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AMANDA WILLIAMS // FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR hard, conscientious work,” Reveley said in a campus-wide email. “The task force’s 21 members — students, faculty and staff — were drawn from across the university and led by Student Affairs VP Ginger Ambler.

They tackled pertinent issues in all their complexity and produced meaningful recommendations about how those of us at W&M can do better.”

The task force worked to turn its recommendations into actions well before the June 30 deadline, including opening The Haven, a “safe space” for confidential conversations about sexual violence and harassment, last October.

- 85% of students perceive men are treated with respesct on campus - 62% of students perceive women are treated with respesct on campus

Observed Misconduct: 56%

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Non-Physical Misconduct: 46%

46% of Survey Respondents Reported Sexual Misconduct

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The College of William and Mary’s Task Force on the Prevention of Sexual Assault and Harassment released its findings and recommendations Sept.

10, including data from the campus-wide sexual misconduct climate survey. A number of those recommendations are already in progress or completed.

College President Taylor Reveley formed the 21-member task force Sept. 3 of last year; the findings were due June 30, 2015. Divided into four subcommittees, the task force aimed to tackle campus climate, prevention and education, faculty and staff training, and investigation and adjudication as per Reveley’s request.

“I am very grateful to the members of the task force and its subcommittees for their extremely

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Diversity initiative designates gender-neutral bathrooms NATE WAHRENBERGER THE FLAT HAT

All around the College of William and Mary’s campus, single occupancy restrooms and shower facilities are being designated as gender neutral.

Gender-neutral bathrooms now exist in many of the major academic and student service buildings, including the Campus Center, Sadler Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library, Alan B. Miller Hall, the Student Recreation Center and all three floors of the Integrated Science Center.

They can also be found in a majority of

residence halls throughout campus.

According to Associate Director for Diversity Education Margaret Cook, the process of designating single-occupancy restrooms as gender-neutral has been an ongoing effort that was initiated several years ago.

The change to gender-neutral primarily involves altering the signs designating male and female bathrooms — some bathrooms are now labeled as “gender-neutral,” or “all gender restrooms”. The traditional stick figure images depicting a man and a woman have been replaced by other images,

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Cook said that the project was designed to create a more accommodating environment for students across the gender spectrum.

“This project is an effort to ensure that we offer easily accessible genderneutral facilities across campus in order to provide an inclusive and respectful campus environment that is responsive to the needs of our community,” Cook said in an email. “Gender neutral restrooms provide safe, private facilities for individuals who experience discomfort or are challenged in gender-designated facilities. In short, everyone deserves safe, dignified access to restrooms.”

Kat Contreras ’15 said she began working with Cook in the Center for Student Diversity to document singleoccupancy bathrooms on campus, which they then brought to the administration’s attention.

“There was only a rudimentary, notrecently-updated list on the school’s website, and I knew of several bathrooms that weren’t listed at all,” Contreras said in an email. “I wasn’t sure at first that we’d be able to change gendered signs to gender neutral, so I made sure to note what gender was signified so people knew what to look for. … Some were identified by a picture of a toilet, some just numbers, and some by an ‘M’ or ‘W.’ The lack of standardization in bathroom signage was confusing, and I’m sure

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Associate Dean of Students Dave Gilbert apologized for his remarks regarding sexual assault and consent during Orientation Aide training Aug. 19 and 20.

Gilbert’s presentation during training, entitled “Amnesty and Community Values,” concentrated on medical amnesty, alcohol consumption and sexual misconduct.

OA Annabel Hess ’16 said that Gilbert focused on alcohol’s role in sexual assaults when discussing sexual misconduct and primarily used examples where alcohol was a factor in the assault.

Gilbert incentivized students to answer questions about the presentation by tossing out candy to volunteers. According to OA Yazdi Doshi ’16, Gilbert also selected students from the crowd to use as examples.

An OA who wished to remain anonymous said Gilbert’s overall tone during this presentation did not convey the seriousness of the topics that he was discussing.

“From the very beginning of him speaking, it was a very off-beat tone,” the anonymous source said. “He was very cavalier, a word that a lot of people used, and also blasé was a pretty good way to understand that he was trying to use humor and trying to make sexual assault a funny joke as a way to make it more approachable for students.”

Hess recalled Orientation Aide Directors apologizing for Gilbert’s conduct following that seminar. Doshi said that the presentation was the topic of conversation in the staff meetings he attended.

“Everyone was just really upset with how he displayed it,” Doshi said.

“Then we had our staff meetings. We mulled about it. That whole day was thrown off because everyone was just so upset.”

The next day, Gilbert made an apology to clarify his presentation in response to feedback from the OAs who had attended the first seminar. A video of this session was submitted anonymously to The Flat Hat. Gilbert began with an apology for his remarks the previous day.

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For former College of William and Mary visiting professor Brian Kelley ’07, exhibiting his paintings in This Century Art Gallery was a bit like coming full circle — again.

Kelley’s show, titled The Memory of Light, ran this summer at the Boundary Street gallery. It’s not the first time the alumnus has returned to Williamsburg. Kelley came back in 2012 to teach as a visiting professor, returning to the place where he first began to pursue art.

In high school, Kelley played guitar, wrote poems and worked on a literary magazine, participated in a student art show and helped produce video content for his school’s morning announcements. Upon arriving at the College as an undergraduate, he began exploring studio art, English, music and philosophy. He tried his hand at a literary magazine, which folded his sophomore year.

He also participated in WCWM, the College’s radio station.

“I was doing as much as I could in middle school, high school and college and at a certain point I just kept wanting to take studio art courses,” Kelley said. “I kept wanting to take drawing courses and painting courses, and when push came to shove … it didn’t feel like a hard choice … The more I spent time [exploring the creative arts], painting kept feeling like the thing that felt the most open-ended, it was the one that I never felt like I was getting bored.”

Professor Brian Kreydatus taught Kelley in numerous life drawing and printmaking courses.

“He was certainly one of the best students I’ve had at the College and it’s been an absolute pleasure to see how his work has developed and expanded,” Kreydatus said in an email.

“The exhibition of paintings and prints was extremely strong — varied in handling and subject but unified in quality and intent.”

Many of Kelley’s pieces feature images College students would recognize, including a depiction of the ghostly “Lady Skipwythe” peering out of a window of the George Wythe House, a rendering of the Robert Carter House and a scene from the Meridian Coffeehouse.

Kelley drew upon his experiences in Williamsburg for these works.

“I went on ghost tours as a William and Mary student and got interested in the history of Williamsburg as a whole and the ghost stories of CW specifically,” Kelley said. “I think back to Skipwythe in terms of how there was the PG story that the tourists would get, but then if you had the William and Mary [tour guide] take a freshman dorm, you’d hear the real story. Her sister had an affair with her husband and she didn’t even die that night, she died later and she didn’t even kill herself, she just died. Way more depressing.”

Although the print of Lady Skipwythe was small, Kelley said it took several days of effort to complete because it featured green, violet and black ink. Each color had to be printed separately and allowed time to dry.

Kelley said he used to primarily consider himself a painter, but he has been working a lot with printmaking lately.

The Memory of Light incorporated oil on canvas and watercolor paintings, etchings, woodcuts and linocuts.

This Century Art Gallery Artistic Director Apryl Altman said the gallery’s exhibition committee was drawn to Kelley because of his ties to Williamsburg and his use of different

artistic media.

“It’s been very nice to have a mixture of paintings and prints in the same exhibit,” Altman said. “As you float from one to the next, you can really appreciate the etchings and the woodblock prints as well as the painting …

We were impressed with the way he looked at things. He oftentimes took very ordinary objects, but it was the way he looked at them, just a little different vantage point than you’d normally expect that really made them interesting and kind of tweaked your interest to look further into the painting or print.”

His piece featuring the Meridian was inspired by one of his favorite haunts as a student. Kelley painted his friend Andrew Miller ’13 reading in a chair in the library room of the coffee shop. Kelley said returning to these familiar places as a professor was strange at times.

“It was definitely interesting [to teach at the College] because there is a sense that … you’re part of the Tribe but you’re now seeing it from a different point of view, you’re a teacher not a student,” Kelley said. “It made it interesting to do things like go back to the Meridian … I would go sometimes to see bands play to hang out with Andrew, but I wouldn’t necessarily go every day … There’re lots of parts of Williamsburg that, as a student, you don’t really even know exist ... All of a sudden you’re spending lots of time at Trader Joe’s.”

A large oil painting titled “You Can Go Your Own Way”, was one of the older paintings in the exhibition and tied back to Kelley’s DJ

inspiration for The Memory of Light came after a recent solo exhibition in Manassas, Va. That particular show focused on structure, architecture and space. Kelley said he became intrigued with the idea how light itself can affect space.

“Sometimes you walk outside and the thing that strikes you isn’t what’s happening, what people are doing, or how big the space is, but the sky’s a really interesting color this morning,” Kelley said. “Or the sun is setting and one cloud just goes an intense pink and then orange and you’re kind of thinking to yourself, when’s the last time I saw that? It’s not really about space. It’s not really about content. It’s just about this thing that light did in the space. That has been something that’s interested me a long time.”

Kreydatus pointed out Kelley’s focus on light in the show, saying he was especially struck by the etching “Robert Carter House” and the painting “Green Shade.”

“Both depict notoriously difficult lighting situations — the etching a night scene and the painting a domestic interior with flat overall lighting,” Kreydatus said. “Brian not only portrays each light situation through careful direct observation but through invention and interpretation gives equal weight to underlying abstract concerns of the picture plane and hints at mysterious narrative possibilities.”

Kelley said his favorite piece in The Memory of Light exhibition was a print called “Leave the Christmas Lights Up Until February.”

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roots. Kelley said while he normally doesn’t name paintings after songs, he painted it while listening to a lot of Fleetwood Mac in his studio.

“Sometimes when you’re in the studio there’s one album or one song or one artist and you’re just like I want to keep listening to this person or this thing while I’m working,” Kelley said. “In the same way light can set a tone or a mood for a painting, whatever you have playing in the background while you’re working can influence things.”

After graduating from the College, Kelley received a Master’s in painting from Indiana University and moved to northern Virginia to continue painting and teaching studio art.

In addition to the College, he has lectured at George Washington University and George Mason University.

He has exhibited his work at the Muscarelle Museum of Art and the Andrews Gallery. The

or even necessarily the strongest composition, but I really like this piece,” Kelley said. “This is from this year, from this summer … I’m very much into doing color printmaking at the moment. Just trying to see how far I can push these, as much as they’re prints, they’re also using a lot of the light and color ideas that I usually think of in a painting.”

The print arose from an experience Kelley had in northern Virginia, when he came across a string of Christmas lights wrapped around a tree in the middle of the winter.

“It was this day where there was snow and ice and a really orange streetlight and these blue Christmas lights,” Kelley said. “You had this blue light and this orange light and all these weird icy reflective surfaces that the light was bouncing off of …. I just thought this light is incredible. I want to go back to that memory of that light.”

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Friday, Sept. 11 — An individual was arrested for profanity and being drunk in public on Richmond Road.

Saturday, Sept. 12 — A hit-and-run was reported on Jamestown Road.

Saturday, Sept. 12 — A suspicious incident was reported on Scotland Street.

Saturday, Sept. 12 — An individual was arrested for possesing a fake ID on Richmond Road.

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Student Affairs Office recognized for diversity College department named promising place to work for research universities KYRA SOLOMON THE FLAT HAT

For the second year in a row, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education Magazine and The American College Personnel Association have named the College of William and Mary one of the “Most Promising Places to Work in Student Affairs at Research Institutions” in 2015.

Ohio State University’s Center for Higher Education Enterprise first began this study in 2014, naming the top 30 best places to work in student affairs, and this year chose the top 14.

The College’s division was recognized both years by CHEE as one of the “most promising” after being evaluated on a number of criteria.

According to Vice President for Student Affairs Ginger Ambler ’88 Ph.D. ’06, CHEE surveyed student affairs departments using classifications such as the division’s workplace environment, practices, diversity, friendliness, professional development opportunities and salaries.

A number of departments fit under the umbrella of the Division of Student Affairs at William and Mary. These include the Dean of Students Office, the Student Health Center, the Counseling Center, the Cohen Career Center, Campus Recreation, the Office of Community Engagement, the Sadler Center, the Office of Residence Life and the Office of Community Engagement.

Chief of Staff to the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs

Greg Henderson noted that some of his various responsibilities are to help manage functions of the division like staff development and budget.

“I love the collaborative nature of the work we do, not only across the Division of Student Affairs but also throughout the university,” Henderson said in an email. “Quite simply, I joined Student Affairs because I enjoy working with students.”

Assistant to the Vice President and Director of Student Affairs Planning and Assessment Jodi Fisler spent her first few years in student affairs as a graduate assistant while pursuing her doctorate and was hired as a full-time staff member in 2009.

Ambler “I chose a graduate assistantship in student affairs because I wanted more experience advising and working directly with students,” Fisler said. “I remember going to my first Student Affairs Division meeting in August 2005 and thinking it just felt right to be there.”

Fisler said that the Division of Student Affairs’ commitment to certain values such as collaboration, inclusion, integrity, professional excellence, respect and student centeredness assisted the College in being honored with this recognition.

“We strive to keep those values at the center of what we do,” Fisler

said. “We appreciate the different strengths that each member of the staff contributes to the division as a whole.”

Fisler attributed the success of the division to the leadership of Ambler and other senior leaders.

Ambler, who has worked for the division since 1991, said her own experiences as an undergraduate at the College and being mentored by former Vice President Sam Sadler ’64 M.Ed. ’71 for 18 years inspired her to pursue student affairs as a profession.

“I am immensely proud to have been a part of William & Mary’s Student Affairs Division for the past 24 years,” Ambler said in an email. “How fortunate I am to have professional colleagues across the division who share a deep commitment to diversity … building a strong community where each individual can flourish.”

Henderson said that the recognition validates the Student Affairs Division’s work.

“This recognition is a validation that the work we do is meaningful and that we value colleagues who bring different backgrounds and perspectives to their work,” Henderson said.

Fisler and Ambler both stated that being designated a “Most Promising Place to Work” will help attract future employees.

“I am delighted by the fact that this honor, which we’ve now received twice in two years, will enhance the awareness and respect [William and Mary] enjoys in the higher education world more broadly,” Fisler said.

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Student reports assault by man at Blue Talon Bistro Police called after alleged incident involving verbal abuse, physical confrontation in CW AINE CAIN FLAT HAT EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

A College of William and Mary student reported an alleged assault that occurred in the Blue Talon Bistro Sept. 6 around 8:30 p.m.

Jonathan McNeil ’18 said he was eating dinner with his brother when they overheard a man cursing at a woman at a nearby table.

“We start hearing a murmur of really horrible cusswords … we were kind of looking at each other like okay, what should we do?” McNeil said. “We thought they were talking about someone else, but the woman had her head down and … he

was leaning over the table.”

McNeil said his brother told the man to calm down but that the man continued to allegedly verbally abuse the woman.

Afterwards, McNeil said the woman allegedly reached over and held his brother’s hand while the man cursed at them and walked over to their table.

“He grabs me … on the left side of my neck and puts his other arm on me,” McNeil said. “I’m kind of trapped, so I said, ‘Get off me. You need to let me go right now.’ He’s squeezing tighter and tighter.”

McNeil said that while the incident was occurring, he requested that other patrons call the police, but said no one

did. He said his brother yelled at the man to let go.

McNeil stated the man complied but then attempted to lunge at them again. He said the couple then quickly left after allegedly paying for their meal with Riley the woman’s credit card. McNeil called the William and Mary Police, who connected him to the Williamsburg Police because the incident had occurred off campus.

McNeil said the police told him they

have the credit card information of the woman, but that a subpoena might take time.

“At first, when he was saying these things to her, I didn’t believe it,” McNeil said. “I thought it was a ‘What Would You Do?’ show. It was too ridiculous to even be real life. When he finally was getting more aggressive and louder, I realized it was the real deal … If that’s how he treats her in public around other people, I’m sure there must be some really horrible stuff going on privately.”

Williamsburg Police Captain Greg Riley confirmed police did respond to a call at the restaurant.

“On September 6, 2015, around 2030

hours, Williamsburg Police responded to the Blue Talon Bistro located in the 400 block of Prince George Street for a reported assault,” Riley said in an email.

“The complainant advised that the male was using foul language and calling the woman terrible names. When the complainant intervened, the male suspect began cursing at him and calling him names as well. … The suspect and female left the restaurant before police arrival.

The suspect has not been identified at this time.”

Riley said the incident is still under investigation.

A representative of the Blue Talon Bistro declined to comment.

Offices revamp web portals, expands communications about resources Task force recommendations call for full-time education and prevention specialist, Title IX investigator REPORT from page 1

administrative positions and add a second fulltime crime specialist to the William and Mary The Dean of Students Office and the Compliance Police Department, is nearly complete. and Equity Office updated their respective websites The College is one of only a few schools to better communicate resources for students, nationally to collect sexual violence data through a as well as provide clear directions for receiving campus-wide climate survey. Of all undergraduate help if necessary. Improved communication was and graduate students, 2,660, or about 32 percent, something the task force worked particularly hard responded to at least one question. Only 27 percent on, according to Vice President for Student Affairs of students completed the survey. and Task Force Chair Ginger Ambler ’88 M.Ed. ’06.

“Our main goal was to try to figure out what is “If there was anything that was the status of our campus community clear to us in the climate survey with regard to sexual violence or and in focus groups and other misconduct and the whole spectrum conversations with students is that we really, from the verbal to the nonwere surprised at how much students verbal,” Ambler said. didn’t know about where to go — how Due to the nature of study and to file a report,” Ambler the margin of error, it said. “We’ve done a better would not be accurate to job with the website and extrapolate from the data the posters to clarify that and apply the findings to students can come forward the College as a whole. confidentially as well as The survey did, however, in a formal way, and I inform the task force on the think knowing that there extent to which instances is a confidential option of sexual misconduct are — and there are multiple not reported and which confidential options — campus communities I think hopefully will are affected most. The encourage more people to data show that 2 percent, come forward.” or 58 students, reported The Title IX office, experiencing rape since headed by Title IX Chief enrolling at the College, Compliance Officer but only 12% of those — Vice President for Student Kiersten Boyce, has been students filed a grievance.

Affairs Ginger Ambler ‘88 approved to have central Physical and non-physical M.Ed. ‘06 oversight responsibility for misconduct was reported at all campus-related sexual 18 and 46 percent respectively violence. The College has also already hired a new and over 55 percent of respondents acknowledged full-time investigator for that office. Two other observing sexual misconduct toward someone else. positions have been created in response to the The Task Force report also collected Title IX data recommendations. The College will hire a full-time for the academic years since 2011-12. Data for the director and professional coordinator of The Haven, 2014-15 academic year is currently being compiled as well as a full-time sexual assault education and and will be available soon, according to Boyce. In prevention specialist. the 2013-14 school year, only 13 students filed a In addition to centralizing oversight grievance for non-consensual intercourse with the responsibilities, the task force outlined four other College. Nationally, sexual assault is one of the most overarching recommendations, including the underreported crimes, and Ambler said the task creation of a permanent committee to carry on the force suspected that was the case at the College. task force’s work, to be headed by Dean of Students “Any time you hear that people in your community Marjorie Thomas, and a three-to-five-year strategic are experiencing sexual violence is distressing, and plan. Another recommendation is to expand the there is no doubt about it that any sexual assault is role of the education and prevention committee too much in our community,” Ambler said. “You to advise other offices of the College. The fifth know we didn’t know what to expect, it’s very hard overarching recommendation, to hire three new to gauge because the reporting percentages are

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Any time you hear that people in your community are experiencing sexual violence is distressing, and there is no doubt about it that any sexual assault is too much in our community.

so low that we make our best decisions and move forward with what we know. This climate survey gave us much better information to really look at the dimensions of the problem and how it exists here in our campus community.”

As policies change and the recommendations take effect, Associate Vice President for Communications and University Relations Brian Whitson said that the College is preparing to take on more cases.

“When you think about the low percentage of students who actually reported sexual assaults, as you think about the change in culture … we expect the number of reports to go up as students, whether they’re more aware of the resources or the different ways to report or with the change in culture, they’re more comfortable coming forward, I think that’s what we want to see,” Whitson said. “We want to see students feeling comfortable enough to come forward and report.”

Although her office will oversee reporting, Boyce said that coordination with other departments will still be necessary. She said her office is working on

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a more clear and streamlined process for students coming in with a report, but that it will still work closely with the Dean of Students’ office. Boyce indicated that throughout the reporting process, whether the report is confidential or otherwise, the student is still the focus.

“One of the nuanced and difficult items, but very important, we’ve been trying to work through is balancing respecting survivors’ rights to take the route that they want, at the time that they want,” Boyce said. “In some cases when you’re in that situation it can even come across that you’re putting too much of a burden on the survivor … as in ‘well it’s all up to you’ — hands off. Well, we want to empower, but we also don’t want to imply that we’re disinterested because we like to take action, we want to help.”

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Students participate in international competition

Team held community workshops, develops projects about synthetic biology AMANDA SIKIRICA FLAT HAT STAFF WRITER

A team of eight College of William and Mary undergraduate students will participate in this year’s International Genetically Engineered Machine competition. Centered on the advancement of synthetic biology, the competition also has a community outreach component.

According to syntheticbiology.org, synthetic biology is the design and construction of new biological parts, devices and systems, as well as the redesign of existing, natural biological systems for useful purposes.

“People don’t realize that a lot of things that they use now come from synthetic biology,” iGEM team member Panya Vij ’17 said.

Vij then described how insulin used in diabetes management is now engineered through synthetic biology, rather than produced in pigs.

Student teams are given a kit of biological systems in living cells, and they develop research projects over the summer aimed at designing parts or systems that can be added to iGEM’s Parts Registry, which synthetic biologists around the world order from to conduct their research.

“My favorite thing about iGEM is the emphasis the competition places on making data available to other researchers and making science accessible to as many people as possible,” iGEM team member Elli Cryan ’18 said in an email.

Last year, the College’s iGEM team received a silver medal for their research efforts. This year, Vij said she hopes they will achieve gold medal status due to their extensive community outreach, which she spearheaded with teammate Cryan.

Over the summer, the team held more than nine workshops for children and parents,

developing activities to teach synthetic biology principles. They even worked with a Girl Scout troop to create a synthetic biology badge.

“I think our experience with planning events for kids and shared interest in Synthetic Biology made hosting workshops a clear way to spread the message about Synthetic Biology,” Cryan said.

Drawing upon their workshop plans, Vij and Cryan created a comprehensive curriculum for grades K-12. Many of their workshop activities had to do with information they gathered about the level of public knowledge about synthetic biology through surveys conducted at the Williamsburg Farmer’s Market.

“At first we were just going to do workshops but then we started thinking about sustainability,” Vij said.

Vij and Cryan reached out to local organizations and school boards to find ways to implement their activities more broadly in the community. In the process, they met with Bonnie Ellis, coordinator for science at Williamsburg-James City County Public Schools.

“They took the science concepts that students usually struggle with and making them accessible to students and teachers,” Ellis said in an email. “They have offered to come out to classrooms to help the teachers with the activities and allow classes to tour their lab and do activities in the lab. We really appreciate their willingness to take the time to work with our students and teachers and instill that love of science in our students.”

Their synthetic biology curriculum has also been shared with other local organizations, including College Partnership with Kids, Bruton High School and the College’s PLUS-S Program. Schools in five states have been using this curriculum. A College graduate in Malaysia on a Fulbright Scholarship

and a Teach for America graduate in St. Louis have also been trying to implement some of the activities.

Within the College, other team members have extended their research with iGEM to other departments. John Marken ’17 is doing research in the applied sciences department, partnering with the Expeditions in Training, Research, and Education for Mathematics and Statistics through Quantitative Explorations of Data, shortened to

EXTREEMS-QED, using his iGEM experience.

“EXTREEMS-QED has a summer program to fund math majors working on data-related research at W&M,” applied science professor Leah Shaw said. “A wide variety of projects are funded. Since John Marken is a math major, and since the project related to data that the iGEM team was collecting, it was a good fit and EXTREEMS was able to fund John.”

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The College of William and Mary’s team for the IGEM competition held workshops over the summer to teach synethic biology.

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would be very difficult to find if a student was in a rush for one.”

Contreras said that her goals were to create an updated list and map of gender-neutral bathrooms to be published on the College’s website and to make all single-occupancy bathrooms gender neutral.

She said she was motivated by compassion for people who feel uncomfortable with traditional bathroom divisions.

“I was moved by a friend of mine, who once told me the story of having to find a single-occupancy bathroom on Old Campus … and how they sprinted to Wren daily to use one,” she said. “They didn’t feel comfortable using the men’s or women’s bathrooms because they were transgender, and worried that they didn’t ‘pass’ enough to use one and didn’t identify with the other … I’d never thought of using the bathrooms on campus as such a struggle before, and I really hated the idea that while something was so easy for me, it was so stupidly difficult for my friend.”

LGBTQ advocate groups, like Lambda Alliance, have spoke in support of the new change.

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Co-President of the Lambda Alliance Kyle Lopez ’17 said that gender-neutral bathrooms have the potential to help accommodate non-cisgender students.

“For students who are trans and gender non-binary, it’s not always comfortable or safe for them to use bathrooms that are gendered, so this is going to provide a safer environment, which is good for the whole school and not just for that select group of people,” Lopez said in an email.

Lopez mentioned in a follow-up email that the next step for the Lambda Alliance and other queer advocacy groups is to support additional gender-neutral initiatives such as housing on campus.

“Currently, trans students have to meet with an admin to ‘prove’ their trans status, in a way,” Lopez said. “The answer with AH [the Adaptive Housing Policy] is often to give trans students a single in a gendered hall that they don’t identify with, which isn’t so helpful to them and can force them to out themselves.”

Lopez said he thinks having a few multiple-occupancy gender-neutral bathrooms on campus would be helpful.

“I recognize that a lot of people are uncomfortable with the idea of using mixedgender multiple-occupancy bathrooms and definitely acknowledge that they aren’t for everyone. Having said that, having even a few available on campus would be a really great resource for gender non-binary students and wouldn’t infringe on the availability of genderseparated bathroom[s],” Lopez said.

Not all students view genderneutral bathrooms as entirely necessary.

Mitch Hall ’17 said while single occupancy bathrooms could be a positive change in some circumstances, he is unsure about expanding multi-occupancy bathrooms or dorms.

“I would be concerned about how comfortable the rest of the student body who do subscribe to the gender binary, how that would impact their experience if the [administration] did more with communal stall bathrooms or dorms,” Hall said.

“But now with the steps they’ve taken, I don’t think it’s made anyone else uncomfortable, and it’s a good thing if it’s made people that don’t subscribe to the binary more comfortable.”

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Co-president of the LGBTQ advocate group Lambda Alliance Kyle Lopez ‘17 said he supports gender-neutral bathrooms.

responsibility … we deal with a lot of difficult issues in our jobs. One of the ways that I’ve tried to approach remaining balanced is humor. Now of course there is a time and place for humor.

Humor does not have a place in the middle of a student conduct hearing. Inarguably, maybe humor should not have happened yesterday. … Where I am truly remorseful is that it diluted my messaging and, even worse, it gave a false sense of what I was trying to convey to you. Most regrettably, it gave some of you the impression that I was less caring than I am trying to present myself as. Please accept my apology for that.”

Gilbert then opened up the floor to the OAs who had questions or wanted him to further explain his remarks.

Several asked Gilbert to explain concepts from his presentation the previous day.

He answered their questions and elaborated on those thoughts that he said he believed were misunderstood based on the feedback received.

One OA commented on Gilbert’s sole use of female pronouns when describing a sexual assault survivor and male pronouns for the student accused in every example he provided.

Gilbert responded by stating that he regretted his language and thanked the OA for sharing.

Hess shared the same concerns.

“Ultimately it spiraled into a conversation about how his language was wrong,” she said.

“People were really offended that he used only female pronouns … He was completely disregarding anyone that wasn’t heterosexual.”

Another OA commented on Gilbert’s remark the previous day where he called the perpetrator a good person who made a bad decision, and said that she felt that remark undermined every survivor’s experience.

“There are students who make choices or don’t have tools, that end up hurting people in a real way. I’m not trying to diminish that hurt, but I think there are places where we can have some influence teaching through our example and through our conversation that can lead to fewer victims,” Gilbert said.

“That’s what I was trying Gilbert to say.”

Additionally, OAs asked Gilbert several questions about his warning to not drink from a hypothetical punch bowl — an analogy for drinking an unknown amount of alcohol.

Gilbert addressed these questions with an analogy.

“The analogy is if I leave a wallet and walk out of the room, if it’s taken, it’s not my fault,” Gilbert said. “The person who took it made a conscious decision and committed a crime. But it also creates a reason to say if I didn’t choose to leave my wallet there, then that’s a risk that happened.

That doesn’t mean it’s my fault. That doesn’t mean that I invited it.”

Additionally, Gilbert continued to stress alcohol’s role in many of the sexual assault cases with which he has dealt as an associate dean of students.

“Alcohol is usually, if not always, a factor,” Gilbert said. “As a practitioner, we’ve been addressing the alcohol issue, as well as the issues of consent and what it is, and teaching skills to minimize the overall instance of rape. I will do that. We have to figure out a good way to do that.”

Hess said that while Gilbert made those remarks, OAs, including herself, began to leave the room.

Doshi estimated that two or three left with every response made by Gilbert.

A member of the First Year Experience staff stopped the session.

“I think personally for me, it was hard to sit there and know that this is a person with so much power, in a high position, and is in charge of conduct, something this school takes so seriously, and to know that he was, for lack of better words, clueless,” Hess said. “He wasn’t listening to the feedback that we were giving him, he was just trying to rephrase it in a way that made him sound more intelligent.”

Gilbert provided The Flat Hat with a statement about the presentation.

“Following a recent presentation to the Orientation Aid group, I became aware that some of the members of the group were upset by it,” Gilbert said in an email. “As a person who is deeply committed to creating and maintaining a safe and affirming community for students for over a decade at the College, I deeply regret that the presentation impacted students in this way. I am especially sorry for the reaction it caused for students who are survivors. It was never my intention to cause those in attendance any Whitson distress, and I have spoken with several students and staff who attended the presentation to receive their feedback. … I understand that we must always be mindful of how we talk about this critical issue, and I plan to do everything I can to strengthen trust with students going forward.”

Senior Associate Vice President for Communications Brian Whitson said that the administration has been responding to students who contacted them because of Gilbert’s presentation.

“We heard from students who had concerns about an orientation aide training program, and we have been responding to those concerns,” Whitson said in an email. “William & Mary is committed to preventing sexual violence. This is such an important topic for this campus. It certainly concerns us to hear students were impacted in this way by information presented in a session that was meant to educate and inform. Our follow up is continuing.”

Flat Hat news editor Amanda Williams contributed to this story.

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An outdated approach

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The importance of sensitivity in dialogue

Joshua Baquedano FLAT HAT GUEST COLUMNIST

It’s hard to identify the exact moment when Associate Dean of Students Dave Gilbert’s speech during Orientation Aide training took a turn for the uncomfortable. What is certain is that the seminar, titled “Amnesty and Community Values,” left some OAs deeply offended, many horribly confused and at least myself wondering how a face of the administration could speak so loosely about sexual assault, one of the most sensitive issues facing campuses across the country.

Gilbert’s words were unfocused, offscript and, at certain points, frankly incorrect. He detracted from his own message with poor attempts to connect to the OAs through humor, a rhetorical convention the situation simply did not call for.

When Dean Gilbert took questions from the OAs in the audience, he gave confusing responses, and sometimes answered different questions entirely. The Dean’s seminar was full of analogies that didn’t clarify his points, and made many in the room uneasy. Instead of hearing how to avoid hurting each other, we heard how we can best avoid getting a conduct charge for hurting each other.

As William and Mary is currently under investigation from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights for Title IX,

how is this the best the administration can put forward? In preparing to welcome the newest members of our campus community, we as OAs were left wondering not only whether or not we were familiar enough with the College’s sexual assault policy to explain it to the incoming students, but also whether the school is taking the issue seriously enough to, at the very least, not make jokes about it.

I don’t doubt that Dean Gilbert truly wishes to eradicate sexual assault on this campus. I also am sure that the tone we heard in training is not one he uses when handling these cases. However, when a member of the administration engages in conversation with 200 students regarding such a serious matter and uses reckless language and flippant tones, we can begin to ask questions. And when students walk out in the middle of that administrator’s apology statement crying because it left them even more offended, we should ask how members of the administration who see every detail of these cases can speak so insensitively.

One point that Dean Gilbert frequently returned to is that cases regarding sexual assault come with a lot of gray areas. It is because of these gray areas that everyone on campus, both students and administration, needs to treat this issue with care, so as to best clarify the uncertainty that inherently surrounds the conversation. Using humor, inappropriate analogies and vague hypotheticals does little to advance that conversation. That behavior reverses any progess that has been made in starting an exchange by making people uncomfortable and unsure if they can rely on the administration for accurate information and help.

Regardless of whether or not we are comfortable discussing sexual assault policy, there is going to be a dialogue on this campus in the coming months concerning this very issue. As we begin these conversations, let us keep the dialogue focused so as to eliminate as many gray areas as possible.

Email Josh Baquedano at jpbaquedano@email.wm.edu.

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It is because of these gray areas that everyone on campus, both students and administration, needs to treat this issue with care, so as to best clarify the uncertainty that inherently surrounds the conversation.

A presentation on amnesty and community values given by Associate Dean of Students Dave Gilbert to the orientation aide staff has raised concerns that the College of William and Mary still has yet to grasp the appropriate handling of the sensitive issues of sexual misconduct.

Gilbert’s training presentation attempted to use humor and a relaxed tone to discuss alcohol consumption and sexual misconduct, but we found his comments inappropriate and insensitive given the seriousness of both topics. While trying to explain himself the next day, Gilbert emphasized that he was misunderstood and wasn’t able to articulate himself clearly at the time. His apology, however, left some OAs with the idea that Gilbert doesn’t exactly understand how to handle sensitive issues.

The implications of Gilbert’s presentation and apology present an opportunity to evaluate how we handle situations like sexual misconduct. First, when discussing such a fragile and emotionally stressful issue, language must be incredibly specific, clear and sensitive. Gilbert, as the Director of Student Conduct, encounters and must speak on these issues regularly, and he therefore should use articulate and clear language to convey to OAs during training how to understand and handle sexual misconduct. It should be obvious that the use of humor in this issue is completely inappropriate, especially given that the sexual misconduct presentation during orientation is one of the most serious talks that students will encounter.

Gilbert’s inability to articulate his thoughts during his presentation may be indicative of a wider and more substantive problem regarding his understanding of sexual misconduct and other issues, such as gender and sexuality. For example, Gilbert’s use of gender pronouns when describing instances of sexual assault confined victims to female stereotypes and perpetrators to male. This heteronormative language is not in fact just a language problem; it has implications for how his audience may perceive the interplay of gender, sexuality and sexual misconduct. As someone responsible for discussing such complex and sensitive issues, Gilbert should not only be able to use the correct language, but also understand the substance behind the language.

Second, Gilbert’s apology highlights the importance of student feedback in creating a better understanding of sexual misconduct and other relevant issues. While offering an apology is a step in the right direction, Gilbert and the administration need to be willing to actually accept and incorporate student feedback in how they structure their responses to sexual misconduct. Many OAs are members of Health Outreach Peer Educators, volunteers at The Haven, and students who have been Safe Zone-trained — all of which imply a genuine interest and grounded understanding of how to handle sensitive situations and topics in an appropriate manner. These students need to be viewed as resources to help produce more comprehensive administrative responses, as their feedback is valuable and based on training.

Gilbert’s presentation should have been more sensitive and articulate. Given that it was not, it must be stressed that Gilbert’s speech may be a symptom of a wider problem that demands a better cohesive response from the administration.

Gilbert’s views on the appropriate handling of sexual misconduct and alcohol consumption may reflect an outdated administrative consensus on how to discuss and treat these issues. That Gilbert was chosen to present on a topic which he may not fully understand or be able to clearly articulate speaks to the administration’s tolerance of leniency in important issues. Therefore, it is the administration’s responsibility to progressively educate themselves on sensitive and prominent issues so that there can be no lack of understanding or inarticulation.

The staff editorial represents the opinion of The Flat Hat. The editorial board, which is elected by The Flat Hat’s section editors and executive staff, consists of Madeline Bielski, Áine Cain, Emily Chaumont, Kaitlan Connor and Isabel Larroca.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Here at the College we have a wonderful History department and several societies of preservation. They work in concert to preserve things close to home and our home itself. The College of William and Mary and Williamsburg would not be the oasis that they are without the tireless effort of the few and dedicated historians who managed to preserve what was left of the town and rebuild the rest. Indebted we shall always be to them.

However, our society’s identity and our history do not purely stem from the beautiful buildings of old or the illustrious history of our area. Our society’s history is far greater. We are as affected, if not more strongly affected, by the memoriam of the acts on September 11, 2001 than many of the colleges and organizations in

our country. Seven of our compatriots, seven of our classmates, seven of our peers perished among the many that day, and may their names never be forgotten.

Alysia Christine Burton Basmajian ’00 James Lee “Jimmy” Connor ’85 Michael Hardy Edwards ’90 Mark Gavin “Lud” Ludvigsen ’91 Christopher William Murphy MBA ’98 James Brian Reilly ’98

Gregory J. Trost ’97 History is about knowing where you come from; history is about knowing your past. On this day of remembrance, truly think about those atrocities that happened that day. For me that has been the hardest and deepest struggle of my adolescence. I knew people in the Trade Towers and the Pentagon; my family knew people in the Trade Towers and the Pentagon. The day the world stopped, we wept, and continue to do so for the ones we knew, loved and lost. But as a society we must continue the memory of all who lost their lives that day. We must immortalize their names so they may never be forgotten.

But foremost we must remember a few of the Tribe who are gone. While all life is valuable, our connection to all Tribe members is a deep

connection that is never broken, even in death.

Sad though it may be, they are a part of who we are, and I will never forget that.

As a society we must be, “A link among the days to knit the generations each with each.”

We must tell those young and unwitting of our grief and sorrow, we must tell others our stories so we can link together in tenacity. No longer are we angry, for anger goes nowhere. Now we must simply grieve and forgive. Arm and arm we must remember the events of that fateful day, that infamous day, and teach others about it but most of all, most importantly, we must never forget September 11, 2001.

O. M. Telmore Email O. M. Telmore at o.m.telmore@gmail. com.

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There’s no “right” way to create the best years of your life

Isabel Larroca

FLAT HAT EXECUTIVE EDITOR

So you’re more than a month into your time here at the College of William and Mary. You’ve made it through orientation and its endless barrage of icebreakers, started getting used to your class schedule and signed up for a dozen club listservs.

You could honestly describe yourself as a sociallyengaged, fully-functioning college student. And yet you can’t help feeling like you haven’t had that moment yet — the one where you realize that you’re living “the best years of your life.”

You’re not the first person to feel this way. It was only a year ago that I was in your position, a freshman trying to adjust to living away from home for the first time. In the summer leading up

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to my arrival on campus, it seemed every adult I met had the same speech ready for me: “Oh, you’re going to love it so much. Honestly, college is just the best time. I wish I could go back.”

A month later, and I had made a real effort to turn that spiel into reality. I joined a variety of clubs, went to campus events and bonded with my hallmates.

Nevertheless, I still felt like I was failing in some way. I was still lonely and homesick sometimes. I had yet to make close friendships, find my passion or take an eye-opening class. To me, that felt like a failure — I was failing to create the “best years of my life.”

Looking back now, those worries are almost

comical. Just a few months later, I had an amazing group of friends, found my place working on the campus newspaper and learned eye-opening things in each of my classes. Most importantly, I was no longer a g o n i z i n g over whether or not I was maximizing my opportunities in college.

That’s the funny thing about lifec h a n g i n g experiences — they tend to happen when you aren’t looking for them.

They also don’t usually come in the form of a single, definitive moment. Your life changes over time; it’s not an automatic shift once you wave goodbye to your parents and walk into your dorm.

It takes trying multiple clubs, attending countless

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That’s the funny thing about life-changing experiences — they tend to happen when you aren’t looking for them. They don’t usually come in the form of a single, definitive moment.

events and experiencing a whole range of emotion before realizing you’ve come full circle.

Ultimately, the best conversation I had with an adult about college before I left for campus was the one I completely overlooked. During our last class with him, one of my high school teachers gave us some final words of wisdom about our freshman year: “It’s going to seem like everyone has their life figured out, and you’re going to feel like the only kid who’s completely lost. Believe me, everyone has zero idea what’s going on — some people are just better at hiding it than others.”

Live your life, and don’t worry about if you’re doing it the “right” way. Follow your own instincts, and don’t make yourself anxious over how you compare to others. And above all, be wary of the all-too-common “best years of your life” comment.

Your time here isn’t about beating everyone else and winning at college. It’s about learning about yourself, trying new things, making mistakes — all the things necessary to not only having a wonderful time during these next four years, but an even better time throughout the many years to follow.

Email Isabel Larroca at imlarroca@wm.edu.

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The cuisine is actually quite lovely here. Once you can cook for yourself you can dip in and out of the local specialties at your hearts content. I do say speciality as we only eat haggis once a year at home for a Burns supper and then it’s quite an epic meal I look forward to and I’m Irish. Enjoy the arriving process.

— “aquigley” on “A Scottish orientation”

Lexi Godfrey

FLAT HAT GUEST COLUMNIST

If you haven’t stumbled upon it in some sorority-decoupaged corner of the Internet yet, there is a 20-year old girl at Texas State who is showing the DMV who’s boss in a bright pink Barbie Jeep Wrangler. After getting a DWI arrest and an indefinite license suspension, the Texas junior Tara Monroe refused to let her misfortune stop her from rolling around campus in style.

Monroe refused a breathalyzer test after a Waka Flocka concert on March 4, which led to the immediate suspension of her license, and, apparently, a pretty upset father. He allegedly drove from her hometown of Kingwood to San Marcos to take her car and leave her with a bike to get around campus.

Monroe found her circumstances less than satisfactory, stating, “Riding a bike around campus sucks. Like really sucks.” So after a little brainstorming and some Craigslist scanning, Monroe came upon a perfect, slightly used, $60 Barbie Jeep in the area.

With her new ride, Monroe became an instant sensation on campus. Everyone who saw her made sure to post a Snap story or tweet a picture of the young lady killing the game.

Her story quickly permeated the entirety of the campus, and soon the Internet, with everyone sharing her bold choice of transportation on social media.

In the process, however, some sites tried to spin the story as if Monroe didn’t get the DWI that landed her in this situation. While the way she handled her less than favorable position is hilarious, it is important to remember that

driving while intoxicated is no laughing matter.

There are always incredible dangers that come with getting behind a wheel while under the influence.

The media spun the story around to make light of the issue, when it is a serious issue.

Everyone knows that drinking and driving is wrong, but that does not mean it is okay for the media to use the story for comic relief. She is lucky that she did not hurt herself, and even luckier that she did not hurt anyone else.

Yes, no one was hurt through her poor decision, but that does not negate the fact that the media should have taken this issue more seriously. They had an opportunity to reiterate the fact that driving intoxicated is illegal, and maybe even dig deeper and question how seriously college students take the issue these days. But, instead they went the route of making this sensationalized news, news that people will laugh about rather than shake their heads in disbelief that a young adult could behave so irresponsibly and then poke fun at her situation.

Monroe did not properly face the seriousness of her situation, she instead acted like it really was not an issue at all. The media did not need to follow in the steps of this 20-year old’s poor choice.

Without a doubt, Monroe’s clever problem solving is something to be envied, but her decision-making definitely is not. If there is anything to be taken away from this Internet sensation, it’s that drinking and driving should not be taken lightly. While it’s funny to see, being stuck with a Barbie Jeep that only hits five miles per hour probably wouldn’t be as fun.

But, if we see a Barbie Jeep fad hit our campus soon, we know exactly who to look to for the blame. Although, as a sophomore without a car, Monroe seems more and more like a genius as I trek from Blair Hall to the business school in less than 10 minutes. Maybe I’ll snag a Charlene for myself one of these days.

Email Lexi Godfrey at algodfrey@email. wm.edu.

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In the process, however, some sites tried to spin the story as if Monroe didn’t get the DWI that landed her in this situation.

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PBK’s stage has hosted notable events, including the 1976 presidential debate between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford.

Morton was built during the building boom in the 1970s and was one of the first buildings to be erected on New Campus.

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Inside PBK: From classrooms to presidential debates Morton Hall: The building everyone loves to hate With the College of William and Mary logo emblazoned above the main entrance’s banner, it’s only fitting that the Greek letters of Phi Beta Kappa are an acronym for a phrase that translates to the “love of learning is the guide to life.”

A pair of transparent glass doors serve as the main entrance to this art-oriented memorial hall. A bronze plaque stands in the shadows of the empty corridor commemorating December 5, 1776, the day the building’s namesake was founded. The Phi Beta Kappa Society was the first Greek-letter honor society ever established in the United States by scholars from the College of William and Mary. According to adjunct instructor of theatre, Sarah Dixon ’75, the building has a similar history to the society.

“When it was first built, this was one of the most highly respected institutions on the East Coast,” Dixon said.

What exactly made PBK so special? According to Dixon, the building used to house television and radio production rooms upstairs. Over time, the once advanced technology of black and white television became outdated, and the production rooms transitioned into educational classrooms.

The main stage has also played host to several notable events, including the 1976 presidential debate between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford, and the Democratic Party debate of the 1982 presidential campaign.

Over time, PBK and the College’s theatre department have grown into an artistic outlet of productivity thanks to passionate individuals like Dixon who returned to the College to teach in 1990, coming back to her alma mater and helping mold the theatrical program since then.

Technical Director of PBK, David Dudley ’75, also returned to work with the theatre program.

“The reason I came back to William and Mary was because of the terrific facility and great students that fill its halls,” Dudley said.

Dudley returned to PBK in 1977, a mere two years after graduation, starting as a promoter for the outdoor drama department and slowly moving up the ranks over the years.

Despite the theatre program’s improvement over the years, the building itself suffered a setback from a sudden fire over the winter break of 1953. The building had originally been built where Ewell Hall is now located. A new building, serving as a memorial to the original, was built in its current location on Jamestown Road.

“The fire marshall deemed it an electrical fire,” Dudley said.

In 1957, Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall was

the first building to open its doors on the New Campus section of the College. According to Dudley, this state of the art theatrical facility cost around five million dollars to complete and was funded through the donations of John D. Rockefeller and contributions from the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

According to Vice President of Phi Beta Kappa’s Alpha chapter, Matt Allar, the Phi Beta Kappa Society started as a secret society between College students, holding its first meeting behind the closed doors of 18th century Williamsburg’s Raleigh Tavern to discuss freedom of speech and thoughts that were in opposition to societal standards of the time. These frequent meetings allowed the free expression of ideas between scholars in a discourse that wasn’t allowed in the traditional classroom environment. This tradition is carried on today in PBK’s Apollo Room, which is used exclusively for Society members to continue their ideological discussions.

According to Allar, there’s also a safety vault in this room that houses ancient keys, journal entries and various other artifacts from the chapter’s profound past. Many of the original PBK members went on to become prominent Freemasons and contributed funds to the building’s upkeep. The building is currently slated for another renewal.

“Significant renovations for Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall are on the way, probably due to the roof that’s constantly been leaking since the 1970s,” Allar said.

The building encapsulates much of the College’s rich history, and some of that history still remains in its halls. Dixon, Dudley and Allar all mentioned that the ghost of Althea Hunt, director of the theatre department from 1926 to 1957 and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, can be seen near the control booth of the main auditorium from time to time.

Although the building still stands today and the history will eventually fade to myths and legends, taking the time to explore this symbolic structure will keep the history alive a bit longer.

Some students hike the four flights of steep stairs, reaching the third floor huffing and puffing.

Others risk the old elevator that seems like it could break at any minute. No one can tell if they’re late, on time or early because all of the clocks within view tell different times. Hundreds of students sit down for class in mismatched chairs in a building with questionable structural integrity.

Opened for use in 1972, Morton Hall has come to hold a rather special place in the hearts of students and professors.

“It’s the building everyone loves to hate,” professor of government Clay Clemens ’80 said. “It’s the Botetourt Complex of academic buildings. There’s only so much you can do with it.”

Morton is currently home to several departments in the social sciences, including Africana studies, Asian and Middle Eastern studies, classical studies, economics, gender sexuality and women’s studies, global studies, government, international relations and sociology.

Once the renovation of Tyler Hall is finished, some of these departments are slotted to move there, while others are staying in Morton.

“Morton is not going away right away,” Director of public policy and professor of economics, public policy and law Sarah Stafford said. “We thought it would be great if we could auction off the rights to blow up Morton, but they’re not blowing it up. It has to stay for a while simply because we need the space. We need the classrooms and the offices.”

Morton was built during the College’s building boom in the 1970s and was one of the first buildings to be erected on New Campus.

It embodies what could be thought of as the New Campus aesthetic: boxy brick buildings with few windows that look like they could double as a bomb shelter or state prison.

“Morton was built during a time when matching old campus was not a thing anyone worried

Can you imagine a time when Wren was campus’ only building?

Next week, Behind the Brick Walls will travel into the past of our oldest and most famous academic building. Curious to know what Wren was like in its storied history? Find the answers in next week’s installment.

Behind the Brick Walls is a three-part series exploring the unusual histories of ordinary academic buildings.

about,” Chancellor professor of economics Robert Archibald said.

Archibald has worked in Morton since 1976, just a few years after it opened. According to him, many of the departments currently housed in Morton were previously located in James Blair Hall, where professors did not have individual offices.

“Even though they seem small, the individual offices in Morton were as big as the state would allow to house one professor,” Archibald said. “It was actually an improvement from what it was like in James Blair.”

According to popular legend, Morton was built on a sinkhole and is progressively sinking deeper and deeper into the ground. Clemens said there was some truth to this legend at one point, as Facilities Management once had to pour concrete into the foundation of the building to stabilize it after it was discovered that it had settled into the ground over time in a way that created space between the building and the foundation.

“Be sure to give Facilities Management credit,” Clemens said. “Morton’s been held together by Band-Aids, but we’re still going.”

Archibald said that flooding was more of a problem than sinking into the ground.

“Rain drains toward Morton from all directions,” Archibald said. “We’re in a pit. The basement has flooded many times.”

Clemens, who has worked in Morton for 31 years and whose office is in the basement agreed and said they did experience flooding fairly often.

However, he was quick to point out a benefit of Morton.

“Morton has been the workhorse of the College though, by virtue of having so many offices and so many classrooms,” Clemens said.

One of the biggest benefits of Morton, at least for faculty, is the ease of parking. Morton is located next to a large faculty and staff parking lot that the professors who are moving to Tyler said they will miss.

Clemens said that while the building seems outdated now, he joked that it was once state of the art in some aspects.

“Morton was on the cutting edge in one respect,” Clemens said. “We were the first to get automatic flushing toilets.”

Professors and students share an affectionate distaste for Morton. While it’s not the most loved building on campus, there are memories housed there.

“It’s like an old shoe,” Stafford said. “You don’t want to show it off to your friends but it’s pretty comfortable to be in.”

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

Braless and flawless: Letting your ta-tas loose

Unclasp your bra and embrace your natural side, because the best racks aren’t always enhanced

Mallory Walker

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS COLUMNIST

The College of William and Mary prides itself on the plethora of undergraduate research opportunities available to its lovely students.

But, as a proud student of the humanities, I feel a little ignored as far as research.

While my friends in biology, neuroscience and kinesiology spend their days in labs with birds, frogs and cadavers, I yearn for the day when I can put the scientific method to good use. So, instead of wallowing in my own selfpity, I decided to spend a day enacting my own experiment.

I decided to go braless. I know for many, this endeavor might not seem like a brave or

innovative one, but hear me out.

While I am not breaking any records with my bra size, I was not blessed with itty bitty titties that make going braless a breeze. Instead, my braless-ness is obvious, and not just when the chilly temperatures of Swem take hold. And as someone who has been sporting an over-theshoulder-boulder-holder since the fifth grade (puberty was cruel and unrelenting), I wasn’t just getting out of my bra; I was also getting out of my comfort zone.

But this isn’t just a confession of my attachment to bras — this is a report of my experiment. I set out Monday morning sans bra with the vague hypothesis that going braless would give me a new, exciting and freeing outlook on life. As silly as it sounds, that’s exactly what I got.

I won’t go without saying that my experiment wasn’t without a few road blocks here or there.

I certainly wasn’t aware that the braless life would warrant unwanted nipple grabs from overenthusiastic friends without concepts of personal space. Plus, biking across a brickcovered campus become a bit bumpier when traveling without any added support.

And while these — often literal — roadblocks weren’t exactly what I anticipated, my choice to explore the world with a braless perspective did not come about without reason.

While wearing a bra can provide much needed support to some, I feel like sporting the lace, underwire and padding becomes a habit we get ourselves into for the wrong reasons. Sure, a bra with well-placed padding can make your breasts look like you’re straight of the Victoria’s Secret catalog, but your breasts also look sexy as heck just hanging out.

As a society we’ve completely brainwashed ourselves into thinking that the best racks are always enhanced, whether it be by a 70 dollar bra or seven thousand dollar silicone balloons.

It might be hard to believe, but trust me, your breasts look fantastic without any extra help.

(And don’t even get me started on the fact that breasts — female or male — aren’t even sexual organs. That rant is for another week. For now, we’re focusing on the fact that boobs don’t need bras.)

With my braless experiment behind me, I will say in conclusion that the braless life is for me, mostly. Going braless is a nice little reminder

that what I’ve got going on is pretty awesome and doesn’t need any bells and whistles to look so swell.

On the other hand, bras come in handy when I want to sport any of the sheer shirts in my collection without flashing the world as consequence. And I won’t deny that I do enjoy a little something special every now and again with the help of my aptly nicknamed “cleavage bra.” You might not find me and my nipples out and about 24/7, but this surely isn’t the end of the braless days.

In the end, I think going braless — whether for a few hours or a few days — should be a challenge every bra-wearing being should accept. It might feel a little strange at first, but you might just find that you and your boobies get a little bit closer in the process. And if you find yourself tempted to return to the bra life, just think about all the money you’re saving staying out of the intimates department.

Mallory Walker is a Behind Closed Doors columnist who is learning to love going without her over-the-shoulder-boulder-holder even though she isn’t a member of the itty bitty titty committee.

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Tuesday, September 15, 2015

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Confuscius Institute teaches Chinese language and culture LIZZY FLOOD FLAT HAT ASSOC. VARIETY EDITOR

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Burgess joined the band Honest Halloway just over a year ago. The band will be playing on the Sadler terrace Sept. 15 as part of AMP’s Friday’s at Five concert series.

Alumus Paul Burgess discusses the College’s music scene SAM DREITH FLAT HAT ASSOC. VARIETY EDITOR

AMP’s Fridays at Five concert series welcomes graduate Paul Burgess ’12 back to campus Friday September 19 as a member of the band Honest Haloway.

Burgess joined the band just over a year ago, and has since been playing with the other two members at various venues around the D.C. area. Before joining Honest Haloway, Burgess was part of a different band operating out of D.C. “We played a show with Honest Haloway and got to know the guys, and became sort of music-scene friends that way,” Burgess said.

A year and a half ago, Burgess’s band broke up, and he then reached out to Honest Haloway.

“I found out Honest Haloway was trying to fill a multi-instrumental spot so I reached out and ended up joining up with the other two guys from the band,” Burgess said.

Tim Kratzer, the band’s front man and singer, started the band in his home studio. “[It was] kind of bedroom chillwave type of stuff, and it slowly formed into a band … Slowly I had met the drummer and then had some bassists that went in and out but then I met [Burgess] and that’s when it really kind of formed into a full band,” Kratzer said. “Paul was like the last piece.”

Kratzer first met Burgess when playing on a show promoted by Kick Kick Snare, and Burgess then responded to Kratzer’s Craigslist ad for a new bassist a year later.

“He was the first person I decided to meet up and play, and I had seven or eight responses, but since I already knew him and we started playing and he was a really great musician I didn’t bother rehearsing with anyone else,” Kratzer said.

Honest Haloway has been together for around three years, and Burgess joined as a bassist, although he doesn’t just stick to one instrument.

“I get to hop around a bit, I do some synth and I play guitar in a couple of songs and do backup vocals,” Burgess said.

The band’s first album was created primarily by the singer, Kratzer, who wrote and recorded the entire first EP before playing live.

“We’ve got two EPs out and we’re working on our first full-length [album],” Burgess said.

Burgess has been playing with the band since their second EP, “Perigee.”

Before getting a full-time job in international development in D.C. and joining a band, Burgess — an international relations and economics major — was a part of the College’s music scene as a student.

“I was in a couple of bands that I was singing and playing bass in while I was at school, with varying levels of success,” Burgess said.

One of Burgess’s college bands was called The Passives, comprised of him and a few of his friends from around campus. According to Burgess, they only played a few shows on campus, as it was toward the end of his time at the College.

“The other one was more of a crust punk band that just played at

Meridian a lot, even though I was like the odd man out in that,” Burgess said.

Crust punk, a hardcore punk and metal genre, was only one of Burgess’s many musical endeavors on campus.

“For most of my time [at the College] I was really entrenched in music stuff,” Burgess said.

Burgess was in the a cappella group Cleftomaniacs, was the Vice President of the a cappella council, sang in the Botetourt Chamber Singers, was a member of the Sinfonicron light opera and also played in the various aforementioned band.

“I was pretty much busy doing anything unrelated to my major whenever possible,” Burgess said.

The Director of the Botetourt Chamber Singers and the Chair of the Music Department, Dr. Jamie Bartlett, remembers Burgess from his time at the College.

“I remember Paul because he was unsure when he first came about of the level of his musical ability in terms of sight reading,” Bartlett said. “He was a great singer, but in terms of being able to read through the music … he used to come and work with me independently.”

Bartlett recalls Burgess’s time on campus due to the amount of time she spends with the Botetourt Chamber Singers and the relatively small size of the group at 18 members.

“He was very very diligent and music meant a lot to him,” said Bartlett.

“He always had the capacity, it was just a confidence thing that he needed.”

Burgess, once involved in a variety of musical groups on campus, believes there was a lack of venues for non-vocal groups.

“I remember AMP booking a lot of great shows, but as far as student musical groups go, it was pretty dominated by vocal groups,” Burgess said.

“I didn’t see a lot of bands from the College and when I did it was just at the Meridian, there really [weren’t] any other venues in the area which is kind of a shame.”

According to Bartlett, 25 percent of the students on campus are officially involved in music in some way, not including vocal or other musical groups.

“Most of our students go off in some kind of non-professional way,” Bartlett said. “It’s a vocational thing, and they just have to be participating in music.”

Aside from Honest Haloway, Burgess is also working on two side musical projects.

In regards to pursuing music after college, Burgess said, “Keep an eye out, or don’t pigeonhole yourselves into just performance, because there’s so many opportunities for internships in recording studios, music promotion at clubs and things like that.”

Other graduates from the College are currently involved in musical careers, including Kanene Donehey Pipkin ’07, a member of the musical group the Lone Bellow, who have appeared on David Letterman and are currently touring the country.

“If you’re supposed to be doing music, it will find you, and you will find a way to make that a part of your life,” Bartlett said. “You will find a way to make that happen.”

Ask American students about Chinese culture, and you may get a rough overview of martial arts and Chinese cooking. Open that question up to members of the College of William and Mary and the Williamsburg community who have been to the Confucius Institute, though, and you will hear about also the erhu, an instrument sometimes called the “Chinese violin;” the art of calligraphy; Chinese paper cutting and many more Chinese cultural traditions.

The Confucius Institute opened in 2012 as the result of collaboration of both the College of William and Mary and Beijing Normal University in China.

“The mission behind the Institute is to spread Chinese culture throughout America,” communications intern Ian Kirkwood ’16 said.

In order to do this, the Institute offers classes that are open to both college students and community members. The first session of classes for the fall semester starts September 15, with another session starting after the College’s Fall break.

The average cost for a class is 40 dollars for students, which is a 50 percent discount off the usual price. The classes take place in the late evening in the Rowe House on campus.

According to Chinese Deputy Director of the Institute Lei Ma, of the non-William and Mary students who take the classes, most are retirees, some of them coming from as far as Virginia Beach.

“I think most community people are retirees living in this town, so they prefer cultural classes more than the language classes,” Ma said.

Ma has been teaching at the Institute since its opening and said that many of the institute’s students will return to take classes several semesters in a row.

“One of the senior citizens I had, he started to learn Chinese with me since the first week I was here and has stayed all through the four years,” Ma said.

The teachers at the Institute are either professors from the College, like Ma, or volunteer teachers. The only exception is the Institute’s Taiji and Chinese Cooking classes, which are taught by Williamsburg residents.

The volunteer teachers all come from Beijing Normal University.

The University offers its students the opportunity to come and teach the Institute’s cultural and Chinese language classes.

“The program lasts for one year,” volunteer teacher Lu Cui said.

“And when I leave there will be a new volunteer teacher to come.”

The Institute usually has four volunteer teachers. Cui, who will teach calligraphy for the fall session, said the program requires its volunteers to go through a rigorous application process to teach at the Institute.

“You need to apply for it [and] pass an interview and you need to go through training to get better accustomed to the atmosphere and the teaching atmosphere,” Cui said.

Once a part of the program, the volunteer teachers work to integrate Chinese culture and language into the Williamsburg community.

“They go into local elementary schools and teach really young kids basic Chinese,” Kirkwood said.

The Institute aims to spread Chinese culture in as many ways as it possibly can. They work closely with the Chinese Undergraduates Student Association and the Chinese Studies Program, Ma said, often hosting events on campus like musical performances or lectures on China’s economy.

The Institute also helps students looking to study abroad in China.

They offer Chinese proficiency tests, the HSKs, to students online at a discounted price. These tests help students apply for and receive scholarships that would allow them to study abroad.

They also offer a Chinese Language Partners Program that pairs the Institute’s students with students from Beijing Normal University so they can receive one-on-one tutoring in Chinese. The American students then help the Beijing Normal students with their English in return.

“It’s aiming for American students or community people who like to practice their Chinese oral languages,” Ma said. “We set it up online. They can practice half-an-hour for each, both Chinese and English.”

The Chinese Language Partners Program is great for those students who want to practice their Chinese beyond just their time in class, Ma said.

Other students stick to just the cultural programs and classes.

Kirkwood said that overall they want to offer classes that Americans, especially senior citizens, can feel comfortable in. All materials for the class are provided, and the classes are meant to have a low-stress atmosphere.

“The point of them isn’t necessarily to provide you with this huge hard skill set to go out into the world and teach other people,” Kirkwood said. “It’s to expose you to Chinese culture and familiarize you with various topics that typical Americans aren’t exposed to.”

CONFUSION CORNER

Wawa etiquette: Just show a little decorum

It may not be a five star restaraunt, but Wawa will be there for you when you need it

Emily Gardiner

CONFUSION CORNER COLUMNIST

It is the end of a long Friday night. Every girl’s crop-top is plastered to her back from that special type of sweat that can only be produced in a frat house packed with enough people to give the fire marshal a heart attack. Your eardrums and your liver have both taken a few hits. But you don’t mind because someone has just proposed the most brilliant idea in the history of all mankind. This paradigm-shifting move, more revolutionary than the discovery of penicillin, is a late-night food run.

After tripping over the treacherously shadowed and seemingly-endless brink path, a golden glow appears in the distance. It beckons you to the promised land: Wawa. In this magical place exists a cornucopia of choices. Better still, you get to leisurely stroll like an all-powerful Roman emperor around until something suits your fancy. Even

more enticing than the hoagies is the nightlife at Wawa. As in the Cinderella story, when the clock strikes 12, Wawa morphs into the after-party for all of campus. All walks of life congregate to seek late-night nourishment after a successful round of debauchery. You could practically spend hours catching up with friends while perusing the chip aisle.

There is one catch in this system, however.

Wawa is a convenience store, not a mall or a daycare. Those slightly blurry figures who make the heavenly sandwiches and collect your money are actual, real-life people. They have feelings too. The store can get very crowded by individuals who are momentarily beside themselves, causing a lot of extra stress for these poor employees. Plus, it gets very chaotic. The late-night line on weekends is

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less organized then a freshman’s first term paper.

Three people sit on the coffee counter, there are two people flirting over energy drinks and you find yourself hypnotized by the milkshake machine for at least three minutes. Managing the store would be difficult with such a profound amount of foot traffic, even if half of the customers were not also in need of some hand-holding. Yet, the draw of Wawa is this ability to hang out and really savor the decision-making process.

Luckily, there is a way to reconcile the basic decencies that should be bestowed upon the employees of this fine establishment while still having a fun time. Not shouting at the top of your lungs can be hard when you are plastered, but try to practice some basic etiquette. Aim for a having a general time limit in the store. If it is taking more

Wawa is a convenience store, not a mall or a daycare.

than 10 minutes to make a decision, it is probably time to leave and find your bed. The process can be streamlined some if you try to narrow down your decision to just a few possibilities while trekking to the store. Also, when waiting in the mass of bodies that can barely be considered a line, get your money ready for the cashier. When an enthralling conversation springs up, kindly excuse yourself in order to finish your purchase, then move your talk outside. Most importantly, watch your friends. In this case, peer-pressure is actually encouraged. Let them know it is not cool to be rude to other human beings. Make judgement calls about who may be unfit to go inside and instead let them hang outside while you buy them something. You shouldn’t have to literally hold someone up so they can order a hoagie.

All of these are general guidelines. It really comes down to just trying to be a little more considerate. Wawa is a classy store with food that seems fresher than the dining halls: treat it with class. We all gotta have our Wawa, but keep in mind that the people who are behind the counter have to be at Wawa for an eight-hour shift.

Emily Gardener is a Confusion Corner columnist who always brings her best manners to Wawa.

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FIELD HOCKEY

College falters against top teams Tribe falls to .500 record after road losses at No. 13 ODU, No. 4 Duke COURTESY PHOTO / TRIBE ATHLETICS

Senior forward Pippin Saunders earned her 21st career assist during Friday’s loss at Old Domion, putting her in second all-time for the Tribe in the category.

JOSH LUCKENBAUGH FLAT HAT ASSOC. SPORTS EDITOR Over the weekend William and Mary’s record fell to .500 as it lost to a pair of ranked opponents: No. 13 Old Dominion 5-2 in Norfolk, Va. Friday followed by a 6-2 defeat at the hands of No. 4 Duke in Raleigh, N.C. Sunday.

The Tribe (3-3), winners of three straight non-conference matches prior to the weekend, entered Friday night’s contest with plenty of confidence. The defense, having allowed only five goals over its three victories, started off strong once again, as the heavilyfavored Lady Monarchs (4-1) failed to get a shot off in the first 10 minutes of play. When the shots did come, the College’s back line stayed stalwart, coming up with several key blocks. Through the opening 24 minutes, senior goalkeeper Meredith Savage only needed to make two saves.

Old Dominion broke the deadlock at 24:03 as Sarah Breen found the back of the net following a penalty corner for her fifth tally of the season. The College’s offense could not find momentum, creating

no scoring chances in the first half compared to the Lady Monarchs’ eight shots and seven penalty corners. William and Mary prevented any further damage in the period, coming up with another block little over a minute before the halftime whistle.

The second half provided more fireworks than the first, as the Tribe quickly earned a penalty corner in the early minutes.

Sophomore midfielder Erin Menges delivered the ball, but neither senior defender Peyton Smith nor senior forward Pippin Saunders could put a shot on frame. ODU soon capitalized, as Danielle Grega forced a Savage save before steering the rebound home to put the Lady Monarchs up 2-0.

After Grega’s goal, the floodgates opened as the Lady Monarchs continued to pressure the College defense and continued to score.

In total, ODU took 11 shots in the second half, Menges scoring four goals. Breen netted twice in the span of six minutes, completing her hat trick in the 58th minute and putting the Tribe at a 5-0 deficit.

SCOREBOARD Football (1-0) Sept. 5: W, College 34, Lafayette (0-2) 7

Sept. 12: Bye week

Colonial Athletic Association Albany (1-1, 1-0) ........................1.000.........W1 William and Mary (1-0, 0-0).......0.000.........W1 James Madison (2-0, 0-0)...........0.000.........W2 Stony Brook (1-0, 0-0).................0.000........W1 Richmond (1-1, 0-0)...................0.000.........W1 Maine (0-1, 0-0)..........................0.000..........L1 New Hampshire (1-1, 0-0)..........0.000.........W1 Delaware (1-1, 0-0).....................0.000..........L1 Elon (1-1, 0-0).............................0.000..........L1 Towson (1-1, 0-0)........................0.000..........L1 Villanova (1-1, 0-0)....................0.000..........W1 Rhode Island (0-2, 0-1)..............0.000..........L2

Cross country Sept. 1: CNU XC Opener Men finished No.1 (field of two) Women finished No. 1 (field of three)

Golf Men: Sept. 12-13, Gene Miranda Falcon Invite

Finished 9th of 16 Women: Sept. 5-6, Nittany Lion Invitational

Finished 3rd of 8

Field hockey (3-3) Sept. 11: L, ODU (4-1) 5, College 2 Sept.13: L, Duke (4-2) 6, College 2 Sept. 18: vs. New Hampshire (2-3), 2 p.m.

Sept. 21: at Virginia (6-0), 6 p.m.

Men’s soccer (1-2-1, 0-0 CAA) Sept. 4: T, College 1, UNC (4-0-1) 1 Sept. 12: L, Coastal Carolina (4-0-1) 2, College 0 Sept. 15: vs. Charlotte (2-2), 7 p.m.

Sept. 19: at Longwood (2-1), 6 p.m.

Sept. 22: at Navy (2-2-1), 7 p.m.

Sept. 26: at College of Charleston (3-1), 7 p.m.

Notable preformances Week one (at Lafayette) The weekend ahead

Junior quarterback Steve Cluley 20 of 30, 289 yards, 2 touchdowns

William and Mary takes on University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m. as the Tribe seeks its first upset of a Football Bowl Subdivision team since 2009 when the Tribe defeated the Cavaliers

Senior tailback Mikal Abdul-Saboor 17 rushes, 103 yards, 2 touchdowns Senior wideout Christian Reeves 2 receptions, 62 yards, touchdown Sophomore cornerback Aaron Swinton 4 tackles, interception

Tennis Men: Sept. 11-13, Penn Invitational Oct. 3-12, ITA All-American Championships Women: Sept. 19-21, Tribe Invitational Oct. 10-12, Bulldog Invitational

Volleyball (5-5) Sept. 11: W, College 3, Western Carolina (5-6) 2 Sept. 12: W, College 3, Hampton (0-9) 1 Sept. 12: L. East Carolina (6-2) 3, College 0 Sept. 18-19: at American Invitational

No. 25 Women’s soccer (6-1-1) Sept. 11: W, College 3, Old Dominion (2-6) 0 Sept. 13: W, College 1, Harvard (1-4-1) 0 Sept. 20: at Princeton (3-3), 1 p.m.

Sept. 25: vs Hofstra (5-3), 7 p.m.

Men’s basketball The men’s basketball team announced its 2015-16 schedule Monday.

The non-conference slate includes games at 2014-15 top 25 finishers N.C. State and Virginia. The season kicks off Nov. 13 at N.C State, and the home opener is Nov. 19 against Washington Adventist. The CAA Tournament is scheduled for March 4-7, once again in Baltimore, Md.

The College continued to fight, scoring twice before the end of the match. Junior midfielder Amanda McAteer opened the Tribe’s account from the penalty spot in the 65th minute, her first goal of 2015. Less than three minutes later, Saunders fired a shot toward goal that deflected off sophomore midfielder Emma MacLeod and into the net. Saunders collected her 21st career assist on the play, tying her for second all-time in William and Mary history. It was too little too late, and the Tribe’s win streak ended at three as ODU took the win 5-2.

Unlike the Lady Monarchs, the Blue Devils (4-2) took almost no time to jump ahead of the Tribe Sunday afternoon, as Robin Blazing received the ball on the back post and fired it past Savage after only two minutes and 10 seconds. Nevertheless, the College responded, as Saunders buried her team-leading sixth goal of the season with a backhand shot in the 19th minute.

Duke regained the lead three minutes later. Following a defensive save from Menges off a Blue Devil penalty corner, Ashley Kristen fed Heather Morris from the back post, who deposited the ball in the roof of the net. While the Tribe was outshot in the first half 9-3, it entered the locker room only down 2-1 on the scoreboard.

The first 20 minutes of the second period featured a total of 10 shots, but no goals scored. The College took six shots in that 20-minute span, but Duke goalkeeper Lauren Blazing ensured her team stayed in the lead with three crucial saves. The Blue Devils finally increased their advantage 56 minutes in as Morris beat Savage once again with a hard reverse.

Morris completed her hat trick nearly a minute later, knocking in her third goal following a penalty corner to put Duke ahead 4-1.

The Tribe called a timeout in the 60th minute, but the stoppage in play made no difference as the Blue Devils’ Rose Tynan scored twice in the next five minutes to give Duke an insurmountable 6-1 lead.

After a flurry of substitutions in the final minutes, junior forward Samantha Slattery scored her first collegiate goal from the penalty spot in the 68th to cut the deficit to four before the match came to an end with 6-2 as the final score.

William and Mary returns home to Busch Field Friday to take on New Hampshire. The game is slated for a 6 p.m. start.

FLAT HAT SPORTS ONLINE For coverage of the men’s tennis team’s performance at the Penn Invitational and the men’s golf team’s weekend at the Gene Miranda Falcon Invitational, check online at Flathatnews.com and like The Flat Hat on Facebook for links to our latest content. For live game updates and breaking news, follow @FlatHatSports on Twitter.

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

VOLLEYBALL

A dismal finish Tribe 2-1 in ECU tourney EVAN DEFRAINE FLAT HAT STAFF WRITER

Things seem to be headed in the right direction for William and Mary. The Tribe (5-5) claimed two of three matches at this weekend’s Eastern Carolina University Tournament.

The Tribe had several contributions from both young players and veteran leadership, with freshman Heather Pippus and senior Desi Koleva earning spots on the All-Tournament team.

Coming into the tournament, the College had lost three of its last four matches, with every loss coming in a full match of five sets. The narrative was flipped in the first match against Western Carolina, as the Tribe beat the Catamounts (5-6) in five sets.

After cruising to 25-13 and 25-16 victories in the first two sets, William and Mary was unable to keep the match from going the distance, as Western Carolina rallied to win two consecutive sets of its own. In the final frame, the Tribe began with a 4-1 lead, only to see the Catamounts seize the upper hand with a 7-2 run that put Western Carolina up 8-6. With the match tied up at 10 points apiece, freshman Katie Kemp delivered three service aces to earn the victory.

Aces were a theme for the Tribe in the first match, as junior Gabrielle Pe served four of her own while sophomore Sara Zumbach tallied three. Pippus would set the tone for the rest of her tournament with her performance, as she recorded 14 kills and eight digs for the match.

The next day’s match against Hampton (0-9) began at 10 a.m., not giving the College much time to recover from the five-set marathon the night before. After dropping the first set 20-25, the Tribe shook off fatigue and took the next three sets to win in four. The scoring gap widened with each set, as the Tribe won the second, third and fourth sets by scores of 25-22, 25-13 and 25-10, respectively. Koleva and Pippus helped lead the way again, with Pippus tallying 10 kills and 14 digs and Koleva providing a solid allaround performance with 12 kills, nine digs, two aces and two blocks. Junior Michelle Heath contributed nine kills and four blocks of her own as well.

The final match of the weekend would not prove as fruitful for the College, which lost in straight sets to tournament host ECU (6-2).

Despite the 0-3 loss, each set was hotly contested, the scores of which were 25-27, 21-25 and 22-25, respectively. In addition, Koleva had a sterling performance with 13 kills, eight digs and three blocks in only three sets. Kemp also had a solid outing with 16 assists. The loss put the Tribe’s record at an even 5-5 and lifted ECU’s to 6-2.

The Tribe travels to Washington, D.C. for the American Invitational this weekend where it will face American, Virginia and BaltimoreMaryland County over the two-day event.

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Flat Hat previews Saturday’s big game online at Flathatnews.com

Ranked for a reason

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Sophomore forward Sammi Grasso and senior forward Katie Johnston turn away from the Old Dominion goal after the rare Monarch save. The Tribe trounced ODU 3-0 on Friday night.

No. 25 Tribe shutouts Harvard 1-0 and Old Dominion 3-0 SUMNER HIGGINBOTHAM FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR

This year No. 25 William and Mary took approximately 23 days to surpass the achievements of four years ago out on the pitch. After garnering recognition in the national rankings last week, the Tribe held onto the honor in victories against Old Dominion on Friday and Harvard Sunday, marking the first time since 2011 that the Tribe has been ranked and won the next game.

The homestead weekend began with a physical 3-0 shutout Friday night against the Monarchs at Martin Family Stadium, where the Tribe (6-1-1) returned to slip by Harvard in a 1-0 nail-biter on Sunday afternoon.

Though the scoreboard said otherwise, Old Dominion was anything but a stress-free endeavor.

The last time the Tribe held a national ranking was in 2012, when it entered the season at No. 20 before an season-opening 4-1 loss to Duke.

“I felt the pressure,” head coach John Daly said.

“After coaching for a long time, ranking No. 25 in the first or second week of September means absolutely nothing.”

But on Friday night, the Tribe offense put the hype behind them and cranked up the pressure on the Monarchs. Sophomore forward Sammi Grasso nearly scored in the 10th minute, firing a shot off of a cross that barely sailed left. Just over a minute later, senior midfielder Nicole Baxter floated a long ball off a free kick right into the box. Despite the ensuing collisions, the Monarch keeper managed to punch the ball away.

It was only a matter of time before both Baxter and Grasso made their mark. Off a corner kick 12 minutes in, Baxter fired in a low line drive right towards the box. Grasso rushed out to meet the pass, back-heeling the ball past the near-post for the Tribe’s opening goal.

The College nearly struck again just two minutes later, as senior forward Samantha Cordum received a long pass up from sophomore back Haley Kent after a steal. Cordum outran her defender to the ball but added just one touch too many as the Monarch keeper managed to jump on the ball before the shot.

Cordum was not to be denied again. At the 17th minute, Grasso fired a through ball up to Cordum racing towards the goal. Cordum’s defender was in hot pursuit and took away the angle for a shot, but with a last minute sliding pass, Cordum centered the ball to senior midfielder Leci Irvin who was

sprinting down the middle of the field.

“I saw Sam get a through ball, and since she’s so fast I knew she would beat her player,” Irvin said. “You have to follow just in case she gets anything off. I saw her get around and pass it back to me, and I was just in position to finish it. “ Irvin edged out her defender and slid into the shot, rocketing the ball into the top left corner for a 2-0 Tribe lead.

Led by senior back Meghan Musgrove, the Tribe defense suffocated the Monarch attack in the first half, allowing only a single shot.

“First half I thought we were really good, as good as we’ve played all season,” Daly said.

In the second half, William and Mary began to work backup players into the rotation, a major reason for ODU’s 10 second half shots. Senior keeper Caroline Casey rejected every single one and rushed out of the goal to pick off crosses as well. Cordum added the coup-de-grace in the 60th minute off a pass from senior forward Katie Johnston, slipping the ball past the charging Monarch keeper.

Kent preserved the shutout in the 64th minute, kicking out a shot after Casey dove. The Tribe claimed the win 3-0, and set its sights on Harvard for Sunday.

“Harvard is very good,” Daly said. “Duke is the best team we play, and Harvard is not far behind them.

They have one particularly good player Margaret Purce; she’s a real handful. I hope [Harvard is] getting very tired tonight [at U.Va].”

Harvard managed the first five shots of the contest, but the Tribe landed the shot that counted in Sunday’s 1-0 victory. Johnston, who managed the first Tribe shot in the 21st minute, fired the gamewinner in the 35th, assisted by junior midfielder Haley Kavanaugh.

Baxter and Grasso nearly doubled the score in the 54th minute, but Baxter’s free kick hit the crossbar instead, bouncing down to Grasso who shot just wide.

The Crimson didn’t give up in the 90th minute, placing every player in William and Mary’s half of the field. Casey preserved the shutout for the Tribe, assisted by goaline saves by Johnston and Grasso.

The victory marks William and Mary’s sixth shutout of the season, already tied with last year’s mark. Casey received the honor of Colonial Athletic Association Player of the Week for her performance this weekend, recording five saves against ODU and a career-high-tying seven saves in rejecting Harvard’s comeback bid.

Up next for the nationally-ranked Tribe is a matchup at Princeton Sunday at 1 p.m. Though the Tribe has been strong of late, the College is by no means resting on its laurels.

“If we’re No. 25 in the first week of November, okay, then I’ll say great, but it really just puts a target on your back,” Daly said. “It’s a matter of opinions and doesn’t mean anything except that you doing pretty well.”

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Grasso acrobatically adds the first goal of the night on a backheel shot vs ODU off an assist by senior midfielder Nicole Baxter.

MEN’S SOCCER

College draws a blank, 2-0, against yet another ranked opponent

No. 7 Coastal Carolina rides a second-half surge to sink the College to 0-2-1 vs nationally ranked teams NICK CIPOLLA FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR

After the team held its own in a draw at No. 4 North Carolina last week, William and Mary traveled to the Carolinas again to play another nationally-ranked opponent, No. 7 Coastal Carolina. The Tribe fell to the Chanticleers in a 2-0 shutout in Conway, S.C. Saturday night.

In the first half of the game, the Tribe (1-2-1) kept up an aggressive attack but didn’t produce a goal prior to the break. The match’s first shoton-goal came in the 10th minute from senior forward Jackson Eskay, which was saved by Coastal Carolina’s keeper Fernando Pina. Both teams kept up strong pressure on the other, but the Tribe found more shot opportunities in the first 45 minutes, outshooting the Chanticleers (4-0-1) by a 5-1 margin, with the Tribe defense preventing any

attempted shots on target. At the half, the scoreboard read 0-0.

In the second half, the Tribe proved outmatched and surrendered two goals. Head coach Chris Norris attributed the Tribe’s unraveling to a shift in the Chanticleers’ pace of play.

“We had a good first half tonight, but

did not cap it off with a goal,” Norris told Tribe Athletics. “Coastal started the second half with more urgency, making it difficult for us to find our front players.”

Coming out of the locker room, Coastal Carolina indeed appeared to increase its speed of play, firing a shot

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Junior keeper Mack Phillips scoops up a Chanticleer shot in the Tribe’s 0-2 loss in Conway, Sept. 12.

two minutes into the second half that went wide followed by a 57th minute goal after an exchange of several fouls. Junior goalkeeper Mac Phillips couldn’t prevent the shot from going in as the Chanticleers kicked the ball to the low right of the net, giving Coastal Carolina a 1-0 lead over the Tribe. “[Coastal Carolina’s] goal energized them and force[d] us to chase the game,” Norris said. “Unfortunately, we came up a little short … In many ways, they were the most difficult team against which we have played.”

For the remainder of the match, the Tribe played catch-up, trying to at least add another draw to its record with a tying goal. The best chances to score came in the 73rd minute. Freshman defender Marcel Berry fired a shot on goal, but Pina added another save to the night instead. Jackson Eskay took possession as a result of Berry’s missed shot and took one of his own, but Pina

once again prevented a William and Mary goal.

Just when the game appeared it would end 1-0, the Chanticleers’ Jair Espinoza, who made the first goal, saw an opportunity and fired another shot into an empty Tribe net in the 90th minute, taking the 2-0 victory over the unranked College squad.

In the aftermath of the second half, William and Mary was outshot 14-10 on the night and 6-3 on shots-on-goal.

Phillips made four second half saves.

With the loss, the Tribe falls to 0-2-1 against top 25 programs in 2015, after falling to No. 18 Louisville and tying No. 4 UNC. Up next, the College returns home to Martin Family Stadium for a midweek game against Conference-USA foe Charlotte (2-2), scheduled for Tuesday at 7 p.m. The series histroy stands at 1-1 between the two schools. Charlotte won last year’s contest 3-1.