feb. 2008>>>www.dogstreetjournal.com>>>volume 5 issue 6 The DoG Street Journal (what’sinside) (whoweare) Road to Richmond EDITORIALSTAFF Rebecca Hamfeldt >Lobbying the Legislature The DSJ reviews students’ recent trip to Co-Editor in Chief the State legislature to lobby for the Jeri Kent College. Co-Editor in Chief page 5 Stacey Marin Executive Editor In the Know Jonna Knappenberger News Editor >Students and the News Just how informed are students at the Jake Robert Nelson College? The DSJ takes a look at our Interim News Editor generation and the news. Gretchen Hannes page 14 Style Editor John Hill Mrs. President Sports Editor >The White House’s Future Katie Photiadis With presidential primaries in full Opinions Editor swing, one DSJ columnist predicts the Megan Luteran outcome of the 2008 election. Print Photo Editor page 16 Nazrin Roberson Online Photo Editor More than a T-Shirt Ryan Powers >Intramural Sports Online Design Editor Find out what’s behind competing for Michael Duarte the coveted championship t-shirt. Online Design Editor page 18 Keeley Edmonds Business Manager Khaleelah Jones Operations Editor OURMISSION Kellie O’Malley OURMISSION COVERIMAGE Layout Assistant The DSJ is the College’s only For the first time in seasons, Tribe (talktous) monthly newsmagazine and daily men’s basketball is tearing it up The DoG Street Journal online paper. Access us anytime on on the court. There have been The College of William & Mary the web at dogstreetjournal.com. several energy-charged games, Campus Center Basement We strive to provide a quality, including six straight wins and a Office 12B reliable and thought-provoking tough loss against ODU at the media outlet serving the College most well-attended home game (visitus) community with constantly in over a decade. Read inside for updated coverage of diverse www.dogstreetjournal.com more on this amazing season. www.dogstreetjournal.com topics. If it happens here, you’ll Your first news source for stories, know. Photo & Cover Design by when they happen. Updated daily. Megan Luteran 2 THE DSJ - FEBRUARY 2008 IN (savethedate) WORDSBRIEF february 9 who: everyone College Ranked Fifth Four Alums Honored what: charter day by Peace Corps for Commitment to when: 10 a.m. College where: pbk As of Sep. 2007, there are 51 College alums why: it’s been 315 years currently serving in the Peace Corps, mak- In celebration of Charter Day on Feb. 9, the since the founding of the ing the College the fifth highest producer of William and Mary Alumni Association will Corps volunteers among medium-sized col- award four alums with Alumni Medallions College leges and universities. In a press release, in honor of their continued dedication to february 12 College President Gene Nichol commented the College. The four honorees are Linda on the contributions made by alums, noting Beerbower Burke (’70), Randall S. who: registered voters that the efforts of volunteers demonstrate Hawthorne (’67, J.D. ’70, M.L.T. ’71), what: republican and the College’s “increasingly service-oriented, Suzann Wilson Matthews (’71) and Patrisia democratic presidential international character.” The College has Bayliss Owens (’62). The alums’ achieve- primaries more alumni in the Peace Corps than Yale ments include Burke’s success in the IRS, when: 6 a.m. - 7 p.m. University, the University of Pennsylvania Hawthorne’s stint as a track coach at the where: williamsburg and Georgetown University; however, the College, Matthews’ position on the College’s College could not catch up to top-ranked Board of Visitors and Owens’ decades as a community building on n. University of Virginia with 72 alum volun- docent at the National Gallery of Art in boundary street for teers currently serving. Washington, D.C. williamsburg voters Local Government why: exercise your role in Research Grants Allow Summarizes Its Goals our democracy Undergraduates to do february 17 Cutting-Edge Research The City of Williamsburg’s government re- leased a list of its current goals in The Daily who: sports fans Because of recent grants from the Howard Press. They include transportation, expan- what: tribe women’s basket- Hughes Medical Institute and the Andrew sion of jails and preschools, changes to pay- ball takes on northeastern W. Mellon Foundation, the College will of- day lending and a land initiative for Eastern when: 3 p.m. fer many more opportunities for under- State Hospital. The City wants to make the where: kaplan arena graduate scientific research. The College was fees and taxes imposed by the Hampton chosen by HHMI to offer a yearlong, re- Roads Transit Authority more relevant to why: to watch the tribe search-intensive course focusing on phage alleviate major transportation problems. continue their winning streak genomics, the structure of DNA from vi- Also, plans exist to expand local jails and to against northeastern ruses that infect bacteria. The grant from make preschools more accessible. The City the Mellon Foundation will allow for the con- also plans to halt the exploitative payday lend- february 21-24 struction of a Geospatial Analysis Center to ing business and create a land planning ini- who: theatergoers work in tandem with the College’s Environ- tiative for the land next to Eastern State what: molière’s “the mental Science and Policy Program to ana- Hospital on Longhill Road. lyze the earth using geographic information scams of scapin” systems (GIS) technology. Virginia Governor when: 8 p.m. (feb. 21- Commends Commit- 23); 2 p.m. (feb. 24) College Moves Forward ment to Service where: pbk in Website Redesign why: a 17th century Virginia Governor Timothy Kaine visited example of sticking it to The College’s plan to redo the current the College on Jan. 18 to speak in a forum your parents website, dubbed re.web, has progressed to a about civic engagement. He was joined by new stage. Three concept designs have been College alum Cosmo Fujiyama (’07), co- february 27 released, ranging from “traditional to cut- founder of Students Helping Honduras. Over who: ting-edge,” according to the College’s 100 students and members of the Board of who: budding ecologists website. Multiple designs put an emphasis Visitors attended the forum. Kaine and what: campus on individual stories and are based more Fujiyama spoke about the importance of sustainability lecture heavily on images than on text, as compared public service, and Kaine answered ques- when: 7 p.m. to the College’s current site. The new con- tions from the audience on a variety of po- where: small 113 cepts were designed in collaboration with litical issues. College President Gene Nichol why: the vice president the marketing company mStoner and take also spoke at the forum, commending the for operations of virginia College community for its strong commit- inspiration from several other university wesleyan will be speaking websites. ment to service–230,000 hours per year. THE DSJ - FEBRUARY 2008 3 » NEWS COLLEGE TO BID SADLER FOND FAREWELL AFTER CROSS CONTROVERSY, SADLER DELAYED DEPARTURE TO AVOID MISINTERPRETATION » JAKE ROBERT NELSON, DSJ NEWS EDITOR dent affairs. ol accompanied Sadler in ringing the bell The news broke on Jan. 15 in an e-mail “That [research] laid a foundation for the once for each year of service to the Col- sent from College President Gene Nichol to structure and programs and set a base for lege. “It was a special moment.” all students: the College’s venerated Vice the future,” Sadler said, “and in terms of The ever-humble vice president did not President for Student Affairs will retire at our work, a lot of what you see today.” want to go out with a bang; however, his the end of the 2007-2008 academic year. Vice President Sadler also described his departure will surely merit an immense Some students greeted the news with apa- role in the formation of some cherished reaction. Even among the student affairs thy, while others were nearly reduced to College traditions, such as the post-com- staff, the announcement of his retirement tears, but the departure of such an institu- mencement candlelight walk from the was laden with emotion. tion at the College will affect the goings-on Wren Building to William and Mary Hall “I explained what was going on, and of students regardless of reaction. and the College’s renewal of Convocation then I lost it,” Sadler emotionally recalled. Sadler had originally planned his retire- for freshmen and new transfers. “They just started clapping. The hardest ment for the end of the 2006-2007 school One tradition in which Vice President part for me was keeping composed, but it year, a year that would mark both his 65th Sadler never participated was the ringing doesn’t bother me to show that this mat- birthday and his 40th year of work ters to me.” at the College. However, he deter- Vice President Sadler hopes, be- mined that it would be wiser to wait “The cross controversy came up... I fore his departure, to continue his another year to avoid a departure day-to-day interactions with stu- embroiled in controversy. really felt that if I left [then] it would dents, an experience that he thinks Just as he was preparing to an- have been misinterpreted.” exemplifi es the College experience. nounce his retirement, the College He hopes that he has had an effect became a hotbed of confl ict regard- on students parallel to that of the ing the Wren Cross dispute. “The cross of the bell at the Wren Building to com- mentors during his time at the College. controversy came up,” Sadler said. “I really memorate years of service at the College. Citing a College alum and a current felt that if I left [then] it would have been That lapse was quickly remedied in a fury teacher, Vice President Sadler summed misinterpreted.” of tintinnabulation upon the announce- up the reasons he loves the College: “Wil- Although Vice President Sadler had ment of his retirement.