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campus for these African Americans. “[As] a really great reference point that we’ve used in this class, we looked at a documentary on the Vietnam memorial that Maya Lin designed, because that really broke the mold for twentieth century memorials and how we think about memorializing events,” Pease said. “Showing it to the students, it really seems to open up their eyes.”

Jamesha Gibson ’15 is a student in Pease and Allen’s class. She said the course attempts to push away from more traditional memorials, such as statues, in an effort to better encompass the size and complexity of the issue.

“One thing is, [statues] can be representative,” Gibson said. “And at the same time it’s not fully expressing the continuum of memory, not only of Jim Crow and slavery, but how that broadly affects us in general.”

Other colleges, such as the University of North Carolina — Chapel Hill and Brown University have already dedicated memorials on their campuses to commemorate the slaves. Pease said his class has looked at these sites for inspiration.

“We’ve looked at memorials from all over the world, not just slavery per se, although there are

The Supreme Court of the United States declined to review petitions from several states — including Virginia — appealing lower court decisions to overturn bans on same sex marriage Monday. Since the cases will not be heard, the lower court decisions will be upheld and same sex marriage will become legal in these states.

At 1 p.m. on the same day, same sex couples in Virginia could officially apply for marriage licenses, and the first marriage was officiated shortly thereafter.

Former College of William and Mary rector Jeffrey Trammell ’73 — the College’s first openly gay rector — has been part of the fight Trammell to legalize same sex marriage and has encouraged the College to provide benefits for the spouses of employees in same-sex partnerships.

“I could not be happier for LGBT members of the W&M family and those in higher education across the Commonwealth,” Trammell said in a statement.

“Thanks to each of you for persevering through the years it took to reach this day. I’m of course thinking of so many individuals like George Greenia who never gave up, as well as President Reveley.

We are privileged to be part of this revolution in American society, Reveley but we are even more privileged to see our community finally achieve protection under the US Constitution.”

The overturn of the same-sex marriage ban further opens the door to discussion of benefits for employees.

In an email College President Taylor Reveley sent to faculty, staff and students Monday, he addressed the steps to be taken in pursuing this issue.

“The Fourth Circuit decision did not deal with civil unions or domestic partnerships,” he wrote. “We expect the Governor will work with state colleges and universities, as well as other state entities, to engage the various aspects of the new situation, including offering employee benefits to the same-sex spouses of state employees. William & Mary will move promptly

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Tracking slavery at the College

Students work on memorial to slaves

1695-1700 Slave labor was used to build the College.

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1718 The College bought Nottoway Quarter, a plantation run by slaves.

Thomas Jefferson. Lord Botetourt. The Reverend James Blair. The College of William and Mary is dotted with statues, buildings and memorials dedicated to the many people and groups who shaped the school’s history. Now, the Lemon Project and a new history class seek to memorialize one of its most persecuted and unknown supporters in its 321-year history: African Americans.

African Americans have had a close relationship with the College since its founding.

They constructed the Wren Building and other facilities, and even supported the College financially through tobacco cultivation on the nearby Nottoway Plantation, according to the College’s website and Earl Gregg Swem Library Special Collections.

The new course, HIST 311, “Memorializing Enslaved of W&M,” is taught jointly by professors Edwin Pease and Jody Allen Ph.D ’09. It aims to honor the plight of African Americans through the colonial, antebellum and Jim Crow eras. In the course, students learn about the intertwined history of African Americans and the College with the ultimate goal of establishing a memorial on

1779 Slaves sold to compensate for loss of funding from England.

1796 Law professor St. George Tucker called for gradual emancipation.

1802 Nottoway Quarter sold.

1817 Coffin purchased for Lemon, a Collegeowned slave for whom the Lemon Project is named.

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Shwayze to headline ‘Celebrate You’ concert State reduces College funding ‘Corona and Lime’ rapper, Amtrac to perform to promote mental health awareness Support decreases for 2015-16

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Artists Shwayze and Amtrac will co-headline the “Celebrate You” concert co-sponsored by the Student Assembly, the Inter-Fraternity Council, AMP and Health Outreach Peer Educators.

The concert is slated for Saturday, Oct. 25, as a culmination of the Celebrate YOU Initiative, which will run programs on health and wellness the week leading up to the concert.

Shwayze is a rapper known for his songs “Buzzin” and “Corona and Lime.” He also starred on the MTV reality show “Buzzin.” Amtrac is a DJ and vocalist in the dance music world.

SA Colin Danly ’15 anticipates that the artists will be popular amongst students and will allow

The Virginia state government will cut its funding to the College of William and Mary by $2.3 million for fiscal year 2015.

According to the Williamsburg-Yorktown Daily, these cuts are due to Virginia’s projected budget shortfall of $2.4 billion through 2016. State funding to the College will decrease 5.7 percent in fiscal years 2015 and 2016 as a result of the budget crisis in Richmond. Funding to the University of Virginia will be cut by 6.6 percent.

Associate Vice President of Communications and University Relations Brian Whitson said that Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, D-Va., asked all state agencies, including the College, to prepare budgets with 5 and 7 percent reductions for 2015 and 2016 due to the $882 million gap in the state budget. Last month, the Virginia General Assembly passed See BUDGET page 3

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them to take a break from work.

Danly explained that the week as whole, will hopefully remind students to be positive.

“We are a very positive campus, but we aren’t very positive to ourselves. This week is really centered on people being positive towards themselves,” Danly said.

The idea for a concert began within the IFC, as they were interested in finding ways to get members of the Greek community involved with ongoing discussions on mental health and wellness.

The SA, AMP and HOPE then got involved with the effort.

The Celebrate YOU Initiative is focused on healthy living and community. The four sponsoring organizations will collaborate to put on events addressing this subject throughout the week, with the

campus after Homecoming, after midterms, to take a collective breath together,” Danly said.

Arvin Alaigh ’15, the head of AMP’s music committee, explained that this partnership between the SA, HOPE, AMP and the IFC for the See CONCERT page 3

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concert occurring at the end of the week as a final celebration.

SA Vice President Kendall Lorenzen ’15 explained that the week will encompass various aspects of health and wellness.

“This will be a week focusing on what’s right with you, so we are going to be looking at all aspects of wellness; including health, including different small things that you can do to increase your general life satisfaction. And we are going to doing all these events kind of in a way to promote positive stress relief,” Lorenzen said.

Danly said he sees the concert as a positive stress outlet as well as a chance for the campus to unite as a community.

“We don’t as a campus often come together and celebrate things. … It really gives a chance for the

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I could not be happier for members of the W&M family and those in higher education across the Commonwealth. Thanks to each of you for persevering through the years it took to reach this day.

— Former College rector Jeffrey Trammell ’73 on the Supreme Court ruling to allow same sex marriage in Virginia

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“Fear can be useful. I know that sounds really odd.” ­— Professor Christopher Owens In the newest edition of “60 Second Stories,” four professors talk about times that they failed in their professional and personal lives, and what they learned from their experiences. To hear these stories and more, check out The Flat Hat’s Facebook page and www.soundcloud.com/theflathat.

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In this week’s “Reel Talk” blog, Flat Hat film critic William Penix praises the complexity and bleak tone of David Fincher’s latest film, “Gone Girl.” To read Penix’s full review and all other “Reel Talk” reviews, go to www.flathatnews.com.

“People concerned about film adaptations deviating from the novel need not worry here. It is easy to trust writers who pen their own film adaptations because they know better than anyone else how the plot should proceed.

The most apparent quality of “Gone Girl” is its storytelling ability, how it conceals and then reveals the film’s mysteries and twists. What is most impressive is how it steadily unfolds major plot points, yet maintains a sharp pace with the help of Fincher’s direction. Despite the film’s 149 minute run time, it takes you within its arms and does not let you go until its end, enveloping the viewer within the complexities of the story and never plodding along. It plays along knowing the audience knows nothing, yet never feels patronizing in that respect. There is a reason people should trust the author of the source material to write the adaptation, and Gillian Flynn emphatically proves why.

But let’s not take any credit away from Mr. Fincher, who supplies his stylish brand of direction to create a moody atmosphere complementing the film’s strong thematic darkness. Low-key lighting dominates many of the scenes, slightly obscuring the image’s subjects and providing a mysterious air which adds to the film’s suspense. Dialogue is often released at rapid-fire rates, and scenes often come and go. Much of the film is there and then gone, aiding one of the film’s central themes.”

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NEWS IN BRIEF Law school professor to appear on The Colbert Report

Associate professor of history’s new book published by Harvard University

Law professor contributes to American Bar Association publication

Allison Larsen ’99, a professor at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law, was invited to appear on The Colbert Report to discuss how the Supreme Court forms its opinions. She appeared on the Comedy Central program Monday, Oct. 9 at 11:30 p.m. The College alumnus is the author of several books including “The Trouble with Amicus Facts” and “Bargaining Inside the Blackbox,” and she has also been featured in the New York Times. Her research is focused on legal decisionmaking.

Associate professor of history Eric Han’s new book “Rise of a Japanese Chinatown: Yokohama, 1894-1972,” was recently published by Harvard University’s Asia Center. The book recounts the history of a Chinatown in Japan, following the Bao family’s immigration to the Chinese community in Yokohama. Han argues that following the Bao family allows for insight into the challenges of national identity and crossing national boundaries. Han began the research and inquiry of this book in 1996.

Marshall-Wythe School of Law professor Thomas McSweeney contributed to the American Bar Association’s publication “Magna Carta and the Rule of Law.” This June marks the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta. McSweeney, who studies the history of common law, posits that the Magna Carta came to be seen as such an influential document as a result of misinterpretation over the years. McSweeney will be hosting a conference, sponsored by the Institute of Bill of Rights Law, in 2016 to discuss the editing of the Magna Carta.

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State prisoners assemble campus furniture Through Virginia Correctional Enterprises, prisoners produce goods, services for state CAROLINE NUTTER THE FLAT HAT

The thought of typical dorm room furniture does not usually evoke images of orange jumpsuits, electric barbed wire and seven-foot cement walls. One thinks, usually, of oddly high beds, light wood finishing and minimal surface area.

However, prisoners across the state of Virginia work every day to assemble the majority of the College of William and Mary’s furniture, including pieces in dorm rooms, offices and classrooms. In obtaining the furniture, the College does not go directly to prisons, but through Virginia Correctional Enterprises, an institution established over 75 years ago by the General Assembly of Virginia as a work program for the incarcerated.

Through VCE, state prisoners produce goods and services for all agencies funded by the Commonwealth of Virginia. This means that the College is not alone; all other Virginia statefunded schools, public lower education institutions and publicly-funded hospitals, among others, are obligated by law to purchase furniture through VCE. Director of Procurement Services Greg Johnson said there is a long history between VCE, the prisons and the College.

“It’s been going on for eons,” he said.

“The structure for VCE is such that they fund themselves — the legislature wanted to have a way to give people who were incarcerated a way to learn job skills, and that’s how they came up with this program.”

Johnson said the prison program has adapted over time.

“The world’s changed a lot since the day they first started this — a lot of

furniture was actually being built in the prisons,” Johnson said. “Now VCE also distributes furniture — VCE now buys furniture other office firms sell and resells it, and they assemble it. [The furniture] comes in knocked-down boxes, and the prisoners assemble it and it gets delivered.”

Economics professor Peter McHenry said the program does not have a major effect on the College’s cost for furniture.

“Furniture is a very small share of the college’s costs,” McHenry said.

“If furniture costs fall even by a lot, proportionately it is not going to make a big dent in the overall costs of the College.”

Prisoners in this program make around 25 cents an hour, $7 less than the legal minimum wage. Jennifer Horowitz ’18 said she believes that, despite what she sees as low wages, the program offers a good opportunity to give the incarcerated work experience.

“I feel good about it,” Horowitz said. “We’re giving [the incarcerated] an opportunity to be productive and contribute to a society, which when they were arrested was [an opportunity] taken away from them,” In a similar vein, McHenry said making 25 cents an hour is better than making nothing.

“I’m not an arbiter of fair … but if the prisoner is not allowed to work and you offer the prisoner an offer to make more than zero dollars, that’s an improvement,” he said.

Johnson, McHenry and Horowitz also emphasized that the purpose of the program is to increase employability and to build up prisoners’ skills, not unlike programs in prisons helping the incarcerated ALL PHOTOS BY ROHAN DESAI / THE FLAT HAT Through Virginia Correctional Enterprises, prisoners across the state work to assemble the College of William and Mary’s furniture. gain college credits or GEDs.

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HB 5010, which calls for the College to receive a 5.7 percent reduction both years. The Virginia Institute of Marine Science was exempt from reductions.

The resulting cuts were less than anticipated, but Whitson noted that the HB 5010 did not take the $272 million statewide shortfall into account.

McAuliffe will address those concerns in the budget amendment process in December.

Whitson said these latest cuts highlight a marked trend in state financial support for the College over the years.

“In 1980, the state provided 43 percent of our operating budget,” Whitson said in an email. “That percentage is now about 12 percent. The William & Mary Promise, the operating model the Board of Visitors adopted in April 2013, is a big piece of that plan for W&M to have a more predictable and sustainable financial foundation.”

This emphasis on increased financial

independence was also reflected in an Aug. 29 statement from College President Taylor Reveley to faculty and staff regarding the budget cuts.

“As you know, we have made great progress over the past several years in building a new financial future for the university, one much less dependent on state support than in years past,” Reveley said in a statement. “This has included adopting the William & Mary Promise … It also includes materially enhancing our capacity to raise philanthropic support for William & Mary, while working on campus to find new ways to cut costs or reduce their increase as we simultaneously add faculty, staff, and operating funds to recognize the impact of enrollment growth and strengthen international, career service, and other programs.”

In his statement, Reveley said that the William and Mary Promise would ultimately result in increased in-state tuition revenue and merit-based raises for faculty and staff.

“Overall, I would say that budget cuts of this

magnitude are never easy, especially cuts in the middle of the academic year,” Whitson said. “But, as [President Reveley] said, we don’t anticipate they will require jarring or major adjustments.

No mid-year tuition increases, for example, are planned. As Sam [Jones] told the Board, we’ll look at one-time cuts for this current fiscal year that will have a minimal impact — this could mean delaying some equipment purchases or slowing down hiring a bit. For next year’s budget, we’ll take a look at base cuts to the operating budget and those will be included in the budget presented to the Board in April.”

Whitson said that the College is actively working on achieving a more “sustainable financial foundation” due to the projected decrease in state funding.

Vice President for Finance Sam Jones said that he is optimistic about the College’s outlook, despite the cuts.

“Currently, we anticipate a $2.3 million

reduction in state support for this year which carries forward into next year,” Jones said in an email. “While this reduction is significant, the College will still move forward with implementing key elements of its strategic plan including competitive salaries for faculty and staff and needbased student financial aid.”

Jones also said the cuts could have a negative impact on the College’s rate of new investment.

Despite that affect, he said the school will continue to protect academics. However, College chapter president of Virginia 21, a Richmondbased student advocacy group, Jakob Stalnaker ’16 expressed his concern over the budget cuts.

“These cuts in higher education have the potential to decrease financial aid and increase the cost of tuition in the coming years,” Stalnaker said in an email. “We students have to make our voices heard by contacting our elected officials and registering to vote; otherwise, nothing will change.”

Class focuses on planning for memorial Same-sex nuptials legal in Va. MEMORIAL from page 1

slavery-related memorials in different countries,” Pease said. “There are a couple of pretty powerful ones in the West Coast of Africa, where a lot of slaves were taken from.”

Pease said the construction and design of the memorial is complicated by the scope of the project, especially in comparison to other memorials.

“The real distinction between a slave memorial and many other memorials is

that slavery happened over such a long period of time in this country, so it’s not like the Vietnam War which was about ten years long, which is pretty contained in contrast,” Pease said. “Most memorials are dealing with events that are much more constricted.”

Pease and his students, like Brontë de Cardenas ’16, also noted that the lack of historical information regarding African Americans and the College is another obstacle in the creation of the memorial.

“We don’t have a lot of information about the slaves that were at William and Mary,” de Cardenas said. “I think this class has taught me to kind of look at it, not being so set on personal stories and more recognizing the experiences that happened.”

A town hall meeting will take place Nov. 11 to gauge the community’s opinions of the memorial and to discuss the history, purpose, feasibility and possible designs for one in Williamsburg.

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put these benefits into effect for our people as soon as feasible. We believe this long-overdue moment will come shortly.”

Christian Bale ’14 M.P.P. ’15, founder of the equality-focused organization William and Larry at the College, said the decision is an important step for the state of Virginia, specifically in reference to the effect it will have on the benefits that are offered to these faculty members.

“Strong and fearless members of our community like [Professor] George Greenia, Former Rector Jeff Trammell, Camilla Buchanan and Deb Hill, have been fighting for this right for years and we should thank them for their tireless work,” Bale said in an email. “A famous alumnus of the College once wrote that ‘All men are created equal.’

We believe that ‘all PEOPLE are created equal.’ Though marriage equality is a major step towards equality under our Constitution, there is much more to be accomplished.”

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Plans are underway for the College of William and Mary to host a class-designed memorial for enslaved individuals who built campus.

concert has been a lot to manage, but he expressed excitement that the collaboration will draw in many people from all over campus.

“I think it’s going to be good in [that] we are engaging multiple facets of the student body, which is another good thing.

That’s another one of the reasons I’m really excited about this, because there’s just so many walks of campus coming to this,” Alaigh said. “HOPE has over 300 members, IFC in terms of Greek life, is a sizable portion of campus, AMP has a loyal following in terms of their events and SA just kind of is permeating all throughout

campus. We have a lot of different people who are engaged with this.”

Lorenzen shared her hope that the week will teach students about living happily and healthily.

“I’m really hoping that people come out of the week with a new awareness of themselves, in that everyone needs to find healthy was to celebrate their many successes in life in order to really be happy and to live a full life,” Lorenzen said. “And I’m hoping that people will be more aware of that and more aware of the different resources that we have on campus to ensure that they can reach that holistic level of wellness that we’re hoping for.”

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Making mental health services a priority Jack Powers and Chris Weber FLAT HAT ASSOC. SPORTS EDITOR AND FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR

Peter Godshall and Troy Pelish were both members of the Class of 2015. Both committed suicide on campus, and their absences shape our legacy as a class.

We need to have an active discussion of mental health. Last week’s Mental Health Awareness Week showed the passion many students feel toward mental health; additionally, the week made strides to change perceptions of mental health on campus while increasing awareness of the services offered to students.

But an honest assessment of mental health issues on campus must start with the Counseling Center’s lack of access and effectiveness. To truly combat the spate of mental health issues on campus, we must hold the administration accountable.

The men and women of the Counseling Center

dedicate themselves to the treatment of mental health and their diligence has undoubtedly helped many of our classmates through trying times. However, structural shortcomings limit the Counseling Center’s ability to fulfill its mission.

Students’ testimonials and official figures’ statements reveal an institution that is understaffed, under-experienced, tucked away in a dusty corner of a dusty building, and, ultimately, a comparatively low priority for the administration, even while it is one of the most essential aspects of our university.

During peak months, students usually need to wait around a week for an appointment. Of course, the urgency of the request helps determine how the center schedules its appointments, but the system is inadequate given the latent and often unobservable nature of mental illness.

With an appointment in hand, students must navigate through Blow Hall, where they enter the Counseling Center only to be met with a cramped pseudo-clinic. A lengthy process of forms and surveys asks students to self-diagnose, much like someone visiting a physician’s office for the first time. The dark, windowless reception area acutely reminds students just how far removed from the general populace they are.

It’s no wonder students rethink the Center’s

effectiveness after being discharged.

Students usually meet with “Psychology Interns” and “Advanced Practicum Trainees.”

While these “interns” and “trainees” are likely knowledgeable and passionate practitioners, they are not licensed psychologists, and as such their work with students is practice toward getting their degree. Further, students report difficulty in scheduling a licensed practitioner, generally meeting with graduate students instead.

According to its website, the Counseling Center employs seven licensed clinical psychologists.

However, whether because of a lack of funding or a need to offer hands-on experience in graduate programs, students don’t usually benefit from the expertise of a professional.

The Counseling Center officials often encourage students with serious mental issues to leave the school for off-campus resources, or to drop out entirely. While release from the highpressure academic environment may help afflicted students — especially ones with severe cases — stories of official pressure to leave highlight an institution that is unequipped to treat serious mental problems and are emblematic of officials devoted to limiting liability.

The fiscal year 2014 budget reveals that the school projected to spend $4,100,000 on “Student

Health and Counseling,” a category encompassing the Student Health Center and the Counseling Center. This figure represents 4.6 percent of Auxiliary Enterprise’s projected expenses ($89,600,000) and 4.5 percent of projected Auxiliary Enterprise revenue ($91,300,000), most of which comes out the board fee ($3,946) each student pays each semester. Taken in terms of the school’s entire operating budget, the projected amount spent on “Student Health and Counseling” makes up 1.1 percent. Furthermore, the “William and Mary Strategic Plan FY 20152019,” released in April, mentioned mental health concerns in just one sentence of the 23-page document.

Financial concerns aside, the Counseling Center’s physical limitations also call into question the College’s priorities. The Tucker and Tyler Hall renovations fall in line with its academically oriented brand. As it has for much of the College’s existence, academic success takes priority over nearly all other campus-wide initiatives. Look no further than the implementation of the third phase of the Integrated Science Center.

Student life enters the priorities equation somewhere after academic concerns. After a year’s delay, crews have gutted Chandler Hall for some much-needed reconstruction. The Williamsburg Hospitality House purchase signaled a move in the direction of higher-quality living options. Even the dining system underwent an overhaul, as the College agreed to terms with Sodexo to revitalize on-campus dining.

In the face of campus-wide construction and dining changes, the Counseling Center’s space remains unchanged with no foreseeable improvements.

Even following student deaths, the administration does little more than recognize a moment of silence at Convocation and host a vigil in the Wren Chapel. Student groups have been far more active. Students run Mental Health Awareness Week, organize HOPE-sponsored programs, and address mental health issues through club activities.

The administration has had its chances to become actively involved in the mental health discussion. A Counseling Center staff member attending and speaking a few words at Mental Health Awareness Week events does some good, but not nearly enough in the way of admitting the Center’s ineffectiveness in truly dealing with on-campus mental health issues.

Before an active, campus-wide discussion can take place, the College administration must acknowledge its flaws. The administration’s emails detailing student deaths offer a sense of finality, an attempt to cover tragedy with platitudes. The administration remains silent to the point of hypocrisy. There is no conversation, no discussion — only deepest sympathies and a line about the Counseling Center’s availability.

Before constructive conversation can begin, the administration must acknowledge its implicit involvement in mental health issues. More can be done, more should be done, and the administration should begin with alleviating the Counseling Center of its structural shortcomings.

The Class of 2015 has lost two classmates to suicide and must begin holding the College’s administration accountable for the Counseling Center’s flaws. A discussion isn’t a final solution, but it holds potential for whole-scale change.

Email Jack Powers at jbpowers@email.wm.edu and Chris Weber at cmweber@email.wm.edu.

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The College of William Mary prides itself on its rich colonial and antebellum history. Looking to fill a glaring hole in that collective history, Professors Edwin Pease and Jody Allen Ph.D. ’09 created the course “Memorializing Enslaved of William and Mary” to educate students on the role of African Americans at the College, with the long term goal of developing a memorial. While ambitious, the course will not only benefit the students taking it, but it will also improve the College’s understanding of itself.

A class, rather than a club or student organization, is an effective way to plan the memorial. It ensures relative structure and a devoted group of students who will not abandon the project due to boredom or busy schedules. As most of the students will likely be history majors, they will already have the research skills necessary to build a more comprehensive picture of African American experiences at the College.

The course will also give students the opportunity to gain valuable experience and academic credit while giving back to the community.

The College needs more classes that reflect the project-based nature of the modern workplace; students who contribute to the memorial may graduate long before its completion, but through their contributions they will learn how to develop long-term projects — to pass on their work to others, knowing that the final project may differ wildly from their original conceptions. But their work will contribute to a richer understanding of African Americans’ role at the College and benefit a community deeply invested in its history.

The College’s projection of its history sorely lacks an African American viewpoint. Students may pride

I had the outstanding opportunity to listen to Senator Creigh Deeds Monday, Sept. 29 at the Mental Health and Politics event. Senator Deeds was emotionally enthralling when he spoke of how he drove the General Assembly to action. The Senator’s most actionable statement for us, however, was his plea that we not lose the sense of urgency to face mental health issues.

It was unfortunate, then, that the College administration seems to be missing the most urgent needs it has in confronting the often-serious problems facing students. When I asked about the myth that students undergo retribution from the school, that they are not afforded the opportunity to succeed, if they come forward with a serious mental health issue, Dean Marjorie Thomas and Director of the Counseling Center Warenetta Mann rightfully denied and rebutted this myth.

I am thankful that they put the facts out there in a plain and direct manner, making clear that we are truly One Tribe, One Family. This information, however, should not just be provided during Mental Health Week. There should be no myth of retribution. The Dean of Students Office must do a better job of making their policies clear.

Furthermore, there was no response to concerns about the Counseling Center’s resource shortage. The center, due to the overwhelming needs of the campus, often seeks to refer out students who need help.

However, many are often not willing or able to go to an outside provider for that help. Students also often face egregious waits for initial appointments.

The lack of information and resources is a true urgent crisis on this campus. What is needed now is that the school faces it and provides the Counseling Center with the full battery of resources it requires to assist students.

—Chris Papas

Remembering our history with slavery themselves on their knowledge of James Blair, Thomas Jefferson and Lord Botetourt, whose statues have endured for years, but few know just how essential slaves were to the College: They constructed academic buildings and provided much of the College’s income by cultivating tobacco on a nearby plantation. Yet those are no statues or memorials here. It would seem to the average student or tourist that the College never had slaves at all.

The memorial would force all who visit and attend the College to reckon with its abysmal treatment of African Americans in the past — as slaves and as underpaid workers — as well as its stubborn refusal to integrate.

Planning and constructing this memorial will be a long and arduous process, and that is a good thing.

It will allow many years of students to provide new ideas, find new sources, and consult with experts. We hope that “Memorializing Enslaved of William and Mary” will encourage the Black Caucus and black Greek organizations to participate, as well as the broader College community — and bring us closer to a more complete understanding of our history and of ourselves.

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 Abby Boyle, Matt Camarda, Zachary Frank, Meredith Ramey and Ellen Wexler. 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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divorce denied my thesis topic losing my house finishing my second book

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fired isn’t really I got cancer

failure’ I went bankrupt post-partum depression

discovering started my own company my career

As we head into the depths of midterm season, four professors recount the worst failures of their lives. Emerging from health, academic and financial crises stronger than they entered, these professors gained experience and life lessons unlikely to be taught in a classroom.

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Fired right after a promotion t a time in our lives when everything seems up in the air, students of all academic years can relate to the feeling of uncertainty when it comes to planning for the future.

As it turns out, Greg Smith, professor in the department of applied science, neuroscience program faculty affiliate, and the director of the bio-math initiative here at the College of William and Mary, was not immune to that same feeling when he was an undergraduate student forging his own path to graduate school.

“My parents were divorced in my sophomore year of college and it rattled me a little bit,” said Smith, “I was at MIT, and I did manage

to finish with good grades, but just barely. There were a number of things I had to work out, psychologically and personally, and it took me quite a while to get my footing career wise.”

Unsure of whether he wanted to pursue medical school, Smith went on to teach high school for three years immediately following his time as an undergraduate biology student at MIT. Having been accepted to the Peace Corps only to have those plans change due to political unrest in his planned country, Smith was unsure of exactly what his future held. When he realized he was spending his free time reading science and mathematics books, Smith decided his future lay in graduate school and his interest lay in biotechnology.

In order to get the letters of recommendation that he needed, Smith took an entry-level laboratory assistant job at the University of California, San Francisco.

“It was an incredibly boring job, where I was doing the same, not-terribly difficult experiment over and over again every day.

Because it was an epidemiological study, my job was the same every single day, and I just got terribly bored and ended up not performing really well.”

Smith spent a couple of years in the field, only to be fired immediately after receiving a promotion. What seemed like a failure at the time, Smith now notes, is responsible for putting him on the right track for something he really loved.

After receiving a call from a faculty advisor at the University of California-Davis, Smith went on to pursue higher degrees in biophysics, something that he realized later was truly where his interests lay.

“I would say, more often than not, failure isn’t really failure, but rather a course correction,” Smith said.

Struck by cancer, pregnancy

Fell from success to bankruptcy

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Professor Cindy Hahamovitch

hether you’re dealing with a loss or just trying to navigate the labyrinth that is life, mental health plays a crucial part in the process. For Professor Cindy Hahamovitch, Chair of the College of William and Mary’s Lyon G. Tyler Department of History, mental health played a huge role in her early life, especially in the realm of her professional publishing career.

When Hahamovitch, already a published author, set out to write her second book, life began to throw curveballs.

“I got cancer and spent a year with that,” Hahamovitch said. “Then, I got pregnant, which was a shocker, which was wonderful, except that I got a whopping case of post-partum depression after that which lasted for an unusually long amount of time. It ended up amounting to almost three years where it just seemed like this project would never get done.”

Despite her strongest efforts to complete the second book, Hahamovitch kept facing adversity.

“I worked on it all the time, but I tended to throw out almost everything that I did,” she said, “You seem brilliant when you’re writing it, but then you wake up the next morning and you read what you wrote and it seems like garbage and out it would go and this process just went on for years.”

The frustrating process continued for Hahamovitch. Only by working through it was Hahamovtich able to see that the problem was not in the research or the writing, but rather in addressing and understanding her post-partum depression before she could do anything else.

“It took me a long time to realize just what the problem was,” she said. “I had never had any kind of mental illness and so it took me a long time to realize that this wasn’t the research or the writing; it was something else that needed to be dealt with before I could get any further on the book.”

Twelve years later, through persistence and effort, Hahamovitch was able to recognize the issue, push past it, and finish her second book.

The experience, while now over, leaves Hahamovitch with a greater understanding of her life as well as others who may be going through a similar experience.

“These are issues that we see in many students and in ourselves,” she said, “Stress and anxiety is common and it’s important that those going through it get the help that they need.”

Professor Christopher Owens

he road to achieving our goals and aspirations can hardly be called an easy one — and more often than not, achieving such success comes only after having to pull ourselves up off the ground. For professor Christopher Owens, theatre department chair and associate professor of theatre at the College of William and Mary, it took just that.

As a young man, Professor Owens lived in Dallas with his wife and ran a successful theater company. However, the success of his theater proved to be short lived. When the oil market crashed in Texas, and one of his major sponsors crashed along with it, so did his theater.

“In a fairly short amount of time, my previously successful theater folded and I was out of a job,” said Owens. “I had just married some months beforehand and I had just bought a house.

Everything seemed to be going along perfectly and then the bottom just dropped out. I had no job, limited prospects, and I couldn’t pay my mortgage payments. I ended up losing my house and went into bankruptcy and that was a pretty awful thing when you’re just married and trying to make your way in the world.”

But Owens chose to not give up. Looking for work, Owens thought outside of the box and started his own company.

“The theatrical market in Dallas was shrinking,” he said. “One of the major hotels there, Plaza America, was starting up a series of murder-mystery weekends. I went in and introduced myself, and offered up my skill set. I could write it, direct it, I could hire actors.

I could help them market it. I’ll even share mailing lists that I had kept from patrons from my theatre. And they said ‘okay.’”

The murder-mystery weekends ended up being a huge success.

Not only was Owens able to support himself, but he was also able to hire his wife as an actor — as well as other actors he had worked with at his company before it shut down. Bit by bit, Owens built himself back up.

Owens’s experience has left him with a two-fold approach to dealing with and learning from failure.

“First off, don’t deny it,” he said, “Something has happened that you need to mourn, whether that be a person or a relationship or an opportunity. Give yourself a time-frame to mourn, and then be done with it. Give it a deadline. And second, think about fear. Fear creates adrenaline and there is a strength that comes out of that adrenaline. If we realize that that is there, we can use it. ”

Professor Anne Charity-Hudley

eing a student at the College of William and Mary comes with its own set of perks, with one of the most impactful undoubtedly being our access to some of the best faculty and professors in the nation. But when your professor is cracking down on your latest paper or challenging your beliefs in a class discussion, it can be hard to remember that they, too, were once in our shoes.

For professor Anne Charity-Hudley of the College’s Community Studies department, that very instance came in her senior year of her undergraduate career. As an undergraduate student, CharityHudley was involved in an extensive honors project on African American language and culture. She loved her topic, her advisor was excited about the material, and she had just spent the last two years researching and writing. Everything seemed on course for success.

However, when Charity-Hudley went to present her honors project for consideration, she got unexpected news: The board didn’t consider her area of study worthy of honors consideration.

All of the work she had done for the last two years was now worthless.

“For me, this was a different type of failure,” said CharityHudley. “It wasn’t that I couldn’t do the work, but it was the fact that the things that I valued, the things that I was researching, weren’t worthy of the highest level of analysis. I remember thinking: ‘What does this say about me and the areas of study that I value?’”

Consequently, Charity-Hudley was faced with a tough reality.

She had spent a huge amount of time working on this project only to have it devalued by her peers. She believed in her thesis and was willing to transfer to another school to continue her work on something she believed in. Charity-Hudley was able to continue her studies in an area that she loved, going on to receive a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, and continuing today in the classes that she teaches at the College.

“I came to realize that different people are going to value different things,” she said. “You can see this as a failure, or you can take this as an opportunity to examine yourself and the things you value. You can take that sense of failure, externalize it and come to realize that ‘there may be a better place for me in this world.’

Sometimes all it takes is finding the right audience.”

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Never alone After dealing with mental illness and taking a leave of absence from the College, one student shared her story with an audience in Commonwealth on Oct. 2. For Mental Health Week, students spent a week participating in activities that brought mental health issues, from suicide to the power of laughter, into the spotlight.

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Depression is nothing. It’s like someone took an ice cream scoop to your insides and there’s just nothing in there.

— Kristina Ripley ’15

SARAH CASPARI FLAT HAT CHIEF STAFF WRITER

Kristina Ripley ’15 traces her medical withdrawal from the College of William and Mary in the spring of 2014 back to three key events.

The first occurred the morning after the last day of classes in the fall 2013 semester. She was going through a breakup and had a history of selfharm and depression. The night of Blowout, she drank herself to sleep, and the next day she began to think about suicide.

“I wake up. My room’s a mess. I’m still a little bit tipsy. And I’m thinking there’s a handle of rum

The week at a glance Monday: State senator Creigh Deeds, D-Bath, spoke about his pursuit of mental health legislation reform.

Tuesday: HOPE hosted a Body Love talk, which emphasized positive body image and body acceptance.

Wednesday:

A panel of students and researchers spoke on the meaning of neurodiversity.

Thursday: Kristina Ripley ’15 and Shirley Ramsey spoke about suicide prevention and their personal experiences. Health Promotion Specialist Eric Garrison led students on a meditative walk.

Friday: The documentary “Happy” and the comedy “22 Jump Street” were screened in the Commonwealth Auditorium.

Saturday: Students participated in a suicide prevention walk in honor of National Day Without a Stigma. The walk raised over $1,000 for mental health charities.

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in front of me and I was like, you know, I’m just going to drink myself back to sleep,” Ripley said.

“But I didn’t want to wake up. Because I didn’t want to wake up and still be in that same place. I didn’t want to wake up and feel this pain and still feel empty.”

When she noticed a bottle of aspirin sitting near the alcohol, she faced a conflict: She didn’t want to die, but she felt like she had to.

Ripley didn’t take the aspirin. She texted some friends who called the campus police, she went to the Emergency Room, and then she was sent home. Her exams were deferred, as were her plans to take her life. Over winter break, the latter resurfaced and she found herself in a parking lot with a bottle of sleeping pills. Again, with the intervention of a friend, she didn’t take them.

That was the second event.

Back at the College in January, Ripley had to deal with the exams that had been postponed.

When she handed in a paper and was immediately told it was too short and to redo it, the sense of failure was overwhelming, leading to the third and final event.

“I was going to actually give validity to my thoughts and go through it,” Ripley said. “So I got some more over the counter sleeping pills and I took six in the middle of Swem.”

Again, she texted a few friends and, on the condition that they promised not to call the police, told them where she was. She later went to the Dean of Students Office, then the Counseling Center, and was told she would have to take a medical leave of absence from the College.

Ripley told her story Thursday night in the Commonwealth Auditorium as part of the Never Alone Suicide Awareness and Risk Reduction event for Mental Health Awareness Week. The week, which featured events relating to different aspects of mental health Monday through Saturday, was sponsored by the Student Assembly, HOPE, Active Minds and NAMI. Ripley contacted vice president of HOPE’s mental health branch Rachel Boykin ’15 last summer about speaking at Mental Health

Awareness Week. While Boykin said she was excited when Ripley approached her, the night of the event nerves began to take over.

“To be honest, I was very nervous to see how students would respond and receive a woman personally talking about her mental health issues involving suicide attempts or just suicide ideations, and how she was able to address it and how William and Mary helped her,” Boykin said. “It was awesome how she got that message across.”

The speaker who preceded Ripley that night was someone Boykin knew and had previously reached out to. Shirley Ramsey is a representative from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and a survivor of suicide loss.

When she was young, her mother died by suicide. Later, she found out that her maternal grandmother had died the same way. When she was in her 20s, her uncle — her mother’s brother — died by suicide, and in 2010, so did Ramsey’s teenage son.

“Died by suicide” is not unintentional phrasing — Ramsey stressed its use as opposed to the more active “committed suicide” as a way to lift away some of the stigma.

“You’ll notice that I will say ‘die by suicide.’

One of the things that the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention stresses is that we not use the word ‘commit’ because we’re trying to reduce stigma,” Ramsey said. “And ‘commit,’ [that’s] like to commit a crime or commit a murder — commit suicide.”

She cited Center for Disease Control and Prevention statistics from 2011, in which there were 39,518 reported suicides, making suicide the 10th leading cause of death nationwide that year.

“That’s the same as having a major plane crash every other day for a year,” she said.

Narrowing down the demographic, Ramsey said there were 141 reported suicides among Virginian youth — ages 10-24 — in the same year.

Up to 90 percent of youth who die by suicide also have untreated mental illness.

She named several risk factors for suicide —

family history, childhood trauma, and exposure to suicide and social isolation, among others — but was equally emphatic about debunking myths about who dies by suicide and why.

“A lot of times in the news when someone dies by suicide or there’s a mass murder, the media would say, ‘What was the motive?’ And that makes me angry, because it was mental illness,” Ramsey said. “There’s not always a motive involved.”

She said that depression is more than sadness and that it’s not something a person can just “get over.” Ripley spoke to that as well in the context of her own experience.

“Depression is not sadness,” she said. “Sadness is an active feeling. You can do something with sadness: You can cry, you can talk to someone.

You want to do something when you’re sad.

Depression is nothing. It’s like someone took an ice cream scoop to your insides and there’s just nothing in there. You can’t think. You can’t feel. You can’t move, in my case — I was nearly comatose. You just sit there.”

In Ripley’s case, intensive outpatient counseling was enough to prepare her to return to the College this semester. She doesn’t feel completely healed, however, and said she never would.

“I’m in a continual process and I’m always going to have to turn my mind and heart to being safe, even when I don’t want to be,” she said.

However, she did stress her availability as a resource for anyone struggling with similar issues.

“I wanted to come up and talk as a student, and as a name and a face that people will associate with mental health,” Ripley said. “I have no problem being the poster child. I would rather myself be the poster child than have someone that you never can understand, and I think that I’d rather people come up to me randomly and have them tell me what is going on than not, because I know what it’s like to be in that pain. … This is not my story anymore, it’s yours, which is weird to say. I’m the main character, but in telling my story it’s no longer my own proprietary thing. This is your information and a story to do with it what you want.”

CONFUSION CORNER

Life lessons from a washed-up senior girl

You know you’re a SWUG — Senior Washed Up Girl — when the frat scene just doesn’t seem appealing anymore

Sky Sprayberry

CONFUSION CORNER COLUMNIST

Last week I was talking about senior year with a friend who goes to Barnard College in Manhattan.

We shared our mutual excitement about the future, our stress about midterms, but mostly, our apathy at what one might call the “college social scene.” I explained to her how few times I have gone out this semester, and she responded to this comment by saying “swug life.”

What is a SWUG, you may ask?

SWUG means “Senior Washed Up Girl.”

The definition varies from person to person, but it’s generally understood to be a female senior who’s over the

expectations of college social life (infused with the hookup culture and centered on drinking), and thus usually opts to stay in with friends of a similar mindset.

The realization that I’ve entered “SWUGdom” hit me when I recently rolled up to a pretty well-known offcampus party house. The place was packed tighter than sardines; it was boiling and uncomfortable.

People I didn’t know surrounded me and my feet stuck to the floor as I struggled to maneuver through the mass. The only people dancing were scantily clad freshmen girls on tables and telling the others how much they

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loved them (even though they had only met the week before, I’m presuming).

I turned to my friends and I could see I wasn’t alone in my misery. Parties like this used to be fun. Now they seem laborious and boring.

Some days it’s easier to read a book or watch Netflix with your roommate in bed than to force yourself to sacrifice your Saturdays to be trapped at a packed party, wishing you were doing something more memorable. Being a SWUG means you have more time to succeed in what college is actually about. It’s about making lifelong friendships, making memories and preparing for the future. I know this

makes me sound like a TWAMP, but I’ve spent several Fridays this semester staying in, working on cover letters, just hanging out and talking about life with my friends. Are we missing out? Maybe from something. But at the same time, I think this growing disinterest in college culture is part of growing up. SWUGs have their sights set on the future, not the past.

It doesn’t mean I want to become a “cat lady” and stop trying. Rather, I want to try about the things I care about, not the things that are billed as necessary to have fun in college. I know what I think is fun, and that means a lot of variety — less house parties and more adventures

Some days it’s easier to read a book in bed with your roommate than to sacrifice your Saturdays trapped at a packed party.

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with friends.

So, how do you know you are a SWUG? You realize it slowly over time.

It starts with apathy towards going out, figuring you would rather just stay in with your roommate. Then it escalates.

Your friend group leaves the bars after a half hour to get Wawa and eat chips in someone’s room. You find yourself explaining that you would rather stay up until 2 a.m. joking around with your little than stay up until 2 a.m. making small talk with strangers who you will probably only see again at a distance. You stop caring about fitting into the expectations society has laid out for college students and just want to do whatever makes you happy.

All I have to say is SWUG over swag, y’all. Embrace your inner SWUGiness, no matter your year or your gender.

Have fun the way you want to have fun.

Sky Sprayberry is a Confusion Corner columnist who is enjoying senior year Swugdom and can’t wait for what the future will bring.

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Split weekend

FIELD HOCKEY

College pounds Towson before falling to Delaware

COURTESY PHOTO / TRIBE ATHLETICS

The College topped Towson 4-0 Sunday before faling to Delaware 5-3 Sunday at Busch Field. Despite a 4-8 overall ledger, the Tribe holds a 1-1 conference mark and sits in fourth behind Delaware, Northeastern and James Madison.

SUMNER HIGGINBOTHAM FLAT HAT STAFF WRITER William and Mary had mixed results to open its Colonial Athletic Association conference schedule over the weekend home stand. The College notched a resounding 4-0 victory over Towson Friday before losing to Delaware, 5-3, Sunday.

Still, the College’s Friday victory was significant. Taking a 1-0 lead only a couple of minutes into the game, the Tribe (4-8, 1-0 CAA) quickly showed Towson (2-7, 0-1) that it could compete. Head coach Tess Ellis was encouraged by her squad’s effort Friday.

“When you get off to a good start in the first seven to eight minutes, the other team goes back on their heels a bit and realizes, ‘Hey, these girls can play field hockey,’” Ellis said. “Now [with three wins in a row,] it’s a brand new season.”

Junior forward Pippin Saunders struck first for the College, receiving a pass from senior defender Navnet Singh and launching a shot into the top of the goal for a 1-0 lead in the third minute. From

there, the Tribe continued to pressure the Tigers, keeping the ball entirely on the Tigers’ half with impressive passing for the next ten minutes. Even then, a lone Towson fast break was quickly tracked down by an energized and swarming Tribe defense.

“I think the difference today was that we just wanted it more,” senior forward Emma Clifton said.

The Tribe’s first half dominance was reflected in the stats sheet, as the team outshot the Tigers 17-2 in the first half.

Saunders nearly scored a second goal 15 minutes in, but a diving save by Towson goalkeeper Megan Boyle prevented the score. Another shot by Saunders skittered right in front of the goaline, while a high shot by Clifton ricocheted off Boyle’s chest protection. Clifton also had a goal called back due to a penalty.

The Tribe’s sharpness in the first half continued after halftime. Towson was helpless against the Tribe’s second-half onslaught, as the College racked up a 21-0 shot advantage.

The Tribe found the net quickly.

Singh, effectively quarterbacking the

offense as she searched upfield for open players, rocketed a pass across the pitch to a wide open Clifton, who spun around a defender and whacked the ball past the goalie for a 2-0 score just three minutes after intermission.

The College was far from finished, Clifton however. In the 47th minute, Clifton knifed through the Tigers’ defense and dumped a pass off to freshman forward Emma MacLeod.

MacLeod juked through a pair of defenders and snuck a shot past the goalie into the far side for a 3-0 Tribe lead.

The play marked Clifton’s 21st career assist, tying her for the school record.

“It’s nice to be listed among the school’s greats for sure, but it’s all about the team, and it’s all about doing what needs to be done to help the team to win,” Clifton said.

MacLeod stepped up late in the game, scoring her second goal of the night in the last five minutes of play to push the

College to the final 4-0 advantage. With the win, the Tribe extended its all-time record against Towson to 19-3. The win was also the College’s third in a row, a streak which Clifton said is inspiring for the players.

“If we beat Delaware, the conference winners, here on Sunday, we’ll be hosting the CAA tournament here in Williamsburg. That’s my prediction,” Clifton said.

Needless to say, the stakes were high for the Tribe’s matchup with Delaware Sunday. The contest ended with a heartbreaking 5-3 loss to the Blue Hens (7-5, 2-0 CAA).

Trading shot for shot the whole game, neither William and Mary nor Delaware could break away from the other for a full 52 minutes, the end of which found the score tied at 3-3. However, the Tribe could not find an answer for Delaware forward Meghan Winesett as she racked up a hat trick against the College for the lead.

Then, only two minutes later, the only penalty corner that the Tribe conceded the entire second half came back to hurt the College as the Blue Hens extended the

lead to 5-3.

The Tribe came out in full force in the first half, answering an early 1-0 deficit with a goal from Clifton in the 22nd minute. Delaware fought back to claim a 2-1 lead four minutes later, but again the College regrouped and tied the score just before the half. Saunders added the Tribe’s second goal, her sixth of the year. Senior forward Brittney Hopkins provided the assist that gave the Tribe a 2-2 tie at halftime.

The Blue Hens pulled ahead, taking a 3-2 lead just three minutes into the second half. Saunders nearly tied it in the 48th minute, but the ball stopped right at the goaline after striking goalkeeper Orella Fran. Clifton made sure the next shot went past the line, as she sailed the tying score in from an assist off the stick of senior captain defender Jesse Ebner. The score stood at 3-3 in the 49th minute.

However, the match quickly deteriorated as the Tribe failed to score in the final 22 minutes. In contrast, the Blue Hens scored in the 52nd and 54th minutes to seal their 5-3 win and end the Tribe’s win streak.

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VOLLEYBALL

College earns first CAA victory

Football (4-1, 1-0 CAA)

Tribe splits home stand, breaks 11-game losing skid

Sept. 27: W, William and Mary (4-1, 1-0 CAA) 27, Stony Brook (1-4, 0-1 CAA) 21

CHRIS WEBER FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR

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Senior Liz Brown records seven kills and three blocks in Saturday’s win.

It took just under a month — 28 days — for William and Mary to snap its 11-game losing skid. After dropping a 3-1 decision to the College of Charleston Friday, the Tribe topped Elon Saturday, 3-1, to secure its first win since Sept. 6.

After splitting the weekend home stand, the College sits at 5-13 on the season, including a 1-3 Colonial Athletic Association record.

The College opened the weekend against defending conference champion Charleston (12-7, 4-0 CAA), a squad that has won 18 of their last 19 conference games. After claiming the first set, 25-17, the Tribe dropped the next three sets as the Cougars eased to a 3-1 win.

Junior Mallory Brickerd led the College with 12 kills alongside three digs and two blocks. Junior Dessi Koleva added 10 kills offensively, and 15 digs and three blocks on the defensive side.

Once again, the College recorded more blocks than its opponents (14-7). The game saw 17 ties and five lead changes.

Facing an 11-game streak without a win, the College hosted Elon Saturday. Koleva paced the Tribe, recording seven of squad’s 14 first-set kills as the College eased to a 25-14 first-set win. Koleva finished the night with 17 kills and 13 digs, good for a conference-best fourth consecutive double-double.

Elon rallied for a 25-22 second-set win thanks to a late run. The Tribe returned the favor in the third set, enjoying runs of 9-2, 6-0 and 7-1 to claim the set, 25-9. Koleva came through for the College again, recording the set’s final kill.

Brickerd tallied seven of her 14 kills in the fourth set as the Tribe built a 17-7 lead. The College went on to win the set, 25-16, capping the 3-1 match win.

The Phoenix recorded 10 blocks to the Tribe’s nine and a half. The College shined defensively, tallying 90 digs to Elon’s 64.

With its first conference win in hand, the Tribe returns to action Friday as it travels to conference-foe Delaware. The match is set to begin at 7 p.m.

Colonial Athletic Association New Hampshire (4-1, 2-0).............0.800........W4 Villanova (4-1, 2-0).........................0.800........W4 William and Mary (4-1, 1-0)..........0.800........W4 Delaware (3-2, 1-0) ........................0.600........L1 Albany (4-1, 1-1) ............................0.800........L1 Maine (2-3, 1-1)..............................0.400........L1 Stony Brook (2-4, 1-1)....................0.333........W1 James Madison (3-3, 1-2)...............0.500........W1 Richmond (3-2, 0-1).......................0.600........W1 Elon (1-4, 0-1).................................0.200........L2 Rhode Island (0-5, 0-1)..................0.000........L5 Towson (2-4, 0-2)...........................0.333.........L2

Cumulative Statistics Through five games Sophomore quarterback Steve Cluley 58 of 114, 793 yards, 2 TD, 2 Int Junior tailback Mikal Abdul-Saboor 73 rushes, 395 yards, 5 TD Senior wideout Sean Ballard 11 receptions, 207 yards, TD Senior kicker John Carpenter 10 of 13 field goals, 12 for 12 PATs

Cross country

Tennis

Sept. 26: Panorama Farms Invitational Men finished No. 8 (field of 12) Women finished No. 2 (field of 10)

Men: Varied results

U.Va. Fall Invitational Women: Oct. 10-12,

Bulldog Invitational

Golf

Volleyball (5-13, 1-3 CAA)

Men: Oct. 20-21 Georgetown Intercollegiate Women: Oct. 3-5 Nittany Lion Invitational Finished No. 11 (field of 14)

Oct. 1: L, UNCW (13-5, 3-1) 3, College 0 Oct. 3: Charleston (12-7, 4-0) 3, College 1 Oct. 4: W, College 3, Elon (5-14, 0-4) 1 Oct. 10: at Delaware (8-11, 1-3), 7 p.m.

Field hockey (4-8, 1-1 CAA)

Women’s soccer (9-2-1, 3-1 CAA)

Sept. 28: W, College 2, Davidson (2-9, 1-2) 0 Oct. 3: W, College 4, Towson (2-8, 0-2) 0 Oct. 5: L, Delaware (7-5, 2-0) 5, College 3 Oct. 12: at James Madison (7-3, 1-1), 2 p.m.

Sept. 28: W, College 4, Hofstra (7-6, 2-2) 0 Oct. 3: W, College 2, UNCW (6-6-1, 1-3)0 Oct. 5: W, College 2, Charleston (5-8, 1-3) 0 Oct. 10: vs Delaware (6-5-1, 2-0-1), 7 p.m.

Men’s soccer (4-7, 1-1 CAA)

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Sept. 24: W (OT), College 2, UMBC (5-4-2, 1-0) 1 Sept. 27: L, UNCW (8-2-1, 1-1) 1, College 0 Sept. 30: L, Charlotte (8-1, 2-0) 3, College 1 Oct. 4: W, College 3, Drexel (4-5-2, 0-1) 1 Oct. 8: vs. Elon (4-4-2, 0-1), 7 p.m.

Oct. 11: at Hofstra (6-3-2, 1-0), 7 p.m.

Oct. 15: at Charleston (2-6-1, 0-1), 7 p.m.

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Football returns to FCS top 10

After 4-1 start to year, Tribe earns No. 10 ranking, cracks top 10 for first time since 2011 MICK SLOAN FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR The last time William and Mary ranked in the top ten of the Football Championship Subdivision national rankings, it was early October 2011. The Green Bay Packers were the defending Super Bowl Champions, “Watch the Throne” was still dominating dance floors and the first “Hunger Games” film was five months away. Sophomore quarterback Steve Cluley was still in high school, as were the Classes of 2016, 2017 and 2018.

But on Monday, with announcement of its No. 10

ranking, the Tribe returned to the upper echelon of the FCS, riding a four-game win streak to its highest poll position in three years. As illustrated above, the College’s past few seasons have been inconsistent and perhaps even disappointing. The Tribe was unranked for nearly two years, a span that included the team’s entire 2012 campaign.

Cluley But the College has steadily improved since its 2-9 campaign in 2012; it drew attention for a successful run late last season and

has carried that recognition into the current year.

At the moment, the Tribe stands tall at 4-1, with a 1-0 record in the Colonial Athletic Association.

The College has twice erased double digit deficits in the second half, including an overtime thriller against Stony Brook that saw the Tribe tie the game with less than a minute remaining. It hasn’t been completely smooth sailing for the College this year, but nothing has stopped the Tribe’s ascent back to the top ten.

Now that it has recovered its long-lost top ten status, the Tribe will have to defend its ranking.

Next on the schedule is a trip to No. 4 New

Hampshire this weekend (4-1, 2-0 CAA), likely the most challenging opponent the College has faced since its opener against Virginia Tech. The College then returns to Zable Stadium Oct. 18 for a Homecoming showdown with No. 6 Villanova (4-1, 2-0 CAA). The Tribe has performed admirably this season, but the toughest stretch of its schedule is immediately ahead.

There’s no way to be sure how long the Tribe will maintain its ranking. But after three years, three graduated classes and hundreds of cultural milestones, the College is back in the top ten. It’s been a long time coming.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

MEN’S SOCCER

College improves to 9-2-1 with two conference victories

After scoring two goals in seven games, Tribe offense revives

Tribe notches two wins College crushes Dragons, 3-1 MICK SLOAN FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR William and Mary continued rolling through its schedule, picking up two comfortable road wins this weekend. The Tribe (9-2-1, 3-1-0 CAA) defeated North Carolina-Wilmington 2-0 Friday before cruising to a 2-0 win over College of Charleston.

The College needed just five minutes to score Friday against UNC-Wilmington (5-6-1, CAA 0-3-0), jumping to a 1-0 lead. Junior goalkeeper Caroline Casey fired a long pass to junior forward Samantha Cordum at midfield. Cordum took the pass from midfield into the Seahawks’ goalbox, firing a shot from the right side that sliced into the net. The goal was Cordum’s seventh of the season and gave the Tribe an early advantage.

The College continued its oppressive control over the UNC-Wilmington offense in the first half, allowing just a single shot before halftime. In contrast, the Tribe kept the Seahawks under constant fire, shooting eight times before intermission. The College eventually broke through with a second goal in the 41st minute after senior defender Emily Fredrikson rebounded a deflected corner kick and fired a shot past the UNC-Wilmington keeper. The goal gave the College a 2-0 lead and a strong halftime advantage.

The game shifted after halftime, as the Seahawks out-shot the College 5-1 in the second half. However, armed with a 2-0 advantage and a staunch defense, the Tribe ensured that the outcome was never in doubt. Only two of the Seahawks’ shot attempts wound up on target, and Casey stopped both to preserve the Tribe’s 2-0 lead until the final whistle.

The shutout was Casey’s sixth clean sheet of the season.

The College’s defense built on its success with a dominant Sunday victory over College of Charleston.

Casey secured her seventh shutout of the year without even needing to make a save.

Once again, the College came out firing in the first half against the Cougars (5-8, 1-3 CAA). Cordum launched the Tribe’s first shot of the match in the fifth minute, and freshman defender Haley Kent added a second attempt in the seventh minute, putting the Cougars under immediate pressure that never let up.

When halftime rolled around, the game was a scoreless deadlock, but the College held a 7-0 advantage in shots on goal. Only a heroic

performance from goalkeeper Lauren Killian kept the Tribe from tearing open the floodgates for multiple goals during the first half.

Ironically, it was a Cougars’ error that handed the Tribe its first goal of the game. Senior forward and team captain Emory Camper launched a throw-in into the Cougars’ goal box, and the ball deflected off a Charleston defender and into the net. The own-goal gave the Tribe a 1-0 advantage in the 54th minute.

The Tribe quickly expanded its lead with a goal in the 63rd minute. The sequence began when Camper cut diagonally into the Charleston box and sent a shot on target. Although Killian stopped the attempt, Camper corralled the rebound and fired another shot. Camper’s attempt evaded Killian, gliding into the net and giving the Tribe a 2-0 lead. Once again, the College held firm, and the 2-0 score proved to be the final margin of victory.

By the end of the match, the College had outshot the Cougars 19-3, including a staggering 12-0 advantage in shots on goal. The victory was the Tribe’s eighth win in nine games, and the College has outscored opponents 23-4 in that span. With just five games left in the regular season, the Tribe is once again in excellent position to make a splash in the Colonial Athletic Association tournament.

The College returns to Williamsburg Friday, where it will take on Delaware at 7 p.m. at Martin Family Stadium. The matchup is the first of three straight home games for the Tribe, which will conclude its home season against Elon Sunday, Oct. 19.

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Senior midfielder Aly Shaughnessy and the Tribe are 9-2-1.

JACK POWERS FLAT HAT ASSOC. SPORTS EDITOR Junior forward Jackson Eskay said his team saw Saturday night’s match against Drexel as the start of a second season. Based on its performance Saturday, William and Mary could be poised for an impressive second chapter of its campaign.

The Tribe (4-7, 1-1 CAA) defeated the Dragons (4-5-2, 0-1 CAA) 3-1 at Martin Family Stadium for its first Colonial Athletic Association win.

“We’re trying to treat this as a second season,” Eskay said. “We’ve had some rough games, some tough results in our non-conference play, so we’re trying to come in with a clean slate.”

Head coach Chris Norris has tinkered with the team’s attack all season, searching for the right combination. Saturday’s arrangement showed promise as the Tribe repeatedly produced scoring opportunities and capitalized on them.

The College’s three goals were its most in since the team’s 4-0 demolition of Pittsburgh Sept. 5.

“I think the big thing tonight was that we got some width from a couple of guys tonight,” Norris said. “Getting those guys out into a wide position was probably the most important thing for us offensively.”

The College struck early with a header goal from senior defender Michael Teiman in the 15th minute. Sophomore midfielder Chris Albiston put a corner kick, one of the Tribe’s five in the game, into the near side of the box where freshman midfielder William Eskay sent the ball to the other side of the box with a header. Teiman took advantage of the Teiman misdirection to smash the ball past Drexel goalkeeper Tyler Afflerbach for his second goal of the season, giving the Tribe a 1-0 lead.

The Tribe’s defense limited the Dragons to few chances during the first half and senior goalkeeper Bennett Jones was strong in goal. In the 37th minute, Dragons forward Michele Patala ripped a shot bound for the upper left corner of the Tribe net, but Jones was too quick, leaping for the save.

The College went into halftime after another goal, this time from senior forward Josh West.

After a Drexel turnover, junior midfielder Ryan Flesch received the ball just past midfield, corralling it amidst three defenders before lobbing it up the field. West gained the ball in space for a breakaway. Setting up before defenders could reach him, West fired a shot past Afflerbach for his first goal of the season.

The Tribe stayed sharp following the break.

The Eskay brothers in particular ensured the College’s consistent ball control and high-offensive tempo in the second half.

William Eskay, who has shown immense potential so far in his freshman campaign, facilitated several opportunities for the Tribe J. Eskay attackers, while rarely turning the ball over in midfield. After the game, Jackson Eskay reflected on his brother’s recent progress.

“He’s been getting more confident in his game,” Eskay said. “[He’s] taking more responsibility for himself in terms of making chances, making runs, and so he’s been getting better each day.”

Jackson Eskay proved to be a menace for the Drexel backline, badgering away balls from defenders and evading pressure on the ball. The older Eskay finished with three shots on goal, one of which flew past Afflerbach in the 76th minute.

A panicked decision by the Drexel goalie to track down a ball outside of his box led to a stunning Tribe goal. Afflerbach attempted to clear a ball away from Jackson Eskay. But Eskay was able to take control of the ball right in front of the goalie, before shooting on an open net.

Eskay’s shot came in just under the crossbar, over the heads of several defenders. The goal was Eskay’s first of the season, after leading the team last season.

The Dragons up-ended a possible shutout in the 88th minute as forward Jameson Detweiler slotted a goal-box shot past Jones, but by then the College’s victory was all but sealed.

The College will be seeking a winning conference record when it goes up against Elon at Martin Family Stadium Wednesday. The match is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m.