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By GeorGina BuckleyThe Breeze
This weekend,both a stabbing and a shooting occurred, continuing what some see as a pattern of violent crime.
The first was in an off-cam-pus residential complex. Early Saturday morning the Harrisonburg police responded to a shooting at 2:40 a.m. on the 1100 block of Devon Lane.
A 21-year-old male was shot in the leg and taken to Rockingham Memo-rial Hospital with non-life threatening injuries, according to the timely notifi-cation email.
On Sunday at 1:30 a.m., officers responded to an incident at Firetop Bar and Grill, where a 22-year-old male had been stabbed and taken to the Univer-sity of Virginia Medical Center, where he’s in serious but stable condition, according to police.
This is the first timely notification this year, but in 2011 there were simi-lar incidents, including three shootings and three armed robberies.
Though HPD spokeswoman Mary-Hope Vass couldn’t comment on whether crime has increased, there were 17 timely notification emails sent out to students in 2011, compared to nine notifications sent out in 2010.
Some members of the JMU com-munity said they think crime has increased.
Evan Grover wrote on The Breeze’s Facebook page, “The crime on and around Port Republic has certainly increased. It certainly isn’t due to lack of policing. Property Managers MUST do more to remove problems from the area. It has nothing to do with JMU.”
Allen McCown wrote on the Face-book page that crime has definitely increased around the Port Republic area and that the property managers and police officers have done nothing to try and stop it.
But some students have more varied opinions on the recent spurt of crime.
Senior Audrey Lindner, a marketing major living in The Commons, said that she thinks the amount of timely notices being sent out have increased since her freshman year, but she still feels safe.
She said she had heard of the Devon Lane shooting over the past weekend, but wasn’t overly concerned because she felt the people involved in the vio-lent crimes weren’t students caught in the crossfire, but people who were looking for trouble.
“I feel like some of the timely notices may be situational,” Lindner said. “They were in a bad situation, and it wasn’t random.”
Junior Song Eun Kim has never personally experienced any violence living in Hunters Ridge apartments, but said she does get scared when she receives the timely notices.
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By alison ParkerThe Breeze
Signs that read “anesthesia work area,” “X-ray room,” “nuclear medicine,” “ultra sound” and “radiologist film reading” linger on the chemically stained wallpaper in the old Rockingham Memorial Hospital building.
What was once home to patients undergo-ing surgery, receiving treatment or resting in peace in the morgue is now where senior stu-dio art major Emily Brooks takes her poster design and senior portfolio classes.
“You can’t help but look around and think that you’re in an old operating room where sick people have been and may have passed away,” Brooks said.
Duke Hall’s renovation will take about two years to complete, according to univer-sity spokesman Don Egle, which resulted in relocating JMU’s department of communi-cations and marketing, the studio art and
art history department and other general education classes to the East Wing of the old hospital, now known as Montpelier Hall.
Dr. Eugene Harper, a surgeon in the old hospital from 1974 to 2001, never expected his home to become a set of classrooms and offices.
“It’s kind of strange,” Harper said. “The operating rooms were sort of an exclusive club. No one is allowed through the main door unless you put on your operating clothes,
plastic boots and masks — now anyone can walk in.”
Harper visited students in classes early last week, sharing stories of the thousands of operations performed in the very rooms they were sitting.
“One of the worst things to see was a patient who had a motorcycle accident, and his foot was turned around backwards,” he said.
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By Jeff WadeThe Breeze
If Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, he would charge everyone with identity theft.
“For boiling him down to one phrase: ‘I Have A Dream,’ ” said Cal-vin Mackie, keynote speaker for JMU’s 25th annual celebration of the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr.
“No one wants to be what Martin Luther King was — an agitator,” Mackie said to a diverse crowd that echoed the most remembered of King’s speech-es. “His legacy is secured. It’s yours we need to worry about.”
An animated speaker that paced a 5K over the course of his speech, Mackie enunciated his rapidfire dia-logue with both a booming voice and
immense physicality.Mackie said recognition of accom-
plishments was not what King sought. “Martin Luther King would have left
that monumental celebration,” Mack-ie said, referring to the completion of the recent Washington memorial, “and marched to Wall Street and par-ticipated in the Occupy Wall Street movement.”
Mackie didn’t shy away from the political, touching on issues of class and social division.
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Politics of Dr. KingKeynote speaker of JMU’s 25th Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration looks to future, not past
Crime on the rise?
‘My blood went cold’
17 timely notifications sent in 2011, students question if weekend crime indicates trend
Students, professors share Montpelier Hall with RMH’s remnants
1/17 insideneWs A3 Post-9/11 problems Muslim students face common misconceptions of their faith.
oPinion A5 siri’s speech rights First Amendment extends to Apple’s personal assistant.
life A7 Happy feet A dancing performance shows a different fun side of tap.
sPorts A9 stuck in a slump CAA leader George Mason leaves Dukes with longest losing streak since 2008.
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Calvin mackie, the keynote speaker for Center for multicultural Student Services’ martin Luther King jr. celebration, was featured in Spike Lee’s Hurricane Katrina documentary “If god Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise.”
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Serving James Madison University Since 1922 horoscopesIF YoU Were Born TodaY:
on this fine occasion of your birthday, take a moment to review the road traveled and plan a journey for the coming year. sketch an itinerary that inspires and motivates. take care of business while having fun. Get your friends involved.
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South Carolina evangelicals hold power in primaryMcClatchy Newspapers
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — On Sunday, the Republican presi-dential campaign stopped to pray.
Rick Santorum and Rick Perry attended a prayer break-fast in Myrtle Beach, Newt Gingrich confessed his per-sonal “baggage” at a church in North Charleston and Jon Huntsman attended services in Charleston.
Their appearances were aimed squarely at evangelical or born-again Christian voters, who made up 60 percent of pri-mary voters four years ago and who remain divided among several candidates. Rallying
much of that vote could help one candidate catch Mitt Rom-ney, who leads in the polls.
Santorum, in particular, looked for a surge of support after a weekend endorsement from a group of national reli-gious and social conservatives.
“It’s a very big deal,” the for-mer senator from Pennsylvania said on “Fox News Sunday.” “We feel very, very good that with their support we’re going to get a network of grass-roots leaders here, riding up behind us and giving us that surge that we need coming down to this last week.”
Sen. John McCain, who won the 2008 primary, called the endorsement a setback for Romney, whom he supports.
“It is a hit,” McCain said on CNN. “Let’s be very honest. There is a very strong evan-gelical movement in South Carolina, particularly inland.”
Regardless of movement leaders, candidates fanned out to make their appeal directly to
voters.“I know what the values are
of South Carolina. I’ve spent a lot of time here,” Santorum told several hundred people at a prayer breakfast. “The ques-tion is, will the people of South Carolina vote their conscience? Quit compromising. Vote your conscience. ... Speak as South Carolinians to a country that is looking for leadership and put someone in there, give some-one the opportunity, to do what’s necessary to heal this land.”
Perry told the same audience in Myrtle Beach about his faith.
“At age 14, I walked down that (church) aisle and gave my heart to Jesus Christ,” the governor of Texas said. “A few times, I tried to take it back, but God would never leave me alone.”
Perry urged attendees to pick a candidate who embod-ies their Christian ideals.
“Who will be faithful to your values?” he said.
At the Cathedral of Praise in North Charleston, Gin-grich spoke to a congregation of about 1,000 about his three marriages, a record that many voters cite as a reason they won’t vote for the former House speaker.
“I don’t come here today as a perfect person,” he said. “I don’t come here today with-out, I guess the advertisement is, baggage.”
He won admiring words — though not an endorsement — from church pastor Michael Lewis.
“Whoever you vote for I think you would have to attest that there’s a man who loves his country and who knows his country, and regardless who you vote for, he’s one of us,” Lewis said in his closing remarks.
Huntsman attended church Sunday in Charleston with for-mer South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster.
Several South Carolina
Republicans said it was a sign of how much the state is changing that it is welcoming two Mormons — Romney and Huntsman — and two Roman Catholics — Gingrich and Santorum.
“There’s been such an influx of population into the state ... snowbirds that have retired here from the North or have gotten tired of dodging hur-ricanes in Florida,” said Mike Campbell, son of former Gov. Carroll Campbell, an architect of the state’s first-in-the-South primary.
“These are people who are more independent-leaning and not as far right leaning. You’ll always have a base of social conservatives and evangelicals. But this year it’s more impor-tant to all voters to figure out who is going to create a job for them that’s going to put food on the table and who’s going to reform taxes so they can keep more of their own money.”
Two more survivors in Italian cruise ship wreckMcClatchy Tribune
ROME — At least three peo-ple died and dozens more were missing after a cruise ship ran aground off Italy’s western coast, officials said Saturday.
The ship’s captain, Frances-co Schettino, was taken into custody, ANSA news agency reported, citing a prosecutor in the Tuscan city of Grossetto, Francesco Verusio.
Earlier, Schettino had been questioned by investigators
trying to determine the causes of the accident.
More than 20 hours after the accident occurred, government officials indicated that many people who had been on board the Costa Concorida were still unaccounted for.
Rescue teams discovered two survivors, an Asian man and woman, reported ANSA just after midnight Sunday morning.
The officials said that they were revising downwards the number of people reported as missing — at one stage more than 70 — as survivors were gradually tallied.
The bodies of the three peo-ple who died were identified as two French passengers and one Peruvian crew member.
The three, all men, are thought to have drowned after the Costa Concordia ran aground late Friday near the Isola del Giglio, an island off Italy’s western shore.
The search for survivors — including the deployment of divers — would continue over-night, said rescue official Luca Cari.
“It is a dangerous and very difficult operation,” Cari told television news channel Sky TG24.
He was referring to efforts to explore the inside of the 290-metre-long (951-foot-long), 114,500-ton Costa Concordia which was half-submerged and listing 80 degrees, with a gaping crack down its hull.
The ship’s Genoa-based
owner said 4,229 people had been on board at the time of the accident — 3,216 passengers and 1,013 crew members.
Around 40 passengers were receiving hospital treat-ment. Two of the injured were in a serious condition, ANSA reported.
The Costa Concordia had set off on Friday from the port of Civitavecchia, near Rome, for the start of a Mediterranean cruise, when its crew sig-naled an electrical fault to port authorities.
Officials said that the Genoa-based vessel may have veered from its course when it struck a shoal off Giglio island, rolling onto one side.
The ship owner said it was not immediately “possible to
determine the cause of the problem.”
The vessel’s passengers included 989 Italians, 569 Germans, 462 French, and nationals from more than 50 countries including Japan, Bra-zil and Australia, Costa Crociere said.
Passengers said all lights aboard the vessel suddenly went out while they were hav-ing dinner.
“Then we heard a bang and a roar and the cutlery fell to the ground,” Luciana Castro, a jour-nalist on board, told Ansa.
“It was like a scene from the Titanic,” added Mara Par-megiani, another journalist, in a reference to the famous pas-senger liner that sunk almost 100 years ago, on April 15, 1912.
Washington state eyes gay marriageSeattle Times
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Only two votes in the state Senate stand in the way of legalizing gay marriage in Washington, but approval is anything but sure.
“I spent 11 years trying to find one vote for the civil-rights bill,” said state Sen. Ed Murray, D-Seattle, referring to the landmark gay-rights legis-lation narrowly approved by the Senate in 2006.
The path for gay marriage in the House appears clear. Legislation sponsored by Rep. Jamie Pedersen, D-Seat-tle, was introduced there Friday with 50 signatures, the
number of votes needed to approve the measure.
But an identical bill spon-sored by Murray in the Senate had 23 signatures. He needs 25, and there’s a shrinking pool of undecided votes left.
State Sens. Andy Hill, R-Redmond; Joe Fain, R-Auburn; Mary Margaret Haugen, D-Camano Island; Jim Kastama, D-Puyallup; Paull Shin, D-Edmonds; and Brian Hatfield, D-Raymond, are uncommitted, according to the lawmakers or members of their staffs.
Sen. Doug Ericksen, R-Ferndale, declined to com-ment, but records show he’s voted against every gay-rights bill that’s come up for a vote in the past.
In addition, it’s not clear if Microsoft will lend its support to the measure. Murray considers the com-pany’s endorsement “very
important.”Company officials are
reviewing the legislation but have not decided whether to take a position, said Jeff Reading, a spokesman for the company.
Microsoft created a flap in 2005 when said it was neutral on the initial gay-rights legis-lation. It failed in the Senate by one vote that year. After heavy criticism, the compa-ny later changed its position and endorsed the legislation, as well as subsequent bills, including domestic partner-ships for same-sex couples.
Murray said he’s talking with Microsoft and other companies about the gay-marriage bill.
“I’m hopeful,” he said.For now, attention is zero-
ing in on the remaining undecided votes, such as Hatfield’s.
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Saadia Khan was innocent-ly standing at a bus stop when a woman drove by and flipped her off.
Khan, a fifth-year biology major, moved to the United States from Pakistan with her parents when she was 2 years old. But, there have been times where she felt she was not welcome in the country she has come to call home because of her faith.
It’s been more than 10 years since the terrorist attacks on 9/11, but Muslims today are still dealing with a lack of understanding when it comes to their faith.
Adebayo Ogundipe, a Muslim from Nigeria and assistant profes-sor in the School of Engineering, said he feels stereotypes are com-mon in any society; anything that’s different from the cultural norm will be misconceived.
“The misconceptions are over-whelmingly negative,” Ogundipe said.
In the current cultural climate, Ogundipe believes that society develops its perceptions of other people and their faith based on mainstream media.
Ehsan Ahmed, a professor and department head of economics, was born in Pakistan, but has spent most of his time in the U.S. Ahmed
said that what’s portrayed on televi-sion is limited in scope.
“People don’t have time to read books or further educate them-selves,” Ahmed said.
One common misconception about Islam is that it’s an ethnicity, not a religion.
“So, you can’t really look like you’re Muslim,” said Dalia Desouky, a Muslim and sophomore double major in international affairs and political science. “There are Mus-lims in seriously every country on this earth.”
According to the Council on
American Islamic Relations web-site, there are an estimated 1.2 billion Muslims in the world, an estimated 7 million Muslims live in America.
Ogundipe said Islam doesn’t encourage extremists which Osama bin Laden exemplified, but he did
not hold a great influence over the Muslim population.
“He was not a scholar, he hadn’t written any [theological] books, he was not a religious leader,” Ogundi-pe said. “He was nobody.”
Like people of other religions, Muslims come in different shapes
and sizes. As an African Muslim born in
Nigeria, Ogundipe said he feels he hasn’t suffered the same slurs as Middle Eastern-looking Muslims have.
“I think it’s because [racism] is no longer fashionable [in the U.S.],”
Ogundipe said. “It is harder to sep-arate ‘Are you having this attitude because of my skin color or because of my religion?’ ”
With l ight skin, freshman accounting major Jake Rath has also never been a target of discrimina-tion as a Muslim, but his friends and family have.
The son of a U.S. diplomat, Rath was born in Denmark and has lived in U.S. embassies across the world. For him, Denmark was one of the most intolerant places he’d ever been.
Once, he was out with his moth-er, who wears the traditional head scarf called a hijab.
“Someone called her a murderer on the street,” Rath said. “My mom just looked at the guy and walked away, and I could tell that she was crying and was really hurt.”
There is also the misconception that the hijab is a symbol of oppres-sion for women, when in fact its meaning is the exact opposite.
By wearing a hijab, “You’re trying to make someone notice you not for your physicality, but notice you for who you are as a person,” Khan said.
K h a n c o n t e m p l a t e d t h e idea of wear ing a hi jab for some years before she finally
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Behind the veil of Islam
Jumping on the Maddy
Wagon
Blueprints for Africa: Engineering students design health clinic
in BriefharrisonBUrG
10-year-old helps save woman
Ten-year-old Harrisonburg resident Camden Breeden assisted in the rescue of a woman who had a seizure that caused her to fall into Monroe Bay in September.
Breeden went down to the bay with a friend where he heard the calls for help. He then ran to the woman’s aid. Realizing he wasn’t strong enough to pull the woman out, he ran to his uncle, Chip Breeden, who was able to rescue the woman from the bay, according to the Daily News-Record.
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Huntsman withdraws, supports Romney
Jon Huntsman withdrew from the Republican presidential campaign Monday and will endorse former rival Mitt Romney.
The former Utah governor didn’t attend the Iowa caucuses and finished third in the New Hampshire primary.Huntsman has criticized Romney, but many said he now supports Romney as the GOP’s best chance to lead the country out of its fiscal recession.
By anne eLseaThe Breeze
Health care in Africa can be woe-inadequate, but seven engineering students are trying to remedy the sit-uation by designing a medical clinic to better serve the population.
“We were hoping that this would be a means of inexpensive health care in third-world countries that don’t have organized health care,” said Bryan Morrison, a senior engi-neering major involved in the project
During their junior year in fall 2010, the group started working on its design for a clinic as part of a two-year senior capstone project. The students wanted to create a clinic that could be built anywhere in Africa and deliver quality health care. Since then, they have devel-oped designs for how the building will look and what kind of energy it will use.
Morrison said the group wanted to work with an open-ended problem that had real significance.
“The way we go about solving it could have many different paths, and that’s what I love about engineering,” Morrison said.
The class isn’t planning to go to Africa to build the clinic, but instead to design a template that any com-pany or organization could use to build one.
Morrison said they finished off a base model of the clinic, and last semester they concentrated on indi-vidual research.
“I was looking into solar power,” Morrison said. “Given that sub-Saha-ran Africa has high solar radiance, we could easily use that for energy.”
An integral part of the design is a rainwater collection system that can be used to power the building by using materials easily found on-site. A simple storage tank can be fitted into a storm water drain to collect the rainwater. The collected water is then pumped through the building to the toilets and sinks.
The group is designing the build-ing with a material called Earth Block, which is bulletproof cement that can be made and manufactured on-site.
“We have designed a model and are testing it in ISAT and looking at data to see if it could actually be used in the facility,” said Dan Wolfe, a senior engineering major involved in the project.
The group also designed a com-munity center that would help people stay healthy and avoid illnesses by washing their hands and cleaning any cuts. The design includes staffing quarters and overnight-care rooms.
In April, the group will be pre-senting its work at the ISAT senior symposium. The group which began the Team Africa project, expect future engineering majors to improve on what they have done.
This spring also marks the first graduating engineering class. The senior capstone projects will show-case what these students have been working on and what they have learned in the relatively young engi-neering program, which began in 2008.
Senior Leah Haling. who is involved in the project, hopes the project will continue.
“We have a junior group who will continue working on the project, and I hope that they can get funding for the project and get an organization to actually build a health center in Afri-ca,” Haling said.
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By iJ Chancontributing writer
For many students, taking a taxi can be a frustrating lowlight of a Friday night out. But a new, alum-nus-owned and student-operated taxi service looks to eliminate this problem.
For a flat rate of $3 per person, students can hitch a ride in style in the Maddy Wagon, a purple conver-sion van.
Rob Woodside, a fifth-year senior history and geographic science double major, is the current oper-ation manager and driver of the Maddy Wagon.
The Maddy Wagon is the brain-child of Woodside’s current boss, Joseph Mills, a JMU alumnus who started the service in February.
Mills currently oversees a larger but similarly flamboyant taxi ser-vice in Charlottesville.
“He wanted to start a grassroots taxi service that was both student-operated and student-oriented,” Woodside said.
Originally, a shuttle service that catered to both JMU and Universi-ty of Virginia’s Greek organizations, the Maddy Wagon has since branched out to offer JMU students a safe, inexpensive and entertain-ing alternative to taxis on weekend nights.
“I really like the $3 flat rate, and the fact that it’s a wagon,” said Hu Nguyen senior biology major and Maddy Wagon passenger.
Woodside prides himself in operating the Maddy Wagon with
a genuine, honest and realistic approach to passenger safety and satisfaction.
“A lot of people complain about waiting for taxis because they’re always late,” he said. “When people call me, I’m always honest about the current wait time, and they appreciate it.”
In addition to his consistent punctuality, Woodside strives to create a fun, upbeat and lively atmosphere for passengers in the brightly colored 15 to 18 passenger conversion van.
“I try to give everyone a good time all the way from point A to point B,” Woodside said.
Carly Pierson, a freshman stu-dio art major, and Sarah Medve, a freshman communication stud-ies major, both appreciated Maddy Wagon’s punctuality and uncon-ventional style.
“It’s only $3 a person, and it looks like a big party bus,” Pierson said.
Medve similarily appreciated the cheapness of taking the Maddy Wagon, because all cabs in Harri-sonburg charge a base fare of $2.75.
“It’s probably cheaper than tak-ing a cab,” Medve said. “Plus, it was timely.”
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“I try to give everyone a good time all the way from point A to point B,” Rob Woodside said about driving the Maddy Wagon.
COuRTESy OF ROB WOODSIDE
The student-run van offers students a ride for a low price of $3.
“you can’t really look like you’re muslim. There are muslims in seriously every country on this earth.”dalia desoukySophomore
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Students, faculty and staff are disturbed — intrigued — by the rooms that were once in use as an operation theater, a morgue, isolation units for the mentally ill and patient recovery.
Chrissy Sibilia, a junior studio art major, found the building’s appearance intriguing.
“The halls on the way to the classrooms are zigzaggy with this creepy blue wallpaper that has yellow stains on it,” Sibilia said. “There are outlets for oxy-gen and nitrous oxide, which I think is kind of funny.”
Once Sibilia found her class-room on the first floor, she noticed the low ceilings, faded fluorescent lights, and strange things most wouldn’t find in a classroom.
“There are these stainless steel cabinets for petri dishes or surgical tools or organs or something,” Sibilia said. “There’s vinyl on the floor that goes half-way up the walls so [surgeons] could hose down the floor after an operation, I guess.”
Sibilia hopes to get her
homework done quickly so she’ll be in the building as infre-quently as possible.
“I’m definitely going to try to get all my work done before 8 or 9 o’clock so I don’t have to stay there doing work into the night,” she said. “I don’t want to be the only one in there by myself; I would get really scared.”
But it’s not all scary. Sibil-ia added that although X-ray equipment is left in some of the rooms, students have used it to their advantage.
“Art students turn on the X-ray projector, and if they put a picture on the light, they can trace over it,” she said.
Freshman sports manage-ment major Jeremy Wood doesn’t mind the strange set-ting in his second-floor GPHIL class — a dark room with pillars up and down, weak fluorescent lights and two small windows at either end.
“It’s definitely different, but that can be a good thing,” Wood said. “There’s a lot of room in my class, so it’s not cramped. Once you’re in class, you forget it used to be an operating area.”
Professors also have an adjustment to make. Sang Yoon, a graphic design professor, lec-tures in a smaller classroom than she’s used to.
“The desk layout is awk-ward with a maze-looking desk arrangement,” Yoon said. “Students keep having to turn around every which way to see.”
The stainless steel cabinets, however, might become useful.
“We may display three-dimensional work that students have in them,” she said.
Michelle Hite, editor of Mad-ison Magazine, is still moving into her office on the third floor. She was located off campus in the annex for several years.
She stores some of her office supplies in the old isolation rooms — where the hospital once held mentally unstable patients. Surveillance cameras used to monitor patients, rub-ber walls and mystery stains still remain and make the staff cringe.
“When I go in there, I always use my foot to prop open the door, so it doesn’t close on me,” Hite said with a chuckle. “It
freaks me out.”Andy Perrine, associate vice
president of communications and marketing, experienced some déjà vu as he moved into the building.
“When my wife and I first walked into this area of the building back in July, my blood went cold,” Perrine said. “I real-ized my son was born here, right near my office.”
He explained that screens were placed on the windows of the lobby area of the third floor, where mentally ill patients had congregated.
“We finally figured out how to unlatch the screens,” Perrine said. “They were placed on the windows to keep the patients from throwing chairs through them to try to escape.”
Egle acknowledges the
difference of this building from the rest.
“We know it’s a little bit of an adjustment, but we appreciate everyone’s patience,” he said. “Understand that this is all short term, and when it’s all said and done, [Duke Hall] will be really nice.”
He added that it didn’t make financial sense for the univer-sity to invest in renovating the temporary classrooms, but the rooms were cleaned and desks and computers were added to fit a learning environment.
“It’s a very large and expen-sive location,” Egle said. “Everyone will only be there for two years. Although the state of the building isn’t perfect, we tried to make it as pleasant of an experience as possible.”
Despite the unusual condi-tions, Sibilia thinks it’s what’s produced inside the building that really counts.
“The atmosphere comes from the students, not the walls around us,” she said.
ContACt Alison Parker at [email protected].
HospitAl | Screens placed on windows so patients wouldn’t escape
Paul JoneS / The Breeze
Carbon dioxide and other gas switches are just some of the leftovers on the walls of the operating rooms in the old hospital building.
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From two girls who didn’t make a lot of progress in the minutes before you showed up and really appreciated your help.
A “learn-how-to-aim” dart to residents at � e Mill who seem to keep missing the dumpster and leaving their trash in the bed of my truck.
From a senior girl who thinks you could make it if you just tried a bit harder.
A “you-can-stand-under-my-umbrella-ella-ella-” pat to the girl at UREC who o� ered me shelter from the rain.
From the girl already soggy from her workout sweat, but who appreciated your kindness anyway.
A “that’s-really-disappointing” dart to the two nonstudents who broke into an unlocked car and stole change to pay for a parking meter.
From a shocked observer who wants to remind you that there’s always someone watching and thinks you two should leave JMU.
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From a disappointed fan who thought you learned the fundamentals in high school.
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From someone who’s going to need one mid-February.
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From the nearly killed girls in the car in the middle of the intersection who hope you learned your lesson.
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From someone who’s sick of the same old concert genres we’ve had year after year.
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VICTORIA PRICE | guest columnist
Freedom of speech at core of Siri abortion controversyThe iPhone S can help with
almost everything. Unless you want an abortion.
� e new iPhone S became a hot commodity instantly after its release, with million sales in just three days, according to the o� cial Apple Press Info.
But it didn’t take long for the public’s satisfaction with Apple to plummet.
The always-controversial topic of abortion received a lot of criti-cism after the discovery that the new voice assistant technology, Siri, could locate a strip club but not a women’s health clinic.
Siri wasn’t helpful when asked about morning-after pills, but when asked directly about Planned Par-enthood, a group for women’s reproductive health that also provides abortions, Siri was able to � nd a clinic, according to CNN on Dec. .
� e issue that pro-abortion rights groups have is that when asked, Siri can’t locate an abortion clinic. But it can locate a place to “score marijuana,” and it recommends the smelting plant in New Jersey for a place to dump a body, explained Megan Carpentier in a blog called “� e Raw Story.”
Pro-abortion rights activists took matters into their own hands by start-ing online petitions with the intention of provoking Apple to make changes. � e National Abortion Rights Action League and American Civil Liberties Union even joined in.
Natalie Harrison, a spokeswoman for Apple, responded to the outcry by minimizing pro-abortion rights fears: “� ese are not intentional omissions meant to o� end anyone … as we bring
Siri from beta to a � nal product, we find places where we can do better and we will in the coming weeks.”
But ultimately, the issue of Siri’s abortion opinion is superfluous.
Regardless of your abortion opinion, Apple is a privately owned company — ensuring freedom of expression for those designing it.
Apple is probably in the process of
redesigning Siri to ensure an unbi-ased standpoint, but they technically shouldn’t have to.
Is this even something that former chief executive and Apple co-found-er Steve Jobs would have wanted? His biography, written by Walter Isaac-son, revealed that Jobs is thankful to have been put up for adoption, rather than being aborted — and makes the point that others should consider that as well.
Because he’s considered the mas-termind of Apple, it could be that Siri’s responses are just a representation of his personal beliefs — something to which he’s entitled.
Apple’s obituary for Steve Jobs states that “his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.” Yet Jobs’ opinion may be stripped from his product. Perhaps Jobs wanted to exercise his choice of dispersing his beliefs throughout his community, not offend individuals with a pro-abortion rights perspective.
But in this instance, the ability to have free speech in a private enter-prise could hurt the success of a business. If this “glitch” isn’t fixed soon, the private company risks los-ing thousands of consumers who are boycotting Apple to make a point.
Victoria Price is a freshman writing, rhetoric & technical communication major. Contact Victoria at [email protected].
JESSICA WILLIAMS | in plain English
Facebook is here to stayLately, it seems like there’s a depress-
ing cloud hovering above my Facebook timeline. With news that the company’s Unit-ed States growth rate has slowed by percent, a c c o rd i n g t o � ursday’s issue of The Breeze, there’s been an
onslaught of rumors of “the end.” Will Facebook soon fade into the
dark depths of irrelevant technology? I imagine somewhere there’s a grave-yard filled with calculator watches, walkie-talkies and old Microsoft com-puters that’s just waiting for Facebook to enter the plot next to the headstone engraved: “Myspace: -.”
But what seems like the beginning of its downfall might actually be the beginning of a new era.
Facebook has million people currently signed up, according to its website. It has already surpassed its short-lived predecessors. In its prime, Myspace only boasted around million users (a number that declined rapidly once its competition gained popularity).
Facebook also has a continuously strong source of revenue: advertising, growing from $ million in to $. billion at the end of , accord-ing to � e Wall Street Journal. It’s been estimated to reach nearly $ billion by the end of this year. As its revenue grows, the decline in new users seems trivial.
Additionally, Facebook has checked more things off its bucket list than past social media sights could have dreamed of. In February , an Egyp-tian newspaper reported a man named Jamal Ibrahim named his first-born daughter “Facebook” in honor of the website’s involvement in protests that
helped to overthrow Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak.
In , the website earned a few months of Oscar buzz for Jesse Eisenberg’s portrayal of company founder Mark Zuckerberg, in the “� e Social Network.” Entertainment Weekly included the site on its end-of-the-decade best-of list, saying, “How on earth did we stalk our exes, remember our co-workers’ birthdays, bug our friends and play a rousing game of Scrabulous before Facebook?”
Amid widespread popularity, the decline seems more likely because Facebook is running out of people to sign up rather than a lack of interest in the site.
In fact, the percent of users out-side of the U.S. are still growing, as explained on its website. Countries like Indonesia, India and Mexico are rapidly catching up to the nearly million U.S. users.
It’s estimated that India added million users just in the past nine months, and now Indonesia has more than million active users, according
to Facebook. Companies such as iCrossing, an
online analytics firm, are confident that with the rise in international growth, Facebook will reach a total of billion users by the end of this year, which would give Facebook the third-leading population in the world, just behind China and India according to the CIA’s World Factbook.
� is would be a population count that Zuckerberg isn’t planning on losing any time soon. He continues to focus on building better social fea-tures for the site and making the layout as user-friendly as possible, with-out worry of losing any of the faithful “daily users” Facebook is known for, according to � e Wall Street Journal.
So don’t worry. It doesn’t look like Facebook’s status needs updating any-time soon.
Jessica Williams is a sophomore English and writing, rhetoric & technical communication double major. Contact Jessica at [email protected].
� ough site’s U.S. growth rate is declining, its worldwide impact is larger than ever
CHRIS JUSTIS | justice is served
Comedian in � e White House
Stephen Colbert for president? Sounds like a good idea to me.
When Colbert announced � ursday that he was passing his political action com-mittee “Americans f o r a B e t-
ter Tomorrow, Tomorrow” to Jon Stewart, I was ecstatic. When he declared he was forming a com-mittee to start a run for presidency in South Carolina, I was sold.
Do I think Colbert is serious about this presidential run or that he’s actually going to make a di� er-ence in the primary? Well, no. But it still brings his message to a broad-er public view: Money in politics is hurting government and exposing the absurdity of Super PACs.
If you have enough money, you can be president. A Super PAC is essentially a politician’s ridiculous-ly wealthy friend who has enough money and can accept unlimited donations to promote the can-didate they want to win or bash candidates they condone.
� ey give politicians with a lot of money unlimited power. Legally, Super PACs aren’t allowed to coor-dinate with the candidate they’re backing.
But the irony is that all of the Super PAC owners are very close to their candidates, something Col-bert highlighted when he passed it o� to his business partner and
show producer, Stewart, which was, as Colbert said last � ursday, “ percent legal and percent ethical.”
I think that Colbert — as always — is making this out to be a joke. But underneath the comedy, there’s a very real message.
Colbert stays in character for the entirety of his show, and most of the time he’s in the public spot-light. But he’s not actually the insensitive, extreme right-wing pundit he embodies on “The Col-bert Report.” This character he takes on is actually worrying indi-viduals who take his presidential bid seriously.
“He is an existential threat to our way of life and to the exceptional nature of our nation,” said come-dian Dean Obeidallah in a political article on CNN on Jan. .
It takes discipline to stay in character that long, and as Colbert says, “what we do on ‘The Col-bert Report’ is get everything that we hate of politics and put it into comedy.”
Do I think he would be a good president? Abs olutely . He’s extremely intelligent and would probably have another very smart man in Stewart as his vice presi-dent, which would make for a great duo.
I would love to see Colbert in the White House and would vote for him without question — even if it is a joke.
Chris Justis is a junior justice studies major. Contact Chris at [email protected].
While Stephen Colbert’s campaign is full of jokes, his Super PAC proves money controls politics
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started at the end of her sopho-more year in college.
“One of my favorite things before wearing the hijab was doing my hair,” Khan said. “But I liked the concept of, ‘Hey, let me step back from my physical appearance and focus on who I am as a person.’ ”
Khan is the only one of her three sisters who wears a hijab. Her mother used to wear one, but after 9/11 she, like other Muslims, decided to change her appearance for personal safety .
Before 9/11, Desouky didn’t feel different at all.
“I didn’t make any dis-tinction between my family
being Egyptian or my family being Muslim,” Desouky said. “I really just thought I was American.”
ContACt Christine Pomatto at [email protected].
CrIMe | ‘I ain’t scared’from front
“There was a gunshot in Hunt-ers Ridge and I heard it, but I never went outside to see it, so of course I was scared,” said Kim, a computer information systems major.
Kim was referring to a shoot-ing at 2 a.m. on Dec. 11, 2011, on the 1400 block of Bradley Drive in which a 19-year-old male was shot in the upper leg.
Lindner said that she isn’t worried about violent crime because some areas are worse than others.
“I’m more concerned about
creepy guys at parties than creepy guys outside,” Lindner said.
Kim said she thinks there hasn’t been an increase in crime in Harrisonburg.
“I feel like I got more emails about stuff happening my fresh-man and sophomore year versus my junior year,” Kim said.
Fifth-year senior Bradley New-ell, a kinesiology major, lives in the Hunters Ridge area and isn’t concerned about crime either.
“I ain’t scared,” Newell said.
ContACt Georgina Buckley at [email protected].
“I liked the concept of, ‘Hey, let me step back from my physical appearance.”Saadia Khanfifth-year senior on why she wears her hijab
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By Ben GoGliacontributing writer
Corgans’ Publick House greet-ed customers Tuesday for its grand opening in a traditional Irish way: lots of laughs, food and beer.
A JMU ’06 graduate and co-own-er, Katharine Corgan knows first-rate Irish cuisine. Her grandfather, Frank Corgan, was from Belfast, Ireland, and owned a produce company in Manhattan.
“I wanted to open a pub because it’s my favorite type of bar: cozy and inviting,” said Corgan, 27. “I also wanted to pay homage to my family, and there were no good Irish places around here.”
Corgan, along with co-owner Vito Pellerito, thinks their devotion to authenticity will distinguish them from other failing bars and restau-rants in this economic decline and put them ahead of the rest. Corgan also used to manage L’Italia Restau-rant and Bar.
The restaurant is designed to invoke the feel of a warm, rustic Irish pub.
A vintage street lamppost wel-comes the customers to a lantern-lit atmosphere, with dark blue walls covered in old family pictures that complement the rich mahogany seating.
Totaling 90 seats, the layout
encompasses an experience for any-one who wants to be a little Irish, with a bar, fireplaces, ample booths and private tables called “snugs.”
“It’s all about treating people right — quality and consistency with the food as well as the relationships among the people,” Corgan said.
The menu is extensive, and no matter what is ordered, Ireland is kept in mind. The menu has more than 50 entries ranging from a Guin-ness stew to traditional pub fare like fish-and-chips and cottage pie.
“Everything was awesome. I tried the ‘JAFC’ sandwich, which was filled with steak,” said self-proclaimed food connoisseur Jesse Sprung, an interdisciplinary liberal studies major. “The artichoke dip was out of this world with lots of real artichoke. I might have burned my mouth from trying to eat it so quickly.”
While Corgans’ offers 12 different beers on tap, it’s the five Irish beers (Guinness, Harp, Smithwick’s, Bass
and Magners Cider) that match the setting the best.
Senior finance major Kyle Wolfson got the full pub experience.
“We tried all the beers, and the wings were amazing,” Wolfson said.
Budget-conscious students can take part in happy hour specials Tuesday through Friday from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. with $2 select pints, $4 cocktails and $2 off all appetizers, pizzas and beer.
The restaurant will also host a variety of music events with Irish
music on Sundays, performances by local singer Jake Daly on Tuesdays and various other musicians Thurs-day through Saturday.
“We’re not really interested in blowing the place up,” Corgan said. “We want to concentrate on the food rather than the overflow of people, a place where both stu-dents and locals feel at home.”
ContaCt Ben Goglia at [email protected].
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By Jeff WadeThe Breeze
“Alcatraz” takes place on an island, primarily concerns itself with mysterious disappearances and was produced by J.J. Abrams. For all those still grieving the end of “Lost,” it will have to do.
FOX’s new sci-fi drama (9 p.m. Mondays) focuses on the vanishing act of 302 prisoners after the closing of the famous prison. And while most real life escapees from Alcatraz are now only stealing social security, this TV batch has been transported into 2012 without aging a day.
Currently in the process of going through a particularly rough string of cop clichés after the loss of her partner, Detective Rebecca Madsen’s (Sarah Jones) routine homicide investigation is interrupted by the mysterious Emerson Hauser (Sam Neill).
Noticing fingerprints at the scene of the crime that trace back to a thought-to-be-dead prisoner, Madsen enlists the help of Alcatraz scholar Diego Soto (Jorge Garcia, again only encouraging “Lost” fans).
By the hour’s end, we have our core group of players, as Madsen’s tenacity convinces Hauser to let her and Soto join a secret task force dedicated to seeking out dangerous and mysterious prisoners no one else can apprehend.
“Alcatraz” does a lot of things well from the get-go. Its concept, once bought into, is much more subtle and hopefully smarter sci-fi material than something like the nonstarter that “Terra Nova” ended up being.
The key to whether “Alcatraz” will play in the long term is how it strikes a balance between the episode-to-episode cases about the escaped prisoners and the more intriguing overarching plot regarding the Alcatraz investigation.
The pilot episode of “Alcatraz” provides an argument for each potential path. The case-of-the-week material is given more time than is usually allotted to these kinds of things, and the episode’s fugitive is surprisingly sympathetic.
At the same time, the show’s best moments and big reveals are already tied to the larger ongoing storylines.
To its credit, very few shows have been able to navigate this particular route. The most recent example of this merged storytelling is “Fringe,” which really only took off when it placed its mythology in at the forefront.
But on the other hand, this was the standard operating procedure until “Lost” changed the television landscape. An older show like “The X-Files” had a similar tightrope to walk and is now remembered more for its strong individual episodes after its main plot fizzled.
If and when “Alcatraz” gets to its later seasons, it will be intriguing to see where it ends up on this diverging path.
But before that happens, it needs to sort out a few of its more problematic areas. The end of the pilot episode reveals that every character has a specific connection to Alcatraz that is a little too tidy and feels shoehorned in. And while the pairing of Madsen and Soto is a promising one, Garcia is pulling most of the weight, and he can feel a bit too much like the 2.0 version of his “Lost” character.
But in a weak midseason, it’s nice to a see a show that has some potential and one that doesn’t commit the crime of boring everyone who’s watching.
ContaCt Jeff Wade at [email protected].
alcatrazf0x Mondays at 9 p.m.starring Sarah Jones, Jorge Garcia, Sam Neill
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Quite a feettraveling dance company
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By Jullian Klinecontributing writer
The circus came to town Friday night, but instead of elephants and ringleaders, the audi-ence was greeted by the sound of tapping feet.
For JMU, the spring semester started with a performance at the Forbes Center for the Per-forming Arts Main by the Rhythmic Circus, an 11-member dance company from Minneapolis. Their show “Feet Don’t Fail Me Now!” featured a four high-speed tap-dancers and a seven-per-son band.
Over the performance’s two-and-a-half hour runtime, the music was filled with jumpy and contagious beats paired with high-spirited, eccentric synchronized tapping. The perfor-mances were backed by an array of genres including a cappella, funk, blues, step and stomp. The dancing had a free feel, with wide arcs and pauses to add in comedy.
“This reminds me of why I dance,” said Rachael Brubaker, a senior theatre and dance
major. “These guys have an amazing under-standing of music, musicality, humor and how to interact with the audience.”
One scene, inspired by baseball, had the dancers tapping in sand and sporting baseball uniforms, flinging sand in the air to the beat of the song.
In the circus number, each of the 11 perform-ers wore a brightly lit costume with distinctive embellishments, and the dancers shouted and marched as if in an army. The song itself was so upbeat, it verged on scary. Its ritualis-tic, thumping trance beat came off as almost over-stimulating.
Aaron “Heatbox” Heaton, a vocal percus-sionist and singer for the group, showed off his strange collection of beat-boxing sounds and then laid down a beat, recording himself with the loop pedal on the ground. From there, Heatbox threw his voice to extreme frequencies and “scratched” his words as if he were really playing a disk on a DJ board.
He stopped everything to invite the audience
to a toast, making the sounds of pouring the drinks and smashing the bottle, drinking and then rewinding and doing the entire scene in reverse.
Caitlin McAvoy, a freshman theatre and dance major, liked the group’s version of salsa dancing the best.
“They took it back to an older style while still incorporating contemporary flair,” McA-voy said.
“My face literally hurts from smiling the whole time, said Emily Iannotti, a theatre and dance and business management double major. “They were really abstract and thought outside the box. You don’t get much tap here at JMU, and it was really inspiring.”
The Rhythmic Circus will be headed to Auburn, Wash., next before traveling across the country until July. “Feet Don’t Fail Me Now” will also be opening off-Broadway in October.
ContaCt Jullian Kline at [email protected].
Promising new sci-fi drama caught between two competing formats
a buying frenzy
alexander CreeChcontributing writer
While most students relish in the final few days of winter break, JMU Bookstore employ-ees must prepare for heavy foot traffic and twisting lines.
With the sudden influx of students and parents, the beginning of each semester ranks as one of the bookstore’s busiest times. The 10-15 full-time employees are joined by 100 additional seasonal employees who work the busi-est parts of the semester.
Student bookstore employ-ees work between 10 and 20 hours a week during the busiest times, a six-hour increase from regularly scheduled hours.
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LEFT Members of the Minneapolis-based Rhythmic Circus traveling dance company officially formed in 2007 but have been dancing together since 2004. RIGHT Ricci Milan has been dancing for 15 years, with a career that includes performances for diverse organizations as the NFL, NBA, Best Buy and PBS.
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By Stephen proffittThe Breeze
JMU came close to setting a NCAA record on Saturday — the record for the most fouls in a Divison-I game.
The Dukes committed 63 fouls, only 21 short of the record set in 1953.
JMU’s 89-83 loss to GMU Saturday was the result of not only foul trouble, but poor shooting.
The Dukes led a strong charge at the end of the contest after being down by 24, but came up short.
The Dukes saw three starters, fresh-man forward Enoch Hood, redshirt junior forward Andrey Semenov and redshirt junior guard Devon Moore, foul out.
“We had some games like this before, but not as tough,” redshirt junior guard A.J. Davis said. “But we fought through.”
Davis picked up his third personal at the 13:58 mark of the first half and had to watch the rest of the half from the bench, leaving the Dukes with a 15-point deficit going into the locker room.
Davis came out in the second half energized and focused, scoring 15 of his 17 points in the second.
“Coach was telling me don’t settle for the three, just continue to get to the cup and finish,” Davis said.
But the Dukes simply didn’t make shots Saturday night. They finished the game shooting a mere 38.5 per-cent from the field, 28.6 percent from behind the arcs and a 65.9 percent from the charity stripe.
“We missed a ton of free throws,” said head coach Matt Brady. “I thought [GMU was] terrific, and we weren’t ter-rific. Give them a lot of credit, they were really sharp.”
Shooting 6 of 21 from behind the arc didn’t seem to upset Brady, although comparatively, it’s a low statistic.
“We’re very perimeter oriented,” Brady said. “If we shoot nine or 10 for 21, the game is different.”
GMU’s bench play also helped to boost them over the Dukes. GMU head coach Paul Hewitt’s bench scored 49 points while JMU’s only produced 11 points.
Despite this, Davis remains confident.
“The only direction we can go is up,” Davis said.
The Dukes now find themselves 8-9 overall and 1-5 in the CAA with five straight conference losses — the
worst conference losing streak since 2008 when the Dukes lost six consec-utive CAA games.
“I’d be lying if I didn’t tell you I’m not sometimes frustrated, but they are trying,” Brady said.
The Dukes are having trouble staying in games for the entire 40 min-utes. They have let multiple leads slip away and often find themselves on the wrong side of the scoreboard when the final buzzer sounds.
“We got to come out with energy from the jump,” Moore said.
Brady also believes emphasis on teamwork should improve their ten-dency to tire one or two key players after the first half.
“We need to be able to play a whole game, 40 minutes with more than one or two guys playing well in order to win,” Brady said. “Because this league is too good. My guys have got to learn they have to be able to block out on every play, come up with every loose ball because there is no margin for error. I do think at some point the ball is going to go in the basket more often than it has been.”
The team now heads down to North Carolina for a conference matchup with UNC-Wilmington on Wednesday before they take on a once-defeated Hofstra at home on Saturday.
“We’re going to fight,” Brady said. “We’re going down there to win a game. We’re going to try and play our best game of the year.”
ContaCt Stephen Proffitt at [email protected].
SportseditorS Carleigh Davis and Meaghan MacDonald email [email protected] Tuesday, January 17, 2012 a9
women’S baSketball recoverSafter loSS to drexel at breezejmu.org.
divers dominate podium
photoS by robert boag / the breeze
Freshman alex Savage had a career-best performance in her three-meter dive with a score of 315.55. Savage also had a career-best dive on the one-meter board, with a score of 296.25. overall Savage placed second and third against Virginia military institute, american university and Georgetown university. the dukes will dive against Rutgers university at home for Jmu’s last home meet on Jan. 21.
By JaCkie BrennanThe Breeze
Ask any of JMU’s swimmers or divers what they think their team’s greatest asset is. Everyone will mention the level of support between teammates.
The strong performances exhib-ited by JMU’s four divers this weekend showed just that.
JMU’s swimming and diving team won 15 of 16 events, hosting competition from Virginia Military Institute, Georgetown University and American University. Most notably, the JMU diving quartet took the top four spots in the one-meter event and four of the top five spots in the three-meter event.
The performances reflect the team’s expectation for competitive diving. Senior Nicole Jotso explains that the team goal is always, “to get as many girls as possible back at night to ultimately help us win the conference.”
Moreover, Jotso explained that their most ambitious goal since last season has been to get more than one girl back to NCAAs. If the
divers’ success this season is any indication, the goal is well -founded.
“The team mentality is to stay strong and know that we are power-ful,” said junior Kim Helfrich.
Helfrich continued her domi-nance in the three-meter event,
scoring 327.35 to finish first. Helfrich also posted a third place finish in the one-meter. Helfrich’s senior team-mate Jotso won the one-meter with a final score of 309.80 and was second to her teammate in the three-meter.
Freshman Alex Savage trailed only
Jotso in the one-meter, and her final score on the three-meter landed her a third place finish.
Sophomore Emma Brown com-pleted JMU’s sweep of the top four places in the one-meter event, placing fourth with a 253.05. Her score of 243.50 in the three-meter was enough for a fifth-place finish.
To qualify for the NCAA swim-ming and diving championships, divers must obtain a minimum score of 265 for the one-meter and 280 for the three-meter, in order for them to compete in a certain NCAA zone. Brown and senior Chelsea Savage are the two Dukes still look-ing to qualify.
Brown remains excited for the rest of the season, hoping that teammate Savage will also qualify during their home meet Saturday against Rutgers University.
Brown also asserted that the suc-cess all goes back to support.
“Without my other teammates cheering me on like they did and cheering each other on, we would not have done as well” she said. “When we compete we don’t worry just about ourselves, we
compete as a team and are always so supportive.”
As underclassmen, Brown and Savage both acknowledge that the talent and experience Jotso and Helfrich bring to the team has been an advantage.
“They taught me how to be more confident in my diving and moti-vate me to work harder in the pool and out,” Brown said. “They set an example for where I want to be with my diving in the next year or so.”
Savage agreed with Brown. “I look up to Kim and Nicole a
lot, and I think they are such beau-tiful, confident divers,” Savage said. “I hope one day I can be as good and confident as them.”
JMU swimming and diving will resume competition with Rut-gers at Savage Natatorium on Saturday with events starting at 2 p.m. Their final meet before CAA championships will be the Vir-ginia Tech Invitational starting Feb. 4. GMU will be host the CAA Championships starting Feb. 22.
ContaCt Jackie Brennan at [email protected].
ryan freeland / the breeze
Jmu redshirt junior forward Gene Swindle attempts a shot despite a block from George mason university redshirt sophomore Vertrail Vaughns (left) and sophomore forward Jonathan arledge. Gmu had six total blocks on the night, compared to Jmu’s three.
men’S BaSketBall (89-83)
Swim & dive
Quick comeback not enough for DukesA.J. Davis’ second-half burst of energy too late to salvage Saturday’s game against George Mason
“my guys have got to learn they have to be able to block out on every play, come up with every loose ball because there is no margin for error.”matt Bradyhead coach
Junior diver Kim Helfrich stretches into a pike before entering the pool in Saturday’s meet. Helfrich took home first and second place finishes. “the team mentality is to stay strong and know that we are powerful,” Helfrich said.
dukes sweep four-team dual meet by taking eight of the top nine spots in the two diving events this weekend
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