Thursday, June 25, the College of William and Mary announced that it will create a working group tasked with developing frameworks for renaming and naming campus buildings. The College’s decision follows the circulation of numerous student-run petitions on social media which sought to rename structures on campus memorializing Confederate leaders and supporters of slavery.In a […]

Following alleged threats to campus safety, the College of William and Mary enlisted security personnel to protect the university’s Thomas Jefferson statue for six days. The College’s decision to hire additional security for the purposes of protecting the monument attracted criticism from students, and was announced amid ongoing demands for administration to remove statues and […]

Our 2020 Flat Hat graduates didn’t get to have a traditional senior year, and missed out on important traditions within the paper, like making an April’s Fool’s edition of the Flat Hat and toasting the last day of classes. However, they have still been an integral part of the Flat Hat, and current staffers wanted […]

Friday, June 19, the College of William and Mary Student Assembly hosted a Juneteenth town hall over Zoom in commemoration of the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. Students, administrators and SA representatives gathered together for the meeting, which highlighted the voices of Black students on campus and the ongoing struggles those students […]

This article alludes to suicide and self-harm.I was a student at the College of William and Mary for one and a half years. Early in my sophomore year I decided to withdraw from school because of a suicide attempt. Many students share similar plights. A school has a duty to serve our needs to the […]

Upon our return in August, the College of William and Mary is going to look entirely different than it has during past semesters. Students won’t be packed into the dining halls, piling on top of each other to fill their own plates with the french fries at the grill station. Students won’t file into lecture […]

June 2, as our country grappled with its most forceful and widespread civil rights demonstrations in at least half a century, the College of William and Mary’s administration penned a statement of support for the nationwide protests. Though somewhat ambiguous and stopping short of promising tangible actions, the letter’s unequivocal “commitment to confronting and combating […]

Through protests and virtual and verbal action, many people and organizations are speaking up in solidarity with a movement towards change sparked by the monstrous killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis. The College of William and Mary has taken the time in the past couple of weeks to write various statements […]

One would think that a 22-year-old graduating senior, living quietly in an apartment-style dorm with friends, would have no possible issues left to encounter with the College of William and Mary’s Residence Life.One would be incorrect.Let me preface my story by saying that the issue my roommates and I had was already resolved in our […]