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SPORTS TOPPERS REBOUND FROM HOMECOMING LOSS PAGE 8 DIVERSIONS POWERSAVE PROMOTES SUSTAINABILITY CAMPAIGN PAGE 5 NEWS OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY MOVES INTO NEW HOME PAGE 5 NEWS A LOOK AT SEXUAL ASSAULT AT WKU PAGE 3

Memorial to take place for deceased Glasgow student CAMERON KOCH NEWS@WKUHERALD.COM

Senior tight end Jack Doyle reaches across the goal line during WKU's 43-42 overtime loss to Louisiana-Monroe Saturday.

Doyle caught two touchdown passes in the loss. RAE EMARY/HERALD.

WKU has plenty to play for after first SBC loss BRAD STEPHENS SPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM

Sometimes it takes some adversity to see how much a team has grown up.

And when Jack Doyle, Willie McNeal and Kawaun Jakes took the podium after WKU's heartbreaking 43-42 loss to Louisiana-Monroe Saturday, it was evident the Toppers had done some maturing.

Just one year ago, after home losses to Indiana State and Arkansas State, players declined to

speak to the media.

That decision’s understandable — telling a group of people with cameras how you feel after a losing a three-anda-half hour fight can’t be that fun.

But Doyle, Jakes and McNeal, three veterans who've been around WKU for a long time, got up and answered every question asked of them.

And with his answer to a question about re-

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grouping from the loss, Doyle, the senior tight end who’s been a team captain since his sophomore year, set the tone for the Toppers.

“It’s up to the seniors to get this team to get over the loss and move on," Doyle said. “We gotta go play our next game.”

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Geology professor boasts many talents ELLA BURNSIDE DIVERSIONS@WKUHERALD.COM

high school, Wulff took voice lessons at Oberlin College’s musical conservatory after his roommate encouraged him to do so. He also continued to play in bands while in college and was a member of a punk rock band known as “The Vile Tones” and was the front man of a Motown group called “Andy and The Badness.”

Though he never thought about pursuing music professionally, Wulff found himself climbing quickly through the ranks of the opera world. Wulff said that his success in opera was directly related to football

As a former Division I football player, lacrosse player, professional opera singer, and speaker of five foreign languages, it is safe to say that Andrew Wulff, an associate professor of geology at WKU, is a man of many talents.

Wulff began his music career at age 10 in singing competitions as a soprano in choirs.

“My mom always told us ‘God made you unique and your job is to be the best that you can be with what He gave you,’” Wulff said.

While in high school he conI was... tinued to pursue music and Each Tuesday, the College Heights was in a band that covered Herald brings you a story from songs by Led Zeppelin. After professors, faculty or staff before

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Geology Associate Professor Andrew Wulff is dressed as the Duke in “Romeo and Juliet” for the Baltimore Opera Company in 1986. PHOTO PROVIDED BY ANDREW WULFF

they came to WKU.

WKU’s Glasgow campus will host a memorial service for a student found dead on campus.

The service for Glasgow sophomore Trina Lawson, 36, is in the Glasgow library at 2 p.m. on Thursday, according to a university press release.

Lawson was found dead early Friday afternoon on the regional campus.

Mandi Johnson, public information officer for the WKU Police Department, said the cause of death is currently unknown.

Barren County Coroner Mike Swift said physical trauma has been ruled out as a cause of death but that it would be four to six weeks before the autopsy report would be complete.

Swift said there was difficulty in notifying Lawson’s family because her emergency contact information as recorded by the university was incorrect.

“The school is merely the custodian of the information,” Swift said. “It falls to the students to make sure the school has the correct information.”

WKU Media Relations sent out a text alert around 2:30 p.m. on Friday informing students that classes on the Glasgow campus were canceled for the remainder of the day as the Glasgow Police Department and the Barren County Coroner’s Office investigated the scene.

WKU Counseling Services were available at Glasgow campus on Monday to offer help to students and staff who wanted to talk about Lawson, according to WKU public media.

WKU offering training for LGBT issues SHELBY ROGERS NEWS@WKUHERALD.COM

WKU Counseling and Testing Center is offering faculty and staff training on dealing with the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community on campus.

The SafeZone session, developed in the 1990s, trains faculty and staff on how to handle student-related LGBT issues.

According to the session’s homepage, schools such as New York University and Clemson University currently use SafeZone.

Eric Manley, a counselor with the center, leads the one-hour sessions. Manley said the trainings help faculty and staff understand their students better, as well as prepare them if a student struggling with issues related to gender identity needs someone to talk to.

“At the end of the training, participants are given a SafeZone sticker that they can put up in their office,” Manley said via email. “This lets a gay student know that the professor or administrator is someone safe and that they can talk to them about LGBT concerns. I think this is a very effective program because it demonstrates that the faculty, staff and administration are sympathetic to LGBT issues, and they are there to help.”

This isn’t the first time the university has offered these sessions.

Molly Kerby, assistant professor in the Gender and Women’s Studies Program, helped start the SafeZone program at

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Crime reports

Reports •Jonathan Mitchell Flint reported on Oct. 21 his car being damaged while it was in Creason lot. The damage is estimated at $100.

•A juvenile reported on Oct. 21 his wallet and money stolen. The value of the stolen property is estimated at $140.

•Policed cited Amber Paige Collins on Oct. 20 for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

•Police cited sophomore Benjamin McDaniel, Southwest Hall, on Oct. 20 for disregarding a traffic control device, possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, and possession of alcohol by a minor.

•Freshman Kevin Morgan, Barnes Campbell Hall, reported on Oct. 20 two subjects jumping on the hoods of parked cars in the University Boulevard lot on. The damage is estimated at $4,020.

•Freshman Anthony Scott Kinslow, Keen Hall, reported on Oct. 19 around $160 stolen from his room while he was sleeping.

Arrests •Police arrested Duncan Reynolds

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Kerby said the first round of SafeZone sessions died out.

“We used to have a lot of participation,” Kerby said in an email. “It just began to be hard to run.

We had spotty student involvement, and most faculty were so busy that it was hard to keep up with trainings and delivery of stickers.”

The next SafeZone session will be held in Potter

McKenzie on Oct. 21 for alcohol intoxication in a public place.

•Police arrested Maurice Lamont Sanders on Oct. 20 for a misdemeanor and felony warrant for Jefferson County.

•Police arrested freshman Philip Morgan, Barnes Campbell, on Oct. 20 for reckless driving and driving under the influence.

•Police arrested William Hailey Jr. on Oct. 19 for warrant from the Radcliff Police Department for shoplifting.

•Police arrested freshman Brandon Schmidt, Barnes Campbell, on Oct. 18 for alcohol intoxication in a public place.

•Police arrested Shelby Taylor Houston on Oct. 18 for alcohol intoxication in a public place.

•Policed arrested Ethan Coleman Porter on Oct. 18 for alcohol intoxication in a public place.

•Police arrested Greenville senior Mark Jacob Strifler on Oct. 18 for alcohol intoxication in a public place.

•Police arrested Bowling Green freshman William Austin on Oct. 18 for alcohol intoxication in a public place.

Hall at 4 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 29. Manley said the initial meeting on Oct. 18 had about eight faculty and staff participants, all of whom were engaged and participated in the discussions.

“For future sessions, I’m looking forward to reaching and training more of WKU’s employees,” he said. “I think that this is an important resource for LGBT students and I want to do everything I can to help these students have a safe and supportive con-

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and lacrosse, both of which he played at Oregon State. He also took up fencing. Because of his diversity and his physical ability, directors were able to do more with him. This made him a desirable person to cast in important productions.

Since he began performing professionally, Wulff has sung principal roles with opera companies such as the Washington Opera, the Baltimore Opera, and the Santa Fe Opera. He has also studied opera under vocal coaches Carlo Bergonzi, John Fiorito, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, and Malena Malas. He has directed more than 30 productions.

Opera is not the only place where Wulff has experienced great success.

He can speak five languages in addition to English — German, Latin, Italian, Spanish, French — and says he can speak enough Russian and Indonesian in order to “barely get by.”

When asked how his diverse experiences affect his work in the classroom, Wulff said that he thinks it’s important that his students see that he is a “whole person.”

Students have many gifts and talents outside the classroom that contribute to their life in meaningful ways, Wulff said.

“I think it is a disservice to put aside the things that make students whole,” he said. “We’re trying to prepare people for the next 40 years of their life, and their work will be a part of that, but if they have a satisfying life outside of work then they are going to be happy.”

tact. I also look forward to meeting staff and faculty from across campus so that they can also be aware of the services we provide at the counseling center.”

Manley said that while the center currently conducts the program, he’d really like to collaborate with other campus groups to grow the program. Currently, Manley said he is discussing working with the Gender and Women’s Studies Program on future sessions.

According to fellow geology professor Michael May, Wulff is a “life lesson” professor.

“It’s not just about geology for him.

I think for a lot of students he’s like a life coach,” May said. “He wants to tell you a little bit about his world but at the same time he wants to know about yours.”

May also said that Wulff is the go-to person for undergraduate students.

Every spring break he leads a group of students on a weeklong trip to the Mojave Desert in Southern California.

“What he does with students taking them out to the Mojave Desert is like an anatomy professor showing students a cadaver,” May said. “He is providing them an unobstructed view of all the parts of geology.”

Michael Powers, a senior from Bowling Green, agreed that Wulff goes above and beyond for his students.

“He’s always trying to get students involved in research,” Powers said. “It’s more than just the classroom for him.

He gives presentations to elementary school students with some of the undergraduate students and he’ll teach the kids about earth science — I’ve gone with him three times.”

Wulff spoke of his perception of how he has approached success in all of the areas he has worked in. The professor pointed directly to his department’s attitude about success.

“In our department we have a saying which is, ‘Luck is where preparation meets opportunity’ so there’s really no such thing as luck,” Wulff said. “You can’t control your opportunity but you can control your preparation.”

Study Away offers student study abroad scholarship TAYLOR HARRISON

issues,” Emslie said.

“And it’s not that they couldn’t do it — it’s just WKU’s Study Away that’s not what they’re program is offering stu- best qualified to do.” dents studying abroad Barnaby said the proja new scholarship opect proposportunity that als students involves workhave submiting on a project ted for the outside their scholarships coursework. can range Jerry Barnaby, greatly. program direc“It’s really tor for Study open-ended Away, said Study as to what Away has ofpeople want fered money for to propose,” faculty memBarnaby said.

EMSLIE bers taking stuAn example Provost dents on trips in would be a stuthe past and are dent who could expanding the help to use interviewing skills to students involved in work on a project. projects.

“You might interview “You have to make the a family that you meet effort to do more than and take pictures of just what’s in the class, them and then put it to do some sort of proj- together in some sort of piece that could be postect,” Barnaby said.

Gordon Emslie, pro- ed on the Web or might vost and vice president be used in some sort of Barnaby for Academic Affairs, exhibition,” said. said Study Away got Barnaby said a project involved with study could also be done inabroad trips because country, with students they were already doing taking materials with similar work for their them and distributing them while they are on own department.

“Faculty were typically their trip. having to spend a lot of The tentative amount time on non-academic a student could get to NEWS@WKUHERALD.COM

work on a project is $150 to $500, depending on a project and the impact it would have, Barnaby said. A group of staff members would make the decisions. The current total amount allotted for the scholarships is $50,000.

Barnaby said doing a project like this shows the experience a student has beyond the classroom and that the trip is more about benefitting the student than visiting a foreign location.

Beth Laves, associate vice president for Extended Learning & Outreach, said the scholarship has been in the works for a while. Laves said the projects students work on will benefit the university.

Barnaby said this is a unique way for students to earn a scholarship.

“Everyone’s always looking for money for Study Abroad programs, and so it’s a way to differentiate yourself from other people,” Barnaby said.

Applications for winter term and spring break are due Friday at 4 p.m.

Stand up and cheer

The sisters of Omega Phi Alpha stand and cheer along Avenue of Champions during the Homecoming parade on Friday. RAE EMARY/HERALD

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WKU ceramics students build first wood-fueled kiln

TAYLOR HARRISON

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Ceramics students have a new wood-fueled kiln because of the hours of work they spent to build it over the last two weekends.

Students worked with Lindsay Oesterritter, assistant professor in the art department, and Ted Neal, an associate professor from Ball State University to build the kiln.

Neal said he has built and fired kilns with Oesterritter multiple times over about the last 10 years.

“We kind of became friends and have followed each other through the world of ce-

ramics, so when it came time for Lindsay to want to build a kiln — we’ve kind of got a history together of building — so she called me,” Neal said.

Oesterritter said the wood-fueled kiln will give students a new way to finish their work.

The students built the kiln over a span of two weekends.

Oesterritter said the build started off smoothly, and she thought this would be a great learning experience for her students, as it was for her when she built a kiln for the first time.

“It really expanded my understanding of the process of firing, which I think is one of the more

mysterious processes in ceramics, because we do so much by hand,” Oesterritter said.

Between the two weekends, Oesterritter said she and Neal worked nonstop.

Princeton junior Brandy Young said she worked on the kiln for both weekends and it was her first experience building a kiln. Young helped with brick-laying, and mortar work.

“It is mind-blowing,” Young said. “I had no idea, like, the process and how long it would actually take. I guess we’re so used to just walking in and using what’s already available to us.”

Young said she thinks

Sexual assault an issue for all genders ELLA BURNSIDE

that because a victim did this, this and this, then ‘No wonder it happened to them.’”

According to Madariaga, sexual asStarting on the evenings of “Thirsty Thursdays” and continuing through to sault is a community issue and should the early hours of Sunday, WKU women be treated as such. Males and females warn one another of the possible, and have the ability and responsibility to perhaps imminent, danger of sexual prevent assault and she said that the assault that they face when going out to most important thing to do is break the silence surrounding this issue. parties with friends.

“When we are silent about some“Don’t wear that, you look like a hookthing, we imply that it’s okay for us to er — you’re going to get raped.”

“Don’t set your drink down at a party — do or say those things,” she said. “It’s important to speak up and say, ‘No, it’s you’ll get drugged.’”

“If you go to that party you are asking not okay for you to joke about sexual assault, or yell sexual obscenities to a to get raped.”

These phrases and more were circu- group of girls walking by.’”

Evan Pollock, a Raymond freshman, lating the hallways of Bemis Lawrence Hall on Thursday night. The statements said he thinks there is a lot guys can do to prevent sexual vioare not new or surprislence. ing to residents.

Sexual assaults “I think that guys The fear of being just need to respect sexually assaulted is reported at WKU women and build a reinstilled into almost lationship with them every college-aged Forcible Rape before they start anywoman and is one that 2006 − 1 thing sexually,” Pollock has been proven valid said. “I think guys need by national statistics 2007 − 2 to hold each other acon sexual violence. countable for treatStatistics provided by 2008 − 4 ing women right, and the Center for Disease if they see of or hear 2009 − 2 Control state that 20of anyone being mis25 percent of college 2010 − 1 treated in that way, women report expethey need to do what riencing attempted or Attempted Rape they can to prevent it.” completed rape while Madariaga said that in college.

2006 − 0 guys can lead by exThe proclamation 2007 − 1 ample. of this and other simi“It’s important for lar statistics is a criti2008 − 0 guys to intervene and cal part of serving and step up to their friend protecting college stu2009 − 0 …. Help direct them dents. WKU has many 2010 − 0 elsewhere if you see avenues with which it someone walking upseeks to educate stu*Source: WKU Fact Book 2011 stairs with a girl or guy dents about sexually that doesn’t seem to be violent crimes such as the Counseling and Testing Center and in the right frame of mind to give consent,” she said. “Make sure, as a guy or Health Services.

Elizabeth Madariaga, the Sexual As- girl, that you get consent. Help to dissault Service Coordinator at the center, tract in situations that look a little quessaid she believes the university works tionable or delegate it to someone else, very hard to create a safe environ- like the police, friends, etc.”

WKU has several programs yearment for students. She also said societal norms promote desensitization to round and in March, during sexual asviolence that makes it a lot easier to put sault awareness month, that everyone the responsibility of prevention on to on campus can be a part of.

“It’s important for men to show supthe shoulders of women.

“We tend to blame the girl for what port of victims so that victims can feel they were wearing, where they were comfortable to come forward,” Madaror specific actions rather than hold a iaga said. “Men can also participate in perpetrator accountable for why they activities that promote the awareness were capable of committing an as- of sexual violence and how it is a comsault,” Madariaga said. “It’s the idea munity issue.”

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she will appreciate her “You can only really Oesterritter said. “And finished work more now use three or four peo- since it’s a wood-futhat she have been part ple, so if you have ex- eled kiln, it just makes of the process. tra people, you might sense.”

Somerset junior Phil as well have something The first firing of the Claunch said building else going on so every- kiln is scheduled to take the kiln is really exciting. body can be utilized,” place in late November “It’s very satisfying to know that I’ll be able to fire a kiln that I helped build,” Claunch said.

The kiln wasn’t the only thing that will cook things for the group.

Oesterritter said the students built a pizza oven so they would have something to eat while working. She said the oven also provides a distraction, since only a few Ted Neal, an associate professor from Ball State, checks the stabilpeople can use the ity of the wood kiln on Friday morning off of Bennet Lane. HOPE kiln at one time.

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Opinion STAFF EDITORIAL

FANtastic:

Halfway through the season, crowd attendance becomes a bright spot for Tops THE ISSUE: After a 16,000-person crowd showing in WKU’s first home game of the season, the past two games have seen the two highest attendance records in stadium history.

OUR STANCE: After initially chastising fans for the extremely low attendance in the first home game, the Herald is here to commend fans for showing up and supporting their Toppers.

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hile the Homecoming football game ended in a heartbreaking overtime loss for the Tops, there was a highlight: attendance was announced as

22,323 — the secondlargest crowd ever, with last month’s victory over Southern Mississippi being the highest.

With attendance mattering in every home game of the season, this spells good news for the Toppers’ bowl hopes even if they possibly don’t win the conference.

Great crowd support also means an entirely new atmosphere at home games and during tailgating. Anyone familiar with attending games at Smith Stadium can see it. The lines are longer, and the seats are now being occupied. Fans are starting to show up early to find a place to sit, and people actually have to

stand up to see the game.

The Tops are starting to get national acknowledgement, and WKU is inching closer to the goals it set when it decided to move up from the Football Champion Subdivision to the Football Bowl Subdivision' recognition and support that could spell big monetary gains for the school in the future.

And finally, the fan culture of WKU football is changing, and we are happy that the attendance is starting to match the level of play the Tops are playing at.

Yet, the fans’ job is not done.

As Coach Taggart said in his post-game press

conference after the Homecoming game, there is still more foot-

ball left to be played. And three more home games are projected to be sold

out.

Even though the Tops are now tied for second place in the conference, they still have a shot at winning the conference crown. And the crowd support in the second half of the season can make all the difference, especially in a no-leadis-safe conference such as the Sun Belt.

We are pleased that the attendance has literally been through the roof, so let’s keep it up and see how the season ends and where crowd support takes the Tops.

This editorial represents the majority opinion of the Herald’s 13-member editorial board.

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PEOPLE POLL

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They have super-awesome fashion ideas and spreads on fashion.”

-Charlotte Alexander, Louisville freshman

“I guess I see what I like and take it and make my own thing out of it. With my shoes, I saw people wearing them and liked them and now wear them.”

-Kevin Anderson, Radcliffe sophomore

"I usually wear whatever is comfortable. If I think it looks comfortable, I’ll wear it. I’m not really into the flowery stuff everyone around campus is wearing."

-Krista Bayer, Spring Hill, Tenn., freshman

“It’s probably a combination of cheap warehouse places like TJ Maxx, Ross and the Rugged Warehouse. Anywhere with new clothes at nice prices.”

-Benjamin Theintz, Elizabethtown sophomore

“I want to say more of it’s a mood thing. It’s mostly my personality. I see things on TV and give it my taste. It’s really how you feel each day.”

-Kiara Cureton, Louisiville junior

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Student and sorority raise breast cancer awareness LIZ GEIMAN DIVERSIONS@WKUHERALD.COM

The breast cancer awareness event Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority hosted on Monday was a way to remember and honor victims who battled the disease. For Murfreesboro, Tenn., senior Cheryl Onwu, the event hit a little closer to home.

Cheryl, a biology/chemistry pre-med major and member of AKA, experienced the difficulties of breast cancer after her mother was diagnosed in 2006.

She lost the battle three years later. Cheryl described her mother as a healthy eater and leader of a Christian family.

Cheryl’s sister, Kathy Onwu, who works as a nurse in Nashville, said that no matter how wholesome a person is, cancer can still strike.

“It doesn’t discriminate,” Kathy said.

The sisters played major roles in orchestrating the breast cancer awareness event, called Helping Each Remember, or H.E.R. The event, which the sorority presented for the first time last year, hosts a speaker and in-

forms attendees about breast cancer. This year, Kathy addressed the group. She covered myths and facts about the disease, how it affects people, and how and when to get screenings.

“I want people to learn about when there is a change (in their bodies) and what it will look like,” Kathy said.

Cheryl was 15 at the time of the diagnosis, but noticed the changes in her mother's body.

“It was a reality check,” she said. “It was psychologically tormenting. Her cancer went into remission, and then it would come back.”

Cheryl spent winter break of her freshman year taking her mother to treatments. She could see her body getting weaker and was often frustrated.

“I wasn't mad at her, I was mad at the cancer,” Cheryl said.

In February 2009, Cheryl was in class and got a text from a friend asking if she was okay.

She had also missed a call from her father and knew something was wrong.

She called her father and sister with no answer. But when

she reached him, she learned her mother had died.

“I stopped what I was doing and started crying,” she said.

Cheryl said she stayed positive to keep her family optimistic.

Because of the experience, she was the first to raise her hand to plan H.E.R. By her side through the planning was sorority sister Nikkei Adeniran, a Dayton, Ohio, se-

nior.

“Anything I needed, Nikkei was there to help me,” Cheryl said.

Adeniran was enthusiastic about helping with H.E.R. because of the turnout last year.

“I saw the impact on the student body and the community,” Adeniran said.

From the entire timeline of her family's experience with cancer, Cheryl has gained a

After her mother lost her battle with breast cancer, Cheryl Onwu made the decision to double major in biology and chemistry in the hopes of becoming an oncologist. RAE EMARY/HERALD

Office of Sustainability to begin renovations to Regents home

PowerSave interns strive to save energy on campus LIZ GEIMAN

tal Design certified, meaning that it promotes recycling and sustainable practices.

The Office of Sustainability “That’s a challenge with an old moved to a new home after fall house like this, because there’s break, a home it aims to make as only so much you can do, but sustainable as possible. we’re sure going to do our best,” The office was previously in Ryan-Downing said. the Facilities Management office Students, faculty and staff are in Parking Structure 1, but is now encouraged to help with the renin an old home on 503 ovations, Ryan-DownRegents Ave. ing said.

Sustainability coordiThe more involved nator Christian Ryanthat students and faculDowning said she was ty can get with the renoat the future home of vation of this house, the the sustainability ofbetter,” she said. fice last spring to watch Gordon Baylis, vice bees be removed from president for research, the walls and thought it said the renovations might be a good match would give students the for her office’s needs.

RYAN-DOWNING opportunity to solve real “I knew we were out- Sustainability world problems. growing our place at coordinator “If we can engage stufacilities bad, and I was dents in saying, ‘All right, kind of scouting for new space,” here’s a house that’s not energyshe said. efficient — how can we deal The house, which was built in with that?’ and we address that 1931, will be used as a demon- real world problem,” Baylis said. stration home to promote sus- “That’s the best kind of educatainable practices. tion.”

“The idea is that there are a lot The new location is also home of people that have old houses to Big Red Bikes, Ryan-Downing like this that don’t have any in- said. sulation, that don’t have efficient “We hope that more space will appliances or heating or cooling, allow our mechanics to get more and we want to show them here’s bikes into the fleet to better meet what you can do to be more sus- demand,” she said. tainable with your own home,” John Osborne, vice president of Ryan-Downing said.

Campus Services and Facilities, Ryan-Downing said the reno- said the home will help WKU invations would include paint that form the community of the pripromotes better air quality, land- orities of sustainability. scaping with native plants, new “I think it will allow the univerwindows and energy efficient sity to demonstrate how in a very appliances. Everything inside practical way there are things the house will be sourced from that can be performed by anysurplus or reuse. one and by everyone to make The house will also be Leader- their residence more efficient,” ship in Energy and Environmen- Osborne said.

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LED lights in every building, parking lots that reflect sunlight and single stream recycling all sound like a thing of the future, especially on a college campus. However, PowerSave Campus, a sustainability organization, is working to make students aware that it is possible.

Based in California, the organization has expanded across the country.

The group, which the Alliance to Save Energy and Tennessee Valley Authority funds, now has roots at six universities, including WKU. The program, which is run by four interns and a program coordinator, focuses on spreading awareness of saving energy on campus and the community.

WKU Sustainability coordinator and PowerSave Campus coordinator Christian Ryan-Downing, who also works with the Tennessee Valley Authority, introduced the program to the university more than a year ago.

“They gave me a headsup on the program, so I applied and we were accepted,” Ryan-Downing said.

A big factor in WKU’s ac-

ceptance was the strong she said. “I want to let peosustainability program ple know what (PowerSave that already exists at the Campus) is and how they university, Ryan-Downing can get engaged.”

The interns write a said.

Specifically, Power- monthly newsletter called Save Campus must save The Live Circuit with in40,000-kilowatt hours of formation on how to conenergy on campus. To serve energy.

The August issue adhelp meet their goal, the Office of Sustainability, lo- dressed the amount of cated at 503 Regents Ave., energy it takes to produce is giving out free CFL light bottled water. PowerSave bulbs if students pledge team leader Ashley Mcto use them on campus. Cloughan said the proCompact fluorescent light cess requires between 5.6 bulbs can save 75 percent and 10.2 million joules of more energy than an in- energy per liter, which is enough energy candescent light to power a 60bulb. watt light bulb The interns are for 1-2 days. responsible for Mc C l o u g h a n educating stuencouraged dents and staff by students to get planning educareusable bottles tional events. Reand “kick the cently, PowerSave habit of buying held a “green” caplastic water reer panel, where bottles.” six people spoke Boothe deto a group about BOOTHE scribed how how sustainabilPowerSave intern WKU is already ity relates to their on its way to jobs and helped students recognize the being a “green” campus.

“There are energy-efficonnection within their cient light bulbs in every own majors.

Georgetown senior Mary building, we use natural Boothe is an English and gas instead of coal, and advertising major and is there are solar sheets at an intern with PowerSave. the Preston Center to heat Boothe works to raise the pool,” she said. “I’m awareness for the group’s excited what (PowerSave Campus) has brought to initiatives.

“My goal is to expand,” campus.”

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to come see the coach… 'What’s this I hear about you and this black crap?’ my coach asked me,” Allen recalled. “‘You need to make up your mind. Do you want to be black, or do you want to be a football player?’ “…I said, ‘coach I’ll be black all my life, and I’ll only be a football player for a short time. But playing football won’t interfere with me being black, and being black won’t affect my football.’”

The third point the men brought before the coach was the problem of “stacking” African-American players by only allowing them to try out for certain positions.

The fourth challenge was getting an African-American coach on the team.

Allen said coaches told him “you boys are out of luck” when they asked about hiring a black coach.

Despite multiple attempts by Syracuse to end the boycott, the

new passion for her schoolwork. As a pre-med student, she wants to study oncology.

“I’ve always wanted to be an oncologist, and I do especially now,” she said. “I am more passionate about it.”

She will continue her medical career path in Kentucky or Tennessee and spread awareness for breast cancer.

“As long as you learn one thing, that is enough,” she said.

Syracuse 8 stood firm. A committee reviewed the demands and sided with the players.

Allen returned to the football team and played his senior year at the university.

No NFL team would touch the players after the boycott, said Allen, who was a standout punt returner. “(The NFL) didn’t want any more activists,” Allen said.

He's now retired from a 32year career at Liberty Mutual insurance, a run that ended with him as regional manager of the Midwest Division in Chicago.

Allen said a book called “Leveling the Playing Field: Story of the Syracuse 8” will be published by the university and will be on sale next spring. A movie is also in the works, he said.

Former WKU assistant coach Terry Obee, a former NFL player, attended Allen’s presentation.

“I think (Allen’s story) was unbelievable, especially being in that situation, a college athlete and also a professional,” Obee said. “He paved the way for people like myself. The courage to lead at that time is incredible.”

If you eat, Wednesday's Food Day is for you.

WKU professor and farmer Martin Stone is encouraging attendance in this “coming together of producers, buyers and eaters.”

“If you fall into one of those three categories, you should be coming to Food Day,” Stone said.

Food Day is a national celebration of fresh, healthy, local, affordable and sustainably produced food held every year on Oct. 24, Sustainability Coordinator Christian Ryan-Downing said.

“The point of Food Day is to raise awareness about fresh, healthy, local food and to kind of push a movement in that direction,” Ryan-Downing said.

The WKU Office of Sustainability, Barren River Health District Department and the Community Farmers Market are cosponsoring a local Food Day at the WKU Ag Expo Center.

Stone, who is also an organizer of the Community Farmers Market, said the farmers market got involved in the event because it’s more than just a farmers market.

“One part of our initiative is to have community outreach, education and to bring as much local food to as many people as we can,” he said.

This year’s Food Day includes a confer-

ence, an expo, a Meet Your Farmers Night Market and a Farm Elegant fundraising dinner.

The conference lasts from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and features speakers in three different tracks, Ryan-Downing said.

Registration for the conference is $10 and includes lunch.

While the conference is going on, there will be an expo with booths set up by organizations that deal with farming, food or nutrition.

The Meet Your Farmers Night Market is a free event that starts at 5 p.m., RyanDowning said.

“We’ve invited all the farmers from this area to come out and just be there,” she said “It’s an opportunity for people to basically meet their farmers.”

Ryan-Downing said there will be hayrides and food, and some farmers might bring products to sell.

Diane Sprowl, Community Health Improvement Branch director for the health department, said she hopes Food Day will not only impact those who attend individually, but the community as whole.

“I hope that people will be more informed about where their food comes from and how local food helps the local economy,” Sprowl said. “I hope we will be able to collect contact information of people who have interests along those lines and maybe work toward assessing where we are in our community with the community food system.”

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SPORTS BRIEF: WKU SOCCER BEATS RIVAL ON SENIOR DAY Associate head coach game for WKU (11-4-2).

Chris Tinius “She thought told Ali Stahlke ‘Man, I can and her parents shoot this,’� on Sunday that coach Jason the senior deNeidell said. fender would “The keeper score on a free was cheating kick that afterout a little bit noon. and it just beat S t a h l k e her high.� proved her Freshman STAHLKE coach right, forward Lauren knocking home Senior defender Moats added the go-ahead the Lady Topgoal on a free pers’ second kick in WKU’s 2-0 Senior goal in the 42nd minute, Day win on Sunday over getting the ball past the first-place North Texas keeper on a two vs. one (13-4-2) at the WKU Soc- attack. cer Complex.

Just as impressive was Stahlke’s 35-yard kick WKU’s back line, which came 22 minutes into the helped shut out North

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“Our guys were crushed and it was good they were crushed, because they hate losing — I love that about them,â€? he said. “But I didn't want that feeling like it’s been before when we lost games‌ We’ve just got to get back to work.â€?

WKU’s first shot to bounce back from the disappointing loss comes this Saturday in Miami, where the Toppers will

Texas for the first time all season in league play. “There’s been a very strong rivalry between our schools over the years,â€? Neidell said. â€œâ€Ś On top of that it’s North Texas’ last year in the league. So add all that together and I think it made it a really special day.â€?

WKU finishes its regular season on Friday in Murfreesboro, Tenn., against rival Middle Tennessee State before starting the Sun Belt Tournament next Wednesday in Mobile, Ala. - Brad Stephens

take on Florida International.

FIU (1-7, 0-4 SBC) was picked in the preseason by Sun Belt coaches to be conference champions at the end of the year. They haven’t lived up to that hype, but McNeal said the Toppers will be ready if this is the game where the Panthers finally figure it out. “Every game is a good opportunity,� he said. “We’re always playing to see how good we can compete against ourselves, basically. With FIU being 1-7, I expect FIU to come out with everything.�

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2-1 Sun Belt Conference) will be moving on from one of the best football games played at Smith Stadium in recent memory — and a game in which they came out on the losing end.

WKU blew three separate leads — 28-7, 35-28 and 42-35, thanks to several self-inflicted errors.

The refs might’ve blown two separate fourth quarter calls — a Tyree Robinson personal foul and a “he was down� whistle that nullified what could've been a gameclinching Kiante Young kick return.

And ULM’s Kolton Browning, the sure-fire Sun Belt Player of the Year, beat the Toppers with his accurate left arm, crafty feet and allaround gutsy quarterbacking.

The Warhawks’ drizzle on WKU’s Homecoming parade culminated into a thunderstorm on the game’s last play.

Down 42-41, ULM called a twopoint conversion. Browning took the snap, spun right to elude WKU’s Xavius Boyd and found a receiver in the end zone to give to give the Warhawks a 43-42 overtime win.

With one all-or-nothing play, the Toppers’ Sun Belt title hopes were dealt a big punch to the gut. “It just hurts,� senior quarterback Jakes said.

Coach Willie Taggart has his “24hour rule,� which allows players 24 hours to hurt or celebrate after a win or loss.

On Sunday, Taggart tweeted

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that he was making the executive call to shorten the 24 hours to 18 hours.

His reason? WKU has five games left to determine the outcome of its 2012 season.

The Toppers might be a long shot for the Sun Belt championship, as they’d have to win out and ULM would have to lose two of its last five league games for WKU to win the title. “It’s out of our hands a little bit,�

Doyle said. “But we’re going to take care of what we can control and we’ll see what happens.�

It’s the right attitude at the right time from one of WKU’s senior leaders.

Five games remain for the Toppers, starting with 1-7 Florida International this Saturday.

WKU either is or will be decided favorites in four of them, with a Nov. 17 road game against Louisiana-Lafayette likely being the lone exception.

There’s no reason the Toppers can’t finish the year at least 8-4, if not 9-3 or 10-2, and get to that elusive bowl game. “I want our guys to understand where we’re at as a football team and all of our goals are still ahead of us,� Taggart said. “We’ve just got to get back to work.�

In past years, during the days of losing streaks and transitions, a tough loss like Saturday’s may have led to a couple of bad hangover losses.

But this WKU team is doing the right thing by treating the ULM game what it is — a bump in the road, not a dead end.

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She’s found more success since coming to WKU and has posted three top 10 and field competitively.

But it was high school track that finishes in six meets in 2011.

But the start to her senior season was “played a crucial role� in molding less than stellar, as WKU finished midChemweno's future. dle-of-the-pack in its first Chemweno ran in high school two meets. alongside three future OlympiShe responded on Oct. 13 ans — Vivian Cheruiyot, Janeth with a win at the Fast Cats Chepkosgei and Viola Kibiwott.

Classic in Owensboro, her “I remember this experience first individual victory in a motivated me and gave me a WKU uniform. perception that I never had Women’s distance coach about running,� Chemweno Michelle Scott said she exsaid. “My coach pushed me pects Chemweno to carry harder, and he is the person who that momentum to Kereactually brought me to the U.S. iakes Park on Saturday.

CHEMWENO as a student-athlete.� “Vasity has been trainCross country Chemweno ran first at Rend ing harder and harder each runner Lake Junior College. While there, week,� Scott said. “She she won the 1,500 meters at the will continue to get better 2009 NJCAA Outdoor Championship, through conferences and nationals.�

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performance surpassed her previous personalbest of 15 kills in a game.

Stutsman, who spent much of her night setting up Wessel for the big hits, said she was simply “feeding the beast.� “We were connecting, and Travis told me to set her every time, and they could never stop her,�

Stutsman said. “They probably knew I was going there because I literally set the ball to her every time.�

Reps with Stutsman in practice paid off against the Red Wolves, Wessel said. “We worked a lot this week in practice on mak-

ing that connection, and it worked out well tonight,� Wessel said. “We worked really hard on trying to get it perfect and it showed tonight.�

It was Stutsman who shined the next day, recording a double-double versus UALR. Stutsman tossed up 30 assists and recorded a team-high 13 digs as the Lady Toppers held UALR’s Begic to just two kills in the match. “Our focus was to contain her,� Stutsman said. “We knew she was going to get her kills, but we couldn’t let her just go off because she had a lot of kills on us last year.�

The Lady Toppers are in the last half of their conference schedule and will be on the road for the

next two weeks, starting this weekend with a trip south to face Florida International and Florida Atlantic.

WKU just wrapped up a sweep of these two teams 10 days ago in Diddle Arena.

FIU’s played just three home games this season and is 1-2 in Miami.

FIU runs an “unorganized� system according to Hudson, who said it’s hard to play regular volleyball against the Panthers.

WKU will play FIU Friday at 5:30 p.m., then will travel an hour north to Boca Raton to take on the FAU Owls Saturday at noon.

FAU is currently riding an eight-game losing streak.

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Louisiana-Monroe junior quarterback Kolton Browning (15), completes a two-point conversion pass to freshman wide receiver Rashon Ceaser (81), to win against WKU in overtime, 43-42, on Saturday. DEMETRIUS FREEMAN/HERALD

Homecoming heartbreak Toppers rebounding from overtime loss LUCAS AULBACH SPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM

No one is happy with a loss, but coach Willie Taggart at least seemed content after falling in overtime to LouisianaMonroe on Saturday.

Taggart was upbeat when he spoke at his weekly media luncheon on Monday following the 43-42 loss.

“No one was happy with that loss — we’ve set an expectation around here now and we’re trying to live up to that expectation,” he said. “So, we've got to bounce back, get back to work and get back to doing what we can do.”

He was calm in the wake of a painful loss to a top-tier Sun Belt Conference team. Saturday’s Homecoming game had been hyped as one of the biggest Sun Belt games in conference history — both teams were undefeated in the conference and it was the first meeting between two SBC schools that were currently receiving poll votes.

WKU (5-2, 2-1 SBC) rushed to an early 28-7 lead before going into halftime leading 28-21. A second half dogfight sent the game into overtime tied 35-35.

The Toppers scored first on a nineyard rush from senior quarterback Kawaun Jakes, and the ensuing extra point gave them a seven-point lead.

ULM took over on offense and needed just four plays to put six points on

the board. The Warhawks elected to go for the two-point conversion to win the game in one play, and ULM quarterback found wide receiver Rashon Ceaser in the end zone to spoil WKU's Homecoming.

Senior defensive tackle Rammell Lewis said the Toppers will have to live down that painful moment and move on.

“We have no choice to get over it,” Lewis said. “It’s not like there’s a time machine where we can go back and replay the two-point conversion. There’s nothing we can do about it.”

The loss dampened what was a good game on paper for the Toppers.

Jakes had one of his best days in a WKU uniform with 308 passing yards and four touchdown throws, both career highs. He added another score on the ground in overtime.

His receiving targets benefited from Jakes’ big day as well. Sophomore wide receiver Willie McNeal pulled in seven catches for 120 yards and a touchdown while senior tight end Jack Doyle had a career-high two touchdown catches as well.

Taggart said he was pleased to see his team upset that they lost but urged them not to take it too seriously — WKU has five games left on its schedule.

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WKU's remaining schedule

Oct. 27 Florida International 5 p.m., Miami

Nov. 1 Middle Tennessee 8:15 p.m., Bowling Green

Nov. 10 Florida Atlantic Noon, Bowling Green

Nov. 17 Louisiana-Lafayette 6 p.m., Lafayette, La.

'Syracuse 8' member preaches inner courage SHELBY ROGERS SPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM

A member of the first group of players in NCAA history to boycott a major university was in Gary A. Ransdell Hall on Monday speaking to students on the importance of finding inner courage.

Greg Allen, a 1973 Syracuse University graduate, spoke to Joseph Cangemi's psychology of sales behavior class about what he and teammates did to combat the school’s “institutional racism.”

The “Syracuse 8” successfully broke barriers at the school, encourag-

ing other major ticularly African-American universities to players. Allen review policies. said the team Cangemi doctor, a gynecalled Allen “a cologist, stated very superior he didn't like person” who to touch black helped “build a players. foundation for The eight also future athletes.” wanted stronAllen, along GARY ALLEN ger academic with seven oth'Syracuse 8' support, particer players, boymember ularly for black cotted spring players. practice in 1970 Allen said coaches after consistently being benched so white team- made him drop his biology major and cease mates could play.

This Syracuse 8 brought plans to develop an African-American studies a petition of four needs.

They protested inad- program.

“I get a call that I need equate medical care for SEE SYRACUSE PAGE 5 injured players, par-

Nov. 24 North Texas Noon, Bowling Green

If this weekend was a sign of things to come for No. 19 WKU, then expect to see some volleyball well into December.

The Lady Toppers (23-3, 9-0 Sun Belt Conference) faced two of their biggest league challenges over the weekend in Diddle Arena, welcoming SBC West leaders Arkansas State and ArkansasLittle Rock.

UALR also featured the nation’s leading scorer in sophomore outside hitter Edina Begic, who averaged 5.31 kills/ set before coming to Diddle on Saturday.

The Lady Toppers took care of business as usual, sweeping their opponents despite playing some STUTSMAN tense volleyball.

Outside hitter Both the Red Wolves and Trojans threatened to snap WKU’s streak of winning every set thus far in league play.

It was pleasing to see a positive reaction from the Lady Toppers against good competition, coach Travis Hudson said.

“We haven’t been in that position in a while, and it was good to put our kids in that spot to see how they respond,” Hudson said.

Junior outside hitter Paige Wessel and junior setter Melanie Stutsman played especially well this weekend.

Wessel threw down a career-high 17 kills on 22 attempts against ASU. The SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 7

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Chemweno ready to run for title JONAH PHILLIPS SPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM

Vasity Chemweno’s rise from a Kenyan farm to the top of the Sun Belt Conference could culminate in a cross country title on Saturday.

The senior runner will be one of the favorites to take home individual honors this weekend when WKU competes at the Sun Belt Cross Country Championships across town at Kereiakes Park.

One year ago, Chemweno finished fourth individually in the event, while the Lady Toppers finished first as a team.

She’s shooting for an even better result this time around.

“The coaches have done an amazing job preparing us,” Chemweno said. “My goal is for everybody to stay healthy and have a good race.”

A Sun Belt championship would be the perfect way for the self-described “adventure kid” to cap off her Sun Belt career.

Chemweno grew up in a “humble” rural setting in Eldoret, Kenya.

Chemweno, the eldest of six kids, spent much of her childhood running around on the family farm.

“I used to explore new places within our farm,” she said. “…I was always on the move, chasing any animal that came my way.”

It was in Chemweno’s sixth grade P.E. class when teachers realized her running talent and told her to pursue track SEE CHEMWENO PAGE 7

Through the fog

Sophomore wide receiver Boe Brand (left) and his teammates take the field before WKU's game on Saturday against ULM. RAE EMARY/HERALD