Non-Profit Organization U.S. Postage PAID Williamsburg, VA Permit No. 26 WILLIAM 6^ MARY NEWS VOLUME XXVIII, NUMBER 11 A NEWSPAPER FORfACULTY, STAFF AND STUDENTS THURSDAY, FEBRUARYS 1999 College Mourns Passing Of "Education Governor Mills Godwin was instrumental in 1960s expansion T' he governor who coined Constitutional Revision. During his first administra¬ the William and Mary But Godwin, who also once tion, from 1966 to 1970, he was phrase "alma mater of a na¬ called the College a "precious the government official whose tion" died over the weekend jewel" in the crown of the Com¬ support enabled the expansion of at the age of 84 in Newport monwealth, contributed more to graduate study at the College, the News. William and Mary than just an apt construction of the New Campus Mills E. Godwin Jr., a 1934 description. President Timothy and adoption of the peer group alumnus of the College who Sullivan called the late governor system which led to improved fac¬ served two terms as governor of "our friend and favorite son of this ulty salaries. Virginia, included that descrip¬ College. His life of exemplary ser¬ Dr. Davis Y. Paschall '32, a life¬ tion of William and Mary in a vice to the Commonwealth and his long friend of the governor and speech in the Great Hall on dedicated concern for all citizens president of the College during While governor and in the years afterward, Mills Godwin remained Jan. 11, 1969, at a meeting of marked him first and always as a actively involved in life at his alma mater, William and Mary. the 11-member Commission on great servant of Virginia's people." CONTINUED ON PAGE 6. St aturday was a good day for pionships in Indiana later this year. William and Mary's men's The Tribe's top contenders swim team. Not only did it for the NCAAs are Chris Robinson defeat both Old Dominion in the distance events, Mike University and American Lovett, Rusty Hodgson and Adrian Men's Swim Team i University in the Recreational Maholchic in the sprint freestyle, Sports Center for its 15th dual Dan Gowetski in the breaststroke meet win against only one loss; the and Marcus Hill in the individual Captures CAA Title men ended their dual meet season medley. Robinson, a junior who with a perfect 6-0 record to finish was William and Mary's outstand¬ at the top of the Colonial Athletic ing swimmer last year, holds Association. school records in the 200-, 500-, And there are still more possi¬ 1000-, and 1650-meter freestyle. bilities of trophies ahead. In two Few expected William and weeks, 17 swimmers and three Mary to have such an outstanding divers will compete in Charlotte, season when school began. Ned N.C., in the CAA team and indi¬ Skinner, who had built the pro¬ vidual championships, where Will¬ gram during his six years as head iam and Mary will be "the team to coach, left suddenly in August for beat," according to its new coach, Virginia Tech, and no successor Tom Schmelz. In addition, was appointed until Schmelz, Schmelz, who joined the program who had been head coach of the this fall, believes that several of the Head coach Tom Schmelz (second from right) and Assistant Coach Greg Meehan led the Tribe to a perfect 6-0 swimmers have the prospect of CAA conference title this season. Standouts Dan Gowetski, Chris Robinson, Marcus Hill and Mike Lovett (from CONTINUED ON PAGE 6. earning berths in the NCAA cham¬ left to right) have prospects of earning berths in the NCAA championships later this year. What Time Is It? Your Brain Knows stand the complex mechanisms neurological processes, such as which sand flows from one side to curately when the interval be¬ Psychologist through which the brain can intu¬ the circadian rhythm that regulates the other in 60-minute intervals," tween feedings was short. When itively discern time's passage. the 24-hour day for the body, this said Crystal. "Rather than there the interval was lengthened, the finds evidence "Time is a pervasive feature of clock signals the brain when a set being only one hourglass for rats had generally much more dif¬ all behavior," explained Jonathon interval of time has passed. This tracking time, we actually have a ficulty in perceiving time. of multiple Crystal, assistant professor of psy¬ process sets in motion a range of bank of them that tracks time in "The findings are very similar internal clocks chology. "It is involved in coordi¬ behavior, from eating to sleeping. different resolutions. One may to the difference in errors you nating movement, producing While the single-clock theory trapk hours, while another may might experience in counting speech and determining when we has held firm among psychologists measure time in milliseconds." from one to 10 as opposed to eat and sleep. We accept that the for decades, animal research con¬ Crystal's evidence for the ex¬ counting from one to 100,000," ime relentlessly pursues us brain has a raw sense of time. But ducted by Crystal and others in re¬ istence of multiple internal clocks said Crystal. "You can do the through the day, guides our this cognitive process is still a mys¬ cent years suggests that multiple comes from experiments con¬ former a hundred times over with¬ actions, captures our imagina¬ tery." internal clocks or "oscillators," ducted on rats that were condi¬ out making a mistake. You would tions and takes us to our fate. Conventional theory holds each of which measures a differ¬ tioned to look for food at set be much more likely to make er¬ Yet, despite it being such a fun¬ that a single "internal clock" keeps ent interval, may actually deter¬ times. As was expected under the rors counting to 100,000." damental component of life, sci¬ track of time in our brain. mine the brain's sense of time. single-clock theory, the rats could entists have only begun to under¬ Through a variety of chemical and "Think of an hourglass in anticipate the times relatively ac¬ CONTINUED ON PAGE 6. 2 / WILLIAM & MARY NEWS Kids Study Finds Births To Teenage Mothers to At Seven-Year Low T' he number of teenagers in any reduction in the number of 1997. The number of juveniles ar¬ Virginia made litde progress in Virginia having babies de¬ births to teenagers can have sig¬ rested for violent crimes declined improving the educational welfare clined to a seven-year low in nificant benefits for the rest of by 10 percent, school suspensions of its children in 1997. Declines 1997, according to a study society," said Galano. fell by 15 percent and the number were seen in the number of sixth (ft compiled by psychology profes¬ While cautiously optimistic of students caught with weapons in graders who passed all three stan¬ 0 sors Joe Galano and John Nezlek about the improvement, Galano school also declined. dardized Literacy Passport Tests for the child advocacy group Ac¬ said that the birthrate for teenage Reflecting changes in federal and students promoted to the next tion Alliance for Virginia's Chil¬ mothers in Virginia is still at a level welfare programs, the number of grade level between kindergarten dren and Youth. higher than 10 years ago. Even if children in Virginia receiving pub¬ and third grade. The 1997 rates The new Kids Count in Virginia the rate remains the same, Galano lic assistance in the form of Tem¬ remained unchanged for early el¬ 0) 1999 data book, which measures predicts that the births to teenage porary Assistance for Needy Fami¬ ementary school students whose 27 indicators of the well-being of mothers may increase as much as lies (formerly Aid to Families with standardized test scores were above children and their families, found 15 percent by 2005 due to rising Dependent Children) declined the 25th percentile and the num¬ that the number of births to girls growth in the teenage population. significantly, from 72.6 per 1,000 ber of high school dropouts. ages 15 to 17 fell by 10 percent Overall in 1997, 14 different in 1996 to 46.01 per 1,000 in 1997. "While we're not losing from 1996 to 1997. The decline measures of the well-being of chil¬ "We don't know yet what these ground, we're clearly not moving mirrors a national trend, accord¬ dren and their families improved, figures mean," said Galano. "Are in the right direction in educa¬ ing to Galano. seven indicators declined and six these children being lifted out of tion," said Galano. "There are "Because teen mothers are remained the same. poverty, or are their families be¬ E more likely to be high-school The safety of children in coming part of the growing popu¬ dropouts, poor and on welfare, schools improved markedly in lation of working poor?" CONTINUED ON PAGE 6. Civil War Altered Bill of Rights, Argues Yale Law Professor Americans tend to think of they were protected constitution¬ the amendment designed to gov¬ the Bill of Rights as cast ally," said the author. ern Reconstruction, argued Amar, in stone, unchanging The framers' concern is most forever altered our understanding i in its protection of in¬ obvious in the 10th Amendment: of the protections guaranteed to dividuals. Not so, said "The powers not delegated to the citizens by the Constitution. Yale University Professor of Law United States by the Constitution ... "Clause by clause, amendment Akhil Amar on Jan. 21 at a law are reserved to the States respectively ..." by amendment, the Bill of Rights school symposium sponsored by What changed the Bill of was refined and strengthened in the Institute of Bill of Rights Law.