City Council Candidates Face Off in Historic Debate
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Tribe perfect in senior’s finale Make it work In her final home match, standout Megan Moulton-Levy Student designers craft innovative and creative fashions leads College to sweep out Richmond. for models from the College. See TENNIS page 8 See FASHION page 6 The twice-weekly student newspaper of the College of William and Mary F Est. 1911 VOL.97, NO.44 FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 2008 FLATHATNEWS.COM CLASS OF 2012 Admit pool City Council candidates the most face off in historic debate Six candidates discuss diverse ever three-person rule Applications jump nearly 7%, By NANCY BLANFORD The Flat Hat admit rate flat at 33% The six Williamsburg City Council candidates By BRIAN MAHONEY faced off last night in the Great Hall of the Wren Build- Flat Hat Chief Staff Writer ing during an historic debate about student issues. The event was the first city council debate on campus. The College Admissions department may have ended Over 100 students listened to the candidates dis- a three-year rise in its admission rate, accepting about 33 cuss student-related issues, including town-gown NANCY BLANford — THE FLAT HAT percent of applicants from its largest and most diverse pool relations and public transportation. The six candidates for Williamsburg City Council debated last night in the Great Hall of Wren. ever, a slight decrease from last year’s rate. “I was excited we could have an open forum,” The College accepted 3,800 students from 11,622 appli- organizer Sarah Rojas ’10 said. ebb and flows over the years,” Haulman said. “In person rule beforehand rather than after students cants, and may accept waitlisted applicants this summer. The debate allowed students to further differen- the future, we need to strengthen [relations].” have broken it,” Knudson said. This year was one of the most competitive ever for tiate the platforms of all six candidates. The candi- Wehle agreed. Granger held pictures of variously sized homes. American universities, with the number of high school dates are Matt Beato ’09, incumbent Paul Freiling “There has been a little bit of friction. I think “These houses are not the same,” he said. “You graduates growing every year since the mid 1990s. An ac- ’83, former Mayor Gil Granger ’57, Vice Mayor these things should be worked out,” he said. have to use your judgment.” celerated online application process, larger financial aid and economics Professor Clyde Haulman, Swem Freiling alluded to the College’s long history of Beato addressed his status as a student. packages and broader recruiting have also heightened com- volunteer Judy Knudson and real estate broker Ter- discontent with city residents. “The median age of a Williamsburg resident is petition among students for spots in the country’s top tier ence Wehle ’77. “Some things don’t change, but they do get bet- 22. The median age of Williamsburg City Council universities. Candidates were asked to characterize their view ter,” he said. members is much higher than that,” he said. “All of the relationship between College students and city The debate moved on to the three-person rule, people need to be represented at the table.” See ADMISSIONS page 4 residents. Each candidates described Williamsburg which bans more than three unrelated people from Student organizers agreed that the debate was a as a unique city that has to balance student, resident living together. The candidates unanimously agreed victory for students. GrowthPercentage in ChangeApplications in Applications from from 2007 2007 and the needs of low-income worker. that changes were needed. “The debate was more successful than we could “Relations between students and the community “We would rather make exceptions to the three- have ever hoped for,” Rojas said. U. Penn 2 CAMPUS SUSTAINABILITY U.Va. 4 Duke 5 Reveley won’t sign PCC, has own plan Princeton 6 Interim president to reveal said. “I think this plan is a pretty sig- riety of energy conservation methods. nificant statement of what we intend The College, though, has been wary William and Mary 6.8 plan on Earth Day to do.” to sign. “I’m not particularly enthusiastic “The PCC is a document that is in- M.I.T. 7 By CHASE JOHNSON about [the PCC],” he said. “It’s not tended to drive people to concrete action, Flat Hat Senior Staff Writer realistic in what it sets out. At some but I’m not sure all the goals are attain- Cornell 8 point we may sign it, but not now.” HAT — flaT FILE PHOTo able,” Vice President for Administration Interim College President Taylor Reveley The PCC was at the center of a Reveley Anna Martin said. “Signing it would be Northwestern 14 will announce a new campus sustainability plan proposal presented to former College making promises we aren’t sure we can April 22, Earth Day, but he does not plan to sign President Gene Nichol one year ago by govern- keep.” Harvard 19 the American College and University Presidents ment and environmental studies professor Maria Martin, however, does support achieving im- Climate Commitment. Ivanova and her graduate seminar on environ- proved sustainability on campus. 0 5 10 15 20 “It’s crucial that we do as much as we can in mental policy. The proposal calls for the College SOURCE: NEW YORK TIMES, COLLEGE ADMISSIONS OFFICE the areas that subsume sustainability,” Reveley to become carbon neutral by 2020 through a va- See REVELEY page 3 Prof helped write Kosovo’s constitution Details Warren advised the war-torn ranging comparative constitutional research, presenting Now that her work in Kosovo is complete, Warren a spectrum of options and, when we were asked, mak- will continue to teach at the law school and plans on released in nation on their constitution, ing recommendations about the issues the drafting com- incorporating her work in Kosovo into her curriculum. mission was dealing with,” Warren said. “We wanted “I believe it is critically important for law students to which was signed Monday to make available to them lessons learned during other be aware of and familiar with legal systems other than Seve case constitution-drafting exercises so they could make the their own,” Warren said. By ANNE FOSTER most informed choices possible.” Sophomore gave police Flat Hat Staff Writer This Monday, Warren witnessed the signing of the constitution. false identification Law professor Christie Warren and Ryan Igbanol Warren, however, was not the only College represen- J.D. ’07 spent the last several months in Kosovo helping tative at the signing. Igbanol, who is currently working By MAXIM LOTT to draft the newly independent nation’s constitution. toward his Masters of Law at the University of London, Flat Hat News Editor Kosovo, formerly a province of the Eastern Euro- was also present. He worked as the legislative history pean state of Serbia, declared its independence Feb. 17. coordinator for the drafting process. Andrew Seve ’10 turned himself in to Kosovo’s declaration of independence marks the culmi- “My main responsibility was to track and document the Williamsburg City Police Department nation of decades of ethnic conflict between the Alba- the constitution-drafting process,” Igbanol said. late Friday afternoon. He was wanted with nians of Kosovo and the Serbs of Serbia. Independent Much has changed in the months since Kosovo’s charges of false identity, driving on a sus- Kosovo is a state with a 95 percent Albanian majority declaration of independence and the signing of its con- pended license and possession of alcohol, and a 5 percent Serbian minority. stitution. Williamsburg Deputy Police Chief Dave The constitution-drafting process began in March “During the past year it was very tense and uncertain Sloggie revealed. 2007 when a report from Finland’s former President since no one knew what the status of Kosovo was or The incident took place at the 100 block Martti Ahtisaari to the United Nations Security Council would become,” Warren said. of Griffin Avenue, near Jamestown Road, recommended “supervised independence.” Warren believes that the Kosovo constitution ad- at 3:05 a.m. March 30. Seve abandoned Part of the transition to independence included the dresses the issue of the conflicting ethnicities. She add- his vehicle and ran away from police when drafting of a new constitution. ed that in the constitution, “minority communities are they told him that he would be taken into “That month, I was asked by the U. S. State Depart- entitled to equitable representation in employment.” custody for identity charges. ment and [the U.S. Agency for International Develop- Warren and Igbanol’s work in Kosovo builds on their Last week, several attempts were made ment] to serve as an advisor to the Kosovo constitutional past experience in international law. The Kosovo consti- to apprehend Seve. The first took place working group,” Warren said. tution was Warren’s first experience working on a draft- April 2 at the Wren 10 performance of The Warren and other foreign advisors did not work ing process. However, she has worked in international COURTESY PHOTo — christie WARREN Stairwells, an a capella group of which directly on the drafting of the constitution, but rather law for 12 years and in 30 countries. Law Professor Christie Warren stands in front of a Seve is a member. served as advisors to the drafters. Igbanol has been interested in law and Eastern Eu- bullet-ridden wall at the former home of Kosovar “Our job was to assist them by conducting wide- rope ever since he attended the College. freedom fighter Adem Jashari in Kosovo. See SEVE page 4 Inside Police Beat, page 2 Opinions, page 5 Variety, page 6 Confusion Corner, page 6 Hollywood Gossip, page 7 Sports, page 8 Page 2 Friday, April 11, 2008 News Editor Alex Guillén News Editor Maxim Lott NEWS IN S I GHT [email protected] BEYOND THE ’BURG This week in Flat Hat history ‘Stabilitas et Fides’ 1916 25 Campus Center, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA.