Charges Dropped Against Two Students
By Ford Prior, Contributing WriterNovember 19, 2009
Junior Football Player Markus Hunter and Sophomore Connor Long Were Charged With Felonious Assault and Malicious Wounding HARRISONBURG, Va. — All charges from a fight involving at least three JMU students were dismissed Wednesday in Rockingham County District Court after a closed-door agreement between prosecutors and defense attorneys. Counts of felonious assault and malicious wounding by mob were dropped for junior Markus W. Hunter, 20, of High Point, N.C., and sophomore Connor Long, 19, of Newtown,... Read more »
Getting Digital in ‘Second Life’
By Ford Prior, Contributing WriterNovember 12, 2009
HARRISONBURG, Va. — The road is long for many to reach JMU’s campus but only in real life. Thanks to an online virtual world called “Second Life,” JMU’s very own virtually recreated campus is just a click away. Last year, a group of JMU professors established the campus in the world of Second Life, a world of user-created residents, called “avatars,” that explore, meet other residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, and create and trade merchandise, property... Read more »
GOP Paints the State Red
By Ford Prior, Contributing WriterNovember 5, 2009
Republican Call for Change Pays off Statewide RICHMOND — Some of Republican Bob McDonnell’s supporters believe it was his effective campaign strategy that led to his overwhelming victory in the state. His win and the GOP sweep of Virginia were celebrated Tuesday with hip-hop music thumping and beach balls bouncing amid a large crowd in downtown Richmond’s Marriot Inn. “Eight months ago I applied for the job of governor of Virginia,” McDonnell told the cheering crowd. “Tonight you have... Read more »
Tires Slashed on 22 Vehicles in Hunters Ridge Parking Lot
By Ford Prior, Contributing WriterNovember 2, 2009
HARRISONBURG, Va. — Last Tuesday night, Eric Rothschild’s 2003 Honda Element and 21 other vehicles parked in Hunters Ridge Apartment Complex were found with punctured tires. According to police, the slashings happened between 11 p.m. Oct. 27 and 11 a.m. Oct. 28 in the 1300 block of Hunters Ridge Road. Many vehicles had one or two tires slashed, but, Rothschild, a sophomore ISAT major, lost three. “Some of the other cars had beer bottles thrown on them. There was shattered glass on the hood... Read more »
Ten-Student March Presses for Action on Climate Change
By Ford Prior, Contributing WriterOctober 26, 2009
HARRISONBURG, Va. — JMU Greenpeace gathered on Festival Lawn at 1 p.m. Saturday for a “silent march” in support of the International Day of Climate Action. Ten students in red Greenpeace T-shirts marched from Festival to Court Square in downtown Harrisonburg. Junior Laura Robinson, a media arts and design major, read a pre-written statement on behalf of the group. “I don’t think people realize this now, but in 40 years the world’s going to change,” Robinson said before the march. The... Read more »
Foot-Power Avoids Tax
By Ford Prior, Contributing WriterOctober 22, 2009
HARRISONBURG, Va. — Ben Wyse rides his bike up to 14 miles a day. However, what makes him special is not the miles he pedals, it’s his motivation behind it. He rides because his next-best alternative — the car — comes with a self-imposed gas tax. He and eight other members of Harrisonburg’s Voluntary Gas Tax organization tax themselves, usually paying at least 50 cents a gallon, although they can pay whatever they choose since the tax is voluntary. It started at the dinner table at... Read more »
Living ‘Off the Grid’
By Ford Prior, Contributing WriterOctober 15, 2009
HARRISONBURG, Va. — When he returns home in the evening, JMU junior Josh Kelaher flips on the lights with a carbon-free conscious. His home, leased with three other JMU students for $535 each per month, is entirely off the electrical grid. Also known as the Freedom House, the “zero-impact” dwelling owes itself to one man — Zach Fettig — who’s company, Shenandoah Sustainable Technologies (SST), LLC, carried Harrisonburg’s only self-sustaining home to its completion in 2008. “I banged... Read more »
Sharing Ownership, Natural Products
By Ford Prior, Contributing WriterOctober 15, 2009
Friendly City Co-Op Hopes to Offer Organic Products HARRISONBURG, Va. — Nine volunteers and $424,000: Their lofty financial target may be just a phone call away — maybe more — so the lines are busy every Monday in a small building in downtown Harrisonburg. There, Friendly City Co-Op volunteers solicit interest-bearing loans to install an all-new grocery store. “We’ll still have bananas,” said Deb Rhizal, Friendly City’s outreach coordinator, but downtown Harrisonburg’s proposed grocery... Read more »
Personal Safety Debated After Sunchase Incident
By Ford Prior, Contributing WriterOctober 15, 2009
For three weeks now, Katie McNelly has been constantly looking over her shoulder. After her roommate awoke Sept. 21 to a man standing over her bed, McNelly is at least thankful that the word is out: Lock the doors because midnight intruders could be out and about. After the man fled and police arrived that night, it was concluded that he entered through an unlocked door. More than 25 comments have since been posted online on the Oct. 8 Breeze article, “Students Awake to Intruder.” “Whether... Read more »
Students Awake to Intruder
By Ford Prior, Contributing WriterOctober 8, 2009
“I woke up to her screams, ‘There’s a man in here. There’s a man in here.” Senior Katie McNelly is describing the night of Sept. 21. In the next room of her first floor Sunchase apartment, a man was standing over the bed of her roommate. HARRISONBURG, Va. — Then “he crept out. He tip toed out,” said McNelly, an Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies major. Police informed her that, not only was the incident “nothing new,” it was the ninth of its kind since the semester began. “[The... Read more »
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