NOVEMBER 20, 2003 3 Season Hinges on Development Coach Hopes Veterans Will Give Leadership to Talented Freshmen
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Wednesday BY KRISTY NICOLICH Life, situates faculty members in dor- mitories in an effort to make them Burkhart-Evans hopes to focus on caused water to senior writer more approachable and help them "helping freshman students in a real rise, In Cl Lot on This year, JMU has taken teacher- learn more about the students' lives. and concrete way by integrating liv- Grace Street, "The best way to get a true picture ing and learning," according to an flooding cart In student interaction a step beyond the the rear of the FMIR press release. classroom — into the dorm room. is to go where the students live," said parking lot. Since the tall semester began, Suad Cox, the program's first participant. The major goals of the program are Cox, a College of Business professor, "The FMIR is an adviser, mentor and a "to help freshmen transition, increase has been living on the first floor of friend to the students." faculty awareness of student concerns Chesapeake Hall. The program's creator, Maggie land] bridge formal academic training The Faculty Members in Burkhart-Evans, director of ORL, with personal growth opportunities," Residence Program, which was wanted to promote a sense of commu- introduced by the Office of Residence nity in residence halls — especially in see DORMS, page 5 Staff copes with losses after blaze BY STEPHEN ATWELL assistant news editor By Monday morning, di"pjrtments with offices in the Financial Services Building began to assess the damage of from Sunday night's fire. Judy Powell, the building's coordinator and a Finance Office administrative assistant. was asleep at the time of the fire and was one of the first people notified of the blaze. "I wonder if this is a dream — that is your first Reaction/' Powell said. Powell promptly called John Knight, Finance Office vice president, at his home at about midnight. Knight then drove to the site of the fire. He said he was amazed that the building caught fire so quickly and the Charlie King, senior vice president of Administration Pl>*» bv DREW WILSON/«mMrphan/mpliti and Finance, met with two After a fire gutted the Financial Services Building late Sunday night, firefighters and workers spent most of Administration and Finance Monday searching for a cause, estimating the damage and trying to salvage equipment and belongings. assistant vice presidents Monday around 1 a.m. They made the decision to call the employees that night and tell them they didn't need to come into work later that day. Electrical short cause of fire They also met at 8 a.m. to dis- cuss the steps that needed to be taken in order to become Extension cord in doctor's office sparked blaze, according to fire chief operational again. set a couch in the room on fire, tion of the building Monday pointed there, the fire spread into the attic King and the assistant vice BY KELLY JASPER according to Harrisonburg Fire to a short circuit as the cause of the above the second floor and into presidents met with the super- news editor Chief Larry Shifflett fire "It probably then set other flam- other wings of the building. visors of each department — Most of the damage, he said, is Facilities Management, Space With an estimated half-million Dr John Eagle, a local psychia- mables on fire. It could have been trist, was one of two doctors who spread by carpet, paneling or associated with electrical equipment Management, JMU Police, dollars in damage, Sunday night's lost in the fire. Telecom and Information fire in the Financial Services rents office space from JMU. It was in books," he said. his office on the second floor of wing The spark led to temperatures in Hilton said he thought damages Technology' — to get new com- Building was determined to have "were certainly substantial." puters and have them set up. been caused by an electrical short four where the fire originated. excess of 2,000 degrees, he said, The university bought the med- and wood bums at temperatures of To fund the replacement of com- They dealt with prioritizing in the waiting room of a doctor's puters and materials, as well as what needed to be done first, office, according to the Harrison- ical complex in 1998 and continued 400 to 600 degrees. to honor the leases of the doctors, As the fire spread throughout rebuilding costs, Hilton said that and where the offices could be burg Fire Department. JMU will file a claim with the Office put. Space had to be assigned An extension cord, which fed according to Fred Hilton, director of the room, a front window col- power to a lamp in the southwest Media Relations. lapsed, allowing more oxygen to fuel the fire, Shifflett said. From see CAUSE, page 5 see LOSSES, page 5 comer of the room, sparked and Shifflett said a thorough inspec- Pholit countty of UK HUH CMtr Service to remember student's life SGA elects Brian LaBarr. 20, (Ned June 1 The memorial service will students are invited to the In his homstown BY KELLY JASPER begin at 3 p.m. in the PC memorial, which will allow an of Allendale. news editor Ballroom. Junior Michelle open floor for people to speak, new speaker N.J. A memorial Cary, an apartment male of in addition to a slide show An undetected heart condi- service for tion claimed the life of a rising LaBarr, planned the event accompanied by music. BY ASHLEY MCCLELLAND LaBarr wHI be junior this summer, and, in his with friends. She said the Cary described the memo- SGA reporter held Saturday. honor, a memorial service will memorial is being held this rial as "just a way of getting be held Saturday. week because many of his everyone together who loved, The Student Government Association had a Brian LaBarr, a 20-year-old friends were not able to make knew or was affected by guest speaker this week, and elected a new business major, passed away il to the funeral in New Brian's life and/or his passing speaker of the house. The Senate also held a June 1 in his hometown of Jersey over the summer. Constitutional Convention, which passed two Allendale. N.J. AU staff, faculty, peers and see REMEMBER, pages amendments to its constitution. Jesse F. Ferguson, the executive director of Virginia-21, spoke to the Senate about the coali- i i. ■ tion's mission. Students, faculty conduct smoking experiment "We want to approach people and say vou Company sets aside money for then was changed to comparing BY KATIE CHIRGOTIS acupuncturists Janice can get active and change things that affect Piedmont and Tracy Koblish purposes dictated by the state, addiction treatments — conven- you," Ferguson said. contributing writer and a team of graduate and I.ille\ Mid. Virginia deemed part tional versus holistic — a subject The object of Virginia-21 is to get students Working with five student undergraduate students from of the money lo go toward familiar to Talley through her involved In Richmond and politics, accord- volunteers, a research team the school of psychology con- research on prevention and cessa- involvement in the Blue Ridge ing to Ferguson. wrapped up its study last week ducted a three-week long exper- tion of smoking. Mind Body Spirit Coalition. Virginia-21's chairman, James E. Ukrop, said, on the effectiveness of holism iment involving JMU student Nasim and Talley said they The coalition focuses on com- "Virginia-21 is an action tank (It) promotes methods vs. conventional meth- volunteers who smoked. share a mutual interest on the munication, education, and the political engagement among young adults on ods to stop smoking. The use of auricular MaMtCt and teamed up to apply development of healing issues related to education, economic opportuni- While research results have not acupuncture, where pins are for money for research involv- approaches in all aspects of the ty and'quality of life." been compiled yet, the researchers applied to the cars, is gaining ing the younger population human experience. SGA became involved with Virginia-21 in say they're optimistic. ground in the medical field .is ,i The topu started as .1 studv ot Talley and Nasim then "went to order to help support its petition to increase the Two psychology professors method to stop addictions rang- cigarette smoking as a gateway to the literature" Talley said, and funds that go lo Virginia state universities — Cheryl Talley and Aashir ing from nicotine to heroin. hardcore-drug use, which was too broad, according to Talley. It seeSTVDY.pageA see SGA. page 4 Nasim — along with trained Yearly, the Virginia Tobacco 2JTHF. BREEZE I THURSDAY, NOV. 20, 2003 TABLE OF DUKE DAYS Events Calendar THURSDAY, NOV. 20 - SUNDAY, NOV. 23, 2003 POLICE LOG BY LAUREN MCKAY police log reporter NEWS Life ol famous artist examined 3 Thursday, Nov.