SPEAK FOR THE TREES BOTTOMS UP FIELDS OF PURPLE Shenandoah National Park celebrates Bold Rock and Melanin & Yoga team Local lavender farm encourages its 17th annual Wilderness Week up to promote inner peace tranquility and mindfulness NEWS NEWS CULTURE 4 5 14 Vol. 96, No. 3 Thursday, September 7, 2017 breezejmu.org 2 Thursday, September 7, 2017 breezejmu.org Go Dukes! Go Dukes! breezejmu.org Thursday, September 7, 2017 3 Upcoming Events Friday b Christopher K. Morgan & Artists Headlining the New Dance Festival @ Forbes Center of Performing Arts - Mainstage Theatre, 8 p.m. b Toast the Weekend with The Relex @ Bluestone Vineyard, PHOTOS ON THE FRONT: 6:30 - 9:30 p.m. RETURN OF THE DUKES HELPING HANDS SPORTS OPINION LAVENDER PHOTO: JMU football prepares for home The chaos in Texas and what LOREN PROBISH / THE BREEZE opener SHENANDOAH & BOLD ROCK 18 10 students can do to help PHOTOS: Saturday ALYSSA ANTONIO / THE BREEZE COURTESY OF TOWNNEWS.COM CONTENT EXCHANGE b JMU home football JAMES ALLEN / THE BREEZE game vs. East Tennessee State @ Bridgeforth Stadium, Editorial Staff Advertising Staff 6:00 p.m. CREATIVE DIRECTOR EDITOR-IN-CHIEF MANAGING EDITOR - PRINT MANAGING EDITOR - ONLINE CAROLINE DAVIS b The Royal Hounds MATT WEYRICH BENNETT CONLIN perform free show CAROLINE JANSEN AD DESIGNERS EMILY OLIVIER & SAM JANSSEN @ Ruby’s Lounge, [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 8 - 10 p.m. NEWS EDITORS CULTURE EDITORS OPINION EDITOR EMMA KORYNTA & MADISSON HAYNES NATALIE LAVERY & JOANNA MCNEILLY BECCA ROITHMAYR 1598 S. Main St. Harrisonburg, VA 22801 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] PHONE: 540-568-6127 Serving James Madison University Since 1922 Sunday FAX: 540-568-7889 SPORTS EDITORS PHOTO EDITORS VIDEO EDITORS b SAMMY CRISCITELLO & KEVIN HASWELL JAMES ALLEN & ALEXIS MILLER MATT CALLAHAN & HYUNJI PARK MISSION Shenandoah Valley The Breeze, the student-run newspaper of James Madison Century [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] University, serves student, faculty and staff readership by @ Hillandale Park, reporting news involving the campus and local community. The Breeze strives to be impartial and fair in its reporting 8 a.m. ART DIRECTOR COPY EDITORS GRAPHICS EDITOR and firmly believes in First Amendment rights. ALEXA THOMPSON NICOLETTE CHUSS, CARRIE DOMENIC & MEGAN WALKER Published on Thursday mornings, The Breeze is distributed b Back to School Tea [email protected] MARISSA KIRCHER [email protected] throughout James Madison University and the local Harrisonburg community. Single copies of The Breeze are @ Heritage Bakey & [email protected] distributed free of charge. Additional copies are available Cafe, for 50 cents by contacting our business office. Comments Noon to 4 p.m. and complaints should be addressed to Matt Weyrich, editor. BEST F LUCK! New & Returning JMU Students You could win JMU swag, prizes, and much more! Stop by our table during Student Org Night on Friday, September 8 from 5pm–7pm on Hillside Field We’re Like a Bank, Only Better. Follow us on Facebook: JMU CommonWealth One. Or, stop by our branch in Madison Union to learn more. Membership is open to JMU students, faculty, and staff. Membership eligibility required. Federally insured by NCUA. Equal opportunity lender. News 4 EditorS Madisson Haynes & Emma Korynta Email [email protected] Thursday, September 7, 2017 Wilderness Weekend underway ALYSSA ANTONIO / THE BREEZE Shenandoah National Park is hosting a Wilderness Weekend aimed at showing participants the different traits that make the local wilderness special. The event spans two days and is filled with family-friendly events. By ABBY CHURCH themselves in everything nature has to offer. While hiking and crosscut saws to chop “tree cookies” off dead trees. As a part of The Breeze camping are popular activities among park goers, this weekend, their kid’s activities, children have the opportunity to paint and the park will be hosting a special event to educate visitors. decorate their tree cookies. Harrisonburg residents and JMU students alike On Saturday and Sunday, Shenandoah National Park will be The wildly popular DOGS-East demonstration gives park goers are cognizant of the exquisite beauty of the hosting its 17th annual Wilderness Weekend. The two-day event the opportunity to see how search and rescue dogs look for lost Shenandoah Valley, from mountain murals features activities that “highlight the value of Wilderness,” from people. Smith explained that as a part of the demonstration, to alluring sunsets. Among the peaks lies seminars and talks to hikes and other interactive activities. children pretend to hide so the dogs can find them, providing a Shenandoah National Park, a popular Wilderness Weekend was created to celebrate and raise fun and interactive activity that’s family friendly. spot for visitors to immerse awareness for the wilderness. Matt Brinkley, a Shenandoah Smith says she’s most excited for the mix of people coming park ranger, explained that most people don’t know together to help with Wilderness Weekend. Since she first started the true meaning of “wilderness.” The term has an working at the park, staff for the event has grown to include not important definition in land management agencies, only interpretive rangers, but folks from various other park designating the most protected land in the country. divisions. The wide assortment of personnel at the event allows “Wilderness, when you’re talking to a ranger, will visitors to see behind-the-scenes park work. mean the federally designated, protected land,” “[Park visitors] may not get to interact with some of our Brinkley said. “We decided to start throwing this preventative search and rescue staff or trail crew members all Wilderness Weekend to raise awareness that the time because those folks are maybe in the backcountry,” Smith there is this special land here in Shenandoah said. “Being able to ask questions and learn about what those … and we’re proud of that.” different positions do in the park and see a variety of different The park is home to 80,000 acres of protected work that people on our staff do, I think that’s something that is wilderness, which is about 40 percent of the always really exciting for [the staff] because we get to work with park’s total acreage. people that we don’t always work with everyday and get to have Activities vary year by year based on the visitors meet those folks as well.” expertise of staff and visitors’ interests, and Joe Loyacano, a media arts and design academic adviser this year’s event features 21 programs and and professor, looks forward to attending the event with his activities for park goers. Debby Smith, the family. While this year will be his first time attending Wilderness interpretive operations supervisor at the park Weekend, it won’t be his first go-round at the park. As a frequent and coordinator of Wilderness Weekend, says visitor and father of a six-year-old daughter, he says he’s looking the event has become more eye-catching due most forward to the kids’ activities. to diversification of programming. “I love going out and just getting lost in wilderness,” Loyacano “This year and then last year, we’ve really said. “It’ll probably be sort of a family decision about which things expanded to include not only our trail crew staff we end up doing, but we’ll definitely hit up the kids’ activities.” but some of our backcountry crew,” Smith said. “We’ve With fun for the whole family, Wilderness Weekend aims not included some of our preventative search and rescue only to celebrate the land, but also to teach a valuable lesson. rangers as well as just adding more things that our ranger Brinkley explained that through the event, the park hopes to staff is doing here at the visitor’s center.” foster a respect for the wilderness among visitors, especially for Wilderness Weekend’s most popular activities include the younger generation. THE BREEZE THE the Rose River Hike, the traditional tool demonstration and “Wilderness is our most protected land, so when people show the demonstration by DOGS-East, a search and rescue dog up, it’s showing that they care about the land, that they care about program the park uses. it for future generations,” Brinkley said. “The hope is that future MEGAN WALKER / WALKER MEGAN Smith explained that the Rose River Hike is one that’s not generations will have that same respect.” normally offered in their rotation of ranger programs. Visitors have the chance to explore the wilderness on the four-mile CONTACT Abby Church at [email protected]. expedition. For more coverage of JMU and Harrisonburg news, The traditional tool demonstration allows visitors to use follow the news desk on Twitter @BreezeNewsJMU. breezejmu.org NEWS Thursday, September 7, 2017 5 Meditating in the mountains A Day of Rejuvenation combines yoga with cider ALYSSA ANTONIO / THE BREEZE Donations given at the event will go directly to the local community center to fund free yoga classes. THE BREEZE THE By JACQUELINE GARCIA have the opportunity to drink Bold Rock Cider contributing writer — including Blood Orange, the new fall-inspired flavor — network with others and enjoy their / WALKER MEGAN Fall is finally here with the leaves changing Saturday afternoon. color and the weather cooling down. An Laura Mills, a senior history major, thinks it’s upcoming event, “Yoga, Nature and Cider – great that the event gives to those who need to A Day of Rejuvenation” that Bold Rock Hard feel the power of yoga the most. Cidery and Melanin & Yoga have teamed up to “I am hoping to spend the day relaxing with bring to the local community, ties in with the yoga and cider,” Mills said.