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Michael D’Orso ’75 discusses streaking, skiing and getting into trouble at the College.

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The College of William and Mary’s Earl Gregg Swem Library received its largest private contribution of nearly $2 million from long-time volunteer Frances Lightfoot Robb ’48.

The contribution established two endowments.

The larger portion, called the Robert Gilchrist Robb, Jr. Endowment after the donor’s brother, will support staffing and salaries for Swem employees, and the smaller endowment, named the Frances Randolph Howard Endowment after her mother, will fund the acquisition, processing and preservation of documents in the library’s Special Collections Research Center.

According to Swem Library’s Director of Development Kimberly Separ ’91, Robb had a specific vision for the donation, which she detailed in her will.

“She was very clear that she wanted the money to help benefit both the people and the collections of Swem in her estate plans,” Separ said.

Robb, who passed away in 2013, had a long history with the College and the Williamsburg community. Part of a family with a history in the Tidewater region dating back to the 18th century, Robb’s father was a chemistry professor at the College and mended books in the library for Earl Gregg Swem. After working in the national office of the Phi Beta Kappa Society for several years, Robb returned to Williamsburg and became an active supporter of the College and Swem Library.

“Frances was a popular person and just a wonderful personality — kind and intelligent, just one of these people that was easy to talk to and always knew what was going on,” Manuscripts and Rare Books Librarian Susan Riggs said.

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Coalition announces new SA plans to launch promised website application procedure Whitaker hopes functional webpage will be up by November College strays from past Common App MIGUEL LOCSIN THE FLAT HAT

The Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success, made up of more than 80 American universities, including the College of William and Mary, is developing new tools and a new admissions process aimed at optimizing and providing more access for potentially all high school students across America.

The Coalition’s members include several Virginia universities, such as the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, James Madison University and the College. When the application is released, it will be the first time these four Virginia universities will be represented on one application.

The application currently being developed will be designed as

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an alternative to the Common Application that is widely used by high school and transfer students all across the United States. Moreover, the Coalition is developing new tools and activities designed to help high school students, starting as early as ninth grade, get familiar with and start preparing for the college admissions process.

“It is designed to be a place where high school students can start putting information about themselves … almost like a ‘locker’ where they can keep track of information throughout their high school career,” Dean of Admissions Tim Wolfe ’95 M.Ed. ’01 said.

Students will be able to collect activities, writing samples and personal information and store it in an online portfolio that allows

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The Student Assembly has not had a consistently working website for several years, despite campaign promises by several presidential hopefuls every year.

Current SA President Yohance Whitaker ’16 and his team are working to change that pattern this fall.

The lack of a functioning website is not a new problem for the SA. For several years, creating a website has been a continuous endeavor. Previous SA presidents have

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promised to create a working site without delivering results. According to Whitaker, the problem in the past was that teams tried to make elaborate, showy sites; however, they could never get the job done.

“Each year a new team promises a whiz-bang website with more bells and whistles than the last website,” Whitaker said in an email. “Quite simply, that is not an effective use of time.”

The SA is constantly working on many projects at once; therefore, efficiency is key. Whitaker’s new approach is to create a comprehensive, stable page on the College of William and Mary website that does not have to be reconstructed each year. This will allow the SA to maintain the site despite changes in leadership over the years.

“The Student Assembly has not yet succeeded in transitioning websites from one team to another team,” Whitaker said.

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Michael D’Orso ’75 discusses streaking, skiing and school ELEANOR LAMB // FLAT HAT ASSOC. NEWS EDITOR

Michael D’Orso ’75 lived in the old Eastern State Hospital building his freshman year at the College of William and Mary. The dilapidated hospital had been repurposed into a freshman dorm, called James Blair Terrace. Today, it is known as the Dillard Complex.

“It was like something out of a horror film,” D’Orso said. “Freshmen either lived at Yates or [James Blair Terrace]. It still had speakers on the walls for calling nurses and doctors. It was dark and dingy.”

While D’Orso became close with his fellow Terrace-dwellers, he also encountered mental patients on several occasions. He recalled that the new Eastern State Hospital was located across the lawn from his dorm. Outpatients, who were free to wander during certain hours, would come into James Blair Terrace and sit with freshman as they watched television.

D’Orso and his freshman friends were none the wiser whether these newcomers were patients or other students they had yet to meet.

Living in James Blair Terrace, located three miles from campus, was a bonding experience for D’Orso and his fellow freshmen. His freshman roommate left school after two weeks, which gave D’Orso the rare privilege of living in a single.

“It was like living on an island. You were a survivor,” D’Orso said. “We sort of felt like a tribe.”

The remote location forced D’Orso to master the bus system. When he was on campus, he spent most of his time at Blow Memorial Hall, which previously served as a gym. He worked out with his friends and also worked in an office position at the gym.

As a former high school athlete, D’Orso immediately threw himself into the world of college sports. While he initially was cut from the freshman basketball team, he ended up becoming a star of an intramural team he played on with his friends. He averaged 46 points a game, and his team was added to the intramural championship wall in the gym.

When D’Orso was not playing sports, he was writing about them. He covered the freshman football team for The Flat Hat. During his time as a reporter, he interviewed Coach Lou Holtz, who went on to coach for North Carolina State University and the New York Jets.

Because D’Orso spent the first semester of his freshman year wrapped up in sports, he learned a difficult lesson: he was not academically prepared for the College. The first semester of school, his grades suffered.

D’Orso recalled that, in high school, his mother would threaten him to do well in school, telling him students who performed poorly became ditch diggers. When D’Orso received his first semester report card, he brought it back to his room and opened it with dismay. He had received three Cs and an F. “My first thought was ‘What does a ditch digger actually do?’” D’Orso said. “I was shocked.”

This disappointing report card served as a wake-up call for D’Orso. The next semester,

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he made a change in his dedication to his studies. Instead of spening all his free time in Blow Gymnasium, he began putting hours at Earl Gregg Swem Library.

Although he continued to play intramural sports, he made his team a lower priority.

By the end of his freshman year, D’Orso had made a positive change in his grades.

“I took five classes, I got five Bs, and my confidence was restored,” D’Orso said.

While D’Orso focused on his grades after his upsetting academic performance first semester, he said he and his friends still managed to find time for mischief.

After his freshman year, D’Orso lived much closer to the heart of campus. He spent his sophomore and junior years in Dawson Hall, which he enjoyed because of its close proximity to Zable Stadium. Senior year, he lived in the Ludwell Apartments.

One day, he and his friends made a plan to

the press box’s phone, D’Orso accidentally activated the scoreboard.

“I press one switch and the whole scoreboard lights up,” D’Orso said. “Chief Wahoo starts blinking on and off. We couldn’t figure out how to turn it off. We ran like scared rabbits.”

Despite his many antics during his time at the College, D’Orso graduated in 1975 with a degree in Philosophy. After graduation, he was accepted into both DePaul University’s Law School and the College’s Law School.

However, he decided to forego a law degree and go to Colorado to ski instead. When he realized being a ski bum was not a viable career option, D’Orso returned to Williamsburg, contemplating giving law school a second try.

After a long conversation with the dean about his future, D’Orso ultimately did not pursue law school. In 1978, he took a position at Kempsville High School in Virginia Beach,

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D’Orso graduated with a degree in philosophy in 1975, worked in journalism, and now writes nonfiction books.

drive from Ludwell to the Commons Dining Hall and go streaking. Although this plan was supposed to be a surprise, someone found out they were doing it and spread the word. When D’Orso and his friends pulled up in a friend’s bread delivery truck to the Commons, about 80 students had gathered to cheer them on.

“I was in nothing but shoes and a hat,” D’Orso said. “We streaked right through the Commons. We got away just in time.”

During his days in Dawson, D’Orso and five friends climbed into the football stadium press box at midnight on a weekday. At this time, the College’s mascot was Chief Wahoo, and the team name was the “Indians.” On the scoreboard, there was a huge image of Chief Wahoo, which would light up in the event of a touchdown. While D’Orso’s friends were making long-distance calls to California from

where he taught tenth grade English. After teaching there for one year, he decided to go back to graduate school for teaching.

During his time in graduate school, D’Orso worked for William and Mary News, writing stories and taking photographs. He lived in oncampus housing with his wife, who had taken a position with Residence Life. They spent the first three years of their marriage in DuPont Hall. He then worked for the Virginian-Pilot.

He now writes books on various subjects, from sports to public school education to politics.

D’Orso recalled that the best part of his time at the College was the sense of belonging.

“I grew up in the military. I hated it,” D’Orso said. “I wanted to belong. [The College] was so important to me in that way.”

Flat Hat News Editor Amanda Williams contributed to this story.

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Title IX data released in Task Force report Investigation and Adjudication Subcommittee recommends policy changes MEILAN SOLLY FLAT HAT REPORTER-AT-LARGE

Between the 2011-12 and 2012-13 academic years, the number of sexual harassment or assault reports at the College of William and Mary rose from 17 to 30, according to Title IX data included in the William and Mary Task Force on the Prevention of Sexual Assault and Harassment report released in September. In the 20132014 school year, the number of reports filed dropped to 25.

Of these reported incidents — 72 total across the three academic years — 24 were investigated. Two cases were adjudicated with a student found not responsible, while 20 were adjudicated and resulted in a policy violation for a student.

According to the report, the number of adjudications per year is rising. It states that the College averaged one adjudication related to Title IX per year in a recent five-year span, while in the 2013-14 school year, this number increased to seven. In 2014-15, the College was set to adjudicate 12 cases.

Complete Title IX data from the 2014-15 school year has not yet been released. “[The data] has been delayed by our Office’s focus on finalizing and implementing the new procedure, creating the website, and responding to reports,” Title IX Chief Compliance Officer Kiersten Boyce said in an email. “We are working to get the data online, ideally in an improved format (more user-friendly), by the end of the month.”

While the task force’s campus climate subcommittee focused primarily on data collection and analysis, the investigation and adjudication subcommittee was guided more by details of past cases than overall Title IX data. However, given the role of investigation and adjudication in the data, Title IX was still an aspect of the subcommittee’s discussion.

The four-person group was made up of subcommittee chair and Associate Dean of Students Dave Gilbert, professor Carolyn Ward, Mallory Tucker ’15 and Boyce.

“The subcommittee’s charge from [College President Taylor Reveley] was to examine and make recommendations regarding current university practices and procedures for investigation and adjudicating allegations of sexual misconduct,” Gilbert said in an email. “The subcommittee had over 20 recommendations, ranging from clarifying policy definitions to retaining a trained appellate advisor for the Provost’s Office.”

One of the subcommittee’s recommendations was to determine the correct model for resolution of student sexual misconduct incidents.

At the time of the task force’s creation, the College followed a hybrid model where trained investigators researched cases and adjudication took the form of a panel hearing.

The committee presented two alternative models: a civil rights model, where investigators decide which violations occurred after concluding their investigation instead of relying on a hearing, or a hearing model, where the hearing is the only way to gather facts and determine violations.

In choosing a model, Ward said it is necessary to consider both the accuracy of outcomes and the harshness of potential sanctions.

“Where the potential sanctions for a conduct-code violation are light — not involving permanent marks on a student’s record or removal of the student from the school — then the need for procedural protections is not as great as when harsher sanctions are involved,” Ward said in an email. “And, when the harshest sanctions available to colleges — sanctions such as expulsion or permanent markings on a record or a transcript — the need for procedural protections that ensure accurate outcomes is at its most intense.”

Following the release of the subcommittee’s recommendations, as well as the rest of the task force report, the College decided to update its model to an Interim Sexual Harassment and Misconduct Procedure starting in the fall 2015 semester.

“The prior model involved an investigation followed by either administrative resolution through the Student Conduct Office or, more commonly, a hearing before a panel comprised of two administrators and one student,” Gilbert said in an email. “Under the new process, the investigation is documented in a report that is shared with the parties for review and response before finalization. The investigators then may conduct further investigation or make additions to the report. The final report is submitted to the dean of students for a determination as to whether a policy violation occurred. As with the prior model, each party may appeal to the Provost.”

Another subcommittee recommendation discussed the College’s definitions of consent and incapacitation. Ward said that many universities are moving toward an “affirmative consent” standard that questions if the parties in a sexual encounter have voluntarily and affirmatively agreed to engage in sexual activity and whether such agreement continued throughout the sexual encounter.

“William and Mary’s standard of sexual consent — which states, for

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example, that consent ‘[i]s not merely the absence of a verbally stated ‘no.’ … [i]s never final or irrevocable. … [i]s time-limited and situationspecific, … [and] [c]an only be given by someone who is free from verbal or physical coercion, intimidation, threat, or force’ — captures the main elements in most of these standards,” Ward said in an email.

According to Ward, the goal of the affirmative consent standard is to create mutual respect and a lack of coercion, but critics say that the lack of language clarity in consent standards could lead to questions in the investigation and disciplinary processes.

As for the definition of incapacitation, Ward said that the College’s policy adheres to three core elements: responsibility for sexual contact will be judged from the viewpoint of a sober and reasonable person in the same situation, the responding party’s own intoxication is not grounds for sexual misconduct, and person who is incapacitated, especially due to intoxication, cannot consent to sexual activity.

The subcommittee report listed specific suggested revisions to the current policy’s definitions, which were then modified in the Interim Policy on Sexual Harassment and Misconduct, Dating and Domestic Violence, and Stalking.

“The goal was to provide greater clarity rather than to substantively change what constituted consent or incapacitation,” Gilbert said in an email.

A third key recommendation discussed minimum sanctions for non-consensual sexual intercourse. In February 2015, the subcommittee noted the minimum sanction of one semester of suspension was lower than many other universities and raised it to one full year. In the June 2015 report, the committee suggested keeping the two semester minimum suspension given the serious nature of the act.

Gilbert said in an email that students who receive the minimum suspension are atypical, with most suspensions lasting for at least the duration of the reporting party’s remaining time at the college, usually more than a year.

The report itself also reinforces the idea that minimum suspensions should be stressed less than more severe punishments: “The university must emphasize that in some cases, dismissal would be appropriate — in cases with evidence of force, use of date rape drugs, prior history of violence, predatory behavior, etc.”

Since the release of the task force report, the College has published an Interim Policy and Procedure, revised in accordance with the subcommittee’s recommendations. It has also hired a new investigator for the Office of Compliance and Equity, as well as an advisor to assist the provost with his review and response to appeals.

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College junior launches app for event connections Martocci hosted launch party Saturday night to promote his app Clique at the College SARAH SMITH THE FLAT HAT

Clique, an app that aims to break down social barriers and create new friendships, officially launched at the College of William and Mary Saturday, Oct. 17.

The app’s co-founders Michael Martocci ’17 and Anthony Golaszewski from Rutgers University created the app that they hope will allow students to socialize with fellow students who share similar interests. The app lets users see groups of people who are hanging out nearby as well as see “sideline” users who are available but have not yet posted.

“The inspiration of the app came from the love of basketball,” Golaszewski said in an email. “The game taught me to compete and strive to win.

Playing … helped me form long term friendships with teammates and opponents. The reason we formed these friendships was because of the common interest of basketball. After my first year at St. Joseph’s College in Brooklyn, New York, I realized I wanted to move back home and attend Rutgers University. I was eating at a diner and a teacher asked me how my day was going. We chatted for a bit and we had a common connection, we both loved the game of basketball. We named our favorite players and talked about who the best teams in the NBA were. I asked him ‘do you know where people play pick-up games on campus?’ and he replied ‘since I was here, I haven’t seen many people playing at the park or Rec Center.’ I searched the App Store for an app that could assist me but the results turned out negative.”

Following this encounter, Golaszewski reached out to Martocci to start designing an app. They began drawing out their initial visions for the app and then started using Photoshop to create more elaborate designs.

“I got this idea that there are more potential uses for this app than to find people to play basketball with,” Martocci said. “I thought it could be a way to bring campus communities together. Something I’ve been really thinking about is how we shelter ourselves and gravitate towards a small group of friends at the start of college. We get stuck there for a while, but there’s all these potential new friends out there on the other side of campus who you haven’t crossed paths with who could be a potential best friend. My driving passion for getting involved with this was that I wanted to bring people together that otherwise might not have come into contact with each other.”

The co-founders purchased a design theme for the app online and then modified it on Photoshop. Then they outsourced the coding to the Indian company Colan Infotech. Golaszewski and Martocci worked every day making sure their design visions matched up with the coding. Once this process was done, they worked on getting their app approved by the App Store.

Martocci and Golaszewski first launched the app July 1, so they needed to have the app approved and uploaded to the App Store by then. After working with the App Store to fix some small errors, Clique was ready to be downloaded.

“It was a soft launch in July,” Martocci said. “We just shared it with friends and family back home

to see how they interacted with the app. Over the summer we got about 1500 downloads, and we got good feedback. Once school started we went into hibernation mode and worked on it for two more months to get it to a point where it was ready to be shared at William and Mary.”

For current users of the app, like Perry Shands ’16, the app serves as a way to use technology while still getting to have face-to-face interaction.

“I think most apps and technology these days are designed to decrease the need for face-to-face interaction, but Clique is doing just the opposite,” Shands said in an email. “It uses technology to bring you closer to other people.”

The app has been advertised on Facebook and through friends, but an official launch party on Oct. 10 was the first big push to introduce it to the College. Once the founders are ready, students at other campuses will also start promoting the app.

“While I am not officially associated with Clique, I have been a witness and supporter of the idea from the beginning,” Gavin Oplinger ’16 said in an email. “We often discuss upcoming changes over lunch, and often bounce around ideas. This summer I took Clique to an international scale and made events in Europe, and I hope it really takes off.”

The partners have been working since October 2014 and have since made many changes, including bringing on a chief technology officer and intern developers who will help with making coding possible in-house. In the next few months, Martocci also says he sees much room for growth in the visual experience with the app.

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MartoccI designed Clique with a friend at Rutgers University.

While the partners do not currently make any profit off of the app and have funded it solely from personal savings, they know that sometime in the future they will also have to start making money.

According to Martocci though, they don’t plan on doing that for a while.

“I have a weird background in this; I’m a finance major,” Martocci said. “This was never my plan in life. When I first started I thought we would make lots of money since apps are viable, but then I started to realize that what makes me happy about this app isn’t that I’m going to make money, but seeing other friends using this app and meeting up.

I just want to see that this app becomes useful for people. I want to bring people together. It can be very helpful and important to our community. We pride ourselves on being a Tribe, but in practice we all have our groups around campus. We want this app to really bring out that Tribe feeling.”

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Virginia correspondences between the Civil War and the mid-twentieth century, and identify photographs of her own family. Robb also had a presence in the everyday life of the community.

“She would walk over here to the library and you’d find her up on the second floor reading the newspapers in between volunteering for Special Collections,” Riggs said. “Frances didn’t drive, but Frances could beat any of us to any new restaurants that opened in Williamsburg.”

During her lifetime, Robb donated several items to Special Collections, including a portrait by American painter Thomas Sully, a letter of recommendation

from Thomas Jefferson to one of her ancestors, and family documents.

The gift from Robb provides a payout annually of approximately $8,000 to Special Collections and allows the staff to determine whether it will be allocated toward buying new items or preserving existing ones. The gift has already allowed the purchase of several documents, including correspondences from the Vietnam War, letters to and from families in Japanese internment camps during World War II, a facsimile of the Renaissance-period Voynich Manuscript, and works by the transgender poet Samuel Ace. Private sources fund 30 percent of Swem’s budget. These donations allow the Library to fund collections, staff,

and the building beyond the amount of money received from university support.

“For an institution the size of William & Mary, the Special Collections is amazing for its wonderful rare and unique materials,” Director of Special Collections Gerald Gaidmore said in an email. “There [are] not too many places where you can pull out letters written by four Presidents (Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, and Taylor) and the law notebooks of one of our greatest jurists, John Marshall, or show a first edition of the Book of Mormon and an annotated version of Isaac Newton’s Principia. We have such great materials because of people like Ms. Robb who have given us the capabilities to purchase important materials and not just rely on the donation of materials.”

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Robb graduated from the College in 1948 and donated multiple items to the library in her lifetime.

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STUDENT ASSEMBLY

SA hosts LGBTQ panel of professors Group coordinated student, faculty alliance after discussion AKEMI TAMANAHA THE FLAT HAT

Students and staff gathered in Tidewater A Wednesday night to listen to a panel of professors discuss LGBTQ issues. The panel became an open discussion between students and faculty on how to make the College of William and Mary a better place for LGBTQ students.

Lauren Magnussen ’16, an undersecretary of LGBTQ affairs for the Student Assembly Department of Diversity, organized the panel to provide students with information and resources on LGBTQ issues.

“My goal is to have out, questioning, closeted and allied students leave with concrete advice, concrete tips about how to navigate queer life on campus, combat discrimination, and get more involved in activism,” Magnussen said.

Magnussen also said she hoped that the panel would encourage underclassmen to view professors as resources. Having developed strong relationships with some of her professors,

Magnussen said she organized the panel in hopes that underclassmen would be able to do the same.

“I think it’s really hard for underclassmen to reach out to professors, and I’m hoping that by having professors on this panel will kind of show them that they’re human,” Magnussen said.

There were six professors on the panel: Director of gender, sexuality and women’s studies and associate professor of English Jennifer Putzi, visiting assistant professor of gender, sexuality and women’s studies Victoria Castillo, associate professor of history and American studies Leisa Meyers, professor of English and American studies Elizabeth Barnes, assistant professor of English Chelsey Johnson and assistant professor of biology Helen Murphy. Associate Director of the Center Student for Student Diversity Margaret Cook was also a panelist.

The panel answered several questions about the barriers queer college students and queer professionals face. One issue discussed was the barriers LGBTQ students face in fields of study outside of gender, sexuality and women’s studies.

“As the director of gender, sexuality and women’s studies, one of the concerns I have is when students come in to me and say, ‘The only place I see myself is in these classes.’ It’s like queers belong in GSWS and they don’t belong anywhere else,” Putzi said.

STEM students in the audience voiced similar frustration with the academic stereotyping of LGBTQ students. Other students pointed them to groups like oSTEM, a group for queer STEM students, and S.C.O.P.E., a group that addresses the lack of diversity in STEM fields.

A recurring theme among the panel’s comments was the need for institutional change. Panelists and students felt that not enough money and resources were being devoted to LGBTQ issues.

However, Cook, who deals with LGBTQ issues on a more institutional level, was optimistic.

“We’re in a good place. Yes, there’s a lot of work to still do, but I’m not encountering resistance to ideas about change and what needs to happen,” Cook said.

As Magnussen had hoped, the professors also

gave students a wide range of advice on how to combat discrimination and increase their activism.

Cook offered students advice on how to work with administrators, while Johnson encouraged quieter students to find their own ways of being an activist.

“Sometimes it’s a matter of making your art, whether you’re a painter, a musician or whatever,” Johnson said. “Doing your thing and doing it well and that’s the way you get your voice out into the world. Another is doing volunteering or teaching.

Whatever things come naturally to you, I think, are really important in figuring out how you can be an activist.”

At the end of the panel, professors asked students what they thought some of the biggest barriers to queer students on campus were. Both the panel and the audience agreed that they should form a student and faculty LGBTQ alliance.

Magnussen has created a Facebook group for the alliance called LGBTQ Student/Faculty Alliance. She said she is meeting with Cook and other LGBTQ leaders about the alliance in the coming weeks.

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Students attend weekend Hacking Arts event Team plans to bring similar hacking conference to College in 2016-2017 JULIA STUMBAUGH THE FLAT HAT

The Hacking Arts conference in Cambridge, Mass. three weeks ago looked at hacking in a different way than its traditional computer-oriented sense. The panelists at the conference discussed disrupting social norms in entrepreneurship through the use of innovation. Start-ups from around the country, in areas ranging from music to fashion to graphic design, attended the weekend conference to learn about using technology to innovate in their field.

“Traditionally, art people have the skills to be creative but don’t necessarily have the thinking skills, and vice versa,” said Daniela MedinaMate ’16. “The engineers have all the thinking skills to problem solve but they don’t necessarily have the skills to be marketable. So when you unite those

two fields together, you’re collaborating to enter a market.”

Medina-Mate was one member of the four-person team from the College of William and Mary that attended the conference, a collaboration between the Berklee College of Music and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The conference was a two-day event of panels and workshops, all focused on the hybridization of art, business and technology. A top member of Spotify spoke on one panel, and in a twentyfour hour challenge, a team built a biometric reader with the ability to read your mood and select an appropriate playlist. However, the team did not just go there to observe, but went with a goal to bring a similar conference to the College.

“We want to bring a conference that’s open to everyone and unites the liberal arts and business, because right now we think that there’s a huge gap,”

Medina-Mate said. “We want to bridge that gap and make it accessible to the entire William and Mary community.”

The four members of the team have plenty of experience with combining liberal arts and business. John Chalovich ’17 is majoring in marketing and public policy, Gabi Levi ’16 is majoring in marketing and philosophy, and Medina-Mate is majoring in psychology and business analytics.

Jessie Du ’17 was another member of the Hacking Arts team.

“It gives you a different kind of thinking, when you study two different fields,” Du said. “It seems contradictory, but actually in real life it’s what you’re going to deal with, and it’s what employers are looking for, because it shows you are a multi-layered person.”

The team sees bringing a conference like Hacking Arts to the College not only as beneficial in general, but also as a solution to something that they believe

the College is lacking. One thing that the top ten marketing schools in the nation have in common is that they all hold regular conferences, like Hacking Arts, dedicated to entrepreneurship and innovation; the College, despite being ranked by Bloomberg as the number one public marketing school in the nation, has not previously hosted a similar conference. In addition to making the College look good on a surface level, the team says that a conference would actually give students real skills that could help them in future employment.

“It’s not just about training selfmarketing, it’s also encouraging students to think in a proactive mindset where they’re coming up with innovative ideas to solve solutions as opposed to just taking instruction and carrying them out,” Chalovich said.

“We want our conference to be about generating ideas.”

Medina-Mate believes that this would help prepare students at the College in a way academics alone fail to do.

“We can write a paper, but when we step into the real world, we don’t know how to make ourselves marketable,” she said.

The team hopes to change this issue.

They plan to bring a conference to campus at some point during the 20162017 school year.

They want to include guest speakers, resume workshops and chances for students to experience what it’s like to be an entrepreneur.

“When our students walk out of this conference, they’ll walk out with tangible skills, but also something that they can talk about in an interview and put on their resume,” MedinaMate said. “And hopefully they’ll meet professionals in their field who they’re inspired by.”

Coalition plans for 2016 release SA works with IT on website New process will aid lower income students APPLICATION from page 1

them to be engaged in the college admissions process a few years before they apply to college.

“Something that has been clearly been seen, especially for those who don’t have as many resources or college guidance in their life [is that] the earlier you can engage with these students to help them as they get into the college planning process, the better they’ll be,” Wolfe said.

One of the Coalition’s goals is to help lower income and disadvantaged students in their college admissions process.

“These colleges and universities aim to motivate a stronger college-going mindset among students of all backgrounds, especially those from low-income families or underrepresented groups who have historically had less

access to leading colleges and universities,” a press release by representatives of the Coalition said.

Additionally, the online portfolio will allow students with nontraditional or unconventional backgrounds to reach out to more resources than their parents or counselor for guidance. “[Students] will also have the opportunity to invite counselors, mentors, perhaps their big brother or sister … or somebody from a communitybased organization to help them work on their portfolio for their application,” Associate Dean of Admission and the Director of Admission Information Systems Betsy Dolan ‘84 said. “Right now students, when they apply, only have themselves, their parents and their high school or college counselor.”

The online portfolio itself will

COURTESY PHOTO / WM.EDU The College of William and Mary joins more than 80 other universities in the Coalition.

be free to use for any prospective student. The application would only be free to anyone who qualifies for a fee waiver.

There are also certain qualifications for the higher education institutions themselves for membership in the Coalition.

Among other benchmarks, membership colleges need a graduation rate of at least 70 percent. Private and public universities also need to be relatively affordable, in terms of amount of aid given, especially for domestic and in-state students.

“Hopefully in the future, more high education organizations will join in,” Tribe Ambassador Ronica Crevecour ’18 said in an email. “Everyone deserves an education.”

The tentative release date for the online portfolio and the tools that will be released with it is January 2016.

The first edition of the application should be available

by July of next year, although Dean Dolan stressed to take these dates with a grain of salt, as the Coalition continues to develop the application.

Despite all these new tools, Dolan noted one thing will never change.

“Nothing will change in terms of us trying to recruit and enroll the most talented, most interesting, most diverse class here at William and Mary,” she said.

New page hopes to improve SA transparency WEBSITE from page 1

create a permanent page on the W&M website. With a page on the W&M website, our website will not be susceptible to the same issues of transition and turnover.”

The SA hopes to have the project completed and the page up by late October or early November. According to SA Vice President Catie Pinkerton ’16, the webpage will contain a variety of details pertaining to the SA. “On the webpage there will be information about the student assembly like meeting times and contact information for representatives,” Pinkerton said in an email. “Other resources will be available as well, like useful links for students in crisis.”

Newly elected President of the Class of 2019 Jonah Yesowitz ’19 said he agrees that it is important to have a working webpage to convey information to the student body.

“While I have high hopes, I think what’s more important is that it will serve as yet another outlet for students to access news and pertinent information related to the Student Assembly,” Yesowitz said in an email. “Having that available can do nothing but promote involvement and further our goals.”

Having noticed the void created by the lack of an SA

site, Yesowitz said he is hoping M.Ed. ’05, who serves as SA’s to discuss this issue at the advisor, said she recognizes the upcoming SA meeting. importance of their creating an Furthermore, Whitaker said inclusive webpage. he sees this project as a way of “As SA’s advisor, I have been ensuring transparency in his working with them to navigate organization. the feasibility “Transparency is one of of creating the cornerstone values of the an official SA Student Assembly,” Whitaker website that said. “It remains vitally is tied to the important to me that our work W&M site through the Student Assembly much like and on behalf of the student Fraternity body is open to input, clearly and Sorority communicated, and made Fredrick Life page,” publicly available.”

Fredrick said in The SA is working with an email. “Given their unique the Information Technology position as the governing body department on this ongoing of the student population at project. Student organizations W&M we feel this could be a can develop webpages through more appropriate web space for the IT department with the Tribe them to remain accessible to the Voices software. This software student body as well as share is free and easily accessible initiatives and announcements for students to use, whether in an timely manner.” for student organizations Both Fredrick and Whitaker or personal use. Associate said they are hopeful the page Director of Student Leadership will be up before the end of the Development Trici Fredrick semester.

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SA website start-up

BY BRIAN KAO / THE FLAT HAT

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Defending the need for quality counseling

Elizabeth Wolfe

FLAT HAT GUEST COLUMNIST

We know staggering numbers of William and Mary students seek help at the Counseling Center every year and that this campus has a suicide problem. We also know that the Counseling Center lacks resources — most notably, an on-site psychiatrist. Nevertheless, with each suicide, editorials, Washington Post articles and indictments of our mental health system flare up, and after a few months, fizzle out. So why do we have only a short-term memory when dealing with these issues?

Like many of my peers, I live with depression. To my horror, I was recently summoned to the Dean of Students office. Students like me get flagged — fortunately, I got lucky with a particularly good assistant Dean, but some students have surfaced from that office in much worse situations.

Although I was told I was a high-risk student, and that they wanted to keep an eye on me without majorly infringing on my autonomy, the conversation kept circling back to the atmosphere of fear that surrounds the Dean of Students Office and the ether of frustration with the Counseling Center. The assistant dean and I agreed: there’s an indisputable problem at the College. We need a sustained effort to improve our mental health treatment on campus and to bring visibility to the system that has failed so many students — myself included.

I acknowledge that there are many good people who work at the Counseling Center, tirelessly helping students despite limited resources and funding. However, that’s no excuse for dysfunctionality; anyone who’s been to Counseling with a major problem knows what I’m talking about. As The Flat Hat reported last year, students seeking help have a 58 percent chance of meeting with someone who does not have a psychiatry license. That should unsettle you; it might be sufficient for some and help with understaffing problems, but it’s left me feeling worse than when I came in.

My freshman year, I sought help for my depression — depression I’ve dealt with for five years but for which I only recently found the courage to seek treatment. I was paired with an intern who video recorded our sessions, relentlessly interrogated me and persistently steered our conversation toward more problems rather than solutions. She suggested I was taking too many credits and that maybe the college transition was tough. I felt more alienated than anyone should ever feel.

Giving our school’s services another chance, I visited the Student Health Center seeking antidepressants at the end of last year. I saw a general practitioner who prescribed the wrong type of medication to me; it was only when I saw a professional psychiatrist in Washington,

D.C. that I learned I was taking a less effective and more harmful drug, wholly unsuited for my type of depression.

After our third suicide last year, The Washington Post reported, that the school would “add services such as an after-hours call center and a full-time psychiatrist.” Where is our promised psychiatrist? The psychiatrist that could have saved me from numerous co-payments and paralyzing withdrawal symptoms? I suppose he, too, is a casualty of our campus’ fickle memory.

At the Counseling Center, your problems are either too minor or too major to be dealt with on-site. My friends seeking help for anxiety and mild depression have been pushed off into group therapy, a form of therapy that few find helpful or comforting. Alternatively, those seeking treatment for severe depression have been sent to outside therapists, myself included. Some have even been kicked out of school, forced to take medical leave, as they are too much of a liability to remain here. What message do you think that sends to a person with depression?

“You’re too much of a liability to remain here, in this place you’ve found comfort. Your problems are too major for us to handle, go be on your own. Move away from your friends, your fraternity, your sports team — go pay for an expensive therapist and watch your friends graduate, leaving William and Mary before you have any hope of returning.”

This story is more common than I’d like to believe.

I love so many things about this place.

This is where I met the three best friends anyone could hope for, where I started College Libertarians and watched it grow from three people to 35 over the course of a few months. This is where I met my boyfriend, my tireless support system. This is where I streaked Zable Stadium, sang the Alma Mater at the Sir Christopher Wren Building with International Relations Club friends before they graduated and taught middle schoolers the nuances of foreign policy.

This is where Professor Sohoni’s Race and Crime class inspired my passion for criminal justice reform and the pursuit of true racial equality. I’ll be indebted to this school long after I graduate, but it owes me one thing in return: proper treatment.

Every time I pass the Zable Stadium construction zone, I’m reminded of our campus’ skewed priorities. Just because some donations are earmarked doesn’t mean we can’t renovate Zable and appropriate more funds towards the Counseling Center. Hire the psychiatrist you’ve been talking about for so long.

Extend Counseling Center hours; make sure it has enough capacity to provide quality, free, weekly treatment to students who need it. Have interns and practicum students shadow licensed therapists instead of giving them their own caseloads. Make sure students aren’t scared of being kicked out of school when they’re summoned to the Dean of Students Office.

I’ve been lucky so far; I’m doing okay right now, my Dean of Students Office visit went well. But from my vantage point, I can see the cracks in the system and know we can’t settle for anything less than proper treatment.

I’ll write an op-ed every week if I have to in order to make our problem visible. Care about this: it affects the people you love.

Email Elizabeth Wolfe at elwolfe01@email.wm.edu.

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... I’m reminded of our campus’ skewed priorities ... Extend Counseling Center hours; make sure it has enough capacity to provide quality, free, weekly treatment to students who need it. Have interns and practicum students shadow licensed therapists instead of giving them their own caseloads. Make sure students aren’t scared of being kicked out of school when they’re summoned to the Dean of Students Office.

For the past several years Student Assembly presidents and presidential candidates have been promising a new-and-improved SA website as part of their campaigns — not a single one has followed through and created a consistent, long-lasting site. This year, SA President Yohance Whitaker ’16 is also undertaking the endeavor in a way that inspires more optimism about the outcome than past approaches.

Firstly, it is commendable that Whitaker has acknowledged the root of the elusive website problem: continuity. Each SA leadership team in the past has tried to create a new website to set themselves apart rather than creating a stable page to rollover from administration to administration. Creating a website in itself is not difficult, but ensuring the stability of a website in the face of near-constant leadership rollover has proved more so. By acknowledging that this website has a purpose that requires stability and a focus on providing information, rather than bolstering popularity or branding, shows that Whitaker is being realistic and recognizes the goal of this project.

If actually completed, an SA website could prove quite valuable. SA has a consistent outreach problem in that the majority of the student body has little to no idea what SA actually does. This website would be a simple and accessible way for people to obtain information on SA projects and initiatives, as well as policies and representatives. The website is an easy way to increase transparency and accountability, given that it is comprehensive and accessible. At the very least, SA could not be faulted for not giving basic access to information about itself.

In the same vein, a comprehensive website would make SA’s social media campaigning and outreach programs much more cohesive. The website would serve as a foundation that would tie any other forms of outreach to a singular, cohesive platform to which students seeking more information could be directed.

With all of these useful qualities stemming from a complete and accessible website, it is crucial that SA remain realistic in its creation.

The provision of thorough and necessary information on the workings of SA, its programs, representatives, policies and procedures, are a great place to start. This website need not become a vat of overwhelming information that is not specifically within the realm of SA’s handlings. For example, the SA website is probably not, nor should it be, the first place for students to go in crisis situations.

All of that being said, the website must first actually be built. Even in its barest, most simple form, the actual creation of a website will begin the process to creating a more transparent, accountable and effective SA. The staff editorial represents the opinion of The Flat Hat. The editorial board, which is elected by The Flat Hat’s section editors and executive staff, consists of Madeline Bielski, Áine Cain, Emily Chaumont, Kaitlan Connor and Isabel Larroca. The Flat Hat welcomes submissions to the Opinions section. Limit letters to 250 words and columns to 650 words. Letters, columns, graphics and cartoons reflect the view of the author only. Email submissions to fhopinions@gmail.com.

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[I] was an OA in the long ago days of 1976-77 semester.

I remember my [f] reshman students as basically nervous and just trying to slog through the Virginia summer humidity. But, I enjoyed it and I think they learned a lot that first week.

— “Karen M” on “An OA looks back on freshman orientation”

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The “free college” myth

Julia Stumbaugh FLAT HAT GUEST COLUMNIST

Democratic candidates love offering up the idea of free college. It’s certainly an easy enough way to win voter support, especially when said voters are college-age students buried beneath overwhelming debt; it also doesn’t hurt that young voters aren’t yet concerned enough about paying their own taxes to be worried about the chunk such a program could take out of their future paycheck. It’s not hard to agree that student debt is too high, that people should not be burdened with substantial debt at such a young age, and that college should be less expensive. It is hard, however, to commit to a program that would actually change this issue.

Free college is obviously much easier to talk about than to implement. Hillary Clinton has promoted her plan of simplifying federal aid programs, but said programs often leave the middle class high and dry by deeming their assets too great for significant aid without acknowledging the fact the household’s income will also be used for retirement and siblings’ tuitions.

Both Clinton and Martin O’Malley have emphasized their goal of decreasing interest rates on student loans, which helps, but does not abate, the problem of the size of the loans themselves. Both of these plans will ease the burden for some students, but don’t solve the fact that a majority will still come out of college owing significant amounts of money to the government.

A comprehensive solution, however, is similarly hardly feasible. Bernie Sanders wants to put the burden of paying for college entirely on the government, but in a fully Republican Congress passing such a plan is an almost comical concept.

Unless the Democratic Party gets a majority in one of the houses, there is no chance a plan requiring so much taxpayer money will pass through Congress; estimations in Time Magazine put Clinton and Sanders’ plans at costing $35 and $75 billion, respectively.

Promoting “free college” is an easy way for Democratic candidates to try and get the votes of college-age liberals, but the chance of any significant headway being made toward this goal depends on how much the candidates actually work to implement it once they are in office, whether or not the makeup of Congress changes and if it is feasible or not to promote such a costly plan in a time when, according to a national telephone poll administered by Rasmussen Reports in early 2015, 54 percent of the public prefers a federal budget that cuts spending. Even if one of the Democratic candidates does win the election, the chance of an actual implementation of free college is, at best, minimal.

Email Julia Stumbaugh at jmstumbaugh@email.wm.edu.

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With one pending case, no rape charges, and no convictions, the proclamations that he is a rapist are unjust and defamatory.

The accusers waited decades; the rush to condemn him absent any verified evidence is premature and contrary to our system of justice.

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Reversing the decline in American optimism

Miguel Locsin

FLAT HAT GUEST COLUMNIST

Every day is like an avalanche of bad news: a sluggish economy, incompetence in Washington, steadfast partisanship. Recently, the United States accidentally bombed an innocent hospital, terrorist groups such as the Islamic State group have remained strong despite years of war and each day seems to bring word of a new bombing or shooting somewhere in the world.

Donald Trump actually has a slight chance of becoming President of the United States.

It is because of all this bad news that the famous optimism that America has always been known for is now in decline.

According to a study by the MacArthur Foundation, 75 percent of Americans believe that achieving a middle-class lifestyle has become harder for young adults, while 79 percent of those polled believe that it is more common for people to fall out of the middle class than to rise up to it. Meanwhile, a New York Times poll found that only 64 percent of Americans still believe in the “American Dream,” the idea that hard work could result in success and riches.

The Times notes that this figure is still dropping.

Feeling down yet? Good. Now ask yourself a few questions.

Where do we, college students, fit in all of this? How does a college student even begin to care, let alone comprehend these important events? After all, we have our finances, our friends, our relationships, our grades, our future to worry about. It is easy to become bogged down. It is easy to become overwhelmed.

This must not happen.

It is so easy for us to forget that we are immensely lucky to be

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Therefore it is our responsibility, the youth of this country, to be more optimistic, to act on that optimism and to be agents of change. Optimism begets progress and sustainability.

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Connected through community service

— “Kathy Darrow” on “College will not rescind Cosby’s 1993 honorary degree”

I can’t believe anyone at W&M, let alone the DEAN OF CONDUCT, thinks in this backwards fashion. Someone like him has no place at our [or any] University. I hope someone makes a petition to remove him for the benefit of sexual assault victims everywhere.

— “Elizabeth Warton” on “Dean apologizes for Orientation Aide training speech”

living in America. It is easy for us to forget that we live in the land of opportunity, of peace, of happiness. It is easy for us to take these things for granted. America is the Disney World of countries.

We could be living anywhere in the world, and yet we live and study in what is empirically the most powerful nation in history.

We have won the lottery of places a human could live in the whole existence of the universe.

Now that you have remembered all these wonderful things, we have to realize that, as the so-called “millennial” generation of America, we are meant to reverse the decline in optimism America is experiencing. We have to realize that all the bad news prominent in our daily lives is only a concentrated exacerbation of daily events by a media solely meant to inform. All other stories made unnecessary magnanimous, grandiose or negative by news outlets must be disregarded entirely.

Therefore it is our responsibility, the youth of this country, to be more optimistic, to act on that optimism and to be agents of change. Optimism begets progress and sustainability. A person would never try doing something if he or she did not think it would be beneficial, whether the “it” described is working out to try and lose weight, or attempting to develop a new, sustainable energy source.

So what should you do the next time you hear something sad about a poor country, work hard to enter a profession that aids the less fortunate around the world or hear something negative about the economy?

Remember that it is up to you to determine your own level of success, regardless of macroeconomics.

Hear something thought-provoking, negative or frustrating about politics or the next presidential debate? Voice your opinion, but do not denigrate the other side. And vote. Vote, vote, vote. Voting is a privilege that, again amongst other things, allows America to stand out from other countries. We must not waste the privilege of a legitimate vote, as one should never waste the money won on a lottery ticket.

I know that the American Dream can never truly die, because we, the students of the College William and Mary, are all living the American Dream today. Let’s keep dreaming.

Email Miguel Locsin at malocsin@email.wm.edu.

Van Black

FLAT HAT GUEST COLUMNIST

I live in Florida, graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1975 with a degree in government and for the past five years have come to campus for almost 400 total days, volunteering my time to coach students about service initiatives and career development. I have not been alone — many of my class of 1975 classmates, other alumni and our friends and families have been on a remarkable fiveyear ride with you that we call Staying Connected: Together Serving Others.

Staying Connected has been an all-volunteer and self-funded initiative. Since I chose to put my career on hold at the end of 2010 and later sell my home to be able to continue funding a large part of SC, a few caring alumni and students have suggested various 12-step programs for me to overcome my addiction to working with students from the College. I am often asked if it was “worth it”.

For sure. No doubt. College students have enriched my life.

If you have never heard of Staying Connected, you are not alone either, but you may have been a part of it without realizing it. When we started SC we chose a grass roots approach, to communicate our programs primarily through personal connections and personal invites instead of through mass advertising.

So, if you ever participated in the annual Active Citizen’s

Conference led by the Office of Community Engagement or took the Public Service class where you proposed your own non-profit organizations; if you ever did a Campus Kitchens shift or packed meals with Students for Stop Hunger Now; if you participated in 3 Day Startup or digitalized photos and scrapbooks in the Pappy Fehr projects; if you are one of many hundreds who had a mock interview with me or my classmates, you have been a part of Staying Connected.

And we are grateful.

We commissioned four College students to create paintings and another to write a poem about Staying Connected “as seen through the eyes of a William and Mary student.” You can see them on YouTube or “live” Oct. 22 (8 – 10 p.m.) when we’ve rented out the Daily Grind for an open house to thank you, young alumni and staff who have partnered with us in SC. Come by and you’ll also get to see a large poster version of “The Quilt.” It was created by the women of Stith (Bryan Complex) in 1976, depicting life on campus in the days when the College hosted the Presidential Debate between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford.

Since we started this student/alumni engagement gig at our 35th Reunion in 2010, most of the students we’ve worked with are now alumni themselves. I have witnessed that awesome College undergrads become awesome College adults and alumni.

We are grateful for that, too.

Go to the Homecoming parade Friday afternoon. Look for the red corvette with the politically incorrect Tribe Feathers banner on its hood. Give a shout-out to your supporters from the class of 1975.

Halloween is soon upon us — if I wanted to scare you I’d suggest that you are getting a glimpse of what you may look like in 40 years, but I won’t go there. Meanwhile, I’ll try to educate my classmates on what a TWAMP is, how a Triathlon replaced our streaking and how fun the Raft Debate is.

Thanks. Best wishes. Embrace your quirky.

Email Van Black at jvbblack@sbcglobal.net.

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SPIRIT Dancing their hearts out Tribal Dancers twirl and leap their way to the field SARAH SMITH THE FLAT HAT

Putting pep in our steps Pep band blasts school spirit from the sidelines

DOMINIC DEANGIO THE FLAT HAT

The members of the College of William and Mary Pep Band are easy to recognize in their signature green and gold striped rugby shirts. You might also be familiar with their boisterous renditions of the Alma Mater and Kansas’ “Carry On My Wayward Son.” Maybe you’ve even watched them enough to learn some of their spirited dance moves.

The Pep Band is not a traditional college marching band. They are what’s called a “scramble band,” which means rather than marching and having a specific set routine, the group performs in a less rigid structure, allowing for exciting performances at events comprised of a variety of songs. The Pep Band plays at home and nearby football and basketball games, and is also frequently involved in various events around campus, such as Convocation and the Homecoming Parade.

The Pep Band is also distinguished by their emphasis on individuality, liveliness and having a good time.

“A lot of people came from a marching band that was really intense, so it’s nice to have a more relaxed atmosphere that’s about having fun, being enthusiastic and playing music,” Pep Band Director Cody Jones ’17 said. “We really just want to make the best music we can.”

Jones serves as the face of the Pep Band.

Originally a saxophonist, Jones now leads the group and helps organize events. He said that one of his favorite things about being a part of the Pep Band is the energy and enthusiasm they bring to the games.

“We’re definitely peppy,” Jones said. “We’re all volunteers, so everyone really wants to be there and really enjoys playing music with their friends.”

Largely playing transcriptions of pop music, the Pep Band can be heard performing their versions of anything from the Jackson 5’s “I Want You Back” to Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crazy Train.” With traditional marching band sections like percussion, brass and wind, the Pep Band also mixes in the occasional melodica, bass guitar and even kazoo, as seen at the 2015 Raft Debate.

Victoria Gerardi ’17 plays trombone and serves as the Pep Band’s publicity chair. She said that she likes the fact that the band is student run and very

energetic.

“When we play there’s high excitement and high enthusiasm; we pump energy into any event we play at,” Gerardi said. “I feel like I can let myself go and be who I want to be without being judged. Like I can wear all the green and gold I want and it’d just feel normal.”

Many of the Pep Band’s songs have accompanying dance moves or vocal sections, and members are encouraged to have fun with their performances.

Their spirit also comes across in their College spirit attire, as they frequently wear face paint, wigs and other green and gold accessories.

Saxophonist and show manager Nate Jenkins ’17 said he appreciates how the Pep Band has few strict dress codes or mandatory choreography.

“The only thing you need is the rugby [shirt], after that we can be as peppy or as crazy as we want, as long as we’re having fun,” Jenkins said. “It’s great to just let loose and be as wacky as possible.”

In addition to the home games and events around campus, the Pep Band also follows the men’s basketball team to the annual Colonial Athletic Association basketball tournament.

Gerardi went to CAA Tournaments with the Pep Band in both her freshman and sophomore years, and said she considers them some of her favorite memories.

“They were high energy and we were right next to where the basketball team was on the court,” Gerardi said. “It was a great experience because we not only got to see the game, but it was also a great bonding experience with the Pep Band.”

Jenkins said he believes one of the best things about the Pep Band is their sense of community and the friends he’s made along the way.

“We’re just a nice big family,” Jenkins said. “I remember in my freshman year, Pep Band was my go-to stress reliever because it was just fun, not work or anything, just playing music.”

Along similar lines, Jones said he thinks the Pep Band’s lack of exclusivity also contributes to the more relaxed and friendly atmosphere of the organization.

“We’re mostly composed of non-music majors.

We don’t have an audition process or anything, and we’re always accepting new members,” Jones said. “We just welcome everyone and play fun music.”

Sparkling in green and gold under stadium lights, the Tribal Dancers kick, leap and twirl on the sidelines.

The College of William and Mary’s dance team is featured at football games, where they get to perform their pep routines.

Team co-captain Nina Lavalley ’17 said these football games are what drew her to the team.

“I’ve been dancing since eighth grade, but I had only ever done ballet and other structured forms of dance,” Lavalley said in an email.

“When I got to the College I wasn’t planning on dancing, but when I saw the dance team at the first football game they just looked like they were having so much fun so I had to try out.”

Beyond performing at football games the team also performs at basketball games, Universal Dance Association camps, pep rallies and other spirit events on campus.

“Our main focus is dancing at the games,” Meagan Solano ’17 said in an email. “That’s where we perform, although it can definitely be frustrating because we don’t always have time to get to show people what we can really do.

For games we do a mix of pom and jazz during football, and then do much more jazz and hip-hop for basketball, which is really fun. We do actually go to UDA camp in the summers, where we get intense work with different styles and meet tons of other teams.”

Following the team’s success at UDA camp, the team is now nationally ranked in both jazz and pom.

Joining the team is a competitive process but according to team captain Taylor Ferguson ’16, this makes sure the team is as good as it can be.

“Auditions usually last two to three hours and consist of stretching, turns, technique such as leaps and jumps across the floor, short pom or jazz sequences, and kick lines,” Ferguson said.

“Auditions are rather competitive, as we have a limited number of spots on the team each year, but this competitiveness has continued to ensure that we have only the best dancers on the team.”

Since there are only a limited number of costumes, in any given year there are as many as 25 dancers competing for as few as three spots. Auditions are held both in the fall and spring semesters of each year.

For many Tribal Dancers, auditioning was a way to reconnect with a passion and an opportunity to pursue

dance at the collegiate level.

“I chose to audition for the William and Mary Dance Team in the fall of my freshman year,” Ferguson said. “I watched the Dance Team perform at the first home football game that year and immediately decided it was something I wanted to become a part of. I had danced for 14 years at that point, but I was still extremely nervous to audition. However, it has been the best decision I have made during my time here at William and Mary.”

Older members of the team are responsible for filling many leadership roles, such as choreographing, dealing with funds and scheduling events.

Older members also serve as the team’s officers.

“As secretary, I am responsible for making sure the team knows when we have practices and games, what we are wearing that day, when to arrive and all of those logistical details,” Solano said. “I also order our team tickets for the games for our families and friends and hand those out. Essentially, I am the communicator between the captain and the rest of the team, making sure we’re all on the same page and ready to go for games.”

Regardless of why the members originally auditioned, they each said that the team has become something like a family.

“Being a member, and now captain, of the William and Mary Dance Team has been the most gratifying experience I’ve had at William and Mary,” Ferguson said. “I have found my best friends through this team and have made memories that will last a lifetime. This is more than another dance group on campus; this is a family. I don’t necessarily have one specific favorite memory of dance team because they are all superb, but I am so thankful to have been a part of this team and thankful to have so many wonderful memories to look back on later.”

Cheer squad flips and jumps into spirited season From pom poms to pyramids, William and Mary cheerleaders strive to pump enthusiasm into the crowd DOMINIC BURKETT THE FLAT HAT

Whether it is the constant smiling, yelling until their voices are gone, flying through the air or pouring effort into an unresponsive student section, William and Mary’s Cheer team is prepared to carry the College community through another year of sports fandom.

According to senior captain and third year team member Mikaela Spruill ’16, the team has cultivated a feeling of strength and confidence through a tough and unusually strenuous tryout process this summer.

“Tryouts are usually a little intense,” Spruill said. “This year we had kind of revamped our whole program and brought in a new coach. The whole tryout process was redone — so all the returners had to try out again.”

Tryouts are an eight hour-long process, followed by two weeks of a summer training camp to prepare before the school year and football season begins.

During practices, each member of the team hones their skills in various types of jumps, tumbling and performing their role in deceptively dangerous stunts, with senior captains Spruill and Keabra OpongBrown ’16 supervising to prepare their team to operate with perfection during the high-flying routines.

Junior captain Elaine Yap ’17 said that what drives the squad when they step out onto the sidelines is the chance to communicate the hard work the team has put into their routines.

“I think it’s a respect thing, that underappreciated thing,” Yap said.

“And that we put a lot of hard work into it, and that we love our school.”

Although the cheer team does work on choreography for routines, Yap said that their main focus is getting the crowds on their feet during

games.

“Here it’s sideline and more crowd involvement,” Yap said.

According to Spruill, the Cheer team also takes on the daunting role of being a representative of the College to the wider community of alumni.

“Alumni are always watching the cheerleaders,” Spruill said. “They’re always on us. So it’s kind of like when we step out we represent William and Mary as a whole. We kind of become the face of William and Mary when people see us.”

The team is ready to face this year’s challenges, however, with a new coach and the addition of the first male member of the team in five years, Tanner Blankenship ’17, who now provides the team a wide range of stunt opportunities. New to cheerleading, Blankenship said he is already excited about the direction the season is taking.

“I don’t know too much but I have been impressed … what we are able to accomplish in a few practices is incredible,” Blankenship said.

According to Yap, the team is looking forward to a new season with increased spirit.

“This year we are trying to really integrate, trying to become a whole ‘Spirit Program,’” Yap said. “We have already created a new fight song.”

With all the preparations and training the team has put into this season, Spruill said she is ready to put her heart into cheering.

“It definitely takes dedication,” Spruill said. “All of us are like, ‘I would not be here if I didn’t love my team. I would not be here if I didn’t love my sport’ … Because what we do is for something bigger than us. We just love it.”

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MUSIC at your fingertips WCWM and Cymbal app let students discover and share music with the touch of a button AKEMI TAMANAHA THE FLAT HAT

Gone are the days when making mixtapes was the best way to share music with your friends. A new app called Cymbal has become the mixtape alternative, allowing users to share their favorite song of the moment and discover new music.

The app features accounts from record labels, artists and music publications. It has also recently begun featuring college radio accounts, including the College of William and Mary’s own WCWM. Cymbal was created by three Tufts University graduates: Gabe Jacobs, Amadou Crookes and Mario Gomez-Hall. The idea was to create an app that allowed people to share their current favorite song and was born out of Jacobs’ music blog, Lower Frequencies, which features one song a day.

Jacobs, Crookes and Gomez-Hall began developing the app while they were still at Tufts. It was finally released on Apple’s app store this past May before the three creators graduated. They are currently working on making it available to Android users.

Like any other social media app, users start by creating their profile and following friends, family members and other accounts that interest them. To post a song a user simply has to search for the song you want and then click “set cymbal.” That song is then added to their profile.

According to a press release from Jacobs, the profile is meant to spotlight the user’s current song of the moment, called a “cymbal.”

The profile itself is composed of a collage of album covers, each representing a formerly loved song, that create a visual map of the user’s musical history.

The app uses Soundcloud and Spotify to stream music. Through Cymbal, songs can be liked on Soundcloud or added to the user’s Spotify library, where other users with Spotify accounts can listen to the full

version of a song. In this way, Cymbal serves as a highlight reel for the millions of tracks that already exist on Spotify and Soundcloud.

“If your Spotify is like your photostream, then Cymbal is like your Instagram,” Head of Growth at Cymbal Charlie Kaplan said.

Like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and other big social media apps,

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If your Spotify is like your photostream, then Cymbal is like your Instagram.

— Charlie Kaplan

Cymbal also has a homefeed. However, instead of being filled with snapshots of other people’s lives, the Cymbal homefeed is filled with the cymbals from accounts a user follows. Essentially, the homefeed becomes a personalized social media playlist.

The app also allows users to make comments, like songs and hashtag to their heart’s content. If a song has never been posted before, the first person to post a cymbal is rewarded with a small trophy icon, letting people know that they did in fact listen to that song before it was cool.

One of Cymbal’s newest features is the college radio section. Kaplan, who had a college radio show once himself, noticed that the app was getting a lot of interest from labels, artists and publications. He and his colleagues wanted to represent other voices on the app as well.

“You can’t just have a community, a truly great community for music, if all you’re representing is people inside the music industry,” Kaplan said.

Kaplan eventually got in touch with WCWM’s station manager Caroline Creasey ‘16. Over the summer Creasey and Kaplan discussed promoting college radio by verifying college radio accounts on the app.

WCWM and a handful of other college radio accounts now appear under the college radio section.

“I thought it would be a great way for some of our DJs to get a little more listeners and kind of promote to an international audience,” Creasey said.

WCWM member Miranda Elliott ’16 shared Creasey’s enthusiasm.

“Cymbal is marketed as “music discovery from friends, not algorithms”, which I was initially hesitant about. I’m a big fan of algorithm-based music services (I’ve found some of my favorite songs on Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlist), but Cymbal does have something they’re missing — unique personal taste,” Elliott said in an email.

Creasey encouraged DJs at WCWM to create their own personal accounts so that WCWM can promote them by mentioning them in some of its cymbals. Kaplan praised Creasey and WCWM for changing the way stations think about using the app.

“They were the first station that was really truly here for this initiative,” Kaplan said. “They’ve been awesome the whole time. Not only do they post great stuff, but they’re sort of leading, in a lot of ways, how people think about how communities can use the app and that’s why they’re the first station listed in the radio section.”

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

Enjoying sleeping solo Life in the single lane has more ups than downs

Mallory Walker

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS COLUMNIST

As a self-proclaimed serial monogamist, reentering the singles world has been a crazy experience. Tinder is more of a thing than ever, half of my friends are in committed relationships and I haven’t gone out of my way to flirt in an eternity. While I’m relearning the ropes of single life, I decided that it might be wise to share my newest insights with the rest of the singles out there, whether they are newbies or veterans.

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... remember college should be about finding yourself, not your fiancee.

I know every tween magazine has told you being single is literally the best thing that has ever happened to you and, wow, it’s just so much fun (trust me, I’ve written those tween articles myself ), but Seventeen Magazine isn’t so wrong after all. I know it sounds cliche, but being single is actually a lot more fun than it may seem immediately postbreakup. There’s more time to focus on yourself, your friends and even offering yourself a little extra self-love, if you catch my drift. Personally, I’m a big fan of all the excellent sleep I’ve been getting since I started sleeping solo. My friendships are thriving, I’m getting more involved and I can make fun and flirty decisions guilt-free. Singledom isn’t the scary abyss my fictional hero, Bridget Jones, made it out to be. It’s got a lot more pros than cons, trust me.

The only bad thing about riding solo a la Jason Derulo? You don’t have a cuddle (and more) buddy for those nights you’re especially interested

in physical contact. And to make matters worse, drunken one night stands just aren’t as fun as they seem. Getting busy or cuddling with someone you don’t have any kind of connection with can be awkward and just plain unsatisfying. I have heard from my single and mingling buddies and pals that friends with benefits are the perfect solution to this. It’s the perfect way to satisfy those needs with a partner you not only enjoy the company of, but also have respect for outside the bedroom. But beware; “friendz with benz” can go south — and not in a fun, sexual way — if you don’t set proper boundaries.

I’m not going to lie to you, guys; sometimes being single stresses me out a bit. While flirting on the internet might be as easy as swiping right, it’s not really that easy out in the real world. How does one approach a campus cutie?

Do I compliment them on their Swemromas order? Do I just immediately let them know they’re the cutest thing I’ve ever laid eyes on?

And most importantly, how do you turn down unwanted advances? These are the questions I’m searching to find the answer to while awkwardly navigating through the world of Netflix and chill.

A lot of people expect college to be a time to find the love of your life, but I don’t think that’s the most realistic expectation. I’m definitely guilty of putting this kind of pressure on myself.

My parents met in college, so clearly I should be pursuing my future partner along with my degree. But a friend of mine put things in serious perspective for me the other day. She knows she’s not meant to meet the man of her dreams at the College of William and Mary. This school might be the place for her, but Virginia certainly is not. She knows she’s meant to meet a Boston boy someday, not a Fairfax guy next week.

And if that little piece of wisdom doesn’t resonate with you, remember: College should be about finding yourself, not your fiancée.

Take this time to become the person you want to be instead of searching for someone to make you whole. If you do, you’ll find you don’t need someone to complete you. Instead, you just might find someone to complement all the incredible things that make up who you are.

Mallory Walker is a Behind Closed Doors columnist whose “other half” can wait while she enjoys singledom.

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Senior keeper Caroline Casey dives to deny yet another shot in the Tribe’s 2-0 victory over Drexel Friday afternoon. Casey is currently in third place for saves in program history, and is only five saves away from securing the second most career saves.

Winning streak to five as Tribe allows no goals for past 389 minutes DOMINIC BURKETT THE FLAT HAT William and Mary (11-3-1, 5-1 CAA) was busy this weekend, racking up 2-0 wins in Colonial Athletic Association play against both Drexel (7-8, 1-5 CAA) and Delaware (7-7-2, 2-3-2 CAA). The two shutouts placed the Tribe in third place in the conference and secured the team’s NCAA record 35th consecutive winning season.

The College opened the match on the offensive as senior midfielder Nicole Baxter fired the first shot in the fifth minute, which was saved by Drexel goalkeeper Kelsie Fye. Seven minutes later the Tribe turned up the heat on the Dragons defense with four shot attempts in as many minutes taken by senior forwards Leci Irvin and Katie Johnston

and sophomore midfielder Rachel Moore.

The Tribe played a ferocious defense throughout the match, with only three shots total allowed in the first period. Just one of these shots was on target, a save by senior goalkeeper Caroline Casey at 18:13.

The Dragons were only able to attempt two additional shots after halftime.

The first period closed out with three Fye blocks on shots from Irvin in the 28th minute, Baxter in the 36th and junior midfielder Haley Kavanaugh in the 41st. Entering the break, the match was scoreless.

After corner kicks by both teams to start the second half, the College took an alternative route to score at 54:43.

Junior back Clara Logsdon, off of a Baxter pass into the box, fired a shot that, while initially saved by Drexel’s Fye, ricocheted

off of one unlucky defender’s back and bounced into the goal for the own goal, putting the Tribe at a 1-0 lead.

Over the following 25 minutes, six more shot attempts by the Tribe kept Drexel on the defensive. The only two shot attempts by Drexel in the second period were by Dragons forward Kylie Strong and both sailed high.

Despite the continuous effort by the Tribe to pound in shots until the end of the match, sophomore forward Sami Grasso broke through Drexel’s defense and effectively sealed the match at 79:45 with her fourth goal of the season, placed cleanly into the top left corner for the 2-0 advantage and the win.

The Tribe then improved its win streak to five with a shutout win over Delaware.

The Blue Hens provided a real test, particularly in the first period. Delaware

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Irvin, Baxter and Johnston. After a sixminute stretch where Delaware went on the offensive, the Tribe finally got on the board with a Johnston goal.

Johnston scored her sixth goal of the season at 67:49 from six yards away off of an assist from freshman midfielder Mackenzie Kober. Four minutes later, off of a pass from Baxter that set Kober up one-on-one with the goalie, in which Kober juked out Rekos and punched in the Tribe’s second goal from four yards out at 71:46.

A final save by Casey at 81:33 maintained the College’s fourth consecutive shutout and the Tribe’s victory, taking it to 5-1 in conference play.

The Tribe takes on its next conference opponent with a trip north to Towson, Md Friday. The match is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m.

SCOREBOARD

College falters against Drexel, St. Josephs

No. 17/16 Football (4-2, 3-1 CAA)

Weekend trip to Philadelphia brings season loss total to 10 SUMNER HIGGINBOTHAM FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR

maintained relative possession for long stretches of the first period and kept the ball in close proximity to the Tribe goal with six corner kicks in the first 20 minutes, accompanied by two off-target shots. The Tribe only mustered two shot attempts in the first period. Only one was on target as Johnston’s shot was saved by Delaware goalkeeper Kailyn Rekos in the 25th minute.

Despite a slow start offensively, Casey stood strong on the defensive side, making two saves on shots by Delaware forward Nikki Adams at 25:40 and 40:28.

Casey closed out the first period keeping the match.

The College returned to form offensively in the second period and did not look back. The first nine minutes were spent playing corner kicks by sophomore back Haley Kent with shots taken by

After entering the 2015 campaign with high hopes, seasoned veterans on offense and at goalie, a pair of All-Colonial Athletic Association preseason selections and a team rank of No. 4 in the conference, William and Mary extended two less-than-desirable streaks this past weekend. The Tribe now has three consecutive seasons of 10 or more losses and a current three-game losing streak, courtesy of a 1-0 loss to CAA rival Drexel Friday and a 4-3 loss to St. Joseph’s Sunday in a cold, blustery and ultimately disappointing weekend trip to Philadelphia, Pa. Although the College (5-10, 1-2 CAA) entered Friday’s game with a subpar 2-5 road record, the Dragons (6-8, 2-1 CAA) had struggled with their own set of problems in home games, posting only a 2-3 record. As one might expect based on the standings, the matchup proved to be an even one, with neither team scoring in the entire first half. The Tribe’s highpower offense, which started the season with 15 goals over the course of the first four games, was rendered ineffective with seven shots on goal met by seven rejections. This marks the second straight week of underperformance by the team’s most experienced unit after the heartbreaking 2-1 loss to Northeastern.

The Dragons managed two more shots per half than the Tribe for a total shot advantage of 16 to the College’s 12. After the prolonged stalemate, Drexel finally broke through the Tribe defense, as freshman Lindsay Boerner of the Dragons cracked a hard shot into the diving keeper senior Meredith Savage.

Savage initially denied the shot, but the impact drove the ball straight upward, falling down just in front of the crossbar and rolling in before Savage could recover. The remaining 14 minutes ticked away, and the College, after falling to CAA foe Northeastern in the final 10 seconds, suffered another demoralizing defeat in the conference.

With the loss the Tribe plunges to sixth in the seven-team conference, only above lowly Towson.

Mathematically, William and Mary is barely alive for the four-team CAA playoffs with four games remaining, and it is increasingly likely the Tribe will be left out in the cold come November, an Icarian fall from the 3-1 start to this season.

On Sunday, the Tribe choked away a 3-1 lead in

the first half en route to a 4-3 loss to St. Joseph’s (6-8, 3-3 Atlantic Ten) in the worst second-half performance by the College since the consecutive losses to No. 13 Old Dominion and No. 4 Duke on Sept 11 and Sept 13, respectively, both cases in which the Tribe surrendered four second half scores.

For the first 35 minutes, the College owned the game. Junior midfielder Maria Jose Pastor struck first for the College nine minutes into action, knifing a hard shot in a chaotic scuffle in front of the Hawks’ net. St. Joseph’s quickly recovered and fired in the tying score unassisted during a defensive breakdown just 20 seconds later.

However, the Tribe defense proved solid for the remainder of the half, as that was the only shot they allowed, lifting the College to a 10-1 shot advantage. Sophomore forward Cammie Lloyd made sure those shots didn’t go to waste, adding her own unassisted goal by cutting the ball over the keeper’s shoulder with 21 minutes remaining.

Two minutes later, Lloyd inserted the ball on a penalty corner, providing the assist to senior defender Peyton Smith who hammered the ball past the keeper.

Powered by dominant offense and a 3-1 lead, an energized College entered the locker room at halftime. However, the confidence proved to be ephemeral.

30 seconds into the second half, the Hawks cut the Tribe led to just a single goal, as the College allowed a long pass on a fast break which led to St. Joseph’s second tally. The Hawks continued the comeback bid with a vengeance, striking again just four minutes later to tie the game, this time off an unassisted goal. The reeling Tribe recovered to stop the bleeding, managing two shots to respond.

However, St. Joseph’s remained determined, earning a penalty corner which they subsequently capitalized on with fifteen minutes left to play.

Down a goal, the Tribe could not find the equalizer on their final three shots, dropping the game 4-3.

Up next for William and Mary is another CAA matchup against James Madison, currently the No. 1 team in the conference with a perfect 4-0 record against CAA squads. Game time is set for 7 p.m.

Friday at Busch Field in Williamsburg, the first of five consecutive home games for the College.

Oct. 17: W, No. 24 William and Mary 34, No. 19 New Hampshire 18 Colonial Athletic Association James Madison (7-0, 4-0)...........1.000...........W7 Richmond (5-1, 3-0)...................1.000...........W5 William and Mary (4-2, 3-1).......0.750...........W2 Villanova (3-3, 2-1).....................0.667...........W1 Maine (2-4, 2-1)..........................0.667............L1 Towson (3-3, 1-2) .......................0.333...........W1 New Hampshire (3-3, 1-2)..........0.333............L1 Delaware (2-4, 1-2).....................0.333............L1 Albany (2-5, 1-3).........................0.250............L3 Stony Brook (2-3, 1-3).................0.250...........L3 Elon (2-5, 1-3).............................0.250...........L3 Rhode Island (1-6, 1-3)...............0.250...........L1

Season leaders Junior quarterback Steve Cluley 95 of 159, 1260 yards, 9 touchdowns Junior tailback Kendell Anderson 108 rushes, 705 yards, 7 touchdowns Sophomore receiver DeVonte Dedmon 27 receptions, 309 yards, 4 touchdowns Senior safety DeAndre Houston-Carson 27 tackles, 2 interceptions, 2 blocked kicks

Cross country

Swimming

Oct. 16: Wisconsin Adidas Invitational Men: 36th of 36, No. 23 Women: 16th of 36 Oct. 17: CNU Invitational Men: 1st of 4, No. 23 Women: 1st of 4

Men (1-0, 1-0 CAA) Oct. 10: W, College 161, Towson (0-1) 101 Women (1-0, 1-0 CAA) Oct. 10: W, College 152, Towson (0-1) 110

Golf

Volleyball (8-13, 2-6 CAA)

Men: Oct. 5-6 Firestone Intercollegiate

Finished No. 15 (field of 16) Women: Oct. 12-13 Pinehurst Challenge

Finished No. 6 (field of 19)

Oct 12: W, College 3, Delaware (10-11) 0 Oct. 17: L, Elon (4-17) 3, College 1 Oct. 22: at James Madison (18-3), 7 p.m.

Oct. 24: at Towson (19-3) 5 p.m.

Field hockey (5-10, 1-3 CAA)

Women’s soccer (11-3-1, 5-1 CAA)

Oct. 16: L, Drexel (6-8) 1, College 0 Oct. 18: L, St. Joseph’s (6-8) 4, College 3 Oct. 23: vs. James Madison (11-4), 7 p.m.

Oct. 25: vs VCU (4-10), 1 p.m.

Oct. 16: W, College 2, Drexel (8-8) 0 Oct. 18: W, College 2, Delaware (7-7-2) 0 Oct. 23: at Towson (6-7-2) 2 p.m.

Oct. 25: at James Madison (10-6-1), 1 p.m.

Men’s soccer (4-7-2, 1-5 CAA)

Tennis

Oct. 14: L, James Madison (3-7-4) 3, College 1 Oct. 17: L, UNC-Wilmington (8-3-2) 2, College 1 Oct. 20: vs UNC-Asheville (5-7-1), 7 p.m.

Oct. 24: at Drexel (2-11-1), 4 p.m.

Oct. 28: at VCU (4-6-4), 7 p.m.

Men: Senior Scott Huang and junior Aidan Talcott fell in the third round at the ITA Atlantic Regional.

Women: Sophomore Oliva Thaler fell in the second round at the ITA Atlantic Regional.

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No. 24 Tribe tops No. 19/20 New Hampshire for second straight upset of FCS top 25 team JOSH LUCKENBAUGH FLAT HAT ASSOC. SPORTS EDITOR With No. 24 William and Mary trailing 15-14 to perennial Colonial Athletic Association powerhouse No. 20/19 New Hampshire late in the second quarter, senior linebacker Luke Rhodes, the heart of the Tribe’s defense, went down with what appeared to be a serious leg injury. Rather than lose focus after losing their captain, the College responded by rattling off 20 unanswered points to claim its second straight victory over a ranked CAA foe, defeating the Wildcats 34-18.

“I think it was remarkable how they stood in there and played,” head coach Jimmye Laycock ’70 said after the game. “It’d be very easy to say ‘Oh no, poor us’ … which would have probably been natural, but those guys stepped in there and just kept battling and kept playing, and that makes you feel really good about the type of team you have when they can do something like that.”

The Tribe (4-2, 3-1 CAA) defense, even without Rhodes for the majority of the game, consistently pressured New Hampshire’s (3-3, 1-2 CAA) star quarterback Sean Goldrich all afternoon, sacking him five times and forcing two interceptions. The Wildcats managed only one offensive touchdown

on the game, a 37-yard run by running back Dalton Crossan, which put the College behind 15-7 after the ensuing two-point conversion. New Hampshire did not score again until a 27-yard field goal by Wildcat kicker Christian Breda with less than 10 minutes left in the fourth quarter, and by then the Tribe had the game in hand.

After racking up over 300 yards rushing in the home opener against Stony Brook, the College offense repeated the performance, gaining 325 of its 470 total yards against New Hampshire via the ground game.

Junior running back Kendell Anderson got the majority of the snaps and delivered an outstanding performance, rushing 27 times for 174 yards and two touchdowns, including a 69yard scamper less than a minute after Crossan’s touchdown run. Anderson added his second score with 2:05 left in the first half, punctuating a six-play, 60-yard drive with a 1-yard touchdown run to put the Tribe ahead 21-15, a lead they would not relinquish. After the game, Anderson applauded the work of his blockers.

“My hat goes off to the offensive line, the full backs and tight ends,” Anderson said. “The reason why we’ve been able to run the ball the way we do is because they’ve been killing defensive lines

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Junior running back Kendell Anderson finds a gap made by the offensive line to rush through New Hampshire’s defense for a first down Saturday.

and getting up to linebackers and just opening up giant holes … I get the rushing stuff, I get all that, but it all goes to my offensive line.”

Even junior quarterback Steve Cluley did most of his damage on the ground, taking the ball into the end zone twice and setting up Anderson’s second touchdown with a 39-yard run down to the Wildcat 13. Through the air, Cluley completed 14 of his 22 passes for 145 yards and a touchdown, a 30yard strike to sophomore wide receiver DeVonte Dedmon that essentially sealed the victory, putting the College ahead 34-15 with 12:21 to play.

The momentum of the game swung largely on several special teams’ plays.

New Hampshire returned the opening kickoff to the William and Mary 36 yard line as several Tribe defenders missed tackles. This initial miscue only foreshadowed things to come, as with 10:40 left in the quarter Wildcat defensive back Casey DeAndrade darted past the College’s porous punt coverage for a 90-yard touchdown return to give New Hampshire the lead.

The Tribe special teams unit was able to right the ship in the second half, thanks to several miscues by New Hampshire’s Breda. Trailing by six midway through the third quarter, the Wildcats drove deep into College

territory, finally stalling at the 3 yard line. Breda lined up to take the short 22 yard field goal but put his attempt wide of the left upright.

Later in the quarter, Breda was sent out to punt after a New Hampshire three and out. Receiving the snap from inside his own end zone, Breda fumbled the ball, picked it off the turf, and under pressure from sophomore safety Richie DiPietro II punted the ball two yards. Senior safety DeAndre Houston-Carson fielded the ball at the Wildcat 17 and ran it back to the 10, setting the Tribe offense up with utopian field position. Two plays later, Cluely ran the ball in from five yards out to increase the College’s advantage to 27-15.

Breda’s next punt found HoustonCarson’s hands once again, but under different circumstances. This time Breda fielded the snap cleanly, but Houston-Carson flew in untouched and blocked the punt, which ricocheted out of bounds at the New Hampshire 30 yard line. The very next play from scrimmage, Cluley found Dedmon near the Wildcat goal line, and Dedmon sliced his way into the end zone for his fourth receiving touchdown. Laycock later commented on Houston-Carson’s big play.

“DeAndre’s got a great knack for

timing those things and taking it off a punter’s foot,” Laycock said. “He just laid out and made a great play, and he takes pride in doing that.”

Overall the Tribe dominated the stat sheet, outgaining New Hampshire by nearly 200 yards, holding an over nine-minute advantage in time of possession, and not turning the ball over or allowing a sack. The College ultimately triumphed 34-18, its second straight victory over a ranked CAA opponent.

Now ranked No. 17/16 in the nation, William and Mary returns to action next Saturday, Oct. 24 for its homecoming game against Hampton, who is not ranked in either Football Championship Subdivision poll. It is scheduled to kick off at 3:30 p.m.

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COMMENTARY

Dominant display over New Hampshire increases playoff hopes Offense, defense and special teams all impress in weekend victory over Wildcats at Zable Stadium

Nick Cipolla

FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR

Coming into Saturday with last week’s huge win at Villanova, I expected William and Mary football to perform at the same level or better against New Hampshire at home. The Tribe delivered for the most part with another strong performance for the second consecutive week against a nationally ranked opponent, despite making early concessions, as well as suffering a significant injury.

The game started with the Wildcats looking better than the home team as the College’s special teams unit surrendered a 90-yard punt return for a touchdown just over four minutes into the game. The Tribe was outmaneuvered and outplayed in its coverage of New Hampshire’s Casey DeAndrade, stirring fans’ fears of an impending blowout.

However, that blowout never came. Instead, the College defeated its second consecutive set of Wildcats 34-18 with players stepping up in all facets of the game.

Junior quarterback Steve Cluley had some difficulty throwing deep to his receivers, but the running game more than compensated for the deep ball deficiency. With the surging force that is junior running back Kendell Anderson — who was named the Colonial Athletic Association Offensive Player of the Week — as well as key carries by senior tailback Mikal Abdul-Saboor

and Cluley himself, the College ran amok over the visiting Wildcats. In terms of yardage, the offense racked up 325 yards rushing of its 470 total yards, where New Hampshire had 127 yards rushing and just 281 total offensive yards. Anderson and Cluley each picked up a pair of touchdowns.

Cluley has already shown much more awareness in scrambling plays compared to last season and even earlier this fall. While AbdulSaboor was still limited and only ran for 68 yards, Anderson picked up the slack with 174 net yards.

The Tribe leans heavily on its rushing and should continue to do so, especially given the strength of the offensive line that was successful in creating opportunities for big plays Saturday.

Though not to be overshadowed, the receiving corps was essential to creating first downs, as well as a touchdown via a 30-yard reception by sophomore wideout DeVonte Dedmon. New Hampshire’s defense covered Cluley’s passes steadily through the game, illustrating a need for innovation in pass playcalling.

Even when William and Mary didn’t hold the ball, it managed to dominate the game. Despite the errors with special teams in the first quarter, the group shined under senior safety DeAndre Houston-Carson — this week’s CAA Special Teams Player of the Week — as he had a blocked punt and a blocked field goal that both set up Tribe touchdowns. Houston-Carson transitioned from cornerback to safety for his final collegiate season, but he remains on top of his game and leads the defense with not only a pair of blocked kicks but a pair of interceptions and 27 solo tackles in six games.

After New Hampshire took the lead on the 37yard run early in the second quarter, the Tribe buckled down for the long haul and only gave up a field goal the rest of the game. No matter

how much the offense scores, a bad defense can break up a potential win — the College had no issues with that for most of Saturday’s game. For proof, look to the stats — five sacks, nine tackles for loss and two interceptions. Facing one of the conference’s best quarterbacks, Sean Goldrich, and putting up those numbers shows that the Tribe could really have something special with this year’s squad moving forward into the second half of the season.

However, one thing does put a damper on an otherwise significant win, and that is the injury of senior linebacker Luke Rhodes. After senior outside linebackers Ian Haislip and Zach Fetters were out of play due to injuries sustained at Virginia, the star of the unit and the last of the College’s preseason starting linebackers to stay upright, is now out for an undetermined amount of time with a leg injury. He was taken out before the half and put on crutches during the break.

With him gone, Goldrich immediately began targeting screen passes to Rhodes’ domain of coverage. Though the defense has Fetters back in the lineup and has performed respectably as a unit, the injury of a team captain has got to be a demoralizing factor on the back burner of the victory.

Based on Saturday’s victory, the second upset of higher-ranked teams in as many games, the only remaining challenges moving forward are James Madison and Richmond, both of which are undefeated in CAA play before they face each other next week.

At the midpoint of the season and heading into a heavily-favored Homecoming against unranked Hampton, I optimistically predict a playoff appearance this year provided the team stays healthy on defense and consistent on offense.

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Senior linebacker Luke Rhodes is carried off with a leg injury.

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Sophomore wideout DeVonte Dedmon scores a touchdown.