The Flat Hat
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| Type | Weekly newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Editor-in-chief | Tucker Higgins |
| Managing editors | Isabel Larroca |
| Staff writers | 47 |
| Founded | October 2, 1911 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Williamsburg, Virginia |
| Circulation | 1,600 |
| Website | http://www.flathatnews.com |
The Flat Hat is the official student newspaper at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA. It prints Tuesdays and Fridays during the College's academic year. It began printing twice-weekly in 2007; since its inception in 1911, The Flat Hat had printed weekly. It returned to weekly printing in 2015.
The newspaper is printed as a broadsheet. Today, The Flat Hat's front page and back page are generally printed in color while the inside pages are printed in black and white. During the early 1990s, The Flat Hat was printed with a colored front page and a separate colored variety section.
The newspaper currently supports five sections: news, sports, opinions, variety and online. The news section covers local and national news, focusing on events at the College. The sports section covers all William and Mary varsity athletics and profiles teams and individual players. The opinions section publishes regular op-eds and staff editorials, and prints student letters to the editor. The variety section features regular columns, including "Behind Closed Doors" (the sex column) and "Confusion Corner" (an opinion column), along with human interest stories. The online section produces multimedia content in the form of videos, podcasts and blogs as well as maintains the newspaper's social media presence.
In October 2007, The Flat Hat won a Pacemaker award for excellence in the category of non-daily newspaper at a four-year university. The Pacemaker is an honor in collegiate journalism, and is awarded by the Associated Collegiate Press and the Newspaper Association of America Foundation.
The Flat Hat derives its name from the public nickname of the F.H.C. Society, "the Flat Hat Club"; the Society was the first collegiate secret society in the territory of the present United States of America, founded at the College in 1750. The first issue of The Flat Hat was printed on October 3, 1911.
The name can be traced back to the F.H.C. Society, a secret fraternity established at the College on November 11, 1750, and nicknamed the Flat Hat Club, whose most notable members included St. George Tucker, Thomas Jefferson, and George Wythe. As a collegiate fraternity, the Flat Hat Club was a predecessor of the Phi Beta Kappa, founded at the College in 1776. According to the issue of The Flat Hat for September 28, 1928, twentieth-century members of the Flat Hat Club were directly responsible for the creation of the newspaper.
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