April 17, 2012 College Heights Herald

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Police search for suspects in shooting

By SPENCER JENKINS news@wkuherald.com

Tucker, Ga., sophomore Tevin Holliman and Auburndale, Fla., freshman Ricardo Singh, both WKU football players, sustained single gunshot wounds Saturday night at the Lava Lounge, located near WKU’s campus.

The shootings occurred just after midnight Saturday, said Ronnie Ward, public information officer for Bowling Green Police.

There are no updates on the suspect at this time, Ward said on Monday.

“One of our officers was driving by Lava Lounge and heard gunshots,” he said. “He got out and tried to locate who the shooter was but didn’t have any luck, and he called for back up.”

Police didn’t know of any victims at that moment, he said.

“We found out that two victims were taken to the hospital by car,” Ward said.

“Right now, we’ve interviewed several witnesses but have not been able to determine a suspect yet.”

Once police arrived at the scene, they received multiple and conflicting reports of what the suspects looked

like, according to a BGPD police report.

Police were also able to locate a vehicle that bullets had struck and were able to locate several shell casings on the ground, the report said.

Ward also said Holliman was taken to Vanderbilt Medical Center and Singh was taken to the Bowling Green Medical Center.

A Vanderbilt Medical Center spokesperson said the condition of gunshot victims and victims of violence are not given out to the public.

Singh’s condition is fair, which

means the vital signs are stable and the patient is conscious, a representative of the Bowling Green Medical Center said.

Ward said he wouldn’t confirm nor deny where on their bodies either player was shot.

According to a statement from WKU athletics, neither Holliman nor Singh were in possession of a gun. Both are receiving hospital care, and neither has sustained threatening injuries.

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Sigma Chi's Fight Night canceled

By MICHAEL MCKAY news@wkuherald.com

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(right to left) Glasgow junior Katherine Rogers, Madisonville sophomore Alyssa Davis and Louisville sophomore Morgan Patton perform a “Toy Story” themed dance with their Kappa Delta Sorority sisters during Spring Sing Sunday in Diddle Arena to kick off Greek Week. “The most rewarding part of Spring Sing is walking out on stage and hearing your sorority going crazy with cheers,” Davis said.

“Nothing that we do is for ourselves. It’s for our sisters.”

SPRING sing

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Greek groups pay 'Tribute to the Past' at Spring Sing

part ONE of a FOUR-part series

By HAYLEY HILBERT

South Campus aids in overall diversity

news@wkuherald.com

WKU fraternities and sororities danced their way into Greek Week Sunday evening.

Each organization performed in the annual Spring Sing — the kick-off event of Greek Week.

This year’s Spring Sing was titled “A Tribute to the Past.” The themes were taken from previous years of Spring Sing, and each fraternity and sorority put their own spin on their given theme.

Months of hard work boiled down to eight minutes for each fraternity and sorority to prove to the judges that they had the greatest routine.

Alissa Mansfield, coordinator of student activities for Greek affairs said the proceeds of the event will cover the event’s cost, and the remainder will be given to Habitat for Humanity.

The amount of money the event earned should be calculated by Wednesday, Mansfield said.

By TESSA DUVALL news@wkuherald.com

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Nashville senior Lindsey Bates, a member of Kappa Delta Sorority, cries after performing during the Spring Sing event in Diddle Arena Sunday.

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Ransdell bobbleheads to be given at baseball game

By MICHAEL MCKAY news@wkuherald.com

President Gary Ransdell may try to break the mold at WKU, but the department of Housing and Residence Life is filling a mold for a special giveaway.

HRL has commissioned a group of bobbleheads in Ransdell’s likeness to be given to the first 200 campus residents celebrating Resident Appreciation Day on April 27

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at the WKU vs. ULM game at Nick Denes Field. HRL will be there at 6 p.m. with free food and music for those students.

Blair Silliman, coordinator of Student Programs for HRL, said her department wanted a thank you gift that has to do with the event.

It’s a baseball game, so maybe a bobblehead, Silliman said.

Silliman said she emailed Ransdell, whom she said responded almost immediately.

“She asked me if I would be

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The 8th annual Sigma Chi Fight Night has been knocked out.

The event was officially canceled last week due to existing problems, according to the event’s Twitter account.

Max Noonan, Sigma Chi’s Derby Daddy, told the Herald last month that the event was being rescheduled for May 3-4, a little more than 30 days later, to provide enough time to file for a sanction through the state.

The state of Kentucky requires a sanction to be filed before anyone can put on an amateur boxing bout.

Vice President Matt Bell said the organizations that it was working with told Sigma Chi it would be hard to meet that deadline.

“They told us it was a very, very slim chance that we would get that done in 30 days,” Bell said.

Noonan said Sigma Chi stuck to the plans that it has always had for the past Fight Nights but said it plans on getting a sanction.

willing to do this, so I said ‘Sure, why not?’” Ransdell said.

After Ransdell gave his approval, the vendor was sent photos from every angle of the president — including one of the back of his head — which Silliman said was difficult to find.

“I guess because no one is taking his picture from that angle,” she said with a laugh.

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Michelle Hollis doesn’t want to hear excuses.

“I’m the first person in my family to go to college,” Hollis said. “My mom dropped out of school when she was 16 to have me. My dad was 15. My mom never went back to school, and my dad ended up going to the Job Corps.

He got a GED. “But my mom raised us on a ‘Do as I say, not as I do’ principle. So it didn’t matter that she dropped out of school — that wasn’t an option for me or my siblings.”

Raised in the housing projects of Baltimore, H Hollis is an associate professor of math in W WKU’s Academic Support Division and interim ddirector of the Office of Diversity Programs.

“I know that you can come from a bad envirronment and still be very successful, and I try tto instill that in the students here,” she said.

Behind her tough-love exterior, Hollis has a ddeep passion for helping minority students succceed and enhancing diversity in higher educattion.

In 1991, this is the same spark that Quentin H Hollis saw in then-Michelle Felder when they m met as undergraduates at Howard University — a historically black university. Quentin, an asssociate professor of psychology and liberal arts aat South Campus, has only watched her care for sstudents to grow.

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Teams flooded the hallways of Diddle Arena practicing their routines one last time before the start of the show.

Louisville freshman Ausdin Pender was part of fraternity Kappa Sigma’s group, who was the first to perform, with the theme “Hip Hop on the Hilltop.”

Pender said the group had been practicing for about a month and a half.

“This week, we’ve been dancing three hours a night,” Pender said. “We even had cardio as part of our practices.”

Pender said he was nervous for his first performance, but that he was absolutely ready for Spring Sing to start.

“I’m really excited,” Pender said before the performance. “I can hear (the crowd) screaming already.”

Inside, the arena was full of students, parents and Greek brothers and sisters who were chanting, cheering and stomping to show support for their group of performers.

Bardstown freshman Maggie Conway, member or Alpha Omicron Pi sorority, said she was impressed with all of the

CRIME REPORTS

Reports

■ Freshman James Buchanan, Keen Hall, reported April 15 that his laptop and Xbox were stolen from his room. The value of the theft is $2,085.

■ Freshman Cinnamon Knight, PearceFord Tower, and freshman Shaquitta Tyler, PFT, reported April 15 that a burglary occurred in their room.

The value of the theft is $409.

■ Freshman Malcom Snipes, McCormack Hall, reported April 13 that his wallet and contents were stolen from his backpack while left unattended by South Lawn. The value of the

performers.

“You can tell that they really put in a lot of time and effort,” Conway said. “It’s awesome.”

The performances gained laughs and loud cheers from the audience, as each group displayed the product of their practicing and hard work.

After the first 10 performances, groups left the arena for intermission. The groups still to perform practiced their routines for the final time.

Bowling Green freshman Erin Napier, who performed for Alpha Gamma Delta sorority, said she was excited to perform.

“Everything has been so awesome,” Napier said as she stretched. “Spring Sing has been everything I imagined, and more.”

Louisville sophomore Will Garcia, a performer for Phi Gamma Delta (Fiji), said his group had been practicing for more than a month. Garcia said no matter the outcome of the show, the practice for Spring Sing was well worth it.

“The practice provided time for all of us to hang out with each other,” he said. “Whether we win or we lose, it was a great time to bond with my brothers.”

The winners of Spring Sing will be announced this Sunday at Greek Week Convocation.

theft was $41.

■ Freshman Devon William Lloyd, PFT, reported April 13 that his iPod Touch was stolen from his dorm room. The value of the theft is $250.

■ Freshman Ebony Freeman, PFT, reported April 13 that her cell phone was stolen from her room.

The value of the theft is $300.

■ Freshman Sean Tuttle, Keen, reported April 13 the theft of two cell phones and a dollar bill from his dorm room. The value of the theft is $351.

■ Sophomore Taneshia Calender, PFT, reported April 12 that her wallet was

stolen from her dorm room. The value of the theft is $5.

Arrests

■ Sophomore Nicholas Reed, Owensboro, was arrested April 14 on a bench warrant out of Daviess County for failure to appear on a reckless driving offense.

■ Freshman Mohammad Alsalem, Bowling Green, was arrested April 13 and charged with alcohol intoxication in a public place.

■ Freshman William Coker II, McCormack, was arrested April 14 and charged with reckless driving and driving under the influence of alcohol.

a thousand words

APRIL 17, 2012

Photo & Story by CHRISTIAN RANDOLPH

Ali Miah, who has owned and operated the International Supermarket on Broadway Avenue for the past six years, takes a break between customers to pray in a corner of his store.

Before anything else, humans need food to survive. And that’s the reason Ali Miah, since emigrating from Bangladesh 25 years ago, has worked in the food business.

“Food is the number one most important thing in life,” Miah said. “Number two is shelter, but food is still number one.”

After 19 years in Miami where he started out in a 7-Eleven and then opened his own market, Miah now owns and runs the International Supermarket & Café on Broadway Avenue in Bowling Green.

Miah, who is constantly organizing the shelves packed with goods imported from about a dozen countries, says he feels it is his duty to humanity is to provide people with ingredients for healthy meals.

Miah said he always has a suggestion for the best ingredient, whether it’s for one spice

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WKU football Head Coach Willie Taggart spoke with the parents of each player, the statement said.

Both police and WKU

or a list of items for an entire meal.

“Even a Wal-Mart manager shops here because he likes the food and can’t find it anywhere else,” Miah said.

Because of Miah’s interest in linguistics, the wide variety of foods and goods aren’t the only international items exchanged in the supermarket.

By learning two words a day for just over three months, Miah said he found that gives him enough to keep a conversation going.

Now able to speak seven different languages, Miah casually cycles through several of them while at the store. He’ll greet someone in Arabic as they enter the door or make a meal suggestion in Spanish to someone browsing the aisles before turning back to offer a simple goodbye as he finishes bagging another customer’s groceries.

athletics are gathering more information.

The WKU alert system said a black male wearing blue shorts and a white tank top was involved in the shooting who was last seen toward PearceFord Tower.

Both Holliman, a defensive

lineman, and Singh, a defensive back, played in the WKU spring football game earlier in the day.

Holliman saw action in all 12 games for WKU in 2011, recording eight total tackles.

Singh saw action in six games last season, recording two tackles.

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HRL Director Brian Kuster said the bobbleheads were made in a limited quantity as a special thank you for the residents, and because of their expense, Kuster said the bobblehead will not be sold in the WKU Store.

Marketing Coordinator Katie Corbin said HRL didn’t mind paying to produce the bobbleheads.

“We thought it was worth it,” Corbin said.

Silliman said Ransdell would be at the game to autograph bobbleheads and meet with students.

Ransdell said he was sent a mock up of the bobblehead a few weeks after giving his approval, but he hasn’t seen the final product.

“I will show up that night as well, and I guess I’ll see it for the first time like everybody else,” he said.

Ransdell said he isn’t letting the toy give him a big head.

“If it’s a fun thing for students, then I’m all in,” he said. “… I guess I need to know how to move my head to make the real Gary look like a bobblehead.”

Silliman said the vendor would keep the mold of Ransdell for a year, which she said means more bobbleheads could be produced one day.

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“This would be an nonissue if we had known about this sooner,” he said.

A group has to go through USA Boxing to become a registered club, have certified coaches and registered athletes before a sanction can be filed.

Bell said it takes roughly five months to prepare the things they were expecting it to do in 30 days.

“If we would’ve been told of this statute earlier — if we had been informed of that in enough amount of time — then we would’ve just revised

it, had it done.” he said.

Bell said the group still plans to hold Fight Night next year.

“We’re doing all of those things now for next year,” he said.

Bell said the group would be working with his father, Rep. Johnny Bell, D-District 23, to draft a bill that would make them exempt from a sanction.

“It’s basically attempting to take the jurisdiction away from Kentucky Boxing and Wrestling and take it out of philanthropy and in school events so that they don’t have that jurisdiction,” Bell said the bill would also have to give groups an

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ample amount of time to fill all of the requirements.

“So situations like this doesn’t happen again for years to come,” he said. “Not just for us — for all groups who raise money for cancer and in school events like this throughout the state.”

Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity said on its Twitter account that the news of Fight Night’s cancellation was “probably the most depressing news of the year.”

Bell said the group is working to make the next Fight Night better than in other years and said the next one may be planned to not coincide with the NCAA tournament.

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EDITORIAL

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Cut Salaries to ease tuition hikes

Reduce, reuse, recycle Students should take advantage of Eath Day activities THE ISSUE: Earth Day is this week, with several campus events being held in celebration of it.

OUR STANCE: The Herald believes that students should take advantage of the activities and events the office of Sustainability is putting on this week.

Earth Day may come and go each year, with many people passing up the opportunity to learn more about the environment because they think it doesn’t affect them or they simply don’t care enough about the planet or the environment.

However, we believe that this year students don’t have to become environmentalists to show they care about the environment. Instead, they should be open to learning about the environment, and there is no better way to do that than to attend one of the many Earth Day events going on this week on campus.

Part of being a citizen of the world is being knowledgable about the world we live

in. As more and more reports come out on the state of planet Earth, we all have the choice to do something about it.

As we move forward into a more technology-based future, it’s easy to lose interest of focus on the environment.

Yet the environment is becoming an increasingly big issue, and it’s important that students — college students especially — are engaged and aware of the importance of environmentalism.

While learning more about the environment can be a depressing or frightening realization for some people, the office of Sustainability doesn’t want it to be that way for people.

“My favorite thing about Earth Day this year is that it’s inspiring and hopeful — not doom and gloom associated with conservation. It’s very important for students to see the positive side,” said Sustainability Coordinator Chiristian Ryan-Downing.

WKU students should take advantage of Earth Day and

the events around campus — and there are a lot of them.

Two speakers will be on campus on Wednesday. Actor Carl Lombardi will speak and perform at the Faculty House at noon and at Mass Media and Technology Hall auditorium at 3:30 p.m. Kohl Crecelius, founder and CEO of Krochet Kids International, will speak in MMTH auditorium at 7 p.m. about the story of his non-profit.

The main celebration is the Earth Day Festival in the Downing University Center Courtyard and Centennial Mall on Friday. The event will feature giveaways, booths and other activities.

The Herald encourages all WKU faculty, staff and students to attend the Earth Day celebrations.

After all, if we don’t care about the environment and our planet, who will?

This editorial represents the majority opinion of the Herald’s 10-member editorial board.

I read an article in the April 13 edition of the Herald that was about another tuition hike at WKU because of state budget cuts, and I have some insight to offer. Instead of charging students another $200 on top of what we’re already being charged (like the fee we’re all being charged to pay for the renovation of DUC, which I don’t think needs renovation right now), how about we cut some of these outrageous salaries and stop renovating buildings that don’t necessarily need renovation? I think the university needs to get its priorities in order. Want to renovate some buildings? How about Grise, Garrett or Cherry?

They really need it.

— Julie Sneath Tompkinsville senior

people

POLL “Do you plan to celebrate Earth Day this year?”

ASHLEY SMITH Springfield freshman

“Honestly, I haven’t thought of it, but I will if I know of anything going on.”

YINZI TANG Dalian, China Graduate student

“No, I don’t know anything about it.”

WILSON SOLARES Guatemala freshman

“Yeah, by recycling and planting a tree.”

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COMMENTARY

President Obama and the future of Higher Education In his State of the Union address, President Obama called for higher education to be more accountable. More specifically, a follow-up press release issued by the White House immediately after his speech contained the following: “Colleges that can show that they are providing students with good long-term value will be rewarded with additional dollars to help students attend.”

Some have interpreted the president’s call for greater accountability from higher education as advocating “gainful employment” as a key standard by which we should gauge institutional efficacy; i.e., the idea that taxpayer support for colleges and universities should be tied more closely to the employment rates of their graduates.

While this may seem like a reasonable course of action on the surface, upon greater reflection it becomes obvious that such a policy would not be in our nation’s long-

term best interest.

To be clear, colleges and universities have an inherent obligation to provide students with accurate and trustworthy information about their prospects for finding a suitable job in their selected field.

Along with their diploAaron Hughey mas, colProfessor, lege graduCounseling and ates should student affairs leave their alma maters with a realistic sense of how their newly acquired credential will affect their future prospects in an increasingly competitive global job market.

Still, students should be encouraged to follow their dreams as much as possible when choosing a major. It is difficult to be successful

if you do not have a passion for the profession you are preparing to enter. And the goal of higher education should never be to prepare an individual for a specific career in a specific discipline. This approach shortchanges the true value of the learning process and will not serve to enhance our culture or way of life.

Besides, preparing students for occupations (or entire industries) that may not even exist in the coming decades makes absolutely no sense.

Recently, a conference was held at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa. And although the meeting “The Future of the Liberal Arts College in America and its Leadership Role in Education Around the World” did not garner much attention in the national media, it featured some 50 college presidents, many from institutions identified as the top liberal arts colleges in the nation by U.S. News and World Report.

The purpose of the gathering

was to discuss the changing role of higher education — and especially the liberal arts — in light of growing economic realities. Moreover, attendees speculated on what it means to be “educated” in 2012 and how that definition is evolving in light of global and cultural trends that are coming into sharper focus with each passing year.

More to the point, they questioned the philosophical scaffolding upon which higher education is built that has been largely taken for granted by most of the population for over 400 years. In addition to relevant knowledge and skills, education should endow students with fundamental problem-solving, decision-making and knowledge acquisition strategies that will allow them to effectively negotiate a rapidly shifting global environment.

There is little disagreement that society will increasingly need graduates who have a solid background in science and engineering. What

is less understood — yet no less important — is that we will also need graduates with extensive exposure to the humanities. In a very real sense, if colleges and universities do not continue to emphasize literature, languages, philosophy and the arts at the same intensity as chemistry, biology, physics and mathematics, everything human civilization has achieved is in danger of being lost.

Even Albert Einstein, the ultimate scientist, saw the danger in valuing one side of the educational spectrum over another when he made this observation almost 60 years ago: “Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.”

Once again, he was ahead of his time. Never has such insight been more needed than at the present moment.

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

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@edperkins2000: My school might not always beat you at sports but we will definitely beat you, try to shoot you, and rob you. #WKU -sent 4/15 @nsmorgan: Maybe if #WKU spent less time policing their hashtag, and more time actually policing, #WKU wouldn't be East Compton right now -sent 4/15 @isstanley446: Yay. Great. 3 more weeks. Hopefully I won't get shot or robbed before I graduate. get it together #WKU. Never walking anywhere alone again. -sent 4/15 @shllm_since91: #WKU probably text the shooter #hebechangingclothing #goodgoing -sent 4/15 @WoodyWhite13: really questioning my decision to re-enroll at #WKU this fall after the happenings of this weekend. I'm too old for all this. -sent 4/15 @drake_riley: I swear if #WKU is going to start being like this I want to have a #WKUPDscanner to be put on the Internet for everyone to enjoy. -sent 4/15 @jonwarren1: A #WKU crime wave? Let's do this. #CrimeFightersUnite #ButDon'tApproachSuspects -sent 4/15 @dotbennett: I usually make fun of #MTSU for its crime rate around campus.

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Blood Drive, part of Greek Week, Preston Center, 10 a.m.

Toppers on Tour in Owensboro, Moonlite BarB-Q, 2840 W. Parrish Ave, 6 p.m.

Planetarium Show: Interpreting the Narrative of our Ancient Earth, Hardin Planetarium, 7 p.m.

Last Lecture Series: Arvin Vos, Mass Media and Technology Hall Auditorium, 7 p.m.

Greek Feud, part of Greek Week, DUC auditorium, 7 p.m.

KMEA Choral Festival, Van Meter Hall, 8:30 a.m.

Blood Drive, part of Greek Week, Preston, 10 a.m.

Presentation: Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax by actor Carl Lombardi, Faculty House, 12 p.m.

Presentation: Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax by actor Carl Lombardi, Mass Media, 3:30 p.m.

Faculty Appreciation, part of Greek Week, Mariah’s, downtown Bowling Green, 5 p.m.

Gender Images Film Series: The Corporation Cherry Hall 125, 6:30 p.m.

Presentation: Buy a Hat. Change a Life by Kohl Crecelius, CEO and founder of Krochet Kids International, Mass Media, 7 p.m.

Forum: Transgender Students, ICSR, 7 p.m.

Events Day, part of Greek Week, WKU South Lawn, 3:30 p.m.

University Senate Meeting, Faculty House, 3:45 p.m.

Gaines Lecture Series: The New Investigative Journalism by Lucy Komisar, Mass Media Auditorium, 7 p.m.

Planetarium Show: Interpreting the Narrative of our Ancient Earth, Hardin Planetarium, 7 p.m.

Kentucky Live Series: Gary West, travel writer.

Barnes & Noble, 7 p.m.

South Central Kentucky 4-H Horse Camp, L.D. Brown Agricultural Exposition Center, 8 a.m.

Kentucky Writers Conference and Children’s Day, part of Southern Kentucky Book Fest.

Knicely Conference Center, 9 a.m.

Earth Day Festival, DUC courtyard, 11 a.m.

Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for Pure Power Technologies, WKU Center for Research and Development, 1 p.m.

TUG, part of Greek Week, WKU farm, 2 p.m.

Baseball vs. Troy, Nick Denes Field, 6 p.m.

Miss Black Western Pageant, DUC Auditorium, 7 p.m.

Concert: The Symphony’s Austrian Masterworks featuring Liza Kelly and Bowling Green Western Choral Society, Van Meter Hall, Tickets are $25 at the door; $22 in advance; $5 for students, 8 p.m.

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WKUPD: No suspects in campus robbery

fled toward the Pearce-Ford Tower parking lot. One wore a blue shirt with light shorts and the other wore “dark clothing.”

Dunston’s iPhone and $25 in cash were stolen, and the total value of the theft is $244.99, according to the WKUPD media log.

Johnson said no weapons were presented and no injuries occurred.

The robbery is still under investigation with no suspects so far, Johnson said. There is some video footage but Johnson isn’t sure how clear it is.

“All we have is a robbery and not much to go with,” she said.

A student was robbed of his possessions around 10:30 p.m. Sunday night at WKU. Senior Daniel Dunston, Zacharias Hall, was walking back to his dorm after eating dinner at the Downing University Center when two men in front of the Preston Center robbed him, said Mandi Johnson, public information officer for WKUPD. “Once he got around the Preston Center, one grabbed him and the other emptied his pockets,” she said. “Then they took off.”

The WKU text alert sent to students shortly after the robbery said the two suspects

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Sisters hope to add 500 potential donors to bone marrow registry

By CAMERON KOCH news@wkuherald.com

For two sisters attending WKU, April 15 marked a turning point in both their lives, an event that would change their view on the world and chart a course for both their futures.

It was on that day in 2010 that Sam Kimura, now a freshman at WKU, received a diagnosis — she suffered from what is known as aplastic anemia.

“It was spring break of my junior year in high school, and I was sicker than I’d ever been,” Sam — Spencer Jenkins said.

After spending days in the hospital she received the diagnosis, and Sam learned exactly what it meant to have the rare bone marrow disease. She needed a bone marrow transplant, and fast.

Aplastic anemia is a bone marrow disease that causes the marrow to not produce sufficient numbers of both red and white blood cells. Without quick treatment, a person could die.

The best option for a bone marrow transplant is a sibling, as they share similar genetics, Sam said.

But after testing her sister Alex, the two weren’t compatible.

From there, they looked on the national bone marrow transplant registry, but they still didn’t have any luck. Out of nine million people, not a single person matched Sam. But Sam, a Louisville native, had a second option — a serum that she took for 10 days, eight hours a day that helped break down and then rebuild her immune system. Slowly but surely, she started to recover. She spent the majority of her summer in and out of the hospital.

It was during that summer that her family decided to put on a bone marrow drive at their church.

Part of the driving force behind it was the small hope of finding a transplant donor for Sam, but that wasn’t all of it.

“Being in the hospital, I was College on the cancer floors and the bone marrow transplant ward. I would walk past these rooms and see these people who needed a bone marrow transplant or who had just had one,” she said. “We just found out how important it is. We became more educated.”

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Louisville senior Alex Kimura and her sister, Sam, a freshman, organized a bone marrow donor registration drive that will continue today and tomorrow in the Preston Center. Alex started holding the drives on campus after Sam was diagnosed with aplastic anemia in 2010. “Finding a match is like winning the lottery,” Alex said.

The sisters now had a mission: to continue registering bone marrow donors and educating everyone about the process and the need.

Alex, now a senior, brought that mission to WKU two years ago and has registered more than 1,000 donors. Out of that 1,000, six donors registered at WKU have been matched with patients in need of a transplant.

“When people do get in the registry, and they do get the call that they are a match, it’s like winning the lottery, it’s so rare to find your match,” Sam said.

Now, working with DKMS, an international bone marrow registry, both sisters together will be aiming to register even more students during the Greek Week Blood Drive in the Preston Center.

Both the blood drive and marrow registration drive began on Monday and will be held from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday. The sisters are aiming at getting at least 500 people registered through the drive.

“We’ve taken this on as a personal cause for our family,” Alex said. “We want to register as many donors as possible.”

To register to be a bone marrow donor, a cotton swab on the inside of the cheek and a complete registration form is all that’s needed.

A big obstacle to overcome in getting more people to register as donors is peoples’ fears about the

bone marrow transplant process, which Alex said is not too painful.

“It’s a myth that donating marrow is really painful,” Alex said.

“A lot of people think it is really scary and they don’t do it.”

However, the majority of the time donating marrow is just like donating blood, she said. The other times, Alex said, marrow must be taken from the hip bone, which is where most of the fear comes from. Alex said that it isn’t as bad as many make it out to be.

“It’s an outpatient procedure: You don’t feel any pain — you leave the next day, and you might be a little bit sore,” she said. “We are trying to let people know, you going through a little bit of discomfort can save somebody’s life.”

After college, Alex wants to travel around the country organizing bone marrow drives at colleges similar to the one at WKU. One of the big goals for the two sisters is to start up a national collegiate bone marrow registration drive competition. After Alex graduates, Sam looks to continue the WKU drive during her years at the university and hopes to keep moving her and her sister’s cause forward.

“We just want to let people know how important it is,” Sam said. “People always want to be heroes, and this is the perfect opportunity to do that.”

Cage the Elephant to play in Nashville

By CHRIS RUTLEDGE news@wkuherald.com

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Investigative” Journalism

By Journalist Lucy Komisar

Thursday, April 19 at 7 p.m. at WKU’s Mass Media & Technology Hall Auditorium

Don’t miss award-winning journalist Lucy Komisar’s discussion of groundbreaking news organizations that are raising the impact and visibility of investigative journalism as a means of promoting transparency in business and government.

This event is sponsored by the Gaines Family of Bowling Green and the WKU School of Journalism & Broadcasting.

The event is free and open to the public. For WKU students, this is a swipable SEAT event.

Cage the Elephant will play its first local show since last year’s concert on campus this Tuesday at 8 p.m. at Marathon Music Works in Nashville. Admission is $25 in advance or $27 at the door.

This will mark the first time Cage has played Nashville since the release of their sophomore album, “Thank You, Happy Birthday,” in 2011.

Guitarist Brad Shultz said the band members will celebrate the occasion by playing through most of their song catalog, old and new.

“This will be the first time that Nashville has seen us with the full production, with lighting and all that stuff,” Shultz said.

In the past, Cage’s Nashville shows have been notoriously rowdy.

Tiger Merritt of Morning Teleportation remembers opening for the band at the Cannery Ballroom in 2009.

“I got dropped on my head twice crowd surfing,” Merritt said. “They put gay porn on all of our monitors, condoms on the microphones and flour in the drum kit.”

Shultz said he’s not sure if this show will be quite as bizarre.

“Matt (Shultz) may wear a dress — you never know,” Shultz said. “If he’s feeling saucy that day.”

Local rock band

Schools will open the show. Shultz said in Schools he sees potential for another nationally successful act from Bowling Green.

“Jay Joyce, the same guy that did both of our albums, did their album, Shultz said. “Sleeper Agent have done really awesome, and they recorded their album with Jay Joyce. This is another opportunity to showcase Bowling Green.”

Shultz said the band members wrote much of “Thank You, Happy Birthday,” in cabins near Barren River Lake.

Shultz said the band will head back to those cabins in May and will be hitting the studio in July.

“Hopefully we’ll be getting the new album out by the end of this year,” Shultz said. “It’s going to be different, just like everything else that we do.”

The band won’t be back to Bowling Green until Starry Nights Music Festival next semester.

“We’ve actually helped book Starry Nights the past couple years,” Shultz said. “I don’t want to throw any names out there just yet, but I know people are going to be pretty excited about what’s about to come to Bowling Green.”

Shultz said Starry Nights hopes to drop the lineup before the end of this semester.

“Sometime in early May, we’re thinking,” he said.

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Senior Marcus Pope won the men’s 400-meter intermediate hurdles with a new personal-best time of 51.38 seconds. Pope said even though it was his first time running 400 hurdles for the year, he wanted a better time.

“I’m happy I got the first race out the way, but I’m not happy with the time,” he said. “I wanted a 50 point… anything 50 point.”

For the Lady Toppers in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles, Irma Maciukaite also took first place with a time of 1:00.77. Her time ranks second on the Lady Topper all-time list in the event.

Kelli Winston, mother of soph-

omore sprinter De’Myco Winston, was one parent in attendance to see her child run.

After driving 15 hours from Ruskin, Fla., she said that she was just excited to see Winston run. Winston finished third in the 200-meter dash with a time of 21.52 seconds and said having his mother at the meet meant a lot.

“It felt like all the pressure to

BASEBALL

WKU drops two of three games to Arkansas State cox, senior right fielder Ryan Hutchison and junior designated hitter Adam Lavelle to earn its lone victory on the weekend.

The Toppers capped off the Sun Belt More importantly, the Toppers got out Conference portion of their nine-game to an early lead with two runs in the first inroad trip by winning one out of three ning, which Myers said is key for his club’s against Arkansas State this past weekend. confidence.

While WKU couldn’t reach the ulti“This team responds better when we mate goal of winning the get the lead early,” Myers series, it still found a way said. “When we don’t, it’s to earn a respectable road tougher for us to get back victory against the secondin these games and get a place team in the Sun Belt. lead.”

Head Coach Matt Myers This team reHowever, WKU has said that in itself is enough had trouble sustaining prosponds betto be able to take something duction over a multiplepositive away from the trip ter when we game stretch. to Jonesboro, Ark. Saturday’s offensive “When you’re on the get the lead performance is one that road, you don’t want to get early. When Myers would like to beswept, and they were a betcome a habit for the Topter team than us,” Myers we don’t, it’s pers’ lineup. said. “They’re a very good “We go hot to cold real team and very well-coached. tougher for us quick,” Myers said. “That’s “As inconsistent as we to get back in just the way it’s been this are — yeah, I’m glad. You year. I’m waiting for these these games never want to get swept.” guys to take it in to two or Over WKU’s last two sethree games in a row.” ries, it has come down to the and get a lead" Despite losing the rubrubber match to determine ber match on Sunday, who would earn the series win.

—Matt Meyers WKU trailed by just two Myers said his team is as Head Coach runs until the eighth inning close as it gets to overcoming before falling 6-3. the obstacle of winning two Myers said he hopes out of three games every weekend and im- his team can continue the effort it put forth proving its 6-9 conference record. on Saturday and Sunday into its two mid“We’re close, but we still have to do week games this week. some things to get over that hump,” Myers WKU will cap off its road trip by travelsaid. “We could very easily be 9-6 in con- ing to Belmont on Tuesday and Lipscomb ference. It’s often come down to Sundays.” on Wednesday.

One thing Myers said could help them Freshman left-hander Ian Tompkins overcome is a spark in the offensive pro- will get the start for the Toppers against duction.

Belmont — a team in which WKU lost to The Toppers had scored just one run 6-5 on March 20 at home. over a three-game span before busting out However, it’s the offense that Myers for eight runs against the Red Wolves Sat- said will have to step up in both games. urday.

“Both are offensive parks, so maybe we WKU received eight hits combined can score a lot of runs and get our guys gofrom sophomore first baseman Scott Wil- ing,” Myers said.

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Academic Support along with Liberal Arts and Sciences departments became the University College Commonwealth School; the last BGCC dean, Sherry Reid, retired

Fall

2010

July 1,

The South Campus building opened on Nashville Road

RELAYS

By KURT CARSON

glorified…

“If you’re black and poor or black and a teenage mother, you’re already cast out before you hit the gate.”

Now, Hollis is the godmother of Patterson-Smith’s second son, who will turn three in October.

“The faculty really cares,” she said. “Mrs. Hollis and I grew close.

She’s not only like a mentor, she’s a second mom.”

Patterson-Smith attributes much of her success to the support she received from the staff at South Campus. When starting college, Patterson-Smith said she craved more attention from instructors and a smaller setting before making the transition to the Hill. She also received help from staff finding a job, an apartment and childcare services.

She went on to graduate with her bachelor’s degree in fewer than four years.

“To me, I think the university shortchanged itself,” she said.

“Sometimes people need to start at a smaller place to be successful.”

Now employed as a student financial aid officer at the Art Institute of Indianapolis, PattersonSmith said she shares her story with students.

“I could be at an accounting firm making tons of money, but I’ve stayed in higher ed because of the service that was given to me and to make an imprint on students the same way they made their imprint on me,” she said.

“My calling is to be in higher education to give back and reach back to help others achieve their dreams. It’s in my heart to do that.”

Timeline of South Campus changes

Bowling Green Community College was established by the Board of Regents

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“She was always kind of frustrated with the idea that if you were a single mom, or if you were not your traditional student, or you were a minority, that you couldn’t make it,” he said. “Or even if you were a traditional student but your grades were kind of bad that you couldn’t make it.”

Michelle Hollis, who teaches at South Campus, works with a student body that is dramatically different than WKU’s overall population.

The WKU student body was 10.3 percent black in the fall of 2010, according to the 2011 Factbook.

But in comparison, of the students who took at least one class at South Campus in the fall of 2011, 30.2 percent were black, according to data provided by Institutional Research.

The Asian and Hispanic populations at South Campus are similar to the makeup of WKU’s general population, but white students account for only 60.4 percent of the South Campus population, compared to 82.2 of WKU’s total enrollment.

In the past several years, South Campus has undergone an array of restructuring and reforms, all of which have impacted the students.

During the 2010-2011 school year, WKU began to institute a gradual increase in admission requirements that led to the enactment of an ACT floor of 16 to be increased by one point a year until 2014.

“A lot of the students here are

But during the first year under the new standards, WKU did not admit a large number of black applicants that would have been admitted under old standards, she said.

“If those students had been admitted, they would have been admitted through South Campus, and that alters our diversity numbers tremendously,” Hollis said. “It doesn’t completely eliminate their opportunity to get a degree because they can go to a community college somewhere else, but they could have come here.”

It was the appeal of the Bowling Green Community College that drew many students to the Hill, including alumna Latoya Patterson-Smith.

Patterson-Smith, now a 30-year-old mother of two with her master’s degree, came to WKU in 2000 by way of BGCC as an 18-year-old single mom.

Her parents, both members of the Army, had just left for Germany as their daughter began college.

“I was a teenage mom and all, but I always had the drive and determination. I knew I was going to college — I just didn’t know where I was going to college,” Patterson-Smith said.

Patterson-Smith enrolled in a math class taught by Hollis, and the pair immediately connected. “(Hollis’ story) impacted me because, no, she may not have had a child as a teenager, but she was already considered at a disadvantage,” Patterson-Smith said.

“When you live in poverty, you’re not praised, you’re not

2011

African-American, and I was concerned about the increase in enrollment standards and those standards eliminating the opportunity for them to attend WKU,” Hollis said.

Students with a minimum unweighted 2.0 high school GPA or an ACT composite of 17 are conditionally admitted to WKU and must first take developmental courses. These students find themselves at South Campus, home to all of WKU’s developmental courses, although other courses are taught there.

These changes, specifically the loss of open enrollment, have lessened educational opportunities for minority students at WKU, Hollis said.

“I’m a strong advocate for underprepared students, because I don’t think that you can look at a test score on a piece of paper and determine if that student is going to have a chance to be successful or not,” she said. “So I feel like a lot of students who are going to fall into that category are going to be minority students based on our numbers.”

When a task force on admission standards looked at students that would not be admitted due to increased requirements, Hollis said she was told only a handful of minority students would not meet requirements.

“When you start to change the color of your student body, it messes up the diversity across the board,” she said. “Not only do you lose the presence of those minority faces, the non-minority students lose the opportunity to learn about students who are not like them.”

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Demographics of South Campus students ■ BLACK -The latest WKU Factbook Fall 2010 – 2,159 black out of 20,903 total WKU (10.3%) -IR South Campus numbers Fall 2011 – 697 black out of 2,306 total students who take at least one class at SC (30.2%) ■ ASIAN -The latest WKU Factbook Fall 2010 – 206 Asian out of 20,903 total WKU (1.0%) -IR South Campus numbers Fall 2011 – 25 Asian out of 2,306 total students who take at least one class at SC (1.0%) ■ HISPANIC -The latest WKU Factbook Fall 2010 – 369 Hispanic out of 20,903 total WKU (1.8%) -IR South Campus numbers Fall 2011 – 47 Hispanic out of 2,306 total students who take at least one class at SC (2.0%) ■ TWO OR MORE RACES -The latest WKU Factbook Fall 2010 – 218 of two or more races out of 20,903 total WKU (1.0%) -IR South Campus numbers Fall 2011 – 50 of two or more races out of 2,306 total students who take at least one class at SC (2.2%) *2010-2011 was the first year for “two or more races;” before this, many students self-reported as a specific race

Commonwealth School was renamed the South Campus Academic Wing in order to help differentiate the academic area of the building from Carroll Knicely Conference Center; restructuring was not associated with this name change

Students entering this semester must have a minimum ACT of 16, eliminating WKU’s open enrollment

perform was taken off of me,” he said. “I was happy to see her.”

Throughout the day, students, fans and spectators shook hands with and spoke to President Gary Ransdell, who also attended the meet.

Ransdell watched senior javelin thrower Ignacio Guerra win his first competition of the year, notching three throws of

more than 70 meters.

Ransdell said he was impressed.

“I’m a big track and field fan,” Ransdell said. “I love watching the students compete, and we’ve seen some Olympic qualifying times today.

“WKU’s very own Ignacio looks like he’s gonna be an Olympic qualifier in the javelin,” he said.

“Today was great fun.”

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SOFTBALL

WKU drops two of three at home against FIU

By HASANI GRAYSON sports@wkuherald.com

The Lady Toppers had a hard time keeping Florida International off the scoreboard this weekend as they lost a three-game home series to the Panthers.

WKU’s series finale ended in a 9-6

loss. FIU’s starting lineup, which had eight combined home runs going into the first game of the series, hit five homers over the course of the weekend.

Many of the home runs FIU hit this weekend seemed to get some extra help from windy conditions.

WKU (25-17-1, 7-7-1 Sun Belt Con-

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Junior Katrina Metoyer slides into third base during the second game of a doubleheader against FIU Saturday afternoon at the WKU Softball Complex. WKU won 7-6.

ference) had just one home run in the series finale, but Head Coach Tyra Perry wasn’t using the wind as the excuse for their 9-6 loss.

“We always say that both teams are playing under the same conditions,” she said. “It kind of negates things a bit, but I think that first home run especially caught a jet stream and got some help.”

WKU used three pitchers on Sunday.

Sophomores Emily Rousseau and Brittanie Albright gave up a combined eight earned runs in 6 1/3 innings pitched.

Perry was happy with how the offense and defense played but said that her pitchers have a lot they can do to improve.

“You can’t give up hits with two strikes and two outs. We gave up a lot,” she said. “We need to not give, and we need to take.”

The second game of the series would yield the only win of the series for the Lady Toppers. Sophomore outfielder Kelsie Mattox came up in the bottom of the seventh with WKU down by one with runners on second and third and two outs.

She singled up the middle on a hit that allowed both runners to score and brought WKU the walk-off 7-6 win.

“I was just looking to have a quality at-bat,” she said, “I hadn’t been seeing the ball as well as I’d like to earlier. So

I was just trying to see the ball deep, swing at strikes.”

Perry was careful not to get too excited about the win and said simply that her pitchers “do their best and play their game.”

Junior pitcher Mallorie Sulaski had been knocked out of the game in the fourth. Junior pitcher Kim Wagner came on in relief and worked out of a basesloaded jam that inning but had trouble as the game continued. She gave up four runs on five hits in 3 2/3 innings pitched.

WKU pitchers gave up their fewest amount of runs in the series opener, but compared to the rest of the games that weekend, the bats were relatively quiet as WKU fell 4-1.

All of the runs Rousseau gave up that game were in the fourth inning, and the offense was unable to back her up, getting just five hits.

Senior outfielder Laura Smith, who started all three games in right field and had two RBIs on Sunday, was disappointed with the different aspects of the team’s overall game but said that she wants to quietly lead the team as the conference tournament gets nearer.

“I’m more of a leader by example kind of person,” she said. “As far as leading for the team, I just try to put forth the best example I can and have everyone else follow.”

Applewhite, UConn transfer Bradley visit WKU

By JORDAN WELLS

sports@wkuherald.com

Andre Applewhite, a 6-foot4 guard from Memphis, Tenn., was one of a few visitors on WKU’s campus this weekend.

The senior averaged 24 points, 12 rebounds, five assists and 2.5 steals a game in his final season for Central High School.

“I really enjoyed getting to know both the coaches and players,” Applewhite said. “And the campus was really clean — it was great.”

Applewhite is still deciding

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“I felt like the D-line got real good pressure on the quarterback that probably forced the bad throw,” Dowling said. “Just the good defense that the coach put me in — they put me right in the perfect spot to make a play.”

He also gave credit to the game plan the Red Team used under the guidance of defensive line coach Eric Mathies, who was at the helm of the Red Team on Saturday.

“We felt if we could make the White Team throw, that’s what we wanted to do,” he said. “I felt like we had — I’m not gonna say the better secondary because I feel like our secondary, everyone can play, everyone is equal — but we had more of the cover DBs, so if we could make them throw, it’d fall in our hands, and the game would be better.”

Dowling will be on the field for the Toppers in 2012 after sitting out last season due to NCAA

transfer rules.

Dowling, who was named MVP of the game, said he had Head Coach Willie Taggart and former athletics director Ross Bjork to thank for giving him a chance at WKU. “It just felt good to be out here with my family watching and everybody watching,” Dowling said. “I’m back in my right spot. I’m back in my rightful place.”

Dowling said he won’t really be satisfied until he’s running back interceptions in the regular season.

“I want to help the Tops get to 13-0 — it sounds crazy with the schedule we got, but hey, if our team believes it, we can do it,” Dowling said.

With the spring game behind them, the Toppers now have a period for the next several weeks without practice.

Taggart said he hopes his team takes this time to finish strong in the classroom before they return to the field this summer.

“Coach (Duane) Hall will get our guys in the weight room, and then

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For the White Team, senior quarterback Kawaun Jakes went 12-of-26 for 141 yards, throwing two costly interceptions to Dowling.

Taggart said while Jakes made some plays, he needs the quarterback to complete more passes.

“With Kawaun, I want to see more completions,” he said. “I want to see a higher completion percentage. I think with this offense, you need to have a high percentage.”

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Here are some things that stuck out to me from the Red Team’s 16-10 win over the White Team: Roy puts one through the uprights Maybe no WKU player did more to help themselves on Saturday than the sophomore kicker

between several schools, including Tennessee, South Carolina, South Florida, Mississippi State, Missouri State and Tennesee-Martin, with every school except Mississippi State already offering scholarships.

He said he bonded especially well with rising sophomores George Fant, T.J. Price and Spence Sheldon.

“I’ve known George since high school AAU days. He’s really competitive like me,” Applewhite said. “T.J. and Spence also helped him show me the ropes. They were hilarious.”

he’s looking at but said he feels “very high” on WKU. Per NCAA bylaws, Bradley can apply for a hardship waiver from the NCAA for his transfer because of his grandmother’s health, which, if granted, means he would be eligible to play immediately.

Bradley, a Rivals.com threestar recruit in high school, chose UConn as a high school senior over offers from Georgia, Drake, and Virginia Commonwealth.

WKU recruit Darrell Combs, a senior from Thornwood High

School in South Holland, Ill., told the Herald earlier in the month that his college decision was down to WKU or Cleveland State, adding he wouldn’t make his decision until sometime after he visited Cleveland State on the weekend of April 13-15.

However, Combs told the Herald Sunday afternoon that he never made it to Cleveland State’s campus, for unspecified reasons.

Combs is still unsure on an exact date for his final decision but said “at this point, WKU is winning.”

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Sophomore defensive back Jonathan Dowling, left, and senior safety Kareem Peterson, right, celebrate after a successful play during the Red vs. White spring football game in Smith Stadium Saturday. Red won 16-10.

we’ll have a period where we can’t do anything with them, so they can lock in really to academics,” Taggart said. “Then they’ll have some down time in

Andrews accounted for much of the White Team’s offense on Saturday. The junior gained 123 yards on 18 carries, including a 34-yard run from his own 1-yard line in the second quarter.

Despite this, his biggest play of the night came though the air. Andrews scored the only touchdown of the game for the White Team in the third quarter, breaking two tackles and running for a 56-yard score after catching a swing pass from Jakes.

He finished with two catches for 67 yards.

Taggart had talked for much of

from Charlotte.

Jesse Roy hit 2-of-6 field goals as a freshman in 2011, contributing to the Toppers’ Football Bowl Subdivision-worst 5-of-20 field goal rate.

But on Saturday, Roy took advantage of a 49yard field goal attempt, knocking it straight through the uprights with five yards to spare. On the next play, he booted the kickoff through the end zone for a touchback.

Applewhite said he doesn’t have a timetable set for his final decision, but the biggest factor in his final decision will be having a good feel for the coaches, players and fans at the school.

“I want to go somewhere where I can compete for a national championship,” he said.

Michael Bradley, a 6-foot10 transfer from Connecticut, joined Applewhite on campus during the April 13-15 weekend.

The Chattanooga, Tenn., native told the Herald he had no exact list yet of specific schools

May — come June we’re back at it. We’ll be full ‘go,’ and we’ll have all our freshmen here, too, going to summer school and working out and get-

the past few weeks about finding one running back to separate themselves from the pack competing for the starting job, left vacant by Bobby Rainey. Andrews turned in the best performance of the bunch on Saturday.

Junior running back Keshawn Simpson gained 30 yards on six carries, and sophomore John Evans had 10 yards on three carries as well as 30 yards on five receptions.

Evans also had a 50-yard kickoff return.

Both played for the winning Red Team.

Andrews wouldn’t speculate on

Roy had a chance to win the kicking job last year and replace struggling senior Casey Tinius but never really seized the opportunity. Roy, now a year more experienced, has gotten off to a good start in winning the kicking job.

Impressive performance from Andrews Antonio Andrews left an emphatic Saturday to

ting prepared for the fall.”

Dowling said he had a productive spring, and he’s prepared to get even better when the Toppers return to the field.

how his performance in the scrimmage would reflect on the competition for the starting running back job, saying the real competition won’t start for a couple of months.

“Spring doesn’t matter. It’s all training camp,” Andrews said.

“When you’re done with training camp, we’ll know who the starter is, and we’re all competing.”

The spring game, the last onfield work for the Toppers until June, closes the book on the spring practice period.

Andrews said the running backs on the team are capable of replacing Rainey, and the Toppers are a better

the question of who’ll replace Bobby Rainey.

The junior running back tallied 190 total yards, including a nifty 56-yard touchdown catch, while working with an offensive line mixed with starters and backups.

The fact that Andrews was so effective running behind a split-squad line should bode well when he’s running behind the same front five each week this fall.

“I feel like I accomplished some good things,” Dowling said. “Everybody has room for improvement. I had a good spring, but I can be better.”

team than they were last season.

“We’re just a young group, but some of us coming back have some experience,” Andrews said.

“We’ve got a lot of experience out there, so hopefully we’ll be good.”

Taggart is also buying into this year’s team. He said the game was a perfect way to end the most successful spring the Toppers have had since he was hired almost three years ago.

“I’m very pleased. It was by far our best spring since I’ve been here, and that started back in January,” he said. “Our guys came with the right attitude, and they finished strong.”

The former Kentucky Mr. Football should have a breakout year in 2012.

Don’t worry about QBs Perhaps no student on campus is as scrutinized as senior quarterback Kawaun Jakes, so the fact that he went 12-for-26 for 141 yards and threw two interceptions no doubt stirred some old criticisms.

What the stat sheet won’t show is that Jakes was under pressure all night, playing behind the same patchwork offensive line as Andrews.

If he gets more time, he completes more of those passes.

No, it wasn’t a stellar performance from Jakes, but he’s still WKU’s quarterback.

It’ll take more than a mediocre spring game to change that.

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Jace Carver, 9, takes a rest after completing the “Fastest Kid in Bowling Green” race at the Ruter Track and Field Complex Saturday, a part of the Hilltopper Relays. The competition promoted fitness for elementary students.

Fifth grader named ‘Fastest Kid in Bowling Green’

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Head Coach Erik Jenkins said he knew that something was missing from the Hilltopper Relays — WKU’s only home outdoor meet of the season.

So on Saturday, for the first time in the meet’s history, fans at the Charles M. Ruter Track Complex watched firstthrough sixth-grade students competing in a 100-meter dash to see who would be named the “Fastest Kid in Bowling Green.”

Jenkins said he decided to incorporate the competition after seeing “another component” to other meets, like the Drake Relays or Penn Relays.

“Whether it’s elementary-age or high school-age competition at the meet, I just felt like there was nothing like that for this area,” he said.

WKU partnered with Bowling Green Independent and Warren County Schools in an effort to also promote physical fitness and secondary education. Physical education teachers from each elementary school held “preliminary heats,” to see who qualified to race during the meet Saturday.

Each student that competed in the race was dressed in a white “Fastest Kid in Bowling Green” sponsored T-shirt, shorts and running shoes.

Rita Ellis, Alvaton Elementary School’s physical education teacher, was

present during the relays to support each of her students who competed in four of the age group divisions.

Ellis said she was informed about the race by an email from Lindsay Thomas, assistant AD of marketing and ticket sales at WKU. Ellis said Alvaton teachers marked off a 100-meter distance on the school track, then timed students that wanted to run.

Ellis then selected the fastest times.

Carly Miller, a fifth-grade student at Alvaton and a student of Ellis, earned the “Fastest Kid in Bowling Green” title for the girls age group of fourth- through sixthgrade students. Miller said before she competed in the race she was quite nervous, but confident, in her abilities to win.

“When I crossed the finish line I felt really glad,” Miller said. “I felt like I was going to win it.”

Each student that was crowned “Fastest Kid in Bowling Green” for their division was given a trophy and bragging rights for the entire year.

Jenkins said he was pleased overall with how things went and is already excited for next year.

“I thought it was a good turnout. I’m looking forward to next year,” he said. “I think we now have a foundation because we got the administrators locally involved and also Western’s administrators and coaching staff … so I think it’s going to be a very good situation moving forward.”

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Dowling highlights spring game

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Junior wide receiver Andrew Pettijohn, right, is pulled down by senior defensive back Jamal Forrest during the WKU Red vs. White spring game at Houchens-Smith Stadium Saturday. Red won the game 16-10.

This one belongs to the Red Red Team gets win as Toppers practice for last time this spring

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The Toppers closed out their spring practice schedule on Saturday night, with the Red Team beating the White Team 16-10 in front of about 3,500 WKU fans.

A strong performance by junior running back Antonio Andrews for the White Team wasn’t enough to top a good first game for redshirt freshman quarterback James Mauro and a stellar showing from sophomore defensive back Jonathan Dowling for the Red Team.

Head Coach Willie Taggart, who acted as “commissioner” while defensive line coach Eric Mathies and quarterbacks coach Nick Sheridan coached the squads, said the scrimmage was a good way to close out the spring.

“Overall, I’m happy with this football team,” he said. “I love it. I think our Hilltopper fans will love this team as we continue to climb and continue to make it something special around here.”

The Red Team, coached by Mathies,

was led on offense by Mauro, who finished 12-of-21 for 107 yards with a touchdown pass to junior fullback Kadeem Jones.

Taggart said the quarterback looked good in his first action in front of WKU fans, but he also made some poor choices that caused him to get sacked a total of seven times.

“I thought he made some good throws.

I thought he made some freshman mistakes, too,” he said. “There were a couple times he could’ve thrown the ball away, and he didn’t.

“But that comes with experience and more time. I think you all can see we have a player there.”

Dowling was the real highlight for the Red Team. The former Florida safety was named MVP after he snagged two interceptions over the course of the game and ran one into the end zone in the fourth quarter to give the Red Team the lead for good.

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Overall, I’m happy with this football team. I love it. I think our Hilltopper fans will love this team as we continue to climb and continue to make it something special around here. " —WILLIE TAGGART Head Coach

Saturday’s spring game was the first chance for WKU fans to see the football team in action since last season, and several standout performances had many fans wishing it was September already.

The red team squeaked out a 1610 victory over the white squad at the scrimmage, thanks in large part to sophomore defensive back Jonathan Dowling.

The former Florida safety, playing for the Red Team, picked off two passes from white team senior quarterback Kawaun Jakes, taking one to the end zone in the fourth quarter.

Dowling said the credit for the late pick-six, which turned out to be the game-winning score, should be given to the whole red defense.

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Things we learned from spring game When judging an intrasquad scrimmage, the key word is “perspective.”

Don’t make a team’s spring game, like the one WKU played on Saturday, anything bigger than what it is, which is one team, split in half, playing against BRAD STEPHENS Upon Further Review each other. sports@wkuherald.com The most important element of the game is to get out of it with everyone healthy, which the Toppers did.

So strike Saturday’s game as a win for Willie Taggart and Co. With that said, the spring game provided Topper coaches and fans chances to evaluate some guys they hadn’t seen before, look for differences from last year’s team and see where some improvements need to be made.

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TRACK & FIELD

Hilltopper Relays a success

By CHELA COUNTS

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Saturday was filled with WKU athletic events, as the track and field team, softball team and football team all hosted home meets or games.

The track and field team was the first to kick off “Super Hilltopper Weekend,” as they hosted the Hilltopper Relays — the only home outdoor meet of the season.

Temperatures reached a high of 81 degrees, and for the fourth consecutive year tents and spectators surrounded the Charles M. Ruter Track Complex.

Murray State, Marshall, Kentucky State, Campbellsville and others competed in the meet.

In field events, the men’s hammer throw began the day, as WKU throwers took third, fourth and sixth place.

Senior Buddy Price finished third with a toss of 179-08, while senior Brad Wright finished right behind with a toss of 178-00. Junior Houston Croney marked a toss of 169-06, earning sixth.

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meet helped her jump further.

“It was windy, so I got the feeling of jumping far,” Nimmo said. “When you don’t have the wind, you just remember what it felt like when the wind pushed you.”

Nimmo’s winning leap of 21-2.75 was five inches better than Antquinta Reed’s school record, which was set in the 2010-2011 season.

Senior thrower Monteka Flowers also had a groundbreaking day, earning top collegiate honors and first place finishes in both the shot put and hammer throw. Flowers had a season-best mark of 48-4.75 in the shot while also recording a throw of 179-8 in hammer.

Flowers said she was proud of her honors and hopes she can continue with the same efforts for the remainder of the season.

“I just hope that being the top collegiate athlete carries over for the next four weeks,” she said.

At noon, the men’s 3,000-meter steeplechase began the day for events on the track. WKU sophomore Peter Okwera competed in this event with a final finishing time of 9:07.88 — taking home second place.

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Nancy Canary, of Bowling Green, is the program director and an instructor at New Beginnings, a horse therapy program in Bowling Green. Canary, who started as a volunteer and worked her way up to manager, is now starting a veterans program in addition to the current children’s program.

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Local stables help disabled people master more than riding

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Kate Villereal of Bowling Green treats Copper’s hooves for cracks on Sunday while volunteering with her husband, Gary Villereal, at New Beginnings Therapeutic Riding. “It’s something my husband and I can do together,” she said. Kate said she likes doing volunteer work with horses and that she believes the program is worth her time.

Sitting in the shade, gnats flitting around her face, Nancy Canary glanced over her shoulder to the barn where a Quarter Horse let a volunteer brush her.

“We do not do pony rides,” she said emphatically.

Canary is the program director, volunteer coordinator and a registered instructor at New Beginnings Therapeutic Riding, a program that serves individuals with behavioral, emotional, mental and physical disabilities and, according to its website, enhances their lives through the power of horses.

“We don’t just plop (the riders) up there like a pony ride,” Canary said.

New Beginnings teaches students how to ride, groom and tack the horses to the best of their abilities.

The organization, which the Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship accredited, began in 1997 when Julie Peterson, the program’s

founder, started a backyard project with three horses and three riders.

From there, New Beginnings has gained 130 riders a year with 13 horses on property and 125 volunteers. An indoor arena and other expansions are on the horizon for the program, but they’re funded primarily from private donations and are still waiting for enough funds to begin.

Canary said the program’s primary goal is to work with people with disabilities, but the horses serve as a guide to help the riders gain confidence, mental and physical strength, focus, balance and knowledge.

“We don’t just focus on horse stuff,” Canary said.

She said she and the other workers at New Beginnings also help riders who are struggling with colors, mathematics, spelling or other academic tasks.

“We push them to be as good as they can be,” Canary said. “It’s like the army: Be all you can be. But without the drill sergeant.”

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Students adapt Tibetan play for Earth Month

By ANNA ANDERSON diversions@wkuherald.com

Downing University Center’s Auditorium was filled with the monotone droning of Tibetan Buddhist chanting on Wednesday, April 11, as part of the soundtrack to a performance hundreds of years old.

Taylorsville senior Joel Fickel, who goes by the stage name Joel Sena, adapted and directed the play titled “A Courtroom Drama of Rebirth” from the 2005 English translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead.

Fickel worked with his group called the Corporate Surrealists of America and a few friends, to put on the show performed Wednesday and Thursday nights.

Fickel said the script, taken from a section of the book titled “A Masked Drama of Rebirth,” has been performed for centuries in Tibet and among

other Buddhist communities.

Yet, he said this adaptation might be a little different — Fickel’s version was set in the Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Kentucky undergoing mountaintop removal.

Fickel said Buddhism often promotes environmentalism, so it wasn’t a far stretch to apply the ancient text to current ecological concerns.

“I saw something powerfully contemporary about it, and I saw something powerfully Kentucky about it,” he said.

The result was a mixture of Tibetan and Appalachian sensibilities, in which the Buddhist chanting gave way to rhythmic banjo picking.

Images of mountaintop removal by John Cox, a University of Kentucky professor, provided the backdrop.

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The wife of Laksmin Srijata, played by Hannah Hardley, cries during a scene of “A Courtroom Drama of Rebirth” Thursday evening in Downing University Center Auditorium.

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63 year-old Butch Adams, a member of Omega Force, prepares to be jumped on by another member of Omega Force, who weighs over 300 pounds, Thursday on Centennial Mall.

Omega Force is a group that “spreads the message (of God) through feats of strength,” said Cody Witcher, a member of Omega Force.

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The plot focuses on the trial of two men after their deaths, where Buddhist deities decide their fates. One man exploited the environment, while the other tried to take only what he needed.

The court’s debating and final decision result in each man being reborn into a new life.

Hannah Hadley, a 2009 graduate of WKU, played the wife of the second man. The 25-year-old, who currently works for The Public Theatre of Kentucky, said she was familiar with Fickel’s shows but had never been able to participate.

Hadley said she disagrees with mountaintop removal.

“People do some horrible things for money,” she said.

Fickel, who had wanted to do something with “A Masked Drama of Rebirth” for a while, said he started officially working to put a show together at the beginning of this semester.

He joined the WKU GreenToppers in February and was eager to incorporate his play with events the group was planning for Earth Month.

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“It’s important for artists and activists to be talking right now,” Fickel said.

Lexington senior Morgan Mickelson, the acting president of the GreenToppers, said she agrees with Fickel.

“There’s always strength in numbers,” she said.

While studying abroad in Germany in the spring of 2011, Mickelson said she became more interested in sustainability after seeing how environmentally conscious Europeans were in contrast to Americans.

“We definitely live in a society where it’s out of sight, out of mind,” she said.

After she returned, Mickelson became active in the GreenToppers and has helped the group plan events to take place during Earth Month.

The GreenToppers invited members of Krochet Kids International to make a presentation on Wednesday in Mass Media & Technology Hall at 7 p.m.

There will also be two performances of The Lorax that day.

On Friday, the WKU Earth Day Festival will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the DUC Courtyard. More events are planned in the Bowling Green community for the weekend.

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volunteering at New Beginnings in November.

Gary, an associate professor of social CONTINUED FROM DIVERSIONS work at WKU, said what attracted him to To help them be more comfortable New Beginnings was “being able to help, with the animals, riders stay with the same knowing that help is needed.”

“I think everyone can benefit from horse year after year. Canary said once a working with animals, relationship develops, the horse especially people with is like family. disabilities,” Kate said.

“Riding horses, working “And these horses are around horses is really very well-trained to calming,” Canary said. “Horses work with people with teach you a lot about yourself.” Riding horses, disabilities.”

She said people can connect working around Although the list with the horses on a mental level of benefits from the and become more sympathetic horses is really program is long, Canary and empathetic, a concept said the most important that can be hard for some calming. Horses thing they teach at students, particularly those with teach you a lot New Beginnings is behavioral disabilities, until confidence. they get an animal they care about yourself."

“You’re sitting on about. top of a thousand“I’ve seen even tough guys —NANCY CANARY pound horse,” Canary go over to their horse and hug Program director said. “If you can control them and whisper to them,” volunteer coordinator that horse, then I think Canary said. you should be confident Horses allow humans to get in touch with body language and show them enough to go out to speak to people or do anything else you want to do.” how to feel for others, she said.

Canary said New Beginnings always “They’re the best listeners on the face of the earth,” Canary said. “They don’t judge. welcomes more volunteers, and its next fundraising event is a spring bike ride on They just mirror how you’re feeling.”

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Couple links cultures with international store

By MONICA SPEES

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A little store in Hood Plaza on U.S. 31-W Bypass houses what nowhere else in Bowling Green does.

A step through the door and a lightly dinging bell overhead signal the gateway into a tiny piece of the rest of the world. Vibrant Indian dresses dangle from a rack ahead and natural shea butter in a melon sits by an office doorway, while smoked goat meat nestles near smoked fish in a fridge.

One of the last yams squats at the end of a shelving unit loaded down with natural peanut butter and beans from Africa.

“There’s no place you can find fresh yams in Bowling Green,” said Emmanuel Iyiegbuniwe, an associate professor of public health at WKU, boasts of his business, KaCee International Store.

Both from Nigeria, Emmanuel and his wife, Abiola, who received a bachelor’s in nursing from WKU in 2006 and is now working toward her master’s (MSN), came to Bowling Green from Illinois in 2003.

They said it didn’t take them long to realize there was no store nearby where they could buy ethnic food.

It wasn’t very convenient, and the Nigerian couple said they knew others who were having the same frustrations with wanting African food closer to home.

“We decided to fill that niche,” Emmanuel said.

In late 2008, the Iyiegbuniwes opened KaCee International Store across from a Chevron gas station on Morgantown Road. After about a year, they moved to a better location downtown on Main Street.

Being near a dollar store drew in crowds, the Iyiegbuniwes said, but the masses dwindled after the dollar store closed. They said they are pleased with their current location on the 31-W Bypass, despite the cramped space.

KaCee International Store is the only store in Bowling Green that caters to people of African descent.

While international students frequent the store, domestic students also make purchases there. Emmanuel said some of those students have traveled to Africa for a mis-

sion trip or other purpose and come in the store asking for a particular type of food they’ve been missing since their visit to Africa.

James Asare, an associate professor of liberal arts and science on South Campus, is from Ghana and is in his second semester of teaching at WKU. Asare said he had heard of Emmanuel and that he taught at WKU but had not met him until he went to the store “looking for something African.”

Although the majority of the store’s products are not American items that most people in Bowling Green are used to, Asare said the store is not just for Africans but also for anyone interested in culture.

“When you go there and buy these things, you feel you are part of our culture,” Asare said.

Asare said he enjoys making KaCee International Store his stop for yams, phone cards and plantains but not because of the plethora of merchandise. Emmanuel and Abiola make the difference to him, he said.

“Their relationship (with customers) is cordial,” Asare said.

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Emmanuel and Abiola Iyiegbuniwe, from Nigeria, started their store, KaCee International Market, in Bowling Green three years ago. The store offers a variety of authentic African clothing, food, jewelry and other items.

“They are not there to get your money. They talk to you because you are a human being.”

Asare said the Iyiegbuniwes always engage him and other customers in conversation and are hospitable, qualities he says he thinks will take the Iyiegbuniwes far.

“I think they have the qualities of owning a business,” Asare said.

“I believe there is prosperity ahead of them.”

The Iyiegbuniwes also said that Bowling Green has changed in recent years with an astounding refugee influx.

“The city has changed,” Emmanuel said. “People are set in their culture. They love their ethnic food.”

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The nude female body, mapped and explored, has been paired with the strength of the feminist portrait.

Artwork by artists Erin Carlyle and Leslie Nichols, illustrative of the contemporary female experience, is now on display at the Capitol Arts Center’s Houchens Gallery.

Though both artists investigate and articulate women’s issues, Carlyle and Nichols do so with intriguingly different approaches, contributing to the impact of the Capitol’s exhibition.

Carlyle, a 2010 WKU graduate, is currently pursuing a Graduate Certificate of Women’s Studies. Utilizing her printmaking expertise, the artist composes her works with a variety of layered media including ink, watercolor, gesso, pen and wood panels.

Much of Carlyle’s work exudes the paradoxical power and vulnerability of the female form. “Map of the Body,” a mixed media drawing on wood panel, depicts an exposed, tender, unidentifiable female figure curled up in subtle defense. Lying against what appears to be a map, the female body becomes transformed into territory to be explored and dominated. The figure’s hidden face, absent of identity, comes to represent the collective female identity.

According to the artist, the figure is the viewer — the viewer is the artist. Projecting the female condition and identity upon the creator and the viewer connects Carlyle’s art to serious cultural concerns regarding objectification, domination, vulnerability and power.

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ols, local artist and recipient of a Career Development Grant from the American Association of University Women, composes works highlighting the history of oppression of women and current attitudes toward the U.S. feminist movement. The artist’s “Textual Portraits” combines depictions of contemporary women with text that was and is influential to the modern feminist perspective. In an effort to respond to social justice issues, Nichols portrays her sitters through the lens of admiration and respect.

“Jeanne (Pizan 1405; Spencer 1913),” a piece consisting of stamped oil-based ink and graphite on paper, illustrates the noble nature of Pizan’s and Spencer’s writings, as well as the intellectual strength of the feminist perspective. The female subject, strong and poised, stands in unity with socially progressive text.

Though other works in the exhibition display the use of various approaches and materials, the artist consistently presents the feminist perspective in visual and literal shades of black, white and grey.

The anthology of artwork by Carlyle and Nichols creates an exciting exhibition promoting awareness and activism. Significantly, the compilation of artwork by both artists enhances the community’s understanding of the feminist perspective in contemporary art.

Carlyle and Nichols’ exhibition at the Capitol Arts Center is viewable to the public until April 20. The Houchens Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Admission is free.

Katie Ferriell is a senior and art history major at WKU.

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Sammy sits with his owner, Kristy Garcia, during the Lady Topper Softball game against Florida International Saturday.

Fans bring dogs, relish chance for cheap hot dogs

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The “dog days” of a baseball season are typically said to be in August, but WKU softball scheduled its own dog day in the middle of April.

Saturday’s doubleheader was an opportunity for WKU softball fans to bring their dog to the park and enjoy $1 hot dogs for both games of a doubleheader against Florida International.

The “Bring a Dog, Enjoy a Dog” promotion allowed fans to bring their dogs to the park with them as former WKU softball player Elizabeth Ferrel did with her Yorkie Shih Tzu mix named Sam. “He’s crazy, but he’s come to a lot of softball games,” said Ferrel of her one-yearold dog as he excitedly barked at almost everyone who walked by in between games.

Ferrel said she didn’t expect Sam’s energy level to go down in between games since he was forced to sit still for seven innings.

“He normally runs around all the time, and I just sit in the front row, and he’ll just chase everybody,” she said laughing.

As junior infielder Ciara Garcia took the field, her older sister Christie took the opportunity to bring her rescue dog to the park and allowed him to run around and play a little bit in between the first and second game.

“I normally leave him at home, but since it’s dog day I could bring him,” she said.

Garcia added that her dog was

surprisingly calm that day considering how shy he can be around people.

“He was very good,” she said. “I’m surprised — it’s his first game.”

Some fans didn’t know anybody on the team but still took advantage of the chance to have their dog take in a game with them.

Bob Hammand and his wife Karen brought their Pomeranian-Chihuahua mix, Tillie, to the game and enjoyed themselves even though they had no family members playing that day.

“We had not been to a game this year yet,” Bob Hammand said. “We thought it would be fun to come out, bring the dog, get some dollar hot dogs and watch them play softball.”

Karen Hammand added that since all of their kids were out of the house, their dog was the best companion they had to bring to a game.

Seniors Amanda Walden and Laura Smith were Greenwood High School classmates of the Hammands’ daughter.

Bob Hammand also said he wasn’t concerned with the behavior of his dog.

“She’s not under control, but I’m not concerned about it,” he said as the small dog barked from under his seat.

Even with the chance to get his dog out of the house and the reduced price on the hot dogs, he said that the main appeal of coming out that day was the softball game itself.

“College and high school sports in Bowling Green is great,” he said. “It’s inexpensive, and there are good quality athletes.”

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APRIL 17, 2012

ICSR brings happiness to WKU

By TAYLOR HARRISON news@wkuherald.com

It may have been Friday the 13th, but that didn’t stop the Institute for Citizenship and Social Responsibility from celebrating National Happiness Day with their Pursuit of Happiness event.

The event was sponsored by ICSR, particularly a group of students who take a course called the Pursuit of Happiness.

The event gave students a chance to do things that make them happy, such as getting their faces painted, eating popcorn and snow cones, playing corn hole and getting balloon animals made by a clown.

The ICSR students surveyed people at WKU before the event to find out their levels of happiness.

Bianca Brown, a senior from Berkeley, Calif., is one of the students taking the Pursuit of Happiness

course. She said people could still take the survey at the event using the three iPads available or on their Facebook page.

“We’re having people do surveys to find out their happiness level, and then this day is kind of the culminating product of that where more people can take the surveys, but also they do something that makes them feel good,” Brown said.

Brown said the activities at the event really brought out everyone’s inner child.

“The fair theme really appealed to us when we were coming up with the idea for this because it seems like when people go to fair-type events, it’s a good chance for them to interact while doing fun things,” Brown said.

The Coalition, a group for gender and racial equality, had a booth set up to promote an upcoming con-

ference on April 28 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Lawrenceburg sophomore Jessica Brumley, an editor for The Coalition Zine, said they set a booth up at the event because their group is for equality for everyone, and everyone deserves to be happy.

“It’s a good event — it looks like everybody’s having a good time, so that’s kind of the point, right?”

Brumley said.

The Student Wellness Program also had a table set up. Hustonville junior Morgan Kidwell manned the table and handed out suckers at the event.

“We’re handing things out to make people happy,” Kidwell said.

Kidwell also said they were promoting wellness because that makes people happier.

WKU Counseling and Testing Center representatives were handing

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Michelle Hollis, math professor and interim director of the Office of Diversity Programs, left, and St. Louis junior Karlos Harbor, right, blow bubbles during the Pursuit of Happiness Fair held by the Institute for Citizenship and Social Responsibility on Centennial Mall Friday.

out sunglasses with the center’s name and phone number on them at the event.

The ALIVE Center, the Student Government As-

sociation and the psychology club all had tables set up as well. The psychology club brought along bubbles, sidewalk chalk, coloring books and hula

hoops.

“This is like the final project of our class, and we hope to make it like an annual event at Western,” Brown said.

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