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1 -^■■ssfw lames Madison University Today: Partly Cloudy High: SI HE!BREEZE Low: 42' Mi'tiiliiii, 5A Citizens SGA disagree Jimmy eats Convo pleased with with leasing past year BY RACHANA DIXIT BY COLLEEN SCHORN senior writer senior writer At the City of Harrisonburg The Student Government School Board meeting Tuesday Association won the Dolley night, some Harrisonburg resi- Award in the category of a front- dents expressed disapproval with end budgeted club due to its ded- the possibility of JMU leasing ication to the student body and Harrisonburg High School. its hard work this past year. The lease would let the uni- This year, SGA helped put versity use the high school build- together many programs to unify ing for $7.5 million for a span of students such as The Big Event five years. Students of the high JMUbilee, Mr. Freshman and Mr. school would move into the newly and Ms. Greek JMU. constructed high school building, The organization also has and the old building would be put together programs that will declared as surplus property. help students for years to come, If the lease is enacted., including the Blue Light Initiative superintendent Donald Ford said to increase safety on campus, an that once the lease expires, it could HOV parking lot and parking be extended, sold or left to the dty. appeals reform. SGA worked to JMU spokesman Andy Perrine MfYIMaMR|atM»«s«tr have the library open for 24 hours said, "We're just waiting for the Jimmy Eat World perform In the packed Convocation Center Thursday. For tha full concert story, aaa paaje 9. a day during exam week and had school board and city council to Coca-Cola and water handed out make a decision." Perrine said to students during study breaks. JMU got involved with the high SGA got students involved school at the city's request about with state governments by four or five years ago. SGA president keeps promises sending members to Richmond Some Harrisonburg residents to apeak with delegates and by seem to disagree with the idea of BY COLLEEN SCHORN difference you are making." ing with than Tom." having a voter registration drive the current high school being sur- senior writer "I am the most proud of the way SGA One of Culligan's biggest concerns to register students to vote. Ci property, since Harrisonburg takes a proactive stance, for example this year was the Blue Light Initiative. "This year I think we have its own issues of overcrowd- Senior Tom Culligan served the the ECP issue last year and the issue of SGA has tried to increase lighting on had an extremely productive year ing. Donna Lewis, a Harrisonburg student body as its president for the allowing guns on campus this year," campus in the past, but there were still on many different levels," said raslrtsnl present at the board meet- past year. He has completed or is in Culligan said. "Members of SGA have places around campus that weren't senior Alka Franceschi, SGA vice ing, said, "JMU can control its the process of completing every plat- done a great job of taking the initiative safe enough, Culligan said. president of student affairs. overcrowding through admissions, form point he promised the students to fix something. We do what a student He went around campus with She said there isn't Just one but we cannot." Another dty real- when he was running in the elections government Is supposed to do." other members of SGA and officers program that SGA has excelled at dent Don Allen, expressed a simi- last year. On average, he spends over Senior JohnAlex Golden, SGA vice from the JMU police to see where above others. "We arc constantly lar opinion. "The old high school 10 hours a day on campus, either in president for administrative affairs, lights were most needed. working for the student body, building Is dedicated to teaching daas, in meetings or in the Student lid» wuikvd with Culligan since they Golden said over $100,000 was and we serve different needs at the children of this dty." Government Assodatlon's office. both became Involved in SGA. spent to Improve safety on campus, different times," Franceschi said. Other suggestions were "I think SGA is an amazing orga- "I've been really honored to serve which included adding more blue Senior JohnAlex Golden, SGA nization," Culligan said. "The greatest with Tom," Golden said. "There is lights and cutting back overgrown ut HHS page 5 thing about it Is that you can see the nobody else 1 would be happier serv- bushes and trees. mSOA,p*gtS Students rethink energy sources BY SARAH SHAHMORADIAN the air Is known to irritate the respira- pany. Reynolds and his fellow students staff writer tory system and provoke asthma." offered to do it for free. Reynolds said when regular diesal "It's actually a nice kind of sym- A protect started by three friends Is run on car engines, "you get a lot of biotic relationship," Reynolds said, blossomed into an environmentally harmful byproducts like carbon monox- about the collaboration between the sound profect to recycle campus cook- ide and sulfur." ISAT department and JMU's Dining ing oil Into diesel fuel for Harrisonburg "This is the same sulruric acid In and Facilities Management. buses, tractors and cars. the rain that wears down your his- "We wanted the oil to turn It Into Integrated Sdence and Technology torical monuments and raises the pH In biodiesel, and they needed someone to seniors Lucian Reynolds and Brannon ponds, killing wildlife," Reynolds said. take It away, so there was a great oppor- Balsley, along with junior Justin Miller, "Biodiesel, on the other hand, which Is tunity," he said. demonstrated the $4,300 biodiesel also scentless and dean, eliminates sul- For the past 18 months, JMU has reactor Friday that was purchased fur almost completely." been using biodiesel to power its diesel through a grant from the Virginia "The only other byproduct that comes maintenance and grounds vehicles. Department of Mines, Minerals and from producing biodiesel is glycerin, Program co-director and ISAT pro- Energy and funds from JMU's Fadlities which is used to make soap and can't fessor Chris Bachmann said JMU is now Management department. really cause any harm," he said. taking the next step to produce its own Reynold; ind his friends had been Brodrick said biodiesel comes from fuel on a larger scale. working on developing a smaller all-natural sources, like animal fat or "Right now, we're not making that biodiesel reactor for three years vegetable oil. Where better a place to much [biodiesel], but we plan to make through JMU's Alternative Fuels get leftover cooking oil than from JMU's more in the future ... our refinery is Diversification Program. own dining services? getting bigger, so this is hist the begin- "Biodiesel has many benefits, one She said since dining facilities and ning," Reynolds said. mainly being that it produces less par- restaurants are not legally permitted Brodrick said, "The prices of fuel are ticulate than regular diesel," said C. to dispose their waste cooking oil by going up, so people are naturally starting PAUL RJLEY nwrtawhj ptmopt J. Brodrick, program Co-director and themselves, they must pay a fee to MAT professor Chris •achmann explains tha reactor, which wM as ISAT assistant professor. Paniculate in have it taken away by a certified com- tee FUEL, page 5 duo* Modleael to supplement the fuel already purchased by JMU. Seder Dinner Professor consultant to network news BY MEOAN NEAL lot of political contexts ... [It] really is the as director of global policy and justice. In contributing writer Western rivillzation's oldest continual addition, Pham holds affiliate faculty mem- political process, and yet, if s not really ber positions in the department of social Peter Pham, assistant professor of studied as such." sdence and the Africana studies program. justice studies, can now add senior con- Before joining the faculty at JMU, "I had a lot of different offers both sultant for CBS to his resume. Pham held a number of intematiotul here and abroad, but came here spe- Pham's credibility has been estab- titles, including his most recent service cifically because I wss both interested lished with several media outlet appear- under the Vatican as a diplomat. His in and attracted by the opportunity to ances in which he is regularly quoted, work with Liberia, Sierra Leone and create an innovative new justice studies ranging from The New York Times to the Guinea from 2001 to 2002 allowed him program," Pham said. Associated Press to CBS News. Most access to research materials unattainable Pham's academic credentials include recently, Pham can be seen on CBS as a to most. In consequence, two of his most a doctorate in ethics from the University senior consultant in the period of papal significant interests were furthered—that of Rome, a doctorate in law from the succession this month. of papal succession and Africana studies. University of Rome, a doctorate equivalent Having written well over 100 articles "[1 have] always had a fascination in cannon law from Gregorian University and essays and authored or edited a with Africa, and my work in the Vatican and several other graduate degrees. dozen titles, Pham's literary contributions diplomacy gave me the wonderful Janet Smith, a member of the Office of gained him recognized authority on opportunity to explore Africa in depth Media Relations, said, "Since November numerable subjects including religion and not only study its political processes 2004, shortly after Dr.