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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2014 > WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY > VOLUME 90, ISSUE 22

BY KYLE WILLIAMSSPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM

President Gary Ransdell announced Monday that he’ll be tandem jumping with the U.S. Army Parachute Team, the Golden Knights, prior to Satur-day’s 11 a.m. kickoff with Army to de-liver the game ball.

The Golden Knights, now in their 50th year of existence and widely con-sidered the world’s best parachute team, will entertain the crowd with aerial acrobatics before landing in Smith Stadium.

Due to federal law, Ransdell said the Golden Knights cannot land in a space that’s enclosed on more than one side. Therefore, Ransdell and his tandem jumper will be landing on the practice fi eld before coming through the tun-nel and delivering the game ball prior to the coin toss.

However, the jump will be fi lmed and streamed across the monitor in Smith Stadium for WKU fans. Attend-ees are encouraged to be in their seats at 10:30 a.m.

BY JOHN GREEROPINION@WKUHERALD.COM

Sitting at the intersection of the local food movement and foodie culture, Home Cafe & Marketplace serves deli-cious food that satisfi es the taste buds and the sustainably focused mind.

Home Cafe offers up inventive dishes that adeptly accommo-date and highlight the local in-season food. They can’t always use local ingredi-ents, but they try to when-ever possible. It presents it-self as a casual sandwich spot, but that does not mean that the restaurant takes a casual approach to the food it serves. The simple and sophisticated combinations are the real deal.

Take their Reuben sandwich. Substi-tuting the normal corned beef was a thick mound of beef bologna procured

from nearby Marksbury farms. It’s been smoked to create a more intense fl avor, giving the sandwich a distinc-tive twist while maintaining the spirit of the original. Every other ingredient stayed true to the Reuben formula. A slathering of Thousand Island dress-ing and dash of sauerkraut imparted

the needed tanginess. If the interior is any indica-tion, Home Cafe really likes chalk. Lining one side of the restaurant is a giant blackboard fi lled with chalk drawings and quotes. Above

the front counter hangs an-other blackboard outlining

the options available. Yet another chalkboard lists all the local purveyors that have supplied the ingredients for Home Cafe’s dishes.

A lot of the food preparation occurs within plain sight of customers. The centerpiece was the giant, wood-fi red

pizza oven. A short trip through this high-powered furnace created a crust that’s both chewy and crisp with a bit of char. The mushroom and artichoke pizza was no exception. Classic fl avors found their complements here. Earthy notes from the mushroom mingled with the sharp Parmesan shavings and the dark green pesto swirl. It may have been more on the subtle side, but there was depth to be found.

Those looking for dessert should check out the rather large snicker doodle squares. The chewy and crumbly shortbread base layered with a blanket of salted caramel anda thick slab of white chocolate dusted with cinnamon sugar was about asrich as it gets.

For those who want a truly local res-taurant that serves great tasting food, Home Cafe is an ideal spot.

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BY TYLER PROCHAZKANEWS@WKUHERALD.COM

One ingredient provided a platform for WKU students from different po-litical persuasions to come together to discuss the midterm election out-come peacefully: pizza.

The “Pizza and Politics” event evalu-ated the results of the 2014 election, with the discussion led by professors Scott Lasley and Joel Turner of the po-litical science department.

Many believed the 2014 midterm election was seen as a big win for the Republican Party, but Lasley said both sides should not read too much into the results.

“A lot of times we analyze elections the week after and make sweeping

Faculty discuss election results

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African American Museum relocates to Chestnut Street

BY STEPHANIE JESSIELIFE@WKUHERALD.COM

Back in the early 20th century, the African American population of Bowl-ing Green found community in The Shake Rag, as it was previously called. It was an area created and centered around State Street for many years.

Lloren Foster, a professor of African American Studies and the treasurer and interim vice chair of the African American Museum | Bowling Green Area (AAMBGA), recognizes and works closely with the history of the area and the city as a whole.

“All that area can be traced back to the Civil War when black soldiers who fought in the Civil War came back and created a community, a vibrant com-munity…where the Medical Center

JENNIFER KING/HERALDThe building at 1783 Chestnut St. is currently being renovated to house the African American Museum | Bowling Green Area. The house was originally used by the Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching (FaCET) until funding was cut in 2013.

JENNIFER KING/HERALDThe African American Museum | Bowling Green Area started moving in last week and is planned to be open in February 2015. SEE MUSEUM PAGE 2

Ransdell said on Monday that his primary reason behind the jump is to pay tribute to WKU’s ROTC pro-gram.

“We have an outstanding ROTC

program here,” he said. “…If there’s anything I can do that can help bring attention and credit and recognition to our cadets, then I certainly want to do that. This is one way that I think we can highlight the importance of military service not only to this uni-versity but certainly, most impor-

tantly, to our nation.”Other pregame events taking

place will include: the unveiling of a large American flag over Feix Field for the anthem, the unveiling of an honorary MIA-POW seat that will stand inside the stadium to raise awareness for American Prisoners

of War-Missing in Action and recog-nition of active and retired military members.

A meet-and-great opportunity will also be available for WKU fans with the Golden Knights at 6 p.m. in Diddle Are-na prior to Friday’s Lady Topper tipoff with Central Arkansas.

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RANSDELLContinued from Front

has begun to encroach,” he said. The AAMBGA was located at 301

State St., in the middle of this history, up until a week ago. They packed up, moved out and are currently renovat-ing the Erskine House on Chestnut Street, the former home of WKU’s Fac-ulty Center for Excellence in Teaching staff, a program that was closed during budget cuts last year.

President Gary Ransdell offered the building to the AAMBGA when the space became available, although the museum is its own project.

“(AAMBGA) is an independent en-tity,” Foster said. “The university is our

landlord and we are its tenant.”The former Shake Rag area is slowly

being taken over by other business, and the fear of losing the history asso-ciated with the community is present with Foster.

“What’s happening in Bowling Green on one level is happening across the country in this process called gentrifi -cation,” Foster said.

Taylor Chapel, the second oldest black church in Bowling Green, is an-other example of the shifting culture in the area. The church is being trans-formed into a farmer’s market.

“In the process of gentrifi cation happening, people will look at spaces and they’ll always think that, for lack of a better way of saying it, they’ve

always been white spaces and they have not always been. Especially in the south where segregation was keen,” he said.

It’s a process that has already oc-curred in other former predominantly African American communities in town.

The area around the Erskine house was formerly the second of the two black communities, called Jonesville. It was comprised of 30 acres and in-cluded 65 to 70 homes, churches and businesses, John Hardin, a history pro-fessor and board of directors member for the AAMBGA, said.

The last of the Jonesville area was the Mt. Zion Baptist Church, which sold in December 1966. Much of the

area was then used in the transfor-mation of Western Kentucky State College into Western Kentucky Uni-versity.

The AAMBGA, however, will bring some of the history back to the area when they fi nish relocating to the Er-skine building. The Museum plans on opening in the beginning of 2015, with goals to open on Martin Luther King, Jr. day.

“What we’re doing is we’re marshal-ing the support of our community as you can see through the university and through the city council,” Foster said. “We’re marshaling that support to start telling that story, that very vi-tal story of Bowling Green and Warren County so that it doesn’t get lost.”

MUSEUMContinued from FRONT

conclusions,” Lasley said.Based on historical trends, Lasley

said the results were largely in line with “the narrative of the past several elec-tions.”

The election again confi rmed that the incumbency advantage is real, Las-ley said.

“At the end of the day, there are only four or fi ve senators that are going down,” Lasley said.

Having already won an election, many donors choose incumbents be-cause “they want to bet on a winner,” Lasley said.

Turner pointed out that Democrats were unable to win over some of their core constituencies, like women.

“The ‘War on Women’ message fell fl at,” Turner said.

In Kentucky, Lasley said the Demo-crats’ primary goal was not to get Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes elected, but rather to maintain control of the state legisla-ture.

On the other hand, he said Republi-cans primary focus was on reelecting Sen. Mitch McConnell.

“Both Republicans and Democrats

accomplished their goals (in Ken-tucky),” Lasley said.

McConnell ended up winning against Grimes by a 15 point margin, which was even larger than what both sides expected. Much of this was due to Grimes’ inability to introduce her-self to Kentucky, Lasley said.

“Tactically, Grimes made a big mis-take: she never defi ned herself,” Lasley said.

There were many voters, though, that would vote for any candidate be-sides McConnell, Turner said.

“On some level, you could have put anybody on the ballot and they would have thought, ‘Okay, that’s not McCo-nnell, so that’s who I’m voting for,’” Turner said.

Saundra Ardrey, head of the po-litical science department, asked why Democrats did not spread the message to the electorate that the economy is improving.

“They know that people aren’t buying this message,” Turner said. “If they keep saying things are better, they seem out of touch.”

Miami senior

Nefertiti Dukes asked why there was a “disconnect” between liberal ballot measures which often passed, like le-galizing marijuana and increasing the minimum wage, and candidates that support these types of measures and still lost.

Turner said no candidate will “fill every single thing that you like” and so while voters supported specific measures, like increasing minimum wage, they did not n e c -

essarily support Democratic can-didates.

Lasley said that ultimately, one main factor in this election, and many elections, was the quality of the can-didate.

“You can’t make chicken salad out of chicken excrement,” he said.

PIZZAContinued from FRONT

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Calendarthursday, Nov. 13

Bluegrass JamsLocation: Fraternal Order of Police

Lodge Time: 5:30 p.m.

Finding Your Way Around the Autumn Skies

Location: Hardin PlanetariumTime: 7 p.m.

WKU Volleyball vs. UTEP Miners Location: Diddle Arena

Time: 7 p.m.

friday, Nov. 14

monday, Nov. 17

sunday, Nov. 16

saturday, Nov. 15

Kentucky Live! Deirdre Scaggs: The Historic KY Kitchen: Traditional Recipes

Location: Barnes & Noble 1680 Campbell LaneTime: 7 p.m.

WKU Guitar EnsembleLocation: FAC 0189

Time: 7:30 p.m.

KY Higher Ed. Sustainability ConferenceLocation: DSU 2085

Time: 8 a.m.

WKU Football vs. Army Black KnightsLocation: Smith Stadium

Time: 11 a.m.

WKU Men’s Basketball vs. Austin PeayLocation: Diddle Arena

Time: 4 p.m.

WKU Volleyball vs. Middle Tennessee Location: Diddle Arena

Time: 7 p.m.

KY Higher Ed. Sustainability ConferenceLocation: DSU 2085

Time: 8 a.m.

NHRA Drag RacingLocation: Beech Bend Park and Raceway

Time: 11 a.m.

Finding Your Way Around the Autumn SkiesLocation: Hardin Planetarium

Time: 2 p.m.

American Basketball Association: Bowling Green Bandits vs. Indianapolis Naptown All-Stars

Location: Diddle ArenaTime: 4 p.m.

Kentucky Building 75th Anniversary ReceptionTime: 2 p.m.

Location: Kentucky Building

Get Smart About Ecuador - Fun & FactsTime: 9:30 a.m.

Location: Gary Ransdell Hall Lobby

Heroes Behind the Hornet’s NestLocation: DSU 2124

Time: 6 p.m.

ShantytownTime: 4 p.m.

Location: South Lawn

WKU Women’s Basketball vs. Central Arkansas Sugar BearsLocation: Diddle Arena

Time: 7 p.m.

Renter’s Rights meetingLocation: DSU 2081

Time: 6 p.m.

Forensics Team cements another tournament winBY ANNA LAWSONLIFE@WKUHERALD.COM

The WKU Forensics team is adding yet another victory to its list. Over the weekend of Nov. 1, the team took home the title of Team Sweepstakes Champion at the 67th Annual L.E. Norton Memorial Tourna-ment.

Forensics involves speech and debate. Ganer Newman, the forensics director, has enjoyed leading the team to victory during his fi rst year as director. He commended the work of students and coaches.

“The students and coaches worked tirelessly to prepare for this tournament,” he said. “It was great to see it all pay off in a victory for WKU.”

The win didn’t come with-

out preparation, though. The team worked around the clock to perfect their speech-es, leaving nothing to chance.

“Each student practices roughly one hour, per event, per week,” Newman said.

Each of the 48 students compete in an average of four events. Roughly 200 hours of practice sessions take place each week. However, that number grows in the lead up to a large tournament like this one.

Kristina Medero, a senior from Davie, Florida said the students spend a lot of time working on their speeches outside of practice. Medero placed second in the pentath-lon at the competition, which is judged based on a measure of success across at least fi ve events in a tournament.

“We are required to meet

with a coach for an hour a week, but most people prac-tice more,” she said. “I usually put in ten hours every week before an event.”

The team’s season is year-round, so they start preparing their speeches in the summer and pick up more throughout the year.

The L.E. Norton Memorial Tournament was hosted by Bradley University and it is the biggest tournament of the fall semester for the WKU team.

There were many competi-tors, such as Northwestern University, the University of Alabama, Illinois State Uni-versity and Ohio University. A total of 19 states were repre-sented.

WKU students won 12 of 20 individual championships. They also took 10 second-place fi nishes.

For Medero, though, it isn’t all about winning.

“I like having an opportunity to express myself in the best way possible,” she said. “Not just to get the message out there in a way other people understand, but it is also com-petitively pleasing.”

Newman enjoys the oppor-tunity to help coach the team to fi nd this happy medium. He has been involved in forensics in some capacity since 2000. He was a student on the team from 2007 until 2010.

“I cherish the opportunity to work with the most creative and dedicated minds in the activity,” he said. “Our coaches are some of the most gifted educators I have ever known and our students are among the most driven.”

Newman is thankful to WKU for all the support the foren-

sics team has received. “I love that forensics at WKU

is an important part of ourcampus community,” he said.“Very few universities give thislife-changing activity the rec-ognition it deserves.”

Newman wants to continueto make WKU proud duringhis time as director of the fo-rensics team.

“I plan to continue attractingtalented students from acrossthe nation," he said. “I hopeto increase our presence inthe community through pub-lic performances and volun-teer services. I know that if wekeep our disciplined focus, wewill continue to bring homechampionships.”

The forensics team’s nextcompetition is this Saturday atBelmont University.

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Social justice is on a roll at WKUWhen it comes to social justice,

the Institute for Citizenship & Social Responsibility is on the move, liter-ally and fi guratively. We have rolled down the Hill to Room 110 of Tate Page Hall. We have launched a new minor with new courses, hired new faculty, organized a new student activist group and are running new programming.

Our new minor in Citizenship & So-cial Justice prepares students to criti-cally examine the cultural, economic and political dynamics of problems related to citizenship and struggles for social justice. This minor is a great complement for a wide-variety of ma-jors and serves students who want to play a role in developing a more hu-mane world.

Students who want to advance the cultural, environmental and so-cial health of Kentucky and beyond should consider these new academic options, such as new courses “Intro to Social Justice” and “Reimagining Citizenship.” ICSR courses empower students to improve their leader-

ship talents, critical thinking, col-laboration skills and communica-tive abilities. Most importantly, they teach students to improve the world around them.

The ICSR is part of the department of diversity & community studies, which launched a new major that fi ts well with a minor in Citizenship & Social Justice. DCS is an interdisci-plinary degree program that provides students with a critical framework for understanding social systems and structural forms of oppression. Students who major in DCS will gain practical skills of working with oth-ers while strengthening themselves through solidarity, scholarship, sus-tainability and service.

Students who want to build a social-ly progressive university should get involved. Outside of our curriculum,

the ICSR is busy supporting the WKU Coalition for Social Justice — a newly constituted student group. In less than a month, they have written a com-mentary on WKU’s Title IX policy, met with the Title IX Coordinator Huda Melky, published a short zine and had a successful bake sale.

ICSR is on a roll. We support collab-orative, social justice research-action initiatives. We host monthly “Faculty Brown Bags” where works-in-prog-ress are shared and we are organiz-ing our second annual “Social Justice Speakers Series” to bring three schol-arly activists to WKU. This spring we are excited to host Dr. Jean Dennison, of UNC-Chapel Hill, Dr. Matthew Wilson, of the University of Kentucky and Dr. Alison Kafer, of Southwestern University.

Consider our minor in Citizenship & Social Justice, roll in and check us out in Tate Page Hall, attend our pro-grams, or contact us at www.wku.edu/icsr, icsr@wku.edu or 270-745-3218.

-Dr. Judy Rohrer, ICSR Director

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

BY TANNER COLE AND JUSTIN GILLILANDOPINION@WKUHERALD.COM

9. Channel the bitter old man in-side you and start attaching balloons to WKU’s Pioneer Log Cabin. Soon enough you’ll be fl oating up and over the Hill just like “Up.”

8. In between Grise Hall and the Fine Arts Center is a little patch of plant-life straight out of “The Jungle Book.” It’s the perfect spot to forget about all your stress and focus on the bare ne-cessities.

7. Head up to the top of the parking

structure to witness the circle of life. Stretch out toward the rising sun and chant just like the beginning of “The Lion King.”

6. Grab a hold of Thompson Com-plex North, raise a fi st and let the world know that you just wrecked it, Ralph.

5. Out looking for a beast to tame? Beauties, bring your beast to the Au-genstein Alumni Center. Fall in love as you dance together in the foyer.

4. If you throw some spoons to the bottom of the Preston Center’s swim-ming pool, a certain little mermaid might just surface to thank you.

3. Pearce-Ford Tower is female only now, but word is someone on the top fl oor has been smuggling in boys by dangling their hair down all 27 stories.

2. Guthrie Bell Tower doesn’t just have to be a beloved symbol of the university — it can also be home. However, people might just start call-ing you hunchback if you choose to take up residence.

1. Wait a few months for winter to come, then head on up to Cherry Hall. Look out over the sprawling city be-fore you and just let it all go. When it’s frozen outside, it’s the perfect place for a heartfelt ballad.

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HAPPINESS IS

BY JACOB PARKEROPINION@WKUHERALD.COM

Owning a dog brings a kind of hap-piness that can only be compared to the feeling you get from seeing a beautiful baby. It’s a fuzzy, loving and adorable addition to daily life. Whether it’s their weird snores or their

dopey faces after a long play session, the trans-species friendship shared with your dog is one of the best parts of everyday life.

• Happiness is watching their tail tentatively start wagging when you come home from a long day.

• Happiness is knowing they’ll pro-tect the homestead while you’re gone.

• Happiness is having a dog that does tricks to various Harry Potter spells.

• Happiness is the extra warmth when the heat goes out.

• Happiness is a pup who will be your constant companion.

• Happiness is playing fetch in the clearing next to Hardin Planetarium.

• Happiness is starting your morn-ing with a leash in one hand and cof-fee in the other.

• Happiness is having a dog who is smart enough to walk itself.

• Happiness is when your dog be-comes friends with your neighbor’s dogs.

• Happiness is seeing the miser-able expression on your puppy’s face when you put them in a ridiculous costume.

• Happiness is taking your dog ev-erywhere just because you can — even if you really shouldn’t.

• Happiness is having a feline friend, because cats are awesome too.

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Germans remember 25 years since Berlin Wall fellBY AARON MUDDNEWS@WKUHERALD.COM

For Somerset junior Jarred Johnson, the fall of the Berlin Wall matters.

Johnson spent fi ve months studying in Berlin last semes-ter. When he found out about the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s destruction — which was celebrated Nov. 9 — he started looking around for events celebrating it. He didn’t fi nd any events on cam-pus or off.

“So I decided to make one,” Johnson said.

Johnson was the main organizer of the Monday night event, which invited students and faculty to re-flect on the historical im-portance of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

“I was really inspired by Ber-

lin to be able to see how active history is,” he said.

Johnson said the Wall was a symbol for two ideologies.

“The fall of the Wall repre-sented the dispersal of west-ern ideas into eastern Eu-rope,” he said.

Johnson said there are dif-ferent perspectives about why the Berlin Wall was built. From the Americans’ perspective, the Wall, which was built in 1961, was raised to keep East Germans from fl eeing to West Germany. From the East Ger-mans’ perspective, the Wall was built to protect East Ber-lin from capitalistic infl uence, Johnson said.

“There was a little bit of both going on,” Johnson said.

Hebron freshman Logan Mitchell said he is interested in history and politics.

“I just want to get a bet-

ter understanding of what happened in general, the history behind it,” Mitchell said.

Johnson gave a short presen-tation to introduce students to the historical climate sur-rounding the Wall’s demoli-tion by protestors.

Johnson said free travel be-tween East and West Berlin fi rst occurred after the mistake of an East Berlin politician.

Günter Schabowski was an-nouncing the freer travel regu-lations, and a journalist asked when they would go into ef-fect. Schabowski mistakenly said they were effective imme-diately.

“That wasn’t exactly accu-rate,” Johnson said. “The regu-lations were supposed to take effect the next day. The border guards were supposed to be warned and told exactly how

to handle the situation.”News broadcasts of the new

travel regulations infl uenced large crowds to show up at border crossings demanding to be let through. After being stalled by guards, they were ultimately successful.

Wolfgang Brauner, Honors College academic advisor, Claus Ernst, a mathematics professor, and English profes-sor Nikolai Endres, all native Germans, shared their expe-riences with the audience. Endres was the fi rst to speak about what the event meant to him.

“I guess the Wall for me is kind of our Kennedy moment,” Endres said. “I mean everybody remem-bers where they were when they heard that it had come down.”

Ernst said there were win-

ners and losers after the Wallcame down. Ernst gave an ex-ample of his cousin, who wasin his mid-50s, who repairedelectronics in East Germa-ny. After the Berlin Wall fell,western products were moreavailable. It became cheaperto just buy new instead ofrepairing. His cousin had askill that was no longer mar-ketable. Ernst said his cousinwas unemployed for the restof his life.

“So young people gained alot, but for people who weresort of in the second half oftheir career it was not so clearcut,” he said.

Brauner talked about the dif-fi culty of expressing how farreaching history can be.

“It’s kind of a challenge toconvey to students just howalive history is,” Brauner said.

Singers’ style evolves with age, success

BY KAE HOLLOWAYOPINION@WKUHERALD.COM

Flashback to 2006. “Hannah Mon-tana” debuted on Disney Channel, Britney Spears divorced Kevin Feder-line and a little known 16-year-old with one hell of a curly hairdo released her fi rst, self-titled album, “Taylor Swift.”

The young country singer was fea-tured on the album cover in a white dress with her face extremely photo-shopped and butterfl ies edited around her curly mane.

Flash forward to a few weeks ago, and T. Swizzle has risen up the charts again, this time with a shorter, wavy hair style and her new signature shade of red lip-stick. Her clothes are all high-waisted, all designer and she’s cementing her status as a modern-style star.

Swift is a prime example of how, with age, success and independence, a pop star’s style can evolve past the bubble-gum beginnings into true, enviable fashion sense.

Pop star’s beginnings tend to share a common thread. They all write or sing a catchy, repetitive song that gains them excessive radio play and a devoted, curious fan base. Along with this fame usually comes a perfected, sculpted image by their PR teams that tries to depict them as innocent, bubblegum celebrities, with cookie cutter costum-ing and bright smiles on their faces.

But, as their albums’ sounds evolve and they start to take control of their decision-making, fans can see their clothes slowly start to refl ect the change.

Take One Direction as another ex-ample. Their new album, “Four” will be released on Nov. 17. The boys have been through a slew of press func-tions to promote their fourth album. In each interview and in each promo-

tional photo for the album, the boys are respectively rocking a distinct, hip style. Whether it’s Harry Styles in den-im shirts and black pants with Chelsea boots, Zayn Malik brooding in black pants and a gray sweater or Liam Payne in an athletic jersey-style jumper and Timberlands, they have all struck out on their own to wear a style of clothing that defi nes them as individuals.

This is a huge leap from their fi rst album after winning “The X-Factor,” when they could be seen rocking matching suits in every shade of the rainbow and with perfectly coiffed hair. It’s meant to show more unison and uniformity in the emerging group, but it’s hard to believe any of the guys would wear this if the choice was theirs.

As with Swift, their increased success and age makes it harder for their man-agement to dictate as many of their decisions, including ones surrounding their clothes. They now have the cred-ibility to be more free with their music and their style.

It’s an evolutionary process that has changed drastically from the great boy bands and pop stars of the ’90s. Look-ing back at albums from the Backstreet Boys, even ones released in their later years, the group can be seen matching almost entirely. Their musical image was crafted around uniform looks. If one Backstreet Boy was wearing leath-er, then they all had to.

Pop stars defi ne style in ground breaking ways. Whether it was Ma-donna and her cone bra or the Spice Girls and their crop tops, fans fl ock to dress like their favorite stars and emu-late them in every way possible. A star’s style can determine whether a whole generation of fans dress well. At least until the star in question grows up and starts dressing for themselves and not their manager.

It’s almost a commentary as to how much the music industry has changed when it comes to the freedom they al-low their biggest, most-played stars. It seems as though the industry is slowly ready for pop stars, at least later in their careers, to defi ne themselves.

Only time will tell how much more freedom the industry will allow their pop stars, and how pop stars will fi ght against the industry to allow their true selves to shine through.

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ning record in its fi rst season in a chal-lenging conference.

As the last season of her career came to an end, Auscherman did not disap-

point on the fi eld. According to Nei-dell, she played her best soccer of her career with the season on the line.

“I think the sign of a really mature leader is somebody who is able to com-pete at the highest level when the team needs her most,” Neidell said. “We have

seen, as her career dwindles down, that she wants to savor every minute of it by giving it everything she has.”

As for Auscherman, she just hopes her play has left behind a legacy of competitiveness for years to come.

“I hope I leave a good mark behind,”

Auscherman said. “Overall, I have hada great experience, and I have hadgreat teammates, and I have playedon really good teams here. I just hopethe mark that I left behind here is that Iplayed with a good work ethic and a lotof pride for this program.”

SOCCERContinued from sports

then the receivers pick it up and every-body does.”

Fortunately for the Tops, these next two games that could get them into that post-season eligibility are very winnable, and not many 4-5 teams can say that.

Army (3-6) hasn’t won a road game this season and is 1-5 on the year when op-posing teams have passed for 200 yards or more.

Add WKU’s success defensively in stopping the triple-option to that reci-

pe and I don’t think there’s any way this team lets this one get away.

Looking ahead, WKU closes out its home schedule against UTSA (2-7, 1-4 C-USA), and it’s yet another very win-nable game. The Roadrunners aren’t necessarily going to face a tough test tonight either against Southern Miss.

Obviously, the Hilltoppers — or any 4-5 squad for that matter — are in no position to take any opponent lightly. But taking a look at the bigger picture of the upcoming schedule has to make WKU feel good about its chances in ad-vancing to the reward that comes with succeeding in the playoffs.

of 1,583 yards, 16 touchdowns and zero interceptions in four home games this season.

Redshirt sophomore offensive line-man Forrest Lamp said following the Hilltoppers’ Tuesday practice that Ar-my’s blitzing schemes are relative to LA Tech’s, so protecting Doughty will be key on Saturday.

“Army plays a lot of 30-front, which LA Tech did, but they did some crazy stuff,” Lamp said. “They do blitz quite often, but it’s nothing that we haven’t

seen after playing LA Tech and thislast game (against UTEP).”

Another important aspect for theHilltoppers will be re-establishing therun game. WKU totaled just 34 yardson the ground against UTEP despiteaveraging 136.4 rushing yards pergame. When asked how the Hilltop-pers’ backs will turn that around, ju-nior running back Leon Allen saidpersistence is key.

“Just stay with it,” Allen said. “Workon it hard throughout the week ofpractice. Getting up on the blocks andfi nishing through the runs and attack-ing the holes just like in the game.”

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BY KYLE WILLIAMSSPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM

WKU women’s basketball will commence its 2014-15 cam-paign tomorrow in postseason fashion as the Lady Toppers wel-come Central Arkansas to Diddle Arena for the Preseason WNIT.

This marks the fourth time WKU has appeared in the Preseason WNIT. Nine of the

16 teams competing this year appeared in the postseason in 2013-14.

“It’s great for our team be-cause it puts us in that tour-nament mindset early,” Head Coach Michelle Clark-Heard said. “At the end of the day, to be able to win a tournament or put yourself in a position to win – that’s the way it goes.”

The Lady Toppers’ fi rst

matchup, Central Arkansas, is coming off an 18-12 season that yielded a fi rst-round loss to McNeese State in the South-land Conference Tournament.

The Sugar Bears return their second and third leading scor-ers from a season ago in soph-omore guards Brianna Mullins and Maggie Proffi tt, who com-bined for 19.7 points per game.

“They have a lot of guards

that can do a lot of good things,” Heard said. “That’s, again why we’re really trying to focus on our man-to-man defense and making sure that we’re in help side and boxing out and rebounding.”

ESPN announced Wednes-day that WKU ranks second in its preseason mid-major top-10 poll thanks in part to senior for-ward Chastity Gooch and senior

guard/forward Alexis Govan. According to Gooch, the se-

nior-laden Lady Toppers are prepared for its tournament-style season-opener, and when asked what was going to take the team to the next level, Gooch had a simple response.

“Just us keep playing as a team,” Gooch said. “Playing together, working hard, practicing, giving it our all each and every day.”

Lady Tops open season against Central Arkansas on Friday

VOLLEYBALL

Volleyball set to close out season at homeJONAH PHILLIPSSPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM

WKU volleyball enters its last weekend of regular-sea-son play receiving votes in the American Volleyball Coaches Association poll for the fi fth-week straight. The Lady Top-pers’ 25-5 overall record and 13-1 conference clip has put them at No. 32 in the country.

WKU is the only school in C-USA receiving votes in the AVCA poll, despite being

ranked second in the confer-ence behind UTSA — the only unbeaten team in league play. WKU is one of only two teams that received votes this week having registered 25 wins, the other being unbeaten No. 2 Washington.

With a pair of road wins over the weekend against Southern Miss and Marshall, WKU has won 14 of their last 15 games, and will look for two more wins this weekend at home.

First up for the Lady Toppers on

Thursday at 7 p.m is UTEP (6-19, 4-10 C-USA), a team WKU dished a sweep to on its home court.

The Lady Toppers will end their regular season against Middle Tennessee (9-19, 5-9 C-USA) on Saturday at 7 p.m.

For the team’s two lone se-niors, these will be their last matches at home.

“It’s always an emotional time, and you hope that it is as a coach,” Head Coach Travis Hudson said. “You hope af-ter four years that this meant

something to them.”While WKU’s defense has

proved to be decisive in the lat-est weeks of its schedule, the offense continues to be the foundation for success. WKU’s .277 hitting percentage ranks 12th in the nation.

The defense has stepped up when called upon, specifi cally in the latter half of conference play. Sophomore defensive specialist Georgia O’Connell earned a defensive player of the week award last week.

“The face of our team has changed,” Hudson said. “If you look at what we did [against Southern Miss and Marshall], we were led defensively, which I am so proud of because that re-ally was an Achilles of our team early on this year.

“There is so much still on the line for this team. We have a chance to fi nish undefeated at home, we are still in a good position for at-large consid-eration for the NCAA tourna-ment if we win out.”

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Tops looking to maintain momentum against ArmyBY KYLE WILLIAMSSPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM

Coming off its fi rst Home-coming victory in three years, WKU football will look to re-tain momentum on Saturday at 11 a.m. in Smith Stadium as the Hilltoppers meet Army in the second matchup with the Black Knights.

The Hilltoppers (4-5, 2-4 Conference USA) used a two-yard game-winning touch-down from former All-Amer-ican running back Antonio Andrews to secure a 21-17 vic-tory over the Black Knights (3-6) in West Point, New York last season.

Much like a season ago, the Black Knights enter the match-up with the Hilltoppers as one of the nation’s leaders in rush-ing at 298.3 yards per game, good for fi fth in the country.

It’s not the fi rst time this sea-son that the Hilltoppers have been pitted against one of the nation’s toughest triple-option attacks. WKU escaped Navy with a 36-27 victory on Sept. 27 despite allowing 412 rush-ing yards.

WKU limited Army and Navy, both top-ranked rush-

ing offenses last season, to 277 and 86 yards on the ground, respectively.

“We know they’re going to have answers to what we’ve done in the past to stop it,” Head Coach Jeff Brohm said. “So we have to have a good plan ready. We defi nitely have to contain their offense and try to get them off the fi eld.”

Senior running back Larry Dixon and senior quarterback Angel Santiago head Army’s triple-option attack with a combined 1,412 rushing yards in nine games this season. In-cluding Dixon and Santiago, six Black Knights rush for at least 26.9 rushing yards per game.

Army enters the matchup with the country’s 93rd-ranked total offense, averaging 367.1 yards per game while the defense gives up 429.1 yards per game, good for 90th in the country.

According to senior line-backer Terran Williams, the Hilltoppers are one step ahead in regards to defending the tri-ple-option – now it’s up to the team to prove it.

“We practice like it’s do or die, now we just have to play like it’s do or die,” Williams said. “We can’t take anything for granted

now. It’s the playoff season for us.”Much like the WKU defense,

the offense regained some swag-ger in its 35-27 Homecoming victory over UTEP by way of 358 total yards and zero turnovers. In the team’s previous bout at

Louisiana Tech, the Hilltoppers gained 297 yards and commit-ted a total of fi ve turnovers.

Redshirt senior quarterback Brandon Doughty was the vic-tim of LA Tech’s creative blitz-ing schemes and tossed four

interceptions but has since re-sponded with 324 yards pass-ing and three touchdowns against UTEP.

Doughty has compiled totals

HARRISON HILL/HERALDRedshirt senior wide receiver Joel German takes a 50-yard reception for a touchdown against the UTEP Miners during the Homecoming game on Nov. 8.

FOOTBALL

BY ELLIOTT PRATTSPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM

A change in mindset may have been all WKU needed to turn things around.

And as a result of internally raising the stakes and approaching the game differently, that outcome turns around.

One wouldn’t typically consider a 4-5 team a force to be reckoned with. But when that 4-5 team has changed

its mentality to play-off mode, backed with confi dence, you better watch out.

It’s do or die. Now or never. Win or stay home.

WKU’s jump to Con-ference USA pretty much ensures its way into the postseason as long as it reaches the

six-win minimum requirement.Right after they dropped a 59-10 dud at

LA Tech to fall to 3-5, that goal looked like it may have to wait another year again.

Then we saw a whole new team storm back and win Homecoming with a dif-ferent confi dence that provides opti-mism for the remainder of the season.

“We always talk about how we have to play with confi dence, we have to play with swagger, and even when things aren’t going well, you’ve got to have it,” Head Coach Jeff Brohm said after Saturday’s 35-27 win over UTEP. “You can’t go on the fi eld doubting anything, you can’t go on the fi eld ex-pecting the worst to happen. You have to plan to make the best happen.”

There have been times this team had confi dence, but now equality has set in. The Hilltopper offense set its own tone of swagger once they put up 59 points in the season opener. But the defense has lacked consistency, and it’s created an obvious separation on both sides of the ball.

That’s not the case for this week’s preparation against Army. Wonderful Terry’s game changing pick-6 was the defense’s nation leading fi fth touch-down of the season and its fourth-quarter shutout was the second straight at home. When both sides perform well, it adds a whole new at-titude to preparation.

“Yeah, it’s a different attitude,” junior running back Leon Allen said. “Every-body attacks the fi eld. When it’s time to practice, everybody attacks it like a game. Everybody's out there with juice. When I go out there to work hard, it feeds all through the backfi eld,

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BRANDON CARTER/HERALDSenior midfi elder Allie Auscherman attempts to steal the ball from an opposing player during the WKU vs. Tennessee game on Sept. 5.

SOCCER

Iron womanLady Topper senior midfi elder leaves behind legacy of competitive spiritBY JOHN REECERSPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM

In the closing seconds of the Lady Toppers’ 2014 season, with WKU trailing by a goal in the quarterfi -nals of the conference tour-nament, one player was inches away from keeping WKU’s season alive.

Senior midfi elder Allie Auscherman won a ball served into the opponent’s box by freshman midfi elder Nahyo Jalajel and placed a clean header toward the left corner of the net, which would have served as the game’s equalizer with No. 7-seed WKU trailing No. 2-seed Rice, 1-0. However, the opposing goalkeeper found herself in a position to halt the Lady Toppers’ last-ditch effort.

Despite the outcome, Aus-cherman closed out her career the same way she started it — with unparalleled competi-tiveness until the very end.

“The legacy that she will leave behind for the team is her competitiveness,” Head Coach Jason Neidell said. “She is somebody that, in the last four years, we have built our blue-collar atti-tude around. She is going to leave that legacy behind for our program.”

This consistency and competitiveness allowed Auscherman to appear in 80 games, which is three matches shy of the all-time record, and log more than 5,500 minutes for the Lady Toppers. She also ended her career as 10th all-time on the Lady Toppers career starts list with 60.

“My work ethic and my energy have helped lead to my long career,” Auscher-man said. “Every game, I’m always trying to do what I can for my teammates and to keep the energy up throughout the game.”

Auscherman’s presence as a midfi elder stifl ed oppo-nents throughout her career.

She played the position with physicality. Her vocal com-mand at the position aided the Lady Toppers on the of-fensive and defensive side of the ball as she regularly put her teammates in great po-sitions to make plays.

“She is a holding midfi elder for us which basically means her job is to be a physical presence and ball winner in the midfi eld,” Neidell said. “Also, she must help connect the team from back to front and side to side.”

Not only is Auscherman tenacious on the fi eld, her competitive nature shows in the classroom. The senior is one of three Lady Toppers to be named to Conference USA’s All-Academic Teams this season. She received fi rst-team honors having accumulated a 3.96 GPA.

“I think that she does a very good job of just see-ing the big picture,” Neidell said. “She has a very mature perspective. When she got here as a freshman she just

knew her little world, now she understands how to be a good teammate. She un-derstands the demands and the behind the scenes stuff that lead to being a success-ful college student-athlete.”

Her senior year on the Hill presented Auscherman with the challenge of being the lone senior on the team. To make things even more challenging, she found herself surrounded by only three other upperclassmen.

“She really invested her-self in the process of be-coming a better leader over this past summer as she read at least one leadership book,” Neidell said. “She knew that she would have to provide an example for this young team as both a mentor and as a fi erce com-petitor.”

For Auscherman, this test proved not to be too chal-lenging. The team came to-gether to orchestrate a win-

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