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Men’s Virginia is for lovers basketball

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Football team looks to win second straight conference game at home against Towson sports | 11

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It’s so weird, it’s the weirdest thing, with freestyling, I feel like I’m not even thinking; it’s like I’m telling a story that already happened — but I don’t know when it happened, where it happened, or anything.

Most of the time I don’t even know what my freestyles are about until like a year later.

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Kara Kavanagh, an assistant professor in the College of Education, celebrates the legalization of same-sex marriage in Virginia by holding up a picture of her and her partner on Monday. A celebration was held on the Wilson Hall steps at 1 p.m.

Supporters rally after Virginia recognizes samesex marriages, JMU to extend benefits to couples

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As of Monday, Oct. 6, same-sex marriage is legal in Virginia. After the U.S. Supreme Court declined to rule on cases in Virginia, Oklahoma, Utah, Wisconsin and Indiana, the states’ bans were immediately overturned and marriage licenses were issued.

Robert Alexander, an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, was one of several university employees to congregate on the steps of Wilson Hall Monday afternoon. Once the clock struck 1 p.m., samesex marriage became legal, and eligible employees walked down the building’s steps as they were

treated to a shower of celebratory confetti.

“We needed that moment to be together and have some solidarity with our allies,” Alexander said.

“There was a great mix of people that were there.”

Sara Wilson, Virginia’s director of the Department of Human Resource Management, sent out an email on Tuesday notifying state employees that Virginia now legally recognizes same-sex marriage and therefore will extend health benefits to same-sex spouses.

Eligible employees have 60 days after their legal marriage to sign up or add their spouse and other eligible dependents through the health

benefit enrollment request.

Partners married prior to Oct. 6 have until Dec. 4 to submit their enrollment request, and coverage goes into effect one month after the request is submitted.

JMU’s Director of Human Resources, Diane Yerian, also sent out an email Tuesday morning to university employees to confirm that JMU was working in conjunction with Virginia’s DHRM to extend benefits to newly eligible employees and their spouses under the new ruling.

William Bryceland Hayes, an assistant professor in the School of Music, was married three years

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In allowing lower court rulings to stand, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on Monday increased the number of states that allow, or could allow, same-sex marriages to 30, including the District of Columbia. Twenty states still prohibit same-sex marriages.

Police take social media seriously Online threats prompt police presence, JMU continues investigation

By IJ Chan The Breeze

When JMU students rant and gossip on social media, they might not realize that the university may be watching.

Bill Wyatt, associate director of

communications, said JMU police were notified by a third party that threats were being made against the ISAT building via an anonymous tip and through the university’s own social media monitoring. After further investigation, the threat was deemed uncredible on Monday.

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W yatt confir me d that an investigation of the situation is ongoing and part of it involves trying to find whoever made the threats. It’s also rumoured that the original threats were posted

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Andre Nation was arrested in the incident while Tom Vodanovich was only charged.

Both were suspended on Monday.

While many details surrounding the altercation involving men’s basketball players Andre Nation and Tom Vodanovich remain murky, several things are apparent about what happened Saturday night at Stone Gate Apartments.

At 1:05 a.m. Sunday morning, Nation, a junior guard, was booked at the Rockingham Regional County Jail and charged with a misdemeanor for assault, a misdemeanor for disorderly conduct and a misdemeanor for public swearing and intoxication.

Upon observing Nation’s swollen black eye in his released mug shot, one may infer that the altercation was physical.

Arresting officer G.K. Bechtel did not respond to a voicemail left Tuesday evening.

According to Rockingham Memorial Hospital records, Vodanovich, a sophomore forward, was discharged from the hospital some time after the incident. At 7:45 p.m. on Sunday night, he was charged, but not booked, with a misdemeanor for purchase and possession of alcohol, a misdemeanor for disorderly conduct and a misdemeanor for public swearing and intoxication.

“The only information that I’ve gotten is the report I received from the local law enforcement officers and the information I received from the coach after he’d had a discussion with both student athletes,” JMU Director of Athletics Jeff Bourne said Wednesday evening.

Nation was released from jail at 11:54 a.m. Sunday after posting $1,500 bail.

Head coach Matt Brady declined to comment Tuesday via text message following a voicemail.

Bourne said he had talked to Brady on “multiple occasions.”

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DALLAS — Thomas Eric Duncan, the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States died Wednesday, more than a week after he was hospitalized in Dallas, officials announced.

Separately, Texas officials announced there was a second patient with possible symptoms.

A spokesman for the city of Frisco said emergency crews had picked up someone “exhibiting signs and symptoms of Ebola” and was transporting the patient to the hospital.

Frisco Fire Chief Mark Piland said at a subsequent news conference that the patient was not one of those who had contact with Duncan. “This patient is not one of the 48 under monitoring.”

LOS ANGELES — AT&T Inc. agreed to pay $105 million, including $80 million in consumer refunds, to settle federal and state investigations that the company illegally billed mobile phone customers for unauthorized charges for ringtones and other services, officials said Wednesday.

The practice, known as mobile cramming, began in 2011 and involved hundreds of millions of dollars in charges for third-party services, which usually cost customers $9.99 a month.

AT&T Mobility, a subsidiary of the telecommunications giant, kept at least 35 percent of those payments.

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Wednesday voted to begin the process of creating a national safety standard that would require window blind cords to be made inaccessible to children.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s five-member board voted unanimously to initiate the federal rule-making process after staff research determined the industry’s voluntary efforts had failed to reduce the risk of strangulation on cords.

Children have strangled on window blind cords at a rate of about once a month in the United States for the past 30 years, according to Consumer Product Safety Commission data.

HONG KONG — China hasn’t said much about Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests, other than trotting out its state media to describe the protesters as fringe extremists, small in number, causing chaos in one of Asia’s major trading centers.

Now, as the number of core protesters drops to the hundreds, we ask: is Beijing scoring a propaganda victory?

Analysts say that even if Hong Kong’s street activists are getting tired and haven’t gained immediate concessions on their demands, they’ve captured international attention. They’ve also knocked fissures in the armored image that China’s Communist Party wants to project.

GENEVA — Conditions are continuing to deteriorate in the three West African countries most affected by the Ebola epidemic, the World Health Organization reported Wednesday.

The spread of the disease is far from under control in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the global health agency said.

It said recent reports that new cases had declined in Liberia were “unlikely to be genuine” because of “profound problems” with data collection.

WHO said responders to the disease were so overwhelmed that they had been unable to accurately make note of new cases in their reports.

CUERNAVACA, Mexico — Fourteen years after Mexico banned cattle ranchers from using a growth enhancer called clenbuterol, statistics from the federal agency responsible for meat quality show that some Mexican cattlemen just can’t give it up.

Testing in the state of Guanajuato, home to the popular retiree center of San Miguel de Allende, found 30 percent of 175 samples tested were tainted with clenbuterol, which can cause heart palpitations, tremors, dizziness, nausea and increased anxiety in people who ingest it.

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Reversing negative reputations Student Parking Services employees provide their perspective on required duties

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Parking Services relies on the revenue associated with parking fees such as tickets to help support the operation of its department. These extra costs include parking lot updates, lighting, employee pay, construction of new parking lots and snow removal in the winter.

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aggression, according to Carbia.

Citations and parking fees are common complaints from JMU students, but few know what it’s like on the other side of the ticketing process.

For students who work for Parking Services, it’s simply a job in which they are required to enforce the rules set up by the department.

“Parking Services definitely has a negative stigma on campus,” James Carbia, a junior accounting major and former Parking Services employee, said.

Carbia worked for Parking Services for a little more than one semester. During his time he encountered people driving by while he was working shouting, “F--you guys,” and various other obscenities.

“We don’t like giving people tickets and we do not get a commission for doing so,” Carbia said. “It is on [the student] to not get in trouble. It is not OK to say blatantly rude things just because of the organization I work for.”

All of the student enforcement officers have thick skin and can handle the

“We don’t like giving people tickets and we do not get a commission for doing so. It is on [the student] to not get in trouble. It is not OK to say blatantly rude things just because of the organization I work for.”

James Carbia

junior accounting major and former parking services employee

“As an organization, [Parking Services] is pretty fair,” Carbia said. “For example, the bosses treat lower employees really well and officers are encouraged to wait a minute or two before writing tickets and will stop immediately if the person comes back to their car before the citation

Local shelter hopes to reduce animal deaths

is issued.”

The number of tickets given out by a parking services employee varies by week and shift, according to a senior psychology major and student enforcement officer who wished to remain anonymous. Parking Services relies on permit fees and citation revenue to support the costs of operating its department, including construction of new parking areas, maintenance of existing parking areas, personnel, snow removal and lighting, according to Parking Services.

Despite the negative reputation that the organization has, students still choose to work for them.

“I really like most aspects of the job.

It’s on campus and works well with student’s schedules,” the anonymous student enforcement officer said in an email.

Part of the job requires student enforcement officers to stand at the entrances of lots to ensure that the vehicles have the correct parking pass and direct them to the right spaces. see Parking, page 4

on the anonymous social networking app YikYak. “All threats to the university are investigated thoroughly … making a threat like that is against the law, it causes disruption in university activity, it causes disruption in us fulfilling our mission in educating students,” Wyatt said. “As a general rule, the Internet is not as anonymous as people think it is ... we’re going to continue the investigation and see where it leads.”

Students who headed to class on East Campus on Monday morning may have noticed police officers and canine units roaming the halls of ISAT and HHS. But the police presence in the building, Wyatt said, was “merely a precautionary measure” and not part of the investigation.

“Part of that [police] presence is a reassurance to the community that yes, we are a safe campus and we do take things seriously, we care about the safety of the university,” Wyatt said. “And the other part is obviously from a law enforcement perspective — making sure there’s no suspicious activity.”

Meanwhile, many students turned to Twitter and YikYak to voice their concern saying that the unexplained police presence in the buildings made them nervous and uncomfortable.

For example, one “yak” stated: “YikYak has officially terrified me as I get on the bus for ISAT...”

Many of the posts warned other students travelling to East Campus to stay safe or stay away.

At least one student reported on YikYak that their professor had told students in their class not to come if they didn’t feel safe.

Several yaks from students stated disappointment at JMU for not alerting students to the possible threat.

Wyatt said since the threat wasn’t deemed credible, JMU decided not to send out any alerts to students. However, he said that he thought it was interesting that the majority of students turned to social media to find answers.

JMU, he added, has tried to keep up with this ongoing trend by implementing different ways for the university to digitally communicate with students and vice versa, such as the Madison Alert system and the LiveSafe app.

“We ... have tried to adapt our communication skills to the way that people communicate today,” he said. “But the bottom line is, the safety is still the same. If you see something that’s suspicious, report it ... you have to trust your instincts — when you see something suspicious you need to say something. If we can all live by that rule, then we’re a much safer community.” contact IJ Chan at breezepress@gmail.com.

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At 52 percent, the RHSPCA’s euthanization rates are nearly double the state average, which was 28 percent in 2013, according to Melinda See, a co-founder of Advocates for Valley Animals. The RHSPCA is committed to lowering the statistic.

High euthanization rates encourage the RHSPCA to increase adoption rates

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As local animal euthanization rates remain high, many shelters, including the Rockingham-Harrisonburg Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RHSPCA), continue their efforts to reduce the number of animals “put down.”

The RHSPCA is an “open-admission” shelter, according to Lauren Watson, RHSPCA’s humane educator. They take in every animal they receive — including dogs, cats, guinea pigs, rats, birds and hamsters.

Since being established in August 1972, the RHSPCA has received approximately 5,000 animals

annually, with the majority being cats. Recently, however, the amount of animals received has been drastically reduced due to an increase in awareness regarding euthanization rates.

Watson said that Facebook and Craigslist have helped the RHSPCA get the 1,000 cats and 800 dogs they’ve received within the past year adopted.

According to Melinda See, a co-founder of the Advocates for Valley Animals, Facebook has also played a large role in their organization. See’s organization just recently launched its Facebook page, “Hburg/ Rockingham For A No Kill Shelter,” which now has 1,350 likes.

It has helped reduce the amount of animals euthanized each year. According to See, in 2013, 52 percent

of animals taken into the RHSPCA were euthanized.

“We’ve just seen steadily, you know, people sort of jumping on board and it’s through that Facebook page that we’re sharing our concerns and also sharing information about the presentation that we were sponsoring,” See said.

These animals are taken from the streets with hopes of a brighter future, but according to Watson, that’s rarely the case.

See believes that the RHSPCA’s euthanization rates are much higher compared to the state because the shelter model being used is an outdated and more passive model compared to other shelters, which see Animals, page 4

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have a proactive focus on a number of topics.

One example she provided was, when an owner loses their job and can no longer afford to take care of the animal. Instead of taking in the animal, the more successful shelters try to connect the individual to a foodbank for pets.

The adoption programs and marketing strategies these other shelters use have also proved helpful by encouraging community members to adopt.

High euthanization rates are devastating to many, including senior sociology major Emily Mangan, who volunteers at the RHSPCA once a week for Alpha Phi Omega, a community-service fraternity.

“It’s definitely heartbreaking ... because when you volunteer, you do see the amount of animals who come in … and, you know, you see the potential that these animals have to be great, loving pets that you just wish other people knew about that too, so that they can maybe have a home,” Mangan said.

The RHSPCA’s 52 percent is nearly double Virginia’s state average, which was 28 percent in 2013, according to See. However, See said that the RHSPCA’s percentage is lower than it has been in recent years. In 2010, the organization’s euthanization rate was 57 percent; in 2011, it was 55 percent and in 2012, it was 54 percent.

But while the RHSPCA has seen a reduction, its euthanization rates remain high compared to the rest of the state’s.

One of the reasons that euthanasia takes place is because no one wants to adopt a particular animal.

According to Watson, stray cats and dogs fail to develop social skills, making them unappealing to potential adopters. Watson also said that many of the cats that are taken in have untreatable health issues such as rabies.

Overpopulation is another contributor to the high euthanization rate.

“Also, 35 percent of [local] citizens live at or below the poverty line, which makes it more difficult to get these animals adopted,” Watson said.

According to the RHSPCA, including medical costs such as spaying and neutering, a female cat costs $105, a male cat costs $90, a female dog costs $120 and a male dog costs $110.

If the animal is older, it has a lower chance of being adopted, and is more likely to be euthanized.

Watson stressed, however, that the RHSPCA works hard on a daily basis in order to get as many animals adopted as possible and reduce the amount of euthanized animals.

Some ways they do this is through a “meet your match” form, by sharing adoption success stories and by offering classes that help improve an animal’s behavior.

They’ve also noticed that college students bring in animals after realizing they can’t afford to take care of them. Mangan said that students often don’t look past the initial feeling of getting a pet.

“I always advise college students against getting a pet unless they’re absolutely positive that this is a long-term commitment that they can make,” she said.

According to Mangan, the RHSPCA has events throughout the year where they try to encourage people to adopt an animal.

During Christmas time, the RHSPCA places a tree in the front of Carrier Library with the names of all the animals on the tree. Those interested can donate toys or money for food and snacks.

But encouraging people to adopt isn’t limited to specific times of the year.

“If anything, when you’re volunteering … I guess it’s about being able to focus on training the animals so that when potential adopters come into the SPCA, that they’ll see these dogs, and the more well behaved they are, the more likely they are to be taken home,” Mangan said.

See also provided suggestions that she thinks could help reduce euthanization rates; such as the use of foster homes, a technique that has benefited Augusta County’s Shenandoah Valley Animal Service Center.

“This year, [the Shenandoah Valley Animal Shelter has] actually saved 94 percent of their animals, which ... increased quite a bit from last year,” See said.

While the RHSPCA uses foster homes on a limited basis, other more successful shelters such as the Shenandoah Valley Animal Shelter, use and develop foster homes while they search for permanent homes.

“So, you know, just kind of seeing that ... that our neighbors just to the south of us are able to [save a large amount of their animals], then I feel that we should be able to see more lives here in Rockingham County and Harrisonburg,” See said. contact Erin Flynn and Jessica Newman at breezenews@gmail.com.

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They also enforce lots, which means they walk around the lots and give out tickets to parking offenders.

“I feel like people complain sometimes or say they don’t like Parking Services, but for the most part everyone I’ve told that I work here has been accepting, and we don’t have many issues with confrontations or complaints,” the student enforcement officer said. “And if we do, it is usually not against us personally, but the fact that they got a ticket or the rule exists in general.”

One of the rules that students like senior interdisciplinary liberal studies major Danielle Essig don’t agree with is the 30-minute parking meter limits on campus, like the ones near P.C. Dukes and the Music Building.

Essig almost received a ticket twice

while parking at a meter once when she was getting a new JACard from Warren Hall and another time when she was talking with a professor in the Music Building. “[The Parking Service Enforcement Officers] were generally understanding in both situations,” Essig said.

In order to prevent getting a citation, students can read the signs and park in the designated commuter or resident lots, according to the student enforcement officer.

If a student still isn’t sure about parking regulations, the Parking Services website provides a list of tips to avoid getting a citation. The website also contains a list of student FAQs. But not all students simply comply with parking ticket fees — sometimes they will confront Parking Services officials about a citation. But, according to the student enforcement

officer, for the most part students are courteous and accept their judgment.

If a student receives a ticket that they believe is undeserved, they can file an appeal within 10 calendar days from when it was issued. A committee of JMU faculty, staff and students will review the appeal and email the student their decision.

Parking regulations are enforced year-round, 24 hours a day, according to Parking Services.

However, those who receive citations don’t always understand that at the end of the day, most enforcement officers are students just like them.

“I wish people knew that we are not ‘out to get them’ and that we are simply doing our job,” the student enforcement officer said. contact Morgan Lynch at lynchma@dukes.jmu.edu.

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ago to his husband, who works as an adjunct professor in the history department. Because of the court’s decision, Bryceland Hayes is now able to include his husband under his benefits plan.

“He luckily is very, very healthy and was going without [insurance] before the [Affordable Care Act] mandate came down, and now he’s paying a significant portion of his income to getting benefits — until now. Until now that I’m able to add him,” Bryceland Hayes said. “Now I’ll pay a little bit out of my check, which is no problem. I can certainly do that, and I’m glad to.”

Prior to the legalization of samesex marriage in Virginia, JMU has called for the fair treatment and zero tolerance of the harassment and discrimination based on sexual orientation. According to Policy 1302 from the university’s policy committee, “gender identity” is also included in the list of indiscriminate bases. Some employees, however, would like to see “gender expression” added to the list as well.

“I do believe, personally, that President Alger has brought a new way of thinking about diversity and inclusion to JMU, and JMU doesn’t change direction easily. That’s just the nature of the institution being a public university too,” Alexander said. “So I think that his messaging around that has been extremely important, and I think that what we’re seeing are some true signs of some of his leadership around that particular issue.”

In December of 2013, JMU’s Faculty Senate also passed a resolution supporting the extension of benefits to same-sex couples, which was subsequently backed by the Student Government Association in a resolution passed in April.

Kara Kavanagh, an assistant professor in the College of Education, has an adopted daughter with her spouse, and joined the JMU community this year after moving from Atlanta, Georgia. She had concerns relocating to rural Virginia, but found the community more welcoming than anticipated.

“Luckily the LGBT had resources that we could access. We could meet

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Assistant professor of political science Robert Alexander (right) and his partner Chip celebrate the decision made by the Supreme Court to refuse to hear the case from the 4th District Court that overturned the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.

other couples who had a child,” Kavanagh said. “We could talk to other people about the climate, and there’s movement in the group that really helped us feel welcome.”

The Supreme Court’s decision to not take up the case stems from the beginnings of a hard-fought battle by same-sex couples in Virginia who have been denied access to certain rights and liberties only available to opposite-sex couples. In November 2006, Virginians voted to ratify the Marshall-Newman Amendment in the state constitution that explicitly defined marriage as between a man and a woman, and denied recognition of same-sex marriages within the commonwealth.

Carol Schall and Mary Townley, who have lived in Virginia for more than 30 years, were legally married in California in 2008. In 1998 when Towley was giving birth to the couple’s daughter at the VCU Medical center, Schall was denied access to the emergency room.

In February, U.S. District Judge

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Arenda L. Wright Allen ruled on Schall and Townley’s case, as well as the case of Timothy Bostic and Tony London, who were denied their application for a marriage license. In the ruling, Wright Allen called Virginia’s ban on gay marriage unconstitutional, but in her order she put a stay on the decision to allow for an appeal. She cited the ban’s breach of the 14th Amendment through the denial of equal protection and due process rights.

“Government interests in perpetuating traditions, shielding state matters from federal interference, and favoring one model of parenting over others must yield to this country’s cherished protections that ensure the exercise of the private choices of the individual citizen regarding love and family,” Wright Allen wrote.

In May, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit upheld Wright Allen’s decision to overturn the ban, and voted against a stay with a 2-1 vote. In August, Michelle B. McQuigg, a clerk of Prince William County’s

Circuit Court, petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to put a stay on the decision until they called the case up to be decided upon — known as a writ of certiorari.

On Aug. 20, Chief Justice John Roberts responded to McQuigg by granting the stay, but mentioned that should the Court refuse to hear the case and deny a writ of certiorari, the stay would be automatically terminated and same-sex marriages may commence. On Oct. 8, the Supreme Court did just that — effectively ending the stay imposed on the lower courts’ decisions and legalizing same-sex marriage in Virginia.

Karen Myers, an assistant professor in the Department of Social Work, married her spouse in 2001 in Washington D.C. and was thrilled by Monday’s Supreme Court’s decision.

She also expressed concerns about how potential backlash could afflict members of the community affected by the court’s choice.

“I worry about people feeling isolated, and those negative things, if

you’re not in a supportive community,” Myers said. “I think that that escalation can happen after a good thing when there are people who feel both ways about it, and I just hope people will seek support.”

Myers also stressed how the impact of language has impacted the value and meaning of what it means to be married as a same-sex couple. She explained that the back and forth between definitions and labels has become confusing and frustrating — taking away a meaningful part of her relationship.

“To constantly be negotiating, ‘What can I call her now ... Oh, that’s not on that form. Oh, so I have to figure this out,’” Myers said. “It’s a constant negotiation, and it minimizes what you feel for each other, but also your relationship in general. And I think the fact that that will change is great.”

Virginia now joins 25 states and the District of Columbia in recognizing same-sex marriage. Kansas, Wyoming, North Carolina, South Carolina and West Virginia are expected to receive a decision by the Supreme Court regarding their same-sex bans on Monday.

Alexander made mention of the the state and the university’s changing policies regarding members of the LGBT community, explaining that the movement toward reform was deeply rooted in the efforts of former employees and changing minds.

“There are people who have worked at JMU for a long time and retired from JMU, who really were fighting what I considered to be the real fight over the past 20 to 25 years,” Alexander said.

“So I just came in here riding the generational wave. Really, it’s young folks and changing public opinion.”

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Aid companies may hurt as much as they help Businesses like TOMS could actually be ruining foreign economies in the long term despite helping people in the short term

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Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS Shoes, on his 45-foot sailboat in California.

Our world is filled with impoverished countries that lack essential goods needed for long-term growth and, to some extent, basic survival.

Our visceral reaction to this issue is to figure out how we can help. Companies with flashy advertisements trumpeting about your “valuable donations” to third-world countries may seem like an easy way to help, but this thinking can be harmful. It’s possible for countries to move from the periphery to the forefront economically, and I believe this process can be expedited if we give the proper kinds of aid.

The sort of aid that America gives is detrimental to foreign nations because it frequently bypasses those who are in direct need and is accepted by government heads. I see nongovernmental forms of aid as far more dangerous because they squash potential opportunities for people in those nations to make it on their own.

For example, the TOMS website proudly proclaims that for every pair of shoes purchased from the company, it will donate one pair to a developing country such as Peru, Haiti or Malawi. While on the surface this idea appears nice, however, it destroys the footwear market in these countries. Someone learning to make or already making shoes will lose everything and have to practice

a new skill since there will be an inundation of these products for free, drastically cutting the demand.

By eliminating a market in an area, companies such as TOMS that have a “One for One” program are putting specialized manufacturers out of business, creating even more poverty. Just as the road to hell is paved with good intentions, these shoes are probably not being donated for malicious reasons, but they’re making these countries even poorer.

After going to see an international speaker at my high school in January of this year, my eyes were opened to the kind of aid that America and other core countries need to give.

The speaker had lived in Africa for two years, volunteering as a teacher in areas with lackluster educational facilities. While she was there, she saw items such as shoes, shirts and hats funnel in from our country. She personally knew textile manufacturers who were just getting on their feet when another company would begin a new “One for One” program.

These upcoming business people would have the rug yanked out from underneath them. The savings that they had funneled into this business that would be shot down and the skill that they had taken so long to perfect would be useless. These kinds of donations do far more harm than good.

It can be argued that some type of aid is better than no aid at all. I’m not saying that people and companies that do participate in this aid are bad; they’re just not aware of the damage they’re causing. I have participated in some of the “One for One” programs — it’s our instinct as humans to want to help others — but now that I know the negative side, I will be more cognizant of where my money is going and how it will help. TOMS does have some amazingly beneficial programs that deserve accolades, such as the Gift of Sight and the Gift of Water, both of which have a focus on longterm solutions.

The speaker I mentioned is the perfect example of the type of aid that government and corporations need to be giving these nations. Teaching citizens from these less developed countries is a far more worthy cause to throw money behind than where it is going now. Intangible goods such as knowledge and experience will help countries fend for themselves once the aid is inevitably reduced.

It’s like the cliched, yet infallibly true saying goes: give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime.

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

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Our system of government depends upon broad for nearly six years, and I know that we can do betparticipation in the political process, open debate ter than the job-killing policies he has supported. and the transparent exchange of information and I have seen the blessings of liberty and the ideas. As James Madison said, “The advancement opportunity this country has to offer in my own and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian family. My dad was an immigrant to this country of true liberty.” from Ireland. I grew up working in my parents’ That’s why I was especially glad to see the Col- grocery store and helped pay for college with stulege Republicans and College Democrats come dent loans and working as a parking lot attendant. together in support of a proposed U.S. Senate And I got to grow up to be a counselor to the presidebate at JMU, hosted by Virginia21 and the dent of the United States.

JMU Student Government Association. I eagerly I want to make sure that kind of economic accepted the invitation because your engage- opportunity and upward mobility is there for ment in the political process — no matter who your generation and future generations. I’m conyou choose to support in this election — is vital- cerned that growing student debt, a job market ly important to the future of Virginia and to the that leaves too many college graduates unable future of our nation. to find a job commensurate with their expensive Dukes have gone on to provide strong leader- degrees and mounting federal debt is making it ship in Virginia and across the country. In fact, harder for your generation to get out on your own.

I’m proud to have the supI appreciate Mark Warner’s service in port of several Dukes who public office, but I are currently serving our also believe that to commonwealth in notable I appreciate Mark Warner’s truly serve the public, positions, including Virservice in public office, you must be willing to ginia House of Delegates but I also believe that to Majority Leader Kirk Cox stand before your conand State Senator Ryan stituents and defend truly serve the public, you your record. He not McDougle. must be willing to stand only refused to accept As you start a new debate at JMU, but all school year — whethbefore your constituents four of the university er you’re a freshman or and defend your record. campus debate invitaa senior — you face new challenges. Those prepartions I’ve accepted. ing to graduate will face U.S. Senators serve a difficult job market, in for long, six-year terms.

Elections are when votwhich 46 percent of recent graduates are unemployed ers get the opportunity or underemployed, unable to find a job commen- to see if they’ve lived up to their promises. I think surate with their degree. Total student loan debt the JMU community deserves that opportunity. has risen to more than 1.2 trillion dollars, and Senator Warner apparently does not. it’s putting an unprecedented burden on recent I encourage you to go to my website, edforsgraduates. enate.com, and compare my agenda for economic Mark Warner, our incumbent senator, and I growth and Senator Warner’s record and decide have different ideas on how to create economic which you think is best for the future of our great opportunities for high school and college gradu- country. And I hope you’ll join me in calling for ates. While Senator Warner may give lip service Senator Warner to agree to participate in a debate to making college affordable, the reality is that at JMU. tuition went up 89 percent at JMU and 73 percent overall when he was governor — more than Ed Gillespie is the Republican candidate double that of any other governor in the past 20 vying for one of Virginia’s seats in the U.S. years. Now Mark Warner has been in the Senate Senate.

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TV: ‘Frasier’ (1993-2004) 11 seasons (all on Netflix) 24 episodes each | 20-22 minutes You may not be addicted to the ‘90s like me, but we all might as well embrace them for what they were: a golden age for situational comedies. “Friends” and “Seinfeld” were the ruling, almighty gods who crushed all other sitcoms in ratings. However, just because they were the most popular doesn’t mean they were the only ones worth watching. One show that’s all too often brushed under the rug by today’s generation is “Frasier.”

What’s so special about “Frasier?” A three-time Golden Globe winner, the show follows the misadventures of perfectly pretentious psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane and his family. Crane, cunningly played by Kelsey Grammar, moves to Seattle to star in his own radio talk show. The chemistry between Frasier, his equally as ostentatious younger brother Niles and their blue-collar, retired cop father, Martin, manages to give the show a dapper-yet-daffy humor that keeps your sides splitting the whole way through.

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Ashley Caron | contributing columnist

Study abroad classes are too specific Courses offered overseas cater more to major programs and not enough to general education

I left JMU’s annual study abroad fair wanting to travel to almost every country available to me. From East Africa, to Australia, to Denmark to Brazil, each destination was extremely appealing, and each program spokesperson knew exactly what to say to pull in students.

However, I quickly found my choices dwindling when I noticed that many of the programs were major-specific.

The majority of the classes freshmen and sophomores take are general education classes. Not many take 300 or 400 level classes — typically for juniors and seniors — because they’re not available to underclassmen. For many higher-level classes, there are required prerequisites.

Many freshmen come to JMU undeclared and remain that way until junior year when a choice must be made. Even then, they might change majors multiple times before they discover what they truly want to do. If this is the case, a student may not start taking major-specific classes until junior year. For those students, study abroad opportunities are very limited because only a select few offer general education courses or courses without prerequisites.

The main intention of study abroad programs is to give students an opportunity to take classes in a new environment. The hope is that they can both nurture and enrich learning in a way that JMU can’t offer in Harrisonburg. Art majors have the opportunity to experience painting in southern France where they can develop their skills in a country that appreciates all forms of art. Health sciences majors can travel to South Africa to examine the effects of medicine and disease in a thirdworld country. These programs were designed with these specific majors in mind.

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difficult to fit into the average four years at JMU. For those who know what they want to do, certain majors leave very few opportunities for electives. Some education majors I know only have only one or two electives available for the five years they are going to be in college. They’re really only able to study abroad if GenEd courses are available, which isn’t true for most programs. Yes, there are some GenEd courses available, but according to the JMU Study Abroad page, not many programs have them. Choices are very limited, and only a few programs exist for them to choose from. They may have to sacrifice their desired location for a program that offers courses they may need to take. In this way, many students get screwed over in terms of credits. They can’t travel certain places simply because they don’t have enough extra credits available.

I’m sure many students find programs that fit perfectly with their major or find other programs that can fit into their schedule, but we can’t forget about those who don’t fit neatly into these categories. It’s unfair to students who so desperately want to study in different parts of the world but are limited by their majors or lack thereof.

JMU tries to appeal to everyone’s needs, but sometimes people just fall through the cracks.

Ashley Caron is a freshman English major. Contact Ashley at caronan@dukes. jmu.edu.

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Not your typical college student JMU’s adult degree program brings a new kind of learning to campus

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The Adult Degree Program, directed by Pamela Hamilton, is located on the third floor of the Ice House. The program allows adults to earn an individualized study degree from JMU.

By LAUREN HUNT The Breeze

When asked to picture a college student, most imagine a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed freshman straight out of high school — but that’s not always the case.

JMU’s Adult Degree Program (ADP) has brought a whole new generation of students to JMU. The program allows adults aged 22 and older to earn a bachelor’s degree by offering tailored schedules for each student.

Adult learners can also earn credits for life experiences.

“We are a unique program in that [the adult learners] are individual study majors, all 250 of them,” Pamela Hamilton, director of the ADP, said. “What

separates one from another is the program plan that they develop.”

Students are allowed to select classes that relate to their individual careers and future education goals.

The program is interdisciplinary, meaning that students take classes out in two or more academic units represented in their concentration, along with some general education requirements.

“The adult development program is a very rare program,” Virginia Sandlin, an adult learner, said. “In life, it seems as though people don’t realize that when you have learned experience, that can get you, really, all the way through life.”

It’s the value that the program places on this learned

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experience that Sandlin says makes the program so remarkable.

“There’s a wonderful balance between learned experience and academic experience,” Sandlin said.

“This program has assisted me in coming in to look at academic knowledge. Now that I’ve been retired for a while, I actually have something to say. I’m old and I want people to listen.”

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Reel worthy of your time Box office delivers over the weekend

New local band ‘The Nocturnal Blume’ deviates from mainstream music genres by freestyling their own unique sound

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Annabelle, a doll possessed by the spirit of a woman from a cult, haunts a new family.

By LEAH POULLIOT contributing writer

freestyle riffs and chords on their guitars as Nickens weaves together pretty poems on the spot.

“It’s so weird, it’s the weirdest thing,” Nickens said.

“With freestyling, I feel like I’m not even thinking; it’s like I’m telling a story that already happened — but I don’t know when it happened, where it happened, or anything. Most of the time I don’t even know what my freestyles are about until like a year later.”

The Nocturnal Blume’s first live performance was Sept. 11 at Blue Nile. It was also Nickens’ first time behind a mic with a band onstage. Deep, bluesy and raspy, her voice reached all listeners in the bar, transforming the mood and grabbing all attention. Clad in stonewash jeans and maroon biker boots, the striking singer writhed and jerked with the mic stand in hand, her voice unwavering.

Brandon Wiley, a 27-year-old employee of Dave’s Taverna, took a special interest in the first song released by the band. After hearing the recording of “Diners,” Wiley, a fellow artist, reached out to the band to have them open for one of his performances.

“I love The Nocturnal Blume. They have a very unique style with an amazing lead vocalist,” Wiley said. “The sky’s the limit with this group and we plan on collaborating on music and shows.”

Watch The Nocturnal Blume perform live on Oct. 23 at Blue Nile, located at 181 North Main St.

Prior to writing this review I planned to concentrate on “Annabelle,” the followup horror movie to last year’s hit, “The Conjuring.” However, after watching “Gone Girl,” there was no other option. I have to talk about it. Author Gillian Flynn’s murder mystery-esque book runs through so many convoluted plot twists that going in-depth will ruin the story for anyone, so I’ll keep it simple.

On Nick and Amy Dunne’s five-year anniversary, Amy seems to simply disappear.

With a glass table toppled over and an iron left on, there are no apparent other clues. “Gone Girl” Nick quickly files a missing person report  and things spiral out of control.

R 145 min Ben Affleck plays Nick, cast as a sleazy, Starring Ben Affleck, Rosamund dick-ish husband. I’ve never been crazy Pike, Neil Patrick Harris about Affleck, especially after “Dare Devil,” but damn if he doesn’t play an outstanding A-hole in this movie. Honestly, the role fits him perfectly. It’s also humorous to see him get more buff throughout the movie’s progression because of his “Batman” filming. Rosamund Pike plays Amy, a seemingly delicate and lovable wife, who’s less lovable and more controlling and spiteful than she appears.

What makes this movie a 5/5, and for sure a future Oscar nominee, are the plot twists. The book is excellent, the screenplay of the book is excellent , the actors are excellent and the director did a phenomenal job of balancing the critical plot elements to make the movie work. It’s a two-and-a-half hour journey that will keep you on your feet and questioning what’s happening. Stylistically, it’s like the three-part run on “Annabelle” “Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” but with more  vindictive characters. I encourage everyone R 99 min to go out and see it.

Starring Annabelle Wallis, Alfre As for “Annabelle,” which is easily overWoodard, Ward Horton, Eric Ladin shadowed by the release of “Gone Girl,” I really didn’t think it was that bad. Personally, I was never a fan of “The Conjuring.” I thought a lot of the scares were cheesy and the filming style didn’t sit well with me. Something about it being less dark and sinister and more of a stereotypical exorcist thriller made me feel unimpressed. “Annabelle” pleasantly surprised me. However, this movie is going to be a hit or miss with fans of “The Conjuring.” If you’re looking for an exorcist plot then you’re not going to get it.

“Annabelle” concentrates on demonic possession and takes place during the 1960s.

Annabelle is a doll that is possessed by a crazy cult woman through an interesting course of actions. My first question is — why would anyone would buy a creepy looking doll like that in the first place? Mia, the main target of the supernatural activity, has a hodgepodge of dolls in her collection. Three of these dolls look creepy as sin and really should have been burned before the movie started. After being possessed by the woman, Annabelle’s soul torments Mia, targeting her and her husband’s new baby, Leah (yikes). Annabelle’s motivation was to perform satanic rituals to incite a demon. Surprise, surprise, she does exactly that, and so begins the haunting as her ghost and a demon begin terrorizing the family for a soul to take.

Originally I was going to give this movie a 4/5 for some of its rather insane and slightly ridiculous scenes, but after contemplation, and viewing of a rather more impressive movie this weekend, I will give it a modest 3/5. If you are looking to get scared and enjoy crazy satanic dolls then definitely go see it. However, if you’re in the mood for an amazing plot that really offers everything and more, then “Gone Girl” is the blockbuster that will keep you talking about it all week.

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Leah Poulliot is a junior media arts and design major. Contact her at poullilc@dukes.jmu.edu.

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Drew Swanson (left), Billy Clay, Bridget Nickens, Austin Welch and Chase Thornberry of The Nocturnal Blume perform at their first show at Blue Nile on Sept. 11. The band creates their songs by freestyling on the spot.

By SAM FOSTER contributing writer

Typically, at the mention of a band, a generic genre label is soon to follow. The Nocturnal Blume creates music that doesn’t fit quite so easily into a simple genre or two. Their method of music-making is organic, natural and freestyle-oriented.

If labels are important, indie/hipster music could be an appropriate one, but nothing quite fits 21-yearold lead vocalist and lyricist Bridget Nickens’ stage presence and vocal performance. With Billy Clay on rhythm guitar, Drew Swanson on lead guitar, Steve Ordorczyk on keyboard, Austin Welch on mandolin and Chase Thornberry on bass behind Nickens, the group certainly made their presence known on stage at the Blue Nile this past Sunday.

“I thought the lead singer of The Nocturnal Blume was amazing and she has a powerhouse voice,” Jasmine Jordan, a senior health and human services major, said.

Having recently and randomly united to form a band, Nickens raves about the group’s commitment to making music as well as their talent. Nickens has been a singer for as long as she can remember.

“I wrote my first song when I was 6,” she said. To Nickens, The Nocturnal Blume has been nothing short of living a real-life dream come true.

Writing poems and fitting them to melodies is not the way this band works. Guitarists Clay and Swanson

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Inheriting the purple blood Students follow their family’s collegiate footsteps

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No more ‘AllAmerican’ Hoodie Allen is on his way to losing his loyal fan base

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Sue Downer (left) smiles with her husband during graduation week in 1985. Her son, Kyle, is a sophomore.

By Natalie Miller The Breeze

“My daughter in high school wants to go to JMU too,” Beth Ann said. Beth Ann remembers hanging out with friends at the local bar JM’s, which has since been replaced by Buffalo Children may inherit their dad’s blue eyes or their mom’s Wild Wings. She also has many memories of spending aftercurly hair. For some children, JMU pride is also passed down noons on the Quad.

“We didn’t have cell phones, so we met out on the Quad through the family. Former Dukes reminisce about their school between classes to talk or find friends to days as some prepare to visit their children for “At Thanksgiving and get lunch with,” Beth Ann said. “It was a Family Weekend. very social spot.”

“JMU still has that friendly feel it had when I whenever the family Beth Ann’s daughter, junior health sci[attended],” Sue Downer, an ‘85 alumna, said. ences major Caroline McCarthy, grew up Sue was a sister of the Delta Gamma Frater- is all together we can tailgating at JMU. nity and fondly remembers attending football share memories of “Tailgating season is my mom’s favorgames. ite,” Caroline said. “All my friends and “I was there before they enclosed the sta- JMU. Things like D-Hall my parents’ friends come for every home dium,” Sue said. “We would walk from the and Grafton have game.” sorority houses and watch the game from the always been around, Beth Ann enjoys the common bond train tracks.”

JMU creates in her family life.

Sue said meeting her husband Gregg Down- even though a lot of “At Thanksgiving and whenever the er during the second semester of their senior family is all together we can share memyear is her favorite JMU memory. Their son, things have changed ories of JMU,” Beth Ann said. “Things like sophomore computer information systems over the years.”

D-Hall and Grafton have always been major Kyle Downer, began playing football around, even though a lot of things have for JMU this spring.

Beth Ann McCarthy changed over the years.”

“I used to come to some of the [football] (‘87) JMU has expanded since many current games as a kid,” Kyle said. former JMU student Dukes’ parents attended. The size of camFreshman computer information systems pus, clubs and even the number of majors major Robbie Weatherwax’s father, mother offered have expanded. and older sister attended JMU. Weatherwax “It was smaller when I [attended JMU],” Sue said. “Dr. [Ron] has been visiting JMU and tailgating since he was a child.

“We’ve had season tickets for as long as I can remember,” Carrier did a great job raising money for some necessary Weatherwax said. He’s is also pledging the fraternity Sigma Phi changes the campus needed.”

These proud former Dukes look forward to future JMU visits Epsilon, which his father was also a member of.

“Everyone [in the fraternity] knows him,” Weatherwax said. and sharing experiences with their children.

“I don’t see how you can go on the tour and not fall in love “He’s pretty involved, and our family’s tailgating spot is right with the place,” Beth Ann said. “If I could go back and do it all next to where the frat tailgates.”

Beth Ann McCarthy (’87), is one of the many Dukes in her again, I would.” family. Beth Ann’s brother, sister, son and daughter all went Contact Natalie Miller at millernk@dukes.jmu.edu. to JMU.

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Coming back to school a second time around may offer students opportunities they didn’t have before. Tracy Williams, a returning student, attended JMU in 1982 and left to follow his basketball career before becoming a public speaker.

“When you get older, you start to learn a lot of different things,” Williams said. He said that seeing the way JMU prepares people for their careers is what made him want to come back to JMU. “When the situation came and I said, ‘Well, I want to come back and finish my degree.’ It wasn’t no other place but JMU.” Another positive aspect of the program is being able to take classes on campus with traditional students.

“It’s been tough, but I wanted this experience to change me,” Williams said. “I didn’t want to do online classes. I wanted to be here. I wanted to feel that energy and hear those ideas and different perspectives.”

However, the program doesn’t come challenge-free.

“Sometimes I would get real self-conscious in the classroom competing and not being able to type,” Williams said. “But when I make myself get over it, it’s refreshing. I haven’t been challenged like that in a long time.”

Sandlin has found being in the honors program to be the most challenging.

“I felt like I was being punished,” she joked.

One of the biggest complaints Hamilton gets is that working with traditional students’ schedules is sometimes difficult for adult

learners.

“Sometimes traditional students can’t meet until 11 p.m.,” Hamilton said. “[The adult learners] will call me and say, ‘I’m usually in bed by that time!’”

The program doesn’t only benefit the adult learners, though. It gives traditional students the Tracy Williams opportunity to expereturning student rience networking they might not have otherwise.

“A n o t h e r g re a t thing about having adult learners in the class is that they give a different perspective,” Hamilton said.

Although challenging, Williams said finishing a degree is also a rewarding experience.

“It’s huge, for them to see their [grandpa] or their dad come back and finish what he started,” Williams said.

“It’s been tough, but I wanted this experience to change me. I didn’t want to do online classes.

I wanted to be here. I wanted to feel that energy and hear those ideas and different perspectives.”

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By Emmy Freedman The Breeze

I’m betting Hoodie Allen would not approve of this review. His new album, “People Keep Talking,” out Oct. 14 (but iTunes has a first look where you can listen to the entire album), is about his disregard for music executives, rappers whose best years are behind them, the media and apparently a lot of other people.

Even though this is technically his first album, Hoodie Allen Hoodie is no novice in rap “People Keep music. He released his Talking” “All American” EP in 2012 and acoustic versions of  his music in 2013, to name Release Oct. 14 just a couple of his rapAvailable on iTunes first pop endeavors. But in look “People Keep Talking,” the 26-year-old rapper is clearly solidifying his voice.

Unlike “All American,” which had carefree and house party-like undertones, “People Keep Talking” contains darker and more biting songs. For example, on the title track, “People Keep Talking,” Hoodie is taking shots at his critics, some of them music executives, some of them other rappers and some of them his over-the-top fans like the girl whose telephone message they poke fun of at the end: “Follow me on Instagram,” she says. “I made you a bracelet.” The point of the song is clear: Hoodie is above the public’s comments, whether negative or fawning.

The same thing happens in “Sirens,” in which he plays an answering machine recording of a record label executive telling him he likes his music but wants him to change his appearance and his sound. It’s all very Bo Burnham in its humor, but mostly without generating the laughs.

“Act My Age” is perhaps the most reminiscent of Hoodie’s previous efforts. The song was released as a single in mid-September along with “Dumb For You” and “Numbers,” which are also similar to old Hoodie song sounds. It’s a good bet that he released these as singles because they’re the most fun. But they don’t really convey the darker colors of the album.

When Hoodie was first starting out, he was endearing.

He claimed to follow enthusiastic fans on Twitter and said he would personally call every purchaser of his EPs to thank them. He might still be making those calls, but that Hoodie otherwise seems to be gone. While some of his new songs are still targeting the young teen crowd he worked so hard to obtain, there’s a clear shift to a more mature audience. As a complete work, the album holds together well, though. “100 Percent of Something,” where Hoodie sings about his music-making experience, is a good opener. Other tracks include “All About It,” in which he teams up with Ed Sheeran, and “Get It On The Low,” which sounds like a throwback to “No Interruption” from his EP. Hoodie Allen can essentially do as he pleases, because he has a loyal fan base, and in large part this is exactly what the album is about: his standing in the music world.

But if he keeps dissing his critics and dismissing his fawning fans, as he seems to be doing in the album, he might not be able to count on his fans for much longer.

Emmy Freedman is a sophomore media arts and design major. Contact Emmy at freedmee@dukes.jmu.edu.

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6. “I Can’t Keep the Tears From Falling” by Nude Beach

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Nation is suspended for the third time.

By Carleigh Davis contributing writer

I didn’t think I’d find myself coming out of sports writing retirement this early, nor did I think I’d be welcomed back with open arms. But here I am, folks. Carleigh, the tyrant of the JMU sports world and former sports editor of The Breeze. I’m here to discuss the news leaked Monday that both junior guard Andre Nation and sophomore forward Tom Vodanovich have been suspended from the men’s basketball team indefinitely. Shocker.

Let’s take just a second to review both of their charges. Both Nation and Vodanovich were charged with misdemeanor public intoxication and swearing and misdemeanor disorderly conduct. Then Nation was charged with misdemeanor assault and Vodanovich was also charged with underage purchase and possession of alcohol. Here’s the kicker — it’s rumored that they were fighting each other.

Losing most of your games in one season clearly isn’t the team’s biggest issue. Preseason practice just started, and you’ve got players fighting each other, ending up with misdemeanor charges and getting them suspended from the team. So I’m placing a “Wanted” ad for our athletics department, on behalf of all JMU students who don’t often get such luxuries of second chances — to bring back accountability and discipline.

My problem with this team began during the season of injuries — the fall of 2011. Head coach Matt Brady even broke his foot trying to practice with his injury-laden team. After another Colonial Athletic Association tournament loss, Brady groveled to the media to save his job. Following that season, he vowed he would prove that with a healthy team, he could make things happen. He got his 15 minutes of fame two years later when the team broke a 20-year NCAA Tournament drought afer defeating LIU-Brooklyn and lost to Sweet 16 team Indiana University. And that was the most impressive season the team had in a long time.

But Brady’s response of an indefinite suspension is just a continuance of letting his team push him all over the newly designed court with excuses and poor choices. Where is his leadership? Where is the team unity? Where is our miracle team?

And most importantly, why is the men’s basketball team allowed to have second or even third chances when many other athletes aren’t granted one? We have to learn to face the fact that there is nothing fan-girl worthy about the program that would warrant handing out chances like banks hand out lollipops.

I will end my rant with this — there are many JMU students who will find themselves in these positions, but will suffer consequences far more severe than college athletes will. These students have to give up major parts of their lives and college experiences to fix one mistake. It isn’t the JMU way not to implement the same consequences with our student athletes.

They are college students first, athletes second.

And finally, to the men’s basketball team — get your stuff together. Seriously, all of these distractions and issues within the team need to be solved. You want the student body to back you and show up to games? Start acting like you give a damn. We want a team to cheer for too, and if half of you are suspended or have left altogether, then all we have to cheer for is the Duke Dog and our cheerleaders. Which, after about 10 minutes, is less exciting than watching you play.

Give us a Cinderella story. Give us hope. Give us something to root for.

Carleigh Davis is a former sports editor of The Breeze. Contact Carleigh at davis3ca@dukes.jmu.edu.

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Long student lines at football games sometimes pose a challenge

By Wayne Epps Jr. The Breeze

When it comes to student lines to enter home football games, what you see may not always be what you get.

At times, lines at games can stretch past the adjacent Godwin Hall. Students are normally assigned to a single gate at Bridgeforth Stadium: Gate C. The entrance lies between the main student section behind the visitor’s sideline, and the student and general admission section behind the band and facing the north end zone of the stadium.

But according to Michael Carpenter, assistant athletics director for ticketing and customer relations, the length of the lines isn’t necessarily the university’s main concern. The focus for JMU is that the lines are constantly moving, which he says is generally the case.

He said he hasn’t really heard any complaints from students.

“It’s from other people who think the sky is falling that you hear it from,” Carpenter said on criticism of the lines. “Because when you see it, it looks sketchy. You’re like, ‘Oh my goodness, look at all the students.’ That’s because you’re bringing in [thousands] of students … regardless of how you do it, you got to get them in to the building.”

Carpenter said that while there’s been discussions about opening up additional gates for students, it’s not a major issue from JMU’s perspective because of the lack of negative feedback.

Including Gate C, Bridgeforth Stadium has five total gates: Gate A beside the Plecker Athletic Performance Center on the west side of the stadium; Gate B on the south end of the student section stands; Gate D underneath the student and general admission grandstands on the north end of the stadium; and Gate E in the northwest corner of the stadium under the public seating grandstands.

According to Carpenter, student overflow from Gate C can sometimes be shifted over to Gate D if the lines at C stop moving. Carpenter said that Gate D was utilized starting about 15 minutes before kickoff for both both home games so far this year, because of the influx of students close to gametime.

“When they’re moving in the line, it’s not really an issue,” Carpenter said. “It’s perceived bad … they’re steady walking. But if it gets to a point where it’s stagnant or gets around up near the bookstore, we go ahead and overflow just so that we can just keep as many people moving.”

Stadium gates are mostly staffed by a third-party company called RMC Events Inc., which also services colleges across the state, including the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech. About 250 RMC staffers cover

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Mobile scan tickets are one of the things that can slow down student ticket lines at football games.

Bridgeforth on game days, with a minimum of 12 based at Gate C. Gate C has eight ticket scan lanes and four bag checkers, which are operated by 12 RMC members. Carpenter said one of his department’s biggest obstacles is getting all the RMC staff trained and up to speed for the handful of home football games every year.

But that staff is what makes the lines tick on game days. Carpenter said there’s no specific guideline for the general speed of getting fans inside the stadium, just “as fast as possible.”

Another hindrance to that, however, is the hitor-miss quality of mobile scan tickets.

Students can pull up their tickets on their smartphones instead of printing them out. But the electronic scanners that the RMC staff uses to check fans in don’t always pick up those barcodes successfully.

“I think the biggest thing is sometimes the bar code scanners don’t work,” junior economics major Christian Embrey said. “And

that kind of holds up the line a little bit.”

Still, Embrey, who said he goes to all home football games, noted that there’s never a standstill in the student lines from what he’s seen.

While mobile ticket scanning may not be having a major effect on the pace of the lines, Carpenter said that JMU is putting new operating systems on the ticket scanners to improve their performance. JMU also started using tents over Gate C to block glare from phone screens and to accentuate the phones’ backlights, making scanning easier.

Carpenter even said that JMU may go back to allowing just printed student tickets. Mobile ticket scanning was implemented for the first time last season. Carpenter said JMU first went to the print-at-home tickets in 2011.

One of the things Carpenter said can be done to try to improve line flow is simply see lines, page 12

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Dukes hit the halfway mark

JMU begins second half of the season with matchup against Towson Saturday

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Senior outside linebacker Sage Harold has been one of the standouts on JMU’s defense, leading the Dukes with 5.5 of the team’s 11 sacks in conference play.

By richie bozek The Breeze

Last Saturday, JMU football traveled up to the University at Albany and spoiled the Great Danes’ undefeated season, winning 31-28 on a field goal in the closing seconds of regulation.

The Dukes return to Bridgeforth Stadium this weekend to host the reigning Colonial Athletic Association champions, the Towson University Tigers. Looking ahead toward the Family Weekend matchup, here are a few of the top storylines in this week’s edition of Four Downs of the Week.

1. Midway point

The end of last weekend’s win at Albany marked the midway point in the Dukes’ 2014 campaign.

With six games completed so far this regular

season, six games remain to be played.

“We’re working hard and we’re playing a lot more together as a team,” head coach Everett Withers said on the team’s progress. “I like the way our team fights and battles.”

JMU enters this weekend with a 3-3 overall record and a 1-2 record in CAA play. Of the six games remaining, five of them are against conference opponents, including this weekend’s contest against Towson.

Towson, the 2013 National Championship runner-up, enters the game last place in conference with an 0-2 record, suffering losses to CAA opponents the University of Maine and Stony Brook University over the past two weekends. Overall, the Tigers hold a 2-4 record.

This may come as a relief to JMU, because unlike the Dukes’ last three opponents — Villanova

University, the University of Delaware and Albany — Towson will not be entering Saturday ranked in the national polls.

2. Return of the run

All season long, the Dukes have stressed how crucial an effective run game is to their offense.

In the two games leading up to last weekend, the Dukes strayed away from this objective a bit, either executing more through the air or having a more balanced attack. “We put emphasis on the run last week, and especially from here on out,” redshirt junior quarterback Vad Lee, who leads the CAA in total offense with 1,945 yards on the season said. “If you can’t run the ball then you can’t open up the pass game.” see football, page 12

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After winning its last tournament, JMU’s club golf looks to keep its form

By Forrest Deal

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For some people, golf can be a long and frustrating game to play. Not only does it take years of practice to have a full grasp of the game, but being competitive on the course takes another level of skill and knowledge. This is why the JMU club golf team has something to be proud of coming off its first tournament win of the semester.

The club traveled to Salem, Virginia, to compete in a tournament at the Hanging Rock Golf Club last Saturday and Sunday, where they beat seven other schools, including Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia, Old Dominion University, the University of Richmond, Roanoke College, the College of William & Mary and Hampden-Sydney College.

Although the team has 32 active members, tournaments only allow eight players to compete. All eight JMU players who competed in the Hanging Rock tournament finished in the top 15 in the two-day tournament which fielded 70 competing golfers. Senior exercise science major Zachary Henry finished first overall in the tournament, while junior physics major Matt Samuels finished third and senior sport and recreation management major James Magner finished fifth.

The Dukes are now setting their sights on their next regional tournament over Halloween weekend at Colonial Heritage Golf Club. The tournament will act as a qualifier for the collegiate national championships this semester, which will be held in Philadelphia, Mississippi. JMU currently sits first in the region that includes U.Va., ODU, William & Mary, Hampden-Sydney and Richmond, as well as Liberty University and Longwood University.The Dukes will need to finish third or higher in the tournament to qualify for nationals.

The success of the team comes as a joy to senior engineering major and club president Matt Lewis, who has been with the team since it first started back in 2012. Lewis has witnessed a lot of growth and been an integral part in helping the team become what it is today.

“In the beginning it was not very organized,” Lewis said.

“Now instead of just eight guys going to tournaments and playing separately, the club now has much more of a team feel.”

The organized-team feel is recognized not only by seasoned veterans like Lewis, but also by new members like Samuels, a transfer student.

“At tryouts you could definitely get the feel that the team was very official,” Samuels said. “The tryouts were very competitive and felt like a team.”

In the three years since the team has been formed they have won three tournaments: two last year and one so far this season.

The success of the team has not come without dedication from its members. The club travels 10 minutes off campus to Lakeview Golf Course to practice. For some members, finding the time to leave campus to play can be a challenge, especially for members who don’t have cars. Teammates are always offering rides though, generally to freshmen on the team. The club also holds the unique aspect that it does not have formal practices.

“With different schedules and the time-consuming nature of golf, we do not hold set practices,” Lewis said. “We leave it up to each member to find time on their own to go out and play during the week.”

How often a player practices varies from week to week. Typically they play nine-hole rounds during weekdays and 18-hole rounds during weekends. Although golf can typically be viewed as an individual sport, the team doesn’t lack support among its members. They’re always driving one another to perform their best.

“Everyone wants to play for each other,” Magner said. “We all want to have out best individual performance, but at the same time it is to help the team performance.”

Not wanting to let their teammates down drives the golf club members to practice whenever they get the chance, regardless of the inconvenience of traveling off campus.

Additionally, the eight members who travel to competition varies from tournament to tournament. Players vie for spots in each tournament through a set team qualifying procedure. Two weeks prior to a tournament, each player can play as many nine-hole rounds as they wish. They take their two lowest nine-hole scores

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and combine them with an 18-round score, which everyone who wants to compete in the upcoming tournament must play.

“You focus on the next tournament and take it one day at a time,” junior finance major Max Cotton said.

The team will compete at Colonial Heritage from Nov. 1-2. Every team in the region will be in attendance, which will lead to some great competition.

Contact Forrest Deal at dealaf@dukes.jmu.edu.

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Against Albany, the Dukes ran for 239 yards on the ground on 5.2 yards per carry, which is on par with their season averages of 243.2 yards per game and 5.1 yards per carry. It’s also good enough to statistically make JMU the second-best rushing team in the CAA behind Villanova. JMU posted these rushing numbers against an Albany rushing defense, which allowed under 100 rushing yards per game prior to last week.

The Dukes will be looking for similar, if not more, success on the ground this weekend against Towson.

Towson enters the game with a solid rushing defense, ranked fourth in the conference, allowing about 3.4 yards a carry and 133.7 rushing yards a game.

According to Withers, Towson is one of the most athletic defenses the Dukes will see this year.

The game plan for the offense in the run game always seems to be handing it off to the running back who is running the best during that given game — whoever has the “hot hand.” With the depth the Dukes have at the position, they are rarely short on options to find the right guy.

Lee, redshirt senior Jauan Latney, sophomore Khalid Abdullah and freshman John Miller are the usual targets in the run. However, freshman Taylor Woods and redshirt freshman Alden Hill are also capable of stepping up and contributing carries. Only time will tell what works against Towson.

3. Defense is looking up During the past two games against Albany and Delaware, JMU’s defense has been on an upward trend of improvement. Two specific areas of improvement have been stopping the run, which the Dukes have had continuous trouble with, and pressuring the opposing quarterbacks.

“I think we are starting to establish some continuity and our guys are just taking the right approach to practice and preparing,” defensive coordinator Brandon Staley said.

Against Delaware, JMU allowed 168 yards on the ground, and against Albany’s league-leading rusher in redshirt senior Omar Osbourne, the Dukes allowed 142 yards. Both of those games were significant improvements for the Dukes’ defense, which has allowed 233.3 rushing yards per game this season, ranking them at 10th in the CAA. Towson is home to the second-leading rusher in the CAA, sophomore Darius Victor. Victor is averaging 107.8 yards a game running the ball and leads the

league in rushing touchdowns with six.

JMU has also shown improvement in pressuring the quarterback and currently leads the CAA in sacks with 11 in three conference games so far this season.

Staley contributes this to the work put in during practice and preparing successful defensive schemes for the offenses that they face.

Leading the team in sacks is senior Sage Harold with 5.5 of the 11 sacks in conference play.

4. Growing talent This season, the Dukes have continuously played some of the younger players on their roster come game time, who in turn have stepped up and stood out. This was the case again last week when senior safety Dean Marlowe was ejected in the first quarter.

Freshman Marcell Johnson came in to fill Marlowe’s shoes, and recorded 14 tackles and a sack on the day. Johnson played alongside fellow freshman safety Aaron Peak, who currently leads the team in tackles with 42 on the season.

Other freshmen have made a name for themselves on the defense this year, such as cornerback Jimmy Moreland, who has 27 tackles, two interceptions and a gamesaving blocked field goal.

Staley said earlier in the season that giving younger players experience would pay off, and he feels it is starting to.

“I think [the younger guys] are putting the pieces together a lot better and certainly understanding what we are trying to do,” Staley said.

On the offensive side of the ball, younger players have made an impact as well, especially in the running back position. Miller is one of the primary running backs, averaging 4.7 yards a carry. Hill and Woods have also made contributions.

“Our younger guys are progressing well and are doing a lot of good things,” Withers said. “Talent will eventually, if you coach it well and mentor it well, it will rise to the top.”

Another individual who rose to the occasion last weekend was redshirt junior kicker Ryan Maglio. In his first game of taking over as place kicker, he knocked in the game-winning field goal through the uprights with seconds left on the clock.

There’s no telling who it will be from week-to-week, but the Dukes appear to have the younger players who are ready to step up and contribute against Towson.

Kickoff against Towson on Saturday is at 12:30 p.m.

Contact Richie Bozek at Bozekrj@dukes.jmu.edu.

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educating students about the best times to get the stadium to avoid waiting.

“From an hour to a half hour out, that’s a reasonable time frame to get there, and the lines are a non-issue there,” Carpenter said. “It’s just that last 15 minutes [that can be crowded].”

Embrey said that he’s gone to both of the home games so far this season about 30 minutes before kickoff. He said he got to his seat pretty quickly for the game against the University of Delaware on Sept. 27.

But for the home opener against Saint Francis University on Sept. 13, the lines were “ridiculously long,” wrapping around Godwin. To make it into that game, Embrey said he got a hold of two general admission tickets from a friend’s father and checked in through Gate A, where there was no line.

Junior finance major Martin Sajonas, who also attends all home games, said he had about a 30 minute wait to get into Bridgeforth for the Saint Francis game after arriving about 30 minutes before kickoff.

He said the line was stretching all the way back to the intersection near the Godwin field when he got there, and it was easily the longest wait he’s had at a game.

Sajonas said that while the scanners may have played a part, line-cutting was an issue too.

“When people saw the line being so long, a lot of people starting cutting,” Sajonas said. “So that’ll definitely set a lot of people back. There were huge groups of people just kind of walking into the line and cutting.”

For the Saint Francis game, 7,393 students came

out, plus 783 student guests with student-guest tickets.

When JMU played Delaware, 4,841 students attended in addition to 909 student guests. The fact that the Saint Francis game was the home opener and public tailgating lots were forced to clear out at kickoff time likely contributed to the influx of students for that game. But Carpenter said the student line was gone by the 12-minute mark of the first quarter on the game clock.

Sajonas said that one improvement could be the regulation of the entire student line to cut back on cutting and lines bunching up. Embrey said that JMU could open up Gate B on the opposite side of the student section from Gate C to lighten up the lines.

But at this point, it doesn’t appear as if additional student gates will be enabled any time soon. Carpenter said that opening Gate B to students would just make that overflow, and opening Gate A would overburden that area, with general admission fans trying to get in as well.

For right now, JMU is just focusing on improving the ancillary aspects of getting people in: the ticket scanners and educating students on the process to lessen hiccups.

“Some of that stuff we don’t want to just enable, because we’re not doing a good job or we’re enabling people to do it the wrong way that, ‘Hey, let’s open more gates just because that part’s not working smoothly,’” Carpenter said.

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we want to condone,” Bourne said. “We hold our student athletes to a very high level of behavior and action so we’ll move forward once we’ve been able to get through this next phase of work by the local court system.”

This is Nation’s third official suspension at JMU. The first came Sept. 30, 2013 for the first 15 games of the season after a “violation of team rules.” The second came on Feb. 28 after failing to “comply to academic standards as a JMU men’s basketball student athlete.”

In the latest incident, one is left to infer that further action concerning Nation will take place. Bourne confirmed that there is a three-strike policy at JMU, but Nation’s second suspension, an academic one, raises questions of whether that counts as a strike.

“That is an established policy maintained by the university’s judicial system and it does exist and we do follow it,” Bourne said.

This might lead some to think that Bourne and the atheltic department don’t keep track of player conduct.

“We do, but we do not divulge that information,” he said.

Now, Brady is left with a big decision involving integrity and ethics. He is surely on the hot seat to take action against Nation, as he is a habitual offender, but taken into account his 15.4 points per game last season, the team’s success is inevitably in the picture.

“I’m not going to speculate for one of our coaches, but I know given the relationship we’ve had — the dialogue that we have on a continual basis — I’m sure their decision will be driven in part by looking at the circumstances from a broad perspective,” Bourne said.

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“Pending a final court appearance and the resolution to that, we will then indicate an appropriate action at that time,” Bourne said.

With a Nov. 14 season opener against the University of Virginia looming, a buffet of decisions remain for Brady and the JMU Athletics Department.

Stephen Proffitt is a senior media arts and design major. Contact Stephen at proffittjs@gmail.com.

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