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Total solar eclipse lowers temperature

BY MONICA KAST HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU

nician. Beu said he was contacted by the chair of the department of agriculture, Linda Brown, after she learned that Beu and his wife used to own a dairy farm where they produced and sold cheese.

“I said, ‘Well it’s been awhile since I made cheese, and I re-

During Monday’s total solar eclipse, the sky went dim, street lights turned on and crickets started chirping.

While most people were looking up through eclipse viewers, Kentucky Mesonet and White Squirrel Weather, two meteorology groups, were looking at how the environment was changing.

White Squirrel Weather, a weather monitoring service at WKU, was tracking environmental changes from the roof of the Environmental Sciences and Technology Building, or EST, during the eclipse.

Joshua Durkee, an associate professor of meteorology who works with White Squirrel Weather, said he was surprised by how dark campus got during totality.

“I truly didn’t think it was going to look like that in Bowling Green,” Durkee said.

Durkee said he expected the changes they monitored to be consistent with environmental changes that occur when the sun goes down, but they were interested to see “to what extent” those changes occurred.

“I was a little surprised that it happened to the extent that it did,” Durkee said.

He said the White Squirrel Weather team observed the temperature drop between five and seven degrees across campus, depending on where you were on campus.

They also observed the humidity increase by about 10 percent on campus, which is consistent with what happens when the sun sets.

Durkee also said they observed the atmospheric pressure decreasing throughout the day, but during totality, the atmospheric pressure rose. Durkee said when the pressure is rising, it “stabilizes the environment” and everything “gets quiet.”

“Everything just kind of sat still during that moment,” He said.

He said White Squirrel Weather recorded the solar radiation drop to zero during totality, as well as the ultraviolet index drop to zero.

While Durkee said most

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Students receive a gouda opportunity

BY EMMA COLLINS HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU

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small number of agriculture students will have the opportunity to learn the art of cheesemaking this semester at Hilltopper Creamery, WKU’s new cheese production plant.

Paul Woosley, assistant chair of the department of agriculture, said the one credit hour class will be like a co-op, or internship, with students actively participating in the cheesemaking process from beginning to end. He said the four-person class will meet two to three times a semester as a group to review food safety.

The rest of the semester, students will work in the creamery and assist with marketing and selling the product.

“Eventually we want to get a more formal class related to cheesemaking and the science behind it,” Woosley said. “That’ll be more of a threehour lecture course and it’ll incorporate a lot of safety things as well.”

Woosley said the class gives students an opportunity to learn both the art of cheese production and the business aspects of mar-

keting and selling a product. He said students interested in food production will benefit from the class because they will learn more than just how to produce cheese.

“They’ll get to understand a little bit about marketing and the demographics of what kind of people are looking at your products and how to expand your products to different demographics as well,” Woosley said.

Gary Beu, artisan cheesemaker in the Hilltopper Creamery, will be assisting the students in the cheese lab. He said students will learn more than just “classroom stuff” because they work with him in the lab to produce cheese.

“From what I understand they all want to see what it’s really like and do it,” Beu said. “So, there’s interest. It’s not just a class.”

Beu has worked at the creamery since January 3, and he helped produce the creamery’s first batch of cheese on April 19. Since then, Beu and four employees, two graduate students and two undergraduate students, have been busy producing, marketing and selling the product.

Beu said he heard about the job because his wife, Carla Beu, works on the WKU farm as an equine tech-

Gary Beu, is in charge of operations at the Hilltop Creamery. “When you try a new cheese and it comes out really well, it means that they’ve [students]listened to you.” LYDIA SCHWEICKART/HERALD

Dean of College of Education to retire after 28 years

BY EMILY DELETTER HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU After working at WKU for 28 years, the dean of the College of Education and Behavioral Sciences will retire after this year.

Sam Evans began working in the College of Education and Behavioral Sciences in 1990, as an associate professor for secondary education.

He became the assistant dean of the college in 1993 and the interim dean in 2003, before accepting the position of dean in April 2003.

Evans said the College of Education has gone under numerous changes during his term, but gives much of the credit to the faculty, staff and students. Two doctorate programs were developed under Evans’ deanship: doctorates of psychology and education.

“We’ve developed and implemented programs that are making a difference,” Evans said. “They’re helping our graduates and the work they do in their chosen profession.”

Along with the development of new programs, Evans described the college as a success because of their focus on students. He said one positive change he has noticed has been the transition of WKU from a teacher’s university to placing a greater importance on research scholarship.

“Your engagement in scholarly activity enhances your skillset and knowledge, related to your teaching,” Evans said.

Jill Duba Sauerheber is a professor and department head of Couple and Family Counseling within the College of Education. She has worked with Evans since 2004.

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Charles S. “Sam” Evans, the dean of the College of Education and Behavioral Sciences is retiring or, as he likes to put it, “transitioning to a new career.”

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SGA has first meeting of new school year

BY NICOLE ZIEGE HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU The Student Government Association will hold its first meeting of the semester on Tuesday, focusing on the process of becoming a senator and enacting legislation.

This will be the first meeting led

by SGA president Andi Dahmer. At the meeting, Dahmer said she will inform candidates of the election process to become an SGA senator.

Dahmer, a junior, said she hopes many students who want to learn more about SGA as an organi-

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At the time, Beu was semi-retired and worked part-time inspecting houses. He said working part-time and already knowing how to build a creamery from the ground up gave him an advantage over the other applicants. He said he also understood how to apply for licenses and how to prepare the facility to pass inspections, two things which the creamery had not yet done.

Beu said when he started the job, the lab already had most of the equipment, but he had to take a complete inventory to see what supplies or equipment still needed to be brought in. He also had to make sure the creamery received the necessary permits and passed the final inspections before it opened.

Beu also had to apply for licenses for himself. To work in the creamery, he had to be certified as a lab technician to work in the cheese lab and as a milk hauler and sampler to transport milk from the dairy cows on WKU’s farm to the cheese lab.

“It just goes on and on, and working with government agencies, nothing’s done quickly,” Beu said.

Since the first day of production, Beu said the creamery has increased the types of cheese produced. Ini-

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Continued from front of what they observed was expected, there were a few measurements he was surprised by.

White Squirrel Weather has three weather stations across campus that measure a variety of environmental factors. One of those stations is in L.T. Smith Stadium. Durkee said in addition to measuring weather conditions in the stands, they also measure the turf and ground temperatures.

Durkee said the temperature of the turf on the football field only dropped two to three degrees during totality, as opposed to the five to seven degree temperature drop throughout the rest of campus. Additionally, the turf didn’t drop to its lowest tempera-

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Continued from front Sauerheber said Evans has been a huge proponent of creating programs that meet the needs of the community, whether with mental health or education, both in Bowling Green and around the state.

“He is a man of integrity,” Sauerheber said. “He has supported me through my professional endeavors, and I’ve been honored to work

zation will attend to learn more about the organization’s committees and the goals of those committees for the upcoming year.

Through SGA, any student can write legislation and join a committee, even if he or she is not elected as a senator, according to Dahmer.

The Senate Committees include Student Affairs, Legislative Research, Academic Affairs, Campus Improvements, Public Relations, SGA S.A.V.E.S., or Standing Against Violence and for Ending Self-Harm, and the Committee for Diversity and Inclusion, formerly known as the MyCampusToo Task Force.

“I hope that this year we have great

levels of student involvement and participation across all areas of our campus community,” Dahmer said.

Executive Vice President Savannah Molyneaux and Administrative Vice President Kara Lowry, who ran with Dahmer in the SGA elections last semester, will also speak at Tuesday’s meeting. This will be the first meeting with Molyneaux and Lowry on the executive board.

Molyneaux, a junior, said that the executive board will detail their goals for the organization at the meeting and that the meeting will help set the tone for the rest of the year.

“We are really hoping to gain a lot of new voices in SGA,” Molyneaux said.

tially only fresh cheddar curds were produced, but Beu has since expanded cheese production to include zesty Italian curds, Cajun spice curds and garlic and dill curds. Beu and his employees also make aged cheeses, including bacon cheddar, pepper jack and regular cheddar cheese. Beu said gouda and mozzarella will be made and sold soon .

Beu said he chose which cheeses the creamery would produce at first, but now he allows students to

customers can stop by the Taylor Center to buy some cheese. He also sells the cheese to Aramark catering, but the cheese has yet to be sold in any grocery stores.

Beu said all the cheeses sell well; however, the fresh cheddar cheese curds and the bacon cheddar tend to be the best-sellers. He said many people buy the cheese curds and eat them straight out of the package as a snack. Other people batter the curds and deep fry them.

Well it’s been awhile since I made cheese, and I really like it, so okay.”

Artisan cheese maker at Hilltop Creamery Gary Beu offer suggestions. One of his employees suggested making two varieties of beer flavored cheeses, one made with India pale ale and the other made with White Squirrel Nut Brown ale. They also produce a third beer flavored cheese made with College Heights Ale. “I’m wide open to trying their suggestions,” Beu said. “Anything they come up with, if it makes any sense at all, we’ll try it.”

Beu said he sells the cheese on Saturdays at the SoKY Marketplace in downtown Bowling Green, and

Beu said he likes the cheese curds deep fried or cooked in a skillet with olive oil. When cooking the curds in the skillet, Beu said he cooks them on each side for 20 seconds.

“It just kind of browns the outside, and then take it out, and it’s just kind of crispy on the outside and gooey on the inside,” Beu said.

Beu said the creamery produces 125 to 150 pounds of cheese per week, and the workday can last from six a.m. to almost seven p.m. Beu said long work hours are hard on employees, and it that is part of why the cream-

ture until totality had actually ended.

Durkee said this likely happened because of the material turf is made of and the way the material absorbs the sun’s energy. Durkee compared the change in temperature of the turf to “taking a pan off the stove,” saying it doesn’t cool off immediately.

Melissa Griffin, a quality assurance specialist for Kentucky Mesonet at WKU, was also standing on top of EST during totality. Kentucky Mesonet is a statewide “network of automated weather and climate monitoring stations” being developed at WKU, according to their website.

Griffin said as the eclipse approached totality, she noticed the wind speed drop, birds going quiet and crickets beginning to chirp.

“It was definitely throwing off the regular rhythms of nature,” Griffin

said of the few moments of totality.

Griffin said in areas that experienced totality throughout the state, solar radiation dropped to zero at all locations, because the moon was completely blocking the sun.

In areas of the state that only experienced a partial eclipse, solar radiation levels still dropped, although not to zero, Griffin said.

Temperatures also dropped as the eclipse approached totality. Griffin said she expected temperatures to drop by approximately five degrees, but in some places around the state, they dropped as much as ten degrees.

“It was definitely interesting to observe,” Griffin said.

Kentucky Mesonet’s data showed the temperature drop about 6 degrees during totality. At the WKU Farm, where Kentucky Mesonet has a

with him. He will truly be missed.”

Although he will be retiring at the end of this year, Evans says he is excited for the small overlap he shares with new president Timothy Caboni. At the president’s convocation last Friday, Caboni frequently referred to WKU as a “student-centered, applied research” university.

“I was very pleased with Caboni’s comments related to student success and applied research,” Evans said. “It’s absolutely correct in terms of movement, be-

cause the big world is changing.”

Evans said he hopes that diversity will also play a larger role in the future.

He said he believes in the importance of graduating students who understand other cultures on a level where they can appreciate the culture.

“It boils down to impact,” Evans said. “The impact our graduates are making in their chosen careers. It has to be in a way that helps those individuals grow.”

Evans will officially retire June 30, 2018, but has requested tran-

Lowry, a junior, said she is “really excited” about the meeting.

“We have been working hard this summer to get everything up and running,” said Lowry. “I’m also excited to meet the new senators and for the fall elections to fill the remaining senator positions.”

The meeting will be at 5 p.m. in the Student Senate Chambers, on the second floor of Downing Student Union. The meeting is open to anyone who wants to attend.

Reporter Nicole Ziege can be reached at 270-745-6011 or nicole.ziege825@topper.wku.edu.

ery operates only one day a week.

“Most of us can’t take that, especially not two days a week,” Beu said.

Beu and Woosley said the creamery may soon have to expand its hours, however, to keep up with the demand for the cheese. Beu said the creamery also needs to build up inventory for the holidays. He also plans on launching a website to allow for nationwide shipping.

Adam Blessinger, dairy herd technician, said the creamery only uses a day’s worth of milk right now. He said if cheese production continues to increase and the creamery begins to operate more than one day a week, the farm may have to look for a way to increase milk production.

The next phase for Hilltopper Creamery will be the addition of a store in the Taylor Center. Beu said part of the classroom and the kitchen in the Taylor Center will be turned into a retail store where the cheese, WKU beef, vegetables and flowers from the WKU Floral Shop.

“We’ll have all of that before too long, hopefully by next month,” Beu said.

For now, the creamery will focus on continuing cheese production while educating its new students.

“This is the pilot class, so I’m sure we’ll learn quite a bit,” Woosley said.

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monitoring station, the temperature dropped from 89.9 degrees before the eclipse to 84 degrees during totality.

Another Kentucky Mesonet station, located near the Corvette Museum, showed the temperature dropping from 90.3 degrees to 84.8 degrees during the eclipse, Griffin said.

Griffin also said Kentucky Mesonet was gathering information on solar radiation, temperature, and wind speed every three seconds during the eclipse, instead of every five minutes as they usually do. Griffin said the complete data set is available on the Kentucky Mesonet website to view.

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sition status to continue his relationship with WKU. He also plans to write and possibly consult, but says his biggest priority will be to spend time with his family.

“I have three young grandkids,” he said. “They’re important in my life and I want to spend as much time with them as I can.”

Reporter Emily DeLetter can be reached at 270-745-6011 or emily.deletter304@topper.wku.edu.

Correction

Patti Minter, a professor in the department of history, told a Herald reporter that Timothy C. Caboni’s convocation speech addressed “diversity, equity and inclusion.” In the original version of this story, Minter was quoted as saying “adversity, equity and inclusion.” The Herald regrets the error.

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New program supports first-generation students

BY REBEKAH ALVEY HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU When Martha Sales was a first-generation Pell Grant-eligible student-of-color at WKU, she was supported by mentors, advisors and role models. These tools led her to get four degrees from WKU and become the executive director of TRiO Programs and the Intercultural Student Engagement Center at WKU. Through a new program, Sales is now providing the same opportunities and tools to a select group of first-year students.

The Intercultural Student Engagement Center, or ISEC, is a first-year experience program that guides students of color, first-generation students and Pell Grant-eligible students towards graduation. Through the program, students are immersed in a living-and-learning community.

By surrounding students with resources and a community, Sales said students get a sense of belonging.

“We want them to see themselves as an alum,” Sales said. “You can only be an alum if you graduate.”

Sales said the criteria includes not just students of color but students who may encounter a wide variety of issues that may prevent

them from graduating. Students enrolled in the program are referred to as “scholars,” Sales said.

“A scholar is someone who is able to learn and communicate,” Sales said.

While the program focuses on freshman year, Sales said the students will be assisted in different ways throughout their four-year college experience.

The first year focuses on getting students involved and adjusted; sophomore year introduces leadership and study abroad opportunities and junior year focuses on connecting students to their career.

By senior year, advisers are working on doing anything else needed to help the scholar graduate, Sales said.

Currently, 72 students are involved in ISEC, with about 60 of them living in Douglas Keene Hall. These students also attend at least one class together and are provided with a peer navigator, someone to guide them through their first year at WKU. While there are several other living and learning communities at WKU, such as the Honors College, ISEC and the students it includes is unique.

Sales said she and the program have already heard many questions from students and other universities, which is an attraction for WKU. Students moved in for orienta-

Martha Sales is the executive director of WKU’s new Intercultural Student Engagement Center (ISEC).

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tion the weekend before M.A.S.T.E.R Plan so they could familiarize themselves with their group and the campus itself. Already, Sales said she sees ISEC students sticking together and being active in classrooms.

Louisville freshman Dashawn Adams, a first-generation stu-

dent-of-color, is a scholar in the ISEC Academy. He said it has already been useful to him. He said it’s important to know he has people to support and guide him through his first year.

Adams said he is looking for acceptance into the nursing program, which he said is extremely competitive. Already after his first day of classes, he was studying in the ISEC offices and has a group chat of people in his grade and upperclassmen to study with.

“I know people,” Adams said.

“Which is important for fitting in.”

To immediately create a sense of belonging, students were taught the fight song and importance of WKU tradition at orientation. They also met Big Red and President Timothy C. Caboni.

Sales said Caboni has been supportive throughout the process in both actions and words, even though the program was created before his arrival. Sales referred to his convocation speech, where he addressed diversity on campus.

Sales said the ISEC Academy has already created a sense of belonging for the scholars involved.

“We want students of color to feel like they belong at WKU,” Sales said.

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Advertising and PR officially change departments

BY EMMA COLLINS HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU The advertising and public relations majors have officially moved from their original home in the School of Journalism & Broadcasting to the department of Communication, although a physical move has yet to happen.

Helen Sterk, head of the department of Communication, said the change, which became effective July 1, involved efforts from faculty in the department of Communication and the School of Journalism & Broadcasting. The move was announced last fall, while plans for the merger continued throughout the spring semester. She said switching departments was not an easy task.

“Yes, this is going to be hard work,” Sterk said. “But the outcome is going to be more opportunity for students.”

While the advertising and public relations majors have officially switched departments, some work still remains. Sterk said the curriculum must be changed, and a committee was appointed in January to discuss those changes.

Angie Jerome, a member of the committee tasked with finalizing the curriculum, said the five-member group included representatives from the department of Communication and the School of Journalism & Broadcasting. The curriculum

includes decreasing the number of required hours for public relations and advertising majors. Both majors originally required 45-46 hours; however, the new advertising major requires 36 hours while the new public relations major requires 39.

Jerome said, in addition to changing the curriculum for those two majors, the committee also reduced the number of required hours for the communication studies major and the corporate and organizational communications majors. Those now require 36 hours.

Patricia Witcher, an adviser for public relations majors, said the curriculum changes will make it easier for students to double major. The changes will also allow students to take more classes in other majors.

Although the committee has produced a final version of the curriculum, Sterk said it still must be approved by the department of Communication, the Potter College Curriculum Committee and WKU Curriculum Committee. She said she hopes the curriculum will be approved by the end of this semester.

In addition to finalizing the curriculum, Sterk said a new location must be found for the department of Communication. The department is currently housed in the Fine Arts Center, but the advertising and public relations faculty remain in Jody Richards Hall, formally known as Mass Media and Technology Hall. Sterk said she

does not know where their new space will be, but she said she hopes the decision will be made in December.

Sterk said she has not heard any complaints from faculty members; however, she has heard that some students have concerns about how the changes will affect them. She said current advertising and public relations majors can choose to still follow the original requirements for the majors. If students see the new curriculum and decide they want to switch from the old curriculum, they can choose to do that as well.

Sterk said students should not let the curriculum changes concern them because the department will make sure all students are able to take the classes they need.

“We’ll make sure they get what they need and that they all graduate on time,” Sterk said. “This shouldn’t hold up anybody.”

To help ease students’ concerns, Sterk said she will be participating in an open forum with Jerome, Potter College Dean Larry Snyder and faculty from the advertising and public relations departments to discuss any concerns. The forum is open to all students and will be Wednesday, Aug. 30, from 4 to 5 p.m. in the auditorium of Mass Media and Technology Hall.

“We want to do as much as we can to reduce apprehensions,” Sterk said.

The advertising and public relations majors are not the only new majors in the department of Communi-

cation. The pop culture studies major has also moved to that department.

Sterk said previously the pop culture studies major existed without a department. As a result, it had no department head and no budget.

Sterk said money is important because it allows faculty members and students to attend conferences or to travel to present research. She said the major will stay the same despite moving to a new department.

Another potential change for the department will be the addition of a new assistant professor. Sterk said the department is looking for someone to teach digital communications. She said the application ends in November, and said she she hopes to have selected the new assistant professor by March.

Sterk said the new professor will help bridge the gap between project-based learning, which is typical in advertising and public relations, and theoretical-based learning, which is used in communication classes.

She said classes on digital communications will benefit all students in the communication department.

“There are some very exciting people out there who do things that I can’t even imagine,” Sterk said.

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Hello, from the WKU Talisman

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Your Opinion, Not Their’s Fighting the Influence of Groupthink

BY NICOLE LEONARD HERALD.OPINION.WKU.EDU The only thing worse than a biased media is a lazy consumer base. When a single source is the basis of your entire perception on any given topic, you may be missing the mark.

Learning takes time. Reading, watching and listening take effort.

It’s a busy and fast-paced world, so you might only have enough free time to hear one opinion about the trials of the American system. But, maybe, you also have a minute to learn something for yourself without the overbearing influence of someone close to you.

The undoing of any uninformed opinion lies inherently within the shallow limitations of its ignorance.

It’s time to stop letting other people tell you how to think. Wield the weapon of personal knowledge when it comes to constructing ideas.

Too often appeasement and indifference betray the formulation of a well-rounded viewpoint.

Indifference is simple. We don’t always want to put in the hard labor, so you take what comes easiest. But how could anyone assume that your opinion is one of value when you never took a moment to do the grunt work of researching? Luckily, there

is this curious device each of us typically carry around and it can access information from around the world at the touch of a screen. Use a search engine, hit up a couple of news sites and read something longer than 140 characters.

There are news agencies and media outlets out there for almost any given topic. To cultivate an opinion with a strong foundation, look at contrasting sources. Assess and analyze the portions of opposing arguments that both match and dispute any preconceived notion you already accept.

Understanding a topic from multiple perspectives is the only effective way to comprehend its entirety.

For example, a person whose singular agent of political discourse comes from a nightly viewing of Sean Hannity’s Fox News television show will be naive to the biases of a liberal point of view. Talk shows that parade themselves as news are problematic enough, even without the viewer’s refusal to engage in meaningful discretion. It’s acceptable to watch a show like Sean Hannity’s as long as we also consider other sources like Anderson Cooper’s perspective as a position of comparison.

If an opinion is constructed with considerable judgment, it will be able to withstand attempts at ref-

utation. Once you’ve gotten inside the heads of the opposition, you will have the tools to create a viable argument worthy of contest. Biases result from a multi-step process that must include personal observation and veritable fact.

Appeasement is a complex issue that will also likely present itself in the pursuit of purposeful opinion development. It’s a lack of willingness to challenge itself, an identity or some sentiment. Human nature breeds favoritism in this way; people prefer to be reaffirmed rather than delegitimized in our convictions.

We seek information that feeds our ideological truths. Too often we write off opinions that do not match our own when we should actually take their relative merit into consideration. Ignorance is a conscious choice made by individuals every day.

We want to appease more than ourselves. Our confidence is driven by the attestation of people we respect or hope to share a common identity with. If we are determined to conform to the traits of a community, we will adopt their tenets as our own.

There has to come a reformation in the mindset of the masses when it concerns their consumption of information.

Happy first week of classes, Hilltoppers!

We’re the Talisman — the bright and cheery, eclectic, thoughtful and intelligent voice of WKU — and we’re glad you’re here.

At the end of each semester, we publish a magazine that serves as a beautifully diverse record of life as we know it at WKU. It’s filled with stories that strive to accurately reflect the lives of students on the Hill. We also consistently update our website, WKUTalisman.com, with some of our most creative content.

We hope that you’ll check out these two unique platforms and connect with us on social media.

You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @WKUTalisman.

And if you’re a creative-minded individual with skills in writing, photography, editing, design, art or marketing, we’d love for you to work with us. We’re always accepting applications for paid positions at WKUTalisman.com/jobs.

It’s a cliché, but it’s worth repeating: our time as WKU students will fly by faster than we think, but don’t worry, the Talisman will be here to capture meaningful moments, tell important stories and help you remember all those little things you don’t want to miss.

Best wishes!

Helen Gibson

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How to navigate the social eating scene

BY KELLY BURGESS HERALD.OPINION.WKU.EDU As summer lingers and fades, one of the most wonderful times of the year begins. So many opportunities come along with a new school year-reunions with old friends, meeting others for the first time and endless social gatherings, sporting events and celebrations. Recently, I realized all these events all have one thing in common.

Why does it seem that everything in life revolves around food? Planning grocery lists, getting coffee or lunch with friends and attending so-

cial events all somehow involve food!

Whether it is a meal, snack or dessert, anytime people get together, there is usually some type of refreshment. Of course, the words “free food” take a party to a whole new level!

I value spending time with people so much, but sometimes it feels like a challenge to do this and not gain the freshman 15 in the first week of school! How is it possible to maintain a healthy social calendar and body at the same time? These simple tips will allow you to have your cake and eat it too!

One simple way to navigate the social eating scene is to plan ahead. For example, if you know you will be at-

tending an event where healthy options are scarce, eat a healthy snack ahead of time. This will prevent you from being so hungry and overeating foods you wish you didn’t. You can also plan ahead by packing a lunch or picnic. By doing this, you have more control over the foods you eat and the portions you consume.

Speaking of portions, another simple way to stay healthy is simply to eat smaller portions of foods that are more “fun” than nutritious. There is nothing wrong with having a treat occasionally, but consider ordering the smaller size option or sharing your treat with a friend!

Another tip is to keep healthy foods

available at home. If there is junk food around, I am always tempted to eat it, but if it isn’t there, sometimes I even forget that I wanted it. Eat well at home, and save the treats for special occasions.

Along with healthy eating, consider doing something fun and active with a friend instead of always just meeting over coffee. Go for a walk, explore a new area of town or visit a local park. You still get to spend time together, but in a way that is fresh, exciting and healthy.

You don’t have to choose between a social life or a healthy lifestyle. Simply think ahead and make the best of both.

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BY OLIVIA MOHR HERALD.FEATURES@WKU.EDU One of the Student Government Association’s goals is to support sustainability. Its Sustainability Committee hasn’t held its first meeting yet, but the members already have ideas to improve sustainability efforts on campus.

The committee is working on instituting several programs and improving others to allow WKU to better recycle and conserve energy.

Louisville junior and SGA’s Executive Vice President Savannah Molyneaux said she is looking forward to working with President Timothy Caboni to improve campus sustainability.

“I think that he will definitely continue President Ransdell’s tradition and increase sustainability overall,” she said. “I’m really excited to work with him.”

Ransdell was known for his sustainability efforts, according to the Spring 2017 issue of the Talisman magazine. He put “Ransdell’s Rule” in place to ensure that for each tree removed, two trees would be planted somewhere on campus. Energy sourcing switched from coal to natural gas in 2008, and Ransdell promoted “conservation vacations,” which

consisted of shutting the campus down during its holidays. Ransdell also helped SGA support the push for students to stop using Subway’s plastic bags on campus during the Fall 2016 semester.

Molyneaux said Caboni has also expressed interest in sustainability efforts.

“So far he’s been very supportive, and I think he’s very forward-thinking like President Ransdell was, and Dr. Caboni has already been very hands-on and excited to work with us, which I think is awesome,” she said.

SGA’s executive branch will meet with Caboni monthly, so they will be able to tell him their goals and discuss issues as they come up, Molyneaux said.

Like Molyneaux, Georgetown sophomore and SGA’s Sustainability Committee Chair Ian Hamilton feels Caboni will support SGA’s efforts.

“I feel like Caboni will be able to push [sustainability] even further than it was before,” he said.

Hamilton said the Sustainability Committee will hold its first meeting from 5:30-6:30 p.m. today, Aug. 24, in DSU 2084. Everyone is welcome.

Hamilton is hoping to expand the committee, which now consists of about 20 members. “The more, the

better,” he said.

Richmond sophomore and member of the Sustainability Committee and the Resource Conservation department, Anna McAvoy, said SGA officially voted the Sustainability Committee as a permanent SGA committee in an amendment in its constitution.

McAvoy feels glad SGA is prioritizing sustainability because she feels it is an important issue.

“We don’t realize how much damage we really are causing to the earth,” she said. “We only have so many trees. We can only fill up so much of a landfill with trash before it becomes overwhelming.”

McAvoy is working on a reusable bag program which will encourage students to use reusable shopping bags instead of plastic bags. She got the idea around the time of the Earth Day festival last year but did not have enough funding. This year, Elizabeth Gafford, Coordinator of Resource Conservation, funded it for her. The bags were about $4.30 each, and there were about 50 bags total.

On Tuesday, Molyneaux approved McAvoy’s idea to put the bags in the SGA office, where people will collect 25 plastic bags from each student who wants a reusable bag. The plastic bags will be taken off campus and recycled.

The SGA office currently offers Green Books, instead of Blue Books, for examinations, which consist of mostly recycled paper, and it holds the highest possible ranking, three acorns, from the Office of Sustainability’s Green Squirrel of Approval program.

The Green Squirrel of Approval requires buildings or offices to answer questions on a detailed questionnaire showing its sustainability practices, including how it conserves energy and recycles. The office or building then receives a ranking out of three acorns.

SGA is hoping to expand several other sustainability programs.

Molyneaux said SGA is hoping to expand the reusable container program on campus and is working on instituting a reusable cup program to use for all dining locations.

She also hopes SGA will expand local food options on menus, but it will be difficult at some locations, including Chick-Fil-A and Steak N’ Shake, because of licensing and legal issues that may keep them from changing the menus.

At places like Fresh Food Company, it is easier to serve local food options because it has more freedom with its menu.

“There might not be a lot we can

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Recent WKU graduate runs local brewery

BY GRIFFIN FLETCHER HERALD.FEATURES@WKU.EDU Recently graduated and new to the professional world, Josh Newell heads the largest brewery on any college campus in the United States.

Josh Newell graduated from WKU with a photojournalism degree in May of 2017. He now works as brewery supervisor at College Heights Brewing, a sub-branch of Kentucky Ale. Newell was born in Atlanta, grew up in Iowa and came to Bowling Green for college. Along the way, he has done everything from fixing bikes to interning as a conflict journalist in Israel.

Needless to say, Newell’s travels have afforded him a unique skill set, which he believes is perfect for the unpredictable nature of his job.

Located along Nashville Road at the WKU Center for Research and Development, CHB is barely a 10-minute drive from Diddle Arena.

Steel machines and white fiberglass beams cover almost half of the brewing quarters, with stacked bags of malted barley close by. Compared to the spotless hallway just outside the door, the brewery serves as a microcosm of craziness and production.

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clean this morning,” Newell said with a smile and glance downward.

In just one 12-hour day, around 440 gallons of beer are brewed by means of a “brew-house,” fermenter

and carbonator, but only four ingredients are actually used in the process.

Water, grain, hops and yeast.

“The recipe for beer is simpler

than the recipe for chocolate chip cookies,” Newell said as he reached into a sack of barley grain, beer’s first ingredient.

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24-Hour Play Festival kicks off this weekend

BY SARAH YAACOUB HERALD.FEATURES@WKU.EDU Rome may not have been built in a day, but this weekend, the WKU Theatre and Dance Department’s 24-Hour Play Festival will showcase something that was.

The festival is a semi-annual event held on campus at Gordon Wilson Lab Theatre, organized by theatre major Reagan Stovenour and performing arts major Nick Struck, both of whom are upperclassmen at WKU. This semester’s Play Festival, only the second to take place at WKU, will be created in collaboration with the Kentucky Museum and its upcoming New Kentuckians exhibit, which will open to the public on Saturday, the day of Play Festival’s final performance.

“It’s just a really crazy, amazing thing,” Stovenour said.

The 24-Hour Play concept isn’t a completely original one, though. It’s been done all over the world, from Broadway to Dublin to Los Angeles, although each one is tweaked to fit the location’s resources. Here, for example, there’s an abundance of trained and talented actors, but

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do in terms of [expanding local options], but I think it’s important to try as hard as we can to expand options for students and make things healthier and local and locally grown,” Molyneaux said.

Molyneaux has also been working on a recycling program for Greek life

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The barley grain is first placed in a mill and cracked, where it is then mixed with hot water and made sugary. The mix is next paired with hops and boiled in a kettle, which breaks down the sugar and gives the beer its signature bitter taste. Yeast is added via a yeast brink, then the beer is transferred to a fermenter, where it undergoes aerobic and anaerobic oxygenation, which creates alcohol. After a week to 10 days of fermentation, the beer is sent to a “brite tank” and carbonated. Finally, the beer is able to be stored and sold.

The system sounds straightforward but is precise and delicate.

“You can leave one valve open and ruin a whole day. I’ve done that,” Newell said.

far fewer have an interest in being a playwright. It’s the same general idea, but the process and the product are a little different each time it’s executed.

“We did it for the first time ever [last semester] and got great reac-

Playwrights are assigned to directors and directors to actors. After this, the cast and crew members are free to leave, with the exception of playwrights, who stay and continue to work on writing their scripts, build-

It’s really about cultivating new playwrights and new ideas as well,We want a really comfortable environment to get people out of their comfort zones.”

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tions,” explained Struck.

And they’re hoping for even more participation than they had in last semester’s Play Festival, which produced six plays in the 24-hour period.

The timeline for the event looks something like this: meetings begin around 9 p.m. on Friday, August 25.

ing each one around a line they’re given. The directors return at 8 a.m.

Saturday, quickly followed by the rest of the crew, and they all work together for the next twelve hours as written ideas take dramatic form in rehearsal and onstage. The performance is at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Gordon Wilson Lab Theatre, located on the first

that will allow Greek organizations to have a way to recycle.

SGA is making more recycling efforts. Hamilton said Diddle Arena started a recycling program this year that will allow student organizations to volunteer to recycle during and after men’s and women’s basketball games. Organizations can participate if they have at least 30 volunteers and will receive a $500 donation for recy-

cling. Smaller organizations can pair with other organizations and split the donation. Each student volunteer will receive a free t-shirt and volunteer hours.

Hamilton said there will also be a recycling program for the homecoming floats this year. The floats are made with paper mache, which cannot normally be recycled. This year, they will be sent to Louisville to be

Larger breweries have largely replaced hands-on methods with technology and computerized machines, but Newell appreciates College Heights’ all-manual approach. This method took him over five months to master.

“You feel much more personally responsible for the beer,” Newell said.

Also, all-manual does not mean less scientific.

Brewery Apprentice Zach Berry graduated alongside Newell in 2017 with a degree in chemistry and worked for CHB throughout his senior year at WKU. Berry hopes to one day make use of his experience at CHB by working in a distillery lab, where yeast analysis and quality control takes place.

“I took this as an opportunity to better myself as a lab person in a

brewery and distillery,” Berry said.

Despite CHB’s current lack of lab work, Newell and Berry know there is potential for future expansion and progress.

“I want to get more students involved, absolutely,” Newell said without hesitation, when asked about CHB’s future plans.

Though brewing and distilling sciences is not yet a formal major at WKU, the Board of Regents recognizes it as a certificate and could it approve it as a major soon, according to a past Herald article.

As shown in a report by WKU News, the CHB brewery was established in April of 2016 by means of a partnership between the Alltech brewing and distilling company and the WKU Brewing and Distilling program, with the goal to give WKU students the opportunity to experience and learn the

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floor of Gordon Wilson Hall. The final show is open to the public, and it’s free—no registration of any kind is necessary.

All students are invited to take part in the 24-Hour Play Festival this semester, and applications for prospective directors and playwrights can be obtained by emailing Reagan Stovenour at reagan.stovenour930@ topper.wku.edu and Nick Struck at nicholas.struck671@topper.wku. edu. Sign-ups for actors are still available as well. Freshmen, new students and those with limited experience in or exposure to drama are especially encouraged to attend and take part in the event.

The goal is to get everyone working together to create art. Each of the plays that will be performed are a collective effort of everyone involved.

“It’s really about cultivating new playwrights and new ideas as well,” Stovenour said. “We want a really comfortable environment to get people out of their comfort zones.”

Reporter Sarah Yaacoub can be reached at 270-745-6291 and sarah. yaacoub214@topper.wku.edu. Follow her on Twitter at @sarahyaacoub1.

recycled.

When it comes to sustainability, Hamilton feels every bit of effort counts.

“On a daily level, there’s so much we can all do,” he said.

Reporter Olivia Mohr can be reached at 270-745-6288 and olivia. mohr564@topper.wku.edu.

process of brewing beer.

No jobs are currently available at CHB, and all applicants must be at least 21 years old, but greater opportunity will come with development.

Even now, CHB is extending within the Bowling Green community. CHB “pint-night” is scheduled August 31 at Mellow Mushroom and September 1 at Blue Holler. CHB is also the official beer sponsor of WKU Athletics.

Though Newell had not been introduced to brewing before working at CHB, compared to his past work as a photojournalist, he described the experience as “serene.”

“I could see myself doing this for the next 40 years,” Newell said.

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tion in 2016, four freshmen come in to compete for their places.

“We were held together by a thread last season,” Hudson said. “Our depth was not very good. One injury would have made us look very different.

“This year is very different. Not only do we have some talented new-

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on the block for the second starting spot at cornerback.

Although they lose experience in Simmons, the Hilltopper second-

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naugh notched 16 kills while Rachel Anderson added 13 and Sydney Engle posted 11. Jessica Lucas tallied 45 assists and 16 digs.

The Salukis will return a host of

comers, all of our kids are better volleyball players than they were a year ago. We have a group that is confident with themselves and are confident with each other.”

Two players who emerged in the scrimmage against Kentucky last week were freshman setter Taylor Bebout, who racked up 11 assists in her two sets of play, and freshman Darby

Music, who tallied nine digs in two sets at the libero position.

Along with Music and Bebout, freshmen Hallie Shelton and Kayland Jackson round out the newcomers and add more depth to the Lady Toppers’ bench.

“When I say we’re better than we were a year ago, it’s because early in the year when nobody is thinking

ary also returns safety Marcus Ward.

Ward expected to finish his career at WKU last season, but an injury in week two ended his season and he was granted a medical redshirt.

The Hilltoppers’ first two opponents are Eastern Kentucky and a

road trip to University of Illinois of the Big Ten. Neither team had a quarterback throw for over 10 touchdowns last season. The WKU secondary will get its first true test in the matchup against Lousiana Tech, a team the WKU secondary has strug-

gled against over the past three meetings.

talent from last year’s team, including redshirt-senior outside hitter Andrea Estrada, who led the team with 358 kills in 2016.

However, Southern Illinois loses lots of talent to graduation as well, including setter Hannah Kaminsky,

who led the Salukis with 758 assists in 2016, and Mariana Pilon, who anchored the SIU defense with 453 digs in 2016.

Upon arriving to Bowling Green from the season-opening tournament, the Lady Toppers will host

Tennessee State for their home opener on Tuesday at 6 p.m. at E.A. Diddle Arena.

about volleyball, these kids are in the gym getting better,” Hudson said. “I think that is a testimony to how hard our girls work and how coachable all of them are.”

Reporter Clay Manlove can be reached at 270-724-9620 and clayton. manlove475@topper.wku.edu. Follow him on Twitter at @ctmanlove58.

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Calendar friday, Aug. 25

saturday, Aug. 26

WHAT: WKU Soccer vs Austin Peay WHEN: 7 p.m.

WHERE: Clarksville, Tennessee

WHAT: WKU Volleyball vs Northern Arizona WHEN: 8:30 a.m.

WHERE: Oxford, Ohio

WHAT: WKU Volleyball vs Southern Illinois WHEN: 10:30 a.m.

WHERE: Oxford, Ohio WHAT: WKU Volleyball vs Miami (OH) WHEN: 5:30 p.m.

WHERE: Oxford, Ohio

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digs, good for second on the team.

“We have lots of great players in our program, but I believe that Sydney is our greatest volleyball player,” Hudson said. “She is what we call our ‘glue player’ because she keeps our team together. She can do it all, offensively and defensively.”

Rounding out the returning starters are junior middle hitter Rachel Anderson and last season’s team leader in blocks, Amara Listenbee.

Anderson finished first on the team and 10th in the NCAA with a .414 hitting clip and second on the team with 406 kills Returning players also made an impact in 2016 include junior Taylor Dellinger, who finished with 238 kills, sophomore Emma Kowalkowski, who had 607 total attempts and sophomore Sophia Cerino, who contributed 24 kills on 68 total attacks.

Senior middle-hitter Maggie Singleton and junior setter Mary Martin also saw valuable time on the court for the Lady Toppers last season.

Hudson does have an important aspect in this season’s team he has not had in a long time: depth.

For the two seniors lost to gradua-

The anticipation is over for WKU head coach Travis Hudson and his experienced Lady Topper team as WKU travels to Oxford, Ohio on Friday to play a three-match slate in the Miami Best Western Sycamore Inn Invitational.

Three other teams will play in the tournament with the Lady Toppers, who have won the Conference USA Championship four years in a row since joining the conference in 2013.

“This season will be no different from last season in that it will be a challenge every time we step onto the floor,” Hudson said about this season’s schedule. “But by the same token, we think that every time we step on the floor, we have a chance to win.”

According to the RPI, 11 out of the 13 teams that WKU will start the season against finished in the top 100 standings in 2016, including two of the three teams that the Lady Toppers will face in this weekend’s tournament.

“We don’t plan on winning them all by building a schedule like this,” Hudson said. “None of these matches will hurt us if they go the other way as long as we are able to get back on track and get back to where we need to be.”

Host team Miami University of Ohio finished 42nd in the NCAA Women’s Volleyball RPI in 2016 with a 24-7 record and finished as runner-up in the Mid-American Conference, or MAC, despite having a 15-1 conference record.

The immediate challenge the Lady Redhawks present is the experience that is returning on offense and defense, including senior outside hitter Katie Tomasic, who led Miami with 276 kills in 2016, and senior libero Maeve McDonald, who led the team with 487 digs.

The closing match of the tournament will feature Northern Arizona, who finished 91st in the 2016 NCAA Women’s Volleyball RPI with a 24-8 overall record and a 12-4 record in the Big Sky Conference.

Also on the schedule for the Lady Toppers to open the tournament is a familiar foe in Southern Illinois, who finished the 2016 season with a 2112 overall record before ending their season in the first round of the MVC tournament.

WKU took down the Salukis 3-1 in Bowling Green last season in the Western Kentucky Invitational.

In that match, senior Alyssa Cava-

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Senior outside hitter Sydney Engle speaks in the media room at E.A. Diddle Arena on her experience with volleyball and her team on Tuesday. “It’s a sport that I finally got into,” Engle said. “My team, they just make me want to get better all the time. I want to provide for them and do the best i can for them.” TYGER WILLIAMS/HERALD

DIGGING deep

WKU to rely on experience in 2017

BY CLAY MANLOVE HERALD.SPORTS@WKU.EDU When looking up and down the roster, not much is different since the Lady Toppers’ 30-3 season ended last year.

In fact, the defending Conference-USA Champions have gained more than they’ve lost this off-season.

Returning 100 percent of an offense that was ranked No. 2 in the nation last season per NCAA.com, WKU head coach Travis Hudson expressed one sentiment to describe how the team feels about getting the season underway.

“We’re excited,” Hudson said at Tuesday’s media day. “We’ve had a healthy camp and we have enough pieces to have another very special season. We can’t wait to see what we are going to become.”

The Lady Toppers loaded up the stat sheet last season, finishing in the top 25 in a number of NCAA Volleyball statistical categories. The good news is that experience all comes back to the court for WKU this season.

Returning to lead the offensive

attack is senior outside hitter Alyssa Cavanaugh, who was voted the C-USA Preseason Player of the Year.

Cavanaugh finished 18th in NCAA individual standings in 2016 with 516 total kills on a .343 hitting clip.

“The thing that impresses me most about Alyssa is that she shows up to play every day,” Hudson said.

“I can’t remember a time in the last few years where she was a no-show.

When the lights come on, she’s ready to play, and that is very comforting as a coach.”

Beside Cavanaugh will be the presence of senior setter Jessica Lucas, who averaged 11.64 assists per set last season, good for sixth in NCAA individual standings. According to her head coach, skill is not the only thing Lucas brings to the table. “[Lucas] truly is the quarterback of our team,” Hudson said. “She is a great player in her own right, but she also takes pride in making everyone around her great. She brings greatness to the gym every day.”

Rounding out the group of returning starting seniors is outside hitter Sydney Engle. Engle proved to be an all-around force for the Lady Toppers in 2016 after picking up 254 kills to accompany 137 assists and 324

WKU secondary looking to take a step forward

BY SAM PORTER HERALD.SPORTS@WKU.EDU Over the past three seasons, some of the more memorable WKU football games have been shootouts.

In 2014, the Hilltoppers ended Marshall’s perfect season by a score of 67-66 in overtime, a game in which quarterbacks Brandon Doughty and Rakeem Cato combined for 15 passing touchdowns.

Last season, Lousiana Tech handed WKU its lone Conference USA loss of the season by a score of 55-52, and high-level passers Mike White and Ryan Higgins combined for nearly 800 passing yards and 10 touchdowns through the air.

Two months later, White and company avenged the loss in the C-USA title game, when the two quarterbacks upped the previous combined total to 900 passing yards in a 58-44 WKU victory.

As a result of all the scoring, the WKU defense finished 119th in the nation in passing defense last season. The Hilltoppers return several key players from the secondary, and head coach Mike Sanford seems confident in the group.

“The defensive backfield has been a really pleasant surprise of camp,” Sanford said earlier this month.

“They’ve played a lot more top-

down, not giving up a lot of downfield throws. I’ve been really impressed with the defensive backfield in general.”

However, improving from the bottom won’t come without some adversity. Sanford announced on Aug. 5 that redshirt senior cornerback De’Andre Simmons had suffered a season ending knee injury. Simmons was expected to start on the opposite side of senior cornerback Joe Brown.

Now, several other defensive backs will battle for Simmons’ starting spot.

“So we lost a brother, and thats big.

But it’s always the next man up rule,” Brown said.“It’s just one of those things you have to pray on. We’ve got a lot of depth in the defensive backfield. We have some guys that can play. We’ll be ready.”

Brown is the surefire leader in the WKU’s quarterback Mike White (14) passes the ball to running back Anthony Wales Hilltopper secondary. The Louisville (20) during WKU’s scrimmage Aug. 20, 2016, at L. T. Smith Stadium in Bowling Green. native led WKU in pass breakups (10 JEFF BROWN/HERALD in 2016), and tied for the team lead in passes defended with 11. Brown cornerback on his play-making abil“Losing Simmons was a huge loss, also recorded two sacks as well as an ity since Simmons went out, includ- especially because we lose experiinterception to earn All-Conference ing a 108-yard interception return ence on one corner of the field. Drell USA second team honors. during WKU’s first scrimmage of fall Greene has been really good and As far as replacing Simmons, sevcamp.

Devon Key at the other safety posieral players will be relied upon look“Roger Cray and De’Andre Farris, tion has been really good.” ing to fill in for the veteran. One of particularly Roger Cray, have realRedshirt junior DeAndre Farris and whom is a much younger player who ly made some really nice plays, and senior cornerback Leverick Johnson hasn’t played a snap in a Hilltopper we needed that to make up for Sim- will look to battle with the new guy uniform, true freshman Roger Cray. mons,” Sanford said.

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