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Large Public schools with the highest student loan default rates*

new mexico state university — 19.9 percentohio university — 15 percentkent state university — 14.7 percentWKU — 13.7 percentuniversity of akron — 13.5 percent

7.2 percent

Universityof kentucky

*Data provided by the United States Department of Education.

List is limited to schools that had at least 5,000 students in

repayment. Data pertains to the 2011 Fiscal Year.

9.6 percent

Universityof louisville

12.5 percent

MoreheadState

10.2 percent

MurrayState

12.8 percent

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28.6 percent

Kentuckystate

9.9 percent

NorthernKentucky

BY TYLER PROCHAZKANEWS@WKUHERALD.COM

Almost immediately after polls closed on Tuesday, the news was out: Mitch McConnell won re-election to the U.S. Senate.

And then as more national projec-tions came out, it became clear the Republicans were going to win control of the Senate, causing a mix of disap-pointment and excitement among WKU students.

SGA President Nicki Taylor said that as a Democrat she was “upset” by the results.

“I even went to an Alison rally earlier in the year so it’s just sad to see her lose,” Taylor said.

Taylor said she thought the Demo-cratic candidate Alison Grimes offered a better option for Kentucky’s agricul-ture and would provide greater service to Kentucky.

Republicans not only won the Sen-ate, but also the largest majority in the House since World War II.

Head of the political science depart-ment, Saundra Ardrey said the elec-tion demonstrates a dissatisfaction of voters.

“What we are seeing is a discontent-ment among the electorate for both parties and their inability to work to-gether,” Ardrey said.

SGA Speaker of the Senate Jay Todd Richey had a similar reaction. He said he was a Grimes supporter and was shocked to see McConnell was pro-jected to win so quickly.

Richey said McConnell’s win had to do with low turnout during a midterm year.

“Generally more people turn out for presidential elections and it’s always various groups of people,” Richey said.

Sophomore SGA Senator Hunter Peay said he leans more toward the Tea Party wing of the Republican Par-ty. However, he also was not pleased to see McConnell win re-election, who Peay said is not fi scally conservative enough.

Peay said he voted for David Pat-terson, the Libertarian candidate, because he agreed with him on the is-sues.

BY LASHANA HARNEYNEWS@WKUHERALD.COM

The perception of race in the judicial system in America weighed heavy on the minds of several students, faculty and members of the community dur-ing a discussion about social fairness on Tuesday.

About 60 people in Grise Auditorium attended a forum titled "Race, Rights and Religion."

Scottsville graduate student Barrett Wright organized the forum. The reli-gious studies major said he organized the event out of his passion for social justice.

“I feel it’s my duty to try to create at-mospheres for people to ask questions about it and even try to make a step towards the problems in America,” Wright said.

The forum consisted of eight panel-ists who discussed the following two

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WKU students are more likely to default on paying off student loans than stu-dents at University of Louisville or University of Kentucky.

According to data released by the U.S. Department of Education in Septem-ber, WKU’s three-year cohort default rate of student loans for the 2011 fiscal year is 13.7 percent with 5,237 students in repayment and 720 students in default. The percentage includes graduates and dropouts.

Cynthia Burnette, student financial assistance director, said WKU’s student loan de-fault rate isn’t favorable.

“Our default rate is higher than we would like,” Burnette said. “We have a plan where we are putting more aggressive efforts in place to try to help those students who are in that repayment process.”

Race discussed in student-organized forum

JEFF BROWN/HERALDWKU graduate Barrett Wright introduced the panelists for the nights discussions on Race, Rights, and Religion on Tuesday night, Nov. 4 in Bowling Green at Grise Hall. Discussion topics included police involvement in the nation and question-able arrest, such as those used in the Mike Brown case.

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questions: “Is there a problem with African Ameri-cans and the legal system in America, if so what is it?” and “What can we do about it and what role does religion play?”

Wright said coming up with questions was a diffi -cult task.

“There is a problem in America with justice and I wanted the panelists to look at that,” Wright said.

The eight panelists included Linda McCray, rep-resenting the Bowling Green Human Rights Com-mission, Tasha Paige representing the Save My City Foundation and Julius Bailey, the author of “The Cul-tural Impact of Kanye West.”

Panelists agreed racism is an ongoing problem in America.

Paige said she believes there is a problem within the police departments across America.

“Ferguson kind of pulled the veil back that we are now dealing with police offi cers who want to be the judge, jury and the prosecutor now,” Paige said.

She said one way to battle the racism in America is through religion.

“Ultimately, I believe we are dealing with the heart of man, and who can change the heart, but God,” Paige said.

McCray said she agrees racism is a widespread problem and is even alive in Bowling Green.

“I think it starts tentatively,” McCray said. “I think it starts with the conversations you have at the dinner table.”

McCray said every American needs to work on eliminating racial bias.

“I don’t think we can simply pray it away,” McCray said. “I think we have to be socially active with the involvement in politics, the legal process, the educa-tional system within our communities and churches, but we have to be involved. We see an injustice done,

so we need to speak up.”Wright said he chose the panelists because he felt

like they had something to say about the issue of race in America and its effects.

After the panelists discussed the provided ques-tions, the audience asked the panelists questions and commented on the topics.

One student said she advocates for a more positive movement when wanting to move forward with the issue of racism.

“I don’t want to join a fi ght against racism, but a fi ght for equality,” she said.

McCray responded by saying that in order to talk about equality, people must acknowledge the exis-tence of racism.

“While I respect your wish to be positive, I know that it is not always possible when there is some re-alities where that isn’t always the case,” she said.

McCray said talking about racism is often avoided because of the awkwardness surrounding the issue, but it needs to be done.

“There are going to be things that we don’t want to face, but they still have to be faced,” she said.

Wright said he wanted to host the event on WKU’s campus because colleges are often a way to engage young adults in social activism.

“Most of your movements in America, especially when it comes to power movements, civil move-ments and one that deals with black people, many of them have root on college campuses,” he said. “A lot of revolts, revolutions, marches have spurred or maybe came out of movements from universities.”

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We see an injustice done, so we need to speak up.”

Linda McCray

Burnette said students go into repay-ment six months after they graduate or are no longer considered a stu-dent.

According to the Department of Edu-cation, the nation’s overall default rate is 13.7 percent. However, Kentucky’s overall default rate is much higher at 17.5 percent, the fourth highest in the country.

According to the data, the University of Kentucky’s student loan default rate for the 2011 fi scal year was 7.2 percent, with 4,273 students in repayment and 308 who have defaulted.

The University of Louisville’s rate is 9.6 percent with 4,171 students in re-payment and 403 in default.

Andrew Head, WKU fi nancial planning program director, said stu-

dents typically default on loans due to a lack of employment options or entering career fi elds that do not earn them enough money to pay back loans. Some default students also may have a disability or long-term illness that causes them fi nan-cial trouble.

Using data from the Department of Education, Quartz.com ranks WKU as No. 4 with the highest default rate in the nation for large public schools behind Kent State University at 14.7 percent, Ohio University at 15 per-cent and New Mexico State University with the largest at 19.9 percent. These percentages represent the fi scal 2011 three-year default rates for universi-ties with at least 5,000 students in re-payment.

“If you look at overall default rates we’re right at the middle,” Head said.

Head said he has seen the impact of

those who have cumbersome student loans.

“I have had experience with students that have graduated from WKU with well over $100,000 in student loan debt and are going into careers that pay…25-to-$35,000 starting,” Head said. “It’s very diffi cult to make that kind of pay-ment.”

He described the diffi culty of paying off a student loan with the example of a $100,000 loan.

For a 10-year payment plan, Head calculated the initial payments would cost $1,151 a month, which is the bulk of take home pay for someone making $25,000 to $35,000 a year. If it were a 20-year scenario, the payment would cost $763 a month.

“A lot of people just really don’t know what the consequences are post-graduation as far as what these (loans) are going to cost on a monthly basis,”

Head said.Burnette said students are not always

aware of when they are entering repay-ment options.

“There are options,” Burnette said.“There are multiple repayment plans.It’s not where there’s just one plan, andif you don’t fi t in that plan then you’resubject to go into default. It’s not thatway at all.”

The Student Financial Assistance of-fi ce provides a variety of plans suchas standard repayment plans and in-come-based plans.

“There needs to be considerablymore candid discussion about jobexpectations associated with cer-tain career choices and incomeexpectations,” Head said. “Thereneeds to be a very thoughtful dis-cussion with students about theramifications of borrowing theseloans.”

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CRIME REPORTS• Corbin freshman Ethan Pen-nington reported property stolen from his Hugh Poland dorm room on Nov. 3. Estimat-ed value of the stolen property was $1,000.

• Police arrested Louisville sophomore Hunter Glass, Southwest Hall, for aggra-vated DUI, reckless driving and failure to produce an insurance card on University Boulevard on Nov. 4.

• Police cited Glendale fresh-man Evan Payne, Douglas Keen Hall, for careless driving, possession of marijuana and possession of drug parapher-nalia on Avenue of Champions on Nov. 4.

“I voted my conscience and I voted my principles,” he said.

One potential plus for Richey is that Republicans winning the Senate may increase Demo-crats’ chances in 2016 for the presidency.

“If you have many Republi-cans in Congress and not much gets done then it will be por-trayed very badly on their part,” Richey said.

Richey said he believes as Senate Majority Leader, McConnell will not push for a legislation students care about, such as reforming stu-dent loans or minimum wage.

“Personally I’m afraid for what is going to happen,” Richey said.

Ardrey said that McConnell’s resources and the fact that he was an incumbent made win-ning an uphill battle for Grimes. She also said his strategy of ty-ing Grimes to Obama was more successful than Grimes’ at-tempts to go after McConnell’s record.

“That worked for a while be-cause the polls had them neck and neck, but at some point you have to establish what you believe in,” Ardrey said. “She wasn’t as effective in doing that.”

On election night, Oregon and Washington D.C. voters also le-galized the recreational use of marijuana, modeling Colorado and Washington. Ardrey said she believes this is part of a larger national trend.

“I think the time for recre-ational use of marijuana has come,” Ardrey said.

Ardrey said legalizing mari-juana in Kentucky would be a positive for the state.

“Marijuana is the No. 1 cash crop, and that would really help the state budget,” Ardrey said.

The legalization of marijuana would also ease the overpopu-lation of prisons, Ardrey said.

“A large portion of our prison population, especially among young disenfranchised minori-ties, are in prison because of marijuana,” Ardrey said.

In addition the federal elec-

tions, Kentucky also had many state and local elections as well, Richey pointed out.

Republicans were hoping to take over the Kentucky legis-lature for the first time in de-cades, but Democrats clung to a slim majority there.

“I think Kentucky is a pretty interesting state when we have two powerful Republican sena-tors and we have a Democratic House and governor,” Richey said.

With huge problems to tackle in Obama’s final two years, Ar-drey said the two parties have to find a way to address issues ranging from the economy to immigration.

“The message that was sent is that the American people are demanding the parties work to-gether,” Ardrey said.

For Richey, seeing students civically engaged was still a big win for WKU.

“Even if I’m not 100 percent pleased with the outcome, I am happy to see students go out and vote,” Richey said.

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BY LASHANA HARNEYNEWS@WKUHERALD.COM

A student legal services clin-ic will be available for students seeking legal advice or legal representation starting in the spring semester of 2015.

Julia Shadoan, professor of paralegal studies and a li-censed attorney, said the clin-ic will provide services at a re-duced cost to students.

The exact cost has not yet been determined.

“There is a huge gap in the legal services that are being offered at normal fees versus what students can afford,” Shadoan said.

Shadoan said the clinic will not only provide legal services, but plans to educate students on certain aspects of under-standing laws through semi-nars.

The clinic will be in Tate Page Hall, Room 252, and will begin providing services in January.

Services will cover legal is-sues including criminal viola-tions, traffi c violations, fam-ily law, landlord/tenant, small claims, immigration law, es-tate planning and fi rst-offense DUIs.

However, there are some services the clinic cannot pro-vide, such as claims involving the university or disputes be-tween students.

Shadoan said the clinic will be available for all students at WKU, including part-time

students, transfer students, in-ternational students and stu-dents on regional campuses. However, services will not be provided to minors.

“For things outside our menu of services, we also would agree to try and fi nd an external attorney that would take the case on a referral ba-sis,” Shadoan said.

Shadoan said she has seen the need for the clinic through observing students in and out of the courtroom.

“I recognized that I see a lot of students out of the court-rooms who are clearly in over their heads,” Shadoan said. “They don’t know what they are doing. They haven’t had advice.”

Shadoan said legal aid can-not provide services for stu-dents who are not below a certain income level. Those students can’t afford the prices of a private practitio-ner. Legal services is able to provide those students with legal opportunity.

“I think there is enough students that would need this kind of service that they wouldn’t otherwise have ac-cess to it,” Shadoan said.

Madisonville graduate stu-dent Kelsey Luttrell said stu-dents would receive legal ad-vice much faster at the clinic.

“There are so many people legal aid is servicing, WKU students just get thrown in the mix,” Luttrell said. “They could have really long wait

times, whereas if they could just walk in the clinic, they would get help a lot faster than they would if they were trying to use legal aid.”

Shadoan said the clinic has agreements with about eight attorneys that will volunteer their time to serve students.

Shadoan said the clinic is trying to set up regular offi ce hours for walk-ins, but most services will be done through appointments only.

She said if the clinic gets support through the Student Government Association or Student Affairs, there may be a student fee and a student fee could reduce the clinic’s costs of services.

Shadoan said she hopes to hire a full-time attorney in the future.

“The volunteers obviously have private practices and they are not going to be able to put in four or fi ve hours a week here, unpaid especially,” Shadoan said. “So, we’re hop-ing that the part-time or full-time attorney could at least provide 20 hours if not full-

time amount of service per week with the students.”

Shadoan said she would need to hire an attorney with a general background, so that the needs of all students can be met.

Shadoan said the clinic would be the fi rst of its kind in Kentucky.

“It’s unusual that there is not anything of this kind in the state of Kentucky,” Shadoan said. “It’s a pretty well-recog-nized and well-established concept on a lot of campuses. It’s odd to me that it has never been discussed in any sort of serious way.”

Shadoan said the clinic is grant-funded and partially funded through the School of Professional Studies.

There are Skype consulta-tions available for students on regional campuses that can-not travel to main campus, Shadoan said.

She said she has been in the planning stage for about fi ve years.

“There is a lot that goes into this and I’ve unfortunately

gotten pulled off from concen-trating on it,” Shadoan said.

Shadoan said she was ableto concentrate on getting the clinic up and running for about the past two years.

Shadoan hopes to launchthree educational programs, such as seminars on lease agreements or other legal issues students can encounter while in college, when the clinic be-gins operations in the spring.

Luttrell said the amount ofstudents using the clinic could vary drastically.

“It can vary anywhere from20 students a month to 2,000 students a year,” Luttrell said.

Shadoan said gauging suc-cess for the clinic will show through the number of stu-dents who use the clinic and through evaluations of the services.

Luttrell said the offi ce will beopen for any legal advice.

“If you just have a legalquestion, you can come inand talk to us,” Luttrell said. “You don’t have to specifi -cally want to start a lawsuit or go to court.”

The clinic will also offer in-ternships to students within the paralegal studies program.

Luttrell said the legal ser-vices clinic will add to WKU’s uniqueness.

“I feel like WKU is always try-ing to be the leading univer-sity and I feel like that opening a legal clinic will be a step to continue doing that,” Luttrell said.

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Clinic to provide legal services to studentsI think there is enough students that would need this kind of ser-vice that they wouldn’t otherwise have access to it.”

Julia Shadoan

Multiplayer game serves as bond for groupBY ERIAN BRADLEYNEWS@WKUHERALD.COM

This fall, a new club was put together to play the League of Legends online computer game.

League of Legends is a Mul-tiplayer Online Battle Arena or MOBA video game. Players assume the role of a “champi-on,” a character that can have a variety of abilities and traits ranging from magic to brute strength.

The club was established by two students, Russia junior Oleg Nesterov and Belarus junior Aliaksei Taranda, who serve as the co-presidents.

The whole purpose for cre-ating the club was to form a community around the game. During the meetings, group members bring laptops and

play the game together.“We really wanted to fi nd

people who played the game to build a community and fi nd people with the same goals and interests as us,” Nesterov said.

The goal of the game is to de-stroy the main building of the other team, called the Nexus. The game is played across a series of maps ranging from forests to a village.

The maps usually consist of obstacles and creatures called minions that must be over-come in order to reach the op-ponent’s Nexus. Players must be mindful of other hostile players as well.

As the game is played, play-ers can receive benefi ts to make their character stronger.

About 27 million people play the game daily, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The club started off with 11 members, but because of net-working the group ended up tripling the amount of players it had within three weeks after it was formed.

Taranda said the group grew as they began promoting the game on behalf of Riot Games, the company that made League of Legends. The pro-motion is done through the distribution of merchandise

related to the game, such as keychains and wristbands.

There are two parts of the club, the community, in which group members play the game for leisure and the competitive team, which consists of fi ve players that play on a more se-rious level.

Cadiz junior Fay Rea, one of the two female members of the group, said she’s been playing the game for nearly a

year.“I been playing this since

January and I know a lot of other girls that play this game,” she said. “I kind of found the club randomly, I was talking about the professional League of Legends competitions and one of the presidents over-heard me and told me about the club.”

Rea said she likes to playLeague of Legends, but she wouldn’t say she plays it more than any other game.

Although there are morecompetitive sides to the game, Nesterov said he doesn’t take the game very seriously.

“It’s just a hobby,” he said. The club meets three times

a week, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. atDowning Student Union in Room 2122.

We really wanted to find people who played the game to build a community...”

Oleg Nesterov

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10 best places to hook up at WKU

BY JACOB PARKEROPINION@WKUHERALD.COM

“I love you.” It’s one of the simplest phrases we use to communicate one of our strongest emotions. It’s a feel-ing that doesn’t recognize distances or gender differences. Finding a partner to walk beside you and celebrate life’s intricacies brings a warm kind of hap-piness that nothing else can.

Happiness is sitting in comfortable

silence as you watch the world go by.Happiness is having someone you’re

not afraid to pee in front of.

Happiness is trust.

Happiness is falling asleep to-gether watching your favorite shows and waking up to each other in the morning.

Happiness is fi ve extra min-utes of spooning under the

blankets before the day starts.

Happiness is a slow dance in the kitchen.

Happiness is receiving a sur-prise date night just because it’s Tuesday.

Happiness is the fi rst time you exchange “I love you.”

Happiness is never wonder-

ing who your “plus one” will be.

Happiness is attending a college witha LGBT friendly campus.

Happiness is the wordless communi-cation of passion.

Happiness is also communicatingthat passion for three straight hours.

Happiness is having a boo who cancook.

HAPPINESS IS

Jacob Parker

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10. Music rooms – Take your lover to the third fl oor of the Ivan Wilson Cen-ter for Fine Arts to make some sweet-sounding love. You’ll need a key to get in, but once inside you can drape yourselves over a piano and start banging on the keys.

9. Cravens Library basement – Un-der WKU’s precious library is a won-derland of empty rooms just begging to host sexual escapades. Plus, all the bookcases move using electronic rails – you can build your own secret book-shelf love-nest.

8. In between the libraries – Step outside Cravens and fi nd this nar-row gap between the two libraries. This spot is full of thrills and tension. You’re outside, in the center of cam-pus and anyone could walk through at any moment. Endless fun.

7. Smith Stadium – Plenty of schools have the time-honored tradition of hooking up on the 50-yard line. It isn’t just tradition though, the well-man-icured turf makes for comfy bedding as you make it in under the big lights.

6. Gary Ransdell Hall – This quiet building features plenty of hidden windowsills perfect to hide away with your lover and bask in the window light.

5. Top of parking structure things – If you head to the top fl oor of Parking Structure 1 you can continue walk-ing up the exit ramps to fi nd an extra fl oor hidden above. Whether under the stars or glowing in the sunlight, this secret space is a great locale to get your love rolling.

4. Thompson North – You’re going to have to break in. Once inside, you have a sketchy wonderland of broken glass and abandoned classrooms to convert into your new bedroom.

3. Grassy steps inside the Kentucky Museum – You’ll need to do a little ex-ploration to fi nd this hidden haven, but it’s well worth it. The Kentucky mu-seum forms a rectangle with a square of grass contained within. The grassy knoll inside is a lush getaway protected from the elements and prying eyes.

2. Under the kissing bridge – It’s a timeless tradition to kiss on the kiss-ing bridge as a WKU student, but once the boring stuff is out of the way you should head underneath to truly ex-perience the bridge’s ritual.

1. Hardin Planetarium – Making love under the stars is great, but making love under computer manipulated star projections is even better. Have a friend speed up the Earth’s rotation to keep up with your increasing pace. You can even simulate a supernova when that special moment arrives.

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WILLIAM KOLB/HERALDJudge Stephanie Pearce Burke and her husband, Dennis Burke, pose for a portrait in the upstairs lounge at DiOrio's Pizza & Pub as election day in Louisville comes to a close. Burke was victorious over Andre L. Bergeron by more than 50,000 votes in the race for Jeff erson County District Court Judge.

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WKU’s attempt at a sports bar doesn’t hit a home runBY JOHN GREEROPINION@WKUHERALD.COM

While RedZone embraces the con-cept of fl avorful bar food in its menu, its execution is not up to the task.

WKU’s closest attempt to a full-fl edged restaurant straddles the line between a fast– casual food joint and a sports bar that is missing the alcohol. The menu reads like a mixture of WKU pride and cheesy sports references.

Although it offers standard meal plan options, RedZone serves plenty more interesting meals that cost students a little extra. Hearty dinners such as bourbon-glazed

ham are found alongside heart-pal-pitating, yet trendy options like fried mac andcheese balls glazed with sri-racha sauce.

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the fact that they were just glorifi ed mozzarella sticks.

Calling them mac-and-cheese was misleading. Detecting any sort of cheese in this appetizer

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The Kentucky Building celebrates 75 years of historyBY STEPHANIE JESSIELIFE@WKUHERALD.COM

When Western Kentucky State Normal School his-tory teacher Gabrielle Robertson discovered there was only one book about Kentucky in the library in 1914, she set out on a mission to grow a collection of Kentucky history. As the collection matured, her stor-age space became limited and she began promoting the idea of a building to house her fi ndings.

President Henry Hardin Cherry heard of the idea and grew it into something larger than Robertson had ever planned: a full museum dedicated to the history of Kentucky. Hence, the Kentucky Museum was born.

“Cherry sort of reminds you of Dr. Ransdell — he was a dreamer,” Christy Spurlock said. “He took her idea and, you know, he envisioned, along with an ar-chitect, this whole building.”

Spurlock is the education curator for the Museum.Cherry turned to the College Heights Foundation,

an organization created to help students attend school who could not afford an education, to help fund the project. Because the Foundation’s articles stated that money could be used for the construction of buildings, Cherry and the other directors decided that two-thirds of the money raised for the founda-tion would be spent on the Kentucky Building.

As passionate as Cherry was about the idea, fi nd-ing monetary support for the project from the public proved to be diffi cult due to the state of the economy at the time. The Depression left many people who wanted to donate without means to do so.

Enough funding was raised for the outside of the building to go up in 1936, but the interior wasn’t fi n-ished until 1939, two years after Cherry’s death.

“They got the walls built and a roof over it, then they just had to stop because there just wasn’t enough money,” Jonathan Jeffrey said.

Jeffrey is the department head of the manuscripts and folklife archives in the department of library spe-cial collections.

“They actually had to hire a new architect because the older architect (Brinton Davis) and Western had kind of severed ties in the mean time. So they hired James Ingram, who was a local man who designed interiors,” he said.

The building was offi cially dedicated Nov. 16, 1939, on what would have been Cherry’s 75th birthday. The day is also known as Founder’s Day.

“It just seemed like a really respectful type of thing to do on that day,” April McCauley, an archives assis-tant, said.

Today, the building is divided into two different or-ganizations: the Kentucky Museum and the depart-ment of library special collections.

The library is divided between the Kentucky library

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of cheddar cheese was simi-larly subtle where it could have made a difference.

The menu makes no men-tion that the sandwichcomes with a fried egg, but itwas a welcome surprise. The fi rst bite unveiled a spurt of liquid egg yolk that quickly pooled into a puddle on theplate. Sopping up the sand-wich in this sauce made forthe most enjoyable bites. Small dabs of slaw often failed to have an impact, butwhen they did they lent thebites a refreshing and vin-egary bitterness.

The end result was quite messy. The butter from the toasted bread will coat your fi ngers in a greasy sheen. Make sure to bring a nap-kin.

For all the fat and calories that RedZone seems to bring to the table, its options are surprisingly boring. While the food is not terrible, it needs a sharp punch of fl a-vor.

research collections, the manuscripts and folklife archives and the WKU ar-chives.

The Kentucky library research col-lections department holds thousands of artifacts from around the world in-cluding books, sheet music, political memorabilia, photographs and maps.

Manuscripts and folklife archives hold a collection of letters, diaries, church minutes, land grants and pa-pers written whose topics focus on folk beliefs, occupational folklore and com-munity surveys.

WKU archives hold yearbooks, uni-versity publications, photographs, di-plomas and other memorabilia.

The majority of the items are donated to the library by people who are associ-ated with the school in some way.

“I would say, and this is a pretty good guesstimate, that 85 percent of the material we receive, probably in the Museum and the library of special col-lections, are donations from commu-nity members, alumni, people who just are on the web and see we have a large Valentine’s collection and they don’t know what to do with theirs,” Jeffrey said.

As the library side of things grew, the space to hold the items grew scarce and construction on the site began again in 1977. The renovation grew the building to two and one-third times its original size.

After the addition was fi nished in 1980, the area that had once been a garden of southern-based plants was reduced to a hidden gem of an indoor

courtyard that sits in the middle of the building.

Currently, the building is used as a way to teach all those that enter. There are exhibits in the Museum that fea-ture work from Bowling Green native Duncan Hines, traveling quilts from the Richardson Quilt Gallery and items used by some of the country’s most in-fl uential artists in the IAE Instruments of American Excellence exhibit. There are window galleries focusing on the Civil War, and the research facilities are equipped with thousands of archives ready to be discovered.

“The ultimate goal of all the stuff that we accession and catalog and refer-ence is to educate people about how to use them and make them better aware of special collections,” Jeffery said.

Nov. 16 marks the 75th anniversary of the Kentucky Building and a celebra-tion is planned for Nov. 14 from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Kentucky Room.

Preparation for the event brought all the divisions of the building together, with photos coming from the WKU archives, old publications supplied by the manuscripts department and the Museum providing the physical arti-facts, Spurlock said.

The anniversary schedule includes a speech by President Gary Ransdell, a history of the building presented by Jeffrey, special tours of the building and the announcement of the Con-nie Mills Internship, an opportunity for students who have interned with the building to receive a scholarship in honor of an employee that passed away last year.

“We are thrilled and proud to be able to announce that,” Jeffrey said.

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1931 Construction began on the outside of the building

1936 Outside of the building is complete, but inside is still unfi nished

1937 Cherry dies and the interior of the building begins to be worked on

1939 Offi cially opened and dedicated on Cherry’s birthday: Nov. 16

1977 Construction begins to double the size of the building. It closes down during this time

1980 The building offi cially reopens with the new add-on complete

2014 The 75th anniversary

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Theatre another option for juvenile off endersBY MACKENZIE MATHEWSLIFE@WKUHERALD.COM

Whenever a minor commits a legal offense, they face few options to fulfi ll court require-ments, which usually involves simple physical labor. WKU faculty and students, after de-termining this isn’t always ef-fective, decided to give them an alternative that involves more direction: theatre in di-version.

“I’ve always been interested in working with underserved or at-risk youth, and I believe theatre offers many opportu-nities to engage and challenge them,” theater professor Carol Jordan said.

The juveniles spend half the semester learning basic acting and stage techniques from the theatre students. They then con-

struct their own performances and present them in a showcase at the end of the semester.

Meanwhile, sociology stu-dents conduct evaluations and interviews, collecting data in order to observe how the course affects the teens.

“Professor Jordan and I look at it as a really creative way for young people to fulfi ll their diversion agreements,” sociol-ogy professor Jerry Daday said. “They get the benefi ts of build-ing all these skills, like commu-nication and public speaking.”

Many of the juveniles enter the programs having previ-ous issues communicating with teachers, peers and parents. Daday said they of-ten begin feeling anxious and unsure how to react to the program, but by the end they develop friendships and

a confi dence to carry them through school and hope-fully on to college.

“I’d rather give them some-thing that’s creative and ex-pands their social networks to university students and faculty, than going out and do-ing something that’s basically manual labor,” he said.

Though it is too soon to fi g-ure actual effects of the pro-gram, Jordan and Daday said the sociology students’ evalu-ations show progress for the teens. Many responses from those participating said they experience better relation-ships with parents, guardians and teachers, with parents and guardians returning the sentiment.

As they improve personal traits, they are also learn-ing theatre fundamentals,

giving them the ability to explore their thoughts, in-terests and possibly their ex-periences.

“They’re just average, every-day kids that did something stupid, and they got caught for it,” Daday said. “Theatre gives them a way to really act out some of the issues they might be facing.”

The juveniles enter diver-sion programs through their court designated worker (CDW) who offers various options after an offense is committed such as com-munity service and available programs, such as theatre in diversion. After choosing a program, they are required to see it through.

“Diversion programs are de-signed to give young offenders an alternative to traditional

community service by engag-ing them in positive activities and teaching them new skills in a pro-social environment,” Jordan said.

Daday works with the sociol-ogy students during their eval-uations, while Jordan instructs the theatre half on how to teach the teens. The class offers a strong opportunity to WKU students who want to pursue teaching or community service in the future, Jordan said.

Eventually, CDWs hope to see more diversion programs across the community, includ-ing at WKU.

“We’d like to expand this to other departments across campus,” Daday said. “A lot of them could do some really cool stuff with these young people under diversion agree-ments.”

Storytellers off er teaching experience at annual conferenceBY ANDREW HENDERSONLIFE@WKUHERALD.COM

Few forms of art are interactive with their viewers. Paintings are behind ropes in museums, acting is appreci-ated in theaters and singing echoes through grand halls. One form of art, however, is an ancient form of human expression that encompasses both the performer and listener’s imaginations transcending age, race and religion. And Bowling Green residents have an opportunity to be a part of it.

The annual Kentucky Storytelling Conference will be held this Friday, Nov. 7 and Saturday, Nov. 8 at the Holi-day Inn University Plaza and Sloan Convention Center. The conference is organized through the Kentucky Sto-rytelling Association, whose mission is to promote and develop storytelling in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Betsy Fleischer will chair the 2014 conference. Fleischer has been the past president and secretary of the Kentucky Storytelling Association and is now a board member at large. She is a storyteller herself and calls Harrods-burg her home.

Fleischer said this year’s conference will offer a number of different work-shops covering different storytelling elements and activities. She said some of the workshops will include mak-

ing sense of storytelling, collaborating with museums in storytelling, crafting a story, storytelling in the classroom and many more. She said that for ev-ery conference they try to create a wide range of activities.

“This isn’t just for storytellers, but for people who love stories,” Fleischer said.

Fleischer promised that those who come to the conference, regardless of their storytelling knowledge or expe-rience, will be sure to fi nd a positive and welcoming atmosphere. She said everyone could benefi t from storytell-ing because stories connect people, no matter where they’re from.

“Life does not exist without stories,” Fleischer said.

Pam Holcomb, one of the featured tellers for the conference, also holds this belief about stories.

Holcomb is from Harlan and she considers herself primarily an Appa-lachian storyteller. She has garnered much recognition in the fi eld over the years. She said at this year’s confer-ence, she will be offering a workshop about using the fi ve senses to enhance storytelling.

Holcomb said she gained an interest in storytelling when her seventh grade teacher fi rst introduced her to the art. She said that a lot of her stories come from listening to her family history and living in Appalachia. She said that she

uses her storytelling as a platform to tell people about Appalachia.

“It introduces a lot of people to the culture that they’re not aware of,” Hol-comb said.

Holcomb performs at schools, churches and civic organizations, and she said she’d perform really anywhere that will allow her. She has even per-formed abroad and fondly remem-bered her experience of traveling to Israel to tell Bible stories.

“I was there telling the stories where they took place,” Holcomb said.

Judy Sima, another of the featured tellers for the conference, also shared her storytelling origins and experi-ences.

Sima lives in West Bloomfi eld, Michi-gan and has accumulated many awards and recognitions over her sto-rytelling career. Sima will be offering a workshop on how to develop student storytellers in the classroom and an introductory workshop on storytelling. She said she will also be telling stories to students at Cumberland Trace and North Warren elementary schools be-fore the conference begins.

Sima said she worked as a school li-brarian for many years and began her start in storytelling with telling stories to elementary aged children. She said

she started telling her students Hal-loween stories. Along the way, she ended up working with middle school students and started a storytelling club at the school.

Sima said that many of her stories come from children’s books, but they also come from her family’s history. She recalled the story of how her moth-er escaped Nazi Germany and how powerful of an impact that story had on her. Stories such as this, she said, need to be handled in different ways.

“You need it to be as factual as you can get it without it having to sound like a report — you have to make it in-teresting,” Sima said.

She said that sharing the personal stories, like that of her mother, tends to validate other people’s experiences as well.

“By telling personal stories, I fi nd that people connect,” Sima said.

Apart from the various workshops offered, there will be a question and answer session at the conference with Holcomb and Sima. Open mic stories, where anyone can tell a story, will also be offered. The conference is this com-ing Friday and Saturday. Those inter-ested can register online at kystory.org or pay at the door the day of the con-ference.

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Nominations for WKU full-time faculty members are now being accepted for the 2014-2015 college and university-wide Faculty Awards. The area of University Libraries may select two awardees: one for research/creativity and one for public service. The College of Education and Behavioral Sciences, College of Health and Human Services, Gordon Ford College of Business, Ogden College of Science and Engineering, Potter College of Arts & Letters, and University College - may select four awardees: one for teaching, one for research/creativity, one for public service, and one for student advisement. Only full-time faculty members are eligible for these awards, and each nomination must be for a single individual (joint or team nominations are not accepted).

Nominations may be made using the form below or completing the nomination form available in the Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs or the Academic Deans and Departmental offices. The deadline for submittingapplications is Friday, November 14, 2014. The College winners of each award will be considered for the University-wide awards, and one overall winner in each category will be chosen. The WKU Alumni Association makes a cash awardto each recipient of the university-wide awards and the university provides an engraved silver bowl to each. The award winners are recognized annually at an appropriate ceremony.

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Robotics competition returns to campusBY WHITNEY ALLENLIFE@WKUHERALD.COM

The 15th annual Kentucky Bluegrass Robotics Competition hosted by the WKU engineering department will take place this weekend in the Engi-neering and Biological Sciences build-ing on campus.

Approximately 15 teams of high school students will compete with ro-bots they’ve prepared over the past two months.

The engineering department pro-vides basic parts for the robot in early September. The students have until the competition to complete the robot.

Engineering professor Kevin Schmaltz is one of the coordinators of the competition. Schmaltz said this competition is an affordable way for local students to experience engineer-ing fi rst hand.

“What I like about this is we can pro-vide a pretty economical experience,” Schmaltz said.

Schmaltz said this provides a great local opportunity for students who wouldn’t have access to larger robot-

ics competitions.This year’s theme is natural disasters.

The teams will build a robot that could provide relief aid during a natural di-saster.

The robot has to ascend a ramp, go through a pit of gravel and climb three steps, all while carrying rice. The robot that is the most cost effi cient and can complete the task at hand the most ef-fi ciently wins.

Engineering student and Muhlen-berg County senior Ben Arnold helped organize this year’s competition. Ar-nold hopes this competition will help people to understand this aspect of engineering.

“I think engineering is kind of a mis-understood fi eld,” he said. “This gives a little insight into one little fraction of what we can achieve.”

This weekend, students will gain a concrete insight into the engineering fi eld. Schmaltz and Arnold both hope this will encourage students to pursue engineering.

“Maybe it will inspire some kids to seek out engineering,” Arnold said.

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CalendarFriday, Nov. 7

Kentucky's Storytelling ConferenceLocation: Holiday Inn University Plaza

HotelTime: 7 a.m.

WKU women’s basketball exhibition vs. Bellarmine Knights

Location: Diddle ArenaTime: 7 p.m.

SATURDAY, Nov. 8

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Musical

Location: FAC 0214Time: 8 p.m.

Color Dash 5KLocation: Spero Kereiakes Park

Time: 8 a.m.

15th Annual Kentucky Bluegrass Robotics Championship

Location: Engineering and Biological Sci-ences building

Time: 9 a.m.

Kentucky's Storytelling ConferenceLocation: Holiday Inn University Plaza Hotel

Time: 8 a.m.

O'Reilly Saturday Day Grudge RacingLocation: Beech Bend Park and Raceway

Time: Noon

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Musical

Location: Russell H. Miller TheatreTime: 8 p.m.

Vets ’n Vettes Location: National Corvette Museum

Time: 8 a.m.

NHRA Drag RacingLocation: Beech Bend Park and

RacewayTime: 11 a.m.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee MusicalLocation: FAC 0214

Time: 3 p.m.

Finding Your Way Around the Autumn Sky

Location: Hardin PlanetariumTime: 2 p.m.

SUNDAY, Nov. 9

Don’t let your body's shape define your styleBY KAE HOLLOWAYOPINION@WKUHERALD.COM

Fashion is all about express-ing yourself. It may not be fun, but knowing the basics of ac-centuating your body type can

help anyone emphasize their personal style.

One of the challenges facing men and women is learning how to dress for their specifi c body shape.

Though not always enjoy-able to investigate, measuring your body’s dimensions and accurately pairing it with your body shape can improve your wardrobe more than any new item of clothing ever could.

Ladies, Shop Your Shape has a great body type calculator on their website. One can use

a tape measure to measure their bust, waist and hips. Make sure the tape measure is snug but not tight. Take those measurements and plug them into the calculator to fi nd your body shape.

For examples, those who measure as a straight body type with similarly sized bust and hips and a slightly-smaller waist can emphasize their waist by dressing proportionately.

Those who measure as a dia-mond shape can add curves to the upper body and lengthen

the lower as a traditional bal-ancing technique.

Square or scoop neck but-ton downs, wrap dresses and clothing with an empire waist cut can create the illusion of a defi ned waist while balancing your fi gure.

Men traditionally use a dif-ferent body shape classifi ca-tion system.

Those with lean and long bodies can wear horizontal stripes to add a sexy bulk to their frames.

Those with fuller frames can

wear vertical lines and single tones to make a bold, confi -dent fashion statement.

Double breasted jackets fi t well for this body type, and trim, slightly tapered pants can make their legs look fabu-lous.

Every size is beautiful. Out-fi ts that fi t well can raise your confi dence and make you feel just as fl awless as you truly are. Once you have the fi t down, you can move on to all the fun parts of fashion.

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Mauerfall: 25th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin WallLocation: DSU 3023

Time: 4 p.m.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee MusicalLocation: FAC 0214

Time: 3 p.m.

"I'm Every Woman" ForumLocation: Gary Ransdell Hall 2009

Time: 6 p.m.

WKU Men’s Basketball exhibition vs. University of Pikeville Bears

Location: Diddle ArenaTime: 7 p.m.

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Journalism professor doubles as indie musicianBY KAE HOLLOWAY, KIERSTIN KIRKLIFE@WKUHERALD.COM

When she’s not spending her days teaching and critiquing stories, Amanda Crawford is buried in song lyrics, studios and in front of blinding stage lights, singing and performing in her band Former Friends of Young Americans.

“I kind of play a lot when we have our full set,” Craw-ford said. “I’ve been singing since I was a little kid. I sang in churches and school plays and that was kind of my back-ground.”

The band’s sound is de-scribed by Crawford as folksy, with an infl uence of indie rock. When prompted to list their genre on their Facebook page, however, they simply said “no thank you.”

Crawford’s husband, Toby Fatzinger, started Former Friends of Young Americans in 2008 with a rotating set of musicians.

“He would play with musi-cians for a while, add someone or someone would leave, and it kind of would be that chang-ing project and it would change genres and nature with that project already,” she said.

When the two were dating, he was playing with another couple in the band. They were scheduled to go on tour in Cal-ifornia, with Crawford going along for a tour that would ul-timately change her role with the group.

“I was just going to come along for the ride because they were going up through the Redwoods and I had never

been to northern California,” Crawford said. “I thought, ‘Oh cool, I’m just going to hitch a ride and they’re going to play music and I’m going to go hike in the Redwoods and stuff.’”

The couple ended up not being able to go last minute. Instead of canceling the tour, Fatzinger asked Crawford to fi ll in.

“It was kind of trial by fi re be-cause I didn’t know his songs. I knew a few of them from go-ing to shows and playing at home, but I didn’t know all of his songs,” she said. “We sat out in the road and played 14 straight nights.”

Since then, she has been on several tours with Former Friends of Young Americans, including tours along both the east and west coasts, respec-tively, and a European tour.

Crawford said she added a bit of gospel sound to the band, and to jam sessions she and her husband would have prior to her joining Former Friends.

“That’s kind of my natural range in voice and what I grew up singing,” she said.

Crawford also brought her skills playing the fl ute to the group, and has since learned to play and write music for the piano.

Crawford’s stepson, Phoenix freshman Beck Fatzinger, is supportive of his parents’ mu-sical career.

“I went on a couple of tours with them and it was really fun,” he said. “My only thing is it’s a tour so it’s working kind of, but other than that it’s been really fun both being in the band and going as a tag

along.”In some cases, Beck has fi lled

in when members couldn’t make it to shows.

“When we did the national tour last year, I had to fl y in and join them later because I didn’t have as long of a trip so I missed the fi rst couple of shows and Beck went on them with Toby,” Crawford said.

Beck Fatzinger said the band’s sound is consistently changing, with Crawford and Toby Fatzinger exploring new sounds on each album.

“A lot before this last big tour they did, I would call it like a mix of folky electronic, but since that trip they’ve been going a little folkier and more

country,” he said. “Not like new country, but like older early Elvis kind of.”

The band is currently work-ing on two albums now called “Love and Vitriol” and “Blood Harmonies.”

Songs on “Love and Vitriol” will focus on love and betray-al. Crawford said it will have more folk ballads and some indie hip-hop. “Blood Harmo-nies” is infl uenced by Craw-ford’s travels and features mu-sic they wrote while in Europe.

Touring and performing at shows has been remarkably easier to balance with teach-ing for Crawford compared to her last job.

“I worked for Bloomberg

News before coming here and that was a really high stress job, I’d occasionally be sent on a plane in the middle of the night to some wildfi re or a shooting or something,” she said. “I was doing (shows) with that kind of job, so doing it with teaching I think is a bet-ter mix because I have those breaks to tour and play.”

She really enjoys touring and describes it as a special way to get to know different people, and share their music. The band is planning another tour over winter break that will start in St. Louis.

“I’m very lucky that I get to do that with the person I love,” Crawford said.

PHOTO COURTESY OF AMANDA CRAWFORDAmanda Crawford, a WKU assistant journalism professor, performs with her husband Toby Fatzinger and son Beck Fatzinger in their indie alt-folk band Former Friends of Young Americans.

Students displays art exhibit portraying internal diseasesBY STEPHANIE JESSIELIFE@WKUHERALD.COM

A WKU sculptor has created an ex-hibit that focuses on unveiling hidden physical pain.

“At Least You Have Your Health” opens in the Cube Gallery on the fourth fl oor of the Fine Arts Center Friday and is, as WKU art student Sar-ah Sperry put it, “possibly the biggest thing I’ve ever tried to do.”

When local photographer and long-time friend Sarah Ann Hooper ap-proached Sperry, a senior, with the idea, the two immediately went to action on gathering models and plan-ning the shoots.

The idea behind the exhibit came to Hooper after going through what she called the “most diffi cult year of her life.”

After leaving a degree that she wasn’t happy with and pursuing photography, she started formulat-ing a way to educate others on the internal diseases she was fi ghting. Hooper has Crohn’s disease and chronic pain.

“I was putting a lot of work into it and doing a lot of studying and started thinking about how my conditions af-fect me and how I wish the people in my life could understand that I was re-ally dedicated to something and seri-ous,” she said.

Hooper and Sperry began gather-ing models that suffer from a chronic condition or illness that’s mostly pain-related. While describing what

the pain feels like, local artists paint-ed what they heard onto the female models.

“We’re working off the idea of com-municating the unseen,” Sperry said.

The exhibit gives the models a chance to show the world what they go through on a daily basis, even though one couldn’t tell by looking at them.

“We had some people come in and they were kind of uncertain about it,” she said. “They were kind of like ‘you know, this is really weird for me be-cause I’ve spent so many years of my life pretending that this doesn’t exist.’ And we’ve been kind of like ‘that kinda makes you even more badass than you already are.’”

Conditions that are covered in the ex-hibit include Crohn’s disease, rheuma-toid arthritis and fi bromyalgia.

The duo raised money for the exhibit by crowdsourcing and receiving do-nations anonymously, many coming from individuals Hooper and Sperry never met.

“We were absolutely blown away by the amount of support we’ve got-ten from just strangers and people sharing stuff on the Internet,” she said.

While this is an exhibit opportunity for Sperry, this is a way of coping for Hooper, who said her previous at-tempts of hiding her problems or pre-tending as if they didn’t exist didn’t work out. Hooper views this exhibit as one that will allow people she knows and complete strangers see what “makes us who we are.”

“I’m not trying to put it ahead of any terminal illness or condition or saying that what we go through is necessar-ily worse than what anyone else has to deal with but rather that, having these chronic conditions that aren’t curable, that are treatable but not curable, that we’ll always live with and always deal with,” she said.

The show opens Friday at 7 p.m. and runs through Nov. 11.

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WKU itching to prove worth in Homecoming matchup with UTEPBY KYLE WILLIAMSSPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM

It’s business as usual for WKU football this week as it prepares for its Homecoming bout with the University of Texas at El Paso on Saturday at 3 p.m.

Although the Hilltoppers (3-5, 1-4 Conference USA) put forth their worst effort of the season this past Saturday in a 59-10 loss at Louisiana Tech, you’d never know it if you watched the team’s Tuesday practice.

“You think when we lose a game like we did last week, guys would be down, you’d be out here at practice trying to pull teeth,” offensive coordi-

nator Tyson Helton said after Tuesday’s practice. “It was the exact opposite — guys were fi red up, they have something to prove. They’re trying to get out there and win a football game. That was really good to see today. We just have to carry that momentum into the game and I think we will.”

That momentum will be necessary, as the Hilltoppers’ Homecoming matchup will be anything but a walk in the park.

The Miners fi eld the league’s second-best rushing offense at 207.8 yards per game while coming in at fourth in pass de-fense at 208.4 yards per game.

Helton is one of few mem-bers of the WKU football

program that’s encountered UTEP at some point in his ca-reer — three times as special teams coach at Hawaii, twice when he was tight ends/spe-cial teams coach at Memphis and two additional times as the quarterbacks coach at UAB.

Helton said the Hilltoppers will have to open up the pass-ing game with a sound rushing attack in order to be effective on offense against the Miners. Junior running back Leon Al-len led WKU with 80 yards on 14 carries at LA Tech.

“We have to be able to run the football on fi rst and sec-ond down and get out of third-

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Like many other teams composed of fi ve or more freshmen, WKU volleyball and Head Coach Travis Hudson have gone through some growing pains this season — but with the aid of two re-maining seniors, the transition hasn’t been too painful.

Not only is this WKU’s inaugural season in Confer-ence USA, but it also marks the fi rst season in quite some time that the

Lady Toppers have been without play-ers Hudson described as “some of the all-time greats that ever played here” referring to likes of Ashley Potts and Melanie Stutsman, who both gradu-ated from last season’s team.

Hudson was left with just two seniors — middle hitter senior Heather Boyan and defensive specialist senior Mollie Pajakowski — to help usher in the larg-est and most heralded recruiting class in program history.

“It’s the complete opposite from last season,” Boyan said. “Going into it, we knew it was going to be different and knew it was going to be a diffi cult tran-

sition for us, so Mollie and I knew we needed to step up and be good leaders.”

That leadership seems to be evident thus far. The Lady Toppers currently sit at 23-5 on the season with an 11-1 clip in league play. Pajakowski said the seniors’ departure a season ago paved the way for the team’s success this year.

“I saw them progress and get better with them,” Pajakowski said. “When their senior season didn’t end exactly the way they wanted it to, I think it put pressure on us and the fi ve freshmen.”

With big changes taking place this season, both Boyan and Pajakowski knew that not only would their indi-vidual roles on the team change, but the entire dynamic of the team would also change.

Hudson and his lone seniors found themselves traveling in the uncharted waters of a new conference with a line-up that featured three to four freshmen consistently on the fl oor.

“I’m used to having at least fi ve girls that were older than me, so to come in and be one of two seniors has defi nitely changed my role and my responsibilities on the team. It’s something that I don’t always think about though,” Pajakowski said. “I like being there for the under-classman, encouraging them, listening

to them, anything I can do to help.”The strength that can be found in

Boyan and Pajakowski as student-ath-letes was certainly instilled with them in their fi rst three years on the Hill — and for both of them, they can’t believe how far they’ve come.

Boyan — a Munster, Indiana native — reminisced of her less-than-typical journey to WKU in the fi rst place.

“To me, it seemed pretty random thatWestern Kentucky was interested inme, just because I’m from northern In-diana, by Chicago. I remember drivingdown here for my visit just thinking ‘thisis so random, why would I come here?’but when I got here and went on myvisit I absolutely loved it,” Boyan said.“I loved the campus, program — Travis

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and-long scenarios,” Helton said. “That’s going to help a lot with the cov-erages. Then, have to help protect the quarterback, give him some time back there, and then Brandon (Doughty) has to make the reads and throw it with a timely manner. If we do those three things, we’ll be fi ne.”

Sophomore running back Aaron Jones, having compiled 1,697 rush-ing yards in 17 career games, is the

spark plug of the Miner offense. Jones ranks third on the conference’s rush-ing yards list this season with 886 and leads UTEP with 10 total touchdowns — eight rushing and two receiving.

The Miner defense ranks sixth over-all in total yards allowed per game in league play at 391.1. UTEP is coming off a 35-14 win over Southern Miss that yielded fi ve forced turnovers, which in-creased its turnover ratio to +9 on the season — best in the conference and 10th-best in the country.

The Hilltoppers committed a season-

high fi ve turnovers on Saturday, which included four interceptions by redshirt senior quarterback Brandon Doughty.

“Obviously, ball security is key,” Hel-ton said. “Past couple games, (UTEP) has fi red it up — their defense is play-ing well. They’ve had turnovers and that’s won them the game. Last week, their offense really didn’t have to put a lot of points on the board, their de-fense and special teams did it for them, so we have to protect the ball.”

With four games remaining on the regular-season schedule, WKU foot-

ball is itching to prove its worth, and according to sophomore wide receiver Taywan Taylor, the Hilltopper seniors deserve every bit.

“It’s all about coming together as a team,” Taylor said. “Our leaders, they’re stepping up, they know it’s getting close — especially our seniors. That’s ulti-mately what we’re trying to do; we’re trying to play for the seniors. Just send those guys out the right way because they deserve it. We’re just trying to come in with a good attitude these last four weeks and just put it all on the line.”

was awesome — so I started thinking to myself, ‘maybe I will go here.’”

Jacksonville, Miami (Florida), and Central Michigan were also seeking Boyan’s services — for good reason. The senior has tallied Conference USA Defensive Player of the Week honors twice this season and currently ranks second in the league in blocks per set with 1.08. Her hitting percentage of .329 also ranks 8th in the conference.

Pajakowski — a native of Granger, Indiana — remembers the feeling she

had as soon as she stepped on the Hill. “Right when I stepped on campus

I knew I loved it,” Pajakowski said. “I loved the campus and the coaching staff and the girls and everything. It felt right from the beginning. You can tell that they genuinely care about you here.”

The same growing pains that seem to be eluding the fi ve freshmen thus far this season didn’t completely dodge the seniors early in their playing ca-reers.

Pajakowski traditionally played set-ter at the club and high school level, and was even looking at different pro-

grams to set for in college, but coming to WKU, she would quickly be trans-formed into a defensive specialist.

Boyan, on the other hand, didn’t have to deal with a change in position, but it wasn’t all smooth sailing for her, either.

“It was hard for me because as a freshman, I had two other people in my position, so I really didn’t get to play that much,” Boyan said. “Typically, Di-vision I athletes are used to getting so much playing time in club and high school, so for me it was hard to make that transition.”

As both their careers progressed, they each reached personal and team-

oriented heights, which have chiseled them into the leaders they have be-come.

“This is defi nitely my favorite sea-son,” Pajakowski said. “I’m an upper-classman and a leader and I absolutely love this team. Not that I didn’t love the team before, but these girls are like my family.”

If the Lady Toppers are a family, it’s a result of Hudson’s mentoring ways and the two seniors that have hurdled leaps to get to this point — and with four games remaining until postsea-son play, the WKU volleyball family isn’t done turning heads.

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Rice downs WKU in conference championship quarterfi nals, 1-0BY JOHN REECERSPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM

The Lady Toppers’ season came to a close on Wednes-day as No. 2-seeded Rice used an early score to defeat No. 7-seed WKU by a score of 1-0 in the quarterfi nals of the Conference USA Women’s Soccer Championship.

The defeat marks the end of WKU’s inaugural season in the league that yielded a 10-8 overall record with a 5-5 clip in league play.

WKU came out fi ring in the fi rst half with six shots in the game’s fi rst nine minutes. The early barrage of shots from the Lady Toppers included a near miss just off the crossbar from junior defender Alanna Clancey.

“We had talked about how we came out slow in some of our previous matches,” Head Coach Jason Neidell said. “To-day we came out at a blistering pace, and we played very well from start to fi nish.”

Despite the early aggression, Rice regained momentum and managed to score in the 16th minute of the match off the foot of the Conference USA Player of the Year, junior forward Lau-ren Hughes. From that point, Rice was able to control the game for the remainder of the fi rst half with dominant pos-session of the ball.

“Rice really did control the game after they scored,” Nei-dell said. “However, we con-tinued to take the game to them and we limited their scoring opportunities.”

Toward the end of the fi rst half, WKU, again, fi red off would-be game-tying goals with back-to-back corner kicks in the 41st minute, but both chances failed.

In the second half, Rice man-aged to keep its endless energy and ball control that they fea-tured in the fi rst half, which resulted in two quick shots on goal. Rice fi nished with a 15-12 shot advantage and held a

7-4 corner kick lead.After Rice’s quick start at the

beginning of the second half, the rest of the game became a defensive battle for posses-sion, which restricted scoring opportunities for both teams.

In the closing seconds of the game, the Lady Toppers had one last chance to score as freshman midfi elder Na-hyo Jalajel set up a header from senior midfi elder Allie Auscherman. However, Rice senior goalkeeper Amy Czyz managed to come up with the crucial left corner save to seal the win for the Owls.

One bright spot for the Lady Toppers proved to be fresh-man goalkeeper Allison Le-one. She posted fi ve saves, despite 15 shots from Rice. Leone was named to the con-ference’s all-freshman team earlier in the week.

“Her award is great for the fu-ture of this very young team,” Neidell said. “She stepped up and played great today and

played great in such a big-time atmosphere.”

The Lady Toppers’ season is now over, but according to Neidell, the team’s play against Rice is a slight glimpse of what the future holds for the WKU soccer program.

“I am thrilled with how our young team did in our fi rst season in a conference that was way more competitive than what we have previously seen,” Neidell said. “The fu-ture is certainly bright for our program.”

JAKE POPE/HERALDSophomore forward Iris Dunn (12) advances the ball past a UAB de-fender in WKU's game on Oct. 19. The Lady Toppers lost to Rice in the fi rst round of the Conference USA tournament on Wednesday.

Lady Topper basketball restarts the climb in Friday exhibitionBY ELLIOTT PRATTSPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM

It’s just an exhibition, but we will fi nally get a glimpse of this journey, ‘to be continued,’ with Lady Topper basketball.

I’m always interested in the annual slogans for each of the sports teams. Bobby Petrino brought Showtime to football last year. Men’s basketball had that Never Say Never thing (still can’t get over the Justin Bieber connection), and the Lady Topper basketball team was climbing the ladder and reached the NCAA Tourna-ment and played Baylor toe-to-toe in Texas.

At fi rst glance, I thought their new slogan of ‘to be continued’ was silly. But really, I am indeed curious as to what happens next.

That fi rst chance comes Friday night in an exhibition

match against Bellarmine in Diddle Arena at 7 p.m. CT.

No, this game doesn’t count for anything, but there’s some spe-cial interest in the matchup.

Crystal Kelly, WKU women’s basketball’s career leader in points and rebounds, will walk out of a different tunnel and sit on a different bench and wear different school colors, this time as a third-year assis-tant coach.

Kelly knows fi rst-hand what the Lady Toppers are going through with using young talent. She was a young talent herself when she arrived on the Hill as 2004 Miss Kentucky Basketball.

Freshman Ivy Brown comes to WKU as the fi rst Miss Ken-tucky Basketball to play for the Lady Toppers since Kelly.

The point here is WKU has three freshmen — Ivy Brown, Tashia Brown and Jaiveonna

Norris — who could see sig-nifi cant minutes on the fl oor. In her freshman year for the

2004-05 sea-son, Kelly averaged 19 points and 10 rebounds per game.

“I was fortu-nate enough to have pretty good leader-ship, and as

a freshman, that’s what you need,” Kelly said. “They don’t know what is expected and how to do this. So they are go-ing to need really good leaders in their upperclassmen.”

I don’t think they’ll have a problem in that category.

Obviously, seniors Chastity Gooch and Alexis Govan are the central faces of the team that can guide these fresh-

men, but junior Micah Jones and redshirt sophomore Ken-dall Noble emerged last year as fl oor generals for the next few seasons.

There’s no spacing in the tal-ent level of classes – it’s pretty even from seniors to freshmen.

It boils down to experience, and if there’s anything coach Michelle Clark-Heard has done, it’s prove that inexperi-ence isn’t a problem.

Everyone knows how this sto-ry goes. MCH takes a Mary Tay-lor-Cowles team that fi nished 10-21 before her arrival and turned a 180 on everyone with a 22-11 record and a WNIT win in Diddle. Then last year, they win the Sun Belt Tournament and shake the women’s basket-ball scene at Baylor.

Now, they enter the year having received fi ve votes in the USA Today Preseason

Coaches Top 25 Poll.It’s nearly reminiscent of the

dominant days of Kelly. Beforelast season, WKU hadn’t beento the NCAA Tournament sinceKelly’s senior year in 2008.

Friday night, these two WKUsuccess stories meet each oth-er face-to-face in exhibitionmode. For the current LadyToppers, they restart an unfi n-ished journey.

“It speaks a lot of what coachHeard has come in and donewith us,” senior guard Alexis Go-van said. “She’s pushed us to thenext level and it shows that peo-ple appreciate how hard we’vebeen working and what we’vebeen trying to do and wherewe’re trying to take Western.”

What Heard has done is earnthis team the respect of the pow-ers that be on a national scale.What happens next with theLady Toppers is to be continued.

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It was announced on Monday that WKU women’s basketball received four and fi ve votes, respectively, in the latest USA Today Preseason Coaches’ Poll and the Preseason AP Top 25 Poll.

“I think it means a lot,” Head Coach Michelle Clark-Heard said. “…We’re just trying to get better each and every day. Looking forward to hav-ing the opportunity to compete. I also think it says a lot for the players that have been invested these past

couple of years and the things that they’ve done.”

The Lady Toppers are loaded with talent this year as they return 2013 Sun Belt Defensive Player of the Year and senior forward Chastity Gooch, redshirt sophomore guard Kend-all Noble and senior guard Alexis Govan.

Gooch and Govan are two of three 1,000-point scorers in Conference USA this season, with 1,322 and 1,050 career points, respectively.

Gooch, who was named Conference USA’s Preseason Player of the Year, is the only player in program history to have recorded at least 400 points, 300 rebounds, 50 blocks and 50 steals in a single season.

Noble is coming off a breakout season in which she was named Sun Belt Conference Freshman on the Year and an all-conference second team member after averaging 11 points, 4.6 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 2.5 steals in 31 games a season ago.

Govan, who played in just 11 games last season due to a stress fracture in her left tibia, is ready to

pick up where she left off .“I’ve literally counted down the

days, counted up the months,” Go-van said. “I told Coach Heard when we get on the court for the fi rst time, it’ll be almost 11 months until Iwas last on Diddle’s court. …I’m just really excited.”

The Lady Toppers will open their 2014-15 campaign tomorrow night at 7 p.m. in an exhibition against Bellarmine University at Diddle Arena.

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The WKU men’s golf team wrapped up its fall season tied for a 17th place fi nish in the Wendy’s Kiawah Classic on Kiawah Island in Charleston, South Carolina on Tuesday.

WKU consistently improved each round, shooting 55-over 919 (318-301-300).Winthrop, ranked as the nation’s 37th best team, won the team title with

an 864 (288-295-281).“This is always one of the most competitive fall collegiate events in the

country, and to improve each day says a lot about the resiliency of our team,” Head Coach Phillip Hatchett said in a press release. “We had a poor day on Sunday, but we shot better as a group for the fi nal two rounds and that gives us confi dence going into the winter before opening back up in February.”

Seniors Cameron Beal and Brandon Beckham tied for 62nd place, both shooting three-over 75 on the fi nal day with a 13-over 229. Junior Trey Agu-irre tied for 70th with a 15-over 231 and senior Andy Gladden tied for 73rd with one more stroke at 16-over 232. Senior Nate Johnson tied for 100th with a 27-over 243.

The Hilltoppers will return to the course for their spring championship sea-son Feb. 23-24 at the Mobile Bay Intercollegiate, hosted by South Alabama.

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Lady Tops gearing up for fi nal road swing of the seasonBY JONAH PHILLIPSSPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM

WKU volleyball is set to take its .821 winning percentage, which is good for No. 22 in the coun-try, into its fi nal two conference road games of the season this weekend against Southern Miss on Friday at 7 p.m. and Mar-shall on Sunday at noon.

The Lady Toppers (23-5, 11-1 Conference USA) will look to keep their momentum going as their inaugural season in the C-USA comes to a close. WKU won 12 of their last 13 games and dropped just six of the last 45 sets.

WKU fi rst travels to Hatties-burg, Mississippi to take on Southern Miss (19-10, 8-4 C-USA). The Golden Eagles have lost just one game at home all season, against Rice, who went into a fi fth set against WKU on Sept. 28 before the Lady Toppers sealed the vic-tory at home.

The last game on the regular-season road schedule for WKU is Marshall (13-14, 7-5 C-USA).

Despite the impressive win-ning percentage WKU has earned, the Lady Toppers have still yet to crack the top 25 this season in the American Volley-ball Coaches Association poll, but have received six votes and currently sit at No. 32.

WKU is one of just six teams in all of Division I with 23 wins. The teams ranking above the Lady Toppers with 23 wins in the AVCA poll are No. 2 Wash-ington (23-0), No. 3 Florida State (23-0) and No. 10 Colo-rado State (23-2).

This marks the fourth week in a row and the fi fth time this season that Head Coach Travis Hudson’s youthful squad has received votes in the AVCA poll. The Lady Toppers have either received votes or ranked in the AVCA top 25 at least one time in each of the past four seasons.

The program Hudson helped build peeked in 2013 at No.

16, and spent 14 consecutive weeks in the top 25 between 2012 and 2013.

Despite the win over the weekend against UAB, WKU dropped in the NCAA RPI from No. 38 to No. 44. Of the 43 teams above WKU, 13 confer-ences are represented, and the Lady Toppers still hold as the highest-ranked team in Con-

ference USA.WKU is 2-1 against teams

ranked higher than it in the RPI rankings with wins over Purdue (33) and Lipscomb (38) while the lone loss is to Cal State Northridge (36).

After the season’s fi nal road swing, the Lady Toppers will come back home for one more weekend of regular-season

play before the inaugural sea-son is completed and postsea-son play begins.

The fi rst match will beagainst University of TexasEl Paso, who WKU dished asweep to on Oct. 19, on Nov. 13at 7 p.m. The team’s last fi xturewill feature a rivalry matchupagainst Middle Tennessee onNov. 15 at 7 p.m.

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The NCAA announced late last month in its release for freshman classes from 2004-07 that WKU’s gradu-ation success rate, or GSR, had increased to 80 percent, which is a slight improve-ment from last year’s rate of 79 percent.

The Hilltoppers’ 80-per-cent clip for its 15 athletic programs is fi fth out of the 14 Conference USA schools,

and three sports — men’s golf, softball and volleyball — received GSRs of 100 percent. Each of those three programs also posted perfect GSRs a year ago.

The mark ranks WKU as one of three schools in the Commonwealth with the highest GSRs. The University of Kentucky graduates its student-athletes at an 81-per-cent rate while the University

of Louisville comes in at 80 percent.

The GSRs released Tues-day are based on the four freshmen classes in Division I entering from 2004 to 2007. The NCAA calculates the rates based upon the num-ber of student-athletes who graduated within six years after enrolling. The GSR was developed by the NCAA as part of its academic reform

initiative to more accurately measure the success of D-I student-athletes by better accounting for the many diff erent academic paths followed by today's college students.

“We continue to take pride in the academic performance and graduation rate of our student-athletes,” President Gary Ransdell said on Hallow-een at the Board of Regents

meeting. “…Where we have been leading the pace in the Sun Belt Conference in that regard, we’re currently fi fth out of 14 current members in the Conference USA. So as we move up in athletic competi-tion, the academic competi-tion is equally in a higher level.”

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WKU improves to 80 percent in NCAA’s latest graduation success rate

WKU swimming and diving tallies wins against IUPUI, Indiana

Lady Tops’ Leone earns conference all-freshman team honorPrior to the start of yes-

terday’s Conference USA Women’s Soccer Champion-ship, the league announced Tuesday that freshman goalkeeper Allison Leone has been named to the Confer-ence USA All-Freshman Team.

Leone started and played every minute of the Lady Toppers’ 17-game schedule and the entirety of the team’s 1-0 loss to Rice in the quarter-fi nals of the league tourna-ment yesterday. She totaled seven shutouts and 90 saves in the box for WKU this sea-

son and postseason. Her 85 saves and seven shutouts in regular-season play ranked fourth in Conference USA and her fi ve saves a game ranked third.

The freshman started her season in record fashion, becoming the fi rst WKU fresh-

man goalkeeper to post con-secutive shutouts in her fi rst two career starts. Leone's 11 saves in a 2-1 win over Sacred Heart marked the sixth-high-est single-game total in WKU history on Sept. 14.

Conference USA coaches voted on all-conference fi rst,

second and third teams as well as the freshman team, and Leone was the lone Lady Topper recognized. Leone was one of 11 rookies hon-ored across the league.

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The WKU men’s and wom-en’s swimming and diving teams each posted wins this past Saturday, with the men notching victories against IU-PUI and Indiana in a tri-meet, and the women tallying a victory against IUPUI.

The men won by scores of 197-100 over IUPUI and 180.5-99.5 over Big Ten foe Indiana. The Lady Toppers posted a 165-123 fi nish against the Jaguars.

WKU totaled 20 personal bests in the events, including 11 of the individual events on the women’s side.

Five of the Lady Toppers recorded multiple top times, including junior Michelle Craddock, senior Claire Con-lon, freshman Hannah Musser, sophomore Nadine Laemmler and freshman Logan Grau-mann. Craddock won the 200 (1:52.35) and 500 free (4:58.35) while Conlon notched wins

in the 100 (1:03.81) and 200 breast (2:20.92).

H. Musser tallied wins in the 200 (2:01.33) and 100 fl y (55.07), while fellow newcom-er Graumann tabbed the top times in the 50 (24.18) and 100 free (53.95). Laemmler nabbed fi rst in the 100 (55.65) and 200 back (2:00.43).

The men’s team totaled a trio of Hilltoppers with multiple fi rst-place times, including sophomore Fa-

bian Schwingenschlogl, who posted three wins in the 100 breast (56.06), 200 breast (2:03.50) and the 200 individ-ual medley (1:53.39). Sopho-more Cody Reul and senior Seth Musser each had a top fi nish, as Reul took the crown in the 200 (1:41.68) and 500 free (4:37.48) while S. Musser repeated in the 100 (50.45) and 200 back (1:51.16).

WKU also had three relay teams place fi rst in the form of

the women’s 200 medley and 400 free relays, along with the men’s 200 medley relay.

The Hilltoppers and Lady Toppers continue this weekendwhen the men and women split up travel. The men will take on Purdue on Nov. 7, whilethe women have a tri-meet against Vanderbilt and Tulane in Nashville on Nov. 8.

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