D-Hall has a Core?

Yes Virginia, D-Hall has a Core.

Anyone who's ever been to JMU recognizes Gibbons Dining Facility, known as D-Hall to the students, faculty, and staff. This is because it is a large circular building sitting on top of a hill smack in the middle of campus. During the school year, thousands of people pass by the building and many students consume at least one meal there per day. But has anyone ever pondered what is in the middle of D-Hall? Last month, reporters from The Breeze set up shop at the entrance of D-Hall and asked the students what they thought was in the exact center of D-Hall. Here's what they had to say:

Jill Overton (Class of 2006): "There's probably an open courtyard or something where the cooks can smoke on their break."

Alex Timmons (Class of 2005): "I'm guessing it's just a circular room where they store food and supplies"

Kari Clemmons (Class of 2006): "I don't know. It's probably just the kitchen."

me (alumni, Class of 2000): "Are you kidding?! At the very center of D-Hall is a huge gaseous ball of fire that emits enough energy to power the entire world three times over. At this very moment very bad people are trying to destroy the Core and take over the world. How can you sit there asking me this when 100 feet away is a power so magnificent that to even gaze upon its brilliance for a millisecond would blind me, not to mention age me by 50 years?!?!


So there you have it. At the center of D-Hall is a huge gaseous core.