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Event kicks off Campus Fire Safety Month

BY TOMMY SULLIVAN HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU The department of environmental health and safety is taking the lead to inform students of fire safety during the month of September.

University Fire Marshal Bob Austin said learning about fire safety is especially important for first-year students here at WKU. “A lot of these freshmen have lived at home all their lives,” said Austin.

Austin said understanding fire safety is also important for community living. He offered the example of accidentally setting off the sprinkler system in a residence hall, which could ruin the property of students living with you.

Sgt. Shannon Pardue of the Bowling Green Fire Department shared similar thoughts about the importance of fire safety in new living environments.

“Your first time on your own, you have more responsibility,” said Shannon.

According to environmental health and safety’s website, August and September are the deadliest months for collegiate house fires.

The WKU department has hosted one fire safety event and is planning one more this month.

On Tuesday, Sept. 22, environmental health and safety will be in Centennial Mall with the Bowling Green Fire Department from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The focal point of the event will be a trailer that simulates a house or apartment fire. The fire department recently bought the trailer from BullEx for use in fire-safety education.

The trailer is designed like an apartment with a bedroom on one end and a kitchen on the other.

The kitchen appliances, including a toaster, oven and microwave, spew smoke when activated by a remote control. The bedroom door heats to very high temperatures to mimic the heat of a door to a flame-filled room.

Participants must unplug the appliances or extinguish simulated fires with infrared extinguishers. The experience prepares them for a real fire.

In addition to the trailer, other safety activities will be available.

“I will be doing fire extinguisher demonstrations,” said Austin.

The fire department and environmental health and safety department held a block party with Bowling

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WKU senior and forensics team member Paige Settles, left, presents Bryan Sonnier, a student at William Carey University, right, the Top Novice award for the forensics after-dinner speaking category during the Forensics Fiesta closing ceremony in Grise Hall Sunday. Students from 24 universities competed in the invitational competition, which took place in the Garrett Conference Center this weekend. GABRIEL SCARLETT/HERALD

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Forensics team hosts season-opener

BY HANNAH SHAFFER HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU The WKU Forensics Team held its season-opening competition this weekend, playing host to 23 other universities.

Teams came from all over the country to participate in the three-daylong competition, which consisted of 13 events and five tournaments.

Teams came to the competition hoping to win the team sweepstakes award; as the host, WKU did not com-

pete for it.

On Friday, preliminary rounds began to determine who would make it to the finals on Sunday. Members of the community judged the preliminary rounds.

The five tournaments included a parliamentary debate tournament, a Lincoln-Douglas debate tournament, a Lincoln-Douglas debate round robin and two individual tournaments.

Friday began with parliamentary rounds one through four and then took a break for the round-robin debate’s final round. The day finished

with the first elimination round for the parliamentary competition.

Englewood, Florida, junior Mark Allseits won the round-robin debate Friday night.

As Saturday began, so did a new set of tournaments. Registration for the day’s tournaments began at 7 a.m.

By 8 a.m., round one of the LincolnDouglas debate tournament was beginning. The Lincoln-Douglas debate had six rounds throughout the day that led to the first elimination round Saturday evening.

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The landscape of WKU has received much recognition over the past year.

In January, WKU was recognized for its nationally accredited arboretum. In April, WKU was awarded a Green Ribbon award. Now, the National Wildlife Federation recognized WKU in a publication celebrating green college campuses.

“The Campus Wild: How College and University Green Landscapes Provide Havens for Wildlife and ‘Lands-on’ Experiences for Students” was released Sept. 8. It showcased 85 colleges from all 50 states and Washington, D.C., and praised WKU in the opening section. The article discussed colleges that make a substantial and concentrated effort to protect and encourage

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BY MONICA BROWN HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU In an attempt to better understand the mental health issues suffered by those in the agriculture business, WKU is offering a new nursing program for any nurse in the state of Kentucky.

The new continuing education program, Nursing Responses to Mental Health Issues of Agricultural Populations, is focused on training nurses to identify sources and warning signs of mental issues and to develop successful in-

terventions with farmers and their families.

Eve Main, associate professor in the School of Nursing and coordinator of the Doctor of Nursing Practice program, said the continuing education program’s main goals are to identify sources of stress associated with farming, recognize the unique manifestations of stress, identify assessment tools and identify nursing interventions to assist the farmer and the family deal with mental health issues.

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The parliamentary debate also had two elimination rounds Saturday; these led to the parliamentary debate awards ceremony on Saturday evening.

Also on Saturday, “pattern A” and “pattern B” competitors participated in multiple rounds of poetry interpretation, prose interpretation and persuasion.

On Sunday, the finalists competed for overall wins in each category. The top six students would compete in afterdinner speaking, impromptu speaking,

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the habitat and wildlife around them as well as take part in environmentally friendly practices.

The guide lauded WKU in particular for its practice of planting regional native plants and trees, its water-efficient plantings, its irrigation system and its “Integrated Pest Management” program.

Christian Ryan, coordinator of the Office of Sustainability, said this recognition highlights WKU’s hard work to be environmentally friendly. “[Being recognized] means that we’re doing something really right, and to

ous health issues, including anxiety, depression and suicide,” the WKU nursing website explains.

Main said farmers in rural areas, specifically in Kentucky, undergo a lot of stress from their jobs. Stress can accumulate from their own self-reliance within their work, how much they work, regulations set by the government and how much control weather has on their work.

One major factor concerns health insurance. Since more farmers work independently,

they have difficulty getting health insurance, and other family members are forced to acquire outside jobs to receive health insurance.

WKU’s new one-hour program is designed to teach nurses how to take care of these situations, said Vivian McClellan, the corporate director of education and development at the Commonwealth Health Corporation in Bowling Green.

“This relevant, well-designed interactive program offers evidence-based strategies for nurses,” McClellan said. “The videos

of the farmers are powerful and capture a realistic picture of the stress associated with farming.”

Main said the online class will use video clips made by experts within the nursing field as well as other techniques to engage students.

“We have about 40 regular nurses look at this course, and about 95 percent of them want to change their practice and use the material presented in the class,” Main said. “We try to make it engaging, and we are trying to use a new model to deliver a message.”

ty Services organization at Ogden Park on Thursday, Sept. 17.

The fire department displayed its trailer, and Neighborhood and Com-

munity Services raffled smoke detectors and other items.

Besides contributing to the events, the department of environmental

health and safety has been tweeting fire-safety tips, including information about escape plans, fire statistics and smoke alarms, throughout September.

informative speaking, poetry interpretation and prose interpretation.

The winners were announced Sunday evening.

“The team is doing very well,” WKU Forensics Director Ganar Newman said.

Newman said the forensics team has won the world championship every year it attended and is looking forward to another win this year.

TheWKU Forensics Team students won 12 individual championships throughout the weekend along with the round-robin competition on Friday. Tournament champions include Bailey Rung, Lataya

Williams, Ashton Garber, Paige Settles, Jasmine Jones, Mark Allseits, Lauren Sledge, Mackenzie Birkey, Andrea Ambam and Haddy Badjie.

Sheboygan, Wisconsin, sophomore Mackenzie Birkey was WKU tournament champion in the after-dinner speaking competition. “[After-dinner speaking] calls for the speaker to discuss a social issue by using humor,” said Birkey. “It was great making people laugh in the final round; it was even better impacting people with a message that was important to me.”

Bowling Green junior Lauren Sledge

was the Alumni tournament champion in after-dinner speaking.

In the event, Sledge spoke about women’s strength and touched on how people refer to physical strength when they speak of a man being strong and emotional strength when they refer to a woman being strong.

Sledge said she did not get to watch the other finalists because of other competitions, so it was a surprise when she won.

“It was a funny win,” said Sledge. “I didn’t really get to practice it, so I had to go with my gut.”

keep working and displaying these environmental stewardship practices,” she said. “It shows our commitment to be part of a program we think is important.”

She added that the campus’s beauty is also important.

“People like to walk on our campus just because it’s beautiful,” she said.

“It helps promote a sense of happiness and well-being to be on a campus as beautiful as ours.”

Leah Hopwood, campus gardner, said students should care about this recognition not only because it affects them but because when the environment is clean, focus is easier.

“I would think students would care

because it’s their world, their environment, their life. Everything around you affects you,” she said. “If you have a cluttered life, then you can’t think straight, so when things are in order it helps you do things in a better fashion.”

She added that having the campus recognized is very fulfilling for her and her coworkers.

“When it’s recognized, it makes it all worth it,” she said.

Joshua Twardowski, campus services manager, said in an email this recognition shows WKU’s dedication to green practices.

“This recognition is very important to WKU for several reasons. Primarily, it

gives the university one more national recognition for our campus landscape diversity and WKU’s commitment to ecology, habit creation, biodiversity and environmental stewardship,” he said.

He added that having green campuses helps attract students and also provides a healthy living and learning environment for current students.

“Attracting prospective students and retaining our current students is the most critical part of our mission,” he said. “When the campus is clean and aesthetically appealing, it creates a positive learning environment and makes the students feel safe and proud to be a Hilltopper."

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SGA delays contract with transport company Uber

BY HANNAH SHAFFER HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU The Student Government Association continues the debate surrounding WKU’s partnering with Uber.

In late August, Uber brought its services to Bowling Green after garnering success in Lexington and Louisville.

Uber attempted to make a contract with WKU — more specifically, with SGA — to persuade WKU to endorse Uber’s services. This contract was proposed through Charley Pride, the director of Student Activities.

“Nothing has been signed yet,” Pride said.

This contract would allow an office like SGA at WKU to give out cards for free rides worth up to $20 for first-time users.

With the use of these cards,

SGA or any program that had been delegated by SGA to give out the cards would receive $5 as a reward for endorsing Uber.

The reason the contract was considered was because Uber could offer safe and convenient transportation throughout Bowling Green, according to SGA President Jay Todd Richey.

Richey said he personally went back and forth between whether or not Uber was a good idea for WKU. “It’s naked capitalism,” said Richey. “It doesn’t have to adhere to regulation.”

Although Uber will provide its services to Hilltoppers as well as the Bowling Green community, Richey said neither WKU nor SGA helped bring Uber to town.

According to Uber’s website, anyone can be a driv-

Nothing has been signed yet...One of the stipulations of the contract is covering the insurance wise or there's an indemnity clause. ” Charley Pride, Director of Student Activities er for Uber as long as that person passes the required background check, is at least 21 years old and has a car model from the year 2000 or after. These driver qualifications mean signing the contract could lead to liability issues within the university.

When asked about the liability issue, Monroe County senior Evan Brown, who is con-

sidering being an Uber driver, said any job has the potential for liabilities.

“Anyone working as an independent contractor has certain liabilities,” said Brown. “It’s a risk you take, but so do many other entrepreneurs.”

Uber proposed this contract before the Student Senate met for the first time. Pride mentioned, though, that the

contract would not have been decided only within the senate.

The decision then defaulted to Pride. The main problem found was in the insurance policy. Because of liability issues, Pride advised against signing the contract.

“One of the stipulations of the contract is covering the insurance wise or there’s an indemnity clause," Pride said.

Because the indemnity clause would put WKU at fault for any issues students would come across with Uber, the contract has not been signed.

Brad Wheeler, the assistant vice president of resources management, is currently in the process of reworking the contract with an Uber representative.

Ransdell addresses University Senate meeting

BY ANDREW HENDERSON

HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU

The September meeting of the University Senate allowed President Gary Ransdell to address some concerns from senate members pertaining to the Confucius Institute.

The University Senate unanimously supported a motion by the Senate Executive Committee at their Aug. 27 meeting for Ransdell to revisit the contract with Hanban, the public institution affiliated with the Chinese Ministry of Education.

The motion requests “that Faculty Regent Barbara Burch act on the motion and report any results at the next SEC meeting.”

“The WKU Senate Executive Committee strongly believes that the Confucius Institute building contract signed by President Gary Ransdell is not in the best interest of Western Kentucky University,” the motion reads.

Burch said the motion did go forward to Ransdell requesting he revisit the

Confucius Institute.

“He said that the contract is signed, the money’s here and we’re starting shortly,” she said.

When asked if Burch also presented the motion to the Board of Regents, also stipulated in the motion, she said she did send it on to Board of Regents Chair, Frederick Higdon, and his response was that it would be sent on to the appropriate committee.

Molly Kerby, chairwoman of the Coalition of Senate and Faculty Leadership for Higher Education, asked if Ransdell could elaborate on the details surrounding the contract for the Confucius Institute since the senate and Student Government Association have expressed concerns regarding the project.

First, Ransdell cleared the misconception some had regarding why the contract for the Confucius Institute did not appear before the Board of Regents for their approval.

He said the Board of Regents does not deal with contracts, and as president, he is authorized to deal with contracts

of this nature. He further elaborated that the contract the Board of Regents did approve was the construction project for the building that would house the Confucius Institute.

“Of course the contract didn’t go to the Board; no contract goes to the Board,” Ransdell said.

SGA President Jay Todd Richey also voiced his concerns on behalf of SGA and as acting Student Regent.

At their last meeting, SGA presented Resolution 2-15-F: Resolution to Disapprove of the Procedure by which the Model Confucius Institute at Western Kentucky University was Effectuated.

Ransdell was also present at the meeting to answer questions poised by members of SGA. Richey said Resolution 2-15-F is slightly different from the motion passed by the senate. The senate’s motion suggests that the Board of Regents, and Ransdell, revisit the contract outright.

By contrast, Resolution 2-15-F, if passed, will voice the disapproval of the process by which the Model Confucius Institute building was approved.

This differs from Resolution 1-15-F, which, if passed, would have voiced SGA’s agreement with the senate to urge Ransdell to revisit the contract altogether.

“While I am truly appreciative of the president’s answers and him taking time to visit SGA, I and many senators, of whom I’ve spoken to, remain skeptical of not only the merits of the contract of this building project but also the process by which it was handled,” Richey said.

Patricia Minter, history department senator, asked for clarification on several points regarding reports provided by SGA. These reports claimed the terms of the contract were not revealed to the Board of Regents before they were asked to approve the capital project. Minter also inquired whether it is true no legal counsel was involved in reading the contract before Ransdell’s signature.

Ransdell confirmed these reports were factual; both points Minter asked about were true.

“I think what we’re trying to get at is how is this a good deal for WKU and — more importantly, given the difficult financial straits we find ourselves in — is this really good financial stewardship? I think that’s the global concern

that the faculty have expressed to you,” Minter said.

Ransdell maintained this was a good deal because the university now has $1.5 million in the bank earning income, and this amount was matched with a reserve fund from the Institute for Combustion Science and Environmental Technology totaling $800,000 with the other $700,000 coming from the value of the land.

“I consider this to be a very good financial transaction for us because it gets us something that we need, that will help us, that will be valuable to us in the future, and they’re [Hanban is] paying for most of the cost,” he said.

Aside from matters concerning the Confucius Institute, the senate’s September meeting was “light” according to Chairwoman Kate Hudepohl.

The August meeting minutes were passed as posted with no discussion, corrections or edits.

Hudepohl spoke about a meeting she and other senate members had with regent Gillard Johnson. She said during their meeting, she learned Higdon had charged the finance committee to look at the situation of compensation.

“That committee is specifically digging into that issue at the request of the chair of the Board of Regents,” Hudepohl said.

Provost David Lee said faculty searches for the 2016-2017 academic year are currently underway. He said interview exchange is going to be the mechanism they will be using for faculty searches this year.

Lee also said he’s received about eight names from recommenders and from people interested in the position for potential candidates to serve as the interim graduate dean. He said he hopes to have further comments about the search soon.

“I’m really delighted with the group; I think you all will be delighted with the group. I suspect I could put names in a hat and draw one out and we’d all be pretty happy, but I’ll try and put a little more process to it other than that,” Lee said.

There were no committee reports and no old business.

Policy 1.1280 Affiliated Faculty/Professional Staff, authorized by former Provost Gordon Emslie, was presented as new business and passed by the Senate.

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Black Lives Matter kept alive at WKU THE ISSUE: Recent events like “Black Lives Matter: Continuing the Conversation” are helping to keep the movement alive on WKU’s campus.

OUR STANCE: While the protesting in Ferguson may have died down, that does not mean the Black Lives Matter movement should as well.

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he Black Lives Matter movement spread on social media as a rally against the police brutality that disproportionately affects African-Americans. The movement started after the murder of black 18-year-old Michael Brown by white police officer Darren Wilson in August 2014.

Last September, in solidarity with the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, which

began in response to Brown’s death, WKU students organized a march and vigil. There was also a student-organized “die-in” protest held in Downing Student Union last December.

While the movement has been less visible on WKU’s campus since December, that does not mean it has completely disappeared. On Wednesday, the Black Culture Center and the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion hosted an event called “Black Lives Matter: Continuing the Conversation.” They also hosted an event yesterday called “Developing a Vision: Follow-up to ‘Black Lives Matter: Continuing the Conversation.’”

The purpose of both events is to make sure there is still focus on the Black Lives Matter movement because it is still needed. Police brutality is still a problem in the U.S. for people of col-

or, especially African-Americans. This is an issue that needs to be discussed everywhere, Bowling Green and WKU included. People of color deserve to feel safe in their communities and around the police force that is meant to protect them.

According to the WKU Student Profile, out of the 17,517 undergraduate students enrolled in classes at WKU during the fall 2013 semester, 77.3 percent of those students were white.

With people of color making up only 22.7 percent of the student population and African American students making up 10.3 percent, it is important that their opinions and fears be heard.

The Black Lives Matter movement allows for the members of these minorities to be visible. It is important that they feel safe while on WKU’s campus.

I have read nothing but positive comments over the past several years regarding the "transformation" of the campus at WKU, so I would like to offer an opposing viewpoint. Quite frankly, I hate it.

I have had the privilege of visiting the campuses of Murray State, Morehead State, EKU, UK, U of L, Lindsey Wilson, Georgetown and a few others.

When I showed up at WKU for a visit in 1997, I was amazed at how beautiful and unique the campus was. The Hill was adorned with flowers, trees, alleys, green space and scenic areas.

It was common to have flag football games out next to the residence halls along Normal Drive. You'd see students laying out in the fields studying and soaking up the rays. There were still at least four residence halls that didn't even have air conditioning. August temperatures of near 100 degrees in the rooms sort of became a badge of honor for those who lived there.

Some of the other residence halls still had the post-WWII-era feel to them.

I remember dating a girl who lived in McLean Hall, and every time I walked in the door of that place I was overcome with awe. It was like walking into a different era. The design, the smell, the lighting, the construction, it all came together to create an environment you'd never forget. All of the imagery from walking around that campus burned itself in my memory forever. It was awesome. What a great place to spend four years!

Fast forward to today. I drove through campus earlier this year and my jaw hit the floor.

Where is the green space? Where are the fields with students tossing Frisbee and laying around under trees talking?

Where is all the old architecture that gives the residence halls their own personality? It appears that literally every single patch of grass has been removed in favor of a sidewalk, parking lot or building. The Valley of the Dolls is the only area left that still looks the same, and I'm sure Gary Ransdell has big plans for that spot too. It's a travesty!

What we see here is that the most beautiful and unique campus in Kentucky has now been reduced to a concrete jungle.

It’s now exactly like every other place around. There's nothing there that students will remember fondly 15 years after they leave the Hill. There is nothing left to leave an indelible image on their minds.

There is nothing there to make them feel like they are a part of the generations before them.

It's a total shame. I am so thankful that my first year on the Hill was Ransdell's first year also. It means that I got to see and enjoy the history and grandeur of campus before he had time to ruin it. "Progress" doesn't always take you forward.

- Shawn Crowe Class of 2001

SKIPPING BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S

New York Fashion Week firsthand: A small-town gal’s take on spring 2016

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HERALD.OPINION@WKU.EDU

SCOUT HARDIN Skipping Breakfast at Tiffany's: Your weekly guide to having fun with fashion on campus.

Landing on a runway of a different kind, I stumbled off the plane and into Newark Airport. A self-satisfied pigeon strolled past me, welcoming me to the city. The Big Apple awaited me, and the promise of partaking in New York Fashion Week felt like the beginning to a beautiful future. Starry-eyed, I hailed a cab, and my foray into fashion week commenced.

Months ago, attending fashion week was a mere fantasy, but my mentor made it possible. Louisville styl-

ist, event coordinator and fashionista Jo Ross took me under her wing and invited me to accompany her to New York Fashion Week. I worked with Ross as an intern over the summer, and my time with her has been an incredible learning experience; fashion week was the icing on the cake.

My first introduction to New York City was a kaleidoscopic blur of sights, sounds and smells — an overload to the senses. I followed Ross with baited breath, trusting her to guide me through chaos. A fashion week regular, Ross has attended shows since the event’s inception and fondly recounts stories of the Bryant Park days. This year, however, was an entirely different beast than what Ross had previously encountered.

With new and fewer sponsors, new management and multiple locations housing the shows, it felt chaotic.

While shuttling to the numerous venues was hectic, seeing the shows made the trouble worthwhile. We attended

a gamut of collections ranging from Badgely Mischka to Angel Sanchez; my favorite was Jeremy Scott.

Scott, best known for his Moschino line, opened his spring 2016 show with Gigi Hadid dressed in a mod crop top and high-waisted pencil skirt doused in hues of tangerine and bubblegum. The other models donned clothes in a similar vein. Reminiscent of sixties James Bond flicks, their hair a bouffant mess of bouncy curls, they bobbed down the catwalk. Scott’s designs, a lovely change of pace from the serious, teased for a night on the dance floor and left his audience wishing for more.

On the other end of the spectrum, Naeem Khan gave us classic and intricately gorgeous looks. His line featured bright hues of lilac, fuchsia and daffodil — the garments equal parts Italian socialite and Grace Kelly.

Each collection I had the pleasure of watching possessed some detail

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to appreciate and admire. While not all the looks were my personal style, I have to respect the hard work, skill and creativity that go into making a successful and cohesive line of garments.

Trends on the runway included fringe — no surprise there — big block mixed prints, asymmetric hemlines and clean shapes.

While models strolled down the runways, onlookers gazed ahead. Their expressions ranged from apathy to enchantment and displayed both perfect “prune” pouts and mastered looks of interested disinterest. New York’s streets, while not part of the formal fashion show, became runways for models and bystanders alike, each fashion week attendee attempting to outdress the next.

The week went too fast for me. Before I knew it, I was back at Newark watching the pigeons and boarding my plane, dreaming of fashion week for fall 2016.

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ABOVE: Jordan Summerville, left, of Nashville and Lucas Pereda of Bowling Green listen as Government Cheese plays during the Big To-Do music festival on Saturday. MATT LUNSFORD/HERALD

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ocal music fans took to the hills of Edgehill Farm this weekend for the second annual Big To-Do music and arts festival.

The festival, which showcased 30 bands, included some local favorites like Buffalo Rodeo, Mona and Government Cheese.

The three-day event also featured food from local Bowling Green restaurants, tethered hot air balloon rides, hula-hooping, dancing and much more.

Festivalgoers camped out in tents and RVs, which could be seen twinkling at night with decorated lights and other fun accessories.

At times, the festival was threatened by rain, but a few raindrops were not enough to halt the show. See more photos at www.wkuherald.com/photo and see a video about the event at www.wkuherald.com/multimedia.

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To-Do music festival, Genevieve Schatz performed songs from her 2014 EP “Show your Colors� for festival attendees. Schatz broke off from her former band, Company of Thieves, in 2014 to begin her solo career. ALYSE YOUNG/

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ABOVE: Connor Litten, middle, shares a hammock with Kagen Thise while surrounded by long-time friends at the 2015 Big To-Do arts and music festival. The friends and couples from Bowling Green and Glasgow spent the weekend listening to music, dancing at a silent disco and relaxing in hammocks together. ALYSE YOUNG/HERALD LEFT: Tribe Toys owner Viki Fresener hula-hoops with her 9-year-old daughter Oriana during the 2015 Big To-Do arts and music festival. Fresener has attended both years of the festival and has been a popular vendor selling hula-hoops. ALYSE YOUNG/HERALD

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ashville-based band Mona took a break from working on a follow-up to its second record “Torches & Pitchforks” to perform at the Big To-Do Festival Saturday.

The Big To-Do , located at Edgehill Farm in Bowling Green, lasted from Sept. 17 to 20.

Mona consists of lead singer Nick Brown, bassist Zach Lindsey, guitarist Pierce Alexander Lindsey, guitarist Jordan Young and drummer Justin Wilson.

The band has played major festivals,

including Glastonbury and Coachella, and has toured with big names such as Kings of Leon and Noel Gallagher.

After its Big To-Do performance, Mona made time to chat about a variety of subjects, including bourbon, Pentecostalism and grandmothers.

Q: So you guys are putting out a new record soon?

Nick: We’re trying to. We recorded 12 songs, and we’re working on another six. We have new management, so any time you change ships like that, it’s a different trajectory. It’s a different tone and a different emotional type of thing.

We really like the guy we’re with now.

We wanted to get out of the situations we were in with the label and with our

last management, so we really took our time. We had some member changes and some member additions, and I think everyone across the board feels like it’s better than what we were doing.

Q: So who were some of your influences on this new record?

Nick: I’m really influenced by Zach Lindsey and Jordan Young.

Jordan: Yep, those guys are great.

Nick: Those guys are real big heroes of mine. And there’s a lot of Willett Bourbon.

I’m really influenced by Willett Bourbon.

Jordan: Honestly, when we write stuff, it’s not like we sit down and say “alright, what are you listening to?” It just kind of happens. It just comes out of us, and I try not to listen to anything really ever.

Alex: I actually hate music a lot. It’s like my least favorite thing.

Nick: I think my overall role is to just have a birds-eye approach to things and to hear an idea. A lot of times these guys are so good at guitar that when they’re playing, they’re not hearing something that’s sticking to them. It’s just an exercise or something they’ve just gone through.

Jordan: Just noodling. Making spaghetti.

Nick: Yeah, Jordan has riffs that he’s been playing for years and with some of them it’s like, “never play that again.”

Others are like, “what the fuck is that?”

We thrive off of that.

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Zach Lindsey, bass guitarist and backup vocalist for Mona, plays with the band during their set at the second annual Big To-Do music festival, Saturday at Edgehill Farm in Oakland. MATT LUNSFORD/HERALD

WKU students immerse into the Chinese culture Manhattan

Project to be remembered

BY FRANCIS WILSON HERALD.FEATURES@WKU.EDU New to the Hill this fall is a home where students live together, cook together and study together all while speaking in a foreign language: Mandarin Chinese.

Purchased by the WKU Office of International Programs, the Chinese Language Immersion House, located on 1523 Chestnut St., was established to get more students involved in the Chinese-speaking community.

Eight residents currently live in the house. Most of them are students of the Chinese Language Flagship program while others are studying Mandarin language through the department of modern languages. A native Chinese speaker also resides in the house.

“They speak Chinese for everything,” Jennifer Markin, assistant director of the Chinese Flagship Program, said.

Markin facilitates the social and cultural aspects of the house.

Residents of the house were required to sign a language pledge upon their arrival at their new home. Resident Alex Hezik, a senior from Campbellsville, said that for six out of the week’s seven days, they speak Chinese in the home.

“We speak English on Sundays to incorporate [the native Chinese resident],” Hezik said. “So it’s not just [a house for] our benefit, it's to her benefit too because she’s able to practice English.”

The students in the house have varying levels of Mandarin Chinese language proficiency. According to Hezik, residents must be patient when communicating with each other.

“We do have people of lower levels of Chinese who come by the house as visitors,” Hezik said. “If, say for instance, you bring a visitor [to the house] who cannot speak Chinese at all, it's okay to

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Students living in WKU’s Chinese Language Immersion House are required to speak only Chinese six days per week. To assist their learning, the students have placed sticky-note vocabulary reminders on common household items and hold each other accountable with a list of guidelines to help them remain immersed in the Chinese language. ALYSE YOUNG/HERALD speak English with that person.”

According to Markin, the house also serves as a cultural hub for the Chinese-speaking community. The residents practice aspects of the Chinese culture on a daily basis.

Upon entry of the residence, students take off their shoes and slide into a pair of slippers — a custom in many Chinese homes.

“It’s just [habit],” Hezik said, chuckling at her own mix of English and Chinese.

In the kitchen, large bags of rice sit on the countertop next to the fridge.

Bright orange sticky notes with Chinese vocabulary words written on them label different objects and utensils all around the room.

Hezik said the sticky notes around the house help her remember certain household vocabulary words.

“I’ve only been in the flagship for two years,” Hezik said, cracking a smile. “Speaking Chinese in the house isn't a chore to me; I enjoy it.”

Hezik is a third-year, 400-level Chinese Language Flagship student. This is her third and final year in the program, and she will soon begin applying for a Flagship Capstone Year in China for the 2016-2017 academic year.

“I feel pretty [alright],” Hezik said, referring to her Capstone application.

The Chinese Language Immersion House also hosts Chinese culture and language programming. Although these events are tailored for the Chinese-speaking community at WKU, they are open for anyone interested in learning more about China.

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A cross-department reception and lecture will be given this evening regarding one of the most significant government projects in history.

New York Times best-selling author Denise Kiernan will be traveling to the Hill to give a lecture on her biography “The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II” on Sept. 22 at 7:30 p.m. at the Van Meter Hall auditorium.

The nonfiction book highlights the Manhattan Project: the U.S. government’s effort to create the first atomic bomb. One of the plants was located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, less than 200 miles away from Bowling Green.

“Everybody’s heard about the Manhattan Project, the first reaction at the University of Chicago, right, and they all know about Los Alamos where they fired the first test explosion,” Robert Dietle, the head of the WKU history department, said. “The link between those two is through Oak Ridge.”

The School of Journalism and Broadcasting, history department and Potter College of Arts and Letters came together to sponsor the event, which provides a multifaceted look at the origins and results of the Manhattan Project’s cataclysmic use of force.

Kiernan’s novel notes the involvement of women in the operation — women who had no knowledge of what they were working on in the Oak

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Former WKU students introduce a new restaurant style to Bowling Green

BY LINDSAY WHITTINGTON HERALD.FEATURES@WKU.EDU Behind the glass-walled counter at the front of his restaurant, Rafael Ortiz, one of the owners of Que Buenos, pulled together the sides of a thick, Tex-Mex style burrito filled with beef, lettuce, jalapeños and sour cream.

“Nobody rolls a good burrito on the first try,” Rafael Ortiz said as pieces of taco meat fell out the sides of the burrito and onto a red tray holding the meal. “The real secret is folding the corners in at the right time.”

In the four months since they opened their business, former WKU students Rafael and Felipe Ortiz have had plenty of opportunity to practice.

Restaurants, Rafael Ortiz said, run in the family.

The brothers were born two years apart in Degollado, Mexico. Elder brother Rafael Ortiz, 25, only lived in Mexico for three years before his father, Felipe Ortiz Sr., moved the family to the U.S. in 1993 in search of a better life.

He found that better life in the restaurant business.

After a brief time working in the grape fields of California and learning how to cook in a Mexican restaurant in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Felipe Ortiz Sr. opened his first restaurant in Somerset in 1995. Now he owns several restaurants in Kentucky and surrounding states.

Rafael and Felipe Ortiz worked in their father’s restaurants part time throughout high school. It was during this time that they began to dream about going into business together to own

their own family-style, sitdown Mexican restaurant.

But before they could start a business, it was important to their family that they go to college.

They both enrolled at WKU and moved to Bowling Green to study business. For a while, they also worked at a restaurant their dad owned in town before it closed.

The reason it closed, Felipe Ortiz said, was because there were already too many sitdown restaurants similar to it. It was at this point that the family began to see an emerging opportunity.

“We got to thinking about it, and when we came to Bowling Green, we realized that this market was absolutely saturated with sit-down-andeat Mexican restaurants,” Rafael Ortiz said. “We knew that we had to come up with something different, something that was different than what Bowling Green had seen before.”

On a trip to California, the duo were introduced to a fast-casual style of a Mexican restaurant and realized Bowling Green lacked this type of eatery. Therefore, the brothers decided to bring the concept back to Kentucky; one change they made was adding a drive-thru.

To make their dream a reality, the duo needed two things: a building and their dad’s approval.

After a building that had formerly hosted a Wendy’s went up for sale in late 2014 not far from the brothers’ home, they saw their opportunity and talked to Felipe Ortiz Sr. To put in the work and

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Q: So your approach to songwriting is based on a lot of jamming?

Nick: I grew up Pentecostal, and we didn’t do worship songs; it was what they called “spontaneous prophetic worship,” which basically meant jam.

All spiritual bullshit aside, it’s about feeling music. That’s why we’re still a band. There’s a lot of people who couldn’t get signed to a major label deal, travel the world and go through

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Ridge plant.

“They were simply told, ‘Here’s your task, this is what you’re doing, this is war work,’ but at no point were they told they were in the process of producing a weapon of destructive power that had never been seen before,” Dietle said.

The lecture will be accompanied with a reception in Mass Media and Technology Hall’s atrium and gallery, where images by photographers Ed Westcott and Joe O’Donnell will be displayed.

Curated by Tim Broekema, photojournalism professor and chairman of the Gallery Committee, the gallery

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Continued from LIFE “Chinese Culture Club is going to start having activities here in the house,” Hezik states.

A few of the events the Chinese Language Immersion House will host include an autumn festival and a recurring lan-

Daymani Alacron serves customers at Que Buenos Mexican restaurant in Bowling Green Tuesday.

The family restaurant, operated by brothers Rafael and Felipe Ortiz, serves fast and inexpensive Mexican food, such as tacos and burritos. ANDREW LIVESAY/HERALD time to make their business successful, the pair would need to drop out of school.

They also needed their dad’s help to pay startup costs.

At first, their dad said no. After their uncle, the brothers were going to be the first people in their family to graduate from college. It was important to him that they stay.

A compromise was in order.

In return for the money and help they needed to start their restaurant, Rafael and Felipe Ortiz had to promise they would return to school. They agreed.

Now, almost a year later, they are the proud owners of Que Buenos.

At a table in the restaurant’s back corner, John and Berna Taylor, a retired Bowling Green

couple, sat and talked over their order of nachos and a steak quesadilla.

“You know how the food is usually mashed?” Berna Taylor prompted, excitedly reaching over to grab her husband’s quesadilla and pulling it apart to reveal a perfectly intact interior. “Look!”

The only thing that would make the restaurant better, Berna Taylor said, would be a beer.

It’s something the brothers are already working on. Rafael and Felipe Ortiz are in the process of acquiring their liquor license and are hoping to be able to serve alcohol soon.

Felipe Ortiz also talked about how he and his brother were working over 60 hours a week to run and maintain their

business when it first started.

“When you see successful people, they’re not just successful, you know, out of nowhere,” Felipe Ortiz said. “I definitely know that for a fact.”

But now that they’ve got their business running and have settled into a routine, they don’t have to work quite as much as before.

The brothers switch off shifts throughout the day until they believe their business has steadied enough for the duo to go back to school.

“I want to have a degree,” Rafael Ortiz said. “I want people to be like, ‘Oh, you know, he went to college; he’s a minority; he’s achieving the American dream by working hard as well as studying hard.’”

what we’ve gone through and still be going if they didn’t believe in what they were doing.

Q: Mona is named after Nick’s grandmother. How much does your family and your upbringing influence your songwriting and music?

Nick: Some of the guys that have been in the band, like Jordan and Zach, know my family and my dad. We were all raised actually pretty similar when it came to family. Everyone loves their family. It’s not really about much more than that to us at the end of it. We care

about each other when we hang out we talk about everything. It’s not just getting drunk and jamming. We live in each other’s lives. When there’s bad things that happen, it happens to all of us, and when there’s good things that happen, it happens to all of us. That was something that I think I learned from my family, but I think everyone learned from their families. We were fortunate in that way.

So really we try to write songs that are honest and make you feel something.

Sometimes you need to feel fun, and

sometimes you need to feel really fucking angry. Sometimes you need to feel sad or loved, or whatever. It’s not really a genre so much as it is just honest. I feel like there’s a lot of people that try to be cool.

Jordan: And they’re not really playing their instruments!

Alex: Neither am I though.

Nick: No one is really that cool. So I think we all know that about each other. Like when we’re in a room together we’re just friends and that’s it. There’s not a lot of posturing.

displays over 50 photographs that depict the Oak Ridge plant’s operations as well as photographs of the atomic bombings and aftermath in Japan. “[As photojournalists], we’re not just shooting for tomorrow; we’re shooting for what we remember,” Broekema said.

“The historical importance of what we do today may reveal itself decades from now, and you know, that’s kind of what I’m seeing with these images, the historical importance of those images.”

Westcott was a U.S. government photographer in the 1940s and one of the only people permitted to have a camera in the Oak Ridge plant. O’Donnell, a retired Marine and photojournalist for the United States Information Agency, was among the

first to land in Japan immediately after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.

Nashville resident Kimiko Sakai, O’Donnell’s wife, approached Broekema regarding the Japan photos and asked if he wanted to do a gallery at WKU. O’Donnell’s images, which Broekema drew from, were originally displayed in the Tennessee State Museum. Broekema curated Westcott’s pictures too, and after negotiations, a lecture from Kiernan was added.

“The gallery is really honoring Ed and Joe,” Broekema said, “Denise’s keynote … adds a third dimension to this whole presentation to get a historic understanding of what happened in our neck of the woods, because I dare bet most

people don’t know about Oak Ridge. I know I didn’t.”

Although the gallery will house the photographs until late November, a special pre-lecture reception, with comments from Provost David Lee and family members of the photographers, will begin at 6:30 p.m. Each of the events is free.

guage table. The Chinese Culture Club’s Mid-Autumn Festival will take place on Sept. 28 at 5:30 p.m., and the Chinese Language Table is scheduled for Monday at 5:30 p.m. Students of the Chinese Flagship program, the department of modern languages and international native Chinese speakers are encouraged to attend “It is a place you can come to for social

events. Come to relax,” Markin said.

The opening reception for the house will be Sept. 26 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. All who are interested in the house and the events hosted there are invited to attend. “[The house allows] for more communication between the Chinese students as well as those of us who are studying Chinese,” Hezik said.

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Lady Tops enter C-USA play with eyes on championship

BY MATTHEW STEWART HERALD.SPORTS@WKU.EDU The WKU volleyball team extended its winning streak to six games when Head Coach Travis Hudson’s squad captured the 2015 Huskie Invitational, moving the program to 12-2 in 2015.

WKU found success across its nonconference slate, starting with a win against preseason fifth-ranked Wisconsin and ending with seven wins in eight games over 12 days.

Despite the success, Hudson still wants more out of his squad.

“We are still very much a

work in progress, I feel like we have a lot of room for growth,” Hudson said.

The nonconference schedule was designed to test the team against top-tier competition in preparation for 2015 Conference USA play.

Coming out of that challenging non-conference slate, WKU is 3-0 against Power Five conference teams in Wisconsin, Northwestern and Alabama.

“I think the fans like to see that," Hudson said of the challenges league play presents.

"Honestly we have played several opponents that were every bit of the quality of (CUSA) teams,” Hudson said.

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Continued from SPORTS Doughty threw two interceptions that led to Hoosiers points in the third quarter while Indiana continued to dominate on the ground, outrushing the Hilltoppers 284-84.

“Unfortunately, we could still move it on offense, but we turned the ball over twice in a row,” Brohm said. “The first [interception] I thought we had a touchdown, just kind of under-threw it and led it inside. Then the second one

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Dunn and Chua are tied for most goals on the season with four. The firsthalf goal from Dunn moves her career total to 16 in just three seasons, making her the ninth all-time scorer in program history.

“Iris Dunn was a woman among girls tonight. She was everywhere. And obviously Hannah Chua has three goals in three games,” Neidell said.

Neidell was also quick to mention non-goal scorers as well.

“Megan Morris was incredible defensively for us, and then Caitlin Hesse had a big time second half attacking through the midfield,” Neidell said.

“I told the girls that this is one of the biggest wins; this is a team that we’ve never beaten,” Neidell said. “They are a dominant force in Division I women’s soccer and are always a contender for

This past weekend, the Lady Toppers took to the net against some large, physical teams with success.

The Lady Tops first played against SEC foe Alabama. Senior Noelle Langenkamp and sophomore Alyssa Cavanaugh led the way to capture the third win against a Power Five conference team in sweeping fashion (25-21, 25-22, 25-22).

“Noelle Langenkamp has been the rock of this team by far; she has gone out there and done it,” said Hudson.

Cavanaugh finished with a game-high 15 kills, and Langenkamp chipped in 11 of her own off of a season-high .579

we forced in there. Unfortunately for us, we don't have that margin of error.

We can't do that.”

The Hilltoppers’ only points of the second half came with just under six minutes remaining in the game in the form of a 3-yard touchdown pass from Doughty to senior Jared Dangerfield.

“I think we made plays, our guys played hard, we just had two costly interceptions. They ran the ball at will and controlled the clock, so we didn't get many possessions,” Brohm said.

“I'd like to think we could stop the run

Top 25. It’s just a big win for our program heading into conference play.”

The Lady Toppers have noticeably improved their game in the last five matches, only giving up four goals in comparison to the nine they dropped in the first three games of the season.

This improvement came just in time to kick off conference play. According to Neidell, the challenging non-conference lineup was designed to prepare WKU for the upcoming conference slate.

“I don’t know that we’ll see a team the rest of the season that’s more athletic than what Memphis posed for us, and I think this is a game that was a critical game for us to play well and have some success heading into conference play,” said Neidell.

First up in Conference USA are Rice and Louisiana Tech at the WKU Soccer Complex on Friday at 6 p.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m. respectively.

hitting percentage.

Sophomore Sydney Engle also threw down five kills on Friday morning while junior Georgia O’Connell grounded the defense with 11 digs.

“That consistency that we are looking for — those are the kids that have been doing that for us,” Hudson said of his standout performers.

Cavanaugh led the Lady Tops with a big-hitting night to take down Northern Iowa, matching a season-high 17 kills.

Sydney Engle also showcased her talent, tying a career-best 11 kills on a seasonhigh .524 hitting clip.

The last contest of the week-

better than that, but they have a good runner and a good offensive line. We couldn't get it done."

A blocked field goal attempt by WKU’s senior kicker Garrett Schwettman in the third quarter proved pivotal to the final outcome; it was his first miss of the season.

"I think we were down 10, so we could have gone for it. I think we wanted to get the points and be within one touchdown of tying the game up,” Brohm said. “Unfortunately, I don't know if they got pushed, but I

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redshirt senior wide receiver Jared Dangerfield, WKU’s top receiving threat last season with 64 receptions for 738 yards and 10 touchdowns, has been gingerly recovering from an injury since the preseason.

Will Hilltopper fans continue to see this style of offense? The future seems slightly unpredictable.

The offensive scheme may have looked very different if Dangerfield had been at full fitness and Leon Allen had not been ruled out for the season.

That isn’t to say redshirt freshman D’Andre Ferby hasn’t done an ample job filling in during Allen’s absence; he leads all Hilltoppers with three touchdowns.

The same goes for Taywan Taylor, who stepped into the No. 1 wide re-

end went into five sets against hosts Northern Illinois. WKU took control early and won the first set but found itself in a corner when it lost the next two.

WKU recovered though, and turned on their game out of the break. WKU moved on to claim the match (25-23, 12-25, 17-25, 25-17, 15-7).

“Consistency: That’s the thing that we haven’t hit our stride with yet. We have got to get better play from Sydney and Haley Bodway,” said Hudson. “If we can get consistent play from those two, we will be a really tough team to beat day-in and day-out.”

don't think we had very good height on the ball and it got blocked easy.

That was a momentum-swinger as well."

Higbee finished the game with a team-high 11 catches, 109 yards and a touchdown while Taylor hauled in a career-high 196 yards and a touchdown of his own. Hoosier running back Jordan Howard finished the game with 203 yards on the ground.

The Hilltoppers’ next game will be Saturday at 2:30 p.m. at home against Miami (Ohio).

ceiver spot when Dangerfield saw limited minutes.

Yet to say Ferby is a like-for-like replacement for Allen is a stretch, so Brohm is still testing the limitations of his newfound, evolving offense, and Higbee has emerged as a quick answer to some big questions posed early in the season.

Allen ranked seventh in the NCAA last season in yards from scrimmage with 2,018. This was supposed to be his season to show why Brandon Doughty described him as “the most talented” between former WKU and current NFL running backs Antonio Andrews and Bobby Rainey.

Ferby, a relatively untested former Division II-AA Tennessee Mr. Football has big shoes to fill in his first season of action after being redshirted, but on the receiving end of things, Higbee looks poised to carry the load in his senior campaign.

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“Back to the Drawing Board”

Hilltoppers fall to Indiana 38-35, move to 2-1 on the season

BY BILLY RUTLEDGE HERALD.SPORTS@WKU.EDU The Hilltoppers entered Saturday’s game at Indiana with high hopes, coming into their clash with Big 10 opponent Indiana University off their first conference victory of the season over Louisiana Tech.

But the Hoosiers had other plans and kept the WKU football team winless against Big 10 programs in school history.

WKU was bested in a 38-35 shootout that featured career performances from both quarterbacks and poor play by both defensive units. WKU (2-1) drops to 0-3 against Indiana all-time, and its chances of an undefeated season have been swept away.

“We won our first two games by small

margins and did everything right; we just have to get back to the drawing board,” Head Coach Jeff Brohm said post-game. “I thought our guys played hard and we made plays, but we just came up short."

The first half went in the Hilltoppers’ favor.

The WKU offense got off to a hot start as redshirt freshman running back D’Andre Ferby scored two rushing touchdowns in the first two quarters.

Senior quarterback Brandon Doughty threw for 352 yards and a pair of touchdowns in the first half to senior tight end Tyler Higbee and junior wide receiver Taywan Taylor.

During the second quarter, Doughty became WKU’s all-time leader in passing yards, passing Jeff Cesarone’s 8,566-yard mark.

The senior went on to throw for 484 yards and three touchdowns despite not leading his team to victory. IU’s quarterback Nate Sudfield did some good work as well, finishing with 355 yards and three passing touchdowns.

WKU jumped out to a 28-17 halftime lead, but the defense’s poor play in the second half led to the Hilltoppers’ demise.

"Well, for sure they came out in the second half, and they played better than us and they deserved to win,” Brohm said. “They executed on offense, did whatever they wanted — didn’t have to punt.”

WKU was outscored 21-7 in the second half. Yards against the Hilltopper defense totaled 639 for the game.

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WKU wide receiver Taywan Taylor (2) stiff-arms Indiana defensive back Jameel Cook Jr. (20) during the Hilltoppers’ 38-35 loss Saturday at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Ind. NICK WAGNER/HERALD

At 2-1 to start out 2015, the season thus far has been a story of rising talents.

Redshirt senior tight end Tyler Higbee played in 10 games in 2014 with 14 catches for 226 yards and four touchdowns.

This season through three games, Higbee has emerged as redshirt senior Brandon Doughty’s top target, pulling in a Jonah 22 receptions Phillips team-high for 299 yards and two touchdowns.

Higbee’s 299 yards receiving is second most of any Hilltopper behind junior wide receiver Taywan Taylor’s 333 yards off 17 receptions. Both lead the Hilltoppers in receiving touchdowns with two apiece.

This method of moving the ball down the field is slightly different from the one seen last season, when former senior tight end Mitchell Henry pulled in 29 receptions in the regular season to become Doughty’s sixth-most-popular target. This is a stark contrast to this season, where Higbee is Doughty’s statistical No. 1.

The number of Higbee’s receptions is equally important to the timing of some of them.

Late in the third quarter of the Hilltoppers’ season opener against Vanderbilt, Higbee had a momentumswinging reception for 65 yards to set senior running back Leon Allen up for a 4-yard touchdown run.

The reception came at a time where WKU was having trouble piercing through the tough SEC defense of Vanderbilt; it restored life to an offense that had been relatively stagnant to that point.

A week later against Louisiana Tech, Doughty’s first completion of the night went to Higbee for 14 yards. Despite giving up a fumble in the red zone on WKU’s second drive, Higbee was still pivotal in the Hilltopper offense as he led the team with seven receptions and tallied 88 yards.

This past weekend at Indiana, he pulled in a career-high 11 receptions for 109 yards and a touchdown. That’s just three fewer receptions than he pulled in total last season.

Higbee’s emergence comes as a relief to Hilltopper fans who saw Henry graduate last season bouncing from the Green Bay Packers to the Denver Broncos.

The emergence also brings relief as

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SOCCER

Lady Tops with first program win over Memphis

WKU midfielder Hannah Chua (2) moves the ball downfield as Memphis University defender Olivia Gauthier (16) challenges her during the second half of the Lady Toppers' 2-1 win Friday night at the WKU Soccer Complex. Chua scored from outside the box late in the match to give the Lady Tops the win. GABRIEL SCARLETT/HERALD

BY HUNTER FRINT HERALD.SPORTS@WKU.EDU The Lady Toppers successfully closed out the non-conference portion of their season Friday with a 2-1 win against the University of Memphis at the WKU Soccer Complex.

WKU (4-2-2) is going into conference play on a five-game undefeated streak and has not taken a loss since Aug. 28 in a 4-1 loss to LSU. In that span, the Lady Toppers took wins against Stephen F. Austin (1-0), Mercer (1-0) and Memphis (2-1) while drawing with Valparaiso (2-2) and Georgia State (1-1).

The win against the 4-2-1 Memphis team was a first for the Lady Toppers, who have faced it three times in program history without a win.

“We knew that they had a lot of speed and a lot of athleticism and like to get forward quickly, run at you with the ball,” Head Coach Jason Neidell said. “[We made] little tweaks in our game plan of just trying to make them play with their back to goal and make them play toward their own goal instead of ours.”

A battle for possession in

the midfield characterized the first half with just five shots taken between the two teams.

Action was kept to a minimum until junior Iris Dunn scored the first goal in the 34th minute to give WKU a 1-0 edge heading into the break.

The Lady Toppers showed more attacking determination in the second half and registered a shot in the first five minutes. Senior Chandler Clark made some intense defensive maneuvers that worked in WKU’s favor.

Each team racked up four corners in the second half, which is how Memphis netted their lone goal. Memphis sophomore midfielder Sydney Kingston placed the ball in the back of the net in the 73rd minute off a corner.

The score was tied for just over 10 minutes before sophomore attacking midfielder Hannah Chua spotted a weakness in the Tigers’ defense. She went on a solo run, dribbling around several defenders, and fired a shot from 15 yards out to net her second gamewinner and fourth goal of the season.

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