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stand on education, transportation and

Mike Mullin (D)

Monty Mason (D)

Shaun Brown (D)

strengthening the economy, see below.

Heather Cordasco (R)

Thomas Holston (R)

Scott Taylor (R)

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As campus Dems rally around Clinton, Republicans divide on presidency SARAH SMITH AND HENRY BLACKBURN FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR AND FLAT HAT STAFF WRITER Shortly after Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton became the Democratic nominee for United States President, the College of William and Mary’s Young Democrats endorsed her. When Donald Trump became the Republican Nominee, however, the College Republicans followed many from the national party and did not endorse him. Some hesitate to use his name.

“The Republican candidate is a little bit off-putting, to put it mildly,” President of the College Republicans Phoebe Brannock ‘18 said. “We really don’t endorse candidates, especially for national elections, because there are so many viewpoints in our club and we just want to give everyone the opportunity to speak their mind and learn about what other conservatives think.”

In 2012, The Flat Hat reported that some members of the College Republicans campaigned for Mitt Romney.

According to President of the Young Democrats Kathleen Bryant ’18, the club saw an early split similar to what the Democratic Party saw at the national level, with two independent clubs forming for supporters of Senator Bernie Sanders and Clinton. However, Bryant said that she felt that in college, the split was caused more by peoples’ different theories of change,

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not divisive issues.

“I honestly think that at the end of the day, everyone cares about the same issues,” Bryant said. “I was a founding member of Students for Hillary, but income inequality and poverty are my top priority issues. I think this speaks to a divide in peoples’ different theories of change. Some people believed passionately in Sanders’ theory of change, which was rebuilding institutions and changing the way that our government runs, but Hillary’s approach was working through the systems that we have to make them better. There’s not a right or wrong answer to that. It’s what your theory of change is.”

While Mehrotra said that he felt Clinton was a candidate who embodied what the Young Democrats wanted as an organization, Brannock said she did not feel satisfied with this election season.

“We’re not just voting for [a candidate], we’re voting about the decisions that they’re going to make,” Brannock said. “Who goes in their cabinet, they’re probably going to get three, maybe four Supreme Court nominations, so we’re voting about that.”

Because Brannock and the College Republicans will not be endorsing a candidate for the presidential race, the traditional

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debate between the campus political organizations will be one solely focusing on platforms and policies, not on candidates.

(Disclosure: Brannock is a contributor to The Flat Hat’s food blog).

After this election, Bryant said she feels like the Democratic Party will mirror some of the sentiments expressed by Democrats on college campuses.

Specifically, Bryant said she believes that the progressive issues raised by Sanders’ campaign will be reflected in more progressive candidates in the next presidential races.

“In general, the type of campaign that Bernie Sanders delivered during the primaries is one that a lot of young people, even people who supported Hillary, recognized as the future of the party — approaching fundraising from a grassroots angle, young people in general, regardless of whether they supported Bernie or Hillary, really resonated with people across the club,” Bryant said. “I think we are all hopeful that the Democratic Party continues in that direction. I think it will, whether or not it does See TRENDS page 4

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Contentious race divided on Education, transportation U.S. House candidates dominate state senate race unite on military support economy, gender violence SARAH SMITH FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR

Democrat Monty Mason ’89, Republican Thomas Holston and independent candidate representing the Constitution Party John Bloom are running to fill an empty seat in the state senate left by Senator John Miller, who died in April 2016.

Education Higher education funding and increasing resources for pre-kindergarten and early elementary school students have been identified as some of the top issues in this race.

Bloom said that while he does not support free or reducedtuition community college programs, he would like to see tax credits given to students who are paying tuition installments over the course of the year.

Mason said that he appreciates the work Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe has already done to support community colleges, including lobbying to bring an accreditation program for Cybersecurity Excellence to Thomas Nelson Community College.

Although Holston

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said he was not sure of how to implement this policy, he would like to pursue free community college in Virginia as an option for some students.

While Holston and Bloom did not identify increasing resources for pre-kindergarten students as a priority issue, Mason has been advocating for more public preschool resources since his time running for the Virginia House of Delegates.

Transportation When Mason was running for District 93’s seat in the House of Delegates last fall, the third phase of Interstate 64 had not been funded, but the last session of the General Assembly plete the project. However, Mason said that there needs to be continued push to fund the expansion of I-64 for the 29 miles between state Route 199 and Bottoms Bridge. While Bloom advocates for increasing the number of tolls between Williamsburg and Norfolk to raise state revenue, particularly if more tunnels are added to I-64, Mason said that he would prefer tolls on rapid transit lanes or specific tolls during high traffic.

HENRY BLACKBURN FLAT HAT STAFF WRITER

The platforms of the candidates for the second district of the United States House of Representatives differ along party platforms. Shaun Brown, a Democrat, supports free community college and green energy generation. Scott Taylor, a Republican, promises to help repeal the Affordable Care Act and remove the national government from education standards. They do find common ground in their mutual support for veterans, while Taylor is a former soldier.

Education Brown has identified affordable higher education as a priority issue. She said she supports making community college free, as well as finding paths that lead to lowering, if not eliminating, the tuition costs of public colleges and universities.

Taylor, who did not respond to multiple requests for comment from The Flat Hat, states on his campaign website that he is focused on shifting education to local and state governments. He said he has a personal distaste

for what he perceives to be the government’s large foot-print in the education domain.

Healthcare Brown said that she supports the idea of Obamacare, but would support an even more comprehensive single-payer plan, further expanding the government’s role in healthcare delivery.

Taylor’s website states that he believes the U.S. Congress should repeal Obamacare and replace it with a better system.

Military Brown said she would like to support the military by not cutting jobs as a result of lowering military funding.

She said she believes that the military is the forefront of green energy production. She also thinks that small businesses should be ready to support returning veterans to ease reintegration into society.

Taylor’s website states that he is dedicated to affordable benefits for military families and securing the United States’ national defense. He said that that he will bring a military perspective to Congress, giving a new look at congressional issues.

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The race for the 93rd District seat in the Virginia House of Delegates is arguably the most contentious down-ballot race for voters in Williamsburg. Democrat Mike Mullin and Republican Heather Cordasco will go head to head on Election Day, Nov. 8.

Transportation Transportation and traffic congestion in the Peninsula are big issues for voters in the 93rd District, and Cordasco and Mullin’s views on what should be done do not differ greatly.

Cordasco said that she would ensure the Peninsula gets enough transportation funding to finish widening Interstate 64 to Richmond, which she said would decrease congestion and make the area more welcoming to both tourists and small businesses.

She cited her 23-year residence on the Peninsula as a reason for her support for increased transportation funding, because she has experienced the traffic congestion first-hand for years.

Mullin also supports the expansion of I-64 toward Richmond to reduce traffic congestion.

Education Both candidates are passionate about improving education in Peninsula public schools, but take different stances on where those improvements need to be made.

Mullin’s son started kindergarten this year, and while Mullin said his son was able to go through pre-K, he said he wants to make pre-K more accessible to a larger number of students in Virginia.

Cordasco, on the other hand, focused less on early childhood education and more on high school. She supports encouraging schools to increase their focus on preparing students for careers in manufacturing and other trade jobs.

Economy One of the major issues on Cordasco’s platform is strengthening the economy.

She supports bringing jobs into the district, especially through a greater focus on manufacturing and technical careers. Additionally, Cordasco wants to keep taxes low and said she will oppose any efforts in the House to raise taxes.

Gender violence Much of Mike Mullin’s focus this election is on gender-based violence and women’s rights.

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The biggest thing for me, people will separate political and personal issues. I think that especially in this election, even at the state level, the political is personal. The types of decisions being made in city council and in the White House have tangible effects on peoples’ lives.

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‘There’s a person behind the emails’ Ginger Ambler ’88 Ph.D. ’06 built a career on her College experience

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As Vice President for Student Affairs at the College of William and Mary, Ginger Ambler ’88 Ph.D. ’06 works to create a supportive community within the College and to effect change around issues that matter to students.

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It was all those other experiences that I had — being a peer educator, working in residence life, being involved in clubs and organizations, that I realized the impact that the professional staff here at William and Mary had on me and my experience.

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CORRECTIONS An article published Oct. 25 incorrectly named Valerie Woodard as a co-curator of the exhibit ‘Building the Brafferton.’ In fact, the co-curator is Buck Woodard. The article has also been updated to reflect the fact that the charter on display is not original. The document is a contemporary copy.

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The Department of Student Affairs is concerned with student life outside the classroom and the offices and organizations that support such extracurricular activities.

The vice president for Student Affairs oversees departments and organizations such as Residence Life and student government, among many others. As head of Student Affairs, Ambler works with a comprehensive staff to represent student concerns and make decisions about budgets and policies.

Ambler first became interested in community building at the College, where she was a member of the choir, a sister of Kappa Kappa Gamma, a leader in a peer education group and a Resident Assistant for three years. As an RA in Monroe Hall, Barrett Hall and the Bryan Complex, Ambler said she was able to develop individual relationships with her residents and to celebrate their successes. She said this was important to her because of how students at the College can become so caught up in their personal academic pursuits — in her position as an RA, she could encourage them to come together as a community and take time to support and celebrate their hall-mates. “[Being involved in these organizations] was a way to feel a part of the community, to give back to the community and to grow as a young leader,” Ambler said.

NIA KITCHIN // THE FLAT HAT At the College, Ambler studied English — in her time at the College, she said she focused primarily on grammar, syntax and learning about the dialects and origins of language. However, she said if she could go back she would major in linguistics instead, which was a smaller program at the time.

Ambler said she did not know what she wanted to do with this major early on; she just knew she enjoyed literary analysis and the humanities.

Being involved with student affairs on a professional level was never part of Ambler’s plan until she was exposed to this profession on a college campus.

“Being a university administrator is not a job that you think about being when you grow up,” Ambler said. “It’s not something you run around the playground saying, ‘I want to be a student affairs administrator when I grow up.’”

Ambler said that her experiences outside the classroom influenced her career path, as she enjoyed being involved in residence life and helping other students have enjoyable experiences at the College.

“It was all those other experiences that I had — being a peer educator, working in residence life, being involved in clubs and organizations that I realized the impact that the professional staff here at William and Mary had on me and my experience,” Ambler said. “So I discovered my calling being here.”

Ambler said her connections to the College cemented her decision to become an administrator. Before attending, she was already familiar with the College: her grandmother graduated in 1939, her godmother in 1974. During Ambler’s sophomore year, she met her husband while working as an RA. “His younger sister was a freshman the first year I was an RA and she lived in the room across the hall from me, and so he used to come over and visit his sister a lot and I learned that he was coming to visit me a bit too,” Ambler said.

Sam Sadler ’64, M. Ed. ’71, Ambler’s predecessor, urged her to consider pursuing a career in student affairs. Ambler also received encouragement from her

area director, who she said prompted her to consider a similar position.

That, according to Ambler, was the first time that she could ever seriously see herself working as a professional in a university setting.

Ambler went on to attend the Ohio State University to earn her master’s degree in higher education and student affairs. She then served in student affairs positions at Ohio State and Franklin and Marshall College before moving back to Williamsburg to work as assistant vice president for student affairs from 2001 to 2008.

Concurrently, Ambler received her doctorate of philosophy in educational policy, planning and leadership over a 10-year span while working full time and raising her third child. Handling these responsibilities required being able to effectively manage her time and focus on each responsibility separately, according to Ambler.

“Sometimes family was the higher priority, sometimes academics took priority, and at the same time making sure I was doing my job,” Ambler said.

Ambler said that her decision to return to the College was due to positive experiences she had as an undergraduate: traditions, a sense of community and close relationships.

“Finding a group of people with whom you share something of meaning gives meaning to your overall time,” Ambler said.

“And you’ll find that those are the people you still gravitate towards as an alum.”

Ambler said she hopes to create a culture of well-being on campus, focus on leadership and effect change on issues that matter to students. Building the new wellness center is particularly important to her, as it is a physical manifestation of the College’s commitment to health. Beyond that, Ambler said she simply wants students to know she is available for them and wants them to succeed.

“I would like students to know that there’s a person behind the emails,” Ambler said. “That’s why I love working at William and Mary, it’s because of the students.”

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During her undergraduate days, Ginger Ambler ’88 Ph.D. ’06 sang in the choir, and was a Resident Assistant.

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Friday, Oct. 28 — An individual was reported for being drunk in public on Richmond Road.

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Friday, Oct. 28 — An assault on a police officer was reported on Merrimac Trail.

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Saturday, Oct. 29 — A larceny was reported on Duke of Gloucester Street.

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Monday, Oct. 31 — A credit card left was reported on Sterling Manor Drive.

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Mason ’89 campaigns Holston prioritizes end Bloom wants party for Miller’s senate seat of car tax in senate race on map, in VA senate SARAH SMITH FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR

Since his time at the College of William and Mary, Monty Mason ’89 has spent much of his life involved in local politics. Now, after three terms representing District 93 in the Virginia House of Delegates, he is running as a Democratic candidate for the Virginia Senate.

“I grew up around the Virginia General Assembly; it’s always been part of my life,” Mason said. “I was somewhat involved in it growing up.”

Prior to his race this year for the Virginia Senate, Mason had been the representative for District 93 in the Virginia House of Delegates. He was re-elected as a delegate in November 2015, winning his race against Republican Lara Overy ’08. According to Mason, the re-drawing of District 93 was part of the inspiration for him first running for the House of Delegates.

Mason, who is now running in a special election to fill the seat left empty after the death of Senator John Miller in April 2016, said that he hoped to stay involved with students and to prioritize legislation that relates to higher education and issues that predominantly affect college students.

“It is so important that we make sure that the next generation of leaders is involved and gets to know us,” Mason said. “I get to live and work in the community. It’s a great opportunity to get to know the students and get their input.”

Mason said that while he was working in Richmond, he noticed a push to pass legislation that would benefit college students after situations like the kidnapping and murder of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham, but that often other representatives would not get input from current college students on their proposed legislation.

To Mason, a clear example of this happening was a bill that was proposed that would have required mandatory reporting of sexual assault. College students said the legislation might keep them from coming forward and reporting assaults.

Mason said that this would have done more harm than good, and that he sees this type of input as a reason to prioritize interacting with college students as an elected official.

Looking to Nov. 8, Mason said that one of the most important issues for students to think about in the future is drawing districts fairly, particularly for state elections.

“One of the most important issues for your involvement in future government is fairly drawn districts,” Mason said. “My house seat is one of only seven or eight competitive seats in the House of Delegates out of 100 seats. Some districts are always going to be red, some are always going to be blue, no matter who draws them.

But if you had more competition across the board, that’s good for the entire system.”

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EMILY CHAUMONT FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR

Born and raised in Newport News, Thomas Holston is now running as the Republican candidate to represent the first Senate district in the Virginia State Senate.

Holston previously served his Newport News community as a police officer and a firefighter, but is running for office for the first time because he wants to make Virginia a better place for his grandchildren.

“I have grandchildren now and some of the things that I’ve seen come out of Richmond are shocking,” Holston said. “We have politicians sitting on their butts up there and we need a change.

A $1.5 billion deficit is ridiculous.

I don’t want my kids to pay for that and I’m tired of seeing kids graduate from college and have to leave the state of Virginia to get a job.”

Holston talked about what he said was the first issue he would address if he were to be elected: repealing the car tax.

“It’s ridiculous that when you buy a car you have to pay taxes and then for rest of the life of the car you have to pay taxes,” Holston said. “It’s a burden for people in the first place because when they have to pay it December 5th, it’s right before Christmas and that’s hurting their family’s Christmas.

They’ve got two options. Either they don’t pay it and they pay the fines or they pay it and their children are shortchanged. They promised us years ago that this would be gone and it’s not. It needs to be gone.”

In addition to his passion

about the car tax, Holston also wants to decrease traffic congestion and increase pay for public school teachers.

Holston said that he recognizes the tense climate that the national political scene has taken on, and that it can only be fixed by going out and voting in down-ballot elections. According to him, people in the United States are unhappy with the current state of their government and are looking for a change.

“I understand that 71 percent of people want a change, but we’re only going to get change if people go out and vote,” Holston said.

“We need the best people there is in Richmond and in Congress, not just people who want to go up there and sit on their duffs and make their money.”

In addition to the importance of voting, Holston also talked about the importance of voters being able to contact the legislators who represent them.

Holston has his cell phone number listed on his Facebook page and said he has had voters call to ask him about various topics, including his stances on certain issues and where they can register to vote.

“I think that the people that represent you should actually be able to speak to you and have an open door policy. Any time you have a concern, you should call them up and be able to talk to them,” Holston said. “I believe that if I’m elected by the people who elected me, then they have a right to talk to me, to hear what I’ve got to say.”

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SARAH SMITH FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR

John Bloom, wearing #NeverTrump, All Lives Matter and #Castle2016 lapel buttons on his suit coat, said that his inspiration for starting his career in politics was a desire to fight the corruption he saw in his party. Now, Bloom is running for a position in the Virginia Senate as an independent candidate this corruption he sees in the Republican Party.

“I was living in New York State and was with the conservative party,” Bloom said. “I was fighting corruption, particularly cross-endorsements, in New York. They traded the conservative party line to the Republicans for jobs that the Republicans had control of. I didn’t like that.”

Until May 4 of this year, Bloom also served as the Vice Chairman of the Newport News Republican City Committee.

He said he left because some members of the party strongly supported Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

“Before you were born, the national debt was much lower,” Bloom said. “It went up after George Bush and it went up even more under Obama. I’ll be dead and gone, and you, your grandchildren and your greatgrandchildren will be paying for the debt that my generation gave you [college students].”

Bloom said that much of his platform comes from not supporting Trump or Clinton, who he blames for issues he identified in the Navy. He said

that a large part of why he is running is to support Darren Castle, the Constitution Party’s presidential candidate who is an official write-in or on the ballot in some states. “[Trump supporters] are what I call the dark-side of the Republican Party,” Bloom said.

“They are a very small minority, but now they have Darth Trump, who has emboldened all of them, and they have taken over the party.”

Bloom said his dedication to opposing Trump led him to withdraw his membership from the National Rifle Association after they endorsed Trump, even though he said he identifies as a strong supporter of the Second Amendment.

If elected, Bloom said that he wants to prioritize equal ballot access for independent or third parties, particularly in state elections. To do this, he said he wants to pass reform measures that would change the way that third parties get candidates on the ballot.

“It is critical that students get out to vote even if they are fed up with their choices for president, even the ones that aren’t on the ballot,” Bloom said.

“They need to send a strong message that they can’t take you for granted. I don’t know how young people are so sheltered.

I believe in using tax credits as much as possible. Other people shouldn’t be paying for your free education, but you could get tax credits while you pay your tuition over the years.”

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Mullin seeks to fill Mason’s House seat Cordasco aims to claim Republican seat SARAH SMITH FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR

Following his graduation from Christopher Newport University in 2004, Mike Mullin received a law degree from the Catholic University of America and has worked as a criminal prosecutor, volunteering with victims of domestic violence and lecturing on gang crime. Now, he is the Democratic candidate for District 93 of the Virginia House of Delegates.

“I always wanted to be a criminal prosecutor,” Mullin said. “Helping people is something that is incredibly important to me, and it drives my work life and personal life. The best way I saw to do that was being in the courtroom.”

According to Mullin, his work as a criminal prosecutor is also something that makes him qualified to represent the district in the House of Delegates.

“There are a lot of lawyers in the General Assembly, but we need a prosecutor,” Mullin said. “Someone who has that background, who sees how laws are applied to people, who sees where we can do well, and I think that is something unique that I can offer.”

Although Mullin has been active in his community and has volunteered with the Democratic Party, knocking on doors for former Virginia Senator John Miller and incumbent representative for District 93 in the Virginia House of Delegates Monty Mason ’89, this is his first time running for office.

“All of this inspiration comes from Senator John Miller,” Mullin said. “He was a good friend and a model in my mind for who a politician should be and how, here in Virginia, can be. Senator Miller

was a huge inspiration behind that and he has left a huge hole in our politics. I’m glad that someone so wonderful as Monty Mason can move up. I hope to continue similar work in the House of Delegates … I volunteered with them before, and I got to see firsthand how they were running their campaigns and who they were as people.”

Mullin said that he hopes to continue to be involved with the Young Democrats and other student groups at the College in the same way Mason and Miller were.

“My wife is a William and Mary alum,” Mullin said.

“If I wasn’t here on campus all the time, I’m not sure she’d be particularly happy with me. I’ve been out on campaigns with the Young Dems and marched in the homecoming parade with my three boys. We are as active as we can be.”

While Mullin acknowledged that many students at the College are politically active and have registered to vote through Virginia21 or other organizations, he said that he wanted to make sure that students went out to vote, especially for the contested 93rd District seat.

“This race is the 34th seat in the House of Delegates for the Democrat side,” Mullin said. “At that amount of seats you can sustain [Governor Terry] McAuliffe’s vetoes. It is the only contested seat on the ballot in Virginia and a lot of focus is on this race, so holding Monty’s seat is incredibly important to making sure that so much of the horrible legislation in places like Indiana and North Carolina [doesn’t] end up being passed and made into law here in Virginia.”

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EMILY CHAUMONT FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR

Having lived on the Peninsula since 1993 and having held a variety of positions in the James City County community, Heather Cordasco believes she has the community ties and service experience necessary to represent the 93rd District in the Virginia House of Delegates. Cordasco has served as a James City County School board member, a New Horizons board member, a League of Women Voters member and a member of the Chickahominy Playground fundraising committee. She said the reason she’s running for the House of Delegates is largely rooted in her view of public service as community involvement.

“I’m not sure that I ever wanted to be a part of politics,” Cordasco said. “I was raised with the understanding that you’re supposed to be very involved in your community … it’s a lot of work , but I very much enjoy it.”

Cordasco said that, if elected, she hopes to continue to work with schools in the 93rd District and around Virginia to encourage high school students to pursue careers outside of the four-year college track.

She said that these kinds of careers are valuable to the community and the economy and can help students avoid the rising costs of higher education.

Even though she wants to be a part of the state government, Cordasco said she doesn’t want to be considered a politician.

“I don’t like to use the word ‘politics,’ because I think it’s really local involvement and community involvement,” Cordasco said.

Although she sees holding a political office as simply another form of community involvement, Cordasco can’t help but be drawn into a larger discussion in the political world, simply because of her gender. Aside from presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Jill Stein, United State House of Representatives Democratic candidate Shaun Brown and Cordasco will be the only other females on the ballot for Williamsburg voters, with Cordasco as the only Republican woman. As the national political conversation comes to include gender more extensively, Cordasco said that she thinks women can bring something unique to politics.

“I think women bring a very unique perspective to the table,” Cordasco said. “Generally, we are the ones who bring a group to a compromise. I think we are good at listening, reflecting back to people what they’re saying and we’re also used to managing a lot of things at one time. We’re required to be able to do a lot of multitasking.”

Aside from what she thinks having a woman representing the 93rd House district would bring to the House of Delegates, Cordasco said she has proven herself to be a hard worker who is dedicated to making change happen. She described herself as someone who listens to people and reaches the goals she sets forth for herself.

“I never go into a situation and leave it the same,” Cordasco said. “It’s always better. I’m an outcomebased, motivated person who will really represent the needs of this district because I know them well.”

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Democratic House of Representatives candidate Shaun Brown runs progressive ‘blue campaign’ in 2nd District EMILY MARTELL FLAT HAT CHIEF STAFF WRITER

United States House of Representatives hopeful Shaun Brown is running a progressive “blue campaign,” contrary to the advice she received prior to launching her campaign from those who thought a more moderate message would prove more successful.

Born in Newport News and returning to the region as an entrepreneur and community activist after finishing her collegiate education, Brown is running on the Democratic ticket for the 2nd Congressional District against Virginia Delegate Scott Taylor (R-85).

To Brown, the 2016 election is about equality — whether by ensuring immigrants have a path to citizenship, supporting LGBTQ rights or working on community issues with minorities.

As a delegate for Bernie Sanders at the 2016 Democratic National Convention and now a supporter of the Hillary Clinton campaign, Brown is carrying the progressive message forward to her district.

“The Democratic ticket that we’re running on is the most progressive it’s ever been,” Brown said.

After graduating from Hampton High School, Brown attended Brown University. At a time when few black students attended the institution, Brown became involved in student government, becoming the president of the Undergraduate Council of Students at age 18. With her status as the youngest, first female and first black student body president of Brown, Brown said she achieved a “level of notoriety” early on and became involved with the divestment from South Africa and wage support for

the apartheid movement, amongst other things. Comparing her current bid for the House to her undergraduate political career, Brown said that her main message is one of inclusion.

“With everyone’s support I would become the first African American woman to go to Congress from Virginia,” Brown said. “And so breaking barriers, whether it’s the student government or some of the other things I’ve tried to fight for in terms of equality — it’s the same.”

Now running for the House, Brown aims to bring economic issues, business interests and community concerns to the forefront. For Brown, the issue of tuition prices is very serious. Following the Sanders platform, she supports free college tuition at both the community college and public university levels.

“Tuition’s important,” Brown said.

“Making sure it’s not just affordable, I do

support community college being free, I do support public colleges having a path to public college tuition being free, and that can be in the form of public service, community service. There’s been a lot of talk … but nothing has been concluded, nothing has been confirmed.”

For state colleges, Brown supports a mechanism to allow students to “buy” a free year of college through public service in the school systems, nonprofits or the local government. Like the national platform, Brown supports a $15 minimum wage, opposes Right-to-Work legislation, and is against the TransPacific Partnership. In terms of the local community, Brown spoke of the need for ongoing civil rights measures to address local violence and poverty.

“There’s a level of poverty still on the Eastern shore that still hasn’t been addressed,” Brown said. “There are

pockets of need throughout the 2nd District. There are some federal funds, properly administered, and targeted to address some of these concerns that we’re really looking forward to being able to address.”

Brown said that although she was initially warned against running a progressive campaign because of its possible effect on her support from voters on the fence, it has proven to be palatable to constituents.

“What we are finding, when we started this journey back in March, going to meetings and having small sit-down conversations with voters, what they said to me, is we appreciate the fact that you’re running a blue campaign,” Brown said. “So it was really the opposite of everything I had been told.”

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ELECTIONS

Two state ballot measures divide Virginians One focuses on right-to-work status, one on tax exemptions for surviving spouses NIA KITCHIN THE FLAT HAT

On Election Day, Virginians will be voting on two statewide ballot measures. These proposed state constitutional amendments deal with rightto-work status in Virginia and state and property tax exemptions for the spouses of first responders killed in action.

The first constitutional amendment would make Virginia a right-to-work state, making it illegal for workplaces to require union membership as a condition of employment.

College of William and Mary professor of government and public policy John McGlennon said that Virginia is already a right-to-work state, but it is not officially written in to the state constitution.

“We’ve had a right-to-work law for a long time,” McGlennon said. “It prohibits [required union membership] from happening and a number of states with Republican lawmakers have tried to make it part of state constitutions in order to make it harder to change in the future.”

There were a number of arguments in the Virginia Senate over the proposed right-to-work amendment, with Democrats and Republicans leaning in opposite directions. There is a similar

partisan split at the College.

Young Democrats Campaign Coordinator Greg Akerman ’19 advises students to vote “no” to the right-to-work amendment. Akerman said that this amendment would cement right-to-work, which he said he regards as a serious blow to the general welfare of the public.

“Right now the focus of the labor unions is making sure other states don’t fall into the same trap,” Akerman said. “The hope will be that we will model West Virginia, where right-to-work was challenged in the courts for unconstitutionality and suspended.”

Chair of the College Republicans Phoebe Brannock ’18 supports the amendment and said that no person’s employment status should depend on their membership in a union.

“If you are able to work, you should work, and just because you’re not a member of an organization doesn’t mean a company should exclude you from doing that,” Brannock said. “It’s just making sure that no one, if they’re qualified for a job, can’t be employed for it. I think it’s more for the future.”

Vice President of VOX: Voices for Planned Parenthood Karla Kaplan ’18 said that she disapproves of the right-to-work amendment. She said that VOX feels very strongly about voting “no”

to this amendment because of the negative effects it would have on reproductive rights.

She said that this amendment would increase poverty and make women seeking abortions unable to access them due to financial constraints. As a result of this, Kaplan said that the wealthy would always be able to have access to abortions and birth control, but that the working class would not.

“We’re talking about people who can’t afford to take a day off work to go get an abortion, so that makes it a reproductive rights issue,” Kaplan said.

According to McGlennon, the right-towork amendment should not be on the ballot.

McGlennon said that the state constitution should not be amended to include laws that make it harder for legal change to occur in the future. He said that he will not be voting for this amendment and that people in the workplace have a right to obtain better working conditions.

The second proposed amendment has not led to as much contention, and only one club at the College has given an official voting recommendation. This amendment supports providing a property tax exemption to the spouses of first responders killed in the line of duty. The Young Democrats at the College recommend voting “yes” on this amendment in order to support veterans and said they are confident

that it will pass.

However, Brannock and McGlennon have a different viewpoint.

Brannock said that this exemption would not be a positive change and that it would waive property taxes for these spouses indefinitely. However, she said she would be in favor of waiving it for a year until the spouse is able to recover and downsize their property if necessary.

“They are still using that property as they were before, and so they should be paying a tax on that property,” Brannock said.

McGlennon opposes the property tax amendment because, in his opinion, the state constitution is not the place for it.

He said that if the state wants to make a gesture of recognition toward these spouses they could do it by changing the state tax code instead of passing it on to localities to deal with.

Even though they have differing opinions on these issues, they agree that students at the College should learn about these proposed amendments before voting on Nov. 8.

“I know a lot of people feel like their vote doesn’t count or don’t feel motivated to vote on things that aren’t as exciting as a presidential election but … it’s something people should care about,” Kaplan said.

ELECTIONS

Campus political groups rally for Mullin, Cordasco

Virginia House of Delegates race divides Young Democrats, College Republicans HENRY BLACKBURN FLAT HAT STAFF WRITER

Students registered to vote in the City of Williamsburg will be voting in multiple down-ballot races, including a special election for a seat in the Virginia Senate. District 93, which covers the City of Williamsburg and part of Newport News, was represented by Democrat Monty Mason ’89 until he resigned in November 2015 to run for the Virginia Senate.

Democrat Mike Mullin and Republican Heather Cordasco are now running for Mason’s empty seat.

Of the four organizations, which include the Young Democrats, the College Republicans, the College Socialists and the College Libertarians, only the Young Democrats and the College Republicans have officially endorsed a candidate for the delegate election.

Young Democrats Vice President Sahil Mehrotra ’17 said that the Young Democrats endorsed Mullin, and that many members have campaigned in Williamsburg on Mullin’s behalf.

“Mike ran for [Newport News] City Council last year, we got to know him a little and heard him speak about once or twice,”

Mehrotra said. “We really got to work with Mike, he’s such a great, passionate candidate. He just knows his stuff and he’s done a lot of great work in the Newport News prosecutor’s office.”

President of the College Republicans Phoebe Brannock ’18 said that the club has campaigned with Cordasco this election cycle and helped increase her presence in the area.

“A lot of members of our club have been working with Heather Cordasco and her campaign this semester and so that’s been a good experience for the club,” Brannock said. “We’ve been doing door to door, phone-calls, postcards, all that good stuff. Probably a very similar thing to what [Young Democrats] have been doing.”

(Disclosure: Brannock is a contributor to The Flat Hat’s food blog).

President of the College Libertarians Skip Estes ’17 said that, while the club did not endorse either of the delegate candidates, the College Libertarians were approached by a Constitution Party Virginia Senate candidate, John Bloom.

Similar to Mehrotra, General Secretary of the College Socialists Nico Villarreal ’19 said that while his club did not officially endorse any candidates, he believes Mullin holds support among many

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Students dressed in Halloween costumes campaigned outside of the Sadler Center to encourage other students to visit the polls on Election Day, Nov. 8.

members.

“We haven’t been doing much campaigning [for District 93], but I know there’s quite a bit of support in our group for Mike Mullin,” Villarreal said. “Of course, that is not the official organization’s viewpoint.”

For the leaders of these political organizations, issues like women’s health, education, transportation and town-gown relations influence their decisions to support and endorse specific candidates.

Mehrotra said that while the Young Democrats as an organization does not officially promote specific policies, many members advocate for common progressive issues.

“I know our president, Kathleen [Bryant], is really passionate about women’s health issues,” Mehrotra said. “We as students are more passionate about things such as higher education funding and how we best reduce college debt and make college more affordable for all families.”

According to Brannock, issues like education and transportation have impacted her personal decision to support Cordasco. Cordasco has identified education and transportation as two of her priority issues.

“She is very much about expanding vocational education training, which I think is very important,” Brannock said. “You can, with the appropriate training, come out of high school and go into a stable manufacturing job that does have some upward mobility, because there’s so much technology involved with manufacturing today.”

In terms of regulations and town-gown relations, Estes said that he feels the criminalized noise regulations in the City of Williamsburg are unfair to students.

Another issue that he feels should be addressed is the relationship he sees between the Williamsburg Police Department, the William and Mary Police Department and the students.

“They [the police] treat us differently, when in reality they should be treating us as adults because that’s what we are,” Estes said.

“What brings this to mind is the propensity for illegal searches, the propensity for illegal lines of questioning or coercing students to self-incriminate. That’s not just an issue for Williamsburg, that’s an issue for police departments all across America.”

Villarreal said that the College Socialists have been advocating for cooperatives in the Williamsburg area as well as general changes in higher education.

“We’ve been advocating and pushing the local government towards adopting more pro-cooperative positions, making it easier to start cooperatives in Williamsburg,” Villarreal said. “We have long-term plans of trying to get together a worker’s cooperative in Tribe Square for a restaurant as well as a host of progressive causes, like making the cost of tuition and higher education lower.”

Leading up to Nov. 8, students campaigning for Mullin and Cordasco plan to continue educating students on the issues that the two candidates have identified as priority issues.

College Republicans not endorsing Trump, debating on his behalf Young Democrats see club mirroring national trends, empowering “progressive party wing” TRENDS from page 1

remains to be seen. It’s something that we all can agree on as young people, this trend leftward and this increasing empowerment of the progressive wing of the party.”

President of the College Libertarians Skip Estes ’17 said that the College of William and Mary has a Youth for Gary Johnson/Bill Weld club, the libertarian candidates for president and vice president respectively, that runs as a subsidiary to College Libertarians.

Estes also said that he does not believe that Johnson ever anticipated winning this election, but aims to get the Libertarian Party permanently on the ballot.

“Regardless of what Gary Johnson says, I don’t think he anticipates, or at any point anticipated, to win outright,” Estes said. “If he gets five percent of the popular vote, Libertarians in the future are on the ballot automatically in all 50 states. That’s actually a huge leg up, because a substantial portion of Gary’s fundraising in the early part of his campaign and a lot of his ground/grassroots work was all about getting on the ballots.”

While the Socialist Party of the United States nominated Mimi Soltysik and Angela Nicole Walker for president and vice president, the College Socialists will not be endorsing the pair.

General Secretary of the College Socialists Nico Villarreal ’19 said that while the College Socialists did not endorse a national candidate,

he will put his support behind Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate for president.

“I’m going to be voting for Jill Stein because the Green Party has recently adopted a platform that makes it the largest anti-capitalist party in the United States, so I feel obligated to support them on that issue,” Villarreal said.

Villarreal also said that he has a distaste for the mainstream candidates and feels saddened by this election.

“We are forced to choose between these two terrible candidates,” Villarreal said. “One of them is almost certainly going to be president.

There’s a lot of people who I know who won’t feel represented personally by either of them.”

Bryant said, looking to Election Day, she thinks

it is most important that students don’t separate political and personal issues and understand the impact of certain social issues when they are voting.

“The biggest thing for me is that people will separate political and personal issues,” Bryant said. “I think that especially in this election, even at the state level, the political is personal. The types of decisions being made in City Council and in the White House have tangible effects on peoples’ lives. They’re not abstract intellectual concepts, they’re real things that have personal impacts on peoples’ lives. Because the things people are fighting for are things that very strongly affect peoples’ lives. That’s why I love politics and encourage others to get involved.”

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GUEST COLUMN: HOUSE OF DELEGATES ENDORSEMENT

Why it is important to vote for Mike Mullin

Greg Akerman

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Taylor: The politican students can depend on

Sean Willner

FLAT HAT GUEST COLUMNIST

In many ways, the last decade has been the era of the outsider. It was clear when freshman senator Barack Obama beat veteran politicians Hillary Clinton and John McCain in 2008, when Tea Party conservatives later swept into Congress, and when Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders rose to prominence in 2016.

Despite the outsiders’ promises to fix Washington, many of them have taken ultra-partisan, non-compromising views, actually exacerbating the city’s problems. Scott Taylor is a Republican running for the House of Representatives for Virginia’s second district, and he’s a different kind of outsider.

Taylor is a former Navy SEAL, having served first in Latin America, and then in Iraq after reenlisting after 9/11. This gives him a valuable perspective and expertise on foreign policy issues and provides him with an understanding of the concerns of Virginia’s Second District, which has a large military population. This perspective is complemented by a degree in international relations from Harvard University. After being injured in Iraq, he returned to Virginia Beach, where he gained business experience before being elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 2014. He has been gaining local government experience there ever since.

The principle theme of Taylor’s campaign has been making Congress work for its constituents. That means collaborating with both Democrats and Republicans to achieve concrete results, which Taylor has done for his entire political life. During his time in the House of Delegates, he has demonstrated a dedication to taking tangible, frequently bipartisan action. Specifically, he has been involved in the making of a variety of bills providing services for veterans.

For instance, he introduced a bill mandating that all Virginia community colleges have veteran resource centers and special advisors for veterans. This bill was sponsored by Democratic and Republican delegates alike and signed into

law by a Democratic governor. He also sponsored legislation that helped transition former military medical personnel into jobs back at home under the supervision of a physician or podiatrist. In addition, he has worked to increase government transparency, introducing legislation that made available to the public the resumes and other information of gubernatorial appointees. These are just a few examples of bills he has played a role in passing, with many more available online.

In another encouraging move, Taylor went against party norms and supported predominantly Democratic legislation that would have prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity in housing and labor.

Furthermore, the Daily Press reported that he is a regular attendee of LGBTQ Pride festivities in Norfolk. His support of the LGBTQ community is encouraging for a Republican party that desperately needs to modernize.

Taylor also wants to reform Washington by restructuring the rules that regulate Congress.

According to his campaign’s website, he wants to make congress work more than their current 111 days per year and modify the congressional committee system so it works more like a state legislature. Beyond this, he values the conservative principles of defending the constitution, sending power back to states, deregulation and tax decreases to spark businesses, and making smart trade deals. Some of his positions may be a little far to the right for some independents and moderates, but his practicality, willingness to compromise, and expertise in military and veteran’s affairs compensate for this qualm.

Throughout his campaign, Taylor has stressed a desire to make Washington more productive. He thinks that Congress should serve the needs of its constituents, not those of itself. Taylor has a history of doing exactly this in the House of Delegates, so voters in the Second District, including students at the College of William and Mary, can be sure that he will continue to represent their interests. After all, the legislative issues of today that will impact our generation tomorrow will only be solved if pragmatic representatives are elected into Congress.

Most of the outsider candidates of the past eight years have proven to be false prophets and polarizing figures; they talk plenty, but have few concrete accomplishments to speak of. In a world full of talkers, Scott Taylor is just the kind of doer Virginia’s Second District needs.

Email Sean Willner at stwillner@email.wm.edu.

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Voters in the Second District can be sure that Taylor will continue to represent their interests.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

In response to “City of Williamsburg City Council votes to approve funding” (Oct. 25, 2016)

If you can find one reference to police body cameras in Mr. Zhang’s campaign, I’d love to see it.

Do some fact checking before you print.

Bruce Beringer served as campaign manager for Barbara Ramsey, who was elected to City Council on May 3, 2016.

Mike Mullin really knows how to snap his fingers. It’s a mainstay whenever he talks about an issue he is passionate about.

Medicaid Expansion? Virginia could accept federal dollars that are going to other states — about $5 million a day — just like that. Gerrymandered district maps where politicians pick their voters and not the other way around? With a snap of your fingers and a nonpartisan redistricting commission, we could solve that problem in a year. Mike Mullin wants to invest in early childhood education. The benefits of that are — you guessed it — immediate.

It is extremely important that we elect Mike Mullin to the House of Delegates on Nov. 8. Mike is a lifelong Democrat, a devout Catholic, a criminal prosecutor, and a family man. His experience in the courtroom informs his public works. As an Assistant Commonwealth Attorney, he works with victims of sexual assault and domestic violence every day. In his campaign, he has talked about the importance of improving access to healthcare, whether it be by supporting Planned Parenthood or expanding Medicaid to cover 400,000 uninsured Virginians who are currently eligible. He has talked about common-sense reforms to our gun laws, such as closing the “gun-show loophole.”

He has talked about how it breaks his heart to see juveniles go

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It is extremely important that we elect Mike Mullin to the House of Delegates on Nov. 8. Mike is a lifelong Democrat, a devout Catholic, a criminal prosecutor, and a family man. through the justice system when the state spends $108,000 a year to incarcerate a young person, but less than $10,000 to educate one — which is why Mike cares so much about supporting early childhood education.

It’s hard to understate the importance of Mike Mullin winning this race. Currently, there are 66 Republicans and 33 Democrats in the Virginia House of Delegates, with our 93rd District as the only open contested seat. Republicans need 67 votes in order to override the Democratic Governor’s veto. What does that mean? It means that if Mike is not elected on November 8th, Virginia gets one step closer to replicating such gems as North Carolina’s HB2 or Indiana’s discriminatory RFRA bill. It means shame to our state and a massive loss of jobs.

And there is also a lot to be said for Mike’s opponent. Her record, to put it delicately, is scary. She supports defunding Planned Parenthood. She wants to close the Federal Department of Education, depriving our children of key Headstart programs.

She does not support abortion even in the cases of rape, incest, or life of the mother. She has compared being gay to being a member of the KKK. Donald Trump cannot be our next President — but it is also important that his minions not weasel their way into the House of Delegates. We must keep extreme right-wing activists out of elected office.

We must elect Mike Mullin.

Email Greg Akerman at gsakerman@email.wm.edu.

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FROM THE WEB

The presidential election from abroad Amelia Lucas FLAT HAT BLOGGER

My exchange experience has given me the opportunity to interact with other cultures. I have approximately 600 fellow exchange students, with a little more than half of them hailing from Canada or the United States. That leaves 45 percent of them as natives of New Zealand, South Korea, Peru and everywhere in between. Another striking similarity to freshman orientation at the College is the list of questions that I’m now used to answering: “What’s your name? Where are you from?” The only difference this time is that after that second question inevitably comes some variation of a third: “So this election that you’re having is really wild, huh?”

Fielding questions about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton has given me a new understanding about how non-Americans are seeing the 2016 presidential election.

Nationalism that feeds the idea of the United States as a modern-day superpower does not contradict the perspectives of my non-American peers, who wonder about Trump as commander-in-chief.

Interest in this election has to do with more than just foreign policy. People who have asked me about the election have a tendency to compare it to reality television.

In the same way that I might watch the Real Housewives throw wine glasses in each other’s faces while I’m on the elliptical, people living outside of the United States follow coverage of the election because of a certain element of something that the Germans (and Austrians!) call schadenfreude, or pleasure derived from someone else’s misfortune. I wasn’t the only one in Vienna watching clips of Trump’s first debate performance when I woke up the following morning.

What exactly about the election interests these outsiders?

When discussing Clinton, they bring up various scandals, but the conversation usually lacks the same detail as when the conversation swerves to her opponent. To all of the non-Americans I’ve spoken to about the election, Clinton’s defining feature is that she is not Trump. Surprisingly rare are comments about her gender, serving as a reminder to myself that the United States is behind the curve in having a woman holding the highest office.

As for Trump, there’s the racism and anti-Semitism. The

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Interest in this election has to do with more than just foreign policy.

People who have asked me about the election have a tendency to compare it to reality television. comments about women (and this is before the first October surprise, mind you). The hair. If this election is like a reality show to those watching from the outside, then Trump is the star, once again picking up the same identity he held when The Apprentice was on air. The overwhelming tone of the conversation usually turns to incredulity and outrage that Trump earned a major party nomination on his platform and lack of qualifications.

Follow-up questions about the two third-party candidates resemble their presence at the televised debates: nonexistent.

The interest in American politics from my international peers stands in stark contrast to some of my American peers’ apathy. Media organizations routinely report on the voter apathy of the so-called millennial generation, which also bears responsibility for NBC’s low ratings for the 2016 Olympic Games, rising prices for diamonds, and the decline of sales for bars of soap. My own anecdotal experience contradicts this idea, as many of my William and Mary friends plan to cast ballots Nov. 8 and my fellow American exchange students have kept up with election coverage.

Being in Austria during election season also gives me a taste of schadenfreude. After all, Austrians are dealing with their own problems with their presidential election and do not have a president in office. In May, the results of their presidential election were declared unconstitutional based on a problem counting the absentee ballots. The election was initially re-scheduled for October, until an Austrian citizen realized the glue of the ballot envelopes was not sticky enough. The election is now postponed until Dec. 4.

Of course, following such a rousing conversation about U.S. politics, the follow-up question: Are fraternities and sororities exactly what they look like in the movies? What about those red cups?

Email Amelia Lucas at arlucas@email.wm.edu.

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GUEST COLUMN

Making your dorm into a home

Varun Desai

FLAT HAT GUEST COLUMNIST

As I sit here, away from campus for a conference, for not more than four days and several hundred miles away, I still can’t help but miss home. I miss the love and the compassion of my dorm mates. I miss the smiles and laughter that is shared across the lounge. I miss the sense of belonging and identity in my corridor. I miss home.

It’s interesting to note that what keeps a human being going is not so much his external surroundings. It is more so his internal peace, balance and stability, and this is very largely contributed by the people that play a role in his life.

What’s the point I’m trying to make? Simply put, make your dorm your family. After all, you’ll be spending a good part of an entire year with them. At worst, it’ll be a

group of students that live together, solving their conflicts effectively. At best, it’ll be family – where you come to after a long day of classwork, after struggling with your test, after a difficult relationship, because they’ll be there to give you support, and will throw joy and excitement back into your life.

I remember the beautiful quote, “It won’t be easy, but it will be worth it.” It’s true— you’ll personally have to be willing to genuinely get to know someone new, but make the small effort, and it will pay off into a well-developed relationship. “I’m sorry, I’m bad with names” was one of the most popular phrases during Orientation.

We may think that some people simply have the natural ability to remember names, but it’s not actually a builtin talent. How do they do it, then? What is their secret?

Nothing awe-inspiring — they simply have the deep and powerful desire to connect with everyone they meet and interact with.

All I ask of you is that once a week, only for five minutes, have a conversation with someone in your dorm that you’ve never interacted with before.

Get to know who they are, where they come from, what they enjoy and don’t enjoy. You may or may not gel with that person, but it’ll be an experience, and over time, it’ll make you a more empathetic and connecting human being. I can say with certainty that you’ll learn from it.

Email Varun Desai at vdesai@email.wm.edu.

If your group will be applying to the Student Assembly for an annual budget for NEXT YEAR (Fall 2017 & Spring 2018) you MUST have a representative attend one of these workshops to pick up a budget request packet and register your organization.

Mandatory Budget Workshops: Tuesday

Nov 1, 4:00 p.m.

Wednesday Nov 2, 4:00 p.m.

Tuesday

Nov 8, 4:00 p.m.

Location: Little Theater Campus Center Basement For information contact: anita@wm.edu

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A cardboard cut-out of an elephant stood next to Professor Campbell during the lecture to represent the way that the haunted memories of World War II and Nazism have become the “elephant in the room” in German cultural studies.

Investigating the origin of the German detective Professor Campbell reveals the clues that led to his theory on German detective fiction KATHERINE WEBER THE FLAT HAT

From “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” to “True Detective,” detective stories have proliferated our cultural consciousness for years. According to Professor Bruce Campbell, this detective craze in Germany has been clouded by one dark piece of the country’s past: Nazism.

Professor Campbell was the speaker for this year’s Tack Faculty Lecture. This Thursday, his lecture, “The Detective is (Not) a Nazi: German Pulp Fiction,” described how literature, specifically German detective fiction, is a valuable tool with which to analyze the pervasiveness of Nazism in Germany’s culture. According to Campbell, fiction, even fiction as “popular” as detective fiction, can reveal deeper societal trends.

“For me, detective fiction is kind of a window into German culture,” Campbell said. “I’m particularly interested, when I look into that window, at how the memory of the German past operates in German society and specifically how it affects German detective fiction.”

His lecture was the tenth lecture in the Tack Faculty Lecture series. The series got its start in 2012, funded by Carl and Martha Tack, both graduates of the class of ‘78, with the goal of celebrating intellectual insight at the College of William and Mary.

Campbell joined the College’s faculty in 1999 after he received a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in European history. He authored “The SA Generals and the Rise of Nazism” and is currently the German studies program director and an associate professor of German studies. He has also taught a senior seminar on the German detective novel.

For his lecture, Campbell chose to focus on the intersection of fiction and memory in the context of postwar Germany. Having read American detective fiction as a child, Campbell perceived a difference when he began reading German detective novels.

American detective fiction seemed to have a unique archetypal

detective character, a character that Campbell called the “American-style hard-boiled detective.”

To illustrate the difference between this American “hardboiled detective” and the typical German detective, Campbell juxtaposed the American detective from the movie “Dirty Harry” with a “grandfatherly” German detective from the television series “Derrick”. The former has his gun omnipresent and firing, the latter has his gun inactive and practically unnoticeable. This difference — the muting of such “hard-boiled,” gung-ho elements of an American detective — is a revealing choice, Campbell said. One of the main points of the lecture was that Germany’s remembrance of the former association between the Nazis and the police has complicated the typical characterizations of a world-famous genre for them.

“In a detective story, you ask the reader to identify with the detective, to live vicariously through the detective as she or he looks for the truth,” Campbell said. “The problem is, any Germanspeaking reader with any understanding of recent history … knows that there was a close link between the police and Nazi crimes.”

The German police were known to have played a major role in the executing of Nazi crimes. Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich, who was not only a major architect of the Holocaust, but was also the chief of the German police between 1936 and 1942, epitomizes this “close link” between Nazis and police for Campbell.

“In real life, the detective was a Nazi,” Campbell said.

Campbell went on to explain how, in fictional work, German authors try to sever this tie between Nazis and the police, constructing their characters in such a way as to avoid reminding readers of Nazi violence in the police force. The grandfatherly detective style in “Derrick” is one example of this trend. Campbell said that German authors cast their detective protagonists as American, female, homosexual, slow-moving and pot-smoking, all in attempts to signal to the reader that their detective is not a Nazi.

Campbell had his initial revelation about this phenomenon while reading a novel by Richard Hey, a German author, who made his

detective character female.

“It suddenly occurred to me that that wasn’t an accident,” Campbell said. “It suddenly occurred to me that … that was [Hey’s] way of getting around the problem of police duplicity with the Nazis.”

Campbell said such modifications come from trying to avoid the so-called “elephant in the room” that has haunted German culture since the end of World War II: the memory of a violent past.

“State violence is still a huge taboo in German-speaking society today, specifically in Germany,” Campbell said. “This is as important in literature and popular culture as it is in German foreign policy.”

Many members of the College community attended the lecture.

Abby Whitlock ’19 said she enjoyed Campbell’s take on such a common genre in literature.

“It was a very thought-provoking lecture because it’s such a popular genre,” Whitlock said. “And the fact that a popular genre like that has its roots in something so dark and something that we try to repress is interesting.”

Owen Giordano ’20, one of Campbell’s students, said that the lecture helped him learn more about the differences in Germany’s take on the fictional detective.

“Like [Campbell] said, when I think of detective fiction, I think of all hard-boiled violence,” Giordano said. “But seeing how different cultures kind of react given the history and the recent past — it kind of makes me understand why there are so many different interpretations of a pretty, like [Campbell] said, a global genre.”

Campbell used part of the lecture to describe how important it is to keep analyzing characters and themes in literature and how in doing so we can reveal more about our society.

“Detective fiction can tell you an awful lot about culture … like all literature it reflects society’s morals, values,” Campbell said.

“And of course detective fiction — it’s all about truth and justice …

So I think it’s a particularly good tool to teach with and about.”

CONFUSION CORNER

The real terror doesn’t start until the day after Halloween

The post-Halloween, pre-finals gap in college can be the darkest time of the year

Emily Gardner

CONFUSION CORNER COLUMNIST

Guys, it’s not October anymore, and I’m starting to feel the cold creeping in. And it’s not a cute chill. It’s the “contemplating how much I really need food to live because that requires going outside” kind of cold. On top of that, it is getting a lot harder to keep pushing off papers and studying until tomorrow because the tomorrows are numbered. As of Nov. 1, we have 35 days until the last day of exams. That means you have less than 35 days to learn the entire muscular system, the history of India and figure out an elegant solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This whole month makes me feel like Arnold Perlstein from “The Magic School Bus.” But it’s not the time to drown your stress in

spiked cider or hide behind a poorly maintained beard (yeah, I’m talking to you, No-Shave November crowd). This article is a call to arms to resist the siren’s call of destructive coping. If you are anything like me then A) you’re the greatest and B) you tend to succumb to a crushing bout of seasonal depression when the creeping deadlines and falling temperatures coalesce to make a bleak, frigid pit of despondency.

Normally, this is the time when I pull out my stale, moth-bitten blanket of numb despair and withdraw into a social hibernation. Sometimes, I literally don a blanket, and it becomes the fuzzy shell of my hollow being.

I don’t want that again. Presumably, you don’t want that for yourself either. But there is a way to make the inevitable “funk” of finals a little less inevitable. We don’t have to become blanket monsters. Of course, to some extent we all have to start sacrificing some of our ‘downtime’ and

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socializing to make it over this last, muscletearing hurdle. However, absconding from society is an unnecessary extreme that only perpetuates the stress cycle. There is no need for us to feel so utterly desolated right now.

You probably want to know how to remedy this situation. Unfortunately, I don’t have the funds to send half of campus to counseling, move us closer to the equator or eliminate the oppressive capitalist system that pressures us to commodify our existence. But there is hope, and the first step is this moment. To avoid the slow slide into the gaping mouth of emotional oblivion, we first need to be honest about the problems we are facing. Everything’s not okay right now. There really isn’t enough time. We wish we could be doing other things besides cramming knowledge about carbon-based molecular structures or Baroque art movements into our fried brains.

But we have to and that causes us to react in less

This article is a call to arms to resist the siren’s call of destructive coping.

than healthy ways.

We also need a Leslie Knope level of forethought. Well, maybe not to her colorcoded extreme, but after you read this (do finish reading, please) take some time to actually think about this November. Do you want to be a disgusting ball of stress who involuntarily babbles about how few hours you slept or how much work you have? Will you stand idly by as you descend into stress-induced melancholy and madness, or will you fight to hold on to your humanity and health? Once you have a reasonable goal in mind, identify the warning signs that you’re slipping and make some strategies that prevent further decline when you see them. With a conscious plan for managing this looming problem, it is possible to make the final trudge manageable. Now is not the time to go on autopilot. The worst thing you can do is just put your head down and slog through because then you also close your eyes to your mental health. We all have the power to guide our lives consciously, but it takes commitment to ourselves, which is no small feat, and the occasional thoughtful article to pull us from our negative trajectories.

Emily Gardner is a Confusion Corner columnist who is grateful that blanket scarves are trending in 2016.

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CheeseFest matures with age

The Flat Hat

The Cheese Club hosts it’s annual cheese tasting event MIRANDA BROWN THE FLAT HAT

On Saturday, Oct. 29, tables piled high with cheese stretched along the vast walls of Chesapeake A in Sadler Center. On that day, cheese lovers at the College of William and Mary had the opportunity to attend the Cheese Club’s biggest event of the year: CheeseFest.

The idea for the Cheese Club came about when Aaron Bayles ’17 shared some of his favorite food with his hallmates. Since then, the Cheese Club has become a well-known club at the College, with CheeseFest being their biggest event.

According to Bayles, the expected attendance for the first CheeseFest three years ago was around 50 people, but to the club’s surprise, around 150 people showed up.

Each year since, CheeseFest has drawn in approximately 200 students. Bayles said his goal this year was to make the event “a big blowout,” while still keeping the general layout and structure of their regular cheese tastings.

“We form [CheeseFest] like one of our typical tastings,” Bayles said.

A typical tasting at a Cheese Club meeting might offer about $70 worth of cheese.

CheeseFest had over 14 cheese-related items, ranging from macaroni and cheese to Black Pepper Bellavitano. This year’s CheeseFest also offered more cheese from The Cheese Shop than ever before.

The total selection of cheeses added up to about $200, which worked out almost perfectly with the club’s projected budget.

The club allocated $200 to put towards the event, with room to push it if advanced ticket sales were high. This was an increase from previous years, according to Bayles, who said the club aimed to make the event bigger than ever this year.

“We do want to have some profit,” Bayles said.

“The money we make goes back to our members so we can provide more for them and host more events.”

The event consisted of more than just a cheese sampler.

Smooth jazz played in the background while attendees piled their plates full of Swiss fondue and cubes of Manchego. A photo booth was set up for students to pose in front of a large CheeseFest banner while holding up laminated posters with

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cheese-related puns on them. CheeseFest also featured an a capella performance for the first time this year. Campus a capella group TribeTones performed while students sat and chatted around their plates.

Bayles said he had planned for a cheese-related trivia game, complete with items from the Cheese Shop as prizes. However, the ballroom’s broken projector prevented the trivia from taking place, and the event had to end about 25 minutes earlier than scheduled.

Cheese Club member Elise Mitchell ’20 said she loved the event despite the technical difficulties and that she tries to go to as many Cheese Club events as she can.

“I can’t say that I’ve had every type of cheese under the sun,” Mitchell said.

“But I’ve had as many as I can, and I don’t think there’s any bad cheese.”

CheeseFest was not limited to current Cheese Club members, and the club hoped to use it as a way to attract new members.

“It’s open to the campus community so people can buy tickets to come,” Bayles said. “The best way to become a cheese nerd or become knowledgeable about cheese is to have all the cheese at the same time and be able to try it all.”

Non-club attendees who went to the event had the opportunity to purchase a discounted membership to the Cheese Club for 12 dollars.

“It’s a big selling point for the CheeseFest,”Bayles said.

Cheese Club members were able to enter the event for free while nonmembers had to pay a seven dollar entrance fee.

Nonmembers such as Linh Quan ’18 said the event gave her the opportunity see what is available to members of the club.

“I didn’t know what to expect,” Quan said. “But this is pretty nice.”

Bayles said that the club usually sees a substantial increase in the number of club members immediately following CheeseFest.

When CheeseFest came to an end, students flooded out of Chesapeake A, leaving behind mostly empty trays. According to Mitchell, even the more unusual cheeses were completely devoured, leaving only crumbs on the plates.

“Every cheese has a situation to be enjoyed in,” Mitchell said.

I can’t say that I’ve had every

type of cheese under the sun, but I’ve had as many as I can and I don’t think there’s any

bad cheese. . .

— ­Elise Mitchell ’20

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BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

Problems with the ambiguity of “hooking up”

Why we should phase out the unclear phrase and say what we mean instead

Katelyn Reimer BEHIND CLOSED DOORS COLUMNIST “Hooking up” is my least favorite phrase. Don’t get me wrong, I am all for the act of hooking up. If you want to hook up with someone, go for it. You have my full support.

Wait a minute though — if you’re telling me you want to hook up with someone, what are you telling me? Do you want to make out with them? Do you want to have sex with them? If you want to have sex with them, what does that mean for you?

Are we talking about penetrative sex? Oral sex? Something else? Who knows? Not me!

Once, in high school, my mother and I were talking about a boy with whom I went to middle school and I hadn’t seen in a while. My mother said to me, “You should hook up with him!” to which I immediately exclaimed, “Mom! Ew, no!” My

mom was really confused. All she meant was that I should get together with him and hang out, since we were friends. I, on the other hand, thought she was suggesting I get together with him and make out with him. That’s a pretty strange suggestion, coming from your mother, even if the two of you have a very close relationship.

The point is, we had completely different understandings of what “hooking up” meant. Neither of us was necessarily wrong, however. Both “getting together and hanging out” and “getting together and making out” are acceptable interpretations of “hooking up with someone.”

Herein lies my frustration. I have NO idea what someone means when they talk about “hooking up.” There is such a wide range of possibilities that “hooking up” suggests. It makes it really hard for me to respond to someone when they tell me they “hooked up” because I don’t know what they mean by it.

I think we hide behind “hooking up” as a way to talk about sex and relationships without actually talking about them. If you have ever read a single one of my articles, you know how I feel about this. If we are old enough to be having sex, we are old enough to talk about it.

If you are talking to me about “hooking up” with someone, chances are you actually want to talk to me about the encounter, but maybe you don’t want to get into specifics. If that is the case, ok. That’s totally fine. It isn’t always necessary to talk about every detail of your sex life.

If, however, you’re talking to me about “hooking up” and you do genuinely want to talk to me about it and you want me to be

excited/consoling/advice-giving or whatever, then using that phrase is not productive for our conversation. Just skip it. Say what you mean and want to say.

I’m starting to feel a bit like a broken record, but I think open, honest communication is the key to having positive, healthy relationships. So, I think we’ll all be a little bit better off if we start to phase out the phrase “hooking up” and start saying exactly what we mean.

Katelyn Reimer is a Behind Closed Doors Columnist who wants to hear the juicy details.

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Despite a strong 2015 campaign and the highest of expectations, seniors quarterback Steve Cluley and running back Kendell Anderson have not had much to celebrate in 2016, as the team fell to 1-4 in Colonial Athletic Association play Saturday.

NICK CIPOLLA FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR With under a minute to play and holding good momentum, William and Mary held possession at Maine’s 30-yard line, set to score and either win or send the game to overtime. Instead, Saturday at Zable Stadium, the Black Bears forced the ball out of the hands of junior tight end Andrew Caskin and recovered to seal the Tribe’s 35-28 loss.

Coming off of its bye week, the College had high expectations looming over it with only four games remaining in the regular season. Saturday’s loss gives the Tribe a 3-5 overall record and a 1-4 conference record, placing it in ninth place in Colonial Athletic Association standings, a hole that will likely bar the College from playoff contention. Facing Maine (5-3, 4-1 CAA) for the first time since 2013, the Tribe had defensive gaps in the first half that gave the Black Bears their necessary edge to stop a Tribe victory.

“It’s frustrating, but we come in here as a team, we win as a team, we lose as a team,” senior cornerback Trey Reed said.

Though the first quarter began with redshirt junior cornerback Aaron Swinton getting his third interception in two games, Maine shut down the subsequent drive and kept momentum.

The Black Bears struck first with a 26yard bomb from Maine quarterback

Goodbye, playoffs

Tribe sitting in 9th in CAA with three games left Dan Collins to receiver Micah Wright to establish a 7-0 lead. Senior quarterback Steve Cluley was intercepted at the Maine 37-yard line on the Tribe’s second drive, which the Black Bears took advantage of with a combo of Collins’ passing and Maine running back Zaire Williams’ rushing. Williams punched in a touchdown late in the quarter to make it 13-0 after Maine missed the extra point.

Cluley made several key passes downfield to receivers junior DeVonte Dedmon and sophomore Isaiah Kinder to put the Tribe’s first points up 37 seconds into the second quarter. Dedmon caught an 18-yard pass for the score, cutting the College’s deficit to six. After trading three-and-outs, Maine extended its lead with a 4-yard rushing touchdown and made the two-point conversion to boot for a 21-7 lead. That 14-point lead became a 21-point lead after a 23-yard Tribe punt gave Maine field position at their own 44. The Black Bears exposed holes in the defense for three plays over 10 yards, including the 15-yard pass that

would score Maine’s fourth touchdown.

The College scored on its next drive to gain some pre-halftime momentum, with senior running back Kendell Anderson getting solid yardage that was capped with his 23-yard touchdown rush. At the half, the score remained 28-14.

“Basically we put ourselves in a pretty good hole there in the first half,” head coach Jimmye Laycock ’70 said. “It’s disappointing.”

The Tribe had new life coming out of the locker room, slowing the pace down for a six-minute, nine-second drive to begin the third quarter. The College would score, again via a handoff to Anderson for his second touchdown of the day. However, on the drive, Cluley was picked off, but offsetting holding penalties on both sides gave the College a huge break to negate the play and allow the eventual touchdown to occur minutes later. Within seven points at 28-21, the Tribe needed to hold strong and repeat that offensive force to tie the game. Instead, the College gained just

COMMENTARY

Blame goes to all in 2016

It’s not just Cluley: The Tribe defense is equally at fault

Josh Luckenbaugh FLAT HAT STAFF WRITER

Just as winning in any team sport is considered a collective effort, losing is often the result of mistakes made by multiple players. Much has been made of senior quarterback Steve Cluley’s struggles leading the offense this season, but he was far from the only culpable player in Saturday’s 35-28 loss against Maine, which all but guaranteed that William and Mary will not play in the FCS playoffs this season. Cluley and the Tribe put on a sometimes inspiring, sometimes demoralizing display, showcasing the one aspect of this team which will define its legacy: its inconsistency.

Inconsistency has plagued Cluley most prominently this fall, with the three-year starter showing flashes of excellence, but too often struggling to find a rhythm, and his performance Saturday was once again a mixed bag. He made some great throws: most notably his two completions to junior wide receiver DeVonte Dedmon to open the second quarter, the second of which resulted in the Tribe’s first touchdown.

But he also missed open receivers on several occasions, and his first quarter interception, his 11th of the season, resulted in a Maine touchdown drive. Cluley shouldn’t receive all the blame for the loss, let alone for the College’s shortcomings this season, but he certainly deserves some of it.

The Tribe’s fourth-quarter comeback fell short in the end largely because of two crucial turnovers — not by Cluley, but by two preseason All-CAA selections: senior running back Kendell Anderson and junior tight end Andrew Caskin. Anderson has been the focal point of the Tribe’s offensive attack for the majority of the past two seasons, and Saturday he put in another solid performance, rushing for over 150 yards and scoring two touchdowns. However, it is his fumble early in the fourth quarter that will be remembered, killing a potential game-tying drive with the College approaching the Black Bears’ end zone. Caskin will also face scrutiny after being stripped at the

Maine 20 yard-line with less than a minute to play, the turnover ultimately finishing off any hopes of a Tribe victory. Stars are supposed to shine when the lights are brightest, but both Caskin and Anderson faltered under the pressure.

This lack of execution was not limited to the offensive side of the ball. Aside from an interception by junior cornerback Aaron Swinton on the game’s opening drive, the Tribe defense struggled mightily to contain the Black Bears offense in the first half, giving up 28 points and 338 total yards before halftime.

Maine quarterback Dan Collins consistently faced little to no pressure, having plenty of time to find and exploit holes in the Tribe secondary, his running backs providing a good balance to the attack. While the defensive execution improved significantly in the second half, as Maine’s offense did not score after halftime, the College offense was forced to try and dig out of a deep first-half hole. The Tribe has made a bad habit of letting opponents rack up points, with Maine becoming the fourth team to score over 30 against the College this season.

Special teams was also at fault Saturday, with one play in particular arguably making the difference in the game. The punting unit was supposed to be one of the Tribe’s strengths coming into this season, but an injury to senior punter Hunter Windmuller forced freshman Tyler Hiott into the starting role against the Black Bears. The inexperienced Hiott struggled for much of the game to get good distance on his punts, and Maine punt returner Micah Wright finally took advantage in the third quarter. Wright received a 33-yard Hiott punt at his own 33, then scampered through the College coverage for a 67-yard touchdown return, giving the Black Bears a 35-21 lead that proved insurmountable.

With a playoff berth essentially out of reach, the 2016 edition of Tribe football will likely be remembered for what it didn’t accomplish rather than what it did. While it’s easy to single out Cluley, or even head coach Jimmye Laycock ’70, for this season’s failings, Saturday’s loss proved that the Tribe’s inconsistency is not a result of just one player’s struggles, but of struggles on every side of the ball.

seven yards on their next drive after the defense held Maine back, giving the Black Bears a chance again with a punt.

The punt on that drive would prove the difference maker, as Wright returned the punt 67 yards to score the fifth and final touchdown for the Black Bears, putting them up 35-21 after the extra point. The Tribe would hold Maine from scoring any more in the half, but the damage was done as the College began its comeback bid. The final touchdown of the day came via a Cluley rush for four yards into the end zone, though the real hero of the drive was Anderson, who broke out for 43 yards on the setup play one down prior.

The fourth quarter was scoreless, though the Tribe had two promising drives. Both ended in forced fumbles and turnovers. During the quarter, a few of the receivers, including Dedmon, were forced out with injuries, giving Cluley fewer familiar targets. The first turnover came with eight minutes remaining when Cluley hurried a pass to Anderson for a nine-yard gain to the Maine 24-yard

line, which was stripped and recovered by the Black Bears at their 16-yard line.

The second turnover came on the final College drive of the game as Caskin fumbled when hit by Maine defensive back Najee Goode on what would have been a chain-moving play to the edge of the red zone, effectively ending the game.

Though Maine seemed to dominate with its big first quarter and defensive stops, the stat sheet shows a close game.

The Tribe outperformed Maine 469-466 in total yardage, with the breakdown being 285 Tribe passing yards to Maine’s 280, and 184 rushing yards to 186.

Anderson led the rushers with 151 yards, his fourth straight performance of 100 or more yards rushing. Cluley went 26 for 45 with 285 yards and one touchdown.

“I really didn’t think [Maine] was going to stop us at the end,” Cluley said.

“We were just moving down the field, calling what we wanted and making it work. It was unfortunate how that drive ended but it’s not the whole game in that play.”

With nine weeks in the books for 2016 college football, the Tribe has three games remaining. Up next is Stony Brook (5-3, 4-1 CAA) on the road this Saturday at 2 p.m. The Tribe returns home Nov. 19 for the season finale against Richmond (7-1, 4-1 CAA), with a road game at Towson (17, 0-5 CAA) between the games against Stony Brook and the Spiders.

MEN’S SOCCER

Bustamante bails out Tribe late Win over Drexel advances College to CAA tournament HENRY TROTTER FLAT HAT ASSOC. SPORTS EDITOR With less than two minutes left in its final regular season match, William and Mary (10-6-2, 3-3-2 Colonial Athletic Association) earned at least one more opportunity to take the field this year.

Thanks to a last-minute winner by sophomore midfielder Antonio Bustamante, the Tribe beat Drexel (1-13-2, 0-7 CAA) and locked up a spot in the CAA Championship tournament.

Up until the 88th minute of the game, things looked bleak for the College. Despite a dominant 28 shots, no Tribe forward could beat Drexel goalkeeper Tyler Afflerbach.

“It was one of those nights where the Drexel guys fought and threw themselves in front of a lot of shots, their goalkeeper played well, and you got that feeling that it just might be one of those nights where it’s going to be really, really difficult to score,” head coach Chris Norris told Tribe Athletics after the game.

The College beat Virginia Commonwealth (68-3, 4-2-1 A10) 4-0 earlier in the week, with goals from redshirt senior midfielder Jeff Bombelles, sophomore forward Ryder Bell, freshman forward Reeves Trott and freshman midfielder Julian Ngoh. After demolishing a solid opponent, the game against Drexel seemed like a formality before heading to the tournament.

However, the Dragons’ defense held strong for the first half, and although several Tribe shots found their way past the wall of defenders, Afflerbach was not easily beaten.

Bustamante hit the post in the second half, and despite having seven shots on target, the Tribe still could not break through. With the clock Bustamante ticking down, the College turned to two players whom Norris credited for their consistency all season: Bustamante and junior forward William Eskay.

With less than two minutes to play, Eskay glided by Drexel’s outside defender and dribbled to the end line, sliding an inch-perfect pass into Bustamante’s path.

“I like Antonio in that situation better than anyone we have, probably,” Norris told Tribe Athletics.

Bustamante’s right-footed shot hit the left post

on the way in, and the entire Tribe team dog piled in celebration by the corner flag.

Norris was also impressed with the defensive focus of his team in a game where it easily could have slipped up. Redshirt junior Phil Breno notched his sixth shutout of the season, only having to make two saves behind a strong defense.

“It’s a game where you easily can get a little distracted and think that Eskay you’re comfortable, and then maybe guys aren’t preparing for a counterattack well,” Norris observed, which bodes well for the stronger competition that the CAA Tournament promises.

The Tribe has locked up the fourth, fifth or sixth seed in the CAA Tournament, depending on results of games played Nov. 1. UNC-Wilmington (8-5-2, 3-2-2 CAA) and Elon (7-5-3, 3-2-2 CAA) will play for seeding, and a lopsided result in this game could see the College sneak into the fourth spot, which would allow the Tribe to host a first round game. This would be a Breno huge windfall for Norris and his team, because they boast an 8-2-1 record at Martin Family Stadium. At home, the Tribe has only dropped its opening day match to George Washington (7-5-5, 2-3-2 A10), and has won five in a row.

However, the College looks far more likely to receive a fifth or sixth seed, which would see it visit Elon or UNC-Wilmington. It holds a far more pedestrian 2-4-1 record away from home, including a draw at Wilmington and a loss to Elon.

The Tribe has won three games on the bounce, though, and Norris is confident that they can continue their success.

“We just want to have another opportunity to play,” he told Tribe Athletics. “We feel like we’re playing as well as we possibly can, we’re healthy, and we’re excited to have an opportunity to keep going.”

The CAA Quarterfinals are scheduled for Nov. 5, while the semifinals and finals will take place Nov. 11 and Nov. 13, at the home of top-seeded Hofstra.

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Tribe sweeps CAA again

CROSS COUNTRY

College dynasty continues, Rome wins individual title JACOB ROSS // FLAT HAT STAFF WRITER

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William and Mary swept the team titles in commanding fashion at Saturday’s Colonial Athletic Association CrossCountry Championships. The women, sparked by junior Regan Rome’s first individual CAA cross country title, won their fifth straight conference crown by recording a score of 34 points. James Madison, led by individual runner-up Carol Strock, finished second in the team standings with 47 points. The men captured their 17th consecutive victory by scoring 26 points to best runner-up Northeastern’s 46.

In the women’s 6,000-meter race, Rome ran with the front pack early to push her teammates for the first half of the race. The junior then broke away and dominated the final three kilometers to win in 21 minutes 12 seconds. Fellow juniors Molly Breidenbaugh (21:33), Molly McKenna (21:46) and Molly Applegate (22:01) finished fourth, fifth, and seventh, respectively.

Redshirt freshman Kathryn Eng secured the CAA title for the Tribe with her 17th place finish in 22:31.78.

Elon (66), Northeastern (120), Towson (123), Delaware (161), Charleston (167), Hofstra (246) and North Carolina-Wilmington (277) followed the Tribe and the Dukes in the team standings.

“So today the goal was to get to see a team title and get the individual title also. So just pack up through 3K with my team and then kinda just roll off from there,” Rome said to CAASports.com. “It was a difficult course, but I think we handled it well. We got fourth, fifth, and seventh, so it was a good day for the Tribe, and we’re ready for regionals now.”

Both the men and the women’s race at the Southeast Region Championships Nov. 11 in Charlottesville. Head women’s coach Natalie Hall was pleased with her team’s

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DYNAMIC DYNASTY William and Mary has absolutely dominated the Colonial Athletic Association for most of the conference’s history since it1985.

With a combined 46 CAA titles between the men and women, it is the most decorated program out of all of the Tribe’s Division I athletic programs.

Additionally, junior Regan Rome is the 14th women’s individual CAA champion for the Tribe.

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Consecutive Men’s CAA titles

24th since 1990 (most CAA titles of any Tribe sport, tied with women’s tennis)

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Consecutive Women’s CAA titles 22nd since 1987 (second-most in Tribe history)

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Field Hockey (9-9, 5-1 CAA) Oct. 21: W, College 4, JMU 3 Oct. 23: W, College 5, VCU 4 Oct. 28: L, Fairfield 3, College 2 Oct. 30: W, College 4, Hofstra 3 Colonial Athletic Association tournament: Tribe has No. 2 seed, Delaware hosts.

competed well, they won some good battles along the way. And so really we’re just focused on two weeks from now, tapering from here a little bit. And on the day, doing exactly what we’re capable of.”

In the men’s 8,000-meter race, a cluster of white Tribe jerseys made up a majority of the front pack from the start. It would remain that way across the finish line. The Tribe had all five scoring runners finish in the top eight on its way to comfortably winning its 17th consecutive conference championship. Only Iona of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference has a longer active conference win streak at 26. “[We’ve come] here the last 16 years and pull[ed] off the team victory,” head coach Chris Solinsky said to CAASports.com. “So the message last night was let’s keep the streak going. We’ve done it 16 times, no need to stop there. It’s the second longest streak in the NCAA now and we take a lot of pride in that. You know, obviously, you always come in here trying to get top individual as well as top team. But I told the guys, no matter what, make sure we secure that team title. And they did a really excellent job today.”

Redshirt junior David Barney finished third overall in 25:23 with three teammates hot on his heels. Dawson Connell had a stellar run to place fourth in 25:26, and seniors Faris Sakallah (25:28) and Trevor Sleight (25:30) finished in fifth and sixth place. Sophomore Ryan McGorty rounded out the scoring for the Tribe with his eighth place finish in 25:39. Senior Cavendar Salvadori (25:46) and junior Chris Hoyle (25:47) finished in 10th and 11th place.

Elon’s Nick Ciolowski defended his individual crown, covering the challenging course at White Clay Creek State Park in 25:08.

Elon (84), Charleston (123), UNC-Wimlington (143) and Hofstra (145) finished well behind the Tribe and the Huskies in the team race.

“It’s a very special program,” Solinsky said to CAASports.com.

“William and Mary is a small school. We take a lot of pride in our distance running. And, you know, we try to be as consistent as possible. Like I mentioned the streak earlier, the streak for us is a big point of pride. And we’re really excited about what the future holds, but the group of guys right now are doing a really good job.”

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Still reeling from the Colonial Athletic Association Championship last March? Missing game days at Kaplan Arena? Well get ready, basketball season starts a few days early with The Flat Hat’s annual basketball preview insert.

Look for it next issue in print along with player preview profiles of your favorite Tribe hoops stars online at flathatnews.com.

Winner of CAA Finals earns NCAA berth

Women’s Soccer (10-7-2, 4-4-1 CAA)

Oct. 8: L, Hofstra 2, College 1 Oct. 12: L, Elon 2, College 0 Oct. 15: W, College 4, Michigan 0 Oct. 18: L, Virginia 3, College 0 Oct. 22: W, College 3, Charleston 2 Oct. 26: W, College 4, VCU 0 Oct. 29: W, College 1, Drexel 0

Oct. 9: W, College 2, Hofstra 1 Oct. 16: W, College 2, Drexel 1 Oct. 21: L, UNCW 2, College 0 Oct. 23: T, College 1, Charleston 1

Tribe clinched CAA tournament berth with win over Drexel. Seed to be determined.

Oct. 30: W, College 2, No. 4 seed UNCW 2 Tribe advanced on 5-4 penalty kicks.

Nov. 5: CAA Quarterfinals, TBA Nov. 11: CAA Semifinals, TBA Nov. 13: CAA Championship, TBA

Nov. 4: CAA Semifinal vs No. 1 Northeastern, 5:30 p.m.

Nov. 6: CAA Championship, 2:30 in Boston

Tribe earned Colonial Athletic Association Championship for men and women in Oct. 29 title meet. Men won with 26 points for first of six, women won with 34 points for first of nine.

Nov. 11: Southeast Regional Championships Nov. 19: NCAA Cross Country Championship

— Cross country head coach Chris Solinksy on the continued success of the men’s program

Nov. 4: CAA Semifinal vs No. 3 seed JMU, 6 p.m.

Nov. 6: CAA Finals, 1 p.m.*

Men’s Soccer (10-6-2, 3-3-2 CAA)

Cross Country

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[We’ve come] here the last 16 years and pull[ed] off the team victory.

So the message last night was let’s keep the streak going. We’ve done it 16 times, no need to stop there.

BASKETBALL PREVIEW

Football (3-5, 1-4 CAA) Sept. 1: L, N.C. State 48, College 14 Sept. 10: W, College 24, Hampton 14 Sept. 17: W, College 35, Norfolk St 10 Sept. 24: L, Elon 27, College 10 * Oct. 1: L, New Hampshire 21, College 12 * Oct. 8: L, James Madison 31, College 24 * Oct. 15: W, College 24, Delaware 17 * Oct. 29: L, Maine 35, College 28 * Nov. 5: at Stony Brook, 2 p.m.* Nov. 12: at Towson, 12 p.m.* Nov. 19: vs Richmond, noon

performance Saturday and stressed that the focus is now on NCAA regionals in two weeks.

“We wanted to win again,” Hall said. “It’s kind of getting to where there’s a little bit of pressure now to keep the streak going. But the girls stayed really composed and handled it well. [It’s] definitely a challenging course, so maybe the times weren’t stellar. But they

Colonial Athletic Association tournament: Tribe clinched No. 5 seed.

Volleyball (8-17, 2-10 CAA) Oct. 24: L, Elon 3, College 0 Oct. 28: L, JMU 3, College 1 Nov. 4: at UNCW, 7 p.m.

Nov. 6: at Charleston, 1 p.m.

Nov. 11: vs Towson, 7 p.m.

Nov. 12: vs Delaware, 7:30 p.m.

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