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The residents of two Copper Beech houses on the 2300 block of Bayberry Lane now have dry, newly carpeted and cleaned homes after both basements were flooded by sewage scented water on April 17.
“They completely ripped it up Wednesday afternoon and it was replaced by Thursday,” junior Megan McCusker said. “They steam-cleaned all of the carpets that we requested to be steam cleaned.”
In addition to cleaning the carpet in her room, McCusker, an interdisciplinary liberal studies major, said they requested the living room carpet be cleaned as well, because of water that was tracked upstairs.
McCusker and her roommate, sophomore Sarah Rourke, a political science and history double major, said they were relieved their basement level rooms no longer smelled of sewage water.
“I slept there Friday night and it was the first night since last Sunday I’ve been able to sleep there,” Rourke said. “Our house smelled 10 times better once they removed the carpet from downstairs.”
Rourke said she had previously been upset by the handling of her personal belongings after finding her hard drive in the sink and had complained to Copper Beech manage-ment. She said this prompted Copper Beech to ask for permission before moving her belongings this time.
“They were careful and put everything back as it should be and we were very grate-ful for that,” McCusker said.
Their neighbors, seniors Stephanie Moni-oudis, a business management major, and Jennifer Korman, an interdisciplinary liberal studies major, said they are looking forward to everything returning to normal but are still upset by Copper Beech management’s delayed response.
“I’m definitely angry it took so long to get the response that was obviously nec-
see Beech, page 5
By MeGAn MArTin contributing writer
Sophomore Devin Patel, a finance major, wants to create an incentive-based recycling program for the community.
Pitching this idea, Patel and his team, U-Recycle, beat 15 other teams in this year’s JMU Challenge.
For the second year in a row, JMU Challenge called for students to pres-ent their ideas to create a “greener” campus. Each team created a video pitch that identifies a problem on campus and offers a solution to improve JMU’s eco-friendliness.
Out of 15 applicants, U-Recycle and team Reusable Water Bottle, made it to the final round of the competition to face a panel of judges, includ-ing Anthony Smith, business and economics professor at Eastern Men-nonite University; Stephen Plastino, a JMU graduate from the College of Business; and Megan Bauer, sustain-ability coordinator for JMU’s Office of Facilities Management.
The two teams were selected based on four terms: the project’s potential impact, innovation, feasi-bility of implementing it, and group collaboration. Each team pitched their programs in an eight-minute
presentation, submitted as a video on April 1.
U-Recycle aimed to develop an incentive-based recycling program for the American Campus apartments surrounding JMU. By partnering with Recyclebank, a company that offers rewards for recycling certain materi-als, Patel hopes to increase recycling rates 15-20 percent.
Reusable Water Bottles developed a plan to change JMU’s yearly reus-able mugs into reusable water bottles instead. The team said the reusable water bottles would eliminate the need for plastic bottles, therefore decreasing waste on campus.
Last year’s winners, Matt Corbet, Matt Jeanes, Chris Nutbrown and Neil McNulty, developed a hand dryer called Xlerator that saves electricity, which was installed in bathrooms around campus shortly after. While the dryer saves energy, it also increas-es noise pollution. Students are still tweaking their dryer to limit this.
Carol Hamilton, who works at the Center for Entrepreneurship in the College of Business, said the compe-tition helps students collaborate and network.
Bauer said students have offered Facilities Management ideas to help make the campus more green.
“Our office helps get ideas actually on the ground at JMU and facilitates these ideas into fruition,” Bauer said. “We like to see students participate in creating projects that better sustain-ability on campus, so it’s great to see ideas like this, especially ones that are feasible.”
Patel said his involvement with a variety of organizations inspired him to apply for the challenge.
“There was no real assignment that got me started on this program,” Patel said. “I got involved in NetImpact my freshman year and other entrepre-neur organizations on campus. I saw there was a problem with recycling
in the area and I came up with a plan to fix it.”
Patel presented his program in the annual conference at the Ross School of Business at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in March 2011. He also submitted the plan into the Wal-Mart sustainable busi-ness plan competition in February and pitched his idea at the Wharton School of Business in Pennsylvania in March.
After most recently presenting his program at the Dell Social Innovation Competition, Patel was referred and accepted to the StartingBloc Institute, which will host the competition from May 26-30.
“Hopefully this program will get me more advice and feedback,” Patel said. “It worked out really well because one of the sponsors of the program is Recyclebank, so I’m hop-ing to make contact with some upper members of the company.”
Pa t e l s a i d h e h a s n ’ t s p o -ken to apartment complexes yet about implementing the idea because he wants to finalize the budget and business plan first.
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4/26 insidenews 3 Building bikes and relationships Engineering class spends two semesters making a custom bike for a high schooler with cerebral palsy.
opinion 7 The debate continues President’s birth certificate dispute remains unresolved.
life 9 Must love dogs Tour for Life brings homeless animals to Harrisonburg in hopes of finding them homes.
sporTs 13 Quarterback issue JMU football still hasn’t chosen the centerpiece of their offense at the close of spring drills.
Clean BeechNew carpets installed after Copper Beech flooding
off-cAMpus housinG
“We like to see students participate in creating projects that better sustainability on campus, so it’s great to see ideas like this, especially ones that are feasible.”Megan Bauersustainability coordinator
Second year of JMU Challenge produces eco-friendly plansenvironMenT
April showers bring ...a spring photo collage, page 11
By kelsey peTersThe Breeze
The infamous rivalry between the Carrier and East Campus libraries’ fans now fuels alternative transportation on Friday and Sat-urday nights.
For $10, SafeRides is selling Team Carrier and Team ECL shirts instead of SafeRides logoed T-shirts for their annual T-shirt fundraiser.
To help prevent drunk driving, SafeRides spends more than $900 to operate its four rental cars every weekend. Amy Pagano, the fundraising director of Safe Rides, hopes to run a fifth car with the money raised.
So far, according to Pagano, SafeRides has made more than $400 on the Commons and Festival last week — and orders are still
coming in. The current money could fund a new car for one night.
Because the university does not fund the organization, it depends on fundraisers like this one, as well as dues and donations.
A couple of weeks ago, former student body president Andrew Reese contacted Pagano, a senior hospitality and tourism management major, with the idea of the competing T-shirts.
Pagano handed the idea over to SafeR-ides members, junior Lindsey Leemis and senior Molly Rossberg, both media arts and design majors, who came up with the current designs.
The Carrier shirt is gold with the words “Team Carrier: Studying harder in the stacks since 1939.” The purple ECL shirt reads “Team ECL: Raving harder than Carrier since 2009”
across the chest.“I think it’s really funny, because students
really do have this competition,” said senior Katie Jenkins, an English major.
Pagano said even making the Facebook event “ECL or Carrier? What team are you on?” stirred up a competition.
More than 990 are “attending” the event, and more than 100 people have posted the name of their favorite library on the event’s wall.
“When people come up to buy the shirts, they will see other people they don’t even know, and say ‘I can’t believe you go to that library,’ ” Pagano said.
Carrier is currently ahead, Pagano said.
see liBrAry, page 10
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Four teams leave championship empty handed
The JMU men’s and women’s tennis teams ended their seasons in loss at the CAA tennis championships, held at the Folkes-Stevens Tennis Center at Old Dominion University.
The women lost in the quarterfinals to Virginia Commonwealth University 4-0 after beating Hofstra University 4-0 in the first round. The College of William & Mary emerged the champion.
The JMU men’s tennis team finished their season with a record of 12-8 and lost to the University of North Carolina at Wilming-ton 4-1 in the quarterfinals. UNCW won the competition by beating VCU in the finals.
The CAA championship for golf took place at Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina.
JMU men’s golf came in fourth place, while UNCW won the competition. Sopho-more Ryan Vince was the top finisher for the Dukes, coming in seventh place.
Women’s golf also finished fourth, and UNCW won the competition. Junior Nicole Sakamoto came in second in the competi-tion; freshman Ginger Mak came in third.
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Yemen’s president agrees to step down in return for immunity
SANAA, Yemen — President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Saturday agreed to step down in exchange for immunity from criminal prosecution for himself and his family, the strongest indication yet that the embattled leader was willing to give up his 32-year grip on power if the opposition accepted his terms of exit.
Under a proposal by neigh-boring Arab states, Saleh would resign from office 30 days after a formal agreement has been signed. If Saleh, a vital U.S. counterterrorism ally, keeps his pledge, it would mark a rare negotiated transfer of power in a region where autocrats are increasingly resisting calls for their ouster by using violence and repression to suppress pop-ulist rebellions.
Yemen’s political oppo-sition said that while it had officially accepted the deal with reservations, it was negotiat-ing conditions that could still derail a final agreement. It is also unlikely that youth and human rights activists who spearheaded Yemen’s uprising in late Janu-ary would accept any agreement that allowed Saleh and his family to escape prosecution for crimes committed by the regime.
Saleh’s offer comes as for-mer Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak waits in detention fac-ing possible prosecution for his role in the deaths of protesters this year and, along with his two sons, for alleged corruption dur-ing his rule. Saleh’s advisers and ruling party officials have said that what he fears most is shar-ing Mubarak’s fate and darkening
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tician, and it was unclear whether his offer was a genuine effort to stop this impoverished Middle East nation’s slide toward chaos or a calculated move to remain in power or blame the opposition for the political turmoil.
The state news agency Saba News reported Saleh as saying he had accepted the proposal only to prevent the opposition from forcing the country into a bloody and protracted civil war.
Yemen is gripped by mul-tiple emergencies, including a rebellion in the north, a seces-sionist movement in the south and rapidly depleting resources such as oil and water. U.S. offi-cials fear that al-Qaida’s Yemen branch could take advantage of the political turmoil and deepen its presence here. The branch was behind two attempted attacks on U.S. soil: a failed plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner in Decem-ber 2009 and last year’s attempt to send parcel bombs to Chicago.
Saleh’s offer comes amid pressure to relinquish power from Yemen’s neighbors, espe-cially Saudi Arabia, who have long feared that Yemen’s insta-bility could spill into their territories. He apparently accepted a power transfer plan put forth by the Gulf Coopera-tion Council, which comprises Saudi Arabia and neighboring states, said Muhammed al Basha, a spokesman in the Yemeni Embassy in Washington.
The current parliament would adopt a law that grants Saleh, his family and aides immunity from prosecution for acts committed during his rule. Thirty days after he handed over power, and after his immunity is assured, Saleh would resign and Hadi would become acting president. Then, within 60 days, elections would be held. The new president would oversee the drafting of a new constitution.
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By Evi FuEllEcontributing writer
Invisible Children founder Laren Poole will speak in the Convcation Center May 5 as part of an entirely new senior convocation.
“It’s like the bookend to freshman convocation,” said Ramona Messen-ger, director of university events. “It’s for seniors only, it’s very personal.”
Poole is a filmmaker and co-found-er of Invisible Children, a nonprofit organization that uses the media to inspire young people to help end the long-running war between the Lord’s Resistance Army and the Government of Uganda. It focuses on aiding war-affected areas in northern Uganda and ending the use of child soldiers.
Sophomore Gabrielle Haeringer, a global justice major and co-president of JMU’s Invisible Children chapter, said the club members are ecstatic.
“It really gives us a great opportu-nity to get the word out about Invisible Children,” Haeringer said. “Because he isn’t a big name among everyone, people seem to be interested in find-ing out who he is.”
Senior Convocation is an event exclusively for seniors — not even fac-ulty are invited. The event will begin with a video of highlights from the past four years.Poole will then give a 45-minute speech about how the graduating class is the next generation of young people obligated to defend justice in today’s world.
It will end with a sunset candle-lighting ceremony at the top of the hill outside the Integrated Science and Technology building, in front of the James Madison statue.
Members of the Student Gov-ernment Association, the class council, the student representative to the Board of Visitors and JMU admin-istrators compiled a list of possible speakers and selected Poole, accord-ing to Messenger.
For the past two years, the speaker has been decided based on the uni-versity’s budget, speaker availability and the message he or she will deliver. The speaker’s message is determined based on what organization he or she is a part of and previous speeches the speaker has given. Messenger said that Poole and her met to go over his speech.
“The students I worked with told me about Invisible Children, so I read parts of a speech Laren gave in 2009 at [the University of California San Diego],” Messenger said. “I picked up the phone and called him, and he answered. I was so impressed with his humility and his energy.”
JMU’s chapter of Invisible Chil-dren began in fall 2010, according to Haeringer. However, she said that even before it became official, the chapter won the national book drive, which is part of the Schools for Schools campaign that sends used books to Uganda. The JMU chapter was allowed to send one club mem-ber to Uganda for free.
After discovering how strong JMU’s Invisible Children club was, Messen-ger said it took only three weeks in early January to approve Poole as the 2011 Senior Convocation speaker.
“We really wanted to work with stu-dents and have them play a big part in selecting the speaker,” Messenger said.
Last year’s Senior Convocation speaker was Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS Shoes.
“Blake was great,” Messenger said. “But we are especially excited to have Laren come and speak because our Invisible Children club here at JMU is so strong; he’s an amazing fit.”
Haeringer said she hopes the inter-est in Poole will lead people to take action and join Invisible Children’s efforts.
“Hopefully people will learn more about what’s going on in Central Afri-ca and want to help out,” Haeringer said.
Heather Gallagher, a senior psy-chology major and criminal justice minor, said she had never heard of Poole before the announcement that he would be the speaker, but she was optimistic about the speech after researching Invisible Children.
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PEDALING FORWARDEngineering classes spend two semesters building customized bike for high schooler with celebral palsy
By NATAliE dOhNErThe Breeze
Ricky Forgey was diagnosed with spastic diplegia cerebral palsy at age 1, a disorder that gave him limited movement below the waist.
Ricky’s parents placed him in ther-apy as a toddler, hoping he would be able to walk as he grew. Rick Forgey, Ricky’s father, said he and his son traveled to many different hospitals and participated in studies of cele-bral palsy.
“We didn’t want him to be oper-ated on or exploited so we always opted for the non-invasive,” Forgey said.
Ricky,16, is working with Profes-sor Robert Nagel’s JMU ENGR 231: Engineering Design I class and and ENGR 232: Engineering Design II class, in which students are building a bike for Ricky to use to strengthen his muscles.
Ricky lives in Harrisonburg and attends Turner Ashby High School. Although balance is hard for Ricky to achieve, he did karate as a child and is now on the Challenger baseball team and learning to swim.
Ricky has more strength in his heels than in the balls of his feet, and sophomore engineering major Anthony Bonadies team took that into account when designing their prototype, he said. Because of his condition, Ricky also has tight ham-strings and ankles resulting in stiff legs.
Ricky, 16, receives physical thera-py twice a week, using an elliptical machine to strengthen his legs and receives treatment from students and staff in JMU’s kinesiology
department. Over both semesters, 60 sopho-
more engineering students have been working on the bike project.
Nagel’s engineering class has been working for two semesters to design six different prototypes of bikes that will best suit Ricky’s needs. Nagel’s course is taught over two semesters. The first is focused on the concepts for designing the bike; the second is centered on physically building the bike.
Nagel said some bikes operate with a rear-steering system, which uses a linkage system that turns the wheels of the bike left or right. Oth-ers maneuver with front-steering like traditional bikes. Another design includes a pump system, which has pedals that move forward and back-ward on the same plane, Nagel said.
“I really liked the bike that could row,” Ricky said. “I thought it was easier since there was no pedaling and I have a stronger upper body.”
One bike is propelled by the rider pulling back on handle bars that cause a rotational motion much like rowing.
“The unique aspect is that everyone interprets his needs differ-ently and trying to capture them is the learning experience,” Nagel said.
Working with Ricky on a person-al level has allowed the students to understand how he will use the bike.
Bonadies is on one of this six design teams. Bonadies’ bike is built with spare parts and a lower frame, which makes it easier for Ricky to mount and dismount the bike.
“We built it around his dimensions
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After experimenting with differ-ent types of oils, Dave Miller found a fryer oil with no transfat that reduces greenhouse gas emissions because it uses no extra energy source, a deci-sion that won his restaurant, Dave’s Downtown Taverna, a bronze Vir-ginia Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award.
The MillerCoors Shenandoah Brewery in Elkton, Va., received Virginia a gold Governor’s Environ-mental Excellence Award. Dave’s received a bronze award for their recycling and sustainability program.
Private businesses, nonprofit orga-nizations and government-owned businesses across Virginia submit-ted applications to a governmental panel earlier in 2011. The winners were announced at the 22nd annual Environment Virginia Symposium in Lexington, Va.
Miller began his oil reuse project four years ago when he began build-ing his new house.
The Downtown Dining Alliance was created in 2009 as a partner-ship between several restaurants in downtown Harrisonburg, including Blue Nile and Clementine Cafe, with the goal of generating more business downtown.
“Restaurants are notorious for waste so I’m constantly trying to fig-ure out new ways to recycle,” Miller said.
He estimated that he saves $8,500 annually on his house’s water and heating bills by using fryer oil to heat his house, and saves enough energy to save 15 percent of the energy cur-rently used by all the households in Harrisonburg.
“Harrisonburg isn’t set up for composting yet, but we’re constantly working with the city,” Miller said. “ I would be ecstatic if JMU could start composting [dining materials used on campus].”
The MillerCoors Shenandoah Brewery’s Green Team, a group of employees dedicated to recycling, was instrumental in focusing the company on sustainability issues, according to a press release from Kim Kirk, Harrisonburg’s director of communications.
In 2009, MillerCoors partnered with the steam plant located on East Campus to convert compacted waste into steam. JMU purchases the steam produced at the brewery to run the steam plant and generate power, according to Towana Moore, JMU’s associate vice president for business services.
The brewery’s plant now recycles 100 percent of its materials and has eliminated 375 tons of waste, accord-ing to the press release.
—staff report
Two local businesses win ‘green’ awards
Dave Miller, owner of Dave’s Downtown Taverna recently won the Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence for using fryer oil from the restaraunt to heat his home. “Restaurants are notorious for waste so I’m constantly trying to figure out new ways to recycle,” Miller said.
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JMU engineering students help Ricky Forgey, a Turner Ashby High School student with spastic diplegia cerebral palsy, ride a bike the class designed for him. The students are part of professor Thomas Nagel’s ENGR 232 class.
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iN BriEFrOCKiNGhAm COuNTY
Dispute leads to first killing in two yearsRockingham County sheriff’s deputies say Lori Ann Mitchell, 44, killed her mother Betty Lou Armstrong, 67, in an apartment off Mount Clinton Pike on Saturday night. Mitchell has been charged with first-degree homicide, according to the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office. Mitchell’s bond hearing came on Monday morning. Investigators say the pair were in a dispute, but it’s unclear what they were fighting about. On Saturday night Mitchell was taken into custody and treated at the Rockingham Memorial Hospital for minor injuries and later taken to Rockingham County Jail. This has been the first homicide in Rockingham County since September 2009 .
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Man attacked on Water St.A male said he was assaulted by an unknown male last Thursday at 11:55 p.m. at Beyond Restaurant and Bar on 50 West Water St. The victim was taken to Rockingham Memorial Hospital and then transferred to the University of Virginia Medical Center with serious but non-life threatening injuries, according to Harrisonburg Police spokeswoman Mary-Hope Vass.
Football players’ trial set for September
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JMU football team members, brothers Peter O’Brian Rose, 21; Anthony Isaiah Rose, 18; and Jonathan Lewis Rose, 22; and former member Jonathan Chad Wil-liams, 22; have been scheduled on Friday by a Rockingham County judge for a trial date of Sept. 13, according to Rockingham County Circuit Court online records.
All four men are facing charges from a Nov. 15 altercation that one victim in the hospital.
Jonathan and Peter Rose and Williams were each indicted by a grand jury Feb. 22 on a count of felony malicious wounding by mob. Anthony Rose was indicted on a count of conspiracy to commit malicious wounding by mob.
Following their arrest, all four men were suspended from all JMU football-related activities. The Rose brothers are still suspended while Williams was dis-missed from the team for an undisclosed violation of team policy.
—staff report
GrAduATiON
Senior convo speaker anything but invisibleInvisible Children founder Laren Poole to speak at graduation, promoting ‘justice in today’s world’
“It’s like the bookend to freshman convocation. It’s for seniors only, it’s very personal.”ramona messengerDirector of university events
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“I’m glad a representative from that organization is com-ing to speak,” Gallagher said. “It’s very humbling.”
Diana Gates, the club’s co-president, and Rachael Capone, the only two senior members of the club, are espe-cially excited that Poole will be speaking.
“I’m excited to see Laren speak because his message affirms JMU’s commitment to preparing enlightened citi-zens,” Gates said.
When Messenger spoke with Poole in early January, she said Poole was excited to spend some time with JMU’s club, because seeing the local chapters brings him back to the grassroots aspect of his campaign.
Meaghan Smith, a senior interdisciplinary liberal stud-ies major, said she is especially excited the co-founder of the
organization was coming to speak.
“I think that he is amaz-ing,” Smith said. “He traveled to Uganda, saw the horrible things that were occurring to children and he came back with a drive. He has done a lot considering his age; he’s a great inspiration and challenge to young adults.”
Messenger said that having Poole as the speaker for Senior Convocation made this event one of the most rewarding she has ever worked on throughout her 12 years here.
“It’s really impressed me,” Messenger said. “They were just three guys who just went on a school trip and then changed the world.”
Haeringer hopes Poole’s message will challenge JMU’s graduating class to take action and to change the things about their world that are unjust.
“I think Poole is going to convey a really great message to seniors,” Haeringer said. “He is the perfect example of a young person who has been able to make a change in the world and I think he will inspire seniors to do the same.”
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PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — As the “East Coast Rap-ist” attacked two friends in the woods in Prince William County, Va., the teenager knew that if she tried to make a call from her cell-phone, the man would hear her voice and things would get even worse. But she had to get help.
She pulled out her cell and started thumbing.
“911 . . . pls noww man with gun,” she wrote in a text message.
The urgent plea went out to her mother, father and four friends. But emergency dispatch-ers at the 911 call center never got it. The emergency line is not equipped for text messaging.
The growth of technology has left 911 behind. Although people can send a text to vote for the next American Idol, they can’t send one to report the East Coast Rapist.
Modernizing 911 has taken on renewed urgency as the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror-ist attacks approaches, but actual progress is slow and could be years away in many places. That has prompted questions about how much improvement there has been in public safety com-munications in the past decade.
Federal and local officials readily acknowledge the need to modernize 911 calls, and they have taken small steps to digitize, but there are no plans in place for how to pay the billions of dol-lars the upgrade will cost, and no timetable has been set.
Consumer expectation has already outpaced 911 capabilities.
When Verizon Wireless custom-ers send a text message to 911, they get this reply: “Please make a voice call to 911.”
For decades, almost all of the calls to the nation’s emergency number came from land lines. But now, about 70 percent of the 240 million 911 calls received each year come from wireless phones, according to the Vir-ginia-based National Emergency Number Association.
The Federal Communications Commission, which regulates the 911 number, has taken some steps to improve the system. It asked for public comments on a digitized 911 and is reviewing those comments. FCC officials say they plan to propose rules this year on how to begin the upgrade.
“The shift that we need to make from analog to digital 911 is by far the most important change in 911 since the inven-tion of 911,” said FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, who was an emergency medical technician
in college. After the rules are approved,
municipalities could move to the new system on their own, but only as fast as their equip-ment and budgets will allow. That means that some places will have digital 911 faster than others, and some places might never get it.
Changes to the nation’s emer-gency number system could also bring a host of legal issues. Text messages, which are wide-ly used as a social tool, don’t have any location information tied to them. If a text message to 911 is delayed and someone dies because of a lack of assis-tance, who is legally responsible? Emergency officials say there is no substitute for speaking to a trained 911 operator.
And who will pay for the new system? The cost of upgrad-ing 911 across the country over the next 20 years could be $9.1 billion, according to a 2009 Department of Transportation study.
The future of 911 can be seen in a pilot emergency-text-mes-sage program in Black Hawk County, Iowa. It has been avail-able to subscribers of a particular local wireless company since 2009, said Judy Flores, adminis-trator of the county’s 911 system.
The service receives about a dozen emergency texts a month. Some turn out to be potential-ly life-saving. In one instance, Flores said, the ex-boyfriend of a homeowner violated a restrain-ing order and broke in. The woman texted 911, and police arrived and made an arrest.
911 text message failsTeen sends text about rapist, but receives no emergency response
“The shift that we need to make from analog to digital 911 is by far the most important change in 911 since the invention of 911.”Julius GenachowksiFederal Communications Commission chairman
“I think that he is amazing. He traveled to Uganda, saw the horrible things that were occuring to children and he came back with a drive.”Meaghan Smithsenior interdisciplinary liberal studies major
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and any restrictions of move-ment that he has,” Bonadies said.
On Friday, Ricky tested out each of the prototype bikes behind the Integrated Science and Technology building. Ricky said he was looking for a bike that would best encompass his need of strengthening his legs and lower body.
Currently, Nagel’s students are working toward completing full bike prototypes, which are built using different materials and manufactured differently.
Rick said Moran has been a positive influence in his son’s life.
“Dr. Moran has been Ricky’s mentor,” Forgey said. “Ricky looks up to him and he has been the catalyst for this bike.”
After Moran received his cus-tom bike, Moran suggested they build a similar one for Ricky, who had been seeing Moran for physical therapy treating the same condition.
“We were looking for a new client this year and Tom helped identify Ricky,” Nagel said.
The design process for Ricky’s bike was different from Moran’s because, while they have the same disability, it hinders each of them in separate ways, according to Nagel.
Each design team had a dif-ferent idea of how every client’s needs would translate into a customized bike.
“That’s the real challenge: getting into the client’s head and seeing what their needs are,” Nagel said. “And that’s what we focus on, especially during the first semester.”
Bonadies said he found it rewarding to work on a project that will help another person improve his daily routine.
“The outcome of this proj-ect is very exciting,” Bonadies said. “If we were just designing a bicycle, I don’t think we would have been that motivated, but because we are building this bike for someone that we know and have built a relationship with makes it really special.”
Paulina Hoang, a student in the class, is working on a bike design with a rowing system that would play to the strength of Ricky’s upper body as well as accommodate his weaker lower body.
“The most important thing that we kept in mind was Ricky being able to get on the bike and that it had comfortable pedaling to help his legs,” said Hoang, a sophomore engineering major.
Hoang said it was important for her team to come up with a design that would help Ricky’s legs, the left of which is at an angle, making it hard for him to rotate his ankles.
The Forgey family is looking forward to the completion of Ricky’s bike, which Nagel pre-dicts could be finished by this Christmas.
Forgey said he has been happy with the process.
“It’s been a pretty good expe-rience,” Forgey said. “It seems like JMU’s students are always willing to help. It really means a lot.”
Rick said he believes that both his son’s strong spirit and therapy are responsible for his current high function level. Forgey said that he has seen children with far worse cere-bral palsy than his son and that Ricky’s determination to improve is what keeps him going.
“His cognitive level is way beyond the average child with cerebral palsy,” Forgey said. “His determination has brought
him this far. We’ve seen so many kids who don’t speak at all or are wheelchair bound and we feel very fortunate.”
When the full bike is com-plete, a weight will be lifted off the shoulders of Ricky’s fam-ily, and Nagel’s students will be able to see two semesters’ worth of work manifested.
“I want the students to walk away knowing the design pro-cess and understand what the client wants,” Nagel said. “For the project itself, I want them to be able to come up with a bike that is adaptable and changes as the client does.”
Nagel said that there will most likely be an independent study conducted during the fall in which his current students will continue to tweak designs and build the bike for Rickey.
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Rickey Forgey, a Turner Ashby high school student, takes a bicycle prototype for a test ride around East Campus on April 15. Students from the engineering class presented the options to Forgey for consideration.
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essary,” Monioudis said. “Now that they’ve done everything I’m glad to have it back in a liv-able state.”
Korman has been checking up on the house periodically throughout the week, though Monioudis hasn’t been in her home since Monday.
“The health inspector is going to do a follow-up walk-through on Monday just to make sure it’s all been done properly,” Moni-oudis said.
Monioudis said she was noti-fied by the property manager that the re-carpeting of the base-ment and cleaning of the living room carpet would be finished by 2 p.m. Friday.
On Thursday Copper Beech sent out fliers to each home on, as well as an email saying that any damages resulting from misuse of toilets or appliances using water will be charged to the tenants.
“The email was insulting to us because they’re trying to place the blame on us by saying it’s
the tenants responsibility to take care of any of this damage,” Kor-man said. “How can they prove it’s our fault?”
Although none of the resi-dents will be charged for the damages, Korman said that future tenants should be wary of issues like this when it comes to dealing with Copper Beech.
Copper Beech was not avail-able for comment on Monday.
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In the early part of the presi-dential campaign season, rumors swirled concerning then-Senator Barack Obama’s birth certi� cate and status as a citizen of the United States.
These “birthers,” as they are now called, claimed that through a massive government and familial conspiracy, Obama was attempting to trick the American people into electing him.
To help quell the � restorm of rumors, the Obama campaign scanned a copy of Obama’s birth certi� cate from the state of Hawaii and made it available on the Internet. � e certi� cate shows his � rst name to be “Barack Hussein Obama II,” with his father’s race listed as “African” and his mother’s as “caucasian.” It was hoped that this document would end the speculation over Obama’s citizen-ship, but this action seemed only to intensify the debate.
Yet despite the overwhelming evi-dence the president of the United States is, in fact, a citizen of the Unit-ed States, birthers have crept back into the headlines with the help of Donald Trump. � e eccentric billionaire, who is currently � irting with a pres-idential run, sent a team of private investigators to Hawaii to uncover evidence concerning the president’s actual citizenship.
Trump said recently that his team has found “some interesting things” while on the hunt. It is going to be hard for the Trump team, or any team, to � nd the paper copy of Obama’s birth certi� cate. In , Hawaii discarded all paper documents on � le and now stores them electronically. � e Hawaii Department of Health claims the “original birth certi� cate is on record in accordance with state policies and procedures.” In other words, the birth
certi� cate is on � le and is the o� cial proof for Obama’s birth in Hawaii.
Many self-proclaimed “experts” pub-lished articles on the Internet saying the document was forged, basing their opinions on the scanned image and not the original. Some said that the certi� -cate lacked an embossed state seal and signature, both of which can be found on the reverse of the document.
If a government document prov-ing citizenship is not enough, it has been discovered that both of Hono-lulu’s major newspapers printed birth announcements in August for the future president. The argument has been brought to the U.S. District Court twice, with two judges dismiss-ing the trial. Judge Barclay Surrick said the charge that Barack Obama is not a natural-born citizen and the attempts to prove it are “frivolous and not worthy of discussion.”
� is explanation should satisfy those asking for proof of Obama citizenship. It has been proven, the explanations have been given. Yet, critics are some-how not convinced. If it is somehow true that Obama is a secretly born in Kenya, then the greatest scam in Amer-ican history has been uncovered and
people like Trump and Michelle Bach-mann are the only folks in America who were not duped.
For it to be real, the conspiracy would have to play out a little like this: Obama’s father, almost years ago, decided to hatch a plan to in� ltrate the American government.
He married an American woman and had a child in Kenya, while simultane-ously placing birth announcements in two newspapers in Honolulu and � l-ing for a birth certi� cate in the State of Hawaii.
� e next step was simple. Forty years later, this “Kenyan-born,” fake Ameri-can child of an African revolutionary would run for president and not only win the popular vote, but also handily capture much of the Electoral College.
Perhaps this ridiculous bit of � ction will help show how preposterous this controversy is. Obama is an Ameri-can citizen — and that is a fact. The birther debate is just another exam-ple of “the politics of anything goes” that has dominated D.C. for decades. For a brief moment in , it seemed as though things would change with Obama’s election, but with political circus clowns like Trump and Sarah Palin entering the presidential arena, all hope for a renewed focus on civil discourse seems lost.
As we gear up for another season of campaigns, remember what Ernest Benn said: “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, � nding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedy.”
Connor Gwin is a junior political science and a philosophy & religion double major. Contact Connor at [email protected].
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For it to be real, the conspiracy would have to play out a little like this: Obama’s father, almost 50 years ago, decided to hatch a plan to infi ltrate the American government.
Parking services article offered obvious answers
While I’m sure many JMU students were grateful to see the article “Parking Myths Demysti� ed” in � e Breeze on � ursday. I can’t say I’m one of them. Let’s be honest, most of those “myths” are probably what students say as excuses to appeal their tickets. But, we all passed our driving exams — we all know we can’t park in a � re lane.
I found the article to be disappoint-ing. Upon seeing the headline, I was excited to find the reasons behind the ridiculous parking rules that are in place. Instead, the appeals commit-tee attempted to prevent themselves from being the “bad guys.”
In my opinion, that didn’t work. I’m still curious why I pay $ a year just to be late to class when I decide not to
take the bus.Yes, we should all have read the
parking regulations, but that doesn’t change the fact that these regulations are too strict at times.
I think the next time an article is written about parking, Parking Ser-vices should step up and explain why hundreds of students drive up and down the parking deck for hours searching for a spot when there are faculty spots available or why I can’t park in any empty spots on the week-end without penalty.
While it’s now nice to know that employees of Parking Services don’t make commission, next time, give us an article worth reading.
Ally Lieljurisjunior communication
studies major
Big Event, big rewards
I attended the Big Event commu-nity service initiative on April with very few expectations. All I could think about on the short walk from my apartment to the Quad was the sleep I was missing out on.
But my mindset changed the sec-ond I got there. I was extremely surprised by a line that extended as far as I could see.
� ere were hundreds of JMU stu-dents full of energy and ready to donate their time for the communi-ty’s greater good.
The energy from the scene was contagious and by the time my team was signed up and ready to go to our assignment, the � ve of us could not wait to get started on our project.
Just by driving around the city, you
could see students sporting light blue “Big Event” T-shirts while landscap-ing, picking up trash or doing any one of the many jobs assigned.
My team was assigned to help at the Harrisonburg Parks and Recre-ation Best in the ’Burg Amateur BBQ Rib Cook-O .
On a day I considered as a “throw-away” for reaching my mandatory fraternity community service hours, I was pleasantly surprised at how an event ran so e� ciently and pro-ductively — all while motivating the student population.
The Big Event, and the lack of a Springfest repeat throughout the spring, has put our university back into a positive light.
Ben Pierson junior public relations major
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Respect is necessary
There is a difference between sharing your beliefs and pressing them onto others; the di erence is respect. � is boundary that is creat-ed by respect is gone once a person tries to force their beliefs upon others.
In the April issue of � e Breeze, there was a story about Matthew Bourgault, a preacher who was disap-pointed in a calendar that the EARTH Club was selling for a fundraiser due to the “sexy” images that were on display.
I would argue that he was still respecting this boundary when he was preaching his disagreement with the calendar’s images. How-ever, Bourgault crossed the line once he ripped apart the EARTH Club’s calendar. He was no longer showing respect towards a di erent ideology.
� e members of the EARTH Club have just as much of a right as any-body, including Bourgault, to publicly express their beliefs.
Just because Bourgault did not agree with how they were express-ing themselves does not give him the right to vandalize their property, especially since he did not even pay for it. � is is a blatant example of the abuse of First Amendment rights.
He was pressing his beliefs upon them and disrespecting them not only for what they believe, but he was also disrespecting them as people.
Whether he vandalized their cal-endar for religious reasons or not, vandalizing anyone else’s property is discourteous altogether.
Alexa Livezeyfreshman writing, rhetoric &
technical communication and media arts & design double major
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From your yellow labrador who thought I was “man’s best friend.”
A “haven’t-you-ever-heard-of-apple-blossoms?” dart to � nals week for ruining my favorite hometown festival.
From a girl who just wants to bloom.
A “you’re-so-awesome” pat to my new pineapple plant.
From a girl who thinks you are the best Easter present ever.
An “I’ll-never-visit-your-farm” dart to the “Farmville” addicts who take up computers in the Zane-Showker lab, only to goof o on Facebook.
From a graduating College of Business senior who insists on kicking butt while there’s still butt to be kicked.
A “you-should-act-more-like-the-nice-weather” dart to the twogirls sitting next to me on the Quad making rude comments abouteveryone who walked by.
From a girl who thinks your bad attitudes are what give JMU women a bad reputation.
A “get-off-the-phone” dart to the Village girl who’s too busy talking on her cellphone every night to notice me smiling at her.
From a guy who can probably out-fun a plastic object.
A “thank-God-for-spring” pat to the JMU women who nevercease to amaze me with their wide array of sundresses.
From a JMU senior who realizes that no matter how much he sweats, the sun will always be his best friend.
A “thank-you” pat to the last week of class for � nally arriving.
From a junior who is tired of waiting for summer.
A “happy-birthday” pat to the girl in Astronomy Park on � ursday night handing out cupcakes for her special day to people as they passed.
From a guy who thought they were extremely delicious and would like to be your birthday present.
A “do-you-have-a-death-wish-or-are-you-just-dumb?” dart to the people who walk behind the archery targets.
From a frustrated archer who is tired of looking out for you.
A “keep-it-up” pat to the tour guides for managing seemingly millions of visitors all over campus lately.
From a proud Duke who thanks you for your service to our school.
A “what-the-FLEX?” dart to the girl accusing me of swindling her out of JACard values.
From a junior who was trying to be helpful and has more than enough Dining Dollars of her own.
A “at-least-Mother-Nature-is-happy” dart to whoever stole my recycling bin.
From a bitter tree-hugger who likes to believe her stolen bin is still being reused to reduce and recycle.
A “thanks-for-Grade-A-help” pat to the sta at the Science and Math Learning Center.
From a student who is extremely thankful for all of her calculus quizzes and exams.
A “thanks-for-understanding” pat to the student body.
From � e Breeze, whose printer doesn’t print on Easter Sunday, causing us to come out today.
A “practice-what-you-preach” dart to the Christian community at JMU for preaching acceptance and practicing exclusiveness.
From a junior girl who used to want to be a part of you.
A “suck-it-up” dart to professors who complain about how much grading they have to do.
From a junior girl who still manages to turn things in on time, no matter how much work she has to do.
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Gary, a 1-year-old border collie-husky mix is homeless, but on Wednesday, he received an opportunity to change this.
Puppies, kittens, volunteers and pro-spective adopters littered Harrisonburg Crossing in hopes of finding loving homes for about 70 animals.
Organized by North Shore Animal League America, Tour for Life has been held in Harrisonburg for the past five years.
Tour for Life consists of two buses trav-eling around the United States. Tour Bus One went to the South and up through the Midwest, while Bus Two started out West before travelling back toward the East Coast. Harrisonburg was the 16th and last stop for Tour Bus One.
“This is actually the biggest tour we’ve ever done,” said James Gleason, the
off-site programs manager for NSAL. “We’ve done over 1,000 adoptions so far just on the tour alone.”
This, year Page County Animal Shel-ter, Rockingham-Harrisonburg Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Augusta Regional Society for the Preven-tion of Cruelty to Animals, Cat’s Cradle and Shenandoah County Animal Shelter brought their adoptable dogs and cats to the event. Most of the animals up for adoption were at least one year old with the exception of a few kittens.
The Page County shelter brought dogs based on each dog’s personality and how long they had been in the shelter.
“We tried to bring dogs that have been at our shelter the longest,” said Jamie Buracker, manager of the Page County shelter. “These dogs are great dogs, they’re super friendly, so we’re just hoping to get some adoptions today.”
Caitlin Bohr, a sophomore commu-nications studies major, organized JMU volunteers for the event to receive cred-it for her SCOM 350: Organizational
Communications class. Throughout the semester, Bohr and the rest of her stu-dent group have met with the RH-SPCA on a regular basis to plan the event. Bohr gathered a group of about 40 volunteers to help in shifts of two hours.
“Everyone kind of came together for a good cause,” Bohr said.
Each volunteer was assigned to one dog and had a fact sheet detailing the animal’s approximate age and breed, as well as shots that would be needed if someone were to adopt the dog.
There were no dog crates; instead, each volunteer walked with the dogs. The SPCA follows this proceedure at most of their events to provide a more humane atmosphere. Sparrow, a black and brown hound mix, lounged in the grass with two volunteers. Sparrow was one of the dogs to get adopted that day.
Brechen Zawad, a senior marketing major, was assigned to Gary. Volunteers were responsible for showcasing the dogs they were assigned to prospective adopters.
“Unfortunately, there are not as many people here as I had hoped,” Zawad said. “But if anyone comes up, hopefully I can sell him.”
Anne Anderson, executive director of the RH-SPCA, expected the busiest time for adoptions to be from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. The dogs and cats that were not adopt-ed at the event were returned to their shelters.
Purina One and Purina One Beyond sponsored the event, though donations also helped. The North Shore Animal League rescues close to 20,000 animals a year and is the world’s largest no-kill res-cue and adoption organization.
“We’ve seen a lot of really amazing peo-ple and rescue groups,” Gleason said. “It’s always wonderful.”
Along with this event, the RH-SPCA is running a promotion called “Free Over Three” this month, encouraging people to adopt older cats by waiving the adoption fee.
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and adoption organization — hosted the Tour for Life.
The Harrisonburg Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Page County Animal Shelter, Augusta Regional SPCA and Cat’s Cradle brought out their adoptable dogs and cats for the Tour for Life on Wednesday. Volunteers walked the animals and gave them baths as prospective owners stopped by the event at Harrisonburg Crossing.
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� e old Wetsel Seeds build-ing at West Market St. now holds a fresh new look on Har-risonburg fashion.
On March , Anna Melton Pelletier, a Harrisonburg resi-dent, opened Mint, a boutique that o� ers less expensive fash-ion, gifts, art and accessories, than other stores of this sort in town.
“It’s what I always wanted to do,” Melton Pelletier said. “I grew up in Harrisonburg and I know there wasn’t a whole lot of [fash-ion] options.”
After working as a hair stylist for seven years, Melton Pelletier decided to open up a new cloth-ing store to give Harrisonburg those options in a more a� ord-able way, she said.
“A lot of people stay at Devon Lane and think that’s what Har-risonburg is,” said Trish Mock, a senior communication stud-ies major and employee at Mint. “� ey don’t realize what Harri-sonburg has to o� er.”
Melton Pelletier handpicks all of the clothes in her store from di� erent vendors and plans to go to shows four times a year to stock up to date, affordable
fashion.“I want to create a place that’s
fun and affordable and also fresh,” Melton Pelletier said.
Prices at Mint run anywhere from tops for $ to $ and dresses for $ to $. While items like jewelry can reach around $, other gifts can be found for around $.
“It does not have to be expen-sive to have good stuff,” said Jessica Jenkins, a junior studio art major.
Melton Pelletier said JMU students and Harrisonburg resi-dents come in daily.
“I want people to have fun shopping and to bring more people downtown,” Melton Pel-letier said.
� e clothes are not the only items that are meticulously focused on; her entire layout is designed in a way that re� ects its owner.
“If you look at this place, you see Anna,” Mock said.
The wooden clothes racks, made by Melton Pelletier’s hus-band Greg, and retro display tables create a simple yet stylish atmosphere.
� e light-blue walls are deco-rated with artwork by local artist Lynda Bostrom. The wooden floors are covered by tan floor
rugs to make the store feel more like a comfortable living room.
The back wall has dressing rooms, but instead of doors, cur-tains block o� the rooms. � ere is a separate section complete with couches for trying on shoes.
It lacks the distasteful clutter of many other similar boutiques.
“Everything feels so unique,” Jenkins said. “It’s not like a store in the mall.”
Jenkins said she hears many JMU students say, “I got it at Mint” when complimented on a cute out� t.
But the clothes are not the only attraction. Mint only sells clothing for women, but the gifts include mustache stickers, a grilled cheese recipe book, and a “Drug Money” piggy bank.
“I’ve de� nitely seen things in here that I’d buy my guy friends,” Mock said.
Melton Pelletier selects items she believes everyone can enjoy,
including men.“� ey don’t feel that awkward
‘I’m in a girls’ store’ feeling,” Melton Pelletier said.
Harrisonburg resident Aileen Crider bought marijuana-shaped cup coasters as a gift for a male friend. She said the clothes were too young for her.
“It’s great for the young crowd and old hippies,” Crider said.
Melton Pelletier is only , not much older than JMU students, like - year-old Mint employee Victoria Watson.
She said she can’t imagine owning her own business in three years.
“Its really inspiring to see Anna is only ,” said Watson, a junior studio art major.
She hopes to see more stores like Mint to come to downtown Harrisonburg.
“� e more places that people open up, the more encouraged people will be to start their own,” Watson said.
For graduation weekend, Melton Pelletier plans to have Mint’s first-ever sale. Clothing and gifts will be to percent off, and select feature items’ prices will be marked down.
CONTACT Kelsey Peters at [email protected].
New downtown store off ers tasteful clothes, fun gi� s at sweet prices
By SPENCER ADAMScontributing writer
� e challenge of adapting a novel into a screenplay is two-fold. Screenwriters are tasked with pleasing the audience with a story that resonates well on screen while also gratifying fans of the book.
Richard LaGravenese succeeded in adapting Sara Gruen’s New York Times best seller, “Water for Elephants,” into a feasible screenplay. But LaGravenese is just one ingredient in the success of “Water for Elephants.” Led by veteran actress Reese Witherspoon and “Twilight” heartthrob Robert Pattinson, “Elephants” is a visual and emotional triumph.
Set in the Great Depression, “Elephants” begins with Jacob Jankowski (Pattinson), one test away from graduating from Cornell University’s veterinary school — until he becomes devastated by the death of his parents in a car accident.
Jacob quits school and jumps on the � rst train he sees, which turns out to be the famed Benzini Brothers Circus. After becoming the circus vet, he quickly falls in love with the gorgeous performer Marlena (Witherspoon).
Little seems to be lost in the translation to the big screen. � e magic and wonder of a bygone era so carefully crafted by Gruen is remarkably depicted by director Francis Lawrence. But the movie lacks the same charm and emotional pull as the book.
Unfortunately, corners must be cut with a movie adaptation, and minor details and information were left out, leaving a fan of the book craving just a little more. For instance, Jacob in his older age is not given enough screen time compared to a regular presence in the book.
Another major concern for many moviegoers, “Twilight” fans and naysayers alike, was Pattinson’s role, a completely di� erent kind of literary adaptation than his famous one. But Pattinson plays Jacob with the same wide-eyed
nervousness and excitement on screen that de� ned his character on the pages of the book. Certainly the most concrete performance was by Christoph Waltz, who played August, the schizophrenic owner of the Benzini Brothers and husband of Marlena. Waltz stormed into Hollywood after his Oscar-winning role in “Inglourious Basterds,” and he hasn’t slowed down. Waltz had possibly the hardest acting task of the movie, portraying someone who can be inviting and loving one minute, conniving and livid the next.
Acting aside, the most vital part of the movie was making sure the viewer got the feel of actually being in a s circus. A large portion of the scenes were set in the railcars, and the sense of con� ned and overcrowded railcars was well-depicted.
� e authenticity was not restrained to just the train. Sweeping landscapes, faded canvas tents and a medley of excotic animals, such as elephants and lions, and performers held the screen with tenacity.
Undoubtedly, “Elephants” is Witherspoon’s best performance since “Walk the Line.” � e movie continues to prove Waltz is one of the best actors alive, and is a turning point for Pattinson, demonstrating he has acting chops � t for more than just a vampire.
Fans of the book will be left desiring just a little more, but solid acting and wonderful cinematography make “Water for Elephants” stand out among other current � lms.
CONTACT Spencer Adams at [email protected].
‘Elephants’ off ers circus-like wonder
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“The Carrier ones are way more popular,” Pagano said. “All the employees over there bought one.”
Within an hour on April on the Commons, all of the Carrier shirts were sold out, according to Pagano.
“It blew my mind, I was not expecting it at all,” she said.
Pagano said that former JMU President Ronald Car-rier himself bought a Team Carrier T-shirt. Sarah Rourke, a sophomore political science and history double major, also bought one.
“I just enjoy the atmosphere [of Carrier] better,” Rourke
said. “You don’t think of it as a library.”
Rourke, also a member of SafeRides, has been extremely impressed with the success of the T-shirts.
“I think it is our best fundrais-er ever,” Rourke said.
Stacey Sulko, a junior theatre major, joined Team Carrier as well.
“I feel like it’s a family, you see the same people all the time,” Sulko said.
Another frequent Carri-er visitor, Truman Horwitz, a public policy and administra-tion major, loved the idea of the T-shirts.
“I’m glad the ECL people like to party,” Horwitz said of the
“rave” shirts. “We actually get work done.”
But the ECL shirts were not that far behind; they sold out by the second day of sales.
“ECL is so social,” said Tyler Austria, a senior international business major. “It’s so depress-ing in Carrier, but I would probably get more studying done.”
Sarah Jones, a sophomore psychology and Spanish dou-ble major, is in ECL � ve nights a week. She likes ECL for tis new atmosphere.
“Everything creaks in Carrier.” Jones said. “Its really annoying.”
Others, like junior biology major Kate Still, enjoy ECL for the -hour room.
“I have to pull a lot of all-nighters for organic [chem-istry],” Still said.
Pagano said it was nice to have a shirt that could get the entire student body involved in the fundraiser, instead of just SafeRides members.
“I never saw the kind of buzz that this has had around cam-pus coming,” Pagano said, “or I would have ordered more shirts.”
Saferides will be selling the shirts until the end of the school year, and Paga-no said they would like to sell them again next year.
CONTACT Kelsey Peters at [email protected].
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The latest “Mortal Kombat” is something the franchise hasn’t been for a long time — fun.
Throughout the years, the “Mortal Kombat” series has focused more on amping up the spectacle and controversy around its notorious violence causing the actual game to fall by the wayside.
The ninth entry in the long-running fighting game franchise goes back to its roots in nearly every way. From its sans-number title, its return to a 2-D fighting plane and its reemergence of the series’ infamously brutal violence, the latest “Kombat” is easily the franchise’s best effort in years.
“Mortal Kombat” pits a cast of almost 30 characters against each other in the traditional best-of-three matches. Every fighter has access to four main attack buttons as well as a blocking button. In addition to those standard attacks, all the characters have back their signature special
attacks, so Scorpion’s chains and his “get over here!” yell are alive and well.
But “Mortal Kombat” throws a new wrinkle into this tried system with the addition of a super meter.
Building up one-third of the meter allows for an enhanced version of a special move. Filling it more escape from an opponent’s attacks. Filling it all the way provides the ability to perform a powerful “X-Ray” attack, which cuts back to show the internal damage while doing enough damage to turn the tide of a fight.
The core fighting is fast and decidedly more offensively oriented than other games in the fighting genre. While that initially suggests a more shallow experience, there is enough strategy to compare it to more cerebral fighters.
Most fighting games focus on perfecting the core gameplay around human competition, often at the expense of those playing alone. “Mortal Kombat” might be the first fighting game worth buying for just the single-player mode.
The title contains a plethora of modes that goes beyond what is expected of other fighting games. There’s the standard arcade and versus modes, but that’s only the surface of what this game has to offer.
The game has a full-fledged story
mode that will last most players almost 10 hours to complete. It comes complete with its own narrative and takes itself just seriously enough to be engaging, without ever crossing too far into the melodramatic.
Finishing the story mode, players
can also tackle the “Challenge Tower,” which puts players through 300 challenges. This mode offers the most variety in the game as it constantly switches up objectives, setting up fights where players can’t block or limit their attacks by removing their arms and
legs.Once players venture beyond the
single-player component though, things get a little messy.
With online play, the life-blood of games like this, is unfortunately is a little spotty. For the most part it works fairly well, but connection issues occasionally rear their ugly head. This is especially problematic considering the restrictions placed access to online.
Customers who buy the game new must use a single-use code included with the game to gain the online modes. If customers pick up a second-hand copy they have to pony up $10 to play online, a high entry price for something that has proven problematic.
Developers NetherRealm Studios set out to make “Mortal Kombat” into a serious, competitive game that can stand along side the “Street Fighter”s and “Tekken”s of the world and have admirably succeeded while not leaving casual players cold.
Even for those who lack the nostalgia of sinking quarters into arcade cabinets for a chance to see those finishing moves, this “Kombat” is a fight worth cueing up that familiar techno song all over again.
ContaCt Jeff Wade at [email protected].
Combat, content dominate in ‘Mortal Kombat’ reboot
Franchise favorites Kung Lao and Scorpion battle it out in “Mortal Kombat.” This update continues the tradition graphic violence that the series made its name on.
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on page 14 Coverage of JMU InvItatIonal
By Chris hEsscontributing writer
Before the season starts, coach Mickey Mat-thews and the Dukes have plenty of issues to solve, and ironing out each one individually will make or break the 2011 season. Injuries and a talented quarterback pool have been the hot topics in this year’s 30-day spring drills.
One major quandary is the quarterback com-petition and Matthews is still up in the air about who will be starting for the Dukes on opening day. The players up for the starting job include redshirt sophomore Justin Thorpe, redshirt freshmen Billy Cosh, as well as true freshmen Andre Coble and Jace Edwards,
Justin Thorpe is the most experienced of the candidates, starting 12 games for the Dukes over the previous two seasons. Thorpe has a pow-erful arm, but is known primarily as a running threat. After bruising his knee against Morehead State University and sitting out last year, Thorpe is looking to get back in the mix with the JMU offense.
“I feel great,” Thorpe said. “It was hard to sit out after getting injured so early in the season. But I’m back feeling healthier than ever.”
Thorpe is considered a front-runner in the race to be the Dukes’ starting quarterback.
Billy Cosh is a new face to the Dukes’ offense. Cosh is a transfer quarterback from Kansas State, where he became a redshirt his fresh-man year. He was the all-time passing leader in Maryland high school history while starting at quarterback for Arundel High School. His arm provides a different type of assault that isn’t so
prevalent in the Dukes’ offense. JMU is known to be a running-style offense with hybrid for-mations from the option, as well as a newer formation in the JMU arsenal: the pistol. Bring-ing in Cosh provides a huge weapon for the Dukes and an opportunity to move the offense in a new direction.
Jace Edwards will enter his second year for the Dukes after being redshirted his first year. Edwards is from Midland, Texas, where he pro-vided Robert E. Lee High School with more than 2,200 yards of offense and 28 touchdowns in his senior season alone. What separates him is his accuracy and a pair of legs that allows him to escape a pressing pocket.
Coble is also a newer weapon acquired by the Dukes’ offense. Coble was a 2009 All-Metro QB for Meadowbrook High School and contin-ued his career at Fork Union Military Academy, where he passed for 4,600 yards and 46 touch-downs for the Monarchs. While the numbers are there, Coble is also being considered for wide receiver, because of the lack of depth in the position.
Matthews was still undecided and likes dif-ferent aspects of each quarterbacks game when asked at JMU’s last scrimmage of spring drills on Friday.
“While we haven’t made a pure decision on whose going to be the starter come the fall, we certainly have a great set of quarterbacks who can fulfill the job,” Matthews said. “Justin is look-ing better after last seasons injury, and Billy provides a great element to our offense. Jace is also a great choice for what he provides, he looked great out here today.”
Matthews has a big decision to make as the player he picks determines the offense he installs.
“I won’t be making my decision till after the spring,” he said. “That’s what happens when we have such great depth at the position.”
Quarterback isn’t the only position that has a number of possible starters, after the Dukes most recently acquired Penn State running back, Hykeem Brodie.
“Hykeem Brodie was a little unknown to us for a time, you know, he signed to play for Old Dominion and then transferred to Penn State,” Matthews said. “Everything happened so quickly, but we are more than happy to see him becoming a Duke. We are excited to see how he enhances our running back core.”
Brodie transfers into a position for JMU that regularly has an abundance of talent. This year is no exception as the Dukes will also have fresh-man Dejor Simmons and Jordan Anderson, and redshirt sophomore Lee Reynolds.
“All these guys will do great things for our offense,” Thorpe said. “All of these guys are play-makers, and to add Brodie will only make that position more deep. Our offense will need these guys to play at the top of their game, so we can only be excited to see what the upcoming sea-son will bring for these guys.”
Injuries have been plaguing the team throughout the month long spring drills. They decimated the receiving corps, and also spread to the offensive line.
“Our major injury is that in Scott Jones,” Mat-thews said. [He]will be going through some reconstructive surgery, so we expect him to miss
a few weeks of the season. He is a strong boy though, so we know he will get through such a tough procedure.”
Jones played center as a redshirt freshman last year,and is a key member of a young offen-sive line.
But Matthews is optimistic, despite the num-ber of injuries.
“We were a little slow to start as a team because of injuries,” Matthews said. “But now we are starting to pick it up. These scrimmag-es and practices are truly improving the team and gives a great measure of how we are going to look in the fall. We’re all anticipating the upcoming season, it will be a memorable one for this program.”
The “memorable” season Matthews and the program anticipate has much to do with the newly renovated Bridgeforth Stadium opening in the fall.
“It’s going to be exciting,” said redshirt sopho-more guard Earl Watford. “The 12th man is one of the biggest advantages you can have in all of sports and to run out of the tunnel on our open-ing day will be surreal. The football program is excited for the upgraded stadium and we want to represent the team to the highest standards.”
With spring drills at an end, there are still a number of questions the Dukes need to answer on offense. Only time will tell if Mat-thews’ takeover of the offensive play-calling and quarterback coaching will improve the offense for the upcoming season.
ContaCt Chris Hess at [email protected].
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CoUrteSy of JMU athletICS
By alEx Van rEEsThe Breeze
Winning the Colonial Athlet-ic Association championship or smashing a home run at Eagle Field at Veterans Memorial Park is not what senior shortstop David Her-beck will miss most about leading the Dukes to success.
Instead, he says he will miss the relationships he’s made while anchoring the Dukes atop the CAA division in his four seasons.
“I think I’ll miss just being with the guys the most,” Herbeck said. “Our bus trips and away series are always a lot of fun. It doesn’t get much better than being around my best friends every day and playing baseball. I’ll always be in contact with these guys.”
The numbers Herbeck has posted in his career with the Dukes is not what will set him apart from future shortstops who will man the middle of the infield for JMU. His legacy is how much of an influential figure he has been for his teammates.
“His leadership skills, spiritu-ally and on the field, have been a great influence on our team,” senior centerfielder Alex Foltz said. “He’s a great guy and he leads in every aspect of his life. He knows what is takes to be a leader. He’s very involved with faith and has taught a lot of players, both believers and non-believers, something about life.”
Foltz has lived with Herbeck for the past three years and said no one has influenced him as much as Herbeck. The senior shortstop has even taken a couple players under his wing to show them how to play the game.
One of those players is freshman utility player Tyler McFarland. The son of head coach Spanky McFar-land, he has been around the team since he was in high school and has known Herbeck for a couple of years. Tyler took the opportunity to learn how to be a complete college athlete and a leader by following Herbeck’s example.
“Going into the season, I knew that he would be the player for me
to watch because he sets a great example both on and off the field,” Tyler said. “I’ve learned things from the way he handles himself when he fails to his mechanics on the field to what to do in the classroom.”
Associate head coach Jay Sul-lenger has been Herbeck’s greatest influence on the team. He taught him how to field and hit the ball and become a better ballplayer, but he has also helped off the field with personal situations as well.
Herbeck was a walk-on as a fresh-man in fall 2007 from Haymarket, Va. Spanky characterized Herbeck as a tall and skinny kid when he tried out for the team. But his lack of physical maturity did not stop him. Halfway through his freshman year with the team, he won the shortstop starting job and never looked back.
After his first half season with the Dukes, Herbeck batted .306 with three homeruns, 18 RBI and 11 dou-bles while starting 31 games. He was named to the CAA All-Rookie Team as a freshman.
Herbeck burst out in his first full
season with the Dukes as a sopho-more as he notched a hefty .370 average, crushed 10 homeruns, drove home 54 runners and doubled 20 times — and starting each of the 53 games that year.
“Physically, he can play shortstop very well,” Spanky said. “His range, arm and power have all gotten better each year. Mentally, he has a great demeanor about himself and he’s a great leader. Although he is quiet, he leads by example. He is very steady and reliable; he is our rock. He’s been the face of our program.”
Herbeck was listed on the midsea-son watch list for the Brooks Wallace Award for the nation’s best shortstop in 2009 and he was the VaSid Second Team All-State. He also tied the JMU single-season record with seven sac-rifice flies.
A hamstring injury plagued Her-beck for a couple games in the 2010 season but affected him at the plate when he was in the lineup. Herbeck
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Herbeck has 13 homeruns and 56 RBI this season, which are both career highs for the shortstop.
top lEft Redshirt sophomore Justin Thorpe went 5-7 in Friday’s scrimmage. top right freshman quarterback Jace Edwards got a number of reps under center Friday. Bottom lEft Redshirt sophomore tailback Lee Reynolds rushes against a stout JMU defense. Bottom right Freshman cornerback Corey Davis tackles redshirt freshman Ben Hopewell amid the pouring rain Friday afternoon.
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Undecided quarterback position, injuries plague spring drills, but new stadium, new faces fuel anticipation
Senior shortstop offers leadership, dedication
By DAVID BARTONThe Breeze
The JMU Open Invitation-al was the last home meet for senior Alison Parris.
During her � ve years at JMU, she has dominated JMU cross country and track and field long-distance events. Saturday was no di� erent as she won the , meter race — and wasn’t even breathing hard when inter-viewed moments later.
“Today I was picturing my freshman year, I was standing up on that hill and we hosted the [Colonial Athletic Associa-tion] conference,” Parris said. “I remember thinking ‘Oh my gosh, I’m so nervous for this because it was my � rst big col-legiate meet. � en before you knew it, boom, � ve years have gone and it’s my last meet. � e past couple of years have just � own by. It’s incredible.”
Parris has received many accolades during her JMU career, including CAA Athlete of the Year, All-CAA and the CAA Championships’ Most Outstanding Performer. � ough Parris relishes these victories, she has much bigger plans for the future.
“I would really like to try out for the Olympic trials,” Parris said. “I feel like for female ath-letes you don’t peak until about your s or your early s, so if I just keep training who knows
what I’m going to do.”Her success has also motivat-
ed the rest of the team.“� e better she runs, every-
body else looks at that and says, ‘I want to be that good too,’ ” head cross country coach Dave Rinker said.
� ough Parris may seem the star of JMU long-distance run-ning, sophomore Stacey Nobles is not far behind. In Saturday’s , meter race, Nobles and Parris led the entire time, and Parris’ hard sprint to the � nish allowed her to walk away with the victory.
“Today she pushed me,” Par-ris said of Nobles. “I would not have sprinted that fast in the last feet if she hadn’t been there breaking the wind for me.”
Nobles was the CAA Rookie of the Year last year and is an All-CAA runner. She is part of a young group of athletes that is reshaping JMU track and � eld.
“Losing Alison, we de� nite-ly need people to step up and we had a lot of good recruits,” Nobles said. “I think the pro-gram is de� nitely taking a step forward.”
� e Dukes won eight events in the women’s side of the meet on Saturday. � e next two weeks bring two of the Dukes’ most important meets of the season. � is coming Saturday some members of the team will participate in the famed Penn Relays in Philadelphia.
“With running, you have to peak at the right time, and our coach is really trying to get us to peak at conference,” Nobles said. “Right now, training-wise, we are not at our peak. It’s [JMU Invitational] a low key meet, it’s not a high-pressure meet.”
The CAA Championships begin May , and Parris will
have one last chance to prove her ability to the conference. Nobles will get another oppor-tunity to run with her friend and teammate before she steps into the role of JMU’s premier long distance runner.
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Walking with purposeDawn Evans, guard, walked with Harrisonburg children
on friday to fundraise for people with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. Evans continues to battle the kidney disease that affects the organs’ fi ltering ability.
The event included a block party and music. The fundraiser was held in the Convocation Center and was attended by the Harrisonburg public and JMU students.
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struck for seven home runs and RBI in games his junior year while he batted ..
Although his junior season was not his most impressive year, Herbeck was awarded a number of accolades for his bat and glove. By both Base-ball America and the league’s coaches, Herbeck was project-ed to be pre-season All-CAA. � e Dukes selected him as their team captain and he finished third team All-CAA.
“It’s almost impossible to replace a guy like Herbeck,”
Spanky said. “I’m sure we’ll have someone who can catch and throw, but � nding someone who is as reliable and willing to put in the kind of time that he does to be better is going to be a tough task.”
Herbeck’s last season with the Dukes has been his most pow-erful and accomplished season numbers-wise. He was named the best in� eld arm in the CAA by CollegeBaseballInsider.com. He was also listed as CAA’s � fth best Major League Baseball prospect by Perfect Game, and he was the pre-season All-CAA by Baseball America, Perfect
Game and SEBaseball.com.In his � nal season with the
Dukes, he has already broken his career-high in home runs () and RBI () and is on pace to set a new batting average high, as he is currently hitting a lofty .. He already holds the all-time Dukes record for hit by pitch with and sacri� ce � ies with .
Spanky currently does not have a replacement for the shortstop position next season. Tyler and freshman Conner Brown are two possible choic-es on the team. � ere are also some recruits in the fall that will
try for the position.“He’s one of those guys who
is hard to explain and will be tough to say goodbye to,” Spanky said. “He’s come a long way and has meant so much to this team over his four seasons with us. He will certainly be missed for his presence in the clubhouse.”
Herbeck’s most memorable moment is when the Dukes won the CAA championship for the � rst time in JMU history during his first season with the club. But his proudest moment high-lighted his individual skill and leadership.
“Being voted the captain my junior year was very spe-cial to me,” Herbeck said. “I’m thankful the guys gave me the opportunity to lead them while I was here. It was definitely humbling to be captain of the Dukes and I will never forget it.”
Herbeck was an emotional leader for the Dukes and hopes to carry baseball’s lessons on to the next stages of his life.
“I’ve learned, especially after a long season, it is a long jour-ney and you have to treat every day like it is meaningful,” Her-beck said. “You can’t just stop
through the middle of the sea-son and quit. You can’t coast through life. Every day you need that intensity and focus. It’s not easy sometimes, but you’ll get through it.”
Herbeck is a health servic-es administration major and he would like to see himself working in a hospital one day. He will be around JMU during the fall as he will be taking one more semester of classes and will be graduating in December.
CONTACT Alex Van Rees at vanreeap@
JMU Invitational highlights past, futureTRACK & FIELD
BASEBALL | Shortstop’s impact spans beyond the baseball diamond
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Senior Alison Parris leads the pack of the 3,000 meter race at the JMU Invitational. She won the event, part of her last home meet for JMU.
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