February 19, 1980

"t Vol. 57 James Madison University Harrisonburg. Virginia Tuesday, February It, lftw No. 34 Faculty hiring to finalize nursing here By TERESA CAVINESS and CINDY ELMORE Few obstacles remain to the establishment of James Madison University's nursing program. "There is every reason to believe the program will start in the fall and no reason to believe it won't," said Marcia Dake, director of the developing program. Dake is former dean of the University of Kentucky College of Nursing, and was hired last summer to initiate a program at JMU. The proposed nursing program was originally approved in January 1977 by the State Board of Nursing. However, the State Council of Higher Education in Virginia (SCHEV) rejected the program several times before its approval last year, based on a study completed by then-Madison College in 1976 which indicated that there was a need for nurses in the Shenandoah Valley. The now-defunct nursing school at Rockingham Memorial Hospital graduated its last class in February 1977. THE PROGRAM will not receive full accreditation until after the first class graduates, and graduates will be screened to see if they can pass state licensing examinations and meet requirements. Since last summer, Dake has been working on the details of setting up a nursing program here. The most critical element yet to be finalized is the hiring of faculty members, she said. One position has been filled and three remain vacant Acquiring skilled and competent faculty members is crucial because they will only have a short time to familiarize themselves with the facilities they will be using in the fall, Dake said. Eight letters of inquiry have been received from potential candidates, which is "encouraging," she added. The four faculty members will work closely in the "team teaching" of the 25 students to be enrolled in the program this fall. •THE ENROLLMENT is small on purpose beeauSt: we won't have the faculty here until the beginning™ the summer," Dake said, adding that both staff and enrollment will be increased after the program gets off the ground. "It would be grossly uneconomical to continue the program and not admit intAc „._ aH&J** state could cut off funds because of the expense," she said. Students will be admitted into the program during March. Two-thirds of the applicants are current JMU students. Dake said. (Continued on Page 10) ICE can be a precarious foothold for anyone, as this dog discovers at Switier Dam. Showalter residents soon to be rid of rodents By DONNA SIZEMORE ami LORI GWIN <--*-, Following the three-week Christmas break, Rats were a problem last year as well, when metal Rats that have plagued residents of Showalter "everything on my desk was chewed up,"—said uurnpsters were placed,outside:* ■— -partment •^"fl^** Apartments since November are being dealt with this Daphne Lamar. an apartment resident. "A couple of complex, Rose said, adding that they were later month. my plants were ruined. The closet door bad been removed to eliminate the rodents. Now trash is After a delay arising from discrepancies over chewed and rats chewed a hole in my roommate's placed beside the street in plastic bags. maintenance responsibilities, the Office of Residence bedspread," she said. Halls and Commuting Student Services here has According to Lamar, she caught a six-inch rat and HEALTH DEPARTMENT official Joe Bahm in- taken steps to rid Showalter residents of their rodent has seen several additional rodents in her apartment vestigated the rodent problem in mid-January and roommates, according to Lin Rose, director of Karen Ness, another Showalter resident com- recommended a professional exterminator be hired, residence halls here. plained about the rodents to Chris Janosik, associate that door closures be installed and that students stop James Madison University pays $14,000 a month to director of resident halls and commuting student putting trash out on days when no pick-up is house 70 students in seven leased buildings within the services. Janosik sent Ness to Buddy Showalter, scheduled. Showalter apartment complex. owner of the apartments, who, according to Ness, According to Rose, if students would heed Bahm's Student residents first complained of rodent in- called the problem "the university's responsibility." advice about placing trash outside, most of the rodent festation to the Showalter building supervisor and problem would be eliminated. then contacted JMU's residence balk office. They THE INITIAL plan was for the university to hire The normal process for reporting maintenance finally reported the problem to the Harrisonburg the exterminator and for Showalter to install the door requests for Showalter Apartments begins with a Health Department. closures, Rose said, adding that Showalter has not student report to the building supervisor, Rose said. Datsun Exterminators has been hired to control the installed the closures yet; therefore, the university The supervisor sends a written report to Buddy rat infestation. Rose said, and door closures an soon will do so. * Showalter, who responds to the problem. "In most to be installed at the rear of each building. "When someone's safety is threatened, we'll take cases, it (the process) works very well," Rose said. care of remedying the situation," Rose said Showalter receives a list of needed repairs each SEVERAL residents have reported that rats According to Showalter, "I try to do the best week for residents at Showalter. chewed holes in walls, furniture, doors, cabinets and possible work I can. "I have 100 other tenants with no Rose added that responsibility for the upkeep of television cords. They also reported seeing rats and problems. I try to do everything in God's world to Showalter Apartments is shared, as is the respon- their excrement. .,......,",. satisfy those 70 students." ■ ■ • - /»'« sibilty for getting rid of the rats. :* \ Page 2, TOE BREEZE Tuesday February 1», 1190 Traffic violations decline, but fines increase Campu* police collected $10,000 more during 1979 than in 1978 Reported vandalisms were recovered during the previous now write parking tickets compared to the previous during the day. By VANCE RICHARDSON year. Higher parking fines up from 106 in 1978 to 150 in year. James Madison University The number of hours put m According to Investigator may have been a deterrent to 1979. by student cadets continued to Bob Baker, there is no quota police collected $58,734 in Illegal parking this oast year, On the positive side, the set by the JMU police for parking fines during 1979, an number of larcenies and thefts increase last year. In 1976 pohce said. cadets worked less than 5,000 writing parking tickets. Increase of more than $10,000 The $58,734 collected by decreased from 209 in 1978 to over the previous year. 175 last year, although the hours. That figure had more However, were is an effort JMU police In parking fines than doubled by 1978, and last made to check every parking However, the actual number goes into the general income total dollar > figure of stolen lot on campus sometime each of narking tickets written here goods increased during the year cadets worked 12,141 fund for the state budget. total' hours. day. declinedTrom 15,196 in 1978 to same period. "We'd like to check every 14,665 last year. TOTAL CRIMINAL arrests These figures are taken here increased from 157 in Police reported recovering CADETS AID the police lot every hour or two," Baker from the annual statistical 1978 to 230 last year. There stolen property valued at department by handling said, "but sometimes that's report released by the campus were increases in the number $9,859 last year, an increase of nighttime patrol and building unfeasible due to our police department recently. of reported incidents of almost $4,000 over that security. In addition, cadets workload." The increase in the charge vandalism, assault and for parking offenses instituted battery and disorderly con- here in August of 1978 ac- duct, as well as arrests for counts for the higher dollar driving while under the in- fillagrflub figure collected on fewer fluence of alcohol, and drunk parking offenses last year as in public. 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