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A DUTY TO SERVE

By TYLER McAVOY The Breeze

COURTESY OF JUSTIN CONSTANTINE

LEFT In addition to providing critical care treatment to soldiers, Lt. Rachel Engler (‘05) also treated local Afghanis. RIGHT Maj. Justin Constantine (‘92) recovers after doctors reconstructed his face with bone from his leg after he was shot by a sniper in 2006.

GLOBAL CONFLICT, small world

Two JMU graduates’ military experiences cross paths in an unexpected circumstance.

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This is the first of a three-part series detailing JMU students and military service.

Part one shares the story of a passion for service and a unique and coincidental connection between two JMU graduates.

Find parts two and three in next week’s issues.

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In October  in a remote desert town, an area wrought with destruction, a sniper waits. The blinding desert sun and the sniper’s coverage on the urban battlefield in the Al Anbar province, Iraq, protect him from his enemy.

The targets appear. The sniper peers into his scope and aligns the crosshairs. He applies pressure to the trigger, squeezes, fires.

Miss. The shot ricochets off the concrete wall behind the targets. Seconds pass. The targets duck for cover. The sniper reloads, realigns, secures the target and releases the trigger.

The bullet penetrates the skull of a United States Marine major in the one-inch gap between his body armor and helmet, entering behind his left ear and exiting through his mouth. He hits the ground, his body frozen and his life teetering on the edge of death.

Another shot rings out, striking a second Marine between the eyes and knocking him out. Two seemingly fatal hits. The Marines form a defensive perimeter around the downed soldiers and search

for the sniper, to no avail.

The sniper’s second shot struck the other Marine’s goggles, saving his life and preventing the bullet from piercing his forehead.

“Don’t worry about the major, he’s dead,” the Marines yell.

But Naval Corpsman George Grant immediately performs an emergency tracheotomy to open the major’s airway and prevent him from drowning in his own blood.

That major was Justin Constantine, a  JMU graduate. As he lay on the street, bleeding profusely from his head and gasping for every breath, Constantine didn’t know his path to recovery would soon cross with a fellow JMU graduate.

Shocking News

More than , miles away, Dahlia Hamza rode past a cemetery in London for American soldiers in World War II with an overwhelming sinking feeling.

Dahlia, Constantine’s then-girlfriend and now his wife, said she knew something was wrong when she didn’t hear from Constantine all day.

Later that evening Constantine’s mom sent Dahlia an e-mail that forever changed her life.

“I was sitting in my room and there was this shock,” Dahlia said. “I didn’t cry for several hours and I didn’t move out of my chair. I was just staring at my computer screen for hours.”

Once the tears came, reality slowly began to set in.

“We knew there was a sniper in the area, he had already killed a few Marines actually,” said Constantine, now , as he recounted the story recently.

The Marines moved Constantine’s body into a convoy vehicle to transport him to the nearest hospital. Typically convoys crawl along the desert streets at  miles per hour to minimize the damage from an improvised explosive device.

“The Battalion Commander told Lance Cpl. [Jordan] Buehler, ‘Get the major to the hospital. I don’t care how fast you have to drive’, ” Constantine said.

Putting their lives in danger, Buehler reached  mph, speeds that would instantly flip the vehicle should it hit an I.E.D. Constantine was eventually transported to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. for treatment where, by mere chance, a young nurse in the surgical ward shared his alma mater. see SERVICE, page 4

Students can have a say in JMU’s direction for the next seven years.

The Quality Enhancement Plan is a program designed to allow the JMU community to submit ideas on the future of student education. The program began taking suggestions from faculty and students on Nov. .

“This is really for the students,” said Lee Sternberger, associate provost and chair of the QEP Committee.

“Students will be the largest benefactor of whatever is implemented.”

The program, which is required for reaccreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, is meant to establish better education by holding an open forum. Reaccreditation occurs every  years, with a five year review in between by SACS. A diploma from an accredited school is required for many graduate programs, and only accredited schools receive federal student financial aid.

Anyone in the academic community — from students to professors — can submit ideas on ways to improve the educational environment.

“The idea is to think about what it’s like to be a student on campus,” Sternberger said. “What would you like to see better different or improved?”

The best ideas will be selected based on how effectively they enhance student education.

“Suggestions for more parking on campus isn’t what we’re looking for here,” Sternberger said. “We’re looking for civic engagement, environmental sustainability and service learning. We’re looking for a big educational picture.”

QEP is a program designed by SACS to help improve specific areas in education for a particular school.

Schools like Virginia Tech and Virginia Commonwealth University have adopted similar QEP structures.

JMU’s QEP committee plans to fully implement the selected idea by .

“This is a great way to get institutions to reflect on who they are and what they can be,” said Andy Perrine, vice president of Communications and Marketing and chair of the Communication Subcommittee for the QEP. According to Sternberger, by January the committee will take three or four from that group of suggestions and back them with funding to fully develop the idea. These will then be presented to the public the JMU community via a blog and physical presentations.

In two weeks, the response has been abundant. According to Perrine, the QEP committee has received dozens of e-mails and short proposals.

Only one idea will be selected for full development by , but Sternberger said the QEP is hopeful that parts of other ideas can help augment the final plan. Even though many current students will have graduated by the time QEP is implemented, a suggestion will still have a strong impact on up and coming classes.

According to Sternberger, QEP will select proposals based on blind reviews to eliminate the chance of bias, and the committee is working on the selection process to make the first cuts.

“We really want suggestions to be unrestricted,” Sternberger said. “This is really an act of self-evaluation for ourselves and how we can enhance our own educational experiences.”

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 On Saturday, a student

reported theft of a backpack containing a laptop and textbooks, valued at $660, from Rockingham Hall.

Property Damage

 On Nov. 19, a JMU Police

officer reported damage to two vehicles in an unspecified lot, resulting in $1,750 worth of damage.  On Monday, an employee reported damage to the quarter panel of a vehicle in the I Lot, resulting in $120 worth of damage.  On Monday, an employee reported damage to a window in the breezeway of Wilson Hall, resulting in $75 worth of damage.

received a possession of marijuana charge on Walnut Lane.  On Nov. 25, two students received drunk in public charges on Hunters Road.  On Nov. 20, a student received a drunk in public and underaged possession charge on Devon Lane.

Other

 On Tuesday, a student

reported a male individual exposing himself outside Sheldon Hall.

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Harrisonburg

Former JMU professor indicted by federal grand jury

James Lesner Query, 53, was indicted on one felony charge of distributing child pornography and one felony charge of possession of child pornography, according to the Daily News-Record. On Monday, Query was ordered to be held without bond.

Before his arrest, Query worked as a communication studies professor and taught two courses, health communication and communication research methodologies.

No break-ins reported over break

For the first time in three years, no break-ins were reported over Thanksgiving break in student housing areas, according to Mary-Hope Vass, Harrisonburg Police Department spokeswoman. Twelve instances of breaking and entering were reported in 2009 and 18 were reported in 2008.

Richmond

City’s noise ordinance ruled unconstitutional

Richmond General District Chief Judge Robert Pustilik overturned Richmond’s noise ordinance, ruling the ordinance is too broad and promotes religion, according to the AP. The ordinance prohibited sound such as TV or music if it can be heard in someone else’s home or at least 50 feet away. The ordinance exempted sounds related to religious expression such as singing.

State employees receive bonus

All state employees will receive a 3 percent bonus in their paychecks Wednesday, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Gov. Bob McDonnell ordered the bonus after the state ended the fiscal year with a $400 million surplus. The bonus-day will cost the state about $82 million.

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Only 10 of more than 350 clubs require members to be full-time students. “Every club has their constitution and they state whether or not their club is open to part-time or full-time students. It’s up to each individual club to make each choice,” said Kristin Muncy, associate director of the OSAI.

JACing up club security Two clubs make rule changes to prevent non-students from joining.

By Stephany Holguin The Breeze

Failing to verify that club members are students enrolled at JMU is what helped one 18-year-old from Broadway infiltrate the College Republicans this fall.

Kristin Muncy, associate director of University Union for the Office of Student Activities and Involvement, said not all clubs require members to be enrolled students.

“Every club has their constitution and they state whether or not their club is open to part-time or

full-time students,” Muncy said. “It’s up to each individual club to make each choice.”

Verifying the status of club members comes after Andrew Jones, was arrested on Nov. 10 for allegedly stealing credit cards from JMU students and racking up more than $3,000 in charges. During the fall semester, Jones acted as a student, became a member of College Republicans and was elected as the club’s second vice chair shortly before he was arrested.

Jones is scheduled to appear in General District Court on Jan. 13. According to the JMU campus directory, Jones is not a JMU student.

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Of the more than 350 clubs on campus, only 10 groups require members to be full-time students, according to Muncy. Those organizations include University Program Board, Student Government Association, Black Student Alliance, NAACP, Inter-Fraternity Council, Panhellenic Council, C.A.R.E., Student Ambassadors, EARTH Club and Madison Equality.

The 10 clubs receive student fees at the beginning of each year and are required to submit budgets to the Office of Student Activities and Involvement. see Clubs, page 4

Organizations

Relay raises most cash per capita

By Natalie Dohner contributing writer

Photo Courtesy of Ally Golkin

Senior Ally Golkin installs siding on a house in the Lower Ninth Ward. JMU’s Alternative Break Program sponsored three trips during Thanksgiving break to New Orleans, Atlanta and Twentynine Palms, Calif.

A full week of giving

During Thanksgiving break, 34 students volunteered in three cities.

By Stephany Holguin The Breeze

“God help me. Knock me down.”

This phrase stuck in the minds of students who traveled to New Orleans last week. It was written in a house in the Lower Ninth Ward, the neighborhood next to the levee that broke during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

It’s been five years, and the Lower Ninth Ward is still deserted. Many houses were torn off their foundation and the ones that weren’t were boarded up and abandoned, said Ally Golkin, a senior communication sciences and disorders major.

Citizens living in New Orleans are still asking for help.

“It is unbelievable to think how desperate these people are for help and devastating that no one is giving it to them,” Golkin said.

The group that traveled to New Orleans was made up of 11 JMU students who were a part of the Alternative Break Program. During the trip, these students served food to the homeless and rebuilt affordable housing after

Hurricane Katrina swept through the city.

Sara Luna, a junior biology major, has been to New Orleans twice to help hurricane victims. The first time she went to New Orleans was through JMU’s Habit for Humanity in 2007. That was three years ago, but she is still grateful to help those in need.

“I feel privileged that I have the resources to help others and be able to serve those in need when they don’t have anything,” Luna said.

This year JMU’s Alternative Break Program offered three trips: New Orleans, Atlanta and Twentynine Palms, Calif. ABP sent a total of 34 students to volunteer during Thanksgiving break.

“The Alternative Break trips provide a learning opportunity for students outside of the classroom and enable them to become enlightened, well-educated citizens,” said Misty Newman, assistant director of Community Service-Learning.

The 11 students traveled to help out the Louisiana-based Phoenix of New Orleans. Known as PNOLA, the organization is in charge of neighborhood

recovery in the lower mid-city section of New Orleans.

The group of students left on Friday, Nov. 20 and drove 16 hours in a 12-passenger JMU van.

“It was a tight fit,” said Karley Kranich, sophomore and media arts and design major. “On the way there, we didn’t know each other that well so we were not sitting that close to each other.

However, on the way home, everyone was laying on each other’s shoulder because we got close during the trip.

It’s kinda given because some days you spend anywhere from 6:30 a.m. until 1 a.m. at night with each other.”

They arrived on Saturday to the city and on Sunday their adventure began.

“We were tourists for day one, we went to the French Quarter and Bourbon Street, we got a sense of the city,” Luna said. The group also went to the museum about Hurricane Katrina.

During the visit to the museum, Luna was struck with a story of a man from New Orleans who helped rescue people from their homes right after the see Giving, page 4

JMU’s Relay For Life organization has beat out nearly every collegiate contender in raising money to battle cancer.

According to the Amer ican Cancer Society, JMU’s Relay organization ranks first in the nation per capita in the 15,000-20,000 student university size bracket. Currently, the 1,355 participants making up 159 teams have raised $20,084.

Disregarding university size, JMU sits at third place in overall collegiate ranking for donation sum by the ACS just behind Virginia Tech

with $28,964. The University of Georgia is number one with $45,062 raised.

The organization, now in its 11th year at JMU, hopes to raise $200,000 with the help of students and the Harrisonburg community.

Last year, a total of $162,016 was raised by 2,002 participants and 201 teams. That number is $20,000 higher than the funds raised in the previous year in 2009.

At this time last year, 42 teams and 161 participants had raised only $4,884.

“That’s why we are so happy with see Relay, page 4

SGA

Executive board position remains empty

By Jordan Krug contributing writer

The Student Government Association discussed the effectiveness of keeping and filling the vacant vice president of student affairs position on Tuesday.

Since Brock Wallace resigned six weeks ago following several criminal charges, the SGA did not act immediately to create an elections commission for a special election.

Andrew Reese, the SGA president, said the first step is to evaluate and redefine the VPSA position its responsibilities and then decide if it does in fact need to exist.

According to Caitlin Natale, speaker of the student senate, SGA plans to fully discuss whether to restructure the SGA to have only one vice president instead of electing another VPSA at its next meeting.

Additionally the Purple Out T-Shirt investigation will release its findings to the SGA after winter break.

In other business, the SGA continued to grant funding for student

organizations. The first granted $1,600 to Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. and the other for $4,300 to film club Cinemuse.

The $1,600 granted to the Xi Delta Chapter Alpha Phi Alpha will be used to pay for four of its members registration fees at the district and regional conferences.

Cinemuse will use the allocated $4,300 to pay for the movie rights and room rentals for this year’s Annual Film Festival.

Each year Cinemuse puts on a student-run film festival where free movies can be viewed both on campus and around Harrisonburg theatres.

Cinemuse Treasurer, junior economic major Kimberly Rohrs, explained this year’s theme as “The Five Senses,” where each movie will focus on one of the senses.

The SGA also passed a resolution commemorating World AIDS Day on Dec. 1. contact Jordan Krug at krugje@dukes.jmu.edu.

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“I thought it was the coolest thing and I thought it was such a small world,” Engler said. “JMU is such a big school in Virginia but outside the state people don’t realize it’s such a tight connection with people who went to JMU. It kinda made my whole day.”

Her Story

Lt. Rachel Engler, now 26, pictured herself at graduation with more challenge and variety in her life, and she saw the military as the right post-college path for her.

Shortly after graduating from JMU in 2005 with a nursing degree, she was commissioned as an officer in the Navy and was stationed in the surgical ward at the NNMC, where the ward was inundated with patients from Afghanistan and Iraq.

Not only did Engler work as a full-time nurse, but she also embarked on another non-military challenge. As a member of the Dukettes at JMU she couldn’t give up her passion for dancing and she joined the Washington Redskins as a cheerleader in 2006.

“I thought I could let it go, enjoy the Navy, see the world and leave dancing behind me but I couldn’t and it allowed an outlet for me to embrace my femininity and be on a dance team again,” Engler said.

Even though Engler didn’t tell patients she was a Redskins cheerleader, word spread quickly.

“It would get the patients excited about something else besides being in a hospital,” Engler said. “These guys we took care of coming back from overseas … could just think about football instead of their injuries for just five minutes.”

At the hospital, Engler would work 12-to-14-hour shifts treating wounded veterans with severe and sometimes fatal injuries.

“The patients that I have lost, it’s awful and there’s nothing that compares to having to say, ‘OK we’re finished, unfortunately there’s nothing else we can do,’ ” Engler said.

While her compassion led her to the nursing profession, seeing a patient recover and pain subside keeps her passion for nursing alive.

“You have to keep your head in the game because who else is going to do this?” Engler said. “They turn unfortunate situations into something completely different and it makes traffic on the beltway seem so minor. It’s just inspiring and it keeps me going.”

Recovery

Maj. Constantine was one of those unforgettable patients who kept Engler going.

Continuing to Serve

PHOTO COURTESY OF JUSTIN CONSTANTINE

Justin Constantine and his wife Dahlia were married in 2008, two years after he was shot in the head by a sniper in Afghanistan.

“I remember when I walked into his room and his injuries were severe,” Engler said. “It was like he wasn’t even injured. He asked me how I was doing, he had a positive attitude and his wife had the most positive attitude and kept his spirits up.”

Even though Constantine was conscious and was moving immediately after the shooting, he has no memory of it. He said the last thing he remembers was stopping by the Iraqi post at the forward operating base.

After being stabilized in the hospital in Iraq, he was then flown to the U.S. military hospital in Landsthul, Germany, where he remained for four days.

“I remember about five minutes of that … and I only think I came to or was able to make any noise until I had been [in Bethesda] for at least a week,” Constantine said. “There was close to two weeks there where I was completely out.”

Constantine underwent numerous surgeries to repair the bullet’s damage.

In one operation, the doctors removed

bones from his legs to use for facial reconstruction. Without the surgery, doctors said his face would have collapsed from the damage.

“My face was so messed up — they called me pumpkin head,” Constantine said. “They wouldn’t let me see my own reflection because they were afraid it would set me off in a negative way.”

Engler said it was refreshing to see Dahlia support him during such a troubling time. Constantine’s positive outlook, determination and strength of character made him stand out of the many patients she treated.

“I do think Justin and I come from a background of laughing a lot,” Dahlia said. “If you don’t laugh, you’re going to cry.”

Of the numerous nurses who treated Constantine, he and Dahlia said they couldn’t forget Engler.

“I didn’t know anyone in Virginia, so watching her gentle way with Justin and that she got to know me as a person made me feel welcome,” Dahlia said.

Constantine said Engler was a great nurse who was “really, really compassionate,” good at her job and had a great personality.

At the time, neither Engler nor Constantine knew about their JMU connection.

“I immediately remembered him,” Engler said when she saw his picture recently on the JMU homepage. “A lot of my colleagues remembered him too.”

Even though they attended JMU more than eight years apart, both were shocked and surprised to later discover their connection.

“I just laughed out loud,” Constantine said. “I’ve had so many small world moments especially since the injury that Dahlia and I just kind of laugh and say ‘of course she went to JMU, why wouldn’t she?’ I just thought it was great, and I wish I had known it at the time so we could have talked about it.”

Engler was just as surprised to hear one of her patients shared her alma mater.

Post-college

Graduate program sees increase in applications

By Heavenly Hunter contributing writer

With graduation approaching for JMU seniors, many are considering graduate school instead of immediately entering the job market. Kaplan, a test preparation company, predicted a 10 percent surge in graduate school applications this year because of the rough job market.

The Kaplan survey results showed that 78 percent of graduate schools expect an increase in the number of applicants, maintaining the momentum of the eight percent growth in the total number of applicants from 2008 to 2009.

Lynette Bible, director of JMU’s graduate admissions, said each year has shown an increase in JMU graduate applications.

She believes that JMU ’s new graduate programs in nursing and occupational therapy and the renovated Forbes Center for the Performing Arts has attracted students from other areas to consider the graduate program.

The JMU Center for Institutional Research projected in 2009 that JMU graduate admissions will increase by

20 students each year until 2014.

As of now there are 1,054 students obtaining their master’s degrees and 117 doctoral students obtaining a Ph.D. In 2007-2008, there were 1,025 students obtaining their master’s and 112 doctoral students.

“I believe that jobs are looking for students with experience and higher education. Class work is great, but having the experience in the field shows employers you are familiar with the job.”

Dan St. John graduate student

Dan St. John, a graduate student in the student personnel administration program, believes that students are entering a graduate program because some jobs require students to further their education.

“I believe that jobs are looking for students with experience and higher education,” St. John said. “Class work is great, but having the experience in the field shows employers you are familiar with the job.”

But some seniors plan to go into the work field after earning their undergraduate degree so they can get the experience.

Samantha Houdek, an international affairs major, will graduate in December and plans to work part-time in Harrisonburg until she find the job within her career field.

“The way I’ve distinguished myself from other students is submitting my senior thesis papers in The National Conference for Undergraduate Research,” Houdek said. “This will help put my name in the job market and will look great on my résumé.”

Cassandra Howell, a senior social work major, is in the process of looking for schools that have the Master of Social Work Program. She explains that going straight to graduate school is important for her job finding process.

“There are many social workers that are needed in the competitive work force,” Howell said. “Getting a master’s

degree will increase my salary and will I have a higher position in my field, which is working with the youth.”

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average social worker salary at entry level is $32,500 a year. A midlevel social worker with a master’s would take home about $47,500 a year.

“Students believe that having a bachelor’s degree is not enough with the competitive job market,” Bible said. “That is why they want to obtain a higher degree to stand out from others. Some jobs want employees to have experience, while some want them to have a master’s degree. It all depends on the job and how competitive the job can be.”

The Kaplan survey found that there has been a 53 percent increase from two years ago among students in the United States applying to graduate school immediately after college.

The graduate admission office recommends that students thinking about graduate school begin applying early and take the required tests, such as the GRE, LSAT or MCAT. contact Heavenly Hunter at hunterhr89@gmail.com.

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this year’s numbers,” said Irene Beam, the event chair. “We’ve ranked with schools that have significantly more students than we do.”

She explained that JMU trumped Virginia Tech’s number of participants with almost 400 more.

Every year, 3.5 million people participate in the Relay nationally and raise money to find a cure for cancer.

The Relay For Life organization at JMU attributes its success to their increased publicity on campus.

Beam, a senior communication sciences and disorders major, explained that “as you get more people involved it is easier because word spreads faster.”

JMU’s Relay For Life held an event on the commons the week before

Thanksgiving break where they sold caramel apples and publicized a date auction held on Nov. 30. The auction alone raised $1,037.29.

The organization also had a table set up at Student Organization Night in an effort to increase the number of participants in Relay for Life.

During finals week, Relay will be in the libraries registering participants and collecting donations.

This year to increase participation, For Life offered a week of free registration.

Members of JMU’s Relay For Life have also made presentations to oncampus clubs and organizations to raise awareness about the event and fundraising efforts. Some Relay teams include fraternities and sororities, club sports teams and the Student Government Association.

Relay teams have diverse ways of fundraising.

Meghan O’Reilly, Relay For Life co-chair in training and online chair, said sending out e-mails asking for donations elicits a great response and increased donation.

“It’s a great way to share your story and get people interested in the cause so that they will donate to you,” said O’Reilly, a sophomore history major.

Last year, O’Reilly’s team named SurvivALL, not affiliated with a student organization, sold string bracelets and glass beaded jewelry during the commons days to raise money.

The organization looks for ways to up the ante in donations around the holidays. This year, JMU’s Relay held a “turkey challenge” over Thanksgiving break to see who could bring in the most money to support the cause.

“We were at a bit of a standstill for a while there, but numbers have gone up within the last week,” Beam said.

Beam explained that Dec. 31 is predicted to be the biggest donation day of the year because of the ability to write off the donations on income taxes.

“However, usually people kick up fundraising during the spring because they associate that time of the year with the relay itself. In anticipation of the relay is when we get the most donations,” Beam said.

Although the actual relay only takes place in the spring, JMU’s Relay for Life raises money all year long under the motto “why wait until tomorrow, when we can find a cure today.”

Contact Natalie Dohner at dohnernr@dukes.jmu.edu.

Engler and Constantine saw each other at a memorial event after he was released from the hospital, but have since fallen out of contact.

After a deployment to Afghanistan in 2008 as a critical care and trauma nurse, Engler left active duty to join the reserves and is studying to become a nurse anesthetist at Northeastern University in Boston.

“I just wanted to join back in the civilian world a little bit but hang on to the military,” Engler said.

Constantine later learned his sniper was from Yemen and was caught in a car with three other men. The Marines who stopped the vehicle got into a firefight with them and killed three of them, including the sniper.

Constantine is no longer on active duty, but is in the reserves as a major.

Constantine and Dahlia married in 2008. Through small businesses he began, they work to help veterans get acclimated to life back in the United States.

“Society needs to take care of wounded warriors,” Constantine said. “My concerns are people are going to forget about the people who stand up and defend our country.”

Until June 2010, Constantine worked for the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee as counsel. In February, he will start a new career at the Department of Justice.

“I believe everyone should serve our country,” Constantine said. “For me it’s serving in the military, for my wife, she’s a teacher. I think everyone does owe something and I think everyone has an obligation to give back in some capacity, and I hope people find time in their busy lives to actually give back and help make the community around them a little bit stronger.”

Read The Breeze on Monday for part two in the the “A duty to serve” series on JMU’s ROTC programs.

Contact John Sutter at breezenews@gmail.com.

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hurricane hit the city.

“It brought me to tears. The thought of someone being in a position that forces you to write your social security number, wife’s name and telephone number and blood type in your jeans just in case you didn’t make it,” Luna said.

The first two days of the week the students painted two double shotgun houses. These houses are narrow and rectangular, with a door on each end. On Wednesday and Friday they installed siding on walls and finished flooring.

On Thanksgiving Day, the students began their day with a disaster tour around the town with the founder of PNOLA, Paul Ikemire.

“He gave us a firsthand account of the hurricane and the different aspects of restoration,” Golkin said.

After their tour, the group served lunch at the Bridge House, a rehabilitation center for women. By the end, the 11 volunteers helped build three houses, which are almost ready to be given to families.

As these students look back they realized how much they learned through this trip.

“I learned that there is no greater feeling than to help people,” Golkin said. “Even though we were only there for a week, I feel like we accomplished a lot. You could tell from speaking with the homeowners that they were extremely grateful, which made it all worth it.”

Another trip organized by ABP was to the Samaritan House of Atlanta Inc. and Café 458, in Atlanta. For the third trip, ABP paired up with University Recreation to create a trip that explored the Joshua Tree National Park. Newman said that from the first Alternative Spring Break in 1992, the JMU program now encompasses alternative break trips at Thanksgiving, spring break and May break.

The JMU program won the Break Away National Program of the Year for 2010 in recognition of the university’s commitment to active citizenship. The program earned the same award in 1999 from Break Away, a national nonprofit organization that supports the development of quality alternative break programs at colleges and other nonprofit organizations. contact Stephany Holguin at holguise@dukes.jmu.edu.

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A Letter from the Editors At the breeze, we strive to cover newsworthy events to keep our readers informed and to accurately portray our community. Unfortunately, crime is a frequent occurrence in our area, both on and off campus. Lately, it seems we have seen an unusually high number of incidents, and we have since had mixed feedback from our coverage.

We understand that such reports and mugshots could be potentially embarrassing and damaging to those involved — and we do feel sympathetic in many occasions, but the student body needs to be informed of these matters. It is our duty as journalists to publish this information, which is open record and available to anyone online.

We recognize that not every crime is crucial information, newsworthy or will directly affect the student body. But those arrests or charges that do affect others or have greater consequences to the community demand to be on our pages. When the victims of a crime are JMU student body, the rest of the students should be informed of the allegations.

Our news department promises to cover all such cases from the initial charges we report to the final court resolution. If we do not follow up on a charge, it allows the student body to assume that the person was found guilty, and we do not want that to happen.

We will continue to strive toward the highest of journalistic standards and integrity and remind you that all are innocent until proven guilty.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Madison Keeps, students weep

Last year I was a recipient of funds from the Madison For Keeps program.

I was thankful that the university was able to give me money to help support my education.

This year, if a student is in need, there is no such assistance. According to the Madison For Keeps website, on Sept.  it was declared the program had been suspended unless the university “experiences an unexpected large increase in appeals for student financial aid.” The economy is still down. Yes, the national unemployment rate is down to . percent, but that doesn’t mean students’ families don’t need help.

At first, when I heard the initiative

Binding contracts

With finals week approaching, the last thing that should be on my mind is where I’m living next year. Who decided that it was a good idea to force students to determine where and who they are going to live with next year only four weeks into the beginning of the year?

Determining housing at JMU has become a huge ordeal filled with rushed decision-making and losing a lot of money and time. Unfortunately, if you are lucky enough to sign that binding contract, nowhere does it say that the conditions of your new place will be perfect and that the roommates that you scavenged up in four weeks are going to work out.

As a junior, the issue with finding roommates was not the problem. The search for a decent place to live became

Printing problems

The computer labs are truly a blessing to students and something to be thankful for. I find it fascinating, however, that I pay $, a year ($, for out of state students) in tuition to attend this school and have to pay  cents every time I want to print or make a copy in the computer labs — for the classes my tuition pays for.

I take one of my five classes, a writing course, in a computer lab, yet every time I want to print off an assignment to turn in, I have to pay. Students already have to swipe their JACard to get into these labs, so it would be easy to allow those

was discontinued, I was concerned with where the leftover money went.

After looking at the website you’ll notice about $, wasn’t used. I would love to know where that money went and why it wasn’t given to another student for Madison For Keeps. One hundred and seven students were helped through Madison For Keeps.

I was lucky that my mom got a new job, but how many of the other  students still need help?

Grant Bigman junior communication studies major

the main issue. I placed an application to a housing complex early in October and waited. Early November came around and I realized that a month was entirely way to long to have to wait. I called, only to find out that I did not have a house to live in and had lost $.

JMU and Off-Campus Life need to communicate better and determine a more reasonable time to begin promoting to decide next year’s living arrangements. Underclassmen should not be forced to live with people they barely know and no one should have to rush such a huge decision.

Amanda Tram junior communication studies major

students who are required to print documents for writing courses to do so freely.

Considering all the other details JMU spends exorbitant amounts of money on, like perfectly groomed flowers and dye in Newman Lake for Family Weekend, comping a little paper and ink for the students is a reasonable request.

Since we are here for an education, directing our money toward education-based resources would be a more productive use of our tuition.

Kelsey Mohring junior communication studies major

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New TSA procedures only complete terrorists’ plans to disrupt our economy.

“We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy.” This was Osama bin Laden’s message to the American people in a videotape released by alQaida in .

Bin Laden’s ultimate goal is not the murder of innocent American citizens; rather it is the destruction of our economy.

The terrorist attacks of / sparked a new era of paranoia leading to unprecedented expansion of the military industrial complex. It seems the post / government solution to every security threat is to throw more money into the system. It’s not working.

Because of Richard Reid’s failed shoe bomb in , every airline passenger must remove their shoes when they pass through security. As a result of the attempted liquid bombers in , if you bring too much toothpaste or contact lens solution in your carry-on bag, you have to throw it away. After Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the  underwear bomber, passengers have to endure these new full body scanners or invasive “gate rape” pat down techniques.

Many of our anti-terrorism precautions, especially in airports, come into effect in response to a specific incident.

This kind of thinking implies that terrorists will continue to use the same techniques that others have tried and failed.

The Nov.  edition of Slate magazine’s “Explainer” column asks the question, “Does the TSA Ever Catch Terrorists?” The Transportation Security Administration cites national security concerns for why they have never disclosed any instances in which

their screeners have caught a terrorist.

I don’t question the TSA’s concerns for national security, but I do question their effectiveness in deterring and catching terrorists.

Author, cryptographer and security expert Bruce Schneier coined the term “security theater” to describe security measures that provide the feeling of safety without actually improving security. Schneier claims that the reason the TSA has never disclosed the capture of a terrorist is because it’s never happened.

Why does the government continue to appropriate security measures that don’t work? To create the appearance that something is being done.

In a November  interview with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, Schneier said, “Counter-terrorism in the airport is a show designed to make people feel better.” After every attempted attack, people are afraid. To stop people from being afraid, the TSA implements a new policy that combats that specific method. It simply doesn’t make sense to keep changing security protocol just because of one incident that will probably never be repeated.

Perhaps the most obvious example of a useless TSA program is SPOT, or “Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques.” According to a May  CBS News article, , officers in  United States airports are certified in “behavior detection.” These officers undergo a weeklong training to learn how to identify terrorists by their facial expressions. The SPOT program has cost $ million in tax dollars and has

failed to spot any terrorists.

Why does the government continue to appropriate security measures that don’t work? To create the appearance that something is being done. By implementing unnecessary security precautions in airports that any smart terrorist can easily outwit, we are allowing terrorists to win. They want us to be afraid. They want us to spend all of our money trying to defend against attacks that cannot be stopped with conventional means.

To effectively combat terrorism, it is necessary to understand the underlying motives of the attackers. Al-Qaida exists because of the gigantic American military empire. If American troops had never been stationed in the Arabian Peninsula, chances are / would never have happened.

In response to former President Bush’s invasion of Iraq, bin Laden said, “The darkness of black gold blurred his vision and insight, and he gave priority to private interests over the public interests of America … It all shows that the real loser is you, it is the American people and their economy.” The burden of the useless wars and useless security precautions are ultimately placed on the American taxpayers’ shoulders.

While I am not advocating al-Qaida’s principles, these terrorists have wellcalculated plans and we shouldn’t dismiss their ideas so casually if we want to effectively combat terrorism.

The American solution to fighting terrorism is to expand government contracts to make it seem like something is being done, as opposed to looking to the root of the problem. If we keep imposing reactionary security procedures that only increase long lines and red tape, we are falling right into bin Laden’s bankruptcy plot.

Sean Dolan is a sophomore political science major. Contact Sean at dolansf@dukes.jmu.edu.

A “we-all-know-you-aren’t-real” dart to physics for being such a waste of my precious time.

From a senior psychology major who will never have a container full of molecules and will never need to know its density.

An “I’m-sorry-I’m-soembarrassing” pat to the cute boy in the Airport Lounge who asked if I was all right after I cried because the main character in my novel died.

From the girl who should probably stop watching so much Lifetime.

A “way-to-go” pat to Theta Chi for sticking it out through the wind and rain in its fundraising efforts.

From a Greek who wishes all of us had that dedication to philanthropy.

A “way-to-crush-my-hopes-anddreams” dart to D-Hall for falsely advertising magic bars on its online menu.

From two obsessive juniors who just wanted a little magic in their day.

An “I-brake-for-animals” pat to the guy on his bike who slowed down to let an indecisive squirrel scurry across the path in front of him.

From a girl who can’t decide who was cuter: you or that squirrel.

An “oh,-grow-up!” dart to the couple making out in the Grace Street Parking Deck.

From a senior who didn’t want to be a third wheel and took the stairs.

An “ouch-that-hurts” dart to the drivers on campus flying across speed bumps.

From your car’s poor, defenseless suspension system.

A “what-the-crap?” dart to whoever messed up the Roop Hall sign to make it say “Poop Hall.”

From a math major who thinks you should sit in the mess you just created.

An “up-down-left-right-B-Astart” pat to the two girls talking about video games in Showker Hall.

From a guy who would love to show you how to get that last star.

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A “you’re-the-most-wonderfulday-of-the-year” pat to Dec. .

From razors.

Al-Qaida bankrupts America

A “wish-I-knew-who-youwere-to-give-you-a-hug” pat to whoever returned my USB drive to the lost and found in Carrier Library.

From a girl who is eternally grateful she doesn’t have to rewrite that -page research paper.

Darts & Pats are anonymously submitted and printed on a space-available basis.

Submissions creatively depict a given situation, person or event and do not necessarily reflect the truth.

A “congrats-on-winning-JMU’sfinest” pat to the gutsy girl who bid and won eight steamy guys at the Relay for Life Date Auction.

From a girl who wishes she could be your wingwoman.

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Prosecuting WikiLeaker Encouraging community makes for sticky situation Madison Involved attempts to change JMU-Harrisonburg relations.

DANIEL RICHARDSON | contributing columnist

The events of Springfest last year had a serious effect on not only the perception of JMU from around the state and the country, but also on the relations between JMU and the Harrisonburg community.

While this problem has persisted for some time, clearly this event made cooperation much more tedious. There is widespread mistrust between the two groups and the cultural, economic and social divisions only embolden the resentment.

Even though many students volunteer, work or live amongst the people of the city, stereotypes persist and are mutually damaging. People have been very willing to talk about the problem.

Finally, there are emerging organizations that have decided to actually do something about it.

On Nov. , I had the opportunity to work with a group of students who formed the new organization Madison Involved.

Its vision is not glamorous or high profile. It is not trying to change policy through tackling law enforcement or bringing attention to itself. Instead, this group is focused on showing the Harrisonburg community what JMU really is.

If you open a Daily NewsRecord or talk to a person on the street, you would think that JMU is nothing more than a destination for students who want to party outside the watchful eye of their hometown. While there may be some accuracy to that, the truth is much more substantial.

Without JMU, it is hard to imagine that so many of the region’s poor would have been given shelter, so many of the region’s youth would have been mentored or so many of the region’s sick would have been rescued in their time of need.

This work is what Madison

Involved is all about.

JMU has a long and proud record of service. This university has numerous organizations that do tremendous work in the community on a daily basis.

Whether they are our fraternities and sororities, our religious organizations, our clubs or even classes, the JMU population has provided countless and invaluable services to this area. There have even been meetings called

by Mayor Kai Degner to discuss relations between the JMU and Harrisonburg communities.

The students of JMU have always had the character and ethics to be seen as a functional and productive partner in this community.

So why is it that we still have such little trust from the city? Perhaps it is because so many of our efforts are directed at issues beyond this region through alternative breaks or treat those in need as clients — not partners. The group’s most important mission is to transcend transactional service and create new sustainable relationships.

I had the chance to see this model firsthand. Madison Involved recently volunteered at the Mercy House Thrift Store, a local organization that takes donated goods and sells them for discounted prices to residents in need. This organization is often a site for JMU student volunteers.

I have had the chance to work in the community with a number of JMU groups, but this opportunity was noticeably different.

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who showed up were associated with Madison Involved. Instead, it was a variety of organizations that Madison Involved brought together.

Work was also done with volunteers from the town itself — not just the campus.

Not designed to be a one-time event or simply a good use of a Saturday morning, the project’s purpose was to catalyze new connections between JMU and the town and to ensure that people keep coming back long into the future.

The students of JMU have always had the character and ethics to be seen as a functional and productive partner in this community. Thanks to the decades of work by those on this campus, some residents already see us that way.

To change the persistent and daunting judgment of this school that remains in the minds of so many residents, a group of students will need to have the necessary vision to change it.

We need students who don’t simply work in the community, but work with the community.

We need students who appreciate the benefit of sustained development that will help this city long after we have left. Student organizations have done tremendous work to better this area, but they have always done so in isolation.

I hope that creative ideas, like those of Madison Involved, are finally able to bring our efforts together and create an image of JMU students that shows us for who we truly are. Now more than ever, organizing like this is not only admirable and authentic, but also absolutely necessary.

Daniel Richardson is a junior political science and public management double major.

Contact Daniel at richa2dj@dukes.jmu.edu.

Attorney General Eric Holder wants us all to know that the Justice Department has begun a dead-serious probe into WikiLeaks’s release of hundreds of thousands of internal government documents, many of them classified.

It is an “active, ongoing criminal investigation,” he told reporters this week as news stories stemming from the document dump appeared.

President Barack Obama’s top spokesman went further. Robert Gibbs called those responsible “criminals, first and foremost.”

You can say that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is reckless and dangerous for making the documents public.

You can say he’s hurt the international conversation among diplomats and endangered the lives of innocent people who have helped the United States in time of war, people who staked their lives on promises of anonymity.

But before you call someone a criminal, you have to have a law that you can say he broke. Holder is going to have a hard time doing that with Assange.

If the attorney general were confident, he wouldn’t have answered a reporter’s question about difficulties in prosecuting Assange this way: “To the extent there are gaps in the laws, we will move to close those gaps.”

This is essentially an acknowledgement of a hole in the law.

And even if prosecutors can leap across that, they’d then face a really big hurdle in the form of the First Amendment.

Yes, Congress can pass new laws and amend old ones, and would no doubt be happy to do so if it meant locking up Assange. But it wouldn’t.

New laws can’t criminalize past conduct. The Constitution clearly bans so-called ex post facto laws so that the government can’t toss someone in jail

for something that was legal at the time it was done.

Besides, even if current law were sufficient, how would authorities bring Assange, an Australian native in hiding outside the U.S., into this country to stand trial?

Presented with this question, Holder told reporters that no one’s foreign citizenship or residence would prevent them from being targeted. But that brings us back to this question: on what charge could he be indicted?

Without that, Assange could live next door to Holder and wave at him daily without fear of arrest as the nation’s top prosecutor went off to work.

Any prosecution of Assange would come up against First Amendment issues. How can you criminalize speech, especially political speech, especially on matters of grave public importance?

No law criminalizes civilian release of classified information, except in rare circumstance, such as revealing the name of an undercover agent or disclosing secret codes. Britain has an Official Secrets Act, but prosecutions are hard to mount, difficult to win and easy to lambast as politically motivated.

All we’ve got is that World War I-era spy law, the Espionage Act of . Rep. Peter King, the New York Republican and next chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, sent Holder a letter this week urging him to use the law to charge Assange.

The best shot at making that work would be by proving Assange encouraged the leak and conspired with his inside source to disgorge the documents. An Army private first class has been charged under military law with some of the leaks.

And even if investigators can find a clear conspiracy between the two, a ruling by a federal judge in another case shows it isn’t easy to use the spy law to prosecute civilians.

“The government would still have to prove it was potentially damaging to national security, that he knew it was potentially damaging, that he understood that his conduct was unlawful,” says Baruch Weiss, a former federal prosecutor who helped defend two lobbyists charged with violating that law.

Any prosecution of Assange would come up against First Amendment issues. How can you criminalize speech, especially political speech, especially on matters of grave public importance? That would seem to fly in the face of the Constitution’s promise of a free press and free speech.

The administration’s best chance of getting Assange behind bars would be to get someone else to do it. The Daily Beast website reported in August that American officials were pitching the idea to Britain, Australia and Germany, arguing that their troops, too, have been harmed by the leaks.

Those are countries without the clear constitutional guarantees of free speech that the U.S. has. It might work, but there’s a reason the founders insisted on free speech and a free press.

Whatever harm the leaks have caused, slipping around the First Amendment isn’t the way to fix it.

Ann Woolner, Bloomberg News

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Think, eat, run New GKIN class trains students for marathon

By Jennifer Bennett contributing writer

Sweat and stamina are only some of the requirements to run a marathon, according to a new general education kinesiology class.

This semester was the first time GKIN included a section preparing students for a marathon. The class will culminate on Dec. 11, when 23 students will travel to Charlotte, N.C. to run the Thunder Road Marathon.

Professor Nick Luden has been running since he was in seventh grade, but he never had an appreciation for recreational running until he taught the class.

“It was so rewarding to see what it did for the students to tackle such a thing like a marathon and the confidence that it gave them to finish something really challenging and meaningful,” he said. “I knew it was something I wanted to do wherever I went because it was such a rewarding experience.”

There are only two criteria for the class: Students need to be first time marathon runners and they have to be able to run for 30 minutes straight. Entry in the class is by permission only, and Luden

Release features Kanye at brightest Back in 2005 on Kanye West’s sophomore release, “Late Registration,” the late comedian Bernie Mac was commanding, “Wake up, Mr. West!”

Five years later, West still hasn’t woken from his dreams — or nightmares — of being the best, but he has certainly sobered up.

On his newest release, “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” Chicago’s most exuberant son came back with a few tricks up his sleeve that even co-producers Pete Rock and Madlib admittedly weren’t expecting.

For the most part, West is done with that “808s and Heartbreak” game, a wise decision to reposition himself to gain the respect of his fellow producers. But more than that, his production has exponentially bettered itself for the umpteenth time, providing the most emotionally charged music West has composed.

Future single “All of the Lights” and its preceding interlude use the minor changes and chattering congas to assert West’s place as a top producer in the game. None of his previous albums’ efforts are in competition with the monolithic amount of texture and genuine pathos West injected into “Fantasy.”

However, West is clearly uninterested in making a dance record. Like much of “Fantasy,” “All of the Lights” is an in-depth look into the truly dark, yet beautiful daydreams in West’s psyche. Rihanna’s featured chorus (“Turn on the lights in here, baby / Extra bright, I want y’all to see this”) is more than window into West’s ever-commanding desire for the limelight. It’s a sharp about-face from “Flashing Lights” that jostles the audience to look, listen and feel the proverbial train wreck that the rapper’s life has been for the past year.

And while a good portion of the audience will wonder where West has been all that time making these delicious beats (in Hawaii, apparently), he implores us to consider “what’s worse: the pain or the hangover?” And though most listeners may think the two go hand-in-hand, it’s more or less about his many, many Achilles’ heels and their full-on exhibition.

It reveals that West also dusted off his writing abilities, an effort he shirked since “The College Dropout.”

“Gorgeous” showcases his best wordplay in “Fantasy,” while big names like Kid Cudi and Raekwon the Chef surprisingly take a back seat. Too much praise is due for the third single,

met with each student prior to their registration to find out why they are interested.

“Running a marathon is somewhat unusual, not as unusual as it once was in the ’70s and ’80s when people who ran marathons were only competitive runners,” Luden said. “Now it’s blossomed where half a million marathoners finished last year. Still, I wanted to meet with them to see that they weren’t just doing the class because it sounded cool or instead of just fulfilling the Cluster 5. The class is much more than that.”

For his second year of teaching, Luden had decided to pitch the idea to the General Education directors to include a marathon section as part of GKIN 100, a class that already includes running, swimming and group fitness sections.

He came up with the idea after co-teaching a marathon class at Ball State University while studying for his Ph.D. General Education approved Luden’s request, and so in the spring semester of last year, Luden sent out an e-mail to all students who did not already fulfill their Cluster 5: Wellness Domain requirements.

Although some students call it “The Marathon Class,” it is still a GKIN 100 class that teaches wellness and fitness concepts, highlighted in a lecture on Mondays.

Instead of physical activity on Wednesday, Luden has the students meet with him to learn about marathon-specific content such as nutrition, physiology of marathon training and injury prevention strategies.

Graphic by Nataliya Ioffe / The Breeze

Album Review

By Matt Sutherland The Breeze

Thursday, December 2, 2010

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Gandhi lives on in political theory

“Monster” with Rick Ross, Jay-Z and the absolutely nasty verse by Nicki Minaj, leaving it as the heaviest supergroup anthem since “Swagga Like Us.” Of course, West’s grandiosity gets in the way of the message a few times.

Most of the tracks either border or cross the 6-minute mark. But longwinded sweeps actually work to his advantage sometimes. Songs like “Hell of a Life” and the hilarious, yet heartbreaking “Blame Game” with John Legend, provide extensive looks into West’s battle with his addictions to women, money and attention. But most listeners could deal without the extra-stanza choruses on tracks like “Dark Fantasy.”

Photo courtesy of Bidyut Chakrabarty

This time around, West finally admits his imperfections, and that’s what makes his latest attempt at a masterpiece more than just an attempt.

Without question, it’s the first full work featuring West minus his ostentatious guise. West is honest with himself and his colleagues, and no song exemplifies this better than “Runaway.” West finally acknowledges “you’ve been puttin’ up with my s--just way too long.” The song is more than just a supercilious toast to the “jerk-offs that’ll never take work off.”

It’s a mirror that West holds up to his face, as well as to those of the people that work with him.

If there’s anything more harrowing than the record itself, it might be that West probably couldn’t have produced the music without the Taylor Swift debacle that made so many people board the Kanye hate train.

For years, West has considered himself a tortured genius, but this reputation was never solidified anywhere except in his mind. This time around, West finally admits his imperfections, and that’s what makes his latest attempt at a masterpiece more than just an attempt.

By the time West integrates indie favorite Bon Iver into his ending track “Lost in the World,” someone will probably want to tell West that his new album could be the best rap record of the decade. But as he stated so eloquently at last year’s Video Music Awards, I’mma let him finish.

Contact Matt Sutherland at breezenews@gmail.com.

Professor Bidyut Chakrabarty says he hopes to inspire students to live like Gandhi.

By Kellan Howell contributing writer

Resisting tyranny and business practices will be taught Mahatma Gandhi style. Political theory classes will soon teach students benefits and active use of peaceful protests.

Bidyut Chakrabarty, a visiting professor from India, will teach two new political science classes next semester: The Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi, and Society and Politics in India since 1947.

Chakrabarty, from the University of Delhi in India, has been teaching for more than a decade and is currently on loan to JMU for a two-year appointment.

According to Charles Blake, the department chair for political science, this is the first time an Indian politics course (that does not include Hinduism) will be offered to JMU students.

Through using information of India’s political society to enhance resumes in the international business market, Chakrabarty hopes that students who take these courses will be able to apply the material toward personal career goals.

Chakrabarty explained India is growing because of easier trade and communication between nations.

“The world has become a village thanks to globalization,” Chakrabarty said.

The classes were intended to be small discussion groups of about 15 students. But because of high demand, the classes have expanded to seat 30 students, and Chakrabarty is still receiving override requests.

According to Chakrabarty, in the past most American students have primarily shown an interest in European or Chinese studies. He is excited

to see that interest is now expanding to South Asia. Chakrabarty believes that it is important for students to broaden horizons by learning about every region in the world.

Blake said that Chakrabarty has participated in faculty seminars and been an active supporter of the political science program.

“He is an expert in his field and has actively participated in several research projects with our faculty and we are very happy to work with him again,” Blake said.

Along with studying and teaching Indian politics, Chakrabarty has written several books on the subject, which he plans to use in his courses.

Chakrabarty hopes to use POSC 371, Society and Politics in India since 1947, to provide a specialized perception of India as a country.

“India has a very different history and colonial legacy from other South Asian countries,” Chakrabarty said. “I would like to highlight the distinctiveness of this region.”

Hinduism is the first thing most students think of when assessing this country, said Chakrabarty. In this class, he intends to focus on India from a political standpoint that is free of Hindu ideas.

In POSC 381, The Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi class, Chakrabarty wishes to highlight the distinctiveness of Gandhian politics.

He believes the most important aspect of Gandhi’s politics is a resistance to tyranny through civil disobedience.

“While Gandhi cannot be taken out of a historical perspective, I want to locate Gandhi in the course of modern political theory,” Chakrabarty said.

“I want to approach Gandhi from a see Gandhi, page 10

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Jamie Lose

keep the good times rolling

Happily, plastically ever after New TV series ‘Bridal Plasty’ confirms a ring really can change things.

Remember the fun of dressing Barbie in all her disproportional glory? Well, the new “E!” reality TV show “Bridal Plasty” has made this “false ideal” a reality for modern females.

The phenomenon features bridesto-be competing for the ultimate plastic surgery makeover before their wedding day. Let me emphasize — a makeover before the wedding.

When did the your fiancé loving you as you are become a problem? How many times does Oprah have to tell us that’s what we deserve, ladies?

He’s already promised he’ll say, “I do!” Let him do!

In extreme situations or medical scenarios, I understand how plastic surgery can be beneficial, but these females’ only concerns appear to be alteration charges to a previously purchased gown.

As if women don’t already have enough self-esteem issues from the current media’s physical standards, now we have a show in which women are supposed to fight for syringes in order to win a Botox session. Literally.

For their first challenge, these ladies had to transform puzzles of their underwear-clad bodies into a simulated image of what they could look like after winning the ultimate plastic surgery prize.

After successfully completing a challenge, the winner grabs a syringe and hands it to a “doctor,” who then injects silicone into the women’s faces. The first to complete each challenge wins one procedure from their wish list. Sounds fun, right?

As if women don’t have enough self-esteem issues from the current media’s physical standards, now we have a show in which women are supposed to fight for syringes in order to win a Botox session. Literally.

Wish lists range from nose jobs to boob jobs, liposuction to butt implants.

Doesn’t it seem weird that these ladies who want to look perfect on their wedding day will allow the nation to watch a process that turns them black and blue and wraps them in gauze like a mummy? Isn’t the point of plastic surgery to make people believe your body is natural?

Another sad part is that all the women on the show support each other in their desire to change — “Good for you! You get that face lift!” and “A tummy tuck sounds like a great idea for you!”

I just thought it was a friend’s job to make you feel loved and pretty all the time — not like a mess. These women literally passive-aggressively insult one another over champagne and engagement rings.

Here’s my favorite part: At the end of every show, the host, former Miss USA and Playboy playmate Shanna Moakler, chirps to the kicked-off contestant, “Your wedding will still be great. It just won’t be perfect.”

So every woman not winning the chance to become a robot will have it in her head that no matter how hard she tries, her wedding will suck because a freaking Playboy Bunny told her so.

But hey, it’s not my wedding. To each their own, and may all the competitors live plastically ever after.

Jamie Lose is a senior media arts & design major and a humor columnist at The Breeze. Contact her at losejl@dukes.jmu.edu.

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movie Review

Franco fascinates down to the minute

By Judson White The Breeze

In April 2003, 28-year-old thrill-seeker Aron Ralston was canyoning in Blue John Canyon in Utah. Having not told anyone where he was, his sense of freedom was contagious. He seemingly had the entire Earth to himself. No canyon or mountain was too tough for him to conquer.

But that euphoric feeling immediately evaporated when a dislodged boulder crushed Ralston’s right forearm, trapping him against a canyon wall. Realizing no one was coming for help, he had to fight for five days —127 hours — to escape the wilderness alive.

Director Danny Boyle

(“Slumdog Millionaire”) takes on Ralston’s incredible true story of human survival and creates “127 Hours,” a tense and emotional journey into one man’s mind as he finds himself literally between a rock and a hard place.

It’s a feat in itself that this movie even exists. Boyle crafted a 90-minute thrill ride out of a story that essentially only features one character the entire runtime. Ralston (James Franco) does meet two female hikers (Amber Tamblyn and Kate Mara) before his dilemma, but it is only Franco on screen for almost the entire film.

This single character focus could have lent itself to an unwatchable film if the featured actor wasn’t talented enough, but Franco gives the

best performance of his career.

The first moment the boulder traps his arm, Ralston gives the rock a long, ponderous look.

From this moment on, we are as lodged to Ralston as his arm is under that boulder.

127 Hours

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‘R’ 94 min.

Starring James Franco, Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn

While the pace of the movie does slow down after 45 minutes with Ralston, Franco does plenty to make the crisis fascinating to watch. Equipped with only a watch, climbing gear, a water bottle, little food, a flashlight hat, a video camera and a cheap pocketknife,

run | GKIN class bonds with training from page 9

During the week, the students are required to run a specific number of miles on their own time.

Instead of meeting Friday for the second part of physical activity, Luden and the students meet early Saturday morning for the focus of the training program: the long runs. The first week of training the students ran 5 miles, and each Saturday they increase that number. As the marathon date approaches, the class is now up to 18 miles.

For many of Luden’s students, it was hard to imagine running 18 miles, let alone 26.2. For junior Caroline Oglesby, a health services administration major, and senior Drew Scala, a justice studies major, the first 5 mile run was the longest they had ever run.

“There is talent ranging from former high school cross country runners, people who’ve run half marathons to non runners who maybe play some ultimate Frisbee in their spare time,” Luden said.

But Oglesby, Scala and sophomores Eric Keefer, a justice studies major, and Patrick

O’Brien, a biology major, agree that they would not have run a marathon without the class.

“You’re learning how to take care of yourself, what to eat, what shoes to wear. It’s such a good opportunity for runners.”

Eric Keefer sophomore

“It’s something you couldn’t do by yourself,” Keefer said.

“You’re learning how to take care of yourself, what to eat, what shoes to wear. It’s such a good opportunity for runners.”

Luden is also impressionable on the students he teaches and trains with. What Luden likes most about the class is that the students have a goal for the end of the semester.

“Nick [Luden] loves to motivate and keep us on track and wants us to do well,” O’Brien said.

In the first run, Oglesby was the last to finish, but Luden ran with her until she reached the finish line.

“It was really hard,” she said.

“But when he ran with me it really meant a lot because he always encouraged me and it didn’t matter how slow I was.”

Besides running together each Saturday morning, the students have met for spaghetti dinners and have gone to movies outside of the class.

“It’s a class where you meet people and you’re bonding at a whole different level than a regular class since you’re doing an experience of a lifetime together,” Scala said. “When you run so many miles together, you can’t help but cheer each other on.”

The marathon class will be offered again next fall.

“The whole theme of GKIN is to sort of make health a part of your lifestyle in the future,” Oglesby said. “And if any class were to do it, it would be this section because you have to give up a lot, but you also gain a lot.”

Contact Jennifer Bennett at benne2jm@ dukes.jmu.edu.

Ralston becomes delirious throughout the film and eventually begins to videotape himself. He puts on a talk show with himself as both the host and guest, creates messages for his parents and evaluates his life and the errors he made in his past.

Boyle has accurately said that the film is like “an action movie with a guy who can’t move.” A big component of the movie’s tone comes from the outstanding score, done by composer A.R. Rahman (“Slumdog Millionaire”).

Instead of going for a slow, dreary soundtrack that complements Ralston’s doom, Rahman instead presents a fast-paced, upbeat sound that makes for an energetic moviegoing experience. Without this

first-rate score, the film could have been marred by a lack of dialogue.

Ralston also flashbacks to moments from his life, including his time with a former love and his family.

He grows more delirious as the movie progresses to its conclusion, and he begins to hallucinate. By the end of the movie, I was such a part of Ralston’s mind that I myself felt desperately thirsty and light-headed.

According to The Huffington Post, audience members across the country have needed medical assistance due to the incredibly graphic scene in which Ralston tries to free himself from the boulder by cutting his arm off. But it could be easily argued that

they had just experienced the movie’s powerful catalyst.

Boyle has created a movie out of something that could be considered “unfilmable.”

Not only did he overcome this hurdle, but he also directed one of the best movies of his career. Aron Ralston later said, “I feel like there was a reason why things happened in the way they did. It wasn’t just happenstance.”

As Franco’s Ralston alludes to during the film, that boulder was waiting for him since he was born. “127 Hours” is an unforgettable experience of the human impulse to not only survive, but to make every second count.

Contact Judson White at whitejw@dukes.jmu.edu.

Book Review

Legend trades pick for pen

By Beth Cole The Breeze

Keith Richards’ new inspirationally titled autobiography “Life” opens with a short note: “This is life.

Believe it or not, I haven’t forgotten any of it.”

He wasn’t kidding.

Released Oct. 26, the book was written by Richards and co-writer James Fox and unloads the intimate details of Richards’ life as a guitarist for the Rolling Stones. This is the uncensored version of rock stardom, from the first gigs when they used transistor radios as amplifiers to the groupies and the sold-out stadium tours.

The first memory in the book gives a general idea of the kind of adventures Richards encounters. The Stones were in Arkansas for their United States tour in 1975. Richards and his friend Freddie Sessler were stopped while speeding on the way to the next show; police accused them of drug possession.

Richards had a bag of dope in his pocket and much more than that stashed away in the door panels. But through a few quick moves, a media riot pressuring the judge and a little help from their lawyer, Richards was let off with simply a speeding ticket.

His friend, who Richards told police was not associated with the Stones, landed $5,000 bail for drug possession.

This is a classic Richards

moment. There are at least a dozen similar stories depicting his attempts to weasel his way through loop-hole escapes.

The book gives you a sense of Richards’ constant antiauthority attitude, especially after the Stones take off. He makes it seem as though, in every situation, the cops are out to take down the Rolling Stones.

Throughout the book, Richards gives Stones enthusiasts exactly what they were hoping for — the secrets to the Stones’ songs and guitar licks. He describes how certain relationships he has influence the lyrics of songs and how the music develops as the band dynamics change and members switch out.

Most importantly, as he meets people within the industry, he describes guitar tricks he learns, including open G tuning, which is crucial for songs like “Wild Horses” and “Brown Sugar.” This tuning lead to his famous five-sting guitars.

Richards’ relationship with Mick Jagger, his “Glimmer Twin,” is a point of contention in the book. The two were the Rolling Stones from the start.

They met in grade school and became friends through their love of American rhythm and blues artists like Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry. Most of the Stones’ songs were a collaboration between them; Richards would come up with the idea and Jagger would finish it.

As the band develops, so do

the members’ relationships.

Reading the struggles and strains of their relationship is like watching a teenage drama unfold. On one page Richard talks about what a traitor Jagger is for deserting the band and signing a solo deal, and on the next he goes on about what a good friend he is. Even after the battles, Richards says that “there’s an electromagnetic spark” between them.

Of course, Richards also discusses his battle with drugs, particularly cocaine. At certain parts of the book, it seems like every other line says something along the lines of “we were also smoking a lot of dope.” It reads like the classic stoner diary, “Go Ask Alice.” Some of the book is one big blur of events, as it was for Richards, too.

“Life” draws you in to the secret world of rock and roll.

Every other page seems to raise the question, “Did that really just happen?” However, the book drags on like one long interview gone astray. Much of the time, Richards rambles on about a specific detail or event, rarely using complete sentences.

While it is admittedly more coherent than expected of a man who is famous for his battle with drug addiction, his autobiography doesn’t appear to have a clear line of thought.

Richards is just giving you what he’s got: the truth and his life.

Contact Beth Cole at cole2ed@dukes.jmu.edu.

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political perspective in relation to powerful political propositions.”

Tensions usually solved with violence and upheaval, Gandhi attempted to solve through peaceful protests and nonviolent displays.

Chakrabarty hopes students will be able to follow Gandhi’s example in their own lives, whether in personal life or trying to make a peaceful business deal.

Chakrabarty said he believes

it is important to study Gandhi’s life within a historical context to understand the surroundings in which he lived and protested. He ultimately wishes for students to apply Gandhi’s ideas in modern society.

By providing better opportunities to work with experts from India, Blake hopes that students will benefit from these courses in a way that will help improve quality of life in America.

“Having the chance to learn from an expert on this subject is a wonderful opportunity for the students,” Blake said. “They

can learn from him and gain a deeper understanding of one of the most important and quickly growing countries in the world.”

Chakrabarty said he is shocked by students’ excitement in the courses.

“Initially I was uncertain of how the students would react,” Chakrabarty said. “However, I have found that the students are very interested and are seeking more information about the classes which are both at full capacity.”

Contact Kellan Howell at howellkc@dukes.jmu.edu.

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Slow start for reigning champs

First impression shows promise

By COLLEEN HAYES The Breeze

By MICHAEL DEMSKY The Breeze

Statistically, critics have every reason to believe the JMU women’s basketball team could win the  Colonial Athletic Association title.

The Dukes (-, - in the CAA) are the reigning conference champions and return four starters, including nationally recognized senior guard Dawn Evans. But JMU head coach Kenny Brooks feels everyone else will be out to spoil JMU’s chances to repeat.

“We play with a little bit of a target on our backs,” Brooks said.

“Now with the preseason ranking, it’s just amplified. With the national exposure we’ve gotten, teams want to play us, and I have a feeling we are going to get everyone’s A-game.”

The Dukes were picked to repeat as CAA champions in the conference’s preseason poll. But perhaps all the preseason media hype is too much, as the Dukes

are off to a subpar start.

Evans specifically feels preseason predictions put the pressure on her and the team as a whole.

“People are going to look for us and prepare for us every game,” Evans said. “It can make it hard sometimes.”

Looking to bounce back from a disappointing home opening - loss to Hampton University, the Dukes spent their Thanksgiving break in Cancun, Mexico, in the Caribbean Challenge. There, they went -, falling to University of Iowa (No.  ESPN/USA Today, No.  AP), - in overtime, after beating the University of Montana.

Despite the loss at the hands of the nationally ranked Hawkeyes, Evans was able to notch her ,th career point, becoming the second player in school history to do so. Tamera Young (’-’), currently playing for the Chicago Sky of the WNBA, was the first. Evans now stands in fourth on the all-time CAA

scoring list.

Senior center Lauren Jimenez, who is recovering from a broken toe, was a dominant force underneath in her return against Montana, pouring in  points against the Grizzlies. Also, senior guard Courtney Hamner had a career-high five three-pointers against the Grizzlies, who the Dukes defeated -.

Sophomores Nikki Newman, a forward, and guard Tarik Hislop are also major contributors, with Newman achieving career-high  rebounds against Montana and Hislop consistently ranking second on the team in scoring.

Hislop was also a preseason CAA Second-Team selection.

While the final score against Iowa was close, the Dukes managed to give up a -point second-half lead. Brooks emphasized in press conferences last season how the team continuously failed to put together see WOMEN’S, page 13

Following its - seasonopening loss at Kansas State University on Nov. , the JMU men’s basketball team has won five straight games, giving the program its longest winning streak in three years.

Last week, the Dukes went - in the heart of their nonconference schedule. They beat The Citadel — The Military College of South Carolina, -, in Charleston, S.C., before returning to the Convocation Center for the O’Reilly Auto Parts CBE Classic sub-regional round on Monday.

The team then opened its home slate with three games in three days, beating Princeton University, -; Presbyterian University, - and Bucknell University, -.

The Dukes took their final game of the week, against Eastern Michigan University at home, - on Saturday.

“Holding down the home court and showing everyone we can play was great,” sophomore and starting point guard Devon Moore said. “The students weren’t here, but we had a great home crowd and I think we gave the fans something to look forward to this year.”

Senior Denzel Bowles and transfer junior Rayshawn Goins, playing his first games for JMU since transferring from junior college Cincinnati State, have emerged early as a productive frontcourt.

The starting center Bowles and starting power forward Goins are - on the team in scoring and rebounding, with Bowles averaging . points and . rebounds while Goins has averaged . points and  rebounds.

Against EMU, Bowles set a Convocation record by going a perfect - from the free throw line. Bowles shot . percent from the line last season. After his commanding

performance, Bowles was named Co-CAA Player of the Week.

“I was happy for Denzel because he has changed his shot around a few times,” JMU head coach Matt Brady said.

“It appeared as if he found his stroke.”

The -foot- Bowles also stood out in the home opener against Princeton, leading the JMU team to its signature victory thus far.

Hi s   p o i n t s a n d  rebounds led the Dukes, who escaped with a win after overcoming a -point first half deficit.

Playing its second game in three days, JMU was slow to adapt to the famed “Princeton Offense” as the Tigers shot  percent (-) from the field and took a - lead into halftime.

“We had played The Citadel and only had a day to prepare, see MEN’S, page 13

2010 — 2011 UPCOMING BASKETBALL SCHEDULE Men’s home games

Men’s away games

Women’s home games

Women’s away games

Mon. Jan. 3 vs. Northeastern Wed. Jan. 5 vs. Towson Wed. Jan. 12 vs. Georgia State Sat. Jan. 15 vs. UNC Wilmington

Sat. Dec. 4 at Georgia State Tues. Dec. 7 at Marshall Sat. Dec. 11 at Radford Sat. Dec. 18 at South Florida Wed. Dec. 22 vs. Marshall

Sun. Dec. 5 vs. Liberty Mon. Dec. 20 vs. Virginia Thur. Dec. 30 vs. Western Carolina Sun. Jan. 2 vs. Northeastern

Thur. Dec. 2 at Longwood Sun. Dec. 12 at Middle Tennessee Sat. Dec. 18 at Monmouth Thur. Jan. 6 at William & Mary Sun. Jan. 9 at Old Dominion

For updates over winter break, follow @breeze_sports on Twitter and visit breezejmu.org for game briefs.

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New and improved roster ignites early expectations

By THOMAS ESTES The Breeze

Returning its top two players in starting center senior Denzel Bowles and starting small forward junior Julius Wells, the JMU men’s basketball team had much to anticipate coming into this season.

But add seven new players, including four who expect to contribute immediately, and the team has transformed over the summer from conference cellardweller to league favorite. Nine players on the -man roster were not major contributors for the team last season.

The team is coming off a forgettable - campaign in which they finished - and - in Colonial Athletic Association play. However, the Dukes were ranked fourth in the CAA preseason polls, the highest ranking in school’s history.

The high hopes stem from the arrival of an array of transfers and the return of redshirt sophomores forward Andrey Semenov and guard Devon Moore from injuries.

“We’re healthy and we are really, really pleased about it,” head coach Matt Brady said. “If we stay healthy, we feel really good about our team.”

After injuring his back in the fourth game of last season, Semenov was granted a medical redshirt by the NCAA and will begin his second season of eligibility in his fourth year in the program.

Moore’s campaign ended before it began due to a torn ACL

in his left knee that he suffered in a preseason scrimmage against Hampton University. He was also granted a redshirt season.

Adding to the high expectations is the arrival of transfer juniors guard Humpty Hitchens and power forward Rayshawn Goins. Hitchens has emerged as the team’s starting shooting guard while Goins is the team’s starting power forward, where he will couple with Bowles to make up one of the league’s premier frontcourts.

“A lot of people focus on me because of what I did last year,” Bowles said “But when they double me, it’s going to hurt them too because Ray is going to kill them on the other side.”

Goins began playing as a freshman at Columbus State before transferring to Cincinnati State for his sophomore season. Though he lacks experience on the Division I level, Goins provides the Dukes with tournament and championship game experience.

“I felt like it was my job to come in here to get everybody fired up and have a great season,” Goins said.

Goins led the Cincinnati State Surge to a - season, which included an appearance in the NJCAA Division II championship game, which they lost to Lincoln College (Ill.), -. Goins was a star as he averaged . points per game and . rebounds per game.

“Rayshawn gives us a physical toughness that we lacked last year. He gives us an interior scorer, a great low post guy,” Brady

said before the season. “He’s a good a passer for a front court player as there is in this league.”

Hitchens came to JMU from the University of Akron following the sudden passing of his father. He will not have to sit out the mandatory year for transfers, as the NCAA ruled that Hitchens would be eligible to play for JMU immediately because he transferred due to a family matter.

“I was pleasantly surprised, I thought that he had great reason to be immediately eligible, I just wasn’t confident the NCAA would grant it,” Brady said. “We’re lucky to have him, he’s a doubledigit scorer and he’s going to have plenty of double-digit games.

He’s a competitor, he cares about winning over anything else.”

Hitchens is an explosive ballhandler that puts pressure on opposing defenses with his blazing speed.

“Humpty is an energizer, he’s always running and he can knock down shots,” Bowles said. “He gives us some aggressiveness, a great addition.”

Goins’ Cincinnati State teammate junior guard James Millen also transferred to JMU, but the Dukes will be without Millen until mid-December after he failed to meet NCAA athletic eligibility requirement prior to his arrival at JMU. Millen averaged . steals and . assists per game last season.

In his two years on the Surge, he averaged  points a game. He is eligible to play Dec.  at South Florida.

The team adds just one scholarship freshman, Chad Jackson,

who was a Mr. Kentucky Basketball finalist at Scott County High School in Georgetown, Ky. Jackson is expected to be a contributing player for the Dukes.

Brady has a strong seven-man rotation, eight when Millen is eligible, which is in stark contrast to the team that finished last season.

Bowles and Wells carried the Dukes, but the team still struggled, failing to record one road conference win.

Wells was the team’s secondleading scoring and rebounder at . points per game and . rebounds per game, reasons why he was voted preseason Second Team All-CAA this year.

Bowles, a machine on the low block, posted  double-doubles in  games, leading the CAA in points and rebounds per game.

He was one of six players nationally to average at least . points and . rebounds last season.

Thus far this season, Goins has matched Bowles statistically, as they each have three doubledoubles through six games.

“What I told Julius and Denzel, is that, with the new additions to this team, they can have better seasons scoring and shooting the ball less,” Brady said.

Bowles’ play has NBA scouts watching the big man closely, but he needs his supporting cast to play big throughout the season.

“This is a closer group off the court and they are taking responsibility for themselves on and off the court,” Brady said.

“It’s helping us tremendously.”

CONTACT Thomas Estes at estesto@dukes.jmu.edu.

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Junior forward Rayshawn Goins led NJCAA school Cincinnati State in scoring (22.2 points/game) and rebounds (12.4) last season. In his first season for JMU, he has assumed starting power forward duties.

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but their offense is so complicated you need more than one day,” Bowles said. “When the game came, the game sped up and we weren’t ready. But we all calmed down and in the second half we just started chipping away.”

A - second half advantage was just wide enough for the Dukes, who beat the Ivy League’s No.  pick in the conference’s preseason poll.

“We’re not going to give up and this team is going to fight,” Bowles said. “This week was huge for us, winning all these games in a row.”

The Dukes also came back after losing at halftime in Charleston, but were able to cut the five-point deficit for the season’s first road victory.

“We’ve showed that we have the ability to come back at home, as well as on the road, which may be more important,” Brady said.

The Dukes’ successful run to start their season can be much attributed to the team roster’s new look, which features eight players who did not contribute for the JMU squad last season.

The new personnel is highlighted by the returns from injury of Moore and redshirt sophomore forward Andrey Semenov, as well as the additions of transfers Goins and starting shooting guard Humpty Hitchens and freshman forward Chad Jackson.

“As long as we maintain our chemistry, we can be great,” Goins said. “We have seven guys who can go for  points on any given night.”

Assuming the star ting point guard role he held as a freshman, Moore has been an integral re-addition to the JMU rotation. Moore is third on the team in scoring, with . points per game, while leading the Dukes averaging . assists.

However, coming off a knee injury that cost him the entirety

of last season, Moore has selfadmittedly not returned to his old form.

“I’m still a little rusty,” Moore said. “Right now, I’d give myself a five, but hopefully I’ll be a  by midseason.”

One of the few early downfalls in the season is the makeup of the team’s schedule.

The Dukes will not play a home game while class is in session until Jan.  against Georgia State University, the team’s fifth CAA game of the season, and th overall.

“I think it’s going to get a lot louder when the students are here,” Moore said. “We have an exciting team; it’s going to be fun.”

The men faced Longwood University Wednesday night at  p.m. This issue of The Breeze went to deadline before results could be published.

CONTACT Michael Demsky at breezesports2@ gmail.com.

a cohesive -minute game.

So far this season, the trend is continuing.

JMU fell to Duke University (No.  ESPN/USA Today, No.  AP) Tuesday night, -. While the Dukes came out strong, staying within one to two points for the first  minutes of the game, it was their difficulties shooting that became their downfall. JMU shot just  percent in the second half as the Blue Devils pulled away.

“I see those kids make those shots every day,” Brooks said.

“They were all on target, just in-and-out. They just didn’t fall for us.”

Duke was able to hold Evans to  points in the first half.

Evans finished with , below her season average of ., while Jimenez added a seasonhigh .

Duke’s head coach Joanne McCallie explained how it was always in their game plan to consistently pressure and eventually frustrate Evans.

“I thought Jasmine Thomas was extremely strong in defending her and making her work for her shots,” McCallie said.

JMU has six more games before conference play begins on Jan. , when JMU hosts Northeastern University. The Huskies finished - overall, with a - record in the CAA last season.

While they specifically may not pose a threat to the Dukes’ reign, multiple teams in the

CAA are looking to strip the Dukes of their title.

Sharing CAA preseason Player of the Year honors with Evans was the University of Delaware’s -foot- sophomore guard/forward Elena Delle Donne. Both players are on every national watch-list, from the Naismith Player of the Year Award to the Wade Trophy.

Delle Donne has a leg up on Evans, however, as she is the reigning CAA Player of the Year and currently leads the nation in scoring with . points per game.

The Blue Hens are - so far for the first time since the  season and were picked to finish third in the conference.

JMU will travel to Newark on Feb.  to face the Blue Hens on their home turf.

“You go up there with a chip on your shoulder,” Evans said.

“I’ve been runner-up for Player of the Year going on two, three years now. I have to go and prove that what I do for my team is good enough to get an award like that.”

Last season, the Dukes beat the Blue Hens -, despite Delle Donne’s record-breaking  points, including a threepointer at the buzzer to send it to overtime.

The Naval Academy’s David Robinson previously held the Convocation Center scoring record with his -point performance on Jan., .

While all eyes will be on the Feb.  match-up, the remaining two teams finishing out

the top four are equally as threatening.

Old Dominion University was picked to finish second in the preseason. The Lady Monarchs won the CAA title  years in a row from -. Senior guard Jasmine Parker, who was selected to the All-CAA Second Team and CAA All-Defensive Team last season, leads the Monarchs in scoring. Currently, ODU sits at No.  in the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Poll, tops among CAA teams. JMU ranks at No.  Hofstra University, the  CAA champion, was picked to finish fourth in the preseason poll. The Pride are riding a three-game winning streak, led by sophomore forward Shante Evans, who shared Co-Player of the Week honors with Parker for the week of Nov. .

With each of the top four schools boasting impressive resumes, along with several other squads with more-thancapable talent, any team could climb to the top of the -team conference.

“When we were predicted to finish first, it was flattering for  minutes,” Brooks said.

“After that, it’s not worth the paper that it’s written on…

If everyone stays healthy, I say Hofstra has a chance. You can count on Old Dominion being in there fighting. Past that, anyone has a chance.

Anything could happen.”

CONTACT Colleen Hayes at breezesports@gmail.com.

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