The Flat Hat January 29, 2019

Vol. 108, Iss. 24 | Tuesday, January 29, 2019

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Enforcing Title IV

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ERA fails House vote CLAIRE HOGAN FLAT HAT ONLINE ASSOC. EDITOR

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tanks, and groups on what is the effect of the Medicaid expansion,” Mellor said. “People have been having a field day doing these analyses of natural experiments.”

Mellor cited that the expansion states have found that uninsured rates in those states have fallen by five percentage points, a slight increase in the utilization of health care and an increase in financial well-being.

Optima Health Regional Sales Manager Donna Briggs followed Mellor’s presentation and discussed the perspective of a Managed Care Organization with regards to Medicaid. MCOs are used to reduce Medicaid program costs and increase healthcare utilization.

Tuesday, Jan. 22, the Virginia House of Delegates blocked legislation that would make Virginia the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. This decision came just a week after the state Senate passed a resolution in favor of ratification.

In the Republican-controlled House, the Privileges and Elections Subcommittee voted along party lines to kill the resolution. An attempt to get the bill before the full committee was also voted down along party lines. As of now, the ERA, a proposed constitutional amendment to ban discrimination based on sex, appears to be dead in Virginia for the remainder of 2019.

Recently, the movement to ratify the ERA has gained steam, especially in Virginia, as feminist organizations and activist groups hope to codify gender equality in the Constitution. During the 2019 Williamsburg Women’s March, activists and legislators came together to advocate for the ERA. However, opposition to the ERA has also grown.

Some critics argue that the ERA would make it impossible to separate the sexes into separate locker rooms or bathrooms, that abortion rights would become enshrined in the Constitution, and that the ERA is simply unnecessary.

Virginia House Delegate and Chair of the Privileges and Elections Subcommittee Margaret Ransone voted against ratifying the ERA in Virginia.

Ransone said that opposing the ERA and supporting women’s equality are not incompatible, and that her vote against ratification should not be interpreted as a criticism of women’s rights.

“This morning I voted against the ERA because I think it’s simply not needed,” Ransone said in a House session Tuesday. “As a strong, independent woman, it was my choice to vote against the ERA. Don’t misunderstand what I’m saying, women deserve equal treatment, women deserve to be paid fairly, women deserve to have every opportunity in life, just like a man does. And thanks to the 14th Amendment and the Virginia Constitution, violating any one of those is against the law.”

However, others argue that the ERA is an important step in advancing American history. Williamsburg JCC Indivisible Co-Founder Heather Meaney-Allen, who supported the amendment’s passage in the Virginia legislature, likened the ERA’s potential ratification to the establishment of women’s suffrage through the passage of a constitutional amendment in 1920.

“I would say that it’s not unnecessary, because if the 14th Amendment, which is what they love to cite, gave us all the rights we need, the 19th Amendment wouldn’t have been necessary,” MeaneyAllen said. “We needed an amendment to give us the right to vote.”

In the Senate, the proposal to ratify the ERA enjoyed bipartisan support, with seven Republicans and 19 Democrats voting in favor of ratification. However, the bill was blocked by the Republican majority in the House Privileges and Elections Subcommittee. Historically, although Virginia has attempted to ratify the ERA five separate times, the proposal always died in the Republicancontrolled House of Delegates, with mainly Republicans voting against the proposal.

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Fast Facts on Financial Aid

NIA KITCHIN // FLAT HAT MANAGING EDITOR Financial Aid Office would be able to check what classes a student has taken and is currently enrolled in and how those classes fulfill degree requirements. Additionally, the Financial Aid Office would also be able to check how many credits a student has overall and what COLL, major and minor requirements they have left to fulfill. This increased access is not the result of a change in policy, but rather an improvement in the Financial Aid Office’s ability to comply with Title IV. Currently, this new access has not changed the timeframe when financial aid advisors can choose to check on a student’s academic progress and eligibility for federal financial aid, but it has provided a more efficient process for doing so.

“I think that this is one of those policies in Title IV that has been in place for a while but within the past … three years we’ve started to see more and more oversight on that particular aspect of the policy where they’re checking to see if what you’re taking beyond that 120 [credit limit] fulfills necessary requirements,” Associate Director of Academic Advising Shelley Laurenzo said.

Dobrota said that the College’s financial aid advisors will access DegreeWorks when they are advising a student who has finished many of their graduation requirements, or when generally working with a student on their financial aid package and it becomes a salient topic.

“We’re not trying to cheat students, but we have certain things we’re supposed to be compliant in, and over the years we’ve done the best we can and it just so happens that tools are getting better in order for us to keep that up,” Dobrota said.

While the current unequal enforcement of Title IV means that the fate of Canteros’ loan offers is still undecided, he said that this could have far-reaching effects on his academic plans. Canteros said that he wished he had known about this policy before he became so close to finishing his required classes and that thinking about the impact it could have is extremely emotional for him.

“I’m not sure how possible it will be for the things I’ve planned for the future to happen,” Canteros said. “I was looking forward to studying abroad and having an easy senior year but now that it’s looking like I might have to graduate early. It’s really… unexpected.”

University Registrar Sallie Marchello said that the Registrar’s office complied with this request for additional access to student records by the Financial Aid Office because it is a tool that could help enforce federal policy. Marchello

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Increased access to student information creates financial strain, changes to graduation plans as DegreeWorks technology helps College to enforce federal policy Students at the College of William and Mary have always been subject to federal financial aid policies — however, The Financial Aid Office has just recently obtained access to DegreeWorks, which makes enforcing these policies more efficient. Now, students dependent on federal financial aid, like Patrick Canteros ’20, risk losing that funding when they complete degree requirements early.

Canteros came to the College as a freshman with a large amount of Advanced Placement credits and now has only 4-6 required classes remaining to complete his degree. Canteros planned to graduate in the spring of 2020 after completing four years at the College and was also planning on studying abroad this fall. However, Canteros said that after learning about Title IV — a federal policy which will most likely result in a much smaller loan offer for his senior fall and spring — his plans are now up in the air.

“I’m honestly terrified because I’m not completely sure of my financial situation,” Canteros said.

Title IV specifies that in order to be able to receive federal funds, a student must be a regular student at the institution, defined as: “A person who is enrolled or accepted for enrollment at an institution for the purpose of obtaining a degree, certificate, or other recognized educational credential offered by that institution.” Consequently, students who have completed their COLL, major and minor requirements at the College but still want to continue attending are ineligible to receive Pell Grants or loans.

This policy applies regardless of how many semesters the student has completed. So, if a student has finished most or all of their graduation requirements even before completing the typical four years at the College, their federal funds will be limited or not offered at all. The degree to which these funds are still offered is in proportion to how many credits they have left to complete. In these cases, students must decide whether they will graduate early, use any partial funds — if that is an option — and be a part-time student to complete their remaining required credits, or pay for their education without these funds.

In the past, Title IV has been enforced inconsistently at the College due to a lack of resources. Before the spring of 2018, whenever an issue came up regarding a student taking classes beyond their requirements, their financial aid advisor would contact the Office of Academic Advising and request information about the student’s academic transcript.

A change occurred in April of 2018 when the Financial Aid Office requested and was given access to view students’ DegreeWorks by the Registrar’s office. Financial Aid Director Joe Dobrota said that they requested this change so that the

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Title IV is a federal policy that requires students to be enrolled at an institution for the purpose of obtaining a degree in order to receive federal funds.

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The Financial Aid Office at the College gained access to student DegreeWorks in April 2018.

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Students recommended to engage in academic planning to avoid losing their eligibility for federal financial aid.

WILLIAMSBURG

Panel on Medicaid expansion discusses community impact New Health Coverage for Adults seeks to increase program eligbility across the state EMMA FORD FLAT HAT NEWS ASSOC. EDITOR

New Health Coverage for Adults.

Thursday, Jan. 24, the League of Women Voters of the Williamsburg Area hosted a discussion in the Williamsburg Regional Library concerning Virginia’s Medicaid expansion. The League, a nonpartisan political organization that seeks to improve active and informed political participation, invited individuals from a variety of different fields and Medicaid experiences to speak and share their perspectives on how the expansion may affect their respective fields.

After the passage of the Affordable Care Act, states had the option to adopt a Medicaid plan that would increase coverage for non-parents and pregnant women called the

“As voters we have a lot of influence over healthcare decisions,” Board member of the League Mary Bull, who planned the event, said. “It’s a very complicated topic — complicated area — so I think it’s important to hear from people who deal with it in their day-today work.”

Bull wanted to host a Medicaid panel due to her interest in Medicaid costs and the effect it could have on a community. Bull hopes that as voters, the people who attend the panel will have a more realistic picture of these Medicaid programs.

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Virginia is the 33rd state to vote for Medicaid expansion as highlighted in the ACA, and the coverage went into effect Jan. 1 of this year.

Economics and public policy professor Mary Mellor opened the event with a discussion on how other states have fared after deciding to expand Medicaid. Mellor was invited to the event to supply the perspective of a researcher within the Medicaid community.

Mellor explained that the new expansion creates Medicaid eligibility for 400,000 more individuals within Virginia, a 40 percent increase from the year before. The federal government will pay 93 percent of the costs for this newly eligible population, resulting in an extra $2 billion a year from the federal government to the state of Virginia.

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THE BUZZ

A week ago, [Alhassan Ouf] and I were just, you know, going about our lives, and in a matter of four or five days we mobilized a community, put together 60 care packages and several meals. If every other college campus in America stepped up to do the same thing, look how much help that would be.

— Matthew Boyer ’21 on the relief effort he and his friends put together to help furloughed TSA agents at the Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport in the wake of the longest-ever government shutdown

Talking art with Amy Zhang ’19

POLICE BEAT

Jan. 24-25

As editor-in-chief of ROCKET, she’s made fashion political. And that’s just the beginning.

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Thursday, Jan. 24 — Nickel and dimed: Police arrested Cameron Davon Jones on charges of forging coin and bank notes at Merrimac Trail.

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Thursday, Jan. 24 — Lost in action: Police reported lost property at Scotland Street.

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Friday, Jan. 25 — Worse for drink: Edwin Manuel Lugo Gonzalez was arrested on charges of public intoxication or swearing at Commonwealth Avenue.

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Friday, Jan. 25 — Drunken joyride: Nicholas Elbert Kimmel was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol at Richmond Road.

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When Amy Zhang ’19 received the news of her acceptance to the College of William and Mary in December 2014, she was overjoyed and relieved. After meeting with a senior interviewer, she was firm in her plan to pursue a pre-med track while majoring in studio art. After a few influential classes and four years with ROCKET Magazine, she has sculpted a slightly different path.

“I always knew I wanted to take art classes in college, but I didn’t know if I’d be able to major in it,” Zhang said. “My family is very STEM-based, and the idea of something outside of STEM wasn’t really in the picture. But, they’re very supportive, and they ended up being OK with it and supporting me, even if it’s something they truly do not understand.”

Once she arrived on campus, she filled her schedule with credits in chemistry and psychology, still intending to follow the pre-med track. On a whim, she decided to enroll in Artists and Their Writings to fulfill her COLL 100 requirement. She credits this class, in addition to art and art history professor Elizabeth Mead, with inspiring her to major in studio art with a concentration in sculpture.

“So the class had two professors, and it was supposed to cover two subjects,” Zhang said. “Ultimately, it was mostly studio time doing sculpture. I loved the studio professor — I really connected with her. I had been taking pre-med classes all year, and I was doing poorly. I loved that class so much that it brought me a lot of hope and joy when I was doing really badly.

At the end of the class, [Mead] asked me if I was going to be an art major and told me that I should be, and I was like, ‘Yeah, I should.’”

Her path has changed in more ways than one. After seeing flyers for ROCKET during her spring semester freshman year, she was worried she had missed the deadline to apply. She was also convinced that ROCKET would merely be an extracurricular to pursue in her free time. She did not anticipate that it would become a large part of her life.

“At the time, ROCKET was way smaller, maybe like 30 people, and our staff is now around 68 people,” Zhang said. “I started in the style team, and [my hall mate Emmel El-Fiky ‘19] started in features, the editorial part. From there, I did whatever was necessary every shoot. I styled the outfits and became very close with the other style team members Bronwyn Roseli [’19], Kyle Lopez [’17] and Bella Arias [’18]. I think it’s Bella that made me love ROCKET so much.”

According to Zhang, ROCKET has continued to change since her freshman year. The staff has doubled in size, the magazine’s content has shifted focus to include political messages and the very materials used to produce the magazine have changed.

Zhang said that Arias, who served as the last editor-in-chief, helped to change the social environment of ROCKET and made it a more welcoming place.

By the end of her first semester on staff, Roseli and Zhang had been promoted to co-editors of ROCKET’s style team. She said she had learned early on that she could get out of ROCKET what she put in and decided to give it her all.

“That year, Bella, me, Bronwyn and Kyle came up with the idea to do Astral, the fashion show,” Zhang said. “That was extremely exciting, crazy and nerve-wracking, but at the end when it happened, it was worth it. I think it’s one of the best events on campus and it’s really cool that we came up with it. It’s largely due to us being in ROCKET and having that creative community around us and us having those connections with [Students of Hip-Hop Legacy].”

Soon after, Zhang became creative director, working closely with Arias during her tenure as editor-in-chief. They worked with the rest of the staff to change the size and the paper weight of the magazine, redesign the website and rebrand ROCKET as a whole.

Since April 2018, Zhang has followed in Arias’ footsteps and served as ROCKET’s editor-in-chief.

“I think being editor-in-chief means everything to me,” Zhang said. “On the other hand, I’ve been so involved in ROCKET for so long that I kind of feel like I’m doing the same things. The title has changed for me, but I’m still in the same role, although now I am taking on other responsibilities like managerial things. … It means everything to me because the organization has really changed my life and impacted the way I think of my college experience.”

When she’s not preparing for a photo shoot, helping plan a fashion show or overseeing the production of the semester’s magazine, Zhang spends her time working as an intern at the Muscarelle Museum of Art. There, she primarily helps with social media and event planning and said that one of her favorite events was the February 2018 “Divine Evening with Rembrandt.”

“At the Muscarelle you work a lot of the events and that is what I have loved the most,” Zhang said. “It is a very interesting crowd that comes, the wealthy elite of Williamsburg or the people in Williamsburg who know people.

The surprising thing is that people would fly in from other places just to see the works up at the museum. Our previous curator was very wellconnected within the Renaissance art world, and I loved the events.”

While she dove head-first into the art world after her first few semesters, Zhang has also tried to take as many different classes as possible to get the most out of her liberal arts

education. Thus far she’s taken classes in sociology, theater, film and media studies, business, English, chemistry and psychology in addition to the requirements for her major. She said that not all of those classes have been the right fit for her, but she is proud to have dabbled in so many departments. Her favorite class, however, is in her home department.

“One of the best classes I’ve ever taken here is a photography class with [art and art history professor] Eliot Dudik,” Zhang said.

“I took it as a spur of the moment kind of thing. For ROCKET, I never do the photography, but I work extremely closely with the photographers, and I wanted to see what it’s like behind the lens, even if that sounds cliché. It just so happened to have a spot open, and I decided to take it. I loved it. He’s one of the best professors at the university because he cares so much about the students and their work.”

As she prepares for graduation in May, Zhang has decided not to pursue further education but to try and enter the workforce as soon as possible. Down the road, she dreams of working as a creative at Airbnb or as a fashion director at Glossier or Man Repeller. For now, she’s applying to jobs that focus on user experience design.

Reflecting on who she was four years ago, Zhang said that ROCKET has given her confidence in herself. After believing the publication wouldn’t have much of an influence on her life and then becoming editor-in-chief, she said she has found friends that support and encourage her. She has also been recognized by the Ladies of Alpha for her leadership on campus.

“I have changed immensely,” Zhang said. “When I joined ROCKET, I had low expectations for my place in the organization. … Because I became more and more involved and enthusiastic, I became more confident as well. I spoke up, pitched ideas and stood up for the creative ideas I was coming up with.

I became more involved, more opinionated, a louder person and very confident in myself.”

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Students help furloughed TSA agents Government shutdown causes workers to go 35 days without pay NIA KITCHIN FLAT HAT MANAGING EDITOR

The longest government shutdown in U.S. history ended Friday, Jan. 25, but its effects on local federal workers have been widespread.

Students at the College of William and Mary saw this struggle and decided to help out, directing their attention to Transportation Security Administration agents at the Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport who had worked for 35 days without a paycheck.

The shutdown created serious financial burden for agents, who in some cases were unable to purchase basic necessities due to the shutdown. Wednesday, Jan. 23, Matthew Boyer ’21, Alhassan Ouf ’21 and Hyun-Jik Lee ’19 drove down to the airport to deliver food and supplies to TSA agents. This trip was the culmination of weeks of planning and organizing.

When Boyer first arrived back on campus, he called up Ouf and they began planning the trip. Ouf recalls that Boyer asked him what he thought they should do to help the furloughed workers and expressed the urge to take action locally to help those affected by the shutdown.

“What I heard from Matt wasn’t just a request to do stuff,” Ouf said. “It was passion.”

Boyer said that he became roused by this cause because of its immediacy and his capability to do something about it. He said he felt a sense of urgency to help out with this issue because of how quick and drastic the change was for a large amount of people.

“The reason we did this was because it was immediate, it happened right now, and it was a sudden change for these people’s lives,” Ouf said.

Boyer and Ouf focused their efforts on campus organizations in order to gather the supplies they would need. Their goal was to create as many care packages full of food and supplies as possible to deliver to the TSA agents. They reached out to Fraternity and Sorority Life organizations first, and then to other large organizations on campus, such as the Filipino American Students Association and the Chemistry Club.

Students were asked to donate non-perishable food items and supplies like feminine hygiene products. Boyer also reached out to local restaurants Sal’s by Victor and Pierce’s Pitt Barbecue for hot donated food.

Sal’s by Victor Manager Mirella Minchiallo said that Sal’s was pleased to be able to help those struggling during the shutdown through Boyer and Ouf’s initiative.

“We are very close to the community so every time someone asks and we can help, we are happy to do this,” Minchiallo said. “We are a family restaurant and get a lot of help from the community.”

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Matthew Boyer ’21, Alhassan Ouf ’21 and Hyun-Jik Lee ’21 collected food and supplies to deliver to furloughed TSA agents at the Newport News/Williamsburg airport.

College organizations that donated included fraternities Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Alpha Tau Omega and Kappa Sigma; sororities Phi Mu, Kappa Alpha Theta, Gamma Phi Beta, Delta Gamma and Alpha Chi Omega; and FASA, the Chemistry Club and residents of Taliaferro Hall.

Boyer and Ouf put together 60 care packages, each containing one box of pasta, marinara sauce, mac and cheese, black beans, pinto beans, chicken noodle soup, peanut butter and six granola bars. Half of the packages contained feminine hygiene products as well. They also delivered pans of Sal’s Italian food and Pierce’s barbecue.

“A week ago, [Ouf] and I were just, you know, going about our lives, and in a matter of four or five days we mobilized a community, put together 60 care packages and several meals,” Boyer said. “If every other college campus in America stepped up to do the same thing look how much help that would be.”

Even though the shutdown is a political matter, Ouf said that he and Boyer pursued this cause in a nonpartisan manner in order to focus simply on helping the people affected. He said that for them, this shutdown was not about President Donald Trump versus Speaker Nancy Pelosi, but about how they, as students and community members, could help the people struggling as a result of this fight.

“As soon as Congress can put Americans before politics is the soonest we’ll be able to get out of this mess,” Ouf said.

Boyer said that he hopes his efforts inspire other students on college campuses to help out, as well as create a culture of helpfulness and responsiveness in general that will last beyond this government shutdown.

“When you have all the opportunity in the world and the ability to help then you should,” Boyer said.

ACADEMICS

Philosophy professor leads colloquium on epistemology Keith Lehrer visits College to discuss scholarly work in field of theory of knowledge WILLIAM ALLEN FLAT HAT CHIEF STAFF WRITER

For a couple hours on a Friday afternoon, scholars at the College of William and Mary were challenged to question the core of their conception of knowledge.

Jan. 25, students and professors gathered together for the “Defensible Knowledge and Exemplars of Truth” philosophy colloquium in James Blair Hall.

The attendees listened to Keith Lehrer, a philosophy professor at the University of Miami and the University of Arizona, discuss his philosophy of defensible knowledge outlined in his new book “Exemplars of Truth.”

At the beginning of the colloquium, Lehrer distributed a sheet of paper with the philosophical proof of his defensible knowledge theory.

For the rest of the hour, Lehrer discussed the basis of his theory and lectured attendees on the value of epistemology, which explores the question of how one knows one’s knowledge of a topic or experience to be true.

“Is there any security in the basic descriptions of experience that we use to defend our knowledge

claims, to justify our knowledge claims?” Lehrer said. “... However you described an experience, you could go wrong. There wasn’t any way to describe an experience that was infallible, and that’s because, in part, we are fallible.”

In order to accept the fact that the knowledge one has of a topic or experience is true and infallible, Lehrer argued that one must be able to defend the basis of that knowledge.

According to Lehrer, true and sound knowledge, or defensible knowledge, is knowledge that can be justified through truth of experience rather than truth of description.

“Through exemplar representation, you get conception,” Lehrer said. “With conception of the external thing, the experience comes to be a representation and evidence of the external thing, and it shows us something about truth.”

Exemplar representation corresponds to a person’s lived experience. To explain truth of experience, Lehrer discussed how the philosophy of art and his study of the theory of knowledge came together academically.

“If you run to an art gallery and start telling stories about the art object, even the creation of the art object, even the history of the art object,

those are very nice learned exercises, but you are missing something,” Lehrer said. “You are missing what that art object is like in itself, and if you are missing that, you are missing something crucial.”

Lehrer argued that one arrives at a truthful basis of knowledge about that artwork by experiencing a piece of art aesthetically. With this exemplar of truth, Lehrer claimed that one could know what a piece of art represents, understand what a wine tastes like or grasp knowledge about any topic.

After the lecture, the colloquium audience — which included both professors and students — engaged with Lehrer by raising objections or discussing the details of his theories. Some students valued different parts of Lehrer’s seminar.

Mohith Dhillon ’22 appreciated how Lehrer’s ideas challenged the philosophical idea of a universal truth and encouraged communication to arrive at ideas of knowledge.

“I think there is a certain value to that,” Dhillon said. “The universal truth is quite optimistic, so I think this is valuable for studying human behavior and applying it to societal things. It sounds like it emphasizes the importance of communication and coming to consensus and all that. ... For more of an attempt at universal truth, communication

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has got to be key.”

Another student, Yuan Dong ’21, appreciated the way in which Lehrer’s lecture made her think about music in terms of the different aspects of knowledge.

“Music is a unique case because it’s not seeable — it’s kind of in However you between,” Dong said. event wrapped described an up Asatthe 5 p.m., students and professors were experience, invited to a reception you could go in Blair Hall to further discuss Lehrer’s work. wrong.

The philosophy colloquium was part of a larger series of — Keith Lehrer events hosted by the College’s philosophy department.

The department intends to host a similar colloquium Feb. 15 featuring Steven Wall, a professor of political philosophy at the University of Arizona, to foster further philosophical dialogue at the College.

DegreeWorks provides Financial Aid Office with tools to enforce Title IV Some students caught off guard by College’s stricter implementation of federal loan restrictions FINANCIAL AID from page 1

said that the Financial Aid Office had a legitimate reason to warrant access to DegreeWorks and that her office met with the Financial Aid Office that spring to discuss this new access and train its employees to understand and use DegreeWorks.

“I would say that there has been a relatively new awareness in financial aid of this regulation,” Marchello said. “So, it was when they identified the need that we responded and provided the access.”

While all of the College’s financial aid is processed internally, Dobrota said that the Financial Aid Office follows a good faith effort to distribute federal aid in accordance with federal regulations.

Dobrota explained that the federal government abides by this policy because it must establish priorities regarding how it chooses to distribute taxpayer money, and funding students to take classes beyond their degree requirements is not necessarily fair to the taxpayer. According to Dobrota, adhering to federal policy and being conscious of how the office distributes the

sizable funding it is responsible for is an important part of the Office of Financial Aid’s mission.

“You have students who are like, hey, I’d like to go study abroad in the Spring because I’m done but I’m not walking yet, and that’s a more concerning scenario,” Dobrota said. “… It’s not something the federal government wants to fund.”

In order to address how this policy could potentially affect their academic plans, Laurenzo recommended that students work with their advisors to strategically plan their courses. According to Laurenzo, if students are able to plan strategically beginning in their freshman year, they will hopefully be able to take all the classes they want to take while staying in compliance with Title IV. “I think the big thing from our standpoint is obviously we want to help students get to graduation but we also want to make sure that if they’re eligible for aid that they stay eligible and can use that to complete their degree successfully,” Laurenzo said.

“Obviously we don’t want students that are stuck without that aid.”

Laurenzo said that she has run into the

issue of students wanting to take classes beyond their graduation requirements to a greater degree with pre-professional students.

Students who are planning on attending medical school or other pre-professional programs after they graduate are required to take certain classes during undergrad in order to be eligible to apply to these programs. However, many of these students are not majoring in departments that require the same classes for graduation.

Therefore, Laurenzo has encountered students who are essentially being required by pre-professional programs to take classes beyond what is officially demanded by their undergraduate degree. The problem occurs when students in this position depend on federal financial aid and are thus subject to Title IV — they may face the curbing or elimination of their Pell Grants and loans and be forced to foot the bill for whatever remains of their undergraduate education.

Laurenzo said that she would like to design earlier intervention for students who will exceed the 120-credit hour mark. She said that by notifying students who receive federal financial aid about this policy

earlier, students would be better equipped to address the potential changes in their academic plans. She also recommended that students speak to their advisor about their dependence on federal aid and come up with a plan together to make sure the student stays in compliance with Title IV. “I do think it’s important for students to work with their advisor early and often just to make sure they’re on track with their majors and academic goals,” Laurenzo said.

“So, it’s just a matter of really, really careful planning to make sure that they can get the courses that they need and still graduate and still have their aid. So, I think it’s just really important for students to reach out to their advisors early to stay on track” In order to be able to take classes beyond those required for a degree, Laurenzo said that it is key to combine these elective courses with required ones.

By taking classes outside of their COLL and major requirements each semester — alongside required classes — students can strategically space out their degree requirements in order to remain fully federally funded for all four years.

Dobrota said that when students attempt

to complete all their requirements during their first few years at the College in an effort to have a more relaxed last semester or two of taking extracurricular classes, they may run the risk of losing federal funding.

Conversely, another student could plan to take the same exact classes during their time at the College but mix required and non-required classes each semester, so they will still have enough required classes left to be compliant with Title IV during their last semesters and receive federal funds.

Dobrota said that this can happen simply because the federal government is not aware that students are doing this.

Dobrota recommends that students work with both the Financial Aid Office and the Office of Academic Advising when they notice that they are becoming close to finishing their degree in order to create an academic plan that will be both satisfactory to each student and adhere to Title IV. However, Dobrota cautioned that students must be aware that both offices are working within strict regulations in order to help students reach their academic goals, and the commitment to student education is a two-way street.

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Wesley campus food pantry serves students Volunteers seek to address food insecurity issues at College MADELINE MONROE FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR

Wesley Campus Ministry, partnered with the Wesley Foundation and Office of Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives at the College of William and Mary, launched the campus’ first food pantry on Wednesday Jan. 23 as part of a pilot program to address the needs of food-insecure students at the College.

Wesley Campus Ministry Campus Food Pantry Student Coordinator Kate Newell ’21 said the food pantry is open to students of the College as well as any family members who they have designated as dependents.

Only a student ID is necessary to access the food pantry’s services.

“We really want the Food Pantry to feel like a welcome and open space,” Newell said. “And so that’s why it’s student run; that’s why we want to make sure we know who the volunteers are, just so that when people come in, they know that they are welcome.”

Max Blalock, the Wesley Campus minister for the past eight years, said he occasionally encounters food-insecure people in his current position.

“Anecdotally, we have, through our relationship with folks at the College, found out about students who were homeless or in need of food through the years and have helped out students down through the years — as it ends up, our campus ministry [did] a lot before me,” Blalock said.

Blalock noted that conversations materialized between Wesley Campus Ministry members and Wesley Foundation Board members as interest in addressing food-insecurity needs at the College intensified.

“As far as I know, from everybody that I’ve talked to, we don’t have any data on the actual level of food-insecurity amongst students at William

and Mary, that no survey or anything like that has been done,” Blalock said.

College Deputy Chief Diversity Officer Dania Matos said she personally knew of people who would benefit from the Food Pantry, and after speaking with other individuals who felt similarly, began working alongside Blalock and Wesley Foundation Board member Stephanie Slocum. After being approved by the Wesley Foundation Board, the project’s initial operational plan aims to focus on College students, and Matos hopes that the project will expand to serve College faculty and staff members in the upcoming fall semester.

“Together, this was a dream team that quickly brought our collective dream into a reality,” Matos said in an email. “I encouraged Max to apply to the IDEA grant program and I am proud to say that the Campus Food Pantry initiative is one of this year’s grantees. In researching most campus food pantries, I know that students are served, but I want to ensure that our faculty and staff communities are also served in the near future.”

While the Food Pantry has not been opened up to Thomas Nelson Community College or other colleges in the area, Blalock looks forward to future expansion.

The pantry is run by volunteers who are trained in confidentiality.

According to Newell, only members of Wesley Campus Ministry and Alpha Phi Omega, the College’s service fraternity, currently serve as volunteers. Newell said that they would like to include College students who are not associated with these organizations in the future, but that their main priority is ensuring the program’s sound operation before any expansion of volunteer programs takes place.

“For now, we wanted to keep it small, just to make sure we covered our

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bases and we know the volunteers pretty well,” Newell said. “That said, some of our Board members also volunteer. So the Wesley Foundation’s Board members have asked to work with us as well just to see what we are actually doing, so we will have some of them in the future, too.”

According to Blalock, other organizations and offices around campus have been supportive of the Food Pantry initiative.

The Office of Sustainability, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Residence Life, the Raymond A. Mason School of Business and Dining Services are all investigating potential collaboration with Wesley’s food pantry. Newell noted that FISH Inc., a catering community in Williamsburg, additionally sponsors the Food Pantry.

Blalock said that responses from the College and Williamsburg are — Kate Newell ’21 encouraging, making him eager for the pantry’s long-term success.

“We started this discussion about the Food Pantry, and news just spread via word of mouth that the Food Pantry was going to get started for students on campus,” Blalock said. “It’s been phenomenal, the level of response that’s come from across the campus. It’s been from student groups; it’s been from faculty; it’s been from staff.”

We really want the Food Pantry to feel like a welcome and open space.

Eighty-one percent of Virginians support ratifying ERA Campus advocates of women’s equality express disappointment in failure of bill

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maintain control, they’re certainly doing something that’s not going to help them,” Meaney-Allen said.

“People are angry, 81 percent of Virginians believe in this. And it’s not just for Virginia, if we ratify this, it affects the entire country. It’s a big deal.”

Meaney-Allen is referencing a recent poll from the Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University, where Virginians were asked their opinions on multiple different issues.

Eighty-one percent of Virginians said they supported ratifying the ERA in the 2019 session.

According to VOX: Planned Parenthood Generation Action Co-President Emma Silverman ’19, the ERA embodies a practical way to acknowledge women’s rights.

“Besides fully accepting rights on the basis of sex, the ratification of the ERA would be an acknowledgement that rights previously founded under the Constitution were specifically established for men,” Silverman said. “I don’t think the ERA should be a partisan issue. Rather, it’s a fight for all people to establish their constitutional rights.”

For others, the opposition to the ERA represents a fight against women’s rights. College of William

Doctors discuss difficulty for uninsured Locals describe broken healthcare system in VA MEDICAID from page 1

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Briggs discussed different Medicaid programs offered

by Optima, including dual

I think our healthcare system has a problem.

It is broken and I wanted to learn more about it and all of the different segments.

— Williamsburg resident Stewart Goddin eligible Medicare and Medicaid individuals and Family Access to Medical Insurance Security (FAMIS) programs which cover children eligible for Medicaid.

Briggs also discussed some of the difficulties these Medicaid-eligible individuals and families face.

“You think about a transportation issue,” Briggs said. “It really dominoes into something more than a transportation issue. So if that person can’t get to

their quarterly appointment for a blood pressure check, and then doesn’t get their medication refilled and then goes three weeks or a month without taking that medication, what started as a simple, ‘I couldn’t get a ride,’ is now perhaps an emergency room visit.”

Old Towne Medical and Dental Center Executive Medical Director William Mann spoke on the perspective of safety net clinics, which often provide services to uninsured individuals.

According to Mann, 77 percent of his patients at Old Towne are uninsured.

Mann emphasized that a majority of his patients are aged 19-64, an age group Mann believes is often forgotten when discussing Medicaid.

“We’re hopeful that a lot of our patients are going to take advantage of [the Medicaid expansion],” Mann said. “But I’m pointing it out that they are eligible based on income criteria. If you are not a citizen of the United States you are not eligible. We don’t know what percentage of our patients are citizens. We don’t ask.”

Mann also discussed the extra time spent in signing patients up for Medicaid, as well as the time spent on the phone explaining to patients why they are now given a different primary care doctor under the expansion and must get medication from pharmacies instead of from Old Towne.

Patient Advocate Foundation President of Operations Fran Castellow spoke on the perspective of working with uninsured individuals and their access to healthcare at her organization, which is a

national 501(C) charity.

Castellow discussed many of the access barriers individuals face with their health coverage. She too spoke on the difficulty of finding transportation, as well as the struggle of workers when they become unemployed or chronically unwell.

According to Castellow, those lacking insurance coverage cited financial toxicity as one of their main concerns.

Due to this, Castellow explained, individuals would often forgo treatment in order to pay for food and other necessities, resulting in larger payments when conditions worsened.

“Financial toxicity can also affect a patient’s quality of life and access to medical care,” Castellow said. “It is becoming a real impediment for people.”

The panel closed following a question-and-answer period from the audience.

Some questions asked had to do with treatment for opioid addicts, roles of free clinics and whether the panelists believed that Medicaid and Medicare programs were properly structured to continue to provide healthcare coverage in the future.

Williamsburg resident Stewart Goddin expressed his discontent with the current healthcare system while also indicating his support for Medicaid expansion.

“I think our healthcare system has a problem,” Goddin said. “It is broken, and I wanted to learn more about it and all of the different segments. I think the Medicaid expansion is a good thing for Virginia, so I wanted to come and learn more about how it is actually working.”

and Mary Young Democrats member Brooke Miller ’20 said that she feels as if that resistance toward ratification is rooted in systemic sexism.

“I think for me the ERA means a lot in terms of its historical significance and of course its contemporary cultural impacts,” Miller said in an email. “The fact that it was proposed in 1923, set to pass in 1982, and still hasn’t been ratified points to the slow progression of women’s rights in this country and the resistance against them.”

The ERA has a long history, but it is close to the finish line. Thirty-seven states have ratified the ERA, leaving just one more before the ERA can become

part of the U.S. Constitution.

However, the ERA still faces a legal battle, as it was not ratified within the timeframe specified in the original bill.

For pro-ERA activists in Virginia, Tuesday’s decision marked yet another turn in the twisted road toward codifying gender equality.

“I was really disappointed to learn the outcome last week,” Miller said. “Given everything that has happened with the #MeToo movement and the Year of the Woman with these recent midterms, I think I was expecting to see some progress on it. But unfortunately, we didn’t see that progress.”

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Students react to ResLife changes on campus

Student uproar regarding next year’s Housing policy changes demonstrate ResLife changes unnecessary, excessive lack of communication with students

Lauren Cohen

FLAT HAT OPINIONS ASSOC. EDITOR

Many students at the College of William and Mary have started off this spring semester with more than just their usual worries. This year, we also have looming residence hall selections to worry about for the fall. These decisions have recently been made much more difficult with changes to upperclassman residence halls as we know them. In case you have somehow managed to not have heard about this yet, for the 2019-20 school year, Lemon Hall will become a freshman dorm, and Jefferson Hall will be designated to upperclassmen. On top of that, One Tribe Place will be closed for renovations, rumored to be due to mold and other air-quality issues.

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I couldn’t care less, and I think the general upperclassman population at this school should try to care a little less as well.

You may think that I am writing here today to tell you how angry I am about these changes.

In fact, I am writing to you about quite the opposite. I couldn’t care less, and I think the general upperclassman population at this school should try to care a little less as well.

Let’s start from the very beginning. It was a cloudy day, approximately three weeks ago, when my future roommate received an email from Residence Life informing her that One Tribe Place will be closed for business next year.

Although this information gave her quite a fright, I was particularly unbothered by the fate of our beloved “Ho House.” Don’t get me wrong, the concerns I have heard floating around campus are completely valid: hall-style bathrooms aren’t ideal, and the possibility of living in Jefferson along with the ghosts of squirrels past is a valid concern.

Students have also voiced more serious frustrations concerning the timing of the One Tribe Place announcement, as it was made too late for students to make other off-campus accommodations.

Another big topic of conversation has revolved around the “rite of passage” that comes with living in “nicer” dorms as an upperclassman. While I enjoy living in the cushy, suite-style dorm that I do now, I see flaws in that argument. My first semester freshman year was all-around pretty rough for me, and it was made exponentially worse by the awful living conditions I had to endure in my freshman dorm. It seems like it is just an accepted fact of life on this campus that freshman living options are supposed to be crummy, and you just have to live with it and “do your time.” I disagree with that mindset, and I think that giving freshmen more comfortable and accommodating dorms will do wonders to ease their transition into living away from home and navigating a completely new environment.

However, I know not all of us had the pleasure of spending our freshman year in the mold-ridden, ant-infested, constantly damp state that is Yates Hall. Luckily, I did, and it takes a lot to phase me nowadays. For one thing, once you learn to coexist with your hall’s resident shower cockroach, sharing a hallstyle bathroom turns into an easy feat. Last year, I bounced from illness to illness, later discovered to be caused by an abundance of black mold in Yates’ air conditioning system.

This taught me pretty early on how difficult it is to be a successful student at the College when you’re constantly sick. Smaller rooms in older buildings like Jefferson Hall are fine with me, as long as I can breathe, and I’m sure most 201819 Yates residents would agree with me. I do feel as if my past has prepared me for the worst possible scenarios regarding my living situation next year, and as a result, the recent changes are not as daunting to me as they clearly are for others.

All in all, I think that when us upperclassmen are discussing our discontent with the residence hall debacle for next year, we should remind ourselves of our freshman year living experiences, and know that it always could be worse. And yes, you may end up in Jefferson next year, but some freshman will have a better first year experience because of it, and I think that is something we should all appreciate.

Email Lauren Cohen at lhcohen01@email.wm.edu.

Maggie More

FLAT HAT VARIETY ASSOC. EDITOR

Since returning from break, I have had at least seven separate conversations where my friends and I stress-screeched about next year’s housing options at the College of William and Mary.

The decision to place incoming freshmen in Lemon Hall next year, which currently houses upperclassmen, and to put returning students in Jefferson Hall, has elicited controversy. While upsetting to rising seniors who wanted to live in a swanky air-conditioned dorm with an elevator, this decision makes objective sense. The need for more accessible dorms is very real, and the number of students who can live in the two buildings is almost the same, leaving no one out in the cold as a result of the switch.

Less thrilling is the recent discovery that the room rates for different dorms can apparently be changed without any kind of campus-wide notification.

The price of living in each dorm went up by roughly $200 per semester between the 2017-18 academic year and the 2018-19 academic year. This change occurred after the housing lottery last year, because I remember basing part of my decision to live in Hardy Hall on the fact that it seemed like something of a steal to reside in such a nice building for under the $4,000 per semester price tag that already applied to Tribe Square. It is now less of a steal.

I am very lucky in that my family can afford that extra $200, but not every student can. Having a louder announcement of the price change rather than a quiet adjustment of numbers on a page deep in the bowels of the College’s website seems only fair.

Most exasperating is the way One Tribe Place’s removal from the housing system next year was handled.

After some searching on the College’s website and many emails back and forth between me and Residence Life director Maggie Evans, I learned that right now, there are 304 residents in One Tribe Price, and a total of 337 empty beds across campus. This includes fraternity and sorority housing and the 54 beds currently unoccupied in One Tribe Price itself.

If none of these numbers change , which is in no way guaranteed, as about 200 students leave campus per year to study abroad, graduate early, live offcampus and the like, the very recent announcement to close One Tribe Place has troubling implications.

I am an English major rather than a math major for a reason, but even I am capable of subtraction.

Without the 52 empty beds in One Tribe Place, because the entire dorm is closed, there would be only 285 empty beds across all of campus for students to stay in. If the 304 students who currently live in One Tribe Place all want to stay on campus,

even once they are shuffled around into all of the 285 available beds, that leaves roughly 19 people without an on-campus home next year as things currently stand.

Obviously, there are many moving parts to this situation. There may be more people studying abroad next year than right now, or more people who have already found houses off-campus.

Nineteen people is a fairly small margin of error in a very complicated problem. But I argue that the anxiety could easily have been mitigated, or even avoided, if ResLife had made students aware that One Tribe Place would not be available to live in earlier than two months before the housing lottery began.

I’m sure there are a few students who were on the fence about living off-campus next year who would have appreciated having more time and more information to consider their options.

Finding a home off-campus at this point is much more complicated for people who cannot afford the money for a parking pass, or the time to drive 15 minutes to campus and then spend 10 minutes before class searching for an available parking space every single day.

I appreciate everyone who works in ResLife.

They are good people who spend a lot of time doing a very hard, complicated and often thankless job. I don’t begrudge the need for dorms to close or for students to switch from one building to the other.

It even makes sense to raise prices to pay for recent long-lasting construction.

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But this year, there was a major breakdown in communicating important information to students clearly and quickly.

But this year, there was a major breakdown in communicating important information to students clearly and quickly. In the future, making housing information known as early as possible should be a high priority in order to ensure students can focus on their studies and building a welcoming community at the College, not on whether they have a place to live for the next year.

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

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Disabled students deserve conscientious treatment

Chloe How

FLAT HAT GUEST WRITER

Just like you, I really enjoy breathing, going to interesting events and just generally not suffering.

Unfortunately, these things are not always possible for me, or for many other disabled students on campus.

I’m autistic, as are the majority of my friends. Being autistic comes with many variations in sensory perception, which can be a good thing (I get way more joy from touching soft things than allistics/non-autistics ever could), but also a bad thing. We have to be careful about which classes we register for based on their location, where we eat and at what time and balancing our sensory needs with the assumptions and aggression of allistics.

Some of these problems cannot be easily addressed.

We all despise the hell of creaky-doored, squeaky-chaired Morton, and the air conditioning and other electrical systems in many of the buildings across campus can make pretty horrific noises. But there’s not much to be done about that aside from renovations.

Other things, however, are quite simple. As I mentioned earlier, it’s pleasant to be able to breathe. It’s unpleasant to walk into a classroom and immediately begin choking because someone decided to wear perfume in an enclosed space where other students need to be in order to learn.

If you’re chilling in your own room and want a fun smell, good for you! But please don’t force me out of a classroom because you wanted to smell like flowers.

Organizations hosting events are also guilty of failing to consider the sensory needs of those who may be attending. Many things which can be enjoyable for some, such as flashing lights, loud music and large crowds, can completely prevent many autistic people from participating without pain and distress. The most important thing is to be clear about what your events will entail. I know not every event will be suitable for me, and that’s OK. What isn’t OK is when I muster up the energy to drive over to campus for events I’m excited about, only to find that people like me are not welcome there.

Just as organizations give notice when events will involve alcohol or will have a cover fee, they should provide clear, complete accessibility information in their advertising.

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Many things which can be enjoyable for some, such as flashing lights, loud music and large crowds, can completely prevent many autistic people from participating without pain and distress.

Unfortunately, not only do people tend to fail to consider accessibility in the first place — they get very angry when I and other disabled students point the inaccessibility out. This past blowout, I very hungrily drove over to Sadler to get some pancakes from InterVarsity’s Pancake House event. Unfortunately, I was unable to even approach the dining hall in which the event took place because the volunteers were screaming and playing extremely loud music.

I made a light-hearted meme about my disappointment at the unexpected sensory hell, as there had been no prior indication that the screaming or music blaring would occur at what sounded like a relaxed, casual event, and posted it in the SwampyMemes Facebook group. My autistic friends, many of whom also could not attend, enjoyed the meme, but others were very unhappy to be confronted with the idea that disabled people might exist and might even want to be able to go to events (just like abled people — a huge shock).

This was far from an isolated incident. I skipped my high school prom because the menu wasn’t given in advance and I had no idea whether any of it would be edible due to sensory sensitivities. I’ve avoided going to plenty of AMP events that sound quite enjoyable because there was no information available to give me an idea of how loud or crowded they would be.

Part of the reason I live off campus is because I wasn’t even safe in my dorm; I once had a nasty panic attack because an a cappella group decided that the best way to advertise the concert it was about to give in the lobby was to run up and down the halls shrieking (not even screaming about the concert — literally just shrieking).

Constantly navigating a world that is not made for you is exhausting. What hurts the most is when people fail to consider the needs of others in ways that could easily be prevented. One person deciding to wear perfume to class on one day can prevent me from attending that class for a whole week. Taking the time to learn about accessibility needs and making choices that respect those needs every day is essential for making our campus and our world a more autistic-friendly place.

Email Chloe How at ckhow@email.wm.edu.

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Grill rotation provides variety, structured schedule

Caroline Wall

FLAT HAT OPINIONS ASSOC. EDITOR

While the majority of us students spent winter break binging Netflix and lounging on the couch, the staff at Sadler was busy concocting a fancy new grill rotation for our enjoyment.

As advertised on napkin holders throughout the dining hall, each day will now bring a new grill specialty. You can start off your week on a high with grilled cheeses on Monday and end even higher with chicken nuggets on Friday.

Other days will bring such grill masterpieces as Italian sausage, quesadillas, buffalo chicken and more.

I personally was thrilled to arrive back at campus to hear of this new development.

Sadler is expanding its options past the usual hamburgers and grilled chicken sandwiches.

This is a welcome development for students who have become tired of being limited by the same options every day.

Not only that, but now I can plan my day around what I eat in addition to my class schedule.

I will be comforted to know that I can easily cheer up with a quesadilla on Thursdays when I’m wondering how it’s possible that it’s still not Friday yet, and I can do so without having to relinquish a portion of my precious dining dollars to Qdoba.

I can also now have an extra day of chicken nuggets without feeling as though I spend more time (and money) at Chick-fil-A than I do anywhere else on campus.

Having a rotation provides every day with something special to look forward to. It makes each day unique in its own way, saving the week from feeling like a repeat of the same thing over and over again.

It also allows me to walk into Sadler with some idea of what to expect.

Yes, I could check the William and Mary app for the full menu, but the chances that I will think of that in advance or want to take the time to check are slim. If nothing else, I can at least know what special grill option is available, adding some peace of mind in case I find nothing else that appeals to my tastes that day.

This weekly schedule also gives me a touch of home. My family would eat many of the same meals for dinner every week, and I miss that predictability.

While all of the dining halls do offer the same things every day, I don’t automatically associate those options with different days, and they tend to feel overly predictable.

I don’t always want pizza when I can have it every day, but once a week is rare enough that I can continue to look forward to that buffalo chicken, no matter how many weeks in a row I have it.

Overall, this new rotation simply provides an additional option for how students would like to structure their meals, a positive for both students dying to change it up and those looking for a reliable meal schedule throughout their stressful weeks.

So thank you, Sadler, for switching things up (in addition to the new table arrangements) and giving us all something new to enjoy.

Email Caroline Wall at cewall01@email.wm.edu.

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This weekly schedule also gives me a touch of home. My family would eat many of the same meals for dinner every week, and I miss that predictability.

STAFF COLUMN

Complaining less effective than genuine outreach when dealing with administrative conflicts, campus-wide issues

Anna Boustany

FLAT HAT OPINIONS ASSOC. EDITOR

Last semester, I arrived on campus only to find that Sadler had made many bizarre changes, mainly shrinking the plate sizes, and changing up the locations of food stations.

As upsetting as the tiny plates are, I have managed to survive, but I was hoping that at least this time when I returned to campus there would be no more seemingly random changes.

However, Sadler’s changing of the light side seating was only the beginning of the seemingly chaotic changes announced within the first few days of classes. Asides from The Caf ’s much maligned wall color change, Residence Life flooded students’ emails with announcements about upcoming housing changes.

Ultimately, there is little I can add to the conversation regarding these changes individually. However, these changes illustrate what seems to be a consistent problem at the school: lack of communication between students and administration.

To be honest, as a student it is easy to categorize the entirety of the administration as an unknowable “they.”

“They” are out to get us. “They” just want our money, and “they” don’t really care about the student body.

But I think this categorization of the administration as some sort of untouchable “they” is in part what is causing much of this gap in communication. It is an easy trap to fall into, that of giving people in power more power

unintentionally. But when we, the student body, refuse to engage with our administration as people, but rather put the people working in positions of power at the school in one group as “they,” we lose more than we think.

I am in no way saying our administration is perfect, because of course it isn’t.

As much as I love the College of William and Mary, it is incredibly important to recognize that our school is in many ways flawed, and sometimes the people in power do little to make it better.

But I don’t think it is particularly helpful for me, or any student, to simply bash the administration by saying “they” are all terrible, and don’t care for the College’s students because it is ultimately untrue.

Our school’s administration is made up of people who choose to be here. Certainly, some are disconnected from what it is like to be a student in college today, and overall the people within the administration, while trying their hardest, are far from perfect.

Regardless, the administration is made up of people and when changes are made that seem abrupt, these changes have probably been subjected to a great deal of thought for a long time. The adminstration also can only know about the issues that students tell them about, and I’m pretty sure the adminstration isn’t reading Swampy Memes.

But, as students who are upset by these seemingly abrupt and random changes, I think we ought to exercise the selfdetermination that was preached to us during freshman orientation. While certainly communicating with the administration won’t fix everything, it is a very good place to start.

This is a call to me just as much as it is to any of you, but we ought to take advantage of the fact that the people in power here are just that: people who we can actually talk to.

As much as we complain about a change, there will be no meaningful benefit without communication.

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

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Elizabeth Stephenson ’19 finds autonomy through travel, radio

ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN // FLAT HAT VARIETY ASSOC. EDITOR When Elizabeth Stephenson ’19 visited a small coastal town in France with her boyfriend, she knew the fact that she didn’t speak a word of French might be an issue.

What she didn’t know was that the language barrier would keep her from accessing an essential hair product.

“I really wanted conditioner, and I did not know what they use as conditioner in France,” Stephenson said.

Stephenson and her boyfriend searched throughout the town, which consisted of a few stores, a bakery and a couple restaurants - but to no avail.

“We were looking up the words for [conditioner] and trying to describe it, but no one seemed to know what we were talking about,” Stephenson said.

“They just didn’t sell it at the store.”

Stephenson’s search took her to a hotel, where she paid two euros for conditioner and received tiny hotel-sized bottles of shampoo instead. She describes the ordeal as a puzzling but funny experience.

“Our stay there was really comical, because it was just us not really knowing what was going on,” Stephenson said. “It definitely makes a difference if you can speak the language of where you’re going or have some sort of background, but part of the fun is going to a place where you don’t know much and seeing what’s going on.”

Rome, Venice and Lake Como in Italy, Philadelphia and Chicago in the United States and Étretat, France, are all destinations Stephenson and her boyfriend have checked off their list. Stephenson takes travel as an opportunity to enjoy the breaks she has during college.

“I’m trying to take advantage of the fact that I have a lot more time off than I would if I was in a job, which I will be when I graduate,” Stephenson said.

“Traveling is something that I’m always happy to spend money on.”

Traveling across the globe, especially to Western Europe, gives Stephenson a new perspective on history, especially while attending college in an area that is so historically important.

“Colonial Williamsburg is very historic for American standards,” Stephenson said. “[But after] going somewhere in Italy where it’s like, ‘This is thousands of years old and the Roman Empire was here,’ … Colonial Williamsburg is so new.”

Initially, Stephenson wanted to bring a sticker back from each place she traveled to. After a few trips out of the country, she quickly realized that finding stickers in Europe was harder than expected and switched to a different plan.

“I started getting pins for my backpack, and then I started getting tote bags,” Stephenson said. “I put the [tote bags] up in my room or use them every once in a while; I use them to put stuff in while I’m [at the location].”

For Stephenson, pre-trip planning usually entails the logistics: deciding between a flight or car ride to get where she needs to go. She finds that overplanning her trips makes them more tiring than exciting.

“I used to try to find [restaurants] before I went somewhere, and just never ended up actually going to those places, and it took some of the fun out of it. So, I try not to delve too much into the details,” Stephenson said. “But it’s definitely fun to look at the most popular things to do; TripAdvisor has some good intel on it.”

One of the most important aspects of travel for Stephenson is living in the

moment and making the most of her time in a new place.

“The hard part about going through a lot of great experiences is when you’re doing it, a lot of the time you’re like, ‘Am I getting the most out of this?’” Stephenson said. “Staying present in that sort of moment is something I’ve been working on, not even just when I travel but also [as a] second semester senior at William and Mary. How do you enjoy that but also not stress about enjoying it?”

Stephenson is planning to travel to Portugal over spring break, and she hopes to have at least a month of free time after graduation before her new job starts to travel to Amsterdam, Southern England or Croatia. She is also open to traveling outside of Western Europe to Budapest, Hungary or Prague, Czech Republic or visiting slightly closer to home in California.

Stephenson is also a senior station manager for WCWM, the College of William and Mary’s student-run radio station on 90.9 FM, with a reach spanning from Richmond to Newport News. The station broadcasts 24 hours a day and has a staff of about 15 directors and 30 DJs. Stephenson made the decision to get involved with broadcasting as part of a pact with a close friend.

“My best friend in high school and I both knew that we wanted to do college radio because that’s something that’s not really available at the highschool level, but seems like a cool thing to get involved with,” Stephenson said. “She went to a different school and got involved with her radio station, and I sought out WCWM.” As senior station manager, Stephenson manages events hosted by WCWM, including WCWM Fest and other musical events. During her junior year she served as junior station manager and performed similar duties, as well as making outlines for and running meetings and attending media council. She has found her time as part of WCWM to be extremely rewarding.

“I’ve always liked music and going to concerts, but I never really had any other experience beyond that; I was just interested to see what WCWM had to offer,” Stephenson said. “It turned out to really align with my interests, and I really enjoyed the people there and helped out with some of the events we put on, [and I] wanted to continue doing it.”

Stephenson has a show on WCWM which airs Thursdays from 6-7 p.m. She plays whatever music resonates with her in the moment and talks casually for fun. She likes listening to female artists like Angel Olson, Stevie Nicks and Lucy Dacus, in addition to pop, acoustic, folksy and top-100 songs.

During her sophomore year, Stephenson got extremely involved with efforts to bring Frankie Cosmos to perform at the College, and she now looks back on that time as a flashbulb memory during which she realized she wanted to get more involved with WCWM. She appreciates the autonomy available at the College and within WCWM and feels that the independence has given her the opportunity to take the lead on events that she is passionate about.

“In my perspective, students have a lot of control over what they can do in their positions and organizations; WCWM is entirely student-run except for things where we have to go through the administration,” Stephenson said. “I definitely liked being able to really have an idea, execute that idea, and run the event. If you have an idea and you want to do something, you can get that done, which is really cool to see.”

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Introducing

MOMO Meet the College of William and Mary’s famous furry friend

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As it says on his Facebook page, Momo the Samoyed is truly a “dog about the town.” Momo, whose given name is Daystar’s Moomintroll Maurice Moss, can often be spotted playing on the Sunken Garden, hanging out with his parents around Washington Hall or Morton Hall or trying to snag a treat at the Williamsburg Farmers Market.

“He’s a total chowhound, so he just pulls me from one place that he can get snacks to another place that he knows he can get snacks,” Momo’s owner and Vice Provost for E-Learning Michael Blum said. “People like to stop and pet him there, and that’s one place that he really loves because he gets to meet dogs.”

Easily recognizable by his immensely fluffy white fur and gentle smile, Momo is a local celebrity. People love to stop and pet him, and he loves the attention. On campus, students recognize Momo from events like Wesley Campus Ministry’s Paws for Stress night or his social media accounts.

“His fame precedes him, and it always comes as a shock to me,” owner and professor of Russian studies Bella Ginzbursky-Blum said.

Momo has both a Facebook and an Instagram account, which allows Blum to share all of his pictures of Momo in one place. Given his popularity on campus, there is definitely a demand for Momo pictures.

“We like to share him because people want to see him,” Blum said.

Momo turns three years old in March and has come a long way since his puppy days. According to his parents, Momo was a bit of a menace when he was little, but with training he has learned tricks and commands and now enjoys showing off for treats. He even has an agility set in the backyard.

Naturally curious, Momo loves to explore outside, whether he is going for hikes in Acadia National Park in Maine or at home on the Capitol Trail. He is just as popular with his human friends as he is with other animals he meets. Momo has many dog pals on campus and especially loves going to see the horses and sheep in Colonial Williamsburg.

Often, animals are equally as curious about him as he is of them. GinzburskyBlum remembers one time when they came across a deer in the woods. Both Momo and the deer stopped and studied each other. Blum says that in addition to deer, sometimes birds will follow Momo around.

Halloween is an especially fun holiday for Momo. This year he was Appa from “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” which is also the show where the nickname Momo comes from. For his first Halloween, Momo’s costume was a piece of paper taped to his side with the word “cloud” looping through the center. In fact, Momo has so much white, fluffy fur that Blum was able to use it to knit.

“We actually spun his fur into yarn, and I knit with it,” Blum said. “I’m knitting a blanket right now … I’m knitting mainly with wool, but then there are a couple of places where I sewed his fur into the pattern.”

His distinctly long hair is equally matched by his long tongue, which often pokes out while playing. Blum loves to joke about it.

“His best feature is that his tongue is too long for his mouth,” Blum said.

Keep an eye out for Momo and his fluffy white coat strolling around campus.

CONFUSION CORNER

College’s bizarre spaces, quiet places

Exploring some of the most dangerous, haunting places on campus, in Williamsburg area

Ellie Moonan

CONFUSION CORNER COLUMNIST

With graduation just around the corner for some students, I think it’s time we finally confront some of The College of William and Mary’s most bizarre spaces.

Let’s start with the Colonial Parkway. First of all, the fact that the Colonial Parkway is still a functioning road that somehow does not have any safety precautions or lighted pathways terrifies me. One would think that after there was a literal Colonial Parkway serial killer years ago, there would be more care put into making such roads feel like you aren’t entering the tunnel into a realm straight from “Spirited Away.” The bumpy texture, unmarked divides and lack of any life other than the occasional red-eyed deer make even the simplest of College Creek trips a thriller.

Another mysterious and unspoken place on campus is the entirety of Lake Matoaka. This includes both Matoaka amphitheaters, the art gallery and remnants of obstacles used for Tribe Adventure Program classes. It has always been strange

to me that out of a school of nearly 7,000 students, I never see a fellow student walking through Matoaka at the same time as me.

In addition, the area itself is quiet and curious. Rumor has it that years ago there was a party house in the woods, and the brick remnants of the building are still there; however, now it seems almost like a barren wasteland full of adventure and wonder.

Despite all of its wonder, Matoaka continues to be an enigma of the campus.

Finally, I would like to bring up the fact that the old Student Health Center continues to be used by the school. I know because I was a part of the first class to use the space last semester.

The prospect of reusing an old building would be fine, if not for the fact that this used to house thousands of ill students.

Though our class was only using the main lobby as our classroom, the rest of the Health Center is relatively the same - as in beds and desks and tools are still left in old offices. Our class often required us to stay until late hours and near the end of the semester the heating stopped working, so we were stuck in a frozen tundra that was once the Health Center.

Similar to the half-finished One Tribe Place, it seems to be a pattern of the College to continue to allow students into spaces that are half finished and questionably healthy.

Whether you are aware of them or not, it should be known that all of these cursed places exist 24/7 on our campus and will continue to exist for a long time. So next time, if you are wondering why Williamsburg is so dated, take a look around, and you will see that the past still fails to catch up to our present.

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Lake Matoaka Is one of the eeriest spots on campus, particularly late at night.

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GYMNASTICS

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Despite both teams placing second, Saturday’s meet was highlighted by individual efforts. Sakti, White and Pakshong led the women’s team in scoring in Saturday’s home meet, while Gliozzi and Watkins dominated for the men’s team.

Tribe places second to Towson, Navy in home opener Both teams place second in tight competitions, men claim season-high total score

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Saturday, Jan. 26, the William and Mary gymnastics teams hosted a double dual meet for both teams’ home openers. The men’s team took on Navy while the women’s team competed against Towson. Both teams saw individual highlights but fell to their rival teams in close matches. The men’s team put up an overall score of 390.6 to Navy’s 394.250, while the women came in just behind Towson’s 194.075 with a score of 192.975.

The men put up their best overall tally of the season Saturday, earning four individual titles with winning marks by freshman Andrew Lyubovsky on parallel bars and high bar, senior Jacopo Gliozzi on pommel horse and senior David Watkins on rings.

Gliozzi put up a score of 14.5 on the pommel horse, claiming the event title for the second meet in a row and setting a season high for the team. On floor, sophomore Cutter Fugett led the team with

a 13.5 and second place overall. On vault, senior Jack Hasenkopf and Collin Lillie placed second and third with scores of 14.05 and 14.0, respectively.

The women got off to a slow start in their meet with secondplace finishes on several events.

“The first half of the meet started off a little slow with some mistakes on vault and bars,” senior Kate Webber wrote in the W&M Women’s Gymnastics Blog. “But a beautiful routine and stuck dismount from Caroline Caponi earned her the bars title.”

After junior Caroline Caponi claimed the meet-best score on bars with a 9.825, the women’s team began to dominate. One of the team’s best performances on the night was on the floor, where they tallied a 48.750.

The team’s showing on beam was boosted by high scores from several individuals, including freshman Samantha Sakti, who was named the Jan. 23 ECAC Rookie of the Week. She, junior Taylor White and junior Evan Pakshong to stand as one of the program’s

best scores in school history, although they were narrowly edged out by Towson for first place in the meet. Although they just missed out on the first-place finish, it was still a banner day for Sakti, who led the team in other individual efforts. She had the highest team scores on vault, with a third-place score of 9.725, and on floor, with a score of 9.850.

Bars were led by Caponi and Pakshong, while White placed second in the all-around with 38.850 just ahead of Caponi’s thirdplace finish of 38.350. The team’s finish would stand as their second second-place score of the season so far, after they came in the same position in a quad meet at Towson.

The men’s team will return home Feb. 2 for the State Open with Temple, while the women’s team will return home in March for a competition against North Carolina. Prior to that homestand, the women’s team will travel to George Washington for a quad-meet Feb. 8. Both teams will be looking for their first first-place finish of the season.

SWIMMING

MEN’S BASKETBALL

College bests VMI at home Wright breaks multiple individual records GAVIN AQUIN FLAT HAT SPORTS ASSOC. EDITOR

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Currently on its longest losing streak of the season, the Tribe fell short against Charleston after a lopsided second half.

Charleston trumps Tribe, 74-59 Fifth-straight loss drops conference record to 3-6 BRENDAN DOYLE FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR

Looking to break a season-long losing streak, William and Mary traveled to the College of Charleston Saturday for a Colonial Athletic Association matchup.

Though the short-handed Tribe (7-14, 3-6 CAA) hung in the game for 35 minutes, guard Grant Riller and the Cougars (16-6, 5-4 CAA) finally wore it down, prevailing 74-59 and extending the College’s string of losses to five straight.

“I think our kids competed very hard today,” head coach Tony Shaver said to Tribe Athletics. “I’m proud of that. I think in some ways, we rediscovered our team today. I know that may seem silly to say with a 15-point loss on the road, but we competed really hard. … I feel 1,000 times better about our club today than I did 48 hours ago.”

The Tribe was forced to play a six-man rotation with two key bench players out in senior forward Paul Rowley and freshman guard Thornton Scott.

While junior forward Justin Pierce came off the bench for just the second time this season, he led the Tribe in scoring.

Pierce, junior forward Nathan Knight and junior guard Matt Milon combined for 46 of the College’s 59 points in the game.

“I was really proud of Justin tonight,” Shaver said to Tribe Athletics. “I didn’t start him tonight, but he handled it like a true warrior. I’ve used this word already, rediscover, but I think we maybe rediscovered Justin Pierce a little tonight.”

The Tribe jumped out to a 17-12 lead behind six early points from freshman guard Chase Audige and five from Milon. However, a 10-2 run by Charleston quickly put them back in the driver’s seat.

“I think the biggest thing we have to do is find consistency for 40 minutes,” Shaver said to Tribe Athletics. “We had a 17-12 lead early in that ball game, and then we get two stops and take two really bad shots, then all of a sudden it’s a tie ball game. We have got to learn to handle prosperity a little bit. It’s a young team, but we have to find some consistency as well.”

With just over two minutes left in the first half, Knight tied the game at 26 on an open layup.

However, Riller gave the Cougars a two-possession lead heading into the locker rooms, 33-28.

Out of the half, the Tribe quickly tied the game.

A Milon three, followed by a Knight dunk and a backdoor layup by sophomore guard Luke Loewe knotted things up at 35, with 16:16 to play.

The College did not take the lead until nearly four minutes later, when Knight put the Tribe ahead 44-42.

That would be the last lead of the contest for the College, as Charleston quickly put up 10 straight points, highlighted by Riller’s three-pointer to increase the Cougars’ lead to eight. The Tribe would not go away easily, though, as a 4-0 run kept the team within striking distance.

Again, Charleston responded, attempting to put the game away. Riller hit a contested jumper before forward Jarrell Brantley knocked home a three to increase the edge to 57-48, the Cougars’ largest of the game. But again, the Tribe clawed back, outscoring Charleston 9-5 over the next three-plus minutes. With five minutes left in the game, Knight finished a layup and was fouled by Riller. Knight made the free throw, cutting the deficit to 62-57.

That would be as close as the Tribe got. While the College had chances to cut even further into the lead, it missed its next five shots and did not make a field goal for the rest of the game. Eight Riller points in a row put the game away for the Cougars in a 74-59 conference win.

The Tribe will return home for two games this week. Thursday night, the College welcomes Drexel to Williamsburg for a rematch of the Tribe’s 84-66 road victory earlier this year.

“It’s going to be good to be home,” Shaver said to Tribe Athletics. “You know, everybody in this league is good. We have to take advantage of this home court, we really do. We have got to get these wins, it’s just a simple fact. We have got to get them and build some momentum through the end of January into February.”

William and Mary hosted the Virginia Military Institute Jan. 26 at the Student Recreation Center for the final dual meet of the season. Replicating last week’s success, both the women’s and men’s teams defeated the Keydets with scores of 204.46 and 193.66, respectively.

Setting the tone early, the Tribe captured its first win with the 200 medley relay. The women put up a combined time of 1:44.38 due to the efforts of freshman Anna Kenna, freshman Katie Sell, senior Annie Miller and senior Katie Sell. The men were able to finish in 1:30.12, just .04 seconds short of the pool and dual-meet records, with the help of junior Colin Demers, senior Brooks Peterson, junior Jack Doherty and junior Colin Wright.

In the 50 free, freshman Missy Cundiff won with 23.27, tying her for seventh all time among the College’s athletes for the event. During the 200 back, freshman Sonora Baker and sophomore Tiernan

raced neck and neck with times of 2:04.14 and 2:04.15, with Baker claiming the win.

For the men, junior Chris Balbo, the Jan. 22 Colonial Athletic Association Swimmer of the Week, won his first races of the day with 1:51.31, followed directly by sophomore Christopher Pfuhl with a time of 1:55.90. Wright was able to subsequently sweep his 50-free and 100-free events. In the 50 free, he swam 20.17 seconds, shattering his pool and dualmeet records of 20.46 that he had set in the previous season. In his 100 free, he was able to complete it in 44.28 seconds, breaking his previous records by 0.7 seconds and breaking the previous pool record set two years earlier by Joe Eiden ’17 by almost a second.

In the final race of the day, the 400 free relay, despite already having the win locked up, the College finished in 3:02 thanks to the efforts of senior Eric Grimes, junior Ian Thompson, Doherty and Wright, giving the College its 16th-fastest race in school history.

The Tribe will next travel to compete at the Janis Hape Dowd Carolina Invitational Feb. 8-10.

MEN’S TENNIS

Tribe takes loss to Cardinals at ITA, 4-1 Talcott earns first nationally ranked win at No. 2 spot ZOE BEARDSLEY FLAT HAT SPORTS ASSOC. EDITOR

Sunday, William and Mary completed in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s Kick-Off Weekend, facing Athletic Coast Conference opponent Louisville in the consolation match for the tournament. The Tribe (0-2) was unable to rally, ultimately falling to the Cardinals (4-2), 4-1.

In doubles, the Tribe fought hard but was unable to claim the point. At the No.1 spot, junior Brendan Volk and freshman Orn Vasser were defeated 6-2 by the Cardinals’ Fabien Salle and Christopher MorinKougoucheff.

Senior Tristan Bautil and sophomore Finbar Talcott had a much closer match at the No. 2 spot, but eventually fell 7-5 to Louisville’s Brandon Lancaster and Alex Wesbrooks.

Sophomore Chen Ruo and freshman Daniel Pellerito’s match at the No. 3 spot against Federico Gomez and Sergio

Ramirez went unfinished, as Louisville won the previous two matches to steal the point.

Volk battled hard against Louisville’s Morin-Kougouchef at the No. 1 spot, but ended up losing 7-6, 3-6, 6-1. At the No. 2 spot, Talcott notched his first career nationally ranked win and the Tribe’s only point of the day, beating No. 104-ranked Lancaster 7-5, 6-1.

The remaining matches were not in favor of the College, with sophomore Sebastian Quiros

dropping his match at the No. 3 spot 6-3, 6-4 to Salle.

Louisville won the overall match when Vasser lost his match to Ramirez.

Both Ruo’s match against Gomez and freshman Jack Kelly’s match versus David Mizrahi did not finish.

The Tribe will return for a homestand as it faces off against Princeton back in Williamsburg Feb. 2nd, followed by another home match against Brown Feb. 10.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Tribe pounces Tigers in win Boggs’ offensive skills help bring Tribe to victory after loss at James Madison

KEVIN RICHESON // FLAT HAT SPORTS ASSOC. EDITOR After its six previous losses this season, William and Mary bounced back with a victory in its next game. The Tribe looked to continue that trend when it traveled to Towson following a 65-48 defeat at the hands of James Madison. Meanwhile, the Tigers came in with momentum from a win Friday evening against Elon. The Tigers also entered the matchup with the Tribe tied with James Madison at the top of the Colonial Athletic Association standings.

Sunday, the College (11-7, 4-3 CAA) once again avoided a twogame skid with a hard-fought road victory against the Tigers (12-7, 6-2 CAA), 80-69.

After a slow start to Friday’s game, the College’s offense came out firing against the Tigers Sunday afternoon. On the Tribe’s first offensive possession, junior forward Victoria Reynolds drained a jumper to put the College on top, 2-0. The Tigers were able to tie the game on the ensuing possession, but the Tribe reeled off seven of the next nine points to take an early 9-4 lead. Senior guard Bianca Boggs punctuated the run with a three-pointer to stretch the College’s advantage to five.

However, the Tigers roared back over the next couple of minutes with nine straight points to take their first lead of the game.

At the end of the run, the Tigers led 13-9 with over four minutes to play in the first quarter. Boggs stopped the bleeding with her second three-pointer of the first quarter to bring the Tribe within one, 13-12.

The Tigers stretched their lead back to three before freshman guard Eva Hodgson scored her first points of the day to make the score 15-14 in the waning minutes of the first quarter. The Tribe trailed 18-14 at the end of a competitive first quarter.

Similar to the first quarter, the College got off to a fast start in the second. In under 90 seconds, the Tribe scored seven straight points to reclaim the lead. Sophomore guard Nyla Pollard drilled a three-

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Senior guard Bianca Boggs scored 22 points against the Tigers, bouncing back from a tough contest against James Madison.

pointer to cap the run and put the College up by three, 21-18. Center Maia Lee helped the Tigers get back on track, using a size advantage down low to make back-to-back buckets to keep Towson within striking distance.

The Tigers drew even, 23-23, at the 6:45 mark of the second quarter, but Boggs answered back with a driving layup. The Tigers were able to reclaim the lead briefly, but the College continued to fight back in the back-and-forth affair, and a Boggs three-pointer gave the Tribe a 30-27 edge at the media timeout. With just over two minutes to play before halftime, the College used four consecutive points by Hodgson and freshman forward Emma Krause to tie its largest lead of the game thus far, 34-29. Guard Jalynn Holmes stopped the run with a three-pointer to pull the Tigers within two, but the Tribe used 22 second-quarter points to take a 36-32 lead to the locker room.

The Tigers were able to take the lead back in the first three minutes of the third quarter, but Reynolds scored on the next possession to push the College back in front, 40-39. The College struggled with foul trouble early in the third quarter, committing four fouls in the first four minutes. The Tigers were able to take advantage of multiple trips to the free-throw line and seized a 43-40 lead. Meanwhile, the College struggled at the line over the same stretch. Boggs missed three consecutive attempts at one point, but finally got one to drop to bring the Tribe within two. The Tigers really started to swing the momentum in the middle of the third quarter, but the College refused to go quietly and kept the margin at two, 45-43, at the media timeout.

With under three minutes left in the quarter, the College came up with three straight stops in order to retake the lead, 48-47. After a Towson bucket, Krause answered with threes on back-to-back possessions to make it 54-49 late in the third quarter. Despite faltering

early in the third quarter, the College held a 59-52 edge with 10 minutes to play in the contest.

The Tribe continued to stretch its game-high lead at the start of the fourth quarter, as Hodgson drove through the lane and laid in an uncontested layup. The Tigers finally stopped the bleeding on the next possession, but the College still led 61-54 in the early minutes of the fourth. The pace of play intensified in the first three minutes of the quarter, and both teams missed some open shots, with the Tribe clinging to a 61-56 lead. Pollard finally broke the College’s scoring drought at the 5:48 mark, allowing it to reclaim a three-possession advantage. Nevertheless, the Tigers fought back within one possession as the clock ticked under four minutes.

The Tribe committed a couple critical turnovers during this stretch, but Boggs came up with a clutch steal and a basket plus the foul at the 2:58 mark to double the Tribe’s lead to 67-61. The Tigers were able to get within four with under two minutes left, but Boggs found Reynolds for a layup and then Pollard came up with a steal to essentially seal the game. The Tribe made its free throws down the stretch to secure the 80-69 win.

In the loss, the Tigers were led by guard Nukiya Mayo’s 21 points and nine boards. The College was led by four players in double figures including Boggs, who bounced back from a tough shooting night against James Madison to score 22 points against the Tigers.

Hodgson also had a productive game with 13 points, six rebounds and five assists.

The Tribe will return to Kaplan Arena next weekend for games against Delaware and Drexel. The College will look to string together wins and continue to move up in the CAA standings at home, where it has won six of its last seven games.