mar. 2007>>>www.dogstreetjournal.com>>>volume 4 issue 6 The DoG Street Journal (what’sinside) (whoweare) Tenure EDITORIALSTAFF >Faculty Promotions Bradley Justus The College recently announced its Editor in Chief tenure grants for the 2006-2007 Rebecca Hamfeldt academic year. page 4 Managing Editor Jeri Kent Executive Editor Construction on Campus James Evans News Editor >The College Expands A recent round of construction has Rachel Vorona expanded the College’s graduate Style Editor facilities. Sam Alnouri page 6 Sports Editor Katie Photiadis Opinions Editor Track & Field Superstitions Marina Stranieri >Pre-Race Rituals Photo Editor The College’s track & field team shares Ryan Powers its pre-race habits and rituals. Online Design Editor page 21 Michael Duarte Online Design Editor Shawna Kelly Men’s Basketball Operations Editor >A Historic Season Carrie Daut The Tribe men’s basketball team Layout Assistant finishes the year with its fifth-ever 15-win season. page 22 (talktous) OUROURMISSIONMISSION COVERIMAGE The DoG Street Journal The College of William & Mary The DSJ is the College’s only The explosive popularity of the Campus Center Basement monthly newsmagazine and daily video website YouTube, among Office 12B online paper. 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Cover Design by Ryan Powers 2 THE DSJ - MARCH 2007 IN (savethedate) WORDSBRIEF march 9 - 18 Former Rector Kelly Global Village Project who: all students Dies at 87 Rescued by College what: spring break Herbert Valentine Kelly Sr. ’41, J.D. ‘42, a Facilities Management when: all day, every day Williamsburg native and member of the Employee where: the bahamas, Board of Visitors from 1976 to 1984, hopefully including two years as Rector, died Feb. 19 Senior Jessica Chudy expressed her gratitude why: spring break in his Newport News home. “Whether you’re last month to 26-year Facilities Management looking at health or education or civic groups team member Conrad Brown. While = like People to People, Herb Kelly is all over working a weekend trash collection shift, march 19 to 23 just about every aspect of this community Brown recovered a folder Chudy had lost that’s good,” former president of the College that contained roughly $1,100 in cash and who: all students Timothy J. Sullivan told the Daily Press. checks meant for the College’s Global what: yearbook pictures Kelly’s career experience was diverse, Village Project. The Global Village Project when: starting at 9 a.m. including service to his country in World had raised the money at a fundraiser at the where: trinkle hall War II, legal practice that included defending Kimball Theater that ended late the previous why: to look back at NBA star Allen Iverson when he was still a night. Chudy dropped the folder on her way high school student and founding People to yourself 50 years from home to sorority court, and Brown turned now People, a neighborhood organization it in to Campus Police the next morning. designed to encourage positive discussions The money was intended to subsidize the about race and diversity. “Herb Kelly was philanthropy organization’s service trip to march 23 and 24 everything a College favorite son should be,” Guatemala. “William and Mary is lucky to former Secretary to the Board of Visitors have such an honest and caring employee who: borat Jim Kelly told the William and Mary News. on its staff,” Chudy told the William and what: cultural learnings of Mary News. america for make benefit I.T. Expands Email glorious nation of Addresses Richmond Times- kazakhstan Dispatch Study Reveals when: 7 and 9:30 p.m. As of the beginning of this month, new faculty, staff and students will receive I.T. Variance of Virginia where: uc commonwealth user IDs of up to 16 characters, instead of College Cross Policies why: because ‘s’ nice the traditional six. The IDs, which make up the first part of William and Mary e-mail A survey of cross policies at other addresses, will consist of the first letter of Virginia colleges and universities has march 26 to 30 one’s first name, the first letter of one’s helped enlighten the College’s ongoing who: cares middle name and up to 15 letters of one’s Wren Chapel cross discussion. According what: love your body last name. Two digits will be appended to to the Times-Dispatch, only the College, week user IDs that duplicate. Current student, the University of Virginia, UVA’s College faculty and staff user IDs will not be at Wise, Virginia Tech and the Virginia when: all week updated, only incoming personnel will Military Institute have traditional chapels. where: dining halls receive the extended IDs. The change is At UVA, the cross is put away at the why: w&m students motivated by the fact that the Banner request of event sponsors, like the should be comfortable system requires a unique user ID for each College’s former policy. However, UVA’s with who they are user. While in the past user IDs were chapel is built in the shape of a cross and recycled and reassigned to future users features permanent religious imagery in with names similar to graduated students, its walls and stained-glass windows. At march 29 to 31 the new user IDs will be “retired” when a UVA’s College at Wise, the chapel is student, faculty or staff member leaves the called the Chapel of All Faiths and who: orchesis College. With more development, current features a plaque with the Virginia what: an evening of students, faculty and staff may be able to Statute for Religious Freedom printed on dance change their user IDs to the longer format. it. Virginia Tech and VMI’s chapels are when: 8 p.m. Superfluous X’s will also be dropped from similarly devoid of religious symbols, where: PBK the system – students with no middle name offering the facility as a space for secular why: all dances choreo- will only have their first initial and thirteen meetings as well as religious worship graphed by w&m students letters of their last name. According to I.T. depending on the group of students using more than 4,000 new user IDs are created the room at any given time. each year. THE DSJ - MARCH 2007 3 »> NEWSNEWS THE FINAL EXAM :FOR PROFESSORS Tenure» JAMES EVANS, DSJ NEWS EDITOR recent inductee into the tenure cadre, re- than a year to complete and forces profes- Tenure. All professors want it, but few flecting on the peer review aspect of the sors to scale a bureaucratic wall that would students really understand what it means. tenure process. shame even Professors spend six years building up to their According to Strikwerda, the most final tenure review, and not getting tenure Arts and Sciences professors compli- means a professor is back on the job market. such as Bartlett and cated of “It basically means the College has decided Nemacheck begin their ten- student to retain you,” said Government Professor ure review in the spring of gover- Christine Nemacheck. She received an offi- their fifth year by submitting nance pro- cial grant of tenure from the Board of Visi- a list of peers at other insti- cedures. tors at their Friday, Feb. 9 meeting. tutions they feel would be ap- Bartlett, According to Nemacheck, professors who propriate reviewers of their assistant di- do not receive tenure – “tenure casualties” scholarship. rector of – must move on to a new school when their Some larger departments choirs and employment contract expires. have a personnel committee, conductor According to Carl Strikwerda, Dean of while smaller departments of the the School of Arts and Sciences, faculty may use their entire tenured Botetourt members are hired to positions in the “ten- faculty to review a professor’s Chamber ure track” or “non-tenure track.” When list of peers. When approved, Singers, signing a tenure track professor, the date of the peers are provided with began her their tenure review is set, generally six years books, journal articles and tenure ap- into a professor’s term of employment. other work by the professor Name: Jamie Bartlett plication Tenure track professors usually hold the being reviewed. According Department: Music by com- title of Assistant Professor. Tenured pro- to Strikwerda, the outside Field: Conducting, Choir posing an fessors are usually an Associate Professor or professors reply with a let- Tenure Granted: 2-9-2007 introspec- a full Professor. Non-tenure track profes- ter auditing the work. tive self- sors are called visiting professors, adjunct “It’s a high benchmark,” statement professors, Bartlett detailing lecturers, in- said, call- her teach- structors and ing the tenure process ing philosophy, a description of her contri- other titles. “one of the reasons the butions to the College’s music program, her Such positions College is a thriving place impact on the field of choral music world- are short- to be.” wide and the role choral music plays in a term, rarely However, peer re- liberal arts curriculum. lasting longer views aren’t the only cri- Her self-statement, when combined with than five teria for granting tenure.