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Faculty pay remains low College aims to compete

BY ZACH HARDY AND ARIEL COHEN FLAT HAT CHIEF STAFF WRITER AND ASSOC. NEWS EDITOR

As state funding for the school continues to decrease and expenses increase, the College of William and Mary is working to provide competitive salaries for faculty.

“Do we lose people? Yep,” Provost Michael Halleran said. “Sometimes it’s the challenge of finding a position for their spouse, sometimes its money, sometimes it’s a different opportunity, sometimes it’s just because. Money can be a part of the discussion, but it’s not the only reason people leave.

Life is more complicated than that. It’s more multidimensional.”

The College was recently ranked third in the nation for best undergraduate teaching, behind Dartmouth College and Princeton University.

Although the College’s faculty was ranked higher than that of any other public university, the average salary of $117,600 in 2011-12 was substantially lower than Dartmouth and Princeton’s faculty average — $162,100 and $193,800, respectively.

A College faculty satisfaction survey conducted in April found that professors expressing high to moderate satisfaction fell from 83 to 66 percent. Of the 19 percent of tenured professors looking for a new job, 89 percent cited dissatisfaction with their salary as a reason for hoping to leave the College.

The College aims to reach the 60th percentile ranking of faculty salaries for its peer group, as defined by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. Members of the peer group include Georgetown University, Dartmouth College and Vanderbilt University. The College is currently ranked in the 17th percentile. In 2011, the College was in the 28th percentile.

Halleran said that even though the College does not provide as competitive of a salary as some other peer institutions, other factors help attract and retain quality professors.

“Money alone is never what motivates people,”

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In a recent study, the College of William and Mary was listed among three public universities in U.S. News and World Report’s 2011 top 26 rankings that do not offer any form of benefits to employees’ same-sex domestic partners.

Faculty Assembly resolves that College should extend benefits

BY ABBY BOYLE FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR

In an unanimous decision, the College of William and Mary’s Faculty Assembly adopted a resolution Sept. 24 recommending that the College extend benefits to employees’ same-sex domestic partners.

The resolution — which emphasizes that over 300 colleges and universities in the

country grant same-sex domestic partner benefits to their faculties — states that benefits associated with employment at the College should be provided to employees regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.

At the moment, the College operates on Virginia’s state health plan, which does not extend health benefits to same-sex domestic partners.

“I think the fact that the Faculty

Assembly’s vote on that resolution was unanimous is significant,” Faculty Assembly Vice President Susan Grover said. “That suggests to me that this is an idea whose time has come.”

Hispanic studies professor George Greenia said that faculty at the College have been discussing the issue of same-sex partner domestic benefits for about 20 years.

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Professors discuss shutdown’s effect on grants College departments will work with funds dispensed before recent shutdown

BY ANNIE CURRAN FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR

This October, Associate professor and Chair of applied science Christopher Del Negro was supposed to participate in a review of a grant from the National Institute of Health which he had applied for in June. Instead, the government shut down — closing NIH, cancelling the meeting and backlogging his grant submission.

Del Negro and other researchers at the College of William and Mary depend on federal grants to fund their projects. According to Director of Sponsored Programs Jane Lopez, the College will not be able to apply for any federal grants during the shutdown.

The department of applied science and many others are currently working with funds

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that were dispersed prior to the shutdown. Del Negro says that even though the government is closed, he still will be able to apply for grants. Citing an Oct. 15 grant deadline, he says if the government reopens after that date he will be able to resubmit.

“It’s not like an eclipse of the moon that’s one day or never. In fact, when the government opens, we’ll all be able to submit grants,” Del Negro said. “Nobody is going to miss out on the opportunity to submit and the grants that are in process right now will still be acted upon, but’s it’s just backlogged.”

Professor Dennis Manos, vice provost for Research and Graduate/Professional Studies, William and Mary director for the Applied Research Center and interim director of the William and Mary Research Institute,

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agrees that the government will generally extend the deadlines for grant submissions if the deadlines fell during a time when the government was closed.

“Everyone believes what’s going to happen is the agencies will come back online and then they will extend any deadline that passed during this inner period,” Manos said.

Manos believes the shutdown will not last much longer than the debt ceiling debate Oct. 17, so his department will be able continue with their work.

“Unless it were to go on for a very long period of time — where all bets are off — then it would begin to become very serious because people’s current work would expire and they might not be able to renew. That’s a different matter,” Manos said.

Del Negro says because the College knows the government will open up at some point, they will allow researchers to continue spending money. According to him, this practice happens even when the government is open. If the NIH sends him a letter stating they will give him money in June, the College allows him to start spending in March because the check will eventually come.

“It’s not quite the same as your take-home pay, where if you don’t get your take-home check, you can’t spend it,” Del Negro said.

“It’s a little bit more flexible than that.”

According to Del Negro, the backlog of late grants will affect the peer review process once the government reopens.

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CONSTRUCTION Last weekend Tucker Hall was vandalized.

The tagging that was spray painted onto the side of the building is being cleaned off.

“There is no [structural] damage that I can detect. It was one incident of graffiti but it’s being painted out,” Director of Planning, Design and Construction Wayne Boy said. “It’s nothing significant.”

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In fact, when the government opens, we’ll all be able to submit grants.

— Associate Professor and Chair of Applied Science Christopher Del Negro on the government shutdown’s effect on research grants

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The Carrot Tree Restaurant, located midway between historic Jamestown and Colonial Williamsburg, faces difficulties due to the shutdown.

Carrot Tree staff, owners perservere despite shutdown

47 Hampton Roads schools need improvement plans

The Williamsburg Yorktown Daily reports that the Carrot Tree restaurant owner and employees are looking to serve customers despite the federal government shutdown. This is apparently after the restaraunt lost access to their Yorktown and Jamestown locations when the National Park Service — from whom they rent the buildings — told concessioners in NPS-owned buildings they had to close as part of the shutdown. According to the owners, the closure affects 14 full-time staff members and five to seven parttime staff members.

According to the Daily Press, four local public elementary schools are in need of priority improvement because of low student achievement on standardized tests, the Virginia Department of Education said on Tuesday. Three of the schools received the same “Priority” designation last year after poor performance on the state’s Standards of Learning tests. Each of the schools is required to contract with stateapproved turnaround partners to create plans to improve the school.

Overnight stays increase through July; room, meals sales decrease

Sarvis’ fundraising gets $2,000 boost

The number of overnight visitors to the Historic Triangle picked up slightly through July this year when compared to last year. The Williamsburg Yorktown reports 0.2 percent more guests stayed overnight in the area through July than in 2012, but those guests paid 0.4 percent less per room on average than last year.

The area saw 900,957 room nights at an average rate of $113.70.

The room led to a 0.4 percent decrease in room sales revenue.

Robert Sarvis, I-Va., announced this past week that the campaign’s war chest has been growing in recent weeks, especially since polls among likely voters have put the libertarian at between 8 and 10 percent. Last week, the wife of former AOL chief executive Stephen Case donated $2,000 to Sarvis’ campaign. The Cases have a history of supporting republican and democratic campaigns.

Sarvis aired his first TV ad last week during the debate between Terry McAuliffe, D-Va., and Attorney Gen. Ken Cuccinelli, R-Va.

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NEWS IN BRIEF Students now have access to books from partner college libraries The Virtual Library of Virginia’s universal borrowing program now allows College of William and Mary students, faculty and staff to borrow books from 34 university libraries in Virginia. The program only requires students’ College ID cards. Students who wish to borrow books from other institutions while at home can also take advantage of the program. VIVA will provide distanceeducation students with more study and research resources in addition to the more than 2 million books, journals, manuscripts, government documents and films offered

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and the College request submissions for grants

Professor performed in “Dancing at Lughnasa” production

After talks about a possible partnership with Eastern Virginia Medical School, the College of William and Mary decided to enter into a collaborative grant program with the school. Round two of the grant is now open to full-time faculty at the College and EVMS. Director of the College’s Schroeder Center for Health Policy Jennifer Mellor told WMNews that they expect to see three projects funded at $20,000 each. The application deadline is Nov. 15, 2013 at 5 p.m. For the first round of grants, 10 research groups received $10,000. Funding for the grant comes from Sentara Healthcare and the commonwealth of Virginia.

Professor of Law James Dwyer was featured on stage in the College’s theatrical production “Dancing at Lughnasa.” Dwyer played Father Jack, a Catholic priest who recently returned from a ministry in Uganda and was eager to convey the value of Ugandan culture to his sisters. Prior to his casting in “Lughnasa,” Dwyer took acting classes at the College and worked with the Williamsburg Players.

Professor Christopher Owens, director of the play, said Dwyer proved to be a very credible actor in the play. Dwyer expressed his appreciation for the opportunity and was excited to perform with students on stage.

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Students prepare for hackathon

Pair works to partner with corporations to host computer-based competition

By MEREDITH RAMEY Flat hat MANAGING editor

Three weeks after participating in the PennApps Hackathon, the largest in the country, Matt Sniff ’15 and Joe Soultanis ’15 are leading the effort to host a similar program at the College of William and Mary.

But what exactly is a hackathon?

Bringing together student programmers and coders, a hackathon creates what Soultanis describes as an exciting environment where teams sit down and create a software project over the course of a weekend.

At the end of the event, teams present their creations to a panel of judges and prizes are usually awarded.

Hackathons also typically include speakers, tutorials and sponsors who provide participants with free items and networking opportunities.

Currently, Sniff and Soultanis are working to secure sponsors and speakers for the event. Soultanis said he has received interest for working with the College’s hackathon in some capacity from Microsoft, IBM and Epic.

The pair plan to hold the event in March. They will market the event to both the College community and those at other institutions, and they hope to attract between 100 and 200 participants by their proposed January registration deadline. However, logistical work on the event is still underway; the duo must coordinate

with the College’s IT department to accommodate the event’s bandwidth usage and arrange for guest logins for participants outside the College community and the event itself.

Overall, the pair believes the 2014 hackathon will bring a much-needed spotlight to the College’s computer science department, its presence in the tech community, and its capacity for innovation.

However, Sniff and Soultanis said the hackathon will require a lot of funding for equipment, food and other logistical costs. They are currently looking to alumni, the Student Assembly and other sources for income.

Three days ago, Soultanis restarted the College’s

Student Association for Computing Machinery chapter, a student group that remained active at least until 2007 before ending. By reactivating the group, Soultanis and Sniff can apply for funding from the SA’s Activities and Events fund.

If interested in working with the College’s hackathon project, Sniff and Soultanis encourage students, faculty and staff to email them at mjsniff@ email.wm.edu or jpsoultanis@email.wm.edu.

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Faculty votes to Candidates set to debate extend benefits Same-sex couples fight for equality

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In the early 1990s, the assembly endorsed domestic partner benefits twice, Greenia said. In 1993, the College also hosted a statewide conference on Domestic Partner Benefits in Higher Education in Virginia.

Sixteen years later, College President Taylor Reveley, former University of Virginia President John Casteen and former George Mason University President Alan Merten wrote to then-Governor Tim Kaine asking that public universities be allowed to offer domestic partner health benefits. However, the initiative stalled following Gov. Bob McDonnell’s, R-Va., transition into office in 2010.

Faculty Assembly President Suzanne Raitt said the assembly’s Faculty Affairs Committee decided to revisit the issue this year in light of the Supreme Court’s June ruling that federal benefits be made available to all legally married spouses regardless of gender. Committee Chair David Dessler drafted the resolution.

“I think over the last 10 years, we’ve seen a sea change in consciousness about this issue,” Raitt said. “Honestly, I think it’s really different now than the way it used to be. In large parts of this country, it’s the norm to have domestic partner benefits.”

A recent study by two researchers from the University of TennesseeKnoxville analyzed the top 26 public universities from U.S. News and World Report’s 2011 rankings, focusing on each school’s domestic partnership benefits.

Breaking down the benefits into six categories — health care, leave, financial assistance, insurance, counseling and campus services — the study found that only three schools did not offer any benefits to domestic partners of employees: The College of William and Mary, Clemson University and Texas A&M University. The University of Virginia received its only check in the campus services category for providing

same-sex partners with recreation center memberships.

Not offering benefits to same-sex partners could put the College at a disadvantage, Raitt said.

“We’re concerned that now that it’s becoming more and more common to offer these benefits at universities around the country and at private universities in this state, it’s becoming harder for us to recruit and to retain not only lesbian and gay faculty, but also people who would prefer to work in a place where those employees are not discriminated against,” Raitt said.

Grover said the College’s image could benefit in the future from extending benefits.

“By offering these benefits, if we ultimately do, one impact may be on our public image as a place that’s welcoming and inclusive,” Grover said. “That matters not just to samesex couples, that matters to all people who are looking at coming to William and Mary.”

Both Grover and Raitt expressed hope that the College’s resolution may encourage other schools to adopt similar resolutions. After the Faculty Assembly passed the resolution, Raitt said she wrote to faculty contacts at U.Va., George Mason, Virginia Commonwealth University, Norfolk State University, Old Dominion University, Virginia Tech and James Madison University. Within an hour, she received responses from faculty members at all but two schools. Two of the universities are already in the process of creating and proposing similar resolutions, while faculty members at other schools are approaching their senates or boards about the issue, Raitt said.

Raitt said she hopes that leaders from Virginia’s public universities — with the support of their faculties — will approach the governor and raise the issue again.

“We want to be competitive in recruiting and retaining the faculty we want, but I think we also see it as an issue of social justice,” Raitt said.

“We feel that some of our colleagues are being unfairly discriminated against.”

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Democratic candidate Monty Mason ’89.

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Republican incumbent Mike Watson, R-93.

Through the logistical and financial contributions of the Student Assembly and the College of William and Mary’s chapter of Virginia21, Republican Delegate Mike Watson and Democratic candidate Monty Mason ’89 are coming to campus to debate their candidacy for Virginia’s 93rd House of Delegates seat.

Tomorrow at 7 p.m. in McGlothlin-Street Hall, a student panel will moderate the event and ask pre-selected questions collected online. The student panel includes Virginia21 Statewide Student Leadership Chairman and William and Mary Virginia21 Chapter President Kennan Kelley ’14, William and Mary Young Democrats President Zachary Woodward ’14, Chair of the College Republicans Chandler Crenshaw ’14 and Flat Hat News Editor Annie Curran ’16.

Check online for The Flat Hat’s coverage of the debate and follow @theflathat for live updates tomorrow.

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Shutdown backlogs science grants Professors cite frustration with possible consequences SHUTDOWN from page 1

“In other words, somebody is going to have to cut corners to make-up for lost time. That might mean that grants go unfunded or there are mediocre grants or there could be mistakes that are made. They might cut down on the number of grants they are funding just so they can get through the review process quicker,” Del Negro said. “We don’t really know what the consequences will be, but one can imagine that there aren’t any good ones.”

Manos agrees that there is a deeper

issue than the ability to receive new grants. He says he is not happy with the shutdown’s “chronic, erosive effect” on research and agency operation.

“Nobody’s happy about any of this and I think it’s something that shouldn’t be forgotten,” Manos said.

“There are only so many times that you can prove to be an unreliable partner or an unwilling partner.”

When situations like this happen, Manos says agencies have to have tougher interior conversations about budgets and even what their core values are. He believes that over a period time,

interruptions on research can have a wearing effect on the enterprise.

While his department can continue working, Del Negro feels for his peers on the NIH campus, where graduate students, post doctorate students and full-time faculty are currently out of work.

“Any ongoing clinical trials or any ongoing biomedical research is just dead in the water. It would be as if William and Mary completely shutdown,” Del Negro said. “For those invested, for faculty at that campus, it’s an absolute nightmare.”

Dissatisfaction with salaries cited as a reason professors leave in survey Halleran said. “You have to be competitive, but we have other things that are strongly to our advantage. Many faculty find our emphasis on research and undergraduate teaching very attractive. The fact that we have very talented students helps us to recruit.”

The College gives salary bonuses on a merit-based system. On average, last year, Halleran said professors received a six percent salary bonus. To reward quality professors, the College has various recognitions for top faculty.

“You reward people by salary increases, promotion at the appropriate times, you give them opportunities,” Halleran said.

Halleran also said that

academic departments have a certain amount of research funding allocated for professors.

Non-tenured professors can apply for summer research grants through the Roy R. Charles Center. After six years of teaching as a tenured professor, faculty members are allotted a semester’s sabbatical with full salary compensation. Professors who choose to take a yearlong sabbatical receive 80 percent pay compensation.

Director of the. Charles Center and government professor Joel Schwartz said the Charles Center is able to fund about one in three faculty research requests, beyond the departmental money. If the Charles Center cannot fund research, professors can apply for grants from federal agencies such as the National Institute

of Health, the National Science Foundation or the Department of Defense.

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Money can be a part of the discussion, but it’s not the only reason people leave. Life is more complicated than that, it’s more multidimensional.

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member’s main motivation, they are likely to choose another university,” sociology professor Graham Ousey said. “It’s not that people here don’t value research,

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provide incentives for faculty to stay at the school, the College’s administration continues to actively seek ways to increase salaries.

During the most recent Board of Visitors’ meetings, the BOV revised the College’s SixYear-Plan — a plan the school must submit to the Virginia legislature — to place improving faculty salaries as number one on its list of priorities. In the passed resolution, Fiscal Year 2014 expenses were adjusted to include $3,721,000 in salary increases to help reach the 60th percentile goal.

“The comparison with our peers can only be done retrospectively,” Halleran said in an email. “But based on the reasonable assumptions about what we believe our peers will be doing on salaries, we think we’ll reach those two goals (50th by July ’15 and 60th by July ’17).”

Salaries in business fields are often higher than those in

liberal arts-related fields due to competition from other schools similar in rank and from the private sector, Business School Assistant Dean of Faculty Franklin Robeson said. The Mason School of Business has recently adjusted salaries and provided summer research grants for professors to remain competitive in the academic market and to retain faculty members. The school has also increased salaries with funds acquired through private donations and endowed faculty positions.

“We’ve had people decide to go to other schools and salary can be a part of that decision, but we’ve attempted to correct those major salary differences to try and encourage faculty to stay at the Mason school,” Robeson said.

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Unpaid internships are (usually) valuable the hunt for good internships that much more difficult.

Of course, not every company is so cautious, which sometimes puts unpaid interns in an awkward position.

With the job market so competitive, would-be interns are forced to question whether the value of having any internship on a resume outweighs the potential unfairness.

FLAT HAT OPINIONS COLUMNIST Then there’s the confrontation aspect: Does an unpaid intern ask for pay and thereby risk losing the internship to someone who doesn’t mind working for free?

The New York Times recently ran an article about the My answer: It depends. value — or lack thereof — of unpaid internships. Although As an unpaid intern myself, I’m personally offended they have been around for awhile, unpaid internships have that potential employers might find my work less valuable. recently begun to cause widespread discontent, largely due to However, if I were to stumble across a paid internship that’s two facts: First, they often involve getting coffee, and second, equally relevant to my future career as the one I currently even if they don’t involve getting coffee, potential employers have, I’d be reluctant to accept it. Why? Because of that key frequently assume they involve getting coffee, and most of word we hear so much from the Sherman and Gloria H. these employers aren’t looking for baristas.

According to the Times, “A 2011 survey found that 61 percent Cohen Career Center: networking.

Even though I work for free, I’ve built valuable of students who worked in a paid internship were offered a job when they graduated, compared with 38 percent of students relationships with my employers and their clients. I who took an unpaid position.” Unfortunately, many employers also have the opportunity for advancement within the company. No, I don’t get paid, — and society, in general — view salary but, to sound truly cheesy, these as a measure of someone’s work; the Predictably, business interns relationships and opportunities will unpaid intern contributes less to the company than the paid intern, or so the generally get the big bucks — and be far more valuable than money in the long run. belief goes. by big bucks, I mean bucks — Not all unpaid interns are as Thus, unpaid interns seek revolution. whereas those in publishing and fortunate as I am. Some employers In Europe, organizations have sprung media tend to get zilch. may remain distant from their interns, up to protest the system. In the United and although they may still write States, many unpaid interns have filed lawsuits against their employers, demanding to be reimbursed letters of recommendation, the networking aspect might for what some compare to slave labor. The general rule is not be as strong as would be ideal. And if the intern does as follows: If the intern does work equal to that of a salaried work equivalent to that of a salaried employee, he or she employee, then that intern must be paid. Unpaid internships should probably be paid.

The field of work also determines whether interns are must benefit the intern more than they do the company. In fact, the company can receive no immediate advantage from having paid: Predictably, business interns generally get the big unpaid interns; rather, unpaid interns might even impede the bucks — and by big bucks, I mean bucks — whereas those in publishing and media tend to get zilch. company.

In a perfect world, all interns would be paid, for when The various lawsuits that have sprung up throughout the we do internships we give up time that could be spent country — and around the world, as The New York Times explained — have forced companies to be more careful when it working a wage job. Instead of summer employment, we comes to interns. Unfortunately, the result isn’t always positive seek out internships; thus, we’re perpetually stuck in the realm of the “broke college student.” for the intern. If they have to pay their interns, companies are likely to hire fewer, which heightens competition and makes Email Samantha Farkas at sbfarkas@email.wm.edu.

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ccording to U.S. News and World Report, the College of William and Mary ranks No. 1 in undergraduate teaching for public universities, third only to Dartmouth College and Princeton University overall. This should be a point of pride for the College.

However, the College’s ability to educate students is only as good as the quality of its faculty. The College can only continue to attract high-caliber faculty if it offers wide-ranging benefits, including those that take into account same-sex domestic partnerships. While faculty and administrators have taken charge in demanding these benefits, the commonwealth of Virginia remains embarrassingly deficient.

Currently, Virginia does not extend the same benefits to the partners of public employees in same-sex domestic partnerships as it does to the spouses of its married employees. Given that the College is a public university, its faculty and staff fall under the category of public employees and cannot receive same-sex domestic partner benefits.

This is wrong, and it will hurt the College.

Last year, the University of Tennessee conducted a study looking at the same-sex domestic partnership benefits offered by the top 26 public universities, including the College. The study looked at benefits in six categories: health care, leave, financial assistance, insurance, counseling and campus services. More than half of the universities offered at least one service in each category. Due to Virginia’s law, the College offers nothing in any of these categories. Discussing the ethical obligation of providing each of these benefits would be redundant, but it would be prudent to draw attention to a few areas.

Virginia does not allow the College to extend paid leave to faculty in same-sex domestic partnerships who are caring for sick partners.

This difference in policy pertaining to domestic partnerships and heterosexual marriages is discriminatory and forces faculty to choose between financial security and obligations to their loved ones. The College should not have to place this pressure on families.

Dealing with the death of a loved one is stressful to say the least.

That the commonwealth compounds that grief by depriving faculty of paid bereavement leave for the death of a partner is wrong. The vast majority of the top 25 public universities — 17 out of 25 — provide this common-sense benefit, and there is no reason why Virginia’s public colleges should not.

Finally, 20 of the 25 universities in the University of Tennessee’s study extended at least some form of health insurance to same-sex domestic partners of faculty members. It cannot be stressed enough how unfair Virginia’s current policy is. The College’s former rector, Jeffrey Trammell ’73, made a powerful economic case against this policy, but there exists a moral one that is equally strong: The policy is discriminatory and inconsistent with the values of the College’s students, faculty and administrators.

The College ought to be proud of its faculty. The Faculty Assembly — which is composed of representatives from each academic department — unanimously passed a resolution Sept. 24 demanding that Virginia allow its public universities to provide benefits to same-sex domestic partners of faculty. Not only are the College’s faculty members some of the best in the nation, but they stand up for each other. This solidarity in support of same-sex domestic partner benefits will be critical in the years to come.

Abby Boyle recused herself from this staff editorial to remain unbiased in her reporting.

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As a student, has the government shutdown affected you or someone you know? If it has, how so?

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—Frank Sponn on “Federal government shutdown may have slight impact at College”

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Quarters may have their appeal, but the semester system still works best Brandy Adkins THE FLAT HAT

Many U.S. institutions are looking into changing the structure of their academic calendars from semesters to quarters, but doing so may actually be more harmful than helpful to students across the country. The advantages of using the semester structure in the academic calendar far outweigh the benefits of changing it.

With quarters, students can take more courses, experience teaching styles of more professors, and experiment with more electives. However, longer exposure to the subject, as with semesters, means greater depth and understanding. It is far more advantageous for a student to understand a certain topic completely before moving on to another, possibly more difficult, course.

In addition, reading 100 pages per week for ten weeks is going to mean a lot less material

is covered than reading the same amount for 16 weeks. Engaging with the reading is a big part of the college academic experience, but quarters force professors to limit this engagement.

Semester students have more time to adjust in a course — especially weaker students who need time to improve their performance.

Students are less likely to do poorly in a course when they have more time to turn around their performance. In addition, with semester programs, class periods may be shorter because they are spread over a longer period of time. Semesters also create more time for breaks between courses. All of these attributes allow students more time to absorb course material before moving on to a new subject.

There is also more time to build a relationship between the student and professor, which means networking, future possibilities and potentially a greater understanding of the course material.

Admittedly, there are notable advantages with quarters. It may be easier to focus knowing there are only 10 weeks in the quarter. Also, quarters offer students more opportunities to make up for failures in past

courses, because they take more classes in the course of a year than semester students.

There is less time with a certain professor should a student find him or her disagreeable during a quarter, as well as more flexibility in scheduling a certain class or professor in the first place.

Despite these advantages for quarters, however, there are other, markedly better advantages to using the semester calendar.

The cost to the students is less, because they have to purchase fewer textbooks. Also, because most colleges operate on a semester schedule, it becomes easier to transfer schools.

According to the National Center for Education Statistics’ study of academic calendars of postsecondary institutions in the United States, 89 percent of public 4-year institutions and 82 percent of public 2-year institutions use a semester calendar.

A longer curriculum encourages students to participate in their learning rather than having professors teach at them. After all, college not only teaches us certain academic subjects, but also teaches us how to learn in general.

Email Brandy Adkins at bbadkins@email. wm.edu.

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Revived student club promotes wellness and positivity in students’ lives Blue balloons bobbed in the early fall breeze Friday afternoon. They were tied next to the Crim Dell and attached to the sundial. Students could be overheard asking their friends about the mysterious blue balloons that simply read “DOT.” DOT, or Do One Thing for Sustainability, is a name that may ring a bell for some upperclassmen. The movement, which originated with the marketing firm Saatchi & Saatchi, was introduced to the College of William and Mary in 2010, but only lasted for about a year on campus.

Professor Christopher Adkins, director of the Undergraduate Business Program, headed the first launch with Net Impact, a student organization focused on making businesses more sustainable. A group of five seniors who call themselves DOT “diehards” are heading a re-launch this fall, with the help of DOT leaders, who will spread the movement to student organizations.

The main goal of DOT is to encourage students to change one thing about their

daily routines, to do something that makes them happy while being sustainable.

“Individually, you might not be able to see that impact, but once you start pulling all these things together, you can see that impact,” DOT diehard Mikey Kim ’14 said.

Kim’s DOT is to exercise a couple times a week with a friend, rather than working out alone.

Contrary to popular belief, sustainability does not just have to do with the environment.

“DOT started a movement within the school to value sustainability more, not just in terms of environmental sustainability, but in terms of economic, social and cultural sustainability,” DOT diehard Alyssa Zhu ’14 said. “A DOT can even be as easy as calling your grandparents once a week if you want to spend more time with your family. Or it could be doing one act of kindness toward a friend.”

Because the campaign grew too big too quickly to survive last time, the team has taken on a new strategy. A smaller soft launch was staged Oct. 4, with the intention of introducing the arts and sciences campus to the idea of DOT. The team tabled on the terrace for five

hours, encouraging passing students to fill out DOT stickers with their personal DOT. Students who filled out a sticker received a second sticker, which was their admission to a party with free food at the College Delly that night.

Another launch will occur after fall break in the Mason School of Business where DOT began.

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“We’re trying to contain the initiative a little more this time around, and not do something huge in terms of our launch,” Kim said. “We’re trying to do a lot of organic and grassroots campaigning in terms of word of mouth and social media.”

Zhu emphasized the organization’s emphasis on student well-being.

“From our understanding, the

campaign kind of got taken over by people who didn’t really understand the main message of DOT,” Zhu said. “DOT is about sustainability, but it’s not about sacrificing for sustainability. It’s about making yourself happy, while doing something that’s good for the environment and your community. I think what happened was that people started trying to compete with their DOTs.” DOT “leaders” were chosen through an application process, with the idea that they will introduce student organizations to sustainability, and help each group come up with their own DOT. “This launch, we’re trying to encourage groups and clubs on campus to partake in this initiative and make it their own instead of our small group overseeing it,” Kim said. “We’re trying to make sure the organizations themselves take on DOT and once we’re gone, the initiative is still in place.”

The Competitive Gaming Club is already planning their own sustainability event, as a collaboration between DOT and their own initiative, Haste for Waste.

In mid-November the club is holding a trash pickup that is open to all students.

However, this is no ordinary trash pickup.

The CGC is taking their core aspects, competition and gaming, and applying them to the event in order to make it more fun for participants.

“We ask, ‘How do we take what’s beautiful and advantageous about gaming and apply it to real life?’” club president Jonghee Lee ’14 said.

Lee’s DOT is to replace plastic water bottles with a reusable bottles.

Volunteers earn points for the amount of trash they gather. With those points, they can buy more pickup tools. The person with the most points at the end of the event wins a gift card.

This event is part of an effort to continue the DOT efforts beyond the initial launch.

“It’s an on-going campaign,” Zhu said.

“It’s not just an event; it’s a movement, so we want people to remember that DOTs exist, and remember their personal DOTs. Our goal is to get people to stay committed to their DOTs, and to have different events or gatherings with other people who made DOTs. One of our main goals is to build community at William and Mary, while making the campus more sustainable and happy.”

TEAM Nadia hosts capture the flag fundraiser Residence Life and College staff rally to support a coworker’s daughter diagnosed with cancer

BY MORGAN DODDS THE FLAT HAT

When the Richmond Road area Residence Life staff met to discuss their annual campus-wide event, they came together to help a member of the College of William and Mary community. They decided to host a capture the flag event titled ‘Capture the Cure’ on the fields outside of Jamestown to benefit TEAM Nadia.

The organization is composed of five central people, ranging from cancer survivors to mothers and friends. Each member of the core team found that they naturally took on specific roles of support that catered to their personality types.

TEAM Nadia is an internal support system formed to help a member of the College’s professional staff community and her family. In mid-May, Angela Mason’s coworkers and friends found out that Nadia, Mason’s 12-year-old daughter, had been diagnosed with stage four nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

This form of cancer, also known as NPC, affects the ears, nose and throat area.

“In the beginning, it looked like a severe case of allergies,” TEAM Nadia logistical planner Jessica Raymond said. She wore a TEAM Nadia ribbon on her lapel. “This lasted for around six months before she finally went into a small out-patient surgery to relieve some pressure. That was when they found one of six tumors.”

The cancer diagnosis soon followed.

Cancer is unwelcome news in any

community. As Angela’s co-workers found out about Nadia’s cancer, they all sought their own ways to cope.

“You start to question things when a twelve year old is diagnosed with stage four cancer,” Raymond said.

As time went on, Angela’s co-workers realized that if they relied on each other in a mutual support system, it would make things easier to deal with. And so

they created TEAM Nadia.

“We were five people coming together asking ourselves, what could we do?” Raymond said. “Because life goes on and work goes on and we all really wanted to be there to support Angela and Nadia.”

Over the summer, Raymond found a volunteer opportunity for TEAM Nadia by working with Revolution 3,

a company that sponsors triathlons. A race was hosted in Williamsburg and TEAM Nadia gathered fifty of their troops. Friends, family and summer ResLife staff attended the event, raising $1,000 for TEAM Nadia.

“I took on more of the logistical work, opening a bank account and finding volunteer opportunities to benefit TEAM Nadia,” Raymond said. “Another

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Students sign in to participate in the Richmond Road area Residence Life’s campus-wide “Capture the Cure” event in the Jamestown Dorm Fields.

member of our team is a hugger, and one is there to help Nadia and her family understand what is going to happen during her treatments.”

The combined efforts took a tremendous strain off of Nadia’s family, because the money paid for her treatments over the summer.

“Nadia calls this her team,” Raymond said. “She really steers the ship.”

Even during her treatments, Nadia was looking for ways to help other patients. With such a support system around her, Nadia was inspired to help others by bringing in toys and other hospital necessities for fellow patients.

The experience of working for TEAM Nadia impacted the ResLife staff, resulting in the campus wide event to benefit Nadia.

“They had a connection to Nadia,” Area Director of Richmond Road Jenn Garcia said. “Nadia was standing up for others, and so someone should be standing up for her … You have to be your own advocate.”

The event had food, prizes and of course a capture the flag game. Taylor F., a Resident Assistant, says that the event “was really cool. It was nice to see people enter and play, not only to have fun but to also help a really great cause.”

The event also had a slight focus on health education for college students, with flyers urging students to take their health seriously.

“When people around you whom you care for are suffering, you don’t think about being inconvenienced,” Raymond said.

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CONFUSION CORNER

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BY AINE CAIN FLAT HAT VARIETY EDITOR

If you go for a stroll near the Governor’s Palace on a chilly October night, you might find groups gathered around the George Wythe House, banging on the door and leaving shoes on the front steps.

They are attempting to summon Lady Ann Skipwith, the ghost that is said to haunt the reconstructed colonial home. She’s just one of the many undead residents of Colonial Williamsburg.

Clare Britcher is a ghost tour guide with the Original Ghosts of Williamsburg Candlelight Tour, the second oldest ghost tour in the United States. She described Lady Skipwith as a beautiful member of the Virginian gentry who frequently visited Williamsburg with her husband, Sir Peyton, and her sister, Jean. This all changed during an elaborate ball at the Governor’s Palace.

“Lady Ann was having a delightful time until she saw something,” Britcher said. “Something that is still a mystery. Something that set her hot temper ablaze. She ran from the Palace and stumbled up the Green alone, in the dark. In the darkness, and in her state of hysteria, she lost one of her shoes, but it didn’t slow her down.

She made it back to the Wythe House and began to stagger up the wooden staircase.”

According to the legend, the distraught Lady Skipwith tripped as she ascended the stairs, falling to the floor below. She eventually died of the injuries sustained in the fall.

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“When Lady Ann did eventually die, her husband Peyton married her sister Jean.”

The George Wythe House is now a popular stop on most Colonial Williamsburg ghost tours. Visitors have reported strange sounds coming from the house around midnight — noises often described as a peg-legged man staggering up the steps. Britcher also claimed that a specter has been sighted in the house’s master bedroom, admiring itself in an invisible looking glass.

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Ghosts of Williamsburg Check back next week for more haunting features

Maybe he’s your lab partner from freshman year, but you haven’t really spoken since then. Maybe she’s a friend of a friend, but you’re Facebook friends because you met at a party once last semester. Maybe you just cross paths on campus a lot.

Then that moment comes. On the way to your 10 a.m. seminar, you see them from afar. Shoot — you just made eye contact. What now? Do you say hi? Do you wave? Do you stop and have a full-blown conversation?

These run-ins happen every day. The College of William and Mary can make it awkward.

Take a walk across campus. How many people do you smile and nod to? How many people, who aren’t necessarily your friends, do you recognize? How many people do you know some little random fact about, but not much else?

If you are like the majority of students at the College, you probably know a ton of them. These, my friends, are your “casual acquaintances.”

A wise friend once told me, “Anyone with a Facebook is a stalker, and you can’t deny it.” The advent of social media provides us all with a window into the lives of others. We meet, we chat and we learn a little bit about each other. Then, we become Facebook friends and we learn a little more. Then we see each other, and we hide it.

But how awkward can it get? To find out, I embarked on a little experiment. For an entire school week, I attempted to have nothing but positive casualacquaintance run-ins. For me, this meant smiling and waving, or stopping to have a small conversation.

Full disclosure: I’m the kind of extrovert who knows the life story of the grocer at Food Lion, so I really wasn’t too concerned about the success of my experiment. While I had many gratifying successes, overall, it was a week of lots of smiling at people, then pretending to wave to someone else when they didn’t reciprocate.

Maybe the problem is that we are too self-aware here at the College. We assume everyone is focused too intently on something in his or her own mind or too engrossed in a conversation to stop and smile.

Or maybe we are just all victims of this casualacquaintance avoidance culture that perpetuates itself and makes our campus more awkward with each passing day.

Or maybe we just prefer to avoid people we only sort of know. Whatever the issue may be, it seems that people are okay with avoiding each other — in fact, casual acquaintances tend to prefer it.

No one wants to stop and chat all the time; that’s unrealistic. But just think of the difference we could make if we stopped texting for a second, picked our heads up and smiled at each other.

This past summer, I ran into a vaguely familiar classmate from the religious studies department on the D.C. Metro. On campus she’d be a casual acquaintance, but for the ride from Farragut West to Capitol South, she was my best friend. In life outside of Williamsburg, any connection to the Tribe becomes one worth savoring. So why not start appreciating it now?

Ariel Cohen is a Confusion Corner columnist and an expert on disguising unreciprocated waves.

Poetry reading marks death of a naturalist College English department memorializes famed Irish poet and Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney

BY DEVON IVIE FLAT HAT ASSOC. VARIETY EDITOR

As the old joke goes: “How can you tell Seamus Heaney just walked down a street in Dublin? Because everyone is smiling.”

The College of William and Mary department of English, in collaboration with the Patrick Hayes Writers Festival, held a memorial poetry reading in honor of famed poet Seamus Heaney Sept. 30.

Heaney died Aug. 30 at the age of 74.

Professors, students and guests celebrated Heaney’s life through personal remembrances and readings from his vast repertoire in the newly opened theater in St. George Tucker Hall. Suzanne Hagedorn, associate professor of English, mediated the event.

Born in Northern Ireland, Heaney rose from a disadvantaged childhood in a rural farmhouse — which lacked electricity and running water — to international stardom, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. He wrote dozens of collections of poetry, penned works for the stage, and even translated the modern version of Beowulf that is commonly read in high school and college classes across the nation. His

versatility and virtuosity, as well as his honest and poignant reflections on his native Ireland, led Robert Lowell to call him “the most important Irish poet since Yeats.”

Henry Hart, Mildred and J.B. Hickson professor of English and Humanities and a friend of Heaney’s, shared several personal stories about the poet. One particular story, featuring their first formal meeting at Harvard University to discuss Hart’s upcoming book about Heaney, showcased Heaney’s naturally kind and charming nature.

“When the conversation lagged, [Heaney] hustled to another room and returned with a bottle of Irish whiskey and two jars,” Hart said. “The kind of jars used to hold jelly, or pickled vegetables, or moonshine. I’m not sure where the conversation went after that, but I know I had a good time. After a few drinks, he gave me a signed copy of his book, ‘Station Island,’ and then he walked me to my car. Before I left, I told him about my sister who recently graduated from college and was struggling to begin a career as an artist in Boston. He said he’d call her up and try to give her some help.

I knew that Heaney was one of the most gifted modern poets, but at the time I

Hart to ask what poems he should choose for his reading and agreed to recite works that were being studied in Hart’s class on contemporary poetry. During his visit, Heaney charmed the Williamsburg community, including the dean of students and provost. He also gave authentic Irish coins to Hart’s children and sent Hart signed special editions of his poems and lectures upon his return to Ireland.

Nancy Schoenberger, director of the Patrick Hayes Writers Festival and professor of English, noted that his humility, common touch and accessibility made him a relatable author. She also remarked that his work, which she discovered after seeing him “signing off” a late-night television show, comforted her during her first trip to Northern Ireland.

“There was that part of him that talked about writing a poem the way you would make an object — poetry as the making of something,” she said. “I think that’s a part of him and his approach to writing that I’ve always appreciated. The idea that, yes, it’s good to be inspired, you need to be inspired, but we’re COURTESY PHOTO / HELLINAKISS.BLOGSPOT.COM also making something. I think that Poet Seamus Heaney passed away on Aug. 30. rootedness to the world was a big part, didn’t know what a generous person he was, what a gift-giver he was. … If a lot of famous poets leaned towards the satanic side of the personality spectrum, Heaney definitely leaned towards the saintly side.”

Hart also shared memories about Heaney’s three-day visit to the College in April 2002. A stop in his multi-college poetry tour, Heaney personally called

at least for me, to the attraction of his work.”

Christy Burns, associate professor of English, shared Schoenberger’s thoughts, while also noting that she frequently features his work in her classes.

“I had a freshman seminar that was on British and Irish women, and I so missed Seamus Heaney that I changed around the syllabus so I could do something with his work and include his poems,” she said.

After the speeches, students and guests were encouraged to come to the stage and share a poem by Heaney that they particularly appreciated and enjoyed.

Professors and students recited some of Heaney’s most notable poems from “Death of a Naturalist” and “Field Work,” as well as pieces from his last publication, “Human Chain.” The former and current Poet Laureate of Virginia, Carolyn KreiterForonda and Sofia Starnes, respectively, were also in attendance and read short poems.

Upon the event’s completion, guests were invited to Tucker Hall’s lobby to enjoy a selection of Irish-themed food and drinks, including homemade sodabread and Guinness, and to enjoy the sounds of traditional Irish folk music played by students.

WEEKEND HONORS

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Phillips named CAA Rookie of the Week

Camper named CAA Player of the Week

Larrick named CAA Rookie of the Week

After earning his fifth shutout, freshman goalkeeper Mac Phillips was named the CAA Rookie of the Week for the third time so far this season. Phillips goals-againstaverage improved to .71 during the win over College of Charleston.

Junior forward Emory Camper scored her sixth and seventh goals of the season in the Tribe’s victories against Drexel and Delaware. This marks the first instance Camper has been awarded this honor so far this season.

Freshman Kristen Larrick earned her first All-CAA honors over the weekend by helping the College split its weekend slate against UNC-W and College of Charleston.

She notched 10 kills in the Tribe’s victory over UNC-W.

MEN’S SOCCER

Perez lifts Tribe in CAA home opener College shuts out C. of Charleston

BY YONNIE IYOB FLAT HAT STAFF WRITER Following its memorable road trip, which lasted five games, and included three wins against ranked opponents, the Tribe (5-3-1, CAA 1-1) was just happy to be back home. The Tribe players showed their gratitude Saturday night defeating the College of Charleston (2-7-0, CAA 0-2) 1-0 in front of a full crowd. The victory marks the Tribe’s first conference win of the season.

Freshman goalkeeper Mac Phillips made three key saves to keep the Cougars off the scoreboard. The game marks Phillips’ 5th shutout of the season, which is the most in the Colonial Athletic Association.

“Momentum is very big in our sport, especially when you play almost every three days,” Norris said. “To get back [from the road], and win this game tonight, it feels good.”

As in some of its previous matches, the College came out firing on all cylinders in Saturday’s matchup. In the first fifteen minutes, it was all Tribe as it ripped off three shots in a four-minute span.

However, junior Chris Albiston’s shot was the only attempt that counted as a shot on goal, and his ball was saved by the Cougar’s

goalkeeper, Alex Young.

But the Cougars were hardly out of the competition. In the 34th minute the Charleston’s Adam Noel was able to finally put a shot on goal, but his attempt from just outside the 18-yard box was stopped by Phillips. Overall, the Tribe had a 6-4 shot deficit in the first half.

Although the Tribe recorded fewer shots than the Cougars in the first half, when given a chance, redshirt senior Chris Perez’s would not be denied. In the 40th minute, sophomore forward Jackson Eskay found Perez streaking toward the box.

Perez received the ball with his left foot and took it up to the 18-yard line. Just before crossing the line, Perez managed to switch feet and flick a beautiful ball over the head of the Charleston goalkeeper and into the upper left corner of the goal. The goal was Perez’s second of the season.

“Coming off a good road performance, and being able to create a little hype on campus, this win was important tonight,” Norris said. “We needed some points in the conference race, and that goal helped.”

The second half began in earnest, but the level of play was a bit uneven and messy even though both teams were still able to generate chances.

The Cougar’s best chance for an equalizer came on a counter-attack in the

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Senior forward Chris Perez scored the only goal of the contest, his second of the season, in the 40th minute to improve the College to 1-1 in CAA play.

56th minute. Noel was pushing the ball down the field and managed to control a ball that the Tribe defense carelessly lost.

One-on-one with Phillips, Noel tried to aim the ball around the right of the goalkeeper, but Phillips was able to get a hand on the first shot as well as Noel’s rebound attempt.

FIELD HOCKEY

Tribe splits weekend series

BY SOFIA ANDREOLI THE FLAT HAT William and Mary triumphed over Towson Sunday, balancing its weekend road trip after Friday’s loss to Delaware. The Tribe offense couldn’t find a goal in the 4-0 loss to Delaware, but it enjoyed a resurgence Sunday, beating Towson 5-1.

Friday, the College (5-6, 2-1 CAA) outshot Delaware (8-3, 2-0 CAA) throughout the game, but it couldn’t come through with a goal. Senior forward Taylor Hodge, sophomore midfielder Etsy Byrd, sophomore forward Pippin Saunders and freshman forward Maria Pastor led the team in shots. On the whole, however, the team struggled to take advantage of goal-scoring opportunities.

“The Delaware game, we were still making adjustments and couldn’t finish opportunities.

We let too many easy goals go past us. Being 3-0 down, we became more of an attack team,” head coach Tess Ellis said.

Sophomore keeper Meredith Savage started the game and recorded two saves before sophomore keeper Cate Johnson added a save late in the contest. Michaela Patzner led the Blue Hens with two goals. Ellis attributed some of the team’s struggles to Delaware’s irregular playing surface.

“It was a hard game to prepare for because it was a football field,” Ellis said. It was nothing like the field we play on. We had to rent some fields at Delaware to prepare. It’s much slower and harder to play on. It was much harder for the older girls, but the freshmen had the opportunity to shine,

and they did.”

Sunday, the Tribe bounced back with a highscoring win against Towson (1-11, 0-2 CAA).

Although the game started with the College down a goal after just five minutes following Towson forward Kelsey Jones’s goal, the College responded with three quick goals of its own.

Twenty minutes after the opening goal, Pastor tied the game off Saunders’ assist. Less than two minutes later, junior midfielder Brittany Hopkins found Hodge with room to shoot, scoring the go-ahead goal. Shortly before the end of the first half, Saunders added the Tribe’s third goal of the contest.

The College continued the scoring outburst in the second half. Less than a minute into the second half, Hodge scored the Tribe’s fourth goal with a long-distance shot. Hodge’s second goal would count for her first collegiate career multigoal game.

In the 67th minute, freshman midfielder Amanda McAteer found the corner of the cage to increase the College’s advantage to 5-1.

Reversed from Friday, Johnson started in goal, recording one save. Savage finished the game, but didn’t field any shots thanks to a strong defensive effort from junior defender Kelsey Hull, senior defender Mia Cherry, junior defender Jesse Ebner and senior defender Chaney Manganello.

“Sunday [we] had nothing to lose,” Ellis said.

“Playing on a different surface [helped], and every opportunity [we] put the ball on cage.”

The Tribe will host Richmond Thursday at Busch Field at 5:30 p.m.

On the game, the Tribe outshot the Cougars 21-10, while also holding a 10-9 advantage in corner kicks. Norris described why they were able to create so many offensive opportunities on the night.

“I think it comes down to the attitudes of the two teams,” Norris said. “Both teams

were willing to allow the game to be open, there was a lot of opportunity for counteracts, and both teams were not willing to rest on the defensive.”

The Tribe’s next match is Wednesday, Oct. 9 when they play Maryland-Baltimore County .

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quarterback with game experience: senior quarterback Brent Caprio, coming off an off-season shoulder surgery.

Instead of Caprio, who had seen action late in the blowout wins of the previous two games, redshirt freshman Steve Cluley got the nod.

With an interception on his second throw, Cluley’s inexperience showed early.

Cluley completed 4 of 9 passes for 33 yards and an interception.

Despite the injuries, the defensive unit gave the offense a short field again at the start of the third quarter. Junior defensive end Mike Reilly recorded a stripsack — recovered by sophomore defensive tackle Tyler Claytor — to set up the Tribe on Villanova’s 27-yard line.

Another stalled drive translated into a 24-yard Carpenter field goal, upping the College’s advantage to 13-3.

Dominant in the first half, and in much of the third quarter, the Tribe’s defense found itself

without answers for the rest of the game.

A 54-yard run keyed a threeplay, 75-yard drive leading to Villanova’s first touchdown of the day. The score marked the first time since its win over Hampton that the College allowed a touchdown. More importantly, however, it brought the Wildcats to within three points of the Tribe’s lead.

Robertson engineered another long drive to tie the game with 11:47 left in the fourth quarter. The 16-play drive covered 71 yards and ran 7:34 off the clock. All told, the Wildcats gained 236 yards to the College’s 109 in the second half, outscoring the Tribe 17-3.

“It was just a lot of plays we could have made that we didn’t,” Green said. “It hurts, but we just have to come back and do better.”

Bringing the No. 7 overall defense into Saturday’s game, Laycock struggled to account for the poor second half performance.

“We just missed tackles,”

Laycock said. “Why, I don’t know. Maybe it was the heat.

Maybe it was because we were tired. Maybe it’s because the quarterback from Villanova was running better.”

With the game tied and Cluley underperforming, Laycock inserted Caprio into the game.

Caprio quickly found McBride for the 37-yard catch that ultimately set up the College’s final field goal of the day.

After Robertson scored the game-winning score on the ensuing drive, Laycock pulled Caprio for Cluely, who would suffer the game-ending sack.

While the decision to go with the field goal with 6:17 left in the fourth quarter can’t explain the loss, the College nonetheless narrowly missed a chance to down the preseason-favorite Wildcats.

“Congratulations to Villanova,” Laycock said. “We have to get back to work.”

The College returns to Zable Stadium to host Pennsylvania Saturday. Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m.

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of the net. The goal was Camper’s seventh of the season and gave the Tribe a 2-1 lead.

In the intense remaining minutes, Delaware desperately battled to tie the game. The Tribe defense blocked two point-blank attempts in the 55th minute and then deflected a shot barely wide of the goal 10 minutes later. Two separate Blue Hen corner kicks went out of bounds in the second half, and Casey foiled a near goal with a leaping save.

The Blue Hens kept the Tribe defense under constant fire after halftime and physically defended Tribe attackers at every opportunity, struggling to gain any possible edge over the College. The Tribe, however, stayed strong and withstood the physical play, preserving its 2-1 lead to seal the win.

The Blue Hens out-shot the Tribe 22-10 and dominated possession, but the Tribe, as it has all season, defended brilliantly and came up with goals when needed.

Despite some narrow escapes

throughout the season, the Tribe stands unbeaten in 10 matches and 3-0 in conference play. Still, Camper made it clear that the team is not resting on its laurels.

“It’s a big confidence boost, but I can tell you that we have things to work on, and we’re ready for the rest of the season,” Camper said.

The Tribe will look to build on its unbeaten streak and improve to 4-0 in the conference play when it hosts Towson this Thursday at 7 p.m. at AlbertDaly Field.

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Junior wide reciever Tre McBride caught four passes for 78 yards, including a 37-yarder that set up a Tribe field goal.

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Belaya ends run in top-16 Tops No. 7 in win streak

BY JACK POWERS FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR Three thousand miles from Williamsburg, seniors Maria Belaya and Jeltje Loomans did the women’s tennis program at William and Mary proud. Playing in the Riviera/ ITA All-American Championship in Pacific Palisades, Ca., Belaya and Loomans proved they are more than capable of dealing with the best in the country.

The ITA All-American is the first national championship event of the fall season, and it is comprised of the top 32 singles players and top 24 doubles teams in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. An invitation alone is an achievement.

Belaya and Loomans advanced to the quarterfinals in the doubles competition before ultimately losing Friday to North Carolina’s Whitney Kay and Caroline Price.

Belaya played her way into the championship draw of the singles tournament and defeated No. 7 Yana Koreleva of Clemson before losing to Texas A&M’s Christina Stancu in the round of 16 Friday.

Ranked No. 7 nationally, Belaya and Loomans received a first-round bye by virtue of their national ranking. In the first match, Belaya and Loomans dispatched the No. 19-ranked team of Brynn Boren and Zoe Katz out of Southern California 8-4.

However, the Tribe doubles team couldn’t progress past the quarterfinals, losing to North Carolina’s Kay and Price 8-4. Friday marked the duo’s first loss of the season, having won its first seven matches.

Belaya and Loomans’ quarterfinal date was the furthest a Tribe doubles team has advanced in the ITA All-American since Megan Moulton-Levy ’06 and Katarina Zoricic ’08 reached the semifinals in 2006.

Immediately following elimination from doubles competition, Belaya tried to overcome fatigue and continue her improbable run in the singles draw. Coming off four straight victories in the tournament, Belaya finally fell to Christina Sanctu of Texas A&M in straight sets, 6-3, 6-2.

Belaya’s remarkable run featured three straight victories to qualify for the championship draw, including her 3-6, 6-1, 6-3 triumph over Clemson’s No. 6-ranked Yana Koroleva — the highest-ranked victory by a Tribe player since 2006.

The College will take the entire women’s program to Nashville for the June Stewart Invitational Oct. 11-13.

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Junior place kicker John Carpenter connects on one of his three field goals Saturday. Despite Carpenter’s nine points, the Tribe’s inability to score touchdowns proved crucial.

BY CHRIS WEBER FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR Six minutes and 17 seconds remained in William and Mary’s conference game at No. 20 Villanova Saturday. With the score tied at 13, and without starting senior quarterback Michael Graham, head coach Jimmye Laycock faced a fourth-and-one on the Wildcats’ sevenyard line.

The choice: try to convert for a first-andgoal or take the chip-shot field goal. Junior wideout Tre McBride, whose 37-yard reception put the College in field goal position, offered a tempered explanation.

“Of course, on offense, we want to get as many points as we can. Going for the three, it seemed like the best choice at that time and moment,” McBride said. “As a player, obviously, I would have loved to have gone for it. But we gotta take what we can get right away.”

Laycock did not risk the conversion, instead sending junior place kicker John Carpenter out

for the 24-yard field goal attempt. Carpenter split the uprights, capping a 10-play, 68-yard drive that gave the College (3-2, 1-1 CAA) a 1613 lead with 6:17 left to play.

Villanova (3-2, 2-0 CAA), however, responded with a 13-play, 80-yard drive capped off by quarterback John Robertson’s game-winning one-yard touchdown run.

“The decision there late, that fourth and one, you go for the field goal and try and pick up the thing, I mean, we had been playing great defense all year,” Laycock said. “In that situation, I said, ‘We’re going to get the points and put it with our defense to hold them,’ and we just weren’t able to do it.”

Junior tight end Bo Revell returned the ensuing kickoff 15-yards, setting up the Tribe on its own 45-yard line with 28 seconds left for a final drive. A Wildcats’ sack ended the College’s hopes of a comeback, sealing the 2016 loss.

Despite failing to contain Villanova late in the game, the Tribe put forth a dominant

effort in the first half. Defensively, the College allowed 97 total yards in the first half, with just 18 of those yards coming on the ground.

Junior linebacker Airek Green provided the highlights, intercepting Villanova’s Robertson to set up Graham and company with a short field. Graham took the advantage, hitting junior wideout Sean Ballard for the eight-yard touchdown — a good play for the first score of the game.

After trading field goals, the College took a 10-3 advantage into the half, but not without losing Graham, who had completed 7 of 10 passes for 66 yards and a score before being thrown to the turf late in the second quarter.

He would not return to the game.

“He’s got concussion symptoms right now, so they’re going to hold him for further evaluation,” Laycock said postgame.

With junior quarterback Raphael Ortiz still out with injury, Laycock had just one other See FOOTBALL page 7

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Senior Maria Balaya advanced to the top-16 in the ITA Championship.

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Daly, Tribe unbeaten in 10 consecutive matches

Johnston, Camper score in defensive battle as Casey records seven saves in 2-1 conference win

BY MICK SLOAN FLAT HAT ASSOC. SPORTS EDITOR Neither Delaware’s strong defense nor a blistering October heat were able to derail William and Mary Sunday, as the Tribe battled to a 2-1 home win over the visiting Blue Hens. The Tribe (6-1-4, 3-0 CAA) ran its unbeaten streak to 10 games by virtue of a suffocating defense and two goals despite a strong Delaware (7-6-0, 1-2-0 CAA) defensive effort.

“We played quite well,” head coach John Daly said. “We defended well … we scored two nice goals — maybe could’ve had one or two more — but they could’ve had a couple more as well.”

The College caught a break in

the ninth minute, when Delaware defenders appeared to lose track of sophomore forward Katie Johnston as she positioned herself in front of the net. Senior forwards Dani Rutter and Audrey Barry slipped the ball through the unaware defense, and Johnston fired an undefended shot to give the College an early 1-0 advantage.

That early goal proved crucial, as the rest of the first half belonged to the Blue Hens. The visitors out-shot the College 9-5 in the opening half, controlling the ball for much of the period and using a high-pressure defense to bottle up the Tribe attack.

For stretches, the Tribe struggled to work the ball past midfield, as the Blue Hens constantly swarmed the ball and denied the College any

sustained rhythm.

Delaware nearly tied the game in the 34th minute when a shot flew toward a briefly unoccupied Tribe net. However, junior defender Christina Popps broke up the play with a perfectly timed deflection to prevent the goal.

Sophomore goalie Caroline Casey, averaging an amazing 0.6 goals allowed in the team’s 10-game winning streak, was key to shutting out the Blue Hens in the first half.

Casey recorded seven saves on the day.

Delaware finally manufactured a goal in the 49th minute when forward Shannon Kearney slipped a perfect cross to forward Natalie Zelenky, who was directly in front of the net. Zelenky fired a pinpoint shot

just above Casey’s outstretched hands for the equalizer.

Stripped of the lead and outplayed to that point, things appeared grim for the College.

“Our goal every game is a shutout, no goals … so right after a score, you’re crushed, but you’ve just got to snap out of it,” Casey said.

The Tribe wasted little time in recovering, as junior forward Emory Camper retook the lead in the 52nd minute. Camper took a pass from sophomore midfielder Nicole Baxter and maneuvered around a Delaware defender to slice an open shot into the corner of the net. The goal was Camper’s See W. SOCCER page 7

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Senior forward Audrey Barry recorded an assist in Sunday’s win.