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August 2005 Issue!.Pmd The Virginia Page Informer Informer August 2005 1 What your The August 2005 Volume 1 Issue 1 www.VAInformer.com OAs didn’t v The common sense paper of record on campus. tell you and other tips IInformer for the Class r of 2009. g All that’s left Tribe i Tonight n i Speaks! Below is the exclusive AIM conversation with the elusive Tribe a Tonight. Toni discusses the future of his service and rumors about his identity. Contents Informer: Thanks for agreeing to do News 2 the interview with us – we know you’re a busy man (?). Features 4 Tribe Tonight: No problem. The summer’s winding down and the Opinion 10 hangover is wearing off. I’m a guy. My stepsister, Tribe Today, is a girl. She’s We’ve all seen the images of the Preston Hall fire as everyone (thankfully) saw dead though. Virginia InformerThe it - from the outside. For the first time, these never before seen images from Informer: Some people have said inside the fire-ravaged dormitory. Page Twelve you are dead, too. Tribe Tonight: It seemed like I was there for a while. The problem was created by the combination of a spring party deficit and a suspicious glitch in AIM users’ ability to view me on their Welcome back -- now pay up! buddy lists. Informer: Why suspicious? The Virginia Informer investigates the cost of attendance. Tribe Tonight: Well, it just happened one day – I started disappearing off Joe Luppino-Esposito Cost of Getting an Education A State School people’s buddy lists. I troubleshot like crazy, called AOL, examined every Assistant Editor in Chief William and Mary is one of the best Unfortunately, like any government institutions of higher learning in the country. institution, William and Mary is not exempt possibility and I couldn’t identify why The bill comes once a semester, giving However, it also faces a distinct challenge from the typical bureacracy that exists on all people couldn’t see me on their lists. every student (or at least their parents) a few because it is also a state school. This levels. It also needs to deal with budget cuts One farfetched – but plausible – line items that they will have to pay for in attributes to the constant, seemingly and has to be very politically entrenched to explanation is the W&M administrations’ order to attend The College of William and exponential growth of tuition from year to ensure that no matter who is in power, the connections to America Online (a Mary for the next few months. They are year. What attributes to the rising cost, money will still get to Williamsburg every Virginia-based company). basic; tuition, room, board, and other fees especially as classes are cut and less year. Does this link with the state tie down Informer: Sounds like a conspiracy and fines like room damages. professors are retained from year to year? the potential of the College. Could William theory, no? Yet within that tuition charge there are a and Mary prosper if it could break the state’s Tribe Tonight: Well I don’t have any slew of fees that are not clearly labeled. Are the bricks quota for state resident students and include other way to explain it – it doesn’t seem Although the school makes no attempt to more out of state students? Will the Charter to matter as much now. People are seeing even hide them, outlining them and really made of gold? Initiative get us there? me on their lists again, and even if they considering all of the fees borders on A look into the rising can’t, they can manually look it up by appalling. In addition, there are some cost to attend These are only a few of the areas that I hitting Alt-O and typing my name or fundamental problems in the system because will cover as the lead investigator on this case. going to “People” —> “Get Buddy of the way William and Mary is set up to William and Mary. No other publication has dared to look into Info”. run. the subject in fear that it would be too Informer: Why was Tribe Tonight Part one in a series. sensitive and would upset too many people. created? The Athletic Fee That is just too bad. Tribe Tonight: I, like many others, was “Sports are fun and all, but there are more So that is why The Virginia Informer must tired of people complaining about the important things that the money should be Why can William and Mary not stay ask the question, “Are the bricks made of lack of social life and parties at W&M. I used for,” said sophomore Ian Whiteside, competitive on these fronts? What other gold?” Sometimes, that seems are though it knew parties were going on, but that when shown the general fee outline which costs stop us from raising faculty salaries? is the only viable explanation for the rising there was no communication vehicle to includes a charge of $504 per semester for costs. get party info from one sub-clique of the “Intercollegiate Athletics.” Fun and Games Have a Price Too There is hope yet - this series will delve campus to another. Tribe Tonight was Most people on this campus are active in into many different areas and try to break created to inform W&M students about An Institution in Debt one way or another. There are so many clubs, down the barriers of communication various debauchery happening on and “We pledge certain revenues… so we issue teams, and organizations to choose from that between the tuition paying students and the off campus. Keg parties, soirées, dance bond debt, typically 20 years in length.” “The you would be hard-pressed to find out that administration and Board of Visitors who parties, or anything of interest to those revenues to pay off that debt, in the case of does not fit your interest. That may be great decide all of these costs. who might attend a party are all fair dormitories, are on auxiliaries… student fees for us to enjoy when we do not think about Don’t expect a scandal-but expect good game. I get the info from people who in other words.” Director of Finance Bert the cost. Why do some organizations get investigative journalism that will reveal some Brummer is well versed in this subject, but more funding than others? What real news for students and families watching TONI EXCLUSIVE students are not. How do construction publications give bloated salaries to their their wallets throughout the semester. continued on page four projects play into the larger cost of the employees, who are only students? These college? are questions that need to be asked. Page The Virginia Informer 2 August 2005 NewsNews Informer Interested in writing for “Tribe” nickname in jeopardy the newest newspaper Amanda J. Yasenchak that have been declared to have hostile and Seminoles. William and Mary is another on campus? offensive mascots. (See box). In November example. Local Indians do not find the name Editor in Chief 2004, 33 schools with Indian-related mascots offensive. “When we take care of some of The National Collegiate Athletic and/or team nicknames were investigated. the poverty and crime and drug problems Want to become a part Association is determined to remove Indian William and Mary is currently still under and that sort of thing in this country, then mascots from college athletics in any way investigation for its “Tribe” nickname. The we’ll worry about names,” William P. “Bill” of a publication that that it can. In a surprising mandate on new legislation will not affect the College Miles, chief of the Pamunkey Indians, told holds nothing back? August 5, 2005, the NCAA Executive until the end of a six-month extension that The Richmond Times-Dispatch. Driscoll has not Committee prohibited NCAA colleges and athletic director Terry Driscoll received due received direct complaints about the name. universities from “displaying hostile and to the transition of power to new president The Tribe used to be known as the Indians Fed up with the abusive racial/ethnic/national origin Gene Nichol. and the football field used to be referred to mainstream news and mascots, nicknames or imagery at any of the The NCAA hopes that this legislation will as the “Reservation.” The logo, which now 88 NCAA championships.” encourage more self-study. The 18 schools features a pair of green and gold feathers, need a viable Schools who have offensive themes affected by these guidelines have six months used to be a grinning Indian. Colonel Ebirt alternative? displayed by mascots, uniforms, cheerleaders to appeal their status. Myles Brand, NCAA is the replacement for a mascot dressed in and dance teams are prohibited from hosting president, admits that not all names may Indian regalia. a championship competition, beginning indeed be offensive. “Some American After President Nichol has been in office Well now, you’ve come February 1, 2006. By August 2008, schools Indian tribes have expressed their approval a few months, this issue will have to be to the right place. with such references will be forbidden to of the manner in which their names and readdressed. The future of Colonel Ebirt wear or display them at any NCAA imagery are used by specific institutions,” hangs in the balance. championship. Brand said in a press release, specifically This legislation affects the 18 institutions citing Florida State University, home of the The Virginia Informer Colleges and universities which are subject to the new policy: Alcorn State U, Mississippi (Braves) Arkansas State U (Indians) First interest Central Michigan U (Chippewas) Chowan College, North Carolina (Braves) Catawba College, North Carolina (Indians) U of Illinois-Champaign (Illini) meeting: Florida State U (Seminoles) U of Louisiana-Monroe (Indians) Monday, August 29 Midwestern State U, Texas (Indians) McMurry
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