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ACADEMICS

The future of the liberal arts Some double major, minor to optimize career options

BY ARIEL COHEN FLAT HAT ASSOC. NEWS EDITOR

When Mark Kendrick ’15 came to William and Mary as a freshman, he wanted to continue pursuing his passion for music, but he felt that he would need a second major — for him, a finance major — to have a financially stable future.

“Music was just such a big part of my life and a passion that I couldn’t give up,” Kendrick said. “Liberal arts at William and Mary gave me the chance to do both. When it came down to it, I chose finance because I do like the subject, but it was more practical.”

According to a recent article in The New York Times, funding and interest in humanities is waning at public universities. The article

also explained that pressure for post-graduation employment has increased as well.

The national trend away from liberal arts may result from a struggling economy. Traditionally, students with degrees in the sciences or business are more likely to find employment after graduation.

“Business and [the] sciences are more clearly defined,” Executive Vice President of Career Development at the Sherman and Gloria H. Cohen Career Center Mary Schilling said.

“Humanities can scare people because of the shrinking job market.

The fact is that the job market is telling us [that] it’s more than the major. You just have to bring the raw cognitive knowledge and the breadth of knowledge in the arts and sciences.”

The College currently has 53 majors, not including the selfdefined major option. Six of these majors are in business and eight are in the sciences.

During the 2000-01 school year, 62 percent of degrees conferred were in liberal arts disciplines, as opposed to science or business. During the 2012-13 school year, 50.6 percent of degrees conferred were in the liberal arts, as opposed to science or business. These numbers do not include double majors or minors.

Much like Kendrick, many students in the Mason School of Business either double major or minor in an arts and sciences discipline.

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Class of 2013 employment 12.08 percent

in non-profit and non-government

21.38 percent in consulting

11.88 percent

in financial services

13.16 percent in education

8.12 percent

in government

5.54 percent in technology or science

27.42 percent

other or not listed Based on the Cohen Career Center senior survey results

OBITUARY

Deeds’ death self-inflicted

Studied music at College

BY KATHERINE CHIGLINKSY FLAT HAT EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Former College of William and Mary student Austin Creigh Deeds, age 24, was found dead Tuesday morning after suffering a gunshot wound, the Virginia State Police confirmed.

Officials found his father, state Sen. Creigh Deeds, D-Bath, near the family’s residence in Millboro, Va. suffering from multiple stab wounds. The senator was transported to U.Va. Hospital in Charlottesville in critical condition, but medical officials said he was in good condition Wednesday and was able to give statements to the police.

According to the Virginia State Police, officials have not yet determined the cause of the assault at Deeds’ Bath County home. Virginia State Police Spokesperson Corinne Geller said police were called to the senator’s residence at 7:25 a.m. They found the senator alive but with multiple stab wounds, and Gus was alive inside the residence with a gun wound. Despite attempts to save Gus’s life, he died at the scene.

Gus and Creigh Deeds were the only people at the residence when police arrived, according to reports.

At a press conference Tuesday afternoon, Geller stated that police are investigating the event as a possible murder-suicide attempt and are not looking for any other suspects at this time.

An autopsy report released Wednesday confirmed that Gus died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound from a rifle.

Creigh Deeds Sen. Creigh Deeds — a state senator, 2005 attorney general candidate and 2009 democratic gubernatorial candidate — was flown to Charlottesville, where he remains, receiving treatment.

Austin Creigh Deeds, known as Gus, attended the College of William and Mary off and on since 2007. He took a break from school during his junior year in 2009 to work for his father’s gubernatorial campaign, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. Gus withdrew from the College last month and was not enrolled at the time of his death, according to university officials.

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ATHLETICS

STUDENT LIFE

Britt’s suspension capped at nine games

Focusing on eLearning

Britt will return to court Dec. 20

BY CHRIS WEBER FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR

After announcing the indefinite suspension of senior guard Brandon Britt ’14 Nov. 7, head men’s basketball coach Tony Shaver announced Tuesday afternoon that he will cap Britt’s suspension at nine games.

“Brandon has been a model student athlete over his career, but unfortunately, he made a poor decision that was out of character for him. [Britt] will learn from this situation and, as a staff, we will do everything to help him move forward in a positive manner,” Shaver told Tribe Athletics. “He is a key part of our program, and we look forward to his return to the court for his senior season. ” Having served the first three games of the nine-game suspension, Britt will miss an additional six games and is slated to return to the court for the College’s Dec. 20 home match against Goucher. Tribe Athletics reports Britt will continue to practice with the team.

Britt faces a Jan. 9 hearing in the Britt Williamsburg-James City Council General District Court for an Oct. 25 DWI charge. The preliminary hearing for his Oct. 25 arrest took place the morning of Nov. 7, hours before Shaver announced Britt’s suspension.

The College’s athletic department declined to comment if the Oct. 25 arrest and suspension were related. Additionally, the Tribe athletic department stated no College athletics staff, coaching staff or members of the basketball program would comment on the situation, citing the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act in a Nov. 7 statement.

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The College of William and Mary recently launched a new initiative to incorporate and enhance technology in education, dubbing the initiative “eLearning.”

Gene Roche, a professor of educational technology at the College’s School of Education, was appointed to lead the new eLearning initiative.

Previously, Roche served as the College’s director of Academic Information Services for more than a decade.

A trend seen both in the United States and around the world, eLearning is part of an initiative to merge technology with learning in higher education. Roche said that one in three enrollments in the United States are in online courses, which is twice the enrollment of one decade ago.

“Nearly 7 million students are taking at least one online course, and academic leaders — deans and provosts — are increasingly confident that outcomes from online learning are similar to those that can be achieved through purely face-to-face means,” Roche said in email.

Roche added that learning via face-

to-face interactions might also be enhanced through technology.

Earlier this year, the Digital Educational Technology Committee reported to Provost Michael Halleran that eLearning, and particularly webbased learning, is already common at the College. As technology in the realm of education improves, however, eLearning initiatives will become increasingly present in classrooms around campus.

As part of this new initiative, the Mason School of Business is working to create a new MBA that incorporates eLearning. The program will offer the same rigor and quality as the traditional MBA degree program, while reaching out to professionals who are unable to leave their jobs to pursue a traditional MBA. As an example, this new degree program would appeal to professionals who travel frequently, who work irregular hours, or who are unable to enroll in the business school’s part-time Flex MBA program.

The College’s Arts and Sciences faculty members are also getting involved in the eLearning initiative. A group of 20 professors, led by Dean of

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SUSPICIOUS WOMAN SERVED TRESPASS WARRANT The woman who was approaching students to ask them for rides was issued a trespass warrant and is no longer allowed on the College of William and Mary campus.

“On Sunday we received a complaint about this [woman]. Officers interviewed her and decided to trespass her from campus — which means she is not allowed on campus,” William and Mary Chief of Police Don Challis said in an email. “I would encourage members of the community to contact the William & Mary Police Department [at] 221-4596 if they see her or other suspicious people on campus.”

Challis described her as being a short, heavy-set African American woman in her thirties.

Anna Martin, chair of the College’s Emergency Management team, said in most cases the woman was asking for rides or money. In a statement to the community, Martin urged people to “take care out there.”

“We have a community of caring people who are willing to offer help to those Challis who appear in need. If you encounter this woman, please do not offer to drive her anywhere,” Martin said in an email.

Nov. 18, a student posted on the Facebook group “Overhead at William and Mary,” stating that her friend had been approached by this woman. As many as 12 other students, both male and female, commented to say that they had experienced the same thing — citing incidents dating as far back as a year ago. Most said she asked for rides to Newport News or Norfolk or she just asked for money. She told a few students that her son would be attending the College next year.

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A woman from Surry County crashed her car into a window at Williamsburg Pottery Wednesday. She was apparently unharmed in the incident.

Check out the newest edition of “That Girl” on Flathatnews. com. Host Ariel Cohen talks to Student Assembly Vice President Mel Alim ’14 about the achievements of the Student Assembly, her reflections on four years at the College and her advice to freshmen.

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Phoebus High School in Hampton was briefly evacuated due to a bomb threat Thursday, according to the Daily Press.

At around 1 p.m., police were informed of a threat that there was a bomb in one of the school’s bathrooms. Using fire drill procedures, all students were evacuated from the building.

Shortly thereafter, when police found there to be no validity to the threat, students were allowed back in and classes resumed.

BOV RICHARD BLAND COLLEGE COMMITTEE TALKS ATHLETICS

The Board of Visitors’ Richard Bland College Committee discussed innovations in the athletics programs and a new academic initiative at Richard Bland before moving into closed session Thursday.

This year, Richard Bland College rejoined the National Junior College Athletic Association. Athletics Director and men’s basketball head coach Chuck Moore described the advancements in the program since then. The schedule for the athletic programs has been set, with men’s soccer and cross country taking place in the fall, basketball and cheerleading in the winter, and track and field and women’s softball in the spring.

Major efforts have also gone towards developing the student athlete experience, which has involved closer monitoring of the athletes’ academic performances and motivating them to hold a championship mentality.

“We [have] got to develop them academically, athletically and socially — we got to get into their minds,” Moore said.

“That is what we are trying to develop — above-average student athletes.”

Tyler Hart, director of the Center for Strategic Initiatives, spoke about new strategies for academics at the College.

He spoke on the recent shift in focus from the recently established language institute program to the existing academic program, which has involved the elimination of degree emphasis options to add six new associate degree programs plus ten certificate programs. Popular among the additional associate degrees was the new program in logistics.

“We identified that logistics is a huge area for growth in the Petersburg area and in Virginia,” Hart said.

His solution for implementing these additional programs involved selling the idea of “stackable credentials,” making strategic partnerships and enhancing program feasibility.

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Undergraduate Studies John Griffin, are exploring ways in which eLearning could support the College’s liberal arts curriculum and engage students more effectively.

“The various eLearning initiatives will leverage digital technology to improve the strengths of a William and Mary education, which relies on deep engagement between faculty and students,” Halleran said Halleran in an email.

Even though the eLearning initiative is still in its infancy, Roche said the program is a “moving target” that will reach into many departments and segments of the College and could have lasting effects.

“Well designed eLearning activities allow students to move at their own pace — slowing down on difficult parts and moving more quickly on content that is more familiar to them,” Roche said.

A 64-year-old woman from Surry County walked away unscathed after crashing her car through a window at Williamsburg Pottery Wednesday. According to the Williamburg-Yorktown Daily, the woman suddenly accelerated when pulling into a parking space.

James City County Fire Chief Bob Ryalls said the driver was stuck in her car for about 20 minutes as surrounding debris was cleared. The police said she will face one count of reckless driving in a parking lot.

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In a campus-wide email, Vice President of Student Affairs Ginger Ambler ’88 Ph.D. ’06 noted that Gus was a music major with a “strong academic record” while at the College.

“This is a heartbreaking time for the Deeds family and for all of us who are part of the extended William & Mary community,” Ambler wrote in the email.

Ambler stated that counselors, Residence Life staff members and campus ministers are available to offer assistance to students following the news of Gus’s death.

“William & Mary is very saddened to hear this tragic news. … Our hearts go out to the entire Deeds family,” Director of University Relations Brian Whitson said in a statement.

Gus was recently evaluated under an emergency custody order at Bath Community Hospital, but was released Monday due to a lack of psychiatric beds in the area, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported.

Executive Director of Colonial Behavioral Health David Coe explained that emergency custody orders allow mental health professionals to evaluate people deemed to be at risk. The orders only allow officials to generally detain the individual for four hours, with Coe an exception allowed by a magistrate.

If the evaluations show that the patient needs more in-patient care, then officials can work to find a psychiatric bed and detain the individual for 48 to 72 hours.

“At that point, your legal authority to hold them is over,” Coe said. “They can choose to leave.”

Officials have yet to comment on possible motives of the incident Tuesday.

Students at the College remembered Gus as a talented musician and kind individual. Shane Frondelli ’14 was a former hallmate of Gus and expressed his sympathy for the Deeds’ family.

“I am so sorry for his family’s loss, Gus seemed like a genuinely nice guy,” Frondelli said in an email.

Gus could often be found in the lounge of Unit L last year, playing the guitar, trumpet or trombone and chatting with fellow hallmates.

Morgan Ferguson ’15 said she was impressed by Gus’s musical talent and by his overall friendly demeanor.

“He was really just a compassionate person,” Ferguson said. “He always wanted to listen to what you were up to and what was going on in your life.”

Mallory Johnson ’10 worked on the Deeds’ campaign in 2009 and had classes with Gus while at the College.

“It was definitely a shock to see the news [Tuesday] morning,” Johnson said in an email. “I’m glad to see Creigh’s condition has improved this afternoon and hope he has a speedy recovery. … [Gus] was always very nice, had a great work ethic on the campaign trail, and was thoughtful and passionate about the causes close to his heart.

I can’t imagine the heartache the Deeds family must be feeling right now. … It’s such a sad day for Virginia.”

Members of the music department at the College expressed their sympathies for the loss, noting both the talent and friendly personality of Gus. “I remember Gus emanating positivity in class and lessons and making everyone around him feel comfortable,” former visiting instructor of theory and composition Tim Mauthe said in a statement.

“More than that, he made everyone enjoy themselves. … He shared aspirations of wanting to share the Appalachian music that he lived and breathed with a broad audience through his own compositions — and was well on his way to doing so.”

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Career Center finds Class of 2013’s post-grad professions are in public sector ARTS from page 1

undergraduate program for the Mason School of Business, one in four business majors are double majoring with an arts or science major, while 40 to 50 percent are minoring in the arts and sciences.

“A strategic strength for us is that our students can do business as well as arts and sciences,” Adkins said. “It’s not an either/or. … It’s a question of how you put them together. It’s how they go together and how they help one another.”

Much like business majors, some undergraduates choose a pre-med track to have a more

stable career after graduation.

Health Professions Advisor Beverly Sher said this is no longer the case in the medical field.

“I’m actually hearing more hesitancy about [the financial security of ] the medical profession these days because of the changing medical industry,” Sher said. “But, William and Mary students are very altruistic, and they want to be doctors and make a difference in the world.”

While the College does not have a pre-med major, some students take a pre-med track, by majoring in any discipline while fulfilling their pre-med requirements.

Sher said last year roughly 100 undergraduate students applied to medical school.

Of that number, about 40 were neuroscience majors, 30 majored in biology, 15 majored in chemistry, and others majored in liberal arts disciplines.

According to an ongoing survey conducted by the Career Center, the top three post-grad professions for the class of 2013 are all in the private sector. 12.08 percent are employed in nonprofit and non-governmental organizations, 11.88 percent are employed in financial services, and 10.89 percent are employed in corporate consulting.

By contrast, only 0.2 percent of graduates from the William and Mary class of 2013 have found employment in the health care industry.

Schilling said few College alumni follow a career path as predicted by their major.

“I think that a student who has a liberal arts major may have a more difficult time translating their marketable skills to a potential employer, but this does not mean that they are a less qualified candidate,” Schilling said. “What we’re trying to help students understand is that in the job markets, it’s more than the major. You can apply liberal arts in a variety of arenas.”

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ACADEMICS

College near bottom of manageable workload ranking Other Virginia schools rank higher on College Prowler’s list, students define “manageable” By daria Grastara the flat hat

The College of William and Mary was ranked 1,377 out of 1,394 on College Prowler’s recent study of “most manageable workloads.”

The ranking is compiled based on class difficulty and the amount of time students dedicate to their work. College students provide reviews that are used to compile data for each school’s ranking on the list.

College Prowler is an online website created in 2006 that offers student reviews, opinions, impressions, experiences and rankings for college-searching students and parents.

“My dream in creating College Prowler was to build a resource that people can use with confidence,” College Prowler CEO and CoFounder Luke Skurman said. “My own college experience taught me the importance of gaining true insider insight. After all, shouldn’t you hear about a school from the

people who know it best?”

Students at the College have differing course loads, majors, credit hours, professors, stress levels and prior experiences that serve as varying factors that can refute or support this rank.

“My first semester has been a lot harder than high school,” Albert Chang ’17 said. “I dedicate much more of my time studying, and this has been the first time in my academic career that I feel like I am not good at math.”

For other freshmen, the freedom to pick a personalized schedule and course load has made the workload more manageable than high school.

“I am taking 13 credits with one club and a minor leadership position,” Jenny Rossberg ’17 said.

“While I devote about the same time to work as I did in high school, I have much more time to devote to school. The workload is what you make it. You choose your class[es] and how you manage your time.”

At the College, some argue that there is a culture of commitment to

academics and studying. Students, once outside the classroom, have the freedom to allocate any amount of time to the class.

“William and Mary kids dramatize that they push themselves too hard,” Rossberg said. “There are bragging rights to studying a lot, but in reality some actually do, and some do not.”

The ranking also takes class difficulty into account.

Government professor Jaime Settle teaches both introductory level courses and senior seminars, and said she hopes to make workloads manageable.

“As a newer professor, I have [to learn] as I go,” Settle said. “The goal of professors is not to make a student miserable, but rather, make a student successful. I am impressed when students commit to getting their assignments done by being proactive and seeing when rough times may be [coming]. If a student has more foresight at the beginning of a semester … a student can make his or her workload more manageable.”

The College ranked 1,377 out of 1,394 schools.

1 — Liberty University 703 — Old Dominion University 783 — Christopher Newport University 830 — University of Richmond 832 — James Madison University 1,251 — University of Virginia

1,377 — College of William and Mary 1,382 — Cornell University 1,389 — Columbia University 1,394 — Georgia Institute Technology

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SA miscommunicates on 2013 Homecoming grants Ackerman discusses problem of senator apathy; senate passes bills to modify EAC appointments, SA code

By claire gillepsie the flat hat ASSOC. NEWS EDITOR

In addition to passing two bills changing the Student Assembly code, the senate heard four special business presentations Tuesday covering various areas of SA initiatives.

Secretary of Student Life Alyssa Zhu ’14 commented on the 2013 Homecoming Grants. Zhu said the way the SA decided to allocate money and publicize the event disappointed her committee.

“What we’re seeing is that there’s this miscommunication between the exec[utive] and senate. … There should have been more collaboration,” Zhu said.

Zhu said there were discrepancies between the organizations chosen by the Executive Student Life committee and the senate’s Finance Committee.

Senate Chair Will McConnell ’14 said the bill specified that the Finance Committee would decide which events to fund.

“The Executive Committee probably hadn’t read the bill; they decided to allocate before [the Finance Committee] met. … That was a lack of communication, but it didn’t really affect the process at all, because then we disregarded their decisions,” McConnell said. “We took them as good advice — our determinations were not too far from theirs — but it did proceed the way it should have.”

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Senate Chair Will McConnell said the bill specified that the Finance Committee would decide which events to fund.

Zhu said the miscommunication between the student organizations running the events and the SA resulted in little publicity.

“The Sig[ma] Chi concert — there were about 30 people there at one point,” Zhu said. “That’s a very low number for a bill we gave $1,500 for.”

Sen. Daniel Ackerman ’16 said that senators’ apathy disappoints him. Ackerman said only three senators responded to an email he sent out Sunday asking for help with the Swem Snacks project.

“I know that a lot of people ran to have a title but at the same time, with that title, you have to

understand, comes responsibility,” Ackerman said.

“You’re not just here to attend the meetings; you’re also here to participate in events that we fund and organize.”

The senate passed the Transparency in Budgeting Act, which changes the code and specifies that the Secretary of Finance must choose the Executive Appropriations Committee through an open application process.

“I think that it’s something that makes sense for a committee that has hundreds of thousands of dollars under its control. It’s a good idea to make the composition of that committee as transparent as possible,” Sen. Caleb Stone J.D. ’15 said. “I really like what [SA President] Chase [Koontz ’13] and [SA Vice President] Mel [Alim ’13] and [Secretary of Finance] Joe [Soultanis ’15] have done this year and … I think it’s a good legacy for this body.”

The senate also passed the Elections Code Revisions Act, which also changes the code and specifies what constitutes an infraction. The bill also states that write-in candidates are subject to the same regulations as declared candidates. The bill removes the need for write-in candidates to announce their campaign before polls open and makes referendums voted for by the student body binding.

Before this bill passed, the senate needed to approve referendums voted on by the student body rather than their automatic implementation.

“We [made] a couple changes to make a more efficient, … leaner and just a better overall process for elections,” Sen. Chandler Crenshaw ’14 said.

McConnell introduced the Code Revision Committee Act and assigned it to the Executive Committee. The bill creates a committee that reads the code and recommends revisions.

Crenshaw also introduced the Publications Contract Act. The bill reviews the SA’s contract with the Publication Council and approves the contract Koontz, Chair of the Publications Council Jackie Vasquez ’14 and McConnell revised after discovering former SA president Curt Mills ’13 and former Publications Council Chair Justin Miller ’13 signed the wrong contract last year. McConnell assigned the bill to the finance and executive committees.

Soultanis said the SA has $28,349 left in the Activities and Events fund, $72,112.63 left in the reserve and $10,740 left in the conference fund.

Vasquez said the Publications Council spent $1,789.92 from the Student Publication Reserve during the last month.

Secretary of Outreach Kendall Lorenzen ’15 explained the roles of the SA’s different branches and described the budgeting process in a presentation she usually gives to student organizations.

The senate will not hold a meeting Nov. 26, but committee meetings will take place Sunday, Nov. 24.

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Academic Affairs: DegreeWorks introduced Student Affairs: Cohen Career Center updates

By ABBY BOYLE flat hat News editor

The Board of Visitors’ Committee on Academic Affairs discussed the potential impacts of increased student enrollment during its meeting Thursday morning at the College of William and Mary.

In his opening remarks, Committee Chair Robert Scott J.D. ’68 described the effects of the increased number of students on class availability.

“We face an enrollment c r u n c h ,” Scott said. “ W e ’ r e a d d i n g 200 more students to the 300 that were added Scott through the 2011-14 period. What that means, I’ve been told, is by the fall of 2017, we will need 7,000 additional seats.”

Provost Michael Halleran said that, with regard to the larger student population, there are two main issues the administration is working to address: handling the increased number of students by ensuring there are enough classes and reducing the class enrollment capacity at which the College

operates. Last semester, the College faced almost 95 percent capacity in seating, Scott said.

He added that the College’s goal is to reach 85 percent capacity, which would give students more opportunity to take the classes they want.

Halleran emphasized that it can be difficult to know which classes at the College are the most popular.

“If a course is closed and you go to register, it’s not there,” Halleran said. “So whether a class that holds 50 and is filled at 50 had 50 students interested in it or 150 students interested in it, we don’t have a clear sense.”

To combat this issue, Halleran said the College will be working with a new program, DegreeWorks, to track waitlist enrollments on Banner.

Committee members expressed hope that DegreeWorks will allow administrators to better assess the demand for certain classes.

In addition to discussing class enrollment, the committee focused on ongoing efforts to better incorporate non-tenureeligible faculty on campus. Scott said that, by the next meeting, he hopes to have a new name, rather than NTE faculty, to better reflect the group’s role at the College.

“I think it’s fair to say that the integration of our tenure and

non-tenure-eligible faculty is good and getting better,” Dean of the Mason School of Business Larry Pulley said.

Pulley gave a presentation on the growing number of NTE faculty — whom the business school refers to as clinical faculty — at the school. Over the next three years, the number of clinical faculty will grow from 17 percent to 30 percent, due in part to upcoming retirements, he said.

“This is really one of the ways that we are moving to be sustainable financially, but also — and most of our faculty understand this — this is the way we’re going to be able to support top-notch research from our research cohort. … At the end of three years, when we get to this point, we will have taken $600,000 out of our annual budget, which will be a permanent savings,” Pulley said. “It’s a win-win.”

Following Pulley’s presentation, Faculty Assembly Vice President Susan Grover gave brief remarks to the committee, mentioning that the assembly hopes to work on an initiative to address faculty diversity on campus, as well as to have faculty take a leading role in fundraising at the College.

After Grover’s presentation, the committee entered closed session and adjourned.

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During the Board of Visitors’ Committee on Student Affairs meeting, Vice President of Student Affairs Ginger Ambler ’88, Ph.D. ’06 and retiring Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs and Executive Director of Career Development Mary Schilling presented on efforts of the Sherman and Gloria H. Cohen Career Center.

“We looked at a recent study conducted that asked 318 top employers what traits they look for in students coming out of college. 93 percent said they looked for critical thinking and communication skills, 74 percent said they looked for innovation, and 94 percent said they looked for students coming from a liberal arts background,” Ambler said.

“Here at the College, we believe that we provide all of those skills.”

Shilling talked about how the College is looking to alumni and parents to help students.

“We are trying to get a broad range of support from alumni and parents to get a better understanding of how we can meet the needs of our students,” Schilling said.

The Career Center wants to start a grant program to help students fund internship opportunities.

“We are looking to provide grants for those who can’t do unpaid internships. We are looking to provide three to four internship grants for those that have a proposed idea and are set up with a company,” Schilling said.

Schilling also discussed the senior surveys conducted by the Career Center. The Class of 2012 responses indicated that 59 percent of them participated in an internship before they graduated.

For the Class of 2013 responses, 62 percent did an internship. The College is striving to reach 65 percent in the coming year.

“We are working on getting students connected as quickly and as often as we can with employers. We believe that this is critical for the students,” Ambler said.

David Lapinski, director of external relations at the Career Center, said another way that the College is looking to prepare students is through outside programs. One program was the Business Bootcamp that was hosted in Washington, D.C., last May. “Students were immersed with alumni and connected to learn business for their future endeavors to take skills and apply them in the future,” Lapinski said.

Two of the 20 students who

participated in the program spoke to the committee about their experiences.

“I am a government major, and I did not know what to expect. I wanted applicable skills to go into the working world. I definitely felt that I gained that from my experience in D.C.,” Bootcamp participant Chase Jordan ’15 said.

Finally, the College is looking to expand its internships for students by creating a career program in China.

“We received a small grant to send students to China and build partnerships with businesses here that need to communicate with companies in China that they work closely with,” Lapinski said. “Then students would come back here and work with the companies in the Hampton Roads area.”

Ambler emphasized that they want to see students take the skills they have at the College here and be able to apply them to the future.

“We want to refocus career development based on majors and focus it on a cluster where they use the skills they have built here and apply them to their future careers,” Ambler said. “We believe that students, regardless of what major they have, can connect with employers in any job field.”

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Friday, November 22, 2013

STUDENT LIFE

1693 Scholars gain new Murray House

Non-residential building serves as place for scholars to meet, study, socialize

BY CAROL PENG THE FLAT HAT

Some students walk by the new Murray House daily and do not realize the Jamestown Road home is the headquarters of the most competitive merit-based scholarship program at the College — the 1693 Scholars Program.

Located in 101 Chandler Ct. near the Admissions Office on Jamestown Road, the Murray House held its ribbon cutting ceremony Sept. 29.

Jim Murray J.D. ’74 served as the rector of the board of visitors at the College and established the Murray 1693 Foundation in 2003. The Murray’s owned the house before they decided to donate it to the College.

The College aims to use the Murray House to facilitate the 1693 Scholars Program.

“The purpose of this scholar program is to

attract the best students in the nation, based strictly on criteria of merit, leadership and creativity,” professor Daniel Cristol, director of the program, said.

Although it currently contains 20 scholars, the program is expanding. Cristol hopes that having a headquarters for the scholars in the Murray House can help build cohesiveness for the group. “[I] didn’t expect to have [the Murray House] at all as a senior,” 1693 scholar Dylan Kolhoff ’14 said. “The house has gone beyond expectation, especially with advisors in the house as constant supporters, which make it feel like a family.”

The house, decorated with artwork made by 1693 scholars, remains a non-residential building, serving primarily as a place for scholars to meet, study and socialize. The scholars meet for lunch at the house once a week, but the house remains open for scholars and their study groups with non-

scholar students.

“The scholars will have the most impact on campus if they live with other students,” Cristol said.

Graduates from the program are currently pursuing Ph.D. and master’s degrees in professional fields of law, medicine and music.

“I hope this program removes the hurdles on [the 1693 Scholars’] ways towards getting the most out of college, and let them jump easily over any of the additional hurdles when they go out into the world,” Cristol said.

The College also expects to host visiting scholars and on-campus interviews for 1693 Scholars in the Murray House.

Kim Van Deusen, associate director of the program, reviews applications for the Monroe Scholars and 1693 Scholars programs in her office at the Murray House.

The Murray House is home to the 1693 Scholars Program.

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BOARD OF VISITORS

BOV holds November committee meetings Financial Affairs: Reviews stock portfolio, talks operating budget, financial future

BY ANNIE CURRAN FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR

Representatives from Wells Fargo reported the Board of Visitors’ assets as of Oct. 31 during the Committee on Financial Affairs meeting on Nov. 21. For current exposure in millions, the BOV investment portfolio is made of $44.6 million in equity, $26 million in fixed income and $6.1 million in alternatives, totaling $76.7 million.

Managing Director Joseph Montgomery and Vice President of Investments Robin Wilcox, who took the BOV through its stock portfolio, led the presentation.

“We’re coming off a very strong fiscal year end for 2013 at 13.05 percent, relative to the benchmark 11.7 percent, so we’re happy to report the BOV is well above the national average,” Wilcox said.

The BOV also received information about the College of William and Mary’s finances prior

to the meeting. The operating budget for revenue 2013-14 is $324,719,330. As of Sept. 30, $150,029,004 of that has been spent. The 2013-14 operating budget for expenditures is $325,116,686. As of Sept. 30, $109,280,206 has been spent.

Vice President of Finance Sam Jones addressed the BOV for the majority of the session. He reported the state budget outlook with information from the Virginia State Budget Appropriations Committee.

Currently, the state senate is projecting revenue growth from 3.8 to 4.2 percent and a $17.1 billion budget as a baseline of expenditures. In terms of revenue growth, Jones said state senators are predicting there will be some residual money.

“It really reinforces the action you took back in April with the William and Mary Promise,” Jones said. “It says ‘Look, we’re going to create some of the resources that

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Members of the BOV listen to representatives from Wells Fargo.

we need to move the university forward.’ The state’s going to do what it can, but it’s not going to be the solution or the be-all [and] end-all of what we’re trying to do.”

Despite that, the College will

have some additional funds this year, according to Jones.

“What we see is, because of the additional revenue — not the carry over balances, but the additional revenue from last year

Alumni Relations: Online opportunities announced

BY KATIE SIEFERT THE FLAT HAT

A new program for alumni was introduced at the Board of Visitors’ Committee on Alumni Relations meeting Thursday.

The College of William and Mary plans to launch a new online career help center that integrates both Alumni Relations and the Sherman and Gloria H. Cohen Career Center.

The new website will help connect College alumni who serve as vetted career coaches with other alumni and students.

The coaches will be selected from different fields of work. As part of the service, the coaches will offer other alumni from the College a discounted price for their services.

In addition to this new careercoaching program, the website will allow the Career Center to host a series of webinars about various careers. The webinars will include small Google+ hangout sessions where alumni and students taking the courses will have a chance to talk with one another in a smaller setting that reflects the small class sizes that the College prides itself

on maintaining.

The committee also emphasized other outreach efforts by Alumni Relations. This year, the group plans to coordinate and host 21 Yule Log ceremonies all over the country so that alumni can still participate in the campus tradition. They plan to continue spreading campus traditions by sending out “partiesin-a-box” to alumni chapters to celebrate Charter Day. Earlier this year, the group also hosted ten Homecoming Game watch parties around the world, including a watch party in London.

Provost Report: Masters programs discussed

BY ARIEL COHEN FLAT HAT ASSOC. NEWS EDITOR

During the provost’s report, the Board of Visitors discussed the future of the College of William and Mary’s master’s and doctoral degree programs as well as the Mason School of Business’s Design Studio.

“The William and Mary Promise and the Six-Year Plan are all a means to an end,” College Provost Michael Halleran said. “That end is to be the best university in the universe.”

The College first became designated as a university in 1779, when Thomas Jefferson established the MarshallWythe School of Law. Dean of Graduate Studies and Research Virginia Torczon said she believes the College’s arts and sciences post-graduate programs are lesser known than its law and business programs. Today, the College has 177 master’s students and 315 Ph.D. candidates in a total of 11 different arts and sciences post-graduate programs.

“A lot of universities think that we are just an undergraduate institution, so we have to do a lot of education within our field to make sure people are aware of our master’s and doctoral programs,” Torczon said.

Halleran said that, over the past four years, the College has added $1.7 million to graduate programs.

The College offers master’s programs in arts and sciences such as American Studies, anthropology, applied science, biology, chemistry, computational operations

research, computer science, history, physics and public policy. Doctoral programs are in anthropology, applied science, computer science, history and physics.

The College’s largest arts and sciences post-graduate programs are in computer science, history and physics.

According to Torczon, the College’s arts and sciences graduate programs are crucial to its ability to remain a research university.

“Graduate students are an important part of what makes us a research university,” Torczon said. “Our doctoral students and their work is what makes us a top research institution.”

She added that students who end up publishing their research are also representing the College.

“In effect, [graduate students who present their research] are expanding the research affect of the faculty by presenting their research nationally and internationally,” Torczon said.

The committee also discussed the future of the Business School’s Design Studio.

Assistant Professor of Marketing Michael Luchs presented information on the Sustainability Inspired Design program to the committee. The part-business, part-environmental-public-policy course aims to teach business students about incorporating sustainable design into their business models.

The program teaches functional knowledge and convergent thinking as well as analytical and communication skills.

— we really only have to have revenue growth of one percent,” Jones said. “Things should look good for this year.”

The BOV received drafts of Resolution 8, Receipt of the Consolidated Financial Report for the College and Richard Bland College for fiscal year 2012-13, and Resolution 9, Receipt of the Financial Report of the Intercollegiate Athletic Department for fiscal year 201213. The committee will be asked to approve the receipts in the spring.

Additionally, Jones presented a peer comparison for the sticker price of tuition and fees of other universities. The College charges the most for Virginia public undergraduate in-state tuition and fees. Last year, VIMS took the top spot, but with the William and Mary Promise, tuition increased 14 percent for the freshman class.

For out-of-state undergraduate

tuition and fees, the University of Virginia charges the most, the College coming in second. Jones said this gap grew in 2013 because the College slowed the rate of outof-state tuition growth.

Comparing national public law schools, the College charges one of the lowest tuition rates for in-state and out-of-state students.

Rector Todd Stottlemyer ’85 recently met with the Board of Visitors at U.Va., saying the board at U.Va. is “deeply divided” on tuition.

College President Taylor Reveley has spoken with U.Va.’s president about this issue.

“I think probably what they’ll end up doing, through a much more complex process than we, [is] charge more for the second two years in a four year program,” Reveley said. “Something that won’t look like what we did because, of course, that would be unthinkable.”

Buildings and Grounds: One Tribe Place tour

BY ELEANOR LAMB FLAT HAT ASSOC. NEWS EDITOR

Rather than remain in the confines of the Board Conference Room, the Board of Visitors’ Committee on Administration, Buildings and Grounds took a tour of One Tribe Place Thursday morning.

Associate Vice President of Facilities Management David Shepard led the tour, describing the process behind making One Tribe Place as accommodating as possible for students. He also pointed out the places in the building that still need work. Since the decision to make One Tribe Place on-campus housing, $3.7 million has been granted to make it as student-friendly as possible.

The tour included a trip to the building’s unfinished basement, a peek into a student’s room and a look at some of the open rooms that were previously used for conferences and parties. One of the committee’s goals is figuring out what to do with the excess space in One Tribe Place.

“People on campus want to use this space,” Vice President for Administration Anna Martin said. “We can’t start that process until we find [out] what we need to do.”

Shepard also took the committee inside a student’s room so they could have a better visual on what the living quarters were like. The room included two full beds with mattresses, as well as the original hotel furniture, such as beds, bureaus and chairs, which are still in place.

“We weren’t touching anything we didn’t have to [during renovation],” Shepard said.

Although One Tribe Place, the biggest building on campus, transformed into a living quarters in a few months, Shepard said there is still a lot of work to be done. Some of the issues maintenance crews are tackling are fire safety and ventilation. They are also in the process of clearing out asbestos, which was found in the ceiling paint.

“Asbestos is safe if you don’t disturb it, but we disturbed it,” Martin said.

The committee also mentioned that laundry machines are scheduled to be installed in the

basement of One Tribe Place’s basement by January. In general, though, administrators said students have enjoyed living in the building so far.

“Students love living here. How could you not?” Vice President for Student Affairs Ginger Ambler ’88 Ph.D. ’06 said.

AUDIT: STUMP UPDATES MEMBERS Director of Internal Audit Mike Stump M.Ed. ’93 briefed the College of William and Mary’s Board of Visitor’s Committee on Audit and Compliance Thursday morning about the potential misuse of a state telephone at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.

Stump indicated that auditors received a hotline complaint about the misuse of the telephone, but that officials corrected the matter.

As to details of the incident, Stump declined to comment further.

“I can certainly discuss it with you, but I can tell you the personal details behind this were absolutely heartbreaking and so if there is a subsequent discussion I prefer to do that in closed session,” Stump said to the committee.

Chief Compliance Officer Kiersten Boyce presented about the College’s compliance obligation with the Clery Act, saying that the act requires a massive effort by administrators at the College to keep up with the changing rules.

Vice President of Finance Sam Jones also presented before the committee, speaking on the work of the Risk Management Committee at the College.

He noted that the committee meets nearly eight times annually and is working at looking over 40 departments to identify risks.

Committee Chair John Thomas then moved the meeting into closed session.

— Editor-in-Chief Katherine Chiglinsky

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STAFF EDITORIAL

EDITORIAL CARTOON

On Austin Deeds Our approach to mental illness in light of a former student’s alleged suicide

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Looking beyond the how-to guides most assorted combination of disciplines you can find. It may be your combination of degrees in computer science and linguistics that begins a fruitful career in natural language processing, or a government major and theatre minor that leads to a job as a political speech writer.

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Get involved beyond the classroom

Opportunities to develop these classroom interests into As a freshman at the College of William and Mary, there are marketable skills are plentiful at the College. Interested in few things I feel less qualified to talk about than how to get a working in the Foreign Service? Consider studying abroad job. After all, it was less than a year ago that I was attempting at France’s Paris Institute of Political Studies, or at the to master the intricacies of the college application, learning to School of European Studies through the Wendy and Emery highlight my strengths as a student, and compensating for my Reves Center for International Studies. Want to enter a weaknesses. Yet, around every corner comes a new surprise, career in medicine? You can conduct research in biology and as an incoming college student that surprise came in the and chemistry starting as early as freshman year through form of a three-letter word: job. Particularly, how difficult it the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Science Education Program. will be to find one I like. Not even a Supplement what you learn in class with semester into college, I hear talk of If everyone is following these extracurricular activities. employment more than I would like to. guidelines, how will they make Most recently, I came across a blog Begin building a network me, and only me, stand out? post on Huffington Post College that The College is hailed as “the Alma The honest truth is that they promised small tips that would make Mater of a Nation.” Our graduates can probably won’t. If you want a any applicant stand out to employers. be traced back to the very founding of job everyone else wants, you The tips effectively outline some this country and alumni of the College will need something that most little things that may go a long way have been in positions of importance — like building an online presence ever since. Use these connections. If others don’t have.

— but I have little confidence in there is one thing I have learned in advice intended for a mass market. my short time here, it is that members If everyone is following these same guidelines, how will they of the Tribe keep an eye out for each other, even if there make me, and only me, stand out? The honest truth is that they is a wide age difference. Ask for just five minutes of an probably won’t. If you want a job everyone else wants, you will alumni’s time or email him with a few questions. You will need something that most others don’t have, whether it be the be surprised by how responsive alumni can be to current right connections or a strong skill set. Fortunately, as students students interested in related careers. at a liberal arts university such as the College, the resources and opportunities available to us on campus and among our In an era where the value of a liberal arts education far-reaching alumni network can make us stand out in almost is being called into question, I remain confident that any applicant pool. the College will afford me opportunities for professional So, forget the gimmicky job-hunt advice columns. Here success. From actress Glenn Close ’74 to FBI Director James are some ways students at the College can improve their job Comey ’82, graduates of the College are renowned for prospects: exceptional success in their careers.

The increasing competitiveness of the job market, however, means that students at the College need Find majors and minors that combine your to be productive, and make the most of their time academic passions with professional goals as undergraduates. There are simply far too many We attend a school that wants— no, requires — us to opportunities available here for us to refrain from taking explore various academic disciplines. Use our school’s liberal advantage of some. arts curriculum as an opportunity to study curricula that complement each other, as well as subjects that are among the Email Rohan Desai at rdesai01@email.wm.edu.

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ustin “Gus” Deeds, who attended the College of William and Mary through last semester, died of an apparent suicide Tuesday morning.

Deeds’ death, along with Deeds’ alleged attack on his father, made national headlines as a tragic act of violence. But in the 24 years before that, Deeds made bluegrass music and engaging conversation. And that’s extraordinarily important to remember.

Deeds is the fifth member of the College community to commit suicide in the last four years. We have lost too many — so many, it seems, that the sequence of events surrounding each tragedy becomes something of a routine: A campus-wide email goes out reminding students that counselors are on call. Those who are associated with the family express their condolences. The religious keep the family in their prayers.

And everyone wonders: What happened? Could it have been prevented?

In this particular case, those questions focus on the events in the hours before Deeds’ death. According to The Washington Post, Deeds underwent a psychiatric evaluation the day before he committed suicide, but he was not admitted to the hospital because there were no available beds. It’s possible that, had authorities found a bed for Deeds, he might still be alive — but we can never know that for sure.

Unfortunately, no suicide ever leaves us with a definitive answer to the question of whether it could have been prevented. Therefore, we have to stop asking that question, and ask something else, instead: What can be done to keep this from happening again?

The primary resource at the College for those with mental health concerns is the Counseling Center. One of the largest hurdles to overcome in mental health advocacy is reaching students who may not feel comfortable seeking professional help, but the Counseling Center does little to promote its services. While Counseling Center staff cannot possibly persuade every student who needs help to seek it, they could do everything in their power to make those students feel welcomed and encouraged through basic outreach efforts, such as sending out emails or making appearances around campus. Perhaps students would be more likely to seek help if the Counseling Center seemed more familiar and approachable.

To complement the Counseling Center, a variety of groups at the College offer an assortment of mental health initiatives, but many of those initiatives fail to deal with the individual complexities of mental health issues. We have seminars on stress reduction and relaxation techniques. We have panel discussions. We have awareness events.

All of these programs are the lovely, valuable efforts of a caring community, but we cannot rely solely on them to maintain the mental health of our student body. Any initiative that deals with a large, general audience runs the risk of characterizing mental illness as something abstract, rather than something that’s deeply affecting individual people. These programs are useful, but only on a surface level.

To deal with serious mental health issues effectively, we need to recognize their nuances and complexities. Mental health is not simply a cause to be championed in lectures and events; rather, it is something to be dealt with on an individual level. Without knowing the intricacies of the personality of someone who struggles with mental illness, that person’s struggles are invisible. Before someone can be helped, and before anyone else is able to reach out to that person in the first place, that person needs to be regarded as a multifaceted individual with an inner life that’s as rich and as real as anyone else’s.

Nobody can know for sure whether Tuesday morning could have been prevented, but we do know that we’ve lost a 24-year-old member of the Tribe who was a musician and a storyteller and so many other things, too. And every loss like this is one too many.

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

@theflathat And then there’s the shortage of French 202 seats. But hey, a seat in summer school is guaranteed.

—@Ballymagibbon on “Computer science majors face Banner lockout”

Green and Gold Village recalls the horror of the Units, and that’s why it’s loved Kaitlan Shaub THE FLAT HAT

Our lounge furniture bears stains of which no one dares ask the origins. The faint smell of liquor emanates from a room in the basement, which is locked for reasons that the Resident Assistants claim we “wouldn’t want to know.” On any given day, a stray can of beer may come crashing down from above.

Welcome to the new and improved Units, where you can take the fraternity out of the Unit, but not out of the ceiling tiles.

I can honestly say I’m a little bitter about living in the Units. (For those who are unaware, we still call the Green and Gold Village the Units.) My unit, the only one that boasts antique

furniture, also has a lovely moldy basement (dehumidifiers included) and a wonderful view of the brand new fraternity housing where all of the past Unit residents now live in luxury.

Despite all of this, I have a strangely masochistic adoration for my unit.

The name is a horribly fitting pun; my hallmates and I are, in fact, a unit. The common dread of being stuck in the Units is what brings us together.

We have a common joke about the irony of the new fraternity houses. How is it fair that our innocent freshman class got stuck in someone else’s mess while said someone else is probably living it up in a brand new house? After all, I’d be willing to bet that in a few years those houses will be in a state comparable to that of the Units. When I moved in, I felt like I had been given the short end of the stick, and I would have gladly taken the Botetourt Complex and their rumors of rats over the Units and its filthy remnants of a dead party scene.

But we can’t stay bitter forever. The Units have been a mess for a long time.

Maybe the previous residents felt the exact same way I do about living here.

Maybe new fraternity housing was a sort of reward for making it through their stay in the Units. Maybe living in the Units is a rite of passage; after all, mine is the first freshman class to reside here.

For us freshmen, there is a sickly sweet sort of fun in imagining all of the memories our upperclassmen friends laugh at when they think of living in the Units. What is even better is that we can pick up where the previous residents left off; we can hide our own stories in the ceiling tiles for next year’s class to find.

In a bizarre and somewhat uncomfortable sense of welcoming, the College of William and Mary has opened its arms to the class of 2017 with a generous gift. We are the first freshmen to inherit the stink and the grime of what once was a dive on campus. But more importantly, we have

inherited the sense of togetherness that previous residents developed here.

We, too, can appreciate and laugh at the memories made here, but we can

also make our own. We have a legacy to uphold.

Email Kaitlan Shaub at kcshaub@ email.wm.edu.

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GRAPHIC COURTESY / THE JIGGLYPUFF ARTIST

On Nov. 14, the enigmatic Jigglypuff artist left this latest cartoon for The Flat Hat in a manila folder on the steps of the Sunken Garden, having contacted an editor using a fake email address. He reports that more cartoons are forthcoming..

Jigglypuff artist simultaneously terrorizes and amuses with cartoons

BY AINE CAIN FLAT HAT VARIETY EDITOR

A pink, cuddly menace has infested the College of William and Mary. It lurks in your bedroom, lulling you to sleep. It is disguised as a friend, greeting you before peeling away its false flesh. It is the empire. It is watching.

It is Jigglypuff, as depicted by a new anonymous artist on campus.

A series of humorously disturbing cartoons, known collectively as “Jigglypuff is an Asshole,” debuted on the Overheard at William and Mary Facebook group Oct. 24. Students began discovering and submitting the drawings, which feature an illmannered Jigglypuff Pokemon committing all sorts of atrocities.

In a late-night email correspondence, the secretive artist addressed speculation about the choice of Pokemon.

“Jigglypuff embodies all that is sweet and joyous, so there really was no better choice to use for a clan of cold-blooded killers,” the artist said in an email.

“I’d have to say Jigglypuff is quickly becoming my favorite Pokemon as well, though my blood curdles when I see it.”

Many of these comic strips include a bewildered human character named Phil, who is apparently being stalked by the homicidal pink puffs. Scenarios range from Jigglypuffs attacking the General Assembly of the United Nations to the creatures undergoing uncontrollable mitosis and overrunning the College.

The artwork is the fruition of the artist’s longburied imaginings.

“For many a long year, the image of warriors clad

in pink has been lingering in my subconscious,” the artist said in an email. “It was not until recently, however, that I found the willpower to attempt to put these ferocious fluffs onto the page for all to see. Their conception was beautiful to me, and many tears were shed … much to the dismay of my concerned peers.”

The artwork has acquired a sizable following — with numerous students liking and commenting on the work on Overheard. Additionally, one cartoon was uploaded to the site 9gag, labeled as “Someone at my school taped this to the wall of my dorm.”

The post achieved 2,850 shares and attracted many commenters expressing their bewilderment, fear and amusement.

Overheard poster Sarah Grady ’17 was instantly charmed by the comic’s sense of humor. Her opinion of the Jigglypuff character hasn’t been altered too much — canonically, the Pokemon was known to lull people to sleep in order to draw goatees on their faces.

“I think the appeal of ‘Jigglypuff is an Asshole’ is the juxtaposition of a cute and cuddly Pokemon with mean and rude behaviors,” Grady said in an email.

“This comic also appeals to the vulgar, and violent humor that our generation enjoys so much. It kind of reminds me of the Sour Patch Kids commercials … except there’s no reconciliation for the bad deed.”

This may change soon enough. A cartoon challenger has apparently arisen — a drawing of a civilized Pikachu chastising Jigglypuff for its violent tendencies appeared on the “Jigglypuff is an Asshole” Tumblr blog by Jake Wilson ’16. This one-time Overheard onlooker has found himself drawn into the shadowy grasp of the Jigglypuff artist.

“Somebody started drawing these and people

took pictures and put them on Overheard,” Wilson said. “Eventually, I thought it’d be fun to collect them all. Somebody messaged me through Facebook saying, ‘I know the artist. They don’t want their identity revealed, but I can send you some of their stuff.’”

Wilson has even received a personalized sticky note drawing from the artist informing him that he is being monitored by the Jigglypuffs. He dismisses the accusation that he is the Jigglypuff artist and thanks the anonymous illustrator for his humorous work. So far, despite his close correspondence with the artist, he is not afraid for his life.

“If I were to actually see a Jigglypuff, I would barricade myself in my dorm room,” Wilson said.

“I would assume someone had it out for me. I would assume there was a secret Jigglypuff society assassinating people. I don’t know if the intermediary is the artist. I don’t know what’s even going on.

Beware, there are Jigglypuffs walking around in people suits.”

Overheard commenter Kristen Ekstrom ’17 believes that the artwork arose out of sheer boredom and a secret wish for world domination. She didn’t know what a Jigglypuff was until encountering one of the drawings.

“Honestly I think people are just so bewildered by the idea of cute little musical creatures murdering people and taking over the world that they find it funny and interesting,” Ekstrom said in an email.

“The empire will rise.”

Carlyn Hoffman ’15 defends the often graphic content of the artwork and applauds the artist’s sense of humor. A self-described Pokemon fan, she finds the concept of an evil Jigglypuff particularly hilarious.

“The posts have 500 likes, so clearly 500 people have the same sense of humor as he does,” Hoffman said. “He’s no more disturbed than any of his followers.”

Alarming content aside, artistry is a crucial component of the artist’s method. The artist claims to have emerged “out of the womb clutching a pencil and a sketchbook,” and his artistic development was furthered by childhood drawing competitions with friends. He draws in order to express bizarre ideas without judgment.

“In the time it took me to draw all those Jigglypuffs in the last panel, I could’ve watched the sun rise in the east and set in the west,” the artist said.

He believes that students enjoy the art because it connects with their “hidden inner madness.” He says that he will keep drawing until he runs out of ideas, as it warms his heart to bring reluctant smiles to people’s days.

“What could be more entertaining than the concept that my most recognized accomplishment thus far at this college involves deranged little animated creampuffs?”

A few companions know of his secret activities, but he is wary of sharing too much information. He has been accosted to draw Jigglypuffs on sticky notes and hands.

Nov. 14, the artist left the above cartoon in a secret location for the Flat Hat staff to find, following a cryptic email exchange. Students can look forward to more cartoons being published in the pages of the newspaper in the future.

“Dear Campus: There is more coming,” the artist said in an email. “You will be lulled into a false sense of security, and then they will return.”

Student attends D.C. education conference Rachel Cason learned about the Education for All Bill and brainstormed effective means of aiding “hard-to-reach children”

BY LAURA STERN THE FLAT HAT

What would it take to put 57 million children in schools? Rachel Cason ’14 spent Nov. 1-5 at the Global Education Conference in Washington D.C. learning the answer to that difficult question.

During the conference, Cason learned about the Education for All Bill, which called for the United States to participate in promoting affordable global education. Cason spent her time at the conference honing her advocacy skills for the chance to lobby on Capitol Hill.

“The bill would be coordinating all the efforts that are coming from the United States so that we can really make a lasting impact on the globe,” Cason said.

The act would enable the United States to work with other nations in order to combat the lack of education around the world. Cason stressed the fact that this program would not cost extra money, but would instead be a reallocation of funds.

Cason got the chance to speak with the foreign policy staff of Congressman Jim Moran, D-Va., who is already on board with the bill in the Senate. She

also met with staffers in the offices of Senators Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Mark Warner, R-Va. “They both seemed interested, but I will have to follow up and make sure they know more about the bill,” Cason said.

This act hits close to home for Cason, as she is interested in going into the field of education, and she is especially interested in special education. She currently works in a class at Head Start, a national child development program that provides resources to children that promote academic, social and emotional development for income-eligible families.

“There is a child with autism in my class, and I see how much he is able to grow from the one-on-one attention he can get,” Cason said. “Globally, 98 percent of students with disabilities in developing countries don’t go to school at all. I care about us being able to give resources and time in order to train teachers so that students not only have access to education but have access to quality education that will allow them to reach their maximum potential.”

This bill will focus on “hard–to-reach children,” including girls living in countries where they are prevented from attending school, children who live

in war-torn areas, children who live in low-income places, and children with disabilities.

Cason was asked what she was going to do with all of the new information and skills she had learned.

“I want to start working with the Students for Education Reform, and even the office of Community Engagement,” Cason said. “I would like to develop some sort of constituents care program where students can talk about whatever issue they care about. Together we can write to our Senators, or our House of Representatives [members], just so that we know that our voices matter.”

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CONFUSION CORNER

Spin the dreidel and pass the turkey during this once-in-a lifetime holiday fusion

Ariel Cohen

Confusion Corner columnist

Dear Mom and Dad, I know you don’t believe in the commercialization of holidays, but something great is upon us. You could call it the ultimate holiday fusion, maybe even the greatest day of our lives. Tuesday, Nov. 28, we have the opportunity to experience all the glory that is Thanksgivukkah.

Mom, you hate going to the mall after Halloween. You said that my Charlie Brown Christmas tree is ridiculous and you make me put it away when company comes over. That’s okay.

Dad, you despise holiday tunes.

Also, last time you got Mom a holiday present, it turned out to be a rake. No, that doesn’t make you the Grinch, not one bit. But guys, this season has the potential to be something beautifully different. Here’s why we should celebrate like the Hebrew Pilgrims this Thanksgivukkah: Contrary to popular belief, Hanukkah is not a holiday but rather a festival.

As you often iterate, Hallmark has commercialized this festival as the Jewish competition to the birth of baby Jesus. And that’s just ridiculous.

Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, commemorates the Maccabee’s miraculous triumph over Antiochus and the reclamation of the Second Temple. According to tradition, after the victory, the Jews had very little oil left to light the menorah in the temple due to the destruction by the Greeks. There was only enough oil left to burn for one day, but, by some miracle, the oil lasted for eight days. Thus emerged the eight miraculous days of Hanukkah.

In contrast, Thanksgiving is not a miraculous holiday at all. It is a gloating celebration of the colonists’ brutal takeover of Native American land. But hey, when we’re in elementary school, we all learn a wonderful story about the pilgrims and Native Americans trading corn and eating Turkey together — that Thanksgiving is about love and patriotism.

College has taught me that such historic events are open to interpretation. So, let’s choose to believe the happier version of the story.

Two percent of the American population identify as Jewish, but, oftentimes, it feels like the rest of the

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We, the two percent, spend the months leading up to Christmas being overwhelmed with images of reindeer and good old Saint Nick.

The whole month of December, we listen to Christmas music played on the radio 24/7. We ogle at the Christmas decorations that inundate our malls and grocery stores … and just about every other public place. We have all this fun, exciting, cheerful, light-filled, Christmas-themed lead-up. And to what? Nothing.

On Christmas Day, we like to eat Chinese food and go to the movies.

My favorite tradition is the Christmas morning walk through empty, frozen streets. Pretty much everyone you see out on Christmas morning is a Jew, so it is perfectly acceptable to greet him or her with a friendly “shalom.” The life of a Christmas-loving Jew can be lonely.

But this year, it’s our turn.

Our turn for something commercial

and novel — a holiday to be celebrated and revered. We now have something no one else has.

Thanksgivukkah may just be God’s greatest gift to the Jewish people.

Modern miracles are not common in Judaism. But Nov. 28, the wind is set to change, for Thanksgivukkah is the ultimate holiday union.

This is the only time in our lives that Thanksgiving and Hanukkah will coincide.

The Internet has turned into a breeding ground for Thanksgivukkah recipes of tantalizingly delicious foods combining all that is wonderful about the Thanksgiving meal and Jewish cooking. And we all know that there is a lot of wonderful Jewish cooking.

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Some of the best holiday fusion recipes out there include sweet-potato latkes, cranberry applesauce, Manischewitz-brined roast turkey and horseradish mashed potatoes. There is no limit to the amazing variety of the potential Thanksgivukkah menu.

Some people — cough, cough — say, why short-change two perfectly wonderful celebrations by combining them? They say that Thanksgivukkah ruins the individual value of each of the two holidays. How wrong can you get?

Why shy away from this once-ina-lifetime holiday fusion event, just because the preparation may take a little extra work? Thanksgivukkah is coming this year, and after this year, we will never experience it again. So let’s revel in the fun of it.

Who knows, next Thanksgivukkah — whenever that is — ABC Family may have a “25 Days of Thanksgivukkah” movie marathon. The future is ours. This is our time. Let’s take a cultural stand.

Let’s celebrate Thanksgivukkah.

Love, Your Hallmark-holiday loving, commercially corrupt daughter

Students reveal products from crochet to compost

Mason School of Business showcase provides student-run enterprises with outreach, networking opportunities

BY HALEY ARATA THE FLAT HAT

Brinkley Commons was packed with gilded glasswork, chiseled diamonds and jamming tunes — all pioneered by student entrepreneurs at the College of William and Mary. A showcase at the Mason School of Business brought together an assortment of small student-run businesses from a multitude of trades.

Whether they view their business as a hobby or a kick-start in an established profession, all of the owners have a unique background story.

Vermillion Composting Services is a business dedicated to environmental sustainability in Williamsburg. It takes its name from vermiculture, the use of worms in composting.

Julia Swalchick ’14, Katie Thoma ’14 and Sydney Gennari ’15 co-designed Vermillion Composting Services after taking a class on social entrepreneurship at the College.

“It’s not even a coincidence that we all vibed well, because that class had a goal of bringing people together to use business as a social good,” Swalchick said.

The women plan to launch their business for a trial period in the spring. With the help of three restaurants, they will collect food waste, cycle it through a vermicomposting system, and sell at either farmers markets or in stores — or they will partner with local farms to use the compost as fertilizer.

Although the business is still gaining ground, the owners are excited about its potential.

Swalchick is looking forward to working with the worms and the actual compost the most, whereas Thoma is passionate about interacting with different businesses and educating the community about what they do. Gennari, the marketing guru of the team, hopes that the business will become a staple of

sustainability at the College.

“We all have different strengths, so it works really well because we’re all really excited about different facets,” Thoma said.

Austin Ziltz’s Coldcraft Effects produces an array of effects units. The name takes inspiration from his study of ultracold atoms and love of guitar.

Ziltz started making effects units as a hobby in 2006 after becoming intrigued by both an electronics course and many DIY projects on the Internet. In 2011, after attending a few years of graduate school at the College, Ziltz sold the first version of the Cascade, now his best seller.

The brightly colored units alter the sound of musical instruments. In layman’s terms, the systems consist of two circuit boards: one for the effects and one for turning the unit on and off and supplying power.

Apart from branching out into new hues like “Fiesta Fuzz” and “Sweet Kiwi,” Ziltz has expanded the business to include DIY projects, allowing customers to purchase materials and instructions to construct their own units.

Ziltz plans to keep the business going part-time since he enjoys the ongoing revision and production of projects.

“What I really like about it is designing and creating the product itself,” Ziltz said. “My favorite part is plugging them in and playing really loudly when I’m done.”

Amy Schmidt began creating glass art in 2006 in Dallas, Texas. Inspired by the stained glass of Rome and her mother’s own glasswork, Schmidt took warm glass technique classes at the Craft Guild of Dallas.

An aficionado of fusing glass, she focused on honing her ability to make glass jewelry.

“My big thing is trying to make the different shapes,” Schmidt said. Guitar and “happy snake”shaped pendant pieces are her favorites to construct.

Since moving to Williamsburg three years ago, Schmidt has branched out to making jewelry out of paper-spun beads. Stringing together tightly spun paper beads to form bracelets, Schmidt stamps the paper with original patterns to put her own spin on things.

Schmidt is a student at School of Education, so she views her business as more of a pastime than a serious occupational endeavor.

“It’s a really fun thing to do to blow off steam,” Schmidt said.

Lisa D’Aromando ’07, co-president of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Club, says her business began with making jewelry from Michaels’ beads on the floor of her sorority house.

Now, Bell’Amore Jewelry Designs caters to the fashion-minded with handcrafted, custom designed jewelry.

“I needed something creative to do every day,” D’Aromando said about her time as an undergraduate student here at the College.

Classes in 3D art brought to her attention the intricacy and care for detail in artwork, sparking an interest in making jewelry.

D’Aromando uses Swarovski Crystals, freshwater pearls, semi-precious stones and sterling silver to create both elaborate and simple pieces for weddings, formal dances and other events. The business aims to produce “affordable luxury,” envisioning extravagant items that won’t break the bank.

D’Aromando plans to take an independent study next semester and a visit Florence over the summer. There, she will learn how to take the next steps in becoming a successful business owner and launching running Bell’Amore Jewelry Designs into a full-time occupation.

A candy wrapper and an invitation all in one — what’s not to love? Graduate student Kelly Hench, of Kelly’s Kraftworks, produces both crocheted

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Various student-owned businesses tabeled in order to promote their wares and ideas at the Mason School of Business event.

and digitally based candy wrappers that double as greetings and invitations.

Hench began crafting in her dorm room as an undergraduate student. After entering graduate school at the College, she decided to use her crafts to make a little extra money.

“There was always this thing echoing in my head, something my mom used to say: ‘Find what you love to do, and then find a way to make money doing it,’” Hench said.

Through an established page on Etsy.com, Hench sells crochet scarves and gloves, custom invitations and custom candy wrappers.

“I love any of the digital stuff. I love crocheting, but with the digital you get to be a little more creative,” Hench said.

Hench reaches her intended audience by marketing mainly by word of mouth and through networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn. After graduation, Hench plans to use her extra time to ramp up the business in preparation for wedding season.

Be it an engagement ring, wedding ring or holiday gift, Lyons Jewelry aims to create elegant, yet affordable, jewelry.

Graduate student Chris Lyons joined his wife Ashley’s business last year after he wasn’t able to find a job. Together they work with manufacturers to provide jewelry products for high-end suppliers.

Lyons enjoys the personal interactions with customers, including many exchanges of wedding proposal stories.

“It’s a fun business because it’s a very good time in life that our customers come to us,” Lyons said.

In the future, Lyons hopes his wife will have the opportunity to design some of the jewelry.

“She has an eye for design,” Lyons said, “and it would be a big step down the road if we had the resources to do that.”

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Products presented at the showcase ranged from invitational candy wrappers to affordable jewlery to scarves.

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The short “ end of it —Head coach Chris Norris on College’s NCAA first-round loss

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George Mason converts four of five penalties to drop College in first round of NCAA tournament

BY CHRIS WEBER FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR Four goals, 110 minutes and two overtimes couldn’t separate George Mason and host No. 22 William and Mary.

The Patriot’s Chase Miller scored in the fifth round of penalty kicks to send George Mason (12-2-6, 5-0-3 A10) into the second round of the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament, as the College (11-5-3, 4-2-1 CAA) dejectedly walked off the field.

“I thought it was a tremendous game.

Both teams — I mean, a typical NCAA tournament game — both teams putting everything on the line, giving it everything they have,” head coach Chris Norris said.

“Four goals scored, drama at the end with the penalty kicks. It was a heck of the game, obviously we’re disappointed to come out on the short end of it, but really [I’m] proud of our guys.”

George Mason’s goalkeeper Steffen

Kraus recorded a game-high eight saves, including two stops on senior defender Will Smith and junior forward Josh West in penalty kicks.

The College twice rallied from onegoal deficits to force the game to overtime.

After the Patriot’s jumped out to a one-goal lead in the 33rd minute, senior defender Roshan Patel put a shot into the top corner of the net just two minutes later.

George Mason’s Wes Sever found the go-ahead goal in the 71st minute before sophomore Jackson Eskay launched a rocket from a twenty-yards out, beating Kraus for the team-lead in goals, 8, and the game’s final equalizer.

Both Tribe goals came unassisted, as the College amassed 24 shots to the Patriot’s nine. The College also lead with seven corner kicks, forcing Steffen into several tough saves.

“Defensively, we’ve been good all year. It’s not often that we give up two

goals in a game, but credit William and Mary,” Patriot’s head coach Greg Andrulis said. “Two great finishes, they kept us on our heels.”

After two scoreless overtimes, the game entered into penalty kicks. Norris, whose squad hadn’t faced a penalty kick situation all season, was confident in the team’s preparation.

“Ever since we knew we’d be playing in the CAA tournament, we’ve been preparing for the possibilities of penalties,” Norris said. “It’s impossible to replicate exactly what you’re going to see and the emotions you’re going to feel and everything.”

Norris inserted the taller junior goalkeeper Bennett Jones into the game, replacing redshirt freshman Mac Phillips. Phillips tallied two saves in 110 minutes of action, allowing two goals. “[Jones] is bigger, he has a little more range, and technically we felt in that situation it favored him over the

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While the College’s season comes to a close, George Mason travels to New Mexico for the second round of the College Cup. “As a senior, you’d like to say there’s a tomorrow, but there is not a tomorrow for us seniors,” Patel said. “I’d like to say we left everything on the field.”

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Freshman goalkeeper Mac Phillips and teammates react to the deciding penalty kick Thursday.

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NO. 19 COLLEGE PUTS POST-SEASON HOPES ON LINE AT RICHMOND William and Mary, fresh off a 15-9 loss to the Colonial Athletic Association’s top rush attack No. 7 Towson, faces the conference’s best aerial attack in longtime-foe Richmond Saturday.

While a win would likely ensure post-season play, a loss would almost certainly end the Tribe season. Of more immediate concern, however, is Richmond’s signal caller.

Richmond quarterback Michael Strauss enters the contest having led the Spiders to three consecutive wins, including last week’s 46-43 upset over then-ranked No. 21 Delaware.

Strauss, back-to-back CAA Offensive Player of the Week, has racked up 903 yards, 10 touchdowns and a single interception while completing 75 percent of his passes over the past two weeks. “[Richmond] is playing very well. Their quarterback, Strauss, is just lighting it up. He’s throwing it everywhere, and it’s on target,” head coach Jimmye Laycock told Tribe Athletics. “They’re going to put a lot of stress on our defense with the way they’re throwing and catching the ball.”

Strauss will face Tribe senior safety Jerome Couplin, who was named to the Buck Buchanan Award Watch List last Friday. The Buchanan Award annually recognizes the nation’s top Football Championship Subdivision defensive player.

remainder of our goalkeeping corp,” Norris said.

Jones managed a save in the fourth round, but couldn’t prevent the Patriot’s from converting four of its five penalties.

“We hate to lose, but we played our hearts out. Sometimes thing don’t go your way,” Patel said.

“We’re playing very well defensively, it’s been well noted. Again, we’re going against a different type of offense ― the fact that they throw the ball, and throw the ball so well ― they’re going to complete some passes,” Laycock told Tribe Athletics. “We can’t let them have the big plays.”

Offensively, Laycock emphasizes the need for more productive possessions. Senior quarterback Brent Caprio and the offense managed just three field goals in last week’s loss.

“Offensively, we have to generate a little more offense. We can’t settle for field goals when in the red zone; we have to punch it in and get some scores,” Laycock told Tribe Athletics.

Saturday’s game marks the 123rd game between the College and Richmond, a series known as “the oldest rivalry in the South.” The Spiders won 21-14 last year at Zable Stadium.

“For the last regular season game, it’s always important to have one that’s very meaningful. Obviously, there’s a lot at stake for this game,” Laycock told Tribe Athletics. “We’ve had some big games with Richmond in the past, and I’m sure this will be another one.”

Kick-off is set for 4 p.m. at Robbins Stadium in Richmond, Va. Saturday.

— Flat Hat Sports Editor Chris Weber

Tribe drops home opener Last-second heave hits rim as High Point wins

BY SOFIA ANDREOLI THE FLAT HAT In a back-and-forth contest, William and Mary (0-3) could not find a final basket, dropping its home opener to High Point 61-60 as a last-second heave from midcourt clanged off the rim.

In the game’s first minutes, the Tribe started off hot as junior guard Kyla Kerstetter and senior forward Kaitlyn Mathieu each sunk a three-point shot.

The momentum did not hold, however, as High Point found success toward the end of the half, using a 23-8 run to enter the half with a 35-28 advantage.

To head coach Ed Swanson, a severalminute stretch during which the College failed to score ultimately lost the game.

“We lost the game that first six- or seven-minute stretch there in the first half.

We didn’t play really good basketball,” Swanson said.

The second half opened with more urgency from the Tribe, whose 9-2 run evened the score at 41 apiece with 13 minutes,18 seconds remaining.

“I challenged the kids at half time. I challenged the team. I was happy with the way they responded. They came out with great energy in the second half,” Swanson said.

Swanson turned to senior Kaitlyn Mathieu as the game wound to a close.

With the score tied at 59, Swanson called a timeout to draw up the go-ahead play.

Mathieu converted a layup on the ensuing possession, assisted by junior guard Anna Kestler, with 57 seconds remaining.

Like most of the game, the lead would not hold. High Point’s Taylor Tremblay scored on a jumper for the go-ahead basket with just six seconds remaining.

The College only managed a shot from midcourt that bounced off the front rim.

Kerstetter led the College with 20 points.

Mathieu added 14 and freshman Marlena Tremba contributed 13 points off the bench.

Tremba and the four other freshmen on the team enjoyed playing time off the bench.

“[Tremba] is probably as far ahead in terms of confidence level,” Swanson said.

“That’s the biggest thing freshman year.

‘Do I belong here?’ ‘Can I compete here?’

So, it takes some time to work through it, but in order for us to be good all five of [the freshmen] are going to have to play some significant role.”

For Swanson, the key to success lies in the team’s ability to start games with high energy and avoid long periods of sloppy play.

“In order for us to be successful on the court we have got to compete and play for 40 minutes. We are not good enough right now where we can afford a five-, six-, 10-minute lapse defensively, not knowing our assignments, and offensively, trusting ourselves,” Swanson Swanson said. “And that comes with time. But those are the things we have to improve on — and that’s trusting how we play.”

The College faces Winthrop in Rock Hill, S.C. Saturday. Tip-off is set for 1 p.m.

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TRIBE DROPS ANOTHER, HIGH POINT WINS BY 11 William and Mary (1-3) shot 41 percent from the field and 35 percent from beyond the arc as High Point (2-2) ran away with the 80-69 win.

Junior guard Marcus Thornton scored 18 points, becoming the 35th player in program history to reach the 1,000-point career milestone.

— Flat Hat Sports Editor Chris Weber

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