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Campus reacts to US Senate results

BY TYLER PROCHAZKA NEWS@WKUHERALD.COM Almost immediately after polls closed on Tuesday, the news was out: Mitch McConnell won re-election to the U.S. Senate.

And then as more national projections came out, it became clear the Republicans were going to win control of the Senate, causing a mix of disappointment and excitement among WKU students.

SGA President Nicki Taylor said that as a Democrat she was “upset” by the results.

“I even went to an Alison rally earlier in the year so it’s just sad to see her lose,” Taylor said.

Taylor said she thought the Democratic candidate Alison Grimes offered a better option for Kentucky’s agriculture and would provide greater service to Kentucky.

Republicans not only won the Senate, but also the largest majority in the House since World War II. Head of the political science department, Saundra Ardrey said the election demonstrates a dissatisfaction of voters.

“What we are seeing is a discontentment among the electorate for both parties and their inability to work together,” Ardrey said.

SGA Speaker of the Senate Jay Todd Richey had a similar reaction. He said he was a Grimes supporter and was shocked to see McConnell was projected to win so quickly.

Richey said McConnell’s win had to do with low turnout during a midterm year.

“Generally more people turn out for presidential elections and it’s always various groups of people,” Richey said.

Sophomore SGA Senator Hunter Peay said he leans more toward the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party. However, he also was not pleased to see McConnell win re-election, who Peay said is not fiscally conservative enough.

Peay said he voted for David Patterson, the Libertarian candidate, because he agreed with him on the issues.

Large Public schools with the highest student loan default rates*

new mexico state university — 19.9 percent ohio university — 15 percent kent state university — 14.7 percent WKU — 13.7 percent university of akron — 13.5 percent

*Data provided by the United States Department of Education.

List is limited to schools that had at least 5,000 students in repayment. Data pertains to the 2011 Fiscal Year.

University University Morehead Murray of kentucky of louisville State State 7.2 percent 9.6 percent 12.5 percent 10.2 percent EASTERN Kentucky Northern KENTUCKY state Kentucky 12.8 percent 28.6 percent 9.9 percent

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KU students are more likely to default on paying off student loans than students at University of Louisville or University of Kentucky.

According to data released by the U.S. Department of Education in September, WKU’s three-year cohort default rate of student loans for the 2011 fiscal year is 13.7 percent with 5,237 students in repayment and 720 students in default. The percentage includes graduates and dropouts.

Cynthia Burnette, student financial assistance director, said WKU’s student loan default rate isn’t favorable.

“Our default rate is higher than we would like,” Burnette said. “We have a plan where we are putting more aggressive efforts in place to try to help those students who are in that repayment process.”

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Race discussed in student-organized forum

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The perception of race in the judicial system in America weighed heavy on the minds of several students, faculty and members of the community during a discussion about social fairness on Tuesday.

About 60 people in Grise Auditorium attended a forum titled "Race, Rights and Religion."

Scottsville graduate student Barrett Wright organized the forum. The religious studies major said he organized the event out of his passion for social justice.

“I feel it’s my duty to try to create atmospheres for people to ask questions about it and even try to make a step towards the problems in America,” Wright said.

The forum consisted of eight panelists who discussed the following two

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WKU graduate Barrett Wright introduced the panelists for the nights discussions on Race, Rights, and Religion on Tuesday night, Nov. 4 in Bowling Green at Grise Hall. Discussion topics included police involvement in the nation and questionable arrest, such as those used in the Mike Brown case.

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Continued from FRONT Burnette said students go into repayment six months after they graduate or are no longer considered a student.

According to the Department of Education, the nation’s overall default rate is 13.7 percent. However, Kentucky’s overall default rate is much higher at 17.5 percent, the fourth highest in the country.

According to the data, the University of Kentucky’s student loan default rate for the 2011 fiscal year was 7.2 percent, with 4,273 students in repayment and 308 who have defaulted.

The University of Louisville’s rate is 9.6 percent with 4,171 students in repayment and 403 in default.

Andrew Head, WKU financial planning program director, said stu-

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“I voted my conscience and I voted my principles,” he said.

One potential plus for Richey is that Republicans winning the Senate may increase Democrats’ chances in 2016 for the presidency.

“If you have many Republicans in Congress and not much gets done then it will be portrayed very badly on their part,” Richey said.

Richey said he believes as Senate Majority Leader, McConnell will not push for a legislation students care about, such as reforming student loans or minimum wage.

“Personally I’m afraid for what is going to happen,” Richey said.

Ardrey said that McConnell’s resources and the fact that he was an incumbent made winning an uphill battle for Grimes.

She also said his strategy of tying Grimes to Obama was more successful than Grimes’ attempts to go after McConnell’s record.

dents typically default on loans due to a lack of employment options or entering career fields that do not earn them enough money to pay back loans. Some default students also may have a disability or longterm illness that causes them financial trouble.

Using data from the Department of Education, Quartz.com ranks WKU as No. 4 with the highest default rate in the nation for large public schools behind Kent State University at 14.7 percent, Ohio University at 15 percent and New Mexico State University with the largest at 19.9 percent. These percentages represent the fiscal 2011 three-year default rates for universities with at least 5,000 students in repayment.

“If you look at overall default rates we’re right at the middle,” Head said.

Head said he has seen the impact of

“That worked for a while because the polls had them neck and neck, but at some point you have to establish what you believe in,” Ardrey said. “She wasn’t as effective in doing that.”

On election night, Oregon and Washington D.C. voters also legalized the recreational use of marijuana, modeling Colorado and Washington. Ardrey said she believes this is part of a larger national trend.

“I think the time for recreational use of marijuana has come,” Ardrey said.

Ardrey said legalizing marijuana in Kentucky would be a positive for the state.

“Marijuana is the No. 1 cash crop, and that would really help the state budget,” Ardrey said.

The legalization of marijuana would also ease the overpopulation of prisons, Ardrey said.

“A large portion of our prison population, especially among young disenfranchised minorities, are in prison because of marijuana,” Ardrey said.

In addition the federal elec-

those who have cumbersome student loans.

“I have had experience with students that have graduated from WKU with well over $100,000 in student loan debt and are going into careers that pay…

25-to-$35,000 starting,” Head said. “It’s very difficult to make that kind of payment.”

He described the difficulty of paying off a student loan with the example of a $100,000 loan.

For a 10-year payment plan, Head calculated the initial payments would cost $1,151 a month, which is the bulk of take home pay for someone making $25,000 to $35,000 a year. If it were a 20-year scenario, the payment would cost $763 a month.

“A lot of people just really don’t know what the consequences are postgraduation as far as what these (loans) are going to cost on a monthly basis,”

tions, Kentucky also had many state and local elections as well, Richey pointed out.

Republicans were hoping to take over the Kentucky legislature for the first time in decades, but Democrats clung to a slim majority there.

“I think Kentucky is a pretty interesting state when we have two powerful Republican senators and we have a Democratic House and governor,” Richey said.

With huge problems to tackle in Obama’s final two years, Ardrey said the two parties have to find a way to address issues ranging from the economy to immigration.

“The message that was sent is that the American people are demanding the parties work together,” Ardrey said.

For Richey, seeing students civically engaged was still a big win for WKU. “Even if I’m not 100 percent pleased with the outcome, I am happy to see students go out and vote,” Richey said.

FORUM

Continued from front questions: “Is there a problem with African Americans and the legal system in America, if so what is it?” and “What can we do about it and what role does religion play?”

Wright said coming up with questions was a difficult task.

“There is a problem in America with justice and I wanted the panelists to look at that,” Wright said.

The eight panelists included Linda McCray, representing the Bowling Green Human Rights Commission, Tasha Paige representing the Save My City Foundation and Julius Bailey, the author of “The Cultural Impact of Kanye West.”

Panelists agreed racism is an ongoing problem in America.

Paige said she believes there is a problem within the police departments across America.

“Ferguson kind of pulled the veil back that we are now dealing with police officers who want to be the judge, jury and the prosecutor now,” Paige said.

She said one way to battle the racism in America is through religion.

“Ultimately, I believe we are dealing with the heart of man, and who can change the heart, but God,” Paige said.

McCray said she agrees racism is a widespread problem and is even alive in Bowling Green.

“I think it starts tentatively,” McCray said. “I think it starts with the conversations you have at the dinner table.”

McCray said every American needs to work on eliminating racial bias.

“I don’t think we can simply pray it away,” McCray said. “I think we have to be socially active with the involvement in politics, the legal process, the educational system within our communities and churches, but we have to be involved. We see an injustice done,

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We see an injustice done, so we need to speak up.”

Linda McCray so we need to speak up.”

Wright said he chose the panelists because he felt like they had something to say about the issue of race in America and its effects.

After the panelists discussed the provided questions, the audience asked the panelists questions and commented on the topics.

One student said she advocates for a more positive movement when wanting to move forward with the issue of racism.

“I don’t want to join a fight against racism, but a fight for equality,” she said.

McCray responded by saying that in order to talk about equality, people must acknowledge the existence of racism.

“While I respect your wish to be positive, I know that it is not always possible when there is some realities where that isn’t always the case,” she said.

McCray said talking about racism is often avoided because of the awkwardness surrounding the issue, but it needs to be done.

“There are going to be things that we don’t want to face, but they still have to be faced,” she said.

Wright said he wanted to host the event on WKU’s campus because colleges are often a way to engage young adults in social activism.

“Most of your movements in America, especially when it comes to power movements, civil movements and one that deals with black people, many of them have root on college campuses,” he said. “A lot of revolts, revolutions, marches have spurred or maybe came out of movements from universities.”

Head said.

Burnette said students are not always aware of when they are entering repayment options.

“There are options,” Burnette said.

“There are multiple repayment plans.

It’s not where there’s just one plan, and if you don’t fit in that plan then you’re subject to go into default. It’s not that way at all.”

The Student Financial Assistance office provides a variety of plans such as standard repayment plans and income-based plans.

“There needs to be considerably more candid discussion about job expectations associated with certain career choices and income expectations,” Head said. “There needs to be a very thoughtful discussion with students about the ramifications of borrowing these loans.”

CRIME REPORTS • Corbin freshman Ethan Pennington reported property stolen from his Hugh Poland dorm room on Nov. 3. Estimated value of the stolen property was $1,000.

• Police arrested Louisville sophomore Hunter Glass, Southwest Hall, for aggravated DUI, reckless driving and failure to produce an insurance card on University Boulevard on Nov. 4.

• Police cited Glendale freshman Evan Payne, Douglas Keen Hall, for careless driving, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia on Avenue of Champions on Nov. 4.

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Clinic to provide legal services to students

BY LASHANA HARNEY

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A student legal services clinic will be available for students seeking legal advice or legal representation starting in the spring semester of 2015.

Julia Shadoan, professor of paralegal studies and a licensed attorney, said the clinic will provide services at a reduced cost to students.

The exact cost has not yet been determined.

“There is a huge gap in the legal services that are being offered at normal fees versus what students can afford,” Shadoan said.

Shadoan said the clinic will not only provide legal services, but plans to educate students on certain aspects of understanding laws through seminars.

The clinic will be in Tate Page Hall, Room 252, and will begin providing services in January.

Services will cover legal issues including criminal violations, traffic violations, family law, landlord/tenant, small claims, immigration law, estate planning and first-offense DUIs. However, there are some services the clinic cannot provide, such as claims involving the university or disputes between students.

Shadoan said the clinic will be available for all students at WKU, including part-time

students, transfer students, international students and students on regional campuses.

However, services will not be provided to minors.

“For things outside our menu of services, we also would agree to try and find an external attorney that would take the case on a referral basis,” Shadoan said.

Shadoan said she has seen the need for the clinic through observing students in and out of the courtroom.

“I recognized that I see a lot of students out of the courtrooms who are clearly in over their heads,” Shadoan said.

“They don’t know what they are doing. They haven’t had advice.”

Shadoan said legal aid cannot provide services for students who are not below a certain income level. Those students can’t afford the prices of a private practitioner. Legal services is able to provide those students with legal opportunity.

“I think there is enough students that would need this kind of service that they wouldn’t otherwise have access to it,” Shadoan said.

Madisonville graduate student Kelsey Luttrell said students would receive legal advice much faster at the clinic.

“There are so many people legal aid is servicing, WKU students just get thrown in the mix,” Luttrell said. “They could have really long wait

I think there is enough students that would need this kind of service that they wouldn’t otherwise have access to it.”

Julia Shadoan times, whereas if they could just walk in the clinic, they would get help a lot faster than they would if they were trying to use legal aid.”

Shadoan said the clinic has agreements with about eight attorneys that will volunteer their time to serve students.

Shadoan said the clinic is trying to set up regular office hours for walk-ins, but most services will be done through appointments only.

She said if the clinic gets support through the Student Government Association or Student Affairs, there may be a student fee and a student fee could reduce the clinic’s costs of services.

Shadoan said she hopes to hire a full-time attorney in the future.

“The volunteers obviously have private practices and they are not going to be able to put in four or five hours a week here, unpaid especially,” Shadoan said. “So, we’re hoping that the part-time or fulltime attorney could at least provide 20 hours if not full-

time amount of service per week with the students.”

Shadoan said she would need to hire an attorney with a general background, so that the needs of all students can be met.

Shadoan said the clinic would be the first of its kind in Kentucky.

“It’s unusual that there is not anything of this kind in the state of Kentucky,” Shadoan said. “It’s a pretty well-recognized and well-established concept on a lot of campuses.

It’s odd to me that it has never been discussed in any sort of serious way.”

Shadoan said the clinic is grant-funded and partially funded through the School of Professional Studies.

There are Skype consultations available for students on regional campuses that cannot travel to main campus, Shadoan said.

She said she has been in the planning stage for about five years.

“There is a lot that goes into this and I’ve unfortunately

gotten pulled off from concentrating on it,” Shadoan said.

Shadoan said she was able to concentrate on getting the clinic up and running for about the past two years.

Shadoan hopes to launch three educational programs, such as seminars on lease agreements or other legal issues students can encounter while in college, when the clinic begins operations in the spring.

Luttrell said the amount of students using the clinic could vary drastically.

“It can vary anywhere from 20 students a month to 2,000 students a year,” Luttrell said.

Shadoan said gauging success for the clinic will show through the number of students who use the clinic and through evaluations of the services.

Luttrell said the office will be open for any legal advice.

“If you just have a legal question, you can come in and talk to us,” Luttrell said.

“You don’t have to specifically want to start a lawsuit or go to court.”

The clinic will also offer internships to students within the paralegal studies program.

Luttrell said the legal services clinic will add to WKU’s uniqueness.

“I feel like WKU is always trying to be the leading university and I feel like that opening a legal clinic will be a step to continue doing that,” Luttrell said.

Multiplayer game serves as bond for group

BY ERIAN BRADLEY

NEWS@WKUHERALD.COM This fall, a new club was put together to play the League of Legends online computer game.

League of Legends is a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena or MOBA video game. Players assume the role of a “champion,” a character that can have a variety of abilities and traits ranging from magic to brute strength.

The club was established by two students, Russia junior Oleg Nesterov and Belarus junior Aliaksei Taranda, who serve as the co-presidents.

The whole purpose for creating the club was to form a community around the game.

During the meetings, group members bring laptops and

play the game together.

“We really wanted to find people who played the game to build a community and find people with the same goals and interests as us,” Nesterov said.

The goal of the game is to destroy the main building of the other team, called the Nexus.

The game is played across a series of maps ranging from forests to a village.

The maps usually consist of obstacles and creatures called minions that must be overcome in order to reach the opponent’s Nexus. Players must be mindful of other hostile players as well.

As the game is played, players can receive benefits to make their character stronger.

About 27 million people play the game daily, according to the Wall Street Journal.

We really wanted to find people who played the game to build a community...”

Oleg Nesterov The club started off with 11 members, but because of networking the group ended up tripling the amount of players it had within three weeks after it was formed.

Taranda said the group grew as they began promoting the game on behalf of Riot Games, the company that made League of Legends. The promotion is done through the distribution of merchandise

related to the game, such as keychains and wristbands.

There are two parts of the club, the community, in which group members play the game for leisure and the competitive team, which consists of five players that play on a more serious level.

Cadiz junior Fay Rea, one of the two female members of the group, said she’s been playing the game for nearly a

year.

“I been playing this since January and I know a lot of other girls that play this game,” she said. “I kind of found the club randomly, I was talking about the professional League of Legends competitions and one of the presidents overheard me and told me about the club.”

Rea said she likes to play League of Legends, but she wouldn’t say she plays it more than any other game.

Although there are more competitive sides to the game, Nesterov said he doesn’t take the game very seriously.

“It’s just a hobby,” he said.

The club meets three times a week, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. at Downing Student Union in Room 2122.

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10 best places to hook up at WKU

BY TANNER COLE

OPINION@WKUHERALD.COM 10. Music rooms – Take your lover to the third floor of the Ivan Wilson Center for Fine Arts to make some sweetsounding love. You’ll need a key to get in, but once inside you can drape yourselves over a piano and start banging on the keys.

9. Cravens Library basement – Under WKU’s precious library is a wonderland of empty rooms just begging to host sexual escapades. Plus, all the bookcases move using electronic rails – you can build your own secret bookshelf love-nest.

8. In between the libraries – Step outside Cravens and find this narrow gap between the two libraries.

This spot is full of thrills and tension.

You’re outside, in the center of campus and anyone could walk through at any moment. Endless fun.

7. Smith Stadium – Plenty of schools have the time-honored tradition of hooking up on the 50-yard line. It isn’t just tradition though, the well-manicured turf makes for comfy bedding as you make it in under the big lights.

6. Gary Ransdell Hall – This quiet building features plenty of hidden windowsills perfect to hide away with your lover and bask in the window light.

5. Top of parking structure things – If you head to the top floor of Parking Structure 1 you can continue walking up the exit ramps to find an extra floor hidden above. Whether under the stars or glowing in the sunlight, this secret space is a great locale to get your love rolling.

4. Thompson North – You’re going to have to break in. Once inside, you have a sketchy wonderland of broken glass and abandoned classrooms to convert into your new bedroom.

3. Grassy steps inside the Kentucky Museum – You’ll need to do a little exploration to find this hidden haven, but it’s well worth it. The Kentucky museum forms a rectangle with a square of grass contained within. The grassy knoll inside is a lush getaway protected from the elements and prying eyes.

2. Under the kissing bridge – It’s a timeless tradition to kiss on the kissing bridge as a WKU student, but once the boring stuff is out of the way you should head underneath to truly experience the bridge’s ritual.

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1. Hardin Planetarium – Making love under the stars is great, but making love under computer manipulated star projections is even better. Have a friend speed up the Earth’s rotation to keep up with your increasing pace.

You can even simulate a supernova when that special moment arrives.

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Partners bring peachy keen days

BY JACOB PARKER OPINION@WKUHERALD.COM

“I love you.” It’s one of the simplest phrases we use to communicate one of our strongest emotions. It’s a feeling that doesn’t recognize distances or gender differences. Finding a partner to walk beside you and celebrate life’s intricacies brings a warm kind of happiness that nothing else can.

Happiness is sitting in comfortable

silence as you watch the world go by.

Happiness is having someone you’re not afraid to pee in front of.

blankets before the day starts.

ing who your “plus one” will be.

Happiness is a slow dance in the kitchen.

Happiness is attending a college with a LGBT friendly campus.

Happiness is receiving a surprise date night just because it’s Tuesday.

Happiness is the wordless communication of passion.

Happiness is trust.

Happiness is falling asleep together watching your favorite shows and waking up to each other in the morning.

Happiness is five extra min- Jacob Parker utes of spooning under the

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The Kentucky Building celebrates 75 years of history

BY STEPHANIE JESSIE

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When Western Kentucky State Normal School history teacher Gabrielle Robertson discovered there was only one book about Kentucky in the library in 1914, she set out on a mission to grow a collection of Kentucky history. As the collection matured, her storage space became limited and she began promoting the idea of a building to house her findings.

President Henry Hardin Cherry heard of the idea and grew it into something larger than Robertson had ever planned: a full museum dedicated to the history of Kentucky. Hence, the Kentucky Museum was born.

“Cherry sort of reminds you of Dr. Ransdell — he was a dreamer,” Christy Spurlock said. “He took her idea and, you know, he envisioned, along with an architect, this whole building.”

Spurlock is the education curator for the Museum.

Cherry turned to the College Heights Foundation,

Cherry sort of reminds you of Dr. Ransdell – he was a dreamer.”

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an organization created to help students attend school who could not afford an education, to help fund the project. Because the Foundation’s articles stated that money could be used for the construction of buildings, Cherry and the other directors decided that two-thirds of the money raised for the foundation would be spent on the Kentucky Building.

As passionate as Cherry was about the idea, finding monetary support for the project from the public proved to be difficult due to the state of the economy at the time. The Depression left many people who wanted to donate without means to do so.

Enough funding was raised for the outside of the building to go up in 1936, but the interior wasn’t finished until 1939, two years after Cherry’s death.

“They got the walls built and a roof over it, then they just had to stop because there just wasn’t enough money,” Jonathan Jeffrey said.

Jeffrey is the department head of the manuscripts and folklife archives in the department of library special collections.

“They actually had to hire a new architect because the older architect (Brinton Davis) and Western had kind of severed ties in the mean time. So they hired James Ingram, who was a local man who designed interiors,” he said.

The building was officially dedicated Nov. 16, 1939, on what would have been Cherry’s 75th birthday. The day is also known as Founder’s Day. “It just seemed like a really respectful type of thing to do on that day,” April McCauley, an archives assistant, said.

Today, the building is divided into two different organizations: the Kentucky Museum and the department of library special collections.

The library is divided between the Kentucky library

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WKU’s attempt at a sports bar doesn’t hit a home run

BY JOHN GREER

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While RedZone embraces the concept of flavorful bar food in its menu, its execution is not up to the task.

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ham are found alongside heart-palpitating, yet trendy options like fried mac andcheese balls glazed with sriracha sauce.

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research collections, the manuscripts and folklife archives and the WKU archives.

The Kentucky library research collections department holds thousands of artifacts from around the world including books, sheet music, political memorabilia, photographs and maps.

Manuscripts and folklife archives hold a collection of letters, diaries, church minutes, land grants and papers written whose topics focus on folk beliefs, occupational folklore and community surveys.

WKU archives hold yearbooks, university publications, photographs, diplomas and other memorabilia.

The majority of the items are donated to the library by people who are associated with the school in some way. “I would say, and this is a pretty good guesstimate, that 85 percent of the material we receive, probably in the Museum and the library of special collections, are donations from community members, alumni, people who just are on the web and see we have a large Valentine’s collection and they don’t know what to do with theirs,�

Jeffrey said.

As the library side of things grew, the space to hold the items grew scarce and construction on the site began again in 1977. The renovation grew the building to two and one-third times its original size.

After the addition was finished in 1980, the area that had once been a garden of southern-based plants was reduced to a hidden gem of an indoor

courtyard that sits in the middle of the building.

Currently, the building is used as a way to teach all those that enter. There are exhibits in the Museum that feature work from Bowling Green native Duncan Hines, traveling quilts from the Richardson Quilt Gallery and items used by some of the country’s most influential artists in the IAE Instruments of American Excellence exhibit. There are window galleries focusing on the Civil War, and the research facilities are equipped with thousands of archives ready to be discovered. “The ultimate goal of all the stuff that we accession and catalog and reference is to educate people about how to use them and make them better aware of special collections,� Jeffery said.

Nov. 16 marks the 75th anniversary of the Kentucky Building and a celebration is planned for Nov. 14 from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Kentucky Room.

Preparation for the event brought all the divisions of the building together, with photos coming from the WKU archives, old publications supplied by the manuscripts department and the Museum providing the physical artifacts, Spurlock said.

The anniversary schedule includes a speech by President Gary Ransdell, a history of the building presented by Jeffrey, special tours of the building and the announcement of the Connie Mills Internship, an opportunity for students who have interned with the building to receive a scholarship in honor of an employee that passed away last year. “We are thrilled and proud to be able to announce that,� Jeffrey said.

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1936 Outside of the building is 1937

complete, but inside is still unfinished Cherry dies and the interior of the building begins to be worked on

1939 Officially opened and dedicated on Cherry’s birthday: Nov. 16

1977 Construction begins to double 1980

the size of the building. It closes down during this time The building officially reopens with the new add-on complete

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of cheddar cheese was similarly subtle where it could have made a difference.

The menu makes no mention that the sandwich comes with a fried egg, but it was a welcome surprise. The first bite unveiled a spurt of liquid egg yolk that quickly pooled into a puddle on the plate. Sopping up the sandwich in this sauce made for the most enjoyable bites.

Small dabs of slaw often failed to have an impact, but when they did they lent the bites a refreshing and vinegary bitterness.

The end result was quite messy. The butter from the toasted bread will coat your fingers in a greasy sheen.

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For all the fat and calories that RedZone seems to bring to the table, its options are surprisingly boring. While the food is not terrible, it needs a sharp punch of flavor.

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Theatre another option for juvenile offenders

BY MACKENZIE MATHEWS

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Whenever a minor commits a legal offense, they face few options to fulfill court requirements, which usually involves simple physical labor. WKU faculty and students, after determining this isn’t always effective, decided to give them an alternative that involves more direction: theatre in diversion.

“I’ve always been interested in working with underserved or at-risk youth, and I believe theatre offers many opportunities to engage and challenge them,” theater professor Carol Jordan said.

The juveniles spend half the semester learning basic acting and stage techniques from the theatre students. They then con-

struct their own performances and present them in a showcase at the end of the semester.

Meanwhile, sociology students conduct evaluations and interviews, collecting data in order to observe how the course affects the teens.

“Professor Jordan and I look at it as a really creative way for young people to fulfill their diversion agreements,” sociology professor Jerry Daday said.

“They get the benefits of building all these skills, like communication and public speaking.”

Many of the juveniles enter the programs having previous issues communicating with teachers, peers and parents. Daday said they often begin feeling anxious and unsure how to react to the program, but by the end they develop friendships and

a confidence to carry them through school and hopefully on to college.

“I’d rather give them something that’s creative and expands their social networks to university students and faculty, than going out and doing something that’s basically manual labor,” he said.

Though it is too soon to figure actual effects of the program, Jordan and Daday said the sociology students’ evaluations show progress for the teens. Many responses from those participating said they experience better relationships with parents, guardians and teachers, with parents and guardians returning the sentiment.

As they improve personal traits, they are also learning theatre fundamentals,

giving them the ability to explore their thoughts, interests and possibly their experiences.

“They’re just average, everyday kids that did something stupid, and they got caught for it,” Daday said. “Theatre gives them a way to really act out some of the issues they might be facing.”

The juveniles enter diversion programs through their court designated worker (CDW) who offers various options after an offense is committed such as community service and available programs, such as theatre in diversion. After choosing a program, they are required to see it through.

“Diversion programs are designed to give young offenders an alternative to traditional

community service by engaging them in positive activities and teaching them new skills in a pro-social environment,” Jordan said.

Daday works with the sociology students during their evaluations, while Jordan instructs the theatre half on how to teach the teens. The class offers a strong opportunity to WKU students who want to pursue teaching or community service in the future, Jordan said.

Eventually, CDWs hope to see more diversion programs across the community, including at WKU. “We’d like to expand this to other departments across campus,” Daday said. “A lot of them could do some really cool stuff with these young people under diversion agreements.”

Storytellers offer teaching experience at annual conference

BY ANDREW HENDERSON

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Few forms of art are interactive with their viewers. Paintings are behind ropes in museums, acting is appreciated in theaters and singing echoes through grand halls. One form of art, however, is an ancient form of human expression that encompasses both the performer and listener’s imaginations transcending age, race and religion.

And Bowling Green residents have an opportunity to be a part of it.

The annual Kentucky Storytelling Conference will be held this Friday, Nov. 7 and Saturday, Nov. 8 at the Holiday Inn University Plaza and Sloan Convention Center. The conference is organized through the Kentucky Storytelling Association, whose mission is to promote and develop storytelling in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Betsy Fleischer will chair the 2014 conference. Fleischer has been the past president and secretary of the Kentucky Storytelling Association and is now a board member at large. She is a storyteller herself and calls Harrodsburg her home.

Fleischer said this year’s conference will offer a number of different workshops covering different storytelling elements and activities. She said some of the workshops will include mak-

ing sense of storytelling, collaborating with museums in storytelling, crafting a story, storytelling in the classroom and many more. She said that for every conference they try to create a wide range of activities.

“This isn’t just for storytellers, but for people who love stories,” Fleischer said.

Fleischer promised that those who come to the conference, regardless of their storytelling knowledge or experience, will be sure to find a positive and welcoming atmosphere. She said everyone could benefit from storytelling because stories connect people, no matter where they’re from.

“Life does not exist without stories,” Fleischer said.

Pam Holcomb, one of the featured tellers for the conference, also holds this belief about stories.

Holcomb is from Harlan and she considers herself primarily an Appalachian storyteller. She has garnered much recognition in the field over the years. She said at this year’s conference, she will be offering a workshop about using the five senses to enhance storytelling.

Holcomb said she gained an interest in storytelling when her seventh grade teacher first introduced her to the art.

She said that a lot of her stories come from listening to her family history and living in Appalachia. She said that she

uses her storytelling as a platform to tell people about Appalachia.

“It introduces a lot of people to the culture that they’re not aware of,” Holcomb said.

Holcomb performs at schools, churches and civic organizations, and she said she’d perform really anywhere that will allow her. She has even performed abroad and fondly remembered her experience of traveling to Israel to tell Bible stories.

“I was there telling the stories where they took place,” Holcomb said.

Judy Sima, another of the featured tellers for the conference, also shared her storytelling origins and experiences.

Sima lives in West Bloomfield, Michigan and has accumulated many awards and recognitions over her storytelling career. Sima will be offering a workshop on how to develop student storytellers in the classroom and an introductory workshop on storytelling.

She said she will also be telling stories to students at Cumberland Trace and North Warren elementary schools before the conference begins.

Sima said she worked as a school librarian for many years and began her start in storytelling with telling stories to elementary aged children. She said

she started telling her students Halloween stories. Along the way, she ended up working with middle school students and started a storytelling club at the school.

Sima said that many of her stories come from children’s books, but they also come from her family’s history.

She recalled the story of how her mother escaped Nazi Germany and how powerful of an impact that story had on her. Stories such as this, she said, need to be handled in different ways.

“You need it to be as factual as you can get it without it having to sound like a report — you have to make it interesting,” Sima said.

She said that sharing the personal stories, like that of her mother, tends to validate other people’s experiences as well.

“By telling personal stories, I find that people connect,” Sima said.

Apart from the various workshops offered, there will be a question and answer session at the conference with Holcomb and Sima. Open mic stories, where anyone can tell a story, will also be offered. The conference is this coming Friday and Saturday. Those interested can register online at kystory.org or pay at the door the day of the conference.

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Robotics competition returns to campus

BY WHITNEY ALLEN

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The 15th annual Kentucky Bluegrass Robotics Competition hosted by the WKU engineering department will take place this weekend in the Engineering and Biological Sciences building on campus.

Approximately 15 teams of high school students will compete with robots they’ve prepared over the past two months.

The engineering department provides basic parts for the robot in early September. The students have until the competition to complete the robot.

Engineering professor Kevin Schmaltz is one of the coordinators of the competition. Schmaltz said this competition is an affordable way for local students to experience engineering first hand.

“What I like about this is we can provide a pretty economical experience,” Schmaltz said.

Schmaltz said this provides a great local opportunity for students who wouldn’t have access to larger robot-

ics competitions.

This year’s theme is natural disasters.

The teams will build a robot that could provide relief aid during a natural disaster.

The robot has to ascend a ramp, go through a pit of gravel and climb three steps, all while carrying rice. The robot that is the most cost efficient and can complete the task at hand the most efficiently wins.

Engineering student and Muhlenberg County senior Ben Arnold helped organize this year’s competition. Arnold hopes this competition will help people to understand this aspect of engineering.

“I think engineering is kind of a misunderstood field,” he said. “This gives a little insight into one little fraction of what we can achieve.”

This weekend, students will gain a concrete insight into the engineering field. Schmaltz and Arnold both hope this will encourage students to pursue engineering.

“Maybe it will inspire some kids to seek out engineering,” Arnold said.

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

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

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Don’t let your body's shape define your style

BY KAE HOLLOWAY OPINION@WKUHERALD.COM

Fashion is all about expressing yourself. It may not be fun, but knowing the basics of accentuating your body type can

help anyone emphasize their personal style.

One of the challenges facing men and women is learning how to dress for their specific body shape.

Though not always enjoyable to investigate, measuring your body’s dimensions and accurately pairing it with your body shape can improve your wardrobe more than any new item of clothing ever could.

Ladies, Shop Your Shape has a great body type calculator on their website. One can use

a tape measure to measure their bust, waist and hips.

Make sure the tape measure is snug but not tight. Take those measurements and plug them into the calculator to find your body shape.

For examples, those who measure as a straight body type with similarly sized bust and hips and a slightly-smaller waist can emphasize their waist by dressing proportionately.

Those who measure as a diamond shape can add curves to the upper body and lengthen

the lower as a traditional balancing technique.

Square or scoop neck button downs, wrap dresses and clothing with an empire waist cut can create the illusion of a defined waist while balancing your figure.

Men traditionally use a different body shape classification system.

Those with lean and long bodies can wear horizontal stripes to add a sexy bulk to their frames.

Those with fuller frames can

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Bellarmine Knights Location: Diddle Arena Time: 7 p.m.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Musical Location: FAC 0214 Time: 8 p.m.

SATURDAY, Nov. 8 Color Dash 5K Location: Spero Kereiakes Park Time: 8 a.m.

15th Annual Kentucky Bluegrass Robotics Championship Location: Engineering and Biological Sciences building Time: 9 a.m.

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

Kentucky's Storytelling Conference Location: Holiday Inn University Plaza Hotel Time: 8 a.m.

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

SUNDAY, Nov. 9 NHRA Drag Racing Location: Beech Bend Park and Raceway Time: 11 a.m.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Musical Location: FAC 0214 Time: 3 p.m.

Finding Your Way Around the Autumn Sky Location: Hardin Planetarium Time: 2 p.m.

MONDAY Nov. 10 Mauerfall: 25th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall Location: DSU 3023 Time: 4 p.m.

"I'm Every Woman" Forum Location: Gary Ransdell Hall 2009 Time: 6 p.m.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Musical Location: FAC 0214 Time: 3 p.m.

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wear vertical lines and single tones to make a bold, confident fashion statement.

Double breasted jackets fit well for this body type, and trim, slightly tapered pants can make their legs look fabulous.

Every size is beautiful. Outfits that fit well can raise your confidence and make you feel just as flawless as you truly are.

Once you have the fit down, you can move on to all the fun parts of fashion.

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Journalism professor doubles as indie musician

BY KAE HOLLOWAY, KIERSTIN KIRK

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When she’s not spending her days teaching and critiquing stories, Amanda Crawford is buried in song lyrics, studios and in front of blinding stage lights, singing and performing in her band Former Friends of Young Americans.

“I kind of play a lot when we have our full set,” Crawford said. “I’ve been singing since I was a little kid. I sang in churches and school plays and that was kind of my background.”

The band’s sound is described by Crawford as folksy, with an influence of indie rock. When prompted to list their genre on their Facebook page, however, they simply said “no thank you.”

Crawford’s husband, Toby Fatzinger, started Former Friends of Young Americans in 2008 with a rotating set of musicians.

“He would play with musicians for a while, add someone or someone would leave, and it kind of would be that changing project and it would change genres and nature with that project already,” she said.

When the two were dating, he was playing with another couple in the band. They were scheduled to go on tour in California, with Crawford going along for a tour that would ultimately change her role with the group.

“I was just going to come along for the ride because they were going up through the Redwoods and I had never

been to northern California,” Crawford said. “I thought, ‘Oh cool, I’m just going to hitch a ride and they’re going to play music and I’m going to go hike in the Redwoods and stuff.’”

The couple ended up not being able to go last minute.

Instead of canceling the tour, Fatzinger asked Crawford to fill in.

“It was kind of trial by fire because I didn’t know his songs.

I knew a few of them from going to shows and playing at home, but I didn’t know all of his songs,” she said. “We sat out in the road and played 14 straight nights.”

Since then, she has been on several tours with Former Friends of Young Americans, including tours along both the east and west coasts, respectively, and a European tour.

Crawford said she added a bit of gospel sound to the band, and to jam sessions she and her husband would have prior to her joining Former Friends.

“That’s kind of my natural range in voice and what I grew up singing,” she said.

Crawford also brought her skills playing the flute to the group, and has since learned to play and write music for the piano.

Crawford’s stepson, Phoenix freshman Beck Fatzinger, is supportive of his parents’ musical career.

“I went on a couple of tours with them and it was really fun,” he said. “My only thing is it’s a tour so it’s working kind of, but other than that it’s been really fun both being in the band and going as a tag

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Amanda Crawford, a WKU assistant journalism professor, performs with her husband Toby Fatzinger and son Beck Fatzinger in their indie alt-folk band Former Friends of Young Americans. along.”

In some cases, Beck has filled in when members couldn’t make it to shows.

“When we did the national tour last year, I had to fly in and join them later because I didn’t have as long of a trip so I missed the first couple of shows and Beck went on them with Toby,” Crawford said.

Beck Fatzinger said the band’s sound is consistently changing, with Crawford and Toby Fatzinger exploring new sounds on each album.

“A lot before this last big tour they did, I would call it like a mix of folky electronic, but since that trip they’ve been going a little folkier and more

country,” he said. “Not like new country, but like older early Elvis kind of.”

The band is currently working on two albums now called “Love and Vitriol” and “Blood Harmonies.”

Songs on “Love and Vitriol” will focus on love and betrayal. Crawford said it will have more folk ballads and some indie hip-hop. “Blood Harmonies” is influenced by Crawford’s travels and features music they wrote while in Europe.

Touring and performing at shows has been remarkably easier to balance with teaching for Crawford compared to her last job.

“I worked for Bloomberg

News before coming here and that was a really high stress job, I’d occasionally be sent on a plane in the middle of the night to some wildfire or a shooting or something,” she said. “I was doing (shows) with that kind of job, so doing it with teaching I think is a better mix because I have those breaks to tour and play.”

She really enjoys touring and describes it as a special way to get to know different people, and share their music. The band is planning another tour over winter break that will start in St. Louis.

“I’m very lucky that I get to do that with the person I love,” Crawford said.

Students displays art exhibit portraying internal diseases

BY STEPHANIE JESSIE

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A WKU sculptor has created an exhibit that focuses on unveiling hidden physical pain.

“At Least You Have Your Health” opens in the Cube Gallery on the fourth floor of the Fine Arts Center Friday and is, as WKU art student Sarah Sperry put it, “possibly the biggest thing I’ve ever tried to do.”

When local photographer and longtime friend Sarah Ann Hooper approached Sperry, a senior, with the idea, the two immediately went to action on gathering models and planning the shoots.

The idea behind the exhibit came to Hooper after going through what she called the “most difficult year of her life.”

After leaving a degree that she wasn’t happy with and pursuing photography, she started formulating a way to educate others on the internal diseases she was fighting.

Hooper has Crohn’s disease and chronic pain.

“I was putting a lot of work into it and doing a lot of studying and started thinking about how my conditions affect me and how I wish the people in my life could understand that I was really dedicated to something and serious,” she said.

Hooper and Sperry began gathering models that suffer from a chronic condition or illness that’s mostly pain-related. While describing what

the pain feels like, local artists painted what they heard onto the female models.

“We’re working off the idea of communicating the unseen,” Sperry said.

The exhibit gives the models a chance to show the world what they go through on a daily basis, even though one couldn’t tell by looking at them.

“We had some people come in and they were kind of uncertain about it,” she said. “They were kind of like ‘you know, this is really weird for me because I’ve spent so many years of my life pretending that this doesn’t exist.’

And we’ve been kind of like ‘that kinda makes you even more badass than you already are.’”

Conditions that are covered in the exhibit include Crohn’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia.

The duo raised money for the exhibit by crowdsourcing and receiving donations anonymously, many coming from individuals Hooper and Sperry never met.

“We were absolutely blown away by the amount of support we’ve gotten from just strangers and people sharing stuff on the Internet,” she said.

While this is an exhibit opportunity for Sperry, this is a way of coping for Hooper, who said her previous attempts of hiding her problems or pretending as if they didn’t exist didn’t work out. Hooper views this exhibit as one that will allow people she knows and complete strangers see what “makes us who we are.”

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Sarah Sperry washes motor oil from her bronze candy work, getting it ready for the "World's Greatest Studio Tour" show in the Kentucky Museum. Sperry is currently 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.

“I’m not trying to put it ahead of any terminal illness or condition or saying that what we go through is necessarily worse than what anyone else has to deal with but rather that, having these chronic conditions that aren’t curable, that are treatable but not curable, that we’ll always live with and always deal with,” she said.

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WKU volleyball teammates Mollie Pajakowski, a defensive specialist, and Heather Boyan, a middle hitter, (left to right) are the only seniors on this year's squad. The women hope to lead the team to a strong finish with only four games remaining before the Conference USA Tournament.

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senior stability Boyan, pajakowski provide balance for young roster

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Like many other teams composed of five or more freshmen, WKU volleyball and Head Coach Travis Hudson have gone through some growing pains this season — but with the aid of two remaining seniors, the transition hasn’t been too painful.

Not only is this Next game WKU’s inaugural season in Conferfriday, November 7 ence USA, but it 7 p.m. also marks the first VS. southern miss season in quite @ REED GREEN Coliseum some time that the Lady Toppers have been without players Hudson described as “some of the all-time greats that ever played here” referring to likes of Ashley Potts and Melanie Stutsman, who both graduated from last season’s team.

Hudson was left with just two seniors — middle hitter senior Heather Boyan and defensive specialist senior Mollie Pajakowski — to help usher in the largest and most heralded recruiting class in program history.

“It’s the complete opposite from last season,” Boyan said. “Going into it, we knew it was going to be different and knew it was going to be a difficult tran-

sition for us, so Mollie and I knew we needed to step up and be good leaders.”

That leadership seems to be evident thus far. The Lady Toppers currently sit at 23-5 on the season with an 11-1 clip in league play. Pajakowski said the seniors’ departure a season ago paved the way for the team’s success this year.

“I saw them progress and get better with them,” Pajakowski said. “When their senior season didn’t end exactly the way they wanted it to, I think it put pressure on us and the five freshmen.”

With big changes taking place this season, both Boyan and Pajakowski knew that not only would their individual roles on the team change, but the entire dynamic of the team would also change.

Hudson and his lone seniors found themselves traveling in the uncharted waters of a new conference with a lineup that featured three to four freshmen consistently on the floor.

“I’m used to having at least five girls that were older than me, so to come in and be one of two seniors has definitely changed my role and my responsibilities on the team. It’s something that I don’t always think about though,” Pajakowski said. “I like being there for the underclassman, encouraging them, listening

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Senior middle hitter Heather Boyan spikes the ball against Florida International University's freshman Jennifer Ene (7) in the matchup between WKU and FIU on Oct. 3. to them, anything I can do to help.”

The strength that can be found in Boyan and Pajakowski as student-athletes was certainly instilled with them in their first three years on the Hill — and for both of them, they can’t believe how far they’ve come.

Boyan — a Munster, Indiana native — reminisced of her less-than-typical journey to WKU in the first place.

“To me, it seemed pretty random that Western Kentucky was interested in me, just because I’m from northern Indiana, by Chicago. I remember driving down here for my visit just thinking ‘this is so random, why would I come here?’ but when I got here and went on my visit I absolutely loved it,” Boyan said.

“I loved the campus, program — Travis

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It’s business as usual for WKU football this week as it prepares for its Homecoming bout with the University of Texas at El Paso on Saturday at 3 p.m.

Although the Hilltoppers (35, 1-4 Conference USA) put forth their worst effort of the season this past Saturday in a 59-10 loss at Louisiana Tech, you’d never know it if you watched the team’s Tuesday practice.

“You think when we lose a game like we did last week, guys would be down, you’d be out here at practice trying to pull teeth,” offensive coordi-

nator Tyson Helton said after Tuesday’s practice. “It was the exact opposite — guys were fired up, they have something to prove. They’re trying to get out there and win a football game. That was really good to see today. We just have to carry that momentum into the game and I think we will.”

That momentum will be necessary, as the Hilltoppers’ Homecoming matchup will be anything but a walk in the park.

The Miners field the league’s second-best rushing offense at 207.8 yards per game while coming in at fourth in pass defense at 208.4 yards per game.

Helton is one of few members of the WKU football

program that’s encountered UTEP at some point in his career — three times as special teams coach at Hawaii, twice when he was tight ends/special teams coach at Memphis and two additional times as the quarterbacks coach at UAB. Helton said the Hilltoppers will have to open up the passing game with a sound rushing attack in order to be effective on offense against the Miners.

Junior running back Leon Allen led WKU with 80 yards on 14 carries at LA Tech.

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and-long scenarios,” Helton said.

“That’s going to help a lot with the coverages. Then, have to help protect the quarterback, give him some time back there, and then Brandon (Doughty) has to make the reads and throw it with a timely manner. If we do those three things, we’ll be fine.”

Sophomore running back Aaron Jones, having compiled 1,697 rushing yards in 17 career games, is the

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was awesome — so I started thinking to myself, ‘maybe I will go here.’”

Jacksonville, Miami (Florida), and Central Michigan were also seeking Boyan’s services — for good reason.

The senior has tallied Conference USA Defensive Player of the Week honors twice this season and currently ranks second in the league in blocks per set with 1.08. Her hitting percentage of .329 also ranks 8th in the conference.

Pajakowski — a native of Granger, Indiana — remembers the feeling she

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spark plug of the Miner offense. Jones ranks third on the conference’s rushing yards list this season with 886 and leads UTEP with 10 total touchdowns — eight rushing and two receiving.

The Miner defense ranks sixth overall in total yards allowed per game in league play at 391.1. UTEP is coming off a 35-14 win over Southern Miss that yielded five forced turnovers, which increased its turnover ratio to +9 on the season — best in the conference and 10th-best in the country.

The Hilltoppers committed a season-

high five turnovers on Saturday, which included four interceptions by redshirt senior quarterback Brandon Doughty.

“Obviously, ball security is key,” Helton said. “Past couple games, (UTEP) has fired it up — their defense is playing well. They’ve had turnovers and that’s won them the game. Last week, their offense really didn’t have to put a lot of points on the board, their defense and special teams did it for them, so we have to protect the ball.”

With four games remaining on the regular-season schedule, WKU foot-

ball is itching to prove its worth, and according to sophomore wide receiver Taywan Taylor, the Hilltopper seniors deserve every bit.

“It’s all about coming together as a team,” Taylor said. “Our leaders, they’re stepping up, they know it’s getting close — especially our seniors. That’s ultimately what we’re trying to do; we’re trying to play for the seniors. Just send those guys out the right way because they deserve it. We’re just trying to come in with a good attitude these last four weeks and just put it all on the line.”

had as soon as she stepped on the Hill.

“Right when I stepped on campus I knew I loved it,” Pajakowski said. “I loved the campus and the coaching staff and the girls and everything. It felt right from the beginning. You can tell that they genuinely care about you here.”

The same growing pains that seem to be eluding the five freshmen thus far this season didn’t completely dodge the seniors early in their playing careers.

Pajakowski traditionally played setter at the club and high school level, and was even looking at different pro-

grams to set for in college, but coming to WKU, she would quickly be transformed into a defensive specialist.

Boyan, on the other hand, didn’t have to deal with a change in position, but it wasn’t all smooth sailing for her, either.

“It was hard for me because as a freshman, I had two other people in my position, so I really didn’t get to play that much,” Boyan said. “Typically, Division I athletes are used to getting so much playing time in club and high school, so for me it was hard to make that transition.”

As both their careers progressed, they each reached personal and team-

oriented heights, which have chiseled them into the leaders they have become.

“This is definitely my favorite season,” Pajakowski said. “I’m an upperclassman and a leader and I absolutely love this team. Not that I didn’t love the team before, but these girls are like my family.”

If the Lady Toppers are a family, it’s a result of Hudson’s mentoring ways and the two seniors that have hurdled leaps to get to this point — and with four games remaining until postseason play, the WKU volleyball family isn’t done turning heads.

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Lady Topper basketball restarts the climb in Friday exhibition

BY ELLIOTT PRATT

SPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM It’s just an exhibition, but we will finally get a glimpse of this journey, ‘to be continued,’ with Lady Topper basketball.

I’m always interested in the annual slogans for each of the sports teams. Bobby Petrino brought Showtime to football last year. Men’s basketball had that Never Say Never thing (still can’t get over the Justin Bieber connection), and the Lady Topper basketball team was climbing the ladder and reached the NCAA Tournament and played Baylor toeto-toe in Texas.

At first glance, I thought their new slogan of ‘to be continued’ was silly. But really, I am indeed curious as to what happens next.

That first chance comes Friday night in an exhibition

match against Bellarmine in Diddle Arena at 7 p.m. CT. No, this game doesn’t count for anything, but there’s some special interest in the matchup.

Crystal Kelly, WKU women’s basketball’s career leader in points and rebounds, will walk out of a different tunnel and sit on a different bench and wear different school colors, this time as a third-year assistant coach.

Kelly knows first-hand what the Lady Toppers are going through with using young talent.

She was a young talent herself when she arrived on the Hill as 2004 Miss Kentucky Basketball.

Freshman Ivy Brown comes to WKU as the first Miss Kentucky Basketball to play for the Lady Toppers since Kelly.

The point here is WKU has three freshmen — Ivy Brown, Tashia Brown and Jaiveonna

Norris — who could see significant minutes on the floor.

In her freshman year for the 2004-05 season, Kelly averaged 19 points and 10 rebounds per game.

“I was fortunate enough to have pretty Elliott Pratt good leadership, and as a freshman, that’s what you need,” Kelly said. “They don’t know what is expected and how to do this. So they are going to need really good leaders in their upperclassmen.”

I don’t think they’ll have a problem in that category.

Obviously, seniors Chastity Gooch and Alexis Govan are the central faces of the team that can guide these fresh-

men, but junior Micah Jones and redshirt sophomore Kendall Noble emerged last year as floor generals for the next few seasons.

There’s no spacing in the talent level of classes – it’s pretty even from seniors to freshmen.

It boils down to experience, and if there’s anything coach Michelle Clark-Heard has done, it’s prove that inexperience isn’t a problem.

Everyone knows how this story goes. MCH takes a Mary Taylor-Cowles team that finished 10-21 before her arrival and turned a 180 on everyone with a 22-11 record and a WNIT win in Diddle. Then last year, they win the Sun Belt Tournament and shake the women’s basketball scene at Baylor.

Now, they enter the year having received five votes in the USA Today Preseason

Coaches Top 25 Poll.

It’s nearly reminiscent of the dominant days of Kelly. Before last season, WKU hadn’t been to the NCAA Tournament since Kelly’s senior year in 2008.

Friday night, these two WKU success stories meet each other face-to-face in exhibition mode. For the current Lady Toppers, they restart an unfinished journey.

“It speaks a lot of what coach Heard has come in and done with us,” senior guard Alexis Govan said. “She’s pushed us to the next level and it shows that people appreciate how hard we’ve been working and what we’ve been trying to do and where we’re trying to take Western.”

What Heard has done is earn this team the respect of the powers that be on a national scale.

What happens next with the Lady Toppers is to be continued.

SOCCER

Rice downs WKU in conference championship quarterfinals, 1-0

BY JOHN REECER

SPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM The Lady Toppers’ season came to a close on Wednesday as No. 2-seeded Rice used an early score to defeat No. 7-seed WKU by a score of 1-0 in the quarterfinals of the Conference USA Women’s Soccer Championship.

The defeat marks the end of WKU’s inaugural season in the league that yielded a 10-8 overall record with a 5-5 clip in league play.

WKU came out firing in the first half with six shots in the game’s first nine minutes. The early barrage of shots from the Lady Toppers included a near miss just off the crossbar from junior defender Alanna Clancey.

“We had talked about how we came out slow in some of our previous matches,” Head Coach Jason Neidell said. “Today we came out at a blistering pace, and we played very well from start to finish.”

Despite the early aggression, Rice regained momentum and managed to score in the 16th minute of the match off the foot of the Conference USA Player of the Year, junior forward Lauren Hughes. From that point, Rice was able to control the game for the remainder of the first half with dominant possession of the ball.

“Rice really did control the game after they scored,” Neidell said. “However, we continued to take the game to them and we limited their scoring opportunities.”

Toward the end of the first half, WKU, again, fired off would-be game-tying goals with back-to-back corner kicks in the 41st minute, but both chances failed.

In the second half, Rice managed to keep its endless energy and ball control that they featured in the first half, which resulted in two quick shots on goal. Rice finished with a 1512 shot advantage and held a

7-4 corner kick lead.

After Rice’s quick start at the beginning of the second half, the rest of the game became a defensive battle for possession, which restricted scoring opportunities for both teams.

In the closing seconds of the game, the Lady Toppers had one last chance to score as freshman midfielder Nahyo Jalajel set up a header from senior midfielder Allie Auscherman. However, Rice senior goalkeeper Amy Czyz managed to come up with the crucial left corner save to seal the win for the Owls.

One bright spot for the Lady Toppers proved to be freshman goalkeeper Allison Leone. She posted five saves, despite 15 shots from Rice.

Leone was named to the conference’s all-freshman team earlier in the week.

“Her award is great for the future of this very young team,” Neidell said. “She stepped up and played great today and

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Sophomore forward Iris Dunn (12) advances the ball past a UAB defender in WKU's game on Oct. 19. The Lady Toppers lost to Rice in the first round of the Conference USA tournament on Wednesday. played great in such a big-time “I am thrilled with how our atmosphere.” young team did in our first The Lady Toppers’ season season in a conference that is now over, but according to was way more competitive Neidell, the team’s play against than what we have previously Rice is a slight glimpse of what seen,” Neidell said. “The futhe future holds for the WKU ture is certainly bright for our soccer program. program.”

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Lady Tops gearing up for final road swing of the season

BY JONAH PHILLIPS SPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM WKU volleyball is set to take its .821 winning percentage, which is good for No. 22 in the country, into its final two conference road games of the season this weekend against Southern Miss on Friday at 7 p.m. and Marshall on Sunday at noon.

The Lady Toppers (23-5, 11-1 Conference USA) will look to keep their momentum going as their inaugural season in the C-USA comes to a close.

WKU won 12 of their last 13 games and dropped just six of the last 45 sets.

WKU first travels to Hattiesburg, Mississippi to take on Southern Miss (19-10, 8-4 CUSA). The Golden Eagles have lost just one game at home all season, against Rice, who went into a fifth set against WKU on Sept. 28 before the Lady Toppers sealed the victory at home.

The last game on the regularseason road schedule for WKU is Marshall (13-14, 7-5 C-USA).

Despite the impressive winning percentage WKU has earned, the Lady Toppers have still yet to crack the top 25 this season in the American Volleyball Coaches Association poll, but have received six votes and currently sit at No. 32.

WKU is one of just six teams in all of Division I with 23 wins.

The teams ranking above the Lady Toppers with 23 wins in the AVCA poll are No. 2 Washington (23-0), No. 3 Florida State (23-0) and No. 10 Colorado State (23-2).

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Freshman middle hitter Sydney Engle (16) and junior middle hitter Noelle Langenkamp (13) go up for a block against an FIU player during WKU's Oct. 24 match. The Lady Toppers won in three sets.

This marks the fourth week in a row and the fifth time this season that Head Coach Travis Hudson’s youthful squad has received votes in the AVCA poll.

The Lady Toppers have either received votes or ranked in the AVCA top 25 at least one time in each of the past four seasons.

The program Hudson helped build peeked in 2013 at No.

16, and spent 14 consecutive weeks in the top 25 between 2012 and 2013.

Despite the win over the weekend against UAB, WKU dropped in the NCAA RPI from No. 38 to No. 44. Of the 43 teams above WKU, 13 conferences are represented, and the Lady Toppers still hold as the highest-ranked team in Con-

ference USA. WKU is 2-1 against teams ranked higher than it in the RPI rankings with wins over Purdue (33) and Lipscomb (38) while the lone loss is to Cal State Northridge (36).

After the season’s final road swing, the Lady Toppers will come back home for one more weekend of regular-season

play before the inaugural season is completed and postseason play begins.

The first match will be against University of Texas El Paso, who WKU dished a sweep to on Oct. 19, on Nov. 13 at 7 p.m. The team’s last fixture will feature a rivalry matchup against Middle Tennessee on Nov. 15 at 7 p.m.

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Lady Tops receive votes in latest preseason top-25 polls It was announced on Monday that WKU women’s basketball received four and five votes, respectively, in the latest USA Today Preseason Coaches’ Poll and the Preseason AP Top 25 Poll.

“I think it means a lot,” Head Coach Michelle Clark-Heard said. “…We’re just trying to get better each and every day. Looking forward to having the opportunity to compete. I also think it says a lot for the players that have been invested these past

couple of years and the things that they’ve done.”

The Lady Toppers are loaded with talent this year as they return 2013 Sun Belt Defensive Player of the Year and senior forward Chastity Gooch, redshirt sophomore guard Kendall Noble and senior guard Alexis Govan.

Gooch and Govan are two of three 1,000-point scorers in Conference USA this season, with 1,322 and 1,050 career points, respectively.

Gooch, who was named Conference USA’s Preseason Player of the Year, is the only player in program history to have recorded at least 400 points, 300 rebounds, 50 blocks and 50 steals in a single season.

Noble is coming off a breakout season in which she was named Sun Belt Conference Freshman on the Year and an all-conference second team member after averaging 11 points, 4.6 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 2.5 steals in 31 games a season ago.

Govan, who played in just 11 games last season due to a stress fracture in her left tibia, is ready to

pick up where she left off.

“I’ve literally counted down the days, counted up the months,” Govan said. “I told Coach Heard when we get on the court for the first time, it’ll be almost 11 months until I was last on Diddle’s court. …I’m just really excited.”

The Lady Toppers will open their 2014-15 campaign tomorrow night at 7 p.m. in an exhibition against Bellarmine University at Diddle Arena.

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MEN'S GOLF

Men’s golf wraps up fall schedule

The WKU men’s golf team wrapped up its fall season tied for a 17th place finish in the Wendy’s Kiawah Classic on Kiawah Island in Charleston, South Carolina on Tuesday.

WKU consistently improved each round, shooting 55-over 919 (318-301-300).

Winthrop, ranked as the nation’s 37th best team, won the team title with an 864 (288-295-281).

“This is always one of the most competitive fall collegiate events in the country, and to improve each day says a lot about the resiliency of our team,” Head Coach Phillip Hatchett said in a press release. “We had a poor day on Sunday, but we shot better as a group for the final two rounds and that gives us confidence going into the winter before opening back up in February.”

Seniors Cameron Beal and Brandon Beckham tied for 62nd place, both shooting three-over 75 on the final day with a 13-over 229. Junior Trey Aguirre tied for 70th with a 15-over 231 and senior Andy Gladden tied for 73rd with one more stroke at 16-over 232. Senior Nate Johnson tied for 100th with a 27-over 243.

The Hilltoppers will return to the course for their spring championship season Feb. 23-24 at the Mobile Bay Intercollegiate, hosted by South Alabama.

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WKU improves to 80 percent in NCAA’s latest graduation success rate The NCAA announced late last month in its release for freshman classes from 2004-07 that WKU’s graduation success rate, or GSR, had increased to 80 percent, which is a slight improvement from last year’s rate of 79 percent.

The Hilltoppers’ 80-percent clip for its 15 athletic programs is fifth out of the 14 Conference USA schools,

and three sports — men’s golf, softball and volleyball — received GSRs of 100 percent.

Each of those three programs also posted perfect GSRs a year ago.

The mark ranks WKU as one of three schools in the Commonwealth with the highest GSRs. The University of Kentucky graduates its student-athletes at an 81-percent rate while the University

of Louisville comes in at 80 percent.

The GSRs released Tuesday are based on the four freshmen classes in Division I entering from 2004 to 2007.

The NCAA calculates the rates based upon the number of student-athletes who graduated within six years after enrolling. The GSR was developed by the NCAA as part of its academic reform

initiative to more accurately measure the success of D-I student-athletes by better accounting for the many different academic paths followed by today's college students.

“We continue to take pride in the academic performance and graduation rate of our student-athletes,” President Gary Ransdell said on Halloween at the Board of Regents

meeting. “…Where we have been leading the pace in the Sun Belt Conference in that regard, we’re currently fifth out of 14 current members in the Conference USA. So as we move up in athletic competition, the academic competition is equally in a higher level.”

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WKU swimming and diving tallies wins against IUPUI, Indiana The WKU men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams each posted wins this past Saturday, with the men notching victories against IUPUI and Indiana in a tri-meet, and the women tallying a victory against IUPUI. The men won by scores of 197-100 over IUPUI and 180.5-99.5 over Big Ten foe Indiana. The Lady Toppers posted a 165-123 finish against the Jaguars.

WKU totaled 20 personal bests in the events, including 11 of the individual events on the women’s side.

Five of the Lady Toppers recorded multiple top times, including junior Michelle Craddock, senior Claire Conlon, freshman Hannah Musser, sophomore Nadine Laemmler and freshman Logan Graumann. Craddock won the 200 (1:52.35) and 500 free (4:58.35) while Conlon notched wins

in the 100 (1:03.81) and 200 breast (2:20.92).

H. Musser tallied wins in the 200 (2:01.33) and 100 fly (55.07), while fellow newcomer Graumann tabbed the top times in the 50 (24.18) and 100 free (53.95). Laemmler nabbed first in the 100 (55.65) and 200 back (2:00.43).

The men’s team totaled a trio of Hilltoppers with multiple first-place times, including sophomore Fa-

bian Schwingenschlogl, who posted three wins in the 100 breast (56.06), 200 breast (2:03.50) and the 200 individual medley (1:53.39). Sophomore Cody Reul and senior Seth Musser each had a top finish, as Reul took the crown in the 200 (1:41.68) and 500 free (4:37.48) while S. Musser repeated in the 100 (50.45) and 200 back (1:51.16).

WKU also had three relay teams place first in the form of

the women’s 200 medley and 400 free relays, along with the men’s 200 medley relay.

The Hilltoppers and Lady Toppers continue this weekend when the men and women split up travel. The men will take on Purdue on Nov. 7, while the women have a tri-meet against Vanderbilt and Tulane in Nashville on Nov. 8.

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Lady Tops’ Leone earns conference all-freshman team honor

Prior to the start of yesterday’s Conference USA Women’s Soccer Championship, the league announced Tuesday that freshman goalkeeper Allison Leone has been named to the Conference USA All-Freshman Team.

Leone started and played every minute of the Lady Toppers’ 17-game schedule and the entirety of the team’s 1-0 loss to Rice in the quarterfinals of the league tournament yesterday. She totaled seven shutouts and 90 saves in the box for WKU this sea-

son and postseason. Her 85 saves and seven shutouts in regular-season play ranked fourth in Conference USA and her five saves a game ranked third.

The freshman started her season in record fashion, becoming the first WKU fresh-

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man goalkeeper to post consecutive shutouts in her first two career starts. Leone's 11 saves in a 2-1 win over Sacred Heart marked the sixth-highest single-game total in WKU history on Sept. 14.

Conference USA coaches voted on all-conference first,

second and third teams as well as the freshman team, and Leone was the lone Lady Topper recognized. Leone was one of 11 rookies honored across the league.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

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COLLEGE HEIGHTS HERALD

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