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Resolution to change DUC's name defeated

By TAYLOR HARRISON news@wkuherald.com

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Austin Adams, a high school student from Somerset who has an interest in plastic surgery, practices suturing a pig’s foot with students in Alpha Epsilon Delta’s pre-medical society.

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Concentrating hard, Madisonville junior Matthew Wood stabbed the rough skin of a severed pig’s foot with a threaded scalpel and began sewing up the suture in the skin.

“I’ve done this before, but I was bad at it,” Wood said.

Carefully winding the thread through the thick, pink and somewhat bubbly skin, Wood sewed up the suture, or stitches, in the pig’s foot. He struggled to make a knot and then studied the dark thread’s pattern, looking unsure.

“Shit. How did he do it?” he asked

Peay glad for opportunity in local politics

By NATALIE HAYDEN

Kenneth Crawford, associate professor of biology, led students in a suturing tutorial. The class operated on pigs’ feet as practice.

By STEPHANI STACY

A resolution that would have changed Downing University Center’s name to Downing Student Union was voted down 19-8 at Tuesday’s Student Government Association meeting.

One senator abstained from the vote.

There was a motion to table the resolution, but it was voted down.

Executive Vice President Kendrick Bryan suggested putting the item on the spring ballot so that all students get a chance to vote — something that was done in 2006.

However, it was pointed out that architects would probably need an answer sooner than that, and the resolution was put to a vote.

Although SGA voted down the DUC name change resolution, the matter could still come up again in the future.

his lab partner.

Wood was participating in Monday night’s annual pig suturing workshop for Alpha Epsilon Delta, the premedical honor society at WKU. “Our membership is open to any health pre-professional,” said Lauren Bretz, the historian for Alpha Epsilon Delta. “Pre-dental, pre-optometry, pre-physical therapy — anything like that.”

Bretz said WKU’s chapter of AED has more than 70 members, many of whom are chemistry or biology majors, preparing for medical school. The suturing practice on pigs’ feet followed a lecture by Dr. Joseph Zaydon, a Bowling Green

plastic surgeon, on Monday in Snell Hall.

In the laboratory in 3103 Snell Hall Monday night, more than 30 students were carefully weaving threaded scalpels through the cold skins of split pigs’ feet, trying out their suturing skills. Frequently, they looked to the overhead projector, where Kenneth Crawford, associate professor of biolog, was demonstrating the process on his own pig’s foot.

It was the first time practicing suturing on animal parts for many of the workshop participants.

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When Brandon Peay learned that he had lost the race for mayor of Bowling Green, he was not surrounded by family and friends. Instead, he was in his car, checking WBKO’s website on his cell phone.

“I can’t even tell you what I was thinking when I first found out,” Peay said. “I don’t even remember what was going through my mind.”

The Bowling Green sophomore missed the official release of the results while in a night class. He later met his girlfriend, New Orleans senior Kristina Thames, and a coworker at Buffalo Wild Wings to celebrate the race.

Both Peay and Thames sported “I Voted” stickers.

Thames held hands with Peay as a sign of support throughout the night. Although he lost, Peay said that given the chance, he would do it all over again.

“Honestly, it’s a good experience,” he said. “I’m glad I had this opportunity.”

Peay received 266 votes, which was about 3 percent of the total votes cast. He ran against incumbent Mayor Joe Denning and city commissioner Bruce Wilkerson, who won the race with 57 percent of the votes.

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Football player goes from Haiti to Hilltopper

By SHANE WOOD diversions@wkuherald.com

Ketler Calixte said he will be forever changed by his past. For 13 years, the senior defensive end on WKU's football team lived in Haiti.

Calixte was born in Au Cayes, Haiti, but grew up in Port au Prince. While growing up in Haiti, Calixte had the bare minimum. Calixte said he was just like the majority of most Haitians.

“We rarely had electricity. We had it about five hours a day, if we were lucky,” he said.

Calixte said electricity is a luxury to the Haitian culture. The majority of his friends didn’t have the luxury of electricity either. Calixte said he and his friends spent most of

their time outside playing soccer.

“We couldn’t afford a soccer ball,” Calixte said.

“We had to make a soccer ball. We balled up paper together and wrapped tape around it.”

Calixte said he played soccer barefooted, because he only had one pair of shoes. His one pair of shoes had to last a whole year. If he played soccer with his shoes on, then they would be ruined.

To him, multiple pairs of shoes and hot water are luxuries.

“I don’t think anybody had hot water at their house,” Calixte said. “As a matter of fact, I don’t think people had running water.”

Calixte said his family’s water was kept in a reservoir. He would get a

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He lived in a two-bedroom house with seven and sometimes eight different family members.

Calixte and one of his younger brothers shared a bed.

Calixte said “almost every night” he would hear gun shots while he was trying to sleep. He said he wasn’t scared by the gun shots because he didn’t know any better.

“I would just pray that no one would break into our house,” he said.

“When I grew up there, that was all that I knew. I didn’t think much of it. I was a happy kid. It didn’t bother me.”

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side the sleeve and use that against them. You use the pants to kind of sweep them or tip them over,” she said. “I like that more.”

Bowling Green resident Sara Garms, one of the students of the night class, enrolled when the lessons started about two months ago.

“Because my husband had been taking (Jiu Jitsu) for about two years, I knew to expect a lot of what many women didn’t,” she said. “I really enjoy the intensity of it.”

Garms says right now it’s about getting comfortable with of the new moves for her, and so far she’s gained more strength, endurance and knowledge.

“I think everyone should try it,” she said. “I think it’s really important for women, especially because of the self-defense purposes of it.

“If they could come for a couple classes, I think there’s a lot more women who would really enjoy this.”

WKU alumnus Josh Johnson, head instructor and owner of the House of Fitness, said women can definitely benefit from learning Jiu Jitsu.

MICHAEL RIVERA/HERALD “In addition to being a good Shakia Harris, top, balances her passion with her career. She is a mixed martial arts fighter, holds blue belt in Jiu Jitsu and balances teaching self-dephysical activity, it’s also the best fense at the Olympic Gym during the week. Being able to maintain her student life as a junior majoring in special education is what keeps her going. self-defense,” he said. “When an attacker — an aggressor — grabs cluding sweeps, submissions, es- you, they’re going to try to take capes, take-downs and position. you somewhere and manhandle “The good thing about Jiu you. And since we’re grapplingJitsu is that it forms to your body based, that’s what they deal with type, like what all the time.” you like,” she Grappling said. “It’s so is a type of grand, and you maneuver to can just kind counter an opof pick and ponent to gain what a physical adShe learned about the classes and competing,” she said. “I re- choose

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Besides Junior Shakia Harris said she and invited her to attend classes gomery of Bowling Green, teach be anything has studied the art of “hardcore, at The House of Fitness at 513 the women’s night class on Fri- teaching, Har- Each Friday, the Herald brings you from escaping ris also fights in a story inspired by a letter of the to taking down you take names” Brazilian Jiu State St. day nights at 7 p.m.

Jitsu and Judo for a year and half an attacker by Harris, who considers herself Harris currently has a blue belt different comalphabet. now. the positioning open-minded and down to try just — which is the second belt one petitions in the The Lorain, Ohio, native said about anything, decided to go for can receive — with five belts in region. of your body.

In January, she competed in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu stems from it.

“In that regard, it’s the best total, black being the last.

Japanese Jiu Jitsu and features less “I went the next day, and the To gain a blue belt, she said, Cincinnati and received first place. form of self-defense, and it’s “You can choke them with great physical activity,” Johnson striking and more groundwork next day, and the next day, and a one needs to have a solid underthan its parent. year and a half later, I’m fighting standing of multiple positions, in- their own collar, you can reach in- said.

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CRIME REPORTS ■ Jonathan Hines was observed on Nov. 9 in his room in PearceFord Tower possessing mari-

juana and drug paraphernalia.

He was not arrested.

■ Siddharath Singh, PearceFord Tower, reported on Nov. 8

that his wallet was stolen while he was at the Preston Center.

His wallet contained $100 cash, three credit and debit cards

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and IDs. One of the cards has been used to attempt to order $500.82 worth of merchandise online. The card was declined.

■ Amanda Greene, BarnesCampbell Hall, reported on Nov. 7 that her wallet and contents were missing.

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WKU focusing on Music Hall, Block 12 construction

By NICK BRATCHER | news@wkuherald.com

BLOCK 12

DOWNING UNIVERSITY CENTER

As part of the effort to extend WKU’s main campus toward downtown Bowling Green, the Augenstein Alumni Center is being constructed on Kentucky Street. Currently, the foundation is being finished and the new center is expected to be completed in November 2012.

As part of that same effort in Block 12 of Bowling Green’s Tax Increment Financing District, a parking structure was constructed on Adams Street this summer. WKU is leasing that structure as well as building a dorm that will wrap around it to be finished at the end of June 2012. Block walls are currently being constructed in the dorm and will feature apartment-style living for upperclassmen when completed. Both the parking structure and the apartment-style housing will be available for use next fall when the housing construction is complete.

Plans for future development of Block 12 include the building of more upperclassmen, apartment-style living on Kentucky Street and the construction of a 90 to 100-room hotel.

WKU released a Request for Proposal last week seeking a hotel developer for the project. WKU plans to start constructing the housing in the next two to three years, but there is no set timeline for the completion of either project.

Renovations to Downing University Center are in the planning and design phase of construction. Early renderings were released at the Board of Regents meeting on Sept. 30, but many of the logistics must still be worked out before construction starts in March 2012.

DUC is expected to be finished by July 2014.

STEAMLINE A campus streamline that feeds the Industrial Education Building failed during startup this fall, so it is currently being replaced. It should be finished soon and should cause no problems with heating the IEB this winter, said Bryan Russell, director of Planning, Design and Construction.

COLONADE The William “Gander” Terry Colonnade will undergo a renovation to repair cracking and failing columns from prolonged exposure to snow and freezing rain. No timeline has been established for this project.

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A 26,000-square-foot Fine Arts Music Hall will house two rehearsal halls, a music library, commons spaces, administrative faculty offices and storage spaces. The music hall is set for completion in January.

MUSIC HALL To complement the Fine Arts Center, a new Fine Arts Music Hall is nearing the end of its construction. Kerra Ogden, the Music Hall’s project manager, said the building is expected to have “substantial completion” by Dec. 16. The building should be totally finished and ready for classes by mid-January.

Wilkins loves animals, gardening

By KATHERINE WADE news@wkuherald.com

Until five years ago, Deborah Wilkins had never owned a dog.

Now Wilkins, chief of staff and general counsel, spends a lot of her down time walking or playing with her two Shepard mix dogs, Mick and Kal. “I love them. I’ve really gotten attached to them,” Wilkins said.

When she and her husband moved out to the country and bought 10 acres of land, Wilkin’s husband, JR, decided they should get a dog.

“Both of us like animals, but we had lived in town for 15 years,” he said. “When we moved, we had ample room to take care of one.”

At the time, he worked as

the supervisor of the animal control part of the Bowling Green Police Department.

Wilkins asked the officers to let him know if they came across Shepard mix puppies.

A few months later, he came home with two puppies.

“They weren’t in good condition,” Deborah Wilkins said.

“They just hadn’t been taken care of.”

JR Wilkins said now the dogs are like their kids.

“We just like to enjoy their company,” he said. “We’ll take them for walks, play fetch with them, or just watch them play.”

Deborah Wilkins said she had a cat several years ago that passed away at age 15.

“He was a great cat,” she said. “And when he passed I was just devastated. You

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Before the senate voted Tuesday, there was plenty to be said during the debate.

The floor was open to senators and the non-senate members in attendance as well.

While non-members can’t vote, SGA encouraged students to speak up and make their voice heard.

Campus Improvements Chairperson Keyana Boka, the author of the resolution, said names do not reflect tradition.

“Names reflect a turning of the page — a new chapter,” Boka said.

Boka also said growth is part of school spirit.

“We want to make our lasting influence — our lasting mark on this building,” she said.

Some non-senate members that spoke at the meeting favored the DUC name change, while others opposed it.

La Grange freshman Matthew Lawson supported the name change. While some argued that changing the name would affect tradition, Lawson disagreed.

“Is the tradition in the name or is it in the building?” Lawson said. “I feel like we

would have thought a family member died.

“You always say, ‘I’m not going through that again,’ but you always do, and there are always animals that need homes.”

Wilkins said she is an all-around animal person.

“I just love animals, all WILKINS kinds,” she said. “I feed the squirrels, the chipmunks… I can’t stand to kill anything because I’m afraid I’ll be reincarnated.”

When she’s outside and she’s not playing with the dogs, Wilkins said she also loves to keep a garden.

Wilkins has vegetables,

put way too much value on the name when the building is still going to be here.”

Bedford senior Ashleigh Miller opposes the name change. Miller said she doesn’t want DUC to change from a “university center” to a “student union” just because other schools have.

“Our university’s so great because it’s so different,” Miller said.

Poorvie Patel was one senator who didn’t support the name change. Patel said that DUC is an important tradition at WKU, not only for the students, but for alumni, faculty members and staff as well.

“As a Bowling Green and WKU local, everybody who is anybody knows what and where DUC is,” Patel said.

Jane Wood, public relations director of SGA, who is also from Bowling Green, supported the resolution. Wood said that while she has gone to DUC for as long as she can remember, she doesn’t feel that the name is a tradition or something that sets WKU apart.

Wood also said that because the building is going to be a center for students, it doesn’t make sense to continue to refer to it as a university center.

“It’s something new. It isn’t DUC. It’s not going to be DUC anymore,” Wood said.

flowers and a wide variety of uncommon shrubs in her garden, she said.

Wilkins said her interest in gardening may have been sparked by her work in a plant shop in high school. Now she cooks and eats the vegetables she grows and decorates with the flowers and other plants.

Wilkins’ office is filled with plants she’s grown, including a spider plant, and she often gives them as gifts. All the plants that decorate President Gary Ransdell’s office were donated by Wilkins.

Doing crossword puzzles and reading are also some of Wilkins’ favorite activities.

She said she often reads multiple books at a time.

Currently, she is working on three books — a biography of Cleopatra, a book about serial

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At 9 years old, Calixte visited New York City with his family. He said he “slept like a baby” in Brooklyn. Calixte told all his friends when he got back to Haiti that New York City had electricity 24 hours a day.

Calixte recalls visiting his uncle in Long Island and going to McDonald’s.

“I had a Big Mac and I thought it was the best thing ever,” Calixte said.

Four years after having his first Big Mac, Calixte and his family moved to Port Charlotte, Fla., in June 2002. Calixte attended high school in Port Charlotte and began to play football.

After graduating high school, Calixte played Division II football at Tusculum College in Tennessee. He transferred to WKU after his sophomore season.

Calixte started playing with the Toppers as a defensive end in the summer of 2010 but is sitting out the

killer Ted Bundy titled “The Only Living Witness” and a book of scary stories she used to love in the eighth grade.

“I always liked scary stories when I was a kid, so that’s probably why I read these,” she said.

Wilkins said she also loves scary movies, like the Paranormal Activity series.

Before starting at her position at WKU 17 years ago, Wilkins was in private practice with a law firm in Bowling Green.

“One day the senior partner came in and said, ‘We need someone to take on WKU’s legal work. You do it,’” she said.

At the time, WKU didn’t have an in-house attorney. A few years later they re-established the position and Wilkins applied, got it, and has been at WKU ever since.

rest of his senior season with a torn triceps.

With the career-ending injury, Calixte said he sees the best in every situation and looks at a glass half-full instead of half-empty.

“My faith in God drove me to where I am now,” he said.

Damien Knowles, a senior from Mount Pleasant, Tenn., met Calixte his sophomore year, while living in Southwest Hall.

“Ket is caring,” Knowles said.

“He is good at giving advice, and he can relate to anyone.”

Senior long snapper Joey Dunphy said Calixte is just a “nice guy.” Dunphy has known his fellow teammate for two and a half years. Dunphy was impressed that Calixte stuck around for this senior season after an injury.

Dunphy said Calixte is “very humble” and “very mature.” The long snapper said he goes to Calixte if he ever needs someone to talk to.

“The fact that he tore his triceps and still has enough loyalty to the Tops to stick around and support the team is extremely impressive,” Dunphy said.

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COLUMN

Thank a veteran; love your country Whether you agree with wars in the past or the current war — I don’t care as long as you support our troops and veterans.

American men and women courageously put their lives in danger for you and me everyday.

From World War I to the current wars in the Middle East, heroes have fought and still fight for the freedoms and democracy of America.

Why do we only set aside one day to celebrate veterans and their service to our country? Don’t get me wrong. I’m beyond proud to celebrate Veterans Day in America, but to me every day should be Veterans Day. Every day we should thank a veteran we know with a handshake or a simple thank you. Every day we should think about our men and women overseas risking their lives for us. And every day we should pray that our men and women come home safe — not only physically unharmed, but mentally as well.

During my time as a reporter I have interviewed veterans and men, and women deployed overseas. I can’t think of many other

people I respect more.

I’m so proud that WKU is dedicating a panel on Guthrie Tower to 1st Lt. Eric D. Yates, who was killed by a roadside SPENCER JENKINS Scribbled Words bomb last year in opinion@wkuherald.com Afghanistan.

After his death, alumna Jessica Ray said Yates was someone she could be comfortable around.

“Like so many people, I never realized just how much I took my freedom and country for granted until I was close to someone fighting to protect that freedom,” she said.

Her thoughts about war and death are shared amongst many people in America, and I couldn’t have said it better myself.

Sometimes as Americans we see a man or a woman in a uniform whose only duty is combat. Almost like they are robots. However this is far from the truth. Veterans and people serving our country are people with

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real emotions and real lives, and the least they deserve is a big thank you.

My uncle served in World War I, my grandpa served in the Korean War and my stepdad served in the Navy. I know what it’s like to have military in your family, and it can be tough. We as Americans need to take into consideration what our men and women have been through and have been going through and support them as a nation.

Yes, I know, many people don’t agree with war. But that’s not what this is about.

It’s about supporting our troops and veterans who have put their lives on the line and even lost their lives for our freedom.

War is an ugly thing, but the Americans who serve in ugly wars are amazing people who deserve respect and gratitude from all of us.

So today, find a veteran you know or seek out a veteran and just say “thank you.”

You know what it’s like when someone thanks you for something you’ve done, right?

It feels amazing. Make a veteran, or someone overseas right now feel amazing.

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COMMENTARY

Do this many people need to be going to college?

For every $1,000 spent on a three-hour collegiate course, someone profits from a college student’s eagerness to obtain knowledge and willingness to pay out-the-ass for something they could’ve learned online for free. Why? Thirty-five percent of college students drop out during their first year. The average college student is $5,000 in debt after their first year.

Sixty-five percent of college students who enroll in a four-year college will graduate, but it will take them an average of six years to do so while totaling over $25,000 of debt in the process.

Forty percent of college graduates go on to a career in a field that has nothing to do with their major.

Forty-two percent of recent

college graduates are unemployed, which doesn’t take-in account underNICK WELLER e m STANFORD ploySENIOR ment or restaurant servers; enjoy free rent and reconnecting with your parents, have fun bringing your last-call hunnie back to their house.

The only post-graduate “jobs” my intelligent and creative friends have obtained is through the government-ran Americorp. They’re college coaches and it’s their job to go

into impoverished, rural towns and recruit children who aren’t smart enough, aren’t mature enough and aren’t financially well-off to go to college because “it’s the only way they‘ll be successful.”

College is glorified in movies, TV shows, and in high schools by teachers and college coaches. High schools take pride in how well their curriculum prepares students for college. “You’re not going to be successful in this world unless you get a college degree.”

“You’re going to be far behind others who have a college degree.”

It’s getting to the point in our society where we have to step back and realize college is for profit, and a big part of our economy. Those are the rea-

sons why it’s shoved down our throats and like babies trapped in a highchair being fed by a train-shaped spoon, we take it without much thought at all.

Much like our country’s military and prison systems, our secondary education system is being warped, molded and abused, by and for the almighty dollar.

When are we going to look at attending college on an individual basis? When are we going look at the cons of attending college? Does the 50-year-old majoring in English Lit need to be in college?

Would someone who needs $100,000 of loaned money to obtain a degree be better off skipping college altogether?

In a state school like WKU, tuition only will run you around $40,000 to obtain 120

credits but, because your advisor messed up or you changed your mind about your major more than your favorite beer, you’ll need more than 120 credits to graduate.

Is a piece of paper and a handshake worth the financial slavery most are coerced into without any thought at all?

Forty thousand dollars to learn how cells divide, how to divide fractions and how Julius Caesar should’ve hired bodyguards because he and the senate sure as hell were divided?

Attending college should no longer be a thoughtless, unanimous issue, but one that is discussed and divided.

This commentary doesn't necessarily represent the views of the Herald or the university.

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Democrats win 5 of 6 state-wide elections Governor Steve Beshear

Democrat- 55.72 % 464,245 votes

David Williams

Republican - 35.29 % 294,034 votes

Gatewood Galbraith

Independent- 8.99% 74,860 votes

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Democrat- 60.63 % 494,368 votes

Bowling Green sophomore Brandon Peay, a mayoral candidate, holds hands with girlfriend and New Orleans sophomore Kristin Thames on Tuesday at Buffalo Wild Wings after hearing election results. Peay received 266 votes, good enough for 3.18 percent of the vote.

Bill Johnson

Republican - 39.97% 321,065 votes

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Attorney General Jack Conway

Democrat- 55.76 % 449,638 votes

Todd O’Pool

Republican- 44.98 % 367,661 votes

Auditor of Public Accounts Adam H. Edelen

Democrat- 55.76% 440,345 votes

John T. Kemper III

Republican-44.24% 349,366 votes

State Treasurer Todd Hollenbach

Democrat - 48.77 % 393,413 votes

K.C. Crosbie

Republican- 46.61 % 375,916 votes

Kenneth C. Moellman Jr.

Libertarian- 4.62 % 37,261 votes

Commissioner of Agriculture Bob Farmer

Democrat- 36.21 % 294,673 votes

James R. Comer

Republican- 63.79 % 519,183 votes

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“[Brandon] is already ready for 2012,” Thames joked.

While he isn’t sure that he will run in 2012, Peay said that he will definitely run for political office again in the future. “[Politics] aren’t really my future, per say, but I want more along the lines of what Rand Paul has — a normal four year term, not a career politician,” he said. “That’s what’s wrong with Washington right now. We have career politicians who don’t want to change their policies.”

Rand Paul, a Republican U.S. Senator from Kentucky, is currently in the first year of his six-year term.

Despite the loss, Peay said he will keep his dream of being mayor alive. If elected to mayor in the future, and if he liked the job, Peay said that he would consider possibly running for a higher office.

Although he doesn’t want a career in politics, Peay would like to continue pursuing a nursing degree and do something with it in the future.

“As a nursing major, I want low cost health care for individuals who may not be able to afford it,” he said.

Thames said that she is also glad Peay had the experience of running.

“I think he did really well,” she said. “I’m

very proud of him.”

She also helped out with his campaign finances.

“I made him get window chalk,” Thames said. “Actually, I bought it for him.”

The $6 spent on window chalk, along with the $50 entrance fee for the election, was all Peay spent on his campaign. He decorated his car windows with the chalk, but said that he also used social media to get his name out.

Peay said that his lack of experience was probably a contributing factor to the loss.

However, he said he has no regrets and wishes Wilkerson luck as the city’s next mayor.

Results for Bowling Green mayoral race ■ Bruce Wilkerson won with 4,666 votes, capturing 55.6 percent of the electorate.

■ Joe Denning received 3,466 votes, capturing 41.3 percent of the electorate.

■ Brandon Peay received 266 votes which was good enough for 3.2 percent of voters.

■ NEWS BRIEF WKU alumni win two elections Melinda Hill won the city commission election by an overwhelming 55 percent.

Robin Baldwin came in second with 16 percent of the vote.

This was a special election for the position. Hill was appointed to the commission in March after Joe Denning took over as mayor for former mayor Elaine Walker.

Hill obtained a Master of Business Administration from WKU and is currently a computer informations systems instructor.

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Steven Milesko, an Elizabethtown senior, said medical students often practice surgery on pig parts because of the similarities between swine skin and human skin.

“Pig skin has the same consistency as human skin in terms of firmness,” Milesko said. He said that medical students also frequently use pigs’ hearts to practice the heart valve replacement procedure.

Bretz said the honor society’s annual pig suturing lab started last year and proved to be a popular event.

“It’s something we’re going to try to keep doing every year,” Bretz said.

Many of the students in the laboratory protected their hands with latex, but some students chose to forego the gloves. McCreary senior Adam Swiger said he did not mind touching the severed pigs’ feet.

“We just go with bare hands and skip all that stuff,” said Swiger.

Republican James Comer won the election for Commissioner of Agriculture, defeating Democrat Bob Farmer.

Comer is an alumnus of WKU, where he majored in agriculture with a minor in government. While attending WKU, Comer was Kentucky State Future Farmers of America president. He also received the Mercantile Exchange Scholarship, awarded to the top four college agriculture students in the nation.

— Natalie Hayden He said that AED has had local physicians, dentists and surgeons as guest speakers throughout the semester.

Bretz said that AED is planning on holding more interactive workshops for its members. She said that earlier in the semester, AED had an intubation lab where a member of the Ohio County Emergency Medical Service showed the students how to intubate a patient using a mannequin.

“Later this semester, we might do some child psychology case studies — stuff like that,” Bretz said.

Crawford, who guided the students through the workshop, is a physiology professor and the director of WKU’s pre-medical program. He said it was early for the students to be practicing suturing, but that the value of the pigs’ feet lab was not really about gaining surgical skills. He said the real purpose is for the students gain a taste of what medical school might hold for them.

“I think what it does is give them a light at the end of the tunnel,” Crawford said. “It gives them something to look forward to — something to get excited about.”

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members, Armstrong has not been able to receive any university funding and said he has used his own money to meet the club’s financial needs. Armstrong said he hopes with an increase in membership the club can receive support, and possibly apply for a grant.

After losing seven friends and family members from suicide, including his father, he is motivated to help others that struggle with suicidal thoughts or have lost someone close to them.

Suicidal thoughts are a struggle that no one should have to suffer through alone, Armstrong said.

At the meeting a slideshow was presented by Armstrong to demonstrate his personal connection to suicide, including statistics, the police report from his father’s suicide and pictures from his father’s crime scene. The pictures depicted his father’s feet, the gun and blood. “When he killed himself it took everything from me,�

Armstrong said.

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Inspired by his own experiences with the pain suicide can cause, Leitchfield freshman Johnny Armstrong hosted an informational meeting Tuesday to announce the formation of a new club, The Fight Against Suicide.

Armstrong said the hope is that the organization can fundraise and host seminars at local schools, helping WKU and Bowling Green become more aware of and how to prevent suicide.

The club also hopes to change the social stigma about suicide, Armstrong said, as many people are ashamed about feeling suicidal or knowing someone who has killed themselves. “Unlike everyone else,�

Armstrong said, “I am going to talk about it.�

The club is open to all WKU students, and Armstrong is actively looking for people willing to take on officer positions.

The meeting introduced the club’s mission to raise awareness about suicide and prevention. Because the club is new, and therefore has few

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Meanwhile Taylor leads the team with 53 tackles and Mathieu has forced an SEC-high four fumbles.

Azzanni said he was especially impressed with Mathieu, a sophomore nicknamed “Honey Badger� after a Youtube video about nature’s “most fearless animal.� “You turn on the film and you watch him play, as a coach when you press ‘play,’ that’s how you want your guys to play football,� Azzanni

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Hudson said despite WKU’s lack of success against MTSU in recent years, he’ll be looking past the rivalry between the two teams in tonight’s match.

now wants to help others. “I want to show people that no matter how hard life gets, or how bad you think your life is, you can make it through anything if you put up the fight,� he said.

With the help of club advisor Kim Cunningham, assistant professor in Academic Support, Armstrong has been able to create this club to aid those affected by suicide. It is an independent club without any national affiliation. Armstrong said he eventually plans to turn it into a suicide prevention non-profit organization.

Cunningham said she agreed to be moderator of the club to support Armstrong’s efforts, and aid students needing support in college. “I think the club is capable of doing great things,�

Cunningham said. “Spreading the word about suicide prevention is extremely important among our student population.�

Currently, the club is working to set up a website.

Contact Johnny Armstrong at johnny.armstrong380@ topper.wku.edu if interested in joining or for more information.

said. “He’s one of the best football players I’ve ever seen on film.�

The Toppers are coming off one of their worst statistical passing performances of the year last week against Florida International.

Under pressure for much of the game, junior quarterback Kawaun Jakes went just 8-of-24 for 143 yards.

Junior tight end Jack Doyle said WKU will have to play its "A-game" Saturday to have any chance of moving the ball against LSU. “They’re real fast and they make turnovers,� he said. “That’s going to be

one thing we really need to focus on is controlling that ball and looking it in and making sure we have it tucked away.�

The Toppers, who are 41-point underdogs against the Tigers, will be looking to continue a five-game win streak and beat an SEC team for the first time in school history.

Jakes said the LSU game has a chance to be a milestone for moment for the WKU program. “It’s a once in a lifetime chance to play the No. 1 team, and the No. 1 defense at that,� he said. “I can’t wait until Saturday.�

“I’ve beaten Middle Tennessee a lot of times in my career,� he said. “To me, it’s a chance to win a championship, and I don’t care who’s on the other side.�

MTSU comes into Friday riding a 16-match winning streak and is also competing to be regular-season

champ and have the No. 1 seed in the Sun Belt tournament.

Hudson said the stakes should bring a big home crowd to the match in Murfreesboro. “It’ll be loud, it’ll be rowdy, but we always play really well down there,� he said.

amount of participation in the program would teach attendants about the situation in Dadaab. “Obviously we’d love it for individuals to take the challenge to try to only eat that for three days,� Long said. “I think even if somebody comes to our station where we are distributing food, gets that allotment, and then comes to the cafeteria to get breakfast, you’re still seeing a stark contrast in what’s available to you than these individuals are getting over there. “So there’s still some learning going on there.�

Ft. Worth senior Aida Mehmedovic is signed up to participate in Dining with Dadaab and said she is planning on only eating the rations for those three days.

Mehmedovic said she was nervous because the program allows her to experience something that doesn’t happen to most Americans. “We’re so used to having anything we want to eat right there in front of us,� she said.

Mehmedovic said she visited Africa this past summer. While the food

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The Dadaab refugee camp on the Kenya-Somalia border is designed to hold 90,000 displaced people, and it now holds close to 440,000 people.

The staff of BatesRunner and McLean halls are doing their part to raise awareness of this issue with a program called Dining with Dadaab.

Those who sign up to participate in Dining with Dadaab, which is Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, will receive food rations similar to those given to people living in the refugee camp.

Jeff Long, residence hall director for Bates and McLean halls, said the rations would not contain fruits, vegetables or meat. “What we want to do is replicate as much as possible, obviously it’s impossible to replicate the situation, but as far as the food part of it, replicate as closely as possible what these individuals receive and how little they actually get,� Long said.

Long said the goal of the program is to raise awareness, and that any

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“We’re going to need a different way to approach the race,� Hurd said. “We need to run more conservatively.�

Long expects the meet to be a larger one, with at least 30 full teams.

He said the middle three runners — Okwera, Mokone, Hurd — should shoot for the top 25, and the fifth runner, Chettleburgh, would do well by placing in the top 100. “I think we play them better down there than we do here in Diddle Arena, for whatever reason, so I don’t think our kids will be bothered or uptight at all.�

Rogers said the rivalry always brings out a wild crowd and the Lady Toppers are ready to deal with it.

was different, it was still prepared for them. “I didn’t fully get that experience there,�

Mehmedovic said Virgie senior Erin Taylor, a resident assistant in Bates, said participation was open to everyone. “Anybody on campus or in the community can register, its not even just strictly campus,� Taylor said.

Students interested in signing up with Dining with Dadaab can register from the housing section of the WKU website. There will be a final event on Wednesday on the Bates Lawn at a time that has yet to be decided. A film about the famine in East Africa will be shown and students who participated in the event will speak about their experience.

Schedule of Dining with Dadaab Meals to be distributed between Bates and McLean Hall â– Breakfast: 7:30 to 9 a.m. â– Lunch: 12 to 2 p.m. â– Dinner: 5 to 6:30 p.m.

Chettleburgh said both the men’s and women’s teams can carry their effort from the Sun Belt Championships — where each team placed first — into regionals to be successful. “It’s going to be a tough one,� Chettleburgh said. “But if we have a good day, I think we’re going to surprise people.�

Since the teams ran the course earlier this season, Chettleburgh said the teams are looking forward to improving on their previous results and have put in “some good quality

“We just have to stay focused the whole time,� she said. “Their fans are going to be rowdy and trying to make a difference in the game and we’re prepared for that.�

Hudson said the Lady Toppers will have to manage the higher stakes because ev-

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workouts� to do so.

Long said the key to regionals will be “holding on� for the extra 1.2 miles. “You get to the stage when you think you can’t run anymore, you’re at the right spot,� Long said.

Last year the women’s team placed 11th in regionals, with the men’s team coming in at 22nd.

Though he knows the race will be tough, Hurd said he’s optimistic. “I think it’s something we can handle,� Hurd said. “We’ll meet the challenge.� ery game from now on will have more on the line. “I’d rather be on our sideline than theirs on Friday night,� he said. “The boring regular season matches are behind us at this point and it’s a lot of fun for these kids from here on out.�

■SPORTS BRIEF Duff, Musser earn swimming honors in same week Two WKU swimmers earned awards recognizing their performances in the team’s sweep of Georgia Tech and Clemson last weekend.

Freshman Allie Duff and junior Luke Musser were both awarded Sun Belt Conference Swimmers of the Week on Tuesday.

Duff led the way for the Lady Toppers and was the only WKU swimmer to win three events in the meet.

Head Coach Bruce Marchionda said it’s no surprise Duff’s made an immediate impact in her freshman season and already won a Sun Belt Conference Swimmer of the Week award. “She has the ability to swim fast when tired and she’s got a great work ethic,� he said. “When you combine those two things, she’s just kind of having an impact in what we’re doing right now.�

Duff is a part of a trio of backstrokers — along with juniors Hilary Mishler and Alex Van Oost — that finished first through third in the 100 meter backstroke last weekend.

Marchionda said the sweep in that particular event was simply “enormous� for

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On the men’s side, Musser was one of only two swimmers to finish first in two events.

Musser said he feels as though he has a greater responsibility put on him as an upperclassman. “Being an upperclassman is a tough shoe to fill, but it means a lot and you have a responsibility to pave the way for the freshmen,� Musser said.

Marchionda said Musser is one of the upperclassmen that others look to as a leader. “He is a leader, especially by example,� Marchionda said. “He brings it every day in practice, works hard and does the right things. It’s everything you like to see in a swimmer so it’s no surprise that he’d get Sun Belt Swimmer of the Week.�

The swimmer of the week honors were a first for both Duff and Musser.

Marchionda said it means even more to have both awarded in the same week. “Anytime you get a Sun Belt Swimmer of the Week it’s great,� he said. “But when you’re able to get both it’s something really special.�

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Junior quarterback Kawaun Jakes will lead WKU against a talented LSU secondary on Saturday.

Under pressure WKU to face talent-laden LSU secondary Saturday

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an assistant at Southeastern Conference rival Florida and called them “a typical SEC-looking defense.”

“They’re all tall, high-cut guys that can run,” Azzanni said. “The D-linemen run like linebackers, the linebackers run like secondary guys and the secondary guys run like track stars.”

Football secondaries typically consist of two cornerbacks and two safeties.

The primary responsibility for those positions is preventing opponents from having success passing.

Tiger DBs have done just that, allowing 177.4 passing yards per game, the eighth-lowest total in the nation.

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CBS analyst Gary Danielson said there were 10 future NFL defensive backs on the field last Saturday when No. 1 Louisiana State played then-No. 2 Alabama.

The LSU secondary made two crucial fourth quarter interceptions, putting the Tigers in position for a 9-6 overtime win.

WKU (5-4) will get a shot at the No. 1 Tigers (9-0) and its talented defensive backs at 6 p.m. Saturday in Tiger Stadium.

Offensive coordinator Zach Azzanni got a firsthand look at LSU’s defense a season ago when he was

selves,” Azzanni said. “That secondary is definitely the strong point of that defense. All four of those guys will be playing on Sundays.”

The LSU secondary had to replace cornerback Patrick Peterson in the offseason after he was taken No. 5 overall in last year’s NFL Draft.

But safeties Brandon Taylor and Eric Reid and cornerbacks Tyrann Mathieu and Morris Claiborne have filled Peterson’s void.

Reid and Claiborne both made interceptions last Saturday to keep the Crimson Tide scoreless in the fourth quarter.

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Head Coach Travis Hudson has talked for weeks about making the last volleyball match of the season matter.

Hudson definitely got his wish.

The Lady Toppers (27-3, 14-1 Sun Belt Conference) will take on Middle Tennessee State (18-9, 141) at 7 p.m. Friday in Murfreesboro in the last regular season Sun Belt match either team will play, and a lot is on the line.

Both teams are 14-1 in the conference and are tied with each other at the top of the Sun Belt East Division. The winner of Friday’s match will be crowned regular-season division and conference champion and will receive the No. 1 seed in next week’s Sun Belt tournament.

Despite the stakes, senior middle hitter Lindsay Williams said the Lady Toppers are looking at it as just another match against their biggest rival.

“It’s always that rivalry that we’re striving to get a win in,” she said. “It would definitely be something that I would take from it as a bonus for the season we’ve been having.”

WKU dropped a match against MTSU earlier this season — the only home loss and only Sun Belt loss for the Lady Toppers this season.

In fact, MTSU has had the Lady Toppers’ number on the court for the past few years. WKU hasn’t gotten a win over the Lady Raiders since 2008, when Williams was a freshman.

Junior defensive specialist Sarah Rogers has yet to beat MTSU in her time in Bowling Green. She said tonight’s match is a perfect opportunity to notch her first win.

“I’ve never beaten Middle Tennessee. We haven’t beaten them in a couple of years,” she said. “Just the fact that they came on our home court and beat us and we have a chance to get back at them for the regular season championship has us going.”

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Teams hoping for top-five at regional meet

By MERCEDES TRENT sports@wkuherald.com

Morris Claiborne

Tyrann Mathieu

Cornerback No. 17

Cornerback No. 7

Claiborne was named a second-team All-Southeastern Conference cornerback last season, picking off five passes while playing across the field from current Arizona Cardinals’ cornerback Patrick Peterson.

Claiborne also came up with one of the biggest plays in LSU's 9-6 win over Alabama last Saturday, making a leaping fourth quarter interception to end an Alabama drive. He returned the interception to the Crimson Tide 15-yard line, setting up the game-tying field goal.

Mathieu, also known as the “Honey Badger,” has nine career forced fumbles nine games into his sophomore season. He was selected by Phil Steele as Midseason FirstTeam All-American.

WKU offensive coordinator Zach Azzanni on Mathieu: “He’s going to hit you every play. No matter what you’re going to get a shot from him. I respect the heck out of how he plays.”

Brandon Taylor

Eric Reid

Safety No. 18

Safety No. 1

Taylor is in his third year as a starting safety for LSU. He was the No. 2 rated prospect in the state of Louisiana coming out of high school as a cornerback and switched over to safety when he arrived at LSU. Taylor’s 53 tackles this season rank No. 1 for the entire team. He was selected by Head Coach Les Miles to wear the No. 18 jersey this season, a tradition for the LSU players that "best represent what it means to be a Tiger.

Reid is in his first full year as a starter at LSU. His father, Eric Sr., was a three-time All-American hurdler at LSU in the 1980s.

Reid came up with one of the biggest plays of the Alabama game, a fourth quarter red zone interception in which he wrestled a pass away from Crimson Tide tight end Mike Williams. For his efforts against Alabama, Reid was named on Tuesday as the Nagurski Defensive Player of the Week.

There is no “magic secret” up the sleeves of WKU’s cross country teams as they head into the NCAA Southeast Regional this Saturday at E.P. Tom Sawyer State Park in Louisville.

The men’s team is currently ranked ninth in the region with the women’s teams entering the weekend at 11th — a “starting point,” said Head Coach emeritus Curtiss Long.

Long said the team ultimately wants to place in the top five in order to secure a bid to the NCAA Championship.

“We need to put ourselves in a position to get the best finish we could possibly get,” Long said. “And then (we) just see if on that day (we) can get the job done.”

Senior Deus Rwaheru, who Long hopes will go on to compete individually if the team falls short of the top five mark, is a “true 10K runner,” Long said. Rwaheru will have to place in the top ten to move on to nationals.

Lady Topper senior Marion Kandie, who went on to compete individually in nationals last year, also will look to have a strong performance in regionals this weekend to send her back to the championships.

Long said that while he recognizes freshmen Peter Okwera and David Mokone, along with junior Kyle Chettleburgh, as middle distance runners, he hopes that eventually freshman Sean Hurd will develop into a 10K runner.

“This is what we’ve been training for,” Long said.

“This is the race.”

Hurd, who has never before competed in a 10K race, acknowledged it will be an “adjustment” for himself and the other two freshmen.

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