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Four years ago, not many Di-vision I coaches had faith

that Richmond (Ind.) High School guard Kim Demmings would turn her life around. Demmings was talented on the floor, but had her issues off the court.

While some coaches bailed on Demmings, Wright State wom-en’s basketball head coach Mike Bradbury showed faith in her.

The rest is history. “He had the utmost faith in me

and so this was the best choice for me,” Demmings said.

Demmings goes into her se-nior season on track to break the Horizon League’s scoring record and WSU’s assist record. Not only is she on track to accomplish in-credible feats on the court, she is set to graduate with a bachelor’s

Raider Spotlight: Demmings matures into leader for WSUJustin BoggsSports Editor [email protected]

degree in organizational leader-ship in May. Given where she was four years ago, graduating from Wright State is a feat for Dem-mings.

Because of some off the court issues Demmings had in high school, she did not get many of-fers from Division I coaches.

“Previous high school behavior and situations, grades weren’t A-one, GPA wasn’t where it needed to be,” Demmings said, “a couple Division I schools were interest-ed but as soon as a little trouble happens, they’ll leave you alone.”

But Bradbury saw Demmings’ potential and continued recruit-ing her despite the off-court is-sues.

“She wasn’t real polished, wasn’t really skilled, but her ath-leticism was there and you keep tracking them as they get older,” Bradbury said.

When it came time for Dem-mings to come to college, she knew she had to become a more mature person.

“(Bradbury) sat down and told me that, ‘You need all B’s.’ From that point, it got a lot more seri-ous for me. I was ready to grow up and mature the last few months of (high) school. That is when I knew I wanted to play college ball and I had a great op-portunity here at Wright State,” Demmings said.

Even as Demmings matured, Bradbury never imagined that

she would become arguably one of the best women’s basketball players in Horizon League his-tory.

“I don’t think you are ever able to predict you’re going to have the best player in league history,” Bradbury said. “We thought she could be a really good player and a great player at Wright State. She has even been more than that.”

Not only is Demmings a great scorer who will likely break the WSU scoring record early in the 2014-15 season, she is a great distributer as she’ll likely break the program’s assist record later in the season.

“She is the most unselfish player on our team and I don’t

think people get that sometimes,” Bradbury said. “Her work ethic is off the charts.”

After Demmings completes her senior season, she plans on play-ing professional basketball.

“Depending on how much success we have as a team and how well she plays, which will go hand in hand, will determine that,” Bradbury said. “There are inquires already and I am sure she’ll get plenty of attention.”

Following playing professional basketball, Demmings said she would like to be involved in either teaching or coaching. Demmings said her mom has been teaching kindergarten for 15 years.

Demmings helped the Raiders to their first ever Horizon League title and NCAA Tournament berth last year.

“I don’t think you are ever able to pre-dict you’re going to have the best player

in league history.”

“Her work ethic is off the charts.”

More basketball on pages 9, 10 & 11!

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3OPINION

Recently, social media sites have been abuzz with a

certain video of a woman walk-ing through New York City and repeatedly being ‘catcalled’ by men. Now, before you frantically turn the page because this crazy feminist is about to rant about how horrible these men were to this woman, don’t. Because I’m not even on my soapbox yet and this definitely is not going to be a man-bashing article.

First off, I would like to pref-ace with the fact that this video was not entirely accurate. The video, cleverly titled “Holla-back,” is supposedly an excerpt of a 10 hour long walk taken by a woman through New York City. After further research, it was discovered that by New York, they mostly meant Harlem. Dur-ing these 10 hours she was ‘cat called’ by men 108 times.

The question of whether or not all of these were staged or genuine has been raised.

A few thoughts on catcallingLeah SchneiderContributing [email protected]

Regardless, upon seeing this video, I’m sure nearly every woman, and most likely some men, thought back to times when they were whistled at or catcalled.

It happens, I’m not going to say that it doesn’t. Does it hap-pen on an average of 11 times an hour, which is the rate that it happened to this woman? I’m going to go ahead and say no. I’ve walked around various cit-ies (New York, Chicago, Seattle, Pittsburgh) for hours at a time and have been noticeably cat-called maybe five times in total. Maybe I’m just not exception-ally good looking, maybe I walk like a duck, but in my personal experiences, walking outdoors as a woman for the last 21 years of my life has not lead to mass amounts of harassment.

While it does seem to hap-pen most noticeably to women, it certainly can happen to men as well, and for mass amount of women to pick up their pitch forks at the sight of this topic without realizing that men have

to deal with body stigma and physical pressures, whether they are the same as ours or not, is ridiculous and honestly seems to be part of the problem. Everyone has to deal with being judged on only his or her physi-cal appearance. And it sucks, at some point, for everyone.

It does happen though, and it is harassment. No one likes to be judged by only his or her physical appearance. It is notic-ing that an individual is attrac-tive and rudely barking some-thing at them to make sure they know you have acknowledged it. More often than not it is only a few words or a whistle. But it’s still enough to be irritating, like most radio ads, or stubbing your pinky toe. But for the most part, as far as I have experienced or witnessed, that is all that it is: irritating. It’s rude, and unnec-essary and completely counter-productive, but that is basically it. Just roll your eyes and keep walking tall.

Dear Mandy,I got my boyfriend’s name tattooed on my butt a month ago but I haven’t told him yet. It’s really tasteful and everything, I’m just nervous how he’ll take it because we haven’t even said ‘I love you’ yet. I’m SURE he’s the one though. How do I tell him? Should I just pull down my pants and show him?Love,Tattoo Tilly

Disclaimer: Ask Mandy is satirical and intended for humorous purposes. The views and opinions reflected are

those of Mandy, not The Guardian as an organization.

Dear Tattoo Tilly,

My first piece of advice is to not pull your pants down. Tell him before you show him, and gauge his response from there. If he’s like, “What? Creep!” then maybe keep your jeans buttoned and belt buckled. It’s very possible that by showing him your tasteful tattoo you might scare him off. After all, if you haven’t even said ‘I love you’ yet, it might seem like you’re jumping the gun. Maybe you need to figure out a different way to express your feelings. Or you could take the easy way out and propose the idea of matching tattoos. If he’s interested, ease him into the idea that you might already have a tattoo, and that tattoo might be his name. If he’s not interested, start saving your pennies to have the tattoo removed. Good luck!

Love,Mandy

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I’m a wedding photogra-pher, and I like to think my

services are reasonably priced. I work for a full day; from the moment the bride starts hair and makeup to the moment the bride and groom leave in the getaway car. I even offer a second shooter, someone who I pay out of pocket to get differ-ent angles at the ceremony. Af-ter the wedding day, I load the images onto the computer and then spend hours—I repeat, hours—editing the photos to perfection. Next, I buy flash

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to include in the final product, which I mail to the newlyweds as soon as possible. I haven’t even begun to talk about equip-ment and how many weddings it cost me to buy the camera I currently own. Yet, like every other photographer out there, I hear the same old story: Why are you so expensive?

Besides the reasons listed above, the client should re-member that photography is an art form. Photographers have worked hard—many of us have worked years—to get where we

are today, but many clients still want to pay us the minimum price possible. That’s like offer-ing your DJ a 50 and expecting him to bring all $10,000 of his sound equipment and pull off the perfect reception. It’s just not realistic, and it makes you look silly.

Be informed, and don’t un-derestimate the power of a good product. If you don’t want to spend money on your photog-rapher, don’t expect perfect im-ages. It’s as simple as that.

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4 NEWS

The new café being con-structed in Rike Hall in

the Raj Soin College of Busi-ness (RSCOB) is planned to be student-run and offer stu-dents experiential learning, paid internships and even scholarships.

A particular model for run-ning the café, expected to launch in May 2015, will have a board for students working there, explained Dean of the RSCOB Joanne Li.

“[Students] would be ac-tively participating from the operations side and strategy side. They would learn from the ground-up: from making coffee all the way to under-standing marketing schemes, financing projections, logis-tic management and employ-ment of employees,” Li said.

There is another conceptu-al model for the café to func-

For the students, by the students: Raj Soin’s innovative café

Alan HieberNews [email protected]

tion as a paid internship for the students working there. Members of the student board for the café may also have an opportunity to get a scholarship funded by the café’s revenue.

Vice President of the RSCOB Dean Student Ad-visory Board Tanya Hen-nen agrees that experiential learning is an effective strat-egy.

“The College of Business is taking the initiative to of-fer students an opportunity to gain some real life experi-ence that can better prepare them for the business world. Dean Li among many others in the college has been work-ing hard to start this café and make it successful. It is my opinion, without a doubt, that this café will be a major asset to the college of busi-

The Office of the Regis-trar is working togeth-

er with academic advisors to allow minor requirements to appear on students’ DARS re-ports.

This addition will make registration much easier for students like Lisa Rauch, a rehabilitation services major who also minors in music at Wright State.

A concern among many students is meeting with ad-visors to get advice on what classes to take next. “My ad-visor is very helpful in help-ing me choose when to take certain classes, and what these classes entail,” Rauch said.

Rauch has experienced the frustration that surfaces when an advisor can’t an-swer every question one may have. “My major and minor are in two totally different departments,” Rauch said. “It would be really helpful to talk to someone in the music department who has a better idea of what I need to do for my minor.”

Unfortunately, the benefits of the DARS reports do not help students who have de-clared a minor.

“It’s really inconvenient to not have minor requirements listed on DARS,” Rauch said.

DARS minors on the horizon, headway already made Adrienne LohrContributing [email protected] “I usually just go through the

university catalog for my mi-nor to see what classes I need. This means that I have to go to Wright State’s web site, go to the academics page, find the department I’m looking for and then go through their page of programs to find my minor and its requirements.”

According to Melinda Schneider, DARS coordinator at Wright State, information on minor requirements is being verified, and the DARS codes are currently being tested.

“We want to make sure that the information that we’re putting out is as accurate and efficient as it can be,” Schnei-der said.

Requirements for some minors such as psychology, organizational leadership, emergency management and all minors from the College of Business are already becom-ing accessible through DARS.

Schneider is hopeful that the program requirements for all of Wright State’s minor degrees will appear on DARS reports before summer reg-istration for this year begins.

Until then, students are encouraged to seek council about the next steps in their college careers from advisors who will do their best to lead students in their academic success.

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ness,” Hennen said.The café will offer students

a chance to learn the in’s and out’s of what it takes to run different aspects of the business. The initiative al-lows students to better un-derstand what professionals are asked to accomplish on a day-to-day basis.

There is also a high level of anticipation among students for the opening of the café, according to Hennen.

The faculty will act as a resourceful mentor for the students, with a faculty com-mittee helping in the whole process and answering stu-dent questions.

Boston Stoker will be the brand of coffee served, given the company’s local connec-tion through its founder, who is an alum of the Wright State business school.

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5NEWS

Wright State offers many opportunities

to prepare international stu-dents for American academic integrity standards, starting at the beginning of their col-lege career. Jeannette Hor-witz, director of the LEAP In-tensive English Program and senior lecturer in the English department, explained how the LEAP program assists international students with their transition to the Ameri-can classroom.

“In LEAP, we recognize that students come from different cultural and linguistic back-grounds, so our job, as per our mission statement, is to prepare students for what they will be exposed to and have to do while here in the American classroom,” Hor-witz said. “The activities we do to prepare students start in our beginning level and continue through the entire program. We have built this into our curriculum so while students are learning the English language, they are also learning about our aca-demic integrity standards.”

Another program offered at Wright State, the English as a Second Language pro-gram, or ESL, also introduces international students to the policies of the American classroom. Bobby Rubin, se-nior lecturer and director of the ESL program, described what ESL does to prepare in-ternational students.

“The ESL program really consists of four courses: two in speaking and two in writ-ing. In these two writing classes, not at all unlike what is done in ‘native’ sections of 1100, students are taught to write for an academic audi-ence and how to engage in academic discourse. This in-evitably includes discussions

Taylor McKinleyNews [email protected] and lots of practice on how to

incorporate source material into papers, being sure that reliable sources from experts and authorities are cited. We teach students (both native and non-native) MLA and APA formats. In our ESL sec-tions, we certainly make it a point to teach students about cultural expectations for giv-ing credit to someone for not just their words but also their ideas,” Rubin said.

Rubin went on to explain the need for all students, not just those who are interna-tional, to learn how to prop-erly engage in academic dis-course.

“While this may be cul-turally different in some of the native countries of our students, I really am of the mindset that even our first-year students from the U.S. are sometimes unsure of how and why to cite sources. So I’m not sure this is so much an issue of ‘international’ dif-ferences as much as it is an issue of teaching all students how to properly engage in academic discourse while meeting the expectations of properly crediting sources,” Rubin said.

In determining the differ-ences between academic in-tegrity standards of the Unit-ed States and other countries, an ESL student from the United Arab Emirates, Mus-tafa Edrees, described some of his experiences.

“I noticed that here, it is much more strict. I do not

think it is a really big deal there. For citations, we did citation training, but not in English. It was in Arabic. We were taught how to cite some sources, but it was complete-ly different than MLA, APA and so on. We did not have to mention last names, years or anything like that. There was no regular form of citation. It was just general. It was not as formal,” Edrees said.

Edrees also talked about some classes that he has tak-en as a Wright State student that have helped him learn about the policies of the American classroom, spe-cifically when citing sources correctly.

“My current ESL class is not my first that deals with citing sources correctly. I have tak-en a chemistry class that was crazy about citations and plagiarism. That class, plus a psychology class that I took, gave me a basic idea about citations and plagiarism and the rules here,” Edrees said.

Another student from the United Arab Emirates, Mo-hamed Alsereidi, had a differ-ent experience at Abu Dhabi University, where he took classes this past summer.

“Actually, plagiarism is a big deal there. I have friends who copied off of each other, and the teacher gave them both Fs and told them to get out,” Alsereidi said.

“Before I came to the U.S., they gave us classes about the rules that we have to follow in the United States,” Alsere-idi said, explaining that he did receive some preparation for the academic differences in the United States.

To read more, pick up a copy of next week’s issue for part two of the series on aca-demic integrity.

Understanding the differences between academic policies in the U.S. and other countries

“Before I came to the U.S., they gave

us classes about the rules that we have to follow in the United

States.”


6 WRIGHT LIFE

Some might think that a “big” and a “little”

from a sorority or fraterni-ty must have everything in common, but for sophomore Terri Echols and senior Do-monique Hillmon from The-ta Phi Alpha sorority, that wasn’t the case.

Echols is the “big” and Hill-mon is her “little.” Echols has been a member of Theta Phi Alpha since she was a fresh-man, and Hillmon joined this year. From their personali-ties and interests, it does not seem like the pair would be close friends—Echols has more of a bubbly and outgo-ing personality, but Hillmon is more shy and is the quieter of the pair. Echols likes arts and crafts, knitting, shopping and fashion, while Hillmon likes sports and says she does not like to shop. However, the

Big and little: Opposites attract Zara QureshiFeatures [email protected]

constant smiles, laughter and joking between the two indi-cates that they have a special bond that would be hard to tear apart. Echols, who refers to Hillmon as “Dom,” talked about the qualities in Hillm-on that made Echols choose her as her little.

“She’s so funny,” Echols said. “She’s sarcastic, but she is so funny even when she doesn’t meant to be. She is also so friendly and willing to put herself out there. She has a really pure heart, too.”

Echols and Hillmon knew each other before Theta Phi Alpha, but only as acquain-tances. They both lived in The Woods housing com-munity and were part of the same community council. Echols really wanted Hill-mon to “go Greek,” but she was reluctant. Hillmon also did not want Echols to be her big because she is senior and

Echols is a sophomore. But now, Hillmon is both glad that Echols is her big and that she joined the sorority.

“She really encourages me to get out of my shell,” Hill-mon said. “I can talk to her about anything and she is very understanding. I like the fact that there are so many people in [the sorority] where you can just ask them

Wright State will have its second annual

dance marathon to raise money for children battling life-threatening illnesses at Dayton Children’s Hospital on Saturday in the Student Union Apollo Room. Students will dance from 10 a.m. to 1 a.m., a total of 15 hours, for the “kids who can’t.” Children from the hospital and their families will also be present to share their stories.

Fundraising began last April and participants will continue to accept donations

WSU to host 2nd annual RaiderthonZara QureshiFeatures [email protected]

until the night of the event, when the donation total will be revealed. The participant registration fee of $20 will also go towards Dayton Chil-dren’s. Sophomore and com-

munications major Patrick Bleser, who is on the execu-tive committee for Raider-thon and is also the current top fundraiser, talked about

“We want Raider-thon to give sick chil-dren the opportunity

to overcome their illness.”

the importance of Raider-thon to these children’s lives.

“We want Raiderthon to give sick children the op-portunity to overcome their illness so they can go to high school, college and eventu-ally become an important part of our society,” Bleser said. “Quality medical care is expensive and the hospital needs our help to gather the appropriate funding so they can provide quality care to our community’s children.”

Raiderthon’s fundraising goal is to beat last year’s to-tal of $50,389 and so far, more than $23,000 has been raised.

to hang out and it’s no big deal. I’m kind of in the box and really shy so it was eas-ier to become part of some-thing and come out a little bit more with that family aspect. I’m glad I did it.”

The family aspect Hillmon spoke of is a common trait among both sororities and fraternities as the members form a sister or brother-like

bond and become very close. “I’m three and a half hours

away from home and have no family near anywhere, so that’s what the soror-ity has become for me,” said Echols. “I love sharing things with them and being around them. It’s such a great sup-port system.”

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7WRIGHT LIFE

On Oct. 18th of this year WSU President David

Hopkins announced Wright State’s new “Rise.Shine.” campaign, led by Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks and Amanda Wright Lane, great grandniece of Wilbur and Orville Wright. Not only will this campaign be the largest in the Univer-sity’s history, but it will also be specifically beneficial to WSU’s Creative Arts Center and the Department of The-atre, Dance & Motion Pic-tures.

With construction already underway, the Creative Arts Center and surrounding ar-eas will benefit from new fa-cilities, renovated spaces and state of the art equipment; all part of the $150 million cam-paign.

Aside from the new ballet studio, art gallery, Pilates and stage-combat rooms, new box office, bathrooms and commons area in the Cre-ative Arts Center, the Motion Pictures department will be moving to a new location. Away from their small base-ment rooms, Motion Pictures

will maintain a new space in the former location of the TV Center, which will be known as the “Tom Hanks Center for Motion Pictures Studio.” Funding for Rise.Shine. has already raised $106.7 mil-lion, according to its web-site. The campaign will be placing a large amount, ap-proximately $28 million, into these projects for the arts, putting WSU on the cutting edge in the state of Ohio.

Some may wonder how and why a public figure like Tom Hanks decided to take an interest in supporting Wright State and its pro-grams. Hanks’ support stems from his experiences with Wright State and its faculty and alumni.

Hanks appeared on a Wright State stage in 1978, when looking for his big break. Since then he has continued to connect with Wright State alumni and fac-ulty through his work over the years, including WSU graduate and Beavercreek native Eric Bork, with whom Hanks has worked on dif-ferent projects, including

the Emmy Award-winning “Band of Brothers” series. Hanks has also developed connections with the Chair & Artistic Director of the De-partment of Theatre, Dance & Motion Pictures at WSU, Stuart McDowell.

McDowell and the faculty and students of the Creative Arts Center are excited to see the effect that this cam-paign has on their programs. McDowell said he believes the campaign will provide the WSU arts programs with

huge benefits. Not only will the interior of the building and the equipment be up-graded, but also the build-ing will have an entirely new look from the outside.

“You can already see the fences out in front of the Cre-ative Arts Center,” McDow-ell said. “What you will see when you enter the campus from the front of the building will be a whole new look, it will be iconic. A strong, bold look.”

All of these new devel-

opments have been made possible through the Rise. Shine. campaign, other do-nations, state funding and connections to the Wright State community. In addi-tion to the portion of Rise. Shine. that goes towards the arts, the department has also raised money through its an-nual ArtsGala for the differ-ent scholarships offered to their students each year, like the Tom Hanks Scholarship Fund and the Augsburger/Estevez/Martin Sheen Fund.

WSU’s Rise.Shine. campaign reaches for the stars Why Tom Hanks is a strong supporter of WSU arts

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8 PHOTO8

Tattoos:Bobbi:“It was my eighteenth birthday and you

know you don’t have to have parents’ per-mission so my grandma took me. She got one on her boob and I got one on my shoul-der, so weird. I had been hunting because I didn’t want a dumb dolphin. I didn’t want two jumping out of the water because that looks stupid, I didn’t want ones that had facial expressions and a week before I got my tattoo done I was hanging out with my roommate Joe. He said, ‘Did you see that the Miami Dolphins changed their logo?’ I looked and I was like, ‘That is the best dol-phin ever!’ So pretty much I have the Miami Dolphin’s logo without the sun in the back.”

Deanna:“My first tattoo is of song lyrics from The Lion King 2, the song We Are One,

‘Even those who are gone, are with us as we go on.’ From when I was about fif-teen up until this past summer I have lost nine people year after year, month af-ter month and in a weird way, it is therapeutic. Knowing that even though they are gone they are still with me. Having that quote on my body just helps me remember that it’s okay. They are still with me wherever I go; I’m not forget-ting who they are, they still live in me. It helped make everything better when it was a really hard time. It is a good way to share my story and what I have been through and who these people are and how they have affected my life. In a way I am trying to live through them, what they taught me, this way I always have a part of them with me.”

Peyton:“The outside is obviously the seven deadly sins

and I chose that because it’s the seven faults that are found in every single human being. They are the most common of the worst attributes that you can find in people and they are the seeds, I think, of most of the evils of the world. Then on the inside of my arm I have a quote of the end of my favor-ite poem Desiderata. “With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy.” I got that as kind of a contrast of all the darkness that’s within people in the world, but then it’s still a beautiful world so you should strive to be good as possible.”


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Van der Keijl returns after year off

Women’s basketball: What to expect from the Raiders this season

Richelle van der Keijl could be the biggest addition to the defending conference champions in the Wright State women’s basketball team. Standing at 6-foot-5, she is the tallest player in the Horizon League and could make an immediate impact with her size, but what type of player she will be for the Raiders is still unknown.

Van der Keijl sat out last season after tearing her Achilles on the first day of practice.

“We were doing the drill with chairs, and when I went up for a layup it just popped. At first I did not think it was that horrible, but after a week they found out I had tore my Achilles. It was not what I expected for the first year,” van der Keijl said.

Van Der Keijl grew up in Delft, The Netherlands where she began playing basketball, but she spent her last three years in Amsterdam playing for its CYO program,which develops young athletes for their national team. In 2013, she played for The Neth-erlands under-20 national team where she averaged 12

Wright State has one of the top teams in the Horizon League, as well as the best player and arguably the best coach in the league. WSU played a fast-paced style that complements their athletes and scored a lot of points.

The Raiders have six experienced seniors re-turning but also have six newcomers with no experi-ence at the collegiate level.

What we already know

WSU’s women’s basket-ball team is well aware of the high expectations it has entering this season. The Raiders return defending Horizon League Player of the Year Kim Demmings who is possibly the best player the women’s program has ever seen. She is on the path for a historic season and in very close reach of being the all time leading scorer and as-sist leader all-time for Wright State. She recently received her third preseason Player of the Year award from the Ho-rizon League.

Complementing her in the backcourt is fellow senior Tay’ler Mingo. Mingo joined Demmings this year on the preseason Horizon League First Team. Though she leads the team in assists and main-ly controls the offense at point guard, she also has the potential to be an elite scor-er. Last year, she averaged 15 points a game including a career high 31 in the cham-pionship game against Green Bay.

points and eight rebounds a game against the top young European talent. Though she was successful, she wanted to test her skills in the United States.

“I wanted to play in Ameri-ca, so my coach started look-ing for connections. I also went to Syracuse and Gon-zaga, but I liked it here the most,” van der Keijl said.

This season will finally be her first chance to play against the competition here in the United States. Van der Keijl said she is feeling 100 percent after her Achilles injury, but it has been hard getting back into the flow after sitting out for an entire season and now trying to fit in with players she has nev-er played in an actual game with before.

“I’ve never gone a whole year without playing and sit-ting on the sideline. And it’s a different team that goes faster, but it is getting better,” van der Keijl said.

She will be tested in their opening matchup against a tall Austin Peay team with five players 6-foot-1 and tall-er, though none taller than Richelle.

No one knows better than Bradbury about the larger expectations and what it will take to handle them. When he took over the job as the Raiders head coach in 2010, they had not had a winning season in over five years. In his first year, WSU went 20-13 and 11-7 in the Horizon League. The next few years, he continued to develop the program to its first NCAA Tournament berth.

The new challenge for this year’s team is they are no longer looked at as a middle of the pack team in the con-ference, but as a contender for the top team in the Ho-rizon. Green Bay is the pre-season number one, but the Raiders are still the defend-ing champs and will be tar-geted by the other teams in the conference as a team to beat. The Raiders are okay with their new position, and plan to keep the same men-tality they had last season.

“We don’t have to change anything. We’re still going to play our normal Wright State basketball and focus on get-ting better,” said Demmings.

What we don’t know

One of the six returning seniors, Abby Jump, was sidelined with a back injury over the off season and is still considered out indefi-nitely with no timetable set for her return. Also sidelined with an injury is junior guard Symone Denham. She has re-cently been cleared for “non-contact activities,” but is still on the indefinitely out list, as well.

With two experienced

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guards on the sideline with injuries, there will be spots open for the freshmen to take.

“The freshmen have gotten better. There are at least a couple of them that will play significant minutes,” said Bradbury.

Ciara Patterson made a case for herself as one of those freshmen playing ma-jor minutes with her per-formance in an exhibition game on Nov. 1. She showed off her 3-point shooting and displayed great court vision during her 17 minutes of play. She finished the night with 13 points and four as-sists. With a thin backcourt, Bradbury may call on her to provide a lift off of the bench this season.

In the frontcourt, Richelle van der Keijl will play her first season for the Raiders after redshirting last year with a torn Achilles. Though not much is known about what she can do on the court, there is a lot to be excited about. At 6-foot-5, she is the tallest player in the confer-ence and Bradbury said she is already one of the six play-ers definitely in the rotation.

“It’s a different team that goes faster, but it’s getting better. I just have to get back in there and work and we will see,” van der Keijl explained.

It may take some time for her to adjust to the speed of the game, but her potential is high.

The season tips off in Clarksville, Tenn. on Friday against Austin Peay.


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Wright State senior guard Chrishawn Hopkins has worked over the offseason on getting on the “same page” as his head coach Billy Donlon after a junior season full of ups and downs.

Donlon likened Hopkins’ sea-son last year to a power hitter in baseball.

“Fans don’t remember the outs, they remember the home runs,” Donlon said in June. “As a coach, we remember the outs. Chrishawn and I need to get on the same page that way, actually he needs to get on my page.”

What has Hopkins done to get on Donlon’s page?

“I have been working really hard on both ends of the court, on offense and defense,” Hop-kins said. “I have worked really hard on my shot this summer getting it off quicker and my ball handling has gotten a lot better. I think I have made strides to where he wants me to get at.”

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last December after taking a transfer redshirt from Butler.

Hopkins missed the first month of the 2013-14 season as he had to wait until the end of autumn semester.

He played a role, albeit a small one, in Butler’s run to the NCAA national title game in 2011 as a freshman.

“Last year, I had great energy coming into the season and then after I figured out I wasn’t going to play until the semester, it kind of died down,” Hopkins said. “This year, I brought the same energy and I get to keep it rolling.”

Fellow WSU guard Reggie Ar-ceneaux said he has seen a big improvement from Hopkins over the offeseason.

“He has always been a piece, a big piece,” Arceneaux said. “He comes from a system at Butler that is kind of similar. Same con-ference, he knew us from play-ing against us. He is very help-

ful, takes a lot of stress off my back.”

In last week’s exhibition game, Hopkins struggled in the first half before bouncing back, helping the Raiders to a 68-59 win over Findlay. Hopkins scored all 12 of his points in the second half.

“Chrishawn was pressuring himself,” Donlon said. “I told him at halftime, “You had a great summer, a great fall, you have been great at practice, just go out there and play.’”

After averaging 9.1 points a game his sophomore season at Butler, Hopkins’ production dropped to 5.3 points a game last year as a Raider. With Don-lon employing an up-tempo of-fense, the pace might better suit Hopkins’ game.

“We have been working on it all spring, summer and fall so it should be pretty easy when the season comes around,” Hopkins said.

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Wright State senior guard Reggie Arceneaux has a

green light from his head coach Billy Donlon to shoot after being sixth on WSU’s squad last sea-son in field goal attempts.

Arceneaux is known as one of the few shooters who has a bet-ter 3-point shooting percentage than 2-point percentage. Last season, Arceneaux shot 46.5 percent from the outside and 40 percent from inside the arc.

“You shoot (46) percent from the 3, I may not be the brightest light in the attic but you always have the green light,” Donlon said.

Arceneaux, when asked about playing with the green light to shoot, gave a statesman’s like answer.

“That isn’t important to me. I just want to win,” Arceneaux said. “I could have the green light, yellow light, red light,

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blue light, I just want to win. If that means I don’t play, I’ll be a

cheerleader on the bench.”Arceneaux’s field goal per-

centage last year saw a dramat-ic increase from his sophomore and freshman seasons. Those years, he shot well below 40 percent from the field. Last year, he was a 43.2 percent shooter.

Arceneaux said he is excited by the up-tempo system Don-lon is attempting to employ this season.

“Quickness, speed and shoot-ing, that is my strength and that is the greatest thing a coach can tell you,” Arceneaux said. “If you have those attributes to blow it up the floor, don’t tell me twice.

I won’t think twice about going up the court using my speed.”

Transfers expected to play a huge role

In addition to adding seven freshmen to the roster, juniors Michael Karena and Joe Thom-asson joined this year’s squad. Both played two seasons at the junior college level.

With WSU not being as expe-rienced as last year, Karena and Thomasson will need to have good seasons for the Raiders in

order for WSU to be successful according to Donlon.

“Those guys are going to have to have good seasons,” Donlon said. “If they can have the kind of seasons (junior college trans-fers) Jerran Young and Miles

“I could have the green light, yellow

light, red light, blue light, I just want to

win.”

Dixon had a few seasons ago, I think we have a great chance to compete for the championship.”

Though Karena has not been on campus for long, he already has a nickname from Donlon.

“I nicknamed him Bane be-cause he is built just like the ‘Dark Night Rises’ character,” Donlon said.

“Those guys are going to have to

have good seasons.”

Thomasson is a product of Thurgood Marshall who spent two years at State Fair Com-munity College averaging 14.2 points a game. Thomasson played well in last week’s ex-hibition game versus Findlay scoring 11 points and adding four assists and rebounds.

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Taking steps to increase WSU’s access to all

According to Fox 45 News, Wright State is partnering with B e a v e r c r e e k City Schools,

the Dayton International Air-port and Clark State Commu-nity College to convert a Boe-ing 727 jet into a classroom. The jet, donated by FedEx, was officially accepted by school officials on Monday, Nov. 10, and on Nov. 20 the jet will be flown to Dayton In-ternational Airport, where it

FedEx donates Boeing 727 to Beavercreek City Schools will remain until renovations

are finished, at which time the plane will be moved to Wright State University prop-erty. The completed class-room will be used as part of Beavercreek City Schools’ Science, Technology, Engi-neering and Math (STEM) curriculum, according to Fox 45. The classroom will allow middle school, high school and post-secondary educa-tion students to study areas of aerospace and aviation. Elementary school students in the region will also benefit from the Beavercreek STEM Jet. Fox 45 reported that the jet project will be funded through grants, sponsorships and private donation.

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Members of Wright State’s Disability Ser-vices are work-ing to allow ease of access

to both campus information and to the student organiza-tion area.

Thomas Webb, director of Disability Services for WSU, commented on the state of the student organization of-fices in the Student Union atrium with mention of their heavy office doors.

“Ryan Rushing with Stu-dent Government (SG) brought this to the attention of Facilities and Planning in mid-September of this year,” said Webb, “and inquired about the accessibility of the student org offices on cam-pus.”

They met with the SG ex-

ecutive leadership on Sep. 23 and examined the space. Their most significant con-cern dealt with the heaviness of the doors and the poor lighting throughout.

SG will be working with Facilities and Planning on quotes and feasibility of ad-justments to the space. Alter-natives discussed include hir-ing a staff member to work in the student org complex with multiple duties, one of which would be to help anyone with access issues to the offices.

Card reader systems for the doors are circulat-ing among the ideas, which would be the best option for not only the org complex, but for students with various dis-abilities across campus ac-cording to Webb.

In addition to location ac-cess, informational access is also a priority for the univer-sity in the form of braille fli-ers, which will be made spe-cifically to advertise events lost in a sea of WINGS mes-sages and other miscellany

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National Center for Medical Readiness purchases Calamityville property

The Na-tional Center for Medical Readiness, a program af-filiated with

WSU, has acquired a tactical lab called Calamityville, lo-cated in Fairborn, as an area to help prepare civilian and military medical communi-ties for emergency situations.

The 52 acres of land offers several features to use in its training programs, including classrooms, lab areas, techni-cal training zones, urban and

CaTs is r e p l a c i n g Wright State’s WINGS portal platform with a new portal

supported by Drupal. Drupal is an open source content management framework used to support a range of websites, including several websites belonging to the university over the past few years.

The main reason for the replacement is due to the current platform’s cost, in-flexibility and antiquity. One impact of the replacement is that Course Studio will no longer be supported under Drupal. Consolidation into a

wilderness exercise areas and technology structures.

The program began several years ago and continues to develop today. Fairborn City Manager Debbie McDonnell explained its timeline.

“The idea started in 2006 and Fairborn got involved in 2007. The site was selected in 2010. Environmental haz-ard remediation was com-pleted by the city in 2013 with grants from the Ohio Department of Development and the United States Envi-ronmental Protection Agen-cy, and match funding was provided by Wright State,” she said.

single Learning Management System has been considered for awhile, and many Wright State students and profes-sors have expressed the need for consolidation.

The Center for Teaching and Learning is developing a plan to make the transition from Course Studio to Pilot as seamless as possible. The plan is still in the beginning stages, but includes training, workshops and the avail-ability of a simplified course home page.

A beta version of the new WINGS portal will be re-leased in early 2015. The existing WINGS portal and Course Studio will be avail-able through spring semes-ter. Course Studio will not be available for use starting summer semester 2015.

McDonnell also comment-ed on how this program will affect Wright State and the surrounding community.

“It will stimulate economic development for ancillary services like hotels and res-taurants and may provide additional business location close to the site for research and development,” McDon-nell said.

The physical address of Ca-lamityville is 506 Xenia Dr. in Fairborn. There was no com-ment on the official comple-tion date of the project.

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when interpreted through screen-reader programs.

“The idea came about when a friend and I real-ized we were missing some events that were happening on campus,” said student Ma-rie Bolling.

SG is currently scouting a place to fix a centralized board for the fliers, with the Student Union being a top candidate.

Proposer of the fliers Maya Galbraith, however, does not feel the board would be a good choice, instead opting for them to go online.

“I’m not sure what stu-dents would think about feeling for information on a wall,” Galbraith said. “They already stand out enough and don’t particularly want to stand out more. Subtlety would be nice.”

Any campus organization can request their advertise-ment to be transmitted to braille in the Office of Dis-ability Services.

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