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Sept. 25, 2014 edition of the College Heights Herald.TRANSCRIPT
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BY LASHANA [email protected]
From petitions for gender-neutral bath-rooms to safe zones, LGBTQ issues have been a growing topic on WKU’s campus.
The Student Government Association’sTuesday meeting concentrated on these issues.
One bill, Bill 5-14-F, Funding for “Bride-groom” LGBTQ Program, sparked the most debate in the meeting.
The bill originally allocated $750 fromlegislative discretionary funds to aid in the costs of an event that includes a screening of the movie, “Bridegroom,” a documen-tary about Shane Bitney Crone, whose partner, Tom Bridegroom, died before they could get married. His partner’s family didn’t want him to attend the funeral.
The screening will be followed by a ques-tion-and-answer session with Crone.
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One minute he was gathering snow. The next he was falling 70 feet down a crevasse facing almost certain
death.During a research trip to Nepal in May,
John All, an associate professor of geogra-phy, not only beat the odds and survived the fall, he also captured it all on video.
All traveled to Nepal with his team to re-search climate change, specifi cally how fast glaciers are melting. From the beginning, All’s research had setbacks.
His team originally planned to do research on Mount Everest, but an avalanche in April killed 16 people, including a good friend of All’s.
SGA discussesLGBTQ issues
Campus improvement drives SGA meeting
BY TYLER [email protected]
Professor recalls near-death experienceagainst all odds
BY TREY [email protected]
The Board of Regents committee meetings will convene Friday at noon in the Cornelius A. Martin Regents Room in Mass Media and Technology Hall.
The approval for the Doctor of Psy-chology in Applied Psychology and the approval of a Revised WKU State-ment of Purpose are on the agenda.
Student Regent Nicki Seay said the doctorate degree is very important for WKU’s academic profi le.
“It’s just another opportunity for WKU to continue to establish itself as a research institution,” she said. “While working toward getting more and more doctorate programs…”
Several information items will also be discussed, including an enrollment report by Brian Meredith, chief enroll-ment and graduation offi cer, and a Graves Gilbert Clinic at WKU update by Ann Mead, senior vice president for Finance and Administration.
If passed, the items will go up for full board approval in October.
Regents committees to meet on Friday
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BY LASHANA [email protected]
Campus improvements were a fo-cal point in Tuesday’s Student Gov-ernment Association meeting.
Bill 4-14-F, Funding for the Cam-pus Improvements Committee’s Dot Survey Event, was passed. The idea behind the bill is to assess ways in which the student body would like to see the campus improved via survey.
The bill allocated about $39 to the Campus Improvements Commit-tee for materials that will be used in the surveying process to determine student suggestions for campus im-provements.
Henderson graduate student Eliza-beth McGrew, the bill’s author, said she doesn’t feel like there’s a good understanding of what students want to improve on campus.
The money allocated will come from the legislative discretionary
WILLIAM KOLB/HERALDExecutive Vice President Nolan Miles addresses attendees at the Student Gov-ernment Association meeting in the newly constructed SGA senate chambers in the Downing Student Union on Tuesday. Prior to this year, SGA meetings were held in Cravens Library. SEE SGA PAGE A3
TOP: John All, an associate professor of geography, sits among the rock at the top of the Hill on Wednesday. All was on a research expedition in Nepal, in May, when he suff ered a 70-foot fall into a crevasse and broke 11 bones. TYLER ESSARY/HERALD
CLINTON LEWIS/WKU John All, an associate professor of geography, collects snow samples from the summit of Maparaju (5,326m / 17,473ft.) with fellow expedition member Pei-Lin Yew, of Perth, Australia, during an American Climber Science Program expedition in June 2013 to Peru. Other expedition members were Michelle Hoff man, of Golden, Colorado (far left) and Chandra Johnson, of Bellingham, Washington.
Since the team was on a tight deadline to beat the monsoon season and had substantial funding to do the research, All said they made the decision to move the research to Mount Himlung.
“We knew we had to get our data done in the next week or two, so we were really rushed,” he said.
After the avalanche, All was left with two other climbers on his team to join him on Mount Himlung. One of them felt sick, so the other accompanied her down to the base camp to recover, leaving All alone with just his tent and supplies.
Without anyone to travel with him, All left to gather snow for drinking water and to collect samples for his research. In an instant, he found himself crashing down a crevasse. During the fall, he broke 11 bones, including his right arm and some of his ribs.
“I instantly knew what it was, and I instantly knew I was dead,” All said.
In spite of those thoughts, All decided to record what may have easily been his last moments alive. In the video, All, who can be seen with blood dripping down his face, shows the inside of the crevasse and how much further he could have fallen.
“Thankfully I didn’t keep falling,” he said in the video while recording the abyss that he just narrowly avoided.
Even though All had survived the fall, getting out would prove just as improbable.
All used his ice axe to begin crawling out of the hole. With all of his broken bones and internal bleeding, All could only slowly make his way out of the hole. It took him around fi ve hours to get out of the crevasse, and another three hours to get back to his tent.
“I just had to stop and rest a lot,” he said.For every bit of luck of surviving and making it back
to camp, All still had several hurdles to overcome to survive.
That morning, All had not had any breakfast or water prior to falling down the 70 foot hole. After he made it back to his tent, he couldn’t even open the water bottles due to his broken arm.
All still had to fi nd some way to get help off the moun-tain. He used his satellite phone to send a status to Facebook asking to send a helicopter rescue team.
It would take 19 hours for the rescue team to retrieve All. As he laid in the tent waiting overnight, All was con-tacting friends and family over his satellite phone.
“They were telling me not to go to sleep,” All said. “I’m just laughing. With all this pain there’s no way I’m going to sleep. It’s just not remotely possible.”
By the next day, All was unable to move on his own at all and was already suffering from frostbite. The rescue team was still able to successfully locate and transport him to a hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal.
“It was the longest night of my life,” he said.For six days, All was forced to wait “in agony” in a
hotel room while he waited to get a plane home.This was also when All started to get interna-
tional attention.After uploading the video of his escape online,
All received requests for interviews all around the world. While he was recovering in Kathmandu, All showed up in interview appearances rang-ing from the BBC to the Today Show. Even still, All said he was still in “survival mode.”
“I don’t think I got out of survival mode until I got home and I hugged my girl-friend, and I thought, ‘Okay, I can relax,’” he said.
All is an experienced mountain climber and said he isn’t new to its dangers or to near-death experi-ences.
All said this time was different because he had to “fi ght” his way out of it.
“It’s a lot more traumatic than any of those other experiences,” he said.
While All said he will still probably go on future hikes for research, he said this experience gave him a new perspective.
“I defi nitely appreciate other things in life as well now, too,” he said.
These other things include a renewed focus on local sustainability and environmental causes, he said.
Since coming back to WKU, All said he has received enormous support from the faculty and community.
WKU photographer Clinton Lewis, who has hiked with All in the past as his photographer, said he closely followed the developments surrounding All after he saw his Facebook post.
“I thought it was almost a joke,” Lew-is said.
Since getting back on campus, Lewis thinks this experience has been an “eye opener” for All.
“This was a life changing experience for him. He has defi nitely come back humbled. Whenever you are in the mountains, you are at the will of the mountains,” Lewis said.
Lewis said he thinks the attention All received by the media was outside his normal comfort zone.
“He defi nitely likes to be a couple steps away from the limelight, but this defi nitely thrust him toward the greater public,” Lewis said.
As for All’s passion for nature and science, Lewis said All is incredibly “focused and passionate,” espe-cially about understanding climate change.
“John is at the forefront of leading that research and trying to fi nd answers,” Lewis said.
In the end, what All took away from this experience has been to more fully appreciate the brevity of life.
“You’ve only got so many hours in your life and you only get so many chances to screw up, so you really want to take advantage of what you got while you got it,” he said.
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Since the team was on a tight deadline to beat the monsoon season and had substantial funding to do the research, All said they made the decision to move the research to Mount Himlung.
“We knew we had to get our data done in the next week or two, so we were really rushed,” he said.
After the avalanche, All was left with two other climbers on his team to join him on Mount Himlung. One of them felt sick, so the other accompanied her down to the base camp to recover, leaving All alone with just his tent and supplies.
Without anyone to travel with him, All left to gather snow for drinking water and to collect samples for his research. In an instant, he found himself crashing down a crevasse. During the fall, he broke 11 bones, including his right arm and some of his ribs.
“I instantly knew what it was, and I instantly knew I was dead,” All said.
In spite of those thoughts, All decided to record what may have easily been his last moments alive. In the video, All, who can be seen with blood dripping down his face, shows the inside of the crevasse and how much further he could have fallen.
“Thankfully I didn’t keep falling,” he said in the video while recording the abyss that he just narrowly avoided.
Even though All had survived the fall, getting out would prove just as improbable.
All used his ice axe to begin crawling out of the hole. With all of his broken bones and internal bleeding, All could only slowly make his way out of the hole. It took him around fi ve hours to get out of the crevasse, and another three hours to get back to his tent.
“I just had to stop and rest a lot,” he said.For every bit of luck of surviving and making it back
to camp, All still had several hurdles to overcome to survive.
That morning, All had not had any breakfast or water prior to falling down the 70 foot hole. After he made it back to his tent, he couldn’t even open the water bottles due to his broken arm.
All still had to fi nd some way to get help off the moun-tain. He used his satellite phone to send a status to Facebook asking to send a helicopter rescue team.
It would take 19 hours for the rescue team to retrieve All. As he laid in the tent waiting overnight, All was con-tacting friends and family over his satellite phone.
“They were telling me not to go to sleep,” All said. “I’m just laughing. With all this pain there’s no way I’m going to sleep. It’s just not remotely possible.”
By the next day, All was unable to move on his own at all and was already suffering from frostbite. The rescue team was still able to successfully locate and transport him to a hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal.
“It was the longest night of my life,” he said.For six days, All was forced to wait “in agony” in a
hotel room while he waited to get a plane home.This was also when All started to get interna-
tional attention.After uploading the video of his escape online,
All received requests for interviews all around the world. While he was recovering in Kathmandu, All showed up in interview appearances rang-ing from the BBC to the Today Show. Even still, All said he was still in “survival mode.”
“I don’t think I got out of survival mode until I got home and I hugged my girl-friend, and I thought, ‘Okay, I can relax,’” he said.
All is an experienced mountain climber and said he isn’t new to its dangers or to near-death experi-ences.
All said this time was different because he had to “fi ght” his way out of it.
“It’s a lot more traumatic than any of those other experiences,” he said.
While All said he will still probably go on future hikes for research, he said this experience gave him a new perspective.
“I defi nitely appreciate other things in life as well l now, too,” he said.
These other things include a renewed focus on local sustainability and environmental l l l causes, he said.
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“I thought it was almost a joke,” Lew-is said.
Since getting back on campus, Lewis thinks this experience has been an “eye opener” for All.
“This was a life changing experience for him. He has defi nitely come back humbled. Whenever you are in the mountains, you are at the will of the mountains,” Lewis said.
Lewis said he thinks the attention All received by the media was outside his normal comfort zone.
“He defi nitely likes to be a couple steps away from the limelight, but this defi nitely thrust him toward the greater public,” Lewis said.
As for All’s passion for nature and science, Lewis said All is incredibly “focused and passionate,” espe-cially about understanding climate change.
“John is at the forefront of leading that research and trying to fi nd answers,” Lewis said.
In the end, what All took away from this experience has been to more fully appreciate the brevity of life.
“You’ve only got so many hours in your life and you only get so many chances to screw up, so you really want to take advantage of what you got while you got it,” he said.
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Gatton seniors named National Merit SemifinalistsBY LEAH [email protected]
Several seniors from Gatton Academy were announced ear-lier this month as semifi nalists in the 2014 National Merit Scholar-ship Program.
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation’s goal is to honor academically talented students across the nation. Over the past 50 years, the program has pro-vided over 387,000 scholarships.
“The students know that the Na-tional Merit (Scholarship) is an op-portunity to help fund their college and they’re all very serious about that,” Lynette Breedlove, Gatton Academy director, said.
There are three levels to the National Merit Scholarship Pro-gram: semifi nalist, fi nalist and Merit Scholar, where they be-come scholarship recipients.
In order to become a semifi nal-ist, students must receive a high score on their PSAT. After becom-ing a semifi nalist, students look-ing to be a fi nalist have to write
an essay, take the SAT and send in their academic records and recommendations from their school, Breedlove said.
“We’re certainly very proud of our students and this accom-plishment and we’re going to be working through the next several weeks because they have a dead-line coming up to make sure that they get their essays and all those other pieces done,” Breedlove said.
Out of the 128 Gatton students, 63 took the PSAT.
“Our students did really well,” Breedlove said. “It just shows that they were well-prepared by their sending high schools before they got here and that they’re excep-tional students.”
Students fi nd out if they be-come fi nalists next February and will learn if they receive the scholarship between April and July. Out of the 16,000 semifi nal-ists, 15,000 advance to fi nalists.
One of the 11 semifi nalists, Benjamin Guthrie said, “It wasn’t a big surprise, but it was good
confi rmation.”He took the PSAT for the fi rst
time as a freshman in high school and periodically studied for the test before he took it again his ju-nior year.
“It’s not the kind of test you can cram for the night before,” he said.
Gatton has had 72 students named National Merit Semifi nal-ists in the past, the most at one time being 12 and the least being four.
Senior Rena Ryumae said it was an amazing feeling when she found out she was a semifi nal-ist, however she expected it af-ter hearing a rumor of the cutoff score to qualify as a semifi nalist. She took the test her freshman, sophomore and junior year, but said she did not prepare much for it.
“I’m glad to be at Gatton and for Gatton to have provided me with all these opportunities because I think it’s really allowed me to push myself and to be a National Merit Semifi nalist,” Ryumae said.
History dept. holds trivia nightBY ANNA [email protected]
Every incoming freshman has had to face the intimidation of meeting a college professor for the fi rst time. But the history department has come up with a solution to that, putting students and professors on the same team to compete in a trivia night.
Students and professors gath-ered together in Cherry Hall for the annual history trivia night on Tuesday evening. Everyone from History Department Head Rob-ert Dietle to freshmen participat-ed in the hour-long event.
The event is hosted by Phi Al-pha Theta, the National History Honor Society.
The advisor of the club, Selena Sanderfer, came up with the idea for the trivia night fi ve years ago when she fi rst came to WKU. Sanderfer is also an assistant pro-fessor of African Diaspora and American History.
“We wanted an event to open the school year fresh,” she said. “Most students didn’t know their professors outside of class. They may seem scary and un-approachable. We wanted to fi x that.”
While the event focused on historical trivia, it also gave pro-fessors a chance to recruit stu-dents to the history major and minor programs. Each professor introduced his or her self and ex-
plained the courses they taught. “It also allowed us to get the
idea of a history minor in their minds early on,” Sanderfer said. “It can work really well with an English or journalism major.”
The group broke into teams at random, each consisting of a mix of students and professors, and played two rounds of trivia.
“For freshmen, they may be too intimidated to even ask them a question about a test,” Sanderfer said. “We want to show that they are approachable.”
Campbellsville sophomore Carla Delgado said the event was successful in doing just that.
“It really helps us to get to know the professors better,” she said. “I wish all majors would do it.”
Glasgow senior Anna Helton is the president of Phi Alpha Theta. She said that trivia night helps inform students of classes they
might not have taken or heard of otherwise.
“It is nice for students and pro-fessors to sit together and social-ize, and helps us tell students about different classes,” she said.
Clarkson junior Shannon Cart-er is the treasurer for Phi Alpha Theta. She said the trivia night helps make for better student-teacher relationships.
“It really allows for the students to feel comfortable with profes-sors so they can enhance their education,” Carter said.
Eric Kondratieff, assistant pro-fessor of history, agreed that it is necessary for students to see their professors outside of the classroom.
“The event creates a bond be-tween student and professor. It makes us approachable,” he said. “We are people too, we like to have fun.”
WILLIAM KOLB/HERALDHistory majors and minors listen to Associate Professor Anthony Harkins dur-ing a history department trivia night.
The bill was amended to allocate $250 to the event because of SGA concerns that it was too political.
The event will be held in Downing Student Union on Oct. 27 from 7 to 9 p.m. The department of gen-der and women’s studies and the Campus Activities Board are co-sponsors of the event, along with SGA.
William Berry, a CAB representative who wrote the bill, said CAB is trying to provide a little bit more programming for the LGBTQ community.
Senator Zach Jones said allocating funds to this pro-gram could create controversial issues across campus.
“We are, by fi nance, supporting an event that pushes a political coalition,” Jones said.
Resolution 1-14-F, Resolution to Designate the Student Government Association Offi ce as a Safe Space, also passed.
The resolution originally designated the SGA of-fi ce as an LGBTQ safe place.
Several senators said the SGA offi ce shouldn’t stop at making it an LGBTQ safe place, but should make it a safe place for all students, regardless of sexual orientation.
This means that SGA would not discriminate against anyone in their offi ce.
Chief of Staff Seth Church said, “Why does it have to be called LGBTQ safe place? Why can’t it just be a safe place? The point is this shouldn’t be an issue about the political correctness of LGBTQ rights. That’s not what this is. This is us being inclusive and welcoming to the students we claim to represent.”
Other SGA members, such as Academic Affairs Committee Chair Joshua Knight, agreed.
“I don’t think any student can come up with a good reason for why we shouldn’t make the SGA of-fi ce a safe place,” he said.
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funds. This money will be used to purchase fl ipcharts and multi-colored dots to use during the sur-vey process.
“All they have to do is a pick a sticker, look at the fouroptions and put it on there,” said McGrew.
McGrew said having students take surveys onlinetakes too much time out of their day and they are lesslikely to participate.
“I think doing it visibly is more engaging and stu-dents are more likely to respond,” McGrew said.
The survey will be conducted in the coming weeks. In SGA committee reports, Campus Improvements
Committee Chair Tyler Scaff said the committee ar-ranged a commuter-focus group meeting with Park-ing and Transportation Services to discuss parkingissues for commuters on Thursday at 1 p.m.
The committee is also investigating buildings withlimited handicapped accessibility.
“We’re looking into it and seeing if we can get a reso-lution up by the end of the semester,” said Scaff.
The next SGA meeting will be Sept. 30.
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Find relaxation in daily campus lifeBY JACOB [email protected]
Time fl ies when you’re working so hard that you don’t have time to look at the clock. It may be a surprise, but fall break is next week. It’s almost time to take a break from the struggle and kick back for a few days. To get through the next week of class-es, try to fi nd happiness in cam-pus life.
• Happiness is dancing at the Colonnade as the sun rises on an early Saturday morning.
• Happiness is watching a feath-er fl oating aimlessly in the wind.
• Happiness is watching the albino squir-rels having a turf battle with the others.
• Happiness is taking a shortcut through the library on your way up the Hill.
• Happiness is a fi xed espresso ma-chine at Einstein’s.
• Happiness is taking a selfi e with Gare Bear.
• Happiness is seeing Julie Ransdell walking her dogs.
• Happiness is watching a sun-set from the steps of Van Meter Hall.
• Happiness is getting your paycheck a couple days before you leave for vacation.
• Happiness is wearing the right com-
bination of clothes to accommodate Bowling Green’s hourly shifting weath-er patterns.
• Happiness is hanging out in the Valley after classes are done for the day.
• Happiness is sharing stories with freshmen about DUC and the tin Top-perCafe.
• Happiness is fi nding time to pack for vacation in between last-minute paper assignments and exams.
• Happiness is fi nding a commuter spot in Chestnut North for your class starting in 15 minutes.
• Happiness could be having profes-sors that cancel class next Wednesday.
HAPPINESS IS
Jacob Parker
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Test grades came in. Long distance relationships crumbled. The world is ending, and sometimes all a Hilltop-per can do is cry.
These venues offer the ultimate set-tings for your salty-eyed sorrows. Keep weeping practical with the ideal sob-bing spaces.
10. Abraham Lincoln’s benchThere are plenty of benches on cam-
pus, but only one can guarantee an arm around your shoulder. Watch the cars roll by as your tears run down. Good old Abe has got you.
9. The Colonnade Sometimes, you may not really have
to cry, but you still want to. There’s no better place than a public audito-rium in the middle of campus with the acoustics you need to truly broadcast your every wail. No one does any real crying in the Colonnade, but it’s great for a spectacle.
8. Cherry Hall’s stairwellThese steps offer a strong sense of
solitude. While the classrooms are
full of writing and lectures, you’re sprawled across the stairs attempting to wretch your darkest despairs out of your troubled heart.
7. Under the bridge between the Academic Complex and Minton Hall
This spot stands out for its ame-nities. Seemingly homeless plastic chairs offer a convenient location for your nervous breakdown. Plus, the ever-present smokers might just offer you a sympathetic cigarette.
6. The curb by the Floral ShopYou might just quell your sniffl es
if you choose to cry on this lonely road. Let the colorful fl owers soothe your aching heart. Enjoy the beauti-ful view of Gary Ransdell Hall. Smell the roses and relax. Gary’s here for you, baby.
5. Chandler Memorial Chapel’s bell tower
Maybe spirituality is key to a healthy life. Maybe you want to try and ring the bell using the obnoxious anguish in your broken voice. Either way, the bell tower has the answers.
4. Bench near Cravens LibraryIf you fi nd yourself sobbing your
way down Normal Street, look for this bench to the left of the libraries. There’s an odd bit of natural beauty that will make your cry feel just like Bambi after his mom was shot.
3. Below Van Meter’s fountainThe pleasant view of Bowling Green
will help you relax, and maybe your tears can help keep the fountain fl owing.
2. Under the Kissing BridgeYour fi rst kiss was on this fateful
bridge, but now the only moans you’re making are coming out of your whis-key-scented mouth as you lay below. Forget what happened on its romantic curves. You’re just the troll beneath the bridge now.
1. The walkway behind SnellThe quiet getaway has everything
you need for the perfect cry. No one can see your face as they walk behind you. The beauty of nature and the therapeutic passing of cars will help you truly appreciate your meltdown. Reach down and rip up the grass dur-ing your fi ts of rage. It’s just you, the world and your dumb tears.
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40 Yvette, e.g.41 Soup vegetable43 Stewed45 “Free,” in “land of the free”47 Wheat used in health food48 Gets clean51 19th/20th-century civil rights leader __ B. Wells53 Marching band?54 On the wrong side (of)55 Ceremonial lineup57 Disallow58 Common ore of mercury60 Pin down62 Form a union63 Sees the light, maybe64 Like many sales65 Devote, as time
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3 Hoodwink4 Workers’ rights gp. since 19195 Look after6 Three-time Masters winner7 Flying cartoon hero, formally8 Some NASA missions9 Favorite10 Ahead11 Wedding cake specifi cation12 Tones down13 Backspace, usually14 Reasons for as-is sales21 Actress Dawson of “Men in Black II”24 Wintry commercial prefi x26 Spanish sky28 Doubled-over reaction30 Capitol center32 Where some artists’ fi rings occur
34 Cook poorly, in a way35 Ideal pairing36 1980s-’90s Richard Mulligan sitcom39 Age abbr.42 Hawaiian priests44 AQI monitor46 California city near Bakersfi eld48 Salad bar items49 Burning50 Pacifi c island nation52 Grover’s 1890s vice president55 Troubled Mideast region56 Ready to grow59 Garbage holder61 James, again, briefl y
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ON THE AIRAnchors Abby Blandford, Sarah Hager and meteorologist Andrew Dockery prepare during the fi nal few seconds before the fi rst live show on Tuesday.
ABOVE LEFT: Bowling Green sophomore David Camargo operates a teleprompter inside the studio for NewsChan-nel 12's fi rst broadcast of the school year.
ABOVE RIGHT: The NewsChannel 12 team meets before their fi rst broadcast in the studio on Tuesday.
LEFT: Owensboro junior Michael Squire operates the control panel for this semester's fi rst broadcast of News-Channel 12.
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» Dry Clean Only: Check the fashion column out this week to fi nd your style icon
BY STEPHANIE [email protected]
Infl uences of China will reverberate throughout Bowling Green this week-end, starting with the “Love for China” show at SKyPAC on Friday.
WKU’s Confucius Institute paired up with the North China Electric Power University to bring the Troupe Perfor-mance Tour to Bowling Green, making this performance the fi rst event of this size the institute has organized.
“North China Electric Power Univer-sity is our sister partner in China, so all of our summer programs, they host us and help us manage that piece of it,” Terrill Martin, managing director of the Confucius Institute for WKU, said.
Previous stops on the tour have in-cluded Purdue University, Valparaiso University and the city of Indianapolis.
Bowling Green’s performance will take place on the 10-year anniversary of the Confucius Institute. Since 2004, their mission has been to promote an “understanding of Chinese language and culture through children’s pro-gramming, training courses, cultural workshops and events,” according to their website.
WKU has been a part of the organi-zation since 2010.
“Love for China” showcases the mul-tiple artistic mediums of Chinese cul-ture. One dance, “Flowers Blooming,” compares little girls to fairies coming to the earth. Another act, “Chinese Tea,” teaches the traditional repertoire of Chinese tea through song. “Chinese Kung Fu” shows the history of one of the culture’s traditional sports.
Betty Yu, associate director of the WKU Confucius Institute, said “Love for China” is a great introduction to the Chinese culture.
“The variety act will open students’ eyes that there are a lot of similarities in the arts,” she said.
Community members can also see the Confucius Institute highlighted at the International Festival, this Sat-urday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., at Circus Square Park.
The organization will have 14 booths set up, exposing the Chinese culture to the community by teaching the language and offering craft booths. At these booths, participants can paint with watercolor on fans and handker-chiefs, and learn origami, zodiacs and how to use chopsticks.
WKU Chinese majors, Chinese Flag-ship students and the WKU Chinese Music Club helped to organize the in-stitute’s involvement in the festival.
The new “Chinese Culture Experi-ence” Mobile Unit will also make an
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Confucius Institute brings China to SKyPac
TYLER ESSARY/HERALDThe cast of "Six Characters in Search of an Author" practices lines for dress rehearsal at Russell Miller Theatre on Tuesday.
BY KAE [email protected]
Starting on Thursday, the main stage at Russell Miller Theatre will become the temporary home to six characters looking for their story’s end.
The WKU theatre department will open their fall season with a six day performance of “Six Characters in Search of an Author,” by Luigi Piran-dello and adapted by Scott Stroot, a professor in the theatre and dance de-partment.
The story follows six vastly different characters as they stumble through stage life, searching for an end to their stories after the deaths of their play-wrights.
Julie Pride, the publicist for the de-partment of theatre and dance, said the play's concept is cool.
‘Six Characters’ comes to the Russell Miller stage
TYLER ESSARY/HERALDThe cast of "Six Characters in Search of an Author" prepares backstage at Russell Miller Theatre for dress rehearsals. The play debuts Thursday.
Garcia’s provides zest, substanceBY JOHN [email protected]
Notwithstanding their authenticity, Mexican restaurants are a staple of Bowling Green. This is the fi rst in a recurring series of Mexican res-taurant reviews that aim to pro-vide a defi nitive answer to an essential question. What’s the best Mexican place in town?
Garcia’s Grill is a satisfying com-petitor in Bowling Green’s Mexican food scene.
The interior of Garcia’s barely resembles the stereotypical over-the-top Mexican scenery of similar restaurants. Instead, it
opts for a more subtle, intimate feel. The Latin American music playing softly in the background conveys the only obvious Hispanic infl uence.
As with any typical Mexican res-taurant in America, the eating be-
gins with unlimited chips and salsa. The tortilla chips stick to this typical narrative. Crunchy, salty and warm, the chips are an adequate vessel for the to-
mato-based sauce.The salsa looks unassuming, but
it exceeds expectations. Generous chunks of fresh tomato fl oat in a sauce infused with fresh onion and cilantro. BRIA GRANVILLE/HERALD
Puerco en salsa verde at Garcia's Grill at 1689 Campbell Lane.
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Shoppers fi nd variety at Granma’s Attic BY WHITNEY [email protected]
Although it’s probably not as old as Grandma, the local consignment shop Granma’s Attic on Broadway Avenue has all the odds and ends Grand-ma’s house does — minus the cookies. The consignment store sells household items ranging from dishes to rugs, to furniture and quilts.
Nancy Colburn has owned Granma’s Attic for the past 14 years. Prior to owning the store, Colburn was a regular shopper. She never antici-pated owning a consignment shop.
“I used to shop here, and then the lady I bought it from was getting ready to sell it, and she asked me if I was interest-ed. I said sure,” Colburn said.
While Granma’s Attic has been around for 30 years, Col-burn said the store has always sold the same types of items.
“It’s the same kind of things, we just move stuff around and we continue to move stuff around to see what works,” Colburn said.
Granma’s Attic employee Donnie Sims said the store’s success comes from its cus-
tomer friendliness and variety.“We cater to everyone. It’s
everything except for chil-dren’s furniture, clothing and large appliances,” Sims said. “Almost anything else we’ll have, from forks, to beds, to
electronics to costume jewelry — we have it all.”
Shelves line the walls with an array of items. Diverse in-ventory isn’t the only draw for Granma’s customers.
“Sometimes people just
come in because they are stressed out from work, and they just need some retail therapy,” Colburn said.
Other times, customers come in searching for some-thing specifi c.
College students often come to the store to furnish their new homes. The low prices are ideal for short-term living situations, or the simple possi-bility of things getting broken or destroyed.
Andrea Cole, a Bowling Green resident, is a regular shopper and also consigns her items at the store. Cole heard about the store from friends and other locals.
“They always just have such neat things,” Cole said.
Some discover the Attic by word of mouth or while on a quest for cheap furniture. Oth-ers accidentally stumble upon the little shop on Broadway.
Shelia Harper, of Glasgow, said she drove by the store and decided to stop and check it out.
“I’m impressed,” Harper said.
Whether it’s the quirky name, the unique fi nds or the cheap prices, customers keep coming back.
“We really try to make sure that both the seller and the customer are happy,” Sims said. “I think that’s why Gran-ma’s Attic has probably been here longer than almost any of the other consignment stores.”
LUKE FRANKE/HERALDMary Baker, of Scottsville, walks through Granma's Attic with her granddaughter, Ashley Baker, a junior at Allen County High School. "It seems like they have more stuff than other places. It's also reasonably priced," Mary said. "I've been coming here since 1985."
IN CASE YOU GO...Th eatre Edition
• Six Characters in Search of an Author
Russell Miller TheatreAdults- $15, Students- $12Thursday, Sept. 25 throughTuesday, Sept. 30 @ 8 p.m.Sunday, Sept. 28 @ 3 p.m.
• VeggieTales Live!Southern Kentucky Perform-
ing Arts Center (SKyPAC)Tickets start at $15
Tickets with Meet & Greet passes are $30
Thursday, Sept. 25 @ 6:30 p.m.
• Love, Loss and What I Wore
Phoenix TheatreAdults- $16.52 online, $17 at the
doorStudents/Seniors- online $11.34,
$12 at the doorThursday, Sept. 25 @ 7 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 26 @ 8 p.m.Saturday, Sept. 27 @ 8 p.m.Sunday, Sept. 28 @ 3 p.m.
• Little Shop of Horrors
Capitol Arts CenterStandard- $11, Students- $9Friday, Sept. 26 @ 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 27 @ 7:30 p.m.Sunday, Sept. 28 @ 3 p.m.
• Three Phantoms In Concert
Van Meter HallTickets: $22
Friday, Sept. 26 @ 7:30 p.m.
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Look to style icons to shape your wardrobeBY KAE [email protected]
The title of style icon is an honor given to a select few who have been deemed by peers, fans and magazines as consistently having killer style. Whether it’s a Bohemian style like Stevie Nicks or an adven-turous spirit like Rihanna, people have always looked to celebrities for style advice.
Having a go-to style icon helps when you just can’t de-
cide what fi ts your changing personality, but fi nding one that closely relates to your wardrobe can be tricky. Use this analysis to guide you to your icon.
RihannaRiRi has experienced a re-
markable style evolution since her “Pon de Replay” days. Lately, the Barbadian song-stress has been known for her revealing, adventurous fash-ion choices.
People who want to dress like Rihanna must exude an otherworldly amount of con-fi dence. Rihanna turns heads and keeps on walking, and you’ve got to do the same.
Don’t try walking down the Hill in a crystal-encrusted dress that shows off all the
goods. But do try to infuse a little more leather and be ready to show a little more skin. Embrace your inner good-girl-gone-bad.
Stevie NicksThe gypsy queen has been
donning fl owing kimonos and cardigans since her co-caine-fi lled days recording “Rumors.” She has been epito-mized as the fairy godmother of rock and the poster child for Bohemian style.
Nicks’ followers must be carefree and free-spirited. They tend to have an effortless vibe to their style, as if they just stumbled out of a dream and onto the Hill. It’s advised to skip out on the cocaine though.
Invest in a few black shapeless dresses with batwing sleeves
and some knit shawls to portray a truly witchy woman.
Frank OceanThe Californian singer-song
writer slayed the world in 2012 with a little album called “Channel Orange,” and he did it all in a freshly-pressed, striped bandana.
Ever since then, he’s left ev-eryone clamoring for more. He’s probably investing in more bandanas and continu-ing to be cooler than anyone can handle.
Ocean fans must channel that nonchalant attitude while remaining incredibly cool and slightly idolized by those around them.
Know how to rock a really cool printed button up or car-digan to dress like Ocean, and
rock bandanas daily.
James DeanIn just a few short years, and
with just a few short roles,James Dean managed to se-cure himself a place in cin-ematic and fashion history fordecades to come.
The Hollywood bad boy hadan iconic staple: a red leatherjacket. He wore it with a ciga-rette hanging out of his mouthand cuffs on his jeans to sug-gest he didn’t care much whatwas thought of him. It’s an atti-tude that must be carried withcaution, but a little bit of badass never hurt anyone.
Dressing like Jimmy Dean issimple. Cuff your jeans, throwon a white shirt and don aleather jacket. Cigarettes areoptional.
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“It explores the idea of whether char-acters have a life of their own,” Pride said.
“We know how characters on our TV shows that we watch would act, but they have writers. These folks, their writer is gone and they don’t know how their story ends.”
Auditions for this show, and the fi ve other shows this season, took place during the fi rst week of school, almost a full month before the play was sched-uled to hit the stage.
Lexington senior Susan Creech said the time from auditions and rehearsal to performance went by quickly. Creech is playing the role of the director.
“There’s not a lot known about my character,” she said. “There’s not a lot
of explicit backstory, so it’s supposed to be me imitating our director, which is a little more diffi cult than I thought.”
Creech said her role as director re-sembles that of a referee, helping to settle arguments and disputes between the six lost characters.
“You’ll hear me referred to as ‘Susan’ a few times, so that’s kind of interesting because I’m not playing myself, but I’m still called Susan by some of the other characters,” she said.
Owensboro junior Elliott Talkington plays Creech’s right-hand stage man in his role as the stage manager for “Six Characters.”
“We do a lot of sitting at the table and not talking to each other,” Creech said.
Creech said their communication is mostly nonverbal.
“We do have those glances, just like those, ‘Can you believe this?’ type of glance,” Talkington said.
Talkington said last year, he acted as stage manager for several productions. His experience working behind the scenes, organizing actors and assisting the director added new perspective to his stage role as manager.
“It’s an interesting thing to actually play one,” he said. “For a lot of this, we’re essentially playing ourselves.”
Talkington said the show held appeal because of the interesting perspec-tive it gives to the six lost characters. Through elements of comedy and dra-ma, characters must fi nd their resolve and purpose without the writer there to guide them.
“Audiences are not just going to come in and see a story unfold in a different way,” he said.
For Creech, this show marks her last opportunity to act on stage at WKU. Af-ter she graduates in December, Creech
said she’ll have to adjust to a life with-out as many theater opportunities.
“It’s really sad just to know that I won’t necessarily be doing theater regularly after this,” she said. “I’m try-ing to prepare myself that if I want to be part of theater, then I’m going to have to work a little harder to make that happen.”
Creech is directing “Lily Plants a Gar-den” for the children’s theater program in late October. She’s hoping her expe-rience playing a director on stage will translate to the offstage role.
“It’s ironic that I’m playing the direc-tor and I am the director (in 'Lily Plants a Garden'),” she said.
The show opens Thursday night at 8 p.m., with shows continuing nightly at the same time through Tuesday, except for Sunday’s matinee, which starts at 3 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at wku.showare.com at $15 for adults and $12 for students.
SIX CHARACTERSContinued from LIFE
The result is a complex mixture that is spicy, acidic and fragrant.
Unfortunately, sometimes the chunks are too generous. Some bites are only fresh tomato. The salsa lacks another element that could really pair off the freshness of the ingredients. Adding some roasted tomatoes or charred peppers, for example, would contribute a smokier component and greater depth of fl avor.
The Puerco en Salsa Verde was simi-larly satisfying. Slow roasted charred pork doused with a sharp green to-matillo sauce sits next to a bed of rice
and black beans topped with cheese and pico de gallo. Warm fl our tortillas complete the meal. Above all, the dish is well balanced. The brightness of the tomatillo sauce really enhances the fl a-vor of the pork, and the sides provide substance.
Despite the fl avor, bites do become monotonous. The texture is over-whelmingly soft. It is begging for any sort of crunchy element to break the homogeneity. The liquid in the salsa verde and black beans leaves a soupi-ness that makes the last few bites less appetizing than the fi rst.
For those looking for a fi lling meal, Garcia’s delivers. The fl avor just needs to be intensifi ed.
BG EATSContinued from LIFe
appearance at the festival. The mobile unit includes several interactive sta-tions that allow visitors to learn about the institute from the perspective of the 400 other branches in the world.
“Doing things like that really help us engage the community and help us make a presence in the community,” Martin said.
This unit is currently being used at different schools throughout the state to help students learn more about the Chinese culture.
Currently, WKU’s Confucius Insti-tute has helped place 40 Hanban Chi-nese teachers in schools in several counties, including Warren, Simpson, Meade and Hardin counties in Ken-tucky and Williamson county in Ten-nessee.
These teachers will be attending the “Love for China” show, the Interna-
tional Festival and the “Understand-ing China” Symposium, a meeting at Gary Ransdell Hall on Friday from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
The meeting will bring together the president of North China Electric Power University, the department head of agriculture at WKU, President Gary Ransdell and local superinten-dents. They will discuss the produc-tion and consumption of energy in China, the Chinese power industry’s development, China’s current agricul-tural landscape and effective leader-ship development.
The meeting is free to attend. Tickets for the International Festival are $4 for adults and free for children age 12 and under.
The “Love for China” event will take place Friday at 6 p.m. at SKyPAC. Stu-dents that wish to attend can pick up complimentary tickets at Helm Library, Room 109, or in the lobby of SKyPAC from 5:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. be-fore the show begins.
CONFUCIUSContinued from LIFE
BRIA GRANVILLE/HERALDCustomers eat dinner at Garcia's Grill at 1689 Campbell Lane.
Audiences are not just going to come in and see a story unfold in a diff erent way."
Elliott Talkington, Owensboro junior
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Quick FactsWKU (1-2) vs. navy (2-2)
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WHEN: Saturday, 2:30 p.m. CT (CBS Sports Network)
WHERE: Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, Annapolis, Maryland
ODDS: Navy -6.5 (Vegas Insider)
Series: NAVY leads 2-1
Navy’s rushing off ense vs. WKU’s run defense: The Hilltoppers enter An-napolis, Maryland to face the nation’s third-ranked rushing attack at 345 yards per game. WKU is coming off a bye week where they gave up 323 yards on the ground at Middle Tennessee on Sept. 13. Six Midshipmen have more than 100 yards rushing, including quarterback Keenan Reyn-olds with 240 yards rushing and a team-high fi ve touchdowns.
WKU has won two straight Games against the service academies, defeating Navy and Army last season.
Both WKU and Navy are two of the country’s best in third down con-versions. WKU ranks third nationally and Navy ranks 15th.
The last time WKU traveled to Annapolis was the fi rst meeting between the schools. Navy won that inaugural matchup 38-22 in 2009.
WKU will seek to put its record back to .500. A loss would put WKU at its worst record since 2011 when the Hilltoppers began the season 0-4. WKU and Navy close out the fi nal game of a four-game home-and-home series that began in 2009.
What's at stake?
Key Matchup
LB Nick Holt QB Keenan ReynoldsHolt’s been an instant success for the linebacking core this season, compiling a C-USA-best 11 tackles per game through three games. His 11 tackles per game ranks tied for 15th nationally. Holt has 19 solo tackles and 14 as-sisted thus far, and his 33 total tackles is a team-high.
The junior quarterback was knocked out of the second quarter of WKU’s 19-7 win against Navy last season. Reynolds scored 31 touchdowns in 2013, the most by any quarterback in one season in NCAA history. The junior currently leads the Midshipmen’s triple-option attack with fi ve touchdowns and has 240 yards rushing on 63 attempts.
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On Saturday, the Lady Topper soccer team will travel to Hun-tington, West Virginia for a bout with Marshall at 6:00 p.m. CT in the team’s inaugural league game within Conference USA.
The Lady Toppers are currently 5-2 on the season and coming off a 1-0 victory against Indiana State this past Friday. Marshall is currently 3-3-2 and coming off of a 2-1 loss against Miami (Ohio).
“We had an opportunity to look at game fi lm, not only on Mar-shall, but on all our Conference USA opponents,” Head Coach Jason Neidell said. “We can look at game fi lm all day long, but we are really heading into unfamiliar territory because we just have not played them, and we don’t know how the matchups will play out.”
One key matchup for the Lady Toppers will be defending se-nior forward Kristine Culicerto, who leads the Thundering Herd in goals (5) and points (11).
A specifi c theme for this week’s practices has been consistency with the ball on off ense, according to Neidell.
“On off ense, we need to work on our ability to keep pos-session of the ball, and move up the fi eld together as a unit,” Neidell said.
Marshall is the fourth of a fi ve-game road trip for the Lady Top-pers, which can be a double-edged sword, said Neidell.
“Being on the road for basically a month will start to take a toll on the team,” Neidell said. “But it will help us out long term as we head to the meatier part of the conference schedule.”
BY JONAH [email protected]
WKU volleyball starts Conference USA play tomorrow at 7 p.m. when they travel to Ruston, Louisiana to face L.A. Tech (7-7). The Lady Toppers will come back to Diddle Arena for more C-USA ac-tion on Sunday at noon to take on Rice (10-4).
Being the fi rst C-USA match in program history, these will be uncharted waters for the Lady Toppers (12-4) in multiple ways.
“It’s a new day — we start conference play and games start mattering a little more,” Head Coach Travis Hudson said. “We have one against L.A. Tech that on paper, we should win, and then we come back home and play a much bigger one against Rice.”
Unlike WKU, L.A. Tech has already played one conference game, dropping it in a sweep to Southern Miss (12-6). L.A. Tech is only 2-2 at home and of their seven losses, fi ve of them have been lost in sweeps.
“We won’t have mid-week games anymore, and we won’t have as many games on the weekends, so it gives us more time to focus on the opponent and the scouting reports,” senior middle hitter Heather Boyan said. “At the same time, we still need to focus as a team on ourselves and where we are at so we can beat teams.”
As WKU enters its fi rst season in C-USA, fi ve Lady Toppers enter their fi rst season as collegiate athletes.
“We are so young, we are so inexperienced,” Hudson said. “We have so much to do that the scoreboard is really insignifi cant. We really just want to be sound on every play.”
WKU faces an arguably more formidable opponent on Sunday when they clash with Rice.
“It’s exciting to go into a new conference that is hopefully a step up from the conference that we were just in,” Boyan said. “As a com-petitor, you like to play the games where you know it’s going to be a harder match, so it is very exciting for me.”
Like WKU, Rice hasn’t yet played a C-USA game yet, but they face off against Southern Miss on Friday before Sunday’s matchup.
Lady Tops set to open conference play at L.A. Tech
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In the fi nal set, WKU held TTU to just two kills. The Lady Toppers had nine attack er-rors, helping the Golden Eagles stay in the game early, but the Lady Toppers’ potent offense proved too much to handle, and WKU held on to seal the sweep 25-13.
WKU begins its fi rst season of Confer-ence USA play this weekend, traveling to L.A. Tech for a Friday match at 7 p.m. be-fore hosting Rice on Sunday at noon.
“We are still just fi nding our way,” Hud-son said. “I know people are scratching their heads hearing me say that with the success that we have had, but I’m telling you, there is still so much we have to do from a competitive standpoint.”
weeks to bask in what three opponents have exploited against WKU’s defense.
Not allowing that “big play" starts with stopping Reynolds. The dual-threat quar-terback is more versatile than what WKU saw with Austin Grammer at MTSU. The Hilltoppers allowed Grammer to rush for a career-high 123 yards.
That was just a quarterback running the ball. But he did it effi ciently, and running effi ciently is the design of Navy’s offense. Navy opened up the season with 370 yards rushing against Ohio State and just 20 yards through the air. They’ve shown the extremes of both areas of the offense
against quality opponents.“Their timing is impeccable, so we know
that after a certain amount of runs, wherev-er it is in a drive, they’re going to try and test us deep and maybe even in short routes,” senior cornerback Cam Thomas said. “But at the same time, it’s just reading our keys and each play making sure we’re staying on the guy we’re supposed to stay on.”
It was at this point last year that the Tops started clicking into a system that was new to them. We were asking these very same questions when WKU’s defense made a statement against Navy and held its ground for the majority of the year.
This coaching staff has already proven that months of preparation for this old-man football can work. Now, we just have to wait and see if this defense can repeat history.
13, but offensive coordinator Tyson Helton said the team is confi dent as Saturday nears.
“Win or lose, our team’s going to keep its mojo,” Helton said. “The guys have been upbeat. It’s good that we know we can beat them, but every team every year is different — it’s a new year. We just have to go up there and play Hilltopper football.”
WKU’s high-powered offense will have its hands full against a formidable, ex-perienced Navy defense that starts nine upperclassmen. The Midshipmen give up 212 passing yards per game and 211.2 rushing yards per game, respectively.
Redshirt senior quarterback Bran-don Doughty leads a Hilltopper pass-ing offense that’s ranked second in the country at 486.3 yards per game, and a ninth-ranked overall offensive attack that averages 608.7 yards per game.
However, crucial turnovers in the team’s two losses have made the Hilltoppers’ chances of winning slim.
Navy is likely to throw different defen-
sive schemes at WKU in order to stop its potent offense, so communication and confi dence on Saturday will be as impor-tant as ever, Doughty said.
“Our biggest opponent is ourselves,” he said. “We only beat ourselves. We have to have that confi dence. Navy is a good team, and they’re going to do anything they can and throw any different cover-ages they can to make us have to think a little bit more than we have to.”
The WKU defense has allowed 508.7 yards of total offense — 329 through the air and 179.7 on the ground — through three games. The Hilltoppers gave up 541 yards of offense at MTSU, including 323 on the ground.
Holt said the bye week has been instrumen-tal to WKU’s defensive preparation for Navy’s triple-option attack, but it’s also been key in regards to overall fundamentals and growth.
“I think we needed it all the way around,” Holt said. “We needed to get better in all as-pects of football as far as our fundamentals, regardless of the option. We needed to get back to some fundamentals and go back and look at what we’re doing. Guys are getting better, we just have a lot of growing pains.”
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Lady Tops cruise to sweep of Tennessee TechBY JONAH [email protected]
The WKU Volleyball team (12-4) dished out a sweep
in its last non-con-f e r e n c e match of the season on Tues-day, shut-ting out
Tennessee Tech (5-11) 3-0 in Diddle Arena by scores of 25-18, 25-7 and 25-13.
“This was a match I really knew we should have control of,” Head Coach Travis Hud-son said. “I knew it would come down to our serving. I’ve talked about how poor it was last weekend. So we made some adjustments in practice, and we played much better to-night.”
It was another impressive per-formance from freshmen set-ter Jessica Lucas, who notched eight kills, zero errors and marked a .667 hitting percent-age while tallying 23 assists.
Senior middle hitter Heath-er Boyan also had eight kills. Freshman middle hitter Syd-ney Engle had seven.
“Our starting lineup is three freshmen, two sophomores and a senior, and they contin-ue to progress,” Hudson said. “I think you see Alyssa Cava-naugh turning into something special right before your eyes. Sydney Engle is one of the smartest players I have ever coached. Jessica Lucas, com-ing off mono, every time out, she is a little bit better. These are the things I love about coaching this team so much.”
Sophomore defensive spe-cialist Georgia O’Connell kept the rallies alive with 12 digs. The team recorded 35 total digs, fi ve solo blocks and 10 assisted blocks. Freshmen Alyssa Cavanaugh and Syd-ney Engle each had two solo blocks.
“We are defi nitely working more on our defense,” Boyan said. “Our defense from serv-ing, blocking or whatever was not where it needed to be the
past weekend, so we really grinded it out in practice, and we played much better to-night.”
The troubles that haunted
them from the service line against LIU Brooklyn last weekend proved a thing of the past Tuesday. The Lady Toppers notched eight ser-
vice aces against the Golden Eagles, led by Cavanaugh with three.
LUKE FRANKE/HERALDSenior middle hitter Heather Boyan spikes the ball against Tennessee Tech Tuesday night at Diddle Arena.
NICK WAGNER/HERALDDefensive coordinator Nick Holt addresses his defense during WKU's 50-47 triple-overtime loss vs. MTSU on Sept. 13.
VOLLEYBALL
BY ELLIOTT [email protected]
If ever there was an old school vs. new school gridiron brawl, Saturday’s game between WKU and Navy paints that perfect picture.
In one corner, you have the Midship-men, a military academy running an offense that is older than dirt.
In the opposite corner, you have the Hilltoppers, a team that executes a high-fl ying offense that would give the fore fathers of football fi ts.
Standing on each sideline Saturday in Annapolis, Maryland will be teams with football philosophies
on complete opposite ends of the spectrum. Navy’s bread and butter is running, WKU’s is passing.
Both teams are good at what they do. To no one’s surprise, Navy’s of-fense ranks third in the nation in the run game while WKU ranks second in passing offense and third in total of-fensive yards per game.
Everyone knows what to expect — the Midshipmen are averaging 56 rushing attempts per game this year — but don’t sleep on Navy’s ability to throw the ball.
Navy quarterback Keenan Reynolds has proven he can air it out just as well as run the ball and he can punish with play action. Last week against Rutgers, Reynolds went with 12-of-22 for 231 passing yards and a touchdown to compliment his two rushing scores.
“That’s why their play action is so good, because they run the ball 50 times a game,” defensive coordina-tor Nick Holt said. “They opened it up a little bit last week early in the game and had some success against Rut-gers, and Rutgers is good on defense. You have to make sure that you stay on top of those big plays and it’s diffi cult. It’s a lot easier said than done.”
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Navy presents more than just a strong ground attack
BY KYLE [email protected]
Looking to avoid its worst start in three seasons, WKU football is set to travel to An-napolis, Maryland for the fi nal game of a four-year home-and-home series with Navy on Saturday at 2:30 p.m.
For the second-straight year, the Hilltoppers (1-2) fi nd themselves matched up against a Navy team that runs one of the country’s most lethal rushing attacks. The Midshipmen (2-2) enter the game as the third-ranked rushing offense in the nation
at 345 yards per game. Navy led the nation in
rushing yards per game by the time the two met last season with 398 yards per game, but the Hilltopper defense limited the Mid-shipmen to a lowly 86 yards rushing in the 19-7 win.
WKU defensive coordi-nator Nick Holt said the Midshipmen will be cogni-zant of how the Hilltoppers slowed down their triple-option attack last season, and will look to fi nd offen-sive success in a variety of ways on Saturday in order to combat that.
“I think they’ve studied it, and I think they will not be surprised and will be ready for what they got last year,” Holt said. “By the same to-ken, we have to have a few wrinkles, but we have to do what we do and do what we know. They’ll be ready for us. They’ll give us a lot of dif-ferent formations and a lot of different looks, and we have to be ready for them. We have to stay on the attack and eliminate the big plays, and make them work.”
Navy is coming off a 31-24 loss to Rutgers this past Sat-urday that yielded just 171
yards on the ground, but the Midshipmen came into the loss averaging 403 rushing yards per game.
Six Midshipmen have eclipsed the 100-yard rush-ing plateau through four games, and three have more than 200 yards, led by senior fullback Noah Copeland and junior quarterback Keenan Reynolds who’ve totaled 241 and 240, respectively. Reyn-olds leads the team with fi ve rushing touchdowns.
The Hilltoppers suffered a 50-47 triple overtime loss to Middle Tennessee on Sept.
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triple threatTops look to slow down Navy's triple-option for second-straight season
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Next gameFriday Sept. 26
7 p.M.VS. Louisiana Tech
@ Ruston, LA