The Flat Hat January 30, 2018

Vol. 107, Iss. 27 | Tuesday, January 30, 2018

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hen classes resume for the fall 2018 semester, Tribe Square, which has been vacant since Aug. 9, 2017, when The Crust was evicted, will have its first new resident: Chick-fil-A. “Students have been asking for Chick-fil-A for some time, and I hope this shows we have been listening,” Executive Director of the William and Mary Real Estate Foundation Nancy Buchanan said in a press statement. “As soon as we heard there was an opportunity at Tribe Square, we began working to make this a reality.”

Chick-fil-A will move into Tribe Square’s Suite 101, formerly occupied by Pita Pit, and will be open Monday through Saturday.

This location will accept Dining Dollars as well as Express and will be open to both the campus community and the public.

According to Matt Sullivan, who works for Chick-fil-A’s New Restaurant Growth Department, Chick-fil-A is eager to open in the College of William and Mary community.

“We are excited to join the William & Mary campus and look forward to serving students, staff and faculty great tasting food and remarkable service,” Sullivan said in a press statement.

This isn’t the first time Chick-fil-A products will be available on campus. Historically, Chick-fil-A sandwiches were available at Marketplace. Between the fall 2014 and spring 2015 semesters, these sandwiches were

not an option for students, but they returned to campus in March 2015. However, after seven weeks where students could buy the sandwiches Tuesdays and Thursdays, Dining Services discontinued the promotion because it found it to be unsustainable.

While it is not yet clear what the Real Estate Foundation will do with the remaining three vacant spaces, formerly home to restaurants including Mooyah, The Crust and Subway, Chick-fil-A will join campus dining options next academic year.

The former owners of these businesses have attributed their decline to high rent prices, low business over summer months, a partnership with Sodexo and mandatory meal plans for students living on campus.

The Crust, which closed Aug. 9, was the most recent of Tribe Square’s businesses to leave the property. At the time, The Crust’s former owner Paul Marsh said the rent was too high, leading to The Crust’s eviction. Before their eviction, Marsh and his business partner were paying approximately $6,400 a month, which became a challenge over the summer months.

“The rent’s extremely high,” Marsh said at the time. “I mean, the rent per square footage is ridiculous.”

Additionally, Senior Vice President of Finance and Administration Sam Jones said that he and the William and Mary Real Estate Foundation are aware that over the summer, the businesses in Tribe Square are not receiving the amount of customers once anticipated, because students make up the bulk of visitors these restaurants receive. Tourists, they have learned, typically do not visit Tribe Square’s businesses.

Pita Pit, Mooyah and Subway all faced similar fates. According to former Mooyah owner Alpen Patel, when the College made meal plans mandatory for students living in on-campus housing, it became difficult for third party restaurants like Mooyah to succeed.

In 2011, the Sadler Center was undergoing an expansion and, to cover costs, the College rolled out mandatory meal plans for students living on campus. By 2014, Tribe Square restaurants negotiated with Sodexo to accept Dining Dollars, but Subway had already gone out of business in June 2014, leaving one-fourth of the See CHICK-FIL-A page 3

$6,400 The Crust’s monthly rent prior to its August 2017 closing

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Number of vacant spaces left in Tribe Square following Chick-fil-A’s opening

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Suite number of the space Chick-fil-A will occupy as of fall 2018; formerly the home of Pita Pit

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Anti-abortion display vandalized Jan. 21 Charter Day comedian announced Advocates for Life plans to reinstall memorial on campus

Roy Wood Jr. to perform at show Feb. 10

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ADVOCATES FOR LIFE PRESIDENT KATHERINE BECK J.D. ’19

average number of daily abortions in the United States, and signs featuring anti-abortion messages.

According to Seurattan, the students are planning to reinstall the display.

Katherine Beck J.D. ’19, who serves as Advocates for Life’s

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president and who was the organizer of the demonstration, said that the display was done to bring awareness to what she sees as the biggest civil rights issue of the modern day.

“We wanted to bring an awareness to all the lives that have been lost,” Beck said. “With each life that has been lost, a mother and a father’s lives have been impacted. We got 3,000 popsicle sticks that represented abortions that occur every day, 60 million abortions on average.”

Beck said that she first learned that the display had been removed when an undergraduate student emailed her informing her that the display was no longer on the Sunken Garden. After seeing for herself that it was gone, she called a dean at the Marshall Wythe School of Law, who encouraged Beck and her group to go to the police.

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Last Sunday, on the eve of the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court case that legalized abortion, students from Advocates for Life set up a display on the Sunken Garden.

Later that evening, the display was removed, and the William and Mary Police Department has opened an investigation into the vandalism.

According to College of William and Mary Spokesperson Suzanne Seurattan, Advocates for Life, a group of graduate students who identify as anti-abortion, followed proper protocol to organize this demonstration, had worked with the office of Student Affairs and had received permission for its display.

“It is very unfortunate that someone decided to destroy that display,” Seurattan said in an email. “Vandalism is never an acceptable form of expression.

We have been in touch with the student organizer of the display to express our own disappointment and to offer our support.”

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Earlier this week, the College of William and Mary announced that Roy Wood Jr., a comedian and correspondent on “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” will perform Feb. 10 as part of Charter Day weekend. This performance will mark the third year that the College has hosted a comedy show to commemorate the anniversary of the College’s royal charter.

In 2016, Student Assembly partnered with Alma Mater Productions to host Bo Burnham over Charter Day weekend.

Prior to this year, the College had hosted a “Charter Day Concert,” but often struggled to find big-name artists, because the weekend had fallen close to award shows like the Grammys. In 2016, SA and AMP pushed the concert further into the spring semester, and allocated funds to bring a comedian to campus instead.

This year’s show is scheduled for 8 p.m. in Commonwealth Auditorium Feb. 10 and doors will open at 7 p.m. Tickets will only be sold at the door on a first-come, first-served basis. Admission is free for students, $5 for faculty and staff and $10

for the general public.

When Burnham performed in 2016, and when Damon Wayans Jr., a cast member on the show “New Girl,” performed in 2017, the shows were held in Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall’s auditorium. Additionally, in past years, SA’s senate used reserve funding and passed legislation to put on these events.

This year, the Charter Day comedian was included in SA’s annual budget.

Wood was a top-three finalist in the seventh season of NBC’s “Last Comic Standing,” has performed on “Def Comedy Jam,” “Conan,” “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,” “Late Night with Seth Meyers” and “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” In 2017, his first standup special, “Father Figure,” premiered on Comedy Central.

Wood began his comedy career while attending Florida A&M University and released his first full comedy CD in 2013.

Wood has appeared on TBS’s “Sullivan & Son” for three seasons and is a regular contributor to ESPN’s “Sports Nation.” He is also known as a comedian for his prank calls on morning radio shows such as the “Bob and Tom Show.”

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THE BUZZ

The one thing that Donald Trump has taught me is that anything is possible. And unfortunately I don’t mean that in a grand or glorious way for our nation, I mean that in a terrifying way for our nation. We need to actually get up, organize and fight back.

— Heather Meaney-Allen regarding resisting U.S. President Donald Trump while attending a local event for a Democratic candidate.

Understanding marginalized literature Professor Jenny Putzi talks transgender studies, GSWS research

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“She wrote this piece called ‘Woman in the 19th Century,’ As a young girl and throughout her teens, Jenny Putzi and it was sort of an assessment about where women were,” remembers reading “Little Women” about 1,000 times.

Now as an English professor and the gender, sexuality and Putzi said. “She has this great quote [that says] ‘let them be seawomen’s studies program director, Putzi is designing a 2019 captains if they will.’ This great feminist statement. Margaret senior seminar commemorating the book’s 150th anniversary. Fuller did it for me. I thought, ‘This is what I want to do. This is After working as an English professor at Texas Christian what I want to study.’ From then on, I was sort of obsessed with University, Putzi became an adjunct professor at the College of American lit.”

Just as Hughes was a mentor for her, Putzi hopes to be a William and Mary in 2002. Recognizing her passion for both the English department and GSWS program, the College created a similar figure for her English and GSWS students at the College.

Putzi regularly has lunch with GSWS majors and minors. joint-appointment position for Putzi in 2005.

“It was the job I always wanted, but never thought I could She also has students serve on the executive and curriculum find,” Putzi said. “My heart is in both, so it is very nice to be committees for the GSWS program, aiding professors as they able to split my time in the way that I do and have it validated improve and restructure their course material.

She continues to form connections with students outside by the College.”

As director of the GSWS program, Putzi has focused her efforts GSWS, thanks to her Maltese-poodle mix named Onyx. Students on ensuring that more transgender studies courses are taught visit her office to play with Onyx, who Putzi describes as the at all levels of the GSWS curriculum. While she attributes this most social member of her family.

“I look up sometimes [from working] and think, ‘I don’t philosophy to her dedication to upholding the multiple prongs of even know who these the major, she also students are, but Onyx accredits changes knows them,’” Putzi in her teaching said. “He sees them in style to experiences the hall, and he loves with her 12-yearthem.” old transgender Putzi said she makes daughter. a particular effort with “She has her female-identifying changed radically students, asking the way I think them to develop ties about gender,” between who they are Putzi said. “I knew and what they study. about transgender When she taught a [people] before we freshman writing started to think seminar on the diary, about her being she asked her students trans, like I read to transcribe archived stuff. I don’t think I diaries written by had really thought students of the College through that during World War gender is not the II who faced social same as sex, and barriers as women that gender can on campus.

Putzi have nothing to do — English and GSWS professor Jenny Putzi asked her students to with embodiment compare these past and everything students’ experiences to do with how you self-identify. That made me really think about what I was to their own freshman experiences.

Putzi said she develops similar connections with her own teaching my students when I was talking about sex and gender.”

By incorporating more transgender studies classes into the research. While researching, Putzi said that she strives to relate GSWS curriculum, Putzi hopes to emphasize the connection her identity to the culture and time of her subject matter.

For the past 10 years, Putzi has been working on a project between her students’ lives and the subject matter.

“In the same way that when I was an undergrad and I saw a studying the attempts of working-class women and women of course on women writers, it meant something to me — that it color to gain access to publication for their poetry in the 19th was being respected — I think it would also mean something century.

With the help of a grant awarded to her with the 2017 Plumeri personally for a trans student to see that there is a space where Award, Putzi is beginning a new project on the poetry of Charity these issues are being talked about,” Putzi said.

Putzi said much of her own undergraduate experience Bryant, a woman born after the American revolution. Bryant informs how she interacts with students and how she lived in a same-sex union, viewed as akin to marriage socially. teaches. Her undergraduate professors at Augustana College To study Bryant’s poetry, Putzi is using the grant money to visit were especially influential in leading her toward a path of Bryant’s housed in archives in Vermont.

Besides developing her own research, Putzi edits and scholarship.

“I am who I am because of [my] teachers,” Putzi said. “They collaborates with other academics on scholarly research. Putzi didn’t just teach me. They mentored me. I think about that with coedits a journal called Legacy: A Journal of American Women my own teaching. [I am] open about my private life in many Writers, which was the first journal in which her work was ways to show students that you can have a professional life that published. Just as she aims to mentor her students, she said it is her priority to help other scholars with their work. you love and a personal life you love.”

“It means a lot to me to see meaningful scholarship Nancy Hughes, Putzi’s undergraduate professor at Augustana, particularly inspired her to seek scholarship in published and help that along,” Putzi said.

To focus more of her time on teaching and her research, American literature and female authors of the 19th century.

Hughes introduced Putzi to Margaret Fuller, a 19th-century Putzi will be stepping down from her role as the director of the transcendentalist writer. Fuller’s writing changed everything GSWS program after this academic year. She will be replaced

by American studies professor Elizabeth Losh. for Putzi.

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When I was an undergrad and I saw a course on women writers, it meant something to me — that I was being respected — I think it would also mean something personally for a trans student to see that there is a space where these issues are being talked about.

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Friday, January 26 — Stephanie Carrington was arrested on a charge of obstructing justice at Staffordshire Drive.

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POLITICS

Congressional candidate Sawyers visits Williamsburg Community members gather at Corner Pocket to hear policy plan, ask questions NIA KITCHIN FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR

Williamsburg’s Corner Pocket Club is host to a bar, multitudes of pool tables and life-size cutouts of Rob Wittman and Donald Trump. However, this atmosphere is not reflective of the political beliefs and goals espoused by congressional hopeful Ryan Sawyers and his supporters as he campaigned for office there Jan. 25.

Sawyers currently serves as the chairman of the Prince William County School Board and is one of four Democratic candidates running to represent Virginia’s 1st Congressional District.

Thursday evening, he met with potential voters and prominent people in the Williamsburg community to discuss campaign issues and to fundraise. He then gave a speech about his life and what he has planned for Virginia’s first district should he win the election in November.

Sawyers grew up in the small town of Cumberland, Maryland and then proceeded to play college baseball for four years. After that, he started his own sports marketing company, which allows him flexibility to travel on the campaign trail.

In his two years as school board chairman, Sawyers said that he has given teachers step increases both years, which he says addresses not only a wage issue, but also a women’s issue, since 75 percent of teachers are women.

“You can’t convince me at all that if 75 percent of teachers were men we’d be talking about underpaid teachers,” Sawyers said. “We would have solved that problem a long time ago.”

Sawyers supports a free public college education. He says this is because Article VIII of the Virginia constitution guarantees a free elementary and secondary education and that because a college education has become essential for a secure job that allows for a solid middle-class lifestyle, it is crucial that everyone be able to receive that education.

“We’re burdening our youngest professionals with so much debt that they can’t afford to buy a house, invest in the business

they may have just studied for the last four years,” Sawyers said.

“But here’s the biggest thing: we’re actually crushing rural America at the same time.”

Sawyers said that he wants to invest in young professionals so they are able to go to school and not incur debt that forces them to move to wherever high-paying jobs are. Instead, they can remain in the rural towns where they grew up and give back to the community that paid for them to go to school.

“The college debt crisis is killing innovation, it’s killing rural America, that’s why the jobs haven’t come back to rural America,” Sawyers said. “We have to find a solution to the college debt crisis, and it’s actually quite simple. It’s actually to make sure that public college is tuition free.”

Sawyers said that students at the College of William and Mary should vote for him because he plans to stand up for the rights of young students looking forward to the professional world.

Speaking on immigration, Sawyers said that his greatgrandparents immigrated to West Virginia from Italy. He said this family history has taught him that immigrants assimilate at extremely high rates. He said that a majority of the generation that is born in the United States speaks English as its primary language, which was true of his grandparents.

While Sawyers said that he supports those who are protected under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, he said that the more important issue to focus on is the legal path to citizenship because it is more tenuous.

“Anyone who’s against DACA really just needs to look in the mirror and then if that doesn’t work, get another mirror,” Sawyers said. “Because DACA’s not the hard one.”

Founder of the political advocacy organization Williamsburg Indivisible Group Mike Hatfield said that he was in attendance because his organization is specifically aimed at advocating political action against the Trump administration. Unlike the way campaign stops are traditionally handled, with the candidate delivering a stump speech, shaking hands and moving on, Hatfield

said he encourages candidates to spend more time talking with voters directly about the issues.

“We are trying to resist the Trump administration,” Mike Hatfield said. “Most of the people in our group are clearly Democrats, but we have some who are Republicans and just have a real problem with Trump. This guy in the funny hat,” he said, pointing toward the cutout of Rob Wittman, “is our current congressman in the 1st Congressional District and we are trying very hard to try and not let him get elected.”

An attendee at the event Caroline Hatfield said that she fully supports Sawyers and that the 1st Congressional District needs someone like him in order to take on Wittman, the incumbent in the race.

“Ryan is the kind of guy we need to be aggressive to go after Mr. Wittman who likes to lay low and keep quiet and get his picture taken in front of big ships,” Caroline Hatfield said.

One of the organizers of this year’s Women’s March on Williamsburg, Heather Meaney-Allen, said that she came to Sawyers’ campaign event to support him because of his political experience, communication skills and passion for the work. While Meaney-Allen said that she agrees with Sawyers’ opinions, the most important objective for her is to take the seat back from Wittman.

“We need a Democrat in this seat. Wittman doesn’t do what he says he’s going to do ... he says one thing and he does another,” Meaney-Allen said. “And I’m tired of it. Enough. We need a balanced government in this country. We’re completely out of balance. With Donald Trump in the White House we need the Senate to be able to check him.”

Meaney-Allen said that a goal for her is to stand up to President Trump by resisting through political action.

“The one thing that Donald Trump has taught me is that anything is possible,” Meaney-Allen said. “And unfortunately, I don’t mean that in a grand or glorious way for our nation. I mean that in a terrifying way for our nation. We need to actually get up, organize and fight back.”

STUDENT LIFE

Cole: ‘We are a mighty, mighty long way from the mountaintop’ Johnnetta B. Cole talks impact, legacy of MLK at annual commemoration event MAX MINOGUE FLAT HAT NEWS ASSOC. EDITOR

Thursday, Jan. 25, the Center for Student Diversity sponsored the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration, featuring former director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and current professor at Emory University Johnnetta Botsch Cole as the keynote speaker. The Commemoration was also part of the 50th anniversary celebration of AfricanAmerican students in residence at the College of William and Mary.

Assistant Director for the Center for Student Diversity Shené Owens introduced the event, which began with a dance performed by students DeLauren Davis ’18, Neonna Ferebee ’20, Jordan Gilliard ’18 and Leah Jones ’19.

Organizational behavior professor Tatia Granger introduced Cole’s keynote

on breaking barriers and described Cole as a “genuinely curious disruptor.”

“Disruptors are recognized by the impact of their behavior,” Granger said.

Cole greeted the crowd as “sisters, brothers and siblings,” referencing her anthropological background and explaining that kinship is not just biological but also about behavior, shared beliefs and values.

“I am making an assumption tonight, that here in this place, there’s a gathering of folks who share Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream,” Cole said.

Referencing the current political climate, Cole also discussed how she believes the fight for civil rights is still very much an ongoing process.

“I believe that if King was among us, he would say that progress has been made towards making some of his dreams a reality,” Cole said. “But I also think he would hasten to say that we are a mighty, mighty long way from the

mountaintop.”

Cole expanded the conversation into the broader realm of civil rights as well, speaking about how the first African Americans in residence at the College were women.

Cole said she believed that fighting for women’s rights and LGBTQ rights is a way to build on King’s legacy, referring to King’s wife in order to make this point.

“The amazing and grace-filled Coretta Scott King,” Cole said. “Her views, particularly her progressive views on women, and on individuals in the LGBTQ community, were in many ways ahead of her time. Coretta Scott King went on to say that homophobia is like racism, and antisemitism, and other forms of bigotry, in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity, their personhood.”

Cole’s keynote ended with a standing ovation and a lengthy question-and-

answer session in which she was asked about topics ranging from Cuba to how to bridge ideological gaps.

“We are living such segregated lives, including in terms of political views. Now I’m the first to tell you, this is the most difficult conversation you could possibly have,” Cole said. “It is a conversation that requires seeking common ground when everything says that there is none.”

Center for Student Diversity Director Kimberley Weatherly ended the commemoration by reasserting that people must try to continue Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy today.

“I would like to end with, ‘the time is always right to do right,’” Weatherly said.

Alexandra Harris ’21 attended the commemoration and said she found it very enjoyable.

“Being an African-American female on this campus, events like this can be

really reassuring,” Harris said. “It can be, I don’t want to say discouraging, but at times being on campus can be a little difficult. So, the sense of community underrepresented students, faculty and people on campus have, it makes being here comfortable.”

Harris said that she felt lucky to have her freshman year coincide with the 50th anniversary of African-American students in residence. She also said that the plethora of events focusing on the African-American community and diversity should continue regardless of whether or not it is a significant anniversary.

“They might be able to say, ‘it’s the 50th anniversary this year,’ but the number of events and guest speakers that have been going on to represent the African-American community on campus, I think that should be something that’s normal,” Harris said. “I don’t think it should just be for the year.”

Administrators hope Chick-fil-A will revitalize off-campus dining for students Vacancies in spaces The Crust and Pita Pit used to occupy in Tribe Square left students with meals plans with fewer dining options CHICK-FIL-A from page 1

complex empty.

“Before mandatory [meal plans] went into play, everyone was doing good,” Patel said in August. “Most everyone who lived in the apartments above were eating at Tribe Square. But then the next year, those same students were having to walk across the street and go to the cafeteria, and they were bringing back boxes of food.

… That’s the year that everything started going downhill.”

Mooyah has since relocated to New Town, and Patel said that the business has felt a boom in success in that new location.

However, Jones said that he believes Tribe Square is still a great property because it has a good location for students and the apartments are desirable oncampus housing. Jones said that while he would like to see desirable food options move in to the suites

facing Richmond Road, he would not be opposed to considering using the back suites for more student housing or for an alternative retail option, such as clothing.

Jones also said that he and members of the Real Estate Foundation are working to be flexible, to help ensure the success of future businesses that move in to Tribe Square.

Moving forward as the search to fill Tribe Square

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The William and Mary Real Estate Foundation announced that Chik-fil-A will fill a vacancy in Tribe Square beginning in fall 2018.

continues, students will be able to use their Dining Dollars at Chick-fil-A, as well as at on-campus locations such as Qdoba, Cosi and Swemromas.

“We are excited to have Chick-fil-A join the William & Mary dining portfolio,” Dining Services Resident District Manager Jason Aupied said in a press statement.

“The addition of a premium brand like Chick-fil-A will add value for our students by expanding their choice of dining options.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ACADEMICS

College to host physics conference in 2019 APS conference aims to focus on undergraduate women in STEM fields SARAH GREENBERG FLAT HAT ASSOC. NEWS EDITOR

The College of William and Mary was recently selected by the American Physical Society to host next year’s Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics for the region. The three-day conference, which will run Jan. 18-20, 2019, seeks to foster a community among women in the physics field and encourage female undergraduates to pursue careers in the field.

The College is one of 11 schools throughout the nation that will be hosting ASP’s regional conference next year. These different conferences will take place at the same time at their respective geographical locations.

Each conference will include a variety of activities ranging from research talks given by faculty members to panel discussions about graduate school and careers in physics to presentations about women in the field and laboratory tours.

Next year’s event will feature one or two keynote speakers in addition to other professionals from a wide range of backgrounds, both academic and industry related.

According to physics professor Irina Novikova, who is playing a leading role in the event’s planning, the conference will seek to discuss a wide range of topics and research within the field of physics.

“This is a conference directed to the

undergraduate women, and many of them come and they don’t quite know what kind of research interests they have, [or] what kind of area of physics they want to do,” Novikova said. “Often, even if they do have interests, they want to find out what’s going on in other fields.”

The College will be partnering with the Jefferson Lab, which has been involved in previous years’ conferences, in hosting this event. It will include tours of their laboratory along with exposing attendees to the Lab’s research in energy.

According to the ASP website, the official goal of these conferences is “to help undergraduate women continue in physics by providing them with an opportunity to experience a professional conference, information about graduate school and professions in physics, and access to other women in physics of all ages with whom they can share experiences, advice, and ideas.”

In order to be chosen as a conference host, schools are required to submit applications that include an outline of their estimated budget, a proposal of recruitment plans, a tentative schedule and several letters from the institution’s department chair, the organizing committee chair and others involved regarding commitment to the event and its funding.

Novikova spearheaded the College’s application process and played a significant role in drafting the proposal, along with planning the event.

The College applied last fall to host the event and was notified in December that the next conference would be held in Williamsburg.

“I think we are really special this year because my class in particular, and the class under me, has a lot of very active students and a lot of very active women, so I think having that level of support definitely helped us this year, but it was a bit of a surprise,” Society of Physics Students President Ravn Jenkins ’19 said.

Jenkins, along with several other students, is also involved in preparations for the conference and sits on the planning committee.

The responsibilities of the committee include helping to decide what kinds of seminars and talks will be featured at the event and advertising it to the regional STEM community.

Next year coincidentally happens to be the College’s 100-year anniversary of female admission, making the hosting of this femaleoriented event even more significant for the students and faculty involved.

“Having this conference on the centennial of accepted women in the College would be a great opportunity,” Novikova said.

Although the College is hosting the event, students and faculty members from other academic institutions in the region are also invited to attend.

However, because there is limited space available at the conference, students must apply through APS in order to attend.

In addition, the event is not exclusive to women, and students of all gender identities are invited to apply.

Women are generally a minority within the STEM fields; however, Novikova hopes that by hosting this event, the College can change this by encouraging women to pursue careers in STEM. “If you are a minority, you might notice some smaller problems or difficulties, and you always tend to personalize it, and when you go and talk to other people and figure out that everyone goes through that, it is a very empowering experience,” Novikova said. “I uniformly have seen very positive experiences that students have had with these conferences, and that’s one of the reasons why I want our students to have a chance to host one here.”

Jenkins, who attended this year’s regional conference at the University of Virginia, said she has experienced the impact of the Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics firsthand.

“I’m really lucky; I have four or five really strong female peers in my class, but it was really good to be sitting in a room with over 100 of us all interested in physics and all also shared experiences of the struggles that come with being a minority in the STEM area,” Jenkins said. “It was also great just to meet these women who are now tenured professors and who have gone through similar things and also hear about some cutting-edge research that they were doing.”

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SA proposal bars holding simultaneous terms in senate, Honor Council Senators discuss practical, ethical complications of serving jointly in both organizations SARAH SMITH FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR

During the first Student Assembly senate meeting of the spring 2018 semester, Honor Council member Jacob Nelson ’18 presented a proposal that, if approved, would bar students from serving in elected SA roles and on Honor Council concurrently.

According to Nelson, because students who run for Honor Council are not allowed to truly campaign, and because students who vote are only presented with candidates’ names and how they responded to specific questions, it would be unfair to allow those who are currently serving in SA to run for positions on Honor Council. This is because students are more likely to recognize and be influenced by the names of those in SA’s senate.

Some senators questioned whether or not this policy change would apply to those who are already in Honor Council and SA, and whether or not they would be eligible to run in Honor Council’s upcoming election Wednesday, Jan. 31.

In response to this question, Nelson said that it is not clear if the policy change would allow current members of either organization to be grandfathered in, but that he recommended those currently serving to pick between Honor Council and SA. “There are two options,” Nelson said. “It might not be fair to announce now for people who are planning to run, so we could institute the rule next year. … But people who are in SA and planning to run for SA should choose between one or the two, and should either resign from Honor Council or not run for SA at that point. … I don’t think it makes sense to run for Honor Council now if you are already in SA and you know you are going to do that, because you are going to step down later

down the road. It doesn’t make sense to do it now just because you can.”

Chair of the Senate Alaina Shreves ’18 said that in order to respect the relationship between SA and Honor Council, she believed that the senate should support Honor Council’s request to change this policy, particularly because the change would impact Honor Council most.

“Our code and constitution don’t have anything in them about the Honor Council,” Shreves said. “I still believe Honor Council should be the one that moves forward, and we should approve it by SA. I just don’t think that this is something that we can decide as senators, it is not affecting us.”

Sen. Brendan Boylan ’19 said he agreed with Shreves because he didn’t think anyone could fulfill the requirements and expectations of both roles at the same time. He said that he personally felt he could not do both jobs at the same time, while maintaining the necessary quality of work.

“I genuinely don’t believe you can do justice to both roles if you are in both roles at the same time,” Boylan said. “That is just my personal opinion. … Those are both two very large and powerful roles on this campus.”

In terms of what action SA could take moving forward, senators questioned whether or not potential policy change barring simultaneous terms would require the senate to pass legislation.

According to Associate Director of Student Leadership Development Trici Fredrick M.Ed. ’05, who advises SA, passing such legislation would not be necessary.

“The question is, for Honor Council, if you want to make a mutual decision that if you run for SA positions that you can also not run for Honor Council, that is your decision about your

code,” Fredrick said. “Honor Council is making the decision that if you run for Honor Council, you can’t run for SA. You have to approve any changes to your bylaws, which is why [Nelson] is coming to you to say that you have to approve the change. You could choose to amend your bylaws too.”

Fredrick said that it was up to the senators to decide if they would like to codify this change in policy as well, but they first must make the decision whether or not they support approving Honor Council’s code change. According to her then, these are two separate questions. Also at this week’s meeting: • Sen. Brendan Boylan ’19 introduced The Second Annual Sankofa Gala Act. If passed, the bill would allocate $8,270 for the Gala, which will be held Saturday, Feb. 24. This money will cover travel and booking experiences for Nigerian entertainer Tolu Ogunmefun as well as catering, table décor and promotional materials. According to Boylan, the Gala has previously been a successful way of celebrating Black History Month.

• Sen. Jack Bowden ’18 introduced The New Roommate Notification Resolution. If passed, the resolution would request that Residence Life incorporate a policy to ensure that in the instance of a room change, all affected roommates and resident assistants are notified.

• Class of 2021 President David DeMarco ’21 introduced the Second Valentine’s Day STI Subsidy Act. If passed, the bill would allocate $5,007 to subsidize STI testing in the month of February. In previous years, this bill has corresponded with an event on Valentine’s Day where approximately 100 students receive completely subsidized testing. However, in order to comply with requests of the Student Health Center, the bill would create four smaller events in February, and 25 students would receive subsidized testing at each event.

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popsicle sticks left and the signs were ripped up in the closest trash can,” Beck said. “Our response was really upset at first on a lot of different fronts. That day was intended to represent Roe v. Wade, we were really upset that we weren’t allowed to bring awareness, since [WMPD] viewed the video, they saw it was taken down around 12:40 a.m., just a few hours after we finished putting it up. First and foremost, there wasn’t really awareness, so we are really upset from a free speech standpoint. We were advocating for a group of oppressed people.”

Beck was joined by nine other students, including one undergraduate student who is a member of Students for Life, the oncampus anti-abortion organization for undergraduates. One of these other students, Advocates for Life’s Events Coordinator Hallie Hovey-Murray J.D. ’19, was responsible for ordering the materials and helping plan the display.

Hovey-Murray said that while many in the anti-abortion movement are religious, she is not, and she knows that there are others in the movement who are non-religious as well.

Because of this, she decided to use popsicle sticks instead of crosses, which are often a feature of this type of display when other institutions host it.

“There is a stereotype of what a person who is pro-life is, it’s not just about that,” Hovey-Murray said. “We wanted to start a conversation on campus. I had really hoped that this isn’t how the conversation would be started. I think [the vandalism] really brought us together as a group to promote the peaceful discourse on campus. I had really hoped that people would appreciate different viewpoints and take time to have peaceful discourse instead of resorting to something like this. I really don’t think the actions of however many people took down the display is indicative of the whole campus. I think we will be able to fulfill the intent of the display.”

While Hovey-Murray said that she knows many are anti-abortion because of their religious or family upbringings, she personally is anti-abortion because she has a disability.

“As a young woman with autism, with a disability, it is really important to promote life because so many children who are found prenatally to have a disability are aborted,” Hovey-Murray said. “That is one thing I am really passionate about, that students and children with disabilities are worthy. That is my driving force in being interested in this.

Making sure that all children, instead of living in the culture today, where children who aren’t seen as worthy, where doctors encourage women to pursue abortion, there is no prenatal genetic testing for autism yet.

Looking at studies of how many children support, especially at the law school,” with Down syndrome are aborted over those Hovey-Murray said. “Even people who are tests scares me that one day when there is, vehemently against the pro-life movement that it will lower the number of students with have been supportive, and I think that this is autism.” indicative of the culture at William and Mary, The display was not the only work that that people are supportive of having difficult Advocates for Life did to commemorate this conversations. That has made my heart week’s anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Earlier in happy, that this is overall something that has the week, Hovey-Murray and Beck joined five created that conversation.” other anti-abortion women at the Marshall Wythe School of Law to give a lunchtime discussion on anti-abortion feminism.

According to Beck, she has always found the students at the law school to be respectful of new ideas.

“My number one hope is to bring awareness to the vast impact that abortion has had and to bring awareness to all of the unborn lives,” Beck said. “I hope this brings awareness to abortion and opens up a dialogue that allows us to express why we are advocating for an end to abortion and stand up for the voiceless and be able to tell people that we are not here to control women’s bodies, I would hope that the display and the group in general, and advocate for why we are truly and authentically pro-life.”

Hovey-Murray said that she shares similar hopes with Beck and hopes that the conversation that the vandalism started continues.

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I saw it as a unique opportunity... and I love it! I appreciate the sense of community and now all my best friends either live in the House, or frequently visit.

My conversational Russian has improved, I’ve made some wonderful new friends and of course made great use of our wonderful kitchen.

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Immersion in a language is a great way to improve your comfort with it ... I loved the idea of being able to talk regularly in Italian with other students, as well as with the house’s tutor, who is a native Italian speaker.

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All the residents know each other, hang out [… and] cook together, go to events together, and more generally support each other.

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Over the course of the semester, my Spanish, particularly my conversational Spanish skills, have improved greatly. I also have learned more about the culture of Argentina.

It holds many fun events which help people learn Chinese culture as well as experience the lifestyle in China.

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Richmond Hall: building family

Alec Whoriskey

FLAT HAT GUEST COLUMNIST

Hannah Lowe

FLAT HAT GUEST COLUMNIST

When I got on a bus headed to Washington, D.C. at four in the morning Jan. 20, 2017, I wasn’t quite sure why I was marching. I knew I was angry. I’d stayed up late the night before with my mom, venting our frustrations while we made signs for the next day.

Yet in all the preparations I’d made to march on Washington, I hadn’t yet articulated what exactly was driving me to do so.

Once I arrived in the city, it didn’t matter.

Spread across the National Mall was a sea of pink: hundreds of thousands of people, representing their individual causes. From the top of a sign post where I’d climbed to take pictures, I saw the diversity of the protestors. To my left, a group of college students stood on a truck and led impassioned chants. To my right, a woman conducted a group of singers while burning sage. It was clear from my vantage point that, while a desire for change unified the movement, we hadn’t yet chosen a direction.

A year later, I found myself marching again.

This time, however, I found unity in the crowd.

Standing near the courthouse in Colonial Williamsburg, Jan. 20, 2018, I listened to local leaders deliver a clear message: vote.

The speakers weren’t the only ones pushing civic participation. Among the items marchers carried — including a bobblehead effigy of Donald Trump that ended up in the stocks — were dozens of signs alluding to the coming “blue wave.” One poster in front of me simply read, “VOTE, VOTE, VOTE.” It was like September on the Terrace, being asked, “Are you registered to vote in

Williamsburg?” times a thousand.

In contrast to the massive Women’s March on Washington last year, the Women’s March on Williamsburg was smaller but more cohesive. The broad message of progressivism that drew us to the capital in 2017 had distilled into a focused movement for change on the local level.

While the speakers in Williamsburg weren’t national celebrities, they were community leaders familiar to their audience. Shelly Simons, the 2017 Democratic House of Delegates candidate who lost to her Republican opponent in a random draw, connected with the crowd immediately. When she concluded her speech by referencing the bowl from which her loss was drawn and vowed to “go out and break some bowls,” it felt less like we were marching on Duke of Gloucester Street and more like we were marching to the polls.

Last year’s Women’s Marches felt like a central movement in D.C., with auxiliary protests elsewhere. This year’s felt like true solidarity. As I marched on the heart of colonial America, I knew that across the country in cities and towns, millions were marching for the same reason.

Though I’m hesitant to believe special elections and protests prophesy lasting change, Saturday, I felt the momentum of the blue wave.

Now more than I ever I see a clear path forward: making our voices heard, starting with the ballot.

Email Hannah Lowe at hmlowe@email. wm.edu.

I heard the news last week while sitting at my desk listening to two residents talking noisily outside my door.

“Did you hear 20 people left this place last semester?” one said.

“20 people! No way. That’s why it’s so quiet around here,” said the other.

I was not surprised by this news; I had just returned from winter break to find that many of the doors in my hall were missing their name tags. The loud yammering from other rooms was noticeably absent.

Richmond Hall is the newest dorm on campus, and to judge by the turnover, possibly the most dismal. Exactly why is difficult to say.

Sure, the remote location is what most people complain about. A former motel, the dorm rises from a parking lot on Richmond Road between Food Lion and Domino’s. It is separated from campus by 0.7 miles of residential Williamsburg.

In bad weather, we arrive to class sopping wet from long walks in the rain.

It is simply a pain to try and go anywhere when you live in Richmond Hall. As my roommate Joshua put it, “In the morning, I go from here to the business school and to Sadler a couple times and only come back here at night. I hardly live here.”

But I don’t think it’s the location that entirely explains the exodus. Most of us, after all, have bikes. From the look of the rack outside, students should not have trouble getting to class on time. In fact, if there is a problem with Richmond Hall, it is that it stands apart from the rest of the College of William and Mary not only

geographically, but culturally.

Richmond Hall’s resident population consists mostly of transfer students and people who turned in their housing forms late. Most people arrived here on the outskirts because they had nowhere else to go. And as a result, we, the rejects, don’t have much in common besides the fact that we got stranded out in the middle of Williamsburg.

Hall meetings are poorly attended. Most people go to other dorms when they want to see friends. In the semester and a few weeks that I have lived here, I have only talked to fellow residents and my roommate. For further comment on the dorm’s apparent disconnect, I spoke again with Joshua.

“I really like it here at Richmond Hall; I like everyone I meet,” he said. “I do wish there were more ways to meet people.”

But perhaps even this criticism is misplaced. The other night, while I was waiting in the lobby for my Domino’s delivery and the rest of the hall was empty and quiet, I listened in on one of the hall council meetings that I had never attended.

10 students took turns discussing what they wanted to accomplish for the upcoming semester and what they wanted to improve on from the last. I got my pizza and found that two of their ideas stuck with me: they want to increase other residents’ involvement in hall council, and they want to make sure the dorm’s condition improves for the next generation of students that will live there.

So, maybe it’s just a matter of time.

Email Alec Whoriskey at apwhoriskey@ email.wm.edu.

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In celebration of Charter Day

Caleb Rogers

FLAT HAT GUEST COLUMNIST

325 years ago, the charter of our great College of William and Mary was granted. On that day, those many years ago, our first president James Blair brought it back with him from the home of King William III and Queen Mary II at Kensington Palace to Middle Plantation, or what is now called Williamsburg. Construction and commencement of the alma mater of the nation began shortly after in 1695 with the Wren Building, the nation’s oldest standing college building.

The royal establishing document is fiercely ambitious, as we are today. The purpose of the College is, as it says, “for promoting the studies of true philosophy, languages, and good arts and sciences.” It talks of the intended college as being the one place world-renowned for “universal study.”

With words like this, it set an institution’s tone for centuries to come.

What the Charter did for us all by starting a little school in the Virginia colony at Middle Plantation, and what our storied history has done for us since then, was create a culture known only here.

So I fast forward some 324 years to asking one of my Orientation Aides, on day one of orientation, about a strange word I kept hearing. I asked what it meant to be a TWAMP, a Typical William And Mary person, and whether that widely used term was one of endearment or derision.

She replied, “You’re in the perfect place, because you’re a total TWAMP for casually using words like ‘endearment’ and ‘derision.’” She then launched into a long monologue about how involved everyone is and what the College meant to her specifically. I’ve since forgotten her reasons, but I did take away the unadulterated passion of her words.

There was a light in her eyes when she talked, one that I’ve frequently seen since in dedicated students, teachers and administrators here. This wasn’t a school, but a home.

Friends were family for life, teachers were valued mentors, bricks were walked on by our forefathers and opportunities to get involved weren’t just opportunities, but necessities.

In the first few months of my freshman year, I questioned my position at this place of universal study. I wondered if I could find any of the zeal I saw in my OA that day.

I imagine you have all felt something similar at one time, if only for a moment. Because gradually I became accustomed to the culture our charter started years ago and realized an undeniable fact: for everyone who steps on this campus, the College is the land of opportunity.

Only here are there a whopping 11 a cappella groups out of almost 500 student-run organizations. Only here has half the graduating class studied abroad. Students complete over 250,000 hours of cumulative community service each year and double major at a rate higher than the national average. Five years ago, we were on the top 35 in the country for alumni giving. Now we are top 20, and at the end of the “For the Bold” campaign, we’re expected to be on the top 10. I have listened, on numerous occasions, to dedicated scholars brag to each other about who spent more time in Swem over the weekend. And that is a great thing.

That is the culture represented. Being a TWAMP is usually said in jest. However, those involved in our community are anything but typical. “Typical” is only a description in the framework of the College. Outside of the four foot walls bordering campus we are nerds, try-hards, perfectionists, freaks, intellectuals and overachievers. The Charter began a university unlike our peer institutions in feverish perseverance, a quality we will keep with us until death and use to effect positive change.

To conclude, there are two types of plague at the College, one of which, the freshman plague, is mainly spread by Yates Hall, but the other strikes us all. At a point in our time here, whether it be freshman fall or senior spring, William and Mary’s culture becomes inescapable. That culture involves an eagerness and a passion in whatever your craft may be.

We are always asked how we will leave our mark on William and Mary. But that’s not the crucial question. The crucial question, one that you should all ask yourselves now in this time of reflection, is how will William and Mary leave its mark on you?

Email Caleb Rogers at ctrogers@email.wm.edu.

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Miscommunication causes romantic dysfunction, awkwardness

Anna Boustany

FLAT HAT GUEST COLUMNIST

Do you know how much a scoop of Kilwins ice cream costs? Since I figured it could only be a couple of dollars, I caved and let the guy who had informally asked me out a few days ago buy me a scoop of ice cream. I discovered later that allowing him to cover the cost of a scoop of mint ice cream led him to believe that I was obligated to sleep with him. Fortunately, the bargain he thought we had made was not acted on, and we both escaped the evening with nothing beyond social discomfort.

While I am certainly one of the lucky ones because this story does not end in sexual assault, the expectations of physical reciprocation that often accompany the dating scene at the College of William and Mary are unacceptable.

I have gone on amazing dates here in Williamsburg with considerate guys, ones who have made me feel safe and who have respected my boundaries.

Unfortunately, I have also gone on some terrible dates as well; looking back on these experiences, I notice that they have been painful for two intertwined reasons that may be directly linked to our campus community: a fundamental lack of communication and differing expectations.

A significant part of the dating culture at the College is a crippling inability to truly ask someone out, so we often opt for carefully framed invitations to coffee or awkward assurances of a casual lunch. Students at the College are

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Concerning sorority recruitment, the sooner the better

Katherine Yenzer

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR The recent announcement that former FBI Director James B. Comey (William and Mary, Class of 1982) will co-teach a course in “ethical leadership” at The College of William and Mary this fall would be laughable were it not so embarrassing.

There is unusual bi-partisan opinion that Mr. Comey is hardly a profile in ethical leadership. The botched Hillary Clinton email investigation, immunity deals that permitted Clinton aides to destroy their laptops, meddling in the presidential election, misleading the House Intelligence Committee regarding leaked RNC emails during the 2016 elections, and misstatements regarding classified emails in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee are just a few “lapses in judgement” that come to mind. In short, Mr. Comey has ruined the once stellar reputation of the FBI. Surely my alma mater can do better. What’s next for William and Mary students, a course in social media co-taught by Anthony Weiner?

Jeffrey E. Knight Class of 1974 jknight@trueshred.com

often beautifully, wonderfully awkward and embrace their unique interests without shame. However, in the dating scene, that usually enchanting awkwardness leads to a lack of confidence to communicate effectively. This lack of clarity makes it difficult for me, as I feel obligated to respond with a similar lack of clarity in order to avoid assuming they meant something they did not. It is often ambiguous if I have agreed to go on a date with someone or if we are just getting to know each other better as platonic friends.

Murky communication leads to different scenarios that can range from mild social discomfort to sexual assault and a defiance of acceptable behavior. Some students at the College seem to view dating as a transaction, where any date-related purchase must be compensated by physical favors. They buy me food, a movie ticket or even a scoop of ice cream and in return I am expected to pay them back romantically or physically. I expect more of men at the College and expect that everyone truly care about being “One Tribe, One Family.”

Perhaps my expectations of respect, honesty and consideration are simply naïve. I have certainly been told that my problems will be solved if I just stop letting guys pay for me, or if I stop flirting and exploring the dating world entirely.

But I reject that way of thinking because I am not the problem, and these negative interactions are not my fault. Consent is not coerced.

Buying someone dinner with strings attached or with expectations of physical reciprocation is wrong and unjustifiable. Those people are part of the problem, not me.

I love being part of the Tribe.

That being said, I believe that it is my right, and the right of every student here, to feel safe, respected and valued. Yet my negative romantic experiences have cost me some of my security here with the people who call themselves my family. The culture of a fear of honest communication that I have experienced at the College is unhealthy and damaging to our community. We can do better. We must do better.

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

I don’t know about you, but currently my Instagram feed is flooded with pictures of girls on Bid Day happily announcing which sorority they have joined. While the College of William and Mary has sorority recruitment in the fall, there are many schools across the country that have deferred recruitment, meaning formal recruitment begins during the spring semester. Over the past couple of years, more and more schools have switched to deferred recruitment with the claim that delaying recruitment is the best option. While there are many valid reasons for delaying recruitment, ultimately fall semester recruitment is the best option for potential new members.

When I went through recruitment, I was definitely overwhelmed. With the exhaustive experience of orientation only a week behind me, I was already struggling to juggle making new friends and keeping up with my school work.

Initially, it felt as if the last thing I was prepared to do was spend two weekends meeting even more new people and spending hours on end socializing. However, once recruitment began, my excitement over joining a sorority trumped my exhaustion and nerves. While there is no denying that recruitment can be an emotionally and physically exhausting experience, the benefits of joining a sorority sooner rather than later outweigh the initial stress that is caused by fall recruitment.

By joining a sorority first semester, I immediately felt a sense of community within the group of girls I could now call my sisters. While making close friends within my sorority

obviously was not immediate, having a common connection with over a hundred people made the College feel smaller and more manageable than it did before. It provided a level of comfort that I needed. The older sisters really made an effort to get to know the new members, and as I grew closer and closer to the girls in my sorority, I became more and more comfortable at the College. The first couple months of freshman year can be extremely difficult; it’s easy to feel alone and out of place. Joining a sorority helped ease those feelings.

I was able to grow closer to upperclassmen and members of my own class that I probably would have never met otherwise.

I had sisterhood events and socials to look forward to, and when I was matched with my bigs, I had a family that I knew I could truly rely on. The big/little relationship is truly one unlike any other, and without my bigs, my first semester would not have been as incredible as it was. My bigs have been a perfect mix between best friends and big sisters and have been more than willing to help their little navigate the craziness of freshman year.

However, many argue that joining a sorority first semester isolates freshmen and prevents them from getting to know people outside of the sorority and fraternity communities.

While all experiences vary, I have not felt socially trapped by my sorority. I am still involved in other student organizations, and members of my sorority regularly introduce me to people that are not members of a sorority or fraternity. Rather than my sorority cutting me off from the outside world, my sisters have opened countless doors for me. I have been connected to people in clubs and organizations that I was interested in joining and others that I would not have even been aware of without the members of my sorority.

While it is understandable why many schools prefer deferred recruitment, delaying recruitment ultimately just delays another experience that can make college even more enjoyable. Sororities can help freshmen feel more at home and more comfortable at their new universities. The sooner a freshman is allowed to go through the recruitment process, the sooner she can find the group of women that have the potential to exponentially improve her college experience.

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

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Students march their way across United States with the Jersey Surf Drum Corps HEATHER BAIER FLAT HAT VARIETY EDITOR

All Ben Witman ’20 can remember of his first step onto a marching band field his freshman year of high school is the hefty weight of his instrument and the insufferable heat. Six years later, he laughs to himself at a table in Earl Gregg Swem Library, remembering a blistering day in Louisiana while on tour with the Jersey Surf Drum and Bugle Corps that made his first day of freshman band camp seem like a walk in the park.

“It was so hot,” Witman said. “It was like 90 plus percent humidity and over 100 degrees and muggy, and I remember like legitimately sweating through my socks and sweating through my shoes and it was just awful. We use these PVC pipe tubes and they have a valve you can close to restrict your airflow to build endurance, and so that was the day that the brass staff was like ‘All right, we’re going to run the end of the closer continuously and in between reps you’re going to have tubes at 90 and run around the perimeter of the baseball field — you’re going to do three laps — and then we’re going to run the closer and then you’re going to run three laps and run the closer’ and it was just, it was awful.”

Not new to this type of grueling rehearsal experience, Witman has spent the past two summers touring the United States with Drum Corps International along with Ayush Johsi ’20, who joined last winter.

For Witman, choosing Jersey Surf was a result of trial and error. Having first auditioned for the Cadets, a corps based out of Allentown, Pennsylvania, he knew he wanted a group with more supportive staff and eventually found himself a home in Jersey Surf.

For Joshi, the choice to join Jersey Surf came from talking to Witman. He knew from his junior year of high school that drum corps was something he wanted to do, but being from southeast Virginia, there weren’t a lot of corps based near him. Witman introduced him to Surf, and after a successful audition, they both settled in for the 2017 season.

THE SUMMER BEGINS Before the summer begins and tour starts, drum corps spend months preparing for the season.

Witman and Joshi drive from the College to New Jersey and back in the span of a weekend once a month to rehearse with Surf. Getting back to campus late Sunday, they both fall into bed after the long weekend.

“All throughout the winter you have a camp every month, and so once a month we’d drive up to Jersey and then rehearse for the weekend and then come back and fall asleep,” Witman said.

Then, after classes ended for the semester and

they had moved out of their college dorms, they packed their instruments and summer workout clothes, making their way back to New Jersey in early June to begin three weeks of spring training.

Waking up early day after day, Witman and Joshi rehearsed with the corps for 12 to 13 hours before laying down again later that night. They spent these three weeks in New Jersey, Columbia, Pennsylvania and finally East Strasburg, Pennsylvania.

Witman said that while these three weeks were hard because of the lack of competition, it’s when the groups learn the entirety of their marching formations, called drills.

“You practice all the music, you do all the basics, you do more intense [physical training] in that time period so that’s getting your strength up for the summer,” Witman said. “And that’s the hardest part of the tour because there’s no real instant reward, it’s just waking up every day, rehearsing for four hours, have a lunch break, rehearse for four hours, have a dinner break, rehearse for four hours, go to sleep.”

After spring training, drum corps like Jersey Surf launch into their competition season. Witman said rehearsal days consist of the same schedule as spring training, but now the corps has competition days, which combine rehearsals and marching contests.

THE STORY OF A CHANGING CITY Referring to itself as ‘Marching Music’s Major League,’ Drum Corps International organizes mainly college students under the age of 21 into both open-class and world-class drum crops from all over the world. Corps spend the winter training and preparing for their seasons, and after spring training, they embark on a summer-long tour and compete across the United States.

Unlike regular marching bands, corps include only brass instruments, percussion and color guard.

Joshi plays in the front ensemble and Witman marches the euphonium.

Shows are normally organized into three parts — opener, ballad and closer — and the drill and music change every year.

Joshi said the theme of Surf’s 2017 show was gentrification.

“It’s about a group of people that arrive in this city by train and then they kind of notice it’s really drab, and that’s kind of where the gray scale on our uniform this year came from,” Joshi said. “Then, they start discovering the importance of arts and culture and that eventually helps them transform the city into something more vibrant, and they symbolize that with this fountain prop that they brought in.

It was torn apart at the beginning, and then in the ballad people would put it together, then the closer was just kind of like the big celebration.”

As the city was transformed throughout the show, Witman said the color guard spun flags with blue silks to represent the new fountain.

“Right when the ballad hit, they would run out with the blue silks and it would be like the fountain was running again and then the third movement, the closer, started off with a large choreographed dance and then went into just fast-moving stuff,” Witman said.

Joshi added that the show ended “with screaming trumpets.”

LIFE ON THE ROAD After spending all day in the summer heat of Louisiana, Texas and countless other states doing music reps and running laps, Witman and Joshi retreated inside after every rehearsal to the comfort of an air-conditioned school gym or recreation center to wash off in showers of varying quality and sleep on wooden gymnasium floors.

Often driving through the night after spending the day rehearsing and competing, summer tours with DCI are an opportunity to travel a wide portion of the United States.

“It was like 10,000 miles of total driving,” Joshi said. “We started in the Northeast and then we worked our way down to Florida through South Carolina and Florida for a few days and then back up through Georgia and up through Tennessee, Arkansas and then Missouri and then Oklahoma.

Texas for like almost a week really, then we had swamp tour which is Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and then we swung back up through Salem, Virginia; Annapolis Maryland; Allentown, Pennsylvania; Eyrie, Pennsylvania and then ended in Indianapolis.”

FINDING A HOME IN JERSEY SURF After months on the road in tight spaces constantly traveling, performing and rehearsing, corps often form close, familial bonds.

Joshi said that even after performing for Snarky Puppy and competing in Lucas Oil Stadium, his favorite part of the summer was the bonds he formed with members of Jersey Surf and other corps.

“My favorite aspect of it is the community,” Joshi said. “Obviously making tons of great friends in your own core but as I toured and as we were at different shows, I met a lot of people from other cores, and one thing I definitely appreciated was there wasn’t that awkward tension like you would get at a high school marching band competition if you saw someone from a different school. Everyone would always be telling you like ‘have a good show’ and stuff like that and it was it was nice to say it back. I’d also like really want to see the other cores and other people would want to see our show too and that was really nice … Definitely, but just the overall drum

core community. It’s really nice.”

FINALS As the summer came to a close and the corps found themselves closer and closer to championships in Indianapolis, both open-class and world-class tours came together again in Lucas Oil Stadium.

Both Joshi and Witman awoke the morning of preliminaries to the sound of drums echoing off the walls of a school gym.

Then, on the day of semifinals, Witman awoke early with a small number of other brass players and happily blew the notes of the Jersey Surf core song, “Pure Imagination,” through the pipes of his euphonium to wake up his fellow marchers.

“Semifinals day the horn line, it’s like one [person] on a part and I got to be one of them this year which was really cool,” Witman said. “We played the core song to wake everyone up.”

In a stadium with the capacity to hold 70,000 people, Witman and Joshi took the field to perform a summer’s worth of sweat and travel. After countless bottles of valve oil, many long nights on the road and a stack of score sheets a mile high, Jersey Surf, along with world and open-class corps from around the globe, performed for the last time in front of families, friends, fans and judges in the Indianapolis stadium.

Entering the tunnel after their finals performance in 2016, Witman said he and his Surf family had trouble holding it together.

“We finished the show and we came off the field and just like everyone started crying because we knew that we probably weren’t going to keep going on, but it was just like a really visceral family experience because we’d been talking a lot the past couple days about what it means to be a family and like trying to imbue that familial emotion into the ballad hit,” Witman said. “You won’t realize it, but once you are home, you’ll never be with these same people again and so like all those emotions just hit at once and people just like broke down right once we got out into the tunnel.”

Despite not placing high on the score sheets, both Joshi and Witman agreed that the improvement in Surf from the year before was enough for them to be pleased with their results.

“It was definitely one of the crowd’s favorite Surf shows,” Witman said. “This year it was just a lot more fun and more like what people would traditionally associate with Surf. I think the biggest thing that I learned from Surf was that like, scores have their place, but the scoresheets don’t tell like your entire summer and the friendships that you make and the memories and bonds and everything like that …

No matter where you march, you’re getting those experiences.”

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On Wednesday, Jan. 24 “Sing Street” was screened at the Williamsburg Regional Library as one of the featured film showings for the “Cinema at Scotland Street” film festival; the festival will continue showings through June 27.

‘Cinema at Scotland Street’ movie festival spotlights independent films LEONOR GRAVE FLAT HAT STAFF WRITER

Anyone who found themselves walking into the Williamsburg Regional Library last Wednesday night and made their way to the theater in the basement would have happened upon a crowd of 45, enraptured by the charming Irish coming-of-age, musical rom-com “Sing Street.”

It was the first screening of “Cinema at Scotland Street,” the library’s newest film series which will continue to present a curated collection of independent films from all over the world every third Wednesday of the semester for free.

The series was curated by adult services librarians Charlotte Burcher ’91 and Cheryl Edwards.

“There are so many good films out there,” Burcher said. “We wanted to alternate some feature films with documentaries and to get some foreign language films in there. Most of all, we want it to be fun. We want the films to be entertaining.”

When the Kimball Theater changed management, Williamsburg found itself lacking in its offering of independent and experimental films and documentaries. The Williamsburg Regional Library noticed and introduced this film series in response. Burcher said that she hopes the film series will continue the Kimball’s legacy.

“We heard so many laments from people that that was something that they want to see in town,” Burcher said.

According to Burcher, there is something inherently special about the movie-going experience. Watching a movie with others, she said, contributes to building a sense of community.

“If I want to see a film I can just pull it up on my screen and get it off of Netflix and be under the covers by myself, but that’s a totally different thing from being in a room full of people who are all enjoying the same film,” Burcher said. “It’s a totally different vibe.”

Edwards has been running the Thursday afternoon classic film series, which attracts a loyal crowd of moviegoers, for the last 16 years.

The theme for the classic film series changes monthly. January was “Manuary,” with traditionally masculine movie themes; February will spotlight love stories and March is documentary-focused.

A love for movies precedes Edwards’s involvement with the film series; she worked in the film industry for 11 years in historian production research for Lucasfilm before becoming a librarian. With “Cinema at Scotland Street,” Edwards and the library staff wanted to try a different approach to attract a new audience to the library.

Rob Haas, program services and security director at the library, works to bring community film series such as the “Celtic Films Series,” the “Italian Film Series” and the “Jewish Film Festival” to the library.

But he emphasized that another aspect of outreach the library staff continuously have in mind is to make the library more inviting to the College of William and Mary community.

“That’s one of the things we’ve always tried to do — get folks over that 4-foot wall and to the library,” Haas said.

The next film in the series is “Kedi,” a Turkish documentary which explores the city of Istanbul from the point of view of a street cat.

“Kedi” plays Feb. 28 with a second matinée showing March 2. After “Kedi,” the series will feature “Train to Busan,” a South-Korean zombie thriller, March 28.

On April 25, the library will screen “Step,” a documentary that follows three women through their senior years as members of a step dance team in Baltimore, Maryland. Burcher said that “Step” is a personal favorite.

“It’s really high energy, it makes you want to walk away and dance,” Burcher said. “It’s also just a really strong picture of older women helping young women.”

The two last films are “In This Corner of the World” and “Dawson City,” May 16 and June 27, respectively. The former is a Japanese animated film set in Hiroshima during the Second World War with critically-praised animation. Additionally, both Edwards and Burcher highlighted “Dawson City” as a notable documentary with an exceptional story.

“In Dawson City, they were clearing out an old casino and they started digging in the backyard, in the swimming pool, and they found tons of film stock from the 1920s,” Edwards said.

What follows in an exploration of the history of a First Nations hunting camp turned Canadian gold rush town in Yukon Territory through hundreds of silent films previously considered lost for decades, set to an eerie score from Sigur Rós collaborator Alex Somers.

As the series continues, the library staff said that they hope to present a balanced film roster that both the student body and the broader Williamsburg community will be interested in, and that they are very receptive to feedback. This is the first time the library has done a film series like this, but it hopes it will continue beyond this first run.

“I hope the College students make better use of the library,” Burcher said. “We have a lot of really good stuff here. We have a lot of programming, and we would love to see more [students] over here.

Come over, we are your public library.”

All films in the “Cinema at Scotland Street” series and the classic film series are free and begin at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted. A full film schedule is available online.

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The Williamsburg Regional Library provides an overview of “Sing Street.”

Students have music on the mind

Greek organizations strike a chord amongst music-loving members

NAOMI GRUBER FLAT HAT VARIETY ASSOC. EDITOR

Greek life at the College of William and Mary isn’t just about formals and philanthropy. For some, it’s about finding a community around a shared passion — playing, rehearsing and arranging music.

There are three Greek organizations for music lovers on campus: the co-ed fraternity Delta Omicron, the fraternity Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and the sorority Nu Kappa Epsilon. While DO is a professional music fraternity that requires some music background, the only requirement for PMA and NKE is an interest in music.

“Anyone who identifies as male is allowed to join,” current president of PMA Patrick Poehailos ’18 said. “As long as we see you have an interest in music and passion for it, but there’s no exclusionary process in terms of year or anything like that.”

Poehailos joined PMA during his freshman year after meeting PMA members in the William and Mary Wind Ensemble, an organization of talented wind, brass and percussion players. After seeing what it was all about, Poehailos decided to take part in rush week.

“Through the rush week I just got to know the guys,” Poehailos said. “They told me about what PMA did on campus and around, and I just really enjoyed it, so I was like, ‘Oh, why not.’ It was a cool way to join a group that seemed to fit with me and my interests.”

According to DO member Sarah Swenson ’20, a stress-free rush period is a commonality for musical Greek life at the college.

“It’s a lot more relaxed than a social fraternity or sorority, particularly sororities,” Swenson said.

“We just do things like taco night, trivia night, and just come and chat with the brothers, and then at the end of the week, potentially get a bid.”

Once new members are initiated into a music fraternity or sorority, the organizations hold weekly meetings, philanthropy events, recitals and socials. According to Poehailos, while the levels of commitment vary between Greek organizations, the requirements for music fraternities and sororities are generally pretty simple.

“It’s mostly showing up to weekly meetings to get a chance to talk about what we’re doing, what is our next big event happening, how is development happening for our new members, so everyone can get involved in that process,” Poehailos said.

Since PMA also has its own acapella group, Choral Pleasure, some members also attend weekly rehearsals.

As with any form of Greek life, philanthropy is a key component of music fraternities. NKE works with the charity Songs for Kids, which brings the joy of music to hospitalized children. NKE also held its first big philanthropy event last fall, NKoachElla, which raised over 1,000 dollars for charity. As a part of its Mills Music Mission, PMA’s dedication to acts of musical community service, the fraternity gives back to the community by performing for children and retirement homes.

For those interested in music, the sorority and fraternities are a way to meet people that share the same passion.

“The diversity of people,” Imani Calvin ’19, a member of NKE’s executive board, said. “They come from different backgrounds and different

interests. I know people who are really into Disney and Broadway, and that’s not really my thing, but it’s still really cool to see that.”

NKE was also an opportunity for Calvin to branch out into a leadership position at the College. After witnessing fellow members of her pledge class and other sorority members step up and try for leadership positions, Calvin was inspired to run for ritual chair, an executive

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Members of the PMA fraternity a capella group rehearse.

position that she said entails helping to organize the more secret ceremonies such as initiation and bid night.

For Poehailos, joining PMA meant finding a tight-knit community of brothers.

“The nice part about it is PMA is not only just a fraternity, which has all that kind of camaraderie built into it, but it’s one focused on music, so it feels like there’s a common thread linking all of us,” Poehailos said. “It’s cool to just have a group

of people where my passions align with their passions, and we can come together for that.”

Poehailos also said that joining PMA led him to step out of his comfort zone by joining Choral Pleasure.

“The a capella group that we have is something I never would have considered doing before college,” Poehailos said. “I never realized I had any potential to sing until that point.”

At the end of the day, musical Greek life is all about community, sharing your passion and having fun.

“I think you can meet your best friends,” Swenson said. “Everyone’s really friendly — it’s a big community.”

NKE provides those wanting to join a sorority a space to explore their love of music, no matter what their experience level is.

“You can come in and not play an instrument or sing or anything and still bond with people over music,” Calvin said.

According to Poehailos, students interested in music and seeking to join a fraternity may find PMA a good alternative to normal Greek life.

“I think the environment of PMA is distinctly different in terms of just we’re a cohort of guys,” Poehailos said. “We’re definitely focused on developing our internal sense of ‘we are guys who hang out and really enjoy the music’ and try to do our best together in the community and do these outreach projects … It just feels like the wholesomeness of a freshman hall mixed with the passion of everyone’s here for the music … It’s kind of cool to mix your passions with something that is, I guess, more formally intimate than a club would be.”

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WOMEN’S TENNIS

Tribe falls to Illini, fights to competitive win over Eagles College propelled to victory with strong performances from Cheng, Goodman, Thaler at Chapel Hill CATHERINE SCHEFER FLAT HAT SPORTS ASSOC. EDITOR

After suffering a painful defeat last weekend, William and Mary hit the road and traveled to Chapel Hill, North Carolina for the ITA Kick-Off Weekend hosted by North Carolina.

The Tribe (2-3) squared off against Big Ten foe Illinois (3-0) in the opening round of the weekend.

Despite singles wins by junior Lauren Goodman and sophomore Natalia Perry, the College still dropped the weekend opener to the Illini.

The Tribe was unable to clench the doubles point or single wins at the No. 2, No. 3 and No. 5 spots.

Illinois made a statement and jumped out with a 1-0 lead by securing the doubles point at the top two spots.

Goodman stood strong and evened the playing field with a win for the Tribe at the No. 6 spot.

Goodman continued and was then met with two consecutive set losses against Illinois’ Grace Tapak, 6-2, 6-0.

These sets preceded her eighth singles win of the year as she evened her dualmatch record at 2-2.

Meanwhile, at the No. 3 spot, Perry responded to a set win with a victory of her own. Perry definitively claimed the first set with a 6-0 victory over freshman Emilee Duong.

The sophomore then continued to obtain her 11th win of the year after picking up her first dual-match win of the season.

The Illini solidified a victory by winning the final two matches at the No. 2 and No. 5 spots, which ensured that they advanced into the ITA Kick-Off Weekend Regional Final on Saturday.

At the top position in singles, sophomore Rosie Cheng reigned over Illinois freshman Asuka Kawai with a 7-5 victory.

However, with the team result already decided and Kawai leading 3-2 in the second set, the match was abandoned as the Tribe moved ahead to the consolation round.

The Tribe’s three-game losing streak ended Saturday as it reigned victorious over Big South Champion Winthrop.

Cheng outplayed a national top-15 opponent, and senior Olivia Thaler pulled a three-set tiebreaker victory to push the College past the Eagles (0-2).

After being unable to claim the doubles point, the College commandeered a team victory with four singles wins from Cheng, Thaler, Goodman and freshman Victoria Okuyama.

The Tribe fell behind as the Eagles closed on the initial point with doubles wins at the No. 1 and No. 3 spots.

Okuyama came in hot and leveled the playing field with a straight-sets win at the No. 6 spot, claiming her ninth win of the year. The Eagles responded with a win at the No. 2 spot, claiming a 2-1 advantage.

Cheng posted the Tribe’s highestranked win since 2015 against a nationally-ranked opponent.

The sophomore and two-time Big South Player of the Year Lauren Proctor split the first two sets, each winning a set 6-2.

Cheng outplayed Proctor in the end, claiming a victory for the Tribe in the third set, marking Cheng’s second straight win.

Goodman, with a three-set win in the No. 4 spot, pushed the Tribe ahead for the remainder of the match.

The junior jumped out strong, earning a victory in the opening set by a 6-2 margin, before Winthrop’s Tayla Van Eck answered with a 6-3 victory in the second

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Sophomore Rosie Cheng beat a national top-15 opponent, helping the Tribe defeat Winthrop.

set.

Mirroring the resiliency of Cheng, Goodman outlasted Eck with a narrow 7-5 triumph.

At the No. 5 post, Thaler sealed a victory for the Tribe after dropping the opening set 6-3 to Winthrop’s Aida Kelic.

Thaler fought back and secured her

12th singles win of the season. The College senior won both final sets 7-5.

Looking ahead, the Tribe will travel to Dartmouth for two matches Feb. 3-4.

The College will square up against Atlantic Coast Conference opponent Boston College Saturday before facing Dartmouth Sunday.

TRACK AND FIELD

MEN’S TENNIS

Tribe strong in Liberty Kickoff College secures multiple top-10 finishes

JACOB ROSS FLAT HAT STAFF WRITER

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Freshman Finbar Talcott clenched the win over Elon in a tiebreaker. His early success has helped the Tribe to a 3-0 record.

College wins tight contest over Elon Tribe improves to 3-0 on season behind Talcott ALYSSA GRZESIAK FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR

Friday, William and Mary welcomed Elon to the McCormack-Nagelsen Tennis Center. The Tribe (3-0) came out victorious with a 4-3 win over the Phoenix (23), thanks to a hard-fought tiebreaker performance by freshman Finbar Talcott.

The College’s 3-0 record marks its best start since 2011.

“I just fought hard and was able to pull it out in the end,” Talcott said The Tribe had a rocky start as Elon clenched the doubles point with wins at the No. 1 and No. 2 spots.

The senior duo of Lars de Boer and Alec Miller won their doubles contest 6-2 at the No. 3 spot before the Phoenix took the final match win at the No. 2 spot.

The Tribe comeback began with freshman Louis Newman’s 6-1, 6-4 victory at the No. 4 spot, tying the match.

Senior Christian Cargill fell to Elon’s Felipe Sarrasague 6-4, 6-3 at the No. 1 spot, putting the Phoenix up 2-1. The College secured two consecutive victories by de Boer and Miller at the No. 3 and 2 spots, respectively, putting the Tribe up 3-2.

De Boer’s win at the No. 3 spot marked his sixth singles match of the year.

Freshman Sebastian Quiros was defeated by Elon’s Felipe Ossess-Konig after a drawn-out 7-5, 6-4 match.

Tied 3-3, the outcome was to be decided by Talcott in his match at the No. 5 spot against Phoenix Camilo Ponce.

Talcott came out of the first set on top in a 7-6 victory but fell short 6-3 to Ponce in the second set. Ponce began the decisive third set with an early 3-0 lead, a promising start for the Phoenix. However, Talcott — down 4-1 — came back with five straight set wins, resulting in a 4-3 Tribe victory.

“Obviously very tough match played by both sides,” head coach Jeff Kader said. “Credit to our guys for

putting in the work, but kind of got a little bit lucky… but overall we knew it was going to be a tough match and our guys fought hard all the way through.”

Saturday, the College took on Penn (0-2) in a contest that, again, came down to a final tiebreaker set.

Unlike the previous night, the Tribe had a strong start that resulted in winning the doubles point.

After the College dropped the contest at the No. 3 spot, the teams of Cargill and Newman and freshman Michael Chen and Miller pulled off consecutive victories to give the College an early 1-0 lead.

The Quakers and the Tribe took turns winning matches until the score was tied 3-3.

Talcott fell to Penn’s Max Cancilla 6-3, 6-1 at the No. 5 spot, but then Quiros retaliated with a 6-0, 7-5 victory over Quaker Aleks Huryn at the No. 6 spot.

Penn responded with a tight 7-5, 6-3 victory over Cargill at the No. 1 spot. Miller’s contest against Penn’s Josh Pompan at the No. 2 spot went into a third set, with Miller winning the final two sets 6-2, 6-4 after dropping the first set 6-2.

At the No. 3 spot, de Boer was defeated by Quaker Dmitry Shatalin in another third-set decision. “[The freshmen] are great,” Kader said. “They fit in very well with the guys right away, and they’re pushing each other every day, and they’re pushing our upperclassmen as well — so I couldn’t be more happy with them.”

The results of the contest came down Newman’s match at the No. 4 spot against Penn’s Nicholai Westergaard.

Newman took the first set 6-4 before dropping a close second set 7-6.

Despite Newman’s struggles in the second set, he easily claimed the third set 6-1, claiming the Tribe’s second 4-3 victory in two days and its third of the year.

The College looks to improve its record at home when it hosts Richmond at the McCormack-Nagelsen Tennis Center Feb. 1 at 6 p.m.

The Tribe had a strong performance at the 2018 Liberty Kickoff event over the weekend. Many athletes recorded top-10 finishes in their respective events.

On the men’s side, junior Preston Richardson shined in the throws. He finished third in the shot put with a fitting 16.93-meter (5506.50) toss and again in the weight throw (16.77 meters; 55-00.25).

Freshman Connor Scott (15.07 meters; 49-05.50) and junior Vlad Castillo (14.96 meters; 49-01.00) followed Richardson in the shot-put standings with ninth and 10th place finishes, respectively.

Freshman KJ Cook Jr. added a fifth-place finish in the weight throw with a heave

of 16.67 meters (54-08.25).

On the track, junior Duncan Goodrich clocked 1:06.38 in the 500-meter dash to place 10th. Freshman Miles Owens finished ninth in the 800-meter run in 1:55.43, while redshirt sophomore Evan Woods dropped a cool 8:39.58 to place seventh in the 3,000-meter run.

On the women’s side, senior Kacey Wheeler (1:17.09) placed fifth and junior Lindsay Schott (1:18.85) placed seventh in the 500-meter dash. The Tribe occupied seventh through 10th place in the 800-meter run results, with freshman Taylor Jones leading the charge in 2:20.04.

Junior Abigail Hillerich (2:20.28), sophomore Deirdre Lewin (2:21.64) and freshman Kate Miller (2:21.79) were hot on Jones’ heels. Senior Molly Applegate finished runnerup in the one-mile run with

a swift 4:52.39 clocking.

Freshmen Karina Tavares (5:08.67) and Lauren Finikiotis (5:09.09) placed sixth and seventh, respectively. In the 3,000-meter run, sophomore Sarah Goodrich finished sixth in 10:19.77, while senior Molly Breidenbaugh finished eighth in 10:27.40.

Off the track, junior Grace Becker placed fourth in the high jump, clearing 1.65 meters (5-05.00). Senior Abby Jones, also clearing 1.65 meters, finished right behind Becker in fifth place. Senior Minna McFarland finished eighth with a clearance of 1.60 meters (5-03.00). In the weight throw, senior Leia Mistowski placed third with a heave of 18.82 meters (61-09.00).

The Tribe is back in action next weekend, returning to Liberty to compete in the Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational.

GYMNASTICS

Tribe finishes second at Navy College tops Owls, falls to Midshipmen EMILY CHAUMONT FLAT HAT MANAGING EDITOR

Saturday, the William and Mary men once again traveled to Annapolis, where they faced off against Navy and Temple and took second place in the tri-meet.

The Tribe posted a season-high score of 389.3, trailing the host Navy (396.4) and beating out Temple (242.05).

Three different Tribe athletes placed first in their individual events, and the College set season highs on four events.

The Tribe posted the highest team score on parallel bars with a score Antle of 64.1.

Senior Griffin Antle led the way for the College, placing first with a score of 13.5.

Senior Jeremiah McReynolds took third with a score of 12.95.

On pommel horse, junior Jacopo Gliozzi placed first with a 13.25 score.

Freshman Spencer Schrandt’s career-high 12.1 also added to the College’s season-high score of 60.9 in the event.

The Tribe posted a season-high 69.6 on

vault, with sophomore Tim O’Neill leading the way with his first-place score of 14.35.

Junior Jack Hasenkopf posted a 14.1 on vault, which added to his score of 73.9 in the all-around.

He was the Tribe’s only all-around competitor and took second place.

In addition to the College’s successful performances on parallel bars, pommel horse and vault, it also had athletes on the podium for high bar and floor.

McReynolds took third Gliozzi on high bar, posting a career-high 13.25 and contributing to the Tribe’s season-high 63.8 in the event.

On floor, where the College scored a total of 66.7 points, O’Neill and fellow sophomore Tomas Palma posted matching scores of 13.75 to tie for third place.

Gliozzi, McReynolds and junior Peter Makey competed on rings, adding to the Tribe’s seasonhigh team score of 64.2.

The three each scored 13.150 points in the event. Junior David Watkins posted a career-high 13.05.

The Tribe will be back in action Feb. 4 when it competes in the New England Championships hosted by Springfield.

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Junior guard Bianca Boggs led the Tribe in scoring against Charleston, contributing 26 points, seven rebounds, seven steals and six assists. Boggs also scored 24 points and contributed eight rebounds and four blocks against Hofstra.

College defeats Cougars, Pride on road Tribe returns home with two Colonial Athletic Association victories KEVIN RICHESON FLAT HAT SPORTS ASSOC. EDITOR Friday, William and Mary welcomed the College of Charleston to Kaplan Arena for a Colonial Athletic Association matchup. The Tribe had dropped two games the previous weekend and was looking to get back on track in conference play. It trailed the hotshooting Cougars at halftime, but stepped it up on defense in the second half and ran away with a 79-66 victory.

“Obviously after last weekend, we’re real happy to get back in the win column,” head coach Ed Swanson said.

The College (14-6, 5-4 CAA) jumped out to a quick 7-0 advantage in the first 90 seconds of the game. Senior guard Jenna Green scored five of the seven points, including a three-pointer in the opening seconds. The Cougars (5-15, 1-8 CAA) responded with five points of their own, but the College quickly answered to give the Tribe a 13-5 edge with 5:27 remaining in the opening quarter. The final four points of the Tribe’s 6-0 spurt came off of steals by junior guard Bianca Boggs. Despite leading for the entirety of the first quarter, the Tribe clung to a slim 20-18 advantage after 10 minutes of play. The Cougars heated up in the last five minutes of the quarter, preventing the College from stretching its lead.

The Cougars continued their hot shooting in the second quarter.

They took their first lead of the evening on a three-pointer by guard Cailin Dorsey. Boggs briefly gave the lead back to the Tribe before Dorsey buried another three to put the Cougars up 24-22 with under eight minutes to play in the half.

Dorsey was on fire in the first half, scoring 14 points and connecting on four three-pointers. With the College going nearly three minutes without a point, the Cougars were able to stretch their lead to six before Boggs drilled a three to bring the Tribe back to within one possession. The College managed to whittle the lead down to one with just over a minute left before the break, but five consecutive points from Dorsey gave the Cougars a 41-35 advantage at halftime.

“I thought we had a real tough defensive first half,” Swanson said.

“So at halftime I really challenged the kids defensively.”

The Tribe opened the third quarter shooting well as the College looked to rally and avoid extending its losing streak to three games.

Sophomore guard Nari Garner, making the first start of her career, buried two threes in the first few minutes of the quarter to narrow the deficit to two points. Green assisted on both threes, two of her 11 assists of the night. She finished with a double-double with 10 points in addition to her assists.

“People were knocking down shots tonight,” Green said. “All around people were ready to play.”

Two minutes later, sophomore forward Victoria Reynolds tied the game at 45. Reynolds also had a double-double, with 15 points and a game-high 18 rebounds.

“I think [Reynolds] has a great nose for the ball,” Swanson said.

Boggs added a layup of her own on the fast break with just under five minutes to play in the quarter, giving the College the lead for the first time since early in the second quarter. Later in the quarter, clinging to a one-point advantage, the Tribe went on a 6-0 run, capped by two buckets from senior center Abby Rendle. After a slow start, she finished one rebound away from a triple-double, racking up 12 points and 11 blocks. The Tribe held the Cougars to 10 points in the quarter and led 56-51 entering the final 10-minute stretch.

The Tribe began to put the game away in the opening minutes of the fourth quarter. A score by Green was followed by threes from Boggs and Garner, giving the College a 13-point edge, its largest of the game at that point. Boggs led the Tribe in scoring with 26 points and also contributed seven rebounds, seven steals and six assists.

“I was just trying to calm myself down mentally and slow the game down to make the right decisions,” Boggs said.

The Cougars cut the deficit to nine points on multiple occasions in the final quarter, but the College’s lead was never in danger, as it got back in the win column with a 79-66 victory.

With the victory over the Cougars, the senior class of Green, Rendle and forward Jeanne Gaumont became the most successful class in school history with 63 wins.

Sunday afternoon, the College returned to action with a pivotal game against Hofstra. The Tribe was looking to bounce back from its 11-point loss to the Pride just nine days earlier in New York. Despite a slow start offensively, the Tribe used a stellar defensive effort to split the season series with the Pride with a 63-53 win.

“Just a great team win,” Swanson said. “I’m super proud of our team.”

The College fell behind early as the Pride (10-11, 4-6 CAA) scored the first six points of the contest. Green scored the first four points for the College to help the Tribe get back on track, but it still never led in the first quarter. However, strong defense by the College kept the game close, even as Boggs and Rendle were held scoreless in the first quarter. Green scored eight of the Tribe’s 11 points in the opening quarter, including the last four to cut the deficit to 12-11 going to the second.

“I needed to look to score a little bit more this game,” Green said.

After guard Olivia Askin drained a three early in the second

quarter for the Pride, Garner answered with a triple of her own to pull the College back within one. Over the next five minutes, the Tribe held the Pride scoreless and went on a 10-0 run to take its first lead of the afternoon. Boggs ended her drought with four points in this stretch to open the game. Freshman center Gabby Rogers also scored during this run and played for 16 minutes of the game. The College took a 27-22 advantage to the locker room after holding the Pride to 10 points in the second quarter.

“Our defense really carried us,” Swanson said.

The College scored the first six points of the second half to propel it to a double-digit advantage. Garner hit a three during this run, part of her 10 points and seven rebounds for the game. With four minutes remaining in the quarter, the Pride had narrowed the gap to five points, but Green and Boggs began to take over the game.

They combined for the last 11 points of the quarter for the Tribe, helping the College to a 46-37 lead going to the fourth quarter. Boggs had seven points in the final four minutes of the quarter, including another three-pointer. She was 4-7 from deep on the afternoon.

Reynolds scored the first four points of the final quarter for the College before Boggs hit another three, stretching the lead to 12.

Reynolds had 11 points, eight rebounds and seven steals in the College’s victory.

With Rendle under the weather, Reynolds and Rogers played well inside to complement Boggs, Green and Garner on the perimeter.

Near the midway point of the fourth quarter, Garner hit her third three of the contest to give the College a 13-point advantage and essentially put the game away. Fittingly, Boggs scored the final five points for the College.

After a slow start, she scored 24 points, 17 of which came in the second half. She also had eight rebounds and four blocks to round out another complete effort by the junior guard.

“I think I was going too fast and try to push the issue too much,” Boggs said. “I guess I did flip a switch.”

This weekend, the College will round out its three-game homestand when it faces off against in-state rival James Madison Friday night. The Dukes are undefeated in conference play, and the Tribe looks to pull off the upset and stretch its win streak to three games.

“It’s exciting. We love to compete,” Swanson said. “We’re chasing [James Madison] down … we’re looking for a great opportunity for us to compete.”

Sunday, the College will go back on the road to take on Towson.

In the two teams’ first matchup this season, the Tigers narrowly defeated the College at Kaplan Arena 67-66 on Jan. 7.

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Tribe falls to Towson in overtime, defeats Seahawks College remains top of conference after defeating UNC-Wilmington, tied with Charleston, Northeastern JOSH LUCKENBAUGH FLAT HAT SPORTS ASSOC. EDITOR William and Mary concluded its latest threegame road trip with mixed results, losing to Towson 96-82 in overtime Thursday before defeating UNC-Wilmington 84-81 Saturday. The Tribe remains tied atop the Colonial Athletic Association standings with College of Charleston and Northeastern.

Seeking to avenge its 99-73 home loss to the Tigers 12 days prior, the College (14-7, 7-3 CAA) came out of the gates hot on Thursday against Towson (15-8, 5-5 CAA), shooting 56 percent from the field in the first half. Sophomore guard Justin Pierce led the way, shooting 16 of his team-high 27 points in the opening 20 minutes, knocking down six of his first seven shot attempts.

Despite the Tribe’s excellent start on offense, the Tigers stayed in the game with some strong shooting of their own. Towson nearly matched the College with a 53 percent first-half field goal percentage. The Tribe headed into the locker at

halftime with a 47-37 lead, in prime position to claim a fifth straight CAA road win.

Towson continued to shoot the ball well in the second half, shooting 57 percent from the field in the period, gradually chipping away at the Tribe’s lead. Tigers guard Zane Martin caused the College defense all sorts of problems, scoring 16 of his game-high 35 points in the second half.

To make matters worse for the Tribe, sophomore center Nathan Knight fouled out with just under five minutes left in regulation, leaving the College without one of its key players down the stretch. A Martin free throw with 12 seconds to play tied the game at 79, eventually sending the game to overtime when the Tribe failed to score on its ensuing possession.

The Tigers blew out the Tribe in the five-minute overtime period, outscoring the College 17-3 to finish off a 96-82 victory.

“Our guys played their hearts out tonight,” head coach Tony Shaver told Tribe Athletics. “We battled hard, we played hard enough to win this ballgame, no question about that. It’s unfortunate

that down the stretch we couldn’t get the key stops to put the game away. … If we’re going to be a championship-caliber team, we’ve got to learn to get the key stops.”

Its streak of four consecutive road victories snapped by Towson, the Tribe got back to its winning ways Saturday night against reigning CAA champions UNC-Wilmington (7-15, 4-6 CAA).

The College once again got off to a strong start on offense, shooting 55 percent in the first half on its way to a 40-31 halftime lead. Senior guard Connor Burchfield scored 15 of his 23 points in the period, knocking down all five of the Tribe’s first-half three-pointers.

The Seahawks responded by scoring 50 points in the second half, shooting over 51 percent from the field in the final 20 minutes. UNC-Wilmington guard Jordon Talley had a stellar second half, recording 17 of his game-high 25 points.

However, unlike Thursday’s loss to Towson, the Tribe was able to gut out a hard-fought road win.

Pierce nearly matched Talley with 16 second-half points of his own, finishing with 23 total, while

Burchfield scored the College’s final six points to help seal the 84-81 victory. Talley’s last attempt to send the game to overtime clanked off the rim, and the Tribe celebrated its seventh conference win.

The victory also took on historical significance for senior guard David Cohn, who became the Tribe’s all-time assists leader with nine on Saturday, bringing his college career total to 417.

Shaver commented on Cohn’s strong performance over the past three years to Tribe Athletics.

“He’s been a great leader for our club this year,” Shaver said. “His communication coming off the floor and on the floor after timeouts is really impressive. I’m so proud of him for breaking the assists record, and to do it in three years is pretty amazing … love the ball in his hands, I can tell you that.”

The Tribe will return to action next Thursday with a home contest against Elon at 7 p.m. The College defeated the Phoenix 80-73 in their last matchup Jan. 20.