**1931**
To restore the appearance of an 17th century institution, the Rockefeller Foundation paid for the rebuilding of several sections of Old Campus. The foundation made many changes, including the installation of a white picket fence around the Wren Building.

p. **1968**
The College analyzed the benefits of having midterms during an academic semester. Even today, midterms have never been officially set up by the College, nor has there ever been any mention of midterms in the faculty handbook.

p. **1971**
Even though plans for renovating the old dormitories on campus were under review by the College President Thomas A. Graves, a lack of state funds restricted the College from making any major renovations to the dorms.

p. **1983**
The brightly colored solar-heating tubes located on the southern face of the Muscarelle Museum were installed amid strong criticism from the Board of Visitors. The solar-heating tubes, designed by contemporary artist Gene Davis and titled “Sun Sonata,” were cited by the BOV as being “the ugliest thing ever seen on campus.” However, strong support from the College community convinced the BOV that the art should remain.

The Princeton Review is now accepting student testimonials from individuals at the College for their college review publications. The “Student Say” profiles that are compiled from student surveys like this at colleges and universities across the nation are featured on the organization’s website, PrincetonReview.com, and in their college rankings and information books.

p. The survey gives students the chance to voice opinions and perspectives on the social and academic aspects of life at the College, and are intended to be read by prospective students to “match themselves with the school most suited to their educational and personal needs,” according to the Princeton Review press release sent to the College Undergraduate Office of Admissions. Submissions will be accepted from students who log in with their school-issued e-mail address. The link to the survey is survey.review.com.

**Tuesday, Nov. 6 –** A female student reported a stolen iPod from Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall. The iPod went missing sometime Sunday, Nov. 4. **(1)**

p. – A faculty member reported that his hangtag had been stolen from his parked car at 200 Ukrop Way. **(2)**

p. – A student reported that his car was vandalized on Harrison Avenue. Police estimate the damage to be around $200. **(3)**

p. **Wednesday, Nov. 7 –** Two non-students and two juveniles were arrested at the Old Sentara Hospital for attempting to steal copper and possession of burglary tools. $100 is thought to have been stolen from the complex. **(4)**

p. **Thursday, Nov. 8 –** A non-student called police to report that her ex-husband had embezzled $1,800 in College funds upon the termination of his employment. Police are now investigating the claim.

p. **Saturday, Nov. 10 –** Two students were arrested at the intersection of Richmond Road and Armistead Road for possession of alcohol. **(5)**

p. – A caller from the UC Terrace reported that loud noise had been coming from the frats. The noise was actually coming from the football game. **(6)**

p. – Two students were referred for disorderly conduct for attempting to jump on the field during the JMU football game. **(7)**

p. – A fire alarm went off in Fraternity Units F through J. Police reported an estimated damage of $100 due to a fire extinguisher that was set off in the hallway. **(8)**

p. Sunday, Nov. 11 – A caller reported loud music coming from the next room at 500 Ukrop Way. Police advised the residents next door about noise policy. **(9)**

– A non-student reported that her purse had been stolen from her car parked in the William and Mary Hall parking lot. Items worth $240 were stolen. **(10)**

p. **Monday, Nov. 12 –** A caller from Lodge 12 reported a suspicious person trying to get past the door. Police could not locate the suspect, but scanned the area for fingerprints and are investigating a partial print. **(11)**

p. – A student reported a stolen parking decal from 100 Wake Drive. The decal was worth $275. **(12)**

p. – A student reported his bicycle stolen from 101 Wake Drive. The estimated value of the bike was $10. **(12)**

**262 Million**
The number of turkeys raised on farms in 2006, four percent more than in 2005. The turkeys are worth a total of 3.5 billion dollars and close to 10 percent of them were raised in Virginia.

p. **54 percent**
The increase in the number of long distance driving trips over the six-day period around Thanksgiving, according to the federal Department of Transportation. Around Christmas and New Year’s, the number of long-distance trips rises 23 percent above normal.

p. **15**
The number of homes that burnt down in 2002 due to improper use of turkey fryers, according Allstate insurance company.

p. **3**
The number of school days that students get off for Thanksgiving break. This has been the same since 2000.

**Methodology**
This list is not meant to be comprehensive. It ranks SA senators by two different criteria. It does not make subjective qualitative distinctions between bills.

p. Bills Passed: The “Bills Passed” ranking chart contains columns describing the number of bills each senator sponsored that passed this legislative session, the number that failed and the number that are currently in committee. The percent of these total bills passed is also reported, as well as an “internal affairs” number, based upon The Flat Hat’s view of the scope of each bill. The “passed internal affairs bills” score is the number of bills each senator sponsored and passed that are geared toward SA operations rather than bills that directly affect students. A senator’s total score is computed by subtracting “passed internal affairs bills” from “passed bills” to represent the number of bills each senator sponsored that directly affect students. The number arrived at, the total score, is used for ranking.

p. ATTENDANCE: Senators are also ranked by the percentage of meetings attended. Senators must have been in attendance for at least half of the votes during the meeting to be marked present. The rightmost column shows the number of meetings each senator attended.

p. FOR BOTH RANKINGS: Ties are allowed, and senators who tie within a ranking are listed alphabetically within social class.
NEWLY ELECTED SENATORS: Freshmen senators and newly-elected senator Alex Kyrios ’09 were not included in the rankings, as they have only been in office since October.

p. DATES INCLUDED: The rankings include meetings from the beginning of the senators’ terms last spring through the Nov. 6 meeting. A Senate Report Card will be printed this spring that includes all meetings, including freshmen senators and Kyrios.

A memorial service for Pete Conomikes, club fencing coach, was held at 11:30 a.m. today in the University Center’s Commonwealth Auditorium.

p. Conomikes died in a car accident Saturday afternoon on the way to a fencing tournament in Pennsylvania.

p. Two of the three fencing team members that were injured in the same crash are still hospitalized in the VCU Medical Center in Richmond.

p. Conomikes was 86; he had coached with the College since 1972.

p. “He was a remarkable man – training athletes here and enlarging their lives for over three decades. We ask that you join his family, his athletes, his friends, and his colleagues to say goodbye to one of the most beloved and most inspiring members of our community,” College President Gene Nichol said in an e-mail to students Tuesday.

p. A reception in Tidewater will follow the service.

p. The Student Assembly has partnered with the national non-profit organization Rock the Vote as part of its effort to register more students to vote in Williamsburg.

p. The partnership allows the SA to use the Rock the Vote logo and brand name in future registration drives.

p. SA President Zach Pilchen ’09 said that the goal of the partner¬ship is to build upon the successes of the SA’s recent voter registration drive. He added that there will soon be a big push from the SA to increase the size of the student electorate.

p. “I’m hoping to get about $25,000 [from] the SA senate to get a big name band on campus for Williamsburg’s first official Rock the Vote concert,” Pilchen said in an e-mail to The Flat Hat.

p. “[The $25,000] is something we would consider,” senate Chair¬man Matt Beato ’09 said. “But it is not something that is definite by any stretch of the imagination.”

p. Sen. Brittany Fallon ’11 of the Finance and Budget Committee said that funding a concert would depend on the venue, the band, UCAB’s involvement and “the mood FinCom’s in at the time.”
Pilchen did not offer specific plans for a potential concert. He only said that it should feature prominent performers.

p. Finance and Budget Chair Walter McClean ’09 was unable to comment.

p. According to Rock the Vote’s website, the organization was established in 1990 in “response to a wave of attacks on freedom of speech and artistic expression.”

p. Since then it has focused resources on organizing registration drives geared toward young people. Rock the Vote frequently uses concerts to heighten the profile of voter registration as an issue.

p. Rock the Vote’s Director of Education Kat Barr said that the organization operates within the “intersection of celebrities, culture, politics and technology” to raise awareness of issues commonly associated with younger voters.

p. Barr was unable to cite the cost for holding a concert Rock the Vote because events and partnerships are still being made for the 2008 election season.

p. It was all a big misunderstanding.

p. That’s how College President Gene Nichol is defending himself after College officials decided to release a controversial e-mail in which former College President Timothy Sullivan warned Nichol that a $12 million donation to the law school was in jeopardy two months before Nichol said he learned that the donation had been revoked.

p. College officials released the e-mail Tuesday night after they realized several unintended recipients had seen it. The College typically does not release documents referring
to specific donors, but both the donor and Sullivan consented to the release.

p. In the December 2006 e-mail, Sullivan said he had been working to secure a $12 million gift to the law school from long-time donor James McGlothlin ’62 J.D. ’64. “I felt that we were making good progress and moving toward closure,” Sullivan said. “But I talked to Jim who is very upset and angry about the Wren cross, and is not prepared to give any more money at this time.”

p. The donation was included in the total of the College’s seven-year fundraising campaign when Nichol announced in February that the campaign had reached its $500 million goal.

p. It had been in the campaign total since 2005, when McGlothlin made the donation in writing, according to Nichol and Vice President for Development Sean Pieri.

p. Pieri could not be reached for comment yesterday. Sullivan, McGlothlin and Marshall-Wythe School of Law Dean Taylor Reveley
refused to comment.

p. In an interview last night with The Flat Hat editorial board, Nichol blamed the language of Sullivan’s e-mail for his misinterpretation.

p. “I would not under any circumstance describe a gift committed, locked up, placed in the capital campaign a year and a half or two years earlier as one on which we are making progress toward closure,” Nichol said. “Closure had to have happened before it was booked in 2005. That was the way I read that — that was a reasonable reading.”

p. He said he thought Sullivan was seeking additional money from a donor the College has frequently turned to for support. He also said he tried, without success, to contact the donor about his concerns.

p. Sullivan stated Oct. 24 that he communicated all that he knew about the donation to College administrators “in the clearest possible terms.”

p. The fundraising campaign fell back below its goal when the $12 million pledge was removed from the total after the lost donation became public in late February. Nichol said a letter written by McGlothlin that was forwarded to him Feb. 23 prompted him to investigate whether McGlothlin was revoking the prior pledge.

p. He said he learned Feb. 27 that McGlothlin no longer intended to make the donation.

p. “I’ve tried to explain that I’ve had some misreadings, some miscalculations — I’m responsible for that,” he said. “But they were not deceptions. They were not conspiracies.”

p. Nichol’s critics allege that he ignored information about the revoked donation to avoid further embarrassment during last year’s Wren cross controversy. In an interview Wednesday, ShouldNicholBeRenewed.org spokesman Jim Jones ’82 said that Nichol is either dishonest or incompetent.

p. The online group’s petition calling on the Board of Visitors to fire Nichol currently has 698 signatures, while a Facebook group supporting Nichol has 775 members.

p. In the month leading up to the release of Sullivan’s e-mail, the Facebook group lost one member. Since the e-mail’s release two days ago, the group has lost 17 members.

p. Students and faculty have strongly supported Nichol in the past against vocal alumni who have been criticizing him for a number of issues since his decision last October to remove the Wren Chapel cross from permanent display. The cross has been returned to the chapel inside a glass case.

p. Nichol said yesterday that his opponents will continue hurling allegations at him until the BOV makes a decision on whether to renew his contract, which expires in June.

p. He also said he should have worked harder to contact McGlothlin.

p. “Hindsight is frequently better than foresight,” he said. “At least in my case.”