The Flat Hat September 11, 2018

Vol. 108, Iss. 12 | Tuesday, September 11, 2018

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FACULTY

Michael Halleran to leave role of provost Halleran’s tenure as chief academic office nears decade NIA KITCHIN FLAT HAT MANAGING EDITOR

Provost Michael Halleran would be the first to say that his job is not all smooth sailing. Over almost a decade serving as chief academic officer of the College of William and Mary, he has learned to reconcile the needs of students and faculty at the College with goals of the institution in regard to the national landscape. Halleran has announced his decision to step down at the end of the 201819 academic year to resume his job as a classical studies professor.

During his time at the College, Halleran has combated calamitous waters and embraced many winds of change. Under his tenure, the College has adopted a new financial model with the William and Mary Promise, overhauled the academic curriculum and formalized an initiative to incentivize diverse faculty hiring, among other efforts.

“There are some rough waves out there, the winds are stirring up, and so the answer isn’t just to stay put,” Halleran said.

College President Katherine Rowe said that it has been a pleasure working with Halleran since she was sworn in this summer. She said that his support ensured a smooth transition for her.

“It’s a big job, and Michael has done it exceptionally well for nearly a decade,” Rowe said in a written statement. “At the completion of this year, he will share with the late Gill Cell the longest tenure as provost in William & Mary’s history.”

Halleran characterizes his job as provost as a “communicatarian,” since he is responsible to one constituent: the College. There are many different programs, people and institutions under his purview. These include academic and research programs, academic budgets, institutional planning, faculty development, deans, information See PROVOST page 3

HURRICANE FLORENCE TO APPROACH WILLIAMSBURG According to reports from the National Hurricane Center, Hurricane Florence — currently 1,300 miles southeast off of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina — has strengthened to a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 130 mph.

The hurricane is expected to make landfall as a Category 4 hurricane as well.

In light of this update, Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration Sam Jones alerted the campus community in a TribeAlert message. According to Jones, the first priority for students is to review their emergency evacuation plans to make sure that all plans include arrangements for transportation and alternative housing.

Jones also encouraged students to enroll in the College’s mass notification system, to review power-outage preparation guidelines and to review the emergency alert systems, including RAVE and Alertus.

At this time, Jones said that he and other EMT members must wait to know more about the storm’s path and impact on the Hampton Roads and Williamsburg areas.

Over the weekend, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam issued a state of emergency in anticipation of the storm. As Jones said in the email, it is not yet clear what effect Hurricane Florence will have on residents of the City of Williamsburg and surrounding communities, but Northam has advised that these communities prepare for rains, strong storms and flooding.

Northam has also issued a mandatory evacuation notice for areas including Seaford and parts of the Virginia Beach area. No parts of James City County or Williamsburg are included in this area. The York County School District and Thomas Nelson Community College have both cancelled classes for the rest of this week in anticipation of inclement weather.

— Flat Hat Editor-in-Chief Sarah Smith

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COURTESY PHOTO / W&M STUDENTS UNITED

Administrators were present as the activist student group met Tuesday, Sept. 4 by the President’s House to protest the College’s association with Virginia Correctional Enterprises.

Students protest prison labor W&M Students United gather to discuss goals, structure NIA KITCHIN // FLAT HAT MANAGING EDITOR

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GROUP CALLING THEMSELVES W&M STUDENTS United gathered for their first official meeting Sept. 10 at the Meridian Coffeehouse. Alternatively referred to as a aprotest or an interest meeting by people involved with the event, the students met to discuss the structure of the organization, plans for future action and the issue of furniture made by prison labor on campus.

The College of William and Mary currently is contractually obligated to buy furniture made by inmates in state prisons at wages ranging from $0.50-$0.80 per hour. Virginia Correctional Enterprises sells this furniture to the College, collecting an average profit of $1,176,246 per fiscal year since 2014.

The group had previously met Tuesday, Sept. 4, by the President’s House to protest the use of furniture made by inmates at the College.

Three to four administrators were present for a short period of time at the gathering.

“The college administration desperately tried to prevent us from meeting with the college community and discussing the college’s continued use of slavery in the form of Prison labor,” W&M Students United said in a written statement on their official Facebook page. “After sending — Josh Messite ’20 on us repeated threats online, they showed up at the Wren yard to the College-VCE contract attempt to disrupt our gathering.

They threatened to call the cops to forcefully disperse us, and as a moral basis for their actions, they compared us to the [Ku Klux Klan].”

Referencing a history of oppression by the administration and more recent events such as the fraught March 2016 Black Lives Matter conversation with former College President Taylor Reveley, members of the group expressed their frustration with being treated in this manner.

Students who had heard about the meeting through word of mouth and over Facebook gathered outside the Meridian prior to the event, discussing issues they were passionate about that had drawn them to the meeting. Alexis Archer ’22 said that she was there because of her interest in criminal justice reform and efforts on campus to address it.

“Black people in America are incarcerated at a much higher rate than white people, and they don’t deserve to be — white people are doing the same things,” Archer said.

The meeting officially began with about 30 students gathered in the Meridian, including two Student Assembly representatives, Class of 2021 President Dave DeMarco ’21 and Sen. Anthony Joseph ’21. Many members expressed the desire for the structure of the organization to be fluid, without official leadership or even officially scheduled meetings, and for the organization to remain an unrecognized student organization in the eyes of the College. However, during the meeting, the group followed a structured procedure; a student wrote down a list of participants who wanted to speak and then invited them to do so as they moved down the list in order.

The discussion about how to structure the organization did not come

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“The system is a moral outrage and we’ll do anything that we can to end it.”

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to an exact conclusion, but students expressed passionate interest in taking action to divest from prison labor. Many of these students had already taken action with previous clubs, such as the Young Democratic Socialists of William and Mary, as well as on their own. Students talked about creating an art piece for the cause, contacting representatives, making signs, engaging in public protest and discussing the issue with peers. The group has also made plans to show up at the SA Senate meeting Tuesday, Sept. 11 in hopes of creating a resolution, in what they describe as a gesture of peaceful and symbolic protest against the College’s role in the prison industrial complex.

Many agreed that the problem was not convincing people that this issue was morally wrong, but rather persuading the administration to take action to rectify it.

Students involved in these efforts over the summer reached out to College President Katherine Rowe regarding the purchasing of VCE furniture. They said that they received an email back stating that their views did not align.

“We agree that student concerns are vitally important, and I appreciate you writing to share what you feel passionately about,” Rowe said in an emailed response to W&M Students United. “We also share a desire to advance just causes, though our views may not always align on that front. In regard to VCE … your efforts are best applied to the level at which meaningful change could occur — state government.”

Many students in attendance expressed support for an institutional approach to this issue, adding that it might be helpful to be open to the administration and work through these previously established avenues. However, many cautioned that creating committees to make change might not be the most effective approach because too often these constraints can slow down action.

Josh Messite ’20 is a member of the College’s chapter of Young Democratic Socialists of America and said he attended the meeting because of his involvement with the issue and his desire to assist W&M Students United in their goals. He has been working on a campaign with YDSA to address the purchase of prison furniture for about a year now, and he said it was heartening to see all this support for an issue that previously had not received much at all.

“The fact that all of a sudden there are so many people and so many groups that are involved in this and are passionate about it and are fighting for it is very exciting for me and the organization that I’m with,” Messite said. “And so if we can help to further the ends of groups like Students United then we will do everything in our power to accomplish that because the system is a moral outrage, and we’ll do anything that we can to end it.”

Chris Hrdy ’19 said that he was glad he came to the event and regarded it as a way to make change and connections on campus that would be helpful in attacking the issue on every front possible.

DeMarco and Joseph, the members of SA that attended the event, said that they were interested in the cause and wanted to see if they could do anything within their role in SA to support the new group.

“I wanted to hear what was going on, their perspective, their point of view and what they’re pursuing, which is totally a worthy cause and I, as a person, advocate for people to understand what is going on here, as far as prison labor,” Joseph said. “And I wanted to get their feedback, listen to what they’re saying and see ... if there’s something we can do on our end to help them with their cause.”

Students associated with the group lingered long after the official meeting had concluded, talking with interested parties and discussing what could be improved upon, as well as more ideas on how to advance their cause.

“The school needs to divest [from] prison labor,” Maura Finn ’20, who helped run the event, said. “And this is a great first step to make it happen.”

Brendan Doyle ’20 says that the College of William and Mary’s new sports logo has received excessive criticism from students and alumni. page 5

College conquers with moments to spare

Tribe Field Hockey defeated Brown 4-3 in double overtime on a shot by redshirt senior midfielder Estelle Hughes. page 9

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THE BUZZ

I think there’s a benefit in having students run that process, in that we are ensuring due process for the student and giving them every opportunity they can to prove what they want to prove and give their testimony to us. So, I think that’s just important to remember that we’re here for the students and we’re not a punitive body in that nature.

— Honor Council Vice Chair Amelia Nell ’19 on the record rise of cases overseen by the undergraduate Honor Council

From TNCC to Morton Hall and beyond

POLICE BEAT

Sept. 4-6

Jasmane Ormond ’19 discusses co-enrollment experiences, life as student-parent SARAH SMITH // FLAT HAT EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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Tuesday, Sept. 4 — Richmond recovery: Police reported found property on Richmond Road

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Wednesday, Sept. 5 — Without a fighting chance: Carl Dane Carter was arrested on assault and battery charges against a police officer or firefighter on York Street.

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Wednesday, Sept. 5 — Caught in the act: Terenda Techelle Tolbert was arrested on charges of driving with a suspended or revoked license on Monticello Avenue.

Thursday, Sept. 6 — In the weeds: Police reported charging an individual for possession of marijuana on Capitol Landing Road.

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A THOUSAND WORDS COURTESY PHOTO / JASMANE ORMOND

As a member of Eta Sigma Phi, Student Culinary Council and Parking Advisory Board, Ormond said her love for the College began when she took Latin classes in Morton Hall.

CORRECTIONS An article published last week, “Navigating a nontraditional path: Phillip Sheldon ’20 talks coming to the College as a veteran, creating conversations,” originally stated that Sheldon visited Kyrgyzstan on his second deployment, but he visited the country on his way back to the United States. Additionally, only two, not several, freshmen were a part of Phillip’s discussion in German class.

Also, an infographic published last issue incorrectly stated that Alpha Sigma Phi would come to campus spring 2019, but they will actually arrive fall 2019.

The Flat Hat wishes to correct any fact printed incorrectly.

Corrections may be submitted in email to the editor of the section in which the incorrect information was printed. Requests for corrections will be accepted at any time.

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I figure if I’m having a problem then it is easy to complain about a problem that I am having, but I would rather try to do something about it or at least contribute.

— Jasmane Ormond ’19

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MADELINE MONROE / THE FLAT HAT

Each week, The Flat Hat profiles one person — a student, faculty or staff member, or alum that is deeply connected to the College of William and Mary. This week, The Flat Hat presents its second profile in a series about nontraditional students on campus.

In fall 2013, Jasmane Ormond ’19 found herself at the beginning of an undergraduate path which would lead her to meetings with state senators, an honor society induction in the Sir Christopher Wren Building and two distinct college campuses. This path began at Thomas Nelson Community College.

Three semesters later, Ormond signed up for a co-enrollment program; if she maintained a minimum GPA while taking classes at both TNCC and the College of William and Mary, she would be guaranteed transfer admission to the College upon completion of her associate’s degree.

For the following semesters, Ormond took Latin classes at the College and transferred in fall 2016.

“Going to William and Mary and Thomas Nelson at the same time was definitely interesting,” Ormond said. “… The first year I did Latin was very interesting because we had classes four days a week, but it was only 50 minutes a day. I was so used to going to class twice a week. The second year we took Latin, we had the class in the classical library in Morton Hall and that was definitely an experience that was different from Thomas Nelson.”

These experiences in Morton highlighted the differences between Ormond’s campus experiences and affirmed that she truly wanted to transfer to the College.

“My Latin professor when I was a co-enrolled student was Georgia Irby,” Ormond said. “She taught all four semesters; I had her for two straight years. She stood out to me because … I was really intimidated by the fact that I wasn’t a normal William and Mary student. When we took our first test, I remember how upset I was with my results and how defeated I felt. I didn’t finish the test in time and I knew I wasn’t going to get anything higher than a C or a B because I didn’t finish in time. I sat in the parking garage bawling my eyes out for like an hour; I felt like I had ruined everything I planned for.”

When Ormond shared this with Irby, she found that her professor was willing to work with her to make sure that she would have enough time to turn in her assignments, something Ormond said made a huge impact.

“I didn’t realize how much that pressure was blocking me from

success,” Ormond said. “… I think that I was able to succeed in her class because I knew I could trust her. I knew I could be honest about my own personal shortcomings. She was a professor that, two years later, came to my graduation at Thomas Nelson. That made me feel safe enough to come to the College. If she could be so accepting and inclusive of me, that was a reflection of everyone on campus.”

Ormond’s time in Irby’s class also led to her induction in Eta Sigma Phi, a national collegiate honor society for students of Latin or Greek. She said she counts the day of her induction as one of her most memorable experiences at the College.

“That day was very funny because I had no idea that this was happening, all I knew was that I had an email that said to go to the Wren building, maybe for a meeting or for a class,” Ormond said.

While Ormond was a co-enrolled student, she was heavily involved in student organizations at TNCC. She served as the Student Government’s president, was in the Phi Theta Kappa honor society, and was a part of the Student Virginia Education Association.

Through these involvements, she worked with local second graders and spoke on behalf of TNCC at a student loan roundtable discussion in Washington, D.C. When Ormond transferred to the College in fall 2016, she was just about to turn 28, lived off-campus, and, unlike many other undergraduates, she was a student-parent of two children, who are now 10 and 6 years old.

She said that as a nontraditional student she has run into problems with expensive student fees or with navigating the campus as a student-parent. However, she tries to find ways to get involved and make a difference for others.

“I joined the Student Culinary Council, I’ve been a member for the last two years,” Ormond said. “I’ve tried to contribute the voice of students who might have lower incomes, people who don’t live on campus and people who can’t afford meal plans. I figure if I’m having a problem then it is easy to complain about a problem that I am having, but I would rather try to do something about it or at least contribute. I try to join different groups and offer my opinion.”

Ormond has also gotten involved with the Parking Advisory Board and served as one of former College President Taylor Reveley’s president’s aides. In those roles, Ormond said she was able to share issues she was having with parking and being a transfer student and propose solutions.

In May 2019, Ormond will have completed her accounting major with a concentration in finance — something she was drawn to through the encouragement of others and a love of analytical puzzles. While Ormond is still considering applying for graduate school, she is planning on sitting for her CPA exam and hoping to get a job with an accounting firm after graduation.

For Ormond, being a transfer student at the College, and also trying to navigate undergraduate life as a student-parent, brought its ups and downs, but she said she is also thankful for the new experiences she had after transferring. Looking back, her favorite memory comes from those first few days as a full-time student.

“One of the greatest memories I’ve had here was during Orientation,” Ormond said. “In 2016 I turned 28 during Orientation and my [Orientation Aides] had our group surprise me with balloons and cupcakes and I just thought it was the most awesome thing. When you’re in grade school, you can celebrate your birthday with your friends in your classroom if you are born between the months of September and June, but if you are born in August, you don’t get to celebrate in a classroom. Even though I was turning 28, it was kind of awesome to celebrate with people I was going to school with for the first time. It was really awesome to feel like you’re never too old to have that kind of experience.”

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STUDENT LIFE

Undergraduate Honor Council cases spike Fifteen cases reported in spring semester came from one academic department In spring 2018, the College of William and Mary’s Undergraduate Honor Council reviewed a record number of cases, as per an annual report released at the beginning of the semester.

There were 46 reported violations in the spring 2018 semester, some of which are still being processed.

Since fall 2013, no more than 20 students have ever been found responsible of honor violations in a given semester. In each of the three semesters leading up to spring 2018, fewer than 10 students were charged per semester.

A large majority of the cases reviewed by the Honor Council in the spring were accusations of cheating. Of those, most involved unauthorized assistance or plagiarism. Six of the 46 cases consisted of stealing or lying.

Once these cases are reported, they undergo a four-step process leading up to a decision. An initial meeting with the student, in which the reporter determines if any other explanation can be found, which is followed by an investigation.

Next, a sufficient evidence panel formally assigns charges, then a judgment hearing occurs.

If the student is found responsible, primary sanctions vary but can include everything from a warning to permanent dismissal.

In spring 2018, the majority of students found responsible were issued a suspension.

One part of the rise in the council’s caseload last spring had to do with a spike of 15 cases from one undergraduate department.

Sometimes a sudden increase in reports can stem from a single instance of cheating. A past case of mass reports at the graduate level involved an unauthorized answer key that was circulated throughout an entire class.

“Sometimes students make poor choices and it bleeds over into other students that use the material,” Associate Dean of Students and Director of Student Conduct Dave Gilbert said.

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We are one of the only student-run honor councils in the country, the first in the nation. I think there’s a benefit in having students run that process, in that we are ensuring due process for every student.

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Even outside the unspecified department, there was a general increase in reports this past spring. One explanation is the overhaul made to the Honor Code in 2013, which was the first time it had seen major changes since 1999.

With the implementation of the updated code, the average number of cases the council saw per year increased from 36 to 40. One of its new features is the option of “early resolution,” which allows for the possibility of a more informal resolution to minor cases.

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There were 46 reported honor code violations in the 2018 spring semester. Most of the cases reviewed involved cheating.

“For lower-level violations of a first-time nature, [early resolution] doesn’t require a full panel and the full process that admittedly is quite complex and sometimes timeconsuming,” Gilbert said.

Another change that came with the new code is the introduction of “deferred suspension,” the sanction assigned to a third of concluded cases this past spring. This option allows students to remain on campus but does not permit them to represent the College in any official capacity.

“There was a lot of concern from administration and from council over the past few years that there’s this huge difference in the effect of a sanction between a suspension, where you’re not allowed here on campus, and a probation, which doesn’t really impact the student’s daily life,” Honor Council Chair Henry Crossman ’19 said. “So we developed deferred suspension. … This helps the student refocus on academics.”

Overall, the council hopes that the rise in cases in spring 2018 reflects increased reliance on the Honor Council, as opposed to faculty members dealing with violations on their own.

“Over the years, we’ve been able to develop a higher trust in the council’s ability to appropriately resolve cases in terms of how faculty perceive the council,” Crossman said.

In order to ensure that students are comfortable with the Honor Code, the council has a range of new initiatives planned for the semester.

These include a revamp of Orientation materials, introducing an honor “designee” in each department to help familiarize faculty with the process and a program to help refamiliarize suspended students with campus.

These efforts culminate in Ethics Week this October, which will feature keynote speaker Marc Edwards, a Virginia Tech professor with a notable role in calling attention to the clean water crisis in Flint, Michigan. “[Edwards will] highlight in a more positive way what ethics can look like, and what it can look like on a college campus,” Crossman said.

With its new series of outreach programs, the council hopes to put a face to the Honor Code and develop understanding among the student body of how to fully prepare for their classes so that honor violations never become an issue.

“We are one of the only student-run honor councils in the country, the first in the nation,” Honor Council Vice Chair Amelia Nell ’19 said.

“I think there’s a benefit in having students run that process, in that we are ensuring due process for the student and giving them every opportunity they can to prove what they want to prove and give their testimony to us. So, I think that’s just important to remember that we’re here for the students and we’re not a punitive body in that nature.”

2013 The year that saw an overhaul of the Honor Code, the first time there had been major changes since 1999.

46 The number of Honor Code violations reported in the Spring 2018 semester.

4 The number of steps within the Honor Council adjudication process before a decision is made.

20 The average number of cases the undergraduate Honor Council has seen per semester since 2013.

FACULTY

Halleran oversaw implementation of COLL Curriculum in 2015 Provost to return to classical studies department following year of sabbatical leave PROVOST from page 1

technology, e-learning and institutional research, among other administrative functions. The Reves Center, the Muscarelle Museum, the William and Mary Washington Center and the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture also report to the provost.

While the demands for this job are extensive, Halleran said that he has enjoyed it immensely and appreciates the opportunity he has had to get things done on a larger scale. He has been able to implement initiatives that have changed the structure of the College.

One of those changes has been the conception and implementation of the COLL curriculum. During his first year as provost, Halleran led a campus-wide conversation. Using that dialogue as a starting point, he authored a paper that became the foundation of the new curriculum.

“Good practice says you should examine and reexamine things periodically,” Halleran said. “There was a sense among faculty that the GER had become a stale checklist.”

Halleran left the mechanics of creating this curriculum up to the faculty. According to Halleran, faculty were very careful and thoughtful about drafting the requirements. He encouraged them in this task to “think expansively” and take advantage of the chance to invigorate the general education of the College.

“If all we had done was tweak a GER or two I would have been disappointed,” Halleran said.

The curriculum is usually only overhauled once a generation and affects the life of every single student on campus, so updating it has vast implications. Halleran said that he believes it has been a success and has provided opportunities for students and faculty to think beyond and across disciplines.

Formalizing the initiative to increase hiring of diverse faculty was a critical project that Halleran was personally involved in. He presented on the lack of diversity in the faculty as compared to diversity among students and took some financial responsibility for hiring more diverse faculty.

Currently, if a dean approaches Halleran’s office about wanting to hire a faculty member who would add to a department’s diversity, the provost’s office will pay for a certain amount of their salary. However, that financial contribution

would gradually decrease over the years.

“Diversity and inclusion are not the same thing,” Halleran said. “I would argue that you need changes in the former to accelerate in the latter. … We have work to do.”

College spokesperson Brian Whitson said that he respects Halleran’s ability to work well with faculty.

“He has done so much during his time at William & Mary, particularly when it comes to advocating for the faculty and ensuring we advance the academic mission,” Whitson said in an email. “I’ll miss Michael’s sense of humor in our leadership meetings — and his flashy socks.”

Throughout his tenure, Halleran said that he has sometimes been less effective than he wished he could have been. Citing translation errors as a challenge, Halleran said that there were times he felt that he could have done a better job communicating between the many different factions of the College that report to him.

Having been at the College for over nine years, Halleran has seen the institution grow in many different ways. He said that he values how the College has traversed sometimes perilous waters.

While acknowledging the current political climate, he said that the College needs to focus on the essentials: What students and faculty value.

“We don’t need a radical fix,” Halleran said. “We are not broken, we are far, far from it. We are a wonderful vessel, a sailboat, we just have to tack into the winds.”

Regarding his successor, Halleran said that he is confident in Rowe’s ability to choose wisely. He hopes that they will be interested in academics and not have a particular agenda to advance. Most importantly, he hopes that they will want to make the College stronger and more welcoming, and above all, value the “particular excellence that is William and Mary.”

“I hope my successor is better in every single way,” Halleran said. “... I hope to see a university filled with even more opportunity than it is today.”

As for what is on the horizon for Halleran, he is anticipating taking a year of sabbatical and being able to take a breath and teach again. He said that he knew he wanted to teach before he even knew what it was that he wanted to teach. Taking a step down will allow him to pursue this passion.

“A dean or provost never started out their career saying I want

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Reves Center, Muscarelle Museum among departments that report to provost.

to be a dean or a provost,” Halleran said.

Though he will no longer serve at the academic helm, Halleran has faith that there are open waters ahead for the future of the College.

“I am highly confident in the outcome of this voyage,” Halleran said.

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CAMPUS

Mold causes temporary shutdown of radio station Campus Center office expected to reopen Sept. 24 as members meet elsewhere MADELINE MONROE FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR

In mid-July, the College of William and Mary’s WCWM radio station experienced mold issues that led to a cleanup process that is expected to continue throughout the month of September.

WCWM Co-manager Varvara Troitski ’20 was the first one to uncover the mold within the station. According to Troitski, Campus Center experienced minor flooding in late June to early July, though College officials have said that no actual flooding occurred within the WCWM office.

“There was no flooding — as in standing water — in the WCWM space in the Campus Center,” College spokesperson Suzanne Clavet said in an email. “What has occurred in the WCWM space is some moisture, mold and mildew as the result of high humidity levels over the summer and malfunctioning HVAC equipment. Fortunately, there does not appear to be any damage to the station’s electrical equipment. HVAC systems repairs have been made and clean-up of the WCWM space is underway.”

The cleanup of the mold began Sept. 5 and has since affected WCWM operations, causing the office to be unusable.

“The spaces that were hit hardest were the practice room and the front of the main lobby where we usually hold our weekly meetings,”

Troitski said in an email. “I contacted facilities immediately and closed the station/stopped programming until further notice.”

When Troitski discovered the mold, she said she found no standing water. Until the cleanup is finished tentatively Sept. 24, WCWM members have been meeting in an alternative location and will do so until they are able to return.

“Though we have stopped our regular programming, we are by no means on a hiatus as an organization,” Troitski said in an email.

“In the meantime, we are working on curating Vinyl Tap (our music and culture magazine), organizing various social events (like mixers and club bonding), training new DJs, and planning for our upcoming WCWM Fest, which will be happening in less than a month on October 6th!”

While WCWM was affected by the mold, other offices and rooms in the Campus Center basement were found to be free of any issues.

“Other rooms in the basement have been checked and deemed unaffected by the issue,” Associate Director of Student Leadership Development Trici Fredrick M.Ed ’05 said in an email.

WCWM Training Director Faith Burke ’21 said that the atmosphere of the radio, with its posters, vinyl and couches, is an important factor in recruiting new members and hopes that the current cleanup doesn’t affect

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The cleanup process for WCWM started Sept. 5 and radio station members expect to return to the station Sept. 24.

recruitment, although new member training has been affected as staff do not currently have access to the necessary equipment.

“I think it’s an important part of the radio atmosphere, because I remember being a

freshman, like first coming into the station and you really get a feel for the history and the cool vibes of radio and that’s what made me want to join so I really hope this doesn’t deter freshmen,” Burke said.

STUDENT LIFE

OCE revises sexual misconduct policy procedures for Title IX cases Changes accepted in August add deciding official to replace dean in case determination MADELINE MONROE FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR

The College of William and Mary’s Office of Compliance and Equity recently made changes relating to sexual misconduct and the College’s procedures for handling it. This encompasses the Aug. 22 instatement of a deciding official, an improved investigation timeline process and revised sanctions to two policies related to sexual misconduct.

Every December at the College, officials go through an annual review process of policies and decide what needs to be changed. According to Interim Chief Compliance Officer, Title IX Coordinator, and Age Discrimination Act Coordinator Pamela Mason, College officials look at trends in court rulings in and outside of the College’s jurisdiction and coordinate feedback with Title IX officials at other schools.

One of the biggest changes the College decided upon is the implementation of an independent deciding official to oversee cases. In the past, a dean has overseen cases alongside the Title IX team. Mason said the decision to delegate the position to someone other than a dean because deans have many other roles.

“The [deciding official is] not going to be a full-time job, but [will be] a designated decision maker — that’s their designated job,” Mason

said. “They get trained on that, they are experienced in it, and their job is to read the report [and] make a determination.”

Director of The Haven Liz Cascone said that the addition of a deciding official provides an opportunity for the deciding official to both meet with the involved parties and to streamline the investigation process.

“The new procedure creates the ability for the deciding official to directly speak with the parties involved (when needed) in an investigation in order to gain more clarity about the case or collect more information,” Cascone said in an email. “This can be an important step in ensuring that the deciding official has all the relevant information in order to make a decision. One benefit of using an independent deciding official is the potential to improve the timeline of an investigation. Having dedicated personnel in this role could help the process move more rapidly.”

Currently, the College is still in the process of hiring a deciding official and finalizing the qualifications needed for the position.

Because of the inclusion of a deciding official, the overall investigative procedure has changed. Administrative resolutions and conference resolutions are now a part of the process in which the deciding official determines and oversees how allegations will be

addressed. Administrative resolutions involve allegations that are solved by officials, whereas conference resolutions involve allegations that are heard by the involved parties and potential witnesses.

Mason said conference resolutions have a longer timeline than those conducted administratively by about six days. The previous iteration of the policy saw decisions issued by day 60, but the new policy cuts that to day 38 if under an administrative resolution, and to day 42 if under a conference resolution. If found guilty of a policy violation, the party will receive decisions about sanctions on day 40 if under an administrative resolution and on day 46 if under a conference resolution.

Students who believed that the investigation process would benefit from a change to a more streamlined timeline were involved in the policy revision process.

“We did listen very carefully to the students’ input, especially when it came to the timing of these — just how long they were taking and that was a big factor in whether people were willing to report and or go through the process,” Mason said. “For us, that was important to really take that into consideration and try to make these changes to be more prompt.”

In the previous procedural policy, involved parties were unable to

speak with the dean and instead were allowed a comment period. Mason said that while this comment period was helpful, officials often found it would unintentionally prolong the investigation as new information arose or was contested back and forth. Because involved parties can now meet with a deciding official in a conference resolution and provide written comments, the commentary process has been streamlined, which helps shorten the overall length of an investigation.

“The conference [resolution] is intended to be very narrow in scope — not a rehashing of every element and every detail that happened between two individuals but just what is in dispute here,” Mason said.

Other changes to the procedural policy include altered primary sanctions, which more clearly specify different types of student suspension, including deferred suspension.

Additional changes were made to secondary sanctions which involve the loss or relocation of housing, no contact orders and course withdrawals.

While Mason said the College already had an amnesty policy, the overall policy revisions this year have been directed at keeping up with current standards of equity used elsewhere.

“From an equity standpoint, we need to give the respondent or the

person being accused the same amnesty in Title IX cases to speak freely if they’ve done something that’s not in furtherance of the offense,” Mason said. “… Multiple times we’ve had somebody accused of something and earlier in the night both parties had been drinking underage and we didn’t find the underlying Title IX action to have been substantiated — not that it didn’t happen but we didn’t have enough evidence — but the person was still held responsible for an alcohol violation and that didn’t seem equitable in the process.”

HOPE President Rhea Sharma ’19 said that HOPE views the changes to the policies, such as the decision to add a deciding official, as positive, but stressed that the policy needs time to be judged on its effectiveness.

“It is clear that W&M is trying to make the procedures for handling sexual misconduct a somewhat easier process,” Sharma said in an email. “They’ve added the position of Deciding Official that makes decisions regarding cases, and it may be beneficial to have one person dedicated to the case, rather than a dean that is also busy with other responsibilities. ... I think it’s hard to judge the efficiency of this policy, as it is still new. However, we are hopeful that the administration at this school is trying to make this process as efficient and helpful as possible.”

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Student organizations prepare for midterm elections, political efficacy VOX, Virginia21, UndocuTribe to increase involvement by adding polling stations, hosting workshops WILL ALLEN FLAT HAT NEWS ASSOC. EDITOR

As the semester begins and midterm elections draw near, student organizations are beginning mobilization efforts and engaging in political activism both on and off campus. Through their commitment to political participation, students at the College of William and Mary are working to raise political awareness and advocate for change.

Student organizations at the College have always been heavily involved with politics, especially since the 2016 presidential election and during the presidency of Donald Trump. During the general election, organizations such as VOX: Planned Parenthood Generation Action were working to get out the vote for reproductive rights and justice. In partnership with the Young Democrats, VOX helped to get its members involved with on-theground political action.

“We were … trying to get our members of our organization more interested in canvassing and phone banking,” VOX Co-president Jioni Tuck ’19 said.

The nonpartisan student education group Virginia21 was also involved with voter registration drives. “[Virginia21 and NextGen] actually got a lot of people registered … around 1500 students,” Virginia21 President Will Parada ’19 said.

In direct response to the Trump administration’s rescinding of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act and the subsequent student DACA rally Sept. 5, 2017, the immigrant and undocumented rights advocacy group UndocuTribe was formed. UndocuTribe

endeavors to create a safe space for immigrant students and educate the student population on issues concerning immigrants and undocumented peoples.

“People just feel happy that’s there a space where they can feel safe,” UndocuTribe Outreach Chair Aida Campos ’20 said.

“Especially with current news … it’s nice to create a space for people and put research and education out for people who don’t know about the issues.”

Going forward, VOX, Virginia21 and UndocuTribe are all making plans for continued political action. UndocuTribe is continuing its lobbying work with the Virginia General Assembly and members of the organization have been carpooling to Richmond to fight for immigrant and undocumented rights in the state legislature.

“A lot of it does involve speaking personal stories in front of delegates, so that they can vote on bills,” Campos said. “As well as, phone bank for those bills kind of just to put that pressure on them to make votes that reflect what their constituents want.”

VOX currently has plans to get students involved with women’s rights issues in the greater Williamsburg area.

“We are working … to translate documents from English to Spanish for local OBGYN clinics,” VOX Co-president Emma Silverman ’20 said. “That’s something that we’re trying to do to be more intersectional and also confront issues that are happening for women who don’t speak in English.”

VOX is also working on a Pleasure 101 workshop with Planned Parenthood to highlight the importance of safe and consensual pleasure. The organization is also arranging multiple talks to highlight pro-abortion views and women’s rights, specifically in

regards to accessibility to abortions and increased transparency on women’s rights issues.

This semester, Virginia21 is continuing its efforts to increase student knowledge of and participation in political issues. Virginia21 is currently working to establish a new polling station and lighten the assignment and test load on election days for students.

“We are planning for this semester to establish a polling location on campus,” Parada said. “We think that it would be a good idea to put one on campus to make it more convenient for students to vote.”

UndocuTribe currently has an interactive display in the Sadler Center and is planning an UndocuTribe Ally training session to inform students on how to be better allies to undocumented peoples. Virginia21 will be holding “What’s In Your Ballot” events to inform students about what political candidates stand for.

VOX will hold a “Pro-Choice Talk” Oct. 10 and an “Abortion Speak-Out” session Nov. 8, during which its members will talk about their experiences with women’s rights and pro-abortion issues.

VOX, Virginia21 and UndocuTribe demonstrate the intensity and dedication of students to participation in politics and activism.

As the midterm elections approach, student groups like these are dedicated to their missions to encourage students to become politically conscious and active.

“There’s this view that millennials and young people just don’t care enough to learn about politics or vote …,” Parada said. “We’re trying to break that perception. When you think about it, we’re the generation that has the most to gain and the most to lose from either engaging [or] not engaging with politics.”

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Campus dining halls in need of improvements

Hallie O’Rourke

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Rejection does not equal lack of talent or skill

Gabrielle Jawer

FLAT HAT GUEST COLUMNIST

With more than 450 organizations and clubs on campus, there are plenty of opportunities to get involved in extracurriculars at the College of William and Mary. The start of a new school year is the perfect time to try something new, make new friends and pursue your passions!

It sounds amazing, and usually, it is. But if you’re like me, you may also know recruitment season by a different name: rejection season.

Maybe you tried out for club soccer, or perhaps you auditioned for a cappella and the musical. You rushed a fraternity.

You ran for Hall Council and tried out for Debate Team. Sometimes, it’s simple: you didn’t make the cut.

Rejection sucks.

The first few weeks of school can be a kick in the teeth.

You may lose faith in your own abilities when organizations fail to acknowledge your skill. You can pretend that you feel fine, but when your friend or roommate gets the part and you do not, it becomes easy to despair. This is exactly what happened to me last year, so I know how much it hurts.

You’re not alone.

Rejection will never be completely painless, but there are

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some strategies to make it easier. First, it is helpful to realize that with such a large and talented student population, the competition level rises. There are so many students with so much talent.

This fact does not make you any less talented by comparison. It simply ensures that a smaller percentage of students will be recognized for their talent.

Next, I advise you to keep in mind that the evaluations of and by your peers are neither perfect nor absolute. Everyone has different tastes, and the judgements of your friends and classmates are simply their semi-educated opinions.

I myself sat on the casting couch for a production, and I made plenty of mistakes. With only a three-minute audition, it’s impossible to make a fully-informed decision.

It’s important to understand that being last chair trumpet does not mean you won’t ever be in the Philadelphia Philharmonic. On the other hand, being elected to Student Assembly does not necessarily mean that you have what it takes to be a U.S. senator.

I know that my advice may seem cliché, and it doesn’t always help, but even if your best isn’t good enough, it’s still your best. A person should always take pride in their labors and work to improve themselves.

If the pain of rejection is stronger than the joy of doing your best at something, it may be time to reevaluate where you want to put all that effort.

If your determination to succeed isn’t making you happy, move your energy and passion toward something more intrinsically rewarding. I’m taking a break from theater this year to devote more time to math and physics, and so far, it’s the best decision I have ever made in college. Pursue passion, not reward. Ultimately, that will be the most fulfilling.

Email Gabrielle Jawer at grjawer@email.wm.edu

It’s important to understand that being last chair trumpet does not mean you won’t ever be in the Philadelphia Philharmonic. On the other hand, being elected to Student Assembly does not necessarily mean that you have what it takes to be a U.S. senator.

As a sophomore, I foolishly assumed that the dining halls would remain in the same glorious state each year, so I was very surprised when I returned to campus and discovered that is not the case. There’s a whole new line at Cosi, there are additions to the mosaic bowl section of the Caf, and there’s even a stir fry station at Sadler.

Along with these large changes, the dining halls have also mixed up a few more basic aspects of the layout. For example, where are the condiments now? I can’t find the ketchup I so desperately need at Caf or Sadler anymore. In Sadler, they replaced the condiments with desserts, which makes more sense since it’s next to the ice cream. In the Caf, I honestly still don’t know where the desserts are.

Speaking of ice cream, I have yet to encounter a working machine at the Caf or Sadler. Maybe it’s just my bad luck, but if dining services wanted to play on the “ice cream machine broke” meme, they’re succeeding. I also don’t completely understand the new ice cream machine at the Caf, as I was perfectly content with scooping my own mint chocolate chip in past semesters.

However, the changes that have been made thus far are intended to be positive. There’s more standing room in Sadler while you’re waiting in line, and the lines at the Caf and Cosi are much more organized. These are the changes that I gladly welcome.

One of the biggest stressors of eating at a dining hall is the long, seemingly never-ending lines you must wait in to get your meal. Hopefully, with more organization, it will be easier to get a taste of that sweet, sweet Sodexo food in a timely manner.

One thing I noticed last year was that the quality of food at the dining halls seemed to diminish over the course of the semester. For example, at the Caf, they began serving the same weekly menu, with my only excitement coming from the one day they would have grilled cheese and chicken nuggets.

Knowing this, I woefully assume the same may happen this year.

The food options are better this year, and I am a big fan of the stir fry station at Sadler. But these changes beg the question: How long will it last? Even if the stations are still up and running with the same exact food three months from now, will everyone be tired of it by then?

Toward the end of last spring, I found myself dismayed with the options that were left and cringed at the sight of Sadler pizza. I resorted to making myself peanut butter and jelly sandwiches almost every day. The new changes to the dining halls give me hope that I won’t have to do that this year, and I’ll be able to incorporate healthier options into my diet.

Even if you don’t agree with or particularly like the changes to the dining halls this semester, we can be grateful for one constant: the employment of Christian at Marketplace and the infinite happiness he brings to the student body. The Dining Services workers try their best to make this school a better place, and they are all wonderful people if you take the time to get to know them. They are probably overwhelmed with some of the changes, too, and would love to chat with students about it. I encourage going out to see all the changes for yourself and at least attempting to be open to them.

Sodexo is Sodexo, but I give them credit for trying.

Email Hallie O’Rourke at hporourke@email.wm.edu

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The College’s Women’s Weekend falls short due to costs, exclusivity

Andi Nealon

FLAT HAT GUEST COLUMNIST

By now I’m sure everyone has heard that this year, 2018, is the 100th anniversary of women being admitted to the College of William and Mary — white women, at least. Naturally, the College has decided to have a whole year of celebration, commemorating those women who boldly went and those who continue to boldly go.

A whole year celebrating and boosting the accomplishments of women sounds great. As a woman who loves other women, that sounds right up my alley.

The only issue is that the College’s new events are overwhelmingly geared toward rich

alumnae, specifically rich legacy alumnae who are in to weekend conferences where they can talk to other alumnae about how great it is being successful and a woman. Let’s look closer at Women’s Weekend.

“In 2018-19, the Tribe community will be celebrating 100 years of women at William & Mary. To commemorate this milestone, the university will host the first-ever W&M Women’s Weekend September 21-23, 2018,” boasts the College’s website.

Cool! The schedule here is packed with seminars on how to navigate business and the professional world, getting women elected to public office, and a panel on the #metoo movement, which are all great opportunities.

Anna Deveare Smith of “The West Wing” is going to be here Friday night, which seems like a great opportunity for theatre and film students to get to talk to her.

Those panels and seminars would be great for business students, government student, and any student planning on working in the entertainment industry. It is very convenient that the College is bringing all that stuff to campus so we can experience it, right?

Just kidding! This weekend is for alumnae only. Come back when you’ve graduated and have $250 to spend on registration alone, not to mention accommodations.

You think parking is bad now? Wait ‘til the alumnae get here and have super fancy parking passes so they can park wherever the whole weekend.

Think back to all those times certain buildings and parts of buildings have been closed off because a seminar or some outside event is happening. That will occur all over campus during the planned Women’s Weekend.

You might think I’m being an alarmist and complaining about nothing. Maybe I am an alarmist; but I think I have a valid reason for complaint.

Since my time here at the College started in 2016 I’ve lived and breathed theater and we have not had a single masterclass or chat with any famous folks that the school has brought in for other purposes.

The idea that any students would exponentially gain from face to face time with Laverne Cox or Anderson Cooper or Anna Deveare Smith has apparently never crossed the

minds of the people in charge of planning such events.

This year, the theater department faculty fought for a student lottery to get a livestream of the Anna Deveare Smith performance in a tiny room in Sadler, but without a lot of pestering the folks in charge, even that would not have happened.

Students are not allowed admittance to the live performance in Commonwealth unless it doesn’t sell out, and then there’ll be some student rush tickets available.

Here’s the main point: The College has a serious problem with how it prizes its alumnae over its students. They claim this year is “to celebrate the accomplishments of the 55,000+ alumnae, and the many women students, faculty and staff.” However, the students will be expected to keep quiet and out of sight as they prep for the alums arriving.

In a world that is already trying to break my spirit, and in a school that prioritizes the comfort of alumnae over my needs and mental health, I do not feel very celebrated.

Email Andi Nealon at adnealon@email.wm.edu

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Time management vital in crafting healthy routines

Reid Champlin FLAT HAT GUEST WRITER

You might say I went a little bit overboard at my activity fair freshman year.

So thrilled by the seemingly endless choices before me and enticed by the promises of adventure and community, I left the fair that September night with my name on 11 ListServs and maybe a dozen or so more club sign-up sheets.

For the entirety of my first semester, emails flooded my inbox, inviting me to attend this meeting, this group dinner, this and that event. I ran like a madman from my six o’clock commitment to my seven o’clock, eight o’clock, nine o’clock, on and on and on. Classes, clubs, friends all ran together in a lightning-fast progression of stress laid out in a rainbow-colored Google calendar whose simplicity of design betrayed the insanity of its contents.

It reached a point where on any given Tuesday, I had at least two conflicting commitments, each demanding my time and attention. Not wanting to let any of them down, I said I could do them all, believing against reason that I would find time that just didn’t exist.

It may seem odd, then, that I would write today against the busyness so prevalent on this campus. I certainly don’t speak from a position of authority in saying this. So instead, learn from my mistake. Don’t accept the advice that follows because I have kept it perfectly, but because I haven’t, and I regret it.

The College is an incredible place, a community where any dream you have, any goal you seek to achieve can be yours. We live amidst an embarrassment of riches in terms of opportunity. If you dream of becoming a lawyer, an excellent pre-law program and mock trial, debate, and (now) moot court await you.

If you want to test the limits of your adventurousness, Tribe Adventure Program, scuba club, cycling club, and outdoors club is more than happy to accept you. If you’re seeking a community to accept you, you’ll find it anywhere - from Greek life to acapella to religious organizations to even the people who share your residence hall.

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In a place with seemingly endless possibilities, it’s important not to get carried away to trying to achieve everything all at once. You are limited. Limited in your time, your energy, your ability to care about yourself, others, and matters at hand.

In a place with seemingly endless possibilities, it’s important not to get carried away by trying to achieve everything all at once. You are limited. Limited in your time, your energy, your ability to care about yourself, others, and matters at hand.

You simply cannot do everything you want to do. You can try, and maybe you’ll succeed, but you run the risk of being pulled this way and that, trying to balance too many commitments and half-assing them all.

So instead, relax. Think about what matters to you.

What REALLY matters. What gets you excited just thinking about it, what drives you out of bed in the morning, what makes you feel alive and fulfilled? If you know what this is already, go for it.

Give it your all, and you will be rewarded. Don’t let things of lesser importance get in your way; balance when you can and cut when you must. If you don’t know, that’s what college is for. Pick a few things you are interested in, and do as much as you can for as many as you can without overwhelming yourself. Full commitment to a few things is always better than minimal commitment to many things.

James Houston once wrote, “Busyness also seems to be a determination not to ‘miss out on life.’ Behind much of the rat-race of modern life is the unexamined assumption that what I do determines who I am. In this way, we define ourselves by what we do, rather than by any quality of what we are inside. It is typical in a party for one stranger to approach another with the question, ‘What do you do?’ Perhaps we wouldn’t have a clue how to reply to the deeper question, ‘Who are you?’”

Maybe what we really need to ask ourselves is not what we should do, but who we must be. The answer to the latter will determine your reply to the former.

Email Reid Champlin at rjchamplin@email.wm.edu.

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Despite controversy, new logo should be welcomed

Brendan Doyle FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR

One hot Wednesday afternoon in Washington D.C., right at the beginning of what one might consider the “dog days” of the summer, I was refreshing my Twitter feed repeatedly. Not only was I attempting to avoid the work I was given as an intern, but I was also waiting for the unveiling of a new identity for the College of William and Mary’s athletics program. As a member of a distinct but passionate minority of the student body that cares deeply about Tribe sports — and as a self-described logo junkie — I was excited. Director of Athletics Samantha Huge had promised more than just a new mark. She had promised a brand refresh. The exact words used in a letter to the community were “a reinvigorated mark and brand.”

Then, that morning, the promo video dropped, and you’ll never believe what I felt: I liked it. OK, I know that those last three words may have just strapped a target to my back. Maybe I’ll end up ridiculed on Swampy Memes? I don’t know. But I do know that I really, genuinely liked it.

Sure, it took a bit to warm up to the logos. I still think the griffin in the illustration and the full primary colors looks a little out of whack. The full primary has too much going on for my liking. However, I think the logos are a

great change for the program.

That’s why it was jarring for me to see the reaction on social media to the rebranding. Nearly every Instagram, Twitter or Facebook post was barraged by tons of comments or replies absolutely blasting the change. At the beginning of the school year, I would even use the fact that I like the new logo as my fun fact in introductory settings.

Every time, a few people would shoot me weird looks.

The reason behind the vitriol seems to be the College’s classic aversion to change. As a school that has been around since 1693, tradition is one of our selling points. You don’t have to go here very long to learn that it’s important to us; Convocation seems to do the trick.

Therefore, any change to the image of the school generally undergoes unfair scrutiny. Even more than the students, though, the alumni seem to dislike any change. I was in elementary school and relatively uninterested in the College when this happened, but I can’t imagine what the reaction to the removal of the feathers on the logo was like.

I assume it would have been enough to make Jon Stewart roll around in his chair on “The Daily Show.” Whatever the reason is that the masses abhor the new branding, I have a relatively simple explanation for why I thoroughly like it — I think it fits the school’s character much better.

The old Tribe script was unbelievably generic. There was no character there.

Look at Indiana State University’s athletic logo, or Oregon State University, or the University of Idaho, or literally any baseball team ever. Everybody uses it, so there was nothing that made it unique or worthy of pride for the school. From the school’s point of view,

that wasn’t good for brand recognition across the country. From mine, it made a visually dull identity. However, the new logos fit perfectly within the carefully constructed character that the College has created. Think about what the College is known for, if you will. 1693.

The Sir Christopher Wren Building.

Queen Mary. King William. The griffin.

A royal charter. Doesn’t the new logo fit perfectly with what this school is? I have heard from a friend that she didn’t like the new logo because she thought it looked like a Busch Gardens logo from the 1970s. I think she’s completely right about the Busch Gardens part; the logo can be fairly described as a little campy.

Whimsical is not the right word, but it does have a little flair. I just happen to think that a retro-modern logo that almost looks like it’s from a theme park which used to be named “The Old Country” fits the College’s identity incredibly well.Some basic statistical analysis shows that I am not the only person to appreciate the logo change.

The blog Brand New, run by the graphic design company Under Construction, held a poll on the rebrand.

Of 156 votes, 53.2 percent rated the new logo “great,” while just 24.4 percent chose to describe it as “bad.” I don’t want to act like the aesthetics of logos and design are objective, and I certainly don’t want to stop the valid criticisms of the branding.

One such criticism that would take more investigation would be resource management when it comes to what students want the school’s money to be spent on. But with regards to aesthetics, maybe we should stop being so judgmental.

Email Brendan Doyle at bpdoyle@email.wm.edu.

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Resentful words towards freshman unfair, unjustified

Anna Boustany

FLAT HAT OPINIONS ASSOC. EDITOR

Last weekend was one of the most chaotic weekends I’ve ever had at the College of William and Mary. I was sick, barely got any sleep and spent a lot of time participating in the 24-hour play festival. While I had a blast, acting in the show was definitely not a stress-free environment, and by Sunday night, I felt somewhat overwhelmed.

That evening, I felt great after receiving praise from everyone who had enjoyed the show, but my mood came crashing down as I made my way back to Sadler following the performance. As I was walking to Sadler, two women who I didn’t know clearly insulted me as I walked past. As I began to approach them, they said “Oh my God, not another one,” and then seconds after I had passed by them, they said “what a b——)!”

Despite the fact that I had just been receiving praise for my performance in the play festival, their words, which were clearly within my earshot, cut much deeper. I couldn’t stop thinking about the comments, and I spent most of the evening wondering what I had done wrong to deserve the angry words.

I didn’t know the women, and I had no idea as to why they would have felt the need to insult me.

While I am not completely sure, the final conclusion that I came to was that they had insulted me mistakenly thinking I was another freshman. This saddens me, because while I am not a freshman, I cannot imagine how much this would have

hurt me if I had been. Last year was a very difficult year, but it was made so much easier because the people around me proved how much I belonged here. But had someone said such rude things to me during the first weeks of my freshman year, I would have struggled to feel as though I belonged. My experience has been that the vast majority of upperclassmen does care about first-year students and making them feel welcome, and they are incredibly thrilled that freshmen are here to join our community and make the College a better place for everyone.

Nevertheless, there are still people who are annoyed by freshmen and unwilling to welcome them to the College.

As a community, we all need to strive to welcome our new members because people before us gave us the gift of welcoming us here. We were all freshmen once; we didn’t know how to get to the Rec or Ewell Hall, and taking a moment of your time to help freshmen isn’t that much of a sacrifice.

Instead, it is beneficial to the whole community.

Now, there are a whole plethora of reasons that these two people could have decided to insult me, and at the end of the day, I am OK with ignoring what they said. Ultimately, I know their harshness is more of a reflection on them than on me.

Still, it is important to remember that we all have a duty to build up our college community. However little we may think our negative words will affect people, they still hold a great deal of power.

Even though I was not incredibly hurt by what they said and was able to move past this incident, I will still remember their words for much longer than I will remember the compliments I received that same weekend. I am still so lucky to go to a school where negative experiences like this are incredibly rare, and I feel generally so welcomed and accepted by the campus community as a whole. We should strive to create that environment in every case, not just in the majority of occasions.

Email Anna Boustany at aeboustany@email.wm.edu.

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Campus greenhouse serves as refuge for research, relaxation SARAH SMITH // FLAT HAT EDITOR-IN-CHIEF TALIA WIENER // FLAT HAT ONLINE EDITOR

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ucked away on the third floor of the Integrated Science Center is a little slice of heaven. For just over two years, the College of William and Mary’s new greenhouse has offered research opportunities, paid and volunteer jobs for students and a spot for visitors to relax in the company of plants.

“I love plants and I love to see them grow,” biology Greenhouse Manager Patty White-Jackson said. “I also love the students here at William and Mary. One of my favorite aspects of working here is teaching them how to work with plants.”

For White-Jackson, working with the plants means that each day is different.

Her responsibilities range from watering the plants to training students and biology department researchers. She is also responsible for giving tours to groups like garden clubs, school children, local scout troops and students from the College.

There are also scheduled open house tours, where the greenhouse opens its doors to all members of the College community. During the spring 2018 open house, musicians from the Appalachian Music Ensemble and other student groups performed, and student volunteers brought food and refreshments for those curious about just what was up on the top floor of the ISC. For those curious students, there’s always a lot to find. Some of the plants feature googly-eyed faces and others are responsive to human touch. One of White-Jackson’s favorites has a particularly unpleasant smell when its flowers bloom throughout the year.

“Another [of my favorite plant type] is the tropical pitcher plant,” White-Jackson said. “This is a carnivorous plant; insects are attracted by a scent. So, they are attracted by a scent and then they slide into its pitcher. It is very slippery. It secretes enzymes, kind of like acetic acid, that digests the insects.”

Part of White-Jackson’s job is also training both student volunteers and paid student waterers. White-Jackson said that students can always contact her if they are interested in working or volunteering for the ISC Greenhouse.

“We have probably about 8 to 10 volunteers at any time and in any one week we have about five to six students come in and volunteer,” WhiteJackson said. “Some have been with me since their freshman year and there are always some freshmen here volunteering. They do a lot of sweeping, cleaning, removing dead flowers and leaves, and they come in and do a lot of plant dividing and starting the cuttings.”

The plants are not new to the ISC either. Prior to their new, slightly more tech-savvy home, the flora and fauna of the greenhouse were located on the roof of Millington Hall. Before the demolition, some plants were given away to students and Williamsburg community members. Others made the move to the ISC. Kristie Turkal ’18 spent her senior year volunteering after the Millington Hall plant giveaway inspired her to spend more time around plants. “[During] my junior year, there was a plant giveaway at the Millington Greenhouse when they were closing it,” Turkal said. “I was carrying home like four huge plants and I realized that I would love to be around plants more and that it would make my day better to be around plants.”

For Meg Tynan ’18, the inspiration to volunteer at the greenhouse came from her earlier involvement with Botany Club. During her senior year, Tynan was responsible for checking up on plants, following the watering schedule and sweeping the floors to keep the greenhouse looking clean.

“I was part of the Botany Club for a little while, and then I realized I wanted to be more involved,” Tynan said. “I [got] to come in every day, it’s kind of relaxation while learning.”

The ISC location also brought new technology to the regular care and maintenance of the plants.

There are dedicated research bays for students and professors to separate and grow new plants and perform individual research projects. White-Jackson also said that new technologies include climate controls for humidity, temperature and night and day settings. There are also new circulation fans and vents that can be opened and controlled manually.

“One of the projects [from] the Millington Greenhouse, was that we had a lot of plants hanging to see how they grow,” White-Jackson said. “This new greenhouse didn’t give us places to hang plants.”

White-Jackson said adding hanging space to the new greenhouse was a project worked on over summer 2018, so that plants like the greenhouse’s succulent collection could be hung. When the succulents bloom, their flowers will be at nose-level.

“It’s definitely a community benefit [having this greenhouse on campus,]” White-Jackson said. “The plants are just relaxing to be around.”

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CREATING COMMUNITY

2nd Sundays celebrations feature artists, offer space for community gatherings MAGGIE MORE // FLAT HAT VARIETY ASSOC. EDITOR Williamsburg’s Prince George Street, while beloved by students for hosting popular restaurants like Aromas and Blue Talon Bistro, is not particularly known for its constant flurry of activity. Yet Sunday, Sept. 9, it was filled to the brim with tents, all purveying wares like pottery, clothing, jewelry and art. People bustled from location to location, taking in the sights and sounds, and watching all kinds of performances, from guitar playing to singing to Irish step dancing.

This is all part of 2nd Sundays Art & Music Festival, the City of Williamsburg’s street festival, which brings art, food, performance, live music and locally made goods to Prince George Street the second Sunday of the month, every month, from March through December. Fans of the event have Shirley Vermillion, the organizing and planning mind behind 2nd Sundays, to thank.

The idea for a street festival came from Vermillion’s history in Seattle, Washington, where such affairs are a common occurrence. She loved the Northwest, but had grown up in Virginia, and eventually decided to return to a beloved job in the area as a dental hygienist. When she and her family moved back to Williamsburg, the sudden lack of public arts festivals was an inescapable difference.

“I was just used to street festivals — that was part of my life in the Pacific Northwest,” Vermillion said. “I just assumed that, being a college town, there would be fun things for people of all ages, including college students and high school students … and found that there were no street festivals. And there were only a couple of art events, that were more geared toward adults.”

After trying (and failing) to find street festivals in the area, waiting for one to appear and thinking on it for more than a few years, Vermillion finally decided to start one herself. She turned to David Everett and Adam Steely, co-owners of the Blue Talon Bistro, for help in setting up the first festival. They responded enthusiastically.

“David and I had been a big fan of that type of entertainment since we opened,” Steely said. “The first year we were open, we would reward buskers for performing outside our restaurant. We would put cash in their guitar cases if they wanted to come play, because we thought that adds that kind of welcoming … atmosphere that’s a little less buttoned-up than downtown Williamsburg sort of had an image for.”

The festival was equally designed to help give local artists a place to display their work as well as give Williamsburg a different kind of cultural draw for tourists. Steely said that the festival’s unique approach to the arts and the arts’ value to Williamsburg was part of the reason he initially wanted to help sponsor it. “[Vermillion] wanted to be very clear in her message that this was a street festival, not an arts show,” Steely said. “... We had several people approach us over the years about doing street festivals, in a number of different incarnations, but she was the only person who had pitched art and music and cultural elements combined in a way that complemented the other art events we have, but was distinct and different.”

For Vermillion, this combination of artistic elements was vital to her vision for 2nd Sundays, one that she continually works to get closer to every month, though growth has been gradual.

“I always envisioned music, and then I always envisioned street performers,” Vermillion said. “... I just see it as an opportunity for local creatives to have an outlet for their talent.”

Recent additions to the 2nd Sundays roster include Shakespeare in the Park, local dance school performances, juggling, new local guitarists, a henna artist and more street food.

At the time the festival began, Prince George Street was already closed Sunday nights for movies. Because of this, Steely and Everett already had the correct insurance, permits, restrooms and first aid resources for a street event, and it was easy for them to help Vermillion by adjusting these to accommodate 2nd Sundays, in addition to fronting the costs for the first few years.

Sponsorship of the festival has since been shifted from Steely and Everett to CultureFix, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing the arts to Williamsburg’s public.

CultureFix’s founder and president, Steve Rose, felt strongly about continuing to support events like 2nd Sundays that bring culture to the City of Williamsburg.

“One of the main things of our mission is to think outside the box, not do the normal standard stuff and also not to do things purely based on budget,” Rose said.

“We look at the need … if it’s missing in the community, and we take a calculated risk … Just because it doesn’t make money doesn’t mean we won’t do it.”

The festival is now in its ninth year, having started in 2010, and is still growing both physically and culturally. The artists who participate have also grown in number and become more varied, expanding from 16 artists and one musical act for only three hours, to its current maximum of 85 vendors and at least 10 live performances over the course of six hours.

“Things happen in the time that I can manage,” Vermillion said. “If it had been [this big at the beginning], I wouldn’t have even known how to manage that much.”

Still, Vermillion is always on the lookout for more vendors, and is definitely open to the idea of students hosting a booth at the street festival. “[Participation for] students have always been free, so if it’s a student or group of students who want to have a tent, I would always waive the [artist] fee,” Vermillion said.

Vermillion, Steely and Rose all expressed a strong desire for more students from the College of William and Mary to visit the street festival every month, even if students wandered around just to enjoy the sights and music without buying anything.

“I’ve always dreamed of having more interaction, with the normal population of Williamsburg connecting with the students,” Vermillion said. “There’s so many [things to see], I think [college students] should just cruise through all of the streets. And just see which booth makes them turn their head.”

PHOTOS BY MAGGIE MORE / THE FLAT HAT

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

Redefining sex education standards

Abstinence culture leads to development of unhealthy sexual identities in youth

Alijah Webb

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS COLUMNIST

Picture this: You’re sitting in the back of a middle school classroom. The lights are shut off, the room is dark and silent, save for the whirring of the class projector. The teacher is standing at the front, glaring at the students filing in one by one.Suddenly, a slide pops up, and you see a close up image of inflamed genitals. You realize your bi-weekly health class has stopped being about the food groups and has turned into sexual education class.

When I was in middle school, sex ed was not taught as an informative lesson on sexual health, it was taught as a course meant to scare you away from the desire of ever having sex. We pretty much

only covered STI’s and teen pregnancy.

The class was very clinical. As students were experimenting with each other and their bodies in the bathrooms, in the music rooms, on the bleachers, the only information given to them was to either: a) not have sex b) use a condom* c) not have sex *without the knowledge of how to properly put on a condom, and without access to them.

I was a late bloomer. I was hearing all of these stories about my peers and their sexual experimentation and I wasn’t experiencing any of it.

In middle school, there was this trend of “sex bracelets,” they were little cheap plastic brightly colored bracelets.

Inherently meaningless. Somehow, it came to be that each color of the bracelet was associated with different sexual acts and social status. You would wear a certain colored bracelet based on what you were theoretically willing to do with a sexual partner. They would break the

bracelet, signifying that they wanted to do that specific act with you.

The administration knew about this, banned the bracelets, but never made any effort to give students any sexual education. No emotional education.

There was no meeting, no assembly, there was nothing.

We were constructing our sexual identities and feelings based on popularity and cheap plastic bracelets.

Here’s a photo of me with them (and my small dog).

The interesting thing, though, is that I never had sex and was completely unwilling to. I didn’t even have my first kiss until I was sixteen and standing on the rooftop of a parking garage. I didn’t lose my virginity until I was 18. I had no intention whatsoever of engaging in sexual acts, but I still wore the bracelets, because it was socially significant.

Young people were (and are) thinking through complex emotional concepts and learning about themselves and their anatomy, which is why sexual education

needs to be more comprehensive and focused on the relaying of useful information rather than scare tactics.

Alijah W. is a Behind Closed Doors columnist who wants you to have comprehensive sex education.

ALIJAH WEBB / THE FLAT HAT

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

Tribe beats Bison, bested by Aggies College stuns Bucknell before losing to No. 5 Texas A&M JULIA STUMBAUGH FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR

COURTESY PHOTO / TRIBE ATHLETICS

Senior midfielder Estelle Hughes celebrates after scoring the game-winning goal for the Tribe against Brown, her third of the game. The goal came in double overtime.

Hughes, College outlast Brown for win Senior midfielder pots three goals as Tribe climbs to .500 CATHERINE SCHEFER FLAT HAT SPORTS ASSOC. EDITOR Friday, William and Mary hosted Brown in the third match of the four-game home stand. After 84 minutes of a hard-fought game, the Tribe (2-2) walked away with a 4-3 double-overtime victory over the Bears (1-2).

The Bears scored within the first five minutes of the match off a penalty corner and remained in the lead for the following 15 minutes. But after the Tribe went down by a goal, it gained a spark of momentum and kept play in its attacking half for the majority of the next four minutes.

Junior forward Woodard Hooper gained a brief look at goal, followed by more commotion in front of the Bear’s goal in which the Tribe nearly evened the playing field.

Freshman midfielder Jorja Morgan then put the College on the scoreboard as she hammered the ball into the back of the cage past Bears goalkeeper Katie Hammaker in the 22nd minute.

In the 31st minute of the game, Hooper got a one-on-one look at goal with a ball centered from the left but was unable to get a solid contact.

The Bears slid ahead in the 32nd minute when Brown midfielder Emma Rosen broke through the defense and crossed the ball from the left to forward Gina Openshaw.

Openshaw connected with the ball to place it just behind the Tribe’s junior goalkeeper

Morgan Connor, who had come off her line to pressure the breakaway.

In the last minute of the half, the College picked up the final goal of the frame. Originating from the left outside flank, the ball was crossed near the arc to the right side. Sophomore midfielder Caitlin Maclean passed the ball to senior midfielder Estelle Hughes, who placed the ball in the back of the cage.

The teams entered the second half in a draw. In the 11th minute of the second half, Hughes scored for the second time off a cross from the right from senior defender Caroline Arrowood. The tally put the College ahead 3-2.

A minute later, Connor made a diving save to keep the Tribe in the lead.

The coming minutes were fluid, with neither team gaining clear momentum. In the 56th minute, Bears forward Anya Nayak collected the ball off a pass from defender Rachel Lanouette before sliding the ball past Connor to tie the game for the third time.

The regulation period ended in a 3-3 tie, propelling the match into overtime.

Neither team scored in the first 10-minute overtime period, so the game moved into a second period of overtime.

Within the first minute of the second overtime period, the Bears had a twoon-two situation in which freshman goalkeeper Kimi Jones made an impressive save to keep the Tribe in the game in her first appearance this season.

Closing in on the end of the match, the College earned a penalty corner in which junior midfielder Christie van de Kamp sent the ball to Hughes, who sent it back to van de Kamp, allowing her to fire at the goal. Hammaker made a skillful save, but to no avail; Hughes followed up mere seconds later with the game-winning goal.

“I think we just played with a lot of heart,” Hughes said. “It wasn’t our best game, but we worked for the whole 70 minutes — the overtime and at the end of the game, it was just pure effort and hard work.”

While Hughes had a successful night, earning three of the Tribe’s four goals, the College’s success is due largely in part to a defensive line that withheld numerous attacks.

“Giving a shoutout to our defense in whole, I don’t want to pick one player over the other,” head coach Tess Ellis said.

“I thought Cara Menges as a freshman stepping up with her speed in the midfield gave us opportunities, if it was to feed to Estelle or overlapping forward.”

Several other players also contributed significantly to the game, noted by Ellis, including Hughes, van de Kamp, junior forward Annie Snead and Morgan. “[They] gave a lot out there tonight,” Ellis said.

The Tribe will play Virginia Commonwealth Sunday at 1 p.m. on Busch Field to complete its four-game home stand before hitting the road for two consecutive games.

This week, William and Mary split two matches. Thursday, the Tribe (3-4-0) won a thriller against Bucknell before the College dropped a contest against No. 5 Texas A&M Sunday.

Thursday, for the second game in a row, the Tribe scored two goals in the last five minutes of a match — this time in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania — to overcome a deficit and secure a regulation win as the College came back to down Bucknell (24-1), 3-2.

Sophomore defender Alex Kuhnle, scorer of the buzzerbeating game winner in the Tribe’s last comeback win against Liberty Sept. 2, opened scoring in Thursday’s match with a longdistance shot off an assist by junior defender Hannah Keith. The visitors managed to maintain that 1-0 lead throughout the first half, helped by four saves in the first 45 minutes from senior goalkeeper Sara Vigen.

Despite Tribe domination of both shots and possession, it was Bucknell that broke through with a pair of goals after more than 60 scoreless minutes. Midfielder Carly Baggott headed in a corner kick in the 78th minute to tie the game for the Bison.

Three minutes later, defender Claire Mensi drew a penalty kick that she then placed into back of the net, putting Bucknell up 2-1 with less than 10 minutes left in the match.

Bucknell looked like they were about to close out the victory when, with just three minutes remaining, junior forward Sully Boulden fought to get a rebound from senior midfielder Mackenzie Kober over the goal line, tying the game at 2-2.

With just over a minute left in regulation time, sophomore midfielder Meredith Beam scored off the left post on an assist from freshman midfielder Renee Kohler, putting the College up 3-2 and completing a last-minute comeback victory for the second match in a row.

After going 0-3 to open its season, the Tribe pulled even at 3-30 thanks to a two-goal game from redshirt junior forward Sarah Segan against Coastal Carolina, followed by the two comeback victories against Liberty and Bucknell. With Kuhnle’s opening goal against Bucknell Thursday, she became the second player on the team to reach multiple goals on the season after Segan.

Kuhnle, Segan and the rest of the team then headed to College Station, Texas, to take on Texas A&M. The Aggies made history Sunday as they started their season with eight-straight victories for just the third time in their school’s history. They fought through a tenacious showing by the College, including a 12-save performance by junior goalkeeper Katelyn Briguglio, as the Aggies (8-0-0) downed the College, 2-0.

The Tribe was immediately barraged by shots to open the match, with Briguglio absorbing eight in just the first 15 minutes. Despite her strong performance in net, it was an own goal on a corner kick that would eventually get the Aggies onto the scoreboard, allowing them a 1-0 lead in the 17th minute of play.

The College made a push at the very end of the first half, with both Segan and Kohler getting opportunities that went wide of the goal.

In the second half, with a wave of substitutions refreshing the roster, the Tribe diligently withstood a flood of offense from the Aggies. But unlike in its past two matches, there was to be no late comeback, and a second goal conceded in the final 10 minutes would make it a 2-0 victory for Texas A&M. The Aggies, ranked No. 5 in the country, buried the College in shots 27-5 — including 14-2 shots on goal — but Briguglio’s 12 saves kept the visitors in the match. The loss snaps a threegame winning streak and lowers the College’s record to 3-4-0.

The Tribe will return home next weekend to play a 2 p.m. game

VOLLEYBALL

At Colonial Classic, Tribe comes away with pair of victories Straight-set wins over Savannah State, Norfolk State overshadow loss to Eastern Michigan

ALYSSA GRZESIAK FLAT HAT EXECUTIVE EDITOR Friday, William and Mary hosted the Colonial Classic. In its first contest, the Tribe (4-5) completed a straight sweep of Savannah State (17) 25-10, 25-15, 25-21.

The College jumped to an early 2-0 lead in the first set with a kill by sophomore middle blocker Julia Brown off an assist by junior setter Autumn Brenner. Up 12-6, the Tribe strung together a four-point run off kills by Brown and sophomore opposite hitter Kate Dedrick, both off of sets by Brenner, and a service ace by Brown.

After another four-point run thanks to successful plays by senior middle blocker Katie Primatic, senior setter Katie Kemp and senior outside hitter Heather Pippus, the Tribe found itself holding a comfortable 23-8 lead over the Hurricanes. A strong hit by freshman outside hitter Macy Cummings off a Kemp assist ended the set in a 25-10 victory for the home team.

The second set started out in the same manner, with the Tribe jumping to an early 2-0 lead thanks to a kill by Dedrick and a service ace

by Brenner. Despite Hurricanes blockers Noria Plaza Ceballos and Tyran Chenault’s shut-out

block of a hit by Pippus, tying the score 2-2, Savannah State was unable to take the lead in the set.

A kill by Pippus off a Brenner assist and a ballhandling error by Savannah State put the College up 22-12, a 10-point deficit for the opposing team. A service ace by Pippus ended the second set 25-10, leaving the Hurricanes in the same 10-point shortfall.

In the final set of the contest, the Tribe jumped to a 5-0 lead to start. Up 24-15, a single point away from a shutout of the Hurricanes, the visiting team ignited a six-point streak, bringing the set to a three-point game, 24-21.

Freshman outside hitter Anne Louise Seekford ended the game with a kill off a clean set from Brenner. The College more than doubled the Hurricane’s aces 10-4. Dedrick and Pippus led the offense with eight kills each, followed closely

by Cummings.

Saturday, in its second matchup, the Tribe dropped all three sets to Eastern Michigan (83). The College fought hard in the first two sets, but ultimately fell 25-21 and 25-20 to the Eagles.

The third and final set was marked by four- and six-point runs by the Eagles. Down 22-12, the Tribe was unable to come back from the 10-point

deficit and fell 25-12, handing Eastern Michigan a three-set shutout.

Despite freshman outside hitter Claire Farrell’s high-scoring 11 kills, the Eagles outscored the Tribe in points (65-39), kills (5133) and assists (46-32).

Later Saturday evening, the College took on Norfolk State (0-8) in the final matchup of the Colonial Classic. In a repeat of its first contest of the tournament, the Tribe swept the Spartans in three tight sets, 25-23, 25-21, 2519.

In the first set, the Tribe jumped to an early 7-1 lead, led by a kill by Seekford off a Brenner assist. Norfolk State Kate Dedrick trailed for the majority of the match until they tied it up 22-22. The Spartans were able to steal the lead from the College, 2322, before the Tribe came back thanks to two consecutive hits by Seekford, resulting in a 25-23 victory.

The second set lacked the back-and-forth scoring of the first set, with more multiple-point streaks by each team. The last time the score was tied, 18-18, was the closest the Spartans would

come to a victory.

Freshman middle blocker Madeline Bertz and Dedrick blocked an attack by the opposing team, stealing the lead back, 19-18. Seekford scored the winning point of the second set off a Kemp assist, 25-21.

The third and final set started off like the second, with each team taking off on three- or four-point runs. Regardless of their efforts and the close scoring, the Spartans were not able to take the lead after tying the game up 4-4.

Seekford ended this set as well, this time off a service ace, 25-19.

The Tribe dominated in serving with seven aces to the Spartans’ two, three of which came from Seekford. Dedrick’s 16 kills more than doubled those of the highest-scoring player on the opposing team, hitter Anna Rupertova, who had a mere seven points. Cummings, Dedrick and Bertz each contributed two blocks for the College.

The College will be hosting the 2nd Colonial Classic Sept. 14-15, also at Kaplan Arena, before going into conference play. The Tribe with go head-to-head with its first Colonial Athletic Association foe, North Carolina-Wilmington Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. in Wilmington, North Carolina.

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Record so far: 1-1

Record so far: 3-2

This point in 2017: 1-1

This point in 2017: 5-1

Highlight: Sophomore DeVonte Dedman catches three passes for 125 yards and a touchdown to down Bucknell.

Highlight: Redshirt senior Estelle Hughes scores twice in first season victory against Lafayette.

Almost all of the fall sports are underway.

So: How’s everybody doing?

Football Record so far: 1-3-0 This point in 2017: 2-1-2 Highlight: Redshirt senior Graham Guidry opens scoring in shutout win over Saint Joseph’s.

Men’s Soccer

Record so far: 2-3-0

Field Hockey Record so far: 4-5 This point in 2017: 2-8 Highlight: Senior Heather Pippus picks up 13 kills in first season win against Robert Morris.

JULIA STUMBAUGH // FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR COURTESY PHOTOS / TRIBE ATHLETICS

This point in 2017: 2 of 4

This point in 2017: 4-3-0 Highlight: Sophomore back Alex Kuhnle scores game-winner with 0:13 left on the clock against Liberty.

Women’s Soccer

Record so far: T-9 of 13

Record so far: 1 of 6

This point in 2017: 4 of 11

This point in 2017: 4 of 10

Highlight: Senior Elizabeth Choi shoots +4 to place fourth at William & Mary Invitational.

Women’s Golf

Record so far: 2 of 5

Highlight: Junior JP Trojan wins 5K by nine seconds at 15:01.1 in Spider Alumni Open.

Volleyball

Highlight: Junior Charlotte Kowalk runs two miles in 11:20.2 to finish second in Spider Alumni Open.

Women’s XC

Men’s XC

FOOTBALL

Virginia Tech steamrolls Tribe, 62-17

KEVIN RICHESON // FLAT HAT SPORTS ASSOC. EDITOR Following a season-opening win against Bucknell, William and Mary traveled to Blacksburg, Virginia Sunday to take on Virginia Tech in front of a sold-out crowd. The College last faced the Hokies in 2014, when the Hokies ran away with a 34-9 win. Saturday, the Hokies (2-0) dominated the College in all facets of the game and cruised to a 62-17 rout of the Tribe (1-1). The Tribe’s defense struggled to contain the Hokies’ offensive attack. On the offensive side of the ball, the College failed to establish a viable rushing attack with sophomore quarterback Shon Mitchell inconsistent in the position.

The Tribe won the coin toss and deferred in order to receive the second half kickoff. The Hokies started with the ball and quickly moved into Tribe territory after two plays of 18 yards apiece.

However, on the third play of the drive, junior linebacker Nate Atkins forced Hokies running back Deshawn McClease to fumble.

The College recovered the ball, giving Mitchell and the College’s offense the ball for the first time in the game. Three plays later, the Tribe, facing a 3rd and 10, returned the favor as Mitchell fumbled.

The Hokies scored two plays later on a six-yard scamper by running back Steven Peoples to give the Hokies an early 7-0 advantage with 11 minutes, 47 seconds remaining in the opening quarter.

After the College picked up one first down on its second drive with an 18-yard completion to senior wide receiver DeVonte Dedmon, the Hokies got the ball back and moved quickly down the field. Nevertheless, their drive stalled at the 15-yard line after three-straight incompletions by quarterback Josh Jackson. Faced with their first fourth down of the game, Hokies kicker Brian Johnson converted on a 31-yard field goal try to extend the Hokies’ lead to 10-0. The Hokies got the ball back after another three-and-

COURTESY PHOTO / TRIBE ATHLETICS

Senior wide receiver DeVonte Dedman caught six passes for 96 yards and a touchdown in the Tribe’s blowout loss to the Hokies in Blacksburg Saturday.

out by the College’s offense and promptly drove for their second touchdown of the afternoon. The Hokies fumbled the ball twice during the drive but were able to recover both times. The decisive play was a 39-yard pass from Jackson to Hokies wide receiver Damon Hazelton with 2:15 left in the first quarter, giving Tech a commanding 17-0 advantage.

“I think we got a little bit rocked back early,” head coach Jimmye Laycock ’70 said. “They did some different things offensively than what we had seen.”

The Hokies had the ball to start the second quarter and once again marched down the field for a touchdown. After 19 minutes of action, Jackson had thrown for 150 yards and one touchdown. The Hokies ran the ball eight-straight times for 64 yards, with Jackson powering his way into the end zone on an eight-yard run to put the Hokies up 24-0 early in the second quarter. However, on the ensuing drive, the Tribe crossed into Hokie territory for the first time in the game.

On the first play of the drive, Mitchell found sophomore tight end Nick Muse on the right sideline. Muse caught the pass, running for a 71-yard gain to the Hokies’ four-yard line. The College scored on the next play with sophomore running back Nate Evans’ fouryard run. Junior kicker Kris Hooper added the extra point to cut the Tribe’s deficit to 24-7 with 10:15 to play before halftime.

Virginia Tech was unfazed by the College’s first touchdown of the game and put together another scoring drive. On this drive, the Hokies once again displayed their rushing attack. Nine of the 11 plays on the drive were running plays, and Peoples scored his second touchdown of the first half with a four-yard run to cap the drive. The Hokies defense forced the Tribe to punt yet again, and

COURTESY PHOTO / TRIBE ATHLETICS

Sophomore running back Nate Evans carried the ball for the Tribe in its 62-17 loss at the hands of Virginia Tech. Evans ran for nine yards on seven carries in the contest.

the Hokies offense got the chance to drive for one more touchdown before the break. Junior Ryan Willis was under center for the Hokies final drive of the half, with Jackson going to the bench since the Hokies held a commanding lead. Willis promptly led the Hokies into the end zone to give them a 38-7 lead at halftime. In his first appearance with the Hokies, Willis orchestrated the scoring drive and had a 37-yard completion to Hazelton.

“I think the bottom line is we didn’t play fast enough, physical enough or tackle well enough,” Atkins said.

The Tribe was led in the first half by Mitchell’s 100 yards passing.

Muse had 85 yards receiving, and Evans had the College’s lone touchdown of the half but only three yards rushing. The Hokies were much more successful offensively; Jackson threw for 184 yards on 10/13 passing. He threw for one touchdown and ran for another.

Peoples and Hokies running back Terius Wheatley had 55 and 57 yards rushing, respectively. Peoples had two scores for the Hokies.

The College started the second half with the ball and picked up a couple of first downs before turning it over for the second time in the game. The Hokies wasted no time in capitalizing on the Tribe’s mistake, seizing a 45-7 advantage on a Wheatley touchdown run.

On the ensuing drive, Mitchell completed his second pass of over 50 yards this game, with a 59-yard touchdown strike to Dedmon to cut the deficit to 31 with 8:23 left in the third quarter. The Hokies made a field goal on the next drive and then were given a short field by the Tribe after a wayward snap on a punt attempt. The Hokies took advantage of yet another mistake by the College to claim a 5514 lead late in the third quarter.

In the fourth quarter, with the game out of reach, the Tribe replaced Mitchell with sophomore quarterback Ted Hefter. Hefter led the College on a long drive but failed to finish the drive with a touchdown. The Tribe settled for a field goal to bring the score to 55-17 with 7:38 left to play. The Hokies added one more touchdown before the final whistle to walk away with a 62-17 victory.

The College was led in the loss by Mitchell’s 208 yards through the air and one touchdown.

“He did a pretty good job hanging in there and making the throws as best he could,” Laycock said.

Dedmon had 96 yards on six catches with one touchdown. The Hokies received strong performances from many players, especially Jackson and Hazelton.

Jackson had 217 yards passing, and Hazelton had 107 yards receiving and one touchdown.

Tech will attempt to stay unbeaten when they host East Carolina next Saturday at Lane Stadium. Meanwhile, the College will look to regroup when it takes on Elon in its home opener at Zable Stadium Sept. 15. The matchup with the Phoenix will also be the College’s first Colonial Athletic Association game of the season. The Tribe failed to pick up any wins in conference play last season and lost to the Phoenix 25-17 on the road in 2017.

“Hopefully we’ll learn from this experience and get better from this experience,” Laycock said.