College hosts Colonial Relays Lake Matoaka Heroes Featuring 16 All-American collegiate runners, this storied Gym Class Heroes rocked and rapped up a jam-packed track meet today kicks off its 43rd year. Lake Matoaka amphitheater Wednesday night. See RElaYS page 8 See HEROES page 6 The twice-weekly student newspaper of the College of William and Mary F Est. 1911 VOL.97, NO.42 FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2008 FLATHATNEWS.COM The casualties of war Police pursue student Police were looking yesterday for Andrew Seve ’10 By ISSHIN TESHIMA Flat Hat Assoc. News Editor Williamsburg City police officers interrupted a microeconomics exam yesterday morning in a search to find Andrew Seve ’10. “About maybe halfway through the exam, a lady comes in and asked [for] Andrew Seve,” Christian Dutilh ’11, who was also taking the exam at the time, said. “He’s wasn’t in class, so he didn’t come up.” Williamsburg police allegedly entered about five minutes later and asked the professor if they could do a facial survey of all the students to make sure that Seve was not in the room. Police then proceeded to match the students with a computer printout of Seve’s face that was in their possession. “Everybody was sort of confused, but sort of wor- MARAL noori-moghaddam — THE FLAT HAT ried at the same time,” Jenice Lacks ’11, one of the Anti-war group CODEPink displayed 113 pairs of boots in the Sunken Garden Wednesday and Thursday to represent fallen Virginia soldiers. students in the class, said. “It was awkward, but also random.” Exhibit displayed boots of fallen Virginia soldiers to inspire thought about war Both Lacks and Dutilh reported having a sense of anxiety over what Seve By ANDY GARDEN touring the country since January 2004, when AFSC According to Somor, the memorial has attract- could have done to war- Flat Hat Staff Writer displayed boots in Chicago’s Federal Plaza. ed attention from College students and staff, with rant the police search. CODEPink activists and exhibition co-sponsors several people looking for the boots representing “I was kind of wor- One hundred and thirteen pairs of boots filled Shirin Wertime ’10 and Julie Somor ’10 said that fallen friends and relatives. Many of the boots con- ried with all the differ- part of the Sunken Garden Wednesday and Thurs- the exhibition was designed to make people stop tain personal mementos, such as photographs, flags ent stuff that’s been go- day as anti-war group CODEPink hosted Eyes and think, but was not designed as a protest of the and favorite candies. ing on at the College,” Wide Open, a memorial to Virginia’s fallen Iraq war. “I think we have a very non-political approach,” Lacks said. war soldiers. Although the exhibition is billed as a non-po- Somor said. “It’s a very respectful exhibit.” Dutilh said that most The exhibit was supposed to take place one litical memorial, the sponsors did say that people AFSC promotional materials from the exhibi- of the students were day earlier. Organizers delayed it one day because have accused them of making a political statement tion highlight the financial and social costs of the fairly confused. they feared damaging the boots in Tuesday’s rainy with Eyes Wide Open. A promotional e-mail for war. An AFSC pamphlet urged people to lobby “Everybody in the weather. the exhibition described CODEPink as “a national, Congress to defund the war and redirect the money class was kind of shaken “The boots are insured for around $1 million,” women-initiated, grassroots, peace and social jus- to social programs in the United States and Iraq. up and looking around Margaret Smith ’10 said. “It’s not a chance CODE- tice movement working to end the war in Iraq.” Wertime denied that the exhibition was a politi- SPENCER Atkinson — THE [thinking] what possi- Pink wanted to risk.” “Some might interpret it as having a slant, but cal statement. FLAT HAT bly could this kid have Co-sponsored by the American Friends Service we’re trying to highlight the financial, political and “That’s not the focus here,” she said. “Whether Andrew Seve ’10 played done?” Dutilh said. Committee, the memorial is part of a national ex- human cost of the war,” Wertime said. “We’re call- you support the war or not, we can all come to- piano last night at hibition of all American deaths in Iraq. It has been ing it a memorial.” gether over remembrance.” Homebrew. See POLICE page 4 IT blames e-mail Door of senator vandalized Noted anti-Nichol student alleges outage on glitch Nichol supporters responsible Hundreds of thousands of e-mails held up By MAXIM LOTT Flat Hat News Editor By ALEX GUILLÉN unexpectedly began to sort and verify Flat Hat News Editor hundreds of gigabytes of information Between 4 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. Tuesday, the dorm room stored in the e-mail system. Mirapoint door of Sen. Joe Luppino-Esposito ’08 was covered in shaving It was every student’s worst night- warned against a manual override. cream, and copies of The Virginia Informer were taped across mare: no e-mail. “We had to let that thing run all day the doorway. Luppino-Esposito is a graduating senator in the Monday morning, a routine soft- long,” Carpenter said. An interruption Student Assembly and the co-founder of The Virginia Informer, ware update caused the College’s e- would potentially corrupt all of the a conservative publication on campus. mail system to crash, cutting off ac- data. Luppino-Esposito said that he heard a gushing noise outside cess to all College e-mail accounts for The patch finished updating Mon- his door as he was about to go to bed and, thinking that some- the day. day afternoon, but the day-long out- one had turned the water on in the maintenance closet across College Chief Information Of- age had created a backlog of “literally from his room, went out to turn it off. ficer Courtney Carpenter explained hundreds of thousands of e-mail mes- “I opened the door, and there were newspapers over my that several weeks ago, Mirapoint, sages,” Carpenter said. The backlog head,” Luppino-Esposito said. the fourth-largest provider of corpo- created a new cascade of software Luppino-Esposito said that he believes the incident to be rate e-mail and the College’s vendor, problems. politically motivated and done by supporters of former Presi- released an update for the e-mail soft- Mirapoint engineers and IT em- dent Gene Nichol, citing the symbol of a campus group called ware. ployees spent the week working to cor- Spades that had been left above his door. The group stretched “We want to stay current,” Carpen- rect all of the problems, and Carpenter a pro-Nichol banner across the Crim Dell bridge after Nichol’s ter said. says that they are nearly finished. resignation. The update, however, caused a “Everything should be back up,” Luppino-Esposito said that April Fool’s Day did not excuse slowdown in the e-mail system, so he said, noting that disabled e-mail the incident. the company released a “patch” to fix forwarding on some accounts is the “If someone had done an April Fool’s joke to offend some- the problem. final major problem to fix. “There’s one’s race or religion on [the] other side, I don’t think we’d be At 6 a.m. Monday, Information still some intermittent problems here looking at the date,” he said. Technology employees attempted to and there that the company’s working The College said that it is investigating the matter. Bri- install the patch. The outage was ex- on, and as you can imagine we’re put- an Whitson of University Relations said that the College is pected to last six or seven minutes, ting a lot of pressure on them to get COURTESY PHOTo — joe luppino-espositO according to Carpenter, but the patch this thing fixed.” Joe Luppino-Esposito’s ’08 door was vandalized Tuesday morning. See VANDALISM page 3 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 4, 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’ 1928 25 Campus Center, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA. 23185 Editorial Dept. (757) 221-3281 —­ ­Advertising Dept. 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Winthrop Andrew Pike, Sports Editor Brian Mahoney, Chief Staff Writer Rockefeller, the chairman of Colonial Williamsburg, In this issue greeted the king and his 15 Mike Crump, Assoc. News Editor Maggie Reeb, Assoc. Insight Editor member party. The young Sam Sutton, Assoc.