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November 10, 2016

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Jill Stein, Green Party candidate speaks out against dual party voting ESTER SALGUERO & IZZY BRIONES News Editors

Anticipation rose as University of Mary Washington students and residents of Fredericksburg filled the Chandler Ballroom, of the University Center Sunday night in anticipation for Green Party candidate, Jill Stein. With only a few rows of seats provided, many were left sitting on the floor. Stein spoke after B. Sidney Smith, Glenn Kirk, Kimberly Lowe and the party’s Vice Presidential nominee, Ajamu Baraka each gave their spiel on why students should not vote for either of “the lesser evils,” Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.

A small musical group called “A Fred Not” played the blues and a cover of the Counting Crows’ “Big Yellow Taxi” until B. Sidney Smith, the chair of the Green Party in Virginia, opened and introduced Glenn Kirk, the congressional candidate for district seven in Virginia.

Stein opened describing how, “people are saying ‘don’t you dare tell me that this isn’t my democracy, don’t you dare tell me that it’s not my future, don’t you dare tell me that I have to live with student debt…. we are saying no. We are saying that we can have an America and a world that works for all of us, that puts people, planet and peace over profit,” striking a large applause from the crowd.

This excerpt from her opening remarks paved the course that not only Stein’s speech took, but of those with her as well. Each member speaking along with Stein for the Green Party

shared common themes on the American people, the power that they hold to change the system, the planet and the corruption in our political system.

“Our purpose here tonight is to change America and to change the world,” Smith said before introducing Kirk, a member of the Piedmont Green Party.

Kirk warmed the crowd up by referring to this year’s election process as the Apocalypse of 2016, expressing that the Green Party’s aim was to change the U.S. political agenda and that the increasing popularity with millennials he added went to show that this change was possible. The Green Party members were catering to Bernie supporters by using phrases like ‘we all burn green’ to encourage voters that they too would have supported Bernie Sanders. “If a riding candidate can win [then] so can a third party,” Kirk said.

Kimberly Lowe, congressional candidate for district five of Virginia, spoke after Kirk and began by speaking personally about herself, relating to the crowd and to the local Fredericksburg residents. “I am a mom, I’m a farmer, I’m a home schooler, I’m a Virginian,” Lowe said.

She went on to say that the root causes of the political and economic issues in our country stems from money and greed and that it is possible to rid ourselves of student debt. However, she did not follow up with a description of how this concern could be tackled.

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•GREEN PARTY | 2

POLL PHOTOS

THOUGHTS ON TRUMP

Tweeted ballot selfies from community voters

Students disclose their views on election results

Big money paid up as inaugural event spreads spirit

LIFE | 7

VIEWPOINTS | 4

SPORTS | 12

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Green Party groups come together in Chandler Ballroom •GREEN PARTY | 1 She blamed the lack of attention to student debt on a misunderstanding of economics on the part of Congress and said that people she has personally encountered in Fredericksburg all agree that congress is corrupt. “[We are] tired of the corruption and we need to switch out Congress,” Lowe said, adding that she will be on the ballot in 2018.

After Lowe, it was Smith who posed both Trump and Clinton as candidates who “have no clue.’’

“Neither candidate has a clue [about] what world we live in,” Smith said. He then went on to discuss how the DNC sabotaged Sander’s campaign and that he was explicitly not a supporter of Clinton. He talked about how Americans are now, “content to treat politics as something we consume,” like entertainment, instead of standing against unsupported candidates in protest.

“We say no to the Standing Rock Sioux, [to bombing and to petrodollar hegemony],” Smith said. “We will say yes to peace,” striking an applause from the crowd.

Before Jill Stein went up on stage, world renowned human rights activist and Stein’s running mate Ajamu Baraka stood up on stage to talk about “providing an alternative direction and vision to take us forward.” He talked about the limits of the U.S. economy in giving each American a ‘dignified life’ and about the struggle that America will face if either of the two-party candidates win on Tuesday.

“We have the task [and] vision of winning more people [for] our side,” Baraka said. “Our task goes beyond just this election; our task is in fact to attempt to save humanity and that’s something really heavy to think about.”

He talked about a need to shift the power dynamics of the U.S. from the elite to the people. Then, he humorously said, “the polls aren’t really capturing

what’s out there, they’re calling landlines.”

Baraka spoke about the intensity of war in Syria and how neither Trump or Clinton have supported the ‘no fly zone’ and that the Green Party was the only way to ‘build opposition’ against war.

In introducing Stein, Baraka said, “Not only would Dr. Stein have been competitive [if she were in the debates] but Dr. Stein would have ground them in the dirt.”

Finally, as Stein reached the stage a standing ovation came from the crowd.

She started with, “You are what democracy looks like.”

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Stein talked about the “fear campaign’’ as what has been dominating this year’s political process and that she has been hearing people say “shut up and vote democratic.’’

Stein said in response to her comment on voting democratic, “Don’t you dare tell me that I have to live with $30, $40 thousand worth of student debt.”

She followed this statement noting, “the courage of [the] millennial generation” and how students have the power to “cancel student debt.”

She described Clinton as the “queen of corruption’’ and Trump as “the predator king.’’ She continued with comparisons like these and labeled Trump’s ideologies as neo-fascist while Clinton was referred to as an endless supporter of war.

Many of those who sat in the crowd were there specifically to support and hear what Stein had to say to the people.

However, many went for the experience and to broaden the information they had available to take in for this election.

“I would say that I have been on the fence about my support throughout this election,” said Rebecca Melson, a senior creative writing major. “However, [Stein] and Baraka make the most sense, I agree with them on the issues of the environment, we are in a societal fast track to depletion and destruction and it is encouraging to think there is a rising party that truly wants to consider these issues.”

Christian Berardo, a junior geography major, attended the event but was not a supporter of Jill Stein. “I’m not a supporter myself, but i still feel that it’s good to come out and hear what candidates have to say to the community,” Berardo said. “You don’t get many opportunities like that.”

“As far as environmental concerns go, this rally was a bit of an eye-opener to me,” Berardo said. “I’m glad to see that someone is putting the topic on the map.”

For a full interview with Stein by The Blue & Gray Press, visit our social media pages or YouTube channel.

Thursday, November 10, 2016

SPORTS

“Let’s get something straight, I’m not”

NFL mid-season report ROBERT TATA Staff Writer

As the National Football League hits its midway point going into Week 9, it is time to discuss midseason awards to come out.

The league’s TV ratings have been down because of a multitude of reasons: NFL Redzone, the presidential election, players DEBORAH NGANGA kneeling during the National Anthem, and Staff Writer the overall crackdown on players having fun and being creative with their celebraJessica Cavolt is a current sophomore

tions. Yet, it is still the most watched prowho plays goalie for UMW’s varsity field A: My field hockey team welcomed me fessional sport in America; people need hockey team. She is intelligent, enterwith open arms. It’s never been a problem not to be worried. This season has taken taining, outgoing, dedicated and also, with me being an openly gay player on the twists and turns, but at the end of the day very gay. I had the opportunity to ask her team. The only feelings that have changed the league continues to lust viewers into questions about her experience in being is that there is more love and support of a daze on Sunday’s. Fantasy football is open about her sexuality and being a part me daily. now so popular it seems like everyone and of a varsity sport. their grandmother is joining leagues. Despite the ups and downs the media likes to Q: When did you first realize that you Q: Have your teammates and coaches portray, the overall product produced by were gay? And was there a specific time been supportive? the players is still simply amazing. Here that you came out? are my midseason awards: A: My teammates and coaches have Most Valuable Player: A:I first realized that I did not have been my rocks this past year and a half. I The league’s MVP is the most luxurious feelings for boys in third grade, but I was definitely nervous about coming out award. Winning this award can skyrocket tried pushing those feelings off in middle at first because I knew not everyone has you all the way to Canton, Ohio where school in sixth and seventh grade, where had an experience with a gay person being the NFL Hall of Fame is located. This I had a few boyfriends. In eighth grade such a big part of their life. My coach year, there are several players in contenI began getting more comfortable in my truly lives by the Athletic Department’s tion, including, Matt Ryan, Von Miller, sexuality and realizing that I was gay. campaign of “If You Can Play, You Can maybe even up-and-comer Derek Carr; I came out to my mom in seventh grade Play.” What I do on the field has nothing however, my midseason NFL MVP has when we were on vacation in Chincoteto do with me being gay, she sees so much to go to Tom Brady. I’m a New England ague. I came out to my dad on Father’s more in me and it’s so refreshing having Patriots hater, but even I would be a fool Day on 2013, and his response was “Well, someone that pushes me daily to be the to discredit the remarkable year he is havduh.” best person I can be on and off the field. ing. Almost any NFL analyst could have I came out publicly on Facebook in my predicted Brady playing above average freshman year of high school on January this season, but few would have predict8, 2012 with the simple status: “Let’s get Q: What do your teammates and ed a year quite like this one. Tom Brady something straight, I’m not.” friends outside of your field hockey was suspended for the first four games I was shocked with the outpouring supteam say about your openness? as part of Commissioner Roger Goodport and love I received from my friends ell’s pathetic attempt at bringing down a and family just from one simple status or A: My teammates and friends outside of historic franchise, known as, Deflategate. conversation. my field hockey team think it’s amazing People have already heard way too much how open I am with myself. I actually about that absurdity; still the guess was Q: You were also very active in sports received a few messages a few months Brady would come back with vengeance-in high school, were you open about ago when I posted statuses on Facebook and boy, he did. Through four games your sexuality then? regarding the LGBT community that made Brady has led his team to four wins. me realize how much of a difference I While throwing 12 touchdowns and zero A: I was open about my sexuality all can make in someone’s life not only as a interceptions. Brady leads quarterbacks in throughout high school but I was still member of the LGBT community but also completion percentage and passer rating. pretty quiet and not really outright with as an advocate.

He is third in passing yards per game, and it because I did not want it to be my sole with Peyton Manning now retired, he is identity. I wanted people to love who I hands down the best in-game pre-snap was as a person and I did not think that Q: Do you have any advice for people, quarterback. Whether you love Brady of being gay needed to be a big factor in who athletes or not, that might be afraid to you hate him, you cannot deny the incredI am. be open about their sexuality? ible year he is having.

Rookie of the Year: Q: Did you consciously make a deciA: Do not be afraid to express who you Looking simply at the stats the race is sion to start your college career being are. I was scared for a long time about hands down between two players from the openly gay or was it something that just what people would think about me being same team. That team? The Dallas Cowhappened? gay. I doubted a lot of people on how boys. Both of these rookies have helped they’d react coming out to them and they propel their team to a 6-1 record, one A: I did not plan on starting my colended up being my biggest supporters. of only two teams with one loss. These lege career being openly gay. It was just Being comfortable with who you truly are two rookies are QB Dak Prescott and RB something that happened. Again, I didn’t is so important and I pushed it off for way Ezekiel Elliot. Both of these players had want it to be the singular adjective that too long. If people can’t accept you then incredible college careers at Mississippi described me as a person or player. they don’t really deserve to have you as State University and Ohio State Universia part of their life. I’m here for you along ty, respectively. Both Prescott and Elliot Q: How did members of your field with a long line of other individuals that were seen to be good professional players, hockey team first react to how open stand by you and support you for being but no one expected them to be ruling you were about it, have their feelings who you truly are. the league like this. Elliot was the third changed? overall pick in the 2016 draft, making the

Q & A with field hockey playerJessie Cavolt

expectations sky high. Prescott was selected No. 135 overall and had the luxury of coming in as a backup to a Dallas “legend” Tony Romo. However, with a preseason injury to Romo, Prescott got the start and has not backed down. So far this year Elliot is leading all running backs in yards with almost 800 through seven games, not to mention five touchdowns. These are numbers that even a five-year veteran would be thrilled with. Prescott, meanwhile, has thrown over 1,500 yards and nine touchdowns with only two interceptions. All things considered, I would have to give the edge to Elliot just because of the way he wows everyone who watches him, even getting comparisons to the great Emmitt Smith.

Defensive Player of the Year: Statistically speaking the Minnesota Vikings are the best defensive team in the NFL so far this year. The combination of safety Harrison Smith and linebacker Anthony Barr help Minnesota form a menacing defense. But the team that I believe no one ever wants to play late in the season and heading into the playoffs is the Denver Broncos. This is largely due to the highest paid defensive player in the league, Von Miller. Miller is second in the league in sacks and makes his presence known to every quarterback that steps on the opposing sideline. Miller is the frontrunner for DPOY if he keeps it up, and unless injury plagues him I would put my money on Miller taking over like he has done in previous years.

Coach of the Year: My final award is Coach of the Year.

This might be the most difficult one to give out, as a team can hit a winning or losing streak at any point. The two things I look at most when deciding who deserves the Coach of the Year are consistency and improvement as a program. An obvious choice for this award is New England legend, Bill Belichick. Belichick dealt with the Deflategate scandal and won three of his first four games with inexperienced Jimmy Garoppolo at the helm. With Brady back, Belichick hasn’t lost a game and the Patriots are front-runners for another Super Bowl, adding to their decade of dominance. All that being said I would still opt out on giving Belichick the COY award because of my second main criteria: “improvement as a program.” Jack Del Rio is in his second year as head coach of the Oakland Raiders. Prior to Del Rio taking over, the Raiders won three games in 2014. He quickly raised that number to seven wins in 2015. This year the Raiders look like a potential Super Bowl contending team that already has six wins with their record being 7-2. Oakland will be a team to watch in the future, thanks in a large part due to Jack Del Rio. Thankfully we still have tons of football to watch and none of these awards are guaranteed. But it is still fun to predict what will happen and also acknowledge the players who are playing well in the first half of the season. Cheers to an exciting second half of the season!

Weekly Scoreboard

field hockey:

women'S sOCCER:

Nov. 2 @ Christopher Newport (L) UMW: 0 CNU: 2

women's basketball:

VOLLEYBALL

Nov. 5 @ Salisbury (L) UMW: 0 SU: 8

Nov. 15 @ Washington and Lee 6:00 P.M.

Nov. 5 vs. Christopher Newport (W) UMW: 3 CNU: 0

MEN'S BASKETBALL:

men's soccer

Nov. 5 @ Christopher Newport (L) UMW: 0 CNU: 1

Nov. 15 vs. East. Mennonite

7:00 P.M.

Anderson Center

VOLLEYBALL

Nov. 11 vs. Cabrini 8:00 P.M. NCAA Tournament First Round

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VIEWPOINTS TESS OSMER Managing Editor

Trump presidency: a relief to some, shock to others

I was sitting in a friend’s apartment awaiting the 2016 presidential election results. We, a group of about 10 University of Mary Washington students, were taking over rugs, couches, chairs, and sitting silent in disbelief.

It was 9:43 p.m. and Hillary had a 2,000 lead in Virginia winning both Loudon and Prince William County. Meanwhile, Pennsylvania was leaning strongly Republican.

“It’s so disappointing, she needs to win Virginia,” murmured junior international affairs major Katherine Ross.

“It’s so scary how little democrats are gaining,” junior music major Rachel Lee said.

“He [Trump] doesn’t have the ground game,” Alex Sakes, junior business major, chimed in.

This was history in the making, what will 2017 look like?

“Hillary might win as Bush did in 2000, losing the popular vote but winning the electoral,” Ross says.

All of a sudden it was 2:44 a.m., Nov. 9, 2016, and no one anticipated a Trump presidency.

But there it was across the screen of my 11inch Macbook Air: “Donald Trump becomes president of the United States.”

At 2:54 am Trump strolled across the stage at his victory party in New York and opened with “Sorry to keep you waiting, ‘complicated issues’.”

To all the Bernie supports that refused to vote for Spillary I say, “Cheers.” To the Gary Johnson voters: a thanks, for stumping a Clinton presidency.

Cheers and thanks to what I believe will be the four most unstable years for the United States and, in turn, the crumbling of international economic and security systems. Goodbye to NAFTA and must certainly goodbye to the Iran Deal and Climate Change Agreements.

Here I sit as the economy is crashing: the dollar, the yen and the renminbi are down according to Market Watch, which was recorded on Nov 8, 2016 at 11:42 p.m.

The DNC was sure, analysts were sure and when I talked to Dr. Cooperman in the Political Science Department here at Mary Washington, she was sure: Hillary was a shoe-in.

We underestimated some of the quintessential wiki leaks, for example, Clinton’s memo naming “Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz, and Ben Carson as wanted candidates.” Moreover, her suggestion of the need to, “[elevate] the Pied Piper candidates so that they are leaders of the pack and tell the press to take them seriously.”

For some UMW professors the election results were in their favor.

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“I think this country has done very well with Capitalism and now we are going to get back to business,” Douglas Gately, Director of the Jazz Department and Music professor, said Wednesday afternoon.

For students, such as Courtland Lyle, senior biology and geology double major, however, the election was unbecoming.

“I was completely in shock last night. I think it caught most everyone by surprise,” Lyle said, “I think he [Trump] had a win at all costs mentality.”

However, Lyle noted that he had no regrets given that Virginia voted mainly democratic, but he was both “surprised and disappointed at the election as a whole.”

In contrast, Professor Elizabeth Larus of UMW’s Political Science Department, who specializes in the Politics of China and Taiwan and Security issues in the Asia-Pacific, the election results were relieving.

For Professor Larus this was an election that was critical for the future of the Supreme Court.

Gabe Cowan, junior anthropology major, asked of her, “Do you support mass deportations?”

Although Larus denied and said she wasn’t in support of deportations, when asked again

by Cowan what changes she expects Trump to make she replied, “I don’t know, we don’t know his policies.”

Larus added that her contacts in Hong Kong

“are nervous,” and that the economic market is relieved that the election is finally over.

In fact, since last night the market is evening out.

However, political science professor Surupta Gupta, who specializes in international politics of the economy, notes that if Trump does abandon major trade deals such as NAFTA, although not so much the TPP, which emphasis’ US interests more than international interests, could end a long standing legacy of commitment to international agreements.

Moreover, Gupta said that Trump’s harsh opinions of globalization leaves a vacuum in international norm setting that allows for either China or Russia to step in.

Similarly, John Karellas, senior International Affairs major, said, “Our alliances in the Pacific are faltering as we speak.”

Karellas feels that Trump is strongly disillusioned in his belief that international alliances do not benefit the US. “That has a strong implication for those countries that have been dependent on our partnership and security,” Karellas said.

Of the wavering economic markets as of this Wednesday morning Karellas said, “I think investors are confused and scared about what is going to happen, people are unsure what to do.”

Around lunchtime Cowan and I trekked to UMW’s Anthropology Department and sat down to speak with Associate Professor Jason James.

James took an interest in the ways in which people vote and why they vote the way they do.

“As an anthropologist,” James said, “I am interested in how incorrect the predictions were.”

Cowan asked, “How do you see the American society move forward as a whole?”

“I don’t think it [Trump Supporter rhetoric] will go away, I think maybe they see sentiments clearly represented in his [Trump’s] style,” James noted, “it is hard to make a case for what things will look like in the long run.”

“There is a frustration,” James mentioned, “in our choices between the two parties, where a wide rang of things they [Hillary and other GOP candidates] both represent but it came to the fact that, particularly the white working class,

didn’t feel as if they have been represented.”

Further, James commented that there is a “strong notion that the government is the problem, especially starting with Reagan…” and that “it became a mantra even…”

However, James concluded and said that he doesn’t think “that means they [Trump supporters] want anarchy or chaos but I think the problem is that Trump didn’t have any full descriptions of his policies.” In turn, James said he does think Trump will have difficulty unifying Republicans and that “the anti-establishment ‘thing’ is a common way of avoiding [policy issues] and playing the blame game.”

It is possible to assume that our Trump presidency will begin with working on issues that all Republicans can get behind, such as abolishing the Affordable Care Act, which was championed by the Obama Administration in 2010.

As the exit polls roll in it is apparent that one of the strongest indicators of how individuals were voting was dependent on their anger.

Forbes reports, for instance, 23 percent of voters said they felt angry about the federal government and 77 percent of them voted for Donald Trump.

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In addition, those with and without a college degree each represented 50 percent of all voters.

Those with a degree voted for Clinton, 52 to 43 percent and those without a degree voted for Trump, 52 to 44 percent.

I talked to many people who were both extremely satisfied with the results and extremely unsatisfied with the results, but I did not find one person who thought the results were fraudulent.

The key takeaway, for me at least, is that this is still America, where free thought reigns and where liberty is essential to the growth of democracy. As Barack Obama said, “We have to stay encouraged.”

Staff Ed: Editorial board implores community to stick together despite divisive election In the hours following Election Day, our country handed the Republican Party a series of significant wins. The GOP will retain their majority in the House of Representatives and have successfully gained the majority in the Senate. Donald Trump pledges to also appoint conservative Supreme Court justices in the mold of Antonin Scalia, shifting a somewhat “liberal” Supreme Court to the hard right.

Donald Trump has made it clear that he intends to appoint pro-life justices who will work to overturn Roe v. Wade during his time in office, along with hopes of repealing Barack Obama’s signature piece of healthcare legislation known as the Affordable Care Act.

The stakes have never been higher in a modern political election as both candidates campaigned fiercely to garner support for their vision of America. Hillary Clinton called for an economy that her supporters felt would represent the majority of the American people instead of the interests of corporations and the one percent. She called for an increase in the federal minimum wage to $15 / hour, a plan to eradicate student loan debt and work towards tuition free higher education, a plan to expand and reform key provisions of The Affordable Care Act, and a path to citizenship for all immigrants wishing to build a future in the United States. On the other hand, Donald Trump has pushed for

a repeal of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Trans Pacific Partnership, which his supporters feel have outsourced jobs and weakened American manufacturing.

In the morning that followed what many would call the most divisive election in modern political history, President Obama spoke at the White House alongside Joe Biden, stating, “We all want what’s best for this country.

That’s what I heard in Mr. Trump’s remarks last night, that’s what I heard when I spoke to him directly, and I was heartened by that. That’s what the country needs. A sense of unity. A sense of inclusion. A respect for our institutions,

our way of life, rule of law, and respect for each other. I hope that he maintains that spirit throughout this transition and I certainly hope that’s how his presidency has a chance to begin.”

Our country is deeply divided, as well as our campus. An email from UMW President Troy Paino was sent out earlier this week, encouraging UMW students to remain a community no matter the result of the election. Emotions are high at this time and his message may have drifted off your minds, but keep it close to heart as you come to terms with the results. We must continue to be civil and compassionate towards one another, regardless of who we call our commander in chief.

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Look, we built a wall (of quotes)

“I am very pleased with the election results and I have very high hopes for the future! This country needed change and I think this change that Donald Trump will provide will be very beneficial for our nation as a whole.”

- Junior Mallorie Harnish “I am genuinely concerned for the future of America. I can’t believe that other countries are going to see Trump as the face of our country.

He is not a good representation of what our country should stand for.”

- Sophomore Laura Lang

59,814,018 Hillary Clinton won the popular vote at 59,814,018 votes, leading by more than 200,000 and polling especially well with non-white voters and voters ages 18 to 25 “I’m personally very happy with the outcome. People have doubted [Donald Trump] about everything since the beginning, but in time, I believe he’ll prove to be a great leader for our country.”

- Sophomore Calhoun Stirling “Well f**k.”

- Junior Joshua Boelsche “People may view Donald Trump’s views on immigration policy to be asinine and corrupt, but I as a Trump supporter recognize the good it will do for America. Controlling migration and deporting illegal immigrants is a solution to one of our nation’s biggest problems: unemployment. These policies will allow less immigrants to take American jobs and lower unemployment and for me, that is the main reason why I voted and support Donald Trump.

- Freshman Dustin Thomas

270 “Mr. Trump ultimately surpassed 270 electoral votes by flipping several states that President Obama won in 2008 and 2012, including Iowa, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.”

- The New York Times “I think the results of this election are absolutely abhorrent. I’m still trying to get over the fact that a man who is going to be standing trial for raping a thirteen year old girl was even a nominee, let alone the next President of the United States. I’m white, I don’t have it hard. But there are so many minorities that are afraid to live in this country now. A country that supposedly was founded on the right to be whoever you want to be. As an immigrant, I don’t feel welcome here. I feel like I should leave because there is so much hate directed at people who come from elsewhere.

My heart hurts for every immigrant that doesn’t have it as easy as I do.”

- Junior Georgia Bartlett “I voted for Trump because I agree with everything he stands for. Throughout the process, he brought up issues that other candidates would never have addressed. I couldn’t be more happy with the outcome of this election.”

- Junior Sami Pleasant

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“I’m not glad that Trump won, but I’m glad Hillary lost.”

- Junior Ashley Terrell “I’m still waiting to see if we can all wake up from this bad dream. I can’t fathom that my little brother is growing up in a generation with a man like that as his role model. Sexism, racism and controverciallity [are] now supported.”

- Senior Negeen Behdad

60.1% The voters in the city of Fredericksburg voted for Hillary Clinton almost twice as much as they did for Donald J. Trump, totalling 6,690 votes for Clinton and 3,731 votes for Trump.

“I think [the election] was a large surprise and I don’t necessarily agree, but the way to solve it is not through hatred and telling people they’re wrong because that is just fostering a bigger problem. I am fearful for minorities, women and LGBTQ people and everyone else.

Those are people that have been fighting for equality and rights and this is just going to push that back further.”

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Editor: Kelly Emmrich blueandgray.life@gmail.com

UMW Theatre’s musical, ‘Drood,’ is an ambitious murder mystery KELLY EMMRICH Life Editor

performance format is one of the biggest challenges that the theatre department has faced.

“It’s a very heightened acting style,” said Gregg Stull, department chair for the Department of Theatre and Dance, in an interview with Lisa Chinn Marvashti. “It’s a great exercise for our students to have to be in the moment and prepare themselves for the ending that the audience chooses.

Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, the story focuses

Last Thursday night, locals, students and musical lovers congregated in duPont Hall for the premiere of the murder mystery musical, The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

The novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, was written by Charles Dickens.

Dickens was still writing this final novel when he died in 1870. Rupert Holmes decided that it needed an ending. Holmes cooked up a musical with approximately 500 different directions that the musical could go in. Holmes wrote the script, music, lyrics and full orchestrations of on Drood's uncle, precentor, choirmaster the show, a feat in which he was heavily and opium addict, John Jasper. Jasper is praised in several publications. Drood in love with his music pupil, Rosa Bud, was the first Broadway musical with who is Drood’s fiancée. Miss Bud has several different endings, and, because of also caught the eye of the high-spirited that, it won five Tony awards out of the and hot-tempered Neville Landless, who 11 nominations. comes from Ceylon The auwith his twin sister, dience picks Helena. Landless the ending, so and Drood take an through cheers instant dislike to one and polling, the another. Later, Drood crowd votes disappears under each night to mysterious circumcast a murderstances. With obvious er, detective enemies and a misand pair of match of characters lovers. this musical makes The Univerout to be the perfect sity of Mary setup for a murder Washington mystery. cast has been In writing the rehearsing fescript, Holmes did verishly since not let Dickens’ tone UMW Theatre/Facebook casting in late overshadow the charAugust. The Lydia Hundley ‘19 as Edwin Drood and Neal Gallini-Burdick ’19 as John Jasper. acters. Rather than

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imitate Dickens' writing style, Holmes employed the device of a show-withina-show. The cast members of Drood do not specifically play Dickens' characters, but rather music hall performers who are performing as Dickens' characters. This device allowed for a great deal of light comedy that was not originally found in Dickens' novel to be incorporated into the show, as well as several musical numbers that were unrelated to the original story.

In explaining this decision, Holmes was quoted as saying, “This is not Nicholas Nickleby set to music—it's not a Dickensian work. It's light and fun and entertaining. But I hope—I think--that Dickens would have enjoyed it.”

The pantomime concept also allowed Holmes to employ a female in the lead male role, which further allowed him to write a love song designed for two sopranos.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood will be playing through Nov 20.

Students are engulfed in confusion over forbidden items in dorms ISABEL FAUST Staff Writer

Moving in as a freshman, especially trying to think of all the new supplies needed, can be very stressful. However, with University of Mary Washington’s long and ever-growing list of prohibited items in dorm rooms, moving in can be made even more difficult and frustrating.

The list prohibits items from weapons and alcohol, to leaves and door decorations.

Now, many students find that they are frustrated and confused

by ResLife’s policies on flammable and prohibited objects.

Why are leaves not allowed in dorm rooms, but nail-polish is?

Why are tapestries considered harmless when draped over furniture but are prohibited when they are hanging on walls?

It is not as much fun moving in to your new home and not being able to decorate freely.

Maddie Reid, sophomore environmental science major, was surprised and upset with the rule that only 10 percent of wall space can be covered. “They never explained to us how much 10 percent of our wall was, there was no way for us to be sure of what exactly they meant by 10 percent so we were left frustrated and confused,” Reid said.

It was also realized that only RA’s are allowed to decorate doors, which means no whiteboards and dampening student’s creativity.

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Last year a fellow freshman wrapped her dorm room door in wrapping paper for Christmas and was asked to take it down by an RA. When asked about the list stifling student’s creativity Reid said, “Most people in college use decorations to show their personality and feel more at home, especially freshmen who want to be remind-

ed of home and be comforted with the things that were in their old rooms. However, with this list, they are not allowed to bring most of those things.”

Personally, I was shocked when an RA asked me to throw away my Eagle Gathering candle that the university had given me.

I was planning on saving as a memento. Another concern surrounding prohibited items in dorm rooms is that the university does not always promote safe ways for dealing with flammable objects. UMW encourages students to use flame retardant spray on flammable objects but most flame retardant sprays can contain neurotoxins and can be very damaging to your health.

With the university going above and beyond with fire prevention policies many people think the prevention and prohibition are getting too extreme.

“There seems to be a lot of things listed that seem a little excessive,” said Bekah DeBell, a sophomore biology major, like not being allowed to have extension cords, especially in this digital Photo Encyclapedia/Facebook age.”

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Many students find the policies too strict so they end up seeing them as a hindrance instead of a way in which to protect the students at UMW. “They take the items down and hide them during room inspections and fire drills just to put them back up once they return to their rooms,” Maddie said.

So how should UMW differentiate between objects that could really cause problems and damage if they ignited, versus objects filling up an over-precautionary list?

Hannah Beke, sophomore, anthropology and international affairs major, said “We are all adults that live in buildings, that we would prefer not to burn down so I think it should be a judgment call.

If you clearly have too much covering your wall then take something down, but there is no difference having a blanket versus a tapestry.”

Maybe the real issue here is the lack of trust between students and their RAs.

Thursday, November 10, 2016

LIFE

UMW students, alum and professors take over the polls These photos were submitted to The Blue & Gray Press by University of Mary Washington students, alumni, professors and other Fredericksburg locals via Twitter. These individuals asserted their right to take polling selfies which is now legal in Virginia. Ballot selfies are allowed in Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wyoming.

In the rest of the states it is either illegal or unclear if it is illegal or not.

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UMW students experience more homesickness than usual this semester SHAWNYA PETERSON Staff Writer

As the weather grows colder and the fall semester moves forward, a new year of students are settling in to the rhythm of new friends, classes and college life, while the first stirrings of holiday cheer are in the air. For many students, the stretch between fall break and the Thanksgiving holiday can spark feelings of homesickness as they are faced with the longest stretch so far this year without a chance to see their families.

The build-up to the winter holidays can bring up feelings of nostalgia and loneliness, just as many classes are ramping up in preparation of Finals Week in December.

“Since my birthday is in between Thanksgiving and Christmas which is the most critical time for finals I know I’ll be distracted and stressed,” said sophomore philosophy major Sarah Mahmud.

“I’m just going to want to go home to relax and be in a holiday mood.”

While freshman students are often under the most pressure as they transition to life

away at school without the support of their closest family members, many upperclassmen with cars have the freedom to come and go as they please—an independence not available to new students.

Madeleine McCullough, sophomore history major, and Mahmud, who both recently returned from trips home, had differing perspectives on their respective visits.

“It was great to see my family,” McCullough said. “But it would be nice if I was a little closer so the option of going home didn’t mean a three hour car ride.”

Regardless of the positives of returning home for the weekend, the freedom to visit your family at will can often be a double-edged sword.

“Each time I go home, it gets harder to leave,” Mahmud said.

Freshmen are not the only students feeling the pressure.

“This fall has been okay, a little disorienting. I felt better adjusted last year,” Mahmud said. She admitted that coming back to UMW after summer break was difficult. “Coming back after being home is so weird.

I wasn’t homesick that often [this time] freshman year; this year, I’ve

been even more homesick.”

Despite the potential stress of isolation, the fleeting opportunities for students to spend time with their families make those moments all the more special.

“There have been less opportunities for me to go home because I’ve had a lot more work,” said freshman Savannah Lascola. “But it just makes me look forward to seeing [my family] on Thanksgiving and Christmas even more.”

Students also expressed how the transition to UMW was made easier by surrounding herself in a supportive and comforting atmosphere.

“I call my mom, and text her all the time,” Lascola said. “I’ve made quite a few friends, and I really love the environment so it easily felt like home.”

Upperclassmen agreed on the importance of searching for the positives when in need of support.

McCullough said, “hanging out with friends always helps [when I’m homesick].”

Mahmud agreed, saying, “I try to enjoy my time here. Going home makes me want to stay.”

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The 10 commandments for being sick on your own in college KELLY EMMRICH Life Editor

Flu season has just begun and with the weather being 40 degrees one day and 80 the next, our bodies and immune systems are simply freaking out. I am sick, and I know a lot of people who have been complaining of a sore throat and runny nose.

If you are waiting for your roommate to make you a bowl of soup or dote on you like your mom or dad did at home, stop waiting. Getting sick in college is like getting sick at home, only worse because no one is going to take care of you.

I know that in high school, teachers preached, “if you’re sick stay home.” In college, however, we know that is not the case. If you miss classes, even for being sick, professors are inclined to take percentage points off of final participation grades.

Therefore there is only one option: going to class sick. However, there are few ground rules for getting by in college for us sickies.

1. Thou shalt recognize when sick.

Denial is not the first step to recovery. If your nose is running harder than the leaky faucet on your floor and your cough is louder than the dub-step downstairs it is time to admit it to yourself.

2. Thou shalt email professors.

Your professors are pretty understanding when you are sick, especially at the University of Mary Washington. Just email them, and let them know what’s going on. Even if you come to class, maybe just give them a heads up, so they know that you won’t be speaking

as much or may need to excuse yourself from the class to cough or blow your nose.

3. Thou shalt not sneeze nor cough upon thy neighbor.

I’ve had this happen to me more times than I can count. Come on, guys. We are all smart enough to get into college, so you would think we would already know to cover our mouths when we are sick. Apparently, this is not the case. I sit across from a guy who hacks all through class and does not bother to cover up his mouth, honestly probably how I got sick.

Please learn from his past mistakes, and my own misfortune, and just cover your mouth.

4. Thou shalt visit student health center.

No one likes to go to the doctor, but your tuition is paying for the health center, so you should utilize that resource if you are feeling sick. It is a really easy process. All you do is go into the office, which is in the basement of Lee Hall, and you sign up for an appointment.

Then you go to said appointment.

5. Thou shalt bring a sick kit.

If you have a bad cough, try sucking on one of your cough drops you put in your backpack or excuse yourself to the hallway and take a trip to the water fountain. Bring your own mini drug store arsenal: tissues, cough drops, tea, water and Pepto Bismol tablets. Unfortunately, we are not in high school anymore, and most class rooms are severely lacking in the tissue department. It is better to expect the worst.

6. Thou shalt not complain.

Listen. Being sick sucks. We have all been there. But no one needs to hear about how sick you are. Once or twice is fine, but if you are just going to complain about how sick you are in class, you should not be there.

7. Thou shalt do all thy work.

If you are sick and still show up to class, you need to have it together. Unless you have emailed or talked to the professor and they have given you an extension, you need to have your work done before class. You may not do that great of a job on it, but trying your best and getting a C on your assignment is better than not turning anything in and getting a 0.

8. Thou shalt keep all thy possessions to thyself.

This goes hand in hand about not coughing or sneezing on others. Do not share anything that could potentially be germ and snot covered to anyone. I cannot tell you how many times my friends have let me use their pencil or take a sip of their water only to tell me afterwards that they have bronchitis or something.

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This is so not funny. If you are sick, be conscious of the fact that you might still be contagious.

9. Thou shalt deem nap time holy.

When you are sick, your body needs time to rest and regroup. Napping is my all-time favorite thing in the world.

It especially feels good to get some z’s when you’re sick. Turn off your phone, put away your laptop, draw the blinds closed and peace out from the world for a few hours. Trust me. Your body will thank you.

10. Thou shalt not go to class if thou is puking.

No one wants that. Again, email your professors.

Senior Playlist: for the student that needs inspiration

TESS OSMER Managing Editor

We all go to college to broaden our minds and our horizons. I am so happy, even though I do not particularly enjoy being at the University of Mary Washington, that I have gotten my education here. It’s been such a liberating experience meeting the people, the instructors and being in the environment that surrounds UMW. Although I took last semester off, I will graduate in the next year. So I created this playlist to encapsulate some of my experiences at Mary Wash.

N.Y.C and back home to Long Island, New York. I was always so excited to see the city of dreams and meet with some of my friends that I met during the summer. In short, this song sends me reminiscing.

Track Three: “Strung Out” by Ruby Empress This track sends me to my night escapades on Payne Street during my sophomore year at Mary Wash. I met a lot of good friends on campus that I still keep today, almost two year later now.

“Dancing down the lane in the moonlight,” we walked from Custis Hall to Payne Street, laughing and enjoying our youth. This song’s twangy 70s vibe filled the cold days we trekked to classes and awaited the weekend.

ready to graduate as soon as possible.

This song reminds me that not everyone takes the same road, and indeed there are speed bumps along our roads, not potholes.

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Track Two: “My Mind Is” by NVDES ft. Oliver Tree This track definitely emulates my sophomore year at Mary Wash. “I never owe nobody else,” Oliver belts out in the beginning of the song, reminding of my walks around campus and my days as the Viewpoints editor of The Blue & Gray Press.

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Track One: “Rain Machine” by Rhodz Sound the Trumpets!

This song reminds me off all my metro rides, bus exhibitions and train takings when traveling from D.C. to

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Track Four: “Füchse” by Sacellum (Kungs Remix) “Broke Down and Lonely,” was the beginning of my junior year as an Eagle. I lived in a dark and dingy Alvey Hall dorm room and I barely attended my classes. But this year, back in the swing of things, as I left for the fall semester of my junior year, I’m “giving it up.” I am back on my feet and I am

Track Five: “Quiters” by Kamandi I came upon this song about a year ago and it has been so influential for me. It starts slow, as mummers surround the background, “lately,” they say. For me this song exemplifies my transformation. I am finally achieving my goals and accepting that not everything comes as quickly as I would like, and that is perfectly fine. It’s important to shed the feeling of wanting to give up and instead move forward.

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NEWS

POLICE BEAT IZZY BRIONES News Editor

Vandalism On Saturday, November 6 around 6:30 p.m. vandalism of an exit sign occurred at Eagle Landing. The case is pending.

Possession On Wednesday, November 2 around 7:30 p.m. possession of marijuana occurred at Arrington Hall. One administrative referral was given.

Petit Larceny Between Saturday, November 5 and Saturday, November 6 petit larceny of an exit sign occurred at Eagle Landing.

The case is pending.

CRIME COVERAGE POLICY

The Blue & Gray Press will publish the names of students who are formally charged by the University of Mary Washington Campus Police or the Fredericksburg Police Department to have committed acts of extreme violence against members of the UMW community or pose a large threat to that community, when names are released to the public. The Blue & Gray Press will publish names and write articles about criminal acts on a case-by-case basis according to the aforementioned parameters.

The information was compiled with assistance from UMW Police Manager James DeLoatch and Fredericksburg Police Department Public Information Officer Sarah Kirkpatrick.

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#RIPVine Twitter faces financial crunch as Vine gets the boot ANDREW ARENAS Staff Writer

On Oct. 27 of 2016, Twitter announced that it would shut down Vine, a video sharing service they established in 2012. The company stated that its website will be available to view and download Vines, but users will not have the ability to post any vines “in the coming months.”

The announcement came shortly after Twitter let go nine percent of its employees. The company is focusing on cutting down costs and rethinking its priorities. They have also been shopping for a buyer. Companies like Salesforce and Disney are on the table because they have been eyeing Twitter as a product to purchase. For a long time, Twitter has faced heavy criticism for having a very shaky business model. Advertisers have found doing business with Twitter more difficult than with Facebook and Snapchat.

Shortly after the announcement, millions of Twitter users shared their favorite Vine posts with the hashtag #RIPVine. There was an intense rush of nostalgia as many reflected what the platform meant to them after hearing this announcement. With a user base of more than two hundred million users, many questioned why Vine had to be shut down.

The main issue is that Vine’s popularity was not able to be monetized at an acceptable rate. Google, for instance, has an ad-free subscription service with YouTube Red, which migrates profits lost, due to ad-blocking. On YouTube, people are already unsatisfied with watching a 30 second ad to view a 15 second video, so no one would be satisfied with sitting through an ad that is double or triple the length for a Vine post.

Back when Vine launched in 2012, the app was very novel in its time, when social media apps lacked video components. A couple of years later, Instagram and Twitter added video to their own proprietary video applications. They allowed users to post videos that are longer and more substantial than posts for Vine.

An issue that many Vine content creators faced was a lack of in-depth audience analytics. Other video sharing platforms provided clear audience statistics ranging from age, gender and the countries in which the posts were viewed.

However, TechCrunch reported that Vine might be saved after all, by selling it. At this time the list of companies bidding is unknown according to TechCrunch, but there are bids coming from Asia. With the bids only ranging from around $10 million, there is a low chance Twitter will gain any revenue from selling Vine. The company has kept quiet about Vine’s future, since the initial announcement.

Keeping Vine alive could cost millions to have the platform run daily.

Twitter would need to be cautious about who they sell it to, in order to make this a good business deal. Selling it at a low price would show desperation on the part of Vine and could possibly turn Vine into a direct competitor to Twitter.

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Eatz on the Streez food truck missing due to mechnical issues MEAGHAN MCINTYRE Staff Writer

Not long after making its first appearance this semester on Campus Walk, the university food truck Eatz on the Street experienced technical difficulties and has since then been out of commission.

“We regret that the truck is now out of service until repairs are completed.

We will have it back out and running as soon as possible,” a blurb on the Sodexo website read.

According to Campus Dining Marketing Manager, Rose Benedict, the situation started when one problem was noticed and the issues only expanded from there.

“We identified one problem initially, then it got fixed,” Benedict said.

“During this time, we then identified other problems.”

The length of time that the repairs would take and the amount of time the truck would be unable to operate, increased as more problems were discovered.

“With this whole process, it takes time,” Benedict said. “They have had to go back and rework some of the major systems in the truck. It took a long time just to get the problems evaluated by the service company. Now we are only waiting on the company to do the work.”

The company that is completing the work on the truck is located in Manassas, Virginia and has given the university dining staff an estimate that the repairs should take approximately four to five weeks. Both underclassmen and upperclassmen alike have noticed the missing presence of the food truck on campus.

“So I first ate at it the second week of school, which was the first week of classes,” said freshman Nicholas Jamison. “Then during the third week of school, I never saw it. I assumed it was gone. The fifth week of class I noticed the sign about it on the fourth floor of the University Center that officially confirmed its disappearance.”

To some students, the disappearance of the truck was assumed to just be a change in the dining options.

“I realized I hadn’t seen it in a while and just figured, what with all the other dining option changes, that it wouldn’t be around this semester,” junior English major Emma Cahoon said.

While it is understood that nothing can be done to repair the truck sooner, as the mechanical problems clearly needed to be addressed, the Eatz on the Street truck is missed by students. There are a variety of reasons, ranging from the dining choices that the truck offered to the convenience that its location on Campus Walk provided members of the Mary Washington community.

“When I ate at the truck it had fantastic chicken tenders and waffle fries,” Jamison said. “I noticed the Underground has chicken tenders with waffles and the U.C. sometimes has waffle fries. Neither of which was as good as to what the truck served. So yes, there are substitutes but they aren’t at the same quality.”

“I kind of miss the food truck, yeah I never relied on it as a regular food option, but I liked being able to get fries or whatever right there on campus walk,” said Cahoon. “You can get roughly the same stuff in the UC but it’s not as easy or convenient.”

Thursday, November 10, 2016

NEWS

Questions surround shot glass ban in residence halls

UMW Calendar

Sixth Annual Electro-Acoustic Barn Dance Jasmine Pineda / The Blue & Gray Press

Shot glasses that can be found at the bookstore retailing at around $6.99.

Will be held from Nov. 10–12, at Pollard Hall A three-day festival of electronic music and art.

Featuring Percussionist: Tony Steve Adam Vidiksis Pianist: Theresa Steward Violinist: Margaret Jones

All information was found on the UMW calendar online.

SGA-PSA Wednesday, Nov. 2 •

The association is looking to for students interested in taking up senator positions. Contact the president of the association, Ethan Carter at ecarter@mail.umw.edu to find out more information.

All motions were originated and passed in the student senate, and then approved by the executive cabinet.

DETAILS PROVIDED

BY JAMIE MCGUIRE

Thursday, November 10, 2016

EMILY AINSWORTH Staff Writer

The University of Mary Washington’s Student Senate recently lifted the ban on shot glasses and other alcohol related paraphernalia that encourages binge drinking.

On Sept. 14, the Senate Student body passed the termination of this ban since they found it contradictory. Shot glasses were being sold in the bookstore while still banned from residence halls, for instance. However, the news had not reached many Resident Assistants and students are still being punished for having shot glasses in their dorms.

In reporting this information for validation, RAs were asked for comment. Although, after directing these concerns to the director of ResLife, RAs were told to not disclose information.

While this ban still had an effect on the student body, it did not change partying or the consumption of alcohol for students, according to the Student Senate.

Among the Student Senate body are Benjamin Purdy and Ethan Carter. Purdy, a senior political science major was the “brains” behind the lifting of the ban.

“It didn’t stop them from consuming alcohol, the only way that I know that it affected students’ behavior is that it was just another charge we brought forth to the JRB,” Purdy said.

A student who wished to remain anonymous used her shot glass not for drinking, but for holding makeup.

“It was a sovereign shot glass from London, it mostly held lip gloss and my mascara. I was mad that my RA confiscated my shot glass during a fire drill. I

only got a warning, because I was not actually drunk, but I never got my shot glass back. Apparently, this was after the ban was lifted, how frustrating,” the source said.

Similarly, Claire Stanchfield, a sophomore biology major, did not use her shot glasses for alcohol but had similar use to the anonymous student.

“I do have a shot glass in my room

category. Even people of age were not allowed to have shot glasses, beer bongs or other trinkets that sped up the intake of alcohol.

“In the past, students who were of age and had shot glasses in the residence halls had been penalized for it, so we just wanted to adjust what we saw was a problem,” Purdy said.

Ethan Carter, junior accounting major, explained this regulation indepth.

“RA’s were told to look for shot glasses because, they can’t have them, which applies to students of age or under age,” Carter said. “So for example, I’m 21 so I can’t have a beer bong in my room because that speeds up alcohol intake but under this previous condition that we lifted I wouldn’t have been allowed to have a shot glass either.”

The Student Senate’s job is to represent issues within the student body. Purdy brought attention to the issue and saw it as a problem that students were facing. This motion was passed within the Student Senate and then went to the SGA executive cabinet and was passed there. Carter brought the issue to Dean Rucker and then the two of them worked together to implement the motion. According to Carter, Rucker agreed with Carter that it did not make sense that the bookstore sold shot glasses, but that they were banned in the residence halls.

Rucker then spoke with directors to change the ban in the handbook. Carter voiced his opinion more on this issue, “Obviously if they sell six different types of shot glasses it does not make sense to ban them in the residential buildings,” Carter said.

“In the past, students who were of age and had shot glasses in the residence halls had been penalized for it, so we just wanted to adjust what we saw was a problem.”

- Ben Purdy that I use. I keep my q-tips for my makeup in it, “Stanchfield said. “If someone took that away I would be pissed, so I do support the ban being lifted.”

Students could buy shot glasses at the bookstore as often as they pleased.

These objects were not banned on campus, but only in residence halls. However, the ban was implemented by Residence Life. In the handbook, it said that students could not have anything that speeds up the intake of alcohol in their halls, and shot glasses fall under that

CORRECTIONS for THE Week PLEASE REPORT ANY MISTAKES SEEN IN THE BLUE AND GRAY PRESS TO Chris Markham, blueandgray.eic@gmail.com or Sushma Subramanian, ssubrama@umw.edu On the front page the piece titled, “Changes in the political landscape of the U.S.,” displayed a photo underneath by Finnely Goff which was supposed to carry the caption: “A word cloud made from the full transcript of Third Presidental Debate (provided by Politico.com). It took place on Oct. 19. The larger the word the more often it was said by any of those who spoke during the debate.”

In last week’s issue the piece titled, “Paino finds his place within the UMW community,” displayed an inaccurate byline. It read Izzy Briones, Staff Writer when it should read Izzy Briones, News Editor.

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SPORTS

Editor: Mikey Barnes | blueandgray.sports@gmail.com

UMW pumps fans up for basketball season with Eagle Madness

Freshman Cam Rauch shoots free throws for Chick Fil-A for all those in attendance.

ALEX SPENCE Associate Editor

The UMW students and community alike stood to their feet as silence swept the Ron Rosner Arena. With prize money on the line, freshman Paige Haskins stood anxiously at center court, ready to sink the winning shot. With a running start and hefty heave, the ball soared through the air and the crowd went wild as it rattled through down the rim.

Haskins, a member of the University of Mary Washington’s women’s lacrosse, made $500 in just five minutes on Tuesday night’s first ever Eagle Madness event hosted by UMW Athletics.

Both President Troy Paino and Athletic Director Ken Tyler agreed to split the bill for the winning shot as the crowd chanted, “write the check,” “write the check” while UMW students rushed the floor in excitement.

“Originally the ticket was Sarah Hampton’s, a sophomore on the lacrosse team,” Haskins explained of the raffle number that was called. “The girls agreed to let me try because I told them I was good at shooting.”

The rest of the women’s lacrosse team learned just how good she was as they all ran to the court to celebrate.

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The grand finale half court shot was just one of many raffles, contests and games played throughout the night, including knock out, musical chairs and a relay race.

Senior communications major Mikey Barnes hosted the event and pumped up the crowd with Eagle Nation chants and loads of energy as both the men’s and women’s basketball teams were introduced along with their respective coaches.

The event served as a pep rally for the upcoming basketball season, hoping to replicate the spirit of larger, Division I programs as the first home games of the basketball season are scheduled for a week after Eagle Madness.

Marcus Khan, the men’s basketball coach, says his goals for the team are to continue getting better every day.

“While I am proud of the progress we have made, I will never be satisfied,” Khan said. “For this upcoming season I am most looking forward to competing alongside a great group of young men.”

Sophomore Johnny Cronin, a member of the men’s basketball team echoes Khan’s goals.

“I think it’s important to never be complacent,” Cronin said, a political science major from Springfield, Virginia. “You have to push yourself, because no one is

Freshman Paige Haskins hits half court shot for $500 and is swarmed by peers to celebrate.

“’THE GIRLS AGREED TO LET ME TRY BECAUSE I TOLD THEM I WAS GOOD AT SHOOTING” (On letting her shoot the half court shot to win $500) -PAIGE HASKINS going to push you more than you can.”

Barnes kept the crowd going as he introduced performances by UMW’s dance team, cheerleaders and step team, Alter Egos.

Between performances, the women’s basketball team handed out t-shirts while each member was introduced to the audience.

As senior Megan Green prepares to enter the final season of her UMW basketball career, she admits she couldn’t be more thankful for the family she has found here.

“These girls have changed my life,”

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Green said, a history major from Burke, Virginia. “They are the greatest group of women I have ever met in my entire life.

They are the reason I’m here and loving life.”

While entrance to the event was free of charge, it was encouraged that attendees donate non-perishable food for the UMW Athletics SAAC food drive, which goes to help the Fredericksburg Area Food Bank.

Season passes for both the men’s and women’s teams were sold in the Anderson Center’s main lobby, as well as gifted to a few lucky attendees whose raffle tickets were pulled.

Other prizes given away included Mary Washington apparel, gift cards to Home Team Grill and Brock’s Riverside Grill as well as $25 Visa cards and more.

While not everyone was chosen to participate in one of the many contests, each person that showed up for the event went home a winner. Free Chick-Fil-A gift cards were given everyone in the arena.

UMW Athletics hopes that the Ron Rosner Arena will be rocking as much on Tuesday, Nov. 15 as it did at Eagle Madness when the men’s and women’s teams host their first home games of the year against Eastern Mennonite and Washington & Lee respectively.

Women’s basketball looking to return to NCAA tournament as season prepares to tip-off JESSE JONES Staff Writer

Coach Deena Applebury and the University of Mary Washington women’s basketball team head into the 2016-2017 basketball season ranked No. 20 in the country in the D3Hoops.com preseason poll and No. 22 in WBCA poll. After finishing the 2015-2016 season with a 24-5 overall record and earning the team’s sixth ever CAC Championship, the team has high aspirations for this year.

The team capitalized on their phenomenal record as they played in their 10th NCAA Division III Tournament, seven of which have been under Coach Applebury; who also won her 300th game last season.

On Tuesday, Nov. 15, the team will head to Lexington, Virginia to take on instate rival Washington & Lee to start their season. The Eagles plan to utilize seniors Megan Green and Brianne “Breezi” Comden’s on-court experience and leadership

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to help them get back to the top and compete for another CAC Championship.

Comden, who is a team captain for the program, earned many individual awards of her own last year. She scored her 1,000th career point, doing so in just three seasons and led both her team as well as the CAC with 15.5 PPG and a 58.4 FG PCT. These tremendous accomplishments earned her an Honorable Mention All-America selection and a spot on the First Team All-CAC list.

Sophomore Kendall Parker, another one of the team’s veterans looks to continue to help contribute to her team’s success while remaining humble.

“I want to help my team in any role they need me to play. Getting better at something every day and help my teammates do the same is my number one priority,”

Parker said.

Parker, who made an appearance in all 29 games, averaged just over 10 points a game, while shooting 39.4 percent from the field and an impressive 43.2 percent from the three-point line.

Parker’s goal is nothing shy of another NCAA tournament bid. “I want to become back-to-back CAC champs and get very far in the tourney,” Parker said.

“Our first game on Tuesday will be used to set the tone of our season. It will be one of the few times we will have had competitive 5v5 action, aside from practice, so it will be a good test,” Comden said.

“Although W&L isn’t a CAC opponent every game matters so we’re still going to play to the best of our ability and hopefully come out on top.”

Like Parker, Comden wants to get back to the conference championship and then

ultimately to the NCAA tournament in her final season.

“My best friend Emma Olson and the women’s volleyball team just won a conference championship last weekend and have the opportunity to host the next round and I am so unbelievably proud of them. I guess you could also say I’m a bit jealous and going through some nostalgia though as I miss that feeling and can’t wait to hopefully feel it again,” Comden said. Other key players like CAC Rookie of the Year Elizabeth Dofflemyer, McKenzie Jenkins and Taylor Barton will have large roles in continuing the program’s success.

The Eagles host the Hyatt Place Tip Off Tournament at Rosner Arena beginning Saturday Nov. 19, competing against Virginia Wesleyan, Averett and Alvernia.

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