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court case Rape Charge Dropped from October Case, Plea Deal Made

Travis James Mick, By Katie Thisdell Alford plea for assault and battery, a new served 20 days before his November “I sincerely hope that this chapter is 19, was ordered The Breeze charge served Monday in district court. bond hearing, and the remaining 190 a glitch in your life and that you go on to one year of An Alford plea means the defendant does days are suspended. to a successful academic future,” Judge probation and 210 Several sexual assault charges were not admit guilt, but realizes there may be Mick was ordered to supervised Richard Claybrook said. days of jail time; dropped during a plea agreement evidence leading to a conviction. probation for one year. If he breaks pro- Mick was also ordered to pay $6,328 in 190 are suspended Monday for the Yorktown man former- Mick also entered a guilty plea to resist- bation, he will be tried in Harrisonburg’s restitution for the hospital bills for the two and he served 20 ly accused of raping a JMU student in ing arrest, which is a misdemeanor. court system. He is also not allowed to JMU police officers whom Mick injured. days in November. October. For these charges, Mick was ordered to have any type of contact with the alleged Travis James Mick, 19, entered an spend 210 days in prison. He had already victim. see charges, page 4

Candidates will answer questions from moderators from The Breeze with student input. April 5 Show you care about your campus and attend with your questions. Meet the 7:30 p.m. brought to you by Candidates TIME 2010 SGA Debate for sga exec CHANGED TDU Decide for yourself which candidate is the best council* GET INVOLVED: submit questions for the candidates to [email protected] (Presidential candidates below, other candidates on page 3)

Tommy Cumberland (’11) Hometown: Fairfax Major: Marketing Running For: President

Legislation’s Proposals Platform n Improving student-police relations. Inviting police officers to open forums to discuss common legal misconceptions would be a step in the right direction. n Improving communication with the student body. Communication between the SGA and Already JMU Policy the student body has been inexcusably poor n Improving relations with Parking Services Health Care Addendum to Modify Student Loans Sound bite: “In sixth grade I beat my P.E. teacher in a rope-climbing race. He gave me two By Matt Sutherland for students. Beginning in July 2014, students boxes of Girl Scout Cookies as a reward.” The Breeze What happens... can cap their loan repayment to 10 percent of their discretionary income per month. This is Although President Barack Obama signed ...now shortened from the current rate which is 15 Andrew n Invests $40 billion in Pell Grants. further legislation in hopes of benefitting col- percent. n Starting July 1, the Department Reese (’12) lege students, the Health Care and Education Also included in the bill is a new forgiveness Hometown: Alexandria of Education will register all Reconciliation Act of 2010 will not heavily policy. The remainder of a student’s loans will Major: International Affairs, History new federal student loans. affect JMU students. be forgiven after timely payments are made for Running For: President On Tuesday, Obama signed the act, deliv- 20 years. This contrasts from the current policy ering what is supposed to be more affordable ...by 2014 of 25 years. Platform college education. n Loans capped at 10 percent Because of these new policies, JMU political n Continue to strengthen contacts with the Brad Barnett, the senior associate director discretionary income per month. science professor Bob Roberts believes the act administration — relationships which allow for of Financial Aid and Scholarships at JMU, said n Remaining balance forgiven after faces some criticism from Obama’s core group the best reception of student concerns aspects of the bill dealing with federal loans do 20 years, if payments are timely. of dissenters. n Clearly articulate how and why student government “pretty much nothing” to JMU students. “Critics are arguing your default rates might is viable and important to the student body “JMU already switched to the direct loan ...overall go up significantly,” Roberts said. “Too many n Increase funding for students and organizations by program last summer,” Barnett said. “The people might not pay back the money. If a lot implementing alternative ways of fundraising n $68 billion saved during 11- major impact of this bill won’t affect our stu- of people take advantage of the debt forgive- Sound bite: “Backstreet Boys and year span in the Department dents really.” ness working the public sector, [taxpayers] are *NSYNC are close to my heart.” of Education. After passing the health care bill, Con- forced to take the burden if loans aren’t paid n The bill provides $2.55 billion to gressional supporters worked to tie off loose b a c k .” support historically black colleges ends that could possibly add to the mounting Increased funding for Pell Grants may still help Paul and universities and minority- criticism. some students at JMU. Combined with Obama’s serving institutions, and another Sexton (’11) “For a long time, our student loan system stimulus package, an investment of $40 billion Hometown: Kensington, Md. $2 billion for community colleges. has worked for banks and financial institu- in Pell Grant funds will more than double the Major: Political Science tions,” Obama said at the bill’s signing, which funding of lower-income students’ loans. Start- Running For: President took place at Northern Virginia Community ing July 1, privatized student loans from banks College in Alexandria. “Today, we’re finally making our student will end, forcing the federal government to control all student loans. Platform loan system work for students and all of our families.” n Make the SGA more accessible to students, clubs and The bill calls for a smaller cap on loan repayments after college see grants, page 4 organizations through open weekly meetings n Reexamine the way bandwidth is allotted throughout the day on campus to ensure that on campus students have the Internet speed they need n Petition to stop cutting bus hours to ensure students are not forced to drive Campus life Sound bite: “This election isn’t about me. It’s about listening to you.” Safe Zones Offer Support, Haven from Judgment Caitlin Natale (’11) Network of 124 Campus Members Go Through Workshops, Place Triangle Stickers on Doors Hometown: Charlottesville Major: Interdisciplinary liberal By Lisa Shea studies, Elementary Education contributing writer What is GayMU Week? Running For: President This week Madison Equality hosts GayMU week to educate the T-shirt campaign held every spring across the country, It scares students out of being students about LGBT issues through events on the commons, including here at JMU. Throughout the GayMU week, Madison Platform themselves. It can cause professors display banners around campus, pass out fliers and distribute Equality will hand out out free purple and gold T-shirts on the n Work with administration to find a place for clubs and to discriminate. It can make parents T-shirts. commons with the slogan “gay? fine by me.” organizations on our current campus or to secure take away financial support. It can Students who don’t want to get certified as part of Safe Friday, all members of the LGBT community and their allies a place in future construction and renovation cause you to lose a friend. Zones but still want to be supportive can participate in plan to wear the shirts to demonstrate their support. n Improve Off-Campus Parking/Visitor Parking. Work with These reasons are why there are off-campus life and towing companies to research a solution JMU Safe Zone stickers. The JMU Members who are “safe” on student and representative of Safe people’s lives in a nonjudgmen- to this problem that all parties involved can agree on. Safe Zone is a voluntary network campus display an upside-down Zone. “You don’t have to worry that tal manner.” The symbol fosters an n Create a list of every JMU group (clubs, organizations, of faculty, staff and students edu- rainbow triangle symbol on their I’ll judge you.” atmosphere of acceptance of the athletic teams) and throughout the span of the year, an cated about issues affecting lesbian, door once they’ve completed the According to the Safe Zone Web LGBT community. SGA member attends a meeting of each group on the list. gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, appropriate workshop and sign site, this symbol means the per- There are 124 faculty, staff and Sound bite: “In the future I would like to teach intersex and questioning individu- the contract. son is “willing to discuss issues students registered as being “safe” at an elementary school in the first or second grade.” als. The network offers a safe place “I am a safe person to talk to,” impacting gay, lesbian, bisexual, to talk. said Melissa Brown, a fifth-year transgender, queer, and intersex see gaymu, page 4 *Candidates submitted their platforms and information to The Breeze.

Safety 4/1 Inside

news 3 Hearing aid Sticker Shock to Curb Underaged Drinking A disabilities lawyer recounts his past SafeRides, RMH Want Students to Drink Responsibly, Think of Consequences hardships for students. By Kaleigh Somers Express, Texaco and Food Lion. RMH Community Health, to make opinion The Breeze Parks Watson, the executive director the campaign a success. Osinkosky 9 A fond farewell for SafeRides, explained that purchas- approached Phillips with the initial Keeping with Breeze SafeRides and Rockingham Memo- ing alcohol for minors is not to be taken idea. Almost 20 volunteers from Saf- tradition, outgoing staff rial Hospital’s Health Education lightly, and it can lead to jail time of up eRides agreed to participate Tuesday members present their Program are taking a stance against to one year or fines up to $2,500. night. farewell columns. underaged drinking. “SafeRides neither encourages nor “The main goal of the program is Together, the organizations teamed discourages the consumption of alco- to raise awareness and change adult life up Tuesday at 7 p.m. to place stickers hol, but we are aware of the harm that attitudes about purchasing or provid- 11 On a roll on cases of beer, liquor bottles and can come from alcohol abuse and ing alcohol to minors, in the hopes of Local women embrace other alcoholic beverages at various want to help remind the community shifting health behaviors within our their alter egos through stores along Port Republic Road. to drink responsibly and be aware of community,” Phillips said. roller derby. The stickers, shaped like a stop consequences,” Watson said. Watson said SafeRides’ mission is sign, serve as a final reminder of the Emily Phillips, an intern for RMH more than just providing students with Paul jones / the breeze sports consequences of buying alcohol for Community Health Education and designated drivers on Friday and Sat- The two organizations placed stickers on 15 Hot streak minors. Awareness, has worked under the direc- urday nights. containers of alcohol Tuesday to remind Diamond Dukes win seven Participating stores include Liberty, tion of Tonya Osinkosky, the health buyers of the penalties for buying for of their last nine games. Exxon’s On The Run, Dave’s Taverna education awareness coordinator for see shock, page 5 underaged drinkers. 2 Thursday, April 1, 2010 breezejmu.org CORRECTION In the Thursday, March 25 issue of The Breeze, the article “City Plans Animal Rights Mediation” misspelled Cate Mansfi eld’s name as POLICE LOG Kate. The Breeze regrets the error.

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the Russian Security Coun-  e law, some provisions of colleges that typically would Mills, said Tuesday that even The decision to scrap drilling Bombing Hits cil. He described the attacks in which will take e ect this year, have been reasonable choices though  of  government in Bristol Bay overturns former Moscow and Dagestan as “links is likely to shape Obama’s for them,” said Christoph Gut- ministries were hurt by the President George W. Bush’s Moscow Metro of the same chain” and ordered presidency and be a central tentag, dean of undergraduate earthquake, which left . mil- action lifting a long-time ban. an overhaul of security on the issue in November’s elections admissions at Duke, in Dur- lion living in camps, a newly “Taking Alaska’s Bristol Bay MOSCOW — Two suicide nation’s transport systems with- to determine control of Con- ham, North Carolina. formed Haitian development out of consideration just a couple bombers, including one wear- in four months. gress. It was enacted without Applications to Duke rose  authority should be turned over years after the Bush administra- ing a police uniform, killed at Gulnara Rustamova, head a single Republican vote. percent, and the university had to the government within  tion allowed it to be considered least a dozen people Wednes- of the Mothers of Dagestan  e survey of  regis- to hire three part-time readers months. is demonstrating once again day in a coordinated attack in for Human Rights, an advo- tered voters was conducted to help evaluate candidates, Haiti’s government released a that zigzag politics controls our Russia’s volatile North Cauca- cacy group, said conditions in by telephone on March , Guttentag said. -page reconstruction plan that energy policy more than sub- sus region, authorities said, just the province seemed to have  and  and has a margin calls for  million in direct stantive long-term strategy,” two days after a pair of female been improving since Medve- of error of plus or minus . budget support,  million to John Hofmeister, the former bombers struck the Moscow dev appointed a new governor, percentage points.“What you begin construction of new inter- Shell executive, said Wednesday subway system and raised fears Magomedsalam Magomedov, will really see the Democratic Haiti Receives national airports in Cap-Haitien in an interview in Houston. of a fresh wave of terrorism in last month. Wednesday’s attack, leadership do is to pivot to job and Les Cayes and  million Obama said lease sales in the country. she said, may have been intend- creation and de cit control,” Billions in Aid to refurbish the Port- au-Prince Alaska’s Chukchi and Beaufort The explosions, which also ed to undermine his e orts. Arizona’s Jon Kyl, the second- port. seas would be scrapped to allow injured at least  people, took “I hope he has the wisdom ranking Republican in the UNITED NATIONS — The Haiti’s plan calls for forma- further scienti c study. Oil com- place in Dagestan, the prov- and enough strength to take Senate, said Tuesday. “ ey United States and European tion of an Interim Commission panies can’t operate e ectively ince east of Chechnya, where the right steps and to continue can read the polls, too.” Union pledged a combined . for the Reconstruction of Haiti with “on-again, o -again” poli- militants linked to an Islamist building the dialogue in soci- billion in aid Wednesday for by the nation’s parliament, to be cies, said Hofmeister, who heads insurgency in the region have ety,” she said. “We are all so rebuilding Haiti following the co-chaired by Prime Minister Citizens for A ordable Energy in stepped up attacks over the past sick and tired of all these terror- Jan.  earthquake that killed Jean-Max Bellerive and for- Houston. year and where shootings and ist acts and unlawful murders. Colleges Harder about , people and mer U.S. President Bill Clinton, “We’re pushing off what bombings occur almost daily. We want to live in peace and to devastated the capital, Port-au- the U.N. special envoy to Haiti. might be a hard choice to do Officials said the first blast be safe.” To Get Into Prince.  e commission would include Arctic drilling,” Hofmeister said. occurred as traffic police Rustamova said she believed Secretary of State Hillary members of the parliament and “Meanwhile, OPEC wins again.” approached the bomber’s car the attacks were organized by NEW YORK —  e colleges Clinton announced . bil- judiciary and representatives He said Alaska is poised for in the town of Kizlyar, near the outsiders “who want to desta- that have been hard to get into lion in U.S. support at the start of major donors including the major energy investments and Chechen border. As investiga- bilize the situation in the North are getting even harder. of an international donors’ con- U.S., UN, France, World Bank has enormous resources that tors and onlookers gathered, Caucasus.” Duke University offered ference at the United Nations and Inter-American Develop- would bene t consumers. a second bomber wearing a admission this year to ,, or in New York.  e EU will pro- ment Bank. Houston-based ConocoPhil- police uniform pushed through  percent of aspirants, down vide . billion, foreign policy The body would coordinate lips, the third-largest U.S. oil the crowd and set o another from  percent last year, after chief Catherine Ashton told the aid and respond to concerns company, expects to be allowed explosion. Nine police o cers President’s applications soared, accord- gathering. about accountability and trans- to go forward with exploration were among the dead, including ing to Duke o cials. Stanford “We need Haiti to succeed,” parency, according to Haiti’s on its Chukchi Sea leaseholds, the town’s police chief, authori- Approval Rises University admitted , — or Clinton said. “What happens proposal. It would evolve into company spokesman Charlie ties said. . percent, the least ever — there has repercussions far the Haitian Development Agen- Rowton said. In televised remarks, Prime NEW YORK — President said Shawn Abbott, admission beyond its borders.” cy, run by Haitians, after   e company invested  Minister Vladimir Putin said Barack Obama’s approval director. MIT saw its admittance Clinton said failure to act months. million in February  for the the attack may have been com- rating moved higher after drop below  percent for the could cause many more Haitians  e World Bank will adminis- right to explore in the area, and mitted by “the same gang” Congress passed the most  rst time, said Stuart Schmill, to  ee the country, perpetuate ter a reconstruction fund for the its  rst well is scheduled to be responsible for the double sweeping overhaul of health- admissions dean.  million-a-year in drug traf- donations and contribute an drilled in , he said. bombing in Moscow, which care policy in more than four Applications are surging  cking through Haiti, and risk additional  million during  e Independent Petroleum killed  people and injured decades, his key domestic leg- because colleges are marketing development of drug- resistant the next  months, the Wash- Association of America, whose more than  others. islative goal, a poll released themselves more vigorously, strains of diseases. ington-based institution said. members hold  percent of the “It does not matter for us in Wednesday showed. and the tougher they are to get Haiti, the poorest country All of Haiti’s outstanding debt exploration leases in the Gulf of what part of the country these  e Marist Poll found that into, the more students seek in the Western Hemisphere, is to the bank will be canceled, the Mexico, and the National Ocean crimes have been committed,  percent of registered vot- entry to multiple schools and turning to other governments bank said. Industries Association, which or who — people of what eth- ers approve of the job Obama increase competition for slots, for long-term support for new  e new funding comprises represents offshore producers nicity or religion — have fallen is doing, up from  percent said Jon Reider, director of housing, schools, airports and  million in grants, a  and suppliers, called Obama’s victim to these crimes,” Putin in a survey conducted in college counseling at San Fran- government o ces along with million write-o from debt announcement a good start in said, ordering police reinforce- early February. Forty-three cisco University High School. technical help to manage the cancellation and  million addressing energy needs. ments in the North Caucasus. percent disapprove of his per-  e typical senior applies to a recovery e ort. in investments from the bank’s Leasing of the proposed explo- “We see this as a crime against formance, compared with  dozen colleges,  percent more Canada added  million private-sector arm, the Interna- ration areas would represent Russia.” percent last month. than  years ago, Reider said. to the pledge tally, Brazil said it tional Finance Corp. “the most signi cant increase in Although no one has claimed Obama’s standing also rose “ is is without any question would give  million, Spain access to domestic energy from responsibility for either attack, among voters who describe the hardest year ever,” Reider, o ered  million and France our oceans in decades,” Randall investigators have said they themselves as independent, who is also a former admis- said it provide . million Luthi, president of the National believe the two women who with  percent saying they sions o cer for Stanford, near toward the . billion sought to Obama to Allow Ocean Industries Association, bombed the Moscow subway approve of the job he is doing, Palo Alto, Calif., said in an inter- begin reconstruction in the next said in a statement. stations Monday were tied to compared with  percent last view. “ is is unprecedented.  months. Coastal Drilling Norway’s Statoil, the third- the separatist insurgency in the month. Forty- ve percent dis- No question.” France also will cancel . largest holder of deepwater North Caucasus, which seeks to approved of his performance, Seven of the eight members of million in Haitian debt, Foreign HOUSTON — President exploration leases in the Gulf establish a fundamentalist Cau- down from  percent last the Ivy League had an increase Minister Bernard Kouchner Barack Obama’s plan to expand of Mexico, said it previously casus Emirate in the region. month. in applications, according to said. o shore oil drilling won’t soon acquired sites near acreage that The attack was the first in “President Obama has data from the institutions.  e Clinton said the U.N. and cut reliance on foreign crude and the U.S. may make available. Moscow in nearly six years and scored a big legislative victo- exception was Yale, which had donor nations should abandon demonstrates “zigzag politics” “It will be interesting for us to raised questions about Putin’s ry, but this has only translated a decline of  applications, or what she called the “failed strat- that hinder energy development, explore the new acreage,” said record of maintaining peace in minimally into his job perfor- less than a percent, from , egies” of the past and ensure Royal Dutch Shell’s former U.S. Kjersti Torgersen, a spokeswom- the capital, as well as his brute- mance scores,” Lee Miringo , last year, said Je rey Brenzel, that the rebuilding effort is chief says. an in Houston for Statoil. force approach to suppressing director of the Poughkeepsie, admissions dean. Yale expects sustainable and led by Haiti’s Obama said Wednesday that Energy producers have been the militants. N.Y.-based Marist College to announce its admissions government. he will allow drilling off the monitoring satellite imagery of President Dmitry Medvedev, Institute for Public Opinion, rate  ursday. Harvard Univer- Haitian President Rene Pre- East Coast and cancel devel- underwater oil seeps o the East the longtime Putin ally who said in a statement. “For many sity, which admitted  percent val called for a “new society” opment in Bristol Bay, Alaska. Coast to determine the most succeeded him in the Kremlin voters, he still needs to swish a of , applicants last year, and creation of a U.N. emer- He said drilling also would be promising sites, said Pete Stark, two years ago, has pushed for a few three-pointers to become may disclose this year’s  gures gency response force to speed allowed  miles o the west vice president of industry rela- more balanced strategy in the a driving force behind this today, said William Fitzsim- delivery of aid following natural coast of Florida if a congressio- tions at IHS Inc. in Englewood, North Caucasus, appointing fall’s midterm elections.” mons, dean of undergraduate disasters. nal moratorium is lifted. “It’s a Colo., and a former Mobil Corp. o cials there who have sought  e Patient Protection and admissions and  nancial aid. In his address to the confer- constructive  rst step,” said Scott geologist. Data from  o shore to improve economic condi- Affordable Care Act put in Colleges are beginning to ence, U.N. Secretary-General Dean, a spokesman for London- wells drilled prior to a U.S. ban tions, open talks with critics motion the largest expan- notify high school students, by Ban Ki-moon urged a “wholesale based BP, the largest deepwater also may help map prospective and draw public support away sion of health-care coverage e-mail or through the U.S. Postal national renewal, a sweeping oil and natural-gas explorer in drill sites, he said. from the rebels. since the creation in  Service, of admission decisions. exercise in national-building the Gulf of Mexico. “ is will be a classic, frontier “The terrorists want to of Medicaid, for the poor, Most applicants who are o ered on a scale and scope not seen in The Minerals Management exploration effort,” Stark said. destabilize the situation in the and Medicare, for people  places must pay deposits by generations.” He said that more Service estimates that Alaska’s “We know there’s a hydrocarbon country, to destroy civil society, and older and the disabled. May  to secure the spots. funding is needed for the initial Outer Continental Shelf has . system there, and the questions and are driven by the desire to Obama signed the law on “Students are looking at a post-quake appeal for . bil- billion barrels of recoverable to investigate now are what, sow fear and panic among peo- March  and Tuesday signed wider range of schools because lion in emergency aid, only half oil, almost seven times its pro- where and how much.” ple. We will not let this happen,” a companion measure to fully they are less certain of their of which has been received. jection for the East Coast, and Medvedev said at a session of enact the measure. chances of being admitted to Clinton’s chief of sta , Cheryl . trillion cubic feet of gas. Today Friday Saturday Sunday sunny sunny partly cloudy sunny 80°/49° 84°/52° 82°/54° 76°/51°

NewsEditors Katie Thisdell & Nabeela Hasan E-mail [email protected] Thursday, April 1, 2010 3 Philanthropy in brief

HARRISONBURG Auxiliary Police Officers Rocking Receive Honors The Harrisonburg Police Department recognized six auxiliary police officers Thursday for their volunteer service Out for to the department. Created in 2002, the auxiliary police department has devoted more than 6,500 hours of service to the local community, resulting in over $35,000 in savings for Charity the city, according to HPD’s Web site. By Aaron Koepper The Breeze Government The Take the Pulse charity concert this Monday evening isn’t just good music and donations; it’s about chang- ing student mentality. This year the group Census seeks a bigger venue and more involve- ment from organizations to entertain and educate students on global sustainability issues. Forms The concert will feature Chicago indie-band Owen and garage-rock band David Casterline / the breeze Elephant Child. David Richard and Madi- son Project will also perform. In addition Helping the Earth One Car at a Time to the musical acts, two professors will Due speak about their experiences working Wednesday’s third annual ‘No Drive Day’ encouraged JMU students, faculty and staff to take in sustainable development. the bus, walk or bike to campus. As an incentive, JMU EARTH distributed free T-shirts, food Senior Danny Lampton, the founder of and prizes for people who decided to take alternative transportation to campus. Take the Pulse, and junior Evan Balaber, Today a member of Take the Pulse committee, worked to recruit local bands and work By Danielle Strickler with JMU’s connections in the music The Breeze Speaker industry. “The more I heard about it, the more I The census is due today and if the loved it and the more I became passion- forms are not returned, then some- ate about it,” Balaber said. “From there, it one will come to count the residents in just became this full-fledged effort to do homes beginning May 1. Deaf Speaker Shares Life Stories some real good.” The 2010 census was mailed to homes This is the first year Take the Pulse has in mid-March for every resident across By Jessica Albert had its own committee in JMU’s Stu- the nation to fill out. Students on cam- contributing writer dent Ambassador program; in previous pus have not yet received the forms from years it was sponsored by on-campus the Census Bureau, but forms have been After being falsely pronounced dead at birth, Rich- organizations. mailed to each off-campus residence ard Pimentel was abandoned by his biological mother. “Now we’re finally an established com- and should have been returned. Four years later, his grandmother adopted him from an mittee; we have a lot more manpower, a According to Kevin Meaney, associate orphanage and raised him. lot more cosponsors,” Lampton said. “We director for housing with the Office of Even with a rough start to his life, Pimental enlisted in have a lot more organizations present. It Residence Life (ORL), on-campus stu- the army during the Vietnam War, where he suffered a really emphasizes the true spirit of the dents will receive forms directly from brain injury and severe hearing loss. event.” the Census Bureau . Now a disability activist Pimentel spoke in HHS Mon- All sales from the concert will be donat- The Census Bureau requested basic day, during Disability Awareness Week, about his life and ed to Kiva.org, an organization that makes residence hall rosters from ORL by April experiences with a disability. 2, Meaney said in an e-mail. Pimentel is a nationally renowned expert on disability ORL does not plan to involve RA’s in management, job recruitment, retention and the Ameri- “From there, it just became collection or distribution of the forms. cans with Disabilities Act. Pimentel’s life was made into this full-fledged effort “Filling out the questions took three a 2007 film called “Music Within.” Ryan Freeland / the breeze minutes and was not that big of a deal,” The Office of Disability Services scheduled and An interpreter and projector visually displaying Richard to do some real good.” said Jeff Small, a sophomore computer planned events for Disability Awareness Week that go Pimentel’s aided deaf audience members Monday. Evan Balaber science major. along with their theme for this year: “Anyone can change junior, Take the Pulse The census forms are important so the world.” Committee Member the government can give money based “I’m the coolest old fat man you will ever meet in your from going to college. on population to cities. life,” Pimentel said during his speech. During the Vietnam War he got into an accident and If students do not fill out the sur- Pimentel humorously told stories about his life during suffered a traumatic brain injury and experienced signifi- veys, a census representative will go the evening. He wanted the audience to understand why cant hearing loss. This accident caused him to be removed micro-loans to entrepreneurs in third- to their house. According to the Cen- they would want to hear what he had to say. from the army. After the army Pimentel enrolled in Port- world countries. Kiva gives micro-loans in sus Bureau’s Web site, it costs America, Pimentel said he struggled as a youth because of his land State on his own dime. increments of $25 to entrepreneurs with taxpayers $1.5 billion to send people stay at the orphanage. After enrolling at Portland State, Pimentel and another profiles on the Kiva Web site; the recip- to the residence to count the number “I was a voluntary mute,” Pimentel said. “I didn’t speak disabled college friend were arrested 33 times while try- ients then repay the lenders as soon as present. in public and didn’t say much at home.” ing to get their point across about disabled Americans. their businesses become profitable. According to Tammie McGee, Pimentel was considered mentally retarded by many Kiva reports a repayment rate from all school officials when he was younger. This, along with see Speaker, page 5 partners of 98 percent. Lampton said JMU see CENSUS, page 4 the fact that Pimentel’s family was poor, prevented him donated $750 in both of the past two years from the event to entrepreneurs, select- ed by the organizers. This year the Take the Pulse committee will decide who the money will go to. Lampton hopes even- tually the student body as a whole can Meet the Candidates for sga exec council decide whom to lend to. Lampton chose Kiva because it not (continued from front) only allows recipients to expand their business, but the returned loans also Jaclyn Steven Brock Wallace allow Take the Pulse to continue to Knott (’11) McConville (’11) (’11) see CONCERT, page 5 Hometown: Hometown: Sparta, N.J. Hometown: Virginia Beach Manhattan, N.Y. Major: Political Science Major: Biology Major: Running For: Vice Running For: Vice Finance, Economics President of Administrative Affairs President of Student Affairs (unopposed) SGA Running For: Student Representative to the Board of Visitors Platform Platform n Work with professors, academic n More space for organizations Platform Year-End departments and the bookstore to in Taylor/Warren Halls n Improve collaboration between lower textbook prices for students n Blirp It (Bus Line Information Retrieval the administration and students, n Create a program that would have Program): This is a bus system where especially for decisions which are teaching assistant’s for every Gen Ed students would be able to use a Web site, Goals likely to impact student life class hold office hours throughout text message, or iPhone app to find buses, n Address and simplify the way in the week and serve as an important providing a more accurate means of locating which JMU helps fund club sports/ resource to students and faculty where buses are at a given moment Finalized other school-affiliated activities n The Gen Ed Program is very specific n The Big Event: This would be a one-day service n Ensure JMU’s alcohol policy moves in a By Amanda Herman and does not make the transfer process project during the year where students direction that will help students feel less The Breeze easy. Work with the Gen Ed councils could show appreciation to the Harrisonburg discouraged by our disciplinary system and coordinators to look at how we community by doing various service projects, sound bite: Frequent Darts With only two SGA senate meetings can make this process better and promoting campus and community unity and Pats contributor left in the semester, senators held a 30 sound bite: Transfer student sound bite: “Freshman year, I minute work session Tuesday to discuss from East Carolina University tripped on my own foot and hit my leftover business. head on the train tracks by Greek Row Dan Smolkin Separated into three groups, sena- after a game of capture the flag.” (’11) tors discussed upcoming projects and events, goals to complete before the end Kyle Smith Hometown: of the year, and long-term projects they Asheville, N.C. (’12) Abby Ware (’13) would like to continue working on in Major: Public Hometown: Hometown: Great Falls future semesters. Policy and Administration McGaheysville Major: Political Science Two long-term projects discussed Running For: Student Representative Major: Running For: Treasurer are the recent cheating and ethics sur- to the Board of Visitors Anthropology, Geographic Science (unopposed) vey sent out by the Academic Affairs Running For: Vice President committee as well as the creation of a Platform of Administrative Affairs Platform campus safety video to show to prospec- n Push for reform on major student n Bring the commitment, energy, and tive and new students. There is also a concerns: textbook prices, on-campus Platform compassion I have for the JMU community plan, pending approval, to implement parking and computer lab demand n Greater student participation in and SGA in order to carry out the student-led classes in the spring semes- n Lobby the university on behalf of all legislative and executive policies. position of Executive Treasurer ter of 2011. students and organizations to address n Advocate for strategies to ensure n Search for effective and alternative Next Tuesday, SGA will vote on the funding issues, university resources JMU remains competitive. ways to provide funding for Front-End- budgets for Front End Budget orga- and space for organizations n An accessible index of student Budgeted and non-FEB organizations nizations. These organizations are n Provide innovative opportunities such issues and concerns. n Work more closely and individually guaranteed money at the beginning of as the program for student proposed sound bite: “Knowledge will forever with organizations to best serve my each year and include the SGA (though and facilitated classes and advocate govern ignorance: And a people who position as Executive Treasurer it does not finalize its own budget), for a student-designed major mean to be their own Governors, must sound bite: I sang the first verse of Student Ambassadors, University Pro- sound bite: After college I would arm themselves with the power which [Third Eye Blind’s] “Jumper” with the gram Board, Madison Equality, CARE, like to start my own company. I knowledge gives.” — James Madison bass player and lead singer, Stephan Earth Club, Panhellenic, Inter-Franter- have worked for several startups in Jenkins, shook a tambourine in my face. nic Council, NAACP and Black Student California since high school and I Alliance. would like to try it out for myself. 4 Thursday, April 1, 2010 breezejmu.org News gaymu | Safe Zones Are ‘Stepping-Stones’ on Campus charges | from front president of Harmony, the for- Victim Did Not mer name of Madison Equality. being “safe” on the JMU campus. According to Bryson, the most Resident advisors, hall directors, difficult part for students about Want to Testify students and staff are encouraged being openly gay on campus is it to become a Safe Zone member. opens them up for harassment. The complete list can be found at “Sometimes there is a conflict from front www.jmu.edu/safezone. between not being ‘out’ at home JMU Safe Zones are affiliated and being ‘out’ on campus,” Bry- Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney with Madison Equality — a stu- son said. Cristabel Opp said the deal was made on dent-run club committed to the Sophomore Ricky Buffington, behalf of the victim. promotion and acceptance for vice president of Madison Equal- “She’s never going to have to talk about the LGBT community. ity, said he knew a girl who was being raped in front of a courtroom of Junior Faith DeGallery, trea- comfortable with her sexual ori- strangers,” Opp said. “We don’t want to surer of Madison Equality, entation but preferred to keep it traumatize the victim.” explained the people who gener- private. To talk about her feelings, Opp said the night of the incident, ally utilize the Safe Zone alliance she went to talk to a professor which police responded to in the early are those who may be struggling she saw with the Safe Zone on morning hours of Oct. 31, the victim was with their sexual orientation. The her door who helped her address leaving a party on South Main Street with people who seek that help may feelings and concerns. her friends. When she realized that Mick not initially come out beyond “Safe Zone is multifaceted was bad news, Opp said her friends were that, she said. and open-ended and that’s what too far ahead. “What we tell people is that makes it awesome,” Buffington “When you get a lot of people talking ‘you might not get people visiting said. “It shows that the person is without a lot of facts, you get a lot of gos- you, but it’s all about visibility,’” sensitive to the needs of LGBT, sip and rumors,” Opp said. “She’s never DeGallery said. “Normally, peo and each professor can do their going to get a chance to confront that.” ple who come out to these events own thing with it.” Opp said Mick had his arms around her are already comfortable with Thomas Lavenir, assistant but she wanted to get somewhere safe. their sexuality. Safe Zones are for director of Multicultural/Inter- In her dorm room, Mick passed out people who are less comfortable national Student Services, said and she went for help, Opp said. and need help. It’s a stepping- he volunteers with Safe Zone When police arrived, she did not seem stone.” coordinators and members. to understand what they were saying Bethany Bryson (’91) is an “LGBTIQ issues do not simply about a rape kit. associate professor of sociology apply and matter to one depart- “The rumor that she refused one is at JMU and the main coordinator ment over the other,” Lavenir nate carden / the breeze inaccurate,” Opp said. “For victims of for JMU Safe Zone. As an under- said. “They apply to everyone!” Freshman engineering major Rachny Soun hands out free “gay? fine by me” T-shirts on the violent sexual assault, not understand- graduate at JMU, she was the commons Wednesday during GayMU week. ing is typical.” grants | Loans Will Census | $57 to Be Administered by Fed Send Workers to Homes Not All Colleges from front Grant Program’s Web site, the from page 3 McGee said. Will Raise Fees current amount received by The U.S. Census Bureau The Department of Educa- someone who qualifies for Pell a Virginia media specialist requests students be counted tion will administer these loans for the U.S. Census Bureau, it at their colleges, not with their to private banks under govern- costs on average $57 to send parents. This helps college Washington Post Fresno Pacific University in Cal- ment contracts. According to the “I see every day someone to a house, for one towns receive more resources ifornia, Hiram College in Ohio, Congressional Budget Office, this visit. Typically, it takes several to take care of its population. Many of the most prestigious Minneapolis College of Art and action will reduce the national in my classroom visits to a home before repre- “I think it is important to — and expensive — colleges in Design, the Sage Colleges in New deficit by $68 billion within the just how hard my sentatives find a resident. share information so that the Mid-Atlantic have capped annu- York, Southern New Hampshire next 11 years. “If I don’t fill out the form, government can properly allo- al tuition increases at 4 percent University and Thomas Aqui- “This legislation is a win for students work in I feel that it is not going to cate the money,” said Rebecca for the coming academic year, a nas College in California. Many students and parents struggling order to pay their alter the results that much,” Arvin, a senior public policy gesture, school officials said, of big-name schools, including the to make ends meet to fulfill the said Brian Breeden, a junior major. fiscal restraint and a signal to University of Pennsylvania and dream of a college education,” tuition bills.” computer information sys- Those residents refusing families of the college-bound Syracuse University, are capping Education Secretary Arne Dun- Jill Biden tem major. to answer the census ques- that they are doing their part to increases at 3 or 4 percent. can said in a media conference second lady According to McGee, 18-to- tions can be fined up to $100. remain affordable. College officials are defending after the bill’s signing. “By end- 24- year-olds are the hardest Incomplete questionnaires Several schools said their even modest increases. In a let- ing subsidies to banks, we can to count because they do not or false information can also fall tuition reflects the smallest ter to parents and students this make important investments realize how important the warrant a fine from the federal annual increase in many years. month, Goucher President San- that increase affordability and Grants averages around $4,000. census is, or they believe their government. Tuition increases were unchar- ford Ungar wrote that, “As steep access to our nation’s universi- By 2017, the maximum will parents will count them. The census only asks for the acteristically small this year as as its cost may seem, (Goucher's ties and community colleges.” increase to $5,530. According to the census person’s name, ethnic origin, well, for concern that a signifi- tuition) is still below that of many The Pell Grant program, a sec- “I see every day in my class- bureau’s Web site, the nation- birthday and age, and the rela- cant increase would scare off similar institutions and, we are tion of the federal grant program, room just how hard my students al rate for return is 46 percent, tionship to the other people recession-weary families. But convinced it is a good value and is a higher education financial work in order to pay their tuition and Virginia currently has a 51 in the home. The census also the nation's private colleges still excellent investment.” aid administered by the Depart- bills,” said Second Lady Jill Biden, percent return rate. Harrison- requires a phone number of are fighting against sticker shock. An industry survey by the ment of Education. Because who is also a professor at North- burg currently has a 44 percent someone in the home, in case At least three in the Washing- independent colleges associa- the grants are targeted to help ern Virginia Community College, return rate. If everyone sends there are any questions. ton area will charge more than tion found a 4.3 percent tuition underprivileged families pay for at the signing. “Often their fam- back the census, Harrisonburg Although a representative $40,000 in tuition alone in the increase among its members this college, the grants do not need to ily budgets are stretched to the will receive more accurate from the Census Bureau will 2010-11 academic year, exclud- year, the lowest figure reported be repaid to the government. limit. And when things get tough amounts to the community, visit the home of those who ing fees and living expenses. in 37 years. Tuition and fees aver- Students’ eligibility is deter- –someone loses a job or a family for activities and projects. do not return forms, there is “I think what we have done is aged $26,273 this year at private, mined after they fill out a FAFSA member gets sick –a college edu- Blacksburg, has a 41 per- still the possibility for some- keep the tuition as low as we can, nonprofit colleges, according form, but is usually available to cation is the first thing to go.” cent participation rate thus one trying to scam a person. given the situation we are all in,” to the New York-based College families making around $20,000. far. After April 1, any residence Residents should ask to see said Dennis O'Shea, spokesman Board. According to the Federal Pell not showing up as had turned identification and remember for Johns Hopkins University. “Prior to the recession, aver- in the form, will be put on a that the representative will Tuition at Johns Hopkins rose age annual tuition increases at census list to be contacted in never ask to come into the 3.8 percent this year and will rise private colleges were about 6 person, starting May 1. home. another 3.9 percent next year, to percent. That's now dropped to “In 2000 Virginia had one For more information on $40,680. Officials said they are, around 4 percent," said Tony Seen Breaking News? of the highest return rates the census and also to keep together, the smallest annual Pals, spokesman for the industry with 71%, however, there is track of the rates of return for tuition increases at the school E-mail us at always 100% participation, across the nation, visit t2010. since the mid-1970s. “There's a lot of because people will come to census.gov. Tuition for incoming freshmen concern that if [email protected] your house to make sure that at George Washington University everyone has been counted.” will reach $42,860, represent- tuition goes up ing a third consecutive year of 3 percent increases. GWU is nomi- too quickly during nally the most expensive college an economic in the area, but the designation is misleading, because the school downturn, it could has an unusual policy of charg- hurt enrollment.” ing students the same tuition throughout their undergraduate Tony Pals years. Average tuition for current spokesman for N.Y. undergraduates remains below college board $40,000. Undergraduate tuition at Georgetown University will rise 3 percent to $39,768. Tuition group. Preliminary results from a will rise 3.9 percent to $39,500 survey of 2010-11 tuition suggests at Washington and Lee Uni- something "closer to last year's versity in Lexington, Va,m the numbers than the pre-recession smallest increase there in more average,” he said. than a decade. Loyola University Not every school is follow- Maryland will charge $37,950, a ing the 4 percent cap. Tuition at 3.9 percent increase; along with American University will rise 5 a similar increase this year, it's percent in fall to $36,180. Tuition the smallest change in 30 years. at St. John's College in Annapo- The University of Richmond, and lis will rise 4.5 percent to $41,792, Goucher College and Washing- passing the $40,000 marker that ton College, both in Maryland, other schools have chosen not all report 4 percent increases. to cross. College officials say they are Colleges are limiting tuition making institutional sacrifices to increases for fear that large keep tuition increases minimal increases will drive students at a time when college endow- away, Pals said: “There's a lot ments have taken catastrophic of concern that if tuition goes losses. Johns Hopkins, for exam- up too quickly during an eco- ple, is under a wage freeze. nomic downturn, it could hurt But the college-bound pop- enrollment.” ulation may be averse to any A pattern of 5 and 6 percent increase, said James Boyle, tuition increases over the past president of the Arlington-based two decades has fueled a pub- membership group College Par- lic perception of runaway prices ents of America. in private higher education. The “What would stand out is a reality is more complex. Private college that says, ‘We're not rais- tuition and fees have risen less ing prices at all,’ ” he said. than 3 percent annually since At least seven colleges have 1990 after adjusting for inflation, frozen tuition in 2010-11, accord- according to the College Board. ing to the National Association The net price of private college, of Independent Colleges and after subtracting grant aid, has Universities in the District: Cul- actually gone down in the past ver-Stockton College in Missouri, five years. breezejmu.org NEWS Thursday, April 1, 2010 5 ROTC shock | Project Began in 2002

from front Board and the Maine Office of JMU decided to give the initia- Air Force Officer Teaches Substance Abuse. tive another shot in the spring on The project is part of a larger Students teamed up with a larger scale. initiative, started in the summer Harrisonburg High School’s Watson believes the project’s of 2002 by Virginia’s Department Key Club and 19 Harrisonburg- primary goal was to educate Importance of Language of Alcohol Beverage Control, Rockingham Youth Council adults who weren’t aware of the according to the department’s members back in November to consequences. Web site. The Virginia program implement the project, accord- She saw it as “a great way By Joshua Hahn a language, they might not Toward the end of his dis- originated after combining ing to the Strong Families/Great to spread awareness in our contributing writer fully understand it until they cussion, Smith’s demeanor aspects of similar programs by Youth Coalition. community.” also comprehend a country’s changed. His tone became the Pennsylvania Liquor Control After the effective first run, One imperative aspect that culture. solemn as he talked about the separates cultures from one person he used to be. another is language. Brian “I used to watch those Afri- Smith knows the importance “I used to watch those can children around two in the of this. African children morning, with the swelled bel- Concert | Encourages Goodwill On Tuesday, Air Force Lt. lies and the flies all over their Col. Brian M. Smith gave a around two in the eyes and think to myself, ‘Man, speech to James Madison morning, with the that’s terrible. But what can I ROTC about his experiences in do?’ ” from front Natural World are expected to be third world that have inspired the military as a helping hand swelled bellies and But that was before his career at the event promoting aware- him to stay involved. to those who need it in coun- the flies all over in the military. Now, he has expand and fund future events. ness for their issues. “One person is using waste to tries overseas. formed friendships around the Because the donations are from The two guest speakers are generate bio-gas and has been Smith, the deputy director their eyes and think world. He has influenced peo- students, when the money is so successful using waste for of the language department to myself, ‘Man, ple in a positive way — people returned from the entrepre- power that his neighbors had for the Air Force Cultural and that won’t even know his name. neurs, it goes directly back to “People can have asked them to do the same for Language Center, emphasized that’s terrible. But And that, he says, is what makes the committee. them,” Striebig said. “I don’t how important it is to befriend what can I do?’ ” the job worthwhile. Roughly 100 people have a better life by think we hear about these sto- locals in U.S. occupied coun- Smith has also saved lives. attended the event in the being connected ries very often, and I was just tries like Iraq and Afghanistan. Brian Smith “Who gets to say this?” he past. Though previously held blown away from the ingenuity This includes not only learning Air Force Lt. Col. asked rhetorically. “That’s why in Grafton-Stovall Theater, to the world, it and creativeness.” the language, but also being people die — because of what Take the Pulse will be held in just has to mean Eliason hopes to encourage immersed in their culture. we represent to the rest of the the Festival Grand Ballroom student involvement and assure To make his point, Smith world.” so organizers will have more something to them.” them that through donations and showed a video of a woman Tim Norville of the Office of room in hopes of drawing a Robert Eliason from working on small projects unsuccessfully trying to trans- Smith emphasized language International Programs also larger audience. professor in developing countries, they can late a sentence to people of because of the numerous talked about Project Go: Nenda, “We wanted to make it as make a difference. various ethnicities based on opportunities that can be a program in which ROTC stu- big as it should be it should “People can have a better life previous experiences. She gained through knowing a sec- dents can travel abroad and be. It’s meant to be a hub for by being connected to the world, embarrassed herself by con- ond, or even a third or fourth learn a foreign language, such students to voice what they it just has to mean something to fusing different nationalities language. According to Smith, as Kiswahili, while living in a care about,” Lampton said. them,” Eliason said. “Whether and reinforcing stereotypes, corporations that used to be place that uses the language. “For that we need to have plenty JMU professors Robert Eliason it be through Kiva by investing yelling “Ching chang chong” American are now operated For more information, visit of booths, tables and room for all of the College of Business and in someone in another coun- at an obviously offended Chi- overseas because these coun- www.rotcprojectgo.org. kinds of student and Harrison- professor Bradley Striebig of the try, whether you meet someone nese woman. tries took the time and effort This program gives schol- burg presenters.” engineering department. Strie- overseas and develop a relation- Although humorous, Smith to learn about the English lan- arships to students in order Amnesty International, the big’s talk is titled “Small Heroes, ship with them, just find way to assured the ROTC that this guage and American culture. to spend time in Kenya and Nicaragua Project and the Big Impacts” and is about the get involved.” video had a grain of truth to it. However, the importance other places abroad so they Institute for Stewardship of the people he’s worked with in the “Language and culture are of language in today’s global- can have similar opportunities heavily intertwined,” Smith izing world was not the only to Smith’s. said. He pointed out that topic that Smith covered in his although someone may know speech. Speaker | Text Displayed Live Interested in writing from page 3 A c t .” that displayed the text of the At the end of his speech, speech live. He became an advoate and Pimentel repeated the theme Disability Services was pleased for the News Section? activist for the Disabilities Rights of JMU’s Disability Awareness with the number of people who Movement. Disabilities Servic- Week to reinforce that he is liv- showed up. Last year, a movie E-mail | [email protected] es Specialist, Matt Trybus said, ing proof of it. screening during Disability “He was instrumental in creat- Unlike most campus events, Awareness Week had less than ing the coalition that eventually there was a sign language inter- 10 individuals attend. constructed and helped pass the preter for deaf individuals and a Americans with Disabilities voice activated word processor

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OpinionEDITOR Elizabeth Baugh E-MAIL [email protected] Thursday, April 1, 2010 7 EDITORIAL Refuse Fees    approved a resolution that, if the Board of Visitors passes Friday, would impose a $25 fee on students who drop a course after the rst week of the semester. Such a measure is unfair and illogical. A liberal arts university should encourage students to explore their boundaries and interests, not implement measures for the exact opposite. A penalty-enforced deadline after the rst week of classes would encourage students to drop classes during that penalty-free rst week. Why risk paying the ne if you’re not thrilled with the rst day?  e Faculty senate approved the resolution was passed assuming it would help class availability by discouraging students from frivolously signing up for courses. Students enroll in classes they have no interest in taking, that causes unnecessary trouble for the administration. It is by no means the most common reason why classes are dropped. Students often get jobs and can’t make the time commitment necessary to do well in a class. Sometimes a class is more advanced than advertised, or the class is simply not a good one — it’s an unfortunate possibility, but a true one. When students do sign up and nd out the class is not what they imagined, rather than allowing them to leave free of charge and give their spot to someone who wants it, students will be pressured to stay. Students who take unnecessary classes that don’t t often drop them for the classes they need which allows other students to pick up the classes that had been previously lled. Don’t allow yourselves to be subject to this restriction. Contact your faculty and administration and say NO to this measure.

JOHN SCOTT | don’t tread on me LETTER tradition that you may have seen or Go Dukes! heard. Here’s how it goes:  e next time One of the best parts of giving a tour you see a tour, you and your friends as a Student Ambassador is watching shout “J-M-U!” with all you’ve got.  e fellow JMU students encourage visit- tour group will have been prepped Rest in Peace, Pub ing families. In case you didn’t know, beforehand to respond, “DUUUKESS!” On a Tuesday night, I can usually be meet food-to-liquor ratios set by the not fully paying taxes, but they also we love your honks, your shouts and, Although this may seem small, it found standing with my friends hold- [Alcohol Beverage Control Board.]” Is had problems with the food-to-liquor of course, your generous door-hold- allows visiting families to walk away ing a  oz. Natural Light in the middle there a legitimate governmental inter- ratio. Recently, Bourbon Street on ing abilities. High school students are feeling like they have engaged with of  e Pub.  e general mood of the est in the ratio between the number of Main’s liquor license was suspended amazed to see how much our student students at James Madison. As it is, establishment is jovial, as many stu- hot dogs and Jager Bombs  e Pub sells after it did not meet the requirements body enjoys being here.  ink back to families seem pleasantly surprised if dents brave the on any given night? Absolutely not. for a liquor license. Does this mean we your rst visit … what sold you? I bet it they get one friendly honk — just imag- walk up to the On the contrary, the Commonwealth’s need to increase the level of strictness? had more to do with seeing students ine what they’ll say after a morning of stage and sere- intention seems silly when broken Is that even possible? And won’t that who loved JMU than reading an infor- student engagement all over campus. nade their peers down into such a simple analogy. just choke out the remaining hot spots mational handout. Perhaps you could be that one who with karaoke. in Harrisonburg? As tour guides, we would like to ask pushes a student to choose JMU. Although the Is there a legitimate Throughout the year, I have writ- for your help to make an even bigger Thanks in advance for your sup- same sequence ten on some common themes, one impact on tour groups. With CHOIC- port. We can’t wait to hear you! of events took governmental interest of which is the unintended, negative ES quickly approaching, there will be place this Tues- in the ratio between the consequences that come from govern- thousands of prospective students at Emily Govel day, I couldn’t mental regulation of industries. When JMU. Two years ago we started a new President, Student Ambassadors help but feel number of hot dogs and these establishments are shut down, sadness. Just ve Jager Bombs The Pub this forces students to stay at home and short weeks before I leave JMU, one of provide parties at their apartments. Not the most popular watering holes in sells on any given night? only does this encourage underaged town is permanently closing its doors. and binge drinking, but it is an unsu- Metaphorically speaking, insult was pervised danger. This will only lead being added to injury. to an increase in police citations and Yes, the establishment’s owners Regardless of how mundane the stat- arrests as well as the city’s amount of DARTS & PATS ARE ANONYMOUSLY SUBMITTED AND PRINTED ON A SPACE-AVAILABLE BASIS. allegedly broke the law. Although, I ute is, Pub co-owner William R. Royer general crime. SUBMISSIONS CREATIVELY DEPICT A GIVEN SITUATION, PERSON OR EVENT AND DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THE TRUTH. understand why they allegedly did points out how the policies placed his ABC policies a ect students just as breezejmu.org» submit darts & pats this, I do not advocate breaking the law. business at a distinct disadvantage to much as businesses. As Royer noted, However, it is necessary to reiterate a others: “ABC is targeting certain busi- many state alcohol policies are out of A “say-it-don’t-spray-it” dart A “why-are-you-so-far-away?” point I made in my Sept. ,  col- nesses that are more prominently touch with today’s alcohol distribution to the toilets on campus that shoot dart to Springfest weekend. umn entitled, “OMG, I Crashed. FML”: known as a ‘nightspot’ rather than a and usage. Our generation needs to up water when they’re  ushed. From the overworked and super “I’ve always wondered if people don’t steakhouse or a foods venue.” Indeed. lobby for a revision of these policies to From the daily victims of toilet stressed out Dukes. follow some laws simply because they Rarely is it the case when I can’t ensure a safer future for all those who assault. consider them unnecessary…” decide between D-Hall and  e Pub drink alcohol. As noted in  e Breeze’s March  for dinner. A “nat-er-fall” pat to the couch article titled “Student Favorite  e Pub In late , Rocktown Grill, which John Scott is a senior writing, A “slow-down!” dart to the below our balcony. to Close Its Doors”: “Many of  e Pub’s was arguably the most popular bar in rhetoric & technical communication sorority girls driving way too fast From the keg above you that problems stemmed from an inability to town, shut down due to the owners major and former SGA senator. on Greek Row and nearly ending  gured you’re probably as thirsty as pedestrian lives. your owners. From a guy who knows that the only woman who can drive that ERIC BOLINDER | guest column fast safely is Danica Patrick. An “I-didn’t-know-you-were- the-star-of-'Stomp-the-Yard’” dart to my roommate who wakes A “thanks-for-boosting-my- me up every day as she leaves for self-confi dence” dart to my her  a.m. girlfriend for asking me why my From your busy roommate who Clarifying Unconstitutionality muscles are so small. treasures every bit of sleep she can From a boyfriend who is now get. considering taking steroids. of Health Care A “why-do-you-build-me-up,- An “I’m-trying-to-breathe- buttercup,-baby,” dart to my e Confl ict is not Between State and Federal Law over-here” dart to the girl buddy for saying he would slug cold wearing too much perfume in ones Monday night. I feel compelled to write a short piece the legislature has not. Health care is an because it is a mandate to buy health ECL. From your senior mentor and responding to Mr. Scott’s editorial on issue which so substantially and obvi- insurance rather than a control on vol- From the girl who didn’t shower sex therapist who felt let down and the Attorney General’s decision to sue ously impacts interstate commerce that untary behavior, it is unprecedented, in Chanel No.  this morning. messed around. over health care reform. I am an outspo- it will be extremely di cult to construe but I think that is a stretch.  is is posed, ken and unrelenting critic of the recent the facts in any way to rule this statute ultimately, as a tax and not any sort of health care legislation. I have opposed it unconstitutional. Despite the Rehnquist regulation on criminal activity. An “I-don’t-care-that-you- A “you-share-worse-than-a- from day one, and I am disappointed to Court’s historical willingness to handcu In conclusion, even as an opponent look-doofy” pat to my Crocs for preschooler” dart to the girl on see it is being signed into law. congress in U.S. v. Lopez, an evaluation of of health care legislation, I nd myself replacing my Uggs as my library the bus sel shly taking up two seats That said, Mr. Scott’s reasoning more recent decisions makes it clear that agreeing with the sentiment that many shoe. when people were squeezed on and behind his support of the Attorney Gen- precedent likely supports this statute as of the people suing to have this bill From a junior who needs comfy standing. eral’s attempt to have the statute ruled constitutional. See Gonzales v. Raich (the overturned are doing it out of political shoes to study in and doesn’t care From a fellow bus rider who unconstitutional is, to borrow his own motives and are wasting precious gov- what other people think. knows she’s not the only one on the terminology, misguided.  e crux of Mr. ernment resources in the process. I stop bus. Scott’s argument is because Virginia has I fi nd myself agreeing with short of saying there is absolutely no a statute which con icts directly with a chance it is ruled unconstitutional — A “dukie-on-you” dart to the federal statute, the Attorney General is the sentiment that many anything is possible in the courts — but Dukette downstairs who called the A “come-to-JMU” pat to all the under a duty to sue. The Constitution of the people suing to unless critics expect the Roberts Court to cops on a Friday night disco. people taking tours around campus. is quite clear in the Supremacy Clause set a bold new precedent which, while From the dudes upstairs just that federal law is the “supreme law of have this bill overturned technically possible, is highly unlikely, trying to cut some rugs and show From a junior who loves seeing all the land and states are bound by it; laws are doing it out of political then they should shift their e orts else- your squad how to dance better the potential freshman. of any state to the contrary notwithstand- where putting new people in power in than diarrhea. ing.” Framing the constitutional issue as motives and are wasting the legislature. a con ict between state and federal law precious government I hope I have clarified the prima- is undoubtedly incorrect. On that issue ry reasons behind this bill’s alleged A “hmmm-that’s-fair...-NOT” alone, in a vacuum, the Commonwealth resources in the process. unconstitutionality, and I implore the An “isn’t-that-what-I’m-for?” dart to the professors who decided will not make it very far. movement ghting this legislation to turn dart to people who plan out an it would be a great idea to wait until  e main constitutional issue at hand their e orts back to the legislative arena entire day of activities in their April to determine  percent of our here is asking if Congress has over- “California medical marijuana case”). I and not be distracted by the probable red Facebook status. grade in their class. stepped its bounds in using the power think even Justice  omas, considering herring of a constitutional issue. From your empty, neglected From overworked, underpaid appropriated to it in the Commerce his scathing dissent in Gonzales, would planner. students everywhere. Clause. Many top constitutional schol- have a di cult time ruling this statute Eric Bolinder is a 2008 JMU ars, such as Erwin Chemerinsky, argue unconstitutional. One may argue that alumnus.

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I wish to thank many challenging experience. You never know how much a job has in the woods. Visits from Yoga and Daisy. Ashton and Erik of Erik people, but here are a few that I a ected you until your time there is over. I’ve gained so much and Ashton. Gil! Greg Groves! Anthony’s pizza. Susan’s never- especially need to: working knowledge over the past three years. When I started as ending candy and conversations. Kelly and Lauren’s ragers and God — With your guidance I have a sta photographer, I was intimidated by the publication. Ten tailgates. Kaleigh’s weekend stories. Brian’s hickies and horo- grown as a journalist and a person who ultimately seeks thousand of my peers and professors would see my work and I scopes. Happys and Crappys. e Trophy of Usefulness. Elderly the truth. Some describe this as a God-less profession — I didn’t want to disappoint. sperm. Awkward turtles. Amburgers and Wootbeer. Pennies of strongly disagree. I am so proud of how the paper has Promise. 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In this battleground, shoulders hit hard against fluorescent helmets and an unforgiving floor. Racing against the clock, a women’s skating team finds sanctuary from the obligations of their everyday lives.

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Warriors Dan Gorin / The Breeze The Rocktown Rollers are made of 11 skaters, but are also training five new members that will slowly be brought on to the roster.

By Jordan Garegnani it becomes about different people and styles coming together for 22 years, but decided to try something new and exciting. contributing writer as a cohesive unit and overcoming your fears,” said Beth Pleas- Others needed a little more convincing. Pleasants practi- ants, a.k.a Betty Crasher. cally dragged Christina Steele (Blue Steele) to practice. The For others, roller-derby is about participating in a competi- two met at a Starbucks drive-through and Pleasants imme- When Sarah Rose-Silva, a wife and mother, steps into Funky’s tive sport and gaining a sense of community in Harrisonburg. diately invited Steele to try out for the team, but it was not an Skate Center, she leaves behind hours of laundry, dishes and The women said roller-derby is not just about a group of similar easy transition. crying kids to become Tarnished Silva — a roller-derby war- people, but about bringing different people and personalities “I was a wall-hugger at the first practice, and then quit for rior. With her small frame, sweet face and bright red hair she together. Most of the women are in the professional world and two weeks until Betty came after me,” Steele said. “I knew it looks like a perfectly content mother, but with her skate pads have regular day jobs. Only one skater, Kaitlin Ilnitzki (KILL- was going to be all or nothing.” and helmet on, she transforms into a daring version of herself nitzki) is a student at JMU, though there are several alumnae. Now Steele is one of the team’s top blockers. who shoulder-checks and jumps over fallen skaters. At their first home bout on April 11 at Funky’s, the women The Rocktown Rollers have deemed downtown’s the Art- With five new members on the team this season, roller-derby were practicing hard. The team of 11 practices two hours twice a ful Dodger as their hangout spot because of its fun, casual is an emerging community within Harrisonburg. These hard- week. They run drills with names like “No Love for the Jammer” atmosphere. It also happens to be the daytime workplace of core Rocktown Rollers, seen cruising around a skate track, or “Queen of the Track.” All of the women have hard-core derby the team’s coach Thom Metroka (Troch), who is the kitchen are the alter egos of mothers, teachers, bankers, nurses and nicknames and rarely call each other by their real names. Each manager. Settled in a corner of the Artful Dodger, the mingling students. picks her own name, making sure none are used twice. women revealed the truth about their derby lives. When asked why they take time out of their lives to skate, Every team member has her own story. Chris Tolar (Cardiac Here, everyone has a place on the team. For example, Silva termed it as, “something for yourself” as the other women Arrest) heard about derby because she frequented the rink on Heather Alentado (Knasty Knitter) loves knitting and makes nodded in agreement. free skate nights. Tolar planned to try out with friends, but at “The first year you’re getting out all your aggression, but then the last minute her friends didn’t show up. Silva hadn’t skated see Roller, page 13

Transitions Transforms to GILTY andy fram | that’s so college By Rob Manch scene in Harrisonburg.’ We looked Mating contributing writer at some different venues that we could do it at and we were look- On-campus student activities ing at all off-campus stuff. Then come in many forms, but starting we thought about it and were like tonight, a new event will become ‘You know what, why don’t we just Patterns of the the first of its kind. A completely go on campus?’ ” student-run on-campus nightclub The two first brought their idea called “Club GILTY” will make its before Student Affairs, where first appearance in the Transi- Walker already had connections College Male tions room of Warren Hall. because of his work as a DJ for The club was initially the several university events. They It was a long, cold winter. I, for one, am quite glad to brainchild of two sophomores, first talked with Student Affairs see spring peaking its head up from just over the hill. Gil Welsford and Ty Walker. They Coordinator Shari Scofield who As the seasons once again begins to dawn, we see some were disappointed in the fact that found the idea exciting. of the traditions that come with it: the habitual bird “I certainly want to see it hap- migrations, the eloquent daffodils blooming, and of pen,” Scofield said. “We’re going course, the pre-emptive Facebook invitations signaling “Lasers are to do at least one, but I think that yet another bounteous season of block parties. by next year we need to be doing However, perhaps the most interesting and observable awesome. Who has one per month.” tradition of the vernal equinox is the mating rituals of the lasers? Nobody in After bringing the idea before male Homo sapien. members of the administration, After a long winter, the male Harrisonburg has they were got the go-ahead to humanoid emerges from its hovel, lasers. But we do. “ set a date and time for the club’s knocks away surrounding Solo opening. According to Welsford, cups and wearily stretches his Gil Welsford they settled on the room in Tran- carpal tunnel-afflicted wrists. He sophomore business major sitions because of its manageable ROBERT BOAG / The Breeze tilts his head slightly toward the size and limited access points. Sophomores Gil Welsford (left) and Ty Walker started the on-campus Club wind and sniffs. The crisp scent This would give it more of a “club GILTY to fulfill JMU’s lack of a club scene. of bikinis and sundresses wafts feel,” as opposed to one of the through the fresh breeze and ballrooms in Festival, which was “Club GILTY” for their upcoming Though expecting an audience intrigues the male. He sniffs again. although JMU has a reputation as another potential venue. student audience. Ideas include of about 250 students, they hope Mating season has begun. a party school, there is virtually no “It’s just going to be a straight fog machines, strobe lights and to get as many as 500 in atten- Similar to other creatures club scene in Harrisonburg. dance party,” Walker said. “I’m laser projectors. dance. Doors will open at 10 p.m. of habit, this heterogametic being takes up a series of “Ty and I are always coming up going to be dejaying, I think it’s “Lasers are awesome,” Welsford — 2 a.m. on today and admission essential courtship displays comparable to the male with hair-brained ideas,” Welsford going to be fun.” said, “Who has lasers? Nobody in will be free. A Facebook group peacock, flaunting his girth of feathers to potential mates. said. “So we were talking about it, Welsford and Walker have Harrisonburg has lasers. But we was also recently created for the During daytime hours, the male will often journey to a and we were like ‘let’s start a club thought of several ideas to enhance d o.” event. popular terrain known as “the Quad,” where others of the species gather for a plethora of other purposes. After the acquisition of a small piece of land on the Quad, the male and the rest of his pack exhibit a series of odd behaviors, involving the removing of the upper layer of clothing and throwing a flat, circular piece of plastic Students Rave about Top-Rated Professor back and forth. Although awaiting further scientific deduction, it is hypothesized that these strange activities relate back to the aural cry of “sun’s out, guns out” — a By Torie Foster and clarity. incorporates music into her class. Before beginning her lecture, common call during mating season. The Breeze DuVall-Early’s six classes on She plays some before each exam DuVall-Early shared “Professor After the male returns to his den for the day, he life-span development are always to help her students relax. She also D’s pics,” which include a list of immediately begins preparation for an evening of Kimberly DuVall-Early has got full, according to the psychology leads breathing exercises. activities around Harrisonburg, wooing, which typically involves the ingestion of ethanol her students talking — about her department head Michael Stoloff. ‘Professor D,’ as her students “instead of hanging out at Trash- for hours prior. After the completion of such novel lectures. And not just during class “I was really shocked because call her, “has a wonderful sense by,” she said. customs, the male and his pack set off into the night. time. it is quite a difficult achievement,” of humor,” freshman Brian Phipps This is one way DuVall-Early It’s important to note that the human male is a The psychology professor was Stoloff said. “A large number said. “She’s a light-hearted pro- tries to relate to her students, in tenacious creature, and it is not uncommon for one to recently listed as the highest- of students rated her virtually fessor, so the class is less stressful, addition to reading and chatting travel on three, or even four, drunk buses in a single rated professor in the nation on perfectly.” which makes the material easier to with her students before class. evening for even the slightest chance to mate. RateMyProfessor.com, a Web site But upon entering DuVall-Ear- understand.” “It is nice to be liked,” she said, Still, despite the arduous excursion, the male must some- pooling opinions on more than ly’s classroom, it’s easy to see why DuVall-Early’s positive ener- “but in the end it’s the ‘warm fuzz- times endure, after having arrived at his destination (often 1 million professors from more she is so popular. Students casual- gy was apparent from the get-go. ies’ [personal connections] that a large social gathering in a dimly lit dwelling with even than 6,000 schools. DuVall-Ear- ly took their seats as 311’s “Amber” “Thank you for being here!” she state how much students learned more ethanol), the male begins the even more tedious ly’s average rating was 4.9 out of played in the background, and it’s said cheerfully. “This is gonna be 5 for overall quality, helpfulness not the only time DuVall-Early a fun day!” see Professor, page 13 see Mating, page 13 12 Thursday, April 1, 2010 breezejmu.org Life Movie Review Miley Cyrus Guards Turtle Eggs in ‘The Last Song’ Interested in writing about Washington Post Kinnear plays Steve Miller, a The Last Song and her brother are being raised concert pianist who put his career by a struggling single mom), love music, books, Nicholas Sparks is the Stephen ahead of his family. 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Though they come from tell if she's a real actress. sentimentality and operatic tragedy. Hemsworth) and guard a sea-turtle different social classes (Ronnie Acrylic on Flesh: Body Artist Skyrockets to Success Washington Post in London, an offer to collaborate on a Meade uses a brush. She paints skin body-painting — but there’s some- then graduated last spring and moved music video for a major record label, on skin, lips on lips and eyebrows on thing different about Meade’s project back home into the open, loving, mild- WASHINGTON — Slender, freckled, and hundreds of curious e-mails from eyebrows, and the insides of nostrils, that strikes some gallerists and artists ly concerned arms of her parents, who auburn-haired Alexa Meade is in her people who want the story on Alexa using her own mixture of nontoxic as novel and new. wanted her to have a secure job with parents’ basement in Chevy Chase, Md. Meade and how she turns people into paints and unspecified ingredients. “She sent me a photo of her work benefits. Her father lassoed her an offer It’s 7:30 a.m. Tuesday. She resists the paintings. Her subjects must sit still for multi- and I thought it was really amazing,” for a high-paying job as a director of temptation to Google herself. Her current medium is acrylic on ple hours as she follows the natural says Elise Siegel, owner and curator of communications. She turned it down. Instead, she sets an empty Grand flesh. She paints on people’s skin and contours of their faces, varying brush- Positron Gallery in Baltimore, where Art was her choice. She was done spin- Marnier jug between a mirror and an clothes until they look like they belong stroke and color to exhume their inner Meade debuted the concept in Octo- ning for other people. Now she’d spin inclined plate of glass, traces the bot- in a frame. And voilà: The masses essence. When she’s done, they appear ber by painting her younger sister Julie herself. tle and its reflection on the glass with are captivated, opportunity comes banished to two-dimensionality, yet into a lonely, earth-toned tableau. “It’s She spent last year learning how to black paint, then traces the reflection of knocking. Even as she putters in the they also seem fuller, more dynamic. something I’ve never seen before. It be a professional artist. She interned at the paint itself. Next, she sprinkles her basement, Alexa Meade may be stand- She then sets her subjects in an instal- plays with your mind. During the open- a local gallery last summer, networked expired thyroid medication into a can ing on the brink of an inventive career, lation, or photographs them. There are ing, people were really impressed by with artists and gallerists via e-mail, of Betty Crocker frosting, stirs it and or the brink of oblivion. no touch-ups or special effects beyond her installation. and crashed art events several times a scoops the mix into the pill bottle. Internet memes are most virulent acrylic on flesh and the initial compla- Based solely on a forwarded link, week to pick the brains of the cogno- She doesn’t quite call it art. It’s an when they blow people’s minds, and cency of the observer. English painter Christian Furr booked scenti. By October she showed her first experiment, she says, to limber her Meade’s “Living Paintings” seem to Look at the eyes, though. Bam. Real Meade as a selected exhibitor at an Living Painting at Positron. Her work brain, which has been consumed have done that. For two weeks she has person. This effect jars people, con- October charity event at the Saatchi. has appeared in five minor region- recently by her shotgun art career. The been linked, blogged, page-viewed, fuses them, briefly rattles their grasp of “She’s going to create quite a stir in al shows in six months. Earlier this media inquiries, the hundreds of sales tweeted, Digged, thumbs-upped, art, space and reality. Meade, who has this country,” Furr says. “People are month, Washington artist Chris Bishop, requests, the invitations from random CNN’d, OMG’d and lavished with worked on Capitol Hill and on cam- fascinated by playing with viewpoints, whom Meade met in September, sent a galleries — it’s a bit much for a 23-year- parades of exclamation points by anon- paigns, says her experience in politics and she’s taking it one step further than link to Kottke.org, a high-traffic liber- old who only six months ago decided ymous commenters — the plebeian, taught her to look beyond facades. trompe l’oeil. I was blown away by it. al-arts blog in Manhattan. The linkage to be a full-time professional artist. This virtual equivalent of a good opening Dunn Loring, Va., resident Will She’s quite an established artist, by the unfurled from there. moment is playtime. at MoMA, minus the bona fides. Claybaugh spent 11 hours last month look of things.” Bold, focused and media-savvy, “I’m not out to make a masterpiece “A portrait is something that’s been modeling for Meade at G40: The Sum- Except she’s not. She’s been working Meade has welded her political and right now,” she says as her iPod shuffles with us for 3,000 years — that’s not mit in Crystal City (Va.). full-time only since the fall. artistic sides to fashion a campaign through indie rock. “I feel like anything an easy genre to move forward,” says “No one was categorically trying to Growing up in Chevy Chase, Meade for a long-term art career, careful to you do gets you moving, inspires you Magdalena Sawon, owner of Post- decipher me as a person,” says Clay- was steeped in fine arts and design, weed through bogus solicitations in in some way. It’s also kind of satisfying masters Gallery in New York, who has baugh, 24. “They were trying to figure and at 16 she began to focus on sculp- her in-box, bothering to respond to playing with frosting.” invited Meade to be part of an upcom- out Alexa’s vision. It felt dehumaniz- ture and politics. She went to Vassar comment threads on social media sites Footsteps on the stairs. Her father, ing exhibit. “I’m more interested in the ing in an incredibly liberating way. ... College and studied political science like Reddit.com, declining to work on Phil, pokes his head in. “Off to work,” end result than just the strategy, and I was a piece of art looking at them as while taking sculpture courses on the the music video to remain free of the he says. she has the ability to convey a power- opposed to a person who had some side. For three summers she interned commercial world. “Bye, Pops,” she says. ful image. (Her work) exploded virally understanding of them. It made me on Capitol Hill. “I’d rather feed my curiosity than Two weeks ago she was a political on the Internet, and my wish, to some realize that objects, as far as I experi- In the summer of 2008 she worked push a product,” she says. “I have so science grad living at home, painting degree, is to bring it back into the focus ence them, are just surface.” at Barack Obama’s Denver headquar- many ideas and so many things I want her way through her first year after col- of the fine arts world. This is a valid and The human body has always been ters as a press assistant. She wrote her to explore, and I don’t want to have all lege. She is still that. 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Derby is her “creative alter His goal is to keep the team ego where I can let my inhibi- together by “being a team; doing tions out,” Hess said. this,” he said gesturing toward The women make up the the chatting women. “They have Get paid and published. team, but Metroka was the one to know each other on and off who created it and keeps it alive. the track.” Metroka had heard about derby “I have to trust the girls I from his friend and decided to play with, or else someone can Submit to The create a team in February 2008. seriously get hurt,” said co-cap- Along with his fiancée, co-cap- tain Becky Curry (Bam Bam Breeze. tain Janna Bayse (Jannicide), Brawler). they promoted their idea dur- Metroka embodies this idea of ing free skate at Funky’s; only derby: “not being about winning Email five people showed up. 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on page 16 dukes receive accolades SportsEditors Emmie Cleveland & Colleen Hayes E-mail [email protected] Thursday, April 1, 2010 15 baseball games this week softball Dukes Finally Snapping Out of It n Delaware @ JMU By Michael Demsky Friday, 3 p.m. The Breeze Friday, 4:45 p.m. Saturday, 12 p.m. Maybe it was the pressure to win, Dukes are 7-1 in their last eight maybe it was the injuries and maybe meetings against Delaware, out- it was simply the baseball-defying scoring the Blue Hens 40-16. cold, but one thing is for sure: The JMU baseball team is finally hitting its stride. After Tuesday’s win over Radford, March 26-28 the Dukes (12-11 overall, 4-2 in the Colonial Athletic Conference) have Club Sports won seven of their past nine games. The win over the Highlanders put Results* their record above .500 for the first time all season. Gymnastics Picked in the preseason by CAA Maryland meet head coaches to win their second n Vault: Elly Hart, 2nd (9.7) conference championship in three n Vault: Annie Lewis, 8th (9.3) years, JMU came into this season with n Beam: Kelly Stiger, 8th (8.8) a target on its back. n Floor: Kelly Stiger, 4th (9.25) In addition to the team accolades, junior first baseman/pitcher Trevor Triathlon Knight was the coaches’ choice as Smithfield sprint preseason CAA Player of the Year, n Nate Kistner, 2nd while junior closer Kevin Munson was n Stephen Despins, 3rd selected as Pitcher of the Year. n John Dorrance, 3rd “It’s honestly an honor, but that n Tyler Steel, 6th preseason stuff doesn’t mean any- n Rebeccalee Watkins, 3rd thing unless you get it at the end of *All placed in their the season,” Munson said. respective age groups Munson and Knight have shown they intend to do just that. Munson has been dominant from the get-go, *The Breeze does not vet the results provided by giving up just three earned runs in 19 the clubs. We encourage all JMU sports clubs to 1/3 innings pitched, striking out 29 report results to Ethan Sherman at [email protected] batters along the way. He is regarded every Monday; results are printed Thursdays. as one of the top professional pros- pects in the CAA. Knight on the other hand has endured his share of struggles, large- ly in part to a torn labrum preventing him from pitching and slowing his meet the player production at the plate. Through the first 10 games of the year, Knight posted a .175 batting average, a steep slope from the impressive .377 mark he achieved last season. Recently Knight has gone on an absolute tear. In the past 11 games he has gone 21-50 at the plate, boosting his average to a more-than-respect- able .323. His six home runs are also a team high. The team’s top performer thus nate carden / the breeze far has been senior outfielder Matt Browning, another preseason all-CAA Teammates wait to congratulate junior David Herbek after his grand slam Tuesday against Radford. The slam gave the Dukes an Marissa McDonald selection. Prior to Tuesday’s game, early 4-0 lead and was the team’s first since the 2008 CAA Tournament. Herbek leads the team with 27 RBIs this season. n freshman Browning’s team-leading .460 batting average was the 16th best nationally. n track & field Browning currently leads the team in for some tough conference weekends with Mother Nature, gave the team all have made a combined eight starts, n engineering major hits, runs, total bases, on base per- against some good teams in the CAA, sorts of fits early on. each earning a 1-2 record. Valadja was centage and slugging percentage. but they also kind of showed us at the “We’ve still only had five practice impressive as the starter against U.Va., Who is the figure you Several other JMU players have beginning of the season that we had opportunities because of the snow surrendering just two earned runs in respect the most? My mom also enjoyed early success, as fellow some work to do and we had to get and all the travel that we’ve had,” JMU five innings pitched. definitely, because she handles preseason All-CAA selections David things going,” Munson said. coach Spanky McFarland said Tues- The team’s improvement has mir- a lot of stresses, and you know Herbek and Matt Townsend boast “I think we’re a lot better of a team day. “It has been a situation where rored that of staff ace, junior Turner she’s been through a lot, but she batting averages over .300. Reserve because we we haven’t had the Phelps. Expected to be the team’s best still always has a smile on her Matt Tenaglia also hit .391 in limited played those “I don’t think we felt opportunities to get pitcher and touted as a high-level face when people see her. action. teams at the pressure because of the better and work on prospect, Phelps struggled immensely What is your favorite thing However, with great notoriety and beginning of things.” early on. Through his first three starts success come lofty expectations — the year.” Injuries have Phelps, a second team All-CAA per- to shop for? Sneakers. I like awards or whatever. The expectations the team didn’t realize as The team plagued the Dukes’ former last year, gave up 24 earned Air Force 1’s. the season began. A 5-9 start put the went 3-5 dur- only kind of pressure I think pitching rotation. runs in 15 1/3 innings of work. What is your favorite sport team in a hole it never anticipated. ing spring we felt was that we knew Presumed stalwarts Phelps has given up just two earned or hobby, beside track? “I don’t think we felt pressure break in Jack- Knight, sophomore runs in his last two outings combined, My favorite sport would have to because of the awards or whatever. sonville, Fla., we had a good team. ” Sean Tierney and both of them wins. The convincing be basketball, and my favorite The only kind of pressure I think we losing to the David Herbek sophomore Evan turnarounds posed by Knight and hobby would probably be either felt was that we knew we had a good likes of Jack- junior shortstop Scott have been lim- Phelps are thanks to the experience listening to music or driving. team,” Herbek said. “We set very high sonville, ited to 3 1/3 innings and skill both juniors possess. What is your best moment expectations for our team, and we Stetson, North combined due to var- “I think they’re both good enough definitely wanted to play well and con- Florida and ious ailments. players to know when they need to in track & field so far? tinue to play well.” twice to Illi- “It’s frustrating, make some adjustments,” McFarland I would have to say senior year JMU faced a daunting nonconfer- nois State. because we had the injuries to [Kyle] said. “Gotta understand also that they in high school when our 4 x 1 ence schedule to start the season. The Their final game, an embarrassing Hoffman and [Kurt] Houck last year, are marked men that everyone knows relay team won districts by 2 Dukes started the year 0-3 following 29-8 loss to Illinois State, featured the but it’s one of those things you can’t about and are preparing for.” hundredths of a second, and I losses to No. 12 Coastal Carolina, most runs the Dukes have ever given control,” Munson said. “So we have to The Dukes look to continue improv- was the anchor. North Carolina State and No. 6 Califor- up in a single game. The game finished put it behind and move forward with ing this weekend with a three-game What kind of music is on nia-Irvine at the Baseball at the Beach after just seven innings of play. what we got.” set at CAA rival Old Dominion (12-16, your playlist to get you Tournament in Myrtle Beach, S.C. “Obviously we didn’t play as well Freshman D.J. Brown and junior 1-2). JMU wants try to turn the tide in pumped up? “All I Do Is Win” The team would also go on to drop as we wanted to down there,” Herbek Alex Valadja have had to cut most of Norfolk, as the team has gone 1-2 in by T-Pain, “I Like” by DJ Khaled a close, 6-3 decision at home to No. 1 said. “We’re still trying to figure that the slack to make up for the lack of three game sets against the Monarchs and “I’m Goin In” by Lil Wayne. Virginia in mid-March. one out.” pitching depth. Expected to be spot in each of the past three seasons. “Those early games got us ready The team’s trips, in combination starters coming into the year, the two women’s basketball Sophomore Guard Decides to Transfer

By Emmie cleveland following five games with dwindling The Breeze minutes. Additionally, junior forward Nichelle The JMU women’s basketball team Glover is still being considered a good will lose at least one more from its fit for the team, and her status remained roster in addition to senior Sarah undecided as of Wednesday. Williams. “Nichelle has got to mature in cer- Sophomore guard Brittany Crowell tain areas, and she’s very capable,” of Brandywine, Md., decided to trans- Brooks told the Daily News -Record fer in January for “personal reasons” on Saturday. “She was eligible to play and declined to comment beyond … but we have rules here, and you’ve that. got to abide by them, and academics “She wants a fresh start and an are very important, and you’ve got to opportunity to play more,” coach take that stuff serious. Kenny Brooks said. “She has not cho- “If she proves she can do that — and sen a school yet and is getting ready to do it to our liking — and what needs to go through the process.” be done to be a part of the James Mad- As a freshman, Crowell averaged 15 ison University women’s basketball minutes per game. She led all freshmen program, then we’ll reconsider it.” with 31 game appearances, including Glover transferred from Sante two starts. Fe Community College after her As a sophomore, she averaged sophomore year. The 6-foot-1-inch seven minutes in only seven appear- Jacksonville native played in 14 games, david casterline / file photo Amy gwaltney / file photo ances with no starts. She played a starting in seven. She averaged 5.5 Sophomore guard Brittany Crowell left the team in January for “personal season-high 12 minutes in JMU’s sea- points and 4.1 rebounds in just less Junior forward Nichelle Glover is being reasons.” She plans to transfer after finishing out the semester and remains son-opening win over Georgetown. than 18 minutes of play. evaluated by the coaching staff after playing undecided as to where. Crowell played in 31 games last year and only seven this Her next appearance was six games Glover left the team in January for one season for JMU. season. later against Siena. She played the personal reasons. 16 Thursday, April 1, 2010 breezejmu.org Sports Dukes in the Spotlight Five Receive Conference and National Honors

Mike Smith Cara Stecher senior, men’s tennis freshman, softball

n CAA Co-Player of the Week n CAA Co-Rookie of the Week for week ending March 27 for the week ending March 27 n Led team to 3-1 record n Went 2-0 with a 0.62 against conference opponents ERA in two starts against George Mason, Delaware, George Mason Drexel and Georgia State n She is 6-6 on the year with n Went 4-0 as the team’s a team-best 3.34 ERA number No. 1 seed n Has pitched three complete n Is 11-10 on the year, playing every games for the Dukes match as the Dukes’ top seed n Was the Delaware State n Three-time All-CAA Player of the Year at pick for doubles Senior Caravel Academy n Smith and doubles partner Matt david casterline / file photo King were ranked 38th in the nation for the week of Feb 18. Kim Griffin senior, lacrosse

Nate Carden / The Breeze n Selected as the Division I Player of the Week by womenslax.com for the week ending March 27 n Also named the CAA Player Dawn Evans of the Week for the second junior, women’s basketball time in three weeks n Scored four goals in win over n Honorable Mention No. 5 U.Va. and 2 goals in All-American selection loss to No. two Maryland n Finalist for the Women’s Basketball n Leads the team with 25 Coaches Association (WBCA) goals and 34 points State Farm All-America Team n Two-time All-CAA selection n Candidate for three national player-of-the-year awards: the Wade Trophy, Wooden Award and Naismith Trophy n Averaged 24.6 points and Nate Carden / file photo 4.6 assists per game n Led JMU to its first CAA Johnny Bladel Tournament Championship freshman, baseball since 1989 n Evans has broken numerous n CAA Rookie of the Week for school records, including single- week ending March 27 game points (38), career 30-point n Hit .421 for the week with games (17), season points (761), seven runs and five RBIs season free throws (177) and n Started all 23 games in season three-pointers (112). center field for the Dukes n Was voted to the All-CAA first team n Currently third on the team for the second consecutive year. with a .369 batting average and 25 runs scored n Northern Region Co-Player of the Year as a senior at Stone Bridge High School

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