January 12, 2012 Police Release Keatts’ Cause the JMU Network of Death
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>> We are looking for WELCOME BACK, JMU! >> Want to intern an enthusiastic sports with The Breeze? editor and life editor! Email your résumé Email breezeeditor@ and cover letter to gmail.com. breezepress@ Serving James Madison University Since 1922 gmail.com. Cloudy 57°/ 28° Vol. 88, No. 28 chance of precipitation: 20% Thursday, January 12, 2012 Police release Keatts’ cause The JMU network of death GRIFFIN HARRINGTON / THE BREEZE The death of fi fth-year senior and cheerleader Nick Keatts was one of several deaths in the fall semester. Nick Keatts, a fth-year senior, died KATIE BAROODY / THE BREEZE of diabetic ketoacidosis in November, Senior Evan Botello is a co-founder of the social network website Coursetab. Botello and alumnus Andrew Elgert developed Coursetab Harrisonburg police department spokes- in the fall to create a free “one-way street” connection between professors’ online research and students. woman Mary-Hope Vass con rmed. Diabetic ketoacidosis occurs when the body doesn’t produce enough insu- Student creates social network website to encourage lin. Fat is used for energy instead, which produces ketones, a type of acid. It’s poi- more student-professor interaction sonous for the body if ketone levels get too high, according to the American Dia- betes Association website. By EVI FUELLE “I’ve always thought that knowledge students really wanted to communi- It was reported by the Daily News The Breeze should be free,” he said. cate with each other, they couldn’t do it Record on Nov. that the police said Soon after, Botello asked his friend because the teacher needs to OK every- they had found suspected drugs in What if there was a way to keep in touch Andrew Elgert to help him. thing,” Botello said. Keatts’ room. with friends, do homework and have Elgert, an economics and computer Coursetab is free and allows students HPD has now con rmed drugs didn’t access to professor’s research all in one science double major, graduated from and teachers to register independently. play a role in Keatts’ death. social network? JMU in May of last year, and now works “Teachers host their classes, put their “The investigators have concluded Senior economics major Evan Botello for the IT Department at Carmax. syllabuses up, have discussions and post their investigations,” Vass said. thought of a solution: Coursetab. “It’s really di cult to nd a good pro- videos or documents,” Elgert said. “Pro- Keatts’ friend, fth-year senior Travis In the fall of , Botello said the idea grammer, so I’m lucky I have Andrew,” fessors can even exchange ideas about Tucker, and his sister, sophomore IDLS behind Coursetab came to him while sit- Botello said. research papers.” major Lauren Tucker, have been selling ting in class. Elgert soon became Botello’s business Sara Cummings, a junior SMAD major, bracelets in remembrance of Keatts since “My professor was talking about the partner, and they have been working would use the network if it was more user- his death. process professors have to go through together since December. friendly than Blackboard. All the proceeds from the bracelets, here to stay employed at the school, pub- “Evan and I have been friends for “It seems like Blackboard has all the which are available through a Facebook lishing journals, etc.,” Botello said. a while, and when I was in school, he features that a student would need, but group, are going to Keatts’ family to help Botello said he wanted to create a way came to me with the idea for Course- if Coursetab was less complicated [than with expenses. for professors to share their research with- tab and asked if I would be interested,” Blackboard], I would join,” Cummings out barriers, and the idea for Coursetab Elgert said. “As a programmer, I’ve been said. – staff report grew out of that. approached with a lot of ideas, but I Botello said the main idea is that pro- “It’s expensive for students to get access thought Evan’s idea was really good.” fessors will sign up and invite the students to journals where many professors pub- Together, Botello and Elgert to join their course. lish their research,” Botello said. “ rough constructed Coursetab. “Students can then create study groups Coursetab, professors can share research Botello said Blackboard is a “one-way and events and communicate easily to on an online network, and students can street” and that Coursetab will facilitate catch up on notes,” Botello said. gain free access from that.” easy teacher-student and student-student ere are many social networking sites He added that many prestigious interaction, allowing for a quicker, sim- today, but Botello and Elgert hope that the schools, such as Harvard University, have pler communication. adopted this free-research philosophy. “Blackboard is so structured that if see COURSETAB, page A5 JMU loses professor to cancer Kate Kessler, 56, taught at JMU for 11 years, fought six cancers in lifetime By GEORGINA BUCKLEY “She was always a very active per- The Breeze son,” said assistant professor Jenny Jacovitch. After surviving six di erent types Associate professor Susan Ghiaci- of cancer with a tenacity many called uc said Kessler used to park her car admirable, professor Kate Kessler up to three miles away from JMU so died of the disease on Sunday. she could walk the distance to and “She was the most resilient indi- from school. vidual I ever met,” said WRTC Kessler had been working at JMU director Larry Burton. since . An avid outdoorswom- Kessler left behind an -year an, she taught an honors seminar teaching legacy at JMU. in , a course that took students “She had beaten it so many times out of the classroom and onto the before that we were hoping she Appalachian Trail – all , miles would beat it again,” said associate of which she had previously hiked. professor Elisabeth Gumnior. “She was constantly looking for Her ght against various types of ways to make her mark, leave some- cancer – fallopian, ovarian, cervical, thing behind that would be of lasting basal, squamous and melanoma – COURTESY OF SANDRA PURINGTON value and relevance to the school,” was well-known. She wrote about Kate Kessler was an avid hiker and loved JMU. “She was constantly looking for Gumnior said. it in her blog, “Not Battling Cancer,” ways to make her mark, leave something behind that would be of lasting value Throughout her career at JMU, was interviewed by NPR radio about and relevance to the school,” said associate professor Elisabeth Gumnior. Kessler received many awards, Humpty Hitchens scores it and taught a course about the rhet- including the Provost’s Award for in Monday’s game. Dukes oric of survivorship. you fight something that’s part of In her blog she wrote, “I think my Excellence in Honors Teaching. But Kessler would be the first yourself and win?” job is to keep my garden as healthy a In addition to teaching, she look to the future after person to say that “battle” wasn’t Kessler wrote that she wanted to place as possible so that my immune also spoke for Take Back the three straight losses, the right word to de ne her struggle use a garden metaphor for her body, system will keep [the cancer] at bay.” Night and was part of SafeZone. against cancer. and by keeping it healthy, she could Kessler frequently posted photos page B1 In her blog she wrote, “How can keep the cancer away. of the real-live garden she worked in. see KESSLER, page A5 RYAN FREELAND / THE BREEZE NEWS OPINION SPORTS LIFE 1/12 INSIDE A3 Tuition hikes A7 TV show controversy B1 Tebow time? B5 ‘I study dead people’ Summer tuition rates go up. TLC’s ‘All-American Muslim’ Mediocre QB performance JMU’s anatomy is unnecessarily targeted from Tebow leaves program o ers students by fundamentalists. 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