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Alger for affordability, diversity In his first extensive sit-down interview with The Breeze, president-elect Jon Alger discusses his past experiences, his present work at Rutgers and his future plans for JMU. Get to know Jon Alger If you weren’t in the law system what would you do? When I was

really young, being a quarterback in a NFL team was one [of my goals]. I quickly learned that that wasn’t in my future in terms of my skills and attributes. I think teaching was one because we have a number of teachers in our family and is something I always had a passion for.

Another area is the performing arts, and I’ve sung my whole life, mostly in choruses.

Certainly there had been an opportunity to have a career in music that would’ve been a lot of fun. My daughter has caught that bug, so maybe she’ll be the one to do that.

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President-elect Jon Alger plans to work closely with students once he assumes presidency, which should be in July. “I want the students to know I’m accessible and available to them,” Alger said.

By GEORGINA BUCKLEY and ALISON PARKER The Breeze

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Despite a full-time job at Rutgers University and an inauguration that’s four months away, JMU is in the front of Jon Alger’s mind.

President-elect Alger, who calls himself a “lifetime student,” will be leaving his job as senior vice president and general counsel at Rutgers in New Jersey.

He previously held the assistant general counsel post at University of Michigan before working at Rutgers and said he wanted to work at JMU because the school seems to be a good fit for him.

“I think I immediately recognized it was a fabulous opportunity and one of great interest to me,” Alger said.

Alger said he looked at several college presidencies before he was selected as JMU’s president, but he said JMU stood out from any

What’s the craziest thing you did as a 20-something? I would say

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He added that he wants to integrate himself into the student body and plans on attending many student events, even wanting to invite students to his home once he’s in Harrisonburg.

“I want the students to know I’m accessible and available to them,” Alger said.

Several student organizations have already reached out to him. Alger said the basket of JMU apparel and knick-knacks they gave him have been put to good use.

“Our whole family is wearing the T-shirts when we get the chance, and we’ve already had people come up to us and ask how we know JMU,” Alger said.

Alger’s first project at JMU will be his listening

Despite NCAA tournament rejection, team looks hopefully toward NIT

By CARLEIGH DAVIS The Breeze

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this isn’t crazy, but a great memory for me.

My law school roommate and I, after law school, we went to Europe and we wanted to do something fun after all the stress of the bar exam and we signed up for one of these bus tours of Europe. You know nine countries in three weeks. It was a wonderful experience. We didn’t have a lot of money so we were always trying to find places to eat for only $. I think that instilled the travel bug in me.

What was your first job? I did a

lot of babysitting. My first summer job was taking care of families’ kids, but I had a variety of summer jobs. I worked in a daycare center, a liquor store and outdoor concert tent. I had a variety of different jobs. I worked at the navy yard in Philadelphia during college.

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Student’s death ripples community

Dukes rebound after snub You’d think that a - season record and a trip to the semifinals would be enough to receive an atlarge bid to the women’s NCAA tournament.

Wrong.

It may not have received an NCAA nod, but the team did make the women’s National Invitation Tournament, securing a home game against Davidson University at  p.m. tonight.

“It goes to show you our administration and what they’ve done,” said head coach Kenny Brooks. “They gave us a home game, which gave us an advantage.”

As Selection Monday unfolded, the Dukes watched Colonial Athletic Association foe Delaware get a bid and watch other teams, such as the - Middle Tennessee State University team, receive an invitation.

Brooks wrote on his Twitter that he “wish we had played Middle Tenn St. head to head. Oh wait … we did”.

“As teams were being announced in the field, I was pleasantly surprised how much knowledge the kids had about it,” Brooks said. “When the

guilty pleasure is that I still read with my daughter every night — not that she needs it. She’s a voracious reader, — but it’s something we do. Right now for example, we’re reading “The Hunger Games.” I have really enjoyed it because I look at it through a different lens than my daughter does and what it says about power and justice and authority.

Steven Knott, SGA member, hoped to change JMU

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Kenny Brooks, the women’s basketball coach, expressed his disappointment at the press conference yesterday, but said he anticipates a successful future.

teams would pop up, I would get a text from Nikki [Newman] that said, ‘Why does Middle Tennessee get in when our [Ratings Percentage Index] is better and we beat them headto-head?’ … The feeling after that is disappointment.”

Newman, a junior guard, shared Brooks’ feelings on being looked over.

“It definitely was a big disappointment because I think we can sway with a bunch of teams in that

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tournament,” Newman said. “Especially some of the teams that got in, I mean we beat Middle Tennessee State head-to-head. It was a disappointment, really.”

The Dukes beat MTSU - in JMU’s fourth game of the season.

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Rush Limbaugh followers should turn off his radio show.

SGA’s meeting last night turned quiet to hold a moment of silence for fifth-year senior Steven M. Knott, who recently died unexpectedly.

Police said there were no signs of foul play in their Feb.  investigation of Knott’s home in Harrisonburg.

Knott, a finance and economics double major, was expected to graduate this summer, said Kurt Johnson, an administrator in the registrar office.

According to Patricia May, director of communications for the College of Business, Knott was enrolled last fall and at the beginning of this semester.

“He had registered for spring classes, and he withdrew at some point in time,” May said.

This is the sixth student death during this school year.

Knott, a New York native, was an opinion columnist for The Breeze who focused on political issues, campus events and social media in his articles.

He was also a member of SGA as the College of Business representative.

The Breeze featured Knott in a writer’s

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Steven Knott, a fifth-year finance and economics double major and SGA member, died on Feb. 29. He was expected to graduate this summer.

spotlight in March , where he discussed the importance of the Board of Visitors’ student representative, a see KNOTT, page A4

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Jury to begin deliberating in Rutgers webcam spying trial McClatchy Tribune

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Eight women and seven men are expected Wednesday morning to be instructed by the judge on the multiple charges of invasion of privacy, hindering prosecution and bias intimidation charges that have been brought against Dharun Ravi.

The panel has much to consider after attentively sitting through  days of testimony, evidence presentation and Tuesday’s daylong summations by the defense and prosecution.

The closing arguments centered on Ravi’s intent: Jurors must determine whether he intended to expose the sexual orientation of Rutgers roommate Tyler Clementi, or an -year-old “kid” who was shocked by seeing Clementi and his visitor kissing and didn’t quite know how to handle it.

“Why we’re here is because an -year-old boy, a kid, a college freshman, had an experience that he wasn’t ready for, that he was surprised by and he didn’t know how to deal with it because he was a kid,” Ravi’s attorney, Steven Altman, said in his two-hour summation.

Altman also said Ravi, , of

Plainsboro, was worried about his personal property being stolen by Clementi’s companion, whose appearance was noted to be older, scraggly and slightly overweight.

“Who wouldn’t be curious or concerned at this point if it’s your room and all of a sudden in a dorm for -year-olds, somebody comes in looking scruffy, homeless-looking and suspicious-looking, who looks out of place,” he said.

But First Assistant Middlesex County Prosecutor Julia McClure countered that Ravi’s actions — including tweeting to others on Sept. , , that he saw his roommate “making out with a dude” and inviting Twitter followers two days later to watch a second Clementi tryst by video chatting him through iChat — were intended to intimidate and humiliate Clementi because he was gay.

Clementi, of Ridgewood, committed suicide days after the events when he jumped off the George Washington Bridge.

“There wasn’t one thing about the defendant’s actions that can be characterized as a petty misunderstanding,” she said. “They were malicious and mean-spirited.”

She said that Ravi fully intended to view the second encounter two days later, showing that he not only encouraged friends to read his tweet but also checked to make sure the webcam was working and positioned at Clementi’s bed when using dorm mates Lokesh Ojha and Alissa Agarwal’s computers.

Mexico acts to toughen law against attacks on journalists McClatchy Tribune

MEXICO CITY — The Mexican Senate Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment that would make attacks on journalists a federal crime, responding to growing pressure on news gatherers in a country where  journalists have been slain or have disappeared under suspicious circumstances in the last five years.

Restaurants serve up nutrition data The Dallas Morning News

DALLAS — Here’s a math quiz: If you’re trying to cut down on your daily sodium, will that quarter-pound cheeseburger push you over your limit? The answer from most consumers: I don’t really know.

Customers at a franchised McDonald’s in Richardson, Texas, can find out with a new interactive touch screen that displays nutritional information on all standard menu items.

Black and Tan: Nike apologizes for shoenaming gaffe Los Angeles Times

Black and Tan. That’s the name used for a new Nike sneaker arriving just in time for St. Patrick’s Day; it’s also a nod to the popular beer mashup. Just one problem: Black and Tan is also a term reviled in Ireland, a sneering reference to the British forces accused of mistreating Irish citizens in the s.

In other words, it would be akin, in some circles, to naming a sneaker the Taliban or the Nazi.

Cue today’s “sorry” from the athletic shoe giant: “We

Free press advocates hailed the action as crucial to protecting the flow of information in a country where no one in recent years has been convicted of attacks against reporters.

The measure, which senators approved -, was passed four months ago by the Mexican Congress’ lower chamber. Now, more than half of Mexico’s state legislatures must endorse it before it becomes part of the country’s constitution.

“This is a legislative milestone that has been years in the making,” Joel Simon, executive director of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, an advocacy group that lobbied for its passage, said in a written statement.

Since President Felipe Calderon came to office in

late , homicide rates have soared from organized crime and deployment of federal police and army troops to fight gangs. So did threats and slayings of journalists and armed attacks on newsrooms.

A special prosecutor appointed in  to investigate crimes against journalists, Gustavo Salas Chavez, brought charges in  cases but failed to win a single conviction. Press advocates criticized him for not providing adequate protection to reporters who received threats despite having a budget to do so.

The majority of threats against journalists appear to come from local and state officials and law enforcement authorities, many with links to organized crime.

It launches as the federal government continues to mull guidelines for how all major restaurant chains should feed customers the facts about fats, calories and cholesterol.

“I am trying to take the lead and be transparent,” said Jonathan Chan, who owns three Dallas-area McDonald’s, including a redesigned outlet that houses the new display system. “Consumers are really very interested in this information.”

The  Affordable Health Care Act included a requirement that all restaurant chains with  or more locations post calorie counts on the menu or menu board, including in the drive-through lane. It also requires food service operators to make other nutritional

information, such as fat, sodium and cholesterol content, available upon request.

But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is still mulling how to implement the law, parsing over details such as font size — whether the calorie count should be at least as big as the price — and whether food service operations in convenience and grocery stores should be included.

Chan said his aim was not to get a jump on the feds.

“The intent was to get the information in front of the consumers and show we are proud of what we sell,” he said. “They look up ‘Egg McMuffin’ and see it is  calories. I think people were surprised.”

apologize,” Nike said in a statement to Fox News. “No offense was intended.”

Nike said the sneaker had been “unofficially named,” even though several online retailers and sneaker websites, such as Kicks on Fire, wrote about the shoe using the name Nike SB Dunk Low “Black & Tan” label. Nike acknowledged that the name “can be viewed as inappropriate and insensitive.”

To Americans, a “black and tan” usually refers to a creamy stout beer, such as Guinness, stacked atop a pale ale. And no doubt many an American will down one this weekend in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, under the mistaken belief that it’s a nod to the Irish.

But you might not want to order a black and tan in Ireland.

The Black and Tans, so nicknamed because of their

uniforms, were part of a British escalation of violence and brutality against the Irish in the s. The forces are “remembered for brutality” and “a systematic reprisal policy,” according to Irish History (www.historyireland.com).

Not all Irish are opposed to a shoe called “Black and Tan,” however.

Over at Irish Central (www. irishcentral.com), where news of the Nike gaffe was well read, one sly commenter named “hotdubliner” suggested that Nike critics have it all backward: “I say wear them proudly!

The only place a ‘Black and Tan’ belongs is underfoot!

Every time you kick a ball or pound them down by dancing them into the ground, hold that vision of divine retribution finally having its day!”

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Law and order Police response teams practice skills, operations in mock crime scene

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SGA funding for Madison Equality turns into deeper issue By jen eyring The Breeze

SWAT teams faced once they entered the building.

“When it becomes quiet, that makes it more difficult because the question becomes, ‘Where are they?’ ” Hoover said.

Folsom said there are significant advantages focused on what all the teams learn from the training.

“We gain a lot of information about what other agencies have as capabilities and equipment,” Folsom said.

SGA voted to add $2,000 to Madison Equality’s yearly budget on Tuesday, but the ensuing debate revealed that there was more to it than just money.

The Washington Post ran an article on Feb. 15 saying JMU received only three out of five stars when rated on its LGBT-friendliness.

This article made SGA President Pat Watral feel even more adament about giving Madison Equality more money. Madison Equality receives direct funding from SGA , and, because of this status, Watral believes it should be given the funds to fully complete its mission.

Watral was surprised by this report because of how friendly he thinks JMU is in general.

“We are JMU,” Watral said. “That’s not JMU nice.”

The schools were rated on the extent of LGBT policies, the level of LGBT support and institutional commitment, recruitment and retention of LGBT students, academic life, student life, housing issues, campus safety, student health and counseling, related to LGBT students.

Some members, including Pat Smith, freshman class president, felt that simply giving Madison Equality more money wouldn’t solve the problem.

“It does sound like there’s a bigger problem,” Smith said. “I don’t know if money is a fix-all thing.”

But Abby Waret, SGA treasurer, felt that there was a middle ground.

“Why not do both?” Waret said.

“Give them the money and establish a relationship with them.”

Jordan Descovich, finance committee chairman said that Madison Equality shouldn’t receive more funding.

He explained that the group’s budget was already higher than he would like it to be. SGA had requested that every directly funded club cut its budget by 3 percent.

But with the additional funding that the group already received its budget is now over what it should be with the cut.

“I do feel that we raised their budget and they did get additional funding, so they are above the 3 percent cut,” Descovich said.

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By kelsey beckett contributing writer

Bank robbers hid in an abandoned building, firing shots at the surrounding neighborhood.

When the Special Weapons and Tactics team entered, the firing ceased.

This is all part of the scenario that local SWAT teams practiced on South Liberty Street on Tuesday morning.

Fifty members of jurisdictions from Rockingham, Harrisonburg, Augusta County, Stanton and Waynesboro practiced their skills and training, preparing for any type of dangerous real-world situation.

The abandoned building consisted of two sections, each with its own set of four floors and stairs. The SWAT teams worked their way from the bottom up on both sides, searching for the robbers, using weapons such a pistols, rifles, remote cameras, mirrors, tear gas and explosives.

Tom Hoover, Harrisonburg police captain, formed the idea of joining SWAT teams to practice about a year ago. This time, preparation took about 16 hours total, about three hours to prepare for each hour of the scenario.

Training usually happens four times a year.

Kent Folsom, auxiliary police officer, emphasized the importance of local SWAT teams working together.

“The biggest thing is that, since 9/11, it’s been increasingly more obvious that all kinds of law enforcement agencies need to work together,” Folsom said, “and there’s going to be a time that we will need resources that the other has, whether that’s expertise or the

in brief JMU

Class of 2014 to host ring premiere

The sophomore class will host its ring premiere Tuesday at 6 p.m. in the Festival Grand Ballroom.

The event’s theme is “Capture the Madison Experience,” and free food, drinks, entertainment and T-shirts will be provided. Several prize drawings will take place, based off those “attending” on the Facebook event.

Attendees can also expect performances from Note-oriety, Exit 245 and Breakdance Club.

Photos by Robert Boag / the breeze

TOP Special Weapons and Tactics team members from Harrisonburg, Rockingham, Augusta County, Staunton and Waynesboro participated in crime scenarios Tuesday morning. BOTTOM A vehicle near the building held pistols, rifles, remote cameras, mirrors, tear gas and explosives.

manpower.”

Folsom added that this type of practice is a good opportunity for officers to learn from one another.

“We learn about what they can teach us, and what we can teach them,” Folsom said.

“Being together with other officers makes this a really valuable resource.”

Once the robbers had fled from the vehicle into the building, the SWAT teams dispatch arrived and began their search for them inside the building.

Hoover explained the difficulties that the

Change through peace Gandhi Center hosts discussion of different religions, impact on war, interpretation of beliefs By anne elsea The Breeze

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Lawsuit for 2007 Tech shootings continue

Jurors yesterday found Virginia Tech negligent for delaying a campus alert after the 2007 shootings, according to WHSV. The jury deliberated for several hours about whether Virginia Tech’s officials’ decision to delay alerting the campus of the first shootings was the cause of gunman Seung-Hui Cho’s killing of 30 more people.

The families of two victims filed the negligence lawsuit, saying other victims may have avoided death had campus been warned of the earlier shootings. Each is seeking $100,000 in compensation.

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William O’Meara, professor of religion and philsophy, emphasizes the importance of religious acceptance during the Mahatma Gandhi Center’s discussion on Tuesday.

The ties binding religion and war are often hard to separate, but Tuesday, the Mahatma Gandhi Center hoped to untangle the two.

William O’Meara, professor of religion and philosophy, Ehsan Ahmed, professor in the College of Business, and Carl Stauffer, Eastern Menonite University professor of restorative justice, led the conversation of different faiths’ viewpoints on justice and war, how politics and religion mix, the misunderstandings of religious writings and their personal experiences with the topic.

This discussion was the third in a series of discussions held by the Gandhi Center. Gary Race, director of the Gandhi Center, was disappointed with this discussion’s turnout of around 20 people, four of whom were JMU students. But Race thought the quality made up for quantity.

“I love the discussion because the people from the community are looking for a place to share information and their thoughts on these topics,” Race said. “People are

hungry for that.”

The first biblical reference of the night was O’Meara explaining the passage that says “If anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other cheek.”

O’Meara said the passage has been misinterpreted to mean that people should forgive the abuser, but it actually means one should nonviolently resist the abuser.

“In the time of Jesus it was shameful to raise your left hand. That’s the hand used to do bad deeds,” O’Meara said. “So if someone slapped you on the right cheek you would prevent them from hitting you again because they would have to shame themselves by raising their left hand to slap you again.”

This led Ahmed and Stauffer’s discussion about the message of nonviolent principles and war in the Bible and the Quran.

“If you look at the Quran, it tells us what can or cannot be done,” Ahmed said. “It has very clear rules of engagement and peace is preferred over war.” see Gandhi, page A4

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But Bethany Bryson, a faculty adviser for Madison Equality, assured members that the money would be used to bring in more dynamic speakers that will help to draw a larger audience and spread awareness.

Other members were also concerned that because the group did not have a definite plan for the money; there is a possibility that it will go to waste.

Kathleen Lewis, president of Madison Equality, said they aim to raise equality throughout the year through different programs.

According to Ethan Niewold, treasurer for Madison Equality, the group plans to help out the Madison HIV/AIDS alliance because Madison Equality has the funds available to create bigger events that the alliance wouldn’t be able to do one their own.

“I definitely believe that the more money we have, the more we’re able to do,” Lewis said.

The University Program Board budget debate was

less controversial. The group accidentally took 8 percent off of their budget instead of the 3 percent that SGA had requested.

This mistake wasn’t realized until the budget had already been passed by SGA, at which point it was too late to fix before it went to the executive board for final approval.

Yet when the executive board reviewed the budget, it decided that the group deserved to be given back the 5 percent that they had accidentally cut, so they didn’t pass it.

Watral explained that both SGA and UPB were responsible for the mistake and it was only fair to give UPB the money back.

No n e o f t h e m e mb e rs opposed this, and they voted to put the lost 5 percent, $3,521.81, back in UPB’s budget.

Both budgets now have to go back to the SGA executive board for review and finalization.

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SWAT | Team looks forward to next practice

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SWAT team members improve skills based upon the performance and learning from previous scenarios in which they have participated. from page A3

“We learn specific techniques that they may have learned from other training, and we blend all of it together to make us better officers.”

Even though the exercise provided many benefits for the SWAT teams, it also had its challenges.

Amanda Hesson, SWAT operator and team leader from Waynesboro, said the

teams must make sure they know where all of the other teams are and make sure that everyone is communicating the right way.

Even when the drill ended, the teams weren’t finished.

They headed out to practice shooting and fitness exercises.

“We prepare monthly for it,” Hesson said. “Various types of pistol training, rifle training, building searches. Every monthly training is preparing

Alger | A teacher inside and outside class from front

tour, which will start next month.

“The best thing a president can do is get a broad sense of people’s perceptions, what’s working and what’s not working,” Alger said. “Then we can figure out where we need to focus our attention and energy and our priorities and resources.”

In his words, diversity doesn’t just apply to race but also to age, location and socioeconomic background.

“Access and affordability are really important to me, and making sure JMU is affordable and accessible to as many students as possible is really important,” Alger said.

“Financial aid would be a high priority to me.”

Another one of Alger’s goals is increasing resources for the school. He added that JMU is still younger than many comparatively sized major universities, and that partly

means JMU’s funding isn’t up to par with other schools.

“Working on developing that culture of philanthropy is something I think is really important,” Alger said.

Alger said a president’s job isn’t to rush in and make a slew of decisions.

“I think it’s really important to do a lot of listening before making a lot of decisions,” Alger said.

According to his former colleagues, Alger’s ability to listen to others makes him fit for president.

Barbara Lee, professor of human resource management at Rutgers, saw Alger as very supportive through serving on committees for Rutgers’ administrative recruitment.

“He is always prepared, knows what he is talking about and is modest about his accomplishments,” Lee said in an email. “Jon was really good at helping people think through their concerns and seeing others’ points of view.”

Kathleen Santora worked with Alger for more than 15

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years in the National Association of College and University Attorneys. Alger currently serves as chairman while she is the CEO. Santora thinks his work ethic and interest in others is what makes him a notable leader.

“He always makes a person feel as though your conversation with him is the most important thing in the world,” Santora said. “Listening well is a really important leadership skill, and I admire Jon for his ability to do it so well.”

Alger began teaching a course about law in higher education in 2007. Although challenging, the class and his lecture style inspired many students to pursue the subject even further.

Sharo Atmeh is a 2007 Rutgers graduate who took Alger’s class his senior year. Atmeh was inspired to continue his passion for law, later graduating from Harvard Law School.

“He was always willing to be a teacher inside and outside the classroom,” Atmeh said. “A good teacher takes the time, despite his busy schedule, to help students understand course material, but make a concentrated effort to relate the material to their other classes.”

Alger was also a mentor to Atmeh during his application

process to Harvard Law School.

“He came up to me, and he said, ‘Whatever happens, just know that you can do this,’ ” Atmeh said. “That still sticks with me now — the fact that he sought info about a student that he knew, followed up on that information and gave me that supportive line.”

Zain Ahmad, a senior political science major, took Alger’s class under special permission during his sophomore year, since the class is only open to juniors and seniors in Rutgers’ honors program.

“He’ll advocate for issues he thinks are important for students,” Ahmad said. “He’s never going to stage a huge protest to fix something. He’s very calm, no matter how tense the situation and still holds it together.”

Ahmad added that JMU’s search committee consulted him as a student reference during Alger’s presidential application.

Alger will be doing a listening tour on and off campus at some point in the future and will begin his tenure as JMU’s sixth president on July 1.

Contact Georgina Buckley and Alison Parker at breezenews@gmail.com.

for a scenario like this.”

Improvements are also made based upon the perfor mance and learning experience from previous scenarios.

“We will have a debriefing where we discuss what we learned from it, setting up the scenerio as well as how the scenerio played out,” Folsom said. “We communicate this to everyone and incorporate it for the next time.”

The SWAT teams look forward to the next time it practice.

“As soon as we’re finished it’s, ‘When is the next one?’”

Folsom said. “We all like to train. We enjoy the stress, and we know it’s an important thing for us to be doing.”

Contact Kelsey Beckett at becketka@ dukes.jmu.edu.

Knott | Promoted debate among SGA from front

position for which he campaigned in SGA. “Giving these students an outlet through which to be heard is exactly what I believe the Student Representative to the Board of visitors is supposed to focus on,” Knott said. “It was fun being the guy at The Breeze who got to write the stories which went next to the Darts & Pats, but now I would like to help students shape this school on a new level.”

Susanna Chacko, speaker of SGA senate and senior economics major, worked closely with Knott during his service on SGA during the 2010-2011 school year.

“We were both on the finance committee when I was the chair last year,” Chacko said. “He was never afraid to voice his opinion.”

Chacko added that Knott was always helpful in promoting discussion and debate among the other senators.

“In general, people knew

Steven as someone very outspoken,” Chacko said.

“If he didn’t side with you on something, people still respected that part about him.”

Professor Andre Neveu taught Knott in a monetary theory class.

“It was a small class, but he participated a lot,” Neveu said. “He tried to lead discussions and challenge me and others in the class.”

Neveu also described Knott as a student who always tried to “educate himself and push the boundaries of his knowledge.”

Brenna Hovey, a junior interdisciplinary liberal studies major, was a close friend to Knott and applauded his love for the university.

“He was really involved, really passionate about JMU,” Hovey said. “His writing for The Breeze and being on SGA was his way to change it for the better.”

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Thursday, March 15, 2012

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In denial

Enjoy every second

I don’t consider myself an involved member of JMU alumni.

I’ve been back to Harrisonburg just once since I graduated in .

I read The Breeze when I find myself bored and nostalgic or when police riots at my alma mater pique interest on the national news.

This August, there will be a wedding of a couple who got together during my senior year at JMU and because of that, I’ve been thinking a lot about my time in Harrisonburg.

I’ve had almost four years to reflect on my time there and what an absolutely ridiculous and enlightening time it was. I am truly grateful for the relationships I formed and knowledge I gained during my academic career.

With that in mind, I’d like to address this next part to those about to join the ranks of alumni: Soak up every second. You’ll miss the people there more than you can imagine and will see them far less often than you would wish.

You will all be moving on to different things in different places, and believe me, you can’t imagine where that will be in a few years. So while you are together, do the things you won’t be able to when you’re apart. Don’t be shy with how you feel and tell your friends you appreciate them. Don’t assume anything or take anyone for granted. Go thank a professor. Go do everything you haven’t done yet and enjoy the rest of your time at JMU. Brian Tynan 2008 alumnus international affairs major

CONVERSATION CORNER Because of his recent controversial remarks, some believe Rush Limbaugh’s radio show should be taken off the air.

What are your thoughts?

D.J. SPIKER Freedom of speech. Ballgame. It’s a free market, if his show can no longer function as a result of advertisers, that’s the free market at work.

But removing due to ‘comments’ made is just a stupid argument.

ZEPHAN MOSES BLAXBERG He’s a controversial person. People need to understand that’s why he had such a huge audience in the first place. Just because one thing he said made the news isn’t a reason for all the advertisers to pull out. They probably weren’t listening to his show in the first place.

MATT ANDREWS I don’t consider myself to be on any side of the aisle, however the liberal bias in the media is becoming absolutely absurd. Bill Mahr [sic] gets away with MUCH worse comments on his show, and Ed Schultz once used the same slur as Limbaugh yet the media is suspiciously absent.

I am in no way condoning what Rush Limbaugh said. I hate the guy, therefore I don’t listen to his show.

EVAN GRICE Punched in the face? Absolutely. Taken off the air? Absolutely not, free speech is for everyone.

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CHRIS JUSTIS | justice is served

Radio show should rush off the air

Fans should follow sponsors’ lead and stop supporting offensive Limbaugh Rush Limbaugh continues his mission to offend as many people as possible.

The recent uproar Limbaugh is facing is in response to his childish personal attacks on a Georgetown University law student, Sandra Fluke, whom he called a “slut” and a “prostitute.”

You might think he was referring to someone in “Pretty Woman,” but actually, Fluke was just a student advocating for insurance coverage of contraception.

Fluke was speaking in front of the House Democratic and Policy Committee, advocating the recent bill that would have insurance companies cover the cost of contraception use. She said that over three years, birth control could cost up to $,. She argued that if insurance could pay for this it would help out struggling women who don’t have enough money, especially those going through college. It seems like a perfectly reasonable thing for a young woman to expect to have her contraception — a medical device — under her health insurance.

This sparked Limbaugh to make  personal attacks on Fluke, saying she has too much sex and that he shouldn’t be paying for her to do so.

He even went as far as saying that she should “post her sexual encounters

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Limbaugh has said some outlandishly racist and misogynist things in his career as a far right-wing radio host. For example, in a  article he wrote called “ Undeniable Truths of Life,” Limbaugh said, “Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society.” On his radio show in , he said “The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.”

In February , he referred to female Cabinet members as “sexretaries.” It’s hard to imagine why he has such a large following after so many outright racist and sexist things.

It’s fairly obvious this isn’t the first ignorant thing he’s said. It’s interesting that it’s getting so much attention. Contraception use is a now a hot-button-topic in politics and the news media is milking it for all it’s worth.

Because it’s controversial, several sponsors have pulled advertisements from his show. He apologized for his offensive remarks four days after they happened. But it doesn’t seem like his response was genuine. It’s hard to tell if he did this because he felt bad or because of the many sponsors that are dropping advertising on his show.

I’m not sure if Limbaugh doesn’t fully understand the concept behind birth control or doesn’t understand the actual bill Fluke was speaking about, but it’s most likely both. For

starters, the amount of birth control and the amount of sex a woman has isn’t a positive correlation. Women have to take birth control pills every day as soon as she starts the pill — no matter if she’s sexually active or not.

In addition, there are many positive health reasons to take contraceptives.

To make Limbaugh sound even more like a fool, insurance pays for the contraception, not the taxpayers, so his attacks simply don’t make sense. If you are going to launch an all-out attack on someone, you should probably get the facts right first.

It was completely out of line for Limbaugh to call this woman a slut and a prostitute for simply wanting contraception coverage in her insurance. It’s a woman’s health issue — not a sex issue.

The unfortunate thing is that even though advertisers have pulled out of the show, some of his viewers still respect him.

You’re allowed to say whatever you want on the radio because of the First Amendment, but this isn’t a free speech issue; it’s a common sense one. There is no reason to personally attack someone simply because of their ideas. It’s OK to disagree with an opposing viewpoint but when you have to resort to immaturity and name-calling your argument becomes invalid.

Chris Justis is a junior public policy & administration major. Contact Chris at justisjc@dukes.jmu.edu.

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An “ew-I-saw-that!” dart to all the girls in UREC not washing their hands after going to the bathroom.

From the girl who’s giving you looks as dirty as your hygiene.

A “thanks-for-the-LeapYear-birthday-show” pat to the guy changing shirts in one of the stadium entrances.

From a girl who wouldn’t mind that her birthday only comes once every four years if you were there to celebrate it with her.

An “I-hope-you’re-joking” dart to UREC for scheduling my flag football games at  a.m. on Saturdays.

From somebody who’d rather be sleeping.

An “I’m-sorry-you-had-tosee-that” pat to the girl who walked into the East Campus Library bathroom while I was having my own personal dance session.

From a girl who had a long month and needed a study break.

An “it’s-still-inappropriate” dart to the sorority girls selling the “Irish Today, Hungover Tomorrow” T-shirts.

From the girl who sent you a dart last year. too, and who’s still extremely disappointed in her fellow Dukes.

A “you’re-brighter-thansunshine” pat to Nancy at Chick-fil-A for giving us extra hash browns on what could only be described as an awful day.

From two exhausted and hungry history majors, whose day you brightened immeasurably with your small act of kindness.

A “what-would-your-mamasay” dart to the boy in the bandana on bus  who never lets anyone sit next to him on the crowded bus.

From Stephanie Tanner, who can’t help thinking, “How rude!”

A“we’re-on-fire” pat to JMU choirs for singing so hot that we set off the fire alarm in the Forbes Center on Wednesday.

From a musical Duke who appreciates all the audience members who waited around until we could get back on stage and finish the concert.

A “what-a-gentleman” pat to the man who treated me like a princess.

From a girl who understands it’s over, but is glad there are still awesome men like you in the world.

A “thank-you-for-being-sofriendly-and-helpful” pat to all of the students and CHOICES volunteers.

From a future Duke who is so excited to be a part of the Class of .

A “check-yourself-beforeyou-wreck-yourself” dart to everyone who thinks what they put up online isn’t easy to find.

From a SMAD major who thinks you should Google yourself before your potential employer finds a spring break picture album called “SPRING BREAK  B----es!”

A “thank-you-very-much” pat to Auburn University for having spring break at a different time than JMU. From an alumnus who is ecstatic that he can come back, sit on the Quad in the spring and eat a grilled cheese on Thursday.

A “why-did-you-lie-to-me?” dart to all the professors who told me I would get out of class early due to the nice weather.

From a summer girl who just wants to get her tan on.

A “you-can’t-touch-this” dart to the people wearing MC Hammer and Aladdin pants.

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JULLIET BOYE | guest columnist

Fearless women deserve international recognition Alum’s story about mother shows courage of a woman to start independent business, give family necessities It’s  a.m., and one of the largest open markets in Ghana, Makola, is already inundated with hardworking traders.

They’re mostly women and they all have one big expectation in mind as they embark on their daily journey to this market: economic security.

It’s their greatest desire to secure a financial framework that will allow them to provide food, shelter, education and other basic necessities of life for their families.

In a patriarchal society such as Ghana, where women and girls are constantly marginalized, their ability to exhibit their entrepreneurial skills by engaging in different types of business ventures provides them a level playing field with their male counterparts in society.

My mother is one of the women who owns a shop.

People like her deserved to be recognized for International Women’s Day, which took place last week. Her desire to become an entrepreneur began at an early age. As a teenager, once she finished school, she would stack her wooden pallet with handfuls of roasted groundnuts (peanuts) wrapped in pieces of old newspapers, layered with

white paper.

She would then navigate her way through the neighborhood, selling them to her loyal customers and other passersby. My grandmother beams with joy and pride every time she recounts stories of my mother’s loyal customers’ adoration of her hardworking spirit and desire to be economically independent at a young age.

In addition to the fact that people were fond of her, she was also known for her fearless attitude toward the bullies who tried to steal her groundnuts or bought on credit and attempted to elude her when it came time to pay. This fearless attitude earned her the nickname asem be si, which translates to “no nonsense.”

This nickname stuck throughout her adult years as she became a savvy and respected businesswoman among her peers.

Over the years, my siblings and I saw my mother rise through the ranks, from sharing spaces in the market area to owning her own shop. She eventually became the sole distributor in Ghana of “Sure” deodorant for a British company. With her economic success came many opportunities for

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Julliet Boye’s mother became an entrepreneur early in life by selling groundnuts in paper cones to local communities in Ghana, Africa.

both herself and her family.

Her economic security allowed her to be assertive at home, especially when it came to making decisions with my father about the future of my

siblings and me. Her invaluable input enriched the choices that she and my father offered us siblings from childhood through adulthood. One very significant example was

my mother’s success at convincing my father to allow us to go study in the West since there were limited options in the universities in our home country.

My siblings and I are forever grateful for the opportunity to experience the best of both worlds. The experience has molded us into the responsible dual citizens we are today.

As I write this article in celebration of International Women’s Day, I am overwhelmed with a deep appreciation for women like my mother whose persistence to be economically independent has enriched their lives and their family. Her desire, commitment and dedication are replicated all over the world. I honor my mother and all the women around the world who strive every day to remain economically independent. To all of them, I say AYEKOO! (“Well Done!”)

Julliet Boye is a 2002 international affairs alumna working in Washington, D.C. as a development associate with Washington Area Women’s Foundation.

To read more about her work, visit her blog at thewomensfoundation.org.

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LUCAS WACHOB | no goal

Early education prevents creativity The school system needs to be learning-centered Springtime means stressing over internship applications, summer jobs, and for some unlucky seniors, a career (yikes!).

This year I’ve been thinking a lot about the connections between school and the working world. Consider two applicants for a job.

One sets their own goals, budgets their own time, cares about the work and can lead, innovate and improvise. The other follows orders extremely well. Who gets the job?

More importantly, which applicant represents how you’ve been trained and educated?

Because of our education system, it’s most likely the one who follows orders. In general, kindergarten through th grade is a passive experience.

You show up when you’re told to, you sit in neat rows and do what the teacher tells you to do until it’s time to go home.

Our education system reflects the industrial economy that created it. Factories demanded a steady stream of obedient workers that could be interchanged with ease.

They needed identical workers for identical jobs producing identical products.

But times have changed.

Today’s workers aren’t building Model Ts. Manufacturing accounts for only about  percent of American jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and has been steadily falling since at least .

The skills society needs are different than they were  years ago. A  poll of employers by the National Association of Colleges and Employers found that job

applicants most need communication skills, interpersonal skills, problem-solving skills, organization and the ability to make decisions. Can the system we’ve built to produce obedience and likeness be remade to produce these skills instead?

I’m skeptical. Personally, education has made me into a proficient instruction follower, and not much else. I still consult with Google on how to fill out checks, and I still read the instructions on my oven pizzas.

If there wasn’t a popcorn button on my microwave, who knows if I’d ever eat the stuff?

Any creativity, leadership and passion I have has been developed outside of school through music, clubs and socializing.

Personally, education has made me into a proficient instruction follower, and not much else.

I still consult with Google on how to fill out checks, and I still read the instructions on my oven pizzas.

Do we want more school and more instruction followers? Or do we want more music, more connection with people, more creating and more doing? We know we want leaders and innovators.

Let’s talk about how to actually get there.

One idea is to switch the order of classwork and homework. Our whole lives, we’ve woken up to find a pile of unsolicited information waiting for us in a classroom. No choice, no alternative, no

reason. At school, we just process this knowledge because if you don’t, you’ll be in trouble.

Then we’re sent home, exhausted, with some homework to “reinforce” the lessons that we never asked to learn in the first place. It’s frustrating for everyone involved.

Instead, imagine waking up and not having to sit in a classroom. If we’re trying to become self-motivated leaders, we should be learning how to lead ourselves a lot earlier than we currently do.

If our most valuable skills are being better developed in sports, clubs, music groups and charity work, rather than in school, we should give those activities the best hours of our days. Maybe we wouldn’t be so rushed and stressed all the time if we didn’t have to fit the important stuff around long, dull school days.

The way we’ve been instructed filters into our education at JMU. Our busy work has been traded with long academic readings. But we skip them. A lot.

It’s a shame, because our professors are right when they say we’d get more out of lectures if we came prepared. We should treat our professors as valuable resources.

But instead, we tend to treat them like babysitters or bosses. We want them to tell us what to do and then tell us how well we’re doing. That’s not what educators are for. We need our education system to produce something radically different from what it was producing  years ago.

That might mean creating an education system that’s radically different from the one we had  years ago.

Nothing should be off the table.

Lucas Wachob is a junior public policy and administration major. Contact Lucas at wachoblm@dukes.jmu.edu.

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Piano Man Student’s song covers rack up YouTube views

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Evan Duffy, a senior music major with a both a composition and performance concentration, has posted more than 20 covers on YouTube, including his latest, a cover of “Unison (Knife Party Remix).”

By Kelsey Nunn contributing writer

For Evan Duffy, practicing, rehearsing and composing at the piano eight hours a day, along with recording song covers that reach thousands of hits, is all in a day’s work.

Duffy, who hopes to one day score music for blockbusters, has more than 20 song covers on YouTube for bands including Skrillex, Swedish House Mafia, Coldplay and Foster the People.

“My favorite artist to cover is Skrillex,” Duffy said. “I just see a lot more to his music than most people think there is.”

Duffy sets well-known songs, typically from the electronic and pop genres, to classical piano. His cover of “With You, Friends” by Skrillex has 101,214 views on YouTube.

Fans enjoy the personal touch Duffy gives to the electronica-genre covers.

“I love his interpretation,” said Kyle Yampiro, a second-year voice performance graduate student, in an email. “It’s always natural and clearly has a human element that sometimes gets lost in the overproduction of the originals.”

Duffy derives a large part of his fans from dubstep listeners who wouldn’t typically listen to classical music.

“Evan’s exceptional talent, combined with his knowledge of music theory, allows him to create virtuosic covers of electronic dubstep music that most people wouldn’t expect to hear in a classical format,” said Natalie Dewey, Duffy’s girlfriend and a 2011 alum, in an email.

Duffy said when selecting songs to write covers for, he tries to incorporate his own taste with the interests of his audience.

To do a piece, Duffy said he must be moved by it in some way, but he tries to be receptive to the demands of his audience as well.

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“I’m a music guy through and through,” Duffy said, “so getting more into the business side of this has been humbling to say the least.”

According to Duffy, basic arrangements can take a very short amount of time but more “show and virtuosic” work can take much longer.

A typical arrangement can take anywhere from 10 minutes to a few days to put together, depending on what he wants to incorporate in the music.

“I compose from my ‘bedroom studio,’ as I like to call it,” Duffy said. “It’s modest: a few keyboards, monitors and software. It may not be fancy, but it’s everything I need.”

Along with contemporary covers, the music major with both a composition and performance concentration see Piano, page B2

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NBC’s ‘Community’ returns — to uncertain future

By Jeff Wade The Breeze

It’s finally time to start the spring semester at Greendale Community College.

Unceremoniously held from NBC’s midseason schedule, “Community” returns to its 8 p.m. home tonight, a little more than three months after airing its last episode. Its absence brought the show’s already-vocal fanbase to the point of screaming, while raising questions about the future of the (unfairly) low-rated show.

Which puts tonight’s episode in an awkward place.

“Urban Matrimony and the Sandwich Arts” is not a special episode of “Community.” That’s not an indictment on the actual quality of the episode, especially since it’s a funny and welcome return.

Without giving too much of tonight’s premiere away, Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown) is romanced by guest star and former Huxtable, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, attempting to make amends for their marriage.

The episode serves as a showcase for some of the lesser-sung members of the show’s ensemble cast.

Brown is the center of both of the episode’s major plots, which is nice considering the way the show sometimes doesn’t know what to do with her character in terms of storylines. A subplot that pairs her up with Chevy Chase’s character is a fun and underutilized pairing, and her scenes with Warner prove a good argument against those who claim the show is lacking in heart.

The episode also settles the argument that Gillian Jacobs has made Britta into the secret best character.

Far from the idealistic and seemingly perfect love interest from the pilot, Britta’s transformation into a flawed and endearing comic creation has been one of the show’s greatest triumphs. Her argument with study group head Jeff (Joel McHale) during the episode climax is reminiscent of another stellar clash with McHale and is augmented by some truly wonderful physical comedy from Jacobs.

Every single episode can’t be a high concept deconstruction of a genre.

Ask someone what one’s favorite episode is and you’ll probably get

an answer along the terms of the paintball, documentary or claymation one showing you how committed the show gets to its parodies.

No, the episode of “Community” airing tonight is the other side of the show, the side that has developed its characters and settings over the course of three years that allows it to go on those flights of fancy everyone talks about.

Community

NBC Thursdays at 8 p.m.

Starring Joel McHale, Chevy Chase, Gillian Jacobs

But is a very funny episode enough to save the show? Its low ratings have served as a black cloud for fans and may discourage the audience it needs from finding it.

While those fears are well-founded, there are a handful of factors suggesting that a fourth season might still happen.

During a recent panel, “Community” producers expressed optimism for another season, citing fans of the show at NBC. Yesterday, Comedy Central announced they’ll air reruns of the show next year.

Plus the ratings for “30 Rock,” which inherited the “Community” time slot earlier this year, were just as bad. Plus there are so many holes in NBC’s programming that it has bigger problems to fix.

Most importantly, a fourth season of the show would put the episode count close enough to be sold into syndication. And if Sony Pictures, who owns prospective syndication rights, is willing to foot the bill for extra seasons of the anemic Brad Garrett vehicle “‘Til Death,” there’s a good chance it will strike a deal with NBC to get the episodes it needs.

At its very best, “Community” can seem like it’s speaking personally to viewers, subverting and paying homage to television and all its peculiarities, all the while never losing sight of its rich cast of characters and never at the expense of story. And even if this batch of 12 episodes is the last the show ever does, at the very least it’s back.

And it’s maybe the one spring break that needed to end.

Contact Jeff Wade at breezearts@gmail.com.

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Obits played at Blue Nile on Tuesday, the first stop for the heavy garage rock band. They will play in Philadelphia tonight.

By Matt Sutherland The Breeze

Harrisonburg is an odd first stop for indie rockers Obits, considering their following stops are in order, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Boston and New York.

Before an audience of 50 people, Brooklyn-based Obits played their hearts and lungs out at their first destination, offering a taste of their taut percussion and hang-10 attitude.

So, yeah, it seems like a warm-up.

But then again, maybe downtown’s Blue Nile could use a little surf rock in the coming days of sun and springtime.

When describing Obits to an unfamiliar listener, one must understand that the band is lo-fi inspired, but well-produced. Songs sound straight out of California, but are from the urban scenery of New

York. It’s aggressive, but not violent.

It’s a groovy impact heard in every twangy Stratocaster chord strung out over the melody.

A similar juxtaposition exists between how Obits plays and how the crowd reacts. Midway through the set, they’re playing the brooding “New August,” a rowdy track that exhilarates the masses. That is, if “exhilaration” means bouncing around lightly on the balls of one’s feet. A tiny college audience apparently doesn’t feel like jostling on a Tuesday night for some heavy garage rock. The song’s antianthemic “self-medication” might not improve singer Rick Froberg’s situation, but it doesn’t seem to discourage — or improve — the crowd’s, either.

Even standout single “You Gotta Lose” gets no play-time, and the snotty-but-punchy “No Fly List”

doesn’t get a stab, either.

But it’s not to say the night was a total let-down. The meandering bounce of the intro riff on “Pine On” had a few heads banging and even some devil horns in the air. And “I Want Results” was an incredibly lingering and suspenseful beatdown, prompting even the most sedentary crowd members to chant for more.

In the end, with some last-minute help from “Everything Looks Better in the Sun,” the band showed it was having fun, which was probably the most important part about the energetic performance.

Perhaps Obits is an excellent moniker: They definitely killed their set. It’s just too bad the crowd was already dead.

Contact Matt Sutherland at breezecopy@gmail.com.

Screening stresses land ethics dilemma

By Laura Weeks The Breeze

Fire blazed to a gathering of students, professors and community members Tuesday evening in ISAT. No firemen required, though.

JMU was a stop for the screening of “Green Fire,” a documentary detailing the life and work of conservationist Aldo Leopold.

Jack Gentile, a JMU geography professor, headed the screening as part of a project for his environmental ethics class.

According to wildlife ecologist and Leopold scholar Stanley Temple, the film, which premiered last February in Albuquerque, N.M., screens four to five times every day worldwide. The film has been translated into seven languages and has seen, in particular,

a positive response from audiences in China.

Leopold, whom many scholars consider the most influential conservationist of the 21st century, is best known for his concept of “land ethic,” which refers to the individual’s relationship with the earth’s landscape and encourages communisee fire, page B2

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Music, meals center of 5th annual Arboretum St. Patrick’s Day

By Alicia Hesse The Breeze

In the spirit of four-leaf clovers and all things green, the Celtic sound of highland bagpipes will resonate from the Edith J. Carrier Arboretum lawn Saturday evening to kick off the Arboretum’s fifth annual St. Patrick’s Day celebration.

Fred Holbrook, piper and executive director of Massanetta Springs Conference Center in Harrisonburg, will perform for his third year, playing a variety of marches and historic numbers, according to Gail Turnbull, the arboretum’s assistant director.

The pipes “have an iconic sound,” said Andrew Connell, a JMU music professor. “One of the powers of music is that it takes you to a certain time and a certain place. Since [the pipes] go back so many years, it’s like listening to history. It evokes that time and place.”

Holbrook comes dressed in a Scottish kilt and usually laces the performance with his insight on the highland pipe.

Last year, there were about 50 people at the concert, a mix of students, faculty, residents and tourists.

“In the outdoor setting, it would be very natural and

reflect what it might have been in Ireland a long time ago,” said Kelly McClure, a senior international affairs major familiar with her hometown of Cape Cod’s St. Patrick’s Day festivities.

The public is invited to the free performance. After the musical performance guest not eating dinner are welcome to bring a blanket or lawn chair and brown-bagged dinner, Turnbull said.

Guests who make reservations to continue their celebrations with the St. Patrick’s Day dinner are entertained with a virtual tour to

a different botanical location each year.

In previous years, guests have been taken to Costa Rica, and Galapagos Islands. This year, Daniel Mahon, a land artist and greenways planner, will take guests on a virtual tour to the Mallow International garden festival in County Cork, Ireland.

Mahon, also known as “Greenman Dan,” will tell his story of how he and a fellow landscape architect worked with a Chippewa elder to conducted a community ceremony representing the connection between Native

Americans and Ireland.

In addition music and virtual tour, participants may have a three-course meal for $35.

“The dinner is always one that feels somewhat intimate because it’s smaller in scale,” Turnbull said.

The event’s planners prepare a new menu each year, so repeat guests always experience something different.

Reservations for the dinner are available o n l i n e u n t i l t o m o r ro w .

It seats up to 40 guests.

Contact Alicia Hesse at hesseam@dukes.jmu.edu.

Menu First course: Irish green salad Second course: Shepherd’s pie Third course: Apple barley pudding with coffee service Included with each dinner is a choice of an Irish beer or glass of wine.

Price: $35

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composes orchestral music and several original works.

“I am most proud of the score I composed for ‘The Man Who Killed Dan Odams,’ ” Duffy said.

“I love writing scores for films and video games, so this was right up my alley.”

Duffy worked with Joe LaCroix, Jon Combs and Mac Rowe ,on the short film, along with solo cellist Anna Kobylski.

He had seven days to write and record the 10-minute composition for the production.

Composing for digital and cinematic purposes might be a possible career path.

“The career I hope to achieve would be composing music for professional video games and film studios. Basically, I want John Williams’ job,” Duffy said.

Currently, Duffy is setting poems to music, to be sung by Dewey, a soprano. He’s also composing piano and tenor work for a performance with senior RJ Tester, a fellow JMU student.

Duffy released his latest video, a cover of “Unison (Knife Party Remix)” on Tuesday. Less than a day latter, the video was retweeted by the

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Duffy played with renowned pianist Menahem Pressler last January.

song’s original artist Porter Robinson.

“His work is going to be plastered on ever ything one day,” said junior Heidi

Simmons, “and we will get to say we saw him get there.”

Contact Kelsey Nunn at nunnkm@dukes.jmu.edu.

changes taking place in the American Southwest. While ty-based conservation efforts. men set out to conquer the “We have rights and privi- land, Leopold dedicated his leges,” Gentile said, “but we efforts to preserving and betalso have responsibilities, and tering it. His work focused it’s important to take those not only on the relationship responsibilities seriously and between people, but also the to live as lightly as we can on relationship between people the land.” and land.

The idea of the land ethic “We have rights also resonated in students and privileges, who attended the event.

“The only way we’re going but we also have to continue to survive as a human race is to take the responsibilities.” environment into account and really focus on acting Jack Gentile as one,” said Taylor Burks, JMU geography a junior geographic sci- professor ence major. “We’re part of a system.”

For junior geographic sciThe documentary, proence and geology double duced by the Aldo Leopold major Shannon Gilligan, the Foundation, the United States land ethic involves a con- Forest Service and the Center science awareness of the for Humans and Nature, feaenvironment. tures interviews from leading “I thought it was really conservationists, biologists, profound that we’ve fixed all foresters, environmental these other problems and activists, farmers and Leopmade all these technologi- old’s children. cal advances, but what do we “The idea was to make Leohave to show for it environ- pold human,” Temple said. mentally?” Gilligan said.

Temple, who presented the Although Leopold died in film to 38 campuses last year, 1948, he’s deemed as a con- encourages people to think temporary in the field of about their responsibilities conservationism, with much as a member of the ecological of his writings credited to community and the human inspiring the environmental- community — and to urge the ist movement. government to do the same.

One of the first American “ We d o hav e s o m e foresters, Leopold became responsibilities toward the increasingly interested in the environment that go beyond

economic interests — some of them are ethical,” Temple said. “You can’t help but be aware that in the political arena today, we’ve somehow managed to treat environmentalism as though it’s anti-the economy, rather than being quite compatible if you’re willing to work at it.”

Gentile, a Leopold reader for 30 years, applies Leopold’s work to his own land by learning as much about it as possible and managing it as best he can.

“I look at myself as someone who’s temporally living on the land,” Gentile said. “I don’t really feel like I own the land.”

The film is scheduled to premiere on public television on Earth Day, April 22. The producers are also working to develop 20-minute segments for classrooms. Temple hopes the film will inspire communities facing environmental challenges, like cities and urbanized areas.

“Think holistically,” Temple said. “Think as broadly as possible about the impacts of our lifestyle and what it means for the planet. We sort of live in this isolated bubble, and we’re so disconnected from nature that we don’t understand how our lifestyle has these devastating consequences.”

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Jasmine Butler mentors a participant on how to field a ball. Through Overcoming Barriers, which partners with JMU athletics, teaches sports to disabled children.

Student athletes give disabled children chance to participate in sports without discrimination

By Jackie Brennan The Breeze

Softball and baseball take center stage Monday afternoons in the Memorial Hall Gym, but the main participants aren’t the JMU athletes who frequent the neighboring locker rooms or the complexes across the parking lot.

Disabled children of all ages come to “PlayBall” each Monday starting at 4:30 p.m. for an hour of one-on-one coaching and fun. Play-Ball is a spring program hosted by JMU’s physical education mentoring project, Overcoming Barriers.

Overcoming Barriers, created in November 2010, had an impact in JMU’s neighboring

communities. JMU kinesiology professor Thomas Moran spearheaded the program in the fall after receiving a $15,000 grant to start a physical and nutritional mentoring program for children with disabilities in the Harrisonburg area.

This year’s spring lineup for the grant-funded project features eight specialized programs ranging from aquatics to self-defense. Each program has a weekly session generally lasting 45 minutes to an hour. This was the first week of spring events and the program will end April 30.

JMU softball team members Megan Shinaberry, Jasmine Butler and Kaitlyn Barber assist in rotating the participants through instruction in different parts of the game.

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Stepping it up

After a 9-0 loss to Liberty, Dukes look to turn things around this weekend

By Stephen Proffitt The Breeze

The Dukes haven’t seen a fivegame losing streak since the end of the 2007 season, tacking on a sixth loss Wednesday afternoon.

They may have found themselves in the midst of a rebuilding year.

“It’s unlike us for sure,” said head coach Spanky McFarland. “I think we’re kind of a work in progress.”

They look to turn their fortune as they welcome the Tribe of William & Mary for three games at Eagle Field beginning Friday. The series marks the conference home opener for the Dukes, who fell short in last weekend’s conference series at UNC-Wilmington.

“Everyone’s coming around, it’s just taking a little bit longer than we wanted to happen,” said senior outfielder Ian Haynes.

The Dukes (5-10-1, 0-3 CAA) have gotten the best of the Tribe over the past two seasons, sweeping both of their three-game series, one at home and one on the road. McFarland knows that this weekend is an important point in the season for the young Dukes.

“The last two years, we swept a lot of teams,” McFarland said. “Each year is a different year and we know they always have pretty good pitching so it’s going to be a challenge. We’re just going to try and get Friday and go from there. We’re at that point where we’re just trying to play good. We’re

not worried about wins and losses, just getting better every day.”

While small ball remains a key component of the Dukes’ arsenal, the middle innings of a game, specifically innings five through seven, really seem to be hurting them. Through 16 games, the Dukes have been outscored in innings five through seven 64-30. Although it grabs McFarland’s attention, he seems to think the problem will correct itself as the season progresses.

“At this time of the year, you’re using a lot of pitchers that won’t necessarily be pitching later when people are in better shape,” McFarland said.

No one is overly worried this early in the season, and the general consensus seems to be that time will help

Starters lined up for weekend series n Friday: Freshman

right-handed pitcher Patrick Toohers n Saturday: Senior RHP Evan Scott n Sunday: Senior left-handed pitcher Sean Tierney

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Freshman catcher Chris Hanson takes practice swings before spring break. The Dukes lost 9-0 to Liberty yesterrday and look to improve in conference play Saturday against William & Mary. JMU is currently 0-3 in the CAA.

mend any wounds.

“I just think we need to play with more intensity and more heart,” said sophomore infielder Conner Brown.

“We just need to work out the kinks and get back to it and play JMU baseball.”

McFarland doesn’t want to give in to the idea of calling this season a rebuilding one, but knows under the circumstances, it may become one.

“It’s kind of turned into a rebuilding project, but I’m not giving up on this season by any means,” McFarland said. “Our goal is the same as it always is: Get into the conference tournament and hopefully you’re hot at the right time.”

The Dukes open up the series with the Tribe with two 7 p.m. weekend games and capped off with a 2 p.m. game on Sunday.

Contact Stephen Proffitt at proffijs@dukes.jmu.edu.

“We try to group the kids by ability and rotate through different exercises,” Harm said. “Things like batting and fielding — at the end, with our game, we just try to split them up evenly and let them have fun.”

Play-Ball and the other Overcoming Barriers programs are run entirely by JMU students and supervised by Moran, but participation isn’t just limited to the Harrisonburg community.

“Kids come from all around to do these programs — Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, even Charlottesville,” Harms said.

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Barely Brady Men’s basketball coach should get a one-year extension to assure recruits It’s time for the understatement the year: It’s hard to hand out contract extensions to a coach who just completed his second losing season in four years. Lost among our collective trip to greener pastures was a long-awaited decision regarding men’s basketball coach Matt Brady. Athletics made the right decision last week to retain Brady at this point in time. Instead, it will allow him to coach the fifth and final year of his contract and make a final decision based on next season’s performance.

I’m not sure JMU went far enough in its retention. In my mind, a contract extension is crucial for the future success of the Dukes.

Let’s add some context to the discussion. Brady’s first and third seasons (2008-09, 2010-11) have been the only two winning seasons for JMU basketball in the past 12 years. Brady’s four seasons have yielded teams with an average rating percentage index of 182. The four years before his arrival in Harrisonburg, JMU teams averaged an RPI of 280, a whole 100 spots worse. Last year, JMU even managed to crack the top 100, landing an RPI ranking No. 88. Numbers and statistics certainly aren’t everything, but they can at least provide a benchmark for the ballpark Brady is playing in.

That doesn’t even take into account the massive injury problems the Dukes faced this year. To his credit, athletics director Jeff Bourne recognized this, noting that one reason Brady would be retained was that “a coach deserves to have a chance with a healthy team out there.”

And he’s right. Judging Brady for this season would have been a colossally unfair decision on the part of the athletic department. After all, his lineup saw depletions that made Napoleon’s Russian campaign seem like a healthy stroll through a snowy

park. Brady’s other losing season wasn’t exactly an entirely injury-free event either, as similar issues eroded an otherwise adequate depth in his second year at JMU. That’s the past, but now we have to consider the future. JMU men’s basketball will feature six seniors next year, making it a pivotal year in recruiting. Brady will need to hit the road and dig deep for recruits who can keep JMU competitive in a conference that grabs more national prominence every year.

But conventional wisdom usually implies that “lame duck” coaches (whose contracts are about to run out with no extension publicly assured) have a difficult time recruiting players. Players come to play for a coach just as often as they come to play for a program. Think about it: Would you want to come play for a coach who might not even be there your freshman year?

I don’t want to completely discredit this plan. To be fair, Brady has accumulated a record at exactly .500 over his four years (67-67). In a vacuum, it seems wise to let his fifth and final year decide his fate here at JMU. If he manages a winning season and the program seems as though it’s moving in the right direction, he can stay. If not, he’s gone.

Unfortunately, it’s not that simple and never will be. Coaches aren’t car batteries that can be recycled and exchanged for a new one every few years when their performance drops.

The fact is that we don’t need to wait for the program to start trending upward. With the first two winning seasons since the last millennium, it already has.

I would propose that the administration give Brady a one-year extension. It alleviates the recruiting problem in a pivotal year without committing JMU to a coach who needs to prove something. It doesn’t overly tax the athletic department’s long-term financial investment, either. Everybody wins.

Contact Chase Kiddy at kiddyca@dukes.jmu.edu.

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range of participants, Play-Ball is also distinct in the variety of ages and conditions of its participants. Until Play-Ball was introduced last spring, the only opportunities for children to get involved on the diamond were little league and challenger baseball — another community program for kids with disabilities.

Many children with disabilities are typically deprived of participation in Little League or challenger baseball. The majority of Play-Ball participants either have cases considered too extreme for challenger, or have just not had the opportunity to develop the skills necessary for Little League.

“We have kids so extreme that they’re not allowed to play in the challenger program,” Harms said. “We also have kids that are skilled, but unable to play little league. So, in some cases, we can provide them with more skill to get to those levels.”

Skill instruction is another novel aspect of Play-Ball. Most similar community programs emphazise the social aspect of

organized activity for children with disabilities. In addition to providing participants with a social outlet, Play-Ball instructs kids in developing the game’s fundamentals.

Want to get involved?

To register or volunteer with Overcoming Barriers, email overcomingbarriers@jmu. edu or call 540-568-4877.

To satisfy the mentoring aspect promoted by Overcoming Barriers in all its programs, participants are assigned mentors for one-onone instruction. Volunteers are asked to report how comfortable or experienced they are working with children with disabilities. Coordinators like Harms match volunteers with participants accordingly.

According to Harms, the program usually begins with a meeting between the children and their mentors to warm up.

After coming together briefly, the groups split into groups.

The three softball mentors facilitate and run the stations

while the other mentors do one-on-one drills with the kids.

Shinaberry, a junior catcher for the Dukes, got involved with the program late last spring.

“Almost the whole team was out there [on Monday], they were just so involved and excited to be out there, and we knew we had to keep it up,” Shinaberry said.

Butler, a junior outfielder, said her most memorable experience with the program involved Nathan, one of three brothers who participate in Play-Ball. He’s one of many kids who came in with no experience, but has since learned how to execute the skills on his own.

“He’s just come a long way,” Butler said. “Now he’s able to hit front toss. He’s able to hit everything by himself. I’m proud of him.”

Detailed spring program schedule for Overcoming Barriers is available on its Facebook page.

CONTACT Jackie Brennan at brennajt@ dukes.jmu.edu.

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championship to the University of Arkansas–Little Rock - in overtime.

Despite being left out of the NCAA, the CAA has five teams represented in the NIT: VCU, Drexel, Hofstra, UNC-Wilmington and JMU. Although five teams are represented in the “second-best” tournament, sophomore guard Kirby Burkholder thinks the presence should have been higher in the NCAA. “With the strength of our conference, I definitely think more than just one team should go from the CAA,” Burkholder said.

In yesterday’s press conference, Brooks said he was disappointed that they didn’t make the cut and seemed to lack faith in the NCAA tournament committee.

“I don’t know what they think,” Brooks said. “They’ll come up with one tournament bracket today and hit again harder and come up with a different one. Needless to say, I don’t have a whole lot of confidence in what they do and how they do it.”

If the Dukes can overcome Davidson, they would go on to face the winner of the UNCCharlotte and Wake Forest University.

“We’re going in with the mindset to win it,” Newman said. “We’re bummed out we dind’t make the tournament.

It’s a new season and if we just take one game at a time, and play the way we’re capable of playing, we can definitely win.”

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If there’s strength in numbers, the Rams suddenly have it as a result of trading their No.  overall pick to Washington.

The Rams now have three of the top  picks in the  draft. During the next three drafts, they have five firstrounders and nine picks in the first two rounds.

“It’s nice to have those picks, but those numbers don’t mean a thing if you don’t use them wisely,” said NFL analyst Dave Razanno, a former scout with the Rams, San Francisco and Arizona.

Th e Ra m s’ nu mb e rs swelled as a result of getting the No.  overall pick from Washington, plus the Redskins’ second-round pick (No.  overall) this year. The Rams also get Washington’s first-round pick in  and  — all in exchange for the Rams’ No.  this year.

The teams actually reached agreement on the trade last week, according to a Rams official. On Saturday, the Rams and Redskins confirmed the trade in a joint statement.

It’s clear what the Redskins will do with the No.  pick: take Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin III. But what do the Rams do at No. ?

“They’re going to get a good player if they want to pick there, or they could just go back and get more picks,” said Matt Littfield, a former NFL scout now with www. russlande.com.

But in what’s widely considered a “six-player” draft — meaning six elite prospects — the Rams are now sitting on the edge of that territory.

From a Rams’ perspecitve what happens if Southern California offensive tackle Matt Kalil, Oklahoma State wide receiver Justin Blackmon and Louisiana State cornerback Morris Claiborne are the next three picks, in order, to Minnesota, Cleveland and Tampa Bay? That would leave only

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After trades between the Rams and Redskins, former Baylor University quarterback Robert Griffin III is likely to be the second overall pick by Washington.

Alabama running back Trent Richardson left among the top six. Expending a No.  pick on Richardson could be viewed as a luxury given all the Rams’ other needs.

Also take into account the fact that the Rams’ new head coach, Jeff Fisher, is regarded as run-oriented. Fisher has never taken an offensive lineman in the first round.

Of course, if the Browns take Richardson at No.  overall, Blackmon could fall to the Rams at No. . But at Blackmon’s pro day Friday at Oklahoma State, the Browns seemed very interested in him. And unlike the Rams and Fisher, Cleveland has a pass-oriented head coach in Pat Shurmur.

Although they were unwilling to do so at first, the Browns eventually offered that No.  pick as part of their unsuccessful trade package to get the Rams’ No.  overall pick.

If the Rams stay at No.  and take someone besides Richardson, there are no clear-cut choices. Depending on whom you talk to, or what mock draft you examine, there are a variety of possibilities but no prospect that jumps out.

Maybe it’s North Carolina defensive end Quinton Coples. Or defensive tackles

Fletcher Cox of Mississippi State or Michael Brockers of LSU. Offensive tackles Riley Reiff of Iowa and Jonathan Martin of Stanford, outside linebackers Melvin Ingram of South Carolina and Courtney Ingram of Alabama, or cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick of Alabama also are possibilities.

Some scouts regard Notre Dame’s Michael Floyd as a better wide receiver prospect than Blackmon, but Floyd has had multiple off-the-field issues involving alcohol.

No matter what happens, if the Rams stay at No.  and don’t take a wide receiver, it will put a lot of pressure on the organization to fill a position where they really need two starters. It could come in free agency, but don’t expect the Rams to make a huge push for Brandon Lloyd.

Lloyd has been openly lobbying for a spot in New England.

In addition, the view at Rams Park is that even though Lloyd has talent, he gets next to no yards after the catch.

Obviously, there are no guarantees no matter where the Rams pick or who they pick. But if they trade out of the top six, on paper they’re leaving the realm of the potentially great for the land of the potentially good or very good.

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