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When Smith Stadium hosts the KHSAA state foot-ball championships Friday and Saturday, an expected 35,000 fans will be on WKU’s campus throughout the two-day period.

Parking Services is also making some changes to accommodate for the infl ux of visitors that will require some extra measures by students this Friday and Satur-day.

Both the commuter Parking Structure No. 2 — lo-cated between Diddle Arena and Smith Stadium — and the Creason Lot will be used exclusively for paid public parking all day.

Parking Services requires all students to remove their vehicles from the Creason lot by 5 p.m. Thursday to avoid a $100 fi ne.

“WKU Housing students who normally use Creason Lot should park in other housing lots or Chestnut South Lot,” Parking Services stated in a press release.

Sturgis freshman Riley Hall lives in Keen Hall and owns a housing permit for on-campus parking.

Despite Parking Services sending warning emails to students about the 5 p.m. deadline, Hall said he thought he “had to be out by Friday sometime.”

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Joplin, Mo., teen inducted into WKU honor fraternity

When Phi Sigma Pi re-cently initiated nine of its newest members into the brotherhood, it did so with a mix of sadness and pride.

One of those initiates never knew any of the members, but he will for-ever hold a place in the hearts of PSP’s Beta Phi chapter at WKU.

Will Norton, an 18-year-old graduate of Joplin (Mo.) High School, was made an honorary brother of the fraternity on Nov. 18.

Norton was killed dur-ing the May 22 tornado that struck Joplin on his gradu-ation day. He was driving home with his father when they were caught in the storm. Although his father survived, Norton’s body wasn’t found until sev-eral days later in a nearby pond, just blocks from his

undamaged home.It’s because of Norton’s

story that David Serafi ni, a history instructor at WKU and the adviser of PSP, fi rst organized a trip to Jo-plin to help with rebuild-ing efforts. The fi rst trip was in June and the second followed in October dur-ing fall break.

As Serafi ni watched the search for Norton unfold after the storm, he felt con-nected to the story, say-ing it brought out the big brother in him. Serafi ni began to learn about Nor-ton, a YouTube star and budding fi lmmaker, and felt that he embodied the PSP tripod of scholarship, leadership and fellowship.

After returning from the second Joplin Run in October, Serafi ni said he proposed to the PSP of-fi cers making Norton an honorary brother of the fraternity. It was approved unanimously by the of-

fi cers and then by the full chapter.

“We knew it was going to happen,” he said. “Jop-lin has become our proj-ect, I suppose, and we’ve all adopted Will in a way. He’s the reason why we go.”

During the initiation, Serafi ni stood in as Norton and signed the role book on his behalf.

The ceremony brought mixed emotions for Se-rafi ni and the fraternity. Despite the sadness, Se-rafi ni said he was proud and happy to make Norton an honorary brother.

“Now we must ensure that we tell Will’s story to each initiate class from here on out,” Serafi ni said.

Chris Storath, a Hen-dersonville, Tenn., sopho-more and initiate adviser for PSP, said he is thrilled to have Norton as a broth-er.

“It’s one of the greatest

things I could imagine,” Storath said. “No one re-ally represents the tripod of our fraternity more than he does.

“This is probably the least we could do for his family and his friends.”

Storath said the initiates have loved learning about

Norton and hearing about the Joplin Runs.

By TESSA [email protected]

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History instructor David Serafi ni, Phi Sigma Pi adviser, kneels at the foot of Will Norton’s grave over fall break in Joplin, Mo. Norton, who was killed last May by an EF-5 tornado — the same day he graduated high school — was recently inducted as an honorary brother of Phi Sigma Pi.


Head Coach Willie Taggart celebrates with his team after WKU defeated Troy 41-18 on Saturday to fi nish the season 7-5.

What a difference two months can make.WKU sat 0-3 in late September, coming off a

28-point loss to Football Championship Subdivi-sion opponent Indiana State.

That loss was the 33rd in the team’s last 35 games.

Junior quarterback Kawaun Jakes had lost his starting job, only to go back on the fi eld after back-up Brandon Doughty went down with a season-ending knee injury.

Meanwhile the defense had surrendered 40 points two games in a row.

Head Coach Willie Taggart told fans after the Indiana State game not to give up on his team, but admitted “if they decide not to come I understand that.”

There were perhaps several Topper fans who gave up on the team and didn’t come back.

They missed one heck of a show.WKU narrowly lost its next game to Arkansas

State but then won seven of its last eight to fi nish with a 7-5 record.

Two months after the Indiana State loss the Top-pers are bowl eligible and have a winning record for the fi rst time since 2007.

WKU put the fi nishing touches on its regular season run with a 41-18 win over Troy on Saturday in Smith Stadium.

“It’s crazy,” senior left tackle Wes Jeffries said following the Toppers’ Senior Day win. “We started off 0-4. We just turned it completely around. Now, we’re one of the best teams in the conference.”

Saturday’s game was an illustration of the fac-tors that led to WKU’s turnaround.

The Toppers ran for 338 yards offensively, dominating the Trojans up front, while the WKU defense held Troy to just 27 yards on the ground.

Meanwhile Jakes turned in another solid per-formance, going 11-of-18 for 156 yards while avoiding any turnovers.

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Campus Activities Board wants to help WKU students show Big Red some love on his 32nd birthday.

CAB will on Wednesday host Big Red’s Birth-day Bash in the Preston Center.

The event will feature activities such as laser tag, an obstacle course, a Velcro wall, a mechanical bull, inflatable boxing and a caricature artist.

There will also be traditional birthday party ac-tivities — a magician, a DJ and a five-tier birthday cake, according to CAB news release.

Sylvia Reyes, CAB president, said the organiza-tion hopes to have the WKU band, cheerleaders and singing groups Major Redz and Amazing Tones of Joy involved in the celebration.

CAB planning Big Red's 32nd birthday partyBy MELISSA [email protected]

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Hot chocolate kept hands and bellies warm on Nov. 18, and as the temperature dropped, the number of astronomy en-thusiasts increased. This night marked the end of the Leonids meteor show-er, which typically hits its peak in November.

Spectators from WKU and the general public came out to Chaney’s Dairy Barn, 9191 Nash-ville Road, with high hopes of seeing a spec-tacular show.

Rachel Campbell, an observatory education scientist in physics and

astronomy, offered stu-dents as well as amateur observers the opportunity to see the shower. Camp-bell answered any ques-tions posed and helped set up more than four telescopes.

F o u r t e e n - y e a r - o l d Whitney Heard, of Bowl-

ing Green, brought out her own telescope with hopes to learn more about using it. Part of the event was aimed at helping people learn how to use the equipment they own so they can explore as-tronomy on their own.

Lights from the show-

er emitted off Chaney’s, glowing in the back-ground while making light pollution and cloud cover more and more of a problem as the night went on.

Campbell was wary about how the event would turn out because

the sky was so bright and the wether so cold. But af-ter about an hour, she was happy with the results.

“Over 30 people came out, and we had a bunch of kids,” she said. “It generated a lot of public interest in the science we are doing.”

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Bardstown senior Andrew Delaney searches for meteors during the Leonids meteor shower Nov. 18.

CRIME REPORTSReports■ QuaShaun Stewart, PFT, reported on Nov. 21 the theft of his backpack from the Preston Center. The estimated value of the theft is $549.■ Melissa Rushton, Northeast Hall, and Katherine Knight, Bowling Green, reported on Nov. 21 that Knight’s clarinet was stolen from Ivan Wilson Hall, room 239. The esti-mated value of the clarinet is $699.60.Arrests■ Trent Schum, Pearce-Ford Tower, was

arrested on Nov. 28 on University Boulevard at Smith Stadium and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol under the age of 21, failure to illuminate headlights and possession of an open container of alcohol. Schum was lodged in the Warren County Regional Jail and released the same day. ■ Michael Shopmeyer, Crestwood, was arrested on Nov. 27 at Chestnut Street and Regents Avenue and charged with driv-ing under the influence of alcohol, reckless driving and failure to illuminate headlights. Shopmeyer was lodged in the Warren County Jail and released the same day.

Everything is free for all WKU stu-dents when they show their WKU IDs. The party will begin at 11 p.m. and end at 1 a.m. At midnight, there will be a toast to Big Red, followed by the birthday cake.

For his birthday, Big Red is asking for toy donations for children in need during the upcoming holiday season. Donations are not required but are appreciated.

“We defi nitely want to attach the West-ern spirit to this party, and a giving spirit is a big part of Western,” said Kenneth Johnson, assistant director of Student Ac-tivities.

The toys will either be given to Toys for Tots, a national organization spon-sored by the U.S. Marine Corps or the Salvation Army, said Johnson.

Toys for Tots’ goal is “to deliver,

through a new toy at Christmas, a message of hope to less fortunate youngsters that will assist them in becoming responsible, productive, patriotic citizens,” according to the Toys for Tots website. All donated toys should be new and unwrapped.

This is CAB’s fi rst year participating in Big Red’s birthday celebration, so all the members are very excited, said Reyes.

CAB is prepared to host about 600 to 1,200 students at the party.

If the event is a success, CAB plans to participate in future celebrations and in-crease the scale of the event.

“Hopefully this event will be on a scale that would make Big Red proud,” Johnson said.

According to wkusports.com, Big Red was born in the fall of 1979 and celebrates its birthday on Dec. 1.

Big Red was originally designed and built by WKU student Ralph Carey, a member of the class of 1980 and Cincin-nati native.

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The United States Depart-ment of Agriculture has award-ed WKU a $577,114 grant from the Rural Utility Service to up-date equipment in the WKYU-PBS station.

WKYU-PBS is the public broadcasting station for south central Kentucky and north-ern Tennessee. The station is currently using analog studio equipment and the money will allow the station to switch over to high-definition digital equip-ment to provide better program-ming.

Linda Gerofsky, WKYU-PBS station manager, said the grant will allow the station to update its 20- to 40-year-old equipment, which cannot take advantage of the digital format.

“Some of it’s on its last legs or failing already, and we’re really in dire straits when it comes to that kind of stuff, not to mention that we’re not able to produce things in digital for-mat, and that’s a problem with digital television,” Gerofsky said.

Gerofsky said everyone in

the studio was thrilled to finally receive funding.

“It just seems almost unbe-lievable because we’ve gone so long and needed this for so long and tried some other sources to get money, and it’s just not easy,” Gerofsky said. “So we were kind of, you know, keep-ing our fingers crossed, but we were trying not to get our hopes up too much that we would get it.”

Katie Gibbs, a senior from Connersville, Ind., and a stu-dent worker at WKYU, said she was happy the station was upgrading because a lot of the equipment the station currently uses is antiquated.

“The model of switcher that we have in the control room was actually used in the first Star Wars,” Gibbs said.

Gibbs said its been about 30 years since the last time some of the equipment was replaced in the control room.

“Whenever one of our sta-tion managers, Linda Gerofsky, gives tours, she’s reluctant to go in there because it’s so old in there,” Gibbs said. “She’s like,‘This is a museum and then this is all of our modern stuff.”

Athletics isn't the only discipline where students compete bearing the WKU name.

The academic compe-tition, mostly known as “quiz bowl,” is more an intellectual matchup rath-er than muscle or strength

-related.WKU Academic Com-

petition Club was estab-lished in spring of 2010 by two WKU students, Leitchfi eld junior Nick Conder and Smiths Grove junior Brian Riddle, who met in a quiz bowl tourna-ment during high school.

The club consists of different students and

faculty members who help with all aspects of an academic competition. Select members who wish to compete form teams.

Because the WKU Academic Competition Team is new compared to other collegiate teams in the nation that have been around for decades, they are not ranked yet.

“Since we started, we have done fair,” said Rid-dle, who is a fi nance ma-jor and the club’s treasur-er. “We are in the middle of the pack.”

Guy Jordan, who is an assistant professor of art history and the club’s ad-viser, said he thinks this team has a lot of growing to do. However, Jordan said he knows the team will get better and earn a ranking one day.

“I do not think there is anybody currently on our team who is sort of a monster player who will just gobble everything up,” he said. “To have a team like that that works, everybody has to be on that same level, sharpen-ing swords and making one another better.”

Currently the Academ-ic Competition Team is looking for new students who would like to partici-pate.

“We always need new players and people to help read questions, keep scores and perform other simple tasks,” said Cond-er, who is a history major

and the club's president.Although it may seem

daunting to join a club based on intelligence, Conder said people don't need a 4.0 GPA to be suc-cessful players.

“I know someone who played for another team,” he said. “He was one of the best players in the country, but he was a ter-rible student, who ended up dropping out of col-lege. There are people who do not fi t the normal defi nition of smart who excel quiz bowl.”

Quiz bowl is very com-petitive, Conder said. It's a lot like playing physical sports, but instead of us-ing the body, people use their minds.

Riddle agreed with Conder and added that playing quiz bowl is not as large of a time com-mitment as being on a sports team. People have enough time to do other things as well, he said.

The team practices Wednesday nights and plays up to 30 games a semester, Conder said.

During a season, the

team travels to a lot of different places, includ-ing Washington D.C., St. Louis, Mo., Tuscaloosa, Ala., among others.

“The best reason to participate is we go to a lot of places,” Riddle said. “And we have fun.”

Besides traveling and competing, Conder said academic competition is a good way to expand knowledge on various ac-ademic subjects and meet a lot of people.

For example, Jordan met his wife in one of those tournaments at the time he played.

“It is a good way to go places and meet people,” Conder said. “I know people from all around the country.”

Trips and housing are always paid, Conder said. The only thing players have to pay for is food and sightseeing tours.

Jordan encouraged students to participate in the Academic Competi-tion Team.

“It is a pretty laid back atmosphere,” Jor-dan said.

33NOVEMBER 29, 2011 COLLEGE HEIGHTS HERALD

Academic team invites new players to join

JOSH MASUER/HERALD

Mt. Sterling freshman Blake Soper answers a question during the Academic Competition Club practice. The club has been slow to grow but is constantly gaining new members.

By MONTA [email protected]

The Student Government Association is bring-ing highly regarded individuals from the commu-nity to WKU with the Dine with Decision Makers event on Thursday.

The event will take place at 6 p.m. in the Cupola Room in the Downing University Center. Students are invited to attend for free and can RSVP on the SGA website.

This is the third year the event has taken place. SGA Executive Vice President Kendrick Bryan said it was former SGA President Kevin Smiley’s idea to create the dinner.

Getting ready for the event has been a group ef-fort from various members of SGA, which is the sole sponsor of the event, Bryan said.

SGA President Billy Stephens said the event benefi ts both decision makers and students.

“Dine is a great event because it gives students the opportunity to have one-on-one conversations with the leaders not only of our great state, but this university,” Stephens said.

As of now, 14 decision makers have been con-

fi rmed. President Gary Ransdell and Robbin Taylor, vice president for public affairs, are confi rmed to at-tend the event.

Local mayors that will attend are Rhonda Traut-man from Glasgow, Ron Payne from Owensboro and Tim Walker from Elizabethtown.

Warren County Judge Executive Mike Buchanon will also attend the event. A representative for Lt. Gov. Dan Mongiardo will attend in his place. KSP Commissioner Rodney Brewer will also attend.

Six state legislators — Jim DeCesare, Jody Rich-ards, Dorsey Ridley, Wilson Stone, Mike Wilson and C.B. Embry — will be on hand.

Pending RSVPs are Auditor-elect Adam Edelen, the Board of Regents members and Bowling Green City Commissioner Melinda Hill.

SGA Administrative Vice President Devon Hilderbrandt said the event will cost about $1,500. Legislation was not passed to fund the event be-cause money is set aside specifi cally for it at the be-ginning of the year.

“It shows decision makers what Hilltoppers re-ally can offer, and it also shows us to what we can do to help better ourselves as leaders and future deci-sion makers,” Hilderbrandt said.

SGA hosting Dine with Decision MakersBy TAYLOR [email protected]

WKYU-PBS overhauls studio with USDA grantBy MICHAEL [email protected]

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Best: “An iron. I like homey stuff . I hope I get a cooking set for this Christmas, like a nice one, like a 200 dollar one.”Worst: “I got a stuff ed animal and I was 19. I can’t be get-ting stuff like that. It was real stupid.”

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Best: A yorkie puppy named MissyWorst: “It was this thing that was supposed to be a scarf with a hood — it was bad.”

Best: CarWorst: “My worst was a savings bond when I was 8 years old. All I wanted was a new Pokémon game.”

Best: CarWorst: “Barbie dolls… I didn’t really play with them.”

What is the best and worst gift you've ever received?

peoplepeople

Like most people, I absolutely love Christmas. I love the warm family tradi-tions, nonstop Christmas music blasting from every speaker in town, the reds and the greens, and the ribbons and bows. I love it all.

I’m a true sucker for the retail and com-mercial Christmas. I’m sorry if you don’t enjoy all the bright and happy Christmas ads with cheery carols trying to sell you something — honestly it makes me think you’re a sad person.

Really, I can’t stand listening to people talk about how much more “commercial-ized” Christmas becomes each year.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, people, so stop complaining about “the man” out to get your money and losing the real meaning of Christmas.

Receiving presents elates anyone from ages 1 to 92, and you can’t argue that with me.

Yes, I know my mom, along with many other moms, have fought over toys and electronics for their kids, pulling hair and

scratching at each other, but in the grand scheme of things it’s totally in the holiday spirit.

Moms love their kids so of course they’re going to fi ght for that iPad or Xbox so their child will smile

Christmas morning.I’m a strong believer that people don’t

really ever lose the real meaning of Christ-mas, because in the end, the crazy things we do during the holiday season is in the effort to brighten people’s lives with the spirit of giving.

Maybe it bugs me when people com-plain about Christmas because I feel like they’re taking it for granted.

Last Christmas was the fi rst Christmas I experienced without my father who passed

away the summer before.When they say the fi rst holidays are the

toughest when you lose a loved one, they aren’t lying. Christmas was hard, but I had the rest of my family with me.

To take our minds off of the passing of my father as much as possible, my family and I spent Christmas Eve in an airport and Christmas Day at the Fontainebleau in Mi-ami.

We got away from the cold but we still brought the Christmas spirit with us. It’s kind of nice being able to lay out on the beach on Christmas for a change.

Like everything in life, you never know when your last day is, and Christmas is supposed to be one of the most cheerful days of the year, so don’t ruin it by com-plaining about anything.

Don’t take any Christmas, or any day for that matter, for granted. I sure don’t, and I love spending it with my mom, step-dad and amazing brother. Oh, and I also still celebrate it with my dad, just in a dif-ferent way.

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Tempting rubicon: Civilized society both 'divided and lost'

A wise man once said that a house divided against itself can-not stand. He also said the fi rst thing to do when you’re lost is to admit it. Such wisdom is slaughtered and sacrifi ced upon the altar of our nation with its “progress” and “educated peo-ple.”

The rising prominence of the Occupation of Wall Street and the Mississippi Personhood controversy are just two things that have reminded me that we are both: divided and lost.

One hundred and fi fty years

ago we distinguished between humans and non-humans based on the color of skin. The issue makes me question if we ever believed in the right to life. But that doesn’t matter.

We’re much more civilized than we were in 1861, civilized to such a point that CNN printed a single article on the anniver-sary of Fort Sumpter, its causes and implications, as if everyone had already forgotten the events of the last presidential election.

Such guidance, by the exam-ple of our elders, is dismissed as irrelevant to modern life. I don’t waste my time brokering speaking terms between circled

wagons of zealots, lest I be torn asunder. Camp David won’t be the place where it all ends.

Though we still pride our-selves as a people of reason, gone are the days when we ac-tually used the gift. Our fathers made that same mistake, and now we’re on the verge of kill-ing each other, yet again, be-cause we don’t bother with talk-ing. This time, there won’t be stone walls and charges up the long slope. It will be everyone versus everyone else.

America: 1789 style. De-cades from now, surrounded by the children who managed to survive their time in this world,

I’ll stand amid fresh grave-yards. A man in a three-piece suit will wipe his tears and say what a horrible war it was, and then ask why it had to happen.

Why did it happen? We sim-ply wouldn’t have it any other way. And as he continues to pour out such archetypes of suffering in motion, the olden tombs will welcome, with silent nods of acceptance, the newly baptized members of the mute witnesses.

If I had a dollar for every stake being driven through the heart of this nation, I’d still be broke. A new breed of abolition-ists and fi re-eaters have made

themselves known, waving blood-soaked shirts with thun-derous cries that echo amongst the hushed voices of those who came before.

“That’s not true,” many say, “things are different.” Yes, yes, “peace, peace.” We don’t refer to each other as Johnny Reb or Billy Yank, Ivan or Gringo.

But we still bleed Red, erase bitter memories written in Black upon the White, and sing the Blues while our tired heads turn Grey.

This commentary doesn't necessar-ily represent the views of the Her-ald or the university.

COMMENTARY

EDITORIAL CARTOON

Don't take Christmas for granted

I appreciated Nick Weller’s commen-tary in the Nov. 11 Herald, “Do this many people need to be going to college?”

Although I question some of the sta-tistics he cites; i.e., “Forty-two percent of recent college graduates are unemployed,” I agree with his basic premise that the deci-sion to attend college should be taken more seriously by many students.

At the same time, the increasing rele-vance of extending one’s formal education beyond the secondary level should not be underestimated.

Does that mean everyone needs to go to college?

No, but it is becoming obvious that edu-

cation must be a central tenet of any viable strategy for sustainable job creation and economic growth.

The fundamental nature of work is changing, and unless Americans embrace this reality, our prospects will continue to be in jeopardy.

Unfortunately, far too many Americans still have antediluvian notions about its evolving role in their lives.

And pursuing the wrong credential, as Mr. Weller alludes to, can make your eco-nomic situation signifi cantly worse.

Charlatans, opportunists and fear mon-gers are already cashing in on the naïve who believe any job in health services or

information technology will precipitate a higher standard of living.

All work is increasingly knowledge driven. Constant training and retraining are the new norm; today’s profi ciency is to-morrow’s obsolescence.

In a fast-paced, knowledge-driven glob-al economy, everything can — and often does — change overnight. You either keep up or are left in the dust.

Education is becoming the only path to job security.

Aaron HugheyDepartment of Counseling and

Student Affairs

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

COLUMN

Secondary education should not be underestimated

TAYLOR HARBINPaducah senior


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Although it may be too early to spot Santa’s silky white mane, it’s just the right time to see some WKU students let their scruffy beards go wild.

In honor of the na-tional phenomenon “No Shave November,” they’ve gone the entire month without shaving.

St. Louis sophomore Jon Lindsey acts as if he's lost all his razors.

“You’re supposed to just let it grow,” he said. “No trimming, no grooming, no touching of the beard.”

People like Hop-kinsville junior Cory Mayes were inspired by the chance to donate to charities such as the Na-tional Multiple Sclero-sis Foundation and the

Prostate Cancer Founda-tion. Those are just two charities involved in No Shave November, ac-cording to Noshember.com, a website dedi-cated to the shave-free month.

For Mayes, No Shave November was a time to bond with his brothers of Alpha Tau Omega.

On Oct. 31, they did the clean shave and de-cided not to shave until

the end of November. “It’s a chance to show

your manliness,” Mayes said. “We’re going all out.”

However, this isn’t just a fraternity tradition.

Lindsey tried the tra-dition in high school, but said his mom forced him to shave it off.

Since then he’s kept his beard shaven, but leaves a little hair on his chin sometimes.

“I’ve had a couple of people say they like me with a beard,” Lindsey said.

With a few supporters and some friendly com-petition, he thought it was time to try the tradi-tion again.

Lindsey decided to boycott shaving with his friends Munfordville sophomore J.D. Shad-burne and Bryan Sircy, a senior from Lafayette, Tenn.

Shadburne said he plans to have the longest beard out the group since it only took him two days to grow one before.

“I expect to look like Paul Bunyan,” Shad-burne said.

For Sircy, the hairy feat may be a little more difficult.

His dark-red beard stays fairly thin and curly, but he hopes it will grow to be two inches long.

“At least something I can pull into a hair bow,” Sircy said.

Despite the ability to grow a beard, other fac-tors may decide the out-come of the guys’ burly adventure and if they can make it to the end of the month.

Sircy didn’t know if his untamed beard would be a hit at WKU Tele-flora, where he delivers floral arrangements part-time.

“My boss thinks it’s going to be tacky,” he said.

However, Sircy said he can still make it look respectable.

Mayes isn’t expect-ing disapproval from his employers at Monster Energy.

“They’re crazy peo-ple, so I think they’ll be supportive,” he said.

Shadburne said his girlfriend, Sarah Roy, wasn’t a fan of No Shave November.

Roy, a sophomore from Hendersonville, Tenn., said she actually doesn’t mind the tradi-tion.

“It’s fun for guys to get together and brag about their beards,” she said.

Roy said she likes Shadburne with a beard, as long as it’s groomed.

Shadburne said he’s sure she will like his new look.

“I’m going for the gold,” he said. “I’m just going to let it go wild and do its own thing.”



Hopkinsville junior Cory Mayes is participating in No Shave November. “I have never done it before and some of my fraternity brothers were doing it,” he said.

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Woman’s Club raises money for WKU scholarships

The Bowling Green Woman’s Club annual Christmas Home Tour will return for its 17th year of Christmas cheer on Dec. 11.

Seven local homes and busi-nesses are participating in the tour this year, according to a news release from the club. Each loca-tion on the tour will feature both indoor and outdoor holiday deco-rations.

“It’s really up to individual

home owners whether they want to focus more on the inside or the outside,” said Lynn Hulsey, one of the tour’s organizers. “Some people have music playing. Last year, one lady had her son play-ing piano during the tour. It was very lovely.”

The Woman’s Club hosts the tour as a way to raise money for four $1,000 scholarships given yearly to WKU students.

“The tour is our big money-maker,” said Cathy Adams, the club’s International chairman.

Adams has been a member of the Woman’s Club for two years but has taken the home tour for the past fi ve years. She said the tour is what originally drew her to the club and eventually led her to join.

The club is a civic organiza-tion made up of local women who are interested in volunteering and community awareness.

The tour is one of many ways that members can get involved in the club and in the community. Adams said the club also encour-

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Many members of the Wom-an’s Club have ties to WKU, in-cluding Hulsey, member of the class of 1984.

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The fi fth Kappa Sigma Christmas Pag-eant will take place on Dec. 7 at the Downing University Center Theater, with doors open-ing at 6:30 p.m.

The event’s proceeds will go to Kappa Sigma’s philanthropy, Toys for Tots. Contes-tants are charged an entrance fee, and there will be an admission fee to attend the event.

Louisville senior and Christmas Week Chair Matt Hodgson said the people that participate in the pageant are mostly from WKU’s sororities.

Each sorority can enter up to three contes-tants. This year, Hodgson said that fraternities can nominate someone to participate as well.

The pageant has three rounds. In the fi rst round, participants can wear their organiza-tion’s letters. In the second round, they wear outfi ts that show “Christmas spirit.” The third round is formal wear.

The judges are usually alumni — last year, Gary Ransdell’s wife, Julie, was one of the judges.

Last year’s winner was Poorvie Patel,

representing Alpha Omicron Pi. Hodgson said a Chi Omega came in second and Omega Phi Alpha was in third.

There are also other events in Kappa Sigma’s Christmas week. These include a Griff’s Deli Night on Dec. 6, with 10 percent of the proceeds going to Toys for Tots.

Kappa Sigma also goes caroling to the sororities’ houses the night after the pageant.

The president of AOII, Laura Brittany Wathen, said the process for selecting par-ticipants requires that girls will be nominated within the sorority. Once as many people as they want to participate have been nominated and accepted the nominations, the process is stopped.

Wathen said that ever since she’s been in her sorority, they have participated in the pageant.

Kappa Sigma president Rob Whittley said the pageant is for a great cause, adding that the girls also seem to have a fun time partici-pating.

“It gives the chance for the Greek com-munity to donate to a philanthropy in a fun and exciting way,” he said.

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■ NEWS BRIEFWKU iMedia provides cov-erage at Hong Kong confer-ence

Students involved with WKU iMe-dia with the School of Journalism & Broadcasting were commissioned by the Global Editors Network to pro-vide editorial reports during the 2011 News World Summit this week in Hong Kong.

The class, taught by Kerry Northrup, the iMedia Coordinator and journalist professional-in-residence, will cover the events through a combination of streaming video, social networking and online reports from Hong Kong for the next three days. Marjorie Yambor, an

instructor in the SJ&B, is also leading the trip.

“The GEN wants to promote col-laboration across all news platforms,” said Bertrant Pecquerie, Global Editor Network’s Chief executive offi cer, in a WKU news release. “This is why we are very interested in the innovative news-handling techniques used by Western Kentucky University’s journalists-in-training, which will ensure the summit’s coverage to integrate all the media plat-forms.”

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WKU alumnus Trev-or Simms said he knew where he needed to be in order to turn his fi lm-making dream into real-ity.

And it only took him a day and a half to get there.

“I think I broke a re-cord,” he said.

Simms graduated from WKU in December 2009 with a TV/fi lm produc-tion degree and a double minor in writing and fi lm studies before moving to Los Angeles in February 2010.

He stopped only once on the drive to sleep for about four hours in Tex-as. Once in Los Ange-les, he slept in an empty

apartment. “I was a squatter,” he

said. Simms said once he

reached California, his fi rst goal was to get a movie made in order to advance his career.

“I want to do one after another,” he said. “But fi rst, I’ve got to make the fi rst one.”

Currently, Simms is fi lming the trailer for his fi rst production called Misirlou.

He is using the website KickStarter.com to help fund the trailer, and will eventually shop around to potential producers.

In order to make the movie, Simms will need $200,000.

Simms said writing the script for Misirlou took about a year after he

came up with the idea. “It was originally go-

ing to be a short that we were going to shoot on Venice Beach,” he said. “But then it turned into a psychedelic thriller.”

Simms recently fi n-ished drawing up the sto-ryboards, which look like cartoons, he said.

He is currently in the process of shooting the opening sequence.

“You start thinking your shots as you’re writ-ing,” he said. “Then you either get someone to buy it or you make it your-self.”

He is also searching for other talent to com-plete his trailer and is currently interested in casting two friends of his, Andrew Keegan, who starred as Joey Donner in

Ten Things I Hate About You, and Erik Von Detten, who acted in the Disney Channel movie Brink! and Princess Diaries, and served as the voice for Sid in Toy Story.

Simms also works on an organic farm and said it’s hard to fi nd time for fi lming, but that he needs the money.

“In 10 years, I want to be able to make whatever movie I want and to make it a large-scale produc-tion,” he said.

While Simms is mak-ing his way in Holly-wood, he still has fans back home.

Dale Augenstein, an-other WKU alumnus who lives on Hilton Head Is-land, S.C., said he and Simms still keep in touch.

“His work ethic is in-

credible,” he said. “He was up at the computer virtually all hours of the day and night, writing.”

The two fi rst met on WKU’s campus, and Au-genstein said he knew right away that Simms was very creative.

“He’s the fi nest young man you can fi nd,” he said. “He will be very successful.”

While friends and family from back home keep an eye on him, pro-ducers that Simms has approached are doing the same thing.

Christopher Mont-gomery Bender, a Holly-wood agent and producer, has known Simms for about three years, after Simms was referred to him by a former client.

“He was very am-

bitious,” Bender said. “Very driven.”

Simms sent Bender two to three scripts of his right away, as well as a DVD of projects he par-ticipated in while in col-lege.

“It was unique stuff,” he said. “They were very offbeat, very different and kind of refreshing.”

Bender said that Simms still comes to him for advice on a fre-quent basis, and Bender tells him that this kind of thing doesn’t happen overnight.

“Success at the end of the day is about who’s prepared and who’s will-ing to take chances,” Bender said.

Simms hopes to raise $5,000 to complete his fi rst production by Jan. 2.

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Keegan Tinney, a Joplin native and 19-year-old freshman at Mis-souri Southern State University, was Norton’s best friend since middle school.

When Serafini and a group of 14 WKU students made a return trip to Joplin in October, they met with Tinney to talk about the storm and Norton’s life. It is at this time that Serafini first

told Tinney of the plans to initi-ate Norton into the PSP Beta Phi chapter.

“After his life, he’s continued to impact people,” Tinney said fol-lowing the initiation. “He’s lived a great life and he’s still living in a different manner, it’s still cool.”

Tinney said he was happy to meet the group and know his friend made an impact on them.

“It’s cool to see people my age…That many miles away, they care and are doing something — they want to help people they

don’t even know. They want to honor people that they don’t even know.”

Joplin Run III will likely be the first half of WKU’s spring break, with Joplin Run IV following in May for the first anniversary of the tornado, Serafini said.

Storath said he’s “definitely” going back in the spring.

“I will go on every single Jo-plin run that we have,” he said. “Pretty much nothing is going to stand in the way of that. I would move there if I could.”

JOPLINCONTINUED FROM FRONT

“Creason’s a big lot, and there’s going to be a lot of cars having to move out, so all the other lots are go-ing to fi ll up quick too,” he said. “I’m paying $90. I fi gured they would at least give us some other place to park.”

During last year’s Gridiron Bowl, Parking Services had all student ve-hicles towed that caused a crowding issue. A temporary lot at the Bowling Green Hot Rods Stadium was also opened to accommodate for students displaced by the infl ux of vehicles.

Jennifer Tougas, director of Park-ing and Transportation, could not be reached for comment on whether towing might be enforced this year.

Nashville freshman Nathan Garcia lives in Keen Hall and owns a housing parking permit. He said the changes in parking were understandable.

“I guess it’s not really that big of a deal,” he said. “It’s one weekend. I’ll fi nd somewhere else to park.”

For commuter students who usu-ally park in PS2 or Chestnut South Lot, Parking Services encouraged use of the Center Street Gravel Lot or the park and ride lots which shuttle stu-dents from remote parking spaces to

campus.Buses run from the Campbell

Lane and South Campus lots every fi ve to eight minutes for commuting students.

The surface lots around Diddle Arena, the South Lawn Lot between the Downing University Center and Preston Health and Fitness Center, and the Russellville Road Lot will also be reserved exclusively for game offi cials and media.

Parking Structure No. 1 — located up the Hill from Diddle Arena on Avenue of Champions – will be used for excess public parking starting at 3 p.m. on Friday and continuing all day Saturday. Unlike the Creason Lot, students are not required to leave that structure.

Scottsville freshman Matt Wade commutes to campus Mondays through Fridays each week. He said he is worried about fi nding a place to park on Friday.

“When they’re not even having state games or basketball games, you still don’t have a parking spot on a regular day here,” he said while ex-iting PS2 Monday. “You’ve got to park in Egypt or somewhere else and walk.”

Parking Services also said in the press release that students will notice a heavier congestion of traffi c Friday

and Saturday and should plan accord-ingly.

Game times are at 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. both days.

After each game, traffi c exiting PS2 will be directed north onto Uni-versity Boulevard to Kentucky Street. Traffi c exiting PS1 will be directed east onto College Heights Boulevard. Traffi c exiting the Creason Lot will be directed south on Creason Drive to Emmett Avenue.

The right lane of Avenue of Cham-pions closest to Diddle Arena will also be closed to traffi c on Friday and Saturday.

PARKINGCONTINUED FROM FRONT

When they’re not even having state games or basket-ball games, you still don’t have a park-ing spot on a regular day here."

—Matt WadeScottsville freshman


WKU's regular season in reviewGAME ONE:Kentucky 14, WKU 3Sept. 1

The WKU defense intercepted Kentucky quarterback Morgan Newton three times, but junior Topper quarterback Kawaun Jakes went just 9-of-27 and threw four picks in the loss. Head Coach WIllie Taggart said WKU “let one get away.”

GAME TWO: Navy 40, WKU 14 Sept. 10

Navy’s option offense ran roughshod over the WKU defense for 410 rushing yards. Meanwhile an ineffective Jakes was pulled in the third quarter in favor of redshirt freshman Bran-don Doughty, sparking a quarterback controversy.

GAME THREE:Indiana State 44, WKU 16Sept. 17

Football Championship Subdivision opponent Indiana State dominated WKU behind 221 rushing yards from running back Shakir Bell. Both Doughty and junior wide receiver Marcus Vasquez were lost for the season with torn anterior cruciate ligaments.

GAME FOUR: Arkansas State 26, WKU 22 Oct. 1

A late fi rst down run by Jakes was nullifi ed after a review of the ball spot, and an ensuing fourth-down stop gave the ball back to Arkansas State quarterback Ryan Aplin. He marched the Red Wolves 64 yards for the winning score.

GAME FIVE:WKU 36, MTSU 33, 2 OT.Oct. 6

Rainey gained all 25 yards in the Toppers’ decisive double overtime drive, including a game-winning seven yard recep-tion. It was WKU’s fi rst win of the season and fi rst over the rival Blue Raiders in three years.

GAME SIX:WKU 20, Florida Atlantic 0.Oct. 15

The WKU defense spoiled the Owls’ fi rst-ever game at FAU Stadium, pitching the Toppers’ fi rst shutout since 2007. FAU tallied just six fi rst downs and didn’t reach the 100-yard pla-teau for the game until well into the fourth quarter.

GAME SEVEN: WKU 42, La.-Lafayette 23. Oct. 22

WKU broke an 18-game home losing streak that dated back to 2008 with a Homecoming upset of the 6-1 Ragin’ Cajuns. Rainey ran for 206 yards and three touchdowns, while Jakes went 15-of-18 for 242 yards with a touchdown and an inter-ception.

GAME EIGHT: WKU 31, Louisiana-Monroe 28, OT Oct. 29

Freshman kicker Jesse Roy hit a 24-yard game-winning fi eld goal to clinch the Toppers’ second overtime win of the year. ULM forced the overtime period after the teams combined for 22 points in the fi nal minute of regulation.

GAME NINE: WKU 10, FIU 9. Nov. 5

Senior kicker Casey Tinius, who had lost his starting job to Roy, won it back with a game-winning 34-yard fi eld goal. The WKU defense held FIU to 180 offensive yards, less than half of the Golden Panthers’ 404.8 yards per game average.

GAME 10: No. 1 LSU 42, WKU 9. Nov. 12

LSU running back Alfred Blue went for 119 yards and two scores on nine carries to put away a WKU team which trailed 14-7 at halftime. News broke at halftime that defensive coor-dinator Lance Guidry had been arrested that day for driving while intoxicated.

GAME 11: WKU 31,North Texas 21. Nov. 19

Rainey accounted for 262 all-purpose yards and two touch-downs, while Jakes went 19-of-29 for 231 yards and three touchdowns as the Toppers clinched bowl eligibility for the fi rst time as a Football Bowl Subdivision member.

GAME 12: WKU 41, Troy 18.Nov. 26

Rainey broke both the school’s career and single-season rush-ing records as the Toppers clinched their fi rst winning season in their three years as a fully fl edged FBS member. WKU beat Troy for the fi rst time in school history.

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That wasn’t the case on Saturday.“We actually focused,” Fant said. “The

fi rst practice we had the other day was intense. We went out there and did rebound drills — we also had a little team get together talking

about how we need to get better and focus.”It’s all been a part of this team growing

up, and they’ve had to do it fast. At least two freshmen have started every game for WKU and four have started the past three. The fresh-men class as a whole has accounted for 62 per-cent of the team’s scoring.

McDonald said he noticed some of the players, namely Fant, who had to sit out the

team’s fi rst four games due to an NCAA rules violation, still had some jitters a few games in.

McDonald said Fant didn’t have much time to shake off those jitters because he was needed to contribute right away.

“I told him before the game, alone, that I wanted him to have a breakout game,” Mc-Donald said. “I told him, ‘The jitters are gone. You’re not a freshman anymore — start acting

like it. I want you to demand the ball, continue to slow down.’”

Fant said he and the other freshmen were on board with that idea.

“I’m telling you, we’re young, but we’re not going to play the young card — not going to play the all-freshmen card,” he said. “We’re going to go out there and play like we know how to play and get more focused.”

YOUTHFULCONTINUED FROM SPORTS

Head Coach Willie Taggart went out for his son’s birthday on Saturday night hours after WKU beat Troy for its seventh win of the year.

With the Toppers in the hunt for a bowl berth, he said his son want-ed to head to the bowling lanes.

“He said he wanted to go bowl-ing because he felt we were going bowling,” Taggart said.

The Toppers (7-5) are bowl eli-gible for the fi rst time since becom-ing a full Football Bowl Subdivi-sion member in 2009.

But WKU hasn’t yet received

a bowl invite, and it remains to be seen whether or not they will.

Taggart said after the game he believes his team will indeed re-ceive that bid.

“What we’ve been doing and you look at where we’ve come from in three years, to be bowl eli-gible and doing what we’re doing, why wouldn’t you want us?” Tag-gart asked.

WKU postseason hopes took a shot on Nov. 19 and 21 when the two bowls with which the Sun Belt Conference has direct tie-ins, the GoDaddy.com and New Orleans Bowls, offered invites to Arkansas State and Louisiana-Lafayette.

Suddenly WKU was found it-

self waiting for an at-large bid from bowls which don’t have enough teams qualifi ed from one or both of their tie-in conferences.

There are currently 71 teams eligible for the 70 spots provided by the 35 bowls.

As many as four teams could join that group this weekend, the last of the FBS regular season, pending the results of other games.

For example, West Virginia beating South Florida on Thursday would make the Bulls bowl in-eligible, thus helping the Toppers’ chances at claiming the Big East Conference’s vacant tie-in to the BBVA Compass Bowl, played Jan. 7 in Birmingham.

Other projections have WKU taking part in the Gildan New Mex-ico Bowl (Dec. 17, Albuquerque, N.M.) and the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl (Dec. 31, San Francisco).

WKU could receive an invite to those bowls or others between now and Sunday night, when the full bowl schedule is released.

Taggart said the Toppers will take a few days off and will start practicing later this week when they hear something more con-crete.

In the meantime, Athletics Di-rector Ross Bjork has kept encour-aging Twitter followers to log onto wkusports.com and reserve bowl tickets.

According to the website, fans can place a $25 down-payment toward the bowl game for which WKU is selected.

The down-payment is fully refundable, and will be applied toward whatever bowl game for which WKU is selected, should they receive an invite.

Taggart said he’ll let WKU’s administration handle direct com-munication with potential bowls during the week.

“I’m a football coach. I’ll let those guys do that,” he said. “I did my part. I got this football team ready and we went out and took care of business. Now we sit back and see what happens.”


WKU waiting to hear on bowl invitation

Bobby Rainey was asked Saturday afternoon about his record day.

The senior running back had just eclipsed school milestones for both career and single-season rushing yardage in a 41-18 win over Troy.

Rainey began to talk about his appreciation

of the history of his ac-complishments when ju-nior quarterback Kawaun Jakes interrupted him.

“Can I answer this one real quick?” Jakes asked. “I know he probably wasn’t worried about the record. During the week I didn’t hear him speak on it… He just wanted to come out and win, and I’m happy for him. His mind-set as a Topper, he thinks

about the team fi rst.”Both Rainey and his

team were celebrating af-ter WKU handled the Tro-jans on Saturday at Smith Stadium in their regular season fi nale.

The win was the Top-pers’ seventh of the year, including seven straight in Sun Belt Conference play, and clinched WKU’s fi rst winning season since the program moved up to the

Football Bowl Subdivi-sion in 2009.

The Toppers were led in the win by Rainey, who ran for 227 yards on 43 carries with three touch-downs on his Senior Day.

A 28-yard Rainey gal-lop in the second quarter allowed him to break for-mer WKU running back Lerron Moore’s 4,396-yard school career rushing record.

Then in the fourth he passed former Topper running back Joe Arnold’s single-season rushing mark of 1,668 yards.

Rainey fi nished the 2011 regular season with 1,695 yards for the year

and 4,542 for his career.He could have a chance

to add to both totals should WKU go to a bowl game.

“Right now it still real-ly hasn’t hit me,” Rainey said of the records. “It’s just a blessing to be a part of history.”

Head Coach Wil-lie Taggart has spoke in the past of how valuable Rainey is to his team and to the program as a whole.

Rainey leads the nation in rushing and earned his third Sun Belt Offensive Player of the Week award on Monday.

But Taggart said his favorite of his running back’s accomplishments is that Rainey rushed for more yards this year than he did last season, when he ran for 1,649.

“You’re either get-ting better or you’re get-ting worse,” Taggart said. “Nobody stays the same.

“I don’t think Bobby was really concentrat-ing on the record. He was concentrating on getting 200 yards so he could have more yards than he had last year… That’s kind of what he did. He not only got it, he wrecked it.”

Rainey, who has cred-ited much of his success during his time at WKU

to the offensive line, said he’ll take them out to din-ner now that he broke the career rushing record.

Between the rushing records and his team’s Se-nior Day win, he also said he couldn’t have pictured a better way for his last home game to play out.

“Just being without the seniors, man, know-ing where we’d been and where we’re trying to go, it’s just been great,” he said. “It’s just been a great ride.”


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Senior running back Bobby Rainey broke school records for both career and single-season rushing yardage on Saturday in WKU's 41-18 win over Troy.

The move to WKU has also allowed Riley to continue mentoring George Fant, the star of his 2010 and 2011 Warren Cen-tral regional champion teams and a fresh-man forward for the Topper men.

Riley said Fant often drops by his of-fi ce to talk basketball with his high school coach.

“He’s come in here a number of times, given me scenarios, and I try to be very positive but at the same time try to explain how I see the situation,” Riley said. “I’ve been a little sounding board for him.”

Fant said Riley ran high school prac-tices similar to what he’s been through at WKU, which has eased his transition to playing college basketball.

“He kind of helps me on my game still, just telling me things I need to remem-ber,” Fant said. “I’m just kind of picking at his brain now like I did my whole high school career.”

So far the Lady Toppers are just 1-5 during Riley’s fi rst season as an assistant.

But he said his primary goal for the year is to see the team improve.

“There’s always limits to where you can take a team to,” Riley said. “And I want to help our team be as good as it could possibly be.”

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Jakes has thrown just four intercep-tions in the Toppers’ last eight games after throwing eight during WKU’s 0-4 start.

And even after three missed field goals and an extra point, the Toppers still beat Troy going away.

Taggart called his team’s 0-4 to 7-5 reversal “one of the great stories out there.”

“These kids, what they’ve been through, everybody told them they suck,” he said. “We got in our cocoon. We went out and took care of business.”

WKU’s turnaround from a 2-6 Sun Belt record in 2010 to a 7-1 mark this season is the biggest in league history.

It’s validation for Taggart, who picked the Toppers to finish first when Sun Belt coaches voted for the pre-season league poll.

Despite his first-place vote, WKU was tabbed to finish seventh in the nine-team league.

The Toppers are now second in league standings and can share the Sun Belt title if Troy beats first-place Ar-kansas State on Saturday.

“Everyone thought I was crazy when I said we’re going to be No. 1,” Taggart said. “I picked us No. 1, but I truly felt that way.

“It’s big for our program. We’re not

where we want to be at, but we’re head-ed in the right direction.”

WKU’s season may not be over yet.The Toppers are waiting to hear

whether or not they’ll be invited to their first bowl game since joining the Football Bowl Subdivision in 2009.

Taggart said the team turning its season around to the point of reaching a bowl would be a direct result of how it responded to early adversity.

“The motivation for us was people telling us what we couldn’t be,” he said. “We said we were going to go out and label ourselves and I think our guys have done a great job.”

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“The last couple of days in practice we’ve been spending time doing what we do and trying to stay in a rhythm and they’ve been two pretty good days coming back off Thanksgiving break,” he said. “We’re doing the things we do well and we’re looking forward to get-ting to Champaign.”

Buffalo Wild Wings was fi lled with the volleyball team’s supporters, who

came to recognize a 31-3 season.Attendees included WKU President

Gary Ransdell and football Head Coach Willie Taggart, who joined Hudson in leading the crowd in singing WKU’s fi ght song during the Selection Show.

Taggart said the viewing party was an example of the community’s sup-port of WKU athletics.

“This place was packed with vol-leyball fans,” Taggart said. “It goes to show the appreciation they have for a winning team and what they’ve done this year.”

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Rainey re-writes record books in WKU win


Rainey by the numbers

■ 4,542 career rushing yards, a WKU record

■ 1,695 rushing yards in 2011, a WKU record

■ 42nd on the NCAA career rushing list

■ 11th on the NCAA all-purpose yards list

■ 5th player since 1980 to lead nation in carries two straight years

By: Brad Stephens

Right now it still re-ally hasn't hit me. It's just a blessing to be a part of his-tory."

—Bobby RaineyWKU senior running back

These kids, what they've been through, everybody told them they suck. We got in our cocoon. We went out and took care of business."

—WILLIE TAGGARTHead Coach

■ NEWS BRIEFWKU fi nishes road trip with BGSU tonight

The Lady Toppers play their third straight game away from Diddle Are-na tonight when they take on Bowling Green State at 6 p.m.

WKU (1-5) will be looking for its second win in three games after an 0-4 start to the season.

The Falcons are 2-2 this year and come into their matchup with the Lady Toppers riding a two-game winning streak.

BGSU is led in scoring by guard Chrissy Steffen, who averages 14.5 points per game.

The Falcons have also received sig-nificant contributions this year from forward Danielle Havel (7 ppg, 6.3 re-bounds per game, 3.8 steals per game) and guard Jessica Slagle (8.3 ppg, 4.8 rpg).

WKU will be looking to exact re-venge on BGSU after a 72-68 loss to

the Falcons one year ago in Diddle Arena.

The Lady Toppers enter Tuesday coming off a 1-1 record over the week-end at the UAB Thanksgiving Classic in Birmingham.

WKU beat Samford 58-57 on Fri-day in the tournament opener, the Lady Toppers’ first win of the season.

WKU was led in the win senior forward LaTeira Owens’ game-high 21 points and 10 rebounds, as well as sophomore guard Ellen Sholtes’ career-high 11 points off the bench.

But the Lady Toppers couldn’t carry over the winning performance, losing 58-36 to tournament host Alabama-Bir-mingham the next day.

WKU struggled offensively in the loss, turning over the ball 26 times while shooting just 19 percent in the second half.

— Brad Stephens

Head Coach Ken McDonald made it clear before the season started that his young team was going to be “thrown to the fi re.”

Seven games in, although the results might not show it, McDonald said he’s happy with how his team of seven freshmen and few upperclassmen have handled adversity.

They passed perhaps their biggest test on Saturday night while squeaking out a 72-67 win against visiting Southeast-ern Louisiana — WKU's sec-ond win of the season, and one against a team with eight upper-classmen.

“It’s not always easy, and we’re learning lessons on the job,” McDonald said after Sat-urday’s win. “They’re learning how to fi nish a game out. You got to have some confi dence in what you’re doing and how you’re doing it. Nothing does it better for your confi dence than a win.”

The win came at a good time for the Toppers.WKU had just

lost four in a row, including two straight to Virginia Common-wealth.

The second loss to VCU was a 23-point blowout at home af-ter the Toppers had played the same team closely just three days before, losing by fi ve at the Charleston Classic.

As the losses mounted, so did the frustration for the youthful Toppers, most of whom came to WKU unaccustomed to losing.

“It’s a sick feeling,” fresh-man guard Derrick Gordon said.

With fi ve losses this season, Gordon has already experienced more losses than he did in his fi nal two seasons at St. Patrick High School (N.J.).

Freshman forward George Fant said the losing streak caused the team to be discour-aged but also gave them some motivation.

Fant talked after the second VCU game and after Saturday’s game about focus. Against VCU, he said the team was lacking it.

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Freshmen guards Kevin Kaspar and Derrick Gordon celebrate with senior guard Jamal Crook after WKU's 72-67 win over Southeastern Louisiana on Saturday night. The freshman class has accounted for 62 percent of WKU's scoring through seven games this season. The Toppers face Murray State at 7 p.m. Thursday.

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Former Warren Central coach Riley back on WKU sidelines

Tim Riley knows Diddle Arena well.Riley “wiped up sweat and did whatever” as

a student assistant for WKU men’s coach Clem Haskins in the 1980s.

Two decades later he won seven Fourth Region Tournament title games held at Diddle as head coach of the Warren Central High School boy’s basketball team.

Now Riley is coaching at WKU, hired over the summer from Warren Central to serve as an assistant under wom-en’s Head Coach Mary Taylor Cowles.

He said the decision to leave the Dragons after 14 years for the Lady Toppers was a tough one, but it was an opportunity he had to take.“I had been interested in work-

ing with Mary for a number of years so when there became openings on her staff I called,” Riley said. “This job could’ve been fi lled and not opened back up until 10 years later.”

There were several differences between his new and old jobs, the most obvious being he was now working with women instead of men.

But Riley said that hasn’t been as much of an adjustment as one might think it would be, saying “basketball is basketball” regardless of the play-ers’ gender.

Cowles agreed, saying Riley’s transition from coaching men to coaching women has been a smooth one.

“He loves working with young people, and I don’t think it matters if they’re male or female,” she said. “He just has a true passion in working with young kids.”

Riley said the biggest change for him has in-stead been adapting to life as an assistant after 21 years as a head coach.

“For me the big adjustment has been picking my spots in practice,” he said. “It’s been trying to fi nd the right way to be a good assistant coach for Mary.”

Riley works with the whole team but said his niche since coming on staff has been working with the WKU’s post players.

He helps coach a frontcourt which includes the team’s leading scorer and rebounder, senior LaTeira Owens (12.5 points per game, 10.2 re-bounds per game) and seniors Jasmine Johnson, Teranie Thomas and Keshia Mosley.

“We’re strong inside,” Riley said. “That’s got to be what the strength of our team is.”


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Freshman middle hitter Heather Boyan and her teammates celebrate at Buff alo Wild Wings Sunday as WKU's name is called during the NCAA Tournament Selection Show. The Lady Toppers will play Marquette in the fi rst round Friday in Champaign, Ill.

Back to the Big Dance Lady Toppers prepare for NCAA tournament after selection show party

VOLLEYBALL

WKU’s fi rst-round NCAA Tournament matchup against Marquette was announced to roaring cheers on Sunday as the Lady Toppers celebrated the start of postseason play with a selection show viewing party at Buffalo Wild Wings.

The fi rst-round match will take place in Champaign, Ill. — the site of the team's fi rst-round loss to Cincinnati in last year's NCAA Tournament — at 4:30 p.m. Friday.

If the Lady Toppers win, they will face either Central Michigan or Illinois, who was No. 1 in the American Volley-ball Coaches Association poll for much of the year and is currently No. 1 in the ratings percentage index.

Head Coach Travis Hud-son said the match against Marquette is a favorable draw for WKU.

“It’s a winnable fi rst-round matchup, and I’ll take that,” he said. “If we go and play well, I think we’ll have a chance to win the match.”

Marquette (23-10) has faced two teams that the Lady Toppers played during the regular season, going 1-1 in two matches against Middle Tennessee State and 0-2 against Cincinnati. The Lady Toppers won two of three against MTSU, including the Sun Belt Conference cham-pionship, and lost their only match against Cincinnati.

Senior middle hitter Lind-say Williams said the Lady Toppers will learn more about their opponent before the

match this week.“I’m sure we’re going to

get a lot of fi lm on them this week and fi nd out more about what we’re up against,” Wil-liams said. “I’m just really ex-cited about it. I think it’s going to be a great match.”

WKU comes into the tour-nament on a 10-match win-ning streak, including three wins in the Sun Belt Con-ference Tournament, and is ranked No. 24 in the AVCA poll, the highest the school has ever been ranked and the fi rst time WKU has been ranked in the Top 25.

Hudson said his team has looked good in its recent prac-tices leading up to the tourna-ment.

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