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James Madison University Thursday, September 6,1864 Vol.62 No. 3 Police praise policefile By Sandy Stone staff writer Campus ' drunken driving arrests at JMU decreased 24 percent from 1982 to 1983 — and campus police attribute the drop in part to policefile. Policefile, which publishes the names of students charged with offenses such as drunken driving and public drunkenness in a weekly column in The Breeze, was first published in October 1982. Although it first sparked criticism from campus administrators, police now support policefile because they think it acts as a deterrent. "The first real measureable decrease in drunken driving ar- rests occurred after policefile started being published," said Alan MacNutt, director of cam- pus police. "The fact that names were published, plus in- creased attention paid to speakers and programs on campus that focused on drunken driving, had a significant impact on the decrease," MacNutt said. From 1982 to 1983, the number of drunken driv- ing arrests on campus went from 74 to 56, Mac- Nutt said. Conversely, the number of people charged with drunken driving by city police in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County during the same two years in- creased by 14 percent, according to Capt. M.L. Stroble of the Harrisonburg police department. The number of arrests made in 1982 was 390, compared with 445 in 1983. The Daily News- Record, Harrisonburg's local newspaper, does not publish drunken driving arrests or convictions. During/the summer, MacNutt recommended to the Hamsonburg-Rockingham Task Force on Drunk Driving that names of those charged with drunken driving be published by local media. The task force, composed of four committees, was formed to help combat drunken driving in the area. It followed the goals of the Governor's Task Force to Combat Drunk Driving, created by Gov. Charles Robb in June 1982, to address the problem of drunken driving and make appropriate recom- mendations. MacNutt's recommendation to the local task force was approved Aug. 16 with 25 other recom- mendations. The task force will meet later to decide which recommendations should be included in its report to the city council and county supervisors in mid- October. In an Aug. 5 memo to Karen Cline, chairman of the task force, MacNutt stated that media publicity of arrest data and drunken driving convictions may act as a significant deterrent to drunken driv- Staff photo by OREO FLETCHER ing. Reaching for the car keys after reaching for the bottle can be a fatal mistake. 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As presidential campaigning for In offering the course, JMU tion. the 1984 election nears its climax, Senior Steve Gaffney, a political follows universities and colleges Taught as a seminar course science major, said he enrolled in the political activism from the 60s lives across the nation that offer similar "students will be given the oppor- class because the political science on in room 6 of Anthony-Seeger communication and political science tunity to participate and will be in a Hall. department does not offer any com- courses during election years. situation where they have to think, parable courses. Getting caught up in the whirl- react and talk," Morello said. wind of political activity with the "Besides finding it interesting, I Instead of teaching only 15 "I do not plan to lecture, unless think the class will help me find a rest of the nation, JMU is offering a students, Morello said he wishes we come in here one day and you political communications course this job," Gaffney said. "Politics is about five million young adults guys have nothing to say — then I communication. You have to be able semester focusing on the presidential could be involved. "I went to school might say a few words just to fill campaign. to communicate to do well in during the 60s when political activity time creatively," Morello told the politics." Taught by Dr. John Morello of was very important, and even then students during the first class period. the communication arts department, Morello said he is interested in most students didn't follow the cam- Although no course textbook will teaching the course because of his the course is called 1984 presidential paign," he said. "There were small be used, students will prepare for the background in political science and election campaign. groups who were intensely in- class by reading a major daily communication arts. His The class of IS will study major terested, but the great majority who newspaper, a weekly news magazine undergraduate degree is in political issues that have sparked the nation's really didn't care. and various articles. science and his doctorate is in com- interest in the race for the White "I suspect that hasn't changed munications. House — the first female vice much," he said. "College is a very "It is not possible to establish a "Years and years ago, I fancied presidential candidate, Mondale's isolatirg experience. Students get rigid course outline because the cam- myself as a politician, although I've former vice presidency under a los- wrapped up in the daily routine pf paign is a flexible sort of thing," since abandoned that objective," ing administration and foreign af- classes and they get removed from Morello said. "We will evaluate and Morello said. fairs policy — as well as any other the real world and don't pay much interpret events as they occur." "I have always been interested in issues in which the students hold in- attention to the election." Morello said his primary goal for terest. the political process and the one Several different forms and the course is "to make students place where communication and "The purpose of this class is to ex- methods of campaign communica- critical of the campaign and to help political science merge is in political amine the 1984 presidential election tion will be analyzed, he said. The them learn the strengths and campaigning." Police action would deter a percentage of ► (Continued from page 1) would-be drunk drivers," the recom- Operation RAID fights mendation stated. "In the one local example, publication of names and addresses Although The Breeze publishes drunken driving of arrested and convicted parties in names before the arrested person's the policefile and courtfile columns court date, it follows each case up in By Sandy Stone Action Program at 95 North of the James Madison University courtfile, a weekly column which staff writer Main St. student newspaper, The Breeze, has lists acquittals, convictions and The posters and brochures had significant impact on the arrest sentences. advise anyone who sees a statistics for DUI by the police During the summer Opera- driver he suspects is drunk to department at that university." Other recommendations made by tion RAID went into full sw- call local or state police and the task force, many of which dealt ing on the JMU campus. report vehicle description, Although there was a 24 percent with sentencing policies of the It stands for Report All In- direction of travel, time and decrease in drunken driving arrests courts, include: toxicated Drivers.