Warren Accepts Presidency in Missouri
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The Breeze TbursHaw Marrh ic mon ■*•<*» Bar-B-Q ranch: Hometown cqoktng on Route 11\/1 5 THURSDAY, MARCH 15. 1990 JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY VOL. 67 NO. 42 Warren accepts presidency in Missouri By Lisa Crabbs for a good change to take place," directing the Center for Innovative assistant news editor Warren said. "JMU and NMSU arc Technology in Northern Virginia. JMU's vice president for academic currently at the same stage of Scott, who has been vice president of affairs was named president of development, so I can pick up where student affairs at JMU since 1982, will Northeast Missouri State University they are 'and make a smoother work with Warren in a transition Tuesday. transition." period this spring so both can be Dr. Russell Warren will assume the The vibrancy of the people at NMSU involved in preparing the 1990-91 position in Missouri July 1 and will attracted him, Warren said. "They budget, Carrier said Wednesday. remain at JMU until May graduation. were very warm and accepting when 1 "I am looking forward to working Dr. Robert Scott, JMU's vice visited." with the academic deans and faculty and president of student affairs, will be the "We were at the point where I had to to dealing with the outstanding acting vice president for academic make another long-term commitment program Warren has initialed," Scott affairs during a search for a permanent to JMU," Warren said. "I had to make said Wednesday. "We need to assess replacement a choice, and this seemed like the right where we arc before we think about Warren's appointment was announced time to move on. making any changes." at a Tuesday morning news conference "When a change is done correctly, it Scott would not comment about at NMSU, a state-supported liberal arts can benefit everyone," he said. "I felt it File photo whether he would apply to fill the post school in Kirksvillc, Mo., with 5,800 was time for new leadership to add to Dr. Russell Warren permanently. students. JMU." In the meantime, Dr. Alfred Mcnard "I am really happy because I think Warren had been looking for a year as acting president of JMU. JMU that in many ways the conditions exist presidency since 1986, when he spent a President Ronald Carrier was then See WARREN page 30 >- Staff photo by LAWRENCE JACKSON It's Spring, and thoughts turn to.. Senior Darron Wicks (left) found the pedestrian plaza in front of the library a great place to soak up some afternoon rays yesterday, but senior Antonio Cupit (right) preferred to don his binoculars and scope out females passing by. Page 2, The Breeze, Thursday, March 15, 1990 Fraternity helps Hugo victims rebuild, recover By David Harrington staff writer For some JMU students' Spring Break, there was no beach in sight —just fallen trees and buildings torn by hurricane winds. Members of Alpha Phi Omega, JMU's coed service fraternity, spent Spring Break in Charleston, S.C., cleaning up the damage Hurricane Hugo did to a Boy Scout park almost five months ago. Photos courtesy of David Harbin "A lot of what we did was clearing out paths," said junior Brian Coons, a service vice president of Alpha Phi Omega members faced sights like Alpha Phi Omega. "It had been five months since the downed Charles Towne Landing church anyone had worked on the park, so we had to steeple (top) on their Spring Break clean-up concentrate on opening up routes. trip to Charleston, S.C. Peter Hannon and \ "So many trees had been knocked down that there Janine Knapp clear away debris left by were no longer any landmarks." Hurricane Hugo. Hugo totally ruined the historical preservation park. "There was debris everywhere We were mainly and members of the Baptist College of Charleston, domes they were repairing to save money. cleaning up the debris," Coons said. "It's a neat gave the JMU students a "great welcome," Coons The students cooked their meals in adjacent park, kind of like an animal forest, designed for their said. kitchens. "The cadets took us downtown to eat the natural habitat. There arc pumas, black bears, some JMU's chapter was the first of many Alpha Phi first night, though," Coons said. elk and aviaries of wild birds on the marsh. Omega chapters to go down to help clean up over "The grassland has no protection against a their spring breaks. Its members were also the first "Late Wednesday night, the park ranger took us in hurricane, so a lot of the habitat was destroyed," he people to stay in the park since Hugo hit. and we crashed in the domes. They showed us the said. "Luckily though, only four animals were lost." The main objective of all the chapters of Alpha park on Thursday and gave us some of its history. The group also did further work on domes used for Phi Omega nationwide is to have the park ready for "And on Friday we took half of the day off and presentations in the park and cleared trees, filled in the Boy Scouts by summer. visited The Citadel," Coons said. "After a special dirt, and reconstructed pathways. Coons said Lee Selzer, president of the fraternity's reception, a three-star general spoke, telling us how "To give you an idea of how bad the damage was, chapter at The Citadel, called die 1980s the "me" happy he was to have us here." [they] were still working on the roofs of the domes generation. But Coons said it was the work that made the trip Tuesday and Wednesday morning," Coons said. That "may or may not be true," Coons said. "But worthwhile. "The objective for all service fraternities The fraternity was joined by a group of cadets the 90s might be known as a 'we' generation, and is to provide service to the nation, which we did, and from The Citadel, a military school in Charleston groups like us might make dial happen." we're back at school again to show for it that has a chapter of the fraternity. The students had planned to stay in military "That makes me feel very good about our chapter," The cadets, along with die College of Charleston barracks during the cleanup, but they slept in the he said. Two cycle coast to benefit organization By Kara Slaughter residents and JMU hall councils. The unseasonable heat was an obstacle too — one staff writer Hiney said they first "tossed the idea around during day, heat and exhaustion forced Kems to wonder "if I Most students don't go to Florida for Spring Break Christmas, but a concrete idnerary wasn't set until could make it." to test their strength against heat, swamps and last month." And on the last leg, heat forced the two cyclists to speeding trucks. The trip wasn't easy, Hiney said. At one point, pull off the road and go into a flower shop. But seniors Joe Hiney and Bob Kerns choseja they decided to take Route 997 to bypass Miami — "We asked if we could just stand there in the air brave a 400-mile bicycle trip down the Florida coast but they didn't know that their new route would take conditioning," Hiney said. "We needed a break from for Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Harrisonburg and them 65 miles through the humid Everglades on a the heat." Rockingham County instead of enjoying a typical single-lane road with no shoulder. Bui the two said their irip was smoothed by some week on the beach. "It looked nice on the map," Hiney said, but once unusual coincidences. "Once, my rack collapsed on Rom March 4 to March 8, they rode from Cape on the road they found "speeding trucks to the left Canaveral to Key West for donations from area and swamp to the right." See BIKING page 12 > —: ,„ ^^M*"^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Tffis^B&eze Founded rH? 'To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted/or all the triumphs which have been gained by reason art humanity oier error art opprtuwn." Janes Madison The Bretz* is published Monday and Editor LeuraHunt Lifestyle editor Kri.Hn Fay Assistant editorial editor Laura Hutchison Thursday mornings and distributed Managing •ditty Heather Deweon Arts editor Laurel WleeJnger Photo edlor Lawrence Jeckeon throughout JMU. 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I I'.'ljl'"''^ The Breeze, Thursday, March 15, 1990, page 3 NEWS JMU gets $33.5 million for the '90-'91 budget By Meghan Johnson This money pays for the electric bill business editor and other utilities. Rose said. • For maintenance and insurance on ^ The Virginia General Assembly instructional equipment, JMU will allocated $33.5 million to JMU in spend $68,476 in addition to similar general fund appropriations to the funding from the last biennium. 1990-91 budget Saturday. JMU also plans to spend $155,763 The general fund, or state funds, for hardware and software upgrades in portion of the budget is about 30 percent of the university's total administrative computing in 1991-92.