The Flat Hat August 24, 2018

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THE BUZZ

We would really like for classes to be free both at the Wellness Center and the Student Recreation Center. And it’s something we’ve wanted to do for a long time but we’ve felt like we had the resources to be able to try it out this year — we don’t know if we’ll be able to offer it more than a year, but we’d really like for students to be able to take classes for free.

— Associate Director for Fitness and Wellness Jennifer Dunfree on the decision to offer classes at the Student Recreation Center for free.

Another title, new identity

POLICE BEAT

Aug. 18-22

College President Katherine Rowe shares life lessons from various career achievements SARAH SMITH // FLAT HAT EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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Saturday, Aug. 18 — Got Grass?: Police arrested Elizabeth Leigh Massey for possession of marijuana on York Street.

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Sunday, Aug. 19 — Ring and repeat: Police arrested Josalynn Larhonda Hayes for making annoying phone calls to a location on New Hope Road.

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Sunday, Aug. 19 — Packing heat: Police arrested Kayle Diamond Nelson for carrying a concealed weapon on Richmond Road.

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Monday, Aug. 20 — Ding and dash: A hit and run was reported on Merrimac Trail. The accident may have occured Aug. 19.

POLICE BEAT BY SARAH SMITH / THE FLAT HAT

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College of William and Mary President Katherine Rowe moved into The Brafferton this summer and brought her diverse art collection and collaborative white boards.

Each week, The Flat Hat profiles one person — a student, faculty or staff member, or alum that is deeply connected to the College of William and Mary. This week, The Flat Hat spoke with new College President Katherine Rowe — the university’s first female president ­— to learn about her career and her visions for the future.

This summer, The Brafferton received a new resident and a makeover. College of William and Mary President Katherine Rowe officially began her term July 1 and brought with her a standing desk, large white boards and a desire to connect with all facets of the university’s rich history.

Learning, Growing, Transforming When Rowe started her undergraduate years at Carleton College, she thought she might be a chemistry major. Instead, she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English and American literature. This was just one of Rowe’s many career “reboots” as she calls them — a way to constantly transform her career while always learning.

“I like being at the edge of knowledge — at the edge of my own knowledge,” Rowe said. “Throughout much of my career, I have been moving myself into new domains of learning.”

Since then, she has earned a master’s and doctorate in English and American literature from Harvard University. She’s been a faculty member at Yale University, an English professor at Bryn Mawr College and provost and dean of faculty at Smith College. As

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From the very beginning ... William and Mary had some very special things that I connected with strongly. Our students care about breadth. ... They also have a commitment to service. How do we create the community that we want here? Everyone is thinking about that.

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a professor, she focused on adaptations of William Shakespeare’s work, moving through history to examine prose, radio, film and web adaptations of his plays.

In 2005, Rowe also enrolled in graduate work at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts — there, she was taking media studies courses. She said she went in hoping to learn how media studies scholars discuss web adaptations and new technologies, but came out with an appreciation for the process behind how teachers teach and how knowledge is created. “… It was amazing and challenging,” Rowe said. “It led to me becoming an administrator, and I really came out with a new sense of self. ‘Media history’ is now my focus of study. It was a real turn in my path [toward] communities like William and

Mary, where I’ve found my crowd.”

Developing New Skills, Learning From Old Weaving her way through different degrees and career titles, Rowe has held many identities: teacher, scholar, coach, mother, provost and president. She says that each of these identities has influenced how she approaches leadership. She also has learned how to cross-train through these identities. For example, she said that she learned from bringing her children to play dates that it is always important to stop before people are done. As a mother, this meant leaving a play date while her children were still happy.

As a leader, this means ending meetings while people are still in a productive, positive mood.

Her most recent role, serving as the provost at Smith College — and serving a stint as vice president for inclusion, diversity and equity — has also taught her lessons she wants to bring to the College.

“There are three principles at Smith College that I have brought away and apply broadly to my life,” Rowe said. “The first is that there are many ways to be a teacher. The second is that all teaching is improvable. The third is that the best teaching is inclusive.”

Since moving in just a few weeks ago, Rowe has worked to meet students on campus and share parts of her life with them.

In rapid-fire question sessions, she has told students that her favorite movies are “Alien vs. Predator” and “Some Like It Hot,” her favorite music artists are Macklemore and CAKE, and that her favorite food is oysters. She also said she’s hoping to learn from students how they — and their student communities — view pressing issues in higher education like affordability.

“From the very beginning … William and Mary had some very special things that I connected with strongly,” Rowe said. “Our students care about breadth. … They also have a commitment to service. How do we create the community that we want here?

Everyone is thinking about that. I also am deeply connected to long histories.”

A Life-Changing Catch One of her other identities — coach — stems from many years playing Ultimate Frisbee at the international level. Her first game not only hooked her on the sport but gave her a sense of boldness.

Early in her freshman year at Carleton, her resident assistant put together an Ultimate Frisbee team for her hall and encouraged all students to play. In the first scrimmage, Rowe said her RA took a risk — he made a long throw that he trusted her to catch. She did, and she scored.

“He took a risk on a freshman, and it made me much bolder,” Rowe said. “Ultimate Frisbee is already an incredibly inclusive sport in its aspirations. It’s self-refereed, so it’s on the players to create the community that we want.”

Rowe says that no matter where she travels, she has found a team to play with and players that will invite her to stay on their couches. Visiting Ultimate Frisbee matches, and other Tribe Athletics events, is just one of the many things she’s hoping to do on campus. She’s already met with senior interviewers, Orientation Aides, members of the Tribe football team and she’s looking forward to meeting the College’s Wellness Ambassadors (she’s already toured the new Integrative Wellness Center).

To meet new students, she’s planning on holding office hours for students. At these meetings, she’s asking students to do “show and tell” — bringing something with them that they’re proud of.

She’s also hoping that students will show her their favorite spots on the College’s campus.

“People have been asking me ‘What’s my favorite place’ on campus, and I haven’t picked just one yet,” Rowe said. “Instead, I want students to come take me for a walk and show me their favorite places.”

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STUDENT LIFE

Class of 2022, transfer students show promise 1,720 new students arrive as changes to application process, decision deadlines loom NIA KITCHIN FLAT HAT MANAGING EDITOR

When new students move to Williamsburg this August, the College of William and Mary’s undergraduate population will grow by 1,720.

The class of 2022 will be made up of 1,540 new students selected from a pool of 14,644 applicants, and 180 transfer students will be welcomed to the College for the first time.

Associate Provost for Enrollment and Dean of Admission Tim Wolfe ’95 M.Ed ’01 said that he is immensely proud and excited for all the new students coming to campus this fall.

“I think we have a great group in the class of 2022 and also a great group of transfers that are going to be joining us,” Wolfe said. “I know from reading their applications and having a chance to meet them and hear their stories throughout the year. I think they’re going to be a perfect addition to the William and Mary community.”

Additionally, this freshman class includes 141 Monroe scholars, 28 students in the St Andrews William and Mary Joint Degree Programme, and eight 1693 scholars.

The class is 58 percent female and 42 percent male. 31 percent are students of color.

Specifically, seven percent of these students are black, nine percent Hispanic, nine percent Asian or Pacific Islander and five percent multiracial.

Sixty-three percent of the class is in-state students and 33 percent is out-of-state students.

The most highly represented states besides Virginia are New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland and Massachusetts. Wolfe also said that the number of students coming from California and Texas is rising.

Seven percent of students identify as international, mostly coming from China, South Korea and Canada.

Transfer students are primarily transferring from in-state community colleges and other in-

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Freshmen, transfer students participate in annual August convocation ceremony to mark beginning of their college careers.

state four-year institutions. Included in the class of 2022 are 15 students who took a gap year. Wolfe said that this statistic is fairly consistent and that the College usually has 10 to 20 students who deferred admission for a year.

Although class rank is used less and less frequently, 51 students in the class of 2022 are high school valedictorians, and 77 percent of students with class rank graduated in the top 10 percent of their classes.

The SAT middle 50th percentile is 1310-1490.

The ACT composite score middle 50th percentile is 30-33.

Additionally, 10 percent of class of 2022 students are first-generation college students and 8 to 10 percent are student athletes.

Among the class of 2022, there are many new students are accomplished.

Katie English ’22 created a coloring book called “Color me Sheboygan,” featuring attractions in her hometown of Sheboygan, Wisconsin. She has sold more than 11,000 copies so far and plans to use the funds to create a community mural and develop programs at a children’s museum in Sheboygan.

Catherine Jones ’22, from Charlottesville, Virginia, founded her high school’s microfinance club, which has loaned more than $11,000 to 350 women in 65 developing nations. The club works to empower women and girls while learning about finance.

Madison Lee ’22, from Mechanicsville, Virginia, formed a free speech group to defend teachers suspended by the school board for allowing student expression and teaching diverse viewpoints.

Sam Suslavich ’22, from Ennis, Montana, is a certified private pilot and is currently working towards receiving his multi-engine certification.

He is also a certified advanced open water diver,

a cavern diver and an enriched air diver.

Kirsten Sweigart ’22 is an Irish Dance World Championships qualifier living in Oman. She is originally from Harrisonburg, Virginia.

College spokesperson Brian Whitson said that he is greatly anticipating the new students’ arrival and believes they are a very important addition to the College.

“There is so much excitement on campus for the entering class of new students,” Whitson said in an email. “They are academically accomplished and bring a wide range of diverse backgrounds and experiences. They are the future of William & Mary. We are thrilled to welcome this impressive class.”

Along with all the new additions to the College this year, the admissions process is changing as well. Starting this year, there will be an early decision II option for students who choose to apply binding at a later date.

The application will be due January 1 along with regular decision applications, but applicants will receive their decisions earlier.

The College will also officially be using the Coalition Application alongside CommonApp beginning this fall. It was created by the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success.

The aim of the group is to create an easier and more transparent application process, especially for students coming from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Wolfe said that this application is exciting because it increases accessibility to apply to the College, and it is the first time that Virginia Tech, James Madison University, the University of Virginia and the College will all be included in one application.

“I think to some extent ... we’re always trying to do everything a little better and bring in the most exciting class we can,” Wolfe said.

STUDENT LIFE

New health initiatives provide affordable classes for students Free group fitness classes, scholarship opportunities for wellness classes increase accessibility MADELINE MONROE FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR

On the cusp of the McLeod Tyler Wellness Center’s opening Monday Aug. 20, free group fitness classes and wellness application programs await students at the College of William and Mary for the 2018-19 year.

Associate Director for Fitness and Wellness Jennifer Dunfree noted that dropping the price on group fitness classes had been considered for some time, but with the opening of the Wellness Center, staff took the opportunity to offer these classes for free as a pilot program for the upcoming school year.

“We think it’s great timing with the opening of the Wellness Center,” Dunfree said. “We would really like for classes to be free both at the Wellness Center and the Student Recreation Center.

And it’s something that we’ve wanted to do for a long time but we’ve felt like that we had the resources to be able to try it out this year — we don’t know if we’ll be able to offer it more than one year, but we’d really like for students to be able to take classes for free.”

Normally, group fitness classes are priced based on the type of membership purchased. One semester pass costs $50, whereas an academic year pass and a three-season pass cost $80 and $95, respectively. Students can also purchase a one-time drop-in pass which costs $5 per visit.

For the entire 2018-19 academic year, however, these prices are nullified for students. Students who already purchased a pass in the spring that includes the fall semester, such as the three-season pass, are eligible for a partial refund.

In order to accommodate the reduction in revenue, Dunfree said that the College has lowered the number of instructors for each class from two to one.

“We have reduced the number of classes that we have two instructors [in], so we have one instructor [in] those classes,” Dunfree said. “…

This year especially, we’re just being careful to not overschedule our instructors or try out classes at days and times that in the past may have not worked.”

Students can reserve their spot 24 hours before the class begins, utilizing a new online registration portal through MindBody, with students able to cancel eight hours in advance with no penalty.

All group fitness classes will be listed for online registration starting in September. According to Dunfree, walk-in spots will still be reserved for each class.

“We know classes will be crowded, especially in the beginning, and by enabling online signup, we’re hoping to be able to minimize this a little bit — at least minimize the congestion at the front desk and also enable the benefit of [knowing] you have a spot online,” Dunfree said.

For students who do not show up after registering online, Dunfree said that there will be a penalty system which progressively delays the student being able to register for classes again online.

“We’re excited about this [online registration] feature — we have been trying it for the past year and a half with Body Pump — that’s the only class we’ve had online signups available for, and we got a lot of good feedback about it,” Dunfree said.

The Wellness Center will not only host free group fitness classes, but also courses for academic credit. Last spring, new, one-credit wellness application courses were announced and made available for students to register for.

Over the summer, three new courses were added, bringing the total number of wellness application courses to nine. The new courses, Creative Arts and Wellness, Mindfulness Meditation, and Yoga are now available to students.

“We are pleased to see how quickly most of the classes have filled,” Dean of Undergraduate Studies Janice Zeman said in an email. “It was fun to see how one yoga class filled within a day of being put on the books in the middle of the summer. We still have seats remaining in a few of the courses and expect that students will fill those once the registration window opens.”

According to Zeman, a minor in wellness has been considered and has progressed in development, but is not yet ready for reveal or inclusion in the college curriculum.

The College previously offered activity courses in the kinesiology department, but phased them out with the addition of the wellness application courses. As a result, longtime instructors were left without jobs, as Virginia law mandates that retired faculty can only be rehired after a six-month period.

Zeman said that the College has been supportive of the retired faculty members, and has hired new instructors from both the College community and outside of it to teach the wellness application courses.

“We have made sure that these valued members of our William and Mary community know that the apps will continue to be offered each semester, and that Commonwealth law only requires a mandatory gap in teaching for 6 months,” Zeman said in email.

Because wellness application courses will have fees, Zeman said that the College is working on scholarships to make the courses more accessible.

“We have worked hard on making sure that all students can take part in these classes by collaborating with the Financial Aid Office to formalize a scholarship application process to cover the $100 course fee,” Zeman said in an email. “We hope that this will allow any student who has interest in taking an Apps class to enroll without a financial barrier.”

BOARD OF VISITORS

Board of Visitors rescinds Cosby’s honorary degree after conviction Decision marks first-ever act to rescind degrees, College officials do not plan to rescind more MADELINE MONROE FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR

After the College of William and Mary’s Board of Visitors voted unanimously to rescind an honorary degree given to Bill Cosby in 1993 because of his conviction on sexual assault charges in April 2018, College officials have said that they do not plan to rescind any other degrees in the future.

“This was not a decision that we came to lightly; it was a deliberative process,” College President Katherine Rowe said.

“We have a long tradition of not rescinding honorary degrees.

This exception was necessary because of the egregious nature of the crimes. ... This is an exception. We don’t anticipate [opening] up other honorary degrees for this decision.”

In September 2015, Provost Michael Halleran previously said that the College did not intend to rescind Cosby’s honorary degree, as the process for removal would be “messy.”

Despite the College’s earlier stance, however, Halleran echoed Rowe’s thoughts and expressed his support for the decision.

“This isn’t an action that anyone took lightly and I fully support the Board’s decision,” Halleran said in an email. “As you know, no such degree had ever been rescinded. The reason for this is that William & Mary bestows honorary degrees based on information known at the time when they are conferred and

[honorary degrees] do not constitute a standing endorsement of anyone’s moral character.”

The Haven, an office within the College’s Division of Student Affairs that focuses on aiding individuals who have been affected by sexual misconduct, supports the BOV’s decision to rescind Cosby’s degree, according to director Liz Cascone.

“There are a number of survivors who are a part of the William & Mary family; therefore, taking a firm stance on Mr. Cosby’s conduct can make many people feel like William & Mary is taking proactive steps to show the community his conduct is reprehensible,” Cascone said in an email.

Cosby, formerly of “The Cosby Show,” was found guilty on three counts of aggravated indecent assault, stemming from December 2015 charges.

The College’s decision to rescind Cosby’s degree follows almost three months after actions made by other universities.

After the initial allegations against Cosby came to light, the University of Massachusetts Amherst released the actor, who earned his master’s and doctorate in education there, from his obligations to the university in 2014, according to the Boston Globe.

Cosby resigned from Temple University’s Board of Trustees in December 2014. Temple joined other universities around the nation, such as Johns Hopkins University and the University of

Notre Dame, in rescinding the actor’s honorary degrees promptly after his conviction April 26, 2018.

A statement from the BOV notes that the College decided to rescind his degree not only because of his conviction, but also because of the College’s values.

“Since that degree was bestowed, information came to light and was confirmed that Mr. Cosby engaged in abhorrent conduct antithetical to our university’s core values,” the BOV said in a written statement. “Mr. Cosby was afforded due process and has now been criminally convicted in a court of law.”

According to the Aug. 10 statement, the BOV sees the passing of the new resolution, which rescinds Cosby’s degree, as an act that aligns with the College’s goals to address sexual violence.

“The Board of Visitors, in conjunction with the university administration, is committed to both the elimination of sexual violence and the adherence to due process,” the BOV said in a written statement. “We affirm that commitment with our action today.”

Recently, the College’s Compliance and Equity Office released proposed revisions to the Policy on Sexual Misconduct, Relationship Violence and Stalking and to the Student Sexual Harassment and Misconduct Procedure, which were available for students, staff, and faculty members to review and comment through Aug. 21.

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FACULTY

New poet laureate Henry Hart talks career, state history English professor is first College faculty member to serve in role for foundation LEONOR GRAVE FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR

It was a Wednesday afternoon in August, and English professor Henry Hart sat in his office in St. George Tucker Hall, a quintessential academic nest complete with slanted ceilings and bookshelves packed to the brim. He said he had just been working on a poem for a new collection focused on his family’s past.

“Quite a few of the poems are about my older brother, who was really the most literary one in my family,” Hart said. “Alas, he died several years ago, but he was the one who really introduced me to poetry. He wrote poetry when he was in high school, he introduced me to the world of literature, [and] he was always bringing books back to the bedroom that we shared.”

It’s not an unusual day of work for Hart, who only last month was appointed for a two-year term as poet laureate of Virginia. As poet laureate, he will serve as the ambassador and chief promoter of poetry in the commonwealth on behalf of the Poetry Society of Virginia.

Hart was officially sworn in at a ceremony July 2 in Richmond, Virginia, among a crowd of members of the Poetry Society, local politicians, former students, peers and friends. Unfortunately, Govenor Ralph Northam couldn’t make the ceremony because he was in Williamsburg, swearing in newly appointed College of William and Mary President Katherine Rowe. But Hart isn’t one to hold a grudge; he welcomed Rowe to the College, he said, by baking her one of his special blueberry pies.

While Hart eschewed overly effusive praise of this particular honor, he said this appointment does carry a special weight to his family.

“I think I am kind of a modest guy, but I was very happy [about the appointment] because my parents are still alive,” Hart said. “When I got so interested in poetry and literature in college, my parents worried that I was going down the wrong path. My dad would say, ‘It’s wonderful to study poetry and literature, but you’re never going to get a job — you’ve got to study chemistry and math and physics.’ It was very nice for them to see that things actually worked out.”

Hart also carries the distinction of being the first faculty member at the College to be the Virginia poet laureate. However, on a more personal level, Hart said he sees the laureate position as a symbolic validation of his literary career, having spent over three decades as a writer of poetry but also as a poetry critic and a scholar.

“Poetry is a lot like songs; poetry is a lot like stories — and songs and stories are important to us,” Hart said. “I’ve always felt that poets tend to explore regions, personal regions, social regions, that often other people don’t explore.”

One of Hart’s works of literary biography focuses on Irish poet Seamus Heaney. But Hart’s connection to Heaney turned out to be more than simply scholarly and spanned 30 years. After Heaney spoke at the College in 2002 — a visit Hart himself arranged — he called Hart on the phone and told him he had left some Irish coins behind in his hotel room. Heaney offered to let Hart keep them to give to his two young children as gifts.

“I carry one of those coins in my pocket every day as a good luck charm,” Hart said, as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a shiny brass Euro coin, recognizably Irish due to the Celtic harp engraving on its back.

His career as a poet and his work as a professor have been intertwined since he first arrived on campus 32 years ago. He often gives drafts of his poems to his research assistants, or to students in his classes he has gotten to know.

“I give [students] drafts and I always say, treat these drafts the way you treat drafts of poems in a workshop,” Hart said. “Give me candid assessments, that’s what I want. Don’t say, ‘Oh professor you’re a genius, this is a work of genius.’ I don’t want that.”

The role Hart’s students play in his work does not go unrecognized, and he often dedicates his published works to his students. The dedication page to “Background Radiation,” the poetry collection he published in 2007, even reads: “For my students at the College of William and Mary.”

At the College, Hart teaches creative writing and literature classes, including a freshman seminar on World War II literature. He thinks of the creative writing classes as particularly rewarding because of their hands-on nature and the energy and the passion students bring to the room.

“It’s essentially a workshop where everyone is always participating, and they want to participate,” Hart said. “They have skin in the game. Their poems are out there, they want to have feedback, [and] they want to learn how their peers react to their poems. That’s what writing is all about, sending your poems out there to an audience and getting reactions — positive and negative — from an audience.”

Jake Leonard ’18, a recent graduate of the English department and a former student of Hart’s, said that his former professor’s passion for poetry is contagious.

“In the classroom, he has a unique mix of knowledge and experience, and he warmly shares the joys he finds in a poem,” Leonard said. “He has a talent of pointing out the intricacies of a poem that looks simple at first glance and of demystifying complex contemporary verse. For his creative writing classes, he gives consistent feedback that helps every poem reach its full potential.

In his own poetry, he has a wonderful knack for acknowledging and pointing out the beauty in the mundane. As the poet laureate of Virginia, I have no doubt he’ll continue to share his love of poetry, and he’ll be an accessible and easy-to-reach ambassador to poetry in Virginia.”

When Emily Saylor ’20 took Hart’s WWII literature seminar the first semester of her freshman year, she said she was struck by how much he cared not only about the subject matter, but for his students’ well-being — Hart would bring the class donuts to make sure they were eating breakfast.

“When I came to see him during office hours, he made an effort to get to know me as a person and as a student beyond his specific

course,” Saylor said. “I loved sitting and chatting with him about the text we had read in class and other points of interest. It was clear he was passionate about teaching. His priority was always helping us. Whether it be understanding a particularly difficult passage or identifying interesting topics for papers, he would walk us through the steps it took to be successful.”

Saylor said she believes Hart’s passion for writing makes him an asset to the literary community in his position as poet laureate.

“I have complete faith that he will continue to inspire his students and create great works,” Saylor said.

While Hart is impacted by his work in the classroom, he also demonstrates a keen awareness of the history of his surroundings, especially in regard to the representation — and misrepresentation — of American history. When Hart visited Historic Jamestowne for instance, he noticed that the statue of Pocahontas was wearing clothes that would not have been accurate to the indigenous people of the 17th century Algonquian culture of eastern Virginia, but rather to the indigenous people of the Great Plains, and wrote a poem about that topic.

“The history of Jamestown was especially grueling and bloody,” Hart said. “There was a starving time where there was cannibalism and whatnot, and again, I was thinking about how the origins of American democracy often get romanticized when in fact it was a terrible ordeal at the beginning.”

His interest in the themes of American history began when Hart was an undergraduate himself at Dartmouth. He took an introductory English class where Robert Lowell’s “For the Union Dead,” a book of poems in which a seemingly mundane visit to the Boston Common conjures a vivid sequence of historical associations, was on the syllabus.

“It really did light a light bulb in my head,” Hart said. “I was enchanted by the language, by the themes of the American past and the American present.”

Hart said he was especially struck by the jarring dissonance between the professed ideals of the founding documents of the United States and the country’s contemporary realities and injustices. Poetry was pivotal for him in making those connections during his freshman year, and the issue of historical dissonance has continued to be a theme of his literary career, as well as an idea he imparts to his students and peers.

The poetry collection he published in 2014, “Familiar Ghosts,” centers around historical themes and even includes a poem titled “The Surprising Survival of Ghosts in and Around Colonial Williamsburg,” which itself explores the theme of traveling in time from contemporary TV screens to the lingering ghosts of Confederate soldiers.

“I think that [poetry] can be helpful to talk about things that sometimes may make other people uncomfortable,” Hart said. “It can be therapeutic. I think that a lot of poets deal with personal crises or social crises, historical crises. Again, when sometimes others don’t want to deal with those crises.”

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STAFF COLUMN

STAFF COLUMN

22 tips for class of 2022: How to survive freshman year

Ethan Brown

FLAT HAT OPINIONS EDITOR

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Embracing orientation as display of Tribe pride

Anthony Madalone

FLAT HAT OPINIONS ASSOC. EDITOR

A plushie of K.K. Slider, some bedding, a Beastie Boys poster, a bag of Cheetos and a Griffin-adorned hat stolen from my father to show my school spirit. These are the things I entered my first year at the College of William and Mary with. Somehow, by the end of my first day on campus, I had already returned to my room with much more.

Earlier that day, my entire back was damp with sweat, caused by a mix of excitement, nerves and the sizable jump in temperature from New York. I was walking to Kaplan Arena with my hall, surrounded by tidal waves of fellow new students. Leading our group were my Orientation Aides, neon-clad supernovas of indescribable energy, bursting into chants about such foreign things as “tribe” and “Yates” pride. Amidst the confusion, I couldn’t help but find a surreal, chaotic joy to it all. After a couple of seconds of careful listening, I joined my hall’s chant, throwing my voice into the elated chorus surrounding me.

There, thanks to this orientation experience, my voice has remained. That one walk helped form so much of my attitude toward the College, setting the tone for not only the rest of my orientation, but my remaining time freshman year.

It’s easy to lose confidence during the first couple of weeks of college, as rejection comes quick and easy. Prior to enrollment, I was struck by the bevy of performing arts opportunities at the College, but my first few auditions all resulted in “no’s.” After a

lead role-laden senior year of high school, I couldn’t help but be discouraged. Instead of giving up, however, I thought back to that fateful walk, recalling how my first experience at the College emanated pure encouragement and acceptance. Eventually, that initial rejection led to not only opportunities in non-performing environments, but to a greater appreciation for performing success when I did find it. The College rewards those who keep at it, and that walk helped give me the confidence to do so.

The walk also helped guide and define my social experiences.

Early collegiate rejection doesn’t just come in extracurricular activities, but in social contexts as well. Throughout orientation, I met some of my best friends, but also some people I’ll likely never talk to again. During that first walk, I got a startling visual confirmation of my class’s size. I realized that there was no possible way I could maintain relationships with all of them, and you know what? That was fine. Orientation encouraged tight bonds between myself and those in my hall I most connected with, forging a social bedrock that anchored me as I branched out on my own. Most importantly, the journey to Kaplan emphasized the importance of community at the College. Those chants were breathed to life by hundreds of unique, individual voices. Though some of them may have been conflicting, they still came together to form a whole, with each voice playing its own unique part in the beautiful song surrounding me. The chants encouraged acknowledgment, acceptance and response to those different from yourself, promoting a positive mindset that an exceptional majority of students at the College exhibit.

This year, I’ll arrive to school with my K.K. Slider plushie still in tow. I’ll have new bedding, a slightly bent Beastie Boys poster and likely more Cheetos. Instead of that hat, however, I’ll be wearing something different to show my Tribe Pride: the very neon shirt that guided me to Kaplan in the first place. I’ll make that walk once again, with my very own batch of excited, nervous, sweaty freshmen following close behind, and will beckon them to join that same elated, tremendous, rewarding chorus. Let’s sing it.

Email Anthony Madalone at asmadalone@email.wm.edu.

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Late class registration is most beneficial for students

Anna Boustany

FLAT HAT OPINIONS ASSOC. EDITOR

The summer before my freshman year, as my friends from high school and I began to prepare for college, I was left feeling confused by the differences in our preparations for college. Most of my other friends attended orientation for their respective schools and registered for classes in June and July. Not only was I waiting to attend my orientation at the College of William and Mary at the end of the summer, but I was also going to be registering for my classes just a few days before classes started.

When people asked me what my fall schedule was going to be, I didn’t know how to answer them. I spent the summer before my freshman year wishing that the College had its orientation earlier in the summer, like many other colleges do, and like my peers from high school did. However, once orientation had begun, I was so grateful that rather than leaving right after getting to know everybody, I could stay and start school with my new friends right away. And even though registering for classes so late is certainly stress-inducing, the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.

First and foremost, the later time of registration gave me time to be prepared and pick classes from a knowledgeable standpoint.

During orientation, I got to talk with a knowledgeable professor as my pre-major advisor, as well as my Orientation Aides and fellow students. I learned what classes other students with similar interests wanted to take, or recommended taking, as well as tips on how to make a reasonable schedule from my OAs. Secondly, as stressful as Banner crashing is, it is much less so when you are surrounded by people who are having the same problem as you. Being able to register with my hall and OAs meant that I was able to have immediate advice on what to do when I had issues with registration, or when a class was full. (Not to mention, my OAs were sweet enough to bring us donuts!)

When I registered for classes in the fall, I was lucky enough to get a schedule that I liked. Had I been registering early in the summer, I most likely would have registered for a much different schedule that I wouldn’t have liked and that wouldn’t have been as helpful.

Talking to my pre-major advisor about my schedule was helpful because it allowed me to discover what classes (such as microeconomics) were important prerequisites to take freshman year.

Of course, like anything, the later registration isn’t a perfect system. Orientation is definitely a very stressful time, and not knowing your classes adds to the stress. All things considered, I think that both the later than usual orientation and class registration was, at least for me, worth the worry I felt during the summer about not knowing my classes and was the best way that I could have started my college career.

Email Anna Boustany at aeboustany@email.wm.edu.

Welcome to Williamsburg, class of 2022! If the cockroaches and humidity haven’t claimed you yet, here are 22 tips, tricks and cautionary tales that you should know before starting your freshman year at the College of William and Mary.

1. Freshman orientation is a glamorized summer camp. Do not be fooled into thinking that it resembles anything close to college, or you will be severely surprised by the program’s conclusion.

2. There is no obligation to be best friends with your hallmates.

Orientation Aides overhype the importance of forging close bonds with your neighbors; it is completely okay if you would rather make friends outside of your residence hall.

3. Most upperclassmen are scarred by icebreakers after enduring them nonstop during their own freshman orientations.

Expect audible groans whenever anyone mentions “the I word” over the next four years.

4. Attempting to immediately befriend everyone you lay eyes on is impractical and exhausting. Being warm and approachable is one thing; endlessly seeking social validation is another.

5. Avoid being intimidated by upperclassmen. At some point, they were just as nervous and self-conscious as you were, and most of them will want nothing more than for you to feel comfortable on our campus.

6. Alone time is okay. Introversion is valid and nonstop interaction can prove exhausting; even the most gregarious extrovert is not capable of unceasing socialization.

7. Needlessly despising your resident assistant is not cute.

Unless they treat you poorly, avoid antagonizing them. Most of them are kind people who just wanted free housing and befriending them will only make your year easier.

8. Roommates are smelly, so invest in a scent diffuser. Body odor can be effectively disguised by copious amounts of citrusscented oil.

9. Your immune system will resent you after sharing a bathroom with 30 other people. Recognize the inevitability of getting sick or risk being caught in a perennial cycle of illness.

10. If you are fortunate enough to escape living in Green and Gold Village or the Botetourt Complex, be deferential and avoid complaining about your freshman hall. Other people have it much, much worse than you.

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Roommates are smelly, so invest in a scent diffuser. Body odor can be effectively disguised by copious amounts of citrusscented oil.

11. Get a job on campus. Obtaining employment will strengthen your time management skills, connect you to new friends and faculty members and give you another thing to complain about on days when you feel stressed.

12. Go to a few frat parties. If you go with a buddy and stay safe, They’re not as terrible as you may imagine them.

13. A lemon almond biscotti from Swemroma’s cannot solve your problems, but I promise that it will make them significantly more manageable.

14. If you ever need to escape campus, walk or run to the College Landing Park. It’s usually empty, is less than a two-mile journey, and provides a great place for reflection.

15. Wren 10s feel like a deleted scene from “Pitch Perfect,” and you should definitely go to them.

16. Sample as many clubs as possible. I went to 20 interest meetings last September and stuck with the five organizations that I felt passionately about. Casting a wide net is essential to finding what matters to you.

17. Be kind when hanging out with your friends; everyone loves the person who pitches in snacks and beverages for the group.

18. Get free samples at the Peanut Shop. Nothing beats nibbling on a few dark chocolate peanut brittle bites, especially ones that you are not obligated to purchase.

19. Blackbird’s, a divine French bakery in Colonial Williamsburg, has incredible sales on bread in the afternoon. Nothing in this complicated world is better than a cheap baguette; take advantage of it whenever you feel fancy.

20. Take as many apples and bananas from Sadler as possible.

Regardless of how many you seize, it cannot be considered stealing given the exorbitant financial burden of your freshman meal plan.

21. Please do not spend $100 on a hammock. For every 10 people I knew that purchased a hammock last year, only one of them would ever hang it up and use it. I urge you to just sit on the Sunken Garden and see how that treats you.

22. Freshman year is an incredible whirlwind, and you will remember this moment as where it all began. Good luck.

Email Ethan Brown at ewbrown@email.wm.edu.

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Rest, planning essential for academic success in first year

Kevin Richeson

FLAT HAT SPORTS ASSOC. EDITOR

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Adjusting to college grading requires patience, positivity

Katherine Yenzer FLAT HAT OPINIONS EDITOR

I will never forget my first ever round of college midterms. In high school, I was a straight-A student. My grades were my highest priority, and anything less than a 93 percent was considered unacceptable. Everything I did in high school was to get me into my dream college, and, in my mind, if I ever received lower than an A on an exam or a report card, my future dreams of attending the College of William and Mary would be completely out of reach.

To be honest, even though I was constantly stressed out and panicked, I didn’t study very hard in high school. Sure, I was involved in several time-consuming extracurricular activities and took honors and AP courses, but I spent way more time stressing out than I did actually working. I was always sleep-deprived and worried, but now I couldn’t tell you why. While I was able to maintain my 4.00 gradepoint average, I never actually learned real time management skills or how to properly study.

When I got into my top-choice school, the stress I had in high school felt worth it. When I got to college, I soon realized I was not

prepared for college academics. At first, things were fine. The workload was large but manageable. It was more than I was used to, but the adjustment was not as terrible as I had worried. Once midterms rolled around, I realized how truly unprepared for college I was. I thought I had sufficiently studied for my exams, but once my grades came in a couple weeks later, I was shocked. My midterm exam average was a C. Never in high school had I ever received a C, let alone an exam worth a quarter of my grade.

To put it frankly, my exam grades sent me into a full panic. In high school, I put my self-worth in my GPA. When I got to college, I had the same mindset. I continued to put my self-worth in my GPA, and when my grades took a turn, I felt worthless. I felt as if I didn’t belong here. My solution to this problem was to work harder than I had ever worked before in order to bring my grades back up. I sacrificed a great deal of opportunities to feel good about my GPA. I missed club events, mixers and lunches with friends to study and work.

Since then, I have learned a whole lot. I have learned proper time management skills, I have learned how to take advantage of on-campus resources, I have learned how to study for exams, and, most importantly, I have learned that my GPA is far from the most important thing in my life. I will admit to still caring way too much about my grades, but freshman year taught me that there is nothing wrong with not having a 4.00.

It is unfair to expect yourself to get the same grades as you have previously. I will probably never be able to rid myself of the stress and anxiety that come with school, but no longer will I let my fear of getting a “bad grade” control me.

Email Katherine Yenzer at keyenzer@email.wm.edu.

Incoming freshmen: you are going to get a barrage of advice from peers, professors, family and many more over the next few weeks. None of this advice will be perfect, and neither will mine, but I want to offer some brief advice on class, extracurriculars and free time in college from the perspective of a student who went through the transition to college just two years ago. The biggest difference between high school and college classes is the amount of time in the classroom. Most days you will spend between two and five hours in class. This frees you up to complete readings and assignments, hang out with friends and participate in extracurricular activities.

Do not be fooled though, many of these days are packed with work. While the workload is demanding, it is manageable, especially if you plan and stick to a schedule. Furthermore, some people basically live in the library or academic buildings to do work, while other people complete work in lounges or at coffee shops. I would suggest that you vary your locations to keep your mind fresh.

Ultimately, work wherever you feel the most productive. I personally recommend the bookstore, dorm lounges and Tyler Hall.

I would suggest finding five to 10 clubs that really interest you and giving them your email address. This way, you do not get overwhelmed but still have lots of choices in terms of what to join.

You might try out four to six of these clubs and realize that a couple are not the right fit for you and that is perfectly fine. Make sure to join something during the first semester of college to meet people and get involved, but it is okay to build up your involvement over your four years once you get a sense of what you can handle.

Finally, and just as importantly, make sure to give lots of attention to free time, relaxation and sleep. While a rigorous school like the College of William and Mary will focus heavily on class and extracurriculars, a sound body and mind are key to success and enjoyment in college. Do not let anybody make you feel guilty for going to sleep at midnight instead of staying up until 4 a.m. to study.

You and only you know what is best for your physical, mental and emotional well-being. Make sure to take some time for yourself and to focus on and build relationships with friends. However, balance is the biggest key, because too much relaxation can come back to bite you. Finally, listen to advice from other students or recent graduates.

They could have some great insight or a new perspective that can help you realize the best decision for you.

Email Kevin Richeson at kmricheson@email.wm.edu.

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In defense of religious faith on campus Presbyterian Church

Come visit!

We’d like to invite you to visit Grace Covenant (PCA) and find a church home for your years here at William and Mary.

Our worship services are Sundays at 8:30 AM and 11:00 AM, with a 10:00 Sunday School class in between.

We are located at: 1677 Jamestown Road, about four miles from campus.

Need a ride?

We provide rides for our second service.

Look for the white van with the GRACE COVENANT name on the side: 10:25 in the parking lot by YATES 10:30 in front of BLOW 10:35 in front of BARRETT

Questions?

Call Kathy at the church office, 220-0147 or visit our web page:

www.gracecovpca.org

Abe Winterscheidt FLAT HAT GUEST WRITER

Liberalism and religion don’t really get along. This trend is not lost at the College of William and Mary.

Religion, and to be more specific, Christianity, has a negative stigma on our campus. While we are the people who give you pancakes on the last day of classes, we’re more much more than that.

First, Christianity on campus certainly is not representative of much of the broader Church. Second, I’m not necessarily representative of many Christians on campus — my family was excommunicated from the Catholic Church for getting one of the congregation’s more prominent members arrested.

Even when we were a part of the Church, I was never a believer. I was an atheist for several years before I saw what Christianity was about. Third, and most importantly, this is not a plea to anyone to convert.

If you do not believe in my God, or you do not believe in any god, that is your right. I’m not going to try and evangelize to you and I’m not even going to quote scripture. What this is, is a request that we, as a campus, not look down upon the Christian community simply because we are associated with all of the other stuff that our lesser half does.

Christianity on campus has been, in my experience, a place largely free of judgment. Admittedly, we’re not perfect, but the stigma that is associated with the church with their views on sex, sexuality and brokenness doesn’t resonate with the fellowships I’ve seen on campus. The Church and the Christian community in general has a long way to go in terms of dealing with these topics. We are not quite there yet, but we are working on it. The only place where I have found myself freely able to talk about things such as pornography and sex has been in Christian communities. We don’t all see it as good, but we’re very accepting of it. We want to talk about these things and how they affect us.

We have a bit more work to do in the way of dealing with sexuality. I have never personally witnessed a Christian from the College judge someone for their sexuality or gender. I choose my words carefully here because I’m not omnipresent. I am sure there have been Christians from the College who are not nearly as open-minded as the circles I am a part of, but my communities have always been open and understanding of these topics. We’ve had more than one person come out during our larger meetings, and our small groups are even more intimate. These have been moments of compassion.

To those of you on campus who have felt judged by a Christian because of your gender or sexuality, I’m going to let you in on a secret. If they are judging you, they are not doing the whole Christian thing right. Obviously, that is not going to stop it from happening, because the Church has always been a place of sheer and utter hypocrisy; but please do not let those people make you think that all Christians are judgmental. The Christian communities I am a part of have always handled issues of mental health and personal brokenness with as much finesse as they can give. Again, we are not perfect, but these topics find caring ears in most Christian communities on campus. Our society, our campus, and our Christian communities are all filled to the brim with persons afflicted by depression, anxiety, self-loathing, and pretty much any other mental health issue you can name. We treat these topics no differently than any other community would. We seek to find answers and progress in different ways than the secular world, but we are not reflected by self-righteous Christians that far too often take the spotlight.

I must reassert here that I do not speak for all Christians on campus and certainly not in the world. Christianity is riddled with judgment, bigotry, and ignorance. My plea is not that we all say that Christianity is not that bad, because a lot of the times, we are. My request is that we do not judge Christians, especially those on our campus, by the popular portrayal of faith. We are not all bad. ]Email Abe Winterscheidt at ajwinterscheid@email.wm.edu.

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A definitive guide for knowing where to go when you really have to go LOUISA JANSSEN // THE FLAT HAT

Picture this: you’ve just finished a glorious Marketplace breakfast, complete with three piping-hot cups of refreshing coffee. You’re sitting with your friends at the heart of campus on the Terrace, people watching and greeting everyone who passes by. Classes don’t start for another 30 minutes. Life is good.

But all of a sudden, you feel a rumble in your stomach. You realize that third

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Simply put by a student, “Jones is horrific.” Known as the home of internet technology and mathematics, Jones Hall is full of valuable classes but overwhelmingly subpar bathrooms.

Many of the building’s restrooms have a bit of a rank smell. The stalls are uncomfortably short, often resulting in awkward eye contact. Some students have reported bug sightings. To top it all off, the gaping crack in the stall door often results in staring at yourself in the mirror as you take a whiz.

Despite hosting big events such as basketball games and the highly anticipated spring concert, Kaplan’s bathrooms are not made to accommodate the masses. Similar to the curse of Jones and Morton, the stalls are uncomfortably short, and there’s no guarantee of avoiding the dreaded awkward eye contact. Location-wise, Kaplan is somewhat out of the way in relation to academic buildings. In short, it’s not the worst bathroom, but you can definitely do better.

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cup of coffee was probably not a good idea, but never fear! There are plenty of bathrooms easily accessible, and with 30 minutes to spare, you can relieve yourself anywhere on campus. But beware: not all on-campus bathrooms are created equal. Use this list to guide you to the best (and avoid the worst) bathrooms across campus.

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5 As the first bathroom with reasonably tall stalls, Blair’s bathrooms are a solid bet for an average bathroom experience.

However, there are only three stalls per bathroom, so this may not be the quickest place to go if you’re in a rush to get to class.

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Morton is only marginally better than Jones thanks to the lack of odor and bugs. Steer clear of this bathroom if you want to avoid uncomfortable eye contact caused by short stalls and a generally uncomfortable peeing experience. Also, beware of the aggressive sink water pressure that may splash your shirt if you aren’t careful.

As the last of the short-stalled bathrooms, Campus Center’s first floor restroom is a step up from the bottom three contenders. Although the stalls are some of the shortest on campus, this bathroom comes with a few key redeeming factors, including a full-length mirror and a shelf to drop your stuff while you relieve yourself. Also, thanks to a Student Assembly initiative, the women’s restroom has complimentary feminine products for emergencies.

As one of the busiest buildings on campus, Sadler’s bathrooms have plenty of stalls. Conveniently located on all three levels of the building, these bathrooms have plenty of space and the typical tall stalls. The first-floor women’s restroom is stocked with emergency feminine products. The only downsides to Sadler’s bathrooms are that sometimes they carry a bit of an off odor, and they’re stuffy.

3 Thanks to Tucker’s recent renovation, the bathrooms throughout the building are superb, with a calm green color scheme that complements the rest of the building’s interior. Full-length mirrors are conveniently located inside each one.

Because this building is one of the youngest on campus, the Integrated Science Center has some of the most modern and sleek bathrooms available on campus. On the downside, the building’s complicated layout can make it difficult to locate the closest one.

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TUCKER HALL The beloved government building, adored by many students due to its fresh renovation in 2014, possesses some of the best bathrooms on campus. With plenty of stalls and modern appliances such as automatic sinks and toilets, this bathroom is an absolute home run. The full-length mirrors and excellent lighting serve as a perfect place for a great selfie.

Because many tours pass through Tyler, these bathrooms are also usually cleaned to perfection.

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Although the ISC, Tucker and Tyler all provide excellent bathrooms to accommodate multiple people, nothing is as incomparably fantastic as getting to poop in absolute privacy. Most buildings across campus have at least one gender-neutral bathroom. The two best gender-neutral bathrooms are in the ISC and Swemromas; the ISC bathroom has the ever-coveted doubleply toilet paper, and the Swemromas bathroom is stocked with emergency feminine products.

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Facebook groups provide helpful information, lighthearted stress relief KEVIN RICHESON // FLAT HAT SPORTS ASSOC. EDITOR Jumping from a minimalistic high school environment to a campus with over a dozen academic buildings and over 6,000 undergraduate students can be overwhelming.

Luckily, we live in the 21st century, where social media and mobile devices place seemingly endless pages of information at our fingertips.

There are dozens of Facebook groups and social pages relating to the College of William and Mary, from official class groups to meme pages. These Facebook groups can connect you with countless people who can be sources of information about all things related to this campus.

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Most of you have already found and joined your official class group on Facebook, “William & Mary Class of 2022.” These class pages are great sources of information relating to your specific class year. If you ever need to reach out to your social class or to stay up to date on news pertaining to the class of 2022, this page is essential. You can use this page to make posts about your class registration time slot or seeking roommates for next year.

However, there are a multitude of large groups used for official information exchange on campus which you may not have heard of yet.

Many students are part of these groups, and they all serve important purposes.

William and Mary Used Books Finding and purchasing textbooks is one of the most stressful parts of starting a new

semester. If you cannot find a textbook through the bookstore or other outlets such as Amazon or Chegg, “William and Mary Used Books” is a great way to connect with people on campus who might have a textbook they are selling or giving away. You can inquire about certain textbooks or post about books you are looking to sell.

ary ppl William and M ing th selling their clo Students also might be looking to buy or sell used clothes to pad their wardrobe or wallet.

“William and Mary ppl selling their clothing” is a huge Facebook group where students can post clothes for sale or express interest in posted clothes. If you are interested in buying clothes, you can message the seller and meet at a central campus location like Earl Gregg Swem Library or the Sadler Center to complete the transaction.

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At the beginning of the semester, every student on a meal plan has a certain amount of Dining Dollars or “Flex.” They can be redeemed at dining halls, the Student X-Change, Tribe Market, Dominoes on Richmond Road and the new Chick-fil-A opening soon at Tribe Square. However, many students either over or under budget their semester’s worth of flex. Since flex does not carry over to the next semester, some students look to get rid of it by buying other students’ things toward the end of the semester.

If you are looking to spend flex or have someone else buy you something on flex, you can post requests in “Flex Daddies of W&M.”

in this group, because lots of people probably have the same question and most people want to help everyone on campus stay up to date on information.

Tribe Rides Lots of students live in other parts of the state, country or world and need transportation to get home or to an airport during breaks or weekends.

“Tribe Rides” is a Facebook group where students can offer available seats in their car by posting when they are leaving and their destination.

Students can also ask if anyone would be able to give them a ride somewhere. This group is extremely useful if you decide to go home at the last minute or if your planned ride falls through.

William and Mary Lost a n d Fo u n d Every day, students are carrying backpacks and other belongings between dorms, classes and dining halls. You are bound to lose or misplace something at one point or another, and a great place to check to see if this item has been found is “William and Mary Lost and Found.” If you ever lose something or find an item, you can post about it in this group. If someone has information on where this item is, then they can comment on the post or message the other person.

William AMAry Finally, freshmen and other students at school often have lots of questions about classes, professors, financial aid, campus events, etc. If you ever have a question to ask about something at the College, you can post in “William AMAry” to seek answers to these questions. Do not feel shy about posting

Social Pages Not all Facebook groups have to be official or informational to be important to follow if you go to school here. There are also some fun groups to be a part of and post in for stress relief. While the serious, informational groups are helpful, the social pages can be just as important by adding some lightheartedness to the academic rigor of college.

“William & Mary Dogspotting” is a place to post pictures and descriptions of dogs you have seen on or near campus. “Swampy Memes for TWAMPy Teens” is a meme group at the College where people post funny memes about campus-related content like class registration, 8 a.m. classes and campus organizations. “Post things you heard people say today” is a place to post funny quotes from conversations you heard on campus with no context.

Finally, “Overheard at William and Mary II: Electric Boogaloo” is another place to post funny quotes on campus. If you want to know what happened to the first Overheard group, ask any junior or senior about the end of Overheard in the spring of 2017.

This is not a complete list of relevant or useful Facebook groups on campus, but these groups can be helpful as you begin or continue your academic journey at the College. There are also lots of Facebook groups and pages for student organizations or sports teams at the College if you want to stay up to date on their activities or if you join an organization. If you cannot find an answer in any of these groups, never be afraid to ask someone else on campus. Everyone here is excited to welcome the Class of 2022 to the Tribe.

From Renaissance witches to emerging diseases: Freshman seminars focus on peer engagement, unique areas of study LEONOR GRAVE FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR

Every freshman at the College of William and Mary takes a COLL 100 and a COLL 150. The courses offered this semester allow students to explore anywhere from Classical Athens to the Void as they do so.

The implementation of the COLL curriculum in 2015 brought with it changes to the terminology, but much has remained the same about freshman seminars. They are introductory courses, they cover every discipline under the sun, they’re taught by professors who love their subject and they are often wonderfully niche.

It’s a chance to take a class in a subject that a student might never take again, depending on their graduation requirements. For those firmly set on a pre-med track for instance, a COLL 100 might be a chance to delve into The Void. Despite its cryptic name, this class, taught by art professor Elizabeth Mead, is based in the material

world. The course is designed to study an understanding of space — and the absence of it — and to develop a visual and verbal vocabulary for creating three-dimensional objects.

In the English department, one of the offered courses is Witches, Shrews and Amazons. This COLL 150 course, taught by professor Annelise Duerden, focuses on literary depictions of uncon-ventional women during the English Renaissance and places them in the historical context of 16th and 17th century England.

“One of the things that fascinates me is how simultaneously alien and familiar the distant past is for us now,” Duerden said. “This course highlights those overlapping differences and similarities by taking a live and important issue — gender politics — and looking at it through the strange labels of the past, when women who defied social norms were often branded ‘shrews,’ ‘witches’ or ‘amazons.’”

Additionally, Duerden said that freshman seminars, unlike more specialized major courses or large introductory classes, provide a uniquely dynamic energy to study the topic at hand, and that first-year students often have a sense of joy, energy and discovery in these seminars.

“It’s also a space where the students are new to each other and to William and Mary, and students get to know each other fairly well and develop friendships since they are at the same level, and it’s a small class where they do a lot of talking and sharing ideas,” Duerden said. “Ideally, to my mind, a freshman seminar is a comfortable space for discovering and articulating new ideas. A good freshman seminar pushes students — and teachers — to learn something completely new and, in the process, reexamine what they already know.”

If students want to go back even further back in history, one of the COLL 150 courses offered this fall is Revenge in Classical Athens, taught by classical studies professor Robert Nichols. This sem-inar explores the concept of revenge in Athenian society from 508323 BCE and how the Ancient

Greeks reconciled revenge with their developing democracies and the rule of law. Students can even focus on the unlucky Philippides’ final mortal endeavor with Physiology of the Marathon if Ancient Greece is not their desired topic of interest. In this course, taught by kinesiology professor Michael Harris, students develop their own marathon training program and have the opportunity to put that plan to the test by training for and even completing — if they so choose — a marathon or half marathon.

Some freshman seminars are seemingly perennial favorites, like Emerging Diseases. Biology professor Bev Sher has taught the course to first-year students since the mid-1990s, and the syllabus covers pandemics throughout history through thought-provoking literary texts. Yet, other courses are more experimental and aim to tackle issues that feel especially pertinent to contemporary politics. This year, history professor Jerry Watkins III is teaching Dixie Monuments for the first time.

Watkins’ Dixie Monuments class also coincides with the history department’s efforts to reconcile their values with the legacy of their namesake, Lyon Gardiner Tyler. At the end of the 2017-18 academic year, the department’s website was updated to include information about Tyler’s “troubling” legacy in matters of race and slavery. And to many Virginians, Watkins said, the history of the Confederacy and the folklore around the “Lost Cause” and the “Old South” are not remnants of a distant past, but ideas that continue to impact their culture.

“Since Charlottesville a year ago, the national conversation around what these monuments mean has become much more urgent,” Watkins said. “What should be really clear, not even to debate re-ally, is that if we take the people of the past at their word, these monuments are white supremacist.”

Beyond the scope of the history department, the College itself also frequently engages with the theme of its Confederate past. Only in 2015 did the College remove the Confederate battle flag from the College Mace and remove a commemorative plaque honoring rebel soldiers from the Wren Building.

“We as the history department and we as historians have a duty. Our duty generally is to help people understand the past, to understand our present, and, especially being this particular history department, we especially have a mandate to make comment, to do something, to help people under-stand, to help shape that conversation,” Watkins said.

The COLL 100s and 150s, Watkins said, are designed to allow freshmen to develop core academic research and writing skills, but they also allow both students and professors a certain freedom to engage with thought-provoking topics.

“This is one of the few times in life, unless you’re going into academia, that you’re going to have the luxury of the time to really deeply engage with those sorts of things,” Watkins said.

As freshmen tackle the challenges of course registration and of their first semester, that is something worth remembering.

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College opens with two losses

Tribe slips up against foes Maryland, Dayton JULIA STUMBAUGH FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR

A Huge year ahead COURTESY PHOTO / TRIBE ATHLETICS

William and Mary Director of Athletics Samantha Huge addresses the media at Tribe Football Media Day Aug. 6. Huge is entering her second year at the helm of Tribe Athletics.

Samantha Huge reflects on first year, lays out future for Tribe ALYSSA GRZESIAK FLAT HAT EXECUTIVE EDITOR The sun has set on Director of Athletics Samantha Huge’s first year at William and Mary. As it rises on year two, both Huge and Tribe Athletics are ready to build upon last year’s success.

“I think that, from a listening standpoint, I learned so much about William and Mary and about the Tribe,” Huge said. “And what I learned just confirmed what I had imagined and had been told and what I thought was the case; and that is we have such an incredible base of support from our students to our alums to our administrators to the board to the community at large.

And I am really excited to have listened to them this year, what their dreams and aspirations are for Tribe Athletics, and how, as a department, we really can be a catalyst and part of the overall mission of the institution.”

One of her immediate goals is to increase the participation of students and other Tribe fans in athletics. Getting games and events on network television is currently a work in progress.

“In the immediate future, my hope is that we see an uptick in participation from our fans and our supporters,” Huge said. “That our student-athletes really have the opportunity to showcase their skills in front of more people, whether that is in person or through the media.”

Julie Shackford ’88 rejoining the College as the women’s soccer head coach at the end

of last year marked a victory for Tribe Athletics and Huge.

Huge is enthusiastic to watch the women’s soccer program grow behind the experienced Tribe alum. Huge emphasizes that Shackford isn’t the only key to success this season, but that every coach, student-athlete and staff member is a vital part of the machine that is Tribe Athletics.

“And that’s just one example,” Huge said. “We really have an incredible group of coaches and staff that are excited to lead our student-athletes, and studentathletes that are just thrilled, I think, to be getting back and getting started.”

While the Tribe has brought in new leaders like Shackford and women’s volleyball head coach Tim Doyle, it is also saying goodbye to long-standing names like women’s tennis head coach Tyler Thomson, women’s tennis associate head coach Jesse Medvene-Collins and men’s football head coach Jimmye Laycock ’70.

“The announcement about coach Laycock … what a legacy,” Huge said. “This man has given for decades to an institution; that’s unheard of … He’s big shoes to replace, and I look forward this season to really honoring and celebrating Coach Laycock and making sure that the world knows how special he is and what he has meant to us.”

Huge emphasized that academic excellence is at the forefront for student-athletes, and that Tribe Athletics wants to see this high standard in

competition as well.

“We want our student-athletes to have the opportunity to compete for championships,” Huge said. “In addition to that, knowing that we are leading them as a department in one voice. To really pursue excellence across the board in their academic life, their athletic life and in their social life.”

The success of studentathletes is at the forefront of Tribe Athletics’ objectives, both physically, mentally and emotionally. To ensure all elements of health are being met, a new comprehensive approach has been implemented.

“We’ve hired a person who comprehensively is looking at sports performance from a standpoint of nutrition, strength and conditioning and sports medicine,” Huge said. “… I would say that was one of the greatest things we have accomplished, was bringing a comprehensive approach to our studentathletes.”

As part of the athletics program’s identity overhaul, Huge recently oversaw the recent launch of a new logo.

“When we set out on this, I met with our folks on campus and really talked about the need to, one, not lose Tribe,” Huge said. “It’s our ethos, it’s who we are. I never want us not to be the Tribe. But then also having the opportunity to really tie ourselves to William and Mary.”

Although Huge looks forward to the day when her achievements are discussed as

part of the accomplishments of athletic directors rather than that of specifically ‘female’ athletic directors, she both understands and appreciates why it’s important to distinguish the success of women.

“You can point to so many women who in the past 12 to 18 months have earned the spot of Athletic Director,” Huge said.

“It’s exciting for me, especially as I look at the women who came before me, and the men who opened doors for us, but the women who came before us and on whose shoulders we stand … there’s a sense of wanting to honor them and honor what they did to get us to this point, and, in so doing, prepare the way for the next generation of women who are coming after us.”

As far as changes for the future, a conversation with a member of the Student Assembly reinforced Huge’s desire to focus on making Tribe Athletics a core part of the overall experience for all students at the College.

“I’m really excited about, this year, figuring out a way to really embrace that and have our students take real pride in their athletics program and their classmates that are participating and competing, and how we can really be a part of that,” Huge said.

With these goals in mind, Huge is ready for this year to get going.

“We are part of an enterprise that gets to every day impact the process through which students learn and grow and develop,” Huge said. “I think there is no greater good than that.”

In a pair of close games, William and Mary dropped two one-goal decisions at the JMU Invitational in Harrisonburg, Virginia, to Maryland and Dayton to open its 2018 season.

Thursday’s season opener against Maryland started with a busy opening 10 minutes as both teams scored on their first shots. The Terrapins got one in the net first, but the College answered back just two minutes later as sophomore forward Courtney Miles put in a rebound from redshirt junior forward Sarah Segan. The goal was both her and the Tribe’s first goal of the season, tying the game at 1-1.

The game stayed even for most of the rest of the match, with starting junior goalkeeper Katelyn Briguglio making three saves to keep the score even.

The Terrapins finally buried one to pull ahead with just three minutes left in the game.

Although Miles attempted a second gametying shot, it sailed over the crossbar in the last minute, and the Tribe was forced to concede the loss, 2-1.

Both the College and Maryland attempted 10 shots in the game. Maryland got five of those on goal, while the College had four shots on net.

Along with the assist on Miles’ goal, Segan had two shots with both being on goal. Coming off the bench, sophomore midfielder Colleen Norton attempted three shots, though none of the three were on target.

It took longer for either team to break through in Sunday’s match versus Dayton, with both teams going scoreless for the first 78 minutes. Once again, the opposing team was first on the board as the Flyers finally got one past Briguglio.

This time, it took just one minute for the Tribe to find a response. Freshman forward Renee Kohler sunk her first career tally into the back of the net to tie the game in the 80th minute and send it into overtime, knotted at 1-1.

Extra time saw the College bombarded, as the Flyers got a shot off in the first two minutes and then threatened with a pair of corner kicks.

They scored five minutes into the overtime period, making the match another 2-1 loss for the Tribe.

Dayton outshot the Tribe handily but was not able to keep many of those chances on goal. The Flyers attempted 11 shots to just five for the College. Despite the disparity, both teams finished with four shots on target.

No player attempted more than one shot for the Tribe, while Briguglio notched two saves in net.

After two close defeats to start out the fall, the Tribe has the chance to even out its record with a two-game homestand this weekend.

It will play its home opener against Virginia Thursday before facing off against Coastal Carolina Sunday, both in Williamsburg.

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Laycock talks retirement, future of Tribe football at Media Day After 39 years, Jimmye Laycock ’70 will hang up clipboard, but not before one more run BRENDAN DOYLE FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR Longtime William and Mary football head coach Jimmye Laycock ’70 had a plan for how he wanted to announce his retirement.

“I told some people, when I’m finished, I’m going to hang a sign on my door that says ‘gone to the golf course, it’s over,’” Laycock said.

The spotlight was unmistakably on Laycock at Tribe Football Media Day following the previous evening’s announcement of his impending retirement.

“It wasn’t just a one-time thing that I woke up and said, ‘this is it,’” Laycock said. “I can assure you of that. As you know me and other people know me, I’m going to give things a good bit of thought. It has just kind of built up over a good period of time, and then this summer I had an opportunity and I reflected on it a lot.”

Despite Laycock’s calm attitude, his press conference held a lot of weight; both current Director of Athletics Samantha Huge and former Director of Athletics Terry Driscoll were in attendance. It took poking and prodding from the media, but Laycock did talk about how far the College’s football program has come since he was hired in 1980.

“Had I known the situation, what it was like [at the College], I don’t know if I would have been as quick to take the job as I [was],” Laycock said. “But it was an eye-opening experience. … William and Mary football is in really good shape. It’s poised to continue to move forward and be successful after I’m out of here.”

That was as far back as Laycock would look on his tenure. The coach, heading into his 39th season at the helm of the Tribe, was emotional at times during the session, but refused to be retrospective. Instead, he focused his sights on what he considers to be a promising season ahead of a young team.

“I want to put the emphasis on moving forward,” Laycock said. “I don’t want to put the emphasis on what’s happened, or what’s gone through, or what’s a year been like, or reminisce. I’m not interested in doing that.”

Last year, the College finished 2-9, including 0-8 in Colonial Athletic Association play. It was the first time since the Tribe joined the CAA in 1992 that the team did not win a single conference game. In the offseason, though, Laycock was impressed with just how hard the team worked.

“I think we probably had the most we’ve ever had over the summer insofar as working out

over the summer and conditioning,” Laycock said. “That tells you that they understand the importance of working together. Their attitude has been excellent.”

The defense, now led by team captains junior linebacker Nate Atkins and senior cornerback Raeshawn Smith, was ahead of the offense last season. With most of the unit returning and entering the second year of a new system, the group is ready to pick up right where it left off.

“Last year, we were really young on defense,” Atkins said. “And this year, it feels like we’re an older group but really, we are still young. Just having that experience already at this kind of stage of our growth as a defense is huge because we really are still a young defense.”

The fate of the offense is less decisive entering the 2018-19 season. The quarterback spot is completely up for grabs, although sophomores Ted Hefter and Shon Mitchell have the inside track to the starting job. The quarterback position is key for the Tribe’s upcoming season.

“I think you look at this league, and you look at how tough this league is, and if you’re going to be successful in this league, you got to play great defense and you’ve got to have great quarterback play,” Laycock said. “If you get those two things

clicking, you’re going to win more than you’re not going to win.”

After injuries last season, both junior running back Albert Funderburke and redshirt senior wideout DeVonte Dedmon will return to the field.

While the College expected to get Funderburke back, Dedmon was granted a fifth year of eligibility by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, giving the speedster another chance to put on the green and gold.

“I just thank God every day,” Dedmon said. “I guess it was a blessing in disguise, you could say.

I got hurt, sat out last year, got to thinking myself.

Got to think about different things and just grow as an individual. I hit places I never thought I would, just talking to coaches. I think I’m a better man today because of it and I just appreciate things at a different level now.”

After speaking to the press, the Tribe held its first practice of the season. One thing is for certain: The Tribe will play its heart out for its retiring coach.

“It’s kind of inevitable,” Atkins said. “Hopefully people aren’t withholding effort right now, but any little ounce of effort that we can give to help make this [year great]. And obviously we wanted to have a great year regardless, but it means even more now.”

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Football Head coach Jimmye Laycock ’70 has announced that he will retire at the end of the 2018 season, his 39th at the helm of the Tribe. Last season, William and Mary finished 2-1 in nonconference play, losing only to Football Bowl Subdivision opponent Virginia.

However, the Tribe struggled on offense throughout the season and failed to pick up a conference victory, finishing 2-9 overall and 0-8 in the Colonial Athletic Association, just two years removed from a trip to the second round of the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs.

The Tribe struggled to settle on a starting quarterback, rotating through three different passers throughout the season. It has not named a starting 2018 quarterback, though sophomores Shon Mitchell and Ted Hefter are the likely frontrunners. Mitchell started three games last year but did not establish a permanent first-string spot.

The Tribe defense is led by junior linebacker and captain Nate Adkins as the young unit attempts to build upon its experience from last season.

The return of senior wideout DeVonte Dedmon, who missed last season due to an injury in the season opener, should provide a good target for whoever gets the start under center.

A trio of running backs, sophomores Noah Giles and Nate Evans and junior Albert Funderburke, have proved they can provide a promising ground game for the Tribe; however, an inexperienced offensive line will need to overcome the loss of all-CAA stalwarts Chris Durant ’18 and Connor Hilland ’18.

The Tribe will open its season on Sept. 1 against Bucknell on the road. The CAA schedule begins for the College on Sept. 15 when it hosts Elon. — Flat Hat Sports Assoc. Kevin Richeson Women’s Soccer Julie Shackford ’88 takes the reins in the fall as the third coach in school history, succeeding the long-standing John Daly. She brings with her a wave of change: Marsha Lycan ’87, volunteer assistant coach in 2017, and Columbus

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What to keep an eye out for in Tribe sports this fall State’s Alexa Gaul have both been hired as assistant coaches. Senior midfielder Arundel Miguelez, senior goalkeeper Sara Vigen and redshirt junior forward Sarah Segan were named team captains.

Returning players include Segan, who led the team with eight goals and 20 points last season, as well as junior defender Hannah Keith and redshirt sophomore defender Lauren Kelly, two regular starters from the 2017 run. Junior goalkeeper Katelyn Briguglio will return in net after seeing five starts and posting a .704 save percentage last season.

This year, the Tribe will be spending more time on home turf with 10 matches at Martin Family Stadium, a key advantage in a schedule that includes four matchups against National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament teams. With fresh leadership, a new set of veterans stepping up and seven freshmen joining the program, the team will look to build on what it achieved last season, when it put up a winning record at home (4-3-1) and went through to the CAA semifinals for a sixth straight season. Its home opener was played Aug. 23 against Virginia. — Flat Hat Sports Editor Julia Stumbaugh Men’s Soccer Last season, the Tribe won its eighth CAA tournament title, earning a NCAA tournament bid in the process but losing in the first round of the College Cup against Columbia.

This year, the Tribe’s experienced corps of players returning to the pitch will try to advance past the first round for the first time since 2010.

An All-American player last season after a 15-goal campaign, senior midfielder Antonio Bustamante was voted preseason player of the year in the CAA and was named to the watch list for the Hermann Trophy, presented each year to the top collegiate soccer player in the country.

Senior forward Ryder Bell and senior defender Marcel Berry joined

Bustamante on the preseason all-CAA squad from the College. Bell scored seven goals last season, second in the conference behind his teammate Bustamante. Berry played nearly the entirety of the Tribe’s 2017 season, appearing in all 21 games and playing the full contest in 18 of the matches.

Five more starters return for the Tribe, but the team will have to find a replacement in goal for Phil Breno ’18. In his senior year, Breno played every minute in goal. This year, it’s likely that some combination of redshirt senior Sam Onyeador and freshmen Miro Everaert and Connor Andrews will get the job done in net.

The College will start its regular season Aug. 24 at home against St. Joseph’s, while its CAA schedule starts Sept. 14 versus Charleston. — Flat Hat Sports Editor Brendan Doyle Volleyball At the beginning of 2018, Tim Doyle was named the ninth head volleyball coach in school history. For the past four years, Doyle coached the Virginia Commonwealth team, where he led Rams to a 30-win season in 2017 with a 27-game win streak.

The team welcomes six freshmen to the roster this season as outside hitters Macy Cummings and Anne Louise Seekford, middle blocker Madeline Bertz, opposite hitter Lauren Merrill, opposite hitter Claire Farrell and setter Zeyanna Dhalla join the squad.

Three players are entering their final season for the Tribe: senior middle blocker Katie Primatic, senior outside hitter Heather Pippus and senior setter Katie Kemp. Pippus was a part of the starting lineup 14 times last season and ranked third on the team with a career high of 221 digs. Kemp had 14 season starts of the 29 matches she appeared in; she finished second on the team with a career-best 472 assists and tied for first in services aces on the season at 18.

Last season, the College finished its season 5-15 with only two CAA

victories. The Tribe did not secure a win on the road and ended its season on a five-game losing streak.

The College kicks off its season with the Wildcat Classic. Its first conference matchup will be against North CarolinaWilmington Sept. 21. — Flat Hat Managing Editor Alyssa Grzesiak Field Hockey The Tribe is projected by the CAA preseason poll to finish third in the conference, despite entering the 2018 season with two holes in its offense left behind by Emma MacLeod ’17 and Cammie Lloyd ’17. The offensive duo accounted for 21 of the Tribe’s 52 goals in the 2017 season.

The Tribe had a record-setting five spots in a preseason All-Conference team. Redshirt senior Estelle Hughes and juniors Morgan Connor and Christie van de Kamp were named; juniors Cassidy Goodwin and Woodard Hooper received honorable mentions.

Last season, Hooper trailed MacLeod and Lloyd with nine goals. Van de Kamp, a select of the Team USA U21 Junior National Team the past two years, will remain as an anchor at midfield.

Hughes and Goodwin, as well as sophomore Ella Donahue, junior Annie Snead and senior Jenny McCann will be key parts of the attack. Meanwhile, a well-seasoned defense consisting of seniors Ashleigh Nottingham, Jenna Cutilli and Caroline Arrowood will attempt to shut down opponents as they front veteran goalkeeper Connor.She has appeared in every game the past two seasons after replacing Meredith Savage ’16, playing 16 of 20 games last season.

She adds even more experience to a veteran team looking to take another step towards a conference title. The Tribe opens its season on the road at Duke Aug. 24. — Flat Hat Sports Assoc. Catherine Schefer Cross Country Last season, the women’s cross country team finished second in the

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CAA and 17th out of 37 teams at the Southeast Regional. Despite losing top-performer Molly Applegate, the College maintains a strong roster.

Sophomore Lauren Finikiotis, who ran the 6 kilometer course at the Southeast Regional in 22:11.7, returns for her second season. Junior Charlotte Kowalk will also be back for the Tribe.

On the men’s side, senior Ryan McGorty returns for his final season at the College. He was the top finisher for the Tribe last season at the Southeast Regional, finishing with a time of 30:37.6 in the 10 kilometer race. Other top returners include CAA athlete of the year, junior JP Trojan and senior Dawson Connell. Last season, the Tribe finished 12th out of 32 teams at the Southeast regional.

Both the men’s and women’s teams will open their seasons at the Richmond Spider Alumni Open Sept.

1 in Mechanicsville, Virginia. Both teams will host a meet Sept. 14-15 in Williamsburg. At the end of the season, teams and individuals have the chance to earn a spot in the Southeast Region Cross Country Championships and NCAA Championships Nov. 9 and Nov. 17, respectively. — Kevin Richeson Golf The men’s and women’s golf programs are each adding a pair of freshman this season, with Matthew Feinstein and Jack Grier joining the men’s team and Sarah Houle and Phoebe Yuan joining the women’s.

The women are slated to play four tournaments this fall, beginning with the William & Mary Invitational at Kingsmill Resort. It then travels to visit East Carolina, North CarolinaGreensboro and the College of Charleston over the next few months.

Men’s golf travels to five away tournaments in the fall. The team will start out the season at the Joe Feaganes Marshall Invitational before heading to Davidson. It will finish the season with the Firestone Intercollegiate, a visit to Georgetown and a trip down to South Carolina for the Kiawah Classic.

The programs look this fall to build on the success they found in the spring of 2018, when the women placed sixth and the men placed seventh in CAA tournaments.

Action has already started as the men head to Ireland for some preseason practice.

— Julia Stumbaugh