JOB HUNTING? ALL THE LATEST The Breeze is looking for Download our mobile app copy and news editors. for news on the go at Apply at joblink.jmu.edu. breezejmu.org. Serving James Madison University Since 1922 Partly Cloudy n 52°/ 31° Vol. 92, No. 18 chance of precipitation: 10% Thursday, October 24, 2013 Dukes Teaching the craft ready for Political science professor designs virtual strategy game to teach students second leg of season Football rested after bye week, face William & Mary Saturday By CONNOR DREW The Breeze Students. Teachers. Athletes. Coaches … Reporters. Who doesn’t love a week off from working? While they may not have been sitting on their couches all day, the Dukes (5-2, 2-1 Colonial Athletic Association) are rested and ready BRIAN PRESCOTT / THE BREEZE to get back into the the thick of the Students in Jonathan Keller’s foreign affairs class discuss political strategies for their simulated counties in Keller’s foreign policy game, Statecraft. season after their bye week. “We took advantage of the bye week,” Head coach Mickey Matthews By MARY KATE WHITE improve simulated citizens’ quality of life. said. “We were beat up even before The Breeze In the game’s analog days, Keller spent hours every week calculat- the Richmond game. We needed a ing his students’ countries’ resources, growth and approval ratings. week off. We practiced in our sweats Students looking to take over the world will finally have He was eventually inspired to simulate Statecraft by strategy games all week — we did not hit … We’re as their chance, thanks to one professor’s interactive program of like Civilization and Warcraft. healthy as we’ve been all year.” world-domination. “I wanted to use the most addicting parts of those games to draw The week of rest couldn’t have Statecraft, though originally a pen-and-paper system similar to the students in. Those were my two goals: It had to be fun and addictive, come at a better time for JMU, as strategy board game Risk, is now a fully-automated computer pro- and it had to be informative,” Keller said. it is in the middle of an eight game gram used around the world to teach students about foreign policy. Each “country” is given a certain area on a map chosen at random, stretch against CAA opponents with Associate professor of political science Jonathan Keller created and must use that area’s resources to achieve certain goals includ- five more to go. If the Dukes want Statecraft 14 years ago to give students hands-on experience with ing healthiest, most educated, safest and most cultured. Although to have a shot at postseason play, international dynamics. participation and basic understanding will get students a passing Saturday is when they need to begin “It’s a fantasy world with problems that parallel real-world prob- grade, achieving one or more of these goals gets students extra their big push. lems,” Keller said. credit. Using that extra credit as motivation, Keller hopes to show “We have five hard games coming In the simulation, students take a political ideology assessment students how difficult it is to achieve and maintain world peace. up,” redshirt senior running back and are put into groups based on their governmental preferenc- Dae’Quan Scott said. “They’re all es. The team then works together to use the country’s resources to seeT S ATECRAFT, page 10 going to be competitive and I know that every team in the CAA right now is, basically, even. So we’re going to have to work that much harder to be where we want to be.” The Dukes are preparing for a ride to Williamsburg to face conference rival the College of William & Mary (4-3, 2-1 CAA) during the Tribe’s Homecoming Weekend. While JMU is 0-2 on the road this season and William & Mary is undefeated at home, the Dukes are 10-4 under .Matthews coming off a bye week and are hoping to continue to develop their game on the offensive side of the ball as they have in recent weeks. “I think that the offense knows what it’s capable of now,” redshirt junior wide receiver Daniel Brown said. “I think that [offensive coordinator Mike O’Cain] is comfortable with calling whatever and knows that we’re going to execute. The morale with the offense is really high and we know that we’re one of the best and that, when we execute, we’re MATT SCHMACHTENBERG / THE BREEZE unstoppable.” This offensive success has been Lighting up I-81 growing each week and, according A new illuminated James Madison University sign has been built on the north-bound side of I-81 below the Biosciences Building. seeTB FOO ALL, page 12 Students take on government bills Social work majors take social advocacy bill assignment to the next level By ERIN FLYNN contributing writer Some JMU students are taking their thoughts on social issues to Congress. Several social work majors in the social policy class required of their major are participating in an optional day trip to Congress today as a follow-up to recently completing their bill advocacy assignment. The assignment required students to work with a partner and choose a bill of interest that is currently going through the Senate and House of Representatives. They were asked to research information about their bill and advocate for it. To gain support for their bills, several students are attempting to contact legisla- tors, but others are making attempts to gain support across the JMU campus. Matt Taylor, a senior social work major, is advocating the youth Prison Reduc- tion through Opportunities, Mentoring, Intervention, Support and Education Act, also known as PROMISE. This federally funded act would support youths who are at high risk for committing crimes. “I chose this bill simply because I have an interest in the prison system and its overcrowding. So I wanted to look at a bill that may contribute to lowering those rates,” Taylor said. Taylor is doing his part by working on creating a chapter at JMU for the Joined Youth Action Team, an organization he recently joined that fundraises and supports the Youth PROMISE Act and other related bills. Taylor and his partner sent out bulk emails to get people to sign their petition and also collected postcards from every- one in their class and sent them to their legislators. “If you remain voiceless in these policies, you can’t have any impact on the out- come,” Taylor said. “It’s like, yeah, it might not affect you directly, but indirectly, it will come back and affect you.” MATT SCHMACHTENBERG / THE BREEZE Matt Taylor and Marybeth Fox, social work majors, discuss their respective bills with social work professor Laura Trull. see BILL, page 4 NEWS opiNION LIE F SOP RTS 10/24 INSIDE 3 Learning in the sky 6 What a dumbell 9 Brew the day 11 S earching for success Wind turbine provides Fit mom’s “no excuses” Virginia breweries step up to Men’s soccer trying to students with a unique picture unfairly the plate and win awards for finish season strong classroom experience. points fingers. exceptional beer. despite struggles. 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