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were scheduled to meet with trainees — interns or practicum students — 41 percent of the time, and with therapists without psychologist licenses 17 percent of the time. The discrepancy between scheduled and attended appointments in these categories is negligible. Four interns and two practicum students make up the Counseling Center’s trainee pool, and they account for the largest portion of scheduled appointments. The International Association of Counseling Services, an accreditation association for university and four-year college counseling services, holds an upper limit for total clinical services provided by trainees at 40 percent. See COUNSELING CENTER page 3
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Quantifying counseling appointments Students seeking appointments at the College of William and Mary Counseling Center have a 58 percent chance of meeting with an individual without a psychologist license, according to a breakdown of Counseling Center clinical services appointments obtained by The Flat Hat. The document provides the number of scheduled and attended clinical service appointments at the Counseling Center by staff member during the 2014-15 academic year through March 4. Figures taken from scheduled appointments made through March 4 of this academic year show that students
COMMONWEALTH ATTORNEY DECLINES TO PROSECUTE OFF-CAMPUS RAPE CASE REPORTED IN MARCH A student at the College of William and Mary reported she was raped off-campus the night of Thursday, March 19. She reported the incident to both the William and Mary Police Department and the Dean of Students Office Monday, March 23. March 31, the police investigator presented his findings to the Commonwealth Attorney for review. According to a press release from the Williamsburg Police Department, the Commonwealth’s Attorney has declined prosecution at this time after reviewing the investigation. Following the original report, the student body was notified of the incident on Tuesday, March 24 via an email from Vice President for Student Affairs Ginger Ambler Ambler ’88 Ph.D. ’06. In her message, Ambler directed students to resources that specialize in helping people who have been the victims of sexual violence, such as the Haven. This incident is one of several sexual violence cases that have been reported to the Williamsburg Police Department. Since 2009, there have been four rapes and four reports of sexual assault. All victims have been female. The student involved in this case was walking home from a local establishment with a friend when she encountered the suspect. The three walked back to the student’s residence on Randolph Street. The student reported that the assault occurred after her friend had left the premises. She identified the suspect as a white male, approximately 35 years old, six feet tall, with brown hair, a goatee and blue eyes. The police apprehended the suspect during their investigation.
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Sodexo added two food trucks to the College of William and Mary’s dining program this fall, marking the year’s
biggest change to campus dining. Now, after almost a full school year in business with lackluster returns, dining services is assessing how to manage the trucks next year. These mobile dining options are
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The BBQ 1693 truck sits behind Campus Center. Wholly Habaneros parks on the Sadler Center Terrace.
Wholly Habaneros, a Mexican food truck, and BBQ 1693, a barbecue stand. Although BBQ 1693 has been open since the beginning of the school year and Wholly Habaneros has been open since November, the venues have not yielded a large profit. The barbecue truck has fed about 10,200 customers thus far; with food cost and labor, this yields a 5% profit. Because the taco truck was implemented too late to draw customers from football game crowds, it has fed 2,500 people this year and has cost about $500. It has not yet yielded a profit. Both trucks cost $150 a day to maintain. Resident District Manager Jeff McClure reported that on days when the weather is nice, BBQ 1693 receives about 30-40 visitors a day, while Wholly Habaneros receives 35-40 patrons. He stated that since Wholly Habaneros began fully operating at the beginning of the spring semester rather than the beginning of the school year, customer traffic has been slow. “Opening things in January is a little tougher,” McClure said. “The weather hurt us a lot.” See FOOD TRUCKS page 2
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For the 2015-16 academic year, 288 students applied for a position on Residence Life’s student staff, and 166 have been hired so far. Associate Director for Community Development Holly Alexander Ph.D. ’12 said that she believes the process is very competitive. Only 164 students were accepted to join the 2014-15 staff out of 312 applicants during the last hiring cycle. During the process, Alexander said that preference is not given to returning applicants. Once ResLife determines which students meet the GPA, honor and conduct requirements for an interview, they begin evaluating what their needs will be for the year. “We spend a couple of days looking at the needs across campus, and we start building the staff, and we don’t do that based on new or returner,” Alexander said. “We certainly want to look at that comprehensively — I mean there [are] a lot of things that we want to look at in terms of building a staff: ‘Is it diverse?’ Does it represent the student body in some way?’ ‘Are there any special needs in that community?’” Meaghan Smith ’16 reapplied for an RA position after two years of working on the staff. She said she enjoyed the interview process but that it could be hard to accurately convey her personality to an area director in one conversation. “I like the fact that they make you interview with somebody that you actually haven’t met before because it gives you the chance to meet other area directors and for other area directors to meet you, so that increases your chances of where you might end up on campus,” Smith said. The 170 available positions are not just for resident assistants, but include all student staff positionsead residents, hall directors, complex directors, graduate RAs, program advocates and head staff RAs. There are five additional positions on hold that will be filled midsummer because the sex designations in some freshmen dorms have yet to be decided. Tom Myers ’16 has been an RA for the past two years and underwent the process again this spring. “How it actually goes down isn’t really explained to us, it’s kind of like closed doors, but the interview process is always very good,” he said. “It gives you a good chance to get who you are across better than any kind of cover letter or resume would and a lot of times, I think being an RA is very personality-based, so it’s that much more important to have that
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It’s going to take some time for us to kind of shake the bushes and find that right person, because we also want to find someone who is a good fit for William and Mary .
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For the future, McClure stated that Sodexo will reexamine the menu to try to draw more students. Next year, dining services will try to incorporate different options, such as churros and traditional food embellished with Mexican spices. In an effort to increase student feedback, dining services plans to implement surveys about food truck options. McClure stated that because the trucks are equipped with cookware, they have ample opportunity to alter the menu. “We’re definitely going to do a menu refresh. It’s about what the students want,” McClure said. “We’re trying to make [the trucks] a destination point.” The trucks compete with on-campus options that take meal swipes, and with Cosi, a restaurant located in Lodge One, which takes Dining Dollars. Some students said they turn to those options because of
convenience. Some just had bad experiences, like one that Shruti Sharma ’16 had with Wholly Habaneros. “I hated it,” Sharma said. “I thought the spices were weird. They need to find something decent.” In addition to revitalizing the menu, Sodexo also plans to shift the location of the trucks to avoid competing with nearby options. McClure said that it was an area of disappointment that Wholly Habaneros’s late night location between Kaplan Arena and the Commons dining hall had not garnered much attention. Holly Fleming ’17, who visited Wholly Habaneros when it first opened, thinks it would behoove dining services to move the truck to a location with fewer alternative food options. She suggested the parking lot behind Swem, which is about equidistant from Sadler and the Caf. “I think that they should move it because it’s just kind of sitting there,” Fleming said. “I’m not going to use flex there when I could use it on Swem Aromas or Cosi. There’s already food around.”
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BBQ 1693 has served about 10,200 patrons this year, yielding a 5 percent profit, while Wholly Habaneros has served around 2,500 people, not yielding a profit.
164 applicants hired to serve on ResLife’s 170 position student staff RESLIFE from page 1
face-to-face contact.” Myers applied specifically for a head resident position, but was instead offered the opportunity to be an RA again. Despite the increased stipend this year, up to $3,000, Myers declined the offer. “Part of the reason is just because some
of the staff — some of the area directors — just aren’t as supportive of everybody,” Myers said. “It’s just not always the best environment. I also just didn’t think it was worth it.” Some of those who aren’t hired immediately are put on an “alternate list,” according to Alexander. This list consists of students who qualify for the positon, but
are unable to be placed because ResLife does not have space for them. Smith has been on the alternate list all three years she applied. Alexander said that she hopes students who are unhappy with their placement or their experience will talk to the ResLife staff to better understand the decisions made and the process as a whole.
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Thursday, April 16 — An individual was arrested for being drunk in public and using profane language on Richmond Road.
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Study Abroad blogger Daria Grastara ’17 reflects on her semester in Washington and the things she learned and experienced while away from sleepy Williamsburg. “I am leaving this semester with more motivation and excitement about the real world I once fretted and stressed about. We feel trapped in Williamsburg yet seek comfort in our community’s limitations. Our responsibilities span from participating in clubs, to getting good test grades, to doing laundry every few weeks. Waking up every morning and looking forward to going to work and making an impact is a feeling unlike any other, and I can confidently say that I’ve never felt that kind of morning excitement when waking up for class at the College. There is not much I can say about the program that will do justice to the experiences and opportunities it offers. I have grown as a student, professional and person, and I don’t doubt that I will look at these three and a half months as the best part of my college experience. Apply for the William and Mary in Washington Program. I promise you will love it.” Read more about Daria’s time in Washington, D.C. and travel the globe with the Stories From Abroad bloggers at flathatnews. com.
Bri Little ’17 expresses her thoughts and feelings concerning the death of a third student this academic year. “I owe a great deal of credit regarding my anxiety management to my supportive family and friends, but happens when love and support isn’t enough? Should we hold ourselves responsible for Paul’s death in any way because we didn’t tell him we loved him enough, or let him know that we’re available if he needed someone to talk to? Was the College’s intense academic environment solely to blame? I don’t think either of these is the case. A fundamental human flaw is that we believe we do and can have the solution to everything. Talking to Paul or telling him he was loved and valued would not have rid him of his demons, nor will it have alleviated the anguish he felt. And while academic stress can undoubtedly exacerbate feelings of hopeless and despair, it would be inaccurate to conflate this factor with mental illness or assume there is a causal relationship. I believe that although Paul ended his life, he was ultimately killed by his depression. We have yet to recognize that mental illness can be terminal, and as much as we don’t want to believe it, we can’t save everyone.” Read more of Bri’s earlier blog posts at flathatnews.com.
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Delegate Monty Mason visits campus StudentImpact’s unofficial affiliate Student Caucus hosts inaugural event, outlines community goals QUENTIN PALEO FLAT HAT ASSOC. NEWS EDITOR
Thursday, April 16, the Student Caucus — an unofficial affiliate of the political action committee StudentImpact — hosted their inaugural event, a forum featuring Delegate Monty Mason ’89. During the forum, Mason discussed how students can better interact with the local community, his reelection Mason campaign, difficulties he’s encountered as a legislator in Richmond, and issues that are affecting his district and Virginia. “I think that [student-resident relations] has probably gotten better in the last few years. Because it did kind of hit a bad spot there when
all you read and saw was ‘the student house next door that was always causing the police to come over’ and then the students are saying ‘the crabby old neighbor next door who hates us’,” Mason said. “But one thing I thought that has changed that dynamic is student involvement on the neighborhood council.” During the forum, Mason spoke about the difficulties he’s experienced passing legislation in a Republican-dominated House. “My opponent will use that I haven’t gotten a single bill passed, I’m the most useless legislator ever to go to Richmond. And yet two of my bills passed verbatim this year but they were stolen from me by the other side,” Mason said. “I got X-ed seven days into the first session, they said every bill I pass is dead. I knew going into this year it was going to be more of the same because they’re running a campaign against me.”
Benming Zhang ’16, the Executive Director of StudentImpact, Student Caucus’s affiliate organization, said that Student Caucus would preserve a recently improved relationship between students and the city population. “In years past we had problems where there were some big conflicts that came up,” Zhang said. “We’ve had a relatively great era of peace [with the city of Williamsburg] for a couple of years, after Scott Foster [’10 J.D. ’14], our first student candidate, got elected in 2010. But what happened was that these issues lay dormant but not necessarily in a good way, they kind of just quieted down. And all it takes is something to come up again and that is going to ruin the nice delicate fiber of the balance between students and residents.” Student Caucus president Justin Shawlter ’16 discussed Student Caucus’s plans for fall semester, including a potential legislative forum.
“We want to work on a neighborhood relations type committee which would bring neighbors and students together in informal settings,” Shawlter said. “We also want to work with local businesses and foster dialog between students and businesses. Particularly students who are interested in business or entrepreneurship.” The forum was open to all students, but event turnout was low. “I understand why not a lot of people showed up,” said Shawlter. “A lot of people are busy. If I wasn’t apart of [Student Caucus] I wouldn’t have shown up either.” Student Caucus hopes to generate more interest in the following semester and increase the dialogue between students and residents of Williamsburg. Editor’s Note: Benming Zhang was Flat Hat Online Editor from April to October 2013.
Counseling trainee pool accounts for largest portion of appointments The IACS visited the College’s Counseling Center in April 2014 and produced a field report for College administrators and the IACS review board. Once accredited, a center is reevaluated every four years based on a written report by the counseling center under review, and a field visit is conducted every eight years in conjunction with the reaccreditation. The College received reaccreditation after the 2014 reevaluation. The report noted the center’s plans to reduce the number of practicum students to relieve its licensed psychologists of a portion of their training duties, as described by the center’s Director of Training Carina Sudarsky-Gleiser. She also told the IACS team that the center planned to reduce the amount of clinical services provided by trainees (estimated in 2014 at 40 percent by the IACS report, as opposed to the College’s reported 30 percent). The College cut staff this year, reducing the number of practicum students from four to two, but the percentage of clinical services provided by trainees totaled 41 percent as of March 4. Counseling Center Director Warrenetta Mann said the distribution of trainees will shift next year, with the employment of three interns and three practicum students. Because practicum Mann students work a 22-hour week and interns work a 40-hour week, Mann said this change will reduce the percentage of clinical services provided by trainees as one fulltime trainee position will become a part-time trainee position. Another 17 percent of scheduled appointments in 2014-15 were made with two non-licensed staff therapists, who as recently as January 7, 2015, were listed on the Counseling Center’s website as staff psychologists. According to the Virginia Board of Psychology’s regulations under 18VAC125-20-65, section B, article 4, candidates for school psychologist licensure may not refer to or identify themselves as applied psychologists, clinical psychologists or school psychologists. The site has since been updated, but the original version can be viewed at www.flathatnews.com. Kelly Crace, associate vice president for health and wellness and director of health promotion, said that, before and after the change, the employees’ position descriptions were consistent with state regulations. “There often can be assumptions made about a certain term that implies something for people, so for us to better clarify that, that’s why we changed the name,” he said. The use of employees who do not hold a psychologist license is not illegal so long as they have fulfilled all requirements for licensure, aside from passing the licensing test. They are required by the state to receive supervised review hours with licensed psychologists at the center two hours each week until they are accredited. They are not permitted to assist in intern or practicum student training. “Generally, we work toward helping people fulfill what’s important to them and their professional goals, and that would include licensure,” Crace said. “However, we are absolutely within the boundaries of what state regulations are in terms of how we hire someone and how they function as a staff therapist.” Nancy Roncketti, executive director of IACS, said the association considers unlicensed staff members as professional staff — not trainees — in their calculation of clinical services, since they have completed their master’s degrees. “We would urge them to get their license if they don’t have their license,” Roncketti said. The Counseling Center does employ seven licensed psychologists, who cover 34 percent of scheduled clinical services for students. Two of the psychologists are part-time and three of them cover less than 5 percent each of the total number of scheduled appointments, while the remaining four provide 5-7 percent. Among the unlicensed staff, in comparison, only the two part-time practicum students provide less than 5 percent of the center’s clinical services, while the four interns and the two unlicensed staff therapists cover 8-10 percent each. This means that each full-time, unlicensed employee typically provides 3 percent more of the College’s clinical
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The Counseling Center employs 7 licensed psychologists, two of which are part time.
services than their licensed counterpart. Both Crace and Mann said the clinical services appointments of each employee do not take into account the services provided when a licensed staff psychologist reviews a trainee’s caseload or group therapy offerings. “When a supervisor is meeting with a supervisee to discuss their caseload, to discuss what they’re doing, that is a direct clinical service because there’s case hypothesis, there’s case assessment, there’s therapeutic process tracking,” Crace said. According to Mann, there were five therapy groups last fall and six suring the current semester. These groups average six to nine sessions during the semester, typically meeting weekly once they begin. Mann said that, alongside therapy and training sessions, she and other licensed psychologists perform administrative duties that prevent the Counseling Center from becoming an isolated element on campus. “We really are an integral part of the mission of the College. We have to interface with the academic departments as well. … Outreach and partnering with student groups and things like that allow us to be an integral part of every student,” Mann said. In the calculations from the March 4 list of Counseling Center appointments, eight of the 4,283 scheduled appointments took place with Deidre Connelly, who works specifically with athletes (primarily in a performance enhancement capacity), and 341 were with Christine Ferguson, the mental health services coordinator who handles offcampus referrals and emergency follow-up sessions with students and their families. These numbers were included in the calculations, accounting for the missing eight percent of scheduled clinical service appointments, but the meetings were not considered clinical services by The Flat Hat due to their specificity.
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The reality is [that] we’re pretty well staffed and I think when you put all of those things together [overuse of unlicensed staff over licensed staff] and you look back at the student group that has been wanting to donate funding to us, it’s almost – the words that are coming to mind are ‘nauseating,’ ‘sickening’ – to think that we would put out a message like that and ask the students to contribute to us as if we’re in distress, and the reality is that we’re not managing our own shop very well and we’re doing it in a way that I think is not respectful to the students and actually puts people at risk. — A Counseling Center employee, who wished to remain anonymous
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Expanding its offerings April 13, the College received notice of the third suicide of a student on campus this academic year and the sixth since the Class of 2015 stepped foot on campus. The news prompted the changing of cover photos on Facebook, statuses and emails of support; the placing of flowers by the Crim Dell; and other demonstrations of “One Tribe, One Family.” Responses to these tragedies also prompted movements to help better the counseling services offered at the College, including student and alumni columns in The Flat Hat and other calls to action. Before the death of Paul Soutter ’17, students had voiced concern about various aspects of the Counseling Center, including wait times for initial appointments, which could last up to two weeks, according to the IACS April 2014 field report, and about the ability to schedule an appointment with the center’s part-time psychiatrist, whose wait times are even longer. The College is continuing to search for a full-time psychiatrist, as access to psychiatrists in the Williamsburg community has decreased due to multiple retirements according to Crace. He submitted a proposal for a full-time psychiatrist to College administrators in late November and the senior administration approved the search for the position, rather than waiting for approval from the Board of Visitors. Crace said the administrators found the situation critical enough to push forward. Mann said the search for the psychiatrist began in February.
“It’s going to take some time for us to kind of shake the bushes and find that right person, because we also want to find someone who is a good fit for William and Mary,” Mann said. Crace also said the Counseling Center plans to add two new services once they are approved by the Board of Visitors: ProtoCall and Therapist Assisted Online. Currently, the Counseling Center’s staff does not have the capacity to handle after-hour calls unless they are emergency or urgent situations. If necessary, students can use the 1-800 suicide hotline for help, but Mann said this is not as welcoming or comfortable as a College-specific afterhours call. “For a long time, we’ve been working with people to talk about that there is a gap there and that we have a need for a way for students to be able to reach out after hours — [on] weekends, whenever things are occurring — that may not rise to the level of urgent, but for that person, in that moment, they may really need somebody to reach out to.” If approved, ProtoCall will provide an afterhours call service for students and operate within the policies and procedures of the College’s Counseling Center. ProtoCall would communicate information to the Counseling Center about who is calling them and what was discussed, and allow the center to “plug in” to more students. The second service, Therapist Assisted Online, combines personalized, online programmatic training with the opportunity to interact their learning with a therapist. If approved, TAO would help students develop a personalized plan and training for managing situations that instigate anxiety and other psychological issues, while also offering regular access to a therapist. “It expands our accessibility. … It’s just attending to another population of students that might find this helpful,” Crace said. Financing counseling services In November 2014, The Flat Hat published an article about the increase in donations to the Counseling Center following the addition of three new mental health services funds. In conjunction with these increasing donations, Chris Papas ’15 started an initiative to get seniors to donate their class gift to the Counseling Center. Columns and responses since the loss of Soutter last week often highlight the importance of finances in Counseling Center operations and what money can or does offer. Some say that the center is in need of more financial support to better offer services to the College’s students. Others say that more money is not the answer to the Counseling Centers’ problems and that there is an undefined, larger issue at play. A Counseling Center employee, who wished to remain anonymous, said the facility’s problem lies, not in the amount of money and financing it receives, but in the utilization of resources. “The reality is [that] we’re pretty well staffed and I think when you put all of those things together [overuse of unlicensed staff over licensed staff] and you look back at the student group that has been wanting to donate funding to us, it’s almost — the words that are coming to mind are ‘nauseating,’ ‘sickening’ — to think that we would put out a message like that and ask the students to contribute to us as if we’re in distress, and the reality is that we’re not managing our own shop very well and we’re doing it in a way that I think is not respectful to the students and actually puts people at risk,” the source said. The Counseling Center’s operating budget primarily goes toward salaries, since the center’s fundamental offerings are person-to-person appointments. When asked about if reconfiguring the Counseling Center staff could better utilize funds, Mann said that increasing personnel is an option, as the student population continues to grow, but that it would be a gradual move if undertaken. While the Counseling Center’s website contains a link for donations, it does not actively solicit them. Crace also provides a list of health and wellness needs to the Department of Advancement for their use as they speak with alumni, parents and others who may be interested in donating to these groups. The Counseling Center is an auxiliary-based organization, funded through the health services fee students pay with their tuition and by private donations. Student fees are expected to rise to fund the new services the center plans to offer, Crace said. However, restructuring has created a more integrative health fee and the escalation in donations to the center will help limit the increase. Tomorrow, students, administrators and other members of the College community will meet in the Sadler Center for an “Open Conversation about Mental Health and Suicide Prevention” on campus. The event is at 5 p.m. in Chesapeake B/C and will cover mental health, suicide and how to help those in need on campus.
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Mental health: progress over platitudes Jack Powers and Chris Weber FLAT HAT SENIOR STAFF WRITERS
Suicide isn’t unique to the College of William and Mary, so why does it feel like it is? There is an impulse to question our Counseling Center’s perceived failings in light of recent tragedies. To argue a direct link between the Counseling Center and suicides is erroneous; denying any association of the two is asinine. The College must reevaluate how it treats a problem far more pervasive than suicide: reducing the stigma surrounding mental health is important, but falls short of addressing another important stigma — that of the Counseling Center itself. The College deserves — and must demand — a more accessible, effective Counseling Center. From a limited, outside perspective, it’s a sad and simple story of imbalanced proportions: over 8,000 students to only seven licensed psychologists. It’s easy to see why underfinancing is seen as the crux of the Center’s problems. Donations by the Senior Class are an admirable gesture that, no doubt, will help the Center address its deficiencies internally. However, rather than giving blindly and ridding ourselves of the issue, we must try to shape the conversation about tangible issues and solutions. Does the Counseling Center need more funding? Is the stigma a result of diminished resources? There is no quick answer. But money won’t erase the stigma — the Counseling Center must adopt wholesale changes to address its shortcomings. The complexity of mental illness and its manifestations, added to the opacity of the everyday operations of the Counseling Center, makes proposing on-campus mental health service improvements difficult. The workings of the center shouldn’t remain shrouded in mystery to the average student. Confidentiality is important, and often legally required, but accountability is essential for the center to be effective. Changes should start with eliminating obstacles to treatment — and there are many. For starters, a two-week wait time is a twisted joke that doesn’t fit any semblance of a competent organization. Then there is the prevalent impression that a visit to the Counseling Center can result in being kicked off campus, another source of the center’s stigma. Solutions do exist and they seem feasible. Offering immediate initial assessments, either via phone or brief in-person clinical assessments, would make the center more effective by reducing the number of students who fall through the cracks. Rather than greet each student with a two-week delay, immediate assessments would give the student confidence that someone does care, that someone does have time to help. Even with a seemingly small, understaffed Counseling Center, implementing a structure to provide immediate assessments is possible. Schools with similar staff-to-student-body ratios have already taken the initiative. Harvard, the University of North Carolina and Virginia Tech have instituted some variation on this “open-door” policy. The College of William and Mary, on the other hand, is, as in recent years, working at glacial speeds in improving mental health services. If this is the growing consensus for ideal care, what
reason does the Counseling Center have for abstaining? Another obstacle is potential expulsion. Called “Medical and Emotional Emergencies” in the student handbook, but commonly known as “getting kicked off of campus for mental health reasons,” this policy — with frequent, swirling stories of its application — is the oft-talked about but little understood bogeyman behind the Counseling Center’s sour reputation. According to the handbook, the policy is applicable when a student “attempts suicide, makes a threat or gesture of suicide, harms or attempts to harm himself or herself or others, or undergoes severe emotional or psychological distress.” Once initiated, the student is barred from classes and college activities and their student ID is disabled. Only the Dean of Students can reinstate a student. Such a policy is inevitable and understandable; however, this “emergency” procedure should be defined more precisely and used more judiciously so as not to prevent students from seeking consultation. The loose definition for who could qualify, especially in the final part of the clause, leaves room for wide discretion in application. There must be a greater balance between campus safety and student confidence in the Counseling Center’s ability to deal with reported self-harm — theoretical or actual. Research statistics suggest suicidal ideation very rarely leads to violence against others. Kelly Crace, the associate vice president for health and wellness and the director of health promotion, told The Flat Hat that the Counseling Center plans to implement two new services for students: ProtoCall and Therapist Assisted Online. Both would be welcome additions, especially as the former would replace the current after-hour call system that involves campus police. Proposed policies like these are steps in the right direction and precede planned campus talks about mental health. Such discussions are fine, but too often simplify complex issues without offering tangible solutions. Campus conversations in the wake of tragedy often devolve into abstract ideas over how to improve our community, as citizens and as students. If we can all be better, more kind, than the problem will solve itself according to the common dialogue. Of course, kindness is a virtue, but it’s only so effective in dealing with deep psychiatric disorders. Yes, a reminder that the universe isn’t always indifferent is nice every now and again, but community deficiency doesn’t explain why well-liked College students take their lives. Let’s not pretend that we understand what students with mental health disorders are going through. Instead, let’s make it easier for them to get the professional help they deserve. Just invoking the mantra “One Tribe, One Family” is the kind of laziness that only works in a virtual reality like Facebook and Washington Post op-eds. It’s ultimately inconvenient: Those who most need to believe in it likely don’t, while those who do believe in it don’t need to. Platitudes won’t prevent suicides, but concrete steps might. Grounds crews whitewashed fences outside the Wren Building before Day for Admitted Students earlier this month, weaving in with the rest of our beautiful campus for a crackling image of endless possibility. Days later, a senior Flat Hat reporter got lost on an assignment. She was looking for the Counseling Center. Email Jack Powers at jbpowers@email.wm.edu and Chris Weber at cmweber@email.wm.edu.
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Grounds crews white-washed fences outside the Wren Building before Day for Admitted Students earlier this month, weaving in with the rest of our beautiful campus for a crackling image of endless possibility. Days later, a senior Flat Hat reporter got lost on an assignment. She was looking for the Counseling Center.
tudents’ expectations of services from the College of William and Mary Counseling Center do not seem to match up with the actual services that the center provides, which can contribute to a stigma about the ability of the center to provide meaningful care for the College’s students. A common concern associated with the Counseling Center is that it does not have the resources to treat students effectively. However, the misconception lies in what services the center can effectively provide. Students may feel afraid that they will be referred to off-campus services because they have problems that are too difficult for the Counseling Center to handle, when in actuality students are referred off campus to receive the best service they can receive for their specific problem. The role of the Counseling Center should be one which helps match students with a service that best fits their needs, and it should clarify that role to the student body. Students with serious cases of mental illness should be referred to licensed specialists. Given the workload of the licensed staff at the center, some students requiring more serious attention may have to be helped by a specialist off campus so they can receive better services. That should be made clear from the beginning. The two unlicensed staff therapists should also be encouraged to achieve licensure. Not only would more licensed staff members elicit more confidence in services from students, but it would also help to alleviate the administrative duties of managing the training program. If the staff therapists were licensed, they could assist the licensed psychologists with training the interns and practicum students who handle the majority of clinical service appointments at the center. If the two staff therapists are unable to attain their licenses after multiple attempts, the center should see this as a red flag that warrants its consideration into the ability of these employees to provide students with the best possible care. Additionally, the Counseling Center should be highly critical and aware of how its uses its donations to ensure that it offers high quality services. Donations should primarily focus on building a strong staff that includes more licensed psychologists. New initiatives to offer more diverse services to students, such as an after-hours call center and online portals, should be secondary. A fully-trained staff should be the primary concern of the center to ensure that it is providing students with high quality services that are not hampered by administrative busywork. Highly-trained specialists should not be burdened by administrative work when their services are so badly needed. While new initiatives are important and forward-thinking, the Center needs to remain critical of how its uses its funding to be the most productive it can be. Lastly, this kind of critical evaluation of resources needs to be consistent across time and campus-specific circumstances. Conversations of the quality of resources within the Center should not only develop in response to campus tragedies: The center should be critically evaluating its use of funding for different initiatives constantly to maintain its usefulness on campus. The staff editorial represents the opinion of The Flat Hat. The editorial board, which is elected by The Flat Hat’s section editors and executive staff, consists of Madeline Bielski, Áine Cain, Tucker Higgins, Kaitlan Shaub and Kat Turk. The Flat Hat welcomes submissions to the Opinions section. Limit letters to 250 words and columns to 650 words. Letters, columns, graphics and cartoons reflect the view of the author only. Email submissions to fhopinions@gmail.com.
STREET BEAT
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Have you eaten at the food trucks? What do you think of them? “They aren’t worth the hike from my room ... Considering I don’t know anyone who’s ever been to them, I’d say they should reinvest the money elsewhere.” Alexa Hinrichs ’17
“I’ve never heard anything about them or eaten at them. I don’t really see them around campus that much. Ryan Truong ’18
“I ate at the taco truck. I liked the food ... I grab lunch at awkward times, so they aren’t always open. Hailey Bowler ’18
— PHOTOS AND INTERVIEWS BY ANNIE SADLER
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A revolution relived
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The College Company performed an educational rifile demonstration this weekend. President of the Company Shannon Callinan ‘16 said her favorite part of the experience was “showing people a side of history that’s beyond textbooks.”
The College Company brings living history to the Congressional Cemetery in Washington D.C. EMILY NYE FLAT HAT CHIEF STAFF WRITER
The year was 1777. The colonists who would one day form the United States of America were in a full-fledged war against their mother country, Great Britain. In Williamsburg, Virginia’s capital during the American Revolution, a group of students at the College of William and Mary — led by the institution’s president and cousin to the future United States president, Reverend James Madison — had just left the College to join the rebel effort and fight for independence. In 1777, the original College Company was born. That was 238 years ago. Today, according to their website, the College Company of William and Mary refers to a Revolutionary War historical reenactment club dedicated to bringing to life the company of William and Mary students who left the College in 1777 to join the Continental Army and fight for freedom. The group pays homage to their colonial ancestors by keeping their history alive through a variety of historic programming. Most recently, on April 18, members of the College Company traveled to the Congressional Cemetery in Washington D.C. in order to take part in the cemetery’s Revolutionary War Living History Day. This is the third year that the College Company has attended this event at the Congressional Cemetery, where over two dozen Revolutionary War soldiers are buried. “I really love the Congressional Cemetery,” former president of the College Company of William and Mary Caitlin Hartnett ’15 said. “It’s always really nice up here, the cherry blossoms are blooming.” Student members of the club set up a realistic battle camp, performed an educational rifle demonstration and interacted in character with visitors to the event. They did all this while wearing period clothing that members of the club either bought themselves or borrowed from the organization’s stock supply. They answered questions and demonstrated what life would have been like at a Revolutionary War battle camp almost two and half centuries ago. “I like showing people history, and showing people a side of history that’s beyond textbooks,” current president of the College Company Shannon Callinan ’16 said. “A lot of our events have a lot of little kids who have never actually seen something like this and they get really excited about it. Just seeing that passion start to grow is really cool.”
Hartnett agreed with Callinan, explaining that her work with the College Company has helped bring history to life for her and many others. “It gives an extra bit of understanding and a new way of
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Student members set up a realistic battle camp while wearing period costumes.
understanding other than what you can get from a book — a more tactile understanding,” Hartnett said. Formed in 2004 by Mark Maloy ’07, the modern College Company has worked to keep history alive for more than ten years. “I had already been doing some of the reenacting before, and when I went to Revolutionary War reenactments, I noticed that most of the reenactors are older men. There aren’t a whole lot of young people doing it. I really enjoyed it and I wanted to get more young people involved.” Maloy took this desire to get other young people involved in reenacting and found a way to incorporate it with the history of the College. “When I was at William and Mary, I noticed in the Wren building they had a plaque up there to commemorate members of the ‘College Company’ who had fought during the Revolution,” Maloy said. “I never knew that there was actually a unit formed there at William and Mary, and so I thought, ‘Why don’t I recreate that?’, and so I started the College Company.” Throughout the school year, the College Company, currently comprised of around fifteen members, travels to take part in various living history events and battle reenactments. Often, they work closely with their parent reenactment organization, the 7th Virginia Regiment of the Continental Line, of which students in the College Company are honorary members. The College Company hosts several historic events on campus during the school year, including a campus ghost tour in the fall and a living history event in the Wren Building in the spring. The College Company also pays a service to the college during home football games by shooting their period muskets when the Tribe scores a touchdown. Up next for the College Company of William and Mary is a battle reenactment at Mount Vernon, the first of its kind on the historic property. “This is a student organization that is doing professional level work with living history,” Maloy said. “It’s great to see so many young people looking to touch the past in that way — to dress up in what they wore, to educate the public. It’s a fun group, but they’re doing a real service to the country in helping people to remember the history of the Revolution, and there’s no better place to do that than William and Mary.”
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
I wanna hold your hand: get intimate without having sex
Whether you’re holding hands, having a deep conversation or snuggling, you don’t have to have sex to be close
Mallory Walker
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS COLUMNIST
As one of two Behind Closed Doors columnists, my columns are usually aimed at those of us who are sexually active. And though it may often seem that campus is filled to the brim with students who want nothing more than to reproduce at the rate of bunnies, if you’re not having sex, you’re certainly not alone. You could be abstaining because you don’t find sex appealing, you’re choosing to take a break from getting busy, or the right opportunity
just hasn’t presented itself yet; it doesn’t matter. Just because you’re not doing the dirty doesn’t mean you’re not interested in having intimate relationships. I find that a lot of us assume that intimacy and sex are mutually exclusive, but this is far from true. Though sex can be an intimate act, it can also be an act that is more about being sexually satisfied than making a strong romantic connection. There are also tons of ways to get intimate with a partner that doesn’t involve any poking, prodding or exchange of fluids. Feeling an intimate connection with someone can begin with just having a conversation. Opening up and sharing stories or emotions with someone can allow one to feel closer with another person. Talk to each other about your favorite things: your favorite animal, memory, vacation or movie.
Just hearing more about someone’s experiences can strengthen your connection to your partner, and when you find commonalities with another person, it feels like you’re living in a movie, à la “500 Days of Summer.” Even if you and your partner get funky on a regular basis, playing a game of twenty questions every now and again can be a great affirmation of why you’ve chosen to be with that person in the first place. Holding hands is another great way to feel intimate without taking off your clothes. As a child, I tried to hold hands whenever the opportunity would present itself, which I’m pretty sure proves that hand holding is the most wonderful gesture ever in human existence. Though you might not want to hold hands with every person you know like I did when I was little, I would advocate that hand holding is a great way to feel closer. I personally prefer the
waffle method of handholding in which you interlace your fingers with those of your boyfriend, girlfriend, best friend, study buddy, etc. Others may enjoy the pancake strategy where you keep your fingers together while you grasp the palm of your significant other. Not only does the physical contact of holding hands increase intimacy, but there’s also something special about holding hands in public. It says to the world, “I support this person.” If you’re feeling like kicking it up a notch in the intimacy department, you might want to get cuddly. Sometimes cuddling can lead to sexy time, but if you’re clear about your snuggling intentions, it can be a great way to feel physically and emotionally close to someone. Simply take some of my favorite sleeping positions and adjust them for a solid cuddling session. Spoon and whisper sweet nothings in
your cuddle buddy’s ear. Engage in the awkward side hug while entering into a fierce game of “I love you more.” The point of all this cuddling and hand-holding is that physical intimacy can often equate to emotional intimacy, and since sex is definitely not for everyone out there, these are some alternative ways to make that leap. Just because you don’t want to have sex doesn’t mean that you have to be exempt from feeling an emotional connection to the ones you care about. Intimacy is an important aspect of any relationship, whether you’re just friends or romantically involved. Most importantly, you should never feel bad for not wanting to get intimate via sex. Get out there, get intimate and have fun. Mallory Walker is a Behind Closed Doors columnist who frequently indulges in both pancakes and waffles when not having her sexy time.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Walking in a woolly wonderland
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Colonial Williamsburg’s Leicester Longwool ewe Belle gave birth to a set of triplets this spring. In the naming contest during this year’s 25th anniversary sheep week, the names Jamie, Yorkie and Willie were chosen for the lambs.
Lamb triplets named at Sheep Week
EMILY CHAUMONT FLAT HAT VARIETY EDITOR
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With a “baa baa” here and a “baa baa” there, three Leicester Longwool lambs brought tourists and locals to Colonial Williamsburg this week. Friday marked the end of Colonial Williamsburg’s second annual “Sheep Week.” The week included a naming contest for the set of triplets born this spring, as well as various promotional aspects via the “Making History” blog and social media. Jessica Ross, one of the managing editors of the Colonial Williamsburg website, said that new forms of social media were imperative in promoting this year’s sheep festivities. “Using the new Twitter app Periscope, we were able to live stream our triplets being bottlefed by our Weavers and stable staff in the Blue Bell Pasture,” Ross said in an email. “People from around the country — and even the world — tuned in to see them in action.” According to Ross, Sheep Week is growing more and more every year. “Sheep week began simply as a naming contest for our new lambs, but evolved into a weeklong celebration because of the attention it received,” she said in an email. Sheep Week is a collaborative effort between many different departments of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, according to the website’s other managing editor, Joann Macenka. “We work with lots of other people in the foundation, including our social media folks, to push all of our material out,” Macenka said. Ross said she was impressed by the popularity of this year’s naming contest aspect of Sheep Week. “The naming contest we held for the triplets received more than a thousand entries and I read every single one of them,” she said in an email. “It was amazing to me just how many people incorporated their love of history, pride in their state and their passion for Colonial Williamsburg into this contest!” The names chosen for the lambs this year were Jamie, Yorkie and Willie, after the names of the cities in the Historic Triangle. Sheep Week does not only increase excitement about Colonial Williamsburg in general, but also about their Rare Breeds program. “The breed of sheep we have — they’re called Leicester Longwool — originally came from England in the 18th century,” Elaine Shirley, head of the Rare Breeds program, said. “We know that George Washington had some of these sheep.” Today, the Leicester Longwool sheep are a rare breed in the United States. “The breed seems to have died out in this country between about 1920 and 1930,” Shirley said. “This is the 25th anniversary of these sheep returning to the United States, which Colonial Williamsburg did. We were the first ones to bring them back.” The 25th anniversary is made all the more special by the fact that this year’s lambs are triplets, a relatively uncommon occurrence. The Leicester Longwool lambs are popular with tourists and locals alike, with the promise of the sight of the lambs frolicking in their pasture drawing visitors down to the end of DoG Street. “Spring is such a beautiful season in the Revolutionary City and the lambs are part of that unique experience that comes with visiting us this time of year,” Ross said.
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Student veterans band together
Center for Veterans Engagement provides community for veterans at the College EMILY STONE FLAT HAT ASSOC. VARIETY EDITOR
There are less than 50 student veterans at the College of William and Mary, in comparison to nearly 500 veterans at both Old Dominion University and Virginia Commonwealth University. Student Veterans of William and Mary is working to create a welcoming atmosphere for those who have served in the armed forces. “We bring in an important part of diversity. We bring in diversity of experience,” Vice President of Student Veterans Sebastian Munevar ’16 said. “Less than one percent of Americans have served in the Armed Forces in this generation. We bring in a lot of first hand knowledge about the things that are going on in the world right now. It’s hard to bridge the world of academia and the real world, and I think we can help that.” Student Veterans of William and Mary was founded in 2013 by Munevar and Patrick Savage ’15. “I transferred in as a sophomore almost two years ago now,” Savage said. “Serendipitously, a few of us veterans came in at the same time, and got linked up in the same orientation group. Sebastian was working with someone in the administration who’s a former veteran. The administrator told Sebastian that there used to be a veterans organization on campus, and he should look into starting it up again.” After winter break, the organization submitted a proposal to the administration that proposed a few changes. These changes addressed the first year experience, an endowment for a veteran scholarship, and a move toward a full-time campus position for a Director of Veteran Affairs. Both Munevar and Savage said that with enhanced resources, more student veterans would be inclined to consider the College when looking at schools. “I’d like to see us gain a critical mass and start getting the word out about William and Mary because I think it’s an ideal school to make that transition,” Savage said. “It’s been absolutely perfect for me. The size is one thing, and the caliber of student is fantastic. Everyone is friendly and fun, but they also take academics seriously,
which I think someone coming from the military appreciates. You look at this as your job. I learn as much from the students in class as I do from the professors.” Most recently, the Military Veterans Council has come into existence, providing a way for veterans across all undergraduate and graduate levels to work together. The Mason Military Association is a part of this council and includes all undergraduate business majors and MBA students who are veterans. April 17, the Mason Military Association held a luncheon to discuss existing and proposed services for veterans as well as further opportunities for outreach to the veteran community.
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We bring in a lot of first hand knowledge about the things that are going on in the world right now. It’s hard to bridge the world of academia and the real world, and I think we can help that. — Sebastian Munevar ‘16
Colonel John Bessler ’85 spoke about his current transition from the military sphere to the business sphere. He said he is still working on his professional wardrobe, and is figuring out how to “be non-military.” “I’ve been successful at saying 1 p.m. instead of 13:00,” he said.
“After 30 years I’ve never had to fret about a job, because the Army has given me one.” In addition to the changes enacted by Student Veterans, Sam Pressler ’15 founded the Center for Veterans Engagement. Pressler has no military background and limited military ties in his family, but upon coming to the College, found himself close to the Hampton Roads military community. Pressler said he asked himself how he could give back using the resources he found at the College. The response was to provide expressive arts programs for military service members and their families, coordinated by students of the College. There are three programs offered, the first is a monthly writing seminar. In addition, there is an extension of the national Music Corps program, in which musically inclined students are paired with veterans in the area to work on guitar and piano. Thirdly, there is an eight-week comedy boot camp led by two professional comedians, where veterans build up to five minutes of stand-up comedy on stage. All three programs culminated in an annual showcase April 19. Performances ranged from serious and thought-provoking presentations to hilarious stand-up performances that filled Ewell Recital Hall with laughter. Local veteran Joe Bruni shared his World War II experiences through poetry, reflecting on the loss of his best friend on D-Day. Bruni said the center helped him both socially and therapeutically. A Vietnam war veteran, Doug Matze, performed a piano piece accompanied by MBA student veteran Richard Smyth, saying that the center afforded him the chance to accomplish two goals: to learn new pieces of music and reflect on his time in service. All of these efforts have created a shift in the college experience for student veterans on campus. Munevar hopes this change continues. “It’s been a lot of effort from all our members, it’s taken a long, long time to get to where we are. But it’s very rewarding at the same time,” Munevar said. “Now we have the opportunity to sell William and Mary as a military friendly institution to prospective student veterans.”
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The Flat Hat
| Tuesday, April 21, 2015 | Page 7
WOMEN’S GOLF
Tribe takes fifth in CAA conference tournament
Junior Alessandra Liu leads College effort at The Reserve Club at St. James Plantation with tie for 10th overall NICK CIPOLLA FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR William and Mary traveled to the St. James Plantation Resort in Southport, N.C., over the weekend to compete in the 13th Annual Colonial Athletic Association Women’s Championship. After three rounds, the Tribe finished in fifth with a 58over 922 team score, far below qualification for what could’ve been the program’s first National Collegiate Athletic Association Championships berth. The College opened the tournament with a 19over 307 in Friday’s round, placing it in fifth on the team leaderboard. Leading the field of eight was Elon, the CAA’s newest member. The Phoenix held a 7-over
295 after the first round, a 12-stroke lead on the Tribe. Individually, junior Alessandra Liu led the College with a 72, matching the par of the course. The performance tied her for third place with UNCWilmington’s Mallory Warwick. The Tribe had two other golfers in the top 20 – seniors Anna McMullen and Kelly Okun. McMullen was tied at 11th at 76 (+4) while Okun was tied at 18th at 78 (+6). Senior Kellie Edelblut and her sister, freshman Katie Edelblut, rounded out the first day’s performance with respective 9-over and 10-over for ties in 28th and 31st. In Saturday’s second round, the College scored another score of 307 for a two-day total of 614 (+38). The score moved the Tribe up to fourth place. After two days, the College of Charleston took the lead with
a 16-over 592, one stroke ahead of Elon and 22 strokes ahead of the Tribe. Liu still led the College’s players, but fell to ninth overall after a 6-over 78 on the day. Kellie Edelblut posted the highest marks of any Tribe golfer Saturday with a 2-over 74, moving her up 10 places to 18th. Katie Edelblut also moved up 10 places to 21st with a 3-over 75 for a total of 157 (+13). Okun and McMullen were tied at 158 (+14) in 23rd place after two rounds. The final round of competition Sunday would be the final round of the Tribe’s season, as they finished fifth; qualification for NCAA’s requires a CAA title. The College shot a 20-over 308 for the third round for a total tournament score of 922 (+58). Charleston took the team title for the second consecutive year
with a 17-over 881, while the individual title went to Delaware’s Andrea Slane with a record-setting 7-under 209. All of the Tribe golfers finished in the top 25. Liu tied for 10th at a three-day 11-over 227, securing her as the new program record holder for average strokes per round at 75.0. Next was Kellie Edelblut, tying for 15th in a 15-over 231. Okun took 20th with an 18-over 234. McMullen tied at 22nd with Katie Edelblut at a total of 237 (+21) to round out the Tribe scores. Okun, Kellie Edelblut and McMullen all end their careers with this event, leaving their legacy with respective 10th, 11th and 16th school-best all time average stroke per round. The returning members of the Tribe will start competition again in the fall.
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Clean sweep COURTESY PHOTO / TRIBE ATHLETICS
Senior third baseman Willie Shaw went 5 for 5 in Saturday’s game while adding three RBIs as the Tribe routed James Madison 17-7 in the game.
Tribe dominates James Madison in three home games JOSH LUCKENBAUGH FLAT HAT STAFF WRITER William and Mary put on an offensive clinic at Plumeri Park over the weekend, sweeping Colonial Athletic Association opponent James Madison 17-7, 10-3 and 9-5 to put itself three games above .500 in the CAA standings. The Tribe (18-19, 9-6 CAA) fell behind Friday in the top of the second thanks to an RBI single by the Dukes’ (12-24, 2-13 CAA) Bobby San Martin. However the College quickly tied the game up again in the bottom of inning, as sophomore designated hitter Ryder Miconi’s two-out
single scored junior center fielder Josh Smith from third. In the bottom of the third, the Tribe bats exploded for eight runs to take an insurmountable lead. With one out and runners on second and third, senior left fielder Devin White drove in a run with a sacrifice fly. After two walks loaded the bases, senior third baseman Willie Shaw smacked a two-RBI single to left field. Following a pitching change, Miconi greeted Brandon Withers with an RBI single to left field, followed by freshman second baseman Cullen Large’s run-scoring single to center. After junior catcher Ryan Hissey was hit by
a pitch to load the bases again, junior first baseman Charley Gould plated a run with an infield single, after which sophomore shortstop Tim Hoehn’s tworun single put the College ahead 9-1. “I liked the way we scored our runs,” head coach Brian Murphy told Tribe Athletics. “It wasn’t just a couple big home runs … but it was a bunch of really good at-bats which was good to see.” The College never looked back, continuing to score runs as the Dukes failed to mount a sufficient resistance. Overall the Tribe pounded out 17 runs on 20 hits, compared to James Madison’s seven runs on seven hits. Gould, White
College splits squad into three Tribe has top performers in three different meets
William and Mary had a packed schedule over the weekend as it competed in three meets. First on the docket was the Mt. SAC Relays, held in Walnut, Calif. from Thursday through Saturday. The Tribe only sent a few of its female competitors and no men to the prestigious event. Junior Emily Stites and Senior Dylan Hassett both earned entries into the National Collegiate Athletic Association Semifinals for the 5,000-meter run with times of 15:53.81 and 16:10.32, respectively. Stites took 14th in the invitational heat while Hassett finished second in the open heat, earning a lifetime best. The bulk of the team headed to Christopher Newport to take part in the New Captain’s Challenge, while a few members of the team traveled to Charlottesville, Va., for the Virginia Challenge. At the Virginia Challenge, the men’s team received a tremendous effort from junior Taylor Frenia. Frenia started off strong, shattering the College’s outdoor shot put record as he put the shot 16.99 meters. The previous record of 16.94 meters was set by Drexell George ’78 in 1976. Frenia went on to break the all-time record in the finals with a final put of 17.66 meters, requalifying him for the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America Championships. Not to be outdone, the women’s team also had standout performances at the Virginia Challenge. The Tribe’s strongest performance came from freshman Leia Mistowski. On her second hammer throw, Mistowski threw 54.59 meters, destroying
Brown finished his fifth win of the year with three strikeouts, allowing three runs on six hits and two walks. Colton Harlow took the loss for the Dukes, allowing eight runs, seven earned, on 10 hits in four innings of relief. The Dukes opened the scoring again Sunday, plating one in the top of the first. However, the Tribe bats erupted for seven runs in the bottom half to put themselves in good position to complete the sweep. With the bases loaded and no outs, Hoehn stroked a two-run single to center field, followed by RBI singles from Smith, freshman outfielder Ryan Hall and Shaw. Hall came home later in the inning on an RBI groundout off the bat of Large, while Shaw scored on an error. The College added runs in the second and third to increase their lead to 9-1. The Dukes scratched at the lead in the middle innings, scoring one in the fourth and two in the sixth, but failed to make more of their chances. An error by Hoehn brought home another run in the ninth to pull JMU within four, but junior right-hander Joseph Gaouette struck out the next batter to complete the sweep. Junior right-handed starting pitcher Aaron Fernandez gave up four runs in five and two-thirds to record his third win of the season. “We were certainly pleased with how we played this weekend,” Murphy told Tribe Athletics. “We did a good job of commanding the strike zone [on offense], we did a good job of swinging at the right types of pitches … From the pitching end, we got three solid starts. That’s where you begin, and that gives you the best chance to set the rest of your pitching staff up to be successful.” The Tribe travels to Lexington, Va., for a game against Virginia Military Institute Tuesday. First pitch is set for 6 p.m.
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and Shaw each finished with three runs batted in, as each starter crossed the plate at least once. Senior starting left-handed pitcher Jason Inghram earned his second win of the season, pitching seven and allowing five runs on four hits and two walks, striking out five. Aaron Hoover took the loss for the Dukes, giving up six runs on six hits over two and two-thirds innings. The College’s offensive success continued Saturday, as the team recorded a double-digit run total for the second straight game, scoring 10 runs on 15 hits. But the real story of the affair was sophomore right-handed starting pitcher Nick Brown, who tossed his first career complete game. After a shaky two-run second inning, Brown settled in, mowing through the James Madison lineup with six straight outs in the third and fourth innings, beginning a stretch that saw him retire 17 of 18 Dukes from the third inning to the eighth. The Tribe bats responded to their pitcher’s impressive display, scoring at least a run in each inning from after the second. Devin White, who batted in three runs on three hits, including a long solo homer in the fourth, commented on Brown’s performance. “I think a lot [of the momentum] came from Nick on the mound,” White said. “He gave up a couple early, but he turned around and pitched a complete game.” With the College ahead 10-2, Brown came out for the ninth and walked the first two batters. After a fly out and a fielder’s choice, the Dukes’ Kyle Weston singled to bring home a run, but Brown was able to end the rally and earn the complete game win by getting JMU’s Josh Wyatt to fly out.
the school record of 53.46 meters. Later in the event, Mistowski shattered her newly-earned record with a throw of 55.52 meters.. The performance earned her an invitation to the USA Junior Championships this summer. Junior Katie Johnston also earned herself an invitation to the Eastern Conference Athletic Conference Championships with her performance in the javelin at the Virginia Challenge. At the New Captain’s Classic, the women won six events. Senior Nina Ullom took first in pole vault with a 3.50-meter clearance. In hurdles, senior Brittany Biagi won the 400-meter race in 1:04.31 while freshman Jessica Destry won the 100-meter race in 15.40 seconds. On Biagi distance and relays, the Tribe had another three wins in Newport News. Junior Leanna Eisenman won the 5,000-meter run in 18:36.88, while the College’s 4x100-meter and 4x400-meter relay teams both were victorious. The men’s team saw equally impressive performances at CNU from freshman Davion Hutt as well as sophomores Paul Gates and Alex Hedrick. Hutt took second in the 100-meter dash in 10.86 seconds, while Gates won the 3,000-meter run and Hedrick won the pole vault. Gates finished in 9:15.63, while Hedrick cleared 4.50 meters. Sophomore Troy Sevachko won the 400-meter dash with a time of 49.84. The Tribe travels to Philadelphia to compete in the 121st Annual Penn Relays Thursday through Saturday.
Baseball (18-19, 9-6 CAA) Colonial Athletic Association Charleston (27-8, 13-1)................0.771..........W4 UNC-Wilmington (28-8, 11-1) ....0.778........W10 Elon (18-19, 9-6)...........................0.486...........L1 William & Mary (18-19, 9-6)........0.486.........W3 Northeastern (16-22, 7-5)............0.421...........L1 Towson (11-25-2, 5-10)................0.288..........W1 Delaware (14-14, 3-8)...................0.500...........L2 Hofstra (13-22, 3-12).....................0.371..........L3 James Madison (12-24, 2-13).......0.333..........L8
Schedule April 12: W, College 5, UNCW (28-8) 6 April 14: W, College 11, ODU (18-21) 9 April 15: L, U.Va (24-15) 3, College 2 April 17: W, College 17, JMU (12-24) 7 April 18: W, College 10, JMU (12-24) 3 April 19: W, College 9, JMU (12-24) 5 April 21: at VMI (12-21) 6 p.m. April 24: at Delaware (14-14). 3 p.m. April 25: at Delaware (14-14). 1 p.m.
Team Leaders Batting Average: Charley Gould (.407).... RBIs: Charley Gould (45).. Home Runs: Charley Gould (10) ERA: Aaron Fernandez (2.78)..............Strikeouts: Jason Inghram (45)..................Wins: Nick Brown (5)
Men’s Tennis (15-12, 1-0 CAA) 2015 CAA Tournament - April 17-19 Quarterfinal: W, College 4, Hofstra 0 Semifinal: W,College 4, Elon 1 Final: W, College 4, College of Charleston 1 Tribe is 2015 CAA Champion May 14-19: NCAA Championships
No. 62 Women’s Tennis (16-6, 1-0 CAA) 2015 CAA Tournament —April 17-19 Quarterfinal: W, College 4, Delaware 0 Semifinal: W, College 4, JMU 0 Final: W, College 4, College of Charleston 0 Tribe is 2015 CAA Champion May 8-10: NCAA Regionals
Lacrosse (5-10, 1-4 CAA)
Men’s Golf
April 3: W, College 10, Drexel (3-11) 5 April 5: L, Hofstra (9-4) 13, College 8 April 12: L, Elon (8-6) 8, College 7 April 17: L, Delaware (11-6) 13. College 7 April 19: L, Towson (8-7) 20, College 9 April 25: vs JMU (10-4), 1 p.m. College eliminated from CAA tournament contention with loss to Towson.
April 6-7: Redhawks Invitational Finished No. 11 (field of 18)
Women’s Golf April 17-19 CAA Championships Finished No. 5 (field of 8)
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The men’s tennis team, the No.3 seed entering the CAA tournament, upset their way to the programs first title in a decade.
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Seeded No.1 for a reason, the women’s squad steamrolled the opposition straight to a CAA title, winning every single set.
Tribe aces conference finals Underdog men’s team ends 10-year title drought DEVIN LOGAN FLAT HAT STAFF WRITER
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EVAN DEFRAINE FLAT HAT STAFF WRITER Revenge may always be sweet, but shutting out the team that eliminated the College from playoffs last year: that’s special. The Tribe did just that, defeating the College of Charleston by a 4-0 mark to take home its 23rd Colonial Athletic Association Championship. Hosting the event at the Millie West Tennis Facility in Williamsburg, the top-seeded Tribe rolled through the first two rounds of the tournament before facing off against the Cougars last Sunday. Each of the previous two matches (against the No. 8 seeded University of Delaware in the quarterfinals and No. 5 seeded James Madison in a semifinals matchup) yielded 4-0 results in favor of the College in performances bordering on perfection. Sunday’s conference championship final would prove to be no different. The scintillating doubles pair of junior Leeza Nemchinov and senior Jeltje Loomans clinched the first point of the match for the Tribe with an 8-5 victory from the No. 1 spot. Right after the strong start, the Tribe added another commanding victory from junior Julia Casselbury and sophomore Melanie Roy in the No. 3 spot doubles pairing. The duo coasted to an 8-3 victory, while freshmen Maria Groener and Olivia Thaler had their match at the No. 2 spot cut short after the point had already been awarded. On the individual side, it was much of the same stellar play for the Tribe. By dominating the early singles matchups, the Tribe only needed the minimum of three matches to secure the victory. Melanie Roy continued to rack up points for the College, as she won the opening individual match handily. The French native competed at the No. 4 spot and won in straight sets, 6-1, 6-2. This win marks Roy’s third in her last four matches and follows her clinching victory in the semifinal against James Madison. Nemchinov kept the momentum going with another commanding victory at the number one spot, duplicating Roy’s total with a 6-1, 6-2 victory.
The win comes as no surprise for Nemchinov, whose record now sits at 27-3 on the year and 19-1 out of the No. 1 spot. What would turn out to be the final match of the day featured the Tribe’s lone senior, Jeltje Loomans. With her perfect CAA singles tournament record of 8-0 on the line, Loomans faced off against the Cougars’ Brooke McAmis. Loomans jumped out of the gate with an easy 6-2 victory, putting the Tribe just one set away from its 23rd CAA title. McAmis steadied herself in the second set however, and she was up a break at 4-3. Loomans made sure the home crowd would not be disappointed, as the senior demonstrated her poise in winning three of the next four games to put her up 6-5. A final smash put the icing on the cake, and the Tribe celebrated the team victory. Thaler and freshman Cecily Wuenscher were both leading their matches when Loomans clinched the match, demonstrating the dominance of the Tribe’s play. The victory earns the College its 20th trip to the NCAA Tennis Championships, and the seeding will be announced live at the NCAA selection show to be held next Tuesday, April 28 at 5 p.m. and will be streamed live on NCAA.com. The NCAA Championship itself kicks off May 14 in Waco, Texas.
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For the second year in a row, William and Mary clinched the No. 3 seed in the Colonial Athletic Association tournament, after last year’s semi-finals loss to then No. 2 seeded College of Charleston. Going into the tournament, the Tribe held a record of 13-12 on the year and a ten-year title drought as the College had not won a CAA title since 2005. No. 1 seed North Carolina Wilmington rolled into the tournament having won the title the past two years in a row. Ranked No. 63 nationally, it entered into the playoffs with a 10-7 record on the year. Elon held the No. 2 seed, while the College of Charleston held the fourth. James Madison and Drexel sat at No. 6 and No. 7, respectively. The winner of the CAA automatically gains a spot in the NCAA tournament. The Tribe bested No. 6 Hofstra 4-0 in the CAA Quarterfinals Friday. The College swept the singles; the No. 1, No. 3, and No. 4 positions did not finish due to the Tribe’s domination in the previous matches of the day. Sophomore Addison Appleby won 6-1, 6-2 in the No. 2 position, freshman Alec Miller won 6-3, 6-0 in the No. 5 position, and junior Scott Huang won 6-1, 6-0 in the sixth position. The Tribe dropped only thirteen singles games total against Hofstra as they shut down the Pride. The College handedly won the doubles point against Hofstra. Appleby and freshman Lars de Boer
combined to win 8-5 at No. 2; freshman Christian Cargill and sophomore Damon Niquet won 8-0 in the third position. Seniors Will Juggins and Aaron Chaffee did not finish their No. 1 match. The Tribe faced Elon in the semifinals, winning 4-1 to upset the No. 2 seed. Niquet and Cargill combined to win the day’s first match, besting their opponents in the No. 3 doubles position 8-2. Appleby and de Boer won the tiebreaker to go 8-7 (7) in the second position. These two wins were enough to take the doubles point against Elon, giving the College an early advantage. Wins by Niquet, de Boer and Miller at the No. 4, No. 5 and No. 6 singles positions, respectively, resulted in Did Not Finish designations for the No. 1 and No. 2 singles spots. Although Miller dropped the first set of his match, he regained the momentum to win the next two sets for a final score of 4-6, 6-2, 6-3. His win clinched the Tribe’s win. Defending champion North Carolina Wilmington faced No. 4 College of Charleston in the other semifinals match; Charleston pulled a 4-3 upset victory to face the Tribe in the finals. The College avenged last year’s playoff loss in a 4-1 victory over Charleston to claim the CAA championship and also earn a spot in the NCAA tournament for the first time in ten years. The Tribe swept the doubles. Chaffee and Juggins paired to win 8-5 in the No. 1 position, while Cargill and Niquet won the No. 3 position at 8-5. The doubles point thus secured, Appleby and de Boer’s No. 2 match ended early. Niquet’s No. 4 match finished first on the doubles side; he clocked a score of 6-4, 6-0. Juggins won 6-4, 6-4 at No. 2. Miller won his No. 6 match 6-4, 6-3. Although de Boer lost in the No. 5 position, the doubles point plus the three other singles wins were enough to propel the College to the win. Miller was the Tribe’s only player to win all three of his singles matches over the course of the tournament; the duo of Cargill and Niquet was the College’s only doubles team to achieve the same feat. Up next for the Tribe are the NCAA Tennis Championships in Waco, Texas.
No.1 women’s squad easily cruises to CAA title
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College officially eliminated from CAA tournament
Tribe blown out in a par of must-win conference games versus Delaware, Hofstra: 13-7, 20-9 respectively SUMNER HIGGINBOTHAM FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR After last week’s devastating 8-7 loss to the Colonial Athletic Association rival Elon, which continues its residence in the basement of the conference, William and Mary faced a Friday-Sunday home slate at Martin Family Stadium against Delaware and Towson in two crucial games for CAA playoff contention, with the No. 4 seed in the conference tournament still within reach for the Tribe. Outscored by a combined 33-16 mark, the two crushing defeats sealed the Tribe’s fate with its fourth consecutive season of missing post-season play. Although the stage was set for the College (5-10,1-4 CAA) to squeeze into the conference playoffs, the first act of the decisive weekend featured a formidable
matchup against Delaware (11-6, 4-2). While unranked, the Blue Hens have straddled the fence of national ranking in the top 20 all season, earning a No. 19 seed between March 6 and March 11 this year. Senior midfielder Ellen Shaffrey spearheaded the early Tribe efforts with a pair of goals, as the College knocked the visiting Blue Hens back on their heels in the opening two minutes. However, the quick start, a rarity for the 2015 Tribe, abruptly stalled as Delaware regained the momentum en route to a 10-1 run over the next thirty minutes. The Delaware first-half run put a nail in the Tribe’s coffin, epitomized by an unassisted goal by the Blue Hens just before the half. Prior to the game, the Tribe was 1-8 in games during which they trailed at halftime. Facing the 8-3 deficit, the situation was becoming desperate.
Out of the locker room, what was bad in the first half became worse. Sophomore midfielder Shannon Quinn finally ended the 7-0 run with her 17th goal of the season at the 26:52 mark. A 2-0 Tribe run between 17:52 and 16:18 provided a spark of hope for the College as junior midfielder Michelle Goss and freshman attack Abby Corkum rifled in a goal apiece for the Tribe, Corkum’s 15th of her rookie year. However, the Blue Hens quickly extinguished any Tribe momentum with another goal, pushing the score to 12-6 with 15 minutes remaining. Each offense stumbled in the final stretch, adding only a goal apiece for the final 13-7 score in Delaware’s favor. The Tribe managed only 14 total shots, equal to the number of turnovers in a lackluster offense performance. A Towson loss on Friday provided
the College with a glimmer of hope, as Towson held the No. 4 seed for the CAA championships and just a one-game conference advantage on the Tribe. However the second act of the showdown weekend disintegrated into a tragedy, as the Tigers (8-7, 3-3) slammed the playoff door on the Tribe in a 20-9 massacre. Off the opening whistle, the College appeared poised to steal the final playoff spot, as Quinn rocketed in an early free position shot to provide the Tribe with a one-goal lead. Senior midfielder Amanda Johnson added the team’s second goal at 25:33. Defensively, the Tribe kept the Tigers from pulling the trigger on a shot until over 10 minutes into play. But as soon as Towson found a way to shoot, they found a way to score. The Tigers outshot the Tribe 34-26. Fast-forward to halftime and Towson
possessed a dominant 8-2 lead with conference playoffs on the line. “We played very hard in moments of the game, but we can’t lose confidence individually or as a team,” head coach Hillary Fratzke said. “If they score one goal or make one good play, it’s being able to recover mentally from it, not physically, we’re very physically capable … it’s about mental lapses.” “Towson has a lot of great weapons, and we have to respect that… and maintain mental consistency and not let that affect our physical performance,” Fratzke said. A five-goal spree between 14:00 and 10:00 added insult to injury as the Tigers riddled the College goal with shots, sending the game to a running clock. Finally, the dust settled, and the dejected Tribe watched another post-season slip away.