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TOP LEFT Football coach Mickey Matthews raises his visor to the JMU student section after the Dukes win. TOP RIGHT Redshirt junior linebacker Pat Williams (right) rejoices after sophomore cornerback Leavander Jones defends a pass in the end zone. CENTER LEFT Junior cornerback Taveion Cuffee tackles Va. Tech senior quarterback Tyrod Taylor. BOTTOM LEFT JMU fans celebrate amid thousands o Hokies at Lane Stadium. BOTTOM RIGHT Sophomore Sarah Everett impersonates James Madison for the home celebration at Bridgeforth Stadium.
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Va. Tech tailgate crime low
By THOM MARTINICCHIO contributing writer
BLACKSBURG, Va. — Coming into Saturday’s game between James Madison and Virginia Tech, the only thing as bleak as the weather was the Dukes’ odds of beating the mighty Hokies. In the past two meetings between the teams, Tech had outscored the Dukes by an astounding -, and won all six games in the Saturday’s game against Virginia series. The Dukes had also not beaten a FootTech was an average weekend for crime, ball Bowl Subdivision (formerly according to Deborah Morgan, Virginia-A) team in years, while the Hokies had not lost Techalmost Police’sspokeswoman.
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to a Football Championship Subdivision (formerly -AA) team since . Va. Tech was expected to use JMU as whipping boys to unleash its frustration of losing a nail-biter to No. ranked Boise State earlier in the week. But the Dukes never received that memo. JMU shocked the world, outplaying the Hokies on their home turf and winning the game, -. JMU’s spirited fight was spearheaded by sophomore cornerback Leavander Jones see GAME, page 14
Morgan said that the police department did not receive any reports of vandalism. There were, however, two reported thefts of a wallet and a cooler. The Va. Tech police department’s Quarterback Drew Dudzik crime log for Saturday reported eight drunk in public charges andfinally charg-earns respect. es for underaged possession of alcohol. page 11 Three of these incidents included both a drunk in public and underaged possession charge and seven of those violations occurred during the game at Lane Stadium. Blacksburg Police’s crime log cites four charges of underaged possession, two charges of public intoxication and a DUI between p.m. Saturday and a.m. Sunday.
By AARON KOEPPER The Breeze
The surprise victory over Virginia Tech on Saturday was two hours south of Harrisonburg, but that didn’t stop the party from starting immediately back at JMU after the game ended. Students ran out of dorms and apartments, screaming with excitement about the Dukes’ victory over Tech, while rushing along South Main Street, on the Quad and at the corner of Bluestone Drive and Duke Drive.
JMU’s football team returned to campus to find about students, faculty and alumni gathered outside Bridgeforth Stadium, cheering their victory. Players met and talked to fans, relishing in the historic win, the upset and the JMU triumph. JMU President Linwood Rose, who attended the game in Blacksburg. “It’s not peace in the Middle East or a cure for cancer — it’s a football game, but it’s a wonderful football game,” Rose said after the team arrived outside the stadium back at JMU. see HOME, page 14
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CAMPUS CONSTRUCTION
D parking lot closure Effective Monday, the gravel parking lot located between the Physics and Chemistry building and the East Campus Library will be shut down permanently. JMU will begin construction on Centennial Hall, the new biotechnology building. According to an e-mail from Parking Services, the spaces in the lot, which is a faculty and staff lot during the day, have been reallocated to the D lot, across from ECL. Commuter students can use the overflow parking spaces in the Blue Ridge Hall lot or the Convocation Center lot. Commuter students parking in the Convocation Center lot can ride the Convo Express bus to East Campus. Centennial Hall will house biology and biotechnology, which is currently located in Burruss Hall on the Quad.
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On Monday night, Transitions fills with students, families and guests celebrating the Eid dinner, which represents the end of the Ramadan fast. By CAITLIN HAWES The Breeze
The sky had long since darkened, but guests had not eaten since before sunup. Eager faces glanced at tables laden with delicacies. When the time to eat finally arrived, the line stretched around the room. On Monday night, the Muslim Student Association hosted the Eid dinner in Transitions. Eid is a holiday that Muslims celebrate after Ramadan, the ninth month of their lunar calendar. Fasting lasts from dawn to dusk for the whole month; participants abstain from food, water and sexual relations. The start and finish times change as the days grow shorter. Before and after fasting, one may indulge oneself as much as one likes, although, according to fasting attendants, stomachs often shrink from the fast and lead to smaller appetites. For $, guests could spoon curried chickpeas, chicken and potatoes, beef and chicken kebabs, roasted potatoes with peppers and onions, vegetable pasta salad, pakoras (potatoes), fried rice, Iranian Barbary bread, mixed vegetables dishes and Biryani, rice with chicken and veggies. The dessert vanished quickly: baklava, fruit, rice pudding, qunafa (nuts and raisins), chocolate chip muffins, watermelon, cheesecake, chocolate cake and sawaiya, a sweet cream dish. Guests forked the food down, and then
returned for more; most dishes were emptied clean. Half of the dinner’s proceeds went to flood victims in Pakistan, where more than million people have been affected. A steady crowd trickled into Transitions and filled every round table, until chairs became scarce. The room became packed with hungry guests. Laughing and chatting, both faithful Muslims and curious non-Muslims mingled at each table. Families and students from other universities also arrived. At a long table, volunteers translated names into Arabic and drew flowery henna tattoos, which, still puffy, ran down people’s arms like ornate jewelry. “Look at all these great people,” said Rachel Sibley, a junior international affairs and French double major. “The fact that they open [the dinner] up to anyone, I just think it’s really cool. Even though I’m not Muslim, I find it very inspiring.” People of all religions and nationalities attended: people from Pakistan, China, and Ethiopia to Kurdistan, France and India. Sara Ibrahim, a junior art major and MSA treasurer, said the group has hosted the dinner for about seven years. “It’s encouraged to share the dinner,” Ibrahim said. “It’s a special time. People are always open to other people coming.” see DINNER, page 10
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JMU’s place in midterm elections By MOLLY HAAS contributing writer
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Saturday’s win against Virginia Tech sparked an initial outburst of school spirit from students. A Facebook event titled “PURPLE OUT ON CAMPUS! JMU 21-16 VTech!” tallied more than 11,500 students attending Monday.
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With midterm elections less than seven weeks away on Nov. , JMU students again have the opportunity to cast their votes in Harrisonburg. In Harrisonburg’s district (the sixth) Congressman Bob Goodlatte, the Republican incumbent, is facing challenges from Libertarian Stuart Bain and Center Party member Jeff Vanke. Bob Roberts, a political science professor, said the congressional race for Harrisonburg’s district is seemingly uncontested because it’s in a heavily Republican region. Harrisonburg’s local government is also holding elections during the midterm. Six candidates are running for two
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open seats on city council. “Harrisonburg has something for both sides, because the city holds a Democratic City Council while Rockingham County is mostly Republican,” said Melanie Goff, president of College Democrats, in an e-mail. Midterm elections are also occurring in home states for many JMU students, including New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Each state has house seats and house seats at stake, along with a Senate race in Pennsylvania. Goff, a junior political science major, said she has noticed that students are interested in the upcoming election. “More students are informed about the issues surrounding the troubling economic situation and want to have their opinions heard,” Goff said. With contested races out-of-state and
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in other Virginia districts, some students will choose to use absentee ballots while others will choose to register in Harrisonburg. In the past, most students who voted used absentee ballots from their home districts. According to Roberts, students are registering to vote as Harrisonburg residents in record numbers. “In , a surprising number of students voted in Harrisonburg rather then using absentee ballots,” Roberts said. “It’s been a new trend.” According to voter registration records provided by the Harrisonburg City Registrar’s office, the number of registered voters in Harrisonburg increased . percent from . That increase includes both JMU see ELECTIONS, page 4
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On Wednesday, a JMU student reported
theft of a Quantum mountain bike left secured to a bike rack outside of Bell Hall, valued at $500. On Thursday, a JMU employee reported theft of a camera bag containing a battery pack, charger, flash, cable and video cassettes from the UREC upper turf, valued at $147. On Saturday, a JMU student reported theft of a Giant NRS bicycle left secured to a bike rack outside of Logan Hall, valued at $500.
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JMU students received underaged consumption charges at the Godwin bus stop. On Friday, a JMU student received an underaged consumption charge at Spruce House. On Saturday, a JMU student received an underaged consumption charge at Potomac Hall. On Sunday, a JMU student received underaged possession, underaged consumption and drunk in public charges at CISAT A1 Lot. On Sunday, a JMU student received underaged possession and drunk in public charges at Shenandoah Hall.
CORRECTION The article “Dukes showcase more than just football at Comfort Inn Invitational” should have stated “Dukes showcase more than just football at Days Inn Invitational.” The Breeze regrets the error. The article “Morgner trial set for Thursday” was inaccurately titled and inaccurately described Morgner’s appearance in court. Peter Morgner will have a hearing today, not a trial in front of a grand jury. The Breeze regrets the error.
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PARIS — The number of hungry people in the world will fall this year for the first time in years on food costs below a peak and on economic growth that’s lifting incomes, a United Nations agency said. Hunger remains “unacceptably high,” with an estimated million people undernourished this year, the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization said in a statement Tuesday. That compares with a record . billion people in , according to the Rome-based agency. The FAO’s index of world food prices was at . points in August, percent below its peak in June , after prices for cereals and cooking oil declined. Food costs are advancing again this year because sugar and grains are more expensive, lifting the index to the highest level in almost two years last month. “The recent increase in food prices, if it persists, will create additional obstacles in the fight to further reduce hunger,” the FAO said. “Food prices in most low-income food-deficit countries remain above the pre-crisis level.” Food security improved this year following several years of “strong” global cereal harvests, according to the FAO.
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Student tickets for Liberty home game almost gone
As of Wednesday, only 1,000 student tickets remain for the Liberty vs. JMU game on Sept. 25. All 200 student guest tickets have been sold. For all home games, tickets become available two Mondays before the game.
JMU to give out free T-shirts on Friday
To celebrate the 223rd anniversary of Constitution Day on Sept. 17, JMU will be passing out pocket-sized Constitutions and free cake on the commons from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. At 2 p.m., the first 75 people at either James Madison statue will receive a free “Thanks Jimmy” T-shirt.
Professors to present documentary about sustainability
Ian Cheney, writer of the critically acclaimed documentary “King Corn,” will host a guest lecture titled “Back to Back to the Land” on Thursday night in Harrison Hall room 2105. Cheney will speak on environmental sustainability issues. Charlottesville
U.Va. to create plaque for Morgan Harrington
The University of Virginia will place a marker at the Copley Road Bridge where Morgan Harrington was last seen before her disappearance on Oct. 17. The U.Va. Board of Trustees approved the marker during its meeting on Tuesday. The 20-year-old Virginia Tech student disappeared while attending a Metallica concert at the John Paul Jones Arena. Her remains were later found in January. The marker will be dedicated on the anniversary of her disappearance.
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Tears, hugs and hope were shared at Madison Equality’s annual Hate Crimes Vigil held in Grafton-Stovall Theatre on Tuesday. Blakely Cohen, a sophomore media arts and design major, summed up the night of acceptance and equality. “For every one person who condemns you, there is another who supports you 100 percent,” Cohen said. “I know I’m that person for someone and I know there are people for me.” Senior co-events coordinator for Madison Equality, Julie Clayman and junior co-coordinator JoAnna Raucci, worked together to bring an event that promotes education and activism through Madison Equality, JMU’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and Ally resource center and support community.
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The event consisted of a screening of the film “The Laramie Project,” a candlelight vigil activity and discussion. Clayman said there was a bigger turnout, about 30 people, this year in comparison to last year. “People were more willing to open up and tell their personal stories and I think that it will show we have ally support in helping with our goals,” Clayman said. “The Laramie Project” is a film and play based on more than 200 recorded interviews from residents of the small town of Laramie, Wyo. after the murder of Matthew Shepard, an openly gay college student at the University of Wyoming in 1998. Shepard was kidnapped, brutally beaten and left for dead several miles outside the city limits. The incident sparked action to pass hate crime legislation at state and federal levels. see Vigil, page 4
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SGA commemorates a fallen graduate
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Andrew Elgert, a senior SGA senator, sponsored two bills at Tuesday’s SGA meeting that commemorated the life of Brian Carderelli (‘09) and congratulated the JMU football team for the 21-16 win against Va. Tech. Katie Baroody / Contributing photographer
The renovation of the Warren Hall patio will be complete in October and feature new furntiure, umbrellas and surfaces. Additionally, plants and shrubs will be planted on the roof to make the area more sustainable and visually appealing.
By mid-October the Warren Hall patio will have new furniture, surfaces and “greenscapes.” One of the major changes for the area is the transformation into a “green roof.” Wayne Teel, an associate professor in the department of integrated science and technology, is overseeing the environmental efforts and said the deck will be covered in a special type of expanded shale that can absorb water and prevent runoff. The plants will be short, drought resistant varieties of sedum that can survive with little water. “[The roof will provide] a much longer material life span that lowers the environmental footprint of the roof,” Teel said. Teel also said the plants will help reduce air and water pollution while providing more habitat for wildlife. Mark Cline, the assistant director of Madison Union, is working on making the rooftop more visually appealing
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and comfortable for students and staff to enjoy. “We actually started thinking about what we wanted to do as far as changing the whole layout of the patio about three years ago, and last September the project itself actually got initiated to [a point] where [we could] go out and get contractors,” Cline said. “It’s dull, it’s dingy, when the sun’s on it its too hot, there’s not enough furniture out there, and the furniture that’s out here is not comfortable,” Cline said. Madison Union spent $18,000 on high bar tables and chairs, low Adirondack-style tables and chairs and 30 umbrellas to be installed once the patio is finished. The entire project should be completed by mid-October and will cost the university about $150,000. A designer is working with Cline to coordinate the colors and styles of the patio to make it more aesthetically pleasing. “The project is not only just the surface, but the parapet walls deteriorated
[and] the colors have faded, so we put a new coating on those, which also compliments the decking [and] the existing finishes that are on the structures of Warren, Taylor and Grafton,” Cline said. Some students enjoy eating on the patio, but have found it hot in the past. “We’re sweating through our undershirts — but we definitely enjoy the sun — but having some shade for some of your meal would be good too,” said Matthew Gilson, a senior accounting major. Bridget Crimmins, a junior health science major, agreed that Madison Union could add more furniture to the patio so people can eat their lunch there rather than in Top Dog. “The heat, with the sun, is definitely a little bit of a problem, so I think if they do put new chairs and tables in they should each have umbrellas,” Crimmins said. Contact Lani Furbank at furbanlf@dukes.jmu.edu.
By Natalie Dohner contributing writer
To commemorate JMU’s victory over Virginia Tech and remembering the life of Brian Carderelli, the JMU alum killed in Afghanistan, the SGA passed two resolutions at its Tuesday meeting. Carderelli, who graduated from JMU in 2009, was killed in Afghanistan in July when a bomb went off, killing all 10 of the aid workers “When a student or recently graduated student dies unexpectedly, I think it is something the SGA should be conscientious of,” said Andrew Elgert, a senior SGA senator and the resolution’s sponsor. The resolution contained a clause instructing junior Andrew Reese, the student body president, to send the resolution to the family. “We wanted to say, ‘We value your son and he is a member of the JMU family’, ” Elgert said. The resolution passed unanimously. Additionally, Elgert sponsored a resolution supporting and offering congratulations to football coach, Mickey Matthews and the JMU football team for its 21-16 victory against Va. Tech on Saturday. “This was the biggest sports thing to happen at JMU since I’ve been here,” Elgert said. “It changed school spirit — people are more pumped to be at JMU.”
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Pat Watral, a junior senator, said he supported the resolutions because they were supportive of organizations and people from the JMU community. “Sometimes we debate over whether bills we pass should be just about specific things,” Watral said. “I think as the SGA we do represent the students and we can pass resolutions commemorating them.” In other business, the SGA also read a request for funds from InterVarsity for $3,880 and from Alpha Tau Omega for $4,537.44. InterVarsity is requesting funds to help send members on an alternative spring break trip to Costa Rica. ATO requested the funds to cover the performance fee for its benefit rock concert. The SGA currently has $56,718 av a i l a b l e t o s t u d e n t g ro u p s. Contact Natalie Dohner at dohnernr@dukes.jmu.edu.
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Tuesday’s Hate Crime Vigil, presented by Madison Equality, brings about 30 people together to bring attention to topics such as HIV and AIDS. After viewing a film about Matthew Shepard, an openly gay student who was brutally murdered in 1998, viewers joined in a candlelight vigil. from page 3
“It was a pretty depressing film, but I was glad to hear how positive people were about it and that people took what they should have taken from the movie, which was very uplifting and enlightening,” Raucci said. “I was glad we were able to bring that to people.” Just days before his attack, Shepard told a friend he was HIV positive and had contemplated suicide. “Many people don’t know that one in 20 people in Washington, D.C. are infected and it transcends race, religion and creed,” said Pablo Moulden , a sophomore international affairs major. Moulden volunteered at the Whitman Walker Clinic, which specializes in HIV/ AIDS care, in Washington, D.C. He said HIV/AIDS is a prevalent issue in both heterosexual and homosexual communities and should be acknowledged unlike the way Shepard reacted. “I thought [the movie] was very moving, especially how
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they actually talked about AIDS and there was stress around how even in small towns, people can change and put differences aside,” Moulden said.
“Many people don’t know that one in 20 people in Washington, D.C. are infected and it transcends race, religion and creed.” Pablo Moulden sophomore
As Shepard slipped deeper into a coma that he would never come out of, candlelight vigils were held all over the country to mourn the loss of an innocent person to the power of hate and to advocate for equal rights among all people. However, there were also anti-gay hate groups that took the opportunity to condemn anyone who was LGBT. In the movie, friends of
Shepard held their own protest by dressing up in angel costumes and standing in front of the protesters. “It just spoke volumes to me because I’ve felt that in my life,” said Jake, a sophomore history and political science major, who chose to withhold his last name. “I just think of all the people in my life who, when that sort of feeling that I’m not worthy of the same rights, there are always those angels that are out there who are willing to protect me and stand up for me. There are guardian angels out there for you, you just gotta know where to look.” Ricky Shafer, a junior mathematics major, shared his personal thoughts on what this event meant to him during the candlelight vigil in front of Grafton-Stovall after the movie. “I just think the movie showcased really well the underlying opinions of people who sort of stand by and justify these crimes,” Shafer said. “It’s those attitudes that are what really have to change for anything at all to change and for people to be accepting at all.”
Nearly 30 people joined together in a circle to promote and discuss aspects of peace and equality amongst all types of people regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion or age. Executive members of Madison Equality led a step-in, step-out activity in which participants were asked a series of questions about all aspects of life in order to gauge how p e o p l e m ig ht ju dg e o n e another. Topics ranged from sexual orientation and politics to hometowns and body image. “I do feel like people judge me a lot and I don’t quite fit in on campus, but I know there are a lot of people who are accepting of [the LGBT community],” junior Kris Engelmann said. “Events like these help people realize that we all judge each other but it’s good for everyone to at least try to prove and not discriminate people because they’re different.” Contact Amanda Caskey at caskeyap@ dukes.jmu.edu.
students and permanent Harrisonburg residents. “Students call Harrisonburg their home for nine months and this mentality should also be shown with casting their vote,” Goff said. Roberts said there is a new interpretation of the Harrisonburg voting requirements that directly affect students. According to the motor vehicle personal property tax, all persons owning a vehicle and living in Harrisonburg must purchase and display a property tax decal in the window of their vehicle by March 31. Students who are registered to vote in the city are considered residents and will therefore, be charged the tax. “It should be interesting to see how the new interpretation of the law affects voters,” Roberts said. S a i l e y Ni m m a g a d d a, a senior health sciences major, votes using an absentee ballot for her hometown in McLean, Va. She stays involved in
politics by participating in the Student Government Association and also receiving updates and newsletters about candidates.
“Students call Harrisonburg their home for nine months and this mentality should also be shown with casting their vote.” Melanie Goff
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“Instead of complaining about day-to-day things happening with school and the community, it’s better to go out and campaign for someone who believes in what you believe in,” Nimmagadda said. Contact Molly Haas at haasmr@dukes.jmu.edu.
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A call for respect Attention toward Islamaphobia as reached a new height in the media lately. In the last few months, we’ve seen the continued debate about the Islamic community center in New York City, the planned Quran burning and the blatant discriminatory speculation over Obama’s religious beliefs. Do these events reflect our nation’s attitude, or is it a small yet vocal rabble being given a nationwide audience? Islam should not be seen as a violent faith because of the actions of a minority group of extremists and terrorists. Similarly, Christians and Catholics should not be classified as imperialistic conquerors because of the crusades or as torturers from the Spanish Inquisition. Many people put too much stock in a small group’s actions. We need to educate ourselves so we can create a better informed world. We have certain unalienable rights given to us through the Constitution as American citizens; freedom of religion is one of them. Though everyone will never agree about religion, we have the moral obligation to be respectful of the beliefs of others. EDITORIAL BOARD: Katie Thisdell
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When I opened up The Breeze to the Life section on Thursday, I was immediately drawn to Jamie Lose’s article “Bejeweled, Bedazzled,” outlining the peculiar practice of “vajazzling.” After hearing about this new fad this past summer, I was hoping to read a humorous criticism, as I too agree that this practice is odd and can’t quite understand why anyone would glue anything to her privates. However, I found her description of the word vagina as “innately upsetting” to be bothersome. Statements like this further reinforce the patriarchal notion that women shouldn’t talk about their bodies. Girls grow up in a world where we must look a certain way, and if we don’t fit that norm, we are outcast and made to feel shame — and yes, this norm is even extended to the most private parts of our physical being. Lose continues on to refer to “vajazzling” as a practice that glamorizes “a
body part that frankly, is not very glamorous,” and then compared vaginas to garden gnomes. A vagina is nothing like a garden gnome and this attempt at humor, frankly, falls flat. I for one love both garden gnomes and my vagina, but I would never even think to compare the two. With works such as Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues” becoming increasingly popular, women have been able to begin to reclaim their vaginas as something intrinsically special to them through humor and support. It saddens me that despite the production of “The Vagina Monologues” last Valentine’s Day here at JMU, as well as feminist author Jessica Valenti coming to speak, articles such as this are still being printed. I recommend that Ms. Lose spend some time getting to know her “lady parts,” and if it takes some rhinestones to make hers feel glamorous, then so be it. Elizabeth Chenevey senior English major
LUCAS WACHOB | contributing columnist
Constitution Day Tomorrow the United States Constitution will turn years old, the oldest constitution in the world. It serves as a contract between the national government, the states and the citizens. Trust in government stems from the mutual agreement to strictly adhere to the terms of the Constitution. If it’s violated, the contract breaks and citizen rights can cease to exist at the whim of those in power. Recent waves of anti-incumbency sentiment and an increasing disparity between parties suggest that many, including myself, suspect this contract has been broken. The answer to “can government do this?” is found in the Constitution. Both opponents and proponents of the recent health care reform reference the Constitution to justify their positions. Vague language in the Constitution and centuries of Supreme Court decisions have made it difficult to figure out what it all actually means. An understanding of the founders’ spirit of government is necessary to assess legitimacy. The Constitution purposely splits authority among different levels of government. While the national government is given supremacy over the states, certain actions are specifically prohibited. The th Amendment states, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” This strictly limits the authority of the national government, but today it seems that there is almost nothing that government cannot do. The national government today is involved in everything from agricultural subsidies and expression rights to health care and industrial activity. Whether you view it as a positive or negative gain to society, there can be no denying that government impacts nearly every aspect of your life. But is that what the Constitution was intended do? James Madison advocated a limited and fragmented government and wrote in Federalist No. , “in framing a government which is to be administered by men over men … you must first enable the
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government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.” The founders intentionally curtailed government capability to ensure that it acts only within its granted authority, but today we see hundreds of government agencies created to improve “efficiency” at the sacrifice of individual liberty. This blatant contradiction to our founding spirit was made possible by the emergence of permanent political parties and judicial review. Parties may not openly violate the structure of the Constitution, but permanent parties create the same, aligned power that the system was designed to prevent. Judicial review, not mentioned in the Constitution, gives the Supreme Court the power to determine official interpretations of the Constitution. It should be troubling to citizens that the government gets to determine what the document it’s accountable to says. As Thomas Jefferson wrote, “[the Constitution] is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.” United by parties and legitimized by the Court, government has exponentially increased its scope and redefined its purposes. Rather than empowering individuals to exercise their own discretion, the modern government is focused on imposing artificial standards walks of life through programs and bills. Whether you think Constitutional principles are still being upheld, or that they’ve been distorted or discarded, as a country we need to have a serious discussion about what we actually believe in and want. Even when power is abused, we must never forget that it originates with and derives from the people, and that it’s never too late to re-channel our collective power to whatever priorities we deem most important. So happy birthday, Constitution. Get well soon. Lucas Wachob is a sophomore public policy and administration major. Contact Lucas at wachoblm@ dukes.jmu.edu.
CHARLES MILLER | in memorandum
From Vienna to Virginia A memorial for John Stewart, a great professor at JMU. In early , John Stewart wrote in his diary: “My mind is set – I want to go to the United States. I want out of Europe, to start life.” Stewart, who died this past summer at the age of , taught at JMU from to . While no undergraduate and not many members of the faculty would recognize his name today, during his teaching career, Stewart was a model of a liberal arts professor and of Old World courtesy. As an alumnus of wrote about him last spring for the “Professors You Love” series of Madison Magazine, “John Stewart is one of the most brilliant people I have ever known. He could switch from teaching in one subject field to another and do so as though it were his major area of instruction.” He switched seamlessly from Latin literature (he loved Horace) to Shenandoah Valley folklore (he helped re-found the Shenandoah Valley Folk Life Society), from ancient Greek sculpture to German and French literature. John Stewart was not his original name. Born in Vienna, Austria in as “Hans Stein,” Stewart immigrated to the United States in . When he became a naturalized citizen, he commemorated his new life in his new country with a new name. Stewart’s father taught English and German literature in a high school in Vienna, of his mother, Stewart wrote later that she, “was always very eager to see that we [John and his sister] had the best education. Somehow, when
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at Columbia University. Several years later in , Stewart was teaching foreign languages and American history at Harrisonburg High School. At the same time, he found himself teaching student teachers from Madison College, which was still primarily a teachers’ college. It was the teaching of teachers that led Stewart to become a member of the Madison College faculty, succeeding John Sawhill (of Sawhill Gallery) in teaching Latin and Greek. In , the president of Madison College, Tyler Miller (of Miller Hall) phoned Stewart who recounted the call: “He said if you want a job you can have it, but you have to teach on Saturday. I said, ‘I don’t care. I’ll teach any time you want me to.’ And I was the first Jew ever to teach at the College.” After his retirement, the great teacher prepared a great legacy for JMU. He wrote three autobiographical volumes that can be read and should at least be looked at by anyone who goes into Carrier Library: Memories of his youth in Vienna; his diary from to ; and his letters of - called “World War II Through My Eyes: An Austrian Refugee in the United States Army.” May the great teacher now rest in peace — or as Stewart would put it, “requiescat in pace.” Charles Miller lives in New Market, Va. and knew John Stewart for several years. Contact Charles at npbook@shentel.net.
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you were a European Jew, you knew something was going to happen sooner or later. The only thing you could take with you was your head — our knowledge.” On April , after the March Anschuluss, the annexation of Austria by Germany, Stewart wrote in his diary: “Friends are leaving Vienna. Life goes on without attending the University — Juden Eintritt verboten (no Jews can attend).” For a number of months after the Anschluss, Stewart became a scholarly vagabond in France and Switzerland. In April , he reached New York City. “Culture — ” he wrote on his first day there, “What can I expect coming from Vienna? I hear that there is only one Opera in New York. … I can’t be happy only with objects, things. I must have other ways to satisfy me — books, libraries, music.” In the fall of , Stewart arrived at the College of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif. “I feel like in heaven here,” he wrote. “A small town, friendly people. Good Methodists. And the dean is a classical scholar, so we have something in common. I love my classes.” After two years, Stewart received a bachelor’s degree from the College of the Pacific and began a master’s program there in order to become a foreign language teacher in the U.S. But in October , he was drafted. When the war was over, he finished a master’s program at Teachers College
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More women earn Ph.D.s Website offers new than men last year way to find housing The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — For the first time, more women than men in the United States received doctoral degrees last year, the culmination of decades of change in the status of women at colleges nationwide. The number of women at every level of academia has been rising for decades. Women now hold a nearly 3-to-2 majority in undergraduate and graduate education. Doctoral study was the last holdout — the only remaining area of higher education that still had an enduring male majority. Of the doctoral degrees awarded in the 2008-2009 academic year, 28,962 went to women and 28,469 to men, according to an annual enrollment report from the Council of Graduate Schools, based in Washington. Doctoral degrees, which require an average of seven years’ study, are typically the last to show the impact of long-term changes. “It is a trend that has been snaking its way through the educational pipeline,” said Nathan Bell, the report’s author and the director of research and policy analysis for the council. “It was bound to happen.” Women have long outnumbered men in earning master’s degrees, especially in education. Women earned nearly six in 10 graduate degrees in 2008-2009, according to the new report, which is based on an annual survey of graduate institutions. But women who aspired to become college professors, a common path for those with doctorates, were hindered by the particular demands of faculty life. Studies have found that the tenure clock often collides with the biological clock: The busiest years of the academic career are the years that well-educated women tend to have children. “Many women feel they have to choose between having a career in academics and
having a family,” said Catherine Hill, director of research at the American Association of University Women. “Of course, they shouldn’t have to.” Undergraduate women began reaching parity with men in the early 1980s as societal barriers to female scholarship fell away. And then they eclipsed men — so thoroughly that federal officials are now investigating whether some liberal arts schools are favoring men in admissions to preserve some semblance of gender balance.
“Many women feel they have to choose between having a career in academics and having a family. Of course, they shouldn’t have to.” Catherine Hill
research director, American Association of University Women
A freshman seminar at the University of Iowa called “Graduate School: Is It for You?” drew 16 students last year, Associate Provost John Keller said. Fifteen of them were women. Scholarly attention in recent years has turned to the fallen aspirations of men, who are more likely than women to drop out of high school and more apt to be diverted from higher education into menial labor or prison. Men also join the military in disproportionate numbers. Overall, women and girls make up 51 percent of the U.S. population. But women have not conquered every corridor of the ivory tower. Men still hold the majority of faculty and administration positions. Women earn less than men at every level of academic rank, according to
the American Association of University Professors. Male faculty members earned $87,206 on average and their female counterparts made $70,600 in the 2009-2010 academic year. Starting salaries for newly minted faculty members are nearly equal. Men retained the lead in doctoral degrees until 2008, largely through their dominance in engineering, mathematics and the physical sciences. They still earn nearly 80 percent of engineering doctorates. The increase in women receiving doctoral degrees resulted from years of persistent gains across several areas of study. In the health sciences, for example, the number has risen at a rate of 14 percent per year over the past decade. Women now earn 70 percent of doctorates in that field. They represent 67 percent of doctoral degrees in education and 60 percent in social and behavioral sciences. Liz Nguyen, 25, is a doctoral candidate at the University of Maryland in chemistry, a field in which women have made gains but remain outnumbered. Many of her classmates are women, but the older generation of senior faculty is made up virtually of all men. “It was always just a male-dominated field,” she said. Men may be staging a modest comeback. First-time enrollment in graduate education grew at a slightly faster rate for them than for women in 2009, reversing a long-term trend that has favored female enrollment. Meanwhile, the broader gender gap in higher education seems to be stabilizing. The split in enrollment and degrees remained constant through much of the past decade at about 57 percent women, according to a study King wrote this year. “In general, higher education has expanded over the years to meet demand from both women and men,” she said. “I don’t expect that it’s ever going to be all women.”
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Collegehousingreview.com allows students to find open apartment listings online. By Kaleigh Somers The Breeze
A new website, collegehousingreview.com, offers students the opportunity to search for vacant residences in their area and read reviews about each listing. The site recently gained popularity among students at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Although JMU doesn’t have any listings on the site yet, students from any university can create a listing. The website currently only lists places in the area surrounding Miami University. Ben Philabaun, a senior marketing major at Miami University, developed it this summer. “I really just thought there was a need for it,” Philabaun said. A few of his friends moved into an apartment before they realized it wasn’t at all what they wanted. The site helped them find a new apartment that same weekend. “I feel like if they had more information they could have avoided that,” Philabaun said. Chris Hudgins, a freshman engineering major, said he would visit the site to look at listings, but with some
reservations. “I would take it into consideration,” Hudgins said. “I wouldn’t base my decision off that.” Lauren Root, a fifth-year senior sociology major, agreed that she does not think the site is an absolute necessity when it comes to deciding on housing. “I feel like you hear enough from all the students around here about what all the housing is like,” Root said. “I found out about places through my friends.” Philabaun’s inspiration came from other review websites, comparing it to ratemyprofessors.com. “Obviously, it’s a similar idea,” he said. Alex Adjei, the Off Campus Life coordinator for JMU, said the site has some value, but ultimately recommends students visit JMU’s Off Campus Life website to review housing. “For the purpose of review it’s probably OK just to take a look at it, but I would caution people to be cautious about the kind of information they get on that website,” Adjei said. “We can inform [JMU students] so they can make an informed decision about where they would want to live.”
Erica Biroonak, a junior communications major, said the site would help make her housing decision. “It just depends on who lived [in the apartment] before,” Biroonak said. “It would probably be about 60 percent of what would make me decide.” Philabaun wants to work with realtors around the Miami campus to help create incentives for people to review properties, such as entering a drawing to receive rent discounts for a submitted review. He also encourages realtors to set up their own property pages and add information about specific amenities or dimensions of the houses on the website instead of waiting for students to do so. Although the site is currently listing student-housing situations exclusively, Philabaun would like to expand to nonstudent dwellings. “I’m still working on just getting the college market growing,” Philabaun said. “I think we have a lot of growth in that before we look at other areas.” contact Kaleigh Somers at somerske@ dukes.jmu.edu.
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Who’s Who series | Part 4
Who’s who at JMU: Deans,
Ralph Alberico Libraries and Educational Technologies 107 Carrier Library alberira@jmu.edu 540-568-3828
Reid Linn, Ph.D. The Graduate School 24 Grace Street House linnrj@jmu.edu 540-568-6131
What’s your favorite part of your department? I enjoy working with so many bright and interesting people. Put that with all of the books, journals, videos and other knowledge resources that the library offers, and we have an opportunity to make a real difference. It is always fulfilling for me to walk through any of the libraries at JMU and see students and faculty discovering knowledge and sharing ideas. Can you describe what a normal day at your job looks like? One of the things I like most about my job is the fact that no two days are ever alike. A normal day involves interacting with many different people to solve problems. The people I interact with and the nature of the challenges we work on together are the things that change from day to day. What drew you to your field of expertise? Libraries are among our most democratic institutions. I’ve always been somewhat of an autodidact, so libraries have always appealed to me. My career enables me to play a role in developing library collections and technologies that bring more knowledge to more people, enriching all of us in the process.
What’s your favorite part of your department? It would be difficult to break down the unit into parts — I love it all. From processing applications to monitoring student progress, from coordinating graduate assistantships and financial support to hosting and directing the graduate commencement each May — we oversee everything. Can you describe what a normal day at your job looks like? While each day does involve responding to lots of requests and attending administrative meetings, my activities allow me to be creative and increase the visibility of JMU’s wonderful graduate programs and champion the growth and development of new programs that will significantly impact Virginia and the nation. A day is all about making a difference. What drew you to your field of expertise? After trying about five different majors, I volunteered at a summer recreation program for children with intellectual disabilities as a junior in college — and a boy James altered the course of my life forever. I am blessed to have been called to the teaching profession and will always consider myself a special educator.
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Ronald G. Kander, Ph.D. Director, School of Engineering 3228 HHS kanderrg@jmu.edu 540-568-8110 What’s your favorite part of your department? The engineering students in our program. They are really committed to the school and the approach we are taking to educate them as broadly trained engineering “versatilists” who really understand the sustainable engineering design process and can perform analysis, design and problem solving. Can you describe what a normal day at your job looks like? There is no such thing as “normal” in this job. Since the School of Engineering is so new, we are still in the building phase. I see my primary job as getting the resources they need and then getting out of the way to watch the amazing things they do with them. What drew you to your field of expertise? I like the balance of technical detail and creativity in the engineering profession. This is why you will see engineers pursuing careers in a wide range of professions. I chose to specialize in materials engineering because, simply put: Things are made out of stuff. Materials specialists are central to engineering designs since someone must select the correct material in order for the overall design to be successful.
Phillip M. Wishon, Ph.D. College of Education 3175 Memorial Hall wishonpm@jmu.edu 540-568-6572
Sharon Lovell, Ph.D. College of Integrated Science and Technology 368 ISAT/CS lovellse@jmu.edu 540-568-2705
What’s your favorite part of your department? Working to identify and implement possible solutions to important agency, community and societal problems is most rewarding. Equally gratifying is the sense that many of our students, candidates and cadets are similarly devoted to instituting positive change wherever and whenever they can. Can you describe what a normal day at your job looks like? One can count on being presented each day with many challenges. Each day brings requests for information and action and participation in planned or impromptu meetings. Before day’s end, arrangements will have been made for future meetings, lunch will have gone half-eaten and, if fortunate, the promise of exciting new undertakings. What drew you to your field of expertise? It had a lot to do with the allure of participating in an environment in which the free exchange of ideas is encouraged, and where one can enjoy the companionship of others interested in questioning what is, imagining what could be and helping to cultivate change.
What’s your favorite part of your department? There is so much to be excited about. But what I am most proud of is the many ways in which our students are fully engaged with our faculty in extraordinary laboratory and clinic facilities, in field research, and in applied work. Can youdescribe what a normal day at your job looks like? In my job there really isn’t a typical day. I may meet with representatives of an organization with which we currently partner or want to partner, meet with a unit leader in my college, talk with faculty, meet with other deans, work on plans for a new initiative or do any dozens of other things. I really enjoy the variety. What drew you to your field of expertise? I earned a doctorate in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, which focuses on organizational systems and the ways in which they work. The field’s areas of focus include teamwork, communication, personnel-related decisions and much more. That background, along with my interests in leadership and helping others succeed, helped shape my path.
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Guest speaker Greg Hoeflicker revealed the deeper meaning behind students’ mysterious recurring dreams. By Pamela Kidd The Breeze
Greg Hoeflicker began studying dreams at the age of 19. His curiosity was sparked by a vivid dream that woke him and left him breathless. “I was going to be executed,” Hoeflicker said, “and strangely enough, everyone was really happy for me.” During the dream, Hoeflicker was sent on a bus to his fatal appointment. He finds that there is no one else there, allowing him to escape his scheduled death. “Every dream you have is about you or 99.9 percent about you,” Hoeflicker said. Hoeflicker’s
question and answer approach to his time within Grafton-Stovall Theatre on Monday night allowed 20 to 30 students to reveal and understand their recurring dreams. Hoeflicker explained that dreams about death relate to change. His dream at age 19 represented a need for him to become more responsible. Hoeflicker explained that jumping off the bus was his continual refusal to transform into a more dependable person. “Everyone [in the dream] was happy for my execution because they represented different parts of me that were happy for change,” Hoeflicker said.
Dreams act as a line of communication from the subconscious mind that help someone take different steps forward in his or her life, Hoeflicker said. The act of sleeping allows the mind to leave behind the five senses and “wonder” in different directions at will, without distraction. The time to reflect upon and remember the information from dreams occurs within the first few minutes of waking. Hoeflicker said that this is because the mind is going through an in-between state of being halfasleep and half-awake. The skill of dream interpretation involves the ability to locate different see Dreams, page 10
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Local band’s EP makes its radio debut By Beth Cole contributing writer
Long distance relationships are hard, especially in college: coordinating visits, waiting for that phone call, spending months without seeing that special someone’s face. But David Martin, Jesse Korby and Pat Graves make it work. Martin, Korby and Graves comprise Wings of Apollo, a rock band from Chantilly, Va. Martin is a junior business management major at JMU and Korby is a fifth-year student studying music at Florida State University. Graves is a ’10 graduate with a creative writing degree from Virginia Tech. While they can only play together during their breaks from school, the band has accumulated a Facebook following of more than 1,000 fans. On Sept. 8, the band got its first radio play on 90.7 WUVT, the student radio station out of Va. Tech. “I guess it just circulated down there and it got to a radio station and now they’re playing it,” Martin said. “It got requested, so now they’re playing it all the time.” The band formed three years ago. Korby (vocals/guitar) and Graves (bass) were both sophomores in college at the time, and met up to jam one summer afternoon. During the middle of their session, they saw Martin walking outside. Martin, a senior at Chantilly High School at the time, played on the volleyball team with Graves and had even played drums in the same band that Korby previously sang for, but Korby quit just before he joined. Korby ran outside and asked Martin to join them; they instantly clicked. “From the first note, we just knew it was something hard to come across,” Graves said. A key reason behind Korby and Graves’ chemistry is the music-color
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Junior David Martin (left) plans to join band members Jesse Korby and Pat Graves in Nashville after graduating.
synesthesia they share. As Korby describes it, he sees certain shapes and colors depending on the music he hears. He recalls Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir” causing a green blob to cascade through his vision. “Electric guitar could sound like a fiery red shape,” he said. “I’ve really developed a spiritual view of music because really, it’s alive to me.” Graves also sees certain colors when he hears music. For example, he said that something gray would be a band like Hinder or Staind, while someone like Jimi Hendrix would be a mix of colors. “A lot of it has to do with the amount of emotion they put into their music,” Graves said. Wings of Apollo recorded their first
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EP, “Bourbon Street,” over spring break at Sucker Punch Studios in Bethesda, Md. The title track off the EP was based on Korby’s trip to Mardi Gras last year, right after the Saints won the Super Bowl. “It got completely out of hand, but every line in it actually happened, including me almost getting run over by a horse and carriage,” said Korby. When “Bourbon Street” ended up making it to the student radio station at Va. Tech and the guys heard it last week, they were shocked. They hadn’t handed their EP to the station, so they weren’t sure how they got a hold of it. That night, Graves called the station acting like an interested fan, and asked where the DJ got it. She had found the CD in a paper sleeve and put it on. They now play the song on their
playlist every Wednesday. In March, Wings of Apollo opened for the band The Ataris at Jammin’ Java in Springfield, Va. Over the summer, they held a number of sold-out shows there, as well as at Jaxx Night Club in Springfield, Va. “We hold the alcohol record at Jammin’ Java for selling over $2,000 worth of alcohol at our headlining show,” Martin said. “All three of our lives are based on this band,” Graves said. In January, Korby and Graves plan to head to Nashville to start networking so when Martin graduates, they can pursue the band full-time. Contact Beth Cole at cole2ed@dukes.jmu.edu.
Battle of the ’Burgs Senior disapproves of Va. Tech’s glorification of football team
Man, last weekend sure was fun. The weather was gorgeous, the parties were bountiful, the company was pleasant ... Wait a second … Aren’t I forgetting something? Didn’t something extra special happen last weekend? And by “last weekend,” don’t I mean Saturday between the hours of 1:30 and 3:30 p.m.? And by “extra special” don’t I mean JMU destroying Virginia Tech in football? That’s actually exactly what I mean, and it’s about time you Va. Tech students had a damn wake-up call. The universe doesn’t, nor will it ever in a million years, revolve around you and your mediocre, highly overrated football team. It now revolves around us (despite the fact that ESPN continues to call us “A” James Madison University rather than “The” James Madison University, but hey, it’s just ESPN; what do they know?). Congrats: You produced Michael Vick, finish most of your seasons with decent enough records and your mascot/color scheme constantly make me yearn for Thanksgiving. But so what? The University of Southern California’s team name is synonymous with a condom company. That’s pretty cool. “What’s even cooler?” you might ask. Well, besides “Cool Runnings,” I’d have to say that that would probably be us beating you. Or as the media calls it, the “secondbiggest upset (based on ranking) in FCS-versus-FBS history.” Man, you should see some of the other terms the press is tossing around: Va. Tech’s “inexplicable no-show” and “lack of depth,” an “epic loss” and of course, “The James Madison Effect” (huge fan of that one). I think the best part is that you have absolutely no comeback and any attempt at such comes off as insecure defensiveness. You were supposed to beat us! You’re a better team! You had home field advantage! The last FCS team to beat you was the Richmond Spiders back in the dark ages of 1985; now, it’s the glorious JMU Dukes of 2010. I think The New York Times puts it best by quoting Va. Tech tailback Ryan Williams saying, “I don’t know what’s going on. I really don’t.” And neither do I, but the mental image of our radiantly glowing Duke Dog finally tearing into the jugular of that cocky-looking chicken makes me need to change my pants every few minutes. It’s OK though, because Va. Tech quarterback Tyrod Taylor believes his team “has the talent to bounce back.” Yeah, and scientologists believe that humans were brought to Earth by aliens. I do suppose there’s the slim possibility that a whole mess of upsets will turn Va. Tech’s season around for the better. And admittedly, yes, there’s a much better possibility that JMU’s season will probably at some point take a turn for the worse. In fact, odds are if we played you again we’d probably lose. But guess what? We beat you now. Yeah, we revel like hell right now (and deservedly so), but the point is that our source of happiness doesn’t alone rest in the success of our football team. We’re just not as good and we’ve accepted that. How can we be? We’re a smaller school with fewer resources at our disposal. I mean, it’s not like we’re ranked No. 13 in the nation or something … Oh, well I guess you guys aren’t either anymore, so nevermind. On a more serious note, a humongous “hell yeah” congratulations to Mickey Matthews, Drew Dudzik and the rest of the team. You guys definitely earned it and you make me proud to be a Duke. Keep up the good work; you’ve got a good momentum going. I’d also like to thank you for allowing me to live vicariously through your football antics. My friends at Va. Tech certainly do appreciate it. Andy Fram is a senior media arts & design major and a humor columnist at The Breeze. Contact him at framap@dukes.jmu.edu.
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Dinner | MSA also serves a helping of peace from front
The night began with the adhan, the Muslim call to prayer. The room silenced and the guests watched with rapt attention as one man made the call into a microphone. Then, in the corner of the room, two rows of men gathered. Plastic was laid out to serve as a prayer mat. Facing the direction of Mecca, towards the far right wall of the room, the men performed the Islamic ritual prayer. “My challenge to you is to put yourself away from everything, from your image of Islam, and to really try to understand,” Waliha Gani, a sophomore international affairs major and MSA president, told the room. The theme of the night, she said, was “the people behind the religion.” Gani moved to America in 1999 from Pakistan, back when, she said, nobody had any idea about her country. She said that now her country’s name carries connotations of violence. Afterwards, Gani introduced brief clips of JMU students discussing what fasting meant to them: a time of appreciation and self-discipline. “The most important thing is to feel what the unfortunate feel every day,” said Shaima
Mahmood, a junior MSA member and interdisciplinary liberal studies major. “It teaches you self-control. It’s also a time when you become closer to God. You pray.” Ehab Hassan, a member of the Council of Muslim American Society of Maryland, travelled from Maryland to speak at JMU. “Fasting proves to someone what they’re capable of,” Hassan said. “They are not as weak as they think they are.” He added that fasting allows a “higher state of consciousness.” Hassan also said that one should not base life on accumulating material things. Despite the recent national debate over a proposed Quran burning, dinner attendants seemed in good spirits. Ibrahim said that a Christian friend of hers had called to say he was sorry that people responded to the issue in such a way. “When there’s bad, you can see good come out of other people,” Ibrahim said. Regarding the fast, “it makes you more aware of how fortunate you are in life,” Ibrahim said. “At the end of the day, you know you can eat, but there are people who don’t eat at all.” Contact Caitlin Hawes at hawescm@dukes.jmu.edu.
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Game series makes its final ‘reach’ By Jeff Wade The Breeze
There was a pretty good explanation for the distinct absence of male students in class Tuesday morning. It’s the same explanation for the myriad of fleet-footed guys hustling back from the post office in the afternoon. The explanation? “Halo: Reach.” But amidst all the expected excitement (and class absences) with the launch of a new title in the Xbox franchise, there is a tinge of melancholy. “Reach” is the last entry in the franchise to be created by original developers Bungie. And while each successive “Halo” game has had its issues — from the lackluster campaign of “Halo 2” to the disproportionate price of last year’s “Halo: ODST” — none of that really matters. What does matter is that “Reach” is the most fully realized game to date, and the franchise’s best game since the first Halo debuted way back in 2001. “Reach” ’s story serves as a prequel to the numbered Halo games. It casts players as Noble Six, a Spartan solider and the newest member of the Noble
team on the human colony of Reach. Before long, Noble Six and his super solider buddies are fending off an invasion of the Covenant, an army of zealot aliens. The storytelling here is as good as the franchise has ever had. Sure, some of the members of Noble team come across as more archetypical than others, but the way the campaign pairs players up with each member of the team creates a real feeling of bornin-battle camaraderie. Admittedly starting slow, “Reach” takes a bit of its roughly eight-hour single player component to get going. Before long though the action really starts to ramp up, an escalation that doesn’t stop until the credits roll. A variety of levels take players from contained and claustrophobic firefights in close corridors to expansive battles on wide open vistas. These expanded areas are the strongest section of the game, allowing players to approach fights from a variety of different positions and multiple ways, thanks mostly to the new armor abilities. After all, battle tactics naturally change when someone can send a hologram of themselves out to distract or
fly into a foray on a jet pack. As strong as the single player component to “Reach” is, the real reason players keep returning to “Halo” is its unparalleled multiplayer component. Jumping into a game, franchise veterans will find a lot familiar here, especially if they took place in the massive multiplayer beta test last spring.
After all, battle tactics naturally change when someone can send a hologram of themselves out to distract or fly into a foray on a jet pack. “Reach” ships out with a healthy variety of maps, both brand new and updates of familiar classics. These serve as the backdrop to a variety of game types, from the standard death match and capture the flag, to the new “Battlefield”inspired Invasion mode. And as if people needed even more reason to come back to the multiplayer, the ability to earn customizations
for one’s avatar and a constantly cycling set of new challenges enable those “just one more game” addicts. Additionally, if people ever get tired of shooting each other, they can always take a break and work together in “Firefight.” Introduced in last year’s “Halo: ODST,” this game mode has since evolved from one glimmering with promise into a fully featured time sink. Tasking players with cooperating to take out an endless horde of enemies, “Firefight” is frantic, fun and a personal favorite game mode. While the first “Halo” game revolutionized the idea of a shooter on a console, “Reach” refines it. It frees the series of all the nagging issues that have plagued prior games while giving it one last great push forward. “Halo: Reach” is about all anyone could ask for in not only a “Halo” game, but in a first person shooter game as a whole. About the only thing anyone can ask for after playing Bungie’s swan song is another game of the same caliber. But alas, that might just be forever out of reach. Contact Jeff Wade at wadeja@dukes.jmu.edu.
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symbols within dreams and use them to decipher the subconscious language, Hoeflicker said. “The symbol of eating [in a dream] is knowledge,” Hoeflicker said. “If you are having a wonderful meal, it means that you are learning a lot during the days previous.” In close relation with this dream, is the dream of losing one’s teeth. Teeth serve as tools that help the dreamer assimilate knowledge. “Dreaming of your teeth falling out is pretty common in college age students,” Hoeflicker said. “It means that
previously during the day, that person was overwhelmed by new information.” Something he advised the audience to pay attention to is “gray-scale dreaming,” especially during finals week. Hoeflicker said that individuals suffering from this sort of dream are probably stressed and not getting enough rest. “Dreaming in black and white is the shallowest level of sleep,” Hoeflicker said. “It means the person is not 100 percent asleep.” Students shared a variety dreams during Hoeflicker’s discussion. Rachel Skolnick, a junior communications major, questioned a
dream involving a person trying to murder her, which causes her to wake up gasping. Hoeflicker explained this is a common dream, especially for people under the age of 25, because they feel as though they cannot control major changes happening in their life. In comparison, “if you dream of killing someone, it means that you are causing a change,” Hoeflicker said. Freshman Rob Sims asked Hoeflicker about his “underwear dream.” In Sims’ dream, he’s dressed only in boxers and embarrassed, but no one around him cares. “I spend most of the dream
trying to find clothes,” Sims said. But the dream concludes with him being completely comfortable in his deviant exposure. “I have the exact same dream,” said Natalie Hamlin, a junior communications major. Hoeflicker explained that dreams like this are positive. “Being naked represents being open and honest,” Hoeflicker said. The bearer of this dream has probably disclosed uncomfortable information about him or herself and then realized that it’s fine. Hoeflicker left students feeling more knowledgeable about themselves.
“He answered a lot of questions that I’ve always wondered about myself,” Skolnick said. Hoeflicker provided students with examples of inventors who dedicate their success to the work of the sub-conscious mind while dreaming. “Jeff Taylor, who invented monster.com, actually dreamt about it,” Hoeflicker said. He also explained that the inventor of the sewing machine, Elias Howe, continually struggled with the proper design of a working needle. “In his dream, something poked him in the back and it was the correct design to make it work,” said Hoeflicker.
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CLUB RUGBY
Men’s rugby ready to face Va. Tech Hokies By DAVID BARTON contributing writer
With a bevy of new talent and a title to defend, the Madison Rugby Football Club is optimistic about the upcoming fall season as players prepare for their opening match this Sunday at Virginia Tech. The team went - last year, but managed to avenge two of their regular season losses to the University of Mary Washington Eagles and Virginia Military Institute Keydets in the state tournament on the way to becoming champions of the Virginia Rugby Union. Sunday’s game against the Hokies will give the team an idea of where it is early in the season. For the Division-II Dukes, facing off against the DivisionI squad will be trial by fire. Va. Tech advanced to the semifinals of the Atlantic Coast Invitational in Greensboro, N.C. over the weekend, beating the likes of the University of North Carolina, Duke University and Georgia Tech along the way. In their next two matchups, JMU will face familiar foes, the Keydets, on Sept. and the Eagles on Oct. . But with the trip to match favorite Va. Tech on the horizon, a correlation to
the football team’s stunning victory is inevitable. “The Mary Washington game is one we are really looking forward to because it’s always competitive,” junior Stephen Barraco said. “Who knows, maybe Blacksburg will be witness to two upsets this year.” Some key players from the squad that will be missing from last year include forwards Matthew Oczkowski, Dominique Smith, Austin Boyle and Eric Nadeau. Younger players must now step into leadership roles that have since been vacated. “We have a solid group of forwards who are willing to play multiple positions in order to help the team out,” junior Shawn Cryan said. “While those guys will be missed and hard to replace, I am confident we have the weapons to continue our success.” Rugby, first played in Great Britain, is one of the most physical sports in the world. The -man teams feature forwards and backs, with their main goal being to touch the ball down in the opponents “try zone” for five points. American football is a version of this physical game that is played across the planet. The rugby team has been able to extend this popularity to the JMU campus, as the squad has members for the upcoming season.
“I found out about Madison Rugby my sophomore year, and after I left that first practice I knew it was for me,” junior Eric Davis said. “It is so fast-paced and the contact is constant.” Along with new players stepping up, new coaches have become involved with the team. These new additions focus on strength training and fitness, something the players have done mostly independently before. Aside from head coach Holmes Browne and assistant Bill Boyd, the team will have three additional coaches this season. “The addition of new coaches allows for more individual coaching and skill development,” Browne said. “Broader knowledge of the game allows us to explore different game plans. Strength and conditioning training will give the players the ability to move to the next level.” The reformed training regiment will come in handy when the Dukes face former national champions Radford University on Oct. . This home match at Godwin field will be the team’s last test before the state tournament goes underway in November. CONTACT David Barton at bartonde@dukes.jmu.edu
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Shawn Cryan (front yellow) and his teammates form a sevens scrum. Scrums are composed of just three players from each team. Because of the speedy nature of the game, good sevens players are often backs or loose forwards in fifteens rugby.
A successful weekend for student-athletes Drew Dudzik CAA Offensive Player of the week, Football
Was 5-8 for 121 yards
and rushed 12 times for 35 yards in the JMU vs. Va. Tech game. Has thrown for 310 yards and three touchdowns in two games.
Stephon Robertson CAA Rookie of the week, Football
Recorded a game-high
13 tackles in the JMU vs. Va. Tech game. Made the biggest defensive play of the game, forcing a Va. Tech fumble with three minutes to go.
Alison Parris
CAA Women’s Runner of the Week
Won an individual title
at the JMU Open Cross Country Invitation in the 5.2 kilometer run. She was an at-large entry in the NCAA National Championships last season.
C.J. Sapong
CAA Player of the Week, Men’s Soccer
Registered his first
career hat trick, scoring three goals in the second half in the team’s 3-0 win over Longwood. Leads NCAA in goals scored and points.
Lindsay Callahan
CAA Player of the week, Volleyball
Recorded a team-high
40 kills while also getting 23 digs and 10 blocks in the JMU Days Inn Invitational. The team went 3-0 as the tournament’s host.
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Team shows talent, looks for a leader By MATT O’TOOLE The Breeze
With the first tournament of the fall season in the books, the JMU men’s tennis team looks to find its identity this weekend at the Georgetown Fall Invitational. “We’re just mixing and matching players right now,” JMU head coach Steve Secord said. “After that, everything is up for grabs.” The Dukes enter the fall with a plethora of talent. But Secord said the top seeds are still open for competition, especially with the loss of last year’s No. , Mike Smith. “Nothing is won yet,” said Secord, who enters his th season as the Dukes’ coach. “Greg [Vladimirsky] did real well as a freshman and we have some new guys that are capable of gaining that top spot.” The Dukes are coming off a - season, in which they finished sixth in the
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Colonial Athletic Association. Senior Tommi Nissinen said this team can build from last seasons downfall and expect better results. “We just build a lot of confidence and improve in the conference,” Nissinen said. “We haven’t gone over the overall goals as a team, but to have a winning record in the CAA is the most important thing.” This weekend the Dukes will travel up to the nation’s capital in hopes of taking a look at the rest of team, including their leader, senior Matt King. “We are excited to travel up to Georgetown because it will be our first true tournament of the season, so I think we will have some great results,” said King, one of two seniors. “All of the guys are playing really well at the moment so I don’t see any reason why we can’t take both the singles and doubles at the tournament.” JMU will have a different look from the U.Va. Fall Classic last week, as Secord wants to get all the players as many
opportunities as he can. “I want to give everyone the same opportunity to showcase their talent,” Secord said. “Some people will shuffle the lineup around and others will gain a lot of confidence.” Making a debut for the Dukes this weekend will be sophomore transfer Ryan Pool. Pool transferred from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with a - singles record and - doubles record. “I was nervous a little bit last year making my college debut, but this season I am a little more comfortable as a Duke,” Pool said. “ I will use my service as a strength and try to control the court throughout the match.” Starting Friday, the Dukes will take on teams from George Washington University, University of Pennsylvania, Howard University, Lehigh University and the host team, Georgetown. CONTACT Matt O’Toole at otoolemw@dukes.jmu.edu.
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Junior Jovan Milic is one of six upperclassmen looking to be the new No. 1 singles player after the team lost Mike Smith to graduation. Last season, Milic went 13-10 as the No. 6 singles player.
Where do you like to eat on campus? Now that [Mrs.]
Greens is open all day, I’m a big fan of that.
What did you think about the Virginia Tech game?
I was shocked. I was taken aback to say the least. I felt like everyone was expecting us to lose but when we came out on top it kind of shocked the world.
Rahul Chaudhry Men’s Soccer senior finance major Where did you play soccer in high school? I played for
Langley High School and Reston Futbol Club.
Who is your favorite sports star? I‘m old school. I’d have to say Ronaldinho and Michael Jordan.
What’s your favorite color? Black. I think it looks sleek.
What’s your inspirational quote? “Heroes get
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What games did you go to?
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What is your favorite animal? A wolf. What is your favorite drink to cool off with after a game? Iced tea. I drink iced tea a lot.
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NORTH 38 Alex likes North 38’s location. She doesn’t deal with traffic on the way to class and the private shuttle takes her where she wants to go on the weekends. After a late night of hanging out with
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friends, she comes home to the relaxed atmosphere at North 38.
Senior, Finance & Computer Information Systems Major
The free fitness center and tanning? That’s just icing on the cake.
• Utilities included in rent
• 32” LCD flat panel TV’s
• By the bedroom leases
• Cable TV with HBO
• Convenient Harrisonburg Transit service
• Three tanning beds
• Designated quiet buildings
• Pet walk (pet friendly!)
• 24-hour access to the clubhouse
• Car care facility
• Resort style pool and hot tub
• State of the art fitness center
• Private study rooms & Computer lounge
• Excellent customer service
• Furnished apartments w/ leather sofas
• Energy Star Certified
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