The Commonwealth Attorney’s Office has agreed to limit the scope of its request for photographs related to the civil disturbance on Village Lane from The Breeze and to reimburse The Breeze for $10,000 in legal fees.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
The state attorney general told the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce that he didn’t believe the seizure of more than 900 photographs from the campus newspaper was a first amendment issue, the Daily News-Record reports.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
The New York Times published an op-ed by JMU professor of engineering Karim Altaii about the desolation of the once world-class higher education system in Iraq as a result of war, and the steps needed to rebuild. Conducting a study for the State Department, Altaii recently “…visited with 200 faculty members and administrators in Iraq…” [...]
Friday, March 19, 2010
Kimberly Duvall-Early, a psychology instructor at JMU, has been declared the highest rated professor in the nation by the Web site ratemyprofessors.com. Rate My Professors is a decade old review site where students can anonymously rank their college teachers on a one to five scale in six different categories and leave comments. In this environment, which [...]
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
JMU’s recently publicized virtual campus, launched in the online virtual world of Second Life, is hosting a virtual fashion show and open house “in an effort to introduce local and global community members to JMU’s virtual campus.” The show will start at 4:00pm on Friday, December 4th Thursday, December 3rd, in Second Life.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Today, the Department of Homeland Security identified swine flu as a public health emergency for the United States. Between breaking news reports and news segments with medical information, attention is also turning to a forgotten chapter in American (and local) history: the 1918 “Spanish flu” which sickened half of the world’s population at the time and [...]
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Here are the local University locations where you can view Barack Obama’s swearing-in ceremony on Tuesday, January 20 around noon: James Madison University – Grafton Stovall Theater and Festival Ballrooms Eastern Mennonite University – Common Grounds Coffee House Bridgewater College – Cole Hall Auditorium Know of others? Add them in the comments!
Friday, December 19, 2008
JMU’s Center for Entrepreneurship has a competition on for the JMU community (which includes all Harrisonburg residents) to find the best viable business plans for sustainable businesses. The contest defines sustainability as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” The winner will [...]
Friday, November 28, 2008
A handful of stories in the local media this week have reported on the continuing state and regional shifts in age-related demographics, with some interesting implications for the Shenandoah Valley.
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The Arts Council of the Valley First Fridays Downtown for this month is Friday, September 3, 5 – 7pm. Scheduled events are listed in the following press release:
Fairfield Center’s Harrisonburg Summits series continues with a evening focusing on creating connections between local college students and the community at the Harrisonburg Student-Citizen Summit. The free event is scheduled from 3:30- 9:00 pm on Tuesday, September 21st, and will convene at Memorial Hall (Entrance B), the former Harrisonburg High school at James Madison University. [...]
Three Rockingham County preservation groups are warning the Board of Supervisors of the potentially hazardous effects of unregulated drilling in Bergton. State mining officials will not require emergency management plans for a proposed Marcellus Shale natural gas well near Bergton
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