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New carpets installed after
Copper Beech flooding
By Georgina Buckley
The Breeze
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 steamcleaned 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 management. 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 grateful for that,” McCusker said.
Their neighbors, seniors Stephanie Monioudis, 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-
Nate carden / the breeze
Carrier library
East Campus library
see Beech, page 5
caa
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 Wilmington 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. Sophomore 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 competition; freshman Ginger Mak came in third.
— staff report
4/26 Inside
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news
Building bikes and
relationships
Engineering class spends two
semesters making a custom
bike for a high schooler
with cerebral palsy.
7 President’s birth certificate
opinion
The debate continues
dispute remains unresolved.
9 Tour for Life brings homeless
life
Must love dogs
animals to Harrisonburg in
hopes of finding them homes.
13 JMU football still hasn’t chosen
sports
Quarterback issue
the centerpiece of their offense
at the close of spring drills.
library rivalry
By Kelsey Peters
The Breeze
The infamous rivalry between the Carrier
and East Campus libraries’ fans now fuels
alternative transportation on Friday and Saturday 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 SafeRides 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”
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drives
fundraiser
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
Environment
Second year of JMU Challenge produces eco-friendly plans
By Megan Martin
contributing writer
Sophomore Devin Patel, a finance
major, wants to create an incentivebased 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 present 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, including Anthony Smith, business and
economics professor at Eastern Mennonite University; Stephen Plastino,
a JMU graduate from the College of
Business; and Megan Bauer, sustainability coordinator for JMU’s Office of
Facilities Management.
The two teams were selected
based on four terms: the project’s
potential impact, innovation, feasibility 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 materials, Patel hopes to increase recycling
rates 15-20 percent.
“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 Bauer
sustainability coordinator
Reusable Water Bottles developed
a plan to change JMU’s yearly reusable 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 increases 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 competition 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 sustainability 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 entrepreneur 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 business 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 hoping 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.
Contact Megan Martin at
marti2mm@dukes.jmu.edu.
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COrrections
n In the April 11 issue, the article titled, “Music, munchies and
micro-lending” incorrectly stated Take the Pulse was in its third
year. It was the fourth annual Take the Pulse. The article also
reported that it was the first year with local performers. While local
bands did perform, it was not the first year they had done so.
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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 neighboring 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 populist rebellions.
Yemen’s political opposition said that while it had
officially accepted the deal with
reservations, it was negotiating 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 January would accept any agreement
that allowed Saleh and his family
to escape prosecution for crimes
committed by the regime.
Saleh’s offer comes as former Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak waits in detention facing possible prosecution for his
role in the deaths of protesters
this year and, along with his two
sons, for alleged corruption during his rule. Saleh’s advisers and
ruling party officials have said
that what he fears most is sharing Mubarak’s fate and darkening
his historical legacy.
Saleh is a shrewd political tactician, 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 multiple emergencies, including a
rebellion in the north, a secessionist movement in the south
and rapidly depleting resources
such as oil and water. U.S. officials 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 December 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, especially Saudi Arabia, who have
long feared that Yemen’s instability could spill into their
territories. He apparently
accepted a power transfer plan
put forth by the Gulf Cooperation 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
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would resign and Hadi would
become acting president. Then,
within 60 days, elections would
be held. The new president
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PEDALING FORWARD
Engineering classes spend two semesters building customized bike for high schooler with celebral palsy
By Natalie Dohner
The Breeze
Laura Weeks / The Breeze
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.
in brief
ROCKINGHAM COUNTY
Dispute leads to first
killing in two years
Rockingham 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 .
harrisonburg
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.
CRIME
Football
players’ trial set
for September
JMU football team members, brothers
Peter O’Brian Rose, 21; Anthony Isaiah
Rose, 18; and Jonathan Lewis Rose, 22;
and former member Jonathan Chad Williams, 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 footballrelated activities. The Rose brothers are
still suspended while Williams was dismissed from the team for an undisclosed
violation of team policy.
—staff report
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 therapy 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 celebral palsy.
“We didn’t want him to be operated on or exploited so we always
opted for the non-invasive,” Forgey
said.
Ricky,16, is working with Professor 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 hamstrings and ankles resulting in stiff
legs.
Ricky, 16, receives physical therapy twice a week, using an elliptical
machine to strengthen his legs and
receives treatment from students
and staff in JMU’s kinesiology
GRADUATION
department.
Over both semesters, 60 sophomore 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. Others maneuver with front-steering like
traditional bikes. Another design
includes a pump system, which has
pedals that move forward and backward 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 differently and trying to capture them is
the learning experience,” Nagel said.
Working with Ricky on a personal 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
see BIKE, page 5
RECYCLING
Senior convo speaker
anything but invisible
Invisible Children founder Laren Poole to speak at
graduation, promoting ‘justice in today’s world’
By Evi Fuelle
contributing 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 Messenger, director of university events. “It’s
for seniors only, it’s very personal.”
Poole is a filmmaker and co-founder 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 waraffected areas in northern Uganda and
ending the use of child soldiers.
“It’s like the bookend to
freshman convocation.
It’s for seniors only,
it’s very personal.”
Ramona Messenger
Director of university events
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 opportunity 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 finding out who he is.”
Senior Convocation is an event
exclusively for seniors — not even faculty 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 candlelighting 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 Government Association, the class
council, the student representative to
the Board of Visitors and JMU administrators compiled a list of possible
speakers and selected Poole, according to Messenger.
For the past two years, the speaker
has been decided based on the university’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 Children 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 member to Uganda for free.
After discovering how strong JMU’s
Invisible Children club was, Messenger said it took only three weeks in
early January to approve Poole as the
2011 Senior Convocation speaker.
“We really wanted to work with students 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 interest 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 Africa and want to help out,” Haeringer
said.
Heather Gallagher, a senior psychology 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.
see CONVOCATION, page 4
RYAN FREELAND / the breeze
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.
Two local businesses
win ‘green’ awards
After experimenting with different 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 decision that won his restaurant, Dave’s
Downtown Taverna, a bronze Virginia Governor’s Environmental
Excellence Award.
The MillerCoors Shenandoah
Brewery in Elkton, Va., received
Virginia a gold Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award. Dave’s
received a bronze award for their
recycling and sustainability program.
Private businesses, nonprofit organizations and government-owned
businesses across Virginia submitted 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 building his new house. The Downtown Dining Alliance
was created in 2009 as a partnership 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 figure 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 currently 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, according to the press release.
—staff report
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convocation | Speaker an
‘inspiration’ for graduating students
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“I’m glad a representative
from that organization is coming 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 especially excited that Poole will be
speaking.
“I’m excited to see Laren
speak because his message
affirms JMU’s commitment
to preparing enlightened citizens,” 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 studies major, said she is especially
excited the co-founder of the
organization was coming to
speak.
“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 Smith
senior interdisciplinary
liberal studies major
“I think that he is amazing,” 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 Rapist” attacked two friends in the
woods in Prince William County,
Va., the teenager knew that if she
tried to make a call from her cellphone, 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 dispatchers 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 terrorist 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 communications 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 dollars the upgrade will cost, and no
timetable has been set.
Consumer expectation has
already outpaced 911 capabilities.
When Verizon Wireless customers 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 Virginia-based National Emergency
Number Association.
“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
Genachowksi
Federal Communications
Commission chairman
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 invention 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 equipment 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 emergency number system could
also bring a host of legal issues.
Text messages, which are widely 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 assistance, 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 upgrading 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-message program in Black Hawk
County, Iowa. It has been available to subscribers of a particular
local wireless company since
2009, said Judy Flores, administrator of the county’s 911 system.
The service receives about a
dozen emergency texts a month.
Some turn out to be potentially life-saving. In one instance,
Flores said, the ex-boyfriend of
a homeowner violated a restraining order and broke in. The
woman texted 911, and police
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bike | Professor hopes to continue Beech | Inspector to follow up
project as independent study in the fall
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essary,” Monioudis said. “Now
that they’ve done everything
I’m glad to have it back in a livable 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,” Monioudis said.
laura weeks / Contributing photographer
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.
from page 3
and any restrictions of movement 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 custom 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 different 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 project 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 predicts could be finished by this
Christmas.
Forgey said he has been
happy with the process.
“It’s been a pretty good experience,” 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 cerebral 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 complete, a weight will be lifted off
the shoulders of Ricky’s family, 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 process 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.
Contact Natalie Dohner
dohnernr@dukes.jmu.edu.
Monioudis said she was notified by the property manager
that the re-carpeting of the basement 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
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the tenants responsibility to take
care of any of this damage,” Korman said. “How can they prove
it’s our fault?”
Although none of the residents 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 available for comment on Monday.
Contact Georgina Buckley
at breezenews@gmail.com.
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Trump reignites ‘birther’ issue
Convtroversy over Obama’s citizenship returns despite efforts to invalidate debate
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Respect is necessary
There is a difference between
sharing your beliefs and pressing
them onto others; the difference is
respect. This boundary that is created by respect is gone once a person
tries to force their beliefs upon others.
In the April  issue of The Breeze,
there was a story about Matthew
Bourgault, a preacher who was disappointed 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. However, Bourgault crossed the line once
he ripped apart the EARTH Club’s
calendar. He was no longer showing
respect towards a different ideology.
Parking services article
offered obvious answers
In the early part of the  presidential campaign season, rumors
swirled concerning then-Senator
Barack Obama’s birth certificate 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 firestorm of rumors,
the Obama campaign scanned a copy of
Obama’s birth certificate from the state
of Hawaii and made it available on the
Internet. The certificate shows his first
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 citizenship, but this action seemed only to
intensify the debate.
Yet despite the overwhelming evidence the president of the United
States is, in fact, a citizen of the United States, birthers have crept back into
the headlines with the help of Donald
Trump. The eccentric billionaire, who
is currently flirting with a  presidential 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 find the paper copy of Obama’s birth
certificate. In , Hawaii discarded
all paper documents on file and now
stores them electronically. The Hawaii
Department of Health claims the
“original birth certificate is on record
in accordance with state policies and
procedures.” In other words, the birth
certificate is on file and is the official
proof for Obama’s birth in Hawaii.
Many self-proclaimed “experts” published articles on the Internet saying
the document was forged, basing their
opinions on the scanned image and not
the original. Some said that the certificate lacked an embossed state seal and
signature, both of which can be found
on the reverse of the document.
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 infiltrate
the American government.
If a government document proving citizenship is not enough, it has
been discovered that both of Honolulu’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 dismissing 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.”
This explanation should satisfy those
asking for proof of Obama citizenship.
It has been proven, the explanations
have been given. Yet, critics are somehow not convinced. If it is somehow
true that Obama is a secretly born in
Kenya, then the greatest scam in American history has been uncovered and
people like Trump and Michelle Bachmann 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 infiltrate the
American government.
He married an American woman and
had a child in Kenya, while simultaneously placing birth announcements in
two newspapers in Honolulu and filing for a birth certificate in the State of
Hawaii.
The next step was simple. Forty years
later, this “Kenyan-born,” fake American 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 fiction
will help show how preposterous this
controversy is. Obama is an American citizen — and that is a fact. The
birther debate is just another example 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, finding 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
gwincb@dukes.jmu.edu.
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While I’m sure many JMU students
were grateful to see the article “Parking
Myths Demystified” in The Breeze on
Thursday. 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 fire lane.
I found the article to be disappointing. Upon seeing the headline, I was
excited to find the reasons behind
the ridiculous parking rules that are
in place. Instead, the appeals committee 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
Big Event, big rewards
I attended the Big Event community 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 second I got there. I was extremely
surprised by a line that extended as
far as I could see.
There were hundreds of JMU students full of energy and ready to
donate their time for the community’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 five of us could not
wait to get started on our project.
Just by driving around the city, you
The members of the EARTH Club
have just as much of a right as anybody, including Bourgault, to publicly
express their beliefs.
Just because Bourgault did not
agree with how they were expressing themselves does not give him
the right to vandalize their property,
especially since he did not even pay
for it. This 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 calendar for religious reasons or not,
vandalizing anyone else’s property is
discourteous altogether.
Alexa Livezey
freshman writing, rhetoric &
technical communication and
media arts & design double major
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 Services 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 weekend 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 Lieljuris
junior communication
studies major
could see students sporting light blue
“Big Event” T-shirts while landscaping, picking up trash or doing any one
of the many jobs assigned.
My team was assigned to help at
the Harrisonburg Parks and Recreation Best in the ’Burg Amateur BBQ
Rib Cook-Off.
On a day I considered as a “throwaway” for reaching my mandatory
fraternity community service hours,
I was pleasantly surprised at how
an event ran so efficiently and productively — 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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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 outfun a plastic object.
A “do-you-have-a-death-wishor-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 “thanks-for-Grade-A-help” pat
to the staff at the Science and Math
Learning Center.
From a student who is extremely
thankful for all of her calculus quizzes
and exams.
A “thank-God-for-spring” pat to
the JMU women who never
cease 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 “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 “thanks-for-understanding”
pat to the student body.
From The Breeze, whose printer
doesn’t print on Easter Sunday,
causing us to come out today.
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An “I-can’t-breathe” dart to my
owner who left me locked in the car
with no open windows in the Hillside
parking lot.
From your yellow labrador who
thought I was “man’s best friend.”
A “haven’t-you-ever-heardof-apple-blossoms?” dart to
finals 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
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An “I’ll-never-visit-your-farm”
dart to the “Farmville” addicts who
take up computers in the ZaneShowker lab, only to goof off 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-likethe-nice-weather” dart to the two
girls sitting next to me on the Quad
making rude comments about
everyone who walked by.
From a girl who thinks your bad
attitudes are what give JMU women a
bad reputation.
A “thank-you” pat to the last week
of class for finally arriving.
From a junior who is tired of
waiting for summer.
A “happy-birthday” pat to the girl
in Astronomy Park on Thursday 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.
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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-ishappy” 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 “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.
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who complain about how much
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Tour for Life
Photos by Meredyth Kimm / the breeze
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.
Homeward bound
Abandoned, left-behind and stray animals fill local Societies for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and animal shelters every year. In an
effort to find homes for almost 70 animals from the Harrisonburg area,
North Shore Animal League America ­— the world’s largest no-kill rescue
and adoption organization — hosted the Tour for Life.
>> To see a video of the Tour for
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By Emily Winters
The Breeze
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 prospective 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 traveling 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 Shelter, Rockingham-Harrisonburg Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
Augusta Regional Society for the Prevention 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 communications studies major, organized JMU
volunteers for the event to receive credit for her SCOM 350: Organizational
Communications class. Throughout the
semester, Bohr and the rest of her student 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 adopted at the event were returned to their
shelters.
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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 rescue and adoption organization.
“We’ve seen a lot of really amazing people 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.
contact Emily Winters at
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New downtown store offers tasteful ‘Elephants’ offers
clothes, fun gifts at sweet prices
circus-like wonder
By KELSEY PETERS
The Breeze
The old Wetsel Seeds building at  West Market St. now
holds a fresh new look on Harrisonburg fashion.
On March , Anna Melton
Pelletier, a Harrisonburg resident, opened Mint, a boutique
that offers less expensive fashion, 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 [fashion] options.”
After working as a hair stylist
for seven years, Melton Pelletier
decided to open up a new clothing store to give Harrisonburg
those options in a more affordable way, she said.
“A lot of people stay at Devon
Lane and think that’s what Harrisonburg is,” said Trish Mock,
a senior communication studies major and employee at Mint.
“They don’t realize what Harrisonburg has to offer.”
Melton Pelletier handpicks all
of the clothes in her store from
different vendors and plans to
go to shows four times a year
to stock up to date, affordable
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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 expensive to have good stuff,” said
Jessica Jenkins, a junior studio
art major.
Melton Pelletier said JMU
students and Harrisonburg residents come in daily.
“I want people to have fun
shopping and to bring more
people downtown,” Melton Pelletier said.
The clothes are not the only
items that are meticulously
focused on; her entire layout is
designed in a way that reflects
its owner.
“If you look at this place, you
see Anna,” Mock said.
The wooden clothes racks,
made by Melton Pelletier’s husband Greg, and retro display
tables create a simple yet stylish
atmosphere.
The light-blue walls are decorated 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, curtains block off the rooms. There
is a separate section complete
with couches for trying on shoes.
Mint boutique
 Located on 128
West Market St.
 Clothes range
from $12-$50.
 Offers gifts and
accessories.
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 outfit.
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 definitely seen things in
here that I’d buy my guy friends,”
Mock said.
Melton Pelletier selects items
she believes everyone can enjoy,
including men.
“They don’t feel that awkward
‘I’m in a girls’ store’ feeling,”
Melton Pelletier said.
Harrisonburg resident Aileen
Crider bought marijuanashaped 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.
“The 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
peterske@dukes.jmu.edu.
LIBRARY | Shirt contest, ‘best fundraiser ever’
from front
“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 Carrier 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 fundraiser 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 Carrier visitor, Truman Horwitz, a
public policy and administration 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 depressing in Carrier, but I would
probably get more studying
done.”
Sarah Jones, a sophomore
psychology and Spanish double major, is in ECL five 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 [chemistry],” 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 campus coming,” Pagano said, “or
I would have ordered more
shirts.”
Saferides will be selling
the shirts until the end of
the school year, and Pagano said they would like to
sell them again next year.
CONTACT Kelsey Peters at
peterske@dukes.jmu.edu.
By SPENCER ADAMS
contributing writer
The challenge of adapting a
novel into a screenplay is twofold. 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 first 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. The
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
different kind of literary
adaptation than his famous
one. But Pattinson plays Jacob
with the same wide-eyed
nervousness and excitement
on screen that defined 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 Oscarwinning 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 confined and
overcrowded railcars was
well-depicted.
Water for
Elephants

‘PG-13’ 120 min.
Starring Robert Pattinson,
Resse Witherspoon, Christoph
Waltz and Paul Schneider
The 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.” The movie continues
to prove Waltz is one of the
best actors alive, and is a
turning point for Pattinson,
demonstrating he has acting
chops fit 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 films.
CONTACT Spencer Adams
at adamssc@dukes.jmu.edu.
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Video Game Review
Combat, content dominate in ‘Mortal Kombat’ reboot
By Jeff Wade
The Breeze
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.
Mortal Kombat

Developer NetherRealm Studios
Platforms Playstation 3, Xbox 360
Rated “M’
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 singleplayer 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
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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.
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
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Football
spring drills over,
questions
remain
Robert Boag/ The Breeze
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.
Undecided quarterback position, injuries plague spring drills, but new stadium, new faces fuel anticipation
By Chris Hess
contributing writer
Before the season starts, coach Mickey Matthews 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 competition 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 powerful 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 freshman 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
Baseball
prevalent in the Dukes’ offense. JMU is known
to be a running-style offense with hybrid formations from the option, as well as a newer
formation in the JMU arsenal: the pistol. Bringing 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 provided 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 continued his career at Fork Union Military Academy,
where he passed for 4,600 yards and 46 touchdowns 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 different 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 looking 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 freshman 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 playmakers, 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 season 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,” Matthews 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 offensive line.
But Matthews is optimistic, despite the number 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 scrimmages 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 sophomore 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 opening 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 Matthews’ takeover of the offensive play-calling
and quarterback coaching will improve
the offense for the upcoming season.
Contact Chris Hess at
hesscm6@gmail.com.
Senior shortstop offers leadership, dedication
By Alex Van Rees
The Breeze
Courtesy of JMU Athletics
Herbeck has 13 homeruns and 56 RBI this season,
which are both career highs for the shortstop.
Winning the Colonial Athletic Association championship or
smashing a home run at Eagle Field
at Veterans Memorial Park is not
what senior shortstop David Herbeck 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, spiritually 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 McFarland, 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 Sullenger 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 freshman 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 doubles 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 sophomore 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 midseason 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 sacrifice flies.
A hamstring injury plagued Herbeck 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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TRACK & FIELD
JMU Invitational highlights past, future
By DAVID BARTON
The Breeze
BRANDON PAYNE/ THE BREEZE
Walking with purpose
Dawn 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’ filtering 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.
The JMU Open Invitational was the last home meet for
senior Alison Parris.
During her five years at JMU,
she has dominated JMU cross
country and track and field
long-distance events. Saturday
was no different as she won the
, meter race — and wasn’t
even breathing hard when interviewed moments later.
“Today I was picturing my
freshman year, I was standing
up on that hill and we hosted
the [Colonial Athletic Association] conference,” Parris said.
“I remember thinking ‘Oh my
gosh, I’m so nervous for this
because it was my first big collegiate meet. Then before you
knew it, boom, five years have
gone and it’s my last meet. The
past couple of years have just
flown 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. Though
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 athletes 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 motivated the rest of the team.
“The better she runs, everybody else looks at that and says,
‘I want to be that good too,’ ”
head cross country coach Dave
Rinker said.
Though Parris may seem the
star of JMU long-distance running, 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 finish
allowed her to walk away with
the victory.
“Today she pushed me,” Parris 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 field.
“Losing Alison, we definitely need people to step up and
we had a lot of good recruits,”
Nobles said. “I think the program is definitely taking a step
forward.”
The Dukes won eight events
in the women’s side of the
meet on Saturday. The next two
weeks bring two of the Dukes’
most important meets of the
season. This coming Saturday
some members of the team will
participate in the famed Penn
Relays in Philadelphia.
NATE CARDEN / THE BREEZE
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.
“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 opportunity to run with her friend
and teammate before she
steps into the role of JMU’s
premier long distance runner.
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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 Baseball America and the league’s
coaches, Herbeck was projected to be pre-season All-CAA.
The 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 finding 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 powerful and accomplished season
numbers-wise. He was named
the best infield arm in the CAA
by CollegeBaseballInsider.com.
He was also listed as CAA’s fifth
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 final 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 sacrifice flies
with .
Spanky currently does not
have a replacement for the
shortstop position next season.
Tyler and freshman Conner
Brown are two possible choices on the team. There 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
first time in JMU history during
his first season with the club.
But his proudest moment highlighted his individual skill and
leadership.
“Being voted the captain
my junior year was very special 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 journey and you have to treat every
day like it is meaningful,” Herbeck said. “You can’t just stop
through the middle of the season 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 services 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.
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