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March participants carried balloons from Pearce-Ford Tower to Chandler Memorial Chapel with the names of victims of violence and altercations with police as part of the Michael Brown memorial march and vigil.

Marchers gather to remember Michael Brown

BY AARON MUDD NEWS@WKUHERALD.COM White balloons bearing the names of Trayvon Martin and ‘Mike’ Brown swayed in the breeze, carried by WKU students and faculty as they climbed the Hill chanting “No Violence!

More Peace!”

About 75 people gathered in the courtyard of PearceFord Tower and marched up The Hill Tuesday afternoon in response to the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, a black male killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.

The marchers’ path passed by the Guthrie Bell Tower, Downing Student Union and finally arrived at the Chandler Memorial Chapel

for a vigil.

St. Louis freshman Ariel Miller said she knew Brown through her friends.

“I hung out with him once or twice,” she said. “He was a nice guy.”

After the crowd arrived outside the chapel, Louisville senior Omega Buckner led an impromptu prayer.

She said she wants more awareness in the community.

“I think that’s where it starts,” Buckner said. “It’s just improving ourselves so that we can improve our communities — so that we can improve our state.”

St. Louis senior Karlos Harbor, a student organizer, wanted to arrange an event after hearing about the shooting.

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WKU senior Gerron Hurt listens as speakers present at the Michael Brown memorial march and vigil.

“That’s just kind of why we’re here — mobilizing and empowering us as students to get active in our community when we see

these injustices happening,” he said.

The march and vigil were also in honor of Trayvon

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BY AARON MUDD NEWS@WKUHERALD.COM Brown recluse spider infestations, intrusive landlords and eviction — these were some of the topics discussed in a meeting about renters’ rights.

A group of about 20 people, including students, faculty and community organizers, gathered to share their experiences about renting property.

The WKU Student Coalition for Renters’ Rights held its first monthly meeting Monday night in Downing Student Union at 6 p.m. The coalition’s leaders focused on introducing the organization and its purpose — to support renters against unfair treatment from landlords.

Glasgow sophomore Jay Todd Richey, chair of the coalition, said a lack of renters’ rights is the number one problem in the Bowling Green community.

“So we started the coalition just to get as many students on board as possible and we’re gonna try to tackle this issue,” he said.

The group’s main goal is to support the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, a law enacted to regulate rental agreements between landlords and tenants. The law requires counties and cities to opt-in. Bowling Green has yet to adopt the policy.

The coalition’s leaders said the act’s purpose is to create an equal playing field for both tenants and landlords.

“Right now, the lease that you have with your landlord is the law,” Richey said. “There is no set specific law that guarantees specific rights, that guarantees specific responsibilities — it’s all laid out in the lease, and if you don’t include it in the lease, you do not have that.”

A few attendees shared stories about their rental experiences. Richey shared a story about a student dealing with a brown recluse spider problem. Richey said the student had few options for dealing with the infestation because it was not covered in the lease.

Patricia Minter, an associate professor of history, talked about the privacy invasions some female students face.

Minter said women often come to her with stories about landlords that let themselves into students’ apartments without knocking, sometimes even while the tenant is in the shower.

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Kentucky Museum displays state’s uniqueness

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The Kentucky Museum, a dream manifested in 1939 by WKU’s first president, Henry Hardin Cherry, continues to serve the community in varied and exciting ways.

“He wanted a library museum that would collect the history and culture of the commonwealth, and make it available for the students, and the faculty and the people in the area around this region,” Sandy Staebell, registrar and collections curator of the museum, said.

Funding for the museum began in the ‘20s, but came to a standstill when the Great Depression hit. It was only able to be completed in the late ‘30s, due to a need for more classroom buildings during the construction of Cherry Hall.

Since then, the museum has garnered a reputation for presenting diverse exhibits and learning opportunities for all ages, from school children to college students and adults.

“We have certain very unique collections here. We have one of the premier…publicly-owned quilt collections in the state of Kentucky,” Staebell said. “It’s a very…eclectic collection.”

The museum also displays

collections, centering on archaeology, art, furniture, textiles, toys and political memorabilia. Unique exhibits are often presented to keep generating new interest and discussion among visitors. Their newest show started on Sept.

13 and will run until Nov. 9. “(The exhibit is) about Chester Cornett, who was an Appalachian chair maker from Letcher County,” Brent Bjorkman, interim director at the museum, said. “He was born at the very beginning of the last century, died in 1981, but he made these fabulous chairs…He was kind of a loner, had some hard times dealing with people, so he put a lot of his creative energy into making chairs.”

The Kentucky Museum hosted an opening reception for the exhibit on Friday, Sept. 12.

Exhibits Curator Donna Parker said the turnout for the reception was wonderful.

“I’m just so pleased that we had so many members from the community, and…students at Western, and the faculty here at Western,” she said.

Approximately 25 chairs and other handcrafted works, such as stools and a baby cradle, are on display with pictures of the artist himself. The exhibit was curated by the Kentucky Folk Art Center at Morehead State

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Continued from FRONT “People simply feel that they are powerless and that’s what this coalition is about,” Minter said.

Louisville sophomore Jody Dahmer said he wants to be involved with the

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Continued from FRONT captures the essence of a great potato chip. The lack of any sauce, besides store-bought ketchup, is disappointing, but the chips are still very good.

Burger and Bun’s menu mainly focuses on classic burger combinations, but it does pursue more adventurous flavor avenues. The Kahuna burger comes with pineapple salsa, an onion ring, pepper jack cheese and a Caribbean sauce.

The focus here is clearly on the beef.

Its charred, blackened exterior yields to a tender meatiness that gives the burger a real feeling of substance.

Chunks of pineapple cut the richness of the burger with their exotic brand of sweet, acidic tang, as does the spicy pepper jack cheese. A single fried onion ring supplies a crunchy textural

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“My hope is when (museumgoers) walk away, when they come out of this exhibit they say, ‘Wow, there’s really a story behind that,’” Bjorkman said.

Bjorkman replaced former museum director Timothy Mullen three weeks ago. He anticipates a lot of good things will continue coming to the museum. As the director of the Kentucky Folklife Program at WKU, Bjorkman has abundant experience in the folklore of the Bluegrass State.

“I spent a number of years with the Kentucky Folklife Program when it was with the Historical Society,” he said.

“My main job was to fulfill the mission to document, present and conserve the traditional arts and culture of the state, or of the commonwealth.”

Now, as a part of the Kentucky Museum, Bjorkman hopes to further highlight the beauty of the state through the museum’s variety of collections.

“By doing documentation of the traditions in communities, you help validate the people in those communities, but at the same time, you’re sharing with the rest of the state the diversity around them,” he said.

A main component of the museum’s objective is to fulfill a need for direct and active learning for the students and faculty of WKU.

coalition.

“I had no idea that things were as bad as they were in Bowling Green, where you can be evicted just by reporting about bad how your condition is,” he said. “So I want to do my part to try to make Bowling Green a better and safer place for students.”

element.

While the flavor combination is an adept choice, the scarcity of these toppings leaves it feeling unbalanced. By making the beef the star, the burger fails to form a cohesive whole. Bites that include every single element are delicious, but just as often, they consist solely of burger and bun.

Unfortunately, the side of sweet potato fries doesn’t receive the same level of execution as the free chips. While their brown-orange color invites the expectation that they’ll provide the needed fried crunch, they’re pretty dissapointing. The salty-sweet flavor of these fries is pleasant, but the soft texture underwhelms.

The quality beef and house-made chips at Burger and Bun make it a decent option for those wanting to try a more upscale burger. It just needs a little more flavor.

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Maggie Cook-Newell, a WKU nutrition and dietetics professor, examines photos of historic figures in the Kentucky Museum with her husband, Henry Newell.

“Yes, our focus is on Kentucky, but we are a museum…so we will collect things that help enhance or are… used by faculty and students on Western’s campus,” Staebell said.

Students from the interior design, fashion merchandising and folklore programs have had opportunities to engage with artifacts.

“What makes this place so wonderful is, we are an opportunity for actual hands-on learning,” Staebell said. “They can come in and they can see the actual thing, and they can handle it.”

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Continued from FRONT Martin, an unarmed black teen who was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, in Florida in 2012.

Richard Miller, vice provost and chief diversity officer, marched with the students and said it was important to him to support them.

Miller commended students for organizing the event because he is personally concerned about human rights violations.

"It's about young men of color whose rights are being abridged," he said.

The vigil featured a poetry reading, a singing performance and speakers.

Lloren Foster, assistant professor of African American Studies, addressed the crowd, urging them to focus on staying safe, despite the injustices they may face.

“When the police stop you, I don’t care how wrong they are, comply,” he said. “You do me no good dead.”

Foster asked participants to raise their hand if police officers had ever profiled them. Louisville senior William Qualls raised his hand along with other marchers.

Qualls said he thought he was profiled when he was pulled over based

Children and adults from the surrounding community have many opportunities for interactive learning as well as camps and workshops that the museum provides.

“You want to offer things for a lot of different age groups and interests. Not everybody wants to do the same thing, so we try to offer a variety,” Staebell said.

The museum, located at 1444 Kentucky St., is free to all WKU students with their school ID. Their hours are Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

on the questions the officer asked him, such as where he was headed, if he had drugs in the car and if he was a WKU student. Qualls said the encounter was one of many he’s had with police.

Although Foster encouraged students to comply with the police, he also stressed the importance of education and community involvement to combat injustice.

“Do you know that the Bowling Green City Commission meets every two weeks, the first and third Tuesday every month?” he asked. “And that you can go in front of the Bowling Green City Commission and say, ‘We’re having a problem.’ And guess what they’ll do. They’ll listen.”

Foster urged students to put their education first and shared a story about his decision to leave college and participate in an anti-apartheid movement in Milwaukee. Foster regretted that decision.

“I flunked out, and I wondered why I could not affect change,” he said.

“So I’m imploring each and every one of you, first and foremost, to graduate. Secondly, read everything you can get your hands on.”

At the end of the vigil, marchers released their balloons into the sky as they spoke the names of loved ones.

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WKU welcomes 40 new faculty members

BY LEAH BROWN

NEWS@WKUHERALD.COM WKU welcomed 40 new faculty members to the Hill this semester.

Gordon Emslie, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, said it is not unusual for the university to hire 40 to 50 faculty members every year. The highest number of hires for an academic year was 77, but 50 is the average.

WKU employs about 800 fac-

ulty currently, and experiences a .5 percent faculty turnover every year. Some left their jobs at the university due to retirement.

“We’ve done a very good job attracting high caliber faculty,” Emslie said.

The new employees have degrees from universities across the nation, including Stanford, Ohio State and UC Berkley, and some have degrees from WKU. The faculty teach a wide variety of subjects such

as architecture, agriculture, mathematics, communications, theatre and dance.

“They are a great group,” Emslie said.

The College of Health and Human Services hired the most out of all the colleges.

The new faculty will assist with student retention. Five years ago, the student to faculty ratio was 19 to one. Emslie said now, it’s 17 to one.

He said smaller ratios between students and faculty

lead to higher retention rates.

One of the new hires, Jeffrey Miner, is an assistant professor in the history department and specializes in late medieval Europe and Mediterranean.

Patricia Minter, also a professor in the history department, said, “We are absolutely delighted to have Dr. Miner join our faculty.”

He taught at and obtained his Ph.D from Stanford. Miner said he has had wonderful interactions with people at WKU.

“I have found people in general, both other faculty and the students, to be very welcoming,” Miner said.

He is in the process of adjusting from teaching in Stanford’s quarter system to WKU’s twosemester system.

Many people have asked Miner if he has experienced culture shock moving from California to Bowling Green.

“Culture differences, sure, but definitely not a shock,” Miner said.

New WKU Store director to be hired within next month

The WKU Store is looking for a new director.

Tristy Hillestad, former interim director of the WKU Store, no longer holds the position as of last Friday.

Hillestad, who held the position since March, replaced the previous director of the store, Shawna Turner, who resigned.

Gary Meszaros, assistant vice president of Auxiliary Services, said he contacted the National Association of College Stores for help with looking for a replacement following Turner’s resignation.

The NACS is a trade association made up of about 3,000 college stores in the United States that represents the collegiate retailing industry.

The NACS recommended Hillestad and she was hired as interim director after Meszaros interviewed her, but the search for a permanent director continued.

Meszaros said he was impressed with Hillestad once she came to WKU. “We worked with Tristy for Gary several months and she was so Meszaros good and so sharp, that we put the search on hold in hopes that she would decide to stay…,” Meszaros said.

Hillestad, who is also a collegiate retail consultant, decided not to stay with the WKU Store because two jobs would be too much for her to handle, Meszaros said.

The new director will be chosen by a committee of WKU staff members.

The WKU Store director oversees the operation and direction of all the WKU Stores, including the Glasgow, Owensboro and Nashville Road locations.

Meszaros will run the store while the search for a new director continues. A new director should be hired within the next month.

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Nashville junior Cadet Naquesia Gleaves, 21, walks off the three meter diving board in full fatigues at the Bill Powell Natatorium on Wednesday. WKU ROTC requires that a physically demanding swimming test be passed in order for cadets to graduate from the program. Despite her fear of heights, Gleaves went off the board for the first time last year.

Crime reports • Police cited Radcliff sophomore Brandon Price, of Northeast Hall, after spotting a bag of marijuana in plain view of his vehicle on Sept. 16 in Parking Structure 2.

• Bulan freshman Justin Johnson reported his textbooks stolen from his Northeast Hall

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dorm room on Sept. 16. The estimated value of the stolen textbooks was $674.00.

• Marietta, Georgia freshman Avery Patterson reported his textbooks stolen from his Northeast Hall dorm on Sept.

16. The estimated value of the stolen textbooks was $159.00.

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• Fairdale graduate student Casey Biggs reported two of her jackets stolen on Sept. 16 from the Graduate Assistant Office in Gary Ransdell Hall. The estimated value of the stolen items was $100.00.

• Elizabethtown junior Mary Lever, of Southwest Hall, reported her bicycle stolen on Sept.

16 from the bike rack in front of Bemis Lawrence Hall. The estimated value of the stolen property was $99.00.

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nature offers escape from everyday life

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is it too late? reasons you should have already dropped that class

BY TANNER COLE

OPINION@WKUHERALD.COM Students are approaching that awkward part of the semester. The first test grades are starting to come in, and some are already realizing the harsh realities of their class schedules.

The last day to withdraw from bi-term classes was yesterday, Sept. 17. Students still have until Oct. 15 to withdraw from semester-long classes, but sadly they will still have to pay.

Some unsatisfied scholars might be debating taking the fall and the ‘W’ on their transcripts. Here are some reasons you should have already dropped.

• You just found out it isn’t a Wednesday-only class.

• The professor uses PowerPoints for everything, even the tests.

• There are weekly online quizzes, apparently.

• 50 percent of your grade goes to participation, but it’s a class of 80.

• Your advisor lied to you. It doesn’t count for credit.

• You’re always late because you’re looking for a parking spot.

• The other members of your group project are on the football team.

• “There will be no excused absences.”

• The teacher’s assistant keeps hitting on you.

• You don’t actually know how to speak French.

• MyMathLab. • You had to buy a $300 textbook for the online code.

• It’s in Cherry Hall, but your next class is in Gary Ransdell Hall.

• It was supposed to be your lunch hour, but there’s a no food allowed policy.

• Note taking isn’t allowed in Chinese class.

• You’re not sure if the professor actually speaks English.

• Ratemyprofessor.com lied to you.

• It’s an 8:00 a.m.

• Maybe ceramics just isn’t for you.

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World of fashion struggles to repair injustices

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On May 4, 1970, four Kent State students were killed, after the National Guard opened fire on a group of students protesting the Vietnam War. On Sept. 15, 2014, Urban Outfitters was put under fire for selling an article of clothing that appears to reference the tragedy. The blood stains were seen across the internet. Red splatters were located on the upper corners of a “vintage” Kent State sweatshirt sold online.

The Internet took action, shaming the

fast-fashion retailer. Tweets flooded in, urging others to boycott the store.

Kent State took their stance, too. In a statement released earlier that morning, they stated they “take great offense to a company using our pain for their publicity.”

The store apologized by the day’s end and claimed they never meant to offend anyone. They claimed the “stains” on the sweatshirt were simply part of the “vintage” fading of the item. It’s no longer available to purchase.

So yes, the store apologized. But this adds to a growing laundry list of graphic T-shirt scandals from the “hipster” store.

Just a few months ago, they came under fire for a graphic crop top with the word ‘depression’ written in large black letters, repeated across the shirt.

Months before, a gray graphic tee with “Eat Less”, written in cursive letters across the chest, sent the internet into a frenzy.

Urban isn’t the only retailer guilty

in this chain of graphic tee scandals.

Zara, Forever 21, Abercrombie & Fitch and JC Penney have also been forced to pull offensive materials from their shelves this year.

It’s truly an emerging issue among retailers and poses some serious questions. Why are design teams giving offensive shirts the green light? Why does it take a social media hate storm for them to be taken down? What are they doing to prevent this issue in the future?

Consumers deserve an answer. They deserve retailers who show a little common sense when choosing what they’re trying to sell to their audiences.

It isn’t difficult to hold up a shirt before you start selling it and contemplate if it will offend a consumer.

Simply run through a checklist, of sorts, to double check the clothing for offensive phrases, references to religions or blood stains. Stick to that and maybe you’ll be able to rebuild your customer base and improve declining sales averages.

It wasn’t that long ago that humans lived, survived and sustained themselves in the most basic and natural habitat. Perhaps it’s ingrained as an instinct. Maybe Jacob Parker peaceful quiet serves as a pleasant contrast to the grind of daily life. The role of nature today is that of a cathartic escape.

The idea of going without modern amenities to appreciate the earth is somewhat of a novelty. Some choose to journey to different places in lavish RVs. They make sure central heating is present while viewing mountains from the wrong side of a window.

There are others who arm themselves only with a backpack, a tent and a Swiss Army knife before trekking off into the woods barefoot.

In the coming change of seasons, it’s a refreshing getaway to grab some friends, a guitar and a sleeping bag for a weekend of roughing it in the woods.

Happiness can be found simply by getting lost in the wilderness with new experiences.

Happiness is making connections with friends you hadn’t met yet just by being stranded with no distractions.

Well, maybe a little beer.

Happiness is the feeling of weightlessness that accompanies being in the middle of nowhere and not knowing what time it is.

Happiness is enjoying the silence of the world without technology.

Happiness is starting a raging fire and keeping it going for more than six hours.

Happiness is having the common sense to realize you were about to pitch a tent on top of poison ivy.

Happiness is seeing the finished product of a successfully put together campsite.

Happiness is exchanging foot rubs by the miraculous, marvelous and meticulously-maintained flames.

Happiness is avoiding spiders.

Happiness is taking turns reading lines from the Dao De Jing in between playing guitar and singing forgotten lyrics.

Happiness is having friends who literally pick you up when you fall down.

Happiness is having the strength of character it takes to make it through a whole night stranded in the boonies with a freshly sprained ankle.

Happiness is not letting an injury distract from a fun night stranded in the boonies.

Happiness is finding the perfectly gnarled tree root to use as a pillow.

Happiness is when your phone turns back on after not having service for a weekend.

Happiness is waking up to the acrid smell of burnt wood, a hammock swaying gently in the chilly morning breeze and the deep, throaty snores emanating from fellow campers still wandering through their dreams.

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Local car organization raises money for diabetes research

BY STEPHANIE JESSIE LIFE@WKUHERALD.COM Cruisin’ for a Cure, a local organization that raises money for juvenile diabetes research, has raised more than half a million dollars to give to the Juvenile Diabetic Research Foundation since its start in 2009.

The organization was started by a group of men with family members affected by the disease. Money is mostly raised through car shows the group puts on throughout the year.

Most of the shows are located behind Bruster’s Real Ice Cream off of Scottsville Road.

Kevin Kirby, co-owner of Bruster’s and a member of Cruisin’ for a Cure, said five years ago, the organization started “doing these cruiseins, giving away a car or a truck to raise money.”

Kirby joined the organization because he has type two diabetes, which is the most common form of diabetes. Diabetics suffer from high levels of sugar in their blood.

Juvenile diabetes, also known as type one diabetes, is the type the group raises money for and it’s usually diagnosed in children and young adults.

Money raised also comes from t-shirt sales and collec-

tions taken for a 50/50 pot.

People can put money into the pot throughout their time at the cruise-in. At the end of the show, a winner is drawn, and half the money collected in the pot goes to the winner while the other half goes toward the Juvenile Diabetic Research Foundation.

“A lot of the people who win the 50/50 actually will give it back,” Kirby said. “They’ll win it and they’ll say, ‘You know, just keep it all…it’s for the kids.’ 75 percent of people will.

The others that don’t will give a little of it back from what they won.”

Last Saturday, Cruisin’ for a Cure participated in Sec-

ond Saturday, an event held downtown throughout the summer months that brings local businesses together in a street-fair setting. Kirby said merging with the Second Saturday group was a “good marriage.”

“This is our second year going downtown and we’re already in talks about next year,” Kirby said. “It’s pretty down there. We’ve got good music, you’ve got vendors and restaurants, and it’s a good venue to have a car show.

Cruisin’ for a Cure will be hosting a walk at the Hot Rods stadium on Saturday, Sept. 27.

Kirby said pizza and ice cream will be available for all regis-

tered walkers, along with face painting and bouncy castles for children.

A brand new 2015 Ford Mustang, donated by the Ford Motor Company, is going to be raffled off, with all of the raffle ticket money going to juvenile diabetes research.

Doors open for registration at 11:00 a.m. and the walk will begin at 12:30 p.m.

Other prizes include a storage building, a play set and a homemade quilt with an oldcar design.

“We live in a great community and area about raising money and helping all kinds of different causes,” Kirby said.

‘Far Away Places’ lecture focuses on Ugandan immigration story

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lence and despite her hardships, worked to immigrate to a new world and a better life.

“Kentuckians, historically, The “Far Away Places” lecture series is back for the school have had limited opportuniyear with speakers lined up to ties for foreign travel to some take students and faculty on of these far away places. Thus, journeys to other parts of the we hope to expose them to world from the comfort of the a wider world of people and ideas, which they back of Barnes & Noble. may want to see for WKU Libraries has themselves,” Brian been hosting the seCoutts, the departries “Far Away Places” ment head of library for about 15 years. public services, said.

The first event of this The idea for the school year, “The Moon "Far Away Places" in Your Sky: An Immiseries came about grant's Journey Home to Uganda,” will be this Kate Saller when WKU faculty member Nancy Thursday at 7 p.m. at Barnes & Noble on Campbell Baird was doing research in South Africa.

Lane.

“She would email me, and The event will host Kate Saller, author of “The Moon her emails were so enchantin Your Sky.” The book follows ing, and when she came home, the story of Annah Emuge, a I wanted to have her give a woman from Uganda, who little talk to the library faculty lived a life fraught with vio- and staff,” Peggy Wright, spe-

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cial services coordinator, said.

“She was dynamite; she was wonderful.”

From there, Coutts and Wright came up with the idea for a lecture series that allowed people with global experiences to share their stories, and they wanted Baird to be the first speaker.

“I came into Brian’s office and started singing the song, ‘Far away places with strange sounding names,'” Wright said. “We had a new program.”

The program has grown quickly, hosting over 90 speakers in its 15 years. Wright said she couldn’t be happier with the success.

“We decided, when we first started it, that so many people around us had no idea why the faculty were traveling so much. So, we started with the faculty,” she said. “Every year we change. It became so pop-

ular that editors we had contacted would get new authors and call us.”

She hopes Saller inspires students to travel abroad and learn about different cultures in her lecture, on Thursday.

“We hope the youngsters realize that this can be their future. They can come and talk about what they have learned after they have traveled themselves,” she said.

Coutts hopes that the event and others this school year will help students better understand the world.

“Being a leading American university with global reach, we hope to expose students to life in some strange and unusual places,” he said.

All of the events are planned out for the rest of the year.

Each features a unique story about the journey of someone from a different country.

“Future programs deal with successful Scottish women in an age of men, sacred places in Tibet and the Himalayas, a Boston architect describing rebuilding Haiti, often in the moonlight, Ecuador’s most famous political cartoonist and Tibetan folktales,” Coutts said.

“We think they’re all great stories and four are based on new books.”

Coutts said it isn’t just the students who learn from these events. He has gained some knowledge from the speakers.

“Peggy and I have learned more about strange places and peoples than we could have ever learned from reading or studying,” he said. “We hope they (students) go away from these programs inspired, remembering that each of us can make a difference in someone else’s life.”

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SOCCER

Lady Tops look to keep win streak alive at Spartan Invitational

Lady Tops set to travel to Indiana State tomorrow

The WKU volleyball team (10-2) looks to keep its nine-game win streak alive this weekend as they travel to East Lansing, Michigan for No. 25 Michigan State’s Auto-Owners Insurance Spartan Invitational.

At 9 a.m. Friday, WKU will clash once again with Milwaukee (4-6), an opponent the Lady Toppers defeated earlier this month 3-1 (25-19, 26-24, 2325, 26-24) at the Dr. Mary Jo Wynn Invitational.

Just 9 hours later, the Lady Toppers will square off against host team Michigan State (5-3).

WKU has yet to crack the top 25, but received 30 votes in the American Volleyball Coaches Association poll — good enough for a 28th national ranking. All 27 teams ranked ahead of WKU have yet to register 10 wins.

Despite being ranked three positions above the Lady Toppers in the American Volleyball Coaches Association poll, the Spartans are 0-2 at home and have won just one of their last four games, falling to No. 13 North Carolina, No. 27 Duke at home and No. 14 Oregon at Oregon.

WKU takes on LIU Brooklyn (7-3) at 3 p.m. Saturday to cap off the weekend. Two of LIU’s three losses came from ranked opponents in No. 23 Loyola Marymount (9-0) and No. 22 UCLA (6-2).

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that are not bowing down to this power five so suddenly.

All this is to point out that WKU’s own Conference USA is making some noise in this young college football season.

There haven’t been major upsets, except for games where the C-USA team is a heavy underdog with a substantial

Coming off a 2-1 victory over Sacred Heart to cap off its appearance in the Yale Classic this past weekend, WKU soccer will travel to Terra Haute, Indiana for a bout with the Indiana State Sycamores tomorrow at 6 p.m. CDT. The Lady Toppers secured the win over Sacred Heart (3-4-1) after dropping a 2-0 decision to host team Yale (3-1) on Friday behind a golden goal from junior forward Lauren Moats in overtime. Moats currently leads the team in goals and points with three and seven, respectively.

Sophomore forward Iris Dunn is second in goals with three and points with four. Freshman goalie Allison Leone currently has 31 saves in six games with a .861 save percentage. She has also recorded three shutouts on the season.

The Sycamores are currently 2-4-1 on the season, and they’re coming off a lopsided 7-0 victory over Chicago State on Sunday. Junior forward Sydney Lovelace leads the Sycamores in points with nine.

Following Friday’s game, the Lady Toppers will continue their five-game road swing in Huntington, West Virginia in a matchup with Marshall on Sept. 27.

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check in hand afterward – these teams haven’t gone down easily.

The same thing happened last year when WKU was in the Sun Belt Conference. C-USA isn’t a cupcake league, but in games versus any opponent in one of the power five conferences, the C-USA team is hardly favored.

Last season we saw Florida Atlantic — a former Sun Belt school — take it to Willie Taggart’s South Florida Bulls in a win, and Rice defeated the Big 12’s Kansas.

In week two of this season, six teams, WKU included, lost by just under two scores to teams in either the SEC, Big Ten or Big 12.

“We took a lot of time in the summer and examined all the teams we’re playing,” Head Coach Jeff Brohm said on Tuesday. “I’m not going to lie, we knew they were very good football teams, and I think they’ve shown that the first three weeks. Very competitive from top to bottom, even teams that you may not have thought normally as much are playing very well.”

This isn’t company WKU is quite used to. To remind yourself, take a glance at the scores of WKU’s former pals in the Sun Belt against the same, or arguably, lesser level of competition. Granted, there are those teams from both conferences who get completely trounced by the bigger schools (see teams playing Alabama the past two weeks), but when comparing the Sun Belt and C-USA, I don’t think there’s any doubt WKU is moving in the right path with the right association.

WKU’s back-to-back wins against Kentucky marked the first time the school had ever defeated an SEC team.

So appropriately, the Hilltoppers advanced their competition to surround themselves with teams that are putting up equal fights against bigger opponents.

This is something we all knew when the school announced, in 2012, its move to a new conference, but now we’re seeing the results on the field develop into fruition.

“It’s going to be tough competition,” Brohm said. “We’re new to the league.

We came from a league outside of here, not too familiar with these teams.

These teams have played tough competition every year. We have to raise our level of play, we have to raise our level of preparation, we have to find ways to compete and battle and win some of these guys because I believe a lot of them are going to go down to the very end.”

It’s safe to say he knows all about that first hand since the Hilltoppers’ 5047 triple overtime loss to rival Middle Tennessee State University in their first ever C-USA game. Even with a 1-2 record, WKU is displaying that they are one of those teams that defines the competition C-USA is bringing to college football this season.

Since WKU is on a bye week, Brohm may very well continue to look at the conference and what his team’s future opponents display on the field. The season is still young, but it’s been a product the school can be proud to be associated with so far.

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Navy also entered last sea-

son’s meeting with the Hilltoppers as the No. 1 rushing offense in the country, but left Smith Stadium with a 19-7 loss. WKU held the Midshipmen to just 107 yards on the

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said. “She really learned a lot this spring that has allowed her to get off to a really good start for us.”

Cavanaugh hails from Assumption High School in Louisville, a program consistently ranked within the top10 nationally.

Cavanaugh only played the middle and right side hitter positions, but once Hudson recruited her, she was converted to outside hitter.

“The outside hitter position is new to her, but I always thought her game would translate best out on the left side at the collegiate level, with our system,” Hudson said. “That left side position is where, typically, you are going to lead your team in attempts, but she is a kid we knew we wanted to get the ball to and she has adapted very well in that position.”

The converted outside hitter has

ground.

“This upcoming week we’re going to face something a little different,” Brohm said. “So I think we have a decent plan ready for that. The one we’ve

appeared in all 12 games and already has a team-high 113 kills to her name, giving her an average of 2.83 kills per set.

Freshman middle hitter Sydney Engle joined her sister, junior outside hitter Rachel Engle, at WKU this season and hasn't had any difficulty making her name known. She’s totaled 50 kills in all 12 matches.

“A lot of people say I came here because Rachel was here, but that really had nothing to do with my decision,” Sydney said. “It was definitely a plus that she was here...but I really loved Travis (Hudson), I loved the school and I loved the program he built.”

Freshman defensive specialist Jackie Scott has endured a change similar to Cavanaugh’s in that they were both shifted into different positions at the collegiate level.

Scott played outside hitter at the high school and club level, a position that Hudson believes she could have played at the collegiate level. She’s

7 used last year we adjusted a little bit. Just overall, I think that we have to find ways to take away their best players. …

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listed as an outside hitter, along with defensive specialist.

“She could have played collegiately in that position,” Hudson said. “But maybe not this high of a level, just because of her size; she’s not quite as big and playing as high. We wanted that same athleticism roaming around in the back row.”

Rounding out the five is freshman middle hitter Amara Listenbee. Listenbee has yet to see the court for the Lady Toppers, but Hudson has a strategy behind her lack of playing time.

“Amara probably has the most to learn coming in the door,” Hudson said. “She is not quite as skilled as the others, but she very well might be the best of the bunch once they are seniors. She is such a terrific athlete and an extremely coachable young lady.”

The young Lady Toppers will look to extend their current nine-game win streak on Friday in the first match of their Spartan Invitational stint versus Milwaukee at 9 a.m.

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lapses. We have to be sound in what we’re doing. Our players have to understand that plan.”

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WKU freshmen volleyball players Jessica Lucas (left) and Alyssa Cavanaugh are two of five freshmen on the volleyball team this season. Lucas, last week's C-USA Setter of the Week, has a total of 424 assists in 41 sets this season. Cavanaugh has 113 kills in 12 games.

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New kids on the block

Lucas, Cavanaugh highlight young Lady Topper squad

BY JONAH PHILLIPS SPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM WKU volleyball is off to a 10-2 start on the season, including a 3-2 win over then-No.8 Purdue last week, thanks to new faces on the court making an immediate impact in Travis Hudson’s 20th season as head coach.

The 2014 Lady Topper signing class is one that is widely considered to be the best in program history, but it’s also the largest for Hudson with five freshmen — all of whom

w e r e n’t even born Friday Sept. 19 when Hud9 A.M. son took VS. Milwaukee the job on @ Spartan INvitational the Hill in 1995.

This class is the first recruiting class in program history to receive a top-30 ranking from PrepVolleyball.com.

Two freshmen that are quickly becoming familiar to WKU volleyball fans are setter Jessica Lucas and outside hitter Alyssa Cavanaugh.

Next game

Lucas joined the Lady Toppers as a mid-year enrollee last spring after graduating a semester early from Seymour High School in Seymour, Indiana.

“My goal was to graduate normally and go to college just like any other freshman,” Lucas said. “I was driving an hour and a half to club practice, and coming here early just seemed to be the right move.”

Lucas came to WKU after earning all-conference, allarea and team MVP honors all four years, leading her high

school to national rankings. In 12 games so far this season, she’s totaled 424 of the team’s 516 assists in 41 sets.

“She knew when we recruited her that there was a very high chance she could step in immediately and play as our setter,” Hudson said. “The setter position is very much like a quarterback in football or a point guard in basketball, so she knew she needed time.”

The semester head start proved to be crucial to Lucas’ success. She came down with

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mono toward the end of June following graduation and was on the sidelines the entire summer for all of preseason training.

Lucas said overcoming this sickness has been the biggest obstacle of her collegiate career, and Hudson knows how crucial her extra months on the Hill have been for her development.

“She graduated early, and thank God she did because she was sick all summer,” Hudson

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WKU looking to right the ship during bye week C-USA shows

BY KYLE WILLIAMS proof of progression for WKU

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WKU football endured the longest game of its FBS history on Saturday as the Hilltoppers dropped a dramatic 50-47 triple overtime decision to longtime rival Middle Tennessee, but they’ll have an off week to prepare for their next test at Navy on Sept. 27 at 2:30 p.m. CT. The Hilltoppers currently sit at 1-2 on the season, but with both losses coming by a combined 11 points, that record could easily be 3-0.

WKU allowed 21 points in the fourth quarter of its loss at Illinois, 14 of which came off Hilltopper turnovers, and the only difference in the MTSU thriller was a touchdown to WKU’s field goal in the third overtime.

Head Coach Jeff Brohm said on Tuesday he’s aware that every game on the Hilltoppers’ schedule could go either way, and that the team needs to improve in several different facets in an effort to prepare for that uncertainty.

“There are numerous things we need to work on both sides of the ball, on special teams,” Brohm said. “We have to use this week to improve on fundamentals, technique and really push hard to get better. We know that there’s tough competition. The difference

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Redshirt senior quarterback Brandon Doughty searches for a receiver during the game against Middle Tennessee State University on Sept. 13. between winning and losing is small.

We have to find ways to out-work, outprepare and continue to improve every week.”

Brohm also mentioned that some players will use the bye week for recovery.

Senior tight end Mitchell Henry, who tallied seven receptions for 128 yards and two touchdowns against MTSU, injured his shoulder in one of the three

overtime periods and will use the bye week to recover. Freshman linebacker Joel Iyiegbuniwe had surgery on Tuesday to repair a patella tendon that he injured during the MTSU game.

WKU will have a unique task ahead of it after the bye week as the Hilltoppers travel to Annapolis, Maryland for a bout with Navy. The Midshipmen

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While sitting on my couch watching a replay of the LSU and LouisianaMonroe game on the SEC Network Tuesday night, a reassurance came over me that three weeks into the college football season, WKU is indeed in a better place than it was a year ago.

Allow me to paint a picture here.

The entire landscape of college football has changed with the incorporation of the college football playoff this year. This long-overdue installment allows the best-of-the-best to truly determine a champion on the field rather than depend on a computer system to set up a championship game.

This means that, theoretically, it’s anyone’s ballgame. The power five conferences of the Big Ten, Big 12, Pacific-12, Atlantic Coastal Conference

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