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are you #teamamy or #teamtina? Two columnists battle to see who’s the better comedian. OPINION | 6 Serving James Madison University Since 1922 BreezeJMU.org Vol. 93, No. 29 T uesday, January 20, 2015 breezejmu.org INSIDE TODAY Tuition JOINING THE FIGHT takes a Open forum discusses sexual assault on hike college campuses Undergraduates can NEWS | 4 expect higher costs for QUARTERS FOR summer classes CHANGE DANIEL steiN / THE BREEZE MLK Jr. remembered through community events Students hold candles to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday and to symbolize a “new light” on future change for all during JMU’s MLK Formal Program, titled “Never sleep on a Dream...Arise and Take Action,” held at Wilson Hall on Monday night. Over the weekend, the Harrisonburg and JMU community gathered in several community-related events. MORE ON PAGE 3. daNIEL steiN / THE BREEZE Members of JMU’s Board of Visitors met on Friday in the Festival Board Room for the third time this academic year. JMU student-run charity A time to shine washes clothes for the By PATRICK MORTIERE homeless Student artist opens new glitter exhibit in Duke Hall The Breeze LIFE | 7 With the promise of lower gas pric- es across the country, summer tuition and fees at JMU won’t be faring the same. The JMU Board of Visitors has GETTING voted to increase undergraduate summer tuition and fees by $12 for SCHOOLED in-state students and $28 for out-of- state students per credit hour. The university had to make up for Obama’s community a $3 million budget cut with excess college plan gets an A+ enrollment numbers and a one- time reimbursement from a capital project. The General Assembly put OPINION | 6 language in the state’s budget that would prevent universities from raising tuition to make up for budget reductions. After Gov. Terry McAuliffe struck down that wording, the option FROM THE NET to raise tuition was made available again to JMU. TO THE BENCH The increase will affect under- graduate students, and no changes have been made to graduate tuition or fees for summer enrollment. In- state undergraduates will pay $312 lauREN GORDON / THE BREEZE per credit hour in comparison to last year’s $300, and out-of-state students Fine arts graduate student Jon Henry researched 30,000 plus years of the history of glitter for his new exhibit “glit.” will pay $845 instead of last summer’s $817 per credit hour. By ROBYN SMITH until just recently, was a class- there’s something oddly During Friday’s meeting in the The Breeze room for industrial design. beautiful in the idea of glitter- Festival Board Room, Senior Vice Now, it’s a creative space for bombing the Nazis.” President of Administration and With its three top consum- Henry to engage the commu- In the very center of the Finance Charles King delivered ers being churches, holiday nity with his activist art. space, there’s a seven-by-sev- the news about tuition raises to the card companies and gay pride Glitter is usually viewed en square of black, shimmery board members, as well as plans to parades, glitter isn’t usually as a crafty material not often glitter. Titled “T.A.Z.,” the ensure Wi-Fi capabilities to all build- Former club hockey goalie associated with the fine arts. used for fine art, but its his- piece is a tribute to anar- ings and residence halls on campus now a student coach However, one JMU student tory goes back more than chist writer and poet Hakim by the fall semester. Instead of han- artist has changed that. 30,000 years. Some of the Bey’s essay on the Temporary dling Internet upgrades themselves, Jon Henry, 25-year-old fine more inventive uses of glitter Autonomous Zone, a short- the university has decided to contract SPORTS | 9 arts graduate student, has a were for strategic weaponry lived area free of oppression the work to an outside company, cit- new Duke Hall exhibit titled research around World War II. where its inhabitants have ing cheaper costs and better results. “glit.” He opened the six-piece “... There’s also research the ability to dream more. “I learned a long time ago, exhibit with little announce- in using it as radar jamming The writer cites the Internet, folks, there’s certain things we just QUOTE OF THE DAY ments or advertising, similar for the Nazis,” Henry said. pirate utopias where ships shouldn’t be doing,” King said. “We to the way Beyoncé released “We could glitter a battlefield all gather and contemporary contracted our food service opera- her self-titled album back in and then the Nazis couldn’t raves as examples of T.A.Z. tions, we contracted our bookstore, Doing Loads 2013. The exhibit is in a back pick up planes. It didn’t end we contracted our postal operations “ room on the first floor that, up working out, but I think see GLITTER, page 8 and our laundry services in the resi- of Love has dence halls. There’s people that can completely do that better, and less expensive than broken down we can.” MEN’S BASKETBALL (11-8) King also touched on the fact that that barrier for McAuliffe's budget didn’t call for state me. They’re just employee salary increases. Instead like us. They’re of compensating university employ- ees with raises from the university’s wise, wise, wise Dukes turn the page budget, King called on the General ... I’ve walked Assembly to provide salary increases away with tears that would follow the inflation rate at JMU now 2-0 following Andre Nation’s dismissal roughly 2 percent. in my eyes. According to King, McAuliffe’s bud- get will not include any tax supported LIFE | 7 By STEPHEN PROFFITT debt for capital projects. Because of ” The Breeze this decision, JMU wasn’t able to secure the $24 million in funding Following Saturday’s 75-72 win over Elon Univer- necessary to renovate Madison Hall. DART OF THE DAY sity, JMU men’s basketball head coach Matt Brady President Jon Alger gave a pre- entered the postgame press conference alongside sentation to the board to showcase A “learn-to-drive” dart to a trio of sophomores: Yohanny Dalembert, Jackson the different events that have been the terrible driver of the red Kent and Tom Vodanovich. happening around campus, such sedan who practically ran into It was the second of two straight wins following the as the December graduation com- me at the intersection of MLK dismissal of Colonial Athletic Association Preseason mencement where JMU alumnus and South Main Street. First-Teamer Andre Nation. And traditionally, players and Secretary of the Commonwealth From a pissed off student talk to the media first, followed by the coach. Levar Stoney (’04) gave a speech to who would be more than “Losing ‘Dre [Nation] was a huge hit to our team, students and audience members. He happy to give you a piece of but I think we’ve gone up from there really,” Voda- also made mention of the Marching her mind, but not a piece of novich said. “It was great to play with the crowd still ERIN WILLIAMS / THE BREEZE Royal Dukes and their visit to Rome her car. there to support us.” Sophomore forward Ivan Lukic dribbles past a defender against and Vatican City. While Nation’s dismissal from the team last Elon University on Saturday. The Dukes defeated Elon 75-72 MRD Director Scott Rikkers OPINION | 5 Wednesday remained fresh in everyone’s mind, and will play Northeastern University on Thursday. spoke to the board and explained Brady was on hand to monitor his young talent as that the nearly 250 members who they fielded questions from reporters. Missed free throws down the stretch and a turnover given attended the trip had to fund the Brady sat front row, on the right side, as he crossed his up by Kent with seconds remaining led the Dukes to yet flights and accommodations with TODAY WILL BE right leg over his left. Slouched just a tad, he wiped a mere another nail-biter in the Convocation Center. their own money. A video featur- bead of perspiration from his sweat-glistened hairline. “I stepped on the defender’s foot and then I slid,” Kent ing highlights from the trip and P artly cloudy He had to have been gassed after watching a nine- said of the turnover. “I thought they were going to foul.” their performance at the Vatican 52° / 36° point lead with just under five minutes to play vanish chance of rain: 0% as Elon had seven seconds to tie the game with a three. see MBB, page 10 see BOV, page 4 Today Wednesday Thursday Friday partly cloudy showers mostly sunny mostly sunny 52°/35° 42°/28° 41°/27° 41°/25° PageEDITORS Marta Vucci & Olivia Coleman 2 EMAIL [email protected] Tuesday, January 20, 2015 2 Serving James Madison University Since 1922 Correction 1598 S. Main Street • In the Jan. 15 edition of The Breeze, the front-page story, Harrisonburg, Va. 22807 “Nation’s out,” did not continue to page B5 as stated due PHONE: 540-568-6127 FAX: 540-568-7889 to a printing error. The Breeze regrets the error. View the complete article online at breezejmu.org/sports. MISSION The Breeze, the student-run newspaper of James Madison University, serves student, faculty and staff readership by reporting news involving the campus and local community. The Breeze strives to be impartial and fair in its reporting and firmly believes in First Amendment rights.