http://www.jmu.edu/ivs/

http://www.jmu.edu/alumni/

http://www.shaycochrane.com/

http://www.jmu.edu/alumni/

http://www.jmu.edu/madisononline/

http://www.daviddriver.com/

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adison
SUMMER 2008 * VoL.31 * No.3
Executive Editor
pam BroCK
Managing Editor
miChelle hiTe (’88)
Art Director
Bill Thompson
Copy Editor
elaine sTroupe
Communications Assistant
Colleen Dixon
MadisonOnline Editor
Jan Gillis (’07)
JMU History Editor
freD hilTon (’96M)
University Photographer
Diane ellioTT (’00)
Editorial Student Assistants
amanDa aTKins (’08)
KaTie huDson (’10)
Carly le DuC (’08)
Graphic Design Student Assistants
Chris Baril-fosTer (’10)
Julie ha (’09)
Writers, Photographers, Illustrators
Jenny BaKer (’08)
alan ChamBerlain
CisaT CreaTive serviCes
Brian DillensnyDer (’08)
C u r T D u D l e y
Chris eDwarDs
sTeve emerson
anGel elZa (’10)
Ginny fiCKer (’08)
Teresa GarBee (’08)
eriC GorTon (’86)
marTha Bell Graham
lanCe Kearns, ph.D.
CaThy Kushner (’87)
KaThy lam
ChrisTine leTsKy-anDerson
Jonah liGhT
aDam mCpherson (’08)
nBa phoTos, nBa enTerTainmenT
anDy perrine (’86)
lynDa ramsey
william riCharDs
JaneT l. smiTh (’81)
aniTa hill spain (’76)
speCial ColleCTions
aaron sTewarT (’08)
Casey TempleTon (’06)
JaneT wenDelKen
maT T h e w wo r D e n
Contributing Offices
offices of Alumni, Be the Change, Public Affairs,
Sports Media Relations, Photography Services
For address updates: www.jmu.edu/alumni
To contact the magazine staff:
www.jmu.edu/MadisonOnline
E-mail: madisonmag@jmu.edu
Voice: (540) 568-2664 ☎ Fax: (540) 568-7913
Madison, the magazine of James Madison University
MSC 3610, James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
Clarification: By the Numbers (Winter 2008)
RateMyProfessors.com ranks JMU psychology professor
Kim Duvall-Early No. 23 overall and among the Top 10 in
its “Standout Professors” category. She is the only JMU
professor to make the lists.
6 MAdiSoN MAgAziNE
COnTRiBUTORS
David Ehrenpreis is director of the institute for Visual Studies
(www.jmu.edu/ivs) and a professor in the School of Art and
Art History. He joined the JMU faculty in 1998. Ehrenpreis
earned a doctorate from Boston University after working at
Harvard University Art Museums and the Houghton Library.
He teaches 19th-century art, and his research focuses on german
visual culture and the intersection of art and nationalism.
He also directs the JMU Summer Program in Berlin. in
this issue, Ehrenpreis writes about the important campus visit
of world-renowned artist Xu Bing (Page 52).
Spring semester Madison intern Amanda Atkins (’08)
continues her work with the magazine staff this summer.
during her senior year Atkins served as fiction
editor with gardy loo, the student literary magazine.
She worked on the gardy loo staff for four semesters and
published poetry and stories. She will intern with Leisure
Publishing in Roanoke beginning in August. Read
her alumna profile on Ericka Floyd (’06) on Page 74.
Jessica Lumsden (’04) is assistant director of alumni
relations for communications and marketing. She manages
all print and Web materials for the JMU Alumni
Association and alumni chapters. Read her work in the
alumni section on Page 60 and at www.jmu.edu/alumni.
Lumsden joined the JMU staff last summer after working
as a public relations specialist with the Atlanta Convention
and Visitors Bureau.
Harrisonburg native David Driver is a freelance writer in
Maryland. He had season tickets for JMU men’s basketball
as a high school student in the late 1970s at the robust rate of
$10 and was an original member, along with JMU grad Steve
gaines, of the Steve Stielper Fan Club. The Eastern Mennonite
University graduate covered pro basketball in Europe
from 2003 to 2006 while living in Hungary with his family.
His alumni profile of Tom Ward (’86) appears on Page 50.
driver contributes to numerous regional and national publications.
Read more of his work at www.daviddriver.com/.
Contributing photographer Shay Cochrane (’05) earned
her undergraduate degree in psychology and family studies.
She is assistant to the director of the James Madison
Center on campus. She met her husband, graham
Cochrane (’05), while they were students at JMU. in
2006 Cochrane began to pursue freelance portrait and
wedding photography as a career. She currently photographs
weddings all over Virginia. View her photography
at www.shaycochrane.com/.
ehrenpreiS phoToGraph by aaron STeWarT (’08); aTKinS and lumSden by diane
ellioTT (’00); driver by caThy KuShner (’87); cochrane by William richardS