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JMU alumnus volunteers with relief efforts after Hurricane Harvey

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A JMU graduate (‘05) witnessed the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey personally, and provided relief with the Red Cross. He reported and covered the damage, and spoke with those affected by the hurricane in Houston.

By ANTHEA LIU The Breeze

In the middle of the street, Jonathan McNamara stood kneedeep in floodwaters, unable to recognize the path he’d been down before. The roads were flooded, signs were covered by water and McNamara thought about all of those affected by the hurricane — possessionless and waiting for help.

McNamara, an ’05 JMU alumnus, personally witnessed the flooding and was in Texas to help the thousands displaced by Hurricane Harvey, many of whom waited anxiously at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston.

“You’re not used to seeing water touch the tops of street signs,” McNamara, the current communications director for the Red Cross of Virginia and the national spokesperson, said. “That’s not something you or your mind is used to seeing.”

Houston was hit by Hurricane Harvey, a Category 3 hurricane, from Aug. 25-Sept. 2. The Associated Press has confirmed 70 fatalities as of Sept. 7.

According to McNamara, the shelters provided by the Red Cross have housed more than 30,000 people so far. Thousands of meals have been served to those affected, and relief supplies are still being delivered to places in need.

McNamara was visiting Houston on behalf of Red Cross for eight days and was joined by more than 3,000 volunteers from across the country.

He was interviewed by all of the major news networks, domestic and abroad, providing an update on what was going on in Houston, and informing the public on what the affected needed most.

While speaking to the public about the hurricane was one of McNamara’s top tasks, he said his job was more than that. He also volunteered to enter houses affected by the hurricane and provide first aid.

“I was just there to help, and you know, I was a part of a large team of volunteers,” McNamara said. “Our singular goal was to be on the ground doing everything we can to help those people recover.”

McNamara never thought he’d join a non-profit organization when he studied media arts and design during his time at JMU.

“I envisioned myself having a career in public relations and media,” McNamara said. “But you know, it’s amazing how your career takes different turns, and I find myself at the Red Cross and it’s a job that I’m really proud of.”

This is the fifth year McNamara has been with the Red Cross, but his history with the organization began earlier than that. He was a volunteer for the organization while he was working for a video production firm in Richmond, which unexpectedly changed his life.

“You need compassion and passion to do the type of job that he’s trying to do to help others.”

Curt Dudley, director of broadcast services for JMU athletics

“I was amazed by the work [the Red Cross] did,” McNamara said.

“Honestly, this was one of those things where, you know, when you see it you want to be a part of it.”

However, two professors McNamara had as an undergraduate felt his career choice made sense.

“I am not surprised at all that he is speaking for the Red Cross now,” JoAnne Holman, a media arts and design professor, said.

Holman remembered McNamara from his performance in her Corporate Communication Management class. She recalled he was an active, responsible student Holman recalled an opportunity when her class had a mock press conference with the journalism concentration students. In that press conference, McNamara’s team spoke as a company to solve a hypothetical crises.

“He did extremely well, very confident,” Holman said. “He showed real talent.”

Curt Dudley, the director of broadcast services for JMU athletics, felt that McNamara was a driven student.

“If you know Jonathan, you realize that he’s passionate in everything that he does and it really, it bleeds out in a variety of ways,” Dudley said. “One is that he’s very passionate about his family, his wife and two children. He has passion for the Dukes of JMU in many regards … I think that translates very much in what he is doing professionally now, working with the Red Cross, because you need compassion and passion to do the type of job that he’s trying to do to help others.”

Dudley said the more he worked with McNamara, the more potential he saw in him to be a good communicator.

“He’s very clear of thought, and those thoughts carried out and well transfer into communication,” Dudley said. “Which was refreshing because I didn’t have to work as hard with him” Although McNamara hasn’t been a student for 12 years, he believes JMU will always be a place he appreciates.

“I think the foundation that SMAD gave me was the perfect basis of what I needed,” McNamara said. “You know, I learned about all areas of the media from shooting video and editing video to the journalism costs. ... That’s what I do every day now.”

Besides the technical skills he learned in class, what McNamara really appreciates most about JMU is the humanity, service and the idea of giving back to the community taught by the university.

“I learned that from my JMU experience,” McNamara said. “And I think that’s something all JMU grads should be proud of, is that we have a university that really, you know, lives by what they say when they say serving is important.”

Although McNamara knows it’ll take years for Houston to recover from the damage Hurricane Harvey brought, he’s optimistic about the future. Because he believes that Americans stick together, in spite of natural disasters.

“Americans dug deep and reached out to help their neighbors during their time of need,” McNamara said. “We see this during not only big disasters, but small disasters, that American people want to help and want to do everything that they can to help people recover and rebuild.”

CONTACT Anthea Liu at liu22yx@dukes.jmu.edu.

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Dare to dream JMU student affected by DACA speaks up

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Diego Salinas came to America from El Salvador when he was five years old and has been an advocate for DACA since it started. He created a petition in 2016 and has been the voice for many helped by DACA at JMU.

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It’s no secret that immigration reform has been a top priority of the current administration. The Trump administration took another step toward its anti-immigrant agenda Tuesday when Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

Harrisonburg’s home to over 9,000 Latinos.

Spanish professor Karina Kline-Gabel grew up in Harrisonburg in a bilingual home. She’s spent the past 20 years advocating for and uniting the local Hispanic community.

“A lot of times we focus on some of the negative issues that come with a newly diverse population, instead of celebrate it,” Kline-Gabel said.

Kline-Gabel teaches a practical Spanish class, which gives JMU students the opportunity to teach English as a Second Language students at Spotswood High School and Pleasant Valley Elementary. 14 years ago, she started the first Hispanic Film Festival in Harrisonburg — the next one is set to take place later this month.

“I wanted to dedicate a lot of my energy to supporting the Latino students at JMU, as well as continue to support the Latino community here in Harrisonburg,” Kline-Gabel said. “And what I have found really rewarding is that I’ve been able to combine both.”

Almost immediately after the Trump Administration announced it would be recusing DACA, JMU put a statement on its website expressing their support for DACA recipients.

President Alger signed a statement of support for DACA, along with 600 other college presidents.

Diego Salinas, a senior theatre and Italian double major, immigrated with his family to Virginia from El Salvador when he was five years

old. During his career at JMU, Salinas has been a strong advocate for comprehensive immigration reform.

“If we had a path to immigration that was more flexible and more understanding, we could really cut down on the number of people who decide to cross a dangerous desert or row across an ocean because they feel like that’s the best way to do it,” Salinas said.

Last year, Salinas started a petition to protect undocumented immigrants who attend JMU by making it a “sanctuary campus.” After it received over 1,000 signatures, he sat down with President Alger to discuss concerns that he had as a DACA recipient.

“I do sometimes get really sad about my situation, there are days that I do feel hopeless,” Salias said. “But then I just look around at all of the wonderful allies that I have around me … and I can’t help but feel uplifted again.”

Trump’s giving Congress six months to officially end DACA. No more DACA applications will be accepted as of Sept. 12.

Recipients whose permits are set to expire before March 5, 2018 ,can apply for a two-year renewal by Oct. 5.

“Only by the reliable enforcement of immigration law can we produce safe communities, a robust middle class, and economic fairness for all Americans,” Trump said in a statement.

He also said that he advised the Department of Homeland Security that DACA recipients are not priority for deportation unless they are “criminals, are involved in criminal activity, or are members of a gang.”

On Friday, there will be a march supporting DACA on campus. Organizations sponsoring the event include the Center for Global Engagement, Center for Multicultural Student

Services, Madison Hispanic Caucus and the Latino Student Alliance.

“One of the pros of the DACA program being so out there and everything happening is that there are people reaching out and seeing what LSA is about,” said Cindy Nunes, president of the LSA. “But if this weren’t to happen, a lot of time

people don’t know that we are here and that we have these resources.”

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Phi Sigma Sigma starts new chapter at JMU

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Members of the sorority spoke at an interest meeting on the chapters’ core values, including service.

By JACKIE GARCIA contributing writer

The nervous fidgeting and pre-recruitment jitters were apparent among the potential new members who waited outside Wilson Hall. Many of these girls could potentially find their home in the new sorority Phi Sigma Sigma, colonizing at JMU this fall.

Although the Phi Sigma Sigma recruitment process doesn’t begin until October, the national Phi Sigma panhellenic committee wanted to inform women of JMU of an alternative to primary recruitment, which includes the 12 sororities already established on campus.

The National Panhellenic Council for Phi Sigma Sigma will be around campus with more information in Festival or on The Commons. If interested, they’ll ask potential new members to go on a coffee date to get to know the sorority better and invite them to recruitment events that will take place Oct. 9-15.

At the interest meeting on Sep. 8, three members from the national Phi Sigma Sigma Panhellenic committee gave a presentation featuring a video that showcased the values the sorority strives to uphold and its vision for the future of the sorority. Phi Sigma Sigma prides itself on three

core values: lifelong learning, inclusiveness and service.

The sorority came to JMU because it had success at other campuses on the East Coast and when it saw the opportunity to colonize at JMU, it was ecstatic. Phi Sigma Sigma focuses on building lifelong friendships that form by joining the sisterhood.

“I formed strong relationships in my chapter w i t h p e o p l e ,” R a c h e l Hoffman, the Phi Sigma Sigma panhellenic leadership development consultant, said. “I would not be where I am today if I didn’t have the relationships that I formed in my chapter.”

Some of the draws that the council described at the meeting for potential new members to join is to be part of the first founding class of Phi Sigma Sigma at JMU, and receive “twins” rather than “littles” — since everyone’s in the same pledge class — and start a local philanthropy.

“You are able to have this blank canvas to start new traditions and have the chance to shape it more,” Hoffman said. “Especially if you are rushing as a freshman or sophomore.”

The national philanthropy of Phi Sigma Sigma is organized through the Kids in Need Foundation, which offers school supplies to families

living in extreme poverty. The sisters will help this foundation with the Backpack Build event, where they fill backpacks with school supplies and then deliver them to the students in person.

“It is incredible to see the excitement on these children’s faces because they don’t have the necessary school supplies that they need to get creative in the classroom,” Leadership Development Consultant Taylor Giaccone said. “The teachers als o express e d gratitude because before they were spending their own money on supplies to make sure these kids were having the same opportunity as others.”

Cou r t n e y Wa l to n , a sophomore communication sciences and disorders major, is excited to go through Phi Sigma Sigma’s recruitment p ro c e s s b e c a u s e o f t h e personal relationships she’d be able to form in one-on-one coffee dates with the sisters.

“I want to be a bigger part of the JMU community,” Walton said. “Phi Sigma’s philanthropy sounds like a way to make people’s lives better and it ties in well with my major.”

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A family that feeds: Campus Kitchen

By TRAVIS VALLE contributing writer

A group of students has championed itself to decrease the amount of food wasted in Harrisonburg, while increasing the number of healthy meals for those who need them in the community. Campus Kitchen’s dedicated to repurposing excess food from local community sources, such as restaurants, farms and food markets, in order to feed those in need, often working with other charity organizations such as shelters and churches.

Campus Kitchen was officially recognized at JMU during the spring semester of 2016 as the newest arm of the nationwide Campus Kitchen organization. The JMU chapter was founded by five dietetics majors, including sisters Lucy and Livvy Call, both seniors who hold positions on the leadership board for the new campus organization.

“This organization will essentially create a

more sustainable model where you take food that would be wasted in a food service setting and repurpose that to people in a community,” Livvy said. “I want to provide people with healthy meals and in this setting we tend to get food that we can make healthier and supplement people’s diets in the area.”

The JMU Campus Kitchen’s already made regular donations from on-campus dining halls to local organizations such as the Salvation Army, Our Community Place and RISE United Methodist Faith Community Church.

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community organizations involved in their project. According to members of Campus Kitchen, establishing an effective chapter at JMU proves difficult.

“This is kind of inherent with the whole process, but it’s difficult knowing when we’ll be getting food and having consistency because obviously dining locations and dining services don’t want to be wasting food because it’s bad business for them,” Livvy said. “So, naturally it’s like they’re going to do the best they can not to waste food — but when they do, they’ll let us know.”

Logistics and red tape are barriers for any new organization to overcome, but Campus Kitchen cites the handling of food as an especially daunting task that requires taking extra precautions to ensure safety and nutrition for those involved.

“One of the things that’s been challenging to us is just making sure all the sanitations [are] in place and we aren’t going to hurt anybody with the food,” Livvy said. “Campus Kitchens, the national project coordinating [this], they provide materials for us. So, all of the leadership team has to be ServSafe certified, which is a universal standard, I would say for people in food service who at least manage people in food service.”

ServSafe gives instruction on how to properly store, transport and handle food within strict time and temperature guidelines.

While the short term focus is on providing the best, most efficient way to repurpose what would’ve been otherwise wasted food for those in need, JMU Campus Kitchen has

long-term goals it’s hoping to expand on as well.

“Our goal as an organization is to become sustainable,” Lucy, said. “When we first started, we had a lot of sophomores and freshmen and one of the big concerns with dining was that they’ve had people do sort of the same thing in the past with [food] gardens and then people graduate and then it kind of stops.”

Campus Kitchen’s charitable and goodwill efforts do not just aim to use its own members to provide services to those in need, but also reaches out to the community and brings local businesses into the fold to create a deeper network between the JMU and Harrisonburg communities. Campus Kitchen has already begun connecting with local charity organizations in the community with hopes of continuous collaboration.

While preparing for a fundraising dinner at Parkview Mennonite Church this past Sunday, members of Our Community Place shared their excitement and gratitude for working with the Campus Kitchen students and expressed enthusiasm at the prospect of working with them in the future.

“Their willingness and their great attitude and cooperation is great,” Randy Nutter, member of Our Community Place’s board of directors, said. “It’s just so invaluable to have a resource like that to help.”

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In addition to the Princeton Review recently ranking JMU as one of the top colleges in the country for dining options, JMU was recognized by U.S. News & World Report for excellence in departments, including academics. news desk

JMU was named the No. 2 “Best Public Regional University in the South” and No. 3 “Most Innovative Regional University in the South” by U.S. News & World Report.

The rankings conducted are designed to help parents and students during their college search, and to provide a basis of academic excellence.

This year, 659 regional universities were examined and were primarily based on graduation and retention rates. Other areas of measure for the college rankings were assessments of the institution done by o t h e r u n i ve r s i t i e s’ presidents and leaders, faculty dedication to teaching and faculty resources. U.S. News & World Report also examined student selectivity and

financial resources per student and alumni giving.

JMU was recognized by peer institutions for its changes happening on campus and its innovative techniques.

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Debate over the appropriateness of the Washington Redskins’ team name has been heating up once again. Writer Dan Ford delves deeper into the facts, proving the affected demographic isn’t asking for a change.

DAN FORD | forward thinking Over the past f e w y e a r s, t h e debate regarding the potentially negative connotation of the Washington Redskins’ team name has gained substantial attention. With the start of a new NFL season, there will be those among commentators and sports analysts, as well as common fans of the sport, who’ll wholly refuse to use the team’s name, hoping not to offend the Native American community while persistently demanding that the football team alter its name and mascot.

Yet, it seems to me as if those calling for the team to change its name are doing so prematurely. Statistics on the subject are providing overwhelming evidence that the offense produced by the name isn’t nearly as powerful as it’s believed to be by so many.

Admittedly, I’m indeed a Redskins fan — no matter how painful being one happens to be — yet, I’ll put away my team-centered bias in crafting this article. Rather, I’ll defend my opinion using meaningful facts, beginning with an important historical summation of the team’s name and of the origins of the word “redskin.”

Although many have come to understand the origin of the Redskins’ name as being innocent, it bears repeating. Founded in 1932 in the city of Boston, the football team was rather oddly named after one of the city’s baseball teams — the Boston Braves — with the team name “Braves,” referencing the Native American population. In an effort to end the confusion created by having two of the city’s major sports

teams operate under the same name, team owner George Preston Marshall decided after just one season to alter the team’s name. The chosen name was Boston Redskins until 1937, when the franchise moved to our nation’s capital, becoming the Washington Redskins.

It’s therefore evident that there was no ill will in naming the franchise the Redskins.

In order to provide this debate with the fairness it deserves, it should be mentioned that in disagreement with rather common claims by those who support the team retaining its name — including the official claims of the Washington Redskins franchise and of its current owner, Daniel Snyder — there’s in fact no proof that Marshall chose to name the team Redskins with any desire of honoring Native Americans as a general group. Nor is there proof of Marshall’s desire to honor the team’s Native American head coach at the time, Lone Star Dietz. Rather, Marshall simply sought a near-synonym to the original team name, hoping to maintain the team’s reference to the Native American population while ending the confusion caused by being named identically to one of the city’s baseball teams.

What’s obvious, however, is that this name wasn’t objected to by the team’s Native American head coach nor by any local Native American tribes.

Perhaps surprising to those who believe the word redskin to be derogatory, the outcry against the team’s name was virtually nonexistent when the team rebranded itself in 1933. The reason for this can be understood when studying the history of the word and realizing that by the third decade of the 1900s, its publically accepted definition had largely returned to the nonderogatory meaning with which it was born.

A common mistake made by people decrying

the use of the team’s name is the comparison of redskin to the N-word. Yet, unlike the N-word, which has a history that’s nearly entirely of a derogatory nature, the word redskin wasn’t created to be a racial epithet, but rather a mere label of the Native American people. The earliest reference to the word being commonly used in speech came in the 1700s, with Native Americans often referring to European colonists as “whiteskins” and the Europeans innocently referring back to the Native Americans as, among other things, redskins. No offense was harbored by either side.

However, despite this innocent origin, it’s important to realize that by the 1810s and certainly by the time of Andrew Jackson’s administration in the late 1820s and through the majority of the 1830s, the word began to hold a negative, derogatory connotation. During this time, grave destruction was inflicted upon the Native American population during their forced exodus from the eastern states of the U.S. by Jackson’s heartless policies creating the infamous Trail of Tears. In concert with these physical abuses, the word was used in an attempt to inflict verbal abuse upon the already aching Native American populations. However, again in contrast to the history of the N-word, by the end of the 1800s, the word had largely lost its negative connotation in society, and in fact wasn’t commonly used at all.

Given all of this, however, the checkered history of the word redskin bears witness to the important reality that the definition of words can indeed change over time — sometimes dramatically so — making the contemporary definition of the word and the public’s opinion to it the most important aspect of this debate.

Numerous polls have provided insight into the fact that today’s Native Americans

overwhelmingly view the team’s use of the word as being innocent and not in need of removal. A 2004 Annenberg Public Policy Center poll found that nine in 10 Native Americans didn’t want the team to alter its name. Yet, the most noteworthy poll of late is one conducted by the Washington Post, in which the results — provided to the public in 2016 — are eerily similar to those of previous polls, showing that nine out of 10 Native American respondents claimed to not be offended by the team’s name, with nine percent claiming no offense to the name and one percent claiming indifference.

Perhaps the results of these polls make it less surprising to realize that several majority Native-American-populated high schools use the name redskins to represent their sports teams, including the Wellpinit High School Redskins, which are located in the state of Washington and heavily attended by children of the Spokane Tribe of Indians. So, too should it be of little surprise that the Redskins of Red Mesa High School located in Arizona share the name of the Washington Redskins, despite being composed nearly entirely of children from the Navajo Nation, which itself tends to be composed of outspoken supporters of the Washington Redskins franchise retaining its team name.

If there’s a time when definitive proof can be provided as evidence that a majority of Native Americans find the name to be offensive and in need of change, then the Washington Redskins franchise should alter its name accordingly.

As of now, however, the facts speak in favor of the team retaining its name.

Dan Ford is a senior international affairs and international business double major.

Contact Dan at forddm@dukes.jmu.edu.

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Climate change isn’t a hoax and it’s time we accept that as the truth JAZMINE OTEY | contributing columnist Throughout August 2017, an overwhelming number of natural disasters occurred within the U.S. From scorching wildfires to lifethreatening hurricanes, much of America has been forced into trepidation as it witnesses natural disasters like Hurricane Irma set new records the world has never seen before. But despite the scientific evidence and troubling

threat at hand and potentially put any listeners who believed his logic in danger.

Limbaugh stands alongside Trump in his support of climate change as a hoax and went as far as accusing scientists of inventing the threat of Hurricane Irma for political and financial reasons.

However, the hurricane proved to be far from a ploy to gain money. In fact, with the amount of mass destruction it’s left in its path, the previous accusations Limbaugh made are almost insulting to the lives lost and properties destroyed.

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In America, we’re given the freedom to express our opinions and should always be allowed to do so. But when the evidence is right before you, in the form of something as big and salient as a hurricane, how can you be so mindless to choose to not only ignore it, but also treat it as nothing but the butt of a joke?

Having an opinion on a subject is one thing, but it crossed a line when Limbaugh took his skeptical views too far and put many in danger with his apathy and ignorance.

Nonetheless, whether you believe climate change is a true threat or a hoax, in the end, what really matters are the homes and properties destroyed and innocent lives lost from not only Hurricane Irma, but Hurricane Harvey as well. Right now, we increase in such catastrophes, need to focus on supporting a plethora of citizens, including those going through hardships President Trump, strongly and do everything we can to believe that climate change is a get these suffering families the hoax. resources and support they On Tuesday afternoon, as need.

Floridians fearfully heard the However, in the future, we news of Hurricane Irma being shouldn’t wait for another categorized as a Category 5 natural disaster before we come hurricane, they received a to terms with the fact that we rather inane message from Rush need to do something about Limbaugh, a Floridian radio the dramatic changes within our talk show host and conservative environment, especially given political commentator. the fact that so many lives are According to a Vox article, being put in danger.

Photos courtesy of Townnews.com Content Exchange Limbaugh expressed his We need to come together, first skepticism of Hurricane Irma, We all experience the dramatic changes in our own Harrisonburg weather, so why are we still questioning the validity of climate chage? locally within our communities claiming that the hurricane and then on a global scale, forecasts weren’t to be trusted, as he indicated that the warnings favors doing nothing in response to climate change on the to fight for the wellness of our environment. Whether or not about Irma were nothing but a liberal conspiracy with a financial theory it’s all an expensive boondoggle designed to victimize you believe climate change is a hoax for economic benefits or incentive. innocent oil and gas companies,” Leonard Pitts, a Pulitzer-Prize- statistically accurate, we all share the planet, and in the end, “Here comes a hurricane, local media goes on the air, ‘Big winning journalist, said in an opinion piece in the Miami Herald. we only have one. hurricane coming, oh, my God. Make sure you got batteries. It In addition, despite Limbaugh’s incredulity, indifference and could be the worst ever. Have you seen the size of this baby?’” unnerving willingness to pass this onto his listeners, once the Jasmine Otey is a sophomore writing, rhetoric, and Limbaugh mocked. hurricane proved to be the threat the meteorologists warned of, technical communication major. Contact Jasmine at The vacuous statements did nothing but undermine the true he was quick to evacuate Florida. oteyjl@dukes.jmu.edu.

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Fed up with digital photography Not everything’s worth sharing

TESS GIBSON | contributing columnist The saying g o e s , “a picture’s worth a thousand words,” but can we still say this to be true?

I used to think photography was like poetr y or paintings, another beautiful form of art.

But this changed due to digital pictures becoming endlessly plentiful and less special. What used to be considered art is now the new and most popular form of social media, so who’s to say what’s amateur versus professional anymore?

When I was younger, my dream was to be a National Geographic photographer. I wanted to travel the world and document all that I encountered, capturing the essence of my destinations and representing them in my photos. It sounded like an

absolutely perfect job to me. But that was when I thought I was substantially gifted, and stood a chance at making it in a competitive profession such as photojournalism.

My dreams w ere cr ushed as Instagram blew up and became the new Facebook. What I thought to be my “different” and “creative” take on photos became everyone’s standard.

I started to see myself as average and uninspiring. After a while, I came to the conclusion that I’d likely and literally become a starving artist if I chose that professional route, so I searched for a new passion and put photography on the back burner with other hobbies.

I’m glad I chose the career I’m pursuing now, and was most likely right in ditching my original plans. But if the sudden rise in people’s documentation of their daily lives through photography can change my whole perspective, what does that say about this art style as a whole?

This brings me to also question if we’re taking purpose away from the people who dedicate, and sometimes risk, their lives capturing a moment.

Maybe we just need to take a second and look again at what we’re putting out there for the world to see. Just thinking about the extensive amount of Starbucks images alone that are being posted daily is almost unimaginable.

If the photos we’re outputting don’t reflect some kind of emotion, whether that be happy, sad or inspiring, then are they worth exploiting? Probably not, and they’ll just be added to the infinite pool of other unoriginal selfies, mirror pics, etc.

Filtering through our images so that only the more meaningful ones actually make it for the world’s viewing may actually help add to the overall point of photography. Don’t settle for average, and stop yourself from pressing “post” just because your hair looks good in some grainy, subpar photo.

If anyone can be a decent photographer, then why not produce your best work as well?

Tess Gibson is a sophomore writing, rhetoric and technical communication major. Contact Tess at gibsonto@dukes.jmu.edu.

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Exploring the unfair expectations that exist within the world of journalism

RISHMITA AICH | pride and prejudice “Looks don’t define you.” How many times have we all heard this and yet every passing day of my adult life is spent wondering about one job that doesn’t place value on external beauty?

The glamour industries of fashion and cinema have been long scrutinized for paralleling talent with physical appearance.

But they somehow seem to get away with it by shoving words like “celebrity popularity” and “cultural icon” on the face of rationality and fairness.

These celebrities with a little splash of spotlight then go on and become their own brands. The value of beauty and the contrasting “ugliness penalty” plague the media industry. We find ourselves living in a world where the advantages of popularity and looks are constantly replacing talent, hard work and maturity.

Ultimately, we live in an age where beauty confers truth. The shallowness and prejudice on appearance are seeping through the cracks into occupations that are mostly unrelated to glitz and glamour — such as media, politics or sports. Any job that requires an individual to

appear on television suffers the consequences broadcaster, said, “If you are an ugly woman, you of appearance bias. have no chance of getting a TV job.” This quote According to a recent study in the journal made me immediately think of the contrasting Po l i t i ca l B e hav i o r, a argument all my journalism politician can lose votes if he professors repeat again and “suffers from considerable again — that in journalism, appearance disadvantage.” there’s no higher law than That’s an ugliness penalty the truth. that can affect all of us, I don’t understand because electing an how a job that carries attractive yet unqualified the responsibility of politician can rock the very imparting fair and accurate foundations of our nation. information to its audience Similarly, if you’ve can so easily be reduced come across articles like to a mere eye-candy “50 hottest female sports exhibition. I wonder what broadcasters,” “20 sexiest it says about an audience sports reporters” in most that prioritizes and sets men’s magazines, then such high standards of you’ll know how women, elusive beauty even to a job who are still a minority in that stands on the pillars of broadcast journalism, are credibility and honesty. cast to become showpieces Why does every moving in news shows. Not to thing that appears on mention that the rampant national television have to objectification of female be above average looking? sports reporters makes Courtesy of Townnews.com Content Exchange Why can’t the audience sports journalism look Stereotypical looks in media cause prejudice. handle average? Or is it like a stereotypical college because it reminds us fraternity on a Friday night. of our own mediocrity and reflects our own In an interview with Sports Illustrated, Charles ordinariness?

Barkley, former NBA star and current sports Media arts and design professor and former

TV news producer Ryan Parkhurst didn’t sweep the problem under the rug while explaining the dubious facets of the broadcast industry. In fact, he acknowledged the problem of beauty premium and put it down in four simple words: “The face has value.”

Parkhurst explained how factors like having frizzy hair, long hair or even a foreign accent could cost you a chance at being a broadcast journalist.

“It doesn’t matter whether you are black, brown, green, yellow or blue, you’re still not judged on your news acumen but on things like your accent, which is out of your control,” Parkhurst said.

Despite all of this, he still believes that hard work and determination can get you through these obstacles.

At the end of the day, people criticize others for what they don’t like about themselves. The flagrant objectification and prejudice that we shamelessly throw on media personalities while they open themselves to the wide scrutiny of millions of judgemental eyes depict the type of person that’s needed to be a sincere mediator of information. The accuracy and significance of these messages take integrity and dedication, but beauty has no role in it.

Rishmita Aich is a senior media arts and design major. Contact Rishmita at aichrx@ dukes.jmu.edu.

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Unreported genocide in Myanmar

NAHLA ABOUTABL | respect the riot Close to 10 0 thousand people in Myanmar were forced to fle e g eno cidal conditions in the last week and a half in a world that’s said the w o rd s “n e ve r again” too many meaningless times.

Reports of people, including children, being killed on point, burned alive or even beheaded by Myanmar’s army have been circulating the news, yet it seems as though the world’s staying suspiciously silent about such atrocities.

Women are being raped and whole villages made to starve as though their lives don’t matter enough for proper media coverage, let alone international action. Not only has the world stayed silent about the horrific massacre of the Rohingya, the ethnic group being persecuted, but many leaders have also refrained from using the word “genocide” to describe the atrocities taking place.

One of the most prominent Burmese personalities, Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and leader of Myanmar, even went as far as denying not just a genocide, but denied that there’s any ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya at all. She even said in an interview with The Guardian that the situation is complicated because “it’s also Muslims killing Muslims as well” ... now where have we heard this argument before? Muslim-onMuslim crime?

The Rohingya people are a Muslim minority ethnic group living in Buddhist-majority Myanmar and are even described as “the world’s most persecuted minority.” The Rohingya have been denied citizenship by their own government as a result of their religion and are stateless people without any protection.

However, we don’t hear much about Muslims being persecuted or even being subjected to genocide. We don’t usually hear about Muslims being beheaded by terrorists for their religion.

Instead, we hear about every incident ISIS could possibly be involved in as the media continues

to highlight mostly events that would fit the country’s already Islamophobic narrative.

It’s not strange to me anymore how the world focuses on some atrocities and ignores countless others in order to better frame preexisting narratives. As normal as that’s become, it doesn’t get easier, especially as a Muslim seeing other Muslims being beheaded and burned alive while no one says a thing.

It’s exhausting to have to always point out media hypocrisies, especially as people lose their lives in the most inhumane of ways while the U.N. stands by with only condemnations worth little more than cheap toilet paper.

Writing this article might not change anything the Rohingya are going through.

It won’t change the U.N.’s inaction, nor will it affect the media’s Islamophobia. It won’t suddenly erase the narrative people like to spread about Muslims being perpetrators but never victims of terrorism, even though the numbers indicate Muslims are the No.1 demographic affected by terrorism.

But I do hope that by raising any amount of awareness on this campus, one day the wheels will start turning in the right direction. That people respect others and value their lives, regardless of the labels we give one another and ourselves. That the words “never again” aren’t said lightly and that people actually mean it when they vow to stop genocide.

We should collectively do our best to raise some awareness about children that shouldn’t have to be burned alive, beheaded or orphaned in a world that prides itself on the mercy given to disadvantaged children.

Raising awareness about the world’s most persecuted group might not change the current atrocities they face, but we should at least try to first shift our focus from what makes the big headlines.

There’s a breaking news story every time Donald Trump tweets at 4 a.m. But what about those trying to resist genocide with no external help?

It’s time to refresh our perspective on what’s newsworthy instead of refreshing our Twitter feeds.

Nahla Aboutabl is a communication and advocacy graduate student. Contact Nahla at aboutanm@dukes.jmu.edu.

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Before succeeding in the path of dentistry, JMU alumna Evan Garrison overcame the obstacle of finding her true passion while her mother was diagnosed with colon cancer

By ABBY CHURCH The Breeze

home with a sick mom.”

While this obstacle was more arduous than the rest, it made the final destination even sweeter.

A long-standing Harrisonburg

Despite having taken some Chinese presenting and had a revelation. metastatic colon cancer. The pair courses in high school, Evan found “I was thinking about it, and I told made quite the team, inspiring each herself starting over upon her arrival my dad, ‘I think I made the wrong other through their respective battles.

Starting college and picking a with entry-level Chinese. During her decision,’” Evan said. “‘I think I want “She was working so hard just to career path comes with many worries time in China, she got to take day to try either dental school or vet survive and stay healthy, and I was for some students, riddled trips all over the country, school.’” working really hard to achieve a with looming questions of immersing herself in the With that, Evan quit her job dream that I had, so it was the two whether or not they made culture and falling in love in New York and moved back to of us working really hard in two the right decision. Some with the country.

Harrisonburg. She reclaimed an old different capacities,” Evan said. “She’s adventures may come with Upon her return to job doing research on animals and definitely inspiring.” a change or two throughout JMU, Evan pursued a volunteered at a free clinic where April said she was in awe of Evan’s the ride. For Evan Garrison, degree in economics she did tooth extractions on animals. commitment to her studies while a dentist in Harrisonburg with a concentration in Here, Evan decided to pursue a career taking care of her. and JMU alumna (’06), the international economics, in dentistry.

“Evan has always been a person adventure has been longa decision rooted in her “Besides vet school and dental who didn’t mind a really full plate,” winded with many bumps love for traveling. Years school, I really liked healthcare,” April said. “But this plate was just along the way, including an after graduation, Evan Evan said. “I really liked taking care overflowing with responsibilities for earth-shattering diagnosis landed a job in New York of people and communicating with her to stay on task with her studies Garrison returned to China on an externship while in school. in her family.

City at a company called them and figuring out their problem and to bear the burden of what I was No matter where life takes her resident, Evan grew up with JMU TheMarkets.com, where her tasks and the solution … At the end of the putting on her too. It was a lot.”

— whether it be to China or New as another point of return. She took included emailing and making phone day, I felt like I really did something Two and a half years into her York — Evan says that she’s always art classes through the summer calls. When Evan found second round at JMU, found herself back in Harrisonburg. enrichment program and even out the company might be Evan was accepted into Returning home in 2009 for school, started school at Anthony-Seeger opening an office in Hong dental school at Virginia she and her family hit a divot in the Hall when it was a preschool run Kong, she held out for the Commonwealth University. road. Evan’s mother, April Garrison, by graduate students. She attended chance to someday return During her time as a dental was diagnosed with colon cancer, boarding school throughout her high to the country she loves. student, Evan was able to metastatic from liver to lung. school years, describing her decision When the company go back to China when she “It was stage four,” April said. to go to JMU as “more of a coming decided a Hong Kong received an opportunity to “That’s about as bad as it gets.” home than staying here.” office wasn’t in its future, do an externship at a dental The Garrisons came together as a However, Evan didn’t dive straight Evan began contemplating hospital in Qingdao. team to help guide April through her into school at JMU following high h e r c a re e r. G ro w i n g “I loved being back in diagnosis. Evan spent nights in her school. Deferring her admission for increasingly tired of her China and I loved doing mother’s bed, studying for her classes a year, she decided to take a gap year job, Evan thought about PHOTOS COURTESY OF WILL CARMACK / THE BREEZE dentistry there because it while her mother recuperated. in Beijing, China. going to graduate school Evan’s father was her sole inspiration to pursue dentistry. brought me back to this “It was quite a team effort to pull “It ended up being one of the best or getting another job in New whole life that I had before me through and feeling so guilty that decisions I ever made,” Evan said.

York. It wasn’t until her parents came and I helped somebody, and that’s dental school,” Evan said. “It was kind I was needing so much attention, In China, Evan studied with other up for a dental conference in the what I never had in New York.” of nice to combine them again.” so much care, while my kids were college students from schools such as city that Evan figured out what she In 2009, Evan applied and returned Five years later in May 2017, Evan really trying to start their own lives Harvard University and University of wanted to do career-wise. to JMU for a degree in biology. It was graduated from dental school and as educated adults,” April said. “They North Carolina at Chapel Hill who Evan was amazed at all the during this time that her mother, has been working with her father at had different goals than being at were on their study abroad trips. technology the vendors were April, was diagnosed with stage four their Harrisonburg office ever since.

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In November, April will have gone six years without any evidence of cancer, and says her diagnosis made it even more important to her for Evan to be happy with the life she chooses.

She’s ecstatic to see Evan and her father working together, but most of all, she’s excited to see Evan conquer her dreams after her long journey.

“I’m so excited about it because it’s been a little bit of a long road for Evan to get there and she took a couple of detours,” April said. “And now I couldn’t be prouder of her to have finally made it, and I’m here to see it, which is really special for me.”

A proud mother, April says that she wants her kids to be happy and love what they do.

She’s delighted to see Evan be successful doing something she loves.

“Any mom wants to see their children successful and launched and happy, good citizens, contributors to society in a good way,” April said. “I mean, that’s what it’s all about.”

Eddie Bumbaugh, former executive director of Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance, worked with Evan while she interned there. Impressed with her go-getter personality and positive outlook, he respects Evan for having the courage

to go back to school and switch her career.

“I have a lot of respect for Evan to evaluate what was a good match for her career-wise,” Bumbaugh said. “I think often people make a mistake of just going a certain direction and sticking to it even though they have second thoughts. I think she had the courage to evaluate and seek what — in the long-term — would be the right career path for her as a professional.”

It’s been a long road for Evan as far as her career goes, but in the end she’s happy with her decision. For college students who are struggling with their path in life, Evan says to not be afraid

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to switch to something they’re passionate about.

“Definitely don’t be afraid to just major in what you want to major in,” Evan said. “Maybe it doesn’t end in a job or a career, but this is your only chance in your life really to study something that you’re not really gonna be able to study again.”

CONTACT Abby Church at churchae@ dukes.jmu.edu. For more on the culture, arts and lifestyle of the JMU and Harrisonburg communities, follow the culture desk on Twitter @Breeze_Culture.

Goodnight America

By DREW COWEN The Breeze The National

The National is an English major’s dream band — literate rock with Release: Sept. 8, 2017 p r o f o u n d l y r i c s and haunting arrangements. It combines gorgeous music with a fascinating live presence. One example was the performance of its song “Sorrow” on repeat for six hours at the MoMA PS1. The project — a collaboration between the band and Ragnar Kjartansson — was fittingly titled “A Lot of Sorrow.” The National has established a reputation as a band that both challenges conventions and adheres to them.

Prior to “Sleep Well Beast,” frontman Matt Beringer described the new songs as “weird,” “math-y” and “electronic-y.” This raised collective eyebrows among fans of The National. The band had made an art out of churning out palatable, lyrically-dense indie rock albums. The National’s music was great: it was predictable and fit like a glove. Beringer sounded ready to tear that glove off.

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Beringer elaborated. “A lot of songs are going in completely different directions. But that’s a really fun place to be. We’re in the middle of the wilderness, in a rainforest full of really fun noises.” The anticipation of this experimentation felt strong enough to propel the band into the next generation.

Truthfully, “Sleep Well Beast” isn’t a drastic leap from The National’s tried-andtrue aesthetic, which is another way of saying this album is pretty depressing. Yes, there are some distorted guitars and synth accents in the songs, but at the end of the day, Beringer is still singing about how life — on one level or another — sucks.

“Day I Die,” “The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness” and “Turtleneck” are three of the more ambitiously rock ‘n’ roll songs on the album. “Turtleneck” in particular contains an energy that feels almost foreign to The National.

An entire album with songs like this would be a welcome change in direction.

Perhaps this is because softer songs on “Sleep Well Beast” are so emotionally piercing.

Piano and drawn-back synths aside, “Nobody Else Will Be There,” “Born to Beg” and “I’ll Still Destroy You” will force a sense of longing out of the most stone-cold listener.

Beringer’s lyrics mediate the beautiful line between the mundane and the prophetic.

In “Nobody Else Will Be There,” he captures life’s simple annoyances in quick statements.

“Goodbyes always take us half an hour / Can’t we just go home?”

A similar slice-of-life vignette emerges in “I’ll Still Destroy You.” “This one’s like the wilderness without the world / I’m gonna miss those long nights with the windows open / I keep rereading the same lines always up at 5 a.m. every morning / Like a baby.” Themes of cyclicality are central to “Sleep Well Beast.”

It’s fitting that the album ends with its title track “Sleep Well Beast.” The song’s piano and beat remain the same throughout the track, but an ocean of experimentation swells underneath it. In many ways, this encapsulates the essence of The National’s new album — a tested formula, with underlyings of innovation.

CONTACT Drew Cowen at cowends@dukes. jmu.edu. For more on the culture, arts and lifestyle of the JMU and Harrisonburg communities, follow the culture desk on Twitter @Breeze_Culture.

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Flashback through ‘The Friendly City’

Duke Hall exhibition makes it possible to travel through Harrisonburg’s past PHOTOS BY MAEVE REISS / THE BREEZE

By INGRID BASHEDA The Breeze

Picture a rural town featuring a diner with large, neon letters spelling out Friddle’s. Close by is a building home to shops, a bowling alley and a movie theatre. Not too far from there are high school students gardening a plot of land as part of their curriculum.

Fast forward to the year 2017 when those same landmarks have transformed into Jess’ Quick Lunch, a parking lot next to Jack Brown’s and a farmer’s market filled with local college students.

Transformative scenes of Harrisonburg like these are scattered throughout the Duke Hall Gallery at the “Picturing Harrisonburg: Visions of a Shenandoah Valley City since 1828” exhibition until Oct. 14.

Among the many people who collaborated on this project — which

includes a book — were David Ehrenpreis, an art history professor and director of the Institute for Visual Studies, and Kevin Borg, a history professor. From paintings and postcards to clothes and film, these mementos were all collected in order to display the grand transformation of Harrisonburg and elements that residents can no longer see today.

“An exhibition like this is to show what we did, and what this place was about, and how it’s changed, and how we can understand the connections between the two,” Ehrenpreis said.

Hand-painted postcards from the early 1900s display some scenes that JMU students may recognize and some that they may not. These include the beginnings of JMU, featuring Maury and Jackson Halls, as well as the Rockingham Memorial Hospital, where the Student Success Center now stands and shares its same columns.

B l a c k- a n d - w h i t e p i c t u r e s from 1941 display the roots of Harrisonburg’s classic slogan, “The Friendly City” — a city that shifted its energy toward making it flourish in tourism through friendliness.

The viewers are able — and encouraged — to interact with parts of the exhibit, like scanning every detail of a Harrisonburg landscape mural in 1867 with a magnifying glass. Accessible touchscreens then allow them to click on landmarks in that same mural and many postcards to discover what they looked like back then and where they would be today.

“This is really one of those bridges that JMU’s building over these last few years with the community, rather than being sort of separate and apart, but to push out into the community, be relevant to the community, have the community be relevant to JMU,” Borg said.

Maps and zoning plans from the 1960s that once signified an “urban renewal” now hang on walls. These features include layouts of the town that were at one time present and a whole new vision for Harrisonburg that meant ripping away run-down homes and buildings to start from scratch.

“It’s one thing to have all this stuff on the wall, it’s another thing to actually be able to share these ideas and use all of the stuff as a starting point for conversation and understanding,” Ehrenpreis said.

Tours of the exhibition may be given by emailing Ehrenpreis.

Luke Knisley, a senior art history major, thinks the exhibition does a good job portraying Harrisonburg’s history that many JMU students might not be aware of.

“I think that to be an informed citizen of a community, it’s important to study that community’s history

and how it’s evolved over time and what stories have been shown, which stories haven’t been talked about as much, what things were done well, which things may have been done a different way,” Knisley said.

Not only does this exhibit offer a glimpse into the places of the past in Harrisonburg, but also how the culture once was.

“If we really [want to] create a better society, if we really [want to] make changes in the community, we have to understand what that community was and what decisions were made and why,” Ehrenpreis said. “If we don’t have that, how can we know where to go?”

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Love rooted in language Two professors value the power of cultural knowledge and instill it at home WILL CARMACK / THE BREEZE

By SHANNA KELLY The Breeze

Imagine for a minute that you get to your office, sit down at your desk and when you look up, you see the smiling face of your husband or wife. This is how the married couple Spanish professor John Tkac and Italian professor Valentina Riso spend their days at JMU, with a shared office.

Tkac began working at JMU as a Spanish professor in the fall of 2006, despite not having a Spanish background in his family. Rather, Tkac started learning Spanish when he was 13 years old and worked in a bagel shop with a few workers from El Salvador.

“Language made sense in my brain and the more I studied it, the more I liked it,” Tkac said.

He studied Spanish from seventh grade on, and in high school, he started taking a few French classes as well. After falling in love with languages, especially Spanish, Tkac decided that’s what he wanted to do with his life.

“I’ve always wanted to somehow help people,” Tkac said. “So, I think that teaching and explaining a different culture and language, way of being, is my way of opening the

world up to other people.”

Riso, originally from Reggio Calabria, a town in southern Italy, began working at JMU in 2007, where she met Tkac.

The two professors first met in the copy room of Keezell Hall. It was only Riso’s second day in the U.S. and Tkac told her that if she was bored that weekend, they could go out.

According to Tkac, they spoke Spanish to each other when they first met because Riso was having a little difficulty adjusting to the American cadence accent vocabulary.

“Then we bonded o v e r a l o v e ,” Tkac said. “She loves Spain, had studied abroad in Salamanca. So, we bonded over a love of the language and the culture.”

Coincidentally, the year that Riso came to JMU to teach Italian was the year that Tkac decided that he wanted to start learning the language.

Her class happened to be the one that worked best for him.

However, Tkac went to the Italian class for six weeks and then

eventually stopped attending.

“I made her embarrassed during class,” Tkac said. “I stared at her with big puppy dog eyes.”

Even though he stopped attending Riso’s class, Tkac continued to learn Italian so he could speak with his family who live in Italy, since none of them are native English speakers.

Luckily, working together at JMU in the foreign language department ended up being beneficial for

“Having the same job means being able to share advice, opinions, to be more understanding,” Riso said.

Even aside from work, their love of languages really brings them together. Having the same interests means they’re able to share the unique cultural experiences that are important to them.

“We have fun when we travel, imitating the language of the place, and we correct each other when we say something wrong in one language,” Riso said. “We switch from a language to another at home. We watch foreign movies, we love travelling, we both love experiencing the other culture.”

It also enables t h e m t o h av e t h e same vacations and to alternate days to stay home with their kids. So, when the kids are sick or have time off from school, only one of them has to cancel class to stay home.

Tkac and Riso have two kids: a two and a half-year-old son Johnny, and a five-year-old daughter Jocelyn. In their house, the entire family speaks what they refer to as a “hodgepodge”

“Their minds will be much more open to a global view for their studies and for their job in the future. ” Giuliana Fazzion Foreign language department

both their relationship and their schedules.

“Just working together, love of languages, it’s kind of always been there,” Tkac said.

According to Tkac, having the same job means they’re on the same page. So, when they have a day off, they both understand when one of them has to grade 50 papers or study.

of different languages.

“My wife has exclusively spoken to the kids in Italian since they were born,” Tkac said. “And I spoke to them in English, for my daughter, the first year and a half of her life and for my son, the first two years of his life.”

When Jocelyn turned one and a half and when Johnny turned two and they had enough mastery of the English language, Tkac switched and exclusively started talking to the kids in Spanish.

“Our son, he’s getting much better in all of the languages he speaks because he picks and chooses things,” Tkac said.

Jocelyn remains further ahead than Johnny at each age since boys are a little slower with language development in comparison to girls, but both kids understand everything that’s said to them in all three languages. They even know some French, which they love.

“It comes natural for them to understand and switch languages because they don’t know any different,” Riso said. “They are used to that. And now their brain functions this way and [they] are able to learn more languages easily.” see LANGUAGE, page 29

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JMU football head coach Mike Houston is in his second season at the helm of the program. He currently holds a 16-1 record overall, including a 15-0 record against FCS opponents and a 9-0 record at Bridgeforth.

By BLAKE PACE The Breeze

With more than 24,000 people in attendance, JMU football shined in its 2017 home debut, demolishing East Tennessee State in a 52-10 blowout.

The Dukes will now set their sights on taking down the Spartans of Norfolk State as they search for their 15th straight victory and a 3-0 start to the season.

1. Home field advantage After taking down FBS foe East Carolina on the road, the Dukes were welcomed back to Bridgeforth in overwhelming fashion. With the cameras rolling, streamers flying and fans screaming, the Dukes had all the motivation they needed to put on a show for the Harrisonburg faithful.

“It was a great feeling,” redshirt senior linebacker Kyre Hawkins said.

“The atmosphere here is ridiculous.

I love playing in front of these fans.

They get so into it, we just love coming out here being able to play this game for our fans and our community.”

JMU’s win this past Saturday marks its ninth consecutive win at home, dating back to its 44-38 loss to Colgate in the first round of the 2016 FCS Playoffs.

“It felt great,” senior wide receiver John Miller said. “Just seeing all the

fans, we couldn’t have been more ready to play. That gets us all hyped up.”

The Dukes look to continue their streak when Norfolk State travels to Harrisonburg on Saturday.

2. Aerial attack shines While their week-one victory was won on the ground, the passing game shined in Week 2 over ETSU. Senior quarterback Bryan Schor threw for 304 yards and five touchdowns, while redshirt senior wide receiver Ishmael Hyman and redshirt sophomore wide receiver Riley Stapleton combined for 157 yards and four scores.

Coming into this week, Stapleton had yet to record a reception at the collegiate level after spending his redshirt freshman year primarily as a special teams member.

“He’s a really hard-working guy,” Schor said. “He’s put the work in the past couple years he’s been here. I think when he stepped on campus here, he might’ve not had all the tools to be a great wide receiver at that time, but one thing he’s always had is work ethic.”

That output led to 64 yards on eight catches for two touchdowns. His recent play has the receiving corps excited to add another layer of talent.

“Riley is a great receiver,” Miller said. “He’s big, he’s physical,

obviously you’ll see he’ll go up and catch the football. It just adds to our talent between me, Ish, Riley, David.

It’s like we’re almost unstoppable.”

The rest of the team isn’t worried; this was just a one-week flash from the wide out from Indiana, Pennsyalvannia.

“I think he’ll definitely surprise a lot more people this year,” Schor said.

Miller nabbed three receptions for 50 yards, but it was his work on the special teams unit where he made his mark. Miller returned two punts for 84 yards, including a 41-yard return to the house for his second punt-return score of his career.

“It’s a good feeling,” Miller said.

“My coaches trust me to put me back there on punt returns so I just try and go out there and do the best that I can to help us win.”

Special teams has also been a highlight of the Dukes under head coach Mike Houston, as his kick and punt return units have taken seven touchdowns to the end zone in his short stint with JMU.

3. Front seven dominant in rush defense Similarly to the team’s performance in its season opener, its defense proved yet again to be one of the strongest units in the nation.

Following a season in which the

Buccaneers averaged 296.5 yards of total offense per game, the Dukes held ETSU to just 175.

“Our biggest key on defense is to come out and be the attackers,” Hawkins said. “We wanted to come out and set the tone early on in the game and let them know that we’re here to dominate.”

The Buccaneers’ 32 rushing attempts led to just 57 yards on the ground and 1.8 yards per rush after averaging 134 and 3.5 last season.

“That’s a big part of everybody’s offense,” Hawkins said. “If they can run the ball they can do anything.

We want to take that out of their game immediately and make their game as one-dimensional as possible.”

Dating back to their national championship game, the Dukes’ defense has allowed just 148 rushing yards. However, their sights are set on a much more long-term goal.

“We want to be number one in the nation in overall defense,” Hawkins said.

4. Prepping for the Spartans Saturday will mark the first ever meeting between the Dukes and Spartans, and while they’re an unfamiliar foe, the Dukes have managed a 4-2 record against other Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference opponents. While Norfolk State has

started the season 0-2, the Dukes aren’t letting their mind slip into the trap of thinking it’ll be an easy victory.

“One thing we have to be ready for is to face an athletic team,” Schor said.

“We’ve seen them hold really good teams to a small amount of points so it’s definitely a game that we’re going to have to show up ready to play.”

The Spartans’ dominant defense has held its first two opponents to an average of 127 yards per contest and just three touchdowns through the air.

“We want to be the attackers on offense, defense and special teams,” Hawkins said. “We want to come out and dominate at the point of contact, be disciplined and put our best effort forward.”

The defense will look to shut down the two-way playmaking ability from freshman quarterback Juwan Carter and stuff the run against junior running back Aaron Savage.

“They’re a good, athletic team,” Miller said. “We just have to get on them fast and come out there and outwork them. That’s how we beat most of our opponents. They just can’t handle us physically and we outwork them.”

CONTACT Blake Pace at paceba@ dukes.jmu.edu. For more football coverage, follow the sports desk on Twitter @TheBreezeSports.

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Young team triumphs to historic start

JMU volleyball wins nine straight to start 2017

By MIKE STEARMAN The Breeze

Turn back the clock to Dec. 2 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where JMU volleyball had just been defeated in the first round of the NCAA tournament. After a season highlighted by wins and broken records, the Cinderella story prematurely came to a close. With four seniors nearing graduation after season’s end — including two-time CAA Player of the Year Janey Goodman — it looked like it could be years before JMU would contend for the CAA National Championship again.

Just don’t tell this year’s team that.

The Dukes are 9-0 in 2017, the program’s best start in 33 years. The team has swept six of those wins, only playing the full five sets once. Despite having a younger roster than last year’s squad, head coach Lauren Steinbrecher believes the 2017 Dukes are a more complete team.

“In the past, [I’ve] had really strong players

and also players that needed a lot of training to catch up, but I don’t feel that way this year,” Steinbrecher said. “I can put anybody in to play, and the whole team is just on a very high level.”

The primary difference between this year’s team and last is the loss of Goodman. The right sider set single-season program records in total kills (552), kills per set (4.64) and total attack attempts (1,338). She finished her days in purple and gold ranked second in career kills (1,716) and career attack attempts (4,452), tied for second in career kills average (3.80), fourth in career block assists (332), fifth in sets played (451) and eighth in total blocks (353).

“We can balance our offense a little better, and we have several players that can handle the load Janey did,” Steinbrecher said. “Everyone is a little better, and that’s what’s leading us to success.”

Hard work in the offseason, compounded with the experience of another year on the team, has led to a fast start for the Dukes. The atmosphere in practice reflects just how high of

a level the team’s playing at this year. Players are constantly communicating and moving, laying out for loose balls and there’s an unmistakable stench of competition in the air. For this team, every practice matters.

“Every practice is a new day to get better, to inspire other people to get better,” junior middle blocker Taylor Gail said.

Hustle and grit are hallmarks of this year’s team, and that starts with defense. Senior defensive specialist Taylor Austin, who was named 2016 CAA Defensive Specialist of the Year, has already been named CAA Defensive Player of the Week twice this season. She believes the key to an effective defense is a tenacious attitude, which becomes contagious to the rest of the team.

“Just be all out relentless,” Austin said. “If one person shows they’re relentless and dives all over the place, it inspires other people to hit the floor for their teammates.”

The team’s goal for this season is very

straightforward: win the national championship.

It’s definitely easier said than done, but it seems like the Dukes have a pretty solid plan for how they’re going to achieve this lofty goal.

“We have to put the same hard work in — day in, day out,” junior outside hitter Bryn Recker said.

“Practice like you play, so when you do play, it feels like practice.”

For Steinbrecher, it’s about complacency.

“We can’t ever get comfortable with the level that we’re at,” Steinbrecher said. “If we continue to improve, we’ll be where we want to be.”

There’s no denying the talent on the team, but it may be the bond the players share with each other that propels them to the national championship.

CONTACT Mike Stearman at stearmmx@ dukes.jmu.edu. For more volleyball coverage, follow the sports desk on Twitter @TheBreezeSports.

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“Dukes above all others.”

It’s more than a motto for the JMU women’s soccer team. It’s not a catchy saying on a T-shirt or warmup jersey, it’s the underlying belief that with a strong community and work ethic, anything is possible.

This culture, instilled by longtime head coach David Lombardo, is described as goofy but tough, silly but serious. There’s a positive pressure to improve, as everyone’s motivated to push each other to “excel and succeed,” according to freshman Sophie Brause.

“Coach sets the bar for us,” Brause said. “He says, ‘This is where I expect this team to be’ and that requires us to step up and reciprocate the work he’s putting in for the team.”

While teammates may have fun and joke around, they’re serious, and seriously good on the field.

As of now, the Dukes hold a 4-3 record with two more non-conference matches before they face their nine CAA foes. There have been ups and downs, and while the Dukes are in a good position now, they’re by no means complacent.

“We set our expectations pretty high,” 2016 CAA Rookie of the Year Haley Crawford said.

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third behind Elon and Northeastern.

“Last season, there was a bit of a divide between the upper and lowerclassmen,” junior forward Carmen Thomas said. “We couldn’t get out of a losing streak. There’s no go-to person … last year the pressure to score was on [graduated forward] Ashley Herndon.”

Now that the Dukes are without Herndon, who led the team in minutes played, goals and shots on goal, others have been forced to step up, leading to a more balanced and multi dimensional offensive attack.

The team largely viewed last season as a disappointment, so this time around, the Dukes are motivating and pushing each other to perform at the highest level. JMU’s appeared in the NCAA tournament just once since 2011, and Thomas, now a junior, said that the team is ready to make it back for the first time since 2015 — her freshman season.

“The juniors now who were freshmen when we won were in that [same] scenario and remember how hard it was to get there,” Thomas said. “Now that we’re juniors and our time is coming to an end, we really want to show the freshmen and sophomores what it’s like to win a tournament.”

Even with a relatively young team, there’s a strong sense of urgency.

“We definitely have a lot of new players, but people underestimate us,” Brause said.

The Dukes begin a three-game homestand

on Thursday evening against Liberty. This season, JMU’s 3-1 with a goal differential of plus 6 when playing in Harrisonburg. While the Flames are only 1-3-2 on the road in 2017, the Dukes know that this isn’t a team to be taken lightly.

“We need to come out and score early goals, we haven’t been consistent,” Thomas said. “[Liberty’s] a tough team and we lost to them last year. We went in there excited last year but didn’t come out as hard or focused as we’d like to.”

Crawford still hasn’t forgotten last year’s loss to Liberty, where the Flames broke a stalemate in the last 90 seconds to steal the match 1-0.

“We need to work on the beginning, the first 30 minutes of the game,” Crawford said. “[We can’t just be] looking at the other teams’ records, we need to go in and play JMU soccer.”

If the Dukes control the game and continue to play their unselfish brand of soccer, they’ll be very tough for anyone to beat. JMU’s well on its way to a bounce-back season after last year’s disappointing finish. If they keep things up, the Dukes will be above all others, and this time, it will be in the standings.

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Tkac and Riso are teaching their kids about many different cultures. from page 21

According to Mary O’Donnell, an associate professor of Spanish, kids don’t confuse languages.

“It’s very clear to them, differentiating between one language and another,” O’Donnell said. “It’s almost limitless the amount of languages a child, the younger the better, can learn.”

However, Riso doesn’t look at it as though they’re formally teaching the kids more than one language.

“I don’t think we can say that we have decided to teach them multiple languages,” Riso said. “It came natural for the both of us.”

In addition to learning multiple languages, the kids are also learning about different cultures.

“They will not have only the culture of one, let’s say the American culture, but they will also have the one of their parents,” Giuliana Fazzion, the head of the foreign language department, said. “Their minds will be much more open to a global view for their studies for their job in the future.”

Riso and Tkac both hope that understanding different languages and cultures will not only open them to future opportunities, but also give them a better understanding of the world around them.

“We hope that they just sort of have a worldview as opposed to a very closed view,” Tkac said. “So, we want them to be able to use the languages to go anywhere that they want in the world, do whatever they want. Whether it’s being a doctor in Spain or becoming a nurse in Italy or a teacher, who knows.”

Jocelyn is currently in a bilingual kindergarten class at Smithland Elementary School in Harrisonburg, where she not only takes Spanish class, but learns every subject in the language as well.

“At first when we wanted her in the bilingual program it was because we wanted her to see that Spanish was not just something that daddy did at work and made her do at home,” Tkac said. “But it was also a living language and there’s people all over the world that speak it and now she gets that opportunity.”

According to Fazzion, whether the couple is at home or at work, their passion is contagious. As they both continue to share their love for culture and languages, they hope that not only their kids, but also their students, will be able to open their minds to the world around them.

CONTACT Shanna Kelly at kelly3sc@dukes.jmu.edu. For more on the culture, arts and lifestyle of the JMU and Harrisonburg communities, follow the culture desk on Twitter @Breeze_ Culture.

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