The Breeze: November 2 2009
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A free shuttle service will run from 10 a. 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... [More]
A free shuttle service will run from 10 a.
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
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86, ISSUE 21
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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
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photo illustration by SETH BINSTED/The Breeze
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