James Madison University - Bluestone Schoolmaam Yearbook (Harrisonburg, VA)

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changes on campus stylish chairs. New tood options also arrived with the other changes made to Greens. Fresh baked bread was added to the wrap section and more dessert options were available. Lakeside F.xpress Lakeside Express also took advantage of the extra space in Chandler Hall. In past years a curtain dividing Lakeside and Greens would be closed during the day to allow more seating during Mrs. Greens ' serving hours. The expansion of Greens allowed Lakeside to keep this seating area permanently opened. Lakeside also received its own updated look. A new service counter was installed along with the addition of two new television sets and new tables. Lakeside increased its drink selection and started to offer bonled water as well as adding a few new menu options. PC Duke PC Dukes did some renovations of its own. Hoshow said that many changes in Dukes were made due to comments received about how over crowed it had been during lunchtime. The large beverage island was taken out of the center ot the serving area and drink fountains were placed on the sides instead. It flows better and people can be served more quickly, said Hoshow. A new deli named Pastramis was added in response to customer ' s wishes to have more diversified delis around campus. The new deli offered a selection of hot sandwiches along with their usual cold style ones. Also, two new Grab and Go Coolers with pre-made meals were added bv the registers. The coolers allowed Dukes to add more salad a $10 million new athletic center is adjacent to the Bndgeforth lum. The Robert and tWf ' Flecker Athletics Perforrp ce Centt ■ vvill provided newj rl lockerg,.sperTSrnedinTie facilities ana other benefits in 2005. Photo by Morgan Riehl I and dessert options. Man - changes were made to supply, folks [with] a large variety and to give more healthy options, said Hoshow. Mjrkjni; I listcir The Madison Historians have made their mark. The group, along with the help of the Madison Center located in Wilson Hall, developed the plan to put up rwo historical signs. The Historians first met with Philip Bigler, an administrator in the James Madison Center to come up with project ideas. His job is to bring Madison to James Madison University, said Kehl Mandr, recent alum and former president of the historians. He gave us the idea of making the roadside marker because so many other schools have one, said Mandt. After many months ot hard work, the signs which were funded by JMC and went in the ground in late August. The signs were put in across from the university entrances on Main Street and Port Republic Road. Each sign reads the following: The university was founded in 1908, through efforts of the senator George B. Keezell, of Rockingham County, as the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg. In 1924 it became the State Teachers College at Harrisonburg, before it was renamed Madison College in 1938 to honor |ames Madison, the Father of the Constitution and fourth president of the United States. The school admitted men to regular sessions in 1946 and became fully coeducational in 1966. In 1977 the college was renamed James Madison University and has become a nationally recognized comprehensive public institution. Red Light, Green Lighi The new traffic light got the go ahead this year when the university and the Virginia Department of Transportation agreed that it was needed at the intersection of Bluestone Drive and Carrier Drive. Installation of the light began on June 2 and was up and going by June 25. It was put in to, better manage pedestrian and vehicular traffic on campus, said Fred Hilton. The light helped allow traffic to turn onto Bluestone Drive where previously vehicles were forced to wait for .1 break in traffic. It helps us get the buses out of here, said Harrisonburg Transit bus driver Dwayne Strother. In the past, traffic would not stop to let us out. Strother was happy to have the new addition on campus. They should have put it up there a long time ago, he said. URHC The University Recreation Center did some shaping up of their own. With their addition of on-line registration for group fitness classes launched in August, students and faculty could sign up for classes starting 24 hours ahead ot time up until 45 minutes before the class began. Walk-in registrations could be made from 45 minutes until 1 5 minutes before the classes started. In previous years, participants would have to arrive early to wait in line to register for one of the 70 group fitness classes offered a week. Brook J-faompson, Coor4inator of Marketing for UREC believed tha« lot (ffltrf iffSfe fJci f) i@t turned off to taking cLisscs because tlTev were not cunoucne to tneiT Chedul ThoQifison sni rfi.irJg ' eiimin.itiii. all,|licwaitin| ime the) ' would be able to reacl rger variety of the population. features

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Under construction daily, the new physics and chemistry building is expected to be connpleted in 2005. Due to the increased participation in the sciences, the site behind ISAT was alloted as an additon to the pevious science buiding. Miller Hall, located on the Quad. Photo by Nathaniel Clarkson I %»3» ' ' i . - y v f ' V J i ' — % Returning students arrived on campus this ' ear to find things nor as they had leh them. Many new changes occured over the summer, from dining services to new buildings and additions on campus, iindial .Set r.. The placement of a sundial adjacent to Keezell Hall had been a mystery to many students. According to Fred Hilton, director of university communications, the construction of the sundial was sponsored by the campus secret sociery known as 1N8. How to actually use the dial was not quite clear to many students. In order to have the dial read accurate time, a person needs to stand on the correct posirion on the metal bar in middle of the sundial. The letters on the bar represent the months of the year with each month being marked bv the letter it begins with. The bottom J of the bar represented Januar)-. The months go all the way up the bar to July before coming back dow n to December. To determine where to stand on the bar depends on what day of the month it is. If it was November 15, then the person would stand halfwav between the N and the D. The shadow cast bv the person will represent the correct Eastern Standard Time. Due to davlight savings time, an hour must be added in the spring. Dinning Do-Overs With the opening of the College Center rwo years ago came both opportunit} ' and space for Mrs. Greens. Originally Mrs. Greens existed as a dining hall and catering service by day and a banquet hall bv night. When the banquet room was needed, all the long tables had to be folded up and put awav onlv to be taken out again for the next day. The College Center soon became home for both the catering and banquet services, leaving Greens to manage just their lunch crowd. According to Operations Director of Dining Services Stephanie Hoshow, it was recognized from comments made by customers and the Student Government Association that more seating was needed. We base all our decisions in dining services on student comments and feedback, said Hoshow. The prepararion kitchen was moved into areas rhat were originallv used for storage and Greens was expanded. The folding tables with vinyl tablecloths were replaced with smaller tables accompanied by changes on campus 23

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UREC did not stress about making yoga classes free for the first time. In the past few years each voga session cost about S5. Since this form of Group Fitness is highly ' training specific we reallv needed our instructors to go through intense training, certifications and continuing education, said Jill Zagora, coordinator of group fitness at the center. The cost of training made it necessary to charge tor the class. This year Zagora said she was able to train the rest of the Group Fitness staff in yoga. Since the training could be done in-house it eliminated the need to charge for the class. Also, an addition of speed bags was added on the third floor by the track. Due to the growth in the number of fitness classes, many of the studios that contained speed bags were constantly in use. The new bags allowed participants to use them whenever the center was open. URECs mission is to promote healthy lifestyles to all participants, said Thompson. Making changes allow us to reach more participants. hemi-stry and Physics Building Construction was hard to miss behind the ISAT buildings. The skeletal structure of a building that was there tor the earlier part of the year was the beginning of the new chemistry and physics building. The three-story structure was the future location of laboratories, classrooms, faculty offices and academic support areas. Miller Hall was the current home to the two departments. The departments have grown consider- ably said Thomas Gallaher, an analytical chemist in the department ot chemistry. We ' re packed in here like a bunch of sardines, said Gallaher. The new building will allow tor expansion. This new facility will enable the departments of chemistry and physics to continue to provide excellent resources for students and taculty to pursue educa- tional and research activities. The final projected cost ot the project was $25.5 million. uhletic Developments The record for the largest amount of private donations ever made for a University- project was set this veav. The S million in donations helped to support the S9.8 million construction of the campus ' performance center. The name Robert and Frances Plecker Athletics Performance Center will be given to honor the Plecker family, who had been longtime contributors to the university ' s athletic program. According to a University Communications report, the center will be home to new weight training areas, new football locker rooms, a sports-medicine complex, meeting rooms, coaches ' offices and an academic support area tor student-athletes. Challace McMillin, the university ' s first football coach and a current professor of kinesiology has the honor of having the center ' s academic complex named after him. The project was estimated to be completed in 2005. d f K ; ' ' J 1;;- ' - rm Stopped at the new light, cars brake at the intersection of Bluestone and Carrier Drive. The installation occured during the summer and was intended to help buses exiting the Godwin bus stop. ; ' Photo by Clare Burchard 1 Attempting to correctly read the sundial, junior Ali Johnston uses the directions printed in The Breeze to read the time. Located next to Keezsil Hall, the sundial represents an ancient traditon in hopes that students will appreciate how far technology has come. Photo by Meghan Gwaltney I 25 changes on campus