VARIETY OPINION SPORTS Global engagement Honor Council needs revamp Back in form The Banaa Project aims to fund Sudanese Shady decisions and poor representation have Tribe football opens new year with strong students who want to study at the College. eroded council’s credibility. defensive performance in annual spring game. SEE PAGE 7 SEE PAGE 6 SEE PAGE 10 The twice-weekly student newspaper of the College of William and Mary — Est. 1911 VOL.99, NO.48 TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 2010 FLATHATNEWS.COM ThePulse College alumnus Bite-size news you can use Student audit suggests misuse Just in time for seniors to was signed March 24, 200 by then- squeeze one more free meal Fund used to pay graduate assistants reports on riots out of their parents, The SA President Ryan Scofield ’07 and Trellis reopened yesterday Publications Council Chair Bradley in Market Square, under new By SAM SUTTON Gallery, jump!, The Monitor (Journal Justus ’07. The use of the fund was based in Central Asia management. Changes to Flat Hat Chief Staff Writer of International Studies), Not Wythe- on an agreement that was independent the restaurant include a new Standing the News, The Pillory, W&M of the publications contract between interior design and a fully A report issued Monday following Review, Winged Nation, WCWM 90.9 the SA and the CO Dalton Bennett ’09 covers updated kitchen, as well as a an independent student audit of the FM Radio and WMTV (Television). Publications urtes new menu featuring American Consolidated Student Publication The $12,000 spent during the Council. Kyrgyzstan’s revolution cuisine and locally grown WM. — Y Reserve Fund has indicated that 2009-10 academic year was approved “It was produce. Never fear, as the popular dessert Death by the Office of Student Activities used by Vice President for Student Affairs u n d e r s t o o d By SARAH OWERMOHLE E the fund to pay graduate assistants Ginger Ambler ’88 Ph.D ’06, who ran because that was D Flat Hat Staff Writer Chocolate is still available. U $11,000.08 in 2007-08 and $12,000 in the use of the fund past the College’s how it had been 2009-10. Internal Auditor Mike Stump. done in the past,” Dalton Bennett ’09 ducked into a hospital in The auditors, Taylor Porter ’11 and “That particular expenditure is one Constantine said. Ambler ’88 Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. After dodging gunfire on the No place like home? CO Leslie Lambert I authorized as a temporary charge for “The point of that streets, he followed a trail of blood to navigate the Busch Gardens Europe in urtes MBA ’10, indicated a graduate assistant stipend, with the contract was to stop publications [from chaotic hallways. Williamsburg begs to differ. in their report that understanding that the account would paying staff members].” Earlier that day, on the morning of April 7, thou- The park, named the “Most WM. — Y the expenditures be reimbursed this spring from a new The 2007 contract explicitly sands had gathered in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek Beautiful Theme Park” in violated the student affairs endowment which I prohibits student publications from to protest President Kurmanbek Bakiyev’s corrup- the nation for the 20th con- E D Student Assembly administer, and from which I can now paying staffers. The contract also tion and alleged human rights violations. secutive year by the National U Amusement Park Historical and Publications for the first time draw funds,” Ambler states: “The CSP [Consolidated By the end of the day, the government had fallen, Association, is offering free Council contract, said in an e-mail. Student Publications Reserve Fund] Bakiyev had fled the city and over 80 people were one-day admission to any Constantine which stipulates The funds have not been from the enactment of this contract dead following the outbreak of violence between po- British, Irish or continental when and how the reimbursed, but will be coming out of forth will have a $100,000 ceiling. lice and protestors. European tourist stranded fund can be used. the Sadler Endowment, Ambler said. Any and all funds that accrue above In the following weeks, former Foreign Minister in the United States by the The CSP reserve fund exists According to Assistant Vice this amount will be transferred Roza Otunbayeva stepped in as leader of the inter- Icelandic volcanic ash cloud outside the collective budget of the President for Student Affairs Mark back to the Student Assembly into im government and demanded Bakiyev step down that is currently preventing Publications Council, and is used as Constantine, the CSP Reserve Fund the Consolidated Student Activities from the presidency and face the charges against air travel. Tourists must pres- an auxiliary fund for council members had been used to pay for graduate Reserve Fund (CSA). All funds equal him. By April 15, Bakiyev was in exile in Kazakh- ent a valid return ticket dated from Wednesday April 14th to including The Colonial Echo, The assistants prior to the existence of a stan, and had issued a letter of resignation. Otun- Wednesday April 21st at the DoG Street Journal, The Flat Hat, The Publications Council contract, which See CONSTANTINE page 3 bayeva is still demanding Bakiyev face charges. guest services window. Bennett, a reporter for EurasiaNet and the Sons of Hedin Foundation — which he founded — has been living in Kyrgyzstan since January, and found himself at the center of the historical government Similarly, Virginia Lt. Gov. Fraternity boycotts awards event overthrow as it garnered international attention Bill Bolling (R) may not be able and coverage. to find a flight from Florence, According to Bennett, there is a climate of un- Italy in order to preside over a Opposition to Confederate month leads to tensions easy peace in Bishkek. one-day session of the Virginia “Things have returned to normal, more or less,” General Assembly, at which state legislators will vote on Gov. By IAN BRICKEY The decision to boycott the event chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha a recipient he said. Bob McDonnell’s (R) 96 pro- Flat Hat News Editor has been met with support from of the Governor’s Volunteerism and Bennett said that this was a marked contrast posed amendments to the state other Alpha Phi Alpha chapters Community Service Award as an from April 7, when the streets of the city were budgets. 83-year-old Charles The College of William and nationwide, and from members of outstanding educational institution chaotic — protestors convened outside the Social Cogan (D-Prince William) will F Mary’s Kappa Pi the College community. in Virginia. Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan’s headquarters, I preside over the session if Bol- LE chapter of Alpha “We did not contact the national “We were nominated for the award and police broke out tear gas and rubber bullets to PH ling is unable to attend. O Phi Alpha, Inc. office, but so far many chapters of by way of the Office of Community hold off those protestors. Eventually, both police T O — is working with Alpha Phi Alpha have been supportive Engagement and Scholarship here and protestors began firing live ammunition, result- flat the governor’s of our decision,” Alpha Phi Alpha at William and Mary,” Shambley ing in countless injuries and dozens of deaths. hat office to mitigate member Lamar Shambley ’10 said said. “We were chosen from a “I wish on no one the things I saw,” Bennett said, At least we’re not the only tensions after the in an e-mail. “They understand what statewide pool of applicants as the recounting stories of bodies being carried through ones with student housing trou- ble. Georgetown University’s chapter decided to we stand for and they understand winners of the award.” the streets and the dead lying in the overwhelmed 2010 Campus Plan, which calls Shambley ’10 boycott a service why we have decided to boycott the According to Shambley, the Alphas hospital. “At the hospital, I saw this older man in a for the addition of 3,000 graduate awards ceremony event … Many students, even some originally intended on attending the suit and tie, shot in the back of the head. There was and professional students, has in protest of Virginia Gov. Bob alumni, have e-mailed us supporting awards ceremony, but reconsidered no chance of survival.” upset residents of the adjacent McDonnell’s decision to proclaim what we have done.” Burleith community, who fear April “Confederate History Month.” McDonnell named the College’s See CEREMONY page 3 See BENNETT page 4 that their neighborhood will be aversely affected by the influx of students seeking off-campus housing. Neighborhood resi- dents have filed recurring com- Board of Visitors discusses budget at annual meeting plaints of drunkenness, noise, public urination and bonfires occurring in and around the rental properties surrounding State funding cuts, new the university. construction reviewed By JILL FOUND 1,000 tickets for President Flat Hat Assoc. News Editor Barack Obama’s graduation address at Hampton Uni- versity were made available The College of William and Mary’s Board of Visitors online yesterday and sold discussed budgeting issues, the needs of students and new out in 10 minutes, according building projects at its annual meeting April 14 to 16. to a university spokesman. Committee on Financial Affairs Chairman Charles The commencement event is Banks said that final budget announcements would not usually unticketed and open be made until later this week at the earliest. Accord- to the public, but counterfeit- ingly, no final decisions were made on tuition or the proof tickets will be required budget at the meeting.
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