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Vol. 104, Iss. 16 | Friday, October 31, 2014
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WCWM radio goes digital
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CDs, records cataloged online Quentin Paleo THE FLAT HAT
our tour guides
would take it less seriously if it weren’t a job. I think it’s so sad they’re not paying them at William and Mary.” While Clegg is only expected to give one tour a week, many universities pay their tour guides to complete office work as well. Although tour guides at the College are not paid during the academic year, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions employs senior interviewers over the summer to perform this work, according to Interim Associate Provost and Dean of Admission Timothy Wolfe ‘95, MEd. ‘01. “There are a number of institutions where the role of a campus tour guide is a work study position or general student employment position … so often all you think of is the tour guides, but there are so many students that are helping in others ways like Tribe ambassadors. Beyond the tour guides, we have such a great group of students helping in so many different
With an estimated 400,000 CDs, 200,000 twelve-inch vinyl records and 10,000 seveninch vinyl records dating as far back as the early 1960s, WCWM, the College of William and Mary’s radio station, will begin cataloging and electronically storing its extensive collection with help from Earl Gregg Swem Library and a roughly $1,000 grant from the Media Council. WCWM’s goal is to make the radio station’s extensive collection more accessible to the student body. “We’ve had a catalog for [about] five years, but it’s extremely flawed,” Sarah Henry ’16, the station director for WCWM, said. “You just entered [information] onto an Excel spreadsheet, [but] you couldn’t access the Henry Excel spreadsheet, so [then] you were just entering [the records] into nothing. So when I became station manager in the spring, I was like, ‘This is something I really want to do because we have so much here and a lot of it people don’t know [about].’” With the help of Swem and Discogs, a website and database of information about audio recordings, the cataloging process has been streamlined and simplified. CDs are cataloged through QR codes and vinyl records are inputted by hand. Henry said the station plans to make the cataloged records available for the student body to listen to online. She also said the station is starting by cataloging their more valuable and vulnerable vinyl records that date as far back as the early 1960s. Many of these records were originally given to the station for temporary promotional use. “We’re starting off with [those records] because these are all promotional copies,” Henry said. “The promotional companies weren’t expecting us to keep them forever, which we did because they’re amazing, [but] a lot of that paper [they used to cover those records] is acidic.” The station’s cataloging efforts have been
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College finds volunteers whilst other schools pay
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I honestly think the lack of pay keeps the integrity of the tour guide service alive.” — Ross Anderson ’16
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Walking backwards for over an hour with up to 50 people following closely behind, Ross Anderson ‘16 spends one day a week shouting over excitable groups of prospective applicants and their families in hopes of convincing them to apply to the College of William and Mary. And he does it all for free. “I give tours because I honestly do love William and Mary,” Anderson said. “As I tell people on my tours, I was definitely in the opposite side [when I came on the tour] — my whole family has come here, so I didn’t want to come, but it was my tour guide that changed everything for me.” Across the country, more and more universities are paying their student ambassadors and tour guides for their work. While the College and the University of Virginia do not pay their tour guides, other competitive schools across the country
do, including the University of California at Berkeley, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Bowdoin College. Many schools across the Commonwealth of Virginia, including public universities such as Virginia Commonwealth Arts, Christopher Newport University and Radford University, have also started to pay their student ambassadors. Critics, including Anderson, question whether this negatively affects the truthfulness of the tour. 600 miles away, at Saint Michael’s College in Vermont, Emily Clegg leads a tour every Wednesday at 10:30, but she receives $9.50 an hour for her work. “If it was a volunteer thing, I wouldn’t do it if I wasn’t going to do a good job. It is a job, and I want to give students the best tour possible,” Clegg said. “A lot of that is going to meetings and staying current on campus news so that I know all that’s going on on campus, but I don’t think I would go above and beyond like that because I
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Vandalism in Tucker Adderall use throughout campus discussed Janitorial staff finds feces inside building AMELIA LUCAS THE FLAT HAT
A member of the janitorial staff of the College of William and Mary discovered Oct. 16 that someone vandalized the interior of St. George Tucker Hall with feces the previous night. The reason behind the actions is still unknown. William and Mary Police Captain Edgar Schardein said this criminal incident strays from the normal respectful attitude that most College students exhibit. “[In] the spring 2014 semester and this semester to date, we have had only this incident of vandalism to an academic building,” Schardein said in an email. “There have been nine vandalisms in residence halls, four to
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vehicles, and one to a bench on the grounds.” This is, however, the third vandalism incident reported to William and Mary Police in four years that targeted Tucker Hall specifically. In October 2010 the exterior was vandalized with graffiti, and in September 2013 an exterior door was damaged. Schardein said that in his five years with the College, he could not recall another case of feces being used for vandalism. The incident occurred three days before Homecoming, but Schardein said the William and Mary Police will not know whether there is a connection between Homecoming and the vandalism until they are able
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Ritalin, other prescription drug abuse affects over 10 percent of students at College
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The College of William and Mary, recently ranked the third smartest public school in the country according to Business Insider, is home to rigorous academics. In such an ambitious environment, some students may use “study drugs” like Adderall or Ritalin as common aids. Some students who want to concentrate for long periods of time abuse Adderall, a drug developed as a helpful tool in combating attention disorders. Adderall, an amphetamine, can increase alertness and energy, but abusers run the risk of becoming psychologically and physically addicted to it, according to WebMD. Adverse effects include dangerously high body temperature, increased risk of cardiovascular failure and seizures; longterm abuse can lead to anxiety, paranoia
three years. As an RA, he said he has never had to directly deal with a case of Adderall abuse. However, he said that this does not necessarily mean it is not an issue in the College’s community, since Adderall abuse can be harder to identify and regulate than See ADDERALL page 3
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The College’s ambitious atmosphere pushes some to use Adderall or Ritalin in order to study.
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and hostility, WebMD says. According to the Office of Health Promotion, Adderall and other prescription drug abuse affect a little over 10 percent of students at the College. While use is relatively uncommon, about one in ten students are affected. Brian Gelston ’15 has been an RA for
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