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Serving James Madison University Since 1922 breezejmu.org Sunny 84°/57° Vol. 87, No. 5 chance of precipitation: 0% Monday, September 13, 2010 FINAL: 21—16 ROBERT BOAG / THE BREEZE DAVID CASTERLINE / THE BREEZE ROBERT BOAG / THE BREEZE DAVID CASTERLINE / THE BREEZE PHOTO COURTESY OF DAVID LONNQUEST TOP LEFT Football coach Mickey Matthews raises his visor to the JMU student section after the Dukes win. TOP RIGHT Redshirt junior linebacker Pat Williams (right) rejoices after sophomore cornerback Leavander Jones defends a pass in the end zone. CENTER LEFT Junior cornerback Taveion Cuffee tackles Va. Tech senior quarterback Tyrod Taylor. BOTTOM LEFT JMU fans celebrate amid thousands of Hokies at Lane Stadium. BOTTOM RIGHT Sophomore Sarah Everett impersonates James Madison for the home celebration at Bridgeforth Stadium. Dukes accomplish the unthinkable by beating the Va. Tech Hokies at Lane Stadium. Shocker in Blacksburg Celebrations at JMU By THOM MARTINICCHIO to a Football Championship Subdivision (for- By AARON KOEPPER JMU’s football team returned to cam- contributing writer merly -AA) team since . The Breeze pus to nd about students, faculty and Va. Tech was expected to use JMU as whip- alumni gathered outside Bridgeforth Stadi- BLACKSBURG, Va. — Coming into Sat- ping boys to unleash its frustration of losing a The surprise victory over Virginia Tech um, cheering their victory. Players met and urday’s game between James Madison and nail-biter to No. ranked Boise State earlier on Saturday was two hours south of Harri- talked to fans, relishing in the historic win, Virginia Tech, the only thing as bleak as the in the week. sonburg, but that didn’t stop the party from the upset and the JMU triumph. weather was the Dukes’ odds of beating the But the Dukes never received that memo. starting immediately back at JMU after the JMU President Linwood Rose, who attend- mighty Hokies. JMU shocked the world, outplaying the Hok- game ended. ed the game in Blacksburg. In the past two meetings between the ies on their home turf and winning the game, Students ran out of dorms and apart- “It’s not peace in the Middle East or a cure teams, Tech had outscored the Dukes by an -. ments, screaming with excitement about for cancer — it’s a football game, but it’s a astounding -, and won all six games in the JMU’s spirited ght was spearheaded by the Dukes’ victory over Tech, while rushing wonderful football game,” Rose said after the series. e Dukes had also not beaten a Foot- sophomore cornerback Leavander Jones along South Main Street, on the Quad and team arrived outside the stadium back at JMU. ball Bowl Subdivision (formerly -A) team in at the corner of Bluestone Drive and Duke almost years, while the Hokies had not lost see GAME, page 14 Drive. see HOME, page 14 Quarterback Drew Dudzik More Va. Tech game All Breeze coverage of the fi nally earns respect. photos. Va. Tech game page 11 page 13 breezejmu.org/jmu-vt-special/ Today Tuesday Wednesday Thursday sunny partly cloudy sunny partly cloudy 84°/57° 83°/52° 80°/48° 85°/68° PageEDITORS Elizabeth Baugh & Megan Reichart 2 E-MAIL [email protected] Monday, September 13, 2010 2 CORRECTION Serving James Madison University Since 1922 NATION&WORLD G1 Anthony-Seeger Hall, MSC 6805 James Madison University The article “Collegiate congregation RISEs to the occasion” inaccurately described the creation of the RISE campus Harrisonburg, Va. 22807 Poll finds public Obama stresses ministry. Leaders formed the group after having new vision of passion and religion, not because of other differences. PHONE: 540-568-6127 FAX: 540-568-6736 likes ‘old’ media ideals of 9/11 The Breeze regrets the error. MISSION The Breeze, the student-run newspaper WASHINGTON — With news WASHINGTON — President of James Madison University, serves and gossip leaping off every lap- Barack Obama, marking the student, faculty and staff readership by reporting news involving the campus and top screen, smartphone and ninth anniversary of the Sept. local community. The Breeze strives to Facebook page, the common 11 attacks, said Americans be impartial and fair in its reporting and wisdom these days is that tradi- should remember the national firmly believes in First Amendment rights. tional news outlets are doomed. unity and the “human capac- Published Monday and Thursday mornings, But a funny thing happened ity for good” that followed the The Breeze is distributed throughout on the way to the funeral: People nation’s worst act of terrorism. James Madison University and the local Harrisonburg community. Comments and are spending more time follow- In his weekly address on the complaints should be addressed to Katie ing the news, rather than giving radio and Internet, Obama said Thisdell, editor. in to other distractions. the lesson to be drawn from Individual copies of The Breeze are free, Traditional media are hold- the attacks is that the nation is but multiple copies can be purchased at ing onto mindshare: A new Pew bound by “a set of common ide- The Breeze office. Research Center study says that als” that can be exemplified by on a given day, Americans spend service. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF 57 minutes getting the news from “By giving back to our com- KATIE THISDELL television, newspapers or radio, munities, by serving people in [email protected] just as they did in 2000. need, we reaffirm our ideals,” But they spend an additional he said. “We prove that the NEWS DESK 13 minutes each day consum- sense of responsibility that we [email protected] ing news on the Web — a figure felt for one another was not a that doesn’t even include stories fleeting passion.” LIFE DESK viewed on cell phones. Highly Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl echoed [email protected] educated folks, not surprisingly, those sentiments in the Repub- are driving the increase. lican address. SPORTS DESK Not everyone is an addict; 17 “Tomorrow and beyond, we [email protected] percent of those surveyed said should recapture the unity that they got no news of any kind the allowed us to come together as OPINION DESK previous day. But the 83 percent a nation to confront a deter- PAUL JONES / THE BREEZE [email protected] who did are drawing their infor- mined enemy,” he said. mation from a wider variety of Obama, in his address, said Free show COPY DESK sources. he recognized that the coun- Emily Schofield, a junior nursing major, and Jimmy Hauver, a sophomore physics and math double major, [email protected] try is going through “a time of stop to enjoy a practice of Madison Project, an all-male a cappella group, in the new tunnel under the Quad. difficulty.” PHOTO/GRAPHICS [email protected] [email protected] F MINUS VIDEO [email protected] horoscopes ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT 540-568-6127 IF YOU WERE BORN TODAY: [email protected] Born today, you like to have your hand in whatever is going on around you, for you ADS MANAGER are confident that your participation will Nicole Ort make anything that much better — and you are usually correct. Of course, there is a ASST. 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You try handling the pressure of playing games on ESPN3. current problems once and for all. schedule may become more @TheBreezeJMU 9. Tyrod Taylor spent week re-watching “Glee” season two on Distance may be your enemy. complicated than anticipated. @Breeze_sports DVR instead of JMU game tapes. Jamie, I have to tell you that I was really worried 8. JMU’s purple uniforms reminded Hokie players of East CAPRICORN CANCER that this year’s Breeze would be boring and lifeless Carolina. (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) (June 21-July 22) without the humor of Michael Larrick.