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By JAMES GWINN
contributing writer
Duke has the Cameron Crazies, Pittsburgh has
the Oakland Zoo, Michigan State has the Izzone,
and now JMU joins with the naming of its student
section at basketball games — the MADhouse.
An e-mail was sent out to the student body Oct.
asking it to vote on which of the four choices
they thought would best represent the students.
“Wegotthesuggestionsforthenamesfromour
Facebook group, the JMU Dukes fan page,” said
Alyssa Gerlando, director of athletics marketing.
e athletics marketing sta then compiled a
list of names and narrowed the list down to four:
the MADhouse, the Cage, the Purple Pulse and
the Dukes’ Den.
The survey’s results, from first to last place
were: the MADhouse, the Cage, the Dukes’ Den
and the Purple Pulse.
e MADhouse won by a
signi cant margin, though exact gures were not
released.
A tagline has also been added to the title —
“Where the th Man Lives.
”
“There is going to be a lot of advertising to
make students knowledgeable about this,” Gerlando said.
Advertising plans include Facebook,
JMUSports.
com, e-mail, dining hall table tents
and yers.
In past years, students could sit behind one of
the baskets or in the level sections of the Convocation Center across from the scorer’s table.
see CONVO, page 8
The -year-old man charged with
several crimes in an alleged on-campussexualassaultwasreleasedfromjail
Tuesday morning on a , bond.
Travis James Mick, of Yorktown, was
granted the bond Monday in Rockingham County Circuit Court.
He was
previously denied bond twice.
He had
been held in jail since his arrest in the
early morning of Oct.
on charges of
object sexual penetration, trespassing
and resisting arrest.
Charges of rape
and sodomy were led Nov.
.
Friends and family testi ed Monday
afternoon that Mick would not have
committed such crimes, according to
a Tuesday article in the Daily NewsRecord.
A Yorktown neighbor, Allison Jordan, said she’s known Mick for about
ve years and he took her son under
his wing.
“He’s been a mentor for my child,”
she told Judge T.
J.
Wilson, according to
the DN-R.
“He’s really protected him.
”
e alleged victim had been walking down South Main Street on Oct.
,
according to prosecutors, when Mick
approached her.
Prosecutors said the
two went to her dorm, Wampler Hall,
because the victim wanted to be in a
familiar place.
There, Mick allegedly
see BOND, page 4
Bond Set in Alleged Rape Case
By FORD PRIOR
The Breeze
All charges from a fight involving
at least three JMU students were dismissed Wednesday in Rockingham
County District Court after a closeddoor agreement between prosecutors
and defense attorneys.
Counts of felonious assault and
malicious wounding by mob were
dropped for junior Markus W.
Hunter,
, of High Point, N.
C.
, and sophomore
Connor Long, , of Newtown, Penn.
In exchange, they agreed to split restitution and the victim’s medical bills.
“I feel like all this was just a big
misunderstanding,” said Hunter, a tailback currently suspended from JMU’s
football team.
“What they charged us
with was really ridiculous… We were
just defending ourselves.
”
Another JMU student, Colin FitzMaurice, , of Newtown, Penn.
, was
cleared of charges of felonious assault
and malicious wounding by mob Oct.
.
However, according to Anthony Bailey,assistantCommonwealthattorney,
both parties agreed to share the blame
for the Sept.
ght outside the Exxon
on Port Republic Road.
“ e thing that I would say is that
this is a perfect example of a situation where both the parties had some
responsibility in the situation escalating,” Bailey said.
e prosecution and
defense “felt that they all had a role in
escalating what was a mere verbal conict into a physical altercation where
someone was seriously injured.
”
While Bailey planned to reduce
Long’s and Hunter’s felony charges
to misdemeanor assault and battery,
he sought to press new felony charges
against an alleged fourth JMU student
involved.
is was not pursued since
the other charges were dropped.
“I think truthfully the reason all of
us reached the agreement, is that none
of us really know if they were guilty,”
Bailey said.
Dave Parker, Long’s attorney,
was not surprised by the dropped
charges.
“I was expecting it, because I knew
the facts of the case so much, but it’s
always a good result when justice is
done,” Parker said.
After a season of suspension from
all football-related activities, Hunter
hopes to return to the team.
“I’m excited to get back to playing
football, hopefully, if the coach lets me
come back,” he said.
Football coach Mickey Matthews
would not comment when noti ed of
the conclusion.
NEWS
Preliminary construction for
Bridgeforth Stadium begins as JMU
apologizes for the inconvenience.
OPINION
Cameron Clarke addresses the local
protest of the D.
C.
sniper’s execution.
SPORTS
Cross country’s Alison Parris
travels to Indiana for the NCAA
championships.
LIFE
As finals approach, students
struggle to boost their grades — but
what is their gay point average?
page 3
page 7
Inside
ChargesDropped
AgainstTwoStudents OutpouringofSupportDefendsSuspect’sCharacter
JuniorFootballPlayerMarkusHunterand
SophomoreConnorLongWereChargedWith
FeloniousAssaultandMaliciousWounding
Don’tLeaveJustYet:
FestivaltoHostH N
VaccinationsFriday
eUniversityHealthClinicwillo er
the H NI vaccination Friday from
a.
m.
to p.
m at the Festival Highlands
Room.
The vaccine was originally scheduled for Nov.
, but vaccines were not
available to the UHC.
However, Intravene Travel Clinic, based in Lynchburg,
received a shipment of the vaccine
Monday and will bring , vaccines
to JMU.
e vaccine costs .
and is payable by cash, credit card or check.
It is
available to students, sta , faculty and
family members over the age of .
Ann Simmons, UHC coordinator of
marketing and programming, believes
that even though the clinic falls on the
Friday when students return home for
anksgiving break, there will be a fair
number of participants.
“ erehasbeenashortsupplyeverywhere,”shesaidinregardstotheamount
of vaccines available.
It takes up to three weeks to build
up the immunity against H N .
Side
e ects of the vaccination include soreness,rednessorswellingwheretheshot
was given, fainting, headache, muscle
aches, fever and nausea.
If these problemsoccur,theyusuallybeginsoonafter
the shot and last one to two days.
Life-threatening allergic reactions to
vaccines are rare, according to the CentersforDiseaseControlandPrevention.
Iftheydooccur,itisusuallywithinafew
minutes to a few hours after the shot is
given.
Intravene will return to campus Dec.
for another vaccination clinic, provided that the vaccination is available.
— staff reports
‘End of Fall’ Photo Contest Winner
PreparetoEntertheMADhouse
JMUExpectingConsistent
FanBaseatBasketballGames
ROBERT BOAG/file photo
Travis James
Mick, of
Yorktown, has
five charges
relating to an
on-campus
incident in
Wampler Hall.
Then-junior guard Pierre
Curtis (white jersey)
is mobbed by crazed
students following the
basketball team’s upset
over George Mason
in February.
The win
ended a 10-game losing
streak to the Patriots
and brought new life to
the Convocation Center.
In October, students
voted the ‘MADhouse’
as the new name of the
student section.
page 5
page 9
‘WilsonintheFall’
COLLEGE H1N1 CASES IN VA
reported from week ending Nov.
13
New Cases 284
Reported Population Served 100,263
Attack Rate Change
From Previous Week
-16%
information from
American College Health Association
KATIE BAROODYsophomore music industry and SMAD major
“I feel like all this
was just a big
misunderstanding.
”
— MARKUS HUNTER
junior [Less]
59°/44°
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
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3
By JAMES GWINN
contributing writer
Duke has the Cameron Crazies, Pittsburgh has
the Oakland Zoo, Michigan State has the Izzone,
and now JMU joins with the naming of its student
section at basketball games — the MADhouse.
An e-mail was sent out to the student body Oct.
asking it to vote on which of the four choices
they thought would best represent the students.
“Wegotthesuggestionsforthenamesfromour
Facebook group, the JMU Dukes fan page,” said
Alyssa Gerlando, director of athletics marketing.
e athletics marketing sta then compiled a
list of names and narrowed the list down to four:
the MADhouse, the Cage, the Purple Pulse and
the Dukes’ Den.
The survey’s results, from first to last place
were: the MADhouse, the Cage, the Dukes’ Den
and the Purple Pulse.
e MADhouse won by a
signi cant margin, though exact gures were not
released.
A tagline has also been added to the title —
“Where the th Man Lives.
”
“There is going to be a lot of advertising to
make students knowledgeable about this,” Gerlando said.
Advertising plans include Facebook,
JMUSports.
com, e-mail, dining hall table tents
and yers.
In past years, students could sit behind one of
the baskets or in the level sections of the Convocation Center across from the scorer’s table.
see CONVO, page 8
The -year-old man charged with
several crimes in an alleged on-campussexualassaultwasreleasedfromjail
Tuesday morning on a , bond.
Travis James Mick, of Yorktown, was
granted the bond Monday in Rockingham County Circuit Court.
He was
previously denied bond twice.
He had
been held in jail since his arrest in the
early morning of Oct.
on charges of
object sexual penetration, trespassing
and resisting arrest.
Charges of rape
and sodomy were led Nov.
.
Friends and family testi ed Monday
afternoon that Mick would not have
committed such crimes, according to
a Tuesday article in the Daily NewsRecord.
A Yorktown neighbor, Allison Jordan, said she’s known Mick for about
ve years and he took her son under
his wing.
“He’s been a mentor for my child,”
she told Judge T.
J.
Wilson, according to
the DN-R.
“He’s really protected him.
”
e alleged victim had been walking down South Main Street on Oct.
,
according to prosecutors, when Mick
approached her.
Prosecutors said the
two went to her dorm, Wampler Hall,
because the victim wanted to be in a
familiar place.
There, Mick allegedly
see BOND, page 4
Bond Set in Alleged Rape Case
By FORD PRIOR
The Breeze
All charges from a fight involving
at least three JMU students were dismissed Wednesday in Rockingham
County District Court after a closeddoor agreement between prosecutors
and defense attorneys.
Counts of felonious assault and
malicious wounding by mob were
dropped for junior Markus W.
Hunter,
, of High Point, N.
C.
, and sophomore
Connor Long, , of Newtown, Penn.
In exchange, they agreed to split restitution and the victim’s medical bills.
“I feel like all this was just a big
misunderstanding,” said Hunter, a tailback currently suspended from JMU’s
football team.
“What they charged us
with was really ridiculous… We were
just defending ourselves.
”
Another JMU student, Colin FitzMaurice, , of Newtown, Penn.
, was
cleared of charges of felonious assault
and malicious wounding by mob Oct.
.
However, according to Anthony Bailey,assistantCommonwealthattorney,
both parties agreed to share the blame
for the Sept.
ght outside the Exxon
on Port Republic Road.
“ e thing that I would say is that
this is a perfect example of a situation where both the parties had some
responsibility in the situation escalating,” Bailey said.
e prosecution and
defense “felt that they all had a role in
escalating what was a mere verbal conict into a physical altercation where
someone was seriously injured.
”
While Bailey planned to reduce
Long’s and Hunter’s felony charges
to misdemeanor assault and battery,
he sought to press new felony charges
against an alleged fourth JMU student
involved.
is was not pursued since
the other charges were dropped.
“I think truthfully the reason all of
us reached the agreement, is that none
of us really know if they were guilty,”
Bailey said.
Dave Parker, Long’s attorney,
was not surprised by the dropped
charges.
“I was expecting it, because I knew
the facts of the case so much, but it’s
always a good result when justice is
done,” Parker said.
After a season of suspension from
all football-related activities, Hunter
hopes to return to the team.
“I’m excited to get back to playing
football, hopefully, if the coach lets me
come back,” he said.
Football coach Mickey Matthews
would not comment when noti ed of
the conclusion.
NEWS
Preliminary construction for
Bridgeforth Stadium begins as JMU
apologizes for the inconvenience.
OPINION
Cameron Clarke addresses the local
protest of the D.
C.
sniper’s execution.
SPORTS
Cross country’s Alison Parris
travels to Indiana for the NCAA
championships.
LIFE
As finals approach, students
struggle to boost their grades — but
what is their gay point average?
page 3
page 7
Inside
ChargesDropped
AgainstTwoStudents OutpouringofSupportDefendsSuspect’sCharacter
JuniorFootballPlayerMarkusHunterand
SophomoreConnorLongWereChargedWith
FeloniousAssaultandMaliciousWounding
Don’tLeaveJustYet:
FestivaltoHostH N
VaccinationsFriday
eUniversityHealthClinicwillo er
the H NI vaccination Friday from
a.
m.
to p.
m at the Festival Highlands
Room.
The vaccine was originally scheduled for Nov.
, but vaccines were not
available to the UHC.
However, Intravene Travel Clinic, based in Lynchburg,
received a shipment of the vaccine
Monday and will bring , vaccines
to JMU.
e vaccine costs .
and is payable by cash, credit card or check.
It is
available to students, sta , faculty and
family members over the age of .
Ann Simmons, UHC coordinator of
marketing and programming, believes
that even though the clinic falls on the
Friday when students return home for
anksgiving break, there will be a fair
number of participants.
“ erehasbeenashortsupplyeverywhere,”shesaidinregardstotheamount
of vaccines available.
It takes up to three weeks to build
up the immunity against H N .
Side
e ects of the vaccination include soreness,rednessorswellingwheretheshot
was given, fainting, headache, muscle
aches, fever and nausea.
If these problemsoccur,theyusuallybeginsoonafter
the shot and last one to two days.
Life-threatening allergic reactions to
vaccines are rare, according to the CentersforDiseaseControlandPrevention.
Iftheydooccur,itisusuallywithinafew
minutes to a few hours after the shot is
given.
Intravene will return to campus Dec.
for another vaccination clinic, provided that the vaccination is available.
— staff reports
‘End of Fall’ Photo Contest Winner
PreparetoEntertheMADhouse
JMUExpectingConsistent
FanBaseatBasketballGames
ROBERT BOAG/file photo
Travis James
Mick, of
Yorktown, has
five charges
relating to an
on-campus
incident in
Wampler Hall.
Then-junior guard Pierre
Curtis (white jersey)
is mobbed by crazed
students following the
basketball team’s upset
over George Mason
in February.
The win
ended a 10-game losing
streak to the Patriots
and brought new life to
the Convocation Center.
In October, students
voted the ‘MADhouse’
as the new name of the
student section.
page 5
page 9
‘WilsonintheFall’
COLLEGE H1N1 CASES IN VA
reported from week ending Nov.
13
New Cases 284
Reported Population Served 100,263
Attack Rate Change
From Previous Week
-16%
information from
American College Health Association
KATIE BAROODYsophomore music industry and SMAD major
“I feel like all this
was just a big
misunderstanding.
”
— MARKUS HUNTER
junior [Less]
The Breeze: November 16 2009
TODAY’S WEATHER 65°/40° for this week’s weather, see page 3 max humidity: 68% VOL. 86, ISSUE 25 Monday,...
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TODAY’S WEATHER
65°/40°
for this week’s weather, see page 3
max humidity: 68%
VOL.
86, ISSUE 25
Monday, November 16, 2009
Serving James Madison University Since 1922
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org»your destination for JMU...
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TODAY’S WEATHER
65°/40°
for this week’s weather, see page 3
max humidity: 68%
VOL.
86, ISSUE 25
Monday, November 16, 2009
Serving James Madison University Since 1922
breezejmu.
org»your destination for JMU news
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AND MORE
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NEWS
Theta Chi raises money for
charities by spending 12 nights
on the commons.
OPINION
Coming graduates should
consider the downside of rushing
to grad school.
LIFE
JMU fashion: to be comfortable
or to be original?
SPORTS
Men’s basketball faces backcourt
problems without Devon Moore.
page 3
page 5
page 9
Pub Owners
Face Criminal
Charges
e owners of e Pub will face a grand jury today
with charges each.
William R.
Royer and Terri Lynn Life face three felony charges of embezzlement, one misdemeanor of
money laundering and eight misdemeanors of failure
to pay the Harrisonburg meals tax.
e charges were led Friday in the Rockingham
County Circuit Court.
The Pub has faced violations from the Virginia
Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control a number
of times this year, including violating after-hoursdrinking laws in August and February.
On Friday, ABC dropped several of these previous
charges against the owners.
e two were accused of
failing to demonstrate financial responsibility and
attempting to commit tax fraud.
Earlier this year, ABC suspended the bar’s liquor
license for days and issued a , fine after
bartender Bethany Jones was involved in a fatal-hitand-run accident Jan.
.
— staff reports
A West Virginia man pleaded guilty ursday to
charges from a March stabbing outside Dave’s Taverna Express on Port Republic Road.
Terry Harvey, , pleaded guilty to felony malicious
wounding in Rockingham Circuit Court.
For a felony
robbery charge, he entered an Alford plea, meaning if
the case were to go to trial, the defendant believes the
prosecution has enough evidence for a conviction.
e second man charged in the incident, Michael
Smith-Barrow, , of Franklin, W.
Va.
, is scheduled to
appear in court ursday and faces felony robbery
and drug possession charges.
Prosecutors say a plea
agreement is in the works.
Paul Johnson, the victim who has since recovered,
was stabbed at least times March .
Investigators
said this followed a drug deal that went bad between
the three men.
According to investigators, Harvey
tried to buy crack cocaine from Johnson, but then
Johnson refused to give Harvey the drugs after Harvey paid.
Investigators said Johnson has refused to cooperate
in the prosecution.
Harvey negotiated a plea agreement to have his felony drug possession charge dropped.
He faces life in
prison and is scheduled for sentencing Jan.
.
— staff reports
ManPleads
GuiltytoPort
RoadStabbing
Inside
12ChargesIncludeMoney
Laundering,Embezzlement
Pooch Parade
FluClinicCanceledDuetoUnavailableVaccines
By RYAN F.
PLATT
The Breeze
While swine flu cases seem to
be dwindling in the area as u season continues, Friday’s on-campus
swine uvaccinationclinicwascanceled because of a lack of vaccine
availability.
Nearby, Rockingham Memorial
Hospital closed its u clinic Friday
because of an apparent decrease in
patients reporting symptoms.
If the
number of cases increases again,
the clinic could reopen.
Intravene Travel Clinic, based in
Lynchburg, was unable to obtain
doses of the vaccine for the University Health Center’s clinic.
e Dec.
clinic in Memorial Hall is pending as the vaccine may become
available.
Despitethecancelledclinic,UHC
says a small number of vaccines are
availableona rstcome, rstserved
basisavailabletostudentswithhighrisk medical conditions that could
make the u’s e ects worse.
Some students seem skeptical of
anyoutbreakoncampus.
Freshman
MercedesMaiselthinksthenumber
of actual swine u cases is greatly
exaggerated.
“I don’t know if people actually
have it,” Maisel said.
“A lot of times
they don’t actually test for it.
ey
justsaytheyhave u-likesymptoms
and go around saying, ‘Oh yeah, I
have swine u.
’ ”
ehospital’sclosingwasforthis
decrease in cases.
“Ithadnothingtodowithvaccine
availability,” nursing coordinator
Brenda Hedrick said.
“There just
wasn’t a need for it.
”
The clinic opened in September for patients speci cally with u
symptoms to limit their interaction
withotherpatients.
DuringOctober,
theclinicincreaseditshourstomeet
the increasing number of cases.
Hedricksaidstudentsshouldstill
be cautious, especially when going
home.
“Studentsaregoingtobeexposed
to a lot of di erent germs that they
haven’tbeenoncampus,soit’svery
important that they practice good
personal hygiene,” she said.
Despite such reports, as of Nov.
, the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention included Virginia
in a list of states reporting “widespread in uenza activity.
”
page 7
StudentQuestionsDormSecurityinVideo
By FORD PRIOR
and KATIE THISDELL
The Breeze
When GCOM professor Alison Fisher asked students to look into an issue
ripe for change, the rst thought that
came to freshman Tyler Colwell was
residence hall safety.
For the project,
Colwell and fellow GCOM students videotaped entry into at least one dorm on
all areas of campus.
His nearly four-and-a-half minute
video was meant to “persuade fellow
studentswhatneedstobedonetomake
JMU better,” Colwell said.
e Facebook group where the video
is posted, “Improve Security at JMU!”,
has members, which Colwell said
indicates a growing concern regarding
student on-campus safety.
“Maybe we can take that and run
with it and try to actually do something
at JMU to make things better,” he said.
In the video shot by freshman Jenny
Franko,Colwellwaitsatthedoorsof ve
dorms: Ho man, Shorts, Hillside, Ikenberry and Chesapeake.
Sometimes he
slides in after residents enter, and other
times he’s asked if he wants to enter.
Colwell also explains di erent security measures in the dorms, such as
in Ikenberry Hall, which he said has
“intense security or at least a lot more
thanwhatthereareinanyotherdorms.
”
ere, a resident asked if he lives there,
he said yes and she entered the dorm
with him.
In that dorm, residents also
use a JACard swipe system to go in their
section and enter a numerical key code
to open the suite doors.
According to Colwell, Brian Keilson,
Bluestone area director for the O ce of
Residential Life, has requested a meeting with him.
“He said he wanted to discuss furthermoreintothematters,”Colwellsaid.
“He didn’t clarify whether or not I’m in
trouble.
I think he wants to maybe do
something about [on-campus safety]
and make security better.
”
The Office of Residence Life sent a
“Safety Concerns” mass e-mail ursday, citing “the volume of safety
concerns on campus and o campus.
”
Tips include being aware of surroundings, traveling with friends and seeking
help if you’re uncomfortable.
ORL also addressed letting unknown
people into residence halls: “Know who
your neighbors are so you will have a
general idea of who ‘belongs’ and who
might be suspicious.
”
This year, there have been several
reported trespassing incidents in residencehalls,includinganOct.
incident
resulting in a “Timely Notice” e-mail
sent to campus when an unidentified
male entered Hillside Hall and peeped
in women’s showers.
Police said this is
an ongoing investigation.
Emmanuel Fairley, resident adviser
in Logan Hall, said it’s up to students to
keep themselves safe and that over time
they learn that lesson.
“Freshmen, I would assume, are
more likely to let people in because
those dorms are bigger, so you don’t
know everyone there,” said Fairley,
comparing that to upperclassman
dorms, which he said tend to be smaller and close-knit.
Fairley had not heard of Colwell’s
video,buthesaidthesta inhisbuilding
discussed issues, especially “piggybacking,” during its last meeting.
Since the
beginning of the year, ORL has advocated safe habits, but Fairley doesn’t think
residents need to be reminded daily.
“It’s really up to the residents to be
proactive,” Fairley said.
“JMU, as an
institution, can only do so much.
”
Residents should always question
people who are not familiar, Fairley
said, even if that seems “abrasive.
”
“You’re only concerned about security,” Fairley said.
“It’s not a bad thing.
It’s a good thing.
”
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Freshman Tyler Colwell enters five residence halls during the “It’s too easy!” video he
and his classmates posted on Facebook.
Owners show off their
pure bred dogs during
Saturday’s Pet Dog-Fest
at the Rockingham County
Fairgrounds.
The goal of the
sixth-annual event was to
teach the community about
rescue organizations in the
area.
Dozens of dogs — and
even a few cats — filled the
venue all day.
Some were
with their owners, but others
were up for adoption.
Events
included a silent auction, book
reading, agility competition
and search-and-rescue
demonstration.
Proceeds from
the event go to the Mosby
Foundation and PARTNERS!
Canines.
GCOMProjectPostedonFacebook,LeadstoMeetingwithOfficeofResidenceLife
STUDENT HEALTH
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Theta Chi raises money for
charities by spending 12 nights
on the commons.
OPINION
Coming graduates should
consider the downside of rushing
to grad school.
LIFE
JMU fashion: to be comfortable
or to be original?
SPORTS
Men’s basketball faces backcourt
problems without Devon Moore.
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page 9
Pub Owners
Face Criminal
Charges
e owners of e Pub will face a grand jury today
with charges each.
William R.
Royer and Terri Lynn Life face three felony charges of embezzlement, one misdemeanor of
money laundering and eight misdemeanors of failure
to pay the Harrisonburg meals tax.
e charges were led Friday in the Rockingham
County Circuit Court.
The Pub has faced violations from the Virginia
Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control a number
of times this year, including violating after-hoursdrinking laws in August and February.
On Friday, ABC dropped several of these previous
charges against the owners.
e two were accused of
failing to demonstrate financial responsibility and
attempting to commit tax fraud.
Earlier this year, ABC suspended the bar’s liquor
license for days and issued a , fine after
bartender Bethany Jones was involved in a fatal-hitand-run accident Jan.
.
— staff reports
A West Virginia man pleaded guilty ursday to
charges from a March stabbing outside Dave’s Taverna Express on Port Republic Road.
Terry Harvey, , pleaded guilty to felony malicious
wounding in Rockingham Circuit Court.
For a felony
robbery charge, he entered an Alford plea, meaning if
the case were to go to trial, the defendant believes the
prosecution has enough evidence for a conviction.
e second man charged in the incident, Michael
Smith-Barrow, , of Franklin, W.
Va.
, is scheduled to
appear in court ursday and faces felony robbery
and drug possession charges.
Prosecutors say a plea
agreement is in the works.
Paul Johnson, the victim who has since recovered,
was stabbed at least times March .
Investigators
said this followed a drug deal that went bad between
the three men.
According to investigators, Harvey
tried to buy crack cocaine from Johnson, but then
Johnson refused to give Harvey the drugs after Harvey paid.
Investigators said Johnson has refused to cooperate
in the prosecution.
Harvey negotiated a plea agreement to have his felony drug possession charge dropped.
He faces life in
prison and is scheduled for sentencing Jan.
.
— staff reports
ManPleads
GuiltytoPort
RoadStabbing
Inside
12ChargesIncludeMoney
Laundering,Embezzlement
Pooch Parade
FluClinicCanceledDuetoUnavailableVaccines
By RYAN F.
PLATT
The Breeze
While swine flu cases seem to
be dwindling in the area as u season continues, Friday’s on-campus
swine uvaccinationclinicwascanceled because of a lack of vaccine
availability.
Nearby, Rockingham Memorial
Hospital closed its u clinic Friday
because of an apparent decrease in
patients reporting symptoms.
If the
number of cases increases again,
the clinic could reopen.
Intravene Travel Clinic, based in
Lynchburg, was unable to obtain
doses of the vaccine for the University Health Center’s clinic.
e Dec.
clinic in Memorial Hall is pending as the vaccine may become
available.
Despitethecancelledclinic,UHC
says a small number of vaccines are
availableona rstcome, rstserved
basisavailabletostudentswithhighrisk medical conditions that could
make the u’s e ects worse.
Some students seem skeptical of
anyoutbreakoncampus.
Freshman
MercedesMaiselthinksthenumber
of actual swine u cases is greatly
exaggerated.
“I don’t know if people actually
have it,” Maisel said.
“A lot of times
they don’t actually test for it.
ey
justsaytheyhave u-likesymptoms
and go around saying, ‘Oh yeah, I
have swine u.
’ ”
ehospital’sclosingwasforthis
decrease in cases.
“Ithadnothingtodowithvaccine
availability,” nursing coordinator
Brenda Hedrick said.
“There just
wasn’t a need for it.
”
The clinic opened in September for patients speci cally with u
symptoms to limit their interaction
withotherpatients.
DuringOctober,
theclinicincreaseditshourstomeet
the increasing number of cases.
Hedricksaidstudentsshouldstill
be cautious, especially when going
home.
“Studentsaregoingtobeexposed
to a lot of di erent germs that they
haven’tbeenoncampus,soit’svery
important that they practice good
personal hygiene,” she said.
Despite such reports, as of Nov.
, the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention included Virginia
in a list of states reporting “widespread in uenza activity.
”
page 7
StudentQuestionsDormSecurityinVideo
By FORD PRIOR
and KATIE THISDELL
The Breeze
When GCOM professor Alison Fisher asked students to look into an issue
ripe for change, the rst thought that
came to freshman Tyler Colwell was
residence hall safety.
For the project,
Colwell and fellow GCOM students videotaped entry into at least one dorm on
all areas of campus.
His nearly four-and-a-half minute
video was meant to “persuade fellow
studentswhatneedstobedonetomake
JMU better,” Colwell said.
e Facebook group where the video
is posted, “Improve Security at JMU!”,
has members, which Colwell said
indicates a growing concern regarding
student on-campus safety.
“Maybe we can take that and run
with it and try to actually do something
at JMU to make things better,” he said.
In the video shot by freshman Jenny
Franko,Colwellwaitsatthedoorsof ve
dorms: Ho man, Shorts, Hillside, Ikenberry and Chesapeake.
Sometimes he
slides in after residents enter, and other
times he’s asked if he wants to enter.
Colwell also explains di erent security measures in the dorms, such as
in Ikenberry Hall, which he said has
“intense security or at least a lot more
thanwhatthereareinanyotherdorms.
”
ere, a resident asked if he lives there,
he said yes and she entered the dorm
with him.
In that dorm, residents also
use a JACard swipe system to go in their
section and enter a numerical key code
to open the suite doors.
According to Colwell, Brian Keilson,
Bluestone area director for the O ce of
Residential Life, has requested a meeting with him.
“He said he wanted to discuss furthermoreintothematters,”Colwellsaid.
“He didn’t clarify whether or not I’m in
trouble.
I think he wants to maybe do
something about [on-campus safety]
and make security better.
”
The Office of Residence Life sent a
“Safety Concerns” mass e-mail ursday, citing “the volume of safety
concerns on campus and o campus.
”
Tips include being aware of surroundings, traveling with friends and seeking
help if you’re uncomfortable.
ORL also addressed letting unknown
people into residence halls: “Know who
your neighbors are so you will have a
general idea of who ‘belongs’ and who
might be suspicious.
”
This year, there have been several
reported trespassing incidents in residencehalls,includinganOct.
incident
resulting in a “Timely Notice” e-mail
sent to campus when an unidentified
male entered Hillside Hall and peeped
in women’s showers.
Police said this is
an ongoing investigation.
Emmanuel Fairley, resident adviser
in Logan Hall, said it’s up to students to
keep themselves safe and that over time
they learn that lesson.
“Freshmen, I would assume, are
more likely to let people in because
those dorms are bigger, so you don’t
know everyone there,” said Fairley,
comparing that to upperclassman
dorms, which he said tend to be smaller and close-knit.
Fairley had not heard of Colwell’s
video,buthesaidthesta inhisbuilding
discussed issues, especially “piggybacking,” during its last meeting.
Since the
beginning of the year, ORL has advocated safe habits, but Fairley doesn’t think
residents need to be reminded daily.
“It’s really up to the residents to be
proactive,” Fairley said.
“JMU, as an
institution, can only do so much.
”
Residents should always question
people who are not familiar, Fairley
said, even if that seems “abrasive.
”
“You’re only concerned about security,” Fairley said.
“It’s not a bad thing.
It’s a good thing.
”
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Freshman Tyler Colwell enters five residence halls during the “It’s too easy!” video he
and his classmates posted on Facebook.
Owners show off their
pure bred dogs during
Saturday’s Pet Dog-Fest
at the Rockingham County
Fairgrounds.
The goal of the
sixth-annual event was to
teach the community about
rescue organizations in the
area.
Dozens of dogs — and
even a few cats — filled the
venue all day.
Some were
with their owners, but others
were up for adoption.
Events
included a silent auction, book
reading, agility competition
and search-and-rescue
demonstration.
Proceeds from
the event go to the Mosby
Foundation and PARTNERS!
Canines.
GCOMProjectPostedonFacebook,LeadstoMeetingwithOfficeofResidenceLife
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Valley residents gathered in front of Court Square
on Tuesday at 8:45 p.
m.
to protest the lethal injection
ofasniperwhoterrorizedtheWashington,D.
C.
metro
area in October 2002.
John Allen Muhammad, 48, was executed at the
Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt just after
9 p.
m.
Tuesday.
He died by lethal injection for the
death of Dean H.
Meyers, an engineer who was shot
intheheadatagasstationinManassas.
Muhammad’s
accomplice, then 17-year-old Lee Boyd Malvo, is serving four life sentences without parole.
“This is not about us,” Linda Royster said.
“It is
about all loving people, campaigning and standing
on the side of love.
Everything that should be done
should be done on the basis of love.
”
The Justice Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Harrisonburg held the event so those
against the death penalty could support their opinion
in what they called a silent protest.
“Whenever there is capital punishment carried
out, we invite other groups to come out and we hold
a vigil,” group member Mary Hahn said.
About 20 protestors stopped cars at the stoplights
to tell drivers about their beliefs and answer any questions onlookers had.
“We are here to mourn violence not only toward
Muhammad, but violence he did and the violence in
our system,” Royster said.
Residents held signs or propped them against
posts on the sidewalk.
The signs said “Death Penalty Dead Wrong” and “Executions kill the dream.
”
see Vigil, page 4
‘TheViolenceinOurSystem’
Increased
Parkingfor
Skyline
Residents
Charge
Upgraded
To Felony
For Peeper
TOMSShoesFounderNamedCommencementSpeaker
The charge against an alleged peeper
has been upgraded to a felony because
of his prior criminal activity.
Police arrested Jamal A.
Azeez, 34,
of Harrisonburg on Oct.
24 for peeping through a door into an occupied
home in the 400 block of South Mason
Street.
The charge was originally a misdemeanor under Virginia code 18.
2-130
but is now a class 6 felony.
But court records indicate he was
found guilty of the same class 1 misdemeanor three times in Harrisonburg in
2003.
He was also found guilty of trespassing in 2007 and paid a $250 fine.
He
was sentenced to more than 2 years of
jail time.
Harrisonburg and JMU Police are still
working together to determine if there
are any connections in this case and
similar ones from this year.
“We’re in the middle of the investigation as far as looking at all the cases we
have,” said Lt.
Kurt Boshart of the Harrisonburg Police Department.
This investigation involves looking at
similarities between peeping cases and
trespassing cases.
He could not comment on specifics.
Since Sept.
1, there
have been at least eight trespassing
incidents and eight peeping incidents.
“We do know there’s more than one
person involved in all these,” Boshart
said.
Azeez was released hours later on
Oct.
24 on a $5,000 cash bond.
He is
scheduled to have a preliminary hearing in Rockingham County General
District Court at 2 p.
m.
on Dec.
9.
— staff reports
“We do know there’s
more than one person
involved in all these.
”
— kUrt boshart
Harrisonburg Police Lt.
by Matt sUtherlaNd
The Breeze
Seniors trying to put their best foot
forward after graduation may get help
from a commendable source.
The May 2010 Commencement will
feature Blake Mycoskie, the founder of the charitable company TOMS
Shoes, as the speaker during Senior
Convocation.
TOMS Shoes has gained popularity
throughitscharitableidea“OneForOne,”
which donates a pair of specialized
TOMS shoes to impoverished children
around the world for every pair sold.
Senior class president Alex Jerasa
explained how Mycoskie could be an
influential speaker for an internationally conscious generation in a globalized
world.
“What he goes out and practices
everyday is what I think JMU students
strive to do,” Jerasa said.
“Going out and
being the change is our motto, and I
think he’s a great example of that.
”
Jerasa developed a list of several
Student Government Association and
non-SGA members to identify possible speakers.
Mycoskie was at the top
of a list including governor-elect Bob
McDonnell.
According to Donna Harper, executive assistant to JMU President Linwood
Rose and one of the leaders of the committee,bringingMycoskietothecampus
was fairly easy.
“[Mycoskie]seemsveryexcitedabout
the opportunity to come,” Harper said.
“I think college campuses are the places
helikestospeak,helikestospeaktocollege students.
”
Harper added that Mycoskie’s representative had been to JMU before.
“We didn’t think it was going to happen, so we’re actually pretty surprised
about it,” said Candace Avalos, SGA
president.
The announcement of Mycoskie’s
commencement speech to JMU is only
one of a few announcements about
graduation this year.
The Senior Convocation, which is new for this year, is
takingplacesolelybecauseofthereconstruction of Bridgeforth Stadium, the
traditional site for graduations.
Usually, JMU has a main ceremony
that takes place in the stadium before
see coMMeNceMeNt, page 4
by aMaNda herMaN
contributing writer
Residents of the Skyline area residence halls now have more places to
park.
Parking Services has rezoned the C17
lotneartheArboretumforresidentsand
commuters after a month-long process
initiated by the Student Government
Association.
The lot has been renamed
the R5 lot and the change went into
effect Sunday.
Student body president Candace
Avalos brought the issue to the SGA’s
parking advisory committee in late September after talking to upperclassmen
East Campus residents who felt they
had very few places to park.
After the committee’s research, Dan
Smolkin, vice president of administrative affairs, talked to Parking Services.
Then Smolkin wrote the proposal to
change commuter lot C17 to become
a resident and commuter lot, renamed
R5.
Residentsusedtobeabletoonlypark
in the R5 Blue Ridge Hall lot or those
near Hillside area — both of which are
far from their buildings.
Once the university parking advisory committee approved the proposal,
Smolkin brought it to vice president
of administration and finance Charlie
King for final approval, effective immediately,aboutonemonthaftertheinitial
idea for the change.
The Skyline dorms hold 372 upperclassmen, including 52 resident
advisors; however, there were only 133
spaces available to them in the R4 lot.
The Baseball lot has 700 spaces for residents and commuters, but according
to the proposal, residents wanted better accessibility and to feel safer walking
to and from their cars.
The proposal estimated about 40 percent of all JMU residents have parking
passes, which means about 150 residents in Skyline are expected to have
them.
With the addition of the new
lot, the SGA expects this number to
increase.
Kelly Bragg, a freshman resident of
Chesapeake Hall, didn’t know about
the new lot but thinks the number of
resident cars parked on East Campus
will increase.
Bragg plans to live in East
Campus dorms again next year.
“I think it will help,” Bragg said.
“It
will encourage me to most likely bring
my car next year because of the parking lot.
”
Though the number of mixed-use
spaces will increase, Smolkin said
commuters would not really be losing
spaces in his proposal.
Many residents
would no longer use the baseball lot,
opening it up to more commuters.
The R5 lot holds 101 spaces, which
means Skyline residents will now have
228 possible spaces to park between R4
and the new R5 lot.
« 2 0 0 9 b a s k e t b a l l p r e V i e w»pAG E 1 5
Candles line the sidewalk at a vigil to protest the execution of John Allen Muhammad, known as the ‘Beltway Sniper.
’
NewS
Some classes meet in a virtual
world — complete with JmU
buildings and people.
oPiNioN
are we sometimes an indecent,
crude, vulgar society? Yes, says
Whitten maher, but it’s not that bad.
liFe
drum beats and elaborate regalia
are characteristic of the native
Pride dancers who visited Tuesday.
SPorTS
JmU Football hopes to win at Umass
for the first time since 1987.
inside
page 3
page 7
page 11
page 15
as the Beltway Sniper, John allen muhammad left 10 dead along
I-95.
Seven years later, a vigil is held for both him and his victims.
paUl JoNes/The Breeze
Men’s season expectations following Devon Moore’s
season-ending knee injury
women’s junior-heavy squad hoping to win CAA
tournament behind Dawn evans
also: 2009-10 schedUles aNd rosters
SGALedPushtoRezone
LotonEastCampus
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by daNielle strickler
contributing writer
Valley residents gathered in front of Court Square
on Tuesday at 8:45 p.
m.
to protest the lethal injection
ofasniperwhoterrorizedtheWashington,D.
C.
metro
area in October 2002.
John Allen Muhammad, 48, was executed at the
Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt just after
9 p.
m.
Tuesday.
He died by lethal injection for the
death of Dean H.
Meyers, an engineer who was shot
intheheadatagasstationinManassas.
Muhammad’s
accomplice, then 17-year-old Lee Boyd Malvo, is serving four life sentences without parole.
“This is not about us,” Linda Royster said.
“It is
about all loving people, campaigning and standing
on the side of love.
Everything that should be done
should be done on the basis of love.
”
The Justice Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Harrisonburg held the event so those
against the death penalty could support their opinion
in what they called a silent protest.
“Whenever there is capital punishment carried
out, we invite other groups to come out and we hold
a vigil,” group member Mary Hahn said.
About 20 protestors stopped cars at the stoplights
to tell drivers about their beliefs and answer any questions onlookers had.
“We are here to mourn violence not only toward
Muhammad, but violence he did and the violence in
our system,” Royster said.
Residents held signs or propped them against
posts on the sidewalk.
The signs said “Death Penalty Dead Wrong” and “Executions kill the dream.
”
see Vigil, page 4
‘TheViolenceinOurSystem’
Increased
Parkingfor
Skyline
Residents
Charge
Upgraded
To Felony
For Peeper
TOMSShoesFounderNamedCommencementSpeaker
The charge against an alleged peeper
has been upgraded to a felony because
of his prior criminal activity.
Police arrested Jamal A.
Azeez, 34,
of Harrisonburg on Oct.
24 for peeping through a door into an occupied
home in the 400 block of South Mason
Street.
The charge was originally a misdemeanor under Virginia code 18.
2-130
but is now a class 6 felony.
But court records indicate he was
found guilty of the same class 1 misdemeanor three times in Harrisonburg in
2003.
He was also found guilty of trespassing in 2007 and paid a $250 fine.
He
was sentenced to more than 2 years of
jail time.
Harrisonburg and JMU Police are still
working together to determine if there
are any connections in this case and
similar ones from this year.
“We’re in the middle of the investigation as far as looking at all the cases we
have,” said Lt.
Kurt Boshart of the Harrisonburg Police Department.
This investigation involves looking at
similarities between peeping cases and
trespassing cases.
He could not comment on specifics.
Since Sept.
1, there
have been at least eight trespassing
incidents and eight peeping incidents.
“We do know there’s more than one
person involved in all these,” Boshart
said.
Azeez was released hours later on
Oct.
24 on a $5,000 cash bond.
He is
scheduled to have a preliminary hearing in Rockingham County General
District Court at 2 p.
m.
on Dec.
9.
— staff reports
“We do know there’s
more than one person
involved in all these.
”
— kUrt boshart
Harrisonburg Police Lt.
by Matt sUtherlaNd
The Breeze
Seniors trying to put their best foot
forward after graduation may get help
from a commendable source.
The May 2010 Commencement will
feature Blake Mycoskie, the founder of the charitable company TOMS
Shoes, as the speaker during Senior
Convocation.
TOMS Shoes has gained popularity
throughitscharitableidea“OneForOne,”
which donates a pair of specialized
TOMS shoes to impoverished children
around the world for every pair sold.
Senior class president Alex Jerasa
explained how Mycoskie could be an
influential speaker for an internationally conscious generation in a globalized
world.
“What he goes out and practices
everyday is what I think JMU students
strive to do,” Jerasa said.
“Going out and
being the change is our motto, and I
think he’s a great example of that.
”
Jerasa developed a list of several
Student Government Association and
non-SGA members to identify possible speakers.
Mycoskie was at the top
of a list including governor-elect Bob
McDonnell.
According to Donna Harper, executive assistant to JMU President Linwood
Rose and one of the leaders of the committee,bringingMycoskietothecampus
was fairly easy.
“[Mycoskie]seemsveryexcitedabout
the opportunity to come,” Harper said.
“I think college campuses are the places
helikestospeak,helikestospeaktocollege students.
”
Harper added that Mycoskie’s representative had been to JMU before.
“We didn’t think it was going to happen, so we’re actually pretty surprised
about it,” said Candace Avalos, SGA
president.
The announcement of Mycoskie’s
commencement speech to JMU is only
one of a few announcements about
graduation this year.
The Senior Convocation, which is new for this year, is
takingplacesolelybecauseofthereconstruction of Bridgeforth Stadium, the
traditional site for graduations.
Usually, JMU has a main ceremony
that takes place in the stadium before
see coMMeNceMeNt, page 4
by aMaNda herMaN
contributing writer
Residents of the Skyline area residence halls now have more places to
park.
Parking Services has rezoned the C17
lotneartheArboretumforresidentsand
commuters after a month-long process
initiated by the Student Government
Association.
The lot has been renamed
the R5 lot and the change went into
effect Sunday.
Student body president Candace
Avalos brought the issue to the SGA’s
parking advisory committee in late September after talking to upperclassmen
East Campus residents who felt they
had very few places to park.
After the committee’s research, Dan
Smolkin, vice president of administrative affairs, talked to Parking Services.
Then Smolkin wrote the proposal to
change commuter lot C17 to become
a resident and commuter lot, renamed
R5.
Residentsusedtobeabletoonlypark
in the R5 Blue Ridge Hall lot or those
near Hillside area — both of which are
far from their buildings.
Once the university parking advisory committee approved the proposal,
Smolkin brought it to vice president
of administration and finance Charlie
King for final approval, effective immediately,aboutonemonthaftertheinitial
idea for the change.
The Skyline dorms hold 372 upperclassmen, including 52 resident
advisors; however, there were only 133
spaces available to them in the R4 lot.
The Baseball lot has 700 spaces for residents and commuters, but according
to the proposal, residents wanted better accessibility and to feel safer walking
to and from their cars.
The proposal estimated about 40 percent of all JMU residents have parking
passes, which means about 150 residents in Skyline are expected to have
them.
With the addition of the new
lot, the SGA expects this number to
increase.
Kelly Bragg, a freshman resident of
Chesapeake Hall, didn’t know about
the new lot but thinks the number of
resident cars parked on East Campus
will increase.
Bragg plans to live in East
Campus dorms again next year.
“I think it will help,” Bragg said.
“It
will encourage me to most likely bring
my car next year because of the parking lot.
”
Though the number of mixed-use
spaces will increase, Smolkin said
commuters would not really be losing
spaces in his proposal.
Many residents
would no longer use the baseball lot,
opening it up to more commuters.
The R5 lot holds 101 spaces, which
means Skyline residents will now have
228 possible spaces to park between R4
and the new R5 lot.
« 2 0 0 9 b a s k e t b a l l p r e V i e w»pAG E 1 5
Candles line the sidewalk at a vigil to protest the execution of John Allen Muhammad, known as the ‘Beltway Sniper.
’
NewS
Some classes meet in a virtual
world — complete with JmU
buildings and people.
oPiNioN
are we sometimes an indecent,
crude, vulgar society? Yes, says
Whitten maher, but it’s not that bad.
liFe
drum beats and elaborate regalia
are characteristic of the native
Pride dancers who visited Tuesday.
SPorTS
JmU Football hopes to win at Umass
for the first time since 1987.
inside
page 3
page 7
page 11
page 15
as the Beltway Sniper, John allen muhammad left 10 dead along
I-95.
Seven years later, a vigil is held for both him and his victims.
paUl JoNes/The Breeze
Men’s season expectations following Devon Moore’s
season-ending knee injury
women’s junior-heavy squad hoping to win CAA
tournament behind Dawn evans
also: 2009-10 schedUles aNd rosters
SGALedPushtoRezone
LotonEastCampus
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Mind online
Join the dialogue and
comment on any article or
column at breezejmu.
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18
reecharges,includingtwofelonies,
against JMU junior Colin J.
Fitz-Maurice
were dropped in Rockingham district
court Oct.
.
Fitz-Maurice, , from Newtown,
Penn.
, was arrested Sept.
for felonious assault and malicious wounding
by mob, as well as a misdemeanor of
unlawful possession of an alcoholic
beverage.
e alleged assault took place
around p.
m.
at the Liberty gas station
parking lot on Port Republic Road.
Two other JMU students, junior
Markus W.
Hunter, , from High Point,
N.
C.
, and sophomore Connor Long,
, from Newtown, Penn.
, were also
charged with felonious assault and
malicious wounding by mob.
e two
will appear in Rockingham/Harrisonburg General District Court at p.
m.
on Nov.
.
The case was moved from Oct.
because the Commonwealth’s attorney
asked for more time to prepare evidence.
Long said he is confident that
the case will go in his favor since several
eyewitnesses will testify on the behalf of
him and Hunter.
The victim, whose name was not
released because of police policy,
was taken to Rockingham Memorial
see CHARGES, page 4
By KATIE THISDELL
The Breeze
Final exam week could be a little
loud for students living and studying
near Bridgeforth Stadium.
Construction is scheduled to begin hours after
the end of the Nov.
football game
against Towson, and faculty say that
could disrupt testing from Dec.
to
Dec.
.
During Thursday’s faculty senate
meeting, members passed a proposal
addressing the construction issue for
the administration, saying the O ce of
Academic A airs should be consulted
before major demolition or construction projects.
“The fact that some things were
planned to be done, such as this,
during probably the most important
academic week of the year, at least on
the student side, is not a good thing,”
said Sen.
Jeff Andre, a psychology
professor.
e proposal, which easily passed
with a majority vote, also asked
for reconsideration of the Dec.
demolition.
“I don’t think we’ll be able to keep
them from blowing up the stadium,
but at least we’ll be able to say we
did everything we could,” said Sen.
Scott Gallagher, a professor from the
College of Business’ management
department.
Several faculty senators said a
university-wide environment conducive to studying should be promoted
during exam week whether that’s by
limiting leaf blowers or construction.
Steve Garren, speaker of the senate,
said because of the short time frame
involved with the proposal — which
was brought up two weeks ago by Gallagher — the construction company
was not contacted to nd out the speci c construction schedule.
Donley Construction Company and
JMU Facilities Management have not
nalized the plans, according to JMU
media relations manager Bill Wyatt.
“I think the contractor has the freedomtodowhattheyneedtodo,”Harris
said.
“They’re bound by a schedule,
and that’s what they’re going to do,
regardless of how we bitch and moan
about it.
”
Yet some senators wanted to promote a long-term change for the
studying environment, rather than
just for December’s Bridgeforth
construction.
“I can think of many other distractions that could be far more distracting
to students during nals week than an
occasional explosion,” said Sen.
Howard Lubert of political science.
“ eir
cell phones could be far more distracting than some demolition.
”
DemolitionDuringExamsTroublesFacultySenate
Breeze
Reporter
Found
Responsible
By KATIE THISDELL
The Breeze
Katie Hibson, contributing news
writer for The Breeze, has been found
responsible by Judicial A airs for one of
thefourchargesbroughtagainstherand
hasdecidednottoappeal.
JudicialA airs
cleared editor-in-chief Tim Chapman of
all three charges he faced in a separate
hearing ursday.
In both hearings, the
students met with Greg Meyer, assistant
director of Judicial A airs.
On Oct.
, Judicial A airs charged
the two with trespassing, disorderly
conduct and non-compliance with an
official request.
Hibson received two
charges of trespassing.
Hibson received an assignment Oct.
to report an Oct.
trespassing incident in Hillside Hall that resulted in
a “Timely Notice” e-mail to the campus, stating an unidenti ed black male
opened shower curtains while women
showered in a hall bathroom.
After she was invited into the residence Hall, Hibson said, a resident
adviser asked her to leave and escorted
her out of the building.
Chapman and Hibson, accompanied
by a resident, later entered Hillside Hall
but were asked to leave by the RA and
hall director.
Hibson has decided not to appeal
her trespassing charge.
In a letter sent
to Judicial A airs Friday, she said while
she does not believe she violated university policies, the judicial process has
had a negative effect on her schoolwork.
Hibson will remain on probation
through Fall , but the charge will
not count as a strike.
Chapman, who previously encouraged Hibson to appeal the charge, said
he was pleased with the outcome of his
own case.
Outside Frederikson Hall on ursday, several students supported the
reporters with what they called a rally
for “champions of the First Amendment
of the Constitution.
”
By DAN LOBDELL
The Breeze
JMU football is back from the dead with its - win Saturday
against Maine.
e Dukes have won two in a row and continue
ghting for a winning season.
Junior defensive tackle Ronnell Brown said the team regained
itsidentityinitspreviousgame,a - winatDelaware.
“Andwith
that,therewasnodoubtgoingintothisgamethatwewerebackat
where we were before: being the top dog,” Brown said.
eteam’scon denceshowedinthesixturnoversforcedandthe
- leadinthethirdquarter.
Butatouchdowndriveandadesperation play by Maine cut the lead to eight in the fourth quarter.
Staring at a fourth-and-three with just more than six minutes
remaining,BlackBears’coachJackCosgrovecalledforafakepunt.
Wide receiver and punter Mike Brusko led defensive back Troy
Harrisonafadedowntherightsideline,andHarristurnedonthe
jets for an -yard score.
But it was not enough as Maine’s last two drives ended in
interceptions, giving the Dukes the win in front of , fans at
Bridgeforth Stadium.
A urry of action in the second quarter gave Madison a lead it
never relinquished.
A snap over Maine punter John Waxman’s head went out the
back of the end zone to give JMU a - lead.
e ensuing free kick went out of bounds for an illegal procedureonMaine,givingJMUtheballatmid eld.
Redshirtfreshman
quarterbackJustin orpescoredonacareer-long -yardtouchdown on the drive’s third play.
orpe would also lead a nine-play, -yard drive to start the
secondhalfforJMU’s( - overall, - ColonialAthleticAssociation)
last points of the day.
After an illegal procedure penalty pushed
theballbacktothe , orpeconnectedwithsophomoretailback
Scott Noble down the right sideline for a touchdown.
MadisoncoachMickeyMatthewswasupsetJMUpenaltiesgave
Maine ( - , - ) the opportunity to get back into the game.
“I’mnotsurewhohadthemostyards,eitherusortheo cials,”
Matthews said of his team’s penalties for yards.
Two penalties set up Maine’s rst touchdown, a -yard pass
from sophomore quarterback Warren Smith to Brusko early in
the fourth quarter.
elasttwogames,atMassachusettsonSaturdayandTowson
Nov.
at home, will decide if JMU’s seniors end their careers
below .
on the season.
“We’renotgonnamaketheplayo s,”Moatssaid.
“Butwealways
hadourgoals.
e rstgoalwasthenationalchampionship;that’s
outthewindow.
Playo sisoutthewindow.
Conferencechampionship was out the window.
So, our next thing was winning season.
at’s still reachable, and we’re gonna make sure we get that.
”
The outcome was decided…
When sophomore Vidal Nelson intercepted Maine’s
last-second attempt to tie the game.
Player of the game
Quarterback Justin Thorpe, who accounted for 216 yards
of total offense and both JMU touchdowns.
Game-changing stat
Turnovers, but this time in the Dukes’ favor.
Maine threw
four interceptions and fumbled two kickoffs.
GAME OVERVIEW
Junior Colin
Fitz-Maurice
was a safety
for the JMU
football team
until a Spring
2009 neck
injury ended
his football
career.
VMI Cadet Collapses,
Dies After March
A Virginia Military Institute freshman from Maryland died Saturday
after nishing a -mile road march.
John Alexander Evans, , of Highland, Md.
, collapsed in his room after
the training.
He was taken to Carilion
Stonewall Jackson Hospital and was
pronounced dead shortly after noon.
Evans was a th class cadet and an international studies major.
DukesGetSwaggerBack
22-14WinOverMainePoweredby
SixForcedTurnovers,SpecialTeams
Rockeed McCarter (top) and Bosco Williams (5) celebrate with Scott Noble after the tailback’s
31-yard touchdown catch from quarterback Justin Thorpe in the third quarter.
ROBERT BOAG/The Breeze
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page 5
page 7
page 9
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“I can think of many other
distractions that could be far
more distracting to students
during finals week.
.
.
”
Howard Lubert
faculty senator, political science
“I don’t think we’ll be able to
keep them from blowing up the
stadium.
.
.
at least we’ll be able to
say we did everything we could.
”
Scott Gallagher
faculty senator, business management [Less]
See Saturday’s game ball delivered to
Bridgeforth — from the sky.
OPINION
A call to action against Uganda’s
“Anti-Homosexuality Bill.
”
LIFE
Sisterhood of African-American
women writers read essays by
Wintergreen Women.
SPORTS
Women’s soccer suffers a
heartbreaking 1-0 loss in CAA
championship game.
Inside
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74°/47°
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86, ISSUE 23
Monday, November 9, 2009
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ChargesAgainstStudent,FormerSafetyDropped
JuniorClaimsAnotherSuspectCouldbeChargedinAllegedFightonSept.
18
reecharges,includingtwofelonies,
against JMU junior Colin J.
Fitz-Maurice
were dropped in Rockingham district
court Oct.
.
Fitz-Maurice, , from Newtown,
Penn.
, was arrested Sept.
for felonious assault and malicious wounding
by mob, as well as a misdemeanor of
unlawful possession of an alcoholic
beverage.
e alleged assault took place
around p.
m.
at the Liberty gas station
parking lot on Port Republic Road.
Two other JMU students, junior
Markus W.
Hunter, , from High Point,
N.
C.
, and sophomore Connor Long,
, from Newtown, Penn.
, were also
charged with felonious assault and
malicious wounding by mob.
e two
will appear in Rockingham/Harrisonburg General District Court at p.
m.
on Nov.
.
The case was moved from Oct.
because the Commonwealth’s attorney
asked for more time to prepare evidence.
Long said he is confident that
the case will go in his favor since several
eyewitnesses will testify on the behalf of
him and Hunter.
The victim, whose name was not
released because of police policy,
was taken to Rockingham Memorial
see CHARGES, page 4
By KATIE THISDELL
The Breeze
Final exam week could be a little
loud for students living and studying
near Bridgeforth Stadium.
Construction is scheduled to begin hours after
the end of the Nov.
football game
against Towson, and faculty say that
could disrupt testing from Dec.
to
Dec.
.
During Thursday’s faculty senate
meeting, members passed a proposal
addressing the construction issue for
the administration, saying the O ce of
Academic A airs should be consulted
before major demolition or construction projects.
“The fact that some things were
planned to be done, such as this,
during probably the most important
academic week of the year, at least on
the student side, is not a good thing,”
said Sen.
Jeff Andre, a psychology
professor.
e proposal, which easily passed
with a majority vote, also asked
for reconsideration of the Dec.
demolition.
“I don’t think we’ll be able to keep
them from blowing up the stadium,
but at least we’ll be able to say we
did everything we could,” said Sen.
Scott Gallagher, a professor from the
College of Business’ management
department.
Several faculty senators said a
university-wide environment conducive to studying should be promoted
during exam week whether that’s by
limiting leaf blowers or construction.
Steve Garren, speaker of the senate,
said because of the short time frame
involved with the proposal — which
was brought up two weeks ago by Gallagher — the construction company
was not contacted to nd out the speci c construction schedule.
Donley Construction Company and
JMU Facilities Management have not
nalized the plans, according to JMU
media relations manager Bill Wyatt.
“I think the contractor has the freedomtodowhattheyneedtodo,”Harris
said.
“They’re bound by a schedule,
and that’s what they’re going to do,
regardless of how we bitch and moan
about it.
”
Yet some senators wanted to promote a long-term change for the
studying environment, rather than
just for December’s Bridgeforth
construction.
“I can think of many other distractions that could be far more distracting
to students during nals week than an
occasional explosion,” said Sen.
Howard Lubert of political science.
“ eir
cell phones could be far more distracting than some demolition.
”
DemolitionDuringExamsTroublesFacultySenate
Breeze
Reporter
Found
Responsible
By KATIE THISDELL
The Breeze
Katie Hibson, contributing news
writer for The Breeze, has been found
responsible by Judicial A airs for one of
thefourchargesbroughtagainstherand
hasdecidednottoappeal.
JudicialA airs
cleared editor-in-chief Tim Chapman of
all three charges he faced in a separate
hearing ursday.
In both hearings, the
students met with Greg Meyer, assistant
director of Judicial A airs.
On Oct.
, Judicial A airs charged
the two with trespassing, disorderly
conduct and non-compliance with an
official request.
Hibson received two
charges of trespassing.
Hibson received an assignment Oct.
to report an Oct.
trespassing incident in Hillside Hall that resulted in
a “Timely Notice” e-mail to the campus, stating an unidenti ed black male
opened shower curtains while women
showered in a hall bathroom.
After she was invited into the residence Hall, Hibson said, a resident
adviser asked her to leave and escorted
her out of the building.
Chapman and Hibson, accompanied
by a resident, later entered Hillside Hall
but were asked to leave by the RA and
hall director.
Hibson has decided not to appeal
her trespassing charge.
In a letter sent
to Judicial A airs Friday, she said while
she does not believe she violated university policies, the judicial process has
had a negative effect on her schoolwork.
Hibson will remain on probation
through Fall , but the charge will
not count as a strike.
Chapman, who previously encouraged Hibson to appeal the charge, said
he was pleased with the outcome of his
own case.
Outside Frederikson Hall on ursday, several students supported the
reporters with what they called a rally
for “champions of the First Amendment
of the Constitution.
”
By DAN LOBDELL
The Breeze
JMU football is back from the dead with its - win Saturday
against Maine.
e Dukes have won two in a row and continue
ghting for a winning season.
Junior defensive tackle Ronnell Brown said the team regained
itsidentityinitspreviousgame,a - winatDelaware.
“Andwith
that,therewasnodoubtgoingintothisgamethatwewerebackat
where we were before: being the top dog,” Brown said.
eteam’scon denceshowedinthesixturnoversforcedandthe
- leadinthethirdquarter.
Butatouchdowndriveandadesperation play by Maine cut the lead to eight in the fourth quarter.
Staring at a fourth-and-three with just more than six minutes
remaining,BlackBears’coachJackCosgrovecalledforafakepunt.
Wide receiver and punter Mike Brusko led defensive back Troy
Harrisonafadedowntherightsideline,andHarristurnedonthe
jets for an -yard score.
But it was not enough as Maine’s last two drives ended in
interceptions, giving the Dukes the win in front of , fans at
Bridgeforth Stadium.
A urry of action in the second quarter gave Madison a lead it
never relinquished.
A snap over Maine punter John Waxman’s head went out the
back of the end zone to give JMU a - lead.
e ensuing free kick went out of bounds for an illegal procedureonMaine,givingJMUtheballatmid eld.
Redshirtfreshman
quarterbackJustin orpescoredonacareer-long -yardtouchdown on the drive’s third play.
orpe would also lead a nine-play, -yard drive to start the
secondhalfforJMU’s( - overall, - ColonialAthleticAssociation)
last points of the day.
After an illegal procedure penalty pushed
theballbacktothe , orpeconnectedwithsophomoretailback
Scott Noble down the right sideline for a touchdown.
MadisoncoachMickeyMatthewswasupsetJMUpenaltiesgave
Maine ( - , - ) the opportunity to get back into the game.
“I’mnotsurewhohadthemostyards,eitherusortheo cials,”
Matthews said of his team’s penalties for yards.
Two penalties set up Maine’s rst touchdown, a -yard pass
from sophomore quarterback Warren Smith to Brusko early in
the fourth quarter.
elasttwogames,atMassachusettsonSaturdayandTowson
Nov.
at home, will decide if JMU’s seniors end their careers
below .
on the season.
“We’renotgonnamaketheplayo s,”Moatssaid.
“Butwealways
hadourgoals.
e rstgoalwasthenationalchampionship;that’s
outthewindow.
Playo sisoutthewindow.
Conferencechampionship was out the window.
So, our next thing was winning season.
at’s still reachable, and we’re gonna make sure we get that.
”
The outcome was decided…
When sophomore Vidal Nelson intercepted Maine’s
last-second attempt to tie the game.
Player of the game
Quarterback Justin Thorpe, who accounted for 216 yards
of total offense and both JMU touchdowns.
Game-changing stat
Turnovers, but this time in the Dukes’ favor.
Maine threw
four interceptions and fumbled two kickoffs.
GAME OVERVIEW
Junior Colin
Fitz-Maurice
was a safety
for the JMU
football team
until a Spring
2009 neck
injury ended
his football
career.
VMI Cadet Collapses,
Dies After March
A Virginia Military Institute freshman from Maryland died Saturday
after nishing a -mile road march.
John Alexander Evans, , of Highland, Md.
, collapsed in his room after
the training.
He was taken to Carilion
Stonewall Jackson Hospital and was
pronounced dead shortly after noon.
Evans was a th class cadet and an international studies major.
DukesGetSwaggerBack
22-14WinOverMainePoweredby
SixForcedTurnovers,SpecialTeams
Rockeed McCarter (top) and Bosco Williams (5) celebrate with Scott Noble after the tailback’s
31-yard touchdown catch from quarterback Justin Thorpe in the third quarter.
ROBERT BOAG/The Breeze
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page 5
page 7
page 9
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“I can think of many other
distractions that could be far
more distracting to students
during finals week.
.
.
”
Howard Lubert
faculty senator, political science
“I don’t think we’ll be able to
keep them from blowing up the
stadium.
.
.
at least we’ll be able to
say we did everything we could.
”
Scott Gallagher
faculty senator, business management [Less]
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RICHMOND — Some of Republican
Bob McDonnell’s supporters believe it
was his e ective campaign strategy that
led to his overwhelming victory in the
state.
His win and the GOP sweep of Virginia were celebrated Tuesday with
hip-hop music thumping and beach
balls bouncing amid a large crowd in
downtown Richmond’s Marriot Inn.
“Eight months ago I applied for the
job of governor of Virginia,” McDonnell
told the cheering crowd.
“Tonight you
have chosen me.
”
After eight years of Democratic leadership in Virginia, the Republicans took
all the top positions: Bill Bolling was
re-elected lieutenant governor, Ken
Cuccinelli won attorney general and
Republicans took of open House
of Delegates seats across the state.
“I think Bob ran as good a campaign
as Deeds ran a bad campaign,” said
Stephen E.
Baril, member of McDonnell’s nance committee.
“Bob stayed
focused his issue, and… Deeds was just
ring blanks.
”
The tide of red is, to some, a clear
indication of dissatisfaction with current administrations in Virginia and
Washington.
“This is a warning shot,” said th
District Rep.
Eric Cantor of the GOP’s
overwhelming conquest.
“Voters are
looking for a di erent direction.
ey’re
looking for change… The Republican
resurgence begins again tonight, and
history will record that it began right
here in Virginia.
”
see VICTORY, page 4
GOP
Paintsthe
StateRed
page 3
SGACensuresSecondMember
By KATIE THISDELL
The Breeze
More than two weeks after the
speakerofJMU’sStudentGovernment
Association admitted to tampering
with the Homecoming banner contest, the senate censured a second
member for encouraging the action.
Junior Brock Wallace, vice president for student a airs, apologized to
the senators at the opening of Tuesday’s meeting.
During the SGA’s Oct.
meeting, the senate censured speaker
Andrew Elgert for creating a
computer program to boost the organization’s online votes to , ,
which ultimately caused the banner’s
disquali cation.
“Yes, I did support what he did,”
Wallace said to the SGA.
“However, I
deeply regret these actions.
It was a
huge lapse of judgment on my part.
ese kinds of actions are things that
a leader should not be doing.
”
As part of his responsibilities Wallace was also responsible for several
Homecoming activities, including the
Purple Out T-shirt giveaway and the
Mr.
and Ms.
Madison competition.
After senior senator James Lazo
submitted the censure, which is a
public reprimand, senators called
for changes to the wording based on
Wallace’s earlier apology.
“Brockchosetobeveryproactivein
how he chose to apologize,” Sen.
Kaitlin Solomon said.
“I respect that he
faced us all in a room and confronted
see APOLOGY, page 4
RepublicanResurganceLeavesDemocratsinDust
By MATT SUTHERLAND
The Breeze
RICHMOND — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds may
have lost Tuesday’s election by an
-point margin because of national
dissatisfaction with the current Obama
administration, many people believe.
At Richmond’s Westin Hotel, Deeds
and his ticket — Jody Wagner for lieutenant governor and Steve Shannon for
attorney general — o ered concession
speeches before a tearful audience.
“We cannot pack up and go home,”
Wagner said in front of enthusiastic voters.
“ is election is complete, but our
tasks remain.
We have got to focus on
the next generation.
”
Stephen Sentelle, a Virginia
Commonwealth University student
attending Deed’s party, believes swing
voters were important in the Republican victories.
“A lot of people are worried about
health care and the lack of jobs right
now,” Sentelle said.
“I think the next
election may be different.
Democrats
will have had time to prove they’ve been
doing a good job.
”
Throughout the campaign, Deeds
trailed behind Republican Bob McDonnell in the polls.
e Associated Press
declared McDonnell the winner close
to p.
m.
e election marked a signi cantly
low point in voter turnout for Virginia.
With nearly percent of the precincts
see DEFEAT, page 4
RepublicanCallfor
ChangePaysoffStatewide
“Brock chose to be very
proactive.
.
.
I respect that
he faced us all in a room
and confronted it head on in
that he issued an apology.
”
— Kaitlin Solomon
SGA senator
“It’s not us he should
apologize to.
.
.
There’s a very
disgruntled and disappointed
student body out there.
.
.
”
— Adam Hall
SGA senator
Brock Wallace, censured for encouraging the tampering of votes in the Homecoming Banner contest, issued an apology to
SGA senators at Tuesday’s meeting.
Andrew Elgert (left) was already censured at the Oct.
20 meeting.
Republican Bob McDonnell celebrates his overwhelming victory Tuesday against Democrat Creigh Deeds.
Throughout the campaign, McDonnell led Deeds in the polls.
Tuesday, police charged Jessica
Chandler, , of Port Republic, with
reckless driving after she allegedly hit
and killed a cyclist Aug.
.
The charge comes more than two
months after the death of cyclist Dr.
Joseph Mirenda, , of Virginia Beach.
Mirenda had been riding miles
from Wintergreen to Harrisonburg to
surprise his son Nic Mirenda, a JMU
freshman.
Police looked at Chandler’s cell
phone records to determine if she had
been texting or talking on the phone
at the time of the incident, which
could have resulted in a more serious
charge.
“I’m glad she didn’t get a felony or
anything like that,” Nic said.
“She’s
already going through a lot, and she
obviously didn’t do it on purpose.
”
He said he learned this objective attitude from his father.
“Just trying to imagine being in
the driver’s standpoint,” Nic said, “I
wouldn’t be able to live with myself.
”
During his ride, Joseph Mirenda was
struck from behind by Chandler, who
was driving a Ford Taurus, about a mile
east of Cross Keys Road.
The past two months have been a
rollercoaster here at JMU for Nic, but
staying busy with schoolwork has
helped him get through.
“Maybe the worst is yet to come,” Nic
said.
“I haven’t been home a lot, and I
think that’s when it’ll hit me.
”
He is planning a bike race next year
in his father’s memory, possibly following the same route his father took.
— staff reports
DriverChargedinCyclist’sDeath
By JAMES GWINN
contributing writer
No one would ever envision a JMU
footballplayerwearingRichmondacross
hischest,butitwillsoonbeareality.
Former JMU quarterback Rodney Landers
(’ ) has signed to play with the Richmond Revolution of the Indoor Football
League for the season.
e Indoor Football League was created in as a merger of the Intense
FootballLeagueandUnitedIndoorFootball.
It is made up teams from all over
country.
Richmond,anexpansionteam,
begins its inaugural season in March.
“I’mveryexcitedaboutthesigningand
the chance to play again,” Landers said.
“I’m looking forward to an exciting new
style in the Indoor Football League.
”
The IFL is the third major league in
indoor/arena football.
The other two
are Arena Football , created in to
replace the Arena Football League, and
the American Indoor Football Association,createdin .
eIFLisexpected
to be on the same par as the AIFA and
slightly less competitive than AF .
Although an expansion team, the
Revolution is full of talented and experienced players that played at highly
regarded colleges.
Landers is joined
by fellow Colonial Athletic Association
players Sherman Logan and Stephen
Howell of Richmond and Stephen
Cason of William & Mary.
He is excited
aboutthepossibilitiesofthisteamandis
intrigued at how quickly they can mesh
together and form a championship
caliber squad.
“Hecangetthejobdone,”saidformer
teammate and JMU kick returner Scotty McGee.
“Whether it be at, you know,
running back, quarterback.
I mean, we
called him Superman here.
He can do
it all.
”
e JMU star was high on the Revolution’s priority list.
Landers was also
see LANDERS, page 4
LandersSignswith
RichmondRevolution
DIVIDED RESPONSES
page 5
page 7
page 9
Rodney Landers was one of the most
beloved players in JMU history and led
the Dukes to the national semifinals.
DAVID CASTERLINE/The Breeze
FORD PRIOR/The Breeze
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Students sell shot glasses to push for
dialogue on the drinking age.
OPINION
John Scott’s commentary on today’s
Judicial hearings.
LIFE
Interested in adopting a rescued cat?
Visit Cat’s Cradle downtown.
SPORTS
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players from around the globe.
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The Breeze
RICHMOND — Some of Republican
Bob McDonnell’s supporters believe it
was his e ective campaign strategy that
led to his overwhelming victory in the
state.
His win and the GOP sweep of Virginia were celebrated Tuesday with
hip-hop music thumping and beach
balls bouncing amid a large crowd in
downtown Richmond’s Marriot Inn.
“Eight months ago I applied for the
job of governor of Virginia,” McDonnell
told the cheering crowd.
“Tonight you
have chosen me.
”
After eight years of Democratic leadership in Virginia, the Republicans took
all the top positions: Bill Bolling was
re-elected lieutenant governor, Ken
Cuccinelli won attorney general and
Republicans took of open House
of Delegates seats across the state.
“I think Bob ran as good a campaign
as Deeds ran a bad campaign,” said
Stephen E.
Baril, member of McDonnell’s nance committee.
“Bob stayed
focused his issue, and… Deeds was just
ring blanks.
”
The tide of red is, to some, a clear
indication of dissatisfaction with current administrations in Virginia and
Washington.
“This is a warning shot,” said th
District Rep.
Eric Cantor of the GOP’s
overwhelming conquest.
“Voters are
looking for a di erent direction.
ey’re
looking for change… The Republican
resurgence begins again tonight, and
history will record that it began right
here in Virginia.
”
see VICTORY, page 4
GOP
Paintsthe
StateRed
page 3
SGACensuresSecondMember
By KATIE THISDELL
The Breeze
More than two weeks after the
speakerofJMU’sStudentGovernment
Association admitted to tampering
with the Homecoming banner contest, the senate censured a second
member for encouraging the action.
Junior Brock Wallace, vice president for student a airs, apologized to
the senators at the opening of Tuesday’s meeting.
During the SGA’s Oct.
meeting, the senate censured speaker
Andrew Elgert for creating a
computer program to boost the organization’s online votes to , ,
which ultimately caused the banner’s
disquali cation.
“Yes, I did support what he did,”
Wallace said to the SGA.
“However, I
deeply regret these actions.
It was a
huge lapse of judgment on my part.
ese kinds of actions are things that
a leader should not be doing.
”
As part of his responsibilities Wallace was also responsible for several
Homecoming activities, including the
Purple Out T-shirt giveaway and the
Mr.
and Ms.
Madison competition.
After senior senator James Lazo
submitted the censure, which is a
public reprimand, senators called
for changes to the wording based on
Wallace’s earlier apology.
“Brockchosetobeveryproactivein
how he chose to apologize,” Sen.
Kaitlin Solomon said.
“I respect that he
faced us all in a room and confronted
see APOLOGY, page 4
RepublicanResurganceLeavesDemocratsinDust
By MATT SUTHERLAND
The Breeze
RICHMOND — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds may
have lost Tuesday’s election by an
-point margin because of national
dissatisfaction with the current Obama
administration, many people believe.
At Richmond’s Westin Hotel, Deeds
and his ticket — Jody Wagner for lieutenant governor and Steve Shannon for
attorney general — o ered concession
speeches before a tearful audience.
“We cannot pack up and go home,”
Wagner said in front of enthusiastic voters.
“ is election is complete, but our
tasks remain.
We have got to focus on
the next generation.
”
Stephen Sentelle, a Virginia
Commonwealth University student
attending Deed’s party, believes swing
voters were important in the Republican victories.
“A lot of people are worried about
health care and the lack of jobs right
now,” Sentelle said.
“I think the next
election may be different.
Democrats
will have had time to prove they’ve been
doing a good job.
”
Throughout the campaign, Deeds
trailed behind Republican Bob McDonnell in the polls.
e Associated Press
declared McDonnell the winner close
to p.
m.
e election marked a signi cantly
low point in voter turnout for Virginia.
With nearly percent of the precincts
see DEFEAT, page 4
RepublicanCallfor
ChangePaysoffStatewide
“Brock chose to be very
proactive.
.
.
I respect that
he faced us all in a room
and confronted it head on in
that he issued an apology.
”
— Kaitlin Solomon
SGA senator
“It’s not us he should
apologize to.
.
.
There’s a very
disgruntled and disappointed
student body out there.
.
.
”
— Adam Hall
SGA senator
Brock Wallace, censured for encouraging the tampering of votes in the Homecoming Banner contest, issued an apology to
SGA senators at Tuesday’s meeting.
Andrew Elgert (left) was already censured at the Oct.
20 meeting.
Republican Bob McDonnell celebrates his overwhelming victory Tuesday against Democrat Creigh Deeds.
Throughout the campaign, McDonnell led Deeds in the polls.
Tuesday, police charged Jessica
Chandler, , of Port Republic, with
reckless driving after she allegedly hit
and killed a cyclist Aug.
.
The charge comes more than two
months after the death of cyclist Dr.
Joseph Mirenda, , of Virginia Beach.
Mirenda had been riding miles
from Wintergreen to Harrisonburg to
surprise his son Nic Mirenda, a JMU
freshman.
Police looked at Chandler’s cell
phone records to determine if she had
been texting or talking on the phone
at the time of the incident, which
could have resulted in a more serious
charge.
“I’m glad she didn’t get a felony or
anything like that,” Nic said.
“She’s
already going through a lot, and she
obviously didn’t do it on purpose.
”
He said he learned this objective attitude from his father.
“Just trying to imagine being in
the driver’s standpoint,” Nic said, “I
wouldn’t be able to live with myself.
”
During his ride, Joseph Mirenda was
struck from behind by Chandler, who
was driving a Ford Taurus, about a mile
east of Cross Keys Road.
The past two months have been a
rollercoaster here at JMU for Nic, but
staying busy with schoolwork has
helped him get through.
“Maybe the worst is yet to come,” Nic
said.
“I haven’t been home a lot, and I
think that’s when it’ll hit me.
”
He is planning a bike race next year
in his father’s memory, possibly following the same route his father took.
— staff reports
DriverChargedinCyclist’sDeath
By JAMES GWINN
contributing writer
No one would ever envision a JMU
footballplayerwearingRichmondacross
hischest,butitwillsoonbeareality.
Former JMU quarterback Rodney Landers
(’ ) has signed to play with the Richmond Revolution of the Indoor Football
League for the season.
e Indoor Football League was created in as a merger of the Intense
FootballLeagueandUnitedIndoorFootball.
It is made up teams from all over
country.
Richmond,anexpansionteam,
begins its inaugural season in March.
“I’mveryexcitedaboutthesigningand
the chance to play again,” Landers said.
“I’m looking forward to an exciting new
style in the Indoor Football League.
”
The IFL is the third major league in
indoor/arena football.
The other two
are Arena Football , created in to
replace the Arena Football League, and
the American Indoor Football Association,createdin .
eIFLisexpected
to be on the same par as the AIFA and
slightly less competitive than AF .
Although an expansion team, the
Revolution is full of talented and experienced players that played at highly
regarded colleges.
Landers is joined
by fellow Colonial Athletic Association
players Sherman Logan and Stephen
Howell of Richmond and Stephen
Cason of William & Mary.
He is excited
aboutthepossibilitiesofthisteamandis
intrigued at how quickly they can mesh
together and form a championship
caliber squad.
“Hecangetthejobdone,”saidformer
teammate and JMU kick returner Scotty McGee.
“Whether it be at, you know,
running back, quarterback.
I mean, we
called him Superman here.
He can do
it all.
”
e JMU star was high on the Revolution’s priority list.
Landers was also
see LANDERS, page 4
LandersSignswith
RichmondRevolution
DIVIDED RESPONSES
page 5
page 7
page 9
Rodney Landers was one of the most
beloved players in JMU history and led
the Dukes to the national semifinals.
DAVID CASTERLINE/The Breeze
FORD PRIOR/The Breeze
ROBERT BOAG/file photo [Less]
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By KATIE THISDELL
The Breeze
As police check into the possibility of
connections between recent trespassing and peeping Tom incidents both on
and o campus, students are evaluating
how to keep themselves safe wherever
they live.
All residence halls have a swipe system for JACards that work only for that
building’s residents.
Some halls, such as
those in the Village, also have a swipe
system for sections and key codes at
suite doors.
Yet dozens of students told
Breeze reporters Friday they have let
someone into their building without
knowing whether or not the person is a
resident; many guessed that it happens
multiple times every day.
“Anyonecan ndawayinthedorm.
If
they didn’t want that they should fence
off the whole campus,” sophomore
Kiersten Johnson said.
“It doesn’t matter what they do to increase securities in
thedorms.
Ifsomeonewantstobreakin,
they will nd a way.
”
Hugh Brown, associate director of
Residence Life, declined to comment
on safety issues in dorms, calling it a
sensitive issue, and directed comments
toward JMU spokesman Don Egle.
Egle said Residence Life continues its
education on safety and security for hall
sta throughouttheyear.
Hesaidstudents
should understand that since a dorm is a
student’s home, there is an issue of privacy, along with safety and security.
Student Enforcement Crucial
e Oct.
peeping Tom in Hillside
Hall and several o -campus incidents
have led to a heightened awareness of
protecting students’ residences.
Two
Breeze reporters were also charged with
trespassing by Judicial A airs on Oct.
see SAFETY, page 13
NEWS
One JMU office has international
impact with its work on landmines.
OPINION
John Scott’s Election Eve column on
the importance of voting.
.
.
for Bob
McDonnell.
LIFE
Project C.
L.
I.
M.
B.
pairs mentally and
physically disabled children with
college seniors.
See their Halloween.
SPORTS
JMU sacks Delaware 20-8 to end its
four-game losing streak.
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TiresSlashedon VehiclesinHuntersRidgeParkingLot
esestatisticscoupledwithaudiencemembers’
personal encounters with drinking and driving
painted a sobering picture at Wednesday’s “In the
Blink of an Eye” speech on alcohol-related accidents.
Hosted by Alpha Kappa Alpha and Sigma
Gamma Rho sororities, the event in Taylor Hall
brought the issue of alcohol accidents, especially
drinking and driving, closer to home.
“It’s an issue that needs to be addressed,” said
Telmyr Lee, president of Alpha Kappa Alpha.
“We
all have different alternatives to drinking and
driving.
”
Leslie Ney, a registered nurse at Rockingham
Memorial Hospital for years, shared grim stories
she has witnessed within the young Harrisonburg
demographic.
She told a story in which a drunken
young man accidentally fell down basement stairs
and went head rst into a cinderblock wall, killing
him instantly.
e graphic yet moving story was followed up with other accounts of drunken students’
signature behaviors in the emergency room.
“Sometimes they’re ghting tooth and nail when
we’re just putting in the IV.
It can be quite challenging.
Sometimes I wish we had a camera and say,
‘Can you believe this is you?’ ” Ney said.
Adrienne Griggs and Rachel La erty, SafeRides’
risk management director and training and education director respectively, reiterated that their
organization strives to o er an alternative to getting
behind the wheel after drinking.
e two addressed
the basic nature of SafeRides, emphasizing that the
members are nonjudgmental and look out for their
passengers’ best interests.
“We neither encourage nor discourage drinking.
We just encourage people to make smart choices.
We don’t care if you’ve been drinking.
We just don’t
want you to drive,” La erty said.
Griggs further emphasized La erty’s points by
see ‘BLINK,’ page 7
INA‘BLINK’
By KATIE THISDELL
The Breeze
A JMU student reported being sexually assaulted Friday night in her
residence hall, leading to the arrest of
a non student.
Travis James Mick,
, is charged with
entering property with
the intent to damage,
resisting arrest and
object sexual penetration.
Mick is being
held by the Rockingham County Sheriff’s
Office without bond.
Don Egle, university
spokesman, said he
was also charged with
trespassing.
While walking to
campus with a group
of students on South
Main Street on Friday
evening, the woman,
whoseidentityisbeing
kept anonymous for
hersafetyandwell-being, said an unknown college-aged man
grabbed her arm.
(As a matter of policy, e Breeze does not identify sexual
assault victims in its news reports.
) By
the time she realized she didn’t know
him, the other students had gotten
aheadofher.
Shedidn’tscreambecause
she wanted to avoid “getting him riled
up” and having him cover her mouth.
“He said he wanted to have his way
with me,” she said.
e man also spoke
to her in a derogatory
manner.
Shedescribed
the man as a tall, white
with tan skin and dark
hair.
She said he had a
large body with a sturdy-buildandmuscular
arms.
“My first thoughts
were, ‘don’t go anywhere to piss him off
or anywhere I don’t
know,’ ” the victim
said.
“I didn’t want
to be left in the grass
in God knows what
condition.
”
Shesaidshebrought
him back to her Bluestone-area dorm room
because she did not
want to be taken somewhere with unfamiliar surroundings.
After he sexually
see ASSAULT, page 12
Swi ArrestFollows
SexualAssaultin
On-CampusDorm
CAMPUS SAFETY
TrespassingIncidents
rowFocusonSafety
JMU’sCustomaryDoorHoldingCouldBeRisky
Students Demonstrate Little
Interest in Upcoming Election
A
lcoholkills .
timesmoreyouthsthanallotherillicitdrugscombined.
About
, collegestudentsdieeachyearinalcohol-relatedcauses,and percent
of college students say drinking has caused them to fall behind in class and
receive lower grades, according to statistics presented Wednesday.
By ALYSEDINAPOLI | contributing writer
By NABEELA HASAN
The Breeze
As the race for Virginia’s next governorcomestoanend,somestudents
walk past signs that shout the names
“Creigh Deeds” and “Bob McDonnell” without so much as a backward
glance at them.
“I’mawareoftheelectionyeah,but
I’m not going to vote.
I didn’t turn in
my absentee ballot,” freshman Cierra
Tyler said.
Failure to turn in an absentee ballot form, forgetting to register to vote
or being from out of state were a few
of the reasons students informally
surveyed by e Breeze gave as to why
they were not voting.
While many students across campus said they are aware of Tuesday’s
gubernatorial elections, they don’t
know how it will a ect them.
“I know there is an election coming up, I’ve seen commercials for it,
butIhavenoideawhatthepoliciesor
issues are of each candidate,” freshman Brianne Hurley said.
Both College Democrats and
College Republicans campaigned
enthusiastically for their respective candidates, yet some members
say they’re disappointed in student
response.
Andrew Patchan, president of College Republicans, believes the apathy
is due to students’ preoccupation
with homework and other university-related matters.
“Students aren’t aware, they’re
young, they want to do well in school,
they don’t have the time to do anything else,” the junior said.
“To be
honest, it is a topic that ba es people.
[The election is] huge, with a
lot of di erent ideas to think about,
see INTEREST, page 6
All residence halls have a JACard swipe
system for residents only.
“It doesn’t matter what
they do to increase
securities in the dorms.
If someone wants to
break in, they will find
a way.
”
— KIERSTEN JOHNSON
sophomore
For on-campus assaults,
call campus police at
(540) 568-6911.
The following
organizations provide
resources for victims of
sexual assualt:
CARE — 24-hour
student run sexual
assault helpline
(540) 568-6411
One in Four
(540) 568-2831
The Collins Center
— 24-hour sexual
assault crisis hotline
(540) 434-2272
By FORD PRIOR
The Breeze
Last Tuesday night, Eric Rothschild’s Honda Element and
other vehicles parked in Hunters Ridge Apartment Complex were
found with punctured tires.
According to police, the slashings
happened between p.
m.
Oct.
and a.
m.
Oct.
in the block
of Hunters Ridge Road.
Many vehicles had one or two tires slashed, but,
Rothschild, a sophomore ISAT major,
lost three.
“Some of the other cars had beer
bottles thrown on them.
There was
shattered glass on the hood and
everything,” Rothschild said.
He thinks the vandalism was “pretty
scattered” and “completely random.
”
According to Rothschild, many others believe the damage was caused
by “drunk kids” in Hunters Ridge.
Mary-Hope Gangwer, spokeswoman for the Harrisonburg Police
Department, said tire slashings happen sporadically throughout the city,
and part of the ongoing investigation
is to see if they are connected.
“Drunk people are not smart
enough to do that,” said Jessica Merz,
a sophomore finance major.
With the vandalism comes a financial burden on students.
Students will
have to pay to fix their cars.
“I have to pay for it, because I
don’t think my insurance covers vandalism,” he said.
“I think it’s like
bucks.
”
Merz has already purchased one of
the two tires she needs replaced.
She
spent on that one tire from Merchants Tire and Auto Center.
Many of the slashings occurred in
front of road-side apartments.
Merz’s
dwelling, for instance, is located
directly on the side of Port Republic Road — her two other roommates
also lost tires.
ASHLEY GRISHAM/The Breeze
page 5 page 9 page 11
photo illustration by SETH BINSTED/The Breeze
SharingStoriesontheDangersofDrinking [Less]
m.
to 6:30 p.
m.
from campus to the polls tomorrow.
PICKUP SITES Godwin Bus Stop | CHEM Bus Stop SHUTTLES RUN EVERY 30 MINUTES
By KATIE THISDELL
The Breeze
As police check into the possibility of
connections between recent trespassing and peeping Tom incidents both on
and o campus, students are evaluating
how to keep themselves safe wherever
they live.
All residence halls have a swipe system for JACards that work only for that
building’s residents.
Some halls, such as
those in the Village, also have a swipe
system for sections and key codes at
suite doors.
Yet dozens of students told
Breeze reporters Friday they have let
someone into their building without
knowing whether or not the person is a
resident; many guessed that it happens
multiple times every day.
“Anyonecan ndawayinthedorm.
If
they didn’t want that they should fence
off the whole campus,” sophomore
Kiersten Johnson said.
“It doesn’t matter what they do to increase securities in
thedorms.
Ifsomeonewantstobreakin,
they will nd a way.
”
Hugh Brown, associate director of
Residence Life, declined to comment
on safety issues in dorms, calling it a
sensitive issue, and directed comments
toward JMU spokesman Don Egle.
Egle said Residence Life continues its
education on safety and security for hall
sta throughouttheyear.
Hesaidstudents
should understand that since a dorm is a
student’s home, there is an issue of privacy, along with safety and security.
Student Enforcement Crucial
e Oct.
peeping Tom in Hillside
Hall and several o -campus incidents
have led to a heightened awareness of
protecting students’ residences.
Two
Breeze reporters were also charged with
trespassing by Judicial A airs on Oct.
see SAFETY, page 13
NEWS
One JMU office has international
impact with its work on landmines.
OPINION
John Scott’s Election Eve column on
the importance of voting.
.
.
for Bob
McDonnell.
LIFE
Project C.
L.
I.
M.
B.
pairs mentally and
physically disabled children with
college seniors.
See their Halloween.
SPORTS
JMU sacks Delaware 20-8 to end its
four-game losing streak.
Inside
VOL.
86, ISSUE 21
TODAY’S WEATHER
59°/38°
for this week’s weather, see page 3
max humidity: 67%
Monday, November 2, 2009
Serving James Madison University Since 1922
breezejmu.
org»your destination for JMU news
chance of
precip: 10%
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WEB EXCLUSIVES
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AND MORE
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page 3
« E L E C T I O N D AY I S T U E S D AY »
TiresSlashedon VehiclesinHuntersRidgeParkingLot
esestatisticscoupledwithaudiencemembers’
personal encounters with drinking and driving
painted a sobering picture at Wednesday’s “In the
Blink of an Eye” speech on alcohol-related accidents.
Hosted by Alpha Kappa Alpha and Sigma
Gamma Rho sororities, the event in Taylor Hall
brought the issue of alcohol accidents, especially
drinking and driving, closer to home.
“It’s an issue that needs to be addressed,” said
Telmyr Lee, president of Alpha Kappa Alpha.
“We
all have different alternatives to drinking and
driving.
”
Leslie Ney, a registered nurse at Rockingham
Memorial Hospital for years, shared grim stories
she has witnessed within the young Harrisonburg
demographic.
She told a story in which a drunken
young man accidentally fell down basement stairs
and went head rst into a cinderblock wall, killing
him instantly.
e graphic yet moving story was followed up with other accounts of drunken students’
signature behaviors in the emergency room.
“Sometimes they’re ghting tooth and nail when
we’re just putting in the IV.
It can be quite challenging.
Sometimes I wish we had a camera and say,
‘Can you believe this is you?’ ” Ney said.
Adrienne Griggs and Rachel La erty, SafeRides’
risk management director and training and education director respectively, reiterated that their
organization strives to o er an alternative to getting
behind the wheel after drinking.
e two addressed
the basic nature of SafeRides, emphasizing that the
members are nonjudgmental and look out for their
passengers’ best interests.
“We neither encourage nor discourage drinking.
We just encourage people to make smart choices.
We don’t care if you’ve been drinking.
We just don’t
want you to drive,” La erty said.
Griggs further emphasized La erty’s points by
see ‘BLINK,’ page 7
INA‘BLINK’
By KATIE THISDELL
The Breeze
A JMU student reported being sexually assaulted Friday night in her
residence hall, leading to the arrest of
a non student.
Travis James Mick,
, is charged with
entering property with
the intent to damage,
resisting arrest and
object sexual penetration.
Mick is being
held by the Rockingham County Sheriff’s
Office without bond.
Don Egle, university
spokesman, said he
was also charged with
trespassing.
While walking to
campus with a group
of students on South
Main Street on Friday
evening, the woman,
whoseidentityisbeing
kept anonymous for
hersafetyandwell-being, said an unknown college-aged man
grabbed her arm.
(As a matter of policy, e Breeze does not identify sexual
assault victims in its news reports.
) By
the time she realized she didn’t know
him, the other students had gotten
aheadofher.
Shedidn’tscreambecause
she wanted to avoid “getting him riled
up” and having him cover her mouth.
“He said he wanted to have his way
with me,” she said.
e man also spoke
to her in a derogatory
manner.
Shedescribed
the man as a tall, white
with tan skin and dark
hair.
She said he had a
large body with a sturdy-buildandmuscular
arms.
“My first thoughts
were, ‘don’t go anywhere to piss him off
or anywhere I don’t
know,’ ” the victim
said.
“I didn’t want
to be left in the grass
in God knows what
condition.
”
Shesaidshebrought
him back to her Bluestone-area dorm room
because she did not
want to be taken somewhere with unfamiliar surroundings.
After he sexually
see ASSAULT, page 12
Swi ArrestFollows
SexualAssaultin
On-CampusDorm
CAMPUS SAFETY
TrespassingIncidents
rowFocusonSafety
JMU’sCustomaryDoorHoldingCouldBeRisky
Students Demonstrate Little
Interest in Upcoming Election
A
lcoholkills .
timesmoreyouthsthanallotherillicitdrugscombined.
About
, collegestudentsdieeachyearinalcohol-relatedcauses,and percent
of college students say drinking has caused them to fall behind in class and
receive lower grades, according to statistics presented Wednesday.
By ALYSEDINAPOLI | contributing writer
By NABEELA HASAN
The Breeze
As the race for Virginia’s next governorcomestoanend,somestudents
walk past signs that shout the names
“Creigh Deeds” and “Bob McDonnell” without so much as a backward
glance at them.
“I’mawareoftheelectionyeah,but
I’m not going to vote.
I didn’t turn in
my absentee ballot,” freshman Cierra
Tyler said.
Failure to turn in an absentee ballot form, forgetting to register to vote
or being from out of state were a few
of the reasons students informally
surveyed by e Breeze gave as to why
they were not voting.
While many students across campus said they are aware of Tuesday’s
gubernatorial elections, they don’t
know how it will a ect them.
“I know there is an election coming up, I’ve seen commercials for it,
butIhavenoideawhatthepoliciesor
issues are of each candidate,” freshman Brianne Hurley said.
Both College Democrats and
College Republicans campaigned
enthusiastically for their respective candidates, yet some members
say they’re disappointed in student
response.
Andrew Patchan, president of College Republicans, believes the apathy
is due to students’ preoccupation
with homework and other university-related matters.
“Students aren’t aware, they’re
young, they want to do well in school,
they don’t have the time to do anything else,” the junior said.
“To be
honest, it is a topic that ba es people.
[The election is] huge, with a
lot of di erent ideas to think about,
see INTEREST, page 6
All residence halls have a JACard swipe
system for residents only.
“It doesn’t matter what
they do to increase
securities in the dorms.
If someone wants to
break in, they will find
a way.
”
— KIERSTEN JOHNSON
sophomore
For on-campus assaults,
call campus police at
(540) 568-6911.
The following
organizations provide
resources for victims of
sexual assualt:
CARE — 24-hour
student run sexual
assault helpline
(540) 568-6411
One in Four
(540) 568-2831
The Collins Center
— 24-hour sexual
assault crisis hotline
(540) 434-2272
By FORD PRIOR
The Breeze
Last Tuesday night, Eric Rothschild’s Honda Element and
other vehicles parked in Hunters Ridge Apartment Complex were
found with punctured tires.
According to police, the slashings
happened between p.
m.
Oct.
and a.
m.
Oct.
in the block
of Hunters Ridge Road.
Many vehicles had one or two tires slashed, but,
Rothschild, a sophomore ISAT major,
lost three.
“Some of the other cars had beer
bottles thrown on them.
There was
shattered glass on the hood and
everything,” Rothschild said.
He thinks the vandalism was “pretty
scattered” and “completely random.
”
According to Rothschild, many others believe the damage was caused
by “drunk kids” in Hunters Ridge.
Mary-Hope Gangwer, spokeswoman for the Harrisonburg Police
Department, said tire slashings happen sporadically throughout the city,
and part of the ongoing investigation
is to see if they are connected.
“Drunk people are not smart
enough to do that,” said Jessica Merz,
a sophomore finance major.
With the vandalism comes a financial burden on students.
Students will
have to pay to fix their cars.
“I have to pay for it, because I
don’t think my insurance covers vandalism,” he said.
“I think it’s like
bucks.
”
Merz has already purchased one of
the two tires she needs replaced.
She
spent on that one tire from Merchants Tire and Auto Center.
Many of the slashings occurred in
front of road-side apartments.
Merz’s
dwelling, for instance, is located
directly on the side of Port Republic Road — her two other roommates
also lost tires.
ASHLEY GRISHAM/The Breeze
page 5 page 9 page 11
photo illustration by SETH BINSTED/The Breeze
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By AMANDA CASKEY
The Breeze
While junior Marie Christopher
and her boyfriend were sitting in a
parked car across the street from her
Mason Street house at : a.
m.
Saturday,shenoticedadark gurecome
from around the back, walk up to the
porch,peerthroughwindowsandtry
to open the door.
is incident makes for a cluster
of similar peeping and trespassing
incidents targeting students on and
o campus this semester.
“I don’t feel safe at all.
Living with
people in a house, someone is
boundtoforgettolockthedoor,”said
Christopher, a media arts and design
major.
“Seeing him go straight for my
room really creeps me out because
my room has the easiest access.
”
Mary-Hope Gangwer, spokeswoman for Harrisonburg Police,
said Jamal Abdul Azeez, , of Harrisonburg, was taken into custody a
short distance away from the place
of the incident and was arrested on
chargesof“peepingintoanoccupied
dwelling.
”
eRockinghamCountySherri ’s
O ce said Azeez has been released
but would not disclose the date of
his release.
Azeez has been arrested
twicebefore, rstonJune , for
operatinganuninspectedvehicle.
He
prepaid the o ense, deemed a guilty
plea.
He was also found guilty for a
trespassing charge on June , .
Christopher said she was immediately alarmed by the intruder’s
appearance and his similarities to
otherincidents.
Shecalledpoliceand
said they arrived within seconds.
“I had heard it was a black guy
aboutsixfeettallwithdreadlocksthat
wasbreakingintoallthosedormsand
apartments and it really scared me,”
Christophersaid,describingAzeezas
a black male with a “rasta-style” hat
that looked like it held dreadlocks.
After being approached by Christopher’s boyfriend, Joey Shifflett,
, the man said his name was Tony
and that he was looking for a party
in Oakridge Apartments, which does
not exist in Harrisonburg.
“My boyfriend and I are both
from here, and we’ve never heard of
Oakridge Apartments,” Christopher
said.
“Also, there was obviously not
a party going on in my room.
”
see PEEPING, page 4
‘Peeping’Incident
YieldsArrestBut
NotTimelyNotice
page 5
page 7
page 9
Harrisonburg Police will have several undisclosed driving checkpoints
around the city for Halloween on
Saturday.
“It’s a night where people need to
be more aware with kids out trick-ortreating and adults out in costumes,”
said Mary-Hope Gangwer, HPD public
information o cer.
Last year, between Oct.
and Nov.
,
policearrestedthreeindividualsfordriving under the influence, and one was
arrested for drinking while operating a
motor vehicle.
Checkpoints are not a preventative
measure, as Gangwer hopes people
have already learned the message to
not drink and drive, she explained.
HPD has partnered with Virginia’s
Smart, Safe and Sober campaign for
the checkpoints.
— staff reports
« H A P P Y H A L L O W E E N »H AV E A SP O O K Y ( B U T SA F E ) W E E K E N D
Police Plan
Halloween
Checkpoints
By KATIE THISDELL
The Breeze
e two students charged by Judicial A airs while reporting in Hillside
Hall have garnered national media
attention, as well as support from the
Society of Professional Journalists.
“James Madison University o cials
have acted beyond reason to sti e e
Breeze from covering crime on campus,” said a statement from the board
of directors of Virginia’s chapter of
SPJ.
“ e Virginia chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists calls
on the university to drop the charges
against the reporters.
We urge fellow
journalists, educators and legislators
throughout Virginia to support these
journalists and their First Amendment
rights.
”
Tim Chapman, editor-in-chief of
e Breeze, and Katie Hibson, a contributing news writer, received charges
through e-mail Oct.
after entering
Hillside Hall on Oct.
to cover a
story about a trespassing incident.
e charges included trespassing, disorderly conduct and noncompliance
with an o cial request.
ChapmanandHibsonhaveanattorney who does not wish to speak with
the press.
e two students have also
been advised not to speak to the press
any further.
Hillside Hall Director Sarah Woody
and Resident Adviser Maria Lane have
refusedtocommentabouttheincident.
see CHARGES, page 4
JudicialChargesDrawNationalCoverage
Fire trucks showed up to Gi ord Hall
on Tuesday evening not for a drill or a
re but for a sprinkler accidentally set
o .
Around p.
m.
, freshman Zac Talley
said he was doing laundry in the basement when the re alarm went o .
He
said he didn’t see anything to worry
about at rst, but a resident adviser told
him to leave immediately, even though
he was barefoot and shirtless.
He later found out a student on the
second oor activated a sprinkler, and
water ooded down through the ceiling
to the rst oor and into the basement.
Eight rooms were ooded and their residents were unable to stay for the night.
e O ce of Residence Life said damage estimates were not available.
Talley’s room was beside the four
rooms on the first floor that were
a ected.
“ e second oor smells awful, like
really, really bad,” Talley said.
DonEgle,universityspokesman,said
there was a quick response from Facilities Management and Housekeeping to
clean the rooms with hoses and fans.
“From what I heard, the water was
pretty strong,” Talley said.
“I don’t think
they can sleep there.
I wouldn’t.
”
e students stayed in their friends’
rooms for the night.
Brian Keilson, Bluestone area director, said Tuesday night’s focus was how
to clean up the water.
“Unfortunately, water damage happens,” Keilson said.
“We just went right
into guring out what to do.
”
Students will make lists of damanged
belongings, but they are responsible
nancially, according to Keilson.
Residence Life recommends students have
insurance to protect their belongings.
“Many times a family’s homeowner
or tenant insurance provides coverage
fordamages,orstudentscanarrangefor
personal property insurance through a
private agency,” Joan Hou , associate
director of Residence Life’s business
operations, said in an e-mail.
— staff reports
Sprinkler
Damages
GiffordDorm
Rooms
By AMANDA HERMAN
contributing writer
The Marching Royal Dukes might be going to
London.
Former Lord Mayor of the City of Westminster,
Catherine Longworth, issued the formal invitation to
perform in the London New Year’s Day Parade
and Festival to the band’s director, Scott Rikkers, in
front of the ensemble during the band’s rehearsal in
Wilson Hall on Tuesday.
Robert Bone, the executive director of the London
New Year’s Day Parade and Festival, said the rules
require a Patron of the Parade to make the invite in
person.
e Patrons of the Parade are the mayoralty
and the monarchy.
e London New Year’s Day Parade and Festival
is held every Jan.
in the afternoon.
e boroughs
of the London area all make oats, and many bands
and performing acts are invited to perform on the
parade route.
e two-mile long route, passes the
city’s many historic monuments.
Bone said the
parade has about , participants and a half million street spectators, in addition to the millions in
many countries who watch the parade on TV.
e band will be taking the trip to London for the
parade.
Rikkers said that volunteers from the
band can go to perform, and he also invited senior
members of the band to come along to watch.
“It’s very special for Marching Royal Dukes, I
thought it was cool for them to personally invite us
and not just send a representative or something,”
said Ryann Perriello, a sophomore music industry
major.
ey will be the largest band performing and the
only university band in the parade.
Rikkers said
this is not the rst trip the band has taken abroad,
but it is the rst in which they will perform.
AnInvitationtoLondon
“I thought it was cool for them
to personally invite us and not
just send a representative or
something.
”
— RYANN PERRIELLO,
sophomore music industry major
The Former Lord Mayor of the City of Westminister invited JMU’s Marching Royal Dukes to the 2011 New Year’s Day Parade.
This would be their first performance abroad.
“Think about how
many times random
people just stand in
a doorway.
”
— DON EGLE,
university spokesman
POLICE HAVE
CONSTRUCTED A TIMELINE:
8:20 p.
m.
- 8:30 p.
m.
Harrington was outside the
John Paul Jones Arena.
8:30 p.
m.
- 8:48 p.
m.
She was still outside the
arena in the same area.
8:48 p.
m.
Harrington had a cell phone
conversation with a friend who was
inside the concert about ways she
could re-enter the arena.
Harrington
said she would get a ride home with
some friends around Charlottesville.
8:48 p.
m.
- 9:00 p.
m.
Harrington was still outside.
Police do not believe she
re-entered the arena.
9:00 - 9:10 p.
m.
Harrington was seen walking
with a black purse through
University Hall parking area.
9:10 p.
m.
- 9:20 p.
m.
Harrington had “limited
interaction” with individuals in
the Lannigan Field parking area.
9:20 p.
m.
The individuals who encountered
Harrington left the lot.
There is no indication she
left with those people.
9:30 p.
m.
Harrington was last seen on the
Copeley St.
Bridge near Ivy Road.
By KATIE THISDELL
The Breeze
A JMU student said she is the lookalike to missing Virginia Tech student
Morgan Dana Harrington in a YouTube video from the Oct.
Metallica
concert.
Dee Spolarics, a sophomore ISAT
major, saw the video Monday while following the story of Harrington in the
news.
Spolarics posted a comment on
the Facebook group, “Help Find Morgan Dana Harrington,” confirming
she was the unidenti ed female some
suspected to be Harrington.
She then
contacted the tip line and state police,
who con rmed the video showed Spolarics, not Harrington.
Spolarics does not know Harrington,
but their mutual friends had planned to
meet after the concert but that did not
take place.
AfterleavingtheFacebookcomment,
Spolarics was surprised by the reaction
from other users.
“People didn’t really believe it,”
Spolarics said.
“ ey thought it was a
conspiracy.
”
see SEARCH, page 4
FalseAlarmin
HarringtonSearch
JMUStudent’sResemblancetoMissingWoman
SparksMomentaryHope,Confusion
Morgan Dana
Harrington
disappeared Oct.
17 at a Metallica
concert at
Charlottesville’s
John Paul Jones
Arena.
PoliceRespondin‘45Seconds’
NATHAN CARDEN/contributing photographer [Less]
SGA seeks student response to
changes to campus’ “Drunk Bus”
OPINION
A rundown of Halloween fashion
trends at JMU.
SPORTS
Former JMU quarterback Rodney
Landers (’09) has found a home
with the Richmond Revolution of the
Indoor Football League.
LIFE
A review of ‘49,’ which dances to
the Theatre II stage this Halloween
weekend.
page 3
Inside
VOL.
86, ISSUE 20
TODAY’S WEATHER
61°/47°
for this week’s weather, see page 3
max humidity: 82%
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Serving James Madison University Since 1922
breezejmu.
org»your destination for JMU news
chance of
precip: 10%
BREAKING NEWS
WEB EXCLUSIVES
PHOTO SLIDESHOWS
VIDEOS
AND MORE
VISIT THE WEB FOR
By AMANDA CASKEY
The Breeze
While junior Marie Christopher
and her boyfriend were sitting in a
parked car across the street from her
Mason Street house at : a.
m.
Saturday,shenoticedadark gurecome
from around the back, walk up to the
porch,peerthroughwindowsandtry
to open the door.
is incident makes for a cluster
of similar peeping and trespassing
incidents targeting students on and
o campus this semester.
“I don’t feel safe at all.
Living with
people in a house, someone is
boundtoforgettolockthedoor,”said
Christopher, a media arts and design
major.
“Seeing him go straight for my
room really creeps me out because
my room has the easiest access.
”
Mary-Hope Gangwer, spokeswoman for Harrisonburg Police,
said Jamal Abdul Azeez, , of Harrisonburg, was taken into custody a
short distance away from the place
of the incident and was arrested on
chargesof“peepingintoanoccupied
dwelling.
”
eRockinghamCountySherri ’s
O ce said Azeez has been released
but would not disclose the date of
his release.
Azeez has been arrested
twicebefore, rstonJune , for
operatinganuninspectedvehicle.
He
prepaid the o ense, deemed a guilty
plea.
He was also found guilty for a
trespassing charge on June , .
Christopher said she was immediately alarmed by the intruder’s
appearance and his similarities to
otherincidents.
Shecalledpoliceand
said they arrived within seconds.
“I had heard it was a black guy
aboutsixfeettallwithdreadlocksthat
wasbreakingintoallthosedormsand
apartments and it really scared me,”
Christophersaid,describingAzeezas
a black male with a “rasta-style” hat
that looked like it held dreadlocks.
After being approached by Christopher’s boyfriend, Joey Shifflett,
, the man said his name was Tony
and that he was looking for a party
in Oakridge Apartments, which does
not exist in Harrisonburg.
“My boyfriend and I are both
from here, and we’ve never heard of
Oakridge Apartments,” Christopher
said.
“Also, there was obviously not
a party going on in my room.
”
see PEEPING, page 4
‘Peeping’Incident
YieldsArrestBut
NotTimelyNotice
page 5
page 7
page 9
Harrisonburg Police will have several undisclosed driving checkpoints
around the city for Halloween on
Saturday.
“It’s a night where people need to
be more aware with kids out trick-ortreating and adults out in costumes,”
said Mary-Hope Gangwer, HPD public
information o cer.
Last year, between Oct.
and Nov.
,
policearrestedthreeindividualsfordriving under the influence, and one was
arrested for drinking while operating a
motor vehicle.
Checkpoints are not a preventative
measure, as Gangwer hopes people
have already learned the message to
not drink and drive, she explained.
HPD has partnered with Virginia’s
Smart, Safe and Sober campaign for
the checkpoints.
— staff reports
« H A P P Y H A L L O W E E N »H AV E A SP O O K Y ( B U T SA F E ) W E E K E N D
Police Plan
Halloween
Checkpoints
By KATIE THISDELL
The Breeze
e two students charged by Judicial A airs while reporting in Hillside
Hall have garnered national media
attention, as well as support from the
Society of Professional Journalists.
“James Madison University o cials
have acted beyond reason to sti e e
Breeze from covering crime on campus,” said a statement from the board
of directors of Virginia’s chapter of
SPJ.
“ e Virginia chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists calls
on the university to drop the charges
against the reporters.
We urge fellow
journalists, educators and legislators
throughout Virginia to support these
journalists and their First Amendment
rights.
”
Tim Chapman, editor-in-chief of
e Breeze, and Katie Hibson, a contributing news writer, received charges
through e-mail Oct.
after entering
Hillside Hall on Oct.
to cover a
story about a trespassing incident.
e charges included trespassing, disorderly conduct and noncompliance
with an o cial request.
ChapmanandHibsonhaveanattorney who does not wish to speak with
the press.
e two students have also
been advised not to speak to the press
any further.
Hillside Hall Director Sarah Woody
and Resident Adviser Maria Lane have
refusedtocommentabouttheincident.
see CHARGES, page 4
JudicialChargesDrawNationalCoverage
Fire trucks showed up to Gi ord Hall
on Tuesday evening not for a drill or a
re but for a sprinkler accidentally set
o .
Around p.
m.
, freshman Zac Talley
said he was doing laundry in the basement when the re alarm went o .
He
said he didn’t see anything to worry
about at rst, but a resident adviser told
him to leave immediately, even though
he was barefoot and shirtless.
He later found out a student on the
second oor activated a sprinkler, and
water ooded down through the ceiling
to the rst oor and into the basement.
Eight rooms were ooded and their residents were unable to stay for the night.
e O ce of Residence Life said damage estimates were not available.
Talley’s room was beside the four
rooms on the first floor that were
a ected.
“ e second oor smells awful, like
really, really bad,” Talley said.
DonEgle,universityspokesman,said
there was a quick response from Facilities Management and Housekeeping to
clean the rooms with hoses and fans.
“From what I heard, the water was
pretty strong,” Talley said.
“I don’t think
they can sleep there.
I wouldn’t.
”
e students stayed in their friends’
rooms for the night.
Brian Keilson, Bluestone area director, said Tuesday night’s focus was how
to clean up the water.
“Unfortunately, water damage happens,” Keilson said.
“We just went right
into guring out what to do.
”
Students will make lists of damanged
belongings, but they are responsible
nancially, according to Keilson.
Residence Life recommends students have
insurance to protect their belongings.
“Many times a family’s homeowner
or tenant insurance provides coverage
fordamages,orstudentscanarrangefor
personal property insurance through a
private agency,” Joan Hou , associate
director of Residence Life’s business
operations, said in an e-mail.
— staff reports
Sprinkler
Damages
GiffordDorm
Rooms
By AMANDA HERMAN
contributing writer
The Marching Royal Dukes might be going to
London.
Former Lord Mayor of the City of Westminster,
Catherine Longworth, issued the formal invitation to
perform in the London New Year’s Day Parade
and Festival to the band’s director, Scott Rikkers, in
front of the ensemble during the band’s rehearsal in
Wilson Hall on Tuesday.
Robert Bone, the executive director of the London
New Year’s Day Parade and Festival, said the rules
require a Patron of the Parade to make the invite in
person.
e Patrons of the Parade are the mayoralty
and the monarchy.
e London New Year’s Day Parade and Festival
is held every Jan.
in the afternoon.
e boroughs
of the London area all make oats, and many bands
and performing acts are invited to perform on the
parade route.
e two-mile long route, passes the
city’s many historic monuments.
Bone said the
parade has about , participants and a half million street spectators, in addition to the millions in
many countries who watch the parade on TV.
e band will be taking the trip to London for the
parade.
Rikkers said that volunteers from the
band can go to perform, and he also invited senior
members of the band to come along to watch.
“It’s very special for Marching Royal Dukes, I
thought it was cool for them to personally invite us
and not just send a representative or something,”
said Ryann Perriello, a sophomore music industry
major.
ey will be the largest band performing and the
only university band in the parade.
Rikkers said
this is not the rst trip the band has taken abroad,
but it is the rst in which they will perform.
AnInvitationtoLondon
“I thought it was cool for them
to personally invite us and not
just send a representative or
something.
”
— RYANN PERRIELLO,
sophomore music industry major
The Former Lord Mayor of the City of Westminister invited JMU’s Marching Royal Dukes to the 2011 New Year’s Day Parade.
This would be their first performance abroad.
“Think about how
many times random
people just stand in
a doorway.
”
— DON EGLE,
university spokesman
POLICE HAVE
CONSTRUCTED A TIMELINE:
8:20 p.
m.
- 8:30 p.
m.
Harrington was outside the
John Paul Jones Arena.
8:30 p.
m.
- 8:48 p.
m.
She was still outside the
arena in the same area.
8:48 p.
m.
Harrington had a cell phone
conversation with a friend who was
inside the concert about ways she
could re-enter the arena.
Harrington
said she would get a ride home with
some friends around Charlottesville.
8:48 p.
m.
- 9:00 p.
m.
Harrington was still outside.
Police do not believe she
re-entered the arena.
9:00 - 9:10 p.
m.
Harrington was seen walking
with a black purse through
University Hall parking area.
9:10 p.
m.
- 9:20 p.
m.
Harrington had “limited
interaction” with individuals in
the Lannigan Field parking area.
9:20 p.
m.
The individuals who encountered
Harrington left the lot.
There is no indication she
left with those people.
9:30 p.
m.
Harrington was last seen on the
Copeley St.
Bridge near Ivy Road.
By KATIE THISDELL
The Breeze
A JMU student said she is the lookalike to missing Virginia Tech student
Morgan Dana Harrington in a YouTube video from the Oct.
Metallica
concert.
Dee Spolarics, a sophomore ISAT
major, saw the video Monday while following the story of Harrington in the
news.
Spolarics posted a comment on
the Facebook group, “Help Find Morgan Dana Harrington,” confirming
she was the unidenti ed female some
suspected to be Harrington.
She then
contacted the tip line and state police,
who con rmed the video showed Spolarics, not Harrington.
Spolarics does not know Harrington,
but their mutual friends had planned to
meet after the concert but that did not
take place.
AfterleavingtheFacebookcomment,
Spolarics was surprised by the reaction
from other users.
“People didn’t really believe it,”
Spolarics said.
“ ey thought it was a
conspiracy.
”
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FalseAlarmin
HarringtonSearch
JMUStudent’sResemblancetoMissingWoman
SparksMomentaryHope,Confusion
Morgan Dana
Harrington
disappeared Oct.
17 at a Metallica
concert at
Charlottesville’s
John Paul Jones
Arena.
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investigated for impeachment.
LIFE
Hear Brian Sims’ story about being
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Volleyball upsets conference leader
Delaware and Towson this weekend,
gaining its first two conference
wins.
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JMU Greenpeace gathered on Festival Lawn at p.
m.
Saturday for a
“silent march” in support of the International Day of Climate Action.
Ten
students in red Greenpeace T-shirts
marched from Festival to Court
Square in downtown Harrisonburg.
Junior Laura Robinson, a media
arts and design major, read a prewritten statement on behalf of the
group.
“I don’t think people realize this
now, but in years the world’s going
to change,” Robinson said before the
march.
The “silent march” was the
rst action since the recent activation of JMU’s chapter of Greenpeace,
an international environmental
organization.
“Right now, global warming is our
big campaign,” Robinson said.
e march was one of , events
in countries, all held for the International Day of Climate Action, a call
for climate change action less than
two months ahead of December’s
U.
N.
Climate Change Conference.
“We’re urging Obama to uphold
his promise and make scientificbased solutions to climate change,”
Robinson said.
“We have to make
changes now.
”
e International Day of Climate
Action, which collaborated with
groups like Greenpeace, was organized by .
org, a group devoted to
keeping Earth’s carbon dioxide limit
less than parts per million, what
some scientist call the planet’s safe
upper limit.
To stay within this limit and stop
climatechange,eventslikeSaturday’s
march must reach the political level,
according to junior geographic science major Lucy Romeo.
She had
high hopes for the “silent march.
”
“[Obama] will feel that human
power behind him,” she said of Saturday’s march.
Romeohopesthegroupwill“ramp
up participation” and bridge the gap
betweenuniversitystudentsandHarrisonburg locals.
“What we want is for this to be a
Harrisonburg community,” Romeo
said, “and that’s why we’re going o
campus for the march.
”
By KATIE THISDELL
The Breeze
Judicial A airs and the JMU Police
have charged two members of The
Breeze sta for disorderly conduct, trespassing and non-compliance with an
o cial request while reporting.
Tim Chapman, editor-in-chief, and
Katie Hibson, a contributing news
writer, were noti ed by e-mail ursday afternoon of the charges.
Judicial A airs Director Josh Bacon
was out of the o ce Friday and unable
to comment.
On Oct.
, Hibson, a sophomore
media arts and design major, was
investigating the Oct.
trespassing
incident in Hillside Hall, which The
Breeze learned about when JMU sent a
“Timely Notice” e-mail on Oct.
.
Hibson said she was invited into the
residence hall that afternoon when she
identi ed herself as a reporter.
She said
she was invited into the building by resident Ariel Spagnolo, who Hibson said
was within feet of her as she interviewed people.
After identifying herself
to resident adviser Maria Lane, Hibson
said she was asked to leave, which she
said she promptly did.
Hibson returned to Hillside later in
the afternoon with Chapman, a senior
media arts and design major, accompanied by Emmie Cleveland, a Hillside
Hall resident and assistant sports editor
for e Breeze.
After trying to interview
residents, Hibson said Lane and Hall
Director Sarah Woody asked them to
leave the building, and Woody then
called police.
Woody and Lane declined to comment Sunday.
According to Policy J - in the JMU
Student Handbook, disorderly conduct
is any disturbance “that interrupts the
orderly operation of the university and/
or infringes on the rights of community
members.
”
e policy on trespassing, J - ,
states, “Any individual refusing to leave
an area as directed by an authorized
faculty or sta member is responsible
of trespass.
”
Policy J - prohibits failing to
comply with reasonable or lawful
requests from residence hall sta .
Chapman and Hibson have been
requested to set up an appointment at
Judicial A airs.
Chapman said Roger
Soenksen, a media arts and design
professor and e Breeze’s legal adviser, would speak with Bacon on Tuesday
regarding concerns about the reporters’ First Amendment rights.
Chapman
and Hibson said they will wait until
then to act on the referral.
Police,
Judicial
Charge
Breeze
Reporters
Ten-StudentMarchPressesforActiononClimateChange
By KATIE THISDELL
The Breeze
ROANOKE — Despite Saturday’s tip about
a blond woman at a Charlottesville motel, Virginia Tech student Morgan Dana Harrington is
still missing.
Police searched the Comfort Inn,
but found no clues; the sighted woman was not
Harrington.
Family and friends are keeping up their hope
that the junior education major will be found
soon after she’s been missing for more than a
week.
During a vigil ursday, the football stadium
at Northside High School in Roanoke lled as
people o ered each other support.
Harrington
disappeared Oct.
after attending a Metallica concert in Charlottesville.
ere is at least
a , reward for information that leads
to her discovery, raised by co-workers of Harrington’s father, Dan Harrington, at Carilion
Clinic.
egrouponthe eld,includingHarrington’s
parents and her close friends, used the time
to nd strength for what lies ahead.
Harrington’smother,GilHarrington,saidthe
last words between her and her daughter were
of love.
e family had a special message that
they’veusedsinceMorganwasinkindergarten:
“I love you too much, forever and once more.
”
Asetofsevendots,paintedonpurpleT-shirts
and drawn in sidewalk chalk in the parking lot,
represents each part of the message: two dots
for “I love you too much,” four dots mean “forever” and one dot for “once more.
”
As Morgan drove away Saturday to meet
with her friends at the concert, Gil Harrington
said Morgan’s last words were, “Two, four, one,
Momma.
” She told the crowd that it was their
love that would bring her daughter home.
Morgan’s father, Dan Harrington, said he
doesn’t think her daughter was trying to run
away.
Before leaving Saturday, Morgan told her
father that she’d be back Sunday for help studying for a math test, choosing classes for next
semester and balancing her bank account.
He
said she was a girl that had developed a life at
Virginia Tech.
Listening to the Harringtons and each other
speak, the friends on the eld held hands,
hugged and shared tears.
“Even though we were crying, it shows how
strong we are,” said JMU junior Morgan Nichols
after the vigil.
“It gives [the crowd] hope.
”
Despite feeling like they were in a “ shbowl”
with everyone watching them, Nichols said, “I
think all our minds are here right now.
”
see VIGIL, page 4
MORGAN DANA HARRINGTON
If you have information about Harrington’s
whereabouts,
call the 24-hour
hotline at (434)
352-3467 or
Crime Stoppers
at (434) 9774000.
Family
and friends
also created
findmorgan.
com
VigilInspiresHopeforSafeReturn
“What I thought is that this is an unspeakable situation,one that we can’t really think about,one that
we can’t really wrap our minds around.
.
.
It came to me so strongly when I was running this morning:
is is a time we can wrap our hearts around.
”
— R.
D S C, ’
JMU junior Jenna Testerman shares stories at Thursday’s vigil for Morgan Dana Harrington as the
family’s pastor, Rev.
Diane Scribner Clevenger (center), and Morgan’s mother, Gil Harrington, listen.
Moooove It!
An 18-wheeler from Mountain Milk Hauling took a wrong turn Sunday on Route 33 West — in the middle of the road.
The truck was supposed to pick up milk from a nearby
dairy farm, but missed its turn.
While pulling a U-turn on the bridge over Rocky Run, the truck got stuck.
The first onlookers arrived on the scene at 1 p.
m.
, and the truck
blocked traffic for much of the afternoon.
JAKE THIEWES/The Breeze
KATIE THISDELL/The Breeze
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page 7
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Missed getting the flu shot? JMU
will offer two more days, along with
H1N1 vaccination.
OPINION
John Scott writes that Andrew
Elgert and Brock Wallace should be
investigated for impeachment.
LIFE
Hear Brian Sims’ story about being
the first openly gay NCAA football
captain.
SPORTS
Volleyball upsets conference leader
Delaware and Towson this weekend,
gaining its first two conference
wins.
page 3
Inside
Stand up Comedy Show
8 P.
M.
| MONDAY, NOV.
9
GRAFTON-STOVALL THEATRE | $2
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delicious cookies from
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By FORD PRIOR
The Breeze
JMU Greenpeace gathered on Festival Lawn at p.
m.
Saturday for a
“silent march” in support of the International Day of Climate Action.
Ten
students in red Greenpeace T-shirts
marched from Festival to Court
Square in downtown Harrisonburg.
Junior Laura Robinson, a media
arts and design major, read a prewritten statement on behalf of the
group.
“I don’t think people realize this
now, but in years the world’s going
to change,” Robinson said before the
march.
The “silent march” was the
rst action since the recent activation of JMU’s chapter of Greenpeace,
an international environmental
organization.
“Right now, global warming is our
big campaign,” Robinson said.
e march was one of , events
in countries, all held for the International Day of Climate Action, a call
for climate change action less than
two months ahead of December’s
U.
N.
Climate Change Conference.
“We’re urging Obama to uphold
his promise and make scientificbased solutions to climate change,”
Robinson said.
“We have to make
changes now.
”
e International Day of Climate
Action, which collaborated with
groups like Greenpeace, was organized by .
org, a group devoted to
keeping Earth’s carbon dioxide limit
less than parts per million, what
some scientist call the planet’s safe
upper limit.
To stay within this limit and stop
climatechange,eventslikeSaturday’s
march must reach the political level,
according to junior geographic science major Lucy Romeo.
She had
high hopes for the “silent march.
”
“[Obama] will feel that human
power behind him,” she said of Saturday’s march.
Romeohopesthegroupwill“ramp
up participation” and bridge the gap
betweenuniversitystudentsandHarrisonburg locals.
“What we want is for this to be a
Harrisonburg community,” Romeo
said, “and that’s why we’re going o
campus for the march.
”
By KATIE THISDELL
The Breeze
Judicial A airs and the JMU Police
have charged two members of The
Breeze sta for disorderly conduct, trespassing and non-compliance with an
o cial request while reporting.
Tim Chapman, editor-in-chief, and
Katie Hibson, a contributing news
writer, were noti ed by e-mail ursday afternoon of the charges.
Judicial A airs Director Josh Bacon
was out of the o ce Friday and unable
to comment.
On Oct.
, Hibson, a sophomore
media arts and design major, was
investigating the Oct.
trespassing
incident in Hillside Hall, which The
Breeze learned about when JMU sent a
“Timely Notice” e-mail on Oct.
.
Hibson said she was invited into the
residence hall that afternoon when she
identi ed herself as a reporter.
She said
she was invited into the building by resident Ariel Spagnolo, who Hibson said
was within feet of her as she interviewed people.
After identifying herself
to resident adviser Maria Lane, Hibson
said she was asked to leave, which she
said she promptly did.
Hibson returned to Hillside later in
the afternoon with Chapman, a senior
media arts and design major, accompanied by Emmie Cleveland, a Hillside
Hall resident and assistant sports editor
for e Breeze.
After trying to interview
residents, Hibson said Lane and Hall
Director Sarah Woody asked them to
leave the building, and Woody then
called police.
Woody and Lane declined to comment Sunday.
According to Policy J - in the JMU
Student Handbook, disorderly conduct
is any disturbance “that interrupts the
orderly operation of the university and/
or infringes on the rights of community
members.
”
e policy on trespassing, J - ,
states, “Any individual refusing to leave
an area as directed by an authorized
faculty or sta member is responsible
of trespass.
”
Policy J - prohibits failing to
comply with reasonable or lawful
requests from residence hall sta .
Chapman and Hibson have been
requested to set up an appointment at
Judicial A airs.
Chapman said Roger
Soenksen, a media arts and design
professor and e Breeze’s legal adviser, would speak with Bacon on Tuesday
regarding concerns about the reporters’ First Amendment rights.
Chapman
and Hibson said they will wait until
then to act on the referral.
Police,
Judicial
Charge
Breeze
Reporters
Ten-StudentMarchPressesforActiononClimateChange
By KATIE THISDELL
The Breeze
ROANOKE — Despite Saturday’s tip about
a blond woman at a Charlottesville motel, Virginia Tech student Morgan Dana Harrington is
still missing.
Police searched the Comfort Inn,
but found no clues; the sighted woman was not
Harrington.
Family and friends are keeping up their hope
that the junior education major will be found
soon after she’s been missing for more than a
week.
During a vigil ursday, the football stadium
at Northside High School in Roanoke lled as
people o ered each other support.
Harrington
disappeared Oct.
after attending a Metallica concert in Charlottesville.
ere is at least
a , reward for information that leads
to her discovery, raised by co-workers of Harrington’s father, Dan Harrington, at Carilion
Clinic.
egrouponthe eld,includingHarrington’s
parents and her close friends, used the time
to nd strength for what lies ahead.
Harrington’smother,GilHarrington,saidthe
last words between her and her daughter were
of love.
e family had a special message that
they’veusedsinceMorganwasinkindergarten:
“I love you too much, forever and once more.
”
Asetofsevendots,paintedonpurpleT-shirts
and drawn in sidewalk chalk in the parking lot,
represents each part of the message: two dots
for “I love you too much,” four dots mean “forever” and one dot for “once more.
”
As Morgan drove away Saturday to meet
with her friends at the concert, Gil Harrington
said Morgan’s last words were, “Two, four, one,
Momma.
” She told the crowd that it was their
love that would bring her daughter home.
Morgan’s father, Dan Harrington, said he
doesn’t think her daughter was trying to run
away.
Before leaving Saturday, Morgan told her
father that she’d be back Sunday for help studying for a math test, choosing classes for next
semester and balancing her bank account.
He
said she was a girl that had developed a life at
Virginia Tech.
Listening to the Harringtons and each other
speak, the friends on the eld held hands,
hugged and shared tears.
“Even though we were crying, it shows how
strong we are,” said JMU junior Morgan Nichols
after the vigil.
“It gives [the crowd] hope.
”
Despite feeling like they were in a “ shbowl”
with everyone watching them, Nichols said, “I
think all our minds are here right now.
”
see VIGIL, page 4
MORGAN DANA HARRINGTON
If you have information about Harrington’s
whereabouts,
call the 24-hour
hotline at (434)
352-3467 or
Crime Stoppers
at (434) 9774000.
Family
and friends
also created
findmorgan.
com
VigilInspiresHopeforSafeReturn
“What I thought is that this is an unspeakable situation,one that we can’t really think about,one that
we can’t really wrap our minds around.
.
.
It came to me so strongly when I was running this morning:
is is a time we can wrap our hearts around.
”
— R.
D S C, ’
JMU junior Jenna Testerman shares stories at Thursday’s vigil for Morgan Dana Harrington as the
family’s pastor, Rev.
Diane Scribner Clevenger (center), and Morgan’s mother, Gil Harrington, listen.
Moooove It!
An 18-wheeler from Mountain Milk Hauling took a wrong turn Sunday on Route 33 West — in the middle of the road.
The truck was supposed to pick up milk from a nearby
dairy farm, but missed its turn.
While pulling a U-turn on the bridge over Rocky Run, the truck got stuck.
The first onlookers arrived on the scene at 1 p.
m.
, and the truck
blocked traffic for much of the afternoon.
JAKE THIEWES/The Breeze
KATIE THISDELL/The Breeze
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page 7
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awareness of abusive relationships.
OPINION
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freshman makes the case against
the popular female attire.
LIFE
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Red Flag Campaign aims to spread
awareness of abusive relationships.
OPINION
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LIFE
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experienced ghost hunter who
believes JMU is a prime location for
‘spooking’ ghosts.
SPORTS
Find out who won the championship
of JMU’s most contested sport —
intramural flag football.
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SGA Speaker Censured
By AMANDA HERMAN
contributing writer
After admitting to tampering with the Homecoming banner contest, SGA speaker of the
senate Andrew Elgert was publicly reprimanded
and almost faced impeachment during Tuesday’s
senate meeting.
Elgert made a computer program Oct.
that
allowed him to vote continuously by deleting cookies, or electronic evidence in a browser that he had
already voted.
e program helped raise the number of votes for SGA’s banner to , , three times
more than JMU’s student body of , students.
Elgert said another member of SGA, vice president of Student A airs Brock Wallace, encouraged
him to use the computer program.
Wallace refused to comment Wednesday.
In an online chat, Elgert told Wallace the SGA
banner would win, and then ursday Wallace said
to “get it up there.
”
“He could have been speaking in sarcasm, and
I didn’t know,” Elgert said.
“ ere are many, many
possibilities… Anything’s possible.
”
Wallace led Purple Out and the Mr.
and Ms.
Madison contest, but SGA is not in charge of the
banner contest.
Elgert said he does not intend to step down,
because he does not think the action merits it.
“If it had been [an SGA-sponsored Homecoming
program] I messed with or that Brock knew about,
we should both be out of a job,” Elgert said.
e censure, written by junior class president
Kathleen Lee and passed unanimously, shows that
SGA does not condone Elgert’s actions, and what
he did was a “disservice to the student body and
see CENSURE, page 4
“.
.
.
it was
a lapse of
judgment.
I did it because
I could.
”
— Andrew Elgert
SGA Speaker
By AARON KOEPPER
contributing writer
In tough economic times, most
people are forced to cut back: ey
eat in instead of going out, businesses
and companies tighten their budgets,
downsize and buckle down.
However, at JMU, tough times have
inspired giving in the form of Madison
For Keeps, an emergency fund providing money to students who can’t
a ord to return next semester even
with nancial aid.
SGA has passed around a can for
donations at their meetings and the
Girls of Madison Calendar plans on
donating percent of the proceeds
to Madison For Keeps.
But none of
those can match the largest single
donation, , donated by the
Board of Directors of JMU’s Alumni
Association.
The Board hoped their donation
would inspire other alumni, students and faculty to do the same, so
that every student who applies for
Madison For Keeps can return next
semester.
“We wanted to step forward and
do something that we thought would
be meaningful and hoping that other
alumni would hear about it and
would do whatever they can to help
students,” said A.
J.
Fischer, president
of the alumni association’s board of
directors.
Organizers of Madison For Keeps
have seen , donors give ,
since the program began Sept.
,
many of whom are rst-time donors.
percent of the donors have been
alumni, with some students, faculty
and parents also donating.
“ e excitement is a lot more than
when we’re typically raising money,”
said Andy Perrine, associate vice
president of Communications and
Marketing.
“Alotofyoungalumniwho
have never given before are excited
about this.
”
On Monday, Madison For Keeps
posted applications on its Web site
for those needing to apply for aid, and
organizers expect to receive roughly
to applicants, which they will
review on a case-by-case basis.
Madison For Keeps does not guaranteethateveryonewhomapplieswill
receive aid.
Organizers however emphasize
that the more people who donate, the
more aid can be distributed to all who
apply.
“If every alumnus donated just a
small amount of money, we would
have more than enough to cover the
needs for every student that wants aid
but cannot receive it,” Perrine said.
The initiative has also appealed
directly to students and faculty: a
video ran at halftime during the Oct.
Richmondfootballgame, iershave
been posted around campus, and students, such as junior music education
major Anthony Bowman, have posted
testimonies on YouTube to appeal for
donations.
“The music ed program here is
a really great experience, because
they’re able to focus on education and
performance,” said Bowman in his
video.
“When I got here for marching
band camp, I wasn’t sure if I’d be able
to stay” for the semester.
Bowman emphasized that students
looking to bene t from the donations
are not seeking a “free ride” from
donorsbutratherhaverunoutofother
options to stay and simply don’t have
enough money from nancial aid.
“I’m out of state, so I have the federal loans I qualify for, but I can’t get
[Virginia] state grants because I’m not
in-state,” Bowman said.
Bowman’s campaign goes beyond
his own financial security; he and
other students are campaigning for
the initiative hope that it could cover
every student currently at risk of not
returning to JMU.
GenerousAlumniElevateDonations
ElgertAdmitsto
TamperingWith
VotesforSGA’s
HomecomingBanner
Speaker of the Senate Andrew
Elgert (above) apologized to SGA
members for interfering in the
banner contest.
Brock Wallace
(left), vice president of Student
Affairs, knew about Elgert’s
program to create votes.
“A lot of young alumni
who have never given
before are excited
about this.
”
— ANDY PERRINE
associate vice president
Communications and Marketing
“We’re all
human and
we all make
mistakes.
”
— Candace Avalos
SGA President
“Our
organization
will look better
if we show
[with the
censure] this is
how we feel.
”
— Kathleen Lee
junior class president
By KATIE THISDELL
The Breeze
Though one of “The Nine” — best
friends since elementary school — is
still missing, Morgan Dana Harrington’s
friends say they are doing everything
they can to alert people of her disappearance and bring her home.
“That’s the most important thing:
spreading the word fast and e ciently,”
said JMU junior Jenna Testerman, one
of the Virginia Tech student’s friends
coordinating the search e ort at JMU.
Harrington, , disappeared Saturday
aftergoingtoaMetallicaconcertinCharlottesville with friends from JMU and
U.
Va.
, whom she was separated from.
State police Lt.
Joe Rader said in a
press conference Wednesday that the
timeline for nding Harrington is critical, and despite more than tips,
none have led to any conclusive leads.
State police have ended their ground
search around the John Paul Jones
Arena.
Rader said there was no sign of
a struggle where her purse and batteryless cell phone were found.
“We have a purse.
We have a cellphone.
Wehaveamissinggirl.
oseare
the facts,” Rader said.
“We do not know
whether she is alive or has met some
kind of ill fate.
It’s just that simple.
”
Police have established a new
-hour hotline for information: ( )
- .
A minimum , reward is
being set up through Crimestoppers.
Friends are coordinating a vigil
at p.
m.
tonight at Northside High
School in Roanoke.
Testerman and
other friends have forwarded e-mails
and texts, saying the vigil is a “positive
gathering open to all.
” More than ,
people have joined a Facebook event
to help nd Harrington, posting their
comments with prayers and hope.
“It’s like a thin air thing because
they’ve been searching and have nothing,” Testerman said.
“It’s a bigger drive
to keep the word going.
”
JMU Junior Morgan Nichols, a friend
from kindergarten, said their close
group will speak about the good times
they remember and let Harrington
know her friends want her to come
home.
“Ithinkit’llgivepeoplemoreofa rsthandknowledge,”Nicholssaid.
“Bydoing
it in person, it’ll be a lot more real.
”
Metallica posted a message on its
Web site saying, “We are deeply concerned about the disappearance of
-year-old Virginia Tech student Morgan Dana Harrington, who was last
seen while attending our concert at the
John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, VA, on Saturday night.
”
Nichols and Testerman said it has
been di cult for their group to be split
among Virginia’s colleges, but talking together, not just on the phone or
through texts, will help.
see MISSING, page 4
Search
ForTech
Student
Continues
By KATIE THISDELL
The Breeze
After removing one of the objectionable words from a JMU policy,
problems could remain with policy
J - , but Judicial A airs says it will
not punish students for any lewd,
indecent or obscene “expression.
”
Director Josh Bacon authorized
the deletion of the word “expression”
and updated the policy online in the
JMU Student Handbook on Friday.
While SGA President Candace
Avalos, who encouraged Bacon
to make the change, sees it as an
improvement, not everyone agrees.
Adam Goldstein, attorney advocate
for the student press law center, said
it’s not completely solved, because
the terms “lewd” and “indecent” are
still not clearly defined (and have
not been legally de ned by the U.
S.
Supreme Court).
Avalos, on behalf of SGA, said
she and Bacon decided the biggest
problem was the word “expression.
”
Bacon said more clari cation of the
see REVISION, page 3
‘Expression’RemovedFromPolicy
page 3
InsideJudicialRewritesHandbookSectionon‘ObsceneConduct’AfterStudentsRespond
the policy was changed for the 2009-10 academic year then revised again last weekPOLICY SHIFT
2008-09
“No student shall engage in lewd,
indecent or obscene conduct
or expressionon university
property or in university-owned
or operated buildings.
”
2009-10
“No student shall engage in lewd,
indecent or obscene conduct
or expression, regardless
of proximity to campus.
”
2009-10 AFTER REVISION
“No student shall engage in lewd,
indecent or obscene conduct,
regardless of proximity to campus.
”
SPEAK YOUR MIND ONLINEJoin the dialogue and comment on any article or column at breezejmu.
org
page 5
page 9
page 11
photos by EVAN MCGREW/The Breeze
65,000VotesRaisedSuspicion
“It’s like a thin air thing
because they’ve been
searching and have
nothing.
It’s a bigger
drive to keep the word
going.
”
— JENNA TESTERMAN
junior
If you have seen
Harrington or know
her whereabouts, call
the 24-hour hotline:
(434) 352-3467
Morgan Dana
Harrington
disappeared
Saturday
night during a
Metallica concert
at the John Paul
Jones Arena in
Charlottesville. [Less]
Red Flag Campaign aims to spread
awareness of abusive relationships.
OPINION
Leggings are not pants — one
freshman makes the case against
the popular female attire.
LIFE
Meet Shirley Lea Foley, an
experienced ghost hunter who
believes JMU is a prime location for
‘spooking’ ghosts.
SPORTS
Find out who won the championship
of JMU’s most contested sport —
intramural flag football.
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SGA Speaker Censured
By AMANDA HERMAN
contributing writer
After admitting to tampering with the Homecoming banner contest, SGA speaker of the
senate Andrew Elgert was publicly reprimanded
and almost faced impeachment during Tuesday’s
senate meeting.
Elgert made a computer program Oct.
that
allowed him to vote continuously by deleting cookies, or electronic evidence in a browser that he had
already voted.
e program helped raise the number of votes for SGA’s banner to , , three times
more than JMU’s student body of , students.
Elgert said another member of SGA, vice president of Student A airs Brock Wallace, encouraged
him to use the computer program.
Wallace refused to comment Wednesday.
In an online chat, Elgert told Wallace the SGA
banner would win, and then ursday Wallace said
to “get it up there.
”
“He could have been speaking in sarcasm, and
I didn’t know,” Elgert said.
“ ere are many, many
possibilities… Anything’s possible.
”
Wallace led Purple Out and the Mr.
and Ms.
Madison contest, but SGA is not in charge of the
banner contest.
Elgert said he does not intend to step down,
because he does not think the action merits it.
“If it had been [an SGA-sponsored Homecoming
program] I messed with or that Brock knew about,
we should both be out of a job,” Elgert said.
e censure, written by junior class president
Kathleen Lee and passed unanimously, shows that
SGA does not condone Elgert’s actions, and what
he did was a “disservice to the student body and
see CENSURE, page 4
“.
.
.
it was
a lapse of
judgment.
I did it because
I could.
”
— Andrew Elgert
SGA Speaker
By AARON KOEPPER
contributing writer
In tough economic times, most
people are forced to cut back: ey
eat in instead of going out, businesses
and companies tighten their budgets,
downsize and buckle down.
However, at JMU, tough times have
inspired giving in the form of Madison
For Keeps, an emergency fund providing money to students who can’t
a ord to return next semester even
with nancial aid.
SGA has passed around a can for
donations at their meetings and the
Girls of Madison Calendar plans on
donating percent of the proceeds
to Madison For Keeps.
But none of
those can match the largest single
donation, , donated by the
Board of Directors of JMU’s Alumni
Association.
The Board hoped their donation
would inspire other alumni, students and faculty to do the same, so
that every student who applies for
Madison For Keeps can return next
semester.
“We wanted to step forward and
do something that we thought would
be meaningful and hoping that other
alumni would hear about it and
would do whatever they can to help
students,” said A.
J.
Fischer, president
of the alumni association’s board of
directors.
Organizers of Madison For Keeps
have seen , donors give ,
since the program began Sept.
,
many of whom are rst-time donors.
percent of the donors have been
alumni, with some students, faculty
and parents also donating.
“ e excitement is a lot more than
when we’re typically raising money,”
said Andy Perrine, associate vice
president of Communications and
Marketing.
“Alotofyoungalumniwho
have never given before are excited
about this.
”
On Monday, Madison For Keeps
posted applications on its Web site
for those needing to apply for aid, and
organizers expect to receive roughly
to applicants, which they will
review on a case-by-case basis.
Madison For Keeps does not guaranteethateveryonewhomapplieswill
receive aid.
Organizers however emphasize
that the more people who donate, the
more aid can be distributed to all who
apply.
“If every alumnus donated just a
small amount of money, we would
have more than enough to cover the
needs for every student that wants aid
but cannot receive it,” Perrine said.
The initiative has also appealed
directly to students and faculty: a
video ran at halftime during the Oct.
Richmondfootballgame, iershave
been posted around campus, and students, such as junior music education
major Anthony Bowman, have posted
testimonies on YouTube to appeal for
donations.
“The music ed program here is
a really great experience, because
they’re able to focus on education and
performance,” said Bowman in his
video.
“When I got here for marching
band camp, I wasn’t sure if I’d be able
to stay” for the semester.
Bowman emphasized that students
looking to bene t from the donations
are not seeking a “free ride” from
donorsbutratherhaverunoutofother
options to stay and simply don’t have
enough money from nancial aid.
“I’m out of state, so I have the federal loans I qualify for, but I can’t get
[Virginia] state grants because I’m not
in-state,” Bowman said.
Bowman’s campaign goes beyond
his own financial security; he and
other students are campaigning for
the initiative hope that it could cover
every student currently at risk of not
returning to JMU.
GenerousAlumniElevateDonations
ElgertAdmitsto
TamperingWith
VotesforSGA’s
HomecomingBanner
Speaker of the Senate Andrew
Elgert (above) apologized to SGA
members for interfering in the
banner contest.
Brock Wallace
(left), vice president of Student
Affairs, knew about Elgert’s
program to create votes.
“A lot of young alumni
who have never given
before are excited
about this.
”
— ANDY PERRINE
associate vice president
Communications and Marketing
“We’re all
human and
we all make
mistakes.
”
— Candace Avalos
SGA President
“Our
organization
will look better
if we show
[with the
censure] this is
how we feel.
”
— Kathleen Lee
junior class president
By KATIE THISDELL
The Breeze
Though one of “The Nine” — best
friends since elementary school — is
still missing, Morgan Dana Harrington’s
friends say they are doing everything
they can to alert people of her disappearance and bring her home.
“That’s the most important thing:
spreading the word fast and e ciently,”
said JMU junior Jenna Testerman, one
of the Virginia Tech student’s friends
coordinating the search e ort at JMU.
Harrington, , disappeared Saturday
aftergoingtoaMetallicaconcertinCharlottesville with friends from JMU and
U.
Va.
, whom she was separated from.
State police Lt.
Joe Rader said in a
press conference Wednesday that the
timeline for nding Harrington is critical, and despite more than tips,
none have led to any conclusive leads.
State police have ended their ground
search around the John Paul Jones
Arena.
Rader said there was no sign of
a struggle where her purse and batteryless cell phone were found.
“We have a purse.
We have a cellphone.
Wehaveamissinggirl.
oseare
the facts,” Rader said.
“We do not know
whether she is alive or has met some
kind of ill fate.
It’s just that simple.
”
Police have established a new
-hour hotline for information: ( )
- .
A minimum , reward is
being set up through Crimestoppers.
Friends are coordinating a vigil
at p.
m.
tonight at Northside High
School in Roanoke.
Testerman and
other friends have forwarded e-mails
and texts, saying the vigil is a “positive
gathering open to all.
” More than ,
people have joined a Facebook event
to help nd Harrington, posting their
comments with prayers and hope.
“It’s like a thin air thing because
they’ve been searching and have nothing,” Testerman said.
“It’s a bigger drive
to keep the word going.
”
JMU Junior Morgan Nichols, a friend
from kindergarten, said their close
group will speak about the good times
they remember and let Harrington
know her friends want her to come
home.
“Ithinkit’llgivepeoplemoreofa rsthandknowledge,”Nicholssaid.
“Bydoing
it in person, it’ll be a lot more real.
”
Metallica posted a message on its
Web site saying, “We are deeply concerned about the disappearance of
-year-old Virginia Tech student Morgan Dana Harrington, who was last
seen while attending our concert at the
John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, VA, on Saturday night.
”
Nichols and Testerman said it has
been di cult for their group to be split
among Virginia’s colleges, but talking together, not just on the phone or
through texts, will help.
see MISSING, page 4
Search
ForTech
Student
Continues
By KATIE THISDELL
The Breeze
After removing one of the objectionable words from a JMU policy,
problems could remain with policy
J - , but Judicial A airs says it will
not punish students for any lewd,
indecent or obscene “expression.
”
Director Josh Bacon authorized
the deletion of the word “expression”
and updated the policy online in the
JMU Student Handbook on Friday.
While SGA President Candace
Avalos, who encouraged Bacon
to make the change, sees it as an
improvement, not everyone agrees.
Adam Goldstein, attorney advocate
for the student press law center, said
it’s not completely solved, because
the terms “lewd” and “indecent” are
still not clearly defined (and have
not been legally de ned by the U.
S.
Supreme Court).
Avalos, on behalf of SGA, said
she and Bacon decided the biggest
problem was the word “expression.
”
Bacon said more clari cation of the
see REVISION, page 3
‘Expression’RemovedFromPolicy
page 3
InsideJudicialRewritesHandbookSectionon‘ObsceneConduct’AfterStudentsRespond
the policy was changed for the 2009-10 academic year then revised again last weekPOLICY SHIFT
2008-09
“No student shall engage in lewd,
indecent or obscene conduct
or expressionon university
property or in university-owned
or operated buildings.
”
2009-10
“No student shall engage in lewd,
indecent or obscene conduct
or expression, regardless
of proximity to campus.
”
2009-10 AFTER REVISION
“No student shall engage in lewd,
indecent or obscene conduct,
regardless of proximity to campus.
”
SPEAK YOUR MIND ONLINEJoin the dialogue and comment on any article or column at breezejmu.
org
page 5
page 9
page 11
photos by EVAN MCGREW/The Breeze
65,000VotesRaisedSuspicion
“It’s like a thin air thing
because they’ve been
searching and have
nothing.
It’s a bigger
drive to keep the word
going.
”
— JENNA TESTERMAN
junior
If you have seen
Harrington or know
her whereabouts, call
the 24-hour hotline:
(434) 352-3467
Morgan Dana
Harrington
disappeared
Saturday
night during a
Metallica concert
at the John Paul
Jones Arena in
Charlottesville. [Less]
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Madison.
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“That’s a very eerie sound,” he said.
“It will run you
insane.
”
A guard constantly hovered over a chair nearby to ensure
that WaQlimi did not commit suicide and “deny the state
its right” in killing him.
In the hours leading up to death, a civilian came with a
tape measure to size him for his burial suit.
To make sure no
one poisoned his food, a specialized chef came to cook him
whatever he wanted for his last meal, which he declined.
irteen hours before he was to be “murdered,” the state
stayed his execution due to resurfacing evidence proving
his innocence.
However, he still spent three and half years
inprisonbeforeajudgeexoneratedhim,becausethejustice
system took so long to process the uncovered evidence.
“I stand before you, innocent of all charges… not because
of a legal technicality, but because I did not commit the
crime,” WaQlimi said.
WaQlimi spoke in ISAT on Wednesday for “Voice of the
Exonerated: Innocence and the Death Penalty,” presented
by Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, Witness
to Innocence and Amnesty International.
“I’ve never experienced anything like that,” said Maegan
Pisman, a sophomore psychology major.
“To actually see
someone who wasn’t killed and hear his personal experience… it’s big.
”
At years old in , he was sentenced to life in prison
in Tampa, Fla.
for robbery and rape, and the death penalty for the murder of a woman he said he had never met.
Consequently, he spent almost years in prison in Florida,
including time on death row.
“ at was my hellhole, in which every day I had to make
a decision.
I had to reach inside of myself for strength,”
WaQlimi said.
“Society says you are a monster.
You have
horns coming out of your head.
You must be removed.
You
see EXONERATED, page 4
SpeakerSharesWhatitwasLiketoFaceExecution
Shabaka WaQlimi’s execution was stayed with only 13 hours remaining, but he spent
another three and a half years in prison before a judge exonerated him.
He is on a
statewide tour with Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty.
The outcome was decided…
When Villanova’s Fred Maldonado recovered Justin
Thorpe’s second fumble in the second quarter.
Player of the game
Villanova junior quarterback Chris Whitney, who ran for 97
yards and tied a career high with three touchdown passes.
Game-changing stat
Forthesecondstraightgame,it’sturnovers.
Villanova
turnedtwofumblerecoveriesinto10second-quarterpoints.
JMU-VILLANOVA GAME OVERVIEW
ROBERT BOAG/The Breeze
Madison’s fourth loss Saturday may keep the Dukes
out of the playoffs for the first time since 2005.
The players expressed dismay during and after the
stinging shutout defeat against Villanova, a team
JMU beat twice last year.
By DAN LOBDELL
The Breeze
After a shut out by Villanova on Saturday,
JMU’s already slim chances of making the playo s appear to be gone.
e - loss on Homecoming weekend leaves
the Dukes on a three-game conference losing
streak for the rst time since , the last time
Madison missed the playo s.
“You always bring up the playo s, that’s just
not on our mind.
We’re trying to play better,” JMU
coach Mickey Matthews said.
“Rather than concerned about playo s, we’re just trying to make
a rst down right now.
”
O ensively, JMU ( - overall, - in the Colonial Athletic Association) sputtered, crossing
midfield only twice.
It was the first time the
Dukes had been shut out at home since November .
Villanova coach Andy Talley said in the postgame press conference, even after seeing his
team convincingly defeat JMU at Bridgeforth
Stadium, that if Madison wins out, they aren’t
necessarily erased from the playo picture.
“I’m always gonna lobby for a - team out
of the CAA,” Talley said.
“ ey played the No.
team in the country, the No.
team in the country.
ey’ve played Maryland.
I think if they can
run the table, they will have beaten some pretty
good people.
“ ey could be a very di cult team to play in
the playo s.
ey could be one of those teams
that slips in in the end that could scare you.
”
Talley described both team’s schedules this
season as “murderous,” and because of that, he
would vote for a CAA team with a worse record
over a - team from a weaker conference.
Redshirt freshman Justin orpe, who is now
the Dukes’ starting quarterback for the remainderoftheseasonbecauseofjuniorDrewDudzik’s
left foot fracture, repeated his miscue from last
week being unable to hold on to the ball.
His two fumbles in the second quarter resulted in Villanova points and e ectively put the
game out of reach for Madison.
With JMU trailing - midway through the
second quarter, orpe was scrambling on rst
down when Villanova’s John Dempsey forced a
fumble that defensive back James Pitts recovered
at the -yard line.
e Wildcats drove the ball yards in just four
plays, culminating in a -yard touchdown catch
by junior wide receiver Matt Szczur.
Junior quarterback Chris Whitney stood in the pocket and
got nailed by JMU linebacker Jamie Veney, but
only after getting rid of the ball and hitting Szczur
in stride right in front of the goal line.
orpe’s second fumble came on the Dukes’
next drive.
After running for a rst down, orpe
again had the ball in his hands when linebacker Terence omas knocked the ball free and
see FOOTBALL, page 8
KNOCKED
OUT?PlayoffChancesUncertain
AfterPoorOffensiveShowing
In27-0LosstoVillanova
AttendancePolicyRevisionProposedinFacultySenate
ResolutionPushesExcusedAbsencesforAll‘UniversityActivities,’NextComesSubcommitteeDecision
By ALLIE CONROY
contributing writer
A less-stringent excused absence
policy is going through discussions
and could help students who have to
miss classes due to other university
activities.
Roger Soenksen, a media arts and
design professor and faculty representativetotheNCAA,proposedthepolicy
to the Faculty senate calling for a university-wide excused absence policy.
If the academic policies subcommittee approves the resolution, it will
go to the oor of the Faculty senate
for debate and a vote, according to
Soenksen.
The resolution states “students
are expected to attend all classes,” but “participation in University
activities at the request of University
authorities” should be permitted as
excused absences.
It also states that
“faculty members are required to allow
students with documented excused
absences to make up missed work or
assignments” and “when the nature of
the assignment makes this impossible,
(e.
g.
, science lab), the faculty member
should attempt to make a reasonable
adjustment of the assignment.
”
According to the current excused
absence policy approved March ,
professors ultimately make their own
attendance policies: “Instructor policies govern what absences will be
excused, how many excused absences
will be allowed and how missed work
will be made up, if permitted.
”
Soenksen said a number of departments support a policy change,
see ATTENDANCE, page 4
INNOCENT ON DEATH ROW
By CAITLINHAWES | contributing writer
‘SocietySaysYouAreaMonster’
bout days before his execution date, Shabaka WaQlimi was moved to the “Presidential Treatment” — Death Watch, a cell only feet from the execution chair.
Each day he listened to
the chair buzz as it was tested twice, in preparation for his execution.
Intruder
Peeksin
Hillside
Showers
By KATIE HIBSON
contributing writer
A trespasser entered Hillside Hall on
Saturday morning just before a.
m.
and opened two shower curtains while
two female residents were showering,
according to JMU Police.
Police sent a “Timely Notice” e-mail
at a.
m.
Sunday to alert the campus to
the reported crime.
Hillside resident Ariel Spagnolo said
her friend Katie Stolp had been in the
shower when the man walked into the
hall-style restroom.
According to Spagnolo, Stolp screamed, the man said “I’m
sorry,” and he walked out.
e case is under investigation, but
according to reports given to police, the
suspect was a dark-skinned black male,
approximately -feet- inches to -feet
tall.
He reportedly wore all black clothing and had a “distinct verbal dialect.
”
Stolp declined to comment for this
story, and the second woman could
not be located for comment.
Hillside
Hall director Sarah Woody and resident adviser Maria Lane attempted to
have Breeze reporters removed from the
dorm Sunday and vehemently objected
to residents speaking with reporters.
Freshman resident Holly Betancourt
saw the man sitting alone outside the
building Saturday morning, wearing
a black sweatshirt and talking on the
phone.
“I thought it was kind of weird, just
because no one really is out at that time
of the day, but I didn’t really think anything of it,” Betancourt said.
“He looked
and seemed like a normal person.
”
Spagnolo was asleep in Hillside at
the time.
“I feel like our safety is in jeopardy
because anyone can get in,” Spagnolo
said.
“I wish Hillside dorms were like
the Village, where you have to swipe
your card for each hallway, so that way
it’s a lot harder for people to get in.
”
Hillside dorms require only one
swipe of a JACard — at the main or side
entrances.
Police recommend residents leave
their room and suite doors locked and
not share access codes with anyone.
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OPINION
Outlining the problem with
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SPORTS
A recap of JMU field hockey’s loss to
No.
2 (undefeated) North Carolina.
LIFE
Meet this year’s Mr.
& Ms.
Madison.
page 3
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“That’s a very eerie sound,” he said.
“It will run you
insane.
”
A guard constantly hovered over a chair nearby to ensure
that WaQlimi did not commit suicide and “deny the state
its right” in killing him.
In the hours leading up to death, a civilian came with a
tape measure to size him for his burial suit.
To make sure no
one poisoned his food, a specialized chef came to cook him
whatever he wanted for his last meal, which he declined.
irteen hours before he was to be “murdered,” the state
stayed his execution due to resurfacing evidence proving
his innocence.
However, he still spent three and half years
inprisonbeforeajudgeexoneratedhim,becausethejustice
system took so long to process the uncovered evidence.
“I stand before you, innocent of all charges… not because
of a legal technicality, but because I did not commit the
crime,” WaQlimi said.
WaQlimi spoke in ISAT on Wednesday for “Voice of the
Exonerated: Innocence and the Death Penalty,” presented
by Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, Witness
to Innocence and Amnesty International.
“I’ve never experienced anything like that,” said Maegan
Pisman, a sophomore psychology major.
“To actually see
someone who wasn’t killed and hear his personal experience… it’s big.
”
At years old in , he was sentenced to life in prison
in Tampa, Fla.
for robbery and rape, and the death penalty for the murder of a woman he said he had never met.
Consequently, he spent almost years in prison in Florida,
including time on death row.
“ at was my hellhole, in which every day I had to make
a decision.
I had to reach inside of myself for strength,”
WaQlimi said.
“Society says you are a monster.
You have
horns coming out of your head.
You must be removed.
You
see EXONERATED, page 4
SpeakerSharesWhatitwasLiketoFaceExecution
Shabaka WaQlimi’s execution was stayed with only 13 hours remaining, but he spent
another three and a half years in prison before a judge exonerated him.
He is on a
statewide tour with Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty.
The outcome was decided…
When Villanova’s Fred Maldonado recovered Justin
Thorpe’s second fumble in the second quarter.
Player of the game
Villanova junior quarterback Chris Whitney, who ran for 97
yards and tied a career high with three touchdown passes.
Game-changing stat
Forthesecondstraightgame,it’sturnovers.
Villanova
turnedtwofumblerecoveriesinto10second-quarterpoints.
JMU-VILLANOVA GAME OVERVIEW
ROBERT BOAG/The Breeze
Madison’s fourth loss Saturday may keep the Dukes
out of the playoffs for the first time since 2005.
The players expressed dismay during and after the
stinging shutout defeat against Villanova, a team
JMU beat twice last year.
By DAN LOBDELL
The Breeze
After a shut out by Villanova on Saturday,
JMU’s already slim chances of making the playo s appear to be gone.
e - loss on Homecoming weekend leaves
the Dukes on a three-game conference losing
streak for the rst time since , the last time
Madison missed the playo s.
“You always bring up the playo s, that’s just
not on our mind.
We’re trying to play better,” JMU
coach Mickey Matthews said.
“Rather than concerned about playo s, we’re just trying to make
a rst down right now.
”
O ensively, JMU ( - overall, - in the Colonial Athletic Association) sputtered, crossing
midfield only twice.
It was the first time the
Dukes had been shut out at home since November .
Villanova coach Andy Talley said in the postgame press conference, even after seeing his
team convincingly defeat JMU at Bridgeforth
Stadium, that if Madison wins out, they aren’t
necessarily erased from the playo picture.
“I’m always gonna lobby for a - team out
of the CAA,” Talley said.
“ ey played the No.
team in the country, the No.
team in the country.
ey’ve played Maryland.
I think if they can
run the table, they will have beaten some pretty
good people.
“ ey could be a very di cult team to play in
the playo s.
ey could be one of those teams
that slips in in the end that could scare you.
”
Talley described both team’s schedules this
season as “murderous,” and because of that, he
would vote for a CAA team with a worse record
over a - team from a weaker conference.
Redshirt freshman Justin orpe, who is now
the Dukes’ starting quarterback for the remainderoftheseasonbecauseofjuniorDrewDudzik’s
left foot fracture, repeated his miscue from last
week being unable to hold on to the ball.
His two fumbles in the second quarter resulted in Villanova points and e ectively put the
game out of reach for Madison.
With JMU trailing - midway through the
second quarter, orpe was scrambling on rst
down when Villanova’s John Dempsey forced a
fumble that defensive back James Pitts recovered
at the -yard line.
e Wildcats drove the ball yards in just four
plays, culminating in a -yard touchdown catch
by junior wide receiver Matt Szczur.
Junior quarterback Chris Whitney stood in the pocket and
got nailed by JMU linebacker Jamie Veney, but
only after getting rid of the ball and hitting Szczur
in stride right in front of the goal line.
orpe’s second fumble came on the Dukes’
next drive.
After running for a rst down, orpe
again had the ball in his hands when linebacker Terence omas knocked the ball free and
see FOOTBALL, page 8
KNOCKED
OUT?PlayoffChancesUncertain
AfterPoorOffensiveShowing
In27-0LosstoVillanova
AttendancePolicyRevisionProposedinFacultySenate
ResolutionPushesExcusedAbsencesforAll‘UniversityActivities,’NextComesSubcommitteeDecision
By ALLIE CONROY
contributing writer
A less-stringent excused absence
policy is going through discussions
and could help students who have to
miss classes due to other university
activities.
Roger Soenksen, a media arts and
design professor and faculty representativetotheNCAA,proposedthepolicy
to the Faculty senate calling for a university-wide excused absence policy.
If the academic policies subcommittee approves the resolution, it will
go to the oor of the Faculty senate
for debate and a vote, according to
Soenksen.
The resolution states “students
are expected to attend all classes,” but “participation in University
activities at the request of University
authorities” should be permitted as
excused absences.
It also states that
“faculty members are required to allow
students with documented excused
absences to make up missed work or
assignments” and “when the nature of
the assignment makes this impossible,
(e.
g.
, science lab), the faculty member
should attempt to make a reasonable
adjustment of the assignment.
”
According to the current excused
absence policy approved March ,
professors ultimately make their own
attendance policies: “Instructor policies govern what absences will be
excused, how many excused absences
will be allowed and how missed work
will be made up, if permitted.
”
Soenksen said a number of departments support a policy change,
see ATTENDANCE, page 4
INNOCENT ON DEATH ROW
By CAITLINHAWES | contributing writer
‘SocietySaysYouAreaMonster’
bout days before his execution date, Shabaka WaQlimi was moved to the “Presidential Treatment” — Death Watch, a cell only feet from the execution chair.
Each day he listened to
the chair buzz as it was tested twice, in preparation for his execution.
Intruder
Peeksin
Hillside
Showers
By KATIE HIBSON
contributing writer
A trespasser entered Hillside Hall on
Saturday morning just before a.
m.
and opened two shower curtains while
two female residents were showering,
according to JMU Police.
Police sent a “Timely Notice” e-mail
at a.
m.
Sunday to alert the campus to
the reported crime.
Hillside resident Ariel Spagnolo said
her friend Katie Stolp had been in the
shower when the man walked into the
hall-style restroom.
According to Spagnolo, Stolp screamed, the man said “I’m
sorry,” and he walked out.
e case is under investigation, but
according to reports given to police, the
suspect was a dark-skinned black male,
approximately -feet- inches to -feet
tall.
He reportedly wore all black clothing and had a “distinct verbal dialect.
”
Stolp declined to comment for this
story, and the second woman could
not be located for comment.
Hillside
Hall director Sarah Woody and resident adviser Maria Lane attempted to
have Breeze reporters removed from the
dorm Sunday and vehemently objected
to residents speaking with reporters.
Freshman resident Holly Betancourt
saw the man sitting alone outside the
building Saturday morning, wearing
a black sweatshirt and talking on the
phone.
“I thought it was kind of weird, just
because no one really is out at that time
of the day, but I didn’t really think anything of it,” Betancourt said.
“He looked
and seemed like a normal person.
”
Spagnolo was asleep in Hillside at
the time.
“I feel like our safety is in jeopardy
because anyone can get in,” Spagnolo
said.
“I wish Hillside dorms were like
the Village, where you have to swipe
your card for each hallway, so that way
it’s a lot harder for people to get in.
”
Hillside dorms require only one
swipe of a JACard — at the main or side
entrances.
Police recommend residents leave
their room and suite doors locked and
not share access codes with anyone.
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By MATT SUTHERLAND
The Breeze
In an attempt to show support for
their friends, more than a dozen JMU
students gathered outside the Judicial A airs o ce at Frederikson Hall
Monday to protest what they called
the wrongful suspensions of two students.
e pair were allegedly involved
in a ght Sept.
in Copper Beech.
e
group’s protest began at p.
m.
and lasted three hours.
Junior Frank Pleta and senior Eugene
Jung argued their appeals before a judicial council of two students and two
facultymembersMonday.
etwowere
originally charged by Judicial Affairs
and received semester suspensions.
Josh Bacon, director of Judicial
A airs, was unable to comment on the
verdict as his o ce forbids him from
disclosing information.
Both Pleta and
Jung also declined to comment on the
result of the appeal, citing personal
reasons.
However,sophomoreMarcusHoang,
the alleged victim of Pleta and Jung,
was a witness during the hearing, and
said Jung was found guilty of assault
and suspended for a semester.
Pleta
was found not guilty and received no
suspension.
Pleta and Jung, along with junior
Paul Hong, were arrested on three
counts of alleged assault or battery by
a mob.
Pleta and Jung both said Hoang
and his friends started the ght.
Neither
Hoang nor his friends were invited to
the party, according to Pleta and several other party guests.
Marcus Hoang said that Pleta and
Jung accosted and attacked him after
midnight at a party in Pleta’s residence
on Snowberry Lane.
Protester Rachel DeColli, a junior
international a airs major, was attending the party when the ght broke out
in the front yard.
see PROTEST, page 4
Judicial
to Rewrite
‘Obscene
Conduct’
Policy
By AMANDA CASKEY
The Breeze
DirectorofJudicialA airsJoshBacon
is prepared to change JMU’s policy
regarding obscene conduct.
On Monday, student body President
Candace Avalos and student services
chair Rob Cellucci presented a proposal
for a change in policy to the committee as a precursor to Tuesday’s senate
meeting.
e proposal refers to the Student
Handbook’s “Obscene Conduct” policy, specifically J - , which states
“No student shall engage in lewd, indecent or obscene conduct or expression,
regardless of proximity to campus.
”
On Oct.
, Avalos met with Josh
Bacon, the director of Judicial A airs,
to discuss student response to the limitations set on freedom of speech in the
policy.
is issue was rst reported in a Sept.
blogposton“ eTorch”bySamantha
Harris of the Foundation for Individual
Rights in Education.
FIRE named James
Madison University the “Speech Code
of the Month” for October.
According to the FIRE Web site,
“Speech Code of the Month” serves
“both to educate the public about the
broader problem of speech codes on
campus and to use public pressure to
encourage particular institutions to
abandon repressive policies.
”
Breeze editors first notified Avalos
of the policy change Sept.
, and e
Breeze rst reported on this Sept.
.
Further student concern over the
“expression” portion of this policy has
caused the SGA to take notice.
“ is issue was brought up by students and, ever since, the SGA has been
working hard to nd a solution,” Avalos said.
The meeting was held in order to
see POLICY, page 4
Erin Farlow, a 22-year-old nursing student, and her son, 2-year-old Owen, live near Eastern Mennonite
University.
Farlow juggles school work, caring for Owen and working for local cleaning services every day.
PAUL JONES/The Breeze
Students gather outside Frederikson Hall on Monday evening to support two friends
who faced possible semester suspensions.
EVAN McGREW/The Breeze
‘ILove
You,
Mom’
MAKESITALL
WORTHWHILE
E
rin Farlow would tell you she’s a typical JMU
undergrad, aside from getting accepted into
the highly competitive nursing program
with straight A’s and a -year-old son.
The -year-old Richmond native said
she ultimately sees herself working as a school nurse
in -to- years, but right now her main concern is
nding enough time to give son Owen a bath and prepare him for bed.
“I remember being late to my a.
m.
’s, because my
son was up all night screaming,” Farlow said.
A little di erent from the typical students’ excuse of “my
alarm didn’t go o .
”
Farlow met Owen’s father Derek during their freshman year at JMU, and they quickly began dating.
Her then-roommate and good friend, Danielle
Longchamps, of Baltimore, talked about living with
Farlow and knowing Derek.
“It was like us three the whole year,” she said.
Just like many other JMU students, Farlow immediately became familiar with the college nightlife,
spending weekends at various dorm and apartment
parties.
see MOTHER, page 10
MOTHERHOOD
By SARAHCOPPINGER | contributing writer
CutstoCityPoliceWon’tAffectServices
By DANIELLE STRICKLER
contributing writer
Although Harrisonburg Police
Department has cut , from
its budget, police say protection will
not decrease for residents and students in the city.
Tuesday,HarrisonburgCityCouncil discussed the cuts and reductions
for Rockingham County and Harrisonburg.
These cuts came after
budgets had been approved July ,
so each department has to decide
how to make its own cuts.
Mary–Hope Gangwer, HPD
spokeswoman, said although police
have not specifically discussed
exactly where the cuts will be made,
all that might be a ected is training
and shift reductions.
“Mandatory training that certies our o cers will still be in a ect;
other training services that are just
extra will be cut,” Gangwer said.
Special operations and criminal
investigators shifts will be reworked
and o cers may be on call, however, patrol units and o cers around
the city will not be a ected, Gangwer said.
Gun training or recertification
for CPR will still continue; however,
training that is supplemental to the
o cers is no longer as important.
“ is is certainly a di cult economic time, but the department is
working hard to make sure residents
still have the great service they had
before [the cuts] and they are safe,”
said Miriam Dickler, public information o cer for Harrisonburg.
Dickler also emphasized that the
cuts are happening to the entire state
and not simply Harrisonburg.
Cuts also affect the officers in
Rockingham County.
These cuts
may mean state and city o cers
could need to help in the county.
Because Harrisonburg is an independent city, it has its own police
force.
However, this will not put an
increased strain on the HPD, according to Dickler.
At the meeting, City Manager Kurt
Hodgen said the city is behind about
, compared to last year’s
period of July through September.
e city spending is also down about
three percent for the same period.
The Breeze Photo ContestSEE PAGE 6 FOR THE LATEST WINNER
HarrisonburgBehind$400,000FromLastYear;PolicetoLose$162,000
SGAPushedforChange
“This issue was brought
up by students and,
ever since, the SGA has
been working hard to
find a solution.
”
— CANDACE AVALOS
SGA President
page 5
’the girls of madison’
page 9
page 11
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NEWS
Some students are living ‘green’
in a house built by a JMU graduate’s sustainable company.
OPINION
Whitten Maher traveled with
Madison Equality to Sunday’s
National Equality March — see his
commentary.
LIFE
Check out one freshman’s
take on the advantages and
disadvantages of community
college.
SPORTS
Freshman Danielle Erb has spiked
all the tribulations life has served
her.
page 3
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86, ISSUE 16
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StudentsProtestSuspensions
TwoStudentsReceiveVerdictsfromJudicialAffairsFollowingAllegedFight
By MATT SUTHERLAND
The Breeze
In an attempt to show support for
their friends, more than a dozen JMU
students gathered outside the Judicial A airs o ce at Frederikson Hall
Monday to protest what they called
the wrongful suspensions of two students.
e pair were allegedly involved
in a ght Sept.
in Copper Beech.
e
group’s protest began at p.
m.
and lasted three hours.
Junior Frank Pleta and senior Eugene
Jung argued their appeals before a judicial council of two students and two
facultymembersMonday.
etwowere
originally charged by Judicial Affairs
and received semester suspensions.
Josh Bacon, director of Judicial
A airs, was unable to comment on the
verdict as his o ce forbids him from
disclosing information.
Both Pleta and
Jung also declined to comment on the
result of the appeal, citing personal
reasons.
However,sophomoreMarcusHoang,
the alleged victim of Pleta and Jung,
was a witness during the hearing, and
said Jung was found guilty of assault
and suspended for a semester.
Pleta
was found not guilty and received no
suspension.
Pleta and Jung, along with junior
Paul Hong, were arrested on three
counts of alleged assault or battery by
a mob.
Pleta and Jung both said Hoang
and his friends started the ght.
Neither
Hoang nor his friends were invited to
the party, according to Pleta and several other party guests.
Marcus Hoang said that Pleta and
Jung accosted and attacked him after
midnight at a party in Pleta’s residence
on Snowberry Lane.
Protester Rachel DeColli, a junior
international a airs major, was attending the party when the ght broke out
in the front yard.
see PROTEST, page 4
Judicial
to Rewrite
‘Obscene
Conduct’
Policy
By AMANDA CASKEY
The Breeze
DirectorofJudicialA airsJoshBacon
is prepared to change JMU’s policy
regarding obscene conduct.
On Monday, student body President
Candace Avalos and student services
chair Rob Cellucci presented a proposal
for a change in policy to the committee as a precursor to Tuesday’s senate
meeting.
e proposal refers to the Student
Handbook’s “Obscene Conduct” policy, specifically J - , which states
“No student shall engage in lewd, indecent or obscene conduct or expression,
regardless of proximity to campus.
”
On Oct.
, Avalos met with Josh
Bacon, the director of Judicial A airs,
to discuss student response to the limitations set on freedom of speech in the
policy.
is issue was rst reported in a Sept.
blogposton“ eTorch”bySamantha
Harris of the Foundation for Individual
Rights in Education.
FIRE named James
Madison University the “Speech Code
of the Month” for October.
According to the FIRE Web site,
“Speech Code of the Month” serves
“both to educate the public about the
broader problem of speech codes on
campus and to use public pressure to
encourage particular institutions to
abandon repressive policies.
”
Breeze editors first notified Avalos
of the policy change Sept.
, and e
Breeze rst reported on this Sept.
.
Further student concern over the
“expression” portion of this policy has
caused the SGA to take notice.
“ is issue was brought up by students and, ever since, the SGA has been
working hard to nd a solution,” Avalos said.
The meeting was held in order to
see POLICY, page 4
Erin Farlow, a 22-year-old nursing student, and her son, 2-year-old Owen, live near Eastern Mennonite
University.
Farlow juggles school work, caring for Owen and working for local cleaning services every day.
PAUL JONES/The Breeze
Students gather outside Frederikson Hall on Monday evening to support two friends
who faced possible semester suspensions.
EVAN McGREW/The Breeze
‘ILove
You,
Mom’
MAKESITALL
WORTHWHILE
E
rin Farlow would tell you she’s a typical JMU
undergrad, aside from getting accepted into
the highly competitive nursing program
with straight A’s and a -year-old son.
The -year-old Richmond native said
she ultimately sees herself working as a school nurse
in -to- years, but right now her main concern is
nding enough time to give son Owen a bath and prepare him for bed.
“I remember being late to my a.
m.
’s, because my
son was up all night screaming,” Farlow said.
A little di erent from the typical students’ excuse of “my
alarm didn’t go o .
”
Farlow met Owen’s father Derek during their freshman year at JMU, and they quickly began dating.
Her then-roommate and good friend, Danielle
Longchamps, of Baltimore, talked about living with
Farlow and knowing Derek.
“It was like us three the whole year,” she said.
Just like many other JMU students, Farlow immediately became familiar with the college nightlife,
spending weekends at various dorm and apartment
parties.
see MOTHER, page 10
MOTHERHOOD
By SARAHCOPPINGER | contributing writer
CutstoCityPoliceWon’tAffectServices
By DANIELLE STRICKLER
contributing writer
Although Harrisonburg Police
Department has cut , from
its budget, police say protection will
not decrease for residents and students in the city.
Tuesday,HarrisonburgCityCouncil discussed the cuts and reductions
for Rockingham County and Harrisonburg.
These cuts came after
budgets had been approved July ,
so each department has to decide
how to make its own cuts.
Mary–Hope Gangwer, HPD
spokeswoman, said although police
have not specifically discussed
exactly where the cuts will be made,
all that might be a ected is training
and shift reductions.
“Mandatory training that certies our o cers will still be in a ect;
other training services that are just
extra will be cut,” Gangwer said.
Special operations and criminal
investigators shifts will be reworked
and o cers may be on call, however, patrol units and o cers around
the city will not be a ected, Gangwer said.
Gun training or recertification
for CPR will still continue; however,
training that is supplemental to the
o cers is no longer as important.
“ is is certainly a di cult economic time, but the department is
working hard to make sure residents
still have the great service they had
before [the cuts] and they are safe,”
said Miriam Dickler, public information o cer for Harrisonburg.
Dickler also emphasized that the
cuts are happening to the entire state
and not simply Harrisonburg.
Cuts also affect the officers in
Rockingham County.
These cuts
may mean state and city o cers
could need to help in the county.
Because Harrisonburg is an independent city, it has its own police
force.
However, this will not put an
increased strain on the HPD, according to Dickler.
At the meeting, City Manager Kurt
Hodgen said the city is behind about
, compared to last year’s
period of July through September.
e city spending is also down about
three percent for the same period.
The Breeze Photo ContestSEE PAGE 6 FOR THE LATEST WINNER
HarrisonburgBehind$400,000FromLastYear;PolicetoLose$162,000
SGAPushedforChange
“This issue was brought
up by students and,
ever since, the SGA has
been working hard to
find a solution.
”
— CANDACE AVALOS
SGA President
page 5
’the girls of madison’
page 9
page 11
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African Symposium draws crowds
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continent.
OPINION
Rachel Dozier promotes a new
outlook on feminism.
LIFE
“I’m not listening when you say
‘Goodbye’ “ Check out the review
of Third Eye Blind’s Convo show.
SPORTS
Madison’s men’s soccer team
fought back from a 3-1 deficit
to tie defending conference
champions and nationally ranked
George Mason in overtime.
Inside
NewTicket
Regulations
InEffect
FluSpreads
OnCampus
SpeakingOutAgainstAbuse
DAVID CASTERLINE/The Breeze
By KATIE KING
contributing writer
Bob McDonnell, Republican candidate for Virginia governor, was all
about the Dukes Saturday.
During a
tailgate on Godwin Field, McDonnell, who said he has made two
previous stops at JMU since his campaign kicked o last March, spent the
morning cheering on the Dukes, talking with the press and meeting with
his supporters.
Republican Bill Bolling, who is
up for re-election as Virginia’s lieutenant governor, was also at the
tailgate for members of the Republican party.
McDonnell’s visits to JMU are
part of his e ort to reach out to the
youth of Virginia.
With the help of
Kailin, his second-eldest daughter and youth outreach coordinator,
McDonnell said he has visited “virtually every college in Virginia.
” He
said this gives him the opportunity to
speak personally with students about
his ideas and goals.
College Republicans members
sophomore Kyle Smith and junior
Grant Kidwell both believe that
McDonnell’s and Bolling’s visits to
JMU were successful in increasing
support among student voters.
“I feel like the Republican ticket understands the important role
that college students played in the
last presidential election, and they
intend to capitalize on that,“ Smith
said.
“Hopefully their focus on college students and issues that impact
students will show in the polls come
November.
”
As the father of both a recent VCU
graduate and JMU senior, Rachel
McDonnell, the GOP candidate said
see MCDONNELL, page 4
By CAITLIN HAWES
contributing writer
As the ve panel members took their
seats behind the long table they shared,
the audience shifted in their seats.
Two
speakers were therapists, two were sexual abuse victims and one was a former
sexual o ender.
eir nametags bore
only their rst names and no indication of their status, which was revealed
only gradually.
e panel was part of Stop It Now!’s
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Dialogue, hosted in ISAT on Wednesday
night.
“I would like you
to understand how
emotionally di cult
it is for our panel
to sit together
as one panel,
than it is
for us to sit
before you,”
said Sarah
Lewis, a
licensed
clinical s ocial
worker who
sat on the panel.
According
to the Virginia
Department of
Health, one in
four women
and one in
five men in
Virginia have
experienced
sexual abuse before age .
“All of us will be affected by this
issue.
It can happen within our very
own families and within our very own
lives,” said Trent Wagler, the prevention educator for e Collins Center,
an organization which aids victims of
sexual abuse.
WANDA: Thriving Despite All
Wanda, the first victim to speak,
grew up in a Mennonite farm in Pennsylvania.
Her perpetrator, Alvin, was a
year-old man hired to help the family on the farm.
She was at the time.
“He would ask me about sexual
things related to animals,” she said,
saying that these comments lead up
to him touching her and beyond.
“He
knew my parents were Mennonite and
that I didn’t know anything about sex.
He himself was Mennonite.
”
Children that know nothing about
sex or their anatomy are often easier
prey for sexual o enders, according to
Lewis.
“Show me a kid that knows nothing about sex and you’ve showed me
my next victim,” Lewis later said, quoting a perpetrator with whom she once
worked.
For years, Wanda drank alochol to
cope with her inner turmoil and she
“fell apart” when a co-worker later sexually harassed her.
“I became seriously suicidal and
emotionally a wreck,” she said.
But now, after therapy and talking
on the panel, she has come closer to a
see ABUSE, page 4
By KATIE HIBSON
contributing writer
Senior Emily Dean started feeling
achy on Friday.
On Sunday she had a
fever, and by Monday she was diagnosed with swine u.
“I was really sick for eight solid days,”
Dean said.
“I couldn’t get out of bed all
day.
I was so exhausted.
”
More than students have visited
the University Health Center with ulike symptoms this semester, and the
staff has fielded hundreds of phone
calls from students with milder flu
symptoms, according to Health Center
Medical Dr.
Stephen Rodgers.
“I think there was a peak in our visits
and phone calls about two weeks ago,”
Rodgers said.
“But it appears that it is
declining.
”
UHC does not test patients for the
speci c strain of H N per the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention’s
(CDC) recommendation, according to
Rodgers.
Instead, the Health Center
bases its diagnosis on common symptoms associated with swine u such as
a high fever, respiratory problems and
muscle aches.
Sophomore Matthew Pepper had
originally planned to visit Rockingham Memorial Hospital (RMH) when
his fever hit .
degrees but instead
went to UHC.
Dr.
Anne Schuchat of the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention said in
a news conference Friday that a pandemic of the H N in uenza “is here.
.
.
in virtually the entire country.
” Swine
u has spread to states now, up from
states last week, said Schuchat, who
is director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory
Diseases.
Last week, more pediatric deaths
were reported, bringing the total to
deaths since April.
In the last three u
seasons,thenumberofpediatricdeaths
has ranged from to a year.
Now
we have , “and it is only October,”
Schuchat said.
Only percent to
percent of the deaths were in children
whowerehealthybeforecontractingthe
virus.
e rest su ered from underlying
conditions, such as asthma, chronic
lung disease and, especially, muscular
dystrophy and cystic brosis.
However, those at JMU with H N
agree that it is not as serious as national media projected.
“It wasn’t a huge issue,” junior Jackie
Knight said.
“I had to miss a few classes [last week] and stay away from other
people, but it was just like having a really bad cold.
”
Knight and Dean said their professors worked with them during their
absences to help them make up any
missed work.
eir absences were also
excused.
Rodgers stressed that people should
not panic.
“The seriousness worldwide has
been mild,” he said.
“It is a concern for
JMU students because many students
will not feel well and miss class.
”
e Associated Press contributed to
this article.
Bob McDonnell, the Republican candidate for Virginia governor, tailgates with his family, including his daughter, Rachel, a
JMU senior, students and other members of the Republican party before the football game against Richmond on Saturday.
DukesGetBit
By COLLEEN HAYES
contributing writer
HARRISONBURG, Va.
— Step outside, listen to the band play and the fans
scream as the Dukes play Richmond in
their football game Saturday.
This is
what several JMU students did because
they could not get a ticket in time.
Long lines, swiping cards at the
entrance gates and limited tickets are
justafewofthegrievances thatarefrustrating students this football season.
“Because of the response to the rst
three games this year, the lines we saw
and the dissatisfaction people had
when they didn’t know in advance,
we’re going to do advance pick up for
the last two games as well,” director of
ticket operations Mike Carpenter said.
Also new this season is the addition
of swiping JACards at the entrance.
is caused problems for some students who were not aware of the
requirement.
“It caused commotion because kids
who didn’t qualify didn’t get in, and
they were used to getting in before,”
Carpenter said.
“But if they didn’t meet
the requirements of credit hours for
undergraduates or had fees that needed to be paid, we didn’t allow them in,
which frustrated them.
ey thought
this was so di erent when, really, we
were just checking to see if you are
actually a student or not.
”
On Oct.
the ticket o ce sent out
an e-mail stating tickets for any home
game will need to be picked up two
weeks in advance.
Before, only the
Family Weekend and Homecoming
games required students to pick up
tickets ahead of time.
For many, this is both a blessing and
a curse.
“It really just feels like one more
thing I have to schedule now,” junior
Elizabeth Price said.
“Especially since
they sell so quickly, I would have to skip
a class just to get in line.
”
Butotherstudentsfeeldon’tinconvenienced by this change in the system.
“I feel more secure knowing I have
a chance to de nitely get my ticket, as
opposed to waiting in line at the gates
hoping I am not the , st student,”
junior Mandy Seifert said.
Carpenter hopes that once the stadium expansions (from , seats to
, ) are nished by the fall of , it
will alleviate students’ concerns.
“Initially we know we are going to
increase [student] seating to at least
, , so almost double what we have
now, and then it will be a demand
thing from there on out,” he said.
“If
we are consistently getting , tickets
sold and need more, I’m sure we will
increase our quantity.
”
Another gripe students have voiced
is the issue of students not allowed
in once other students have left the
game.
“Herds of kids would leave, and they
wouldn’t let a single person in,” Price
said.
“I know people who had to sneak
in at halftime.
”
Carpenter explains that if students
would stay in their seats instead of
roaming around the stadium or taking
up more space by standing this would
not be such an issue.
“We already don’t allow re-entry,”
he said.
“Students can’t go and come
back in.
At the rst game we weren’t
letting more students in, because there
was no space to put them.
Even though
there were kids leaving, we couldn’t let
any more in ’till the crowd was under
control.
”
night.
“I would like you
to understand how
emotionally di cult
it is for our panel
to sit together
as one panel,
than it is
for us to sit
before you,”
said Sarah
Lewis, a
licensed
clinical s ocial
worker who
sat on the panel.
According
to the Virginia
Department of
Health, one in
four women
and one in
five men in
Virginia have
experienced
“He would ask me about sexual
things related to animals,” she said,
saying that these comments lead up
to him touching her and beyond.
“He
knew my parents were Mennonite and
that I didn’t know anything about sex.
He himself was Mennonite.
”
Children that know nothing about
sex or their anatomy are often easier
prey for sexual o enders, according to
Lewis.
“Show me a kid that knows nothing about sex and you’ve showed me
my next victim,” Lewis later said, quoting a perpetrator with whom she once
worked.
For years, Wanda drank alochol to
cope with her inner turmoil and she
“fell apart” when a co-worker later sexually harassed her.
“I became seriously suicidal and
emotionally a wreck,” she said.
But now, after therapy and talking
on the panel, she has come closer to a
1 in 3 girls
and 1 in 7 boys
will besexually
assulted
at some point in
their childhood.
up to 50% of children who were
sexually abused are under 18
in as many as 93% of child
sexual cases, the child knows
the person that commits the
abuse 88% of sexual abuse cases
are never reported to the
authorities20 to 50 % of adults who have
sexually
abused children were
in fact themselves
sexually abused
29% of women
& 14 % of men
have been sexually
asssulted
47% of sexual
abuse is
caused by family
or extended
family
in as many as 93% of child
sexual cases, the child knows
the person that commits the
abuse.
up to 50% of children who were
sexually abused are under 18
DAVID CASTERLINE/The Breeze
graphic by KELLY LONERGAN
JMU fell short on Saturday, losing 21-17 against Richmond on Family
Weekend.
The Dukes have now lost consecutive conference games.
Richmond tailback Justin Forte kickstarted the Spiders’ gamewinning drive with a 31-yard run.
Game story inside on page 9.
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continent.
OPINION
Rachel Dozier promotes a new
outlook on feminism.
LIFE
“I’m not listening when you say
‘Goodbye’ “ Check out the review
of Third Eye Blind’s Convo show.
SPORTS
Madison’s men’s soccer team
fought back from a 3-1 deficit
to tie defending conference
champions and nationally ranked
George Mason in overtime.
Inside
NewTicket
Regulations
InEffect
FluSpreads
OnCampus
SpeakingOutAgainstAbuse
DAVID CASTERLINE/The Breeze
By KATIE KING
contributing writer
Bob McDonnell, Republican candidate for Virginia governor, was all
about the Dukes Saturday.
During a
tailgate on Godwin Field, McDonnell, who said he has made two
previous stops at JMU since his campaign kicked o last March, spent the
morning cheering on the Dukes, talking with the press and meeting with
his supporters.
Republican Bill Bolling, who is
up for re-election as Virginia’s lieutenant governor, was also at the
tailgate for members of the Republican party.
McDonnell’s visits to JMU are
part of his e ort to reach out to the
youth of Virginia.
With the help of
Kailin, his second-eldest daughter and youth outreach coordinator,
McDonnell said he has visited “virtually every college in Virginia.
” He
said this gives him the opportunity to
speak personally with students about
his ideas and goals.
College Republicans members
sophomore Kyle Smith and junior
Grant Kidwell both believe that
McDonnell’s and Bolling’s visits to
JMU were successful in increasing
support among student voters.
“I feel like the Republican ticket understands the important role
that college students played in the
last presidential election, and they
intend to capitalize on that,“ Smith
said.
“Hopefully their focus on college students and issues that impact
students will show in the polls come
November.
”
As the father of both a recent VCU
graduate and JMU senior, Rachel
McDonnell, the GOP candidate said
see MCDONNELL, page 4
By CAITLIN HAWES
contributing writer
As the ve panel members took their
seats behind the long table they shared,
the audience shifted in their seats.
Two
speakers were therapists, two were sexual abuse victims and one was a former
sexual o ender.
eir nametags bore
only their rst names and no indication of their status, which was revealed
only gradually.
e panel was part of Stop It Now!’s
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Dialogue, hosted in ISAT on Wednesday
night.
“I would like you
to understand how
emotionally di cult
it is for our panel
to sit together
as one panel,
than it is
for us to sit
before you,”
said Sarah
Lewis, a
licensed
clinical s ocial
worker who
sat on the panel.
According
to the Virginia
Department of
Health, one in
four women
and one in
five men in
Virginia have
experienced
sexual abuse before age .
“All of us will be affected by this
issue.
It can happen within our very
own families and within our very own
lives,” said Trent Wagler, the prevention educator for e Collins Center,
an organization which aids victims of
sexual abuse.
WANDA: Thriving Despite All
Wanda, the first victim to speak,
grew up in a Mennonite farm in Pennsylvania.
Her perpetrator, Alvin, was a
year-old man hired to help the family on the farm.
She was at the time.
“He would ask me about sexual
things related to animals,” she said,
saying that these comments lead up
to him touching her and beyond.
“He
knew my parents were Mennonite and
that I didn’t know anything about sex.
He himself was Mennonite.
”
Children that know nothing about
sex or their anatomy are often easier
prey for sexual o enders, according to
Lewis.
“Show me a kid that knows nothing about sex and you’ve showed me
my next victim,” Lewis later said, quoting a perpetrator with whom she once
worked.
For years, Wanda drank alochol to
cope with her inner turmoil and she
“fell apart” when a co-worker later sexually harassed her.
“I became seriously suicidal and
emotionally a wreck,” she said.
But now, after therapy and talking
on the panel, she has come closer to a
see ABUSE, page 4
By KATIE HIBSON
contributing writer
Senior Emily Dean started feeling
achy on Friday.
On Sunday she had a
fever, and by Monday she was diagnosed with swine u.
“I was really sick for eight solid days,”
Dean said.
“I couldn’t get out of bed all
day.
I was so exhausted.
”
More than students have visited
the University Health Center with ulike symptoms this semester, and the
staff has fielded hundreds of phone
calls from students with milder flu
symptoms, according to Health Center
Medical Dr.
Stephen Rodgers.
“I think there was a peak in our visits
and phone calls about two weeks ago,”
Rodgers said.
“But it appears that it is
declining.
”
UHC does not test patients for the
speci c strain of H N per the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention’s
(CDC) recommendation, according to
Rodgers.
Instead, the Health Center
bases its diagnosis on common symptoms associated with swine u such as
a high fever, respiratory problems and
muscle aches.
Sophomore Matthew Pepper had
originally planned to visit Rockingham Memorial Hospital (RMH) when
his fever hit .
degrees but instead
went to UHC.
Dr.
Anne Schuchat of the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention said in
a news conference Friday that a pandemic of the H N in uenza “is here.
.
.
in virtually the entire country.
” Swine
u has spread to states now, up from
states last week, said Schuchat, who
is director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory
Diseases.
Last week, more pediatric deaths
were reported, bringing the total to
deaths since April.
In the last three u
seasons,thenumberofpediatricdeaths
has ranged from to a year.
Now
we have , “and it is only October,”
Schuchat said.
Only percent to
percent of the deaths were in children
whowerehealthybeforecontractingthe
virus.
e rest su ered from underlying
conditions, such as asthma, chronic
lung disease and, especially, muscular
dystrophy and cystic brosis.
However, those at JMU with H N
agree that it is not as serious as national media projected.
“It wasn’t a huge issue,” junior Jackie
Knight said.
“I had to miss a few classes [last week] and stay away from other
people, but it was just like having a really bad cold.
”
Knight and Dean said their professors worked with them during their
absences to help them make up any
missed work.
eir absences were also
excused.
Rodgers stressed that people should
not panic.
“The seriousness worldwide has
been mild,” he said.
“It is a concern for
JMU students because many students
will not feel well and miss class.
”
e Associated Press contributed to
this article.
Bob McDonnell, the Republican candidate for Virginia governor, tailgates with his family, including his daughter, Rachel, a
JMU senior, students and other members of the Republican party before the football game against Richmond on Saturday.
DukesGetBit
By COLLEEN HAYES
contributing writer
HARRISONBURG, Va.
— Step outside, listen to the band play and the fans
scream as the Dukes play Richmond in
their football game Saturday.
This is
what several JMU students did because
they could not get a ticket in time.
Long lines, swiping cards at the
entrance gates and limited tickets are
justafewofthegrievances thatarefrustrating students this football season.
“Because of the response to the rst
three games this year, the lines we saw
and the dissatisfaction people had
when they didn’t know in advance,
we’re going to do advance pick up for
the last two games as well,” director of
ticket operations Mike Carpenter said.
Also new this season is the addition
of swiping JACards at the entrance.
is caused problems for some students who were not aware of the
requirement.
“It caused commotion because kids
who didn’t qualify didn’t get in, and
they were used to getting in before,”
Carpenter said.
“But if they didn’t meet
the requirements of credit hours for
undergraduates or had fees that needed to be paid, we didn’t allow them in,
which frustrated them.
ey thought
this was so di erent when, really, we
were just checking to see if you are
actually a student or not.
”
On Oct.
the ticket o ce sent out
an e-mail stating tickets for any home
game will need to be picked up two
weeks in advance.
Before, only the
Family Weekend and Homecoming
games required students to pick up
tickets ahead of time.
For many, this is both a blessing and
a curse.
“It really just feels like one more
thing I have to schedule now,” junior
Elizabeth Price said.
“Especially since
they sell so quickly, I would have to skip
a class just to get in line.
”
Butotherstudentsfeeldon’tinconvenienced by this change in the system.
“I feel more secure knowing I have
a chance to de nitely get my ticket, as
opposed to waiting in line at the gates
hoping I am not the , st student,”
junior Mandy Seifert said.
Carpenter hopes that once the stadium expansions (from , seats to
, ) are nished by the fall of , it
will alleviate students’ concerns.
“Initially we know we are going to
increase [student] seating to at least
, , so almost double what we have
now, and then it will be a demand
thing from there on out,” he said.
“If
we are consistently getting , tickets
sold and need more, I’m sure we will
increase our quantity.
”
Another gripe students have voiced
is the issue of students not allowed
in once other students have left the
game.
“Herds of kids would leave, and they
wouldn’t let a single person in,” Price
said.
“I know people who had to sneak
in at halftime.
”
Carpenter explains that if students
would stay in their seats instead of
roaming around the stadium or taking
up more space by standing this would
not be such an issue.
“We already don’t allow re-entry,”
he said.
“Students can’t go and come
back in.
At the rst game we weren’t
letting more students in, because there
was no space to put them.
Even though
there were kids leaving, we couldn’t let
any more in ’till the crowd was under
control.
”
night.
“I would like you
to understand how
emotionally di cult
it is for our panel
to sit together
as one panel,
than it is
for us to sit
before you,”
said Sarah
Lewis, a
licensed
clinical s ocial
worker who
sat on the panel.
According
to the Virginia
Department of
Health, one in
four women
and one in
five men in
Virginia have
experienced
“He would ask me about sexual
things related to animals,” she said,
saying that these comments lead up
to him touching her and beyond.
“He
knew my parents were Mennonite and
that I didn’t know anything about sex.
He himself was Mennonite.
”
Children that know nothing about
sex or their anatomy are often easier
prey for sexual o enders, according to
Lewis.
“Show me a kid that knows nothing about sex and you’ve showed me
my next victim,” Lewis later said, quoting a perpetrator with whom she once
worked.
For years, Wanda drank alochol to
cope with her inner turmoil and she
“fell apart” when a co-worker later sexually harassed her.
“I became seriously suicidal and
emotionally a wreck,” she said.
But now, after therapy and talking
on the panel, she has come closer to a
1 in 3 girls
and 1 in 7 boys
will besexually
assulted
at some point in
their childhood.
up to 50% of children who were
sexually abused are under 18
in as many as 93% of child
sexual cases, the child knows
the person that commits the
abuse 88% of sexual abuse cases
are never reported to the
authorities20 to 50 % of adults who have
sexually
abused children were
in fact themselves
sexually abused
29% of women
& 14 % of men
have been sexually
asssulted
47% of sexual
abuse is
caused by family
or extended
family
in as many as 93% of child
sexual cases, the child knows
the person that commits the
abuse.
up to 50% of children who were
sexually abused are under 18
DAVID CASTERLINE/The Breeze
graphic by KELLY LONERGAN
JMU fell short on Saturday, losing 21-17 against Richmond on Family
Weekend.
The Dukes have now lost consecutive conference games.
Richmond tailback Justin Forte kickstarted the Spiders’ gamewinning drive with a 31-yard run.
Game story inside on page 9.
StudentsWelcome
GOPCandidatepage 3
page 5
page 9
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By KATIE THISDELL The Breeze The -year-old Harrisonburg resident who died Monday was a Virginia Tech student. Robert...
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By KATIE THISDELL
The Breeze
The -year-old Harrisonburg
resident who died Monday was a
Virginia Tech student.
Robert Allan Stieber died
after falling from the roof of the
six-story parking deck at Rockingham...
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By KATIE THISDELL
The Breeze
The -year-old Harrisonburg
resident who died Monday was a
Virginia Tech student.
Robert Allan Stieber died
after falling from the roof of the
six-story parking deck at Rockingham Memorial Hospital.
His
funeral mass is today at a.
m.
at
the Blessed Sacrament Catholic
Church in Harrisonburg.
A wake
for him was held Wednesday at the
Kyger Funeral Home.
Stieber’s death is still under
investigation until the medical
examiner releases a report, according to Harrisonburg Police.
Police responded to a call from
an RMH employee Monday at :
a.
m.
saying someone had fallen
from the parking deck.
Debra ompson, spokeswoman
for RMH, said two employees were
immediately on the scene, and
Stieber then died in the emergency
room.
She could not say if he fell or
jumped from the deck.
Stieber was majoring in mining and minerals engineering at
Virginia Tech.
In March, he was a
member of the university’s team
that won rst place at a national
competition for engineering.
Stieber graduated in from
Harrisonburg High School.
“On some level, we’ve all been
a ected a little bit,” ompson said.
“It’s such a sad time at any time,
especially a -year-old, especially
on our property.
”
She said the hospital has grief
counseling services available for
employees who have been a ected,
but the services are also available
at all times for the general public at
the Center for Behavioral Health.
“It’s been tough,” Thompson
said, “but we have help available.
”
e medical sta ’s parking deck
is o Ott Street, by the main hospital building and near JMU’s Health
Center.
Earlier Monday, at : a.
m.
,
police said a missing person’s
report was led for Stieber.
It said
Stieber had previous suicidal
tendencies.
On Sept.
, Stieber was charged
for recklessly handling a rearm.
Police arrested him at the Wolfe
Street parking deck around :
a.
m.
His charges included discharging a rearm in public, carrying a
concealed weapon while intoxicated, discharging a weapon in or
across a street, and public swearing
and intoxication.
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JMU’s chapter of Invisible Children hosts a
viewing of ‘The Rescue,’ a film documenting
Uganda’s child soldiers.
OPINION
American youth’s ignorance to news is
increasing, Andy Fram claims.
LIFE
ChicagolosttheOlympicbid—nowMichael
LarrickfumesandpresentstheAmericanCase.
SPORTS
JMU hopes to recover from the Hofstra
game and regroup to beat Richmond this
weekend.
Inside
Virginia Tech Student Dies After
6-Story Fall off RMH Parking Deck
By FORD PRIOR
The Breeze
“I woke up to her screams, ‘ ere’s a man in
here.
ere’s a man in here.
”
Senior Katie McNelly is describing the night of
Sept.
.
In the next room of her rst oor Sunchase apartment, a man was standing over the bed
of her roommate.
en“hecreptout.
Hetiptoedout,”saidMcNelly, an Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies major.
Police informed her that, not only was the incident
“nothing new,” it was the ninth of its kind since the
semester began.
“[ e o cer] said it was, probably without a
doubt, a sexual predator that broke in.
He just
comes in, stares at the girls and watches them
sleep.
at was what happened when the roommate woke up, and he was almost arm’s length
from her bed.
” e gure wore a hooded sweatshirt and stood about -foot- .
Across town on Mason Street, Julie Tcshinkel
tells a similar story: While the housemates were
away last Friday night, a friend noticed a man
removing the screen from a rst oor window.
When confronted, the man ed.
“Police said the same guy has been trying to
see INTRUDER, page 5
Students
Awaketo
Intruder
manda Zimmerman interned in the
summer of for the National Multiple Sclerosis
Society.
Exactly a year later, in July , she was
diagnosed with MS.
“When I rst found out I was like ‘What the
hell, how did this happen to me?’ ” Zimmerman said.
Before Zimmerman’s internship, she was
unaware of the details of the disease.
“I didn’t even know what MS was,” Zimmerman said.
“I went in blind, and a year
later I got it.
I never thought about a kid
getting MS.
When I think about MS, I
think about to year olds.
”
However, most cases of MS are diagnosed between the
ages of and according to the National MS Society, and
women are at least two to three times more likely to get it
than men.
MSisachronicdiseasewhichattacksone’scentralnervous
system.
She’s had symptoms of extreme fatigue, the feeling of
being on pins and needles, numbness, trouble walking and
in some cases distorted vision.
“You see all the colors right now? Like how the grass is really green or that girl has a bright red shirt on?” Zimmerman
asked.
“When I was having extreme symptoms, everything
seemed really tinted because the nerves in my eyes weren’t
working properly.
“
Zimmerman’s symptoms became so severe that toward
the beginning of her junior year she considered leaving JMU.
However, with the help and support of her friends she pulled
through.
“ is place has given me so much energy,” Zimmerman
see MS, page 14
By RACHELDOZIER| The Breeze
NinthIncident isYear
MissingPersonsReportSaid22-Year-OldHarrisonburgResidentHadPreviousSuicidalTendencies
By ANNA YOUNG
The Breeze
The bear is finally coming out of hibernation.
It’s hungry for spring, ready to feed
and thrive.
So says Third Eye Blind about their fourth
album, “ Ursa
Major,” which
they are currently
showcasing on a
national tour until
mid-November.
Tonight EB is
making a stop on
its college campus-studded tour
to play at JMU’s
Convocation Center.
Doors open at p.
m.
and EB hit the stage at p.
m.
Tickets can
still be purchased at upb.
jmu.
edu until
p.
m.
today or purchased at the door tonight
for with a JACard.
More ticket information is available on the University Program
Board’s Web site.
“Ursa Major” is leaps and bounds from
the likes of “Jumper” and “Semi-Charmed
Life,” yet still sweetly reminiscent of the
styles that solidified Third Eye Blind as a
pop culture cornerstone of the ’ s.
The
band’s first album in five years, “Ursa
Major” is more politically charged than
previous albums, yet lyrically and musically, still easily absorbed.
Though tonight’s show isn’t sold out
(yet), the Convo Center is sure to pack
much energy from fans who will possibly
be screaming “wish you would step back
from that ledge, my friend!” and fans who
will be lip syncing all the lyrics from “Ursa
Major” and every other best-selling album
EB has made.
Bringonthe‘BigBear’:
irdEyeBlindPlaysTonight
I- Wreck
KillsLocalTraffic was backed up on Interstate and
throughout Harrisonburg Wednesday morning
following a car accident on I- that killed a local
woman.
Maria Combs, a -year-old Harrisonburg resident, died in the crash after her vehicle was hit by
a tractor trailer at mile marker .
.
At : a.
m.
,
Combs hit a deer while driving in the right southbound lane, according to state police.
e tractor trailer swerved, trying to pass as
Combs was stopping her car in the right lane, but
hit her pickup truck, police said.
She was killed instantly.
e tractor trailer driver went to Rockingham Memorial Hospital with
minor injuries.
Both southbound lanes of I- were closed after
the accident, and police redirected tra c to Route
.
Police said the left lane reopened at noon, and
the right lane reopened at p.
m.
— staff reports
THIRD EYE BLIND
Convocation Center
8 P.
M.
TONIGHT
Ticket Prices:
$26 w/ JACard until 2 p.
m.
$31 @ door w/ JACard
$36 @ door for
non students
“It’s such a sad
time at any time,
especially a 22-yearold, especially on
our property.
”
— DEBRA THOMPSON,
Rockingham Memorial Hospital
spokeswoman
S Lot to Close
The parking lot adjacent
to Anthony-Seeger Hall
will close starting 5 p.
m.
Friday and all day
Saturday.
Senior Amanda Zimmerman is a Zeta Tau Alpha sister and student
ambassador.
She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in July 2008.
courtesy of AMANDA ZIMMERMAN
One senior’s battle with
a chronic disease is met
with support from family
and friends
Pedaling
Forward
page 3
page 7
page 11
page 15
bubble, bubble
SEE OUR PROFILE OF JMU’S ‘BUBBLE GIRL’ ON PAGE 11
JMU’s own
STRONG
MANOne senior travels to New York to
compete in competition, PAGE 15
courtesy of UPB [Less]
The Breeze
The -year-old Harrisonburg
resident who died Monday was a
Virginia Tech student.
Robert Allan Stieber died
after falling from the roof of the
six-story parking deck at Rockingham Memorial Hospital.
His
funeral mass is today at a.
m.
at
the Blessed Sacrament Catholic
Church in Harrisonburg.
A wake
for him was held Wednesday at the
Kyger Funeral Home.
Stieber’s death is still under
investigation until the medical
examiner releases a report, according to Harrisonburg Police.
Police responded to a call from
an RMH employee Monday at :
a.
m.
saying someone had fallen
from the parking deck.
Debra ompson, spokeswoman
for RMH, said two employees were
immediately on the scene, and
Stieber then died in the emergency
room.
She could not say if he fell or
jumped from the deck.
Stieber was majoring in mining and minerals engineering at
Virginia Tech.
In March, he was a
member of the university’s team
that won rst place at a national
competition for engineering.
Stieber graduated in from
Harrisonburg High School.
“On some level, we’ve all been
a ected a little bit,” ompson said.
“It’s such a sad time at any time,
especially a -year-old, especially
on our property.
”
She said the hospital has grief
counseling services available for
employees who have been a ected,
but the services are also available
at all times for the general public at
the Center for Behavioral Health.
“It’s been tough,” Thompson
said, “but we have help available.
”
e medical sta ’s parking deck
is o Ott Street, by the main hospital building and near JMU’s Health
Center.
Earlier Monday, at : a.
m.
,
police said a missing person’s
report was led for Stieber.
It said
Stieber had previous suicidal
tendencies.
On Sept.
, Stieber was charged
for recklessly handling a rearm.
Police arrested him at the Wolfe
Street parking deck around :
a.
m.
His charges included discharging a rearm in public, carrying a
concealed weapon while intoxicated, discharging a weapon in or
across a street, and public swearing
and intoxication.
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NEWS
JMU’s chapter of Invisible Children hosts a
viewing of ‘The Rescue,’ a film documenting
Uganda’s child soldiers.
OPINION
American youth’s ignorance to news is
increasing, Andy Fram claims.
LIFE
ChicagolosttheOlympicbid—nowMichael
LarrickfumesandpresentstheAmericanCase.
SPORTS
JMU hopes to recover from the Hofstra
game and regroup to beat Richmond this
weekend.
Inside
Virginia Tech Student Dies After
6-Story Fall off RMH Parking Deck
By FORD PRIOR
The Breeze
“I woke up to her screams, ‘ ere’s a man in
here.
ere’s a man in here.
”
Senior Katie McNelly is describing the night of
Sept.
.
In the next room of her rst oor Sunchase apartment, a man was standing over the bed
of her roommate.
en“hecreptout.
Hetiptoedout,”saidMcNelly, an Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies major.
Police informed her that, not only was the incident
“nothing new,” it was the ninth of its kind since the
semester began.
“[ e o cer] said it was, probably without a
doubt, a sexual predator that broke in.
He just
comes in, stares at the girls and watches them
sleep.
at was what happened when the roommate woke up, and he was almost arm’s length
from her bed.
” e gure wore a hooded sweatshirt and stood about -foot- .
Across town on Mason Street, Julie Tcshinkel
tells a similar story: While the housemates were
away last Friday night, a friend noticed a man
removing the screen from a rst oor window.
When confronted, the man ed.
“Police said the same guy has been trying to
see INTRUDER, page 5
Students
Awaketo
Intruder
manda Zimmerman interned in the
summer of for the National Multiple Sclerosis
Society.
Exactly a year later, in July , she was
diagnosed with MS.
“When I rst found out I was like ‘What the
hell, how did this happen to me?’ ” Zimmerman said.
Before Zimmerman’s internship, she was
unaware of the details of the disease.
“I didn’t even know what MS was,” Zimmerman said.
“I went in blind, and a year
later I got it.
I never thought about a kid
getting MS.
When I think about MS, I
think about to year olds.
”
However, most cases of MS are diagnosed between the
ages of and according to the National MS Society, and
women are at least two to three times more likely to get it
than men.
MSisachronicdiseasewhichattacksone’scentralnervous
system.
She’s had symptoms of extreme fatigue, the feeling of
being on pins and needles, numbness, trouble walking and
in some cases distorted vision.
“You see all the colors right now? Like how the grass is really green or that girl has a bright red shirt on?” Zimmerman
asked.
“When I was having extreme symptoms, everything
seemed really tinted because the nerves in my eyes weren’t
working properly.
“
Zimmerman’s symptoms became so severe that toward
the beginning of her junior year she considered leaving JMU.
However, with the help and support of her friends she pulled
through.
“ is place has given me so much energy,” Zimmerman
see MS, page 14
By RACHELDOZIER| The Breeze
NinthIncident isYear
MissingPersonsReportSaid22-Year-OldHarrisonburgResidentHadPreviousSuicidalTendencies
By ANNA YOUNG
The Breeze
The bear is finally coming out of hibernation.
It’s hungry for spring, ready to feed
and thrive.
So says Third Eye Blind about their fourth
album, “ Ursa
Major,” which
they are currently
showcasing on a
national tour until
mid-November.
Tonight EB is
making a stop on
its college campus-studded tour
to play at JMU’s
Convocation Center.
Doors open at p.
m.
and EB hit the stage at p.
m.
Tickets can
still be purchased at upb.
jmu.
edu until
p.
m.
today or purchased at the door tonight
for with a JACard.
More ticket information is available on the University Program
Board’s Web site.
“Ursa Major” is leaps and bounds from
the likes of “Jumper” and “Semi-Charmed
Life,” yet still sweetly reminiscent of the
styles that solidified Third Eye Blind as a
pop culture cornerstone of the ’ s.
The
band’s first album in five years, “Ursa
Major” is more politically charged than
previous albums, yet lyrically and musically, still easily absorbed.
Though tonight’s show isn’t sold out
(yet), the Convo Center is sure to pack
much energy from fans who will possibly
be screaming “wish you would step back
from that ledge, my friend!” and fans who
will be lip syncing all the lyrics from “Ursa
Major” and every other best-selling album
EB has made.
Bringonthe‘BigBear’:
irdEyeBlindPlaysTonight
I- Wreck
KillsLocalTraffic was backed up on Interstate and
throughout Harrisonburg Wednesday morning
following a car accident on I- that killed a local
woman.
Maria Combs, a -year-old Harrisonburg resident, died in the crash after her vehicle was hit by
a tractor trailer at mile marker .
.
At : a.
m.
,
Combs hit a deer while driving in the right southbound lane, according to state police.
e tractor trailer swerved, trying to pass as
Combs was stopping her car in the right lane, but
hit her pickup truck, police said.
She was killed instantly.
e tractor trailer driver went to Rockingham Memorial Hospital with
minor injuries.
Both southbound lanes of I- were closed after
the accident, and police redirected tra c to Route
.
Police said the left lane reopened at noon, and
the right lane reopened at p.
m.
— staff reports
THIRD EYE BLIND
Convocation Center
8 P.
M.
TONIGHT
Ticket Prices:
$26 w/ JACard until 2 p.
m.
$31 @ door w/ JACard
$36 @ door for
non students
“It’s such a sad
time at any time,
especially a 22-yearold, especially on
our property.
”
— DEBRA THOMPSON,
Rockingham Memorial Hospital
spokeswoman
S Lot to Close
The parking lot adjacent
to Anthony-Seeger Hall
will close starting 5 p.
m.
Friday and all day
Saturday.
Senior Amanda Zimmerman is a Zeta Tau Alpha sister and student
ambassador.
She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in July 2008.
courtesy of AMANDA ZIMMERMAN
One senior’s battle with
a chronic disease is met
with support from family
and friends
Pedaling
Forward
page 3
page 7
page 11
page 15
bubble, bubble
SEE OUR PROFILE OF JMU’S ‘BUBBLE GIRL’ ON PAGE 11
JMU’s own
STRONG
MANOne senior travels to New York to
compete in competition, PAGE 15
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BREAKING NEWS
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VIDEOS
AND MORE
VISIT THE WEB FOR
NEWS
Just because it’s been published,
doesn’t mean everyone approves.
Find
out what Carrier Library has done with
classic books that were banned.
OPINION
SGA must clarify its goals, John Scott
argues.
LIFE
Alpha Epsilon Pi’s Little Black Dress
event at Artful Dodger bridges campus
and community to raise money.
SPORTS
JMU’s conference and national title
hopes are in jeopardy after falling 2417 at Hofstra.
page 3
Inside
Breeze News Tips
Between 200 and 250 students don’t return to JMU between the
Fall and Spring semesters on average — many for financial reasons.
That’s why one new organization is
playingfor
‘KEEPS’By RAJ CHANDER
contributing writer
Nicolle Boren, a marketing graduate, knows
what it’s like to struggle with paying for college tuition.
After working three minimum wage jobs as a student,
she’s still struggling in Harrisonburg.
“I am here working two jobs just to make ends
meet,” Boren said.
Yet Boren wants to help current students who are
facing similar problems and has already donated to
the university’s new program, Madison for Keeps.
“ is is an opportunity for us to invest in making
sure that our country’s next generation is educated
enough to meet the demands of the future,” Boren
said.
JMU wants to keep its students in school with this
fundraising initiative.
e University Business O ce
and the University Advancement O ce began raising
money Sept.
to o set the declining nancial aid
budget and help students whose requests have been
denied.
see KEEPS, page 4
HELP IN HARD TIMES
“If every alumnus donated just a
small amount of money, we would
have more than enough to cover
the needs for every student that
wants aid but cannot receive it.
”
— Andy Perrine
JMU associate vice president of
Communications and Marketing
have you heard?You can get the latest installment of Overheard @ JMU on page 9
Rio to Host
2016 Olympics
Behind the Glass
SEE PAGE 9 for a look at the busy nights of Ms.
D, the “Face of Dog Pound”
Chicago was the rst city knocked out in the
nal rounds of voting in Denmark despite lobbying by President Barack Obama and the rst
lady.
Tokyo was eliminated next despite its pitch
of “green games” from its new Prime Minister,
Yukio Hatoyama.
Madrid won a round, but the
Spanish capital could not convince the committee to hold the Games in Europe on consecutive
occasions (London hosts the games).
Ms.
D (Darla Fernandez) spends her nights in the Dog Pound booth.
Her workspace boasts a collection of memorabilia from her past
three years at JMU.
Students who have been affected by Ms.
D’s kind spirit make her birthday cards and cakes and are regular
visitors.
FirstGamesinSouthAmerica
JAKE THIEWES/The Breeze
(Above) The logo used
for Rio de Janeiro’s
campaign for host
will be used until the
International Olympic
Committee debuts the
official 2016 logo.
THE FOUR ‘CANDIDATE CITIES’ BEFORE THE FINAL VOTE
Of seven “applicant cities,” only the four above made the final round of
voting.
Rio de Janeiro finally won with 66 votes from the International
Olympic Committee.
Madrid was the runner-up, with 32 votes.
The University Business Office and the University Advancement Office have established Madison for Keeps, a new
program to help students who need financial aid.
CHICAGO
MADRID
TOKYO
RIO DE JANEIRO
DrugTestsBeforeExams?
LosAngelesTimes
Students taking exams could one day
find themselves in the same position
as professional athletes — submitting
to a drug test before the big event.
e
practiceofstudentstakingcognition-enhancingdrugs,suchasmethylphenidate,
has become so common that those who
don’t “dope” are at an unfair advantage,
arguesapsychologistinthenewissueof
Journal of Medical Ethics.
Chemically enhanced academic performanceischeating,saysVinceCakic,of
thedepartmentofpsychologyattheUniversityofSydneyinAustralia.
Already,he
notes, medications meant to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are
usedbycollegestudentstoimprovetheir
test scores.
And many other cognitionenhancing medications, which he calls
nootropics, are being developed for diseases.
While the ADHD drugs improve
performanceonlymodestly,futuredrugs
for dementia may make a big di erence
in an individual’s capacity to study and
score well on tests.
“ e possibility of purchasing ‘smartness in a bottle’ is likely to have broad
appeal to students,” he wrote.
Rules prohibiting the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sports fail
unless athletes are subjected to routine
urine tests, Cakic says.
e same strategy would likely be necessary to prevent
cheating in academics.
According to his
paper, the use of methylphenidate and
amphetamines is as high as percent
on some U.
S.
college campuses.
The
most academically competitive schools
are thought to have the highest usage
rates.
e more students who take the
drugs, the more noncheating students
are put at a disadvantage and thus may
feel compelled to cheat, too.
Cheatingisnottheonlyworryforcollege administrators.
e rampant use of
nootropics may lead to serious health
problems in some students who take
them without a doctor’s approval.
“ ere is a greater need to examine
the safety and e cacy of putative nootropics in the healthy rather than only in
clinical populations,” he wrote.
“However, the widespread non-medical use
of methylphenidate suggests that students will use nootropics regardless of
their safety and legality.
”
, Dinnersin
Less ananHourWesleyFoundationFeedsFamiliesinEcuador
By RYAN F.
PLATT
contributing writer
More than , meals were made
for needy children and families in
Ecuador at JMU’s Wesley Foundation
ursday.
Thanks to a combined effort of
approximately members and graduates of the campus Methodist group
and the Stop Hunger Now initiative,
the , hearty meal packages of rice,
beans and chicken are part of a national
e ort to stamp out hunger domestically
and globally.
The process was incredibly organized, according to Lacy Kegly, a
JMU graduate, and the food was packaged easily and e ciently in less than
one hour.
Every thousand packets that were
put together were met with a resounding gong that echoed throughout the
hall, vocalizing the group’s success.
“I was surprised with the turnout,”
junior Rebecca Coleman said.
“And the
hairnets were pretty awesome.
”
e food given to volunteers to create
see DINNERS, page 4
Volunteers put together rice, beans and
chicken substitute in boxes during the
assembly process.
PAUL JONES/The Breeze
For more information on
how to get involved or
to make a donation, visit
stophungernow.
org.
page 7 page 9 page 11
photo illustration by NABEELA HASAN/The Breeze
copyrighted,
Brazilian Olympic Committee [Less]
com
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86, ISSUE 13
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BREAKING NEWS
DEVELOPING STORIES
WEB EXCLUSIVES
PHOTO SLIDESHOWS
VIDEOS
AND MORE
VISIT THE WEB FOR
NEWS
Just because it’s been published,
doesn’t mean everyone approves.
Find
out what Carrier Library has done with
classic books that were banned.
OPINION
SGA must clarify its goals, John Scott
argues.
LIFE
Alpha Epsilon Pi’s Little Black Dress
event at Artful Dodger bridges campus
and community to raise money.
SPORTS
JMU’s conference and national title
hopes are in jeopardy after falling 2417 at Hofstra.
page 3
Inside
Breeze News Tips
Between 200 and 250 students don’t return to JMU between the
Fall and Spring semesters on average — many for financial reasons.
That’s why one new organization is
playingfor
‘KEEPS’By RAJ CHANDER
contributing writer
Nicolle Boren, a marketing graduate, knows
what it’s like to struggle with paying for college tuition.
After working three minimum wage jobs as a student,
she’s still struggling in Harrisonburg.
“I am here working two jobs just to make ends
meet,” Boren said.
Yet Boren wants to help current students who are
facing similar problems and has already donated to
the university’s new program, Madison for Keeps.
“ is is an opportunity for us to invest in making
sure that our country’s next generation is educated
enough to meet the demands of the future,” Boren
said.
JMU wants to keep its students in school with this
fundraising initiative.
e University Business O ce
and the University Advancement O ce began raising
money Sept.
to o set the declining nancial aid
budget and help students whose requests have been
denied.
see KEEPS, page 4
HELP IN HARD TIMES
“If every alumnus donated just a
small amount of money, we would
have more than enough to cover
the needs for every student that
wants aid but cannot receive it.
”
— Andy Perrine
JMU associate vice president of
Communications and Marketing
have you heard?You can get the latest installment of Overheard @ JMU on page 9
Rio to Host
2016 Olympics
Behind the Glass
SEE PAGE 9 for a look at the busy nights of Ms.
D, the “Face of Dog Pound”
Chicago was the rst city knocked out in the
nal rounds of voting in Denmark despite lobbying by President Barack Obama and the rst
lady.
Tokyo was eliminated next despite its pitch
of “green games” from its new Prime Minister,
Yukio Hatoyama.
Madrid won a round, but the
Spanish capital could not convince the committee to hold the Games in Europe on consecutive
occasions (London hosts the games).
Ms.
D (Darla Fernandez) spends her nights in the Dog Pound booth.
Her workspace boasts a collection of memorabilia from her past
three years at JMU.
Students who have been affected by Ms.
D’s kind spirit make her birthday cards and cakes and are regular
visitors.
FirstGamesinSouthAmerica
JAKE THIEWES/The Breeze
(Above) The logo used
for Rio de Janeiro’s
campaign for host
will be used until the
International Olympic
Committee debuts the
official 2016 logo.
THE FOUR ‘CANDIDATE CITIES’ BEFORE THE FINAL VOTE
Of seven “applicant cities,” only the four above made the final round of
voting.
Rio de Janeiro finally won with 66 votes from the International
Olympic Committee.
Madrid was the runner-up, with 32 votes.
The University Business Office and the University Advancement Office have established Madison for Keeps, a new
program to help students who need financial aid.
CHICAGO
MADRID
TOKYO
RIO DE JANEIRO
DrugTestsBeforeExams?
LosAngelesTimes
Students taking exams could one day
find themselves in the same position
as professional athletes — submitting
to a drug test before the big event.
e
practiceofstudentstakingcognition-enhancingdrugs,suchasmethylphenidate,
has become so common that those who
don’t “dope” are at an unfair advantage,
arguesapsychologistinthenewissueof
Journal of Medical Ethics.
Chemically enhanced academic performanceischeating,saysVinceCakic,of
thedepartmentofpsychologyattheUniversityofSydneyinAustralia.
Already,he
notes, medications meant to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are
usedbycollegestudentstoimprovetheir
test scores.
And many other cognitionenhancing medications, which he calls
nootropics, are being developed for diseases.
While the ADHD drugs improve
performanceonlymodestly,futuredrugs
for dementia may make a big di erence
in an individual’s capacity to study and
score well on tests.
“ e possibility of purchasing ‘smartness in a bottle’ is likely to have broad
appeal to students,” he wrote.
Rules prohibiting the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sports fail
unless athletes are subjected to routine
urine tests, Cakic says.
e same strategy would likely be necessary to prevent
cheating in academics.
According to his
paper, the use of methylphenidate and
amphetamines is as high as percent
on some U.
S.
college campuses.
The
most academically competitive schools
are thought to have the highest usage
rates.
e more students who take the
drugs, the more noncheating students
are put at a disadvantage and thus may
feel compelled to cheat, too.
Cheatingisnottheonlyworryforcollege administrators.
e rampant use of
nootropics may lead to serious health
problems in some students who take
them without a doctor’s approval.
“ ere is a greater need to examine
the safety and e cacy of putative nootropics in the healthy rather than only in
clinical populations,” he wrote.
“However, the widespread non-medical use
of methylphenidate suggests that students will use nootropics regardless of
their safety and legality.
”
, Dinnersin
Less ananHourWesleyFoundationFeedsFamiliesinEcuador
By RYAN F.
PLATT
contributing writer
More than , meals were made
for needy children and families in
Ecuador at JMU’s Wesley Foundation
ursday.
Thanks to a combined effort of
approximately members and graduates of the campus Methodist group
and the Stop Hunger Now initiative,
the , hearty meal packages of rice,
beans and chicken are part of a national
e ort to stamp out hunger domestically
and globally.
The process was incredibly organized, according to Lacy Kegly, a
JMU graduate, and the food was packaged easily and e ciently in less than
one hour.
Every thousand packets that were
put together were met with a resounding gong that echoed throughout the
hall, vocalizing the group’s success.
“I was surprised with the turnout,”
junior Rebecca Coleman said.
“And the
hairnets were pretty awesome.
”
e food given to volunteers to create
see DINNERS, page 4
Volunteers put together rice, beans and
chicken substitute in boxes during the
assembly process.
PAUL JONES/The Breeze
For more information on
how to get involved or
to make a donation, visit
stophungernow.
org.
page 7 page 9 page 11
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Catch a ride on the new “Convo
Express” shuttle from the Convocation
Center across campus.
OPINION
The Federal ban on flavored cigarettes
exempts menthols for a reason —
Whitten Maher explains why.
SPORTS
JMU football heads to Long Island to
face a struggling Hofstra program
that was shut out 56-0 last year in
Harrisonburg.
LIFE
The power of knowing where water will
be in a poor agricultural town is a gift.
“The Diviners” is the first main stage
production this season.
page 3
Inside
NEW SHUTTLE ON CAMPUS: see page 3 for more information
FlavoredCigarette
BanTakesEffect
By NATALIE STRICKLAND
contributing writer
Attention smokers with a fondness for avor:
yourDjarumBlackscigarettes,vanillacigarettesand
packsofSplashareontheout.
OnSept.
,theFood
and Drug Administration issued a ban on avored
cigarettes, including clove, candy or fruit avors.
e FDA is also considering a ban on menthol cigarettes and other avored tobacco products.
e FDA said avored cigarettes are a “gateway” for children and teenagers to become regular
smokers, and almost percent of adult smokers
start smoking as teenagers.
e average age of a
new smoker is .
Studies cited by the FDA have shown that
-year-old smokers are three times as likely to use
avored cigarettes as smokers over the age of .
Mike Lynn, an employee at Harrisonburg’s B&B
Tobacco, said he’s noticed this trend.
see SMOKES, page 4photo illustration by ROBERT BOAG/The Breeze
WheelSlipClosesRoads
DERAILMENT
By KATIE THISDELL
The Breeze
A few inches can make all the di erence for
the wheel of a train.
About : a.
m.
Tuesday, an empty grain car
derailed on the Harrison Street train crossing
behind Bu alo Wild Wings.
Since the locomotive of the train stuck out into South Main
Street, the right south-bound lane was closed
between Warsaw and Maplehurst Avenues.
“It was what we consider a minor incident
— a couple of wheels slipped o the rail —
although it obviously was more than a minor
inconvenience for the motorists,” said Robin
Chapman, public relations manager for Norfolk Southern Corporation.
JMU sent a text through its emergency communication system at : a.
m.
warning of the
partial close of Bluestone Drive and Maplehurst Avenue.
Just before noon, the lane was reopened.
No
one was injured during the incident.
As senior Erica Ponder walked along Harrison Street shortly after the incident, she was
surprised to see a train in the way and police
lights ashing on South Main Street.
“Oh my gosh, how am I going to get to
class?” she said.
While she normally drives along South
Main Street, she turned onto Harrison Street
instead.
“A lot of people park in that parking deck,”
Ponder said, “and we don’t need anymore
see RAILS, page 4
An empty grain car derailed Tuesday morning, causing backups for drivers on their way to campus.
By AMANDA HERMAN
contributing writer
Judicial A airs said it will not review
its policies until spring unless JMU
members want to discuss the change,
especially to the policy regarding lewd
and indecent expression.
Judicial A airs changed policy J intheStudentHandbookthisyearto
limitlewd,indecentorobsceneconduct
orexpressioninanyo -campusarea,no
matter how close to campus an incident
occurs,comparedtojustoncampuslast
year.
The change was “designed to deal
with behavior,” according to Director of
Judicial A airs Josh Bacon.
Though Bacon denies the policy
will be broadened beyond punishing
students for indecent exposure and urination in public, the policy is wide and
law advisers say it technically could be
used to punish student speech online.
“If what you’re trying to regulate is
conduct, why regulate expression?”
saidSamanthaHarris,directorofspeech
coderesearchattheFoundationforIndividual Rights in Education (FIRE).
Harris rst exposed the policy on her
blog on FIRE’s Web site.
“The policy caught our attention
because of its scope,” Harris said.
JudicialA airsreviewsitspoliciesannually in the spring.
A committee of sta ,
faculty and student judicial coordinators
make the policies that cover the entire
university.
Bacon said these policies are
reviewed by this group, and not by other
administration at JMU.
In response to recent scrutiny of the
policy, Bacon said he had contacted
legalcounselwhotoldhim“don’tcharge
anyone with speech or online speech”
which, Bacon responded, “We won’t.
”
Though Bacon said he would not
charge for such incidents, if he left the
o ce, another person would have the
means to adhere to the policy as it is
stated.
However, Bacon said that Judicial
A airs acts as one.
“ e rest of the sta knows, and the
rest of the legal counsel knows, so when
it happened, we would be able to look at
itasapartofourreviewthisyear,”Bacon
said.
Judicial Affairs neither polices nor
see POLICY, page 4
Policyto‘DealWithBehavior,’NotSpeech,JudicialSays
“It was what we consider
a minor incident.
.
.
although it obviously
was more than a minor
inconvenience.
.
.
”
— ROBIN CHAPMAN
Norfolk Southern Corporation
public relations manager
B-Dubs JMU Quad
site of train
de-railing
W
arsaw
Deck
Harrison
Street
S.
M
ain
Street
Bluestone
Dr.
By KATIE HIBSON
contributing writer
As JMU senior Sarah Smith sat in
a courtroom Monday afternoon, surrounded by family and friends, she
awaited the court to hand down the verdict for her brother’s killer.
Xavier Pinckney, , was convicted
of capital murder Monday in the fatal
December shootings of JMU student
James “Jim” Smith and his mother, Jean
Smith, in their Dale City home.
Since Pinckney was a juvenile at the
time of the shooting, his sentence carries could be life in prison without the
possibilityofparole,insteadofthedeath
penalty.
Smith, a sophomore and member of
Exit ,waskilledinhisDaleCityhome
intheearlyhoursofDec.
,afteranExit
trip.
WhileJim’ssister,Sarah,describedthe
verdict as a relief, she still describes the
situation as a very complicated issue.
Pinckney lived near the Smith family and went to the same schools as the
Smith family.
“It’s hard because we know his family,” Sarah Smith said.
“They’re great
and innocent people.
But at the end of
the day, it’s nice to have peace and closure for what happened with my mom
and brother.
”
Sarah believes there was no better
alternative than the punishment that
was handed down to Pinckney.
“My mom and Jim were people of
great compassion, love, with a huge
respect for life,” Sarah said.
“We didn’t
want to see any more violence come out
of this.
Jim wasn’t in favor of the death
penalty, and he wouldn’t have wanted
more violence.
I don’t wish anything
horrible on Pinckney.
”
Pinckney, who believed the house
was empty, climbed inside through a
window and stole two guns from the
master bedroom before he saw Smith.
Pinckneytoldpolicethatheaccidentally
kicked something, woke Smith and shot
him “out of reaction,” according to e
Washington Post.
Jean Smith arrived home as Pinckney was eeing the house, but when he
returned to retrieve a jacket he found
Jean on the phone calling for help.
Fearing she would recognize him, Pinckney
shot her.
A younger brother, Connor
Smith, later discovered the bodies when
he came home from high school.
see SMITH, page 4
LifeinPrison
forKillerof
JMUStudent
andMother
Jim Smith was murdered during Winter
Break last year after touring with Exit 245.
KATIE THISDELL/The Breeze
PATRICK HAGGERTY/contributing photographer
KELLY LONERGAN/The Breeze
page7 page 9 page 11
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BREAKING NEWS
DEVELOPING STORIES
WEB EXCLUSIVES
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VIDEOS
AND MORE
Visit breezejmu.
org For
NEWS
Catch a ride on the new “Convo
Express” shuttle from the Convocation
Center across campus.
OPINION
The Federal ban on flavored cigarettes
exempts menthols for a reason —
Whitten Maher explains why.
SPORTS
JMU football heads to Long Island to
face a struggling Hofstra program
that was shut out 56-0 last year in
Harrisonburg.
LIFE
The power of knowing where water will
be in a poor agricultural town is a gift.
“The Diviners” is the first main stage
production this season.
page 3
Inside
NEW SHUTTLE ON CAMPUS: see page 3 for more information
FlavoredCigarette
BanTakesEffect
By NATALIE STRICKLAND
contributing writer
Attention smokers with a fondness for avor:
yourDjarumBlackscigarettes,vanillacigarettesand
packsofSplashareontheout.
OnSept.
,theFood
and Drug Administration issued a ban on avored
cigarettes, including clove, candy or fruit avors.
e FDA is also considering a ban on menthol cigarettes and other avored tobacco products.
e FDA said avored cigarettes are a “gateway” for children and teenagers to become regular
smokers, and almost percent of adult smokers
start smoking as teenagers.
e average age of a
new smoker is .
Studies cited by the FDA have shown that
-year-old smokers are three times as likely to use
avored cigarettes as smokers over the age of .
Mike Lynn, an employee at Harrisonburg’s B&B
Tobacco, said he’s noticed this trend.
see SMOKES, page 4photo illustration by ROBERT BOAG/The Breeze
WheelSlipClosesRoads
DERAILMENT
By KATIE THISDELL
The Breeze
A few inches can make all the di erence for
the wheel of a train.
About : a.
m.
Tuesday, an empty grain car
derailed on the Harrison Street train crossing
behind Bu alo Wild Wings.
Since the locomotive of the train stuck out into South Main
Street, the right south-bound lane was closed
between Warsaw and Maplehurst Avenues.
“It was what we consider a minor incident
— a couple of wheels slipped o the rail —
although it obviously was more than a minor
inconvenience for the motorists,” said Robin
Chapman, public relations manager for Norfolk Southern Corporation.
JMU sent a text through its emergency communication system at : a.
m.
warning of the
partial close of Bluestone Drive and Maplehurst Avenue.
Just before noon, the lane was reopened.
No
one was injured during the incident.
As senior Erica Ponder walked along Harrison Street shortly after the incident, she was
surprised to see a train in the way and police
lights ashing on South Main Street.
“Oh my gosh, how am I going to get to
class?” she said.
While she normally drives along South
Main Street, she turned onto Harrison Street
instead.
“A lot of people park in that parking deck,”
Ponder said, “and we don’t need anymore
see RAILS, page 4
An empty grain car derailed Tuesday morning, causing backups for drivers on their way to campus.
By AMANDA HERMAN
contributing writer
Judicial A airs said it will not review
its policies until spring unless JMU
members want to discuss the change,
especially to the policy regarding lewd
and indecent expression.
Judicial A airs changed policy J intheStudentHandbookthisyearto
limitlewd,indecentorobsceneconduct
orexpressioninanyo -campusarea,no
matter how close to campus an incident
occurs,comparedtojustoncampuslast
year.
The change was “designed to deal
with behavior,” according to Director of
Judicial A airs Josh Bacon.
Though Bacon denies the policy
will be broadened beyond punishing
students for indecent exposure and urination in public, the policy is wide and
law advisers say it technically could be
used to punish student speech online.
“If what you’re trying to regulate is
conduct, why regulate expression?”
saidSamanthaHarris,directorofspeech
coderesearchattheFoundationforIndividual Rights in Education (FIRE).
Harris rst exposed the policy on her
blog on FIRE’s Web site.
“The policy caught our attention
because of its scope,” Harris said.
JudicialA airsreviewsitspoliciesannually in the spring.
A committee of sta ,
faculty and student judicial coordinators
make the policies that cover the entire
university.
Bacon said these policies are
reviewed by this group, and not by other
administration at JMU.
In response to recent scrutiny of the
policy, Bacon said he had contacted
legalcounselwhotoldhim“don’tcharge
anyone with speech or online speech”
which, Bacon responded, “We won’t.
”
Though Bacon said he would not
charge for such incidents, if he left the
o ce, another person would have the
means to adhere to the policy as it is
stated.
However, Bacon said that Judicial
A airs acts as one.
“ e rest of the sta knows, and the
rest of the legal counsel knows, so when
it happened, we would be able to look at
itasapartofourreviewthisyear,”Bacon
said.
Judicial Affairs neither polices nor
see POLICY, page 4
Policyto‘DealWithBehavior,’NotSpeech,JudicialSays
“It was what we consider
a minor incident.
.
.
although it obviously
was more than a minor
inconvenience.
.
.
”
— ROBIN CHAPMAN
Norfolk Southern Corporation
public relations manager
B-Dubs JMU Quad
site of train
de-railing
W
arsaw
Deck
Harrison
Street
S.
M
ain
Street
Bluestone
Dr.
By KATIE HIBSON
contributing writer
As JMU senior Sarah Smith sat in
a courtroom Monday afternoon, surrounded by family and friends, she
awaited the court to hand down the verdict for her brother’s killer.
Xavier Pinckney, , was convicted
of capital murder Monday in the fatal
December shootings of JMU student
James “Jim” Smith and his mother, Jean
Smith, in their Dale City home.
Since Pinckney was a juvenile at the
time of the shooting, his sentence carries could be life in prison without the
possibilityofparole,insteadofthedeath
penalty.
Smith, a sophomore and member of
Exit ,waskilledinhisDaleCityhome
intheearlyhoursofDec.
,afteranExit
trip.
WhileJim’ssister,Sarah,describedthe
verdict as a relief, she still describes the
situation as a very complicated issue.
Pinckney lived near the Smith family and went to the same schools as the
Smith family.
“It’s hard because we know his family,” Sarah Smith said.
“They’re great
and innocent people.
But at the end of
the day, it’s nice to have peace and closure for what happened with my mom
and brother.
”
Sarah believes there was no better
alternative than the punishment that
was handed down to Pinckney.
“My mom and Jim were people of
great compassion, love, with a huge
respect for life,” Sarah said.
“We didn’t
want to see any more violence come out
of this.
Jim wasn’t in favor of the death
penalty, and he wouldn’t have wanted
more violence.
I don’t wish anything
horrible on Pinckney.
”
Pinckney, who believed the house
was empty, climbed inside through a
window and stole two guns from the
master bedroom before he saw Smith.
Pinckneytoldpolicethatheaccidentally
kicked something, woke Smith and shot
him “out of reaction,” according to e
Washington Post.
Jean Smith arrived home as Pinckney was eeing the house, but when he
returned to retrieve a jacket he found
Jean on the phone calling for help.
Fearing she would recognize him, Pinckney
shot her.
A younger brother, Connor
Smith, later discovered the bodies when
he came home from high school.
see SMITH, page 4
LifeinPrison
forKillerof
JMUStudent
andMother
Jim Smith was murdered during Winter
Break last year after touring with Exit 245.
KATIE THISDELL/The Breeze
PATRICK HAGGERTY/contributing photographer
KELLY LONERGAN/The Breeze
page7 page 9 page 11
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A VICTIM [Less]
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(TOP) The alpacas and their owner visit Harrisonburg s International Festival every
year, where attendees can buy items made from their fur.
(BELOW) Other vendors
from across the area come to showcase and sell cultural items.
By AAron Koepper and KAtie thisdell
contributing writer and The Breeze
The rain hardly let up on Saturday, but the people kept coming
out anyway.
Undeterred by the cold, organizers and vendors turned out for
Harrisonburg’s 12th annual International Festival in Hillandale
Park, celebrating the area s diverse culture.
For an event usually serving 6,000 to 6,500 people, co-chair Vaunda Brown considered 2,000 attendees acceptable, considering the
weather.
“It’s that aspect of our human spirit that wants to have an adventure,” said Brown, about people wanting to learn more about the
world that’s represented in the area.
“I thought it would be mostly Hispanic,” added Kelly Zaleski, a
sophomore.
“I didn’t realize how diverse Harrisonburg was.
”
Zaleski thinks this may be due to the fact that many students are
stuck in the university bubble world, the world that revolves around
work, school and spending time with friends.
It is commonly assumed that Harrisonburg is a predominantly
white community.
However a growing number of Iraqis, Russians,
Pakistanis and Ethiopians add to the Latino population and the
otherwise “white” area.
Students are unaware of just how many different nationalities are present in Harrisonburg, much less within
the university itself.
This year Ashby Hall, the international dorm
see festivAl, page 4
By scott einsmAnn
and KAtie thisdell
The Breeze
The in-state tuition for this year
is $3,622 per semester, a 4 percent
increase from last year.
And according
to JMU, tuition may continue to rise.
The revised budget for 2009-2010 was
approved by James Madison University’s Board of Visitors, who also heard
presentations on the university’s new
programs and future ideas Friday.
Charlie King, senior vice president
for Administration and Finance, presented the proposed budget to the
17-member board that addressed the
15 percent decrease in state funding.
Gov.
Tim Kaine’s budget cuts for Virginia resulted in $9.
8 million less in state
funds for JMU.
King said the state has reported this
is the first time in Virginia’s history
there has been two consecutive years
of decreased state revenue.
The revised budget reduces the
impact of the loss of funds by using federal stimulus to minimize the loss to 8
percent, or $5.
3 million.
“These economic times that JMU
is operating in and all of us are in are
challenging,” said Meredith Gunter,
the rector of the Board.
“Everyone has
questions, and no one has a crystal ball
about where [the economy] is going or
when we will recover.
"
JMU has three main ways to cover
these cuts: spreading cuts across all
divisions, applying reserve money,
which was set aside last year, and using
money that came from interest income
not budgeted previously.
The change will affect the education
and general funds, which in the original budget had $210.
6 million in funds
for the year, and now has $205.
3 million
after the 8 percent reduction.
The change in funding will not
affect funding for auxiliary enterprises (includes athletics), financial aid,
see Budget, page 4
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The JMU Board of Visitors meets four times each year to make decisions for the university.
President Linwood Rose shared
JMU s accomplishments, new programs and goals before the Board unanimously approved the changes to the budget.
IfStateFundingContinuestoDecrease,JMUCouldContinueRaisingTuitiontoMakeUpfortheDifference
Former
Football
Player’s
PleaDeal
Rejected
NewJudgetobe
AppointedtotheCase
BUdgET REVIsIOns FOR 2009-10 (in millions)
Original Revised Change
Education/general $210.
6 $205.
3 -$5.
3
Auxiliary Enterprises $138.
4 $138.
4 0
Financial Aid $9.
2 $9.
2 0
sponsored Programs $36.
9 $36.
9 0
Equipment Trust Fund $2.
1 $2.
1 0
operating Budget 397.
2 391.
9 -5.
3
source: Charlie King,
senior vice president for administration and finance
BREAkdOWn OF BUdgET REdUCTIOns
University Wide Reductions $3,296,245
Reduction of Operating Contingency $1,491,948
Application of Interest Yield $500,000
total reduction $5,288,193
A former JMU football player’s
plea agreement for alleged involvement in armed robberies was
rejected Friday.
Bradley Phillip Davis, 21, would
have gone to jail for about one year
for six charges related to armed robberies from 2006.
However, Rockingham County Circuit Court Judge T.
J.
Wilson
rejected the attempt for a plea deal
that was based on Davis’ cooperation Friday.
Davis, a linebacker for JMU in
2005, pleaded guilty for his role in
the robberies of the Valley Exxon
and TJ Maxx in June 2006 and September 2006.
Davis’ charges include two counts
each of robbery, conspiring to commit robbery and wearing a mask
in a public place.
The plea bargain
would have been for one year and
seven months.
Following a request from Davis’
attorney, John Holloran, Wilson will
leave the case.
Now another judge
will be appointed to the case, and
prosecutors are expected to present
the plea agreement again.
Michael B.
Brown, another former football player involved with
the robberies, was sentenced to 31
years after entering a guilty plea
Aug.
28.
— staff reports
By lAurA lorenz
contributing writer
Unattended items on the JMU campus are not uncommon.
Bags, cell
phones and keys save seats in dining
halls; bikes lay against buildings while
owners drop something off inside.
It
has been assumed that such behavior
is evidence of a school where personal
property is respected.
Three students’ recent experiences
show otherwise.
Danielle Weaver, a senior hospitality
and tourism management major,
dropped her bag off in a classroom
cubby as per lab policy like the rest of
her catering class.
“It’s pretty unattended where we
leave our stuff, but at the same time,
it’s in the basement of ISAT,” Weaver
said.
“No one expected a stranger to be
there.
”
While she did not notice anything
missing at that moment, the next morning she realized that her wristlets were
missing along with her house and car
keys.
Weaver immediately went to the JMU
police to file a claim for the missing
items, and then she realized that other
classmates also had items taken.
Weaver, Molly Reed, and another
classmate, Ashley Melone, all seniors,
were victims of the alleged theft in a
catering class on Sept.
7.
By the next
day, the culprit had already charged
thousands of dollars to their credit card
accounts.
However, JMU Police and Public
Safety quickly started looking for the
suspect.
“They’ve been really awesome, and
they’re really on top of things,” Reed
said.
“They’ve called me at least 10
times to keep me updated on what
they’re doing.
We even saw video footage of the person charging our cards in
Home Depot.
”
This video footage, along with other
see theft, page 4
JMUPoliceTrackFraudSuspectwithVideo,inOneTheftCase
nEWs
With the Nov.
3 election
approaching, student voter
registration is low.
Registration
ends Oct.
5.
LIFE
Spaghettifest was more than
just must music.
Downpours and
smoke filled tents and set the
scene for the event.
OPInIOn
Policy change to JMU handbook
may not be what it seems.
John
Scott says students may have
been falsely alarmed.
sPORTs
Sophomore Corwin Acker s 65yard touchdown gave JMU the
advantage over Liberty 24-10.
Inside
n white: 87%
n African-American: 6.
7%
n latino/hispanic: 13.
8%
n Asian: 3.
7%
n American indian/
Alaska native: 0.
2%
n hawaiian/pacific
islander: no data available
n foreign Born persons:
9.
2% (as of 2005)
n language other than
english spoken at home:
13.
9% (As of 2000)
HarrisonburgU.
s.
CEnsUs dATA
TheftsonCampusHaveNotIncreased,ButSomeStudentsSayTheyWillNotLeaveItemsUnattendedAfterLosingThousandsofDollars
FestivalCelebrates
LocalDiversity
“They’ve called me at least 10 times to keep me updated
on what they’re doing.
We even saw video footage.
.
.
”
— molly reed
senior
“these economic
times that Jmu
is operating in
and all of us are
in are challenging.
everyone has
questions, and no
one has a crystal
ball about where
[the economy] is
going or when we
will recover.
”
— meredith gunter,
Rector of the Board
photos by pAtricK hAggerty/contributing photographer
page 5
page 7
page 3
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year, where attendees can buy items made from their fur.
(BELOW) Other vendors
from across the area come to showcase and sell cultural items.
By AAron Koepper and KAtie thisdell
contributing writer and The Breeze
The rain hardly let up on Saturday, but the people kept coming
out anyway.
Undeterred by the cold, organizers and vendors turned out for
Harrisonburg’s 12th annual International Festival in Hillandale
Park, celebrating the area s diverse culture.
For an event usually serving 6,000 to 6,500 people, co-chair Vaunda Brown considered 2,000 attendees acceptable, considering the
weather.
“It’s that aspect of our human spirit that wants to have an adventure,” said Brown, about people wanting to learn more about the
world that’s represented in the area.
“I thought it would be mostly Hispanic,” added Kelly Zaleski, a
sophomore.
“I didn’t realize how diverse Harrisonburg was.
”
Zaleski thinks this may be due to the fact that many students are
stuck in the university bubble world, the world that revolves around
work, school and spending time with friends.
It is commonly assumed that Harrisonburg is a predominantly
white community.
However a growing number of Iraqis, Russians,
Pakistanis and Ethiopians add to the Latino population and the
otherwise “white” area.
Students are unaware of just how many different nationalities are present in Harrisonburg, much less within
the university itself.
This year Ashby Hall, the international dorm
see festivAl, page 4
By scott einsmAnn
and KAtie thisdell
The Breeze
The in-state tuition for this year
is $3,622 per semester, a 4 percent
increase from last year.
And according
to JMU, tuition may continue to rise.
The revised budget for 2009-2010 was
approved by James Madison University’s Board of Visitors, who also heard
presentations on the university’s new
programs and future ideas Friday.
Charlie King, senior vice president
for Administration and Finance, presented the proposed budget to the
17-member board that addressed the
15 percent decrease in state funding.
Gov.
Tim Kaine’s budget cuts for Virginia resulted in $9.
8 million less in state
funds for JMU.
King said the state has reported this
is the first time in Virginia’s history
there has been two consecutive years
of decreased state revenue.
The revised budget reduces the
impact of the loss of funds by using federal stimulus to minimize the loss to 8
percent, or $5.
3 million.
“These economic times that JMU
is operating in and all of us are in are
challenging,” said Meredith Gunter,
the rector of the Board.
“Everyone has
questions, and no one has a crystal ball
about where [the economy] is going or
when we will recover.
"
JMU has three main ways to cover
these cuts: spreading cuts across all
divisions, applying reserve money,
which was set aside last year, and using
money that came from interest income
not budgeted previously.
The change will affect the education
and general funds, which in the original budget had $210.
6 million in funds
for the year, and now has $205.
3 million
after the 8 percent reduction.
The change in funding will not
affect funding for auxiliary enterprises (includes athletics), financial aid,
see Budget, page 4
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The JMU Board of Visitors meets four times each year to make decisions for the university.
President Linwood Rose shared
JMU s accomplishments, new programs and goals before the Board unanimously approved the changes to the budget.
IfStateFundingContinuestoDecrease,JMUCouldContinueRaisingTuitiontoMakeUpfortheDifference
Former
Football
Player’s
PleaDeal
Rejected
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AppointedtotheCase
BUdgET REVIsIOns FOR 2009-10 (in millions)
Original Revised Change
Education/general $210.
6 $205.
3 -$5.
3
Auxiliary Enterprises $138.
4 $138.
4 0
Financial Aid $9.
2 $9.
2 0
sponsored Programs $36.
9 $36.
9 0
Equipment Trust Fund $2.
1 $2.
1 0
operating Budget 397.
2 391.
9 -5.
3
source: Charlie King,
senior vice president for administration and finance
BREAkdOWn OF BUdgET REdUCTIOns
University Wide Reductions $3,296,245
Reduction of Operating Contingency $1,491,948
Application of Interest Yield $500,000
total reduction $5,288,193
A former JMU football player’s
plea agreement for alleged involvement in armed robberies was
rejected Friday.
Bradley Phillip Davis, 21, would
have gone to jail for about one year
for six charges related to armed robberies from 2006.
However, Rockingham County Circuit Court Judge T.
J.
Wilson
rejected the attempt for a plea deal
that was based on Davis’ cooperation Friday.
Davis, a linebacker for JMU in
2005, pleaded guilty for his role in
the robberies of the Valley Exxon
and TJ Maxx in June 2006 and September 2006.
Davis’ charges include two counts
each of robbery, conspiring to commit robbery and wearing a mask
in a public place.
The plea bargain
would have been for one year and
seven months.
Following a request from Davis’
attorney, John Holloran, Wilson will
leave the case.
Now another judge
will be appointed to the case, and
prosecutors are expected to present
the plea agreement again.
Michael B.
Brown, another former football player involved with
the robberies, was sentenced to 31
years after entering a guilty plea
Aug.
28.
— staff reports
By lAurA lorenz
contributing writer
Unattended items on the JMU campus are not uncommon.
Bags, cell
phones and keys save seats in dining
halls; bikes lay against buildings while
owners drop something off inside.
It
has been assumed that such behavior
is evidence of a school where personal
property is respected.
Three students’ recent experiences
show otherwise.
Danielle Weaver, a senior hospitality
and tourism management major,
dropped her bag off in a classroom
cubby as per lab policy like the rest of
her catering class.
“It’s pretty unattended where we
leave our stuff, but at the same time,
it’s in the basement of ISAT,” Weaver
said.
“No one expected a stranger to be
there.
”
While she did not notice anything
missing at that moment, the next morning she realized that her wristlets were
missing along with her house and car
keys.
Weaver immediately went to the JMU
police to file a claim for the missing
items, and then she realized that other
classmates also had items taken.
Weaver, Molly Reed, and another
classmate, Ashley Melone, all seniors,
were victims of the alleged theft in a
catering class on Sept.
7.
By the next
day, the culprit had already charged
thousands of dollars to their credit card
accounts.
However, JMU Police and Public
Safety quickly started looking for the
suspect.
“They’ve been really awesome, and
they’re really on top of things,” Reed
said.
“They’ve called me at least 10
times to keep me updated on what
they’re doing.
We even saw video footage of the person charging our cards in
Home Depot.
”
This video footage, along with other
see theft, page 4
JMUPoliceTrackFraudSuspectwithVideo,inOneTheftCase
nEWs
With the Nov.
3 election
approaching, student voter
registration is low.
Registration
ends Oct.
5.
LIFE
Spaghettifest was more than
just must music.
Downpours and
smoke filled tents and set the
scene for the event.
OPInIOn
Policy change to JMU handbook
may not be what it seems.
John
Scott says students may have
been falsely alarmed.
sPORTs
Sophomore Corwin Acker s 65yard touchdown gave JMU the
advantage over Liberty 24-10.
Inside
n white: 87%
n African-American: 6.
7%
n latino/hispanic: 13.
8%
n Asian: 3.
7%
n American indian/
Alaska native: 0.
2%
n hawaiian/pacific
islander: no data available
n foreign Born persons:
9.
2% (as of 2005)
n language other than
english spoken at home:
13.
9% (As of 2000)
HarrisonburgU.
s.
CEnsUs dATA
TheftsonCampusHaveNotIncreased,ButSomeStudentsSayTheyWillNotLeaveItemsUnattendedAfterLosingThousandsofDollars
FestivalCelebrates
LocalDiversity
“They’ve called me at least 10 times to keep me updated
on what they’re doing.
We even saw video footage.
.
.
”
— molly reed
senior
“these economic
times that Jmu
is operating in
and all of us are
in are challenging.
everyone has
questions, and no
one has a crystal
ball about where
[the economy] is
going or when we
will recover.
”
— meredith gunter,
Rector of the Board
photos by pAtricK hAggerty/contributing photographer
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page 7
page 3
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86, ISSUE 10
Thursday, September 24, 2009
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By AMANDA CASKEY and
AMANDA HERMAN
The Breeze and contributing writer
Five little words can make all the
di erence when it comes to students’
right to free speech.
Before the start of this semester,
James Madison University made
a change to section J - in the
Student Handbook.
Previously, the
policy read, “No student shall engage
inlewd,indecentorobsceneconduct
or expression on university property
or in university-owned or operated
buildings.
”
The new policy, however, states
that these actions and expressions
cannot take place “regardless of
proximity to campus.
”
Essentially, this minor change
limits free speech anywhere from
the streets to the Internet.
Obscene
behavior is extreme or deeply o ensive material based on current
community standards of decency,
according to Merriam-Webster’s
Dictionary of Law.
The Foundation for Individual
Rights in Education (FIRE) exposed
this change in policy in a blog on
Sept.
.
e mission of FIRE is “to
defend and sustain individual rights
at America’s colleges and universities,” according to its Web site.
Samantha Harris, FIRE’s director
of speech code research, wrote the
post.
Harris wants students to know
their rights and what they can do
when they are violated.
“The policy change means that
JMU has made a conscious decision
to prohibit more student speech,”
Harris said, “which presumably
means that they are also willing to
punish more student speech.
”
For example, authorities could
now punish JMU students for comments they post to Facebook or other
social networking sites.
Harris said
while it would be di cult for JMU to
police all online activities, the policy
gives JMU the ability to punish such
expression if brought to an administrator’s attention.
see POLICY, page 4
the exact changes from last yearPARSING THE POLICY
2008-2009 WORDING
“No student shall engage in
lewd, indecent or obscene
conduct or expression on
university property or
in university-owned or
operated buildings.
”
2009-2010 WORDING
“No student shall engage in lewd,
indecent or obscene conduct or
expression, regardless of
proximity to campus.
”
UNCONSTITUTIONALIT Y ON CAMPUS
JMURevisesFreeSpeechPolicy
NEWS
Stealing signs results in felony
charges for three JMU students.
OPINION
Whitten Maher writes about
the true value of Twitter: a look
behind the scenes.
LIFE
There’s a star in our midst.
Freshman Trinity Edralin has
recorded with Jason Mraz’s
producer.
SPORTS
JMU and Liberty football teams
are on a collision course this
weekend.
Inside
“As a former president, I can say just
about anything I want to now!”
While former U.
S.
President Jimmy
Carter’s humorous response was directed
toward last week’s comments about Rep.
Joe Wilson, it also indicated how frank he
is in his message of peace.
In a highly anticipated event Monday
night at the Convocation Center, Jimmy
Carter and his wife Rosalynn accepted the
second Mahatma Gandhi Global Nonviolence Award from JMU’s Gandhi Center for
Global Nonviolence.
As Jimmy Carter rose to a thunderous
applausefromstudents,administratorsand
admirers, he focused his speech, “ e Path
to Peace in the Middle East,” not only on the
wrongdoings of Palestinian extremists, but
on the aggression of the Israeli state.
“I am familiar with the harsh rhetoric
and acts of violence in the Middle East,
perpetrated by both sides against innocent
civilians,” Carter said.
“I have reiterated my
strong condemnation of such acts against
innocent people, at any time or for any
goal.
”
CharlieHamm,ajuniorgeographymajor,
believes Carter had an inspiring message.
“I was surprised that it was so upbeat,
which is very good,” Hamm said.
“He made
me believe we could work through con icts
and persevere.
”
eGandhiAwardisgiveneverytwoyears
to “individuals with global recognition”
see PEACE, page 6
In a little house just on the edge of campus, the future is changing.
at’s what Sushil Mittal, the director
of the Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global
Nonviolence, hopes.
e work done in the
Cardinal House, on Cardinal Drive past the
baseball lot, is attracting increasing recognition from around the world.
“What I want to see now is how the future
— your generation, not me or your parents
— is a ected,” Mittal said.
After he handed out the second Mahatma Gandhi Award Monday to former U.
S.
President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn, Mittal said it’s about what those who
attended will do with the speaker’s inspiration now.
“How many youngsters did he a ect?”
Mittal said.
“ ere were thousands at the
Convocation Center, and if they each talk to
friends, there are thousands more.
”
at’s the core idea for the Gandhi Center.
Mittal, a tenured Hinduism professor,
began it in as the only foundation for
higher education outside of India named in
honor of Gandhi.
Mittal has two children,
and he wants them to “secure their futures”
so they can live in a more peaceful world.
Despite the small sta of just Mittal, a
secretary and interns, there are plenty of
international ideas owing into the center.
It is guided by a local board of trustees
and an advisory board, which includes
Nobel laureates, former heads of state,
see CENTER, page 6
CarterFillsConvoCenter,
LecturesonPeaceEfforts
FromaLittleHouse,
aGlobalAward
peaceTALK
Inthepastyear,JMUhasplayedhosttobothfutureandformerpresidents.
Asmessengersofpeace,JimmyandRosalynnCarterarrivedMonday
toreceivehonorsfromtheMahatmaGandhiCenterforGlobalNonviolence.
RestrictionsNowApplyEverywhere,AdvocacyGroupCriticizesChange
By MATT SUTHERLAND | The Breeze By KATIE THISDELL | The Breeze
TODAY’S WEATHER
82°/61°
for this week’s weather, see page 3
max humidity: 73%
chance of precipitation: 50%
EXTENDED COVERAGE: Abehind-the-sceneslookateventsecurity PAGE 3 | Photoessayofspeechandperformances PAGE 6 | Opinionwritersweighin PAGE 9
By MEGAN WILLIAMS
The Breeze
Three JMU students have been
charged with felonious assault and
malicious wounding by mob after allegedly attacking another individual in a
parking lot on Port Republic Road last
Friday.
Junior Markus W.
Hunter, , from
High Point, N.
C.
, Connor J.
Long, ,
and Colin Fitz-Maurice, , from Newtown, Penn.
, were arrested shortly after
leaving the Liberty gas station around
p.
m.
, Sept.
, following the alleged
assault.
The victim, whose name was not
released because of police policy, allegedly got into a verbal altercation with
the three men, which led to a ght said
Mary-Hope Gangwer, public information o cer for the Harrisonburg Police
Department.
e victim did not know
the three men but was able to provide
thepolicewiththeirdescriptions,which
led to their arrest.
e victim was taken
to Rockingham Memorial Hospital with
non-life threatening injuries.
see FIGHT, page 4
AllegedFight
Leadsto ree
FelonyCharges
photo by ROBERT BOAG/The Breeze [Less]
86, ISSUE 10
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Serving James Madison University Since 1922
By AMANDA CASKEY and
AMANDA HERMAN
The Breeze and contributing writer
Five little words can make all the
di erence when it comes to students’
right to free speech.
Before the start of this semester,
James Madison University made
a change to section J - in the
Student Handbook.
Previously, the
policy read, “No student shall engage
inlewd,indecentorobsceneconduct
or expression on university property
or in university-owned or operated
buildings.
”
The new policy, however, states
that these actions and expressions
cannot take place “regardless of
proximity to campus.
”
Essentially, this minor change
limits free speech anywhere from
the streets to the Internet.
Obscene
behavior is extreme or deeply o ensive material based on current
community standards of decency,
according to Merriam-Webster’s
Dictionary of Law.
The Foundation for Individual
Rights in Education (FIRE) exposed
this change in policy in a blog on
Sept.
.
e mission of FIRE is “to
defend and sustain individual rights
at America’s colleges and universities,” according to its Web site.
Samantha Harris, FIRE’s director
of speech code research, wrote the
post.
Harris wants students to know
their rights and what they can do
when they are violated.
“The policy change means that
JMU has made a conscious decision
to prohibit more student speech,”
Harris said, “which presumably
means that they are also willing to
punish more student speech.
”
For example, authorities could
now punish JMU students for comments they post to Facebook or other
social networking sites.
Harris said
while it would be di cult for JMU to
police all online activities, the policy
gives JMU the ability to punish such
expression if brought to an administrator’s attention.
see POLICY, page 4
the exact changes from last yearPARSING THE POLICY
2008-2009 WORDING
“No student shall engage in
lewd, indecent or obscene
conduct or expression on
university property or
in university-owned or
operated buildings.
”
2009-2010 WORDING
“No student shall engage in lewd,
indecent or obscene conduct or
expression, regardless of
proximity to campus.
”
UNCONSTITUTIONALIT Y ON CAMPUS
JMURevisesFreeSpeechPolicy
NEWS
Stealing signs results in felony
charges for three JMU students.
OPINION
Whitten Maher writes about
the true value of Twitter: a look
behind the scenes.
LIFE
There’s a star in our midst.
Freshman Trinity Edralin has
recorded with Jason Mraz’s
producer.
SPORTS
JMU and Liberty football teams
are on a collision course this
weekend.
Inside
“As a former president, I can say just
about anything I want to now!”
While former U.
S.
President Jimmy
Carter’s humorous response was directed
toward last week’s comments about Rep.
Joe Wilson, it also indicated how frank he
is in his message of peace.
In a highly anticipated event Monday
night at the Convocation Center, Jimmy
Carter and his wife Rosalynn accepted the
second Mahatma Gandhi Global Nonviolence Award from JMU’s Gandhi Center for
Global Nonviolence.
As Jimmy Carter rose to a thunderous
applausefromstudents,administratorsand
admirers, he focused his speech, “ e Path
to Peace in the Middle East,” not only on the
wrongdoings of Palestinian extremists, but
on the aggression of the Israeli state.
“I am familiar with the harsh rhetoric
and acts of violence in the Middle East,
perpetrated by both sides against innocent
civilians,” Carter said.
“I have reiterated my
strong condemnation of such acts against
innocent people, at any time or for any
goal.
”
CharlieHamm,ajuniorgeographymajor,
believes Carter had an inspiring message.
“I was surprised that it was so upbeat,
which is very good,” Hamm said.
“He made
me believe we could work through con icts
and persevere.
”
eGandhiAwardisgiveneverytwoyears
to “individuals with global recognition”
see PEACE, page 6
In a little house just on the edge of campus, the future is changing.
at’s what Sushil Mittal, the director
of the Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global
Nonviolence, hopes.
e work done in the
Cardinal House, on Cardinal Drive past the
baseball lot, is attracting increasing recognition from around the world.
“What I want to see now is how the future
— your generation, not me or your parents
— is a ected,” Mittal said.
After he handed out the second Mahatma Gandhi Award Monday to former U.
S.
President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn, Mittal said it’s about what those who
attended will do with the speaker’s inspiration now.
“How many youngsters did he a ect?”
Mittal said.
“ ere were thousands at the
Convocation Center, and if they each talk to
friends, there are thousands more.
”
at’s the core idea for the Gandhi Center.
Mittal, a tenured Hinduism professor,
began it in as the only foundation for
higher education outside of India named in
honor of Gandhi.
Mittal has two children,
and he wants them to “secure their futures”
so they can live in a more peaceful world.
Despite the small sta of just Mittal, a
secretary and interns, there are plenty of
international ideas owing into the center.
It is guided by a local board of trustees
and an advisory board, which includes
Nobel laureates, former heads of state,
see CENTER, page 6
CarterFillsConvoCenter,
LecturesonPeaceEfforts
FromaLittleHouse,
aGlobalAward
peaceTALK
Inthepastyear,JMUhasplayedhosttobothfutureandformerpresidents.
Asmessengersofpeace,JimmyandRosalynnCarterarrivedMonday
toreceivehonorsfromtheMahatmaGandhiCenterforGlobalNonviolence.
RestrictionsNowApplyEverywhere,AdvocacyGroupCriticizesChange
By MATT SUTHERLAND | The Breeze By KATIE THISDELL | The Breeze
TODAY’S WEATHER
82°/61°
for this week’s weather, see page 3
max humidity: 73%
chance of precipitation: 50%
EXTENDED COVERAGE: Abehind-the-sceneslookateventsecurity PAGE 3 | Photoessayofspeechandperformances PAGE 6 | Opinionwritersweighin PAGE 9
By MEGAN WILLIAMS
The Breeze
Three JMU students have been
charged with felonious assault and
malicious wounding by mob after allegedly attacking another individual in a
parking lot on Port Republic Road last
Friday.
Junior Markus W.
Hunter, , from
High Point, N.
C.
, Connor J.
Long, ,
and Colin Fitz-Maurice, , from Newtown, Penn.
, were arrested shortly after
leaving the Liberty gas station around
p.
m.
, Sept.
, following the alleged
assault.
The victim, whose name was not
released because of police policy, allegedly got into a verbal altercation with
the three men, which led to a ght said
Mary-Hope Gangwer, public information o cer for the Harrisonburg Police
Department.
e victim did not know
the three men but was able to provide
thepolicewiththeirdescriptions,which
led to their arrest.
e victim was taken
to Rockingham Memorial Hospital with
non-life threatening injuries.
see FIGHT, page 4
AllegedFight
Leadsto ree
FelonyCharges
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While former President Jimmy
Carter will address the JMU community tonight about the Middle
East peace process, a more domestic issue will follow him into the
Convocation Center.
DuringPresidentBarackObama’s
Sept.
address to Congress outlining the new health care strategy,
Obama attempted to silence rumors that the new public health
system would insure illegal immigrants.
As the president spoke, Rep.
Joe Wilson, R-S.
C.
, shouted, “You
lie!’’ at the president, sparking outrage on one side but support on the
other.
At a town hall in Atlanta’s Carter Center, a nonpro t organization
working to monitor international human rights, Carter said that
Wilson’s outburst was racially
motivated.
“There is an inherent feeling
among many in this country that
an African-American should not
be president,” Carter said.
Manal Jamal, a political science
professor, believes Carter’s statement was not a wise decision but
not necessarily inaccurate.
“Carter’s point was that [Joe Wilson] was excessively harsh,” Jamal
said.
“Some of the excessive criticism against health reform might
have something to do with this part
of the nation not ready for an African-Americanpresident.
eissues
should not be con ated.
”
SinceCarter’scomment,theGOP
andconservativepunditshavebeen
outraged by Carter’s comments.
“People can disagree — and
appropriately disagree — on issues of substance, but when they
make the jump to race it’s absolutely ludicrous,” said Alan Wilson,
Joe Wilson’s son, in a prepared response to Carter’s statement.
“My
brothers and I were raised by our
parents to respect everyone regardless of background or race.
”
SeniorShavonneTurner,whowill
attend Carter’s ceremony, believes
Wilson was completely out of line,
regardless of Carter’s comments.
“Whether or not [Wilson] is racist, it was a very bad re ection of his
character,” Turner said.
Sophomore Meghan Murphy
doesn’t fully believe Carter’s comments are accurate.
“I don’t know if it’s racism.
It
seemed as if he just disagreed with
what Obama was saying,” Murphy
said.
“Maybe he didn’t go about it
the right way, but [Wilson’s] comments aren’t inherently racist.
”
PROFILE
CARTER’S CAREER
Served as U.
S.
President from 1977 to 1981
Foreign policy accomplishments: Panama
Canal treaties, the Camp David Accords, the
treaty of peace between Egypt and Israel, the
SALT II treaty with the Soviet Union and the
establishment of U.
S.
diplomatic relations with
the People’s Republic of China.
Deregulation in energy, transportation,
communications and finance; major environmental
protection legislation, including the Alaska National Interest
Lands Conservation Act.
Every year Carter and his wife Rosalynn spend one week
doing a Habitat for Humanity project.
In 2002 Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
JAMES EARL CARTER, JR.
Foreign policy accomplishments: Panama
Canal treaties, the Camp David Accords, the
treaty of peace between Egypt and Israel, the
SALT II treaty with the Soviet Union and the
establishment of U.
S.
diplomatic relations with
communications and finance; major environmental
protection legislation, including the Alaska National Interest
Every year Carter and his wife Rosalynn spend one week
In 2002 Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Born
Parents
Attended
Married
Children
Plains, Ga.
, on Oct.
1, 1924
James Earl Carter (farmer
and businessman)
Bessie Lillian Carter (nurse)
Georgia Southwestern College
Georgia Tech
U.
S.
Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.
Eleanor Rosalynn Smith, 1946
John William (Jack), James Earl
(Chip) III, Donnel Jeffrey (Jeff),
Amy Lynn
Here Come The Dukes
THE CURRENT PRESIDENCY
Carter on Race and Obama
“Thereisaninherent
feelingamongmany.
.
.
thatanAfrican-American
shouldnotbepresident.
”
— JIMMY CARTER
39th President of the United States
JimmyCarterandhiswifeRosalynnwill
receivetheMahatmaGandhiGlobalNonviolenceAward
at7p.
m.
tonightintheConvocationCenter
OppositiontoCurrentPresidentSometimesRootedinRacism,HeSays
Freshman safety Jakarie Jackson takes to the field for his first ever home game at Bridgeforth Stadium/Zane Showker Field.
The Frederick, Md,.
native made two tackles
in the Dukes’ convincing 44-16 win over Virginia Military Institute.
Madison’s home opener was highlighted by a potent passing attack with 341 yards.
STORY ON PAGE 9
ROBERT BOAG/The Breeze
NEWS
Inclement weather dampens attendance
to on-campus farmers’ market.
OPINION
Cap-and-trade bill to restrict greenhouse
emissions may harm economy — Tony
Spadaccia knows ‘The Real Story.
’
SPORTS
JMU football takes to the air in its 44-16
win over VMI.
LIFE
Barbie dolls and planets that rain
diamonds — all part of Theatre II’s ‘The
Woman Who Always Got What She Wanted.
’
Insidepage 3
By MEGAN WILLIAMS
The Breeze
After being charged in June with ve alcohol-related violations, e Pub will not have to
close its doors for any period of time, according to the Wednesday announcement by the
Alcohol Beverage Control Board.
Robert O’Neal, chief administrative hearing
o cer for ABC, dismissed three of the more
serious charges, upholding two, which will
result in a , ne for e Pub or a -day
suspension of its liquor license.
Bill Royer, co-owner of the popular bar
located o Ne Avenue, said e Pub will pay
the ne instead of closing down for two and a
half weeks.
“It would cost me a whole lot more to close
than it would to pay to the ne,” Royer said.
Royer also said that he was pleased with
O’Neal’s decision to throw out charges that
e Pub attempted to defraud ABC, that the
see PUB, page 5
ePubFaces
, inFines
NeffAvenueBartoStayOpen
“It would cost me a whole lot
more to close than it would
to pay to the fine.
”
— BILL ROYER
co-owner of The Pub
By SCOTT EINSMANN
The Breeze
Paying for college could soon be easier for
millions of American students due to the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act.
e House of Representatives passed the
Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act (H.
R.
) Sept.
with a vote of - .
e bill claims to make college more accessible by investing money in primary education
while saving taxpayers billion dollars over
the next years.
The bill will direct nearly billion of
the billion saved to reduce the national
de cit.
The bill is part of President Barack
Obama’s goal to produce the most college graduates by .
Obama thanked
the House of Representatives for passing the bill and said the bill ends billions of
dollars in unwarranted subsidies that are
handed out to banks and nancial institutions.
see BILL, page 5
FinancialAid
BillPassed
HouseofRepresentatives
PassesBillAimedatEasing
Students’FinancialBurdens
page 7
By MATT SUTHERLAND
The Breeze
As former U.
S.
President Jimmy
Carter and his wife Rosalynn preparefortonight’svisit,manyaround
campus are revisiting the legacy of
the th president.
Garnering credibility for his numerous ventures
in the Middle East, his speech at
the ceremony is titled “The Path
to Peace in the Middle East.
” e
Carters will receive the second
Mahatma Gandhi Global Nonviolence Award.
Many historians believe one of
Carter’s highest points in terms of
foreign policy was the Camp David
Accords of .
Carter almost single-handedly negotiated the peace
talks between Israel and Egypt,
making Egypt the only Middle Eastern nation at the time to recognize
the Israeli state.
At the time, Egyptian President
Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime
Minister Menachem Begin had not
been on speaking terms.
As discussions began to get stale in August
, Carter took both Sadat and
Begin to Gettysburg and explained
to them the high cost of war.
A
month later, both the president of
Egypt and the prime minister of
Israel signed the treaty.
AaronDavidMiller,authorof e
MuchTooPromisedLand:America’s
ElusiveSearchforArab-IsraeliPeace,
saidCarter’sintegralrolewasoneof
the rststepsintheongoingprocess
to peace in the Middle East.
“No matter whom I spoke to —
Americans, Egyptians or Israelis
— most everyone said the same
thing: no Carter, no peace treaty,”
Miller wrote.
Although Carter had certainly
see CARTER, page 5
A Legacy
Tied to
Middle
East
CarterCreditedforArabIsraeliPeaceSettlement
LOOKING
BACK
page 9
page 11
CORRECTION
In the Sept.
17 issue of The Breeze,
the Apartment & Off-Campus Guide
special section incorrectly stated the
pricing of Squire Hills apartments and
townhouses.
The correct prices are stated below.
The Breeze regrets the error.
1 Bedroom — $670.
00
2 Bedroom Garden — $420.
00
2 Bedroom Townhouse — $435.
00
3 Bedroom garden — $375.
00
3 Bedroom Townhouse — $395.
00
A History, A Vision
“He was bold in the
things he wanted to
do, but the number
of factors simply
worked against
him.
”
— MANAL JAMAL
JMU political science professor
photo courtesy of the
MAHATMA GANDHI CENTER FOR GLOBAL NONVIOLENCE [Less]
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While former President Jimmy
Carter will address the JMU community tonight about the Middle
East peace process, a more domestic issue will follow him into the
Convocation Center.
DuringPresidentBarackObama’s
Sept.
address to Congress outlining the new health care strategy,
Obama attempted to silence rumors that the new public health
system would insure illegal immigrants.
As the president spoke, Rep.
Joe Wilson, R-S.
C.
, shouted, “You
lie!’’ at the president, sparking outrage on one side but support on the
other.
At a town hall in Atlanta’s Carter Center, a nonpro t organization
working to monitor international human rights, Carter said that
Wilson’s outburst was racially
motivated.
“There is an inherent feeling
among many in this country that
an African-American should not
be president,” Carter said.
Manal Jamal, a political science
professor, believes Carter’s statement was not a wise decision but
not necessarily inaccurate.
“Carter’s point was that [Joe Wilson] was excessively harsh,” Jamal
said.
“Some of the excessive criticism against health reform might
have something to do with this part
of the nation not ready for an African-Americanpresident.
eissues
should not be con ated.
”
SinceCarter’scomment,theGOP
andconservativepunditshavebeen
outraged by Carter’s comments.
“People can disagree — and
appropriately disagree — on issues of substance, but when they
make the jump to race it’s absolutely ludicrous,” said Alan Wilson,
Joe Wilson’s son, in a prepared response to Carter’s statement.
“My
brothers and I were raised by our
parents to respect everyone regardless of background or race.
”
SeniorShavonneTurner,whowill
attend Carter’s ceremony, believes
Wilson was completely out of line,
regardless of Carter’s comments.
“Whether or not [Wilson] is racist, it was a very bad re ection of his
character,” Turner said.
Sophomore Meghan Murphy
doesn’t fully believe Carter’s comments are accurate.
“I don’t know if it’s racism.
It
seemed as if he just disagreed with
what Obama was saying,” Murphy
said.
“Maybe he didn’t go about it
the right way, but [Wilson’s] comments aren’t inherently racist.
”
PROFILE
CARTER’S CAREER
Served as U.
S.
President from 1977 to 1981
Foreign policy accomplishments: Panama
Canal treaties, the Camp David Accords, the
treaty of peace between Egypt and Israel, the
SALT II treaty with the Soviet Union and the
establishment of U.
S.
diplomatic relations with
the People’s Republic of China.
Deregulation in energy, transportation,
communications and finance; major environmental
protection legislation, including the Alaska National Interest
Lands Conservation Act.
Every year Carter and his wife Rosalynn spend one week
doing a Habitat for Humanity project.
In 2002 Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
JAMES EARL CARTER, JR.
Foreign policy accomplishments: Panama
Canal treaties, the Camp David Accords, the
treaty of peace between Egypt and Israel, the
SALT II treaty with the Soviet Union and the
establishment of U.
S.
diplomatic relations with
communications and finance; major environmental
protection legislation, including the Alaska National Interest
Every year Carter and his wife Rosalynn spend one week
In 2002 Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Born
Parents
Attended
Married
Children
Plains, Ga.
, on Oct.
1, 1924
James Earl Carter (farmer
and businessman)
Bessie Lillian Carter (nurse)
Georgia Southwestern College
Georgia Tech
U.
S.
Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.
Eleanor Rosalynn Smith, 1946
John William (Jack), James Earl
(Chip) III, Donnel Jeffrey (Jeff),
Amy Lynn
Here Come The Dukes
THE CURRENT PRESIDENCY
Carter on Race and Obama
“Thereisaninherent
feelingamongmany.
.
.
thatanAfrican-American
shouldnotbepresident.
”
— JIMMY CARTER
39th President of the United States
JimmyCarterandhiswifeRosalynnwill
receivetheMahatmaGandhiGlobalNonviolenceAward
at7p.
m.
tonightintheConvocationCenter
OppositiontoCurrentPresidentSometimesRootedinRacism,HeSays
Freshman safety Jakarie Jackson takes to the field for his first ever home game at Bridgeforth Stadium/Zane Showker Field.
The Frederick, Md,.
native made two tackles
in the Dukes’ convincing 44-16 win over Virginia Military Institute.
Madison’s home opener was highlighted by a potent passing attack with 341 yards.
STORY ON PAGE 9
ROBERT BOAG/The Breeze
NEWS
Inclement weather dampens attendance
to on-campus farmers’ market.
OPINION
Cap-and-trade bill to restrict greenhouse
emissions may harm economy — Tony
Spadaccia knows ‘The Real Story.
’
SPORTS
JMU football takes to the air in its 44-16
win over VMI.
LIFE
Barbie dolls and planets that rain
diamonds — all part of Theatre II’s ‘The
Woman Who Always Got What She Wanted.
’
Insidepage 3
By MEGAN WILLIAMS
The Breeze
After being charged in June with ve alcohol-related violations, e Pub will not have to
close its doors for any period of time, according to the Wednesday announcement by the
Alcohol Beverage Control Board.
Robert O’Neal, chief administrative hearing
o cer for ABC, dismissed three of the more
serious charges, upholding two, which will
result in a , ne for e Pub or a -day
suspension of its liquor license.
Bill Royer, co-owner of the popular bar
located o Ne Avenue, said e Pub will pay
the ne instead of closing down for two and a
half weeks.
“It would cost me a whole lot more to close
than it would to pay to the ne,” Royer said.
Royer also said that he was pleased with
O’Neal’s decision to throw out charges that
e Pub attempted to defraud ABC, that the
see PUB, page 5
ePubFaces
, inFines
NeffAvenueBartoStayOpen
“It would cost me a whole lot
more to close than it would
to pay to the fine.
”
— BILL ROYER
co-owner of The Pub
By SCOTT EINSMANN
The Breeze
Paying for college could soon be easier for
millions of American students due to the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act.
e House of Representatives passed the
Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act (H.
R.
) Sept.
with a vote of - .
e bill claims to make college more accessible by investing money in primary education
while saving taxpayers billion dollars over
the next years.
The bill will direct nearly billion of
the billion saved to reduce the national
de cit.
The bill is part of President Barack
Obama’s goal to produce the most college graduates by .
Obama thanked
the House of Representatives for passing the bill and said the bill ends billions of
dollars in unwarranted subsidies that are
handed out to banks and nancial institutions.
see BILL, page 5
FinancialAid
BillPassed
HouseofRepresentatives
PassesBillAimedatEasing
Students’FinancialBurdens
page 7
By MATT SUTHERLAND
The Breeze
As former U.
S.
President Jimmy
Carter and his wife Rosalynn preparefortonight’svisit,manyaround
campus are revisiting the legacy of
the th president.
Garnering credibility for his numerous ventures
in the Middle East, his speech at
the ceremony is titled “The Path
to Peace in the Middle East.
” e
Carters will receive the second
Mahatma Gandhi Global Nonviolence Award.
Many historians believe one of
Carter’s highest points in terms of
foreign policy was the Camp David
Accords of .
Carter almost single-handedly negotiated the peace
talks between Israel and Egypt,
making Egypt the only Middle Eastern nation at the time to recognize
the Israeli state.
At the time, Egyptian President
Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime
Minister Menachem Begin had not
been on speaking terms.
As discussions began to get stale in August
, Carter took both Sadat and
Begin to Gettysburg and explained
to them the high cost of war.
A
month later, both the president of
Egypt and the prime minister of
Israel signed the treaty.
AaronDavidMiller,authorof e
MuchTooPromisedLand:America’s
ElusiveSearchforArab-IsraeliPeace,
saidCarter’sintegralrolewasoneof
the rststepsintheongoingprocess
to peace in the Middle East.
“No matter whom I spoke to —
Americans, Egyptians or Israelis
— most everyone said the same
thing: no Carter, no peace treaty,”
Miller wrote.
Although Carter had certainly
see CARTER, page 5
A Legacy
Tied to
Middle
East
CarterCreditedforArabIsraeliPeaceSettlement
LOOKING
BACK
page 9
page 11
CORRECTION
In the Sept.
17 issue of The Breeze,
the Apartment & Off-Campus Guide
special section incorrectly stated the
pricing of Squire Hills apartments and
townhouses.
The correct prices are stated below.
The Breeze regrets the error.
1 Bedroom — $670.
00
2 Bedroom Garden — $420.
00
2 Bedroom Townhouse — $435.
00
3 Bedroom garden — $375.
00
3 Bedroom Townhouse — $395.
00
A History, A Vision
“He was bold in the
things he wanted to
do, but the number
of factors simply
worked against
him.
”
— MANAL JAMAL
JMU political science professor
photo courtesy of the
MAHATMA GANDHI CENTER FOR GLOBAL NONVIOLENCE [Less]
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