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The cacophony of clothes hang-ers clacking and girls talking ex-citedly as they hold up potential purchases fi ll the space of Kash Collection.
The shop’s owner, Karrie Cash, a WKU graduate, watches from behind the register.
“Oh, that would defi nitely look good,” Cash says to the client as she moves from behind the desk to help the customer accessorize.
The customer, Lexington soph-omore Lindsey Browne, stood next to her mother, holding clothes hangers as she waited for a dress-ing room.
Browne, who came to Kash Collection, 2317 Russellville Road, to look for tops and maybe
a dress for homecoming, said she found out about the store from a friend in her sorority.
“We liked it because it had good prices, but the same cute clothes you see at, like, expensive bou-tiques,” Browne said.
Her friend, Owensboro sopho-more Katie Ryan, said that this was her fi rst visit to Kash Collec-tion and that she already loved the store.
“I was going for a fall party dress, but then I came in and found the colorful dresses and tops,” she said.
After graduating from WKU last December, Cash planned to work in marketing then open up a store when she was in her '40s.
But after entering the real world, she redrew her future.
“I did interviews in different places,” Cash said. “And I just real-
ly couldn’t fi nd anything I wanted to do, to be quite honest. I just wasn’t happy with what I was getting.”
So instead, Cash decided that now was the perfect time to fulfi ll her dream, with the help from fam-ily.
“I talked to my father about do-ing this,” she said. “And he sug-gested that if I was interested in it, because he’s always been support-ive of me doing what I want to do, that instead of getting a loan from the bank, that he would lend me the money.”
With the money from her father in hand, Cash began the process of putting together her store, includ-ing fi xing up the store, getting the proper licensing and materials such as mannequins, clothes hangers and the clothes themselves.
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English professor Wes Berry is traveling across the state of Kentucky eating barbecue with one thought in mind.
He wants to make Kentucky famous for its barbecue.
“My home state has been grossly neglected when it comes to barbecue fame,” Berry said. “I watch these food and travel channel shows where they talk about America’s best barbecue and they focus on North Carolina, Memphis, Texas and Kansas City.”
Berry said the lack of recognition Kentucky is getting on barbecue is a “problem.”
“I’ve had good barbecue in Texas,” he said. “I’ve had good barbecue in North Carolina. There’s some fi ne stuff in Memphis, but not any better than what I have here in my home state.”
Beginning in the summer of 2009, he decid-ed to fi x the “problem” by traveling, eating and writing a book on the barbecue he tastes. So far, he has eaten at more than 80 different barbecue joints across the state.
With more than 40 more places to go, he
said he still gets excited. “We have stuff here you can’t get elsewhere,
like mutton,” Berry said. Pulled pork, sliced shoulder, ribs, chicken,
brisket and mutton have all been covered in Berry’s book from his various stops, which only include mom-and-pop joints.
Berry’s roots in barbecue go back further than his idea for writing this manuscript.
Growing up in Barren County, Berry’s uncle was an entrepreneur who would “fl ip meat all day.” When Berry would visit his uncle, he would be given chores to do. His uncle would reward him with smoked meat.
And that’s how Berry defi nes barbecue as a “meat cooked with smoke.”
Barbecue meat can be cooked by burning wood in what is known as a barbecue smoker, or smoke pit. During the smoking process, the pit’s door is closed allowing a dense cloud of smoke to surround and seep into the meat. The heat level of smoking is low and takes time more than 15 to 20 hours.
By SHANE [email protected]
COOPER BURTON/HERALD
WKU Associate Professor Wes Berry interviews Calvin Durham, owner of Porky Pig Diner, about the cooking setup at his restaurant. Berry is currently in the process of writing a book about diff erent kinds of Kentucky barbecue. He plans to eat at a large amount of barbecue joints by his deadline.
WKU professor writing BBQ book
WKU grad opens dream clothing storeBy LINDSAY [email protected]
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On Friday afternoon Frosty Dillman visited Kash Collection’s owner, Kar-rie Cash. After graduating from WKU with a marketing and sales degree in December 2010, Cash opened her boutique in Bowling Green. “Kar-rie had been an adult since the day she was born,” said Dillman, Cash’s cousin. “So I’m not surprised at all that at the age of 23 she could be in business for herself.”
SEE CASH, PAGE 6
SEE BBQ, PAGE 6
The Medical Center 10K Classic will take place this Saturday on and around WKU’s campus.
Rachel Goodman, assistant director of Campus and Community Activities, said the event has started and ended on WKU’s campus for 32 years. The course begins near Creason Street and will go around Bowl-ing Green before ending near the Downing University Center.
Many streets around town will be closed during the run, with all roads are set to reopen by 11 a.m.
The day begins at 7:30 a.m. with a 5K run/walk, a 1.5 mile Fun Walk, a Children’s Classic and a wheel-chair race. Registration for the 10K is now $50.
Families can register as a group for $120. Good-man said that many families attend the event and run together. There is a children’s race at 10:15 a.m.
Medical Center to host 10K on WKU campusBy TAYLOR [email protected]
SEE MEDICAL, PAGE 6
WKU dietician Melanie Powell resigned last week for unknown reasons after less than a semester on the job.
When reached over the phone, Powell said she was ig-noring requests to comment for this story and declined to say why she is leaving WKU.
Powell has been a registered dietician for a couple months and was the fi rst full-time dietician to be employed at WKU in a while, said Alissa Arnold, coordinator of Student Wellness and Todd Misener, assistant director of Health and Fitness, in a Herald article last month.
Vicky Rosa, executive director of Health of Services, said she was not aware of the reasons for Powell’s resigna-tion.
Ann Mead, vice president for Finance and Administra-tion, recommended the Herald speak to Gary Meszaros, assistant vice president for Auxiliary Services.
Mead said she was unaware of Powell’s resignation and Meszaros deferred to Tim Colley, district manager for AR-AMARK and the WKU Restaurant and Catering Group.
Colley did not return calls to the Herald.Sharon Barron, a part-time faculty member in the Fam-
ily and Consumer Sciences department, will take over as campus dietician next week.
WKU's full-time dietician quits; job already fi lledBy KATHERINE [email protected]
SEE DIETICIAN, PAGE 6 sweet dreams of
Kentucky Barbecue
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The WKU Forensics Team is more than just a club to full-time coach Ben Pile.
Pile, a WKU alumnus from Harrisburg, Ill., is now working as a second year full time coach for the team after being a member from 2004 to 2008.
“Forensics really gave me a future,” Pile said.
He had initially planned on attending community college in his local area but instead forensics pro-
vided him with both a college degree and a job. Pile said forensics helps engage the students and it is a great overall feeling to watch them succeed.
Forensics is a com-petitive speech and debate team that travels to com-petitions at universities across the nation where members participate in in-dividual events.
This year’s team is comprised of 41 students that represent 17 different states. Each student gets the opportunity to participate in several different events.
For freshmen, the maxi-mum number of events is three, while upperclassmen can compete in eight or nine different events.
Originating in 1903, the Forensics Team pre-dated the university and is believed to be the longest-running WKU student or-ganization.
The team currently holds three national titles, the 2011 American Fo-rensics Association (AFA) National Champions, the 2011 National Foren-sics Association (NFA) National Champions in
Debate and Individual Events.
The team had a change in staff in July 2010 when Jace Lux became the new Director of Forensics. Lux had been a member of the team while he was a stu-dent at WKU and played a role on the coaching staff since 2001.
Lux said the team is comparable to any sports team in the sense that its are competitive, travel and recruit students from high school.
“Very much a family-like atmosphere, these
students spend a lot of time together,” Lux said. “It becomes a real support system.”
After losing a handful of seniors to graduation, Lux said he has generated a very diverse, but still very young team this year.
First-year team mem-ber and fresh-man Austin Groves from Blue Springs, Mo., said he chose the WKU forensics team for its pride and tradition.
“I realized that it was the best team,” Groves said.
The team has also traveled to the international forensics tournament fi ve times and each year of won overall.
“In terms of the skills you acquire, you become a more profi cient writer and researcher,” Lux said. “You become better able to just communicate in general.”
Senior Matt Whitman from Austin, Texas, who has been a part of the foren-sics team since his fresh-man year, said it is what brought him to WKU.
“I feel like I have the skill set now to do any-thing I would like to do,” Whitman said.
Freshman Kristina Medero from Ft. Lau-derdale, Fla., is currently competing in three events and is also a member of the Honors College. Medero has placed fi rst, third, fi fth and sixth in her respective events.
“I have gained a lot of friends,” Medero said. “It has also helped me devel-op a strict work ethic.”
Between scholarships and traveling expenses the forensics teams relies on both alumni donors, but also a solid support system from the university.
“The administration un-derstands what we have to
do to qualify, and are very supportive,” Lux said.
According to the WKU Forensics website, Presi-dent Gary Ransdell said, “Our basketball teams have received a lot of at-tention for their recent successes, but those suc-cesses pale in comparison
to what the forensics team has achieved. To be the best is a rare and proud ac-complishment.”
The team has competed in several competitions this year beginning Sept. 17.
Bowling Green alum Chris Chandler is one of 10 team coaches that found himself returning to the team in 2004. Chandler said that his experience of being on the team while in college brought the job to him.
“I have defi nitely gained an appreciation of helping others and en-joying others’ success,” Chandler said.
The team won't com-pete at national events this year until April and won't host any more home com-petitions. Instead each stu-dent will travel three out of four weekends a month to various competitions.
While not as well known as various other student organizations on campus, the forensics team has made its name as one of the best in the nation.
“It has given me a lot of confi dence and just school pride — being proud of where you’re from,” Groves said.
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Austin, Texas, senior Matt Whitlock reads through a supporting article during a practice for the Forensics team's competition at Concordia University in California this weekend. The topic for the year is reforming trade policies with China. The reason for having one topic for the year is to build strategies for debating along with when to reveal new arguments throughout the year.
is for Forensicsis for ForensicsNational champions continue successful waysFF
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CRIME REPORTSReports■ McKenzie Marie Mainord, Poland Hall, reported on Oct. 12 that her keys and I.D. pouch were stolen from the Fine Arts Center. The value of the theft was $50.
Arrests■ Kameron Fraizer, Waverly, was arrested on Oct. 13 for a DUI and for disregard-ing traffic control by not using the left turn signal. As of Thursday she was still in the Warren County Regional Jail on a $708.85 bond.
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Resident assistants in Pearce-Ford Tower threatened to block off their fl oor’s bathroom last week af-ter continued disputes over cleanli-ness.
Seventh fl oor RA Sequoia Sims, a junior from Woodbridge, Va., said the cleanliness of the restroom has been a problem throughout the semester. Sims threatened to close her fl oor’s bathroom in a meeting with her residents Sunday.
“There’s been feces in, around and on the fl oor of the toilets,” she said. “If you walk in there, a lot of times it looks like someone’s had a water balloon fi ght — just left
their mess. There are things you wouldn’t expect to see in the show-ers in the showers.”
Nakita Riggsbee, an RA on PFT’s 24th fl oor, hung a poster in her fl oor’s bathroom threatening to close the restroom if residents con-tinued to leave food and trash in it.
“Clean up after yourself be-cause If this continues the bath-room will be blocked off and you will have to shower and use the restroom on another fl oor,” the poster stated.
Brian Kuster, director of Hous-ing and Residence Life, said clos-ing restrooms as punishment is not HRL policy and that he has communicated this message to the RAs in PFT since the incidents.
“There shouldn’t be any rea-son that we’re closing bathrooms other than if there’s a maintenance issue,” Kuster said. “Obviously, we’re not going to lock bath-rooms. That’s a health issue.”
Instead, PFT’s hall directors told RAs Sunday night to talk to residents directly and get residents involved in policing the situation themselves, Kuster said.
“They need to talk with the residents on their fl oor,” he said. “I know the residents on the fl oor don’t like it either. If they see someone doing something, they need to say, ‘Hey, that’s not ap-propriate.’
“It’s just students taking own-ership of their own issues.”
Sims said she only threatened a bathroom ban after receiving sup-port from various residents on her fl oor.
“The only way to get my point across — and other fl oor mates’ points across — is to deny full access to the restroom,” she said Sunday. “I’ve given everyone am-ple time to try to make the change. We’ve discussed it on multiple oc-casions.
“At this point, myself and other people on the fl oor are pretty fed up with it, so this is the next step.”
Freshman Amber Reynolds, of Huntingburg, Ind., is one of the residents on PFT’s seventh fl oor who fully supported Sims’ deci-sion to close the restroom.
Reynolds said residents would appreciate their fl oor’s bathroom more if they were forced to walk upstairs to get to one.
“They’re getting to the point that we can barely even use them because they’re just disgusting,” Reynolds said.
But Lexington freshman Clarke James said she saw the an-ticipated ban as unfair and incon-venient.
“I guess we’re all one fl oor and we all have to keep it clean,” James said. “But we have no idea who’s doing it. It could be some-one from different fl oors.
“Every fl oor has their own bathroom. We should be able to use ours.”
33OCTOBER 14, 2011 COLLEGE HEIGHTS HERALD
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The legendary Ray Price will perform his singular performance in Kentucky at the Capital Arts Theatre on the square in Bowling Green. Ray will sing his biggest hits including “For the Good Times”, “I Won’t Mention It Again”, “Danny Boy” and “Crazy Arms”. Ray presents classic country music as no one else can. Anyone who appreciates country music at its best will not want to miss this singular performance.
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RAs retract threatened bathroom banBy NICK [email protected]
The Colonnades will be fi lled with battling guitars and pounding drums at 5 p.m. Saturday courtesy of WKU radio station Revolu-tion 91.7 and their second annual RevFest: Battle of the Bands.
This year 10 local bands will compete for prizes, re-sulting in a night of loud and free music.
The event is free and open to all ages, with do-nations being accepted for Rainhill Equine Facility, a local horse rescue that takes
in blind, injured or old and unwanted horses that have been neglected by their pre-vious owners.
Revolution 91.7 man-agement chose 10 bands to perform this year: Telever-min, Rainbow Kitty Kitty, Visceral Waves, Lost in Liberty, 449, Buffalo Ro-deo, Featherstone, Natty Bumpoe, Friendly Christian Lazer Tag, and Technology vs. Horse.
Bowling Green senior Kayla Dowdy, station man-ager of Revolution 91.7, is excited about being able to do another battle of the bands.
“It worked out really well last year,” Dowdy said. “Technology vs. Horse won last year and we raised over $500 for our charity.”
Each band will perform for 25 minutes in front of a panel of judges. After the band’s performance, they will be rated according to technical skill, stage pres-ence, originality and overall quality.
The winning band will receive $250, be named art-ist of the week on 91.7 next week and be invited back to headline for Revolution’s spring music festival, May-hem.
RevFest is organized and run entirely by the Revolu-tion staff. Dowdy said it takes all of the 50 to 60 staff members to make RevFest happen.
During College Radio Day on Tuesday, Revolu-tion staff members set up tables in between Down-ing University Center and Minton Hall and continued to spread the word about both the radio station and upcoming RevFest.
“We have a bigger staff this year so it’s easier to get the word out,” Dowdy said.
Stacie Hewitt, a senior from Mt. Juliet Tenn., and
program director at Revolu-tion, thought last year’s Bat-tle of the Bands was a huge success, and hopes that it will continue to be.
“We are hoping it will keep getting bigger and bet-ter,” Hewitt said.
Two of the bands to play at RevFest — Rainbow Kit-ty Kitty and Buffalo Rodeo — made an appearance to play at College Radio Day.
Stefan Meadows, Rain-bow Kitty Kitty’s bass gui-tar player and lead singer, enjoyed last year’s show and said his band would be ready for this year’s battle.
“Our fi rst show ever was
RevFest last year,” Mead-ows said.
Meadows said the band would be playing two shows the week before RevFest and that they are “trying to get in our show-men mood.”
Meadows said he was a little worried about Technology vs. Horse taking the prize again this year, but he likes the other bands in the show.
“It’s a friendly compe-tition but we still wanna win,” he said. “We are ready for the bloodshed that is the battle of the bands.”
Revolution's Battle of the Bands back for second yearBy CAMERON [email protected]
■ News BriefWKU names alumnus, young alumnus of the year
Two WKU graduates will be honored at the upcoming Summit Awards on Thursday.
Brent Ditto of Elizabethtown has been named Young Alumnus of the Year and Linda Miller of Louisville has been named Alum-nus of the Year.
Ditto, who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business eco-
nomics in 2002, is a fi nancial con-sultant with Hilliard Lyons’ Young/Ditto Financial Group in Eliza-bethtown.
While at WKU, Ditto was in-volved in Phi Delta Theta frater-nity, president of the Economics Club and a Spirit Master for two years.
Ditto went on to earn his master of business administration from the University of Louisville in 2007.
Miller, who graduated from
WKU with a bachelor’s degree in English and psychology with a minor in secondary education, has remained active in the WKU com-munity despite living in Louisville.
Miller served as the president of the Greater Louisville Chapter of the WKU Alumni Association and as a member of the National Alumni Board of Directors.
Following graduation, Miller began working with the Jefferson County Public School System, a
career that lasted three decades. During that time, she was a teacher, middle school principal, counselor and director of School Programs and Services.
Over the course of her career, Miller has been named Kentucky Educator of the Year, Jefferson County Principle of the Year and the National Counseling Supervi-sor of the Year.
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What would you do if one of your dear-est and beloved friends updated his Face-book status and Twitter that he planned to jump off a bridge and end his own life?
Would you take it seriously or would you think of it as a dramatic act of atten-tion seeking?
About a year ago, Tyler Clementi, a Rutgers University student, committed suicide by jumping off the George Wash-ington Bridge after his roommate video streamed Clementi kissing another man on the Internet where others could view it.
This tragic ending to Clemnti’s life is the end result of a cruel bullying attack by his roommate Dharum Ravi.
I don’t know about you, but if I woke up seeing via Facebook and Twitter that a friend of mine had taken his own life and had been found lifeless in the Hudson River, I’d probably vomit as shock took over my body.
Bullying remains and will always re-main a part of childhood, adolescence, young adults and hell, even adults.
“Kids will be kids” seems like the most justifi able reason for bullying, but
are there justifi able reasons for bullying people?
No.But can we as a so-
ciety stop bullying al-together? I really don’t think so.
I’ve been raised in a family that instills cer-tain values in me, and (most) of those values present themselves in
my personality.Like all humans, I have fl aws. I’ve
snickered behind people’s backs and in-sulted people to their face probably mak-ing them feel like shit, but I was raised as a respectful child and I will hopefully evolve into a respectful adult.
I’m a strong believer of family values and that we become a product of our rais-ing. If your parents taught you bullying and physical hurt was acceptable you will probably bully. If you were bullied or abused by your parents or someone else, you’re probably a bully.
In my own experiences with bullies, they have always had underlying issues that they projected onto others. In my opinion, bullies are cowards — cowards who don’t have the balls to face the peo-ple or person who transformed them into bullies from the get go.
There are other incidents of people committing suicide due to bullying, es-pecially last year, but I bring Clementi’s case to the surface because I feel like most of you have either heard about his case or know a detailed timeline of it.
So if you’re reading this and you’re one of those coward bullies, think of how you’re victimizing someone just because you don’t agree with their lifestyle, if you don’t like their physical appearance or if you just think they’re weird.
Not only are you hurting them, but you’re also hurting their family and friends around them who endure their loved ones' hurt as well and maybe even the loss of their loved ones life.
Just don’t bully. It’s as simple as that. Don’t be a jerk because no one likes a jerk.
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TOPS to donating blood along with rival MTSU.
BOTTOMS to WKU’s win not coming at Smith Stadium.
TOPS to WKU football’s first win.
BOTTOMS to no dunk contest at Hilltopper Hysteria.
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BOTTOMS to losing to rival MTSU in the blood drive.
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EDITORIAL CARTOON
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COLUMN
Bullying, never trendy or mature
Tobacco ban is unrealistic and unfairSmoking. Yes, it is bad for your
health, yada, yada. We all know the drill. But guess what? People still smoke.
Tobacco is a cash crop for Tennes-see and Kentucky, where most of us are
from. Many farm-ers make a liveli-hood from people choosing to use to-bacco products.
In fact, tobacco was one of Amer-ica’s first major exports, and a new country cannot thrive without ex-ports. Thank you, tobacco.
Tobacco is un-der attack, no
doubt. Cities and whole states are pass-ing smoking bans, and college campus-es are joining in the trend. And yes, I do mean trend.
Health is a big trend nowadays, and (some) people are making healthier choices and want to control the health choices of others. WKU wants to con-trol the health choices of its students, faculty and staff by tossing this smok-ing ban threat around in meetings, trying to get everyone on board for a healthier campus.
I’ll tell you what WKU can do to make this campus healthier:
■ Preston Center hours are man-datory for all full-time and part-time students not enrolled in a physical ed-ucation course for the fall and spring semesters.
■ Elevators are strictly for the handicapped. Those found in violation will be slapped with a fine.
■ All sugary, carbonated bever-ages will be taken out of the vending machines, as well as calorie packed snacks.
■ Rain, sleet, snow or hail: the bus-es are no longer available.
■ All meal plan options will only support healthy choices. That does not include greasy chicken, burgers or pizza.
■ Cars on campus? No. All the un-healthy emissions work to pollute the air, as well as coal, factories, public transportation, etc.
■ A mandatory bedtime for those living on campus to ensure a good night’s rest.
And I could go on all day. It seems ridiculous, doesn’t it? Maybe not, ac-cording to WKU.
I can promise you none of this will ever be instated because that would make campus a bit of a police state, right?
This ban includes all tobacco prod-ucts, which seems a bit extreme. Yes, anybody can go walk into a cloud of smoke and complain about the air they’re breathing, but who can say they have been bothered by dip/snuff?
WKU is a community; this message
is drilled in our heads the moment we go through our first orientation. If col-lege’s community life is suppose to prepare you for the real world, tobacco bans on campus do not give students realistic expectations.
When you get a job after you grad-uate, guess what? You are going to work with smokers. You will play with smokers. You may even fall in love with a smoker.
One of my main questions is what then, if this ban passes, what are facul-ty and staff suppose to do? People who are here from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. who look forward to those smoke breaks—should they, like students, have to walk/drive off campus to have a ciga-rette?
I don’t think that is fair.
This commentary doesn't necessarily represent the views of the Herald or the university.
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So far, she’s done just that.
At the beginning of the year, Tchoula was one of the fi rst players Head Coach Jason Neidell pulled off the bench.
Now she’s appeared in every match this season and for half the year has taken on the role of a start-er — a role fellow sopho-more Stephanie Lindsey says she took by force.
“In practice she’s com-
ing and showing that she can start,” Lindsey said. “She’s basically forcing (Coach Neidell) to start her because she’s doing so well.”
Tchoula has already taken more shots this year than last year and has more points as well.
Her biggest outing of the season came against Arkansas State where she posted three points off a goal and an assist. The goal is Tchoula’s lone goal of the year, but she has three total assists.
Neidell said Tchoula
has been progressing ever since she got here last fall.
Coming in, she was a three-time All-State selec-tion in Indiana, a member of the Indiana State Olym-pic Development Program and she earned a spot in the United States National team Pool from 2006-08. Since then she’s improved many aspects of her game.
“She’s been playing great (recently),” Neidell said. “She’s earned a start-ing spot. She’s been an impact player for us on the fi eld on game day. She’s really taken it upon herself
to make improvements in practice and it’s translated to the game fi eld.”
Something Tchoula feels she has improved on is her overall fi tness. According to her, that has really opened up “a whole new world.”
“It allows you to take the skills that you previ-ously had and expand on them and grow them,” she said. “That, and just apply-ing tactical things that the coaches have wanted, has really helped a lot.”
Neidell went on to de-scribe Tchoula as a dy-
namic player. He also praised her for her strength and ability to win the ball in the air.
Tchoula has credited her improvements to her teammates and coaches. Senior midfi elders Lind-say Williams and Kaylyn Pratt are two teammates she singled out, along with her fellow sophomores.
“I truly believe it’s all about taking the construc-tive criticism you get and applying it,” Tchoula said. “A lot of the times it’s easy to just listen but hard to ap-ply, and I pride myself in
doing it. “I believe that if you do
what people ask of you, then you are going to get rewarded, and I believe that's what's happening right now.”
With fi ve matches left in the season, Neidell is looking for Tchoula to keep playing consistently.
“I just expect her to keep doing the things that she’s been doing because she’s been a real asset to the team,” he said. “She’s bringing a lot of energy and a lot of positive play to our team.”
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■ NEWS BRIEFWKU libraries waiving fi nes for food donations
Starting Monday students will be able to donate nonperishable food items in exchange for relief of their overdue library fines.
Senior circulation assistant Paula Bowles said donating nonperishable items is a great trade-off for students who do not want to pay fines with their own money.
“When people have to pay over-due fees, they get a little bent out of shape,” she said. “We see that when people give can goods, they seem to like that more.”
Bowles said the libraries enjoy hav-ing the drive during fall semester be-cause holidays are approaching and people are more likely to donate items.
“When you get things like Christmas
and Thanksgiving, people are more apt to give,” she said.
Dan Forrest, coordinator of access services, expressed a similar sentiment saying people tend to be in a more “giv-ing mood” around the end of the year, which the community benefits from.
Bowles said one canned food item is equivalent to $1 relieved from a stu-dent’s fi ne. Last year, 703 items were donated, totaling more than $700 worth of waived fi nes.
“Hopefully, we can increase that this year,” Bowles said.
The items donated will be give to the United Way of Southern Kentucky, which will disperse the items.
The items must be brought to the 4th fl oor of Cravens Library. The drive will last until Nov. 12.
— Joanna Williams
“I like a real good smoky flavor, tender and juicy with a bit of salt to bring it out,” Berry said, “The biggest crime is to sell old meat, really old meat.”
Berry said he smokes his own barbecue about once a week. English department head Karen Schneider said that Berry has “perfected” the process.
“I will occasionally ask him to make barbecue, but I understand that it’s a long process,” Schneider said.
WKU graduate Todd Chappel from Dawson Springs was given the op-portunity to travel with Berry while he tastes bar-becue for the book.
Berry’s Kentucky bar-becue manuscript has to be submitted to the publisher
by January 2012. Berry said he expects the book to be out by May 2013.
Chappel said Berry in-cluded the atmosphere and the people of each barbecue stop in his notes.
“It was interesting to see all the detail Wes put in his book,” Chappel said.
Once Berry places his order, he meanders around the room with his voice re-corder. He makes sure to describe the menu, the lo-cation of the building, the arrangements on the walls and the hours of operation. After eating, Berry will chat with the owner of the restaurant and ask to glance at the barbecue pit.
The two traveled to Mayfield with Berry where they went to eight different barbecue joints.
Chappel described the day’s experience in one word: “filling.”
The concept of “free time” is a stranger to WKU graduate student Susanne Hughes.
Each day is a constant jug-gling of three sectors. She must balance her duties as a teacher assistant, keep up with classes to earn her degree and plan what her three children are going to eat for dinner be-fore the day even begins.
“It’s like spinning plates,” said Hughes, 33, of being a student, teacher assistant and mother simultaneously. “A co-worker said that once and it made sense. You have to con-stantly be aware of all these different fields going on at once.”
Hughes’ typical day begins with planning what her chil-dren will eat for dinner and getting them to school. She then attends classes either as a student or a teacher assistant. Next, she studies for a couple of hours or works for the geol-ogy department before coming home to clean or do laundry. Finally, she helps her children with their homework and gets them to bed.
“Very rarely, when the kids are all calmed down and asleep, I’ll go to Tidball’s and hang out with some grown-ups,” Hughes said with a laugh.
A good day for Hughes, she said, is one when none of her children are sick, and she is able to run her schedule smoothly.
“The days my kids are healthy — that may sound like
just another day, but that’s a good day,” Hughes said. “No-body’s got allergies, nobody’s sick, nobody’s got ear infec-tions — that really affects if I can go to work. If they’re sick, they come first.”
For many student mothers on WKU’s campus, academic and family life duel constant-ly. Mammoth Cave native Nancy Toney said one of the biggest challenges of being a student mom is trying to find time to study between working part time at a hotel and caring for her 4-year-old son Tristan.
“Your family has to come first,” Toney said. “But at the same time, when you go to school, you’re going for your-self and your family, so your family and school are sort of equal. Because if you don’t succeed in school, then you’re not going to get a good job and you may not be able to feed your family or pay your bills.”
Toney said she and her hus-band, also a senior at WKU, have to make their schedules fl exible when Tristan gets sick.
“Usually I don’t go to school if he’s sick,” Toney said. “Or my husband doesn’t go to school. One of us has to make a compromise.”
Many student mothers fall into the category of nontra-ditional students, or students over 25. One organization on campus that supports nontradi-tional female students is Wom-en In Transition or WIT, which is located on South Campus.
Megan Thompson, a faculty advisor for WIT, said the group provides amenities such as food and coffee to help student mothers save money. They also
provide four computers, print-ing access and a quiet place to study on South Campus.
Thompson said WIT doesn’t keep track of how many stu-dents in WIT have children, but there are many student moms on campus. Thompson said WIT is a place where nontraditional female students can find women in similar cir-cumstances and form a support system.
“I think that often times they feel like they’re the only mother in the group,” Thomp-son said of student mothers. “So there’s a lot of camarade-rie down there and they feel like they’re not alone.”
Toney said the most impor-
tant thing as a student mother is learning how to manage her time effectively.
“It’s like juggling the fact that taking care of your fam-ily and doing well in school is equal, so you have to find the time to give both of those equal attention. And it’s really hard to do that,” Toney said. “You have to learn to multi-task.”
Hughes echoed the same idea, adding that in the chaos of her life as a caretaker, she often forgets to take care of herself.
“You want to take a minute for yourself, but you want to take care of other people, and you want to work, whether it’s
taking care of your students or taking care of your children,” Hughes said. “The lack of sleep is probably the biggest thing. That and when the kids get sick.”
Hughes said flexibility is important in confronting ev-eryday issues in her triple role as a student, teacher and moth-er, whether it is copying notes for a student that missed class or dealing with the unexpected illness of a family member.
“You do what you have to do,” Hughes said. “With non-traditional students, a lot of times, it’s having that educa-tion that makes the difference between having a good life and living in poverty.”
Student moms balance children, school and workBy STEPHANI [email protected]
MICHAELRIVERA/HERALD
Bowling Green graduate student Susanne Hughes assists during Fields Methods and Ethnography. She works as a teacher assistant while balancing being a mother of three children and a wife.
Raffles will be drawn after the race, and there will be three cash priz-es. Runners have to be present when their name is called or the prize will go to someone else.
“I think there are 2,500 registered walk-ers, runners and wheel-chairs,” Goodman said.
Medals and trophies are given to the various winners. While all age groups run in the same race, there will be win-ners from each separate age group. There will also be one overall win-
ner.Goodman said many
runners come from out of state to attend the race. Another group that usually runs are the WKU track members.
Goodman said Greek organizations get in-volved as well, with many of their mem-bers volunteering at the event to help ful-fill community service hours. She said event staff “use them heavily” during the race.
There will be a Health and Fitness Expo the night before the event at the Sloan Con-vention Center. Vendors set up displays, running stores come out, and the
WKU nursing depart-ment attends as well, Goodman said.
Another activity that occurs the night before the race is the Southern Foods pre-race Pasta Party. This also takes place at the Sloan Con-vention Center.
Bowling Green se-nior Jane Wood is par-ticipating in the 10K race, and some of her family will run as well.
Wood said the event is a big deal to the Bowling Green com-munity and that many families run together.
For more race infor-mation, check out www.themedicalcenter10k-classic.com/.
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Barron, who also teaches two Introduction to Nutrition classes, said she applied for the job because she was looking for more work.
“It seemed like a fun thing to do,” she said.
Barron said the dietician job has a flexible schedule. If a student is interested in getting information, they can contact her and set up an appointment.
Although some physicians may recommend that a student see a dietician, Barron said she only sees students at their request.
“The student is ultimately
responsible for their health,” she said. “If they aren’t motivated enough to make the appointment, they aren’t motivated enough to make the changes.”
Barron said seeing a dietician for free is not a service that’s available to too many people.
“It’s a fantastic opportunity,” she said.
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“I’m not in debt yet, fingers crossed, thank goodness,” she said. “That’s going great, that’s always nice.”
Cash said that her unofficial grand opening on April 15 was definitely a success.
“The fact that I knew so many people… actually my
grand opening couldn’t have been any better because I had so many people that were so supportive and helped get people here,” she said.
But Cash eventually learned that not every business day would be like opening day.
“You know I think with everything, there’s always that time period where you get discouraged,” she said. “There were days where I didn’t have
customers for three or four days.”
But Cash said the store has finally reached a point that she is happy with.
“Now, I can honestly say at this point, I feel like one of the reasons I’ve been more prosperous is because I’m positive about everything,” she said. “I feel like I finally have the place set up. I feel like it makes me more proud.”
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77OCTOBER 14, 2011 COLLEGE HEIGHTS HERALD
Rogers did say, how-ever, that he has received “commitments” from Courtney Lee and Jeremy Evans — now both NBA players — and confi rmed that former Topper Matt Maresca has agreed to participate.
Rogers told the Her-ald on Monday that he’s mainly focusing on the roster that will consist of former UK players.
He said he’s hoping to have around six or seven players and coaches for both teams.
The idea for the game came to him just four days ago, and he said he’s had to move quickly to
get the event set up.“I had seen all this
stuff going on with UK I just started thinking, ‘There’s no reason not to have that at our school,” Rogers said. “We’ve got athletes just like other places do.
“I made a few phone calls, fi rst to Courtney and Jeremy and they seemed interested. So it
just seemed like a good idea. I think it’s going to be good for our com-munity and I think it’s great for our university as well.”
The event itself is not affi liated with WKU in any way. Rogers said he’s handling it all by him-self. He said he’s work-ing with WKU Athletic Compliance to make sure
nothing happens that shouldn’t happen.
Rogers told the Herald on Thursday that tickets will go on sale Friday morning. Prices will be “just like a WKU game,” Rogers said.
However, students won’t get in free like they do at home games but could possibly get a dis-counted price.
All proceeds will go toward Sharp Shooters Academy — Rogers’ bas-ketball academy — and the WKU W-Club.
He said more concrete details will be announced in the coming days.
“If all goes well, it’s going to be a huge event,” Rogers said. “It’s going to be very entertaining without a doubt.”
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“Along with the theme of getting things going in a different direction, it’s good from the sense of, ‘Hey, this is what we have, this is a new group, let’s put the past in the past,'” McDonald said. “Let’s just keep moving forward and get this thing rolling the way we want to and the way we need to.”
With seven freshmen on junior college transfer,
eight of team’s 14 mem-bers will be getting their fi rst taste of the Diddle Arena atmosphere.
That’s something that excites them, McDonald said.
“Guys are ready,” he said. “There’s a level of anticipation because there’s so many new ones. ‘How hard is it going to be? What are we go-ing to do?’ Now it’s time to compete and solidify themselves as basketball players for this program.”
The event itself will
have a little bit of a dif-ferent look this year.
There will be no dunk contest or three-point contest. McDonald said that changes weren’t made to avoid the risk of injury, rather that it takes too long and is an individual event. He said women’s coach Mary Taylor Cowles was on board with the change.
“I think we’re going to go out, give the guys a sense of how hard we’re going to play, give every-body a chance at know-
ing the faces and the new names. It’s a lot to learn,” McDonald said. “We’ll just kind of make it a nice team event.”
The night offi cially starts off with the WKU volleyball match at 6 p.m. against Florida In-ternational. Hilltopper Hysteria will immediate-ly follow.
McDonald said senior guard Kahlil McDonald suffered a grade two medi-al collateral sprain and will miss two to three weeks, so he’ll be unable to par-
ticipate. Sophomore for-ward Stephon Drane will also be unable to partici-pate after hyper-extending his knee. McDonald said Drane would be out until at least early November.
Freshman forward Vinny Zollo is recovering over a bout with mono and also recently had his appendix removed, but McDonald said Zollo would be at Hilltopper Hysteria Friday night.
McDonald said he’s hoping for a big crowd and wants fans to walk
away from Friday’s event with excitement that wasn’t there at the end of last season.
“You do that with how hard you play,” McDon-ald said. “You show some teamwork, you show some toughness – we talk about teamwork, pride and toughness a lot.
“Whenever we step on the court — when we’re off the court — that’s go-ing to be what we talk about and how we rep-resent ourselves. That’s important to me.”
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You would think an eight-hour drive from Chicago would be enough to keep Ann Williams from coming to WKU home volleyball matches.
But the long drive doesn’t stop the mother of senior middle hitter Lindsay Williams from making the trip.
“I’m a night owl so the drive doesn’t really bother me,” she said. “I wouldn’t miss it for anything. I love watching the girls compete and support each other.”
Even Williams' daughter won-ders how she does it.
“She’s a trooper,” said senior middle hitter Lindsay Williams. “She’ll go to work all day on Thursday, get off at fi ve, drive here, get here at like three o’clock in the morning just to come see the game. Every time she gets here I’m just like, ‘Oh Mom, I’m so sorry but thank you.’”
Williams is one of several vol-leyball parents who drives several hours to see the team play.
While most of the athletes on the team come from Kentucky and Indiana, some of the athletes’ fami-
lies face farther drives to attend matches at Diddle.
Williams, from Chicago, junior outside hitter Jordyn Skinner and junior defensive specialist Kacy Moran, both from Michigan, have their parents in the stands for most home matches.
Head Coach Travis Hudson said the parents’ dedication is one of the biggest factors in bringing the team together.
“Something that I really try to consciously create within our pro-gram is that we’re a family,” he said. “We really try to be inviting to all of our parents to be a part of what we do here and it really shows. Every set of parent has 12 kids on this team, if you know what I mean.”
Kris Skinner, mother of Jordyn Skinner, travels with her husband nearly eight hours — a total of 520 miles — from Grand Rapids, Mich., each match to watch her daughter play.
She agreed with Hudson and said all of the families have bonded over their years of traveling.
“Everyone on the team is re-ally friendly and encouraging,” she said. “All the parents meet at the beginning of the year and get to
know each other and everyone re-ally treasures it.”
Bill Moran travels with his wife to all of the weekend matches at Diddle Arena to see their daugh-ter, Kacy Moran, play. It’s a six- or seven-hour drive from their home in Plymouth, Mich.
“It’s exhausting but it’s worth it,” he said. “All of the kids are fun, and after you do it 25 times it’s al-most routine.”
Kacy Moran said having her family in the stands encourages her to do better.
“It’s just so good to know that they support me and still want me to do well,” she said. “Them com-ing down here really motivates me to do my best. I always want to walk out of the gym looking at them like, that was a good game.”
That added motivation certainly hasn’t hurt the Lady Toppers this season. WKU is 19-2 overall, 6-1 in the Sun Belt and ranked No. 30 in the country in the latest Ameri-can Volleyball Coaches Associa-tion national poll.
Ann Williams said WKU’s suc-cess makes the constant travel that much more worthwhile.
“I’m so happy to see them all do as well as they’ve been doing,” she
said. “Everyone works so hard and is so dedicated.”
All three families are expecting to be in attendance for the Lady Toppers’ home matches this week-end. WKU will take on Florida International at 6 p.m. Friday and face Florida Atlantic at 2 p.m. Sat-urday.
Despite the fact that the Lady Toppers swept both teams earlier this season, Lindsay Williams said they wont take either team lightly.
“They’re both getting better ev-ery week,” she said. “You see them playing other teams and it all de-pends on how we do and what their mentality is. It could go either way.”
Dedicated volleyball parents logging high mileageBy LUCAS [email protected]
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Bill Moran hugs his daughter Kacy Moran after WKU's win over Troy last weekend. Bill and his wife drive from Plymouth, Mich., to watch Kacy play home matches — something many other WKU volleyball parents also do.
WKU (1-4, 1-1 Sun Belt Conference) and Florida Atlantic (0-5, 0-2) square off at 3 p.m. Saturday in Boca Raton, Fla., as the Owls are opening FAU Stadium, their new on-campus facility. If the Toppers can do these three things, they’ll have a good chance of spoiling the FAU housewarming.
1. Get off to a fast startWKU is facing an FAU team that will
likely be at its emotional peak of the season come kickoff. The Owls will be fi red up on a new fi eld and in front of their home fans for the fi rst time. How do the Toppers counter that? Go touchdown, stop, touchdown in the fi rst quarter. Suddenly they're up 14-0, the “here we go again” factor kicks in with the 0-5 FAU players, and they have a big edge right out of the gates.
2. Don’t leave points on the fi eldSure, WKU’s double-overtime win over
Middle Tennessee State was the type of thrill ride victory that fans who were present will talk about for years to come. But the Top-pers wouldn’t have needed late heroics if se-
nior kicker Casey Tinius doesn’t miss three fi eld goals, and if freshman wide receiver Joel German didn’t drop a touchdown pass wide open in the end zone. Assuming WKU would’ve converted the extra point on Ger-man’s touchdown, those are 16 points the Toppers left on the fi eld. It’s doubtful you’ll see a team leave that many points out there two weeks in a row and win both games.
3. Tweet responsiblyHead Coach Willie Taggart set a prec-
edent Monday when he announced the sus-pension of sophomore running back Antonio Andrews because of infl ammatory tweets Andrews directed at the Topper fanbase. The new precedent is pretty much, “Tweet something dumb, and you’ll sit a game.” Andrews’ suspension hasn’t seemed to slow him or his teammates down in their tweet-ing habits this week. Of course, most of what they put up has been pretty harmless. But with the standards Taggart has set, now wouldn’t be a smart time to say anything ri-diculous on Twitter. If everyone else prac-tices good social media etiquette this week, WKU won’t lose any additional key players for the game.
Three keys to a Topper victoryFOOTBALL
By BRAD [email protected]
The WKU men’s cross coun-try team is fi ghting for its recog-nition as it goes into the pre-na-tionals meet in Terre Haute, Ind., on Saturday.
“This team is very similar to a younger brother in a large fam-ily,” Head Coach emeritus Cur-tiss Long said. “We’re just trying to establish a niche. We’ll see how well we do this weekend.”
A strong performance at pre-nationals could catapult WKU’s men’s team into the attention of the committee that evaluates the pool of potential NCAA Champi-onship teams and establish cred-ibility for the team, Long said.
The Toppers have not entered the NCAA Championship as a team since 1980.
Pre-nationals will give the Toppers a chance to preview not only the course for the champion-ship, but the competition as well.
“There will be a lot of high-caliber teams there and I’d like to see how well we stack up,” freshman Sean Hurd said. “I feel like we’re ready for (pre-nation-als) and ready to show every-body else how good we are.”
Hurd said the meet would be a “big confi dence boost” for the team and give the team a reading on its potential.
Long looks for the meet to re-veal the development of the run-ners and their ability to control
their setting.“The dynamics of a big meet
are different than that of a small meet,” Long said. “A large meet forces the runner to change the pace in the early stages.”
The challenges of larger meets are still new to competi-tors such as the three freshmen — Sean Hurd, David Mokone and Peter Okwera — that make up part of the team’s top fi ve.
“Every opportunity we can get to teach them to conserve energy and maintain position is important,” Long said.
While a positive performance at this weekend’s meet could introduce the Toppers to the NCAA rankings, Long wants the team to focus only on the devel-
opment of the team.“We just need to run well this
weekend and the ranking will take care of itself,” Long said.
The Lady Toppers are head-ing to the Crimson Classic in Tuscaloosa, Ala., this weekend, which women’s distance coach Michelle Scott said will put up “good competition,” such as Al-abama and Arkansas State who have both beaten WKU in previ-ous meets this season.
“The key is to get the number four, number fi ve, number six and number seven girls running closer to the top three,” Scott said. “(This weekend’s meet) will be more competitive back in the pack for them and they will maybe have a better race
and maybe some breakthrough and we can make some progress. Every week we’re trying to close that gap.”
Scott said the meet will be lower-caliber than pre-nationals but said the Crimson Classic is better for the team. She counts on the meet to give the Lady Toppers confi dence as they go into the Sun Belt Conference Championships on Oct. 29.
“I don’t think we would make as much progress there as we would in this meet,” Scott said. “When you take them to a big race, you risk them having a bad race and a lot of that is mental.
“I want them to have a good race and go into conference on a high note.”
CROSS COUNTRY
WKU heading to diff erent, yet competitive meetsBy MERCEDES [email protected]
Redshirt junior David Kooi rose to No. 1 on the Owls' depth chart after the team's regular start-er, Graham Wilbert, was ruled out of Saturday's game with an arm injury.
Kooi saw significant playing time in FAU's loss to the Mean Green, and is 9-of-14 on the sea-son with one touchdown.
Junior cornerback Derrius Brooks said the key to shutting down Kooi will be to put pressure on the Owls' receivers.
“Their receivers, I think they have pretty good size, but I think if we press them they’re not too good getting off the press,” Brooks said. “We’re trying to get that right, not playing off too far and giving up hitch routes and stuff.”
Saturday’s game will mark the last home opener in the career of Schnellenberger, a 77-year-old coaching legend who has an-nounced this season will be his last.
Schnellenberger, an All-Amer-
ican tight end during his play-ing days at Kentucky, is famous for rebuilding Miami in the early 1980’s, winning the 1983 na-tional championship and laying the groundwork for what became one of modern college football’s greatest dynasties.
Taggart said his first and mem-orable encounter with Schnellen-berger came at a coaching confer-ence soon after Taggart took the WKU head coaching job in 2009.
“The thing I remember the most is when I first met him, he asked me who I played for,” he said. “I think I’ll always remember that.”
With Schnellenberger in the midst of his final season and FAU opening a new stadium, the Top-pers are expecting a festive atmo-sphere.
But junior defensive tackle Ja-marcus Allen said the WKU play-ers plan on ignoring the surround-ings and taking care of business.
“It’ll be good for them to have a good stadium, but they’re going to take an ‘L’ that night,” Allen said. “That’s what we plan on do-ing, and that’s ruin their night by coming back home with a ‘W.'”
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Senior kicker Casey Tinius wants to ruin a party Saturday night.
He and the rest of the Top-per football squad will be the opposition at 3 p.m. Saturday in Florida Atlantic’s first-ev-er game at their brand-new, 30,000-seat, on-campus facil-ity, FAU Stadium.
Tinius, WKU’s senior kicker, said he wouldn’t mind the Toppers (1-4, 1-1 Sun Belt Conference) handing the league rival Owls a big “L” in their stadium debut.
“I’m expecting them to be pretty pumped up about that,” Tinius said. “They’ve got a whole lot to play for but at the same time we do too. We
know we can win every game left on our Sun Belt schedule, so we’re going to try and spoil their little party down there.”
FAU’s battle with WKU will be its first home game of the season after playing its first five games on the road.
The Owls went 0-5 during those games, struggling in all phases of the game.
FAU has been unable to pass (143.2 yards per game, good for No. 112 out of 120 teams in the Football Bowl Subdivision), unable to run the ball (86.6 yards per game, No. 111) and unable to stop oppos-ing offenses from doing either (36.6 points allowed per game, No. 114).
The Owls were especial-ly anemic against Michigan State, achieving just one first
down in a 44-0 loss.But Head Coach Willie
Taggart has said that when it comes to Owls, perhaps the stats have lied a little.
“They’re not an 0-5 football team. They had a really, really tough schedule,” Taggart said. “These last two ballgames they’ve played (a 37-34 loss to ULL and a 31-17 loss to North Texas) they could’ve easily won those games.
“They’re going to be back home in their new stadium and their crowd will be into it. We’re going to get everything they have.”
FAU will open its new sta-dium with a first-time starting quarterback.
Last March, Head Coach Ken McDonald sat in front of media, coaches and fans and promised for a changed approach this sea-son — a “reset.”
It came after a struggling sea-son in which many fans openly expressed their discontent with the basketball program.
Tonight’s Hilltopper Hys-teria, the team’s fi rst offi cial practice, is also McDonald’s fi rst chance to win back some of those fans who jumped ship last season.
“I think it’s part of our job — to get fans back in the fold and understanding that this a dif-ferent group,” McDonald said Wednesday. “We’re going to go in the right direction. We’re go-ing to do things the right way. I think fans are going to be ex-
cited about how hard this team plays and competes and I think that’s all they ever wanted.”
McDonald said when the Toppers struggled last season it was because they didn’t play hard and didn’t represent the program the right way.
But this year — his fi rst with-out any holdovers from previous head coach Darrin Horn — Mc-Donald said the attitude is com-pletely different.
He said team chemistry is there, effort is there and al-though the team is young, the talent is there.
This year’s team will have a much different look than last season's.
Seven players are fresh-men, three are sophomores, three are juniors and just one is a senior.
After announcing tentative plans for an exhibition game featuring former WKU and Kentucky men’s basketball players, former star Ty Rogers on Monday confi rmed the game is offi cially happening.
Rogers told the Herald that the “Big Red vs. Big Blue” game is scheduled to take place on Oct. 25 at Diddle Arena, tentatively at 7 p.m., and the goal is to showcase “high-profi le” athletes from both Bluegrass schools.
Partly for surprise, and partly to not give fans false hopes, Rogers said he’d hold off on announcing who will participate until he knows for sure.
“Dealing with these type of athletes, I have to be 100 percent certain I can trust them,” Rogers said. “I will advertise if I feel 100 percent trustworthy. At this point, I’m just going to keep the names to myself prob-ably.”
On Thursday, Rogers got his fi rst offi cial commit-ment from former UK star Josh Harrellson, now a member of the NBA's New York Knicks.
He said he'd announce participants "one day at a time" via his personal Twitter account.
Two years ago, sophomore midfielder Chrissy Tchoula was ranked the 62nd-best player nation-ally in her class by topdrawersoccer.com.
Last season, Tchoula played in 18 games and started one. She was also able to score one goal on the season.
Now, as a sophomore, Tchoula hopes to have a bigger impact on the team, especially down the stretch this season in Sun Belt Conference play.
“Hopefully I can contribute more to the attack and get more points which is very results-based,” Tchoula said. “I want to be
a more significant part of the team. I get more min-utes and stuff, but I just want to be a bigger factor on the team. Even though thats not really quantifi-able, you’ll know it when I do it.”
HILLTOPPER HYSTERIA MEN'S BASKETBALL
SOCCERA New Beginning
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Head Coach Ken McDonald talks to the WKU men's basketball team during a timeout last season at Diddle Arena. The Toppers, who went 16-16 in 2010-2011 and haven't qualifi ed for postseason play since 2008-2009, have called this season a "reset" for the program.
Hysteria gives fans fi rst look at 'reset' basketball program
By COLE [email protected] Hysteria Schedule
■ Volleyball match at 6 p.m. vs. FIU■ Volleyball, Men’s and Women’s autograph ses-sion following volleyball match■ Women’s and men’s basketball team introduc-tions■ Women’s basketball scrimmage■ Men’s Basketball Scrim-mage■ Men’s team vs. Women’s team scrimmage
Source: WKU Athletic Marketing
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Date set for 'Big Red vs. Big Blue' gameBy COLE [email protected]
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Tchoulastepping into starting roleBy AUSTIN [email protected]
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WKU looks to spoil FAU's stadium debut SaturdayFOOTBALL
By BRAD [email protected]
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Sophomore fullback Kadeem Jones runs after a reception during WKU's Oct. 6 win over Middle Tennessee State. The Toppers play Florida Atlantic at 3 p.m. Saturday in Boca Raton, Fla.
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