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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012 • WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY • WKUHERALD.COM • VOLUME 88 NO. 12
NEWS WKU GETS USDA GRANT TO PROMOTE LOCAL FOOD PAGE 3 NEWS RETENTION SURVEY OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS PAGE 2 ONLINE FOR SHENANIGANS COVERAGE VISIT WKUHERALD.COM
PETITION SEEKS TO MAKE BUILDINGS ACCESSIBLEPAGE 3
VOLLEYBALL COMES HOME AFTER 4-0 ROAD TRIPSPORTS PAGE 8
FOOTBALL LOOKS AHEAD TO TROYSPORTS PAGE 8
He has soft blue eyes and a confi dent yet humble demeanor. He sits upright, hands clasped, donning WKU apparel with a genuine smile. Bill Powell founded WKU’s swimming program in 1969. He was the head coach for the swim team for 36 seasons, all but the fi rst having winning records. “I’ve got a lot of pride in it,” Powell said. “My fi rst job was from scratch too.” The fi rst team he coached was at St. Joseph High School in Michigan. In the beginning, the team lost every meet, but fi ve years later they were undefeat-ed. Powell was born in Wyandotte, Mich., in 1937. He attended Western Michigan University majoring in physical educa-tion with a minor in English. In 2005, Powell was inducted into the
WMU Athletic Hall of Fame for his feats as a swimmer — he won three letters as a backstroker for WMU between 1957 and 1959. “He’s one of the most brilliant coaches I’ve ever met,” said Jim Ritter, a mem-ber of the 2011-12 WKU diving team.
Although the Bowling Green senior isn’t a swimmer, Ritter said Powell helped him become a better diver. Ritter was named Sun Belt Conference Male Diver of the Week last January.
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Retired head coach Bill Powell has worked at WKU for about 43 years. Powell stillteaches swim classes at WKU. RAE EMARY /HERALD
Coaching legend refl ects on the past
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Despite the lack of advertising, the soft opening of Panda Express was still crowded on Thursday. JEFF BROWN/HERALD
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After weeks of waiting, WKU has a new, different food option on cam-pus.
Panda Express had a “soft open-ing” last Thursday and Friday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
A soft opening is when a restau-rant is open for a limited amount of time for a trial run. It opened Monday.
Gary Meszaros, assistant vice president for Auxiliary Services, said the Thursday soft opening was successful.
“It was a soft opening. We weren’t advertising it a lot, but it was jam
packed,” Meszaros said.Meszaros said construction was
one of the major reasons why the restaurant was delayed. Panda Ex-press was set to open at the start of the fall semester.
The renovation of an auditorium space above the Garrett Food Court into the restaurant began in May.
Bryan Russell, director of plan-ning, design and construction, told the Herald in May that out of all the summer projects, Panda Express was the most likely to be delayed.
“If anything would be late, it would be that one, because it’s something they could keep work-ing on a couple of weeks into the
semester,” Russell said at the time.Meszaros said health inspections
and worker training caused other delays. He said even with the delay, he thinks the fi rst week will be busy.
“It’s a very popular venue and we’re expecting huge crowds,” he said.
Students who tried the new op-tion had mixed opinions on the soft opening.
Louisville sophomore Tiana Rut-ledge said she’s excited about the new food option.
“I’m absolutely grateful for the rice and chicken,” Rutledge said.
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The recently released Annual Campus Security and Fire Report revealed burglaries on campus are down dramatically, while instances of public in-toxication and liquor law violations are up.
In 2010, the WKU Police Department recorded 71 instances of burglary — also known as breaking
and entering. In 2011, WKUPD received just 32 reports of burglary, a 39-case drop.
The number of simple assaults on campus also dropped from 17 in 2010 to 10 last year.
Mandi Johnson, pub-lic information offi cer for WKUPD, said there could be any number of reasons for the drop in recorded burglaries, but that she likes to think that
increased student aware-ness has helped contrib-ute to the drop.
“Hopefully, through ed-ucation people are real-izing that it’s important to lock their doors,” Johnson said. “We stress that at all the (Academic Transition Programs).”
Johnson also said WKU police offi cers speak to the university experience classes to stress campus
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"Now we have more variety and I will defi nitely be eating there a lot.”
Rutledge said it was “about time Pan-da Express opened” because everybody has been waiting for it.
Eddyville graduate student Julia Free-man said she isn’t excited about the new food option.
“I hate the smell of Japanese (sic) food so it’s not going to be frequented by me and my friends,” Freeman said. “I think their food will just make the walk to classes in Cherry more fi lled with the
smell of Ramen noodles.”Freeman said this isn’t something she
wants to spend her money on.“I’d rather my tuition dollars be spent
on things I actually use, like classroom technology renovations,” she said.
Danville junior Kelly Colwell said she enjoyed Panda Express but wants more items for meal plans.
“It was really good, but they were re-ally busy,” Colwell said. “I think they should let students use meal plans for items other than the meal plan food.”
Ritter, 22, is the second generation in his fam-ily to train with Powell. He said his father, Mark, swam for Coach Powell as well. “Just the fact that Coach Powell is a legend — (it) made me want to come,” Ritter said. Seven years ago, Powell retired from head swim coach at WKU. But he couldn’t stay away from the team for too long. “I sat down for three days,” he said. “I knew that wasn’t going to work.” Powell became as-sistant coach for the WKU swimming and diving team. He cur-rently teaches a begin-ning swim and swim for fi tness class at the uni-versity. He also teaches swim classes for adults at Bowling Green High School two days a week, and during the summer he teaches youth at the Bowling Green Country Club. Outside of coaching, Powell has found other ways to stay busy and in-volved.
He is also the faculty advisor at the Newman Center of St. Thom-as Aquinas Catholic Church, and recently, he started chauffeuring. Powell said he started the job because he enjoys driving and talking with new people. Powell admits he is very competitive, even with himself and is always set-ting goals. In his forties, the coach started a birth-day ritual. Every April 13th, he swims the same amount of lengths as the number of years he’s lived. This year, he com-pleted 75 successfully. “I’m only 75,” Powell said. “I plan on living for 20 more years!” Behind all the drive and success is a genuine care for people. His wife, Joanne, said her hus-band truly cares for the students he teaches. “He’s been in their wed-ding parties and been the godfather of their chil-dren,” she said. In 2002, WKU named Preston’s natatorium af-ter Powell. “I had no idea they were going to do that,” Powell said. “I got called into the athletic department’s of-fi ce and I wondered what
I did wrong.” There was a surprise reception at the natato-rium with alumni swim-mers from 1969 to 2002. Powell said the natatori-um used to be his home — literally, not just fi gu-ratively. In the 43 years the Pow-ells have lived in Bowling Green, he and his wife had three houses. The fi rst was a cottage that stood in place of what is now Preston’s natato-rium. The second house sat on Regents Avenue where Ransdell Hall now stands. Bill said he took the move from Regents harder than Joanne. “That’s where all of our kids grew up,” he said. Though coaching has been a huge part of his life, Powell is a husband of 53 years, a father to four, and grandfather to twelve. For him, family — which also includes his team — is the most important thing. Powell said the choice he made 43 years ago to coach at WKU has prov-en to be the perfect one. “I wouldn’t trade it for anything,” he said. “I couldn’t ask for anything better.”
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Reports• Police cited junior Lloyd Bartley, Pearce Ford Tower, on Oct. 6 for receiv-ing stolen property less than $500.•Freshman Austin Schooler, McCor-mack Hall, reported on Oct. 6 his laptop and headphones stolen. The value of the items stolen is estimated at $1,880.•Rachid Abou Abdellah reported on Oct. 3 his gym bag stolen from the Preston Center locker room on Sept. 21. The value of items stolen is esti-
mated at $65.•Mary Carrell of WKU Service One Credit Union reported on Oct. 2 van-dalism done to an ATM machine lo-cated in the Garret Conference Center. The damage is estimated at $700.Arrests•Police arrested Willie James Jr. on Oct. 5 for possession of cocaine. •Police arrested William Kehrwald on Oct. 4 for reckless driving, expired reg-istration and DUI.
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include the freshman class and recent increase in police presence on campus in the past year.
“A lot of times it has to do with the new fresh-man class,” Johnson said. “Sometimes they’re a little bit rowdier than other classes. Also our staffi ng levels have gone up, so we have more offi cers out, and that could be contributing to it too.”
While instances of assault and burglar-ies are down, instances of liquor law violation, DUIs, public intoxica-tion and drug abuse are all up over the previous year.
Cases of drug abuse have risen dramatically in the past three years. In 2009, only 42 cases of drug abuse were report-ed. The numbers then sharply rose in 2010 to 116 and then to 129 in 2011.
Liquor law violations rose from 16 in 2010 to 30 last year. Reports of DUIs rose by four, from
32 in 2010 to 36 in 2011. Alcohol intoxication rose from 89 in 2010 to 99 last year.
Johnson said football game weekends and tailgating on campus have not contributed to the increase of alcohol related incidents.
“Tailgating has changed drastically over the last few years,” John-son said. “We no longer patrol tailgating areas. It’s up to HRL and other volunteers to do that. Our arrests for football games have gone way down.”
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WKU and the Community Farmers Market of Bowling Green received a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for their joint initiative, “Local Food for Everyone.”
The initiative consisted of ways to get local food out into the commu-nity, including to people who usually don’t buy local.
Christian Ryan-Downing, WKU sustainability coordinator, said both the CFM and WKU received around $82,000 from the USDA.
Ryan-Downing said the partner-ship worked well because CFM had a lot of WKU association already from the many faculty members who work with the market.
“So, we kind of already had a nice connection just in that way,” Ryan-Downing said.
One project in the grant proposal is a directory that will list local farmers and producers, to help farmers get their names out into the community.
Another part of the initiative is the mobile market, which Ryan-Downing would be like a “kitchen on wheels,” that would reach people who couldn’t get to the market and teach them how to make healthy food.
The initiative will also help further a program that gives refugees food vouchers for the market, and another gives “mini-grants” to farmers to help them with marketing strategies.
Michelle Howell of the CFM said the goal of the grant was to help reach a wider group of consumers.
“Our goal is to reach maybe your traditional people who’ve always bought local food, but then also low income people, refugees, moms with young kids,” Howell said.
Martin Stone, Leichhardt Profes-sor of Horticulture at WKU, said it’s very important to support the local economy.
“We want to keep the dollars circu-lating in the local economy,” Stone said. “There’s also the idea that peo-ple want to support and like the idea of a family farm.”
Ryan-Downing said buying local also helps the environment.
“The average food item, we know, travels 1,400 or 1,500 miles from farm to fork,” she said. “Clearly, going local reduces your carbon footprint.”
Stone said the initiative was a team effort. He works at the CFM himself and owns a blueberry orchard.
“Our goals were the same goals as the USDA, so we were a good fi t for what they were funding,” Stone said.
WKU, Farmers Market get USDA grantTAYLOR [email protected]
Portland, Tenn., junior Megan Allen, a theatre major, is petitioning to get wheel-chair access to Gordon Wilson where she has classes. JEFF BROWN/HERALD
Megan Allen is the as-sistant costume designer for “Two Dumb Dogs,” a play that premieres this Friday in Gordon Wilson Lab Theatre.
However, the Portland, Tenn., junior doesn’t have access to the whole building because she is a wheelchair user due to cerebral palsy.
“I do not know how I will be able to contrib-ute my assistance due to my inaccessibility in the building,” she said.
Allen, who is a theatre major, also has limited access to the Russell Mill-er Theatre in the Ivan Wil-son Center for Fine Arts.
Goshen, Ind., sopho-more Patrick MacDon-ald, who met Allen when she was an usher for a production of “Oklaho-ma!” last spring, is look-ing to help change the access to those buildings with an online petition to inform the WKU com-munity of Allen’s and oth-ers’ situation.
“Many people within our department knew about Megan and our facilities, but outside the department very few people were aware of the situation,” MacDonald said.
Since putting the pe-tition online through Change.org, more than 300 people have signed.
“I have been amazed at how quickly this has gained momentum,” MacDonald said. “I’m glad to see WKU stu-dents, faculty, staff, par-ents and even people in other parts of Kentucky that have no connection to WKU come together to support a basic human rights issue.”
Allen said the petition was a complete surprise to her.
“I didn’t know about it until I heard other people talking about it,” she said.
“I was amazed at how many people signed it.”
The petition has helped generate conversations among the WKU com-munity, MacDonald said.
“Faculty members have talked about how they are not able to teach Megan about all aspects of the-atre and dance because of the lack of accessibil-ity,” he said.
“Parents, friends, and alumni have mentioned how they would love to come see shows, but are unable to do so because of the inaccessible build-ings.”
David Young, depart-ment head for the theatre and dance program, said as soon as the depart-ment was made aware that Allen was entering the program, a chairlift was installed in FAC.
“Our department was in the one part of FAC that’s not accessible, the classrooms and offi ces down in that little corner, because of a half fl ight of stairs,” he said.
Young said Allen’s class-es that aren’t accessible to her are moved to other buildings.
Huda Melky, the Equal Opportunity Offi ce di-rector, said Allen doesn’t have to have access to the theatre buildings, but that program must be ac-cessible for her.
“It’s all about accom-modation,” Melky said. “If you don’t have acces-sible building, you will make sure the program is accessible.
“That’s what we would do with any student who needs access to building that’s not accessible.”
In addition, Matt Davis, coordinator for Student Disability Services, said he and members of the theatre department have met with Allen to come up with solutions to her inaccessibility problems.
“We’ve been working with Megan since she’s been here,” Davis said.
Andrew Duff, Allen’s stage management pro-fessor this semester, had to make adjustments to teach Allen.
During the safety por-tion of the class, Duff was able to show Allen the theatre in Van Meter Hall and some of the theatre in Gordon Wilson, but he couldn’t show her the theatre in FAC because of the stairs leading into it.
Instead, Duff said a tour of the theatre had to be videotaped so Allen could view it for the class.
“It’s embarrassing and frustrating because I want her to be able to ex-perience everything that we can offer her in the theatre, but just because of our buildings it’s im-possible to do that,” Duff said.
Duff said he signed MacDonald’s petition.
“I think it’s great that Patrick has taken initia-tive to do this,” Duff said. “I would think that after a while the people who are the upper echelon of this university would just kind of realize that there are buildings, there is parts of the campus peo-ple in wheelchairs can’t get around.”
Despite Allen’s lim-ited access to the theatre buildings, she is appre-ciative of the support she’s received.
“I want to thank every-one who has supported me and others with dis-abilities so that we are able to get into the build-ings on campus,” she said.
She said she hopes the petition MacDonald started will help make the theatre buildings ac-cessible not only for her but for everyone.
“There have been people other than me who wanted to get in the buildings but they can’t because there’s not any access to them,” she said. “I know everybody would like to enjoy the arts.”
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Student petitions for accessible theater buildings
The Division of Ex-tended Learning and Outreach has restruc-tured its offi ce to better use its resources and reach multiple audi-ences.
Beth Laves, associ-ate vice president for DELO, said the offi ce renamed the non-cred-it portion of DELO the Continuing and Profes-sional Development.
Previously, different offi ces within DELO were doing non-credit outreach. Laves wanted to centralize the offi ces so they would be more effi cient.
“There’s such a huge
potential for growth here that I’m really ex-cited about it,” Laves said.
Within the new of-fi ce, there will be two separate offi ces: Career and Workforce Devel-opment and Lifelong Learning.
Laves said Career and Workforce Devel-opment will focus on programs for working professionals who need more education. It will also do workforce train-ing with businesses.
“As our students grad-uate and get jobs and they still need to keep updated in their profes-
sion,” Laves said.Lifelong Learning is
a community outreach program.
Sharon Woodward, program director of Lifelong Learning, said previously it was hard to market DELO’s courses because they were geared toward dif-ferent people.
Woodward said the offi ce’s real emphasis will be on getting the community to see what WKU has to offer, like the fl oral shop on cam-pus.
-Taylor Harrison
NEWS BRIEF: DELO RESTRUCTURES NON-CREDIT OFFICES
THE DIVISION OF STUDENT AFFAIRS WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING PERSONS
FOR THEIR SELECTION AND PARTICIPATION IN THE NEW MEMBER INTAKE PROCESS FOR A WKU NATIONAL PAN-HELLENIC
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OpinionTUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012 • COLLEGE HEIGHTS HERALD • WKUHERALD.COM
PEOPLE POLL
“I’m voting because I’m fi -nally at a point where I can vote. And after all these years of saying things but not being able to vote, I fi -nally can.”
-Darius Fields, Lexington freshman
“I think this election is a huge election and I think there is a lot on the plate this year. And a lot can change if people get out and vote.”
-Brian Urbancic, Louisville junior
“I’m voting this year because I’ve been following the po-litical debate for two years, and I’m voting because I’m ready to voice my opinion. I can’t stand when people complain but don’t vote.”
-Chavez Reed, Horse Cave freshman
“It’s my civic duty to vote. I can’t complain if I don’t put my vote in.”
-McKinze Vowels, Mt. Washington freshman
DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed in this newspaper DO NOT refl ect those of Western Kentucky University's employees or of its administration.
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“Why are you voting this year?”
Recent commentators have denounced the Hon-ors College as a less-than-worthwhile experience, claiming that faculty within the Honors College are “unprofessional” and do not give enough attention to students. However, it is unfair to take a few bad personal experiences and condemn the hard work of many dedicated professors, not to mention the many unique opportunities that the Honors College has to offer.
After all, there are only two academic advisors in the Honors College to attend to more than 1,000 students, and the two of them often do more for students than they should.
Furthermore, Honors is not just more work, and it is not just a line on a transcript. It is a way of life that cel-ebrates scholarship and high achievement. Our advi-sors are there for guidance, but it is we who make the Honors College a success. Through specialized cours-es, scholarships, and other opportunities not avail-able to other students, the Honors College often goes above and beyond to facilitate scholarship tailored to students’ professional goals. If you are serious, how can such an opportunity not be “worth it,” no matter what your advising experience may be?
They say that the best thing about being in college is being able to complain about college. However, such broad denunciations hint at an entitled attitude and a misguided sense of what our relationship to the uni-versity should be.
No, this is not the way a “business” should be run. But education is not a business and we are not cus-tomers.
- Anna Helton, Bowling Green junior
To Jonathon Wurth,
The fl yer was not intended to represent mainstream Muslims (as you mentioned). Most Mus-lims are ethical people who sim-ply want to live peacefully and to practice their religion of choice. However, those in fundamen-talist strands of Islam have re-cently been intruding on others’ right to free speech by threaten-ing or using violence. It was these groups that the fl yer parodied. Groups that use or threaten violence (again, NOT most Mus-lims) deserve to be ridiculed. This cartoon should not be of-fensive to mainstream Muslims
anymore than a fl yer mocking the Ku Klux Klan should be of-fensive to mainstream Chris-tians. Divisive extremism exists in many forms (both religious and non-religious) and never de-serves respect. Anyone identifying all Muslims as violent extremists is simply ig-norant. In fact, attending the SSA meeting would have enlightened anyone holding such an incor-rect view. We watched a video of a Muslim who denounced the re-cent violence and discussed pic-tures of assemblies of Muslims who held signs rejecting violent extremists. Hopefully moderate Muslims will increasingly take
this approach, recognizing that the fault belongs to those who enact violence and not those who use “offensive” speech. Ultimately, the fl yer pointed out the absurdity of violence as a response to speech and ideas. It was obviously not meant to exacerbate tensions between Muslims and non-Muslims, but to highlight the existing and in-creasing tension between cer-tain religious extremists and the freedom of expression, which is foundational to healthy societies.
- Will Simpson,Monticello graduate student
Entitlement an issue in recent letter about Honors College
Student Secular Alliance response to recent letter to the editor
LETTER TO THE EDITOR LETTER TO THE EDITOR
THE ISSUE: The fi rst of three presidential de-bates between President Barack Obama and Re-publican nominee, Mitt Romney, took place last week at the University of Denver. The debates mark less than a month until the November elec-tion.
OUR STANCE: The Her-ald is excited to see a large amount of students tweeting and posting sta-tuses on Facebook dur-ing the debate. It seems that students are tuned in this election cycle.
With one month un-til the Nov. 6 presi-
dential election, things are starting to get in-teresting and students are taking notice. There were a reported 10 mil-lion tweets for the debate last Wednesday night, according to CBSnews.com, with hundreds of
thousands happening in less than a minute. On Facebook, it was the third-highest event ever to be discussed on the social network. No doubt many WKU students played a role in these numbers. Even on WKU’s own campus, voter registra-tion has seen high turn-out rates with several campus organizations and President Gary Ransdell helping out, along with Big Red. All of this spells a fasci-nating time in America right now and, similar to 2008, there is a lot of excitement. And what makes the 2012 election different for the majority of current WKU students is that they are now able to vote. As it was widely re-ported, young people — college-aged students — played a huge factor in Obama’s 2008 victory,
displaying the power people have when they choose to use their con-stitutional rights. Political affi liations aside, the Herald wants students to take advan-tage of the rights they do have. Continue to watch the debates, follow reli-able news sources, and be as informed as you can on the issues. The Herald has attempted to help, and this was the reason behind starting “CHH Politics” this se-mester. It’s not just the presi-dential election that is important, either, though they are what what get most of our at-tention. State and local elections will take place on Nov. 6 as well, many that may have a more immediate and closer impact on a student in Bowling Green, Ky., than national legislation. The downside of this is
that when you don’t vote you risk having a candi-date you don't believe in win and potentially en-act legislation that affects you in ways that aren’t benefi cial to your life. As the age old question per-sists, how can you com-plain if you do not vote? The “my vote doesn't count” adage has grown tired and trite. One does not have to look far to see instances, many re-cent, that show votes do in fact count and have much swaying power in tight elections. And if the polls are any indication, the 2012 elections will be tight. There’s no school on Nov. 6 so there is no ex-cuse to not fi nd a polling place and cast your vote. And with many hot-but-ton and pressing issues at the forefront of this election, one will be hard pressed to fi nd someone who will not be affected
in someway. And just like the beauty of our politi-cal system, people have the ability and opportu-nity to help make the de-cisions they want.
DARREN VOGT
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As campus-wide MAP-Works surveys come to a close, freshmen weren’t the only ones who partici-pated in the surveys this semester. Sharon Hunter, coordinator of College Readiness, said the change came about to identi-fy students having diffi culties, regardless of year. “We are surveying all stu-dents in support of our focus on degree completion,” she said. “We want to identify any student who may be experi-encing diffi culty in complet-ing his or her degree goal and provide assistance whenever possible.” Developed by Joseph Pica of Indiana’s Ball State University, MAP-Works surveys identify at-risk students and inform administration involved with the surveys how best to meet those students’ needs. “MAP-Works’ retention effective-ness blends sound student theory with proven research, powerful data analytics and years of experi-ence,” the survey’s home page says. “It combines the power of real-time analytics, strategic communica-tions, and differentiated user inter-facing, with integrated statistical testing and outcomes reporting.” The survey questions range from rating a student’s stress levels to things like fraternity/sorority in-volvement. Hunter said the answers from sur-veys will go to administration in-
volved with WKU’s retention efforts, including Housing and Residence Life, advisors, departments, colleg-es, and even back to students. “We’re able to talk to students to prevent their leaving WKU as well as get information and outreach to ad-dress any risk indicators,” she said.
Hunter said it’s im-portant to help students overcome barriers be-tween them and gradu-ating from WKU. “I’m sure students have heard Dr. (Gary)Ransdell and Dr. (Gor-don) Emslie say that ‘WKU doesn’t want stu-dents to come to WKU,
we want them to come to WKU and graduate with a four-year degree,’” she said.
Louisville sophomore Elizabeth Gribbins, a political science major, said she felt like the survey was a waste of her time. “I think they’re mostly a waste of time because I try to answer them as accurately as possible, but then I never see an outcome that really helps me,” she said. “I haven’t seen them try to change anything based on what we’ve said. So what’s the point? They’re just really annoying.” Gribbins said she completed the survey at the encouragement of her residence hall director and for the prize incentives. Other institutions that use the sur-veys to track retention include Har-vard, Baylor, Yale, Duke, Bellarmine, Kentucky and Louisville.
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Some students look-ing to have overnight guests in the dorms may not have an easy time fi guring out the rules.
Brian Kuster, di-rector of Housing and Residence Life said the visitation policy for over-night guests in co-ed residence halls is “gray.”
“We try to give students a lot of freedom and choices, but at the same time you need to have some policy so if someone is being abused you have some-thing to go back to,” Kuster said.
Co-ed dorms have 24-hour visitation, but the policy posted stated overnight guests of the opposite gender weren’t allowed and same gen-der guests must be ap-proved by the hall direc-tor.
“If you have 24-hour visitation, then by defi nition of 24 hours somebody could check
in at anytime,” Kuster said. “We don’t go up and check, we’re not the privacy police.”
The current policy has caused confusion in co-ed dorms like Bates-Runner Hall.
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Kuster thinks that, over time, the policy on cohabitation and the policy on overnight guests were merged to-gether.
He said HRL is in the process of changing the policy to prevent further confusion, but also let roommates have a say in who could stay over.
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points to the other team.”Hudson said WKU's
slow starts have been because of the same rea-son for this 20-3 overall record.
“Confi dence can be a good thing and a bad thing,” Hudson said. “We’re a very confi dent bunch, and I think that
means sometimes we take the fl oor for that fi rst point feeling like we’re going to win that game which is a good thing, but I think it has us a little unfocused at the begin-ning of games.
“That same confi dence is what allows us to maintain our composure and the ability to make the plays we need.”
WKU seems primed to win two more matches
this weekend, when the two teams at the bottom of the Sun Belt East Di-vision walk into Diddle Arena.
The Lady Toppers will kick off Hilltopper Hys-teria at 6 p.m. Friday against Florida Inter-national (5-13, 2-4 Sun Belt).
One day later they'll meet Florida Atlantic (5-11, 1-5) at 2 p.m.
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weekend,” assistant coach Michelle Scott said.
Meanwhile, the women’s team will spend the weekend in Owensboro at a smaller meet.
“I want the girls to race a lighter, smaller race before conferences cham-
pionships later this month,” Scott said. She added that the team was too young and inexperienced to compete at the Pre-NCAA’s like the men. Freshman Lindsey Hinken, who notched a Top 25 fi nish at the Greater Louisville Classic, will be expected to lead the Lady Toppers again this week. “I think we have a lot of work to do as individuals and as a team before con-ference and regionals,” Hinken said.
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“We've got to go down there and play like our lives depend on it. That’s how we’ve been playing all year and it can’t stop now.”
Taggart said he’s seen improvement from Troy on both sides of the ball this season.
“Defensively they’ve improved a lot better than they were last year, and then offensively you just see them executing a lot better, then you look in the win-loss column — they’re back to what Troy is,” he said.
WKU topped the Tro-jans at home last Novem-
ber by a score of 41-18. Doyle, who had six catches for 101 yards in that game, said the Top-pers will have to play well at every position to get the win on Saturday. “We’re really going to have to bring our ‘A’ game,” he said. “I feel like that’s something we real-ly haven’t done as a team, so hopefully we can get that together.” A win this weekend might help WKU’s poll aspirations as well. The Toppers received seven votes in the latest coach-es’ poll but still haven’t gotten any attention in the Associated Press poll.Senior defensive tackle Jamarcus Allen said ris-ing in the polls is the last
thing on the Toppers' minds. “We’re just focused on our next opponent and beating our next oppo-nent,” Allen said. “The polls and the votes are not going to help us pre-pare for next week.” At 4-1, WKU is off to its best start since 2000 and creeping toward bowl eli-gibility. Allen said the Toppers expect to be even better as they grind through the Sun Belt. “The scariest thing is we haven’t played our best football yet,” he said. “Hopefully, we come out to this game and play the best game that we’re ex-pected to play.”
and Missouri. “Her natural goal-scoring instincts along with a true passion for the game made Lauren a top priority for our program,” coach Jason Neidell told WKUsports.com. Moats’ passion is something that sets her apart from the other players, Buechel said. “She plays with a lot of emotion and you can even see it off the fi eld in every-thing she does,” Buechel said. “She is very passionate in everything she has to do.” Moats said Buechel, the team’s leading scorer with eight goals scored, has been a team role model throughout Moats’ freshman year. “She has always been our leader,” she said. “Sometimes you see parts of herself in you and it just makes you want to be more like her. Moats said her favorite part of play-ing for WKU has been developing
friendships with teammates. “I love hanging out with the girls,” she said. “I really like the away trips, and I’m, like, the only one, but the bus and plane rides are really fun. “…We have high expectations for ourselves. We want to make it to the NCAA Tournament.”
Off the fi eld, Moats enjoys watching movies and going to Fellowship of Chris-tian Athletes Bible studies. She’s currently an undeclared educa-tion major, but said she wants to teach physical education. Moats also said she
would love to play soccer after her college career is over if the opportu-nity arises, but that it’s not her main goal right now. After all, Moats still has a bright fu-ture ahead of her at WKU, Buechel said. “Once she works on her confi dence and mentality a little more she will be a very important part of the success for the Toppers,” she said. “She has a lot of talent that we haven’t even seen yet.”
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Dunk Contest—Junior forward Kene Anyigbo, ju-nior forward O’Karo Akamune and sophomore guard T.J. Price (Toppers) Hysteria, WKU basketball’s annual tipoff event, begins at 6 p.m. on Fri-day in Diddle Arena with a WKU-Florida International volleyball game. The dunk contest, 3-point shoot-out, men’s and women’s scrimmages and other events will follow.
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Junior outside hitter Paige Wessel kills the ball against Middle Tennessee State last Tuesday. Wessel had nine kills in the match. No. 20 WKU swept the Blue Raiders at the Alumni Memorial Gym in Murfreesboro, Tenn., on Oct. 2. JEFF BROWN/HERALD
WKU coach Travis Hudson said last Tuesday that the Middle Ten-nessee State game was one of his poorer coaching performances.
WKU swept the rival Blue Raid-ers on the road anyway.
This Sunday at Louisiana-Mon-roe, Hudson said it may have been the Lady Toppers’ poorest perfor-mance all year.
WKU swept the Warhawks on the road anyway.
The No. 20 Lady Toppers (20-3, 6-0 Sun Belt) have the highest AVCA coach’s poll ranking in pro-gram history and have swept all six Sun Belt Conference opponents.
In fact, the last time WKU lost a conference game was more than a year ago, on Oct. 4, 2011 in Diddle Arena against MTSU.
So if the Lady Toppers seem to be in a bit of a slump, the average fan doesn’t notice.
Now comes a part of the season that Hudson said he's excited for.
“From here on out we have full weeks of practice,” Hudson said. “We’ve had mid-week matches and we’ve been on the road.
"These next two weeks I think are critical to our team in terms of getting better.”
The Lady Toppers will set up shop in Diddle Arena for the next two weeks after four road wins.
WKU swept Louisiana-Lafayette on Sept. 28, MTSU last Tuesday, North Texas on Friday and ULM on Sunday, all on the road.
The road trip presented tough conference challenges, senior out-side hitter Jordyn Skinner said.
“Once we got on the court, we just had to focus on beating them,”
Skinner said. “I know we’re tired and I know we’re sore, but we said we needed to play now and focus. After the game we can complain about how tired and sore we are.”
Just like in the MTSU match, WKU found themselves in a hole in the beginning of sets one and three versus ULM.
Sophomore middle hitter Heather Boyan echoed her coach-es remarks saying the ULM match wasn’t one of their best perfor-mances of the year.
“We talk about coming out re-ally strong in every match,” said Boyan, who had six kills on Sun-day. “One of our biggest focuses is getting prepared especially in the fi rst 10 points of every set.
"We have to focus on what we’re doing by not giving up unearned
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The stakes will be the highest they’ve been all season this Saturday as WKU’s men’s cross country team rolls into E.P. “Tom” Sawyer Park in Louisville for the Pre-NCAA Championships. But while the event is bigger, the lo-cation will be familiar. On Sept. 29, the Toppers ran in the Greater Louisville Classic in Tom Saw-yer, the course that will also host the NCAA Championships on Nov. 17. “We found success (in Louisville) last week,” coach Erik Jenkins said. “We look to continue building off that foundation.” Senior Joseph Chebet placed 10th in the 8,000 meter contest at the Great-er Louisville Classic. It was his third straight Top 10 fi nish, and he was re-warded with his third Sun Belt Confer-
ence Men’s Runner of the Week nod. “For Joseph to fi nish Top 10 in a racelike that bodes very well for him downthe run,” Jenkins said. Chebet was backed up by sopho-more David Mokone, who fi nished43rd overall — roughly 30 seconds be-hind Chebet. “David and Joseph ran really well lastweek,” Jenkins said. “We look for themto be even more successful this week-end.” WKU fi nished 25th out of 31 teamslast weekend in Louisville, with com-petition including No. 6 Texas and No.8 Iona. There will be more tough opponentsthis week, including No. 3 BYU, No. 9Tulsa and No. 20 Eastern Kentucky. “We faced some stiff competitionin Louisville last week, and there willbe stiffer competition this upcoming
Lauren Moats is off to a good start in her college career. The freshman forward/midfi elder has scored six goals this season, WKU’s second-highest total. “I always hoped it would be the way it is,” Moats said. Senior forward Aman-da Buechel said Moats’ “attacking mentality” has made the difference during her fi rst year in a WKU uniform. “When she’s in front of the goal, she’s very com-posed,” Buechel said. “As a freshman she still has a
lot to learn, but having scored so many goals for her limited amount of time on the fi eld is a great accom-plishment.” Moats began playing soccer when she was 5 years old in her hometown of Lexington. She played her freshman year of high school in Louisville, then moved to Nixa, Mo., where she fi nished out her high school career. Moats decided to come to WKU after playing at
an elite camp the summer be-fore her senior year, she said. “The coaches called after the camp and wanted me, so I evaluated my options and decided on Western,” she said. “It’s an all- around good fi t for me.”
Moats fi nished her high school career with 59 goals and 42 assists, and played on multiple club teams, as well as the Olympic Development Teams for both Kentucky
It’s an unusual week for WKU football.
Fresh off of their fi rst week-end since August without a football game, the Toppers have just a few days before their next game, on Thursday in Veterans Memorial Stadium against Troy (6:30 p.m, ES-PNU).
Senior tight end Jack Doyle
said the weekend off allowed WKU to work its schedule around the short week of practice. He compared the work week to a regu-lar week with a game on Saturday. “It was nice having that bye week before because you came in Saturday, and Satur-day was Monday,” he said on
Monday at WKU’s weekly media lun-cheon. “Then yester-day was Tuesday, so today’s Wednesday. That’s just kind of how we’re prepar-ing.” The Toppers are in the midst of an 11-day stretch without a football game. WKU beat Arkansas
State last Saturday to earn their
fi rst conference win of the sea-son. The Toppers will be out for their second Sun Belt win against the Trojans on Thurs-day. Troy has been coached by Larry Blakeney for the past 21 seasons and is led on the fi eld by junior quarterback Corey Robinson, who has thrown for 1,489 yards and six touch-downs so far this year. The Trojans have been con-
sistently strong under Blak-eney, with fi ve bowl appear-ances and 167 wins since he was hired in 1990. They went 3-9 last season but have already equaled that win total through fi ve games this year. “I said earlier a Coach Blak-eney team wasn’t going to be down for long, and he’s got those guys playing like Troy’s been playing in the past,” coach Willie Taggart said.
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Toppers want best game of year against Troy
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371 days since WKU lost a Sun Belt
Conference match
32 days since WKU lost a match
25 days since WKU lost a set
4 straight weeks WKU has been
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