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r MADISON MEMORIAL LIBRARY Vol. I.IV Friday. July I, 1977 James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va. No. 3 ■i . * i » «• ii ^ - • %, ^PSuwpy _ m tfK • ' T.i'T in»ifc.<ww\i ^*^w* " f * mm Photo by David Wondclktn In The Breeze What price JMU? p. 2 Madison's gho8t .... p. 3 Page 2, THE BREEZE, Friday, July 1, 1977 James Madison University is official today Discussion, speculation, then . • . Price 'essentially inexpensive' By TAMI RICHARDSON By JUDY STOWT: First there was discussion, speculation and What will it cost? According to Dr. Ray polling, and a large majority agreed it was a Sonner, vice president for public affairs, good idea. Later, the Board of Visitors, Madison's metamorphosis from a college to a Virginia General Assembly-both university will be an essentially inexpensive unanimously and Governor Mills Godwin process. found the idea to be a sound one. The majbr alterations will involve four The rest is easy: a few splashes of paint, large signs which border the outskirts of some new name plates, mountains of new campus, according to Sonner. stationery and a memo from President Ronald "We are fortunate that the state is widening Carrier to all departments asking that hen- Main Street, because the cost of replacing the ceforth everyone refer to this institution as ill bluestone gate on Main Street and the gate either James Madison University, JMU or next to the hospital will be included in the simply the University. relocation costs," he said. Welcome students, faculty, adminstrators New "university" plates are being made to and friends to James Madison University! go over the "college" plates on the gate along JMU is now Virginia's fifth largest Port Republic Road, and the sign on 1-81 is university, and this new status should make being repainted at the campus sign shop, he 41,200 faculty, staff, students and alumni said. happy, according to a statement made early in "Only a few other small signs such as the theyear by Carrier. one in front of the Health Center will require The only universities in Virginia larger than replacement," he added. Madison are the University of Virginia, Concerning the ordering of new stationery, Virginia Tech, Virginia Commonwealth Sonner said most offices re-order yearly University, and Old Dominion University. anyway. Any leftover "Madison College" The process of renaming Madison began stationery wilj not be discarded, but rather last year when Carrier asked the Board of used for on-campus, inter-departmental or Visitors and the Alumni Association to con- inter-office communication. sider the possibility of becoming a university. Also, there will be no change in uniforms for Opinions have been overwhelmingly in athletic teams until there is a need for new support of the change since it was first ones, Sonner said. "Many uniforms have the proposed. In a poll conducted by the Public Dukes' insignia anyway, he added. Affairs Office early last fall, 87 per cent of the The change in name wilf not affect the students, faculty, staff and alumni responding salaries of either the faculty or the classified were in favor of a name change. workers on campus, Sonner said. The name, James Madison University Faculty salaries are determined* by the received the most votes by a 3-1 margin of fiet h budget office in Richmond, Sonner said, and those favoring a change. The next most are based on an established "peer-grouping" popular choice was simply Madison Univer- average. Classified workers' salaries are also sity. set by the state, he said, and apply to colleges This poll was presented to the Board of and universities alike. < Visitors at their Oct. 22 meeting and they voted The book store is the one place where the unanimously to request the Virginia General change will be most evident, Sonner said. Assembly to change the name. "The book store personnel have been coor- Identical bills which were introduced in the dinating the change for over a year now," he state Senate by Sen. Nathan Miller of said, adding, "What's left of the old materials Rockingham County, and the House by Del. will be carried over, but only 'university' Bonnie Paul of Harrisonburg said wherever materials have been ordered recently." (Continued on Page 10) (Continued on Page lit) Photo by Frank Ratfibun Vacation College—'the remedial alternative' •annual oasis in the Desert of the Working Year' By TOM DULAN alumni, according to Alumni nesday's topic was "Furniture understood most of it seemed, Stopping at various points Picture this. You're finally Services Director Charles of the Slienandoah Valley," at least, to have learned how along Skyline Drive, the group on that long-awaited vacation, Scott. Thursday's was of flora in the to distinguish huckleberries finally arrived at Big that annual oasis In the Desert The Vacation College, in its Valley, and the week ended from blueberries. In fact, the Meadows for a strolling of the Working Year. It's time second year of existence, was with the "History of the hubkleberry population on lecture through the meadow, a to relax and enjoy the lighter held June 19-25, and featured a Shenandoah Valley." Massanutten Mountain may film in the'visitor's center and side of what life has to offer. weekfull of group activities Thursday's all-day field have been saved only by a dinner at the lodge. So, here you are at your with options. trip included a chair-lift ride growing interest in lunch A great number of the vacation paradise, and you've Many adult vacationers up Massanutten Mountain, time. people on the trip were from just completed your 39th lap chose to participate in the followed ^ an ascent, on foot, From Massanutten the the Harrisonburg area, but around a six-square-block five-day tennis camp, which to within a marked half-mile group was bussed to Swift Run many were from other parts area, with one eye looking for included instruction and free- of the peak. Gap, and from there to of the state, North Caroline, a parking space, the other on play, with singles and doubles All along the way, Norlyn Skyline Drive. At Swift Run Tennessee and as far away as the gas guage. You've em- tournaments. Players were Bodkin, assistant professor of Gap, the non-botanists found New York and New Jersey. blazened forever on your also video-taped as part of biology at' JMU, pointed out something else to capture They ranged in age from 25 memory every bumper their instruction. and discussed various types of their attention-wild -77-a very sprightly 77. Many sticker on every parked car There also was a variety of flora, briefly explained the strawberries and black- were all but amazing with along the way. sports camps for the children, evolution of landscapes, plant berries. (Continued on Page 10) Finally locating an such as basketball and succession, and international available space, you park the swimming, a gyymnastics nomenclature. car and stand in line for one school, and an activities play International nomen- Discount theatre tickets hour and 40 minutes, arriving school for the little people, clature, if or those non- at the park or museum en- aged three to sue. botanists ajmong us, is to the trance twenty minutes before Other adults forsook the English lajnguage as Aralia to be sold to students \ closing time. Tired and tennis in favor of a five-day nudicaulis! is to the wild The first 25 students who make reservations for The Dinner disgusted, you opt to sleep the course exploring the sarsasparifja. Theatre's Friday and Saturday night performances of "A next day away in your $26-a- Shenandoah Valley.- Each Bodkin : explained that Thurber Carnival" will receive discount tickets for $3. night motel room. day, a different aspect of the Virginia is a "great area for This policy will continue throughout the summer, including If this is all too painfully Valley's character was ob- botanists because we are at The Dinner Theatre's second production. "The Fantasticks." real, James Madison served, and each class in- the southern-most limit of The regular price for tickets is $7, or $5 for students with dining University may have found cluded a field trip. some northern plants, and the hall contracts. the remedial alternative. It's Monday's topic was northern-mpst limit of some The discount was an idea of President Ronald Carrier, and the called Vacation College, a "Shenandoah Valley southern plants " school is paying the price difference, according to Dr. Thomas combined educational and Folklore," taught be John Arthur of the communication arts department. entertainment endeavor, Nearly all seemed to have a Stewart, who co-authored the genuine interest in what Reservations may be made any time before the performances provided in a relaxed at- book, "Pennsylvania Ger- Bodkin had to say, and those by calling Betty Hinkle at 6446, but students must come to pick up mosphere at a very mans in the Shenandoah the tickets. reasonable cost. who understood the lingo Valley." A planetarium show delighted in active par- The same group that is putting on The Dinner Theatre Sponsored by the Office of was offered in the evening. ticipation in identifying a new productions is starting a variety show this Sunday which will Alumni Services, the one- Tuesday's study was of the plant every few feet up the continue every Sunday this summer. week program this year drew "Architecture ol the about 60 people, mostly mountain. The show starts at 8 p.m. and lasts for 80-90 minutes. Tickets Shenandoah Valley," Wed- . .Those who may not have are $2.