Sitting down with a legend The secret world of the Sevens Hall of Fame Coach Marv Levy talks about his time Nine secret societies perform charity work at the College, at the College and his past success delivering cookies during exams and umbrellas in the rain See LEVY page 10 See SECRET SOCIETIES page 6 The twice-weekly student newspaper of the College of William and Mary F Est. 1911 VOL.97, NO.43 TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2008 FLATHATNEWS.COM Dis-N-That, Monica’s may close TOWN AND GOWN RELATIONS Owner says he plans to redevelop thrift shop and psychic into residences Harrison By SARAH OWERMOHLE Flat Hat Staff Writer house loses The Williamsburg City Council is on a quest to redevelop underused or dilapidated lots and buildings, beginning with Dis-N-That thrift shop WRHA $40k and Monica Spiritual Reader and Advisor on Richmond Road. The first in the line of projects was the demo- Housing Authority turned duplex lition of the run-down Tioga Motel a few months ago, leaving a cleared lot that is currently up for into single-family home sale. “We don’t know any plans for the Tioga site, By NANCY BLANFORD but it’s been put back on the market,” Mayor The Flat Hat Jeanne Zeidler said. “There was the liability of an old and aging, dilapidated structure, and we The Williamsburg Redevelopment and Housing wanted to see it economically redeveloped.” Authority may lose over $39,800 due to the purchase The next projected demolition plan is the and renovation of a house on 110 Harrison Ave. block of buildings just up the street that includes The WRHA purchases and renovates houses around Dis-N-That and Monica’s. Although this proj- Williamsburg. Sharon Scruggs, chairman of the WRHA, ect has been on the Williamsburg Economic said that one of the goals of the WRHA is to provide Development Authority Demolition Loan affordable homes to the working Program since January 2007, Zeidler says it is class. not necessarily a City Council responsibility. In April 2006, “It’s privately owned property, we’re not the WRHA used alex haglund— THE FLAT HAT city loans, in Dis-N-That, a thrift store on Richmond Road, may be demolished and turned into residences by the owner. See DEMOLITION page 3 addition to p r e v i o u s l y allocated city TOWN AND GOWN RELATIONS funds, to pur- chase the house College considers BEAU BLUMBerg — THE FLAT HAT from David Planning official Kranbuehl, the This house at 110 Harrison Ave. was elected presi- renovated by the city. switching to Gmail dent of the Homeowners Association of West Williamsburg Heights criticizes students After problems with current e-mail system, and a chemistry professor at the College. Jim Joseph: Student votes will be used IT looks to change to Gmail or Microsoft Originally a duplex, the house has been renovated into a single-family home. According to City Manager ‘not as a civic duty but as a weapon’ By JOSH BARR College and would not come with Jack Tuttle, a total of $418,005 was spent for the pur- Flat Hat Staff Writer ads. chase and renovation of the house. The original asking By SAM SUTTON Council meeting Saturday, Joseph Storage capacity would be 100 price for the house was $425,000, but that has since Flat Hat Assoc. News Editor chided the Student Assembly, The Following intermittent e-mail times greater under the new ser- been dropped to $389,900. If sold at this price, the Flat Hat and Matt Beato ’09 over outages last week, the College is vices. Although the details are still WRHA would be losing $28,105. Neighborhood Council issues ranging from the Rock the considering switching its e-mail being negotiated, both services are In addition to the $28,105 lost with the purchase of Chairman Jim Joseph publicly Vote bill to opinion pieces that service. currently offering five gigabytes the house, the WRHA will pay a 3 percent commission sounded off on the stalled conver- have run in The Flat Hat. “We are certainly looking at the of e-mail storage and five giga- to the realtor representing the buyer. This would bring sations between “Votes will be used not as a new student e-mail offerings from bytes of document storage. the total loss to $39,800. the city, students civic duty but as a weapon to fight Google as well as Microsoft,” Chief Carpenter believes the recent Home values have fallen over the last year in the and residents perceived injustice,” Joseph said Information Officer Courtney instability with WebMail would Hampton Roads area. Williamsburg was hit especially regarding off- in an interview Monday. Carpenter said. also be a thing of the past. hard, with the median price of a home falling 16 per- campus housing. Joseph added that he viewed the E-mail accounts would retain “[Both services] should be very cent, according to data from the Real Estate Information In his opinion pieces of Flat Hat Senior the “wm.edu” prefix, even though fast and reliable, as these com- Network cited in the Daily Press. James City County remarks, given Staff Writer Max Fisher, in which the Gmail or Microsoft interface panies have large infrastructures residents saw an 8 percent drop, while home prices in FILE PHOTo — THE FLAT HAT THE FLAT — FILE PHOTo at the end of the would be used. Both services Beato ’09 N e i g h b o r h o o d See JOSEPH page 4 would come at no charge to the See GMAIL page 4 See HARRISON page 4 Seve turns self Career Center to get a new home New facility to be built between ter programs and the lighting and ity. in to city police space limitations of its current loca- “Coupling the Career Center University Center, Zable tion recently inspired plans for an with the University Center is a great Police sought sophomore 11,000-square-foot facility between idea. For undergraduates, it is an By NICHOLE LIDSTROM tance and placement in internships the University Center and Zable ideal location on campus, and for over traffic violation The Flat Hat and employment. According to the Stadium. admissions tours it speaks volumes By MAXIM LOTT center, its programs reached almost After nine years of hearing about about the College helping them plan Flat Hat News Editor The Career Center has plans to three-fourths of seniors and half the Career Center’s lack of accessi- for life after school. It is a bold construct a privately funded facility of juniors in the 2006-2007 school bility and difficult location, Director statement,” she said. Andrew Seve ’10 turned himself in to Williamsburg next to the heavily trafficked area in year. Mary Schilling believes the center Police late Friday afternoon for a traffic-related violation, front of the University Center. The increasing demand for cen- is ready for a new, centralized facil- See CENTER page 4 Williamsburg Police Lieutenant Greg Riley told The Flat The construction project is esti- Hat. The arrest was not drug or violence related. mated to cost $7 million and will be Last week, several attempts were made to apprehend completely funded through private Seve. The first took place Wednesday donations. A date of completion has night at the Wren 10 performance of not been released, though ground- the Stairwells, an a capella group of breaking is expected to occur once OOK.COM B which Seve is a part. Although police sufficient funds are received. attempted to block off the exits, they The year-long construction were unable to apprehend Seve. will not affect the center’s cur- On Thursday, police entered Seve’s rent capabilities, but major road TAKEN FROM FACE TAKEN economics class during an exam and and landscape grading will occur Seve ’10 compared mugshots to students in an along James Blair Drive next to the attempt to identify Seve, who was not University Center. in class that day. That night, police also showed up to a Created in 1980, the Career UCAB Homebrew event at which Seve was performing, Center has been located in the base- but he had left the stage by the time they arrived. ment of Blow Memorial Hall since Williamsburg Deputy Police Chief Dave Sloggie 1990. The center provides both could not be reached for comment Monday afternoon. undergraduates and graduates with Campus police officials were also unavailable for com- practical workshops, career coun- COURTESY graphic — career center ment. seling, resume and interview assis- The new Career Center will sit next to the University Center and Zable Stadium. The area is currently vacant. 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