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April 2007T.Indd The Informer investigates ROTC credits issue - Pages 2 and 14 Joe Pirro previews summer movies - Page 13 Volume 2 The Virginia An independent Issue 6 publication of the College of April 2007 Informer William and Mary. www.VAInformer.com The common sense paper of record on campus College’s rankings begin to fall Stephen Dause History shows that where Nichol goes, loss in fundraising, prestige follow Nick Hoelker Online Editor From substantial drops of U.S. News and World Report’s rankings to a federal injunction, Gene Nichol compiled Luppino-Esposito a controversial record leading other public universities Joe prior to coming to William and Mary. From 1988 through 1995, Nichol was the dean of the law school at the University of Colorado at Boulder. U.S. News and World Report did not compile comprehensive law school rankings until 1994, so it is diffi cult to assess Nichol’s overall performance. However, according to Sweet victory: Patrick Donaldson the Colorado Daily, in 1996, immediately after Nichol celebrates his win as VP of Social left the law school, the American Bar Association Affairs for the Class of 2008. threatened to strip the school of its accreditation. According to the current law school dean, David Getches, this was because the law school’s facilities had become overcrowded and outdated due to a lack High risk: During Nichol’s tenure as law dean at UNC, the school fell SA election of funding. Getches explained that this was due to a in the US News rankings, and at Colorado-Boulder, the American Bar Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, which makes it impossible for Association threatened pulling accretitation. comes to the Colorado legislature to operate at a surplus and very diffi cult to raise taxes. Nichol failed to secure any additional accreditation after being horrifi ed that a state could place such funding from the state legislature for the school. little emphasis on higher education. The problem was fi nally belated The dean following Nichol attempted to get the legislature to fund improvements and the legislature initially agreed but later NICHOL’S HISTORY conclusion rescinded that promise, causing the ABA to threaten to revoke continued on page fi ve Stephen Dause Staff Writer Housing costs to rise 7.75% for 2007-2008 Nearly three days after the March 29 Chase Coleman the language and the fl ow we tweaked through things very methodically,” Student Assembly elections, the results, Staff Writer from feedback,” in order to make the explaining every detail. Both Boykin and which were accidentally lost the night procedure more user-friendly. Pawvluk strongly suggest that students of the elections, were retabulated from After assiduous work and lengthy In students’ feedback, one of the watch the tutorial before selecting a room. a raw data log, and the results for all testing, Residence Life will be ready to most common concerns was whether Boykin also emphatically encourages elections were eventually certifi ed. unveil the new online room selection room selection will be as temperamental students who have decided not to live on As The Virginia Informer projected, process to undergraduates beginning as registering for classes. Director of campus to give up their time slot so that those Zach Pilchen and Valerie Hopkins were April 16. Those students who choose Residence Life Deb Boykin, however, is who have been bumped can be reinstated. elected president and vice president of to live on campus can expect a relatively confi dent that, because of restrictions She points out that, since room selection will the Student Assembly. In other races high increase in room rates, currently on the number of students selecting take place over a number of days, people for Senate and Undergraduate Council, projected at 7.75%. rooms at any given time, the process will be able to be reinstated throughout the incumbents fi nished strong, most of The most recent test of the new room avoids the hazards of registration. “This process. This year many more students than them retaining their seats. selection process showed promising is brand new, and… there’s going to be usual were involuntarily bumped, so Boykin In the last race to be certifi ed, Matt Brown results with a sample of approximately something that we just can’t predict,” hopes that those students who decide not led Shariff Tanious by a single vote for 350 students. Closely resembling the stated Boykin, but, since Residence Life to live on campus will notify Residence Life Vice President of Advocacy for the Class real process, the test gave students an and Information Technology (IT) will as soon as possible. of 2008, the seat vacated by presidential opportunity to try out the new system, be available for help, “we will deal with Following a long trend of rising costs, candidate Brad Potter. The Elections and afterwards asked students to give their it when it happens.” Graduate students the room rates will increase next year by Commission was, at fi rst, “unable to certify opinion. Assistant Director of Residence used the online system on March 28 to a projected 7.75%, but this rate has yet a winner” but did so the next day. Life Katrina Pawvluk said that after the choose their rooms, exposing a few small to be approved by the Board of Visitors. Also sparking some controversy was test, they changed “nothing about the fl a ws. Residence Life and IT were able to The average increase in room rates is 4- an allegation by the Brad Potter and Bret way the process overall ran, but some of correct these problems quickly so that 6%, although last year costs increased by Phillips campaign that the recent editorial undergraduate room 9%. Each year the increase in room rates in The Flat Hat endorsing Pilchen and selection can go as is determined by a number of factors, Hopkins amounted to advertising and smoothly as possible. including the costs of gas and electricity, should be included in their campaign Since most students employees’ salaries and healthcare, debt expenditures. will be unfamiliar and the lease on the Ludwell Apartments. A ruling in Potter/Phillips favor Chase Coleman with the new process, Renovations, including electrical and fi re would have meant that the Pilchen/ Residence Life offers a safety upgrades, also play a large part Hopkins team was at risk of exceeding video tutorial on their in increasing room rates. Although the the $400 spending limit. The Elections website. “The tutorial increases in room rates in recent years Commission decided 5-0 that the editorial will be very helpful to have been higher than usual, Boykin did not constitute advertising. Even if it students who didn’t do believes that these increases should level had, said Elections Commissioner Alex the test,” cites Pawvluk, down in the next year or so. Kyrios, Pilchen and Hopkins would not and although Boykin Room selection runs from April have gone over the spending limit, as it admits that, at over eight 16 through April 26. Tips, answers to minutes, “it’s long by frequently asked questions, and the video PILCHEN/ HOPKINS WIN Not lounging for long: Rising housing costs and online students’ standards… tutorial can be found at http://www. continued on page four lottery add more concerns for students. [the narrator] goes wm.edu/reslife/lottery/online.php. CONTENTS Want to get every issue of The Informer in the mail? News................................ 2 “Board” of the Email [email protected] with your name and Features............................ 6 same old clubs? address, and we will send you an order form and your fi rst Arts & Entertainment...... 11 issue FREE! Opinion............................ 14 Page 8 Virginia Page 2 The April 2007 News Informer ROTC: Full and fair treatment? William and Mary does not award full academic credit for military science courses; story attracts more negative national media coverage Steven Nelson needed to graduate.” for the world than any other course I professors who teach those classes, and Staff Writer “Currently, a ROTC cadet will take have taken would be an obstacle to my only then brought to the attention of the 19 courses over four years, and get just graduation seems crazy.” larger administration. “ The SA Senate has taken action 14 credits, and only six of those credits Josh Geiger (‘08) echoed her sentiments, Pilchen added, “our administration is where college administrators have not, count to the 120 needed to graduate,” stating “ROTC is a class/sport/part-time establishing two liaison positions to the unanimously passing the “full and fair says Pinsker. The bill advocates not only a job/mentoring program/career skills Faculty Assembly so that the lines of treatment for ROTC cadets” bill on change in policy, but that retroactive credit program which takes up a huge chunk of communication between students and March 27, advocating that the College be enacted so that “all students currently my schedule without the school offi cially faculty are strengthened, and both groups administration grant full credit for courses enrolled in the College of William and recognizing the effort.“ have a method through which they can taken for the Reserve Offi cer Training Mary are affected by the changes.” Apparently the SA Senate agrees, yet the raise concerns to the other.“ Corps. The current policy has adversely Educational Policy Committee, chaired Though a sympathetic SA administration As the bill reads, the administration affected ROTC cadets, forcing most to by Professor Ray McCoy, has to meet has been elected, William and Mary has is recommended to implement changes take more courses than other students, on the issue to make a recommendation. again attracted National attention due to so that ROTC cadets earn at least three while plunging some into last minute According to McCoy, “this topic is an unpopular administration policy, with credits per semester and have all credits desperation near graduation.
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