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Joe Hart page 14 Online Design Editor Megan Hermida Operations Editor The W&M -- ? >The Mascot Search Layout for this issue also by: One DSJ columnist looks at the process of Lauren Bicknell finding a new mascot to represent the students. Jay Lyon Nick Metheny page 16 Ali Rudel Kristen Wong OURMISSION (talktous) OURMISSION COVERIMAGE The DoG Street Journal The DSJ is the College’s only The DSJ knows its students are The College of William & Mary monthly newsmagazine and daily making big strides outside Campus Center Basement online paper. Access us anytime on Williamsburg walls. So, in this Office 12B the web at dogstreetjournal.com. issue, we’ve headed Outside City Williamsburg, Virginia 23185 We strive to provide a quality, Limits. You may be just an hour 757.221.7851 reliable and thought-provoking down the road in Richmond, or media outlet serving the College maybe you went halfway around (visitus) community with constantly the globe. Either way, we’re updated coverage of diverse seeing what you’re up to. www.dogstreetjournal.com topics. If it happens here, you’ll Photo by Amanda Potter Your first news source for stories know. when they happen. Updated daily. Design by Marina Stranieri 2 THE DSJ - APRIL 2009 IN (savethedate) WORDSBRIEF april 7 who: anyone who does not know Davison M. Douglas what ketuk tilu means Named Dean of Law Students Get Rare Look what: classical indonesian dance School at Spanish Archives workshop Over spring break, three W&M when: 12:30 p.m. Arthur B. Hanson Professor of Law Davison undergraduates joined history professor Lu M. Douglas was named the new Dean of the where: adair dance studio Ann Homza on a research trip to Pamplona, William and Mary School of Law, succeeding why: to learn a unique and Spain to peruse sets of 13th, 16th, and 17th- current President Taylor Reveley, who interesting form of cultural century archives. After learning about the served as Dean for ten years. Lynda Butler, dance Mellon Foundation’s undergraduate Chancellor Professor of Law, had served as research grants, Homza offered interim dean since Reveley’s presidency. opportunities for the students to study a april 10 Pending approval by the William & Mary number of holdings on witchcraft trials, Board of Visitors, Douglas will take up his clerical misbehavior and other aspects of old who: students with a flair for position on July 1, 2009. Spanish society. The students will present the urban and the poetic their findings at the first undergraduate what: def poetry slam competi- research symposium in Medieval and tion with jon goode & rafael Renaissance Studies. casal Historically Black when: 9:00 p.m. Fraternity Comes to where: lodge 1 Campus Law Student Authors why: to try out slam poetry with For the first time in W&M’s history, the your fellow students historically black fraternity Omega Psi Phi Obama Book will accept undergraduates at the college. On March 10, Phoenix Books released The april 11 On Saturday, March 21, the fraternity Obama Revolution, a book by third-year law revealed the identities of the new student Alan Kennedy-Shaffer. Because who: movie enthusiasts undergraduate members at the Lake Kennedy-Shaffer served as a regional field what: screen on the green Matoaka Amphitheatre. Several members director for the Obama campaign in Virginia, when: 8:00 p.m. of the William and Mary community are this is the first book published about the where: sunken gardens already members of the fraternity, including Obama campaign by a campaign staffer. The why: to see two blockbusters Assistant Dean of students Randy Williams book relates Kennedy-Shaffer’s own and Board of Visitors member John Charles experiences working for the campaign and outside with your friends Thomas. Other noted members of the looks into Obama’s famed rhetoric. This is fraternity include Langston Hughes, Michael Kennedy-Shaffer’s second book. Jordan and Bill Cosby. april 12 who: all christian students what: easter sunday when: all day W&M Professor Recog- Three-Person Housing where: at a church or in your nized for Gifted Educa- Rule Focus Group home tion Contributions Reunites why: to celebrate the resurrec- On March 13, over 100 people gathered at The Focus Group on Rental Properties, a tion of jesus christ the W&M Alumni House to honor Jody and group made up of William and Mary Layton Smith Professor of Education Joyce students as well as community residents, VanTassel-Baska for her work as executive met on Thursday for the first time after a april 15 director of William & Mary’s Center for recent split. The group was split up into who: students with tribe pride Gifted Education. The “empress” of gifted several smaller groups, which were to focus what: basball game vs. education will be retiring this summer after on local policy instead of state laws. The maryland-eastern shore 22 years of service to this college. The event three-person rule has been a continuous when: 7:00 p.m. included panel discussions on several aspects source of controversy between the College of gifted education and a speech by and the community, including the suing of where: plumeri park VanTassel-Baska herself. several students earlier this year. why: to see william and mary dominate THE DSJ - APRIL 2009 3 » NEWS together,” checking e-mail and doing research According to Elias, his experience » ISABELLE COHEN, DSJ NEWS EDITOR in voter files, databases with constituent working for Delegate Vanderhye the year While most of campus slept, students like information. before inspired him to start the internship Antonio Elias (’09), Matthew Reges (’09) “Some days I would work on letter-writing program. Elias said that he “had to jump Brian Focarino (’11), Mallory Johnson (’10) projects,” said Johnson. “Some days opposition through hoops to get credit,” for the and Beth Anne DeGiorgis (’11) woke up research and some days lobbying… I also spent internship and had to struggle to find enough every Monday, Wednesday and Friday time running around the General Assembly classes that only met Tuesdays and around 6:30 am. They piled into different cars building and getting signatures of all the Thursdays. and, after what Focarino referred to as “the different delegates to be co-signers on a bill. He said that although many students from necessary and proper Wawa run,” drove 50 That was cool.” Richmond intern for delegates and minutes from Williamsburg to Richmond, “The biggest part of my day was probably senators, few students from William and where they worked as interns. Most didn’t correspondence,” said Reges. He worked for Mary do. He thought that “there should be leave Richmond until around 3:30 in the State Senator Creigh Deeds (D-25), who a solid program for William and Mary,” afternoon, sometimes later. represents Bath County. Reges responded and he set about making it happen. Fifteen students worked in senate and to letters about gun regulation, Elias said that he first went to Senator delegate offices from January 21 until environmental regulation, smoking bans, Tommy Norment to ask him to teach a class February 27. All 15 are also enrolled in an taxes, and even fox trapping. to go along with the internship. Elias academic course, which started meeting after Reges also spent time tracking Senator approached other students in person and spring break, and will write a final paper based Deeds’s bills, attending committee meetings, put out announcements on the biweekly on a component of their internship and meeting with constituents and lobbyists. Student Happenings e-mail. experience. Sometimes, he didn’t leave Richmond until According to Elias, the biggest difficulty The course, which includes the internship, late at night. “There were always receptions, was that students couldn’t sign up for the the class meetings and the paper, gives each events in the evening, hosted by various course without already having an student only two credits. Senator Thomas groups,” said Reges, “so I’d occasionally stay internship, but students were reluctant to Norment (R-3), who represents late for that.” commit to an internship without being Williamsburg, teaches the course. For those who worked for delegates, who signed up for the course. Although the work was different have much shorter election cycles, constituent Johnson found the search for an employer depending on which senator a student correspondence was even more important. stressful: “At first it wasn’t going to be a worked for, many of the interns spent a fair A delegate “cannot ignore a single class, it was just going to be an individual amount of their time on correspondence, constituent letter,” explained Elias. Elias, who internship through the Government responding to e-mails, phone calls and letters was one of the founders of the internship Department. I had to meet with Professor from constituents; however, students’ responsibilities extended far beyond such simple work. “The experience is so incredible.