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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 15. 1996 VOL 73, NO. 35 Song book distribution rattles fraternity PiKA 'horrified' about sexually explicit document, unaware of origin senior Rachel Smart, Alpha Sigma Alpha who needs to know about it." written and distributed the document. Fulmor by Cristie Breen Campus Police Investigator Robert Baker said. "This stuff doesn't happen to us," he said. news editor member and assistant Greek coordinator, described the song book's contents. "Whoever said the matter is under open investigation for "I have no idea why we were picked out." The anonymous distribution of an offensive wrote it spent way too much time working on distributing obscene material, and he has no Fulmor said he doubts the song book was the song book has members of the Greek it," she said. suspects. work of another Greek organization. "We have community confused and the members of Pi Junior Chad Fulmor, Pi Kappa Alpha Sexual harassment and obscene conduct are no problems with the Greeks," he said. Kappa Alpha fraternity defending their president, said he was shocked to hear of the among the possible judicial offenses being Two of the songs included in the song sheet innocence on the matter. song book's existence Feb. 8 from a member investigated, he said. • are actual Pi Kappa Alpha songs, found in the The 14-page Pi Kappa Alpha Songshcet '95- who found out about the copy sent through Fulmor called an emergency meeting with fraternity's national song book. "A couple of '96 has been arriving in the campus mailboxes campus mail to The Breeze. members of the fraternity the night of Feb. 8 to the songs coincide," Fulmor said. The inclusion of various JMU fraternities and sororities as When Fulmor contacted Radcliffe, she had inform the brothers about the song book. of actual songs is evidence he said, that "this late as Tuesday, according to Kristin Radcliffe, already heard about it from another fraternity "The fraternity was incredibly horrified" obviously took some planning." assistant director of Greek life. The Breeze president who also received a copy Feb. 8, when he told them about the song book, Fulmor "We have no hard evidence against received a copy of the song book in a campus Fulmor said. said. 'There was a silence. ... A lot of them anybody" who might have contributed to the mailbox Feb. 8. But Radcliffe said members of Pi Kappa went to D-hall later and said they could not eat. song book, Fulmor said. "We're not a fraternity The song book contains 26 songs, most Alpha brought the song book to her attention. "I "It's a plan to set us up and put us through that has a lot of enemies, against the dealing with sexual situations and two depicting found out about it from PiKA," she said hell," Fulmor said. "This obviously took some community or anybody. That's sort of why rape. Many of the songs are directed toward Tuesday. planning . . . that someone would have this we're at a loss." various other Greek organizations, some "I had heard rumors about it, but I first saw much anger against us and the Greek system as Radcliffe said she was confident the song dramatizing stereotypes held about the and heard about it through PiKA," Radcliffe a whole," Fulmor said. book was an individual's effort, not the unified organizations. said in an interview Wednesday. Talk in the fraternity house during the week "Cruel, crude, unusual stereotypes" is how "I've spoken to every authority on campus has often centered around who may have see FRATERNITY page 2 Year-long leases iThe six-month lease? standard at most Olde Mill Village - 11.5-month lease only rental complexes The Commons - 11.5-month lease only Campus Living, said leases with Ashby Crossing - 12-month lease only by Kristen Heiss shorter time spans are hard to find staff writer this time of year. Spring semester brings new "Most apartment complexes are experiences, new courses and new only offering 10- to 12-month leases. Madison Manor -10- and 11.5-month leases apartment frustrations for those who Although official policies can be 10-month leases cost $50 more per month are arranging leases for the 1996-'97 negotiated, most places won't . school year. negotiate a smaller lease until about "I just don't see why most August, when they are seeking to fill Hunter's Ridge -10- and 12-month lease apartment complexes are offering 11 - up remaining space," he said. and 12-month leases when most of us Carolyn Lambert, property (occasionally offers 6-month leases) are only here nine months," said manager at The Commons, junior Lisa Neal. acknowledged that students do Pete Rutkowski, community ANGELA TERRY/graphics editor coordinator for the Center for Off- see LEASES page 2 Students earn cash selling spring break trips according to Ward. by Kristin Butke Senior Josh Baer, campus manager for Student Travel Services, said, "It's a good opportunity if you figure that According to Baer, being a campus representative is "not that staff writer everyone is going on spring break. It just depends on if you reach complex. It's basically like running your own business, except For some financially savvy students, the time they will spend them or not." you're selling someone else's product." sunbathing on the beaches of Cancun or Jamaica during spring The representatives earn a commission from each trip they This year, Baer worked with five other campus break is financed by the money of fellow JMU students. sell, Sperling said. representatives to advertise the spring break packages offered by Although the prospect of finding other impoverished college "The average commission for the representatives is 5 percent Student Travel Services. students to pay for a spring break trip seems like a fantasy, of the trip. One trip to Cancun would be around $30, and if they "We split up the university into on campus and off campus. becoming a campus representative for one of the spring break are filling a four-person room, it will be $120," he said. We posted fliers in dorms and buildings and then off campus by travel companies can make it a reality. Baer, who is representing the Student Travel Services for the neighborhoods," Baer said. JMU campus representatives for sprine,break companies such second year, went to Cancun last year completely free of charge. Another responsibility of the campus representatives is to as Student Travel Services and Spring Break Travel Inc. are able In addition, he ended up with cash in his pocket as a result of the provide information to students who incjuire about the various to fund large portions of their own spring break trips through commission he earned selling spring break packages to other spring break trips. commission they earn selling packages to other students. students. Ward said, "We talk to people about the trips, filling them in According to Ben Sperling, collegiate sales manager for "You can make over $2,000, at least, depending on how well about general information on the trips." Student Travel Services, becoming a campus representative is a of a job you do," he said. "If you take it seriously as a job, then According to Sperling, Student Travel Services looks for great way for students to go on a spring break trip for free. you can make from $2,000 to $3,000." representatives who "know a lot of people on campus." "Many students don't have the cash flow to go on spring Junior Pat Ward, another campus representative for Student "We want someone who is involved in the student life," he break trips, so they become campus reps," he said. "Most Travel Services, will be receiving $400 off his spring break trip said. "People involved in Greek [organizations] are a great students are in it for a free trip and a little extra spending to Jamaica because of his commission earnings. market because they travel together, but we also have RAs and a money." Student Travel Services already sold about 80 trips this year. wide range of reps." 2 Thuaday, tfeb. 15, 1996 : THE BREEZE Fraternity. continued from page 1 Entire organizations, such as Pi Other Greek organizations have who wrote this," she said. The song "She Was a Virgin in product of another Greek Kappa Alpha or the other Greek been supportive of Pi Kappa Alpha organization. groups mentioned in the song book, since the issue began, Fulmor said. her Freshman Year" contains much IAMIS reeze MADISON UNIVIR3ITY "I'm convinced [the writing of the are not classified as individuals, he "Everyone I've talked to has been of the offensive language found in most of the songs: "To the press alone, chequered document) was not a [fraternity or said. very supportive of PiKA," Smart sorority] chapter effort," Radcliffe "This kind of thing is disturbing said. She said Alpha Sigma Alpha "(Majestic and soft) as it is with abuses, the world is said. "It could be any individual on and obscene," Way said. "But as members are considering sending a She was a virgin in her freshman indebted for all the triumphs this campus, Greek or non-Greek — much as you'd like to be able to letter of support to the brothers of Pi year, which have been gained by who knows?" pursue this judicially, the balancing Kappa Alpha. She was a virgin with her conscience While Radcliffe said "we do have factor is the First Amendment. Gastner said he and members of clear. reason and humanity over error She never smoked nor drank nor and oppression." rivalries on this campus," she said "It has become very clear to other Greek organizations believe Pi rivalries between Greek necked nor fucked, — James Madison organizations at JMU'are not as She was a virgin with all kinds of fuckin luck. Editor Alison Boyce strong as those at other universities. Because on-campus Greek houses are These are typical ideas that a lot of (Fast and loud) Managing editor Cyndy Lledtke all situated along one row, members UNTIL SHE MET THE PIKES Ads manager Maggie Mayall of different Greek organizations are men have about women, and it's very FROM HERE YOU SEE IT WAS THE END OF HER News editor Crittle Breen "forced to get along," Radcliffe said. VIRGINITY. News editor GregFroom "I am not considering it at all an appalling. act of Pi Kappa Alpha," she said. WE DID IT ONCE! UH! TWICE! Asst. news editor Stacey Danzuso Neil Curtis UH! OH IT FELT SO NICE Baker said he has no evidence or graduate assistant Focus editor Karen Brewer reason to believe Pi Kappa Alpha is INSIDE THE WALLS OF PI K AA..HEY!!!!!!!" Asst. focus editor Angle Krom responsible for the song book even though the fraternity's name appears colleges and universities that there Kappa Alpha's innocence. Way described the song book as Opinion editor Sherri Elsenberg on the front of the book. are only certain types of speech you "I think everyone is taking it as a furthering existing stereotypes about Asst. opinion editor Laura Wade According to Mike Way, judicial can limit," Way said. "At a public sick prank," Gastner said. "To the Greek organizations. "Fraternities Style editor Jason Comer coordinator, if the author of the song institution . . . people are allowed to best of my knowledge, PiKA didn't and athletic teams have been identified as places where sexual Asst. style editor Karen Bib book is identified, the university say all sorts of things." do it," he said. would not have grounds to take Fulmor, along with Interfraternity Radcliffe said she thinks the song assault is more likely to occur," Way Sports editor Matt Provence action against him or her. Council Chairman Rob Gastner, have book may have been written by more said. Asst. sports editor Peter Haggarty In an interview Wednesday, Way been trying to inform other Greek than one person. "I don't know if one "This kind of thing furthers that Copy editor Karen Bogan said he had not heard of the song organizations about Pi Kappa person could have put this together," stereotype, where women are being reduced. ... It doesn't reflect well Photo editor Roger Wollenberg book's existence, but after briefly Alpha's innocence, asking presidents she said, "It really took a lot of viewing its contents, Way concluded of various Greek organizations to effort." on the Greek community," he said. Asst. photo editor Melissa Palladlno that the author could not be held discard the song books if they appear If the author is found, "I would If the author turns out to be a Graphics editor Angela Terry judicially accountable for the act. in their mailboxes, want this person to get help," fraternity or sorority member. Way Asst. graphics editor Drew Bansemer Under the First Amendment, Smart said her sorority is Radcliffe said. said there are steps the Greek community can take to seek justice. Advisers Flip De Luca, verbal and written attacks must be attempting to make little fuss over "It's a cry for help from someone. aimed at one specific person in order the incident. I hope that they get it "I think the Greek community can Alan Neckowlfc, for the attack to be punishable, Way "We've been trying to tone it "My biggest problem has not been do a lot," Way said. "The IFC and David Wendelken said. "If it's directed at an individual, down, because we didn't want it to what this is going to do to us. My Panhellenic can take stands on this then there's a judicial charge." be some big rumor-fest," Smart said. concern has been about the person issue" if the author is Greek. FYI. . . The Breeze is published Monday and Thursday mornings and Leases distributed throughout James continued from page 1 Although the Ld-month lease costs December 1995, also had no problem the student who wishes to be the Madison University and the local request shorter lease periods. more monthly than a 12-month lease, getting a six-month lease from Olde sublease tenant. Harrisonburg community. "Students ask all the time for a the overall-yearly cost for a 10-month Mill that ended in January. Rutkowski emphasized the need Comments and complaints should six-month lease, but 11 and,i hall lease^is^Jess than a 12-month lease, "I was specifically asking for a for a signed document when privately be addressed to Alison Boyce, months is all we'll do," she said. Circo said. six-month lease, and they gave it to subleasing. editor. "That's our policy, and that's the "Overall, with a 10-month lease, me because they said they had the "The Center for Off-Campus Mailing address: way it'll stay." you wind up saving money for about space," she said. Living has documents for subleasing. The Breeze Barbara Tolson, property manager a month to a month-and-a-half's Circo said Hunter's Ridge Both parties should sign it under the Anthony-Seeger Hall at Olde Mill Village, which offers rent," he said. ^__^__^^^_ , occasionally original guidelines of the lease," he James Madison University only 1 I and a halt month leases, Students offers half-year said. Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807 explained the long lease periods. seeking a six- Students ask... leases. "In the Rutkowski said that this document E-Mail address: "To fill up 100 percent is our month lease will past, we have is then "legally binding" and any THE_BREEZE within the JMU goal, and right now, they find they are a offered six- problems that may arise are subject VAX system; [apartments) are filling up pretty scarce for a six-month month leases to to the sublease contract. THE_BREEZE®jmu.edu outside quickly. Since they are doing well, commodity. some students. Neal, who will only spend fall the JMU VAX system nothing other than 11-and-a-half- y"When asked lease, but 11-and-a- This is usually semester at JMU, said she chose not Breeze Net: month leases are being offered," she if they offer six- at the end of the to live off campus because of the http://breeze.jmu.edu said. month leases, half mOMhS IS all rental season unavailability of six-month leases. An individual may have one copy When asked if Olde Mill always representatives [summer "It was too inconvenient to find of The Breeze for free. fills up, Tolson responded, "If we of Olde Mill, we'll do. That's our months) if we somebody who was going to stay All subsequent copies cost 25 have empty rooms, then we do The Commons, have extra here the opposite semester that I was. cents a piece. consider alternative leases." and Madison space," he said. Plus, you have to make sure this Tolson did not specify exactly Manor all said policy and that's the "This is done person is going to get along with what these alternatives were. they did not. >f on a case-by- your roommates," she said. In The Breeze. According to the James Madison Tolson of way it'll stay. case basis, Junior Allyson Dostert, OPINION 10 University 1996 Off-Campus Olde Mill said though, working international business and Spanish Ho/ising Guide, Ashby Crossing six-month leases Carolyn Lambert personally upon major, also faces the problem of STYLE 14 are rare in officially only offers 12-month property manager, The Commons trje request of finding a sublease at Ashby Crossing FOCUS JS leases. Harrisonburg. "I the student." because she will be spending a SPORTS & 23 According to Stephanie Barber, don't know When asked semester in Spain. COMICS 26 Madison Manor property manager, anyone who is offering six- month what students do when they only stay "Right now, I have a 12-month CLASSIFIEDS 27 both 10- and 11-month leases are leases." for one semester, Lambert, of The lease, but I didn't even think to ask offered, but 10-month leases cost $50 When asked if six-month leases Commons said, "It's called for a shorter lease. They [Ashby more per month. / have been offered in the past, Tolson subleasing, and we don't get Crossing] said they'd help me find CLASSIFIEDS? Joe Circo, Hunter's Ridge said she could not respond. involved in that. They [the renters) someone to sublease," she said. property manager, said the apartment Senior Laura Ewing, international handle it privately. 'They made it sound like it wouldn't How to place a classified: complex offers 10- to 12-month affairs major, said she did get a six- "They just let us know ahead be a problem." Come to The Breeze's office leases. month lease from Olde Mill from when they're leaving and who is Sophomore Erin Barth, social weekdays between 8 a.m. and 5 "Most students take advantage of January 1995 to May 1995. moving In so that when the check work and psychology major, also has p.m. the 10-month lease; I'd say about 85- "It was really simple to get. I just arrives, we know who it's from," she Cost: $2.50 for the first 10 words, a full-year lease even though she'll $2 for each additional 10 words; 90 percent," he said. "We offer the went in, in December [1995), and said. be going abroad to Paris in the spring Boxed classified, $10 per column 10-month lease because we have a they offered me a six-month lease. I Rutkowski explained the details of of 1997. inch fairly big complex and need to fill didn't even have to ask for it." private subleasing. "At Forest Hills, you have to find Deadlines: noon Friday for the rooms. Ewing added she thinks Olde Mill The student must make sure they a sublease yourself. You're Monday issues, noon Tuesday for "We actually use the 10-month offered the six-month lease because sign a lease which allows them to responsible, so if you don't find Thursday issues lease as a marketing tool. It can put she approached them in December, sublease, he said. Private subleases someone, you have to pay," she said. Classifieds must be paid in advance in us ahead of the rest to offer 10- halfway through the academic year. can then be drawn up by the student "It's easier for them if it's your The Breeze office. month leases to students," he said. Nicole Kern, who graduated in who originally signed the lease and responsibility." - »«fc, ..■'■■■■ «l ;

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by Jeremy Ray Students will be allowed to use up With the added $350, it's like paying staff writer to five meal punches per day Monday for another option on a car; it inflates through Friday with the Premier the cost," he said. Meal plans for '96'97 While students will have more Plan. Dining Services has not released options when choosing their meal David Moretti, director of the prices for next year's meal, plans 14-plus plan plans for next year, they won't have a marketing services, said student input because JMU is still reviewing the • Two meal punches per day, Monday - Sunday choice about the increasing prices. caused D-hall management to rethink dining service budget, Moretti said. • $200 in Dining Dollars (per semester) In response to student input the dining options and offer the new After administrators make 19-plus plan through student surveys and daily plans. adjustments to the contract, it is • Three meal punches per day, Monday - Friday feedback. Dining Services altered the "We want to create a plan driven revised and sent to the publishers to • Two meal punches per day, Saturday & Sunday meal plan options for the 1996-'97 by the students," he said. Most be printed, Moretti said. • $100 in Dining Dollars (per semester) academic year. students with the 20-meal plan only Larson said Dining Services Dining Services is changing the use 12 or 13 punches per week, and released the new plans before prices Premier-Plus Plan 20-meal plan to a 19-plus meal plan, most students with the 14-plus meal were decided on to give students • Any 12 meal punches, Monday - Sunday adding $100 in Dining Dollars per plan only use 12 per week. Dining extra time to decide which meal plan • $350 in Dining Dollars (per semester) semester, and is also adding the services came up with the Premier would best suit their needs. Premier Plan, which includes any 12 Plan with data from the research, "We have to give lead time with meals during the week, with $350 in student surveys and the additional printing contracts and notify students Dining Dollars per semester. The 14- input from students requesting more what choice they have for selecting plus meal plan that includes $200 in Dining Dollars. meal plans for next year," Larson Dining Dollars per semester will still Due to rising costs of food, labor said. "It doesn't give us a big be offered next year. and utilities, the prices of all meal window of time." The change comes after research plans will increase slightly, Moretti Moretti said he hopes the plans in the JMU community determined said. The current prices for the 20- work, but deciding what to offer students prefer more Dining Dollars meal plan is $1,103 per semester and students is a continuous process. and more flexibility with their dining $1,051 per semester for 14-plus. He "We continually readdress [meal punches, according to Rick Larson, also said one of the interesting results plan options] every year, he said. senior director of Dining Services. of the survey was that many students "Our number one goal is to make 'Tart of our job is giving students don't know how much they pay for sure students are happy." what they want," Larson said. "We food each semester. Some students say the change ISRAEL PINTO & ANGELA TERRY/staff artists think we will offer better products." "A lot of students have no idea won't have an impact on their meal don't eat breakfast, so it's just fine. and go over $3.50, and we can also Of the 5,000 students with dining how much they pay," for their meal plans. Freshman Joe Johnson, I'll probably stick with 14," Johnson go to Lakeside [Express]," she said. contracts, only 250 have the 20-meal plan, he said. They "leave it up to integrated science and technology said. Moretti said it took a tough lesson plan, he said. Beginning next fall. mom or dad" to pay the bills. major, said he changed from the 20- Other students also like the for Dining Services to realize that Dining Services is going to offer the The Premier Plan will cost more, to 14-meal plan because he never flexibility Dining Dollars gives them students want the freedom to choose Premier Plan, an option similar to the Moretti said, because he expects eats breakfast and wanted the option to eat at all campus dining facilities. where to eat. Two years ago. Dining 14-plus plan. The Premier Plan will students with the Premier Plan to eat of having Dining Dollars. He would Freshman Mandy Bradley said she Services launched the Freedom Plan, cost about $200 more than the 20- or all of the 12 meals allotted for the especially like to to be able to use plans to renew her 14-meal plan next which allowed students to eat at D- 14-meal plans, but students will be week, unlike students with the other Dining Dollars in the vending semester. hall as often as they wanted to, but allowed to eat any 12 meals during meal plans, who regularly skip machines in the College of Integrated "I like it that we have Dining students with the plan could only eat the week, Monday through Sunday, meals. Science and Technology building. Dollars so we don't have to go to D- at D-hall. "The Freedom Plan was a with few restrictions, Larson said. 'They will be eating all 12 meals. "It helps having Dining Dollars. I hall all the time. We can go to Dukes disaster. What it did was restrict" _U_QJLTT T7 T Dining services plans expansion of options, by Paula Finkelstein The individuals reportedly were going in and out of police reporter sorority houses and were apprehended near the loading dock in possession of alcohol in a cup. Both reportedly renovation of facilities Campus police report the following: had alcohol on their breath. The individuals were released to their parents. by Jeremy Ray Assault and Battery staff writer • A female 6tudent was walking to class when she Suspicious Person reportedly was pushed down by a college-aged, white • A suspicious person reportedry gained uninvited entry Students can plan to enjoy new dining facilities next semester, along with the altered male between Varner House and Moody Hall at 3 p.m. to sorority houses in Greek Row^HjHdfng B and were meal plans for the 1996-'97 school year. Feb. 8. escorted from campus at 224 a.m. Feb. 11. With the expected completion of Line 1 in D-hall, the planned renovation of The suspect reportedly is tall and slim with short blond Lakeside Express and the possibility of an on-campus pizza delivery service, Dining hair, and was wearing a greenish turquoise shirt and blue Destruction of Public Property Services has several projects underway for next fall, according to David Moretti, jeans. The victim reportedly had. a rainbow ribbon '/*- Unidentified Irriivkfuals allegedly-damaged a pane of director of marketing services. prodalming gay rights on her backpack. \ glass on the rear south side of the Chi Phi fraternity house, The ideas for the new services come from internal research and consulting with other The victim reported the incident to campus police at between 9 a.m. Feb. 8 and 9 a.m. Feb. 9. universities, Moretti said. 12:14 a.m. Feb. 9. "We hope to take ideas and mold them into our own," he said. "We do go and talk to Destruction of Public Property/False the other universities." Driving Under the Influence/Possession Fire Alarm According to Glenda Ridgely, JMU associate budget director, the new and renovated of Operator's License of Another • Unidentified individuals allegedly squirted water into a dining facilities will to cost an estimated $2.3 million, which is supported by Dining • Student Seth I. Friedman, 19, of Syosset, NJ., was detector, activating the fire alarm in Hanson Hall at 6:03 Services revenue or will be borrowed from other departments of the university. arrested and charged wfth driving under the influence of a.m. Feb. 11. Moretti said Line 1 will be transformed into a food court next fall. The court will alcohol and possession of an operator's license of include an Italian cafe\ an Ortega Mexican express line, a New York deli, an ice cream another near G-tot on Bluestone Drive at 3:55 a.m. Feb. Destruction of Private Property parlor and a bakery. The emphasis will be on healthier food items, which are popular at 10. • Unidentified individuate allegedly damaged the driver's PC Dukes. Line 2 will be set aside for seating. side mirror of a car parked in HD-lot on Newman Drive The food court will be open "at least [until] 11 o'clock," he said. But it's up to Underaged Possession of Alcohol/ between 10 p.m. Feb. 9 and 1:30 pjih Feb. 10. Dining Services as to how late it will actually be open. Possession and Use of Fictitious Damage is estimated at $150. Dining Services is considering having a dining facility open as late as 2 a.m., Moretti Identification said. The department is looking for a place to move Lakeside Express, one of the late- • Two Loyola CoBege students, Brian P. Conway, 18, of Underaged Consumption of Alcohol night possibilities, so residents of Chandler Hall won't have students walking through Fiorham Park, N.J., and Michael P. Doheny, 19, of Bronx, • A student was charged judicially with underaged the building late at night. One key issue to consider is security. N.Y., were arrested and charged with underaged consumption of alcohol at the intersection of Bluestone Lakeside Express has limited space, too, and the ventilation is poor, he said. There possession of alcohol and possession and use of fictitious and Dukes drives at 125 a.m. Feb. 11 are plans to renovate Lakeside Express in the future to help alleviate these problems. identification at 10:03 p.m. Feb. 9. The pizza delivery service might be available in the fall, he said, "but the only Fire Alarm hangup is the location." One of the places under consideration was the stadium area, but Suspicious Persons/ • A towel placed over a floor lamp to dry reportedly the area of interest is not well-insulated or ventilated and the lack of security there was Trespass/Underaged Possession and activated a fire alarm in Shorts Hall at 5:16 p.m. Feb. 9. also a concern. Consumption of Alcohol Other long-term plans include a new dining facility in the College of Integrated • Two juvenile males were arrested and charged Science and Technology building based on a food court concept. The building would be jwficialfy with underaged possession and consumption of Number of drunk in public charges since Jan. 11:17 contemporary with services including brick oven pizza, stir-fry and food cooked to alcohol and were served with trespass notices at the D- Number of parking tickets issued between Feb. 6 and order. There would be a soup and salad bar, grill, pasta and a counter where the food is hall loading dock at 11:08 p.m. Feb. 10. Feb. 12:815 see OPTIONS page 9 v 4 Thursday, Feb. 15, 1996 THE BREEZE

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DREW BANSEMERAm/. graphics editor WEEKL Y EVENTS Thursday Tensions increase between mainland China and Taiwan • "Chaos, Fractals and Dynamics Lecture," sponsored by Sigma Xi and the math- BEIJING — As it massed troops for military ematics department, Burruss Hall, rm. 141,4:30 p.m. exercises on its coast, China brushed aside a • Baptist Student Union Thursday Night Fever, BSU House, 5:30-7 p.m. conciliatory gesture from Taiwan Tuesday and • EARTH meeting, Taylor Hall, rm. 304,5-6:30 p.m. warned that Taiwan's President Lee Teng-hui is Construction sites close • Baptist Student Union Fellowship, BSU House, 5:30 p.m. playing "children's games" with the lives of the parking lots on campus • Muslim Coalition meeting, Taylor Hall, rm. 311, 5:30-7 p.m. island's 21 million residents. The government in Taiwan announced creation Effective last week, all parking on Carrier • BOND meeting, Warren Hall Piedmont Room, 6 p.m. • International Affairs Association meeting, Taylor Hall, rm. 302, 7 p.m. of a special cabinet council charged with easing Boulevard, and N-Lot is prohibited. This con- relations with China. At the same time, however, • 'To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar," sponsored by UPB, struction area will be off-limits to vehicles until the Defense Ministry announced and increased Grafton-Stovall Theatre, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., $1.50. further notice and the project is completed. alert level by Taiwan's armed forces in response • 'The Beauty and Complexity of the Mandelbrot Set," sponsored by Sigma Xi to the Chinese troop movements. The upshot was Program provides ways to and the mathematics department, Burruss Hall, rm. 31,8 p.m. another increase in the volume of saber rattling as 'Beat the Winter Blues' • Campus Crusade for Christ, "Prime Time," Miller Hall, rm. 101,8 p.m. Taiwan heads into its first democratic presidential • Fellowship dinner at the Wesley Foundation, JMU Methodists, 6 p.m., and the election, scheduled for March 23. The Counseling and Student Development New Life Singers Rehearsal, Wesley Foundation, 6:45-7:45 p.m. Call 434-3490. Center has planned a day of events today to help students alleviate the winter blues. Activities will take place in the Phillips Center Friday Ballroom, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., and include programs on health-related issues and relaxation tech- • Baptist Student Union Bible study, BSU House, 7 p.m. niques. Throughout the day, massages, food, • Nursing home visit sponsored by Baptist Student Union, meet at BSU House, 4 GMU struggles to define its WXJM music, information tables and give-a- p.m. ways will be taking place. goal 25 years after opening Tonight, "Crazy Lazy Water Games" will be • Presbyterian Campus Ministry Coffeehouse, Taylor Down Under, 8-11 p.m. FAIRFAX — A quarter-century after George held in the Godwin Hall Savage Pool, 7:30-9:30 free. Mason University opened shop in Fairfax as a p.m. Interested students can sign up in Warren • "Dead Presidents," sponsored by UPB, Grafton-Stovall Theatre, 7 p.m. and tiny commuter school, it has grown into Hall and Phillips Hall. 9:30 p.m., $1.50. Virginia's second-largest university/with Taylor Down Under is featuring from 7-11 • "Mall Rats," sponsored by UPB, Grafton-Stovall Theatre, midnight, $ 1.50. thriving graduate programs and the musclep be p.m., blues singer Bob Driver, the contemporary a player in the region's politics and economy! music of Sons of Icarus and pianist Scott But even as GMU has attracted national Henrichsen. Saturday attention, its students, professors and local officials increasingly have become divided about JMU Arboretum schedules • Harrisonburg Contradance, featuring Norfolk & Western, Temple Beth-El, 8- the school's mission: Should George Mason 11 p.m., $5. provide traditional training for undergraduates, or volunteer clean-up days • "Dead Presidents," sponsored by UPB, Grafton-Stovall Theatre, 7 p.m. and should it serve the fast-changing needs of the Arboretum Director Norlyn Bodkin has desig- 9:30 p.m., $1.50. high-technology businesses and residents in the nated Feb. 17 and 24 as clean-up days for the region? The debate is quickly becoming Arboretum, 9 a.m.-noon. rancorous, in part because the university is Volunteers will be asked to help plant, remove Sunday searching for a new president to replace George mud, chip trails, mulch beds, level ground, rake W. Johnson, the man largely credited with giving and clean up debris to help restore the Arboretum • JMU faculty piano recital, featuring Eric Ruple, Wilson Hall Auditorium, 3 shape to GMU. The university's critics, including from January flood damage. p.m., free. conservatives with strong ties to Gov. George Contact Clint Pazdera at JMU's Office of • Presbvterian Campus Ministry sponsors "Sunday Celebration" worship service. Allen (R), have alleged Johnson and his allies Parent and External Relations at X3193 to sign PCM Ceriter, 5-6:30 p.m. have overlooked the 24,000 students in their up to help. • 'Taxi Driver," sponsored by UPB, Grafton-Stovall Theatre, 7:30 p.m., free. quest to make the school a regional force. — L.A. 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its! i THE BREEZE Thursday; Feb. 15,1996 7 SGA allocates money; drains contingency fund by Brad Jenkins -- given $600 to defray costs of its annual SGA reporter founder's week. According to Shayla-Henry, a The Student Government Association representative from the group, the week's depleted the funds in its contingency account events include music on the commons, service Tuesday after allocating money to several projects and a showing of "Waiting to Exhale" campus organizations. at Grafton-Stovall Theatre. "*-. Because there were not enough funds to • Alpha Phi Alpha was allocated $790 after cover all of the money SGA allocated, most little debate to fund a dance to raise money for groups will only receive 65 percent of the "Habitat for Humanity and to send three amount approved by the senate. delegates to their National Fraternal Senators spent most of the meeting debating Convention. Originally, the group asked for a bill submitted by Jen Robbins. president of $1,040 but finance cut out $250 for a disc JMU's chapter of Students for Camp Heartland. jockey at the dance. Robbins requested $3,000 from SGA to • SGA allocated the men's rugby team $1,200 allow campers to come to JMU as part of a to buy equipment used during games. nationwide bus tour in April. The children will The group originally requested $2,136 to speak to JMU students in a program. purchase jerseys as well, but the Finance Robbins estimated the cost of ihe trip would Committee thought the team could wait another include $1,000 each for travel expenses, year to buy jerseys. speaker fees, and room and board. The bulk of Finazzo, also a rugby player, said, "A jersey the debate focused over the funding of meals is not the only pan of the uniform, and there is for the children from the camp. no way these jerseys will last until the end of At-Large Sen. Max Finazzo motioned to the semester." decrease the funding to $2,600 to eliminate the RICK THOMPSON/ staff photographer Commuter Sen. Ron Rose disagreed, saying, cost of food. "I agree that the kids should come Jeff McKay, president of Young Democrats (left), and Erika Austin go before SGA "I agree with budgeting the scrum [equipment], but club spirts aren't supposed to live in here, but we can't budget food," he said. Tuesday to request contlgency funds to help sponsor a conference at JMU In March. Finazzo was referring to guidelines set forth by luxury. Sometimes you have to take it out of SGA for allocating funds. "We are in this mess now because of breaking • Young Democrats was awarded $695.50 to your own pocket." Sen. Ann Marie Phillips, McGraw-Long the rules in the past. If we would've been doing attend a state-wide conference and a national The bill passed at $1,200 to fund fhe Hall, said, "The guidelines also say we it right [all year], we'd have more money now." convention. The state conference will be at equipment only. shouldn't pay registration fees [for Jenkins was referring to SGA funding JMU. The group originally asked for $970, but • Delta Sigma Theta, a service sorority, was conventions], but we haven't followed that. We organizations without following guidelines set finance cut it to $575.50 to fund three delegates given $1,826.41 to celebrate founder's week. can break the rules; we've done it before." forth by the finance committee. For instance, for each event. According to Troy Booker, Finance Committee Finance Committee Chairwoman Sharon the guidelines say requests for off-campus According to Jeff McKay, president of Chairman, the committee did not allow for Cohen said an exception shouldn't be made on activities are "subject to. strict review," but Young Democrats, each delegate equals 10 funding of two disc jockeys, a speaker and the basis of the type of group asking for money. SGA funded a bus to an off-campus party at its votes for the state council. lodging for a group of child performers. The DJ "Food just happens to be something we don't Jan. 16 meeting. Phillips proposed an amendment to fund funding was cut because SGA was being fund. I know this is a great organization, but we A bill was presented last week that would registration fees for 15 members for the state consistent with other decisions. The speaker can't start talking about which organization is add the guidelines to the SGA constitution and conference because it is at JMU. Her remained unfunded because an "offering" will better." will be debated at the Feb. 20 meeting. amendment raised the amount to $695.50. betaken. The amendment to decrease the funds failed, SGA also discussed these finance bills at "We need to fund for all 15 delegates at the • SGA unanimously approved to allocate the' and the original bill for $3,000 passed. The the meeting: conference so we can have more votes for University Program Board $2,000 from its disagreement over following the set guidelines • The senate allocated $1,161 to the JMU's candidates for the state council," she reserve account to buy new equipment. said. Both the bill and the amendment passed. did not die, though. International Association of Business see FUNDS page 9 Sen. Richard Jenkins, Frederikson Hall, said. Communicators to host a conference at JMU. • Alpha Kappa Alpha, a service sorority, was

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Poetry reading celebrates love, Options THE BREEZE Thursday, Feb. 15, 1996 9 continued from page 3 Hank Moody, assistant director of marriage and Valentine's Day prepared in front of the customer, he Dining Services, said all the funds said. come from Dining Services. He said "We're always looking ahead," it is hard to keep track of exactly how by Jaime Dritt Moretti said. But bringing in new staff writer much money is allocated for each ideas can also prove to be project. "We don't get a bank Love was in the air yesterday at challenging because some people statement for what has added up for the Valentine's Day Brown Bag resist any sort of change. over the years." Lecture poetry reading, "Love in the "We have to ask ourselves, is this Some students are not as Verse Way." the right direction?" he said. concerned with the finances of the The Honors Program sponsored Ridgely said the commonwealth new services, just whether they get a the lecture and presented Robin also has to determine whether or not good deal or not. Freshman Andrew McNallie and Geoffrey Morley- the proposed changes are a good Huff, philosophy and religion major, Mower of the English department as idea. The budget for phase two of the said he isn't sure whether or not he featured poets. CISAT construction is estimated at would be interested in the food court. Faculty, students and other $7 million. "If [the food court] doesn't use members of the Harrisonburg "The process goes through the punches, I probably wouldn't use it," community were invited to share state for approval," she said. Every he said. But the pizza delivery original poetry or works by their facility goes before the state as a service might be an improvement favorite poets. separate project, she said. over the options offered in the Joanne Gabbin, director of the Dining Services customers pay for community, he said. "If it was a Honors Program, was impressed by the cost of renovation and new delivery service on campus, I would the large turnout of nearly 30 construction, because there is no be interested, especially if it vial students and faculty at the poetry general university fund that could quicker than the 45 minutes Papa reading and by the talent both faculty absorb these costs, she said. John's takes." and students demonstrated. McNallie said he and Morley- JAMES MORRlS/slaff photographer Funds Mower were approached by Joyce continued from page 7 Geoffrey Morley-Mower shares a poem with students and faculty 7.6 drinks per week, while Wszalek, assistant director of the According to Cory Anderson, Honors Program, about presenting at Wednesday's Brown Bag Lecture, 'Love in the Verse Way.' nationwide the average is 4.5 drinks, treasurer, because SGA ran out of Haveson said. Valentine's Day love poetry to "meet theirs by other poets," Gabbin said. money with these allocations, most the demands of the day." Alison Stephen, a freshman He also said 38 percent of JMU "We try to bring faculty, students and biology major, also enjoyed groups will only receive 65 percent '4t kind of came together more students said they have used people in the community together attending the poetry reading. of what the senate approved. marijuana in the past year. organically and naturally," McNallie this way every Wednesday. I've However, IABC and Delta Sigma said. "Joyce asked us to read poems "I thought both the professors Nationwide, the average is 25 found that the students at JMU really were really entertaining," Stephen Theta will receive the full amount percent. with love as the theme. We didn't respond well to poetry," she said because their bills had been tabled consult each other on what we were said. "It came together really well, The results are based on a survey Gabbin also mentioned she was especially since a lot of it wasn't for several weeks, Anderson said. of five percent of the student reading. We were told to just have appreciative of the love poetry of Also at the meeting: poems ready to read." planned. There was a lot of variety, population at JMU. Morley-Mower, which offered and you got a lot of different • Randy Haveson, substance abuse McNallie read poetry that dealt • Director of Class Governments insights into his personal life. perspectives on love." coordinator, spoke to SGA and David Baker announced applications with marriage, which is "a settling- She found his poem "Dry Goods," presented statistics that show JMU down kind of love." Tim Burkhalter, a graduate are being accepted for junior class which dealt with the death of his wife has a higher rate of alcohol and "It gave faculty and students the student, also enjoyed the event. "It vice president by 4 pjn. 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An I can't-believe-my-eyes dart to The Steakhouse for cutting the chocolate mousse pie into microscopic pieces. If this is a brilliant idea on how to save money, forget it! Sent in by someone who loves The Steakhouse and thinks dessert is the best part of the meal. Pat... A you-are-awesome pat to Larry and Roy at the Miller Help Desk. They go above and beyond the call of duty and are much-appreciated by the less- JMU doesn't need another VP technologically inclined. Sent in by a person who appreciates the value of JMU is getting a new vice president as Executive JMU prides itself on being efficient and having less customer service and thinks other departments on Vice President Linwood Rose assumes his duties as administration than comparable universities. President chief operating officer, an additional member of the Ronald Carrier commissioned a study in December to campus should take lessons from them. senior administration to help prepare this university for study the amount and efficiency of JMU the 21st century. But does JMU need a new vice administration. Isn't it a little ironic that in the midst of president for administration and finance? Should JMU all this, JMU is adding another administrator, in charge Dart... be looking for another high-paid administrator when it of administration and finance? could use the money for more top-notch professors? In 1993, JMU had five vice presidents and a provost A start-doing-your-job dart to RAs who haven't No! A strong faculty is the backbone of any as senior administrators under Carrier. In 1994, JMU enforced quiet hours since mid-September. Some of institution of higher learning, and the focus of any such had four vice presidents and a provost. In 1996, JMU us like to get some sleep every now and then, institution should be on cultivating and improving that will have five vice presidents and two provosts. Does faculty. preferably at night. this make JMU more efficient? That Sent in by a bitter student who can't nap during In this era of restructuring, a remains to be seen. universities across Virginia and Does this make JMU The State Council of Higher the day and would love some peace and quiet at the nation have been urged to Education for Virginia gave JMU's night when he/she can sleep. think and act more like a more efficient? That restructuring plan high marks, calling business. For many businesses, it a model for other Virginia public that means downsizing and remains to be seen. schools. The document titled Pat... increasing efficiency any way "Restructuring at JMU," supposedly a possible. Virginia college presidents' budget talk during blueprint for change at the university, never mentions A thanks-for-the-push pat to the guy who helped this year's session of the General Assembly focuses on the need for another administrator. Press releases me get my car out of the snow last Saturday. what the schools need to run like businesses. Is it good announcing Rose's new role as chief operating officer afternoon in the Olde Mill Village parking lot and to business to add another senior member of the never mentioned a new vice president would to take the two guys who helped me with the same problem administration while at the same time fighting for over his administration and finance duties. Nor did in the parking lot in front of Ikenberry Hall. faculty salary increases? press releases announcing Vice President for Student The average salary of JMU's four vice presidents and Sent in by a grateful young lady who has had a Affairs Robert Scott would be the acting vice president string of unlucky mishaps with the snow. two provosts rs $101,959. The average full-time faculty for administration and finance. salary is $48,857. The money JMU would have to Adding another person to the administrative mix» dedicate to another vice president could fund at least might be right for JMU, but it may also cost the two new faculty members. Faculty should be the university wonderful professors and money better Dart... priority for new positions, not administration. spent elsewhere. JMU seems to be working fine with Of course, Rose's new role brings him more the administration it has; a new vice president doesn't A your-admissions-process-stinks dart to the responsibility. But wouldn't it be more fiscally seem to fit the university or its quest for efficiency. Student Ambassadors for a haphazard and random responsible in lean budget times to spread his duties admissions process that favors childish and cutesy among other administrators? And if a new person needs The house editorial reflects the opinion of the blandishments over sincere and thoughtful to be hired, doesn't it make sense to hire someone who editorial board which consists of the editor, managing applications. doesn't come at such a high price tag? editor and the opinion editors. Sent in by a sore loser. Editorial Policy editor Cyndy Uedtke . .. managing editor Sherri Eisenberg. . . opinion editor Laura Wade ... asst. opinion editor Pat... Letters to the editor should be no mote than 500 words, columns should be no more A you'fe-too-good-to-be-true pat to the girl who than 800 words, and Kith will be published on a space available basis. They must he gave me her last two Extra Strength Tylenol pills in delivered to The Buexe by noon Tuesday or 5 p.m. Friday. The Bras reserves the right to edit for clarity and space. Warren Hall last Tuesday. If there really are angels, I The opinions in this section do not necessarily reflect die opinion of the newspaper, think one of them attends this school. ■s MADISO N UNIVERSITY this staff, iff James Madison University. Sent in by a student whose day was saved. 1

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'He said, she said* is not humorous; achieves any position of power does so through her sexual the most are heavy snowfall and flooding. What does this have prowess. Never mind the hours of grueling work she does to to do with Styrofoam? The toxic chemicals that are a tired stereotypes appalling, belittling prove her worth and receive recognition. Every female student, consequence of Styrofoam production play an integral part in To the Editor: Breeze editor, professor, and administrator at JMU has been global warming, which, in turn, could have caused our recent devalued^ objectified and ridiculed by Bondurant's words. weather trouble. 1 must once again thank The Breeze for showing me the path Combined, the columns perpetuate too many tired female, The least that we could do, as responsible and to enlightenment ("He Said/She Said" Feb. 5). Rather than study as well as male, stereotypes. Bondurant depicts men as compassionate human beings, is to use plastic or paper-like for my next exam, I think I'll bake some cookies for my hyperactive, violent war-mongers controlled by their raging professor, don a skimpy exercise outfit displaying my well- containers instead of Styrofoam ones. I know some of you may "testy" hormones, and Walker contributes, allowing that men complain the plastic containers are too much trouble because toned thighs and ask for an "A". Perhaps a coy smile will work are, indeed, less sensitive. you have to wash them and they hold a little less food. better than talking, as I may burst into tears at this overly sensitive matter. If Walker and Bondurant reflect the mainstream views of When JMU Dining Services see students are willing to make men and women on this campus — even their humor is stale a sacrifice even if it's just for two days, they will try to make the The entire notion of a "He Said/She Said" column appalls and misses the mark. I will not be sorry when I leave this transition easier. Some potential improvements of reusables me. The columnists Matt Bondurant and Emily Walker focus on institution behind. My neurotic thighs and I are prepared to may be to provide a place for students to wash their containers which sex have it worse rather than trying to find a common enter the so-called real world. so that you can simply trade in your old container for a new one ground. Hey, even the Republican and Democratic governors every time you eat. have compromised on the welfare reform issue. Yes, I Elisabeth Bergman Halting Styrofoam use is not only environmentally sound, understand Bondurant and Walker are supposed to have senior but economically beneficial as well. According to The Problems opposing opinions, that the column is not a mediation center, English and psychology that they are trying to be humorous. with Polystyrene by Lewis and Weltman, the cafeteria at Ohio's Bowling Green University switched from disposable to washable dishes and saved more than $32,000 in one year, Eliminate styrofoam In campus dining; serving 14,000 people daily. At the very least, we could switch over to paper products instead of Styrofoam. McDonald's was money spent could be reallocated in the same situation, and proved that elimination of Styrofoam could be eliminated successfully and economically. JMU To the Editor: Dining Services, on the other hand, would be taking much less It's great JMU is finally stepping forward to address the of a risk. McDonald's customers had more of a choice as to problem of Styrofoam consumption. As some of you may or where they can eat than we do. may not know, JMU Dining Services has agreed to devote two Both Dining Services and the student body would benefit days in February to the use of reusable containers only — from a transition to reusables. The article in The Breeze Feb. 1 yesterday, Valentine's Day, and Leap Day, Feb. 29. Let's Go entitled ("D-hall to try switch to recyclables") pointed out "not will provide reusable containers at a cost of only $1, which can having to spend funds on polystyrene containers would save the Unfortunately, neither one of them is funny. I find it be paid in Dining Dollars. university money." Yes, money that could go toward anything interesting how both male and female columnists belittle women What amazes me is that it has already taken this long to try from cheaper meal plans to higher wages for student employees, in order to make their jokes. Walker and Bondurant resort to to eliminate the use of Styrofoam. Most of us already know, to to a longer lasting supply of Lucky Charms in D-hall. objectifying women. He offers us a buns of steel corporate slut. one degree or another, that Styrofoam is a product we should The point is the money that is being foolishly spent on Walker informs me that I am an overly sensitive, shallow stay, a way from for a variety of reasons. Not only is Styrofoam Styrofoam could be much more appreciated in other areas of the crybaby with an overflowing closet and suitcase. toxic to produce and hazardous to dispose of, but it is also non- university. I do not recall having to list my "measurements" on my biodegradable. This means once we bury it in a landfill, it is JMU application. Perhaps my memory is overtaxed, because I there to stay forever. Joe Masters have to keep track of all those trips to the mall. As a female Some students don't care if they use harmful products freshman whose chest played no-role in getting her into JMU, 1 feel a because they think it won't have any effect on their lives. computer science personal affront. According to Bondurant, a woman who Of all the recent events this semester, the two that stand out Power is the root of gender inequality It is a relief to know such hard decisions, like what to wear bosses. And counting the number of females rising into top- superficial idea that men must protect defenseless womyn and which type of applicators to use, are shared by all womyn, level positions will point out the weakness in his argument, but^ from the big bad world out there. thanks to the enlightening debate in The Breeze, when all this it is also obvious thavwe need to rethink how we think about Are we missing something when it is widely known that time, I've been worrying about trivial problems such as rape womyn. a womyn is safer walking the streets than she is in her own and anorexia. How could I have been so silly? Why do men intentionally get us drunk, rape us and then home? In this country, more than four million womyn are tell us we liked it? Why do we feel guilty when this happens? beaten, raped and terrorized by their boyfriends/husbands Why do men always interrupt us, ignore us, belittle us? Why every year, making domestic violence "the leading cause of are we told as little girls that we are weak and emotional and injury to women, causing more injuries than muggings, Guest Columnist come to believ womyn strive to emaciate stranger rapes and accidents combined" (What's Love Got themselves? such as Walker, think "most to Do With It? Ms., vol. 5, No. 2, 1994) Where does women canni until the fight is resolved and chivalry come into play when the men we know and trust — Beth Bedard discussed th II connected to a system of are more likely to rape us than a stranger walking down the power. street? The comment Bondurant makes about the "power This syste o embedded in our daily lives that they [women] hold over men" in terms of "refusing to In the "He Said/She Said" column in The Breeze on Feb. 5, that most of us its pervasiveness. For example, give up the goods" is an insult to all womyn who have been Matt Bondurant and Emily Walker insult both men and womyn being emotional is ith status. People with higher status raped by a man or men. Unfortunately, more of us can attest repeatedly with age-old stereotypes and myths in their tend to engage inH disclosure than do people of lower to this than you would eyiueahze. desperate attempts to demonstrate which sex has it worse. status, because sel isclosure makes one vulnerable. We do not w Jry, we want power. We Womyn are often undervalued and trivialized by men such "Woman's intuition" is a direct result of having less power want to have a o more likely to prosecute as Bondurant who think we are "just so cute" and should "stay because people with less power have to pay closer attention to the rapist than it to be taken seriously. at home and bake things." It is a; e don't have to the dynamics of the situation. , We want our y and full and seen as worry about undervaluing hi sidering the Probably the most destructive power play in our culture is beautiful so our to starve themselves to arguments and reasoning he a ie myth that the idea that a womyn's beauty is measured in her waist line. feel wanted or val I. We want to be able to "women have it easy." Smallness is the key. We must be skinny, thin, stick-like. If we walk down the street Is it too much to ask to Walker further trivializes wo' Said" section can just focus on becoming less and less, and smaller and be able to walk into our' Pomes without fear? Until by focusing on superficial prob' ng "to decide smaller, we become weaker, we lose power, and some of us then, we will have to keep commentaries like this so between plastic and cardboard" It to injury by even die. Only when we stop focusing on that our voices might be heard over those of you who find claiming "some people might say womei t neurotic, that and start focusing on why we humor in other people's suffering. we create our own problems." She then "Well, maybe'so. smaller/weaker/powerless will we be alj Power issues in America are serious, as we womyn can but we still deserve that 27 cents." mechanisms (such as advertising) tfc attest. From systematic economic discrimination, to being You're damn right we deserve that 27 cents, but we are inequality of our lives. sexually harassed at school and work, to being belittled by definitely not neurotic. In womyn's studies, we focus on why When people use stereotypes about i columnists in The Breeze, our daily lives are-filled with womyn are trivialized and continually undervalued, exploited, important to recognize from where these id experiences that make it hard to swallow Bondurant's abused, controlled and labeled, for example, neurotic. Why is what purposes they continue to serve. Bondurant | claim, "it's a woman's world." We wonder how Bondurant womyn's power linked to our sexuality? According to as brutish, violent creatures who have to overcome s& urges became such an expert on the female experience. Matt, you Bondurant, we can easily sleep our way to the top of the of testosterone. Womyn are defenseless yet mann»olative were right when you called yourself "old-fashioned." corporate world. beings who aim to burden men like him to protect us. His However, we prefer the term sexist. Obviously, Bondurant assumes men hold the power, for ideas about men and womyn are rooted in the sexism that with whom are the womyn sleeping? Surely not their lesbian pervades our culture. For example, his concept of chivalry is a Beth Bedard is a senior art major. 12 Thursday, Feb. 15, 1996 THE BREEZE

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."■"■ ■. ..,, )gy is too Apathy is killing the country impersonal for some Public outcry can, and does, positively affect policies communication We all know breaking up sucks. It's never easy, and Why is it that headlines like "Vicious drug circle broken," senators? Your representatives? Without being assigned to do someone always gets hurt, no matter how hard you try to be and "Hundreds of students implicated in scandal" are the kinds so? sensitive and considerate. Unfortunately, modern technology of headlines that generally grab a person's attention. There's a You don't like to write? Takes too long? Then, e-mail them. has provided a new way out for people who don't really want reason that the National Enquirer is the most widely circulated You check your VAX account every-daylight? Why not take to try that hard. newspaper in America. Sensationalism sells. 1 mean, you're five minutes and send a letter to the president reading this, right? Even though you know it couldn't be true. I ([email protected]) or to the vice-president rest my case. ([email protected])? Are you a Virginian? How The problem is, people who read only the scandal headlines about Senator Charles Robb ([email protected]), Guest Columnist and such, and who eschew any sort of meaningful information or Senator John Warner ([email protected])? It is not (i.e. political news and commentary) are not living up to their that difficult. Kelley M. Blassingame responsibility as Americans and as citizens of a democracy. I would like to point out that public outcry/response/involvement does, in fact, work. Last year, the Virginia State Department of Environmental Quality decided E-mail is giving those of us in the running for the "Best to deregulate the shipyard use of paints that contain the toxin Performance by a Coward" award an easy way out of tributyltin. This paint was being used to "de-barnacle" the hulls relationships. It seems perfect. It's quick, requires little to no of ships under repair or construction. However, the TBT paint show of emotion and docs not subject a person to their soon-to-. chips were finding their way into the Chesapeake Bay (the be-ex-sigmficant-other's feelings. world's largest recovering estuary), and causing fish to be born It's also crueK painful and adds to the shock of the break up. without tails. Of all the ways to break up with someone, over the phone, on The Allen administration tried to bury the deregulation of an answering machine, the proverbial "Dear John/Jane" letter TBT in a mountain of paperwork, but luckily, it was noted by and (God forbid) in person, to break someone's heart over e- some concerned citizens. The outcry has been great enough to mail is the worst way to * As a result of many decades of a majority of the population force the Allen administration to back down. Fish 1, Allen 0. end a relationship, short behaving this way, we how have the current mess in Even one of the state's largest private employers, the mighty of Morse code. Washington. We can yell about the politicians all we want, but Newport News Shipbuilding, was not able to keep the Maybe. the bottom line is that we only have ourselves to blame. " deregulation. Why? Public outcry, citizen involvement, people To those of you Now, as anyone who reads this column regularly knows, I paying attention, or whatever you want to call it. It can and who have done so, try to be as bipartisan and fair as I can in this space. (Smell does work. I can only say that? That was sarcasm!) As much as I dislike and disagree Sadly, we have also recently witnessed the silencing of a you have a with conservatism and the Republican Party, 1 have 10 times great voice of freedom here in the Old Dominion. This past complete lack of the respect for conservatives and Republicans than I have for week, the Richmond Afro-American/Planet, one of the sensitivity and people I hear saying,*! just don't have time for the news or country's oldest black newspapers, stopped the presses, turned character. And, oh politics." out the lights and locked up the doors for good. Why? yeah, spine. As college students, many of us tend to become narrfiwly Declining readership, which led to declining advertising This focused. It is very easy to concentrate on the completion of the revenues — the death of any newspaper. unconscionable act next project, the passing of the next exam or the all-too-slow This was a newspaper that had been on the forefront of the recently came to approach of the weekend. It becomes very easy to forget that civil rights struggle for the last 113 years. It had been an my attention when the rest of the world exists. But this is not only short-sighted, it integral spoke in the wheel of the greater Richmond a friend became is becoming increasingly dangerous. community for decades. But it is now gone. Why? Apathy. an e-mail Thomas Jefferson and James Madison warned against Does anyone care that apathy is killing this country? break-up ignorance taking hold in this democratic society. And yes, the Newspaper readerships are down, not up. Broadcast news victim. 1 politicians are deeply entrenched, However, the system does audiences have not risen as fast as the population over the last soon provide for their removal when necessary (and without term 10 years. That says fewer people care. learned limits, I might add!). So why is it we seem to hear so much more complaining? I that hers We can fix the things we don't like. But to shut out the say, if you're not involved, even if only to the level of being was not system, to Ignore Washington and Richmond, plays right into registered to vote, then keep your opinion to yourself. an isolated incident; several BRYAN KNIGmisitf artist the hands of the very legislators many people decry as America's biggest problem has nothing to do with drugs, others have suffered the same "crooks." If there were a crook in your living room, would you sex, abortion, "family values'' (both of which are highly fate. ignore that crook? Would you let that crook carry on that subjective terms), education, politics, religion or liberals (the Until then, I suppose I had been extremely naive, living in crook's business in your house unbothered by you? Of course new 4-letter word for the '90s). America's largest problem is my own parallel universe where people used e-mail to brighten you wouldn't. You would extricate that crook from your house. apathy. Do you think anyone would care if they found a cure the day of friends and loved ones with cheerful electronic (Note the politically correct, gender-free crook references.) for it? messages. We must not lose sight of the fact that the two houses of If you want to break up with someone, the very least you Congress, not to mention the White House, are our houses. Scott Henrichsen is a junior music education major who can do is shell out 32 cents for a stamp. Technology like e-mail When was the last time you wrote the president? Your wonders if anyone really cares what his major is. was not created for cowards to hide behind its impersonal nature. Don't get me wrong — I'm all for advancement. I'm sure most people would agree that our ready^acccss to e-mail is a good thing; the fact that it's free has nothing to do with this sentiment, I'm sure. More than a few of us have developed an e-mail addiction. JBut when you stop to think that someone can just sit down by a computer and break up with someone . . . what kind of person does that? Can you imagine the thought process? "Gee, I'll play a few games of solitaire on the computer, type my history papery dump Jane.'' Someone that weak makes the Cowardly Lion from The Wizard of Oz look like Superman. And what about the poor soul on the receiving end? We all know the excitement of having new messages. It's like going home and seeing the red light on the answering machine blinking. As a result of watching my friend deal with this experience, I have been ripped from my Eden where people use e-mail for good rather than evil. As for my friend, she is on the mend, but bitter as hell, for good reason. It's February, for goodness sake! This is the month we set aside an entire day for love. You would think that would bring out some added kindness. But I suppose e-mail rwartbreakers do not know such kindness, and my heart goes out to those who have suffered at those furiously typing hands.

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Nazi ex-lesbians from Mars. Beautician-aliens who double case of boredom, coupled with paranoid delusional visions of hills of the Shenandoah Valley forevermore (quoth the raven: as parents and call girls. Bald, fascist owners of mid-sized your previous life as the lover of Julius Caesar (no matter Nevermore!). food chains who happen to actually be nuclear physicians put what your gender). Trust me, it's that important. Yes, I firmly believe the adage, "Theater is life. Film is art. on furlough by the U.S. government. What do all these people The newly appointed surgeon general has just announced Television is furniture." It may sound pretentious and snobby, have In common? You can find them all on the next that excessive doses of television (excessive = more than but frankly, I don't really give a damn. And you can quote "Geraldo." "ER," "Seinfeld" and "NYPD Blue" or ONE soap opera a Rhett Butler on that. week) does, in fact, cause brain cancer. And if you don't This is not to say that there aren't any quality programs on believe me, well, I guess you'll just have to find out for the ol' dry-freeze-your-brain-box. Sure there are. But the yourself. majority of it is cow fertilizer, and even those bovine Guest Columnist Knowledge based on experience is the best kjnd (here is, I entepreneurs of fine breeds of lawn grass don't care to stare at guess. But if you end up on a gurney somewhere between the boob tube for too terribly long. After all, they've got cud channels 7 and 9 on your cable box with George Clooney chewing and nitrous oxide releasing to do. — Daniel Boucher singing the "Animaniacs" theme song to you, while Susan And although it has never been scientifically tested, I bet Lucci does her best Beavis imitation, you'll see my face right those responsibilities require more brain activity than molding next to theirs lip syncing "I told you so." one's rear end into a fake leather couch seat for a spell of The time is 11 a.m., Saturday, and you are peacefully Do not adjust your television sets. What you are "Amazing Discoveries." crunching your Cocoa Puffs, minding your own business. experiencing is a minor dysfunction of the synapses Oscar Wilde was famous for noting that life imitates art. Suddenly, in between reruns of "Space Ghost" and 'The connecting your eyes to the receptive part of your brain, not vice versa. We think of mystery or dreariness when we see Tick," the previous plug for a talk show host's next ground- triggered by a massive overdose of microwave radiation a fog not because that is what the fog inherently instills in us, breaking panel of distinguished individuals with intelligences stimulated by the emission of radiation. but because that is what some artist said of fogs a long time ranging from Forrest Gump to the spoon in your hand flashes Basically, youi brain is fried. And if you're one of those ago. Instead of appreciating every sunset that rises, we now across your screen, accompanied by a time and date for the people who skips your 400-level English lit class to watch realize that sunsets are done better in paintings than they are program. "All my Children" and reruns of "Singled Out," then you fall every morning over the Blue Ridge Mountains. You, dropping your bowl full of complex carbohydrate prey to my diagnosis and receive no pity from me, your Basically, the kind of art you expose yourself to is going to nutrition and the liquid in which it is floating to the floor, friends or your professor. be the deciding factor in how you perceive reality and how make a mad dash for your day planner, jot down the You aren't the victim of mass population activity control you approach certain events in your life. aforementioned time and day with a subtext of "priority one" by the new mass media (not headed, I might add, by Ted If you've always wanted something more out of your life, in letters as big as will fit the page. Turner and his symbiotic subsidiary supervisors), and you then by the time you finish reading this article, your television Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the American Dream. If haven't been shnuckered into some great master scheme to set will be halfway to wards merging with the infinite. the scenario I've just outlined seems familiar to you, I have control your few creative impulses that occur randomly on If you've missed the entire point of my harangue, then you four words: The Doctor is IN. alternate Tuesdays. can catch "Seinfeld" tonight at 7:30 p.m. See you there. No matter what time of day or night it is that you are My point is to say that your television sets should be reading this, call him/her up and make an appointment thrown from the top of Eagle Hall, the resounding crashes of Daniel Boucher is a sophomore English major who wears immediately. Mention that you think you might have a slight thousands of units of glass and plastic to echo through the funky shoes.

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Clockwise from top left: Three photos from Erica Bleeg's 'Oaxaca' display depicting Mexican children; Another of Bleeg's photographs, 'Two Blind Women: Elisa y su Madre'; Peter Gelger's painting 'Crow Walk'; Sculptor Beth Bedard's 'Self Portrait'; A candle burns in one of Bedard's jugs; Bedard standing behind one of her settings at the opening at Zirkle House for her show, 'Bowls Thrown and Altered,' on Monday. STORY BY JASON CORNER PHOTOS BY J. MICHAKL ROGERS

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TISTS addition, she overlapped the two glazes, palate." One of Geiger's paintings, "Crow oducing a chemical reaction that creates a Walk," depicts what he described as "a feeling ry different color from the two types of glaze of inner turmoil... on the brink, bursting with eady present. The effect is muted shades of emotion." How and green sitting side by side on the Other paintings express lighter moods. ps and bowls. "Nostalgia . . .Lust!" has a perfect balance of "Glazes are fun because they always come soft colors molded around angular shapes, t different," Bedard said with a smile. while 'Trapped! . . . Marriage Cement" is just Bedard said her aim for her show was to that. oduce sculptures that were more than simply Geiger transferred to JMU from the Coast eful but had specific aesthetic qualities. "The Guard Academy, where he was a marine erall theme is I was focusing on organic science major. He switched to art after taking a alities," she said. "More organic, more class in it and because, quite simply, "They ontaneous looking." didn't have marine science here." Bedard has more than succeeded in her aim. His scientific training shows up in the le handles of her pots bulge with the fascinating "Petrified." At the bottom of the pearance of barely contained life, each one canvas, black masses, presumably underground e a fabulous creature from a Middle Ages layers of sediment, lie wedged against each stiary. other, one containing a hunched skeleton.-. It's fitting, then, that Bedard chose to feature Directly above, a water-blue shade highlights e piece of non-utilitarian art, depicting the form of a fish, glowing in vague white light man life at its most organic. "Self Portrait" as it leaves a zig-zag path behind it. ;sents the female figure in a series of wide, "Mike with Three Friends" shows the jnd curves, almost reminiscent of Picasso's influence of the Abstract Expressionists, whom lirl Looking at her Mirror." This remarkable Geiger cited, along with Vincent Van Gogh, as xe evokes a mystical feeling of life emerging artists who had a bearing on his work. Three t of chaos into being. figures are hunched in roly-poly dwarf-like Geiger's paintings often evoke similar shapes, drawn in dark greens and reds. :lings. When speaking of his work, he shies They stand directly above the landscape of a 'ay from the shapes and colors on the beach with a mountain in the background, ivases, preferring to discuss the emotions contrasting the intimate and the geographical. i moods that led to the creation of each work. Geiger is at his best, like Bleeg, when capturing "I don't set out to make certain colors," an instant in life and the mood that travels with iger said about his painting "Icy-Walk," an it. stract canvas suffused with black and deep, Beth Bedard, Erica Bleeg and Peter Geiger rk reds. will have their works on display at Zirkle House "I set out to have emotions determine a through Feb. 23.

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Nixon is a singer and songwriter of a play called "Our Young originally from Danville; he now lives in San Diego. Black Men Are Dying and He's been around the music scene for at least 10 years and is generally known as a Nobody Seems To Care." "roots rock" or "rockabilly" artist. Wilson Hall provided the stage "I'd call Mojo's music trailer-park rock along with Mojo's own schtick," said WXJM for Chapmyn and two other roots rock director senior Matt Vanderveer. In addition to his musical ability, Mojo's aciprs Tuesday at 7 p.m. dynamic way of interacting with the audience adds to his performances. His high-energy The University Program performances are peppered with loud and screaming outbursts. Baard organized their "He likes to heckle everyone in the audience while he's on stage," said sophomore appearance at JMU as a part of Barry Fuchs, WXJM technical director. ./February's Black Emphasis A reputable performer, Nixon has released three solo albums and six albums in / Month. conjunction with Skid Roper. .A bizarre love song dedicated to MTV's Martha Quinn, The performance began with "Stuffin" Martha's Muffin," first started Nixon and Roper on the road to fame. Chapmyn informally speaking *>• Other songs, such as "Don Henley Must Die." "Drive Me A Bigfoot Trunk"-and "Kill to the audience. All The Lawyers," are reliable indications of Nixon's credo. He encouraged laughter, Nixon has also done projects with The Dead Kennedys, Jello Biafra and New Duncan tears and shouting and he Imperials. He also toured and recorded in Las Vegas with the late Country Dick Montana explained his reasons for from The Beet Farmers and Phil Alvin from The Blasters in a group called The Pleasure presenting his writing. "I am Barons. "[Mojo] really runs with the southern California, roots rock crowd, so his here for one reason," he said, '1 influences are obvious," Vanderveer said. am truly and sincerely Performing after Nixon is the Washington, D.C.-based band Air Miami. This British- frightened, and I don't know techno band, formally known as Unrest on the Teen Beat label, is made up of Bridget what else to do besides this. I'm Cross (vocals, guitar and bass), Mark Robinson (vocals, guitar and bass) and Gabriel Stout just doing my part." (drums). The series of scenes and The third act of the night is Danielle Howie, a self-taught, solo acoustic artist. poems certainly evoked laughter Originally the front woman for Lay Quiet Awhile, this Columbia, S.C., woman has toured and seriousness and audience KYLE VUSSIsenior photographer with the Indigo Girls and has a recording contract on Amy Ray's record label, Deamon participation. Chapmyn sent out Timothy Walden Hunter, from Washington, D.C., performs Records. messages about the pain a black in 'Our Young Men are Dying' Tuesday in Wilson Hall. A recent write-up and interview of Howie described her as a folk or country artist to man deals with through drugs, "those who don't know any better." She is better described as a cross between Joni family life, women, school, "Our Young Black Men Are many other plays, such as Mitchell and Liz Phair. religion and suicide. Dying and Nobody Seems To "Womyn With Wings," "What Howie described her own music as her attempt to "capture little bits of time" in her During a scene in which Care" in 1983 in his darkest About Black Womyn," "What It songs. Chapmyn took on the character hour of homelessness, Be Like" and "Black Man Frazier said these three acts will provide a great night of music at JMU. of "Big Belly Bob," he depression and suicidal Rising." "We were pretty lucky to gel this line-up for the concert. I expect it to be a really good attempted to teach Smith how to tendencies. He is working on several show," Frazier said. properly treat a woman. He was more intent on new projects. Kevin Smith, from Tickets for the WXJM Mojo Nixon concert are $5 in advance and $6 at the door. Doors After giving suggestions on finding a way to kill himself Columbus, Ohio, and Timothy open at 8 p.m. For ticket information, call 1-800-287-5925. how to deliver a good pick-up than he was on finding a way Walden Hunter, from line, he asked Smith to out of his despair, he said. Washington, D.C., accompany demonstrate how he would treat "I was going to jump off the Chapmyn on the tour. They a woman if it were just she and building across the street from portray characters ranging from Smith in a row w',ri candles. the Chicago Tribune just so thieves to students to police Smith, stripping his clothes people would notice me and officers. from his upper body, they would know what they did Both Smith and Hunter immediately received screams to me," he said. said they involve themselves in of excitement from the women As a religrOul person, he acting with Chapmyn's different in the audience. began looking to God for help companies to meet personal Soon after this scene, and stopped blaming everyone challenges. Chapmyn took on a more else for his problems. It was at Smith said Chapmyn's serious role. He acted as a little this time that he began to look example inspired him to begin boy and told the audience his within himself and write plays working on constructing a story about how his father told that dealt with his frustrations. homeless shelter in Columbus. him men don't cry. Then he "He's got a beautiful gift," "I won't let anything stop me," revealed his father shot his wife, said freshman business major he said. daughter, son and himself, but Rob Parr'ott, "and he's just so Chapmyn said he believes the son did not die and was now good at putting words together all the tools for survival, such as alone as no one else would take to get his point across." creativity, dreams and family, care of him. Chapmyn uses his talent as a have been programmed out of He also alluded to religion tool to touch people, young and the black man, and he wishes to when he, Smith and Hunter old, and show them the neglect reintroduce these basic factors spoke about the similarities with which he believes society into society. between the treatment of black treats most social issues that Chapmyn's message men and Jesus, as they've both relate to young black men. seemed to strike a chord with suffered persecution. "I don't believe we need a the students attending his They boldly stated "Jesus leader to move," Chapmyn said performance, including was a Black Man" because in his opening remarks Tuesday freshman Liselle Batt. black men, like Jesus, deal with evening, "We've just got to "After this performance others' disbelief and distrust. move." tonight, I don't want to go The play ended with the He aims to make a difference through the rest of the week," three actors reading the names "one [person] at a time." she said. "Nothing that could PHOTO COURTESY OF WXJM of friends, relatives and Since that time of happen could have this great of acquaintances whose memory hopelessness and despair, an impact on me." Singer and songwriter Mojo Nixon is one of three acts performing at the previous audience members Chapmyn said he has found joy His goals to influence "one WXJM benefit concert Feb. 16 in PC Ballroom. 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Whether you are male or mood and started to back off. He anything wrong. just deal with my feelings and not enough to make a decision about female, no means no. Understand the argued I was wasting a perfect When I got to my room, things have to worry about his reaction. I using my ammunition. pain that results from one moment. opportunity and was being stupid. seemed to happen in slow motion. thought he would make me doubt One year later, I am still fighting Most of all, understand it could Unfortunately, not a single soul was Before I knew it, I was lying in bed myself, and I knew how I felt inside. the pain. For the first time since the happen to you. around. He proceeded to lie on top of trying desperately to fall asleep. That Believe it or not, the situation rape, I cried about it when I told my Due to the sensitive nature of this me and kiss my neck. I asked him to night, I realized what I shared with could have been much worse. I present boyfriend of the distress it topic, the writer chose to remain please stop, and when he didn't, an my boyfriend, the guy I trusted, was waited for my period with baited causes me now. If you are in a anonymous. overwhelming fear began to set in. wrong. I thought because I showed breath. The possibility of pregnancy I attempted to push him off, but he no resistance once I decided to scared me. I anticipated the arrival of was too big. He started undressing remain silent, it was just coerced sex, my period for about two weeks. I had me while I tried to resist. Again, he not date rape. many nightmares about what would was on top of me. I knew 1 couldn't As the days went on, the truth become of that possible child during fight, so I lay still and tried to make it became clear to me. I said no, and no those two weeks. It would not be a as easy as possible on me, both means no. My boyfriend had raped product of love but a product of - physically and emotionally. me. He did not accept no for an crime. I entertained many ideas of Afterward, he had the audacity to ask answer, and that is what made it rape. what to tell my boyfriend. He knew I me if it was good. That dreadful afternoon went was late, and when he found out his It is hard to face what happened to unreported and undetected by many life wouldn't be weighed down by a me that afternoon. Not only is it around me. I told a few close friends child, he wanted to break up. emotionally traumatizing, but my because it felt better to talk about it, I had decided I wanted to break up mind has blocked out some but I decided not to report the with him after the incident occurred, memories as a protective defense. As incident because of fear. Reporting it but I didn't know how to tell him time goes on, some memories would bring out a deep, dark secret I because I feared what he would do. become clearer. just wanted to forget. I could never He only made it easy for me. One vivid memory is the smirk prove the date rape because no one I know now what happened to me spread across his face after all was even saw me at his place. After it that awful afternoon was an extreme said and done. It will stay in my transpired, I was unsure if I could violation. It was a wrongful act I will mind forever. I only remember how accuse him of anything because I lay live with the rest of my life. Sadly, my pure white turtleneck came off, limp and did not forcefully resist. because I did not report it, he may being pulled over my head. I know This, in his eyes, was probably strike again. However, for me, this he used a condom because I permission because it was not was best. I am by no means remember it coming off. I will rejection. suggesting to anyone Ujat they should always remember the strange relief I I didn't tell my boyfriend my not report a rape. EaCrTcase is felt walking out the door. feelings about what took place different. 1 am suggesting maybe I During the walk back to my because I knew he'd say I wanted it. should have gone to the hospital after ISRAEL fMJOIstaff artist" residence hall, I didn't think anything What he might have done scared me. the rape and at least had proof that ate rape often scars, traumatizes victims ways through the years — poor self images, addictions, Students always have the option of reporting assaults to the by Kara Ogletree inabilities to maintain healthy relationships, trust issues," Wing- campus judicial system, campus police or the Harrisonburg0 senior writer Lott said. For victims to move past this stage and live healthy police. College can supply some of the best times of students' lives. lives, they must find some way to cope with the overwhelming According to Way, when a victim reports a sexual assault to But for many students, it can also provide the most traumatic, emotions they experience, according to Wing-Lott. him, he or she may choose criminal prosecution in local courts, scarring experience of their lives. "Society has given a very strong message that the victim is civil prosecution in local courts and judicial or mediation Thirty-five percent of all college-aged women will be blamed," Wing-Lott said. She described most victims' initial procedures at JMU. The .victim may pursue any or all of these victims of sexual assault during their college years, according to reactions as a mix of fear, guilt, anger, distrust and loss of options. Reporting the attack to Way does not require the victim the Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault's booklet Sexual control. Dealing with such a complex blend of feelings is a to bring formal charges against his or her attacker. But, if the Violence Facts and Statistics. slow, painful process and is different for every person, victim chooses to pursue the charges, he or she has the right to Hillary Wing-Lott, JMU sexual assault education according to Wing-Lott. learn the results of the hearing. Students convicted of rape may coordinator, said this figure is significantly lower than the "Our hope is that.person [the victim] has one person they be suspended from JMU for one year. actual number of assaults committed each year because so many trust enough to go to for help," she said. Wing-Lott stressed the importance of letting the victims rapes remain unreported. "I'm not themselves choose their own courses of action for healing. "We Judicial Coordinator Mike Way said no rapes were reported advocating that inform them of their rights. We're always giving the. control to the JMU judicial office this fall, although there were reports every single back," she said. of sexual assault. He said about five were reported during sexual assault Many instances of sexual violence originate from a lack of spring semester 1995. victim has to respect among students, both for themselves and for each other, Because the sexual assault education coordinator's office go through according to Wing-Lott. She said she sees heavy drinking as a^ operates separately from the judicial office, these numbers do therapy. major factor in this disrespect not include the confidential reports made'to Wing-Lott. Therapy is only Despite the statistics about rape among college-aged "I don't think anyone should confuse the number of reported good if the individuals, Wing-Lott said she feels proud of JMU's increasing sexual assaults with the actual number of assaults that occur," client chooses awareness of sexual violence. "More and more students are/'' Way said. the path they saying they want this to stop, and they want to help." According to the American College Health Association's want to take. The Campus Assault Response Helpline is a prime example pamphlet Acquaintance Rape, nine in 10 acquaintance rapes are But they of students volunteering their own time and energy to help deal never reported. And the Illinois coalition claims 84 percent of always need with the problem of sexual assault at JMU. "Our role is to listen all sexual assaults are committed by acquaintances. somebody," she to what they're saying — to empathize for their feelings and Way attributed the high number of unreported rapes to a said. give them their options," CARE Chairperson junior Shera complex combination of reasons. "The first may be that the ' ANGELA TEKRX/graphia editor JMU students Beadner said. Like Wing-Lott, Beadner emphasized the victims are ashamed. Secondly, many of the victims assume who have been victims of sexual assault have a number of confidentiality of all calls. some of the guilt themselves, thinking that they were at fault. options. If they turn to Wing-Lott, the entire conversation The helpline, X6411, handles a wide range of calls, from "Also, the majority know their attackers, so it's a feeling of remains completely confidential. If they don't wish to confide crisis situations to concerned friends of victims. The volunteers not wanting anyone to get in trouble. Many people are either in her, she can direct them to a peer mentor or the Counseling operate 24 hours a day from Friday noon to Monday noon and intimidated by the process, or they have been conditioned to and Student Development Center. can be reached via voice mail during the rest of the week. believe that nothing good will come of it. The process itself is Victims can go to the hospital or Health Center to be tested Wing-Lott said the ultimate goal to help victims is for them intimidating." Way said. - - for pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. They may to consider themselves humans again instead of victims. "It's But rape continues long after the physical act ends. 'Sexual choose to have a physical evidence recovery kit taken in case getting to a point where the assault isn't encompassing their assault victimization surfaces in individuals in many, many they choose to prosecute the attacker. Wing-Lott said. whole being, and the anger doesn't consume them anymore." 22 Trhfrsdty.'Feb. 15, 1996 THE BREEZfih

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THE BREEZB Thursday, Pcb. 15, 1996 23 SPORTS Dukes end skid with dramatic win JMU football player hit with by Matthew Provence With the score tied 58-58, sports editor freshman swingman Eugene Atkinson, who finished with 11 suspension What looked early like a St. points and a team-high 11 boards, Valentine's Day massacre of JMU buried a free throw to give the Dukes by Scott Graham turned out to be the best date in town a one-point lead with only five seniot writer Wednesday, as the Dukes used an seconds left on the clock. JMU football player Travis 18-point second-half comeback to The Seahawks marched up the Grandison was suspended from defeat Cofenial Athletic Association court, but were unable to get a shot the team Tuesday as a result of an rival UNC-Wilmington 59-58 in off before the buzzer, and the Dukes' altercation he allegedly was overtime. f comeback was complete. involved in with members of a The sparse crowd of 4,000 fans at "It feels good. Everybody stepped JMU fraternity. Dukes football the Convocation Center witnessed up and played well," Lott said. "It coach Alex Wood said. the Darren McLinton show, as the was a good overall team effort. The incident senior guard scored 20 of his game- involved a fight high 28 points after the half. The that allegedly crowd remained breathless until the 8 took place last Seahawks were unable to get off a weekend shot in the waning seconds of the JMU 59 betweVn game. Grandison, one»i "That was our greatest comeback Just as important as the hot of his teammates since the^CAA tournament of a second-half shooting for the Dukes and a former couple years ago," JMU head coach was JMU's smothering defense. JMU football Lefty Drieaell said. 'To be down 18 Starting with the 18:24 mark in the player against Travis and come, back like that says a lot second half, the Seahawks were only several members Grandison about the character of our club. This able to muster one field goal in the of an unnamed win was great for us." next 15:24. fraternity, Wood said. After trailing 39-21 two minutes "We were playing man [defense] Grandison said he is unwilling into the second session, McLinton and they ate it up," Driesell said. "So to comment on the suspension led the Dukes on a 30-12 run to tie we went to the zone and that was the and the fight. the score at 51 at the end of difference." I Grandison's teammate who regulation. The win snapped the Dukes eight- allegedly was involved in the "Darren McLinton has always game losing streak while improving fight was not punished by Wood. been a class act," UNC-W bead the team to 6-19 overall and 2-10 in Wood, who would not release coach Jerry Wainwright. "He's quite the CA A. the names of the current and a capable player and once again he The Dukes will return to action former football players allegedly made the difference in the game." Feb. 17 to host CAA-leading involved in the fight, said he was In the overtime period, junior Virginia Commonwealth University JAMES MORRlSlstaff photographer informed of the incident through forward Charles Lott paced JMU at 4:30 p.m. JMU has lost the teams' Senior guard Darren McLinton dribbles by Lamont Franklin. the JMU Center for Multicultural Student Services. with four of his 14 points. previous two meetings. McLinton led all scorers with 28 points in a 59-58 overtime victory. A sophomore Dukes football player who asked not to be named said Grandison did not start the fight and was only trying to Freshman runner makes mark at IG4A defend himself. "I saw the fight," he said, "and Foster finishes 1,500-meter race in record time; fastest time ever by frosh, 1 didn't see [Grandison] throw a punch." by Rachel Woodall Lassiter said Foster helps him as Wood suspended Grandison staff writer well. from the team until he is able to "He calls me up to practice with him "get to the bottom of this Ryan Foster began running track in over breaks, or on rainy days, he'll call particular incident. high school to become a better football you up and say, 'Buck, come on,'" "This isn't the only thing," player. Two years later, he has qualified Lassiter said. Wood said. 'There have been a for the IC4A Eastern Championships Head coach Bill Walton said Foster series of incidents concerning and is one of the top runners at JMU. has an effect on the rest of the team. [Grandison]." Foster competes in events ranging "He is the quite type, but is someone Grandison said he believed the from the 800-meter dash to the 5,000- that is looked at by example," he said. prior incidents Wood is referring meter run. He has earned a spot at the Walton cites Foster's hard work and to had no relevance to his football IC4A in the 3,000-meter run with a time determination as elements of his activities. He said he didn't want of 8:27 beating the qualifying time by success. to comment tbout the two seconds. "As far as I can see, he is doing circumstances of the incidents. "Ryan is perhaps the most versatile everything he is supposed to do and Wood said he plans to meet runner on the team," sophomore doesn't try to take shortcuts," Walton with a member of the Center for teammate Sean Harrington said. "He said. Multicultural Student Services to has the speed to do well in the shorter Foster carries this "can-do" attitude discuss the particulars of the distance races but is also strong enough throughout the track season and said incident. for the longer events." dedication along with consistency is "We're trying to get to the Last year, Foster placed eighth in the key. bottom of this," Wood said. "It's 5,000 and was a finalist in the 1,500- "You got to have determination, and unfortunate that it happened, but meter run at the United States you have to really want it," he said. this kind of stuff goes on." Association of Track & Field Junior Besides being one of only two JMU Grandison is a red-shirt Nationals Championship. His 1,500- runners to qualify for the IC4A for the sophomore who transferred from meter time of 3:53.33 is the fastest ever indoor track season, Walton said Foster Virginia Union University after by a JMU freshman, and he is ranked was a major contributor to the cross- the 1993-'94 school year. He was ninth on the JMU all-time list for that country team. a standout athlete at Thomas Dale event. He placed 23rd in a field of 74 in the High School in Chester, and was Sophomore teammate Bucky Colonial Athletiq Association a member of a state playoff team Lassiter attributes Foster's success to Championships with a time of 26:07.5 in football. his "workaholic" tendencies. He added in the five-mile race. Foster then went Wood took the Dukes to an 8-4 that Foster's work ethic contributes to on to compete in the Region Two and record in his first season as head the team's success as well. IC4A meet in Boston, competing in the coach. He came to JMU after one "He is so focused that it makes you I OK event. season as the offensive focus, too," Lassiter said. Foster finished the race in a time of coordinator at Wake Forest Lassiter and Foster push each other 31:40. finishing 79th in a field of 243. University. to run better. He placed 52nd in the Region Two race, "We support each other, and we both which is run concurrently with the 1C4A ROGER WOLLENBERG/p/ioto editor — Peter Haggarty, assistant believe that we can do what we talk race. The IC4A encompasses two sports editor, also contributed to Freshman Ryan Foster looks out over Bridgeforth Stadium. He about with races," Foster said. "If I see regions, and JMU is a member of this story. excels at middle-distance events, especially the 1,500m run. him do good, it makes me do good." Region Two. 24 Thursday, Feb. 15, 1996 THE BREEZE

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But | Speech. floor, sometimes pausing to gaze at the box this year, they have been a new experience for The speech was given on national score, as if he was looking for answers. him because he has had to constantly talk about I television, so all of America saw our president, He did begin to speak, though, and without losing. broken and weary, talking about the state of the waiting for questions, he gave what sounded So on this day, he was fidgety, constantly country and his administration. like his own "Malaise Speech." toying with the box score in his hand. He would This speech was seen to be a sign of defeat "Well, I haven't got much to say, except for roll it up. stare at it, tap it on the table, unroll it. for Carter — a sign that he was beaten. Many this is by far the worst year of my life. There were a lot of long pauses in his speech. say the speech was one of the biggest "Ya know, again, we were right in the ball Comparisons to former President Carter do j contributors to his loss in the 1980 presidential game, we get technicals, we take bad shots, we not end there. As I said before. Carter's speech I election. lose... so, what can I tell you." was probably the lowest point of his Last Wednesday, JMU had a scene that was "I don't think Stevenson scored in the first administration, and had a lot to do with his very similar to half; he got 20 failing to be reclccted. what happened in points the Well, already the rumors are swirling about the White House Sports second half. our embattled coach. Many are saying he will almost 20 years Our defense retire at the end of the season. ago. was lousy, our Others are saying that he will not have that This time, the Commentary free-throw chance, that he will be fired. One rumor was famous, powerful shooting was FILE PHOTO that if Lefty and the Dukes do not win the CAA man who was — JohnM. Taylor lousy... we get Coach Driesell looks on as his team tournament, he will lose his job. beleaguered and guys who get struggles through a dismal season. Stranger things have happened. East broken was JMU technical fouls, Carolina University shocked the league (and men's basketball coach Lefty Driesell. we take bad shots when we're down three with something to try and win. perhaps, ironically, JMU) in 1993 by winning After Wednesday's game at the Convocation 30-some seconds left. "You know, the guys are trying hard, we're the conference tournament, beating the Dukes Center, which James Coleman, oops, I mean "\ mean, I'm not taking anything away from just not getting it done. [Richmond's] inside in CAA final and stealing the automatic bid to JMU, lost 84-80 to lowly University of Richmond, I think they did a heck of a job people just killed us... the NCAA tournament. ECU owned the next- Richmond, the traditional post-game news coming in here and winning. They had, what, "Like I say, we do ridiculous things. In all to-worst record in the league that season, at 4- conference was held in the Convo press room. two, one, two, three, four, five guys in double my coaching, 37 years, I've never had a guy get 10. After UR coach Bill Dooley gav* his spiel figures. We didn't have this guy [Adam] Ward thrown out of a game. But he deserved to get It will take a similar miracle for the Dukes to about being fortunate to come in to the Convo on our scouting report; he comes in here and thrown out. salvage this season, and possibly for Lefty to and win; how Darren McLinton is unstoppable; gets 12 points on us. "Don't take anything away from Richmond salvage his job. It is sad to see it come to this. and basically how it is better to be in next to "So I think they did a good job, and they — they beat us." This is a man of great stature and a program last place than in the basement. Lefty walked deserve to win. As a close follower of JMU basketball, this that has come to be respected as a conference out of the double doors, grabbed a copy of the "I apologize to our fans, the people that have was a sad scene, even sadder than what we have power. box score and slowly sat down at the table followed JMU basketball the last seven years; seen on the court this season. Which brings us back to the Carter White facing the reporters. it's not like this, and it ain't gonna be like this. This was a broken man. House, and the United States, a country This was different from the Lefty we usually "We had a great recruiting year, next year, This was a man who had run out of answers, respected as the most powerful nation on Earth. see after a game — most of which have been you know, we'll be back like JMU's supposed who was embarrassed by what his team has When their leader and their respect seemed to losses this year. to be. done this year. slip, the people made a change at the top, Usually, he storms into the room and dares "This year ... I don't know, we might start Lefty knows people expect more from him choosing a new leader. us to ask a question, and we get a lecture on holding the ball from here on out. What do we and his teams — they expect winners. We'll have to wait and see where these what happened and didn't happen on the court got, six games left? I got to figure out This year's team hasn't won but five games. comparisons to Lefty and his Dukes end.

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