The Harrisonburg Police Depart-ment arrested a Broadway, Va. man for allegedly stealing guns from the Rockingham Cooperative on West Grace Street.

Vladimir P. Mazur, , was charged with four felony counts of larceny with intent to sell, two counts of felo-ny breaking and entering, two felony counts of grand larceny and two felony counts of property damage.

Mazur allegedly broke into the co-op twice to steal guns, according

to Harrison-burg police spokes-woman Mary-Hope Vass. Police say the first break-in took place July at approxi-m a t e l y p.m. Mazur allegedly broke one of the co-op’s windows to

enter the store. � e second break-in took place Aug.

, and o� cers responded to a call at about : p.m. Vass said Mazur stole guns in total. Of those , were recovered; of these confirmed to have come from the co-op.

“It’s very much an ongoing investiga-tion,” Vass said. “We’re still working to determine where they were from and what he was doing with them.”

HPD worked with its RUSH Drug Task Force, the CHARGE Gang Task Force and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to make the arrest.

— staff reports

By COREY TIERNEYcontributing writer

For the new freshman class, stu-dents’ list of supplies includes textbooks, notebooks, pens, a com-puter and, most importantly, a brand new JACard.

� e class of ’s JACard design is unlike any of the previous classes’ JACards — it’s black with a holo-grams of stars and other shapes.

� e card was designed by Jason Chandler, a senior network support technician for Card Services. He also designed the previous card, which is gold, and JACards for the faculty and sta� .

Becky Hinkle, the director of Card Services, said the design itself isn’t meant to be particularly signi� cant.

“We wanted it to look professional and the hologram is used over top of the design so the card cannot be eas-ily copied,” Hinkle said.

She said the JMU Identity O� ce provided Card Services with a num-ber of Duke Dog photos to include on the JACard.

The JACard is routinely rede-signed, or at least slightly modi� ed, every � ve or six years, according to Jan Roberson, the office manager for Card Services. She said no card design is permanent.

Freshmen receive their � rst JAC-ard during Summer Springboard Orientation at no cost.

On Aug. , the � rst day of class-es, the second � oor of Warren Hall was packed with students needing a replacement, Roberson said.

Between and students stood outside the Card Services desk that day, according to Roberson. Stu-dents reported lost or stolen JACards and requested that their pictures be added to the cards.

After the picture is taken, Rober-son said it’s added to the card, which is printed and activated for immedi-ate use.

She said the desk’s busiest day is on Mondays, with about replacements.

“You wouldn’t believe some of the stories we get on Monday mornings,” Roberson said.

The rest of the week, anywhere from to students report lost or stolen cards, according to Roberson.

Freshman Justin Reniva, a health sciences major, said he depends on his JACard because he can use it for Dining Dollars and FLEX. He said he doesn’t mind the card’s new look.

“The holographic design along with the picture looks great,” Reni-va said.

Lisa Wilson, a junior interdisci-plinary liberal studies major, wishes the card were purple or gold.

“I think black is not as school-spirited as the classic yellow ones,” Wilson said. “I don’t like the idea of the black JACard being the norm a couple years from now.”

JMU first used an electron-ic card system for dining hall purchases in , Hinkle said.

CONTACT Corey Tierney at tiernecm@dukes.jmu.edu.

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9/8 INSIDE NEWS A3 Streaking streakPolice investigating two indecent exposures on campus.

OPINION A5 No social change? Maybe it’s because you’ve been using social media.

LIFE A7 Around the world Students from Europe and Asia begin their JMU careers.

SPORTS A11 It’s game time � e Dukes’ look to move on from their opening loss in a big way.

By JORDAN PYEcontributing writer

� e hill on the side of the Integrated Sciences and Technologies building got a wild and rugged makeover this summer, an earthy contrast to the bright � ower-beds and neatly trimmed lawns that characterize most of campus.

� e expanse of tangled stems and weeds stretches from the edge of the lawn touching Carrier Drive to the East Campus creek at the bottom of the hill. Grassy paths cross through the patches of untended plants and spin-dly sun� owers peek above the leafy brush.

� e goal of this makeover was to cultivate a wild� ower

meadow, which will cut back the need for mowing and keep the steep slope from eroding under heavy rain, according to Christie-Joy Brodrick Hartman, the execu-tive director of the JMU Institute for Stewardship of the Natural World.

“� e Hillside Project embodies an expanded vision of the educational and functional roles of the grounds,” Hartman said.

Unlike the grasses that were originally planted on the hillside, which were not natural to the landscape, these native grass species and wild� owers develop broad, intricate root systems that hold soil in place as rainwa-ter rushes down the hill. � e previous landscape needed constant trimming, but the meadow now sustains itself

and should improve the environmental health of the hillside.

When rain falls on East Campus, it streams through parking lots and puddles in construction sites, pick-ing up trash, chemicals and liquids leaked from cars. Now, gushes of water will slow to a trickle on the hillside between bunches of wild grasses that � lter out contami-nants and prevent the rain’s momentum from uprooting plants.

Wildflowers attract birds and insects to pollinate the meadow, which will change rapidly as its dynam-ic ecosystem grows and provides a research subject

see HILL, page A8

Gun thief suspect arrested

Black is the new goldClass of 2015 fi rst to receive black JACard designed by Card Services

The Duke Dog compares the old JACard with the class of 2015’s new JACard, which features a black background and various hologrammed shapes.

CRIME FRESHMEN

ISAT Hillside Naturalization Project reduces runoff erosion, promotes environmental education

Students and professors began work on the Integrated Sciences and Technology Building’s Hillside Naturalization Project last semester as a part of JMU’s efforts to become more environmentally friendly. Today the hillside is lush with wild grass and weeds, so far proving to be successful. The wild grasses are planted to help slow runoff to a trickle from East Campus and will also fi lter out contaminants.

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Where the green grass grows

MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Renting begins for the 2012/2013 school

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) This train is about to take off, so hold on

tightly. Work increases. Sudden stops could happen, so brace yourself and hold on for the ride. It could be fun.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Abrupt changes occur at work,

and you may have to call for reinforcements. Schedule time for romance. In the end, love prevails. A quiet night at home is a treat.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) It’s time to clean up house and pass

on those items you don’t really need. Your trash is someone else’s treasure. Give something a new purpose to double its lifespan.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)You have the power to solve

any misunderstandings today. Celebrate failures, as they show specifi cally what’s missing for success to occur. Persistence pays.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Money is coming in (if you’re willing to

accept it), but also going, like the tide. Share the profi ts and invest wisely. Keep it moving.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

Your glass is half-full now.

Keep focusing on abundance, and don’t forget to share so your cup doesn’t run over. There’s plenty.

PISCES(Feb. 19-March 20) You’re under a bit more pressure now.

Look twice to see if it’s real or invented. Saying “no” respectfully might have more integrity than a “yes” you can’t keep.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) Water provides useful symbolism

today. Flow like a river, gently but with power. Take the course of least resistance. Spend time with people you love.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) An opportunity to earn greater status

opens up. Stay attentive, and show your portfolio. Be prepared to provide references. Listen to a dream.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Adventure awaits, so get your chores

done and go play! It doesn’t need to be expensive. Don’t make a big deal about it ... just go. Surprise people, even yourself.

CANCER(June 21-July 22) Search for buried treasure, whether

hiding in the budget as an unnecessary expense that can be cut, or a resource that you didn’t know you had. Seek and fi nd.

LEO(July 23-Aug. 22)Delegate to increase your

effectiveness. Let a partner drive, so you can sit back and relax with friends. Working with a great team shares the load.

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There may be a roadblock between you and a dream. Stay engaged, and listen for innovation. Dare to risk, if the prize is big enough. Hold your critical words. You need your team to function in high gear. You can win this game together.

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Start-up Stripe is living the college degree debate

PALO ALTO — One of Sili-con Valley’s trendiest debates is playing out in real time at a Palo Alto, Calif., start-up housed in a funky s stucco and red-tile-roof building.

Is it better to go to college, become traditionally educated and then go out and make your mark in the world? Or is college for losers, a four-year waste-land that only slows innovation because the up-and-coming girl and boy geniuses are busy reading Homer when they could be slinging code?

“We’re an interesting exam-ple,” says John Collison, , who with his brother start-ed Stripe, a company looking to build a new way to handle online transactions. “We’re fairly education-agnostic when

we look at people.”The -person company

is built around people with no degrees, people with two degrees, people who hope to get degrees, people with no time to think about degrees.

“What have you done? What have you worked on? What are you interested in doing? That’s what we look at,” says Chief Operating Officer Billy Alvarado, , with a Georgia Tech engineering degree and a Stanford MBA. “College is an arti� cial period of learning.”

Consider Ludwig Pettersson, the startup’s franchise player. Pettersson is a Web designer with a heavy programming background. He dropped out of high school to pursue a tech career, though he’s since com-pleted his secondary education in his native Sweden. College is not on his to-do list, but he apparently knows his stu� .

“I’ve been designing web-sites for years now,” says Pettersson, who’s . “I started when I was .”So basically, he’s spent half his

life doing the job that Collison wants him to do.

� en there are Collison and his brother Patrick, both of whom left their native Ireland to attend the elites of the elite — Harvard and MIT respec-tively. Both dropped out to start Stripe, no doubt thrilling their parents.

“My mother, when I was going to Harvard, said, ‘You better do all four years,’ “ John Collison says. “She knew we were at-risk children.”

College dropouts hitting it big — Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, the Google guys and the Yahoo guys, if you count graduate programs — have been a part of Sili-con Valley lore as much as the idea of starting a company in a garage. But lately the buzz around ditching the degree has grown louder.

Perhaps no one is more responsible for that than PayPal co-founder and ven-ture capitalist Peter Thiel, who interestingly enough has invested in Stripe. Last

year, � iel, a managing part-ner at The Founders Fund, announced he would provide grants of $, each to entrepreneurs under who agreed to start companies rath-er than attend college classes. � iel argues that a nation des-perately in need of innovation can’t afford to wait around while its brightest innovators � nish college.

“Increasingly, technology creates unprecedented lever-age for young people to do influential, groundbreaking work. Years of experience aren’t so important in a meritocracy,” � iel said in a prepared state-ment. “It’s often the brilliant young technologists like Lud-wig that have the most impact in Silicon Valley.”

And while I’m still old-fash-ioned enough to argue that a college education prepares young people for a life beyond work and commerce, there are some compelling arguments on the side of entrepreneurs and technologists who want to go for it while they can. First,

an idea that is a good one in Silicon Valley today might be obsolete four years from now.

Second, the staggering cost of college can leave graduates deep in hock. Not a good posi-tion to be in when you’re trying to raise capital for a start-up or planning to join a company that pays you with a stake in an untested company with no pro� ts.

Additionally, it’s hard to argue against some of the fab-ulous drop-out success stories, though it’s wise to remember what a miniscule percentage of entrepreneurs hit it big with Apple, Oracle, Facebook or Google.

And � nally, there’s Petters-son. Here’s a guy who grew up in a small Swedish town, found his passion early and looked for the best place to pursue it.

“It was kind of a dream come true, coming out to Silicon Val-ley and experiencing all this,” he says. “I just really want to make something really good and this is where it happens.”

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By GEorGina BucklEyThe Breeze

In the first meeting of the semester, the Student Government Association laid out plans for the coming year as well as discussing new directions.

Senior health sciences major Chris Brown, the student representative to the Board of Visitors, presented some new and old proposals that would be discussed by the SGA during upcoming meetings. These includ-ed creating a jazz major, changing students’ schedules and also reor-ganizing the College of Integrated Science and Technology.

“There’s been talking of separating them out, but nothing is finalized,” Brown said. “We might get another college.”

The proposal for the division of CISAT was presented at the last Board of Visitors meeting on June 3.

Student body president Pat Watral said that because the college is so large, a lot of the majors underneath it don’t fit the title of the college.

“You could be a nutrition major, but be in the CISAT,” said Watral, a senior international affairs major.

Watral said the potential college might be called the College of Health and Behavior Studies.

The SGA is also gearing up for their Sept. 11 anniversary event, which will take place on the Quad at 7 p.m.

“The event doesn’t belong to any particular group,” Watral said. “A bunch of student leaders noticed there wasn’t an open, collective event, so two weeks ago we sat down and said, ‘Let’s get something together.’ ”

Morgan Shaughnessy, the contin-gency liaison, also announced the amount of money they have been allotted for contingency funds, which

is about $34,000. These funds may be used by clubs for events they are try-ing to host. If the club wasn’t able to fund raise enough to cover their costs then they may apply for contingency funds.

The amount varies from year to year and it was about $56,000 last year, according to Shaughnessy, a sopho-more political science major.

Shevy Chaganti, chair of the leg-islative action committee, is looking forward to her role in creating a better bond between the students and Har-risonburg. Her plans will be discussed in the coming meetings.

Chaganti, a sophomore interna-tional affairs major, will be attending Harrisonburg town council meetings.

“I’ve already talked to the mayor and made that initial contact,” said Chaganti. “But my goal is to get the students to recognize that they have to work with the city.”

Emily Douillard, vice president and senior health sciences major, said Purple Out planning is already underway for this year’s homecoming.

“I’m very excited to start this year and work with you all,” Douillard said.

Freshman elections will be held on Thursday, Sept. 15, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Election packets are due to the SGA office in Taylor 304 by Sept. 12 at 8 p.m. A mandatory meeting for all students interested in running will be held at that time.

S GA’s next meeting wil l be held on Tuesday at 5:15 p.m. in the Festival Highlands room.

contact Georgina Buckley at breezenews@gmail.com.

Top Duke dogsThree alumnae win contest hosted by Google, beating out about 4,000 teams of students across the country

By sina kiprycontributing writer

Lindsay Keller, Larissa Cook-son and Molly Shea graduated in 2011, but not before beating out 35,000 students to run a three-week Google AdWords campaign for a local advertising company.

Google AdWords is a service that lets people create and run ads for their businesses and is displayed along with search results when someone searches Google using keywords, accord-ing to Google’s website.

The students ran a l ive AdWords campaign for SOS Advertising, a promotion-al advertising company in Harrisonburg.

“Throughout the semester we developed a pre-campaign strat-egy report, ran a live campaign on Google AdWords for three weeks and wrote a post-cam-paign summary report,” Cookson said.

The in-depth report detailed what happened during the live campaign, the successes, prob-lems and changes that were made from the original plan, according to Cookson.

The team worked together on everything which, Keller said, played a big part in their win.

“We all shared equal respon-sibility, collaborated on every decision and were all involved with each part of managing a Google AdWords account,” Keller said.

The team gave SOS advice for the future and how to continue the use of AdWords.

Cookson said she recom-m e n d e d S O S A d v e r t i s i n g continue using Google AdWords to promote its business.

The team’s campaign took place during the spring semester with $200 in funds from Google.

The team began work in Jan-uary and didn’t stop until June, Clarke said. The competition fea-tured 4,000 student teams from around the world.

In late July, expert Googlers and a panel of academic judges

from all over the world selected the winners based on the cam-paign’s success.

There were four global regions in the Google Challenge: the Americas, Middle East and Africa, Europe and Asia Pacific, Clarke said.

The alumnae learned of the challenge through Theresa Clarke’s MKTG 490: Special Stud-ies in Marketing course. Clarke, the team’s adviser, said each year her students’ primary proj-ect is to create an entry for the competition.

C l a rke wa s p a r t i c u l a r l y impressed with the class’ team-work and support.

“The way the class worked together this year was amazing,”

Clarke said. “To me, it’s like the entire class won.”

Each group had a team

captain. Keller was the captain for the winning JMU team and was the primary communicator with Google.

Organization and punctuality were the most important things to her, Keller said.

The process required a lot of attention and detailed work throughout the semester, but for Cookson, it was well worth it.

“Taking part in the class and participating in the Google Chal-lenge was by far one of the best things I could have done for my future career,” Cookson said.

Shea said she considered the challenge a fortunate opportu-nity for her.

“The result of the Google Online Marketing Challenge

speaks volumes about the edu-cation that the JMU College of Business provides for its stu-dents,” Shea said.

She said the challenge helped her prepare for her job after school. Shea now lives in Pitts-burgh and works as a business intelligence analyst for an infor-mation technology consulting company called CIBER Inc.

“JMU students are fortunate to have the opportunity to enroll in a course that allows them to gain real-world experience while still having the support of the profes-sor,” Shea said.

This isn’t the first year JMU students have received the Americas Regional winner title. Clarke said her team won in 2009 and, like the 2009 team, the 2011 winners will be taking an all expenses-paid trip to the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif., this October.

The retreat includes interac-tive seminars about Google’s seven principles of marketing, AdWords strategies and a day in the life of marketing Googlers, according to Clarke.

Cookson, who now works as a search marketing analyst at the Rimm-Kaufman Group in Charlottesville, said her current employer advised the team on the Google Online Marketing Challenge.

It was the challenge, she said, that landed her the job at Rimm-Kaufman Group.

Keller currently works as a junior account manager at Search Mojo in Charlottesville.

“Having the Google Online Marking Challenge on my résu-mé made me stand out from the competition and gave me a great experience to talk about in inter-views,” Keller said.

MK TG 49 0 isn’t of fered this semester, Clarke said, but the next class will par-t i c i p at e i n t h e c ha l l e n g e during the spring 2012 semester.

contact Sina Kipry at kiprysx@dukes.jmu.edu.

Larissa Cookson (left), Lindsey Keller and Molly Shea weren’t the only students from Theresa Clarke’s MKTG 490: Special Studies in Marketing class who placed in the semi-finals of the competition. Clarke said all the students in her spring semester class entered the competition and placed in the top 100 globally.

courTesy of Theresa clarke

“The result of the Google online Marketing challenge speaks volumes about the education that the JMu college of Business provides for its students.”molly shea2011 marketing graduate

Wheels in motionsGa

Board of Visitors considers dividing College of Integrated Science and Technology, changing class schedules, adding jazz major

Want to get involved in sGa?Freshman election packets are due Monday, Sept. 12. Applications are available

for download at sga.jmu.edu. Applicants must be available

to attend the mandatory interest meeting on Sept. 12 at 8 p.m. in Taylor 304.

available positions:

n Class Council - President, Vice President, Treasurer and secretary

n Residence Area Senator - Bluestone and Tree houses (3), hillside (2), lakeside (2), skyline

(4) and Village (4)

n At-Large Senator (represents the entire

freshman class)

“a bunch of student leaders noticed there wasn’t an open, collective event, so two weeks ago we sat down and said, ‘let’s get something together.’ “pat WatralStudent body president, senior international affairs major

JMU police are looking for two alleged campus flashers reported in the first two weeks of school.

The most recent incident took place Monday on the second floor of East Campus Library, according to JMU police chief Lee Shifflett. A female witness reported that at about 9:30 p.m., an unknown black male approximately 6 feet tall sat down near her. An hour later, the witness exposed himself, she said.

The male wore a black rain ja cket and black windbreaker pants. He had short, wave-style black hair, according to Shifflett.

The first alleged indecent expo-sure took place at about 1:30 p.m. on Aug. 20 on Greek Row, according to Shifflett. Two female witnesses said a white male between 35 and 40 exposed himself. When one of

the victims used her cell phone to call the police, he ran in the direc-tion of Hillcrest Avenue. The two witnesses described him as weigh-ing between 180 and 190 lbs. and wearing a red shirt, black shorts, athletic shoes, short socks and a ball cap.

Last year, JMU police sent out three timely notifications about indecent exposures; one in Decem-ber and two in January. Carlos Perez-Lopez of Harrisonburg was arrested for a fourth reported inde-cent exposure outside of Taylor Hall Feb. 1, which matched descriptions of the suspect for the exposures on Dec. 13 and Jan. 17. The Jan. 24 alleged indecent exposure by a white male remains unsolved.

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PHILADELPHIA — The for-mer Rutgers University student charged with illegally video-taping his roommate having a sexual encounter with another man texted an apology to the roommate, unaware that about same the time the roommate was standing on the George Washington Bridge contem-plating suicide, his lawyers said in court papers filed Thursday.

“I’m sorry if you heard something distorted and dis-turbing, but I assure you all my actions were good-natured,” lawyers for Dharun Ravi said Ravi wrote in a text to Tyler Clementi around 8:46 p.m. on Sept. 22, 2010.

The lawyers, in a lengthy motion asking that all charg-es against their client be dropped, said they could not determine whether Clementi, 18, ever read the text. Clemen-ti jumped off the bridge to his death that night.

In the motion and support-ing documents totaling nearly 700 pages, lawyers for Ravi, 19, of Plainsboro, N.J., asked a Middlesex County Court judge to throw out the bias intimida-tion and invasion of privacy charges against Ravi for a lack of evidence. The defense attor-neys also argued that the county prosecutor’s office had failed to provide a grand jury with a complete picture of the case; had distorted statements

that mitigated against their client’s culpability; and had failed to adequately deter-mine whether any of the grand jurors were prejudiced by the massive publicity surrounding the case.

“The news media picked up on the story, which became a worldwide beacon of discus-sion about gay youth suicides and ‘cyber-bullying,’” attorneys Steven Altman and Philip Nettl wrote in their legal brief.

But, they contended, in most instances the media had the story wrong. In a sweeping presentation of their version of the events that culminated with Clementi’s suicide, the lawyers said their client was neither homophobic nor out to intimidate Clementi.

The legal brief included the apology the lawyers say Ravi sent by text to Clementi and other statements from Ravi and others that supported the defense position that he did not try to harass or intimidate Clementi, nor did he circulate Internet video of the sexual encounters.

In fact, the lawyers argued, despite the prosecution’s con-tention, there was no video of sexual relations between Clementi and an individu-al identified only as “M.B.” Clementi and M.B. had two encounters in the dorm room on the Busch campus on Rut-gers University, according to the court record.

The first, on Sept. 19, was

picked up on Ravi’s computer via iChat. The second, despite allegations to the contrary, was not, the defense contends. The case, which has attracted national attention and has become a rallying point for gay and lesbian civil rights groups, is set for trial later this year.

Ravi could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison if convicted of the most serious bias intimidation charges. The Middlesex County Prosecu-tor’s Office has two weeks to respond to the motion.

Clementi’s family could not be reached for comment. The defense brief also pointed to emails Clementi allegedly sent to a friend after he learned that Ravi and others students had viewed the Sept. 19 encounter.

The motion for dismissal

cites an email Clementi sent to a friend in which he ques-tioned Ravi’s actions, but then joked about the incident and said it was “not so bad.”

He also dismissed the idea that this was any kind of “hate crime,” the lawyers con-tend. The defense also asked the court to order the pros-ecutor’s office to turn over three documents from Cle-menti’s computer that they allege show he was in a state of depression weeks, if not months, before the incidents in the dorm room.

“Whatever feelings were controlling [Clementi’s] behav-ior appear to have had their roots far from Busch campus, and far from defendant,” the lawyers argued, citing, among other things comments made to Rutgers authorities by Cle-menti’s mother on the night she reported him missing and also the fact that Clementi had taken three pictures of the George Washington Bridge with his cellphone weeks before the suicide.

When Clementi’s mother called the Rutgers Information Desk, the lawyers said, “she explained that [Clementi] had been depressed and had told his parents some ‘disturbing’ information three weeks prior.”

The lawyers said that was a reference to Clementi having informed his parents that he was gay.

In asking Judge Glenn Berman to throw out all the

charges against their client, the lawyers argued that the prosecutor’s office had made a “one-dimensional” presenta-tion to the grand jury and that there was not enough evidence to support any of the charges.

Jurors should have been told, they contended, that Ravi and another student viewed the encounter Sept. 19 for only a few seconds before closing their computer; that allegations that the second encounter, Sept. 21, was video recorded and became part of a “viewing party” was unsub-stantiated; that, in fact, Ravi told authorities he had put his computer “to sleep” on Sept. 21 so that no one could view the dorm room encounter by linking to it via iChat.

The lawyers, through-out their 75-page legal brief, argued that the allegations of bias and intimidation were based on false or misleading information presented to the grand jury. They also cited the text Ravi sent to Clemen-ti after learning that Clementi was upset and had asked Rut-gers officials to relocate him to another dorm room.

“I want to explain what hap-pened,” the text cited by the attorneys reads. “Sunday night (Sept. 19) when you requested to have someone over I didn’t realize you wanted the room in private.”

Ravi explained that he went to Molly Wei’s dorm room on the same floor. Wei, also

a student at the time, was originally charged in the case and is now cooperating with authorities.

“I went to Molly’s room and I was showing her how I set up my computer so I can access it from anywhere. I turned on my camera and saw you in the corner of the screen and I immediately closed it. I felt uncomfortable and guilty of what happened.”

Ravi wrote that he turned his computer off Sept. 21 so that no one would be able to access it.

“I’ve known you were gay and I have no problem with it,” Ravi wrote. “In fact, one of my closest friends is gay, and he and I have a very open rela-tionship. I just suspected you were shy about it which is why I never broached the topic. I don’t want your freshman year to be ruined because of a petty misunderstanding; it’s adding to my guilt. You have to right to move if you wish, but I don’t want you to feel pressured to without fully understanding the situation.”

The lawyers noted the text message was sent at 8:46 p.m. Based on cellphone records, that was about the same time Clementi was on the George Washington Bridge. Defense attorneys argued the grand jury was not shown the text message, “which clearly con-veys defendant’s remorse and reconciliation.”

Roomate who streamed video to appear in court Friday

“I turned on my camera and saw you in the corner of the screen and I immediately closed it. I felt uncomfortable and guilty of what happened.”Dharun RaviRutgers student, text Tyler Clementi

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LETTER TO THE EDITORPoor customer service

I am a parent of a James Madison undergraduate and wanted to let the community know about what I perceive as a horrendous experience at a Harrisonburg business.

I visited James Madison Square Friday. My car was towed nine minutes after I arrived due to the overzealous-ness of an employee working for the management company of the strip mall.

My daughter, her room-mate and I decided to stop to get Starbucks. As we parked, my daughter’s roommate was dismayed because she didn’t have her wallet with her. I told her I would buy. She insisted on getting her own money. We walked one block to their dorm to retrieve her purse. It was : a.m. We returned at : a.m. � e girls went to get their Starbucks while I got the car, but it wasn’t there.

I noticed a woman in the parking lot who I assumed was a manager of one of the busi-nesses and asked her if she had seen anything suspicious. I thought my car had been sto-len. She was surprisingly gru� and shouted, “Read the sign!”

The sign warned against overnight parking. I, howev-er, was a customer during the daytime since my daughter and

her roommate were joining me with their Starbucks purchas-es mid-morning. I called the management company, but the management offered no substantive help.

I bailed out my car for $. � e towing company told me my car was towed at : a.m. and it takes four to � ve minutes to arrive from their location to James Madison Square. That means the woman represent-ing the mall management company called the company before : a.m. — just four minutes after I parked.

I understand the obvious problem of premium parking at businesses surrounding the university. But am I assuming too much to think calling for a tow truck once a car has been parked for four minutes might be considered overzealous?

Later, Starbucks contact-ed me after this incident with apologies and an o� er to reim-burse me for the towing. A nice act, of course, but could have been prevented. Customer ser-vice is what builds business. In our current fragile economy, businesses should not risk their reputations because of short-sighted management companies.

Lesa JansenJMU parent

A likely story

With the development and sophistication of social media, organizing individuals elec-tronically has become the norm. Whether the organiza-tion is a neighborhood, a state or even something as broad as a nation, social media has linked together these voices and has allowed individuals to voice problems, often about government.

Contrary to the popular belief that social media is a positive and successful venue for change, it has instead decreased participation and organization of protests and revolutions in various states. Yale graduate student Navid Hassanpour argues that social networking and media hinders the development of a revolution rather than expands it.

For any type of protest or revolution to be successful, the power lies in the hands of the masses, not behind their com-puter screens or through their handheld devices.

Assume that an individual wanted to mobilize a protest within his or her university. Easy enough, right? � e major-ity of readers probably have already assumed that mobi-lizing a protest is as simple as creating an event on Facebook, where a yes, maybe or no seals the protest’s fate.

All you need is to establish a

time, date, location and quick details about what the protest consists of — and boom. With a click of the mouse, the pro-test has now become accessible and thrown into the Facebook world.

Let’s digress for a moment. With the development of social media, it is almost guaranteed that word of the protest will reach every individual, from the bookworm in the library to the social butter� ies of Greek Life.

Everything seems to be OK at this point, but what would hap-pen if the government decided to restrict the ability to commu-nicate through social media (as it has in several instances across the world).

That includes everything — Internet, phones, social net-working, etc. How would you

communicate with others? Would you simply shrug your shoulders and move on to the next task that required less work and patience than a few clicks of the mouse?

The problem with social media is its lack of reliabil-ity and consistency. CNN recently reported on the high frequency of government shutdowns of social media in revolting countries through-out the past year.

Hassanpour has dedicated his thesis to whether former President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt sealed his own fate after shutting down the Internet and cellphone service to pre-vent future riots and protests.

Hassanpour took data col-lected from the riots and protests throughout Egypt while citizens were able to mobilize using the Internet and cellphone connection versus face-to-face interaction after those lines of communication were disabled.

He concluded that the amount of interaction actu-ally increased with virtual communication at a standstill — proving that shutting down social media made it worse for Mubarak.

Instead of the cloudy-eyed person viewing the revolution behind a computer screen or a cellphone, she or he must

communicate with others face-to-face to incite change.

Surprising? Perhaps. In , John Adams wrote, “� e Rev-olution was in the minds and hearts of the people ... this rad-ical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments and a� ec-tions of the people was the real American Revolution.”

Exchange the American Rev-olution for any revolution in world history. It is those prin-ciples and those opinions that encourage interaction among the masses. If citizens want to see changes within their state, they will mobilize.

The passion that exudes from the masses when � ght-ing for change only builds with public participation. Skim any group of pictures from the con� ict of the Mid-dle East, or more recently, the United Kingdom.

What unites these people is greater than what any form of social media can produce. � e steadiness of chants throughout neighborhoods, towns and cit-ies and banners of color unite individuals under one common history are what moves people toward the promise of a better tomorrow.

Samantha Tartas is a junior international affairs major. Contact Samantha at tartassk@dukes.jmu.edu.

SAMANTHA TARTAS | guest columnist

Social media not useful in protestsNothing beats face-to-face interaction when uniting for national social change

Instead of the cloudy-eyed person viewing the revolution behind a computer screen or a cellphone, she or he must communicate with others face-to-face to incite change.

Just weeks ago, the Univer-sity of Miami football program was in the spotlight after infa-mous booster Nevin Shapiro said he provided at least Miami athletes with “imper-missible benefits” according to Yahoo! Sports.

� is is not the � rst time in recent memory that a college football program has been in trouble for its players receiv-ing improper bene� ts.

In December , former Ohio State University quarter-back Terrelle Pryor and four of his teammates were suspend-ed for five games of the season after they were exposed for selling team memorabilia and receiving discounts from a local tattoo parlor, according to Charleston Daily Mail.

These repeated violations throughout big-name college football programs have raised a serious question in the world of collegiate football: Should college players be allowed to receive pay-to-play bene� ts?

� e answer is no. Colleges are created for one

reason — to give students a chance to continue their edu-cation and become quali� ed to enter the workforce. Sports are not the reason colleges are in this world.

Although some will argue

that playing football gives players experience in their workforce, you can’t major in football; it’s not what people should go to college for. As clichéd as it is to say, student comes � rst in “student athlete.”

The National Football League recognizes the impor-tance of education and has therefore established a rule that says in order for players to be eligible to play in the NFL, they must have played college football for at least three years.

� ose who feel that college players should be paid fail to understand that during these three to four years on campus,

college football players get treated like royalty, even with-out pay-to-play bene� ts.

For example, a Virginia school recruited one of my best friends to play on the wom-en’s soccer team. I heard they o� ered her a scholarship that would pay for almost all of her expenses, including her books.

This year that women’s soccer team got a complete wardrobe of the school gear (they get a new one each year), a brand new, state-of-the-art locker room exclusively for the soccer team, team mas-sages from a private masseuse, laundry services provided by the school, a private tutor for each subject they take, a team psychologist and free traveling accommodations, everything from meals to a trip to the movies between games — all for free.

If this is true, it’s unimagi-nable to think that college football players need more incentives.

And women’s sports don’t even bring in a fraction of the revenue that college football does, so simply imagine the kind of conditions a top-level college football player lives in.

Regardless of whether or not pay-to-play becomes allowed in college sports, it is

always going to happen, sim-ilarly to the use of steroids in Major League Baseball. The way colleges can solve the issue of players receiving illic-it incentives is to actually do something about it.

When the NCAA found out about Ohio State players receiving improper benefits, Ohio State should have been punished more than they were, in addition to the play-ers. Suspending six players for � ve out of their -some col-legiate games is not going to scare other players into not doing stupid things.

Making the team forfeit games or cutting funding to the school will. This alterna-tive may sound extreme, but it would work.

If the NCAA gives in to the demands of its players, then there is no limit as to how sports will be able to manip-ulate the college world. The NCAA needs to send a strong message to the boosting com-munity that it is not going to stand for this.

Kyle Kearns is a freshman writing, rhetoric & technical communication and media arts & design double major. Contact Kyle at kearnskm@dukes.jmu.edu.

KYLE KEARNS | guest columnist

Pay-for-play unnecessary incentiveNCAA college athletes receive enough benefi ts without getting paid for participation

Those who feel that college players should be paid fail to understand that during these three to four years on campus, college football players get treated like royalty, even without pay-to-play benefi ts.

1. My last name has a silent O and is pronounced “Kepper,” which has led to countless nicknames and variations, especially by teachers on the � rst day of school. My AP Euro-pean History teacher has been the only one to get it right the � rst time.2. I took a -mile Boy Scout canoe trip through the Bound-ary Waters in southern Canada, one of the few places on Earth that remains untouched by humans. I missed Beach Week and went to bed exhausted every night for nine days, but the natural beauty of the place made it worth the struggle. 3. I’ve been writing fiction since my uncle asked me to write a short story because he was too lazy to do it himself. � e idea for that story has since blossomed into a -plus-page novel about a murdered scientific genius. I hope to

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A “what-the-junk?”dart to the Burger Studio in Market One that rudely replaced the Burger Junction.

From a senior who prefers his guacamole and bacon at no extra cost.

A “you’re-so-outdoorsy” pat to my fraternity brother who drove all the way fromthe Mill to Squire Hill to help us defeat the monstrous cricket.

From two girls who are forever thankful and have your number on speed dial.

A “don’t-sweat-it” pat to the fella who slipped and fell on the bus.

From a student who knows we’ve all been there.

A “tear-down-this-wall” dart to the modern Gorbachevs who decided to restrict all tra c on campus with those gates.

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By KELSEY PETERSThe Breeze

Not all � rst-year JMU Dukes arrived in an SUV overstu� ed with fridges, movie posters and emotional parents. Some students poured out of an airplane with a student visa and a fresh new start not only at JMU, but also in the United States.

International students arrived at JMU on Aug. to begin Tran-sitions, an International Student and Scholar Services sponsored orientation program to get the students acquainted with America, Harrisonburg and the JMU community.

� is year, Delores Blough, director of ISSS, said more than international � rst years are calling themselves Dukes.

Anastassiya Chervinskaya, a freshman communications major, traveled all the way from Almaty, Kazakhstan, to attend JMU.

She is in study group, a program that requires international stu-dents to take general education classes with other international students for two semesters to learn English.

“I’m not really good at it, but I like learning new languages,” Chervinskaya said, who speaks Russian, English and a little Kazakh.

ISSS is sponsored by the O� ce of International Programs to help students achieve visas or help deal with any immigration issues when coming to the US from another country.

Additionally, when the students arrive in the US, ISSS sponsors social activities and information sessions to make the transition to the US as easy as possible.

“We provide support services, whatever that might be,” Blough said.

ISSS provides visa support and also acts as a liaison to the JMU community, helping the students adjust to their new lives.

see ISSS, page A8

Students from around the world come together in transitional program

New website keeps JMU LOVE alive for alumniBy BONNIE PEDDERcontributing writer

� e Alumni Association is taking school pride beyond JMU’s campus.

A new program, JMU LOVE, keeps alumni involved in their favorite aspects of campus life.

� e acronym that gives the pro-gram its name stands for “Leaders of Volunteer Engagement.” The program, which launched Tuesday morning, connects alumni back to on campus events.

“We don’t want to start from scratch in a relationship with alum-ni,” said Kevin Gibson, assistant director of the alumni association, who leads the program.

The program is personalized to areas of interest. For example, alum-ni who have go on to a career in his human resources would be able to come back to JMU and provide mock interviews on behalf of Career and Academic Planning.

Within six hours of the site’s launch, alumni had already signed

up for speci� cally tailored volunteer opportunities on campus.

Alumni can go to the website and, by clicking on the organization they are interested in, can sign up for specific events. Opportunities are not just limited to campus, as the program also sets up opportunities closer to home.

JMU LOVE “allows me to recon-nect with an institution that has given me more than I could have ever thought was possible,” said Jonathan McNamara, an ’ media arts and design graduate.

Gibson, an ’ marketing grad, spearheaded the project and has worked with the alumni office for two years. It has been a collabora-tive e� ort through many JMU o� ces, including student a� airs, communi-cations and marketing, and alumni relations.

“JMU LOVE hopefully acts as the introduction to the alumni experi-ence for students,” Gibson said.

As a new program, the selection of agencies is limited, but the o� cial

website of the program is accepting applications for di� erent areas of interest including Greek Life, Study Abroad and International Student Services.

“JMU LOVE takes the alumni experience to the next level by cus-tomizing it to individual interests and availability,” said Jamie Miller, presi-dent of the Alumni Association and a ’ alumna.

� e program had a “soft launch” this past summer where, over a month, about alumni tested the process.

Gibson said alumni have respond-ed well to the program.

“We graduate with so much pride and love for our school, stay-ing involved is a great outlet to do something with that JMU spirit,” said Kathryn J. Delli-Colli, an ’ market-ing graduate who volunteers with the program.

Gibson said that JMU LOVE expands on the spirt of involvement prevalant at JMU.

“� ere’s something special about the Madison experience: involve-ment,” Gibson said.

While the program includes areas of interest right now, Kevin said that he hopes to include more programs in the future, like orien-tation or other community service organizations and opportunities.

CONTACT Bonnie Pedder at pedderbl@dukes.jmu.edu.

Chipper about ‘Fargo’

RACHEL DOZIERAnd you call yourself a critic ...

I’ve been waiting to see this � lm for a long time, and now I’m not sure

why I waited. I’m a big fan of the Coen brothers. I’m probably not the major enthusiast some consider themselves to be, but I listen to

the “O Brother, Where Art � ou?” soundtrack in my car, and “Raising Arizona” is one of the � rst “grown-up” � lms I can remember watching.

Having always heard that “Fargo” is one of the brothers’ best � lms, it only makes sense that I watch it now on my quest to expand my � lm repertoire. I liked it signi� cantly more than my � rst � lm, “Chinatown” and found it to have the perfect combination of humor and violence.

� e story centers around a pathetic man who hires two accomplices to kidnap his wife so he can cash in on the hostage money. But, things don’t go as planned and eventually a local sheri� investigates several murders connected to what was supposed to be a clean kidnap. � e � lm is not actually “based on a true story,” according to the disclaimer the beginning states. Instead, it is loosely based on several crimes in the area.

Being a big Quentin Tarantino fan, I saw a lot of similarities between this � lm and some of his hits. � ere was lots of graphic violence and sex, but it wasn’t as horrifying as it should have been on account of the signature humor splashed in all the right places.

I found the accents from the Minnesota residents to be the most appealing aspect of this � lm. I can’t fully explain this in print, but the way they said “Oh yeah” and “What the heck do ya mean?” had me laughing through gruesome murders and scences of dead bodies.

True to the Coen Brothers’ style, the inclusion of several unnecessary side plots piqued my interest despite their irrelevancy. One example was the Asian man who claimed to have a wife who died of cancer, but he never had a wife at all. While the scene seemed relevant at the time, it was never referenced again. But that was only a minor afterthought, overshadowed by perfectly executed plot.

It was hard to pick a favorite character because each of the main ones were so well-developed and interesting. William H. Macy played Jerry Lundegaard, a desperate used-car salesman with few morals and a raging debt problem. Appropriately, Macy has admitted to begging the Coen Brothers for the role.

Frances McDormand played the pregnant cop, Marge Gunderson who despite her matronly exterior, was incredibly insightful and intelligent. And Steve Buscemi, who is used to playing king-of-the-scuzzballs roles, didn’t disappoint as Carl Showalter, a perverted, foul-mouthed, trigger-happy criminal — a role reportedly written just for him.

All of these colorful characters � t perfectly together as this story of mishaps and murders unfolds. Although it’s not for the faint of heart, it won’t have you hiding under the covers, either.

FAVORITE QUOTE (SPOILER ALERT):

“So that was Mrs. Lundegaard on the � oor in there. And I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper. And those three people in Brainerd. And for what? For a little bit of money. � ere’s more to life than a little money, you know. Don’tcha know that? And here ya are, and it’s a beautiful day. Well. I just don’t understand it.” — Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand)

NEXT WEEK: “Annie Hall”

“And you call yourself a critic…” is a weekly column written by Rachel Dozier, The Breeze’s managing editor and senior media arts & design major. Each column is a part of her 13-week project to watch fi lms considered “classics” she has never seen. For more entertainment news, check out her blog, “Honest | Unmerciful” (racheldozier.blogspot.com).

Fargo‘R’ 98 min.Starring William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi ‘Rotten Tomatoes’ score: 94%

Poster childThis Monday, artWorks Gallery

opened its 2011-2012 season with a theatric display of art, from posters to ceramics.

Rich Hilliard, assistant professor of graphic design and illustration, presented ‘50s inspired movie posters, which he designed using a digital drawing pad and layering in Photoshop.

“As a child, I was more interested in the natural sciences,” Hilliard said. “ ‘Star Wars’ changed my life and opened my eyes to art as a vocation.”

His art, along with the art of senior studio art majors Tiara Lovelace and Isabel Gutierrez, will be on display through Sept. 16 at 131 Grace St.

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JMU LOVE interest areas: Admissions Alumni Association Career and Academic Planning Center for Multicultural

Student Services Fraternity and Sorority Life International Student

and Scholar Services Student Activities

and Involvement Student Wellness and Outreach Study Abroad University Recreation

A group of international students gather at Taylor Down Under on Saturday night as part of a program to help them adjust to JMU.

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This year, the counseling center has hired a counselor specializing in the transition.

“With non-international stu-dents, it’s probably pretty easy for them to go home,” Blough said. “Most [international stu-dents] can’t go home over Christmas.”

Se Hwan Jung is one of the students who will not be able to go home during winter break.

Jung said all of his friends are o� serving in the South Korea military.

Every South Korean citizen is required to serve two years in the military. A lot of Jung’s friends and classmates are serv-ing in North Korea.

Although his country is constantly at odds with North Korea, Jung said he is not afraid for his safety.

“We are not that worried about it,” Jung said. “We don’t see any dangers.”

He said he is excited to be at JMU to meet lots of new people from all over the world and to study what he wants to study.

ISSS also hosts several social gatherings so students can bond with other students going through the same transition process.

As a graduate assistant, Pratik Banjade, a ’ graduate, helps coordinate outings, such as a trip to the Virginia Safari Park next weekend.

About international students, both first year and returning, attended a banquet where various cultures blend-ed to eat food from all over the world, such as empanadas, spanikopita and chicken satay.

Verena Bethke, a sophomore psychology major from Germa-ny, attended the banquet for the second year in a row.

“I miss food that is not drip-ping in grease and, on top of that, fried,” Betchke said.

Bethke came to JMU to study psychology, but also wanted to observe different cultural behaviors.

She laughed as she recalled JMU pep rallies, which remind her of a cult.

“We don’t have that kind of culture in Germany,” Bethke said, “being so patriotic about our universities.”

She said German universities do not have school-sponsored sports teams.

Se Hwan Jung, a business major from South Korea is also adjusing to JMU culture.

“I like the crazy,” Jung said, and he is already pumped about JMU after only two weeks.

Although Jung attended high school in New York, he was shocked to see how big JMU is. He said his high school was about the size of Top Dog, and

that the food was nothing like JMU’s dining.

“In my high school, the food was not good at all,” Jung said.

Jung said he experienced a few language barriers while living at JMU.

“Everybody here says, ‘that’s so legit,’ and I had to ask what ‘legit’ was.” Jung said. “After that I’ve always said ‘legit.’ ”

Chervinskaya, from Kazakh-stan, got to attend a summer camp in San Francisco a few summers ago to expand her English.

She said that coming to the states was common in her country.

“Every second person in Kazakhstan wants to go to America to study,” Chervins-kaya said.

But Chervinskaya also said not all people in Kazakhstan admire America as she does.

She said that in her two weeks in this country, she has seen compassion from fellow Dukes. � is week Chervinskaya had to walk home in the pour-ing rain without an umbrella. She said someone let her into her dorm until she dried off and the rain stopped.

“I was so shocked,” Chervins-kaya said. “People in my country wouldn’t do things like that.”

During Orientation Week, she saw a comedy show that brought her to tears; not from laughter, but from the new experience.

“It felt like a scene from a movie because we don’t have things like that in Kazakhstan,” she said.

Also, Chervinskaya was impressed by how clean Har-risonburg is; Almaty is full of pollution.

“From the highest floor, you can see a cloud of smoke above the horizon,” Chervins-kaya said.

She said she’s excited about the beautiful landscape, the classes and the friendly atmo-sphere of the university.

“I think every international student, from the � rst minute, felt like JMU would become their family,” Chervinskaya said.

International students are housed in the Hoffman and Rockingham Hall dormitories.

CONTACT Kelsey Peters at peterske@dukes.jmu.edu.

“We don’t have that kind of culture in Germany, being so patriotic about our universities.”Verena Bethkesophomore psychology major from Germany

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for ISAT students. “It’s going to be solely an

educational landscape,” Hart-man said.

Discussion about a new look for the hillside began in January, when a group of ISAT professors worked with Facili-ties Management and Michael Singer, a - scholar-in-residence, to analyze the landscape’s current mainte-nance practices and develop an ecologically sustainable solution.

Last semester, six ISAT class-es studied the hill. Students in a geography course co-taught by Maria Papadakis and Jen-nifer Coffman researched the properties and history of the land. They also surveyed students and faculty on how the hill could be better used. � eir � ndings shaped the � nal design plans.

Lisbeth Ramussen, a senior geographic science major, spoke to students during the project.

“A majority of students were open to change,” she said.

However, the students she surveyed did have one stipulation.

“We had to keep in mind the ISAT hill,” Ramussen said. “It’s the best sled spot on campus. So in our proposal, students still needed to be able to sled. It’s part of JMU culture.”

In April, Facilities Man-agement killed grass in strips across the hillside and planted native plant species, accord-ing to Sharon Lovell, assistant dean of ISAT. � e meadow will grow naturally and will reduce erosion and prevent � ooding in the creek and walkways.

“� e cover crop has � nished its duty of protecting seedlings as they grew,” ISAT professor Wayne Teel said. “This is to

remove the cover crop so the plants growing up next spring can grow through.”

� e meadow and creek are objectives of the university’s Environmental Stewardship Action Plan. The goal is to redesign the land as a “learn-ing environment” by , and planning the project has already been a major activity for some geography courses. Future classes could study, expand and maintain the dif-ferent zones.

His agricultural systems course will be partly involved with another idea to place a garden of edible and perennial plants in a space near the hill bottom between the meadow and the creek.

Other committee members overseeing the development of the project include Lovell, John Ventura and Kaufman of Facilities Management,

administrator James Myers and ISAT professors Michael Ren-froe and Robert Whitescarver.

Phase two of the hillside’s transformation will begin next February, when Facili-ties Management will restore the East Campus creek with a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. � e hillside project’s advisory com-mittee will receive design and construction assistance from a stream restoration specialist with the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, giving the grant a total value of about $,.

Restoring the creek will keep rushing water from flooding over and expanding the banks, decreasing the impact of the runoff that feeds into a -acre watershed and eventually reaches the Chesapeake Bay.

� e process will reshape the banks to keep the � ow rate slow with rocks scattered across the bottom to keep soil in place. Sibert Creek, by the Duke Drive tennis courts, has already been reshaped.

“The stream channel will be more stable, improve water quality and require minimal maintenance inputs,” said Abram Kaufman, storm water coordinator and committee member.

Ramussen commends JMU’s improvement of the hillside.

“� e � rst time I saw it, I was so excited to see how this bar-ren, kind of dreary field had become an incredible prairie,” she said.

The hillside committee is currently working on a pro-posal to expand the area’s boundaries and plant trees facing I- and will work with several geography classes this fall to develop these ideas.

CONTACT Jordan Pye at pyejn@dukes.jmu.edu.

HILL | Banks to be reshapedTimeline of events for the Hillside Naturalization Project

JanuaryUsing results from ecological and student surveys done last semester by students, a committee of ISAT professors worked up plans.

AprilFacilities Management planted 29 plant species on the hill.

SeptemberThe commitee is working to expand the area and to plant trees facing I-81.

By 2013The committee will redesign the area into a “learning environment.”

FutureGeography classes will run experi-ments on the area. Phase two will begin.

PAIL JONES / THE BREEZEThe native plants that replaced the artifi cally planted grass will prevent erosion and fl ooding in the area.

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By THOMAS CARANNANTE contributing writer

Coach Mickey Matthews put it as straightforward as it gets: “We got our butts handed to us down in North Carolina.”

After a crushing - loss to the University of North Carolina Tar Heels last Saturday, the Dukes look to rebound with a convincing win over this week’s opponent, the Central Connecticut State Blue Devils.

“� e North Carolina game is in the past,” Matthews said. “We will get better in both areas of o� ense and defense, and we will see how it goes this week.”

� e season has not had as electrifying of a start as it did last year with the colossal defeat of Virginia Tech in week one, but the Dukes have the tools this year to succeed in the Central Athletic Association. For the Dukes to begin conference play with momentum, they need a win over the second place team in the Northeast Division — the Blue Devils.

� e Dukes’ defense needs to get early pressure on one of two Blue Devils’ quarterbacks — Jake White or Gunnar Jespersen.

“We have a good blitz game,” Matthews said. “We like to do that, usually -to- percent of the game, so we are going to do that against this guy.”

� e more pressure the Dukes can get on White or Jesperson, the more turnovers they can force, especially with experienced senior cornerbacks Mike Allen and Taveion Cu� ee in the secondary. JMU’s redshirt freshman safety Dean Marlowe can also help in the secondary as proven last week with an interception of UNC’s quarterback Bryn Renner.

Central Connecticut’s o� ensive strength is rushing the football, shown last Saturday when they racked up yards on the ground against their opponent.

� e Dukes defensive line, led by redshirt senior D.J. Bryant, may need to step up big this weekend, along with the linebackers, whose tackling was o� the mark against the Tar Heels. Last week the secondary was exhausted from chasing down Tar Heel running backs, breaking away from the front seven. � e secondary, composed of junior free safety Jakarie Jackson, junior cornerback Leavander Jones, Allen, Marlowe and Cu� ee, combined for a total of out of the team’s tackles. Stopping the run is key this week for the Dukes.

Although passing is not their primary strength, the Blue Devils have Deven Baker and Matthew Tyrell, two playmakers at the wide receiver position.

� ey combined for three touchdowns last week and nine receptions for yards against Connecticut Southern. Tyrell also had a kick return for a touchdown on an attempted onside kick late in the game to solidify Central Connecticut State’s win. � e secondary needs to contain these outside threats to minimize its big playmaking abilities.

� e Dukes’ o� ense, on the other hand, needs to keep the running game intact because it has traditionally been the focal point of JMU football. Last week they were not able to break the centurymark in yardage, but look for redshirt sophomore tailbacks Jordan Anderson and Dae’Quan Scott to bounce back this week and carry the load. � ey are going to need to bring their speedy north-south running style to Saturday’s game because Central Connecticut held Connecticut Southern to yards on the ground, with a . average yards per rush.

Justin � orpe, redshirt junior starting quarterback, hopes to keep up the success with the passing game, especially the deep ball.

“Passing is part of our o� ense, too,” � orpe said. “What I’m good at is throwing the deep ball, so hopefully, we can continue our success with that.”

� orpe passed for yards against UNC, which included two passes for more than yards. He managed to hit redshirt freshman wide receiver Daniel Brown on the numbers with a -yard touchdown strike.

But � orpe needs to be careful with the football this week just as he was last week, because the Blue Devils’ defense forced four turnovers in their � rst game.

“� e good thing was that we had no turnovers last week,” � orpe said. If Central Connecticuta “forcing turnovers, we are going to have to protect the ball, and I have to throw it accurately so they won’t be able to capitalize.”

What � orpe needs to improve on from last week is the rushing aspect of his game. He rushed times for yards, a measly . average. � e Dukes will be without redshirt junior linebacker Jamie Veney on Saturday, and redshirt senior defensive tackle Nick Emmons is questionable.

� e Sports Network included Central Connecticut in its preseason playo� projections so they won’t be an easy opponent. But with the opening day atmosphere of the expanded Bridgeforth Stadium and a few extra voices coming from the stands, the Dukes go into the game with a substansial advantage.

CONTACT Thomas Carannante at carannta@dukes.jmu.edu.

Redshirt senior center Roane Babbington and redshirt junior starting quarterback Justin Thorpe read the defense and make adjustments at a rainy practice on Tuesday at Zane Showker Field.

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By TONY SCHAFFNERcontributing writer

Central Connecticut State University, have a new mascot, “Kizer the Blue Devil.” But winning is something that the Blue Devils have routinely done for years.

Central Connecticut is looking to continue its domination of the Northeast Conference as they have won four conference titles since and are picked to win the NEC in the preseason coaches’ poll. According to Coach Mickey Matthews, the Blue Devils “have scored a lot of points [and have] lived o� their o� ense the last two or three years.”

Fans should expect to see a shotgun option o� ense which means “they should be giving the ball o� , pitching the ball o� , or quarterback keeping it,” Matthews said.

� e Blue Devils steamrolled the NEC in and lead the division with . rushing yards per game behind, the recently graduated and former Hofstra running back Everette

Benjamin. � e void left by Benjamin will likely be � lled by senior running back Brian Fowler and sophomore running back Chris Tolbert. � is year, Central Connecticut will feature a veteran o� ensive line with four seniors returning for the Blue Devils.

Last week’s win over Southern Connecticut State University marked the Blue Devils’ th win in a row at home. “We’re not sneaking up on anybody anymore, we’ve proven we can consistently compete in this league and that is the sign of a good program,” Coach Je� McInerney said.

� e major question on the Blue Devil o� ense is who the starting quarterback will be on Saturday. In the second quarter of the Blue Devil’s - win over Southern Connecticut State senior dual-threat quarterback Gunnar Jespersen left the game with an undisclosed injury and opened the way for sophomore quarterback Jake White to throw for yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions. With captain and starting quarterback Gunnar Jespersen being

questionable for this weekend, the Blue Devils may be without an integral part of their o� ense.

On defense in , the Blue Devils did not fare as well as they had hoped. � ey were led by the now graduated linebacker Je� Marino, who had tackles last year, but Central Connecticut’s defense still gave up nearly rushing yards per game. However, in , the Blue Devils hope to improve against the run with the combination of senior middle linebacker Isaiah Boddie and junior outside linebackers Lawton Arnold and Lorenzo Baker.

� is year, the Blue Devils will feature senior defensive ends Charles Williams, and Dominic Giampietro who racked up a combined . sacks in . When asked about the Blue Devils’ defense JMU’s starting quarterback Justin � orpe

commented, “Hopefully they won’t have three � rst-round draft picks on their defense and we can get out there and exploit them a little bit,” i

� is year the Blue Devils are starting a relatively untested defensive secondary with sophomore cornerback Chris Linares, who led the Blue Devils in interceptions with two. Opposite him is senior cornerback London Lomax, who is entering his � rst year as a starter. � is year, sophomore strong safety Antoine Reese enters his � rst year as a starter and opposite him is freshman free safety, Tyrell Holmes.

� e Blue Devils will also be wearing No. on the back of their helmets because Rich Royster, a junior defensive lineman, died in a car accident on Jan. .

Players to watch on offense: # QB Gunnar Jespersen: If senior dual-threat quarterback Gunnar Jespersen can get healthy and play Saturday, the Blue Devils will show why they have led the NEC in

total o� ense for four of the last � ve seasons.

# WR Deven Baker: At ’,’ the junior wide receiver is a red-zone threat and should be the primary target regardless of who the starting quarterback will be.

# RB Chris Tolbert: � e standout sophomore running back led the way on the ground last week with yards and . yards per carry and is also a threat as a receiver out of the back� eld in the passing game.

Players to watch on defense:

# DE Charles Williams: Senior co-captain of the defense led the team with . sacks last week and is one of the Blue Devils’ biggest playmakers on defense.

# FS Tyrell Holmes: The fresh-man who is a former two time all-state selection and has already won the NEC Rookie of the Week could be a potential ball hawk in the Blue Devils’ secondary.

CONTACT Tony Schaffner at shaffaj@dukes.jmu.edu.

What the Dukes need to doBefore they play Central Connecticut State, the Dukes have improvements to make

Zeroing in on the Blue DevilsDukes shouldn’t underestimate a projected FCS playoff team that has won its conference four times since 2004

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If Frank Beamer has it his way, he’ll be coaching football at Virginia Tech beyond the 2016 season, but at least Tech now has the framework for an exit plan with the announcement of a new contract that involves keeping Beamer active in the athletic department after his coaching career.

Beamer and Tech ath-letic director Jim Weaver announced Tuesday that Beamer has a signed a contract extension that will keep him on as Tech’s coach through the ‘16 season.

It was also announced that when Beamer’s coaching days are over, he will join Weaver, or whoever is Tech’s athletic director at the time, in a special assistant to the athletic director role where Beamer will make appearances and act as a fun-draiser for eight years.

“I think it’s right for Virginia Tech,” Beamer said. “It’s right for me. We have an ending in place. It doesn’t get awkward. That’s what I think is impor-tant. We sat down and worked this thing out. I fully expect to

coach a number more years, and I think they expect me to coach.”

Weaver made it clear Beam-er, who is 64, does not have specific plans to retire after the ’16 season and could coach beyond that season. Beamer is currently coaching his 25th season in Blacksburg, and will be going for his 200th win as the Hokies’ coach Saturday at East Carolina University.

“Just because the term of the contract goes through Dec. 31, 2016, that does not signal the end of his coaching tenure,” Weaver said. “It’s just the end of that current contract ... He’s 64 and (Penn State coach Joe Paterno) is 84, so (Beamer) has a long way to go to catch up to Joe.”

Beamer is second on the career wins list for active Football Championship Sub-division coaches with 241, including 42 in six seasons at Murray State before he came to Tech. Paterno is first on the list with 402 wins.

The contract extension, which goes into effect Jan. 1, 2013, details Beamer will make $285,000 in base salary in the

first year of the extension. He will get a 5 percent raise on his base salary in each of the final three years of his contract.

In addition to the base sal-ary, he will earn a retention incentive of $2,020,672 in the first year of the extension. He’ll get $100,000 added to that retention incentive in each of the final three years of the contract.

When Beamer retires, the special assistant to the ath-letic director job will pay him $250,000 a year for eight years.

“We think that is a very good mechanism, and very good way to say thank you for a minimum of 25 years and it’s going to be 30, maybe 32, maybe 34, who knows?” said Weaver regarding the special assistant to the athletic direc-tor role. “My only hope is that I’m the guy sitting beside him and working with him in that eight-year period.”

Weaver, 67, has Parkinson’s Disease and has had multiple surgeries to correct an ailing back. He said he may be fac-ing another back surgery soon at the University of Virginia. In the past, he has stated he plans

to retire in 2015, but he said Tuesday he might consider staying on as Tech’s AD longer if he can get his health in order.

Under the conditions of Beamer’s current contract, which expires Dec. 31, 2012 before the extension kicks in, Beamer earns $272,328 in base salary. His retention incen-tive is nearly $1.8 million this season, and will jump to $1.9

million next season.Last season, Beamer made

$2.128 million in total com-pensation, according to a USA Today feature on college foot-ball coaches’ contracts. He was 18th in total compensation among college football coach-es around the nation.

If Beamer stays at Tech at least through the duration of the contract extension, his

compensation from Tech with all retention incentive and base salary raises factored in would be just over $2.65 million in ’16.

“I think I’ll know exactly when is the right time to finish up coaching at Virginia Tech,” Beamer said. “I think so much of this place and it’s been so good to me that when the right time is, I think I’ll know that.”

Virginia Tech shares details of coach’s contract Frank Beamer started 25th year as head coach of the Hokies this season, was rewarded with a contact extension until 2016

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