The Flat Hat, September 20 2016

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Vol. 106, Iss. 5 | Tuesday, September 20, 2016

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Williamsburg’s biggest landlords GREG GRANGER

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Lone-G Inc and G-Square Inc

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A detail from Griffin Arms, an apartment complex built by Greg Granger in 2014. The complex houses three-room units.

Who’s your landlord?

Ratings site will provide students info on housing

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Brentwood Apartments

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Total Rental Properties in Williamsburg: 424 Source: City of Williamsburg Rental Data 2016

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The Student Assembly has eliminated some of the mystery students face when choosing their landlords.

SA President Eboni Brown ’17 announced in a campus-wide email that students could now review and rate their landlords or property managers in Williamsburg through the website www. whoseyourlandlord.com.

The idea for this website was conceived in a Neighborhood Relations Committee meeting and then implemented by SA. All of the data is public information acquired from the City.

According to SA Secretary for Public Affairs Jakob Stalnaker ’16 J.D. ’19, a lot of the issues related to student housing stem from a lack of information.

“We have a transient population,” Stalnaker said. “Students are trying to find off campus housing, but no

one knows who the good landlords are and who the landlords that charge substantial rent are. This is a way for people to understand the playing field of Williamsburg before the sign the lease. It helps maintain the flow of information.”

Stalnaker, SA Chief of Staff Sahil Mehrota ’17 and other Cabinet members input the data for all of the landlords and property managers in the City of Williamsburg. The website also includes limited licensing corporations. This website has also been used in cities like Washington, D.C. Off-campus student housing was a big-ticket item in May’s City Council elections. While all five contenders agreed that town-gown relations were much better than they had been in the past, all proposed solutions that would See LANDLORD page 3

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HOUSING

REAL ESTATE

College struggles to fill Tribe Square EDA voices concerns Real Estate Foundation looking to fill Mooyah, Subway units Some Williamsburg officials concerned about lack of input Crust Manager Michael Poissant said account and at the end of the month we CARLEY SCHANCK THE FLAT HAT

For many students, the closing of Mooyah this summer created an unsettling stir upon their return to campus in August.

When Mooyah closed down, the number of places students can spend their Dining Dollars decreased. Last year, it was one of three businesses open to students in Tribe Square.

In addition to The Crust, Pita Pit, and the now-closed Mooyah, Tribe Square used to house a Subway, which closed in June 2014. Although Tribe Square is located near main-campus, two restaurants there have closed in the last two years.

One common theory is that Dining Dollars — also referred to as Flex — has negatively affected these establishments’ ability to be profitable because businesses cannot tax purchases made with Flex.

he doesn’t think that the use of Flex is the issue.

“The majority of our business is college students,” Poissant said. “When students aren’t here, our restaurant generates no revenue.”

Sodexo, the company responsible for the College’s dining services, has a contract with the restaurants in Tribe Square.

The restaurants keep a record of how many students pay for their meals with Flex, and Sodexo covers the cost of the food.

In addition, as part of the negotiations, Sodexo gets a percentage of the money that Tribe Square restaurants make serving students.

“For every dollar that a student spends here, 17 cents kicks back to Sodexo,” Poissant said. “[The money that the students spend] goes directly into our

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Two Tribe Square properties in two years shut down, the properties remain vacant due to less public locations.

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write a check to Sodexo.”

Of the four spaces in Tribe Square that can house restaurants, the two spaces facing the back of the building have been the least successful.

Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration Sam Jones said that the location of these restaurants play a big role in their business.

“I think it is as simple as it’s out of sight, out of mind,” Jones said. “There was a lot of survey work done of students, saying, ‘What kind of things do you want?’ and basically every student said they wanted more variety. So the William and Mary Real Estate Foundation looked for clients … they looked for things that were a little bit different.”

Although the Real Estate Foundation is looking for new restaurants to fill the vacancies in Tribe Square, Jones said that many businesses are hesitant to rent open spaces because they face the back of the building instead of Richmond Road.

“We absolutely [are looking for new restaurants],” Jones said. “Our preference is whatever we think would serve and be of interest to students.”

According to Rachael McCarthy ’19, Mooyah shutting down was upsetting because it limited her dining options.

“I think we’re really limited to the dining halls,” McCarthy said. “We don’t have a lot of sources for quality food in the area.”

McCarthy said that she would like to see Mooyah replaced with a Chick-fil-A or a Taco Bell, or anything that is relatively inexpensive and healthy. She said she wanted options that were not dining halls to make better use of her Flex dollars.

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The abrupt purchase of the Williamsburg Days Inn peeved certain City of Williamsburg government officials, with some complaining about the few days notice given for the $3.05 million purchase.

Some members of the City Council are also worried about a potential decrease in tax revenue: with only six percent of the nine square miles of Williamsbursg zoned as commercial property, the loss of a medium-sized business has a noticeable effect on tax revenue.

City Council member Benming Zhang ’15 suggested that the loss of tax revenue would be the largest repercussion of the Real Estate Foundation’s purchase.

“Whether it’s tourism or small business, meal tax, tourism related, when you stay in a hotel, they generate room and meal taxes,” Zhang said. “And those go towards our marketing efforts in the Williamsburg area … So we’re going to be losing some serious revenue from this Days Inn and I can understand why there’s some people, especially on the EDA, who are very worried about this.”

Previously owned by Jalaram of Williamsburg, Incorporated,

the 38,600 square foot motel has 102 guest rooms.

The provisional purpose of the Days Inn building is to provide spillover housing for upperclassmen to allow residence halls to go offline for repairs. Since the purchase is by the Real Estate Foundation, the transaction is subject to local rules rather than merely state guidelines, as it would have been if the College purchased the property. The College has 90 days to obtain a special-use permit to convert the commercial property into residential property.

The Real Estate Foundation, founded in 2006, is a 501(c)(3) private nonprofit organization with nine board members from the College’s Board of Visitors, Foundation, administration, and outside experts in real estate. The foundation currently owns Tribe Square on Richmond Road and the Discovery II building in New Town, among other properties, and is funded only by the real estate it owns.

Zhang said he received a courtesy call about the College’s plans to go through with the transaction either the day of or the day before, but he said that to build true cooperation, the City and the College would need to have deeper lines of See EDA page 3

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THE BUZZ

Your courage and your kindness, both to one another, and to your students, have helped all of us through this.

— English Department Chair Suzanne Raitt to her colleagues at Paula Blank’s memorial

Coaching the College to compliance

Kiersten Boyce came out of college looking to make change

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For the College of William and Mary’s Chief Compliance Officer Kiersten Boyce, a career in compliance is not something she anticipated. While Boyce said she has found compliance to be exciting, she admitted that, as a college student, she wouldn’t have considered it an appealing field.

“When I was in college or law school, or even when I was a young lawyer, having a compliance job would have sounded absolutely dreadful to me,” Boyce said.

“I wouldn’t have known what it meant, but it would have sounded quite dull and censorious, but it’s actually strangely exciting and creative.”

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When I was in college or law school, or even when I was a young lawyer, having a compliance job would have sounded absolutely dreadful to me. I wouldn’t have known what it meant, but it would have sounded quite dull and censorious, but it’s actually strangely exciting and creative.

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Boyce attended Dickinson College for her first year as an undergraduate before she transferred to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she majored in international relations. During her undergraduate career, Boyce said academics were her focus.

“I was just really involved in my academics,” Boyce said. “I wasn’t a big sports fan, I wasn’t involved in student government, or much of anything else.

I just really enjoyed the library and the work.”

Boyce graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1994 and then headed to Georgetown University Law Center. She explained that she was led to law school by her desire to find a career in policy-making that would allow her to make community-based change. However, she didn’t find that change-based career right away.

After graduating from Georgetown

Law in 1997, Boyce started her career as a corporate lawyer.

While she explained that working in a law firm was not the policy-making and change-making job for which she had been looking, the work was challenging and served as a stepping stone for getting to her ideal job.

In 2006, Boyce ended up finding that policy and community-oriented job at the College when her husband joined the Marshall Wythe Law School faculty.

She began her career at the College leading the Office of Legal Affairs, but quickly found the opportunity to create a new role that she believed the College needed.

Boyce began advocating for the creation of a compliance officer position after seeing the complexity present in university operations.

She explained that most departments on campus did not have any one individual solely dedicated to issues of compliance, so she created the idea of a small central compliance office that would be a costeffective and practical way to support the College’s compliance.

Boyce explained that a compliance officer is typically a high-ranking official within an organization that is a charged with overseeing the prevention of unethical or illegal conduct.

While her idea for a compliance office was viewed favorably, it was unclear how it could be funded, as the College and the state of Virginia were going through a period of budget contraction.

Boyce credited College President Taylor Reveley’s commitment to the mission to create a compliance office with helping make the office into a reality.

Boyce launched the Office of Compliance and Equity in 2011.

She explained that making the transition from a corporate law firm to college compliance involved a significant change in mindset.

“What was difficult was getting away from the lawyer mindset,” Boyce said.

“There is still a lawyer mindset, but it’s not the same as what the compliance officer wants. I’m not here to defend William and Mary. I’m here to make William and Mary a better place by helping it live up to its ideals. Often that is the opposite of defending it, because I will dig out and find problems, so that they can be addressed and made better.”

In addition to her role as the College’s Chief Compliance Officer, Boyce holds several other titles including Title IX Coordinator, ADA/Rehabilitation Act Coordinator and Age Discrimination Act Coordinator.

These coordinator roles are focused on making sure the College is complying with civil rights laws.

It is under the Title IX coordinator role that Boyce most commonly has contact with students, as she works with students and investigates reports.

She works with two full-time investigators and a deputy Title IX

coordinator, along with the Dean of Students Office.

During her 10 years at the College, Boyce has seen how the College has changed the way it handles sexual assault, which included the College increasing its investment of resources to address sexual violence.

“In the whole 10 years that I’ve been here, William and Mary has always had its heart in the right place, and has had the desire to help students by including those who have reported an incident and to do the right thing,” Boyce said.

Boyce explained that the President’s Task Force on Preventing Sexual Assault and Harassment, which she has been a part of, helped form goals for the College’s compliance efforts.

When reflecting on her 10 years at the College, Boyce cited the formation of crossfunctional teams as one of her proudest accomplishments.

Boyce explained that information can get siloed within a large organization like a university, but she has worked to make sure there are teams that are collaborating with one another.

For example, Boyce has a standing weekly meeting with the Dean of Students Office.

Boyce also said that the creation of the College’s policy program, championed by Reveley, is another one of her proudest accomplishments. “[Reveley] led, and I’m really proud to have helped him implement and now maintain what we call our Policy Program, which is where our process of how we develop, how we decide the policies that we need, how we develop them, and how we get them out there, give notice to the campus community and get their input before they’re finalized,” Boyce said. “So it’s not a radical or I guess a really innovative idea, but it was just really exciting to get be able to build it here.”

While not a career path she had anticipated, Boyce found a way to make meangingful contributions in the field.

Looking to the future, Boyce said she is excited to be part of the implementation team for the Task Force on Race and Race Relations.

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Kiersten Boyce has worked at the College for 10 years.

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Friday, Sept. 16 — A larceny was reported on Prince George Street.

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Saturday, Sept. 17 — An individual was arrested for driving under the influence on Richmond Road.

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Saturday, Sept. 17 — An individual was arrested for possession of marijuana on York Street.

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Sunday, Sept. 18 — An individual was arrested for being drunk in public at Lafayette Street and Harriet Tubman Drive.

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ALUMNI

Letters, midterm papers travel from D.C. to Swem

Chancellor Bob Gates ’65 donates personal belongings to his alma mater KATE SANDBERG THE FLAT HAT

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates ’65 may be used to traveling first class, but his personal papers recently made a cross-country trip in a moving van, destined for the depths of the College of William and Mary’s Special Collections archives.

Three years after the announcement that Gates planned to donate his personal papers to his alma mater, the files were delivered to Earl Gregg Swem Library Thursday, Sept. 1, along with a gift of $50,000 to catalog and digitize them. Staff at Swem unloaded 106 boxes of personal photos, papers, schedules and films from a moving truck that had crossed the country from Gates’ home in Washington State.

They were re-shelved in the archives of Special Collections, adding to a collection of alumni documents that includes those of Glenn Close ’74, Linda Lavin ’59, Chris Bram ’74 and TV producer Bill Lawrence ’90, the screenwriter for the television show Scrubs.

The cargo traveled for two weeks to get to its final destination at the College, and its packaging and shipment required special planning on the part of both the Special Collections staff and of Gates himself, who had already organized many of his files into labeled boxes.

“I made an initial trip last summer to look at the papers and talk with [Robert Gates], and then made the trip recently to box them up and get them ready for transfer,” Director of the Special Collections Research Center Jay Gaidmore said.

“Most of the stuff was in locked file cabinets and most of the Department of Defense files were boxed up … He’s got a guest office, off of his house where he has his books and mementos and papers and all that kind of stuff. And then he had some stuff in a storage shed in the garage.”

Aside from a few newspaper clippings Gates had set aside, the Special Collections staff took a majority of Gates’ compilation, something that does not often happen for large donations. At least

four more boxes that were left behind have been added to the collection since its delivery, and the total number now adds up to 110. Many have yet to be opened, but among them lie papers from Gates’ time at the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Council, his presidency of Texas A&M University, his term as Secretary of Defense and his current role as Chancellor of the College.

Though the collection consists primarily of professional papers, Gates also included mementos from his start in graduate school at Indiana University and as an undergraduate at the College, filing away a few term papers he wrote as a student as well as his report cards.

“I had a chance to have dinner with him and he told stories of being in school here,” Gaidmore said. “He is very pleased to have his papers here at his alma mater.”

Gates graduated from the College in 1965 with a bachelor’s degree in history. He worked as the business manager of the William and Mary Review, as well as a dormitory manager and Orientation Aide. He was also an active member of Alpha Phi Omega, a service fraternity here at the College, and has continued to show his support for his alma mater by being a trustee of the William & Mary Foundation Board and speaking at Charter Day on multiple occasions.

Beyond the records of his academic career at the College, the collection also contains a variety of photos from Gates’ professional career, certificates and plaques, speeches, minutes from meetings he attended, electronic files downloaded from the Department of Defense as well as some of the original manuscripts from the books he has written. All materials were approved by the Department of Defense to be donated, so they do not include any classified material.

“Chancellor Gates’ papers will give researchers and scholars unique insight into recent political affairs and historical events. With primary documents covering his time at the CIA, National Security Council and as Secretary of Defense, the scholarship possibilities are immense,” Associate Director of Strategic Communications and

Outreach for Swem Tami Back said in an email.

Now that the papers have reached their final home, the Special Collections staff faces the task of processing and cataloging its new donation.

“The first step is to do arrangement and description,” University Archivist Kim Sims said.

“The photographs will be sleeved. The information on CDs and DVDs, whatever format, we will upload to our digital repository for permanent preservation.”

According to Sims, the biggest task for the staff will involve creating a collection guide which will include a short biographical note about Gates as well as what is in the collection, with a detailed list of the contents of each box. Ultimately, the staff said they hope to fully digitize most of the photos and parts of the collection to be available for researchers online.

“That’s going to take some time, but there is a plan to do that,” Gaidmore said. “They need to be processed first, arranged and described, and

made available to researchers, and then we’ll come up with a plan to mass digitize and make them available online for all those to see.”

While digitizing the collection will take time, an online archive will give students much easier access to the items, eliminating the security protocols and procedures that accompany the process of accessing the files in person.

Regardless of the amount of remaining work, the Special Collections staff said they hope to make the materials available to students as soon as possible, with at least a portion available by Charter Day. Though Special Collections caters to graduate students and scholars from around the country who work with its archive of materials, Gates’ papers will be accessible to undergraduates who wish to see them as well.

“Undergraduates are allowed to use anything we have,” Gaidmore said. “This stuff’s here for the students, not just scholars.”

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Swem librarians, archivists work to sort through Gates’ papers and create a guide to help students, scholars sort through them.

Website gives students, landlords space for open conversation SA follows up on NRC idea to help students learn responsibilities, rights as renters LANDLORD from page 1

improve them. City Council member Barb Ramsey ’75 included this proposed website in her platform.

“The point of this is not to be combative in any way,” Stalnaker said. “I really want to emphasize that. We are trying to advocate for students in a way that makes the dynamic between landlords and students more fair and more equitable. Part of that is through education about what students’ rights and responsibilities are as property renters.

Students should know what they have to do as property owners and should be able to have a mutual relationship of respect. We are not trying to attack landlords in any way.”

Landlords have the option to respond to students’ comments in two ways: they can comment back or report the comment if it is negative.

Stalnaker said he hopes that this will be a good way to promote conversation between landlords and student renters. Throughout the year, SA will be encouraging students to use the website.

According to Mehrota, the website ties into Brown and SA Vice President Hannah McKiernan ’17’s platform.

“Eboni and Hannah ran on a platform of inclusion, advocacy and diversity and this is just an extension of advocacy because it provides students an opportunity to have power and it is a resource for when students are deciding where to live,” Mehrota said. “People should be able to vote with their wallets to support people who are good.

It’s a great informational resource and it’s good to have in one location. It’s not word of mouth. It’s not like ‘Rate My Professor,’ it’s not anonymous.”

Of the four spaces in Tribe Square that can house restaurants, the two spaces facing the back of the building have been the least successful.

In the email that she sent out to campus, Brown advertised that the website was designed to increase dialogue between students and landlords.

“The website ‘Whose Your Landlord’ is a useful resource for students who are looking to live offcampus,” Brown said in an email. “The Student

Assembly has entered information for all of the landlords in Williamsburg and students can enter reviews. The goal of this site is to increase the dialogue between students and landlords, and provide more information about living off campus. Some of the features include listing rental costs and scoring landlords based on respect and

responsiveness.”

A day after Brown announced the website, a review was posted for one landlord, Gary Shelley, who received a 4.7 star rating.

Students can rank landlords on responsiveness, respect, information, condition, pests, safety and friendliness.

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Student Assembly executives entered City of Williamsburg rental data into and tagged locations on WhoseYourLandlord.com.

After College announces purchase of Days Inn, EDA expresses discontent Tax revenue, future businesses plans raise biggest concerns to members of Economic Development Authority EDA from page 1

communication.

“They’re the Real Estate Foundation,” Zhang said. “They’re non-

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EDA members expressed concerns after College announced purchase of Days Inn.

profit, they’re just like any private business … They don’t have to tell us, but I think as the College we want to look towards collaboration and strengthening our partnership, especially if they’re going to have major acquisitions of real estate parcels that are going to define, in one way or another, how our Midtown planning area is.”

The rezoning process may give the City and the College an opportunity to negotiate and discuss the purchase of the Days Inn and future opportunities for communication.

EDA Chair Adam Steely was not aware the Days Inn was on the market and did not receive a courtesy call about the City’s decision to purchase the property.

According to Steely, his primary concern with the transaction was the lack of dialogue leading up to the event.

“We share a lot of very strong interests with the College, we are intertwined with the College in ways that go back centuries, and what we’re looking for is how to capitalize on those synergistic energies that we can be working on and planning together,” Steely said. “And I don’t think that’s happening to the extent that it could be.”

Steely said that the lack of long-term communication between the City and the College regarding the transaction may have prevented a mutually beneficial outcome.

Citing the success of Tribe Square, a mixed-use property on Richmond Road owned by the Real Estate Foundation, Steely said there could have been conversations regarding a similar initiative for Days Inn. According to an August EDA Business Roundtable presentation by the Real Estate Foundation, the current real estate tax revenue for Williamsburg from Tribe Square is $18,385 dollars.

However, Tribe Square was built with the idea of mixed usage in

mind from the beginning.

There are no plans to demolish the Days Inn, and given the building’s current structure, a plan similar to Tribe Square is unlikely.

One of the EDA’s proposals for the City’s upcoming biennial Goals, Initiatives, and Outcomes process is to make strengthening the line of communication with the College a primary objective.

Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration Sam Jones, who, along with President Taylor Reveley, is the administration’s representative to the Real Estate Foundation, said he supported communication between the EDA and the College.

However, he noted that the Real Estate Foundation did have conversations with other members in the City leading up to the purchase.

Beyond the presence of communication, Jones said that real estate transactions are not often publicly done.

According to Jones, the College has had its eye on the Days Inn for several years as a potential purchase, but the owner only recently became interested in making a sale.

“There have been on and off conversations with [the owner of the Days Inn] for a number of years,” Jones said. “And so it just came to fruition when the owner came back to the Real Estate Foundation Board and said ‘okay, I’m interested in selling.’”

President of the Real Estate Foundation Nancy Buchanan voiced a similar argument.

“By their very nature, real estate negotiations cannot be entirely public until finalized,” Buchanan said. “We do have open lines of communication with City leaders and do brief the City about real estate decisions.”

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FACULTY

Campus remembers professor Paula Blank Faculty, students reflect on English professor’s life, character, accomplishments ISABEL LARROCA FLAT HAT MANAGING EDITOR

Students, faculty, friends and family gathered in Tucker Theater Wednesday, Sept. 14 to remember the life of English professor Paula Blank. Blank died Sunday, Aug. 21 at her home in Williamsburg.

English Department Chair Suzanne Raitt opened the memorial with condolences to Blank’s family and thanks to those in attendance, focusing specifically on members of the English department faculty.

“I also want to thank all my beloved colleagues in the English department, many of whom prepared their classes through a blur of tears and stood up in front of their students, still wracked by pain,” Raitt said. “Your courage and your kindness, both to one another, and to your students, have helped all of us through this.”

Raitt also noted the resilience of students in the time following Blank’s death, and expressed gratitude for their commitment to their daily studies in the wake of tragedy.

“You returned to campus to a community that had been torn apart by loss, and many of you were deeply affected on a personal level,” Raitt said. “Yet you came to class, you shared your ideas, and you kept going.

You are what make our jobs worthwhile.”

Following Raitt’s opening remarks, various members of the English department shared praise and personal anecdotes regarding Blank’s life and character. Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Kate Connelly described Blank’s attentive nature, humor and kindness to others.

“Since her loss, I’ve heard many people express the feelings about Paula that I myself had; that they felt close to her, because she was an incredible listener,” Connelly said. “She asked questions she meant sincerely, she really wanted to know the answers to them. And her sense of humor, graciousness, permeated everything that she did, everything that she said.”

Raitt noted Blank’s many accomplishments throughout her life, including two published books, numerous articles, two fellowships at the National Humanities Center, a fellowship from the American

Council of Learned Societies and a 2010 Plumeri Award for Faculty Excellence at the College. In addition to mentioning these achievements and accolades, Raitt also commented on Blank’s passion for language.

“Paula lived not just in a geographical place, but in language,” Raitt said. “And it wasn’t only that Paula lived in language, she lived for language too … Ever-widening circles of words joined her to people she loved, people she met, and even people she only imagined.”

Blank’s colleagues shared a variety of personal stories from their friendships with her, ranging from holiday memories to acts of professional kindness. English professor Deborah Morse recalled a Thanksgiving dinner she shared with Blank.

“At that Thanksgiving I had made carrot cake that was as dense as one could possibly imagine … and Paula ate an entire, I mean just an enormous piece,” Morse said. “And she said, ‘Oh this is so good — it’s really substantial!’”

English professor Erin Minear spoke about when she achieved tenure at the College, and how Blank took her out to dinner to celebrate.

During the meal, Blank noted that Minear’s menu looked unusual.

“She’d had everyone in the restaurant, all the wait staff, and everyone, sign the menu and say, ‘Congratulations, Erin!’ around the corners,” Minear said.

Literature and verbal expression — in the form of poetry, songs and extracts from plays — featured heavily throughout the memorial.

Morse read Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116, a poem often read at weddings.

Regarding its unusual place in a memorial service, Morse explained why she felt the poem fit the occasion. “[Blank and I] talked about this poem as of the endurance of love, of love beyond death, and it reminds me of Paula and how much we’ll miss her,” Morse said.

Other poems read included an extract from William Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations of Immortality,” “In Blackwater Woods” by Mary Oliver and “Requiem,” a poem written by English Professor Tom Heacox about Blank’s death.

Aidan Selmer ’17, a student of Blank’s, referenced a scene from

Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” where Juliet imagines parting from Romeo upon his death. “… Juliet remarks, ‘And when he shall die, take him and cut him out into little stars, and he shall make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night, and pay no worship to the garish sun,’” Selmer said. “All of us gathered here, we are each, all of us those stars, and I believe that she will be seen blazing in each one of us as we live our lives.”

The memorial closed with a performance of “Malcom-Calling Blues”

by English professor Hermine Pinson. Substituting Blank’s name for Malcom X’s (for whom the song was written), Pinson sang: “I said markings in the sand, bid the spirit come on in/But for calling, Sister Paula, make your sign on the wind/A note, low and guttural, let it change on the horn.”

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The community remembered Blank in the Tucker Theater Wednesday, Sept. 14.

STUDENT LIFE

New app draws students with free coffee promotion CoffeeCram makes effort to connect students with classmates looking for study buddies PETER MAKEY THE FLAT HAT

On the morning of Monday, Sept. 12, yellow fliers appeared in lecture halls and classrooms around campus reading, “Scan with Snapchat, we know you’re curious.” By mid-morning, with rumors of free coffee circulating, Aromas Cafe in Swem Library was experiencing a rush.

The fliers and free beverages were the work of founders Ryan Metzger ’18, Sravan Yeluru ’17 and six CoffeeCram interns who had gathered the night before to advertise the launch of their new app, CoffeeCram.

The two founders met in the Entrepreneurship Club, an organization that Metzger founded in the fall 2015 semester.

Metzger, who was previously majoring in finance, subsequently dropped out to pursue CoffeeCram full time, while Yeluru is still a full-time student.

During the spring 2016 semester, the two said that they shared mutual dissatisfaction regarding

their experiences at the College. They said they wanted to transform the nature of their education, which they described as one-directional.

Over this past summer, Metzger and Yeluru created a team composed of three developers, two designers, six marketers and three Snapchat specialists. CoffeeCram launched at the College Monday, Sept. 12, 2016, as a result of their efforts.

The founders said that they designed CoffeeCram to act as a medium for students on college campuses to connect to work on homework, review and ask questions. Upon opening the app, students are prompted to select their school, upload their course schedules, and then view and message other students enrolled in the same classes.

Yeluru said that CoffeeCram seeks to make large, lecture-style classes more personal. He continued that in many of the introductory science classes he has taken, he was often met with blank faces.

“College is a place to be collaborative,” Metzger said. “That’s what college was founded on. It’s a place for people to come together and share their

ideas.”

According to the founders, this vision was the inspiration behind CoffeeCram.

Nathaniel Clemens ’17 was one of the students who downloaded CoffeeCram, enticed by the free drink at Swemromas. Clemens said that he would typically use Facebook Messenger to contact other students in his classes about assignments or questions, but said he would consider using the app for collaborative purposes.

“To have a more concentrated place where you know you’re going to be talking about schoolwork, I think that’s a really cool initiative,” Clemens said. “It can facilitate that, and it can facilitate connections that you might not have made before.”

Abby Shukan ’19 said she was less convinced that the app would work. She said that the lack of students that have enrolled in her classes on CoffeeCram makes it difficult to use.

“I don’t really think people are using it,” Shukan said. “When I searched for my class, there were a bunch of classes that came up on the list, and a

bunch of them had zero people in them.”

Sidney Lykins ’19, on the other hand, said that she downloaded CoffeeCram to take advantage of the promotions used to advertise it.

“I downloaded it for free ice cream,” Lykins said.

Metzger and Yeluru used funding from investors to fund promotions at Aromas and Baskin Robins, where students could receive either a free coffee or ice cream by presenting the app to cashiers. When asked to provide data, Metzger and Yeluru said they were unable to disclose usage statistics and costs of the promotions.

While the College is the first test for CoffeeCram, Metzger and Sravan said that they hope to expand the app to other schools in the area, such as University of Virginia, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University.

“The way we see CoffeeCram is a proof of concept for this collaborative college future,” Yeluru said.

“We fundamentally want to change the way students study and the way students perceive college … that is really what we aim for the college of the future.”

STUDENT LIFE

Students help foster sustainability partnership with local farm Sodexo helped College collaborate on project leasing six rows of farmland at KelRae Farm NOAH PETERSEN THE FLAT HAT

Sustainability — a frequently used word at the College of William and Mary — is becoming a part of some students’ daily lives.

The head of the College’s sustainability internship program, Talia Schmitt ’18, has recently been working with dining service employees and local farmers to bring homegrown food to the dining halls.

Schmitt said that she met two local farmers at the Williamsburg Farmers’ Market who inspired her to get more involved.

“People in William and Mary dining and I were interested in finding more sustainable solutions to have local food, and we knew Michelle and Randy from the farmers’ market,” Schmitt said.

Michelle and Randy Gulden are the owners of KelRae Farm, located in nearby Toano, Virginia.

Schmitt collaborated with Sodexo, the food supplier for the College, in early 2016 to develop a partnership that would benefit both College students and KelRae Farm. The result was a lease of six rows of farmland for crops to be grown in each season.

Schmitt credits the school’s provider with much of their early success.

“It is amazing how supportive Sodexo has been … they not only

bought the lease but they are paying students like Mia and I to go out regularly,” Schmitt said.

Mia Chand is one of the sustainability interns who take trips out to the farm and help the Guldens with their crops.

The interns visit KelRae Farm three times each week, and on Saturdays they work with different volunteer organizations on campus to recruit as many interested people as possible.

Most recently, they brought along members of the Filipino American Student Association to help pick sweet potatoes.

Service chair for FASA Jolene Mafnas also happened to be a sustainability intern and said that she knew that working with KelRae Farm would be a worthwhile and educational experience for her group.

“I am interested in the whole sustainable food idea and how that relates to health,” Mafnas said. “We do events, you know, to educate people about our culture and heritage as well as service events.”

After picking and boxing yams this past Saturday, the students took a tour of the grounds, getting a close look at the animals, which include chickens, pigs, goats and a pony. A recent challenge for the program has been this summer’s record temperatures.

According to Michelle Gulden, the farm has struggled financially over the summer months.

“[We] lost probably seven or eight hundred dollars in seeds that we seeded that just lay dormant,” Gulden said.

Even with the farm’s installed drip irrigation, the various crops planted are not as healthy as they could be.

The College has signed another lease with the farm to cover both the fall and winter seasons, with the ultimate goal to have sustainably grown food inside the dining halls all year.

Food from the most recent harvest will come to the dining halls in early October.

“Our goal is to make it so that we have more fresh and healthy and local food in our dining halls but also that students and groups of students like FASA can come out to the farm, so we can bring students from William and Mary out to the farm so they can see where their food is coming from,” Schmitt said.

For Schmitt, this program is a small taste of what her future career could be like, as she wants to be an environmental educator, teaching children about the importance of sustainability.

She said that the program allows students to take a role in greater environmental efforts.

“Acting in a way that is beneficial for society and the planet and can be sustained for a long period of time,” Schmitt said.

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The College has fostered a partnership with KelRae Farm and owns six rows of farmland there.

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STAFF COLUMN

An unpleasant smell permeating campus

Julia Stumbaugh

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The roads too frequently traveled

Gwen Sachs

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Strolling by the brick buildings and looming trees, one needs only to observe the crosswalks at ten feet intervals, the lethargic students weighed down by backpacks crossing them and the occasional biker hastily pedaling across the road to realize that Williamsburg is home to a college campus. It is a pedestrian-heavy environment full of students who are often too distracted to be paying attention to the roads they cross. The driving rules of such a place should be simple: drive slowly, drive carefully, and don’t expect to get anywhere quickly.

However, last week a biker was hit by a car at Confusion Corner. Though this fortunately did not result in a serious injury, the most shocking aspect of this incident is that it did not come as a great shock at all. Accidents of this sort seem almost inevitable.

Despite the fact that this is a college campus and is therefore filled with absentminded pedestrians, reckless and impatient drivers flood the streets.

Students are honked at if they take too long to cross the street while other drivers glide over crosswalks while looking down at their cellphones instead of at the road. Stop signs are taken as mild suggestions rather than imperative road signs. Students have to risk their lives every time they want to brave Confusion Corner and enter Colonial Williamsburg. It makes the good old days of horse-drawn carriages seem all the more blissful.

(Thomas Jefferson never had to deal with this.)

Considering there are several student dorms that are a hazardous street away from the rest of campus, reckless driving poses a major issue. Many students are crossing streets multiple times a day while drivers cruise as

casually as if they were on a highway. Students may joke that an upcoming paper or exam makes the prospect of getting hit by a car seem pleasant, but the reality is that the danger provided by reckless driving is an unwelcome part of college life. Students should never have to fear for their safety just because they want to grab some food or return to their dorms.

Nearby drivers jeopardizing safety is not an issue unique to the College of William and Mary. Last year, a Virginia Tech student was killed after being hit by a car while biking around campus.

Pedestrian safety on college campuses is becoming an increasingly serious issue, and both drivers and students alike need to take precautions to avoid adding the College’s name to a list of statistics.

One possible solution to this problem is adding speed bumps in order to slow drivers and warn them of the type of environment in which they are driving. Although speed bumps may arouse complaints due to the added noise they create and the damage they could have on older cars, they are effective in slowing cars.

Lighted crosswalks could also be installed to prevent accidents in the dark. By improving street safety features, the College would put its students in a more secure situation.

An undeniable key to solving this issue is increased awareness. Drivers, whether they be townies, tourists or even students, need to be more aware of their surroundings.

Pedestrians should likewise never assume that a driver is paying attention or will stop for them.

Getting to class on time is not worth a life-changing or life-ending incident. It should be acknowledged that the seemingly-idyllic college campus is as a place of possible danger.

Only through this realization can the College truly become safer.

For now, the bikers and walkers will continue to put their safety on their line. However, hopefully there will be a

day when “the other side of their road” is

an accessible part of campus.

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Drivers, whether they be townies, tourists or even students, need to be more aware of their surroundings.

The College of William and Mary is home to one of the most beautiful campuses I’ve ever been on. The Sunken Garden is lined with beautiful trees and buildings; the brick pathways winding through campus are charming and aesthetically pleasing. There’s only one issue — the campus stinks.

I’m being very literal here. My daily walk through campus takes me down Landrum Drive, right by Earl Gregg Swem Library and, more notably, by a little building tucked away in the woods right by the footpath that at all hours smells strongly of warm feces. I’m convinced that Williamsburg’s humidity makes it even worse than it might have been; on some days, it feels like bathing in a warm poop stew.

This isn’t the only bad smell on campus. Last year, when I lived in the Green & Gold Village, the dumpsters you had to walk by to enter the area reeked so strongly on most days that my friends and I got in the habit of bursting into a sprint just to get past them faster. It’s my personal least-favorite smell, however, and so I write this to pose a question: Why does this beautiful, lovely campus have to smell so incredibly awful sometimes?

The College spends thousands of dollars on renovating new buildings, on tearing down old and ugly ones, on sprinklers spattering water against carefully groomed bushes and beautiful flowerbeds. Why place what I can only assume is a sewage plant so close to a path that students walk every

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Why does this beautiful, lovely campus have to smell so incredibly awful sometimes? day? Why not do anything to combat the nauseating smell?

If you don’t yourself have the dubious pleasure of getting to walk along the road that runs between the Millington stairs and Small Hall every day, try it sometime. Take a stroll and see what I mean. More likely than not, it’s going to reek.

William and Mary is one of the most beautiful college campuses in the country — and I’m from Charlottesville, so I have at least some knowledge on the subject. One thing I’ve never experienced walking around the University of Virginia, unlike here, is a constant smell along a walking path so bad I’ve gotten used to holding my breath as I walk past.

I don’t know what the solution to the awful smell along Landrum Drive is. I just think we should be considering how to find one. A campus this pretty doesn’t deserve to smell like poop.

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

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Imposter Syndrome

Carly Martin FLAT HAT BLOGGER

“I have written eleven books, but each time I think, ‘uh oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody, and they’re going to find me out.’ ” — Maya Angelou “I’m sorry, but of course my answer is wrong…”

— A woman in one of my science classes (after delivering the right answer) At the beginning of my senior year I find myself thrust into a lot of leadership positions. The two most pertinent ones are my thesis and new science-y job. I am honored to be involved in both of them, but these new responsibilities have rendered in me a fresh case of impostor syndrome in me, a condition that is shared by so many people at the top of their game.

What is impostor syndrome?

“Despite external evidence of their competence, those exhibiting the syndrome remain convinced that they are frauds and do not deserve the success they have achieved.

Proof of success is dismissed as luck, timing, or as a result of deceiving others into thinking they are more intelligent and competent than they believe themselves to be.” ­ — (Thanks) Wikipedia I think the nature of science predisposes its practitioners to impostor syndrome especially, what with its emphasis on disproof, competition, hierarchy, critique, and thorough analysis. These things are credited with facilitating the legitimacy of scientific discovery (and they are certainly present in all academic fields) but their contribution to impostor syndrome does make them suck a little bit.

I am a senior; I can cognitively grasp how I should be proud of my accomplishments (three cheers for completing 120 credits!), but I can’t help but feel despair knowing that I could have done more with my time here, that I don’t deserve the right to lead people, or a project, or advise others on their scientific work and/or college experience.

This is a flawed thought process, but it is all too common on our high-achieving campus. I’m dedicating this post to all the brilliant individuals who exist in high places with unfounded self-paranoia. I decided to write about the practices that help me re-frame my perspective on my work.

If you experience feelings of inadequacy while working on a goal or leadership position: — Make a list of what you have done so far: the extent of all of your contributions becomes a bit easier to appreciate when you can visually behold them.

— Remember that you aren’t lucky: it has to be nearly statistically impossible that every event that led you to your place of prominence was the result of random chance. You did something right along the way, and that action alone is enough to earn you the position you occupy.

— Think about how you can uniquely contribute: this practice is critical when tempted to compare yourself to those around you. You can’t possibly be the master of all knowledge and skill pertaining to every component of your goal. If an individual is more skilled in one of these aspects it doesn’t mean that you are eminently disqualified from your leadership position. It means that you have a nearby resource. Further, it shifts the balance of priority from straightforward technical skill to your own, one-in-amillion strengths. Thinking along these lines is especially important in a project with a heavy creative component, like a thesis.

— Do something unrelated but rewarding: if you are having a hard time coming up with a list of your personal strengths, this usually helps. It’s also healthy to get away from your project sometimes to view it as a complementary, not central, piece of your life.

— Spend time with people you like: preferably ones that don’t care too much about your project or leadership position. All the better for constructing a more realistic perspective on your work.

— Remember that you don’t have to represent anyone but yourself: this is a big one for me, and I think a lot of people who are unique in their field. There is a selfimposed pressure to represent everyone that resembles you that is absent from your area of study. For example: I don’t want to be caught “womaning” in my leadership position. This is a gross way of thinking, built upon my own stereotypes, and it is an illogically large-scale stereotype that I am imposing on all other women. I don’t presume to understand the “best” way for all women to lead, and no one should place such a broad expectation back on themselves. There exists a way for me, and you, to lead in our own respective ways, and that is all we have to worry about figuring out and representing.

— Talk to your advisor: sometimes changing your perspective or thought processes isn’t enough to make you feel better about your work. If there is a system or dynamic in your work environment that is making you feel inadequate, you may have to talk to a higher-up, or the source of conflict themself.

— Talk to a counselor: Always a good idea.

Email Carly Martin at camartin@email.wm.edu

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The lonely search for “one family”

Lindsey Carter

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Few words inspire as much dread as: “Unfortunately, this year we had so many applicants …” At this point, you might as well stop reading. We all know where that’s going, and it certainly isn’t good. Personally, I have heard this and variations of this sentiment more times than I’d like to think about.

For example: I have been rejected by all nine (previously existing) sororities twice. Yeah, not even just once, but twice. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t ashamed to say this. It would also be a lie to tell you that I have not been rejected by many other organizations on campus, either formally or informally.

I proudly walk around exclaiming that I’m a GDI, and that the system sucks — when in reality all I’ve really wanted is to be a part of it.

I’ve been through it enough times to have the questions memorized. What did I do wrong? Is it how I look? Am I too weird? Not weird enough? Is there something about me that is inherently unlikable? Trust me, I’ve been there.

I’m a junior now, and I still don’t know the answers. I probably never will. I look at others, those who seem to have found their “home” on campus, and can’t help but compare them to myself.

What makes them better than me? Have I done it all wrong? Where is my College of William and Mary family?

Most of the time, I feel like we aren’t one Tribe or one family, but instead many. And no, you aren’t automatically admitted into one just because you’re here. In fact, sometimes this campus can feel so divided into sub-groups that you can start to feel like your validation as a person is dependent on being in one.

That’s how I felt at the end of my freshman year. In fact,

in the spring of 2015, I recreated my Common Application account, and I fully intended on transferring to U.Va. (gasp).

I didn’t, obviously. Primarily because I feared my situation would be no better there than it was here.

As my sophomore year ensued, I was lucky enough to meet some awesome individuals. Most of these encounters were incidental, arbitrary, or just completely unexpected. Some of these developed into friendships I still hold today.

Yet I still heard and fell prey to the ever-present rhetoric: “Find your forever home, join *insert organization name here*.” I was convinced, in order to truly feel at home at the College, I needed to be a part of that organization. So I tried.

And I tried … and I tried again. Turns out, no matter how badly I wanted to be a part of their families, they simply did not want me back.

What I’m asking for is not pity or sympathy. I’m twenty years old, and lord knows the last thing I need is a pity party.

No, what I’m asking is for you to think about how you’re trying to build the community around you.

The next time you see a freshman (or sophomore, junior or senior for that matter — we’re all human beings) sitting alone in one of your classes, consider sitting next to them. Ask them their name and make them feel welcome. If someone shows up to your club meeting alone for the first time in the middle of the semester, reach out to them.

Do not let them walk out of the room without acknowledgment.

There’s a good chance they had to talk themselves into coming at all.

We’ve all been there, and we all know how isolating this campus can feel. My best friendships have not come out of the in-group/outgroup culture, but instead through little moments of connection.

We need to practice what we preach and stop isolating the people who aren’t “one of us.”

That’s not really what One Tribe, One Family is about, is it?

Finally, I would like to say welcome to the Class of 2020. If you feel lonely, you are not alone. I know how hard it can be, and I hope that you can find a home here at the College, maybe not through an organization, but through the people around you.

Email Lindsey Carter at lmcarter@email.wm.edu.

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Most of the time, I feel like we aren’t one Tribe or one family, but instead many. And no, you aren’t automatically admitted.

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The Muslim Student Association decorated Sadler for the event, adding lamps reminiscent of traditional Islamic architecture in honor of the holiday, which celebrates the end of Hajj, the annual, sacrificial journey to Mecca for Muslims.

A night of reflection and joy to mark Eid al-Adha

Eid al-Adha Banquet lets students and faculty learn about and celebrate Islamic culture TALIA WEINER THE FLAT HAT

On Friday night, a fusion of food, dance and religious harmony took over the Sadler Center to celebrate the Islamic holiday Eid al-Adha.

The College of William and Mary’s Muslim Student Association hosted the celebratory banquet, which was attended by over 150 students, faculty and community members. The event commemorated the holiday that marks the end of Hajj, the annual journey made by Muslims to Mecca as a sacrifice to God. Two student dance groups, Haasya and Dhamaal Bhangra, performed and Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Dr. Ogunnaike Oludamini spoke.

“Hajj is the pilgrimage where Muslims from all over the world come together, from different ethnic backgrounds, speaking different languages, of all different ages,” Abdelrahman Aboulatta ’18, president of the MSA, said. “So I think [this event] embodies that in the sense that this isn’t just for the Muslim Student Association, it’s for the entire campus because the point is to bring everyone together.”

Aboulatta, who joined the MSA his freshman year, said the club provided him with an opportunity to meet other students who were members of the Muslim faith.

“I came from a school where I was the only Muslim and didn’t really have that community,” Aboulatta said. “Being president, what I like most is creating an environment for the new freshmen, having that safe space where they can come make new friends and socialize, learn about the religion, and just have somewhere that they can always come back to.”

While many of the attendees were members of the MSA, other clubs on campus encouraged their members to attend the Eid festivities.

Sadie Meadows, a senior involved with the Wesley Foundation—

the United Methodist campus ministry­ —said the event was an opportunity to build connections with other religious groups at the College.

“We have made it our particular mission to reach out to all the other faith groups on campus and to be as inclusive as possible to all groups that we can think of,” Meadows said.

Freshman Hana Liebman, also a member of the Wesley Foundation, said he was thankful for the chance to be exposed to a new religion and to hear from an esteemed voice in the College’s Muslim community, Dr. Ogunnaike Oludamini.

“As someone who is not very familiar with the Muslim holidays,

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Students listen to Professor Oludamini talk about the role of sacrifice in Islam.

it was great to hear about it from someone who is Muslim,” Liebman said. “[Oludamini] spoke about it with such dignity and grace and beauty. It was really lovely.”

Oludamini’s speech revolved around Eid al-Adha’s theme of letting go of the physical in order to show reverence to God. “The holiday celebrates the sacrifice that Ibrahim or Abraham was about to make of his son. I always kinda wonder ‘cause that seems like a horrible thing to do, to sacrifice your son,” Oludamini, who brought his young son with him to the celebration, said.

The holiday is about giving up one’s physical possessions to God, according to Oludamini. By giving up those things, he said, one will inevitably find a new appreciation for their existence.

“You take your love for them not separate from your love for God, but integrate them into the same thing,” Oludamini said.

Oludamini, who was born in Nigeria, said that he grew up celebrating holidays associated with many different religions. This degree of unity is one that he said he is excited to see in the College community.

“Where I’m from in Nigeria, everyone celebrates everything.

Christians celebrate Eid and Muslims go to Christmas celebrations, so I think that’s a good way for us to celebrate, all together,” Oludamini said.

Freshman Xiaoshu Lin, a Chinese foreign exchange student, said she was fascinated with the same unification that Oludamini observed. Lin, who attended the event after seeing it listed in the weekly Student Happenings email, was surprised by the diversity of those in attendance.

“Back in my home, I feel like Islam is an exclusive religion; it’s not that inclusive. In this association, on this campus, in that room, the ambience is totally different,” Lin said. “I was quite surprised when I saw people of different races, of different colors on the same stage. I

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

How to deal if trying to talk dirty gets you tongue-tied

Don’t stress too much: when it comes to sex, actions really can speak louder than words

Katelyn Reimer

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS COLUMNIST

Since I challenged all of you to talk about sex and push the boundaries of your comfort zone, I decided to challenge myself this week. I want to talk about one of the few sex-related topics I have always felt uncomfy talking about: dirty talk.

I have no problem faking orgasm in public (à la Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally), but when it comes to dirty talking, I get tongue-tied.

I will happily give you a play-by-play of how to pleasure someone with a vagina, but I turn into that guy who texts back “haha, and then what (;” when I receive any sort of sexually-arousing text message. I even talk openly and proudly about masturbation, but in the heat of the moment, all

I can manage is to mutter profuse expressions of agreement and some vowel sounds.

I really like the idea of dirty talk, both over the phone and in the bedroom. I just happen to be totally incompetent at it. When it comes to receiving sexually explicit and arousing text messages, I just never know how to respond. You can only text back “wow” so many times. Do I reciprocate? Do I say “thank you?” I never know.

Once, I tried to respond to a “dirty text” in kind and was told I was doing it wrong. This could have been a result of the fact that the text I received was from someone with a penis, and, considering my lack of experience in the area of penises, I was pretty much guessing at what I could say that would be even remotely arousing.

I still have trouble dirty talking with someone with a vagina, despite my experience in the area of vaginas. I think I’m pretty good at talking about my wants and needs with my partner in

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casual conversation so that we have a really positive physical relationship. Within our physical relationship, however, I often feel I’m not saying enough.

Frankly, I’m getting tongue-tied writing all of this, which is weird for me because I talk. A lot.

I like talking. Let’s be honest, I love talking. My friends used to joke that I talk too fast because my mouth is trying really hard to keep up with my brain.

The perplexing thing about dirty talk for me is that my brain doesn’t shut off. I think sexual, arousing thoughts. Sometimes I even think them in full sentences. I usually just can’t bring myself to say them. It feels strange and forced somehow, especially when I’m writing out a text message.

I love talking, but I try to be very intentional about what I say. I spend a lot of time thinking while I’m talking. Maybe I overthink my “dirty

. . . in the heat of the moment, all I can manage is to mutter profuse expressions of agreement

talk” until it becomes awkward and feels like an embarrassing thing to say.

That’s what it really is, I think. There is something that embarrasses me about explicitly stating what I would like to do in a way that is intended to arouse. I worry so much about it sounding awkward instead of sexy, so I end up mute.

That’s pretty silly, don’t you think? I guess I never really recovered from that one time I turned off that guy during an explicit texting session.

What I want you to know is that it’s okay. It is really, truly okay that I never managed to find confidence in my dirty talking abilities. Who knows, I still have plenty of opportunity to work on that area of my sex life, but I also definitely do not have to. I am very confident about most of the other aspects of my sex life. I am confident in the way I express my sexuality, the way I communicate my wants and needs, and the way I am able to talk to others about sex in a more casual setting. My inability to talk dirty does not detract from my overall sexual confidence.

So, if you struggle with dirty talk like me, that is perfectly okay. If you don’t, that’s also okay.

Just keep doing you.

Katelyn Reimer is a Behind Closed Doors columnist who believes that the silent ones can also be the sexiest ones.

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Landscapes viewed from the front seat Richard Cozier’s Andrews Gallery art exhibit finds beauty in unlikely places NATALIE WALTER THE FLAT HAT

Richard Crozier doesn’t have a name you would recognize.

You probably didn’t know 30 years worth of his works, titled “Repository of Missing Places,” are sitting, waiting with bated breath, to be seen by you in the Andrews Gallery. I am now realizing most of you probably don’t even know where the Andrews Gallery is. Prepare to be educated.

Crozier mostly paints landscapes of Charlottesville, Va. Before you sigh and say, “Ah yes. I know what landscapes look like. I’ve seen them all! Landscapes are boring scenes for old people when they can’t go outside anymore. Do not come at me with this art!” — stick with me for a second.

Crozier’s landscapes are not your traditional dewy sprawling hills and glinting summer suns that beat you over the head with beauty and serenity and nature. Crozier subverts this expectation. He depicts dirt and dumpsters and street signs and half-empty car lots. He paints the ugly side of landscapes, the side that most artists hide behind their piercing mountains or gleaming lakes. He puts these ignored sites on view for all to see, and supposedly, appreciate.

And he does it while sitting in his car. He parks his car, pulls out a canvas and goes to work in the front seat, allowing paint to splatter on the interior, as his car becomes his studio.

But the question becomes: ‘How successful is this art?’

Is Crozier really creating art if it purposefully showcases something that’s not beautiful? What’s the big idea?

Here is where I find being in the Andrews Gallery particularly helpful. As you walk into the second compartment of the

gallery, these petite scenes of daily life surround you. A corner of an ashy, unremarkable house. A vaguely wet street with a few scattered cones. The back of a dump truck, black and heavy with trash. These places are unknown but somehow familiar.

We have all seen them; we know them like the back of our hand but prefer not to think of them. To us, these scenes are secondary, forgettable, temporary.

KYRA SOLOMON / THE FLAT HAT Crozier talks to students at the reception for his exhibit, “Repository of Missing Places,” featuring his landscapes.

But as you let these scenes inundate your senses, expecting the boredom to commence at any moment, you surprisingly find yourself wanting more. Trust me, I was surprised too. You look back at it, but you’re not sure why. See! Art galleries can be exciting too: mystery and intrigue around every corner. (Note:

Only one mystery and/or intrigue guaranteed per entry of Andrews Gallery, as there is only one corner to come around.)

This phenomenon might have something to do with Crozier’s technique. He was trained as an abstract artist at the University of California, Davis, which adds to the unique flavor of Crozier’s landscapes. Rather than just replicating the focused reality that he observes, Crozier’s landscapes act as art objects.

The interest occurs in the depiction of the image, but also in the treatment of the image from the artist’s perspective. The landscape is now a product of both reality and the artist.

His handling is delicate yet forceful, as the thick strokes allow the image to vacillate in and out of clarity. And this is where he hooks you. Viewers want to grasp the image, to understand it completely, but they can’t. And I think Crozier would argue that they shouldn’t, because these scenes are constantly flying past our perception, and to hold them indefinitely is to fight their nature.

His works capture the transitional reality of the world around us that makes itself known in the tiniest details. Our own landscapes flutter on the boundaries of liminal space, just asking us to notice them. And when we finally do, we find ourselves hesitantly liking it, even though it isn’t Beauty with a capital B. We recognize our own intermediary experience, and see that it’s not so scary. In fact, it’s the most normal thing in the world.

Crozier succeeds in allowing a viewer to find comfort and, dare I say, a little bit of beauty, in facing the reality that life is transitional and ugly and made up of dirt piles, and that’s ok.

Basically, don’t hate on the construction around campus — that’s all Crozier and I are saying.

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CROSS COUNTRY

Men, women win Tribe Invite

Rome dominates women’s race, Hoyle leads strong men’s team effort in home wins JACOB ROSS THE FLAT HAT The future looks bright for William and Mary cross-country — and the present isn’t too shabby either.

Despite a number of key contributors sitting out to rest for next week’s Panorama Farms Invitational hosted by Virginia, both the men and women were victorious in Friday’s 58th annual William and Mary Cross-Country Invitational.

Aided by a slew of sparkling runs from underclassmen, the men and women topped the four-team races with 26 and 25 points, respectively.

The front pack was crowded in the early stages of the women’s race, but would whittle down to four runners as the race progressed. Unattached runner Kathy Newberry, Charlotte runner Caroline Sang, and Tribe juniors Regan Rome and Molly Breidenbaugh were well clear of the chase pack as they passed the two mile marker. It was there Rome made her move. The All-American set a scintillating pace and dominated the final mile to win her second consecutive W&M Invitational title, covering the 5K distance in 17 minutes, 31 seconds. Breidenbaugh would pull away from Newberry and Sang

with a strong last 400 to provide the Tribe with a 1-2 punch in the results.

Junior Aubrey Gordon finished sixth in 18:22, and sophomores Hope Blossom and Rachel Snyder secured the team victory by finishing 11th in 18:55 and 14th in 19:02. Charlotte finished second with 30 points, Hampton finished third with 85, and Howard finished last with 110.

“I just wanted to hang on with the leaders and work the last mile,” Rome said. “I think we had a really good showing as a team. We’ve been in a really big phase of training, so for where we are in our training, everyone looked really good today.”

Head women’s coach Natalie Hall was also pleased with the team’s performance.

“The whole race plan for my top group was to see how comfortable we could be through two miles sitting on the leaders, and then go from there,” Hall said. “I thought that Regan and Molly both looked really strong over the last mile and the rest of the group looked really good. I’m very excited about some of the younger girls on the team.”

In the men’s 6K race, Norfolk State duo Felix Kiprotich and Ronald Korir broke away from the field early and crossed the finish line nearly simultaneously.

Kiprotich was credited with the victory in 18:37.8 and Korir was clocked at 18:38.1.

Junior Chris Hoyle led the Tribe contingent in 18:56, closing hard over the last 1200 to clinch third place.

“Going into the race, the goal was to stick together through three miles and just stay as close to the front pack as we could,” Hoyle said. “NSU had some really good guys up there who pulled us along.

I felt pretty good with 1200 to go and so I decided to kick it in. I’m really happy with everyone’s performance today.”

Reilly Covert (19:07), Cavender Salvadori (19:09.2) and Andrew Cacciatore (19:09.3) crossed the finish line in fourth, fifth and sixth place right behind Hoyle. True freshman Cooper Leslie placed eighth in 19:12 to round out the scoring for the Tribe. Norfolk State finished runner-up with 33 points as Charlotte scored 88 points and Howard scored 108.

“I thought we did really well,” head coach Chris Solinsky said. “We held out six of our top seven runners because we’re racing next week at the Panorama Farms Invite, just didn’t want to risk getting them beat up. But I thought it was a really good opportunity for the other guys that ran.

There was a good chance for them to rise

COURTESY PHOTO/ TRIBE ATHELTICS

Junior Regan Rome blew away the competition to win her second straight Tribe invitational.

up and shine and gain some momentum for the rest of the season.”

A number of underclassmen seized that opportunity Friday. Covert and Cacciatore are redshirt freshmen, while Leslie and Tyler Cox-Philyaw, who placed 12th , are true freshmen.

Solinsky and Hall are excited by the progress of their newest runners, and both credit the culture of the team as being key to the freshmen’s successful transition to

the collegiate level.

“All of our freshmen came in and really bought into the culture of the team,” Solinsky said. “We’re talking about ‘One Tribe, One Family’ constantly and they’ve come in and committed to doing the work and day by day, week by week, we’re getting better.”

The Tribe will race next at the Panorama Farms Invitational in Charlottesville, Va. Friday, Sept. 23.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

College falls in overtime to High Point, rebounds to beat Marshall

Tribe concedes three straight to blow 2-0 lead Friday, protects lead on Sunday as Segan nets three weekend goals HENRY TROTTER FLAT HAT ASSOC. SPORTS EDITOR Fresh off of receiving the Colonial Athletic Association Rookie of the Week award, redshirt freshman forward Sarah Segan continued her scoring pace this weekend. Segan scored three goals as William and Mary (5-3) split a pair of home games this weekend, dropping a 3-2 overtime loss to High Point (4-4-1) before beating Marshall (24-2) 2-1 Sunday.

Coming into Thursday’s game, the Tribe looked poised to extend its winning streak to a season-high three games. High Point had previously lost four straight, and the College was kicking off a fivegame home stand at Martin Family Stadium. The Tribe started the game with the energy that they have brought to every first half this season. At halftime, they owned a 12-0 shots advantage, forcing 7 saves from High Point goalkeeper Alex Hank.

Although they could not break through before the half, the Tribe was on the board early in the second half. Junior defender Haley Kent fired in a cross which led to a scramble in the box, and a Panther defender’s attempted clearance found its way into the net.

Segan doubled the College’s advantage after 79 minutes, finishing

off a through pass from junior forward Sami Grasso. With just 10 minutes to play, it looked to be smooth sailing for the Tribe with a 2-0 lead.

However, immediately after the ensuing kickoff High Point was aggressive, and Panthers forward Meredith Dunker pounced on a bouncing cross to pull one back later in the same minute. High Point completed the comeback three minutes later, as the Tribe conceded a penalty kick. Panthers forward Kelsey Perrell converted the penalty, and neither team was able to pull ahead before the end of the second half.

Both teams had chances in overtime. High Point substitute goalkeeper Emily Lyon pushed wide a shot from Kent, and Segan also saw a shot saved. High Point notched the winner in heartbreaking fashion after 99 minutes, as Panthers’ forward Tyler Gordon fired a shot from the top of the box that deflected off a Tribe player, sending redshirt junior goalkeeper Grace Smith the wrong way.

The Tribe got back on track against Marshall, with Segan on the scoresheet twice. Just five minutes in, junior midfielder Rachel Moore knocked a ball over the top of the Thundering Herd’s defense.

Segan reached the ball first, and kept her cool to beat the goalkeeper one versus one.

MEN’S SOCCER

Crushing late goal bests Tribe Last second Delaware goal halts five game win streak JOSH LUCKENBAUGH FLAT HAT STAFF WRITER William and Mary had its five-game winning streak snapped Saturday evening in heartbreaking fashion, falling to Delaware 2-1 in the last second of overtime in its first 2016 Colonial Athletic Association match.

The Tribe (5-2, 0-1 CAA) was on the back foot from kickoff, creating virtually no scoring chances in the first half. The College failed to record a shot in the opening 45 minutes, compared to seven fired by the Blue Hens (6-1, 1-0 CAA), attempting a lone corner kick.

However, the Tribe went into the locker room unscathed thanks to a strong defensive effort headlined by redshirt junior goalkeeper Phil Breno.

Breno made four of his career-high nine saves in the first half, keeping the College in the match despite his teammates’ inability to manufacture opportunities on the other end of the pitch. The rest of the defense also played its part, coming up big with two key blocks to keep Delaware off the score sheet.

Breno and the back line’s first half heroics paid off in the beginning of the second half, as the College took the lead courtesy of a 49th minute goal by senior forward Reilly Maw. Maw received a pass from freshman midfielder Reeves Breno Trott, dribbling to his left before depositing the ball in the net from 10 yards out, his second goal of the campaign.

The Blue Hens quickly pushed for an equalizer after the surprise goal, putting shots on frame in the

51st and 59th minutes, but Breno once again came up with crucial saves. With Delaware’s pressure mounting, junior forward William Eskay received a yellow card in the 61st minute.

The Tribe defense finally conceded in the 66th minute as Delaware forward Guillermo Delgado beat Breno with a closerange strike to knot the score at one apiece. The Blue Hens nearly took the Maw lead a couple minutes later, but Delaware midfielder Ben Sampson’s effort was denied by the crossbar. Both teams had chances over the final 20 minutes, but neither squad could find the finishing touch, and the match went to overtime.

Similar to the first half, the College could not construct a scoring chance in the first 10-minute overtime period. The Blue Hens attempted two shots, one of which was on-frame and saved by Breno.

The Tribe had a golden chance to take the lead early in the second period of overtime, but junior forward Antonio Bustamante’s effort was saved

by Delaware keeper Todd Morton. The Blue Hens snatched victory with the very last kick of the game, Jaime Martinez knocking the ball across the goal line as time expired to give Delaware the hard-fought 2-1 win.

After this heartbreaking road loss, the Tribe will host No. 2 North Carolina at Martin Family Stadium Tuesday night. The match is scheduled to kick off at 7 p.m.

In an even first half, Smith had two saves as both goalkeepers were tested.

Marshall evened proceedings in the 18th minute. Marshall forward Shontelle Smith finished off an incisive attacking move, sweeping home a pass from the right side. The game was tied at halftime.

The College has a lot of experience in these situations. Of their nine games this season, seven have been decided by one goal.

The Tribe ratcheted up the attacking intensity in the second half, and Segan grabbed her second goal of the day in the 59th minute.

Sophomore midfielder Mackenzie Kober’s shot was saved right into Segan’s path, and she made no mistake of tapping into an open net.

There were nervous moments — Marshall forward Jordan Sackaris clattered the Tribe post with a shot, but the College’s defense remained stout to claim a win in their final non-conference game.

The Tribe now dives into their CAA schedule, opening Sept. 23 with a rematch of last year’s CAA Championship Game against James Madison (3-6), in which the Tribe let a 2-0 lead slip away in an eventual 3-2 loss. The team will then end a five-game home stand by hosting Towson (3-6-1) Sept. 25 and Elon (4-4-1) Oct. 2.

SCOREBOARD No. 8 Football (2-1) Sept. 17: W, No. 13 William and Mary 35, Norfolk State 10 Colonial Athletic Association Albany (3-0, 1-0)..........................1.000...........W3 Stony Brook (2-1, 1-0)..................0.667...........W1 Villanova (2-1, 1-0).....................0.667............W2 Delaware (2-1, 0-0)......................0.667............L1 James Madison (2-1, 0-0)............0.667............L1 William and Mary (2-1, 0-0)........0.667...........W2 Elon (1-2, 0-0)..............................0.333...........W1 New Hampshire (1-2, 0-0) ..........0.333............L1 Maine (0-2, 0-0)............................0.000...........L2 Richmond (2-1, 0-1).....................0.667...........L1 Towson (1-2, 0-1).........................0.333............L1 Rhode Island (0-3, 0-1)................0.000............L3

Season leaders through three games Senior quarterback Steve Cluley 580 yards, 3 touchdowns, 4 interceptions Redshirt freshman tailback Albert Funderburke 27 rushes, 237 yards, 4 touchdowns Junior receiver DeVonte Dedmon 15 receptions, 273 yards, 2 touchdowns Redshirt freshman free safety Corey Parker 20 tackles, 2 interceptions

Men’s soccer (5-2, 0-1 CAA)

Women’s soccer (5-3)

Sept. 13: W, College 1, Georgetown (1-5) 0 Sept. 17: L, Delaware (6-1, 1-0) 2, College 1, Sept. 20: North Carolina (5-1) 7 p.m.

Sept. 24: at UNCW (4-1) 7 p.m.

Sept. 28: James Madison (0-6-1, 0-1-0) 7 p.m.

Sept. 18: W, College 2, Marshall (2-4-2) 0 Sept. 23: James Madison (3-6-0) 7 p.m.

Sept. 25: Towson (3-6-1) 2 p.m.

Oct. 2: Elon (4-4-1) 2 p.m.

Oct. 7: at Northeastern (5-4-1) 6 p.m.

Field hockey (3-4)

Volleyball (6-7)

Sept. 16: W, College 3, Richmond (2-4) 0 Sept. 18: W, College 3, Davidson (1-6) 2 Sept. 25: Liberty (1-4) 1 p.m.

Sept. 30: Towson (2-6) 7 p.m.

Oct. 2: Delaware (6-2) 7 p.m.

Oct. 9: at Northeastern (4-3) 1 p.m.

Oct. 11: Viginia (4-4) 5 p.m.

Oct. 14 Drexel (4-4) 6 p.m.

Sept. 17: L, South Carolina (12-0), College 2 Sept. 17: W, College 3, Davidson (4-9) 2 Sept. 21: at James Madison (8-5) 7 p.m.

Sept. 25: at Elon (13-3) 2 p.m.

Sept. 30: at Northeastern (9-4) 7 p.m.

Oct. 2: at Hofstra (10-3) 1 p.m.

Oct. 7: Col. of Charleston (7-5) 7 p.m.

Oct. 9: UNCW (10-2) 2 p.m.

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FOOTBALL

COMMENTARY

Stepping up, settling in Tribe football finding its rhythm

Chris Travis

FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR

Spartans run over KAYLA SHARPE / THE FLAT HAT

Junior running back Jonathan Dunn speeds past Norfolk State defenders for a 16-yard rushing touchdown, his first of two in the home opener.

Rushing TDs lead to win in Zable renovation debut NICK CIPOLLA FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR

their own 8-yard line on a drive that had a total of -13 yards.

“We started playing with a little more enthusiasm on defense … and a little more confidence,” Laycock said. “Our With nine and a half minutes on the clock in the fourth secondary guys were breaking some of the passes, being quarter, No. 13 William and Mary already held a 28-10 aggressive and going after them, and that’s something we advantage. On the second play of the Tribe’s drive, redshirt haven’t done a lot of really.”

Following the stop, the score remained stagnant as Cluley freshman tailback Albert Funderburke sped past multiple defenders for a 57-yard touchdown run to put the nail in threw his second interception of the game as he threw down Norfolk State’s coffin, cementing victory in Saturday’s Zable the middle right to NSU cornerback Sandy Chapman. He took responsibility for his picks after the game.

Stadium Renovation Celebration.

“They were both my fault,” Cluley said. “One was, I think, With a final score of 35-10, the College (2-1) overcame a slow start to win its home opener over the Spartans. All there were two guys stacked over each other, the guy in front five of the Tribe’s touchdowns came via the young running didn’t think I was throwing to him so he didn’t put his hands back pair of Funderburke and junior Jonathan Dunn, who up, miscommunication. Second one, I thought the route was going to go a different way. It was on me though; I’ve got to combined for 226 of the team’s 277 rushing yards.

“First home game you want to come out and make a good be smarter with it.”

After receiving the ball from another defensive stop — this first impression, and I think we did,” head coach Jimmye Laycock ’70 said. “There were some mistakes, we were rough time allowing just four yards — the College offense opted to around the edges a few times and that’s what we’ll work on, march down the field with no passes, taking nine consecutive rushes for 65 yards but by and large to score with 3:10 we took care of NORFOLK STATE WM remaining in the business.”

VS third quarter.

The game began The carrier on at a slow pace, SPARTANS TRIBE the touchdown with the Tribe (2-1) (1-2) was once again and the Spartans (1-2) trading three-and-out drives for the majority of the Funderburke, his second of the night. The score was 28-10 first quarter. Norfolk State found the endzone first when finally after several missed opportunities, the game appeared quarterback Greg Hankerson charged in from 26 yards out to be out of reach.

Entering the fourth quarter, Norfolk State continued to at the 5:49 mark. The College responded quickly with the first of Funderburke’s three touchdowns came in while 1:48 struggle against the Tribe defense. With a sack by redshirt remained in the opening quarter. Funderburke took the ball freshman Bill Murray and another by freshman linebacker in for the last yard of the drive, but the main highlight was the Arman Jones, the Spartans failed to convert on 4th and 13 set-up. Senior quarterback Steve Cluley threw to the deep to give the College the set-up for the final score of the night. right side of the field on 2nd and 17, somehow finding junior Murray talked about the pacing increase after halftime.

“We’ve started out pretty slow the past few games, but wideout Daniel Kuzjak 45 yards away for the completion.

With the game tied at seven, the second quarter Tribe once we got in the locker room we knew what we had to do,” offense was all Dunn, as he broke open the scoreboard with Murray said. “We had enough exposure to the offense and both of his rushing touchdowns. After a NSU three-and- we really just came out there with everything we’ve got.”

Funderburke shined on a two-play, 61-yard drive with his out right before the quarter break, Dunn struck with a 16yard touchdown that had been set up by a pair of Cluley 57-yard rushing touchdown. With the score at 35-10, the final completions to wide receivers sophomore Jack Armstrong score was set as NSU punted twice more and sophomore and junior DeVonte Dedmon, putting the hosts up 14-7. backup quarterback Tommy McKee knelt to let time run out Finding a rhythm earlier than in the first two games of the and seal the Tribe’s second win of the game.

The Tribe dominated on the stat sheet, led by season, the defense quickly dispatched the Spartans, only allowing seven yards on the following drive and giving the Funderburke’s 137 net rushing yards and Dunn’s 89 rushing College the ball near midfield after a punt. Funderburke and yards. After the game, Dunn credited the offensive line for junior tight end Andrew Caskin kept the ball moving, though the success of the running backs.

“They were getting movement all night,” Dunn said. the Tribe entered the red zone via a Spartan personal foul that put the line of scrimmage at the NSU 14-yard line. A pair “Obviously they created big holes as you saw, and that’s just of Funderburke rushes followed, but Dunn ran the final yard opportunity meeting preparation right there. This is what we work for every day at practice, it should happen like that.” for his second touchdown, making the score 21-7.

Hankerson led his team’s rushing, cementing him as a Norfolk State did not go scoreless in the second quarter, however, as NSU kicker Cameron Marouf drilled a successful solid dual-threat, but the defense held him to 43 net yards 36-yard field goal on 4th and 9. With 10 points and 2:53 rushing and 125 yards passing. Cluley went 14 for 24 with remaining in the first half, the Spartans would not score again the two picks and one sack, throwing for 179 yards passing. for the remainder of the contest. The College looked poised Defensively, the Tribe had three sacks and held the Spartans to push the score to 28-10 before the break, but on 3rd and to 11 first downs to the College’s 23 and a 5 for 16 third down goal on the 6-yard line, Cluley threw his third interception of conversion rating. Senior linebacker Stephen Lubnow led in the season as Spartan defensive back Bobby Price picked off tackles with eight.

As a result of the three touchdowns and game-high the three-year starter in the endzone. Entering halftime, the rushing yards, Funderburke was honored with Colonial Tribe led 21-10.

Coming out of the locker room, the College had renewed Athletic Association Rookie of the Week honors. In the top 25 energy as it appeared to pick up its pace on both sides of the polls, the College moved up five spots to No. 8.

With the non-conference schedule complete, the College ball. After a three-and-out to start the half, the Tribe made up its effort on defense with a significant sack by junior begins its CAA title defense this Saturday at Zable Stadium defensive end Matt Ahola that brought NSU back 17 yards. when it hosts Elon for the family weekend game. Kickoff is Facing 4th and 23, the Spartans were forced to punt from scheduled for 7:30 p.m.

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Football returned to Williamsburg on Saturday night, as William and Mary hosted Norfolk State in the newly-renovated Zable Stadium. While the pregame was full of fireworks, the College didn’t come onto the field with much spark. Despite a weak start, the Tribe quickly settled in and turned in a strong performance in the trenches, winning battles on both the offensive and defensive lines to dispatch the Spartans 35-10.

Norfolk State began the game looking to establish their ground game.

For a while, it appeared that the Tribe defensive line was in trouble as NSU dual-threat quarterback Greg Hankerson scampered through several tackles to move the chains on third down on the Spartans’ opening possession. The next time he ran the ball, he escaped on 4th and 5 to bounce to the outside for a 26-yard touchdown run.

The Tribe defensive line regained its mojo on the next possession, in large part due to the insertion of senior defensive tackle VJ Davey into the rotation. Davey was immediately effective in eating up blocks and making plays on ball carriers. He finished with four tackles, including one for a loss. After entering the game, his high level of play was matched by his teammates on the line. The defensive ends dominated the edge of the line, with senior Peyton Gryder finishing with four tackles and junior Matt Ahola finishing with three tackles and a pivotal sack. The Tribe’s comfortable margin of victory can be largely attributed to the defensive line’s dominance, constantly pressuring Hankerson and closing up running holes before they even opened for the Spartans.

While the Tribe defensive line was routinely in the Spartan backfield, the College’s offensive line made sure that no Spartans would disrupt the Tribe running game. The offensive line was consistent, opening holes that led the way to 277 yards and five touchdowns on the ground with a whopping average of 7.1 yards per rush.

The College’s run game was without its star, as senior preseason Colonial Athletic Association First Team honoree Kendell Anderson was out with injuries to his shoulder and ankle. The Tribe remained confident in its run game, using a dual running back system featuring junior Jonathan Dunn and redshirt freshman Albert Funderburke sharing carries. Funderburke excelled against the Spartan defense, exploding out of the backfield en route to 137 yards and three touchdowns.

Although he’s only played three collegiate games in his career, Funderburke has already exhibited a devastating combination of speed and elusiveness. On multiple occasions, Funderburke appeared to be bottled up, but slipped through the hands of multiple Spartan defenders to pick up extra yards after contact. His most electric play of the night came when he went 57 yards untouched for his third touchdown of the game. When he received the handoff, he looked to have a nice hole to run through, but didn’t look to have a ton of openings in the Spartan secondary. Instead, Funderburke accelerated away from a pair of safeties to blitz his way down the right sideline and into the end zone.

With the return of Anderson imminent — head coach Jimmye Laycock suggested postgame that he could have played today if needed — the future of the Tribe backfield looks bright. Anderson will have plenty of motivation to prove he is just as dominant as last season, in which he ran for 1,418 yards and 16 touchdowns. Funderburke will look to continue his strong start to his rookie season. I have confidence that Laycock will be able to find the right combination, perhaps in a manner similar to Anderson and Mikal AbdulSaboor ’16 last season.

Despite the successes of the lines and the running game against Norfolk State, many questions remain in other areas of the field as CAA play begins next week. Senior quarterback Steve Cluley still is struggling to hold onto the football, as he tossed two more interceptions against the Spartans. After the game, Cluley took responsibility for both interceptions and acknowledged that he must improve on making mistakes.

Last season, the Tribe was at its best during a six-game winning streak where Cluley threw just one interception to go along with six touchdowns.

Conversely, he has already thrown four interceptions this season in just three games. During last year’s winning streak, Cluley was in complete control of the offense, which scored at least 31 points in each of the wins. For this year’s Tribe football team to reach its full potential, Cluley must regain such a level of control of the game and drastically cut down on his turnovers.

If Cluley returns to form and the run game continues to dominate, this year’s Tribe offense could be something special.

FLAT HAT SPORTS TALK For an in-depth conversation between Flat Hat Sports Editors Nick Cipolla and Chris Travis about this weekend’s football game, check out this week’s Flat Hat Sports Talk, available online at flathatnews.com and on Soundcloud under The Flat Hat.

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Redshirt freshman tailback Albert Funderburke rushes through for a 57-yard touchdown.