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Prewitt, Tarpey help College pick up a 78-62 win in revolutionary front of a packed Kaplan Arena. Professor Ann Marie Stock explains how film spread ideals in Cuba.
Taylor Medley ‘17 had a conservative upbringing. Now she wants to be a midwife.
Exploring Cuban Cinema
Vol. 105, Iss. 24 | Tuesday, April 5, 2016
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SA announces concert change New Politics to open instead of Kehlani SARAH SMITH FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR
Friday, April 1, members of Student Assembly and Alma Mater Productions announced that Kehlani would no longer be performing April 7. Kehlani will not be performing as the opening act for the Chainsmokers for personal reasons. A press agent for Kehlani did not respond to a request for comment. According to outgoing AMP music committee chair Ethan Baker ’16, Kehlani’s performance would have incorporated elements that previous concerts at the College have not included. “The AMP music committee and myself are super bummed Kehlani can’t make it. I’m hurting pretty bad to be honest,” Baker said in an email. “Over the past month we’ve really gotten to know and enjoy her music in preparation for the concert and the fact that she was going to dance and have backup dancers — something we haven’t seen at any W&M concert over the past couple of years — would’ve made for a cool experience. At the end of the day, however, our thoughts are with her and we’re glad she’s giving herself the time and attention she needs to get better. Maybe we can snag her the next time a big concert comes around.” New Politics will replace Kehlani. Baker said that New Politics will provide a performance suited to opening for the Chainsmokers. In the fall, SA president Yohance Whitaker ’16 announced that, instead of hosting a Charter Day Concert, SA and AMP a concert later in the spring. SA senators sponsored the Spring Concert Act Part I, which allocated up to $50,000 from the SA reserves for the artist contract. “I am looking forward to a great spring concert,” Whitaker said in an email. According to Baker, students who wish for a refund for their tickets because Kehlani is no longer performing should contact the Tribe Athletics Ticket Office.
Black staff report bad treatment 15 percent reported unfavorable treatment in survey CAROLINE NUTTER FLAT HAT BLOGS EDITOR
Last year, the Office of Human Resources (OHR) partnered with a number of different committees and departments across campus to generate the 2015 Employee Climate Survey, administered anonymously by the Gelfond Group. Employees were asked about their treatment and whether the College was a good place to work. The rates of African American employees’ responses to these questions were more unfavorable than responses of the average College employee. 15 percent of African American employees reported unfavorable treatment, and nine percent found the College an unfavorable place to work. Out of all employees, nine percent reported unfavorable treatment and six percent reported that the College was an unfavorable place to work. By the Gelfond Group’s aggregate measure of employee engagement at the College, 74 percent of respondents reported favorably, a response higher than the average by three percentage points.
The OHR has partnered with the President’s Task Force on Race and Race Relations to provide more detailed survey data and analyses in order to better equip the task force to take on this disparity. The more detailed data reported a “concentration of negative responses” for African American faculty and staff within the classification of employees eligible for overtime pay or “non-exempt” employees. These are typically operational or administrative jobs, such as dining and building staff. Chief Human Resources Officer John Poma ’86 discussed this negative concentration, stating that while African American exempt employees responded similarly to the university professionals, African American nonexempt employees responded more unfavorably. Recruitment of diverse faculty and staff remains high on the priority list of on-going initiatives for the partnership between the Task Force and the OHR. Over 80 percent of faculty members are white and four percent African American, while over 50 percent of building and
The College of William and Mary is the least socioeconomically diverse college in the United States with only 12 percent of students receiving Federal Pell Grants, according to a March 2016 report from the New America Foundation. “Undermining Pell: Volume
III” judges four-year colleges based on their proportion of Pell Grant recipients enrolled using data from the U.S. Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. Out of 824 public fouryear colleges studied, the College has the lowest percentage of students receiving Pell Grants. Any student who fills out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid is automatically
No-contact orders offer brief respite Option sees uptick AMANDA WILLIAMS FLAT HAT SENIOR STAFF WRITER
considered for the Pell Grant, a form of federal financial aid that does not have to be repaid and is awarded to the undergraduate students with the most financial need nationwide. According to the report, a common trade-off for the percentage of Pell Grant students enrolled is the average net price charged to students with the most financial need; schools with fewer low-income students tend to offer the ones they do have a better deal. Although the College has the lowest percentage of Pell recipients, it is not among the five most affordable public universities to students with total family incomes of 30,000 dollars or less. According to Associate Provost for Enrollment and Dean of Admission Tim Wolfe ’95 M.Ed. ’01, the College is the only public university in the state to meet instate students’ full demonstrated
When a junior at the College of William and Mary filed a Title IX report last semester, she was also given a no-contact order against her alleged assailant. Following her discovery of these protection orders, she filed another against an ex-boyfriend who had routinely harassed her since their break-up, something she said she would have done years ago if she had known about them. No-contact orders aren’t new to the College. Associate Dean of Students and Director of Student Conduct Dave Gilbert said that they have been around for at least the 11 years he has been on campus. “I think it’s becoming fairly routine in Title IX contexts, at least as that initial placeholder, because we actually have a duty as an institution when a matter is reported to make sure that we are preventing further retaliation or harassment to the extent we can, so one way you can do that is to set up boundaries that set up expectations and consequences for further engagement,” Gilbert said. The College issues no-contact orders to prevent the respondent, or the person against whom the nocontact order is filed , from interacting with the student filing the report by any means, which includes being in the same room or having third party contact through outside people or social media. The Dean of Students office, the William and Mary Police Department or the Title IX office can offer them. That junior said her assault took place on a Friday and filed her report the next Monday, hoping that she’d get a no-contact order the same day. She said that instead she was encouraged
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College gives fewest Pell Grants in nation EMILY MARTELL FLAT HAT CHIEF STAFF WRITER
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Mattachine Project dives into archives to unearth Virginia’s LGBTIQ history Students discuss history of ABC laws, same-sex marriage as part of new research project EMILY MARTELL FLAT HAT CHIEF STAFF WRITER
Until 25 years ago in Virginia, laws illegalized the sale of alcohol to homosexuals; until 13 years ago, antisodomy laws criminalized sexual acts between LGBTIQ people; and less than two years ago, the state denied samesex marriages. Members of the College of William and Mary community gathered Tuesday, April 4 to hear students present inaugural research for the William and Mary Mattachine LGBTIQ Research Project: Documenting the LGBTIQ Past in Virginia. Speaking about different aspects of LGBTIQ Virginia history, researchers discussed Virginia LGBTIQ issues in
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terms of student life, the repealing of discriminatory Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) laws, cases on child custody, the controversy surrounding extending employee benefits to samesex partners, and religious support. The Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C., a non-profit organization that conducts archival research to study LGBTIQ legal and political history, provided the initial funding for the project in Nov. 2015. Since then, the William and Mary Mattachine LGBTIQ Research Project has received support from 11 other individuals and organizations, including a recent IDEAS grant from the Center for Student Diversity. Although some research has been done previously on the LGBTIQ history
in the southeast, project fellow and American studies Ph.D. candidate Jan Huebenthal M.A. ’13 Ph.D. ’18 said that it has not been given proper attention.
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April 4, students from the Mattachine LGBTIQ Research Project presented their findings in Swem.
orientation, and I think our project is unique in that it kinds of inaugurates and institutionalizes a kind of attention to these questions on the William and Mary campus, which hasn’t really been done before,” Huebenthal said. Student researcher Taylor Medley ’17 focused on the overturn of ABC laws discriminating against LGBTIQ people. Before researching, she said she knew the main plaintiff was Alexandria’s French Corner Café in Alexandria, but she found something she was not expecting: a connection to the College. “In that Virginia Supreme Court Case, one of the plaintiffs was the William and Mary Gay and Lesbian Alumni Association, so GALA, and we See MATTACHINE page 4
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“We live in a state that has a long and rich history of discrimination and oppression, not just in terms of race, but also in terms of gender and sexual
Hayley Snowden ’19 discusses the strenuous and unnecessarily stressful process of acquiring housing at the College. page 5
Investigating infamy
Flat Hat Sports looks back on the 1951 William and Mary athletics scandal. page 10