER to the COLL curriculum, as it will have to support two curriculums at once.

Supporting both will cost $150,000 per year, for two years.

“In the ideal world we wouldn’t worry about transition costs,” Halleran said. “But we don’t live in the ideal world, so there will be this mismatch between one curriculum and the other … We will be offering GERs and COLL courses, so in that two-year period we

will be responding to two different curricular systems.”

Currently, about 75 percent of undergraduate students will have capstone experience in their major.

Under the COLL system, all students will take part in a capstone project.

To make this possible, the College will have to add new faculty and course options. According to Jones, the capstone is what will cost the most.

Once complete, the COLL curriculum will cost the College an additional $700,000 per year, in comparison to the current GER system.

“It’s not that much more when you consider the overall budget of the institution,” Halleran said. “It’s not trivial, but it’s a modest increase when you consider our overall academic

before, it probably takes you an hour or two hours just to reread everything that you’ll be teaching.”

Keeping track of those hours also becomes complicated, as departments have various guidelines on hours worked by adjuncts. For the government department, adjuncts are expected to work for 40 hours per semester teaching in class in addition to the time spent holding office hours and attending required meetings. The department, however, does not officially track those hours.

“We expect courses taught by adjuncts to be well-prepared and up to date, just as we do for a course taught by any faculty member, but we do not count those hours,” John McGlennon, chair of the government department, said in an email.

Raitt, however, did applaud the recognition that classes require more preparation time than just the hours spent in a classroom.

“As those federal guidelines recognize, the hours outside the classroom far exceed those spent in the classroom,” Raitt said.

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that you would miss in a single room,” Boykin said.

“Of course, the people who have single rooms on campus have the benefit of being able to stay by themselves in the room, and then they can come out into the hall and have that community there.”

Laura Penalver ’16, who has lived in both a double and a single at the College, agreed that there are benefits to both experiences.

“I appreciate having my own space and I appreciate being able to come back to a quiet room and being able to do my work,” Penalver said. “But I’m sure if I met my soul mate and my best friend forever, I would love to be in a double with them.”

J.W. Seo ’14 has also experienced life in both situations, living in a single as a junior and in a

double every other year at the College. “[The single] was really boring,” Seo said. “I like to have someone in my room. We’re never going to have this after graduation: There’s four years of college and it’s all about the experience.”

He added that he found himself to be more productive when living with another person who could encourage him to keep working.

The Atlantic article noted that another benefit of life with a roommate is the potential to develop friendships that extend beyond the four years in college.

“We find that people later in their adult years, when they’re out there in the real world will tell stories. … How often do you hear people saying, ‘Oh, my college roommate?’” Boykin said. “There’s still such a value placed on that experience.”

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for dealing with people who are being evaluated for mental health issues,” McGlennon said.

“I think the broader issue is that Virginia has underserved those with mental health issues for too long.”

According to McGlennon, individuals needing psychiatric

evaluations do not fall under the law enforcement’s jurisdiction, yet jails continually spend finances on those with untreated mental health issues.

Counseling Center Director Warrenetta Mann said in an email she was glad of the bill’s passing, particularly given Deeds’ personal connection with the issue.

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people in the Commonwealth of Virginia that benefit from public mental health services and they are all sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers or other important people to someone,” Mann said.

From a professional standpoint, Mann was supportive of the bill’s goals.

“Those of us that make attempts to provide appropriate treatment and safety for people experiencing significant emotional crisis can certainly do better work when we don’t feel constrained by a ticking clock,” she said.

Mann explained that the College has a careful and thorough system developed with the local community mental health board, Colonial Behavioral Health. The program was also developed with the help of local hospital emergency rooms and the Williamsburg Pavilion, a local inpatient facility.

The system allows for students in a mental health crisis to be evaluated professionally and given necessary medical attention and mental health treatment, while being kept in the least restrictive and most therapeutic environment available at that time.

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BY BRIAN KAO, FLAT HAT GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Why we need to keep writing papers It’s not our fault. Thanks to the emphasis placed on exams like AP tests and the SAT, we’ve spent much of our academic career learning for the sake of the test, rather than for the sake of learning. More than once, a high school teacher told me, “You don’t need to know this because it won’t be on the test.” While we may appreciate fewer flashcards, that’s not FLAT HAT OPINIONS COLUMNIST the way to learn.

Unfortunately, that training has carried over to college.

We often study the night before an exam, fill in a few The fall semester of my sophomore year of college, I bubbles, and then forget. Even when the exam requires kept track: thirty papers, more or less, for four classes. That us to write an essay or define terms, we tend to rely on includes everything: book reports, close textual analyses, memorization: We spit back facts word-for-word, which creative writing assignments, research papers. My total word requires zero analysis. count continued to grow until I had written enough to make That’s where the paper comes in. Schuman might not a small novel. agree, but even hastily drawn-up papers require a certain That was the year I learned to speed-write. With multiple amount of analysis. Memorization plays little to no role. papers due every week, as well as a medical issue that Even if we’re only jotting down facts we discussed in class, prevented me from reading for extended periods of time, I putting them in a paper forces us to connect those facts in a had to live on the edge. I skimmed books at the same time I logical manner. Perhaps this isn’t the case for everybody, but wrote the book reports. Too many times to count, my wonky the mere act of organization helps eyes forced me to write papers in a semime retain information better than blind state. Hardly a good time, but Even if many of us are prone to staring at a textbook does. doable. the last-minute paper, we still In order to organize, we have to Most of us are fortunate enough to be get intimate with the material. We able to see what we’re writing, but we’ve learn from them. have to hunt for quotes or statistics, all written papers in dire circumstances. and even if sometimes we don’t It’s possible to pull off fairly solid grades analyze those quotes as much as professors might like, we with last-minute papers, too. For that reason, we have have to engage with the book, journal article, etc. We must to wonder: If college papers can be so easily BS-ed, how decide what’s relevant, rather than have a professor tell us, effective are they as a tool of instruction?

“This won’t be on the test.” That’s a crucial skill, and it’s Slate.com education columnist Rebecca Schuman says required no matter when we do the papers, how fast we do they’re worthless. They’re too easy to fake, and because them, or how good they are. students often put little effort into them, they don’t bother Then there’s the matter of writing. Schuman argues that to read professors’ constructive feedback in an attempt it’s too late for us; if we’re not good writers by now, we never to improve. She argues that professors ought to stick with will be. We just won’t put in the effort. I think that’s blatantly traditional written and oral exams and toss the college paper wrong, but if we aren’t encouraged to write papers, then by the wayside. it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. Like most everything, writing I disagree. Even if many of us are prone to the last-minute requires practice. Not all papers will be stellar, but I firmly paper, we still learn from them — arguably more than we believe that we learn something every time we write one. would from a written examination. Perhaps it’s just me, but Of course, that doesn’t mean we won’t complain.

I think I speak for much of the student population when I admit that I forget material the minute I turn in an exam.

Email Samantha Farkas at sbfarkas@email.wm.edu.

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Given that the College will be providing more single rooms during the next academic year, would you rather live in a double or a single?

“A double because I have someone to live with. I feel safer and a roommate makes me get out and do stuff more.”

Amanda Sikirica ’16

“Single. I moved off campus to get my own room.”

Jennifer Linett, M.A.Ed. ’14

“I desperately want a single because I love coming back to my own space after a long, stressful day.”

Ryan Goss ’16 ­— PHOTOS AND INTERVIEWS BY KAITLAN SHAUB

Good for you that you weren’t deeply upset by the email, I respect your experience, but some survivors have said they were deeply hurt by it and I also respect their experiences, empathize, and I hope others will not dismiss what they have to say.

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n response to a provision in the Affordable Care Act requiring employers to offer health insurance to employees working at least 30 hours weekly, former Governor Robert McDonnell, R-Va., required all public colleges to limit part-time adjunct professor hours to an average of 29 per week. We feel that not only are professors’ hours nearly impossible to quantify given the scope and responsibilities of their job, but that Virginia colleges and students would benefit from providing those professors with health insurance.

Quantifying professors’ hours requires taking into account their duties outside of the classroom, which is extremely difficult. To help colleges determine whether they will be required to provide parttime professors with health insurance, the Obama Administration designated that for every hour a professor spends in the classroom, she spends another 1.25 hours in preparation. Arbitrary and inflexible, this designation hurts adjuncts who spend more than this precise ratio of time working outside the classroom: emailing students, grading papers, creating lesson plans, researching, meeting with students outside of office hours, and attending department meetings. Limited by Virginia’s part-time 29-hour ceiling, adjuncts may be underpaid or discouraged from doing their best work.

A limit on adjuncts’ hours may diminish the quality of their work and hurt both students and the College. Students do not base a course’s value on the status of the professor teaching it, only on what they can get out of it. However, adjuncts may be limited in how much time they can spend with students outside class; similarly, they might not teach effectively if they know they will not be compensated for the additional hours they spend making lesson plans. Students with adjunct professors deserve the same quality and attention they would receive from regular professors, just as adjuncts deserve comparable pay and benefits for the same work. The College is currently the number one public school in undergraduate teaching: Let’s keep it that way.

If Virginia maintains its hour ceiling for adjuncts and does not provide them health insurance, it will ultimately discourage future professors from teaching at Virginia public colleges. Millions of Americans rely on employer-based health coverage and often choose their jobs based on whether it will be offered; this especially applies to adults over 26 years old, who are no longer on their parents’ insurance plan. The College will not look attractive to adjuncts seeking financial security if we refuse them health insurance.

Similarly, current adjuncts may flee the College upon receiving a better offer. For the sake of our education and out of fairness to hard-working professors, Virginia needs to offer health coverage to adjuncts.

Imposing a limit on the number of paid hours for adjuncts based on an arbitrary quantification of those hours will devalue professors’ time and discourage them from giving students the best possible educational experience. Refusing to offer them health insurance will hinder the College’s ability to hire quality professors, who will likely be looking for those benefits. In requiring public colleges to conform to these standards, the commonwealth of Virginia has made a shortsighted decision — one that we hope will be revised by Governor Terry McAuliffe.

Katherine Chiglinsky recused herself from this staff editorial to remain unbiased in her reporting.

—reader on “Reaction to the leaked Sigma Chi email has been extreme and unnecessary”

GUEST COLUMN

An open letter to President Reveley: Sig Chi response lacked substance Jordan Taffet

FLAT HAT GUEST COLUMNIST

Dear College President Taylor Reveley, Our community is hurt and in need of your help.

With that in mind, you missed an incredible opportunity to relate to and console the members of the campus that you serve during last Tuesday’s Town Hall meeting. You attended the event, but much to everyone’s surprise, you did not speak and, therefore, did not acknowledge the distress that people so bravely voiced. In fact, you left midway through the event.

I cannot begin to tell you how comforting it would have been for myself, and I imagine many others, if you either stayed for the entire event, spoke at the podium, or walked from circle to circle during the small-group discussions and said, “Please tell me what’s wrong. I am here. I want to hear what you have to say.”

That did not happen. In fact, if the members of this campus sought any indication, apart from your brief appearance at the Town Hall meeting, that you have been listening and support them regarding the issue of the Sigma Chi email, they would only be able to find one public statement: “It’s flatly unacceptable. We put a lot of emphasis on building community at William & Mary, and a crucial element of community is respect for one another.

This email makes clear we have more

work to do. This serious lapse in community will serve as a teachable moment to that end.”

This statement, while a good first step, is generic enough that it could be applied to almost anything. There is nothing in these words that either distinguishes this email as part of the broader issue of rape culture or that resolves to fight against the injustices it poses.

You are the face of this college. You must find the delicate balance between the students of the College of William and Mary and everyone else — press, donors, businesses and others. Yet other college presidents have spoken in detail to the issues of discrimination and safety.

After a group of athletes yelled homophobic slurs during a University of Mississippi production of “The

Laramie Project,” the Chancellor of the University, Dan Jones, wrote a three paragraph letter that ensured the individuals responsible would be held accountable. He also personally committed to being part of a dialogue to solve the greater issues of “inclusivity and civility.” By doing this, Chancellor Jones made certain to distinguish this issue from others the school has faced, giving it the attention that it deserved.

Just as these words mattered to the students of Ole Miss, your words matter to us. They bear a heavy weight, and the students of this College carry them everywhere they go.

As such, I invite you to call for a review of the institutional language on our campus. I believe that the issues pertaining to rape culture and the broader virtues of health, wellness

and safety should all be included in the College’s mission statement, the Code of Conduct and the Honor Code.

Hark upon the gale, President Reveley, and join the thunder of our chorus: If you raised your voice, we would listen. So speak up. We can’t hear you.

Email Jordan Taffet at jmtaffet@ email.wm.edu.

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BY AINE CAIN // FLAT HAT VARIETY EDITOR

What were Jefferson, Monroe and Tyler like as students at the College?

Drop out Cannot live without books

Legal intern

Legacy kid

Good feelings His Accidency

Ransacked the Governor’s Palace

Man of the People

Almost impeached

Econ major

Slob Old-fashioned dresser

Francophile

College Company member

Prep school

“Tippecanoe and Taylor too”

Got shot

Awkward date

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Thomas Jefferson James Monroe Declaration of Independence author, founding father and third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson wasn’t always impressed with the College of William and Mary — he even nicknamed Williamsburg “Devilsburg.” Nonetheless, Jefferson’s experience at the College made a massive impact on the young scholar’s fledgling political views.

He first arrived in Williamsburg as a 16-year-old in 1760, leaving his childhood home of the Tuckahoe Plantation in Albermarle County, Va. Law professor George Wythe quickly took Jefferson under his wing, even hiring him as a law clerk. At the College, Jefferson read John Locke and Isaac Newton, studied French and developed a passion for the violin.

The teachings of natural philosophy professor William Small also molded the student’s interest; Small introduced his pupil to many pivotal Enlightenment writings. Jefferson became close friends with John Page and lived in the College Building — today known as the Sir Christopher Wren Building.

According to legend, he was sometimes known to study in his room for 15 hours at a time — cramming, no doubt. When he wasn’t studying, Jefferson was known to hang out at the Governor’s Palace, discussing politics and networking at Governor Francis Fauquier’s lavish dinners. Jefferson also attended less formal dances on Duke of Gloucester Street.

He suffered some college heartbreak when his girlfriend, Rebecca Burwell, rejected his awkward marriage proposal. Burwell would go on to wed John Marshall — another College graduate who eventually became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and Jefferson’s political enemy.

Jefferson eventually recovered and went on to graduate, and become a seminal founding father of the United States. Later in life, he deemed his struggling alma mater completely unsalvageable and founded the University of Virginia.

The fifth president of the United States, James Monroe, dropped out of the College of William and Mary in 1775 — only one year after enrolling. The reason wasn’t academic pressure. In grammar school, he had been an excellent Latin and mathematics student, and one of his classmates was later College graduate and Chief Justice John Marshall.

Rather, it was the drums of war that called the young man away from his studies. During this time, the campus was rife with rebellious rhetoric, spread by radical professors like the Reverend James Madison.

College President and notable loyalist Reverend John Camm was even removed from his position as the political situation escalated. The College was swept up in the tide of the American Revolution, quickly forming a College Company, in which Monroe actively participated.

After dropping out, Monroe became an officer and never looked back. As a reaction to the shots fired at Lexington and Concord, Monroe joined an impromptu mob that converged on the Governor’s Palace. Widely despised Gov. Dunmore was absent and not seized in the raid — but his 200 muskets and 300 swords were not so lucky.

Monroe was shot and nearly bled to death during the pivotal Battle of Trenton. He is immortalized as the bearer of the American flag in the painting of Washington crossing the Delaware.

Later in life, Monroe connected with College alumnus Thomas Jefferson and received a legal apprenticeship — he did not care for law itself, only the salary and prestige that it entailed. Monroe went into politics and presided over one of the most successful presidencies of all time — during a period that became known as the “Era of Good Feelings.”

John Tyler John Tyler graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1807 at age 17 and subsequently lied his way into a legal career — he was too young to take the bar. He studied law with College graduate Edmund Randolph and his own father, Governor of Virginia John Tyler Sr. Tyler had a difficult, sickly childhood before he enrolled in the College’s preparatory school at age 12, continuing the Tyler legacy at the school. His father, John Tyler Sr., had allegedly been Thomas Jefferson’s roommate in college.

In college, Tyler enjoyed studying economics and did well academically — he found Adam Smith’s “The Wealth of Nations” particularly influential.

He was fiercely devoted to states’ rights, which alienated many of his fellow Whigs. Nonetheless, he ran on the Whig ticket with his fourth cousin once removed, William Harrison.

After President Harrison passed away shortly into his presidential term, Tyler ascended to the position of chief executive. Because of the nature of his promotion, his political enemies nicknamed Tyler “His Accidency.”

He had a generally unsuccessful presidency, during which his entire cabinet resigned in disgust over his policies.

He was nearly impeached, but found success in securing the annexation of Texas — an act which his successor James K. Polk would finalize. During the Civil War, Tyler sided with the Confederacy shortly before dying.

He is remembered more for Harrison’s campaign slogan, “Tippecanoe and Tyler too” than for his rather-obscure and contentious presidency.

George Washington and other famous and presidential visitors

BY BAILEY KIRKPATRICK FLAT HAT ASSOC. NEWS EDITOR

It’s not often that we come across famous individuals in the everyday life at the College. However, we can say that we are sitting in some of the same classrooms and walking the same grounds as some incredibly important figures of United States history.

Honorary graduates include Benjamin Franklin, who received an honorary Master of Arts degree from the College in 1756, and George Washington, who received his surveyor’s license at the College at 17 years of age.

Peyton Randolph attended the College and studied law, along with his protege and nephew Edmund Randolph — the first attorney general of the United States.

James McClurg was an alumnus of the College who also later became the first professor of medicine. George Wythe was the first professor of law and police, and the namesake of the MarshallWythe School of Law. John Marshall also attended while taking a break from the war.

The Rev. James Madison — not the president of the same name, but his cousin — entered the College around

1770 and left a huge mark on the College.

He was a writing master, a math professor, a minister of the James City Parish and head of the College militia company.

In 1779, he became the president of the College. The other James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, served as a Board of Visitors member.

Numerous other presidents have graced the College during its long, winding history, according to Historic Campus Director Louise Kale. Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Harry Truman all visited as presidents.

Dwight Eisenhower came as a president

to attend the inauguration of College president Alvin Duke Chandler. Lyndon B. Johnson toured Colonial Williamsburg three times during his presidency — not once stopping by the campus. Gerald Ford arrived before his presidency as minority leader of the House, gave a commencement speech, and arrived here for the presidential debate against Jimmy Carter in 1976. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan visited before their presidencies, while George H. W. Bush only came after his presidential term. Bill Clinton was rumored to have prepared for his debate in nearby Richmond, but never visited campus.

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College hosts internationally-focused William and Mary Global Film Festival

BY CRISTYN FILLA // FLAT HAT ASSOC. VARIETY EDITOR

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Student filmmakers speak to College of William and Mary alumnus Brian Bolt ’13 about the filmmaking process between screenings in Kimball Theatre.

24 hours of filming leads fellow explorers on cinematic journey As many students slept late and celebrated Charter Day this past weekend, a silent battle was waged in Earl Gregg Swem Library. The combatants were armed with video cameras and a mission.

The task was simple: Create a twoto four-minute short film including a specified prop, genre and line of dialogue.

The catch? Write, shoot, and edit your film in 24 hours or face disqualification.

It was the College of William and Mary’s 10th annual 24 Speed Competition — part of the Journeys and Passages Global Film Festival to be held this Presidents’ Day weekend.

Undergraduates and alumni competed in teams of one to six contestants. Alumni received the latest contest details via Skype.

An hour before the contest began, organizers revealed the prop and dialogue that students were required to use in their films.

The prop: a map.

The line of dialogue: “Be my fellow explorer.” The line was chosen from last year’s best film winner.

Next, each team received a different genre. The team leaders went to the front of the room and chose the genre for their team. Two genres were drawn out of a hat and each group selected its favorite — a chaotic and exciting moment for the contestants.

The genres included western, film noir, news reel, heartbreak, migration, sleep-over, jungle and family vacation.

Some of the teams were thrilled by a lucky draw while others appeared anxious or disappointed by the choices.

At 7 p.m. Feb. 8, the contest began and the teams started their 24-hour cinematic marathon.

By the following morning, contestants had gotten very little sleep and the pressure was really on.

Many groups were done shooting by 11 a.m. Sunday, while others still had some filming to complete. All were crossing their fingers, hoping that they would make the 7 p.m. deadline.

“We have the creative kind of intelligence,” Ben Weissman ’14 said, referring to his teammates, brothers Zach Dominello ’14 and Jake Dominello ’17.

Their team came in with only that.

They had no experience with camera technology and, according to them, no acting abilities. They were thrilled with their genre of heartbreak.

“We really wanted to beat our really pretentious friend, plus we had nothing going on, on a Saturday to Sunday night,” Dominello said.

Other competitors, including Sara Suarez ’15, have been participating in this competition since their freshman year. Suarez brought along her friend,

newcomer Chad Kotz ’14.

For both of these teams, it was a long night.

“We went to bed at like 7:40 in the morning and woke up at 10. We spent the morning at Jamestown beach filming the sunrise … highly recommended, but we’re exhausted,” Jake Dominello said.

Suarez and Kotz’s team didn’t get any sleep at all. They stayed up all night to film in the dark.

“We made a bonfire — [both] for the filming process and also to keep warm.

We’re making at least one person wear no pants,” Suarez said.

All the teams certainly came away from the competition with some memories.

“We broke Chad’s car … by accident,” Suarez said.

Kotz confirmed that the bumper was ripped off. Suarez attested that the moment was intense.

“And I think my toe’s broken, and I’ve got to get a tetanus shot,” Kotz said.

By 7:00 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 9, the competition had come to an end and the contestants finally got some muchneeded sleep.

The films will be judged by a board including Tim Barnard, writer and film producer Tanya Hermida and guest filmmakers. The top films were shown at the Kimball Saturday Feb. 15 during the Global Film Festival.

This weekend students at the College of William and Mary travelled around the world, all from the seats of the Kimball Theatre.

The annual William and Mary Global Film Festival took up residence in the Kimball Theatre this weekend to share local, foreign and student films.

In particular, the undergraduate short film contest included two films from foreign countries, films from seven different states and a number of films created by students of the College.

The films could be fiction or non-fiction and had to be 20 minutes or less.

They included light-hearted tales of childhood, adventurous documentaries and films concerned with deep philosophical problems.

The newest feature is the festival’s enhanced global aspect. Festival organizer and professor of American studies Tim Bernard was impressed by student participation in the festival.

“It’s exciting and new. … We are launching with our new sponsor Canon Virginia; we are launching a much bigger, [more] robust student short film competition with the plans of really

making this a national and international competition,” Barnard said.

The global outreach by the film festival coincided with the 25th anniversary of globalization with the Wendy and Emery Reves Center for International Studies.

The undergraduate short film category also displayed films from this year’s 24-hour speed film competition.

The categories for the contest included Best Overall, Audience Favorite and Most Creative Interpretation of the Festival Theme: Journeys and Passages. The judges for the festival included Monica Seabert; Leon Xiao, a visiting professor from Bejing Normal University; and a teacher from a local Williamsburg high school.

The individual students from each winning team were given the prize of a brand new Go Pro Canon camera, thanks to the festival’s new partnership with Canon Virginia.

Along with the undergraduate student competition, there were numerous longer films by alumni and other independent filmmakers shown from Thursday to Sunday.

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The DoG Street Rhythm Kings performed as entertainment for the the Global Film Festival.

CONFUSION CORNER

Five reasons it’s time to deactive your Facebook

And don’t give me that “keeping in touch” nonsense. If you want to see a person, you’ll make it happen.

Zach Hardy

Confusion Corner columnist

That headline alone has probably already alienated around half of my small pool of potential readers. That’s OK; they can keep wasting inordinate amounts of their time and energy on a single website.

I’m addressing those who might have already considered eliminating Facebook from their lives, or desire to limit the time they spend on it.

With that said, he that hath the ears to hear my five reasons to deactivate Facebook, let him hear.

1) You probably don’t know most of the people who are your friends.

How many people do you have as “friends” on Facebook? Before I got rid of my account, I was at 400 or so, but I would guess I have fewer than 10 people I would call genuine friends. Why, then, should I keep in touch with my entire graduating high school class?

Who cares what the football team’s quarterback is up to, or how that girl who got pregnant senior year is getting on? When you really start to think about it, it’s not natural to know intimate details of many peoples’ lives, but Facebook satisfies a bizarre voyeuristic urge to hear about gossip and drama, so we continue to log on.

2) You don’t need Facebook to keep in touch with people.

This is the most pedaled argument I hear from people as to why they want to keep their account active, and for good reason — Facebook undeniably makes communication convenient and easy. There are, however, just as many viable ways to contact people you care about: telephone, email, LinkedIn, stopping by their dorm room and so on.

Basically, if you want to see a person, you’ll find a way to make it happen. Many times I have reached out to people via a message to make plans, or vice-versa, but then the actual plans never come to fruition. Why? It’s probably not that we didn’t like one another; Facebook just makes keeping in touch with people so easy we effectively don’t have enough to time spend with all of them. People maintained healthy relationships for thousands of years without the aid of technology. We probably can, too.

3) You’ll spend less time on your computer and cell phone.

Back when I was on Facebook and Twitter, I wasted exorbitant amounts of time, just scrolling, clicking and oogling — whether it be in Earl Gregg Swem Library, several minutes before class or right when I woke up in the morning. Most everyone has probably read or heard something about Facebook being similar to a drug, and it stimulates the same dopamine and serotonin receptors that cigarettes or cocaine would.

This, I believe, is absolutely true — it’s incredible how checking your devices can be such an automated, habitual response. Now, I usually try to leave my computer at home all day, and my phone only comes out if I need it for a specific use. I think one’s attention really doesn’t need to be preoccupied constantly, but it can be hard to remember that in our world of constantly streaming information.

4) People can’t access your personal information or photos.

Unless you set strict privacy settings and consciously manage what photos are shared with others, your Facebook profile reveals a startling amount of things about you.

With a few clicks, you can find out someone’s birthday, religious and political views, the music they like, and what they wore to their junior prom. That’s pretty weird. Plus, it seems most of our cousins, aunts, uncles and even grandparents use Facebook now.

I definitely don’t want my dear grandmother to see pictures of me taking shots of gin on

blowout, or me taking a swing in Campus Golf with looks of pure drunken ecstasy in my face.

Not to mention the fact many employers look at social media during hiring processes — so if maintaining cyber world decorum is hard for you, deactivating solves the problem altogether.

5) Facebook is a huge corporation.

According to the omniscient Wikipedia, Facebook has one billion active users, is the second most visited website globally behind Google, and is valued with a net worth of $156 billion.

Some may react to these facts and say that it’s a great achievement of human unity, a

revolutionary way to conduct relationships and come together, but it’s worth remembering that Facebook’s sole purpose is to make profits.

It does so primarily by logging your tastes and browsing habits and then promoting advertisements that fit the data. You don’t have to be a crazed conspiracy theorist to acknowledge that there’s something a bit unsettling or sinister about this whole scheme.

It really is worth a try — you won’t miss it, and I guarantee your social life will not suffer from it.

Zach Hardy is a Confusion Corner columnist and has now entered the world of post-Facebook oblivion.

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Britt earns start in College’s 93-70 win

Fresh off Saturday’s loss to Towson, Tribe rebounds as Britt earns first start of season, scores 22

BY JACK POWERS FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR

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Senior guard Brandon Britt scored 22 in his first start of the year.

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by Towson was easily forgotten in the shooting haze that ringed in William and Mary’s emphatic 93-70 victory over North Carolina-Wilmington at Kaplan Arena Monday.

The Tribe was paced from the start by senior guard Brandon Britt, who recorded his first start of the season and performed accordingly.

Britt poured in 22 points on 8 of 11 shooting, including 4 of 5 from beyond the arc.

“Coach [Shaver] told me before the game that he had thoughts of starting me,” Britt said. “But I’m just trying to enjoy the game. We have like five more games, definite games, in my career, so my approach is just to have fun.”

Senior forward Kyle Gaillard opened up the Tribe’s scoring with a deep three-pointer that Britt echoed on the next possession. Of the Tribe’s first 10 possessions, eight resulted in three-point shots, six of which were good. The downpour wouldn’t desist until the end of the game as the College recorded 16 three-pointers, tied for the most in program history.

Seven Tribe players contributed to the total.

“I just think we hit some shots tonight,” Britt said. “In practice we get a lot of shots up, that’s something we do this time of year with a lot of games going on. We just had a lot of guys step up and hit shots. I think repetition in practice is what allowed us to shoot so well.”

Two days after struggling through one of his worst shooting performances of his Tribe career, junior guard Marcus Thornton began the contest shooting 4 for 4 from the field with two three-pointers.

Thornton would go on to score 15 points while also contributing a team-high five assists.

“I knew of Marcus’ performance on Saturday and that was probably the worst thing that could have happened to us coming into this game,” UNC-W head coach Buzz Peterson said.

Despite the Tribe’s early exploits from beyond the arc — 15 of its first 19 points were from three-balls — the Seahawks utilized a balanced insideoutside attack to grab a 20-19 lead with 11 minutes, 34 seconds left in the first half. However, the next two minutes went the way of the Tribe. A 10-0 scoring run that was catalyzed by the Tribe’s stingy 3-2 defense gave the Tribe a 29-20 advantage.

The Tribe lead bloated to 14 with 7:38 remaining in the half before

shrinking to eight on Seahawks guard Tanner Milson’s three-pointer before half. Gaillard, Thornton and Britt controlled the Tribe’s offensive game through the first frame, scoring 39 of their team’s 44 points at halftime.

A short hook shot from senior forward Tim Rusthoven inaugurated the second half and prefigured the Tribe’s continued offensive success.

According to head coach Tony Shaver, however, his team’s second half defense was most instrumental in its eventual victory.

The College’s 3-2 defensive structure held strong most possessions, forcing the Seahawks to use up most of the shot clock before settling on a shot and making sure no individual player developed a rhythm. Only two UNC-W players finished in double digit scoring, both of whom recorded 10 points.

“The key to this game was the second half,” Shaver said. “The first 10 to 12 minutes we really defended at a higher level. We really dominated the backboards, and, as a result, we got easy transition buckets.”

Defensive pressure led to easy scores on the other end. The College recorded 22 fast-break points, most notable of which was a powerful twohanded dunk from Thornton to put his team up 61-42 with 12:08 on the

game-clock. After two three-pointers from freshman forward Daniel Dixon ballooned the Tribe’s lead to 26, the Tribe began to focus more on attacking the paint and exhausting the clock.

“They kind of go between a matchup zone and a man, so sometimes it’s a little difficult to figure out which system they’re even in,” Gaillard said.

Gaillard “But’s it’s very similar to what we worked on over the last few days, and I think we did a real good job as a team.”

The College seized its eighth Colonial Athletic Association win, 9370, and completed a season sweep over UNC-W. The Seahawks came into Monday’s matchup hoping to eke out of the conference’s lastplace slot after beating Towson and Northeastern a week prior; instead, they sunk even lower in the conference standings.

The Tribe returns to action Saturday at the College of Charleston, which it defeated 74-63 at home Jan. 27.

Tip-off is set for 7 p.m.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Tribe rocks Seahawks 97-44, moves to 6-17 Boone leads with game-high 18 points as College uses high-pressure defense and shoots 61.2 percent in win

BY CHRIS WEBER FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR Head coach Ed Swanson jokingly said it was the moons aligning. Whatever the cause, William and Mary left little doubt in Sunday’s emphatic 97-44 win over North Carolina-Wilmington.

An effective high-pressure defense translated into points for much of the game as the Tribe (6-17, 3-8 CAA) outworked an undermanned UNC-W squad. The Seahawks’ (3-22, 2-9 CAA) head coach Adell Harris released at least three players last March before bringing a small recruiting class onboard.

Using a seven-player rotation, the Seahawks fell victim to a fast-paced College offense that shot 61.2 percent from the field, including 42.1 percent from beyond the arc.

The offensive explosion resulted from a concentrated defensive effort. A full-court high-pressure system forced the Seahawks into uncomfortable looks and resulted in 21 Tribe fast-break points.

“It was really exciting to start off like that,” senior forward Victoria Willems said. “We had great pressure at the top, great pressure at the back. We were talking and had really great chemistry out there.”

All told, the College scored 45 points off UNCW’s 29 turnovers. With the Seahawks struggling to keep possession, much less get to the rim, the

College took advantage.

“We did a great job looking forward. We got easy baskets and we opened the game up,” Swanson said. “We moved the ball well.”

Offensively, the Tribe placed five players in double figures for the second time this season and the first time since Nov. 30 against Massachusetts.

Junior guard Jazmen Boone put on a clinic, finishing with a game-high 18 points and seven assists without missing a field goal.

Senior forward Kaitlyn Mathieu scored 16 points and recorded nine rebounds. Junior guard Kyla Kerstetter and freshman guard Marlena Tremba each finished with 12 points, while freshman Alexis Hofstaedter ended with 10 points and a game-high eight assists.

“We did do a good job, I thought … Alexis Hofstaedter did a good job, I think, starting the game with eight assists and zero turnovers,” Swanson said. “That’s the kind of stat line you’re looking for from a point guard. But I thought that we moved the ball well.”

The College scored 97 points on 27 assists. In contrast, the Seahawaks managed 44 points on seven assists while shooting just 28 percent from the floor for the game.

Despite its effectiveness on offense, the Tribe’s defense stole the show. Each of the Seahawk’s players recorded a turnover and, collectively, didn’t put up a three-point attempt until the final four minutes of play.

“Our energy and effort was there from the start. You can tell just the way we were flying around,” Swanson said. “I thought our pressure really knocked them back — I think they had one assist and 19 turnovers at halftime.”

The win punctuated the program’s seniorday celebration of Willems and Mathieu. Each played in front of family from Texas and Maine, respectively.

“It made me feel really good that my teammates came out and played for senior day,” Mathieu said. “They showed up and were really thankful for us being there and the support was amazing.”

Swanson, although worried about the heightened emotion on senior day, was proud of the team’s ability to channel its excitement into quality basketball.

“Senior day, from a player standpoint, is a special day, I think. All of the years of hard work and early mornings and training and all of that type of stuff,” Swanson said. “As a coach, you’re kind of nervous because it is an emotional day for players. You’re always worried that maybe emotions might take over … but I thought they did a great job of corralling themselves and playing with the right type of emotion on the floor.”

With five games remaining before tournament play, the College will have a chance to better last season’s eight wins.

The Tribe returns to action Thursday, facing Towson in a road matchup. Tip is set for 7 p.m.

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Junior guard Jazmen Boone poured in 18 points Sunday.

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of capitalizing on our errors and that’s something that we definitely talked about as a team … not just accepting that an error was made but fighting back.

But in general, first time out against an amazing team, I’m pretty proud of them. I’m proud of the fact that they stuck with it till one second left in the game.”

Senior goalkeeper Colleen Nofi contributed to the College’s defensive front, stopping four shots toward the end of the second period.

“I think Colleen came up with some really crucial saves, and I think that that says a lot for her mentality,” Fratzke said.

“There were a few times when it was just her and an attacker and she came up with the big stuff right on the crease, and that’s pretty incredible to see.”

Nofi The Tribe maintained a balanced offensive front throughout the game. A total of six players scored goals.

“Every single person should be a threat on the field and I thought we did an excellent job doing that today,” Fratzke said. “I think we could definitely stand to put our shots away a little bit more … but I really believe that some of those shots that we had, four or five of those, if we could put those away, that’s the difference between winning and losing.”

“I’m actually very proud of the way we played,” Salmon said. “I mean, we did make some mistakes — and unfortunately Duke was able to capitalize on those mistakes — but … for a season opener, for a first game and a new coach all coming together with a bunch of freshman and learning each others’ skills, I think that we played well,” The game debuted Fratzke, who previously worked as an assistant coach at Northwestern, as the College’s new head coach.

Fratzke joins the Tribe following a collegiate career at Towson that saw her honored as the Colonial Athletic Association Player of the Year twice.

The Tribe will play Louisville Sunday at 1 p.m. at Albert Daley Field.

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The College and Duke struggle for possession in Sunday’s season opener, as the Tribe fell to 0-1 courtesy of an 11-8 decision.

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SPRING SPORTS PREVIEWS

As William and Mary heads towards conference play among its winter sports, the spring sport athletes prepare for the new season.

Fresh off a first-ever National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament run, the College’s baseball program looks to carry its momentum forward with first-year head coach Brian Murphy. The lacrosse program welcomes first-year head coach Hillary Fratzke and looks to improve on a 2013

campaign that saw five wins, two coming in conference play.

Under director Stephen Walsh, the track and field program will look to defend its CAA titles.

The Flat Hat Sports Desk previews each of the three major programs, continuing with lacrosse. A track and field preview will run Friday, Feb. 21.

Check back with Flathatnews. com and follow @FlatHatSports for coverage on all spring programs.

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Head coach Hillary Fratzke looks on as the College warms up before its season opener against Duke Sunday. Fratzke looks to improve upon last season.

BY THE NUMBERS

5

Number of wins the College collected in the 2013 season, with two wins in CAA play

.455

Tribe’s win percentage last season, which saw three three-game losing streaks

.897

Fratzke’s career-win percentage while she worked as an assistant at Northwestern

3

Number of nationally ranked top-10 opponents in the Tribe’s first five games

Upset bid denied College competes with No. 5 Duke, falls 11-8

BY SAMANTHA COHEN FLAT HAT STAFF WRITER William and Mary played its home opener Sunday against No. 5 Duke. Despite an 8-11 loss, the Tribe was competitive offensively and defensively, outshooting Duke 14-13 in the first period and leading in Fratzke saves 9-7.

Senior midfielder Jenna Dougherty scored the first goal less than three minutes into the game. Only a minute later Duke struck back hard, knocking in two goals within a minute of each other.

Duke slotted two more goals within the first eight minutes of the game, putting them at an early 4-1 lead.

Senior midfielder Taelor Salmon scored from behind the crease soon after, and the College continued to score. However, Duke countered and the period ended with a 5-7 deficit for the College.

The Tribe led in draw controls 9-12, but it also collected more turnovers, 11-7.

“I thought we had a lot of really great cross turnovers today but then we just have to finish,” head coach Hillary Fratzke said. “We did awesome on the draw … but then from the draw you got to take care of the ball.”

Salmon would reiterate the sentiment of her coach in diagnosing the Tribe’s main shortcomings.

“We would have a silly turnover and they were able to score off that, so I think that’s where a lot of our faults came [from]… just those quick slip ups where they were able to capitalize,” Salmon said.

Duke totaled 19 ground balls compared to the Tribe’s 10 and took those opportunities, totaling 12 shots and four goals in the second period.

“I think Duke is an awesome team,” Fratzke said. “I think they did a really great job of capitalizing See LACROSSE page 7

A refreshing look F

irst-year head coach Hillary Fratzke looks to revitalize the Tribe using new onfield and off-field approaches. Find full interviews online at Flathatnews.com.

BY CHRIS WEBER // FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR

A broken 2013 season and the resignation of head coach Brooke Ireland seemingly left new-hire Hillary Fratzke with a lot of preseason rebuilding. Conventional wisdom suggested Fratzke would have to discern how a roster full of talent and experience had managed just five wins a season ago.

Fratzke, though, isn’t a conventional coach. A former two-time CAA Player of the Year while at Towson and most recently a Northwestern assistant coach, Fratzke chose to ignore the entirety of last season’s film. No review would take place.

“Right before we started preseason, I decided I wasn’t going to look at last year; I wasn’t going to look at what they did last year and what they didn’t do because, from an individual standpoint, I wanted to see what they could do all over the field,” Fratzke said.

Fratzke’s mentality brought with it changes to the structure and standards William and Mary had grown accustomed to under Ireland. Practice times shortened and Fratzke reorganized drills to include more repetitions for the entire roster as the focus shifted to game situations.

“The old way has clearly not worked for us in the past, and it’s nice to have a coaching staff come in with a fresh start and breathe some life back into the program. We had an incredible fall season, and that really shows the fact that they’re not reflecting on the past,” senior defender Hannah Clarke said.

“We’re already seeing success. It’s almost a night and day difference between last year’s team and this year’s team.”

Aside from changes in day-to-day activities, Fratzke also introduced an emphasis on the mental component of collegiate athletics. The program, Fratzke stressed, wouldn’t focus solely on the lacrosse field. Academic success, community service and a “One Tribe” mentality took precedence.

“I think the overall culture of the team was pretty good coming in: a very unified group of girls, very supportive of one another, hungry, good attitudes. All fall we focused on being positive, not only with ourselves, but also with one another,” Fratzke said.

“I guess if you’re going to say struggle, that would have been it — just trying to get them to stop beating themselves up so much and knowing that if you’re putting your best effort out there, then you’re improving every day. And that’s the most important thing.”

Off-field changes paralleled a new philosophy on the field. Coming in with no preconceptions of the College’s roster, Fratzke quickly upset the status quo by throwing players into unfamiliar positions.

Defenders worked through offensive drills and midfielders ran in the defensive third as conventional positional boundaries slowly disappeared.

“Hillary’s mindset is basically that anybody is capable of playing anything at any time. That gives us the confidence that no matter where someone is, they can do everything on the field,” junior attacker Ellen Shaffrey said. “We know they can do everything on the field because we’ve practiced it.”

The College adopted a fluid style of play, forcing the players to expand beyond their comfort zones. Fratzke sees the change as instrumental to this season’s success.

Should it maintain confidence and pressure across the field, the Tribe will challenge almost any opponent.

“It’s giving everyone a fresh start, so no matter where you were last year it doesn’t matter. You put your best foot forward and play as hard as you can, and the coaches didn’t have any opinions about anybody, didn’t have any thoughts,” Shaffrey said. “It made it a lot easier, I think, for the team to be unified this year and just come out together and play.”

A sense of community was a selling point when Fratzke interviewed for the head coach post late last summer and was a key construct in her message to the team. Fratzke wanted the Tribe to focus on playing for the team rather than individual or positional success.

“I think one of our biggest weaknesses in the past was that there have been some competitive attitudes on the team and not necessarily that ‘One Tribe’ mentality,” Clarke said. “This year, without a doubt, everyone is doing everything for the team, and that’s what is going to really bring us success down the line.”

Much like past seasons, the College opens with arguably one of the toughest non-conference schedules in the nation.

This season features three national top10 programs in the first five games. For Shaffrey, the schedule offers a chance to vet weaknesses and build toward conference play.

“Our mentality is always simple: effort and focus,” Shaffrey said. “Just taking what we’ve learned previously and applying it to every situation … that’s what this team worked on in the fall — working on the little things while keeping the big picture in mind.”

Despite the challenges of rebounding from a five-win season, the College is confident. Playing against Fratzke in practice helps, but the emphasis remains on entering each game with the proper mentality.

“The difference between the good and the great players is literally the six inches between your ears. If we can work to really build that — that will be the difference between success and no success,” Fratzke said. “I have no doubt that these girls are talented and they’re all athletes and they all work hard. It’s really going to be the mental aspect that’s going to take us to the next level.”

BASEBALL

Katz seals opening series win with walk-off homerun Tribe rolls Army 21-3 in game one before dropping game two as dramatic finale sends College to 2-1 record

BY CHRIS WEBER FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR He needed just one pitch, one swing and one trot around the bases to clear William and Mary’s bench.

Mobbed at the plate, junior first baseman Michael Katz disappeared into a crowd of green and white.

Katz’s walk-off homerun sent the College (2-1) past Army (7-6) Sunday afternoon at Plumeri Park.

Following a 21-3 win Friday and a 4-2 loss in the first game of Sunday’s doubleheader, the second game featured the season’s first series win and first dramatic finish.

“They were challenging me pretty much the whole game with fastballs. Usually I see a good amount of off-speed, but today they caught me a couple of times looking when they came late, hard in,” Katz said.

“So, I was looking for a fastball Katz early in the count, and sure enough, he put it over [the plate].”

The towering shot to centerfield brought home junior right outfielder Nick Thompson to tie the contest. As Katz rounded third, an expectant Tribe bench welcomed him.

“We needed a big hit today. We hadn’t had one and obviously had a real big one at the end to win the series and squeeze out a game today,” first-year head coach Brian Murphy said. “As far as what it means —

the big thing you try to do in college baseball is win weekend series. It gets us off on the right note as far as winning a weekend and, obviously, a really big hit.”

The Tribe began the weekend by thumping the Black Knights 21-3 Friday night. Junior southpaw Jason Inghram earned the opening-day start and didn’t let the opportunity go to waste. Inghram (10) allowed five hits and a run in six innings of work, including eight strikeouts in the win.

Offensively, each Tribe starter registered a hit with the exception of Inghram. Senior second baseman Ryan Lindemuth led with a game-high four hits, while fellow senior Willie Shaw scored a game-high four runs while enjoying time at first base. All told, the Tribe recorded 14 RBIs on 20 hits.

“I thought we played a pretty complete game.

We got a good start from Jason, and, obviously, one through nine we were pretty good offensively,” Murphy said. “We were able to open it up in the middle innings, and it was a good start to the weekend.”

A heavy rain Saturday drenched Plumeri Park’s field and forced a doubleheader Sunday.

Right-handed senior pitcher John Sheehan took the bump in game one, lasting 6.2 innings while giving up four runs on three hits. At the plate, the bats that forced Army to use six pitchers Friday fell largely silent.

Senior designated hitter Kevin Nutter, returning from an injury-plagued campaign a season ago, added two hits and two runs to the Tribe’s limited production.

“Sometimes, early in the season, with a doubleheader and being at the field early and letting

time get away, that’s kind of on us. We need to do a better job — as leadership — of getting everyone ready,” Katz said. “Other than that, I think we definitely learned from our mistake. Luckily we got two wins out of it and didn’t end up losing the series because of it.”

With the series tied a game apiece, the College entered Sunday’s series finale with sophomore righthander Mitchell Aker pitching. Aker allowed six runs on seven hits in the first four frames, prompting Murphy to call in freshman right-hander Nick Brown.

In relief, Brown gave up three hits but no runs.

Murphy was pleased with Brown and, by extension, the work of his bullpen.

“We were lucky enough Friday — we were able to use just a couple guys. Jason gave us six innings to start the game,” Murphy said. “We had a pretty fresh pen. Obviously, doubleheaders can be fairly taxing on the guys. It’s more a mental fatigue issue than a physical fatigue issue. We had a little left for the end today, anyway.”

A three-run sixth inning made the finale a one-run game. With the bases loaded and no outs, the bottom of the eighth inning appeared to have all the makings of a come-from-behind win. Instead, the Tribe stranded its runners and took a more unconventional route to the victory.

Despite the exciting finish, Katz knows the College must improve to contend with conference opponents.

A walk-off win, however, helps build momentum.

“First game, obviously, we put up a bunch of runs.

Pretty much for 12, 15 innings there we were just flat

the entire Sunday. Finally, we started waking up a little bit,” Katz said. “To salvage a series win, after playing pretty much sub-par baseball most of the day, is pretty huge for us.”

The Tribe faces in-state foe Virginia in Charlottesville Wednesday, with first pitch set for 4 p.m.

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Junior first baseman Michael Katz blasted two home runs.