Serving James Madison University Since 1922 Morning showers n 65°/42° Vol. 86, No. 44 chance of precipitation: 70% Monday, March 22, 2010 SGA ELECTIONS Competitive Races Could DUKES Draw Voters DROP Five Students Hope to be SGA President Next Year Potential candidates By RaCHEL DOZIER The Elections Commission will verify and JOHN SuTTER applications and announce the official The Breeze candidates March 31. Candidates can begin campaigning that evening. This year’s SGA election has greater potential for competitive campaigning PRESIDENT and a higher voter turnout. (not pictured: Ryan Philbrick ’11) Friday, the six-member elections off commission received five candidate applications for president, two for vice president of administrative affairs, one for vice president of student affairs, one for treasurer and two for the student rep- resentative to the Board of Visitors. WOmeN’S The candidate packet required poten- tial candidates to obtain 200 student signatures, create a platform, submit team LOses a picture and agree to the elections Tommy Caitlin Natale policy. Cumberland (’11) (’11) “We’re expecting an increase in turn- 65-53 TO out from last year,” sophomore elections commissioner Pat Watral said. “Also considering the fact that SGA has had TEMPLE a lot more exposure over the past few months.” Last year, with two uncontested exec- IN Ncaa utive board elections, about 10 percent of 18,000 students turned out to vote. TOURNAMENT PHOTos BY ROBERT Boag / The dramatic increase in the number THE BREEZE of candidates suggests the potential for Andrew Reese Paul Sexton greater voter turnout in this year’s major By EmmiE CLEVELAND COLumN at breezejmu.org: It was not the Dukes’ (’12) (’11) elections. The Breeze day, but JMU has much to be proud of. “The commission was definitely excit- VP OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS ed about the contested elections this NORFOLK — Temple coach sometimes it was out of necessity,” The Dukes’ offense stumbled year,” Watral said. Tonya Cardoza attributes her team’s he said. “I was a little disappointed beyond the outside shooting According to Watral, the commission victory over JMU to boxing out the that sometimes the shot clock was woes. plans to market the election using print nation’s fifth-leading scorer. running down, and the kids stood Early in the game, they found and online media such as Facebook and “I thought our guys did a great and watched her while she tried to Lauren Jimenez and Jalissa Taylor Twitter. job sticking with the game plan and heave a 25-footer.” down low. The bigs drew fouls, but Candidates are allowed to start cam- trying to keep the ball out of Dawn JMU found its second-scorer in went 0-for-6 from the free-throw paigning one week before the election Evans’ hands as much as possible,” freshman guard Tarik Hislop, who line in the first half, and JMU was April 8-9. she said. “We went into the game scored 14 on 50 percent shooting. hesitant to continue looking in the The Breeze informally polled 50 ran- saying that if they were going to win Senior guard Sarah Williams, who post. dom students March 2 regarding their that they were going to do it with needed just three points to break JMU shot just 22.6 percent from Jaclyn Kyle Smith opinions of SGA. Of the responses, 25 their other players. 1,000 in her career, didn’t find that the field in the first half. McConville (’11) (’12) percent said they voted in the last elec- “I thought our guys did a hell of a same rhythm. Tied 4-4 after seven minutes, tion, 38 percent said they plan to vote in job defending one of the top scorers Williams was 0-for-7 from the Temple went on an 18-4 run. JMU VP OF this year’s election, 95 percent said they in the nation.” field and 0-for-4 from behind the slowly earned its way back, heading STUDENT didn’t know the current SGA president’s Temple held the junior guard arc in her last appearance. into half down 23-19, but couldn’t AFFAIRS TREASURER name and 71 percent thought the SGA to just 18 points in its 65-53 win “You have to have more scorers regain the lead for the rest of the was important. in the first round of the NCAA to balance the attack,” Brooks said. game. “I know they do some events, but I feel tournament. “We know Dawn’s gonna take shots “The game was extremely fast, like they could do more to get students “When you’re facing things like and Tarik’s gonna get her opportu- and we were just trying to get our involved,” sophomore health sciences that, the best thing you can do is to nities. Sarah has been our X factor. game going — just get the momen- major Alex Goolsby said. hit shots and to get them to have If she can get something going from tum,” Evans said. “The first seven According to SGA President Candace to keep changing up defenses,” the perimeter, it usually takes a lot minutes was too fast; it was too Avalos, SGA has done more this year to Evans said. “And I wasn’t able to of pressure off Dawn and Tarik, but fast for us.” get students involved, such as conduct- do that.” she wasn’t able to. Temple moves on to face No. 1 ing the Late Night Bus Survey, which However, JMU coach Kenny “But by no means will we ever let University of Connecticut in the more than 4,000 students completed in Brooks defended Evans’ 6-for-20 her think that this is going to tarnish second round Tuesday night, as Brock Wallace Abby Ware (’13) the fall. shooting performance. what she’s accomplished at James JMU wraps up its season and bids (’11) Avalos is not concerned about voter “She forced quite a bit, but Madison.” adieu to its sole senior Williams. apathy. After attending a conference STUDENT REP. TO THE last spring at Texas A&M University for BOARD OF VISITORS student government, she found SGA’s voting problems not unique to JMU. “This isn’t just an SGA at JMU thing. This is an SGA in general thing. This is a politics in general thing,” Avalos said. “You have to realize that we’re doing the best that we can, but at the end of the see CANDIDATES, page 3 n SUBMIT YOUR QUESTIONS Steven Dan Smolkin for the SGA Election Debate at Knott (’11) (’11) [email protected] OPINION SPORTS TOP Freshman guard Tarik Hislop (front) and junior INSIDE 5 A ring thing 9 Futures Students should on the line guard Dawn Evans (back) led JMU with 14 and 18 points, NEWS recognize value 11 Dukes look respectively, and were the only Dukes to reach double figures in scoring. ABOVE 21 turnovers and a 35.6 3 Monkey in class ring. to impress business NFL scouts shooting percentage contributed to the Dukes’ loss. Professor spends LIFE on Pro Day. JMU finished 26-7 on the season. LEFT Senior guard Sarah Williams works to get past Temple sophomore his summers 7 Award-winning with lemurs. prof advocates forward Kristen McCarthy in her final game as a Duke. new approach. 30 FOR 30 MESSAGE FROM THE EDITORiaL BOARD Benefit Dinner Planned for Haiti Relief JMU’s Haiti fundraising organization Opinionated? continues its efforts to provide relief to Nearly $9,000 of $30,000 goal raised the earthquake-stricken country. the editorial board of a publication can become The organization’s goal is to raise $30,000 in total donations As part of the extended campaign, institutionalized and opinions often grow stale. In order to gain 30 For 30: Travay Pou Chanjman has a fresh outlook and better gauge thoughts and concerns of those planned a benefit dinner at 6 p.m. Thursday in the Festival Ballroom. on campus, we would like to extend an invitation to all students, While there is no set ticket price, the As of Sunday, the group’s Web site reported $8,840 faculty and staff to apply for a new guest position on the organization has asked for a $15 dona- editorial board. The position would require meetings with the tion or however much attendees are board twice weekly for one month to discuss topics and choose FOR MORE INFORMATION e-mail [email protected] willing to give. or visit sites.google.com/site/jmu30for30 the board’s stance on issues important to the JMU community. JMU Dining Services will donate Each month we will select a new member. the food, which includes salad, plan was to raise $30,000 in 30 days to plans for a series of five benefit con- To apply, give us your thoughts in no more than 250 words chicken, macaroni and cheese, and divide between three relief organiza- certs in various downtown venues in cheesecake. tions. The campaign has been extended mid-April. regarding what you think is currently the most important issue at 30 For 30 was created after a Jan. 12 to April 22. JMU. Send submissions to [email protected] by Thurs- earthquake crippled Haiti. The original The organization is also making — staff reports day, April 1 for consideration. 2 Monday, March 22, 2010 breezejmu.org WE WANT TO HEAR WHAT YOU THINK OF THE BREEZE. 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