February 19, 1996

K- JMU's first Men's mainstage basketball production of tries to dig the year out of CAA depicts family basement relations. with two wins. Style/19 Sports/23 MONDAY FEBRUARY 19. 1996 VOL. 73. NO. 36 ssessmfcnt Day monitor JMU in D.C. semester to give students taste academic, personal growt of the political world 1. Assessment Day is Feb. 20. Blake. "The class will take advantage 2. Students with 45-70 credit hours are required to participate by Brad Jenkins staff writer of the public administration 3. Assessments do include some seniors, according to each opportunities in the Washington area, department. Instead of spending afternoons like networking," Blake said. 4. Assessments are to measure educational goals of institution studying on the Quad in the shadow Students in the advisory in public 5. All classes before 4 p.m. are canceled. of Wilson Hall, 25 students may affairs class will be placed in have the opportunity to study in committees that will meet once each Washington, D.C, in the shadow of week. The committees will be broken cms, Capitol Hill. down into components to study job :th 45-70 A semester in Washington opportunities and job seeking, quired to program is slated for a trial run libraries and research facilities, .. To spring semester 1997. graduate opportunities, Cultural hose "The whole purpose of the opportunities and networking re 4 p.m. semester is to have courses with an opportunities. have been cancel applied component so that students Each committee will present three student Cheryl have an opportunity to have a more programs on the area to which they Gaumer, Assessment Day first-hand look at the [political are assigned. coordinator, said all students who science) field," Charles Blake, "The courses may be similar to meet the credit requirements were assistant professor of political classes students have already taken notified and assigned to testing Gaumer said two kinds of tests assessment office, said the tests are science, said. Blake will serve as the or need to take in political science, rooms according to the last digit of will be given to sophomores. 6ne on done in accordance with professor in residence during the but they will be more specific to the their Social Security number. subject matter compiled by JMU requirements of the State Council of program's trial run. Washington area," Blake said. "For Some seniors, on a department- faculty and another that tests student Higher Education for Virginia to According to Devin Bent, the most part, all of the credits will by-department basis, also participate development. track student learning. 'The purpose professor of political science, be applied to the political science or in Assessment Day, Gaumer said. The tests are based on the is to make sure all institutions are students in the program will have public administration major." "Departments take care of their own university's liberal studies doing a good job and meeting their several courses to choose from, Chris Janak, junior political seniors." requirements and evaluate Several educational goals." including contemporary problems in science and history major, said even According to information from areas, including mathematics, Student participation in the tests American government, legislative though he is still undecided about the student assessment office's natural science, welloess, fine arts, is "what makes this institution's process, media and politics, and applying, the semester would be homepage, students who fail to social science, history and literature. programs good," she said. advisory in public affairs. Each practical. "It gives you a chance to participate will have complications None of the tests are used to The office of student assessment student will be allowed to take 14 see how D.C. works instead of registering for the fall semester. evaluate students on an individual homepage states test results "will be credit hours, which includes an learning about it in an isolated room The student assessment office level, Gaumer said. "We're not used to improve the liberal studies internship worth four credit hours. at JMU." has provided a list of rooms and interested in how individual curriculum and student affairs Each course will be specific to the Students will live in apartments in times on its website at students do. we're interested in how programs." Washington area, Bent said. For Northwest Washington on "http://www.jmu.edu/assessment/as they do as a group." example, the legislative process Connecticut Avenue, Bent said. "It's sessday.html". Cynthia Olney, of the student see ASSESSMENT page 2 course will require students to select a safe area with restaurants and a current bill for in-depth study. entertainment nearby. It's an The internship portion of the outstanding location," he said. semester can be related to a student's Tuition for the semester in major and can be credited toward the Washington will be the same as A year later, office of sexual assault requirements in that major, he said. tuition for a regular semester at JMU, "Students could do internships but housing will cost $2,150 and education coordinator makes impact with Congress, the Executive Branch meals cost between $800 and $ 1,500, or interest groups. It will be up to the Bent said. Room and board for the by Sally Clarke student to find these internships, but 1995-'96 school year is about contributing writer we will help give leads*" Bent said. $2,340, $1,237 for housing plus a Another unique course the meal plan. In addition, students will Almost everyone has heard the disturbing program offers is an advisory in statistic: one in four women on the JMU public affairs course supervised by see D.C. page 2 campus has been or will be the victim of an act that could legally be considered rape, according to Arnie Kahn, professor of psychology. /JMU plans to "Study abroad" It has been more than a year since the JMU administration responded to student requests in Washington D.C. and approved the creation of the posftion of sexual assault education coordinator. The same student groups that petitioned for the group Some courses offered In the helped select Hillary Wing-Lott as the r coordinator of this part of the university's Washington Program ,; student services. Wing-Lott was chosen after a nationwide •contemporary problems in search for an experienced counselor and director to run the office. She says the interview American governmenl and selection process was tough but legislative process worthwhile. media and politics "I have spent 17 years patching up the damage resulting from this kind of violence advisory in public affairs through advocacy and counseling. Now I have -internships the chance to work on crisis prevention; it's KYLE BUSSIsenior photographer proactive," she said. Sexual Assault Education Coordinator Hillary Wing-Lott The office has come a long way in the past looks over paperwork regarding an upcoming program Friday in her office in the University Health Center. sec IMPACT page 2 ' ' A'NTHONY R»NG & ANGELA TERUVIstaffartists 2 Monday, Feb. 19, 1996 THE BREEZE Assessment Impact and men..., That's what I'd like to continued from page 1 continued from page 1 year. When Wing-Lott first arrived, see more of," Wing-Lott said. Cole Welter, director of the school of art and art history, said the school Kahn said men's understanding will assess senior art majors to measure their progress. Art majors will submit she had no staff, no office and few resources. Now, the office has of the issues involved in sexual JifeezeIAMIS MADISON UMIVI«»ITT a portfolio of their work for the department to review. "It helps [faculty] to get several locations, a staff of student assault is an important part of a more representative measure of what's really happening." assistants, five peer educators and a prevention. "We need to change our "To the press alone, chequered HoweverAhe said it is important to recognize the assessment is not an ideas of what it is to be 'masculine' accurate depfwion of the students' entire educational career. "They are a mentor program through which as it is with abuses, the world is victims who have been in recovery and 'feminine.' .,. Ultimately that's indebted for all the triumphs snapshot in time, but that's not the whole picture." where [the problem lies]" he said. Although some people may see these tests as beneficial to the progress ol for awhile can help those who have which have been^ained by just experienced an assault. Senior dietetics major Wendy programs at JMU, some of the faculty don't feel the time spent on the testing Hackleman said, "I think it's good reason and humanity over error The office also runs several is worthwhile. because nowadays, a guy has to and oppression." The assessment program is actually hurting the academic progress ot the support groups. A rape survivors group meets Thursdays, and the think about his part in what happens. — James Madison university, Jim Leary. professor of chemistry, said. "All assessment as it s We have all heard that 'No means done here takes away from the academic standard set here." secondary victims group, a group of Editor Alison Boyce supporters of rape victims, meets no' now." The fact that other institutions with higher academic reputations than But Hackleman's housemate, Managing editor Cyndy Uedtke JMU's do not have as extensive an assessment program lefcds him to be Tuesdays at the Health Center. Wing-Lott also conducts an Lisa Engle, senior psychology Ads manager Maggie Mayall "skeptical as to whether this [assessment testing] is something done for show major, said she's not sure education or something the administration is imposing on our students and faculty, intensive program for convicted sex News editor Crlstle Breen offenders.

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