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UP NEXT KARMA POLICE Video preview of this Submit us your juicy Darts & weekend’s football game at Pats online at breezejmu.org. breezejmu.org. Serving James Madison University Since 1922 BreezeJMU.org Vol. 93, No. 6 T hursday, September 11, 2014 breezejmu.org INSIDE TODAY The push for marijuana reform Parent group holds public event, advocates for drug reclassification and medical cannabis research By PATRICK MORTIERE The Breeze ou can smoke it, vaporize it and eat it, but you probably didn’t know marijuana can thwart seizures and TURN UP THE comfort those with epilepsy. LOVE On Monday night, members of Professor uses 3-D printer to theY community joined at the Harrisonburg City Coun- make his engagement ring cil Chambers for a public hearing on medical mari- juana. Specifically, the hearing’s presentation cen- NEWS | 3 tered on methods of treating Dravet Syndrome — a rare form of epilepsy affecting more than 5,400 people 13 YEARS in the United States. Melissa Rhoden, a member of Virginia Parents for LATER Medical Marijuana, has a 7-year-old daughter named Muslim student still feels Lucy who suffers from the rare disorder and has been distrust after 9/11 frequently hospitalized and heavily medicated as a OPINION | 6 result. Rhoden gave a presentation during the hearing about her own experiences with Dravet Syndrome, as well as the stories of patients like Jennifer Collins and matt SCHMACHTENBERG / THE BREEZE Tommy Elder. Melissa Rhoden, a member of Virginia Parents for Medical Marijuana, speaks during SURROUNDED see MARIJUANA, page 4 a public hearing Monday night in the city council chambers in Harrisonburg. BY TALENT Dukes mourn one Experienced assistant staff of their own helps lead field hockey team SPORTS | 11 Madison Magazine’s managing editor’s death BOARDING stuns community ABROAD Longboarding JMU seniors take on Australia for Operation Smile LIFE | 8 Matt SCHMACHTENBERG / THE BREEZE Head men’s soccer coach Tom Martin is in his 29th season at JMU and won his 350th game with the Dukes on Friday. QUOTE OF THE DAY College is a A nother milestone met MICHELLE HITE “ crucial phase in each of our Michelle Hite (‘88) was the managing Men’s soccer coach Tom Martin reflects on win No. 350 editor of Madison Magazine. lives and it’s supposed to By PETER CAGNO enough to have a number of good Part of that tough non-con- By WILLIAM MASON contributing writer players.” ference schedule was on display The Breeze be a riveting This year the Dukes’ schedule Monday night as the Dukes bat- experience. Having been the head coach of looks a bit different than in years tled No. 15-ranked Penn State “I would describe Michelle as a JMU However, be- the JMU men’s soccer team for 29 past. This season features a cou- University, which ended in a 1-1 institution,” Andy Perrine, associate seasons, Tom Martin knows a thing ple more non-conference games, draw. vice president of communications and ing totally cut or two about the importance of such as in-state rival University of “It pushed us in a good step for marketing at JMU, said. off from the having depth and camaraderie on Virginia, as well as West Virginia the next match, we’ve just got to Perrine was talking about Deborah a team. Martin recently secured University, and will surely test carry forward and keep playing,” “Michelle” Hite, who served as the outside world his 350th win at JMU last Friday the resilience and fortitude of the said freshman forward Joe Vyner, managing editor of JMU’s Madison is just inviting in a victory over the University of Dukes’ roster. who scored the equalizer in the Magazine since 1999. Hite died this ignorance. North Carolina at Greensboro. “It’s harder by design,” Martin 88th minute of the match. past Monday of unknown causes. When asked about the mile- said. “We wanted to get as many JMU is now 1-2-1, with loss- Perrine first met Hite when he stone win and what it means to tough teams on the schedule as es coming at the hands of two arrived at JMU 14 years ago to him as a coach at JMU, Martin we could, A) to prepare for the non-conference adversar- work in the university commu- OPINION | 7 took the question in good humor. conference and B) to challenge ies, the University of Vermont nications and marketing office, ” “It means I’ve been here a long our guys and show them what the and the University at Albany. and instantly clicked with her. time,” Martin said jokingly. “It also best teams in the country are all means that I’ve been fortunate a b o u t .” see SOCCER, page 12 see HITE, page 5 INSTAGRAM OF THE DAY Seeing PHoto BY JosH BlouNT Want us to feature your photo? indigo Tag us @Breezejmu LI FE | PAGE 8 TODAY WILL BE S cattered storms teddy NelsoN / THE BREEZE 85° / 59° Mammoth Indigo performs at Blue Nile this past Saturday. Their performance at Blue Nile was just one part of their tour across the country. The band will be visiting chance of rain: 80% several other states including North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Alabama, Louisiana and Washington. The band will perform at Blue Nile again on Nov. 9. Today Friday Saturday Sunday PM t-storms mostly sunny showers mostly sunny 89°/62° 77°/57° 74°/54° 73°/57° PageEDITORS Marta Vucci & Rachael Padgett 2 EMAIL [email protected] Thursday, September 11, 2014 2 Serving James Madison University Since 1922 G1 Anthony-Seeger Hall, MSC 6805 James Madison University Harrisonburg, Va. 22807 PHONE: 540-568-6127 FAX: 540-568-7889 MISSION The Breeze, the student-run newspaper of James Madison University, serves student, faculty and staff readership by reporting news involving the campus and local community. The Breeze strives to be impartial and fair in its reporting and firmly believes in First Amendment rights. Published Monday and Thursday mornings, The Breeze is distributed throughout James Madison University and the local Harrisonburg community. Single copies of The Breeze are distributed free of charge. Additional copies are available for 50 cents by contacting our business office. Comments and complaints should be addressed to Sean Cassidy, editor. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF SEAN CASSIDY [email protected] MANAGING EDITOR IJ CHAN [email protected] NEWS DESK Thursday’s puzzle solved [email protected] LIFE DESK [email protected] SPORTS DESK [email protected] OPINION DESK [email protected] COPY DESK [email protected] PHOTO [email protected] VIDEO [email protected] ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Will Bungarden ADVERTISING MANAGER Michael Wallace CREATIVE DIRECTOR Tori Smith ASST. CREATIVE DIRECTOR Liz Paterson Missing something? Send us your events at [email protected] ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES Katrina Delene Every “Throwback Thursday” the copy desk will be researching our print archives Blake Harvey Lexi Quinn (breezejmu.org/archives) to take you back in time and see what events The Breeze has Zac Smith covered. Have a suggestion on what we should research? Email us at breezecopy@ Charlee Vasiliadis #JMUtbt gmail.com Allie Waller Hunter White MARKETING & CIRCULATION COORDINATOR Mitchell Myers AD DESIGNERS Bethany Adams Candace Burns Kylie Donohoe Bernadette Fitzgerald Christine Horab Download our mobile app at breezejmu.org. www.facebook.com/ TheBreezeJMU Sept. 11, 1986 @TheBreezeJMU In 1986, freshmen residents of the previously all-male White Hall in the Village were surprised to find out that one section of @TheBreezeSports their dormitory would be housing female students for the first time. The newly co-ed dorm caused quite the controversy on move-in day, according to Kathy Finn, the resident adviser for the female section at the time. “The only problem we experienced is that none of the residents or their parents knew that White was going to be co-ed, so there were many irate @breezejmu fathers adding to the general pandemonium,” Finn said. RAs in the building planned to “integrate the residents” through programs such as “Sex and Dating” and “Long-Distance Relationships,” as well as dorm activities such as “Battle of the Sexes” and a three-legged football game, in which “two girls will be tied to one guy and the threesome will act as one team member.” NATIONAL NEWS WORLD NEWS Potential issues Discrepancy in Student debt US may commit Islamic rebels Kurdish discord ahead for Apple health coverage lingering at 57 to enter Iraq dead after blast in Iraqi gov’t Los Angeles Times McClatchy Washington McClatchy Washington McClatchy Foreign Staff McClatchy Foreign Staff McClatchy Foreign Staff Bureau Bureau LOS ANGELES — The Apple BAGHDAD — U.S. Secre- ISTANBUL — An explosion BAGHDAD — The Iraqi gov- Watch, which is to go on sale WASHINGTON — Average WASHINGTON — Student tary of State John Kerry raised of uncertain origin Tuesday ernment’s advent, called a “major early next year with more than premiums for job-based family loan debt is not just a problem the possibility Wednesday that killed nearly all the leaders of milestone,” looked less attractive 20 different looks and a mini- health coverage are up 3 percent for young people. U.S. troops might be commit- the largest rebel group fighting on Tuesday: The Cabinet consists mum price of $349, has its share this year, while the cost of single Still in the red on old college ted to ground operations in Iraq to topple the government of mainly of holdovers from previ- of innovations: coverage rose 2 percent, continu- loans, 57-year-old Rosemary in extreme circumstances, the Syrian President Bashar Assad. ous governments, there’s deep There were some details, ing a trend of moderate growth Anderson told a Senate com- first hedging by an administra- At least two dozen senior discord over who will head the though, that Apple didn’t dis- in insurance costs, according to a mittee Wednesday about her tion official on President Barack leaders of Ahrar al-Sham, a con- key security ministries, and the cuss much Tuesday that could nationwide survey of more than ongoing battle with student debt, Obama’s pledge that there will servative Islamist group, died in Kurds for now are refusing to take become troublesome for Apple 2,000 businesses.