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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014 > WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY > VOLUME 90, ISSUE 08
WHAT YOU SHOULD BE READING TODAY » Ky Museum: On-campus Kentucky Museum showcases state's uniqueness PAGE 2
» New Faculty: WKU hires 40 new faculty for school year PAGE 3
BY AARON [email protected]
Brown recluse spider infestations, in-trusive landlords and eviction — these were some of the topics discussed in a meeting about renters’ rights.
A group of about 20 people, includ-ing students, faculty and community organizers, gathered to share their ex-periences about renting property.
The WKU Student Coalition for Rent-ers’ Rights held its fi rst monthly meet-ing Monday night in Downing Student Union at 6 p.m. The coalition’s leaders focused on introducing the organi-zation and its purpose — to support renters against unfair treatment from landlords.
Glasgow sophomore Jay Todd Richey, chair of the coalition, said a lack of renters’ rights is the number one problem in the Bowling Green community.
“So we started the coalition just to get as many students on board as pos-sible and we’re gonna try to tackle this issue,” he said.
The group’s main goal is to support the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, a law enacted to regulate rental agreements between landlords and tenants. The law requires counties and cities to opt-in. Bowling Green has yet to adopt the policy.
The coalition’s leaders said the act’s purpose is to create an equal playing fi eld for both tenants and landlords.
“Right now, the lease that you have with your landlord is the law,” Richey said. “There is no set specifi c law that guarantees specifi c rights, that guar-antees specifi c responsibilities — it’s all laid out in the lease, and if you don’t include it in the lease, you do not have that.”
A few attendees shared stories about their rental experiences. Richey shared a story about a student dealing with a brown recluse spider problem. Richey said the student had few options for dealing with the infestation because it was not covered in the lease.
Patricia Minter, an associate profes-sor of history, talked about the privacy invasions some female students face.
Minter said women often come to her with stories about landlords that let themselves into students’ apart-ments without knocking, sometimes even while the tenant is in the shower.
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Burger and Bun aims to serve the best burgers in town. It isn’t quite there yet,
but it’s not too far off. The restaurant is located in a re-
modeled house, giving it an intimate feel. The fl oor plan’s openness pre-
vents the atmosphere from feeling too stuffy. If the presence of several el-
evated televisions seems like an odd choice, along with the rest of the interior, rest assured that it doesn’t distract from the experience.
Meals are served with an unlimited basket of house-made kettle chips. Their texture, which ranges from an airy chew-iness to a crisp crunch, is spot on. The salty potato taste
BY AARON [email protected]
White balloons bear-ing the names of Trayvon Martin and ‘Mike’ Brown swayed in the breeze, car-ried by WKU students and faculty as they climbed the Hill chanting “No Violence! More Peace!”
About 75 people gathered in the courtyard of Pearce-Ford Tower and marched up The Hill Tuesday after-noon in response to the shooting of 18-year-old Mi-chael Brown, a black male killed by a white police of-fi cer in Ferguson, Missouri. The marchers’ path passed by the Guthrie Bell Tower, Downing Student Union and fi nally arrived at the Chandler Memorial Chapel
for a vigil. St. Louis freshman Ariel
Miller said she knew Brown through her friends.
“I hung out with him once or twice,” she said. “He was a nice guy.”
After the crowd arrived outside the chapel, Louis-ville senior Omega Buckner led an impromptu prayer. She said she wants more awareness in the commu-nity.
“I think that’s where it starts,” Buckner said. “It’s just improving ourselves so that we can improve our communities — so that we can improve our state.”
St. Louis senior Karlos Harbor, a student organizer, wanted to arrange an event after hearing about the shooting.
“That’s just kind of why we’re here — mobilizing and empowering us as stu-dents to get active in our community when we see
these injustices happen-ing,” he said.
The march and vigil were also in honor of Trayvon
HARRISON HILL/HERALDMarch participants carried balloons from Pearce-Ford Tower to Chandler Memorial Chapel with the names of victims of vio-lence and altercations with police as part of the Michael Brown memorial march and vigil.
Burger and Bun gives BG an upscale burger joint
ALYSSA POINTER/HERALDKahuna burger and sweet potato fries at Burgers and Bun located at 729 Chestnut St.
BRIA GRANVILLE/HERALDWKU senior Gerron Hurt listens as speakers present at the Michael Brown memorial march and vigil.
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Kentucky Museum displays state’s uniqueness BY MADISON [email protected]
The Kentucky Museum, a dream manifested in 1939 by WKU’s fi rst president, Henry Hardin Cherry, continues to serve the community in varied and exciting ways.
“He wanted a library mu-seum that would collect the history and culture of the commonwealth, and make it available for the students, and the faculty and the people in the area around this region,” Sandy Staebell, registrar and collections curator of the mu-seum, said.
Funding for the museum began in the ‘20s, but came to a standstill when the Great Depression hit. It was only able to be completed in the late ‘30s, due to a need for more classroom buildings during the construction of Cherry Hall.
Since then, the museum has garnered a reputation for pre-senting diverse exhibits and learning opportunities for all ages, from school children to college students and adults.
“We have certain very unique collections here. We have one of the premier…publicly-owned quilt collections in the state of Kentucky,” Staebell said. “It’s a very…eclectic collection.”
The museum also displays
collections, centering on ar-chaeology, art, furniture, tex-tiles, toys and political memo-rabilia. Unique exhibits are often presented to keep gen-erating new interest and dis-cussion among visitors. Their newest show started on Sept. 13 and will run until Nov. 9.
“(The exhibit is) about Ches-ter Cornett, who was an Ap-palachian chair maker from Letcher County,” Brent Bjork-man, interim director at the museum, said. “He was born at the very beginning of the last century, died in 1981, but he made these fabulous chairs…He was kind of a lon-er, had some hard times deal-ing with people, so he put a lot of his creative energy into making chairs.”
The Kentucky Museum hosted an opening recep-tion for the exhibit on Friday, Sept. 12.
Exhibits Curator Donna Parker said the turnout for the reception was wonderful.
“I’m just so pleased that we had so many members from the community, and…stu-dents at Western, and the fac-ulty here at Western,” she said.
Approximately 25 chairs and other handcrafted works, such as stools and a baby cradle, are on display with pictures of the artist himself. The exhibit was curated by the Kentucky Folk Art Center at Morehead State
University. “My hope is when (museum-
goers) walk away, when they come out of this exhibit they say, ‘Wow, there’s really a story behind that,’” Bjorkman said.
Bjorkman replaced former museum director Timothy Mullen three weeks ago. He anticipates a lot of good things will continue coming to the museum. As the director of the Kentucky Folklife Program at WKU, Bjorkman has abun-dant experience in the folklore of the Bluegrass State.
“I spent a number of years with the Kentucky Folklife Program when it was with the Historical Society,” he said. “My main job was to fulfi ll the mission to document, present and conserve the traditional arts and culture of the state, or of the commonwealth.”
Now, as a part of the Kentucky Museum, Bjorkman hopes to further highlight the beauty of the state through the muse-um’s variety of collections.
“By doing documentation of the traditions in communities, you help validate the people in those communities, but at the same time, you’re sharing with the rest of the state the diver-sity around them,” he said.
A main component of the museum’s objective is to ful-fi ll a need for direct and active learning for the students and faculty of WKU.
“Yes, our focus is on Ken-tucky, but we are a muse-um…so we will collect things that help enhance or are…used by faculty and students on Western’s campus,” Stae-bell said.
Students from the interior design, fashion merchandis-ing and folklore programs have had opportunities to en-gage with artifacts.
“What makes this place so wonderful is, we are an op-portunity for actual hands-on learning,” Staebell said. “They can come in and they can see the actual thing, and they can handle it.”
Children and adults from the surrounding community have many opportunities for interactive learning as well as camps and workshops that the museum provides.
“You want to offer things for a lot of different age groups and interests. Not everybody wants to do the same thing, so we try to offer a variety,” Stae-bell said.
The museum, located at 1444 Kentucky St., is free to all WKU students with their school ID. Their hours are Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sun-day from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
BRIA GRANVILLE/HERALDMaggie Cook-Newell, a WKU nutrition and dietetics professor, examines photos of historic fi gures in the Kentucky Museum with her husband, Henry Newell.
Martin, an unarmed black teen who was shot and killed by George Zim-merman, a neighborhood watch vol-unteer, in Florida in 2012.
Richard Miller, vice provost and chief diversity offi cer, marched with the students and said it was impor-tant to him to support them.
Miller commended students for organizing the event because he is personally concerned about human rights violations.
"It's about young men of color whose rights are being abridged," he said.
The vigil featured a poetry reading, a singing performance and speakers. Lloren Foster, assistant professor of African American Studies, addressed the crowd, urging them to focus on staying safe, despite the injustices they may face.
“When the police stop you, I don’t care how wrong they are, comply,” he said. “You do me no good dead.”
Foster asked participants to raise their hand if police offi cers had ever profi led them. Louisville senior Wil-liam Qualls raised his hand along with other marchers.
Qualls said he thought he was pro-fi led when he was pulled over based
on the questions the offi cer asked him, such as where he was headed, if he had drugs in the car and if he was a WKU student. Qualls said the encounter was one of many he’s had with police.
Although Foster encouraged stu-dents to comply with the police, he also stressed the importance of edu-cation and community involvement to combat injustice.
“Do you know that the Bowling Green City Commission meets every two weeks, the fi rst and third Tues-day every month?” he asked. “And that you can go in front of the Bowl-ing Green City Commission and say, ‘We’re having a problem.’ And guess what they’ll do. They’ll listen.”
Foster urged students to put their education fi rst and shared a story about his decision to leave college and participate in an anti-apartheid movement in Milwaukee. Foster re-gretted that decision.
“I fl unked out, and I wondered why I could not affect change,” he said. “So I’m imploring each and every one of you, fi rst and foremost, to gradu-ate. Secondly, read everything you can get your hands on.”
At the end of the vigil, marchers released their balloons into the sky as they spoke the names of loved ones.
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captures the essence of a great potato chip. The lack of any sauce, besides store-bought ketchup, is disappoint-ing, but the chips are still very good.
Burger and Bun’s menu mainly fo-cuses on classic burger combinations, but it does pursue more adventurous fl avor avenues. The Kahuna burger comes with pineapple salsa, an onion ring, pepper jack cheese and a Carib-bean sauce.
The focus here is clearly on the beef. Its charred, blackened exterior yields to a tender meatiness that gives the burger a real feeling of substance. Chunks of pineapple cut the richness of the burger with their exotic brand of sweet, acidic tang, as does the spicy pepper jack cheese. A single fried on-ion ring supplies a crunchy textural
element. While the fl avor combination is an
adept choice, the scarcity of these toppings leaves it feeling unbal-anced. By making the beef the star, the burger fails to form a cohesive whole. Bites that include every single element are delicious, but just as of-ten, they consist solely of burger and bun.
Unfortunately, the side of sweet po-tato fries doesn’t receive the same lev-el of execution as the free chips. While their brown-orange color invites the expectation that they’ll provide the needed fried crunch, they’re pretty dissapointing. The salty-sweet fl avor of these fries is pleasant, but the soft texture underwhelms.
The quality beef and house-made chips at Burger and Bun make it a de-cent option for those wanting to try a more upscale burger. It just needs a little more fl avor.
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“People simply feel that they are powerless and that’s what this coali-tion is about,” Minter said.
Louisville sophomore Jody Dahmer said he wants to be involved with the
coalition. “I had no idea that things were as
bad as they were in Bowling Green, where you can be evicted just by re-porting about bad how your condi-tion is,” he said. “So I want to do my part to try to make Bowling Green a better and safer place for students.”
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WKU welcomes 40 new faculty membersBY LEAH [email protected]
WKU welcomed 40 new fac-ulty members to the Hill this semester.
Gordon Emslie, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, said it is not unusual for the university to hire 40 to 50 faculty members every year. The highest number of hires for an academic year was 77, but 50 is the average.
WKU employs about 800 fac-
ulty currently, and experienc-es a .5 percent faculty turnover every year. Some left their jobs at the university due to retire-ment.
“We’ve done a very good job attracting high caliber faculty,” Emslie said.
The new employees have de-grees from universities across the nation, including Stan-ford, Ohio State and UC Berk-ley, and some have degrees from WKU. The faculty teach a wide variety of subjects such
as architecture, agriculture, mathematics, communica-tions, theatre and dance.
“They are a great group,” Emslie said.
The College of Health and Human Services hired the most out of all the colleges.
The new faculty will assist with student retention. Five years ago, the student to fac-ulty ratio was 19 to one. Emslie said now, it’s 17 to one.
He said smaller ratios be-tween students and faculty
lead to higher retention rates.One of the new hires, Jeffrey
Miner, is an assistant professor in the history department and specializes in late medieval Eu-rope and Mediterranean.
Patricia Minter, also a profes-sor in the history department, said, “We are absolutely de-lighted to have Dr. Miner join our faculty.”
He taught at and obtained his Ph.D from Stanford. Miner said he has had wonderful interac-tions with people at WKU.
“I have found people in gen-eral, both other faculty and the students, to be very wel-coming,” Miner said.
He is in the process of adjust-ing from teaching in Stanford’s quarter system to WKU’s two-semester system.
Many people have askedMiner if he has experienced culture shock moving from California to Bowling Green.
“Culture differences, sure,but defi nitely not a shock,” Miner said.
The WKU Store is looking for a new director.Tristy Hillestad, former interim director of the
WKU Store, no longer holds the position as of last Friday.
Hillestad, who held the position since March, replaced the previous director of the store, Shawna Turner, who resigned.
Gary Meszaros, assistant vice president of Auxiliary Services, said he contacted the National Association of College Stores for help with looking for a replacement following Turner’s resignation.
The NACS is a trade association made up of about 3,000 college stores in the United States that represents the collegiate retailing industry.
The NACS recommended Hilles-tad and she was hired as interim director after Meszaros inter-viewed her, but the search for a permanent director continued.
Meszaros said he was im-pressed with Hillestad once she came to WKU.
“We worked with Tristy for several months and she was so good and so sharp, that we put the search on hold in hopes that
she would decide to stay…,” Meszaros said.Hillestad, who is also a collegiate retail con-
sultant, decided not to stay with the WKU Store because two jobs would be too much for her to handle, Meszaros said.
The new director will be chosen by a commit-tee of WKU staff members.
The WKU Store director oversees the opera-tion and direction of all the WKU Stores, includ-ing the Glasgow, Owensboro and Nashville Road locations.
Meszaros will run the store while the search for a new director continues. A new director should be hired within the next month.
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WILLIAM KOLB/HERALDNashville junior Cadet Naquesia Gleaves, 21, walks off the three meter diving board in full fatigues at the Bill Powell Natatorium on Wednesday. WKU ROTC requires that a physically demanding swimming test be passed in order for cadets to graduate from the program. Despite her fear of heights, Gleaves went off the board for the fi rst time last year.
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• Police cited Radcliff sopho-more Brandon Price, of North-east Hall, after spotting a bag of marijuana in plain view of his vehicle on Sept. 16 in Parking Structure 2.• Bulan freshman Justin John-son reported his textbooks stolen from his Northeast Hall
dorm room on Sept. 16. The estimated value of the stolen textbooks was $674.00.• Marietta, Georgia freshman Avery Patterson reported his textbooks stolen from his Northeast Hall dorm on Sept. 16. The estimated value of the stolen textbooks was $159.00.
• Fairdale graduate student Casey Biggs reported two of her jackets stolen on Sept. 16 from the Graduate Assistant Offi ce in Gary Ransdell Hall. The esti-mated value of the stolen items was $100.00.• Elizabethtown junior Mary Le-ver, of Southwest Hall, reported her bicycle stolen on Sept. 16 from the bike rack in front of Bemis Lawrence Hall. The estimated value of the stolen property was $99.00.
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BY KAE [email protected]
On May 4, 1970, four Kent State students were killed, after the Na-tional Guard opened fi re on a group of students protesting the Vietnam War.
On Sept. 15, 2014, Urban Outfi tters was put under fi re for selling an article of clothing that appears to reference the tragedy. The blood stains were seen across the internet. Red splatters were located on the upper corners of a “vintage” Kent State sweatshirt sold online.
The Internet took action, shaming the
fast-fashion retailer. Tweets fl ooded in, urging others to boycott the store.
Kent State took their stance, too. In a statement released earlier that morn-ing, they stated they “take great offense to a company using our pain for their publicity.”
The store apologized by the day’s end and claimed they never meant to offend anyone. They claimed the “stains” on the sweatshirt were sim-ply part of the “vintage” fading of the item. It’s no longer available to pur-chase.
So yes, the store apologized. But this adds to a growing laundry list of graph-ic T-shirt scandals from the “hipster” store.
Just a few months ago, they came under fi re for a graphic crop top with the word ‘depression’ written in large black letters, repeated across the shirt. Months before, a gray graphic tee with “Eat Less”, written in cursive letters across the chest, sent the internet into a frenzy.
Urban isn’t the only retailer guilty
in this chain of graphic tee scandals. Zara, Forever 21, Abercrombie & Fitch and JC Penney have also been forced to pull offensive materials from their shelves this year.
It’s truly an emerging issue among retailers and poses some serious ques-tions. Why are design teams giving offensive shirts the green light? Why does it take a social media hate storm for them to be taken down? What are they doing to prevent this issue in the future?
Consumers deserve an answer. They deserve retailers who show a little common sense when choosing what they’re trying to sell to their audiences. It isn’t diffi cult to hold up a shirt before you start selling it and contemplate if it will offend a consumer.
Simply run through a checklist, of sorts, to double check the clothing for offensive phrases, references to reli-gions or blood stains. Stick to that and maybe you’ll be able to rebuild your customer base and improve declining sales averages.
HAPPINESS IS
BY JACOB [email protected]
It wasn’t that long ago that humans lived, survived and sustained themselves in the most basic and natural habitat. Per-haps it’s ingrained as an instinct. Maybe peaceful quiet serves as a pleasant contrast
to the grind of daily life. The role of na-ture today is that of a cathartic escape.
The idea of going without modern amenities to appreciate the earth is somewhat of a novelty. Some choose to journey to different places in lavish RVs. They make sure central heating is present while viewing mountains from the wrong side of a window. There are others who arm themselves only with a backpack, a tent and a Swiss Army knife before trekking off into the woods barefoot.
In the coming change of seasons, it’s a refreshing getaway to grab some friends, a guitar and a sleeping bag for a weekend of roughing it in the woods.
Happiness can be found simply by getting lost in the wilderness with new experiences.
Happiness is making connections with friends you hadn’t met yet just by being stranded with no distractions. Well, maybe a little beer.
Happiness is the feeling of weight-lessness that accompanies being in the middle of nowhere and not know-ing what time it is.
Happiness is enjoying the silence of the world without technology.
Happiness is starting a raging fi re and keeping it going for more than six hours.
Happiness is having the common sense to realize you were about to pitch a tent on top of poison ivy.
Happiness is seeing the fi nished product of a successfully put together campsite.
Happiness is exchanging foot rubs by the miraculous, marvelous and meticulously-maintained fl ames.
Happiness is avoiding spiders.Happiness is taking turns reading
lines from the Dao De Jing in between playing guitar and singing forgotten lyrics.
Happiness is having friends who lit-erally pick you up when you fall down.
Happiness is having the strength of character it takes to make it through a whole night stranded in the boonies with a freshly sprained ankle.
Happiness is not letting an injury distract from a fun night stranded in the boonies.
Happiness is fi nding the perfectly gnarled tree root to use as a pillow.
Happiness is when your phone turns back on after not having service for a weekend.
Happiness is waking up to the ac-rid smell of burnt wood, a hammock swaying gently in the chilly morning breeze and the deep, throaty snores emanating from fellow campers still wandering through their dreams.
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World of fashion struggles to repair injustices
BY TANNER [email protected]
Students are approaching that awkward part of the se-mester. The fi rst test grades are starting to come in, and some are already realizing the harsh realities of their class schedules.
The last day to withdraw from bi-term classes was yesterday, Sept. 17. Students still have until Oct. 15 to withdraw from se-mester-long classes, but sadly they will still have to pay.
Some unsatisfi ed scholars might be debating taking the fall and the ‘W’ on their transcripts. Here are some reasons you should have already dropped.
• You just found out it isn’t a Wednesday-only class.• The professor uses PowerPoints for everything, even the tests.• There are weekly online quizzes, apparently.• 50 percent of your grade goes to participation, but it’s a class of 80.
• Your advisor lied to you. It doesn’t count for credit.• You’re always late because you’re looking for a parking spot. • The other members of your group project are on the foot-ball team. • “There will be no excused absences.”• The teacher’s assistant keeps hitting on you. • You don’t actually know how to speak French.• MyMathLab.• You had to buy a $300 textbook for the online code.• It’s in Cherry Hall, but your next class is in Gary Ransdell Hall.• It was supposed to be your lunch hour, but there’s a no food allowed policy.• Note taking isn’t allowed in Chinese class.• You’re not sure if the professor actually speaks English.• Ratemyprofessor.com lied to you.• It’s an 8:00 a.m.• Maybe ceramics just isn’t for you.
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and Southeastern Conference are the assumed and indisputable representa-tives in the fi ght for a spot in that four-team playoff to determine a national title. But there are other conferences
that are not bowing down to this power fi ve so suddenly.
All this is to point out that WKU’s own Conference USA is making some noise in this young college football season. There haven’t been major upsets, ex-cept for games where the C-USA team is a heavy underdog with a substantial
check in hand afterward – these teams haven’t gone down easily.
The same thing happened last year when WKU was in the Sun Belt Con-ference. C-USA isn’t a cupcake league, but in games versus any opponent in one of the power fi ve conferences, the C-USA team is hardly favored.
Last season we saw Florida Atlantic — a former Sun Belt school — take it to Willie Taggart’s South Florida Bulls in a win, and Rice defeated the Big 12’s Kansas.
In week two of this season, six teams, WKU included, lost by just under two scores to teams in either the SEC, Big Ten or Big 12.
“We took a lot of time in the summer and examined all the teams we’re play-ing,” Head Coach Jeff Brohm said on Tuesday. “I’m not going to lie, we knew they were very good football teams, and I think they’ve shown that the fi rst three weeks. Very competitive from top to bottom, even teams that you may not have thought normally as much are playing very well.”
This isn’t company WKU is quite used to. To remind yourself, take a glance at the scores of WKU’s former pals in the Sun Belt against the same, or arguably, lesser level of competi-tion. Granted, there are those teams from both conferences who get com-pletely trounced by the bigger schools (see teams playing Alabama the past two weeks), but when comparing the Sun Belt and C-USA, I don’t think there’s any doubt WKU is moving in the right path with the right associa-tion.
WKU’s back-to-back wins againstKentucky marked the fi rst time theschool had ever defeated an SEC team.So appropriately, the Hilltoppers ad-vanced their competition to surroundthemselves with teams that are puttingup equal fi ghts against bigger oppo-nents.
This is something we all knew whenthe school announced, in 2012, itsmove to a new conference, but nowwe’re seeing the results on the fi eld de-velop into fruition.
“It’s going to be tough competition,”Brohm said. “We’re new to the league.We came from a league outside ofhere, not too familiar with these teams.These teams have played tough com-petition every year. We have to raiseour level of play, we have to raise ourlevel of preparation, we have to fi ndways to compete and battle and winsome of these guys because I believe alot of them are going to go down to thevery end.”
It’s safe to say he knows all about thatfi rst hand since the Hilltoppers’ 50-47 triple overtime loss to rival MiddleTennessee State University in their fi rstever C-USA game. Even with a 1-2 re-cord, WKU is displaying that they areone of those teams that defi nes thecompetition C-USA is bringing to col-lege football this season.
Since WKU is on a bye week, Brohmmay very well continue to look at theconference and what his team’s futureopponents display on the fi eld. Theseason is still young, but it’s been aproduct the school can be proud to beassociated with so far.
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Coming off a 2-1 victory over Sacred Heart to cap off its appearance in the Yale Classic this past weekend, WKU soccer will travel to Terra Haute, Indianafor a bout with the Indiana State Sycamores tomorrow at 6 p.m. CDT.
The Lady Toppers secured the win over Sacred Heart (3-4-1) after droppinga 2-0 decision to host team Yale (3-1) on Friday behind a golden goal from junior forward Lauren Moats in overtime. Moats currently leads the team in goals and points with three and seven, respectively.
Sophomore forward Iris Dunn is second in goals with three and points with four. Freshman goalie Allison Leone currently has 31 saves in six games with a .861 save percentage. She has also recorded three shutouts on the season.
The Sycamores are currently 2-4-1 on the season, and they’re coming off a lopsided 7-0 victory over Chicago State on Sunday. Junior forward Sydney Lovelace leads the Sycamores in points with nine.
Following Friday’s game, the Lady Toppers will continue their fi ve-game road swing in Huntington, West Virginia in a matchup with Marshall on Sept. 27.
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Lady Tops set to travel toIndiana State tomorrow
BY ANNA [email protected]
The “Far Away Places” lecture series is back for the school year with speakers lined up to take students and faculty on journeys to other parts of the world from the comfort of the back of Barnes & Noble.
WKU Libraries has been hosting the se-ries “Far Away Places” for about 15 years. The fi rst event of this school year, “The Moon in Your Sky: An Immi-grant's Journey Home to Uganda,” will be this Thursday at 7 p.m. at Barnes & Noble on Campbell Lane.
The event will host Kate Saller, author of “The Moon in Your Sky.” The book follows the story of Annah Emuge, a woman from Uganda, who lived a life fraught with vio-
lence and despite her hard-ships, worked to immigrate to a new world and a better life.
“Kentuckians, historically, have had limited opportuni-ties for foreign travel to some of these far away places. Thus, we hope to expose them to a wider world of people and
ideas, which they may want to see for themselves,” Brian Coutts, the depart-ment head of library public services, said.
The idea for the "Far Away Places" series came about when WKU facul-ty member Nancy
Baird was doing research in South Africa.
“She would email me, and her emails were so enchant-ing, and when she came home, I wanted to have her give a little talk to the library faculty and staff,” Peggy Wright, spe-
cial services coordinator, said. “She was dynamite; she was wonderful.”
From there, Coutts and Wright came up with the idea for a lecture series that allowed people with global experiences to share their stories, and they wanted Baird to be the fi rst speaker.
“I came into Brian’s offi ce and started singing the song, ‘Far away places with strange sounding names,'” Wright said. “We had a new pro-gram.”
The program has grown quickly, hosting over 90 speak-ers in its 15 years. Wright said she couldn’t be happier with the success.
“We decided, when we fi rst started it, that so many people around us had no idea why the faculty were traveling so much. So, we started with the faculty,” she said. “Every year we change. It became so pop-
ular that editors we had con-tacted would get new authors and call us.”
She hopes Saller inspires students to travel abroad and learn about different cultures in her lecture, on Thursday.
“We hope the youngsters re-alize that this can be their fu-ture. They can come and talk about what they have learned after they have traveled them-selves,” she said.
Coutts hopes that the event and others this school year will help students better un-derstand the world.
“Being a leading American university with global reach, we hope to expose students to life in some strange and un-usual places,” he said.
All of the events are planned out for the rest of the year. Each features a unique story about the journey of someone from a different country.
“Future programs deal with successful Scottish women in an age of men, sacred places in Tibet and the Himalayas, a Boston architect describing rebuilding Haiti, often in the moonlight, Ecuador’s most fa-mous political cartoonist and Tibetan folktales,” Coutts said. “We think they’re all great sto-ries and four are based on new books.”
Coutts said it isn’t just the students who learn from these events. He has gained some knowledge from the speakers.
“Peggy and I have learned more about strange places and peoples than we could have ever learned from read-ing or studying,” he said. “We hope they (students) go away from these programs inspired, remembering that each of us can make a difference in someone else’s life.”
Kate Saller
Local car organization raises money for diabetes researchBY STEPHANIE [email protected]
Cruisin’ for a Cure, a local or-ganization that raises money for juvenile diabetes research, has raised more than half a million dollars to give to the Juvenile Diabetic Research Foundation since its start in 2009.
The organization was started by a group of men with family members affected by the dis-ease. Money is mostly raised through car shows the group puts on throughout the year. Most of the shows are locat-ed behind Bruster’s Real Ice Cream off of Scottsville Road.
Kevin Kirby, co-owner of Bruster’s and a member of Cruisin’ for a Cure, said fi ve years ago, the organization started “doing these cruise-ins, giving away a car or a truck to raise money.”
Kirby joined the organiza-tion because he has type two diabetes, which is the most common form of diabetes. Di-abetics suffer from high levels of sugar in their blood.
Juvenile diabetes, also known as type one diabetes, is the type the group raises mon-ey for and it’s usually diag-nosed in children and young adults.
Money raised also comes from t-shirt sales and collec-
tions taken for a 50/50 pot. People can put money into the pot throughout their time at the cruise-in. At the end of the show, a winner is drawn, and half the money collected in the pot goes to the winner while the other half goes to-ward the Juvenile Diabetic Re-search Foundation.
“A lot of the people who win the 50/50 actually will give it back,” Kirby said. “They’ll win it and they’ll say, ‘You know, just keep it all…it’s for the kids.’ 75 percent of people will. The others that don’t will give a little of it back from what they won.”
Last Saturday, Cruisin’ for a Cure participated in Sec-
ond Saturday, an event held downtown throughout the summer months that brings local businesses together in a street-fair setting. Kirby said merging with the Second Saturday group was a “good marriage.”
“This is our second year go-ing downtown and we’re al-ready in talks about next year,” Kirby said. “It’s pretty down there. We’ve got good music, you’ve got vendors and restau-rants, and it’s a good venue to have a car show.
Cruisin’ for a Cure will be hosting a walk at the Hot Rods stadium on Saturday, Sept. 27. Kirby said pizza and ice cream will be available for all regis-
tered walkers, along with facepainting and bouncy castlesfor children.
A brand new 2015 Ford Mus-tang, donated by the Ford Mo-tor Company, is going to beraffl ed off, with all of the raffl eticket money going to juvenilediabetes research.
Doors open for registra-tion at 11:00 a.m. and thewalk will begin at 12:30 p.m.Other prizes include a stor-age building, a play set and ahomemade quilt with an old-car design.
“We live in a great commu-nity and area about raisingmoney and helping all kindsof different causes,” Kirbysaid.
‘Far Away Places’ lecture focuses on Ugandan immigration story
SOCCERVOLLEYBALL
The WKU volleyball team (10-2) looks to keep its nine-game win streak alive this weekend as they travel to East Lansing, Michigan for No. 25 Mich-igan State’s Auto-Owners Insurance Spartan Invitational.
At 9 a.m. Friday, WKU will clash once again with Milwaukee (4-6), an op-ponent the Lady Toppers defeated earlier this month 3-1 (25-19, 26-24, 23-25, 26-24) at the Dr. Mary Jo Wynn Invitational.
Just 9 hours later, the Lady Toppers will square off against host team Michigan State (5-3).
WKU has yet to crack the top 25, but received 30 votes in the American Volleyball Coaches Association poll — good enough for a 28th national ranking. All 27 teams ranked ahead of WKU have yet to register 10 wins.
Despite being ranked three positions above the Lady Toppers in the American Volleyball Coaches Association poll, the Spartans are 0-2 at home and have won just one of their last four games, falling to No. 13 North Caro-lina, No. 27 Duke at home and No. 14 Oregon at Oregon.
WKU takes on LIU Brooklyn (7-3) at 3 p.m. Saturday to cap off the week-end. Two of LIU’s three losses came from ranked opponents in No. 23 Loyola Marymount (9-0) and No. 22 UCLA (6-2).
–Jonah Phillips
Lady Tops look to keep win streak alive at Spartan Invitational
average an NCAA-leading 403 rushing yards per game.
Navy also entered last sea-
son’s meeting with the Hill-toppers as the No. 1 rushing offense in the country, but left Smith Stadium with a 19-7 loss. WKU held the Midship-men to just 107 yards on the
ground.“This upcoming week we’re
going to face something a little different,” Brohm said. “So I think we have a decent plan ready for that. The one we’ve
used last year we adjusted a little bit. Just overall, I think that we have to fi nd ways to take away their best players. …We can’t have
lapses. We have to be sound in what we’re doing. Our players have to understand that plan.”
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said. “She really learned a lot this spring that has allowed her to get off to a really good start for us.”
Cavanaugh hails from Assumption High School in Louisville, a program consistently ranked within the top-10 nationally.
Cavanaugh only played the middle and right side hitter positions, but once Hudson recruited her, she was converted to outside hitter.
“The outside hitter position is new to her, but I always thought her game would translate best out on the left side at the collegiate level, with our system,” Hudson said. “That left side position is where, typically, you are going to lead your team in attempts, but she is a kid we knew we wanted to get the ball to and she has adapted very well in that position.”
The converted outside hitter has
appeared in all 12 games and al-ready has a team-high 113 kills to her name, giving her an average of 2.83 kills per set.
Freshman middle hitter Sydney Engle joined her sister, junior out-side hitter Rachel Engle, at WKU this season and hasn't had any diffi culty making her name known. She’s to-taled 50 kills in all 12 matches.
“A lot of people say I came here be-cause Rachel was here, but that really had nothing to do with my decision,” Sydney said. “It was definitely a plus that she was here...but I really loved Travis (Hudson), I loved the school and I loved the program he built.”
Freshman defensive specialist Jackie Scott has endured a change similar to Cavanaugh’s in that they were both shifted into different posi-tions at the collegiate level.
Scott played outside hitter at the high school and club level, a position that Hudson believes she could have played at the collegiate level. She’s
listed as an outside hitter, along with defensive specialist.
“She could have played collegiately in that position,” Hudson said. “But maybe not this high of a level, just because of her size; she’s not quite as big and playing as high. We want-ed that same athleticism roaming around in the back row.”
Rounding out the fi ve is freshman middle hitter Amara Listenbee. Lis-tenbee has yet to see the court for the Lady Toppers, but Hudson has a strat-egy behind her lack of playing time.
“Amara probably has the most to learn coming in the door,” Hudson said. “She is not quite as skilled as the others, but she very well might be the best of the bunch once they are se-niors. She is such a terrifi c athlete and an extremely coachable young lady.”
The young Lady Toppers will look to extend their current nine-game win streak on Friday in the fi rst match of their Spartan Invitational stint versus Milwaukee at 9 a.m.
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National Numbers [through week 3]
3rd
22nd13th
6th
1st WKU: First down offense (96 First downs)QB Brandon Doughty: total offense (480.7 yards/game), Passing TDs (12)
2nd WKU: passing offense (486.3 YArds/game)QB Brandon Doughty: Passing Yards (1,459), Avg Completions/GAme (39), points responsible for (72)
WKU: total offense (608.7 YArds/game)
WKU: passing effi ciency (161.86)WKU: Scoring offense (46.7 points/game)
WKU: 3rd down Completion percentage (60 percent)
NICK WAGNER/HERALDWKU freshmen volleyball players Jessica Lucas (left) and Alyssa Cavanaugh are two of fi ve freshmen on the volleyball team this season. Lucas, last week's C-USA Setter of the Week, has a total of 424 assists in 41 sets this season. Cavanaugh has 113 kills in 12 games.
Lucas, Cavanaugh highlight young Lady Topper squadBY JONAH [email protected]
WKU volleyball is off to a 10-2 start on the season, including a 3-2 win over then-No.8 Purdue last week, thanks to new faces on the court making an imme-diate impact in Travis Hudson’s 20th season as head coach.
The 2014 Lady Topper sign-ing class is one that is widely considered to be the best in program history, but it’s also the largest for Hudson with fi ve freshmen — all of whom
w e r e n ’ t even born when Hud-son took the job on the Hill in 1995.
This class is the fi rst recruit-ing class in program history to receive a top-30 ranking from PrepVolleyball.com.
Two freshmen that are quickly becoming familiar to WKU volleyball fans are setter Jessica Lucas and outside hit-ter Alyssa Cavanaugh.
Lucas joined the Lady Toppers as a mid-year enrollee last spring after graduating a semester early from Seymour High School in Seymour, Indiana.
“My goal was to graduate normally and go to college just like any other freshman,” Lu-cas said. “I was driving an hour and a half to club practice, and coming here early just seemed to be the right move.”
Lucas came to WKU after earning all-conference, all-area and team MVP honors all four years, leading her high
school to national rankings. In 12 games so far this season, she’s totaled 424 of the team’s 516 assists in 41 sets.
“She knew when we recruit-ed her that there was a very high chance she could step in immediately and play as our setter,” Hudson said. “The set-ter position is very much like a quarterback in football or a point guard in basketball, so she knew she needed time.”
The semester head start proved to be crucial to Lucas’ success. She came down with
mono toward the end of June following graduation and was on the sidelines the entire sum-mer for all of preseason training.
Lucas said overcoming this sickness has been the biggest obstacle of her collegiate ca-reer, and Hudson knows how crucial her extra months on the Hill have been for her de-velopment.
“She graduated early, and thank God she did because she was sick all summer,” Hudson
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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014 > WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY
New kids on the blockVOLLEYBALL
BY ELLIOTT [email protected]
While sitting on my couch watching a replay of the LSU and Louisiana-Monroe game on the SEC Network Tuesday night, a reassurance came over me that three weeks into the col-lege football season, WKU is indeed in a better place than it was a year ago.
Allow me to paint a picture here.The entire landscape of college foot-
ball has changed with the incorpora-tion of the college football playoff this year. This long-overdue installment allows the best-of-the-best to truly de-termine a champion on the fi eld rath-er than depend on a computer system to set up a championship game.
This means that, theoretically, it’s anyone’s ballgame. The power fi ve conferences of the Big Ten, Big 12, Pa-cifi c-12, Atlantic Coastal Conference
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C-USA shows proof of progression for WKU
BY KYLE [email protected]
WKU football endured the longest game of its FBS history on Saturday as the Hilltoppers dropped a dramat-ic 50-47 triple overtime decision to longtime rival Middle Tennessee, but they’ll have an off week to prepare for their next test at Navy on Sept. 27 at 2:30 p.m. CT.
The Hilltoppers currently sit at 1-2 on the season, but with both losses coming by a combined 11 points, that record could easily be 3-0.
WKU allowed 21 points in the fourth quarter of its loss at Illinois, 14 of which came off Hilltopper turnovers, and the only difference in the MTSU thriller was a touchdown to WKU’s fi eld goal in the third overtime.
Head Coach Jeff Brohm said on Tues-day he’s aware that every game on the Hilltoppers’ schedule could go either way, and that the team needs to im-prove in several different facets in an effort to prepare for that uncertainty.
“There are numerous things we need to work on both sides of the ball, on special teams,” Brohm said. “We have to use this week to improve on fun-damentals, technique and really push hard to get better. We know that there’s tough competition. The difference
between winning and losing is small. We have to fi nd ways to out-work, out-prepare and continue to improve ev-ery week.”
Brohm also mentioned that some players will use the bye week for recov-ery.
Senior tight end Mitchell Henry, who tallied seven receptions for 128 yards and two touchdowns against MTSU, injured his shoulder in one of the three
overtime periods and will use the bye week to recover. Freshman linebacker Joel Iyiegbuniwe had surgery on Tues-day to repair a patella tendon that he injured during the MTSU game.
WKU will have a unique task ahead of it after the bye week as the Hilltop-pers travel to Annapolis, Maryland for a bout with Navy. The Midshipmen
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NICK WAGNER/HERALDRedshirt senior quarterback Brandon Doughty searches for a receiver during the game against Middle Tennessee State University on Sept. 13.
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