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College adds new minor for fall 2016 APIAS connects multiple disciplines EMILY CHAUMONT FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR

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What we had found was that ... the water penetration was more severe than we thought.

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The 1986 wing of One Tribe Place is currently boarded up and the 78 former hotel rooms are uninhabitable, due to water infiltration throughout the wing.

OTP renovations to be proposed

After delays, BOV to hear six-month timeline SARAH SMITH FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR

One Tribe Place renovations will be proposed at the Board of Visitors meeting later this week, the second push to renovate the unlivable wing. Earlier renovation plans were temporarily halted because of damage that was more extensive than was originally thought, despite the due diligence that was performed at the time of purchase.

When the College of William and Mary bought the Williamsburg Hospitality House in 2013, administrators already planned to make changes to the property now known as One Tribe Place.

Administrators will present a proposal for the property’s renovation during this week’s Board of Visitors meeting.

When the building was purchased, it was segmented into three

pieces: the original hotel, the 1986 wing and the rooms under the hotel, such as the ballroom and the restaurant. The College purchased the building in May 2013, and approximately 300 students moved in that August after minor renovations, such as building new fire-safe walls around the lower segment of the property to ensure fire safety.

However, the segment of the property known as the 1986 wing, which was used as hotel rooms while the property was a hotel, was not up to the College’s building code. At that time, the College planned to make necessary renovations to bring the ballroom, meeting rooms and restaurant spaces up to building code and make those spaces accessible to student organizations. However, due to budgetary constraints, the College has not yet been able to

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Seven years after the first student with a self-designed major in Asian and Pacific Islander American Studies graduated, the College of William and Mary’s faculty of arts and sciences will vote to approve a new APIAS minor program this May. This move follows a strong push and years of work from students and faculty.

According to Pallavi Rudraraju ’17, a student who played a role in promoting the program, the new Asian and Pacific Islander American studies minor will differ from the currently available Asian and Middle Eastern studies program.

“AMES is geographically based and rooted in Asia, but APIAS follows the Asian Pacific Island diaspora into America and all over the world,” Rudraraju said.

Rudraraju said that classes that would fall under the APIAS label have been taught at the College for some time, but they have been hard to find when registering for classes because they were listed under a variety of different subjects instead of being collected in one group.

“These sorts of courses have been incredibly popular,” Rudraraju said. “But for there to actually be a code on Banner for APIAS — that is incredibly important.”

APIAS will be an interdisciplinary minor, incorporating courses cross-listed in a variety of departments, including theater, English and American studies.

To Jin Hyuk Ho ’16, this broad range of courses is an essential part of APIAS, as he said that he sees the program as a way to learn about the varied aspects of life as an Asian American. He also said that the existing courses with potential to be cross-listed were crucial to the development of the minor.

“If the courses weren’t there in the first place, the minor wouldn’t be a possibility,” Ho said. “This interdisciplinary aspect of APIAS is inherent in what it means to be Asian American.”

Ho and Rudraraju are both active in the Asian American Student Initiative and are also self-designed APIAS majors.

The two worked with theatre and Africana studies professor Francis Tanglao-Aguas to spearhead the creation of the APIAS minor. The group met with deans, professors and the educational policy committee to explain why creating the program was important to them.

“The hardest part was sitting down and telling our stories,” Ho said.

“Even though it was exciting, it was also taxing.”

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38 students to live in Class of 2020 welcomed to College gender neutral housing College offers 5,095 acceptances for 1,520 spots in new class Students to live in Ludwell, Cabell, Tribe Square SARAH SMITH FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR

At the end of the housing selection process, 38 students opted to use gender neutral housing, filling a total of 13 apartments.

The signups follow the College’s January announcement that it would offer gender neutral housing for the fall 2016.

Students had the option of selecting apartments in Ludwell, Cabell, Tribe Square, Nicholas and the Graduate Complex. Most students chose Ludwell, while some chose to live in Cabell and Tribe Square. 15 sophomores, 10 juniors and 13 seniors will be living in these apartments next academic year. No students selected gender neutral housing options in Nicholas or the Graduate Complex.

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According to Associate Vice President for Student Affairs and Director of Residence Life Deb Boykin ’76 M.Ed. ’82, prior to room selection, no one had a good estimate of how many students would select these new options.

“We had no idea, we knew we wanted to offer this, but we thought maybe no one would do it,” Boykin said. “We knew students support it. We’ve heard from students that were excited about it, if there have been people who are negative, we haven’t heard that. Mostly what we’ve heard has been very positive.”

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The College of William and Mary accepted 5,095 students for the Class of 2020 April 1, a 35.4 percent acceptance rate.

With 14,380 applications for 1,520 spots — 1,500 in the main class and 20 in the St Andrews-William and Mary Joint Degree Programme — the College accepted students from all 50 states, as well as Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands. However, after 11

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years of an increasing applicant pool, the number of applications fell by almost 600 students, or 3.8 percent, from the class of 2019’s application pool size.

Associate Provost for Enrollment and Dean of Admissions Tim Wolfe ’95 M.Ed. ’01 said that he sees the newly admitted class as a good fit for the College, citing that they are already bonding as a community, especially on social media.

“Here are students who are still in high school, still in that stage of their lives, but they’re already coming together as the William and Mary Class of 2020,” Wolfe said. “That’s a very exciting thing to see.”

Admitted student Todd Kirks, who was walking by the Sunken Garden on Day for Admitted Students Saturday April 16, said he appreciated that sense of community as well. “[My favorite thing] is probably how friendly everyone is, how open everyone is towards each other, how everyone’s smiling,” Kirks said. “I haven’t seen a frowning face.”

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My greatest secret is that I really had a great time working in the Wren building. There were days I thought I shouldn’t even get paid for doing this.

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The leaves were just starting to change when William Kelso M.A. ’64 arrived at the College of William and Mary. It was 1963 and Kelso, now the Director of Archaeology at the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation, had enrolled in the College’s master’s program in early American history.

“I’m walking down the brick walkway along the Sunken Garden and … the pure beauty of the campus hit me,” Kelso said. “It’s like I had walked back in time, in a sense. Back to the period that I was interested in.”

It wasn’t long before the program’s intense workload hit home.

“Once I got in class, I realized that I was going to have to work really hard,” Kelso said.

Early American history had become the focus of the Ohio native’s undergraduate studies at Baldwin Wallace College. Kelso took a particular interest in Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. His curiosity was sparked during a study break, when Kelso happened to look at some old magazines in the school library.

“I saw … an aerial photograph of the Jamestown excavations that were done in the 1950s,” Kelso said. “I had read that this was the earliest permanent English settlement. That really wasn’t played up in textbooks at all back then … I thought wow, that’s 13 years before Plymouth.”

Kelso’s professor suggested that he apply for a fellowship at the Institute of Early American History and Culture, now known as the Omohundro Institute.

“He steered me right,” Kelso said. “He said, ‘No, if you really want to go to the best place for your specific interest, you really need to go to William and Mary.’”

Kelso received the fellowship and moved to Virginia with his wife Ellen, a teacher he’d married as a junior in college. The couple rented a two-room apartment by Queens Lake.

Things got off to a bit of a rocky start when the College’s fellowship check failed to arrive.

“For about a week and a half, we were living off fish out of the lake,” Kelso said. “There was a little boat and I … went out and fished. That was about the poorest I’ve been.”

When he arrived in Virginia, Kelso made sure to visit the Jamestown site.

“I wanted to walk around and look at that particular place,” Kelso said. “And that’s when [the park rangers] told me that the fort itself had washed into the James River … And I was real disappointed.”

The disappointment faded fast. Right away, Kelso started piecing together that the 1607 fort might not have slipped away into the water. He asked a park ranger about objects sticking out of an exposed bank.

“He just looked at me like, ‘You know, you have a point there,’” Kelso said.

Kelso went on to write and publish his master’s thesis on a colonial shipbuilding site along the Chickahominy River; however, not all of his academic pursuits in the program went as well.

In one class of about 12 students, the professor encouraged the students to critique one another’s assignments. Kelso remembers his classmates harshly criticizing one of his essays, which he had padded with “highsounding” words.

“I thought, ‘I’m in the wrong place here. I shouldn’t be in graduate school,’” Kelso said.

“It was the lowest, lowest.”

Kelso simplified his writing and began

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reading his work aloud to his wife before submitting. He also hunkered down to work in what is now Tucker Hall, which was originally the College’s library. He also enjoyed stopping

by Colonial Williamsburg’s library, which used to be located along Duke of Gloucester Street near the site of the restaurant Seasons today.

In his spare time, the former college football player would watch Tribe football games and socialize with friends. Kelso befriended one English professor and accepted an invitation to a party at the man’s Richmond Road house.

When he arrived, he was surprised to discover that the entire interior of house was painted black.

“He had these kind of Dracula clothes on,” Kelso said. “I said, ‘Well, this is pretty strange.’

But it was a lot of fun.”

Although he received his doctorate at Emory University, Kelso credits the College’s faculty with cultivating his interest in early American history. He noted several “all star” professors he’d had, including William Abbott, who eventually became editor of the University of Virginia’s George Washington Papers; Ira Gruber, who authored books on the generals of the American Revolution and James Smith, who went on to run the Delaware Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library.

“What I really learned was what I learned at William and Mary above all,” Kelso said.

“Not to put Emory down. That’s just the way it turned out.”

Before heading down to Druid Hills, Kelso spent three years teaching history at Williamsburg High School and volunteering on digs in the summer. He also coached the football team, but found that it was not his calling.

“The highs are high and the lows are low,” Kelso said.

One summer, Kelso worked with British archaeologist Ivor Noel Hume on an excavation near Newport News. Kelso went on to work with Hume at Martin’s Hundred, a 17th century James River plantation within the estate of the Carter’s Grove plantation. Later on, Kelso and Hume worked on the Wormslow Plantation in Georgia, during which time Kelso received a doctoral degree in archaeology from Emory in 1971.

From 1971-1979, Kelso worked at the Research Center for Archaeology, housed in the basement of the College’s Sir Christopher Wren Building until it was moved to Yorktown and later Richmond. Kelso went on to become director of archaeology at Monticello, alumnus Thomas Jefferson’s home, where he pushed

for the digs to focus on slave-related sites.

By the 1990s, Kelso’s thoughts had turned back to Jamestown. 2007, the quadricentennial of the settlement, was on the horizon.

Kelso sought out the private owners of the Jamestown site and proposed a dig to locate the 1607 fort.

“The simple approach was look, you’re going to commemorate 1607, the first part of the early settlement,” Kelso said. “Wouldn’t it be great if we could find it first? It was that simple.”

When the dig began April 4, 1994, the conventional wisdom that the site was in the James River was still pervasive among historians and archaeologists.

“Almost every single archaeologist I knew was like, ‘Bill, you’re a nice guy, but I think you’re out of your mind. There’s no way. It’s washed away,’” Kelso said.

Even Kelso’s faith in the site began to waver by the time the dig started.

“By the time we started, I was kind of doubting myself,” Kelso said. “But right away, jackpot.”

The excavation began turning up early colonial artifacts almost immediately. Kelso and his team went on to locate the 1607 fort in 1996.

2007 saw a renewed interest in Jamestown, along with celebrations involving Queen Elizabeth II, U.S. President George W. Bush and former College Chancellor Sandra Day O’Connor. That same year, Kelso received an honorary degree from the College during commencement.

In the years since, the Jamestown archaeological site has produced finds included in Archaeology Magazine’s most important discoveries of 2010, 2013 and 2015.

The dig has uncovered everything from burials of the settlement’s elite to what’s known as survival cannibalism to mysterious relics.

Kelso said that Jamestown Rediscovery’s upcoming projects focus on one year in particular: 1619. That is the year the House of Burgesses, the colony’s first representative assembly, gathered, as well as the year the first group of enslaved Africans were brought to Virginia.

Kelso, who lives at Jamestown, still returns to campus once in a while for a Tribe football game. His advice for undergraduate and graduate students is simple.

“You can’t go around thinking you already know more than the professor. A lot of kids do that,” Kelso said. “Listen. Don’t try to reinvent the wheel.”

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William Keslo M.A. ’64 lead the re-excavation project of the original Jamestown fort beginning in April 1994.

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STEM students win prestigious scholarship Goldwater Scholarship recognizes students in fields of science, mathematics EMILY MARTELL FLAT HAT CHIEF STAFF WRITER

After pulling an all-nighter to finish a term paper, Bernadette Deschaine ’17 woke up from her nap to see a text from a friend: “Hey, congratulations!! :)” Unbeknownst to her, Deschaine and two of her fellow classmates at the College of William and Mary had just been selected as recipients of the Goldwater Scholarship.

From a pool of 1,150 applicants from 415 institutions for up to 260 spots, Deschaine, Melissa Guidry ’17 and Lyuba Bolkhovitnov ’17 were selected as Goldwater Scholars. Jessica Joyce ’17, the College’s fourth nominee, received an honorable mention.

Established in 1986 to honor Sen. Barry Goldwater, the Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program recognizes notable undergraduate students who seek to pursue research careers in science, math and engineering.

Each scholarship is awarded to rising college juniors and seniors by merit; the amount received is based on need up to $7,500 annually for the remainder of their undergraduate career.

Guidry, the first recipient in physics since 2007, became interested in the field during her senior year in high school.

“That’s about the time when we first

directly detected the Higgs boson and about that time I realized there was still a lot of physics left to be discovered, so that was really exciting for me because I thought things were pretty much figured out,” Guidry said.

Although Guidry initially began researching particle physics at the College, she realized she wanted something more hands-on and switched to studying quantum optics in a doctoral program, working to reduce quantum noise with applications toward quantum computing, atomic clocks, and gravitational wave detectors.

Now a physics and applied mathematics major, Guidry has researched quantum optics at the National Institutes of Standards and Technology and is a participant in the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory Science Collaborative.

Her advisor, physics professor Eugeniy Mikhailov, said that although the student-advisor relationship is usually a “long road to fruitful collaboration,” with Guidry, progress happened almost instantaneously.

“I gave her an assignment, and the next day I was already asked new questions — what’s the project status, what we should do next, that kind of stuff,” Mikhailov said. “It was extremely intense, I would put it that way. As an advisor, I usually have a more luxurious life, I usually have a week between

meetings, and in this case, very often, Melissa was waiting for me, having some questions or stuff to report.”

In the future, Guidry said she hopes to study quantum optics research in a doctoral program, answering the questions of how to make detectors better, reduce “noise” and create better technology.

Like Guidry, Bolkhovitnov discovered an interest in her field during high school. Since joining biology professor Margaret Saha’s developmental neurobiology lab in the spring of her freshman year, Bolkhovitnov has been studying neuroplasticity during the early development of African clawed frogs.

“When I came to William and Mary, I kind of had the neuroscience stuff in the back of my mind but I thought — you know what, I’ll just take pre-med stuff, I’ll just go to med school — but I realized research is actually really cool,” Bolkhovitnov said. “So I think my involvement has definitely steered me in that direction.”

According to Saha, who is her advisor, Bolkhovitnov is known for taking initiative and solving problems.

“Probably the most impressive characteristic about Lyuba is her willingness to take risks and assume challenges,” Saha said in an email. “She was willing from her freshmen year onwards to take on a very technically difficult project where she needed to

work out so many different techniques.

She never wavered and calmly and consistently and creatively worked out every challenge.”

When not in the lab, Bolkhovitnov volunteers at the greenhouse, where she runs the social media page, and works on service projects with Alpha Phi Omega.

Deschaine, a biology major, first became fascinated in the subject by the cooperative aspects she saw in nature.

Since her sophomore year, she has been working in biology professor Helen Murphy’s evolutionary biology lab.

For her honors thesis, she will research the disruption of biofilms, modeling those formed by fungal pathogens that can grow on medical devices.

When not studying biology, Deschaine can be found working in the Writing Resources Center.

“I like being able to work with the writing center because as a science major, I don’t do as much writing as people in a lot of different majors probably do,” Deschaine said. “So I like to work with students across a variety of majors who come in with all sorts of different paper topics, and being able to help them with that, but also keep myself refreshed on what it’s like to write across other disciplines, what it’s like to answer different questions.”

Murphy described Deschaine as a student who takes great joy in learning.

She cited a few moments in which Deschaine demonstrated particular enjoyment of her research.

“One lab meeting when we read a paper about cheating and cooperation in microbes, she became absolutely giddy with the prospect of getting her research started and could barely contain her excitement,” Murphy said in an email. “I also have a fond memory of her bouncing her way through the lab, smiling to herself, and when I asked her about what was going on she admitted she was thinking about some parasites she had just learned about.”

After graduating, Deschaine hopes to attend graduate school and gain experience working in a biomedical lab.

For her future research, she said that she hopes to study the interaction between the human immune system and different microorganisms and parasites.

Although the Goldwater Scholarship news is still settling in for her, Deschaine said she is most excited because it allows her to do more of what she loves — research.

“I think that’s why I’m so excited about the Goldwater is it gives me the opportunity to do more research, which has been a really great part of my experience at William and Mary,” Deschaine said. “I think one of the best things here, is that we have a lot of opportunities for undergraduate research.”

Administrators prepare to present renovation plan

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pursue those renovations. According to Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration Sam Jones ’75 M.B.A. ’80, an investigation of the property after the purchase of the building revealed that water infiltration had made those rooms uninhabitable.

“We knew we were not going to be able to immediately bring [that wing] online; we had to do an investigation,” Jones said. “Our plans were to do the immediate renovations, move students in, and then deal with the 1986 wing. What we have found was that in the 1986 wing where our original plan was to do limited demolition … the water penetration was more severe than we thought.”

Jones said that he will propose a demolition plan for the 1986 wing at this week’s BOV meeting. Although a specific timeline has not yet been approved, he said he hopes the demolition will be done within six months. In the future, after the proposed demolition, the College administration will make a decision on how to rebuild the space. Past attempts to contain the water infiltration revealed a layer of mold beneath the wallpaper because the windows were not sealed properly.

Following Jones’s proposal, Director of Facilities, Planning, Design and Construction Wayne Boy said that the renovation plan will include challenges directly related to the 1986 wing, as well as other necessary renovations the property needs.

“The first thing is handling the massive water infiltration — we either have to stabilize those floors and repair them, or we have to demolish them and then repair it,” Boy said. “Once we do that, keep in mind it’s a six-story building. It has two layers of garage, a floor of assembly space

and then three floors of rooms above it. We will have to come up with a roof for the garage; that’s issue number two. That roof could either be a hard roof or it could be a membrane layer that we put under the ground.

Also, when we tear the building away, the back section is separated by a courtyard. The two attachment points are stairwells, so we will have to re-clad those stairwells and restore that facade.”

Additionally, Boy said that they will need to install new fire alarms and fire sprinklers in the garages to keep them up to fire code. The room that supplies power to the entire building and hosts the switchboard will require repairs for water leaks in that room.

Moving forward, when the College decides to rebuild the 1986 wing, it will need to be brought completely up to code. This will involve testing electrical and heating utilities in the ballroom and adding public bathrooms. There is no immediate timeline for rebuilding the 1986 wing, and plans for rebuilding will rely on the availability of funding.

“There’s always a planning cycle that occurs,” Jones said. “That planning sets very detailed specifications for what you have to tear down, how you tear it down and what you rebuild in its place. When we go into the ballroom spaces for example, we will have a lot of engineers come in, then we will hire an architect and engineer and they will do detailed plans. Then we [will] also look at the layout of the space and we might want more rooms, we might want fewer rooms. You do all of that before you hand it over to construction.”

When the property was the Hospitality House, the 1986 wing was composed of 78 hotel rooms.

According to Jones, future renovation plans could involve adding or subtracting rooms from the space.

Committee announces new APIAS minor

College to offer minor next year to answer student, faculty petitions

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Tanglao-Aguas said that even though it took a lot of work, pushing for this program was important to him and benefits the College community.

“I persevered in building this program not only because it forms the core of my scholarship and creative work of building community through theatre and film, but also because it is my responsibility as a good citizen who cares about everyone,” TanglaoAguas said in an email.

Although the ultimate goal is for the program to become a major, Rudraraju said the minor is an important step in that direction because it has the potential

to build student interest and faculty involvement.

“The second we establish a minor, we are going to have at least one core professor,” Rudraraju said. “As long as we have that, I am so confident that a lot of other professors will step up.”

According to Ho, the biggest obstacle separating the minor program from a potential major program is money.

Nevertheless, he said he is confident that if students continue to take APIAS classes, the College will continue to offer them and the program will continue building.

“Now that we have a minor, the school now has to worry about it, now the school has a responsibility to these types of

courses,” Ho said. “Ever since the beginning, even before the minor, the biggest thing was student involvement. There has to be student interest before it can go anywhere.”

The minor has been approved by the educational policy committee, and now only awaits the vote from the faculty of arts and sciences. Those involved are confident that it will pass this vote and be made an official minor at the College.

After working on it so long, establishing this program has come to have a personal importance for those involved.

“It’s so much more than a minor,” Rudraraju said. “It’s about having a more comprehensive and wholesome field of studies.”

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Students, faculty attended a recent event as part of Tanglao-Aguas’ program, the Asian Pacific American Studies at William and Mary Initiative.

However, when it comes time to make a decision for renovation following the demolition, Jones said that a key factor will be whether it is more important to deal with rebuilding the 1986 wing or renovating Landrum Hall.

The choice between renovating Landrum and rebuilding the 1986 wing will also involve input from the Student Affairs and Residence Life departments. According to Vice President for Student Affairs Ginger Ambler ’88 Ph.D. ’06, maintenance and dorm improvement projects happen constantly on campus. She said there are many factors involved in these projects.

“Among the factors we discuss are the conditions and needs of particular buildings, the level of student demand for various kinds and locations of on-campus housing, the relative costs of different renovation projects and the amount of available funds,” Ambler said in an email. “Landrum has long been identified as a dorm in need of a complete renovation. Before W&M purchased One Tribe Place, in fact, our desire was to renovate Landrum shortly after completing the renovation of Chandler Hall. With OTP now in the mix, we needed to pause and examine the renovation needs there as well, bringing into focus all those critical factors I mentioned. That’s what has guided our conversations to date.”

Jones said the BOV has already approved umbrella projects for dormitory renovations, so if they decide to pursue Landrum renovations first, the planning process will take a year.

Following that process, Landrum would be unavailable as a housing option for a year. Renovations would include adding air-conditioning.

No additional rooms would be added.

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ALUMNI

Alumni group presents three faculty awards Society for the College hosts second annual alumni event, donates money SARAH SMITH FLAT HAT NEWS EDITOR

The Society for the College, an independent alumni organization, hosted their second annual College Honors Ceremony Wednesday, April 13. The Society recognized two professors and one former administrator for their contributions to the College.

The alumni organization presented two professors — biology professor Shanta Hinton and former philosophy professor George Harris — with the William Small Award for Faculty Excellence.

This award, named after one of the natural science professors who mentored Thomas Jefferson, is designed to honor excellent faculty.

According to Society for the College President Andrew McRoberts ’87, all of Hinton’s students who chose to write an honors thesis have been accepted into graduate programs. Many of the students who work in Hinton’s lab recommended her for the award, and some attended Wednesday’s event.

“Dr. Hinton draws the respect and admiration of her students,” McRoberts said. “Her students told us that they truly appreciate her commitment to them.”

Hinton, who is black, is also the first tenured professor in the natural sciences at the College who is a racial minority. In the past, Hinton has said pursuing the sciences is more important than focusing on her accomplishment as a racial minority.

Along with a certificate of recognition, Hinton also received a monetary award. In her acceptance speech, Hinton cited lessons she learned from her family as valuable pieces of advice she tried to pass on to her students.

“William and Mary has been a perfect fit, so I don’t have any bad stories to share about working here,” Hinton said. “I’ve enjoyed interacting with students and giving them what my family gave me, which is hope and jubilee. It’s an honor that I have a chance to hopefully inspire them.”

Harris, the other recipient of the William Small Award, recently retired from teaching at the College. As part of his career, he published four books.

Before the Society presented Harris with his award, Davies introduced Harris and spoke on their past work together.

According to Davies, it is noteworthy that Harris often disagreed with administration on issues he cared about, such as the COLL Curriculum, which he actively opposed before his retirement.

Davies said that Harris worried that the COLL Curriculum would diminish the College’s academic excellence.

“I would like to thank Paul and the Society for the award, it’s a humbling experience,” Harris said. “It sounds like I follow controversy and controversy follows me, but I want everyone to know how grateful I am to have been able to have a career as an academic at the College.”

Besides presenting two professors with the William Small Award, the Society also recognized former Executive Director of Historic Campus Louise Lambert Kale with the Three Keys Award.

This award is given to someone who represents three principles: academic excellence, good governance and a recognition of history and traditions.

Although College President Taylor Reveley was not able to attend Wednesday’s event, citing his travels abroad, he prepared a statement on Kale’s service as executive director of historic campus to be read before she was recognized.

“It is quite wonderful the Society plans to bestow the Three Keys award on Louise … She is a William and Mary treasure,” Reveley said.

Kale grew up at the College while her father served in various administrative roles. Upon graduating from Sweet Briar College, she returned to Williamsburg, where she first served in the fine arts department and then in a leadership role at the Muscarelle Museum of Art. Former College President Tim Sullivan ’66 asked her to serve as an overseer of ancient campus, which is the role she served in until her retirement. During her time in that role, she founded the Spotswood Society and oversaw the Wren Renewal Project.

Current Executive Director of Historic Campus Susan Kern introduced Kale and updated members of the Society on recent projects related to ancient campus. According to Kern, one of the

biggest projects involves creating an audit of archaeological data, including the data collected under Kale’s supervision. The Society donated money to ancient campus to help with future projects.

“My greatest secret is that I really had a great time working in the Wren building,” Kale said. “There were days I thought I shouldn’t even get paid for doing this … When I came to work at William and Mary it was like coming home. Working at the Wren building was the finest experience you ever could have had.”

The Society does not receive any funding from the College for presentation of such awards; it is completely funded by supporters’ donations. According to McRoberts, since its founding in 2007, the Society has worked to honor people who have been significant in preserving traditions and those who have expanded the Society’s understanding of its founding principles. McRoberts also said that he hopes this event becomes more of a tradition, since it has now occurred twice.

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Society for the College presented Louise Lambert Kale with Three Keys Award.

College accepts 5,095 students spots in class of 2020

Undergraduate Admissions Office welcomes admitted students in weekend event ADMISSIONS from page 1

Although he has not made a decision where he will attend next year yet, Kirks said the odds of

choosing the College increased greatly from his experience on campus. Speaking about the decrease in the size of the applicant pool, Wolfe said it was a product of two things: the drop in

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Students admitted to the class of 2020 met with student organizations and toured campus on Day for Admitted Students.

Virginia high school graduates and the College’s ability to provide aid for out-of-state students.

According to the Virginia Department of Education, the number of public high school graduates in the 2014-2015 school year was at its lowest point since the 2009-2010 school year after several years of sustained growth.

Because of the relationship between the number of high school diplomas and applications to institutions of higher learning, Wolfe said that the drop in applications was expected and has been seen across universities in Virginia.

The College’s ability to provide financial aid to out-of-state students is also tied to the decreasing number of applications.

Although the amount of in-state applicants has increased or held steady, the number of applications from out-of-state students has fallen.

Wolfe attributed a large part of this to the College’s inability to meet 100 percent of demonstrated financial need.

“This is a little bit of a tough scenario, because we’re a public university, but most of the universities that we overlap with are top private universities — almost all of which meet 100 percent of demonstrated need,” Wolfe said.

After the implementation of the William and Mary Promise in fall 2013, there was a recalibration of the aid available to out-of-state students.

Wolfe said that because of this, more outof-state families may not see the College as a financially feasible option.

In fact, according to Director of the Financial Aid Office Ed Irish, for the class of 2019, the

difference in the full cost of attendance between in-state and out-of-state students was $22,025, which includes tuition and fees, room and board and other allowances.

“The expansion of scholarships and financial aid, especially for out-of-state students, is a priority in the university’s For the Bold fundraising campaign,” Irish said in an email. “Being able to award stronger financial aid packages would make William & Mary a more attractive, financially feasible option for out-of-state students across the socioeconomic spectrum.”

To Wolfe, increasing the application volume is not the focus.

“There are things you can do to increase applications, but if those end up being applications from students who never were going to be competitive in the admissions process, or were never going to enroll to begin with, all you’re doing is increasing applications,” Wolfe said.

Instead, Wolfe said that the College should focus on providing aid sufficient for students to choose to attend the College.

Tiffany Ko, an admitted student and Monroe Scholar touring Monroe Hall on Day for Admitted Students said she would most likely attend the College in the fall if her financial aid worked out.

Interested in pursuing psychology and neuroscience and starting a string ensemble, Ko said she considers the College her top choice.

“I love how green it is, just from the physical aspect,” Ko said. “And the buildings are old, but they’re so well maintained that it’s just so beautiful and of course the academics, hard to beat, and there’s just so much life on campus.”

Room selection ends for first year of gender neutral housing 38 students select gender-neutral housing options, fill 13 apartments in Ludwell, Cabell, Tribe Square HOUSING from page 1

helped convince administrators to reverse their stance on gender neutral housing. William and Larry Co-Presidents Erica West ’17 and Juliana Santanna ’17 said that one of their initial fears was that not enough students would sign up.

According to Santanna, other schools who recently implemented flexible housing options such as Virginia Commonwealth University and Virginia Tech struggled with enrollment.

West said that the specific ways in which student organizations at the College marketed the new housing option was a factor in the number of students selecting flexible housing.

“When we did reach out to people, it was targeted to a certain community,” West said. “Also, we have a larger LGBTQ community at William and Mary, so our student body is more predisposed to go

for this option.”

Although the campus conversation about gender neutral housing has lasted for years, administrators chose not to offer it at the College in the past.

Santanna cited the large number of Virginia universities that already have flexible or gender neutral housing options as a possible reason for the College’s recent adoption of the policy.

“2015 was a big year for LGBTQ people,” Santanna said. “There was marriage equality, Caitlyn Jenner — there’s some type of visibility in mainstream culture that wasn’t present before. In 2010, the main argument [against gender neutral housing] was that we didn’t have a political climate to foster this project. 2015 was a progressive year and there were a lot more arguments that the Board of Visitors understood because of news articles coming out about different identities.”

At the state government level,

West said that the political culture has changed because Governor Terry McAuliffe, Attorney General Mark Herring, and many Democrat Virginia senators have interests in protecting the rights of the LGBTQ community.

West said she thought having these politicians in support of LGBTQ issues was another factor in this year’s decision.

Members of the Residence Hall Association were also integral in this year’s decision. RHA Chair of Administrative Advocacy Sam Glover ’16 said that the students who wrote the proposal wrote it well and that administrators were swayed by the amount of other universities offering gender-neutral options.

“The proposal was well-written, and the timing of the proposal, just to put this in a larger context, comes after 200 colleges have done it,” Glover said.

“We were able to point out three public schools in Virginia and say there was a

precedent for doing this and we had a stronger argument. Virginia Tech has had no blowback or negative fallout.”

For now, Boykin said the College is waiting to see how the next academic year goes before planning on making any changes to the gender-neutral housing policy. She said administrators want to see how the first year goes before discussing future changes.

She said they won’t know how the year will go until students move in. In the future, she said the College may consider allowing gender neutral housing in suite-style rooms and opening it up to more dormitories.

Next fall, questions related to gender-neutral housing will be sent out in Residence Life’s annual housing survey. In the past, this survey has led to changes like the implementation of block housing when results showed that seniors were being wait-listed.

Although Flexible Housing will be in place next year, the College will

continue to offer the Adaptive Housing option, which predated it. According to Santanna, the advantage of Flexible Housing over Adaptive Housing is that the Flexible Housing policy does not require students to specify why they are requesting it.

Still, if a student prefers it or missed the Flexible Housing sign up, adaptive housing is still available.

Glover, Santanna and West expressed a desire that younger students become involved in this conversation.

“I think what’s important right now is getting younger classes to join in,” Santanna said. “It’s not that we’re especially knowledgeable, but making connections between people who are staying and administrators is important.

This is a project that we inherited.”

Freshmen are not eligible for genderneutral housing, but the Santanna, Glover and West said they would like to see this option opened up to freshmen as well.

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Sticking up for TJ Mitch Hall

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Class registration: College’s necessary evil

Lindsey Carter

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One of the most memorable moments of my time at the College of William and Mary was registration for spring classes during my freshman year. We were all sitting in the lounge, as freshman hallmates do, huddled over our laptops, on the edge of our seats as the clock ticked down. There was a rush of tension in the air as the clock struck 7:00, and fingers were flying over the keyboards. Then, of course, we clicked submit and Banner crashed. Nothing.

No one got any classes apart from the lucky few — there are always a lucky few.

I’m sure the Caf workers weren’t even surprised to see a bunch of freshman girls show up for breakfast with open laptops and frustrated expressions.

The sad thing is, this is a reality for many students at the College, especially in their early years. Course registration is about as cutthroat as it gets for us here at the College, unless you include getting a Swem table during finals. All that planning and finding the perfect schedule, only to end up in a variety of courses you never knew existed. It can be very aggravating, especially at seven in the morning when you haven’t even had time to have your cup o’ joe.

From the second I logged into Banner the summer

before freshman year I knew the site needed a facelift. It’s very slow and dated and could use some technological improvements. For instance, the site should be capable of not crashing when 2,000 students log in and register for classes at the same time.

My sister, a prospective student for the College, went on a tour a few weeks ago, and I figured it would be interesting to go along for the ride. Of all the things said during the tour, one thing struck me more than others. A parent in the group asked our guide if it was easy for students, especially freshmen, to get the courses they want here. The tour guide responded with an emphatic “Yes!” This shocked me. I don’t remember anyone my freshman year having a completely smooth registration. There are always bumps in the road.

This being said, I also have never had a schedule that stays the same as it was during that first registration morning. Add/Drop exists for a reason. So take a deep breath, close your eyes, and tell yourself, “It is going to be okay.”

Because it always is. Even if you don’t get the exact courses you wanted the first time around — and you likely won’t — registration doesn’t end until Add/Drop does. If you stay on top of Banner, it’s very likely you’ll get most of the courses you want, and maybe try something you’d never take otherwise; maybe registration failure is another tactic for enforcing the liberal arts education we’re all here for.

Emailing professors is typically very helpful as well. No one is going to get to the end of senior year without the classes they need to graduate if they plan accordingly, and adjust in response to the unforeseeable. The really hard part is switching majors in the middle of your senior year.

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

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It is going to be okay ... registration doesn’t end until Add/ Drop does.

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I think that problem is deeper rooted than this article suggests. William & Mary is a highly competitive school to get into. Unfortunately, the public schools where many low income students receive their education are sub-par creating an achievement gap between those students and their average SES peers.

— Lauren Medina on “Diversifying grants”

The College of William and Mary’s most esteemed alumnus, Thomas Jefferson, would have turned 273 this week. If he witnessed the state of the nation today, he would have also turned over in his grave.

Institutions across the country — from the Democratic Party to a host of elite universities — are removing founding fathers like Jefferson from our collective memory, all for the sake of values like “diversity, inclusivity, and equality.” The College is not exempt from this growing national trend. Last November, students anonymously adorned Jefferson’s statue with inflammatory sticky notes that featured messages like “racist rapist,” “incestuous pedophile” and, “He knew it was wrong.” Alhough the intent of their protest was never stated, one message demanded, “Stop glorifying racists,” and their actions ignited a campus-wide debate over Jefferson’s legacy.

One month later, I responded (anonymously, at the time) by posting contradictory messages of my own on the statue, which included messages like “deserves to be on this campus” and, “W&M doesn’t glorify racism.” In light of Jefferson’s birthday, I thought I’d share why I felt compelled to fight back against this particular bout of student activism.

The original messages painted an unfair picture of Thomas Jefferson’s life, and erroneously suggested that the unsavory parts of his past rendered him undeserving of

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This is not to excuse Jefferson for his wrongdoings, but to emphasize that he was much more complex than a “white supremacist slaveholder.” commemoration. Yes, Jefferson was a slaveholder. He has received well-deserved criticism for it throughout the past two centuries, ever since his own time. But Jefferson also consistently expressed a moral aversion to the institution, drafted the Northwest Ordinance banning slavery in northern territories, and worked to end the slave trade, which he deemed a “human rights violation.” It was he who wrote that all men are created equal and endowed with inalienable rights — concepts central to the contemporary ideals of equality and diversity that evidently inspire his modern-day detractors.

This is not to excuse Jefferson for his wrongdoings, but to emphasize that he was much more complex than a “white supremacist slaveholder.” If we only celebrated historical figures whose every action and belief conformed to today’s prevailing sociopolitical standards, there’d be no statues or memorials anywhere in the world.

More troubling to me than the gross misrepresentation of history, however, was both the idea that the mere existence of his statue signifies the “glorification” of racism by the College, as well as the subsequent implication that its presence on campus inherently denigrates minority students. For one, it is patently absurd to contend that a block of marble carved in the likeness of a man long dead, or the names of Confederate generals etched onto a plaque, can itself harbor racism or actively perpetuate discrimination on campus.

Yet groups nationwide who campaign for the removal of historical figures nearly always employ these flimsy charges of prejudice, arguing that because they feel unwelcome, oppressed or discriminated against as a result of these memorials, they are unwelcoming, oppressive and discriminatory. Many in academia refuse to challenge this factual relativism — this idea that there are no objective truths, and that your subjective truth is the truth. Instead, universities today actually encourage it by recognizing (and thus legitimatizing) frivolous claims made by hyper-anxious students who think learning about Western civilization upholds white supremacy or referring to professors as “masters” is violently racist.

Acquiescing to this moral and factual relativism leads down a precarious and dangerous path, one that is antithetical to reason and ultimately impedes freedom of thought, speech and expression. If we accept the charge that Jefferson’s statue glorifies prejudice, what would be next? Would we need to tear down the Sir Christopher Wren building because Wren’s architectural style is reminiscent of European colonialism?

Will there be certain topics students can no longer discuss?

Political elites in ancient Rome practiced damnatio memoriae, a form of dishonor bestowed onto traitors that entailed the purging of names and images after death.

They used it primarily to erase dissidents from social memory, but it also served to intimidate political enemies and suppress future opposition. In the wake of everincreasing intolerance, we ought to remain diligent in preserving our history, lest we see the College’s illustrious past condemned and erased forevermore.

Email Mitch Hall at mitchhallwm@gmail.com.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR There are several excellent candidates for city council this time around, but my neighbor and friend, Barb Ramsey, stands out from the pack.

Several years ago when I stepped away as the landlord representative on the city’s Neighborhood Relations Committee, my first choice to recommend as a replacement was Barb. We had previously worked together on initiatives to bring the college student renters and the city residents together in social situations to develop better relationships at the start of the school year. Both Barb and I are longtime Williamsburg residents and also rent to students in neighborhoods near campus. We live here because we want a diverse community and enjoy the age differences in our own neighborhoods, even when the college students sometimes act like the teenagers they are.

In my role as Associate Director of Athletic Development at William and Mary, I’ve also seen

Barb in action as a fundraiser. She has become a key volunteer with the athletic department and has made a huge difference in her role as a co-chair of the Lord Botetourt Auction. In fact, this event has raised over a million dollars in the past three years. She has hosted numerous members of various athletic teams for social gatherings, as well as many of the other students who live on and off campus. Her hospitality at her home is well known, and no one does more to bring town and gown together.

In short, Barb Ramsey cares about Williamsburg and the College in a way that is unparalleled in my experience. She is uniquely positioned and qualified to add talent to the city council. Barb gets things done in a creative, cooperative and competent fashion. I ask you to support her in the election in May. Email Al Albert, Associate Director of Athletic Development at William & Mary Athletics, at afalbe@ wm.edu.

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Earth Day at W&M

Johanna Flashman FLAT HAT BLOGGER

For the past 46 years, people around the nation have spent April 22 celebrating Earth Day by both cleaning and protecting the Earth. A website created to celebrate the holiday explains how on April 22, 1970 the environmental movement came to life through demonstrations and rallies all around the United States thanks to then-U.S. Sen. from Wisconsin, Gaylord Nelson.

Now, at the College of William and Mary since 2011, William and Mary Sustainability Organization hosts an entire week of awareness raising activities dedicated to the Earth.

With this year’s theme “The World Around Us,” a group of students, including myself and my co-blogger, Talia Schmitt, will be attempting to survive the week of April 16 to 22 without producing waste. Aside from a much lighter garbage bag, this means avoiding a large amount of products we generally

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William and Mary students wasted 174 tons of food in 2015. consume on a daily basis.

In food alone, William and Mary students accounted for 174 tons of waste in 2015. Not just on the College’s campus, but also all over the U.S. we have developed this culture around disposable property, whether it is a paper towel or old, beaten up car. We have made throwing things “away” as normal as eating breakfast or taking a shower, but the problem with this is there is no real “away.” As wonderful a concept as this is with renewable resources, it also means that the Styrofoam egg carton thrown away yesterday will likely still be around long after the garbage truck picks it up — like 500 years after. According to a report by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2013, Americans generated about 254 million tons of trash. Even with recycling, most products must be degraded instead of fully recycled, and the process emits huge amounts of green house gases. The EPA says that 42 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions derive from producing, processing, transporting and disposing of our food and goods.

For the “wasteless” week, we hope to monitor how much waste we use each day — what we could and could not avoid, or what was most difficult not to use. Although we will try to restrict generating waste from sources such as paper towels, plastic utensils, bad, edible food waste and wrappers of any sort, there are certain necessities that our College campus life requires.

These include things such as non-edible food waste, behind-thescenes cafeteria packaging, electricity, showers, toilet paper and tissues. Additionally, any waste products that can be up-cycled, or put to a new use, will not count as waste.

Everyone is welcome to participate in the “Wasteless” challenge for Earth Week, whether publicly or just thinking about it in the back of your head. If this appeals to you, I would encourage anyone to join me and Talia, as well as a handful of other students, in what I expect will be an eye-opening experience.

Email Johanna Flashman at jiflashman@email.wm.edu.

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The overlooked complexity of abortion rhetoric

Liz Wolfe

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Recent letters to the editor have made it clear that The Flat Hat has not done its part in fairly and accurately representing both sides of the abortion debate as it takes place on our campus. Through articles about VOX’s activism and the screening of “Trapped,” it seems clear that some writers suffer from intense bias and are prone to portraying the pro-choice movement in a far more positive light than its counterpart. This bias is not just limited to The Flat Hat (see Slate, Bustle, Mother Jones, Cosmopolitan, Jezebel and the New York Times), but I think it’s important to address even on a local level. Activists, bystanders and members of the media alike are clothing the complexity of the abortion debate in rhetoric and sanitized language, instead of dealing with philosophical and moral qualms in an intellectually-honest way.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s philosophy, as preached in Notorious R.B.G. and displayed in countless oral arguments, is to be as charitable with her opponents as possible. Assume that they have both good intentions and intelligent arguments, and treat them as such. Otherwise, nothing can be learned or gained, and you have limited your own ability to seek more truth. Perhaps this impressive creed is why R.B.G. and the late Justice Scalia were such close friends and a valuable example of compassion and friendship crossing ideological lines.

I ask for the same in our campus discussion surrounding abortion. The pro-choice movement has branded itself beautifully,

using the language of rights and empowerment, presenting abortion as mere healthcare (the same as any routine procedure, despite the clear differences in moral quandaries) on its path to being destigmatized. But to present abortion only as a right or as healthcare sells the other side short — reduces the deep and compassionate convictions of so many who see the issue differently — and doesn’t even begin to touch the complexity behind the issue.

So many things are caught up in the balance — class mobility, potential partner abuse, future wellbeing of the child and ability of women to pursue their careers and desires unfettered. It’s such an important issue, but we talk about it in a way that refuses to acknowledge the legitimacy of each argument. It wouldn’t be so controversial and difficult if it truly were a routine healthcare procedure, so we should acknowledge both the costs and benefits instead of pretending it is wholly one or the other.

I consider myself a secular sex-positive pro-life feminist; these beliefs are not rooted in a deep desire to oppress women, evangelize the masses, or create a less sex-positive world where you’re barred from buying condoms until you present a marriage license. To the contrary, I see pro-choice rhetoric as something that sells female strength and empowerment short. I expect The Flat Hat to fully represent these viewpoints and keep writer bias in check, and for members of our community to engage with more intellect and less rhetoric. True ideological understanding only happens when we learn where the other side is coming from — and, conveniently, many of us come from similar places of compassion for women in tough situations and yearning for good solutions that compromise neither the wellbeing of the mother nor the wellbeing of the fetus.

It’s my biggest hope that members of both VOX and Students for Life actively seek out understanding of the other side, and that The Flat Hat will thoughtfully represent our activism. I hope those who are interested in discussing this issue futher email or message me — there’s so much to be gained through simple discourse and genuine curiosity. Most people at our school have great intellect and even greater intentions.

Email Liz Wolfe at elwolfe01@email.wm.edu.

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Protecting the integrity of the College campus’s biodiversity

Erin Chapman

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The College of William and Mary’s natural areas and campus landscaping benefit student mental health, giving students a space to relax and enjoy our natural world. Many campus clubs rely on having local habitat accessible on campus.

The College’s Bird Club for example needs these natural spaces for club walks where they show students the vast bird biodiversity on campus. If there weren’t plants, however, the bird diversity would plummet.

Our campus is home to a wide range of flora, but a few species’ populations are declining. The problem underlying these declines is a decrease in local biodiversity. Invasive species introduced on campus (i.e. bamboo, wisteria, Japanese honeysuckle, etc.) significantly alter habitats by outcompeting native plant species, reducing biodiversity and affecting animal populations

by changing the composition of the local environment. To protect the integrity of native biodiversity on campus, the Native Plant Nursery, an EcoAmbassador internship program under the William and Mary Committee on Sustainability, works to support landscape efforts by providing native plants, which require less maintenance to thrive compared to non-native plants and support native animal populations.

The NPN was created in the 2013-2014 academic year by two students, Hannah Goad ’14 and Gus Tate ’15, who worked with three biology department staff and faculty members — Greenhouse Manager Patty White-Jackson, Herbarium Curator Beth Chambers and College Conservator of Botanical Collections Martha Case — to identify declining woody plant species suitable for landscaping and to establish a management plan to restore native plant populations.

The targeted species are: - Decumaria barbara (climbing hydrangea) - Ulmus alata (winged elm) - Quercus prinus (chestnut oak) - Quercus coccinea (scarlet oak) - Quercus stellata (post oak) - Quercus marilandica (blackjack oak) - Quercus michauxii (swamp chestnut oak) - Viburnum nudum (possumhaw) - Oxydendrum arboretum (sourwood) In the 2014-2015 academic year, Kevin Xu ’16 worked with Chambers and White-Jackson to collect seeds and acorns from campus and the

College woods and grow them in the Millington greenhouse. It is thanks to his efforts that I had 100 trees to work with this academic year.

This spring, the NPN partnered with the Student Environmental Action Coalition to help restore the Crim Dell to a beautiful, natural area at the heart of campus, free of invasive species and lush with native plants. SEAC has been working since the 2014-2015 academic year to remove the various invasive presence from the Crim Dell area. Recently, they began replacing the invasive plants with native ones; however, the plants SEAC is planting do not originate from the genetic stock on campus, nor does SEAC specifically target declining species.

The NPN uses only seeds and acorns from plants already on campus to ensure the planted individuals are adapted to the local climate. Partnering with SEAC benefits both parties — SEAC saves money on purchasing plants and the NPN has somewhere to put a few of its many trees.

March 26, 2016, I joined the SEAC work group in the Crim Dell. The SEAC team worked around

me, sawing down bamboo, while I planted six winged elms on the incline of the Crim Dell. The simultaneous removal of invasive species and restoration of native species facilitates a return to a healthier Crim Dell and mitigates soil loss due to erosion. The installation of these elms will set the precedent for future NPN planting around campus. The tree seedlings currently have tree guards wrapped around them to protect them from predation by deer and small rodents, and are easily spotted from the path meandering through the Crim Dell.

The other 90 or so tree seedlings growing in the nursery will eventually be landscaped onto campus property and carry the genetics of their ancestors into the future, sustaining local ecological interactions and contributing to campus biodiversity. Thanks to the Native Plant Nursery and its partners, students and students groups like the Bird Club will be able to enjoy the native flora and fauna for years to come.

Email Erin Chapman at eechapman@email.

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Creme de la Crim Dell

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Left, students dig out the area for the Crim Dell in 1959 before its construction in the following decade. Right, students clear out bamboo, an invasive plant species, surrounding the Crim Dell this past Saturday as a part of a SEAC initiative.

Students give campus landmark TLC for its bicentennial

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Fifty years ago, a plain wooden bridge stood over a small pond, then called Landrum pond, behind the Sunken Garden. In 1966, the College of William and Mary replaced the rustic landmark with an Chinese style bridge, and renamed the area as the Crim Dell. This pond quickly became one of the most iconic spots on campus, and students are currently trying to restore the Crim Dell to its former glory.

The Crim Dell gets its name from John Crim, who graduated from the College in 1901. Private funds from the Crim family, the senior class gift of 1964 and a friend to the College named David Baer paid for the construction of the bridge and the development of the surrounding area.

According to an article written in the Dec. 1, 1995 issue of the William and Mary News, Davis Paschall said that the bridge was built using an Asianinspired architectural style because of the importance of trade with China to Williamsburg during the colonial period. Paschall served as president of the College during the bridge’s construction.

The College also renovated the area surrounding the bridge. Trails were constructed so that students could walk and admire the scenery. New plants such as azaleas, camellias, dogwoods, magnolias, weeping cherries and mountain laurels added to the greenery.

The College dedicated the bridge in 1966 during the first annual Parent’s Day — now called Family Weekend.

“Here one may walk in beauty, discover the serenity of the quiet moment, and dispel the shadows,” a plaque attributed to Paschall said.

There are now different traditions and myths surrounding the Crim Dell.

Swimming in the Crim Dell is one of the three activities in the College triathlon.

Student lore holds that if you and your partner cross the bridge together, you are destined to be together forever, and the only way to reverse this fate is to

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pretty. It’s a really nice walk.”

The Crim Dell isn’t the same pond it was back in 1966. The trails are a little worse for wear, and the landscape isn’t what it used to be. Invasive plant species have taken over much of the area.

It’s like an island of green — Richard Thaxton ‘16

throw your partner into the pond from the middle of the bridge. Walk across the bridge alone, however, and you’ll be fated to spend the rest of your life in solitude.

Although the landscape surrounding the Crim Dell has changed since it was built, it remains a campus landmark.

“It’s like an island of green in the surrounding campus, so it’s really nice,” Richie Thaxton ’16, one of the volunteers helping restore the Crim Dell, said.

It isn’t necessary to cross the bridge in order to enjoy the scenery. Students frequently cut through the surrounding trails on their way to class.

“I have a class on Tuesdays and Thursdays that’s in Andrews, and then I have a class ten minutes later in Tucker, so I always cut through the Crim Dell,” Kendall King ’19, another volunteer, said. “I think it’s just the spring — seeing everything blooming, it’s really

The Student Environmental Action Coalition began the restoration project last spring semester. The idea came from Nick Newberry ’17, who is currently studying abroad, and led to the creation of the Restoration Campaign in SEAC. Jesse Smyth ’18 and Carolina May ’18 are now in charge of the project. Once or twice a semester, the campaign hosts a work day where all students are welcome to come help restore the Crim Dell.

May said the campaign broke down its goals for the restoration into three areas.

“The first was ecological sustainability,” May said. “We’re interested in making sure the native plants can thrive, replanting native plants, getting rid of invasive species that are really overtaking the native plants.”

Some examples of invasive species include English ivy and bamboo.

Volunteers who went to help with the cleanup Sunday, April 17 spent hours pulling out bamboo on the north slope of the southern part of the Crim Dell.

May and Smyth said they also want to make the Crim Dell more accessible to students. They plan on fixing the trails so they are less hazardous to students.

Smyth said they also wish to partner with Health Outreach Peer Educators, a mental and sexual welness group, to create a mental health sanctuary by the Crim Dell.

Another goal of the restoration project is to increase the overall aesthetic value of the Crim Dell. One simple objective is to clean up the litter in the area. This past Sunday, volunteers found a rusting folding chair.

Smyth and May consult with their project coordinator Linda Morse and other science faculty, but students complete much of the work and decision-making. Student volunteers have already removed some of the invasive species and planted about 90 new native plants, according to Smyth.

The restoration project was also recently awarded a Green Fee. Green Fees fund projects proposals chosen by the College’s Committee on Sustainability that advance the President’s Policy on Sustainability.

The project was also awarded a Green Fee last year.

Members of the restoration committee will be meeting in the upcoming weeks to decide how they will use the money and what they can begin working on in the fall. Both Smyth and May hope they can plan work days early in the fall in order to get work done before students are busy with classes.

“We think it has a lot of potential and we want to see it live up to its potential,” May said.

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

How fraternity formal coolers don’t have any chill Thinking twice about the cost and time commitment behind fraternity coolers

Katelyn Reimer

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS COLUMNIST

Formal season is upon us. I love formals. Most social events are only venues for awkward conversation with people I don’t know.

At formal, dancing is the focus. I like dancing. Going to formal and dancing the night away is something I can totally get behind.

Before I go any further, I must mention that I have only ever been to sorority formals, never a fraternity formal. Even if there was a smidgeon of a chance that I would ever be asked to a fraternity formal (which, naturally, there is not), I don’t think I would go if I had to make one of those darn coolers.

The coolers are not cool, friends. Having been in a sorority for almost three years now, I have watched my fair share of women absolutely slave away making the perfect cooler for fraternity men.

They spend a crazy amount of money on supplies — sanders and paints get expensive, y’all — and countless hours decorating these things. Then they go and spend even more money to fill it with alcohol.

Yes, I know. Fraternity formals are expensive because they usually include a trip to somewhere outside of “Thrill”-iamsburg and a night in a hotel, but come on. You’ve been invited to this formal.

An invitation for any other party in real life does not come with the expectation that you will drop absurd amounts of time, money and effort in order to attend. If you are invited to someone’s home for a social gathering, a nice bouquet of flowers or, if you are 21 and up, a bottle of wine are perfectly acceptable gifts to show your appreciation for the invitation. Those things don’t have to be very expensive, and the only effort they require is making a quick run to the store to pick them up. That’s it.

Coolers take hours, and the amount of paint required is roughly equivalent to a bouquet of flowers in price. That isn’t even taking

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A fraternity formal is not the same thing as a wedding.

into account the price of the alcohol, which, when you are trying to fill a whole cooler, causes the bill to skyrocket. The only other social situation I can think of that has an expectation of a gift that can come with a high price tag is a wedding, and wedding gifts still don’t require the amount of time and effort that goes into making a cooler.

A fraternity formal is not the same thing as a wedding. It’s not even close.

Also, we are still in school. No one has time to be making a cooler.

At least, no one I know has time to be making a cooler. It is such a distraction from other things that are probably way more important to and/or fun for you.

Several sorority women I have talked to have told me that they enjoy making the coolers because they like hardcore crafting, and I have mad respect for that. However, there are other options than catering to this expectation that comes with a fraternity formal invitation. For instance, have you ever made an awesome cooler for yourself? Or, you could make a cooler for your big and then invite her on a super cute picnic and fill it with cold cuts and cheese. I guarantee that would make her day.

Ultimately, what it comes down to is that I don’t think there should be this expectation put on invitees to fraternity formals. It is an unfair demand on time, effort and money. Formals are a grand old time, but I wish they didn’t have to come at such a price to the people invited.

Katelyn Reimer is a Behind Closed Doors columnist who prefers refridgerators to coolers.

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King and Queen’s Ball offers students a chance to send the semester off in style ANNA WINGFIELD THE FLAT HAT

Every year, before the crush of finals, students have the opportunity to attend an enchanted evening on the Sunken Garden at the King and Queen’s Ball. This year, the ball involved a live band, a professional tent equipped with chandeliers and a catered meal.

Peter Kinton ’18 planned this year’s event, working with leaders from around campus to organize catering, decorations and volunteers for the event.

“According to Kinton, the King and Queen’s Ball is an opportunity for

everyone in the student body to enjoy their accomplishments and toast a great year.

“It is meant to be inclusive so that every student can come together and participate and have fun as an entire student body and Tribe,” Kinton said in an email. “Regardless of your involvements here on campus, the King and Queen’s Ball is something every student can enjoy.”

The guests this year represented all four social classes, as well as a few alumni.

According to Kinton, a married alimni couple stopped by this year’s event. The King and Queen’s Ball was their first date when they were students here.

Many students were attending for the first time like William Davis ’18, who said he is planning on making it a tradition based on the fun he had this year.

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Regardless of your involvements here on campus, the King and Queen’s ball is something every student can enjoy.

— Peter Kinton ’18

“The band was amazing,” Davis said. “They played throwbacks and interacted with the crowd. I had a great time and was totally surprised.”

Likewise, Olivia Behling ’19 said that it was the best way to enjoy the end of the year with her friends.

“It was the perfect way to get our squad together and dance the night away one last time, before the pressure of finals begins to set in,” Behling said.

According to Hannah Clark ’16, the King and Queen’s Ball holds a certain nostalgic quality.

“It was like prom, but better,” said Clark.

Seth Opoku-Yeboah ’16 considered the ball an especially great way to conclude his career at the College.

“It was fun to go as a senior, especially as a member of the Student Assembly,” Opoku-Yeboah said. “It’s a nice way to conclude a great year and an even better four years.”

According to Kinton, the event can sometimes be overshadowed because it’s one of many events that occur in the spring.

“There are a lot of big events happening in the spring because the weather is beautiful and students can’t go to everything,” Kinton said. “Would I want it to get more recognition? Of course. It is a lot of fun and I want everyone to be able to enjoy it.”

However, according to Opoku-Yeboah, the event stands out because it is representative of the culmination of the entire student body’s year.

“I enjoyed going with my housemates and enjoying the dance one last time,” Opoku-Yeboah said. “The best part is seeing all of campus come together to celebrate in one place.”

Kinton said the ball is simply a great way to send everyone off in style.

“It brings together all types of individuals and everyone gets a chance to get all dressed up and have a blast together,” Kinton said.

CONFUSION CORNER

Taking a chill pill for your activism addiction

Don’t let your hyper-activist tendencies get in the way of living a normal life

Emily Gardner CONFUSION CORNER COLUMNIST

We have all seen people who have gotten in too deep for a cause. We witness the woman in an alleyway digging bottles out of other people’s trash for recycling. We miss the friend who now refuses to go on the Sunday shopping trip anymore because the fast fashion industry perpetuates dangerous labor practices. Many of us even have a sibling who is boycotting the entire family vacation to Florida because it might include a day trip to Sea World.

These are the poor souls who have become consumed by an addiction to activism. This disease forces them to make more and more dramatic alterations to their lives. Every conversation, every outing and every class assignment has to somehow link back to factory farming or the prison industrial complex. Granted, both these and many other problems cause incomprehensible damage to

society, but there is more to life than campaigning to ban antibiotics use and boycotting Chick-fil-A. Now, reading this may leave you with a burning self-consciousness. It is the same one you get when your friends chastise LARPers and you secretly have, not one, but three custom suits of armor in your closet (not that I speak from personal experience). You might be wondering if you too have come down with a bad case of the “cares.” But you are in luck. I have created a helpful quiz, as any properly oversimplified blog, magazine spread, or BuzzFeed article should. Here are a few questions that will fit the entirety of your existence into a neat little box and then provide the total solution to all your problems. And it takes less than a minute! So ask yourself these questions and no cheating: — Have you started to do activism alone,

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especially on heated internet forums?

— Have you stopped doing something you once dearly loved because it now overwhelms you with guilt?

— Are more than half of your social media posts just links to “eye-opening” NPR articles?

— Has it gotten to the point that your friends just keep talking over you when you bring up the latest news concerning your cause?

— Have parties and other “trivial” activities that aren’t related to your cause started to lose the appeal they once had?

— Do you feel compelled to correct ignorant people, even when this effort is clearly futile?

— Do you use the words “intersectionality,” “nuclear proliferation,” or “institutionalized racism” more than five times a day?

Do you use the words “intersectionality,” “nuclear proliferation,” or “institutionalized racism” more than five times a day?

– Do you own enough t-shirts from fundraising events that you can neglect doing laundry for at least a month?

– Do you know what an aggregated microaggression is?

Let’s make an arbitrary cutoff like the editors of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and say that if you answered positively to at least half of these questions, then you are probably have a case of hyper-activism. It is time to get help. With the right treatment, you may finally be able to eat fast food again and stop burning all of your bras. You can never completely recover from your activism, but you still have hope of being more apathetic like the rest of us. Detachment is the healthy norm and it has worked for our society so far. It’s not like the sea levels are rising, part of the population lives in constant fear of police brutality, or that everything you could conceivably ingest these days will give you cancer.

You may tell yourself that the rest of us are just deeply envious of your passion or uncomfortable with our own lack of involvement. Do I wish I cared enough about something that I would forego a hot shower for it, but I don’t because I am painfully lacking a sense of purpose in my life? Of course not!

That is your disease talking. It is time to take your prescribed chill pill and cure your caring.

Emily Gardner is a Confusion Corner Columnist who wants the polar bears to live, but you won’t be seeing it on her Facebook.

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WOMEN’S GOLF

Third in CAA

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Senior Liu runner-up NICK CIPOLLA FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR

Back in swing

Senior first baseman Charley Gould scored both runs in the Tribe’s 2-0 victory in the rubber game at James Madison Sunday. The College now sits in fifth place in the CAA standings.

Tribe takes two out of three from CAA rival James Madison JOSH LUCKENBAUGH FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR The loser of five straight games entering its three-game series with Colonial Athletic Association opponent James Madison, William and Mary took two of three from the Dukes in Harrisonburg, Va., improving its conference record to 6-5 in the process.

The Tribe (17-18, 6-5 CAA) started the series off on the wrong foot on Friday, falling to JMU 8-5 to extend its losing streak to six.

Junior right-hander Nick Brown got the start for the College, but lasted just five innings, allowing eight runs on 11 hits.

The Dukes (1521, 5-7 CAA) H. Smith jumped out to an early 5-0 lead three innings into the ballgame, scoring one run in the first, three in the second and once more in the third.

Facing an uphill climb, the Tribe responded with four runs in the top of the fourth. After a hitby-pitch and a single put runners on first and second with no outs, junior first baseman Tim Hoehn opened the College’s account with an RBI single. A walk loaded the bases, leading to freshman

catcher Hunter Smith’s RBI groundout. A single off the bat of senior center fielder Josh Smith, driving home two runs, followed another walk.

JMU seized momentum back in the bottom of the fifth, plating three more runs to extend their advantage to 8-4 and ending B r o w n ’ s outing, his fourth loss of Sheehan the season. The Tribe scratched across one more run in the eighth. Hunter Smith’s double brought home freshman shortstop Kyle Wrighte, but it was too little too late as the Dukes claimed game one of the series 8-5.

The Tribe’s offense powered them to victory Saturday, pounding out 15 hits in an 11-4 win. Freshman left-hander Bodie Sheehan claimed the victory, going eight innings while giving up four runs on eight hits and a pair of walks.

Ahead 2-1, the Tribe exploded for six runs in the top of the fourth inning. The College sent 12 batters to the plate in that span, the damage being done not by the long ball, but through a combination of singles, walks, hitby-pitches, a fielder’s choice and

an error. Four different players picked up runs batted in during the frame, putting the Tribe in commanding position with an 8-1 lead.

The College added three more runs in the fifth to take a 10-run advantage before JMU managed to plate two more runs, the game concluding with a final score of 11-4. Senior first baseman Charley Gould went one for four, but drove in three runs while scoring two himself, while sophomore second baseman Cullen Large crossed the plate three times.

Strong pitching took center stage in the rubber game, with three College pitchers combining to shut out the Dukes in a 2-0 Tribe victory. Junior right-hander Dan Powers pitched the first seven and one-third, allowing just three hits and three walks while striking out three, as well. Powers recorded his Powers fifth win of the season, the fourth-best win total in the CAA. With runs in short supply compared to the previous two games, the Tribe scored one run in the fourth and another in the eighth, ultimately plenty of support for Powers and his

MEN’S TENNIS

SCOREBOARD

Tribe beats Navy, JMU at home College enters postseason after pair of victories HENRY TROTTER FLAT HAT STAFF WRITER The men’s team bounced back ahead of next week’s Colonial Athletic Association Championships with two much-needed home wins this weekend, topping Navy 6-1 before defeating CAA rival James Madison 5-2. William and Mary, losers of five of their last six matches, built some late season momentum with strong play throughout the team.

Saturday the College (14-8, 1-1 CAA) ended the Midshipmen’s hot streak that had seen Navy (18-8, 3-0 American) take 11 of their last 12 matches. The young doubles pair of freshman Tristan Bautil and sophomore Ryan Newman, playing together for the first time since January, rallied from 4-5 down to claim a 7-5 win and take the doubles point against the Midshipmen. Afterward, the Tribe made quick work of Navy’s singles players: junior Damon Niquet and sophomore Alec Miller only dropped four games between them, and junior Aiden Talcott closed the deal with a 6-2, 6-2 win at No. 3. Talcott and Miller are the Tribe’s wins leaders of Niquet the year, with 18 victories each.

In the last match of the day, sophomore and reigning CAA Rookie of the Year Christian Cargill was unable to complete the sweep, taking a tight first set over Austin Jones of the Midshipmen before losing the second set and falling after a tense 10-7 final set.

Cargill also dropped a close match after holding a first-set lead in Sunday’s senior day match against JMU (9-11, 1-4), coming out flat in the second set

relievers. Gould scored both runs for the Tribe, junior right fielder Charles Ameer driving him home with a sacrifice fly in the fourth and Hunter Smith plating the preseason CAA Player of the Year with a single in the eighth.

JMU put runners on second and Gaouette third with two outs in the bottom of the eighth, but sophomore righthander Robert White induced a groundout to end the inning.

Senior right-handed pitcher Joseph Gaouette took the ball in the ninth and pitched a flawless frame, his sixth save of the season, giving the College a crucial series victory over the Dukes.

The Tribe remains in fifth place in the CAA, moving one game above .500 with the two wins at James Madison. The College continues its eight-game road trip Tuesday, taking on in-state opponent Norfolk State at 5 p.m. before heading to Chapel Hill, N.C. Wednesday to face No. 13 North Carolina. First pitch for the game against the Tar Heels is scheduled for 6 p.m., followed by a three-game series at CAA opponent Northeastern over the weekend.

William and Mary finished its season this weekend in third place in team standings with a 74-over 938 at the three-day Colonial Athletic Association Championships at St. James Plantation in Southport, N.C. The Tribe had its first silver medalist in senior Alessandra Liu, who took second with a four-over 220.

After Friday’s opening round, the College held third place at 313 (+25), and North Carolina-Wilmington, the pre-tournament favorite, led the pack at 307 (+19). Liu held third place after one round at four-over 76. The other four members of the Tribe held spots in the top 25. Following Liu, freshman Elizabeth Choi and sophomore Katie Edelblut sat tied with each other at eighth at 78 (+6). Senior Tina Chang held 17th with a nine-over 81, while junior Mia Zanghetti rounded out Liu the team in 21st with a 10over 82. UNC-Wilmington’s Meghan Theiss led the field at one-under 71 entering the second round.

Saturday morning set the College back to fifth place in the field of eight, holding a 53-over 629, just eight strokes behind new leader Delaware.

Liu improved her standing to a tie for the lead after shooting par for round two for a two-day total of 148 (+4). Theiss fell out of the top five, the tie with Liu coming from the Blue Hens’ Andrea Slane. Edelblut dropped to 13th at 160 (+16), Zanghetti moved up to 18th one stroke behind at 161 (+17), while Choi sat at 25th at 163 (+19) and Chang was in 27th at 164 (+20).

The final round Sunday proved the deciding factor between history and obscurity, the College clinching the former with Liu’s third round performance. She shot par again to finish in second place at 220 (+4), Slane taking the gold medal by just two strokes. Liu set the College’s program record for highest finish in the CAA Championships and broke the record for best score in the event by six strokes. Barring a postseason berth, she finishes her career as one of the most decorated golfers in Tribe history.

Zanghetti moved up to ninth with a 20-over 236, followed by Edelblut with a 25-over 241 in 17th, Choi in 24th at 244 (+28), and Chang in 31st at 250 (+34). The final round moved the College back to third at 938 (+74), 11 strokes behind CAA champions Delaware and three strokes behind runner-up College of Charleston.

This wraps up the College’s season, unless the team receives an at-large bid in the April 25 NCAA selection announcement for the national championship tournament, which takes place May 5-7.

before barely missing out in the third set 11-13.

Cargill has struggled recently at No. 1 singles, only winning two of his last 11.

On the doubles side, Cargill is part of a dominant Tribe setup that is 14-7 on doubles points of the year. He and senior Scott Huang notched two wins this weekend, including a 7-5 triumph against Navy and a 6-3 win over the Dukes. Other Sunday winners included Bautil and Newman and a combination Cargill of Niquet and sophomore Lars de Boer as the Tribe took home all three doubles matches. Huang brought home a win at No. 6 singles on the College’s senior day that also featured wins from Talcott at No. 5, Miller at No. 3 and junior Addison Appleby’s 6-3, 6-2 triumph at No. 2.

The Tribe will begin their CAA title defense this weekend, when the quarterfinals begin Friday, April 22. The tournament continues through the final on April 24. The College cruised to last year’s CAA title, losing no more than one COURTESY PHOTO / TRIBE ATHLETICS game in each match, but may face a tougher test this year, having lost 2-5 to conference Appleby rival Elon earlier this month.

The College heads to the tournament as the fourth seed, and will face fifth-seeded Drexel Friday at 9 a.m. If the Tribe defeats the Dragons, they will play in the semifinals Saturday, April 23 at 10.am.

Baseball (17-18-18, 6-5 CAA) Colonial Athletic Association

Schedule

UNC-Wilmington (23-9, 5-2)......0.719..........W8 Northeastern (19-14, 7-4)...........0.578...........W4 Charleston (21-14-1, 5-4)............0.583............L4 Towson (14-23, 5-4).....................0.378............L5 William & Mary (17-18, 6-5).......0.437...........W2 Elon (15-21, 7-7)..........................0.417...........W3 James Madison (15-21, 5-7).......0.417.............L2 Hofstra (12-24, 4-7).....................0.333...........W4 Delaware (21-14, 4-8).................0.600.............L3

April 10: L, College 1, UNCW (23-9) 6 April 12: College vs ODU (24-12), Cancelled April 13: L, College 5, VCU (25-12) 12 April 15: L, College 5, JMU (15-21) 8 April 16: W, College 11, JMU (15-21) 4 April 17: W, College 2, JMU (15-21) 0 April 19: at Norfolk St. (16-16) at 5 p.m.

April 20: at No. 13 UNC (25-11) at 6 p.m.

April 22: at Northeastern (19-14) at 3 p.m.

Team Leaders Batting Average: Ryan Hall (.374)...RBIs: Charley Gould (30)...HRs: Josh Smith, Charles Ameer (5) ERA: Mitchell Aker (4.58).......................Strikeouts: Nick Brown (44)...................Wins: Dan Powers (5)

Men’s Tennis (14-8, 1-1 CAA) April 3: L, College 2, Elon (16-5) 5 April 6: L, College 1, VCU (18-8) 4 April 9: L, College 0, No. 44 ODU (19-4) 4 April 16: W, College 6, Navy (18-8) 1 April 17: W, College 5, JMU (9-11) 2 April 22-24: CAA Championships

Lacrosse (6-7, 0-3 CAA) March 26: W, College 10, Liberty 5 April 2: L, College 4, JMU (8-7) 17 April 8: L, College 9, Hofstra (3-10) 10 April 10: L, College 8, Drexel (9-5) 11 April 22: at Towson (11-2), 7 p.m.

April 24: at Delaware (9-6), 1 p.m.

April 30: vs Elon (8-5), 12 p.m.

College is currently ranked last in CAA.

No. 36 Women’s Tennis (15-6, 1-0 CAA) March 25: W, College 4, Yale (8-12) 2 March 26: W, College 5, Rice (10-9) 2 April 1: L, College 3, Houston (5-18) 4 April 2: W, College 6, Montana (3-16) 1 April 9: W College 4, ODU (12-6) 3 April 22-24: CAA Championships

Men’s Golf April 11-12: Greenbrier Invitational

Finished No. 14 (field of 17)

Women’s Golf April 11-12: CAA Championships

Finished No. 3 (field of 8)

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FOOTBALL

ZABLE RENOVATIONS

Brand new ballgame COURTESY PHOTO / TRIBE ATHLETICS

Seniors cornerback Trey Reed, running back Kendell Anderson, quarterback Steve Cluley and defensive end Peyton Gryder were announced as the 2016 captains for Tribe football.

2016 Green and Gold game shows off fresh talent NICK CIPOLLA FLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR With the renovations of Zable Stadium in the backdrop, William and Mary held its annual spring football game Saturday afternoon, marking the conclusion of the spring 2016 practices.

With senior quarterback Steve Cluley, senior tailback Kendell Anderson, junior wideout DeVonte Dedmon and several other returning starters not participating due to injury recovery or other reasons, this year’s game gave the crowd a chance to see the future of the Tribe, including some performances that could translate to roles in the season this fall.

“I thought effort was good; I thought execution on both sides of the ball was good,” head coach Jimmye Laycock ’70 said.

Junior Jhalil Mosley, sophomore Tommy McKee and redshirt freshman Brandon Battle rotated at quarterback. Although Cluley is the definitive starter, these three are competing for the No. 2 spot. Some may remember McKee as the player who came onto the field during the second round of the 2016 Football Championship Subdivision playoffs against Richmond when Cluley was injured.

All three backups had solid production during the controlled scrimmage.

Mosley led with 80 yards on seven for 11 passing with one touchdown, a 20-yard pass to sophomore receiver Jack Armstrong. McKee followed with 70 yards on eight for 13 passing, while Battle had 62 yards on four for 11 passing with a touchdown. Battle’s touchdown was a 20-yard bomb to redshirt freshman receiver Grant Waxter, who was almost wrapped up by the defense, but still caught the ball. “[McKee] worked hard, he’s a smart kid, he knows the playbook, [and] he continued to grow and make improvements this spring,” Cluley said.

“Jhalil finally got … out and healthy and playing. It’s exciting to finally see him get some snaps … Brandon’s a raw player, young, and even he made big jumps. I think all those guys have potential and it makes us better as an offensive group that we have four quarterbacks who can win us a football game.”

Several performances besides the quarterbacks’ stood out on the offensive end. Armstrong played in all 13 games last season, recording 28 receptions for 292 yards. His role will likely grow now with the departure of Christian Reeves ’16. Armstrong finished Saturday with 63 yards on six receptions, catching the touchdown from Mosley. Sophomore wideout Isaiah Kinder followed Armstrong with 46 yards on three receptions.

Waxter, the wideout who caught the touchdown pass from Battle, is a new addition to the offense, switching from his position as safety just a few weeks ago. He and other less-experienced receivers will continue to compete for reps during the summer practices in August. The College did have solid receivers last year, but the rushing game often stole the show with its dual threat of Mikal Abdul-Saboor ’16 and Anderson. With AbdulSaboor graduating, it remains unclear whether the ground game will remain a two-pronged attack or switch to primarily using Anderson.

If it remains a two-man show, there are a few candidates for No. 2 rusher.

Leading the stat sheet Saturday was redshirt freshman running back Albert Funderburke, who had 12 carries for 85 yards. Redshirt freshman tailback Brehon Britt also had a solid outing, rushing for 48 yards on 10 carries.

These two younger guys could certainly be seen on the field this season, although another running back actually has some collegiate experience: junior tailback Jonathan Dunn. Dunn appeared in 11 games last season and amassed 91 yards on 26 carries, mostly appearing as a backup. Dunn carried 10 times for a total of 35 yards during the spring game.

Defensively, the spring game was interesting to watch due to the large number of graduating players, most notably the three first-string linebackers — Luke Rhodes, Ian Haislip and Zach Fetters — as well as former defensive lineman Tyler Claytor and 2015 consensus All-American safety DeAndre Houston-Carson. With the gaps, this fall will be one to watch on the defensive side of play to see who steps up. The defense had six sacks and one turnover Saturday, three of the sacks coming via junior defensive end Xavier Roscoe. The turnover was a forced fumble by senior cornerback Trey Reed, which was recovered by sophomore linebacker Josh Delaney. Reed is one of four returning corners, a position that should be strong throughout the season due to the experience there.

“We’ve got something to prove,” Reed said. “It gives us something to work hard on when you’re in the weight room, when you’re out here running, out doing drills … We’ve got to work hard. We’ve got nothing but confidence.”

Special teams did not have much playing time Saturday, although the group made a considerable impact in 2015 with junior kicker Nick Dorka’s almost immaculate field goal completion percentage as well as several blocked PATs. Dorka appeared for a 28-yard field goal while redshirt freshman kicker Kris Hooper came on for the staged ‘game-winner,’ a 35yard kick to put the offense ahead of the defense in a simulated two-minute drill final drive.

“Albert Funderburke at running back, he showed a little bit today … I think he’s going to get some playing time this fall,” Laycock said. “Kevin Jennings, who’s taking over for Andrew Jones at center … he’s done very well this spring and I’m very pleased with that move.”

At the conclusion of the game, the player-voted captains were announced, as well as the recipient of the John A. Stewart Winter Warrior Award. Cluley, Anderson, Reed and senior defensive end Peyton Gryder will serve as this year’s captains, while the Winter Warrior Award went to senior tight end Eric Hensley.

“People are going to graduate, people are going to leave … [There was] great leadership last year, and people have to step up and take those roles over,” Cluley said. “I think us four who got selected, it’s a great honor, I’m excited to lead with those boys.”

The Tribe kicks off its 2016 campaign to defend the Colonial Athletic Association title Sept. 1 at North Carolina State. The inaugural game at the newly renovated Zable Stadium will be the third game, Sept. 17 against Norfolk State.

The renovations of Zable Stadium have continued over the offseason, with most of the structures finished, allowing for internal construction.

At the top level, the roof structures are still being built but the press box level is now walled in, with the glass windows on the field side installed last week. The new press box has separate replay booths, coaches’ booths, media work area, viewing area, and television area. The box is approximately 7,000 square feet, a significant increase from the current 400 square-foot press box on the east side.

The upper concourse does not have seating installed yet, but the concessions and bathroom structures are near completion.

The front of the upper concourse already has brick installed to match the aesthetic of William and Mary. About 2,800 seats will be installed in that deck.

The suite level betwen the two concourses is largely walled in, with glass and doors installed on the front. Eventually, the level will consist of multiple rooms reserved for alumni donors, College President Taylor Reveley and private events.

The nearby Laycock Center will have a bridge connecting to the new area — likely at the suite level — which will begin construction soon.

The lower concourse behind the existing lower level of seating is largely finished, featuring a storage area as well as several concession stands and bathroom facilities.

The lower concourse will feature a new entrance gate on the side near the back of the Sadler Center.

With the renovations, Zable Stadium will be brought into compliancewith American Disability Association regulations. Handrails will also be added to the east side to match the new west side additions.

The stadium is slated to be completed by the beginning of the season in September, with the inaugural game held on Sept. 17.

Tribe Athletics marketing has not announced any events relating to the inauguration yet.

— Flat Hat Sports Editor Nick Cipolla Tribe football players and coaches spoke about the anticipation of playing in the completed stadium this fall during the spring game:

“ It speaks for itself, it’s pretty nice. I think it’s a very impressive thing when it’s filled whether that’s alumni, whether it’s fans, whatever it is ... The amenities and just the way it’s going to be are so nice.” — Head coach Jimmye Laycock ’70 “We’re all really excited obviously. It’s kind of cool because we’ve been in this general all fall, all summer, whatever season it is so we see the progress day in and day out ... I know we all can’t wait as a team to run out of that tunnel at the first home game and have that going on.” — Senior quarterback Steve Cluley “It’s definitely going to be loud. That’s all I can say about it, it’s going to be loud and it just looks so good. It’s a blessing just to have something like that. When we first got here we just had these two [lower levels].

I’m extremely excited.“ — Senior cornerback Trey Reed

Check flathatnews.com for a video with clips from the spring game, player interviews and a glance into the Zable Stadium renovations.

TRACK AND FIELD

College dominates competition at CNU New Captains Classic Women finish 227 points ahead of second place, men 136 points above runner-ups CHRIS TRAVIS FLAT HAT ASSOC. SPORTS EDITOR Both William and Mary men’s and women’s teams dominated over the weekend, each winning the CNU New Captains Classic in Newport News, Va. The men’s team scored 257 points, the best performance out of the four Division I teams in attendance and far superior to the next closest tally of 121 points for Virginia Commonwealth. The women won by an even wider margin, posting 324 points to easily prevail over the 97 scored by the Rams, who finished in second.

All-American redshirt-senior Brian Waterfield had a tremendous meet,

winning the hammer throw with an impressive distance of 66.87 meters. This mark beats his personal best, and the previous school record, by over 10 feet.

Waterfield now ranks No. 14 in the NCAA this year and No. 15 on the U.S. Olympic Trials qualifying list.

Sophomore Preston Richardson rounded out the Tribe’s performance in the hammer throw Friday, finishing in fourth place with a lifetime-best toss of 50.67 meters. Richardson continued his strong performance into Saturday, when he won the discus with another lifetimebest throw of 48.39 meters. The discus mark qualifies Richardson for the IC4A Championships.

Senior Derek O’Connell won the pole vault event by clearing a height of 5.15 meters, qualifying for the IC4A Championships. Sophomore Dawson Connell also had a big meet, winning both the 800 and 1,500-meter runs and qualifying for the IC4As in both events.

Sophomore Davion Hutt was also a double winner, as he took the 100- and 200-meter sprints and qualified for the IC4A meet in both. Junior Alex Hedrick won the decathlon with 5,835 points, while redshirt senior John McGrath finished second with 4,605 points. Senior Jomar Aryee won the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 55.74 seconds, the ninth victory for the College over the weekend.

The Tribe women also got off to a fast start on Friday. Sophomore Leia Mistowski continued her hammer throw dominance by picking up a win and an ECAC Championship qualifier with a throw of 51.42 meters. Redshirt-junior Rochelle Evans topped her previous lifetime-best by a whopping 3.8 meters with a throw of 51.38 meters, finishing in second place while qualifying for ECACs. Saturday, Evans continued to dominate the field. She won the discus event with a throw of 45.17 meters, qualifying her for the ECAC meet in this event as well.

The College had four ECAC qualifiers in the 1,500-meter run, led by sophomore All-American Regan Rome. Rome won

the event in 4:26.85, as senior Meghan McGovern, redshirt sophomore Molly Applegate and sophomore Molly Breidenbaugh also qualified for ECACs. Senior Breanna Brukalo had a strong performance, winning the 400-meter hurdles in 1:03.36 and finishing fourth in the 200-meter dash. In her first race since October, senior All-American Emily Stites won the 3,000-meter run in 9:57.27.

After its strong performance at Christopher Newport, the Tribe sends athletes to both the Virginia Challenge in Charlottesville, Va. and the Duke Invitational in Durham, N.C. next weekend, competing both Saturday and Sunday, April 22-23.