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HARRISONBURG - Avoiding Thursday’s rain by ducking inside the modest green shed that houses his team’s equipment, James Madison archery coach Bob Ryder pointed to all of the things the squad has purchased throughout the years without using a dime of university money.
The bows hanging from the ceiling? Owned by the individual archers. The target mats and target stands along the walls? All paid for either by Ryder himself or donated by the Shenandoah Valley Target Archers Association. The arrows and bow cases in the back? Half are owned by the athletes themselves, half were paid for by the SVTA.
“The broken tri-pods belong to JMU,” said Ryder, who was at the shed near the team’s hillside field to prepare for the Adam Wheatcroft Memorial Tournament at JMU, which begins Saturday. “That chair is mine. That wheel is mine. That tri-pod’s mine. These boxes are mine. The stools are mine. The grill? Shenandoah Valley Target Archers Association. If you ever came to the U.S. Indoor and saw the 40 mats and stands up there, JMU has not paid a dollar for a mat or a stand since about 1976.”
The comparative independence of the men’s and women’s archery teams is one reason they are the least affected of the 10 programs James Madison eliminated as varsity sports in a Title IX-generated overhaul last September, a move that officially took effect this school year.
In fact, JMU’s archery squad - even though it now is a club sport rather than part of the university’s athletics department — can still defend the national collegiate championship it won in 2007.
That’s because archery enjoys varsity status at very few schools, so the NCAA doesn’t sponsor a championship tournament. The de facto national tournament, the United States Intercollegiate Archery Championships, is open to both club and varsity squads.

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ATLANTA — Police blocked traffic in the Downtown Atlanta area near the Westin Hotel Wednesday as 17 mph wind gusts blew broken glass and debris from the hotel onto the streets below.
A police lieutenant who witnessed a shard of glass falling from the tornado-damaged building alerted authorities. The city then closed the roads as a precaution.
A strip of windows that runs up the side of the Westin lost half of the double-pane glass as winds kicked up, causing firefighters with megaphones to warn people to clear the area. Once the streets were cleared, workers started knocking the other side of the glass from the building instead of waiting for the winds to do the job.
Pedestrians elsewhere have been asked to wear boots and watch for falling glass from any of the other buildings that suffered damage from Friday’s tornadoes.
The following streets were re-closed Wednesday:
Peachtree Street between Harris and Ellis.
Spring Street between Marietta and Harris.
Andrew Young International Boulevard between Peachtree Center and Williams.
As another storm moves into Georgia from Alabama Wednesday afternoon, the city of Atlanta is also encouraging residents and businesses that have damage to secure their tarps and debris to prevent further damage to their property.
In Cabbagetown, crews were scrambling to remove trees that fell on top of some houses Friday.
“What we’re trying to do is get the house where we can at least put a tarp on it because there’s not many belongings in there but still the integrity of the house is real important so the quicker we can get [the tree] off, the quicker we can get a tarp on it,” said one contractor.
The contractors said they will work through the wind and rain to get the job done. They said they would have been on site sooner but had trouble getting a crane because of the high demand.

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