Panel on Medicaid expansion discusses community impact
Thursday, Jan. 24, the League of Women Voters of the Williamsburg Area hosted a discussion in the Williamsburg Regional Library concerning Virginia’s Medicaid expansion. The League, a nonpartisan...
View ArticleCampus exposition highlights black businesses around Virginia
In celebration of Black History Month, the Center for Student Diversity, the Black Student Organization, E.S.S.E.N.C.E. and the Sherman and Gloria H. Cohen Career Center teamed up to host “Stepping...
View ArticleDiverse panel discusses impacts of East Coast pipelines, eminent domain policy
A panel of five speakers gathered Feb. 2 in Washington Hall to discuss the topic of eminent domain, specifically in relation to the Mountain Valley Pipeline that is planned to run through Virginia and...
View ArticleLila Sugerman works to destigmatize periods in India
The College of William and Mary’s Global Research Institute welcomed 15-year-old director Lila Sugerman to Williamsburg Friday, Feb. 1 for a sneak preview and discussion of her documentary, “Period....
View ArticleResearching policy, fighting patriarchy: PIPS forum discusses gender...
Friday, Feb. 1, the Project on International Peace and Security held a forum in celebration of the 10th anniversary of PIPS and the 100th anniversary of women at the College of William and Mary. The...
View ArticleVirginia Supreme Court Justice William Mims ’79 announced as replacement...
Feb. 6, two days after College of William and Mary President Katherine Rowe announced that Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam would not be attending annual Charter Day festivities, the university selected...
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Monty Mason ’89 yearbook pages depict Pi Lambda Phi ‘slave auctions’
When Virginia Senator Monty Mason ’89 (D-Williamsburg) was an undergraduate at the College of William and Mary, his fraternity — Pi Lambda Phi — organized annual mock “slave auctions” to raise money,...
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Professors weigh in on College’s own history of blackface minstrelsy
The discovery of the picture of two men, one in blackface and another in a Ku Klux Klan hood and robe, on Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook page prompted a mass reexamination of the...
View ArticleOfficer accidentally discharges firearm at two of the College’s law students...
During a Feb. 21 traffic stop involving two Marshall-Wythe School of Law students, a York County-Poquoson Police Department deputy accidentally discharged his firearm, according to a press release from...
View ArticleFormer professor arrested for seventh time
Former College of William and Mary government professor David Dessler was arrested for the seventh time Feb. 18 and is currently being held at the Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail on charges of...
View ArticleJudge orders health evaluation for former professor prior to bond hearing
During a scheduled court hearing Feb. 26, a Williamsburg-James City County General District Court judge ordered that former College of William and Mary government professor David Dessler undergo a...
View ArticleWilliamsburg Sunrise Movement joins Youth Climate Strike
Students at the College of William and Mary gathered in the Sunken Garden on one of Williamsburg’s first spring days to demand action on climate change. Activists from the Williamsburg Sunrise Movement...
View ArticlePrayer Vigil honors New Zealand shooting victims
Students from the College of William and Mary Muslim Student Association organized Monday, March 18, alongside the Center for Student Diversity, to hold a prayer vigil for the families of the mass...
View ArticleCollege community mourns death of Nathan Evans
At around noon March 22, an email was sent to the College of William and Mary’s student body informing students of the death of Nathan Evans ’21, a running back on the Tribe football team. In the...
View ArticleDorian closes campus: Second severe weather-related closure in two years...
The College of William and Mary cancelled classes and closed administrative offices Friday, Sept. 6 due to expected severe weather conditions generated by Hurricane Dorian. Dorian, now a post-tropical...
View ArticleBrickhouse’s dress-code sparks student outrage
In mid-December, local bar and restaurant Brickhouse Tavern posted a “Late Night Dress Code” outside their front entrance. Some students quickly took notice and the dress code became a debated topic on...
View ArticleCollege football player faces charges for sexual assault, breaking, entering
A football player for the College of William and Mary was arrested Feb. 8 on one felony count of breaking and entering and one misdemeanor count of sexual battery, according to John Heilman of the...
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COVID-19 shutters Williamsburg businesses, moves dining transactions online
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across Virginia and the United States, public life has slowly adjusted to the ‘new normal’ of quarantine life. Event cancellations, social distancing and virtual...
View ArticleIn the wake of George Floyd’s death, College students mobilize, organize...
Amid nationwide uproar sparked by the death of George Floyd May 25, students at the College of William and Mary mobilized in person and online to protest ongoing racial discrimination in the United...
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Williamsburg residents organize protests highlighting police brutality,...
Williamsburg residents gathered in front of the Williamsburg/James City County courthouse Sunday, May 31 to protest systemic injustice against black Americans as part of a nationwide response to the...
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