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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2014 > WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY > VOLUME 90, ISSUE 19

Enrollment discussed at Regents meeting

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BY KAE HOLLOWAY NEWS@WKUHERALD.COM After much anticipation, enrollment numbers for the fall semester were released last Friday. Brian Meredith, chief enrollment officer, brought the official statistics from the fall census to the Board of Regents meeting Friday, Oct. 31. Enrollment stands at 20,178 students this semester — a drop of 278 students from last fall’s enrollment of 20,456 students. “Undergraduate enrollment is flat with just a .3 percent difference, or 58 students, graduate is lagging just a little bit there and can pick up and we’re working on that,” Meredith said. Undergraduate enrollment dropped from 17,517 last fall to 17,459 this fall. Graduate enrollment dropped from 2,939 last fall to 2,179 this fall, a difference of 7.5 percent, or 220 students.

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Minton hall flood damages elevator

REMEMBERED Friends, family reflect on student's life

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NEWS@WKUHERALD.COM The recent flooding of Minton Hall due to a pipe burst has left residents with one working elevator. Brian Kuster, executive director of Housing and Residence Life, said that the water damaged the elevator car electrical equipment. The damaged elevator has been out of order since Saturday, Oct. 18. Kuster said HRL is currently working with KONE Elevators to get the elevator back in service. “Their estimate to replace the damaged components is over $32,000,” Kuster said. Kuster said the WKU Student Life Foundation will pay for the repairs. Kuster said HRL issued a purchase order for the parts on Oct. 24. Kuster estimated that the elevator should be repaired within the coming weeks. “Once the parts arrive they will immediately begin the repair,” he said. Louisville freshman Madigan Dial said having one working elevator

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an English said he and his son, Tyler, had the kind of relationship most fathers and sons don’t get to have. “We were best friends,” Dan said. Tyler, who was a sophomore from Louisville, died in a house fire on Oct. 31. Dan said it really hit him at Tyler’s viewing on Sunday how much his son had meant to so many people when more than 1,000 people came. “It amazes me how many friends there were that loved him,” he said. So many people said that Tyler had been an inspiration to them, and Dan said that was the nicest thing anyone could say because it showed “the influence and the love that he had and people had for him.” Dan said Tyler loved football. He had planned to play football for WKU, but a car accident in the summer of 2012 kept him in the hospital for two or three months, and rehab took a year. He was unable to play, but he joined the recruiting staff for the football team. Dan said Tyler “absolutely cherished” getting to be a part of the team, despite being unable to play. When Tyler was being recruited in high school to play college football, he and Dan would take road trips to visit different colleges’ football camps. On one trip, they drove to the University of Notre Dame and Ohio State University. But instead of going home, Tyler said he SEE ENGLISH PAGE A2

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Cancer survivors share stories, remember loved ones

BY AARON MUDD

NEWS@WKUHERALD.COM Candles burned in the stands of Smith Stadium Saturday night forming a giant glowing hand that signed “I love you” in American sign language. About 300 Relay for Life participants lapped around the field carrying glow-sticks while the song “In Christ Alone” by Passion echoed in the stadium. The ceremony honored Crestwood senior Luke Sparks’ father and others impacted by cancer. David Sparks has stage 4 kidney cancer and was recently told by a

doctor that he has weeks to live. Mt. Washington senior MeriCatherine Small, chapter president of Alpha Xi Delta sorority, spoke about the Sparks family and how the “I love you” hand sign reminds them of heaven. “It’s something that’s very meaningful to the Sparks family and to everyone that’s really close with them,” Small said. Participants from 28 teams gathered for a night of cornhole and hula-hoop contests to sell waffles, hot chocolate and other treats to raise money for cancer research. Goshen sophomore Tony Pied-

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Participants in the 2014 Relay for Life event listen during the Luminaria Ceremony, honoring those who have fought or are currently fighting cancer. Lit luminaries in the bleachers formed the hand sign for "I love you" in honor of the Sparks family.

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would really like to visit Florida State University, too. So they just kept driving. “Those are some of my best memories because we got to spend so much time together on the road,” he said. Along with his passion for football, Tyler loved music. He was in a band, Useless Fluke, with a good friend Riley Walz. Tyler played guitar in the band. “We really bonded in a way most people couldn’t, through music,” Walz said. Walz said he and Tyler also loved to go fishing and swimming at a five-acre pond near Tyler’s house. They had contests to see who could catch the biggest bass. Walz said he

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President Gary Ransdell said that as far as undergraduate numbers, progress has been made. Graduate numbers, however, prove that work still needs to be done. Meredith, Ransdell and other board members are hopeful that the higher ACT scores brought in by the current freshmen class will improve retention. Scores are up .6 points from last year’s class, raising to an average of 23.29 from 22.75. “I’m confident that we will achieve the 75 percent retention rate targeted in our action plan for the current year,” Ransdell said. Meredith also announced to the Board that part-time enrollment is down, a statistic he attributes to nontraditional students increasing their time in the workforce. However, KCTCS transfer student numbers are up. “Typically transfer numbers come in in January strong, but we’re having a good steady pace of transfers this fall,” Meredith said. “We are sending academic advisors, financial aid counselors… to those schools on a regular, on going basis to advise those students.” WKU has dual enrollment programs at seven KCTCS schools, a school in Evansville and another in Gallatin, Tennessee that Meredith said are aiding in making the transfer process to WKU easier. The Enrollment Report also found that the number of Brazilian students enrolled at WKU increased 2,516.7 percent from last fall, growing from a population of six students to 157. The leap landed Brazil in the top three international enrollment countries, with Saudi Arabia topping the list and China in second. Raza Tiwana, chief international officer of global recruitment, said that many of the Brazilian students are coming to WKU on full-ride scholarships. Bringing the students to the states has involved networking and relating to potential students abroad that WKU has something to

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Continued from Front monte volunteered at the event and wore a picture of family friend Lyne Church. “She passed away this week on Tuesday,” Piedmonte said. Piedmonte said Church was diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer and that she survived a year before losing her battle. Piedmonte described cancer as a universal disease. “It really is an undiscriminating disease,” he said. “It’s a problem for everyone. So I think it’s really important that people continue to come out and support people because people can be healthy and then they can just not be and it’s really shocking and people really need that support and love.” The night’s events began with a small Survivor Reception in Downing Stu-

NOVEMBER 4, 2014 remembered a time when he had caught a pretty good bass, and Tyler hadn’t caught anything. But then Tyler hooked something he thought was a big catch, and looked at Walz as he tried to reel it in, convinced he would win. It turned out to be a tree trunk stuck on the bottom of the pond. “I ragged on him for a while about that,” Walz said. “It was just always a good time out there.” He said that no matter what, Tyler always had an extremely good outlook on life. “He loved his life,” Walz said. “He lived in the absolute present.” He said Tyler was goofy, witty, funny and also served as a “big brother” to his friends. “If we were having a bad day, we

offer and accommodate them. “The Brazil government actually has a scholarship program that they outsource… so it’s basically just making the connection with them,” Tiwana said. “(The students) are very highly motivated and high achievers.” Meredith and Tiwana said the university can expect an increase in enrollment in students from the country of Oman, south of Saudi Arabia, next year. During the meeting, the Board also approved of a new doctoral program for the psychology department, a doctorate of psychology in applied psychology. “Our program is going to be focused mainly on folks who already have master’s degrees, so we will be bringing in people who have already had some training in psychology and giving them that extra step in getting that doctoral degree,” Rick Grieve, professor of clinical psychology, said. Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Gordon Emslie said the program will have to go through approval and accreditation processes before it’s fully implemented and able to accept applicants. The program’s proposal will go through the Council on Postsecondary Education during their meeting on Nov. 21. The proposal will also be sent to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). “Because it’s a new degree type… SACS requires that we submit something that’s called a perspectives, that requires board approval before we submit to SACS,” Emslie said. The program would be able to accept students by fall 2015 and will accept 10 students. “It’s a doctoral program, it’s really intense, so we won’t be admitting a hundred students at a time,” Emslie said. Two professors, Lauren Notheisen, an art professor, and Lou-Ann Crouther, an English professor, were approved for emeritae status. Other items on the agenda included presentations on the Forensics team,

dent Union hosted by Louisville senior Kelsie Price. Price suffered from leukemia herself when she was 12 years old. She’s been in remission since 2005. Price said her family helped her get through her battle with cancer. “My dad always made sure I had a smile on my face,” Price said. “He would always sit up there at the hospital with me for hours and days at a time just making me laugh, and my mom was just always there.” Price said her mother missed work and made a lot sacrifices for her when she was sick. Her mother later developed lung cancer while she had lupus. “So she died about three or four years later after I got well,” Price said. Price met Ciera Hobgood, a freshman from Louisville, while she was mentoring kids at Camp Quality in Louisville where kids with cancer can enjoy s’mores by campfires, horseback

would look at him and we wouldn’t be having a bad day anymore,” Walz said. Tyler was also a great big brother to his two younger sisters, according to his dad. “When it came to his family, he was very overprotective of his two sisters,” Dan said. “He couldn’t have been a better big brother.” Louisville junior Travis Holtzclaw, a friend of Tyler who was one of his roommates, said Tyler was the nicest person you would ever meet with the biggest heart. Holtzclaw said Tyler would mostly be remembered for putting others before himself. “He taught me more than any of my peers because of the trials and tribulations he had to go through…,” he said.

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Continued from front makes the process of getting to her room much slower. “I live on the ninth floor and when there is only one working elevator, it stops on every floor,” Dial said. Dial said she looks forward to the second elevator getting repaired. “The wait time for the working elevator seems so long,” Dial said. “It’s not really a problem, just something that’s a little aggravating after a long day of classes.” the Study Abroad program and successes of WKU social media. The Board also approved of personnel actions presented by the Finance and Budget Committee and the filing of the First Quarter Statement of Revenues and Expenditures was tabled. The meeting concluded with the swearing in of Barbara Burch, newly elected faculty regent. As stated in the Constitutional Oath of Office taken by all on the board, regents are not allowed to have dueled with deadly weapons, have plans to duel or have assisted in a duel in any way. The room filled with a gentle laughter as Burch assured the group that she had never been in a duel with deadly weapons. “I haven’t done that, but I’m not sure whether to say ‘I do’ or ‘I haven’t,’” she said. Burch, the former provost, ran unopposed in an election on Oct. 15. “For me, I really do mean it when I say this is an honor,” Burch said of the position. Burch replaced Patricia Minter, who held the faculty regent position for seven years. “I look forward to working more on my research, my scholarship,” Minter said. “It’s been a wonderful seven years. I’ve learned a lot and I’ve enjoyed being an advocate for the faculty and students.” The Board is scheduled to meet again on Jan. 23, 2015.

riding and swimming. “The camp basically makes kids battling cancer feel like kids again,” Price said. Hobgood was in remission for brain cancer she developed when she was 6 years old. Hobgood and Price have been friends ever since. “Camp is only for a week, and so after that we got each others’ numbers and stayed in contact,” Hobgood said. “I actually didn’t know she worked here at WKU until like my second week of school.” Kathryn Steward, assistant director of Health Education & Promotion, attended the reception with her family. Steward would have been five years cancer-free this August, but in December 2013 doctors found a spot on Steward’s lung. They found out it was cancerous in January of this year.

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Steward said her treatment is different from chemo and that it focuses on stopping the estrogen the cancer feeds on. She said the tumor has shrunk since she started treatment. “From June to August it dropped from like 13 millimeters to 5 millimeters,” Steward said. Hobgood and Steward did a victory lap at the relay later that night. Steward was joined by her family on the second lap around the track marked with bagged candles. All the teams followed Hobgood and Steward for their third lap. Steward stressed the importance of cancer research and support Relay for Life offers. “What I also love is that they treat the families great, and they are a huge piece of how survivors get through it or people battling it get through it because the support network,” she said.

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Burch to begin another chapter at WKU BY KAE HOLLOWAY

for seven years. Minter decided to step down to focus more on her research and Wooden shelves, their con- scholarship projects. “After seven years, (Minter) tents mostly packed into the cardboard boxes in front of has done a yeoman’s task at them, line one of the walls this, so my goal is to be a rein Barbara Burch’s office, lo- ally successful and effective cated at the former FaCET faculty regent,” Burch said. “(Regent) is not something I house on Chestnut Street. Burch herself, wrapped in thought I would ever do.” Despite Burch runa dark colored shawl, ning unopposed, the is shuffling papers election was clouded around and trying to in controversy. A state navigate through the statute and a WKU growing sea of boxes Human Resource surrounding her desk policy rendered some and round wooden potential candidates table adjacent to the ineligible to run on ceiling-high shelves. Barbara Burch the grounds that they “I’m moving to Gary Ransdell Hall, room 110,” have family, spouses or partners employed at WKU. Burch said. The election was held to This is not the first office relocation for Burch, who election code standards called the provost’s office at and regulations, but confuthe top of the Hill home for sion arose amongst staff as to whether those potential 14 years. nominees were disqualified due to those policies or Election whether they had declined Burch added another notch nomination. “The election process for to her administration belt on Halloween when she was me was not one I interjectsworn in to be the faculty re- ed myself in to,” Burch said. gent on the Board of Regents. “This was something that She ran unopposed and was faculty leadership and senate elected to the position with a had to work through.” The two potential nomitotal of 165 votes on Oct. 15. “I know at first blush that nees in question, Molly may not seem like a large Kerby, a professor in the denumber, but… it only takes partment of diversity and one vote so actually I’m quite communication, and Claus impressed that 165 faculty Ernst, a mathematics profeschose to vote in the election, sor, both ultimately declined affirming their support for their nominations, leaving Dr. Burch,” President Gary Burch as the only candidate. The flurry of email correRansdell said. Burch is the elected succes- spondence and confusions sor of former regent Patricia caused by the election made Minter, who served as regent faculty call for a more clear interpretation of the state statNEWS@WKUHERALD.COM

ute that rendered Kerby and Ernst ineligible for candidacy. With the support and agreeing voices of other state universities, General Counsel Deborah Wilkins said the Council on Post Secondary Education requested a formal opinion from the Attorney General to clarify the state statute. There is no official deadline for when the formal opinion will be released.

Up the Hill and Back Again Burch started her career with WKU as an undergraduate student, climbing the Hill in the late 1950s to earn her degree to teach on the collegiate level. Her degree took her to positions at California State University, Fresno, where she served as a dean, and the University of Memphis, where she served as an instructor. “I moved around a little,” she said. She returned to the Hill in 1996, beginning her 14-year run as provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, a position now held by Gordon Emslie. “This (provost) position brought me back, but it brought me back because while I was particular about where I went and what I did, it was equally important for me to have an opportunity to get back to this part of the country,” she said. “I had two grandchildren in Nashville by that time.” Burch, a Louisville native, said coming back to Kentucky was like coming closer to home.

During her tenure as provost, Burch spent a brief period as president while the university searched for a replacement for former president Thomas Meredith. “Dr. Burch is a provost emeritus, a decision made by this board,” Ransdell said. “She’s a Hilltopper through and through.” Burch said Ransdell asked her to stay in the position after he was hired as the new university president. She stayed in the position until 2010. Burch then moved to teach others who, as Ransdell put it, wanted to “follow in her footsteps.” She teaches in the leadership doctoral program and serves as the major advisor. “I am a teacher at heart, and I started my career teaching so I really feel blessed to be able to have the opportunity to teach again now,” Burch said. “I am really fortunate.” The regent nomination came as a complete surprise to Burch, due in part to one of the people who nominated her, history department head and former regent Robert Dietle. “I had a lot of differences with Dr. Burch when she was provost…. we disagreed on a number of things,” Dietle said. Dietle said over the last two years serving on the board for the clinical education complex together, the two learned that they shared core values about education. “I decided to nominate her, I had no idea she would become the regent,” he said. “I thought she would be an interesting nominee.”

Dietle said he believes Burch will bring interesting ideas and views to the table. Burch said she thought Dietle was joking when he nominated her. “When I heard from him, I was surprised, at first I thought he was kidding,” she said. “I don’t think we differed in the things we valued and thought were important and our feelings on the university.” Her decision to accept nomination was one that she thought on heavily, consulting other faculty members and her husband. “It really did cause me to stop and say ‘is this a right thing for me to do?’ Not just right for me, I mean is this a right thing for me to do in relation to what I think could benefit the faculty,” she said. As regent, Burch said her goal is to be an effective and positive representative of the faculty and remain tuned in and informed on issues at hand. She said the work she’ll do will be to benefit all, not just faculty. She sees her representative role as one that encompasses faculty and the university as a whole. “I’ll be spending more time with Faculty Senate, Executive Council and faculty,” she said. “It’s an exciting opportunity to be chosen to represent the faculty.” She will sit on her first regent’s meeting at the first meeting of 2015, held on Jan. 23. “I am determined that I will represent in ways that are positive for the faculty,” Burch said. “I’m excited about what’s to come.”

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THE ISSUE: WKU dropped 20 spots on Trojan Condoms’ annual ranking of university sexual health.

OUR STANCE: WKU needs to find its way around the bedroom.

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merican universities are ranked based on their sexual health policies every year, and this year WKU dropped from 64th to 84th. Needless to say, the new ranking doesn’t bode well for anybody’s Big Red. WKU is officially the least sexually healthy university in the state on Trojan’s ranking. Even Middle Tennessee State University is beating us now that they’ve shed a few slots to reach No. 69. The University of Louisville is making the Hill look like a raging pit of unprotected sex with its cozy spot at No. 16, and the University of Kentucky is giving WKU smug looks at No. 48. The university isn’t necessarily dropping because of negative changes at WKU. Melissa Smith, a public relations representative for the ranking, said that most of the changes come from universi-

ties stepping up their sexual health center. The ranking means WKU has been sitting idle on sexual health improvements for a couple years now. This is actually the second year in a row that WKU dropped in the ranking — last year we shed five spots. WKU needs to start catching up before we’re left in the lube-covered dust of more progressive schools. Condoms are available from health educators on one side of the Health Services Building. However, those condoms are only available during their limited hours Monday through Friday. WKU needs condom distribution stations around campus, and they desperately need to be available on the weekend. The Downing Student Union, with its long hours even on weekends, would be an excellent place to hand out free rubbers. Groups like Gender and Woman Studies hand out condoms and information on campus occasionally. WKU can’t just leave sexual health to a handful of Hilltoppers. There may be a greater disconnect between WKU administration

and our newly privatized Health Services than there has been in the past. That said, WKU needs to let Grave Gilbert Clinic know that it's their responsibility to actively promote sexual health on campus and get information out to students. WKU’s Stall Street Journal is a great way of getting out the word about free STD testing, but free testing days need to be broadcasted all over the Hill. Hearing about the testing should be unavoidable, and going to get tested needs to be culturally accepted and encouraged. Kentucky is providing about 1.8 percent of all teenage pregnancies in the entire country, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. With its declining sexual health ranking, WKU isn’t doing its part to help change teenage pregnancy statistics in Kentucky. We need to keep pregnancy rates low and graduation rates high. But if WKU starts pushing safe sex, then our health ranking doesn’t have to be the only thing rising.

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WKU doesn’t need to survey all students for LGBTQ issues The executives of Student Identity Outreach applaud the administration, including President Gary Ransdell, Diversity Officer Richard Miller and Facilities Officer Bryan Russell on recent efforts to make WKU more inclusive of transgender and gender non-conforming people by highlighting plans to create non-gendered restrooms. These plans were shared with the university community at the first dinner for WKU’s LGBTQ people hosted by President Ransdell last month. The

plans were reported in the Herald article “Single-occupancy restrooms to be renamed.” The creation of genderneutral restrooms will greatly improve the quality of life for LGBTQ people at WKU. However, we must express our deep concerns that a survey will be sent to all students about language choice for the signs. This issue directly affects a minority in the WKU community that is often misunderstood, and if the solution is designed by a public that is not adequately educated on the com-

plexities of the community then this well-intentioned act may be poorly executed and ultimately prove counterproductive to the community it is designed to benefit. To provide inclusivity to transgender and gender non-conforming people, we recommend “gender-neutral” or “all gender” restrooms. WKU is making significant strides forward, and SIO wants to ensure that the voices of transgender or gender non-conforming identified people are centralized on these issues.

While increasing the visibility of accessible restrooms is an important first step, bathrooms alone will not make WKU fully LGBTQ inclusive. Continued improvement requires administrators to simplify name and gender changes on university records, implement gender-inclusive housing and increase visibility of LGBTQ people in academics and diversity programming. Student Identity Outreach's Executive Board

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The “Rocky Horror Picture Show” is a musical performed simultaneously with a showing of the eponymous movie. The show bleeds ‘70s sexual energy and combats gender roles still prevalent today. Audience participation is crucial to the performance – attendees throw items on stage, shout along with dialogue and dance to the music. Every Halloween, WKU students perform the show at the Capitol Arts Center in downtown Bowling Green. This year, the floor and balcony seats were packed with attendants wearing scary and sexy costumes. They all came to get their freak on.

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Artists at Work Studio creates community for local artists BY ANDREW HENDERSON

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TOP: Myra Dwyer poses with her paintings in the Pushin Building Artist Studio. Dwyer has been painting for nine years and is co-manager of the studio alongside Angie Alexieff. ABOVE: Pushin Building Artist Studio at 400 E. Main St. features a variety of art ranging from paintings to sculptures all created by seven different artists who occupy the studio space.

Being part of a family can often mean sharing meals together, living under the same roof or celebrating holidays with one another. But for a small handful of artists in the Bowling Green community, family is about coming together in a homely apartment space to make art alongside one another. Pushin Building Artist Studio is located in a small apartment space above Corsair’s Distillery at 400 E. Main St. Pushin distinguishes itself from the fact that it is a working studio and not a gallery. As a working studio, as opposed to a gallery, Pushin is only open to the public six times a year, and those are typically for the Bowling Green Gallery Hops. Pushin was started 10 years ago by Angie Alexieff and is now co-managed by Alexieff and Myra Dwyer.

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New restaurant gives BG gluten-free option

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The age-old issue of people being allergic to gluten and not being able to eat the foods they love is now being helped with the opening of a new restaurant on Campbell Lane. The gluten-free restaurant, appropriately named WheatLess, opened last week on Tuesday. “We had an unadvertised opening on the 20th so we could work out the kinks and what not, and then our grand opening was on the 28th,” owner Michael Cowles said. Before opening the restaurant, Cowles worked as a manager at Aldi. He owns the restaurant with his sister, Amanda, and Vedran Kusturica, who used to work at Aldi with him. “We got the idea when we saw how well the gluten-free products were selling and how high the demand for it was,” Cowles said. The idea to open a gluten-free restaurant was also sparked when Cowles saw a friend’s struggle with finding gluten-free food. “When we wanted to go out to eat, we could either go to a restaurant she could eat at and we didn’t like the food, or go to a restaurant we liked and she could only have maybe a salad with grilled chicken and no croutons,” Cowles

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Patrons talk amongst themselves during the lunch rush at WheatLess, a gluten-free restaurant located in Buckhead Square. The menu at WheatLess offers a variety of gluten-free food options and includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.

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In total, there are currently seven artists who have a working space at Pushin. Dwyer said that, often, people hear of openings in the space by word of mouth or other mutual connections. She also said they don’t really advertise when there’s an open space and feels that, ultimately, the right people will find their way there. Interviews are conducted for background information and such, but it all comes down to if they’re a good fit with the other artists. “It has to be a good fit with personalities. We don’t mind if everyone does different things, but we all do need to get along,” Dwyer said. Dwyer, who largely specializes in abstract art, said that having seven artists under one roof can make for differing

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said. The restaurant’s decor is simple, with the open space decorated with an assortment of black chairs and darkly stained table tops, with the restaurant’s namesake displayed in large metal letters above the drink station. “We try to go for the industrial farmer look, we put a lot of the emphasis on

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creative views and techniques. However, she said that despite their different mediums and art styles, the studio members have had tendencies to overlap in their artwork. “Sometimes we’ll all end up painting in the same color and we don’t even know it. We’re all not even consciously thinking about, but it’s very interesting to see,” Dwyer said. It’s this type of connection that leaves Dwyer with the impression that everyone in the studio acts as a sort of weird family unit that always looks out for each other. Jack LeSieur also said that Pushin has provided him a safe place with warm people. LeSieur, an artist at Pushin, described his work as more “folksy” in nature. LeSieur said that he got involved with Pushin because of some personal issues he was dealing with at the time. He needed a place to relax and express

his creativity. He recalled first coming to the studio as an amateur artist with no formal training, but he found everyone there was very willing to aid him in his endeavors. “I found everyone at the studio to be extremely kind, welcoming and more than willing to help me develop as an artist,” LeSieur said. Laura McGee, a silk artist and department head of modern languages at WKU, also works within the walls of Pushin. McGee shares the same sentiments of Dwyer and LeSieur. The studio also provides her a space to express herself. “I wanted a space and a community to do my art in,” McGee said. McGee reflected on how the Pushin artists will often eat and paint together either on Wednesday or Sunday evenings. McGee sees her fellow artists as a positive influence that always encourages her to show up to the studio

and work. Dwyer said the studio truly gives her a sense of inspiration for her artwork. It’s a feeling she said was hard to replicate anywhere else. She attributed her heightened inspiration and production of her artwork to the other artists at Pushin. “I paint more because of the other artists. If I was home painting by myself, I don’t think I would paint as much,” Dwyer said. She encouraged any aspiring artist to find a group of others to work alongside with to see how it will move the artist forward in work critiques and encouragements. Pushin Building Artist Studio is home to aforementioned artists as well as: Cindy Houston, Melissa Paschal and Emily Hendrickson. Pushin will be open to the public on Dec. 5 during the Bowling Green Gallery Hop.

being wheat-free and making our own food, so that’s where we get that look,” Cowles said. Candace Darbee, a manager at WheatLess, said her favorite part of working at the restaurant would be providing a product people allergic to gluten couldn’t normally eat. “A lot of the time they can only have a fruit or vegetable or some protein, and we make our own bread with a special

kind of flour that’s wheat-free so they can eat it,” Darbee said. “It’s awesome to see their faces light up when we bring out, like, fried chicken because they haven’t had it in years.” Darbee said they’ve seen very positive feedback from the community. She said word of mouth would have to be their most prominent form of advertising. “People will take menus with them

and give them to friends of family who have the gluten allergy and spread the word about us,” Darbee said. Overall, the restaurant has been a very positive addition to Bowling Green and Cowles said they’re moving right along. “There are still some kinks to work out like any other restaurant but with the quality and taste, people seem to like it,” Cowles said.

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Inmates become students in philosophy class

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Philosophy professor Audrey Anton is posing the question, “Why are bad people bad?” and next semester inmates from Nashville’s maximum security prison will join her students in answering it. The prison’s Inside-Out program allows 10 to 20 inmates to join the class and participate as regular students — writing papers, reading and partaking in discussion. The WKU side of the class will drive to the prison every Thursday for the three-hour session. “We’ll have a more diverse class,” Anton said. “We’ll have students who have experiences they can share and then analyze those experiences.”

Anton said inmates chose the class, titled “Why Are Bad People Bad?” because they would have much to say. She said inmates in the class have shown great remorse. “They’re here because they’ve gotten better, and they have memories of a hopeless time and a time when they didn’t believe in humanity,” she said. “That’ll give us some perspective I just can’t manufacture.” In order to have a place in the class, WKU students must contact Anton, schedule an interview and pass a background check. Anton will choose 10 students from the interviews to join the class, but there is no major requirement. The class is included in the Colonnade program and

is meant for interdisciplinary study. “It’s a philosophy course, but it’s not just that,” Ian Robinson, Union junior said. “You also have to take into consideration psychology and criminology, while keeping it all within a philosophical perspective.” Robinson is currently taking the on-campus course and plans to be Anton’s teaching assistant next semester at the prison. The class speculates what makes a person do bad things, which assumes there are bad people. It is a loaded question, Anton said. The majority of the time will be spent in discussion amongst the class. The plan is to utilize the course to ex-

hibit effects of social and peer pressure, background and the consequences of not thinking actions through. “I usually teach classes on how to be good, but I figured if it were that easy to be good, everybody would just do it,” Anton said. “The point of this is to think about what it is that leads us down the wrong path.” WKU’s relationship with the prison began with sociology professor Kate King’s InsideOut classes. Because she is retiring this year she asked Anton to take her class to the prison. The prison wanted the program to continue. It gives the inmates something to think about other than concrete walls, Anton said. For Anton,

it gives a viewpoint that she simply cannot provide from a book and in a classroom. “It’ll bring a new perspective,” Robinson said. “Without taking into account the perspective of someone we might consider a bad person, whether currently or in the past, you won’t get the complete picture of what makes a bad person bad.” Robinson said students are naturally drawn to this course. He said it is approached from varying angles and outlooks, so it grabs everyone’s attention. “This is the one philosophy class I feel I don’t have to tell people to take,” he said. If interested in the course, contact Audrey Anton at audrey.anton@wku.edu.

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‘Nightcrawler’ explores the dark and grotesque

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While not quite a horror movie, “Nightcrawler” oozes with terror. This dark, crime thriller explores the career of an enigmatic and psychotic young man who starts recording violent crime with a video camera. The riveting tale takes audiences on a journey fraught with terror, suspense and the kind of humor that makes one laugh and cringe at

the same time. built on a relatable main charFew movies instill this sort acter. Instead, “Nightcrawlof discomfort in the er” chronicles a cold viewer. Jake Gyllencalculating menace haal holds movie-gowhose manipulation of ers prisoner with his others is spellbinding. blood-chilling porThough Gyllentrayal of the film’s rehaal’s performance is morseless protagonist. the main attraction, He bounces back and “Nightcrawler” boasts forth between socially an appropriately dark Jackson awkward and truly and gritty atmosphere. French frightening, but he The shootouts and vionever lets the viewer relax. lent images have a ferocity to This isn’t the sort of movie them. Every time Gyllenhaal

has to rush to the scene of a crime or an accident, it packs the movie with plenty of suspense. “Nightcrawler” remains ambiguous as to what it wants throughout its runtime. Though not hard to follow, the viewer can never quite figure out where the story is heading. It’s not the kind of movie interested in nicely tying up all the loose ends. The film ends abruptly, and makes it feel as though there’s a final

scene missing. The presentation will keep you nervously guessing throughout. With nail-biting suspense constantly in the mix, “Nightcrawler” is a thrilling but thought-provoking ride. As a disturbing examination of journalistic ethics and our own fascination with the grotesque this portrait of insanity gives you something to think about when you leave the theater.

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Tuesday, Nov. 4 Election Day Finding Your Way Around the Autumn Sky Location: Hardin Planetarium Time: 7 p.m.

Remember, Remember the 4th of November Location: Recital Hall — Fine Arts Center Time: 5 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 5 Boost Your Vocabulary Location: Tate Page Hall Room 401 Time: 1 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 6 Bluegrass Jams Location: Fraternal Order of Police Lodge Time: 5:30 p.m.

2014 WKU Homecoming Concert: Eli Young Band Location: Diddle Arena Time: 7 p.m.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Bragg Location: Warren County Public Library Bob Kirby Branch, 175 Iron Skillet Court Time: 6 p.m.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Musical Location: Russell H. Miller Theatre Time: 8 p.m.

Finding Your Way Around the Autumn Sky Location: Hardin Planetarium Time: 7 p.m.

Vets ’n Vettes begins Location: National Corvette Museum Time: 8 a.m.

Friday, Nov. 7 Kentucky’s Storytelling Conference Location: Holiday Inn University Plaza Hotel Time: 7 a.m. Homecoming Parade “New Tops on the Block” Location: Intersection of College Heights Boulevard and Avenue of Champions to Fountain Square Park Time: 5 p.m. Homecoming Concert in the Park: Jordan English Band Location: Fountain Square Park Time: 5 p.m.

Big Red’s Roar Location: Fountain Square Park Time: 6:30 p.m. WKU women’s basketball vs. Bellarmine Knights Location: Diddle Arena Time: 7 p.m. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Musical Location: Russell H. Miller Theatre Time: 8 p.m.

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Theatre department puts on a spelling bee BY MADISON MARTIN

LIFE@WKUHERALD.COM Winner of two Tony Awards and known for its peculiar characters and witty dialogue, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” has officially come to WKU. Directed by David Young, department head of theatre & dance, the comedic musical documents the spellers’ tween angst derived from the competition, as well as their home lives. The six spellers compete and sing between their turns, as the audience identifies with the drama. “Even though the characters are little kids, it’s not really meant for little kids,” Young said. “It’s meant for adults who can recall the going through all the anxiety of being that age.” The musical has a small cast with just 12 student actors, half of them being freshmen. “They’re really holding their own,” Nashville senior Caleb Pless said. “It’s been fun to work with some new people who I haven’t worked with yet.” In the musical, Pless plays the bitter vice principal and proctor of the competition. Murfreesboro, Tennessee freshman Alexandra Gray said she was nervous about being one of the youngest members of the cast, but said the upperclassmen were very welcoming and reminded her that she had an important role to play. “As soon as I step into Gordon Wilson Hall, I matter, because everybody matters,” she said. “And the entire cast made sure you know that.” Gray plays Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierre, one of the students in the spelling bee. The cast and production team have been working on the musical since mid-September, clocking in around 18 hours of rehearsal a week. “Even outside of rehearsals…you’re still running your lines, so that when you do get to rehearsal, you don’t bring down the pace of the scenes,” Gray said. “I’ve never had to work this hard, and I love it. It’s fantastic.” The musical presents some

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ABOVE: Dawson Springs senior Sarah Hall stands on her mark for her character's solo during rehearsal for the upcoming play "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee." BELOW: Micah Landers and Murfreesboro, Tennessee freshman Alexandra Gray perform a flashback scene from the upcoming play "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" during rehearsals. special challenges to the cast as well, since there is a section of audience participation and improvisation inherent to the production. Four members of the audience are pulled up to be spellers themselves. “Since you don’t know if they’re going to able to spell the words that they’ve been given, the show can go into a lot of different directions,” Young said. Pless said that the changing nightly audience also adds an element of unpredictability. “You can’t be fully prepared for what’s going to happen. You just have to take it as it comes,” Pless said. “It’ll be hard…not to break character, because you want to laugh at everyone else, because of what just happened.” One of the four audience members will also be a “celebrity guest,” such as talk show

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Guest artist Victor Alexander teaches the Jazz III class on Oct. 31 in Gordon Wilson Hall. Alexander is the director of the Ruth Page School of Dance. While visiting WKU, Alexander choreographed and taught a piece titled "Are You There" which will be performed at An Evening of Dance in May.

hosts from local radio stations and President Gary Ransdell, who are slated to make an appearance during the six days of performances. “You go into it without knowing what to expect, I think, and I think that’s part of what makes it so unique, is the fact that it is actually so much more entertaining than it would appear,” Eric Mattingly, Lexington senior and production stage manager, said. Gray said the production team for “Spelling Bee” has allowed the actors creative freedom with their respective roles. “Our entire production team…kinda just let you do things. Experiment a bit, if it doesn’t work, they’ll tell you. Try something else, tweak it this way, don’t do that. But there’s never, ‘Do this only,’” Gray said. “You get to be an artist, instead of just a puppet.”

As a director, Young has fun giving suggestions to the actors and just letting them roll with it. “If you cast it right and you get the right people, then all you have to do is sit back and find ways to let them do their thing,” Young said. “Directing is about unifying everybody’s

vision a little bit, so we’re all on the same page, and then motivating them to give their best.” The musical will run Nov. 6 through Nov. 11 at Russell Miller Theatre. Show times are at 8 p.m. every night, except for a Sunday matinee at 3 p.m. Tickets are $18 for adults and $15 for students.

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TOP: Sarah Sperry changes the price of one of her metal pieces at the “World's Greatest Studio Tour.” The League of Sculptors were selling record bowls and other pieces to fund a trip to St. Louis. ABOVE: Sperry rearranges one of her pieces.

League of Sculptors explores new fundraising methods

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Tucked down a long hallway, hidden by sheet music stands and theater posters, is the Sculpture 171-177 room that stands as the home for the League of Sculptors, a group of students who want to share their talents with the community. “We want to be able to get to a point where we can kind of have more of a community presence,” Sarah Sperry said. Sperry transferred from the University of Louisville in 2010 and is set to graduate this December. “We’re kind of stuck away in a corner,” she said. “We’ve got two floors between us and the rest of the art department. We try to give people a little bit of a show. Like ‘hey, we’re here! Come see what we do. It’s a lot of fun.’” The group has talked about painting murals on neighborhood walls and creating an outdoor museum. “We’re all really caring people,” Sperry said. “That’s a group of people that

genuinely care about not only each other, but just trying to make it better.” After starting a similar group at the University of Iowa during graduate school, professor and sculptor David Marquez wanted to start something that had the same sense of community within the sculptor department at WKU. He helped found the League after he arrived in 2007 and has remained one of the League’s biggest staff supporters. “It was about developing community,” he said. “Getting the students engaged in helping each other a little bit more, having that outside of a classroom sort of dialogue.” Marquez is the secretary for the MidSouth Sculpture Alliance and is also on the board for the Sculpture Trails Outdoor Museum in Indiana, which is an outdoor museum that features artists’ work along different trails in a forest in Solsberry, Indiana. The idea of a walk along, outdoor trail is something Marquez has been interested in bringing to the community, along with potentially displaying different art work throughout the city.

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Senior Sarah Sperry, 29, sits among her current installation featured in the Fine Arts Center, titled “Party Time.” Sperry currently is a member of the League of Sculptors and is preparing to install another project that will open this Friday at 7 p.m in the Fine Arts Center.

Lack of funds has prevented the League from completing these plans. After confusion with the Student Government Association on whether or not the League was an official campus club (currently, by SGA standards, the League of Sculptors is not official) and

“It was all volunteer effort,” Sperry said. “We were just like ‘well, you know, we can’t really get everybody as involved as we’d like to be, but we can put on a little bit of a show and be like this is the stuff that you guys can do… please come join us’ and just try to get

That's a group of people that genuinely care about not only each other, but just trying to make it better.” Senior Sarah Sperry general university budget cuts, funding for the group has dropped dramatically. The money they did receive was put toward a safety saw that stops instantly when flesh touches the blade. For the rest of the projects the group does, like the Potter College Fall Festival demonstrations, their own money is used. “Whatever you think (projects) would cost, add so much more to it,” Sperry said. During previous Potter College Fall Festivals, the League made scratch block molds, which allowed the user to carve a design into the mold. The Sculptors would pour aluminum into the molds and give the end result to the participant: a 3D aluminum tile designed by the participant. The cost of the molds, though, prevented the group from continuing the tradition this year. Costs for the molds include an expensive three-part chemical, resin, sand and the wood the molds are poured into to create their shape. Add in the time spent making them and multiply that by the 150 molds the group normally uses for the festival–that leaves an expensive way to promote the talents and existence of the League of Sculptors. This year, the group still poured aluminum as a way of promotion, but just used the materials they bought themselves and poured projects for personal or class use.

the word out a little bit.” The group is currently using their talents to raise money by selling their creative work. “We figured out how to make record bowls,” Sperry said. “We were, like, playing with flame torches and stuff.” The League has a dual-location bake sale planned for Friday, Nov. 7. One table will be set up in the Java City area and the second will be in the Centennial Mall area. Along with the baked goods, the group will be selling their record bowls, spoon jewelry and trivets, or metal pot plates, which were made at the Fall Festival. “We’re trying to go on a group trip to St. Louis and check out all the museums and all the opportunities there,” Sperry said. A claustrophobic work space and lack of resources have also stalled the group’s sculptor-planting efforts. Marquez says that additional staff and faculty support is needed for the group to succeed. “We do it because we care,” Sperry said. “We’re basically trying to become more than people that sometimes make FAC smell really weird.” For more information on how to join the League or to keep up with purchasing opportunities, visit the WKU: League of Sculptors or the WKU Art Guild groups on Facebook or visit the Sculpture Room 171-177 in FAC.

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WKU offense solidifies its role as teams' crutch

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BY ELLIOTT PRATT SPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM My how the tables have turned. Just one week after WKU put up a school FBS record 66 points, the offense only scores 10. Just one week after redshirt senior quarterback Brandon Doughty claims the single-season record for passing yards and touchdowns, he matches his season interception total in one game. Just one week after a video-game showing full of optimism, someone turned on the All-Madden option and shut WKU down in a 59-10 trainwreck at Louisiana Tech. Elliott Pratt Sounds like Halloween stayed an extra day in Louisiana. What transpired on the field Saturday was an indication that things are pretty bad when WKU’s offense isn’t productive. The Hilltopper offense ranked fifth in the nation prior to meeting with the Bulldogs, but they only mustered up 297 yards in the loss. “We know now that when we don’t play well it’s not going to be pretty,” Head Coach Jeff Brohm said. “We can’t have those lulls on offense. We know that we have to perform at a high level. We know all of our players have to play well and play tough. Defensively, we just have to keep trying to improve. Right now, statistics speak for themselves – we aren’t a good defensive team.” Yeah, the defense was business as usual – 507 yards allowed and 59 points. Unfortunately, that’s the way the defense is going to be every week. They gave up 42 points to UAB, followed by 51 points versus Old Dominion, then that 59 mark Saturday. So if there’s any hope for this team, the answer certainly isn’t in that defense. If you’re like me and have ever wondered what WKU would look like if one side of the ball had a completely uncharacteristic game, then wish granted. The Hilltoppers finally faced one of the conference’s best defenses and that’s what happens. LA Tech defensive coordinator Manny Diaz threw blitzes across the field from angles I didn’t think were possible. Receivers couldn’t get space from defenders off of press coverages either. Mix that together and you get

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Redshirt freshman wide receiver Kylen Towner (81) fumbles the ball against Louisiana Tech on Saturday. The Hilltoppers were handed their biggest conference loss in program history — a 49-point defeat against the Bulldogs.

Bayou Beatdown LA Tech hands WKU its worst conference defeat in program history

BY KYLE WILLIAMS SPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM Fresh off their first Conference USA victory against Old Dominion, the Hilltoppers’ swagger was riding high heading into Saturday’s matchup at Louisiana Tech, but instead of another league win, WKU was sent home with an eye-opening punch to the gut. LA Tech handed the Hilltoppers a 59-10 thumping, marking their worst conference loss in program history. WKU (3-5, 1-4 C-USA) totaled season lows in points (10) and yards (297) while committing a season-high five turnovers. “When you have a loss like that it hits you right in the stomach,” Head Coach Jeff Brohm said. “It definitely hit everyone in the stomach, and we realized that it was an embarrassing loss. …As I told them, you’re going to face adversity in life. This is one of those times where you have to respond. It’s happened to other teams before, and

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it will continue to happen to other teams afterward — you have to man up. You’ve got to step back up to the plate and get ready

to swing.” Despite uncharacteristically lackluster offensive performances in recent weeks and an overall defense that ranks 124 out of 125 in NCAA Division I, history is on the Hilltoppers’ side. In two of the past three seasons, WKU football has dropped at least four of its first eight contests, but has managed to finish the season with at least seven wins. According to redshirt senior offensive lineman Cameron Clemmons, the Hilltoppers need to increase their focus and enjoy the process if they want to maintain history’s trend. “You can’t get worried about it,” Clemmons said. “You take it one game at a time, one day at a time

and focus on getting better tomorrow during practice. For me, things are winding down so I’m just taking things one day at a time and just enjoying it. My focus is on getting my team ready to go, and we will be ready to go on Saturday.” Next on the Hilltoppers’ schedule is UTEP, who travels to WKU this weekend for the team’s Homecoming game. WKU is 50-28-3 all-time in Homecoming bouts, and although the Hilltoppers are giving up 41.3 points per game at Smith Stadium this season, they’re scoring an average of nearly 55 points in their three home games. The Homecoming matchup should bode well for redshirt senior quarterback Brandon Doughty, who’s 94of-119 (79 percent) for 1,259 passing yards, 13 touchdowns and zero interceptions at home this season. Doughty, the nation’s No. 3 in passing yards, totaled just 134 yards and had four in-

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Lady Tops outlast UAB on Halloween night, 3-1 BY JONAH PHILLIPS SPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM It was all treat and no trick for WKU volleyball on Halloween night, as the Lady Toppers dished out a 3-1(25-27, 25-18, 25-23, 25-21) win at UAB. Defense propelled the Lady Toppers (23-5, 11-1) to victory this weekend for Head Coach Travis Hudson’s young squad that is traditionally led by its offense. Sophomore defensive specialist Kaelin Grimes tabbed a career-high 17 digs on the match while fellow sophomore defensive specialist Georgia O’Connell added 14. “That was the best performance we have seen from Kaelin Grimes all season,” Hudson said. “She really came out and was a rock for us on defense in a night where honestly, we struggled.” Junior outside hitter Rachel Engle nabbed another nine digs, while freshman setter Jessica Lucas totaled eight. WKU allotted 71 digs to UAB’s 54. It was business as usual for the Lady Topper offense, too. Lucas dished out 45 assists

to bring WKU’s kill total to 60, despite being barely outhit by UAB .221-.220. Three Lady Toppers recorded double digit kills this weekend, led by junior outside hitter Haley Bodway with 15. Senior middle hitter Heather Boyan and freshman outside hitter Alyssa Cavanaugh each mustered 10 kills. UAB did everything they could to slow the pace of WKU’s offense, and found marginal success, notching 11 blocks as opposed to WKU’s five. After leading a majority of the first set, WKU struggled late and dropped it, 27-25. Up 24-19, UAB rattled fivestraight to knot it at 24 each, capitalizing on five WKU miscues. UAB would grab two more points to seal the win. “We really struggled offensively this week, which is very uncharacteristic of our team,” Hudson said. “We had a tremendous amount of unforced errors, and that really held us down the whole night. “In the first set we were up 20-19, and they came back and beat us without getting a single kill for the rest of the

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Freshman outside hitter Alyssa Cavanaugh (7) spikes the ball against FIU during the game on Oct. 24. match. The rest of their points were unforced errors from us.” In the second set, WKU still hit below its usual hitting percentage at .190, but was able to hold UAB to a .079 mark in part by Rachel Engle’s six digs.

UAB got within one at 9-8, but WKU opened the lead to 1610 after back-to-back blocks on its way to claiming the set, 25-18. It was neck-and-neck in the third set, as the score was

tied at 13 different points in the match. The Lady Toppers came out of a WKU timeout to capitalize on multiple UAB miscues to pull ahead 22-20 before a Bodway kill sealed the

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WKU tallies top-10 finishes at conference championship ALEXUS RICHARDSON SPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM After months of strenuous practice and early morning races, the WKU men’s and women’s cross country teams strutted their stuff in the program’s first Conference USA Championship on Saturday in Denton, Texas at Eagle Point Cross Country Course. Despite the absence of junior Lindsey Hinken — an all-conference performer a season ago — the Lady Toppers were still able to muster a fourth-place team finish with 142 points out of 13 teams. Senior David Mokone led the way for the men’s fifth-place finish with 153 points out of 11 teams. Mokone’s finishing time of 24:51.7 ranked 12th overall of the 78 runners, which earned him all-conference honors for the fourth-straight season. Sophomore Peter Agaba recorded the second-best time on the men’s side at 25:24.1. Freshman Endalow Takele came in third at 25:36.9 and senior Sean Hurd came in fourth with a time of 25:51.5. For the Lady Toppers, junior Katie Lever tallied a careerbest 5k time of 17:09.1 and was named First Team AllConference USA. Junior Taylor Carlin came in second for the women and 25th overall with a time of 17:59.5 and senior Jodi Miller placed third for WKU coming in at 18:13.1 “Our senior Jodi Miller re-

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Senior David Mokone runs in the Greater Louisville Classic at Tom Sawyer Park in Louisville on Oct. 4. Mokone earned all-conference honors for the fourth consecutive season. ally stepped up this race, if it wasn’t for her we probably wouldn’t have won fourth,” Assistant Coach Taylor Miller said. The Eagle Point Cross Country Course was unfamiliar to both teams, but it was no

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Continued from sports an offensive nightmare. So now that they’ve lived and learned by that fire, they get another quick dose of the same medicine with UTEP. “They’re very good on defense, very similar to the last defense we played,” Brohm said. “They’ll press you up quite a bit, give you a lot of blitz looks

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set at 25-23. WKU led UAB for the vast majority of the fourth set. Five kills from Bodway and four from junior middle hitter Noelle Langenkamp helped the Lady Toppers to a 25-21 win.

stumbling block for the men or women, who raced on a variety of different courses in the regular season. “For the girls, it was tough going in without Lindsey (Hinken) but everybody across the board, all eight

and come at you from a lot of different angles so it’ll be good to see how much we learned and how we can get better.” You have to wonder about the psyche of a team that just got road-roasted. Brohm even said Doughty lost confidence after a few rough hits and pick after pick. Bouncing back is hard, and this is a young team that doesn’t have the experience – and probably the maturity level – to throw an awful game

WKU hits the road this weekend for a match at Southern Miss on Friday before closing out its regular-season road schedule at Marshall on Sunday. “Hopefully, we can just get recharged and get our legs back under us,” Hudson said of the few matches left before conference tournament time. “If we play well, everything else will take care of itself.”

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who ran, ran personal bests in cross country. So far this was the best they’ve ever done. A fourth-place finish is never good enough for WKU, but given the circumstances, I am extremely proud of all the girls and how they really rallied to-

behind them and completely forget about it. Instead, what they have to look forward to is three straight home games, all of which are winnable. “Whether you lose by one point or lose like we did the other day, it is what it is,” redshirt senior offensive lineman Cameron Clemmons said. “It’s part of the business. You get knocked down sometimes but whether we win or lose, we’re coming back to work every week

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gether.” For the upcoming weeks, the teams will be focusing on their maintenance and strategy for the upcoming NCAA Southeast Regional, which will be held in Louisville on Nov. 14 at Tom Sawyer Park.

so we’ll be fine.” WKU has the chance to keep the Miners another week away from bowl contention with a win on Saturday. Bowl hopes for the Hilltoppers aren’t out of the question just yet either, but they’ll have to turn that table back in their favor quickly. We’ve already seen the difference one week of play can make so it’s not impossible, but there’s not a lot of time left to find out.

man Gavin Rocker, regaining confidence is vital in order to attain what’s still within the team’s grasp. “Everybody just coming together,” Rocker said. “I understand that our defense is young. The thing is just keeping everyone’s head up. Keep the confidence high and tell them we still have things to play for.”

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Lady Tops fall to North Texas, 4-0, earn No. 7-seed BY JOHN REECER SPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM WKU soccer ended its regular season with a 4-0 loss at North Texas on Friday. Despite the defeat, the Lady Toppers clinched a No. 7 seed in the conference tournament and will play No. 2 seed Rice in the quarterfinals on Wednesday at 10 a.m. in Charlotte, North Carolina. Rice (11-3-3, 7-2-1 C-USA) fields a lethal offense, which currently ranks second in points, goals and goals per game in league play. Junior forwards Lauren Hughes and Holly Hargreaves lead the Rice attack with 12 and 10 goals, respectively. “They have two great forwards who are their best overall players,” Head Coach Jason Neidell said. “We can beat any team we play, but in order to beat Rice we must stay focused for a full 90 minutes, which is something that we have yet to accomplish for a full game this season. If we can put together a full, well-played game we have an opportunity to do great things.” The loss to defending confer-

ence champion North Texas (14-4-1, 8-4-1 C-USA) brings WKU’s record to 10-7 on the season with a 5-5 league clip. “North Texas was effective in their game plan,” Neidell said. “They are not the most effective team passing the ball, but they were very successful in fielding a good overall offense.” WKU limited the Mean Green — one of the league’s most revered offenses — to just one goal in the game’s first 80 minutes. However, the wheels fell off in the last 10 minutes as North Texas scored in the 81st, 84th and 86th minutes to end it at 4-0. “In those last 10 minutes we had people out of position because we were chasing them since they were already up 1-0,” Neidell said. “As the goals came in, we began to lose more and more focus.” The Lady Toppers managed seven shots overall in the game with four of those coming on goal. North Texas junior goalkeeper Jackie Kerestine tallied four saves on the day — leading to her Conference USA-best 12th shutout of the season.

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Freshman forward Bria Mosley (23) avoids being tackled by UAB freshman defender Meredith Schertzinger (5) in WKU's win over UAB on Oct. 19. Despite allowing a seasonhigh in goals scored, freshman goalkeeper Allison Leone put together a solid first half for the Lady Toppers with five critical saves. Freshman midfielder Hannah Chua also put forth a strong showing on Fri-

day night, particularly at the beginning of the second half in which she reeled off two shots on goal. “After a sluggish first half we made some adjustments at halftime and really made a good 20-minute run after half-

time,” Neidell said. North Texas proved too strong on offense for the Lady Toppers as they scored three goals in a matter of just six minutes. They also managed to best WKU in shots (18-7) and shots on goal (9-4).

Remaining hilltopper football schedule

Current record: 5-3, 3-1 C-USA

Current record: 2-6 Series record: 1-0, WKU

Current record: 3-5, 1-3 C-USA

Series record: First meeting

Series record: First meeting

Current record: 8-0, 4-0 C-USA Series record: 1-4, Marshall

Nov. 8, 3 p.m.

Nov. 15, 11 A.m.

Nov. 22, 1 p.m.

Nov. 28, 11 A.m.

Outlook: The Miners bring a three-game win streak into Saturday’s Homecoming matchup with the Hilltoppers. UTEP is tied for second in the league’s West Division and is averaging a No. 2-league ranked 207.8 rushing yards per contest. Sophomore running back Aaron Jones leads the Miners with 110.8 rushing yards per game.

Outlook: Army has lost six of its last seven games and has given up an average of 437.9 yards and 34.2 points per game. Senior running backs Larry Dixon and Angel Santiago lead the Black Knights’ run-heavy attack with 696 and 576 yards on the ground, respectively. Army is coming off a 23-6 loss to Air Force and face Connecticut before meeting the Hilltoppers.

Outlook: The Roadrunners boast the league’s fourth-best defense, giving up just 350.8 yards per game. Senior defensive end Robert Singletary is tied for the conference lead with four forced fumbles, and senior safety Triston Wade ranks ninth in tackles per game with 5.6. UTSA has dropped their past two games by a combined 43 points and have lost six of seven.

Outlook: The Thundering Herd currently rank No. 23 in the AP Top 25 Poll and lead Conference USA in total offense and total defense. Senior quarterback Rakeem Cato and company average 45.9 points per game while giving up just 16.9. The Herd has won each of its eight games by an average of 29 points per game and meet three league foes before closing the season against WKU.

@ Smith Stadium

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