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“We are tired of press releases, “[S]lightly frustrated for donating money to one damage control, and other froms of evasion. of the causes HOPE supports, as We want transparency, honesty, and vulnerability.” they feel stabbed in the back.”

— Student sexual assault activists

— HOPE faculty advisor

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The Lead Up A draft open letter written by student activists last month tested the limits of what kind of public critique the administration is willing to take on its sexual assault policies, as the College of William and Mary remains under investigation by the Department of Education for its handling of Title IX issues. The letter, written by students affiliated with the health and wellness group Health Outreach Peer Educators, criticized administrative behavior the students perceived as overly concerned with public image at the expense of sexual assault survivors, and called on the administration to take four steps to improve the safety of students.

The students were motivated by a February 22 Global Film Festival screening of “The Hunting Ground,” which brought more than 200 students, administrators, Greek life leaders and faculty members together to watch the new documentary that investigated institutional cover-ups of sexual assault at colleges across the country.

In the weeks that followed the screening, HOPE members were active in considering ways they could improve responses to sexual assault at the College. The Wednesday after the screening, February 25, at a weekly HOPE meeting, the sexual health branch started brainstorming.

That conversation ended up becoming something larger.

By March 25, the sexual aggression branch of HOPE also became involved, and the two committees held a joint meeting to discuss potential avenues for advocacy. According to vice president of the sexual aggression branch Radha Yerramilli, the avenue that got the most traction was an open letter to College President Taylor Reveley and the Board of Visitors.

The group decided to ask the administration to place sexual assault statistics on the College’s website, improve efforts to solicit alumni donations for combatting sexual assault, list the on- and off-campus locations where sexual assault has been reported and update the College’s mission statement to include the safety and well-being of students. Four students were chosen to draft the letter.

That Sunday, three of those students — Jordan Taffet ’16, Taylor Medley ’17 and Thomas Northrup ’16 — met to work on a first draft. The result was a pointed critique of what they perceived to be administrative inaction and delay on matters of sexual violence prevention. Over the course of the next few days, the letter was sent from the HOPE listserv to hundreds of students involved in Greek organizations and advocacy groups asking for signatures, support and edits. By all accounts, the letter was still in draft form.

The response: “A hand for collaboration” “We are a group of disheartened and frustrated students, faculty, and staff disappointed by the lack of care and attention devoted to the issue of sexual violence on our campus,” the letter began. “We

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are tired of press releases, damage control, and other forms of evasion. We want transparency, honesty, and vulnerability.”

According to Eric Garrison, HOPE’s faculty advisor, the letter was read within minutes by administrators including Reveley and Vice President for Student Affairs Ginger Ambler ’88 Ph.D. ’06. A faculty advisor of one of the groups who received the draft letter forwarded the email to higher ups in the administration, Ambler said in an interview.

The response from the administration was swift.

“We met the next day, and I think the comment was, you know, everyone has seen this letter — everyone has seen this letter,” Garrison said, speaking of a meeting between himself, Ambler and Associate Vice President for Health and Wellness Kelly Crace. “I think I was called upstairs … and [Crace] was like, ‘Did you know about this,’ and I was like, ‘I knew about a letter, but I didn’t know about that letter, I didn’t know that was going out.’”

Garrison said the meeting was upbeat and productive. “[It was] very cordial — nothing, nothing negative, I mean it was very positive. It was one of those meetings where it’s like, ‘This is a very good meeting,’” Garrison said. “It was so positive. It was like, if this is what [the students] are feeling, they should come to talk to us about this.”

A series of emails Garrison sent to the writers of the letter See OPEN LETTER page 4

CAMPUS EVENTS

BOV holds open mental health talk College community addresses mental health Crace talks importance of resilience in student mental health

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Deviating from its scheduled agenda, yesterday’s Board of Visitors’ Committee on Student Affairs meeting provided an open question and answer session for committee members to ask questions about the College of William and Mary Counseling Center, mental health and suicide on campus.

Questions were directed at Associate Vice President for Health and Wellness Dr. Kelly Crace, Counseling Center Director Warrenetta Mann and Dean of Students Marjorie Thomas. Two students in attendance – Megan Brew ’15 and Colin Danly ’15 — also fielded questions. The meeting followed Wednesday’s “Open Conversation about Mental Health and Suicide Prevention.”

One of the first questions came from BOV member John Charles Thomas, who asked whether the Counseling Center feels that it needs staff members.

“I am very much a person of balance, so those questions to me aren’t simple yes or no questions,” Mann said in response. “The question we can discuss today is: I have staff, what do you want the William and Mary Counseling Center to be able to do for our students?”

When J. Thomas asked what it would take to provide 24-hour service, Mann responded that it is not necessarily solely a question of staffing and that other resources such as ProtoCall, an outsourced counseling phone service that the center included in next year’s budget, can help provide 24-hour counseling services Currently, the only 24-hour

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service on campus is the Campus Police, who will forward urgent or emergent situations to an on-call The College of William and Mary hosted an Counseling Center staff member. open conversation on suicide prevention and BOV members also asked where the College’s mental health April 22 in light of recent criticisms Counseling Center sits nationally and whether by alumni, students and parents about mental certain aspects of the center are atypical. health on campus.

“If you look at our standards compared to More than 130 people attended, with students nationally, what they do is they calculate a providermaking up more than half of the audience. The rest to-student ratio,” Crace said. “Nationally and in attendance consisted of administrators, faculty compared to our peer institutions, we are very and staff.

Senior Assistant Dean of Students Donna favorable — we’re actually enviable — and what we Haygood-Jackson, director have to spend a lot of time telling of CARE and Sexual Assault our peer institutions is: That Response services, was notably doesn’t matter. The demand is absent. Haygood-Jackson has what the demand is. We have a CAMPUS DISCUSSES been out on personal leave for high demand for services, and so weeks, according to Dean of it’s about being able to provide MENTAL HEALTH Students Marjorie Thomas. that demand in as optimal a way College President Taylor as we can, knowing that demand Reveley opened the event by will always exceed resources.” saying that the loss of a student due to accident, Crace said the College sees a utilization percentage illness or suicide affects administrators, too. Reveley of 13 to 14 percent, while the national average and the began by asking for the conversation to focus on average of the College’s peer institutions is about 10 what more the community should be doing. percent. When asked if this high utilization is from Vice President for Student Affairs Ginger over-indexing in students with larger mental health Ambler ’88 Ph.D. ’06 and Associate Vice President issues, Crace said the high utilization is a combination for Health and Wellness Dr. Kelly Crace followed of students’ desire to continue partaking in the Reveley’s introduction.

Crace talked about the center’s services and students’ resiliency issues.

College’s multi-dimensional approach to suicide “We have a generation of wonderful young adults prevention to ensure students, faculty and staff where resilience is an issue,” Crace said. “They have are aware of the resources available to them. The the highest fear of failure than any other previous document was the topic of an email sent to the community by Ambler earlier that day and was the See STUDENT AFFAIRS page 3

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focus of multiple student questions.

Throughout the event, administrators emphasized that they were not present to defend their policies or actions — they were there to listen.

Associate Director for Community Development Holly Alexander Ph.D. ’12 said that she came just to listen and understand the student perspective.

“Even though we’re not all on the front lines of working with students in crisis, I think all of us are, in some way, affected by this — sometimes very personally because of things in our own backgrounds or just because we care,” Assistant to the Vice President of Student Affairs and Director of Student Affairs Planning and Assessment Jodi Fisler said.

Students retained the microphone for the majority of the event, sharing stories, asking questions and suggesting changes to the administrators present.

Many voiced concerns about the lack of access to the Counseling Center, requesting extended and weekend hours and saying there still isn’t a full-time psychiatrist at the center.

One student spoke about how the College deals with death, saying there is no real mourning time and students are simply expected to go about their day. She mentioned the seeming lack of empathy and how that adds to the administration’s reputation for putting academics above student health.

Others were unhappy with the administration’s policies — primarily the wellness agreement, a document students returning to campus after a leave of absence are sometimes required to sign. A

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COMMITTEE ON ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

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The Board of Visitors’ Committee on Academic Affairs convened Thursday morning at the College of William and Mary to discuss a proposed Master of Science program in Business Analytics.

Dean of the Mason School of Business Larry Pulley presented the proposed program to the Board, and members voted to approve the proposal. According to Pulley’s presentation, the program would begin accepting applicants in January 2016 and would officially begin in Pulley July 2016.

“There is a huge and growing market out there [for big data analysts],” Pulley said. “It will only get larger.”

In designing the 30-credit, one-year program, Pulley and his team spoke with other schools with similar programs — the University of Texas, North Carolina State University and Northwestern University — to gauge other business programs’ strengths and best practices. Pulley also discussed surveying current students at the College about whether they would take advantage of such a program and said he was pleased with the results.

Pulley mentioned that one potential benefit for students is the opportunity for them to earn both an undergraduate degree and a Master’s degree in Business Analytics from the College in a fouryear period.

“Our students come in with so many AP credits,” Pulley said. “It would be easy for many of them to graduate early. Most of them

don’t because they want to graduate with their cohort, but this offers you the opportunity to graduate with your cohort with not one, but two degrees from William and Mary.”

Following questions from committee members, the committee approved the proposed program, which will be presented to the full board Friday. The program must also go to the state for approval.

After the vote, Provost Michael Halleran announced that Interim Associate Provost for Enrollment and Dean of Admission Tim Wolfe ’95 M.Ed. ’01 will permanently take over the position, which current Vice President for Strategic Initiatives Henry Broaddus held until June 2014.

Wolfe spoke briefly about the Admissions Office’s ongoing work, as accepted students’ decision day — May 1 — approaches.

“To give you a bit of a historical perspective, traditionally between 50 and 60 percent of our Wolfe regular decision deposits come in after April 21,” Wolfe said. “So just as everyone waits to apply until December 31 and January 1, we’re still very much in that situation where we’re waiting to see what happens.”

Wolfe mentioned that the applicant pool saw a growth of approximately 3 percent from last year.

Before the committee entered executive session, Faculty Assembly liaison and associate professor of law Eric Chason offered an update on the Faculty Assembly’s activities. He said the assembly is working to increase faculty giving, with a goal of a 50 percent giving rate among faculty members. The assembly is also focused on retirement incentives and transition and is working to develop recommendations regarding faculty retirement. Those recommendations will likely be presented to the board next year.

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Board of Visitors members and Center for the Liberal Arts Fellows discussed the College of William and Mary’s new curriculum Thursday afternoon.

Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Kate Conley presented an overview of the COLL curriculum, which will take effect for the class of 2019.

Conley described the components of the curriculum, focusing on the COLL 100, COLL 150 and COLL 200 courses Conley incoming students will begin taking after they arrive on campus.

Conley said that the College’s hope for each semester next year is to offer 34 COLL 100 courses with 850 seats, 57 COLL 150 courses with 850 seats, and 62 COLL 200 courses with 3,640 seats.

Following Conley’s presentation, Board of Visitors member Ann Green Baise voiced concern regarding transfer students’ ability to complete the new curriculum.

“I still have a little unease about our transfer students,” Baise said. “When they come in the third year, I know we’re not ready to implement that right now, but we need to make sure we make the adequate arrangements for them. I mean, it’s already difficult to transfer to this college and wrap

themselves into what’s going on when there have been people here two years running and know how everything is. I just want to make sure we don’t set them up for any type of failure, disappointment [or] disillusionment.”

Conley responded that next year, transfer students will not be taking COLL classes when they arrive. She also mentioned that faculty members are aware of this issue and that Dean of Undergraduate Students John Griffin is very involved in helping to address it.

Chancellor Professor of Physics Gene Tracy and associate professor of history Paul Mapp represented the Center for the Liberal Arts Fellows, a group of faculty members helping to prepare for the curriculum change.

Tracy and Mapp described the COLL curriculum as authorizing boldness, emphasizing that it will allow faculty members to tackle big questions and collaborate with professors in other departments to design interdisciplinary courses.

“What we’re asking faculty to do is to stretch themselves,” Mapp said, “[to discuss] the kind of topics that are going to force them not just to talk about the extent of their knowledge, but to actually show the limits of their knowledge, not just to teach students but to learn with them. It sounds kind of exciting, but it also sounds vaguely frightening. The question was, ‘How could

we get faculty to come forward and do this?”’

Since the curriculum’s approval last year, the Center for the Liberal Arts has held brown bag lunches, one-onone conversations with professors and departmental retreats to ease the transition between curriculums.

Mapp said over half of the Arts and Sciences faculty have attended one or more Center for the Liberal Arts activity since February 2014.

“What you can’t see [from a slide] is what we’ve been able to see, which is the look in the eyes of the faculty members coming to these workshops,” Mapp said. “When they arrive, sometimes they’re a little nervous, even a little skeptical. When they go out, what we see in their eyes is enthusiasm, inspiration, energy.”

Several Fellows — associate professor of chemistry Carey Bagdassarian, English professor Deborah Morse, and Hispanic studies professor John Riofrio — echoed Mapp’s enthusiasm.

“What the Center for the Liberal Arts does so powerfully is that it interweaves this kind of dynamism,” Riofrio said. “That energy ends up impacting the way I teach all of my courses, and that’s the key, is that as soon as you start having these discussions, it ends up changing how you teach, and even how you see yourself connected to the larger community. It affects everything that you teach from here on out.”

COMMITTEE ON AUDIT AND COMPLIANCE

State auditor reports to Board of Visitors, discusses employee care Members ask about auditing of Counseling Center, Boyce discusses police reporting sexual violence LIZZIE FLOOD FLAT HAT STAFF WRITER

Thursday, the Board of Visitors’ Committee on Audit and Compliance met with state auditors at the College of William and Mary.

Judge John Charles Thomas opened the meeting with by welcoming everyone in attendance.

State Auditor of Public Accounts Brad Hypes reported his findings from the state’s audit of the College to the board. Hypes mentioned some minor issues with employees’ travel voucher forms not being filled out and said that some employee termination forms, in which an employee of the College surrenders all property and is removed from systems access, were also missing.

Hypes addressed an issue that arose last year because of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. “A wage employee who works an average of 29 hours a week should receive a certain amount [of care],” Hypes said.

Last year, there were five employees not receiving the right amount of care for the hours they were working. Board member Ann Green Baise expressed concern that this meant cutting staff hours or classifying employees differently. Hypes said that while that was a concern last year, this year there were five employees who worked fewer hours of their own accord, an action that was not planned by

the College.

Hypes briefly talked about Richard Bland College’s audit, and then the meeting entered a closed session.

Once the session reopened, the state auditors left and Director of Internal Audit Kent Erdahl ‘83 shared his findings on the College’s internal audit.

First, Erdahl presented a list of the areas of the school that were being audited this year.

The Student Health Center was on the list, but the Counseling Center was not. When asked if the Counseling Center audit fell under the Student Health Center audit, Erdahl said it did not.

Leigh Pence, vice chair of the committee, asked if a data security audit for the Counseling Center fell under the general Computer System. Vice President of Student Affairs Ginger Ambler ’88 Ph.D. ’06 said that the Counseling Center has a different data system from the rest of the College so it most likely did not.

Kiersten L. Boyce, chief compliance officer and Title IX coordinator, then reported on the General Assembly meeting and their discussion of sexual violence issues. Boyce said one upcoming change was the new obligation for Chief of Police to report to local law officials.

Chief of William and Mary Police Deborah Cheesebro clarified that this requirement would just mean more responsibility by the police department to report sexual assault to the Commonwealth Attorney, not the Williamsburg Police Department.

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William and Mary Police Department to return M16s WMPD Chief Deborah Cheesebro says department was never trained to use weapons AMANDA WILLIAMS FLAT HAT COPY CHIEF

The four M16 rifles the College of William and Mary Police Department received from the Pentagon Excess Property Program in 2008 were officially returned April 16.

The program allows the Pentagon to transfer excess Department of Defense property to federal and state agencies — including college and local police departments. The program came under scrutiny in the aftermath of the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo. last September. In the clashes between protestors and police, people questioned why the officers were outfitted so heavily with vests, guns and equipment appropriate for a battlefield.

The process to return the weapons began soon after

College Chief of Police Deborah Cheesebro took over last September. She said that the department never had any intent to use the weapons, which remained unused and locked in a safe since their arrival.

The College’s Director of News and Media Suzanne Seurattan said the decision came after a review on the use of the weapons.

“William & Mary Police is in charge of the safety of the William & Mary community. Following a status review of weapons on campus that showed the department had not used, nor planned to use the M16 rifles, the department determined the best course of action was to remove the weapons from campus,” Seurattan said in an email.

Additionally, the College’s police officers were never trained to use the M16 rifles. According to Police Captain Ed Schardein, who spoke to a reporter last fall, the weapons could be put to use if national or local

crime escalated. He said that training would take place then, as well as a process to remove the automatic function of the M16s.

“My understanding is [that] the department was never trained to use the M16s — it never intended to use the M16s,” Cheesebro said. “There is no intelligence that I could think of that would then put those weapons into play because we’re not trained to use them.”

Cheesebro said the department has all the weapons it might need for any situation on campus.

Four years before the College received the weapons, the Williamsburg Police Department received seven M16 rifles in addition to the two the department already possessed. Williamsburg Police Department Spokesman Greg Riley said that officers take the weapons on patrol, but they have never been used.

According to Riley, Williamsburg police officers

have all been trained to use the weapons — particularly patrol officers — and must go through requalification training every year, which usually includes tactical training. While Cheesebro didn’t have a ready plan for the weapons, Riley said the weapons would be useful in an active shooter situation.

“They’re useful in just about any situation where you have to deal with either a combatant who has a weapon that exceeds the range of a normal firearm or handgun,” Riley said. “So say they’re armed with a rifle or another long-distance weapon or if you’re doing searches of fields, or wooded areas where the distance is increased, they’re useful in those environments as well.”

Three other Virginia colleges received M16s through the program: the University of Virginia, Old Dominion University and Longwood University.

Flat Hat Managing Editor Tucker Higgins contributed to this article.

CAMPUS EVENTS

Someone You Know hosts talk by sexual assault activist Nancy Donoval Donoval discusses recovery, resources, helping survivors; responds to student questions LIZZIE FLOOD FLAT HAT STAFF WRITER

For the second year in a row, the student-run group Someone You Know brought Nancy Donoval, a sexual assault activist and speaker, to the College of William and Mary to discuss her experience as a survivor of sexual assault.

Donoval has worked as a professional storyteller for more than 25 years. Her talk at the College, covering her own experiences with recovery from sexual assault, is just one of the many stories Donoval tells to colleges and organizations across the U.S. Someone You Know decided to bring Donoval back this year based on the positive feedback her talk received from the College last time she spoke to campus.

“It’s an unbelievable privilege for us,” president of Someone You Know Sam Dunham ’15 said. “It’s tough to find the words sometimes, and [Donoval] is someone who’s very talented at it.”

Before her speech, Donoval had a chance to interact with the audience. She came up to a group in the front row and thanked them for not being afraid to get close to the stage.

Sam Brown ’15, a member of Someone You Know, introduced Donoval, describing her as a speaker who has “tirelessly” toured the country to spread awareness about sexual assault.

“I don’t know if I would say tirelessly,” Donoval said.

Donoval said she would be at the College until Friday to stay for an

activist workshop with HOPE and attend the group’s Take Back the Night event on Thursday.

Donoval began her own story, which she calls “The Road to Shameless,” with how, when she was a teenager, a bump began to grow on the top of her head. She compared the bump to a unicorn horn, an animal that is usually associated with virginity in myths and legends.

“I had wanted my virginity back for so long,” Donoval said, “that I thought maybe my body wanted it back so much it was turning me into a unicorn.”

Donoval then talked about her personal experience with sexual assault at the hands of a friend. The majority of her talk centered around her recovery and the different strategies she went through to try to get past it.

She said for a while she tried to pretend her perpetrator did not exist.

“And if it’s too hard to pretend he doesn’t exist, pretend I don’t exist, I don’t exist, I don’t exist,” Donoval said. “I got very good at pretending I didn’t exist.”

As Donoval described eventually reaching out to family and friends, she said that not all the resources available today were available to her, including the internet and campus organizations like Someone You Know.

Donoval said therapy and going into storytelling helped her make great strides in her recovery. She talked about how “the rabbit hole” she felt stuck in started getting easier to get out of when she met other survivors.

“When I first started telling this story, I started collecting more ‘me,

toos’ from strangers,” Donoval said. “As I started collecting these ‘me, toos’ I thought about myself in that rabbit hole. For me, it’s shame and silence that keep us there.”

At the end of her two-hour talk, Donoval opened up the floor for questions. She even gave the crowd her cell phone number, saying if anyone felt more comfortable anonymously texting her a question they could feel free to do so. Donoval answered several questions about how universities and peers can help survivors. She stressed listening and said that above all, each survivor is different.

“We’re not gonna do it exactly right,” Donoval said about helping survivors. “And there is no exactly right.”

Donoval also commented on the steps campuses across the country take to prevent sexual assault.

“The blue phones in the middle of campus, it’s like really?” Donoval said. “Could we have the blue phones in everyone’s dorm room?”

Once done with questions, Brown thanked Donoval on behalf of Someone You Know for returning to campus. “[Donoval] has a nice way of putting it together holistically,” Brown said. “In college … you don’t get to capture it top to bottom. You just see the experience as it’s happening.”

Jacob Deel ’16, another member of Someone You Know, said it can be helpful to hear about a survivor’s story in retrospect.

“A lot of her story is about how people in her life were not supportive,” Deel said. “She can help teach us how, as a campus, we can create an environment where survivors can feel comfortable.”

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few speakers expressed the feeling that they were being prevented by the administration from returning to campus and that they were not wanted back. Many used the phrase “forced off campus.”

Thomas, in response, said that when helping students in crisis, the Dean of Students office is concerned with getting students the right type of care, even if that may be at home or just off campus so that they can learn the strategies to be successful in life.

“I think for me, one of the things about the process and the policies is that many of our students, if not overwhelmingly most, not only come back, but they’ve learned strategies to sustain themselves beyond that

moment — beyond that semester,” Thomas said. “[Al] though graduating is really important, for me as a dean it’s important that I know that they’ve learned those strategies for the rest of their life and that we played a role in that.”

Thomas, along with other administrators, continuously acknowledged that there were areas in which the College had fallen short, as demonstrated by the necessity of this kind of event. Crace highlighted the fact that the conversation itself was a successful start.

“Every town and community and every college and university is struggling with this,” he said. “Not every university or college is coming together like this and sharing our pain, and sharing our anger and our frustration, and sharing other things that we can

do to improve, and that’s what’s special about this community.”

Executive Director of the School of Education’s Center for Gifted Education and Jody and Layton Smith Professor of Psychology and Gifted Education Dr. Tracy Cross studies mental health issues — particularly relating to suicide — in gifted students.

Cross is chair of the advisory board that grew from a three-year grant given to the College in 2012 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration within the Department of Health and Human Services. The board was created to address mental health concerns and risk factors and how to address them. The grant expires this year and will rely on private donations going forward,

according to Crace.

“I have to say, I’ve been at five universities,” Cross said. “This one seems to have the most going on for its students relative to mental health issues, but it also brings somewhat more attention to itself by virtue of having open events and so forth — it makes this information available to the general public in ways that other universities don’t, and that’s kind of risky when you do that in terms of perceptions that people have. I’ve been proud to be a part of this team.”

Provost Michael Halleran and Director of the Counseling Center Warrenetta Mann were present in addition to Rector Todd Stottlemyer ’85, who came with other members of the College’s Board of Visitors, whose meetings took place this week.

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generation, and it’s because they care deeply. When they come here, their ability to manage what they are so serious about and what they care about has only been taught in one of two ways: either manage that stress through your perfectionism or your procrastination. … That’s all they know, because it’s what’s neurologically natural. And they are less resilient as a result.”

Crace described the College’s resilience training programs, in which 2,800 people participated within the first three months. The programs are designed to help students cope with various campus experiences and teach them how to operate in stressful situations based on eight dimensions of wellness.

For example, Crace said students rank over-involvement in student activities and organizations as the No. 2 cause for stress – an area that does not rank in the top ten stress factors nationally. To balance the desire to participate in meaningful activities and over-involvement, Crace said the center encourages students to be more thoughtful and values-based, rather than focusing on fear of failure, in their activities selection.

“If we build a more resilient generation of young adults, they can continue to care because the alternative is what’s so dangerous: ‘If I don’t know how to build that resilience and my perfection or procrastination unravel, the only place I have to go is to stop caring – apathy.’ And that’s the depressive apathy that occurs; that’s what we have to avoid,” Crace said. “By [avoiding depressive apathy], that demand on the Counseling Center becomes more genuine, more authentic, and that we can manage.”

Crace also described national changes to the counseling services industry. In 2003, the College and other institutions saw a 40 percent increase in the demand for services that never decreased, as increased access to mental health medications allowed more students to come to campus because medications gave them the ability to operate more easily with their mental health conditions. After the Virginia Tech shooting, Crace said, another 15-20 percent spike occurred, and the level of demand for services has not fallen since.

“With Virginia Tech and the tragedy that happened there, there

became this immediate response and demand that we become perfectly predictive and perfectly protective, and we will fail at that,” Crace said.

J. Thomas referenced post-facto responses by Virginia Tech administrators and staff after the 2007 shooting and asked about feelings of constraint within the Counseling Center and administration regarding reporting students they are concerned about. M. Thomas described the College’s Care Reports, which allow students — most often resident assistants — and faculty to confidentially report mental health concerns they have with individual students. These go to Care Support Services and the Care Team, who meet every week to triage students who are at risk and reach out to those of most concern.

When asked about the best-practice model for counseling centers, Crace said the College’s Counseling Center psychological mental health model is considered the industry’s best practice. In this model, staff members meet with students and develop a mental health treatment plan, and students are then assigned to a staff member accordingly. Because the College is a brief-therapy model by demand – not by desire — Crace said that students whose care extends beyond the center’s scope of services meet with the center’s mental health services coordinator, Christine Ferguson, and are referred to betterfitting off-campus services. According to a breakdown of Counseling Center clinical services appointments obtained by The Flat Hat, Ferguson scheduled appointments with 193 individual students from the beginning of the academic year through March 4.

The BOV committee members inquired about the protocol for students who wish to return to campus after taking time off for mental or medical reasons. M. Thomas said all students planning to return to campus submit a form that goes to the medical review committee, consisting of a medical doctor, a psychologist, a disability specialist, the Care Support director and the dean of students. Students can appeal the decision of the committee, but only to provide more documentation or additional information. Students cannot bypass the medical review committee if the committee denies their request to return to campus.

The committee asked the students present at the meeting about how students view the Counseling Center and mental health on

campus. “[I’m seeing] this ongoing dialogue about resources, so the conversation that the Counseling Center is not providing, not providing, not providing,” Brew said. “This has been ongoing. …

But what I’m seeing … is that students here definitely have that vulnerability issue that is very pervasive in our culture today. So, for a student that is going to counseling and has had some success with counseling, they don’t necessarily want to bring that up because that makes them more vulnerable. But if you have a student that is going to counseling and is dissatisfied, they’re more likely to bring up [their dissatisfaction].”

BOV member Kendrick F. Ashton, Jr., ’98 asked about the truth behind “One Tribe, One Family.”

“So we’re one tribe, one community. We love each other. We articulate that well and I think that comes across very genuinely, very clearly, in our branding. Do people show up on campus and find that to be a misrepresentation of reality? Is the intensity of the inner Tribe — this one-up-manship around suffering — do those things sort of chip away at this sense that we are a community?”

In response, Brew described the complexity of the College’s competitive atmosphere because the competition is subtle and humble, not bragging, and she feels motivated and inspired by the success of her peers to continue.

“I think we’ve done such a good job of marketing [One Tribe, One Family] that people come in expecting it to be this perfect place, and the reality of life sets in and you realize that things aren’t necessarily perfect. … Just because you say ‘One Tribe, One Family,’ doesn’t mean it’s one perfect family,” Danly said.

Brew and Danly both directed discussion to the response by College administration and faculty after a student suicide, specifically the desire for a unified, consistent message. Brew described the jarring nature of going through her day April 13 after the suicide of Paul Soutter ’17 and having no opportunity for discussing the tragedy in her classes or her on-campus place of employment. Danly and Brew discussed the potential for canceling classes, closing the campus library or encouraging professors to begin class with a moment of silence.

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Senate passes Closing of Session Act, introduces resolution Non-Discrimination in the Workforce Resolution introduced, assigned to Senate committees AMELIA LUCAS flat hat ASSOC. NEWS EDITOR

The Student Assembly Senate passed the Closing of Session Act during its meeting Tuesday evening and introduced a new resolution.

Chairman of the Senate Daniel Ackerman ’16, the Closing of Session Act’s sponsor, reminded senators of the bill’s importance.

“This is a pretty standard bill that happens every year,” Ackerman said.

“It isn’t just a tradition. It’s necessary to continue certain programs from the last session of the Student Assembly and to help us get rolling with the new session.”

Class of 2018 President Jose Acuna ’18 presented a friendly amendment to remove the Humans of William and Mary

Experience Act from the bill because the senate received an update from Humans of William and Mary during the meeting. Ackerman accepted the friendly amendment.

After the friendly amendment, three bills will be carried over to the 323rd session: the No H8 Campaign Act, the Medical Amnesty Reform Resolution and the Mental Health Awareness Act. The Closing of Session Act passed by unanimous consent.

Sen. Peter Quinn-Jacobs M.A. ’18, J.D. ’18 introduced the Non-Discrimination in the Workforce Resolution. The resolution calls on the Williamsburg City Council to create a policy that protects public and private sector employees from workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity

and expression, as well as other forms of discrimination.

The resolution recognizes that College of William and Mary students are members of the greater Williamsburg community and must exercise their influence for positive change in Williamsburg.

William and Larry, a student LGBTQ advocacy organization, inspired the resolution through its discussions with the City Council regarding a nondiscrimination policy.

“I think that if [the non-discrimination policy] had the support of the Student Assembly, it would be symbolically important to show that the College is behind this,” Quinn-Jacobs said.

Ackerman assigned the bill to the policy and public affairs committees.

HOWM, a part of the SA Department of Diversity Initiatives, updated the senate about the success of the Humans of William and Mary Experience Act. The bill allocated funding toward the building of a physical art installation for Admitted Students Day featuring HOWM photographs.

“Overall, there was a huge positive response to it,” Stephanie Faucher ’16 said. “We were supposed to only have it up through Tuesday, but people Faucher wanted to have it up longer… It became a really important space for people for expression, as an outlet for their emotions.”

Phoebe Galt ’17, who accompanied Faucher, asked for help from the senate to reach out to the administration to find a permanent place for student expression.

A new Wellness Center, outlined in the College Master Plan, will feature an expression wall, but it will not be built for several more years.

During the meeting, Ackerman asked for nominations for the informal election of the position of historian of the senate.

He did not receive any nominations, so he appointed Sen. Alaina Shreves ’18 to the position.

The historian is charged with tracking changes in the SA’s Code and Constitution, as well as keeping records of major changes in the senate during the session. Sen. Eboni Brown ’17 held the position last session.

Members of HOPE draft two open letters criticizing administration policies Student activists withdraw letters on sexual assault after email exchanges with College administrator OPEN LETTER from page 1

immediately following the meeting with Crace and Ambler, obtained by The Flat Hat, conflict with such a positive account. “[T]he Senior Administration is feeling slightly frustrated for donating money to one of the causes that HOPE supports, as they feel stabbed in the back,” Garrison said in an email. Garrison continued in the email, saying he would no longer be seeking funding from the administration for an upcoming conference HOPE members had been planning on attending.

After receiving an interview request from a Flat Hat reporter several days later, Garrison forwarded the request to students. Garrison said that the letter was misinterpreted as a statement from HOPE — HOPE, as an organization, had not signed the letter — and that, as peer educators, HOPE members were expected to respond more positively to stressful situations.

“You are cutting off the hand that feeds you.

As a branch of Health & Wellness, the HOPE class (thousands of $$$ each year in advisor and TA salaries and supplies, event money, copies, etc, come from the approval of people above us.

These are the same people who support [The] Haven,” he said in an email April 6. “Let’s proceed cautiously and wisely.”

The letter, which was scheduled to be published in The Flat Hat April 7, was postponed.

Two new writers, Jacob and Lauren Dybel ’17, drafted a second letter, which was similar to the first but less confrontational. That letter, which both Jacob and Dybel continue to stand by, will also not be published by HOPE. The Flat Hat has made this letter available online.

“As the distribution of our letter had the ultimate goals of positive, real, and measurable change in the handling of sexual violence at our school, HOPE is amending our approach to make this change,” Outreach Chair Amanda Olsen ’17 wrote in an email April 8. “Vice President Ambler has extended a hand for collaboration, and we are excited to take her up on that offer. We have set up a meeting to discuss what the administration is currently working on and how our four goals (outlined previously in the letter draft) can be accomplished.”

Jacob said that meeting with the administration could forego some of the benefits of printing a letter for the community.

“I didn’t want to write a letter because I felt I had a better idea than anyone else, or that I was the best person to talk about it, or because if I met with Ginger Ambler or Taylor Reveley everything would change,” Jacob said. “I wanted to write a letter so that every person on this campus who ever felt that this was a problem, or who ever faced anything in the realm of sexual assault, or who had a friend go through that … or felt that they can be doing more for this campus — I want them to be able to read a letter and know we are working for it and people wouldn’t let this issue die. … And for me that’s why it is so hard to accept the fact that right now this is just one meeting with Ginger Ambler. And maybe that’s where it starts. But I don’t think we will let it end there, something that’s just another couple [of ] students on a task force.”

A member of HOPE’s executive board, who did not want to be named in conjunction with this article, said that no meeting with Ginger Ambler or any other administrator had been scheduled as of April 22.

“We have … not heard any information on when a meeting will happen. I’m sure with what happened last week we, understandably, got pushed back,” she said, referring to the death of Paul Soutter ’17 on April 13.

A Flat Hat reporter met with Ambler about this article the afternoon of April 14.

Jacob said that while she understands why HOPE could not publish the first letter, it is hard for her to accept that they would not be publishing the second version. Taffet, who helped write the first letter, said in an email

that he believed writing the letter was a mistake. on campus that combat sexual violence, but Dybel, as well as Taffet’s co-writers Taylor Medley HOPE receives the majority of the funding as and Thomas Northrup, declined to be interviewed well as administrative attention. HOPE is the only student group on campus for which a class on the record but did speak on background.

Dybel said she continued to support is taught.

In HOPE class, students learn that the publishing the second letter, but only as an individual. Medley and Northrup would only say organization is contained within a division of that they believed the first letter, once published, Student Affairs, under an umbrella of health and wellness, alongside the Health Center, the would speak for itself.

Ambler said that no funding decisions were Counseling Center and Campus Recreation. A influenced by the letter, and both Ambler and PowerPoint from a HOPE class indicates that Garrison pointed out that the HOPE students three college employees are affiliated with HOPE. “HOPE is a unique piece, it’s a branch of did receive the money they requested for the Health Promotion, it receives a ton of money, a conference mentioned in Garrison’s email. ton of training,” Garrison said.

“Funding decisions are made Sam Dunham ‘15, President of independently based on the merit Someone You Know, another group of the event, and to me, this whole that combats sexual assault, said that question of the open letter, to me Someone You Know values funding is an opportunity for dialogue and from the administration and could learning,” Ambler said. not do its work without In a later email, she it, but that his group was said she valued the work not as closely tied to the that HOPE does. administration as HOPE. “I have been and “I will say that remain a strong something we value supporter of HOPE as a group is the fact and the outstanding that we aren’t directly education and under any branch of the prevention work they do administration. We are a on a wide range of health student group,” he said. and wellness issues,” she Dunham said Someone wrote later in an email.

You Know benefited from Ambler, chair of the the logistical support of Task Force on Preventing HOPE and its members.

Sexual Assault and VOX: Voices For Harassment, said that Planned Parenthood, she wished the students — HOPE faculty advisor which combats sexual had approached her before Eric Garrison M.Ed. ‘94 aggression, receives funding they sent the letter out. from Student Assembly, but “My only concern was [that] I wanted an opportunity to talk to students generally not more than about $100. Medley, cowho had concerns about sexual assault because writer of the first draft of the open letter, is VOX’s we need to hear what those concerns are,” she vice president.

HOPE’s close relationship with the said. “No one had reached out to me to ask.”

Ambler said that the task force had been administration raises questions about the working on many of the issues that the students independence that activists have to criticize raised in the letter. She said that alumni the administration’s efforts to reduce instances donations played a large role in combating sexual of sexual violence on campus at a time when violence on campus, noting that the funding for the administration is under investigation for Sexual Assault Awareness Month speaker Nancy potential Title IX abuses.

Neither Yerramilli nor Jacob said that a Donoval had been allocated from private gifts.

Ambler said that earlier this year, the College’s member of HOPE could publish a letter criticizing Strategic Planning Steering Committee approved the administration’s efforts without damaging the adding language to the Strategic Plan, which organization’s ability to do work in the future.

“I don’t know if I can even answer that included providing a safe environment free of assault and harassment. She said that sexual question, yeah, I think, I don’t know,” Jacob said. assault data from the campus climate survey was “I think there could be times when anybody is funded by the school, or even supported by other forthcoming.

An intimate connection: “Don’t bite the student organizations, that will make you a little less critical.” hand that feeds you” Yerramilli said that although she couldn’t HOPE has a more intimate relationship with the administration than almost any other student support the letter as a member of HOPE’s group on campus. To become a member of HOPE, executive board, as an individual she supported “HOPEfuls,” as they’re called, must attend a the writers of the letter and the feelings expressed.

“Being an organization that’s close to the semester long class as well as pass an application administration there is, I mean, there are things process which includes interviews.

There are no completely independent groups we have to patch up,” Yerramilli said. “As an

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There’s nothing unethical about writing to people or complaining to people who do that, who are supporting you, but if you want to show support and get support, there needs to be that quid pro quo there.

A NOTE ON FERPA A Freedom of Information Act request submitted by The Flat Hat April 6 seeking emails between Eric Garrison and Ginger Ambler sent since March 6 has been repeatedly delayed, and on April 16, FOIA officer Lillian Stevens invoked a 7-day extension in order to process the number of emails containing the search phrase “hope.” As of Thursday night, The Flat Hat has received none of the emails it requested under FOIA, including those emails that contained the search phrases other than “hope,” like “open letter” and “Health Outreach Peer Educator.”

The College has also denied a similar Flat Hat Freedom of Information Act Request seeking emails between HOPE executive board members and college employees, arguing that the emails are protected under the Federal Education Rights and Privacy Act. The Flat Hat requested that the school redact information that would allow readers to identify the students mentioned in the emails, a request which was also denied. After the College was notified that The Flat Hat planned to print emails a college employee provided the paper that were sent to him from a student, the College said that FERPA prevented The Flat Hat from printing those emails.

“A newspaper can’t violate FERPA,” Frank LoMonte, Executive Director of the Student Press Law Center, said in an email.

organization that works so closely with the administration you have to be able to look at a situation and say, ‘This is where we are and how can we be closer to creating a safe environment for students.’

Garrison said he supports autonomy, but to a point.

“There are universities that believe in total self-governance, and you end up with 50 Harry Potter groups,” he said.

He said he did not support a mechanism that would protect HOPE’s funding.

“They could put [the letter] on a billboard, they could publish it in The Flat Hat, they could stand at the Crim Dell and shout it with bullhorns, but how effective is that? Are they trying to show the world that they’re angry? They have been taught how to intervene,” he said.

While students would be permitted to write whatever they wanted, Garrison added that a special relationship exists between the administration and those it funds.

“It goes back to don’t bite the hand that feeds you,” he said. “There’s nothing unethical about writing to people or complaining to people who do that, who are supporting you, but if you want to show support and get support, there needs to be that quid pro quo there.”

Looking ahead: “It’s about forgiveness and moving forward” In an email, Taffet, co-writer of the first letter, said he believed the issue was in the past.

“This is a case of a work-in-progress being released before it was ready — a misunderstanding at most,” he wrote. “I do believe that HOPE and the administration have moved on from this mistake.”

Two days after the letter was sent out, Alex Moss ’16 sent an apology email to Eric Garrison to forward to Ambler. The email was obtained by The Flat Hat. “I am the member of HOPE who initially suggested the writing of an open letter addressed to the administration to the Flat Hat newspaper,” he wrote. “I do not believe the original contents of the letter reflect an understanding of the administration’s obstacles in reaffirming a commitment toward sexual assault prevention.

Placing the College’s sexual assault statistics online, where they could be easily accessible, may deter prospective students or cause public outcry.”

Moss added that he sympathized with the administration having to deal with Board of Visitors on matters like this one. He also said that he believed that threats to withdraw funding from student groups were unethical.

Moss declined to comment for this article.

Ambler said that she never received the email.

Other HOPE members have refused to apologize for the contents of the letter and have said that their ultimate goals — working with the administration to reduce sexual violence on campus — have not been impeded.

Yerramilli said that moving forward on the four goals laid out in the letter was more important than any awkwardness HOPE members might feel at meeting with the administration.

“It’s about forgiveness and moving forward,” she said. “Forgiving that they feel they have done what they need to do. … The pushing that we do on the administration is not to continue pushing, it’s to make sure that students on campus … feel safe and comfortable, and as long as there are students who don’t feel safe and comfortable, we will do what we can do to make sure the administration is listening.”

Jacob added that the activism did not end with the letter.

“I think I can speak for everyone who wrote this letter, when I say, none of us are going to let this go.”

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GUEST COLUMN

A campaign for support and acceptance

Tyler Brent

FLAT HAT GUEST COLUMNIST

Tomorrow, the internationally renowned photographic silent protest campaign, the No H8 Campaign, will be on campus holding an open photo shoot. The campaign can by recognized by photographs of celebrities, politicians, athletes and over 40,000 other individuals with duct tape over their mouths with the iconic “No H8” logo on their face.

The No H8 Campaign began in 2008 after the passage of the California ballot initiative Proposition 8 which made same-sex marriage in California illegal.

While studying in China during my gap year before coming to the College as a freshman, I read a tragic New York Times headline about a student who had also just graduated high school. I kept reading this story, which started to remind me of myself.

Tyler Clementi, an 18-year-old from New Jersey, had just started school at Rutgers University. He had just come out to his parents before leaving for freshman year. In September 2010, Clementi’s roommate hid a webcam in their room and posted a video of Clementi kissing another man on the internet. After reading his roommate’s Twitter feed encouraging other Rutgers students to watch, Clementi jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge.

The story hit close to home and left me feeling abjectly alone. The fact that we were the same age, from the same state, both shared very similar interests and even had the same name made me terrified over what I would encounter when I started at the College the next year.

I was still coming to terms with my own sexuality and had no idea

what to expect in terms of LGBT acceptance at the College.

With increasing discourse about fighting stigma and starting the conversation, I share this story because I know that there are others who are experiencing these very same feelings.

In my own coming out journey, I dealt with suicidal ideation as a freshman. I am grateful for my extremely supportive freshman hall and friends who helped me work through these issues, but I don’t know what I would have done without them.

The No H8 Campaign matters because no member of this community or any other LGBT individual should ever question their self-worth, value or belonging on campus.

The No H8 Campaign matters so that LGBT students and allies on college campuses are visible. My fears in starting College would have been assuaged if I had a better idea of the numerous safe spaces on campus. With the involvement of a mix of students, professors, administrators, athletes and members of Greek life, No H8 will show visual representations of the many allies that are found throughout this campus.

According to The Trevor Project, LGB youth are four times more likely to attempt suicide than their heterosexual counterparts. Nearly half of transgender youth have seriously contemplated suicide, and one-quarter report having attempted suicide. Now take a second to read those numbers again. Let it sink in. The No H8 Campaign matters because, in showing the growing support that LGBT students have on campus, we can work to change this appalling reality.

Since the No H8 Campaign speech and open photo shoot itself is fleeting, these photos will be made into a mural which will be prominently displayed on campus next fall. This will serve as another reminder of the myriad allies, supporters and LGBT students on campus and show future members of the tribe the support network available to them on campus.

The campaign started to fight for recognition of same-sex marriage. Even if same-sex marriage (hopefully) becomes law in all 50 states, it is important to continuously recognize and highlight the numerous other challenges facing LGBT college students.

The No H8 Campaign matters as a constant reminder that we need to work to make the mantra One Tribe, One Family more inclusive.

Email Tyler Brent at wtbrent@email.wm.edu.

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The No H8 Campaign matters because no member of this community or any other LGBT individual should ever question their self-worth, value or belonging 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, Quinn Monette and Kat Turk. Tucker Higgins recused himself from this editorial. 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.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR I am writing to clarify misconceptions and to provide necessary context for your recent article about services and staffing at the William & Mary Counseling Center (WMCC), including the training model used for doctoral-level interns and practicum students.

The article’s inference that students seeing doctoral-level interns or staff therapists are receiving lower quality services is inaccurate. A psychology internship is the last step before obtaining a doctorate in clinical or counseling psychology, a process that typically takes 5-7 years.

In this last step of their doctorate, they serve as full-time clinicians for one year and come with several years of prior clinical experience. They also bring a sophisticated understanding of the most recent research and trends in psychology.

Our staff therapists are highly trained and experienced clinicians with doctorates in psychology and are highly valued for their talent and devotion to the students and campus they serve.

hree students penned an open letter to President Reveley and the Board of Visitors calling for “complete transparency” in the reporting of incidents of sexual assault along with a more serious, focused and responsible institutional commitment to ending sexual violence.

Yet the College of William and Mary administration has attempted to preemptively mitigate, and even censor, the students’ effort to promote public discourse, discrediting the letter as “grandstanding” and “activism [that] will get us nowhere but backwards.”

An administrator voiced her frustration that the open letter had been drafted without an attempt by the authors to reach out and talk with her. An open letter is an excellent medium through which to engage the public, yet the administration is concerned with the fact that it couldn’t vet the letter’s contents before the letter was published.

Another administrator stated that by publishing the letter, the writers would be “cutting off the hand that feeds [them],” intimating that HOPE should look less critically at the administration, from which it receives “thousands of $$$ [sic] each year.” Is this the best way to moderate public discourse about sexual violence?

These statements come from an administration which had no problem relinquishing funds to screen The Hunting Ground, a documentary addressing sexual assault on other college campuses.

The administration’s attempt to meticulously audit its image fits with a default strategy of “press releases, damage control, and other forms of evasion” at which the writers of the letter were rightly incensed. The administration seems to think that only it, and not students who are passionate about preventing sexual assault, should be tasked with addressing the issue.

This same administration has earned the attention of a federal investigation over its handling of reports of sexual violence.

Sexual violence is undeniably a problem at the College, as is the way it is addressed on an institutional level. The students of the College have, in part, been successful in maintaining a dialogue about sexual aggression. There is still progress to be made.

What has become evident, however, is that certain College administrators have been uncooperative and even prohibitive in students’ attempts to foster a transparent, honest and critical discussion about sexual assault. This indicates not only a personal failure on the part of the administrators involved but also a systemic flaw in the relationship between the institution and its students.

There must be a degree of autonomy for campus groups which deal with sexual assault. This would take the form of a pooled-fund sexual assault prevention council. Groups such as VOX: Voices for Planned Parenthood, Someone You Know and HOPE would be united in this council and would share funding from the school. This mechanism would allow these groups to freely address sexual assault and critique administrative policy without fear of intervention or micromanagement.

A College administrator asks that the writers of the letter not “beseech the Administration to give something to you … and instead invite and inspire them to work with you.” The administration might be best suited to considering an alternative strategy: listen, without interruption or qualification, to the students who so tirelessly work to end sexual violence.

You might learn something.

While the article cited that 40 percent of clients are currently seen by interns and practicum students, not included in that calculation were the number of hours devoted to our robust therapy groups and the intensive supervision our experienced clinicians provide. Our supervisors are intimately involved in the case conceptualization, treatment planning and progress tracking of each student served by our interns.

The WMCC has a strong identity as an accredited training site and we are deeply committed to the development of psychologists. William & Mary is now regarded as a highly sought after training site for both practicum students and interns.

More importantly, the consistent feedback we get from students is that they value their clinical experience with our interns, many of whom are frequently requested by students due to their effectiveness as clinicians and their tremendous outreach programming on campus.

The Counseling Center is fully

accredited by the International Association of Counseling Services (IACS). We also offer a clinical internship accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA). Our blend of providing experienced clinicians and a high quality training model is considered a best practices model.

The process of determining the optimal size of a training program takes several years and we are currently adjusting that size to be longitudinally sustainable. As we add staff, including a full-time psychiatrist, we expect the percentage of clients seen by interns and practicum students to decrease over time. But it’s also important to recognize that our Counseling Center has continued to grow and develop in a direction acknowledged as exemplary by both of our accrediting bodies, IACS and APA. R. Kelly Crace, Ph.D. Associate Vice President for Health & Wellness Email Dr. R. Kelly Crace at kelly.crace@ wm.edu.

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One of the reasons the foodtruck is failing is that it is always located at a region of campus already inundated with food options... Why not locate near Andrews Hall? While Aromas abridged allows people to get their coffee fix, they do not always have foods suited for meals. Wholly Habaneros may find some more success there.

— “Stephen” on “A whole lot of disappointment: Wholly Habaneros falls short”

variety Jeffrey Bellin Associate professor of law Jeffrey Bellin focuses his research on criminal procedure and evidence. “I am interested in improving our criminal justice system, a system whose imperfections I witnessed firsthand as a prosecutor,” he said in an email. Bellin said that one of the most interesting discoveries he has made through his research is the wide variation between the jurisdictions and localities that make up the American criminal justice system.

Adam Gershowitz Kelly Professor of Teaching Excellence Adam Gershowitz studies the Fourth Amendment and how its role has shifted in the face of widespread technology. “You usually think you want the smartest people possible on the Supreme Court, but sometimes when you have much older judges who are cut off from all the stuff you know about, like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook [and] all of that stuff, it makes it much harder for them to make good decisions because they’re not really equipped for the world we live in now, with such wide-ranging technology,” he said. Gershowitz plans to use the Plumeri funds to travel to courthouses around the country and study warrants for searching individuals’ phones as part of arrests.

Cindy Hahamovitch Class of 1938 Professor of History Cindy Hahamovitch studies the history of human trafficking and labor over the past 200 years.

While working as an expert witness in a case involving Peruvian sheepherders living in Colorado, Hahamovitch discovered that the herders listed the same exact complaints as an earlier group she had studied, the “Coolies” — indentured workers from India in nineteenth century British Guiana. “The key difference would be that if the ‘Coolies’ got into conflict with their employer, they would most likely be flogged or imprisoned, while modern workers are deported or threatened with deportation,” Hahamovitch said. “The punishments are different, but the stories are very similar.”

Robert Hinkle Professor of chemistry Robert Hinkle studies reactive intermediaries, cascade sequences and bismuth compounds as catalysts for chemical reactions. One of his most unique discoveries was finding a powerful cascade sequence by accidentally including more alcohol than originally allotted. “[My work is] a mixture of intellectual and physical activities,” Hinkle said. “Being in the lab is the physical part, obviously, but then trying to adapt the results to new reactions or thinking about things in a new way, really the best way to do that is constantly [being] involved in the process of learning reactions and observing when things go wrong. That can be as important as when things don’t go wrong. The biggest discoveries can be found from a mistake.”

Simon Joyce Margaret Hamilton Professor of English Simon P. Joyce plans on using the Plumeri award funds to conduct archival research in Great Britain for his latest book, “Learning About Sex From the Victorians.” “[There’s this] idea that the last thing we think we can ever learn about from the Victorians is sex, that they are the worst people to think about sex that you could possibly imagine,” he said. “[I’m] trying to go back to some of the lesser explored works in sexuality in the nineteenth century [and look at] the way they think about the relationship between biological sex, gender and sexual orientation.”

Ryan Vinroot Associate professor of mathematics Christopher R. Vinroot studies representation theory, which he describes as the correspondence between geometric symmetry and algebra. In a recent research project completed with two undergraduate students, Vinroot examined partitions — a way of adding up positive numbers to get another number. A partition of four, for example, is two, one, one because two plus one plus one equals four. “One of the students I was working with compared this to the puzzle of Sudoku, where the rules are you put numbers in these boxes and have to put them in certain orders,” he said, “so one of the questions is if I say here’s the shape in which these boxes sit, and here is the weight that is the number of ones you have to put in … How many ways you can do it? How many ways can you put these numbers in these boxes so that they follow these rules?”

Harry Wang Professor of marine science Harry Wang studies physical oceanography and water quality in the Chesapeake Bay. He plans on using the Plumeri funds to travel to Italy for a discussion on predicting storm surges. This technology was used during Hurricane Sandy to predict the impact of flooding in New York City.

“It has a tremendous societal impact,” Wang said. “In New York City, we could see water rushing through the streets and pinpoint which subway stations were potentially dangerous during the event.”

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20 professors honored with Plumeri Award MEILAN SOLLY // FLAT HAT CHIEF STAFF WRITER This year, 20 professors at the College of William and Mary have received the Plumeri Award for Faculty Excellence, which recognizes outstanding achievements in teaching, research and service. The Plumeri Award was established in 2009 with a donation from Joseph J. Plumeri II ’66 D.P.S. ’11. Recognized professors receive $10,000 for research, summer salaries or related scholastic work.

Frederick Corney Associate professor of history Frederick Corney studies Soviet revolutionary history and how individuals’ memories of these events become part of Russia’s cultural narrative. He said that one of the most unique discoveries he has made focuses on how the October Revolution is remembered as a momentous event, as opposed to the standard, less far-reaching historical explanation. “Just as England uses the myth of war to sustain itself in the twentieth century, so Russia tried to create this revolutionary epic at its foundation,” Corney said.

Jeffrey Shields Professor Jeffrey Shields looks at diseases and health issues that affect crabs and lobsters in order to see how they impact fisheries and the species’ population dynamics. “I grew up on the shores of Lake Michigan and played with crayfish and found them rather fascinating,” he said. “I guess when I moved to California and had a marine environment, it just took off from there. I’ve always liked invertebrates and diseases, and I guess the two are just where I’m at.” According to Shields, one of his most unique discoveries was the realization that healthy Caribbean spiny lobsters can detect and avoid diseased lobsters.

Vassiliki Panoussi Associate professor of classical studies Vassiliki Panoussi recently completed a book on the religious experiences of women in Ancient Rome and how they affected gender dynamics. “Women in Roman texts are very powerful, and they are used by Roman authors to express concerns with political, social and ideological issues,” she said. “My research shows that women, despite what the historical record suggests, had means of exercising power.” Panoussi will use the Plumeri funds to travel to Greece and examine how Herodotus combined elements of oral poetry with written text.

Jack B. Martin Professor of English and linguistics Jack Martin studies three native languages found in the American South — Creek, Miccosukee and Koasati. He has published two dozen articles and is currently working on his fifth book.

Rowan Lockwood Associate Professor of Geology Rowan Lockwood studies how biodiversity through time has responded to death and destruction in terms of mass extinctions, climate change and fossil records. “One of the things I’m most proud of is a science paper … focusing specifically on how we can use extinction in the fossil record to predict what parts of the ocean and what parts of the marine ecosystem are at risk today,” she said. Lockwood plans on using the Plumeri funds to work on collaborative research in the coming year at the University of Exeter in Cornwall.

Kim Wheatley Professor of English Kim Wheatley specializes in early nineteenth-century British literature, particularly Romantic poetry, because it allows her to study themes such as the quest for transcendence, the interaction of the human mind with nature and the power of memory. She has written two books on Romanticism, but her newest project focuses on twentieth-century novelist John Cowper Powys. “[This project] takes me into a different century, but I’m not leaving romanticism behind because this new project is about the influence of romanticism on Powys,” Wheatley said. “I became interested in him when I realize he’s a latter day Romantic rewriting central tenets into words to live by for a twentieth-century audience.”

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Evan J. Criddle Tazewell Taylor Research Professor of Law Evan J. Criddle examines how international law protects people during conflicts, environmental catastrophes and times when they are targeted by their own governments. “I was a lawyer in practice before I started teaching, and I represented political refugees who were seeking asylum in the U.S.,” he said. “What I saw over and over was that people were playing situations where the root cause of their insecurity ... was poor governance at home, so while I’m interested in that refugee adjudication here in the U.S., I’m also interested in figuring out how the international community collectively can come together to address the root causes of human insecurity.”

Recently, Criddle has looked at international financial sanctions and how countries such as Cuba and Myanmar impose sanctions without considering the views of their people, an action that goes against principles of self-determination under international law.

M. Brennan Harris Associate professor of kinesiology and health sciences M. Brennan Harris has two main fields of study — blood vessel response to exercise and the relationship between health and pilgrimage. “In a particular pilgrimage in Spain, people walk for hours a day, day after day, and that’s a little bit unusual,” he said. “The intensity isn’t very high, but the duration and frequency of the activity is high, and people are volunteering to do it. We have trouble getting people to exercise, and here’s a type of exercise where people are saying, ‘Hey, we want to go do this,’ so we’re looking at does this change their attitude towards exercise, does it make them want to exercise more [and] does it improve their health?”

Kathleen Jenkins Associate professor of sociology Kathleen Jenkins studies the intersection between religion, therapeutic culture and family. Her second book, “Sacred Divorce: Religion, Therapeutic Culture and Ending Life Partnerships,” focuses on how religions as varied as Judaism and evangelical Christianity make divorce into a similar sacred experience. “Those similarities were very much about therapeutic culture and how pervasive it is in religious belief systems and practices,” Jenkins said. “[There are] very similar processes — going on journeys, [finding] self-awareness and building a better self through relationships.” Jenkins plans on using the Plumeri funds to study pilgrimages in northwest Spain and what they mean to parents and adult children who experience them.

Allison Orr Larsen Associate professor of law Allison Orr Larsen ’99 examines the institutional and informational dynamics of judicial decision making. In recent research about amicus briefs, she discovered that in many instances where courts relied on briefs for statements of fact, the sources the briefs were relying on had questionable levels of reliability. Larsen spoke on “The Colbert Report” about her work with amicus briefs. For her next project, she hopes to look at judicial decision making on a global scale. “I’ve always had a curiosity about the international component, like how you would compare judicial decision making across different judicial systems,” Larsen said. “This award would definitely enable me to do research in that area, and I probably wouldn’t be able to do that without this award.”

Megan Tschannen-Moran

Professor of education Megan Tschannen-Moran studies the relationship between trust in schools and, more particularly, between teachers and students. While prior research has cited socioeconomic status as the best predictor of student achievement, Tschannen-Moran says that trust plays a larger role in predicting success. “Trust is the Holy Grail of educational research,” she said.

“For 50 years, [we’ve] been searching, and now [we] have this variable that is more powerful than SES. Even when we take SES into account, trust also still viable.”

Gexin Yu Associate professor of mathematics Gexin Yu specializes in the field of graph theory. “Facebook, for example, or social media and any network you can think of are all graph theory,” Yu said. “I study foundations and properties and all of these structures in graphs [and] provide theoretical foundation for all of these subjects. It’s beautiful and useful, the two most [important] criteria for us to study.”

Gang Zhou Associate professor of computer science Gang Zhou’s recent research focuses on extending battery life in smartphones — he has filed several intellectual patents and is working on creating a startup to push his work into markets. “I just love the research challenge inside [computing devices] and also the great potential to change the world we live in,” Zhou said. “[It’s] not just pure research, but also impacting everyday lives.”

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A new voice in a capella

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New a capella group aims to create an inclusive group for all those interested in singing MEILAN SOLLY FLAT HAT CHIEF STAFF WRITER

College a cappella — it’s a community made famous by “Pitch Perfect,” often portrayed as groups of quirky, model-like individuals who are liable to burst into song at any moment.

This semester, a newly founded group at the College of William and Mary — the Tribetones — is attempting to break into the world of college a cappella.

Founded by President Ali Gellman ’17 and Vocal Director Katy Knortz ’16, the group consists of nine women who sing everything from contemporary hits to jazz and classic rock like Billy Joel.

Gellman and Knortz said they started the Tribetones because they saw a significant unmet demand for a cappella on campus.

“Especially as transfers, we found it very hard to get a spot in [a cappella groups] because they like to take mostly freshmen, so we wanted to make a new group open to any age and based solely on talent,” Gellman said.

Knortz also said that joining the College community as a transfer impacted her decision to start the Tribetones.

“It really hits home that we were both transfers, and other transfers I have talked with had the sense of not knowing anyone coming in,” she said. “We weren’t the fresh freshmen that everyone loves because they’re new to the community … We felt strongly just coming in as transfers and not having connections; it was hard to integrate into ‘One Tribe, One Family.’”

The inaugural members of the Tribetones were chosen from a pool of 30 individuals. Although the current Tribetones are all female, Knortz said that the group is gender fluid and will admit those who show the most talent regardless of gender.

The Tribetones performed at Day for Admitted Students and performed in a joint concert with the Bates College Deansmen on April 22.

Additionally, their first online video, a performance of Billy Joel’s “For the Longest Time,” received over 3,000 views.

“From the general community, there’s a lot of support because William and Mary loves new groups,” Gellman said. “When we did our interview to become a real group, the staff was really excited for us to make this addition to campus.”

Next year, the Tribetones hope to expand their membership to 15 individuals. They also have a fall concert planned and are going on tour over fall break in 2015.

“We’ll continue doing that each semester, just getting as many shows as we can to get the word out,” Knortz said.

An additional goal for the Tribetones is gaining membership in the College’s A Cappella Council, which currently governs 11 a cappella groups on campus.

Membership in the council allows groups to be part of a coordinated audition process, showcases and Wren Ten performances.

According to council President Dan Kent ’15, the council’s constitution states that in order to be recognized as a council-affiliated group, a group must have sustained itself for four years — long enough for founding members to have graduated.

This stipulation — as well as a rule that new groups must have an absolute minimum of 10 members or as many as the smallest group in the council — is part of a newly codified constitution approved last semester.

“This is kind of just a sustainability thing,” Kent said. “In the past, what the council had seen was that once the founding members had graduated, there was no momentum to kind of sustain the group.”

When Gellman and Knortz applied for membership in the council earlier this semester, Kent said he sent them the above information from the constitution to clarify that the Tribetones were not currently eligible for membership.

In a later meeting between Gellman and Kent, however, the two discussed the possibility of gradually integrating the Tribetones into the council.

“What we talked about was the fact that the council hasn’t faced a group seeking membership into the council in 15 years, since Passing Notes was formed,” Kent said. “None of the current students are used to dealing with [this], so we wanted to talk about the different options available.”

April 26, the council will convene to discuss the Tribetones’ potential transition into the council.

“We’re giving council members and group members in general a chance to propose any changes and then discussing them and voting upon them,” council Vice President Maguire Brinkley ’15 said.

According to Kent, a potential idea is integrating the Tribetones into various council activities over several semesters — including them in auditions one semester, allowing them to perform in a showcase the next semester and giving them a Wren Ten the following semester, for example.

The council, which consists of Kent, Brinkley and the top two leaders from each of the 11 member groups, must reach a two-thirds majority vote to pass any new propositions.

Regardless of the council’s decision, Gellman believes that the Tribetones will continue to grow.

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Tribetones has held several concerts since their formation, including a joint concert with the Bates College Deansmen. Their first online video earned over 3000 views.

From the classroom to the bookstore shelves Psychology professor William McIntosh discusses his off-campus life as a full-time author SAM DREITH FLAT HAT ASSOC. VARIETY EDITOR

On campus, William McIntosh is known as an adjunct psychology professor. Outside of the College of William and Mary’s microcosm of society, however, McIntosh is better known for his science fiction short stories and novels.

McIntosh’s writing career began at the age of 37 while he was a full-time psychology professor at Georgia Southern University. He has since turned his science fiction hobby into a career, garnering accolades such as the Hugo Award for Best Short Story and the American Library Association’s Best Novel of the Year.

McIntosh has been reading science fiction and fantasy novels his entire life.

“When I started writing, it was kind of natural that [science fiction is] exactly what I would be writing,” McIntosh said. “I don’t know if I would have started writing if I weren’t writing science fiction.”

McIntosh began writing short stories as a hobby while teaching at GSU and continued teaching for the next 10 years, making for a total of 22 years as a fulltime professor.

The idea for McIntosh’s first short story was inspired by a dream he had.

“I had a cool dream — a science fiction-y kind of dream, and I just thought, ‘I should write that as a story, that would be a good stoy,’” McIntosh said. “And I just realized I really liked this, and so I kind of turned it into a hobby.”

According to McIntosh, starting with short stories enabled him to improve his writing skills without committing to a novel, which he believes to be a more painful path.

“You spend a year working on a novel and find out it’s no good, then you start another,” McIntosh said.

“With a short story, you spend a couple weeks working

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Filmakers are currently considering adapting McIntosh’s fourth book, “Defenders,” into a feature-length movie.

on it to find out it’s no good.”

Before winning the Hugo Award, McIntosh’s stories were published in obscure science fiction magazines and anthologies.

“First story I ever sold, I made twenty dollars, and the magazine that it was in lasted about six issues,” McIntosh said.

McIntosh’s career kicked into gear with the repute garnered with one of his later short story “Bridesicle,” published in Asimov’s “Science Fiction” magazine.

According to McIntosh, “Bridesicle” is about a

woman who wakes up in a dating center only to find out she is dead and has been cryogenically frozen. The only way that she can live is if she convinces a wealthy man to pay to have her revived.

“Bridesicle” was nominated for the 2010 Hugo Award for Best Short Story along with four other stories. McIntosh’s short story had the least amount of nominations of the group, making him the dark horse for the award.

“With the Hugo Awards — a decent amount of it — [is] being known. And nobody knew me,” McIntosh said. “Nobody expected me to win.”

McIntosh, the only of the five nominees to attend the ceremony in Australia, went on to win the award.

After that win, McIntosh’s first novel, “Soft Apocalypse,” was published.

“Nobody had wanted it before I had won the Hugo,” McIntosh said. “And it did well, so in some ways that also kicked me off.”

McIntosh has now released four novels, with a fifth coming next year and a sixth in the works.

Since his venture into novels, one of McIntosh’s short stories — “Followed” — has been turned into a short film. The next step in his career involves possible full-length films based off of his novels.

“Four of my novels, two that are published and two that are yet to be published, are at different stages of consideration for a film,” McIntosh said.

According to McIntosh, his film agent predicts that two of the four novels will make it into the production stages.

“I love getting calls from my film agent,” he said.

“It’s my favorite call in the world.”

As his writing career has taken off, McIntosh said he now considers teaching social psychology more of a hobby.

“I taught full-time for 22 years, so you’re not getting somebody who doesn’t know what they’re doing, but this is not my main job anymore,” McIntosh said. “This

is just something I do on the side.”

He teaches a single lecture course at the College now and considers himself a “hired gun,” as he also doesn’t conduct any research.

Though he no longer focuses on teaching, McIntosh believes that his background in natural psychology does play into his works.

“It’s just the coolness of stuff that’s being developed in the psychology area that applies,” McIntosh said.

When it comes to hard science, however, McIntosh said he sometimes writes himself into a corner.

“If I’m writing a book and I get to a point where it has to be about a physicist — I’m screwed without somebody else’s help,” McIntosh said.

Seconds before McIntosh was interviewed for this article, a student waiting to speak to the professor at the end of class asked him to autograph a copy of his book “Love Minus Eighty,” which was chosen as the American Library Association’s best novel in 2013.

“Over the course of the semester, there might be five or six students who make it known [that they read my n o v e l s ] ,” McIntosh said.

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Sports Editor Nick Cipolla Sports Editor Sumner Higginbotham flathatsports@gmail.com @FlatHatSports

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BASEBALL

Breaking down spring

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As the school year comes to a close, there are still some important Tribe storylines to follow. With the last big weekend of College sports approaching, here are a few of the topics that the Flat Hat Sports Desk is watching.

Follow @FlatHatSports to keep updated.

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Shaffrey closes in on record

LACROSSE

While the College’s lacrosse season may not have gone quite as planned, senior midfielder and captain Ellen Shaffrey’s performance certainly proved to be a bright spot for the Tribe. And not just in 2015 either Shaffrey currently stands just two draw controls away from breaking the all-time program record of 153 set by Grace Golden ’11. The season record already has Shaffrey’s name etched in from last year at 54; though she may better her 2014 performance as she has 53 draw controls on this season. Shaffrey also has 105 points total in her career. The Tribe plays its final game against No. 17 James Madison this Saturday at Martin Family Stadium at 1 p.m.

The matchup against the Dukes will also serve as senior day for Shaffrey and five other seniors: Fellow midfielder Amanda Johnson, attacks Kaleigh Noon and Sarah Gunter, and defenders Allison Henry and Katherine Shepherd.

—Flat Hat Sports Editor Sumner Higginbotham

Inghram nears win record

BASEBALL

With plenty of innings left in the season, about 12 games worth to be precise, senior pitcher Jason Inghram in closing in on the school record for wins at 25, as he currently is just one short of tying that mark. 2015 hasn’t exactly been good to Ingrahm, as thus far he’s posted a 2-5 record.

It’s hard to argue that Inghram hasn’t regressed off an incredible junior season. In 2014, Inghram racked up 10 wins to only a pair of losses, as well as 91 strikeouts and a 2.71 ERA. This year, his numbers are down to 45 strikeouts with roughly 76% of the season already complete, while his ERA has spiked to 5.43 However, the Tribe has been rolling of late, firing on all cylinders with a four-game winning streak that’s likely to help Inghram get back in his comfort zone on the mound. Every one of the Tribe’s remaining contests is in a three-game series, meaning the College will have to rely upon the skills of its starters as well as its bullpen to pull through the crucial Colonial Athletic Association victories.

Inghram will certainly have his chance to claim the record by the end of the regular season on May 15.

—Flat Hat Sports Editor Sumner Higginbotham

Tribe sweeps CAA awards

TRACK & FIELD

Last weekend, William and Mary sent athletes to three unique track and field meets: the Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut, Calif., the New Captain’s Challenge in Newport News, Va., and the Virginia Challenge in Charlottesville, Va. Earlier this week, the Colonial Athletic Association gave out its weekly track and field honors. The men’s squad swept the awards, taking both the Track Athlete of the Week as well as the Field Athlete of the Week. The track award was given to freshman Mac Haight after he won the open 5,000-meter race at the Virginia Challenge in a time of 14:36.42. The field award was given to junior Taylor Frenia, who broke the 1977 school shot put record of 17.65 meters, as he put the shot 16.99 meters in his first throw and proceeded to break the record again with his final throw of 17.66 meters.

The women’s team also swept the weekly CAA awards, as senior Dylan Hassett earned the Track Athlete of the Week award and freshman Leia Mistowski was honored with the Field Athlete of the Week award. Hassett broke her personal best 5,000-meter race time at the Mt. SAC Relays, finishing in 16:10.42 to finish second in the top heat of open racing. Mistowski broke the Tribe hammer throw record of 53.46 meters set in 2010, as she threw 55.52 meters in her final throw to finish sixth at the Virginia Challenge.

The Tribe now heads to Philadelphia to compete in the famous Penn Relays, where many athletes look to esrn postseason qualifiers.

—Flat Hat Sports Editor Nick Cipolla

College adds new athletes

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William and Mary announced Tuesday that it has added a fourth new member to the College for the 2015-16 team.

Ali Engelhart signed her National Letter of Intent to join the women’s basketball team, which recently had one of its most successful years in program history that culminated in the first postseson tournament berth ever.

Engerlhart is a native of San Diego and was awarded player of the year honors for the Palomar League after winning the league championship this year and averaging upwards of 25 points and 10 rebounds every game.

She joins other incoming recruits Bianca Boggs, Misha Jones, and Chandler Smith. The three other women signed letters of intent in November 2014. Boggs is a resident of Waldorf, Md. who led her varsity high school squad in many defensive categories. Jones is from Fairfax, Va., and she earned distinction from selection committees for all-conference, allregion, and all-state recognition. Smith comes from Clinton, Md., and was an all-conference honorable mention award winner.

These four players will begin to fill the shoes of the graduatiing seniors, guards Jazmen Boone, Kyla Kerstetter and Anna Kestler as well as center MacKenzie Morrison.

This is head coach Ed Swanson’s second recruiting class and will be his third year on the job.

—Flat Hat Sports Editor Nick Cipolla

Home run Sophomore shortstop Tim Hoehn scored the first run with a homer in the top of the second.

Freshman second baseman Cullen Large celebrates his home run.

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Junior first baseman Charley Gould hit his 11th home run of 2015 during the seventh inning Tuesday.

Three players hit homers in road blowout win NICK CIPOLLA FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR William and Mary continued the hot streak from its sweep of James Madison last weekend as the College conquered the Keydets of Virginia Military Institute by a 8-2 margin Tuesday night in Lexington, Va. A trio of home runs courtesy of sophomore shortstop Tim Hoehn, freshman second baseman Cullen Large and junior first baseman Charley Gould highlighted the Tribe’s (19-19, 9-6 CAA) offensive effort.

The evening began slowly as the first three College batters made outs to end the first halfinning. VMI (12-22, 5-7 Southern) put a man on base through a Tribe error, but was picked off while attempting to steal by Hoehn.

The second inning began the College’s onslaught of runs. Hoehn walked up to the plate and slammed the ball out of the park for a 1-0 lead, and his second homer of the season.

Junior centerfielder Josh Smith singled, followed by a single by freshman right fielder Ryan Hall, but the next two batters failed to make it to first, stranding Smith and Hall on base.

The Keydets offense was suppressed in the bottom of the second due to the performance of the Tribe field. After junior right-handed starting pitcher Mitchell Aker hit consecutive batters with pitches with two outs to go, VMI’s Colin Fleischer Aker hit towards Hoehn, who initiated a successful double play to end the inning with no damage done to the College’s lead.

The Tribe extended its lead to three in the third as it continued to dominate at the plate.

Large hustled to first on a single and stole second. Gould stepped up to bat and singled as well, advancing Large to third. Hoehn brought in his second RBI of the night as he took his base from a fielder’s choice to bring in Large.

The bases loaded as senior left fielder Devin White singled, setting up Smith for a scoring

play as he was on deck with one out on the inning. Smith hit a sacrifice fly to right field, plating Gould to bring the score to 3-0. Hall flew out to right as well, ending the inning with two left on base.

Aker quickly took care of the bottom half of the third inning, striking out one and scooping up a ground ball for an out. The last out was another groundout, this time to Large at second, ending the inning three up, three down as the Tribe dramatically improved from previous games plagued with fielding errors.

The fourth inning began with a change on the mound for VMI as the Tribe was back on offense. Sophomore designated hitter Ryder Miconi hit into a double play, but it didn’t steal any momentum from the College, as Large crushed the second Tribe homer of the game in the next at bat, bringing the score to 4-0.

The next inning and a half were unproductive, as neither team scored in the fifth inning.

The College once again added a run to the board in the sixth. Smith walked and was able to advance on a sacrifice bunt by Hall. Senior third baseman Willie Shaw earned an RBI as he singled and brought in Smith with the help of an error by the Keydets in the outfield. The Tribe now had a commanding 5-0 lead.

Aker continued to pitch at the mound into the bottom of the sixth where he didn’t give up runs, but did surrender a single to the first batter faced in the inning. VMI remained scoreless after six innings.

The seventh inning was eventful for both teams, as the Tribe and the Keydets each scored a pair of runs in their respective half innings. After a flyout by junior catcher Ryan Hissey, Gould hit his 11th home run of the season, the third Tribe out-of-the-park blast of the game. VMI changed pitchers again after Hoehn doubled. Hoehn eventually scored after an error at first base, putting the scoring total at 7-0 at the midpoint of the seventh.

However, Keydets were not going down without a fight. Refusing the shutout, VMI’s Matt Winn homered out of center field for the team’s first run of the night. After a single, a strikeout, a line out, and a walk over the next

four at-bats, the Tribe called the bullpen, substituting in freshman right-handed reliever Robert White for Aker. With Robert White on the mound, another run came across home plate as he gave up a single. Robert White then struck out a batter to escape the inning and stall the Keydet rally with two men left on base. The score now sat at 7-2, the Tribe holding a substantial cushion heading into the penultimate inning of White, R. standard play.

The eighth began with a Miconi strikeout, but Large made it to first and subsequently to second on an error by the VMI first baseman.

Hissey struck out and VMI changed pitchers again, but Gould wasn’t done with his performance and slammed out an RBI double for the final run of the game as the College now led 8-2.

The Keydets had no hits, runs, or men on base in the bottom of the inning, all but sealing their defeat.

In the ninth, the Tribe began utilizing pinch runners and substitutions and made one hit but no further runs. As VMI got to the plate for the bottom of the ninth, the Tribe put in sophomore right-handed pitcher Daniel Powers to close. Powers gave up two hits but no runs, and the Tribe ran away with the 8-2 triumph to end its midweek schedule for 2015.

With the win, the College improves to a .500 record once again. Aker was given the win, his first of the season. He pitched six and two-thirds innings and gave up two runs, four hits, and added six strikeouts, he pitched four innings of a no-hitter and six innings of a shutout. VMI’s Matthew Eagle took the loss, putting him at a 0-5 record. He pitched three innings, gave up three runs, six hits, and had three strikeouts.

The Tribe finishes its midweek schedule with a 3-8 record, having dropped most of its single or dual-game series. The College now looks to complete its current four-game road trip this weekend with a three-game series at Colonial Athletic Association opponent Delaware starting Friday at 3 p.m.

UPCOMING

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Next week, the Flat Hat Sports Editors will be breaking down the details of the report by the Committee on Competitive Excellence released earlier this month in regards to proposed changes to Tribe Athletics programs.

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Kaplan Arena is one of the Tribe Athletics locations discussed as a possible renovation project.

... An appraisal was needed of what it would take to provide our program with resources consistent with those of other programs in the Colonial Athletic Association (we have fallen behind), as well as resources conducive to a higher level of competitive excellence than we now enjoy.

— Opening statement of the report by College President Taylor Reveley