The Flat Hat September 25, 2018

Vol. 108, Iss. 14 | Tuesday, September 25, 2018

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The College of William and Mary hosted Women’s Weekend Sept. 22-24 in celebration of its 100th year of co-education with performances, panels and keynote lunches with female graduates from the College.

Snapshots: Portraits of a World in Transition, led by journalist Anna Smith, included interviews Smith had done over the years, which she performed in the Sadler Center’s Commonwealth Auditorium. In “A Heavy Sense of Resignation,” Smith read the remarks of a woman named Kiersta Kurtz-Burke, who worked as a physician at the nowdefunct, publicly funded Charity Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Five days after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, members and staff of the hospital had yet to be evacuated. Kurtz-Burke, who tried to remain optimistic, said she didn’t realize what her patients already had — that they would be the last ones evacuated.

“It wasn’t a shock to anybody,” Kurtz-Burke said in her interview with Smith. “But the fact that it wasn’t a shock to people was so shocking to me. You just see the desperation of being poor in this country, and in some ways, the distress — I mean, deep down, that this is not the first time that this has happened to people. You know, I’m privileged — this is the first time that I have ever been totally abandoned by my government. But this wasn’t the first time for my patients or the nurses or the other people that worked at Charity Hospital.”

In Powering Possibilities in the Nonprofit Sector, moderated by Lynn Miller ’72 M.Ed ’73, three College alumnae discussed their work in the community along with their successes and challenges in the different spheres of their lives as women.

Director of Student Leadership Development at Vanderbilt University Krystal Clark ’05 said that during her volunteer work, she discovered that organizations struggled to make ethical decisions and would not recognize the impact on other volunteers who took on the brunt of those decisions. When she became the president of the Junior League of Nashville, Clark said she was motivated to change the approach to tough personnel decisions.

“As women, sometimes we shy away from having super hard,

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College celebrates 100 years of coeducation, invites alumni, faculty, students to participate in panel talks accountable conversations, especially in volunteer organizations,” Clark said. “So we thought a lot about, ‘How do we equip women with that skill set in these positions? How do you have that tough conversation? How do you hold people accountable? How do you set clear expectations?’ And I don’t think we had done that very well before.”

As the first African-American president of the Junior League, Clark said she tries to encourage other women of color to ascend professionally and grow in their roles as she grows in hers.

“For me, serving in the way that I do in my community has allowed

me to open doors for and opportunities for other women who look like me, who thought those spaces did not belong to them,” Clark said. “I am very clear that my presence is an invitation. My presence is presented as an opportunity. I am very public about the service that I do because I want other young black women to say, ‘Oh, I can join that group. I can have that opportunity. I can learn those things because she’s there.’”

Vice President of Strategic Initiatives and Operation Strategy of Bright Horizons Michelle Kang ’96 said that as a member of boards, she has found that when other women participate, they help move multiple facets of an issue or project forward at once.

“I think that we as women bring so much richness to the table,” Kang said. “Historically, and I think even nowadays, it’s still hard sometimes in a conversation to feel confident bringing that perspective.”

Cleveland Metropolitan School District Leadership Coach and Strategist Marcy Shankman ’90 said that in her experience, women have a relational style of leadership which facilitates cooperation.

“I think that boards that are more diverse and inclusive of women have a stronger fabric of relationships because there’s a tendency of women to lead through relationships,” Shankman said. “That’s a power of having women involved in any organizational or collective effort.”

One of the biggest challenges Shankman said she faced in her nonprofit work was an identity crisis. While she wanted to help, she felt she lacked the resources do to so, which would put her family at risk. “[It was] more of an internal struggle around wanting to be all things to all people and feeling like I was jeopardizing the health and wellbeing of my family because I was wanting to serve the community,” Shankman said. “So it was a very personal challenge of ‘When can I move into that community space in an authentic and genuine way and give at the level that I wanted to give of my time and my talent?’”

Clark stressed the importance of role models whom young individuals can identify with and said that she was grateful for her time at the College, which helped her solidify her desire to help others.

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STUDENT LIFE

Students United stages demonstration to protest College’s use of prison labor Hunger strike lasts for three days on Sadler terrace as students summoned for probational hearings

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Starting Wednesday, Sept. 19, a three-day demonstration was staged by a group calling themselves W&M Students United to protest the College of William and Mary’s use and purchase of furniture from Virginia Correctional Enterprises.

According to W&M Students United’s Facebook page, the demonstration serves to emulate a prison cage using the College’s own chairs. The demonstration’s hunger strike, which meant to underscore the $2 a day worth of food afforded to prisoners, saw one student referred to as Aditi go without food for 54 hours.

“In an attempt to resist the state’s efforts to degrade and disappear prisoners, and to make the William & Mary community confront the system of slavery that they are encouraged to disregard and forced to be complicit in, comrade Aditi has put themselves in a cage on the terrace,” the group said in a statement on their Facebook page. “This cage has been symbolically constructed from furniture that Virginia forces prisoners to make for almost no compensation. Aditi will stay in the cage from Wednesday to Friday. They hope that witnessing a student living, working, sleeping, sacrificing their “normal” or prescribed lifestyle in a cage, right at the center of campus will shake William & Mary out of its state of apathy.”

According to College spokesperson Suzanne Clavet,

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the College spent an estimated $1.2 million on VCErelated products and services in the 2017 fiscal year and $504,000 in the 2018 fiscal year. In comparison, the College spent $984,000 in FY17 and $240,000 in FY18 on products and services outside of VCE. Clavet said what makes up the most of the College’s VCE purchases is furniture for residence halls.

“Although formerly required to purchase certain goods and services from VCE, William and Mary has been granted additional discretion in the area of procurement,” Clavet said in an email. “As a result, the university last year began adding other vendors for these purchases and reducing furniture purchases directly from VCE. We have been closely following the issue raised recently on our campus and are studying our own options, which we have invited student leadership of those concerned to discuss.”

Maura Finn ’20 said she believed the demonstration helped bring people of all viewpoints together to converse on campus, instead of keeping the conversation within student Facebook pages like Discourse.

“I think it really did raise a lot of awareness — a lot of people came up and talked to the people around and learned more information and wanted to get more involved,” Finn said. “… It was cool to see things able to be talked about in real life rather than just over Discourse because its real person to real person in a way that is very different than Facebook or other online platforms.”

Individuals associated with Students United met

with Student Assembly Sept. 18 to voice their concerns regarding the College’s use and purchasing of furniture from VCE. Students United intended for SA to work with them to create a resolution that would address these concerns and condemn the College’s use of prison labor, which they see as perpetuation of modern slavery, according to the group’s Facebook page. “… I’d like to offer that I believe [W&M Students United’s] participation in the Senate meeting on Tuesday is an excellent example of an opportunity for productive dialogue within our community and this is why the Student Assembly exists; to hear from the student body so all parties can work together to find appropriate avenues to share concerns and work towards positive change,” Associate Director of Student Leadership Trici Fredrick M.Ed ’05 said in an email.

During the livestreamed meeting, individuals with Students United suggested that SA, with its connections to the administration, provided an ideal platform to raise awareness about the College’s use of prison labor, and also asked SA to support them if and when they feel that the administration has not done so. The group representing Students United also expressed interest in bringing the issue to the attention of the Board of Visitors, which meets Sept. 26-28.

Students United also hosted a meeting Sept. 24 focusing on organizing action at the College. Virginia Student Power Network, which is a parent organization for autonomous student organizations around the state,

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helped lead the meeting.

Four students who have been involved with Students United are scheduled to appear for conduct hearings Sept. 26, according to a post on the group’s Facebook page.

“It would mean a lot to our comrades if the community showed up to support them and at their hearings,” the Facebook post said. “There will be a discussion of activism and suppression in universities.

While the administration has no interest in what the community has to say about the matter, moral support from their peers and the rest of the community would be invaluable to our friends.”

Finn, who said her hearing has already taken place, is on disciplinary probation for the rest of the semester for failure to comply with directions.

Displinary probation is defined as continued enrollment under certain conditions where if the individual engages in additional misconduct, they may be separated from the university. The probation notice was given by Community Values and Restorative Practices, which is a department in the Dean of Students Office.

“How we see this is very much as a student repression issue and the administration is trying to silence our voices in this,” Finn said. “Essentially, we don’t agree with the citations and the fact that they’re likely to get probations like the rest of the people who have their hearings on Wednesday.”

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I don’t want to say it had a big impact because it’s not like I don’t have money saved up but its just a simple fact that, you never know, I might have had an emergency going on at home where I might have needed that money but for me. I don’t have any kids, so it wasn’t as big of an impact to me like it could have been to other people.

— An unsalaried worker who wished to remain anonymous on not recieving financial compensation for forced time off during Hurricane Florence

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Paul Morrison ’20 pursues his love for problem solving with a math major SARAH SMITH // FLAT HAT EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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Friday, Sept. 21— Ante up: Liza Jones was arrested on a charge of embezzlement at Prince George Street.

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Saturday, Sept. 22 — Burgulary burgled: Damien Piker was arrested on a charge of breaking and entering with intention to commit a felony at Merimac Street.

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Sunday, Sept. 23 — Hot boxed: Police arrested a woman on a charge of marijuana possesion at Richmond Road and Lafayette Street.

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Monday, Sept. 24 — Kidnapping foiled: Blake McMillan was arrested on a charge of abduction and kidnapping at Richmond Road.

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Paul Morrison ’20, since his move from Texas, is studying to for his mathematics major and a computer science minor so he can become a teacher.

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

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... nobody I know, nobody that I’ve met, treats me as though I am too old to be cool, or that I am not going to get something.

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When Paul Morrison ’20 graduated from high school just outside of Dallas, Texas, he enrolled at the University of North Texas. Just a semester later, he decided that pursuing a higher education degree wasn’t for him. For the next decade or so, he worked in food retail, tech support and customer service until his mom sparked a cross-country move and a new life direction.

“I figured out at some point during my second semester at [the University of North Texas] that ‘Oh man, I don’t have to go to school anymore,’” Morrison said. “I stopped because I just didn’t want to go, and I didn’t go back for a very long time.”

At this same time, Morrison said he was balancing what he describes as negative influences in his life. Morrison said that his struggles with alcoholism, although he is sober now, made it difficult to pursue a single career path. When Morrison received court orders to do community service after he was charged with driving under the influence, he found recovery through volunteering with a food bank.

“I ended up going to a food bank, and then after I was done with my mandatory hours, I kept going,” Morrison said. “I found that it was just that enjoyable and that it was part of my recovery over time, turning me into a worthwhile person.”

When his mom asked him to consider moving cross-country to the Williamsburg area, he saw it as a chance to go back to school.

Once settled, he enrolled at Thomas Nelson Community College, where a required pre-calculus class changed his academic path.

“At TNCC during my first semester … I took pre-calculus I because I was going to need to take it no matter what,” Morrison said. “I hadn’t decided on a degree or anything, but that class reminded me that I like math. I remembered that I really, really enjoy this type of conceptual problem solving, and at the end of the course, after I made that discovery, I saw an advertisement to become a tutor. I made an A in that class, and I could then tutor pre-calculus and lower. I had never had that calling experience … that was the first time really in my life that I knew what I wanted to do.”

Morrison discovered that he wanted to pursue a degree in mathematics so that he could one day be a teacher. In the meantime, since there was no associate degree track in math, he settled on computer science, a discipline where he also learned to enjoy the problem solving involved with programming. Now, he is pursuing his bachelor’s degree in mathematics at the

College of William and Mary, with a minor in computer science.

In one of his early computer science classes, Data Structures, Morrison said he had one of his favorite academic experiences at the College: finishing an extra credit project and being praised for his hard work by his computer science professor.

“I took it with [professor James Deverick],” Morrison said.

“There was a programming project that was optional, a bonus thing where you could replace one quiz grade. My lowest quiz grade was an 88 … so the programming did not really end up impacting my grade at all. It incorporated a number of different concepts from throughout the semester, and you had to essentially build from scratch several abstract data structures in order to accomplish the goal, creating a type of encoding. … I worked hard on it; I was really proud of it at the end.”

Morrison said that Deverick searched through his code, saw that it was all functional and asked him specific questions about the algorithm that he used to solve the problems. After Morrison explained it, he said that Deverick had a smile on his face. “[Deverick] said, ‘This is the best implementation of this project I have seen so far,’ and I was over the moon to get that kind of compliment,” Morrison said. “It was really pretty special at William and Mary. … It was something I didn’t have to do — there was no template for it. It was very gratifying to be given the stamp of approval in that way.”

Morrison is in his late 30s and said that before his first semester at the College, he was worried that he would feel out of place or uncomfortable around freshmen who had just graduated from high school. When he went on a pre-Orientation camping trip through the Tribe Adventure Program, he said that he found it to be an interesting, albeit mostly awkward, experience. However, once he arrived at the College, he said he’s found the community to be nothing like what he feared.

“I think that the term nontraditional is pretty broad,” Morrison said. “Specifically, what makes me nontraditional is that I am in many years older than most of the people here. In that respect … it is a positive that nobody I know, nobody that I’ve met, treats me as though I am too old to be cool, or that I am not going to get something. People just talk to me like I am a person.”

During his first semester at the College, Morrison took a COLL 150 seminar called Black Speculative Arts, a class he thought might be outside of his comfort zone as a math and computer science student. However, he said he was pleasantly surprised by the class and by his fellow students.

“It was really outside of my wheelhouse as a math major and computer science minor, but I wanted to take my COLL 150 class in something that I would otherwise never take,” Morrison said.

“That was the furthest away academically from a mathematics class. Whenever I sat down in this class, we made this big circle, and it was clear that there was going to be lots of discussion.

And I thought there would be a lot of awkward silences with people just out of high school — my expectations were obviously prejudiced, and everybody had really insightful stuff to say every class session.”

According to Morrison, this COLL 150 ended up being an eyeopening experience, one which made him glad to have come to this school.

Morrison attributes much of what has shaped his outcomes at the College to a change in his mentality and his recovery from his health struggles, but he also said he is thankful for the different types of students he has found at the College.

“I’m appreciative about the type of school that William and Mary is,” Morrison said. “Before that, I have only had experiences at community colleges and one larger university. With William and Mary, the students are more engaged.”

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POLITICS

Survivors, supporters walk out in solidarity Sexual misconduct allegations against Kavanaugh lead to national demonstrations Sept. 24 at 12:59 p.m., Kathryn Willoughby ’20 sat in her Arts of North America class in Andrews Hall. Promptly at 1:00 p.m., she stood up, briefly addressed her class and left the classroom.

Willoughby joined a small crowd of about 30 protesters gathered on the Sunken Garden, where, still audibly winded from her walk from Andrews, she delivered her remarks.

At the same time, a series of protests took place across the country, as people gathered in solidarity with Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez, the two women who have recently spoken publicly about allegations of sexual misconduct perpetrated against them by U.S. President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

“We need to show that we believe survivors, and showing up like this for 15 minutes, it might not seem like anything, but I can confirm that for

myself, and for any other survivors in this group, that it really does mean something,” Willoughby said. “A lot of times people don’t report because they don’t think they’ll be believed, and so it’s really awesome that y’all came out to say: We believe survivors and we believe these women.”

Willoughby cited recently released data from the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network that this past Friday and Saturday, in the wake of Ford and Ramirez’s stories, there has been a 42 percent rise in calls to the organization compared to the typical number of calls they receive.

“They’re seeing other people being believed, so they go out and feel like they can speak about what happened,” Willoughby said. “I think that’s really awesome, and I think that’s proof that this matters.”

At the College of William and Mary, this particular coordinated walkout came together at the last minute. Willoughby explained that she had heard about the nationally-coordinated effort and felt it was important to show solidarity, so she

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Approximately 30 students, staff members gathered at the Sunken Garden between 1:00-1:15 p.m. to support the walkout.

created an event on Facebook the night before the event to spread the word among students. And while the national protest arose concurrently with Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings, Willoughby emphasized that her focus was on solidarity.

“This has nothing to do with politics,” Willoughby said. “It’s about believing survivors.”

For Liz Cascone, the director of The Haven, a confidential resource on campus that supports survivors of sexual violence and harassment, being present at the event was an attempt to show support.

“I only found out about it this morning, and so I felt like it was important for The Haven to show up and be here,” Cascone said.

Cascone said that she believes local demonstrations of national efforts are useful in demonstrating support of an issue.

“Any time we can do something that other campuses are doing, or other organizations are doing, and has a national impact also, is a great thing,” Cascone said. “So I think while this was small, it’s visible. It gives people a sense that people are paying attention and that people care about this issue and want to see some reasonable action taken.”

Maeve Naughton-Rockwell ’22 and Meg Jones ’22 walked out of their Culture of Arab Food class to show solidarity with survivors. Jones said that she reached out to Arabic studies professor Stephen Sheehi before class to let him know she planned to do this, and that he was supportive of the gesture and allowed her to address the class before stepping out.

“Unfortunately Maeve and I were the only two people that chose to walk out, but [Sheehi] did let me say something at the beginning of class and congratulated both of us for going out and speaking,” Jones said.

Jones said that when she first heard about walkout protests, in the context of the National School Walkout to support measures against gun violence earlier this year, she was skeptical of their efficacy. However, once she had the chance to meet some students from Parkland High School in

Florida involved in gun control advocacy efforts, she said she was inspired by their activism and impacted by the expressions of solidarity she witnessed.

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We need to show that we believe survivors, and showing up like this for 15 minutes, it might not seem like anything, but I can confirm that for myself, and for any other survivors in this group, that it really does mean something.

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“Solidarity is always important in any issue,” Jones said. “So for me, being supportive of sexual assault survivors is important, and this is something that I can do to show my support.”

While Jones is barely a month into her first year at the College, she said she hopes to see the administration continue to promote advocacy efforts for sexual assault prevention and resources for supporting survivors.

“A lot of the things that happen could be prevented by just addressing issues that are present and addressing rape culture,” Jones said.

Once 15 minutes had passed, most of the students, faculty and staff members walked away from the Sunken Garden and continued with their day. Willoughby said that considering she organized the event with less than a day to prepare and without the formal backing of a student organization, she was heartened by the turnout.

“I am a survivor,” Willoughby said. “Personally, to see these people that I don’t know at all, to see them support survivors, believe survivors, was really impactful.”

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Rowe nominates Robert Gates ’65 for second term as chancellor Former Secretary of Defense regularly participates in College commencement, charter day SARAH SMITH FLAT HAT EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

College of William and Mary President Katherine Rowe announced Sept. 20 that she was reappointing former U.S. defense secretary and Central Intelligence Agency director Robert Gates ’65 to a second term as chancellor. Pending formal approval by the Board of Visitors this week, Gates will begin his second term July 1, 2019.

“Chancellor Gates has been an exceptional ambassador for his alma mater over the past seven years and has been a tremendous resource for me during the presidential transition,” Rowe said in a press statement. “The Chancellor wears his formidable experience and intelligence humbly, and he is very generous with his time to William & Mary. We are delighted he has agreed to continue in this important role.”

Gates began his first term as chancellor in 2012. The position is primarily ceremonial — as chancellor, Gates speaks at events like Homecoming, Charter Day and Commencement. He has regularly conducted on-campus question and answer sessions about international affairs and has also participated in media interviews at the Sir Christopher Wren Building. Gates is also the first alumnus to be named chancellor.

“Robert Gates has been an advocate of the first magnitude for William & Mary,” BOV Rector John Littel said in a press statement. “He is a champion of the value of excellence in higher education and of public service, both of which are core

to William & Mary. We could not be more pleased that Dr. Gates has agreed to continue as Chancellor for a second term.”

The position of chancellor dates back to the College’s founding in 1693 with the royal charter from King William III and Queen Mary II. Initially, the position of chancellor was typically filled by the archbishop of Canterbury or the bishop of London, and served as the College’s advocate to the crown.

After the Revolutionary War, George Washington became the College’s first chancellor from the United States.

Gates received his bachelor’s degree in history at the College before he joined the CIA, where he worked for 27 years. He also served as the nation’s defense secretary in 2006 under the George W. Bush presidential administration, remaining in that position until 2011. He also has served as the president of Texas A&M University.

“I am delighted to be invited by President Rowe to continue as Chancellor at William & Mary,” Gates said in a press statement.

“The university helped greatly in shaping me as a person and informed my career in public service. As Chancellor, it has meant so much to share this close relationship with a new generation of William & Mary students, who are deeply impressive, as well as President Emeritus Taylor Reveley and now President Rowe.

I will be honored to continue to serve this institution that has served me so ably.”

Gates was also recognized with an honorary degree in 1998 and was presented with the Alumni Medallion in 2000. Earlier this year, he became chairman of Eisenhower Fellowships,

an independent, nonpartisan and nonprofit international leadership organization. He is also a principal with the consulting firm of RiceHadleyGates LLC. Over the last 30 years, former Chief Justice Warren Burger, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor have all served as chancellor at the College.

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Gates is the first College alum to be appointed to the position of chancellor.

Alumnae discuss importance of female representation in workforce Ellen Stofan ’83 D.Sc. ’16 speaks about untold history of women’s accomplishments in science “I just feel this call,” Clark said. “I think William and Mary helped support that, is that you give back. You help other people along the way.

Otherwise, for me, I wouldn’t truly be living the call that’s on my life as a person. It was never a question for me whether or not I was going to get involved. I have a mission statement that I live by, and mine is to equip other people to thrive. Everything that I do, I want to help other people gain the skills to be able to live their best life because that’s what I think people did for me.”

When Director of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum Ellen Stofan ’83 D.Sc. ’16 took the stage for Engaging the Next Generation of Explorers, she, like Clark, underscored the need for role models — especially female role models — in the field of STEM. Some of Stofan’s early childhood experiences, like geology field trips with her mother, who was pursuing a master’s in education, piqued her interest in science and math-related careers.

“At that point, no one ever told me, ‘You can’t,’” Stofan said. “No one ever told me, ‘People that look like you don’t do this.’ And if

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When I went to work at the Air and Space Museum that I was telling you about as a young intern, ... I didn’t see anybody who looked like me. And that become typical of really pretty much the rest of my career.

— Ellen Stofan

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they had, I’m not sure if would’ve continued.

That’s why I’m so passionate about how do we really encourage kids to move forward when

the fact is that they do encounter so much discouragement.”

According to Stofan, women make up 47 percent of the United States workforce but only 24 percent of the workforce in STEM-related jobs.

“When I went to work at the Air and Space Museum that I was telling you about as a young intern, … I didn’t see anybody who looked like me,” Stofan said. “And that became typical of really pretty much the rest of my career — of looking around the room, of looking for someone who looked like me, looking for role models who looked like me and not finding them.”

Men like the Wright brothers and John Glenn all played an important role in aviation history, according to Stofan. But Stofan said that history often leaves out women, like Katherine Wright, who assisted her brothers, and Bessie Coleman, who was the first African-American woman to hold a pilot’s license after she moved to France to get one.

Both women, along with many others, were

critical to developments in aviation.

“For much of the 20th century, the story of flight was told through the prism of the great man theory — a 19th-century notion that history turns on the actions of a few men [with] intelligence, capability and charisma,” Stofan said.

Stofan said that it wasn’t until 1983 when Sally Ride became the first American woman to go into space — 23 years after the space program started in 1960. Nine years after Ride and 32 years after the space program’s beginning, Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman to enter space.

As the first female director of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, Stofan said that these stories about the pioneering accomplishments of women in aviation and in space are there — people just need to tell them.

“We want to tell stories of women who defy,” Stofan said. “Women who were told there wasn’t a place for them in aviation and space and who stared right back and said, ‘Yes, there is.’”

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Evacuation causes unsalaried workers to go without pay 300 sign student-led petition for College to compensate employees’ lost funds SARAH GREENBERG FLAT HAT NEWS ASSOC. EDITOR

Following the mandatory evacuation for Hurricane Florence from Wednesday Sept. 12 through Sunday Sept. 16, the College of William and Mary’s hourly employees were unable to work their scheduled hours and were not given financial compensation for their time off.

The mandated evacuation’s impact on hourly, non-salaried employees varied by person. For example, for employees who work a shorter number of hours, the loss in pay did not affect them as significantly as those who work longer hours. Maap Ellabib, an hourly employee at the Student Exchange in the Sadler Center, said that she wasn’t significantly impacted by the evacuation.

“I just started this job three weeks ago so it wasn’t a huge impact — but that’s five or seven hours that I missed that I could have got,” Ellabib said.

Another unsalaried worker, who chose to remain anonymous, noted that while the evacuation did not end up significantly impacting him, it easily could have.

“Being at this job pays my bills,” the employee said.

“I was out of work for four days and I had to pick up extra days and work longer hours to make my money back. I don’t want to say it had a big impact because it’s not like I don’t have money saved up but it’s just

a simple fact that, you never know, I might have had an emergency going on at home where I might have needed that money. But for me, I don’t have any kids, so it wasn’t as big of an impact to me like it could have been to other people.”

While Ellabib said she was disappointed about the loss in work hours she experienced, she said she understood the College’s decision to evacuate.

“They were just taking precautions,” Ellabib said. “I feel like it was really good they were just trying to keep everyone safe. It could’ve been really bad.”

Following the evacuation notice, Bayley Murray ’20 created a Change.org petition entitled “W&M Should pay all of its workers their due salary for time during the Florence Evacuation,” in an effort to draw attention to the issue and to encourage the College’s administration to compensate its unsalaried workers for their time off.

In the petition, Murray argued that, for minimumwage employees, the hours of work and pay lost over the evacuation could negatively affect their ability to support themselves, especially if their homes were subject to natural disaster-related damages.

Furthermore, he said that because the College did not refund students for the unplanned break, and therefore didn’t lose any money due to the evacuation, it should be able to compensate its nonsalaried employees financially for the time off.

“These workers already had to fear for loss of

electricity and property damage because of the hurricane,” Murray said in the petition. “They should not also have to deal with even more financial hardships because the school refuses to pay their salaries because they couldn’t come to work due to life-threatening storms.”

Murray grew concerned for the College’s hourly employees’ well-being after hearing about the evacuation order, given most non-salaried employees reside in the Williamsburg area. His concern grew after speaking to dining hall employees who he said expressed of financial struggles due to missed hours and storm damage. Murray identified these personal testimonies as one of the driving forces motivating him to create the petition.

“We got lucky that the storm didn’t hit — but if it did hit, I just thought it would be important that they had some safety after the storm,” Murray said.

Murray is not confident that the petition will convince the College’s administration to financially compensate its unsalaried employees for their unexpected leave of absence. However, he said he hopes it will encourage a change in policy so that employees are not put in the same position regarding future natural disasters.

“These are people that we do see come to work here very often continuously throughout the year, so I think the school could benefit from knowing they have security in their job,” Murray said. “My main

target would be for future disasters like Florence for them to not have to worry about whether or not they’re going to get paid or not because they can’t come to work because of a natural disaster, especially for mandated evacuations.”

Students, alumni and community members alike have shown their support for this issue by signing the petition. Among the petition signers is Jack Almeter ’19, who said he believes the College should be doing more to support its unsalaried employees during times of natural disaster.

“I understand that they’re not salaried employees, so I understand that there’s no legal standpoint where the College is breaking any rules or anything like that but, as far as I’m concerned, I hold the College to a higher standard,” Almeter said. “Nobody should have this job and still worry ‘OK, if a storm hits and my house gets destroyed and I need repairs, am I just not going to get paid for it on top of that?’ It bothers me that the College isn’t doing anything for them.”

As of today, the petition is currently over halfway to meeting its goal of 500 signatures, with around 300 supporters. Although Murray has not yet reached out to administration in regards to this issue, he said he plans on advertising the petition more in order to gain additional signers. In addition, Murray said he also hopes to collaborate with political clubs and organizations on campus moving forward to bring more attention to the issue.

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Peccerelli: ‘It’s not about the bodies themselves; it’s about the survivors’

Guatemalan anthropologist Fredy Peccerelli presents on post-civil war exhumation project

For the first of three COLL 300 symposiums this fall, GuatemalanAmerican anthropologist Fredy Peccerelli visited the College of William and Mary. Peccerelli was on campus Sept. 17-21 but presented his main lecture Sept. 19 in Commonwealth Auditorium.

Peccerelli, who serves as the director of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation, also known as FAFG, works to exhume Guatemala’s longtime-hidden mass graves, a consequence of its 19601996 civil war, and helps to identify victims of the massacre so that they may be returned to their families for proper burials.

This semester’s COLL 300 theme, “Bodies that Matter,” focuses on what the College has identified as essential questions, such as: How do some bodies exert disproportionate force? How are bodies conceptualized differently in distinct contexts across the globe? What chain reactions in knowledge, power or organization ensue when new bodies are introduced into existing systems? How do bodies transform their surrounding environments? And how can scholars stimulate recognition of overlooked, undervalued or alienated bodies?

“I think that having this COLL 300 curriculum is amazing,” Peccerelli said. “It gives [students] an opportunity to learn things that are not taught in the classroom or maybe are not part of any specific class.”

Peccerelli was born in Guatemala and was displaced along with his family in 1980 due to the country’s climate of political persecution.

Peccerelli’s family moved to New York, and studying anthropology in college revived Peccerelli’s interest in Guatemalan history. Since he decided to move back to Guatemala to work on forensic anthropology research, he and his team have worked on identifying the approximately 200,000 victims of the civil war, a figure which does not include an estimated 40,000 disappearances. This work is not without risks — Peccerelli and members of his immediate family have received death threats for the work that he does.

“In Guatemala, being politically active would cost you your life,” Peccerelli said.

Part of the COLL 300 symposium included a question-and-answer session with history professor Betsy Konefal, who studies the vanished

populations of Latin American countries. Together, the two addressed the theme and analyzed how the disappearances in Guatemala could help answer the question of whose bodies matter.

“It’s not about the bodies themselves; it’s about the survivors,” Peccerelli said. “Guatemalans have the right to learn about their own history.”

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I think that having this COLL 300 curriculum is amazing. It gives students an opportunity to learn things that are not taught in the classroom or maybe are not part of any specific class.

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Students who are currently taking COLL 300 classes were required to attend Peccerelli’s talk, and some were required to complete additional assignments such as reflection papers.

Andrew Brockmeyer ’19 is taking Body Imaging, a cross-listed gender, sexuality and women’s studies and film studies COLL 300 course which looks at the portrayal of bodies in film. Brockmeyer said that he initially thought Peccerelli’s lecture would be unrelated to his course, but then began to see the connections to his course’s discussion of anatomy and anatomical symbolism.

“I am a government major and I was really fascinated by this,” Brockmeyer said. “I wish he talked a bit more about the criminal proceedings, which I understand is not what he does, and I understand

he does not like talking about that side of it. He’s talking about the [InterAmerican Court of Human Rights] and how we view [murders] and genocide internationally, and I thought this was fascinating.”

Another student, Katie Dawkins ’19, said that she saw more overlap between her COLL 300 course, Lesbian Fictions, and Peccerelli’s lecture.

“I do think it has a lot to do with marginalized people’s stories and how they do or don’t get told,” Dawkins said. “Because Fredy Peccerelli was saying a lot [about how] the work he does is about the living and the respect it returns to them to have their dead returned to them after decades, those they have not seen in decades. … A lot of what we do in my class is read the stories of people who could not be who they were in society. They found ways for their stories to be told. … It’s about their story being told after they’re gone and about who is left to remember them.”

Matthew Golder ’20 is taking the African Economic Development COLL 300 course and said that he sees similarities between issues discussed in the context of African development and in the context of Guatemalan development.

“When you think about the implications of colonialism and its effects on the development of Africa across centuries and even in recent noneconomic history, you see the displacement of peoples, and the same is true for Guatemala,” Golder said. “The effects and after-effects are still being felt.”

Peccerelli was selected in 1999 by CNN and Time Magazine as one of the top “50 Latin American Leaders for the New Millennium.” He has also contributed work to the exhumation of mass graves in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina.

As part of the COLL 300 series, government minister, activist, poet and educator Bernedette Muthien will visit Oct. 10 to discuss strategies for reversing patterns of victimization through increased representation and government services. She has focused on women of color in South Africa and has worked to provide them with more resources. Oct. 17, micha cardenas, who studies borders, activism, algorithms and the reduction of violence against transgender women of color will visit. She has used science fiction and virtual reality to explore this violence. These two speakers will continue to develop on the “Bodies that Matter” theme.

— Flat Hat Operations Coordinator Kiana Espinoza contributed to this article.

ACADEMICS

Anthropology professor presents research on oil rig conditions in UAE Andrea Wright spent summer observing on-site safety policies, labor organizing efforts KARINA VIZZONI FLAT HAT NEWS ASSOC. EDITOR

Wednesday, Sept. 19, the College of William and Mary anthropology department’s brown bag lunch brought the conversation about workers’ rights in the United Arab Emirates to a classroom in Washington Hall.

There, anthropology and Asian and Middle Eastern studies professor Andrea Wright showcased her presentation, “Building an Oil Rig: An Ethnography of Contracts and Risks,” to a group of approximately 20 students and faculty members.

This summer, Wright conducted ethnographic research at an oil rig construction site in Abu Dhabi, UAE. At the site, she partook in participant observation, focusing on hiring practices and the risks presented to workers at the site of the oil rig. Wright’s concentration in her research was to understand how labor practices influenced production, emphasizing how large infrastructure is handled and the consequences of this practice for workers.

“I’m going to look at three things,” Wright said.

“I’m going to look at how large the construction projects are that the oil industry can manage. While doing this, I’m going to highlight the practice of contracting and how safety is used as a technique to manage workers and mitigate them, and I’m going to

look at the consequences of these practices.”

Wright began by explaining the nature of oil rigs, describing them as resource-intensive, and then elaborated on the oil rig she observed, delving into the safety regulations at the rigs. The semi-submerged rig was controlled by Conex Petroleum Services.

One day when Wright was observing a rig, she witnessed an incident in which a worker was harnessed improperly, fell and died. Wright said she saw this as representative of the tension she felt among workers about accidents and safety.

Throughout Wright’s presentation, she asserted that although safety practices are instituted to prevent injuries, they can actually put workers in a more precarious position.

“Despite this emphasis on safety, accidents still happen,” Wright said.

Wright explained that oftentimes, contractors supply more hours of labor than the larger, controlling oil companies, and that trend is only increasing. These contractors regularly hire men for daily work. The daily workers lack benefits and receive lower overall pay and no overtime reimbursement. These workers tend to not be on payroll and do not receive the same benefits that other workers do. According to Wright, many workers also hail from India due to economic precariousness in their home communities.

While the emphasis on safety has some benefits, Wright asserted, the system often places blame on

workers for accidents. Most contractors take pride in having a low number of injuries per millions of hours, and the importance of hours without injury is significant for contractors to obtain business. This process encourages placing blame on workers and, by allowing large companies to avoid responsibility for workers yet still control how the work is executed and who is executing that work, the companies themselves avoid blame for injury and death.

“In these cases, blame has been assigned, and most often blame is assigned to the worker, although in some cases the manager is responsible,” Wright said.

This process does not lead to the reduction of accidents; it simply obscures them from the public eye, Wright argued, and it produces a trend of fewer rights, greater regulation and more risks for workers.

Workers often unite to address these risks, coping with them through mechanisms such as religion, organizing and forming communities.

“Workers and their families are not passive objects, but rather workers influence corporate practices and government practices,” Wright said.

Wright explained that many oil rig workers practice Islam and often unite through this religious community. Beyond religion, workers also form organizations which raise awareness of the death of workers. These communities of workers also strive to raise funds to get the workers’ remains back to their

families, especially for those who emigrated from India to the UAE. Their advocacy work also aims to reach a wider audience. In the public eye, they are putting pressure on companies to take responsibility for working conditions, and on the Indian government to prevent workers from going to the UAE to find wellpaying work. From these organizations, tight-knit communities arise out of the process of attempting to humanize these workers and the problems they face.

Wright’s words resonated with the members of the College community present at the talk. Hayden Bassett, PhD ’17, for instance, said that he was particularly interested in the topic of labor organizing.

“The thing I found most interesting was … the labor groups themselves and the degrees to which labor groups form their own internal hierarchies on a project-by-project basis based on ethnicity, language, that type of thing,” Bassett said. “And the degrees to which those subgroups might distribute risks in themselves.”

Academic interest also brought first year graduate student Skye Gailing to the talk.

“I’m interested in labor laws and workers’ rights, so seeing the intersections of that mixed with culture and international politics, seeing that in Dr. Wright’s talk was interesting,” Gailing said.

“Her work was practical and had applications.

She has real world impacts.”

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Sophomore rush results in better overall experience

Ethan Brown

FLAT HAT OPINIONS EDITOR

GRAPHIC BY SARAH BRADY / THE FLAT HAT

GroupMe provides easy mass communication

Anthony Madalone

FLAT HAT OPINIONS ASSOC. EDITOR

useless, and I questioned why I needed to download yet another application to my already cluttered phone when I could already get in contact with people through so many other social media services. Then, I began to see its purpose.

It seemed nobody had any hesitation about GroupMe. Signing up for the app was entirely non-committal, requiring an email and phone number but not distributing that information to anyone else in your group.

Unlike Facebook Messenger, there was no social media component tied to the app, allowing people to set one barely visible profile picture for themselves and be on their jolly messaging way. This not only makes it easier for students who do not use social media to get information but gives directors and coordinators without social media an outlet to send messages without having to commit to a Facebook profile.

To be fair, email also has the advantages listed above. GroupMe, however, conveys an ease and joy that emails simply do not. With an email, notifying someone that you got information is a sentence and send away.

With GroupMe, it’s merely a click, allowing a simple smashing of the like button to convey all of the info you need.

Additionally, GroupMe has options that make conveying information joyous, with gifs, emojis and polls all at one’s disposal. Sure, there are ways to get all of these with email as well, but they require much more effort than the intuitive layout of GroupMe. While the occasional GroupMe can get out of hand, for me, the app represents the essence of the collegiate communication experience perfectly. I am grateful every day for the ease the app has provided me, and I encourage everyone to take a minute to appreciate the wonder that is effortless mass communication.

Email Anthony Madalone at asmadalone@email.wm.edu.

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High school was a dark and confusing time.

Being involved with high school student theater, my directors often needed to find ways to get in contact with the other students they were directing. Because groups were often too large for a text group chat, these directors needed to find alternative ways to keep everyone on the same page.

Unfortunately, it seemed like nobody had any idea how to properly do this, with people seeming to try one of two things, each involving Facebook. The first solution was a Facebook group, resulting in missed cues from people not frequently checking the social media site.

Another slightly more efficient option was using the Facebook Messenger app, giving more concrete alerts but also inevitably leaving people without Facebook out of the conversation. There seemed to be no concrete way to communicate with a large group of people at once without forcing them onto some form of social media they would much rather avoid at all costs.

At college, the good news has arrived. The gospel of GroupMe has solved this dilemma effortlessly.

When I was first introduced to the service, I thought it was

... I encourage everyone to take a minute to appreciate the wonder that is effortless mass communication.

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Population of Manhattan 1.6mm.

Population of Williamsburg 16,000. Do the math.

— Beth Sala Covin ‘83, “Richer variety of restaurants needed in Williamsburg area”

“The Change.org petition, which now has been signed by 37 individuals...”

I mean, I agree, but, uh, I’m not sure this is news.

— Dara Kharabi ‘18, “Petition circulates as College drops in U.S. News rankings”

If there’s anything that students at the College of William and Mary can agree on, it’s that freshman year is unquestionably chaotic. From making friends in freshman residence halls to joining clubs and organizations, there is always an abundance of new things to experience and new people to meet.

I relished having so many opportunities to broaden my horizons and pursue extracurricular activities with greater freedom than I’d enjoyed in high school. Looking back a year later, I feel resolute and confident in my decisions of which activities to pursue.

While I’m so grateful for the personal and professional growth I’ve undergone in the past 12 months, I can also acknowledge that my fall semester last year was occasionally turbulent. It took me a month or so to feel like I truly belonged at the College.

For a brief period of time, I genuinely feared I would never find a group of people or an organization that I felt entirely safe in. Luckily, by October I had met friends and joined clubs that quickly transformed my first-year experience, and the mild social discomfort I experienced dissipated by midterms season.

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I am confident in my decision and excited for what my remaining three years have in store for me, but that confidence is largely the result of doing things a year later than usual. It is okay to take time for yourself before committing to an organization, Greek or otherwise; for me, it brought me certainty, clarity and a greater appreciation for my time here.

However, my decision to rush a fraternity was something that required more than just a month of emotional processing. I had not really considered joining Greek life before spring semester last year.

Ultimately, the social and academic pressures of acclimating to college led me to postpone rushing until I had developed a network of supportive friends outside of Greek life. Now, as a sophomore, I am confident that rushing this year instead was the right decision.

I am a fairly extroverted individual and I love meeting new people, but like many twamps, I find the prospect of continuous social interaction to be exhausting. Rushing was an exciting experience during which I got to meet plenty of wonderful people, but after each event I felt the insatiable craving to go back to my dorm room, drink some tea and relax with my friends.

It was incredibly restorative to already have a network of friends to lean on whenever I felt stressed about the process, and I’m sure that trying to rush last year without those sources of support would have been challenging.

I am also glad that I had a year to reflect on why I wanted to rush, as having that additional time gave me a greater understanding of what I wanted to get out of the experience when I went through the rush process this fall. I knew that I wanted to join a community that focused on brotherhood, and I also wanted to become more involved with philanthropy.

After a year, I felt that I knew I could find a place that aligned with my goals in a fraternity. I am confident in my decision and excited for what my remaining three years have in store for me, but that confidence is largely the result of doing things a year later than usual.

It is okay to take time for yourself before committing to an organization, Greek or otherwise; for me, it brought me certainty, clarity and a greater appreciation for my time here.

Email Ethan Brown at ewbrown@email.wm.edu.

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Community at the College: Unique, holistic, inclusive

Anna Boustany

FLAT HAT OPINIONS ASSOC. EDITOR

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Extracurricular involvement vital even during midterms

Michael Chene FLAT HAT GUEST WRITER

Every year around the end of September and the beginning of October, twamps begin to dive into the dreaded midterm season.

Free time plummets, studying picks up and school work becomes the main focus. While it is true that as a student you need to focus on tests and essays, do not let these assignments control your life. As a member of a few organizations on campus, I can attest to how much club participation drops during midterm season. My recommendation to freshmen and members of clubs in general is to use this busy time to determine which clubs you should invest in.Clubs and other organizations are opportunities for your non-academic interests to express themselves. We all know that there are a huge number of clubs on this campus, but by just being a member you may not be getting much out of them. For your club to do anything for you, you need to do something for it. My first year at the College I became a member of a few organizations. I thought that each one was cool and that I liked the people in them, but I wasn’t getting much out of them until I asked myself how much I cared about each organization.

International Relations Club and Young Democrats weren’t

good fits not because I didn’t care about their subject matters or members, but because I didn’t care about the organizations. In the end, the organizations I cared about I invested myself deeply in to help them succeed.

Now, with midterm season looming, your ability to participate in clubs is going to be stressed. There will be times when you have to miss meetings for a study session, which is no big deal, but you still need to carve out time for club participation. If you are constantly blowing off a general meeting and not putting effort into the club, that is a sign you should invest yourself elsewhere.

There is nothing wrong with making an exit from an organization; sometimes, it may actually be more courteous to other members and to the club as a whole. Whatever you do, do not become content with missing the events your organizations host because of being busy. I say “become content with missing” because sometimes missing activities needs to happen to make room for school.

Still, even if you dedicate more time to school, that does not mean you cannot show that you still care about your club(s). Make sure that club leadership knows you still want to participate and are willing to when you can. Clubs notice when you make an effort; a notifying text here and a helping hand there go a long way, especially if you want to a be a club leader. Make use of busy midterm season and determine what organizations are important to you and trim off those that aren’t. Remember to stay dedicated and put effort into your grades and the activities you care about.

Email Michael Chene at machene@email.wm.edu.

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Still, even if you dedicate more time to school, that does not mean you cannot show that you still care about your club(s).

STAFF COLUMN

Making friends outside of residence hall allows for greater involvement around campus, more varied social circles

Katherine Yenzer FLAT HAT OPINIONS EDITOR

Freshman year of college can be extremely difficult. Adjusting to a completely new environment while trying to make friends, join clubs and manage your classes is no easy task.

While I had a wonderful freshman year, it had its challenges.

Being 14 hours away from home is scary, and when I arrived at the College of William and Mary on move-in day, I was equal parts terrified and excited. Fortunately, the College’s Orientation weekend is designed to ease fears and nerves by keeping you so busy that you don’t even have time to be homesick or anxious.

At the time of Orientation, I complained about having twelve-hour days and about having to walk upwards of ten miles a day around campus, but upon reflection, Orientation brought me closer with my hallmates and made me feel like a part of the community. After talking to my friends and new students about Orientation, it seems that the weekend bonds freshman halls.

Additionally, first year roommates often become life-long friendships. For me, some of my best friends were on my freshman hall, and

if Orientation had been any different, I may not have formed the relationships that I cherish so much now.

However, as a freshman or transfer student, it can be easy not to want to branch outside of one’s residence hall. The first couple of weeks of school can be extremely overwhelming and living next to your best friends can help make the first months of freshman year more enjoyable. This may result in not wanting to

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While there’s nothing wrong with being close friends with your hallmates, it is extremely important to continue to reach out to students outside of your building. step outside one’s comfort zone to meet people outside of one’s hall or dorm.

While there’s nothing wrong with being close friends with your hallmates, it is extremely important to continue to reach out

to students outside of your building.

There are so many opportunities to make new friends here at the College. Stepping out of one’s comfort zone by joining a student organization can and will exponentially improve one’s first year here.

The number of different clubs here is incredible, and it is virtually guaranteed that one can find a club on campus full of people with similar interests.

Through organizations like club sports, FSL, activist groups, special interest groups, student journalism opportunities and on-campus (or off-campus) jobs, one can meet a multitude of new people including upperclassmen and those who live across campus.

There’s no denying how nice it is to live across the hall from your best friend, but try not to let the comfort of your freshman hall keep you from taking full advantage of what campus has to offer.

There are so many wonderful people on this campus that are ready and excited to welcome all the new students.

The sense of community that you probably feel among your freshmen hallmates is wonderful, and if you’re willing to step out of your comfort zone, that sense of community will only expand. While our saying “one tribe, one family” may sound cheesy, it really is so true.

Don’t be afraid to put yourself out there!

You never know where you may meet your new best friend, as long as you continue to explore around campus.

Email Katherine Yenzer at keyenzer@email.wm.edu.

Attending the College of William and Mary is a unique experience. For a school that is not that large, there are so many different opportunities that one can get involved in.

This is an exciting prospect, but also when I first found out about all of the activities at the College, I was overwhelmed.

I remember being completely taken aback by the Student Activities Fair during Orientation — there was so much going on, and it all seemed so amazing. But of course, all of the clubs that I was interested in had their meetings at the same time. For the first month of college, I did very little beyond figuring out how to do well in collegiate-level classes, but ever since then, I have been getting more and more involved in all sorts of activities on campus. I am so lucky to have found groups that I love.

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From what I know of other colleges, you end up in one good community based on what you do, and it is very difficult to expand outside of that group that defines you.

Now that I have been here for a year and have gotten involved in organizations that make me feel incredibly fulfilled, I am very grateful for the way we cultivate such a unique community at the College. I love how interconnected the communities within our Tribe are. Given the relatively small size of our student body, you are always just one or two degrees of connection away from another student, and through those connections, it is always easy to strike up new friendships. Someone may be in a class with you or is another friend’s roommate, and even if they aren’t any of those things, they generally care about you simply because you are a fellow student. From what I know of other colleges, you end up in one good community based on what you do, and it is very difficult to expand outside of that group that defines you.

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In my experience, joining specific activities does not preclude you from making friends who do things that are completely different.

I was drawn to the College because of this unique community. When I toured here, it was so obvious that there was one overarching community, and at Convocation I felt reassured that I had made the right choice. In my experience, joining specific activities does not preclude you from making friends who do things that are completely different. Firstly, many people at the College are involved in a plethora of activities that range from what they are planning on doing with their lives to pursuing a hobby with friends. Secondly, I have never felt judged based on what I do or don’t do. People in Greek life, in my experience, have never been upset that I currently am not participating in Greek life on campus. As a person who is involved in a lot of theater, I have always felt so supported by my friends coming to see my shows, regardless of how much they care about theater. I feel defined not by a single organization but simply by being a student here, and thus I am part of the entire community.

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

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Firsts in their field Women break ground in campus media organizations throughout history CARMEN HONKER, HEATHER BAIER, MAGGIE MORE // FLAT HAT VARIETY EDITOR, FLAT HAT VARIETY EDITOR, FLAT HAT VARIETY ASSOC. EDITOR

Literary Societies

Literary Magazine

In 1919, the Whitehall Literary Society was founded.

Among its all-female members were its President, Lucille Brown; Martha Barksdale; and Alice Burke.

In 1920, the J. Leslie Hall Literary Society was founded, with President Alice Burke and Vice President Ruth Cashion.

In 1921, the Literary Magazine included its first female members — Dorothy Terrill and Elizabeth Eades — on staff. In 1922, the Literary Magazine gained its first female Editor-in-Chief, Cecil Ball.

The Scribbler’s Club

The Colonial Echo During the very first year women were admitted to the College, Ruth Taylor Conkey earned the title of associate editor, becoming the first female member of The Colonial Echo staff.

In 1939, The Colonial Echo gained its first female Editor-inChief, Elizabeth Moore.

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The Flat Hat Feb. 5th, 1919, The Flat Hat created a section called “The Marys,” marking its first coeducational news report. This was the first time women were published in the paper — but after the next “Marys” appeared a week later, the section disappeared until women fully joined Flat Hat staff.

In 1929, The Flat Hat created a Women’s Sports section, with editor Helen Maffett. This section was separate from the regular sports section, which only covered men’s sports. Furthermore, because there were now multiple women on The Flat Hat staff, there was a separate Women’s Editor — Elizabeth Griffin — to oversee the women’s affairs.

By 1937, sports at the college were back to being covered by one unified sports section. The first female editor of the section was Rosa Ellis in 1938, accompanied by a male student also working as editor.

Finally, in fall of 1942, The Flat Hat elected its first female Editor-in-Chief, Elizabeth Constenbader.

Also in 1921, The Scribbler’s Club was created and was “composed of promising women’s writers of the college,” according to The Colonial Echo from that year. Its aim? “Calling out hidden talent and secret longings to ‘tell the world.’”

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ince the age of six, television writer and producer Karen Hall ’78 knew she wanted to write. Her journey to find purpose as a writer and to discover what types of stories she wanted to tell would lead her to win distinguished accolades including the Humanitas Prize, the Women in Film Luminas Award and the Writers Guild of America Award for Hill, in addition to seven Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

Hall recalled overhearing two students talking about a difficult playwriting class taught by professor Louis Catron. Hall said the conversation struck her and that she decided to sign up for the class. In addition to teaching playwriting, Hall said Catron directed many of the main stage productions. Hall said Catron had a larger-than-life character, a booming voice, and every student who had him as a professor adored him.

With his blunt advice and challenging writing assignments, Catron soon became Hall’s mentor.

“I heard these two guys on the bus talking about how they were taking Dr. Louis Catron’s playwriting class, and they were talking about how hard he was on them,” Hall said. “They said, ‘If you can get something past him, you could mount it on Broadway.’ And that sounded perfect to me because I wanted someone to be hard on me so that I would end up [being] really good. ... So, I signed up for playwriting, and I marched into Dr. Catron’s office and I said, ‘My name is Karen Hall and I want to be a writer.’ I thought he would be very grateful that I was there to grace him with my presence, and he just looked at me and said, ‘Yeah, but do you want to write?’ And so,

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trailblazer in the field of remote sensing, single mother and computer scientist Nancy Podger ’81 graduated from the College of William and Mary and promptly launched herself into a career filled with travel, research and adventure.

From starting the varsity women’s soccer team to pursuing an iconic career at DigitalGlobe, Podger has yet to slow down from her college days. Currently ideating a project that will take DigitalGlobe’s archived satellite imagery and share with colleges and universities, Podger continues to excel in the world of geographic information systems and remote sensing.

Podger got her professional start at the Federal Reserve Board as computer program analyst, then shifted to NASA’s International Hallye Watch Team where she discovered her interest in imaging and the sciences. From there, she obtained her master’s degree in environmental monitoring at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and went to work at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.

At the East-West Center, Podger spent her time in Langtang National Park just north of Kathmandu on the Tibet border of Nepal, researching the red panda.

“Our boss set up a project where I would go over with all of the GIS GPS systems which were very different at the time ... and the signal was downgraded,” Podger said.

“We had to sit there with an antenna and I ended up building a pole because when I’d go to other places I’d have to get above the tree line but I’d put the antenna on top of the pole and I’d have to collect data for about 20 minutes and then once we’d get all of the data we’d have to download it onto a computer and crank it out and then I’d get the location.”

After collecting the data, Podger and her team would go back to their lab to download and process it and eventually get a final GPS location.

“What we were doing was we were getting the trails of the pastoral herders,” Podger said. “They would herd and get milk and actually make cheese in the middle of Langtang National Park and bring it to the markets in Kathmandu and so we found out the tracks of the herders and we could overlay it with the habitat information for the panda.”

Podger and her team would then overlay this data with the park’s terrain and landsat imagery. They discovered that herders were separating mothers from their babies during breeding season, leaving the babies to die. Their research led to policy changes that protected the red pandas.

“We ended up proposing a policy where the herders wouldn’t go through certain areas during breeding season,” Podger said.

HEATHER BAIER // FLAT HAT VARIETY EDITOR Remote sensing and GIS was a relatively new field when Podger got her start. Many people were still curious about the importance of spatial analysis and how to use the technology. Podger was not only working in a trailblazing field, but she was also a trailblazer within the field, often one of the only woman in the office. “[At NASA] the whole team was maybe 30 people and I was the only female and that was for a good part of my career until I actually moved to Colorado,” Podger said.

“Of course there’s obstacles you know, you think you’re banging against the glass ceiling but you wonder, you know?”

Despite her colleague’s crude jokes and nude images that littered their office, Podger said she was still respected for her skills, and figured she could leave if she was ever too unhappy.

“I think it’s become a lot more women-friendly ,but with all of that I mean there are obstacles but there’s always grit to,” Podger said. “There’s always people who want to promote you and help you if you’re working.

You know, if you’re doing what you should be. If the environment got too bad then I just figured I could leave and find something else. It’s lonely sometimes when you’re the only woman. It’s nice to see enough women around that you can have a variety of choices for friends...

I definitely ran into people who did not appreciate having a woman in their field.”

After returning home, Podger went back to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to pursue her Ph.D. in environmental monitoring. After her first project idea was shot down, Podger stumbled for some time before finishing her final project and graduating in 2004. Stumbling, Podger said, should be expected in any career path.

“When I was younger you know I’d get so worried at certain times of my life but you have your ups and downs, right” Podger said. “Sometimes things are going well and sometimes they’re not and you get really hard on yourself. I’d say now in retrospect when I look back, it’s like, be kind. Just be kind to yourself and be kind to others and I think if you’re just tenacious and if you just continue to work it’s going to be okay but there no doubts you’ll trip. I don’t know a single person who hasn’t tripped in their life multiple times.”

But regardless of the stumbles, Podger said women in all fields should go for it and look for support wherever they can find it.

“Go for it,” Podger said. “You can always find people who aren’t going to support you but you can always find people who are. And if you’re not happy, then move...

Now that I’m older they’re definitely women around in my office which is really great, so they’re coming in.”

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Hall said that the process for writing is slow at first and requires great amounts of motivation.

“Everything moves at a glacial pace, until it doesn’t,” Hall said. “... It’s an interesting way to work because you have to work on something when no one has paid you. You have to work on it as if it is absolutely going to be on television next week.”

Hall believes the situation for women writers in Hollywood has not improved greatly.

“The major things really have not changed. It is not much easier for a woman to get a job now then it was when I was breaking in,” Hall said. “...

They use any excuse they can come up with to not hire women.”

However, Hall does believe positive change has arisen from the #MeToo movement. Hall said women who break into the industry, including her sister, Barbara Hall, executive producer of “Madam Secretary,” can hire female staff members and have the ability to enact real change.

“I think the thing that will make it better is as people gradually push through, especially women, then they can hire the women and make it better,” Hall said. “... The women who do manage to push through and get into the power positions can do something about it.”

Hall said her advice to aspiring young writers is to devote their efforts toward their goal and not to bother getting discouraged by the statistics.

“It is a tough business; it’s hard to break into, it’s hard to stay in,” Hall said. “But, if you decide it’s what you want to do, you have to just not give up and you have to be thick-skinned and really persistent and keep going.

And when I started, the odds were extremely against me, and if I had looked at statistics ... I wouldn’t have even tried. I would tell [young women] not to look at statistics; they’re going to hire somebody, and it might as well be you.”

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over the years I have really found out what that meant. I was really intrigued with him right away and he became a mentor to me to the point that I wouldn’t have had a career if it weren’t for him.”

One of Hall’s major commitments while at the College was her involvement in theater. She said that theater consumed her life at the College. Hall particularly enjoyed the all-student productions that were performed as part of the Premier Theater program. Hall said she had a good number of her one act plays produced in Premier Theater during her time at the College, and that Premier Theater was an incredible learning experience.

“I absolutely loved [Premier Theater],” Hall said. “When I was in college, that’s where I learned everything I learned about writing. It makes such a huge difference to be able to see it on its feet, because when you’re writing scripts you’re not writing them to be read. So, that was just the most fantastic possible learning experience. And if I had gone to college knowing that I wanted to learn play writing and television writing, I might not have gone to William and Mary — I might have gone to some school that already had that department and reputation. So, I think that I intuited my way to exactly where I needed to be, because there wasn’t a better situation in the country than Premier Theater at the time.”

Hall said her big break came during a summer class at the University of Richmond taught by a sociologist who enjoyed writing about television and who had many contacts in the industry. It was through this class that Hall was introduced to “M*A*S*H” star, Alan Alda. Hall said she was a huge fan of the show and it was through talking with Alda that she realized her dream of writing for television was feasible. Hall said she remained in contact with Alda for years following the summer program.

After graduating from the College, Hall enrolled in a writing program at the University of Virginia. She finished her first year, and in order to enroll in the second year, Hall had to be approved by a jury, which she was, unanimously. However, her advisor, who held veto ability, refused to pass her unless she gave up her goal to write for television on the account that she was wasting her talent. Hall said she had no intention of giving up writing for television and thus decided to leave the program and move to Los Angeles, California.

Once in L.A., Hall met with Alda several times, and it was ultimately through Alda’s recommendation that Hall interviewed for a position as a staff writer for “M*A*S*H.” Hall became the first female staff writer for the show; previous female writers were freelancers.

“Alan’s point was that, the show had been on for nine years at the point, and had never had a female writer on staff, and he really thought it was time,” Hall said. “Thank God he thought that, because that is how I got my start.”

After Hall’s two years writing for “M*A*S*H,” she wrote for a variety of shows including “Hill Street Blues,” “Moonlighting,” “Judging Amy” and “The Good

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hen Jen Chaney ’94 decided to transfer from the University of Maryland to the College of William and Mary before her sophomore year, she hadn’t yet planned to become a television and film critic, or an author.

When she arrived and had to add an intended major to be included in the student directory, she said it was business.

“Why did I put that? I don’t even know where that came from,” Chaney said.

Chaney realized she wanted to be farther away from her home in Bethesda, Maryland during college, but she hadn’t decided anything else. After realizing how much she loved writing, she declared an English major and obtained a Spanish minor along the way.

Outside of academics, Chaney started working at WCWM, the campus radio station. She was the features editor for the arts and culture segment of a show called “Brave World News.” She slowly realized she wanted to do a similar job after graduation.

“You get to the point where you’re going into your senior year, and you’re like, ‘I’m gonna have to find a job, what should I do? Well, I should try to do something like what I do for the radio station,’” Chaney said.

After looking for jobs in both print and broadcast, Chaney got her first job as a reporter for a local paper in Montgomery County, Maryland. Her job at the county paper required her to cover almost anything that happened in the town of Gaithersburg, from school board elections to murder trials.

Chaney then worked as a staff writer at The Washington Post for almost 13 years. She eventually decided to freelance for about three years, writing for the New York Times, Salon and a now-shuttered movie-review site called The Dissolve, among other places, because it allowed for a greater freedom of choice in which stories she could write. “… Sometimes I did have freedom, but I didn’t feel it in the same way that I do at this job.”

Still, Chaney’s time at The Post allowed her to try many new things — not just for her, but for TV criticism in general.

“The show that really got me into doing criticism was “Lost,” and that was when I was still at The Washington Post,” Chaney said. “Another colleague and I started writing recaps, and that was when we weren’t doing recaps on our site … And we got a huge following for doing that … That’s not how people used to write. They would write like, a review of a show that was just starting, and that was kind of it.”

All these years later, Chaney still enjoys the many opportunities her work as a journalist has afforded her as a TV and film critic. As just one example, during her freelance years, she had the chance to write a book about the popular 1990s movie “Clueless” when an agent reached out to her about extending a piece she had written for Vulture.

“I talked to her, I liked her, so she became my agent,” Chaney said. “And then she’s like ‘Just write a proposal. Since you’ve already written an article, we can already show what it is.’ … I gave [the book proposal] to her expecting that we would kind of go back-and-forth, and she was like ‘No this is great, I’m sending it out!’ And she just like, sent it out. And within a week there was a bidding war.”

The day-to-day aspects of Chaney’s job also provide her with opportunities she greatly appreciates.

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“One of the best things about journalism is that it gives you an opportunity to meet just really interesting people that you wouldn’t have an opportunity to meet otherwise,” Chaney said. “And I’m not just talking about the famous ones, but even just other people that you may have to interview … that give you a different perspective on things.”

Though she stuck with print media for a significant portion of time, the media landscape now allows her to report in many different forms.

“In the course of a day, you might be doing interviews, writing a story, going on the radio, going on CNN to talk about it, working on a video for whatever website or digital platform you’re doing … It’s very different from when I graduated,” Chaney said.

This change in required skills isn’t the only transformation that news has gone through since Chaney began working in journalism. The #MeToo and #TimesUp movements have brought conversations about discrimination and sexual harassment to journalism as much as they’ve brought change to Hollywood.

Chaney, like many other women, has been thinking more about the instances of discrimination she and her female colleagues have faced over the course of her career.

“I don’t feel like I have a really good ‘Me Too’ story,” Chaney said. “And I have been thinking about it a lot, because obviously everybody’s been talking about it.

I do remember — and this is such a small thing — at one of my community newspaper jobs … there was another young woman reporter. And she was talking … and one of our top-level editors, I could see him give a look to another male, kind of about her, and it made me very uncomfortable.”

Chaney was later asked to work with this top-level editor on a long story about a recent murder case. She denied, asking for “any other editor in this building,” to no avail, costing her the story.

“The story got cancelled, because, ironically, it was a female editor who [said], ‘If you won’t work with him we’re not doing it,’” Chaney said. “And I was like, ‘Okay.’”

Still, Chaney said this incident, less egregious than many ‘Me Too’ stories, was one of only a few instances of discomfort in her career.

“I’ve actually been really fortunate, in that the vast majority of my bosses have been women,” Chaney said. “Like, almost all of them.”

Chaney said the #MeToo movement has also affected the way she writes stories as a journalist.

“I think a lot more deeply than I used to about those kinds of issues,” Chaney said. “About how women have been portrayed, how people of color are being portrayed, or not portrayed, or not represented.”

Chaney was convinced the changes were positive, however, and that as long as young people keep putting pressure on people to step up, the changes would continue to grow, and would last.

As for the women, and other young people, who want to enter this constantly-changing media landscape after graduation?

“Know how to do as many things as you can, be as versatile as you can,” Chaney said. “I do think it does help to have an area of expertise, but … have as many ways to tell stories within your area of expertise as you can. If you can [do multiple things], you’ll have no problem getting hired. They need people who can do as much as possible.”

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Tribe rebounds from defeat at Charleston to beat Tigers JULIA STUMBAUGH FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR

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Senior wide reciever Isaiah Kinder tries to avoid a potential James Madison tackler. Kinder had three catches for 14 yards on the day in the Dukes’ 51-0 dominating win.

James Madison shuts out Tribe in rout In first CAA game, College can’t contain No. 2 Dukes KEVIN RICHESON FLAT HAT SPORTS ASSOC. EDITOR After William and Mary’s home — and conference — opener against Elon was cancelled due to Hurricane Florence, the College played its first game in two weeks against in-state rival James Madison. The Tribe was trying to pull off an upset of the second-ranked team in the country to pick up its first Colonial Athletic Association victory since 2016 against Richmond. The team managed to tame the Dukes’ offense in the first half, but its own offense struggled to move the ball past midfield on most drives. The Tribe (1-2, 0-1 CAA) trailed 17-0 at halftime. Two quick scores allowed the Dukes (3-1, 1-0 CAA) to put the game away early in the third quarter and rout the College, 51-0.

The Dukes won the coin toss and elected to defer to receive the second-half kickoff, so the College started the game on offense. Sophomore quarterback Shon Mitchell completed two passes on the opening drive, but the Tribe was unable to pick up a first down.

The Dukes also failed to capitalize on their first possession. They moved the ball to the Tribe’s 34-yard line, but kicker Ethan Ratke came up just short on his 51yard field goal attempt. Later in the first quarter, Ratke missed a much shorter field goal, keeping the game scoreless.

The College picked up a first down on its third drive of the game, but the drive was halted on a fumble by senior wide receiver Isaiah Kinder. The Dukes returned the

fumble to the College’s nine-yard line and scored three plays later.

The Dukes took advantage of another short field early in the second quarter, doubling their lead to 14-0 with 13 minutes and 25 seconds to play in the first half. Ratke redeemed himself for two early misses with a 30-yard field goal midway through the second quarter to put the Dukes on top, 17-0. On its last two drives of the first half, the College got inside the Dukes’ 30-yard line, but both possessions ended on failed fourth-down conversions.

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The Tribe trailed 17-0 at half, but a couple timely takeaways and missed field goals by the Dukes allowed the College to remain within striking distance. However, the Dukes scored less than five minutes into the third quarter and then scored a defensive touchdown. Cornerback Jimmy Moreland picked Mitchell’s pass off at the Dukes’ 44-yard line and weaved down the field before coasting into the end zone to put the Dukes in front 31-0.

The College did not cross midfield for the rest of the game and the Dukes continued to pile on with two more touchdowns and two field goals. One

of the Dukes’ touchdowns came off of another pick-six, this time on an interception by sophomore quarterback Ted Hefter. Hefter entered the game during the fourth quarter for the College, replacing Mitchell. The Tribe ultimately fell 51-0 after the Dukes racked up 34 second-half points.

The Tribe was led by Mitchell’s 70 yards on 12 of 27 passing. Senior wide receiver DeVonte Dedmon led the College in receiving yards with 29 yards on three receptions. The College only mustered 132 yards of offense, compared to the Dukes’ 444 yards. The Dukes’ high-powered offense was led by quarterback Ben DiNucci’s 160 yards and two touchdowns on 17 of 23 passing. A deep backfield for the Dukes shredded the College’s defense with 247 rushing yards on 49 attempts.

Wide receiver Riley Stapleton had a game-high eight catches for 78 yards and a touchdown. The Dukes’ defense has only conceded seven points in three games against Football Championship Subdivision teams this season.

Next Saturday, the College will take a break from CAA play with its final nonconference matchup against No. 24 Colgate. The Tribe will look to bounce back from 40-plus point setbacks to Virginia Tech and James Madison. After three games on the road to start the season, the College’s game against the Raiders will be the Tribe’s home-opener.

Kickoff for the Family Weekend game against the Raiders is scheduled for 6 p.m. Sept. 29.

William and Mary opened conference play last week, taking on Charleston Thursday before playing Towson Sunday. The Tribe split the matches, falling to the Cougars but beating the Tigers.

The College recorded a tough 2-1 loss Thursday to Colonial Athletic Association foe Charleston. The Cougars scored on a free kick in the final minute of regulation to break the tie and claim the victory as Charleston (6-4-0, 1-0 CAA) downed the Tribe (4-7-0, 1-1 CAA).

As has been the case recently for the College, the Tribe was shelled with shots in the first half, weathering 11 and only responding with three of its own. Junior goalkeeper Katelyn Briguglio bailed out the College with four saves to keep the score even going into the half.

In the second half, Charleston finally broke through as forward Talia Colchicho got one past Briguglio six minutes after the break.

But the Tribe didn’t let that stand for long; sophomore midfielder Colleen Norton got the ball to freshman midfielder Renee Kohler, who knocked the ball against the crossbar and in to tie the game at 1-1.

With the minutes ticking down, it looked like the tie would stand and send the Tribe into its first overtime decision of the season. But with just 24 seconds left in the match, the Cougars drew a yellow card and a free kick that midfielder Laura Ortega put into the net from twenty yards, effectively ending the match and securing their victory over the Tribe, 2-1.

Sunday, the Tribe snapped a three-game losing streak with its first conference victory of the season against Towson. The College downed the Tigers (3-8-1, 0-2-0 CAA) on a goal by redshirt junior forward Sarah Segan and a six-save performance by junior goalkeeper Katelyn Briguglio, 1-0.

The College took command of the game early on. Segan put up the first shot of the game two minutes in, and although it was blocked by Tigers goalkeeper Megan Collins, it started a series of corner kicks that kept the ball around Towson’s goal. Segan then got her second shot of the game past Collins just five minutes later to put the Tribe up early, 1-0.

15 minutes later, Towson started to get some more time on its offensive side, putting a couple shots on goal. But despite a wave of substitutions, the closest the Tigers got to scoring in the opening half was a shot by forward Evelyn Neidert that ended up thudding off the crossbar. A follow-up header ended up safely in the arms of Briguglio, and the College went into halftime still holding on to the one-goal lead. After struggling to hold possession in the first half, the Tigers found more traction in the back half of Sunday’s match, getting 10 shots on goal. But despite a flurry of offense in the waning minutes, a combination of misplaced Towson shots and Briguglio saves — including one with just two minutes left — allowed the College to walk away with the win, 1-0.

Segan led the team with three shots on goal; freshman forward Renee Kohler and mid-game substitutes freshman midfielder Grace Santos and senior midfielder Mackenzie Kober also forced the Towson netminder to make saves. The 1-0 score marks Briguglio’s second shutout of the season and her career.

Sunday’s victory is the first in-conference win of the 2018 season for the Tribe. For Towson, the loss makes it now just one of three teams in the CAA to not yet have a conference victory. The other two teams still looking for a conference victory are Elon and UNC-Wilmington, the latter of which the Tribe faces in its next game Sept. 27 as the team returns to Williamsburg for a two-game homestand.

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BRENDAN DOYLE FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR Despite a number of chances early on, a short-handed William and Mary (2-4) fell to No. 24 Coastal Carolina (4-1) Friday, 2-0. The Tribe dominated possession and shots but couldn’t convert to take control of the game. Meanwhile, the physical Chanticleers wore the College down as the game went on, eventually scoring two late goals to claim the win.

“We were a little thin, personnel-wise,” head coach Chris Norris said. “We’re missing five starters from [the beginning of the season] …

To have six juniors and seniors that essentially weren’t available to us, it made us very thin, and I think we got worn down a little bit. For some of these freshmen, the intensity of these games, especially against top-25level competition, is very high.”

In a fast-paced yet scoreless first half, both goaltenders came up big for their respective teams. Freshman Connor Andrews made a nice save early in the game, but the Tribe kept the pressure on Coastal Carolina for most of the half. Less than seven minutes in, senior forward Ryder Bell fired the first shot of the game, forcing Chanticleers keeper Chris Datallo to dive to his right to deflect the ball away. Datallo continued to keep the Tribe off the scoreboard, making three more saves over the course of the half, including two separate free kicks by senior forward Antonio Bustamante.

It wasn’t just Datallo that denied the College a lead in the first frame.

The Tribe missed a number of opportunities to break through. After redshirt junior forward Cole Smith’s shot was blocked out of play in the 25th minute, Bustamante found Bell on the ensuing corner. Bell’s header grazed right by the top right corner of the frame as it went out of play for a goal kick.

Just 11 minutes later, Bustamante made a chance out of nothing, beating two Chanticleer defenders. His chip shot beat the goaltender, but

not the crossbar. It bounced harmlessly away from the goal.

The most controversial play of the game came less than five minutes before the end of the period. Bustamante drove down the right-hand side of the pitch and found Smith streaking into the box. Finding himself open, Smith placed a header to the far left of the goal. The touch beat Datallo but the ball ricocheted off the post, bouncing along the goal line before getting cleared by the Chanticleers keeper. The Tribe celebrated as if it had scored, but the assistant referee ruled the ball did not cross the line, causing an uproar among the home squad.

“Obviously, had we scored the one that came off the post and then off the goalkeeper, that would have changed things,” Norris said. “Those sort of things help you when you are starting to tire a little bit. If you’ve got a goal and you’re ahead, those kind of things can change things.”

The Tribe controlled the pace of the half, notching 10 shots to Coastal Carolina’s four, but the game became sloppier and more chippy as it went on. 16 total fouls were called in the stanza, while two yellow cards were shown to Coastal Carolina.

“Some teams will try different things to disrupt the flow or rhythm,” Bustamante said. “But overall, I felt like they felt a little threatened when they got a few yellows just because they couldn’t take any chances …

They did disrupt the flow and rhythm of the game, and that probably affected our overall performance.”

The second half, however, swung in the Chanticleers favor. While sophomore defender Sam Golan saved a potential own goal off the line, the Tribe couldn’t keep Coastal Carolina off the scoreboard forever. In the 78th minute, a Chanticleers flurry became the first score of the game when Coastal Carolina forward Yazeed Matthews finally put home a shot following multiple rebound shots.

“Towards the end of the game, I felt like we had a couple of times where the ball was put out to the back, and we were counted on directly,” Andrews said. “But overall, I think the game was lost in heart.”

With time running out on the Tribe, it came up with a couple

of scoring chances that nearly tied the game. In the 86th minute, Bustamante found junior forward Reeves Trott in the box with a cross.

Trott won the header but put the ball well wide of the net. A minute later, Bustamante created his own chance to tie the game on a shot that barely missed the target. In the 89th minute, all hope remaining for the Tribe was snuffed out when the College scored an own goal on an unfortunate bounce off a defender. Coastal Carolina rode out the last minute of play to secure a 2-0 victory.

Despite a loss, Bustamante had a solid performance. The senior tallied five shots, including two on goal.

“I felt like in the second half I could have done a little more,” Bustamante said. “In the first half, I was really dangerous. Overall, I just need to be more consistent in the long run throughout the game. But I felt like I had a pretty good performance.”

After this defeat, the Tribe will move on to conference play, taking on Elon next Wednesday on the road. The College hopes this game will be a learning experience for some of the younger players forced to take a larger role.

“I think we take the effort, the performance, certainly the experience gained by a lot of the younger guys,” Norris said. “The older guys will certainly trust those guys in critical situations. This is a good program, a good team, a consistent top-25 team, and to know the difference in the game was basically a couple of bounces … I think we’ll take a lot of positives away from this as long as we can stay focused on the plan and stay committed to working hard for one another.”

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new leadership means new vision How Tim Doyle, new head coach, pours his heart — plus about 12-14 hours a day — into his team ALYSSA GRZESIAK // FLAT HAT EXECUTIVE EDITOR When Tim Doyle was pursuing an undergraduate degree in sports industry from Ohio State, he wasn’t sure which direction he wanted to go in. All he knew was that he wanted to be in college athletics because of his love for the atmosphere.

That decision, just eight years ago, was the driving force behind Doyle landing the job as William and Mary’s ninth volleyball head coach back in Jan. 2018.

“I emailed every single high school coach in greater Columbus and one got back to me,” Doyle said. “His name was Chris Manganello, and he offered me a spot as a high school coach working for him. So I started with Chris, actually just love it. Just was hooked from day one. I had a kid named Evan Bell leave the very first coach’s meeting we had, and he called me coach, and I was like ‘Dude, this is it. I don’t know what it is about it, but this is it for me.’ And then I’ve just been working at it since.”

Serving as an assistant coach at Virginia Commonwealth for four years, Doyle got to play a hand in the team’s transformation from a middle-ofthe-pack squad to the team that produced the longest win streak in the nation with 27 consecutive victories in 2017. He was also selected to the 2017 American Volleyball Coaches Association Thirty Under 30 list.

“I think my contribution was being able to get in tight with the girls and understand them, develop those relationships that built the trust that allowed me then to coach them and impact them and make decisions and train them in a way that was conducive to however they wanted to learn,” Doyle said.

Doyle admitted that the jump from being an assistant coach to a head coach was a big one, but he gives a lot of credit to his assistant coaches, Colby Arrington and Janelle Sykes. “… As an assistant I felt like I had a memory like a steel trap, man, nothing got past me and I was on top of my responsibilities like white on rice, you know, like I had things down,” Doyle said. “And here, you know, as a head coach, you’re just managing so many more aspects. … That’s the benefit of having the awesome assistant coaches that we do now. Colby and Janelle, they are on top of their game, and without them I’d be lost because I just can’t remember all the details.

The team has a lot of goals for this season, number one being to get back to the Colonial Athletic Association tournament. Doyle highlights the necessity of getting back to setting the precedent of winning championships for future years.

“That has to be goal number one for everybody, and I think our girls are more ambitious than that, but that’s just baseline; that’s a minimum,” Doyle said. “I think, macro-view, we need to get back to championships in general. The teams under Deb Hill, I mean, won championship after championship consecutively. And we have to get back to that pedigree and that status that we’re known for.”

Despite the vast differences between the Rams and the Tribe, Doyle is ready to transfer what he learned at VCU to the College. To this coach, the most important thing he can do is everything. “… You really have to go the extra mile to make sure that your girls are taken care of,” Doyle said. “You know, this is a unique experience, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and you’ve got to treat them the right way, and you have to be there. My job, what keeps me up at night, is thinking that I’m not doing enough for the girls. And it haunts me; no matter how many 14-hour days I work, it haunts me. I think about volleyball every night before I go to bed, every single night. I want you to think about that, because I’m haunted by the fact that if I’m not doing something to prepare the girls, then I’m letting them down.”

In order to get to the championship level, Doyle stresses a processoriented mentality. By doing so, he hopes to achieve a few main goals.

“And really, for us, it’s about three things,” Doyle said. “Being an unbelievable teammate and being selfless and sacrificing … working hard is the second thing; being great and being exceptional, it’s not a trick, it’s not an easy thing to do. It just takes work. … Lastly is attitude.

That’s just something that’s always within your control, you know. How coachable are you, do you have positive body language, are you a good person who does the right thing; that stems from your attitude. … having the confluence of those, I think, is the precedent we’re trying to set every single day.”

As far as who his team is, Doyle highlights the players’ drive and refusal

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to give up. He extends his admiration for this caliber of person to all the students and faculty here at the College. “… For William and Mary, we want people who want to be the best,” Doyle said. “And that’s academic, that’s athletic. This is the place where it’s the best of both worlds, in my opinion. People who come here are like perfectionists. They want to be the best and they don’t settle … and that type of personality is so trainable and so ambitious, and if you want to be that type of person, this is the place for you. And I think that’s a very unique atmosphere to be a part of. That’s how I operate, like I check my emails probably five times before I hit send and it’s ridiculous. … that’s just the character [of person] that comes here.”

While it is still early in the season, Doyle likes what he is seeing from the team. He stresses the girls’ willingness to give for their teammates and step up into leadership roles.

“The biggest highlight is the way the team plays,” Doyle said. “I mean they’re the type that the ball’s like 50 feet away from the net, and their skinning their knee trying to go after it. There’s nothing that dies on this team, and you can’t fake that.”

When he’s not coaching, Doyle likes to read and work out to give his brain a break from thinking about volleyball. His favorite type of books to read are on leadership, his favorite being “Lead … for God’s Sake” by Todd Gongwer and Urban Meyer.

But if you asked his wife, Olivia, she has her own thoughts on what her husband likes to do with his time.

“And if you asked Olivia what I like to do, she’d say work, think about work, go to volleyball or think about volleyball,” Doyle said. “Honestly, that’s what she would say.”

At the end of the day, Doyle’s ambition as head coach is to provide his team with an incomparable experience on and off the court, and he commits himself to that goal wholeheartedly.

“Every little interaction, it’s so worthwhile and it’s so gratifying to have those relationships,” Doyle said. “And their confidence too, right, it’s not even just their volleyball skills … it’s becoming confident young women who has her shoulders back and heads up … to see that, that’s special.”