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Thursday, April 29, 2010 Vol. 86, No. 55

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1. JAMES MADISON, our school’s founder donned a cap, scarf and gloves for this snowy winter.

Ashley Grisham / the breeze 2. JIMMY CARTER visited the university with his wife Rosalynn to accept the Mahatma Gandhi Global Nonviolence Award from JMU’s Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence.

Dan Gorin / the breeze 3. THE LATE NIGHT BUS SURVEY was administered by the SGA as a result of student frustration over a 45-minute reduction in time to the buses’ regular weekend schedule. david casterline / the breeze

4. BOB McDONNELL is elected governor of Virginia.

His daughter Rachel is a JMU senior and member of the cheerleading squad.

Ford Prior / contributing photographer 5. SPRINGFEST got out of hand with 8,000-plus partygoers and police tear-gassing the crowd on Village Lane. david casterline / the breeze 6. LADY DUKES WON THE CAA CHAMPIONSHIP for the first time in 20 years and moved on to the NCAA championship.

Robert boag / the breeze 7. The Forbes Center for the Performing Arts underwent major construction this year and is set to open for classes and performances in the fall.

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reported damage, valued at $50, to a fence at Sonner Hall.

Larceny

 On Monday, a JMU student reported

theft of a Huffy mountain bike valued at $100 that was last seen three weeks ago secured to a bike rack.  On Sunday, a JMU student reported theft of a $50 fire extinguisher in Gifford Hall.  On Monday, a JMU student reported theft of a $25 fire extinguisher in Hoffman Hall.

Property Damage

 On Saturday, a JMU student

Alcohol and Drugs

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reported damage, valued at $300, to a window on Greek Row.  On Friday, a JMU employee reported damage, valued at $300, to a bench caused by a fire on Greek Row.  On Friday, a JMU police officer

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charged with possession of marijuana and a drug violation at Potomac Hall.

On Sunday, a JMU student was received a drunk in public charge at Chandler Hall.

On Sunday, two JMU students were charged with drunk in public, underaged possession and underaged consumption at the Godwin bus stop.

On Sunday, a JMU student received a drunk in public charge at Godwin Hall.

On Sunday, a JMU student received drunk in public, underaged possession and underaged consumption charges at Shorts Hall.

On Saturday, a JMU student

received drunk in public, underaged possession and underaged consumption charges at Chandler Hall.  On Saturday, a JMU student

received an underaged consumption charge at Shenandoah Hall.  On Saturday, a JMU student received a drunk in public charge at the P Lot.  On Friday, a JMU student received an underaged consumption charge at Converse Hall.  On Friday, a JMU student received a drunk in public charge at Showker Hall.

Nation&World FROM BLOOMBERG NEWS AND THE WASHINGTON POST

Ford Exceeds Profit Earnings

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — Ford posted first-quarter earnings of $. billion Tuesday as it reaped the benefits of a recovering auto market and higher prices for cars and trucks.

The profit exceeded analyst estimates and marked Ford’s fourth consecutive quarter of net income, the longest streak since . Excluding some gains and costs, earnings were  cents a share. Ford also said Tuesday it expects a “solid” profit in , a year earlier than Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally had projected previously.

Ford’s  percent surge in U.S. deliveries through March more than doubled the industrywide increase, helping the second- largest U.S. automaker add domestic market share at the fastest pace in  years as the auto market rebounds. Ford was alone among its U.S. peers in avoiding bankruptcy in .

“The most important thing Ford has done is invest heavily in new product during this down cycle,” said Erich Merkle, president of consultant Autoconomy in Grand Rapids, Mich. “As we’re coming out, they’ve got all this new product coming out in just about every category.”

Analysts projected that Ford would have adjusted earnings of  cents a share, the average of  estimates compiled by Bloomberg.

Global automotive operating profits were in line with expectations and Ford consumed more cash than expected in the quarter, said Patel, who advises holding the shares.

First-quarter revenue rose  percent to $. billion, Ford said. That compared with the $ billion average estimate among  analysts. Net income was  cents a share, exceeding the average estimate of  cents from two analysts, and compared with a net loss of $. billion, or  cents, a year earlier.

“We’re very encouraged,” Chief Financial Officer Lewis Booth told reporters in Dearborn, Mich. “The new products are coming onstream. And the fact that we’ve got our cost structure under control is helping the bottom line.”

The Fusion sedan, F- pickup and Focus small car drove Ford’s first-quarter U.S. sales gains, Booth said on a conference call. All global auto units

were profitable in the quarter.

Revising Mulally’s previous forecast of being “solidly profitable” in , Ford said Tuesday it “now expects to deliver solid profits this year, with positive automotive operating-related cash flow.” Booth said  earnings will exceed the first-quarter total, without giving a figure.

Ford reported $. billion in automotive cash on March , up from $. billion at the end of , which the automaker restated from $. billion because of an accounting change.

Cash consumption was $ million during ’s first three months, after the company used $. billion a year earlier. Booth said Ford will have positive cash flow for all of .

Ford Credit’s pretax operating profit was $ million, compared with a year-earlier loss of $ million. Ford now forecasts the unit’s  operating profit will be the same as last year’s $ billion, after previously projecting a decline.

Borrowing $ billion in late  gave Ford a cash cushion to withstand losses and develop new models such as the Fiesta subcompact coming this year.

The trade-off was a debt load that Mulally has said puts Ford at a competitive disadvantage with General Motors and Chrysler, which had their obligations cut in bankruptcy.

Industrywide auto sales for  should be in a range of . million to . million, Ford said, as a recovering economy rekindles demand after deliveries in  plunged to a -year low of . million.

Ford said second-quarter production in North America will be , vehicles, a  percent increase from the plan announced March . Output will rise  percent compared with a year earlier.

Japan to Launch Space Yacht TOKYO — The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency plans to launch the world’s first satellite powered by a giant solar sail to demonstrate next-generation renewable-energy technology, the agency said Tuesday.

The -meter sail, which cost about $ million, will be wrapped around the “space yacht” during lift-off and will unfurl once the craft leaves the Earth’s atmosphere, JAXA said.

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The `Ikaros’ will be launched from Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan on May , it said.

The flexible sail is covered in a film of solar cells and will be about . micrometers thick, about half the thickness of a human hair, JAXA said. The technology, known as thin-film solar, is being developed to one day replace fi xed solar panels because it can be shaped to fit in small and irregularly shaped places, said Hiroaki Benten at Kyoto University.

“Solar film has an enormous potential for use in our everyday lives if this technology becomes economically viable,” Benten, an assistant professor of polymer chemistry, said Tuesday by telephone. “You’re going to be able to bring a solarfilm battery with you as you walk about. It can be wrapped around anything.”

The sail propels the craft using resistance created by energy from the sun in much the same way as the wind propels a sailboat across the water.

Photons, or solar energy particles, bounce off tiny mirrors, providing enough thrust for satellites to perform maneuvers such as rotating or hovering, JAXA said.

Solar sails can also use ion propulsion like conventional satellites. The panels generate electricity to ionize gas, which it emits at high speed to thrust the satellite, National Aeronautics and Space Administration said on its website.

NASA and Russia are exploring solar-sail technology, which can create lighter and smaller craft than conventional satellites. While prototypes have been unfurled, no solar sail has been successfully used to propel a craft in outer space, JAXA said.

Ikaros’ mission will conclude within six months, and JAXA plans to launch a larger sail-powered satellite in the early part of the next decade to explore Jupiter and the Trojan asteroids, it said.

The Ikaros will use photon propulsion on this mission, and electricity from the sail will power equipment on the satellite. Both ion and photon propulsion will be used in the mission to Jupiter, according to JAXA. Ikaros, a homonym for Icarus, the figure in Greek myth who flew too close to the sun and fell into the sea, stands for Interplanetary Kite-craft

Accelerated by Radiation of the Sun. “Unlike the mythical Icarus, this Ikaros will not crash,” Yuichi Tsuda, an assistant professor at JAXA, said Tuesday.

Home Prices Miss Forecast WASHINGTON — Home prices in  cities rose less than forecast in February from a year earlier, a sign a housing recovery will take time to develop.

The S&P/Case-Shiller homeprice index of property values in  cities increased . percent from February , the first gain since December , the group said Tuesday in New York.

The median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News projected a . percent advance.

Home prices in February were  percent below the peak reached in July , indicating the industry that helped trigger the worst recession since the s will take years to recover lost ground. A pickup in employment is needed to help stem the damage from mounting foreclosures that are restraining further gains in property values.

“The sharp drop in home prices has ended,” said Michelle Meyer, a senior economist at Barclays Capital Inc. in New York. “We believe that prices are bouncing around the bottom and see little upside potential over the next few years. There is an alarmingly large foreclosure pipeline.”

The index was forecast to rise after a year-over-year drop of . percent for January, according to the median forecast of  economists surveyed. Estimates ranged from a decline of . percent to a gain of . percent.

Year-over-year records began in .

The gauge fell . percent from the prior month after adjusting for seasonal variations following a January increase of . percent.

Unadjusted, prices dropped . percent in February from the prior month.

“These data point to a risk that home prices could decline further before experiencing any sustained gains,” David Blitzer, chairman of the index committee at S&P, said in a statement.

“It is too early to say that the housing market is recovering.”

The seasonally adjusted and unadjusted series “have given

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On Tuesday, a flock of ducks stopped to take a swim in one of the retention ponds near ISAT. The female mallard and her ducklings are frequent visitors to the pond.

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conflicting signals” recently, with the former rising while the latter fell, the group that issues the report said in an April  statement. The turmoil in housing in the past few years has influenced the models used in adjusting the data, “resulting in larger seasonal adjustments and misleading results,” according to the group.

The year-over-year gauges therefore provide better indications of trends in prices, the group said. The panel includes Karl Case and Robert Shiller, the economists who created the index.

Eleven of the  cities in the S&P/Case-Shiller index showed a year-over-year decline, led by a  percent drop in Las Vegas and a  percent decrease in Tampa.

San Francisco showed the biggest year-over-year increase, with prices rising  percent.

Compared with the prior month,  of the  areas covered showed a decrease, led by Portland, Oregon, and Minneapolis. San Diego showed the only monthly increase.

Prices may improve in coming months as homebuyers rush to take advantage of a government tax credit worth as much as $, before it expires. Purchase contracts must be signed by the end of this week and transactions need to close by the end of June for buyers to be eligible.

Growing demand may help offset the pressure on prices from mounting foreclosures.

Filings jumped  percent in the first quarter from a year earlier, and bank seizures reached a record, according to RealtyTrac Inc. Foreclosures push up the number of homes on the market, forcing builders and sellers to make concessions to get deals done.

Amtrak Sees a Lucrative Future WASHINGTON — The government controls Amtrak’s purse strings, requiring the corporation to ask Uncle Sam for an allowance that it never fully receives. “Amtrak was starved for funding for many, many years,” maintained Amtrak spokesman Steve Kulm. “It has no dedicated source of money like highways and airplanes.”

(Speaking of starving, many passengers complain of food shortages in the cafe car.)

And while revenues cover  percent of operating costs, Amtrak has never made a profit. Of course, to be fair, no passenger trains in the world earn a profit.

However, Amtrak’s piggy bank is now wagging its tail.

As part of last year’s stimulus bill, the company received $. billion for infrastructure projects on top of its annual federal appropriation of $. billion, which supports its operating and capital budgets.

Separately, states received $ billion, of which $. billion is dedicated to projects to improve existing or future

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Amtrak routes. With fuller pockets and a deadline of February , Amtrak has set to work trimming trees that can tangle in overhead catenary wires (the train’s power source), replacing electrical equipment predating World War II, improving drainage alongside tracks (you hear that, Rhode Island?), rebuilding bridges and more. “The list goes on and on,” said Kulm, adding that  percent of the funds will be dedicated to the Northeast Corridor.

Kulm puts at the top of his fix-it list equipment that is long in the tooth and slow in the joints. “Replacing passenger cars and locomotives is most urgent,” he said. “The older cars limit how fast we can go. They also give a poor perception of Amtrak. They’re dated and tired-looking.”

Moreover, Grandpa’s trains are running on Great-Grandfather’s tracks and structures.

For instance, when burrowing through a tunnel in Baltimore that was built in , the trains must decelerate to  mph to negotiate its S-shaped curve.

Last year, Amtrak started rehabilitating and restoring its locomotives and passenger cars and has already incorporated some of the improved equipment into its fleet. The company is also gazing toward the horizon. “We’re looking toward the future to being America’s high-speed-train operators,” he said, referring to the superswift trains that can clock up to  mph. There’s no guarantee, however, that Amtrak will be selected to run high-speed rail.

Airlines Cancel More Flights

WASHINGTON — Airline passengers face more flight cancellations as carriers seek to avoid fines for keeping planes waiting on the tarmac longer than three hours.

A rule by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, taking effect April , would impose fines as high as $, for each customer when an airline fails to free passengers after three hours.

The Air Transport Association said carriers will cancel f lights rather than breach the limit, and a travel group said fl ights scrapped in New York may rise as much as  percent.

“Cancellations could go up, but it’s not a bad thing,” said Kate Hanni, a passenger advocate who lobbied for the rule after being trapped for nine hours in  on an American Airlines plane in Austin, Texas. “The cancellations are going to prevent people from being stuck on the tarmac.”

American and JetBlue Airways kept planes on the ground for as long as  / hours in late  and early , fueling passenger protests.

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Home Invasion Results in Injury

Three unknown males forced their way into a home on the 200 block of South Liberty Street early Monday morning. According to Harrisonburg Police Department, two suspects, one holding a handgun and the other wielding a metal baton, assaulted a 22-year-old male. A woman was also present during the robbery. The male victim was taken to Rockingham Memorial Hospital with non-lifethreatening injuries and has been released since.

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Paralyzed Man Sues Massanutten Resort

John Carwile, a paralyzed man involved in a tubing accident at Massanutten Resort, is suing the resort for $25 million. After running headfirst into a safety wall in January 2009, Carwile became paralyzed from the waist down. If the lawsuit is successful, it will be the largest reward in a civil case against a ski resort, according to the Daily News-Record.

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U.Va. Tuition Set To Increase

The University of Virginia’s Budget Office suggested to its Board of Visitors to consider an in-state tuition increase of 9.9 percent for the next academic year. According to The Cavalier Daily, the increase is due to educational funding cuts in the state. U.Va.’s Board of Visitors will meet Friday to vote on the proposed plan.

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Crime

Springfest Task Force Makes First Arrest Harrisonburg police’s aggregate task force has issued its first and only charges in response to the April 10 riot in Forest Hills.

Peter Morgner, 20, a Richard Bland college student from Vienna, was charged Friday with five felony counts of malicious wounding on a law enforcement officer and four felony counts

of assault on a law enforcement officer. According to Harrisonburg Police Department, they were able to identify Morgner from a front page photo in the April 12 issue of The Breeze. The photograph depicts Morgner standing on a convertible holding a plank of wood in front of a Dumpster fire. Video shot by HPD also records Morgner’s actions.

Peter Morgner, 20, a student of Richard Bland College, was arrested on nine felony counts Friday, after being identified through public pictures.

At his Rockingham County Circuit Court hearing Monday, Morgner’s defense attorney, John Holloran, said Morgner’s incident was isolated. Holloran pointed out that Morgner was more than willing to help police identify people and appear as a witness against see force, page 5

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Friendly City Gathering Loans

The Friendly City Food Co-Op announced Wednesday that it has raised more than $400,000 in member loans and plans to open before Christmas. The co-op, a planned community-owned supermarket selling local and fair trade products, will use the loans to secure a lease at 150 E. Wolfe St. downtown.

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Rose Defines the University’s Values as a Foundation to Recover from Springfest

By Katie Thisdell The Breeze

President Linwood Rose wants to get down to the “heart of the problem” that tarnished JMU’s reputation, led to dozens of arrests and broke down mutual respect between the community and the university.

That problem, Rose said Tuesday, is what JMU has tried for years to combat: open door parties.

On April 10 — the day of Springfest and the ensuing riot — Rose said his students’ safety was threatened. And he says educating students about open door parties could start with the very YouTube videos of the riot that have disseminated throughout the Web as students see how negative the consequences could be.

JMU does not yet have specific plans on how to move forward from Springfest, but Mark Warner, senior vice president for Student Affairs and University Planning, and his staff are ready to analyze what went wrong along Village Lane.

Warner’s 12 Student Affairs directors will present reports in mid-May. He said students and faculty have also been coming to him the past two weeks with ideas and projects in

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response to the Springfest riot, which Warner said has so far resulted in more than 80 charges from police.

Rose said he specifically wants to work with Virginia State Police since they have seen other such disturbances; he hopes they have ideas in the next few months on how to move forward.

“They’re going to have a perspective that’s different than our local police,” Rose said.

The two administrators felt that Facebook had an impact on the growth and rowdiness of the event, which wasn’t a part of the riot 10 years ago.

“I don’t think people understand that when you open these concepts up to the world, the world might take you up on it,” Rose said. “And the world might include people that you don’t want here.”

Police have been using photos and videos posted on YouTube and Facebook to identify and charge more rioters. On Friday, the commonwealth attorney’s office identified and pressed charges on one additional person from theriot.

Warner said: “To me, learning about something from Facebook is no different than learning about it in D-Hall. If I’m in D-Hall and

Robert Boag / File Photo

President Linwood Rose named Mark Warner as the point person for solutions to the riot.

I hear something that disturbs me, I’m going to see Rose, page 4

Graduation

Opportunity Cost Real-World Shock Comes True Students Hope Unpaid Internships Help Land the Perfect Job

By Kaleigh Somers The Breeze

“Working for free” may sound like slave labor to some, but to others it could provide the opportunity of a lifetime. While unpaid internships are becoming increasingly popular among college students, reports say they may also be illegal.

David Jones, a political science professor, said internships should provide students experiences similar to future jobs.

Jones has been a professor in residence for the Washington Semester program since 1999, allowing him to work with numerous students on internships.

“I’m concerned that there are organizations out there that are hunting for students to do work that should be paid for,” Jones said.

Examinations of unpaid internships by newspapers such as The New York Times and The Washington Post have brought attention to the legality of unpaid internships.

It has “come to the forefront that we might need to do more in terms of monitoring these internships,” said Denise Meadows, the assistant director of employer relations and recruiting

“I’m concerned that there are organizations out there that are hunting for students to do work that should be paid for.”

David Jones

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services for JMU. Meadows said she was familiar with the article in April 3 The New York Times and that it definitely sparked some concerns in the department of Career and Academic Planning.

Meadows said unpaid internships have always been around, but paid internships are more common. She said that the Recruit-A-Duke Program currently lists approximately 113 paid and 88 unpaid internships.

JMU’s Office of Career and Academic Planning started the Recruit-A-Duke Program as a network designed to see Career, page 5

Apartments

Students Forced Out

By Kaleigh Somers The Breeze

Saturday night the second floor of the 1813 building cracked at the Stone Gate apartment complex. Three units were evacuated Sunday morning as a result, but no cause has been determined yet.

Erin Hynes, a senior, lives on the third floor of the complex. Hynes said contractors and engineers came to investigate the damage Tuesday to determine potential causes. She, along with 11 other residents, was supposed to be told what the contractors determined Tuesday. “[The apartment leasing office] told me they were gonna call yesterday and

they didn’t, so I called them,” Hynes said. “It [would have been] nice to call and say ‘We don’t know anything.’ ” Gina Cowart, American Campus Communities spokeswoman, the parent company of Stone Gate said in an e-mail to The Breeze that they hope to have the third-floor residents moved back in Thursday and the other units

by Monday.

According to Hynes, the people on the bottom floor of the complex complained about cracks in the ceiling three weeks ago. Since there’s no official cause of the cracks, she doesn’t know if the problems could have been prevented this past see Collapse, page 5

By Aaron Koepper The Breeze

“True Life: I’m Graduating” wasn’t another MTV reality show, but a panel of five JMU alumni shared with 30 students about what awaits them in the real world.

As part of senior week, the panel gave students the opportunity to ask questions ranging from how to pay monthly bills to whether or not they should attend graduate school. Facebook, however, was the topic that inspired the most responses.

One student asked if he should

“Where I used to work, we called it ‘digital dirt.’ If someone wants to search for it, and they’re computer savvy enough, they’ll find it.”

Sarah Owen

2005 JMU alumna

deactivate his facebook and how farback employers look.

“To say that employers don’t look at it is blind,” said 2006 alumnus Jason Carpenter. “When I was [hiring] in H.R., it was immediate — check their résumé, check Facebook, check LinkedIn.” Sarah Owen, a 2005 alumna, said that once information is on Facebook, it’s basically too late to stop employers from seeing it.

“If something’s ever been public, it’s public,” Owen said. “Where I used to work we called it ‘digital dirt.’ If someone wants to search for it, and they’re computer savvy enough, they’ll find it.”

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INternet

Experiencing Technology Withdrawal

By Ryan F. Platt The Breeze

Experiencing withdrawal symptoms similar to those of alcoholics and heroin addicts—like anxiety, nervousness, craving and an inability to function normally come from technology withdrawl.

But drug’s aren’t the addiction — it’s the Internet, cellphones, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube.

A study released Friday by the University of Maryland took a group of 200 students and asked them to go without phone service or Internet for 24 hours.

The study found that many of the participants began experiencing withdrawl symptoms similar to those of drug addicts.

With finals quickly approaching, some students at JMU are now shutting off their Facebook or taking measures to block their Internet use.

Monica Reis-Bergan, a psychology professor, discussed phone useage as an issue of poor time management skills. People are not addicted to the Internet or phones themselves, but rather the behaviors these technologies allow.

“Usually, when we talk about Internet addiction, we talk about addictions that we know about already, like gambling addiction, sex addiction and shopping addiction,” Reis-Bergan said.

These things, she explained, have biological connections within us that cause addictive behaviors.

Jake Thiewes / the breeze

Facebook, iPhone, BlackBerry and Twitter are among the numerous communication devices college students have become addicted to.

“Internet functions as a way for people to talk to friends and family,” she said. If we were to replace the Internet and phones with something else, then take that away, the same [result] would happen.”

Junior biology major Yvette Blackwell said she participated in an experiment similar to the one completed in Maryland for her general education integrated science and technology class, in which she was required to give up her phone for a period of time.

“It wasn’t that bad. I just mostly use Facebook,” Blackwell said.

However, Blackwell seems less confident in losing all forms of communicative technology.

“Oh gosh,” she said. “I guess I would feel completely disconnected, because I’d have no means of communicating with people.”

Chloe Mulliner, a junior media arts and design major, felt slightly more confident in her ability to function regularly.

“I’d say that I’d be able to function, it’s just I think my social life would change drastically,” Mulliner said.

She said though the dependence of today’s generation on technology is something serious, it doesn’t affect everyone.

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follow up on it.”

Police are also analyzing what went wrong on April 10.

More than 200 officers from Harrisonburg, Augusta County, Rockingham County, JMU, Staunton and the Virginia State Police were called in to control the crowd that police estimated swelled to about 8,000.

Over the past several years, JMU has tried to fight students’ tendencies to welcome anyone into their homes for parties. The lack of discretion has worried administrators for good reason as it has resulted in the Springfest riot and other problems, including the death of 19-yearold Reginald “Shay” Nicholson from a shooting outside a party in Hunters Ridge Apartments in November 2008.

“People need to know who’s coming in their apartments,” Warner said. “And a lot of folks don’t know. And that’s scary.”

JMU’s Response

Rose sent an e-mail to students on April 11 and a letter to parents the following Friday. He also wrote a letter to students that ran in Monday’s issue of The Breeze.

“Some people have been critical that I have waited two weeks, but the second sentence in my statement was reflection,” Rose said. “Reflection takes time, and frankly I wanted people to cool off a little bit. In the heat of battle if I had sent that same statement out three days after that first statement, they would have been meshed together and would have not had a whole lot of significance.”

He has not made any other public statements or interviews, nor did he attend the Harrisonburg City Council meeting in which the riot was discussed.

During the April 13 meeting, Mayor Kai Degner called for Rose to expel any student who participated violently in the riot.

Rose said Tuesday that Degner’s statement was premature.

JMU’s Office of Judicial Affairs will deal with each case separately, based on the individual situation and severity; some incidents could still lead to suspension and expulsion.

By waiting for the initial shock of the riot to recede, Rose said he wanted to focus his message to students on the future, rather than the actual events of the riot.

“We have some time now to think about what is the best approach,” Rose said. “The only real firm decision is to keep what we value in the forefront.”

On Saturday, Rose presented facts about Springfest to the JMU Parents Council before they asked questions. He said students would not be lumped together for their charges, emphasizing JMU’s “All Together One” motto.

“Ultimately this is about a student, and your son or daughter, it’s not about JMU students,” Rose said about what he told parents Saturday.

Rose believes focusing on the values lets the university state the basis for decision-making and expectations. He had the Values Statement — “Our student centered community values excellence, integrity and mutual respect” — placed on the JMU Web site over the weekend.

“First of all it’s not so much the

Rose’s Whereabouts President Linwood Rose was in Europe for the week after Springfest, visiting JMU’s study abroad programs in Malta and Florence. He also presented a paper on the link between higher education and economic development during a European Union symposium. Rose said JMU was asked to lead the conference; Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling gave the lead presentation.

“I think it’s something serious we have to deal with, but I think that the reliance some people have is a little over the top,” Mulliner said. “Some people would

go absolutely crazy.”

The question remains whether or not this is a problem for youth. In Reis-Bergan’s eyes, she doesn’t quite seem to think so.

“It’s also, my guess, this is after having children who are

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“I was in constant touch with e-mail, phone calls, monitoring everything that was happening,” Rose said about the week after Springfest.

three words [excellence, integrity, mutual respect] — I hope it’s three words we have in common,” Rose said. “The power is with the campus — meaning the students, faculty and the staff.”

While he doesn’t think the statement’s placement at the top of the home page will have the “great impact with the way it is done right now,” it’s the first step to recovery.

“It seemed to me that respect and mutual respect was what it was all about,” Rose said. “If you respected one another, then you don’t do things like that. And it doesn’t mean you can’t and don’t still have a good time.”

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teenagers, we’re going to do a better job in the future of teaching new generations how to budget time with technologies,” she said. “We have to help people set limits.”

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Owen recommended that anyone who doesn’t want employers to see their Facebook should deactivate it.

“If we see a red cup and everybody’s leaning over at this party acting crazy, we’re going to assume it’s alcohol,” said 1992 alumnus Sean Bates. “And when you’re going into certain professions, they’re looking at your reputation.”

“[I’ve learned from college] the future is never what you expect it to be. You think you know but you don’t. You get there and it’s not what you thought.

Don’t have any expectations.”

Lynda Carr senior

Bates said that his office used Facebook to look at the character of people they might hire.

No matter how well an interview went, something wrong on Facebook could stop someone from getting hired.

Bates recalled a situation where he saw a former student post something on Facebook and immediately called him in the middle of the night to take it down.

“I told him it’s not just your reputation, it’s your fraternity’s reputation,” Bates said. “If you don’t do it now I’ll drive to Harrisonburg and do it for you. It was that bad of a picture.”

Kristin Gibson, a 2006 alumna said companies not only use Facebook to look at character,

but to measure how well the employee would fit in with corporate culture.

“At some companies there are pictures of the [people] at crazy parties, and some are very business-oriented and would never do that,” Gibson said. “I think it’s more about your values and representing yourself.”

Perry said not to worry about pictures as much as things on Facebook you control — your listed interests, fan pages and groups.

“If I go on Facebook and say I don’t like this group or that, that’s definitely what you said,” Perry said. “I look at that negatively; that alienates people.”

Carpenter said the best thing for students to do is use social media sites responsibly to show one’s strength and character. He also pointed out that social pictures aren’t necessarily a negative, because most businesses want people who are extroverted.

“Pictures that are social are a good thing,” Carpenter said. “[Companies] just want to see you behave yourself and not acting like a fool.”

Students also asked what jobs to take after graduating — whether or not to look for something directly related to their degree, or to take whatever opportunities are presented to them.

Many students who attended the panel were still figuring out their lives after graduation, but a few have long-term plans.

“I’m going to law school in the fall,” said senior English major Kerry Matthews. “Step two, pass the Bar [exam]. And I want to move down to Georgia eventually, I really would like to go the South.”

Bates, who now works as executive director of Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Pharmacy, said that he picked up job skills in a financial job that had nothing to do with his major “It taught me to be a good

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supervisor, how to manage a half-a-million dollar budget, the politics of working in a medical institution,” Bates said. “All the things I never thought I would need. It took me 10 years to actually find my first job in what I went to school for.”

Senior Spanish major Lynda Carr said that she was going into the real world with the mentality to be flexible with any circumstance. “[I’ve learned] the future is never what you expect it to be,” Carr said. “You think you know, but you don’t. You get there and it’s not what you thought, don’t have any expectations.”

Bates’ recommendation was to “stay passionate about what you’re doing.”

The panelists also recommended any student who thought they would enjoy and benefit from graduate school should apply to one.

“If you can get in to a solid graduate school and get through the program, in two years time there’s going to be more opportunities for you,” Carpenter said. “Your résumé’s going to be upgraded.”

As the panelists answered questions, they pointed out they didn’t necessarily have master plan as they went along. Owen, who dropped out of graduate school after a year to explore job options, is now finishing her studies.

“I was really burned out from undergrad and I didn’t realize it,” Owen said. “Don’t assume that just because you’re an adult you have to have everything figured out. I graduated in 2005 and I’m still figuring it out.”

Senior finance major Justin Patterson said he’s still planning out the next few years of his life.

“I still feel lost, I’m still trying to figure it out,” Patterson said.

“I’m gonna work with some Ameriprise advisers, with financial planning and investments and see where I go from there.”

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The Wilson Hall bell was fixed last week and now graces the Quad with chimes on the hour and the alma mater at noon.

A bell does not physically hang in Wilson Hall, rather a speaker system with an amplifier creates the bell’s sound, which broke earlier this semester.

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No Rave For Ravenous Students

JMU police officers, Will Jones (left) and Sgt. Frank Stilson wait in anticipation of the Carrier Library Rave. The Rave planned for April 25 did not occur. The Facebook event was cancelled after the Springfest riot and Mark Warner, vice president of Student Affairs and University Planning sent an e-mail to JMU students. If students decide to have a rave Sunday, police say they will be on-call to quell the rave before it gets out of control.

help students connect with potential employers, according to the Career and Academic Planning Web site.

According to junior political science major Jane Hughes, choosing to be an intern last fall was one of the best decisions she’s made since coming to JMU. Despite the fact that Hughes already has a job offer after graduation, the experience was not without a cost.

While interning for the New Media Department of the Democratic National Committee, Hughes said the unpaid nature of her internship made her more frugal during the year.

“I had to budget myself as I was living in D.C., but I had saved money during the previous summer,” Hughes said.

Jones said the best way to avoid being used for secretarial work is to set up academic credit for the position. Organizations are obligated to offer interns a more meaningful experience since required paperwork needs to be completed detailing interns’ tasks.

One way to ensure organizations don’t take advantage of unpaid interns is for sure the position to fits the six criteria outlined by the Department of Labor for legal unpaid internships, according to The Washington Post According to The Washington Post, this includes: similar training to an actual job, benefits for the intern but not the organization, no job entitlement after completion of the internship, no wage entitlement for the internship and interns cannot take the place of hired workers.

Donna Lee, a senior political science major, interned through the Washington Semester Program last semester for an online news source. For Lee, the experience could have been more beneficial.

“While all the work we put

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in was useful in some way, it wasn’t exactly the meat and bones of the company,” Lee said.

Lee would not say the name of the company she worked for, but she said it was just starting, which she said may have contributed to her experience. She believes the company had good intentions.

“It’s hard finding a good job right out of college so I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to get my foot in the door.”

Kristen Cicala senior

“I know that the opportunity to live and work in D.C. was incredible and it will be helpful in my career in the future, so I was willing to risk it and take an unpaid internship,” Lee said.

Senior Kristen Cicala, a media arts and design major, plans to intern at Brotman Winter Fried Communications, a small public relations firm in Falls Church over the summer. Cicala believes the internship will be more handson than most, and the benefits outweigh the negative of not getting paid.

“It’s hard finding a good job right out of college so I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to get my foot in the door,” Cicala said.

Cicala hopes that even if she has to get multiple jobs, the unpaid internship opportunity might help her ultimately find a job she really enjoys.

Meadows said some industries, such as media, design and sports marketing, are more likely to offer unpaid internships rather than paid. Often this is

because of their highly competitive nature.

Cicala is not alone in valuing the benefits of an internship.

Sophomore Ezara Greene, a kinesiology major, said unpaid internships are often the case for people starting out in the physical therapy field. Greene has an internship arranged this summer at a group of physical therapy associates in Richmond where she will shadow employees and occasionally do secretarial work.

“Even getting the opportunity to do the internship was huge because I beat out a bunch of juniors and seniors,” Greene said.

Because she already has two part-time jobs lined up for the summer, Greene isn’t concerned that she won’t be making money. She plans to spend her weekends interning.

Jones believes students should make sure any internship they take, paid or unpaid, helps expose them to more meaningful aspects of a potential future job.

“Unpaid internships place a burden on students, especially those who have to help pay their college costs, yet I feel most students, including myself, see internships as necessary in order to find a job after school,” Lee said. She believes paid internships are difficult to find and more competitive, especially for a first-time internship.

Hughes, for instance, decided to take on another unpaid internship this summer, helping with online campaigns for Democracy for America. She plans to hostess at a restaurant part-time to earn some extra money.

“I certainly don’t anticipate making as much money as I have in past summers, but hopefully the experience and potential networking opportunities will pay off after graduation,” Hughes said.

weekend Cowart said they are discussing the issue with the people who threw the party, but have yet to make a determination about the direct cause of the floor collapse.

According to senior Heather Hoffler, Hynes’ roommate, floor cracks and collapses have only been reported in other apartment complexes, such as South View.

She’s lived in Stone Gate for three

years and never had a problem.

Hoffler said that building inspectors and management will ultimately decide when the residents can move back into the apartment, but there’s still no word as to when that will be.

For now, residents are living in a hotel.

“I feel like I’m never gonna live there again because after graduation I’m going home,” Hoffler said. Hynes said management told residents they could return to their apartments later this week.

Since the incident, residents have been able to return only to gather belongings.

Cowart said only on rare occasion have floors collapsed at their complexes. She said the safety risk in each of those incidences was minimal and the repairs were made with little cost.

Last year a floor collapsed in Southview, also owned by American Campus Communities complex. The cause of the collapse was too many people in the apartment.

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Peter Morgner is charged with nine felonious counts for his involvement in the April 10 riots. from page 3

six assailants in a battery case.

Since the riot, however, Morgner has also received charges for larceny and underage possession of alcohol. Morgner’s faces a general district court preliminary

hearing June 16.

According to Mary-Hope Vass, HPD spokeswoman, a 15-member task force was composed of representatives from Virginia State Police, the Attorney General’s office, the commonwealth’s attorney’s office and JMU faculty

and staff to identify and charge riot participants. The team will be reviewing video footage and publicized photographs to determine the identities of perpetrators.

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Parties are a recurring point of contention between administrators and students, specifically the open-door party scene for which JMU has become renown. And while our university is a friendly and welcoming place, at what point does this culture do more harm than good?

Facebook is a powerful social networking tool, sometimes more powerful and more far-reaching than we realize. An open event on Facebook can grow exponentially as invites spread like a contagion.

Anyone can show up at the door of your party with 15 strangers. While no one is trying to advocate bouncers and velvet rope, it’s important to realize the potential risks of letting the “confirmed guests” get out of control.

We have all been advised against the infamous red cup photo in the quite reasonable fear that future employers won’t be interested in underaged drinkers. It’s time we started thinking about who else has access to our online lives. It’s time we started making steps to protect ourselves, and started closing the door when needed.

A Time for Praise Last week, in Florence, Italy, President Linwood Rose presented a paper on the link between higher education and economic development. This wasn’t, however, a presentation to small group of educators in Florence. This was for the European Union Conference on Transatlantic Knowledge Sharing, a momentous occasion for our university and one that went nearly unannounced.

Few even knew that Rose was out of the country.

It’s been a critical time for the university and Harrisonburg these past few weeks, and we’ve seen our names in the news for all of the wrong reasons. Rose’s efforts could have been used to offset the bad publicity JMU received. On Tuesday, Rose told The Breeze it wasn’t his policy to release his schedule, but he should have realized his presentation in Florence was a prime opportunity to help restore the JMU image.

A “don’t-worry” pat to our fans.

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Sarah Likins | guest column

If I’m Bored, So are They There have been a lot of implications — and some outward statements — that JMU students who actively try to do the right thing aren’t helping our University. I was particularly disappointed in Kenneth Wright’s April 19 opinion column, “Faculty Perspective on Springfest,” which stated “certainly those JMU students who organized and attended Springfest are more culpable than those who did not attend, but those of you in the latter group bear some responsibility. What have you done, you right-thing doers, to change JMU’s party school reputation?” As a “right-thing doer,” I’d like to explain how I, and many of my peers at JMU, are trying to help our school’s reputation and improve our environment.

First, let me state the facts: I’m a 20-year-old sophomore English major.

I live on campus, I don’t have a driver’s license and I’ve never had and never will have an alcoholic beverage in my life. I will also be a Resident Adviser in Wampler Hall next year.

To me, that last sentence says more than anything else. To me, that says I care about our environment and our students enough to try to help, even if it is in a small way. I will in no way condone or encourage partying next year. I will actively offer different activities to my residents, and attempt to promote the alcohol-free events at JMU. I will show my residents that it’s possible to have fun without being intoxicated. I will strive to make a difference in their lives. But do you know how hard it is to try to change things alone?

Students like me, who wanted to change the partying reputation of JMU before the Springfest riots, need help if we want to succeed. Without the help of faculty, administrators and organizations on campus, we can only do so

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much. Believe me, I want to help my residents find other ways to have fun on campus. But do you know how hard it is to do that when I can’t even find things to do for myself?

Think about it. What exactly do we offer on campus for students who don’t drink and can’t get off campus to do other things (i.e., the entire freshman class)? Very little — that’s what. Sure, we have movies at Grafton-Stovall. Yes, we have Funny Freakin’ Fridays and New & Improv’d at Taylor Down Under. But what about the weekends when there is, quite frankly, nothing to do on this campus? It happens all too often.

Students go out partying because they have nothing better to do, they don’t have access to off-campus facilities (it’s so easy to take a ride on the drunk bus), and they usually can’t afford to do anything off campus, even if they do have the means to get there.

I know this is true, because I’ve been there. Most of my weekends are pretty boring.

This is a problem that cannot be solved by students alone, much as we’d like to help. Our university desperately needs to provide more activities to our students. We need more facilities open on campus with free or cheap activities for students to partake in on the weekends. With very few options right now, how can you blame the students for going out partying? We can only enact change when we provide the means for students to change their habits.

So here’s my question to everyone who thinks no students are trying to help foster an environment that JMU can be proud of: What are you doing to help?

Because I know I’m doing my part.

Sarah Likins is a sophomore English major.

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At the End of the Day A Final Column of Reflections from a Graduating Senior Sure enough, this column snuck up on me just as graduation sneaks up on every senior you’ve ever talked to. It’s my last one, as this is the last paper before my intended graduation date.

What can I say I’ll take with me?

Like any JMU student, a working knowledge of Ashby Crossing, memories of campus construction and some minor liver damage — but not as much as most, as I spent the last year mostly staying in. Having a funny, engaging roommate made it a delight, and indeed my downtown apartment is a dear part of my experience here.

My academic career is an unorthodox sampling of excellence and failure and seen me pulled in several different directions. It used to seem like a problem, but it’s been more helpful than a smooth ride from dean’s list to diploma would be. Few would envy my transcript, and unlike some students, I don’t have a particular hall — Harrison, Miller, Showker, Keezell — in which I feel at home, or accomplished. Frankly, I feel uneasy in some.

But I wouldn’t have it any other way.

I designed the front page of The Breeze for a year and established a new

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It might seem unfulfilling to leave college without definitive direction, but the whole affair has been so damn interesting it more than makes up for that.

That’s what I got. It might seem unfulfilling to leave college without definitive direction, but the whole affair has been so damn interesting it more than makes up for that.

As for advice? I would simply say this: Discover your passion and take advantage of all the people you meet here — really engage with them. If you’re

going to do something, do it well. Do it for the right reason.

And if you ever feel overwhelmed, remember that there’s no point to all this unless you can enjoy it.

I’d like to reserve the last words of my column in acknowledgement of those whose thought, passion or encouragement has fostered most of my personal growth here, whether they know it or not: Kate Kessler, without whom I might never have found my way to The Breeze and dug into writing.

Kevin Hardwick, whose compelling, complex survey of thought made my sophomore GHIST 225 course the finest I’ve ever taken.

Scott J. Hammond, who introduced me to Plato and Western political thought with inspiring passion.

Erin Lambert, whose grace and encouragement came at a time they were sorely needed.

Eleanor Henderson, for providing the very model of a modern writing minor class, topped off with wit.

Tim Chapman, for two years of friendship that have meant more to me than anything. JMU was truly lucky to have you, and I was proud to work for you.

My parents, for believing in me.

Whitten Maher is a graduating political science major and former design edter at The Breeze.

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From the guy who would rather watch grass grow.

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A “go-fly-a-kite” pat to the guys making great use of the windy Tuesday afternoon on the Festival Lawn.

From a girl whose spirits were lifted on small plastic wings.

A “posture” pat to the Baltimore Ravens girl who walked through ISAT with a yearbook balanced on her head without ever dropping it.

From an admirer who thinks your posture is FAN-tastic!.

A “turn-it-up!” pat to the guy driving through campus with his friends Sunday night blasting the JMU Fight Song.

From a girl who really likes your spirit and hopes to hear more of it.

A “thank-God-I-voted” pat to D-Hall for serving up all of my faves Monday night for senior dinner.

From a grilled cheese, buffalo mash, mac and cheese, peanut butter pie lover.

A “shoo-fly,-don’t-bother-me” dart to the bug I found in my pasta bowl at Market One. From a vegetarian who may need, but doesn’t want, the extra protein.

An “I’m-gonna-miss-you” pat to Darts & Pats for always being there for me on Mondays and Thursdays.

From a senior who will be reading The Breeze those mornings at her real job next year.

An “I’m-not-gonna-cry,-I’mnot-gonna-cry” dart to all the seniors on campus talking about graduation.

From a sophomore who hopes her next two years don’t go as fast as her first two.

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A “REALLY?!” dart to whoever stole the milk crate off the back of my bicycle.

From someone who also misses the bungee cords that were attached to it.

A “feelin’-so-Gilty” pat to the creators and participants of Club Gilty for proving that JMU is not just a riotous party school.

From a girl who loves to feel Gilty.

A “you-make-me-feel-like-akid-again” pat to Capri Suns.

From a college student who likes to pretend she doesn’t have finals coming up when sipping on you.

A “U-rock,-UREC” pat to University RECreation, for proving that I have the best job on campus.

From one of UREC’s enthused employees.

A “yeah-those-mirrors-on-theside-of-your-car-are-therefor-a-reason” dart to the Virginia driver who almost drove me into the sidewalk.

From a Jersey driver who thinks you’re lucky I didn’t slash your tires.

A “you-better-look-again” dart to the boy who shouted “Morgan?” at me from his car.

From a girl named Dani.

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Don’t Mess With Releasing Your Inner Andrew Jackson’s Face Fourth Grader Recently the United States Treasury Department unveiled a new $100 bill, which includes a 3D security ribbon, to go into circulation next February.

It’s yet another elaborate step to thwart potential counterfeiters. Also, I’m poor.

These two facts have gotten me thinking about money lately, and I have a big suggestion for the next update of a Treasury note.

Take Andrew Jackson off of the $20 bill. I don’t mean to diminish his historical importance, but we’re doing more to disgrace his legacy than celebrate it by printing his face on money.

He was a Tennessee lawyer and major general who became President in 1828 and served two full terms, but there is much more to Jackson than the jobs he held. He was a fierce believer in honor who challenged people to duels and once killed a man. He didn’t defer to Congress when it came to policymaking and ignored the Supreme Court — things his predecessors hadn’t done.

He fought for the abolition of the Electoral Collage more than 150 years before the 2000 election made people question the system. When Jackson was faced with an assassination attempt, he beat his attacker with a cane until his own aides had to restrain him. When he left office he said, “I have only two regrets: I didn’t shoot Henry Clay and I didn’t hang John C. Calhoun.” Henry Clay was a Senator from Kentucky and John C. Calhoun was Jackson’s vice president.

Yes, the man was badass. He vetoed more bills than all seven past presidents combined, an accomplishment which popularized Jackson’s motto, “Keep your veto hand strong.” The phrase is still in use today, but with a slightly inappropriate alteration. He may have been the most “gangsta” president the country has ever had, and while I’d be fine with putting Tupac on the $20 bill, it’s an insult to have Jackson on there.

His greatest accomplishments as president were eliminating the national

debt and destroying the national bank.

He declared, “The bank is trying to kill me, but I will kill it!” and vetoed its re-charter. He thought a national, centralized financial institution was unconstitutional and a monopoly. He was a strong supporter of coined money and hated paper bills — even ordering that all purchases of federal land must be paid in coin in 1836.

It’s senseless to put someone on a Treasury note that fought against centralized financial regulation and paper money. Considering this, as well as the fact that Jackson thought that nothing greater than a $5 bill should ever be printed, it seems nearly criminal that he is known to most Americans as “that guy on the $20.” Our seventh President’s predicament is the sort of cruel irony that would make Alanis Morissette millions, if she wasn’t Canadian and therefore legally prohibited from singing about American presidents.

There are many better-suited candidates for the bill. James K. Polk, a Jacksonian who re-established an independent treasury following the Bank’s demise, would be a good choice. Woodrow Wilson is also deserving of being on our money, since he signed into law the Federal Reserve System still used today.

He is currently on the printed, but never circulated, $100,000 bill. Other important figures in American political history like James Madison, Grover Cleveland and Arnold Schwarzenegger would also be improvements to the bill.

For Jackson, his legacy is remembered through statues, postage stamps and countless public buildings and lands named after him. He wouldn’t want to be on a Federal Reserve note, so let’s please take his picture off the $20 before his ghost challenges us all to a duel.

Lucas Wachob is a freshman public policy and administration major.

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Protecting Your Rights Students Need to Understand How to Stay Out of Jail.

In my 26 years of practicing law, I have learned that simple lessons are sometimes difficult. One them is that there is never any upside to talking with the police. Anything a person says to the police that might help them is not generally admissible in court; only the bad stuff comes in. Furthermore, police are trained to be verbally aggressive and are permitted to deceive people in the course of developing investigations. A famous example of a Virginia conviction that occurred when a person chose to speak with police is Earl Washington.

In this case, a man spent nine years on death row for a crime he did not commit.

Further information and examples of police interview tactics can be found in Regent University School of Law professor James Duane’s lecture series about reasons not to consent to police interviews, which is posted on YouTube.

Even if the police are actually investigating someone else, you will be charged with a Class 1 Misdemeanor if the police think you lied to them (which they may believe because of incorrect information they received from another source). So, what should you do if the police stop or contact you?

Give the police your identification and

then say: “I want a lawyer. If I am not under arrest, please let me go.” Politely repeat this phrase like a broken record in response to all questions. Eventually, they will either release or arrest you.

If arrested, when questioned, continue to politely ask for a lawyer and make no statements nor answer any questions.

If on the telephone, tell the police, “I do not talk with police. Please do not contact me again.”

If the police come to your door, you are neither required to talk with them nor let them into your home. Through your door, tell the police, “I do not talk with police. Please do not contact me again.”

Remember, while police serve and protect the public, mistakes can and do occur. If a crime has been committed, police and prosecutors have tools and powers to investigate it. Voluntary interviews are never a good idea and refusing to be interviewed is neither being “uncooperative” or inappropriate.

The privilege against self-incrimination is one of our basic rights. Don’t throw it away.

Robert Keefer is a lawyer at Keefer Law Firm PLC.

Donating Time to After School Programs Benefits Both Children and Volunteers.

I began volunteering at local elementary schools during my sophomore year because of my fraternity. An hour of my time once a week with an after school program was an easy way to knock out 10 or 15 hours per semester.

I was inexperienced and admittedly a little uncomfortable dealing with young kids. As the youngest of three siblings, and having never worked with young children before, I wondered what I was going to talk to the kids about besides multiplication problems. Would I be able to make any difference? Would I offer these kids anything beneficial?

Three years later, I’m fortunate enough to have the chance to still be working with students at Spotswood Elementary School. I’ve found that I shouldn’t have been concerned with what I was going to offer the kids. With the help of experienced teachers anyone can teach multiplication tables.

If anything, I have been influenced by the young students in a profound way. There is something enlightening about working with a younger generation. As you interact with them you begin to remember yourself at that age and the blurry image of your path to present day becomes more and more clear.

When talking about JMU, the boys argue at the lunch table about how many questions would be on the test to skip from fourth grade to college; they decide it must be around 100.

The boys still argue on the playground about who won the game of knockout between two fourth grade classes.

Mechanical pencils are a luxury item along with those fancy pencil erasers shaped like an arrow. They still use those same pencils to draw that same fancy “S” we all called the “stussy.”

The outdoors are still far more interesting than the math problem on the board, and it is a full time job to keep a youngster sitting up with two feet on the ground.

It is important to mention that some of these kids come from extraordinary situations. When I help in math, the boy to my left arrived from Iraq less than a year ago and has stories about explosions outside of his house and U.S. soldiers on his block. The boy on the right arrived from Puerto Rico about a year and a half ago, speaking little English and reading none, and now reads at close to a fourth grade level; shows incredible progress.

Without the dedication and passion of local elementary school teachers,

parents and administration, along with the help of likely hundreds of student and full-time volunteers, this progress would not be possible. So go out and volunteer within the Harrisonburg community. Work with Big Brothers Big Sisters, either by getting a little brother/sister or simply volunteering on the weekends. Get your organization to work with after-school programs, attend Bowl-For-Kid’s-Sake next year — anything you can to interact with these kids. Making an impact is as easy as having a conversation and making a kid laugh, and it may evolve into a long-term mentoring experience.

I will bet that you will soon find your inner fourth grade self, still very much a part of you, and appreciate how in the scheme of things we haven’t changed as much as we like to imagine. Only an hour after leaving Spotswood last week while in my economics class, I found myself slouching down doodling something very similar to a stussy in my notebook and thought, “Sit up Keith, put both feet on the floor.”

Keith Reilly is a senior economics major.

No Time Like the Present To Overhaul Wall Street

Government Should Regulate to Prevent High-Risk Trading.

If there ever was a moment for reining in America’s cowboy banks, this is it.

Folks across the nation are fed up with banker bailouts and bonuses — and American lawmakers finally are listening more to them than to Wall Street’s lobbyists. The proposed Volcker rule for restricting bankers’ securities trading, once dismissed by pundits as a pipe dream, is very much in play.

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s fraud suit against Goldman Sachs Group is the clincher for reform.

Goldman Sachs loses even if it wins the legal case or settles out of court.

Will anybody trust investment bankers who think betting against their own clients is ethical?

Bank reform also gives Congress a chance to restore a bit of its reputation, now at a low. Republicans will have to think twice before casting a reflexive “no” vote against proposals offered by Democratic lawmakers.

Christopher Dodd and Richard Shelby, the top Democrat and Republican, respectively, on the Senate Banking Committee, have said they are close to approving a bill on bank regulation. The House has already passed its measure.

One hang-up is the proposal for an industry-financed fund to shut down a big bank that fails in the future.

Republicans say this simply invites future bad behavior by bankers. And you never know if the fund will be big enough.

Banks would get smaller and perhaps less likely to fail if the Volcker

rule, named after former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, passes. The proposal would forbid banks to trade securities for their own account -- which can create conflicts with customers -- or to invest in hedge funds or buyout funds.

Wall Street will resist giving up proprietary trading because it has been so profitable. The banks would probably spin off this activity from the rest of their business, perhaps putting it into an old-style partnership. Then

The broader view is that banks find it more profitable to trade in the dark where they dictate the prices rather than on a well-lit exchange where all buyers and sellers set prices. the risks of bad decisions would affect only the partners, not public shareholders and taxpayers. Banks might go even farther, splitting off all trading or even all investment banking from commercial banking.

More, smaller companies may be beneficial for the industry. Outfits such as Citigroup and Bank of America, which thought size and wide product diversity were the keys to profit, were on the brink of bankruptcy before the government rescued them from their crazy bets on mortgage securities.

Congress seems to be reaching a consensus that all or most derivatives trading should be done on exchanges.

This would mean that trades in such instruments as the credit default swaps that overwhelmed American International Group would be done by well-capitalized firms and with the assurance they would be completed.

You know this is a good idea because Wall Street chiefs insist that many derivative contracts are too customized to be fit for exchange trading.

Believe that if you want to. The broader view is that banks find it more profitable to trade in the dark where they dictate the prices rather than on a well-lit exchange where all buyers and sellers set prices.

The bleating about derivatives is reminiscent of the moaning when the New York Stock Exchange abolished fixed commissions on share trading in 1975 (before some of you were born).

Profits would vanish, the business would be ruined, spoke the voices of doom. Sure. Average daily trading volume on the exchange back then was in the millions. Today it’s in the billions.

What bank bosses don’t get is that properly regulated banks will thrive.

The high-risk trading that fomented the recent credit crisis and recession wasn’t an aberration. Banks as now constituted reward risky behavior.

When government overseers insist they hold adequate capital and pay their people rationally, bankers and their shareholders will be better off.

Let’s not mess it up.

David Pauly, Bloomberg News

Mark Powell | guest column

Fighting the Good Fight Against Unemployment Students Are Going from Challenges in School to Challenges in the Working World.

One of the most satisfying feelings in a young adult’s life happens around early May of their senior year in college. As the end of college draws near, you feel the war with your final exams coming to a close; you can afford to send the troops home and finish Physics 101 by yourself. You’ve tried every technique in your arsenal to fend off the multiple choice guerilla attacks, true or false suicide bombers, and the short essay snipers that have picked off your possible good grades for so many years.

Finally, just as it seems the war has beaten you into remission, your pencil drops onto your desk and you see the white flag raised on the horizon. Good grade or not, the war is over. As you push through the double doors, you are free.

You are eager to see the summer greet you upon your return. Full of anticipation, jubilation and high hopes, your wearied mind and body enters the summer with no limits. Nothing will stop you now.

And then, like a freight train, the dreaded job search hits you square in the face and knocks you unconscious. The economy then puts the train in reverse and hits you repeatedly until you swear never to look for a job ever again.

The dreaded words of “We’re always taking applications” seems to plague teenagers and college students across the country. But, the employment condition seems to be at an all time low.

There seems to be no hope for an aspiring teenager looking to make a few bucks during the summer. However, one would be naïve to sit back and blame the economy solely for the ever-growing swamp monster that I call unemployment. Something else is fueling this horrible drought of “help wanted” signs

The economy then puts the train in reverse and hits you repeatedly until you swear never to look for a job ever again. and classified ads. Could it be that the same places we look for jobs are feeding this monster behind our backs inadvertently?

I say with absolutely no tinge of remorse that the employment application is the direct cause of a chronic

disease sweeping around the entire country: Aching-Wrist-a-Noma. Common causes of AWN include incessantly writing down prior jobs, struggling to decide whether that jaywalking ticket was really a misdemeanor or not and endlessly thinking of an unrelated reference who actually won’t get pissed off that you wrote down his or her information on an arbitrary application. Along with AWN, the sheer length of the application has seemed to increase 10-fold over the last couple years. Might there be a direct correlation between a struggling economy and length of a Subway application? Apparently so, because these days one has to have an MBA in order to figure out the right amount of cheese to put on a $5 footlong.

We can’t ignore the biggest pain in application development. Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for the Internet. That’s funny, I don’t hear applause. Kind of what I expected. For years, the Internet has been making trivial tasks like buying a CD or a concert ticket an overcomplicated mess. If I have to type in a secret code for Ticketmaster one more time, I may scream. Yet, the Internet prevails, and like an imperialist nation has taken over job applications

as well. At first glance, this seems like a benefit for you and the employer, but one must read the oh so small fine print.

The online application, not to mention it being similar to its sister companion in length, makes it possible for the employer to put quizzes for employment aptitude a requirement, such as they do at stores like Best Buy and the late Circuit City. These not only take hours of our time but secretly waste it. The chances of an employer getting back to you from an online application seem as likely as winning the lottery. Is it inappropriate to say that your precious time making the perfect online application is spent on nothing but a black hole of a job opportunity?

Lastly, there have been acute reports of teenagers seeing “help wanted” signs in select stores across the country. Of course, the right thing was done, and the authorities were called immediately. To their surprise, the signs were taken to a lab and proven to be real. What was once thought to be a mirage was actually a reality. However, the stories didn’t have a happy ending. When the kids applied, they waited night and day by their cell phones, but beyond a text message from

their friends, the phones lay silent. I have worked in many establishments over the years but never thought it was amusing to play “trick the applicant” game as much as stores do now. I can’t say I know what the employer is trying to do, but I beg of them, only put up the sign when help is really needed.

It seems that our progressive society is making it more and more arduous to find any kind of opportunity to get a paycheck. And to top it all off, with many huge corporations going overseas, like Dell and Verizon, it seems unlikely that you’ll land a job in technical support unless you are willing to make the 12,000-mile commute to India. It grows even grimmer as my generation looks in the mirror and finds themselves applying for internships that seem to be more ancient folklore than a reality. So what of the situation at hand? As the war against school tuition approaches, how is it that a teenager is supposed to survive with only himself in the front line? For now, take a rest, and then keep applying, in memory of the man who is writing this to you: the unemployed martyr.

Mark Powell is a junior media arts & design major.

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Freshman Nic Mirenda, though not an avid cyclist, will ride a 100K in honor of his father this fall. He is also considering going to medical school and joining the military after college, as his father did.

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Though freshman Nic Mirenda lost his father in a biking accident in August, he’s determined to preserve his memory.

That’s why he has helped organized and is riding in the DR100 Memorial Ride and Run this September.

By Torie Foster The Breeze

It’s been nearly eight months since freshman Nic Mirenda’s father was hit by a car and killed while cycling to surprise him at school.

But Dr. Joseph Mirenda’s life is not even close to being forgotten, thanks to the DR100 Memorial Ride and Run, set to take place September 18.

Though Nic, a physics major from Virginia Beach, hasn’t had much cycling experience, he was eager to begin this project in honor of his dad, who was 49 years old when he died.

“I was pretty much all on board,” Nic said. “I was excited about finishing where my dad left off. I like to think of it as me trying to follow in his footsteps now.”

Nic isn’t the only one who is looking forward to the event.

More than 400 people have already registered for the ride on Facebook, with new people signing up every day, according to Steve Tomasi, the DR100 overseer.

“We’ve had an incredible amount of support from the

community and university,” Tomasi said. “People have just bent over backwards.”

Describing the past couple of months as a “roller coaster,” Nic said it’s been a challenging year for his family.

“It’s sort of been a bit of a blur,” said Nic’s mother, Frauke, 52­­. “It’s been very surreal. There are still times when I think it’s just a bad dream. It hasn’t really fully hit us.”

Though Frauke and her 17-year-old daughter, Elli, don’t intend to ride or run, they are planning to assist with the event. Frauke said she is impressed with her son’s involvement, and how well both of her children have dealt with the loss.

“I think it’s absolutely awesome, and he just amazes me with how strong he is and how he has just handled everything,” Frauke said. “I never in a million years would have imagined my kids would have handled it as well as they did.

I’m so very proud of both of them.”

On Aug. 25, Joseph was biking on Port Republic Road from Wintergreen Resort to JMU when he was allegedly struck from behind by Jessica Chandler, who was driving a

Ford Taurus. Joseph suffered a brain fracture and died at the scene. Chandler, 22, faces a Class 1 misdemeanor charge of reckless driving, up to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine, as well as suspension of driving privileges.

Even now, the issue is not resolved. Chandler’s lawyer is fighting the criminal charge, claiming it wasn’t reckless driving, according to Frauke.

“We don’t want her to go to jail,” Frauke said. “We’d just like her to admit she’s wrong.”

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A few weeks after Joseph’s accident, Staunton-native and JMU ’88 graduate Tomasi contacted Nic about beginning a project in memory of his father. Tomasi had read about the accident in the Daily News-Record and felt the need to help Nic somehow. After much introspection and prayer, Tomasi came up with the idea of the DR100 (“DR” for doctor, 100 for the 100K). see Biking, page 19

Local DJ to Leave Latimer-Shaeffer Closes Curtain JMU for D.C. Area Play review

By Amber Logsdon contributing writer

Bob Rauschenberg was one of the most prolific American artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. His sculptures and paintings usually incorporated little bits of American icons, such as Coca-Cola bottles or images of John F. Kennedy. His unique application of his craft inspired playwright Charles Mee to create “bobrauschenbergamerica.”

The play is not about Bob Rauschenberg, by any means.

Instead, “bobrauschenbergamerica” is a celebration of Rauschenberg and his take on American life. The play, directed by Dennis Beck, a theatre professor, does not follow usual theatre conventions in any way.

“This is the farewell performance to Latimer-Shaeffer Theatre,” Beck said.

“We’re showing it in its full glory.”

The story itself is not linear, and instead it is told in many sub-plots between characters. Altogether, there are 41 scenes throughout the show, without an intermission.

Though curtains are usually standard in a stage performance, here they are not present at all. The

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Phil (senior Dylan Morris) and his girl (freshman Elizabeth Rumble) discuss their relationship. This bath tub scene is one of many existentialist sub-plots of the show.

audience sees the stage in its full glory, reaching into the wings and the ceiling. The only things on stage are a giant disheveled picture frame and a small record player sitting on the edge of the stage. While people seat themselves, an actress comes out and

turns the record player on, treating everyone to classic American tunes.

Truly, everything about “bobrauschenbergamerica” brings Rauschenberg’s works of art to life. see Play, page 21

Little did ’08 graduate DJ Mark Maskell know that, before moving to D.C., he would end up saving an entire business and family in Harrisonburg with his talents.

Maskell, 25, began DJing his freshman year as an integrated science and technology major.

“Everything I needed to know I learned at JMU while partying,” he said. “Now, lo and behold, I have a career in partying.”

For a graduate whose experience ranges from using Warren Hall as a backdrop to play video games to building a way to remote broadcast for WXJM “from the comfort of my bathroom,” this may seem like a strange statement. But for a man who is equal parts promotional company, DJ and small-town hero, it fits.

Maskell started using his professional-sized mixing board to play at parties around campus. He moved on to semi-formals and other upscale events. Once he had established a name for himself, he decided to try

creating and promoting his own parties at downtown venues. His first, a party at the former Main Street Bar & Grill, was a huge success.

To build his reputation and gain experience, Maskell began playing Saturdays at Highlawn, then Thursdays at the former Isis Café.

“Every time I would create one of these events, I would learn something more, grow a little further, figure out what I did right or wrong,” Maskell said. “All the while I was expanding to the D.C. scene, and learning more about promotions through them.”

Then an opportunity arrived when a restaurant was going out of business. New owners were taking the old courtyard and turning it into a new bar and grill, and Maskell saw a chance to land himself a regular gig.

The reincarnation of the Bombay Courtyard became Bourbon Street on Main. Maskell took over Wednesday nights and quickly established a college night which “was a huge success right from the start.”

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Dudzik to Be Starting QB

By Michael Demsky The Breeze

Mickey Matthews has named Drew Dudzik the starting quarterback before.

This time however, Dudzik and the JMU faithful hope he holds onto the title for a little longer.

On Tuesday, head coach Mickey Matthews announced Dudzik as the Dukes’ starting quarterback for the 2010 season. The rising senior out-dueled sophomore Justin Thorpe this spring and will take the reigns in the fall.

“He’s the unquestioned leader of our football team,” Matthews said Wednesday. “He’s the best quarterback our team has right now.”

Dudzik takes over a team that was his for just a handful of plays a season ago.

“Last year at halftime of the Richmond game, after the second quarter Drew had, he played so well we decided then he was going to start the rest of the year,” Matthews said. “He broke his foot five plays later.”

Dudzik threw for 68 yards and a touchdown in the first half of the Richmond game. His 38-yard touchdown pass to Rockeed McCarter helped lead the team to a 17-14 halftime lead. The Dukes would fail to score after Dudzik’s injury, eventually falling 21-17 to the nationally top-ranked Spiders.

Their Last Days as Dukes Pierre Curtis and Matt Parker Move On

By Mike Kaplan The Breeze

When senior Pierre Curtis graduates next Saturday, JMU will lose its all-time leader in assists (463), steals (175) and games started (124).

Curtis, who will leave with a degree in sports management, downplays all but one of his personal achievements. He says the steals record is “watered down” because so many were incidents of luck, and he believes the record marking his longevity is merely the result of staying healthy, which also required some luck.

But there is one distinction that Curtis finds undeserving of modesty.

“The assist record really means a lot to me because of all the critics who said ‘Pierre’s not a point guard, he’s a shooting guard,” Curtis said.

“I have the assist record. I must be some kind of point guard.”

The gregarious Denver, Co., native had, in his words, “an eventful four years” at Madison.

Curtis nearly transferred after a tumultuous sophomore year; one that included the loss of his mother, Carolyn Curtis-Rice, to complications from dialysis treatment for kidney failure, as well as the resignation of men’s basketball coach Dean Keener. Curtis ultimately decided to stay, and in his junior season he led the Dukes to their most successful campaign (21-15 overall) since 1999-2000.

This past season, his second under the tutelage of coach Matt Brady, Curtis and company failed to duplicate the success of the previous year. Undermined by team chemistry issues and injuries to key players, the 2009-2010 Dukes floundered to a 13-20 finish that ended with a loss to William & Mary in the second round of the Colonial Athletic Associate tournament.

“This year was really difficult just because we had the talent,” Curtis said. “But for some reason people weren’t putting it together. People weren’t locked into what the coach wanted us to do. We really didn’t mesh as a team, for whatever reason.

And when you lose a guard like Devon [Moore] and a player like Andrey [Semenov], it really hurts.”

Despite the disappointment of his senior season, there is no love lost between Curtis and the game that has endeared him to so many Dukes’ fans. And he’s not ready to give it up quite yet.

“I want to coach,” Curtis said.

“But right now I’m talking with some agents about [playing] overseas. That’s plan number one. But plan B is I applied to [JMU] grad school.”

Curtis doesn’t know where he’ll be playing next year, but he says Italy and Spain are possibilities.

He is encouraged by former Dukes Juwann James and Kyle Swanston, who are enjoying success playing basketball abroad.

James, a 2009 grad, averaged 33 points and 12 rebounds per game for the Neptune-Cork Basketball Club of the Irish Superleague. Curtis is still a close friend of James’, and said he often talks to his former teammate about the jump to playing professionally overseas.

As for his post-playing career, basketball is still in Curtis’s plans.

Pierre wants to someday coach women’s basketball, and he spent his senior year interning in the women’s basketball office. He prefers the women’s game to the men’s, because he believes it to be more “pure,” and because men’s recruiting is “too much to put up with.”

It’s not surprising then that Curtis’ mentor is women’s basketball coach Kenny Brooks – also a former JMU point guard (1988-1991).

robert boag / file photo

The basketball team has a large hole to fill with the departure of point guard Pierre Curtis. The university’s career leader in minutes, assists and steals is currently mulling contract offers from international teams.

When Curtis isn’t looking toward the future, he reflects fondly on the past. Ironically, his most memorable moment as a Duke isn’t a game winning shot or a post-season victory, but one that came in a losing effort.

It was senior night.

“I’m not just one of those kids who comes here, does his four years, and I’m out,” he said. “I am really embedded into the community. So for senior night to come around, and just to see the fans show that they care for me as much as I care for them, it was a special moment.”

Unlike Curtis, senior Matt Parker says his playing days are over.

“I’ve been blessed to play for four years, but now I’m going in a different direction,” he said.

Parker, who will graduate in the fall with a degree in public policy and

administration, plans to go back to school to get his masters in divinity and eventually go into pastoral ministry. The Charlotte, N.C., native says he gained his faith while at JMU, and in 10 years he’ll “probably be preaching, leading a church and hopefully be married with a family.”

Parker’s most memorable moment as a Duke came two years ago in a home win against George Mason.

He scored only three points that day, but it was what followed that has a special place in his memory.

“After that game, I made a shot so I got to go speak to some high school kids that were here visiting from [Fellowship of Christian Athletes],” Parker said. “After them getting to see a game like that, and getting to speak to them and share my faith with them was a real joy.”

baseball

Q&A with a Record-Breaker

By Michael Demsky The Breeze

Senior outfielder Matt Browning has etched his name in JMU baseball history by setting the school record for doubles. After reaching second base on his hit in the Dukes’ April 25 game at Kennesaw State, he broke Kevin Razler’s 1999 record. Browning, a second team All-Colonial Athletic Conference selection last year, has had a successful season thus far. He ranks in the top 10 in the CAA in several offensive categories, including slugging percentage, on-base percentage, runs, hits, doubles and home runs.

Over the course of your career, what have been some keys to your success? I think one of

Mickey Matthews

JMU head football coach

see Dudzik, page 16

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“He’s the unquestioned leader of our football team.”

The Dukes, ranked No. 6 at the beginning of the year, would finish 6-5.

Despite giving Dudzik the vast majority of the snaps late in spring camp, Matthews refused to make the announcement until Tuesday. Over the past few weeks he has been stringent in his denial to make anything official.

However, he did disclose Friday that Dudzik was the favorite after the team’s final spring scrimmage.

“They both played well today,” Matthews said Friday after the game.

“Drew is slightly ahead and I think he has maintained that.”

Dudzik was solid in the four and half games prior to the injury, throwing for 472 yards and six touchdowns while splitting time with Thorpe.

Dudzik believes naming a starter now, as opposed to just before or during the season, gives the team somewhat of a head start going into the summer.

“I think [the announcement] sets the tone for the team,” Dudzik said. “It takes away any uncertainty people may have.”

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In addition to being JMU’s all-time leader in doubles, Matt Browning also ranks ninth in RBI, seventh in total bases and has hit over .375 in three of his four seasons as a Duke.

the major things is being able to stay healthy and continue to be in the lineup. I think that’s one of the reasons I think I’ve been able to play so well. Another thing, I try to go up there and try to keep the same approach each day.

Some games are going to be great but sometimes you’ll fail, but no matter what, I try to go out there and stay even keel every day.

What does the doubles record mean to you? It means a lot. This

is a very prestigious program as far as baseball is concerned and you look at all the great players who have come through here, especially hitters. For me to be up there with them in this category is very special.

What is your best memory on the field? Definitely winning the

conference tournament in 2008. I was actually the one who caught the last out, so right after that just having the dogpile in Wilmington. That was without a doubt my best memory.

How would you sum this season up in a single sentence? We

had some real high expectations coming into the season, and we’ve underachieved a little bit.

What is your one piece of advice for incoming freshmen? Don’t

play like freshmen. By that I mean, if they’re in the lineup they need to just go out and play and not take the opportunity for granted. Don’t think, “I’m just a freshman.” You have to be in the moment and play baseball.

Why do you think the team has played better in conference games? I think part of that is a

tough out-of-conference schedule.

It’s hard to explain — baseball is just a funny game, you win some and you lose some.

see Browning, page 16

Club Sports

Triathlon Earns Sport Club of the Year

By Shannon Kenny contributing writer

They’re in the pool before the sun even thinks about coming up. They’re cycling on UREC’s stationary bikes until their legs are numb. They’re running circles around campus in the time it takes most students to walk to class.

They are members of the JMU Triathlon sports club, and winners of the

2010 Sports Club of the Year.

Out of the 41 sports club teams at JMU, the Triathlon team has exceeded their own expectations, setting them apart from their fellow clubs.

The team’s incomparable amount of community service and fundraising, as well as its increasing membership numbers, contributed to its status as Sports Club of the Year.

Triathlon club president, junior

Stephanie Larson, said that everything the team has done in the past year has revolved around winning the title.

“It was a personal goal of mine since I was elected as president last April to win Sports Club of the Year,” Larson said. “We were all very dedicated and worked well together as a team which helped us win.”

The team’s goal was to surpass its community service requirements, and

they did so by more than 100 hours.

The team completed 400-plus hours of community service and raised more than $4,000 in fundraising.

Beyond their impressive support for the JMU and Harrisonburg community, the triathlon team members set the standard for what it means to be active and healthy at JMU. see Triathlon, page 17

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Dudzik | Deserving

Browning | Balances Business and Baseball from page 15 Ultimately, what is this team capable of? I think

we’re capable of great things.

Even though our record is not that great, when we play well we can compete with anybody out there. Once you get into that tournament setting, such as the CAA Tournament or any postseason play, as long as things are clicking on all cylinders we have the potential to be a very dangerous team.

What is your plan after JMU baseball? I’ll be

graduating in December with a degree in sports marketing.

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This summer I’ll actually be working with the local baseball academy in the Shenandoah Valley as my practicum. Then this fall, I’ll be doing be an internship. I’d love to be a sports marketer for a professional sports team, probably the job I’d love to do most. Obviously, my dream is to continue to play baseball at the professional level, but if not, then I’m trying to pursue a career in marketing. But I would love to get that kind of opportunity with baseball.

How have you been able to manage your academics and baseball? It’s tough,

especially in the spring when

Thorpe would go on to start the last six games for the Dukes last fall, compiling 1,914 yards of total offense and 11 touchdowns, five on the ground and six through the air. Many believe he will still see the field quite a bit during the regular season, but a decision as to when and where he will play has not been made.

on the field. Other than that, I’d say my roommates [teammates Mike Fabiaschi, Trevor Knight and Brett Garner] and the friendships and relationships I’ve had with them off the field.

Who have been your biggest influences at JMU, on and off the field? It’s

everything on the field is great, but what I’ll miss is just being a part of the JMU baseball family. I’ve built some great friendships with these guys and I’ll miss not being able to hang out with them every day.

tough to say because there are so many people who have had a big influence on me. I’d say [hitting coach] Coach Sullenger has been very important to me, in terms of my hitting and play

What will you miss the most about your college experience? Obviously

Dukes in the Spotlight Mary Kay Lomady, Lacrosse

Drew Dudzik will begin the season as the starter for the first time, hoping to lead the Dukes to a Football Champion Subdivision playoff berth. from page 15

we’re on the road as much as we are. I have to stay in contact with my professors, give them my travel schedule and let them know about anything and everything that might pop up. I continuously e-mail them just to keep them updated on the team’s situation so I can stay ahead.

n Colonial Athletic Association Player of the Week for the week ending in April 26.

“Once we’ve gone with a quarterback we don’t do a lot of a substituting,” Matthews said. “Although I think Justin will play.”

Thorpe could not be reached for comment Wednesday.

“Justin is a great athlete and he’s going to be a good player for us,” Dudzik said. “I don’t know what their plans are in terms of playing time. I’m just looking forward to the season.”

n The junior attacker tallied seven goals and two assists in 13-5 and 17-7 victories over Old Dominion and No. 19 William & Mary, respectively. n Tied a career-high with five goals against ODU. n Eighth in the CAA with 36 goals.

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n Has scored a combined 71 goals in the past two seasons after scoring just seven her freshman year

e-mail breezesports@gmail.com nate carden / file photo

n The No. 9 Dukes (13-2 overall, 6-0 in the CAA) clinched the top seed and home field advantage for the 2010 CAA Women’s Lacrosse Championship with their victory over William & Mary.

After seeing limited playing time as a freshman, Mary Kay Lomady scored 35 goals in a breakout sophomore campaign last season.

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2010 Team Awards Nikki Newman

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Triathlon | Healthy Lifestyles from page 15

Sophomore triathlete Patrick Watral believes the team provides inspiration for other students to adopt healthy lifestyles.

“I think it’s good for people to see that there is more to college than grades and partying,” Watral said. “If our fellow students see that we can balance everything while staying healthy, there is nothing stopping them from trying it out for themselves.”

The triathlon is one of the most difficult and physically trying sports there is. Even the smallest triathlon, known as a sprint, is made up of a 300-meter swim, a 10-mile bike and a 5K-run.

First year triathlete, sophomore Becky Watkins described her first triathlon, also a sprint, as “very easy.”

What really makes triathlon stand out as a sport is its supportive athletes. For some triathletes, winning in their age group is a distinct possibility. But for most,

just completing the race is a personal accomplishment.

“Aside from the distances and the difficulty, one great aspect of the club and the sport is accomplishing these goals personally and with people who love to do it with you,” Watkins said. “It’s such a rush to see other people pushing themselves just as much as you are.”

“The club is proud,” Watkins said. “We plan on working just as hard, if not harder, next year.”

Construction is in progress on the corner of Port Republic Road and Neff Avenue for new intramural fields. The space is set to be complete by March 2012.

nfl

Redskins to Revamp Roster at Rookie Camp

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With the bulk of the roster now in place, the Washington Redskins will prepare for a second minicamp that should look noticeably different from the first.

Though barely a week has passed since the Redskins broke camp, the personnel has changed significantly with the three-day NFL draft and trades, as Washington has added first-round draft pick Trent Williams to the offensive line, free agent Adam Carriker to the defensive line and said goodbye to quarterback Jason Campbell.

“Yeah, we made some strides,” Coach Mike Shanahan said.

“We’re not done yet. We’re gonna still be looking over obviously the wire relative to free agency, we’ll get a chance to evaluate our football team a little bit more in the next minicamp.

The draft passed and team officials said they did not attempt to trade defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth or linebacker Rocky McIntosh, neither of whom attended the voluntary minicamp on April 16-18.

Coaches are planning on both playing for the Redskins next season, even though McIntosh, a restricted free agent, has yet to sign his tender and Haynesworth is expected to only take part in mandatory offseason activities at Redskins Park.

“I always expect the best from people. We’ve invested a lot in

him,” Shanahan said of Haynesworth. “Hopefully he comes out and he wants to compete, he wants to win. This is all about winning. We want people that want to win and can help us win, and hopefully Albert will be one of those guys.”

The team’s next minicamp is May 7-9, and while it’s technically voluntary, Shanahan will again expect perfect attendance. It’ll be the first time Shanahan and his staff will get to evaluate the team’s newest members. The Redskins drafted six new players — three offensive linemen among them — and also added a handful of undrafted rookie free agents on Sunday, including former Penn State quarterback Daryll Clark and LSU running back Keiland Williams, according to reports.

For that group, the three-day camp will be a crash-course introduction to both professional football and the Redskins’ revamped philosophies.

“It’s really just trying to get the younger guys acclimated to the NFL lifestyle and pace, just trying to bring them along so that when it’s time to play and strap it up, they’re ready,” veteran Lorenzo Alexander said.

Position battles will begin in earnest, too, as the newly-acquired players will be fighting for spots on the depth chart.

Veterans will also be expected to attend — “just polishing up on what we learned so far,” wide receiver Devin Thomas said.

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Coaches on both sides of the ball are in the process of teaching a new offense and a new defense.

The team has vowed to be more committed to a zone-blocking scheme, better utilize its running game and incorporate a more complex passing attack into its offense, while the defense is installing the principles of a 3-4 scheme. Coaches will use the next minicamp to review a lot of the same points that have already been made.

“We’re throwing it all at them.

We’re not holding anything back,” offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan said. “We expect them to have it down by Week 1. It’s a process. You throw a ton at them and see what sticks.

The next minicamp should be void of much quarterback drama, with Campbell, the team’s starter the past 32 games, traded to Oakland on Saturday in exchange for a 2012 fourth-round draft pick.

With McNabb firmly in place as the Redskins’ starter, the sole quarterback question will involve the depth chart. Rex Grossman appears poised to serve as the backup and there should be a battle for the No. 3 job.

Shanahan has stressed that he wants competition at all positions, a key to improvement. Those who have been around the facility and have watched Shanahan and General Manager Bruce Allen slowly add to the roster already have high expectations.

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Album Review

Bartender 3 of 3

Dear WolfGang a Few Steps from Success

By Adam Dove contributing writer

By Matt Sutherland The Breeze

Stumbling across a new band is often the best part of the music experience. Finding Harrisonburg’s own Dear WolfGang isn’t as easy as looking at iTunes’ top 40 charts, but it should be.

The Eastern Mennonite University school chums Andrew Jenner, Jon Styer, Daniele Ressler, Josh Yoder and Jon Helfers have been playing together since 2006. The band will celebrate the release of their first full-length, self-produced album, “Farewell Sweet Empire,” on May 15 with a release show at the Blue Nile.

The music, a balanced blend of Americana, experimental rock and gospel, is composed of several layers of guitars, vocal harmonies and mandolin.

On “Empire,” Dear WolfGang opens with “American Cowboy”, a phased and reverberated post-folk anthem reminiscent of Animal Collective’s sound manipulation. A chorus of five competent vocalists washes over as a present-day Bob Dylan smiles somewhere miles away from Harrisonburg.

“Your Heart’s Last,” arguably the catchiest song on “Empire,” ironically sounds nothing like any other songs on the album. Beginning as a synth-pop suspense-builder, the song switches halfway into a DeVotchKa-ish uplift with a prominent chorus and even more prominent percussion.

While Dear WolfGang may have the musical chops to gain listeners from fans of both Explosions

in the Sky and My Morning Jacket, what really stands out is the lyrics.

The words have short context, but are loaded with meaning much like Ernest Hemingway’s method of description. The final song on “Empire,” “Conversations,” is one of the most vivid songs to paint a picture of poverty since Bruce Springsteen’s “Backstreets.”

Dear WolfGang seems to be trying to write the Great American Song. To a musician, this is the reassurance that can’t be found in a record label or a fouralbum deal. Some of their songs, like “Your Heart’s Last” or the powerful gospel minimalism of “On the Way to Barcelona” have the potential to hold the power of the hymns of the God-given Arcade Fire.

However, if the band is going to create a masterpiece, more risks need to be taken. Several parts in “Empire” have the power and the buildup for one of the guitars to leap from the background of Americana and throw the audience’s inhibitions in the air. These moments either do not fall into place or they lose their momentum very early. If the album’s “The Rise and Fall” is a titular statement meant to describe the volume of the music, then the song will most certainly disappoint fans of the loud-quiet geniuses, the Pixies.

Still, the band’s audacity to recreate an American tradition from scratch is something to be admired. Whether or not Dear WolfGang’s chops will be enough to make other listeners howl will only be decided with time.

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Q&A with Camille Sallette Camille Sallette is a senior international affairs major at JMU. She has been a bartender at Chili’s since she turned 21.

What kind of training did you have to go through?

Most places will tell you that you don’t need any formal training (aka bartending school). All places have different recipes and ways to make drinks. I went through the standard four days of bar training through Chili’s.

Roughly how many drinks do you know how to make? I would say over 100,

not including shooters.

How many state and local laws do you need to know and enforce? The obvious

one is you have to be 21 to drink alcohol. But there are so many others. For one, you cannot serve someone who is already clearly intoxicated.

Many places (this may be just a Chili’s rule) will not let you serve someone twice in one day, aka let them pay out and come back later to drink again. You have no idea what has gone on in the meantime, for example downing a fifth of bourbon in the parking lot before returning. State law also says that you are not allowed to serve anyone with an expired license, even if they are 21.

What’s the most popular drink at your bar? The

most popular drink ... is rum and Coke, not surprisingly.

But I would say our strawberry margarita made with silver tequila, orange liquor, fresh strawberry puree and sour mix would be the current favorite.

What is your favorite drink to make? Least favorite?

Why? My favorite drink

to make is a Sex with an Alligator. It is a complicated shooter with Jager, Midori, Chambord and sour mix.

It is layered, so the dark liquors rest on the top and bottom and the green liquid is in the middle. Plus it tastes delicious. I absolutely despise making strawberry daiquiris.

The blenders get messy, there’s hardly any liquor in them and they take forever to make if you are busy.

Does being around so much alcohol for long periods of time make you more or less inclined to drink?

Sometimes after a long night of drinking being around alcohol makes my stomach tumble.

But other than that, not really.

What’s it like dealing with people who need to be cut off? Awkward. Most people

who I have cut off before have been very defensive when it happens. I just explain to them that it’s not worth my job. If they get wasted and do something illegal, it falls back on me and the establishment I work at.

Do you recall the most wasted person you’ve ever seen at the bar?

Yes, the first person I ever served actually. On my first bartending shift I had to refuse service to a man at the bar. He came in stumbling and speaking nonsense and saying very perverse things about my backside.

even notice. It’s only the very particular drinkers (which are usually whiskey drinkers) that notice defects in their drinks.

What’s the best thing about being a bartender?

Do you have many issues with underage customers trying to use fake IDs and order drinks? I actually

don’t encounter that many fakes. One time someone gave me the “McLovin’” ID from “Superbad.” I was amused.

Too bad he was actually 18.

I get to meet the most interesting people. I meet random travelers that use Harrisonburg as their halfway point in their travels. I’ve waited on recruiters for baseball teams, heads of organizations, interesting military personnel that have traveled all over the world.

It is great that I get to talk to these people because I don’t think I would get any other chance to do so.

What’s the strangest thing that you’ve ever seen happen at the bar?

What are your strengths and weaknesses as a bartender? I am very good

I’ve seen a woman breastfeeding while sipping on a Yuengling at a bar.

What’s the biggest challenge of being a bartender? Multi-tasking.

You are making drinks not only for your customers and monitoring their experience at your restaurant, but you are responsible for making all the drinks that are coming in from the cocktail and dining room area as well. Not only that, but you need to be a quality team member and help out other servers when needed, even if you are busy.

Do you ever mix drinks incorrectly? How do customers react? Yes, and

at multi-tasking and making conversation. Maybe my weakest point is that I am a full-time student and sometimes would rather be at home sleeping or studying than at work, which makes me a little irritable at times.

Finish this sentence: “So a guy walks into a bar…”

The bartender tosses him out as he is too drunk. The drunk walks back into the bar. Again, the bartender throws him out for being too drunk. Again the drunk walks into the bar. The bartender is just about the throw him out when the drunk looks at him and says, “How many bars do you own, anyway?”

half the times people don’t

Biking | More Than 1,000 Runners Expected to Participate in Event from page 13

“I thought it’d be nice for the community to give back to Nic and his family,” Tomasi said.

People can sign up for one of three events: a 100K or a 50K cycling ride or a 5K run. The 100K will begin at the Sherando Lake campground in Lyndhurst, wind through the Shenandoah Valley and end at CISAT. Cyclists will meet at JMU and have their bikes loaded into trucks, and buses will transport the riders to the starting line. The 50K is a loop course, and cyclists will meet the 100K riders at the 30K mark so that they all can finish together. The 5K run is through

JMU’s campus.

Having cycled more than 3,000 miles in the Shenandoah Valley, Tomasi strongly felt something needed to be done for safety on the roads for cyclists. Because of this, the DR100 partnered with the James Madison University Foundation, Inc. to raise $20,000 for painting bike and pedestrian lanes in Harrisonburg, as well as a scholarship for a student “who exhibits dedication to helping others in their community.”

Tomasi also believes bike lanes could have saved Joseph’s life, and he feels as if the results of the event will benefit all users of the road — cars, runners,

pedestrians and cyclists alike.

“I don’t want [road accidents] to ever happen again,” Tomasi said. “This will help people feel more safe on the road. It accommodates everyone.”

The DR100 planning committee has 20 members, including local businessmen, students and avid cyclists from around the area. The committee has already enlisted nearly 20 sponsors, including JMU, BB&T and the Shenandoah Bicycle Company. The JMU Alumni Chapter is also sponsoring it as a charity event.

Tomasi is negotiating with ARAMARK to cater the event, and he is looking to hire a DJ

or band to play at the finishing line. Sayre Enterprises, Inc., an embroidery company, is also giving all pre-registered members free T-shirts and a reflective viability arm band that participants can write their medical and emergency contact information on.

Considering the event is five months away and based on substantial preliminary interest, Tomasi anticipates at least 1,000 runners for the 5K and 500 cyclists total for the 100k and 50k. Tomasi expects to raise $25,000 to $30,000, which will be divided into funds for repainting the roads and for the student scholarship.

Nic, who has helped with several of the committees, said he thinks his father “would be proud that I’m trying to lead something like this.”

Many former patients of Joseph, who was an anesthesiologist, have signed up for the event.

“My husband was an incredibly smart, kind, patient, good soul,” Frauke said. “It’s just such a shame that he was taken from us.”

Though Tomasi never met Joseph, he feels this is the perfect way to honor the doctor’s life.

“I never knew him at all, but he must have been one heck of a guy because people on Facebook and those I’ve talked to have said he was an incredibly caring, nice individual,” Tomasi said. “His personality has really blossomed this thing.”

While the event will help improve local road conditions, people are registering from all over, including from South Carolina, North Carolina, New Jersey and Delaware. Tomasi guesses the widespread interest is due to massive support from friends and family of Joseph, or from an earlier blast e-mail sent to all 55 JMU alumni chapters.

“We’re going to have a large influx of people coming from out of town who may have never even seen Shenandoah Valley,” Tomasi said. He sees this as an advantage to demonstrate “what a great community Harrisonburg is.”

Tomasi, who bikes to his work in Staunton most days a week, also hopes that painting bike lanes will promote

more environmentally friendly commutes.

Though Tomasi aims to make this an annual event, he also seeks to expand to other areas.

Ideally, he would like to have DR100s in every town with a biking community.

“This could be expanded nationally,” he said. “It could get really big.”

Nic is equally impressed with how quickly the idea has taken off.

“The ball’s really been rolling pretty fast. We’ve got a lot of good momentum,” he said.

“It’s going a lot better than I expected.”

If students, faculty and staff register by May 1, there is a large discount off the registration fee.

Registering by August 1 gives a smaller discount, but the final deadline is in mid-August. The price also depends on whether one registers as a tandem (couple) or individually, as well as which ride or run you sign up for.

Prices range from $7 to $70.

“Having something else to concentrate on and knowing that my husband’s death isn’t in vain, knowing that something good will come out of this helps a lot,” Frauke said.

In the meantime, Nic is focusing on school and staying involved in his fraternity, Delta Chi. But in the midst of all this, he continues to feel his father’s influence as he considers joining the military and going to medical school, just as his dad had.

“I’m taking all that he taught me and valuing it more,” he said.

“He died doing something he loved.”

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When the play starts, the stage becomes littered with random pieces of standard American culture — quaint homes, homeless persons living in cardboard boxes — and is even reflected in the characters. Senior Christie Steele, who plays the character of Bob’s mom, is the quintessential ’50s Southern housewife, with an apron and a strong accent. Rolling by on roller skates throughout the play is “Roller Girl” (freshman Elizabeth Rumble), whose costume changes to reflect whatever decade the setting changes to.

There are complete absurdities within the show, breaking up any normalcy the show momentarily establishes.

At one point, after Allen (freshman Jacob Dickey) beats a garbage can with a baseball bat, there is a knock at the door at the back of the stage.

In walks a Scottish bagpipe

player, who crosses from upstage, through the aisles and out of the theatre. It’s gems like this moment that entice gut-busting laughter.

Many of the actors performed spectacularly well in their roles. One of the most compelling performances came from senior Trevor Wilhelms in his part of Becker, the homeless man. Becker is an insane visionary who is usually rambling about strange concepts that don’t make sense. On a cold night, though, he becomes lucid while he speaks about the celebration of mankind.

Some parts are lacking, though. Throughout the show, there is an on-again-offagain relationship between characters Susan and Wilson (juniors Jessica Johnson and Nathan Taylor). Individually, they’re pretty good. However, when they’re on stage interacting with each other, it’s almost dull. Their characters show no real connection to

each other; in fact, it would be difficult to tell if they even have a relationship, if it weren’t written into the script.

Other relationships in the show are hard to interpret.

For example, there seems to be some sort of attraction between Allen and Carl (freshman Owen Wingo), but it’s not addressed until the very end, when Allen confesses his love to Carl.

Despite some relationship issues, “bobrauschenbergamerica” is a delight to behold. Visually, it’s intricate and interesting.

Parts of the stage detached and the house changed shape and color.

The humor hits hard, balancing well with tragedies and existential musings. The sprinkled-in dance scenes are pretty catchy, too. It certainly closes Latimer-Shaeffer Theatre well. “bobrauschenbergamerica” runs in Latimer-Shaeffer Theatre until Saturday.

Maskell | Learned Ways of Business Through 100-Hour Weeks from page 13

of Wednesday night events, however, Bourbon Street as a business was failing, according to Maskell. Wilma Cambata, the owner of the restaurant, had received the restaurant in her divorce settlement.

“One of the things her husband said to her that I will never forget was ‘Wilma, you will fail, and you will come crawling back to me.’ It made me sick to hear that,” Maskell said.

“I realized that if the restaurant failed, Wilma would lose her house, lose her kids, she won’t have a job ... so she would be completely ruined. And Wilma is quite possibly one of the sweetest, purest women I have ever met. So I took it upon myself to make sure that Wilma didn’t fail.”

Prepared to fight the immense debt of the restaurant, Maskell took the reins, and in a few months became general manager. Suddenly thrown into a position with no experience, Maskell found himself working 100-hour weeks of bartending, cooking in the kitchen, maintenance and marketing.

“Any job that can be done in a restaurant or club, I did it because there was nobody else who could,” he said.

Maskell eventually met someone better suited for the position of general manager — somebody able to run 25 tables and an entire restaurant by herself.

Celia Perla had just left her job at IHOP and was looking for a new one when Maskell offered her his own. She accepted, and Maskell used his eight years of party experience to help Perla make Bourbon Street “the best club in town.”

Stepping down to assistant manager, Maskell had more freedom to help restore the restaurant and reach a larger crowd, all the while continuing to build Bourbon Street’s reputation. Even though Maskell

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DJ Mark Maskell brought the downtown scene of Bourbon Street back to life while making a name for himself in the DJ world.

wanted Bourbon Street to be successful, the most important thing remained “making sure that Wilma can get out of debt and support her kids ... She’s why Bourbon Street is there in the first place,” he said.

Now that Maskell has established the Bourbon Street tradition and made sure Wilma has the tools she needs to succeed, he is ready to move on to working with Panorama Productions, “the biggest promotions company in D.C. by a huge margin,” according to Maskell.

“Eight years ago, I was doing stuff in D.C., I started out as a little flyer boy, I was the a--hole

at the door saying, ‘Take the flyers!’ ” Maskell said. “I’m now in a management position.”

With a wealth of experience, Maskell is looking to the opportunities that the future holds for him, but it wouldn’t be right without throwing one last party.

Maskell’s retirement party will be held Wednesday May 5 at Bourbon Street on Main, with an encore performance planned for Thursday.

“If you’re wondering why the retirement party is one day before the actual retirement, just shut up and drink your beer,” Maskell said.

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Seniors Paul Wiederholt and Megan DeLeonardis worked all semester with local bands to make a DVD.

Students Create Music DVD

By Nick Sloane The Breeze

Megan DeLeonardis and Paul Wiederholt have their work cut out for them.

The two seniors, both media arts and design majors, have taken on the role of producers for “A Common Wealth of Music,” a music DVD project featuring various footage from four bands across Virginia.

The semester-long project has been the focus for the pair and 16 other students in their HD compositing and special effects course taught by professor John Woody.

According to DeLeonardis, the SMAD 402 class normally has a major project to raise money for the One Day, One University scholarship. Past classes have created “MACRoCkumentary;” “One Day, One University;” “One Day, One Community” and they ended up making them into DVDs and selling them.

“Every year or two, the advanced SMAD 402 classes are always trying to develop something a little more substantial,” Woody said.

The DVD includes a live performance from each band, a personal interview and an instudio performance at Digico studios in downtown Harrisonburg. Singer-songwriter Casey Cavanagh, a sophomore SMAD major, and his band (the Casey Cavanagh band) with three

other JMU students, juniors John Giardiniere (guitar) and Jeff Pober (bass) and senior Danny Lampton (drums) are featured in the documentary.

“It was really cool because I’ve seen a lot of making of the videos and behind the scenes of how different music videos and documentaries are made, so it’s kinda cool to be on the other end of it,” Cavanagh said.

“We’ve never done any professional in-studio shots besides some promotional photos, so we didn’t really know what to expect going into it.”

Cavanagh also enjoyed the balanced working environment.

“In between takes we were just kind of messing around, playing some songs … we were actually just in there having a good time. That atmosphere combined with the professionalism of the whole project made it a really fun experience,” he said.

The other three bands include Furnace Mountain, a bluegrass group from Floyd County, Olivarez Trio, a “world/gypsy/jazz” group (as described by DeLeonardis) from Charlottesville, and Paschall Brothers, a gospel/a cappella group from Norfolk.

Through this DVD, the two SMAD majors in the digital video and cinema concentration have learned what it takes to tackle a project of this magnitude. To them it’s been a full-time job, especially with

other classes to worry about.

“Personally, I’m taking three production-heavy classes, so by balance it’s kind of been work all the time and sleep for four hours or less per day,” Wiederholt said.

“It’s been a delicate balance, but it’s been do whatever is the most pressing matter at a given time and make a lot of to do lists and keep scratching stuff off.”

Fortunately, Wiederholt and DeLeonardis have managed their time well.

“We haven’t really had any major problems,” DeLeonardis said. “We do our filming on the Saturdays and Sundays on [these past two] weekends, and for the majority [of the class] everyone’s been pretty open to coming.”

The project has provided the pair with a slew of experiences and moments of clarity.

“We had a studio shoot and then four of us drove to Floyd, Va. to shoot Furnace Mountain in this little bluegrass country store,” Wiederholt said. “It’s this wonderful, crystallizing moment where we all realized ‘Yeah, it’s a ton of work, but this is our homework, this is what we’re doing for school.’ The music was wonderful and it somehow encapsulates everything I love about this major.”

With most of the filming having wrapped up, the two seniors hope to finish pieces of the project by the end of the semester and release it by summer.

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