Fight Club
Warehouse 4773 at Industrial Park is as unassuming a building as one can find in Harrisonburg. Its gravel lot is vacant. It has no prominent signs. Behind the warehouse there’s a “Valley Chute Boxe” sticker on a gray door indicating that it serves some purpose; it’s not abandoned. At night, cars come at intervals into the gravel lot and about a dozen men in loose clothing make their way through the door. More...
Helping los estudiantes
By Jacqueline Quattrocchi, contributing writer
Students are knocking down the barrier between JMU and the Harrisonburg community by mentoring sixth and seventh grade Latino students. Every other Wednesday JMU students who are members of the club AMISTAD go to Thomas Harrison Middle School to talk with Latino kids about their own culture and diversity in the cultures and people around them. More...
Benefit concert for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis this Sunday
By Meghan Patrick, contributing writer
SGA considers full week for Thanksgiving Break
By Tiera Hinton, contributing writer
SLIDESHOW: WXJM, Inside the Studio
Posted 01.17.08
AUDIO: This Week in History 6
Posted 11.08.07
SLIDESHOW: Barack Obama Visits the Commonwealth
Posted 10.30.07
Out of the Dark: Calling all Harrisonburg cabs!
By Anna Young, opinion editor
Slurring your speech, you slip into the backseat. Three of your friends tumble in beside you, and two others crawl into the front seat beside the already annoyed driver. As you try to remember your address, your friends recall the long night that will soon end. More...
Breeze Perspectives: For quick fix, just add gadgets
By Rachael McDaniel, contributing writer
JMU receives record number of applications
James Madison University received more than 19,350 freshmen applicants for the 2008-09 academic year, a four percent increase from last year’s 18,600. According to Director of Admissions Michael D. Walsh there are a total of 3,960 spaces available for the upcoming freshman class, an increase from this year’s 3,850-student freshman class. More...
Grad screens Kenya documentary
By Caroline Cournoyer, staff writer
Saferides imposter vehicle noticed
From staff reports
Coach Matthews brings in ‘best class yet’
By Tim Chapman, sports editor
On national signing day the headlines are usually dominated by the Bowl Championship Subdivision schools and who the likes of Ohio State and Michigan have recruited to be the next great quarterback. For JMU and the Football Championship Subdivision signing day is equally as anticipated, as coaches recruit all fall and winter for the best talent. More...
Halfway through CAA schedule, Old Dominion Monarchs wear bullseye
By Matthew McGovern, assistant sports editor
Online exclusive: Swanston’s shooting helps break slump
By Tim Chapman, sports editor
Hit the road and head south
By Mary Frances Czarsty, senior writer
Tim Boyers has been the manager of the Southside Diner, more commonly known to its frequenters as “the truck stop,” for the past five years. When he got there, the kitchen staff was cooking out of cans. “They would literally pour sausage gravy out of a can and just heat it up,” Boyers said, chuckling. More...
JMU hosts music festival this week
By Megan Williams, assistant a&e editor
