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Vol. 109, Iss. 18 | Tuesday, November 5, 2019

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College changes relations policy

College workers unionize, demand living wage

College updates rules concerning graduate, faculty relationships AIDAN WHITE THE FLAT HAT

This semester, the College of William and Mary will implement a new policy regarding consensual amorous relationships between faculty members and graduate students.

In the new policy, consensual amorous relationships between faculty members and graduate students are considered to violate university policy if the student is enrolled in a degree-seeking program in the school of the faculty member’s primary appointment, as well as if the faculty member has an “evaluative, collaborative or supervisory role” with the student at the time the relationship begins.

Faculty members may engage in these relationships if they recuse themselves from any future professional role with the student.

The former policy prohibited any romantic or sexual relationships between faculty members and graduate students over whom the faculty member has direct professional responsibility. According to the faculty handbook, this responsibility entails supervision in academic, co-curricular and extracurricular settings.

Vice President of the Faculty Assembly David Armstrong said the former policy was created by a subcommittee during the 2000-2001 school year at the request of Gillian Cell, the provost at the time.

“The policy that was arrived at was one of the strongest such policies amongst U.S. universities,” Armstrong said. “Previous to this, the topic had not been addressed in the Faculty Handbook, i.e. there were no restrictions.”

In October 2018, former Provost Michael Halleran, who retired from his position earlier this year, asked the FA to reconsider the consensual amorous relationships policy.

“The issue at hand is whether the current policy properly addresses power imbalances, particularly in the case of graduate students,” Armstrong said.

According to Faculty Assembly President Tom Ward, Halleran’s request sparked a long and thorough decision-making process. It began within a subcommittee of the FA, which was tasked with examining the policies of colleges and universities across the country to determine if any change in the College’s policy was necessary. The committee brought their initial recommendations to the executive board of the assembly, which then voted to allow the proposed changes to go to a full plenary vote.

Ward and Armstrong both said that the proposed changes fomented lively debate when they reached the full Assembly. Some opposing the policy alteration argued that the Faculty Handbook already covered the issues which the changes were designed to address. Others argued that relationships between faculty members and graduate students should not be allowed whatsoever and that the policy allowed too much flexibility regarding these relationships.

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Students announce new workers’ union, seek better treatment for employees, graduate students on campus GRAPHIC BY EMMA FORD / THE FLAT HAT

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Organizers, student workers and student groups gathered on the Sunken Garden to discuss the need for a union and higher wages among College workers to a crowd of onlookers.

ETHAN BROWN, NIA KITCHIN // FLAT HAT MANAGING EDITOR, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Friday, Nov. 1, student organizers at the College of William and Mary gathered on the Sunken Garden to rally on behalf of the newly established William & Mary Workers’ Union.

Undergraduate and graduate students spoke about the importance of establishing a union for College workers to a crowd of around 30 individuals. The crowd grew during the event, as some custodial workers, professors and supportive parties who were not employed by the College joined the rally. Members of the College’s Young Democratic Socialists helped with canvassing before the event and were credited by union organizers with tabling and organizing in the weeks prior to assist in spreading the word and encouraging workers to join the union.

The Workers’ Union became public four days earlier, Oct. 28, following 11 months of planning and development. Union Executive Secretary Jasper Conner said the group first came together in November 2018 and has since held weekly meetings in anticipation of going public. While improvements to healthcare coverage, enhanced parking accessibility and greater equity between graduate students of different programs are among the union’s major priorities, members are primarily focused on obtaining a living wage for graduate students and the College’s contracted workers.

“The biggest and broadest demands are for a living wage for all employees of William and Mary and all those contracted to work for William and Mary,” Conner said. “We understand a living wage to be $28,000 a year, annual, if you’re working full time … functionally, for most humanities grad students, that’d be like a $4,000 pay raise.”

Union President Jim Rick spoke at the rally about how organizing as a collective group is the most effective strategy in approaching these broad issues. Rick indicated that while most of the current union members are graduate students, the organization is designed to advocate for the rights of all College workers.

“Our strength is chiefly in our numbers and in our unity,” Rick said. “When we approach our employers as individuals it can be easy for our concerns to be put on the backburner or

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for them to drag their feet even if they’re not necessarily intending to. But when we come together and approach this collectively, we can add a sense of urgency to our concerns. And it helps that so many of our concerns are the same across anyone who works for wages.”

Conner said that the union grew from concerns over the College’s treatment of graduate students, specifically those studying in humanities departments. In a press release published Oct. 29, Conner referenced an incident in the anthropology department as a key instigating factor for the union’s activism on campus.

According to Conner, graduate employees within the department were delayed in receiving compensation by five weeks in summer 2019 because of a processing error. Since the College’s summer payment schedules are organized by single lump-sum payments, Conner said that graduate workers, many of whom live paycheck to paycheck, may have struggled to afford basic necessities as a result of the delay.

According to anthropology Ph.D. student Jennifer Ellis the late compensation has still not been explained to the graduate students fully. She said that after this incident, the anthropology graduate students realized that this was representative of a larger structural issue of their cohort not being treated fairly, and they decided to act.

“I joined the union because we were getting screwed over a lot and not getting the answers for it,” Ellis said. “... It’s part of the university not caring as much about grad students and grad workers and other workers. There are these big structural issues that we’re all concerned with and they start with being treated fairly.”

Conner also argued that the substantial disparities in benefits enjoyed by graduate students in the College’s different graduate programs suggests that the administration has enough funding to subsidize them more generously. According to Conner, graduate students in the College’s STEM programs receive more university-sponsored coverage options than those in the humanities and social

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How it became powerful shorthand for modernity and modern femininity, and how the Bauhaus was used by female designers in unexpected places and to unanticipated ends.

— Professor Elizabeth Otto

THIS WEEK IN FLAT HAT HISTORY November 9, 1923 - News Renowned movie producer and director David Warth Griffith visited campus while in town preparing and filming scenes for his upcoming film “America.” During his stay Griffith attended a luncheon at the College of William and Mary’s dining hall, hosted

by Dr. Chandler, and toured Williamsburg’s local historical sights.

November 7, 1980 - Sports Three runners from the College’s Track and Field teams qualified for Division II Nationals at Washington State University Seattle. Cathy Sardo, Alison Hawley and Trish Flaherty, the Tribe’s top three runners, ran their best races of the season at the AIAW Region 2 Division II cross country meet.

November 8, 1991 - News The College’s chapter of Sigma Nu Fraternity faced consequences for hosting a party in Theta Delta Chi house while Theta Delta Chi held their first annual Halloween Hellraiser, a charity event benefitting the American Cancer Society, in Trinkle Hall. Initially intended as a Halloween prank, the party saw nearly 150 attendees who left the Theta Delta Chi house covered in trash and vandalized.

November 6, 2007 - News In the Spring 2007 semester at the College, science classes gave 10 percent less A grades than other classes, and 12 percent of all grades received were less than a B grade. The highest GPA average was in the Music department, and the lowest was in the Math department and GPA averages were 5 percent lower in the natural sciences than in humanities or arts.

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CORRECTIONS An article in the October 29 issue, “Honoring Asian American Legacies: APIA program prepares for centennial event for the first person of color at the College,” incorrectly stated Art Matsu ’28 was the first person of color to attend the College. Pu-Kao Chen ’23 was the first person of color to attend the College.

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Giving back through meditation Kate Donati ’20 talks becoming a yoga instructor, living in the Phillippines MAGGIE MARKON // THE FLAT HAT

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During her sophomore year at the College of William and Mary, Kate Donati ’20 saw a posting for the Shanti Garudasana yoga school in Williamsburg, Virginia and decided to look into the opportunity as a way to give back to the community she had grown so fond of. Two years later with graduation on the horizon, Donati’s decision to become a yoga teacher at the College has cultivated her passion for education and set her on a new, unexpected path.

While Donati was born in Virginia, she lived in the Philippines from eighth grade until her senior year of high school and attended an international school in Manila. In East Asia, Donati began practicing meditation to help with anxiety and fluctuating degrees of personal wellness that originated from her rigorous high school environment. Her interest in meditation gradually evolved into her passion for yoga, which Donati currently teaches three classes of both at the McLeod Tyler Wellness Center and the Student Recreation Center. She has worked hard to mold her unique teaching style over the years, buoyed by her own personal experiences.

“I always say that my yoga class is the place where you’re going to put yourself first,” Donati said. “Yoga is exactly what you put into it, and it’s also what you’re looking to get out of it. You can come work on flexibility, you can come work on muscle tone, you could come work on spiritual centering. My class is an invitation to anybody who just wants to be embraced for exactly who they want to be at the moment. If you want to come and sit on your mat for the 60 minutes and just breathe, that’s yoga.”

Donati’s experience teaching yoga has altered her trajectory in life. In the past, she had dismissed teaching as a profession and instead planned to become a lawyer. Through teaching yoga at the College, she discovered a passion that she hopes to further express after graduation.

“I’ve literally changed my entire idea of a career path because I found out how much I love teaching,” Donati said. “I was always very anxious, very shy. I didn’t really like to be the center of attention, and that changed. ... I love teaching. Giving back in that way is so important to me.”

Donati’s plan now consists of pursuing a Ph.D in religious studies while continuing to teach yoga. Despite the anxiety that accompanies such a major change in her future, she embraces the challenges that lay ahead.

“In the religion department, there’s so much there, and I really just want to delve into it,” Donati said. “I could spend seven years talking about it and thinking about it, and I think that’s the fire that you need when you’re thinking about getting a post-grad degree in any sort of capacity.”

Donati’s time in the Philippines also afforded deeper insight into her cultural identity. While she introduces herself as Irish-Italian, her peers label her as American, which caused Donati to consider her own heritage and forge a stronger connection to her past. At the College, that passion has manifested in Donati’s studies, as she intends to declare an Italian minor to

accompany her major in English. She has also applied for a Fulbright grant to teach English in Italy following graduation.

“Just saying ‘I’m American’ didn’t really sit well with me because I was also experiencing a lot of different cultures,” Donati said. “I would talk to my friends who belonged to it, or I would travel to those countries, like Thailand, and I’d get to see the temples and taste the food, and talk to the people, and practice the yoga. If somebody came to America and they wanted to know what my culture looked like ... it would look much more like an Italian-American heritage story than it would anything else, so I wanted to dig into it for those reasons as well.”

Donati’s journey has also been significantly shaped by her growing realization of the privilege she benefited from during her time in both the Philippines and the United States.

“The white privilege that I have here in the States is pervasive, and everyone who is white experiences it, whether they want to admit it or not,” Donati said. “When I was over there, it was much more tangible in a very different way. It was knowing that if my mom and I were trying to go in a parking lot that was closed or go down a street that was technically blocked off, and if a security guard or traffic cop pulled us over, we were not getting a ticket. It was

confronting my whiteness in a way that you don’t have to do.”

Donati said that she became aware of her “otherness” while she lived in the Philippines, and that these experiences ultimately shaped her when she returned to the United States.

“It’s kind of the reverse, where I was othered and I was different, but I was also still the standard to be held to — people wanted to be blonde, and people wanted to blue eyed,” Donati said. “I became aware of the privilege that my skin affords me and how that lets me move through things much easier than everybody else.”

Donati is also involved in other roles on campus. She was an Orientation Aide for three years, and she has worked in the College’s Office of Undergraduate Admission since she was a freshman. She spent the past summer working in Williamsburg as a senior interviewer and tour guide, talking with prospective students and giving them a glimpse of the collaborative and supportive environment that the College has to offer.

As she readies herself to embark on a new journey, Donati reflected on how her time at the College has made her a more holistic, selfassured person.

“Growing up, you would have said, ‘Oh, Kate, she’s a swimmer,’” Donati said. “Now I feel like I don’t really have the one thing people go to. I’m hopeful that people on campus who know me would think of different things when they think of me, like either the OA, or the yoga teacher, or the senior interviewer or just the dope person who has really cool style.”

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Donati started practicing meditation to help her anxiety and later transitioned to practicing yoga.

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Speaker talks culture, disaster in Japan

Mire Koikari discusses societal aftermath of natural disasters Thursday, Oct. 31, Japanese studies majors, professors and students gathered in James Blair Hall to listen to University of Hawaii professor Mire Koikari’s lecture, entitled “Gender, Culture, and Disaster in Post-3.11 Japan: Mobilizing Hula Girls for National Recovery and Reconstruction.” This event focused on the cultural aftermath of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, which is commonly referred to as 3.11 in Japan.

Hosted by the Japanese studies program director Tomoyuki Sasaki, Koikari’s lecture was one of the inaugural events in the series celebrating the new Japanese studies major which officially began this semester.

The Japanese studies department partnered with the Wendy and Emery Reves Center for International Studies, the Asian and Middle Eastern studies program and the gender, sexuality and women’s studies program in hosting the event.

“Surprisingly, this post-3.11 disaster culture of Japan mobilizes hula girls as the leading symbol of national recovery and rebuilding,” Koikari said. “Against the backdrop of precarity, a move towards Japanese refortification proceeds, defining resilience building — that’s the one key term I’ll keep on coming back over and over again — resilience building as in an urgent agenda that involves any and then all Japanese.”

Koikari’s lecture centered around the rise of militarism, neoliberalism and nationalism in Japan since 2011, and she illustrated how Hawaii and hula girls came to embody these dynamics. In the wake of the idea of “self-help” over government aid, Koikari explained how corporations mobilize hula girls to promote spiritual healing and recovery through their dancing.

Through the creation of Hawaiian-themed spa resorts and dancing tours of hula girls across the nation, Japanese culture has come to glorify the healing nature of Hawaii as well as promote off-shore tourism to the American state.

“By focusing on the deployment of Hawaii as an imagined, as well as real, space, in this post-disaster cultural mobilization, the exotic figures of dancing maidens and the famous healing powers of this ‘paradise on earth’ have articulated, but at the same time obscured, this new culture,” Koikari said. “It allows us in Japan to indulge in the dream of recuperation and in being healed, but then at the same time, avoid the question of power.”

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Surprisingly, this post 3.11 disaster culture of Japan mobilizes hula girls as the leading symbol of national recovery and rebuilding.

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Working in the University of Hawaii’s department of women’s studies, Koikari’s research focuses on the meaning and consequences of feminism, disaster-preparedness and security culture in modern Japan.

In the center stage of her research, Koikari cites that Japanese pop culture’s portrayal of hula girls have allowed these exotic

dancers to become the symbol of resilience and self-help.

Most people in attendance were Japanese studies majors, such as Margot Baden ’20, or students who were considering coursework in the discipline.

Baden, who declared her major earlier this semester, came to Koikari’s lecture in order to show support for the Japanese studies department.

“The most interesting part was definitely the feminization of the healing movement,” Baden said. “I don’t think that it would've been as successful if it wasn’t something female-related that sort of had this healing effect on Japanese culture. I think she brought up a bunch of interesting issues on gender that I think have a lot of relevance to Japanese society.”

Koikari’s research also focuses on the male aspect of selfhelp and the role men have as the corporate actors in postdisaster Japan.

Due to the combination of the Japanese asset price bubble burst and the destructive 2011 disasters, Japan’s shifting economy has contributed to the mobilization of hula girls and Hawaii, as businessmen use their popularity for profit.

Campbell Wharton ’21, who intends to declare a Japanese studies major later this week, attended Koikari’s lecture in order to further his own knowledge of contemporary Japan.

“I think getting a lot of the history of the hula dance group was extremely interesting, especially coming from sort of an entrepreneurial side, because there was sort of this cooperate advantageous mission going on,” Wharton said.

Koikari concluded her lecture with audience questions and then urged the students to come to Hawaii to conduct their own research on Japanese culture.

“I think this healing thing is kind of a smoke screen in so many ways,” Koikari said. “Why people accept self-help ... I think disaster and its aftermath really becomes an effective cultural mechanism to institutionalize the notion that the government will roll back and have limited responsibilities, and it is okay.”

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Anti-abortion activist discusses perceptions of movement Chair of Trump's anti-abortion coalition talks evolution of her personal stances DAISY GARNER FLAT HAT STAFF WRITER

Oct. 28, the College of William and Mary’s Tribe for Life organization hosted the event, “Restoring Life in America,” featuring prominent anti-abortion political activist Marjorie Dannenfelser.

Dannenfelser currently serves as president of the Susan B. Anthony List, which aims to elect anti-abortion politicians throughout the United States alongside its Super PAC, Women Speak Out. In addition to her involvement with the Susan B. Anthony List, Dannenfelser was named the chair of President Donald Trump’s anti-abortion coalition.

She is active in numerous other political organizations like the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission.

Tribe for Life specifically wanted to welcome Dannenfelser to the school because of her unique background, as she used to support abortion rights.

“We thought she would be a good person to bring and kind of opening up discussion and encouraging questions and discussion among people who are pro-life and pro-choice because she has seen both sides of each argument,” Tribe for Life Public Relations Chair Savannah Orsak ’22 said.

Dannenfelser began her talk by speaking

to students about the evolution of her stance on abortion during her undergraduate years at Duke University. In her college philosophy class, Dannenfelser said she was called to challenge her ideas.

Dannenfelser disputed the common perception that supporting abortion rights is an expression of feminism.

Dannenfelser informed the audience how many members of the American suffragist movement, including Susan B. Anthony, were adamantly anti-abortion.

Dannenfelser discussed the landmark Supreme Court cases Roe v. Wade and Doe v.

Bolton, which overturned abortion laws in the United States, and illustrated how the women involved in the cases never actually received abortions and ended up advocating against abortion for the rest of their lives.

“Experiences of these two women help explain why the pioneers of the Women’s Movement understood abortion as the ultimate exploitation of women,” Dannenfelser said.

Dannenfelser then shifted gears to discuss the scientific implications of abortion. She referenced evidence suggesting that life begins at fertilization.

“We always hear, ‘no one can say when life begins,’ but this is simply not the way that science discusses it,” Dannenfelser said.

“There is a scientific consensus. Every one of us is a human being distinctly from the

beginning from the very moment we have our very own unique DNA footprint that is established at the beginning.”

Upon the conclusion of the event, Dannenfelser held a question and answer session, during which she was questioned about her website’s endorsement of an antiabortion pill which some doctors and medical professionals have labeled as dangerous.

“Progesterone is the drug that is used, FDA approved, certainly,” Dannenfelser said. “It is used in fertility treatments and is used in many other obstetric and gynecological situations, so, it is FDA approved. There is no reason that it can’t be used in such a situation, if it is used without question.”

Dannenfelser’s talk resonated with Anna Kemma ’22, especially when she talked about the foundational beliefs of the antiabortion movement.

“I think the last comment on the pro-life movement coming from a place of love and care for women and for children, and for speaking up for those who do not have that voice and who aren’t cared for or paid attention to, I think that was probably the thing that resonated with me the most,” Kemma said.

Dulguun Myagmarsuren ’22 said that the talk relied too heavily on moral positions rather than on concrete facts about abortion.

“She had a lot of info, I think she tried to make a whole story behind her opinion, with moral

opinions and ‘medical facts’ and looking from historical figures,” Myagmarsuren said. “But I also think, that are a lot of things that were her own opinions and then she intended it as facts.”

Social Media Manager Lucy Greenman ’22 of VOX, the College's reproductive rights group, provided a statement from the organization concerning the event.

“VOX respects freedom of speech and Tribe for Life’s right to bring a speaker to campus," VOX's written statement said. "We are glad to see their invitation to engage with this issue, and we agree that civil discussion can be a productive way forward. We respect Marjorie Dannenfelser’s right to appear, but we strongly encourage any interested parties to make themselves fully informed of the Susan B. Anthony List’s influence in nominating pro-life judges such as Brett Kavanaugh, anti-LGBTQ loyalty to the Trump/Pence administration, and dangerously misleading promotion of the ‘abortion reversal pill.'”

Both Dannenfelser and Tribe for Life encouraged students to promote a discussion.

They also recommended posing questions moving forward.

“Tribe for Life encourages all different kinds of people to ask questions about the pro-life movement because I know that there are a lot of misconceptions about it and what we believe in as a group: we believe in both supporting women and providing resources for them in

College workers advocate for living wage by unionizing Union members gather on Sunken Garden to speak, encourage crowds to donate, come to meetings sciences, especially with vision and dental insurance provisions.

“One of the first things that happened when we started getting grad students together was that we realized that a lot of sciences were having their health insurance paid for by the university, and none of the humanities were having that,” Conner said.

Despite initially focusing on graduate student workers, Conner said the union has since expanded to encompass undergraduate student workers, nontenured faculty, custodial staff and maintenance employees. Since going public last week, Conner noted that their petition supporting the union has accrued over 500 signatures from students and staff.

According to Rick, the union has already surpassed the membership totals required to be a recognized national union. However, they are worried about more than financial compensation as they see broader problems with the state of academia. Rick said that since

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universities are increasingly adopting more business-like behaviors, graduate students are often treated as consumers rather than scholars.

“It’s not all about the money for us,” Rick said. “Now don’t get me wrong, being paid is important and we are certainly out here trying to win a more equitable share of the commonwealth.

But there’s more at stake here than that.

There’s the entire state of our institution of public education.”

College spokesperson Suzanne Clavet said that while the College welcomes dialogue with graduate student workers, Virginia state law ultimately prohibits the administration from interacting with the Workers’ Union in any official capacity.

“We appreciate these students coming forward and are happy to discuss any concern with them,” Clavet said in an email. “It’s important to stress that Virginia law prohibits William & Mary, or any state agency, from engaging in collective bargaining or recognizing unions as negotiating on behalf of employees. The university values and respects the hard work of

all of its employees and the countless contributions they make to the university.

This of course includes our graduate students who are an important and vital component of any university.”

Despite limitations in the College’s ability to engage with the Workers’ Union, the organization is an official chapter of the Virginia Public Service Workers Union and resembles graduate student unions created in the University of California system. According to Conner, the union is uniquely capable of facilitating dialogue at the College that could cement the university’s status as a national leader on students’ and workers’ rights.

“This is an elite institution,” Conner said. “Its graduates go on to do big things. … UVA pays all of its workers 15 dollars an hour. We don’t. We should be leading in these matters, as a matter of justice and also as a matter of, ‘Isn’t the whole thing that we’re better than UVA?’” At the rally, Conner expressed his frustration with the fact that he qualifies for food stamps while working at a

prestigious university. He said that the sentiment of suffering for a short time in order to earn a comfortable salary after graduating was unrealistic due to the lack of job security that earning a Ph.D. in some fields occasionally brings.

“This is not some luxury struggle where we’re trying to get our fancy soaps and stuff, this is a struggle to put food on our table, to get our kids an education, to be able to eat dinner is reasonable,” Conner said.

As the rally wrapped up, Conner encouraged everyone in attendance to join the union and come to its weekly meetings. He asked the crowd who was interested in joining, to which a few people raised their hands and received sign-up sheets. Finally, the crowd was also encouraged to donate to the union’s GoFundMe, which according to Union Social Media Coordinator Leah Kuragano had already raised $600.

“We need you all to come and take on a little bit of work,” Conner said.

“And then if we all do a little bit of work then no one has to do a lot of work and we can get a lot more done.”

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Bauhaus expert discusses minorities in art Professor Otto shares the story of Bauhaus female artists, diversity Professor Elizabeth Otto visited the College of William and Mary on October 30th to present a lecture titled “Designing Women of the Bauhaus” as a part of the Muscarelle Museum of Art’s Explorations series.

Specializing in the Bauhaus and gender in modern art, Otto is an associate professor of art history and visual studies and the Alisa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow at the University of Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences. She has published extensively on the Bauhaus, including her latest book, “Haunted Bauhaus,” which explores gender fluidity and radical politics of the Bauhaus.

This presentation comes at the centennial celebration of the existence of the Bauhaus — one of the most prominent and enduring art institutions to ever exist. Established in 1919, the Bauhaus grew to the scale of a movement, yet remained defined by the iconic institution that cultivated this movement. It was divided into many workshops of expertise, all of which emphasized functional and sleek design. After it shut its doors in 1933 due to mounting Nazi pressure, its artists dispersed across the globe to usher in a new era of modernity.

Though the Bauhaus has become a household name, there exist many stories from within it that remain untold. This is true for many of the women who studied there. 37 percent of Bauhaus artists were women, and they were represented in every single program the institution offered. The stories of many of these women — from Ré Soupault to Marianne Brandt — have been written out of history.

Otto structured the lecture to reflect the stories of four notable women of the Bauhaus, exploring each of their stories as individuals with varying relationships to the institution itself. Otto encouraged the audience to think beyond the confines of recorded history.

“I think you’ll see just how deep and wide-ranging Bauhaus women’s experimentation was,” Otto said. “How it became powerful shorthand for modernity and modern femininity, and

how the Bauhaus was used by female designers in unexpected places and to unanticipatable ends.”

Friedl Dicker, who originated in the book-binding workshop at the Bauhaus, allowed for the self-evolution of her art. She began

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creating intricate political collages that coincided with her struggle to escape the Nazis, who targeted her for her Jewish heritage.

Dicker taught art to young children in the ghetto of Theresienstadt and died in Auschwitz in 1944.

“Her teaching was a way to get out of this darker place and to explore their dreams,” Otto said.

According to Otto, female artists were more daring and open to redefining what Bauhaus truly meant. Gertrud Arndt, an expert rug maker, passed an exam in weaving before vowing to never weave again. From that day, she began to explore the possibilities of being outside the Bauhaus — including a series of pictures of herself ironically covered in fabric.

“These pictures allowed her to explore her transition from being a part of the Bauhaus, which is very future oriented — it’s geared towards making new things, meeting modern society, dreaming the next big dream, trying to imagine a better utopian future — and instead creating useless objects of herself in series that don’t seem to be going anywhere.”

The experiences of female artists within the Bauhaus are still pertinent today. Vivian Rust ‘23 said that exploring the unwritten history of these women is the process of realizing of their art and contribution to the movement.

“It’s a really good opportunity because it’s the stuff you don’t see in textbooks and its been overlooked for centuries so you’re developing deeper,” Rust said. “Realizing that you find art that is just as credible and just as wonderful that you didn’t know about before.”

Merritt Steadman ‘23 said that the movement pushed boundaries when it was challenged by prejudice and sexism in the greater societal context it existed in.

“These women need to be honored for their contributions to society that have not been recognized, as they are a source of inspiration for us today,” Steadman said. “By reflecting on past discrimination, we can move forward towards equality.”

The Bauhaus was a representation of societal gender issues and was not immune to sexism on the individual and institutional level.

When asked about whether this trend still exists in contemporary art, Otto noted the persistent issue of underrepresentation of the female artists.

“It is still taken as completely normal to do a historical or even a contemporary exhibition uniquely of male artists, and I just think that’s wrong,” Otto said. “As historians, as curators, as people telling these stories, we have to look broadly. It’s still going on.”

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Entrepreneurship center encourages student ventures

Mason Business school holds workshops to discuss student business opportunities, responsibilities

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Program Coordinator for the Mason School of Business Entrepreneurship Center Anna Rader ’20, arranged five workshops for students to collect the tools necessary for successful business ventures. One workshop titled “Social Responsibility in Innovation” was held Monday, Nov. 4 so attendees could spread awareness on the importance of corporate social responsibility.

Two speakers in the workshop brought different points of view on how businesses can be socially responsible in marketing and creating products. Associate Director of Marketing, Licensing and Administration for the College of William and Mary, Eden Harris opened with her experience from working in Auxiliary Services, which covers departments such as the bookstore, dining, parking and trademark licensing.

“The biggest recommendation I can make to you is to find your own path and what that means to you. Social responsibility means different things to different people,” Harris said.

Corporate social responsibility is recognizing the global sense of responsibility in the communities in which they operate. There are three components of social responsibility: macro, meso, and micro.

On the macro level is large corporations and businesses. Factory relationships are key in how a company operates within the community and how members of said community are influenced.

For example, The College uses companies to create merchandise that have a full or partial ownership of their factories. This means no outsourcing and most of the product is made inhouse. However, the majority of companies either have long term or short term relationships with

factories instead. While short term relationships is the most common of the three for companies to have with a factory, it is the most at risk.

“Short-term contracted factories have become more and more common as fast fashion has taken hold and we are at this thought that every season we have to have something new and we have to have these things on the shelves tomorrow,” Harris said. “So, these short term relationships with factories have exposed a lot of risks for companies. Even with the quality control it can be very different. Within this relationship, each step in the process can be made at a different factory.”

In order to provide factory workers under this kind of relationship with standard humane working conditions, President Clinton in the late 1990’s created the Fair Labor Association.

Other organizations such as the Workers Right Consortium have since been created to further strive for proper wages and humane conditions as well as carrying out implications for breaking proper standards.

The College is a prime example of meso monitoring. The institution grants permission to vetted vendors to produce merchandise with the William and Mary trademark whether that is the school’s logo, the griffin, or even the word ‘tribe’.

“Our process is not perfect. There are issues, I am sure, within some of the companies we work with, but the hardest thing to remember is that if there are company accidents, and a major headline comes out of it, the hardest thing is to not pull out of the company right away because the people that it hurts the most are the people that are the most impacted. What we look for is how the company addresses it and whether they take it seriously.”

Finally micro monitoring pertains to

the individual. Introspection is best before purchasing a certain product. Harris advises buyers to question how the product is made where the raw materials are sourced, and then to prioritize which products should be bought and which will ultimately have a negative impact on the community.

“The biggest thing you can do as an entrepreneur is to think about it,” Harris said. “As you are developing your business and your ideas, think about what is important to you. Prioritize.

Is it an environmental factor, a legal factor, an ethical or cultural factor? Put your priorities down in writing, it doesn’t have to become a formal code of conduct or labor code, but simply putting it in writing is something that you can come back to as you make every step. It is a huge thing that many people don’t even consider doing.”

The second speaker, Owner of Threads

by Nomads and The Off-Ramp Christen Kinard created her company with the goal of reconstructing how business is done. Kinard hires refugees to provide an opportunity for them to become part of the community.

“I have history in women’s luxury retail; I was a buyer for a long time. Even at a nonfast fashion price point I saw the very real destruction that the retail industry causes at home and afar,” Kinard said.

Kinard launched her business in 2016 and hired refugees in the city of Houston where the store originated. As a social enterprise, Kinard prides herself on not only creating retail that is socially responsible, but also for connecting her business with the community.

“The social change that we are addressing is the issue of displacement, and we are trying to address it from both ends,” Kinard said. “It is not just about charity for people who are already

here, it is about addressing first and foremost the issues of displacement at their core, which is economic stability and security and safety, by investing in small businesses and individual artisans. For the people already here who are looking for opportunities to not assimilate, but to be a part of the fabric of a society as the person that they are, we can offer them that opportunity and in the process we can change the way apparel is made.”

Kinard’s goal for her company was to address the displacement of refugees on both ends while also meeting the bottom line to keep her company running and providing opportunities for those that need it. She wanted to start from the beginning to revamp how business is addressed.

“The fast fashion industry is the second dirtiest global industry second to oil,” Kindard said. “One in three people in the world work in retail in the fashion industry chain in some way and less than six percent are paid a living wage, not a fair wage.”

Wealth accumulation is not the priority for Threads by Nomad and Kinard expressed the importance that success can only be accomplished if others are given the ability to help and better themselves in the process.

“This was the tool kit workshop that I was most excited for,” Rader said. “This is something I personally am really passionate about and I think that social enterprise and thinking about social responsibility and communities in the way they are affected by businesses is something that is going to grow in the next few years. As entrepreneurs and innovators that is something we should be thinking about to remain relevant but also the current change in waves of innovation coming through shows how important it is to pay attention to communities and how they are affected. The time to act is now.”

College evaluates policies concerning student to faculty relationships Re-occuring issues result in new rules regarding the status of graduate student and professor romances

consensus was that we should advance a formal position that said relationships of this type with individuals that you are supervising certainly are forbidden,” Ward said. “How you can articulate that in terms of divisions of schools was the point of discussion.”

Many Faculty Assembly members also emphasized student safety during the debate.

“Protecting the rights and interests of the students was viewed as of paramount importance,” Armstrong said. Armstrong said that the policy changes that were initially approved by the FA in March were rejected by the Personnel Policy Committee with little explanation. This led to the assembly approving changes which were less restrictive than some on the Assembly

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wanted, including Armstrong.

“I was one of those on Assembly who argued for a more restrictive policy, in order to best protect the interests of graduate students,” Armstrong said.

Once the change was approved by the Faculty Assembly in April, it went to the PPC for review on the condition that they would continue reconsidering the policy this year. After gaining approval from the PPC, the proposed change was sent to the Board of Visitors, which sanctioned the policy going into effect at the beginning of this academic year.

The new policy does allow for some exemptions. The previous policy also allowed for exemptions but failed to specify under what circumstances they should be granted. The new policy specifies that the Dean of the School or Faculty where the related faculty member has a primary

appointment may grant an exemption after considering any connections between the faculty member’s duties and the graduate student’s studies, the feasibility of ensuring no conflicts of interest arise during the relationship and whether the faculty member and student were engaged in a committed relationship prior to becoming colleagues at the university.

“As an example, if my wife decided to return to school to get an MBA, the fact that I am a physics faculty member should not prevent her from becoming a graduate student in the Mason School of Business or require us to get a divorce,” Armstrong said.

One important constant in the policy is that these relationships must be both consensual and free of domestic violence, which falls under the College’s broader efforts to abide by ongoing Title IX compliance efforts. The relationship must

also fall under the consensual amorous relationship policy outlined by the College.

“If a faculty member violates the policy by being in an impermissible consensual relationship, that will be addressed through the Faculty Handbook misconduct process, not through Title IX process,” the College’s Title IX Coordinator Pamela Mason said. “On the other hand, a permissible consensual relationship between a faculty member and a graduate student not in their department or school may violate Title IX if there is relationship violence, stalking or sexual exploitation that occurs in that relationship.”

Lauren McQuilkin ’23 sees this policy change as a step in the right direction.

“If it’s going to happen, it’s going to happen,” McQuilkin said. “They might as well be open about it and then they can work from there.”

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Student Assembly works to improve campus wellness Derek Kernus

Ambiguity of midterm season’s definition harms student body

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Health and wellness are critical to every individual’s personal and professional success. Physical wellness is intertwined with mental wellness. The College of William and Mary recognizes this, and I believe that this is one of the reasons we have the McLeod Tyler Wellness Center, not just a Student Health Center.

The departments in that building work with each other to provide students a cohesive approach to the overall wellness of every student who needs their help.

As a senator in the College’s Student Assembly, I can confidently say that your student government recognizes that these departments, while always striving to provide the best service they can, have sometimes fallen short of their broader mission.

These shortcomings are not from lack of intent, but from lack of resources. Specifically, SA has received many concerns about the ability of the Counseling Center to adequately address the needs of the student body, and we are acting on those concerns diligently.

Upon my inauguration in April 2019, I expressed my desire to help the Counseling Center improve its capabilities and increase mental health awareness on campus. A group of experienced senators immediately came to me to form a subcommittee on the matter. We immediately began conducting research, holding meetings with the Counseling Center, and analyzing the data we collected. We worked on this project and met with the Counseling Center for updates over the summer. At the beginning of this academic year, the senate subcommittee engaged the executive branch to take our initiative a step further. We’ve held additional meetings with SA President Kelsey Vita ’20 and her cabinet, as well as with administrators in College President Katherine Rowe’s office. Much progress has been made on how to address the issues at the Counseling Center, and I am excited to share our findings with the student body and our proposed resolution once we have completed our analysis.

In my time in SA, I have come to believe confidently each SA member ran for their position to enhance the student experience and do so with complete transparency.

I ask the student body to remember, for better or worse, that to resolve this issue, we must work within the confines of the bureaucracy of the system. There are checks and balances in place to ensure any action taken is in the best interest of and wanted by the students. This means a solution can take longer than we would like, but adhering to the process will allow us to create the solution that will be sustainable for years to come. While the student body may not always hear about or know exactly what SA is working on, remember we are here to represent you. Come to us if you have a question, want an update on anything we’re working on, or to share what you want us to work on.

In my time in SA, I have come to believe confidently each SA member ran for their position to enhance the student experience and do so with complete transparency. Additionally, my interactions with each representative have been mutually respectful, even when we have disagreed about various topics. The culture of this government body is representative of the College community at-large.

I had the honor and privilege of earning my bachelor’s degree from the College’s Raymond A. Mason School of Business in 2014.

My experiences on campus have shown me a community that is supportive and drives each other to become the best versions of ourselves. I had trouble seeing this when I first arrived on campus.

I came from a place where I had been one of the best. At the College, I was middle of the pack at best. It was uncomfortable for me. Eventually, I came to realize my fellow students were willing to help me in areas where I did not excel, and I could help them in areas where I excelled. This is a critical aspect of the idea of community. There will always be pockets of individuals in any community who are cutthroat, devious and self-centered.

However, that is not the overall character of the College’s student population or of SA. I will bleed green and gold until the day I pass on. I only applied to one graduate business school: the full-time Master of Business Administration program at the Mason School of Business.

I knew I would receive a world-class education in a supportive environment where I would be respected by my peers, faculty and staff. I also wanted to return to help with mental health awareness and suicide prevention due to the suicide of my friend and roommate during my undergraduate years. I will not rest until we make improvements in this aspect of student life. If you’re inspired by this article, I hope you reach out to me or your SA representative to aid us in our efforts.

Email Derek Kernus at jdkernus@email.wm.edu.

Lucas Harsche THE FLAT HAT

given across campus — takes up a vast majority of the given time frame of the semester, with finals season — by far the more important one — barely taking even two weeks of time at the end of the semester.

One would think that giving such a broad span of time for midterms to rear their ugly heads would leave quite an intimidating shadow on the lives of everyday students, and one would be right. It is quite an unfortunate reality that the apparent timelessness of midterms leaves many students spending more hours of their free time in Earl Gregg Swem Library than they originally intended for the whole span of the semester, which could place negative associations with Swem in the minds of students that it truly does not deserve as one of the greatest public university libraries in the country.

Even more unfortunate is that such a broad timeframe also allows for some students to falsely use the excuse of “midterm season” for their own nefarious ends, whether it is skiving off club responsibilities, explaining to an angry roommate why one did not take out the trash while they were gone all day, or avoiding time for social human interaction, an activity which, though not everyone’s favorite thing to do, is absolutely vital for a healthy lifestyle.

These paradoxical factors can point to only one conclusion.

The reason “midterm season” has no universal definition at the College is because it has no definition in the first place. It is a meaningless term, used to both refer to a pseudo-period of testing for which students feel that they ought to give up some of their own valuable time and to provide an excuse for lazy students that can be used at practically any time of the semester without consequence.

This should be alarming to those at the College who are concerned about the well-being of the student population and even more so to the student population which has long suffered from the tyranny of a word that has no right to exist.

Email Lucas Harsche at lmharsche@email.wm.edu.

As a newly-minted college freshman, I am beginning to understand how some standards are not quite universal within the world of academia. Sleep, for instance? Laughable. Food choices? Think about how manageable such a feat is outside of an undergraduate diet, and then we can talk.

It is true that while some rather important life standards across the student population here at the College of William and Mary are quite different, there are at least clear expectations for each of these areas on what the best decisions are, including getting eight hours of sleep each night and eating balanced meals. There is one common thread to student life, however, where a lack of a fixed definition does not benefit anybody at the College: midterm season.

To any outsider, “midterm season” would intuitively occur around the midpoint of the fall semester. In the College’s case, this would be around mid-October. Such a timeframe for midterms would also be reasonably spaced between the beginning of the semester, when students are still getting adjusted to their new schedules, regardless of the class material, and finals season, which comes at the very end of the semester as an appropriate cumulation of all the student has learned over the past semester.

However, as the student population is aware of, midterms make their first appearances as early as late September and tests with the label of “midterm” still appear in some classes as late as November, just a few weeks before finals season. Seasons should only be fractions of any specific timeframe.

For example, football season is during one point of the year, then basketball season follows.

It is plainly evident, however, that the “midterm season” — if we are to use its start and end points as the first and last midterm exams GRAPHIC BY KELLEY WANG AND HEADSHOT BY KAYLA PAYNE / THE FLAT HAT

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Campus ghost stories highlight tragedies prevalent throughout College’s history Despite very little tangible confirmation of the existence of ghosts at the College and faulty to nonexistent historical evidence or background to the claims, all of these stories have taken root in the history of the school, both as a part of the College’s lore and developing from other, oftentimes tragic and horrific, events that occurred here — such as high levels of student suicides, Confederate histories and the abuse of native peoples.

What are the effects of these stories on campus? While some may argue that we respect the memories of victims by spreading cautionary tales about their lives, these narratives distance listeners from the issues that surround the stories by presenting a superficial image to problems that extend far beyond the College’s campus, like mental THE FLAT HAT health, colorism and bigotry.

It’s human nature to create lore around tragedy, and it’s totally fine that the stories exist. It becomes dangerous, Since the College of William and Mary was chartered in however, when they distract us from taking actual 1693, ghost stories have run rampant on our deeply action to address issues and disrespect the historic campus: tales of wispy specters floating memories of real people who suffered here. around students studying late into the night, When we tell these stories, it’s easy to lose phantoms running in the sky above the old campus touch with history and forget the real-life and casualties of war still haunting the places of horrors that occurred here. It becomes their deaths all plague one of America’s easy to forget the four students at the oldest colleges.

College that took their own lives in 2015, However, tales such as these are nowhere near as and by remembering the victims of prevalent on other campuses around the same age suicide through ghost stories, we steer as the College. Harvard University –– for example –– the conversation on campus away from is known for a few angry spirits, but by no means has prevention and more towards novelization. same the ghostly history of its Virginia counterpart.

When we tell these stories, it becomes easy Tourists travel from all over the world to the to forget that there was a time when students, College hoping to see one of our famous phantoms professors and even the College President or simply be near the several supposedly haunted enlisted in the Confederate Army. buildings here.

When we tell these stories, it becomes easy While these tales have attracted several to forget the several Native American students visitors, they’ve also become significant parts housed in Brafferton who never returned home of life here on campus for students, especially to their tribes. around Halloween.

The College, unlike several other schools For example, there’s said to be the ghost with similar histories, has done an excellent of a woman who — after an arduous night of job at addressing these issues on campus studying — died by suicide over 20 years ago with programs like The Brafferton Legacy on the third floor of St. George Tucker Hall, her Group, The Lemon Project and mental spirit occasionally reappearing to convince other health initiatives. However, it is up to students to die by suicide themselves. students to address the school’s history Some claim to hear moans and creaks in the in ways other than ghost stories. So Sir Christopher Wren Building from apparitions GRAPHIC BY DOUNIA ANSARY AND HEADSHOTS BY maybe next time you tell someone of wounded Confederate soldiers, agonizing over KAYLA PAYNE / THE FLAT HAT about the haunted past of the the pain they felt while they were still alive.

College consider the atrocities that follow them, the lives lost that are The tragic tale of a Native American boy who was captured by the represented in their spooky storylines. Because like ghosts, stories College, imprisoned in the Brafferton and ordered to learn English still often stick around longer than wanted. circulates on campus, his memory kept alive through accounts of his soul running above the Sunken Garden after escaping one night and Email Robert Goolsby at mysteriously disappearing. rdgoolsby@email.wm.edu.

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Advantageous resources and advice minimize stress caused by College course selection system

Gavin Aquin-Hernández FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR

There are two types of people in the world — those who plan ahead and those who go with the flow. I am the former; I am an obsessive planner. Everything I do, I probably have been thinking about a very long time before it gets executed.

Obviously, class schedules fall under the list of things I’m compulsively obsessing about, and I’ve reached one conclusion: I hate every possible little thing related to the College of William and Mary’s class registration system.

Because I’m aiming to mitigate the mental anguish related to this timehonored tradition of pure torture, I’m going to give you all a few tips — even though your success could very much translate into my misfortune, should you get into the classes I’m interested in taking.

Pick early: the most up-to-date spring 2020 schedule has been online for a few weeks now. Have you looked at it? Go through all the subjects you could possibly even be remotely interested in, copy and paste them into an excel spreadsheet and rank all your classes in order.

The reality is, very few people will get into every single class that’s on their shopping list, so you are going to have to prioritize a few classes that you want to get into first. Need a class that only has one section? That could probably go higher on your list than, for example, HISP 101, which

has several sections.

Throw away your pride: did Banner crash when you clicked submit on all your classes? Yeah, it happens.

Luckily, “closed section” might not always mean it’s closed for real. Send a very courteous and professional email to your professor including your 930 number, and they very well might consider giving you an override to enter the class anyway.

Bonus points if you’ve had them before or you are passionate enough about a subject to write a nerdy email.

I hate every possible little thing related to the College of William and Mary’s class registration system.

Consult : don’t really know what’s going on? Do you just want to cruise through course selection? Undecided major? Luckily there are resources for you. My pre-major advisor was

extremely helpful for me in my time of need as a freshman.

When I arrived at the College, I had no idea what to expect from classes here, nor did I really know what I wanted. Naturally, he guided me towards my passions in business, Hispanic studies and Francophone studies. Without this guiding light, I probably would’ve defaulted to something like economics — which I enjoyed but lacked a passion for — without a second thought, and have been miserable.

Likewise, RateMyProfessor and word of mouth are two things whose power to influence should never be underestimated. There are great, amazing and charismatic professors … and then there are professors who aren’t.

Some professors might prefer one teaching style more conducive to your learning and others might just lecture at you for 80 minutes.

Really, you should gather all this information before registration and decide who might be the best fit.

Personally, I’m dreading registration day, and I will likely second guess my choices until the very end of the add/drop period.

However, I hope that this advice might help you to make educated choices and to get the perfect schedule for you.

Email Gavin Aquin-Hernández at gaaquin@email.wm.edu.

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Students overlook dining resources, ignore new culinary improvements

Alyssa Slovin

FLAT HAT OPINIONS ASSOC. EDITOR

Students here at the College of William and Mary seem to always have something to complain about regarding dining services. Sometimes these complaints are about food quality and other times they criticize the limitations of Dining Dollars.

Students will complain about anything and everything related to Dining Services, and while these complaints are valid, students also ignore Dining Services’ various new improvements.

Most recently, Dining Services posted some changes to its Facebook page that I expected to attract the attention of students.

They announced that Dining Dollars would now carry over between the fall and spring semesters, something that students have wanted in the past, and that students would now be able to buy dining dollars at an 11 percent discount. This means that students who do not have the chance to use all their Dining Dollars will not be wasting all their unused Dining Dollars or scrambling to spend them on paper plates and pop tarts at the end of the semester at the Student Exchange.

It also means that students who run out of Dining Dollars can save money by purchasing additional Dining Dollars at a discounted price.

They have heard students’ complaints about Dining Dollars, so they listened.

In response, barely any students have realized, and few take advantage of these helpful, new resources.

Dining Dollars are incredibly valuable to students, and these new changes seemed like they would be a big deal to students.

In the past, I’ve witnessed someone try to buy a coffee at Aromas Cafe at Swem about halfway into the semester, only for the barista to tell him that he had $0.99 left on his account and that he would have to supplement it with cash. Students would benefit from discounted additional dining dollars because of their addiction to caffeine, sushi and Chick-fil-A. I expected everyone to be talking about these changes, but instead, when I tell my classmates about these changes, they are always surprised.

Everyone’s shocked responses made me think about how students generally do not know about new changes here at the College, especially when concerning dining services. For example, when I checked the website, I realized that students can order pizza through Commons Dining Hall and pick it up anytime between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. I had no idea that this was a resource, and I have never seen anyone take advantage of it.

Students love pizza and ease, and this option fulfills both of those qualifications, especially for those living on that side of campus.

Also, there is an entire section on the dining services website called “Gifts from Home” made for family members who want to send their hard-working students care packages full of food, whether that is a cake for their birthday, healthy food options to avoid the “freshman fifteen,” comfort food for someone who is sick or many other types of food for many other occasions. Just like before, I never knew this was available, nor have I heard of parents utilizing this simple system. Instead, they normally buy items themselves, which can add up to something much more expensive, especially if you include shipping costs.

I am not saying that dining services is perfect by any means. I still always check to see if the chicken from Sadler Center’s grill is cooked all the way through, since sometimes it isn’t, but overall, students are not aware of all the College’s improvements.

They have heard students’ complaints about Dining Dollars, so they listened. In response, barely any students have realized, and few take advantage of these helpful, new resources.

I ask all students to actually investigate dining services’ resources, as well as everything else that the College has to offer, because they may be surprised and they may want to commend the College for once.

Email Alyssa Slovin at amslovin@email.wm.edu.

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s the lights dimmed in Commonwealth Au d i t o r i u m S a t u rd ay , Nov. 2, students settled in for an evening of dance, poetry, and music as the South Asian Student Association put on their annual cultural exhibition, “Expressions.”

In a night packed full of performances, SASA highlighted the talents of its members. From fashion shows to group dances, spoken-word poetry and even a play, “Expressions” created an explosion of cultural celebration.

While the exhibition gave a creative outlet to SASA members, it also allowed them to connect as a community on campus.

“I feel like the freshman class definitely bonded really well through this experience,” “Expressions” junior co-chair Aanchal Goenka ’23 said. “As a class, we’re more reserved and quiet, and people only knew one or two people. But doing the freshman dance, especially when it was a lot of people’s first time dancing, we kind of bonded over that, and now I feel like we’re really close together because of it.”

Leading up to the performance, SASA members spent hours choreographing and rehearsing their performances, which only brought everyone closer together.

“In a short duration, we were spending hours together," “Expressions” co-director Easha Qasba ’22 said. "You’d end up getting meals with them, and it

was like, wow, we have a lot more in common than you think you do.”

The rehearsals became a space of friendship and camaraderie.

“It was a lot of fun once you get there, and you’re hanging out with your friends,” Upasana Barot ’22, “Expressions” co-director, said. “Mostly everyone’s friends with each other on SASA , which is great. You get there, and it’s a great environment to relax after a long day of going to school and doing work.”

For students like Qasba, “Expressions” was also a valuable way to express her culture and share it with the community at the College of William and Mary.

“My high school was not very diverse at all,” Qasba said.

“Coming from that school to here and getting involved in a Bollywood fusion dance team and ‘Expressions’ was like my counter to not really having that experience in high school. I had a community when I was growing up that was outside of school, and it was family friends that my parents had built a community with, and that was something that I really valued, because when you don’t have family nearby, you kind of create a family with the community around you, so this is what SASA has allowed me to do on campus.”

Barot echoed this experience, describing Expressions as a means of displaying her cultural heritage.

“I didn’t go to a very diverse school either: the only two South

Asians were my cousin and me, we were the only two in our grade,” Barot said. “Initially, when you live in a town that’s not as diverse, sometimes you’re more hesitant to embrace your identity, because you’re like, ‘oh people won’t understand,’ or they’ll judge you. But here, when we have such a big cultural showcase, I now look forward to embracing my identity and being like, ‘ok, this is our Indian show, this is our South Asian showcase, let’s embrace our identity, let’s dance to Bollywood songs and showcase our culture through our play and performances.’”

As an organization, SASA connects old and new members through their big-little program.

For Goenka, her Big urged her to perform at “Expressions.”

“I feel like that made a big difference, too, because this was my first time embracing my culture in public,” Goenka said. “Where I come from, there’s not really many Indians or South Asians. So having a big that was embracing and motivating me gave me courage to actually dance for the first time.”

Although dances played a large role in the showcase, another important element was the play: a fusion of “Mean Girls” and Bollywood film “Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham.” The plot revolved around identity, with characters struggling between conformity and staying true to their own selves, and incorporated comedic elements.

“Last year, our play was a lot more serious; it was about mental health,” Barot said. “That was great, but this year we wanted to mix it up a little and have a balance, to make it more light-hearted, but we still wanted to have a message.”

Along with messages about identity, SASA members also wanted to send a message about social change. Proceeds from the Expressions showcase went towards Doctors for You, a South Asian charity that works to improve public health and hygiene. In addition to the ticket price, audience members could purchase raffle tickets, with proceeds going directly to charity.

“We weren’t sure how much of a profit the show itself would make, so from the charity aspect, we wanted to make sure that we had a significant amount to contribute, so doing the raffle was our way of doing that,” Qasba said. “It was nice to see people willing to donate on top of buying their ticket.”

Despite the serious themes of cultural unity and activism, Qasba emphasized another underlying theme of Expressions: having fun.

“It’s supposed to be light-hearted and fun, and it’s supposed to be a way to get to know your community and show the greater William and Mary and Williamsburg community what our culture is about,” Qasba said. “It doesn’t have to be something that’s super put together. Seeing people have fun with the culture, with the music, with the dances, that’s more important to us than having a perfectly synchronized dance.”

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Shifting Shakespeare Margot Flanders ’22 and Sam Terry ’20 channel passion for theatre, create reimagined play GRACE OLSEN // FLAT HAT STAFF WRITER Renaissance women Margot Flanders ’22 and Sam Terry ’20 do it all. The two most recently completed an adaptation of tragedy to comedy in Shakespeare in the Dark’s production, “The Comedy of Lady Macbeth,” which debuted the first weekend of November.

But, for them, staging masterpieces and directing classics is just a small fraction of their individual identities.

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As a prolific member of the theatre, Flanders has proclaimed to have sold her soul to the stage. For Flanders, theatre is quite literally in her DNA, with multiple members of her family involved in theatre.

“I used to be a swimmer; I did a lot of competitive swimming, but I broke my arm when I was 12,” Flanders said. “I had just recently seen Les Mis for the first time and that is where my love of theatre began. In my hometown, we have five community theatres and so that’s where I first got involved and really fell in love with it. When I got to high school, I started directing things. My senior year, the show I directed went to the Virginia High School League state competition for one-acts. That’s where I found my love for directing.”

Of the five community theatres in Flanders’s hometown of Staunton, the American Shakespeare Center stands out. It was there that Flanders volunteered, participated in training programs and was able to prepare herself for life in the spotlight at the College of William and Mary.

“Funny story, they sent out a mailing thing with my face on it that I didn’t know about until I was working there this summer,” Flanders said. “The head of marketing was like, ‘Wait, I know you. We sent out a thing with your face on it to all of our donors.’”

The American Shakespeare Center is a world-renowned company and is most famous for its theatre, the Blackfriars Playhouse, which is the world’s first recreation of the original Blackfriars Theatre in London.

The elegant stage set the scene for Flanders becoming a committed playwright.

“I do theatre in every realm we have here at William and Mary,” Flanders said. “I am on the executive board for Sinfonicron, I’m the vice president for Shakespeare in the Dark, I have worked with Second Season, which is when seniors direct shows, and I have also worked with the mainstage.”

Terry, president of Shakespeare in the Dark, followed a similar path in her upbringing in the theatre.

“I tried out for the play in fifth grade because I had just read a book in which someone had stage fright, and I wanted to know if I had stage fright,” Terry said. “I was hooked after that but started doing theatre more formally in high school. My friends all auditioned for plays in high school and I wanted to be involved as well.”

The two eventually made their way to the College and quickly navigated their way through the theatre program to find each other. It was November of last year when Flanders and Terry began collaborating on their Macbeth project.

Beyond the personal satisfaction the duo has gained from production, they also claim to have found a sense of community and family in Shakespeare in the Dark.

“The community from Shakespeare in the Dark is exactly like it was in high school; it is like a family,” Terry said. “We were in auditions for this show, ‘The Comedy of Lady Macbeth,’ and we were at call-backs and we had these two actors who were reading lines for the characters who were kind of the heartbeat of the show. We had a lot of really silly elements in this show. They were reading together this scene that they had never read before, and there was this electricity in the room and this power and command that you could feel. It’s this magic that theatre sometimes has, but not always, that fills the room, and that is

where you are like ‘Oh this is it; this is why I do this.’”

The experience in the audition room was a significant one for Flanders as well.

“It’s those moments, especially in the audition process, where it feels like you are filling a puzzle piece and things just slide into place,” Flanders said.

However, evocative stunts, Shakespearian ruffs, comedic impressions and improvisation bits will soon be left behind by Terry as she takes her biology major into the real world.

While theatre will always be a big part of her life, she has said that she looks forward to pursuing her passion for botany when she graduates from the College of William and Mary this spring.

While only a sophomore, Flanders will be headed in the opposite direction of Terry and will continue her family legacy in the theatre.

Following in her grandfather, aunt and cousin’s footsteps, she hopes to stay involved in the theatre and translate her gift into something tangible by teaching theatre to future generations.

Fellowship of the symphony William and Mary Symphony Orchestra performs “A Trip to the Shire” in full costume on Halloween CAROLINE ELSZY // THE FLAT HAT Seated in Commonwealth Auditorium with the lights dimmed, eyes forward and attentive, the audience fell silent. The sophistication of the College of William and Mary Symphony Orchestra concert soon to follow seemed to demand it, in a form of unspoken agreement.

But for this particular event on Halloween, the orchestra provided a little twist. Rather than the vast array of black suits and dresses that normally accompany these performances, the students were dressed in full costume.

This orchestra ensemble featured two bumblebees, Tinkerbell, Smurfette, a giraffe, some M&Ms and even Gandalf, his tall, pointy hat noticeable like an elephant in the distance.

Adding to the Halloween cheer, concertmaster Benjamin Netzer ’22 walked in, holding his violin and wearing a pigeon hat. He faced the audience and bowed his feathered head solemnly. The performance was about to begin.

Oct. 31, the William and Mary Symphony Orchestra presented “A Trip to the Shire,” which was conducted by professor David Grandis, along with his guest conductor, Ayush Joshi ’22. The main highlight of the performance was its “The Lord of the Rings” theme. According to Tiana Johnson ’20, this thematic decision was a way to reel in new faces, and to warmly invite people to experience Frodo’s journey through music.

“The Shire is his home,” Johnson said. “It’s the idea of us being here and being together and creating something that is welcoming and opening for an audience. … That’s what we’re trying to do.”

Members of the audience identified with the theme of the concert, allowing them to connect

with the orchestra’s musical selections. “‘Lord of the Rings’ is a part of my childhood,” audience member Annalise Schader ’22 said. “I watched it growing up with my family, so hearing this was really nostalgic for me. It brought back really good memories like hanging out with my family and having movie nights. It was heartwarming.”

The orchestra began the concert with their rendition of “On the Beautiful Blue Danube” by Johann Strauss II. The song began with a slow and impressive crescendo of strings, brass, woodwinds and percussions, in that specific order.

The selection showcased the independence of each instrument, all contributing to one waltz.

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The student performers’ excitement for the show was no different. Preparations for the performance began as soon as possible, and so did orchestra members’ plans for costumes.

“People invested a lot of time and thought over the summer,” Johnson, who was dressed as the One Ring to Rule them All, said.

Next the group performed “Masquerade Suite” by Aram Khachaturian, which is a collection of five movements: Waltz, Nocturne, Mazurka, Romance and Galop.

It featured a diverse range of sounds, from the somber violins in Nocturne to the booming tuba in Galop.

The suite was followed by “Peer Gynt Suite No. 1” by Edvard Greig. It contains four movements, with “Morning Mood” and “In the Hall of the Mountain King” being two popularly used pieces in modern culture.

During the show’s intermission, the orchestra hosted its annual costume contest.

A group of judges selected a winner from the audience, the prize being an opportunity to conduct the symphony. The William and Mary Symphony Orchestra tried to engage the audience in their performance, using the music as a way to bring people together, and to help them connect.

“Music is what we can all understand,” Netzer said. “It reaches straight to the heart.”

The performance combined both aspects of classical music with music from an iconic book series and film, allowing different communities to pull something different out of every moment.

“You need to try to picture what’s happening,” Johnson said. “It’s a narrative. Music captures those feelings that are even more touching than words can be sometimes.”

After intermission, the “Trip to the Shire” was carried out with three excerpts from “The Lord of the Rings” soundtrack: “The Hobbit : An Unexpected Journey,” “The Lighting of the Beacons” and “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,” which featured a young boy soprano soloist, guest performer Luke Brooks.

After the final song, and a brief moment of silence, the crowd erupted into applause, cheering for the costumes, execution, the music that ties people together, and most of all, for delivering their dear Frodo Baggins off to safety.

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FOOTBALL

Tribe triumphs in marathon match

Gutsy two-point conversion by Wright gives college first victory since September MATTHEW KORTAN THE FLAT HAT This season went off the rails rather quickly for William and Mary (3-6, 1-4 CAA). The Tribe looked dominant at home in a pair of wins back in late August and early September but had not won a game since. Still starving for a triumph over any Colonial Athletic Association rival and with playoff hopes dead, for all intents and purposes, head coach Mike London’s team entered the Saturday, Nov. 2, clash with Elon (4-5, 3-3 CAA) trapped under the shroud of a five-game losing skid.

However, in the true spirit of the Halloween season, the Tribe rose from the dead just in time for the 2 p.m. kickoff, playing with the same vigor fans had been expecting for the better part of two months. In a game that could only be described as a true thriller, albeit sloppy, the Tribe buried the Phoenix 31-29 after five overtime periods.

The Tribe held a three-point advantage off sophomore kicker Jake Johnston’s field goal early in the game when the offenses woke up.

Phoenix quarterback Davis Cheek led a methodical march to the Tribe end zone to claim the lead for the first time with 12 minutes remaining in the first half.

On the ensuing Tribe possession, a three-pronged rushing attack of freshman quarterback Hollis Mathis, freshman do-itall safety Bronson Yoder, and sophomore running back Owen Wright set the stage for the first Tribe touchdown. Junior tight end Anthony Mague reeled in a 32-yard bomb from Mathis for the first score of his career.

The Tribe led 10-7.

The Phoenix offense was not discouraged.

Again, Cheek picked apart the Tribe secondary.

He cemented his first-half mastery with a fouryard touchdown toss to receiver Kortez Weeks.

Cheek and company also used up nearly all that remained of the eight minutes left in the second quarter with the scoring drive. At halftime, the Phoenix led the Tribe 14-10.

To begin the third quarter, Yoder singlehandedly attacked the Phoenix on the ground. Three minutes into the second half, fellow freshman running back Donavyn Lester

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After the fourth overtime, teams alternate two point conversion attempts with the first team to score winning the game.

found the end zone and the Tribe retook the lead. Following an Elon punt, the College had the opportunity to amplify its lead starting with fantastic field position. Mathis looked dynamic, leading the Tribe into field goal range with his arm and his legs. But, Johnston failed to convert a 35-yard field goal.

The score held. The Phoenix came back and delivered a field goal of their own. The game was knotted at 17.

When the Tribe got the ball back, an explosive 30-yard Yoder kickoff return preceded a 30-yard touchdown rush on the other end of the field by Wright. Johnston’s woes persisted as he missed

the extra point, but the Tribe still held a 23-17 lead at the end of the third quarter. The Phoenix reached the Tribe red zone to start the fourth quarter. With its back against the wall, the Tribe defense came up with a crucial stop to force a field goal. The scoreboard read 23-20 Tribe. Defensive standouts included senior linebackers Gavin Johnson (3 sacks, 9 tackles) and Nate Atkins (11 tackles), as well as junior linebacker Tyler Crist (1 sacks, 2.5 tackles for loss) and senior cornerback Corey Parker (4 passes defended, 1 blocked punt).

During the final sequence of regulation, the Tribe offense did what it could to put the

game away, reaching field goal range twice, but walking away with no points both times. It started when Johnston couldn’t capitalize on a chip-shot 23 yarder.

Then, the Phoenix tied the game again at 23 by responding with their own field goal.

With a little over one minute to play, Crist’s 22-yard kickoff return granted the Tribe the field position it needed to move in for a game winning score.

Despite nearly losing a fumble, Mathis advanced the ball deep enough into Phoenix territory to attempt a game winning field goal.

Johnston was replaced by senior kicker Kris Hooper, but to no avail. The 49-yard try missed as time expired. Overtime began tied at 23.

The teams each recorded two missed field goals, a touchdown, and a turnover apiece for the first four overtime periods. For the Tribe, Mathis lost a fumble one yard away from what could have been a touchdown in the first overtime. When freshman cornerback Latrelle Smith intercepted Cheek in the second overtime, the Tribe had an opportunity to win the game with just a field goal.

Johnston was reinstated for a shot at redemption. The 33-yard kick sailed outside the uprights. Mathis delivered a 25-yard dart to Mague in the third overtime to put the Tribe ahead. A two-point conversion failed.

Cheek responded with a touchdown toss of his own, but Elon missed the two-point conversion attempt for the victory. Per National Collegiate Athletic Association rules, two-point tries are required for every touchdown after the second overtime. In the fourth overtime with the game tied at 29, both teams missed field goals.

A new college rule came into play in the 5th overtime. At this point, teams alternate twopoint conversion tries alone, eliminating drives starting from the opponents 25-yard line. When Wright powered across the goal line on the Tribe’s first of these two-point only possessions and the defense held on Elon’s try, the game finally ended. The Tribe triumphed 31-29 and the five-game losing streak was over.

The College will attempt to keep this newfound momentum going for the upcoming home games. The tribe is slated to play Rhode Island Nov. 9 and Towson Nov. 16 at Zable Stadium in Williamsburg.

CROSS COUNTRY

Tribe runners top CAA championships yet again Men’s team places first for 20th consecutive year, women’s team takes third with four runners named All-CAA athletes COLLIN ANDERSON FLAT HAT ASSOC. SPORTS EDITOR Saturday morning, Nov. 2, in New Market, Virginia, William and Mary put in another dominating performance at the Colonial Athletic Association championships. The men placed first overall with 27 points for an unprecedented 20th-consecutive conference title.

On the women’s side, the College finished in third with 68 points.

Coming into the meet, redshirt junior JP Trojan had been one of the most dominant CAA performers all season, with two wins at the Penn State National meet and the Panorama Farms Invitational.

The Ohio native ran a blistering time of 24:04 to place second overall, only beaten by Alex Masai of Hofstra who dipped under 24 minutes with a winning time of 23:54.5. Five Tribe athletes finished on the all-conference led by Trojan in second, followed closely by redshirt sophomore Evan Goodell in fourth, junior Spencer Tsai in fifth, senior Cooper Leslie in sixth and redshirt-sophomore Patrick Lynch in 10th overall.

All 12 Tribe runners finished in the top 50.

The win marked the 20th-straight year atop the CAA for the Tribe men, which currently stands as the second-longest streak in the nation, behind only Iona of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.

The Gaels have won 29 straight conference titles. The College also owns the third-most conference titles in National Collegiate Athletic Association history, behind national powerhouses Wisconsin and Arkansas.

On the women’s side, the Tribe had four all-conference runners en route to a third-place finish to continue its impressive season. The Tribe scored 68 points to finish just six points behind second-place Delaware. The College was led by freshman Emma Rogers, who finished in 7th place to pace the Tribe. Liv Paxton finished one spot behind in eighth place while senior Charlotte Kowalk and junior Lauren Finikiotis rounded out the all-conference team in 10th and 12th place respectively.

Saturday marked the second year in a row on the all-conference team for Kowalk, while Finikiotis made the team for the third year in a row. Elon put three runners in the top five to finish first overall.

Up next, the men’s and women’s teams will have the weekend off to prepare for the biggest meet of the season, the NCAA Southeast Region Championships in Charlottesville, Virginia.

During the postseason, Trojan will return to the Panorama Farms course where he last won in September.

The men will race 10 kilometers in that race instead of the typical eight and the women will continue to run six. That race will take place Nov. 15, with action set to start at 11:30 a.m.

The Tribe will look to qualify for the national championships in Terre Haute, Indiana in that race.

CAA WINS

WILLIAM AND MARY LAST 20 YEARS

33

OLYMPIC TRIAL QUALIFIERS

20

ATHLETES NAMED TO ALL-CAA

131

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The men’s team earned 27 points during its 20th consecutive CAA championship, the second longest active streak in the nation.

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MEN’S SOCCER

College topples Dukes in 3-2 upset In last home game of regular season, strong second half Tribe offense takes down JMU

GAVIN AQUIN-HERNÁNDEZ FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR William and Mary travelled to Harrisonburg, Virginia to take on Colonial Athletic Association foe James Madison Satuday Nov. 2. Showing grit and resilience, the Tribe (6-8-2, 4-31 CAA) was able to defeat the No. 21 Dukes (10-6-2, 5-2-1 CAA) in a thrilling 3-2 upset to close out the regular season.

Though the Dukes and the Tribe were scoreless in the first half, play remained highly competitive. In the 65th minute, the Dukes were awarded a penalty kick; Dukes midfielder Manuel Ferriol — ranked among the top-five players nationally in points and goals — converted the penalty into a goal, giving the home team a 1-0 lead.

However, just 16 seconds after the Dukes goal, senior midfielder Julian Ngoh was able to sneak a spot kick past Dukes goalkeeper T.J. Busch, bringing the score to an even 1-1.

Not to be outdone so quickly, the Dukes took back the lead in the 69th minute. Through a combination pass on the right side, Dukes midfielder Petur Thorsteinsson sent a shot on frame that was able to catch a deflection and lift up over the top of Tribe freshman goalkeeper Kieran Baskett to give the Dukes their 2-1 lead.

Continuing the trend of mirrored actions, the Tribe was likewise able to benefit from a deflected goal just two minutes later when sophomore midfielder John Eberle squared a pass to freshman forward Alexander Levengood

inside the top of the 18. Levengood’s shot toward the post bounced off a defender and into the middle of the goal, bringing the game squarely to a 2-2 tie.

Ushering the highly contested match to a close after six exciting minutes of scoring from both sides, redshirt freshman Theo Biddle was able to send a corner kick into the goal in the 88th minute to give the Tribe its first road win against a nationally-ranked team since 2013 when it defeated No. 1 North Carolina. Notably, the game winner was also Biddle’s first collegiate goal.

After Ngoh had earned a corner kick, freshman midfielder Alfredo Bozalongo sent the set piece through to the penalty area, where Biddle was able to elevate the ball right past the post to give the Tribe the win.

Tribe head coach Chris Norris remarked positively to the Tribe’s first regular-season win at James Madison since 2010.

“We are really happy with the performance tonight,” Norris said.

“The guys were focused, played hard and were sharp overall. We showed a lot of fight as well, after going behind twice. It’s a good way to finish the regular season.”

Most notably as a result of this match, the College finished fourth in the CAA standings and will head to Wilmington, North Carolina to face No. 5-seed Northeastern Friday, Nov. 8. The victor of that match will face top seed and regular season CAA champion North Carolina-Wilmington Nov. 10.

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Six minutes of the match’s gametime helped to determine the victor: after a 2-2 tie, redshirt freshman Theo Biddle’s 88th minute goal took the game.