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Dean of Students candidate Randy Williams Ph.D. ’13, who drove two and a half hours from Farmville, often twice a week, to work on his doctorate at the College of William and Mary spoke on his dedication to the College.

After receiving his bachelor’s degree from Hampden-Sydney College, he worked as a math and physics high school teacher and then as an assistant dean of students at Hampden-Sydney. He came to the College as an associate dean of students before moving to North Carolina Wesleyan College as the vice president for student affairs and dean of students.

At North Carolina Wesleyan College, Williams demonstrated his appreciation of adversity, as over 70 percent of students at North Carolina Wesleyan College receive Pell Grants. Dealing with students facing financial strains, he noted, helped him focus his efforts at the college.

“How can I, as an educator, help this student navigate and coordinate all the obstacles and challenges, while maximizing on some resources, to get the education that

they very well deserve?” Williams said. Now returning to the College as a

Students who attended a recent dining consultation meeting brought a list of grievances nearly as long as the line to get a fresh burger at the Commons Dining Hall. Concerns ranged from uncooked meat, unripe and overripe fruit and the lengthy lines across the College of William and Mary’s dining halls.

The consultation meeting on Feb. 13 featured representatives from Campus Dining, an independent consulting firm. In an effort to compile feedback, the meeting allowed the firm to get students’ views on the current food services on campus.

The contract of the current dining services provider, Aramark, will expire June 30, 2014. The commonwealth of Virginia requires the College to bring in an outside consultation when renewing dining services contracts. This is done in order to gather as much

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President Barack Obama addressed the soaring costs of higher education and called upon Congress to require accreditors to factor in price and value when determining how federal aid is distributed in his State of the Union Speech Feb. 12.

“Taxpayers cannot continue to subsidize higher and higher costs of higher education,” Obama said. “Colleges must do their part to keep their costs down, and it’s our job to make sure they do.”

Just a few days before at the College of William and Mary’s Charter Day celebration, Chancellor Robert Gates ’65 took the issue of costly higher education even further by noting the trend of dwindling state financial support

for public institutions like the College.“Public Universities have gone from being

state-supported to state-assisted to state-located,” Gates said.

The declining trajectory of state financial involvement is a major departure from the large-scale investment in higher education seen in the Cold War era, yet the trend of dwindling government support for public higher education is a phenomenon due largely in part to the inescapable drawbacks of the federal system.

Vice President of Communications and University Relations Brian Whitson indicates that the commonwealth’s inability to fund institutions of higher education are a result of the federal government’s deficiencies, to the extent that federal policies either speed up or slow down the overall economic recovery.

“Virginia is a state that will feel major impacts if the federal government moves to reduce spending significantly,” Whitson said in an email. “Lower federal spending means lower state tax revenues.”

Whitson highlighted the gravity of the possible government sequestration that Gates deemed as one of the largest financial challenges.

Whitson also noted that roughly one third of Virginia’s budget is funded by the federal government, meaning that any shift, up or down, can have a significant impact on public colleges and universities.

The question of how universities and colleges deal with the shifts infiltrated Gates’ speech.

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Lack of federal funding challenges colleges and universities

In a hall frequently filled with minds focused on maximizing monetary profits, a flock of students and alumni from over 40 organizations gathered in the Mason School of Business to discuss how to maximize social profit.

The College of William and Mary Active Citizens Conference brought together a crowd of roughly 270 attendees from both the professional and academic worlds of community engagement Feb. 15 and 16.

“The point of a conference like this is to bring people together and give them a space to talk about best practices and challenges and to see what comes out of their own sense of active citizenship,” Office of Community Engagement Coordinator Elizabeth Miller ’11 said.

Miller said this conference included more attendees and breakout session options than it did in previous years. In addition, its cost to students from the College was $25 per person, in comparison to $90 the year before.

“We increased the capacity of the conference,” Miller said. “We worked hard this year to make sure we were making it accessible to the campus.”

While the price was reduced for students at the College, they did not dominate the conference. Out of 270 attendees, only 90 were from the College.

“[The College] certainly has a high level of engagement in communities. It is woven into our identity as the Tribe,” Miller said. “One of the great things about the conference is getting students from other campuses to talk about how they are engaged. There is a different culture on every campus.”

Four awards from the Campus Engagement Election Project were presented Saturday. Zach Woodward ’14 accepted an award on behalf of the College for the best Student Assembly voter registration campaign. The three other colleges receiving awards were also represented.

Miller, along with Coordinator for Education Programs in the Office of Community Engagement Austin Pryor, worked on the logistics and organization of the conference. Assistant Vice President for Student Engagement and Leadership for the Office of Community Engagement Drew Stelljes opened the conference Friday.

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College wins third straightTribe’s sharpshooters sink visiting Panthers in 75-63 victory at Kaplan Arena Monday.

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Comedian talks sex and drugsTy Barnett brings his comedy routine to the College on Friday night.

Wednesday, Feb. 13 — A person was arrested for being drunk in public on Richmond Rd. on Wednesday night.

Wednesday, Feb. 13 — An individual was arrested on charges of driving with suspended or revoked license at Capitol Landing Rd.

Wednesday, Feb. 13 — A person was charged with possession of marijuana at York St.

Thursday, Feb. 14 — A suspicious incident was reported at Tyler Brooks Dr.

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In a Feb. 15 article, The Flat Hat incorrectly attributed a quote to Erin Hills. The quote, “I am one of maybe three or four standing members from the original,” was said by Assistant Dean of Students Dean Gilbert.

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The White House announced Sunday that President Barack Obama will speak at the commencement for Morehouse College this spring. Morehouse College is a historically black, all-male school in Atlanta. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. graduated from the college in 1948 before attending Crozer Theological Seminary. The new president at the college, John Wilson Jr., formerly worked as the executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities before becoming president three weeks ago, but he said he did not lobby for the President to speak at Morehouse College.

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A Feb. 25 hearing will decide the fate of would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley, Jr. According to the Daily Press, lawyers will be arguing to give him more freedom. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity after his assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. John Hinckley received additional conditional releases at a recent August hearing. The opposing lawyers have withdrawn the proposal for additional conditional release, citing Hinckley’s need for further medical attention.

Imagine police drones hovering over highways looking for speeding cars. Concentrate on that thought for just a little longer. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that a House panel advanced a Senate measure that would place a moratorium on the use of drones by state and local law enforcement entities until July 1, 2015. The Senate bill will grant exceptions, especially for the Virginia National Guard in conducting training sessions.

York County Superintendent Eric Williams proposed a fiscal year 2014 budget of $124.4 million, an increase of $3.1 million. The increase will coincide with higher health care costs, due to a higher than average number of claims. According to the Williamsburg Yorktown Daily, his budget proposal trims school resources and proposes the first pay raise for teachers in five years.

According to the Williamsburg Yorktown Daily, Virginian lawmakers failed to repeal a ban on gay marriage. Del. Scott Surovell, D-Fairfax, sponsored a House amendment resolution to re-define marriage. The current definition, “only a union between one man and one woman,” prohibits the state and local governments from creating or recognizing marriages, unions or similar relationships between couples of the same sex.

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$1.3 Million Damages Bid for Bad Grade Denied

Former Lehigh University graduate student Megan Thode’s bid for $1.3 million in damages from the university was denied Feb. 14. The Huffington Post reported that Thode alleged that she received a zero in participation and a C+ in one of her classes, because she supported gay marriage and requested the grade be changed to a B. She said the C+ prevents her from becoming a licensed therapist and the damages she requested total the amount of money she would lose over the course of her career. Thode’s lawyer claimed that she was the only student in Lehigh history to receive a zero in class participation, which in the internship defined as behaving professionally, giving and receiving feedback, and reflecting on the student’s behavior.

candidate for the dean of students, Williams acknowledged how his situation might change.

“Coming back here, I’m going to be a different Randy and I should be,” Williams said. “Three and a half years have passed and I’ve learned and gained some things, and I’m in a different role.”

Williams explained his ideas for how the Office of the Dean of Students should address new students in new ways in an effort to change the perception of the office as merely a disciplinary area.

“I want them to know that there will be some challenges … but I want them to understand that there’s a supportive system of well-able, capable minds,” Williams said.

Aiming to return to the College in a higher capacity, Williams explained

the fundamentals of his leadership style, focusing on the importance of being a teacher, a role model and expressing empathy.

“You’re leading human beings, spiritual beings, people with feelings. … I feel that the ability to convey empathy is important in a leadership role,” Williams said.

Williams plans to complete his doctorate of philosophy in educational policy, planning and leadership at the College within the coming year. As a member of the College community, Williams expressed his vested interest in the success of the institution.

“This will be my alma mater,” Williams said. “I want to see it thrive. I want to see it do well. As I help students to do well and to reach success, the value of my degree enhances and the value of everybody else’s degree from William and Mary increases as well.”

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“Community engagement, the mechanism by which active citizens gain their strength, is, in the university setting, the sum of parts of outreach, research, scholarship, service, advocacy and collective community problem solving,” Stelljes said to the crowd of attendees on Friday evening.

Many students in attendance are currently involved with the Office of Community Engagement either academically in one of the office’s interdisciplinary classes or through an extra-curricular organization.

Amalhyn Shek ’13 works with the Student Organization for Medical Outreach and Sustainability, a year-long public health seminar combined with a service project component that provides a free health clinic to the Dominican Republic for a week in January.

“I have always been interested in the work that others are doing, so it’s a great opportunity to not only network and share the kinds of things I am doing with community engagement here and abroad, but also to be inspired by the approaches that others take whether it’s social justice or service learning or just overall engagement with the world beyond your own microcosm,” Shek said.

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— Senator Drew Wilke ’15 on serving in the Undergraduate Council

Possible reforms for the Undergraduate Council were central topics in both Code Revision Committee meetings. Committee chair and Senator Drew Wilke ’15 and 2013 Vice President of Advocacy Ryan McManus ’13 served in both the Student Assembly senate and the SA Undergraduate Council during their time at the College of William and Mary and offered a number of problems with the governmental branch, including a negative culture, lack of legitimacy and accountability and overlap with the other branches of government.

“I feel like the [Undergraduate Council] is kind of a forgotten body in terms of Student Assembly,” Wilke said. “There’s not a precedent to do anything. … [The Undergraduate Council] really has no role in the SA. … I feel like there was a lot of overlap, there wasn’t really a defined place.”

The major proposal made in February’s meeting centered on incorporating the Undergraduate Council as a part of the senate. This would expand the senate to include either five, six or seven senators per grade

“Everyone in senate would have two roles; [Undergraduate-wise]. They would be part of the senate and the Student Assembly … and then they would have another role as the [Undergraduate] Council for their grade,” Danly said. “This gives the [Undergraduate Council] and the [class] president more leadership and a legitimate capability to be able to lead a class by doing some things that the Class of 2013, 2014, 2015 or 2016 feel strongly about. … The point is to a. increase transparency and b. increase legitimacy.”

Much of the members’ discussion centered on how the class presidents would be selected alongside the senators. Possible methods included the senators appointing a class president amongst themselves, the senator with the most votes becoming class president, and the separate election of a class president.

“I think the theory is that you have talent divided right now,” Danly said. “You have people in [the] Senate and you have people in [the Undergraduate Council] who feel like they’re being misused.”

Madame Chair of the Senate Kendall Lorenzen ’15 spoke in favor of senators appointing the class president in a parliamentary style.

“I personally don’t think it’s going to be that big of an issue just having

the five class officers getting together and appointing the [class] president,” Lorenzen said. “I feel like there’s going to be some egos, but there’s always going to be some egos and at the end of the day the person who is going to be best for the job is going to be picked. I know it may be idealistic.”

Ultimately, however, the Code Revisions Committee members decided that the best option would be to have the senator who receives the highest voter support become the class president. The class president, however, would not be able to serve as chair of the senate and could abdicate his or her role if he or she so chose.

“It’s a cultural change, and that’s going to take a little push,” McManus said.

Members saw the change as a positive in terms of student interaction during the election process.

“It will increase voter turnout because you’ll have one thing to vote for [for your class representation],” Danly said.

Redundancy appeared with campus-wide events. Although the Executive continues to put on larger concerts, and speakers, the Undergraduate Council does not currently have the ability or funding to put on larger events for their respective classes.

“The role of the [Undergraduate Council] kind of got swept away because the Executive started putting on larger events,” Wilke said. “They do snacks in Swem and stuff and that’s stuff that we do. … They’re like a microcosm of the senate. I was in [Undergraduate Council] for a year and you don’t really do a whole lot. … Honestly, I wanted to do more last year, but I was like Bambi in the woods.”

Issues arose around the role of the Undergraduate Council in handling the senior class gift. A suggested solution included the creation of a Senate Fundraising Committee to handle fundraising for the SA as a whole and in operation with the pre-established Senior Class Gift Committee.

“I think it’s a good idea for the SA as a whole because we do not do enough fundraising for off-campus accounts,” Danly said. “Off-campus accounts give us an incredible amount of flexibility when it comes to funding things that we want to fund but we can’t under certain rules. The off-campus account is, for lack of a better word, our slush fund that has very little rules because we got all the money.”

The Joint Facilitations Committee is an inter-branch body between the Student Assembly’s branches of government. This body is tasked with a number of housekeeping roles but has not been utilized in the last few years.

Currently it is the job of the Joint Facilitations Committee to appoint the SA Archivist and SA Historian as well as manage the SA Office. Other tasks include handling the Freedom of Information Act, posting SA meeting times and locations, and facilitating the information technology resources.

“I think that this would be a good thing to have in terms of communication,” Madame Chair Kendall Lorenzen ’15

said. “I think there should be a weekly meeting between the members of the three branches. … They’re referenced quite a bit to make decisions on different things, but since they don’t meet on any regular basis it’s difficult to get things done. … [The Joint Facilitations Committee] has not been enforced in a few years.”

Before discussing changes to the Undergraduate Council, the Code Revisions Committee discussed incorporating the Undergraduate Council into the Joint Facilitations Committee.

Final proposals for the reinforcement of the Joint Facilitations Committee are currently under review.

The Code Revision Committee discussed a number of potential changes to the Code of the Student Assembly, including the incorporation of the Undergraduate Council with the senate, utilizing the positions of the SA Archivist and the SA Historian more effectively, and enforcing many forgotten rules and requirements of various branches.

The committee is moving section by section through the SA Code, revising as it goes with the goal of producing proposed changes to the senate, Undergraduate Council and Executive branches. The committee has met twice thus far, once in December and once on Saturday Feb. 16.

According to the committee members, these changes — despite possible controversy — are essential for reform in the College of William and Mary’s SA.

“There’s no perfect system of government. There’s never going to be,” Code Revision Committee chair and Senator Drew Wilke ’15 said. “And this system is not perfect either that we’re proposing. But at the same time, I think that it’s better than the old system and that’s all that you can ask for.”

The Code Revision Committee’s current plan is to finalize a proposal to the rest of the SA by the end of the current 2012-13 session.

“We can’t have this done for this election; we can’t kid ourselves,” Wilke said. “I’d like to see the language and the institutions in the code — that kind of stuff — figured out and on paper and in the code before the end of this Senate is over. And then spend the next year with the new senate, the new [Executive] and … whoever wins the SA election

President will have to work on that as a transition [year].”These changes could mark an important change in SA history. “What we’re talking about here is literally one of the biggest changes

to our student government since they broke up the hall councils [in 2003],” 2013 Vice President of Advocacy Ryan McManus ’13 said.

The Code Revisions Committee plans to meet with Chairman of the Review Board Scott Hardy J.D. ’14 to finalize how these changes can be implemented in accordance to the SA Code and Constitution.

“In our student government, we should have things a little more confusing to make sure we’re the best option,” Wilke said. “Government can be confusing at times. I’m not trying to create bureaucracy here, I’m trying to create a method that can be fair and equitable.”

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BENOIT MATHIEU / THE FLAT HAT Proposed changes would combine the Student Assembly Undergraduate Council and the Senate with each class electing more senators.

The Student Assembly website currently does not list the individual Undergraduate Council representatives or the senators from the Class of 2015 and the Class of 2016. To curb this as well as other issues with the SA website and archives, the Code Revisions Committee will propose to enforce the use of an SA Archivist and an SA Historian. These positions, outlined in the code but historically never filled, will increase transparency for the SA.

“Since things haven’t been kept up for so long there is no record for things for the past few years other than the one I have on my computer that only goes back to the 317th Senate,” Madame Chair of the Senate Kendall Lorenzen ’15 said.

The Code Revisions Committee also discussed how these positions could increase outreach initiatives, including enforcing the release of reports by the Senate Outreach Committee in conjunction with the Executive Outreach Department. Currently these quarterly reports are supposed to “detail the activities of the Assembly” and “include a link to the Student Assembly website where legislation, vote tallies, meeting minutes, and attendance records may be found.” The last bill and announcement

posted on the website dates back to 2011.Other proposed changes include

adding exceptions to certain rules; one such rule dictates that senate committees meet at least 48 hours prior to the senate meeting. A new “hurricane clause” would allow committees to meet less than 48 hours before the Senate meeting in case of an emergency, such as a hurricane.

The committee also discussed streamlining committee changes. The senate chair will retain the right to move senators from committee to committee but the committee itself may decide to remove a senator as chair and appoint a new senator to the position.

“I think someone can be a good committee member without being a good chair,” Lorenzen said.

Committee members also discussed enforcing the attendance of Executive Secretaries at senate committee meetings in their corresponding department, which is not currently enforced. In addition, the Code Revisions Committee members discussed a presentation by the Senate Policy Committee for the new Executive on the policies they are required to follow.

Members debated the Conference Committee that must be established by

the SA President if he vetoes the senate-approved budget twice. The committee, if formed, includes three members of the Executive and three members of the senate. Code Revisions Committee Chair and Senator Drew Wilke ’15 voiced his concerns about the members selected and the appearance of an Executive-dominated committee.

At the Senate Finance Committee meeting, Secretary of Finance Brett Prestia said that SA President Curt Mills ’13 will probably veto this year’s budget if it raises the student activities fee, which currently is $98. The budget will be finalized and voted on by the senate in the following weeks.

Concern was raised over the Office of Student Activities, recently renamed to the Office of Student Leadership Development, which has access to $10,000 out of the Student Activities Reserve for general maintenance purposes. Only expenditures over $1,500 must be reported to the SA president.

“We don’t know anything about that money,” Senator Colin Danly ’15 said. “It’s like a $10,000 slush fund. … This is unchecked money.”

Committee members will discuss this aspect of the SA Code with Student Activities Accountant Anita Forrest.

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“How [do we] alter this increasingly bleak landscape?” Gates said.

Gates’ reminded Charter Day attendees not to bet on the government for help. Instead, he placed responsibility on the public colleges and universities to find cost-cutting methods.

College President Taylor Reveley agreed, noting the sharp decline in Virginia’s funding of the College from 43 percent of the operating budget 30 years ago to 13 percent today. According to Reveley, the College has a greater responsibility to reach out and make money on its own.

“The bottom line is, in terms of the operating budget, the era of state support as a major factor of the budget seems to be over, at least in Va. and I don’t see it coming back,” Reveley said. “Our money therefore has to come from tuition, from annual giving, from the yield on our endowment, from foundation grants, from everywhere we can find it, but we can’t depend on the state.”

Reveley also differentiates the College

from other public universities, pointing out its similarities to private institutions as an advantage for revenue creation.

“Our peers are private schools,” Reveley said. “Private schools are enormously dependent on philanthropy. [The College] has that, in addition to a supportive alumni base that’s willing to give back, much like private schools also.”

But the College has also had to turn to other sources of revenue, including tuition increases. The College’s ability to attract out-of-state students and charge them private-school prices has therefore become a source of major funding but is limited due to restrictions on the number of out-of-state students placed on the College by the state.

“The four-year colleges in Virginia have very little capacity to draw on out-of-state students and can’t charge too much,” Reveley said. “In our case as well as U.Va., we get armies of out-of-state students and unfortunately we have to charge them a lot more money than our in-state kids. They are utterly crucial as a source of earned income that isn’t

available to most Virginia colleges.”For many out-of-state students, the idea

that the College relies on them financially is unsettling.

Kieran Ryan ’15, who is originally from Washington State, expresses uncertainty with his decision of coming to the College.

“I came [to the College] because I knew it was a good school, and really hard to get into,” Ryan said. “At the time I guess I underestimated how much I’d eventually have to pay, but now the money I’m going to owe from loans is becoming a very real, scary thing. Sometimes I doubt whether I should have bothered going out-of-state for a public school.”

In light of the president’s national call for better, more affordable higher education, the College is not the only school resorting to other methods of raising revenue, making the plane even for students to choose based on preference rather than financial ability.

“In the end, I know I won’t ever transfer because [the College] is small and smart,” Ryan said. “And right now, that’s what matters most.”

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information as possible to create a realistic bid for the College’s future dining service.

Campus Dining, Inc. gathers dining research from universities across the country. Wednesday’s consultation meeting was run by Thomas Newcomb, the president of Campus Dining, Inc. Newcomb travels to colleges throughout the country consulting.

“We probably run about 40 projects like this a year,” Newcomb said. “They don’t bring the universities and colleges any closer to me, so [I] travel a fair amount.”

Newcomb stated that he plans to do a very thorough job with the College. A team from Campus Dining will examine every food facility during every mealtime at least twice, as well as conduct sight and operational reviews throughout campus. The team will also go out on campus to conduct student surveys, asking them to rate the food.

“What I really think [the College]

has done very nicely is that they’re investing a lot of time and energy in up-front planning before they go out to bid,” Newcomb said. “They’re really making a very positive effort here.”

Campus Dining received plenty of feedback at Wednesday’s small meeting alone. Newcomb asked participants to rate the food in a survey similar his campus-wide ones. This opened the door to a barrage of complaints, most concerned with the quality of produce and painfully long lines at dining halls. Many students also expressed a desire for more flexibility in their meal plans.

“Students want fresh food,” Interim Director of Auxiliary Services John Byxbe said. “[A] product of this is that kids are going to have to wait in line.”

The solutions to these problems will not appear as quickly as the students brought them up. However, Byxbe is confident that Campus Dining will develop a bid reflective of the students’ needs. Even though this process will take about a year, it will help find the best fit for the College’s dining services.

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As I’m sure you’re already aware, last weekend was the celebration of the 320th birthday of the College of William and Mary. As part of the festivities, the 24th chancellor of the College and former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates gave a speech highlighting the challenges of finding adequate funding for higher education institutions such as the College. He emphasized the need to fund institutions that provide citizens with the skills necessary to deal with an increasingly technological and globalized world. In a period of skyrocketing tuition costs and dwindling state funding, however, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for institutions such as the College to prepare students for rapidly changing socioeconomic conditions. As Gates mentioned in his speech, “at some of the nation’s most prominent public universities, such as William and Mary and the University of Virginia, state funding contributes less than 15 percent of university operating support.”

If the College were to become a private institution — as many out-of-state students wish it to be — and the commonwealth became a shareholder in the College, Virginia would be a minority stakeholder. The commonwealth demands a much larger say in the College’s strategic direction than its current level of financial contributions warrant. Furthermore, the commonwealth benefits from the great reputation the College has across the nation. The College produces highly qualified individuals sought after by many businesses, which in turn incentivizes burgeoning industries to locate in Virginia, bringing the state an increased level of economic activity. In essence, the state reaps all of the benefits from having input regarding the operations of an elite higher education institution while providing a negligible amount of support in return.

Thus, faced with dwindling benefits from state governments, many schools rely on infusions of capital from the federal government. Based on last week’s State of the Union, however, this source of funding could be drying up as well. President Barack Obama has called for an end to the federal government’s subsidization of the soaring cost of higher education. While he recognizes the necessity of higher education as a means to a secure economic future for most Americans, he also wants to reform the Higher Education Act to require that funding be based upon value. In essence, Obama is arguing that federal infusions of capital to higher education institutions should be based upon an evaluation of both quality and price. The need to address skyrocketing tuition is a view held by most Americans — a new Gallup poll shows that 59 percent of citizens strongly agree that colleges should simply lower the tuition they charge. This is an area where I feel the College could benefit greatly. The College offers a great value package for in-state students, combining a

relatively low tuition rate with top-tier undergraduate teaching. The College should most definitely consider pursuing this “value-funding” if indeed the Higher Education Act is amended. As we’ve been slowly admitting a bigger and bigger class of students each year, our facilities are simply running over their intended

capacity. The College is in desperate need of major investments in an expansion of many facilities: housing, academic buildings and parking, just to name a few.

The College’s level of funding is unsustainable. If we hope to continue our legacy of high-quality education that prepares students to address the world’s pressing needs, we must work with government and private citizens to secure the funding necessary to ensure our long-term viability. Our endowment is sitting at less than half a billion dollars. While that may seem like a good chunk of cash, it pales in comparison to institutions of similar quality. Rather than seeing my opinion as a diatribe, I hope everyone reading this is moved to take action and collaborate with all interested parties to ensure that the College stays as the excellent higher education institution I sincerely believe it to be.

Email Derek Bluemling at [email protected].

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According to a recent survey conducted by the American Psychological Association, half of all millennials — Americans between the ages of 18 and 33 — claim that their stress levels keep them up late at night. The Stress in America survey declares that the culprit behind the rising stress levels in young Americans is closely related to work and job stability — an overall weak explanation. The truth is, all Americans have grown more anxious. It is not a generational problem; it is a national problem.

Through both good and bad economic times, America has transformed itself into a “worry nation.” We have come to believe

that, since we live in an industrialized western country, our lives should be perfect and that we should adhere to the American dream. But life isn’t perfect, and not everyone will meet the standards of success — and that’s okay. Unfortunately, many people refuse to accept this fact, and as a result anxiety now surpasses depression as the most prominent mental health issue in the United States — affecting over 40 million adults.

The proliferated stress levels that Americans are living with is ironic because we live in a society safe from imminent danger: Although our country is at war, the battle fronts will never take place on American soil; advancements in engineering and medicine allow us access to the best medical care; and we live in a welfare state that provides for those less fortunate. Yet we still find reasons to stress. According to the 2002 World Mental Health Survey, “people in

developing-world countries such as Nigeria are up to five times less likely to show clinically significant anxiety levels than Americans, despite having more basic life-necessities to worry about.”

The answer to the causes of anxiety and stress is complex. Although there are no clear answers to the rise in anxiety and stress levels, some experts believe that the decline of in-person social interaction has had a negative effect on the lives of American citizens, and it can be a major factor in issues with anxiety and stress. Researcher Michael Davis of Emory University states: “If you’ve lost the extended family and lost the sense of community, you’re going to have fewer people you can depend on, and therefore you’ll be more anxious. Other cultures [such as those in Nigeria] have much more social support and are better off psychologically because of it.”

So before you log on to your

Facebook or Twitter account to seek consolation after a stressful day, try confiding in a friend. There is no

substitute for human interaction. Email Kristen Hill-Clemons at

[email protected].

STAFF EDITORIAL

The role of the DoS

The commonwealth demands much more say in the College’s

strategic direction than its current level of financial contributions warrant.

For many students at the College of William and Mary, a visit to the Dean of Students Office is equivocal to being called to the principal’s office in elementary school. The

Dean of Students Office is often associated with setbacks. In reality, the office has the capacity to be a useful tool for students. We are glad to see the candidates for the Dean of Students position are looking at ways to improve the role of the office on campus by increasing its interactions with students on a daily basis.

As the College is a relatively small school, the Dean of Students should have plenty of opportunities to engage with students. Attending student research symposiums and hosting informal meetings with students are simple, practical gestures that could make huge strides in overcoming the stigma attached to the office.

Through improved communication, the Dean of Students Office will be more effective at supporting students. The Office website states that it provides services in seven areas of student life, including academic support and health promotion. Because the office is so far removed from everyday life on campus, students may be unaware of services it provides. For instance, the Dean of Students Office offers Strategic Learning Workshops on most Tuesdays and Thursdays. These resources will not benefit students if they do not know they exist.

The Dean of Students Office needs to familiarize itself with the student body at the College. Although the office needs to improve the promotion of its services to the student body through advertising, the Dean of Students Office must first examine the services it is providing critically to ensure it is in touch with the student body and its needs.

A stronger connection between the Dean of Students and the student body could help lessen the blow when the office must be the bearer of difficult news. When students are experiencing difficulties, the Dean of Students Office should act as a support system that continues to monitor the situation, even if the student is taking time off from the College, to provide encouragement and promote well-being. By developing more support for student life, the College can combat the stereotype that students are overworked and overstressed.

As students at the College, we know we have many options for support for all branches of student life — the Student Writing Center, the Student Health Center and even our close relationships with professors and advisors. The one place we may not think to look is the Dean of Students Office because we tend to think of it as the mysterious bearer of bad news. The office needs to play a more active role in the lives of students at the College in order to provide needed services to the campus.

Katherine Chiglinsky recused herself from this editorial in order to remain unbiased in her reporting.

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FLAT HAT STAFF COLUMNISTDerek Bluemling

The future of the College’s funding

The staff editorial represents the opinion of The Flat Hat. The editorial board, which is elected by The Flat Hat’s section editors and executive staff, consists of Katherine Chiglinsky, Elizabeth DeBusk, Katie Demeria, Jill Found and Ellen Wexler. The Flat Hat welcomes submissions to the Opinions section. Limit letters to 250 words and columns to 650 words. Letters, columns, graphics and cartoons reflect the view of the author only. Email submissions to [email protected].

“The state should support the school ... As Gates said in his speech, funding has been dwindling and yet they’re expecting more of the schools.”

Liz Allen ’16

STREET BEAT

“Politically, I think we should get [more funding], but I think the school should do more to work on being more self-sufficient.”

Alice Fuller ’15

“I think we should have more funding to help out with tuition and related expenses.”

Ben Weise ’16 — PHOTOS AND INTERVIEWS BY MATT CAMARDA

“It would be great if the state provided more of our funding, but since it doesn’t, it’s more important to raise money through private areas.”

Arianna Roumeliotes ’15

“State funding is good but nebulous, and it’s worrisome that we rely on it when it can be taken away.”

Emily Loney ’13

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BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

The decline of dating culture

Although single people seem to have a lot of fun in college, and although there is a lot of experimenting to do, part of me feels like I may have dodged a bullet by never being single in college. Dating just seems so damn stressful. The last time I was on the market, I was asked out with a, “Do you like me? Check yes or no” note. Just kidding — but that totally worked in third grade. I try to offer good advice to friends trying to enter relationships, but the process that people seem to adhere to in college is different than the usual progression of relationships outside of the college bubble.

I asked a friend of mine the other day if she liked the guy she hooked up with the night before. “I don’t know,” she said. “We only hooked up that one time.” Back in my day — during the Jurassic Period — I knew whether I was interested in a person before my tongue ended up down his throat.

Someday, historians are going to write books about our mating rituals. When they talk about our generation, they will write about our dance floor makeouts and emoticon-filled text messages. While I recognize I’ve been out of the dating game for a while, it seems like there are steps missing or out of order when it comes to forming a relationship. Hooking up can happen the first or second time you meet someone, but hanging out sober is considered a big step. I have this mental image of dating in the infamous “real world” that involves meeting someone and having multiple conversations with them while sober, or at the very least in the light of day. I picture real-world dating as something that takes more than the course of three weekends to amount to sex, and I picture it, perhaps naively so, involving considerably less booze.

I don’t think college hookup culture is wrong, per se. I understand it can be easier to make your attraction known on a dark crowded dance floor than in a brightly lit Starbucks. It seems like you face less of a risk of rejection when you’ve been drinking, people are hooking up around you and you can’t quite make out the features of the other person’s face. What I don’t understand is why time passes and yet it still seems too soon to talk outside of the hours between midnight and 2 a.m. I don’t know why sex seems less scary than a conversation about the sex, or why spending the night with someone Saturday doesn’t seem nearly as intimate as going to coffee with them Sunday.

To all of the people out there making college hookup culture work for you, congratulations. It’s great to be able to live in the moment and take things one day or one night at a time. For those struggling with the process, don’t be afraid to initiate more communication than 2 a.m. booty texts. I don’t think communication is as scary as we all make it seem. Not every conversation with a hook-up has to be a Define the Relationship talk, and asking someone to grab lunch at the Grind isn’t a marriage proposal. Don’t be afraid to push the boundaries of what college students consider the “normal” dating process — but maybe stay away from the, “Check yes or no” notes.

Krystyna Holland is a Behind Closed Doors columnist and is not afraid of a brightly lit Starbucks.

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Tarantino, Allen, Scorsese, Spielberg — they all had to start somewhere.

The “Do-It-Young/Film-It-Yourself ” youth filmmaking competition debuted this past Saturday at the Kimball Theatre as a part of the “Film & Youth”-themed 2013 William and Mary Global Film Festival. Featuring 13 original short films, the competition served as a creative and fun outlet for the aspiring elementary school, middle school and high school filmmakers.

Originally conceived as an after-school program sponsored by the Williamsburg Regional Library and the Earl Gregg Swem Library Media Center last November, the young filmmakers participated in two free Saturday workshops to learn or brush up on the skills required to make a film — everything from camera use and editing tools to shooting techniques. While the first workshop focused primarily on putting together a working script and basic pre-production protocols, the second workshop focused on editing and finalizing a film. The actual filming was done according to the individual schedules of the filmmakers.

Festival director and film studies professor Timothy Barnard said that reaching out to local youth came naturally with this year’s “Film & Youth” theme.

“As we showcase films from around the world about youth, we also wanted to get cameras into the hands of young people and give them a chance to be the filmmakers and

include that in our programming,” he said. “We’re very excited about this experiment.”

All of the youth involved in the program were assigned, based on their interests, to a student mentor at the College of William and Mary — known affectionately as “bigs” — to help guide them throughout the duration of the projects. Together with their mentors, the “littles” edited and polished their footage into a final short film. Basic equipment, such as cameras and editing software, was provided by Swem Media Center at no cost.

The short films featured were very diverse and covered multiple genres, showcasing the uniqueness and individuality of the students involved. Everything was covered, from a French-style cinnamon bun-making tutorial to a Tony Hawk-inspired ode to skateboarding, a classic “whodunnit” thriller, to a commercial advertisement for a “zombie mom” and “zombie boyfriend.” The nearly-full theater laughed, gasped and clapped throughout the hour-long screening. At the end, all the student filmmakers were acknowledged at the front of the theater with a rousing applause.

Emma Yeats, a middle school student who acted in, edited and helped direct the short film “The Journey of an Idea” is a film aficionado who was excited to participate in the program.

“I think it was a good experience,” Yeats said. “If it’s offered next year, I would participate again.”

Bruton High School students Matthew Hoffman and Matthew Green, the brains

behind the short film “A Day in the Life: High School,” said they heard about the program through their cinematography class and teacher.

“She made it a project,” Hoffman said. “It was our semester exam grade to enter into the contest, so everyone in the class had to get involved.”

Even though it was a required project, both boys are interested in filmmaking as a whole and highly enjoyed the fun associated with immersing themselves into the filmmaking process.

“The most fun was definitely the creativity and the creative process, and coming up with a pre-film, [while] editing was the hardest part,” Green said.

The five official judges, consisting of both local and guest celebrity filmmakers, included talent such as Helene Bergsholm, who acted in the 2011 Norwegian coming-of-age film “Turn Me On, Dammit!” and Jared Gilman, star of the 2012 Oscar-nominated film “Moonrise Kingdom.” Bergsholm and Gilman are both recipients of 2013 W&M Rising Young Talent Global Film Can award, acknowledging their rising talent and poignant, genuine performances.

Rounding out the rest of the judging board was “Williamsburg Arts Month” coordinator, Terry Bruntrock, Program Director at the Williamsburg Regional Library Patrick Golden, and art teacher at Matthew Whaley Elementary School Robert Oppecker.

The competition winners were announced on Sunday at the film festival’s closing reception in Andrews Hall.

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While students at the Mason School of Business conduct mock interviews in Alan B. Miller Hall, students in Adventure Games swing on ropes in the woods just behind. Across campus, language students consult their bilingual dictionaries while students in Chinese Calligraphy and Painting make Valentine’s Day greeting cards.

The College of William and Mary offers an array of courses like Adventure Games and Chinese Calligraphy and Painting that allow students to earn one credit while polishing a skill or trying something completely new.

Lecturer in Kinesiology Randy Drake has been teaching Adventure Games since 1994. The course, which begins with basic name games and icebreakers and builds up to challenges on the College’s high ropes course, works on both an individual and group level by encouraging trust and teamwork while pushing the boundaries of each student’s comfort zone.

“They go out on these cables and swing on these ropes and do all these other things because they know they can trust the other people in the class,” Drake said. “The trust that exists at the beginning of class is just about nonexistent, but through the instruction that they receive and the care that we take with the students, they are able to progress to the point where at the end, they’re doing stuff they never, ever thought they could do.”

For Drake, the true value of the course lies in the opportunity it offers to build interpersonal connections and to push oneself, especially in

a world becoming less active and more isolated each day.

“[If ] all you do is surf the Internet and watch TV, where are the connections? They don’t exist anymore,” he said.

Drake does, however, warn “thrill-seekers” that Adventure Games is not all fun and games. People who become too comfortable in a dangerous — although protected — environment run the risk of injury due to carelessness.

Students in adjunct instructor of Chinese studies and Chinese studies language house tutor Jun “Philip” Fang’s Chinese Calligraphy and Painting class opt for ink over adrenaline. Fang learned the art of calligraphy as a young boy in China, and like Drake, views it as a way to preserve the quality of life in response to today’s technologically dominated society.

“We have the Internet, we have iPhones and a lot of stuff, so we cannot focus on the traditional things, but when I started learning calligraphy, I really enjoyed it because … we had no Internet, no cell phones, and I would just bring a cup of tea, so just sit there spending like three hours on painting,” Fang said. “It’s kind of an inner peace we really need nowadays.”

Fang’s class begins with an overview of Chinese philosophy as a way to introduce students to the

material and involves a series of art projects. For the Chinese New Year earlier in the semester, Fang taught his students the character “fu,” which stands for fortune. They painted them on red, diamond-shaped paper to hang on their doors according to Chinese tradition.

“In China, usually we will post this door sign on the door on Chinese New Year’s Eve, and we will put it upside down because ‘fu’ upside down in Chinese means ‘dao;’ it means ‘to arrive, to come,’ so the fortune will come,” he said.

For this class, fortune did come. Through a friend, Fang was able to arrange for China Central Television, a major television network in China, to come and film a segment on how the College celebrated the Chinese New Year. Fang said the segment aired at the annual New Year’s gala in China and was seen by roughly one billion people.

For Valentine’s Day, Fang’s students learned the character for love, ‘ai,’ which is an extremely difficult character.

“That was really, really complicated, but it was pretty cool to actually be able to write something,” Kristina Venieri ’13, one of Fang’s students, said.

For some students, many of these one-credit courses are too big of a time commitment to earn just one credit. These students have the option of choosing from courses that meet less frequently —

perhaps just one weekend in the whole semester.Sara Williams ’13 took Scuba her freshman

year at the College and now helps instruct the class. Over just one weekend, students learn the basics of scuba diving and get some time to practice in the pool in Adair Hall. If they choose, they may spend an additional weekend earning scuba certification.

In the open water certification class — for those with no previous experience — students spend the mornings in the classroom and the afternoons in the pool becoming acquainted with equipment and practicing in the water.

“You have probably about 40 pounds of gear on your back when you’re scuba diving, which feels a little awkward on land, but underwater you don’t notice it really,” Williams said.

Many people start out nervous, Williams said. Some take Scuba as a way to overcome a fear of water. For Williams herself, however, this is far from true. A scuba diver from age 15, Williams is also co-president of diving in Scuba Club at the College. Teaching Scuba is a way for her to share her hobby with others.

“It’s such a big part of my life,” she said. “It’s pretty cool to see people like, ‘Oh, I’m breathing underwater for the first time.’ It’s just cool to see that click.”

Williams encourages people who may be on the fence to give it a try. Drake agrees with this statement, and emphasizes that trying something new is the best way to grow.

“If you just stay home and sit on the couch, you’re not getting outside your comfort zone very much, are you? And where do we grow? How do we grow? It’s when we step out of our comfort zone.”

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The College of William and Mary’s founders took the first hit in comedian Ty Barnett’s routine Friday.

“I think it’s real cool that they got their own college. You can’t name a college after everybody — Pookie and Jackie, that’s not going to work.”

This opening joke set the tone for a highly interactive and intimate show. Barnett geared his jokes toward students and included many College-related jokes.

“I had to use GPS to get here. It’s not obvious where you guys are … Am I going to Hogwarts?” Barnett said, playing off the Harry Potter fandom the College is known for.

Barnett informed the audience that his full name is Tyrone.

“Y’all laugh, but someone [in the audience] grabbed their purse.”

Barnett hails from Chicago but currently lives in Los Angeles. He is known for his runner-up status on Last Comic Standing and his appearances on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.”

Barnett performed with the air of a seasoned comedian, with only a few troubled transitions due to the distractions that come with performing in a space like Lodge 1.

“I expect clowns to come by juggling cats and

shit,” Barnett said after multiple distractions. He recovered by incorporating these

distractions into his act. When two girls walked through Lodge 1 in front of the stage, passing between Barnett and the audience, Barnett stopped them and made a bet.

“If the next joke I tell, you don’t laugh at, I’ll buy you a burrito,” he promised, referring to the Qdoba station in the rear of the room.

Barnett joked that Parental Aptitude Tests should be required for all aspiring parents.

“No, sorry, you can’t have kids, but you can have a turtle!” he said.

The crowd ate it up, and no burritos had to be purchased.

Like most comedians, Barnett made many jokes about the generally touchy topics of sex, race and drugs; unlike some comedians, he stayed away from the vulgar sides of these topics. In the middle of the act however, he asked one of the AMP volunteers if there was anything Barnett was not allowed to say according to his contract.

“If I lay anything that puts you off, even the slightest, feel free to keep that shit to yourself,” Barnett said to the audience.

However, Barnett avoided pushing his views on the audience or taking any wildly offensive routes. He described President Barack Obama as a “starter shade” and suggested:

“From this point forward, every culture gets a shot.”

Barnett easily combined observational comedy with audience interaction, asking audience members what their majors were. When one audience member told Barnett that he was a computer science major, Barnett quickly jumped into a bit about why he doesn’t mess with people who work with computers.

In one of his observational comedy segments, he talked about Cartoon Network running 24 hours per day.

“I imagine a little kid pacing his room at 3 a.m., smoking candy cigarettes and drinking hot chocolate. ‘This is bullshit, I have a test on shapes tomorrow!’” he said.

Some bits were borderline ridiculous, but they were received equally well by the audience.

“I saw an albino midget today,” Barnett said. “There is no smooth way to say that. You can’t KY that. I didn’t know what to do. Like, do I make a wish? Rub it? Get its energy? Little person, that sounds way worse. Midget? That sounds magical.”

Barnett focused a lot of his act on race, which felt slightly redundant after a while, but there were a few gems in the batch.

“Either we gotta love everybody, or we gotta find better ways to hate each other. We should start judging people by their signs,” Barnett said and launched into an explanation of why it would make sense to judge everyone by their astrological sign.

The show was the latest comedy act brought to Lodge 1 by AMP as part of their free comedy series for students.

Members of adjunct instructor of Chinese studies and Chinese studies language house tutor Jun “Philip” Fang’s Chinese Calligraphy and Painting class earn one credit while learning to write Chinese characters and paint traditional symbols.

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Television comedian Ty Barnett pokes fun at Harry Potter fandom, race and Cartoon Network“If the next joke I tell, you don’t laugh at, I’ll buy you a burrito”

Comedian Ty Barnett has appeared on both “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and “Last Comic Standing.”

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Following a thrilling 78-70 overtime victory over Northeastern Friday night, William and Mary was outhustled by conference-leading Delaware Sunday, falling at home, 66-44.

The Tribe (6-18, 4-9 CAA) struggled to rebound and score, managing just 10 boards to Delaware’s 20 in the first half, a deficit that led the College to trail 36-25 at the end of the first. Senior guard Janine Aldridge — the all-time school leader in three-pointers — struggled, converting just 1 for 7 from beyond the arc.

Head coach Debbie Taylor did not hold back about the effort she thought her team put forth.

“I don’t think we played with the effort we played with Friday night,” head coach Debbie Taylor said. “You could say, ‘oh, we are tired,’ but you are playing the 20th ranked team in the country, you get one shot at them … It’s a wonderful opportunity and I’m just disappointed in how we came out. I don’t think we competed hard tonight. … I don’t [think] anybody on our team was proud of the way we played.”

The lone bright spot for the Tribe was senior center Emily Correal, who led the Tribe with 16 points and

10 rebounds, recording her seventh double-double of the season.

“I was just focused on playing really hard,” she said. “I was just trying to win and go as hard as I could. That was the only thing on my mind, just go hard.”

Opposite the College was a Delaware squad (22-3, 13-0 CAA) featuring senior forward Elena Delle Donne, the conference leader in points per game with 24.9 and the second-leading scorer in the nation. Although the College made her the focus of their defense every possession, whether playing a box-and-one or simply double-teaming her, Delle Donne was still effective, finishing with 24 points and three assists.

“You want to limit her touches,” Taylor said. “If she touches the ball, quite often she’s going to score. … When the going gets tough she’s just going to take over the game, but when she’s in a game where she doesn’t have to do a whole lot, she’ll sit back, and you see 24 points with her sitting back. The goal was to limit her touches and, no, I don’t think we did a good job at all.”

The first half of the game was closer than the final score would have indicated. Early on the Tribe remained in striking distance after a Correal jumper made it a five-point game with 15:59 remaining in the half.

The bench contributed, too, as sophomore guard

Kyla Kerstetter entered the game and immediately crossed up a Delaware defender to give the Tribe a bucket following a timeout.

But near the midway point of the half, the Tribe’s defensive rebounding woes began to catch up with them. With 11:30 left in the first, Delaware’s Trumae Lucas missed a layup and then easily pulled down the board and put it back in, extending the Delaware lead 22-11. By the 10:45 mark of the first half, Delaware had as many offensive rebounds as the Tribe had defensive rebounds.

Aldridge mentioned that her team’s rebounding problems might have had something to do with how they were defending Delle Donne.

“The box-and-one is not our forte … but [Delle Donne] is No. 2 in the nation, so I mean, we kind of had to use it,” Aldridge said. “If we had more practice with the box and one, we would work on our rebounding and transition defense with that.

It was in the second half that Delle Donne became more aggressive, scoring seven points in the first 10 minutes of the second. Then with 8:52 left, she hit a runner while drawing a foul, converting the three-point play to extend the Blue Hens’ advantage over 20. The College wouldn’t get closer than 17 the rest of the way.

With five regular-season games left to play, the Tribe will head to Norfolk Thursday to take on ODU.

BY MIKE BARNESFLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR

William and Mary opened its 2013 campaign by leaving the frigid Williamsburg weather for sunny Clemson, S.C. for a weekend series with Atlantic Coast Conference foe Clemson.

After splitting the first two games of the series, the Tribe seemed poised to topple the Tigers in the series finale after scoring the first run of the game in the fourth inning, but Clemson reeled off 12 consecutive runs to claim a 12-2 series-clinching win.

“I thought our guys, for two and a half games, really went down there and had a really good opportunity to win the series, and the last three innings didn’t go the way we wanted it to, but we really competed well throughout the weekend, but we did a lot of positive things down there that we can build on moving forward,” head coach Jamie Pinzino said.

The College (1-2) dropped head coach Jamie Pinzino’s debut in the first game of the series, but bounced back on Saturday. Powered by sophomore third baseman Michael Katz’s four RBIs, the Tribe demolished the Tigers 11-2 to even the series at one game apiece, setting up a decisive third game.

In the fourth inning of Sunday’s game, freshman catcher Ryan Hissey drove Katz home to put the Tribe up 1-0. Sophomore pitcher Jason Inghram, who had pitched five scoreless innings, began to lose steam in the sixth inning, allowing three Clemson runs.

One inning later, the Tigers essentially iced the game with an impressive six-run seventh inning. The Tigers harassed junior John Sheehan for six earned runs, creating a commanding 12-1 advantage. Senior

shortstop Ryan Williams drove in Hissey in the ninth inning, but it was for naught as the College fell 12-2.

Hissey and Williams both tallied RBIs in an otherwise quiet game at the plate for the College. Senior Kevin Nutter and Katz also recorded one hit each.

While the Tribe bats were largely silent Sunday, the College enjoyed a productive performance Saturday against Clemson starter Patrick Andrews. Senior second baseman Ryan Lindemuth kicked off the scoring display by driving in senior centerfielder Ryan Brown in the first inning to put the College out a quick 1-0 lead.

After a scoreless second, the Tribe began to take control in the third. The College garnered three runs on four hits as senior first baseman Kevin Nutter, Brown and Lindemuth all scored. The theme would continue throughout the remainder of the contest, as the College went on to score nine more runs over the final six innings to secure the 11-2 victory — the College’s first win over an ACC team since March 2011.

“On that day, our offense really busted out a little bit. … Lindemuth and Katz had a great weekend, both of them, they were really productive,” Pinzino said. “I think on Saturday we were able to get some guys on base and create some innings and we hit very well situationally.”

As a whole, the College recorded 16 hits, a solid rebound after getting shutout in the season opener. Lindemuth paced the Tribe with four hits, two runs scored and an RBI while Katz knocked in four RBI on three hits. Nutter’s two RBI and three runs scored helped further propel the Tribe, while Brown scored three runs on a 3 for 4 batting performance.

Senior right-hander John Farrell recorded the first Tribe victory of the season with an impressive outing. Farrell allowed nine hits but just two runs in seven innings of action. Sophomore reliever J.T. Castner and freshman Mitchell Aker both pitched scoreless innings to preserve the Tribe victory.

While Farrell delivered a quality start Saturday, it was not the first good performance of the season by a Tribe pitcher. Senior pitcher Brett Koehler pitched seven scoreless innings, countering a scoreless outing by his Clemson counterparts, until the eighth inning.

With two outs in the bottom of the eighth, Clemson second baseman Steve Wilkerson bunted and advanced to base, keeping the Tigers alive.

Designated hitter Shane Kennedy stepped up to the plate and took advantage of the opportunity, sending one of Koehler’s pitches out of the ballpark for a two-run home run that would prove to be the only runs of the game.

“Brett was awesome in game one,” Pinzino said. “He’s a very consistent performer in and out on the mound. He throws a ton of strikes, I don’t think he walked anybody throughout the game, eight innings and had a 0-0 game into the eighth inning when they hit a two-run homer, one pitch that their guy put a good swing on and changed the outcome.”

The College returns to action Tuesday for a matchup against Virginia in Charlottesville, Va.

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College drops two of three at ClemsonTigers score 12 runs late in third game to take opening series

College goes unbeaten in Sunday doubleheader

BY JACK POWERSFLAT HAT STAFF WRITER

After losing three straight matches against difficult opponents, William and Mary reinvigorated its season with back-to-back wins against in-state rivals Sunday, defeating Liberty 4-2 and Norfolk State 6-1 to climb to a 4-3 record.

The wins were especially impressive given that three of the Tribe’s top players — senior Jamie Whiteford, junior Ben Guthrie and sophomore Will Juggins — were sidelined with injuries.

Faced with a short-handed lineup, head coach Peter Daub knew that everyone on his team needed to step up accordingly. And they did.

“I think it was a pretty gutsy performance without our top three players,” Daud said. “Just to have people who haven’t played much before step up makes me feel really good.”

The College benefited from strong performances across the board with each player winning at least one singles or doubles match. The wins demonstrated the depth of the Tribe team even without Whiteford, Guthrie and Juggins.

In the morning match against Liberty (3-1), the College claimed the doubles point easily with the duo of sophomore Aaron Chaffee and senior Adrian

Vodislav. The singles matches, however, were trickier. The Tribe’s No. 1 singles player, Chaffee, and

No. 2 player, senior Anton Andersson, were both defeated in their individual matches. The rest of the team picked up the slack as the Tribe won in the No. 3, No. 5 and No. 6 singles matches to seize the victory over visiting Liberty.

Although the Tribe had just six hours in between the doubleheader matchups, it was stil able to put in more strong performances against Norfolk State (3-5). The duos of freshman Scott Huang and junior John Banks and of junior Ben Hoogland and freshman Matt Waddell captured the initial doubles point in routine fashion without having to finish the third game.

With a point in hand, the Tribe capitalized on its strong doubles play by nearly sweeping the singles matchups. Hoogland finished first, winning 6-0 after his opponent retired before playing the second set. The one-set victory was a confidence boost for the junior.

“I played pretty well overall, and I’ve been serving great which has been a big advantage for me,” Hoogland said.

Huang made another impressive display, coasting to a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Norfolk State’s Peter Rastromer-Pello. The win capped off a

dominating doubleheader for the freshman in which he went 4-0 in doubles and singles matches.

“Well, it’s been a pretty long day, but I wasn’t too tired. Plus, I was confident I could win the match from the start,” Huang said.

Ultimately, it was the Tribe’s Anderson who stole the show at the end by battling back and forth against Robin Reithmuller to prevail in a gritty three-set victory. Each player struggled to gain an advantage throughout the hour long match.

Anderson’s cool drop shots and ferocious volleys were greeted by loud cheers from his teammates and other onlookers as he captured his his first singles victory of the day.

The lone black spot in the College’s otherwise resounding victory on Sunday night was Chaffee’s singles loss to Norfolk State’s No. 1 Dimitry Zymaytovitch, which compounded his singles loss against Liberty earlier in the day.

Replacing the injured Whiteford and Guthrie as the Tribe’s number one singles player has not been easy for Chaffee, who fell to 0-4 when playing as the No. 1.

After the doubleheader wins, Daub expressed pleasure with the potential his team has shown in this nascent season, especially without some of their top players.

“I think we can be one of the best teams when we have our full lineup here, and hopefully we’ll get that eventually,” he said.

Senior pitcher Brett Koehler pitched seven scoreless innings in the Tribe’s 2-0 loss to Clemson Friday in the first game of the series.

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College falls to Elena Delle Donne, CAA’s top player, in blowout

Tribe falls to No. 7 Duke

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9-0 Duke run dooms CollegeBY CHRIS WEBERFLAT HAT ASSOC. SPORTS EDITOR

William and Mary couldn’t keep pace with No. 7 Duke Sunday, as the Blue Devils used a 9-0 first half run to pull away from the Tribe 15-8 in Durham, N.C.

The College (1-1) jumped out to an early 3-1 lead in the opening 6 minutes, 3 seconds. Junior attacker Taelor Salmon found senior midfielder Katie Stillwell for the College’s first goal, before sophomore Kaleigh Noon assisted senior midfielder Caitlin Murphy just a minute later.

Salmon converted a free position shot to complete the Tribe’s 3-0 run. Salmon finished a busy afternoon with three goals and an assist, alongside five shots on goal.

Duke responded with a 9-0 run, spanning almost the remainder of the half. The Blue Devil’s Makenzie Hommel scored the first of her three goals during the run, which gave Duke a 10-3 advantage.

With 2:05 remaining in the half, the Tribe’s senior attacker Kyrstin Mackrides scored an unassisted goal to slow Duke’s momentum. Just 79 seconds later, Noon hit Mackrides for another goal. Noon’s second of three assists would bring the College within five at the half.

Much like the start of the game, the Tribe began the second half with a bang. The College scored three times in just under nine minutes to cut Duke’s lead to just three.

Salmon converted a free position shot with 24:36 remaining, before again finding the back of the net off a Noon assist at the 20:54 mark.

Mackrides scored an unassisted goal with 15:57 left in the contest. Mackrides’ goal, her third of the day, would be the last offensive strike the College could muster.

Duke controlled the remaining 15:43, holding the Tribe scoreless while notching four goals.

Sloppy play and inconsistent offense lead to Duke’s long stretches of dominance and ultimate success. Duke committed just 12 turnovers, while the College lost possession 23 times. Offensively, Duke outshot the Tribe, registering 43 total shots. The College took just 15 shots.

Defensively, the Tribe caused nine turnovers. Senior defender Brett Hayes led the way, causing three turnovers; sophomore defender Allison Henry contributed to two Duke turnovers.

The College returns to Martin Family Stadium for its second home game, hosting No. 13 Ohio State Wednesday.

Resilient Tribe team dispatches Liberty 4-2 and Norfolk State 5-1

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Hot outside shooting propels TribeBY JARED FORETEKFLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR

College coaches love to talk about peaking at the right time, and that is just prior to the conference tournament. However, apparently all is forgiven if a team catches fire down the stretch, and William and Mary is doing just that right now.

The Tribe used lights-out three-point shooting and stifling defense to win its third straight game, taking down a streaking Georgia State 75-63 at home. Junior guard Brandon Britt led the way with 20 points on 6 of 8 shooting from the three, and all five College starters finished in double figures.

“We’re playing great basketball; we really are,” head coach Tony Shaver said. “Obviously we’re shooting the ball well … but the biggest change in this club has been the defensive change. … We extended our defense tonight and really did a great job stopping them.”

The Panthers (14-15, 9-7 CAA) entered the contest as the second-best three-point shooting team in the conference at 36.7 percent, but the Tribe (12-14, 6-9 CAA) locked down the perimeter, holding Georgia State to 6 of 24 shooting from distance and just 43.5 percent from the floor.

Meanwhile, the College lit it up from outside, taking advantage of Georgia State’s 1-3-1 zone to knock down 10 of its first 12 attempts from the three and finish at 12 of 18 from beyond the arc. Nearly matching Britt was senior guard Matt Rum, who matched his career-high of 16 points on 4 of 6 from downtown and 4 for 4 at the line. As a team, the College has shot 38.7 percent from the three over the

winning streak, which — over the season — would be the best percentage in the conference.

“I’ve been getting extra shots up on my days off, and today they happened to fall for me,” he said. “I’ve been waiting for them to fall like that the whole season, and today they went in for me. … We’re all catching fire, we’re paying with confidence, and we’re all shooting the ball great.”

Rum also finished with three rebounds and one assist. Just as importantly, he was able to hold the Colonial Athletic Association’s premier freshman, guard R.J. Hunter, below his average with just 15 points.

“Hunter’s going to have nightmares about Matt Rum,” Shaver said. “He really did a great job on him.”

The College played a dominant first half, out-rebounding the Panthers 18-9 and going 8 of 10 from deep — four of those from Rum, three from Britt and one from sophomore guard Marcus Thornton — over the first 20 minutes. Rum scored 9 of the Tribe’s first 16 as the Tribe opened up a 10-point lead by the midpoint of the half.

Thanks to Britt — who has now scored 22, 18 and 20 in his last three contests while shooting 62.5 percent — the Tribe grew its lead to as much as 16 in the first.

“I’m just having fun out there,” Britt said. “When I believe in myself and play with confidence, there’s a lot of great things I can do out there on the court. … Everybody’s shooting the ball well in practice, the guys are shooting well, and I’m making sure I get extra shots up after practice, and it’s paying off.”

The second half began with the Tribe up 38-27, and the Panthers seemingly

having learned nothing. On the College’s first two possessions, Rum was left wide open on the right corner to bury a three off a Thornton feed before Britt found space in the left corner to do the same. And with 18 minutes, 45 seconds left, Thornton didn’t need room, hitting a contested trey to cap a 9-2 run and put the College up 47-29.

But Georgia State had won two straight and wouldn’t fall without a fight, nearly eliminating the College’s rebounding advantage and responding with a 15-1 run that cut the Tribe’s advantage to just four with 14:44 remaining. Just like that, it was a ballgame again.

With a renewed sense of urgency, the College’s offense got going. Thornton danced around a defender, got to the elbow, and fit in a beautiful bounce pass to junior forward Kyle Gaillard, who hit a reverse layup and the ensuing free throw to put the Tribe back up by 7.

Gaillard also had a nice game, scoring 10 and grabbing 9 rebounds.

“It’s a game of runs,” Shaver said. “I don’t like to see them score 11 points in two minutes like they did, but what’s important is [that] we responded to that run.”

The College pushed the lead back out to 11 with 8:05 to play before really

turning it on again, launching a 7-0 run that finished with a Britt three with 5:53 left. As the Panthers went cold from the free throw line, the College held on until Hunter was called for a charge with 2:05 left and GSU trailing 71-58, effectively sealing it.

At No. 8 with three regular-season games left, the Tribe will carry its streak up to Fairfax, where it will look to avenge a January loss against George Mason Saturday.

“I don’t think anybody wants to see the Tribe right now,” Rum said. “George Mason’s tough … but we owe them one.”

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Britt scores 20, Rum 16 in conference win

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Junior guard Brandon Britt lead the Tribe to a win over Georgia State, scoring 20 points while shooting 7 of 11 from the field with three steals.

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