This is a picture of Hillside field, located just in front of the Hillside dorm. This multi-purpose field serves as marching band practice field in the fall, and as a recreational field year-round for Frisbee, football, snowball fights, sun-bathers and more. In the spring, the archery bourgeois, fence off a greater part of the field, leaving its margins to Hillside’s proletariat. The designers probably intended this space to be used just as it is; a recreational field for students and a practice field for clubs. This space could be improved for more general student use by moving the time the clubs use it from 2-6, to an earlier time like 8-12. This space could be improved environmentally by putting in a riparian buffer by the stream. Currently, the field borders the stream, but provides to protection for it other than a fence. Planting trees and brush alongside the stream would help filter out pollutants, and prevent erosion. I will remember this space as a miscellaneous field where my friends and I spent time playing and lazing around. In respect to Greenberg, he has clearly never seen JMU. While off-campus housing may be a chaotic mess of buildings, red solo cups, and crowded parking, JMU was designed with aesthetics in mind. The only thing separating us from UVA is the respectability that comes with age.
-TJ Kirk
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