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Finest Hour Award recipient Geoffrey Morley-Mower
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CampusWire
Knowledge is power
"Knowledge is power," Nadine Strossen, American Civil Liberties
Union president, quoted James Madison during a campus visit in March.
The ACLU has been openly critical of Bush administration initiatives
aimed at reducing terrorism, which, according to Strossen, include
government searches of previously closed records, credit card database
searches and secret military tribunals.
"This unilateral approach, supported under the umbrella of searching
for international terrorist activity, violates checks and balances,"
Strossen told students. "The executive branch is not kept balanced.
… To combat the effects of post-Sept. 11 initiatives on civil rights,
we need to advocate knowledge. Absence of knowledge is oppression."
Kennedy Center's May festival stages student's dance
Casey Blake ('02) had more than the usual reason to kick up her feet
at graduation. The dance major from Bassett, Va., won a place for her
original dance at the National College Dance Festival in May at the
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Her dance, At Third Glance,
is an exploration of movement and gender set to a soul-disco score.
Eleven JMU dance majors make up the ensemble, which also performed the
original dance at the American College Dance Festival's 2002 Mid-Atlantic
Festival. The festival showcased only 10 student dances from selected
colleges and universities across the country.
Finest Hour award
English professor Geoffrey Morley-Mower will receive the 2002 Winston
Churchill Finest Hour Award from the British Embassy in September. The
award selection committee annually alternates recipients of American
and British heritage because Churchill had an American mother and British
father. "Here I am a Brit, who's also an American, so I score all
the points," Morley-Mower laughs. Born in London in 1919, the WWII
Royal Air Force reconnaissance pilot completed numerous missions in
Africa, Gibraltar and Northern Ireland. He joined JMU's faculty in 1969
and has written two memoirs of his RAF days, Messerschmitt Roulette
and Flying Blind. He is currently working on a third book.
Dukettes rank No. 7 in nation
JMU's Dukettes finished seventh among 21 dance teams competing in the
National Dance Association Collegiate Championships on April 27. CBS-TV
aired the champion-ships from Daytona, Fla.
Best of the press
JMU's student newspaper, The Breeze, and its staffers earned 19 awards
at the Virginia Press Association's 2002 winter conference and annual
meeting this spring. The awards were given for the press association's
annual contest for writing, photography, presentation, art and public
service in college publications. The Breeze won first place in the category
of "general make-up" for best overall content and design of
a student publication. The Breeze's staff writers, photographers, designers
and illustrators also won awards in every press association contest
category that they entered.
Story by Michelle Hite ('88)
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