Women’s tennis at it again Ying Yang Twins perform For the 20th time in the last 23 years, the Tribe The crunk rap duo did anything but whisper at has captured the women’s tennis CAA crown. UCAB’s spring concert Saturday. See TenniS page 12 See Ying yang page 7 The twice-weekly student newspaper of the College of William and Mary F Est. 1911 VOL.97, NO.47 TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 2008 FLATHATNEWS.COM SING IT AGAIN, SAM BOV: Gateway to $10 million Endowment initiative draws on $1 million from board, $5 million from donor By ISSHIN TESHIMA donations, will increase the endow- Flat Hat Assoc. News Editor ment to roughly $8 million. “Two months ago, my colleagues Interim College President Taylor on this Board made a promise to the Reveley announced a plan to William and Mary family,” Powell increase the Gateway William and Mary endowment to $10 million at See GATEWAY page 5 the Board of Visitors meet- ing last week. gateway endowment Funding Source Reveley hopes the $10 million goal will be met by the end of this calendar year. The current Gateway endowment is $1.65 mil- lion. “It really is a good start,” College spokesper- son Brian Whitson said. SPENCER Atkinson— THE FLAT HAT “We want to make sure Vice President for Student Affairs Sam Sadler conducts the William and Mary Choir in a rendition of the Alma Mater while onlookers sing along that we can financially during a rally in Sadler’s honor Friday, April 18. Sadler is retiring this summer after 41 years working at the College. Festivities included t-shirts support the program.” and a banner reading, “William & Mary & Sam,” and speeches from Interim College President Taylor Reveley and Sadler. The BOV committed to the effort by personally pledg- ing to donate a combined $1 mil- TOWN AND GOWN RELATIONS Freshman lion. This, along with several other SOURCE: THE BOARD OF VISITORS helps Wash. WRHA pays $130K CITY COUNCIL ELECTIONS over assessed value Candidates Post win 110 Harrison originally bought to keep out renters By NANCY BLANFORD some are asking about the Williamsburg turn to students Pulitzer Flat Hat Staff Writer Redevelopment and Housing Authority’s purchase of the house at With more than 1,000 new student voters, Emily Shroder ’11 helped Why would the Williamsburg city 110 Harrison Ave., which will lose the government help purchase a house for city over $39,800 if it sells at the price candidates open up on student issues with feature on music $129,300 over its assessed the house is on sale for. in the Metro value? That According to city Real By MIKE CRUMP 72 votes to Bobby Braxton. Then- is what Estate Assessor John Flat Hat Assoc. News Editor student David Sievers ’07 was 156 By NICHOLE LIDSTROM Mattson, the city assessed votes away from a seat. This year’s The Flat Hat the total house and prop- Candidates for Williamsburg election puts six candidates up for erty at $147,700 in July City Council are searching for new three positions on the council. Emily Shroder ’11 teamed up this spring 2006. The house was pur- ways to appeal to the rapidly grow- Previous campaign tactics such as with a three million dollar violin, the L’Enfant chased by the WRHA for ing student voter population. door-to-door personal talks proved Plaza Metro Station and — most importantly $277,000. Over 1,000 students were regis- difficult with the College’s dormi- — a Washington Post reporter to produce a Williamsburg Vice tered in a campus-wide voter regis- tory system and associated security, 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning article. Mayor and economics tration drive funded by the Student forcing candidates to find new ways In early 2007, Washington Post report- department chairman Assembly. With such an influx of to publicize their names and views er Gene Weingarten contacted Tom Shroder, Clyde Haulman said voters, student approval could mean on the issues. editor of The Washington that there is a difference the difference between a spot on the Most turned, in one way or Post Magazine and father between the assessed City Council and an unsuccessful another, to student media as a way of College student Emily campaign. In the 2006 City Council Shroder, who was a high BEAU BLUMBerg — THE FLAT HAT See HARRISON page 4 election, Billy Scruggs Jr. lost by See CANDIDATES page 4 school senior at the time. Weingarten wanted to con- duct a unique social experi- COURTESY — emilY SHRODER — emilY COURTESY ment for a future newspaper Shroder ’11 article. If one of the best vio- Ying Yang concert cut short by College linists in the world performed in disguise as a street musician, the writer City, College officials ordered concert’s wondered, would Washington commuters stop and listen? early end due to noise complaints Shroder was excited about the prospect of the experiment. By KASI KANGARLOO “I used to play the violin, and so when Flat Hat Variety Editor Gene mentioned this idea to my father, my dad thought I might find the premise of the Last Saturday, the Ying Yang Twins concert at the Lake Matoaka article interesting,” Shroder said. “I was very amphitheater was rescheduled to end at 10 p.m. instead of 11 p.m., intrigued by it, and when he invited me to miss after a decision made by Williamsburg City officials and College school one day last spring and go with him to officials. the metro station to help out, I was happy to.” According to Jeanna Occhiogrosso ’08, University Center Joshua Bell, a young world-class violin- Activities Board Music chair, the first word of the decision to ist, donned jeans and a Washington Nationals reschedule was passed onto UCAB at 11 a.m. Saturday morning by baseball cap and went to L’Enfant Plaza Metro Mark Constantine, director of Student Activities. Station in Washington D.C. He laid out a The reason for the sudden rescheduling was the city’s noise case to collect donations and began playing curfew of 10 p.m., though the College has been allowed extensions his three-and-a-half million dollar Gibson ex for past concerts. Huberman violin. Accustomed to sold-out per- UCAB was forced to rescind on contractual obligations made to formances around the world, Bell played nearly both Thao with the Get Down Stay Down and the Ying Yang Twins, an hour to an estimated audience of 1,000 rush- the two musical groups performing Saturday, by cutting down their ing D.C. commuters. allotted performance times. The performance also had to start 10 SPENCER Atkinson — THE FLAT HAT See PULITZER page 5 See YING YANG page 5 Students reach for the Ying Yang Twins during the concert Saturday at the Matoaka Amphitheater. inside: The Flat Hat’s guide to the Williamsburg City Council Candidates See Chart, Page 3 Page 2 Tuesday, April 22, 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’ 1920 25 Campus Center, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA. 23185 Editorial Dept. (757) 221-3281 —­ ­Advertising Dept. (757) 221-3283 —­Fax (757) 221-3242 A large clock was installed in THE Flat Hat — [email protected] the tower of the Wren Building. NEWS — [email protected] V ARIETY — [email protected] S POrts — [email protected] R.M. Hughes of Norfolk gave REVIEWS — [email protected] OPINIONS — [email protected] ADVERTISING — [email protected] the clock as one of his many gifts to the College. 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