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Get your football fix See our annual supplement inside! Serving James Madison University Since 1922 BreezeJMU.org Vol. 94, No. 2 Thursday, September 3, 2015 breezejmu.org Prevalent pills Honoring a JMU students consider consequences of prescription misuse ERIN WILLIAMS / THE BREEZE CHELSEA GLOWACKI / THE BREEZE legacy In the past year, 9.3 percent of college students have reported using stimulants not Students, faculty, alumni and community members gathered in front of Wilson at 6:45 a.m. Wednesday, one week after JMU alumni Alison Parker and her prescribed to them. WDBJ-TV colleague Adam were killed. The event included speakers as well as a performance by The Overtones. By SAMANTHA ELLIS The Breeze Alison Parker remembered in Quad vigil As JMU opens its doors for another By ERIN FLYNN to remember her and, as fel- this morning,” Alger said. “We all semester, some students already find The Breeze low Dukes do, mourn together have choices to make about how themselves dealing with a full workload and try to find some resolve to we can build that sense of fam- “She and high levels of stress. While some Silence and tears filled the remember her life and to honor ily and community to be there use exercise, caffeine or other stimuli to Quad Wednesday as members i t .” for one another, to try to build a cope, others are turning to prescription of the JMU community gathered Senior music major Elizabeth brighter future as we go forward.” loved medication. to remember JMU alumna, for- Garcia believes the number of Despite the tragic event, Alger Adderall, a psychostimulant most often mer Breeze staffer and WDBJ-TV people who showed up, which said that Parker’s family has JMU and used to treat attention deficit hyperactiv- reporter Alison Parker at a vigil. was at least 100 individuals, appreciated the outpouring of ity disorder, is the drug of choice for some The vigil took place at 6:45 speaks volumes about Parker. support and he looks forward students. a.m., exactly one week after Park- “I think it’s really nice that they to the impact her legacy will JMU “My freshman year, after a couple er and WDBJ-TV coworker Adam had [a vigil] and I was impressed have on others, which includes a months, I had let my work kind of build Ward were killed. And instead of by how many people showed up scholarship that has been estab- loved up and realized I had a lot to do and felt focusing on the negativity of the at 6:45,” Garcia said. “That says lished in her name. like there wasn’t enough time,” said a JMU situation, the ceremony focused a lot about who she was and “We know that [the scholar- alumnus who graduated in May and pre- on the legacy Parker, a former the impact that she left. It’s very ship] can’t bring her back, but it her ferred to remain anonymous. Breeze news editor and report- moving.” can be a way to shine a light on Often lauded as a miracle study drug er and a media arts and design During this time of mourning, her legacy and her memory and back.” because of its effects on concentration, major, left at the school she loved. JMU President Jon Alger encour- what she stood for, for genera- memory and alertness, the alumnus said “She loved JMU and JMU loved aged community members to tions of students to come,” Alger Brad Adderall certainly lived up to its hype. her back,” Brad Jenkins, the gen- join together as a family. said. Jenkins “After [I took the medication], I wasn’t eral manager of The Breeze, said. “This is much more than a uni- As previously reported by general manager tired and was much more focused on my “And so it is right that we should versity ... this is a family and … we The Breeze, the Alison Parker of The Breeze school work than I ever had been in the gather here on this Quad, where share together, we learn togeth- past,” he said. she lived and loved and learned, er, we grieve together as a family see VIGIL, page 3 He became part of a rising trend. According to the Coalition to Prevent ADHD Medication Misuse (CPAMM), 9.3 percent of college students have reported using a prescription stimulant not pre- scribed to them in the last year. An anonymous senior writing, rhetoric and technical communication major, who has been diagnosed with ADHD, acquired Students get new fabrication shop a prescription after his mom and sister had success with the drug. “It’s been really helpful for me,” the Space shared by industrial design, architectural design and graphic design programs senior WRTC major said. “It’s helped me to really concentrate on my papers because before it was difficult because of my attention span.” By JULIA NELSON for equipment. He even built some extra desks After being prescribed, the senior The Breeze himself. WRTC major, found that his friends were In the woodshop — the first room in the facil- eager to borrow some of his prescription. Back in the ’90s, architectural design professor ity — handmade tables, desks, scrap bins and tool “I sometimes give it to friends if they Jack Fanning, a JMU alumnus, was doing his class- racks made by Fanning adorn the space, begging ask for one, especially around exam week,” work on a desk made from an old dormitory door students to get creative. There’s also top-of-the- the senior said. “I think it’s very prevalent in a windowless room in Duke Hall. line woodcutting saws and enormous machines here on campus. People don’t think of it Fast forward 20 years and his students are for manipulating wood in any way a student may the same way they do [about] taking hard working in a brand new, state of the art fabrication need to. drugs, but really it’s only a step down from shop alongside the graphic design and industrial Next door, a computerized numerical control that.” design majors in the Studio and Design Center (CNC) machine takes up the entire room. The Adderall is prescribed for daily use, on Grace Street. machine is used for cutting out pieces of wood with patients instructed to take the med- “We didn’t have labs, we didn’t have a shop,” based on the instructions of computerized draw- icine at the same time every day. However, Fanning said. “What these students have now ings to assemble furniture or more sculpted wood some college students use it recreation- compared to what we had, it’s not even close.” products. ally, and only bother to take it when they Originally, numerous studio areas for painting, “Everything you buy at IKEA is made from one feel it’s necessary. drawing, sculpture and art education were located of these [CNCs],” Fanning said. “They just cut “I didn’t take it every day, only when I in the Studio Center, but relocated to Duke Hall in theirs out by the thousands.” needed to really put the pedal to the metal the summer of 2014. That allowed for the design What sets the new shop apart from tradition- and study hard for something or if I had a programs to consolidate and coexist. al design spaces at other universities is that each crazy busy day,” the alumnus said. MARK OWEN / THE BREEZE Fanning is the design fabrication manager as discipline of design is physically intermixed with Side effects of Adderall include loss of well as a professor in the new shop. He’s spent the others. Digital design students are working in Handmade furniture fills the spacious, new his summer organizing the space with interns and see ADDERALL, page 3 studio. setting up the labs by building custom furniture see DESIGN, page 7 LETTUCE JMU CLASSIC TODAY WILL BE HELP YOU TAKEAWAYS Thunderstorms Off-campus food options New team members 88° / 65° within walking distance prove vital to success Chance of rain: 40% LIFE | 5 SPORTS | 6 Today Friday Saturday Sunday partly cloudy thunderstorms showers sunny 87°/67° 87°/68° 78°/61° 84°/61° PageEDITOR Maribel Perez EMAIL br [email protected] Thursday, September 3, 2015 2 FOR RELEASE SEPTEMBER 3, 2015 Serving James Madison University Since 1922 1598 S. 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