JAf,"""' "-"vimpARY APR 19 2001 THURSDAY APRIL 19, 2001 \m.78. No. 50 reeze James Madison University Show Me the Money Game, Set, Match Tricky Twins Money, Cash Woes Betting on sports games, buying lot- The women's tennis team The Twin Menaechmi' earns glow- tery tickets or playing the tables in wrapped up their home sched- SGA rejects Sports Club Council's ing review with fresh comedic take Vegas, some students are no ule with a 5-2 win over George appeal to overrule council's veto of on well-known plot. Page 17 strangers to gambling. Page 15 B Washington. Paga IB club's budget. Page 3 Power outage affects local MTV personality gets 'real' businesses, 'Real World:' New Orleans' Julie discusses racial diversity, religion apartments BY CASEY BONDS show "The Real World" when she was expelled from BYU for living with filmed in Vancouver, B.C. She said she staff writer a 19-year-old junior at Brigham Young men, which is against the university's loves to play the drums for her band University in Provo, Utah. The four- honor code, Stoffer said. ..IKI idolizes the band Blink 182. BY JAMKS DAVID An MTV "The Real World: New month long auditioning process was She remained in Los Angeles after While speaking about her experi- assistant MM I editor Orleans" personality said Monday filled with interviews and video tap- appearing on "The Real World / Road ences on "The Real World," Stoffer night that her exposure lo diverse ing They knew more about me than Rules Challenge," which is currently also examined the topic of diversity Many Hamsonbure, residents types of people while on the show I knew about myself," she said. "I did- airing on MTV. Stoffer then moved to and discussed how she tvacted to and and merchant* were plagued changed her lite and attitudes. n't think I was going to make it Huntington Beach, Calif., where she learned from living with a diverse with a dark afternoon Monday M Students packed the Festival the because I am boring." has lived for the past four months. group of people. Tne New Orleans a power outage caused complii.i- hear Julie Stoffer speak in a Mosaic Adding to an already diverse mix When speaking about what she has cast of "The Real World" NM full ot tions from about 4:30 to («:30 p.m. Week event sponsored by the Center of ethnicities and religions, Stoffer done with her life since the show, diversity in the areas of religion, ethm. A downed power for Multicultural Student Services and openly discussed her devotion to the Stoffer said, "1 am pretty much a bum. background and sexual orientation. line forced bu--i the freshman, sophomore and junior Mormon religion while part of "The All I do is travel and speak at schools. Stoffer admitted th.it the transition nesses to dOBtj class councils. Real World" cast. As a result of her If s great!" of moving from I small town to ■ large Stoffer, a 20-year-old from involvement and living situation Stoffer is also working on "Electric cut off phone see REAL, page 5 lines, caused Delafield, Wis., was cast for the reality while on the show, Stoffer was Playground," a video game show street light- to malfunction and left ttudentl inoff-canifHi1. apart ments without .In Supporters tricity. TheJMU cam- Volunteer effort pus was not affected. A dead tree tell into power Knee bannd stout-spring becomes career await hate Elementary School on Peach Grove Avenue, Harrisonburg JMU grad discusses Habitat work Electric Commission (III (,)engi- crime bill neering technician, Todd McCray said. BY THOMAS MAHONEY in front of a group of approx- Businesses along Fast Market contributing writer imately 60 students, many of Street, including parts of the whom had volunteered approval Valley Mall, had to doae due to It is possible to make a before, on his experiences career in a non-profit organi- and sought to help generate the outage. BY LINDSAY MARTI "There was definitely a sub- zation, according to the asso- interest in the program. news editor stantial loss [of revenue]," Canta ciate director for U.S. affili- "I think it's relationships Lopez, a Ruby Tuesday's ates of Habitat for Humanity. that change lives," Camp- Supporters of a hate crime bill of employee Mid Kevin Campbell, a JMU bell said of the people he has opinion presented at the April 10 Stu- Lopez said restaurant employ- graduate, spoke in the met and worked with since dent Government Association meeting ees had to turn away about seven Health and Human Services joining Habitat for Humani- await its approval from the SGA Execu- tables (14 to 20 people) bcwiiiM' building Tuesday about the ty. "Working for Habitat is tive Council. then? was no power. work Habitat for Humanity ... not just what you give "If they pass the bill, SGA will give it to Traffic lights on Port Republic does and what people can do but what you take away the Office of Judicial Affairs," At-Large Road. Nell AvmM U.-.,.•.,.„ fbf llw OTI;.IIM/.III. >M 1 b KM with you " Svruitoe •*nior Marie I yoni <.-*i.i and East Market Streets were not built a career out of non-prof- <_ampbel! said each fnmttv Lyons and Senate Representative, functioning. it service. Habitat for that has a home built must senior Matt Conrad, presented the bill at The outer part of Port Repub- Humanity is an organization invest between 300 and 500 the meeting. lic Road, outer parts of East Mar- that builds homes for those hours of "sweat-equity" to Opposition from SGA members to spe- ket Street and Evelyn Byrd in need and has chapters in earn their house. However, cific wording of the bill arose regarding Avenue and parts of Country 76 countries. Campbell was each house is sold to the fam- the definition of a "hate crime," according SARAH HER2Jconrribunng photographer Club Road wen' the areas affect- invited to speak by JMU's ilies at cost and no-interest to the April 12 issue of The Breeze. ed, McCray said. chapter as part of Habitat JMU grad Kevin Campbell apeak* about Ms He said the tree fell into the Awareness Week. He spoke see HABITAT, page 5 work with Habitat for Humanity. _66 lines and had to be sawed away because it was pinned against a The JMU judicial system guide wire. The HEC depended on citi- has no mention of hate zens to call in the outage, so they crimes in its procedures. could gauge which areas were Poetess acts on women's rights without power, McCray said. — Raul Burgos Phone lines were affected by the Arts Week performer takes on many roles through monologues sophomore outage so people had to depend on personal cell phones to con- BY AMANDA HAYES first monologue—a woman giving www.sarahfonesonline.com, Article tact the HEC. contributing writer a brief pep talk to eight women 340 of Jordan's Penal Code states -95 — "This was one of the larger waiting to speak before the United that any man who discovers a outages," McCray said. "Usually A dramatic performance by poet Nations General Assembly about female family member (be it wife, Lyons said the hate crime bill makes we have smaller ones affecting a and actress Sarah Jones capped off unfair laws against women Jones sister or daughter) in a dishonorable "a recommendation to the Office of smaller section of town. Since Arts Week, a week of various events then took on roles of those women, act, may kill that relative and face lit- Judicial Affairs regarding the definition, the tree hit a main-line circuit, it designed to promote interest in the changing her voice and posture, tle or no punishment. Ratal's broth- the process and the records regarding knocked off power to a sub-sta- arts on campus, (ones presented her and adjusting a scarf to reflect the er served only six months in jail. hate crimes. tion [causing a bigger area to be one-woman show, "Women Can't fashions of each country. Jones ended her performance by "Ultimately, the goal is education for ,IM. Wait... for Equality Now" at 8 p.m. During one particularly emotion- taking questions from the audi- the JMU community. The bill is not about Sonu . .•. tin- dulage as a good Monday in PC Ballroom. al monologue, Jones portrayed Hala ence and describing the mission of the SGA creating the definition of a hate occunvnu Following an introduction by Ratal, a Jordanian woman shrouded Equality Now, an organization crime. That task will be left to the Office of I had | apen I needed to be senior Jeanine Minge, editor of the in the traditional head covering, dedicated to improving the civil, Judicial Affairs and the students that they working on. but it was a good campus literary publication Sister whose sister was killed by her political, economic and social collaborate with," she said. excuse i. talu wak," senior Speak, Jones walked to the stage brother in an honor killing. Accord- Lyons said Stop the Hate, a JMU hate Elbabethl ooluei ,.,id. and immediately launched into her ing to Jones' Web site, see POETRY, page 19 crime awareness group, supported the bill. Sophomore Raul Burgos, co-coordina- tor of Stop the Hate, said the group asked for SGA assistance in dr.ifting the bill He said Stop the Hate left it up to SGA volunteers to draft the bill bacauaa of their familiarity with SGA procedure. "The JMU judicial system has no men- tion of hate crimes in its procedun's," Bur- Sitting Duck gos said.