Virtual parking system replaces decal passes
Community resources step up amid increasing mental health demand
Sam Kidd: Walking on twice Redshirt senior safety Sam Kidd came to Harrisonburg in 2017 as a “preferred walk on.” Essentially, he committed to JMU but wasn’t offered a scholarship. Kidd said it never bothered him having that title, nor did it change his goal with the program. He wanted to be at his best, and to play at his best. “He’s a high-energy, [high-] effort guy,” Cignetti said. “That’s a guy you can count on all the time. Sam Kidd is so dependable. He’s one of the leaders on our team, and I’m glad we have him.”
There have been many days where Susan Adamson, a nurse practitioner and the executive director of the Blue Ridge Free Clinic (BRFC), and her team of volunteers have planned to work for four hours, only to find themselves at the clinic eight hours later.
“We’ve been overloaded with patients at times … The nature of our volunteers is when they see need, they dig their heels in and just stay and we get the job done,” Adamson said. “But that’s not sustainable indefinitely.”Adamsonsaid the clinic’s services — medical, dental and mental health — have been used three times what the clinic expected since they opened in April 2021. Although the BRFC provides services for a variety of health-related issues, Adamson said around 20% of patients have associated mental health conditions.
By MADISON HRICIK The Breeze Percy Agyei-Obese thought he simply sprained his ankle in the first quarter against Delaware last season — nothing serious. The sixthyear running back had his ankle taped during halftime, then continued playing as though nothing was wrong. Except something was wrong. When Agyei-Obese had his ankle checked again that Sunday, he found out it was much worse than a high sprain. It was a seasonending injury that required surgery — Agyei-Obese’s first ever.Knowing his season with the Dukes was done, AgyeiObese said his goodbyes to the program. He then had no desire to redshirt another year. Instead of helping JMU on the field during its final season in the FCS, he spent it on the Alongsidesideline. Agyei-Obese, Sam Kidd and Isaac Ukwu also watched the game from the sidelines longer than they wanted to, dealing with season-ending injuries that forced them to change their mindsets. Now in their last year of college football, the three want this season to be more than another year in purple and gold. This is the year they want to put JMU, and themselves, on the map to begin the new Sun Belt“Thoseera. are the kinds of guys you want in your football program,” head coach Curt Cignetti said. “If you want to be successful, you need those passionate guys, and it burns deep in their belly.”
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Adamson said she’s seen more mental health needs and stressors in the last year and a half than she’s seen in the previous 30 years.
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By ELLE HART contributing writer Cars in JMU’s parking lots will look a little different this year. Starting this semester, JMU has implemented a new virtual parking pass system where driver’s license plates are now their parkingInsteadpasses.ofpurchasing decal parking passes at the Parking and Transit Services office or online that arrive via mail, students must now register their vehicle and license plate on the Parking and Transit Services portal. Registered vehicles on campus will be identified by capturing images of license plates using license plate recognition (LPR) technology.GinnyCramer, associate director of communications and deputy spokesperson for JMU, said existing physical student parking passes from last year will still be valid and can continue to be used through their August expiration date.
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“Counseling is where there’s such a shortfall right now, and so we’re struggling along with other practitioners trying to find places to get adjunctive counseling,” Adamson said. “We had hoped to have it embedded in our office, but we just can’t find counselors, there aren’t enough out there.”
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Counselors needed Harrisonburg boasts a wide array of both private practices and community resources for disadvantaged populations. Even so, it may not be enough to keep up with the demand from the community or the barriers to those seeking counseling. Need for mental health resources and counseling has been increasing across the country for years, and it’s only been exacerbated by the pandemic. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), annual encounters with specialty mental health treatment centers increased by 50% from 1992 to 2000. From August 2020 to February 2021, the CDC found the number of adults with symptoms of anxiety or depressive disorders increased from 36.4% to 41.5%, and the increase was larger among 18- to 29-year-olds.Oneofthe biggest issues facing counseling resources across the board is the need for more practitioners in the area while navigating the increased demand. Rebekah Brubaker, the director of behavioral health services at the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Community Services Board (HRCSB), said there’s an opportunity to develop more professionals in the field.
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“We had an explosion of need for services, and the workforce just hasn’t been there to offset that need,” Brubaker said.
JMU still refers students to community resources, depending on the students’ wants and ability to access care off campus. However, JMU has recently implemented telehealth options to provide students mental health care to navigate the difficulty of increased demand at JMU and in the surrounding community.
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With the large student population from JMU and other local colleges and universities, students often seek counseling services both on and off campus. When the JMU Counseling Center got overwhelmed in the past, it utilized community resources as a “pressure release valve,” David Onestak, the director of the JMU Counseling Center, said in an Aug. 17 interview. “The problem is, the mental health crisis is not limited to college campuses, and so these community providers are filled up,” Onestak said. “That is an avenue that we no longer have available to us, so it’s this constant balancing act of trying to make sure that we use the resources that JMU gives us to serve the most students in the bestPrivateway.”practices, like Friendly City Psychology founded by Jerrod Koon, see large numbers of college students. Koon said college students are a part of the Harrisonburg community, and it’s the job of community resources to serve students as well. JMU students aren’t taking resources away from the community by seeking help, he“Isaid.don’t know what the mental health services would look like if they weren’t supported by college students; I don’t know any private practice person that doesn’t see college students,” Koon said. “It’s like a relationship between JMU and Harrisonburg, you know, benefits and challenges, probably, to all of those relationships.”
Friendly City Psychology is one of the local private practices working to provide mental health resources to the community. Photo courtesy of Jerrod Koon
For April Hepler, the executive director of the Adagio House, the biggest challenge they face in providing mental health care is funding. Adagio House was first founded to care for caregivers in the community, but following COVID-19, expanded to care for everyone in the community, offering both counseling and respite services.
Amid a shortage of mental health support in the state of Virginia, and an increase of demand, she said she has dreams of how to address gaps in access to mental health care, but not the money to address it.
Private practices, like Friendly City Psychology, have been trying to provide “accessible and inclusive, high quality mental health services,” Koon said. Koon used to work for the JMU Counseling Center and needed a shift professionally.
“Private practice kind of afforded me most of the positive aspects of clinical work … so that felt like a nice transition from what I was doing back then,” Koon said, “and the community desperately needs mental health professionals, so it was really nice to give back and to bring clinicians to the area.”
“Many of the patients that we see are from other countries, or the whole concept of counseling is new to them,” Adamson said, “and explaining what happens in a counseling session, how many sessions are going to happen, explaining the confidentiality behind it and how counseling and medication often go hand in hand.”
“I have clients all across Virginia that I never would have had before the pandemic — it wouldn’t have been a viable option,” Koon said. Much of the work the BRFC does includes patient education, Adamson said, because of patients’ disenfranchisement from medical care or lack of experience.
“We have been seeing … a tsunami of mental health issues coming our way,” Hepler said. “I don’t think we’ve even begun to scratch the surface of the long term impact of what has happened in the last several years.”
Gaps in care Barriers to care extend beyond lack of providers. Cost, transportation and education can determine whether disadvantaged populations receive care.
ALICE stands for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed, and represents those in the community who “earn more than the official Federal Poverty Level, but less than the basic cost of living.”
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Community members working with graduate counseling programs like the Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) Clinic at JMU and EMU have been helpful to local partners like BRFC, Adamson said, but it still doesn’t meet the long term solutions community providers are looking for.
Brubaker said patients are experiencing long wait times for resources, and Harrisonburg is particularly struggling to provide psychiatric care to provide medications for those who need it.
“The students graduate, they move on and they go to wherever they’re going to set up their practices long term,” Adamson said. “We just need more people in the field who are living and working in our area.”
“I like the idea of not relying solely on the professional world, to fill all of the needs, because I think all of us as humans have the potential to care for one another and to create a system of connectivity and care that allows us to really support each other through this, through these times,” Brubaker said.
Harrisonburg is unique — alongside being a college town, it’s also a refugee resettlement city and has a significant ALICE population, according to the United Way of Southwest Virginia.
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In the end, it doesn’t take just counseling to address mental health in the community — it takes a combination of community support and a holistic approach. Brubaker, the director of behavioral health services at HRCSB, said the community can come together to help one another for care outside of counseling.
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“We are a fortunate community that we do have a lot of private providers for outpatient treatment, for therapy services in our community,” Brubaker said. “However, it still doesn’t feel like it’s meeting the demand of our community.”
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Koon said it’s the job of community resources to serve JMU students’ mental health needs. Photo courtesy of Jerrod Koon April Hepler, executive director of the Adagio House, said the biggest challenge in providing mental health care is funding.
NEWS In Virginia, Community Service Boards (CSB) are “the single point of entry into publicly funded behavioral health and developmental services” and are supported by federal and state funds, according to the HRCSB website. HRCSB offers mental health support and substance abuse services, 24/7 emergency mental health support and other developmental and wellness services.
It doesn’t take long though, Koon said, for a new clinician to get swamped with a full caseload — “a couple weeks and they’re full,” he said. Koon has been full for a long time, he said, and still receives between half a dozen and a dozen requests each week.
According to NAMI, more than half of the people in the U.S. with a mental health condition didn’t receive any treatment in the last year.
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In Harrisonburg, 38% of households fall within the ALICE threshold, and 23% fall below the poverty line, according to United Way. This can impact families’ eligibility for things like Medicaid, increasing the cost of mental health care. Even for those with insurance, Hepler said, high deductibles can force individuals to pay out of pocket for therapy. Community resources like the BRFC and Adagio House aim to address these gaps by providing free care or care with a sliding pay scale.
Adamson said the BRFC does its best to integrate a holistic approach to the physical and mental care of patients. Moving forward, they’re working to address more gaps in care by writing a grant application to get funding for patients who can’t afford counseling. For mental health, community providers agreed: It takes an approach of understanding, compassion and destigmatization. Hepler said factors like housing and economic support can impact community mental health and to address all underlying issues that impact mental health.Brubaker said professionals in the community care deeply and are available to anyone who needs“Therethem.isabsolutely no shame in asking for help,” Brubaker said. “It’s OK to reach out to somebody and let people know you’re not doing OK.” McKinley Mihailoff contributed to this report.
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While COVID-19 has increased some demand and barriers to mental health care, it’s expanded access through telehealth, especially for those who experience transportation barriers. Both Friendly City Psychology and Adagio House have been able to expand their care using telehealth services.
Student perspectives While some aren’t sure about the new system yet, other students are enjoying it.
Parking & citation statistics During the first week of classes this semester — Aug. 24 through Aug. 26 — there were a total of 886 citations issued, Cramer said. This is just six more citations than the first week of classes during the fall 2021 semester — Aug. 25, 2021 through Aug. 27, 2021 — during which a total of 880 citations were issued. Of those 886 citations, there were 120 citations that carried no fine and were instead given a “warning,” Cramer said. Warnings are only given when a vehicle isn’t registered or is displaying an invalid or improperly displayed permit, she said. Roughly 70% of the 886 citations, or about 620, were issued to drivers that parked in lots they weren’t permitted in, Cramer said, including students in faculty and staff lots, or resident students in commuter lots. No warnings are given in those Cramerinstances.saidit’snot known yet how much revenue will be generated from the 886 citations during the first three days of the semester, as many remain unpaid at this time or are underJMUappeal.Parking and Transit Services provides a list of spaces available in each parking deck on its website. According to JMU’s parking lot directory, there are 6,560 commuter spaces, 2,995 resident spaces, 1,049 miscellaneous spaces and 3,342 Purple Zone spaces across campus. As of Aug. 28, Cramer said 8,454 commuter and 792 resident fall semester or annual permits have been sold, a slight decrease compared to last fall. Last year, as of Aug. 29, 2021, 8,871 commuter and 733 resident fall semester or annual permits had been sold. Cramer, however, said these figures don’t include commuter carpool or evening permits sold during that same period.
“I keep in mind, unless you go to a small school, how’s it not going to be bad? It’s just about planning it,” Anzalone said.
Junior Emily Nicholson said she was a “little suspicious” of the new parking system being virtual, but she enjoyed the ease of signing up for the parking pass online.
“I got a warning cause my license plate wasn’t facing the street, to see if you had the permit or not,” Faralli said.
Photos by Valerie Chenault / The Breeze There were 886 parking citations during the first three days of the fall 2022 semester.
For students, faculty and staff who don’t want to purchase a year-long pass, this year’s parking system gives people the ability to purchase a single-semester permit. Previously, this option was only available to students who were studying abroad, completing student teaching or graduating in December. Additionally, Cramer said daily permits can now be purchased via the web portal.
According to an online release about the virtual parking passes, a vehicle’s license plate must be visible from the parking lot traffic aisles. Drivers who don’t have a front license plate on their car and prefer to back in or pull through parking spaces must purchase a special vanity plate from Parking and Transit Services for a one-time fee of $10 and display it on the front of their vehicle to avoid being ticketed.
Nicholson doesn’t have much experience with parking at JMU: She’s a transfer student this semester and carpools to campus with her roommates. After getting a parking citation last week due to parking in a faculty space, she described parking on campus as “a little hectic.”
Cramer said the main motivation for this year’s changes were the customer service advantages offered by going virtual, making parking “simpler and easier.” Another advantage to the new parking system, Cramer said, is vehicle information can be quickly updated via the web portal. When driving a rental vehicle or returning to JMU with a different family vehicle, drivers no longer have to visit Parking and Transit Services to receive a temporary pass.
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Senior Allie Anzalone said she likes the change to virtual passes because people can’t “meddle” with the virtual system.
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Instead of decal parking passes, driver’s license plates will now be their virtual parking passes.
“I don’t think [my roommates and I] have had an issue where we haven’t been able to park overall yet, but we’ve only been doing this for a week, so who knows?” Nicholson said.
Junior Kristin Faralli said she likes the convenience of an online parking system over previous year’s stickers.
“With the stickers, you put it on the outside of your car. Anyone can come up, peel it off,” Anzalone said.
Both Faralli and Anzalone also highlighted that an issue with parking at JMU is the lack of spots available to students at certain times of the day. “It’s crazy,” Faralli said. “You have to get [to campus] an hour before class or else you’re not going to have a chance of being on Anzalonetime.”said she has a practical view on the state of parking on campus. With parking on campus, she said, “as long as you give yourself 30 minutes, you’re probably fine.”
Another pro to the new system, she said, is that virtual permits, unlike decals, can’t be lost or stolen and don’t need to be removed from vehicles. The cost of implementing the new system is “comparable to the previous system,” Cramer said. Equipping the parking enforcement vehicles with the new technology costs about $30,000 per vehicle, Cramer said, while other expenses, such as the cost of plastic permits, are no longer accounted for.
“I hate putting stickers on my car, ’cause it always leaves a residue,” Faralli said, “but I don’t know if I like the virtual aspect. I think there’s a lot that can go wrong, technically speaking.”Although there are thousands of spots on campus, Faralli said she’s already had a few issues with parking on campus this semester, including on the second day of classes.
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The revenue generated from student permits sold through Aug. 28 is $2,464,337, which “helps support operating costs” for Parking and Transit Services, Cramer said.
Pandemic prevention
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as of Aug. 30, there are 49,974 global monkeypox cases in 99 different countries: 49,531 cases in locations that haven’t historically reported monkeypox and 443 cases in locations that Department of Health (VDH), there are 339 current cases in Virginia as of Aug. 31. and 11 hospitalizations.
In the Northwest region of Virginia, there are six cases in the district of Blue Ridge — one of the lowest regions in the state, with the Northern region of Virginia reporting the highest number of cases at 202. Here at JMU, the University Health Center (UHC) has services available for students, faculty and staff regarding monkeypox. According to its website, any student who’s concerned they’ve been exposed to or have monkeypox can be evaluated at the UHC. Additionally, the website says the UHC can coordinate testing for monkeypox through LabCorp and help coordinate treatment through consultation with the Central Shenandoah Health Department (CSHD) and the CDC. see MONKEYPOX, page 8
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By KINGSTON THOMAS The Breeze With the monkeypox virus on the rise — both globally and across the country — JMU, local and state health departments are working to combat the virus and inform the community about the disease.
Since early May 2022, cases of monkeypox — a rare disease from the smallpox family transmitted from animals to humans — have been reported in countries where the disease isn’t regularly found, or nonendemic, including Europe and North America, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). While the WHO said monkeypox is most common in West and Central Africa, this is the first time monkeypox cases have been reported simultaneously in non-endemic and endemic countries in dissimilar geographical areas. WHO declared monkeypox as a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) July 23. At that point, monkeypox had spread to over 75 countries with more than 16,000 cases reported, according to Medical News Today.
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had received 15,282 vials of the JYNNEOS vaccine, redistributed 8,899 vials to the state’s 35 health districts and administered 5,875 vials through local health departments and other healthcare providers, according to its website. Misconceptions
Additionally, Tim Miller, vice president for student affairs, said the Stop the Spread dashboard used for the COVID-19 pandemic will now also be used to provide information on monkeypox and any other outbreaks moving forward.
While the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 was one medical science “never seen before,” Forlano said, that’s not the case for“Withmonkeypox.themonkeypox virus, the situation is much different,” Forlano said. “It is a virus we’ve encountered before. We know how it’s spread and what to do to counter that spread.”
Likewise, Forlano said when COVID-19 first “burst into the global stage,” there wasn’t readily available testing, vaccines to prevent it or effective treatment, but for monkeypox, there“Weis.have safe and effective vaccines against the virus,” Forlano said. “We have tests to confirm if a person is infected and we have safe and effective treatment options. Although for some patients the disease course can be uncomfortable and may be painful, in most cases it fully resolves without treatment.”
On Aug. 25, the VDH expanded eligibility criteria for individuals seeking the monkeypox vaccination in Virginia. According to the VDH, the expanded criteria for vaccinations include: individuals of any sexual orientation or gender who’ve had anonymous or multiple sexual partners in the past two weeks; sex workers of any sexual orientation gender; and staff of any occurs.whereestablishmentsatororientationsexualgendersexualactivityAsofAug.23,theVDwH
According to the UHC, a limited supply of the two-dose monkeypox vaccine, JYNNEOS, is being offered to individuals in Virginia who have an increased likelihood of becoming exposed to monkeypox due to certain risk factors. JMU students can complete an interest form for the vaccine and the CSHD will begin vaccinations for those who are at a higher risk of monkeypox exposure. After completing the form, students will be contacted by the CSHD when an appointment is available.
As heard and seen in the media, there’s been misconceptions that individuals in the LGBTQ community are the only people who can contract monkeypox. According to the CDC, current data suggests gay, bisexual and men who have sex with other men make up the majority of cases in the current monkeypox outbreak. However, both the CDC and Forlano reiterated that anyone — regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity — who’s been in close, personal contact with someone who has monkeypox is at risk.
“While this level of monkeypox activity is unexpected, the risk to most people is low,” ForlanoAdditionally,said. Forlano said individuals that have sex with multiple or anonymous partners is a “major risk factor in this walkingpersondoessaid.monkeypox,”catchingreduceactivities“Avoidingoutbreak.”thesecanone’sriskoforspreadingForlano“Monkeypoxnotspreadfromtopersonfrompastsomeonewho is infected or through casual conversation with someone who The Breeze contacted the department of Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE) at JMU for an interview regarding misconceptions and stigmatisms surrounding the monkeypox virus, but weren’t granted the request before deadline. Kasey Trapuzzano contributed to this report.
Monkeypox vs. COVID-19 With the recent decrease in COVID-19 cases across the U.S., many have been left wondering if there are any similarities between COVID-19 and the monkeypox virus. Dr. Laurie Forlano, deputy director of the Office of Epidemiology from the VDH spoke with The Breeze via email about distinctions and differences between the two“Monkeypoxviruses. and COVID-19 are very different viruses and have different considerations about their spread and how we prevent transmission,” Forlano said. Forlano said monkeypox is mostly spread by close contact with an infected person, which could include touching the rash or skin lesions of an infected person. Although less common, monkeypox can also be spread via contaminated items — such as bed linens or towels used by an infected person — or can occur through prolonged, face-to-face contact, ForlanoAdditionally,said. Forlano said an important distinction between monkeypox and COVID-19 is that monkeypox can be spread from the time symptoms start until “the rash has healed, all scabs have fallen off and a fresh layer of skin has formed,” whereas with COVID-19, transmission can occur before symptoms are present or if the infected person is asymptomatic. According to the CDC, symptoms of monkeypox can include a rash on or near the genitals, anus, hands, feet, chest, face or mouth; fever; chills; swollen lymph nodes; exhaustion; muscle aches and backaches; headaches and respiratory symptoms such as a sore throat, nasal congestion or cough. Forlano said monkeypox symptoms typically last 2-4 weeks.
Ginny Cramer, JMU’s associate director of communications and deputy spokesperson, said in an email to The Breeze that staff at the UHC are currently undergoing additional training in accordance with the VDH guidelines to deal with the virus. Cramer said JMU is also working with local and state partners, including the VDH, for information sharing since each agency monitors the situation on a local and statewide level and that working with these partners also allows JMU to be aware of mitigation strategies surrounding the monkeypox health emergency.
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As a member of the Marching Royal Dukes (MRDs), I can tell you firsthand that JMU has a lot of traditions when it comes to football games.From the MRDs’ pregame performance of “Start Wearing Purple,” to throwing streamers after touchdowns, to the football players ending the game by singing along to the school song, these moments have become staples of the fan experience at Bridgeforth Stadium.However, there’s one tradition that many at JMU are hoping won’t make the jump to FBS — fans, specifically students, leaving at halftime.Lastyear, it felt like the same story every game. It would start with a packed student section, full of energy. Then, slowly but surely, as JMU’s lead gradually built and built, fans would head to the exits. By the start of the fourth quarter, the majority of the student section would be empty. There are many reasons for why this phenomenon happens. On the one hand, it’s a problem with the culture of football games for students. For many, football games are more about the social aspect. Plus, sitting through a 3-4 hour football game can be a lot to ask of someone not invested in football, especially since younger people tend to have shorter attention spans. None of this is new, nor is it a problem specific to JMU. Personally, I’ve had multiple alumni tell me stories of how when they were students, they used to only come to football games for the MRDs. Not everyone is entertained by football, it’s just the way it is. However, it’s not just that some students aren’t interested in football. For the past few seasons, the problem has been that the football on display just hasn’t been very exciting. As a member of the MRDs, I went to and was required to stay at every home football game last season. Even as a lifelong football fan, there were still some games that were so lopsided I didn’t blame the students for deciding to beat the traffic. Of the eight home games played at Bridgeforth last season, both regular season and as part of the FCS Playoffs, seven of them were blowout, double-digit JMU wins. With the sole exception of a Villanova squad who managed to upset the Dukes 28-27, JMU’s competition just couldn’t keep it competitive in Bridgeforth. Of those seven blowouts, the closest was JMU’s FCS semifinals victory over Montana, which ended with a final score of 28-6. The most lopsided was JMU’s season opener against Morehead State, which ended with at 68-10. So, how can JMU fix this issue? Well, thanks to its move to the Sun Belt Conference this season, the problem of lopsided games appears to no longer be an issue. Gone are the days of JMU fans sitting through back-toback double digit blowouts. Going FBS this season means that the competition will be much tougher, with the Dukes set to face off against seasoned FBS teams like Appalachian State and Coastal Carolina annually. It’s not just their Sun Belt competition that will give them a challenge, it’s the FBS as a whole. In the 2022 season opener against Middle Tennessee State, the spread currently sits at just -6.0 in favor of JMU, according to ESPN. It’s clear JMU will have a lot more nailbiters in Bridgeforth for the foreseeable future, and as long as that closeness doesn’t turn into blowouts against JMU, it should be enough to keep more fans in their seats. However, the culture issue that’s a bit trickier. Unfortunately, changing student culture tends to be an uphill battle, one I’m sure administration is already familiar with. A lot of it does boil down to just the fact that some people don’t like football and are there for other reasons. To those students, I would argue that there’s much more to JMU football than meets the eye. Personally, I know plenty of MRDs who come alive at football games, despite the fact that they don’t even know what a QB Option is. JMU football games are about tradition and school spirit. They’re a chance for JMU students, fans, and alumni to cheer on their school. They‘re spectacles that bring people together and unite the JMU community. For that community aspect alone, I would argue it’s worth staying. Couple that with some quality FBS football from head coach Curt Cignetti’s squad, and to me, staying feels like a no-brainer.Sowhen you are in the student sec tion this Saturday, I invite you to watch the game a bit more closely. Maybe you’ll get more invested than you think. And if not, you’ll still have the chance to hear me and 539 of my closest friends perform for you .
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Why or why not?Do you stay at football games after halftime? 70%Yes No According to a Breeze Instagram poll of 82 respondents: “I’m there for the MRD’s” “I’m there for the environment not the game”
“[Student debt relief] allows us to provide real benefits for families without meaningful effect on inflation,” Biden said in the Aug. 24 announcement. “Let’s be clear, I hear it all the time: ‘How do we pay for it?’ We pay for by what we’ve done. Last year we cut the deficit by $350 billion.”
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released an opinion on Aug. 23 defending the legal ground with which the President justifies the unprecedented, widespread forgiveness of student loan debt. The DOJ sited the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students (HEROES) Act of 2003, which authorizes the Secretary of Education to “waive or modify any statutory or regulatory provision applicable to the student financial assistance programs” for some affected individuals, including those serving in the military or National Guard, living in “disaster areas” because of a national emergency or those who experience economic hardship because of a war, military operation or national emergency.
University and college tuition has dramatically increased in the past 40 years. The average price of tuition, fees and room and board have increased by 169% between 1980 and 2020, according to a report from Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. Today, $3.57 is worth what $1 was in 1980, and according to the National Center for Education Statistics, the average cost of tuition and fees for 4-year public institutions then was $1,513; in 2021 it’s $9,400 — 6.21 times as high. This demonstrates that university and college tuition has outpaced inflation by 74%.
On August 24, President Joe Biden announced a federal student loan debt relief program that would forgive up to $20,000 in student loan debt. of Tribune News Service
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Student debt forgiveness helps, but more action is needed to address high tuition
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On Aug. 24, President Biden announced a federal student loan debt relief program that would directly forgive $10,000 in student loan debt for individuals who earn less than $125,000 a year or families who earn below $250,000 a year. Additionally, this program forgives $20,000 in student loan debt for pell grant recipients and extends the moratorium on student loan repayment to Dec. 31. Furthermore, Biden announced plans to lower monthly payments for undergraduate student loans; fix the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which serves to forgive student loan debt for those who enter careers in the military, government or nonprofits; and reduce the price of college. Biden also mentioned his intent to continue to fight for free community college, a proposal that was eliminated from the Build Back Better bill earlier this year.This action by President Biden will offer much needed relief to many borrowers, however, this is just the first step in addressing heightened tuition rates and overwhelming student loan debt. By announcing this action, Biden is fulfilling a campaign promise, and its strategic timing may be in hopes of boosting Democrats’ chances of retaining seats in state and federal legislatures during the midterm elections. The White House claims 43 million borrowers will be eligible for student loan debt relief, and 20 million of those could have the entirety of their student loan debt forgiven.
The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania estimates the price of sweeping student loan debt forgiveness could reach up to $519 billion over 10 years, costing approximately $2,000 per taxpayer, according to the National Taxpayer Union. It remains unclear how the federal government intends to foot the bill of student debt relief, whether the country assumes the debt, raises taxes or secures funding through other means.
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Zachary Gochenour, an economics lecturer at JMU with expertise in political economics, said that compared to the scale of the U.S. Gochenourdramaticwon’teconomy,influenceactionsbranch’stheAlthoughtheadebtstudenttoBiden’seconomy,plansrelieveloanarejustdropinbucket.executivecantheitlikelyresultinfluctuations.“Theeconomyishuge,”said.“Ifyou take all of the government spending altogether with all of the different areas … it’s still not most of the economy, most of the activity is in the private sector.”
Universities and colleges may anticipate future action by the government to reduce the price of higher education and respond to it by reducing tuition costs. More likely, they’ll maintain high tuition until the
The government’s use of the pandemic as justification hopefully indicates this measure won’t be regularly utilized, avoiding a precedent that could easily be exploited. Ultimately, this action is a temporary fix that’ll be beneficial to many — as long as the government continues to search for a more permanent solution to the problem
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“In terms of inflation and deflation, it depends on how they [the federal government] play it … If they say we need to increase taxes, then people might spend less money,” Gochenour said. “The rate of inflation has to do with not only the amount of currency but also the rate at which people spend it. If nobody spends anything … there will be deflation.”
This action by President Biden indicates to universities and colleges that the executive branch believes current tuition rates aren’t manageable for many people and that the government is obligated to intervene. Biden announcing his intent to continue fighting for more reasonable tuition prices also threatens universities’ ability to set high tuition prices in the future. However, universities aren’t immediately affected by Biden’s student loan debt relief program because they aren’t losing any money as a result. However, preventing universities and colleges from driving up prices and marketing to adolescents in the first place is important to finally resolving the issue of overwhelming student loan debt. Credit and debt are important tools that can accelerate advancement. Assuming the risk of taking on debt is a decision that should be carefully considered, and government forgiveness of debt should be reserved for emergencies. Frequent forgiveness of debt may result in people taking this decision less seriously and the assumption of more debt with the intent of relying on the government to resolve it. Considering this, universities and colleges would have little reason to reduce tuition rates.“We’re not actually addressing the problem,” Gochenour said. “Schools will think that there is no reason to cut back, if it’s a problem they’ll [the federal government] just relieve the debt. No one’s intention is to do that … They want to give relief to people who are struggling.”
a decline of 3.5% last year, are more likely to encourage universities to lower their tuition in the future. To address ballooning tuition rates in American universities and colleges, the federal government must take more direct action preventing institutions of higher education from increasing their prices. This is especially the case for public universities who operate in part on taxpayer dollars and to serve as a pathway to advance them financially and enhance their quality of life, not to debt and despair. This action will be helpful for many people, and concerns regarding inflation and deflation are likely overemphasized. This action doesn’t, however, solve the student loan debt problem in the U.S and doesn’t prevent more debt from being accumulated in the future.
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Biden is using the pandemic, a national emergency, to fulfill the requirement of the final stipulation of the HEROES ActIt’s possible that Biden’s federal student loan debt relief program will exercise a chilling effect on high tuition rates, and it will certainly provide some breathing room for borrowers.Thereare concerns, however, that Biden’s student loan debt relief program could be eventually brought before the Supreme Court to determine its validity. Some argue that COVID-19 isn’t a strong enough reason to allow direct action by the executive branch and, therefore, any action on these grounds requires passage through Congress. This was the case in the Supreme Court decision on Alabama Associationof Realtors v. Department of Health and Human Services, where the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) establishment of an eviction moratorium because of the pandemic was struck down. Others have voiced concern that Biden’s student loan debt relief program will fuel already high inflation rates. Others have voiced concern that Biden’s student loan debt relief program will fuel already high inflation rates.
Forgiving debt alleviates a financial burden on borrowers and encourages them to spend more money, which can be an inflationary pressure. The burden of paying off student loans is transferred from the individual to the government and distributed among taxpayers. This transfer of debt can increase the ability of some people to spend money while reducing that ability for others, which can result in deflation. Determining how Biden’s student loan debt relief program will impact the economy can be challenging.
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— Katie Conahan, 2022 First yeaR Orientation Guide (FROG) Graphic by Michael Russo/TheBreeze GraphicbyEvanWeaver/TheBreezeGraphicbyShirinZiaFaqiri/ TheBreeze
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— Hannah Loving, Marching Royal Duke “[Harrisonburg] just always feels like a tight-knit community. It doesn’t feel like JMU’s just a bubble because it feels like everything’s incorporated. So, I feel like everyone’s very welcoming; I suppose they just make you feel at home.”
Downtown Harrisonburg’s Block Party in the ’Burg is an annual event for students to connect with the community and city around them. Abi Middleton / The Breeze
Community reacts to Harrisonburg’s national college town ranking
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The Breeze Harrisonburg — coined as the Friendly City — was recently named one of the top 10 most livable college towns in the AccordingU.S.to the story from Strategistico, the methodology behind this ranking considered factors such as cost of living, local arts and dining, walkability, unemployment and crime rates, overall atmosphere and more.
Harrisonburg’s average cost of living is about $1,950. The valley is home to more than 200 dining places and businesses, has a middling walkability score of 45 and has an unemployment rate of 2.5%, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The crime rate is 24.14 per 1,000 residents, annually, as crimegrade.org reports.
Strategistico’s ranking recognized Harrisonburgfor its diversity of people as well as the variety of indoor and outdoor activities nearby. Set to the backdrop of downtown Harrisonburg’s annual Block Party in the ’Burg, here’s what community members had to say about JMU and the city.
“What drew me to Harrisonburg was the campus and just being so pretty and the location … I feel like the longer I’ve been here, I’ve really learned to love downtown and kind of the community as a whole, and I really love the energy that fellow students have for each other. I’ve just grown to love restaurants downtown, like Magnolia’s [Tacos & Tequila Bar] is my favorite. Jack Brown’s is a classic.”
By MICHAEL RUSSO & AVERY GOODSTINE
According to a survey by Statista, out of over 2,000 respondents, 46% of people spend 5-6 hours per day and another 22% spend 3-4 hours per day on their phones. Only 5% of the study’s respondents spend less than an hour per day on their phones. These statistics suggest we depend on our phones for day-to-day tasks like online banking and connecting with friends and family to countless news outlets keeping us up to date with the rest of the world.
— Kristina Blyer, JMU associate vice president for health and well-being
One way to stop yourself from checking your phone first thing in the morning is to set it to airplane mode before going to bed — your alarm will still work while text, email, news and social media notifications won’t, thus reducing the temptation to check it right away. You can also try stretching when you first wake up. According to Harvard Health, stretching first thing helps wake up the body and the parasympathetic nervous system, or the “rest and digest” system. This encourages the body to enter a relaxed state, setting the tone for a calm morning. Once we’re on our phones, it can be hard to stop scrolling. This can cause more damage than we’re led to believe. The more time we spend on our phones, the more dependent we become. We can’t completely get rid of phones, nor would that be feasible in today’s world, but implementing breaks from screen time can help reduce stress triggers and promote more positivity throughout the day. Read the full article at breezejmu.org.
— Marissa Pfannkuch, junior middle grades education major
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— Ben Van Roekel, junior political science major
It’s just great to go around in one afternoon and just go shopping with all the local businesses that are here and just to help support people … We’re all trying to make a living out here and everything, so it’s great to be able to support small businesses down here and everything and I like how Harrisonburg is so big about that.”
While phones are now one of the most common ways to keep people connected, how much is too much screen time? Managing screen time in today’s world seems impossible, but taking time to set the phone, computer or tablet aside and disconnect from the virtual world can benefit mental health.
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“My mom went to JMU, so I’m used to coming to Harrisonburg when I was younger [and] I thought everything was so pretty ... And then, of course, I think that Harrisonburg has one of the best ice cream places: Branch’s. Best brownies in Virginia … Walking around downtown Harrisonburg, it’s really beautiful. I don’t think you really get this at any other campus. Everyone genuinely tries to make sure that you feel welcome at JMU and that you have a place that you can be, and that includes people that are in downtown Harrisonburg. Locals of Harrisonburg do the same thing … This feels like my second home because the people are so welcoming here.”—Jaya Tuggle, junior kinesiology major
“I think it’s a great place for many different opportunities. I mean, you can enjoy the downtown and all that has to offer with the great restaurants, stores and then there’s a performing arts center if you want to do theater. It’s not far to go ... for a nature hike in agriculture in the area. So, I think that’s what’s so special about this area is just all those different things that you get to have just within a couple of miles.”
Learning to manage screen time at the beginning of your morning can set the tone for the rest of the day. When you first wake up, your brain switches from delta waves — a deep state of sleep — to theta waves, a daydream state, according to Jay Rai, a contributing writer for Forbes. Rai writes that this switch is important because it helps our brains transition to the alpha stage, in which our brain is relaxed but not processing much information.
“I think what brought me to Harrisonburg was just the JMU campus was so gorgeous. When I stepped foot on it, it was like, this is the place I want to be for the next four years of my life, and then to be able to walk down in downtown Harrisonburg and in Court Square, just seeing like all the old buildings and all the local businesses and everything.
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— Aubrey Price, freshman marketing major
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“I fell in love with this place instantly. Everybody was really friendly, and everybody was holding doors for me … I come from a small town, so it just it feels homey, too.”
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“Some of my favorite memories are just driving around at night with my friends, and just kind of going on little random adventures across campus and everything.”
David Taylor started working with the HRCDCC when the company’s idea for Dancing With The Stars of The ‘Burg had just begun to take form. He and his wife, Connie, said they were hoping to take the opportunity to spread their love for ballroom dancing while also helping improve the circumstances of a local service.“When my wife and I started, we just hoped to give exposure to ballroom dancing and the local ballroom dancers,” Taylor said. “Really quickly, what started to take emphasis was the cause. We began understanding all the services the [HarrisonburgRockingham] Child Day Care Center offers our community.”
“At a fundraising meeting we had a board member say we should try and mimic the real Dancing With The Stars,” Delores Jameson, executive director of the HRCDCC, said. “Then, several of us just started getting creative and brainstorming ideas, and it’s just evolved over the years.”
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After 11 competitions, Dancing With The Stars of The ’Burg will have it’s final competition Nov. 13. Breeze file photos
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In 2010, the Harrisonburg Rockingham Child Day Care Center (HRCDCC) set its sights on a goal: Raise enough money to be able to rent out a facility for the business. The HRCDCC has been helping the community for almost 50 years, yet it’s been operating in the basements of local churches, free of charge. Twelve years and 11 dance competitions later, the HRCDCC is finally able to end its fundraising.
The concept of the competition is a rather simple one. Contestants — or “stars” as they’re called — are picked via recommendation by a member of the board or other prior affiliates like a former board member or asalsoWhileforwhoChapterfromdancingpairedcontestantscompetitor.formerThearethenwithballroomenthusiaststheShenandoahofUSADance,they’lltrainwiththreemonths.training,theyhavetofundraise,theeventgeneratesmoney through donations given to each dancing team via the HRCDCC website. On the night of the competition, each contestant is judged on a combination of both their dancing, as well as how much money they raised. The idea for Dancing With The Stars of The ’Burg was inspired by the ABC show “Dancing With The Stars,” or DWTS, after members of the daycare’s board decided to begin fundraising for a new facility.
In the 11 years the HRCDCC has held DWTS of the ’Burg, Jameson said the event has grown quite a lot. Taylor said not only will they have gone through 84 stars since the first competition, but both Taylor and Jameson pointed out the competition has raised well over $1 million for the day care center just in donations.MaryPavlovskaya (’16), a current student in the JMU MBA program, is one of this year’s “stars” representing the local F&M Bank. She said being a part of the competition requires them to learn a lot of new skills, including ballroom dancing andPavlovskayafundraising.and Taylor both agreed that one of the big benefits of the competition — besides the money it raises for HRCDCC —
17CULTURE $699 $699SANDWICHCHICKEN™ COMBO is the bonds it creates between those involved. Each year, the dancers are put into seven teams, each containing one dancer and one “star” who Jameson described as “a person well known and liked within the community.” Jameson said each year the teams end up bonding through the shared experience and create what Taylor described as “lifelong friendships.”“We’reallgoing through this new experience together,” Pavlovskaya said. “I’m bonding with the other competitors, and I’m bonding with my dance partner as well.” Jameson said people behind the scenes of DWTS of The ’Burg have to put a lot of work in every year to ensure everything runs smoothly. Taylor said, though many people don’t realize it, it takes a lot of work to get the show up and running. They have to pair each “star” with a dancer, pick different styles of dance for each team, pick the music and provide costuming for eachTaylorteam.emphasized the work was worth it; after all, one of the goals for the production staff, he said, is to make it feel like the competitors are on the actual TV show. “That’s really the experience we want to give them, that they feel like they’re on the show,” Taylor said. “I think they do because it’s quite theAfterevent.”12years, DWTS of the ’Burg is slated to come to its end. The HRCDCC has announced this year’s competition will be the final one because the community raised so much money. Thanks to the donations from the competition, the HRCDCC has purchased a facility on East Market Street that will be ready for use in 2023.
“It’s definitely strange to be called a ‘star’ by your community and to know people know who you are now,” Pavlovskaya said. “It’s sad that there won’t be any more after us, but I wouldn’t say I’m sad it’s ending. I think that the fact it is ending because it accomplished its goal is really great.”The competition will be held Nov. 13 at the JMU Grand Ballroom in the Festival Conference and Student Center. At the end of the night, the judges will crown the final winner of DWTS of the ’Burg. “I think its amazing,” Taylor said. “Every facet of the Harrisonburg-Rockingham community, and even beyond that, contribute to this. The fact that we’re able to raise this money is a testament to all the people in the community who have come together to help this fundraiser.”
Delores Jameson, executive director of the HRCDCC, explained the “stars” as people who are well known and well liked in the Rockingham-Harrisonburg community.
DWTS of The ’Burg has welcomed 84 “stars” since the competition started.
CONTACT Morgan Blair at blairml@ dukes.jmu.edu. For more on the culture, arts and lifestyle of the JMU and Harrisonburg communities, follow the culture desk on Twitter and Instagram @ Breeze_Culture.
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chose themselves in face of personal strife Belief in their return Sam Kidd dives for a tackle against Montana. Breeze file photos Isaac Ukwu cheers in between plays.
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Kidd was cleared to play again last fall. Leading up to the season opener, again against Morehead State, Kidd said he wanted to focus on the game itself and not think about his shoulder. The second he made his first tackle of the game, he popped up and shook out his shoulder as one thought raced through his mind — “Alright we’re good, it’s in there,” he remembers thinking. Kidd played in all 14 games last season. He started in seven, logged 62 tackles: 34 solo, 5.5 tackles for loss and an interception. But this year, he wants more. When reflecting on the past, Kidd knows he spent a lot of time on the sideline. Did it help him in the long run? He said he thinks so. But as he faces a new leadership role and takes on a new era in the Sun Belt Conference, he said the young freshman who found ways to keep working still lives inside him. “I know how tough it is just to sit on the sidelines and watch,” Kidd said. “It feels like the end of the world at that moment but, you know, you’ll get through it.”
It was one thing to suffer one ACL tear. But two in back-to-back seasons was another animal.Redshirt senior defensive lineman Isaac Ukwu played in three career games before the 2021 spring season. And at first, that was fine.Ukwu sat behind a few well-known JMU defensive linemen, including John Daka (2016-19) and Ron’Dell Carter (2017-19). Ukwu said that while he wanted to play just as much as anyone else, having leaders like Daka and Carter to learn from were crucial parts of his off-the-field development, Ukwu said.“I grew most in terms of maturity and getting my business done in a timely manner,” he said, “because when you come in as a young guy, you’re not really in a role to be someone people look to for production coming straight out of high school.” It was the “mental rep” that accelerated his learning of the game, he said, even when he sat and watched from the sideline. Ukwu said he was confident in his belief that he’d get his turn to play, so while he was further back on the depth chart, he focused on envisioning himself playing at that level. “I think it’s really developing a championship mentality,” he said. “I feel like that’s the biggest way I've been trying to learn.”Ukwu tore his ACL the first time in 2019 during fall camp. He knew what was wrong almost instantly, he remembers, and faced the reality of waiting another year to play. He said it wasn’t easy for him to accept at first, but he knew he had the chance to play, so Ukwu just kept waiting. He said he felt ready to play when the next year’s spring football period came. Ukwu practiced his mental reps again and again while waiting to play, remembering the feeling he had of starring in a college football stadium. But when the second ACL tear happened, it was so much different.
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But Kidd wasn’t on the field his freshman season. Instead, he was a part of the defensive scout team, looking at what upcoming opponents were doing and finding ways to help JMU to prepare for each game. Kidd had a brief summer surgery to fix his ankle and hand injuries he sustained before coming to JMU. It went well, and the safety was back on the field in time to play on the special teams unit in 2018. It was the height of his early football career, and even as Cignetti took the reins as head coach in 2019, Kidd said he fought to keep the position he worked to have — but one bad hit put it all on pause. At the end of training camp in 2020, Kidd dislocated his shoulder. He was told it would be better by the spring, so he simply took the break as it was, thinking very little of it. “The doctor said there [was] a decent chance of it staying in,” Kidd said. “Then over winter when we got a few weeks at home, I was rehabbing. I put this brace on my shoulder pads, hoping to stay in and earn a starting later told Kidd that if his shoulder dislocated again, it would require surgery. So, when Kidd felt a pop during the first few snaps of the 2021 spring season opener against Morehead State, he said, his mind went blank. He felt a pit in his stomach as he walked to the sideline, fearing the worst. He was right. Kidd was out the rest of the season.“Itwas probably five to eight plays into the game,” he said. “I kind of already knew immediately that meant I was done for the season, which was pretty frustrating.” Having to sit on the sidelines once again during that season brought a new perspective for the now-redshirt senior. It was the feeling of isolation, Kidd said, that made his recovery draining. He wasn’t able to play after working four years up the ladder to a starting role. “People talk about injuries and surgeries — it’s 90% mental,” Kidd said. “You’re really, really isolated … It’s being patient and waiting to come back, because you can work out and get [into] shape.”
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The main message from the five at the lectern: You, influencers, impact others. “You are what we consider influencers within the university community and people that can influence the behavior of others around us,” Alger said. “I would like us to be known as ‘Dukes with class.’”
“We talked starting a couple of years ago because we’d had instances of where fans had sent emails to me saying, ‘Hey, I had a tough experience in the stands with my child next to me; somebody … drank too much, and they were using bad language and I feel uncomfortable bringing my child to an event,” Bourne said. “I still really want them as fans and we got to have them, I just need them to make sure we behave in the right way.”QR codes will also be placed in all home venues that, Warner said, link to the Sun Belt’s sports behavior statement, as well as bylaws 2.4 and 10 from 2022-23 NCAA Division I Manual, which further drive home guidelines pertaining to sportsmanship among those on and off the field or court.
JMU launched a program called Dukes Do Better earlier in August to promote the school and its sporting venues as cordial, hospitable environments for fans. A 70-second video posted to JMUSports’ YouTube page highlighting the Dukes’ sportsmanship campaign will now air at the beginning of all JMU sporting events, Bourne said.
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The program also comes in light of JMU’s move to the Sun Belt Conference, which requires an annual meeting discussing sporting behavior and ethical conduct. Kevin Warner, JMU assistant athletic director for communications, said a sportsmanship education initiative has been in the works for over a year; Bourne said he decided to mold everything into one halo since the conference already mandates a meeting.
The chant unmistakably came from the JMU student sections, echoing behind both baskets at the Atlantic Union Bank Center in unison: “F*** you, Tony!” This was Dec. 7, 2021, during JMU men’s basketball’s sold-out home matchup with U.Va. The chant targeted Tony Bennett, the Cavaliers’ head coach who won an NCAA Men’s Basketball National Championship 2 1/2 years prior. He’s the coach who turned down a “substantial” salary increase after the national title yet donated $500,000 to a career-development program for current and former U.Va. basketball players, according to a September 2019 article from the school’s website.AfterU.Va.’s 52-49 loss, Bennett brushed off the berating, saying, “That’s all part of it” in his postgame press conference. He said the fans at the AUBC were great, minus a few.
As Steinbrecher said, Phillips encouraged the influencers to step up when they hear something from the stands. There’s only so many security and escort officers at a game, he said, so it’s on fans to hold each other accountable. It can be as simple as a stern look in the direction of the derogatory language, he said.
“I don’t think people know how to be fans,” Miller said. “I think that’s why we got to show them the right way because people haven’t doneVulgarit.”
Also, Miller said, said the pandemic has affected fan behavior — maybe for the worse. Students who’ve been isolated or off campus taking online classes the last two years may not have been to many JMU events, he said, so they follow the lead of upperclassmen who might lead inappropriate chants.
“Harassing behaviors, including racist or sexist comments, or physical or verbal abuse are strictly prohibited and warrant immediate removal from the facility without warning.“Bethe Change by joining us in respectfully supporting Sun Belt Conference Athletics.”
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Students storm the court after the JMU men’s basketball’s win over U.Va. on Dec. 7, 2021. Breeze file photo
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JMU Director of Athletics Jeff Bourne, on the other hand, told The Breeze he doesn’t think he’d be as congenial if he were in Bennett’s shoes.Months later, Bourne and other university leaders spoke Aug. 24 at the AUBC to a group of roughly 70 JMU “influencers,” as Bourne and co. called them, which included 40-50 JMU head and assistant coaches, Dean of Students Hollie Hall, alumni and booster representatives, faculty athletics representatives, The Breeze and more, to make it clear that JMU doesn’t want to be associated with what it deems to be out-ofline fan behavior anymore. Addressing the “influencers” were Bourne, President Jon Alger; Tim Miller, vice president for student affairs; Anthony Matos; chief of university police; and Ty Phillips, assistant athletics director for facilities and events.
More recently, Aug. 26, Duke volleyball sophomore outside hitter Rachel Richardson was heckled with racial slurs from BYU fans at multiple junctures of the match starting in the second set, and they got more intense by the fourth set, according to Richardson in an interview with ESPN’s Holly Rowe. In a statement sent to The Breeze, JMU volleyball head coach Lauren Steinbrecher condemned the BYU fans’ actions: “Every athlete deserves the opportunity to compete without harassment. I was deeply saddened to hear of Rachel [Richardson’s] experience. It is absolutely unacceptable for fan(s) to behave in a harassing manner towards student athletes and I encourage all of Duke Dog nation to stand up against this behavior if they ever see it. Rachel [Richardson] is a total class act and absolute stud. I hope this terrible experience brings good by encouraging all fans everywhere to speak up knowing there is never a place for degrading or harassing student athletes.’”
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JMU, from all indications, does not want to be the next BYU, or carry a student tradition akin to LSU’s, or repeat its Tony Bennett incident. It wants to be more like North Dakota State in a sense, Bourne said, which has a fan base who’s treated JMU fans and himself with class on every visit to Fargo — win or lose. “It’s about changing our culture,” Bourne said. “We want to beat on [opponents] while we’re in competition, but when we’re out of that, we’ve got to have a level of respect.”
But, Miller said, changing culture takes time. He said he spoke at the student pep rally Aug. 23 and clued freshmen attendees in on JMU traditions, but also encouraged students to forge their own, more positive cheering habits instead of “filling in the gaps with negative stuff.”
The Sun Belt’s sports behavior statement reads:“All athletic administrators, coaches, student-athletes, spirit groups and fans shall act with respect, fairness, civility and honesty in an effort to create an appropriate environment for athletic competition.
chants aren’t foreign in college athletics. Some are even traditions: LSU students conduct a chant where they shout, “Suck this Tiger d***, b****” at football games, despite LSU administration barring its band from playing the words’ tune and cheerleaders holding up “keep it clean” signs, according to an October 2018 article from The New Orleans Advocate.
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JMU football seniors expect big things in final year on team Percy Agyei-Obese hopes his last season at JMU ends “the right way.” Breeze file photo
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“The coaches respected my decision, they were very understanding,” Agyei-Obese said, “so they gave me some time and I was just recovering by myself and just in my own headspace.”Thencame news that altered his perspective again — his ankle wouldn’t be healed in time for JMU’s Pro Day that March. So, Agyei-Obese had a new decison to make: come back to JMU again, or take his chances in the NFL. That’s when he decided to give it one last, true go-around. “I’ve never thought about this happening,” Agyei-Obese said. “But now this is here, on the table right now and this is something I have to Agyei-Obesedo.” now says he’s in “the best shape of my life” heading into this final season. He said it’s the perfect scenario to prepare for that next step in football, being challenged by FBS competition and see what he can truly do. “People see me as an impacting player,” Agyei-Obese said. “But this year, how I’ve been going about things like working and mentally motivating myself, I feel like I have something to prove.”
It only felt like he “tweaked it,” Ukwu said, and it wasn’t until the athletic trainers broke the news that it was another tear that he realized the weight of not playing yet again.
“When our athletic trainer Brian [Schneider] told me, it literally broke my heart,” he said. “Because missing the previous season and especially the way the season before had ended, watching from the sideline again was really tough.”
Percy Agyei-Obese: On to the pros, or so he thought Agyei-Obese never got the ending he wanted to have at JMU. After JMU’s loss in the FCS National Championship in 2019, the redshirt senior running back’s supposed-to-be final year took place during the 2020-21 COVID-19 pandemic season. It wasn’t when he wanted to finish his collegiate career, so after conversations with his teammates, Cignetti and his family, Agyei-Obese chose to accept his COVID-19 redshirt waiver. But then he had to get surgery, ending his season before it even began. On top of managing his recovery, he watched his teammates — some of whom he’d played with since his freshman year — finish their careers in the 2021 FCS Semifinals against North Dakota State on the television, and not alongside them. “I was watching it on TV and just wishing I was about to be there with them and support them,” he Agyei-Obesesaid. wasn’t sure he wanted to join the team again in 2021, let alone 2022. He was ready to make his dream of becoming an NFL player a reality, so this past winter he shifted his focus to JMU’s Pro Day this past winter.
On the last day of training camp, the younger Dukes carried all the seniors off the field after practice. It signified the beginning of the end for these three, but their final season begins in a matter of days — and this Saturday’s game is what they’re looking forward to the most.
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After stepping back out onto Zane Showker field last September, Ukwu wasted no time making his name known. He described it as a release of energy that kept him focused on theThatfield.moment of “wow,” as he remembers it, finally came after getting his first sack against Maine on Sept. 11 last season. Standing up, he said, hearing the electric atmosphere and remembering in that moment why he stayed and waited, made the heartbreak worth it. “When you go through a season-ending injury like an ACL, it reallyw builds your mental toughness,” Ukwu said. “I feel like even though it sucks to have missed two full seasons from knee surgeries, it’s made me better in terms of my ability to handle adversity and how I approach the game.”
While Agyei-Obese, Kidd and Ukwu took one hit after another throughout their years at JMU, the end is in sight. Their chance to solidify their goals at JMU is steps away.
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