Serving James Madison University Since 1922 BreezeJMU.org Vol. 92, No. 37 Mostly sunny n 38°/ 28° chance of precipitation: 10% Monday, February 17, 2014 SGA lobbies in Working overtime Va. capital Students increasingly need to work more as minimum wage remains stagnant Members discuss increased financial aid, stricter hazing laws, no out-of-state admission cap

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Eleven members of the Student Government Association journeyed to Richmond on Feb. 6 to voice their concerns to lawmakers regard- ing legislation that affects university students. Financial aid, university hazing and a proposed cap on the admissions of out-of-state students were the primary topics of discussion between the SGA blair rosen / the breeze members and Richmond legislators. source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics In an effort to divide and conquer, Percentage of hourly-paid wage workers with earnings at or below the prevailing federal minimum wage in Virginia, annual averages, 2003-12. In the 11 SGA members broke up into Virginia, there were 123,000 workers earning the federal minimum wage or less in 2012; 55 percent of these workers were women. factions and targeted delegates and senators within the education com- Bya meg n dimaiolo help junior vocal major Rachel Sandler pay for students worked while in school, according to mittee to relay JMU’s key concern over The Breeze college, but also help with her studies. In addi- the U.S. Census Bureau. financial aid funding. tion to being a resident adviser in Logan Hall, Amber Weaver, a student employment It takes 133 hours of working at a minimum Sandler also works at Chipotle and as a tutor specialist in the Office of Financial Aid and “It’s important that our wage job for a JMU student to buy the aver- in the music department. Last weekend, she Scholarships, said there has been an increase age $960 worth of textbooks for two semesters, worked 18 hours at Chipotle and had a 6-hour of students working and looking for work on out-of-state student according to JMU’s Office of Financial Aid and RA duty shift, along with planning her tutoring campus. percentage doesn’t Scholarships. sessions for the upcoming week. “We have a lot more students wanting to According to the U.S. Department of Labor, “If I hadn’t been working, I would be able to work, needing to work now over the last prob- decrease because so 21 states have minimum wages that are set get more school work done,” Sandler said. “I’m ably couple years,” Weaver said. “We have more much of our diversity above the national minimum wage of $7.25 taking 20 credits and working on a recital. So, it students now qualifying for Federal Work Study, an hour. Virginia is not one of them. takes away from the typical college experience.” as well as wanting to work in the Federal Work around campus comes Both state and federal legislatures have Being an out-of-state student, Sandler uses Study positions ... because mom and dad can’t from out-of-state.” been debating about raising the minimum her three jobs to pay for tuition, living expenses support them any longer.” wage. This past Wednesday, President Barack and her school supplies. Out-of-state tuition is Weaver said there are currently about 3,500 Julie Hirschhorn Obama signed an executive order raising the $23,654 per year, and that’s not including room students employed by JMU. Students are SGA member and junior minimum wage for federal contractors from and board which is about $8,500 per year. capped at working 20 hours per week, so that communication studies $7.25 to $10.10 an hour. On Thursday, a bill that “The RA job is great, but it only pays about they can focus on their classwork. and writing, rhetoric and would have raised the Virginia minimum wage $4,200 a year. All of that money goes straight “You’re not here to earn money,” Weaver technical communication to $9.25 by 2015 died in a Virginia House com- to my school account,” Sandler said. “I needed said. “You’re not here to work. You’re here for double major mittee, only two days after the bill had passed more jobs to supplement living expenses and academics. The majority of your time should in the Virginia Senate. ... to live a little bit.” Raising the minimum wage would not only In 2011, 25 percent of Virginia college see wage, page 4

“I told my group never to doubt what you had to say, and whatev- er concerns you have are important and are met with great empathy by the legislators,” Adam Miner, an SGA senator and sophomore political sci- ence major, said. Undercover Virginia’s biennial budget for 2014- 16, which was presented during the agents January Board of Visitors meeting, would allot JMU $200,000 in state funding for financial aid, which is an underwhelming figure considering 54 Male practice players percent of JMU students rely on this assistance, according to JMU’s admis- demonstrate pride for sions site. At the April 5, 2013 Board of Visitors JMU by helping the meeting, the board approved a budget for the 2013-14 year that allotted $12.1 women’s basketball million for financial aid. Associate director of communications Bill Wyatt team prepare for explained that most money for finan- cial aid, besides state funds, comes upcoming games. from the university’s non-general fund, which is funded from sources such as tuition, fees, ticket sales and private donations. Page 11 While JMU students wait for action by the legislature, the SGA and JMU’s Financial Education Lauren Gordon / the breeze Committee, a board comprised of faculty and students, are working together with students to budget and plan their finances accordingly. see SGA, page 4 The best pick Alums collaborate to create online sales website that features best aspects of eBay and Craigslist 2/17 Inside Byn Joan a morelli Pickarious is sort of to capture some news The Breeze of that.” Last May Fulkerson and two 3 Mall renovation of his co-workers at Rosetta Stone, Valley Mall prepared to Imagine an online trading post that JMU graduates Brian Vaughn (’05) get a hefty $1.5 million is less anonymous than Craigslist and and Andy Harbick (’96), began talk- update. has buyers more committed to items ing about the idea of a website where than eBay; with Pickarious finally up users could record footage of their opinion and running for the Harrisonburg products that they wished to sell. The 6 Diversity? region, your online selling and buy- official release of the website wasn’t Two columnists ing woes may disappear. until October. explore and debate It all began when Mike Fulkerson, “Mike had the initial idea and race issues at JMU. one of the three co-founders of Pick- Andy and I thought it was something arious, began watching the television we could build. All of us were excited life show “American Pickers” on the His- about it and so we decided to go for 9 All work, snow play tory Channel. The show, featuring a it,” Vaughn said. “In part it came from Students spend their pursuit in the Midwest for antiques experiences like yard sales and flea snow days online and collectibles, gave Fulkerson a markets — the excitement of explor- instead of outside. desire to do the same — but why not ing a bunch of stuff that may have online? something special hidden in it.” sports “There’s something kind of strange- Video was an important aspect of 11 Dukes down Hokies ly compelling about it [“American the website to not only make it stand Lacrosse starts off lauren gordon / the breeze Pickers”] to me,” Fulkerson said. out, but make it appeal to users. season with win over Mike Fulkerson, Brian Vaughn and Andy Harbick created Pickarious in “They look for something interest- Virginia Tech. May of 2013. The website features semi-interactive trading posts. ing … it’s kind of a hunt. The idea of see pickarious, page 10 Today Tuesday Wednesday T hursday mostly sunny a.m. snow showers partly cloudy mostly cloudy 38°/28° 44°/36° 55°/32° 52°/46°

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A sst. creative director Liz Paterson A d Executives World news Caleb Dessalgne Mat Lesiv two sides could not even agree on an fire with soldiers guarding the prison, Virginia Baker Syria peace talks agenda or a sequencing of items to be killing seven. One of the explosions blew Kerry looks to Grant Deker discussed. Still, he seemed to signal the a hole in the prison’s wall near an area Kevin Deldjoui end with no likelihood that a third session of talks where inmates convicted of terrorism- China to help out in Elaine Heslin would be convened, asking each side to related offenses were housed. By the Sarah Sloan progression reflect on its positions. No date was set. time reinforcements arrived and sealed nuclear arms race Zac Smith Neither side in the talks could get off the area, 29 prisoners had escaped, Michael Wallace Los Angeles Times by a fundamental point of contention: including 19 who were imprisoned on with N. Korea the future of Syrian President Bashar terrorism charges. Marketing & Circulation BEIRUT — he chief United Nations al-Assad. At least three of the escapees were con- Los Angeles Times Coordinator official at the Syrian peace talks apol- The Syrian government delegation victed in December on charges related Brianna Therkelsen ogized Saturday to the people of the insisted that Assad’s future was not to an assassination attempt earlier in the BEIJING— Secretary of State John F. embattled nation after a second round on the table. Negotiators said they year against Yemen’s president, Abed Kerry on Friday appealed to China to rein ad Designers of negotiations ended without any didn’t come to Geneva “to hand over Rabbo Mansour Hadi. Five escapees in its North Korean ally and to ease its pro- Christine Horab progress toward resolving the almost the keys to Damascus,” in the words of had been sentenced to death, including vocative territorial claims, but after a day of Kylie Donohoe three-year conflict. Faisal Mekdad, Syria’s deputy foreign Hisham Mohamed Assem, who was con- talks Beijing’s response was unclear. Victoria Smith “I am very, very sorry,” Lakdhar Bra- minister. victed for a 2010 attack on an oil company In meetings with President Xi Jinping Julie Stern himi, U.N. mediator in the talks, told compound in Sanaa that left a French and other top Chinese officials, Kerry Candace Burns reporters in a downbeat closing note Key al-Qaida engineer dead, and Saleh al-Shawish, a urged them to use their special leverage after the session adjourned in Geneva, skilled bomb maker who vowed revenge to restrain Pyongyang, which experts fear Switzerland. “I apologize (to) the Syrian members escape in at his 2010 sentencing. is close to another test of a nuclear weap- people . . . . But in these two rounds we Yemeni officials did not mince words on or missile. He also pressed the leaders Download our haven’t helped them very much.” prison break when commenting on the potential to give up controversial claims to territory mobile app at Many Syrians’ hopes were “very implications of the prison break. based on historical maps that U.S. officials breezejmu.org. high” that that the talks could have McClatchey Foreign Staff “It’s a disaster,” said an official briefed say aren’t legal under international law. represented “the beginning of the com- on security matters, speaking on the “It’s important to resolve these differ- ing out of this horrible crisis,” noted a YEMEN — More than two dozen condition of anonymity because of the ences in a peaceful, nonconfrontational somber Brahimi, who himself appeared escaped prisoners, including several sensitivity of the topic. He noted that the way,” Kerry said of the claims, which have www.facebook.com/ emotionally drained. convicted members of al-Qaida’s Yemen escapees included “operational figures.” driven up tensions between China and TheBreezeJMU Few observers, though, had expected affiliate, remained at large Friday after a Yemeni officials and analysts were neighbors such as Japan, South Korea and any kind of breakthrough in Geneva to daring attack on Sanaa’s Central Prison quick to point out that the attack bore the Philippines. end the fighting, which has left more Thursday night. the hallmarks of al-Qaida in the Arabian than 100,000 people dead and created Armed militants laid siege to the heav- Peninsula, the Yemen-based al-Qaida Compiled from McClatchy-Tribune @TheBreezeJMU a humanitarian catastrophe. ily fortified prison shortly after sunset, affiliate that U.S. officials have said poses wire services @TheBreezeSports Brahimi seemed frustrated that the setting off two car bombs and exchanging the greatest terrorism threat to the US.

Olympic news US still without in an older, proven skinsuit, was seventh in “I was running out of moves there,” Oshie said. US skier finds canine 1:45.59. After U.S. and Kings goalie Jonathan Quick speedskating medal “I wanted to switch more because it felt like stopped Russia’s Ilya Kovalchuk in the eighth connection in Sochi this was a safer bet for me confidence-wise,” round, Oshie slid the puck past Bobrovsky to The Orange County Register Hansen said. give Team USA a 3-2 victory Saturday afternoon Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Shani Davis, the two-time Olympic cham- in which Russia and the U.S., delivering high- SOCHI — U.S. speedskaters wore a different pion in the 1,000, was 11th in 1:45.98 and Joey octane, high-impact hockey, added another SOCHI — Of all the places in the cold and hard- suit to the same all too familiar results Saturday Mantia was 22nd in 1:48.01. Davis’ time was dramatic chapter to this storied rivalry. ened world, what were the odds this one — where as an Olympic Games marked by disappoint- more than four seconds off his world record of “It’s a very fine line between winning and los- stray dogs have allegedly been put down in the ment and controversy continued for Team USA 1:41.04 set in 2009 at altitude in Kearns, Utah. ing,” Quick said, “and we were able to get the win name of presenting a clean image — would be the on the Adler Arena oval. tonight, which is great.” spot where puppy love flourished on Valentine’s The Americans remained medal-less after Team USA’s Oshie The difference was Oshie, who cemented his Day? they were shut out in an Olympic 1,500-meter place in the lore of the Winter Olympics’ most It could be a great kids movie. Dudely American event held against the backdrop of “Suitgate,” comes through in celebrated rivalry. skier wins an Olympic silver medal, adopts a moth- the controversy over whether new Under “I think you are going to see T.J. Oshie be a er dog and her four puppies and brings them home Armour high-tech speed suits have been a drag hockey vs. Russia household name after that display he put on to live out their days without fear. on U.S. performances. today,” said U.S. forward David Backes, Oshie’s Before he even won a medal, he instantly Zbigniew Brodka of Poland ended, most like- The Orange County Register teammate in St. Louis. became the hero of these Olympics, which have ly only briefly, the Netherlands’ domination of With Oshie’s and Quick’s heroics, not to men- been largely devoid so far of great athletic exploits the speedskating, claiming the 1,500 gold medal SOCHI — T.J. Oshie is a hard man to read. tion a controversial call that wiped out a Russia from the American contingent. by 0.003 of a second. Yet as the U.S. and Russia’s Olympic Games goal, the U.S. further established itself as a gold- Kenworthy, a 22-year-old Denver native, noticed Brodka was clocked in 1 minute, 45.006, preliminary game was extended to a fifth, sixth medal contender in a game with historical and the furry family near a security tent in the moun- barely denying Koen Verweij and the Dutch and seventh round of a sudden-death shootout political overtones that contributed to an electric tains. He began stopping by to feed and play with men a fourth gold medal in four men’s events. at the Bolshoy Ice Dome, even Oshie, the Team and raucous atmosphere. the dogs and became attached. Canada’s Denny Morrison picked up his second USA and St. Louis Blues forward, wondered how It was like going into the craziest building, medal of the Games, finishing third in 1:45.22. long he could continue to keep Russia goalten- Game 7 of the Stanley Cup,” U.S. and Montreal Compiled from McClatchy-Tribune wire Brian Hansen, like his U.S. teammates skating der Sergei Bobrovsky off balance. Canadiens forward Max Pacioretty said. services Be a writer Get writing experience at an award-winning paper. Email [email protected].

NewsEditors IJ Chan & William Mason Email [email protected] Monday, February 17, 2014 3 in brief Harrisonburg Valley Mall makeover Harrisonburg likely to $1.5 million renovation to include new seating areas, entrances, flooring and furniture refuse $2 million grant

The city of Harrisonburg is likely to turn down a grant of $2 million from the Virginia Department of Trans- portation to complete the last stage of Stone Spring Road-Erikson Ave- nue connector, according to the Daily News-Record. According to City Manager Kurt Hodgen, because of the large vol- ume of projects to fund in the next fiscal year he is “leaning against” recommending the Harrisonburg City Council to not accept a $2 mil- lion revenue-sharing grant from the VDOT. The grant would have to be matched with $2 million in local dol- lars and would go toward the final piece to the connector. This final section comprises from the entrance to Walmart on Erickson Avenue to the western city limits, wid- ening it to a five-lane roadway with a center turn lane, bicycle lanes and sidewalk. The first three phases realigned the intersection of Pear Street and Erick- son; linked the road from South Main to the original Stone Spring Road, near Beery Road and connected South High and South Main Streets. According to Hodgen since the project’s fourth phase is taking place in the western part of the city, it can be delayed because the Harrisonburg is more currently more focused on the eastern part.

Police investigate string of break-ins

Deputies from the Rockingham Lauren gordon / the breeze County Sheriff’s department are continuing to investigate more than The Valley Mall in Harrisonburg will be undergoing a $1.5 million renovation this summer. It currently houses more than 50 different retailers. a dozen home break-ins that have occurred over the last month, accord- By Samantha Ellis “I know they can’t add stores because of the already limited parking, ing to the Daily News-Record. contributing writer but I’d love to see them somehow bring in something like a Forever 21. Police say 15 break-ins were report- That alone would add a lot of business,” Cassidy said. ed in the county during the last three In the coming months, the Harrisonburg Valley Mall will begin its “Victoria’s Secret is easily one of the most popular places at the weeks, most of occuring between 8 $1.5 million renovation project. entire mall, so renovations could only bring in more customers. Unless a.m. and 6 p.m. “Our scope of work includes new flooring, new paint, three new they were to bring in some of our competitors,” she said. They advise residents to be aware entrances, soft seating areas with WiFi as well as new food court Emily Dick, a sophomore physics major and former American Eagle of and report any suspicious activity furniture,” Cortney Carderelli, leasing development and marketing employee, is also excited for the expansion. to police. manager at the Valley Mall said. “I like the mall here,” Dick said. “I grew up in Broadway, and I could Tipsters who wish to remain anon- For JMU students, additions to the local mall would be more than come here if I ever needed clothes or a book. It’s not Fair Oaks or ymous may call Crime Solvers at welcome. Tysons, but it works. It’s better than anything in close proximity to 540-574-5050, or the sheriff’s office at The mall is currently home to over 50 retailers, with Belk, Target here. I am excited about the renovations, I’ve lived here since I was 564-3800. They can also submit sus- and JCPenney serving as its anchor stores. It first opened in 1978, and four and that place has always looked exactly the same.” picious activity at www.rcso-va.com. serves as the largest shopping center in the central Shenandoah Valley. Because the mall relies heavily on neighboring residents for busi- “I feel it is definitely lacking in terms of stores. The one at home is ness, renovations will be made after hours. much bigger, and they’d only get more business by appealing to more “We expect most of the work to take place overnight so it doesn’t rockingham county college students,” Kirstyn Cassidy, a JMU sophomore nursing major impact shoppers,” Carderelli said. and sales associate at Victoria’s Secret, said. The renovations are expected to be complete by the fall 2014. Police searching With just over 500,000 square feet of retail space, most already in for suspect in use, students understand that there isn’t much room for new additions. C ontact Samantha Ellis at [email protected]. two shootings

The Rockingham County Sheriff’s Department are looking for a “slender black man” who allegedly shot two people at a Clover Hill mom-and-pop store on Saturday night, before flee- ing on foot toward Robertson Road, according to the Daily News-Record. Police investigators arrived at the CVS going smokeless Dry River Store, located at 1228 Clover Hill Rd. around 5:30 p.m. Police say that someone called 911 and told dispatchers that two vic- Store plans to get rid of all of its tobacco products in an effort to focus on customers’ health tims, Jae Young Kim and his wife were found on the floor. Both victims had By Erin Flynn been shot at least once. The Breeze Kim’s wife, Eun, died on the scene. Last Wednesday, CVS announced that it will no Kim was taken by ambulance to longer be selling tobacco products. Clover Hill Volunteer Fire company, According to the company’s press release, the and then taken by helicopter to the ban will take full effect in October at the more to the University of Virginia Medical than 7,600 CVS locations nationwide and is meant Center. to promote better health consciousness in its There, Kim underwent surgery. His customers. current status is unknown. While there has been a significant improvement Police say that they have a surveil- regarding the reduction of smokers, according to lance video of the crime. They say the the U.S. Department of Health and Human Servic- suspect entered the store and shot es, 18 percent of adults are classified as smokers in both of the victims with a handgun. 2014. This is 5 percent decrease from the amount He was wearing a green vest with a of adults who smoked in 2000 and a 1 percent red shirt underneath. decrease since 2010. HHS claims that smoking is the leading cause charlottesville of preventable death, with links to coronary heart disease, strokes, multiple cancers and chron- U.Va. to offer free ic obstructive pulmonary disease, with 163,700 deaths caused by smoke-related cancers, 106,000 online class about caused by COPD and 99,300 caused by coronary Thomas Jefferson heart disease. According to the Centers for Disease Control A free online course about Thom- and Prevention and HHS, more 480,000 deaths are as Jefferson will debut Monday at the caused by tobacco use, claiming the lives of 278,544 University of Virginia, according to men and 201,733 women each year. The Washington Post. Even those who don’t smoke experience the neg- The course, titled “Age of Jef- ative attributes associated with it. s ource: us department of health and human services ferson,” is free to anyone with an “Secondhand smoke causes 33,951 annual Internet connection and is accessi- deaths from heart disease.” HHS stated. “Second- blair rosen / the breeze ble through the website Coursera or hand smoke causes 7,333 annual deaths from lung the iTunes U app. cancer.” She explained that if people don’t have access still sells tobacco.” It will cover Jefferson’s views on According to the press release, with nearly to tobacco products, they’re less likely to consume Carlson thinks that if certain people used to buy religious freedom, education, genera- 500,000 deaths caused by tobacco use annually, them, especially if they’re unwilling to go some- their tobacco from CVS, they will frequent the store tional relationships, the Declaration, reducing the sale of tobacco products can play a where else to purchase them. less often which will result in decreased revenue. the emergence of an American peo- significant role in the reduction of those deaths. However, some people aren’t so sure. He also views the ban as a “publicity stunt” used ple and slavery. Aashna Dhayagude, a freshman marketing Zach Carlson, a senior media arts and design to enhance CVS’ image, as opposed to an ethical There will also be subtitled ver- major, doesn’t purchase tobacco products from major who smokes often, believes that CVS ban- decision. sions of “Age of Jefferson” in Chinese CVS, but still believes that the ban will have a pos- ning tobacco will have little impact on the amount “If they were really so concerned, this would and Spanish, in hopes of attracting itive effect on JMU students. of people who smoke. have happened long ago,” Carlson said. a more global presence for the class. “Even though I smoke, I think it’s good that CVS “You can buy tobacco anywhere,” he said. “If the While Carlson believes that initially this partic- is no longer selling tobacco products ... It reduces ban were adopted by more stores, perhaps people ular ban won’t have much of an impact, he does the amount of tobacco you can buy,” Dhayagude would be upset at the added inconvenience, but said. any gas station, big box store or convenience store see cvs, page 4 4 Monday, February 17, 2014 breezejmu.org News wage | Virginia’s minimum wage remains at the federal level

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be focused on homework, on classes.” Brittany Dunham, a junior Inter- disciplinary Liberal Studies major, understands that she is at JMU to get an education. But she also knows that without saving money during the summer and working as a stu- dent assistant in Rose Library and Memorial Hall, jobs which both pay minimum wage, it would not be possible. “I have had to really budget my money in order to make these two minimum wage jobs work. I really think about purchases and determine if they are going to be cost efficient,” Dunham said. “The hardest part is not always being able to do things with my friends because I cannot always afford to spend money.” Brad Barnett, senior associate director of the office of financial aid and scholarships, teaches a concept called zero-based budgeting in his financial literacy class that he calls Dollars and Sense. According to Barnett, most people can predict their income from month Blair rosen / the breeze to month. So when you get to the end S ource : us department of labor of a month you need to look at how much money you will have coming in budget and split it up between rent, would be great to have more free time, sees the positives in working while “I know I am receiving a great for the next month. food and essential expenses. because I could work less, but I know in school. education so the extra work I have “I’ll make up a number, $1,000 “If you stay within that zero-based that it does impact the economy,” “I think working in college is a to do is worth it,” Dunham said. “I coming in for March. So you’re job concept, you’ll never over spend,” Dunham said. “Personally, I would really great thing,” Sandler said. “It is try to remain positive and know then, before March begins, is to sit Barnett said. “Creating it is the easy be in favor of a raise, but there are so definitely great for time management that all of this will be worth it in down and, on paper, spend all that p a r t .” many other people that could be neg- and life skills.” the end when I am teaching in my thousand dollars until you’ve spent Dunham said that a raise in the atively impacted by it. So, it is a topic Dunham sees her experience work- own classroom doing what I love.” it down to zero.” minimum wage would be beneficial, that requires both sides to address it.” ing as part of her experience at JMU By doing this, Barnett said, stu- but there are two sides to the issue. Even with time commitment and and is using it as a stepping stone for Coa nt ct Megan DiMaiolo at dents can look at their monthly “If minimum wage was raised, it living expenses on the rise, Sandler her future. [email protected]. sga | Proposed state bill would increase hazing penalties from front punishments to serve as a stronger deterrent for students. “There are so many talented, “I think increasing the smart students who may not be punishment for hazing will able to attend [college] due to help students and organiza- financial reasons … it’s about tions that may haze, across reaching out to those students the country, realize that it is a who need a little extra help, and serious ordeal that can cause giving them that opportunity,” major physical and psycholog- Julie Hirschhorn, an SGA mem- ical harm,” Hirschhorn said. ber and junior communication According to the National studies and writing rhetoric, Study of Student Hazing, since and technical communication 2008, 55 percent of college stu- double major, said. dents involved in clubs, teams According to JMU’s Office of and organizations experience Institutional Research, JMU is hazing; in 95 percent of the making preparations to increase cases that students identified enrollment by almost 1,000 their experience as hazing, students in the next five years, they did not report the events which could bring about great- to campus officials. er financial woes for students Currently, hazing is defined already seeing cuts to financial as a class 1 misdemeanor and aid. carries a maximum sentence State delegates Tim Hugo of 12 months in jail and a fine (R-Centreville) and Jackson of up to $2,500. Miller (R-Manassas) are seeking Legislators want the con- to put a limit on the enrollment viction changed to a Class and admission of out-of-state 6 felony, which could have students to Virginia public guilty offenders facing up to schools. five years in prison and a fine House Bill No. 144, which of up to $2,500. could prove damaging to univer- In the coming weeks and sity revenue and tuition costs, months, the SGA has made would require that by the start plans to better inform students of the 2019-20 academic year, at about the legislative changes least 75 percent of undergradu- that could be affecting them. ate students admitted to public “Right now JMU is only Virginia universities would have courtesy of josh humphries scheduled to receive about to be in-state residents. JMU students from the Student Government Association discussed issues such as in-state admissions and hazing with Virginia legislators. $200,000 in financial aid “It’s important that our out- from the state each year for of-state student percentage the coming bi-ennual bud- doesn’t decrease because so As a means of recovering exempt from the bill would be sophomore communications discourage hazing,and how get cycle,”Jake Jedlicka, much of our diversity around lost revenue from the imposed the Virginia Military Institute, studies major, said. those efforts make orga- student body president and campus comes from out-of- cap, the amendment calls for Norfolk State University and Some of the officials that the nizations and clubs more senior political science and state,” Hirschhorn said. “Many increasing the amount of Virginia State University. SGA met with were JMU alum- approachable to students. history double major, said. of them are student leaders, crit- tuition charged to out-of-state The trip gave SGA mem- ni, most notably Levar Stoney, As hazing continues across “Your student government ical thinkers and they help make undergraduate students. bers an opportunity to have JMU’s student body president university campuses in Virgin- will be focused on rais- James Madison the kind of place As it stands now, approxi- constructive, one-on-one in 2002. Stoney, who was ia — despite strict no-hazing ing awareness of this issue students want to attend.” mately 28 percent of JMU conversations with lawmakers appointed by Governor Terry policies put in place — the on campus and collecting The proposal calls for a 25 students are out-of-state, and about legislation, and allowed McAuliffe as Secretary to the SGA members encouraged petitions to let our lawmak- percent cap on the admission of during a time when the uni- them to provide input in the Commonwealth, is responsi- legislators to move forward ers know that JMU students out-of-state students, and would versity is making a concerted policymaking process. ble for the appointments of the with stricter legislative reform. believe increasing financial open up about 7,000 desks to effort to diversify the student “When students make their 3,700 people within the gover- Senate Bill No. 448 is a aid is the right thing to do.” in-state students, but could body, the proposal could voices heard, legislators lis- nor’s administration. piece of legislation that looks consequently cost public uni- potentially thwart such strides. ten and it gives more weight The SGA also spoke with to exclusively amend cur- Coa Patricknt c t versities $150 million in tuition Aside from private univer- to pieces of legislation,” Joe legislators about the meth- rent penalties for hazing Mortiere at mortiepm@ revenue, according to Hugo. sities, the only other schools Demski, an SGA member and ods being used at JMU to and impose stricter, harsher dukes.jmu.edu. c vs | Could affect other businesses from page 3 several reasons: to relieve stress, fit in, experi- ment or just to have something to do. Others believe it could lead to a potentially a larger smoke because they’re addicted to nicotine, one. which is why many students find it difficult to “The more important part of it is that this quit. ban will influence other businesses to follow In order for students to stop smoking, Mann suit. One business eliminating tobacco from its explained, they must want to change, think it’s inventory is insignificant,” Carlson said. “Twen- important to change, and be confident that they ty different businesses doing the same would can change. cause an uproar.” However, she mentioned that it takes about Tia Mann, the assistant director of the six to 11 attempts to quit before smokers can Univeristy Health Center’s substance abuse stop for good. This can be discouraging for prevention, agrees that CVS tobacco ban is “just them and can cause a “dent” in their confi- the beginning.” dence to quit. “I can’t imagine that numbers will change Despite the obstacles that smokers may face, much, until other businesses follow CVS’ lead, Mann is confident that the ban can lead to posi- Mann said. “Research does show that tobacco tive results and says a lot about this generation. use decreases with limited accessibility — “The ban represents a further shift in the social especially in children.The less convenient it unacceptability of tobacco use [by] decreas- is to obtain, the less likely we are to obtain it.” ing access to products that contain it,” Mann Smoking can lead to serious health impli- said. “This continuing shift has future implica- cations, including “diminished overall health,” tions for people who choose to use tobacco.” Mann explained. But despite these risks, many continue to smoke. Coa nt ct Erin Flynn at According to Mann, students smoke for [email protected]. breezejmu.org Monday, February 17, 2014 5

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Kat McDearis / The Breeze Is JMU truly a university of diversity? Two students share their perspectives on being minorities at a school that is predominately white

Sh elby Wiltz | contributing columnist Nahla Aboutabl | contributing columnist

Two weeks ago, I published a blog higher learning from a social perspective I recently saw a video on Buzzfeed that I also often find myself in situations where it piece on Shoutout! JMU (a feminist blog) as well. JMU needs to prepare its students was created by a group of African-American seems as if people are scared to approach me. titled “Why I Quit Student Ambassadors: to function in a world where people of students at the University of California Los I feel isolated, misunderstood and sometimes Discrimination at JMU” about racism in color are becoming leaders and co-workers Angeles School of Law describing how it feels uncomfortable as a minority on such a huge a prominent student organization. Never at an increasing rate. Don’t parents want to be at a school that is predominantly white. campus. I’m a pretty social person and I did I think it would receive the amount of their children — regardless of race — to be I know this is a touchy subject for a campus approach people quite often, at least more than attention and response that it did. Within a prepared to thrive in a world that values like JMU, but that video inspired me share my people have ever approached me, so I can’t few hours it was clear that I had hit a nerve. diversity and social justice? Right now JMU is thoughts on the matter. As a disclaimer, I would blame myself for how I feel. Not only that, but In the days following, I spoke to current doing a disservice to its students by allowing like to say that this is not my opinion on the I feel like I have to represent the American- students, alumni, professors, administrators us to avoid critical dialogue about race admissions process or any type of affirmative Muslim woman in the best way I can because and student affairs professionals in Virginia beyond freshman orientation. action policy JMU might or might not abide by. I am part of such a small minority. I personally and other states online and in-person about While the administration claims to care First let me introduce myself. I’m a 19-year- know of three other American-Muslim hijabis the issue of diversity on college campuses. deeply about diversity, students have yet old Muslim-American woman. I’m a hijabi, on campus, while the rest are international Writing this piece was an attempt to tell a to see meaningful change take place that meaning I wear the hijab (or scarf) to cover students. I not only have to maintain my story long overdue. It was time to speak up demonstrates we are valued for more than my hair. I was born and raised in America, personal image, but the image of women about the very real instances of intentional our inclusion on a spreadsheet (or a sports but 20 years ago my parents emigrated from in my community. I have to break people’s and unintentional discrimination happening team). Egypt to Harrisonburg. My dad works here as misconceptions and be a good representative at our school. I needed to speak my truth, This is not only true for students of color. a computer science professor and my mother of women like me. but speaking up is never easy. Many were LGBT students have been asking for a works at a daycare center. I’m a sophomore The difficulty of this challenge doesn’t only angered about the story I had to tell and full-time staff person in the LGBT & Ally and here thanks to the full-merit Dingledine stem from my responsibility to represent attempted to discredit my reality in order to Education program for the last four years and Scholarship, and I’m double majoring in Muslim women, but also from an internal avoid a more difficult conversation. have yet to receive one. Some parts of this political science and international affairs. I’m struggle. It’s hard waking up every morning While some were waiting for this issue campus, I’d say, are inaccessible to students fluent in both English and Arabic, although I and looking in the mirror thinking “look to go away, many others were empowered with disabilities. And while women make up find it easier to communicate in English. how different I am from all my classmates.” to tell stories of their own. And this is a majority of the students on this campus, I gave you that little excerpt describing Different is good as long as people understand where the discussion branches out. Since it has not ended sexual assault or sexism on who I am to help explain how it feels to be you, but it becomes a hassle when you feel like publication, my story has been echoed in the campus. a racial/religious/ethnic minority, a feeling people aren’t approaching you because you’re voices of students involved in other campus Our mission statement says “We are a most JMU students might not be able to relate different from them. It’s also hard holding organizations. I have heard about students community committed to preparing students to. Picture yourself in a constant struggle to on to your identity and beliefs when you’re struggling to live comfortably in their to be educated and enlightened citizens who prove people wrong and you might have a surrounded by people who have a completely dorms, to hear and see themselves in their lead productive and meaningful lives.” Part of slight understanding of how I feel. No, I’m not different outlook on life and know little to classrooms and to prove that they deserve to becoming enlightened means understanding oppressed. Yes, I speak English. No, I wasn’t nothing about your experience. be here. concepts like privilege, oppression and born across the Atlantic. No, I’m not a close- Don’t get me wrong, I’m very proud of who JMU has a problem and it extends far microaggression. People of color are minded conservative. Yes, you can approach I am and I try to educate people as much as beyond any single organization. This is experiencing harm at this university because me the same as you can approach anyone else. I can, but I would also appreciate it if people something I have recognized for a long time these things have gone largely unchecked No, I’m not an international student. The list were to take it upon themselves to learn about as a student who has no choice but to be and ignored by administration, faculty and goes on and on. those around them. Reaching out to others will brown in every space on this campus. The students. You might not consciously have these broaden your horizons and introduce you to article I wrote began a conversation that We are at a moment where we have the questions but the way I’m treated by many people with many different backgrounds, so definitely needs to continue. opportunity to seriously recommit ourselves students definitely reflects such thoughts. I’ve don’t hesitate to strike up a conversation with Racial diversity is not only lacking in our to our mission by acknowledging that we had people tell me, “Oh you don’t seem like a stranger. Everyone should feel welcome on student organizations, but in our classrooms have a problem and working overtime to fix the typical Arab,” to which I’m left wondering their campus, but the reality is that if you’re as well. In all of my classes I am either one of it. We can do this by introducing diversity what exactly is the typical Arab and how will a minority you’ve probably felt quite the two people of color in the room, or the only courses to our general education curriculum a person born and raised here know what opposite at times. Some argue that subcultures person of color. I rarely find myself being or developing programs for minority that is. I’ve also been told I don’t dress like a don’t assimilate well, but people need to taught by a person of color or even reading retention or mandating diversity awareness lot of Muslim hijabi girls and that I’m more consider that maybe we’re not allowed to fully books by them. This is an issue for the fact training for staff and faculty. Now is the time “fashionable.” Again, this alludes to some kind assimilate because of how we’re viewed — not that minority voices are invisible in an for big ideas and big action. We are done of assumption that Muslim girls and American by personal choice. educational space. Our stories, histories and waiting. fashion don’t mix. I understand that these realities do not exist except for in the singular misconceptions come from people who don’t Nahla Aboutabl is a sophomore political student who is often called upon to represent Shelby Wiltz is a senior justice studies personally know any Muslim girls, but come science and international affairs double the views and experiences of an entire group. major. Contact Shelby at wiltzsc@dukes. on now … we’re all in college and should know major. Contact Nahla at aboutanm@ Diversity is critical in institutions of jmu.edu. better than to say these things. dukes.jmu.edu.

A “what-did-you-attempt- A “really?!” dart to the guy who A “you-are-the-best” pat to to-accomplish” dart to Kevan spit in Duke Dog Alley, where it will Shari and the wonderful MAD4U Hulligan for including references to be less likely to get washed away. staff! Neo-Nazi groups in his The Breeze From someone who thinks you From someone who appreciates editorial about Russia and the need to clean up your act. your hard work! apparent conflict with the “values” of the Olympics. From a reader who thinks you A “what-a-relief” pat to JMU An “I-wish-I-could-have-this- need to rethink the opinion that the for canceling before 9:30 a.m. last moment-for-life” pat to Walmart Darts & Pats are anonymously submitted and printed on a space-available basis. Russian government supports those week. for having Red Lobster cheddar Submissions creatively depict a given situation, person or event and do not necessarily reflect the truth. hate groups. From someone who appreciates biscuit mix. Submit Darts & Pats at breezejmu.org the warning before actually leaving. From a student who is going to drown her leftover Valentine’s Day A “you-are-the-change” pat sorrows in biscuits. A “thanks-for-the-ride” pat to A “save-the-banjos” dart to to all the Adapted Sports Day An “it-will-be-OK” pat to the the two girls sober-driving Friday WXJM for even considering getting volunteers for doing an amazing delivery driver who hit a car in night. rid of Possum Radio. job and being a true inspiration. Pheasant Run on Wednesday night. A “no-I-don’t-want-to-make-a- From the seniors who didn’t want From someone who thinks you From the girl who watched from From the house who helped you snowman” dart to Mother Nature to walk in the freezing weather and should listen to WNRN if you want the outside and saw you change and hope that everything turned out for ruining everyone’s weekend greatly appreciated the ride. more indie music. lives in just two days. alright. plans. From a senior who is sick of the snow and the opportunity it gives people to quote “Frozen” incessantly.

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William Shoemaker | contributing columnist Not every shark bites like ‘Jaws’ The so-called dangerous sea creatures are actually in trouble

SOUTHVIEWJM.COM SIGN & SAVE $150 WITH REDUCED FEES Courtesy of MCT Campus Sharks have always been a symbol of fear for humans, but now we’re the ones that they need to fear.

This is a devastating time to be a shark or a ray. left-handed? We don’t “correct” left-handed Recently the International Union for the Conser- people to avoid accidents, why should we kill vation of Nature (IUCN) released a report based sharks to avoid attacks? In fact, we may be the on pooled data and concluded that 25 percent ones ultimately responsible for the attacks. Shark of species comprising the phylogenetic order researcher George Burgess recently proposed LOVE WHERE Chondrichthyes are at risk for extinction — a the hypothesis that shark attacks are a reflec- potentially significant cut to marine biodiversity. tion of a successful tourism campaign. The two biggest contributors toward the risk Shark attacks may occur where they do are forms of fishing: the first being the hunting because of the seasonal influx of tourists, not out of sharks to meet the growing demand for shark of a shark’s instinct. Here we might need to look fin soup in Asia; the second is incidental catch- at ourselves as the perpetrator, to see ourselves YOU LIVE ing (bycatching.) as playing a numbers-game with an apex preda- Since this report was written, the Hong tor. This might be difficult given our propensity Kong-based conservation group Wildlife at Risk to glamorize shark attack survivors as celebri- discovered an illegal whale shark processing fac- ties, using the term “survivor” as someone who tory that produces fish oil capsules to export to lived due to inner strength (Bethany Hamilton) the United States. The factory is capable of pro- and not as someone whom an apex predator lost cessing up to 600 sharks yearly, a number greater interest in. than the known population of whale sharks. And What do we fear then? The fear of sharks then when you take into account that Australia might simply be a fear of the unknown. When is currently shooting sharks longer than three you go into the ocean you are afraid of what is meters that get too close to shore, it looks as if potentially below, sharks are just a scapegoat to the whole world is against sharks. ground our fear. But what do sharks do for us? What use is We are in a position between survival and biodiversity if it cannot be put in terms of flocks fear. If we wish to continue on sustaining our- of songbirds or colorful coral reefs of fish? The selves on the productivity of the ocean we must answer is more fundamental than you might overcome our irrational fear of sharks and think. demand international protection to preserve It involves our own survival. A major point of global fisheries. the IUCN report was on the interactions sharks This involves a decision between a hatred of have as major predators in the marine food web, sharks due to the unintentional deaths of a hand- stating that in their absence, global fisheries ful of people, or to appreciate their essential role could potentially crash. Simply put: sharks con- in the marine ecosystem, a role which maintains tribute to maintaining fish populations. Without the fisheries we live off of. It’s a different way to sharks the ocean might not be an option for food look at sharks; to approach them with scientif- for humans. ic understanding rather than primordial fear. It But what about the danger of shark attacks? won’t be easy, because the right thing rarely is. Unprovoked attacks resulted in seven deaths in 2012, so there is some danger. But what rela- William Shoemaker is a senior biology tive danger is there in shark attacks when you major. Contact William at shoemawr@ are five times more likely to die simply by being dukes.jmu.edu.

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Last week I wrote a column about my online Like I said in my last column, I did have suc- dating experience. In it, I quoted a few messag- cess with online dating, but up front, online sand volleyball & basketball courts es I’d received on the site from interested men. dating is a pretty physical thing. Someone’s pro- A couple days after it was posted on The file pops up and if they’re good-looking, you read Breeze website, I got a message from one of on. This guy accepted me for who I was on my computer center + pet friendly those men: “Really impressed with your col- profile, but something about him discovering umn, by the way. Strong writing. Let me know who I am past that site really struck a nerve. if you ever choose to pursue fiction. I could use If this is purely physical, let’s keep the judg- someone to bounce ideas off of. I used to be a ment on a physical level. Sure there’s plenty columnist and editor too, so my hopefully my more to me than what I put on my profile or two cents isn’t too cheap, hah!” what a few pictures show me as. But if I wanted to True to form, I went into panic mode. Apolo- share that side of me, I’d have done it myself. As it gies were flying his way faster than I could even turns out, my friend in Orlando who got me start- figure out what I was apologizing for. ed on online dating actually knows the guy who When you take the “strong-independent- messaged me and she was the reason he found woman-who-don’t-need-no-man” approach to out about my column. It also turns out that he was this situation, I shouldn’t have to apologize for being sincere when he said he liked my writing. calling someone out on a creepy come-on line. It all boils down to where your insecurities lie, Plus, I’m probably never going to meet this guy, I guess. I can take being judged on a physical FALL 2014 and even if I do, he’s pursuing me — and still is level. Being judged physically is such a norm, even after reading my column — so why should that I honestly don’t even care anymore. Grant- I care that he read it? ed, that could be a result of the constant ridicule This past summer, I got one of my closest from men after getting this damn pixie cut and suf- friends from JMU hired at the baseball stadium fering through the current “grow out” stage, but I work at. Being his boss was a weird dynam- even though objectification of women is worse ic in and of itself. But eventually the day came than ever, our skin is getting thicker as a result. SPACES around that I had to sit down with him and do a I think that every female reaches a place where somewhat negative performance evaluation. I’d she starts to put more of her self worth into some- be lying if I said the situation was resolved and thing other than looks. For me, that tipping point everyone walked away happy, but what needed was this past summer when I had my first real to be said was said and then it was done. professional job. Even though I am grateful that So why is it easier to confront a friend face-to- he enjoyed my column and appreciate the vali- face with such a difficult conversation than it is dation, I have an immense amount of pride in GOING FAST to have one anonymously through a keyboard my work, so this hit home hard. with someone I’ve never met? It’s scary having someone find a part of you I met that former intern here at JMU through that you never wanted them to see; especially SMAD and the University Program Board, where when it’s something that you put the most of it was immediately evident that while I like to your self worth into. Could this be just an abrupt have fun, I have a no bulls*** policy when it transition into adult life? Where we all become comes to work and my career. This guy I met our career and our professional worth is valued 1070 Lois Lane • 540.432.0600 on the Internet has no clue about that side of higher than our personality? If so, I’m not quite me. The closest thing to my professional life he sure I’m ready for this. rates, fees & utilities are subject to change. limited time only. see office for details. knows is what he read in that column. And while it’s great to show that I have published work, an Hayley Thompson is a senior media arts article referencing sex toys in the first line is and design major. Contact Hayley at hardly the way I’d frame my career thus far. [email protected]. 8 Monday, February 17, 2014 breezejmu.org ALL IN THE CARDS Netflix’s “House of Cards” debuted during last week’s snow storm, details on page 10.

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Students will always love their school Snow cancellations, but how they enjoy them has changed daze

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY MARK OWEN Snow days used to be about going outside and enjoying classic, frozen fun with snowball fights, snow forts and snowmen. But these days, students are staying in with movies and homework.

By KATIE WOOD sledding and snow pants for Netflix and sweatpants? As a day off, but an opportunity to catch up or get ahead on contributing writer college students with busy schedules, it seems that many school work. of us opted for a relaxing few days, rather than one spent “I spent most of my time writing an essay,” Kitty Thanks to 13 inches of snow on Wednesday, students trekking through the snow. Kijbamrunglarp, a junior quantitative finance major, got a Valentine’s Day gift much sweeter than a cheap box Many students living off campus had to focus less said. “I used to go out and play with my friends, building of chocolates: a four-day weekend. on their actual snow day plans and more on being pre- snowmen. Yes, it has changed because I am grown up On Wednesday night at 9:19 p.m., students received pared for the impending storm. While students living on now. I am a busy man. I have jobs and responsibilities the text message they had been waiting for since the first campus were lucky enough to have a dedicated dining that I have to take care of.” snowflake fell: Campus would be closed Thursday. staff to feed them, off-campus students had to fend for It may seem that all of us JMU students have grown up The elation following a school cancellation is nothing themselves. and moved on passed the childhood days of snow forts new to most of us. I’m sure we all remember those nights and snowmen. However, if you took the time to walk when we paced around the house, clad in our inside out around campus on either of the snow days, chances are and backward pajamas, nervously watching the local “When I was a kid, I would go you saw people spending the day in traditional snow day news’ cancellations list. When we saw our school’s name fashion: throwing snowballs on the Quad, sledding down on the marquee, we rejoiced — especially because we got outside, play in the snow and the ISAT hill or building a snowman in the Village. to stay up past 8:30 p.m. have snowball fights. Now, “I went out with a lot of people from my dorm, and we And while the hope and joy of a snowstorm remains made snowmen, had a snowball fight and made a snow the same, what we do with our snow days has changed. all I did was stay inside.” fort,” Christian Rubio, a junior justice studies, said. “It’s “It’s a lot different. When I was a kid, I would go out- Maribel Perez always been the same for me. Snow day means no school, side, play in the snow and have snowball fights,” Maribel junior media arts and design major no school means you go outside and play.” Perez, a junior media arts and design major, said. “Now, We all chose to spend our snow days in different ways. all I did was stay inside. It’s definitely less active com- Some of us spent hours sledding down the ISAT hill, oth- pared to when I was younger.” ers spent all day curled up in bed with the Olympics on TV When we were kids, we looked forward to sledding and and some even tried to get ahead on our class readings. building snowmen with friends, snowball fights against “I knew it was coming earlier in the week, so I tried to Although our snow day routines may have changed our neighbors and drinking hot cocoa. Now, it seems that plan out my meals,” Andrew Funkhouser, a sophomore since elementary school, in essence it is the same: a day many of us look forward to watching the entire second integrated science and technology major who lives in the of no school, obligations or responsibilities. It was a day season of “House of Cards,” lying in bed all day or even Sunchase, said. “I made sure I used a ton of meal punches spent however we wanted and, no doubt, enjoyed by all. taking the opportunity to catch up on school work. early and stocked up on the essentials for at-home meals.” Is the death of snow activities upon us? Have we traded Many students viewed their snow day not so much as CONTACT Katie Wood at [email protected].

LINKing students together Freshman international students rely on their own version of FrOGs for guidance

By LAUREN HUNT the International Student Leadership sophomore finance major from Vietnam, The Breeze Conference to learn techniques for help- said. “It’s not that people aren’t welcom- ing international students adjust. They ing them, they’re just not opened up.” Ask just about any JMU student and also arrive two days before 1787 orien- The ISA strives to change this. It orga- they’ll tell you that the transition from tation to help students apply for their nizes numerous events throughout home to college — although fun and student visas, check into JMU and get in the year for students to showcase their exciting — is scary and sometimes hard. touch with their parents. respective cultures; this gives them a You have to adjust to sharing a room “The first time that you come to the chance to share their cultures with other with another person and a bathroom States, you have a lot of questions and students and begin to make connections with about 30 other people, and that’s in don’t know what’s going on. You have to outside of the international program. addition to taking college classes. On top learn a lot,” Pamela Denisse Sánchez-Yca- “We encourage people to show that of all of that, some students have to adjust za, a junior business management major they’re different and not be ashamed of to a different country, a different culture and former LINKer from Ecuador, said. who they are,” Sánchez-Ycaza said. “We and a different language. “We help them out with anything. That’s want them to show the diversity they There are roughly 425 international the relationship that we have, and I think bring to JMU.” students from 75 countries, including that’s what makes the transition smooth.” They also are able to connect with Korea, China, India, Vietnam and the Having someone who can answer any people from their home country and countries of the United Kingdom cur- questions a student may have — from bond over similarities. rently attending JMU, according to the ordering textbooks to buying food — can “It’s kind of like, during FrOG week you JMU international student application help calm anxious students that feel over- identify with certain folks that you went page. Some international students come whelmed with change. to high school with. You can relate and for as little as a year, but most tend to stay “Being so far away from home, in unfa- start conversations. International stu- for four years. miliar surroundings with people you dents are the same,” Nguyen said. “You “I didn’t know how it would be. At first don’t know yet, it’s really nice to have know that you’re not alone.” it was like I was in a movie,” Anastassi- approachable people that can help you,” Once international students are able to ya Chervinskaya, a junior international Chervinskaya said. “My LINKer was really adjust to life in the states, they come to affairs major from Kazakhstan, said. attentive and it was obvious that he really love JMU as much as any other student. Helping students like Chervinskaya cared about the people he was assigned to.” “I like the spirit of JMU. From the deal with the sudden change in envi- Along with LINKers, the Internation- beginning it felt like a big family,” ronment, the Leader for International al Student Association and the Office Chervinskaya said. Networking and Knowledge (LINK) pro- of International Programs work to help Although international students love gram eases the transition to JMU life. international students adjust to their JMU’s spirit, it seems that what they miss LINK has 10 student representatives, new surroundings. The hardest part of the most from home is the food. It seems called LINKers, and they act as FrOGs the transition for many students is being like a No. 2 ranking in the nation for din- for international students. LINKers also in such a different culture so far away ing can’t persuade these students. serve as role models for incoming inter- from home. “It’s not bad, but I like the food from my national students and try to positively “A lot of international students come home country better,” Chervinskaya said. impact the students’ acclimation to life into the U.S. and straight to JMU. It’s LAUREN GORDON / THE BREEZE on campus. hard for them to break the barriers,” Duc CONTACT Lauren Hunt at International students are led in a team-building exercise by their LINKers first participate as hosts for Tam Nguyen, president of the ISA and [email protected]. LINK group on the Quad during 1787 Orientation in 2013. 10 Monday, February 17, 2014 breezejmu.org LIFE movie review series review Leave it The darker side of D.C. Netflix’s orginal series ‘House of Cards’ kept JMU students entertained in the ’80s through the wintry weather with the release of its second season

José Padilha’s rendition of ‘Robocop’ does no justice to the original

COURTESY OF MCT CAMPUS Kevin Spacey stars as conniving Vice President Frank Underwood in this dark political drama set in modern-day Washington, D.C.

By MARY KATE WHITE us feel close to him, but you’re never sure of whether or The Breeze not that’s a good thing. Despite all the subtleties that you might miss in Last week, the laziest stars of the universe aligned and conversation, there are plenty of cues from the director COURTESY OF MCT CAMPUS brought us a trifecta: National Self-Pity Day (Valentine’s to set the mood. “House of Cards” is one of the darkest Joel Kinnaman plays Alex Murphy, a cop that is badly injured Day), a snow day and the release of the entire second shows I’ve ever seen, psychologically and visually. Most and given the opportunity to become part man and part robot. season of the Netflix-original political-thriller, “House of of the show is shot at night, casting dramatic shadows Cards.” and causing general discomfort. Even in scenes taking Season two of “House of Cards,” released on Feb. 14 place during the day, Washington, D.C. seems to be By TRAVIS BARBOUR exclusively on Netflix, follows the conniving mastermind eternally overcast. The Breeze Frank Underwood as he takes up his newly-acquired The lighting, slow zooms and music offer the perfect post as the vice president of the United States. Calling framing for such delicate subject matter. Conversations Among the slew of revamped ’80s movies released this upon last season’s cast of lobbyists, congressmen and that otherwise could be interpreted as basic political past weekend (“About Last Night” and “Endless Love”) journalists, the plot thickens into a bloody, murky protocol are made dramatic and sinister. Long, deep comes José Padilha’s remake of Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 hit, porridge of American politics. cello notes make the audience lean in and hang “Robocop.” Like any red-blooded college student with too much on to every word of the vice president’s cell phone With U.S. foreign interference and policing as a backdrop homework to even consider doing, I decided to watch conversations. (and a not-so-subtle jab at our country’s foreign policies), the entire new season in two days. And I’m glad I did, as This season, we see less of the eye-candy journalist the story centers around a struggle in the U.S. Senate the plot and subtle double-crossing of Capitol Hill would Zoey Barnes (Kate Mara) with an increased focus on between Raymond Sellars (Michael Keaton), the man be too much to follow if I didn’t just sit there and watch it the eerily logical relationship between Francis and responsible for robotic law enforcement droids stationed all in lengthy chunks. his wife, Claire. In a twisted kind of feminism, it’s nice in the Middle East (more social commentary?) and Senator Maybe if you’re a political science major or even just to see a woman playing the game just as well as her Hubert Dreyfus (Zach Grenier), the man preventing these an avid fan of “The West Wing,” you could breeze through frighteningly-clever husband as she fights her own drones from policing on U.S. streets. this series as if it were a dark, intense daytime drama. campaign against sexual assault in the military. The two Dreyfus and the But, being a political ignoramus, I found myself getting are literally a “power couple,” which is as awe-inspiring American public are “Robocop” lost in the lingo as characters spoke entirely too quickly as it is chilling. concerned that a robot as a way to illustrate the urgency of just about every I once accidentally called this show “Game of Cards,” lacks the emotional  conversation. but I think that Freudian slip was just an accurate safeguards and PG-13 108 min. As with the previous season, Vice President description: “House of Cards” is Netflix’s “Game of judgements needed to Starring Joel Kinnaman, Underwood (Kevin Spacey) addresses the camera and Thrones,” but cleaned up and modernized. If you love a handle crime. In order Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, the audience with short monologues — a technique show that blurs the lines of right and wrong, leaving you to garner public support, Abbie Cornish that draws the viewer even closer while simultaneously with an inability to trust anyone, I recommend this show Sellars must merge explaining complicated nuances. to you. humanity and robotics into It’s interactions like these that cast Underwood in the one. But who will become this cyborg? light of an anti-hero, similar to Walter White of “Breaking Mary Kate White is a senior media arts and design Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) is a family man, with a Bad.” We’re let in on all of Underwood’s secrets, making major. Contact her at [email protected]. wife and young son. After being discovered by a big-time drug dealer while working an undercover mission, he becomes a target. After an attempt on his life leaves Murphy almost entirely incapacitated and near death, Sellars finds his new specimen. The film attempts to make some pretty bold statements about our society. From the drones the United States uses in the Middle East to the propaganda-pressing news PICKARIOUS | New online trading organizations that saturate the TV. The film opens with Pat Novak (Samuel L. Jackson), a Rush Limbaugh-like talking head who clearly doesn’t argue post features user-interactive video for both sides of the conflict, and attempts to sway public opinion to the totally efficient, albeit emotionless police drones. Jackson’s character is simply there to question these from front talking heads that are constantly spouting their personal agendas and biases on TV. “Part of it is it’s [video] an attractive media and one So the biggest question you’re having has to be “well, people resonate with … also, you know what you’re get- how does it compare to the original?” Like most remakes, ting. I think it builds trust between the buyer and the “Robocop” fails to make the grade. seller,” Harbick said. Though the film hinges on some excellent ideas (e.g. The video aspect of the website allows users to talk human vs. machine, ethics vs. profit), they are executed about the items they’re selling; users’ narration in their quite poorly. With about 45 minutes of exposition, I grew videos can be translated to text and found by search bored with the film pretty quickly. Even when Murphy engines. Such in-depth technology requires a good becomes a killing machine, there still is a lack of balance team, however. between futuristic a**kicking and ideological debate. With Vaughn as the software developer and designer, One element that made the original “Robocop” such a Harbick as the coder and business manager and Fulk- BLAIR ROSEN / THE BREEZE success was the shock of it all. Back in the ’80s, modern erson as the manager of finance and legalities, the trio technology was still in its infantile stages and the idea of hoped to combat what many users found frustrating in What is said in Pickarious seller videos can be found in search cyborg police cleaning up the streets was innovative and eBay and Craigslist. engines online. Videos can also be annotated by future buyers. cool. Now, with almost everyone possessing a powerful Unlike eBay, where users can only sell one item or computer in his or her pocket, this idea seems more large “lots” of items grouped together, Pickarious is “Also, there are unreliable buyers … because there’s no palpable and believable, taking away a key element from much more flexible with their selling options. Users commitment. If you’ve made an investment in it, you’re the original. can sell one item or large groups of items. But, Pickari- more likely to follow through with it. It also makes sure I will admit, Padilha’s remake of “Robocop” has some ous allows buyers to single out items within large lots you’re serious about it.” pretty awesome action sequences and effects. Murphy’s and comment on the items they wish to buy by making The website is currently only serves the Harrisonburg visor in his sleek robotic suit allows him to access criminal annotations on seller’s videos. region, with buyers and sellers mainly stemming from or records, facial recognition, retina scanners and all sorts around the Harrisonburg region. Users have been satis- of fun technical implementations, and who doesn’t love a fied with the website’s attributes. half-man, half-robot kicking a** and taking names? “Pickarious is much more local, “I like that it is video based — [it’s] easier on the eyes However, the high-speed editing and overabundance and [there’s] less sifting through text,” Yvette Meaney, a of visuals in the film gave me slight motion sickness. and doesn’t have crazy categories Harrisonburg local and user of Pickarious, said. “Pick- Oftentimes there are so many different images and videos or spam like the other sites do.” arious is much more local, and doesn’t have crazy happening overtop of each other, it’s an attack on the categories or spam like the other sites do.” senses that’s hard to keep up with. Though highly stylized Yvette Meaney Pickarious has already had about twenty successful and respectable, it may be a tad too much. Harrisonburg local and Pickarious user sales on its website since it has opened, Harbick said. Despite many missteps (such as trying to recycle As time passes, Pickarious will only grow. Fulkerson dialogue from the original), “Robocop” surprisingly has an estimates the website will go national in late spring or A-list group of actors at its disposal, including a typically- early summer. amazing performance from Gary Oldman who plays the “We’re in the process right now of raising some addi- doctor in charge of Murphy’s transition. But for goodness Pickarious also does not charge the sellers, unlike tional funds to go national,” Fulkerson said. “We’re very sake, can we please stop casting Samuel L. Jackson just to eBay. A virtual currency, called coins (worth 10 cents close to having a mobile app ready to release on android cuss on screen? We get it already. each), is used to buy an item. When a buyer places an and iOS. We’ll try to do a push to go out more nationally Though it doesn’t live up to the original, Padilha’s offer or asks a seller a question, they are charged one at the same time that we launch those apps.” “Robocop” still makes some interesting arguments about coin; if they successfully agree to buy the item, however, Pickarious has been open for months, but its first online our society. But as for me, I think I’ll stick with the original. they earn all of their coins back. yard salewill occur on Feb. 22 and 23, during which users “[From] my Craigslist experience, I find that if you just are encouraged to put up large collections of items for sale. Travis Barbour is a senior media arts and design major. want to sell a used couch, it kind of works but not really Contact him at [email protected]. because of the unsavory part of the site,” Harbick said. CONTACT Joanna Morelli at [email protected]. NEVER MISS A BEAT Follow us on Twitter @thebreezesports.

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Familiarity inside the Convoca- tion Center helped JMU survive against the University of North Carolina at Wilmington Saturday with a 64-62 victory. For head coach Matt Brady, there’s just something about the 7,156-seat arena. “I’m not sure this is a game we would’ve won anywhere besides the Convocation Center,” Brady said. “I think it’s comfort now. I think the ball happens to climb over the rim one more time than it might when we’re on the road.” Tied at 62 with under a minute PHOTOS BY LAUREN GORDON / THE BREEZE to play, sophomore guard Ron Freshman Walker Aspinwall (left), junior Alex Holler (center) and junior McKinley Johnson are three of the 13 current players on the women’s practice squad. Curry drove to the right side of the lane and got a friendly roll on the By WAYNE EPPS JR. Having those male practice players on tap teams in our league should be easier,” Clark back block, putting the Dukes up The Breeze gives Brooks more flexibility to have his starters said. two with half a minute remaining. scrimmage together while still having a com- The practice squad begins to come togeth- “I have a lot of confidence that They’re almost undercover. You won’t see petitive balance on the scout team. Anywhere er in mid-August, before the start of the fall Ron can make a play at the end of their names on the roster or their faces on from one to six of the players may show up to semester. Clark sends out a campus-wide email the game,” Brady said. “He’s done the bench during games. But take a glance practice each day. There’s a group of about 13 around that time to advertise the opportunity. it now a few times. We were fortu- at women’s basketball practice on any given players that are cleared to come out. He said he receives roughly 75 responses to nate that that ball had a little bit of afternoon, and you’re bound to notice them. On any particular day, the players there that email, but they’re filtered down to those english and rolled in at the end.” They’re the male practice players that sim- morph into an upcoming opponent for a cou- 13 or so guys who fit the bill. Off of a UNCW timeout, the ulate opposing teams’ schemes to help the ple hours. Leading up to Thursday, it’ll be the There are no official tryouts, but Clark does Dukes played 22 seconds of lock- Dukes prepare for what they should see against University of Delaware. Next week, the College hold a kind of interest meeting at UREC within down defense, forcing UNCW any given opponent. And this season, they’re of Charleston. These players push the Dukes the first weeks of the semester where those who head coach Buzz Peterson to use one quiet piece of a team that’s off to its best — they’re really unlike anything they’ll see on want to be a part of the squad play in pickup another timeout with six seconds start in conference play in seven years. game day, but in a good way. games. From those games, Clark gauges who remaining. Male practice players are common across “They’re not accurate at all, because they’re has, “a clear, basic knowledge of basketball.” The plan was to get the ball women’s college basketball, and it’s a strategy a lot more athletic than the girls,” sophomore “That’s what’s key … They have very limited down low to junior Seahawk for- head coach Kenny Brooks has always used. guard Precious Hall said. “They’re jumping time to learn the plays, and they have very lim- ward Cedrick Williams and go “It’s been a staple of our program since I everywhere, they’re faster, stronger.” ited time to play with each other,” Clark said. for the tie. Senior guard Tanner took over. We’ve had male practice players And that, according to women’s basketball “So we have to make sure that they have just a Milson wasn’t the first or second from day one,” Brooks said. “It’s been a tre- director of operations Tim Clark, is further good, solid understanding. Have been coached option when the play was drawn mendous plus for our program, because my explanation for bringing in male players in before, so that they’re receptive to that.” up, but the shot came down to philosophy is to try to build as much chem- particular. Maybe more importantly, the players have him. With seconds ticking off, Mil- istry as I can. And I like to have my first group “If our girls can play against them and com- to stand up to the health and academic stan- son got a look from the right wing playing on a team together.” pete against them, playing against the other dards of the NCAA, as if they too were varsity for the win, but it was short and to athletes. the right. A crowd of 3,262 let out “They’re technically Division I athletes. a triumphant cheer as JMU locked They’re just not active,” Clark said. “So they in its 10th win of the season. have to do all the academic stuff, all the com- “I think we survived right there pliance stuff, all the health and physical stuff, at the end,” Brady said. “From their concussion tests, their physicals. They got where I was standing, I thought to go through the whole shebang.” Tanner’s three looked like it was Once the players are cleared, it’s time to get going in. I thought we did a rea- down to business. At which point, Brooks lays sonable job defending anyone on out the ground rules. the three-point line.” “I bring all of them in from day one, and the Curry finished with 13 points first thing I tell them is, ‘If you hurt my girls, and eight rebounds. He’s becom- I’ll kill you,’” Brooks said. “But they do a really ing an essential part to this team good job as a balance of coming out and chal- down the stretch in close ball lenging them, but at the same time, not doing games. anything that would hurt them.” “Hopefully we can keep going Forget whatever physical advantage that to him and he’ll keep coming exists, playing with the women’s basketball through,” Brady said of Curry. team is by no means easy. JMU led 34-26 at half and opened it up to a 13-point lead Junior McKinley Johnson said pride in JMU is a major motivating factor for him being a practice player. see PRACTICE, page 12 early in the second. But as time has proven, the middle of the sec- ond half seems to bite JMU every time. “Forcing us to make jump shots,” Curry said of the UNCW’s LACROSSE (1-0) second half defensive adjust- ments. “That was the toughest thing about that.” The Dukes went over six min- utes without a field goal midway through the second half. Starting off on the right foot As Brady predicted back in January, most of these confer- JMU fends off Virginia Tech to win season debut Saturday ence games — especially those at home — would come down to the wire. Saturday did just that with By WAYNE EPPS JR. With 1:32 to play before the break, nine lead changes and four ties. The Breeze sophomore midfielder Jaci Gordon Well-rounded defense and a com- scored the first of her two goals to give fortable setting helped the Dukes A 30 degree windchill and leftover JMU a 5-4 halftime lead. At halftime, closeout a streaking UNCW team. snow forced the first lacrosse game Klaes-Bawcombe told her team to set- “They were hot too,” Curry said of the season onto University Park’s tle down and play at the level they’re of UNCW. “It’s very important that turf practice field Saturday after- capable of. we got this win. Trying to start a noon. But JMU still found a way to get “We just asked them to stop thinking winning streak.” comfortable. so much. We felt like every movement The team watched the U.S. vs. JMU used a 6-1 run at the end of the was scripted,” Klaes-Bawcombe said. Russia Olympic hockey game first half and beginning of the second “And we’re a pretty fast, aggressive, prior to the noon tip-off on Satur- to turn a tie into a four-goal lead. The quick team. And when we’re thinking day. Word was that redshirt senior Dukes eventually went on to beat Vir- too much, we lose some of that ath- Andrey Semenov, a St. Petersburg, ginia Tech 14-11. Junior midfielder Ali leticism. So I asked them to just play.” Russia native was quite upset over Curwin and redshirt junior attacker Right out of the half, a momentum the Russian loss in a shootout. Emily Rhoads led JMU with four goals shift was apparent. The Dukes scored “Go USA, I guess,” Brady said apiece. Junior attacker Stephanie Fin- three goals over the first three minutes smiling when asked if the team ley added three goals and three assists. of the second half to balloon their lead gave him a hard time on the Rus- But despite the final result, there to 8-4 with 27:14 to play. sian defeat. were some early first-game jitters Draw control and transition offense He managed to take his fan- apparent in the first half. Curwin got proved to be key in the beginning of dom-frustrations out on the the scoring started with a goal just 40 the second half. The Dukes won the Seahawks later that afternoon. seconds in, but the Hokies responded opening draw of the half and then the While he’s struggled to find his by scoring two of their own goals in the next two draws after scoring. Finally, stroke and offensive consistency next eight minutes. the third goal was scored after sopho- throught the season, Semenov “Twelve people have to come more midfielder Taylor Gress regained made his third to last game inside together to win one game. I think it possession for the Dukes after a Virgin- the Convo a good one. He finished is a jitters thing,” head coach Shelley ia Tech shot hit the post and sparked with a game high 18 points on 4-7 Klaes-Bawcombe said. “It’s an early the transition. shooting from downtown. season, both team’s first game. I just “We’ve really been working on tran- “It feels good,” Semenov said. think that there were a lot of nerves sition in practice,” Rhoads said. “And “It really helps to stretch the that people were working through.” I think, clearly, today it really showed defense out.” In her first career start, Rhoads tied how strong we can be in transition. So Wednesday he passed former the game up with a goal at the 20:44 that’s really exciting.” guard, Pierre Curtis (2006-10) for mark. But the back-and-forth scor- The Hokies never stopped knocking first on the games-played list; he ing continued toward the end of the on the door though. They scored two played in his 128th game Saturday. half. The Dukes and Hokies traded two goals in 52 seconds to cut JMU’s lead MATT SCHMACHTENBERG / THE BREEZE more goals apiece over 12 minutes to tie the game 4-4. see LACROSSE, page 12 see BASKETBALL, page 12 Sophomore midfielder Jaci Gordon takes a shot on Virginia Tech’s goal Saturday. 12 Monday, February 17, 2014 breezejmu.org sports basketball | Drexel up next prai ct ce | Provides challenge from page 11 a little trash talk. from page 11 Dalembert is the current solution. “They’ll let you know if they’re beating you,” “Running to both glasses,” Brady said. “He just “I think right away we found out how good the freshman business management major Walker “It hasn’t hit me yet,” he said on winding runs and makes plays. He’s running every time girls are,” junior finance major Alex Holler said. Aspinwall said. “Which is good, it makes you down a storied career. “It’ll hit me the next game whereas Taylor runs when he thinks he might It is Division I basketball after all, so it’s quite want to practice harder, which gets them better.” or the game after that. I might cry during the have a chance.” a few steps up from whatever these guys were The same holds true off the court. The play- anthem [Feb. 26 vs. Towson]” Sophomore guard Andre Nation turned in used to playing high school and American Ath- ers acknowledge each other around campus An unexpected spark in the form of fresh- a solid performance with 10 points and five letic Union basketball growing up. — teammates in spirit. man forward Yohanny Dalembert has given the rebounds. He went back to his defensive ways “I definitely came into it thinking it was “You’re invested in them, so you want them Dukes some post presence. Wednesday against that got him noticed as a freshman, logging seven going to be a lot different. Their practices are a to do well, so you have to play your best to help the University of Delaware, Dalembert had his steals, a career high that also ties the single-game lot harder than our high school practices were,” them out,” Aspinwall said. first double-double and career highs. He fin- school record. junior psychology major McKinley Johnson said. Every bit counts. So there’s no denying the ished with 15 points and 13 rebounds against Nation’s sophomore counterpart and third “When we jumped in with plays and stuff, they practice players’ influence on JMU’s success the Blue Hens. His performance led to his first member of the triumvirate, guard Charles Cooke, taught us like five or six plays in one day. We this season. The size of that influence depends career start Saturday over sophomore forward finished with 10 points. It’s his 20th game of the were so confused and they killed us the first cou- on who you let tell it. Taylor Bessick. season in double figures. He’s now averaging 14.3 ple days, because we had no idea.” “I’m probably the team’s MVP honestly,” Hol- “He’s playing as hard as anyone on our team,” per game. Work begins shortly before the start of each ler joked. Brady said. “He’s been doing that for about six Saturday marked JMU’s sixth game in a mere practice. One of Brooks’ assistants, whoever’s “They do a great job of challenging the kids. weeks. I think he should be rewarded.” 14-day stretch. Over that period, the Dukes (10- heading the scout team that day, meets with They’ve been like that since I started this pro- Dalembert got 24 minutes of floor time 17, 5-8 Colonial Athletic Association) are 2-4. They the practice players on the top cement courts gram,” Brooks said. “They come out and they’ll against UNCW. He finished with seven points now have three days off to prepare for Drexel Uni- behind the stationary seats in the Convocation compete, they’ll challenge them, they’ll root for and three rebounds, but struggled with fouls, versity’s appearance at the Convo Wednesday Center. them. They come to our games and they root. picking up two early in the first half and battling night. JMU will look to forget the 78-60 drudging There, according to Clark, the players are They do special things.” with four down the stretch of the second half. the Dragons gave them in Philadelphia a week briefed on an opponent’s simple “bread-and- Brooks admitted that the players don’t get “I want to thank the coaching staff for the back. butter” offensive sets. They’re also prepped on much for their efforts. They get official JMU opportunity,” Dalembert said. The win is big in a subtle way for JMU, as it a defensive scheme if JMU is expecting to see basketball practice shorts and jerseys, plus pri- Brady is in need of post production as the keeps UNCW at bay, stuck with the nine seed, something different from usual. ority scheduling to be available for practice. But Dukes tend to struggle for rebounds at times. while the Dukes move up to seventh place behind “They’ll give us the strengths and the weak- for these guys, it’s not about the perks. It’s about “We needed more productivity on the glass,” the College of Charleston. Drexel and Charles- nesses of the girls that we’ll be emulating for that being a part of something bigger. Brady said. “More energy and a little more tough- ton have five wins in conference play too, but the day,” Holler said. “So we’ll know if they’re jump And this season, it could end up being bigger ness and he’s given it to us.” Dragons have six losses and the Cougars seven. shooters, or like to drive a little more, and then than they imagined. Brady said Dalembert has given them a lot of The standings are so jumbled, every win comes we can kind of focus ourselves off of that.” “Duke Dog pride,” Johnson said. “Trying to toughness in the center position. It’s something at a premium. On the court, the Dukes and their practice make our team better, we got a great women’s they needed. “We’re just trying to get every one o these compatriots maintain a friendly, but competi- team. So, any way we can help out.” “We have to have some toughness at that spot,” games and it started with today,” Curry said. tive relationship. The varsity athletes recognize Brady said. the value of the other players in helping them get Contact Wayne Epps Jr. at Brady has voiced frustration concerning Bes- Contact Stephen Proffitt better. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for [email protected]. sick’s effort and performance, and believes at [email protected]. Lacrosse | JMU heads to Florida for two games this weekend

from page 11 Klaes-Bawcombe would like to see her defense “tightens things up in key moments,” and play to 8-6 with 26 minutes to play. with more confidence. JMU then proceeded to score four of the But with just one game under its belt, this next five goals to pad its lead and make it 12-7 group is already feeling the cohesion. with 14 and a half minutes left. “I can’t even begin to tell you,” Gordon said. That’s when things got interesting again, as “But we can finally take risks, all over the field. Virginia Tech scored three straight goals to cut So not only do we just have like a couple of JMU’s lead to two with just three minutes to people on defense … We have everyone to play. But Finley and Rhoads stepped up again trust.” to score two straight JMU goals in 26 seconds This week, JMU will head south to face the to assure the win. University of Florida (2-1) on Thursday and Klaes-Bawcombe was pleased with how the Jacksonville University (1-2) Saturday. Over the Dukes handled adversity throughout the game. next few days, the Dukes will work on devel- “I felt that here today, even when Virginia oping that offensive leadership and defensive Tech went on its runs, I didn’t get the sense confidence, and ultimately strengthening the from this group that they were worried about chemistry that they already feel. those,” she said. “They just wanted to stop “Just have each other’s back, more communi- them. And that’s a huge mental adjustment cation,” Rhoads said. “Just having trust in each that we’re making.” other, and it’ll all come together through that.” She also said that she was pleased with the balanced scoring effort, but will con- Contact Wayne Epps Jr. at tinue to search for offensive leadership. [email protected].

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