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WKU plans to improve enrollment numbers

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Somerset junior David Sams holds a mouse used in a study of long-term effects of sleep deprivation. The mice are kept in a cage with a bar that periodically moves across the cage, keeping the mice awake.

Mouse trap Professor studies sleep deprivation using mice

BY MACKENZIE MATHEWS LIFE@WKUHERALD.COM

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leep loss is something everyone experiences at some level — almost 25 percent of U.S. citizens are sleep deprived, according to biology professor Noah Ashley.

Ashley examines lack of sleep in mice to research the long-term health effects of sleep deprivation. The research project has been taking place for over a semester.

The animals are used for their docility, habitual breeding and low maintenance. Their behavior is easily observed, making them ideal for physiological studies that cannot utilize humans, Ashley said.

“They’ve really shed a lot of light on how humans work,” he said. “If it wasn’t for mouse research, we’d probably be decades behind on medical advancements.”

Mice are also useful “knockout” models. Researchers can take out a specific gene and observe the effects of sleep deprivation, in this case on animals lacking that gene. The process can be reversed to examine effects of additional genes.

Enrollment is an important factor in WKU’s financial health. Tuition and fees make up roughly half of WKU’s revenue, according to the 2014-2015 Operating Budget.

WKU had 20,456 students enrolled at WKU during the 2013 fall semester, down 668 from the 21,124 students enrolled during the 2012 fall semester.

Earlier this month, Brian Meredith, chief enrollment and graduation officer, told the Herald that enrollment for this fall semester was around 20,100 students.

Jace Lux, director of Recruitment and Admissions, said student enrollment fluctuates slightly at the beginning of each semester when students are dropped for not paying money owed to WKU. Most of those students re-enroll after they have made a payment and usually work with WKU to work out a payment plan.

Gordon Emslie, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, said WKU tries to work with students in this regard.

“They really want to be here and they will work out their financial status and we work with them on a daily basis,” Emslie said. “One student at a time.”

Lux said, a lot of the time, when people see dips in enrollment they assume it’s because the university didn’t have as many first-time freshmen coming in.

“Dips in enrollment can be attributed to students either deciding not to

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WKU Store to increase book buybacks

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The WKU Store is developing methods to break into the e-book market and provide lower textbook prices for students this spring. The store will utilize new software to buy used books online.

Scott Broadbent, course materials manager, said the bookstore will use various new technologies to locate and purchase large quantities of used books from online platforms such as Amazon.

One of these technologies is Verba software, an online software that searches for textbooks from online retailers.

Gary Meszaros, assistant vice president of Auxiliary Services, said many students do not sell their books back to the bookstore, so the inventory of used books does not always sustain the next class.

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The WKU Store plans to develop new ways for students to obtain textbooks, including buying large amounts of used books online and providing more e-book options. The bookstore also plans to allow buyback of books purchased from both the WKU Store and other retailers.

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In order to conduct research, the mice are kept awake for various durations of time using the multiple platform method. Half-inch platforms are placed around a cage, keeping the mice from lying down. Water is then poured beneath the platforms, so if they fall asleep, they fall into the water.

Eventually, the tested mice must be euthanized. Tissue is extracted to examine the results of prolonged sleep loss on the organs and genes.

“The goal is to understand the cost of sleep loss and what that can do to the body,” Ashley said.

All protocols are formed to fit policy, and researchers must make proposals to the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) in order to conduct experiments with animals.

“We have to adhere to certain regulations to make sure none of the animals are suffering,” he said. “They’re well taken care of, and they’re checked on a

We have to adhere to certain regulations to make sure none of the animals are suffering.”

- Noah Ashley routine basis.”

The IACUC oversees all research involving vertebrate animals. Approval and training is necessary to begin testing, which includes specifying why and how the animals will be used.

“The committee uses this information to make suggestions if there are any modifications that might minimize effects on the animals, reduce the number of animals involved, or use alternatives to animal involvement,”

Philip Lienesch, chair of IACUC, said.

The protocol would not be approved if potential results of the study do not justify animal use. Around 10 to 20 proposals are submitted a year, Lienesch said, so on-campus research involving animals is narrow.

Online training and in-person orientation is required to begin testing, but extensive training is not available on campus due to limited resources and the small amount of animal research, according to the IACUC Policy.

However, faculty are encouraged to attend seminars and learn from experienced animal researchers and their teams on proper, humane animal care and use.

“We really focus on being humane with everything we do with the animals,” Somerset junior David Sams said. “A part of working with the animals is learning how to handle the animal in different situations.”

Sams is beginning an independent study on caffeine affecting inflammation in the heart and the effects it

This results in forcing many students to pay the higher price of a new book.

Meszaros said the new program intends to fix this problem by increasing the inventory of used books and therefore, decreasing the cost of the books as a result.

Broadbent said the bookstore will also begin buying all textbooks from students, regardless of whether or not they were bought at the WKU Store.

“That doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to get premium dollar for everything,” Broadbent said. “But I

ENROLLMENT Continued from front come back or not doing well enough in class,” Lux said. “In terms of first-time freshmen, I anticipate that we will see a spike next (academic) year.”

The Office of Admissions hosts open houses for students around the state in hopes of bringing in more students each academic year.

“The number of people in attendance at those events, some of them have doubled from last year to this year, and there’s no guarantee that

has on sleep loss. Ashley taught him proper animal care if they are found distressed, but ultimately how to avoid stress on the animal.

“Ashley is probably the most knowledgeable individual on campus about regulations covering animal research and animal welfare in general,” Lienesch said.

Research began as Ashley saw that people who are chronically sleep deprived tend to exhibit beginning signs of cardiovascular problems, metabolic disease and an increased risk for obesity and cancer. His study looks at the primary effects behind sleep deprivation causing inflammation.

Whenever the causes are uncovered, research will turn to preventing inflammation, so eventually people will experience no impact from sleep deprivation.

“My lab is interested in looking at the physiological effects of sleep loss and how that can eventually translate into increased risk factors for disease,” Ashley said.

don't care where you bought it. I care what the product is.”

The bookstore will also begin pushing e-book options.

“We’ve actually been doing e-books for years,” Broadbent said. “It’s just something no one seems to notice.”

One department that has adopted

frequent use of e-books is the biology department.

However, Lexington freshman Kelsy Leppo does not like the e-book option for her biology course.

“I actually got the paper copy of the book because the e-book is not an effective way for me to study,” she said.

Broadbent said his goal in developing the program was to become more competitive with online textbook retailers.

“My philosophy and what I want students to think of with the bookstore is I want to be so price competitive and so easy that there’s not even a question where you’ll get your books,” he said.

that will lead to increased enrollment next academic year, but I would think it would,” Lux said. “More people are demonstrating that they are interested in WKU.” Meredith said in the last 18 months WKU had to “re-vamp” it’s communication plan to try and improve enrollment.

WKU has overhauled the methods it used to attract students. Meredith said WKU is targeting underrepresented minorities, as well as transfer and outof-state students.

“We’ve also taken our admission

counselors … and sent them to new regions and territories and they’ve gone to more places than they probably ever have in the history of the school this past year and will keep doing that for 2015’s class,” Meredith said.

Meredith said that they have slightly closed the gap in WKU’s acceptance rate and said he intends to be around 89 percent and has hovered around the low 90s for the past few years.

For the past two years, WKU has used a Competitive Admissions Index that uses a combination of a student’s high school GPA and ACT or SAT score

when enrolling students.

This has tightened up the acceptance rate to the point that WKU is denying a few more students than what it used to, Meredith said.

Meredith said this freshman class was improved from the previous one.

“The class that we have brought in this fall has one of the highest GPAs, about a 3.33 … and the ACT went up from last year to a 23.4 … and the retention rate went up as well,” Meredith said.

Meredith will give an enrollment report for this fall semester during Friday's Board of Regents meeting.

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Crime reports

• Police arrested Elizabethtown freshman Alexander Jacques for DUI, careless driving, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia on Regents Avenue and Normal Street on Oct. 25.

• Police arrested Bowling Green freshman Abdullah Alabdulwahab for instructional permit violation, failure to produce insurance card and disregarding a stop sign on Kenton Street and Meredith Drive on Oct. 26.

• Police arrested Atlanta freshman Abdulaziz Alhammad for no registration plate, careless driving, no operators license and aggravated DUI on Russellville and Morgantown Roads on Oct. 26.

• Jessica Sprankle, a Building Services attendant, reported a glass had been broken out of room 119 at Grise Hall on Oct. 26.

• Police arrested Lexington senior Eric Mattingly on College Heights Boulevard on Oct. 27 on a Fayette County e-warrant for failure to appear.

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Exhibit educates, memorializes professor

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Even in death, the late agriculture professor David Coffey’s influence is still evident, and will soon be on full display.

Coffey died in March from an illness at 64 years old.

This semester, WKU will open an exhibit dedicated to Coffey and his connections to Ecuador. Coffey organized several Study Abroad trips to Ecuador and had many connections to the country which will be reflected in the exhibit.

A collection of Ecuadorian art and maps will be showcased, in addition to interviews with those who knew Coffey.

Gallery Director Kristina Arnold is helping her gallery studies class organize the exhibit. She said the sheer scope of the project to memorialize Coffey’s life has made the exhibit a challenge for the students.

“We are sort of building the bridge as we are crossing over it at the same time,” Arnold said.

The exhibit coincides with the Year of Ecuador, a yearlong program spear-headed

by Coffey meant to spread knowledge about Ecuador.

“It is currently the Year of Ecuador, which is a major project he was working on, and unfortunately he passed away before he could see it realized,” Arnold said.

Arnold said her students have had to work hard to prepare information about Ecuador for the exhibit.

“We are trying to figure out what this exhibition is because it is lots of different things," Arnold said. "In a sense it is a memorial, in a sense it is a celebration. But it is also, we are trying to educate campus about Ecuador, and the first thing we need to do is educate ourselves.”

Bowling Green sophomore Megan Meredith is working on creating the introduction for the exhibit. She said it will include an overview of Coffey’s life as well as his travels and students.

“Through the interviews I just want to know more about his personality, and just what

they feel was the most important thing that David had done that had affected them in their lives,” Meredith said.

Dan Myers, associate professor of economics, was one of those affected by Coffey. He said that Coffey was his mentor and friend for over a decade and that many others considered him the same.

“I don’t know that I know anybody who has such a strong bond and following with such a large group of students,” Myers said.

One of the intersections between Coffey and Ecuador is that the exhibit will showcase Coffey’s collection of masks that he gifted to WKU. Coffey’s gifting of the masks was in fact what started this entire project, Arnold said.

Champaign, Illinois graduate student Alena Cieszko said she is working to prepare the masks to be taken in by the Kentucky Museum.

“That’s the hard part. There isn’t a lot of scholarship on Ecuadorian masks,” she said.

Bowling Green senior Mailey Young is putting together

a “student experience” panel and will take excerpts from Facebook posts and pictures of Coffey. Young said that several of Coffey's former students said they are willing to provide their pictures and help with the exhibit.

“That says a lot about David that they are wanting to help on this exhibition so much,” Young said.

Arnold said that many of the students that were involved in the exhibit had “one degree of separation” from Coffey, even though they didn’t know him themselves.

“One of the things is as people are looking at his pictures, they are seeing their friends,” Arnold said.

Myers said Coffey had a large influence on many people and “oftentimes he did things to help individuals grow.”

In his own experience, Myers said Coffey’s international experience helped him not only begin leading his own Study Abroad trips, but also with seeing different cultures in new lights.

Myers said Coffey taught him

WKU looks to improve retention methods

BY BRITTANY ELDRIDGE NEWS@WKUHERALD.COM WKU faculty are constantly striving to keep first-year students on the Hill for the long term.

The freshman-to-sophomore retention rate for WKU was about 72 percent in the fall of 2013, up from 71 percent in the fall of 2012, according to WKU Factbooks.

Gordon Emslie, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, said part of retention is the class experience that students have.

“Retention is one class at a time,” Emslie said. “If students are enjoying what they’re doing, they will stay.”

Emslie said if students continue to have positive experiences with instructors and other students, then they are

more likely to continue with their education.

“Two or three years ago we chose to deliberately diversify the courses that students would take,” Emslie said.

Emslie said in the past, students with developmental needs were given nothing but developmental courses for their first semester.

WKU defines students with low ACT or SAT section scores as those with developmental needs.

Emslie said this wasn’t a good idea because it didn’t get those students involved with other students, so WKU stopped that practice.

Beginning in the fall of 2011, developmental students at WKU now have a mixture of both developmental courses and regular credit courses that allow them to interact with other students.

“That was done largely to improve student success and retention,” Emslie said.

Brian Meredith, chief enrollment and graduation officer, said that WKU is trying to make sure that students are connected to the academic piece of the campus, as well as the social life of the campus.

Meredith said WKU is trying to engage students through the work of the Retention Task Force. The task force works with WKU’s colleges and deans to make sure students are connected through regular mandatory academic advising, in which students are seeing an advisor at least one time per semester.

“We are trying to continue to build that infrastructure and support for the students,” he said.

to be more open and accepting of people and cultures.

Coffey’s influence didn’t stop at the border either. Myers said that Coffey helped bring power to a town in Ecuador and even helped one of the locals from Ecuador come to WKU. But Myers said when Coffey wasn’t changing lives, he was making them laugh.

“He liked to push buttons and just sit back and watch, no matter what group of people you were talking about,” Myers said.

For Arnold, she said she hopes the exhibit captures not only Coffey, but helps to educate others about Coffey’s biggest passion.

“I feel like this exhibit memorializes David in multiple ways," Arnold said. "Number one, it talks about him specifically. But he was an educator through and through. Students talk about him as being one of their favorite teachers as testament to that. And for us I feel like we are picking up the ball and running with it and just trying to educate people about Ecuador.”

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THE ISSUE: Kentucky is about to have one of the biggest senate elections in the country.

OUR STANCE: WKU students need to care.

TVs are blaring campaign ads day and night. Political stickers have found their way to every surface in the city, and signs are mounted in a yard on every block.

Election season is upon us, and for the first time in years there’s a considerable challenger to Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-K.Y. Kentucky is ranked abysmally compared to other states in both finances and education. The U.S. Census Bureau says the Bluegrass state is the fifth poorest in the country. Many of the problems come from local and state legislatures, but plenty of power rests with our senators. Plus, McConnell’s position as senate minority leader gives Kentucky a considerable amount of political clout on the national scale.

Even locally, this election is a big deal. As a U.S. senator, current Ken-

tucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes would bring policy change that would affect WKU students. Education spending is a hot topic in the election, as well as tax reform. The two are polarized on most issues. A continued McConnell leadership would keep a Republican precedent alive in Kentucky. Either way, the outcome is going to have a big impact on Kentucky life.

Unfortunately, most students don’t care.

Voters aged 18 to 24 represented only 12 percent of voters in the last election, according to state statistics.

WKU can help change that.

Voter registration volunteers have stormed campus for weeks. With plenty of students registered, WKU can make a considerable impact on voter statistics and even the election’s outcome.

The key is getting students to actually fill out a ballot. In just a few weeks, around half the state’s population is going to be livid regardless of the winner. If students want the right to be angry, they need to cast a vote and make

the college-aged demographic mean something. Otherwise, politicallycharged Facebook rants are going to look a little silly.

Beyond voter participation, a wellresearched decision is just as important. Young people need a say in the future of this state, and the decision needs to be arrived upon using actual logical deduction.

The candidates are fully engaged in their mud-slinging match. It’s easy to get caught up in the shots being fired on both party lines. Just remember, Grimes really doesn’t have anything to do with Obamacare and McConnell can probably find a gun. When you’re picking your representative, it’s best to ignore their ridiculous advertisements.

Don’t vote for a candidate to spite or appease your parents. Don’t make your choice based off the decisions of a friend. Just look at the issues that will affect you, pay attention to the facts and go cast a ballot.

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Early morning mist covers a barn on Oct. 22 off of Big Hill Road in Madison County.

Mountain Every October, WKU’s photojournalism department travels to a different Kentucky town to document a little slice of their culture. The annual project is called the Mountain Workshops.

Each student is given a different story and tasked with creating a full picture story out of the assignment. The finished products are published in a book memorializing the city.

The participants spend day and night with their subjects for the entire week. There is no time for resting — only photography. This is a small selection of the thousands of photos taken at this year’s workshop in Berea. The small city just outside of Lexington is full of artisans, farmers and dozens of stories.

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Liam Wilson plays piano as his wife Valentina Wilson dances with Spicy Cat at their home on Oct. 23 in Paint Lick. Liam is a former piano teacher, but he gave up the profession to live a life close to nature. The Wilsons grow their own food, make many household items themselves, have no running water, use little electricity, use no plastic, use no gasoline and try to limit their use of money.

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Kailey Burns, a freshman music major at Berea College, picks a variety of fresh peppers from the Ecovillage greenhouse. The vegetables are grown through the communities Aquaponics system, a sustainable solution to harvesting fish and growing vegetables simultaneously. Working roughly 15 hours a week, she is one of two student workers who help to maintain and clean the greenhouse, making sure pipes are clean, vegetables are watered and fish are fed.

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Participants of the Mountain Workshops time-lapse section set up camera equipment to document the sunset at West Pinnacle on Oct. 23 in Berea. The Mountain Workshops hosted a time-lapse workshop led by Grant Kaye for the second year last week.

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Wrapped tightly in a warm bath towel, with his head burrowed in his father’s arms, Stellan Gonzales, 1, stares on with sleepy eyes as his father, Fred Gonzales, Jr., carries him to his room to prepare for bed.

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Treasure hunts become real with geocaching

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LOVE Spencer's barista Magnolia Gramling of Bowling Green steams milk to use in a latte. With proper technique, a barista can use the steamed milk to make a rosetta, or latte art.

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atte art has become a staple for Spencer’s Coffee, a local coffee shop nestled in the Square downtown.

Patrons are served lattes with hearts, tulips and other recognizable shapes poured on top of their beverages with the remaining foam.

For three years, the coffee shop has held a latte art throwdown, inviting latte artists from Louisville and Nashville to pour their best and raise money for the Center for Courageous Kids. They held their third throwdown, titled KY/TN Latte Art Throwdown and Caffeination Celebration on Oct. 23.

Baristas from Spencer’s in Bowling Green, Barista Parlor, Bongo Java, Frothy Monkey, Crema and Dose Coffee and Tea in Nashville and Sunergos Coffee, Quills Coffee and Vint in Louisville were among the competitors.

Kenny Smith, of Sungeros Coffee of Louisville, won the competition.

Spencer's was able to raise $1,000 for the Center for Courageous Kids by the night’s end, according to their Facebook page.

When Steve Briggs’ grandfather died in 2012, he chose to honor his name in a not so normal way: by hiding a geocache on WKU’s campus.

“Grandpa was a WWII veteran and taught me to be adventurous,” the cache reads online.

Geocaching is described as a “real-world, outdoor treasure-hunting game using GPS-enabled devices” on geocahing.com.

Started in 2000 when GPS technology improved, geocaching allows participants to find objects hidden around the globe using only the GPS coordinates they have been given.

Geocaching.com was founded shortly after the first hunting experience and has since served as the main gateway for the players, allowing users to get coordinates, hints and clues to find hidden geocaches in their area.

“I heard it from my father-in-law,” Briggs, assistant director of Residence Life at WKU, said.

While visiting his father-in-law in Nebraska in 2007, the two found a micro-cache the size of a nail head. After coming back to Kentucky and seeing the abundance of caches in the area, Briggs began caching on a regular basis.

“My best year was 2011, right around the semester break,” he said. “August and September and then the semester break — December and January — usually are my peak times. My goal, I think seven is the max I’ve had in a day and so this year, during the break, I’m going to go and have a day of 20.”

Briggs has traveled as far north as Wisconsin, as far south as Florida and was even able to get three states in one trip during a visit to Chattanooga with his wife. During one cache hunt where the new hotel by South Campus is located, Briggs found himself face-toface with a stray cat sanctuary.

“There’s all these Rubbermaid tubs turned over and someone would go out and feed them,” he said. “I counted 30 (cats).”

The hidden object could be anything, but it is normally a waterproof container with a paper log of everyone who has found the cache and some trinkets that are up for trade, including small toys, money or, in Briggs’ case, an Army man.

“My little thing is an Army man,” he said. “So, if you ever find one that I’ve been at, there’s usually an Army man associated with it.”

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Students visit, support long-term care residents

BY KIERSTIN KIRK LIFE@WKUHERALD.COM Imagine feeling isolated to one building and hardly having any visitors to communicate feelings and thoughts to. Many long-term care residents in nursing homes have to endure this situation for years.

Marybeth Hunt, the advisor for Companions of Respected Elders, said national statistics show that 60 percent of long-term care residents receive one or zero visitors per year.

“So there are many residents who don’t get that support from friends or family or someone outside the facility,” she said.

Hunt is working along with WKU students to impact the lives of these residents through CORE, an on-campus organization. Two pre-med students started the club about two or three years ago.

“They had visited their grand-

parents in nursing facilities and saw the need for those residents to have visitors, especially those who didn’t get very many visitors,” Hunt said.

The club now has about 15 regular members. Students who want to get involved with CORE can have a major of any kind. The club encourages students to join if they have the desire to change the lives of residents.

“What we try to do is bridge that gap between the community and the facility and provide that companionship to residents,” Hunt said.

CORE provides companionship in monthly and once-a-week visits to Signature HealthCARE of Bowling Green, a nursing and rehabilitation center. The club tries PHOTO COURTESY OF MARYBETH HUNT to visit every month and gain WKU's Companions of Respected Elders participated in the Resident Council Conference hosted connections with the residents by handing out cards and playing by the Barren River Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program. CORE won first place in the table-decgames. orating contest with "Fall for WKU" as their theme. CORE members served lunch to the residents SEE CORE PAGE B2 and staff of Signature HealthCARE of Bowling Green who attended the conference.

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WKU concludes Fall World Series in preparation for 2015

BY BILLY RUTLEDGE SPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM The WKU baseball team completed its annual Fall World Series at Nick Denes Field last week. The intrasquad five-game series wraps up over a month’s work of preseason preparation for the 2015 season. The Red team defeated the Black team three games to one.

The Red team, which was drafted by volunteer assistant coach Casey Dykes, dropped the second game of the se-

ries, but went on to win the remainders. Returning players senior shortstop Cody Wofford, redshirt senior catcher Ryan Messex and junior lefthanded pitcher Austin King headlined the winning squad.

Wofford finished the series 6-of-13 at the plate with three home runs, three RBIs and three singles. Wofford also hit a walk-off home run in game one of the series. Messex went on to tally four hits, one home run and three RBIs. King, from Canyon, Texas, will be in contention as a

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Continued from SPORTS himself in the WKU record books with five first-half touchdown passes. In addition, his 34-yard touchdown pass to sophomore receiver Taywan Taylor in the second quarter broke Kawaun Jakes’ single-season passing touchdown record of 22 set in 2012. Doughty has five more games to extend his record, which now sits at 24.

WKU’s longest offensive scoring play against ODU came on a 45-yard touchdown pass from Doughty to redshirt senior receiver Joel German for his first-career touchdown. The 66 points

GEOCACHING Continued from LIFE Briggs said that the cache hidden for his Grandpa currently has coupons, a bead and an eraser stashed in it with the paper log.

Geocaching has evolved since its first debut and now has different elements that go into the hunts. Multi-caches involve finding smaller caches that give clues to where the final one is located. Cache In Trash Out is a way for geocachers to help clean up the environment while searching for their treasures. Virtual caches, like one found near the middle of campus, require the finder to take a picture of themselves at the logged location and upload it online to find the treasure.

Travel bugs and geocoins are used by participants to keep track of where their items have traveled. The owners can log the bug online and put in a desired destination. They then put it in a cache and allow others to find it and bring it to its next spot until it reaches its final destination, logging its journey for the owner to keep up with.

“The travel bug that I have, it’s an American flag, it’s in Maine right now,” Briggs said. “My goal was for it to go to Europe and be on the Normandy Beach.”

Briggs had hoped the bug would reach the D-Day beach by its 70th anniversary last year, but is happy that it is still on its way.

There are more than 14,000 records

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For the weekly visits, the nursing home matches a student to a resident by their personality characteristics.

Then the student can visit the resident once a week on the student’s own time.

Lexington junior Hannah Ruggles visits a 59-year-old woman every week who has been in care for three years now.

“The woman I visit is a lot more fun than I thought she would be because she’s very vocal and loves to talk about herself,” Ruggles said.

weekend starter during the 2015 season. During game three of the Fall World Series, King struck out eight batters and retired 13-straight to lead the Red team over the Black team, 3-2.

“These guys really work hard and stepped it up as a club,” Head Coach Matt Myers said.

“From a preparation and work standpoint, our practices have been much better this year. Getting up at 6 a.m. in the weight room and doing things that we haven’t done in the past to have a better work

scored ranks as the second-most for any team in conference play this season, but German said the offensive success should come as no surprise.

“I’m not surprised because I really believe in our offense,” German said. “I feel like that’s what we’re supposed to do.”

While the WKU offense ranks No. 5 in the country at 554.7 yards per game, the Hilltopper defense ranks secondto-last in total defense, allowing 549.4 yards per game, which is a mere 4.2 yards per game less than the NCAA’s worst statistical defense.

The Hilltoppers used a 96-yard interception return for a touchdown to seal their win against the Monarchs, mark-

posted in the 42101 zip code on geocaching.com.

Dan Bays, a Lost River Cave volunteer, has hidden more than 300 of those, choosing locations he feels visitors need to see.

“If you think somebody needs to be brought to a place, you put one there and it brings them to there,” Bays said. “I’ve got almost 4,000 people I’ve brought to the Lost River Cave myself.”

Bays was first prompted to begin geocaching after buying a GPS in 2005.

Today, Bays spends much of his geocaching time at Lost River Cave, showing visitors where the caches are hidden, taking elementary students on the explorations and organizing geocaching weekends where tourists can come and explore the parks.

“The first of August I did a ‘Caching the Cave’ event,” he said. “They gave me, like, 85 free boat rides…we had a log book in the back of the cave so they let me fill the boats up and take people back there for free.”

Bays also gave Lost River Cave two pre-programmed GPS units they can lend out to those wanting to explore the park. There are also smartphone apps that can be downloaded to allow those who do not own a GPS to join in on the fun.

Briggs’ has found 134 caches since he joined the geocaching.com community in December 2008.

“It’s a geeky treasure thing to do that I like,” Briggs said. “It’s just my quirky way.”

The members of the club believe the impact they have on the residents is benefiting them in many ways. Just visiting a resident once a week can make a huge difference.

“I think the biggest impact this has may be simply reassuring residents that they aren’t forgotten and that people care for them,” Hunt said.

She also believes the club has an impact on students as well as residents.

“I think that the young people are making an effort and I think that’s a great example for other students on campus,” Hunt said.

ethic. I like where they are at.

We have the next five weeks to fine-tune, but I love the potential.”

The Black team, drafted by undergraduate assistant coach Devin Kelly, featured two of WKU’s biggest hitters: seniors first baseman Ryan Church and designated hitter Phillip Diedrick lifted their team to a 6-4 victory in game two.

“We have a lot more guys returning offensively than our pitching staff,” Myers said. “Phil Diedrick has been

ing their fourth 80+ yards defensive touchdown this season, which is the most in the NCAA. However, after giving up 643 yards and 51 points against ODU, the WKU defense is still searching for the balance it needs to be successful.

“Without question, we have to get better on defense,” Brohm said. “We didn’t tackle well. We had too many missed tackles. We gave up too many big plays.

We didn’t get off the field on third and fourth down as much as we’d like, so there’s definitely a lot of improvement to be made. …We have to keep shuffling the deck a little bit, and let guys know if they’re not going to perform at a high level, we’re going to try someone else.”

the best hitter all fall — he only struck out three times throughout the series.”

With the Fall World Series over, WKU baseball will be out of action until 2015. The first game will be on Feb. 15 against Maryland in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. With a long way to go, Myers is pleased with what he’s seen so far.

“We’ve got to get better because the schedule is going to be very challenging, but this is going to be a team that a lot of people won’t want to play,” he said.

On a positive note, the Hilltoppers managed to hold the Monarchs to a zero-point fourth quarter, which marks the first time this season that WKU has held an opponent to a scoreless final period. Junior defensive lineman Ge’Monee Brown said the strong defensive showing in the fourth quarter should carry over to this Saturday’s matchup against Louisiana Tech.

“Obviously, the first three quarters weren’t very good, but it’s better late than never,” Brown said. “In Saturday’s case, it was good that we came up at the end and made some plays with Juwan (Gardner) getting the pick-six and Bryan Shorter getting the sack.”

Calendar TUESDAY, OCT. 28 SGA meeting 5 p.m.

DSU 2081

Spades Tournament 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

DSU 1037

Sex in a Fish Bowl 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

DSU 3025

Phi Mu Lip Sing Contest 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

DSU 1071

National Dance Company of Ecuador 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Van Meter Hall

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 29 Trew Friends Event Organ Donation Challenge 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.

DSU 1000A

Urban Dictionary 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

DSU 3025

Trivia Night 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.

DSU 2123

THURSDAY, OCT. 30 Lancaster-Puckett Lecture 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.

DSU 3024 Why Can’t I Be Safe in My Own Home?

6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

GRH 1074

CAB "Fright Night" 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

DSU Courtyard Fright Nite 9 p.m. to 11:59 p.m.

DSU 1037

FRIDAY, OCT. 31 Historical Halloween 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Centennial Mall

Board of Regents 9 a.m.

Regents Room

Scare on the Square 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Fountain Square Park

Lily Plants a Garden 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.

GWH 0100

Rocky Horror Picture Show 10 p.m. to midnight Capitol Arts Center

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VOLLEYBALL Continued from sports us down in the first set and that will never continue throughout a match,” Hudson said. “Our offense is in the top 20 in the nation. Our offense will come if we stay the course, but when we struggle offensively, we start to panic and blow defensive assignments.”

Offensively, Cavanaugh put down 15 kills and Boyan added another 11.

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Errors hurt both teams in the fourth set, as both hit below .100 for the frame. An ace from sophomore defensive specialist Kaelin Grimes tied the set at 19 before consecutive kills from junior outside hitter Haley Bodway, Lucas and Boyan had WKU with match point at 24-21. An attack error on the Owls sealed the deal.

WKU hits the road for three matches over the next two weekends, starting with UAB on Friday.

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The Lady Toppers celebrate after scoring a point during the third set of their match against Florida Atlantic. WKU went on to defeat the Owls in four sets.

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2014-2015 FACULTY AWARDS Faculty Award for Teaching Faculty Award for Research/Creativity Faculty Award for Public Service Faculty Award for Student Advisement Nominations for WKU full-time faculty members are now being accepted for the 2014-2015 college and university-wide Faculty Awards. The area of University Libraries may select two awardees: one for research/creativity and one for public service. The College of Education and Behavioral Sciences, College of Health and Human Services, Gordon Ford College of Business, Ogden College of Science and Engineering, Potter College of Arts & Letters, and University College - may select four awardees: one for teaching, one for research/creativity, one for public service, and one for student advisement. Only full-time faculty members are eligible for these awards, and each nomination must be for a single individual (joint or team nominations are not accepted).

Nominations may be made using the form below or completing the nomination form available in the Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs or the Academic Deans and Departmental offices. The deadline for submitting applications is Friday, November 14, 2014. The College winners of each award will be considered for the University-wide awards, and one overall winner in each category will be chosen. The WKU Alumni Association makes a cash award to each recipient of the university-wide awards and the university provides an engraved silver bowl to each. The award winners are recognized annually at an appropriate ceremony.

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It’s much more difficult now with games going right down to the wire.

“It’s not easy to beat teams, but we continue to play and eventually end up on top,” Langenkamp said. “It’s more tiring, but you have to do what you have to do to get the win. It’s just a stamp and a trademark of our team now.”

WKU fans have been spoiled in recent years with the product this team has put on the floor. Outside of last year’s abrupt end in the Sun Belt Conference Tournament, the Lady Toppers spent the last two seasons as conference champs with NCAA Tournament trips.

If you include the conference games already played this year along with the last three years in the Sun Belt, WKU

is 57-3 in regular-season conference games.

It doesn’t take a mathematician to know that’s a pretty darn good record.

But Hudson threw all that out the window this year. When the team set its preseason goals in August, he crushed the idea of the reality of this team making an at-large bid for the NCAA Tournament because he thought there was no way it would happen this year.

There are still five matches left in the season. There’s still plenty of time for things to go wrong, but there’s also still plenty of time for this team to keep surprising its coach.

“Every day is an obstacle for us,” Hudson said. “The fact that this team — full of youth replacing some of the all-time greats that have ever played here — is 22-5 may be one of the best seasons we’ve had here.”

SOCCER

WKU soccer nabs postseason berth

BY JOHN REECER SPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM Despite a 1-0 road loss to LA Tech on Friday, WKU soccer clinched its firstever Conference USA Tournament berth in its first season in the league with a 2-0 rebound victory against Southern Miss on Sunday.

The victory improves the Lady Toppers’ record to 10-6 on the season and 5-4 in conference play. WKU now sits in fifth place in the conference with 15 points — just one point shy of rival Middle Tennessee.

WKU’s 15 points clinches a postseason berth for the Lady Toppers, as the top eight teams in the conference make the tournament.

“This was such a big win for our program today,” Head Coach Jason Neidell said. “This team has made history being the first team in school history to make it into the Conference USA Tournament. It also says a lot they were able to do this in our first season as conference members.”

While Sunday’s win marks one of the more notable victories in program history, it wasn’t all fun and games for the Lady Toppers this weekend, as they dropped a 1-0 decision at LA Tech on Friday.

LA Tech managed to play stifling defense against the Lady Toppers, limiting WKU to only five shots, two of which were on goal. The Lady Bulldogs scored the game’s lone goal off a header from a corner kick late in the first half.

“Louisiana Tech is a team that just doesn’t lose on their small home field,” Neidell said. “They are very athletic, and they executed their game plan to perfection. Corner kicks have been a problem defensively for us all season and it showed today. We, as a coaching staff, have to change the way that the team defends it.”

The match against LA Tech did prove to show some positives for the Lady Toppers. The Lady Bulldogs entered the match with the fourth-highest goal total in the nation (48), but the Lady Topper defense held them to one goal and just two shots on target.

Star forwards Iris Dunn and Lauren Moats led the team to its victory against Southern Miss as Dunn, a sophomore, scored in the 54th minute off a header. Moats, a junior, added to the lead in the 73rd minute off an assist from freshman midfielder Hannah Chua.

“Iris has really come along these past couple of weeks in conference play,” Neidell said. “She is an amazing competitor, and her toughness really rubs off on her teammates.”

The Lady Toppers will travel to Denton, Texas this Friday for their last regular season game against North Texas, who currently sits atop the conference standings at 7-1.

“We are looking forward to battling North Texas on Friday,” Dunn said. “A win against them will give us huge momentum heading into the conference tournament.”

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Despite lack of experience, WKU volleyball stays dominant

BY ELLIOTT PRATT SPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM It’s been business as usual for WKU volleyball.

Remember when Head Coach Travis Hudson said before the season started that he wouldn’t be surprised if things went wrong for his young team, or if his team ran out of the gate on Elliott Pratt fire?

The Lady Toppers currently sit at 22-5 overall on the year and moved to 10-1 in Conference USA with a 3-1 win over Florida Atlantic on Sunday.

So despite all the inexperience that worried Hudson before the season started, it’s been just another day at the office for the Lady Toppers. But we’ve all had those days where the office is flat out exhausting.

“I’m just spent because every day there’s so much to keep my mind around,” Hudson said. “We’re having to lean heavily on some of our upperclassmen.”

While I trust that Hudson is indeed relying on these upperclassmen, it must be more of an internal or mental leaning.

Three of the top five scorers on this team are freshmen: outside hitter Alyssa Cavanaugh leads the team with 289 kills, setter Jessica Lucas has 137, and middle hitter Sydney Engle has 133.

And those upperclassmen? Senior middle hitter Heather Boyan and junior middle hitter Noelle Langenkamp are holding down the net with 101 and 88 blocks, respectively.

This freshman class of Cavanaugh, Lucas, Engle, defensive specialist Jackie Scott and middle hitter Amara Listenbee is arguably the best class Hudson has recruited in a long time, and those numbers back that statement up.

But WKU is playing a different style of volleyball this year, and whether you’re dealing with veterans who have been to the NCAA Tournament or 18-year-olds who were taking the ACT less than a year ago, change isn’t easy.

This isn’t a team that’s going to beat opponents like rag dolls in three sets.

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Junior running back Leon Allen (33) advances the ball downfield during the first half of the WKU vs. Old Dominion game at Smith Stadium on Saturday. Allen had 32 attempts and two catches for a total of 213 yards and two touchdowns.

Opposites don't attract

Hilltopper offense, defense on different ends of the spectrum

BY KYLE WILLIAMS SPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM With five games remaining on the regular-season schedule, WKU football is searching for balance.

The Hilltoppers (3-4, 1-3 Conference USA) have seemingly found that balance on the offensive side of the ball, but the defense has been a different story thus far.

Saturday’s win over Old Dominion yielded an FBSrecord 66 points on just 71 plays, which included a total of 601 yards — 371 through the air and 230 on the ground. The win marked the first time WKU has rushed for more than 200 yards this season, followed by the Hilltoppers’

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Redshirt junior defensive back Prince Charles Iworah (30) reaches to tackle Old Dominion's Melvin Vaughn during the first half of the Old Dominion game on Saturday.

184 yards in their 42-39 loss to UAB on Oct. 4.

“I think the balance that

we were able to have this last game helped us,” Head Coach Jeff Brohm said. “Not

only to move the ball, but get in less third-down situations. I think we were 5-for8 on third downs, which is not a lot of third downs when you score that many points, so that helps the offense be successful.”

Junior running back Leon Allen led the Hilltopper rush attack with a careerhigh 182 yards on 32 carries for two touchdowns. Allen added two receptions for a total of 213 all-purpose yards. He is currently one of eight running backs in the nation with more than 700 rushing yards and 200 receiving yards this season.

Redshirt senior quarterback Brandon Doughty made even more room for

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VOLLEYBALL

Lady Tops remain unbeaten at home with weekend wins

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WKU volleyball (22-5, 10-1 Conference USA) kept its home unbeaten streak alive this weekend by defeating Florida International (6-17, 3-7), 3-0, and Florida Atlantic (15-8, 6-4), 3-1, this weekend in Diddle Arena.

The Lady Toppers are now 11-0 at home this season and their 22-5 record is the best in C-USA. The team got the ball rolling on Friday night against FIU, commanding the vast majority of the game and winning with scores of 25-11, 25-13 and 25-20.

Leading the charge for the Lady Toppers was senior middle hitter Heather Boyan, who notched her fourth-straight match without an attacking error.

“This whole week we’ve just been talking about playing with a lot of energy, and I think that really helped us,” Boyan said. “I just try to get excited about every point that we win.

That energy has to come from somewhere. I just do whatever I can to be loud and positive.”

Boyan tallied 14 kills, hitting .636 for the match while adding five blocks and three digs to her stat line on the evening.

“I thought (Friday) was one of Heather’s best performances of the season, and not just because she hit at a high percentage,” Head Coach Travis Hudson said. “Heather probably made 10 plays on balls that were chipped over the net. She just stayed engaged in every play we made, and I was just really, really pleased in the way she played.”

Sunday’s matchup proved to be more of a challenge

for Hudson and his youthful squad.

A stout defense, led by sophomore defensive specialist Georgia O’Connell with a career-high 19 digs, proved to be the difference maker for the Lady Toppers against FAU in a game where WKU’s offense uncharacteristically struggled.

“They played with so much energy,” junior middle hitter Noelle Langenkamp said. “I think we were just trying to match their level of intensity.

Volleyball is such an emotional sport — you just have to. If you are able to match it, then the more talented team will win.”

Freshman setter Jessica Lucas proved to be vital on both sides of the ball for WKU, notching a double-double with 47 assists and 12 digs.

Boyan, again, would put up an attention-grabbing per-

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Sophomore defensive specialist Georgia O'Connell bumps a ball during the third set of WKU's match against Florida Atlantic on Sunday. O'Connell tallied a career-high 19 digs. formance, adding three solo blocks to her total of eight on the contest. Langenkamp added five of her own while Lucas had four and freshman outside hitter Alyssa Cavana-

ugh recorded three.

“My only thought after the first set was to keep my team calm because our offense let

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