THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 2010 Vol. 86, No. 55 THIS IS OUR LAST ISSUE OF THE YEAR as we don’t print during exam week. It’s been a pleasure serving Harrisonburg and the JMU community, and we look forward to seeing you on Monday, Aug. 30. See us online all summer for breaking news at Serving James Madison University Since 1922 breezejmu.org. 2 2009 A YEAR IN REVIEW 2010 1 1. JAMES MADISON, our school’s founder donned a cap, scarf and gloves for this snowy winter. ASHLEY GRISHAM / THE BREEZE 2. JIMMY CARTER visited the university with his wife Rosalynn to accept the Mahatma Gandhi Global Nonviolence Award from JMU’s Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence. DAN GORIN / THE BREEZE 3. THE LATE NIGHT BUS SURVEY was administered by the SGA as a result of student frustration over a 45-minute reduction in time to the buses’ regular weekend schedule. davID CASTERLINE / THE BREEZE 4. BOB McDONNELL is elected governor of Virginia. His daughter Rachel is a JMU senior and member of the cheerleading squad. FORD PRIOR / CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER 5. SPRINGFEST got out of hand with 8,000-plus partygoers and police tear-gassing the crowd on Village Lane. davID CASTERLINE / THE BREEZE 6. LADY DUKES WON THE CAA CHAMPIONSHIP for the first time in 20 years and moved on to the NCAA championship. ROBERT BOag / THE BREEZE 7. THE FORBES CENTER foR THE PERfoRMING ARTS underwent major construction this year and is set to open for classes and performances in the fall. ASHLEY GRISHAM / THE BREEZE 3 4 5 6 7 !"#$%&"#'()*%&+,-.#,$/+$' !"#$%&'()*+,%-.(/0*1%230(*"(453(678(9+:3(9*. ;0*+.54(4*(<*+(=<(>*'2?3''(;&-:30(>*@@30$%&'(A+-:5*+,30(B3&'4*0,C((DEF(/*04(B3G+='%$(B*&2H()&00%,*-=+0.H(IJ(KKLMEC((NFOMP(OQORFEFM((%-"*S*""$&@G+,5*+,%-.C$*@ 2 Thursday, April 29, 2010 breezejmu.org POLICE LOG reported damage, valued at $50, received drunk in public, Larceny to a fence at Sonner Hall. underaged possession and On Monday, a JMU student reported underaged consumption theft of a Huffy mountain bike valued Alcohol and Drugs charges at Chandler Hall. Serving James Madison University Since 1922 at $100 that was last seen three On Sunday, a JMU student was G1 Anthony-Seeger Hall, MSC 6805 weeks ago secured to a bike rack. charged with possession of marijuana On Saturday, a JMU student James Madison University On Sunday, a JMU student and a drug violation at Potomac Hall. received an underaged Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807 reported theft of a $50 fi re consumption charge at On Sunday, a JMU student Phone: 540-568-6127 extinguisher in Gifford Hall. Shenandoah Hall. was received a drunk in public Fax: 540-568-6736 On Monday, a JMU student charge at Chandler Hall. On Saturday, a JMU student reported theft of a $25 fi re On Sunday, two JMU students received a drunk in public MISSION extinguisher in Hoffman Hall. were charged with drunk in public, charge at the P Lot. The Breeze, the student-run newspaper of James Madison University, serves underaged possession and underaged On Friday, a JMU student student, faculty and staff readership by reporting news involving the campus Property Damage consumption at the Godwin bus stop. received an underaged and local community. The Breeze strives to be impartial and fair in its reporting On Saturday, a JMU student On Sunday, a JMU student received a consumption charge and fi rmly believes in First Amendment rights. Published Monday and Thursday mornings, The Breeze is distributed reported damage, valued at $300, drunk in public charge at Godwin Hall. at Converse Hall. throughout James Madison University and the local Harrisonburg community. to a window on Greek Row. On Sunday, a JMU student On Friday, a JMU student Comments and complaints should be addressed to Katie Thisdell, editor. On Friday, a JMU employee reported received drunk in public, underaged received a drunk in public damage, valued at $300, to a bench possession and underaged charge at Showker Hall. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ADS MANAGER caused by a fi re on Greek Row. consumption charges at Shorts Hall. KATIE THISDELL NICOLE ORT On Friday, a JMU police offi cer On Saturday, a JMU student [email protected] ASST. ADS MANAGER NEWS DESK CLIFF STANLEY [email protected] ADS DESIGN LEAD LIFE DESK AMY MORGAN [email protected] ADS DESIGN ASSISTANT SPORTS DESK JON MANTELL [email protected] Nation&World AD EXECUTIVES FROM BLOOMBERG NEWS AND THE WASHINGTON POST OPINION DESK BRYAN ALTENHAUS [email protected] DAN DEVINE NATHAN CHUA COPY DESK KATHRYN CROWLEY were pro table in the quarter. e `Ikaros’ will be launched Accelerated by Radiation of [email protected] AMANDA MAZURKEVICH Ford Exceeds Revising Mulally’s previous from Tanegashima Space Cen- the Sun. SAMANTHA PLATANIA forecast of being “solidly pro t- ter in southwestern Japan on “Unlike the mythical Icar- PHOTO/GRAPHICS DAVID WALES Profi t Earnings able” in , Ford said Tuesday May , it said. us, this Ikaros will not crash,” [email protected] it “now expects to deliver solid e exible sail is covered in Yuichi Tsuda, an assistant pro- [email protected] MARKETING & CIRCULATION SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — Ford profits this year, with positive a lm of solar cells and will be fessor at JAXA, said Tuesday. COORDINATOR posted rst-quarter earnings of automotive operating-related about . micrometers thick, VIDEO BONNIE HAM . billion Tuesday as it reaped cash ow.” Booth said earn- about half the thickness of a [email protected] the bene ts of a recovering auto ings will exceed the rst-quarter human hair, JAXA said. The AD DESIGNERS market and higher prices for cars total, without giving a gure. technology, known as thin- lm Home Prices ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT MICHELLE HAMSON and trucks. Ford reported . billion in solar, is being developed to one 540-568-6127 ANTHONY FREDERICK The profit exceeded analyst automotive cash on March , up day replace xed solar panels Miss Forecast SUSIE MCCARTHY estimates and marked Ford’s from . billion at the end of because it can be shaped to t EVAN FLOYD fourth consecutive quarter of net , which the automaker restat- in small and irregularly shaped WASHINGTON — Home income, the longest streak since ed from . billion because of places, said Hiroaki Benten at prices in cities rose less than . Excluding some gains and an accounting change. Kyoto University. forecast in February from a year costs, earnings were cents a Cash consumption was “Solar lm has an enormous earlier, a sign a housing recovery conflicting signals” recently, Amtrak routes. With full- share. Ford also said Tuesday it million during ’s rst three potential for use in our every- will take time to develop. with the former rising while the er pockets and a deadline of expects a “solid” pro t in , a months, after the company used day lives if this technology e S&P/Case-Shiller home- latter fell, the group that issues February , Amtrak has set year earlier than Chief Executive . billion a year earlier. Booth becomes economically viable,” price index of property values in the report said in an April to work trimming trees that O cer Alan Mulally had project- said Ford will have positive cash Benten, an assistant profes- cities increased . percent statement. e turmoil in hous- can tangle in overhead cate- ed previously. ow for all of . sor of polymer chemistry, said from February , the first ing in the past few years has nary wires (the train’s power Ford’s percent surge in Ford Credit’s pretax operating Tuesday by telephone. “You’re gain since December , the in uenced the models used in source), replacing electrical U.S. deliveries through March profit was million, com- going to be able to bring a solar- group said Tuesday in New York. adjusting the data, “resulting in equipment predating World more than doubled the indus- pared with a year-earlier loss of film battery with you as you e median forecast of econo- larger seasonal adjustments and War II, improving drainage trywide increase, helping the million. Ford now forecasts walk about. It can be wrapped mists surveyed by Bloomberg misleading results,” according to alongside tracks (you hear second- largest U.S. automak- the unit’s operating pro t around anything.” News projected a . percent the group. that, Rhode Island?), rebuild- er add domestic market share will be the same as last year’s The sail propels the craft advance. The year-over-year gauges ing bridges and more. “ e list at the fastest pace in years as billion, after previously project- using resistance created by Home prices in February therefore provide better indi- goes on and on,” said Kulm, the auto market rebounds. Ford ing a decline. energy from the sun in much were percent below the peak cations of trends in prices, the adding that percent of the was alone among its U.S. peers in Borrowing billion in late the same way as the wind pro- reached in July , indicating group said. e panel includes funds will be dedicated to the avoiding bankruptcy in . gave Ford a cash cushion pels a sailboat across the water. the industry that helped trigger Karl Case and Robert Shiller, Northeast Corridor. “The most important thing to withstand losses and develop Photons, or solar energy parti- the worst recession since the the economists who created the Kulm puts at the top of his Ford has done is invest heavily new models such as the Fiesta cles, bounce o tiny mirrors, s will take years to recover index. fix-it list equipment that is in new product during this down subcompact coming this year. providing enough thrust for lost ground.