Mr. and Ms. Madison honored
By Katie Thisdell, staff writer

The nominees, decked out in their most spirited purple and gold attire, stood on the sidelines as the Marching Royal Dukes finished their performance during halftime at Saturday’s Homecoming Game, awaiting the announcement of this year’s Mr. and Ms. Madison. The announcer called each finalist’s name before declaring the winner. More...

Painting the 'Burg purple
By Vivian Yun, contributing writer

Every JMU home football game, fans paint their faces and deck themselves out in purple and gold. The Student Duke Club took its school spirit even further. “Paint Harrisonburg Purple” is a new contest the SDC created to let students go all out decorating their dorm rooms, apartments or houses for the Homecoming game against the Richmond Spiders. More...

Small sorority brings in big bucks for breast cancer research
By Caroline Cournoyer, staff writer

There are roughly 16,000 students at JMU. Six  make up JMU’s Asian-American interest sorority, Alpha Kappa Delta Phi, which raised a record $2,000 in two weeks for the Susan G. Komen foundation, benefiting breast cancer research. More...

Religion scholar visits campus, shares views on understanding culture
By Anne Dreyfuss, contributing writer

Students who want to understand other cultures need to go beyond the standard European way of thinking and adopt a perspective based on the way those cultures view the world, culture and religion scholar Barbara Holdrege told a JMU assembly Tuesday. During JMU’s third annual Gandhi Lecture Series, Holdrege said that it’s critically necessary for students in the West to go beyond their own cultural horizon and adopt a way of thinking that does not put the European vision first. More...