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By LAURA WEEKSThe Breeze
As soon as the � rst second of Jon-athan Friedman’s Doritos “Crash the Super Bowl” commercial aired, “everybody started freaking out,” Friedman said. � e contest allowed participants to submit homemade videos promoting Doritos products.
“It was pretty amazing. � e excite-ment was instantaneous —everything just erupted.”
Friedman experienced the win with the other four � nalists and rep-resentatives from Frito-Lay.
Friedman, whose bank account is soon to be about $ million heavier (pre-taxes), hasn’t started planning what he’ll do with the money.
“It still hasn’t sunk in that I’m actually going to have that munch money,” Friedman said.
He says that he does, however, plan on spending some of his winnings on gifts for friends and family, as well as on a movie that he and his brother have been working on.
Does he have vacation plans? Maybe in the future.
Friedman describes the trip to Indianapolis, which was one of the perks of being a � nalist as a vacation
in and of itself. “It was the most luxurious vaca-
tion that I’ve ever had,” Friedman said. “Everything was paid for, sev-en-course meals — it was ridiculous. � ey really treated us well.”
Media attention after the win has been “crazy” and “exhausting.” � e morning after the Super Bowl, Fried-man stayed up until a.m. doing interviews, then had to be at the stu-dio by a.m. doing interviews via live telecast. He � lmed a segment for “Inside Edition” yesterday.
“I’m � nding out that I’m popping up in di� erent places and not even knowing about it,” he said. “It’s been nuts.”
For Friedman and the other four finalists, it wasn’t about who was going to win. By the time the Super Bowl aired, the group had been together for four days.
“We all became friends,” Friedman said. “Even if it wasn’t mine that won, I would be happy for whoever it was. I think we all kind of felt that way about each other at the end.”
Support from his family and friends was also a huge aspect for Friedman throughout the whole process.
“They were all saying how I was going to win when I didn’t even believe
I was going to win,” Friedman said.
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By KELSEY NUNNcontributing writer
Many people have their entire lives to do what they want — go skydiving and bungee jumping, travel to a faraway place and write a book. But for Sarah Pharis, it’s just living to age .
Making calamari, bruschetta, garlic bread, salad, pasta and chicken parma-gian at Tutti Gusti on Monday evening was more than just for a meal for the Staunton native. It was also something to cross o� her list of goals to complete. Pharis, , lives with terminal cancer.
“On April , I was diagnosed with a choroidal melanoma in my right eye,” Pharis wrote in her blog, [Lovex-In� nity]. � e tumor “was mm at the base and looked exactly like the fetus of a dinosaur curled inside its shell. I was years old.”
The vision in her right eye was extremely distorted. Almost four years later, she was told the cancer had spread to her liver.
“My doctors previously had told me that this probably would never hap-pen,” Pharis wrote. “To the contrary, the literature I had read reported as
much as a percent chance that this would happen. I was terri� ed, but not surprised.”
In March , Pharis had surgery to remove the tumor from her eye and a larger, benign tumor from liver.
“I was lucky to be a candidate for resection,” Pharis wrote. “Not many with metastatic ocular melanoma are.”
She was diagnosed with mets when the cancer moved to her left ovary in September.
“� e bottom line is this: We just don’t know how to e� ectively treat this cancer once it spreads, other than cutting out the tumors,” Pharis wrote.
So she wrote a list of things she wanted to accomplish, � lled with the nearly impossible, the terrifying and the memorable.
Butch Strawderman, former owner and loyal customer of Tutti Gusti, read about Pharis’ story and wanted to help.
“Looking at the list, I thought I could help her knock out a bunch of things,” Strawderman said.
He emphasized the collective involvement of the community to help Pharis reach her goals. Strawderman organized a hot air balloon ride for her and a few friends and is searching for Tom Jones concert tickets, two more items on her list.
Fortunado Merone, the current owner of Tutti Gusti, also wanted to help. His family, too, has been a� ected by cancer.
“On her bucket list, she wanted to make cherry soup and cook pasta for all the families and everyone,” said Merone,
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Making the big leagues
Terminal cancer patient Sarah Pharis checks off bucket list item with help of local Italian restaurant
Alumna Lindsay Czarniak makes her way up the corporate sports ladder to ESPN
Sarah Pharis, 32, had always wanted to cook in an Italian restaurant and fi nally got her chance Monday night thanks to Tutti Gusti. Pharis was diagnosed in April 2006 with a tumor in her right eye. Four years later, the cancer moved to her liver and most recently to her left ovary in September.
Alumnus Jonathan Friedman was the $1 million winner of the Doritos “Crash the Super Bowl” commercial contest.
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By EMMIE CLEVELANDThe Breeze
There was a time when ESPN’s newest SportsCenter anchor wasn’t even considering a profession in sports. When Lindsay Czarniak grad-uated from JMU in , she had her sights set on a di� erent career.
“Honestly, my dream was prob-ably that one day I would do something that would be like a morning show or something like that,” she said.
Czarniak went to Centreville High School in Fairfax before coming to JMU, where she pursued a SMAD major with a concentration in jour-
nalism and a minor in studio art. With her rising success in sports
broadcasting, Czarniak has become an idol to JMU students with ambi-tions in the journalistic � eld.
Makenzie Walter, a senior SMAD major and sport communications minor, saw Czarniak speak at Cent-reville’s graduation in and has been following her career since.
“It’s inspiring, because you know you can do the same thing,” Walter said. “She went to my high school, and she obviously went here. She lived in my neighborhood.”
Because of her close ties to JMU, it’s easy for fellow sports-lovers and students to relate to Czarniak.
“I loved D-Hall,” she said. “The other place too, I’m trying to remem-ber. � e Festival? � at was new when I was there. And there also used to be this place that was called Mr. Jay’s. Is that still there? I loved it.”
She enjoyed watching Dukes’ soc-cer, lacrosse, wrestling and football,
but said the football team “wasn’t anything like it is now. “
“� ere de� nitely wasn’t a crowd following,” she said.
She knew she wanted to pursue a broadcasting career after she took a news production class taught by SMAD professor Rustin Greene. � e class produced a weekly newscast.
“That’s when I really realized what it was that I wanted to try to do, because I didn’t know if I wanted to do print or more writing — maybe even creative writing,” she said. “I just wasn’t sure … � e extracurricu-lar part of doing that TV show with everyone was what really hooked me.”
Czarniak also had a scriptwriting class with Greene and made a lasting impression on him.
“She was extraordinary,” Greene said. “She was one of those people that I knew right away she had ‘it.’ ‘It’ is de� ned in many ways, and it’s characterized in many ways, but she had ‘it.’ Not only was she intelligent and focused and disciplined and a hard worker, but she was also very talented.”
Czarniak was no stranger to sports journalism. Her father Chet was a sports writer, so she witnessed the lifestyle — the attendance of sporting events and the travel — the profes-sion entailed.
“I remember when it was my birthday when I was really young, and Magic Johnson announced that he was HIV positive,” Czarniak said. “� at was one of those things where as a kid, I was bummed out because my dad couldn’t be at my birthday party, but at the same time it was one of those things [when] he really got me exposed to the breaking news aspect of sports.”
But not immediately compelled to follow in his footsteps, Czarniak chased a career in news. After she graduated, she worked at an entry-level position behind the scenes at CNN.
“It meant that you’re doing all the grunt-work things, but it was a
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‘Truth and Tranquility’ArtWorks Gallery held the opening of the “Truth and Tranquility” exhibition on Monday. Art students of Agnes
Carbrey have created life-size self portraits in drawing, painting, fabric and photo forms. Tranquil landscapes from southern France and the French Mediterranean showcase the Fauvist colors of JMU art students in the Southern France Painting Abroad Program. All exhibitions are sponsored by the school of art, design and art history.
“Truth and Tranquility” will be open until Feb. 24. The artWorks Gallery is located at 131 Grace St. and is open Monday through Thursday 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday through Saturday 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
“She was one of those people that I knew right away she had ‘it.’ ”Rustin GreeneSMAD professor
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Sprint Nextel Corp. sold . million iPhones late last year — percent of them to new cus-tomers — and ballooned its net loss to $. billion in the fourth quarter.
� e loss partly re� ected sub-sidies Sprint gives customers
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College sells birth control pill from vendingLos Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES — A central Pennsylvania college is sur-prised to � nd itself the center of media attention this week simply for selling Plan B, the so-called morning-after pill, from a vending machine.
After all, the machine has offered the pills for at least
two years, said Peter Gigliotti, spokesman for Shippensburg University, a public school about miles southwest of Harrisburg.
“This is nothing new,” he said. “I have no idea why it’s getting the reaction it’s getting now.”
But women’s reproductive health has been a hot topic of late, and an Associated Press story on the vending machine was bound to get noticed.
Much is being made of the Obama administration’s requirement that even Catholic organizations provide contra-ception coverage to employees via their health plans. The
requirement has drawn sharp criticism from some corners, and signs of support from others.
On Tuesday, a Public Policy Polling survey conducted for Planned Parenthood reported that percent of voters agreed that health plans should cover the cost of contraceptives. Fur-ther, it found, a majority of voters said Catholic institu-tions should not be exempted from the requirement.
Gigliotti said the vending machine was installed at the urging of the school’s student government after a survey found that percent of stu-dents supported the e� ort.
Judge wants details on misconduct in Ted Stevens prosecutionMcClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — Calling the case a national symbol of what happens when prosecu-tors cross the line, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that an investigative report on mis-conduct by Justice Department attorneys in the prosecution of former Alaska Sen. Ted Ste-vens must be made public.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan denied motions by
some of the attorneys who are under investigation to keep the report, by special prosecu-tor Harry Schuelke, on their behavior permanently under seal and barred from public release.
“To deny the public access to Mr. Schuelke’s report under the circumstances of this case would be an a� ront to the First Amendment and a blow to the fair administration of justice,” he wrote.
Sullivan ruled the report will be made public March .
� e report’s exact contents are unclear, but it will detail what Schuelke has described as widespread and sometimes intentional misconduct by Jus-tice Department attorneys in their pursuit of a U.S. senator.
“The Stevens case has come not only to symbolize
the dangers of an overzeal-ous prosecution and the risks inherent when the govern-ment does not abide by its discovery obligations, but it has also been credited with changing the way other courts, prosecutors and defense coun-sel approach discovery in criminal cases,” Sullivan wrote in his ruling.
A Washington jury in Octo-ber found Stevens guilty of lying on financial disclo-sure forms covering six years in o� ce.
But in the Justice Department moved to dismiss the charges against Stevens, admitting it failed to turn over evidence to the defense that would have helped Stevens. The prosecution team also faced misconduct allegations from an FBI whistleblower.
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SGA to sponsor charity ball
SGA is hosting a charity ball Saturday to raise money for a memorial in honor of all of the Dukes who died last semester.
The plans for the memorial are still in the works. If SGA is unable to create the memorial, all of the money raised at the charity ball will be donated in the names of those who died to Madison Forever, JMU’s organization that accepts donations to help current students pay tuition.
The event is from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday in the Festival ballroom. It will include a performance from Spencer Dukoff and a speech from Art Dean. The tickets are $10 and will be available for students to purchase at the door.
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Hookah more harmful than students think
For some students, hookah doesn’t seem so bad. But one 25-minute session of smoking hookah is equivalent to smoking an entire pack of cigarettes, according to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
People tend to inhale very deeply when they are using a hookah because they do not fully understand its risks. They actually get 20 times the amount of nicotine than when students smoke only one cigarette, according to the department.
by gEorgina bucklEyThe Breeze
Tuesday’s SGA meeting saw the last of its contingency fund money go to campus organizations.
Contingency fund money is money set aside by SGA for student organizations that need it to put on events. It’s separate from front-end organizations’ budgets.
The money is given as needed throughout the academic year, and SGA has almost completed distrib-uting it.
Relay for Life and Baptist Colle-giate Ministries are two of the last organizations that have applied and received contingency funds. SGA will distribute the last of the money within the next two weeks.
Clubs will not be able to receive any more contingency money for events this semester, according to senior Jordan Descovich, SGA finance committee chairman.
“It’s really not fair that we only had $32,000 this year to go over to potentially 300 clubs that need it,” Descovich said.
Descovich said the goal this year was to cut front end budgeted orga-nizations’ budgets by three percent so more money could be set aside in
the contingency funds budget. FEB organizations are those whose mis-sions are deemed too important to fundraise throughout the year and raise money themselves, so they rely on money allotted to them by the SGA.
Every Friday in February, FEB organizations will present, justify-ing their budgets to SGA members.
On Friday, the National Associa-tion for the Advancement of Colored People, Student Ambassadors, Pan-hellenic Council, Interfraternity Council, Madison Equality and Campus Assault Response Emer-g e n c y h o t l i n e p r e s e n t e d justification of their budgets, and all budgets were passed with some adjustment.
After budgets for FEB organiza-tions are approved and finalized, the leftover money goes to the con-tingency fund for clubs.
The SGA will be meeting with University Program Board, EARTH Club and Black Student Alliance on Friday.
Descovich said SGA aims to put a ballpark figure of $45,000 into contingency funds for next year.
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SGA uses up contingency fundPinterested
by JEn Eyring and iJ cHanThe Breeze
Whether it’s finding a picture of a cute puppy or looking for something to help inspire them with their career, an up-and-coming website may be the answer for studeents.
Pinterest is an online pinboard where people can browse through hundreds of pictures and “repin” and “like” their favorites.
It’s a relatively new site that’s quickly growing in popularity. Traffic to the site increased 329 percent from September 2011 to December 2011. The site had 7.21 million visitors in December and is cur-rently driving more traffic to retailers’ websites than Google’s social media site, Google+, according to PC Magazine.
The site has several categories such as art, sports and wedding and events to help browsers select the pictures.
Stephanie Johnson, a sophomore IDLS major, said she would go to Pinterest for help with setting up her future classroom.
“I just like all of the creative ideas that it gives you,” Johnson said. “They have a sec-tion for education and teachers, which is something I want to do, so it gives me really good ideas that I could use in the future in a classroom.”
Other students are using Pinterest to help with their current creative projects.
Cara Prodanovich, a senior communica-tions studies major, uses Pinterest to help find new and original ideas for class.
“It’s helped me in the creativity aspect,” Prodanovich said. “For public relations class, it’s helped me come up with design ideas for maybe a logo, or a layout — something original that maybe I’ve never seen before.”
SGA member Morgan Miller, a freshman hospitality major, has used Pinterest to find inspiration for decor at an SGA event.
“For our [SGA] charity ball, we found a bunch of centerpiece ideas on Pinterest,” Miller said.
She also thinks Pinterest will be helpful when planning out events for her future clients.
“I’m a hospitality major, so I’m looking to go into event planning, so it’s very help-ful for that,” Miller said.
Pinterest is still gaining view-ers. In December, Pinterest had 4,000 more visitors than it did six months earlier, becoming the No. 10 social-networking site. It’s also the fastest growing site for referral traffic, beating out Google+, Youtube, and LinkedIn’s combined, according to PC Magazine.
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by ElizabEtH dsurnEyThe Breeze
Joe Townsend has two tattoos and no regrets.
“I know that no matter what I think of them when I’m older, I’ll have a permanent reminder of the frame of mind I was in at 19 years old,” said Townsend, a junior political science and SMAD double major. “Good or bad, I don’t want to forget it. Probably easier to just keep a diary or something, but this is cooler.”
Townsend has an Egyptian eye tattoo, which represents one of his views of the world: “The same is above that is below.”
“I also liked the concept of the human eye, how we can perceive so much through such a small window, dependent entirely upon the perspective,” Townsend said.
Later, he found out that the symbol is actually a moon god instead of a sun god, and, to some people, is more of a femi-nine symbol than a masculine one. But if he had gotten done it correctly, it actually wouldn’t look the same and “would lose artistic value,” Townsend said.
“Plus, it looks correct to me when I view it in the mirror,” Townsend said. “I checked it before what it meant. Of course, most people don’t know anything about Egyp-tian mythology anyway — like me — so only one person out of hundreds has ever noticed or only one person has pointed it out, anyway.”
His second tattoo says “Surrender Dor-othy” on his ribcage, which is a famous quote from “The Wizard of Oz.”
“Tattoos should look good,” Townsend said. “They are art first and foremost, with your body being the canvas. Meaning is important, but it’s secondary.”
Townsend believes people don’t want to walk around with something that looks ridiculous but actually has meaning. He thinks the tattoo should stand on its own without being explained, so people can dis-cuss or just admire.
According to The Journal of the Ameri-can Academy, 24 percent of the general U.S. population has a tattoo. Of those, 17 per-cent have considered getting it removed, and five percent have had it covered with a different tattoo design.
Jessica Poland, a nursing and anthropol-ogy double major, said she’s happy with her tattoo.
“It’s of a lotus flower and has several dif-ferent meanings from what religion and country you are from,” Poland said. “I got it when I graduated high school to repre-sent the change and transition.”
Poland also believes people go through certain phases in their lives, get a tattoo and then regret it.
“Sometimes people get a tattoo because everyone else has one. People need to think before they get them,” Poland said. “Tattoos are almost always painful and bleed. Mine bled afterwards.”
Kyle Prestel, a freshman finance major, doesn’t have a tattoo but believes many young people who get them don’t have sec-ond thoughts about it until they’re older.
Many of his friends have tattoos, but only one has a concern.
“My friend, back in high school, skipped a day during the week and traded a paint-ball gun for a tattoo in one transaction,” Prestel said.
Prestel added the tattoo didn’t turn out how it was supposed to look.
Natalie Ferrara, a sophomore history major, has a tattoo of a quote from the poem “Footprints in the Sand,” which says, “It was then that I carried you.”
“I had it done shortly after my best friend’s brother passed away suddenly in 2009,” Ferrara said. “The poem appeared
on the front of his funeral program.”She’s heard of tattoo horror stories from
friends — people coming out not able to walk, being disappointed and in pain. However, she didn’t experience any of these.
Many students at JMU have opinions on tattoos but don’t have them.
“It’s a form of special expression,” said Dakota Gagliardi, a freshman IDLS major. “If someone wants to express themselves in the form of body art, then they have that choice, and I respect that.”
Job opportunities scare some away from tattoos, in the fear that visible tattoos will prevent them from being hired.
Erin Knight, a junior geography and anthropology double major, thinks tattoos are acceptable in some circumstances.
“I think if they have meaning and are not visible in professional settings, then I have no problem with seeing them,” Knight said.
Chad Gensel, a COB academic and career planning adviser, recommends stu-dents keep tattoos hidden.
“Visible tattoos can have a nega-tive impact on employers and your job search,” he said. “There are certain cor-porate jobs who want a professional appearance, and tattoos give impression for nonprofessionalism.”
He adds that less conservative fields such as the arts seem to be more accept-able of tattoos than others.
Nick Swartz, the owner of the popu-lar Alley Cat Tattoo & Body Piercing shop located in Harrisonburg, has been piercing and tattooing for 15 years.
He said the shop usually tries to make sure customers are happy in the long term with their results, not just a trendy in-the-moment decision.
The biggest tattoo trend in the past was the “tramp stamp,” but recent trends include script or lettering on ribs, accord-ing to Swartz.
“I got a tribal armband when I was 18,” Swartz said. “Today, they’re viewed as kind of corny, but I don’t regret it all. I believe that tattoos are a beautiful way of expression and a way to mark a time in your life. It’s yours, you take it to the grave and no one can take that from you.”
contact Elizabeth Dsurney at [email protected].
Organization aims to allocate more money to support larger clubs on campus
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SGA plans to set aside about $45,000 this year in contingency funds for clubs.
Some get tattoos to chronicle a time period and state of mind, but some employers prefer them hidden.
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whose father died of cancer last year. He immediately volunteered
his restaurant, showing Pharis the ropes of the Italian kitchen before her friends arrived that night.
“When I can see the smile on her face and see everyone laugh and be happy, it makes my day,” Merone said. “It’s amazing how the little things can make someone so happy.”
Pharis and Ingrid De Sanctis, Pharis’ former theatre professor and mentor at Eastern Mennonite Uni-versity, celebrated the evening for another reason. After receiving the news of Pharis’ diagnosis, De Sanctis worked through her sadness by writ-ing a play, “Sarah and the Dinosaur.”
“Initially, I was full of grief, and so I thought, ‘Let me write a play about it and work out my sadness,’ ” De Sanc-tis said. “It’s a quirky, weird story where cancer shows up as a dino-saur. At times, it’s funny and unusual and heartbreaking. It’s a story of how she has to deal with this cancer that keeps following her around.”
Pharis was so inspired by De Sanc-tis’ creativity, she made the first item on her bucket list to help raise fund-ing and produce the play for others to see.
“She is a super-creative, very pow-erful woman,” Pharis said. “When she puts her mind to something, she makes it happen.”
De Sanctis worked with EMU’s theatre department, and it gave them the venue to show the play, which will open March 14.
Despite the circumstances, Pharis has chosen to move forward refusing to let her illness take over.
“Laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh,” Pharis wrote in her blog. “If you wallow too long, you will make yourself sick. You have got terminal cancer. There should be nothing stopping you from having a damn good time.”
Pharis is happy to have so many people donate help, services and funds to complete her list.
“It’s just kind of tricky when you have this terminal illness, and you don’t look sick and people do these amazing things for you,” Pharis said.
Pharis hopes to feel more alive after she reaches her goals. She’s only checked off sliding down a pole at a fire station, making her own pasta and making cherry soup.
“Bucket lists are so depress-ing,” Pharis said, “but a list of
things to accomplish before a cer-
tain age kind of puts a certain spin on it because you’re assum-ing you’ll make it to that age.”
ContACt Kelsey Nunn at [email protected].
Pharis’s list of goals to do before 35 1 Raise funding to produce
“Sarah & The Dinosaur” in March 2012
2 Participate in an act of guerrilla gardening
3 Learn to read tea leaves 4 Ride in a hot air balloon 5 Make cherry soup 6 Take a chocolate bath 7 Sleep in a castle 8 Learn to walk the tightrope 9 See Tom Jones in concert 10 Visit Greece, Easter
Island and Lourdes 11 Participate in a flash mob 12 Learn how to knit
or felt fabric 13 Write a really kick-ass punk
rock song, and perform it 14 Host an event for a charity 15 Pull a world-class
practical joke 16 Publish something 17 Get over my fear of roller
coasters 18 Drive across the country
and see the Grand Canyon 19 Learn how to shoot targets 20 Ride an elephant 21 Make my own pasta 22 Reconcile with my enemies 23 Tour Alaska and see
the Northern Lights 24 Get a tattoo 25 Live on an island
for a month 26 Slide down the pole
at a fire station 27 Take a vow of silence
for one week 28 Assist in the birth of a
human or some other large mammal
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30 Build something 31 Learn how to can
my own food 32 Send a message in a bottle 33 Write a fan letter 34 Go sailing 35 Live to be 35
PhAris | Teacher writes play in friend’s honor
Anne Danahy McClatchy Newspapers (Pennsylvania)
Pennsylvania State Univer-isty climate scientist Michael Mann’s upcoming talk at the university has been the target of a coal and gas interest group that would like the university to “disinvite” him.
On Facebook and a website, Common Sense Movement and the Secure Energy for America Political Action Com-mittee urge supporters to send letters to local newspapers crit-icizing Mann.
Mann, a professor of mete-orology, will be the speaker at
Thursday’s Penn State Forum, a series held over the lunch hour.
Mann was part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that won the Nobel Prize in 2007.
He has also been at the center of an international stir created when more than 1,000 emails that Mann and other scientists exchanged were hacked and released.
Critics of their work said the emails called their climate change science into ques-tion and are evidence of data manipulation. A Penn State panel investigated Mann’s work and cleared him of
research misconduct. Common Sense Movement’s
website includes a suggested letter asking why Penn State continues “to openly support someone who clearly has a political axe to grind with an industry that is so important to the commonwealth? Mann will once again lodge an attack on an industry that employs tens of thousands in Pennsylvania.
On Feb. 9, he will pres-ent to the Penn State Forum Speaker’s Series regarding his views on global warming, but we all know that the speech will largely be an attack on the coal industry,” the suggested
letter reads. When asked about the effort,
Common Sense Movement, which represents the coal and natural gas industries, issued a statement saying, in part that, “Regardless of the outcome of any university-led investi-gation into the legitimacy of Mann’s academic work, Penn State should carefully con-sider providing a pedestal to someone who so plainly can-not distinguish between his scientific and extreme politi-cal views.”
The emailed statement did not include the name of the group’s leader or spokesperson.
Penn State spokesman Geoff Rushton said that the university is aware of the campaign to dis-invite Mann, but has no plans to cancel the engagement.
“Penn State has a deep commitment to the First Amendment and the principles of free speech and expression,” Rushton said.
“Our role as a university is to serve as a marketplace of ideas and by allowing this talk we are protecting the civil liberties of our students, faculty and staff.”
He noted that the National Science Foundation reviewed and upheld Mann’s work in 2011, and the National
Academy of Sciences made an inquiry in 2006 that confirmed his work.
The university’s own inves-tigation found no professional standards were violated. Mann said he would encourage his detractors to go to his lecture, “The Climate Change Chal-lenge.” “
Coincidentally, my talk will cover how industry attacks on scientists pollute policy debates, whether it’s smok-ing, childhood lead exposure or my own experiences in the climate change debate,” he said in an email.
Attempt to block scientist’s lecture foiledCoal and gas interest group attempts to force Penn. State to ‘dis-invite’ scientist from speaking event
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We at SisterSpeak, JMU’s feminist literary magazine, wish to respond to the article “ ‘S--- Girls Say’ video high-lights society’s love of women jokes” in the Feb. 2 issue of The Breeze. The article challenges the “S--- Girls Say” videos and their reliance on sexist and racist stereotypes that portray women as vapid and stupid.
Although we agree with the argu-ment made by Alina Gasperino, we were disappointed by her disparaging of feminism and her implication that a feminist argument isn’t valid.
The argument was feminist, and while we don’t expect anyone to iden-tify as such, it was counterproductive to qualify her statement by denounc-ing feminism.
Feminism is not a dirty word, but rather a political ideology that all peo-ple are equal, no matter their gender, class, race or sexual orientation. Not all feminists hold the same beliefs; there is much variation within our community.
A myriad of people identify as fem-inist, and to imply that all are “raging feminists” delegitimizes our passion and erases the complexity of the move-ment. Furthermore, the use of this term diminishes the argument as a whole because Gasperino is writing against something that perpetuates stereo-types while simultaneously engaging in them.
So what’s wrong with being angry and a feminist, anyway?
Feminism combats racism, sexism, homophobia, classism, ableism and how they intersect as oppressions.
Isn’t it only natural that we would be angry about the dehumanization of individuals and their identities?
If you’re not angry, then you’re not paying attention.
sisterspeak feminist literary magazine
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This letter is in response to Lucas Wachob’s “Buy America” argument published on Monday. He said that the “Buy America” plan is inefficient and just encourages economic nationalism that has bad side effects.
Before he decides what’s good for this nation, he should start educating himself regarding our so-called trad-ing partners and their long history of nationalism.
Let’s also not forget the violation of human rights and damage to the plan-et those “cheap” imports do before they even hit our shores.
Furthermore, the foreign owned automakers have received more than $3.5 billion in subsidies from the American taxpayer so far, as well as abuse their workers overseas, accord-ing to globallabourrights.org.
Is this what you are aiming for our auto workers?
America is a nation, not a market to be sold to the highest bidder. That is, of course, unless you relish the thought of becoming an “Eloi” person and being at the mercy of the world’s industrial “Morlocks.”
After all, in “The Time Machine,” H.G. Well’s time traveler thought at first glance that the “Eloi” people were the intelligent ones who outsourced their sustenance for their own com-fort and leisure.
The “devouring” of our industries and future independence is not much different.
In fact, James Madison himself said in his Special Message to Con-gress on the Treaty of Ghent (Feb. 18, 1815): “But there is no subject that can enter with greater force and merit into the deliberations of Congress than a consideration of the means to pre-serve and promote the manufactures which have sprung into existence and attained an unparalleled maturity throughout the United States during the period of the European wars.
“This source of national inde-pendence and wealth I anxiously recommend, therefore, to the prompt and constant guardianship of Congress.”
Barbara toncheff‘Buy American’ activist,
Host of The Buy American Radio Show
Losing to black JAC
While we appreciate The Breeze’s Jan. 30 article on faculty salaries, we take exception to the implication that the Commonwealth of Virginia alone is responsible for faculty salary increases. The University, too, has a responsibility here, but the administration has failed to meet that responsibility. Over the past four years, the administration has found plenty of money for new stadiums, manicured lawns and robust salary increases for some of our upper administrators. It has failed to offer the faculty any kind of salary increase whatsoever.
The amount of money, to some degree, is not the issue. For example, the University might have offered all faculty a token raise of $100 to show its appreciation for the commit-ment the faculty have to this institution. The University might have offered $500 raises to tenured professors, who after years of dedi-cation to this institution find their salaries barely higher than brand-new hires (and as The Breeze’s article indicates, in some cases those salaries are actually lower than the new, less-experienced faculty). Raises like these might not amount to much financially, but they would send the faculty an important message: The administration knows there is a problem and is trying to fix it, precisely because it respects the faculty.
But frankly, token raises are not enough, and if the University continues to rely on the state to adjust faculty salaries, then things will only get worse. Even in good budget years, faculty raises from the state rarely exceed 3 percent. Over the past four years faculty have in effect taken a pay cut, since the cost of living — including health insurance premi-ums, putting food on the table, and so forth — continues to go up. Faculty have no reason to believe the state will ever offer raises that make up for these years of effective pay cuts.
That means, too, that most JMU faculty will find it increasingly difficult to send their children to JMU, since JMU tuition contin-ues to increase annually. In case you didn’t
know, faculty at JMU do not receive any dis-count on tuition for their kids.
More, the University is deluding itself if it thinks that the problem has not yet grown acute. The fact that faculty are taking time to write about the low salaries and salary com-pression is proof that faculty are distracted by the issue, that they’re spending time and men-tal energy thinking and brooding about it.
It also makes faculty far less willing to give money, or volunteer time, to the Universi-ty. And let there be no mistake: The world of academia is a small one. Faculty at JMU talk to faculty at other institutions and the word is out. JMU does not pay its faculty competitive salaries and shows no inclination to change that practice any time soon. We have already lost a number of excellent faculty members to other institutions because of this, and more are sure to follow.
As we see it, on this issue there has been a lack of leadership at the University. The Uni-versity has an enormous budget and spends money in all kinds of ways. It establishes priori-ties and makes financial commitments. Over the past few years it might have committed new revenues from tuition increases to fix the salary problem. By ignoring the salary issue,
and putting the onus entirely on the common-wealth legislature to solve the problem, it sends the message that the issue is not a priority at JMU. Above all else, it tells the faculty, particu-larly those of us who have committed years of our lives to our students, that our efforts are not valued.
Charles Bolyard, associate professor, department of philosophy and religion
Kevin Borg, associate professor, department of history
stephen Chappell, assistant professor, department of history
ronn daniel, associate professor, school of art design & art history
Carl droms, professor, department of mathematics
h. michael Gelfand, assistant professor, department of history
scott hammond, professor, department of political science
Kevin hardwick, associate professor, department of history
William Knorpp, associate professor, department of philosophy and religion
mary louise loe, professor, department of history
howard lubert, professor, department of political science
iain maclean, professor, department of philosophy and religion
Jack mcCaslin, professor, school of art design & art history
Kristen mcCleary, assistant professor, department of history
William o’meara, professor, department of philosophy and religion
Jason rosenhouse, associate professor, department of mathematics
steven reich, associate professor, department of history
mary slade, professor, college of education
Valerie sulfaro, professor, department of political science
Underpaid, overworked FaCulty | guest columnists
Professor salary raise long overdue; University has power, money to make changes
A “you-put-u.Va.-to-shame” pat to all the students in East Campus Library late at night.
From an employee who admires your studiousness and appreciates that you’re nice when she has to tell you to leave at 2 a.m.
A “why-thank-you-kind-citizen” pat to the person leaving extra change in the vending machine slots in Wilson Hall.
From a staff member who discovered extra change after purchasing her diet Dr. Pepper and will definitely pay it forward — literally.
A “you-know-you’re-not-in-high-school-anymore-right?” dart to the extremely mean girls who sit behind me in GHIST 225 for making fun of girls in their hall.
From a senior who thinks that if you absolutely have to vent, you should consider putting it in the burn book.
A “thanks-for-the-great-timing” pat to the Harrisonburg traffic lights for being green all the way home.
From the girl whose brakes went out going down Port Republic Road.
A “you-warm-up-my-morning” pat to the Route 9 bus driver who’s been blasting the heat on these cold mornings.
From a University Fields girl who appreciates your southern charm and wouldn’t make it to class without you.
A “what-are you-blind?” dart to the girl who obviously doesn’t have taste in UREC instructors.
From a girl who knows the Zumba instructor at UREC is way better. Just saying.
A “cussing-doesn’t-make-you-cool” dart to the guy on the bus screaming four letter words.
From a guy who thinks you’re a f---ing tool.
A “have-faith-it’ll-get-better” pat to the guy at Starbucks with an ill family member.
From a girl who apologizes for listening in, but sends you her prayers.
A “thanks-for-making-me-feel-close-to-home” pat to the students who nod, smile and wave to me on days I wear my New England apparel.
From a brave Patriot.
A “love-the-police” pat to the four Harrisonburg Police officers who spent their Sunday night in a sewer rescuing our pet Samson.
From the desperate cat ladies of Forest Hill Manor.
A “you-expect-me-to-remember-logarithms?” dart to my GenEd math professor.
From a senior who hasn’t taken a math class in four years and can barely remember her multiplication tables, much less trigonometry.
A “thanks-for-the-entertainment” pat to the guy next to me who sporadically breaks out into song during class.
From someone who would fall asleep without you.
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Disney probably needs a little bit of magic to con-vince girls not to idolize princesses.
The company stopped production on all fairy tales and princess movies at the end of 2010.
“Films and genres do run a course,” said Ed Catmull, who oversees Disney Anima-tion, in an interview with The Los Angeles Times.
Some groups like the New Internationalists, along with parents, also criticized Dis-ney’s female stereotype that every girl needs a Prince Charming — and Disney reacted to the comments. Its last official fairy tale was “Tangled,” which came out in November 2010.
But the stop to the fairy tales didn’t last long. The corporation just released a movie about a preschool-aged princess, “Sofia the First,” to try to have a more age appropriate role model.
While I agree it’s ludicrous that every girl should quan-tify her success by a man, taking away Disney princess-es isn’t necessarily the best way to tackle the problem.
If a girl wants to wait for a boy to come and save her, that’s her choice. But claim-ing that girls feel compelled to do so because of a child-hood movie puts too much power in the media.
It’s been since the 1930s that society and communi-cation scholars accepted the Hypodermic Needle The-ory — that is, the power of media to directly influence our behaviors.
I grew up watching the Disney princesses, and I still love every one of them. But somehow I escaped the pow-erful trap of believing that I should sit in my room — or castle — and wait for some guy to sweep me off my feet.
I don’t have any disillusion-ment about that. Sure, it would be awesome to have some wealthy and handsome guy magically appear in my life. What woman doesn’t want that?
But even as a kid, I realized movies are just fun stories, and that there’s so much more to life than happily ever after. The responsibil-ity falls less on the content of the movies and more on the lessons parents should be teaching kids.
Every girl I know has seen at least one Disney princess movie, yet none of them are waiting for a Prince Charm-ing to show up.
If I were to analyze every flaw in the portrayal of women in Disney movies, of course I’d find a lot. As it turns out, mice can’t actu-ally sing and sew. But no one, including little girls, are going to notice the inac-curacies over the songs and dances.
I was too busy enjoying the mice that put Cinder-ella’s dress together to pick up on subtle nuances like the fact that her waist is
unrealistically skinny. There’s so much more to
princess movies than just finding a prince. I remember learning to accept peo-ple for who they are when Snow White became friends with all Seven Dwarfs. I remember Mulan fighting on behalf of her family. I remember Cinderella defy-ing all odds and improving her life — even if she had a little help from magic. And most of all, I remember all the movies have really great soundtracks, and I still sing the songs today.
Sure, each movie has an underlying message of unrealistic romance, but our society conveys the same idea. We even created a holiday that specifically promotes relationships: Val-entine’s Day.
It’s wrong for people to blame Disney for creat-ing a negative perception that every person needs to be in a relationship, but it’s somehow OK to celebrate Valentine’s Day starting in elementary school.
I think society has much more to worry about than preschoolers looking up to a princess as a role model. There’s nothing wrong with letting a girl pretend she’s a princess.
I used to pretend to be a princess. I also pretended to be a Spice Girl, a dolphin trainer, a lion from “Lion King” and a cop.
Of course I got those influences from the media, but that doesn’t mean that I still hold the belief that I can grow up to be a lion.
Sara Woznicki is a junior media arts & design and communication studies double major. Contact Sara at [email protected].
In defense of Disney princesses
SArA woznicki | guest columnist
Loving fairy tales doesn’t mean you believe in them
I grew up watching the Disney princesses, and I still love every one of them. But somehow I escaped the powerful trap of believing that I should sit in my room — or castle — and wait for some guy to sweep me off my feet.
As it turns out, the “Harry Potter” saga isn’t over.
Despite the film series end-ing last summer with the final movie, “Harry Potter” came back into the news when Daniel Radcliffe told Britain’s Heat Magazine on Jan. 31 that he acted on screen while drunk. Since that announce-ment, the issue has spiraled out of control, creating con-troversy in the news.
Apparently the Boy Who Lived had much more acting talent than originally thought. And consumed too much “butterbeer.” Some don’t mind his decisions; others are wor-ried about the effects on his fans.
I side with the latter argu-ment. I understand he’s a regular person entitled to make his own decisons, but the comment wasn’t neces-sary in the first place. I’m not sure why he even told inter-viewers about his drinking habits. Since the series is over, Radcliffe assumedly believed leaking his acting secret wouldn’t be harmful.
But nothing good could’ve possibly come from such an announcement. Because he’ll always be remem-bered for and associated with “Harry Potter” for the rest of his life, he constantly needs to have his behaviors in check.
In reality, “Harry Potter” is a series for all ages, especial-ly teens and children, and his
comments will affect his fol-lowers. It wouldn’t be crazy to assume he’s a role model.
While this may be an unfair standard for him, Radcliffe is in the public eye, and he’ll be there the rest of his life. He’s associated with one of the most influential characters in one of the most popular film series of our generation.
T h e d a n g e r i n t h i s announcement is the pos-sible influence it has on teenagers. If kids really look up to him, they might come to believe that drink-ing alcohol must be cool if their favorite movie charac-ter does it.
Radcliffe attempted to explain his behavior by say-ing he has “an addictive personality” that makes him easily susceptible to harmful substances, according to Us Magazine.
But he should’ve made preparations and precau-tions to make sure his
addiction didn’t influence his job.
Someone should have noticed some type of change in his demeanor at times and should have put a stop to it. The production studio should also be held account-able for this issue.
If it knew about this, should have halted produc-tion until Radcliffe solved his problem. It’s in poor taste to have it known that the face of your movie franchise showed up drunk on set.
Parents already questioned Racliffe’s role model status when he decided to use his fame from “Harry Potter” to take part in “Equus,” a show where he was not only com-pletely nude on stage, but was also in a sex scene. As an adult, he has every right to further his acting career, but he should needs to take into account the kids he can influence.
While this may be an unfair standard for him, Radcliffe is in the public eye, and he’ll be there the rest of his life. He’s associated with one of the most influential characters in one of the most popular film series of our generation. This means making sure he’s being the best role model he can be.
Lewis Creech is a freshman media arts & design declared major. Contact Lewis at [email protected].
The boy who can’t live it down
Radcliffe must consider role model status in handling addiction
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“Key and Peele,” Comedy Central’s newest sketch show, is one that intermingles elements, reflecting stars Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele’s biracial heritage. It’s an equal parts silly and smart show that’s as likely to touch on race relations and politics as it is on the language of reality show eliminations. Each episode melds a series of sketches with stand-up interludes. In a conference call, Key and Peele discussed their influences, creative process and why they think teenagers should avoid marijuana.
Why do you think that college students will like your show? Keegan-Michael Key I hope that the college students will comprehend the show. We’re writing material to get people to look at things in a new and different way. What we’re doing is trying to write comedy for a 21st century world. Comedy should be really exciting for you. Jordan Peele Also, Lil’ Wayne’s in it. KK Yay! When you guys look for material, what are you
looking for?
KK It’s biographical, really. A lot of it comes from where we see the world as African Americans, the way that we see the world as biracial Americans — everyone has a filter that they see the world through, but Jordan and I have a very similar one which is why we wanted to work together in the first place. I would say 50 percent of those segments are based on experiences we’ve had or stories we’ve told each other. JP Our training is in improv
comedy and sketch comedy but neither of us have done much stand-up, so this was a great challenge for this. KK In the sketches, a lot of the material may not literally be something from our lives, but is inspired by something from our lives or how we personally view the world.
What makes your show different from ‘Madtv’ or ‘Saturday Night Live?’ KK The biggest difference is that our show isn’t based on huge characters. Whether or not they reoccur is something that we are really leaving up to the audience. We did not design this show to have tons and tons of recurring characters or broad characters. We are more in the vein of “Mr. Show.” We hope that people will tune in to see funny scenes, and if there happens to be characters that you fall in love with, that’s great. JP It is a very fair comparison to compare us to those shows, but there are more shows that we are attempting to be the updated version of. Combination of “SNL,” “MADtv” “Chappelle’s Show,” “The State,” “Monty Python” — we tried to take all the parts that
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By JohNathaN RiveRacontributing writer
Indie rock might be mostly a man’s world, but Sharon Van Etten is doing her best to show that the field is nothing without a woman’s heart.
So in the male-dominated field of depressing indie rock, it’s refreshing to see a woman stepping into the crowded genre. Van Etten’s recently released “Tramp” provides a female perspective on isolation and suffering.
“Tramp,” Van Etten’s third studio album was produced by The National’s Aaron Dessner and the album is heavily influenced by the band’s brooding style of indie rock. With her last album, “Epic,” Etten has set high standards for her music. But her music has stayed constant since then, which is both good and bad.
At 46 minutes, “Tramp” is packed with sorrowful, personal substance. Each song has a great amount of emotion, but the album’s downfall is that each track sounds the same, which can cause listeners to quickly lose interest.
The album’s biggest strength is Van Etten’s vocals and lyrics, giving the album a haunting and poetic atmosphere.
The best track from the album is “Leonard’s,” which puts Van Etten’s strong vocals at the forefront. The
singer’s technical ability dazzles as she demonstrates her ability to hit long notes and high pitches. Breathtaking and gentle, Van Etten has a voice that’s distant but welcoming.
And let’s not forget about the lyrics, setting the album’s dark tone along with the slow, heavy instrumentals. For example, in “Magic Chords,” Van Etten powerfully sings, “You got to lose sometimes.”
What about the rest of the tracks? Well, if you’ve listened to one, you’ve basically listened to most of them. Each track starts off the same. Patience is key when listening to this album, since Van Etten’s mourning voice can get tiring — it’s just way too depressing.
Yes, the album gets boring, too slow and stale. But moments on it achieve on an emotional level: The lyrics and Van Etten’s vocals matter the most. “Tramp” is beautiful but complicated; music both heartbreaking and heartfelt.
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Pop-punk act The Ataris transports audience to teenage yearsBy MeaghaN MacdoNaLdThe Breeze
The word “Atari” has different nostalgic meanings for different generations. But for those who were teenagers in the ’70s, it was a breakthrough gaming system that shaped their social lives and leisure time. For those who were teens in 2003, it symbolizes pop-punk rock and summer anthems.
The crowd of 20-somethings in the Blue Nile basement on Tuesday night may have been eclectic in style, background and opinions, but they were all present for one common reason: to see The Ataris perform.
Punk rockers and preps alike crowded around the tiny stage to belt out the lyrics to songs that defined and impacted their teenage years.
“The response for the shows have been incredible,” said Ataris lead singer Kris Roe. “I think taking some time off and getting away makes people get excited more and makes them appreciate it more.”
Recently, the band has run into a minor obstacle, as their original drummer abruptly left the tour. Rob Felicetti, a former guitar player for the band, was recruited last minute
to fill the vacancy. “Two days ago, Kris called me
and was like, ‘We need you to play drums’,” Felicetti said. “I learned the songs, gave it a shot, and we met up at a hotel room, practiced it real quick and was like, ‘Let’s do this.’ This is our second show, and I think it was all right.”
The band had taken about a year off to concentrate on personal projects. During this time, Roe focused on his solo career, producing and promoting his own acoustic album.
The Ataris’ mass popularity began in 2003 when they released the album, “So Long, Astoria.” Their first single, “In This Diary” is a carpe-diem anthem for the young, declaring that growing up will produce some of the best days of our lives.
Roe is the primary songwriter for the band and writes a majority of the songs about his personal life and struggles.
“We were going with this second single called ‘My Reply,’ which is really personal about a girl who had written us a letter from Australia saying she had gone through some problems in her life,” Roe said. “She had gone in and out of the hospital,
and my song was literally verbatim my reply to her letters.”
Even the cover of Don Henley’s “Boys of Summer” — one of Ataris’
biggest hits — means something to Roe. The song was recorded as a tribute to his grandmother, who was a strong parent figure in his life after
his parents got divorced. Because the song has sentimental value, Roe doesn’t perform it often.
“We don’t play it all the time,” Roe
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Tucked away in the corner pocket of TDU, the new Billiards Club has got its eye on the competition.
Although it’s been in the making for a few years, the club became official at the end of last semester.
“It started my freshman year when I started coming to the monthly tournaments Mad 4 U held in TDU,” said Jon Combs, a senior SMAD major and club president. “I found out that I was pretty decent at it. Pool was something to do in between classes to kill time, but after a while it became about more than just that.”
The club decided to become official when Mad 4 U stopped funding trips to the Asso-ciation of College Unions International’s Regional Tournament last semester. The ACUI hosts schools from Virginia and Tennessee to compete in recreational and leisure activities.
When funding ceased, Combs and co-founder Rachny Soun decided to make it official.
As a club, it can continue to go to the ACUI Regional Tournaments, representing JMU. The
club also took over hosting the monthly tour-naments in TDU, held on the last Saturday of every month and have weekly practices every Tuesday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
“You don’t have to be good,” Combs said. “You can be terrible. We’re showing people how to hold a cue stick tonight. We welcome that. We want to bring more people together. The club is more than just playing billiards. It has a social aspect to it, too.”
The club had a table at this semester’s Stu-dent Organization Night, and has brought in a lot of new members.
“This club brought back past memories,” said Sim Conley, a freshman SMAD-declared major. “My grandfather had a pool table in his house, and I grew up playing with members of my family.”
Although the club is also about socializing and having fun, it can get pretty competitive. Along with the ACUI Tournament, which was held last weekend at Virginia Tech, there’s also a tournament at Radford in the first weekend of April.
The club plans to participate in other
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Billiards Club racks up both experienced, novice members, allowing aspiring pool sharks to play against other schools
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Despite a year off, The Ataris packed a crowd into Blue Nile Tuesday night for a nostalgia-fueled concert sprinked with hits.
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delighted us and use them. We aren’t trying to be cool. We’re trying to be fun. If you look at the beginning of most sketch shows, there is always this super cool hipster vibe. We realize that we’re nerds, and our goal in life is to get the laugh.
How would lil’ Wayne and Obama feel about your impersonations of them? JP Lil’ Wayne is in his own world, drinking his sizzurp and freestyling. KK I think Jordan has every single one of his albums. I would imagine, that if nothing else, he would have a great sense of humor. JP I doubt it. If Obama saw and liked it, I’d imagine he couldn’t really allow himself to like it. He has to stay in his zone. Any endorsement would be like him saying the stuff that he can’t say. KK It would have to be real discrete. They’ll send in SEAL Team 6 to pick up
me and Jordan and fly us covertly to the White House. And he’ll thank us and you’ll never know about it. The first episode had a skit about marijuana. What can you say about the move toward legalization? JP I lived in Amsterdam for three years. KK That should answer your question right there. JP I’m a huge fan of marijuana. But one of the first things that people need to know about marijuana is that teenagers can put it off for a while. It’s not until you’re 20 or so that it’s OK to start smoking. When that happens you’ll have fun. It is a powerful, powerful drug that can be used for a whole lot of good. I really vehemently support it for medical use.
is there anything right now that you would like to do comedy about?
JP Because of the schedule, it does dictate what we choose. Stuff that is a story one week we have to recognize what will be fresh when it comes out. You have to predict where the zeitgeist is heading. Choose things a bit broader or more specific that only you could do.
I would love to do a sketch about “The Grey.” It has Liam Neeson, and somehow he has to get revenge against that last wolf. KK All of the sudden that’s his job — he does revenge movies. When did he become that guy? And who was the last guy to do it? But we wouldn’t just do it on “The Grey.” Jordan is really good at noticing patterns, and it gives us something to write about it. We would do something about how that’s his role in cinema. And who knows, by the time a second season comes out, he might have another movie out. Trying to predict trends is the exciting part.
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unoff icial tournaments throughout the semester by traveling to other schools and playing against their team.
“There is a level of playing you take yourself to when you compete,” Combs said. “I find that fun, to be serious and want to win a game.”
Rachny Soun, a junior engi-neering major and one of the co-founders of the club, enjoys the competitive aspect as well.
“It’s actually really fun to see all of the good players in the region,” Soun said.
At tournaments, play-ers draw a name at random to decide who they will play against first. The player then goes on throughout the tour-nament in a bracket system to find the ultimate winner. If a player loses two games, they’re out of the tournament.
“Tech is my favorite team to play against because they beat us the worst,” Combs said. “But getting beat means I’m learn-ing something from watching the other competitor.”
By learning from one another and other teams, the club hopes to be able to bring home some tro-phies in the years to come.
cOnTacT Beth Wertz at [email protected].
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like as long as I play it on my terms by playing it when I feel it, it’s cool. We play it like 60-to-70 percent of the time.”
Music as a whole has played a huge role in Roe’s life and the way he performs and what he writes.
“I want to feel like everything I do, I put my heart in it 100 percent,” Roe said. “I want to sing the songs that still mean something to me.”
In the middle of the set, The Ataris performed a cover song by the ’80s punk band The Replacements. Classic punk rock music is a heavy influence for Roe and brings up nostalgia of his own.
“I’m 35,” he said. “When you’re 13 and you first discover The Replacements or The Ramones or The Clash, it means to you and you find inspiration in those things at 35 that are new but it doesn’t mean the same to you as it did when you first put that needle on the record and be like, ‘Oh my God, it changed my life.’ ”
After five years, The Ataris are finally ready to release their third studio album, “The Graveyard of the Atlantic.” Roe said the foundation of the album will be more organic rock songs, folkier and more singer-songwriter.
“All the songs are more personal like ‘So Long Astoria’ was,” he said
The Ataris have gone through about 16 different members, changed their sound and have changed labels. Despite the rough patches, the band has been able to live on for 17 years and focus on its fans.
“We see people singing along to those songs, and it captures the spirit of what this band is about,” Roe said. “You know, trying to write strong personal stories of things I’ve gone through in life, and hopefully people can relate to it, and if they don’t, you know at least they come out and have a good time.”
cOnTacT Meaghan MacDonald at [email protected].
aTaris | Third album released
Jordan Peele (left) impersonates President Barack Obama while Keegan-Michael Key plays “Luther,” who lashes out at Obama’s critics. The video has 2.5 million views on YouTube.
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Ryan Carter, a junior ISAT major and Billiards Club member eyes the perfect shot. The club hosts tournaments in TDU once a month.
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In my nearly three full years at JMU, I’ve been to more than enough basketball games to notice a rather familiar pattern. Player brings the ball up the court, makes a beeline for the arc and hoists a three-point shot with around 29 seconds left on the shot clock.
The Dukes might take around 10 shots like this on an average night
and make about two or three. It’s always a crowd-pleaser, but to the savvy basketball fan, a quick three-point shot is generally known
by its less technical term: “totally wasted possession.”
This is not an indictment of JMU basketball. It’s not an indictment of coach Matt Brady, his players or his staff. If anything, they are the victims. No, this problem stretches far beyond the boundaries of the Convocation Center on a given Wednesday night or Saturday afternoon. This is an indictment of what has happened to college basketball.
Don’t get me wrong. I love the three ball. Come tournament time, the long shot creates a thrill you can’t find in any other sport. In many ways, it’s the great equalizer, allowing teams that may not have the talent of the Kentuckys and Kansases of the world to compete at a more equal level. Not every team can have a DeMarcus Cousins force in the paint, right? They don’t make enough of them in the basketball player factory to go around.
That’s fine. Go out and recruit some shooters. You’ll hang in just fine.
Time for a history lesson. The 1987 NCAA tournament featured the first postseason of the three in college basketball. Rick Pitino’s Providence College squad made it all the way to the final four that year, and it did it largely on the back of the three-point shot. This is the team that made the three “sexy,” so direct all of your thank-yous (or hate mail) to Pitino’s current address in Louisville, Ky.
But you don’t need to go back 25 years to find a team that made a final four run by outshooting every team they played. Look no further back than last year’s Virginia Commonwealth squad, who hit 9 of their 12 first half attempts from behind the arc in their regional final against Kansas University. That’s pretty much how the tournament went for the 2011 Rams, now the favorite sons of Richmond.
From now on, for better or for worse, wannabe Cinderellas will try to follow the model VCU has set forth. Get hot at the end of the season, shoot the ball like madmen and upset the blueblood programs of college hoops. Ahh, if only it were that simple. Now, if every school shot the ball like the 1987 Providence and 2011 VCU teams did, I probably wouldn’t be writing this right now. Shooting 12 threes in one half is kind of understandable when your team is shooting 75 percent from three-point land. Unfortunately, that’s the exception and not the rule. For every game I’ve seen where a team is shooting phenomenally, I’ve probably seen a hundred more of a team making maybe two or three out of 12. When the University of Kentucky was knocked out of the tournament in the regional finals two years ago, it shot four of 32 from behind the arc and missed its first 19 attempts. That’s the kind of shooting speechless press conferences are made of.
For all the drama the arc might bring, what it really stands for is laziness. For today’s college basketball players, the temptation to be a hero and drain that sexy transition three-pointer is way too high. Instead of setting up an offense, players go straight for the kill shot — or so they think. The real kill shot would be to take the time to set up a play, work in screens and take a high percentage shot. If that happens to be from behind the arc, so be it. But at least get there the honorable way.
If you’re doing the math at home, this season marks the 25th season with the three-point line. If players really want to get her an anniversary present, they can stop throwing up shots and start making passes. Less is more.
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Wasted possessionThree-point shot may look good, be useless
By EmmiE clEvElandThe Breeze
The bathroom was uncomfortable for two.
Natalie Abel lifted her shirt and revealed her bare stomach to the Uni-versity Health Center nurse to ensure she didn’t have tubes that would enable her to cheat the system.
She pulled her pants down below her knees and urinated in the small, plastic cup with her name on the label.
She was drowsy. It was 6:30 a.m., and her team’s athletic trainer had advised against drinking coffee that morning.
Abel — a senior volleyball player — could have failed her student-athlete drug test because of excess caffeine, as can any other student-athlete.
There are two categories of drug test-ing: those that check for street drugs and those that check for performance-enhancing substances.
Within the latter category, false positives like excessive caffeine, some over-the-counter drugs such as Sudafed and Midol and certain vitaminwaters flavors can also show up.
“If I were to wake up that morning and [drink a lot of coffee], that would make me fail a drug test, and I might lose my scholarship,” Abel said. “That’s absurd.”
About four cups of coffee can push a student-athlete to fail a drug test, and two vitaminwater flavors are banned because of excess caffeine. Sudafed tests positive for banned ephedrine, which has been ruled to give student-athletes an unfair advantage. Midol is a diuretic, which can be used as a masking agent.
“I think the tests are pretty fair, although it’s a little ridiculous to fail a drug test due to a sports drink,” said junior non-athlete Jessica Hing. “The athletes do need to be tested … but the tests should indicate why an athlete may or may not have passed a test.”
Non-prescribed Adderall and Rit-alin, which treat ADHD, are among the most frequently seen banned sub-stances, according to Tom Kuster, assistant athletic director of sports medicine. Exceptions for prescribed medication can be made, provided there’s been formal testing and sufficient
documentation. Each university team holds a meet-
ing in August with a member of the sports medicine department to go over drug-testing policies. The staff urges student-athletes to get any supplements or medicine from the department to ensure compliance.
“Any of the medications that they get, hopefully they’re getting from our department,” Kuster said. “But we know that sometimes they’re just going to go to CVS on their own and buy whatever they want, not really thinking about it. But before they take anything, if they buy it themselves, we ask them to come check in and get it checked out by us.”
According to Kuster, no one at JMU has been suspended for failing a drug test for a milder substance, such as caf-feine or decongestants. But if it were to happen, the punishment would be the same for harsher substances.
That being said, JMU tends to test more often for street drugs. All JMU stu-dent-athletes are subject to year-round drug testing, done either by the NCAA or the university.
JMU’s program is based more on edu-cation than punishment. In contrast, the NCAA’s program imposes harsher
penalties immediately, though this test-ing is more rare. Representatives roam from school to school throughout the country, posing only the possibility of landing at JMU. The last known JMU athlete to fail an NCAA drug test was in 2009, when then-defensive lineman J.D. Skolnitsky failed an NCAA-mandat-ed test and declared ineligible for the remainder of the season. He also had to fill out paperwork making him ineli-gible for the NFL draft.
Although NCAA appearances are rare, the testing procedure is the same. The health center sends the sample to the National Center for Drug-Free Sport in Kansas City.
“After you’ve given your sample, no news is good news,” Abel said. “They don’t email you and tell you that you passed. They only email you if there’s a problem.”
Junior soccer player Paul Wyatt firmly supports the drug-testing policy.
“When you become an athlete,m you relinquish any right that you may have had to partake in a behavior that will tarnish the reputation of a program, school or any other person,” Wyatt said.
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Sports drinks, over-the-counter pills can make student-athletes fail drug test
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dukes battle drexelRedshirt junior guard A.J. Davis has combined
with senior Humpty Hitchens for a majority of the Dukes’ points each game. Saturday, Davis scored a career-high 30 points against Delaware, but dropped an 85-80 loss to the Blue Hens. Davis shot four of seven from 3-point range and made six of his seven free throws.
Hitchens has also been a key to helping the Dukes put points on the board, having 17 against Delaware.
Going into last night’s game, Drexel was on an 11-game win streak and tied for first in the Colonial Athletic Association. The only other teams with 11 conference wins are Virginia Commonwealth and George Mason.
Drexel has also beat each opponent in its last 11 games by six points or more, reaching a high of a 33-point victory over Towson.
JMU is on a streak of its own, currently losing the last four of its games, three of those being conference losses. JMU was ninth in the CAA with a 3-10 record before last night’s game. The Dukes have four CAA games remaining after today. The first round of the CAA championship begins March 2.
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North Carolina sophomore forward Harrison Barnes prac-ticed somewhere between 20 and 25 minutes on Monday while he attempted to recov-er from a sprained ankle he suffered last week and re-injured on Saturday during the Tar Heels’ 83-74 victory at Maryland.
But for anyone doubting whether Barnes might play on Wednesday when No. 5 UNC hosts No. 10 Duke, he had a message: “My ankle’s great and I’ll be ready to go against Duke,” Barnes said Monday night during a guest appear-ance on Roy Williams’ radio
show.Barnes suffered a sprained
left ankle during the Tar Heels’ 68-53 victory at Wake Forest Jan. 31. He said he felt about 60 percent healthy entering the Maryland game on Saturday, but he finished with 18 points and made two important shots during the second half.
“I think he showed some big-time toughness,” Williams said.
Barnes’ three-pointer from the left side gave UNC the lead for good with about nine min-utes to play on Saturday. Then Barnes made a jumper with about a minute to play that stretched the Heels’ lead to six.
Barnes said he experienced considerable pain during the
game against Maryland, and said it felt like he’d been shot in the ankle. Even so, he was in better shape following the vic-tory at Maryland than he was after the Heels’ victory at Wake Forest.
“He had less swelling and less pain after the (Mary-land) game than he did after the Wake Forest game,” Wil-liams said.
Still, Williams was cautious with Barnes during practice on Monday. UNC practiced for about an hour, Williams said, and Barnes worked for less than half of that time. Even so, Barnes spoke with confidence that he’d be ready to play on Wednesday.
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Texas picked the perfect time to pick up its first road victo-ry of the season against a Big 12 opponent. As well as its first triumph of the season in a game decided by six points or fewer.
The Longhorns left a lasting impression on rival Texas A&M in the last scheduled men’s basketball game between the longtime rivals, walking out of Reed Arena with a 70-68 vic-tory on Monday night.
The victory was Texas’ first on the road since Dec. 3 against UCLA. But more important, it allowed the Longhorns to silence a loud Aggies crowd — much like the football team did on Thanksgiving night — in a high-profile Goodbye Game in College Station.
The victory gave the Long-horns a 3-0 edge in scheduled football and men’s basketball games between the schools during the 2011-12 school year, A&M’s final season as a Big 12 member. And none are left on the schedule before the Aggies head to the Southeastern
Conference in July.It remains possible that
the longtime rivals could cross paths again at the Big 12 postseason tournament. Or possibly in the NIT, which seems a more likely destina-tion for both teams than the NCAA Tournament.
But there is nothing definite on the docket, which means Texas guard J’Covan Brown could remain a hero for a long time in the estimation of Long-horns fans who watched him pour in 20 points and dish out seven assists during Monday’s contest — the 222nd career meeting between the schools.
Brown proved pivotal down the stretch in helping Texas erase its lone second-half defi-cit: a 67-66 A&M lead with 1:03 remaining. Brown responded with a driving layup on Texas’ next possession, then added a pair of free throws with 17.7 seconds remaining to extend the lead to 70-67. Brown did most of his damage from 3-point range, hitting four of four shots from beyond the arc to help Texas improve its record to 1-7 this season in games decided by six points
or fewer.The Longhorns definitely
caught the Aggies on a good night for a road victory. A&M played without two start-ers, forward Khris Middleton (knee) and point guard Dash Harris (foot), because of injuries. It marked the fifth consecutive game for Middle-ton to miss and the fourth for Harris. Both are expected back for Saturday’s game at Iowa State, A&M coach Billy Ken-nedy said.
But none of that mattered against the Longhorns, who turned up the defensive pres-sure on the A&M backcourt to force some timely turnovers. Freshman Sheldon McClellan added 15 points, 13 of them in the first half, with fellow fresh-man Jaylen Bond contributing a game-high eight rebounds.
Unlike in Austin, when the teams met Jan. 11 while school was not in session and the student crowd was mini-mal, the atmosphere Monday was lively despite the lack of a sellout. The announced crowd of 9,792 was A&M’s largest of the season but still well below capacity (12,989).
The SEC issue surfaced dur-ing a first-half infomercial that proclaimed: “New Conference. New Coach. The same 12th Man.” That triggered chants of “SEC! SEC!”
The crowd also responded to Denver Broncos lineback-er Von Miller, a former A&M standout and the 2011 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year, who attended the contest. During a second-half inter-view with ESPN, Miller said he would miss the recurring matchups with Texas because, “That rivalry was something special. Not only to Texas, but to America. It would be good to get it back.”
Other than the occasional nostalgic thought, Monday was mostly about basketball. And the bigger question for both teams is whether either school can get on a strong enough run to extend its streak of consecu-tive appearances in the NCAA Tournament (13 for Texas; six for A&M).
Without Harris in the mix, the Aggies (12-11, 3-8 in Big 12) have struggled against pressure defenses.
“Once they ... start pressing
us, we wear down,” Kennedy said. “Then you have a lapse for two or three minutes. And that’s all it takes against a good team.”
A more consistent, full-game effort is essential, Kennedy said, if the Aggies are to turn things around and reach post-season play.
For Texas (15-9, 5-6), the sea-son-long issue has been getting a freshman-laden roster to step up with big plays during crunch time.
“We’ve been knocking at the door,” Texas assistant coach Rob Lanier said.
“When you’re that close, you start to feel like, eventual-ly, there will be a breakthrough ... We’re certainly encouraged by the efforts that these young guys have made and the fact they’ve remained connected through some adversity.”
Texas finally worked through enough adversity Monday to win a close game during crunch time. On the road. In the final scheduled game against A&M.
From a Texas perspective, the timing could not have been better for such a breakthrough.
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Longhorns pull out impressive road win against their longtime rivals that are set to leave SEC next year
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“You cannot be considered an athlete if you really believe that taking drugs is necessary in college. It is irresponsible and disrespectful to those who recruited you, coach you, depend on you, trust you and pay for you to get through col-lege. It not only breaks down trust within a team but also has a direct effect on performance.”
Sizing up: how JMU compares to other universities’ drug-testing programs
The NCAA doesn’t require universities to have their own drug-screening programs.
“Some schools do their own drug testing like we do. Other schools don’t,” Kuster said. “And there’s all different kinds of reasons why some do and some don’t. Financially, it’s an expense … Other schools may not want to know. So it’s a phi-losophy type of thing.”
JMU began its own drug-screening program in 2003.
“I think that if other schools aren’t doing it, but we are, that makes us look better,” said junior Ben Buccola, non-athlete
and JMU sports fan. “It says that we put that as something we care about — that it’s impor-tant to us.”
Junior cross-country run-ner Katie Gorman stresses the favorable facets of the JMU drug-testing program.
“JMU has a better approach, because it focuses on life-style changes instead of punishment,” Gorman said. “It
promotes the health perspective and might change athletes’ per-spective on drug use in general, inside and outside of training.”
Although there are no stan-dards or requirements for university drug-screening implemented by the NCAA or the Colonial Athletic Asso-ciation, JMU’s drug-screening program is typical in com-parison to its conference counterparts.
George Mason’s drug-test-ing program is similar to JMU’s, diverging mainly by suspending student-athletes for only 20 per-cent of the season as opposed to JMU’s 50.
Similarly, University of Richmond’s drug-screening program involves an education-al seminar after the first offense and punishments in form of suspension in any subsequent positive tests. At the University of Alabama, a bigger school in the Southeastern Conference, the consequences are slight-ly more lenient than JMU’s, having only a one-year sus-pension after a third positive.
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great experience for the two years I was there,” she said. “You’re learning from people who are the best at what they do, and I loved it.”
Her next job took her to Jacksonville, Fla., where she was a news reporter. On the side, she reported for NAS-CAR, which she had grown up watching with her dad and brother. There, she was offered a job covering the Miami Dolphins.
“I said, at the time, that I did news,” she said. “I liked sports a lot, but I did news.”
But she took the opportu-nity anyway and covered the players’ off-the-field lives.
“Instantly I loved it — being able to tell these stories,” she said. “It’s pretty interesting, though, because sports was the one vehicle that I could really do [everything I wanted to], that I didn’t see from the start.”
Greene wasn’t surprised by her success, but didn’t expect it to be in sports.
“When I saw her doing sports I wondered, ‘What? Is this who I think it is?’ ” Greene said. “I could see her sitting on the couch at ‘The Today Show’ or ‘Good Morning America’ … That’s what I would have thought. Watching her do sports, though, she’s a natural.”
After two years, Czarniak received an unexpected call from CNN’s sports director in Washington, D.C.
She worked there as a
sports reporter and anchor for six years. In that time, one of the most impactful experi-ences in her career took place. Sean Taylor, a safety for the Washington Redskins, was murdered in 2007.
“I had been around him enough that it just felt weird,” she said. “Then you’re around all of these people — all of these teammates of his — that were grieving. And it was a first for me. You’re having to really learn, ‘OK, this is a big part of what you do, and you’re deal-ing with all of these people who are going through a trag-edy and trying to play through a game.’ ”
Czarniak worked at NBC until July, when her contract expired. She started at ESPN in August.
“It was a hard decision,” Czarniak said. “But I’ve always wanted to challenge myself, and at that time I felt like that was going to be a different step, a different challenge.”
When Czarniak arrived in Bristol, Conn., she attended “Rookie Camp.” The new role and national-scale audience are just a few of the perks Czar-niak is currently enjoying.
“It’s amazing to me,” Czar-niak said. “Something can happen. There can be a break-ing news story that happens in the middle of your show, and then the next thing you know — because we have the resources — that coach or that player is on the phone.”
Czarniak dismissed the c o n c e p t i o n t hat t h e re’s
resentment toward women in the sports field.
“Women have come so far,” she said. “Whether in a locker room or on set with an ana-lyst, I’ve not had an experience where I’ve been treated poorly at all, honestly.”
But she did admit to prob-ably having to do more homework to avoid potential criticism.
“I think that there was a time that I was a serious workahol-ic,” Czarniak said. “And I think that’s part of the pressure that I allowed myself to feel from being a woman in sports. The fact that I went from news to sports, I always felt like ‘OK, you’ve got to make sure that your I’s are dotted, and you gotta know that your T’s are crossed.”
Recently, however, she’s eased off the pressure she’s put on herself.
“I’ve had so many amazing experiences covering sports, and I pray that I have many more,” Czarniak said. “But I think that it’s so important to enjoy that ride. And being here has really taught me that it’s also about being happy.”
Cz a r n i a k ’s j ou r na l i s m advice stems from her own surprise at her love for the field and her belief that others can have the same feelings.
“I truly believe that whatev-er anyone wants to do in this field — you can do,” she said.
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