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Hefrbreeze - Low 42 'I ■ Pat* 13 ■ P*C*IS | Pact 19 Mlflty MMWT RtMlSSMCO MM WyMStillyn ■—I mi Mi n mtm ]MU English professor Geoffrey Morley- Tune in to WXJM's funniest talk show as No. 25 ]MU, coming off a 26-2 win over Mower recounts his post as a World War hosts describe their show's random format Radford University Tuesday, lost to 22nd- II pilot ranked University of Richmond Wednesday. TWpT W ^ famesJames iviuuisunMadison wmcrrajtyUniversity -Mar Partly cloudy Higk: 65 HEfrBREEZE - Low 42 'I. , '», /s>;ic-/'> Dinosaur Center nears completion eggs aid College Center expansion gets final touches BY FARRIS GALE limit, according to Dye. Center is an imitation of the one contributing writer He said he believes that stu- that used to be in Warren Hall. research The construction next to the dents should view the new con- He said, "This new building struction as "not just another will have the largest ballroom BY KERRI SAMPLE Festival will be complete, with staff writer new dining venues, a ballroom building, bul instead they from Winchester to Roanoke." and more meeting rooms by should see it as an improvement University Program Board JMU's geology department for student life on campus." will be able to hold concerts reo?ived some unique dona- graduation in May. Derek Dye, coordinator of Not including the Leelou here because of the 1,100-person tions this past year from an Alumni Center, this new build- capacity, according to Dye. alumni's father in the form of the new College Center, said he is excited about the benefits ing covers 106,000 square feet. Operations director prehistoric dinosaur eggs. According to Dye, five new Stephanie Hoshower said, "As Now a geology professor is thai the center will bring for the students. meeting rooms will be added the Alumni Center and faced with the task of identify- Monday, the building and a new multipurpose room Conference centers open this ing and studying the eggs. similar to the one that previous- summer, dining services will be Donated by Michael MATTCARASIJJ.A/iluffptoeijrapter passed a safety inspection and next week the building will be ly existed in Warren Hall. Dye McNamara, father of alumna Expansion of the College Center to Include a multlpurpoee said the room in the College see COLLEGE, page 4 Elizabeth McNamara, the eggs room and new dining facilities will tie completed In May. inspected for the occupancy have been used by JMU profes- sor of geology Mark Reinhold for research. The eggs, which date from the Cretaceous period, are from either China or Mongolia, according to Reinhold. Reinhold was able to figure out the approximate Holocaust survivor shares story age because all eggs from these regions are from the Cretaceous period, which puts Speaker gives account of atrocities in WWII concentration camps the eggs at about 150 million to 165 million years old. BY KATE SYNDER not crazy, just nasty." staff writer Today, he hopes for peace A Holocaust survivor told among countries and does- (6- his graphic story of living n't understand why some through the horrors of con- people kill others. "1.5 mil- We hope to eventually centration camps during lion children died in World War II. Auschwitz," he said. identify the type of "1 never thought I was "They were wasted for dinosaur the eggs going lo make it out of there nothing. They could have alive," said Martin Weiss, been Einsteins." came from and the who survived the concentra- Born in the former tion camps at Auschwitz and Czechoslovakia in 1929, actual age of the eggs. Mauthausen. "I was almost Weiss said that in 1944. he, jealous of the dead. 1 once along with his parents and — Mark Reinhold said to my friend that I just eight brothers and sisters, geology professor wanted a piece of bread, and was taken from his home. -99 I didn't care if they shot me Weiss was only 14 years old for having it." at the time and said none of - Weiss told his story of his family knew what was "We hope to eventually pain, fear and forgiveness to happening to them. identify the type of dinosaur the a full house Mondav night in eggs came from and the actual Wilson Hall. JMU's Hillel -4 6 age of the eggs," Reinhold said. Council and the University "Without an accurate age, the Program Board sponsored / never thought I was eggs don't have much scientific the event. going to make it significance." He began by .icknowledg- The eight eggs are each ing the attacks on Sept. 11, out alive. about the size of a cantaloupe, comparing it to the according to Reinhold While Holocaust. "When people are — Martin Weiss most of them are extremely killed in hatred, it affects us Holocausl survivor well preserved, one egg is all." he said. "As members of deteriorating rapidly. a civilized society, we cannot 99 According to Reinhold, accept this." the most important purpose Despite his horrible for the eggs is to serve as a experiences and time spent According to Weiss, Hungarian soldiers gathered teaching tool for the stu- in concentration camps, dents. "The students are real- Weiss said he does not his family and moved them ly having a chance to get have hatred in his heart for into a ghetto where they stayed for five weeks. There some real research and get Germans or anyone else. 'Afterward, even though was little food, but they were their hands in there and get thankful they were together. dirty," Reinhold said. we were in hard times, we The eggs are being studied never did anything out of Soon, they were forced into trains and transported to by sophomore Christine hatred," Weiss said. "We Auschwitz, a concentration Meyer and junior Isiah Smith could've killed people for food and shelter when we camp in Poland. There were Meyer is helping to analyze about 135 people in each the shell structure, looking at had nothing, but we did- train car, and they had no pieces of the shell under a n't. We remained decent idea were they were going. high power microscope. The and human." During his speech Weiss KONA CALI-AOHER/r. wnfcumiK ptkmyraphri positioning of the crystals on Weiss expressed his thoughts that "Hitler was seeSVKVIVOK.page5 Holocaust aurvlvor Martin Welts apeak* of his experience* In Nazi concentration camp*. see GEOLOGY, page 5 SGA seeks FLEX options Students walk to raise funds Complications slow expanded JAC use off campus for March of Dimes research BY DAVID CLEMENTSON BY BROOKE ABBITT businesses that have expressed attorney general still is pend- news editor SGA reporter interest in potential FLEX use. ing, according to Mills, JMU students will have The SGA, Assistant Vice because of the legality of Despite complications that Walk America an opportunity to raise have delayed the process, using President of Business Services using FLEX off campus. Towana Moore and Director of Policy and Legal Affairs money for research for babies, FLEX at off-campus businesses while taking part in a nation- will soon become a reality. Card Service* Becky Hinkle dis- Advisor Susan Wheeler I and created the pro- explains that the Regulation E wide walk all over America. Complications in the Where: Big Kmart (East Market St.) WalkAmenca, the largest Virginia attorney general's posed contract in October. laws, which deal with banking Moore said slie sat down and public institutions, could fund-raising event ot the year office have caused delays in tor the charily March of with Hinkle and SGA represen- potentially make off-campus approval of the proposed con- Dimes, will take place in tract, according to Student tatives and using a copy of FLEX use illegal. When: Registration at 8 a.m. Radford University's contnut Wlieeler said, "This situation Harrisonburg April 20. Government Association Started in 1932 by President David Mills. "chose the things we liked is coming up all over the coun- Walk begins at 9 a.m. about it to put together a con- try. Some schools are allowing President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had polio, the tract for JMU." their students to use cards off According to Moore, any campus and others are not." March of Dimes raised money for research which eventually * public institution wanting to "It's something we really led to the discovery of a cure enter inlii .ontract with another want to do for the students, for polio in 1952, according to business, must have a contract but we need to make sure all according to junkir Elizabeth approved by the attorney gencr- the legal issues are covered," For more information: Perdue, Virginia State Youth al's office, and in November the she said. Mills said, "But the good on Board chair for the March NAT>. niARH/cu/Jii. • •JiU" contract was sent for approval. contact Christie Bilbrey at 434-7789 of Dimes. After the charity Such a contract would allow However, the change from news is, if the attorney general's the former Va. attorney general, office comes back with a no, the achieved its mission, it began students to use their FLEX or seeking cures for birth defects, Mark Earley, lo the present Va. university is poised to potential- accounts at local businesses. according to Perdue. Luigi's Italian Restaurant, attorney general, |erry Kilgore. ly go to plan B. There is a corpo- visit www.modimes.org ratkin called Student Advantage According to its Web site, International House of in January has delayed the ini- www.modimes.org, the chari- Pancakes, Kooter Floyd's tial waionai to IMU's contract, that plays the middle man between outside business and Barbecue and Shenandoah according to Mills MEGHAN MURPIIY/i™.»um« see WALK, page 5 Grille are among some of the The decision from the tee SGA, page 6 • ■-*- 2 I THE BREEZE ITIIURSDAY.
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