The Flat Hat February 6, 2018

Vol. 107, Iss. 28 | Tuesday, February 6, 2018

FACULTY

PART I: DISCOVERING DAVID DESSLER

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The Flat Hat obtained emails sent by former government professor David Dessler, whose 32-year tenure at the College ended amidst a series of emails, numerous harassment charges; new lawsuit alleges College mishandled Dessler’s case

TIMELINE

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Dessler sends students 10-page document explaining situation, listing options for rest of semester, proposing in-person discussion Monday; McGlennon emails students promising to provide clarification Monday.

Oct./Nov.

Tuesday, Aug. 9 Chief Human Resources Officer John Poma informs Dessler that he remains a tenured professor, but his employment status is now listed as “inactive.”

Pay, insurance and College email access end within two weeks.

Wed., Dec. 27 Dessler files lawsuit against the College, alleging the College violated his First Amendment right to free speech, declined due process protections, failed to provide accommodation for disclosed mental disability.

Between Feb. 28, 2016, and Jan. 13, 2017, Dessler is arrested by WMPD five separate times after allegedly sending emails containing “vulgar and obscene” language to College officials. Four of the five charges have been dropped, with one harassment charge deposition deferred until May 2019.

Dessler ultimately spent 77 days in jail.

Friday, Sept. 9 Three of Dessler’s former colleagues –– emeritus faculty members — send letter to provost and Faculty Assembly arguing that Dessler was terminated without due process.

Officials deny claim, citing Dessler’s retained tenure.

June 18 Dessler officially resigns from his position. According to a complaint filed in Dec. 2017, Dessler resigned to avoid “continued arrest and harassment by the College.”

Dessler meets with students; later, McGlennon informs students that Dessler is on administrative leave and his courses will be assigned to new professors.

Feb. ’16-Jan. ’17

Professor Kay Floyd begins teaching Dessler’s GOVT204 section; Dessler continues emailing students, questioning McGlennon’s actions, discussing class plan, seeking support to resume teaching.

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Dessler tells students he did not send Oct. 21 email and will explain further in class; however, John McGlennon, chair of the govt. dept., cancels the day’s class.

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Dessler emails GOVT204 students saying he has been hospitalized but will teach the day’s class against medical advice; WMPD bars Dessler from classroom.

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Who is David Dessler?

David Dessler is a former government professor at the College of William and Mary. During his 32 years of employment at the College, Dessler served as president of the Faculty Assembly and received numerous teaching honors.

In October 2015, Dessler was placed on administrative leave after sending his students a series of cryptic emails, and his GOVT204 (Introduction to International Politics) and GOVT433 (Theories of the International System) courses were assigned to other professors.

Between February 2016 and January 2017, Dessler was arrested by the William and Mary Police Department on four charges of harassment by computer and one failure to appear in court after allegedly sending emails containing “vulgar and obscene language” to College officials, including government department chair John McGlennon and university counsel Deborah Love. According to the Williamsburg-Yorktown Daily, one of the emails that led to Dessler’s Jan. 13, 2017 arrest included an anecdote about “the Government Department of some college.” In the story, an unidentified university counsel is “strung up and strangled by the neck and she is choking and grasping for breath.” Ultimately, Dessler spent a total of 77 days in jail, but four of the five charges were later dropped. The deposition for one harassment by computer charge has been deferred until May 2019.

Aug. 9, 2016, Chief Human Resources Officer John Poma informed Dessler that his employment status was now listed as “inactive.” Dessler retained his tenure status. June 8, 2017, Dessler officially resigned from his position at the College, citing a desire to avoid “continued arrest and harassment by the College.” Throughout this roughly two-year period, Dessler sent sporadic emails to former students and colleagues, first via his official College account and later via a private account.

Dec. 27, 2017, Dessler filed a lawsuit against the College. In the complaint, he alleged that the College violated his First Amendment right to free speech, declined to grant due process protections associated with termination and failed to provide reasonable accommodation for a disclosed mental disability. Dessler further claimed that the College’s actions stemmed from his September 2015 announcement of a joint student-faculty mental health initiative.

Why was Dessler placed on administrative leave?

Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015, Dessler’s GOVT204 students received an email from his official College account (Dessler later claimed he did not write this email). In the email, Dessler informed students that he had been hospitalized but would return to campus in time for class.

“I am very sick, I should not leave the hospital, and that’s why twelve or so doctors were yelling at me to stay. ... [I ] promised them I would write you this because they are worried you will be upset or won’t like me or I’ll lose credibility or something like that,” Dessler said in the email.

Dessler arrived on campus but was prevented from entering the classroom by WMPD. Students were dismissed without speaking to Dessler. Friday, Oct. 23, Dessler emailed students regarding the email sent Oct. 21, writing, “The email you got from my mailbox at 12:22pm was not sent by me. The story it told was the exact opposite of what was happening in my life, and was told in a way to make you most upset about me.” At the end of the note, Dessler asked students to attend the day’s class, during which he would provide further clarification; however, McGlennon announced via email that class was canceled and promised to communicate information on how the class would move forward

by Monday, Oct. 26. Sunday, Oct. 25, Dessler sent students a 10-page “proposal” listing options for continuing the class and called for an inperson meeting the following day.

“We need to decide how to proceed. Or rather, as you will see when you open the attachment, you need to decide. This is your class. It is your call,” Dessler added in the body of the email.

McGlennon, after learning Dessler had requested to speak with students in person, notified the class that he would not prevent them from meeting with Dessler. Monday, Oct. 26, both Dessler and McGlennon met with GOVT204 students. Later that evening, McGlennon informed students that Dessler was now on administrative leave and would be replaced by a new instructor.

“This was not an easy decision and I am aware that many of you wished for him to continue as your instructor,” McGlennon said. “ …

Professor Dessler is a dedicated and caring teacher, and the department of government and the College remain committed to him.”

By Friday, Oct. 30, Professor Kay Floyd assumed instruction of Dessler’s GOVT204 sections and professor Sue Petersen took over Dessler’s GOVT433 class.

Wed., Oct. 21

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June 5-Sept. 28 June 5, Dessler files a claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Sept. 28, the EEOC closes investigation after finding no reasonable cause.

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Although former government professor David Dessler was removed from his teaching position Oct. 26, 2015 (see timeline and background), he has remained in consistent contact with the students enrolled in his fall 2015 sections of GOVT204. Some emails were sent via Dessler’s school email address, while others were written under a pseudonym, “Molon Labe” (an ancient Greek expression of defiance that translates to “Come and take [them]”).

In the emails, Dessler has discussed topics including his struggle with mental illness, a 2015 divorce settlement, and ongoing reactions to the events surrounding his case.

Oct. 16, 2015, Dessler emailed his GOVT204 students to inform them he would miss class that day as a result of exhaustion following a trip to Texas. He told his students the doctor said nothing suggested an “enduring problem,” and he hoped to see them in class the following Monday. Oct. 21, 2015, Dessler informed students that he was currently in the hospital and had been told not to leave. He detailed his arguments with doctors, the hospital’s chief of psychiatry and several nurses, all of whom told him he was not well enough to leave. Dessler, however, told his students he had left and would see them soon for that day’s class.

“My point is, I do not care if I am not well enough to do that, or too incoherent to do that, or I might blackout or whatever, I am so sick of this that I am driving to campus down I-64 whether or not I can drive and we are getting class going, whatever that means,” Dessler said in the email.

Days after students received this message, which he has since alleged he did not write, Dessler was placed on medical leave. One former student, Emily Martin ’18, said that many of her classmates felt “threatened” by his emails, but she was not particularly alarmed.

“The emails did not initially have much of an effect on me,” Martin said. “I really felt like everyone saying they felt threatened was really overreacting. I saw a grieving man who had recently gone through a lot. … However, the more emails we received, the worse it got. Eventually it became more clear that something deeper was going on, when we got a new teacher and changed classrooms. I still felt like everyone was overreacting.”

Colin Castro ’18, another student in Dessler’s GOVT204 class, said his initial impression of the professor was that of a talented lecturer who openly discussed his struggles with mental health.

“He was the first person at William and Mary [who] I heard talk about mental illness,” Castro said. “ … I thought it was very mature and definitely something that won respect from the class, that he shared his struggle ... and said that there are faculty struggling with this.”

The day Dessler was placed on He was the first person at William and Mary [who] I heard talk about medical leave, he and mental illness. I thought it was very McGlennon held a joint mature and definitely something meeting with GOVT204 that won respect from the class. students.

“Over the week Colin Castro ‘18 before we had the McGlennon and Dessler discussion, he sent us probably 20 emails, and a lot of them were really long,” Castro said. “...The statements were pretty contradictory, but from my perspective, I think a lot of the students could tell he was going through something serious.”

During this time, some students posted about Dessler’s emails on the now-archived Facebook page “Overheard at William and Mary.” Others expressed support for Dessler by promoting a website, SavingProfessorDessler.com, that shared his story.

The month of October 2015 ended with Dessler acknowledging to his students that he had been placed on leave and saying his divorce settlement with his wife had been finalized. Oct. 28, 2015, he emailed his students saying he had “news.”

“I would like to take a leave and let someone else take over the class,” Dessler said in the email. “This is because I have extra time now that my divorce settlement is over. … I am planning a citywide celebration of my divorce settlement in Richmond. It will be a three-day festival with a final concert featuring Taylor Swift, U2, Paul McCartney, Black Eyed Peas, the last ten winners of American Idol, a reunion of the Rolling Stones, and Katy Perry. ... The City of Richmond expects 17 million people to attend.”

After Professor Kay Floyd assumed instruction of GOVT204, students continued to receive emails from Dessler. In these messages, Dessler included updates about his medical leave and expressed sentiments indicating that he wanted to return to teaching soon.

Future installments will discuss events following the fall semester, including emails Dessler continued to send students.

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NOTE: This is the first segment in a series on former professor David Dessler.

It focuses on the fall 2015 semester, during which Dessler was placed on administrative leave. Future installments will discuss events following the fall semester, including “vulgar and obscene” emails allegedly sent to College officials, criminal charges levied against Dessler, and a Dec. 2017 lawsuit Dessler filed against the College.

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Although she teaches classes on literature from across the about literature with them.

Currently, Webster is teaching a British literature survey pond, English professor Erin Webster hails from just north of the United States border. A native of southern Ontario, Webster class. She said she is surprised by how many science majors are studied English in Canada, and has taught literature at the in the class, which she is excited about. Webster said she went College of William and Mary for two years, specializing in early out of her comfort zone as well to learn a different discipline modern literature, early European colonialism and the writings when she was exploring science in literature.

Webster tries to have her students think about how these of John Milton.

“The way my mind works, I attach myself to stories,” Webster disciplines can communicate with each other in meaningful said. “That’s how I learn, but it’s also how I connect, both with ways.

“I find that there are a lot of points of connection between other people and the world around me.”

Webster did her graduate work at the University of Toronto, my work as a literary critic and looking into scientific thought,” and received her Ph.D. in 17th century English literature. Webster said.

Webster has also been teaching Interpreting Literature, and She said she was also interested in the relationship between science and literature, and ended up pursuing works by Milton she’s taught it twice with the theme of “new worlds.” She said she’s been having a lot of fun, because the course is not organized as a graduate student.

After finishing her Ph.D., Webster did research work at around a time period or novel, so she can put whatever literary works she pleases the University of into the class.

London. From there, Lately, Webster has she saw there was a been taking works job advertised in 17th by Shakespeare century literature at and combining the College, for which that with studies she applied and of contemporary eventually received. scientific literature.

Webster said she “It gives me loved coming to a new way of teach at the College, thinking about partly because it is the relationship a small liberal arts between different college, reminiscent time periods and of her undergraduate different writers education.

Webster and different said she is enthusiastic pieces of literature about how the College that we might not lets her interact with necessarily, or her students in small naturally, think of classroom settings, as as having much to well as one-on-one, say to each other,” an experience that Webster said. “And is different from the yet when you read larger institutions she them side by side previously studied you discover that and taught at. She said they actually do she can see how her have a lot to say to students react to the — English professor Erin Webster each other.” literature they read, Webster said which wasn’t possible in a larger lecture setting. Webster also has a lot of freedom in that at the College, she has a lot of freedom to teach what she wants and has many opportunities to do so. In the future, she choosing what literature she chooses to teach her students.

Upon moving to the United States, Webster said she realized said she hopes to teach a class called Imaginative Voyages the differences between life here and in Canada. Although a to the Moon, which starts with classical Greek literature and lot of the media she consumed while in Canada was based out moves through the 1600s and 1700s up to more recent science of the United States, and she and her friends had traveled to fiction novels.

Outside of the classroom, Webster said she enjoys running. the states, she said she is learning more about U.S. history, It was originally a hobby Webster started in graduate school particularly Virginian history.

Additionally, Canada still has a queen and access to British because such a large amount of her work was done sitting still media, so, according to Webster, culturally, there are ways in indoors, and involved exercising her brain more than her body.

Running was the opposite of that, and allowed her to venture which the education system has more of a British influence.

When she taught British literature in Canada, she said her outdoors. Webster said she enjoys running in Williamsburg students had a different relationship to the education system because she hails from around Toronto, which is snowbound most of the year. In Virginia, she feels that there are very few than they did in the United States.

When Webster started university as an undergraduate, she days the local weather prevents her from going for a run. Aside from running, she also finds solace outdoors in hiking, fishing thought she didn’t want to be a teacher.

“I thought I was going to be a writer, but in a sense I’m still and camping.

She said she also finds a lot of natural beauty on the campus a writer,” Webster said.

She decided to teach because she enjoyed the conversations in her running. Even though she loves the scenery of the she had with colleagues and how that carried into conversations campus, Webster’s favorite part of working at the College is still the interactions she has with students inside the classroom. with students.

“There’s something very special about this university, and I Now, Webster says that she benefits from studying and teaching English in that, when reading someone else’s story, think it is the students themselves,” Webster said. “Collectively she tries to understand something that the author wants to this is such a great place to teach at because of the quality of the express. Webster said that she enjoys having conversations students and how open they are and hardworking and earnest with someone else through reading their work or by talking and eager. I’ve had fantastic experiences in the classroom here.”

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It gives me a new way of thinking about the relationship between different time periods and different writers and different pieces of literature that we might not necessarily, or naturally, think of as having much to say to each other.

And yet when you read them side by side you discover that they actually do have a lot to say to each other.

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Friday, February 2 — A hit and run occurred near Route 199 and Jamestown Road.

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Friday, February 2 — Manu Costas was arrested on the charge of driving with a suspended or revoked license at Capitol Landing Road.

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Saturday, February 3 — Jessica Bryhn was arrested on the charge of driving under the influence of alcohol at Matoaka Court.

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CULTURE

Augmented reality tours to enhance James Monroe’s Highland ARtGlass, Epson bring history to life with AR glasses designed for tourists SARAH SMITH FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR

For the first time in the United States, augmented reality tours will launch at George Washington’s Mount Vernon and James Monroe’s Highland. The College of William and Mary owns Highland, and it will be the first to host this new technology.

ARtGlass, a company that manufactures AR software for cultural and historic venues is collaborating with Epson, the provider of AR smart eyewear to create new experiences for visitors at Highland and Mount Vernon. While Highland will be the first site in the United States to use this technology, dozens of museums and palaces throughout Europe have debuted these AR experiences.

“When we first launched ARtGlass in Italy, we knew that if we could overcome the challenges of bringing wearable AR tours to the Old World, we’d be ready for the New World,” ARtGlass cofounder and CEO Greg Werkheiser said in a press statement. “We are thrilled now to help revolutionize cultural tours at U.S. sites.”

Highland is the first site to launch the tours, but Mount Vernon will soon begin to premiere tours during its peak season. The College owns the property at Highland and made headlines last year when the lost presidential home of Monroe was discovered. Executive Director Sara Bon-Harper said she hopes to use this AR to

reach new audiences and attract new people.

“AR Brings historical figures to life and shares the sense of discovery here at Highland in ways that are both educational and entertaining,” Bon-Harper said in a press statement. “We expect to draw more — and more diverse — visitors. ARtGlass platform will give our guests an exciting new way to experience our historic landscape and architecture at Mount Vernon.

Washington loved the latest technology and many of our guests do as well. No doubt, through ARtGlass, we will be able to tell the Mount Vernon story in a new and compelling way.”

According to Werkheiser, historic and cultural destinations such as Highland and Mount Vernon are popular travel destinations all around the world.

“U.S. museums and cultural sites attract more visits annually than pro sporting events and theme parks combined,” Werkheiser said. “The future of history is bright.”

Guests at these sites will use these AR glasses, the result of ARtGlass’ partnership with Epson, to take tours and learn information about Monroe’s former home. The company hopes that this will transform visitors’ experiences with historic facts.

“From the beginning it was our intention to deliver real-world, near-term benefits to the public through the Moverio AR smart glasses,” Epson’s Director of Augmented Reality Solutions Anna Jen said in a press statement. “ARtGlass

software and strategies, coupled with our glasses, will enable millions of visitors to U.S. historic sites to enjoy transformative experiences.”

In 1974, the College gained ownership of Monroe’s Highland, and his property, located in Charlottesville, Virginia, is currently the only U.S. president’s home owned by a university.

Monroe received his education from the College before enlisting in the Continental army, similar to George Washington. The estate was bequeathed to the College by philanthropist Jay

Winston Johns, who had previously received an honorary degree.

Until a few years ago, Monroe’s home was assumed to be the surviving wing of a two-wing house, with a two-room lobby entrance typical of plantations during that time. According to Bon-Harper, who became executive director in 2012, this misconception has long been held.

After conducting new research, Bon-Harper and her colleagues believe there is much more to be unearthed, which leads Bon-Harper to

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“ARtGlass” augmented reality glasses worn by tourist at James Monroe’s Highland help wearer experience history in real-time.

CAMPUS

Civil War diary donated to College by descendants of prisoner Diary of Henry Alexander Scandrett details life in Williamsburg 150 years ago SARAH GREENBERG FLAT HAT NEWS ASSOC. EDITOR

The College of William and Mary recently acquired the diary of Henry Alexander Scandrett, a Union soldier who was captured by the Confederacy in May 1962. Now in the possession of the Earl Gregg Swem’s Special Collections Research Center, this diary offers insight into Civil War era Williamsburg and the College’s role in the war.

Although the text inside the diary is relatively faded because it was written in pencil over 150 years ago, it details the College’s role as a prisoner-of-war camp during the Civil War. “Was in my first battle today. About 1 O clock P.M. our regiment was marched into the field about. We were thrown in advance and through some blunder was not reinforced. We have lost all our company officers and our field officers are all wounded. With fifteen others I was taken prisoner and am now in William & Mary college,” Scandrett said in his diary entry for May 5, 1862.

According to both local historian Wilford Kale ’66 and Special Collections Research Center Director Jay Gaidmore, this is the first mention of the College being used as a prisoner-of-war camp during the Civil War. “It has a little-known episode of William and Mary’s history during the Civil War that we didn’t really know about,” Gaidmore said. “We knew that William and Mary was very involved in the Battle of Williamsburg, being used as a field hospital. We know that after the battle when the Union troops occupied Williamsburg for the rest of the war they used it for quarters, but this is the first instance where we have seen actual documentation that prisoners were kept at the College.”

In the diary, Scandrett also details his journey from Williamsburg to Richmond with the Confederate army, where he was again imprisoned.

About a week later he was released in exchange for Confederate soldiers held prisoner by the Union.

“Yorktown is evacuated,” Scandrett wrote on his journey back to the Union camp. “The rebels were firing until half past four this morning. A Balloon reconnaissance discovered the evacuation about 6 o clock.”

This is one of first written records of hot air balloons being used in a military context. Scandrett also mentions the standoff between the Monitor and Merrimack after their famous battle in March 1962 in the diary.

Kale first became aware of the diary’s existence when it was quoted in a book he came across when doing research for his book “From Student to Warrior: A Military History of the College of William and Mary.”

Eventually, Kale traced the book back to Scandrett’s great-grandchildren: Janet Hunt, Sharon Summers, Charles Scandrett, Barbara Kaufman and Sandra Ellender.

Kale said that Hunt was the custodian of the diary and had been looking for a place to donate it for preservation. Hunt had considered giving it to the Wisconsin Historical Society, but instead decided she wanted to donate it somewhere with more meaning. Kale suggested the family donate it to the College, given its significant connection to the text.

“I kept talking to her and started suggesting William and Mary and told her that we had a wonderful library and a very good Special Collections department that had some rich material and that [the diary] would just add to it,” Kale said.

Before officially donating the diary, Hunt and some of her siblings came to Williamsburg to meet with Kale and visit the College’s Special

Collections Research Center. According to both Kale and Gaidmore, the College was prepared to purchase the diary from the Sandrett family, given its historical significance.

“We weren’t quite sure if they were going to donate it or if we were going to try and buy it from them,” Gaidmore said.

However, after meeting with College President Taylor Reveley, touring the Special Collections Research Center and speaking with Gaidmore, the family decided to donate the diary without any financial compensation.

Although the siblings decided to give the diary to the College during this November 2016 meeting, the official donation was not finalized until the following spring. This was due to the time it took for all five of Scandrett’s great-grandchildren to sign the deed of gift.

“We felt we found the perfect place to donate the diary, the place where our great-grandfather was held as a prisoner back in 1862,” Hunt said in the library’s press release. “We know this little piece of both our history and that of William and Mary will be well-preserved at the library for others to use and enjoy now and in the future.”

The diary is currently being held in the Special Collections Research Center. Like all of the Special Collections’ pieces, it is stored in an acid-free folder in a temperature-controlled room in order to avoid its deterioration.

According the Gaidmore, the diary will eventually be put on display along with other documents and pieces that Special Collections owns pertaining to the Civil War. Any exhibit involving the diary will likely only be temporary, as light exposure could cause the paper to fade and hinder its preservation.

Nevertheless, future generations of Civil War buffs need need not worry — all of the pages of the diary have been digitized by the Special Collections Research Center.

STUDENT LIFE

Clemson University student delivers talk on student activism Khayla Williams leads Lemon Project’s Porch Talk, encourages involvement WILL CURTIS THE FLAT HAT

Feb. 1, Clemson University student Khayla Williams led a discussion on sustained activism for the Lemon Project: A Journey of Reconcilitation’s first Porch Talk of the semester.

The talk aimed to discuss how student activists can work to sustain action in activism and maintain momentum after significant events manage to seize the attention of the public.

The Porch Talks are not new — they are one of the Lemon Project’s community outreach initiatives intended to connect the student body with the research the Project conducts. The Lemon Project’s graduate fellow Sarah Thomas explained that the origin of the series stemmed from a student comment.

“We have been having Porch Talks for several years now, spurring from when a student of color mentioned the sense of community they felt from the Donning of the Kente ceremony,” Thomas said. “These talks are aimed at creating a welcoming and comfortable space for students, especially students of color, to come and discuss topics along the lines of reconciliation and race.”

The Donning of the Kente is an event held in tandem with graduation meant to recognize and honor the accomplishments of students of color.

Khayla Williams was selected as the speaker by the Lemon Project because of her experience and passion for the subject.

Williams spoke about her experience with

activism at her alma mater, Clemson University.

She admitted that she struggled at first with what to say at the College and how best to help move the dialogue forward.

“I want to be honest, I came up with nothing,” Williams said. “The problem was that I was trying to answer it as a scholar. I am not a scholar. I am here because of the experience that I have, and with my personal story. I instead want to talk about what happened at Clemson first, and then, I would like to discuss what to do here.”

Williams was one of the students who participated in a sit-in at the administration building at Clemson after other students defaced a banner promoting black history.

“We spent 10 days sleeping outside of the main administration building,” Williams said.

“Five students were arrested for trespassing, including myself. The sit-in changed my life, my perspective, my Clemson experience. I don’t know how many times I heard the word grateful; ‘You should be grateful that African-American students are allowed in the school,’ ‘You should be grateful that you are allowed to sleep inside [during the sit in].’”

Williams then shifted the discussion to how she felt her own experience related to that of students at the College. She alluded to an event last spring at the College, when students brought a list of demands related to issues felt by students of color to College President Taylor Reveley. She mentioned a need for a larger base of dissent on campus, especially among organizations that

include minorities.

“We need to make sure that every organization that is involved with minorities on campus is

Residence Life Campus Center 212 living@wm.edu Off Make checks payable to: William & Mary Pay at: The Cashier’s Office in Blow Hall Or mail to: The Cashier’s Office P.O. Box 8795 Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795 Or: Paid on-line using an e-check or credit card from the room selection website.

IMPORTANT NOTE: POSTMARKS WILL NOT BE HONORED. DEPOSITS MAILED AND/OR RECEIVED AFTER FEBRUARY 16TH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

involved,” Williams said. “It is too easy for admin to put it in a box of ‘Oh, [the Black Student Union] is mad again.’”

ROOM SELECTION 2018 If you plan to live in campus housing for the 2018-2019 academic year and want to participate in any part of the Room Selection process, you must pay the $200 non-refundable Room Reservation Deposit by the Friday, February 16, 2018 deadline.

Pay it now to alleviate the stress of trying to pay it while you are away or forgetting until the last minute.

This includes students who plan to live in Fraternity/Sorority Houses, Language Houses, Africana House, Mosaic, and Flex Housing, students with Priority Housing Approval, and those planning to live with student staff or apply for a student staff position.

Students on full scholarship, including full scholarship athletes, must complete paperwork at Residence Life before the Friday, February 16th deposit deadline to be included in the Room Selection process.

All Special Interest Houses will conduct their room selections prior to spring break; all others who submit a deposit will select their rooms during the on-line section process in March or April.

For more information visit: http://www.wm.edu/offices/residencelife/rsp/undergraduate

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POLITICS

Bradford to be deputy secretary of education Northam appoints former College VP of government relations to administrative role NIA KITCHIN FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR

Frances Bradford was Vice President for Government Relations at the College of William and Mary when she received a fateful phone call from Virginia Governor Ralph Northam.

He called to ask her to become Virginia’s new deputy secretary of education and Bradford recalls being honored but taken aback.

“I was not expecting the call and was completely surprised,” Bradford said in an email. “I was definitely honored at being asked, but I did some time making the decision because I enjoyed my work at the College very much.”

Bradford said her time at the College was immensely valuable to her and leaving was a difficult decision.

However, she decided to accept Northam’s offer in order to further pursue her passion for education.

“Leaving William and Mary was close to impossible,” Bradford said. “It is an amazing place, with truly amazing people and at the end of the day you know — or at least hope — you are in some small way helping to educate the future leaders of our country. As President Reveley

likes to say, ‘It is time for the next W&M alum to serve as President of the United States.’”

During her time at the College, Bradford said she developed lasting relationships through her work that enriched her life both professionally and personally.

In her job, she found inspiration in the the College community’s determination to better itself.

“I have to admit that every time a new building goes up there is some joy in that,” Bradford said.

Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration Sam Jones, who worked closely with Bradford, spoke highly of her accomplishments. He said that she was an exceptional member of the College’s staff, had a deep understanding of higher education issues and was always proactive given the fast pace of her work. On the subject of her new job offer, Jones said that the governor’s gain was the College’s loss.

“She was a pleasure to work with, maintaining a sense of humor in what can be a challenging environment,” Jones said in an email.

Bradford said she hopes to help all students in Virginia receive the level of education that they want to pursue and that her goals in this position align with those of the governor. She maintains that she will be

working alongside the governor to meet the workforce needs of Virginia and make the cost of education more predictable.

“While I am still thinking through what I hope to focus on in this role, I remind myself to first do no harm and then hopefully to do some good,” Bradford said.

Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Public Affairs Henry Broaddus said that, while the College would miss Bradford, her work will improve the education system throughout Virginia.

“Although we will miss the new deputy secretary terribly here in the Colonial Capital, we are so happy about what this portends for the rest of Virginia,” Broaddus said in a written statement. “Nobody is a better intermediary between the equally idiosyncratic worlds of education and government than [Bradford] is, and nobody cares more about the two working together for the public good,” Broaddus said.

Broaddus said that Bradford is someone you want with you when facing “rough tides.” He said she is a consistently hard worker, but more than that she is always able to maintain positivity.

“She is unflappable, and she is persistently cheerful, without a trace of naivete in the face of difficult realities,”

Broaddus said. “Fran can pick you up, and she will do so while she is simultaneously on a muted conference call and texting somebody else on campus about a bill she is tracking.”

Broaddus expressed his thanks for Marina Moschos, Bradford’s supportive spouse, for giving up nights and weekends to campus obligations. He also thanked Bradford’s parents, Kenneth and Judy Bradford, for raising a daughter with a strong work ethic and a social conscience. Although Judy Bradford passed away last year, Broaddus said he expected she was there with her daughter in spirit.

Wishing Bradford luck in her new endeavors, Broaddus expressed hope that she can still lead an enjoyable lifestyle in this challenging professional role.

“This next phase of [Bradford’s] career is no trip to Disney World,” Broaddus said. “There will be great challenges that I am sure will test Fran in new ways. We wish her well, and we hope her work will be fun as well as challenging.”

Bradford said she has positive prospects for her future. “[My plans are] to make the most of the opportunity that Governor Northam has given me,” Bradford said.

“And still find time to go to Disney World.”

POLITICS

Meet-and-greet event with Tim Kaine draws enthusiastic crowd

Kaine talked 2018 midterms, re-election campaign, diversity at Young Democrats event GRACIE HARRIS FLAT HAT NEWS ASSOC. EDITOR

Last Saturday, Feb. 3, a crowd of almost 200 people gathered in the Chesapeake C room of the Sadler Center at 2:15 p.m. to attend a meet-andgreet with U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, D-Va., hosted by the College of William and Mary Young Democrats.

Among the topics of the community conversation were Black History Month and Kaine’s current bid for re-election. He spoke for about 45 minutes and spent the remaining time taking questions from the audience. Kaine tackled the issue of diversity as one of his key points. His speech emphasized the history of diversity in the United States as one of its greatest virtues.

“What happened right here was the Big Bang,” Kaine said. “The mixing of Native Americans and Europeans and Africans within a few square miles, that’s really the Big Bang that created this nation of 330 million. A nation of diversity and beauty and richness and struggle and challenge, but a nation whose values are very much under assault, I believe now, but whose values are ultimately strong enough to withstand the assault, if we all do what we can.”

Kaine also went on to discuss growing diversity in America, immigration policy and the importance of supporting beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in Virginia. On the topic of the Commonwealth’s political climate, Kaine was optimistic.

“To see so many people here, that’s what makes me particularly excited,” Kaine said. “I’m seeing energy around Virginia that I have never seen in my career in politics.”

He also went on to discuss the 2017 elections, which included victories for Ralph Northam in Virginia and 15 seats picked up for Democrats in the House of Delegates. Kaine described these victories as giving the nation a “hope injection” about the engagement of the American public at a time when his

colleagues in the Senate and people throughout the country really needed it.

He spoke about U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration and the state of American democracy.

“I will say that it feels very existential right now,” Kaine said. “You feel like you could walk around the corner and run into a constitutional crisis the likes of which the nation really has not seen since 1787.”

Kaine also criticized Trump’s actions regarding treatment of the FBI, the Russia investigation, diplomacy and foreign policy. His overall message, however, remained hopeful for the future.

“The present is filled with opportunities and challenge, but it is something that excites me every day,” Kaine said. “I’m going to advance everywhere we can but part of the job now is defending everything we must.”

Kaine also took several audience questions on subjects ranging from antiglobalization and isolationism to lessons learned in 2016 to public education and college affordability. The crowd of roughly 180 people was overall very enthusiastic about Kaine’s message and campaign.

“He knew how to approach the crowd very well, he threw in some casual jokes and was also pretty serious and on point about his goals as senator,” Nazrin Garibova ’20 said. “I think it was very motivating to go out and vote in the 2018 election.”

The positive response could also be a result of the way the event was publicized — advance registration was required to attend and no information about it was provided on the Young Democrats’ Facebook page or in public posting locations around campus. Rather, it was only sent to people signed up for the Young Democrats email list.

“We were nearly at capacity for the event, so decided to publicize only through our listserv,” Young Democrats President Greg Akerman ’18 said in an email.

The Young Democrats also asked those in attendance to sign a petition for Kaine to appear on the ballot and handed out Kaine 2018 stickers.

GRACIE HARRIS / THE FLAT HAT

Tim Kaine speaks to a crowd of students at the Young Democrats meet-and-greet.

Kaine’s concluding statement looked to the future. He said he has hope for the upcoming 2018 election and the possibility that it will bring a wave of Democratic candidate wins, which would be made possible in part by the energy showcased in the 2017 elections in Virginia.

“Nothing shows this [energy] stronger than what you helped to do in Virginia in 2017,” Kaine said. “You know that we won the three statewide offices, you know that we picked up 15 seats in the House of Delegates. And of the 15, 11 were women and most were first-time candidates and highly diverse people of color, LGBTQ people, immigrants — a group of people who really look like who Virginia looks like right now.”

STUDENT LIFE

Marshall-Wythe School of Law, ACLU co-sponsor free speech symposium

Professors, lawyers, students talk Charlottesville, campus politics, First Amendment rights MADELINE MONROE FLAT HAT NEWS ASSOC. EDITOR

The national debate on the topic of free speech at college campuses took over the Marshall-Wythe School of Law last Friday, Feb. 2.

The First Amendment Under Fire: A Symposium on Speech, Protest and the Role of State Actors, cosponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia and the law school, was attended by students, faculty and community members. The symposium was composed of three panels addressed issues relating to speech on campus, racial justice, hate speech and policing of protests.

“I think the facts about speech on campus often get lost in the excitement,” College of William and Mary President Taylor Reveley said in his introductory remarks. “And amid all this, it has become even more important than ever that campuses have reasoned, collegial, hard-hitting conversations about the First Amendment — conversations of the sort that are going to take place at William and Mary today.”

The symposium, which was conceived after the Aug. 12 white supremacist rally of Charlottesville, Virginia, invited Executive Director of the ACLU of Virginia Claire Guthrie Gastañaga to speak. Gastañaga had been a scheduled speaker for AMP’s Sept. 27 event “Students and the First Amendment” at the College. However, Gastañaga never spoke, because the event was canceled amid student protests from Black Lives Matter criticizing the ACLU’s choice to protect the white supremacists’ right to march in Charlottesville.

“There’s no way that we at the ACLU of Virginia have any illusions about how difficult these issues are, how tragic the events of Charlottesville were, how every single person who had anything to do with it wishes that it didn’t happen and feels deep regret for loss of life that occurred there,” Gastañaga said. “We all need to continue to struggle to understand what we can do, should do, and are able to do to both secure our right to speak freely and to do so when we assemble peaceably and to confront white supremacists and Nazis and the

Ku Klux Klan assertively every way we can within that peaceable context. “ Susan Herman, president of the ACLU and professor of law at Brooklyn Law School, emphasized the ACLU’s content-neutral policy when deciding to represent individuals and groups, noting that being content neutral is not the same as agreeing with ideas.

“I think the solution is not to change the law around that fact, because I think that does more harm than good,” Herman said. “The way to achieve racial justice is not to give government the power to censor hate speech.

Think about who government is. It seems to me that the very challenge to the idea of the injurious nature of hate speech on a campus for example, or in a demonstration

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It has become even more important than ever that campuses have reasoned, collegial, hard-hitting conversations about the First Amendment.

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Taylor Reveley

“We’ve represented all sorts of people who we don’t agree with too, including the Nazis and Skokies, the Klan, the Westboro Baptist Church — we wrote an amicus brief in that Supreme Court case,” Herman said.

“The north star for us in all of our First Amendment work has always been content neutrality. … Defending somebody’s right to say something under the First Amendment is not the same as agreeing with what they say. … We’re not defending the speech — we’re not in fact white supremacists, or Nazis, or Communists or whatever. The idea is that we are defending the First Amendment in the same way that due process is defended.”

Herman emphasized the importance of including all speech to the goal of achieving racial justice, even if the speech included is hate speech. She also pointed out that the creation of laws to censor hate speech would be counterproductive.

in Charlottesville, comes from the recognition that our institutions are not always free from bias, that they are generally majoritarian, and the majority rules. …

Why would you want to allow the university, or the city of Charlottesville, or the Trump administration to be holding the reins of what speech is allowed and what speech is not allowed?”

Wornie Reed, professor of sociology at Virginia Tech and director of the Race and Social Policy Center, acknowledged that hate speech and racial justice can coexist provided that “we resist the emergent idea that speech is violence.”

“If we resist this trend, and I suggest we should, we will see hate speech as something different from racial injustice,” Reed said.

Reed gave an example of racial injustice, noting that while African Americans make up only 20 percent of the population and only 22 percent of illegal substance users

and sellers in Virginia, they make up 50 percent of those arrested and 70 percent of those incarcerated for the crime.

“If we stop racial epithets, that won’t bring us racial justice,” Reed said. “So its existence is unrelated to whether or not we have racial justice.”

George Nwanze J.D. ’19 said he believes that colleges need to be mindful of the types of speech that they encourage. He said they also need to ensure that marginalized communities feel included and supported before the arrival of speech they oppose or disagree with.

“There exists this problem in terms of representation — not just representation in terms of ideology, but representation in terms of demographics, representation in terms of speech and the type of speech that the college promotes,” Nwanze said. “Recognizing and validating people’s experiences from all walks of life is a great step in the right direction.”

University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education professor Sigal Ben-Porath said she believes that because high school institutions have increasingly viewed free speech as a disruption to learning in the classroom, colleges needed to take a more active role in helping students manage conflict. She said that because students admitted to selective colleges are not used to conflictual and diverse environments, they have trouble resolving conflict independently.

“They are used to being silenced by their public institutions that they have experienced so far,” Ben-Porath said. “That’s their common experience they share.”

While Ben-Porath acknowledged internal conflict surrounding free speech at colleges, she emphasized that speech on campuses is more threatened by current legislation, both in state legislatures and at a federal level.

“At the federal level, with the effort to tack on a set of restrictions into the re-authorization of the 1965 Higher Education Bill, … there is an effort to impose viewpoint diversity and extensive forms of religious liberties to the re-authorization of the Higher Education Act,” Ben-Porath said. “This is a concern to me because I think it’s going to be highly restrictive of the kind of actions that college and universities can do.”

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Students respond to Jan. 21 anti-abortion display COURTESY PHOTO / KATHERINE YENZER

VOX: Defending a woman’s choice

Paulina Farley-Kuzmina FLAT HAT GUEST COLUMNIST

Let me start out by stating the obvious: I understand that abortion can be a controversial subject. However, as a member of the Voices of Planned Parenthood: Generation Action group on campus (VOX), I don’t see abortion as a debatable topic.

The issue of abortion is an issue of health and reproductive rights, and when we call abortion into question, we jeopardize the immediate lives of all people with uteruses.

When I heard about the pro-life group’s popsicle stick display, my heart dropped. I avoided the Sunken Garden Jan. 21 because I knew I wouldn’t be able to stomach whatever the Advocates for Life group set up.

When I heard that someone took it down, I felt such a sense of relief. Before anyone comes out of the bushes screaming about First Amendment rights or how vandalism is wrong, I am neither celebrating vandalism nor objecting to the fact that Advocates for Life wanted a platform, but rather to how they chose to commemorate Roe v. Wade.

Setting up thousands of popsicle sticks to represent “lives lost” since abortions were legalized is cruel and oversimplifies the already complicated issue of abortions.

Firstly, we have no scientific consensus on when life starts, and considering that 92 percent of abortions occur in the first trimester, at or before 13 weeks, the argument that a cluster of cells counts as a fully human life is even weaker.

The display also does not take into account how many lives were saved due to abortions. Yes, sometimes pregnancy happens between two financially stable, ready and consenting adults who are happy to see that little plus sign, but life is not always that simple. Pregnancy also happens

as a result of rape and incest. What about people with disabilities who have a higher health risk if they carry a pregnancy to term?

What about low-income people that already have families and can’t afford another child? This is by no means an exhaustive list of people who absolutely need access to abortions, but for people in these and similar situations, abortions save their lives, as well as their families.

There were so many other ways that Advocates for Life could have exhibited its pro-life agenda without pointing to those who have had abortions as directly responsible for the loss of life.

They could have made signs advocating for better access to birth control, paid family leave or called for reforms to the foster care system, all of which would either lower unwanted pregnancy rates or create a better situation for parents and children. Even something like celebrating the thousands of restrictive abortion laws passed since Roe v. Wade, which is over 1,000, would have been better than highlighting “lives lost.”

I am particularly angry because in October, I had a medical abortion at eight weeks. In December, I spoke publicly about it for the first time at VOX’s “ProChoice Talk,” which was incredibly difficult for me to do. According to the Advocates for Life display, I am directly responsible for one of those popsicles, or “lives,” and that is incredibly harmful and triggering for me and other students who have had abortions. Clearly, neither the Advocates for Life group nor whatever William and Mary administrator approved the display considered the harmful effects of the display on those like me who are struggling to reconcile their choices to get an abortion.

If the goal is to actually advocate for life and not to shame those who’ve received abortions, which is what I suspect the goal of its display was, I invite the Advocates for Life group to come to a VOX meeting. We discuss reproductive rights, intersectional feminism and we write to our representatives and participate in activism. We meet Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. in Blair 201.

Email Paulina Farley-Kuzmina at pvfarleykuzmin@email.wm.edu.

Advocates for Life: Protecting voices

Katherine Beck

FLAT HAT GUEST COLUMNIST

As one of the oldest colleges in America, the College of William and Mary should be a place where people on opposite sides of a divisive issue come together to exchange ideas in pursuit of the truth. Unfortunately, I learned last month that not all students on campus share this time-honored commitment to free speech.

Advocates for Life set up a display of 3,000 popsicle sticks on the Sunken Garden Jan. 21, 2018, to illustrate how many lives are lost each day due to abortion. We wanted to start a conversation on campus about the right to life.

Hours after we set up the display, a student tore it down in the dead of night, preventing any conversation from occurring on campus. We are fighting back against the vandalism because this is about something much deeper than destroying 3,000 pieces of wood and ripping up signs. It is about free speech and our right to speak out for the voiceless. We are grateful to the College for supporting our right to free speech.

Seven women put up this pro-life display, and one man took away their voices by tearing it down. We often hear pro-choice women say that men should have no opinion on abortion.

But when a man vandalizes a display created by women, some pro-choice women are only too happy to praise him. Apparently what they care about is not the gender of the speaker, but whether that speaker is pro-abortion. The censorship of those advocating for the unborn is unacceptable and must end.

I can empathize with the sentiment that abortion should not be up for debate. I do not believe the right to life for any person, including the pre-born, is up for debate. Yet, there will be no progress in our country on the most controversial issue if we refuse to engage in dialogue. I wish the person who vandalized our

display would have engaged in a conversation to learn why I am pro-life instead of destroying a display because he disagreed with the message.

He would learn that I am pro-life because I believe women and children deserve better than abortion.

What did the popsicle sticks represent? They represented the millions of lives lost since Roe v. Wade. I say lives because science is clear that from the moment of conception another being with a completely unique DNA has been formed. Without the interference of a medical procedure, that person would continue to grow into childhood, adolescence and adulthood.

Abortion stops the progression from one stage of life to another. I do not believe anybody has a right to stop the life of another person, especially at the most vulnerable stage of development.

Women should not seek freedom at the expense of their children. Women grow up wanting professional and personal success, not abortion. Why do we celebrate a choice she never wanted to make as liberating her? We should be advocating for women by providing real options and support so they never feel compelled to make that choice. I believe in the equality of all people, including women, minorities and the unborn. I also believe that we can achieve equality in society without taking away the life of the unborn. It is a disservice to women to perpetuate the myth that we can only achieve great success if abortion is legal. My achievements, rights and successes do not rest on taking away another person’s fundamental right to life.

Some of the greatest leaders that fought against suppression were pro-life, including Susan B. Anthony, Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa. I feel confident siding with those who are among the greatest civil rights leaders and peacemakers in history. America’s greatest civil rights achievements began with free speech. Our country cannot stand as one of freedom if we do not protect the fundamental rights to speech or life. We will continue to stand for both principles by putting up another display to spread the message that the unborn deserve the right to life.

Email Katherine Beck at dkbeck@email.wm.edu

In search of a common ground: Reacting with respect for both sides

Maggie More

FLAT HAT ASSOC. VARIETY EDITOR

As the WYDaily, the Virginia Gazette, the National Review and The Flat Hat have all already reported, a protest display was removed from the Sunken Garden Sunday, Jan. 28.

The display was set up by the College of William and Mary’s pro-life group Advocates for Life in order to observe the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision.

I am pro-choice. I know that

abortion is not for everyone, and I believe that the choice and the reasons for it should be left to the individual. I believe that abortion should be legal and safe for anyone who does choose it. I think that everyone with a uterus has the right to decide what the course of their life looks like, and that they should have every option presented to them equally and without government interference.

I also think the destruction of the pro-life display was immature, pointless, and dangerous to rational discussion of a tough issue.

The initial protest was a solid way to bring up an inflammatory subject.

The student group went through all the correct administrative channels to get its display approved. The arrangement was thought-provoking, but non-intrusive. If one vehemently disagreed with the message, the nature

of the protest made it very easy to disregard. They could simply walk away, and if they were particularly impassioned by the subject, they could begin a conversation (or rant) with someone else. Yet, rather than take this easy route, the vandal went out of their way to make sure that other people’s respectfully presented opinions were silenced.

Furthermore, if the goal of the vandal was to silence the pro-life viewpoint, their strategy backfired.

Horribly. By ripping up the display before anyone even got the chance to see it, they turned it from a typical student protest into something that has been acknowledged not only locally but on the national level. This national attention did not favor their gusto in promoting a pro-choice argument.

Their actions were aggressive. The goal of keeping others from considering

opposite viewpoints was questionable to begin with, and the fact that they resorted to such underhanded tactics to “convince” people only made their side of the debate look irrational and devious. It was a poor way to promote their beliefs.

Finally, this is a polarizing issue in a time where it is becoming increasingly difficult to bridge the gap between sides and have any kind of productive conversation. I understand the impulse to become angry when someone argues with a political point of view that is personal or that affects loved ones.

It is especially difficult not to go with the knee-jerk emotional reaction if a large number of people are affected.

Those emotions are not necessarily bad either, but important issues like this one require some kind of mutual understanding. If each side at least

understands (and doesn’t assume it knows) the stance of the other and why it feels that way, eventually some kind of agreement can be reached.

Unless one is arguing against hate speech, preventing the other side from speaking at all is the opposite of helpful. Empathy goes a long way in understanding one another’s logic and in solving problems, and empathy was unfortunately missing when the prolife display was torn up.

As it becomes less common to enter difficult discussions with civility, it is important that we as a college community, and as a nation, take advantage of such opportunities when they do arise. With luck, and effort, we can use this event as a chance to assess the manner in which we move forward.

Email Maggie More at memore01@ email.wm.edu.

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Students eager for Chick-fil-A

Renee Napoliello THE FLAT HAT

Recently, an astonishing piece of news tore through the doldrums of the first days of classes for students at the College of William and Mary.

This upcoming fall, returning students will be able to spend their Flex at a new dining option: Chick-fil-A in Tribe Square. They can use their Tribe Cards to buy as many waffle fries and chicken sandwiches as they want to eat to avoid the dining halls, so long as they are willing to make the trek up to Richmond Road.

This is a particularly interesting development to freshmen such as myself. Many upperclassmen are accustomed to having many dining options because, in past years, more establishments were near or on campus and that accepted Flex. Such places included The Crust, Mooyah, Subway and Pita Pit, all restaurants that used to reside in the currently vacant Tribe Square. Chick-fil-A is not a novelty to the College because it too used to be offered to students. Unfortunately, those establishments closed and left, leaving students only fond memories of the Flex they spent on decent, more palatable food options. These places had become ingrained in their college lives as a way to meet with friends or take a break from the stress of life as a twamp. For example, a friend of mine often remarks that as a fun treat and bonding activity, at the end of every semester her club would dig into The Crust’s famous skillet cookies together. Perhaps, to people like her and to other upperclassmen, the moving in of Chick-fil-A is more like the welcome return of the old days instead of anything novel or shocking.

Freshmen like me, however, only know the current reality of dining at the College: the sad, empty windows of Tribe Square, the Sodexo domination over our daily dining habits and the depressing mediocrity of dining hall food. The two options left, Cosi and Qdoba, can only get one so far before even they start to look unappealing (this is made even worse if, like me, the freshman in question isn’t fond of those options to begin with). I have often bemoaned this fact to my friends at other colleges with superior food options. To actually have our dining situation change for the better seems too good to be true. I’d always assumed Tribe Square would languish, unused, for my entire college career. But it turns out I underestimated the College’s commitment toward filling those empty spots.

It is odd to imagine walking into an establishment that’s not inside a library or student center and being able to use Flex for food not provided by Sodexo. The novelty of this prospect is exciting, especially considering Chick-Fil-A’s waffle fries and chicken nuggets have always been one of my guilty cravings, and I am probably not alone in that out of the student body. Admittedly, though the idea of a working Tribe Square is peculiar now, at least to freshmen, it is likely that by the end of the fall semester Chick-fil-A will become taken for granted in most students’ lives. It will be too easy to slip into the custom of eating at an already well-liked and familiar fast food joint right off campus. I’ve resigned myself to the fact that my eating habits next semester will probably mean my Dining Dollars do not last to December.

This revelation also hopefully means a positive trend for the future of dining at the College, i.e. a larger expansion of dining options for the students. The next step would, obviously, be the renting out of the other vacant spots in Tribe Square. To be a viable option, the to-bedetermined establishment must be easily liked by college students. But, there are other parameters that would make it ideal.

One is to be more vegetarian-friendly. Many vegetarians I have met at the College are frustrated by the lack of options on campus for diverse, enticing vegetarian or vegan foods. It seems reasonable to bring in a place about which the parts of the student body with tighter dietary restrictions can be excited. Let’s face it, Chick-fil-A isn’t exactly very vegetarian- friendly; while fries are always an option, there are only so many one can eat before, out of boredom, turning back to the tofu and beans of the dining hall.

Another welcome addition to the campus would be a dining option dedicated to a cuisine from a specific culture. While good, all-American chicken nuggets and pizza are excellent choices, it would be nice to get something a little different than the current options, at least food slightly more authentic than the dining halls’ versions of “ethnic” food.

A departure from the norm would (perhaps literally) spice things up.

Considering this as well as the aforementioned criteria, Greek or Indian food both seem like superb options to go into Tribe Square, as they both would be flavorful additions to the dining options as well as being vegetarian-friendly cuisines. It’d be amazing if, after a difficult exam or a long day of classes, one could spend Flex on a decent falafel or curry.

But, even if Chick-fil-A’s business is less than ideal or does not herald a dramatic shift in college dining options, at the very least it is a welcome change from the depressing vacancies of Tribe Square. Now, three empty sections will remain, perhaps in the future filled with an option even better than Chick-fil-A. After all, we will need somewhere to eat on Sundays.

Email Renee Napoliello at renapoliello@email.wm.edu.

MEMO FROM RAY HEFFERNAN If you’ve walked into Marketplace over the last few days, you have probably noticed a large absence from the dining room.

Ray Heffernan, the Marketplace supervisor who has become well known to the patrons at the dining hall, has been away from Williamsburg since Thursday, Feb. 1.

Since The Flat Hat’s newsroom is in Campus Center, nearly all of this paper’s staffers are regulars at Marketplace. We’ve become close with many employees in the dining room, but I think I speak for the entire Flat Hat staff when I say that we are especially close with Ray. We care deeply about him, and he cares deeply about us.

That’s why he has asked us to pass along the fact that his mother passed away this past weekend. We send our condolences to him and his family. He has been in Florida for the past few days to be with her, and is now in New Jersey, his home state, for her funeral. He hopes to return to Williamsburg by the end of the week.

Ray has asked for privacy during this time, as well as when he returns to Marketplace. We hope to see him back soon with just as much energy and joy as always.

Brendan Doyle ’20 Flat Hat Opinions Editor Email Brendan Doyle at bpdoyle@email.wm.edu.

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Given current dining situations, vegan diet difficult to maintain

Gabrielle Jawer

FLAT HAT GUEST COLUMNIST

I am vegan. This will not be a long rant about the glory of kale or the sins of the meat industry. I hate talking about those stupid vegan stereotyped topics anyways.

Instead, I want to discuss something much more basic — food — and something a lot less controversial: how bad the dining halls at the College of William and Mary can be for vegans.

First, I have to give Dining Services their due credit. They try, and I recognize it is a demanding undertaking to make so much food so quickly and to include so many selections. Adding dietary restrictions to the mix makes the process even more challenging.

Many of the same concerns exist in the vegan section as in the rest of the dining halls — inconsistent labeling, dishes that lack flavor, and minimal variation in the available foods. However, there is a unique issue for the vegan section, a potentially dangerous disconnect between the chefs and the students: the mistaken belief that vegans can subside on vegetables, vegetables and more vegetables.

This is not the case. Vegans are human beings. We cannot subsist solely on sweet potatoes, broccoli and eggplant. We need

pasta, burritos and cookies. If you think that it is “healthy” to eat fruit and toast for breakfast, salad for lunch, and tofu with asparagus for dinner every single day, then you are sadly mistaken.

While at college in my first semester, this was a huge problem. The freshman 15 meant losing 15 pounds. When I went home for the holidays, my friends and family commented on how skinny I looked; one of my friends used the word “skeletal.” When I went to the doctor for a check-up during winter break, I weighed a mere 99 pounds. At a height of 5 feet 3 inches, this qualifies as underweight.

My parents are aware of how much I value environmental health. They raised me as a vegetarian and respected my choice to go vegan.

Nevertheless, after my visit to the doctor, they became very worried. They urged me to be more careful about my diet; my mom insisted that I read books about vegan nutrition for young people, and my dad proposed that I keep a diary documenting my caloric intake. I agreed to their requests, and we decided that by President’s Day I would gain at least five pounds.

Now that I have returned to the College for the second semester, I am trying my best to keep that promise, but many obstacles still exist. When I go to the dining hall, I can never be sure if something is vegan or not. There are times when a certain item that I think is vegan (e.g. beans, hummus or squash) carries a label of vegetarian instead, but there is no indication of what animal products are present that merit this classification.

The remaining options that carry designations of “vegan” are not satisfactory either. Not only are the dishes unappetizing, but they also have very low caloric contents. That means I must force myself to consume a great deal of bland, substandard food in order to stay healthy, which makes meals even more distasteful.

Furthermore, the rare times when desserts appear in the vegan section, the items do not have labels, so I can never be sure if they contain dairy or eggs.

Beyond Sadler and the Caf, there are more problems. My friends will often go out of their way to eat at Marketplace.

While they feast on burgers, pizza and ice cream, I instead have a choice between salad, fruit and coffee. The only vegan meals at Cosi are salad and vegetable soup. At [Swem] Aroma’s, there is yet more salad and more coffee. The idea that I pay more than $4,600 a year for such options is appalling.

I have serious doubts that I will be able to maintain a vegan lifestyle on campus. After about three weeks back at the College, I am still underweight. I do not want to continue to lose weight, but I also want to remain a vegan. I do not want to starve for my beliefs, but sacrificing my values for my health is similarly unacceptable.

It is time to acknowledge the significant vegan and vegetarian communities on campus, to improve our facilities and to include nourishing vegan options that taste good. This is not a frivolous request; it is a matter of survival.

Email Gabrielle Jawer at grjawer@email.wm.edu.

Feeling fiery: An open letter to the residents of Yates

Anthony Madalone

FLAT HAT OPINIONS ASSOC. EDITOR

Dear residents of Yates Hall, Yates is a hall known for its loud noises and social residents, which I personally adore. There is no feeling like walking back into Yates on a Saturday night, hearing buzzing conversation and seeing your faces, familiar and unfamiliar.

With that said, I am going to set something straight: I should not be forced into seeing those faces outside the building at in the morning on any given week night.

One of the loud noises we are known for should not be a constantly blaring fire alarm. Although I think we can all agree on this, the number of false alarms we have had this school year say otherwise.

I appreciate that residents of Yates tend to be more outgoing and experimental than denizens of other freshman halls. Please feel free to experiment with whatever substances you would like; however, be conscious of how you try it.

Every single room in Yates is equipped with windows that have the incredible ability to be opened; if you must smoke inside, go to one and blow out. It is simple and will save the rest of us a lot of trouble. Additionally, do not misunderstand: vapes can and will set off our hall’s fire alarm.

Because of our social nature, citizens of Yates also tend to stay up late, leading to a greater likelihood of someone craving a hot, tasty bowl of popcorn or ramen past midnight. I am guilty of this myself, often taking the time to create a deliciously simple bowl

of mac and cheese in the wee hours of the night.

If you, like me, feel the need to make yourself hot food past midnight, just make sure you pay attention to whatever it is you are cooking, ensuring that the food will not burn and release copious amounts of steam as you open your microwave. Eating burnt food is bad enough.

Do not force everyone else to take part in your sour experience as well by dragging them outside with you when the fire alarm goes off.

Some of you may be asking: “Since none of the reasons that false fire alarms have gone off in Yates seem to be genuinely life threatening, why bother caring about setting off the alarm?”

Well, besides the fact that your fellow residents of Yates might have class early and need the sleep, you are incorrect in assessing that burnt popcorn is not life threatening.

By getting into an institution as prestigious as the College of William and Mary, I am assuming that we’ve all heard the fable of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.” The last time I was greeted with the wonderful sound of a siren, a very good friend of mine elected to stay in bed and put on his headphones rather than venture outside, with confidence that he would be safe.

Luckily, in this case, he was correct.

A day might come, however, where there is an actual fire in our home. If the false alarms persist, we may all become the boy in this situation.

I know there are a lot of us, and thus it makes sense that we should have more false alarms than other halls.

With so many people, however, the odds of these frequent alarms desensitizing residents to a sound that can literally mean life or death increases just as much.

I know that, because we are the wonderful group of people we are, we can do better. I really do love seeing your faces, but let’s keep the odds of seeing all of them outside the building for false alarms as low as possible.

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

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Additionally, do not misunderstand: vapes can and will set off our hall’s fire alarm.

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A voice in music

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African-American student musicians discuss their lyrics, research, musical styles When Lynn Briley ’71, Janet Brown ’71 and Karen Ely ’71 arrived at the College of William and Mary in the fall of 1967, 274 years after the College was chartered, they set down their bags in the basement of Jefferson Hall and breathed in the musty air of their new dorm room. They arrived on an almost 300-year-old campus as the first African Americans in residence; the College has been celebrating the 50th anniversary of their arrival last fall and this spring.

In 1975, four years after their graduation, Timothy Allmond ’78 formed the Ebony Expressions Gospel Choir, originally known as the Black Student Organization Choir.

Former President of Ebony Expressions Jasmine Brown ’17 said the group was founded so students had a safe place to worship and celebrate their Christianity.

“It was founded by a group of African-American students who were trying to get more clubs of interest that they could go to and have a safe place,” Brown said. “They were also all Christian obviously because it’s a gospel choir and they wanted a place where they could feel comfortable to worship but also have a group of like-minded people with them.”

Brown grew up in church, enchanted not by the preacher’s sermons but by the words that flowed from the choir. Whether upbeat or slow and melancholy, she has always found a source of comfort and inspiration in gospel music.

“I grew up in church, so I knew how gospel music can really effect you emotionally so that’s the reason I joined,” Brown said. “It’s just a good way to release stress, come together with people that you consider family and talk about things that are going on, and we can pray for each other and be there for each other.”

During the Jim Crow Era and the arrival of the African Americans in residence and the civil rights movement, it was a source of hope for everyone that embraced the music.

“As time went on through Jim Crow, through Civil Rights, all of that, it was a way for people to have hope,” Brown said. “It was a way for people to have hope and to know that things are going to get better with them and over time. I think for my generation, my mom’s generation, it just carried on that legacy. It’s a way to feel like the end is not near it’s a way to feel as if there’s hope there’s always light at the end of the tunnel whether it’s big things or small things.”

Though not always stable in numbers, Brown said the choir has persisted throughout the years as a way for those who love gospel music to spread that enjoyment to others, regardless of race or ethnicity.

From notable beginnings performing for Maya Angelou, Ebony Expressions now congregates with other choirs from all across Virginia and performs during services in one of the first African American churches founded in the United States, First Baptist Church in Williamsburg, Virginia.

CAMRYN EASLEY // BLACK VOICE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF HEATHER BAIER // FLAT HAT VARIETY EDITOR This piece was a collaboration between The Flat Hat and The Black Voice

COURTESY PHOTO FEATURING LYRICS OF OUR WORLDS

Reginald Fox, the director of music at First Baptist Church for the past 14 years, said Ebony Expressions is directly involved with the church. Using gospel as a way to connect, the church has always encouraged College students to particle in the choir and other areas of the church.

“One of the main connections we’ve had was directly with your gospel choral group Ebony Expressions,” Fox said. “I actually played for Ebony Expressions when they were in need of a musician. So we use gospel music as a way to connect and showcase how gospel music has been influenced by spirituals, by jazz, by blues. All of those genres that are secular had a direct influence in the music of the church. … Gospel music is a way to connect with social issues that are happening in the community.”

Fox said that besides Ebony Expression, he has started a small hand bell group that he encourages College students to join.

Hoping to connect with student and community members through gospel, Fox said he has been working with other parishes in the Williamsburg area to bridge the gap between different denominations.

“We’ve been able to connect with, for example, Bruton Parish Church and Williamsburg Presbyterian,” Fox said. “We’ve used gospel music as a way to bridge the gap across our denominations. …

We just did a Martin Luther King program together. We combined our groups and did both a spiritual and a gospel piece.”

Hip-Hop, Religion and Social Justice “I am Hip-Hop,” Travis Harris Ph.D. ’18 said. “I’m not an MC or a rapper or beat boy, but I’m hip-hop.”

Harris made his hip-hop debut with a short CD when he was 16. Deciding that rapping was better left to professionals, Harris remained an avid fan of hiphop music and eventually discovered two artist, Trip Lee and Tedashii, while in seminary.

With lyrics that not only touched upon but explored the identity of Jesus Christ and other deep theological concepts, Harris formed his graduate research thesis by listening to these artists explore religion and faith in their music.

“How do we understand religion if we include a hip-hop analysis and vice versa,” Harris said. “How do we understand hip-hop if we include a religious

“I can do something with this”

“I think

what you try to

do is you try to find the

right amount of songs and people

CARLTON SMITH ‘15

that touch you correctly, that make you feel good.”

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“We’re

a music group

on campus. We look like

an acapella group, but we are

YEMI ZEWDU YIMER ‘18

welcoming instrumentalists as well as vocalists to come jam with us.”

First Baptist Church

analysis. … One of the big things I’m arguing for in my scholarship is looking at religion through a hip-hop lens can contribute to our very definition of what we mean by religion.”

Harris said that after his childhood where everyone he knew had a CD and hip-hop was an integral part of life in his neighborhood, his identity has been formed by the music itself.

“To me, it’s also part of that identity formation,” Harris said. “So, I can say that I am hip-hop, right? So, my ontological, okay my way of being, my daily life, my existence, the way I talk influences the way I dress, so all of these that shape my identity.”

Having brought in a third element to his analysis of hiphop, Harris has begun exploring the connections between the music and social justice for African Americans.

“An argument that I raise is religion can equal freedom, so how is it that you can obtain freedom especially within the context of the African American freedom struggle,” Harris said. “So that’s where hip hop and justice comes in.”

Culture and Music

COURTESY PHOTO FEATURING LYRICS OF OUR WORLDS

“This

group was

actually made in an

effort to celebrate and explore

JORDAN RENEE GILLIARD ‘18

the musical styles and cultures of POCs on campus, so that’s our mission.”

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“Family,

a family, proud

family. They’ll make you

scream. They’ll make you wanna sing. It’s a family thing.”

Ka’myia Gunn ’19 grew up in a musical household and began singing as a child. As she grew older, she became increasingly interested in writing her own music. Initially, she would come up with short choruses about the events of her day. Then, in her senior year of high school, she began writing multiple stanzas of lyrics and putting them to music.

Gunn said she remembers thinking, “Okay, I can do something with this,” when she listened to the playback of her first song.

She then let a friend who wrote and produced his own music listen to her song. He was very impressed and encouraged her to continue to write and foster her talent.

Gunn describes her style as a fusion of rhythm and blues, hip-hop and gospel. Her lyrics are inspired directly from her personal experience and the experiences of those around her.

“When there’s an emotion or story that I can’t truly explain in words, I just turn to singing,” Gunn said.

Last spring, Gunn had an impromptu performance with members of Students of Hip Hop Legacy and with several jazz musicians, during which they improvised a song about empowering women who are victims of domestic violence. In the future, Gunn aims to become consistent with releasing her projects. Overall, she said her goal is not to become the next Beyonce; she just wants to feel content with the quality of her work.

To this day, music remains an ongoing and constant presence in her everyday life. Gunn says that she relies on music as a form of support and part of her identity.

Historically, black people have used music as a coping mechanism and means of self-expression. Slaves, Civil Rights activists and congregations all sang songs of hope and unity. Gunn emulates these messages in her own music.

FEATURING LYRICS OF OUR WORLDS

At a young age, Jordan Gilliard ’18 was able to sing along with the gospel music her parents played in the car. By her senior year of high school, she was able to seamlessly combine baroque and renaissance training with her jazz and R&B background to create unique melodies and “openminded” music. Her lyrical content ranges from personal experience to protest music to abstract instrumentals.

“As long as I have something with a good beat and really nice harmonies ... that’s all I’m interested in creating,” Gilliard said.

Oftentimes, a random melody will come into her head, and she will rush to Earl Gregg Swem Library to record it.

“I can spend hours on it,” Gilliard said. “I can spend six hours and it feels like 30 minutes. That’s how I know I’m meant to be doing this.”

As a freshman at the College, Gilliard recognized that there were several biases taking place towards minorities in the a capella community.

“I started realizing there were some issues, some inequities, going on, biases regarding race and microaggresive stuff,” Gilliard said.

She was not content with the limitations of the music they were singing and felt like she couldn’t be herself.

Instead of giving up on a capella, Gilliard showed initiative and started her own group Featuring Lyrics of Our Worlds, or FLOW. “[FLOW is] a music group that was intended to be a safe musical space for those who want to sing underrepresented genres on campus, such as R&B, gospel and underrepresented sounds,” Gilliard said.

Through arranging and singing with FLOW, Gilliard said she wants to want to make sure her culture is accurately presented in her music. “[I want to] make sure that [my] cultural origins are properly demonstrated and honored,” Gilliard said. “I want our art to survive the cultural appropriation and whitewashing of R&B.” Dec. 7, FLOW had its first showcase on the Christopher Wren Building stairs. The audience was comprised of members of different racial and musical communities.

After the show, a student came up to Gilliard and told her that the showcase was the first time a group made her feel something during a performance. “[They] sound nice, but you don’t get a sense of feeling,” Gilliard said of other performances on campus.

This compliment encouraged Gilliard and let her know that her decision to create FLOW was making a difference

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The

Ultimate

Competition ALYSSA GRZESIAK / THE FLAT HAT

Over the past weekend, 20 Division I colligate ultimate Frisbee teams competed in the Mid-Atlantic Ultimate tournament at the Warhill Sports Complex in Williamsburg, V.A., hosted by the College of William and Mary.

College’s Darkhorse frisbee team ranks fifth in Mid-Atlantic Warm-Up self-officiated; we don’t have any referees here.” it’s grown to be a big part of me, and the guys are great.”

Darkhorse kicked off pool play against Syracuse, defeating Sunday, Darkhorse started off their morning with a match them 13-7. They went on to defeat Williams 13-3 and Drexel 9-3. against Dartmouth in the quarterfinals. The hard-fought battle The dedication of a varsity sports team, the enthusiasm of In the final contest of the day, Darkhorse faced off against Illinois, barely slipped through their fingers in a 12-11 loss, putting incoming freshmen and the skills acquired through years of Darkhorse in the running for fifth place. The team’s vigor and committed practices brought Darkhorse to the Warhill Sports spirit shined through in the following games against George Complex at 8:30 a.m. Saturday.

Washington and Georgetown. George Washington was unable to This weekend, the College of William and Mary men’s Ultimate secure even half the points that Darkhorse scored as the home Frisbee A-team hosted the Mid-Atlantic Ultimate tournament, team cruised to a 15-6 victory. Despite being down early in the welcoming 20 college club teams to Williamsburg. match, Darkhorse came back strong to secure an 8-7 victory over “So this is actually one of, if not the, biggest tournament that Georgetown. any William and Mary team has ever hosted, so we’re pretty The origin of the team name is part rumor, part legend, proud to be putting that on,” Darkhorse President Matthew passed down from teammate to teammate over the years. Straus Straus ’18 said. describes it as a sort of underdog tale.

Saturday kicked off the team’s spring season with pool play.

“I’m not sure what the exact [story] is, but around early 2000, The 20 teams, including No. 1 Virginia and schools as far away our team was the best that it’s ever been and went to nationals, as Ohio State and Illinois, were broken up into four pools, each which the top 20 teams in the nation go to. And [the College] consisting of five teams. The College’s A-team, Darkhorse, is just sort of had joke names — they didn’t take themselves too ranked fourth at the Division I level. They competed in Pool D seriously,” Straus said. “So after the first year, they made it; they alongside Illinois, Williams, Drexel and Syracuse. The College did pretty well. The second year they made it the governing body also has a men’s B-team, Seahorse, and women’s A- and B-teams, for ultimate Frisbee said that they needed like an official team Mother Huckers and Woolly Mammoths, respectively. name, and so they said Darkhorse because no one really knew The teams played for hours through freezing temperatures anything about the team and [it] sort of came out of nowhere, the on concrete-like turf. The weekend even saw a few scattered Darkhorse of the tournament.” showers, which did not seem to faze the steadfast Darkhorse.

Darkhorse ended their time on the turf by turning and “It’s been really cold today, but everyone’s had really good thanking the fans who came out to support them on the brisk, attitudes, and it looks like everyone’s having a ton of fun,” Jack drizzly Sunday afternoon. The team’s pride shined through their Helms ’20 said. “It looks like everyone’s really competing at a cheers and smiles as they huddled up one last time. high level, and there’s a bunch of good stuff going on.”

“To be honest, Frisbee is my life,” Darkhorse co-captain Gus The two main positions in Ultimate are the cutter and the Norrbom ’20 said. handler. The cutter’s job, like a catcher, is essentially to get open both teams 3-0 in pool play. After consistent back-to-back points The tournament concluded with the College taking fifth place for a pass, and this player is efficient at running and catching. until halftime, Illinois came out on top with an 11-8 victory, out of the 20 teams invited. Illinois, one of the two teams that The handler is the player who primarily handles the disc through putting Darkhorse in second place (3-1) at the end of the day. defeated Darkhorse during the weekend, ended up in first place. three major throws: the hammer, backhand and forehand. The For many of the players, Darkhorse is more than just another Darkhorse’s next conquest will be the Easterns Qualifier Feb. 17sport is also self-officiated, so the teams are responsible for activity or a way to spend a few weekends — it is a lifestyle.

18 in Little River, South Carolina, with the goal of making it to making their own foul calls and resolving the issues justly and “[Frisbee]’s really become a part of me. I think people now regionals in April. accurately. think of me like, ‘Oh, Moussa the Frisbee guy.’ That’s kinda like “I think it’s going to be a big year for us, and I can see this team “It’s a very sportsmanlike game,” Helms said. “The fouls are my label,” Darkhorse co-captain Moussa Dia ’18 said. “But yeah, going far places,” Dia said.

ALYSSA GRZESIAK FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR

“

The second year they made it the governing body for ultimate Frisbee said that they needed like an official team name, and so they said Darkhorse because no one really knew anything about the team and [it] sort of came out of nowhere, the Darkhorse of the tournament.

– Matthew Straus ‘18

CONFUSION CORNER

A TWAMP’s guide to alternative house hunting

Leading students through the struggle-filled process of their first transition to off-campus housing

Ellie Moonan

CONFUSION CORNER COLUMNIST

It sucks, doesn’t it? Everyone is running around like crazy trying to get their life for next year figured out, while just thinking about the next few days is overwhelming. Well, it is stressful, and we all know that finding a reasonably priced house with a washer and dryer is much more difficult than it should be. That is the problem with living as a college student in Colonial Williamsburg; I don’t think anyone in the 17th century really planned for hundreds of young adults scrambling for beds only hundreds of years later.

Options that are available are usually taken up by Greek life organizations. I have known nearly five houses this past year owned by separate communities of students that have

been swallowed by sorority groups (which is pretty discouraging when looking at future homes). The whole ‘pass down from generation to generation’ is very sweet and endearing, but think of all the poor kids out there who are searching for a simple quiet room away from campus and don’t want to dedicate themselves to a campus organization just to have that option.

The housing market functions as a monopoly for not only Greek life, but also for the landlords in Colonial Williamsburg. If you have a bad experience with one landlord, then that will shut down about a quarter of your other housing options.

So, with all the difficulty in finding a house, why don’t you just stay on campus, right?

Ludwell Apartments is basically off campus and One Tribe Place transports you back to a trippy 1960s haunted hotel. What more could you ask for in a home?

As someone who has lived both on and off campus and has gone through a Spielberg– worthy epic adventure, the hunt for a new home every year has always been exhilarating. The best thing about living off campus has always been

the complete separation from the community of William and Mary — an experience not even a 20-minute walk to and from Ludwell Apartments can provide. After all, being able to journey to classes and then come back to a place that is entirely your own space makes campus all the more special because you aren’t restricted within the boundaries of William and Mary.

On the other hand, living on campus has its own obvious positives as well, such as having a safe environment to walk around in and the ability to wake up five minutes before your 9 a.m. begins. But with all the perks of on-campus living, I will confirm that my parking tickets while living on campus with a residential pass have increased 300 percent versus just parking on Richmond road every day while living off campus. The facts cannot be argued that expenses seem to be at your disadvantage within university lines.

Now we have it confirmed that it is frustrating trying to play the cat-and-mouse house hunting game at William and Mary, but if there is any more advice I may offer from experience, it would be on houses. As you go looking for a new

home away from home, keep a few things in mind. Always be skeptical about the houses you visit, even if they seem nearly perfect, because no house built in the 20th century comes without flaws.

Though you may be desperate to sign any lease that comes your way, never blindly sign anything. I personally have been involved in looking at a lease that turned out to reveal the landlords as criminals and the lease illegal — we have a million law students that I am sure would love to use their degree to help you read a legal document. Finally, when looking for housemates or houses alike, the William and Mary housing Facebook page has been even better than Craigslist in my experience.

No matter where you may end up, be thankful that there are actually options for students to live off campus. It may not be easy, but if you are looking for housing next year, that must mean you are not graduating just yet ... therefore you have nothing to worry about — for now.

Ellie Moonan is a Confusion Corner columnist who will advise you on choosing your on or off campus housing.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

College rebounds after hard loss to JMU

75-63 triumph against Towson marks Tribe’s third win in past four games JOSH LUCKENBAUGH FLAT HAT SPORTS ASSOC. EDITOR William and Mary had its two-game win streak snapped by Colonial Athletic Association leader James Madison Friday night in an 86-41 drubbing, but the Tribe recovered Sunday with a 7563 road victory over Towson.

Going into this game, James Madison had yet to lose in conference play. Nevertheless, the College (15-7, 6-5 CAA) held the Dukes (14-8, 10-1 CAA) to just 16 points on 37.5 percent shooting in the first quarter.

On the other end of the court; however, the Tribe struggled to put points on the board, missing seven of its first eight shots and tallying just 11 points in the opening 10 minutes.

Offense proved a struggle all night against the swarming James Madison defense, with the College shooting just 25 percent from the field Friday night.

“James Madison plays excellent defense, and they rebound the ball extremely well,” head coach Ed Swanson said. “We couldn’t get in rhythm at all, we couldn’t get anything inside … and when we did, they did a good job doubling and stripping [the ball].”

The Dukes Green began to pull away as the second quarter began, opening the period on a 12-2 run before Swanson called a 30-second timeout.

Out of the timeout, James Madison rattled off another 9-0 run, and Swanson called another timeout to try and stop the bleeding.

By the end of the first half, the Tribe’s deficit had ballooned to 22, the College unable to respond with any scoring runs of its own.

James Madison was in cruise control, outshooting, out-rebounding and outworking the hapless Tribe.

COURTESY PHOTO / TRIBE ATHLETICS

Junior Bianca Boggs protects the ball in the College’s 86-41 loss to James Madison on Friday. On Saturday, she helped drive a rebound victory.

“They just beat us up in all facets right from the start of the game,” Swanson said. “They knocked us back on our heels from the get-go, and then we didn’t respond. Their physicality really bothered us on the perimeter, underneath. … Offensively our shots weren’t falling … and it affected our defense.”

Things did not improve for the College in the second half, with the Dukes opening the third quarter with another 9-0 run.

James Madison continued to pile it on, shooting over 57 percent from the field in the second half.

The Tribe did not help its cause with

in character tonight in terms of doing things we do well first. … We need to share the basketball, we’re a high assist team. … We didn’t have many assists tonight that led to baskets.”

Unlike Friday night’s blowout loss to James Madison, the Tribe got off to a hot start against Towson (8-14, 3-8) Sunday afternoon.

After the Tigers jumped out to a quick 7-0 lead, the College outscored Towson 18-7 the rest of the period, including a 13-0 run to close the first quarter.

The Tribe offense continued to fire on all cylinders in the second quarter, and the College scored 23 points in the

13 second-half turnovers, which the Dukes converted into 19 points.

The result well decided before the final buzzer. James Madison closed out a lopsided 86-41 win with little fanfare in the fourth quarter.

Four Dukes finished in double figures, led by guard Lexie Barrier with 19.

Junior guard Bianca Boggs and senior guard Jenna Green tallied 14 and 12 points for the College, respectively, responsible for 26 of the Tribe’s 41 points.

“We need balance, we need scoring from different positions,” Swanson said.

“I didn’t think we stayed particularly

period, heading to the locker room with a 41-31 lead.

The Tribe shot over 55 percent from the field in the first half, knocking down five three pointers.

Boggs, Green and sophomore guard Nari Garner all scored 12 points in the opening 20 minutes, with Garner doing all her damage from beyond the arc with four threes.

Turnovers, however, continued to plague the Tribe as they did against James Madison.

The College committed 10 turnovers in the first half Sunday, leading to 14 Towson points, nearly half its halftime total.

The Tribe’s shooting cooled down in the second half, the College knocking down just below 38 percent of its second-half field goal attempts.

The second half was also marred by sloppy play, the Tribe and the Garner Tigers combining to committ 11 turnovers apiece.

Towson began to dominate the boards in the second half, grabbing 19 offensive rebounds over the final 20 minutes.

However, the Tigers could not find a way to consistently put the ball in the basket, shooting just 27.5 percent in the second half.

With Towson unable to make a definitive run in the second half, the Tribe maintained the lead after going ahead in the first quarter and triumphed 75-63, marking the College’s third win out of its last four games.

Green and Boggs once again led the Tribe in scoring with 22 and 21 points, respectively, and Towson guard and forward Nukiya Mayo paced the Tigers with 19 points.

The Tribe returns to action in a road matchup with Delaware next Friday.

Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m.

TRACK & FIELD

MEN’S TENNIS

College claims multiple top finishes at Darius Dixon

5-2 victory leads to 4-0 season start, best in 60 years

JACOB ROSS FLAT HAT STAFF WRITER

BRENDAN DOYLE FLAT HAT OPINIONS EDITOR

Tribe tops invitational College stays undefeated William and Mary turned in another sensational performance at the Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational over the weekend.

Many athletes recorded top-five finishes in their respective events.

On the men’s side, senior Dylan Anderson placed fifth in the 60-meter hurdles. His time of 8.25 broke the previous school record held by Eric Musiek ’99 by 0.01.

Junior Duncan Goodrich placed third in the 500-meter dash with a swift 1:04.86 clocking.

Freshman Christopher Short dazzled in the 800 meters, winning the event in 1:51.15.

Sophomore Cooper Leslie placed fourth in the 1000-meter run in 2:31.46, while juniors Ryan McGorty (4:09.16) and Dawson Connell (4:13.92) took first and third in the mile run, respectively.

Sophomore JP Trojan and senior Faris Sakallah finished first and second in the 5000-meters; Trojan clocked 14:36.89 while Sakallah crossed the finish line in 14:48.43.

The Tribe men shined in the throws yet again.

The College occupied three of the top five slots in the shot-put results, with freshman KJ Cook

(16.10 meters) placing second, junior Preston Richardson (15.78 meters) placing third, and junior Vlad Castillo (15.60 meters) placing fifth.

Senior Tom Parker won the weight throw with a heave of 17.64 meters and Richardson (16.67 meters) and Cook (16.52 meters) finished close behind in third and fourth place, respectively.

On the women’s side, junior Lindsay Schott (1:17.12) placed second and senior Kacey Wheeler (1:17.13) placed third in the 500-meter dash.

Sophomore Charlotte Kowalk won the 1000-meter run in 2:56.85 while freshman teammate Lauren Finikiotis finished fourth in 2:58.79.

Freshman Karina Tavares ran 5:04.28 to finish fifth in the 1-mile run while sophomore Sarah Goodrich placed fourth in the 5000-meter in a 17:48.92 effort.

Off the track, seniors Abby Jones (1.66 meters) and Minna McFarland (1.61 meters) placed fourth and fifth, respectively, in the high jump.

And senior Leia Mistowski not only won the weight throw, but also bettered her school record in the event by 28 inches with a toss of 19.82 meters.

The Tribe will be back in action next weekend at the VMI Winter Relays in Lexington, Virginia.

Thursday, William and Mary took on Richmond at home in Williamsburg, looking to improve on its perfect start. The Tribe (4-0) did just that, dispatching the Spiders (1-3) in an especially strong singles performance, and ending the night 5-2.

The College got off to a good start in doubles, with senior Christian Cargill and freshman Louis Newman claiming the first match 6-3 at the top spot.

However, Richmond fought back to win the doubles point, clinching 6-3 wins at both the No. 2 and No. 3 spots.

It was all Tribe from there, as the team won all of the top five singles slots to gain its victory.

Starting at the No. 4 spot, freshman Finbar Talcott tied the match with a 6-3, 6-0 win.

Next, the Tribe took the lead with a 6-2, 6-4

win by senior Alec Miller at the No. 2 spot. The College did not look back, never trailing for the rest of the match.

Cargill won the No. 1 spot with a hard-fought 6-3, 7-5 victory.

Freshman Sebastian Quiros came out on top after three rousing sets (3-6, 7-6, 6-2), coming back from a set down to clinch another win for the College at the No. 5 spot.

Finishing out the match, Newman conquered Spider opponent 6-0, 6-7, 7-5 for a win in the No. 3 spot.

Richmond’s sole singles victory came at the No. 6 singles slot, beating junior Michael Ruamthong 7-6 both sets to salvage a second point.

The 4-0 start for the Tribe is the team’s best start in the past 60 years.

The College looks to continue its seasonopening hot streak Friday, Feb. 9 against No. 24 South Carolina at the McCormack-Nagelsen Tennis Center.

4th Annual #WMGoldRush Saturday, Feb. 10, 2 p.m.

The Tribe will host the Delaware Blue Hens this weekend as part of William and Mary’s Charter Day celebration. The team hopes to see a repeat of their dominant performance last month against the Blue Hens, where the Tribe tallied a decisive 90-65 victory, while the Delaware will be fighting to break a six-game losing skid.

Watch this divisional matchup between the Tribe (15-8, 8-4 CAA) and the Delaware (11-14, 4-8 CAA) at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 10.

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After this week’s successful meet, the Tribe’s next track event takes place in Lexington Feb. 9. at Virginia Military Institute.

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The Flat Hat | Tuesday, February 6, 2018 | Page 10

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Tribe splits homestand COURTESY PHOTO / TRIBE ATHLETICS

Sophomore forward Justin Pierce drives to the basket against Drexel in the Tribe’s 91-79 loss Saturday. Pierce averaged 22.5 points on the week, including a career-high 30 points and 12 boards in the College’s win at home against the Elon Phoenix.

College beats Elon in high-scoring affair before dropping crucial game to Drexel KEVIN RICHESON FLAT HAT SPORTS ASSOC. EDITOR Coming off a narrow victory on the road against UNC-Wilmington Jan. 27, William and Mary took on Elon Thursday night followed by a matchup with Drexel Saturday in two important Colonial Athletic Association contests. The College never trailed in a high-scoring affair against the Phoenix and claimed a 99-92 victory Thursday night at Kaplan Arena. However, the Tribe was unable to extend its winning streak to three, losing to Drexel Saturday afternoon, 91-79.

Thursday, the College (15-8, 8-4 CAA) opened a two-game homestand against the Phoenix (13-11, 5-6 CAA). In its first matchup of the season, the College prevailed in a back-and-forth affair, using a 9-2 run in the final minutes to win 80-73. This time, the Tribe came out quickly with six points in the first 90 seconds from a dunk and two layups. With over 16 minutes to play in the opening half, senior guard Connor Burchfield extended the Tribe’s lead to 9-4 with a three-pointer.

His three would be the first of 13 in the game for the College.

Three minutes later, with the Tribe clinging to an 11-10 advantage, sophomore forward Justin Pierce scored his first points of the night with a putback dunk off a miss by senior guard David Cohn. Just seconds later, Pierce ripped down a defensive rebound at the other end and then hit a three pointer in transition to stretch the lead to 16-10. With under seven minutes to play in the first half, Pierce came up big for the Tribe again. This time, he hit two more threes within 22 seconds to push the College’s lead to eight. Three minutes later, junior forward Paul Rowley made a three of his own to extend the College’s advantage to 39-30.

Rowley made three treys in the game and finished with 16 points off the bench.

“I took shots when I was open and a lot of them went in,” Rowley said.

“I was just glad to help us get it done.”

By the end of the first half, the College had stretched its lead to 52-39.

“Our execution in the first half was high-level,” head coach Tony Shaver said.

Pierce opened the scoring for the Tribe in the second half, slamming home his second dunk of the game with just over 19 minutes remaining.

With a little more than 13 minutes to go, the Phoenix had whittled the deficit down to eight, but the College responded with a 10-0 run over the next two minutes. Highlighting the run, Cohn dove on the floor to poke the ball away from Phoenix guard Seth Fuller, and Burchfield scooped up the loose ball and drove to the basket for an easy layup. At the midway point of the second half, Pierce converted on another layup, giving the College a 20-point lead, its largest of the night. However, the Phoenix did not go quietly. They went on a 12-2 run over the next three minutes to cut their deficit in half. Pierce ended the run with a three pointer, one of his six for the night, giving the College an 83-70 lead with seven minutes to play. Pierce led the Tribe in both scoring and rebounds against the Phoenix, posting a double-double with 30 points and 12 boards.

“I finally feel like I’m 100 percent healthy,” Pierce said. “I’m playing a lot more aggressive on offense.”

The Phoenix had one more run in them, scoring eight unanswered points after trailing 87-76 to get within one possession with just over three minutes to go.

“Nobody panicked, we didn’t try to do anything different,” Rowley said. “We just stuck with it and it worked.”

The Tribe responded with a layup by sophomore forward Nathan Knight, who had 20 points for the game, and another three by Pierce to put the game out of reach.

“Great league win, I’m really happy for the guys and proud of the guys,” Shaver said.

Saturday, the College welcomed Drexel (11-15, 5-7 CAA) to Williamsburg, looking to complete the season sweep of the Dragons.

The Dragons came out on fire, taking an early 9-2 advantage after a three by guard Kurk Lee. Pierce and Burchfield answered with threes of their own to bring the College within four, 12-8 with 16 minutes to play in the first half. The Tribe did not take its first lead until there was 11:35 remaining in the opening half, when sophomore guard Matt Milon buried a three to give the College a 20-18 edge. Milon made another three a minute later, pushing the lead to four.

The Tribe took a double-digit lead with just over five minutes to play until halftime, when Cohn scored four quick points on a layup and a jumper. However, the Dragons were able to chip away at the lead, and

Dragons guard Tramaine Isabell’s three in the last minute of the half cut the Tribe’s lead to 45-40 at the break.

Isabell opened the scoring in the second half to bring the Dragons within one possession, but Burchfield answered with a three-pointer on the fast break. With over 17 minutes left, Knight picked up his third foul and second in a minute of gameplay. He was forced to go to the bench in foul trouble, where he spent a majority of the second half. With Knight out of the game, the College struggled to extend its small lead.

He returned with 10:51 to play in the game, the Tribe clinging to a 60-57 edge. Just over a minute later, he was whistled for his fourth foul and returned to the bench.

The Dragons were able to reclaim the lead, 66-64, on a three-pointer by guard Sammy Mojica with 6:22 left in the game. Cohn responded with two free throws to tie the game at 66.

Honored before the game after breaking the school record for assists, Cohn led the Tribe for the game with 26 points and nine assists.

The Tribe was able to briefly grab a 71-70 lead when Milon drained a three-pointer with just over four minutes remaining. The Tribe went cold after that, and Drexel went off on a 13-2 run to seal its upset victory.

The College had 11 turnovers in the second half after not turning the ball over once in the first 20 minutes.

“Our execution on offense was not as good as it needed to be,” Cohn said.

In total, the Dragons outscored the Tribe 21-8 over the last four minutes to hand the College a 91-79 setback.

“We have to play harder on the defensive end,” Shaver said.

Saturday night, Charleston edged out Hofstra, giving the Cougars sole possession of first place in the CAA. Thursday, the College will take on the Cougars on the road with a chance to move back into a tie for first place in the conference.

“It will be a good opportunity on the road to get back on the same status as them,” Pierce said.

Saturday, the Tribe will return to Kaplan Arena to play Delaware in the annual Gold Rush game. The College routed the Blue Hens in the first matchup of the season, claiming a 25-point victory on the road in early January.

GYMNASTICS

Men finish first, women post third Tribe men win meet with highest score of season thus far EMILY CHAUMONT FLAT HAT MANAGING EDITOR The William and Mary men and women both faced tough competition Feb. 4 in their respective meets. The men came out on top, besting Springfield and posting a season-high score. The women fought hard for a thirdplace finish in their quad-meet.

The men posted their best score of the season Sunday, taking first with 398.2 points, and beating Springfield (391.05). The Tribe took first in five of the six events, with individual titles on four.

Senior Jeremiah McReynolds posted a 14.2 on rings, tying for the fourth best score in school history. Junior David Watkins took second on that event with 14.0 points, adding to the Tribe’s winning team score of 67.9.

McReynolds also made the podium on high bar and parallel bars. He took third on high bar, the only event the College didn’t win, scoring 13.2 points. Junior David Allen placed first on that event with 13.6 points. McReynolds tied for third on parallel bars with fellow senior Griffin Antle, posting matching scores of 13.5. Fellow senior Mitchell Campbell led the way for the Tribe on that event, placing second with 13.7 points.

The College had a strong showing on pommel horse, taking first with a team score of 66.25, with individual team members filling up the first four slots. Antle took first (13.8), followed by junior Jacopo Gliozzi (13.5).

Freshman Spencer Schrandt (13.3) and sophomore Nate Winneg (13.15) both achieved career bests, placing third and fourth, respectively.

The Tribe also took first on floor, posting a team score of 66.25. Sophomore Tomas Palma placed first individually with 14.15 points, and sophomore Tim O’Neill scored 13.9 points for second place. Although no members of the Tribe won the individual vault title, the College posted the top team score with 67.8 points. Junior Jack Hasenkopf (13.8) took second place and O’Neill (13.75) took third.

Hasenkopf was the Tribe’s only all-around competitor and took first with a score of 76.35.

The men will be back in action Feb. 24, when they will face Springfield once again in a tri-meet hosted by Army.

The Tribe women took third in their quad-meet Sunday with a score of 193.225. They trailed the host George Washington (195.325) and Kent State (195.325), but bested UW-Oshkosh (190.975).

Sunday, the underclassmen were the stars of the show.

Freshman Katie Waldman tied for seventh on beam, posting a 9.725. She also made the top 10 on vault with 9.750 points. On bars, sophomore Caroline Caponi tied for seventh (9.800) and classmate Evan Pakshong posted a score of 9.725. Junior Aaliyah Kerr tied for seventh on floor with a score of 9.800 points. Sophomore Taylor White scored a career-high 9.775. Waldman and Pakshong posted matching scores of 9.725 on that event.

The underclassmen also led the way for the Tribe in the all-around. White competed in the first all-around of her career and scored 38.575 points, and Waldman scored 38.175.

The women will next compete Feb. 11, when they will face off in a quad-meet against Rutgers and Brown at Maryland.

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Senior Jeremiah McReynolds scored 14.2 points on rings in the fourth-best performance in Tribe history.