NEWS spORTS 3 Shoeless for shoes 11 A good day for Knight Students walk barefoot The first baseman hits to support TOMS cause. three home runs. OPINION LIFE 7 Preemptive strike 15 Tattoo taboo Preventative measures Body art is seen as made things worse creative to some, at Springfest. Serving James Madison University Since 1922 trashy to others. Sunny n 73°/42° Vol. 86, No. 50 chance of precipitation: 0% Monday, April 12, 2010 ‘WAR Zone’ ROBErt BOAG / THE BREEZE 1 University Outpost Residents Work 2 Exxon Police Use Tear Gas and Rubber 81 3 Texaco Bullets to Disperse More Than 8,000 To Clean Up After 4 dumpster fires 1 Saturday’s Riot Forest Hill Rd. 3 Greenbriar Dr. Forest By RACHEL DOZIER 2 Hills The Breeze Hall Village Ln. Rockingham Hunters Rd. Port Republic Rd. Shards of glass, heaps of cans, crushed 4 The Manor boxes and forgotten Solo cups littered the Sully Dr. streets and lawns of Forest Hills town- Devon Ln. homes Sunday morning. Tired residents Devon Ln. and workers came out to clean up the debris left from Saturday’s block party. GRAPHIC BY NataLIYA IOFFE / THE BREEZE Senior Chris Collichio, a resident of The incident took place on Village Lane in Forest Hills who attended Springfest the Forest Hills townhomes. last four years, has never seen anything like this. He remembers participating he said. “back when it was nice.” “My car, a silver BMW, has a rock Collichio’s house is at the far end of the that went straight through the window,” block from where the tear-gassing began. Collichio said. “That car right there got The gas forced students down to his end elbowed [through the back windshield]. of the street. With police also at that end, That’s not even a rock there; some- DAVID CastERLINE / THE BREEZE his house and the cars surrounding the one just smashed that one. Our house More than 200 police officers were called to the area Saturday evening. parking lot provided easy targets for many scattered students to throw rocks, see AFTERMATH, page 4 By KALEIGH SOMERS and handle similar situations even more seri- MATT SUTHERLAND ously in the future. The Breeze The aftermath of Saturday’s block par- ties consisted of more than 30 arrests, a Past Springfest Problems: President Linwood Rose left no ques- stabbing, extensive property damage It’s been 10 years since one of JMU’s parties got as out of control as tions regarding his response to the JMU and injured police and partygoers. The Saturday’s Springfest. community via e-mail on Sunday evening, Harrisonburg community has not expe- On Aug. 25, 2000, riot police broke up a back-to-school party of about addressing those students who attended rienced a riot this serious in 10 years, 2,000 people in the Forest Hills townhouse complex. Springfest. when civil disobedience units responded An article in the Aug. 28 issue of The Breeze reports a three-hour “Your collective behavior was an embar- to a crowd of more than 2,000 students standoff that led to 20 arrests and numerous injuries. At midnight, rassment to your university and a discredit police used a bullhorn and public address system to order the crowed to our reputation,” Rose said. He plans to see POLICE, page 4 to disperse. The crowd refused, and the article reports that police gave partygoers 30 minutes to leave. About half were said to leave. Approximately 35 officers in riot gear dispersed tear gas and pepper After Saturday afternoon’s events, JMU President Linwood Rose spray. For two hours, the article says the crowd threw rocks, glass and board and residents. Two dumpsters were also lit on fire. e-mailed an official response to students on Sunday. The situation calmed around 3 a.m. Several cars in the complex’s lot were damaged, including a Dear Students: Harrisonburg police car. Let me first acknowledge that many of you did not attend Springfest on JMU President Linwood Rose organized a Community Coalition to Saturday. To those of you who were involved, your collective behavior was an look into the riot and prevent such actions from happening again. Rose embarrassment to your university and a discredit to our reputation. No one is made a statement published in The Breeze on Sept. 18, 2000 saying: opposed to some fun on a beautiful spring weekend, but public drunkenness, “Something is wrong when a university president goes to bed at night destruction of property, and threats to personal safety are unacceptable worried about whose parents might need to be called the next day outcomes. Yesterday’s events reflect poorly on your character and were because their son or daughter was injured, assaulted or arrested.” demonstrable evidence of less than sound judgment. The coalition recommended examining the university’s judicial system, As a university community, we care about our neighbors. Unfortunately, the offering more alternative activities for students and finding a more events of this weekend do not demonstrate that concern. effective way for students and police to work together. To mitigate the negative consequences of these types of situations in the On Sept. 23, 2000, some students calling themselves the Young future, we will be conferring with students, property owners, law enforcement, Democratic Socialists also protested Harrisonburg Police Department, in including the Virginia State Police, government officials and others. part for the actions officers took at the riots. Linwood H. Rose — staff reports President n For more photos of Springfest, PAGE 5 or breezejmu.org !"#$%&"#'()*%&+,-.#,$/+$' !"#$%&'()*+,%-.(/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 Monday, April 12, 2010 breezejmu.org Serving James Madison University Since 1922 G1 Anthony-Seeger Hall, MSC 6805 Nation&World James Madison University FROM BLOOMBERG NEWS AND THE WASHINGTON POST Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807 Phone: 540-568-6127 Fax: 540-568-6736 prayers are with the Kaczynski people in America and the world from voters, said Darrell West, MISSION Senior Polish family, the loved ones of those see it as an abstraction. But there director of governance studies at The Breeze, the student-run newspaper of James Madison University, serves killed in this tragic plane crash, is no margin for error here, and the Brookings Institution. student, faculty and staff readership by reporting news involving the campus and the Polish nation.” Obama I think Obama intuitively under- “You’ve got to get out of the and local community. The Breeze strives to be impartial and fair in its reporting Offi cials Killed and fi rmly believes in First Amendment rights. said the tragedy was “devastat- stood that as soon as he got to the bubble,” said Rep. Darrell Issa, Published Monday and Thursday mornings, The Breeze is distributed WARSAW — Tens of thousands ing to Poland, to the United Senate.” R-Calif., who sends about four throughout James Madison University and the local Harrisonburg community. of mourners lled the streets of States, and to the world” and Obama has identi ed nuclear tweets a day, the most of any Comments and complaints should be addressed to Katie Thisdell, editor. central Warsaw with red votive described Kaczynski as “a distin- terrorism as “the most immedi- member of Congress, according candles Saturday night in a dis- guished statesman who played a ate and extreme threat to global to the Web site Tweetcongress. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ADS MANAGER play of patriotism and grief hours key role in the Solidarity move- security.” His aides note that al- org, which tracks congressional KATIE THISDELL NICOLE ORT after President Lech Kaczynski ment and ... was widely admired Qaida has sought unsuccessfully tweeting. [email protected] and senior Polish o cials were in the United States as a leader to acquire an atomic bomb. “Wake up with a headache, ASST. ADS MANAGER killed when the presidential jet dedicated to advancing freedom But Obama’s central challenge queasy stomach, bloodshot NEWS DESK CLIFF STANLEY crashed in heavy fog in western and human dignity.” will be to persuade the foreign eyes?” Issa tweeted the morn- [email protected] Russia. leaders or their representatives ing after the House approved the ADS DESIGN LEAD e crash, which o cials said arriving in Washington to care Democrats’ health-care overhaul LIFE DESK AMY MORGAN killed all people on board, as much as he does about secur- bill in March. Using the abbrevi- [email protected] cut a devastating swath through Texas Stadium ing the material that could be ated spelling style often favored ADS DESIGN ASSISTANT Poland’s political and military used to create a bomb — highly in such messages, he added: SPORTS DESK JON MANTELL elite. In addition to Kaczynski and Demolished enriched uranium and plutoni- “You’re suffering from the HC [email protected] AD EXECUTIVES his wife, Maria, the dead includ- um tucked away in government hangover. Dtch the Advil. I’ll post BRYAN ALTENHAUS ed the national bank’s president, DALLAS — Texas Stadium, the laboratories, research universi- a remedy shortly.” OPINION DESK DAN DEVINE the deputy foreign minister, the former home of the Dallas Cow- ties, military warehouses and Issa, , also used Twitter to [email protected] NATHAN CHUA head of the National Security boys, will be blasted into oblivion other sites around the world. hold a photo caption contest for KATHRYN CROWLEY Office, the deputy Parliament by , pounds of explosives It will not be easy. the ,-plus page health-care COPY DESK AMANDA MAZURKEVICH speaker as well as lawmakers Sunday in a public spectacle “ e `Made in the USA’ label legislation Republicans opposed.