The Flat Hat January 31, 2017

Vol. 107, Iss. 1 | Tuesday, January 31, 2017

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GPP launches 33,000 letters

Muscarelle to open exhibit Museum will show Monroe’s unseen letters

These include ones

by King George III SARAH SMITH FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR

The first roughly 33,000 digitized documents in the Georgian Papers Programme, a collection of archival documents from Windsor Castle, will be released on Saturday, Jan. 28. Some of these documents include letters written by King George III during the American Revolution.

Starting in November 2014, representatives from the College of William and Mary in conjunction with the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture met in the United Kingdom with the archive’s partners, including the Royal Collection Trust and King’s College.

According to history professor and Director of the Omohundro Institute Karin Wulf, these early meetings started with discussing how a partnership with the College could be mutually beneficial. “[Director of the Reves Center for International Studies and Vice Provost for International Affairs] Steve Hanson was reached out to ... This was in November of 2014 and we started talking about mutual interest in archival excavations,” Wulf said. “We just sat down and talked about our mutual interests and we went from there. I think one of the things that is really appealing on all sides is that this partnership isn’t about just having partners, it’s an academic partnership that’s meant to expose materials for schools who can then interpret it. Within a matter of months, we had our first fellows in the See GPP page 3

REVELEY REACTS TO IMMIGRATION EXECUTIVE ORDER On Sunday, Jan. 29 College of William and Mary President Taylor Reveley sent a campuswide email about President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration.

This executive order restricts immigration from the countries of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen into the United States for 90 days. It also suspends the Syrian refugee program indefinitely.

“W&M’s Reves Center for International Studies has taken the lead in determining the order’s implications for our international students, faculty and staff,” Reveley said in his email.

He also included a link to another message sent the same day by Director of International Students, Scholars and Programs Stephen Sechrist.

“We will continue to welcome and support our international people, and keep them informed, to the best of our abilities,” Reveley said.

— Flat Hat Assoc. News Editor Noah Petersen

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One of two copies of Sandro Botticelli’s isolated Venus paintings will be on display at the Muscarelle Museum of Art from Feb. 11 with 15 other paintings.

College searches for ‘divine’ Botticelli painting travels from Italy to Muscarelle MADELINE MONROE // FLAT HAT ASSOC. NEWS EDITOR From Turin’s Galleria Sabauda, one of artist Sandro Botticelli’s two Venus paintings in the world will leave Italy to go on display for the first time in the United States. Its first American host is none other than the College of William and Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art, which will have its halls decorated with classic works from Botticelli upon its reopening Feb. 11.

“For our constituents, for our visitors, it will be a once in a lifetime opportunity to see these works in the flesh, so that’s significant,” Head of Collections and Exhibitions Management Melissa Parris said. “It’s an artist who’s among the most important artists in our history. We of course have a fine art history and studio program here so that is good for students to be able to see master works first-hand.”

Through a partnership with Italy’s Associazione Culturale Metamorfosi, the Muscarelle was loaned the Turin gallery’s Venus painting along with 15 of Botticelli’s other works from cities and churches in

Italy, according to a press release.

Titled Botticelli and the Search for the Divine: Florentine Painting Between the Medici and the Bonfires of the Vanities, the exhibit’s next and only other American host will be Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, starting April 18.

The transport of valuable, 500-year-old works presents its own set of challenges for the museum. Parris said that securing the collections’ transport involved “a very complicated set of logistics” that was challenging because it required working with different fine arts agents in Italy.

Once the shipping is settled and the works arrive at the museum, Muscarelle staff must ensure that the works fit in the galleries, despite prior preparation.

“There’s a lot of discussion about layout which our curator usually has prepared in advance,” Parris said. “But then sometimes objects will come and we may find we have to slightly adjust some of our earlier expectations because of the challenges with the installation.”

Logistical concerns, such as art pieces fitting within the layout, are not the only issues that the museum must address come installation. Lenders make requests that the host institution must fulfill during the process, such as installing protective guard rails to presenting the art in a way that conveys its natural condition.

The Muscarelle’s Assistant Director and Chief Curator John Spike works with Facilities and Exhibitions Manager Kevin Gilliam to ensure that these requests are met. One work, Botticelli’s “Saint Augustine in the Studio,” came with its own specific design requests.

“Everything has to be thought through and we have to respond to our lenders’ request,” Spike said.

After years of effort, planning and negotiation that went into this exhibit, Muscarelle Director and CEO Aaron De Groft said that he believes that the exhibit will afford visitors a rare opportunity to See VENUS page 3

Feb. 11, an exhibit titled Written in Confidence: The Unpublished Letters of James Monroe will open at the Muscarelle Museum of Art. The Earl Gregg Swem Library acquired 25 unpublished letters written by and for James Monroe, containing an ongoing correspondence between Monroe and Monroe’s Secretary of the Treasury William Crawford.

Director of Special Collections Jay Gaidmore first heard about the letters’ existence from a historical documents dealer, Nathan Raab, who Gaidmore had previously done business with.

Gaidmore said he was eager to acquire the letters because they were unpublished.

“We were able to negotiate a good price with him and set up payment over the next five years to make it much easier to purchase them,” Gaidmore said.

Instruction and Research Associate for Swem Special Collections Meghan Bryant M.A. ’12, Ph.D. ’16 was tasked with the transcription of the 25 letters. Bryant worked in collaboration with professors, historians and others to aid in her effort. She said that her biggest challenge was putting the letters in context in order to create a coherent narrative.

“Each of the letters is really a fragment from a series of letters that [Monroe and Crawford] were exchanging back and See MONROE page 4

Students join annual anti-abortion protest in Washington, D.C. March for Life sees similar numbers to Women’s March following Trump inauguration SARAH SMITH FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR

During an average week in Students for Life, the group’s 15-20 active members write letters to state and federal representatives, volunteer with their Pregnant A week after an estimated 700,000 people gathered on Campus initiative and do volunteer work with Hope for the Women’s March on Washington, students from Pregnancy Care Center. This past week, students made the College of William and Mary’s Students for Life signs as they prepared to join in the annual march of traveled to Washington, D.C. for a different march — anti-abortion advocates. the annual March for Life.

One member, Rita McInerny ’19, who has been attending the March for Life since she was in the eighth grade, said she has continued to go because of the inclusion she sees in the movement.

“I was awed by the realization that there truly is a place for everyone in the pro-life movement — it is inclusive of all men and women, at each and every stage of life,” McInerny said in a written response.

“As I continued to attend the March for Life and the surrounding pro-life events year after year, it became even more apparent that the March for Life and the entirety of the pro-life movement provides a voice for the voiceless — the unborn, women, minorities, the abused, refugees, the elderly, the disabled, immigrants and all those who are unheard and vulnerable in our society. The pro-life movement is the movement for anyone who wants to be on the side of science, the vulnerable and the oppressed.”

This year’s March for Life occurred a week after President Donald Trump’s inauguration. During his first week in office, Trump signed an executive action to reinstate the “Mexico City Policy,” which denies US government funding to international nongovernmental organizations that perform abortions.

Students for Life President Sam Malanga ’19 said COURTESY PHOTO / STUDENTS FOR LIFE Students joined annual anti-abortion protest in D.C. on Jan. 27. that although she personally does not agree with

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many of Trump’s stances, she shares in the excitement following some of his recent anti-abortion actions.

“I don’t agree with most of Trump’s stances, except for his pro-life ones,” Malanga said. “People recognize that he isn’t pro-life after birth, like with immigration and prisoners. I think it’s hard for me because I don’t agree with the things that he says, but I am happy that there are certain things that are getting passed.”

For students like McInerny and Malanga, the March for Life is a positive event. Malanga said that while it does serve as a peaceful protest against Roe v. Wade, she thinks the overall atmosphere is “fun.”

McInerny echoed this, and said that she enjoys what she feels is an overall positive experience every time she goes to the March.

“Each year as I finish the march at the Supreme Court, I look behind me at the marchers who are still walking,” McInerny said. “The sea of happy faces holding signs declaring their belief in the beauty and value of each person, enthusiastically chanting and singing about their love for life never fails to inspire me with hope. One day, a society that values all of its members — from the beginning to the end of life — will be a reality. The pro-life movement demands that no matter who occupies the White House, that our country implements laws and policies that respect all life at every stage of development.”

Students for Life Vice President Grace Pluta ’19 said that for her, the March for Life advocates for more than the lives of the unborn.

“To me, pro-life encompasses the sustainability of

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A train ride from New Jersey and a love of political science brought Sahil Mehrotra ’17 to the College of William and Mary and a few bites of a curry chicken salad sandwich from Aromas convinced him to stay. Three years later, his love of politics — and a continuing love for that same sandwich — have shaped his involvement at the College and his aspirations for the future.

“I came here, I loved orientation, from day one I was sold,” Mehrotra said. “That’s kind of it. I came on Day for Admitted Students, but I had already paid my deposit at that point.”

Before his first day of classes, Mehrotra had already found a home in the government department. The summer before his freshman year, a post in a Monroe Hall Facebook page inspired him to apply for a position in the Social Networks and Political Psychology Lab, where he’s been doing research on political polarization ever since.

He said his love for the government department inspired him to declare a government major, and he added a computer science minor because of an interest in the topic.

“I like to talk to people about how my favorite part of the government department is the faculty, they’re really an interesting group of people,” Mehrotra said. “I am very much of an Americanist — all of my interests are in U.S. politics … the Americanist faculty are such a wonderful group of people, they’re all so funny in the best way, interesting and so unique. I love to just go into Tyler [Hall] and see whose doors are open just to talk to them.”

Beyond the faculty, Mehrotra said that some of his most memorable experiences have come from working with the SNaPP lab and taking classes that went beyond the traditional government department curriculum. One of his favorite classes was Race, Rhetoric and Poetry.

“It’s probably my favorite class I’ve taken here just because it’s such a unique perspective on issues you don’t talk about in other classes, especially in the government department,” Mehrotra said. “The rhetorical aspect of it is something you really don’t study.

There are racial components to other classes — you can’t talk about a lot of subjects in the government department without talking about race, but the rhetorical aspect of that course was so cool to experience.”

From the basement of Morton Hall to the newly renovated Tyler Hall, Mehrotra said that he valued his time with the government department. This past summer, this passion led him to London, Ireland, France and Berlin to study political polarization.

When he’s not traveling internationally to study or hanging out in government professors’ offices, Mehrotra can be found in neon-yellow working as an Orientation Aide, assisting the Student Assembly Executive Branch as chief of staff or planning direct action events as president of the Young Democrats.

Mehrotra, who previously served as the SA undersecretary of voter registration, said that he has really enjoyed getting to participate in something similar to a traditional government.

“I think people know less about the executive side of Student Assembly,” Mehrotra said. “It’s quite large; it’s really great I think.

Student Assembly Senate is really important too, and we implement a lot of things that [the legislative side] assigns. “ While Mehrotra said working in SA doesn’t compare to his “West Wing” dreams, it still helps him feel like he is giving back to the College.

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SARAH SMITH // FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR “As a ‘West Wing’ fanatic — I’m a huge fan of ‘The West Wing’ — the whole concept of it really appeals to me. The idea of working in that setting seems like a lot of fun,” Mehrotra said. “Admittedly, ‘The West Wing’ is fiction, Student Assembly in no way compares to the federal government. But I still wanted to see what the role of chief of staff fulfills on a dayto-day basis. I love William and Mary, I really like this school. But I think the sign of really liking it is admitting that it has places to grow.

Both during [SA President Eboni Brown ’17 and SA Vice President Hannah McKiernan ’17’s campaign] and after I saw genuine places that William and Mary could have been better.

There are still places where we can be better.

How can I best improve this place that I really love so much? I think a sign of loving it is that I want to improve it. So that’s kind of been my goal, it’s a really great way to make a big impact on campus for generations to come.”

Mehrotra’s involvement in campus politics doesn’t end there. This semester, he was elected president of Young Democrats after previously serving as webmaster and then vice president. During his semester as president, he hopes to get more students involved with the Young Democrats.

“There’s a lot of energy on campus that is in opposition to what is going on in the federal scale right now,” Mehrotra said. “We want to harness that into direct action. This is something I spend a lot of time thinking about, I want to do the most that we can to make our voices heard against what is on the federal agenda right now. I’ve been thinking about doing events where we encourage people to call their congressmen. It was really awesome

that so many students went to the women’s marches or really wanted to go. I want to harness that energy into meaningful change.”

Mehrotra said that while being at the College hasn’t changed his political beliefs, his three years on campus have changed the way he thinks about politics and affirmed that politics were at the center of his life.

“I found this Young Democrats table in Kaplan with 1,000 of my new classmates walking around me and I just wrote down my name,” Mehrotra said. “Honestly I needed the push to really start doing things on my own, to start actually canvassing and phone-banking on my own. While I enjoy following updates on Twitter, I wasn’t changing any minds by liking a few tweets. It was time to show up and start acting on my beliefs. The one big change is the fact that I really started acting, I started calling, not just having beliefs.”

Mehrotra said he tries not to think about graduating in a few months and is enjoying his last months on campus by watching movies in the Tucker Hall theater. He plans on working for a Democratic campaign when he graduates.

He said he hopes to work on one of the 2017 gubernatorial campaigns, either in New Jersey or in Virginia. A few years down the road, he said he’d like to transition into an administrative role in someone’s office.

“My goal is to work in Democratic politics, hopefully soon,” Mehrotra said. “I think I’ve enjoyed the kinds of experiences I’ve had in SA, which has been working with people to get bills passed. I really want to work in the office of someone I really believe in.”

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Sahil Mehrotra ’17 stands on the steps of the Wren Building with fellow Student Assembly members

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GREEK LIFE

IFC sets new expansion policy, invites three new frats

Phi Gamma Delta, Lambda Chi Alpha, Alpha Sigma Phi set to colonize in next three years NIA KITCHIN FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR

Over the next few years, Greek life at the College of William and Mary will continue to expand. Following spring 2016’s reestablishment of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity and last semester’s reestablishment of the Phi Mu sorority, three new fraternities will establish chapters at the College over the next three years.

This spring will bring Phi Gamma Delta.

Lambda Chi Alpha will colonize in fall 2018, followed by Alpha Sigma Phi in spring 2019.

The decision to add new fraternities was made after recruitment data revealed that a significant number of men interested in joining a fraternity were not finding the right fit. Therefore, former Interfraternity Council Vice President of Recruitment Will Adie ’18 brought the issue to the attention of the president’s council who subsequently approved it.

“Looking at the numbers, we realized there was a gap we could fill with more fraternities,” Adie said.

After the decision was made, an alert was put

out to all national fraternities in the United States.

Adie said that the council received applications from 18 fraternities nationwide. The committee then scored the application packets based on a rubric containing criteria such as required grade point average, fraternity values, national support, position on hazing, risk management, harm reduction and sexual assault prevention. With the results, the committee chose Phi Gamma Delta, Lambda Chi Alpha and Alpha Sigma Phi. “William and Mary is the birthplace of the American fraternity with Phi Beta Kappa and so everyone wants to have their flagship fraternity here at the birthplace of the fraternity,” Adie said.

The decision about which fraternity would colonize first was made over several conference calls with the recruiters from the fraternities. Alpha Sigma Phi and Phi Gamma Delta both wanted the first slot; however, the three fraternities agreed to have the Expansion Committee make the decision. The committee then chose Phi Gamma Delta.

Director of Expansion Matt Farrell and Field Secretary Mike McDonald are the two staff members from Phi Gamma Delta and will be

recruiting at the College until spring break. At that point, the new chapter will elect its own officers. Farrell and McDonald will then spend a week training those officers for their positions, and after that the chapter will be operating under undergraduate leadership.

“FIJI [Phi Gamma Delta] is a values-based fraternity, so we will be recruiting men here based on our five values of friendship, knowledge, service, morality and excellence and our overall vision for this group here in our campuses is building courageous leaders,” Farrell said.

Phi Gamma Delta will be conducting recruitment after the current fraternities on campus have extended bids. So far, the chapter has been raising awareness for their fraternity at sorority chapter meetings and information sessions. McDonald said that the bulk of their recruitment will be in the form of individual interviews.

McDonald explained that Phi Gamma Delta will conduct recruitment after all the other fraternities because it wants to add to the Greek community at the College, not compete with it. By conducting recruitment after the other

fraternities have already extended bids, it will avoid animosity with the established fraternities and also offer an alternative fraternity experience for men who did not find a good fit.

“We’re really focused on not appearing to come here and try and replace every other fraternity. We’re not trying to do that, we want to add to the community,” McDonald said. “We just want to make it better.”

Adie explained that this perceived competition is actually a good thing for the Greek community.

He said that when a new fraternity comes to campus, it typically drives recruitment numbers up because it spends a lot of money and reaches out to new people the Greek community. The new fraternity will go to clubs and organizations that fraternity men are not a part of to explain that this new fraternity can be something different to join.

Adie said in order for this expansion to be a successful endeavor, it has to be seen as an extension of the community.

“What I told some fraternity presidents is you’re not trying to cut the pie smaller, you’re trying to get the pie bigger so we all have a bigger slice of the pie,” Adie said.

STUDENT ASSEMBLY

Brown encourages Senate to pass bill, provide water for Jefferson Hall Bill allocates $150 for cases of water bottles following College’s lead level reports SARAH SMITH FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR

During the first Student Assembly senate meeting of the semester, SA President Eboni Brown ’17 encouraged senators to pass the Hydrating Jefferson Act to help students living in Jefferson Hall.

On Jan. 20, Associate Vice President for Student Affairs and Director of Residence Life Deb Boykin ’76 M.Ed. ’82 emailed residents of Jefferson Hall to inform them that water quality tests conducted over break found lead levels above the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulatory threshold in two locations.

The initial lead levels reported did not violate the EPA’s Safe Drinking Water Act, but because they crossed the regulatory threshold of 0.015 milligrams per liter, the College retested samples from Jefferson Hall locations. After a second round of testing, only one of the two kitchens affected still had water crossing the regulatory threshold.

By the second test, the lead levels in both kitchens had decreased.

While Boykin said in her email that students were safe to drink

and shower in the water, she cautioned students to only cook and drink cold water and to allow the water from the taps to run for 30 seconds before using it.

Although the water is safe to drink, Brown said that she heard from Jefferson Hall Orientation Aides and students that many felt uncomfortable drinking tap water. She said that because of her personal experiences with unclean drinking water, she felt inspired to do something to help.

“I talked to [Director of Housing Operations Chris] Durden in Residence Life and asked him if this would help and he said that it wasn’t necessary as long as they ran the water for 30 seconds,” Brown said. “But for me, even though the drinking water wasn’t necessarily impacted, or the main thing, I just know that coming from some place where you’re afraid to drink water or even brush your teeth with the water … I know that fear, I just wanted to do something small for them.”

The Hydrating Jefferson Act was co-sponsored by Sen. Annelise Yackow ’18 and Chairman of the Senate Danny O’Dea ’18. After O’Dea introduced the bill, senators voted by unanimous consent to move the bill to old business where it was then passed by a vote of unanimous consent.

The bill allocates $150 from SA reserves to purchase cases of water bottles for residents of Jefferson Hall. These funds cover 32 cases of water bottles, providing each of Jefferson’s eight halls with four cases of water bottles.

“This is just in the meantime, a short-term fix until [the College] gets the water fixed,” O’Dea said.

According to University Spokesperson Suzanne Seurattan, the College re-tested the water over the weekend and sent it out for testing. She said that she believes the third round of test results — which included 28 samples from the two affected locations — will be back within the next week.

Seurattan also said that it was important for students to know that there were still no health risks involved with the current water situation in Jefferson Hall.

“While we understand some students may have concern over the water in Jefferson Hall, they should be assured there is no immediate health risk,” Seurattan said in an email. “The water is within the EPA’s Safe Drinking Water standards. Running the water cold to the touch before drinking it is a precaution that may be taken and something we encourage the residents of Jefferson Hall to do as an added safety measure.”

Muscarelle first in U.S. to host one of Sandro Botticelli’s two Venus paintings Museum’s Search for the Divine exhibit set to travel from Muscarelle to Boston Museum of Fine Arts in April VENUS from page 1

see Botticelli’s work in-person.

“There’s no replacing seeing a work of art in person,” De Groft said.

“The enormity, the proportion to your body … These are stunning examples of Botticelli that are being shared with our students and visitors that they never in their life would probably be able to see.”

Botticelli is also well-known for his works “Birth of Venus” and “Primavera”, both of which reside in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

Spike and De Groft said they were unable to get these two works from the Uffizi Gallery, therefore they will not be included in the Muscarelle’s exhibition.

Spike said that he still believes that the importance of Botticelli’s other works should not be underestimated.

He said that visitors to the Muscarelle, who may not have the

opportunity to travel to galleries overseas, will appreciate what the museum has curated for exhibit.

“Those audiences will be enthusiastic and grateful to see original works by him even though they are not those two unique treasures,” Spike said. “At this point, because of his fame, all of his works are considered treasures.”

Spike said that out of many of Botticelli’s paintings, the singular Venus painting is valued because of the realness featured in the art.

“The thing that makes his ‘Venuses’ eternal in their appeal, they never go out of style… It’s not only Vogue magazine-like elegance and refinement,” Spike said. “There is a… naturalness in the women’s face to remind us of real life.”

The works of the Venus painter are not the only works of art that the Muscarelle Museum will unveil upon the exhibit’s opening, however.

The works of Filippo Lippi, Botticelli’s master and pupil of the first Italian Renaissance painter Masaccio, will also be on display in the museum.

“We have more paintings by Filippo Lippi than have ever been shown, apart from the Uffizi [Gallery] itself,” Spike said.

De Groft said that he believes that the strength of the exhibition lies in the research contributed by Spike, which he called “groundbreaking.”

“One of the things that may be overlooked is that to discover things right, make new observations about one of the great artists, one of the most studied artists in art history, is very difficult to do,” De Groft said. “For a great liberal arts research university as highly ranked as William and Mary to provide cutting-edge, new scholarship on something this studied, this important, is really I think very, very, important. And we’ve done that.”

Georgian Papers Programme releases 33,000 documents in partnership with Windsor Castle, Royal Archives Some of College’s newly digitized documents include letters written by King George III regarding American Revolution GPP from page 1

we had our first fellows in the archives at Windsor Castle, we have funded 10 scholars.”

The first public release of documents includes what Wulf describes as the first 10 percent of the archival material. Partners in England are scanning and creating digital images of the documents, which are all stored in Windsor Castle’s Round Tower.

Once they are digitized, students working through the Earl Gregg Swem Library will transcribe and tag the documents with searchable metadata.

According to Dean of University Libraries Carrie Cooper, the work of digitizing and tagging the documents gives Swem Library an opportunity to participate in a digital, international project.

“This project provides a unique opportunity to work on an international digital project, setting standards for cataloging and digitization that will contribute to

the ever-evolving role of libraries in the digital age,” Cooper said in a written statement. “The lessons we learn from this project will inform our work as we embark on digitizing, transcribing and making discoverable unique items in our own collections …

Digitizing our original collections and making them accessible to scholars worldwide is crucial to advancing scholarships.”

While letters from King George III regarding the American Revolution have drawn attention during the early stages of digitizing the documents, this project will also include historic manuscripts from the Georgian period — a total of 350,000 pages.

Papers from King George I, King George II, King George IV and King William IV will also be digitized through this project.

Wulf said that the King George III letters she has seen are interesting, but that she is personally most excited for the letters that shed light on people of socioeconomic classes alive during that time.

“I have read through selections of the materials and seen materials that are not yet digitized,” Wulf said. “For me, what’s compelling is not the material that tells us more about George III, although that is quite interesting, very compelling for American historians. What’s interesting for me is that the archive of a very elite family opens up information to us about people for whom there are not archives, families of people who were enslaved in the Atlantic world, people who were very socioeconomically disadvantaged or sailors in the Atlantic. There aren’t archives for those people who are oppressed … this is sort of reading against the archives.”

Wulf said that since the discovery of some of these documents, scholars have started to write articles on blogs about both George III and his relationship with slavery and about the interest at the time with Sierra Leone as a destination for people who were freed.

She said that she is pleased that

scholars are already examining the relationships of King George III and the oppressed peoples during that time period.

Another scholar is looking at how far abolitionist sentiment and expeditions got during this time period.

The Omohundro Institute is currently in the process of selecting graduate or post-graduate students to work as fellows on this project, the institute is reviewing applications and will select students to continue working on this in additoin to fellowships that have already been granted.

Additionally, history professor Nick Popper will take students to London next year with funding from the Reves Center to work in the archives.

“Scholars are really salivating as this has come to light and more and more people have learned that there are treasure troves of documents to go through,” Hanson said in a statement.

Wulf said she believes that the

process of digitizing the documents will be completed by 2020, which marks the 200th anniversary of King George III’s death. She said that there is approximately 90 percent of the documents acquired as part of this project left to be digitized and catalogued online.

This is why she said she projects the project to be completed in 2020.

Additionally, 2026 is the 225th anniversary of the American Revolution, which she believes will be symbolic, as this archive might be the last private archive to help scholars interpret the American Revolution.

“I think this was a plan of the 18th century in a way,” Wulf said.

“George III’s reign ended pretty abruptly with his illness and the takeover of his son. He died in 1820.

It’s not really an accident that so many of his anniversaries overlap with anniversaries of the American Revolution. This wasn’t a plan of the American Revolution, but they are looking at 1820 — that’s the anniversary they are focusing on.”

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Hilary Beckles discusses reparatory justice Annual George Taylor Ross address focuses on helping ancestors of the enslaved HEATHER BAIER FLAT HAT ASSOC. VARIETY EDITOR

Known as a leader in the global effort to seek reparations from European slave-trading nations, Hilary Beckles delivered the 2016 George Taylor Ross Address on International Peace on Jan. 24.

The George Taylor Ross Address is an annual lecture hosted by the Reves Center for International Studies.

“It’s designed to promote peace by exploring and investigating topics of current interest affecting relations among nations,” Vice Provost for International Affairs and Reves Center Steve Hanson said.

Beckles is the Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies and Vice President

of the International Task Force for the UNESCO Slave Route Project. In 2014, he was appointed to the United Nations Secretary-General’s advisory board on sustainable development by the Secretary General of the U.N., Ban Ki-Moon.

“He is indeed a prolific scholar — a committed activist for social justice and among the most distinguished public intellectuals in the Caribbean,” Hanson said.

The audience was filled with members of the Williamsburg community as well as students from the College of William and Mary.

“I think it’s important to learn about the historical roots of contemporary social problems,” audience member Rachel Smith ’17 said. “I think this will be an interesting take on the type of issues in our country.”

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Students attending Road to Richmond event prioritized lobbying against a bill limiting out-of-state students in VA.

Beckles began the lecture by describing the differences between social and economic growth.

“We have a polarization of two fundamental concepts,” Beckles said. “There are those who argue that economic growth is arguably the most important objective of politics, and then there are those who say it is social growth.”

According to Beckles, social growth is about citizenship and promoting inner values to improve humanity as a whole.

Beckles continued his speech by describing the system of slavery on a global economic scale.

He then spoke about the origins of slavery and the timeline of its demise during the 19th century.

Beckles said that he lamented the duration of time it has taken to abolish slavery and establish civil rights for descendants of slaves.

For the remainder of his lecture, he focused on the global discussion regarding reparatory justice for the crime of slavery.

As the Vice President of the University of the West Indies, Beckles was working on a project to build a new medical faculty complex on the university’s campus in Jamaica.

Each of its three physical campuses are built on lands that were home to slave plantations 150 years ago.

“We then have to interpret what history is saying to us,” Beckles said. “You can bury us, you can forget us, but we will not let you forget us. So, the history came up from the ground and confronted us.”

Beckles went on to discuss the major impact slavery has had on the distribution of knowledge and creativity across the world and described the term “reparations” and what it means to his movement. Reparations is defined as amends made to a party who has been wronged.

“It is not about black people standing around our street corners asking for handouts,” Beckles

said. “Nobody’s going to give me a handout. It’s about asking those who have created massive institutional impoverishment of people … to give those people a chance.”

He also said that reparations should be paid to medical researchers in order to develop medications which will help the African American community fight illnesses like hypertension.

He cited research that found that Nigerians, Ghanaians and West Africans had the same responses to hypertension drugs that white people did, but Africans of the diaspora had significantly weaker responses the drugs.

“My medical faculty, we have all the science … We know what to do to adjust these drugs to black people’s circumstances,” Beckles said.

“Do we have the millions of dollars to invest in laboratories to do the work? No, we don’t.”

Beckles went on to discuss his latest actions working with governments to procure formal apologies and reparations.

He said that most governments he has contacted have thus far been unwilling to issue a formal apology or offer any money.

Many countries, including Britain, France, Germany, Russia and the United States, have issued statements of regret.

He also said that other countries, such as Nigeria, have been reluctant to join in asking for reparations because they once participated in the slave trade.

“Communities all across Africa are now saying, ‘There has to be reparatory justice,’” Beckles said.

“We now have reparations commissions in the Caribbean. We have a reparations commission in this country … and in all the countries where there was slavery we have now established communities and networks for dealing with reparatory justice. This is a global situation. It is an international situation.”

Muscarelle to display collection of James Monroe’s letters Previously unpublished letters include discussions with Secretary of the Treasury MONROE from page 1

forth, and we don’t have each letter from each conversation,” Bryant said.

“We have to present them in a way that is interesting and makes sense of these bits and pieces of conversations that were taking place.”

The exhibit will be in the print room at the Muscarelle. Designed to display art prints, the room is filled with waist-high glass display cases that will contain contextual information and relevant pieces of art in addition to 12 of the letters.

Bryant worked closely with Swem’s Warren E. Burger Collection Specialist and Coordinator Jennie Davy ’08, who was in charge of designing the exhibit.

“Some of the letters are in not great shape. It’s split in half,” Davy said. “So it’s a balancing act between making [the letters] accessible so that people can see [the exhibit] and can gain a new understanding of the subject

matter by looking at it, but in a safe manner where we are still preserving it for future generations.”

The letters discuss a wide range of topics, focusing mostly on public business, including political appointments and issues of the day such as slavery, piracy and privateering, and the banking crisis.

However, the letters also show the personal relationship that existed between Monroe and Crawford.

Dan Preston, who helped prepare Monroe’s papers for publication, said that he sees the closeness of the two men in their correspondence.

“It’s an easy, casual relationship,” Preston said. “‘I was going to write you but my grandson was sick and I could not do it.’ And then they get on to the business.”

Preston cites this series of letters as just one example of Monroe’s reputation for working with those around him, even opponents, and

being open to hearing all opinions.

“Monroe would rarely talk in the

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What I find really interesting is Monroe’s reliance on other people.

— Swem’s Warren

E. Burger Collection Specialist and Coordinator Jenny Davy ‘08

cabinet meetings,” Preston said.

“He would sit and listen as the cabinet debated and discussed the various policies, asking questions occasionally.

Everyone understood that Monroe was a great listener. Whether he got along with somebody or not, he valued their opinion. He wanted to hear people’s thoughts, political opponents as well as his supporters and his friends.”

Davy also said that she recognizes Monroe’s affinity for those around him.

Monroe’s presidency from 18171825 was during a time of national and political growth, and he was unable to get to know every person that rose to power.

“What I find really interesting is Monroe’s reliance on other people,” Davy said. “As we’re going into a new presidency and we’re witnessing how these kind of decisions and

appointments are being made and confirmed, it’s interesting to see how they were done 200 years ago.”

One of the two letters in the set not written by Monroe himself is a drafted letter Crawford wrote to be sent to Monroe.

The draft of this one letter contains many edits, showing that it was one of several drafts of the same correspondence.

“Many of the writers during that time wrote drafts of their letters before they actually sent them,” Bryant said.

“I think that’s a really interesting point of comparison to now when we have Twitter and Facebook and we’re writing things all the time almost without thinking. Whereas they were really conscientious about making sure every word said exactly what they intended.”

The exhibit will run through May 14 and will be open to the public and free with a student ID.

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the mother,” Pluta said. “Our group characterizes that broader sentiment … most of our posters encompassed that [life] past birth, like adoption, euthanasia, the mentally ill and homeless populations is important.”

Pluta and Malanga said that they agreed with

the sentiment of other anti-abortion advocates in that they were disappointed that the Women’s March cut ties with anti-abortion leaders and organizations prior to the day of the event. While neither was able to go, they said they still would have if they could.

Malanga said that the excitement of the Women’s March made her feel ready for the

March for Life. “[March for Life] is just as big of a crowd, it

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[March for Life] is just as big of a crowd, it is kind of sad that we haven’t gotten the same amount of coverage.

— Students for Life Vice President Grace Pluta ‘19

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Approximately 20 students journeyed to Washington, D.C. for annual March for Life protest against Roe V. Wade.

is kind of sad that we haven’t gotten the same amount of coverage,” Pluta said. “That’s not to say the Women’s March shouldn’t have gotten coverage, we are just such a large presence in D.C. for a whole day, and for 40-plus years we haven’t been given a voice when it is such a large

demonstration that takes a lot of work. People fly in from all over the place for this.”

While members of Students for Life are so far pleased with abortion polices enacted by Trump, they said that they are not sure what to expect from Trump in the next few weeks — or even what they would hope to see.

Pluta said that she is not sure what Trump is likely to do, and therefore is not sure what to be advocating for.

However, a few months ago, she said Students for Life had a set agenda of bills they were lobbing against and in support of.

“Honestly right now everything is up in the air,” Pluta said. “I myself am very interested to see what happens and where we go from there. I don’t think anyone knows what’s really going to happen right now with these issues.”

For Malanga, the biggest takeaway from the March for Life is that it’s a peaceful protest.

“If they had no idea what the March was, I would want them to know that it’s been going on for 40-plus years,” Malanga said. “It’s a peaceful protest to protest Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court case that legalized abortion. It’s a peaceful protest. It is very fun; I think that sometimes when you use the term ‘fun’ it has this connotation that diminishes the serious aspects of this march.

What keeps people coming to the March is that they believe what they believe.”

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GUEST COLUMN

Mental self-care in the era of Trump Kiana Espinoza

FLAT HAT GUEST COLUMNIST

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GUEST COLUMN

The failure of the College’s Title IX Office Anna Knochel

FLAT HAT GUEST COLUMNIST

In the United States, we have started the discussion surrounding rape on campus, but I want to ignite a new discussion about intimate partner abuse. For a year, I was in an abusive relationship with a student at the College of William and Mary.

My ex-boyfriend kept our relationship a secret from his friends and constantly invalidated our relationship. He made excuses for his manipulative and hurtful behavior and made me feel crazy for calling out his cruelty. He violated me sexually by lying to me to gain my consent. Only a few months after our final breakup did I acknowledge and process the ongoing abuse in our relationship.

Abuse is a pattern, and it is entirely the fault of the abuser.

I filed a report through the College’s Title IX office early in October of this year with allegations of emotional abuse and coercive sexual behavior. Their decision rendered me speechless. The Title IX Review Team decided that not all emotionally abusive behaviors are an explicit violation of their dating violence policy. They stated they did not have the jurisdiction to investigate my complaints of sexual coercion because I am not a student at the school, and they did not feel that my perpetrator was continuing to create a hostile environment on his campus, even though I am the second woman to bring complaints against him.

Processing my ex-boyfriend’s sexual abuse was absolutely agonizing and left me dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder for months, but the College’s failure to investigate my claims made everything far worse.

I now know that this narcissistic man will never understand or care about the devastation he has inflicted upon me. I am afraid for women who cross his path because he seems charming and innocent but is incredibly manipulative.

I do not want someone else to go through the pain, anxiety, insomnia, embarrassment and withdrawal that I have experienced this past semester. Throughout my relationship with him, he reminded me that I was so very loved, beautiful and smart, but also disposable and

unworthy of respect. What I experienced was not so much sexual trauma but emotional and psychological trauma resulting from sexual coercion and emotional abuse.

The Title IX coordinator assured me they do not condone his behavior and have taken remedial steps to ensure that the campus is safe. However, he will not receive any form of punishment, and he will keep his scholarship. He will not be held accountable and can continue living his life as if he did not violate mine, simply because he violated me in the wrong state. Any student who has reasonable evidence or testimony against them for committing sexual assault anywhere or who has been found to be abusive poses a danger to the students on their respective campuses. I believe the College acted unethically by not investigating my case. I filed a report with the Office of Civil Rights and my complaint against the school is under evaluation.

The power of Title IX is limited, and it cannot always address all forms of inappropriate, wrong or even abusive behavior. Emotional and mental abuse should be recognized as an insidious assault on psychological health, and students need to be held accountable to uphold ethical codes of conduct. Just because I lacked bruises from physical violence does not mean that my relationship was not abusive. Sexual coercion is an infringement upon someone’s right to make informed choices about how to use their body, and it is sexual assault. We need to stop normalizing and excusing disrespectful and abusive behavior and instead support survivors who come forward in a society that often stigmatizes their experiences. Abuse is not always criminal, but that does not mean universities or students should excuse it. Calling these behaviors mistakes and making excuses trivializes the experiences of survivors and creates the foundation for rape culture and dating violence. The College’s administration had the opportunity to take a stand for survivors and uphold its supposedly high standards of student conduct and intolerance of dating violence.

Instead they cowered beneath the societal pressure of rape culture.

To my ex, the weight of shame, guilt and pain are not my burden to carry. It is forever yours.

Email Anna Knochel at amk12@rice.edu.

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The College’s administration had the opportunity to take a stand for survivors.

Instead, they cowered beneath the societal pressure of rape culture.

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As a former out-of-state student and current out-of-state parent, I hope the GA understands the excessive amount of tuition we pay. Glad to do, but we are the ones that balance the budget for the school.

— Charles B. Jordan Jr. on “Students take defensive action at Road to Richmond: Fox prioritizes policy targeting out-of-state students”

As students at the College of William and Mary, self-care is something we often practice too infrequently. In many contexts, it can be difficult to balance self-care with responsibility, and I feel that with the recent transition of power in the highest office of American government one of these contexts has arisen. For myself and some of my closest friends, ignoring the news to avoid some stress has become a pattern that is as healthy as it is unhealthy. By caring for ourselves and our mental well-being, we are falling into the dangerous trap of dismissing policies that will ultimately affect others more than ourselves.

Since his inauguration, President Trump has enacted executive orders rapidly. These orders — or those that may be most stress-inducing to acknowledge — include an immigration ban, an elimination of funding for services that provide abortions, two pipeline approvals (complete with damaging environmental actions) and the beginning of the border wall.

This is, of course, not a comprehensive list, but I encourage you

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We as a campus should choose to stay informed about the changing world around us. to read more about not only the policies enacted, but also the effects of these orders.

When I hear about the policies Trump has set forth during his presidency, I worry. I worry about the people who will lose healthcare because it is being politicized. I worry about how my family will get into the country. As I have watched my uncle trying to help his wife and child enter the United States, I have seen how conflicting the process has been in recent years — before any of these recent bans and restrictions. As stressful as it is to hear these policies and worry about how they will affect people in similar situations, it is even more painful to think about the effects on others, effects that I am privileged enough to be unable to imagine.

Nobody is looking to build a pipeline, rushing through the necessary environmental procedures, near my home. For the time being, my healthcare is not at risk because the provider of that healthcare also provides abortions. I am mostly unaffected.

I am lucky enough to be in college, able to discuss these policies in an environment where I am not at risk for expressing my opinions, so I find much of the news easy to overlook. If it doesn’t affect me, I don’t really have to think about it.

Unfortunately, for so many people, Trump’s executive orders have direct and personal implications. I understand that college is stressful enough. Staying up late reading in Swem or trying desperately to solve a problem that is difficult to understand carries its own burden, weighing on our mental health. However, whether you agree with the new policies or not, I implore you to keep up with the news. Understand the implications. As a person with so much privilege, I cannot dictate how others choose to practice self-care, but I hope that — no matter how we practice it — we, as a campus, choose to stay informed about the changing world around us.

As for myself, I will try to take care of myself while consuming the news that might distress me. A friend suggested baking and calling our congressmen at the same time. No matter how I choose to do it, I know that I have more room in my life to help others.

I hope that with a little more self-awareness, and by thinking of other people when I keep up with current events, I will be practicing the best form of self-care: caring.

Email Kiana Espinoza at kaespinoza@email.wm.edu.

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STAFF COLUMN

A eulogy to the late

Candy Counter Emily Chaumont

FLAT HAT MANAGING EDITOR

When I returned to campus after winter break, I patiently awaited the opening of my favorite dining hall. When I left my first Marketplace dinner of the semester feeling wholly satisfied, I was then met with an unpleasant shock — the shelves of the Candy Counter had been completely cleared out, and the employee working at the desk said it was for good.

While its customer base may have been small and its fare may have been unhealthy, the Candy Counter was a cult favorite on our campus and will be sorely missed.

A friend of mine once bought an entire pound of candy corn at the Candy Counter.

It may have been because he wasn’t sure what exactly a pound of candy corn looked like, but he feasted on that immense bag of waxy goodness for

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We basement dwellers at The Flat Hat are in the office until so-lateit’s-early every Monday night ...

Candy Counter has always been an important part of our production night routine. a week. After another friend and I bought mystery Airheads 10 for a dollar, he was shocked to learn that (spoiler alert) the mystery flavor is mostly just blue raspberry.

While I always lamented the fact that the Candy Counter didn’t take Flex — and I’m sure my parents weren’t thrilled that such a significant portion of the money they gave me for laundry was spent on Airheads and Sour Brite Crawlers — the way to solve those problems was better money management on my part, not the removal of the Candy Counter.

We basement dwellers at The Flat Hat are in the office until so-late-it’s-early every Monday night, and the Candy Counter has always been an important part of our production night routine.

A 5:00 dinner followed by a 7:30 second dinner was always followed by a 9:50 run up to the Candy Counter for our last chance at easily-accessible sustenance for the night.

While, of course, it’s easy to argue that it would be better for me to replace my late-night candy with a healthier snack, there’s just something special about eating an excessive number of Sour Patch Kids because you still have never been able to figure out the appropriate weight to ask for.

I’ll need to make a point of dropping by this new Information Desk to talk to the employees because the candy wasn’t the best part of the Candy Counter — it was the wonderful people who worked there. These delightful human beings didn’t just do their jobs and scoop out candy into paper bags; they were always willing to swap favorite Criminal Minds episodes, genuinely laugh at my jokes (which is rare, believe me), and help out a girl who had clearly hit some kind of rock bottom.

In a particularly pathetic incident, I once had only eight cents left on my Express and absolutely no cash at my disposal, but I was deeply craving sour gummy worms.

Without even laughing, the Candy Counter employee who was working that night carefully put three gummy worms into a paper bag for me.

Those three gummy worms were appreciated immensely and were probably my best ever use of eight cents.

There was never a long line at the Candy Counter, and I’m sure those jars of candy weren’t changed out very often, but those of us who enjoyed the reasonable prices and warm demeanor of the employees went there religiously.

I hope the powers-that-be will consider bringing back the Candy Counter so that I can continue to waste small amounts of Express on unhealthy snacks and happiness.

Email Emily Chaumont at emchaumont@email.wm.edu.

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GUEST COLUMN

A sweet farewell: Candy Counter will not be missed

Julia Wicks FLAT HAT GUEST COLUMNIST

The Candy Counter has disappeared from Campus Center. I doubt many people will miss it. If the Candy Counter were a person, the only people at its funeral would be its employees and maybe a loan shark, there to confiscate its property to pay its debts. How did it get like this? Well, the most obvious issue with the Candy Counter was the method of payment. You could only buy Candy Counter candy with “real money,” as in money not yet pledged to Dining Services. It’s no secret that many college students are on a budget.

Anyone who wants to live on campus — which is a lot of people, given the parking situation in Williamsburg — must purchase an expensive meal plan.

This grants access to the pinnacle of mediocre industrial dining, the deficits of which could fill another article. Now, to be fair, what Sodexo provides is fairly par for the course among college cafeterias. It’s just overpriced, which creates a suspicious and resentful atmosphere when it comes to collegesponsored food options.

Tired of the cafeteria food? You will be. Conveniently, the meal plan throws in a few hundred Flex dollars, in case you want better-tasting junk like pizza or have an ungodly caffeine habit.

For a Flex-less fast food option to take root, it must be truly exceptional in quality, variety and affordability.

Wawa is one such business. The Candy Counter was not.

Why wouldn’t you just go to a vending machine and spend half the money for the same thing?

The counter’s business model — nothing but candy — is outmoded. A “candy store” sounds like something out of a 1970s shopping mall, which might work with Campus Center’s architecture, but not with the rest of the world.

These days, the idea of an educational institution pushing sugar leaves a bad taste (and a cavity or two) in one’s

mouth, and it’s quickly becoming an anomaly. I know that my own high school refused to sell normal candy in vending machines, opting instead for healthier, “Smart Choice” alternatives.

It’s not just education, either — the mayor of Manhattan recently tried to ban extra-large soft drinks, and CVS no longer sells cigarettes. There’s a sense that companies and institutions should provide for their audiences’ health, not just their desires.

These structural changes are a response to social change. Driven by fear of the obesity epidemic and empowered by the quick availability of health information, people are increasingly paying more attention to their health.

Half the people I know wear Fitbits, and apps make it easy to track your food. Even regular dental care is more common. Although most people, especially young and active ones, are still lax about what they eat, they are more conscious of it.

You don’t need to be on a diet to notice how stupid it is to spend $3 on food that provides no nutrition or satiety. Furthermore, if you’re insecure about your appearance, as many are, you won’t be inclined to go up to the rickety old counter.

People are more imageconscious than ever, and we like our sugar classy and attractive, like a Flex-paid drink from Swem Aromas. A Hershey’s bar is not #aesthetic.

Looking back, it seems the Candy Counter was doomed to fail. What would drive William and Mary to offer such a specialized, useless service? Maybe it used to make sense, when Campus Center was a more central study spot.

Whatever its origins, its end is clear: the Candy Counter is no more.

The one distinct downside of its demise is the loss of student employment. The College can usually invent more jobs to cover that, but not always.

Because of this, the loss of the Candy Counter is bittersweet; however, it was inevitable and, ultimately, not so great a tragedy.

It was a wasteful thing in a school (and world) that is moving away from waste.

Email Julia Wicks at jhwicks@email.wm.edu.

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If the Candy Counter were a person, the only people at its funeral would be its employees and maybe a loan shark, there to confiscate its property to pay its debts.

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Being a pro-life feminist is a super hard position to be in, the way society works now. Thanks for writing this, I hope it goes some way to helping these two movements see and acknowledge the drive for equal opportunity and compassion present in each.

— Adam Lenhart On “Excluded from an all-inclusive march”

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Tea School Brews Sense of Community

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Local businesses host class about tea, the first in a series of educational workshops HEATHER BAIER THE FLAT HAT

This Friday, Williamsburg businesses LOKAL and The Spice and Tea Exchange teamed up to host their first-ever Tea School for tea aficionados and novices alike. The event was held in the basement lounge of LOKAL. According to Beth Shawver, manager of the Spice and Tea Exchange, the event sold out.

The inspiration came not only from The Spice and Tea Exchange’s employees, but also from a desire expressed by the community to learn more about tea and how it is made.

“We’ve always kind of had a few people here and there talking about how cool it would be if [we] did a tea school or some kind of tasting … and we had kind of gone through the past year thinking about possibly doing one,” said Shawver.

Space is limited in The Spice and Tea Exchange, so Eric Christenson, the owner of LOKAL, helped set the idea in motion by offering up the basement of LOKAL. The event began with a short history of tea given by Haley Zimmer, the inventory specialist at the Spice and Tea Exchange.

“A couple thousand years ago, legend has it that some emperor in China named Shennong was sitting underneath a tree, and he had a cup of hot water and this little tea leaf plant floated in there and he was like, ‘I wonder what can happen if I processed this somehow,’ and made it into a proper cup of something to drink,” said Zimmer.

“And thus, tea was born.”

Attendees of the Tea School were given four different sugars to pair with the five teas provided throughout the event. Charts were also provided, which attendees used to track the type, brewing time, temperature, amount, tastes and smells of the teas provided.

The first sample of tea was an earthy Ruby Oolong, which Zimmer recommended attendees pair with the coconut sugar provided.

“The coconut sugar tames the woodiness,” said Kim Hasty, a local resident and tea-drinker. “To me it’s just calming. I love to sit and have a cup in my hand and the warmth and everything.”

Along with the Oolong tea, attendees also sampled Mystic Dragon green tea, White Tropical tea, Blood Orange Herbal tea and Darjeeling black tea.

“They are all mostly organic and as ‘everybody-friendly’ as we could make them,” said Zimmer.

Among the favorites were the Blood Orange, White Tropical and Ruby Oolong.

The Tea School not only provided attendees with new knowledge of their favorite teas, but also brought together members of the community over their interest in tea. Students of the College of William and Mary took the opportunity to mingle with Williamsburg residents. Locals Bruce and Nancy Hubbard sat with William and

Mary students Erika Manemann ’19 and Gwen Blasco ’19. The Hubbards are tea drinkers and were excited for the opportunity to learn more about different types of teas.

“I just thought it would be interesting. I was in the store because Eric is our neighbor and my husband and I enjoy tea and neither of us are coffee drinkers,” said Nancy Hubbard. “They have lots of different teas and we thought it’d be fun to learn more.”

Many attendees were drawn to the event by a shared interest and love of tea. Student Yulia Buynova ‘19 was no exception.

“I really like tea,” said Buynova. “I really want to know more about tea and the history of tea and how teas differ.”

According to Christenson, this will not be the last class offered at LOKAL. “This is the first in a series of different types of classes and things we’re going to be doing here. Looking at healthy things and tea is one

of the things that we have a lot of here, and we partnered with the Spice and Tea Exchange to serve their teas here as well,” Christenson said. “We’ll be doing other classes around fermentation and pickles and making bread.”

Before the last sample was served, snacks were provided by both LOKAL and the Side Door Bakery, which will be opening soon in Williamsburg.

“We are thinking about offering it either every month or every other month from here on out, just because of how much excitement we’ve been able to drum up which is beyond awesome,” Shawver said. “We definitely owe it to all of the William and Mary students and all of our dedicated customers and just tea lovers in general, so we’re always happy to have people come out that share our passion as well because obviously, all of us, we really love tea so it’s been a lot of fun being able to share that with others.”

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Hosted by LOKAL and The Spice and Tea Exchange, the first-ever “Tea School”gathered college students and Williamsburg locals together over a love of tea.

CONFUSION CORNER

Why so blue? Understanding post-election liberal grief As reality hits, your forlorn liberal friends may express concerning symptoms of loss

Emily Gardner

CONFUSION CORNER COLUMNIST

You may have noticed some strange changes in your liberal friends lately. Perhaps they have more erratic sleep habits or appetites. This may be accompanied by unusual patterns of dress, like still wearing the clothing of forlorn political candidates or childish cat hats. They may be jumpier than usual or just have a deadened, middle-aged-Walmart-cashier look in their eyes.

Maybe your liberal pals have been emitting bursts of unprompted anger, weeping uncontrollably, experiencing violent mood swings, or just going off into unprompted harangues about the importance of “openness” or “caring.” Your friends may have also become irrationally avoidant of media consumption or, on the other extreme, they may be excessively checking NPR for any crumb of information they can acquire from the left-wing mothership. You may even be bearing

witness to delusions, often of Nazis or Russian spies or government take-overs, accompanied by irrational feelings of persecution. Finally, they may have perseverative speech patterns in which they talk about the same far-flung notions, like public education or feminism, over and over again no matter how hard you try to pull them back to reality. These changes in behavior are probably concerning to you, even coming from your often strange and imprudent liberal buddies.

Unfortunately, you are witnessing the dark side of being blue.

Although they would never have sympathy for you if you did the same, your liberal friends are going through a complex and mysterious withdrawal and grieving process in reaction to the recent election, and they are taking it out on everyone. Sadly, they are crashing from the high of a failed socialist uprising. Luckily, most of them invest more in inedible leafy greens and ridiculous electric cars than in tangible assets and stocks, so they won’t be taking the market down with them.

They became addicted to this scary drug the kids

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call “hope,” and now they have to detox. If that weren’t difficult enough, they are also mourning the loss of perceived “freedoms.” Of course, they are really bearing witness to the next great American revival, but liberals are a little perverse in their understanding of the word ‘free’, kind of like how many of them think raisins are candy or tofu is food. This absurd logic is probably hard for you as conservatives to understand, but just think back to how you much fear and despair you felt when Obamacare was enacted and the death panels started to stalk your gram-gram, or when the EPA threatened to take away your guns. Yes, liberal anxieties seem inane compared to those legitimate threats, but they feel just as real to your friends.

Finally, your little liberal pals are also mourning the loss of their misery. For some reason, part of the tortured liberal psychology is that they take pleasure in things counter to human nature, like sacrificing their family’s well-being and health for strangers or listening to NPR host Diane Rehm’s strained vocal cords. They want to give away their money and talk about really miserable topics, like

... your liberal friends are going through a complex and mysterious withdrawal and grieving process in reaction to the recent election ...

slavery and our slightly miscalculated leadership intervention in countries like Iran. But the liberals feed off of unhappiness and flock to suffering, so the idea of an America that is actually great again is an alarming prospect to them.

You don’t have to understand it. In fact, you won’t, because there’s nothing that the pernicious liberal elites have funneled through the news media that actually makes sense. After all, if they made sense, then they would be conservatives. But it’s important to understand that it seems real to them. Despite your differences, you still love them, and your little liberals are hyper-sensitive during this delicate transition time, much like women all the time. They perceive that this transition marks the end of their world as they know it, and are consequently going through a grieving process for their rights and their organic, glutenfree, non-GMO, welfare lattes. It is important that you validate their suffering. All they need is a supportive friend. Have empathy; it will be hard for them to make it in a world without free rides and handouts from Uncle Sam. Or basic healthcare. Or reproductive rights. Or freedom from the fear of racial persecution, protection from self-interested corporations, and sanctions to slow an impending environmental disaster. But those are just safety nets. They are on training wheels, and your friends need a wise force to ease the transition into the bigkid world. Luckily, you can be there to give them a loving shove out of the nest.

Emily Gardner is a Confusion Corner columnist who is good at pretending to sympathize with conservatives.

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Behind the Brick Walls

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Today, Jefferson Hall provides its 188 resdients with large, air-conditioned rooms and a prime location on campus. Built in 1921, it originally housed 125 female students and also provided female faculty members with on campus apartments.

Jefferson Hall, named after Thomas Jefferson, has a long history of inclusivity HEATHER BAIER FLAT HAT ASSOCIATE VARIETY EDITOR

With Jefferson Hall’s prime location, air-conditioned rooms and intriguing history, students are often considered lucky to live in the 188-person dorm their freshman years.

According to Earl Gregg Swem Library’s Special Collections, Jefferson Hall was built in 1921 and is named after Thomas Jefferson. It originally housed 125 female students and had apartments for female faculty members. Before being converted

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It’s so great to be able to live on old campus and have air-conditioning.

— Monique Johnson

to more rooms, Jefferson’s basement held a pool and a gymnasium. The gym was used for athletic events and school dances.

During January 1983, Jefferson was almost destroyed by a fire caused by a malfunctioning refrigerator on the first floor. At the time, the dormitory did not have proper fire stops in its walls, so the fire spread quickly, nearly destroying the entire west wing.

Nobody living in Jefferson at the time was seriously injured,

but everyone lost valuables. The College of William and Mary created the Jefferson Fund for students so they could replace the items they lost in the fire. The students received temporary housing in Colonial Williamsburg’s Motor House and later in the Commonwealth Inn. The dorm reopened two years later in January 1985. Repairs cost the College a total of $5 million.

“I hear about [the fire] a lot,” Jefferson RA Sarah Rodriguez ’18 said. “Whenever I bring up Jefferson a lot of people will mention it.”

The iron gates in front of Jefferson were given as a memorial to Kate Waller Barrett, a member of the College’s Board of Visitors from 1921 to 1925. They were taken from the Virginia Capitol Building in Richmond and given to the College by the Daughters of the American Revolution.

In 1965, the first African-American students to live at the College were housed in the basement of Jefferson along with other students.

Current residents enjoy boasting about their air-conditioning, but they also revel in Jefferson’s location.

“It’s so great to be able to live on old campus and have airconditioning,” Jefferson RA Monique Johnson ’19 said. While Jefferson is located close to Colonial Williamsburg and old campus, it is far from new campus and other freshman residence halls like the Botetourt Complex and Green and Gold Village.

“I personally have friends in Botetourt … so it’s a long walk.

And it’s far from the Rec too. You have to set aside two hours if you want to go work out,” Sarah Bomfim ’20 said.

Jefferson residents also boast about the size and quality of their rooms. The basement has even been specially decorated by the bookstore.

“Jefferson is one of the places where the tours stop as they

go along and so one of the rooms in the basement has been decorated by the bookstore,” Rodriguez said. “It’s all decked out with all the things you wish were in your dorm … the door isn’t unlocked all the time, but sometimes you can go peek in there and see what the bookstore is advertising.”

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In 1965, the first AfricanAmerican students to live at the College were housed in the basement of Jefferson.

As with Hunt Hall, there are rumors that Jefferson is haunted.

“There is this one sink in our bathroom that is automatic and if you just open the door and you’re not even close to the sink, it goes off,” Bomfim said. “We had a sink challenge where you had to go to the bathroom and wash your hands without setting off the sink. It was very difficult.”

Others believe that the rumors are just superstition.

“I haven’t experienced anything related to haunting in my two years,” Johnson said.

Johnson did say that because Jefferson is home to so many, residents often don’t know everyone in the hall.

“But overall, it is a pretty good community because you know everyone on your side of the hall at least,” Johnson said.

Formerly an infirmary, Hunt’s history has led some to believe the building is haunted NIA KITCHIN FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR

Formerly home to medical patients and, possibly, ghosts, Hunt Hall now houses 62 freshman students. Hunt was constructed in 1930 as a college infirmary with separate wards for men and women. It also had rooms for for nurses, a reading room and diet kitchens. In 1934 it was designated as David King Infirmary.

The second and third floors were turned into dorms in 1965, and the transition to a full residence hall was completed in 1973, when it was renamed James Madison Hall. The following year, it was renamed once again after Althea Hunt, a professor in the English and Fine Arts department and the College Theater Director.

Ever since, it has been referred to as Hunt Hall.

Current Hunt Resident Assistant Indira Stevens ’19 appreciates this rich history. Stevens lived in Hunt last year as a freshman and returned as an RA this year. She said she enjoys being so close to the history of campus and that it adds to her day-to-day experience.

“I think [living in a hall with so much history is] really fun. Over Homecoming Weekend, I was walking back to Hunt and I was behind a group of older alumni and one of them was like, ‘Oh and this is where they quarantined me when I had such and such disease,’ and I had to stop myself from laughing because it was so funny,” Stevens said. “It was probably the best thing I heard all day. It’s really fun to hear things like that from alumni, like how things have changed so much from hospital to freshman hall which I think is really a unique thing to have in a dorm.”

This long history has fueled rumors that the

freshman dorm is haunted. Julie Ortega ’17, an RA in Hunt, said she has heard residents talking about possible hauntings.

“Some of my residents have complained about lamps that keep falling off their desks and things like that,” Ortega said. “You always hear that Hunt is haunted.”

Jack Marczyk ’19, another Hunt RA, has also had suspicions about ghosts in Hunt.

“There are some times, during fall break especially, when it’s really quiet and there aren’t many people around and it’s a little weird,”

Marczyk said. “I feel like I’ve heard some things late at night. But I haven’t seen any ghosts.”

In addition to these possible supernatural events, Hunt Hall also has a unique location on campus. Situated right behind Campus Center and across from historic Colonial Williamsburg, it provides convenient access to Marketplace and Old Campus. Indira Stevens appreciates the convenient access to Colonial Williamsburg.

“It’s really easy to walk [to Colonial Williamsburg]. I go on runs there pretty much every evening and that’s probably my

favorite thing about the location of Hunt, that it’s so closely located to such a great part of Williamsburg,” Stevens said.

Marczyk said he enjoys the easy access to Marketplace and Colonial Williamsburg, but that Hunt is somewhat far away from the rest of campus.

“If you don’t have a bike Hunt is not for you.

It’s hard to get places quickly,” Marczyk said.

Stevens has also heard complaints about Hunt’s location in relation to the rest of campus.

“I think that it’s kind of out of the way of the

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If you don’t have a bike, Hunt is not for you.

—Jack Marczyk

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Hunt Hall, which today is home to 62 freshman students, was originally designated as David King Infirmary in 1934.

rest of campus. It’s not really too close to new campus or a lot of the rest of the dorms so people feel kind of isolated,” Stevens said.

All three RA’s say that the residents of Hunt Hall are unusually close, and this is one of the best things about living there. Stevens said that everyone always hangs out in the lounges.

Ortega said that Hunt isn’t really like three halls; it’s more like one because everyone is so close.

“It’s a super close-knit community, everyone is close. You can’t go downstairs at two or three in the morning without a ton of people being there. You’re kind of isolated on campus, so naturally you become closer with your hall,” Marczyk said.

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sportsinside Prewitt wins CAA Player of the Week Senior forward Omar Prewitt scored nine points to go along with eight assists against Delaware Friday as the Tribe beat the Blue Hens 82-58.

Sunday, Prewitt finished with 28 points and seven rebounds against UNCW. The Tribe avenged their earlier loss against the Seahawks, winning the rematch 96-78.

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Women’s Basketball Golden Game

Despite putting up their highest score of the season, the Tribe lost to Navy 409.4 to 401.3. Sophomore Jacopo Gliozzi, who last week was named the ECAC Specialist of the Week, recorded the highest score on the pommel horse. Senior Aria Sabbagh finished third in the all-around with a score of 79.8, his highest score of the season.

Sunday, the Tribe hosted James Madison in the first-ever Golden Game. The College lost 79-64, shooting just 1 of 14 from three point range. The team played with the support of an enthusaistic crowd of 1,106 attendees.

This mark was the second-highest attendance at a women’s basketball game in school history. The next home game is scheduled for Feb. 7 against Hofstra.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Sluggish start dooms Tribe in 68-54 loss College falls in 11-point hole early, can’t recover despite 16 points from Tremba

NICK CIPOLLA FLAT HAT SENIOR STAFF WRITER Continuing its longest losing streak of the season, William and Mary fell to Delaware in a Friday night Colonial Athletic Association tilt in Kaplan Arena 68-54. The Tribe dropped to 3-4 in conference play to start its only home weekend of the CAA slate.

The 14-point loss is the largest of the College’s (13-5, 3-4 CAA) three straight defeats, as Towson won by four points while Elon won by just two last weekend in Williamsburg.

“Tough times call for tough people, it’s really that simple,” head coach Ed Swanson said. “I think we have highcharacter kids on our team, and I think this loss, and how we lost, sometimes you get beat and you can handle it. Today I thought, we lost, we didn’t play well, we lost our swagger a little bit. We lost our confidence, three games in a row. Now we have to show our toughness and fight back.”

Friday’s matchup looked like a mismatch from the start as the Blue Hens (11-8, 5-3 CAA) cruised to an 18-7 first quarter lead. The Tribe looked strong with a 4-0 burst to start the game, but quick turnovers allowed Delaware to go on a 14-0 run from the eight-minute mark until just 1 minute, 35 seconds remained in the quarter. With both teams trading turnovers — Delaware with eight of its 15 in the opening quarter and the Tribe with six of its eventual 15 in that span as well — there were long, scoreless periods where the College missed several opportunities. The Tribe began the night with 27 percent shooting (3 for 11) while Delaware started hot with 67 percent (8 for 12).

“[Delaware] had to scout it real well.

We were up four-nothing, and two quick turnovers led to two quick breakaway baskets,” Swanson said. “That’s usually how we play, we want to get those turnovers and turn them in. Delaware gave us a dose of our own medicine in here this evening.”

The second quarter fared better for the home team, as the Tribe outscored the Blue Hens 17-12, entering halftime with a manageable 30-24 deficit. Seven first-half steals gave the College several chances, but a lopsided rebounding tally — 23 to eight in Delaware’s favor — prevented any significant Tribe runs.

Delaware kept a strong presence on key Tribe playmakers, preventing good shot selection and closing the paint as well as the perimeter. Delaware had its worst quarter right before halftime, shooting 27 percent (5 for 18) heading into the locker room.

“I thought we continued to try and continued to fight throughout the game,” Swanson said. “We just dug ourselves a hole, we continued, I think, to press a little bit on offense, and we didn’t trust the offense and we didn’t adjust.”

After the break, both teams sparred more evenly, though the Tribe could not close the gap the Blue Hens had created early on. Delaware outscored the College 18-17 in the closest quarter of the night, never letting the Tribe within less than a five-point cushion. Entering the final quarter, Delaware held a modest 48-41 lead after senior guard Marlena Tremba sank two free throws before the buzzer.

Delaware’s deadly first quarter performance reemerged in the fourth as the Blue Hens put up 20 points to establish the 14-point lead and the 68-54 victory.

While the Tribe scored 13, the strategy

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Despite shooting just 5 of 18 from the floor, senior guard Marlena Tremba knocked down four threes on nine attempts to lead the Tribe in scoring.

of late fouls for clock management backfired as Delaware scored 10 points on 11 free throws in the fourth quarter.

Missed opportunities continued to rule the script for the Tribe with 6 for 16 shooting in both the third and fourth quarters.

“They had us Masaquel scouted,” Tremba said. “They knew to double team Alex [Masaquel] inside, and they were giving me some decent looks, but I was

struggling. They just knew a lot of our plays I think.”

On the stat sheet, some categories looked extremely close, with Delaware edging in assists 16-14, both teams committing 15 turnovers, Delaware getting eight blocks to the Tribe’s six, and 10 steals to the Tribe’s eight. However, a 41-26 rebounding total gives the Tribe a category to focus on in practice. The game leader was Delaware guard Erika Brown with 18 points, while the College’s top scorer was Tremba with 16. Looking at missed opportunities, Tremba and senior forward Alex Masaquel were shut down by the Blue Hens, with both

captains making five field goals but on 18 and 11 attempts, respectively. Delaware also held the edge in points off turnovers (24-8) as many of the Tribe’s forced turnovers ended up back in the hands of Delaware and in the basket.

The College returned to Kaplan Arena to face in-state and CAA rival James Madison Sunday and will be on the road for its next two games, facing Northeastern Feb. 3 and Hofstra Feb. 5.

“We’ve got to fix our problems first,” Swanson said about preparing for the next game. “We’ve got to fix ourselves before we can worry about the opponents.”

MEN’S BASKETBALL

TENNIS

Tribe takes first step towards salvaging season as Dixon drops 21

Men dominate home opener, women falter on the road

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College defense locks down Men shine, women fall Thursday night, William and Mary’s strong first-half defense and a 14-0 run solidified an 82-58 conference win against Delaware.

The win brought the Tribe (10-9, 4-4 CAA) back to .500 in the Colonial Athletic Association, while the Blue Hens (8-14, 1-8 CAA) dropped their eighth out of their last nine games.

The Tribe held the Blue Hens to just 7 of 24 shooting in the first half, as well as forcing 11 Delaware turnovers. Head coach Tony Shaver was pleased with his team’s performance.

“I thought defensively we were really good the first 20 minutes,” Shaver said. “We played a little more sporadic the second 20, but honestly, it looked a little more like our team.”

Senior guard Daniel Dixon

limited Delaware’s leading scorer, guard Ryan Daly, to just five points in the first half and nine overall. Daly was averaging nearly 20 points per game in conference play up to that point.

“We definitely made it a big key to not let [Daly] get going in the beginning especially,” Dixon said.

“He’s a really, really good player so it was obviously a tough matchup, but I think we did a good job on him.”

Meanwhile, Dixon scored 14 of his 21 points in the first half, while senior forward Omar Prewitt dished out four assists. The Tribe went into halftime with a 35-22 lead.

The Blue Hens came out firing after halftime. Right out of the gate, Delaware embarked on a 14-4 run that cut the Tribe lead to 39-36. In the middle of that run, Shaver took out all five starters at once.

“We had a couple bad turnovers

to start the second half,” junior center Jack Whitman said. “When we came back in I think we played more efficiently, and we just got the ball to the right players at the right time.”

The Tribe soon turned the tables. Immediately following Delaware’s hot streak, the College put together a 14-0 run to regain a comfortable 17-point lead. The Tribe would maintain that lead for the rest of the game.

Dixon led the College in scoring, going 4 for 4 from downtown on the night. Whitman netted 16 of his own, and Prewitt had nine to go along with his eight assists.

The Tribe next took on North Carolina-Wilmington in the second game of a four-game homestand. That will be followed by a matchup against Drexel at Kaplan Arena Monday night.

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Senior forward Jack Whitman soared (RIGHT) while head coach Tony Shaver mixed up lineups in a dominating win against Delaware.

William and Mary locked down its third straight win and first win at home for the season with a 6-1 victory against Navy. The Tribe win marks the men’s 10th consecutive home opener victory.

The Tribe won all three doubles matches: the No. 1 and No. 3 spots with 6-1 triumphs, and the No. 2 spot with a 6-4 victory. After a pair of landslide matches at home this past weekend against Elon and Richmond, the women fell 4-0 to No. 10 Duke and 4-1 to Tulsa, the reigning American Athletic Conference champion.

“Everyone came out for doubles and there was a lot of energy, and we have been working on that a lot, especially with doubles,” senior Addison Appleby said. “We really picked it up this match.”

Senior Aidan Talcott held down the No. 1 spot in singles with 6-0 and 6-4 wins over his Navy opponent, as well as the No. 1 spot in doubles with partner redshirt junior Ryan Newman. The pair accomplished a 6-1 victory over Navy rivals. Appleby dominated the No. 2 spot by annihilating Navy singles opponent 6-1 and 6-2 in addition to a 6-4 doubles victory with partner sophomore Tristan Bautil.

“We’ve been playing some very good doubles the past few matches, which hasn’t always been the case,” head coach Jeff Kader Talcott said. “It’s certainly gotten better since last year and even from the fall. It always ends up being such a crucial part in close matches; it’s going to

come down to that doubles point. Now we just need to continue that momentum into singles.”

Senior Damon Niquet and junior Lars de Boer finished off the Tribe win in two nerve-wracking tiebreakers. Niquet beat Navy opponent at the No. 5 spot after three high scoring sets: 6-4, 6-7 and 10-8.

“Today we had Niquet really good doubles performance, and in singles we have one, two and three cleaned up pretty well. Four, five and six are three guys that are really solid,” Talcott said. “Everyone is kind of working the rust off; we’re starting to find our form now.”

The women fell to Duke Saturday in a 4-0 shutout in the opening match of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Kick-Off Weekend. Junior Ekateriana Stepanova came out strong after a 6-2 loss in the first set of her singles match, but ultimately lost a close second set 7-6. Sophomore Lauren Goodman and juniors Olivia Thaler and Maria Groener all started third set tiebreakers that went Stepanova unfinished as the Blue Devils captured No. 1, No. 2 and No. 5 wins.

Goodman won the Tribe women’s single point against Tulsa with a straight-set win in the No. 3 spot, upsetting a top-50 opponent in an exciting singles match. Goodman won both consecutive sets 6-4 and 6-3 to attain the sole point. Freshman Rosie Cheng’s and Stepanova’s singles matches went into secondset tiebreakers after two close sets, but both went unfinished as the Golden Hurricane took the win.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

College drops Golden Game JMU marks fourth straight loss CHRIS TRAVIS FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR

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Kings of Kaplan

Senior forward and captain Omar Prewitt scored 28 of the Tribe’s 96 points against UNC-Wilmington, earning him CAA player of the week honors.

Tribe downs CAA leader to stay undefeated at home

BRENDAN DOYLE FLAT HAT ASSOC. SPORTS EDITOR Saturday morning, the North Carolina-Wilmington Seahawks came to Kaplan Arena sporting an undefeated Colonial Athletic Association record. By Saturday night, William and Mary sprung the upset in convincing fashion with a final score of 96-78.

The Tribe (11-9, 5-4 CAA) rode strong performances from all three captains. Senior forward Omar Prewitt scored 28 and senior guard Daniel Dixon added 27, while junior guard David Cohn added 10 points, 10 assists and seven rebounds.

On the flipside, the Seahawks (20-3, 9-1 CAA) shot the ball poorly, going 28 for 79 from the field and 9 for 36 from three.

UNC-Wilmington forward Devontae Cacok was one of few bright spots for the Seahawks with 21 points and 16 boards.

“You know, we beat a great basketball team WILLIAM AND MARY tonight,” head coach Tony Shaver said. “It’s TRIBE an old coaching (11-9, 5-4 CAA) cliché, I know, but it’s been said many times that you’re only as good as your seniors. Our seniors are really good right now.”

The Tribe played its best game of the year, leading wire to wire against a team that was receiving votes for the Associated Press top-25 poll.

The Tribe controlled the pace, getting into transition and outscoring the Seahawks 32-15 in fast break points. The home team was also able to get easy looks at the bucket, scoring exactly half of its 96 points in the paint.

“We got a lot of easy baskets in transition tonight,” Shaver said. “Our shot selection was a lot better tonight.”

Running the show for the Tribe most of the night was Cohn.

He commanded the floor, finding open shooters for threepointers or dishing for an easy layup. Cohn took care of the ball, not turning the ball over once against a team that pressed for the majority of the game.

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“It just makes the game a lot easier when [Cohn] knows you so well and knows the spots you’re going to be in,” Dixon said.

“It’s really easy when he’s playing.”

Both Dixon and Prewitt benefited from Cohn’s passing.

The two combined for 55 points, the most between the two all season. Prewitt was 12 for 17 from the floor while hitting all three of his attempts from downtown. Meanwhile, Dixon went 9 for 17 but hit all eight of his free throw attempts.

Even though the Seahawks never led in the score, a win was not quite out of reach until late in the game. UNC-Wilmington had 15 offensive boards in the first half, outscoring the Tribe 11-2 on second chance points in the period. Early on in the second half, the Seahawks cut the lead to just five, 46-41. However, the Tribe embarked on a 17-2 run to put the game out of reach.

The Tribe didn’t let UNC-Wilmington make another run for the rest of the game.

Almost every Seahawks UNC-WILMINGTON basket was met with a bucket by VS the College.

SEAHAWKS Despite giving (20-3, 9-1 CAA) up 78 points, the Tribe defense was impressive. While only forcing seven turnovers, it caused the Seahawks trouble when shooting the ball.

“I think [UNC-Wilmington] took very few shots that weren’t contested tonight,” Shaver said. “Part of our defensive philosophy is to contest every shot. I thought we made the effort to contest every shot tonight.”

The Tribe got defensive contributions from freshman center Nathan Knight, who had four blocks, along with junior center Jack Whitman, who had two. Whitman played most of the game with a bloodied face, having been hit near the mouth early in the contest. He went on to score 11, while sophomore forward Paul Rowley added 10 off the bench.

Monday night, the Tribe took on the Drexel Dragons in a makeup game from the originally scheduled for Jan 7. The game did not finish before press time, but the Tribe held a close lead at halftime.

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Freshman forward Nathan Knight blocks UNC-Wilmington guard C.J. Bryce, one of his four blocks during the 96-78 victory over the Seahawks.

Preseason Colonial Athletic Association Player of the Year Precious Hall dropped 27 points, eight rebounds and four assists Sunday afternoon, leading James Madison to a 79-64 win over William and Mary in the first-ever Golden Game at Kaplan Arena. The loss was the fourth straight for the College, which fell 3-5 in conference play and 13-6 overall.

Despite Hall’s impressive stat line, head coach Ed Swanson wasn’t upset with the Tribe’s defensive coverage of Hall.

“Precious Hall did what she does,” he said.

Hall got off to a quick start, knocking down an early three-pointer and then hitting all three free throws after being fouled on a second attempt. Senior forward Alex Masaquel started hot for the Tribe, scoring six of the team’s first 11 points. Midway through the first period, the score was tied at 11. A quick 6-0 run from JMU (14-6, 7-2 CAA) provided some separation. The first quarter ended with the Dukes leading 21-17.

The margin remained around the same, and with just under seven minutes until halftime, the Tribe trailed 29-22. Senior guard Latrice Hunter entered off the bench to spark a quick 10-2 run, giving the College a 32-31 lead with 4 minutes, 15 seconds left in the half. Hunter had four points, an assist and a key offensive rebound during the momentum-changing run.

Clinging to a 34-33 lead, Hall reminded everyone that she was the best player in the gym, leading the Dukes on a 10-3 run to close the half, which featured five points in the final minute. With the halftime deficit 43-36, Swanson was not pleased with his team’s lack of Swanson cohesive defense down the stretch.

“In the first half we weren’t connected [defensively],” Swanson said. “We weren’t dialed in.”

The Tribe defense locked down in the third quarter, limiting the Dukes to just 12 points in the period. Unfortunately, the College had virtually no offensive production, scoring just eight points in the quarter. The third quarter total was less than half of the total in any other quarter, giving the Dukes a significant 55-44 lead entering the final 10 minutes.

In the fourth quarter, the Tribe applied full-court pressure, forcing several turnovers and closing the gap to six with eight minutes left in the game. Two clutch threes from JMU guard Hailee Barron ended the Tribe’s comeback attempt, resulting in a 79-64 loss, with the final margin due to eight made free throws from the Dukes in the final two minutes.

“Hailee Barron. You’ve got to give her a lot of credit,” Swanson said. “A couple of those threes were backbreakers in terms of late shot clock situations.”

Despite the four-game losing streak, Swanson was Rendle pleased with his team’s second half performance.

“I thought we did a better job in the second half,” Swanson said. “We played hard. Our post players, obviously, Alex and Abby [Rendle], had very good games.”

In the final quarter, Masaquel and Rendle combined for 18 of the team’s 20 points. For the game, Masaquel led with her fifth double-double of the season, finishing with 18 points on 8 for 13 shooting to go along with 12 rebounds. Rendle poured in 17 points on 7 of 9 shooting off the bench.

The team’s other leader, senior guard Marlena Tremba, struggled Sunday afternoon. She shot 3 of 15 from the floor and failed to connect on a triple in eight attempts. Despite the off night, Swanson wasn’t too worried about his star guard.

“Marlena is at the top of the scouting report,” Swanson said. “We have to do a better job of screening. I thought she had a couple open looks that she normally knocks down. She was hesitant a little bit at times and had some open looks she didn’t pull the trigger on. We just have to Tremba do a better job on our ball movement.”

Getting Tremba back on track will be key to ending the current four-game slide. The Tribe looks to rebound Friday when it takes on Northeastern at 7 p.m at Kaplan Arena.

“All teams go through tough slides,” Swanson said. “If this had been a couple years ago it would be more worrisome. We’re playing good basketball.

We lost some tough games down the stretch. I think we’ll rebound and come back re-energized.”

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Senior forward Alex Masaquel completed her fifth double-double of the season against JMU.