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.
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.
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…” [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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!
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 [...]
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.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
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