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Class unearths College’s past

There is no shortage of historical artifacts beneath the College of William and Mary grounds, and the newest discovery involves the College’s complicated history with slavery.

After hours of research and field work over the summer, a joint College and Colonial Williamsburg effort is close to determining the fate of the earliest school for African Americans.

“It was nice to do something outside of my major,” public policy major Steven Morley ’13 said. “It was just really exciting to find anything. Then you have a mystery because you don’t know if what you found was from the era. And if you did [find something], then you added to the theory that the school was there.”

The journey began eight years ago when English professor Terry Meyers, the driving force behind the project, read about a Williamsburg house rented out to an England-based charity, the Associates of Dr. Bray, for the purpose of educating African American children. The school operated from 1760 to approximately 1774, and over the next two centuries, the building underwent several renovations and a move before disappearing from the historical record.

“One of the things that interested me was the possibility that the structure had been used for the religious education of black children, both free and enslaved, and then I discovered the College had sent two of its children to the school after it moved,” Meyers said. “The two children were named Adam and Fanny, and suddenly, slavery at the College had a face.”

Meyers traced the building’s location to the current Military Science building. Through the efforts of the Bray School Archaeological Project, supervised by assistant professor of anthropology Neil Norman and Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

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Members of the Neighborhood Relations Committee discussed the expanding role of community colleges and received a report by Mayor Clyde Haulman at their monthly meeting Saturday.

John Dever, president of Thomas Nelson Community College, briefed the 15 to 20 member committee on the transfer-oriented college and the importance of affordability for many transfer students who end up at the College of William and Mary.

“Our relationship with the College was a bit rocky in the past, but through Gene Nichol’s, then College President Taylor Reveley’s administration, I am glad to say that we now have a very good relationship,” Dever said.

Of the 214 transfer students that enrolled in the College this year, 78 came from the community college system. Dever noted that about 25 transfers were from TNCC.

“Most of our students intend to graduate with an associate’s degree and move on toward a four-year college,” Dever said. “I can say, no offense to William and Mary, that a community college class does give students a lot of diverse perspectives. You’ve got people from many different stages in life in one classroom.”

Though TNCC increased its tuition this

year, like the rest of the community colleges in Virginia, Dever added that the quality education and the $199 per credit-hour cost partly accounted for the 2.9 percent

enrollment increase last year, a trend that has remained steady for over 10 years.

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Whitney Shephard ’14 transferred from Tulane University to the College of William and Mary after her freshman year. As a public-health-major-turned-kinesiology-major, she enrolled in Cell Biology at Tulane to knock off one of her pre-med requirements.

But as she sent course descriptions about her classes at Tulane to the College, she realized that not all of her credits would transfer fully.

“There was one class that they didn’t give me credit for at first,” Shephard said. “I emailed the Registrar, and I sent in the course description, and they ended up giving me credit for the course. I would advise any transfers to look over their transcript and say, ‘Wait a minute, this doesn’t look right.’”

“Cracking the Credit Hour,” a new report written by Amy Laitinen for the New America Foundation, proposes that the typical credit hour fails to measure a college education accurately. As shown by the number of credits that fail to transfer, colleges often do not recognize the credit system as a representation of the knowledge students bring with them to their new institutions.

Designed by Andrew Carnegie to increase pensions for college professors, the credit hour dates back to the late 1800s as the primary unit of measurement. While discussing the “Carnegie Unit” in its 1906 report, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching stressed that the unit only measured time and not knowledge or results attained.

Schools now rely on credits to gauge a student’s progress at college. Students at the College are required to complete 120 credit hours to graduate. The College is also a member of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, which requires use of credit hours.

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Flags sprinkled the grass of the Sunken gardens where members of both the Young democrats and Young republicans gathered on monday night to plant flags. The groups met on the eve of the 11-year anniversary of September 11, 2001 to show their bipartisan remembrance of those who lost their lives that day.

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Attorney General for the commonwealth of Virginia Ken Cuccinelli will be appearing at the College of William and Marshall-Wythe School of Law for a public lecture Thursday, Sept. 13.

Cuccinelli’s talk, entitled “Balancing Power: Federalism, the State, and Individual Rights,” will be held at 1 p.m. in room 119 of the Law School.

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Sculpture exhibit at Andrews Gallery

The work of Virginia Commonwealth University assistant professor of ceramics Andrea Keys Connell will be unveiled at Andrews Gallery on Thursday, Sept. 13.

Connell’s art, which has been featured in numerous art publications and exhibitions including the Florida Holocaust Museum, focuses on the connection between a person’s life experiences and his or her identity and behavior.

A reception will be held on the opening day showcasing not only the exhibit, but Andrews Gallery as well. The exhibit will remain on display until Oct. 11.

Leadership Forum announced

The Mason School of Business and the Marshall-Wythe School of Law have announced the dates and honorees for the annual McGlothlin Leadership Forum, named in recognition of James W. McGlothlin ‘62, J.D. ‘64, and LL.D. ‘00. This year’s forum will be held Oct. 2 to 4 and will feature discussions and lectures by the chosen McGlothlin Forum Fellows.

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Interstate Hotels & Resorts and Waramaug Hospitality LLC, an Arlington-based investment firm, recently bought the Williamsburg Hotel and Conference Center for $12 million, according to the Williamsburg-Yorktown Daily. The firm has plans to renovate and convert it into a DoubleTree, an upscale Hilton hotel chain. The property, located near Busch Gardens and Kingsmill, has changed hands three times in the last nine years, the value decreasing each time. It sold for $23 million in 2003.

After a campaign stop in Virginia Beach, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney visited the Richmond International Raceway this past weekend, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Romney joined Republican U.S. Senate candidate George Allen in the infield to hand out hot dogs to fans. After posing for photos and talking with supporters, Romney signed a Romney-Ryan ’12 car on display. He also spoke with NASCAR President Mike Helton during the visit.

According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Colonial Williamsburg is offering a free “electronic field trip” that examines the country’s political and election systems. The program explores the presidential election of 1800. The program intends to explore issues of negative campaigning, partisan politics, and contested elections through the reenactment of the campaigns of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.

Richard Posner, a renowned federal judge, condemned criminal laws against marijuana this past week in a lecture at Elmhurst College in Illinois, according to http://www.lawyers.com. “I don’t think we should have a fraction of the drug laws that we have. I think it’s really absurd to be criminalizing possession or use or distribution of marijuana,” Posner said. “It’s a waste of people’s lives who could be at least moderately productive with having to spend year after year in prison.” He later went on to point out the expense of prohibition, saying that legalizing marijuana and other drugs would save federal, state and local governments $41.3 billion.

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Native American logos back at Eastern Michigan University

Over two decades after changing its sports logos out of concern of offending Native Americans, Eastern Michigan University has decided to restore the Hurons and Nor-malites logos on the uniforms of its athletic teams and marching band. According to The Huffington Post, the university brought back the original nicknames for alumni who attended the school when the Hurons and Normalites logos were still used and wish to display their school pride at sporting events. Many individuals and organiza-tions contend that any sports team using Native Ameri-cans as mascots or nicknames is demeaning and racist.

Anti-Semitism protected as free speech

The University of California has rejected a state assembly-passed resolution condemning anti-Semitism on campuses due to First Amendment protections. According to The San Francisco Chronicle, the university objects to the resolu-tion’s clause stating “no public resources will be allowed to be used for any anti-Semitic or any intolerant agitation” be-cause the resolution would thereby prohibit certain protests or demonstrations on campus grounds. The non-binding resolution, which was passed unanimously, comes after a se-ries of anti-Israel protests on university campuses that have devolved into hate incidents and a university-sponsored report that states the protests are protected as free speech.

Boston University hockey team denounced Following several alleged sexual assault incidents by

members of the Boston University hockey team last year, a task force ordered by university President Robert Brown released a report stating that “a culture of sexual entitle-ment exists among some players on the men’s ice hockey team, stemming in part from their elevated social status on campus.” According to The Huffington Post, The Boston Globe was able to obtain a full copy of the report, which included interviews and graphic descriptions of multi-ple sexual incidents that often involv heavy alcohol con-sumption. The task force recommended greater oversight of the hockey program and the establishment of better sexual assault prevention initiatives on campus. In addi-tion, head coach Jack Parker was removed from his posi-tion as executive athletic director, despite his claims that he had virtually no knowledge of the incidents in question.

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Some College of William and Mary students pursuing careers in policymaking are aiming to get a head start on their training through the new campus chapter of the Roosevelt Institute Campus Network.

Classified as a progressive think tank, the Network is the student arm of the Roosevelt Institute, a nonprofit organization founded upon the legacy of former President Franklin Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. According to the Network’s website, the organization works to “foster debate and dialogue on campus, teach policy courses, engage with local policymakers, generate policy, and promote student ideas through conferences and publications.” The College chapter plans to establish stronger ties to the local community to collaborate on policy.

“The umbrella objective of this organization and every Roosevelt chapter across the country is to positively influence policy development and implementation,” founding member Ishan Bardhan ’13 said. “We’re not going to be lobbying Congress for anything; our objective is to make a positive difference in the Williamsburg community.”

Since the chapter’s founding last fall, meetings of the think tank revolved around the introduction of a single issue followed by discussion.

The leadership decided a better approach this semester would be to make the organization more student-centered, allowing members to focus on their own policy interests.

“A kind of way we’re going to do it differently this semester is we’re going to break up in the fall semester to focus on getting students to join our think tank to give them an opportunity to craft policies in their smaller groups within

our campus think tank,” President Dan Hartranft ’13 said. “That’s the blueprint of what our meetings and our work is going to be.”

The national organization offers publishing opportunities through six annual journals, each covering a distinct policy area. According to Hartranft, many students interested in joining the chapter want to focus on economic policy.

“At first I thought that was going to pose a problem, but … it could be quite easy because there are so many different issues that could fall under the economy that people would be interested in and that they could tackle and write policy on,” Hartranft said.

Despite the chapter’s modest history and size, many of its leaders have deep interests and experience in public policy. Hartranft, for example, spent the spring semester in the W&M in Washington program working with think tanks, while Bardhan spent

this past summer as a D.C. Summer Institutes Fellow with a nonprofit.

“This club is relatively unique in the fact that it does give students an opportunity to not only discuss their policy interests, but to actually draft proposals, to actually put those proposals on paper, to actually have

those proposals published,” Bardhan said. “The thing about these small organizations that are trying to get established is there will be a lot of opportunities for folks to take charge, folks to have positions of leadership, and I think that’s a great, great opportunity.”

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Credit system questioned

The new reports argues that a disconnect between time and learning exists. Citing a Carnegie Foundation report called “The Student and His Knowledge,” Laitinen states that if time were related to knowledge, college seniors should know more than freshmen. The report to the Carnegie Foundation found that knowledge was relatively constant over time.

The reports also noted that with grade inflation on the rise, grades also fail to accurately assess the knowledge that students gain. The educational system, therefore, should review its forms of measurement.

Dean of Educational Policy Teresa Longo supports the use of credit hours, especially for the College’s curriculum.

“They are a good way to make sure students have access to breadth and depth in their education,” Longo said in an email. “For example, at William and Mary, the 72 credit-hour rule helps to ensure that students balance time spent on their primary major with time spent on other types of courses.”

The report also cited transfer credits as a major indication that credit hours fail to measure knowledge gained by the student. The report proposed the idea that if other colleges fail to accept full credit for classes taken at other universities, then colleges must not view credits as

indicators of student knowledge.University Registrar Sara

Marchello felt that the use of credit hours promoted consistency between colleges.Marchello said they often look at other colleges’ course syllabi to ensure that students receive equal credit.

“At the moment, [the transfer credit system] kind of works in a very straightforward way for the vast majority of our transfer students,” Marchello said. “Our approach at [the College] for transfer credits is that we keep digging until we get it right.”

Marchello also outlined multiple ways in which students can gain credit, even if their credits failed to transfer.

“We do have the ability for students to get credit by examination,” Marchello said. “If they feel they have learned the content from a course, they can do the departmental exam.”

For international students, the College sends their transcripts to the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers in order to compare credits between international universities accurately.

While the report raised concerns about credits, Longo noted that the College will feel no immediate change.

“While it’s important to think about these issues, at William and Mary, the 120 credit hour rule works and we’re not looking to change it,” Longo said.

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archaeologist Mark Kostro, an excavation over the summer turned up fragments of slate pencils, marbles and dolls.

“Nothing definitive yet, but all of these things point to children being around the site,” Norman said. “Hopefully we’ll find enough supporting material underneath the structure next summer to support the hypothesis.”

Morley, who discovered marbles and bullets during the initial dig, was excited to hear rumors that digging under Brown Hall might occur.

“They’ll have another joint field school between Colonial Williamsburg and the College next summer if everything works out properly,” Meyers said. “Eventually the ROTC building will have to be moved since Prince George Street is slated for redevelopment by the city, and I think CW would like to do a close analysis when they do, [so] that they’ll probably get into a tighter examination and look for evidence that could suggest there was a school there. There might be more slate pencils, more pins and needles. … I just don’t know what they might find there.”

The College has made previous efforts to come to terms with its past affiliations with slavery. In 2009, the Board of Visitors formally acknowledged the College “owned

and exploited slave labor from its founding to the Civil War; and that it had failed to take a stand against segregation during the Jim Crow Era.” The College established the Lemon Project shortly afterwards to examine and interpret the histories of slaves who worked at the College.

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School’s foundations, Meyers claims, can help contribute to that ongoing dialogue.

“It’s not a matter of making up for it … I think it’s a more nuanced and complicated history than people assume,” Meyers said. “I think in fact, as we’re going to discover, the relationship of slavery to the College is very complex.”

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One council member noted that TNCC seemed a better alternative to the pernicious nature of for-profit colleges.

Rapidly-changing technology did give Dever some cause for worry, however.

“My main anxiety is that we will miss something. … I mean, look at Borders, which was a strong company. … the U.Va Board was not aware of all the things Teresa Sullivan was doing for UVA, and there was a lack of communication there. Technology is dramatically changing the way students learn and higher education,” Dever said.

Mayor Clyde Haulman also gave his report to the council, noting that city officials will soon be taking over the Williamsburg Redevelopment and Housing Authority. The authority was created in 1970 by the state legislature at the request of the city to provide low-income housing to those in greatest need.

“Declining state support has caused the city to take over many of the responsibilities of the housing authority over the past years, and it is more efficient in the long run,” Haulman said.

The mayor also noted that his monthly meetings with College President Taylor Reveley have been productive thus far.

Danielle Waltrip ’14 and Scott Caravello ’15, student representatives to the committee, also briefed the council on College events, including the Dalai Lama’s visit and Attorney General Ken Cucinelli’s speech later in the month at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law.

The city and College formed the NRC in 2009 in an effort to increase discussion on town-gown relations, specifically on the issue of student housing. The group meets monthly to promote a continued conversation between community members and students.

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New America Foundation’s recently released report “Cracking the Credit Hour” says that “one-third of employers think college graduates are not prepared to succeed on the job.”

Gasp. You’re worried. You’re thinking you need more credit hours

and quick. You’re not working hard enough — maybe enrolling in that geology class will make you more prepared. Gasp. Grab your stuff; we can make it to the Registrar’s Office in five minutes!

Stop. Deep breaths. The root of the problem is this absent-minded attachment to

credit hours. We rank ourselves on an arbitrary scale based on an arbitrary and flawed system. The number of credit hours taken never has — and never will — accurately reflect how much a student learns.

A biology lab that takes up four hours per week grants one credit. A mythology class with take-home exams awards three. See the discrepancy?

You’re still itching to dash over to the Registrar. You’re really thinking that three more credits will make the difference between homelessness and a sixth-floor apartment with a view.

The report also shows that “69 percent of college graduates could not perform basic tasks like comparing opposing editorials comparing the cost per ounce of different foods.”

Before you lament the absence of journalistic or culinary classes on campus, take another breath. And think: The reason graduates can’t complete simple assignments lies in their love affair with credit hours and complete abandonment of learning.

Rather than taking courses that actually result in knowledge, today’s students cling to General Education Requirements and major requirements. We’re elated when we find a four-credit class with minimal homework, but we cry when we find ourselves

struggling with a foreign concept. We don’t realize the importance of the actual application

of course material. We can memorize the definition of “squander” yet don’t realize when we’re squandering our educational experience.

Sure, 18 credit hours seems heroic. Look at that kid on the second floor of Swem with 22 credits and a pending override — surely he’ll make it big! Side note: Thank you, Swem, for banning tents. That was ridiculous and sad.

What we fail to see is the real world. It’s right there, but instead we see a maze of major requirements, credit hours and Banner. We don’t know how to stop and sit at the Daily Grind and discuss ideas with fellow students and faculty. All we see are office hours and how to get help for a problem set.

There’s a very real reason we fail in the work force: We fail to learn life in college. All we learn is how to Banner-stalk.

While you might not be gearing up to hit the Registrar’s Office now, you probably still don’t like me very much. I’ve told you that we learn the wrong way, and we miss out on that whole life-experience thing. You simply point to your beautiful

transcript and impeccable GPA. One last statistic from that report: “In

1961, 15 percent of all grades were A’s. That number rose to 43 percent by 2008.”

Inflation isn’t just a term on your economics quiz; it’s an issue preventing

your future success. With every student sleeping in class and then waking when they hear “extra credit,” comes a rise in apathetic professors. Learning matters, but the fight against whining students just isn’t worth it. An “A” is the easy way out.

As an illustrious resume and transcript become more readily available, our learning spirals downhill. When we can’t find a job, we curse the thousands of students with perfect attendance and 4.0 GPA’s. When we do find a job and then find a pink slip on Friday afternoon, we curse our professors who didn’t teach us the simple stuff. It’s never our fault.

Wrong. It is. And the solution is simple: Realize that the number of credits you take doesn’t determine the future.

You do. Email Chris Weber at cmweber@email.wm.edu.

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We are told that to get a job in these tough economic times, many skills are essential to having a competitive edge: creativity, dedication, excellent grammar … Okay, so that last one seems a bit out of place. Yet the ability to write with grammatical correctness does not just indicate that you can differentiate between “too” and “to” or that you appreciate the nuances of the semicolon. It demonstrates to a potential employer that you are a thoughtful, conscientious, trustworthy applicant who is serious about the job for which you are applying.

How can a potential employer read —

literally — so much into something so seemingly insignificant? For one thing, it demonstrates your sincere interest in the job. With many aspects of our lives becoming increasingly reliant on technology, being a grammar wonk in an age where casual and colloquial speech runs rampant seems undervalued. Our culture is one of rushing from activity to activity, attempting to squeeze the most productivity out of each day. This is arguably why abbreviations, tweets, emoticons and text messages are such popular methods of communication: They allow us to express our thoughts and feelings while expounding relatively little time and effort.

Using proper grammar demonstrates to a potential employer that you think the opportunity to apply for a job is important enough to defy the norms of our on-the-go culture; you are willing to slow down and take the time to craft your thoughts carefully. Good grammar

is analogous to good manners: It shows that you respect the person you are communicating with enough to put forth more effort than you would if you were just writing a quick text message. By showing that you have dedicated your energies to composing a polished application, you imply to your employer that you are conscientious enough to check over your work and that you possess great attention to detail. Knowing how to write with correct grammar can also put an employer at ease, proving that you can be trusted to represent the organization well.

It is often said that actions speak louder than words, but in the job market today, where an employer’s initial assessment is based on a written application, words can make a huge impression. Good grammar can serve as a temporary stand-in for a firm handshake, spiffy pantsuit or direct eye contact. It’s small, but it shows that you

are someone they want to hire.While you are compiling your

impressive resume and scoping out future internships and jobs, don’t neglect our often-overlooked friend,

grammar. Even in this age of auto-correct and apps, it is incredibly important, to — I mean, too.

Email Andrea Aron-Schiavone at acaronschiavon@email.wm.edu.

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Reform credit hours

There’s a very real reason we fail in the work force: We fail

to learn life in college.

The designation of course credit hours often seems confusing, if not downright arbitrary. The credit hour system is necessary to show that students completed

an undergraduate degree; students must be able to show that they both took and passed classes. Any system that attempts to assess long-term knowledge based on credit hours is impractical. While we hope that students gain knowledge from their courses, there is absolutely no way to measure this knowledge beyond verifying that each student passed the course. What we find problematic in the current system is that the credit hours assigned to classes in different majors do not appear to be assigned along the same guidelines. In general, credit hours are assigned to courses based on seat time in class, but what about labs, which meet for three hours each week and are only assigned one credit, and senior seminars, which also meet for three hours a week but are designated as four credits? As the College of William and Mary undergoes its curriculum review, we would like to see these issues addressed.

We believe the fairest ways to assign credits is to consider the amount of time in class students spend, as well as the amount of time outside of class students must spend in order to achieve a certain grade. While the amount of time will vary from student to student, we believe departments should consider the time taken out of students’ schedules when assigning credits to courses. By doing so, the College administration could show that no one department at the College requires significantly more class time from students than any other. This reevaluation of credit hours per course would make scheduling classes fairer for all students.

Furthermore, the 72-credit-hour rule should be removed. Limiting the number of credit hours students are permitted to take in one department leads to frustration when registering for classes and complications with double majors in overlapping fields. We understand that, as a liberal arts college, we must study across diverse subject areas. The revised curriculum should ensure the College is living up to its liberal arts claims; this would make the 72-credit-hour rule unnecessary.

Assigning credit hours to classes will always be necessary in the higher education curriculum. Without such guidelines, a college diploma is worthless. While assigning credit based on long-term knowledge gained may seem the most accurate way to reflect the value of a degree, realistically, this approach is impossible to implement. There is no practical measure for determining work completed in College other than accounting for the amount of time spent in class. We feel that the arbitrary nature of credits often fails to accurately reflect this measurement. College faculty and administration should include clear guidelines for assigning credit hours to courses so that everyone will be familiar with the meaning of a degree from the College. By reviewing and revising credit hours for courses, College administration will ensure that degrees are not given based on antiquated and seemingly pointless rules.

Editor’s Note: Katherine Chiglinsky recused herself from the staff editorial to remain unbiased in her reporting.

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commEntS @thEflathatIn last week’s staff editorial, we called on Board of Visitors member Laura Flippin ’92 to resign from her position after violating the College’s Honor Code. Here are some of our readers’ responses from The Flat Hat’s website.

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Whether or not you agree with her actions that night, her lie is the final nail in the figurative coffin that she has built for herself in this situation-- fortunately that night she did not drive and necessitate a literal one.

—Current senior

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She has a strong voice and always has the best interest of the students and College in mind … This is not a person with a consistent record of questionable actions or character flaws. This is a person of great integrity and a strong moral compass. I believe she made a mistake and that she has already paid the price.

—An Alumnae

“There are really only two choices: either the Honor Code is a broadly applicable system that adds real value to the College experience or it is an absurd antique, too inflexible for 21st century society. Allowing Flippin ... a pass, basically voids the centuries old Honor Code of the College. How can any student take it seriously after that?

—Thomas Lipscomb, Class of 1961

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No doubt, this woman made a mistake, but good luck assembling a board of visitors with flawless people.

—An alumnus“I’m sure she’s basically a law-abiding and good person -- but she needs to own up to her mistakes and move on.

—Joan“

Now that the first days of September have us settling down with our textbooks and calculators, let’s have a nostalgic moment in honor of sunny days, hot nights and summer hookups. Vacations seem to be the perfect opportunity to have a romantic (read: sexual) experience because they provide opportunities to meet new people you will never see again. Trips to Europe lead to plenty of stories about hookups with trans-Atlantic tens — because what’s sexier than an un-showered American tourist with nothing but a backpack? Beach hookups have their own romantic qualities: minimal (if any) clothing, sweet summertime music and a cooler filled with your beach drink of choice all add to the allure of the outdoors. Everyone has had that summer camp love that you spend all week swimming with and collecting specimens for your nature book. Of course, at the end of the summer, you promise each other that you’ll write every day, but by the first week of

school, you can’t remember his or her name. The problem with trying to get trans-Atlantic

tail, beach booty or camp cuddling is that vacations aren’t usually taken alone. Usually, you’re with family or friends, often cramming too many people into beach houses or hotel rooms with too few beds to accommodate your frugal college budget. If you’re with family, you have to find some way to sneak away without your little sibling or cousin ratting you out at the breakfast table the next morning. If you’re with friends, you either have to take “walks on the beach” or lock the door and accept that the 13 other people in your 8-person house know you’re bumping uglies behind closed doors.

After finals last semester, I was greatly looking forward to my planned vacation with my boyfriend at Myrtle Beach. I thought to myself, what better time for hot hookups than a week filled with sunsets over the ocean, long walks on the beach, and endless frozen margaritas to quench our thirst? What I didn’t anticipate was that 12 people in a four-bedroom beach house makes it very difficult to find a single moment alone. To get to each of the two bathrooms, you had to cut through a room, and with 12 people and two bathrooms, it seemed like someone was always peeing.

I know this is a common problem for couples going on group vacations. Things I would not

recommend as a solution to the sex problem? Air mattresses. No matter how hard you try to convince yourself that sex on an air mattress can be quiet or stealthy, neither of those things will ever be true. Each shift of weight is announced to the entire room by groaning and squeaking sounds from the mattress — a tell-tale sign of a horizontal tango occurring on the floor. Another location that seems to have a lot of promise but not a lot of practicality is the shower seat. It’s like a step built into the shower — often used to hold hair products and soap — that provides a nice resting place in case the shower is just too exhausting. The problem is that those stoops are barely wide enough for one person, let alone two, and someone’s knees are getting hit into the shower door with every thrust. Also, after 10 other people use the shower, the water very quickly goes to ice, and nothing kills a sexual encounter quite like shrinkage.

Our eventual solution to days and nights of sexual frustration was to wait until everyone was in bed to go explore the back porch and enjoy the summer night air. Unfortunately, wooden rocking chairs, wicker furniture and sandy wooden floors all make for horrific places to do the deed. If this is a road you decide to travel, prepare yourself for bruised knees and a seemingly never-ending struggle to get sand out of all the places you never

intended for sand to be. Be prepared to be heard through the open windows of occupants just trying to catch the beach breeze, but don’t let those cat-calls slow you down; think of it as a team of cheerleaders cheering you on to the big score. Do remember that if you choose to leave nail marks on your partner, they will not be hidden by either a bikini or swim trunks, and no amount of tanning oil will cover bruised knees.

Krystyna Holland is a Behind Closed Doors Columnist and she is still working on getting sand out of unexpected places.

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Remembering lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer hookupsWhen your vacation romance plans are thwarted by friends, embrace some sneaky methods

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The pitch is silent. All stares are fixed forward, 14

pairs of eyes glaring at the enemy with a thirst for vengeance. The whistle blows and 14 brooms race across the field, ducking and weaving, fighting to gain ground. Beaters pick out their next victims, and chasers fly speedily toward the quaffle. Players fall, knocked askew by bludgers, and a thunderous roar erupts from the crowd as the home team scores. The snitch laughs in the distance, taunting the seekers, “Come and get me!”

What seems like a scene from Harry Potter is really just an afternoon at the College of William and Mary. Quidditch has arrived.

Quidditch, the sport played by witches and wizards in the popular Harry Potter book series, has recently hit the muggle — or, non-magical — world with full force. Quidditch, while still a new sport, is certainly growing fast, and since its first official game in October 2005, over 300 colleges and 12 countries have gotten in on the action.

“The current quidditch team here at the College was founded by my friend Sam Meadows ’12 and me last year,” Molly Hilberg ’13, commissioner of the quidditch team, said. “The process involved writing a constitution and presenting it to Student Activities to finally be approved. We wanted to focus mostly on the athletic elements of the game, so that this would be more of a team than a club.”

So what does playing quidditch in a purely muggle world mean? Non-magical quidditch is both similar to and different from the version portrayed in the book series. A muggle quidditch match is comprised of three smaller games, different from the classic one-game matches in the books, but each team is still made up of seven players, each player holding one of four different positions, just like in the series.

Each team has three chasers, whose main goal is to

score. This is done by taking the quaffle — in this case, a slightly deflated volleyball — and trying to put it through one of the opponents’ three hoops.

The hoops are guarded by the player called the keeper, whose job resembles that of a soccer goalie.

All the while, two players called beaters are wreaking havoc upon the field. The job of the beaters is to take the ball called the bludger — a dodge ball — and throw it at players of the opposing team, knocking the players off their brooms — often either a household broom or a PVC pipe — causing them to return to their hoops before reentering the game.

The last and most important player is the seeker, whose job is to hunt for and catch the golden snitch, the ball that ends the game. However, due to muggle inhibitions, the golden snitch — traditionally a small, winged ball — is actually portrayed by a player. The snitch dresses in all yellow and attaches a tennis ball inside of a sock to his or her back. The seeker must then capture the sock from the snitch’s back to end the game. Greg Kirwin ’15 is this year’s golden snitch.

“Being the snitch is ridiculous,” Kirwin said. “I get to run wherever I want. I like to run, so it’s a position that suits me. I run with Team Blitz, so this is a good addendum to my running.”

While other players are limited to the field, the snitch may run within a larger limited area — Old Campus, for example, versus just Barksdale Field.

However, quidditch in the muggle world is not without its challenges.

“The hard part is the amount of tiny, little rules. It’s a sport that loves to be quirky,” Hilberg said. “The problem is that quirkiness interferes with gameplay.”

Not to mention the fact that players must constantly run around riding a broom.

“Every part of quidditch is challenging,” Logan Hamilton ’14, one of two team captains, said. “It combines elements of rugby, football and soccer. Plus,

you have to do everything one-handed.”

The team not only plays quidditch recreationally but also competitively. Quidditch as a sport is on the rise in the United States; in fact, the International Quidditch Association hosts an annual World Cup, where the two best quidditch teams duke it out for the title of World Cup Champion. The quidditch team at the College is a member of the Virginia Quidditch League, and over of the year-long season will face schools such as the University of Virginia, Christopher Newport University, Virginia Tech and James Madison University, which they are the most excited to challenge.

Team captains and returning members Caroline Lower ’14, a chaser for the team, as well as Hamilton, a chaser and a beater, lead this year’s quidditch team. Both Lower and Hamilton are looking forward to improvements in the newly formed team this year.

“I would like to see our first win this season,” Lower said.

While the competitive aspect of the game is important, many players take away other things from their involvement with the team.

“My dad played football in high school, and growing up, neither me or my brother was very athletic,” Callie Angle ’15, co-comissioner of the team, said. “The first match my dad watched was a very proud moment for him to see his daughter doing something athletic.”

Other players regard their quidditch memories as sweet tastes of victory.

“My best quidditch memory was at the University of Richmond game,” seeker Gladys Shaw ’15 said. “Basically, the snitch grabbed me by my broom and flipped me over it, but I came up from behind him and caught him, getting revenge.”

The team has its first match Sept. 22 at CNU and its first home match Oct. 20.

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Club athletes at the College fall under the spell of Quidditch

While the rules of quidditch are adjusted to suit non-magical athletes, the sport is very similar to the one played by the characters of the harry Potter series. the quidditch team at the College competes with other Virginia schools, with the hopes of advancing to the international Quidditch Association’s World Cup.

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Joint Degree Programme allows for atypical college experience

BY ZACH HARDYFLAT HAT ONLINE EDITOR

ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF JOHN MILLAR

Top right: Portrait of Elizabeth Wilbraham, painted by Kathleen Kennedy. Wilbraham may have been the architect who designed projects attributed to Christopher Wren. Bottom: An example of Wilbraham’s wood carvings, a design that John Millar M.A. ‘81 argues she created.

For some Americans, the mention of Scotland may conjure up images of thistles and the highlands, of bagpipes and kilts, of redheaded golfers and thick accents. However, students participating in the Joint Degree Programme between the College of William and Mary and the University of St. Andrews recognize Scotland as much more than the imagined land of “Brave” and “Braveheart.” During the two years they spend at the University of St. Andrews, these scholars may even come to know Scotland as their home away from home.

“It’s not a standard college experience,” Cooper Nelson ’16, who will be traveling to St. Andrews next year to study economics, said. “Essentially, you’re living as a foreign national for two years.”

Program participants spend two years at each school, where they can study history, international relations, economics or English. At the end of four years, the two institutions jointly

award each student a BA (International Honours) diploma.

The new program is the product of a longstanding partnership between the College and St. Andrews. However, this is the first year that students from St. Andrews are at the College as part of the program. Even with an ocean between them, the two colleges share many similarities, including small populations and tourist-worthy surroundings.

“St. Andrews is a small school with a lot of history,” Carter Lyon ’16, who will study history in Scotland next year, said. “It’s very similar to William and Mary.”

Both colleges are also famous for their traditions, like Convocation at the College and Raisin Weekend at St. Andrews. Katie Plunkett ’15, back from her first year at St. Andrews, explained the university’s custom of pairing first-year students with “academic parents.”

“For Raisin Weekend, two juniors will adopt a freshman as their academic child,” Plunkett said. “They have tea parties and parades and all these different events.”

However, Raisin Weekend isn’t all

fun and games. As Anna Tepper ’15 explained, first-years are expected to pull their weight and then some.

“Raisin Weekend features a sort of institutionalized hazing combined with a family atmosphere,” Tepper said. “You have to carry these talismans that your academic family gives you.”

Such objects are often burdensome, like weights, crates or even a palanquin designed for transporting academic parents. The tea parties and tribulations of Raisin Weekend culminate Monday in a massive foam fight in a courtyard.

Raisin Weekend’s second semester counterpart is the May Dip, in which students plunge themselves into the freezing North Sea at sunrise on May 1.

“People stay up all night for the May Dip,” Daniel Dorough ’15 said. “St. Andrews is right on the water, and at dawn the students just run into the sea. It’s beautiful, watching the sun come up on the sea on this old medieval town.”

Students arriving in the United States for the first time face many equally bewildering customs. Victoria Seeck ’15

of Belgium was excited to experience her first dinner at Cracker Barrel.

“For me, America is completely new,” Seeck said. “This is proper America. Some things just blow my mind, like the food, the portion sizes. Everything is just different. Life is much easier here than it is in Europe.”

Even for American-born students, like Bram Vargas ’15, the return to the United States can be somewhat disorienting.

“Coming back to an American school is almost weirder than when I first went over to Scotland,” Vargas said.

The contrast between the American and British educational styles contributes to the confusion.

“Academic life at St. Andrews focuses on independent exploration and study,” Olivia Flynn ’15, a second-year student currently studying international relations at St. Andrews, said. “William and Mary relies on student-teacher interaction to encourage academic success. Through the Programme, I have met a variety of professors who are leaders in their field.”

Despite the opportunities for international networking, the alternative college experience is not for everyone. Rachel Wiser ’15, who studied economics in Scotland, explained that confidence is critical to success.

“You have to be very comfortable with your own abilities,” Wiser said. “You have to be able to adjust every year to the different styles and different demands.”

While adapting to such a nomadic life can prove difficult, most students enjoy the inherent cultural exchange.

“In Scotland, I introduced my friends to Thanksgiving,” Wiser said. “I made them all a full meal.”

This transfusion of ideas is a pivotal goal of both the College and St. Andrews. Ultimately, the most valuable product of the Programme will likely be the lifelong, transatlantic connections that students will be able to forge throughout their college experience.

“I have met people from all over the world studying amazing courses,” Flynn said. “I am truly fortunate to have made the friends I have at either school.”

In 1666 a great fire demolished most of medieval London. Thousands of homes,

dozens of churches and many municipal buildings were laid to waste, including the renowned St. Paul’s Cathedral. One of the architects commissioned to rebuild the city was none other than the young Sir Christopher Wren, who was tasked with designing 50 unique churches.

To ease the burden, Wren delegated roughly half of this large project to his female tutor Elizabeth Wilbraham, or so claims Williamsburg historian John Millar M.A. ’81 in his upcoming book “First Woman Architect.”

The book is a culmination of nearly 50 years of research. In it, Millar proposes that Wilbraham, a wealthy English aristocrat, secretly designed and executed some of the greatest architectural masterpieces of the age.

Millar’s passion for architectural history began when he attended an English boarding school at the age of 14.

“I quickly read everything there was to read on Christopher Wren … Not before long, I found about 150 buildings I swore were designed by [him],” Millar said.

When he proudly presented his findings to experts, however, they said they weren’t Wren’s and said that they were built anonymously. Insisting that they were Wren’s, and hoping to one day prove so, Millar continued to add to the list of buildings that had been designed by the nameless architect.

“About 20 years ago, I realized I couldn’t prove [they were Wren’s designs], but I found the name of the architect: Elizabeth Wilbraham,” Millar said. “I came to this conclusion because she had designed several buildings for her family before Wren even became interested in architecture.”

Millar claims that if one extrapolates design elements from the buildings Wilbraham designed for her family, they match designs supposedly done by the young Wren. Millar compared this method of examining particular architectural details of the work of an unknown architect to art scholars who can identify a work done by a certain artist based on specific signature styles.

“There are art historians that have been in the business for a long time who can say ‘Yes, that [painting] is a Caravaggio,’” Millar said. “People may say, ‘No, this cannot be. He never wrote about it, and he didn’t sign it,’ but the skilled historian can identify brush strokes and the way light shines on the subject’s face and identify it as a Caravaggio. In art history, that method is generally thought to work. This hasn’t really been done with architecture, but I think it can be done.”

Documentation shows that in the 1650s, Elizabeth Mytton married Sir Thomas Wilbraham, a wealthy aristocrat, and for their honeymoon, they embarked upon an extensive architectural tour of Europe, traveling to the Netherlands, Germany

and Italy. “She came back to England knowing all

there was to know about Dutch and Italian architecture, and she began to design buildings,” Millar said.

There are 28 designs that survive in her own hand, but none concretely prove the link to Wren or that she designed anything for her own family.

“Anything that could be considered a profession, women were banned from outright,” Millar said. “She was a very wealthy women and would not have gotten paid for her work because if she had, she very well could have been jailed.”

As such, Millar postulates she worked in secret, contracting other architects to supervise construction. Millar’s list of buildings designed by Wilbraham currently totals more than 400.

Although most of Wilbraham’s signatures require a nuanced knowledge of architectural design and history, Millar claims that Wilbraham is the original author of two commonly-used architectural elements.

“One of them is a kind of staircase where instead of having balusters going up the staircase, she has very elaborate wood carvings, such as swirls of leaves and flowers,” Millar said.

One example of this design, which can be viewed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, was taken from a Hertfordshire estate.

Another possible invention of hers is the sash window.

“All windows at that time were casements, and somewhere she thought [sash windows] might be a good idea. Her sashes at the time were made of steel or iron … and someone from the street may still think they were casements, but they weren’t,” Millar said. “This was presumably around 1670 because the first sash windows appeared at the same time in buildings I have identified as hers. One is called Ham House in Surrey, and the other is called the Temple Bar, a gate to the city of London.”

Despite years of extensive research, Millar has yet to win over architectural historians and Wren scholars.

“He needs to find good documentary proof, and until he does, it’s a bit hard to believe any of the assertions that he makes,” Carl Lounsbury, senior architectural historian at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, said. “Until he does, it’s interesting to speculate, but it can’t be proven. It seems highly unlikely that he would find [evidence].”

Millar acknowledges that his work relies on speculation. However, he remains defensive of his claims due to the many years he has already devoted to researching this subject.

“To study something like this, you have to have an encyclopedic knowledge of what was built at that time,” Millar said. “I know there are going to be skeptics out there, and there is no more significant evidence than … my experiences in studying the matter in an encyclopedic manner [that] tells me that these [designs] are hers and these are someone else’s.”

Art historian proposes that female artist was the secret designer behind great architectural works

An uncertain history

BY AINE CAINTHE FLAT HAT

”I came to this conclusion because

[Elizabeth Wilbraham] had designed

several buildings for her family

before Wren even became interested in

architecture.

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John Millar, M.A. ‘81, Williamsburg historian

Carl Lounsbury, senior architectural historian at the Colonial Williamsburg foundation

He needs to find good documentary proof, and until he does, it’s a bit hard to believe any of the asserta-tions that he makes.

sportsinsideThe F lat Hat | Tuesday, September 11, 2012 | Page 7

BY MIKE BARNESFLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR

William and Mary’s meeting with Radford Friday night at Busch Field had all the hallmarks of a trap game.

The Tribe entered the game with an unblemished record, having dominated all four of its previous opponents — but a crucial Sept. 11 matchup against No. 6 Virginia loomed in the distance. Radford, meanwhile, had not won a game all season and was ready to pull an upset. The Tribe could not be caught looking forward to next week. It had to take care of business against Radford.

The College did exactly that, dominating the Highlanders with three first half goals en route to a 4-0 victory. The win drives the Tribe’s record to 5-0, its best start since 2006.

“It was a really good win, I think we came together a lot better today,” senior midfielder Leah Zamesnik said. “Our passing patterns were way better than the majority of the season. Obviously, we should have had some more goals but we finished strong — a good win to take us to U.Va.”

The Tribe thoroughly dominated the first half, which took place mostly in Radford territory as College attackers relentlessly pressured the Radford defense. It wasn’t until midway through the half that the Tribe converted one of its many chances into a goal.

Sophomore midfielder Emma Clifton carried the ball from the right side and passed it to senior forward Ashley Kyle. Kyle took the ball and slipped it past Radford goalkeeper Sidney Encarnacion to give the College a 1-0 lead.

Minutes later, Clifton put the Tribe on top 2-0 by virtue of an assist by senior midfielder Christine Johnson. Johnson took the ball off a corner and then took a shot. Encarnacion made a save, but the ball bounced back to Clifton, who seized the opportunity and put it in.

“I think I was really lucky and well set up by the girls; they really provided a good base and feed it into the circle and all I had to do was hit it in,” Clifton said. “I was really lucky and the team played really well.”

Clifton wasn’t done, either. Ten minutes later, shecharged

toward the Highlanders’ goal and took a shot. It careened off the back post and senior midfielder Allison Moran took advantage, putting it in and giving the College a 3-0 lead with five minutes to go in the first half. The goal was Moran’s fourth on the season and Clifton’s second assist of the game.

“Emma is just steady. She has just been such a rock for us this season,” Hawthorne said. “She’s been playing good defense, her receptions are really good, she sets up a lot of our offense. She’s a transformed player, she’s fit and ready to go and she’s got a much more positive attitude on the field and it really shows. She’s a leader out there.”

While the Tribe dominated the first half, Radford crept back into the game in the second half. The College did not get as many opportunities to attack as the Highlanders stepped up their aggressive plays. Radford did not register any shots in the second half but kept the Tribe on its heels.

The College attackers did not register a goal until the final minutes of the game, as freshman forward Pip

Saunders scored to create the final 4-0 margin.

“We did make a lot of substitutions in the second half, and were trying to get some experience for some of our younger players and they generated attack,” Hawthorne said. “We had 17 shots in the first half, 11 in the second, so we kept up the pressure but just didn’t have that finishing touch, and that’s the frustrating part, but certainly we maintained possession for the majority of the game and were able to work it around.”

The College defense was steady for the majority of the day as senior goalkeeper Elizabeth Frey registered two saves in 70 minutes of action. Frey was aided by an impressive performance by Johnson and senior defender Maria Caro.

With a 5-0 record, the Tribe now turns its attention to Tuesday’s crucial matchup against U.Va. The Cavaliers will bring a 5-2 record to Williamsburg after falling to No. 14 Northeastern Saturday.

“U.Va. is killing it right now, they are just dominating everyone, more or less, so it’s a

good confidence booster so we are just going to have to bring it against them,” Zamesnik said. “We played them really tight last year, I think it was 4-3, and

we always step up our game when we play them, so I think being 5-0 already going in, we aren’t going to want that first loss, for sure.”

The College scored three first-half goals to overtake Radford Friday night.ANITA JIANG / THE FLAT HAT

College tops Highlanders to stay perfectClifton adds goal and two assists as the Tribe cruises past Radford, 4-0

FIELD HOCKEY

First half shortcomings doom College against St. John’sBY JACK POWERSFLAT HAT STAFF WRITER

Energized by a morale-boosting 3-0 victory over Richmond last weekend, William and Mary (1-2-1) fought tooth-and-nail Saturday against No. 12 St. John’s (5-0-1) in Queens, but the Tribe eventually succumbed to a 2-1 loss.

Sophomore Marcus Luster notched his first collegiate goal in the 69th minute amidst a flurry of late offensive activity for the Tribe. However, it wasn’t enough to overcome a shoddy first half in which the Tribe’s normally steady defense surrendered two goals.

“I’m not satisfied at all,” head coach Chris Norris said. “I’m disappointed in myself in terms of not having prepared the team well enough; I’m disappointed that we as a group gave them as much respect as we did. … What I am satisfied in is that we went on the road and played a team like St. John’s, because they will be in many ways one of the most difficult teams we will play, or anyone will play, this year.”

The first half was a one-sided affair with the Red Storm slipping two goals past sophomore goalkeeper Bennett Jones, while the Tribe was outshot 13-3. Red Storm freshman Danny Bedoya scored in the 39th minute and junior Jack Bennett scored right before halftime on an impressive penalty kick.

“They pressed us with their front five players and instead of recognizing that and being more direct and trying to find our front players and then trying to possess the ball in the attacking half, we persisted to try to play a lot of short stuff out of the back and didn’t get any rhythm on the attacking side of the ball,” Norris said.

The only genuine scoring chance in the first 45 minutes of play for the College was from sophomore Chris Perez, but it was cleanly swatted away by Red Storm goalkeeper Rafael Diaz. Noticeably outclassed in the first half both on the scoreboard and all around the pitch, Norris’ squad seemed to take advantage of the intermission as it came out with a renewed spirit.

After a demoralizing first half, the second was far more fruitful for the College.

Reversing the Red Storm’s utter domination of scoring chances through the first 45 minutes, the Tribe generated ten scoring chances to St. John’s five in the final 45. Marcus Luster broke through in the 69th minute, propelling the ball to the back of the net on a dizzying header set up by senior Ben Anderson’s deft corner kick. The goal marked Luster’s first goal in his collegiate career and Anderson’s second assist of the season.

“Marcus was a factor in the game, scored a goal, and had another great chance,” Norris said. “We moved him around a lot in the game; he played three positions. Marcus is just a very steady, conscientious, talented guy and is capable of playing anywhere on the field for us.”

Reinvigorated by Luster’s set-piece heroics, the Tribe launched an extensive offensive campaign that generated numerous half-chances and near misses but no goals. In the last minute of play, the College had two corner chances in

the offensive third but was unable to convert either against St. Johns’ potent defense, making the 2-1 score final.

Norris, whose team faces Drake in Omaha, Neb. Friday, maintained a positive outlook going forward.

“Whether you win or lose, playing a team like that, you’re always going to learn a lot about your team,” Norris said. “I hope we can learn a lot from Saturday night and become more the team we want to be.”

Sophomore midfielder Marcus Luster and the Tribe couldn’t capitalize for an equalizer Saturday.PHOTO COURTESY / TRIBE ATHLETICS

Luster’s 69th minute goal not enough as Red Storm takes 1-0 victory

MEN’S SOCCER

Baxter’s timely goal powers Tribe past Seton Hall

With its performance in the Villanova Invitational, the Tribe has won five straight.FILE PHOTO / THE FLAT HAT

Casey notches clean sheet to lead the College to Villanova Invitational title

WOMEN’S SOCCER

BY BLAKE HUNTFLAT HAT STAFF WRITER

The women’s soccer team won the Villanova Invitational in Philadelphia Sunday after edging Seton Hall 1-0 to earn a hard-fought victory in a game head coach John Daly called a “dog-fight.”

The lone and game-winning goal came in the 37th minute when freshman reserve Nicole Baxter narrowly beat her defender to tap in a low cross off the foot of senior forward Cortlyn Bristol. The goal was Baxter’s first at the collegiate level.

The Tribe has now won five straight and hasn’t surrendered a goal since a double-overtime loss to Tennessee Aug. 24. With this victory, the College moved its record to 5-2, thanks in no small part to the stellar goalkeeping of freshman keeper Caroline Casey.

Casey, who finished with six saves, has emerged as the starter in the absence of the injured Carla Manger, and her outstanding play may be the surprise of the season so far for the Tribe. Daly was pleased with Casey and the rest of the defense, adding that the current scoreless streak is also a credit to a defense and midfield that is playing with chemistry and cohesion.

“We have been a little fortunate, but our back-four has been pretty consistent,” Daly said. “It’s been a combination of good goal-keeping, our midfielder trio working hard, and everybody seems to be gelling.”

Overall, the College was outshot 15-13, with the Pirates clanging shots off the framework on two occasions. Seton Hall threatened to tie early in the second half, challenging Casey with four shots in the first five minutes. The freshman answered though, and a tightened College defense smothered any subsequent chances to preserve the win.

Bristol, meanwhile, continued her hot play early in the season. The dangerous forward and preseason All-CAA selection already has four assists and a total of eight points on the season, earning high praise from her coach.

“Cortlyn has just been outstanding for us,” Daly said.Bristol is one of the many highly skilled players composing an

attacking offense loaded with depth and talent, which make the arrival of Baxter seem surprising. But Daly says the freshman has earned her way onto the pitch, thanks to her precocious skill and an especially high soccer IQ.

“[She’s] a very good player who uses the ball extremely well,” Daly said. “She’s a very smart player with good understanding of where to be and when. We expect tremendous things from her over four years.”

The Tribe hosts Davidson Sunday, and Daly hopes to see his team avoid its occasional problem of starting slow and sluggish.

“We started poorly against Duke and Tennessee, and that’s not good enough,” Daly said. “We’ve got to correct that.”

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MATT CARPENTER / THE FLAT HATRedshirt freshman running back Mikal Abdul-Saboor fumbles in the second quarter, a turnover that ultimately led to a Lafayette touchdown. All told, the College’s tailbacks combined for just 75 rushing yards on 18 carries in the Tribe’s 17-14 loss.

Washed away

BY JARED FORETEKFLAT HAT SPORTS EDITOR

It included an 80-minute long lightning delay and lasted an exhausting four hours and 24 minutes, but when the book was finally closed on William and Mary’s home opener against Lafayette Saturday night, all the Tribe had to show was 14 points, 197 yards of offense and another tally in the loss column. Oh, and

lots of punts from junior kicker Drake Kuhn — nine to be exact.

In fact, Kuhn and sophomore wide receiver Tre McBride were the only effective offensive weapons for the College — McBride because of his two touchdown catches and Kuhn for pinning Lafayette inside its own 10 yard line three separate times. Still, the Tribe fell to 0-2 on the year with a 17-14 loss to Lafayette of the Patriot League.

Head coach Jimmye Laycock didn’t hold back about the offense.

“The offense played terrible,” Laycock said. “We dropped passes, [overthrow] passes, missed blocks. You name it, we were doing it.”

The stat line bore the story of an offense that, for the second straight week, couldn’t find its rhythm. Junior quarterback Michael Graham — starting in place of the injured senior Brent Caprio — went just 7 of 19 for 54 yards, one

touchdown and one interception before being benched in the fourth quarter for sophomore Raphael Ortiz. McBride was the only wide receiver to record a catch.

“We just felt like we needed to have something else in there,” Laycock said of the quarterback switch. “We weren’t getting it done there.”

Caprio’s status for next week is unclear, according to Laycock.

Just as worrisome for the College was the ground game. Senior tailback Meltoya Jones ran well, carrying six times for 32 yards, but overall the Tribe’s backs ran 19 times for just 75 yards. Redshirt freshman Mikal Abdul-Saboor’s fumble led to a Lafayette touchdown.

“Obviously, it’s not good enough,” junior center Matt Crisafi said of the ground game. “I don’t know if I can name one [reason] or another, but we need to come in and watch film and get that straight because two weeks in a

row we’ve stalled running the ball, and it starts with us up front.”

Things got off on the wrong foot for the College when Graham’s second pass was intercepted by Lafayette’s Jared Roberts on 3rd and 11 of the first drive of the game, setting the Leopards up on the College’s 39. But the defense held Lafayette to a three-and-out and a punt.

Late in the first, the Leopards went on a nine-play, 69-yard drive capped by a 14-yard touchdown run by Vaughn Hebron that put the Leopards up 7-0. Lafayette would end the game with 301 yards of offense in nearly 37 minutes of possession.

Then the threatening clouds overhead lit up with lightning. The field and stadium were cleared until the weather calmed down 80 minutes later.

“We just had to warm up again and make sure we stayed warm in the locker room, stayed hydrated,” senior cornerback B.W. Webb

said. “I don’t think it got in the way too much.”

After the teams returned to the puddle-filled turf, the College’s offense finally put something together late in the second quarter with help from the defense. Sophomore defensive lineman Steve Sinnott sacked Lafayette’s Andrew Shoop with one minute, 28 seconds to play in the half, forcing and recovering a fumble to give the Tribe possession on the Leopards’ 34-yard line. Two plays later, Graham lofted a 28-yard pass up near the goal line and McBride outjumped two Lafayette defensive backs, coming down with the ball for the College’s first touchdown of 2012 and tying the game at 7.

The Leopards reclaimed the lead in the third after Saboor coughed it up, giving Shoop and company a short field. Nine plays later, Shoop hit Mike Duncan for an 18-yard touchdown pass to give the Leopards a 14-7 lead with 3:30 left in the third. Then, after another Tribe three-and-out, a mental lapse cost the College dearly.

Sinnott hurried Shoop on 3rd and 4, forcing an incompletion and seemingly getting the ball back to the offense early in the fourth, but as the punt teams lined up, the College was flagged for having 12 men on the field, giving Lafayette a fresh set of downs at midfield.

“We had a guy go in that wasn’t supposed to go in,” Laycock said.

Minutes later, Ethan Swerdlow hit a 34-yarder to put the Leopards up by two scores, 17-7.

“That one hurt us,” Webb said. “I’m not sure if it was focus or something like that, but we definitely can’t do that during the course of a game.”

After another College three-and-out, Laycock made the switch to Ortiz. The Tribe got the ball back on its own 20 with 3:22 left and the sophomore rattled off rushes of eight and 15 yards, as well as completions of 12, 13 and 23, all to McBride. The 23-yarder found the endzone when Ortiz lofted a beautiful touch pass high in the air for McBride, who had gotten behind Lafayette’s cornerback.

But with 1:48 left and the Tribe out of timeouts, Kuhn’s onside kick attempt bounded into the arms of a Lafayette special teamer, sealing the Leopards’ win.

“It feels terrible,” Webb said. “It’s hard to lose at all — period — but it’s even harder when you lose at home.”

The conference season starts Saturday when the Tribe takes on defending-champion Towson.

“There’s a sense of urgency,” Crisafi said. “We’re 0-2, and we want to get a win. I think we’re going to be hungry.”

Offense sputters again as Tribe drops home opener to Lafayette, 17-14, in lightning-delayed game

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