Monday, February 14, 2005

The Virginia State Senate proposed a bill to ban smoking indoors and in most buildings or enclosed areas frequented by the public.

A new formula for determining college financial aid eligibility was announced by the Department of Education in late December, a decision which may remove or reduce federal Pell Grant scholarships for up to 90,000 students.

Members of the Class of 2008 who wish to leave their legacy in JMU history may soon have their chance.

The Neo Underground Railroad Conductors (NURC), headed by JMU students, has rounded up nearly 50 colleges and universities around the nation to reverse popular media images of black people.

Prosecutors in the federal death-penalty case against JMU alumnus Brent Simmons (’96), 32, rested Friday, introducing evidence that suggested Simmons was present at the scene of the murders the night they happened.