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Sophomore honors students Michael Comer and Rachel Korba work with Jon Alger in their Exploring Leadership course. Alger co-teaches the class with Brian Charette, associate vice president of university planning and analysis.

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JMU’s president Jon Alger makes time for the classroom By erin flynn The Breeze

JMU president Jon Alger is extending his impact at JMU by teaching students a skill he’s gained through experience — leadership.

This semester, in an effort to better engage with the JMU community, Alger is co-teaching Exploring Leadership, an introductory leadership course with Brian Charette, associate vice president of university

planning and analysis.

So far, Charette has enjoyed working with Alger.

“He has taught me about what it means to both challenge and support students in the classroom, to make sure that engaged learning is always paramount, and in a context of compassion,” Charette said in an email. “I knew going in that it was a real privilege to get to teach with him and it’s proven to be a great experience for me.”

According to Jared Diener, the academic adviser for the JMU Honors Program, the introductory class provides 24 sophomore honors students with the tools needed to be a leader, including the various theories and styles of leadership. “[The class teaches students] how leadership matches up with personality, and I think it gets see alger, page A5

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Local artist Laura Thompson works on carving a linocut stamp at the Sidewalk Sale downtown on Saturday. Local vendors gathered around downtown Harrisonburg to sell a variety of handmade goods including pottery, paintings, clothing, jewelry and photographs.

By Anna Peck contributing writer

Many JMU students who live off campus struggle with the limited amount of buses available.

One of these students is junior interdisciplinary liberal studies major Julianna Klioze. Klioze has class at 9:30 on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, but finds herself up at 6:45 in order to catch the 8:06 bus to campus. She would rather arrive on campus an hour early than catch the bus that comes at 9:04, because she worries that other factors such as traffic and overcrowding might make her late for class.

Klioze is one of the many JMU students who face the struggles of the Route 15 bus system, which services Copper Beech Townhomes, Campus View Condominiums and Charleston Townes.

“[The buses] never stick to the schedule.

They’re always at least 15 minutes late, which is frustrating when I have a schedule to adhere to.”

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paints, sands or stains to give a more vintage appearance.

“Houses tell a story,” Christensen said. “The way a person arranges their home and decorates is a reflection of their personality. My home has some of the same cozy pieces I would have in my shop, but I mostly keep the store rejects for myself. ” Christensen works on her products

The Harrisonburg Department of Public Transportation (HDPT) has 34 buses that serve students who live off campus. Route 15 is the only bus route that provides transportation to Campus View, which has about 14 living units; Copper Beech Townhomes, which has 414 units; and Charleston Townes, which has about 126 units.

According to the HDPT, there’s only one Route 15 bus. The other buses that go to that area are express buses, which only come when necessary.

Express buses are special buses used as backups for routes that come during peak class times, which are from 9 to 10 a.m. and 2 to 4 p.m.

Every time Klioze steps onto a Route 15 bus, she hears students complain about being late to class, criticize the amount of space available and wonder about the unnecessary delay at Godwin, where the busses attempt to be in sync with class times.

Morgan Gaines, a junior communication studies major, said her biggest complaint is the infrequency. “[The buses] never stick to the schedule,” Gaines said. “They’re always at least 15 minutes late, which is frustrating when I have a schedule to adhere to.”

While she does have a car, Klioze thought that taking a bus to campus would be easier because she wouldn’t have to worr y about parking. But even when she takes the bus, Klioze can’t escape from the large number of students.

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JMU alumna Sara Christensen follows dream of opening vintage shop

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Shop owner Sara Christensen hand makes many of the antique items she sells.

classes at JMU, Christensen learned the basics of opening and running a small business through self-help books and websites. “[This is a good time to own a shop because] I’m not tied down and I’m 100 percent free to be committed to the shop,” Christensen said.

Christensen makes or refurbishes many of the products sold in her shop. Her favorite product to work with is antique furniture, which she

Some residents living in Copper Beech Townhomes, Campus View Condominiums and Charleston Townes are becoming increasingly frustrated with bus transportation to JMU’s campus.

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Becoming Jane

South Main Street now has a portal to the past in the form of romantic vintage shop The Lady Jane.

JMU alumna Sara Christensen (’08) originally opened The Lady Jane in Harrisonburg during the summer of 2011. This August, Christensen moved her store to 117 South Main St. The Lady Jane is a home décor shop featuring antique furniture and handmade accessories.

“I really love antiquated and vintage things,” Christensen said. “I’ve always felt connected to history and the past.”

Christensen cites her enjoyment of JMU history classes and her love for classic, romantic literature as part of the inspiration for her shop. The name “Lady Jane” originated from Christensen’s favorite author, Jane Austen.

Christensen taught fourth grade in Waynesboro before realizing her dream of owning her own vintage store. Shopping around for antiques on the weekends turned into owning her own shop.

“I would go antiquing on the weekends while I was teaching as an escape,” Christensen said.

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UN envoy urges Turkey to open border for Kurds Tribune Washington Bureau

GENEVA — Recalling the deaths of thousands of men and boys at the Bosnian town of Srebrenica nearly two decades ago, the United Nations’ special envoy on Syria pleaded Friday for Turkey to open its border and let Kurdish fighters stream into Syria to help fight off an Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) advance on the Kurdish city of Kobani.

Steffan de Mistura warned that an ISIL victory in Kobani would likely lead to the massacre of 700 mostly elderly civilians still in the city and perhaps as many as 13,000 inhabitants in villages nearby.

“You remember Srebrenica? We do. We never forgot.

And probably we never forgave ourselves for that,” de

Mistura said, referring to the 1995 slaughter of thousands in one of the bloodiest episodes of recent U.N. peacekeeping history.

As many as 8,000 Muslim men and boys were believed slaughtered after Dutch peacekeepers failed to prevent Serbian Bosnian troops from seizing Srebrenica.

“If Kobani falls, there will be close to 400 kilometers of the Turkish border basically under control of ISIL out of 900,” de Mistura said. “And what would be next?

Other villages? Even Aleppo?”

He added, “There are the images that we don’t want to see, we cannot see and I hope you will not be seeing of people beheaded, of the defenders and civilians.”

With Turkey unwilling to send troops into Syria, de Mistura said that “at least” the country should allow “Kurdish volunteer fighters to cross into Syria to defend the city.” He called self-defense an “international human right.”

“Otherwise all of us, including Turkey, will be regretting deeply that we have missed an opportunity of stopping ISIL,” he added.

U.S. officials in turn were publicly critical of Turkey earlier this week for not intervening to prevent the fall of Kobani.

The White House said a meeting was held with Turkish military officials Friday morning.

But there were indications that the talks had resolved little, with Turkey continuing to insist on the U.S. creating a no-fly zone and U.S. officials remaining cool to the idea.

There was no immediate response from the Turkish government, but there was no likelihood that Turkey would allow armed Kurdish volunteers to cross into Syria.

Hong Kong district has more local protest perspective Tribune News Service

HONG KONG — It’s dense with people, thick with tension. For a week and a half, the Hong Kong district of Mong Kok has been home to the city’s scrappiest pro-democracy protests, and it remains a flashpoint for further clashes among protesters, police and gangs.

Mong Kok is a hangout for Hong Kong’s underworld and also a working-class neighborhood where people go about their daily routines, paying little attention to what happens in the dark alleyways.

“Forty-five years ago, it was a lot less crowded here and people were more friendly,” said Sausim Chan, who has lived in the neighborhood for 45 of her 80 years.

Mong Kok means “busy corner,” and for several days last week, the intersection at Nathan and Argyle streets was the most crowded of all. Starting on Sept. 29, protesters started barricading streets to this crossing and others nearby.

Ever since, they’ve “occupied” the area, despite being attacked by mobs, drenched by rainstorms and urged to leave by police and many local shop owners. Crowds stopped by each day just to observe the scene and to listen to impassioned debates between protesters and counterprotesters.

“It’s important we stay here and make a stand,” said Kelvin Cheung, 23.

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National news Deputy cleared of having Ebola, Dallas hospital releases care details The Dallas Morning News

DALLAS — A Dallas County sheriff’s deputy who unwittingly set off a brief Ebola scare was cleared Thursday of having the disease. The hospital where Thomas Eric Duncan died, meanwhile, released new details about the first U.S. case of the virus.

Michael Monnig was one of four deputies who briefly entered the apartment last week where Duncan had been staying. Monnig developed a stomachache Wednesday, and his visit to a Frisco urgent care clinic brought out a fleet of fire-rescue vehicles, briefly isolated the staff and other patients at the clinic and ended with an anxiety-raising, televised ambulance trip to Texas Heath Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, where he was put in isolation.

Monnig’s wife said Thursday that Dallas County’s medical director, Dr. Christopher Perkins, told her husband to go to his own doctor or an urgent care clinic rather than a hospital. By Thursday afternoon, blood tests confirmed Monnig had no Ebola and he

was sent home.

Duncan, 42, died Wednesday morning at Presbyterian, where he’d spent 10 days in isolation.

A statement from the hospital Thursday did not address why he was not admitted on his first visit, but it explained some of his course of treatment: He had not received an experimental blood serum transfusion given to a few other Ebola patients because his blood type was not compatible with the available serum.

An experimental drug, ZMapp, given to other Ebola patients was not available. The experimental drug Duncan did get, brincidofovir, “was administered as soon as his physicians determined that his condition warranted it, and as soon as it could be obtained.” He got the first dose of the twice-weekly pill on Saturday.

Nursing home abuse claims leads to $38 million settlement Tribune Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — One of the nation’s largest nursing home chains has agreed to pay $38 million

to settle allegations that it improperly billed federal health programs for the poor and aging and provided unnecessary care, as well as “disturbing” substandard care.

In announcing what was said to be the largest quality-of-care settlement involving nursing facilities in the United States, Justice Department officials said Friday that Extendicare Health Services and its subsidiary, Progressive Step Corp., known as ProStep, had employed fewer skilled nurses than necessary and had failed to properly train and supervise the staff.

“The investigation identified many disturbing examples of falls, fractures and head injuries to residents, often unnoticed by the staff for hours, as well as malnutrition, dehydration, pressure ulcers and infections,” acting Assistant Attorney General Joyce Branda said on a conference call.

In addition, the investigation found that Extendicare facilities admitted very sick residents without being able to provide them with adequate care, leading to short-term residents not getting proper care and long-term residents being ignored.

The investigation focused on a group of 33 Extendicare facilities from 2007 to 2013. The settlement covers facilities in eight states: Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin.

Documents reveal Clinton scandal strategy Tribune Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — The Clinton Presidential Library on Friday released 10,000 pages of previously undisclosed documents that involved a series of touchy subjects from Bill Clinton’s time in the White House: from Monica Lewinsky to Whitewater, from the death of former White House Counsel Vince Foster to the pardon of financier Marc Rich, and the controversy over staffing of the White House Travel Office, known as Travelgate.

The documents shed new light on how Clinton and first lady Hillary Clinton, now a potential candidate for the 2016 presidential election, as well as their staffs tried to handle the slew of controversies in their eight years in the White House.

They had been exempt from public records because they involved appointments to federal office or dealt with confidential advice between the president and his advisers.

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Application for ‘What’s Cooking’ program draws near The city of Harrisonburg, the Small Business Development Center (SBDC), Rockingham County and Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance are encouraging those interested to apply for the “What’s Cooking” program.

In September, the “What’s Cooking” program was launched by these partnering agencies to promote Harrisonburg’s ever-growing food culture.

About 45 interested participants attended an information session which went over the timeline, answered questions and provided additional details.

Applications due on Monday, Oct. 20,.

After they are submitted, participants will prepare to participate in Pitch Night, which will be on Monday, Oct. 27 from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. On Pitch Night, participants will pitch their ideas to community members and receive feedback that will help them move forward in the competition.

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Students and members of the Harrisonburg community assembled at Memorial Hall’s auditorium last Wednesday evening to hear members of the JMU Debate Team face off on the topic of industrial hemp. The topic in full, “The U.S. should support legalized hemp production,” was posed by the Virginia Industrial Hemp Coalition and considered by members of JMU’s Debate Team.

Left: Audience members were given a ballot to vote at the conclusion of the debate on which argument they thought was most convincing. The team in favor of hemp legalization was voted the winner.

Right: Junior communication studies major Nick Lepp fields questions to opponent Katrina Hatahet, a sophomore international affairs major, who debated in favor of industrial hemp legalization.

BOTTOM: The audience listens attentively as members of JMU’s Debate Team argue in the affirmative and negative to the statement, “The U.S. should support legalized hemp production.”

From Monday, Oct. 13 to Friday, Oct. 17, East Bruce Street, from South Main to South Mason streets will be closed.

The street is being closed so the signal pole foundation can be installed with an underground water channel at the intersection of Bruce and Main Street, according to public information officer Mary-Hope Vass.

South Main Street’s left lane from West Water Street to Court Square will be closed as old sidewalk is removed, which will make room for the next section of new brick sidewalks, and the right-turn lane from Court Square to East Market Street will also be closed.

During this construction, businesses will still be open on South Main Street and, the parking lot behind the HardestyHiggins House visitor center will also be open and accessible to the public from Federal Street.

Stargazers share passion at parties Student assistants from the John C. Wells Planetarium set up telescopes for monthly gatherings By jessica lyon contributing writer

You don’t have to go far to party with the stars.

On certain evenings the Astronomy Park, located on the lawn in front of Festival, is open to students and members of the community enthusiastic about astronomy.

The public star parties are organized by student assistants from the John C. Wells Planetarium and are involved with setting up the telescopes for the event. On a clear night, observers can be treated to sightings of Saturn, Mars, Jupiter and Jupiter’s four Galilean moons — Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.

Astronomy Park experienced its most successful star party in recent history on Friday Sept. 26 when more than 250 people from JMU and the community came out to look through the lens of various telescopes — providing a stunning, unequivocal view of the massive night sky.

“I think much of it has to do with the fact that our public nights are held on a regular basis — typically the last Friday of every month,” Shanil Virani, director of the planetarium, said. “I think the coolest part of our public star parties is having students who have to be there for class credit look through the telescope and just be mesmerized by what they’re seeing. Instead of having to be there, they’re glad they’re there and frequently come out again.”

This huge spike in attendance was much more recent than some might imagine.

“Shanil Virani would call out to people passing by but no one was interested in coming over,” Julia Gross, a junior interdisciplinary liberal studies major and former planetarium student assistant, said.

According to Gross, this experience occurred two years ago in 2012, when many people didn’t understand what was going on in the Astronomy Park during star party nights and decided to keep walking.

Typically, the student assistants help Virani set up three to five telescopes, each focused on a specific star or planet. The assistants set up one telescope to view the moon, one on Jupiter and one on Saturn for each star party. Additional telescopes are added based on what other celestial bodies are clearly visible that night.

“The first time I looked through the telescope lens, I was expecting to see a fuzzy, little image, but

the image I saw was crystal clear and detailed to the point where I saw Saturn’s rings and the Great Red Spot on Jupiter,” Gross said.

There are definite regulars who have some fascinating stories. Virani said his favorite story came from two of his most memorable attendees of the star parties, Anita Helpa and her daughter Megan, both from the Harrisonburg community.

A few years ago, Megan had a third-grade classmate tell her, “science isn’t for girls.” Not allowing that comment to discourage her daughter, Anita has enrolled Megan in JMU Space Explorers Camp the past two summers.

“Each day, she was bubbling over with new knowledge, excited to share what she had learned and to describe the hands-on projects she participated in,” Anita said in a letter addressed to President Jon Alger.

JMU Space Explorers Camp has encouraged Megan in her academic endeavors. On the Planetarium’s Facebook page is a picture of Megan holding her sixth-grade progress report, having earned a 100 percent in her science discipline.

Megan’s experience at the camp led her and her mother to explore other science events at JMU. Now they’re regulars at the JMU star parties.

Virani describes the most rewarding part of his job as director of the planetarium to be “meeting people, talking to people and relating the excitement and dynamic nature of science; that every day we are uncovering more insight as to why the universe is the way it is, and not some other way.”

Virani also thinks that physicists and scientists are sometimes viewed as mad scientists who are bent on world destruction, which isn’t how he wants to be viewed.

“When students or the public meet me or other planetarium staff, I hope they see us as everyday people, but with a passion and enthusiasm about science and a strong desire to share this passion [and] excitement with those who Blair rosen / the breeze visit the Planetarium or come out to a star party.”

For the latest news on upcoming star parties and other Planetarium events, information can be found on the JMU Planetarium’s Facebook page (John C. Wells Planetarium at JMU), Twitter (@JMUPlanetarium) and Instagram (@ jmuplanetarium). contact Jessica Lyon at lyonjl@dukes.jmu.edu.

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The story behind the language

Associate professor of anthropology Amy Paugh talks about her experiences while studying in Dominica

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Associate anthropology professor Amy Paugh offers a semester-long course every two years that includes a spring break trip to the island of Dominica, where Paugh researched the language shift from the Patwa language to modern day English. As many as 12 students can take part in the trip.

By Carolline Brandt contributing writer Amy Paugh is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology who has extensively studied the cultures of Caribbean islands, most notably the island of Dominica.

Where did you attend school and what did you get a degree in?

I received my [Bachelor of Arts] from Rutgers University. I went straight on to get my [Master’s Degree] and [Doctorate] from New York University. After I received my Ph.D., I held a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at [University of California Los Angeles].

From there, I came to JMU in 2004.

What studies have you done in the past?

I am a linguistic anthropologist, which means that I study the relations between language and culture. I am particularly interested in how children learn linguistic and cultural practices and beliefs, especially in multilingual settings. Since 1995, I’ve been conducting research on the Caribbean island of Dominica — not the Dominican Republic — which is located between the French islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe. Dominica has been an independent nation since 1978, but during European expansion, it went back and forth between the French and British at least seven times before becoming a British colony in the 18th century. English is now the official language; however, an Afro-French creole language that developed on the early French estates has persisted in rural villages for centuries. That language is known locally as Patwa.

What was the focus of your studies?

My initial goal was to study how children were learning to be bilingual in Patwa and English. However, when I arrived in Dominica, I couldn’t find any children that were speaking Patwa as a

primary language. Children were not permitted to speak Patwa in schools, and most parents forbade them from speaking Patwa at home. Instead, adults tried to ensure that their children learned English, which they linked to becoming a socioeconomically successful and “modern” person. In response, my research shifted to studying the language shift from Patwa to English, particularly in terms of children’s roles in this process. I also have studied an urban-based movement to revive Patwa through activities like cultural events and Patwa literacy promotion, such as the publication of a Patwa-English dictionary and creation of a national Patwa spelling bee. In 2012, I published a book about my research called Playing with Languages: Children and Change in a Caribbean Village “Berghahn Books”. It was supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a JMU Education Leave.

What was your most memorable experience while you were in Dominica?

I have had so many memorable experiences in Dominica!

In terms of my research, what stands out the most was when I realized that despite speaking English around adults, many children were using Patwa to organize their own peer play and social interactions when alone with friends. After I video-recorded a group of two and three year olds using Patwa to pretend to be bus drivers and passengers, I began to spend more time in children’s playgroups away from adult surveillance. I found that while children still mainly used English in those settings, they frequently code-switched into Patwa when trying to direct play, when criticizing one another, or when constructing rich imaginary play scenarios, like the young bus drivers I had witnessed.

This became a central focus of my research.

What made you want to do your fieldwork in Dominica?

I became fascinated with the origins and uses of creole languages as an undergraduate when I took a class on French

literature from Africa and the Caribbean. I planned to focus my research on the French Caribbean, but my dissertation advisor suggested Dominica as a possible field site since very little linguistic anthropological research had been done there. I was immediately drawn to its complex history and linguistic ecology.

Tell me about your spring break trip to Dominica with students every other year.

Every other year, I offer a semester-long anthropology course that is built around JMU’s Alternative Spring Break (ASB) trip to Dominica. The course includes study of the island’s history, culture and languages, combined with hands-on ethnographic, service-learning, and cross-cultural experiences while in Dominica for spring break. Our activities on the island have included going to work with villagers, spending time in rural, urban and indigenous Kalinago (Carib) communities, attending local guest lectures, and visiting eco-tourism sites like waterfalls, beaches,and historic forts. There are regular course meetings at JMU before and after the trip, and each student carries out their own mini anthropological research project. As an ASB trip, we give back to the community through service-learning projects arranged with our Dominican partners. Most recently I took a group of students to Dominica during the spring 2014 semester, which was very successful. I plan to offer the course again in spring 2016.

How are students able to go and how are they selected?

Up to 12 students can register for the course and trip.

Students are required to have taken at least one anthropology course in order to sign up, although preference would be given to anthropology majors and minors if more than 12 students were interested. I am happy to discuss the requirements and the experience with any interested students! contact Caroline Brandt at brandtcw@dukes.jmu.edu.

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“The buses are always so crowded. If I even make it on the bus, I’m always standing,” Klioze said.

After her classes are over on Tuesdays and Thursdays, Klioze waits for the bus to arrive at the ISAT building. She said that some days, the bus drives right past her because it’s already overcrowded.

“I end up waiting for 45 minutes for the next one and then waiting at Godwin another 25 minutes to actually leave campus,” Klioze said.

Some students believe that there should be more buses or another route added in order to help the problem. “[They] should have more back-up buses running in general, but also when the main buses aren’t on schedule,” Gaines suggested.

While there are no plans to add another route to that area, Reggie Smith, the director of HDPT, said that they try to have one bus for every 500 students. Avery Daugherty, the transit superintendent

for HDPT, agrees with Smith’s claims.

“Instead of doing multiple routes, we add additional buses to that area,” Daugherty said. “It is a better utilization of the area than getting a new route.”

“Instead of doing multiple routes, we add additional buses to that area. It is a better utilization of the area than getting a new route.”

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These additional buses would be more express buses.

According to Smith, the spare ratio, which is the amount of extra

buses they have or can get, is lower than the national average. The spare ratio in Harrisonburg is 5 percent, while according to the Federal Transit Administration, the recommended amount is generally 20 percent. The number varies all over the country because of the number of vehicles an agency has, or the number of vehicles that are operated regularly. These ratios help determine how many buses go to a specific region.

The underlying reason for the lack of buses and one route is the lack of funding, according to Daugherty, who also said that buses are extremely expensive.

“There is never a week where at least one bus doesn’t go out [for repairs],” Daugherty said.

Smith said that there will be four new buses coming this winter, but those will probably be used for replacements of old buses and not used for additions to routes. Since this is the case, it could take time before students’ complaints are resolved. contact Anna Peck at peckal@dukes.jmu.edu.

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Alger | Honors class encourages other leaders to get actively involved

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Three students enrolled in Jon Alger’s and Brian Charette’s Exploring Leadership class give a presentation on well-known leaders. The class is available to sophomore students enrolled in the Honors Program. from front

students thinking about the ways that they can embody the leadership role in their own personal lives, and thinking about that professionally,” Diener said.

The class is being held in one of the Student Success Center’s new EPIC classrooms which feature multiple projection points and wall-to-ceiling writable surfaces.

And so far, Charette has enjoyed working with the honors students.

“Teaching in the Honors Program allows me to work with students who are not only pursuing leadership, but are actually in leadership roles right now — like many JMU students — which I think adds to the depth of discussion we get into in the class,” he said. “They are smart, engaged, hard working and doing whatever they can to prepare to lead us.”

Even though they’ve had a large turnout for the leadership course, Diener said that opening it up to non-honors students isn’t something they’ve explored yet.

“Right now, we’ve got all the honor students in the leadership [class] we can handle, and it’s really full, and that’s what we want,” Diener said.

The idea of Alger teaching a leadership class was brought up in meetings last May, according to Philip Frana, the acting director of the Honors Program.

Charette said that Alger had wanted to be in the classroom since assuming the role of president. However, with his schedule, being the only teacher of a course would prove difficult. In the meantime, Charette, who had recently finished his adjunct responsiblities, was available to help teach.

“Mark Warner, senior vice president for student affairs and university planning, who is my boss, knew about both situations so he put us together,” he said. “After that, it was Provost [Jerry] Benson who directed us both to the Honors Program, and that’s how we were given the opportunity to teach the class together.”

The leadership course that Alger and Charette coteach resembles the Impact Leadership Program, which is

group-based executive leadership training for JMU faculty and administrators, according to Charette.

While the classes aren’t exactly the same, according to Charette, they both focus on effective leadership. “[Alger and Charette] are essentially teaching to our honors students the same way that they’re teaching us, the JMU future leaders in [the] university administration,” Frana said.

“I’m enormously gratified [about having the president part of this process]. It says a lot about our leaders to have them teach honors classes like this. I mean, leaders always teach by example, don’t they? And so, here we’ve got two of our leaders at JMU teaching a class, leading a class for our leaders of tomorrow — our current honors students.”

Phillip Frana

acting director of the JMU Honors Program

“So it’s exciting to see them sharing, equally, the same material with the students they’re sharing with us.”

Alger wasn’t the first in his family to teach. His wife, Mary Ann began teaching in the College of Business after Alger became President. So far, Alger’s teaching has been viewed positively.

“I’m enormously gratified [about having the president part

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The leadership area is one of five that honors students can focus on; the other areas include research, service, global studies and creativity, according to Diener. Of these areas, leadership is the largest.

“There tend to be more students in the leadership area; it’s been one of the more developed areas and there’s a lot of interest in it,” Diener said. “So, this semester, for example, we’re offering two sections of our introductory leadership [course].”

One of the reasons that the leadership area has continued to increase in numbers is because many honors students want to be leaders.

“Leadership gives them a way of situating their own leadership experiences, actually learning from those in a real way,” Diener said. “And I think also they find that taking courses in leadership … embodies what honors is about because it gets them learning and growing in a way that sets them out from the pack.”

Alger teaching the course has encouraged other top leaders to get involved.

“For example, next semester, after Charette and Alger are finished,” Frana said. “Ken Newbold, who is our director of research at JMU, is going to be teaching [the second semester] of the ... course.”

For now, it hasn’t been determined whether or not Alger will return to teach another course, but many, including Frana, remain hopeful.

“I’d love to have him come back each and every year to teach a leadership [course], or maybe something else, maybe in legal studies,” Frana said. “President Alger is [an] incredibly gifted student of the law, and the door is always open to invite him back.” contact Erin Flynn at breezenews@gmail.com.

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Ebola scare is only made worse by media Fear-inducing, paranoid journalism is making us uneducated for the sake of money and high viewership It’s a horrifically tragic story; the outbreak of the When did it become acceptable to basically try to scare people about Ebola virus has ravaged West Africa over the past a gravely serious disease just so you could have some more viewership few months. As of Oct. 10, the World Health Orga- to see your advertising? Do these news organizations have any moral nization (WHO) estimates that about 8,399 cases decency whatsoever? When it comes to Ebola, the average number of of Ebola have been diagnosed along with 4,024 people that a single person with the disease can infect is two. That’s reported deaths. lower than AIDS, SARS and both measles and mumps.

In Liberia, the crisis has reached the point that their As long as Americans practice basic hygiene and avoid direct contact with government has set up When did it become acceptable barriers for media crews the bodily fluids of anyone infected with to basically try to scare coming near the medical centers and hospitals Ebola, they will be perfectly fine. The people about a gravely serious housing Ebola patients in order to prevent furdirector of the Centers for Disease Control ther infection. and Prevention has expressed confidisease just so you could have Thomas Duncan, one of four known Ameridence about containing the virus so that some more viewership to see cans to contract the disease, died Wednesday it doesn’t spread in the U.S., so there’s no in a hospital in Dallas. In these desperate and excuse for this level of over-the-top, attenyour advertising?

Do these unsettling times, we often turn to media to give tion-seeking ludicrousness coming out of news organizations have any us information and assuage our fears so that we our news media. can reasonably come to a conclusion as to what Thankfully there was one sane person moral decency whatsoever? should be done about this. on the news networks the past few days.

What have we gotten instead? A good oldMiles O’Brien, a science correspondent fashioned helping of fear-mongering and panic for PBS, went on CNN to discuss the curin the vain attempt to garner more viewership. rent media client regarding the Ebola crisis. He said, “I wish everyone would CNN received lots of ridicule for having the headline, “Ebola: ‘The ISIS of Biological Agents?’” as if that were a per- take a deep breath and take a break from trying to pull viewers in by fectly reasonable thing to broadcast on a national television program. scaring them.”

Was there anyone checking what they were putting on television I couldn’t agree more, sir. The media should be held to a higher for millions to see? Not to be outdone in the “blatantly ridiculous and standard than this. When it comes to thousands dying from a horrific insane statements” department, Fox News had a guest who posed a disease, we should expect our news media to act professionally and with hyperbolic question regarding the possibility of “illegal immigrants” or an eye toward the facts instead of cynical sky-is-falling fluff. “terrorists” sneaking into America with the Ebola virus for the purpose of using it as a biological weapon. The same guest also proposed a travel Kevan Hulligan is a senior political science major. Contact Kevan ban between the U.S. and the countries most affected by the Ebola crisis. at hulligkx@dukes.jmu.edu.

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It happens all too often

Terry Gau | guest columnist

JMU alumna recalls her encounter with a potential predator, reflects on campus safety

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s a freshman at James Madison University in the Shenandoah Valley, I discovered freedom. I went out when I wanted, came home when I wanted, slept when I wanted, ate when I wanted, ate what I wanted. Growing up in a fairly strict and rather regimented home, my new life at JMU was exhilarating. Of course, with more freedom there were more responsibilities. Thanks to my upbringing, I handled most of the responsibilities with ease. Still, I’d been liberated and I felt that I could finally paint this world in great big, broad strokes, with the image of the woman I was becoming.

Today JMU sprawls across Interstate 81. But in 1982, the campus was centered in the older section of Harrisonburg, a few blocks from government buildings and the town square. It was somewhat isolated. I felt safe within the campus boundaries because everyone there was like me, a student searching for her way in this world. During class, at the student commons, on the Quad, I saw familiarity, students and faculty from a somewhat educated, middle-class or upper middle-class background.

No homeless vagrants loitered nearby, reminding us that devastation exists in this world.

No gangs roamed the

Nicholas Farrar | guest columnist

streets, marking neighborhoods Lisa, and I fairly paled in com- So I swallowed my panic and controlled by fear and violence. parison to Trish. picked up the pace.

I was naïve, I know, and starryTrish knew she had a strong Just as we ducked behind the eyed about my surroundings: my effect on young men, and while library, Trish whispered, “You new friends, my new boyfriend, she enjoyed herself, she was know, I think someone might be my new classes. But I knew aware enough to know when following us.” danger existed; I grew up in Rich- to stop. Several players on the In unison, Lisa and I both rugby team said, “Yup.” All three of us took mond, the invited her off running. former murto the local der capital We tore down the hill just in of the United Today JMU sprawls bar, JM’s, for time to see our pursuer round the States. Middle happy hour corner of the steam plant, headacross Interstate one Friday ing right for us. We still had to get school teach81. But in 1982, the t h a t f a l l . to the top of the steepest hill on ers taught us Trish didn’t campus, where our dorm waited how to avoid campus was centered know these like a safe keep. Without concern precarious in the older section young men for what anyone thought of us, we situations, especially well enough flew up the steps just as our stalkof Harrisonburg, downtown to go into er reached the bottom of the hill. a few blocks this situa- He was only seconds behind us. where the tion alone, I fumbled with the keys while he scary people from government lived. My own so she asked was making his way up the stairs, buildings and the father taught Lisa and I to and just as the door shut us safeme how to come with ly inside our dorm, the man who town square. It was her to JM’s followed three college freshmen fend off a date somewhat isolated. that night. all the way across campus, was after unwantS h e k n e w rattling the locked door to get at ed advances. w e d i d n ’ t us still. I don’t remember if we But I was in l i k e b e e r called campus police. I think we Harrisonburg a n d w e did. No one was caught. Thanknow, the very definition of a small town. Cam- knew she needed us as back-up, fully, no one was hurt that night. pus police protected us. As long should she overindulge. She had I often wonder who else he as I was within the boundary of no intention of going home with followed, who else wasn’t fast the sacred soil of JMU, I believed anyone, but she didn’t want to enough, who else didn’t have I was safe. miss the fun. We were with her city-girl training.

One of my roommates, Trish, as responsible sister-friends to I tell you this story because of was very cute, very sweet, very keep her from getting lost. the recent disappearance of Hansmart and very country. She So we went. Trish drank beer. nah Graham from the campus of came from Chilhowie, Virginia Lisa and I drank Coca-Cola. Trish the University of Virginia in Char— a much smaller town was the center of it all. Lisa and lottesville, only a mountain away than Harrisonburg I got chatted up by some lesser- from JMU. She was followed, like — and she sported known rugby players who kept us. She never made it home. I tell offering us beer, which was you this story because some have a sassy Southern accent that made only hospitable, if not hopeful. dismissed her disappearance, h e r s o m e w hat We watched Trish. It was like saying she’s to blame because irresistible to watching a butterfly on a fence she went to a bar, wearing a crop all the Northfull of honeysuckle. She flit- top, she was alone, she had been ted and flirted and smiled and drinking. They will tell you that ern Virginia frat boys. At entertained. She was fun — fun she was asking for it. parties and to be with, fun to be around, fun Back in 1982, we were not mixers, my to watch. She had a great time, alone, two of us had not been other roombut at no time did she make her- drinking, and we wore everyday self available. Then someone got street clothes. We were “good mate, too close and pushed her bound- girls,” living in the Virgin Vault. aries. Trish was still very present, We took precautions. even with a couple of beers. She And yet — we were followed gave us the signal and like the still. team we were, Lisa and I came to Women are targets not because get her with some lame excuse we dress in crop tops, not because about a test or a phone call or we get drunk, not because we walk some hair that needed washing. alone. We are targets because we It was around midnight, are women. Somehow violence maybe not even quite midnight. against women becomes acceptJM’s was on the opposite side able in our society when we are Blair Rosen / The Breeze of campus, diagonal from our labeled distractions, temptations, dorm, Wine-Price Hall — affec- shrews, whores, gold-diggers, tionately known as the “Virgin emasculating bitches. If a woman Vault” at the time because of dresses to accentuate her body, the strict male we say she is tempting visitation rules. fate. If she We had to travCell phones weren’t has been el across South around in 1982. We Ma i n S t re e t , drinking, had no way to reach cut through the we say she should have Quad, pass Buranyone who could known betruss Hall, walk help us. This was up the wooded ter. If she was hill behind the drugged, we happening. This librar y, then say she put was real. We were back down herself into the hill by the that situain trouble and the steam plant tion. If she campus police were before ascendwalks alone, ing another we say she nowhere to be found. ste ep hill to set herself Wine-Price. It up. was about a It’s as if simply by 15-minute walk.

I first heard the footsteps having a female body, we are concommitting was even less likely … I made the behind us after we crossed Sputh sidered a danger to ourselves. decision not to extend an invitation to Mr. Main Street. I noticed a dark figWhen we blame women for Sarvis in this debate. It was my opinion, and ure in my periphery by the time being victims of sexual crimes, that of others, that a debate between two of we reached the Quad. Lisa and I we are saying that women’s bodthe candidates is better and more beneficial instinctively knew we were being ies corrupt men and must be to the JMU community than not having one followed, and without a word we controlled, because men are at all.” began protocol to lose him. In uncontrollable animals. This While Gillespie mentioned in his op-ed perfect sync, we began slowing assumption is as much an insult of accepting invitations to four debates at down and speeding up our pace to men as it is to women, because Virginia universities — JMU, the University to see if the footsteps stayed with it forgoes any possibility that men of Virginia, Virginia Tech and George Mason us. Lisa was a city girl from Balti- can actually control their urges University — Sarvis did not receive an more, so she and I had the same and accuses women of being the invitation to any of them. The only debate city training. Trish did not. She trigger for those urges to turn the Libertarian was invited to was at the didn’t seem to notice that the violent.

University of Mary Washington, an event footsteps continued to match Whether we wear low-cut that both Gillespie and Warner declined to ours as we passed the bluestone sweaters or burqas, whether attend. buildings. Lisa and I shifted to we are sober or drunk, whether Do they sound like a pair of candidates another tactic. We began talk- we are alone or with friends — who support “open debate and the ing loudly, laughing and making women are attacked by men who transparent exchange of information and a general nuisance of ourselves, choose not to control themselves. ideas,” as Gillespie put it last week? It seems so as to draw attention. We need- It’s time to blame the criminals for clear that they use the political process that ed eyes on us, because no one their crimes, and not the women heavily favors the two-party system and was looking at the man follow- for simply being there. Until we rigged it in their favor. ing in the shadows. However, at can make this distinction, we will When I read the email, I was frustrated that time of night, that part of prolong the myth that all men are not because of my support for the Sarvis JMU was deserted. There were rapists and all women secretly campaign, but due to the frontrunners no dorms nearby and the library wish to be raped. They are not, not wanting an honest, intellectual debate and class buildings had long and we do not. with all those vying for the Senate seat. If closed for the night.

By the grace of God or some Gillespie and Warner truly had faith in their We reached Burruss, where blip in the universe, Trish, Lisa political viewpoints and the integrity of our path home led behind the and I made it home that Friday their campaigns, then why would they not library through some woods. night. Hannah Graham did not. welcome all the candidates to challenge For the briefest second, Lisa and She’s still out there, waiting to be them?

I paused to hear where the foot- discovered, waiting to be vindiNo matter which nominee you support, steps went, our nerves tight with cated, waiting for justice. There it is of utmost importance that all who are fear. The steps headed toward are many more like Hannah, also running have an equal voice in the election the path in front of the library, waiting. Their sacrifice should not process to ensure a fair and democratic and if our stalker walked quickly become yet another girl gone, but contest. If Virginia voters are made aware of enough, he would cut us off in a battle cry for women and men all of the available perspectives, they can have the woods at the steam plant, alike to stop making excuses for a more informed choice of which candidate where no one could hear us. sexual predators. to represent them against an increasingly Cell phones weren’t around Our prayers are with you, partisan Capitol Hill. in 1982. We had no way to reach Hannah, and your family. Please anyone who could help us. This come home, soon.

Nicholas Farrar is a senior international was happening. This was real. We affairs major. Contact Nicholas at farrarnr@ were in trouble and the campus Terry Gau is a class of 1986 dukes.jmu.edu. police were nowhere to be found. alumna.

Libertarians are candidates too

Ed Gillespie made contradictory demands in his recent guest op-ed In Thursday’s edition of The Breeze, Ed Gillespie, the Republican senatorial nominee for U.S. Senate for Virginia, criticized his Democratic opponent for refusing to accept invitations to debate on college campuses around the state. He wrote that Mark Warner must be “willing to stand before [his] constituents and defend [his] record” in front of prospective Virginian voters.

However, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee is in no place to criticize his challengers for refusing to go on stage and discuss the pressing issues of the day with him.

Madison Liberty, a libertarian-minded club on campus, supports the Libertarian Party candidate in the race, Robert Sarvis.

This is why I, being the vice president of the organization, was disappointed to hear of the Student Government Association’s decision to extend invitations to both Gillespie and Warner for debating on campus before the election, but not Sarvis. It turned out, however, that the SGA did not have much of a choice in the matter.

The only debate the Libertarian was invited to was at the University of Mary Washington, an event that both Gillespie and Warner declined to attend.

After I emailed the SGA inquiring about the (then) possible JMU debate, one of its representatives emailed me back the reason why the Libertarian nominee was left out.

“Both campaigns had stated that if Mr. Sarvis were to be invited to participate in the debate their chances of agreeing to accept the invitation was unlikely and actually

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A lounge for every taste New shisha bar in downtown Harrisonburg offers a variety of hookah experiences

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Jalisa Bone, a freshman psychology major, relaxes at Hooka Dooka, a new shisha lounge located in downtown on South Main Street. The lounge relocated from its Staunton location to Harrisonburg in mid August.

By Dominique Lategano The Breeze

As you walk through downtown Harrisonburg, you might miss the entrance to Hooka Dooka if it weren’t for the small sign above the discrete black door. Venture up a couple flights of stairs and you’ll find the lingering smell of Hooka Dooka tucked in between rows of doors.

Previously located in Staunton, the shisha lounge relocated to downtown Harrisonburg in mid August. Owner Mark Harman follows a traditional lounge style, while “spreading the gospel of hookah.”

“I was the only hookah bar in Staunton in the area for years.” Harman said. “People would call me up and ask if I wanted to be No.1 on their page and I’d just be like, ‘I’m already No. 1, I’m No. 2, I’m No. 3, I’m f--king No. 5! I’m it!’”

After moving here to be closer to 18- to 24-year-olds, a target market for hookah, Hooka Dooka is adapting to Harrisonburg by offering a study space for students, as well as accommodating to larger groups with each hookah having two to four hoses.

“The response I’ve gotten here is amazing; the first couple words out of their mouths are ‘oh’ or ‘wow,’” Har man said. “I’ve

actually gotten more JMU professors and staff than students.”

Hooka Dooka welcomes students, professors and local residents alike.

“I was exploring downtown with friends and we ran across the sign and went up the stairs,” Alyson Franklin, a freshman biology major, said. “It’s really chill, I loved it. I almost fell asleep I was so relaxed.”

Hooka Dooka has three lounges — each one has a different style for every taste. The European-style lounge features low tables, while the modern lounge has high tables and a cascading light projection of rainbowcolored moving water.

The traditional lounge is a nest of pillows and beanbag chairs with a “no shoes allowed” rule and follows the practices of traditional hookah lounges by not allowing cigarettes or other types of tobacco to be smoked.

“It’s great, I definitely recommend the traditional section in the back,” Franklin said.

The air in the lounges is not filled with smoke, but rather a mix of Middle Eastern music and Benny Benassi playing in the background just loud enough to be heard, but with no vibe-killing bass.

“This was my first experience at a hookah place and it was really laid back.” Elizabeth Callahan, a freshman international affairs major, said. “That’s what it should be like; it’s the place to go in downtown Harrisonburg.”

The menu offers many different kinds of shisha, which is tobacco mixed with molasses and vegetable glycerol,

In the red

including Starbuzz, Al Faker and a tobaccofree shisha called Hydro. The most popular choices are the house blends created by Harman, with unique names such as Alien Honey, Geisha, Tipsy, Sour Gummy Worms and — the most popular — Heaven.

“I was thinking one night that if I was going smoke one time with God, [Heaven] is what would I smoke,” Harman said.

Hooka Dooka skips direct lighting and infuses LED lights, twinkle lights and other forms of indirect lighting to give the lounge an inviting glow. Original artwork by Harman hangs on the walls.

“I have more fun than a bar because people actually have conversations that become the whole room,” Harman said.

Hidden in a discrete doorway beside Oasis Fine Arts & Crafts, Hooka Dooka will be celebrating its fourth-year anniversary as a business in the upcoming months.

“I like when people come in and sit down for five minutes and say ‘I like it here, I feel at home,’” Harman said. “I think that’s beautiful.”

Contact Dominique Lategano at lategada@dukes.jmu.edu.

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Students work hard to pay for school and be independent

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Financial Aid and Scholarships, Amaya may not have been able to afford any education higher than $25,017. That’s the average debt her associate degree in psycholowed by college graduates in Virgin- ogy. If she majored in psychology ia in 2012. The national average debt here, she could graduate at the end is $29,400. College is getting less and of the year. However, 80 percent of less affordable for all students every other American college students year, but those who pay for their like Amaya have also changed their education themselves might have major at least once, according to to balance a full-time job with their the National Center for Education Statistics. Amaya classes, homework and studying.

“I’ve served [at changed her major Ju n i o r s o c i a l to social work. restaurants] for four work major Khrys“Psychology is more in the mind t h a l e A m a y a years and I was a and I want to do transferred to JMU nanny for a year. It t h i s y e a r f ro m something interacNorthern Virginia was really hard. I was tive,” Amaya said.

Community Col“I didn’t want to exhausted running on lege. Working an diagnose people but I wanted to average of 30 hours four hours of sleep help them get to a week since she and having to catch was 16, Amaya has that point instead. paid for all of her up on homework. It I want to get sometuition with a comone physically and was nice in the end environmentally bination of loans from the govern- not having to depend out of a poor situment and money they’re in.” on anyone but myself.” ation she’s saved up on Amaya credits her own. She has Khrysthale Amaya both her financial also paid for her junior social work major and personal indeown rent, food and pendence to her other costs of living mother. since she was 19.

“I just don’t “I’ve served [at restaurants] for want to have to depend on my four years and I was a nanny for mom for anything,” Amaya said. “I a year,” Amaya said. “It was really would never want to have to ask for hard. I was exhausted running on anything. I don’t like the stress that four hours of sleep and having to comes with it. I’d rather just work for catch up on homework. It was nice it on my own.” in the end not having to depend on The biggest challenges Amaya anyone but myself.” faces are the great stresses of time Without help from the federal government and JMU’s Office of see MONEY, page B2

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LADY | Store name inspired by Jane Austen

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LEFT The Lady Jane is named after famous “Pride and Prejudice” author Jane Austen. TOP RIGHT Sara Christensen styles the shop’s display of decor. BOTTOM RIGHT Handmade paper roses and glass jars are among The Lady Jane’s most popular items. from front

support local businesses.”

The Lady Jane sells products for the home and serves as at home, in the store and even on the sidewalk in front of her a quick location to find gifts for others. The shop has vinshop. She gets many of her antique products from auctions, tage jewelry, wrapping papers and cards to help people find antique dealers and Harrisonburg residents. The Lady Jane gifts with ease.

Photographers can rent some of the also carries handmade jewelry from local antique furniture and props in The Lady Harrisonburg artists.

“If I see something Jane for photo shoots. Christensen has “If I see something and feel connectdesigned the sets for events, magazine edied to it, I want to sell it to my customers,” and feel connected torial shoots and wedding photos using her Christensen said. “I like things that make to it, I want to sell it pieces. Some sets have been featured on people feel good, like soft colors and beauto my customers.”

Christensen’s blog, The Lady Jane. tiful things.”

“I try to blog at least once a week,” ChrisChristensen carries products that serve tensen said. “I’ve gotten some people who as “foundation” pieces for others to build Sara Christensen want to advertise on my blog but I want on. She sells jars, papers and decorative (‘08) to show people what we do without bomitems that can be creatively arranged or owner of The Lady Jane barding them with ads.” added to.

Christensen’s dream is to convert a “Life gets crazy so it’s hard to do the fun Victorian home into a space to sell her and creative things we wish we had time for,” Christensen said. “I love it when people send me pic- products. She envisions the shop with different products in tures of the creative things they’ve done and added to my each room, with the second floor as a living space for herself.

Though she never previously imagined herself owning products.”

The Lady Jane attracts the business of Harrisonburg resi- a shop, Christensen enjoys the creativity and learning that comes with the job. dents and JMU students alike. “[Owning a shop] is stressful, but it’s definitely worth it,” “I was just walking by and [The Lady Jane] looked cool,” Christensen said.

Danielle Paterson, a freshman psychology major, said.

To read more about The Lady Jane, visit Christensen’s The store even attracts visitors passing through blog or follow her on Pinterest at LJ Styling and Design or Harrisonburg.

“I was looking for a gift for my little,” Megan McMahon, Instagram @theladyjaneshop. a senior neuroscience major at The College of William & Mary, said. “[The Lady Jane] seemed unique and I like to CONTACT Natalie Miller at millernk@dukes.jmu.edu.

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management and budgeting. When she was a server, she was never sure of exactly how much money she would make. However, she hasn’t always had to deal with the stress alone. Amaya has lived with her boyfriend Ben Krause, junior psychology major who also transferred from NOVa this year, for the past two-and-a-half years.

Krause’s mother pays for his tuition, but he pays for rent, books and other student costs with a Federal Direct Stafford Loan of $3,200 per semester. He plans on working through school to lessen his current dependence on the loans. Despite the challenges, he’s grateful for the opportunity to come here.

Set in candy-cane-patterned tents surrounded by dark marshes in Jupiter, Florida, this story is guaranteed to terrify. Homicidal conjoined twins, a man with lobster-claw hands and a bearded Kathy Bates are just a few eccentric characters in the weird world of “American Horror Story: Freak Show” created by Ryan Murphy, which premiered on Oct. 8 on FX. As someone who rarely gets scared by horror movies, with what I saw of “The ShinFX ing” from behind the safety of my pillow is “American a notable exception, I went into this epiHorror Story” sode skeptical that I would be spooked or even entertained. My skepticism was com pletely misplaced as this episode managed Fourth Season to weave fear, humor, sorrow and drama Premiere Oct. 8 together in a way that I have never seen before. Sure, the first 10 minutes were a little slow, but it was well the worth the wait as it set up such a strong story.

Part of that strength comes from veteran cast member Jessica Lange, who plays the epitome of perfection as Elsa Mars, the forceful Fräulein who leads her group of ‘monsters’ and engages in questionable practices to keep her freak show running. During the scene with the actual freak show performance, Lange’s character bursts into a rendition of “Life on Mars” that induced goosebumps from both her amazing singing and the song’s relation to the freak show theme.

The freak show acts themselves are a mixed bunch that you can’t help but weirdly root for even though they have committed a few highly disturbing crimes which I won’t detail so I don’t spoil the episode — or your stomachs. A specific standout is Jyoti Amge, the world’s smallest woman.

At two feet tall, Amge plays Ma Petite, Elsa’s assistant. While her role in the show so far has been limited mainly to being coddled and carried by the other acts, she still provides a necessary foil to the rest of the show. Her sheer adorableness, which Murphy obviously plays up, keeps the show from being too dark and twisted.

A majority of said dark and twisted material came courtesy of a killer harlequin, appropriately named Twisty the Clown. Twisty is a mostly harmless being whose only desire is to abduct children and wayward youths after murdering their families. Twisty is an interesting villain, who at some points appears almost gentle, and then snaps right back into psycho mode. I’m very curious to see how he continues to develop and what he ends up doing with the hostages he has taken. However, I’m not quite as curious about that as I am about whether or not Kathy Bates’ bearded lady ever figures out that shaving can solve a lot of her problems.

Luckily for me there are a plethora of reasons to continue watching.

The freak show acts walked the tightrope between likable and heinous in this episode. I would like to see that continued, since it makes the freaks such strong and complex characters. I was also on the fence morally, as to whether or not I liked Elsa’s character, which speaks to the fact that Murphy and company were able to craft such a dynamic character. If I’m being 100 percent honest, I will also watch to see Ma Petite speak and continue to embody cuteness.

Between the complex characters and intriguing storyline of whether the freak show acts’ actions will ever catch up to them, I’m completely hooked. This was an amazingly well-done introduction to a new season with new characters and plots, and at 90 minutes it kept my eyes glued to the screen and my mind thinking about various directions the story could take. It’s rare that I will give a show five stars, but in this case, I must.

Mike Dolzer is a freshman writing, rhetoric and technical communication major. Contact Mike at dolzermj@dukes.jmu.edu.

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“I also might be going into grad school, which will put me more in debt but hopefully more financially stable in the future with a better career.”

Ben Krause

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“JMU’s a nice school. It has a good psych program and it’s close to my parent’s house, which is only about an hour away,” Krause said. “They accepted me during the spring but I had to work for it, so I delayed it to the fall.”

Krause eventually wants to go into industrial organizational psychology, a branch of psychology that studies behavior in the workplace. This requires more specialized schooling.

“I also might be going into grad school, which will put me more in debt but hopefully more financially stable in the future with a better career,” Krause said.

At the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships on campus, it’s nearly impossible to set standards for who’s eligible for financial aid and who’s likely to receive financial aid. There are general requirements, but these are similar to applying for college in the first place, such as having a legitimate social security number, having a high school diploma or equivalent and not having a disqualifying drug conviction. Loan limits are set by Congress and organized by academic year, and annual funding allocations are different for each type of loan and scholarship. “[It] varies by aid program,” Brad Barnett, senior associate director at the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships, said.

The standard of living for students who are less financially dependent on their families is not necessarily always lower than those who always rely on their families.

Recently, Amaya and Krause expanded their dynamic duo to a trio when they adopted Reya, a kitten from local cat adoption center Cat’s Cradle. While this new addition to their family set the couple back $100 in food and supplies, in the long run, they can afford it.

CONTACT Robyn Smith at breezearts@gmail.com.

Howard Jeffries (left), who plays Lenny Ganz, rehearses a scene with Martin Rees, who plays Officer Welch. ‘Rumors’ opens Oct. 16.

By CHRISTINA RAMSEY contributing writer

the actor who plays Lenny Ganz, a main character in “Rumors,” explained. After seven productions with Valley Playhouse, he knows the audition process backward and forward.

According to the actors, being a member of the cast, especially It’s not just hearsay. Valley Playhouse is wrapping up its 2014 in a farce genre, is a blast. season with one of Neil Simon’s plays, “Rumors.”

“After a long day, it feels so great to come here and just have “Rumors” is a slapstick comedic drama about four couples who fun,” Susan Comfort, a special education arrive to a celebration dinner at the New York City teaching assistant and part-time WMRA radio deputy mayor’s house. Upon arriving, they have dishost, said. Since most of these cast members covered that the mayor has accidentally shot himself “You just come in aren’t full-time actors, they come to relax and through the earlobe and his wife is nowhere to be and read from have fun outside of their hectic careers. found. Throughout the play, the couples try to figure Most of the people involved in this producout what happened while also attempting to keep the the script and the tion are no strangers to theater, especially in story from the police and media. director decides if the case of Mary Ruberry, the director of the Founded in 1966 by a troupe of JMU theatre and play. speech communication professors, the group orig- you are the right fit “I started directing when I was in high inally known as the Valley Players performed in for a character.” school and then took a break years later when various venues around Harrisonburg until around I was single-handedly raising my two kids,” 1997, when they found a home at 111 East Water St. Howard Jeffries Ruberry said. “I’ve directed in New York, Los and became the Valley Playhouse. In 2005, these Lenny Ganz, main Angeles and Washington D.C., where I ran a artists moved to a new primary performance space— character in “Rumors” theatre company called Focus Rhythm TheCourt Square Theater in downtown Harrisonburg, atre Company.” and have been performing there ever since.

However, directing isn’t her only job. She Being a nonprofit community theater, Valley also has a full-time career that’s not related Playhouse relies on volunteers in the community to act in, produce and direct these shows. Their goal is “to provide to theater at all. During the day, she’s a biomedical conference opportunities for people of all ages to experience theater of the director for the Cambridge Healthtech Institute.

Ruberry loves directing ‘Rumors’ because of her cast and crew. highest artistic quality. The Playhouse hopes to present plays, offer “It is a very collaborative group effort and the experience has educational experiences and encourage the growth and developbeen nothing but positive,” Ruberry said. “[It‘s] the funniest play ment of area theater artists.”

The Valley Playhouse offers community members the chance ever written but it also includes some underlying cultural commentary and class issues.” to be involved by hosting open auditioning.

“You just come in and read from the script and the director decides if you are the right fit for a character,” Howard Jeffries, CONTACT Christina Ramsey at ramseycl@dukes.jmu.edu.

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Freshman cornerback Jimmy Moreland scores on his second-quarter interception, giving JMU a 27-0 lead. The interception was Moreland’s third of the season and the second that he’s returned for a touchdown.

Cleaning up shop

JMU puts on defensive clinic in 62-7 win over Towson University Saturday

By Wayne Epps Jr. The Breeze

It may have taken until the midway point of the season, but the Dukes started the second half of the schedule Saturday with the kind of defensive firepower they’ve been aiming for all season.

JMU’s pressure on defense helped lead to four total Towson turnovers. And within just three Towson offensive plays in the second quarter, JMU scored two defensive touchdowns off a couple of those turnovers, putting a firm grip on the game’s outcome.

The Dukes kept their foot on the gas through the fourth quarter, beating the Tigers 62-7 in convincing fashion in front of 24,113 people at Bridgeforth Stadium on Family Weekend.

“We had a focus this week about ‘all you got’,” head coach Everett Withers said. “It was whatever you got to go win this game, everybody on our team. And I told our guys, if everybody on our team did that today, we would win the game. And we won the game.”

JMU entered Saturday’s game against Towson University ranked No. 11 in the Colonial Athletic Association in total defense and No. 106 in the country, allowing 473.5 yards per game. But the Dukes (4-3, 2-2 CAA) held Towson (2-5, 0-3 CAA) to just 234 yards of total offense — a season best by far.

The 55-point win on Saturday gave JMU its largest margin of victory since it beat Hofstra University 56-0 on Oct. 4, 2008.

The Dukes’ 62 points are the most they’ve scored since they best Delaware State University 65-7 on Sept. 17, 2005. Both of these games were played at home.

But it was the points scored by the defense that likely swung the momentum all the way in JMU’s favor.

With a little over three minutes to play before the half, redshirt senior defensive end Brandon Lee stripped the ball out of the hand of Towson’s redshirt senior quarterback Joe Brennan. The ball then fell into the hands of redshirt sophomore Rhakeem Stallings’ who ran it 27 yards for a score.

Then on second down of the Tigers’ ensuing series, JMU freshman cornerback Jimmy Moreland jumped a pass by Towson junior quarterback Connor Frazier and returned it

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Freshman defensive end Cornell Urquhart and redshirt senior outside linebacker Titus Till celebrete JMU”s win over Towson Saturday.

26 yards for another touchdown, his third interception and second score of the season. All of a sudden, JMU was up 27-0 with 2:15 to play before the half.

“We’re pressuring more on defense than we were the first part of the year,” Withers said. “Our kids are starting to understand the fits of the pressure game ... We had too many big plays early in the year, where one guy was out of a gap in the pressure [defense] and the [play] would split. And that’s bad defense.”

Towson ran a dual-quarterback offense, utilizing both Brennan and Frazier. Frazier played the majority of snaps,

but neither quarterback had much success. Frazier threw the interception and both he and Brennan were sacked three times apiece.

Frazier fumbled three times alone and JMU recovered two of those balls. Lee caused two of Frazier’s fumbles and also the Brennan fumble returned for a touchdown. “[Frazier] had the ball kind of loose pretty much the entire game,” Lee said. “And it’s not necessarily that you’re going after the ball, but it’s just the fact that you practice stuff like that see football, page B4

WOMEN’S SOCCER (9-6)

JMU picks up second-straight shutout Dukes beat UNCW 2-0 Sunday, improve to 4-1 in conference By meghan malloy contributing writer

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Sophomore midfielder Jennie Sroba scored a goal Sunday against UNCW and two Friday against Charleston.

With crunch time of the season approaching, women’s soccer opened its game against the University of North Carolina at Wilmington on Sunday with almost immediate success. Then for the rest of the game, the Dukes refused to back down, finishing with a 2-0 win over the Seahawks.

Not even five minutes into the game, sophomore midfielder Jennie Sroba scored off a corner kick from redshirt senior forward Sam Lofton. Late in the second half, with less than 15 minutes remaining in the game, junior midfielder Elissa Halik headed the ball past UNCW sophomore goalkeeper Liisa Rahkola, again with Lofton’s help from another expertly aimed corner kick.

As a midfielder who’s used to playing defense, Sroba was excited by the opportunity to score.

“It feels awesome,” Sroba said. “It’s definitely something new for me.”

Junior goalkeeper Ellen Forrest played an

impressive game as well, recording five saves, including one from a penalty kick. This was Forrest’s second shutout this weekend. She led the Dukes to a 3-0 victory over the College of Charleston last Friday.

This win over UNCW brings JMU to a 4-1 record in the Colonial Athletic Association. Its only loss was in Boston against Northeastern University on Oct. 5. The Dukes are 9-6 overall.

“The top six teams in the conference could win this,” head coach Dave Lombardo said of the upcoming CAA tournament. “This [win] went a long way to help us get towards the top of the table.”

So far, the seeds for the CAA tournament are still up in the air. JMU has four more regular season conference games left to play and currently sits in third place. The Dukes will face Drexel University, the University of Delaware, the College of William & Mary and Elon University over the next two weeks.

Drexel currently leads the CAA with a 4-0-1 record in conference. Then William & Mary is see soccer, page B5

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Field Hockey (8-4)

Dukes upset by William & Mary JMU goes into overtime for sixth time this season

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LEFT Head coach Christy Morgan directs her players where to line up in Sunday’s loss to the College of William & Mary. RIGHT Junior midfielder Saskia Chelmowski battles for a ball with a Tribe defender.

By Andre Haboush

The Breeze

The JMU field hockey team’s senior day was filled with many ups and downs, but ultimately ended in a loss to the College of William & Mary.

The Dukes took a 1-0 lead into the half, but fell behind in the second, until they tied the game late. Less than a minute into overtime, a William & Mary goal handed JMU a 4-3 loss. The Dukes are now 8-4 overall and 1-2 in the Colonial Athletic Association.

The game started with back -and-forth corners from both sides, but neither was able to score. William & Mary created more opportunities as it had six shots compared to JMU’s two at the 19’, but it did not result in anything.

However in the 26’, JMU freshman midfielder Melanie Kusakavitch scored her second career goal as freshman Hannah Hall had the assist as JMU took a 1-0 lead.

In the 30’, the game got heated and physical as William & Mary became too aggressive, and forced the referee to stop the game to calm the two sides. William & Mary’s junior midfielder Pippin Saunders was given a yellow card and sent off the field for five minutes.

JMU’s junior back Loes Stijntjes was given a green card, meaning she was warned to be less aggressive for two minutes. JMU had good attempts on goal, but did not score.

“The game was getting a little physical, so [the referee] called the two captains and sorted things out,” Stijntjes said.

The first half ended with JMU leading 1-0, but the Dukes had given up nine shots to the Tribe’s six.

“I just felt that we were on game,” head coach Christy Morgan said of the first half. “We had to execute some things at a greater speed, but overall I felt good about that. We know that they are a good team, and we had to play a really organized game of hockey rather than ‘bashball.’ I think that we played as a team, and I was proud of the way we played.”

Although JMU had the lead, the team knew it couldn’t back off or cruise for the remainder of the game, and made halftime adjustments.

“We really talked about receive and releasing rather than carrying

with the ball, because the second we carried with the ball, they folded in on us, collapsed in on us and were very physical and stopped the play,” Morgan said. “So in order to create a flow within the game, we had to move the ball by passing rather than carrying it.”

The second half started out rather calm until the 42’, when William & Mary freshman midfielder Emma MacLeod scored on a corner to tie the game 1-1.

Two minutes later, William & Mary scored yet another goal off a rebound on a corner shot to take the lead away from JMU. Saunders scored the goal as William & Mary had 14 shots to JMU’s seven, although JMU had great chances to score another goal.

“You want less shots given up for sure, but did I feel like we were in the game every single minute? Absolutely,” Morgan said. “We strengthened up and we made some changes in the midfield and that strengthened our team, and I think that gave us more of a punch on attack … to get more shots at the end of the game.”

Over the next 16 minutes, no goals were scored and the Tribe took a timeout that allowed both teams to regroup.

JMU got a corner in the 60’ and had a set play that led to a Stijntjes equalizer. Redshirt junior midfielder Taylor West picked up the assist.

“Before a corner, we always go in with an idea, so we did know what we were going to do, and we executed it well,” Stijntjes said.

William & Mary came back with a goal by junior midfielder Esty Byrd to retake the lead at 3-2 with only eight minutes left in the game. JMU did not have a chance on goal until the final two minutes.

“It was just a matter of staying calm,” Stijntjes said. “It was a tight game and anything can happen in six minutes.”

In the final minute of the game, Stijntjes scored her 11th goal of the season off a corner set play. Senior back Dana Allaband was credited with the assist. The game tied up 3-3 with 45 seconds remaining.

“In the season, we have been very confident with our corners, and that shows too the amount of times we’ve scored off a corner is really high,” Stijntjes said. “Confidence going into the corner is good, and we know what we have to do, and we try to execute it as good as possible.

The game then went into sudden death overtime. In overtime,

the teams are shrunk from 11 players down to seven on the pitch.

“There is a lot more running because we have less people on the field,” Stijntjes said. “It’s a matter of keeping possession and playing smart hockey, and not trying to turn the ball over. Unfortunately, or maybe a good thing, we have played a lot overtime this season, so again, we knew what we had to do.”

But William & Mary scored the game winner off a corner 59 seconds into overtime to upset the Dukes 4-3.

Redshirt senior midfielder Jesse Ebner scored the game-winner for the Tribe, her first goal of the season.

“I think everybody played hard,” Morgan said. “To have a freshman go in off the bench and score the first goal of the game, that’s a great feat ... Everybody contributed and we’re disappointed with the loss, but I think that we have a fighting team and they played with the fight today.”

William & Mary finished with 22 shots compared to JMU’s 13.

Morgan credits the loss to the nature of the game, as field hockey relies on a single shot that can change the outcome of the game.

“One of the things that they used very well was their bench,” Morgan said. “They had great depth. We really have that depth right now, we’ve got some great players, but we need to be able to recycle those players. We are going to keep working for that to later in the season, you’ll see us playing with more depth.”

For the seniors, the team has one more home game against on Wednesday against American University to earn one more victory in Harrisonburg.

“I think it is a collimating event for [seniors],” Morgan said. “There is a lot of emotion around [senior game], but I told them to use the emotion to really focus in … and they did.”

Overall, the team is still young, but improving daily. Morgan and crew expect improvement on Wednesday.

“I think that I’ve got a great team, and we’re focused on growing every game,” she said. “We’re young as far as experience, and they are not settling, and they are not conceding ... We’re going to keep fighting and we’re going to keep growing, so you’ll see a better team on Wednesday than you saw today.”

Contact Andre Haboush at habousaw@dukes.jmu.edu.

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and it shows up in the game. And it did today.”

Granted, Towson came in with an especially young offensive line. The starting unit consisted of a freshman, a redshirt freshman and three sophomores. And JMU seemed to take full advantage.

“We got out-aged and out-experienced,” Towson head coach Rob Ambrose said. “It didn’t really matter about whatever scheme they were running.”

Up 27-0 at halftime, things were looking good for the Dukes.

It was the first time JMU had held an opponent scoreless in the first half since it held the University of Maine scoreless until the fourth quarter in a 31-7 win on Nov. 3, 2012.

But if you were in JMU’s locker room at the half, you wouldn’t have known it.

“I didn’t know how this team would react to being up,” Withers said. “So it was like 0-0 for us when we came out in the second half. And I approached it that way at halftime. [The players] can tell you that I was not very friendly to them in the locker room at halftime. Because I did not want to come out and get complacent in the second half.”

The message stuck, as JMU kept laying it on.

Towson received to start the third quarter and gambled by going for it on 4th-and-2 on that possession. However, Mosley and redshirt sophomore linebacker Gage Steele were all over the play, stuffing sophomore running back Darius Victor and giving the offense the ball back at Towson’s 47-yard line.

Seven plays later, sophomore running back Khalid Abdullah scored on a 16-yard run to keep the Dukes’ onslaught going. Later, freshman running back John Miller put the cherry on top with three rushing touchdowns in the fourth quarter alone.

The offense looked perhaps the most in sync as it has all year.

Redshirt junior quarterback Vad Lee had plenty of time to throw and receivers had ample space to catch. The unit ran 80 plays, which hit Withers’ goal of 80 to 85 plays per game.

“When we’re hitting on all cylinders, it’s a great [thing],” redshirt junior quarterback Vad Lee said. “And we go.”

Sophomore wide receiver Brandon Ravenel was a particularly bright spot on offense, with a career-high eight catches for 107 yards and a touchdown. He had seven catches for 104 yards and the touchdown by halftime.

Ravenel entered the game with just seven catches for 70 yards on the season after missing time with injury. But he was Vad’s favorite target Saturday. ”It’s a great feeling,” Ravenel said about his performance. “Vad’s one of the people that’s been there for me through all the missed games. I’ve been hurt, it’s been really tough. But all of them, they’ve been here for me, they’ve been just trying to get me back in the swing of things.”

Then the praise continued for the young Moreland. Besides the interception, he blocked Towson’s 44-yard field goal try in the first quarter, his third blocked kick of the season (two field goals and one punt). On Wednesday it was announced that Moreland was named to the Jerry Rice Award Watch List. The award is given to the top first-year player in the Football Championship Subdivision.

“He has a knack of just kind of being around the ball and understanding how to make plays,” Withers said of Moreland.

One disappointment for JMU Saturday was the ejection of senior safety Dean Marlowe in the third quarter for targeting a defenseless receiver. Marlowe was ejected for the same penalty in the first quarter of last Saturday’s game at the University at Albany.

Under NCAA rule, because Marlowe’s ejection Saturday happened in the second half, he will have to sit out the first half of

JMU’s next game at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Withers said that, if he can, he will appeal Marlowe’s pending suspension. He said he will take a good look at the play on film. He also said that he didn’t think Marlowe’s ejection at Albany last week was a good call.

Neither penalty was reviewable, as the CAA doesn’t have replay in all league games yet. The league is testing replay in select televised games this year, and Withers said he’s lobbying for replay to be implemented across the board.

“I think it’s important for the fairness of the game, to have replay,” Withers said. “I think last week, whether they overturned it or not, we would’ve all felt better last week knowing that that was a targeting or not.”

JMU is off this Saturday before traveling to play Charlotte on Oct. 25. It’ll be a chance for the Dukes to take a breather and get rested a bit over the next couple of weeks, quite literally. When asked how nice it was go into the bye week with a win like Saturday’s, Vad Lee, Brandon Lee, senior wide receiver DeAndre’ Smith and Ravenel let out a concerted exhale at the postgame press conference.

“It’s both [mental and physical],” Lee said. “The coaches cut out some practices for us. We get the opportunity to go home next weekend, so I know I’m excited about that, a lot of guys are excited about that.”

Withers said some younger players will get more work in practice this week, while the players who have seen the majority of the action thus far will get a chance to get off their feet a bit. And with it being the midpoint in the academic semester, Withers said he also wants players to be able to focus on academics this week with a lighter practice schedule.

“Two things: No. 1 academics, and getting rest and Photos by Holly Warfield / THE BREEZE being a good citizen this week,” Withers said. “I think those things are important for our football team.”

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Basketball showdown

#TeamKenny vs. #TeamMatt was a fun time for all

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The JMU men’s and women’s basketball teams unofficially kicked off the 2014-15 season Thursday night with the #TeamMatt vs. #TeamKenny Showdown at the Convocation Center. Men’s basketball head coach Matt Brady and women’s basketball head coach Kenny Brooks drafted teams of players from both the men’s and women’s teams to compete in a series of three challenges. The competitions included a basketball skills challenge, a shooting challenge and a free-throw challenge. The free-throw challenge also incorporated a tricycle race by students. When the tricycle race ended in a tie, Brady and Brooks shot free throws themselves to break it. Brady missed his free throw and Brooks made his to give #TeamKenny the win. After the competition, fans came down to the court for a meet and greet with both teams. The Dukes open the 2014-15 season Nov. 14 when women’s basketball plays the University of California, Los Angeles at 1 p.m. and men’s basketball plays the University of Virginia at 7 p.m. Both games will be played at the Convocation Center.

1. Junior guard Ron Curry, freshman forward Hari Hall and freshman guard Joey McLean celebrate during Thursday’s festivities. 2. Redshirt senior forward Lauren Okafor shoots a half-court shot in the shooting challenge. 3. Women’s basketball head coach Kenny Brooks celebrates winning the #TeamMatt vs. #TeamKenny showdown. 4. Junior guard Devontae Morgan elevates for a layup during one of the challenges Thursday.

>> Check out a video recap of the showdown at youtube.com/user/BreezeVideo

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Redshirt junior defender Madyson Brown makes a pass in Sunday’s 2-0 win over UNCW.

right behind JMU in the standings with a 4-2 record in conference and 10-3-1 record overall.

“There are just too many games left to play,” Lombardo said. “Last year everything came down to the last weekend.”

Lombardo expects it to unfold in a similar way this season. The Dukes also play Drexel and Delaware on the road, something they have struggled with earlier in the season. They are 6-1 at home, but 3-5 away from Harrisonburg.

But with three goals over the last two games, Sroba is eager to rise to the challenge down the stretch.

“We haven’t had two wins in a weekend since the beginning of the season,” Sroba said. “It’s definitely getting our confidence up going into the end of the [conference play].”

In addition to Sunday’s early goal against the Seahawks, Sroba also scored two of the Dukes’ three goals against Charleston on Friday.

The CAA is a competitive conference, but Lofton said that this win “starts to separate the top from the bottom of the CAA,” with JMU carving its way

to the top.

At this point in the season, Lombardo and the Dukes have three main objectives regarding the conference tournament.

“We’re trying to qualify in the top six,” Lombardo said. “We’re trying to get ourselves in the top two for a bye. And if we can pull it off, we want to be the top one and get the host.”

With an imposing journey ahead of them, Lofton said the Dukes will keep focus and prepare by “getting into the do-or-die mentality.”

“It’s basically win or go home because our goal is to host [the conference tournament],” Lofton said.

JMU realizes the road to the CAA tournament is a menacing one. But Lombardo thinks that if his team plays consistent, good, energetic soccer, it can come out on top.

Next up, the Dukes face Drexel on Friday in Philadelphia. The game will kick off at 7 p.m.

“When you get towards the end, you have to treat every game like a championship game,” Lofton said.

Contact Meghan Malloy at malloyme@dukes.jmu.edu.

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