Football Supplement Inside Women's JMUJazz soccer team Ensemble looks to competes in surprise its prestigious opponents. European festival. Sports/19 JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY Style/15 WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 7. 1995 VOL. 73. NO. 4 JM's faces license suspension, may appeal by Becky Mulligan & Cristie Breen senior writers ihey choose to do so, said ABC officials. If JM's chooses to appeal the charges, the Several patrons testified they recognized Craig Bauer, co-owner of JM's, said ABC department will not suspend the liquor JM's Bar and Grill, a favorite watering-hole Kraus and Griffin were intoxicated while at the although the bar's owners have not "officially license until all the appeals are finished. It restaurant, particularly Kraus, according to of JMU students, may soon have its alcohol decided" whether or not to appeal the charges, would probably take a month or two before the license temporarily suspended, due to a records of the hearing provided by Stevick. he is fairly sure they will appeal. ABC Board could hear the case because its "Those who felt Mr. Griffin appeared sober decision by the Virginia Alcohol Beverage and ABC Hearing Officer Susan Stevick, who schedule is so full, according to Chapman. Control Department. enough to drive when he left are poor judges of worked on the case, said, "Any sanction If JM's doesn't appeal, then an agent from a patron's state of intoxication," the records The decision comes as a result of the drunk- (against JM's] doesn't go into effect until after the ABC department would "pick up the state. driving death of JMU senior John Kraus and the appeal process is finished." license," or remove the restaurant's license to injury of family friend Carey C. Griffin, in an Reports indicate Kraus's blood alcohol Robert Chapman, ABC public relations sell alcohol, soon after Sept. 9. content was .24 and Griffin's was .19, accident April 21. coordinator, said, "We've received no Four charges were brought against JM's at The ABC department found JM's guilty of according to the medical examiner who indication that [JM's] will appeal." the ABC hearing on Aug. 17. The hearing testified. The legal blood-alcohol limit for serving an intoxicated person in a decision However, if JM's does appeal, it could take officer found JM's guilty of two of those driving is .08. handed down Aug. 31. The penalty for the up to two months for the appeal hearing to go charges and cleared it of the other two. D.J. Albertson of the Harrisonburg Police charge is a 25-day liquor license suspension. through, Chapman said. The appeal would first The department found JM's guilty of selling However, JM's may choose to pay a $1,000 Department testified a reconstruction of the go to the three-person ABC Board and if JM's alcohol to two persons they knew or had reason accident indicated the car was traveling a fine and face a 15-day liquor license isn't satisfied with the decision, the restaurant to believe were intoxicated, and allowing the minimum speed of 64 miles-per-hour in a 25 suspension, according to ABC officials. could take the case to the circuit court in consumption of alcohol by two persons they miles-per-hour zone, according to the hearing JM's has 10 days to appeal the charges, if Harrisonburg. knew or had reason to believe were intoxicated. records. JMU could have downtown Colleges seek savings graduate student housing through privatization by Rick Thompson by Maggie Welter everyone," he added, explaining that staff writer staff writer while privatizing the William & JMU is seeking approval of a plan At George Mason University, on- Mary bookstore has proven to lease 50 efficiency units in campus students can expect to see successful, such a measure would not downtown Harrisonburg to graduate changes in their housing over the work as well at a school such as the students. next few months. University of Virginia, where tht In an effort to assist in the redevelopment of the downtown area, the university submitted a What we have found is that many proposal and lease agreement to the Virginia Department of General Services in Richmond to allow the institutions ... have found they can university to lease the former Demon's furniture building on Court provide better service at a lower cost Square and turn it into a complex of one-room student efficiencies. by hiring private companies.' JMU President Ronald Carrier said he expected the lease agreement Mike McDowell to be approved. SCHEV spokesman If approved, JMU will lease the vacant building and a connected "Quieter accommodations, round- bookstore is a major source of building, also currently vacant, from the-clock student service repre- income. sentatives, copying machines and "It really varies as to the size and Demon and Sons, according to JMU MAGGIE WELTER/wiiicr photographer Real Estate Buyer Jenny Lyons. mending kits at the front desk" may capabilities of the institutions," he Denton and Sons, and a committee These vacant buildings In downtown Harrisonburg could become all become a part of on-campus said. appointed by the university would efficiency apartments for JMU students as early as fall 1996. housing at GMU, according to the Due to decreases in state funding then decide on a final floor plan and "We have some strong and Sept. 3 issue of The Washington for higher education, student "fees "help both the community and the Post. rental cost to graduate students for growing graduate programs and university in terms of housing." [in Virginia] are the second highest each efficiency, Lyons said. expect they will continue to grow," GMU recently hired a private in the nation," McDowell said. "All The efficiencies could be hospitality firm to manage its dorms. She declined to disclose terms of Hilton said. There are 1,800 students available for rental as early as fall of that puts an incredible pressure on the lease agreement until it is final. enrolled in JMU's 32 graduate Privatization is the latest craze in students and parents." semester 1996, depending on how higher education, as universities try According to Lyons, both programs. long it takes to get state approval of At JMU, the only service buildings have to be "completely Leah Haworth, housing to cut costs by having private firms contracted out to private firms is bulk the plan and complete necessary run their services. The Post reported renovated," before they can be made coordinator for the Center for Off- renovations, Lyons said. mail services, although other ideas available to students. The total cost Campus Living, said the center gets that the College of William & Mary are in the works, according to As with on-campus housing recently privatized its bookstore, and of the renovations will be assumed "tons and tons of graduate students contracts, Lyons said the Office of Executive Vice President Linwood by Denton and Sons, Lyons said. looking for housing." at Radford University, the health Rose. Residence Life will handle the rental center is run by a private firm. Though the "fine points of the Lyons said although the plan is to of the units to students. Fred Hilton, director of Media Mike McDowell, spokesman for plan" need to be worked out, Lyons initially offer efficiency leases to Though specific details about the Relations, said JMU has a contract the State Council of Higher said the current proposal is to graduate students only, the university efficiency plan are not yet available, with Marriott, Inc., to manage the transform the two buildings into 50 may decide to lease to undergraduate graduate student Joel Newmone said Education in Virginia, said school's food services, forming a privatization is a common avenue for one-room efficiency units and one seniors and possibly juniors. he felt the concept was positive. "quasi-private" system, he said. two-bedroom apartment for staff. Locating graduate housing universities to take to cut costs in The Marriott Corporation directs The university becoming a times and improve services. Each unit will have a private bath downtown is part of the university's landlord to graduate students, "seems' JMU Dining Services. According to "What we have found is that many and a kitchenette consisting of a ongoing effort to help improve like a strange idea," Newmone said, the Oct. 14, 1993 Breeze. Marriott institutions, in analyzing what they range, dishwasher and refrigerator. Harrisonburg's downtown economy "but I think its a good idea to staffs senior food service positions Director of Media Relations Fred by luring student shoppers. do, h/ve found they can provide and leaves all other positions on the integrate students with the better service at a lower cost by Hilton said plans to create graduate "The university would like to see Harrisonburg community and who JMU/state payroll. student housing at JMU have been in the downtown area improved," hiring private companies," According to Rose, a committee is better to do that with the mature, McDowell said. the making for awhile. Lyons said, adding that the plan will career-oriented graduate students." "However, that is not the case for see SAVINGS page 2 2 Thursday, Sept. 7, 1995 THE BREEZE Science students must pay for labs AMIS feeze MADISON UNIVIKSITT by Ben Dalbey "There's nothing in there other than what allowed tuition hike, Leary said. staff writer covers cost," she said. "To the press alone, chequered However, the voucher is not considered part of For some students taking classes in biology, a student's tuition because it is handled as a The bookstore became involved with the as it is with abuses, the tvorld is geology and chemistry this semester, tuition will program because they had the capabilities to textbook, he said.