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Crossword and. SUDOKU in the same The Breeze paper i James Madison University's Student Newspaper in/. 85, Issue 40 I nil mil,ill, April li, 2(K)b Opinion, page 6 A&E, page 8 Sports, page 11 SafeRides thus far has equaled Technology transforms the flflVV The JMU baseball team heads NoRidesforJMU. way students live. ■ to Beantown to face Huskies. Professor appointed No Holds Barred to council SGA vetoes bill ■v RACHANA DIXII bill pa^lefi-. [gS MM] rnrrojt listing rules for I enms Kchteriing, director of the Counseling Psychology program senatorial election esidence Halls- 32 ■Visual and Performing Arts- 2 for the department of graduate psy- Arts and Letters chology, has been appointed to the "AT-8 lemmsm and Disaster Behavioral ■v MABYOABSTY Business- 7 ucation- 2 Health Advisory Council for the U8B1 IM NBV3 wrroR Comrnomvealth of Virginia. Science and Mat! aduate I Programs- 2 TADBHAC amsisbng of 15 Tuesday night. SGA sena- members, w as formed by me Office tors voted to veto a bill that enatoi of the Governor in 2WM and is meant would limit the numbers of to provide guidance on Virginia's seats available for next year's key disaster response entities, cover- senate, effectively eliminating ing ruitur.il disasters as well as ter- competition lor today's elec- nmst attacks. tion. "Par hvenh, yean I ve been do- "When you have a body up 1 T \£ il isaster mental health work here for elections, they aren't going in Virginia," said Kchteriing, who to pass anything that is go- Residence Halls- 32 has been a lull-tune faculty member ing to hinder them and make at JML" since 1990 and has directed for a more competitive race," Arts and Letters- 13 Counseling Psychology since 1994. Mid senator Lucv Hutchinson Business- 13 When floods ravaged the state (Sr.). in 1985, Kchteriing helped organize According to Ricardo Pi- Science and Math- 5 an outreach response to offer sup- neres, former chairman of the portive counseling t>f victims of the Elections Commission, sena- visual and Performing flood. Here he began working with tors representing academic die state, which was funding the colleges used to be elected in Arts-5 counseling services. the fall at the same time as ISAT- 15 \^1 "As counselors, wen' helping residence hall and new fresh- people hi use their strengths and re- man executive council sena- Education- 3 sources to sun ive, I chterling said. tors. Earlier this semester, In addition, he has worked as a the SGA's election policy was Graduate Programs- 5 volunteer at the Pentagon after Sept. amended so that college sena- 11 tenonst attacks. tors would be elected in the Total: 91 Senators "Mainly what we're doing is spring. However, the SGA did emphasizing not write full rules tor thi* up- the psycho- coming spring elections. I \l Kl M'A<X<vf*M0r kigical aspect Last week, Hutchinson in- of {natural troduced a bill to govern the bill, we have no rules governing tions .in1 more competitive and resentatives I he senate was made disasters)," currently unregulated senato- our body. Anyone can be a sena- make less seats available next up of 30 ptrctnl tuwampus and 70 he said "Viu rial race. It was passed by a tor," Hutchinson said. year," said senator Geary Cox (Jr.). percent orr-CUnpui senators. Now have to cog- large majority of the senate, There are no written rules as to "Would I like to veto this hill and that changes have been made to the nitnelv come and continued to the Executive how man) senators each academic coast into my seat for next vear? I .lei turn Policy, that distinction no up with a CoufldL where it was vetoed. college can receive, or even how Yes. But it's not about w hat's beat longer exists, but there are no clear plan of action President Wesli Spencer (Sr.) main senators can be elected dur- for us, it should be about what's rules as In how matn senators can and behav- advocated the veto to the Sen- ing the election of residence hall best for the SGA and for JMU." be elected. iorallv take it > ate. senators in the fall. Formerly, senators werecln Ided oui EchterHng "By not supporting this I his bill will mean our elec- as on-campus and off-campus rep- mSOA,pagt4 [he main question that needs to be asked, he said, was how to treat peupk' after a natural disaster, since people often do not know how to de.il with the stress that is accompa- nied with the tragedy. But Rchterling's disaster work is Senator Allen to speak nUonlv limited to misstate. In 1974, when he was studying for his grad- uate degnv and working at a crisis at commencement center at Purdue I niversitv, massive tornados swept thmugh the state, giving Kchteriing and others incen- n KFILYCONNIFF administrators. tive to do community crisis work. covnusimM. WHIHR "They choose a speaker, and if they "When this tornado hit and are available and affordable, we engage kiUed eight people in a nearby com- At this year's spring graduation, them," Perrine said. munity," Kchteriing said, "We de- Virginia's Senator George Allen will Although students recognize the eded 'here's a crisis at a community deliver the commencement addn*sv prestige and importance of Allen awn- level." "He s a good friend of the universi- ing to JMU, some feel M if they did not He added, "Il was the first orga- ty, which makes him a natural choice," have enough choice in the selection nized mental response to a natural said JMU spokesman Andy Pcrrine. process. disaster." In the past, JMU has welcomed "JMU should be honored to have However, TADBHAC largely speakers such as John Snow, the cu rrent such a prestigious speaker at gradua- de.iK with the terrorism issue of Secretary of the Treasury, and former tion, slid senior Rachel HtsMC "How- crisis intervention along with that Virginia governor Mark Warner ever, I feel like the senior class should i»t natural disasters. Kchteriing said Senator Allen has n-presented Vir- have more say, especially because I feel AARON sr>*AKI \faff ph*nraphri more components must be ad- ginia in a variety of government roles. like not a lot of people know who he JMU freshman Karl Harris signed a plea bargain that sus- dressed when helping victims of He has served as one of Virginia's sena- IS " pends a civil rights violation for 18 months after writing racist these kinds of attacks titrs since 2001. He also served as the Despite the trepidation of some stu- remarks on a Virginia Tech student's dry-erase board. "With tcrronsm. the other add- Mates h7th governor (mm 1994-'98. dents, Allen s support and speech does ed component is that ifs caused Allen was a US. Representative from not go unnoticed. by another human being," he said. 1991-'93 and served in the Virginia "We always like to have elected ofh- "You've got that component of an- House of Delegates from 198V91. .I.IIS apeak at commencement" Perrine Harris avoids civil aat" In order to select a commencement said. "He's always been a supporter ol In Virginia especially, many ar- speaker, a committee consisting of ,i JMU, dating back to his term as gover- eas could be at higher nsk for a ter- bmad range of students, faculty and nor.' I'ernne Mid rights prosecution ronst attack, or its indm-ct effects, due to the close proximity of Wash- ington, D.C I he w ritten message included, "We may not be directly hit at Student let off amongnther racial epithets, I hate all," Ixhterling said, "But we anild you because you are stupid" and lv dealing with the consequences ol after incident "You deserved to be lynched." that." Sunda\. Harris s.ud. "I regret t urn-nth, Ithterling's work at Virginia Tech the situation ... I had been drink- with TADBI1AC consists of putting ing with friends prior to the event. together an emergency pnyared- ■v VICTORIA SHI I OH I his din's nol reflect who 1 truly ness and n-sponse booklet for health I oA mHUTI.W WKrTH am and what I trulv believe." can' pmviders and the general pub- Harris did not know the victim lic including immediate informa- JML freshman Karl Alexan- prior to the night of the incident, tion on different types of chemical der Harris signed a plea bargain according to freshman David IVr- exposures, anthrax and small pox. March 27 admitting that he wrote czewaki, .1 Mend *>t Harris's. He hopes his work with the racist messages on the door ol .1 "It's something he is not committee will greatly address the Virginia lech student during a proud ol at all," IVre/cwski said. psychological stnte of disaster vic- visit to the school in November. "He's senousl\ one of the most tims ami help people rely on one an- Harris, fn>m Dumfries, wrote outgoing kids I know |and| has other to find the strength to heal the message tin .1 dr\ -erase hoard never had problems with anyone. "On July 4 we celebrate Inde attached to the door of a female I here are EHent) of kids that could pendencvDay," Kchteriing said "But IIIOIOfOTKliM Ol M.NAIORM [ I N S WI.B Mil Virginia lech student whose per stand for the same thing about his I truly believe thai all the other d at s ents are from Bangladesh and character are ones when1 we can celebrate our Virginia senator and former governor George Allen will be the Spring whose name has not been re- interdependence, when we0*1 n'lv Commencement speaker this year.